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Welcome back to the LifeWide Open podcast ladies and gentlemen. Good morning Cormorant. To the three people in Cormorant listening. We got a great podcast for you guys today. We're gonna be answering some of you guys's questions that you had asked a couple podcasts back. We missed it on the previous one and then obviously we'll be talking about Evan's new truck and all that. I don't even know where we want to begin. Probably on the truck. Yeah Ev, how does it feel dude?

Are you sad that your Chevy's gone? I'm maybe a little bit sad because it was a good truck. It never really let me down. It's kind of the end of an era. Evan is Chev. Yeah. But before that, you had a Chevy too, right? Yeah. So it's almost like I've been driving the same truck for like five years. For those of you that don't know what we're talking about, this morning, Mike and I hijacked

full-on Grand Theft Autoed Evan's truck out of our driveway as well as his dirt bikes, both of them. And then we basically kind of punked him and ended up surprising him with a new, well, new to him Ford Raptor that we had just spent the weekend building up. It

It's in our most recent YouTube video. It should be live now, so you can go check that out. So we were looking to buy Evan a new truck for a while. All of us were on the same page. Yeah, let's get him another Chevy. That makes sense. But then we were like, and there's nothing wrong with that. Evan is Chev. It just made sense. Right. There's nothing wrong with a fresh Silverado, but we're like, what is something that could kind of generate more content? And that's when we started moving towards the Raptor. Well, also, though, I think the main thing was...

We were like, gosh, shit. I want to get them something cooler than this. Because there was nice trucks. And there's nothing wrong with those. But we're just like...

I don't know. We drive around cool cars. He should have a cool car, you know? Exactly. It didn't feel quite as special or exciting. Got a good deal on that. Let's pop a picture up here. Stock, silver Raptor. Had Crandall come down, wrapped it. Had new wheels from Custom Offsets. Some of the sickest ones we could find. Wheels, tires. Sick headlights from Morimoto. Headlights. It is sharp looking. Yeah, and it's like a 10 out of 10.

gen one Raptor as far as condition goes. I'm not used to seeing them in that good a condition. Dude, and I think that's how it's like, I can't really be sad about the old Chevy going by when this Raptor is so sick. Yeah, Ev, you've been just grinning all day and I've been grinning too. Dude, if someone just gave you a truck, you'd be cheesing for at least 24 hours. I would be too. Dude, it was nerve wracking for us though leading up to this because for one, we had to put it all together.

And then keep it a secret from you. We've had the truck for like three weeks now. Yeah. But like we finished wrapping that thing an hour before you got here. So like we didn't even have time to enjoy it. We had to pull it out, get a couple of shots and hide it away. You guys are lucky I don't come into work early. I was checking your location the whole time. We're like, he's an hour out. He's an hour out. Yeah. Usually we send Evan home for like, I mean, anywhere from two days to four days at most. And then.

We sent you home. You almost spent like a week at home. Week vacation. Six days at least. Comes back and gets a new truck. Damn, dude. I got to go on vacation. Come work at Seaboys TV. I,

Dude, it was so awesome. And the best part for me was I was hoping you'd shed a tear and you were so close and I'll take it. Dude, Evan, you were about to cry when you... A lot of emotions in general. Yeah, you were at the low and then you went straight up to the highest high. Well, dude, the low of like no insurance on my bikes, insurance probably not covering my truck because I left the keys in it. So I just lost everything.

To like gaining a sick truck. That's a big turnaround in like two hours. Yeah. It was such a perfect storm too. Cause obviously we had,

the golf ball band had come last week and leave the golf balls. And then that same day, some random person, which I'm assuming is a podcast listener, came and dropped off a lemonade stand that they had built for selling lemonade as well as the golf balls. There was no chubby kid with it, though. That was where I was confused. I was like, what? We got to find our own workers? This isn't Wayfair. So it was like, wow, that's weird. And then when Mike and I came in the night and dumped balls and stole it, it was just like, wow.

like it had to have been the same person it all made sense we're wearing masks and everything we could possibly do to make it look legit dude so like i mean i had a good time it was so fun i think i'm gonna start stealing cars yeah i think mike and i might turn to a life of crime after this because it's just it was so easy you know we might hypothetically but uh yeah it was easy too so like dude when we were get we got up at like five in the morning and

And like got all of our stuff on black. We had masks and we're driving over there. And I don't know about you, but I was like just like kind of trying to get

In character for it. In the zone. And I legitimately felt like, man, my life took just a turn. And now Mike and I have just resorted to stealing vehicles. And I was just like, we're doing this. And it worked. I mean, just the best part about all of this, it's really hard to... Something that big, especially, like, pan it out without any sort of...

sussed vibes or anything it's really difficult to do yeah there's so many variables that's why i was so nerve-wracking because it's just one little thing goes wrong it's like the whole thing shot and kind of the surprise is shot it's like we got you just wanted to be good for the video and just everything and you looked so natural like i watched that security footage you know a bunch of times and i'm really looking for something in it off

And all I could see is two hoodlums making off with my truck and just getting more mad, not thinking, oh, that's my friends. Just being like these pieces of crap. The best part is when we rolled up and you still had your bike in the back. I was like, this is perfect. And then your pitter was leaning on it. And we both just looked at each other and grabbed it and loaded that up too. Just took everything you owned.

Left me with nothing. If your bike would have actually gotten stolen, that would have been equally, if not more sad than the truck. Yeah. You just got that pride and joy. Yeah. I mean, now you're getting mad too, because I was laughing because I was like, this is so funny because he's buying in on it. But also then I had to like play it off and you're like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my shit got stolen. So funny, CJ.

I know, dude. I did feel bad because you could just tell that you were getting really rattled. And I was like, it'll be worth it because I know we're doing something good. But if we're just doing that and just stealing it just to play a prank on you, I would have felt so bad because I could see that you were obviously quite upset. And it sucks when someone steals from you too. You just feel so...

so violated. I felt like I was going to puke. Like reality had set in that my truck actually got stolen. My bikes are gone. Maybe we're going to recover my total truck, which, uh,

What's that worth? Yeah. And it's just like, I guess I'm just going to have to try to, you know, I thought we were going to go film something else today. So it's like, how am I going to act normal while taking this big loss? Like, I don't want to rub off on the crew. That was a total roller coaster there. It was like part of you was about to vomit because you were so just anxious and upset. And then the other part of you was like, well,

you know, we're going to get this figured out. We got a job to do here. We got more things to film. Like, you were ready to, like, go, we're going to film Rollers of the Broncos, and you were ready to, like, just accept it. Just take the L for the day. You took it like a man. But, like, once it's gone, short of, like, calling the cops, I guess, and reporting it, I mean, you can't, you could drive around and look, but that's a waste of time. You're never going to find it. They just park it out down the road, right in their front lawn. Yeah.

So, yeah, I just figured it was a loss and just had to move on.

That was funny. That was fun though. Straight up. That was a lot of fun being that it all came together. Right. That was one of the bigger like surprises we've done. Yeah. I mean, we had to hop in that other car and like there was a lot of moving components. Well, have you fucking deserve that Raptor? Yeah. You've been here a short time, but you've made a big impact and we love having you around. No, you a hundred percent deserve it. The worst part was having you be gone for seven days. Yeah. Yeah.

Now that was rough. I think Nikki appreciate it, but I was getting lonesome. That's good. Hey, did you tell, what's like, uh, like, did you tell Nikki or your parents or anything? Yeah. So I, I told Nikki because I actually called her this morning. Um, when I thought it was sincerely stolen and, and she was like, Oh, those guys are probably playing a prank on you. And I'm like, no, no,

like and then i explained all x y and z on the security footage and we've already like whatever talked to the sheriff and yeah it's not a prank this is real so then when i told her afterwards i mean she was super hype she's been on me to like buy something nicer anyways and yeah i called my mom and uh she was super hype what did you say

She, well, I actually let her down the trail that it got stolen. Like I went for a few minutes and she's like, what's going on? Oh, well this morning or last night my truck got stolen and went through the whole thing, said whatever. And we pulled up and then I like flip the FaceTime around to the truck. And she's like, what? Yeah. And so she was super hype, super happy for me. And what'd she say? I don't even just.

That it's awesome. Just super happy. I guess I don't even know. Cool. That is awesome. She didn't say anything about me, though. Nothing. She said something about that annoying little Ben. I ask him because I'm on cause of Ben. Maybe this is just big news for me. But last night I discovered something that I feel like could help a lot of people.

You know how when you're like laying in bed and your girl is like, I want to go to bed, but you don't want to. You want to keep watching YouTube on like the TV. You can connect your AirPods to the TV. Did anyone else know that? Really? How fucking cool is that? Maybe it doesn't. I didn't know that. I didn't actually. That's a big impact on my life because I don't have to stop watching then and go to bed. But I could relate to that though with using the Xbox and the headset. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess. But I've never thought about watching TV with a headset. I'm laying in bed with my AirPods. It was the best. And it's just right there, too. Yeah, you connect it. Bluetooth, I was amazed, actually. I don't know. Maybe it's not as big of a deal for you guys. No, that's pretty cool. But I thought it was a big deal. Let's move on to some of the questions that we had been asked a couple weeks ago. I actually had something written down because I was genuinely curious because I've been thinking about it myself. I want to find something that's like a...

uh, like a hobby that has nothing to do with work, like nothing to do with work, nothing to do with like drinking, anything like that. Just like a new hobby that I'm doing strictly because I enjoy it.

No camera, nothing. And this is open-ended. You haven't found it yet. No. I was going to say golf, but you said no drinking. Yeah, that's true. I guess you can drink. Okay, then golf. Golf would be a good one then. And you're thinking, you want to find something completely fresh? I'm just curious. I got a big list of hobbies that I already have that I'd love to tackle. But what is some... I mean, it would be like golfing, fishing. Yeah.

Two things that take a lot of time that I really enjoy doing that I strictly just don't do because they take time. Yeah, too much time. You could build one of those ships in the bottle. That's just too much. I'd be so mad doing that. Welding would be fun. Tearing down...

Like my old, like my one 50 and painting the frame black. Like that, that, that to me seems, seems like a good time. Throwing rocks at trains. Right. Throwing rock, like hitting rocks with baseball bats. Throwing mailboxes. Stealing cars. Oh my gosh. Stealing cars. Yeah. Do this Mike. Me and you. Could be your guys' new side hustle. Fuck. We know it'd be profitable until we go to jail. I was just going to say, I was like, if you didn't get caught, it'd be a very good investment return there.

And you guys kind of only did do the easy part. Like, turning the stolen vehicle into money is probably harder than getting the vehicle. Yeah, I'd agree. You just got to know the right guy. Yeah. At the scrapyard? No, dude. You don't want to just scrap it. You want to sell it. If you steal a nice enough vehicle, you bring it to the chop shop and they'll take certain parts off. Or you put it in a container and you get it. You know what? Never mind. I don't want to talk about it. Don't want to get on the business plan. You put it in a container and you ship it over to, like,

Zimbabwe. Yeah, they send it to just like third world countries. Pretty crazy. And they do that a lot with like the Mopar vehicles because they can steal them. Just like an iPad. It's basically some kind of... I don't know. What's it called? It's like a code repeater. Yeah, what's it called when you have like... It's a relay attack.

like the RFI code. It's basically just like you have just like a key, but you have it on your iPad and you can have it in there and it'll unlock the car, start it. And they drive that thing off. So crazy. Like they, for a while there was like a ring of people that were going around and hitting like dealerships. They would like,

be in and out so goddamn fast with these like Hellcats more so. Can you imagine that being your line of business? It's like modern day Fast and Furious. I don't know why you do it if you weren't like if it wasn't your business. You know what I'm saying? If you weren't making money off of it and doing multiple. I don't know why you do it. Like why would you steal a car and flip it and just be done after that? I guess that's quick cash, but I feel like you need it. Yeah. People who like

steal cars and flip them like it's a an ongoing thing well i always think this when i watch like movies when there's like big drug dealers and stuff like that do you ever watch one of those movies and they get super loaded and you're like they just quit just quit never stop you're already good dude you got more money your whole families all the brothers they're tearing off drywall and putting money in the walls in certain yeah certain uh you know drug related

It just doesn't make sense. Like they can't stop. Also, well, whenever, whenever it's drug related and then there's the higher up boss and then you say, I want to get out and they're like, wow,

If you want me to shoot you, yeah, you can get out. That's sometimes how it is. Yeah, so anyways, that's what you do with the vehicle after you steal it. Send it to Zimbabwe. So you just need to make some connections in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe. Then find a shipping guy, also some shipping containers. We could probably use the ones down below us. Well, fellas, you want to get into some questions? Yes, I would love to. Got a good handful of some good ones. I filtered them out here. We'll pull Ben in here too. Howdy, Ben.

All right. Hit us with some of these questions. Good job, Ev. Congrats on the Raptor. Dude, the only thing your Raptor needs, now I realize it, is this. The shocker on the back? The shocker on the back. Well, we were actually going to get a sticker for the back that says Hog on Board. You guys listen to the podcast. You know Evan's Hog. And then we were thinking, well, what if we just went a step farther and then we just got a license plate made for him that just said Hog or

Or Big Hog. Something like that. He goes back on Big Hog. He thinks he's just the man or something. The dude rolling around with a neon green dirt bike in a bright red fire truck

The dude's ego is just massive now. He's a part of Junior Firefighters Association. Yeah, the fire truck. Junior Firefighters of America. But also, I mean, I forget about this sometimes too because there's the fun aspect of it and all of our fans seeing it. So like Steve as my license plate, I love. It's hilarious. And then people who also watch the channel and this and that, that's funny. Steve. Then I forget random people that see it.

Maybe it's not so funny. Does anyone ever say anything about it? I think that should be a stipulation. Nobody has to get a fucking custom license. Yeah, Big Hog. Yeah, totally. The Hog or Big Hog. So again, if fans are seeing him, it's all good. We're seeing him. All the people that know what's going on don't think anything of it. Ha ha, that's funny. Other people are like, this dickhead. Yeah, driving a bright... Do you think people look at Hog like he's a dick? Well... Yeah. If it says Big Hog and I jump off...

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What's it like staying in your hometown as adults? I'm from a small town and think about whether or not I'll stay or leave after school. Where did all you guys want to end up? I've heard this many times. I think they sit and people are like, no matter what you do, you don't have to move away forever, but move out of your hometown. I definitely believe in that. It can be for a year. Move somewhere else at some point for some period of time. Get away from your hometown just so you know something else. So I believe in that.

I think I would, but I have no idea where. The thing is, is if we weren't doing YouTube...

The only other occupation we could do is, like, work at a gas station or be, like, a bartender. Okay, I mean, that's... And work and live in Cormorant. That's not... I suppose, yeah, you could work in Struggler. You can drive back and forth. There's a lot of... I mean, a lot of stuff you can do. I guess. I was just thinking of, like, what you would do, like, living directly in Cormorant. Like, there's not... It's basically a village, so you don't have a whole lot of options, but... You could definitely do well having a lawn mowing business or being a bartender. True. I...

honestly i get asked that question by my girlfriend a lot because you know like she's like i don't know if i want to live here in like this small town like the rest of my life or if i do like come back here you know will i regret not leaving for a couple years if like i want to come back and like start a family and like live here forever like would i regret not leaving for a

I understand, but now where we're at is I don't really have an option, so I don't even think about it. Yeah, same. Where it's like, what am I going to do? Just up and sell the shop, quit the YouTube channel, and then go and start a completely different occupation? Otherwise, I have to convince five of my best friends to move with me somewhere and, hey, guys, let's just move somewhere.

somewhere else and just keep making videos. I think that you should go wherever you want to be. If you're happy where you're at, stay there. I personally love it here. Me too. I love it here. And we're legitimately the youngest people here that walk around, at least socialize with other people because dude, so for instance, there's a, there's a benefit at one of the restaurants that we go to a lot.

Uh, and they asked if we'd donate. So I went over there and brought a bunch of merch and a 509 helmet and some stuff from all of us to donate to the benefit. Uh, and I walk in there, it's already hopping at the restaurant. I've never been there so early cause it was at like five o'clock. Normally we're still filming or working or doing something, but I went in to step, you know, just drop stuff off.

Everyone there is probably 50 plus average age over 60 because they're all retired. They retired and they had money and they got these lake homes. They're just about to leave and go to Florida for the winter. Everyone's like, hey, how's it going? I'm talking to them. Honestly, before I even got there, excited to go in to see who I would see. I don't know. I just love it here. I like the people. I wouldn't want to go anywhere else.

That's still an option though. If you guys have been listening for a while, last year we talked about after we went to Florida, we were like, shit, we should buy a place here. That's still an option. We might do that. But then again, if we get like wifed up or have kids, then we're kind of back to like travel back and forth. Yeah. I mean, we were still talking about it. Could they do that? Like,

I don't know if we have that option. If you go for certain periods of time, think about actors or other businessmen or whatever. They sometimes have to go for the week and then they come home.

for you know another five another week and how do you think they feel about us just going to florida for a week well how do you think they'd feel when we're i i know what you're saying but i'm just thinking about it but yeah that was actually one of the questions i'd forgotten to copy it in but it was like what happened to florida because last year we were so hooked on it that's still in the

And like you said, we're tied at the hip. And the only way that it would ever work is if we all do it together. And we would. We would do that because we talked about it. And logistically, that would work. It would actually work for us to rent, lease, possibly buy a place in Florida and do a month or a month and a half off and on there in the winter. I was driving around thinking, why?

nothing has progressed on Florida. And I thought about us and I go, we kind of tend to deal with whatever's in front of us. And once summer came, we went, and we're not thinking about Florida, but like December is going to hit and we're going to be like, yo, we need to get a place in Florida. Totally. Totally. I don't know why.

And I know renting is not ideal. I just kind of like the idea of at least the first winter doing it. Getting your feet wet. Yeah, exactly. See how often you use it. If it's actually something that would be good. But then you don't really have your own land type of stuff, which is a problem too. But I don't know. And it turns out, thank goodness we didn't buy a place in Florida. Yeah. Because not saying that we would be on the water.

But it sounds like, I mean, obviously there's a lot of damage and that, that sucks, dude. Like I, I feel bad for anybody who's in Florida or owns property there that has taken a loss right now. Cause as we've been finding out, at least I newly found out if you're close to the water and your house gets messed up, insurance don't cover it. So leaving your keys in your truck. Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. So this is worse. Well, so yeah, we have like our friend Levi, he's down in Sarasota. Um,

and he's an apartment building and he stayed and he's been sending me videos and it is crazy. I never realized really like so Hurricane Ian, freaking Ian, hit and it was I think like 140 mile an hour winds and they've been having 140 mile an hour winds for like

14 hours at this point. That's not the gust. That's the steady. That's the wind. This storm is literally moving at 10 miles an hour. So it's effectively like having a tornado over you for an entire day.

And it rained like 15 inches around the wall. 15 inches of rain. So is this a bad hurricane? It is. How often does a hurricane of this size hit Florida? Something like this has never hit Florida. And I believe this is one of the most powerful hurricanes ever. Oh, wow. Yeah. Really bad. I shouldn't say. Hopefully no one's getting hurt. Obviously. Yeah. I mean, hopefully people were able to evacuate.

So what was... It seems like they had a good warning. Yeah, they definitely had the warning when it came up. What was Hurricane Katrina? Because when I think of the worst hurricanes... That was devastation. Was that Louisiana, right? That was New Orleans, I thought. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, I think they... It seemed like I remember that as a kid and seeing it. Yeah, that was... Were they caught? Were they not suspecting it? Were they caught off guard? Because there was like people... So many dead... It's because New Orleans sits below sea level and like...

The levees failed. Oh, yeah. People were like trapped on their roofs. People died. There is. Oh, it's terrible. Yeah. And I think it's just because it was there were so many people. They just can't. Like, what are you going to do? I mean, obviously, you should leave. And some people don't have anywhere to go. Yeah, you can. It's like, what are you going to do? Are you going to sleep in your car? You don't have money. You're miles away. You don't have a car. You're like, what do you do? Straight up. And everyone's trying to leave. You can't leave. You know.

so but so like what's going on now in florida to like all these buildings so is it flooding or is it just ripping the roofs off of them the worst part is this storm surge which i believe this is like the worst storm surge storm ever and they're getting like up to 15 feet so like the ocean is rising 15 feet i'll pull up videos of four mires beach which is a place like i've vacationed like it's getting into the second level of

of houses across the entire island. What? Like the island's pretty small, like probably a mile wide. So the entire island is covered in like probably 10 feet of water. And it's just like literally ocean waves just rolling through the town.

Like it, it's the most crazy thing I've ever seen. It's like complete destruction. Yeah. And, uh, I mean all those places, I don't even know like what that town's going to be like. Like I don't even know how you can rebuild because insurance doesn't pay for, if you're in a certain zone, you were telling me like, dude, where do you go from there? Fucking money down the drain. Yeah. So that's the worst part. No insurance will cover it. You get like FEMA will pay for some of it, but I think it was like 200 grand and

best case and that's like if they give you everything and he's like you you don't really get that you know you never get the max like at the end of the day you probably just have a bunch of you know if it's as bad as it's gonna be and is bad the country comes together just like Katrina people come down people come to visit and help out and do whatever volunteer it's all volunteer people donate but like that money is

goes to the worst of it but it's still it's like what are you gonna do is everybody gonna rebuild the houses exactly right exactly so this i'll pull up this graphic the money dude is it only hitting the gulf yeah what's miami looking like uh miami's on the other side i think miami will be okay we can go i think one of the craziest i haven't seen a whole lot on it but i saw this is the craziest graphic this is how much of the area will be flooded

Like that's like legitimate underwater flooded. No way. Pretty nasty. My girlfriend's dad actually lives right next to Cape Coral. And he's got a boat on the lift, like a nice ass boat. So I don't know. Maybe insurance covers that. I have no fucking idea. Yeah.

So in summary, Minnesota can suck. We got blizzards. We get rain. It's not all that nice here always. But there's two things we don't have. One, fucking hurricanes. And two, we don't have...

Every bug can't kill you. I think that about Arizona too. I'm like, at least I don't have to worry about being stung by a scorpion in my sleep. And big ass snakes. And big ass snakes, exactly. Yeah, well, definitely be thinking, praying about them. All of them. That map that you just showed, that makes me way more heartfelt about it. Yeah, I had no idea it was that bad.

Yeah, it's pretty gnarly. And of course, you know, there's media always sensationalizes things. So it'll be interesting to see what really happens. But yeah, it's crazy. You click around on Snap Maps and it's like everybody like,

a foot of water in their front yard you know like yeah crazy okay so i gotta this is actually one of my favorite questions by og rippers if you guys couldn't drink how do you think that would affect your life we'd be fine i think we'd be like absolutely better killing it we'd be so much more productive um our relationships would flourish probably not as happy though

I don't know. I don't think we'd have as much fun. No, definitely not. Okay, that's the end. Yeah, we wouldn't have as much fun. Probably be happier, maybe, but... We'd live a much healthier... Healthier and happier. Yeah, I guess that's like a boring answer, but it's like exactly what you think would happen. Yeah. Do any of us... We're like Mormons, dude. We already pretty much only work, now I think about it. Like, straight up. But...

You would really only work. Like, you would just, like, get done working here, and then you'd probably go home and start working on something else. What else are you going to do? We just work and play. There's no in-between. There's no relaxation. And the line sometimes, well, most times, blurs. It blurs. It goes quickly from work to play. You're already kind of doing it. Yeah, but anyways. Start playing. Or even, I think there's something to be said about, I mean...

Evan can definitely contest this, but we all can. So if you're about to mow the lawn, you're like, well, let's get a little loaded up on tees. I mean, I'm the same way. If I'm going to work on my dirt bike, I will start cracking them. And it's like...

how much faster could I work on my dirt bike if I wasn't cracking open teas or beers? Yeah, dude, you'd have that 150 frame powder coated bike. I would, yeah. Like, it's stuff like that. CJ would have already found his other hobby. Yeah. It is funny though. I'd have a lot more money in my bank account, I'll tell you that. So how much did you spend at Zorba's this year? Oh, yeah. Oh,

Uh, well, I don't know how much I've spent this year, but so the way Zorba's works is it's just like this restaurant, but also a hopping bar for a lot of the summer people that come around here. Cause keep in mind, we live in a vacation area, but we still go there a lot. Anyways, and our buddy Brian owns a bar anyways. So they give you these cards if you're a local and it's like a

type of card. So basically every time... Anybody can have it. Yes. No, it's a locals card. It's called the locals card. Anyone can have it. Makes you feel better. Never mind. Anyone can get this rewards card. You swipe it every time that you spend money there and it keeps track of it. And then they'll like...

When you spend certain amounts, it like adds up and you can win like a free t-shirt or like a free beer or a free pizza. Anyways, I got a $100 gift card, which is like the end of the road rewards card. That's like the highest reward you get. You are a top tier customer. And I asked him, I was like, what? How much did I have to spend to get this?

$10,000. Whoa. I've spent $10,000 when I swipe my rewards card at Zorba's. And I got my rewards card in 2019. So that means I've done that in three years. That's disturbing because we only go to Zorba's like 25% of the time. That is true, dude. There's so much other restaurants. What do you mean you got to buy groceries? I don't know. I just...

I was just pretty happy about it. I said, hey, you know. Thank you for that. I'm glad I'm able to help support. And thanks for the good times. So good at supporting local businesses. That stressed me out when you told me that because I don't know when I got my Locals card. It was before 2019, but I've also hit that too. Yeah, so you've done it. And I was like, oh. They used to give a bottle of Dom Perignon. Oh, that's cool. Cool. I thought that was cooler because...

Oh, I got a $100 gift card to a restaurant I eat and drink at all the time. Dude. Like, who cares? But the Dom, kind of cool. Pop it up with your friends. Our buddy Ben, he's a little bit, well, he's probably got, I don't know, eight years on us. He's done it four times. Whoa.

Four times he's gone around the sun is what they refer to. Around the sun. That's 40 grand. Well, shit, dude, you've done it three in... I've done it three years. Dude, CJ, don't give up, man. Don't give up, bro. Hey, by the fourth or fifth one, you might have found that hobby, though, you know? I don't know, though. To answer the question, honestly, we have a lot of fun

outside of like filming and everything that is just kind of like brought out not

buy booze but just like because of us just like kind of being in like a different atmosphere and like more relaxed it's like we're always just like go go go grinding grinding grinding and then that's like our time to kind of just like chill and just like cut loose and have a good time and we still sometimes are working while we're drinking or partying we're connection we're making connections and we're you know hobnobbing and shit i feel like it's a nice little reward sometimes because like you're working hard like throughout the whole day and you're like man like

When I get done with this and I have a beer with dinner, it's like you're looking forward to that and you're like, we got to work hard and get this done, make this happen. This is how we justify it. I think this is the first form of a terrible horizon. I don't know. But it's just like a nice way of rewarding yourself for doing good. There is like truth to that because there's plenty. I wouldn't.

I almost called us athletes, dude. Jesus. But there's like a lot of events that we go to. Let's just say like some athletes, some of them don't drink for a good reason. Whatever. They're keeping her fit, keeping her good. But we go to, we go on trips and stuff. And if we didn't do that aspect, like go out, booze it up, like we wouldn't meet the like fans that we meet. Like, you know, otherwise we would just like hang out, I guess, like,

in our hotel room or or like go bowling or something i don't know but like but we go like i don't know when we went to like revelstoke or something we just end up like having the craziest times and we wouldn't do that if we weren't planning on going out to drink right like i agree i agree completely fuck dude you talked to me into it i'm gonna you kind of got me fired up there mike

Those are some of my favorite times. I just saw a clip of Axel Hodges at Red Bud, and he's like, you know, I'm pretty sure he wasn't the only one to use this line, but he's like, I came here to ride dirt bikes and drink beer, and I'm done riding dirt bikes for the day. And everyone's like, yeah!

they're just like so pumped well people like that and and everyone was so pumped that he said that and they're like yes we're all the you know we're all the same so yeah it's a good aspect of it what's what's another question how do you guys have these hilarious podcasts knowing your parents are just listening to everyone uh hey mom um act like they're not yeah

My dad told me this weekend, yeah, me and your mom were watching some of the podcast and she said, you can't tell Evan we watched it. Oh, chill. She said you can't.

Dude, honestly, I'm pretty used to it at this point. Everything we do is basically online for the world to see. And the parents have been watching. I would much rather have my parents watch these podcasts than our old videos. That's what I was going to bring up, dude. I remember when we first started making our old videos...

we had such potty mouths. And it was just not even like... They weren't even good swears. We were just swearing to swear. And I remember my family telling us to, you know, oh, it'd be better if you didn't swear. And we were like, no, fuck that, dude. And then...

Now I look back and I go, ooh, yeah, I wish we didn't maybe swear as much. Honestly, me personally, I just don't really have any problem with it. It just comes with the territory. And my parents are, I mean, I'm 26 now. And I really haven't ever hid that much from them. I remember when I was a senior in high school, I'd been drinking beers and stuff. And it was no, like...

hidden thing in our family obviously they didn't support it it's like i really haven't hid that much i was like yeah i'm going there to drink some beer and like i was always your great i've always been transparent yeah no it's quite the opposite because like i mean i don't know if anyone knows this i know you guys do but for the first like year i would say year of our channel maybe more i didn't even tell my parents that it existed no way yeah i did not know that because i knew we were

uh not uh clean at all as far as language and a few other things but mostly language and i just was like if they they don't watch the videos i'm in better shape so i just they didn't know the channel existed until after a year of it but also do it's like this is uh you know if you're not relying on them

Like, realistically, like, once you're an adult, you can do whatever you want, dude. Like, yeah, it might be, like, embarrassing. It's still embarrassing. You can have that, but also it's just, like, it's the same thing. Like, I remember when I was a kid, I used to be, like, so, like, embarrassed of the idea of, like, having a girlfriend. Because, you know, when you're, like, when you go to, like, your family, they're just like, you got a girlfriend yet? And they kind of, like, razzy a little bit and stuff. And I always used to think, like, this would be so embarrassing, like, when I grow up and actually get a girlfriend and, like, have to bring her, like, around and stuff. But...

I don't know. They're just people too. Like your parents have probably done all the same stuff that you've done.

Did your parents say anything about the Evan Hogg podcast? I don't know if my parents honestly watch all of them. Yeah, my dad always says he catches up on his drives. So, yeah, he misses some. That was like the one that my mom was like, I had to turn it off. Really? Yeah. Do you want to hear about Evan's Hogg? My dad, that is so funny. Yeah, it's hilarious, bro. I think he congratulated Evan next time he saw him. Every time I see him, he makes a comment like,

Yeah. Everyone loves Evan's hog except for Ben's mom. Thank God. All right. What else we got? When one of the boys uses their own vehicle toy asset in a video, do they get more of the ad rev from that video than the other boys? For instance, the main bit in the video is Ryan doing a burnout or flipping a jet ski causing it to pull up and cost him thousands. Does he get compensated?

Almost never. No. I mean, my back bumper's all burnt and on fire. I had to buy a whole new back bumper. It was like five grand for the GTR. And it was kind of part of it. It was a risk I had to take. Right. And I was willing to take, too. Blowing the tranny racing Ken. I was like, that was an iffy one, too, because I was like, completely my fault. Whose fault is it? Clearly mine. It's like one of those things that... And then I could have paid 5Gs for it. And then next thing I know, I'm like...

I just spent $10,000... To race Ken. To race Ken, essentially, but... You also, like, benefit from it, and also, at the same time, we do determine certain things, though. We're like, oh, like...

Hey, let's say Ryan had his TRX or something, and let's say it wasn't under warranty or whatever, and we were like, go drift it through the snow, and he ends up messing up his CV axle. Or even the tires. You're going to break your tires or your destroyed tires. Yeah, so like for instance on Ryan's Camaro, this is a better example. He went and did a drift course with it, and then he also did the burnouts when he first bought it. We said we'd buy you the new set of tires for that.

Stuff like that. But that's a great question. That is a good question. It would also be a nightmare from the accounting side. Oh, yeah. Because what you guys got to realize also, or the guy asking the question, is the videos make money forever.

They make money forever. So it's like, so what? The last 400 videos are broken up into percentage of who gets what? I always look at it as it's for the greater good. Many days, someone else is doing more than me. And so if that's my thing, it's like, this is my time to shine. This

My time to pull my weight. Totally. Yeah, I think everyone's kind of at that point too. Has anyone ever really lost out other than Ryan's jet ski? I feel like it was really the only time. Your transmission for sure. But I feel like his transmission, he bought a 2002 WRX and launched it a couple times. That was bound to happen. At the end of the day, I think it's just your jet ski. Other than that, I think it's all positive. Think about my clutch. My clutch went out in the Evo when I raced Mike.

and like I need a new watch yeah but that's like a wear part you know yeah that's true they think this is the wrong word to use but like we keep it pretty loose as far as everything goes definitely the wrong word to use but like we keep it loose as far as what we nothing's cut throat seriously like I feel like I should get some money for that there's none of that there's nothing we're not yeah like if honestly if someone was like pretty entitled to like some kind of earning it would

It's already there. Yeah, it's already there. There never has to be... Don't really put up a fuss. Yeah, there never has to be a, I don't think this is fair, which is incredible. I would say, honestly, we're pretty lucky. We never really fight about money. No one. We're all very, very giving. I was thinking about this today. Relative to other YouTube channels that are way bigger than us, make way more money than us, we give away...

more than a lot of people i would say 99 of them and we give away like bigger things too like i don't know i just feel like we're very uh gracious and i i'm not saying about me but just everyone like we are we just give away a lot it's more fun but yeah what ryan said to recap like that i mean for the greater good that's you that's all of our moods

For the greater good. I think the other thing to reflect on what you said, CJ, is everyone has like the same ownership in the bank account, right? So it's like it hurts a little bit less because it's only one-fifth yours. So it's like, oh, let's give away a $10,000 unit. Well, it's like you'd be only in like two grand personally if you were to like take that 10 grand and like pay it out. So it's like, you know, it's like a little bit less money

uh like personal wise right i guess you still have skin in it yeah you still have skin in it but it's not just like straight yours but then on the other side of that like dude if we were just like a one solo youtuber like even just making making like what the company makes for us and grand we spend so much money but like one solo guy like i think about like brain price talking to miller last time like

we know how much he's making and he's one guy like that dude's balling. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and then it's really hard to like get in their mind of like, damn, why don't they like spend more on videos or like reinvest more? Cause you know how much they're making. I agree. I've thought about that for sure too, as a single or a duo group pulling the exact same numbers, doing the same things we are as far as numbers.

It'd be unreal. And then I'm like wondering why they would, you know. You want to know why? Not all of them are into certain things. Like let's say a lot of people, YouTubers can't make videos on cars. So they can't really justify buying a dope car. And maybe they don't, maybe they're not super into it. We are lucky that we can pretty much make a video and make,

anything entertaining not trying to sound cocky or anything but like we just are good at having fun with legitimately anything like i can go buy 12 basketballs and we will make an awesome bit with them blowing them up like it's just it's easy for us to justify pretty much anything like i i can't think of anything that i've boughten that wasn't used for video straight up

Like it always is. It always turns back around and, and makes entertainment. You even filled your house with barn animals. Yeah. Like I buy a, the one thing I thought wasn't, and then that ended up being good too. You know? Yeah. I, I had a meeting with our accountant last week and he was just like, look,

I'm in the passenger seat. You're the driver. I can tell you what to do, but at the end of the day, you're driving the ship, you're driving the car, you make the decisions and I'll just tell you, I'll just be the passenger saying, Oh, maybe do this or put your blinker on here, but you know what you're doing. That's good. I think that's a good answer. I don't know. Uh, how do you guys handle the idea of longterm success with content and staying away from too much repetitive content? I feel like this kind of goes in with the money thing too. Um,

We just keep reinvesting. Exactly. And keep reinvesting and keep reinventing. And growing. Because sometimes we like to, I mean, everyone likes to do something that no one's ever done before. But there is such a thing as reinventing, especially on YouTube. Reinvent something that's been done. You're not copying it by any means. You're reinventing. So reinventing and reinvesting. But we're always pushing how to do stuff better too, do stuff bigger. How can we do this better?

Even in a in a better way of filming it. How can we make the storyline better? You know, there's so many things that we and we've only gotten better with time This is the first year that I can remember in a very long time This is the first year I can remember us not having to like think of ideas like we have so many there's so many possibilities and I think that is one of

us opening up our like span or our mindset in one how much we want to spend on a video but also going down to one a week taking more time getting more creative stuff like that we have so many ideas it's just a matter of

of, you know, making it happen. Like, it takes a lot to put together a video, even, like, surprising everyone with this Raptor. We had to find the Raptor. We had to find a good one. Get Crandall. We had to get all the parts. We had to get Crandall. Like, there were so many moving components. It's been in the process for, like, a month. We put the time in and...

Yeah, I mean, I don't know. We make it happen, dude. But yeah, I guess especially in the last six months, it's been like normally it's like, what are we going to do next? I mean, it's a fun thing, but it's really stressful because it's hard. We're like turning down videos right now. But now, yeah, it's like, okay, how do we schedule what we are about to do, which is such a dope thing. That's why I like this summer.

Every summer has been great. All summers are great. But like this summer has been incredible because we have not really had to. It's just like what video should we do? Scramble or stress ourselves out over what we're going to do. Yeah. It's just like, what can we get here? And like, what's the best way to do this? And how can we do, what are this idea the best? Yeah. Yeah. So, I mean, as far as the question, like, what do we think about the longevity of that? I mean, I think we're only getting better. Yeah.

Other than the thin ice vids, we've never really repeated ourselves. Straight up. We never have. And even if you watch all the... I guess they might have gotten to a point where they started feeling repetitive, but that was just because at that time they were going so viral it only made sense to keep pumping them into the algorithm. But otherwise...

you really don't see us do too many things twice other than maybe ride the track on like pit bikes or dirt bikes. But even that, we've never done the exact same thing. That's why it's like we don't, people always say like, do more riding vids. For one, we feel like we're copying ourselves. We feel like we're just doing the same thing again. It's like we just did that two weeks ago. Let's do something new to keep stuff fresh. I'd say, yeah, that's the only thing that would ever get repeated. Like,

You know, we probably do a little less snowmobiling videos now, but still a lot of snowmobiling. That's going to feel like it's repeated because...

of a snow machine doing something is probably going to feel like another video of another snow snowmobile or snow machine whatever but other than that like yeah we're only getting better we're only progressing more and we're still doing the videos with the snow machines you know that's what i love there's still gonna be we just space them out that way it doesn't feel like we're copying ourselves whereas if you're a youtuber where you're like all i do is make dirt

dirt bike videos. That's how you start repeating yourself. It's like, how the fuck, what do I do next? You put yourself in a box. Luckily for us, we like doing pranks and making our friend think his truck got stolen and blowing up basketball. Yeah, last thing on that, it's crazy to think way back. I know we've maybe mentioned this before, but

The repetition thing, it's how we got started doing just about everything like you said. Made the shifter car video and we were so stoked because it...

Blew up. Got 30k views or whatever. And we were like, well, should we get another Shifter Cart? Should we make another video soon? Let's just, let's go rip that thing. Let's make another Shifter Cart video. And CJ said, no. If we make another Shifter Cart video and let's say we make another one after that, guess what we are? A Shifter Cart channel. You guys want to be that? No. And it was just some proper insight. And then what came to be what it is now, like where we don't repeat, we try not to repeat ourselves. Yeah.

Yeah, that's the beauty of the channel. Also, like, dude, nobody knows what our next video is going to be. Straight up. Nobody knows what our next bit's going to be in a video. I hate to drag this question on any longer, but I've gotten to the point where

I look at like YouTube algorithm and like the best way of maximizing your viewer retention. And obviously the higher your viewer retention is, your retention is the longer that a person watches the video. If they watch the whole video from start to finish, that's a hundred percent. If they watch half of it, it's 50%. You want a high view retention because that makes YouTube push your video to more people. You can get more viewers, you can get more subscribers, more success overall. If we would just do one solo bit, like whatever that is,

the thing is titled and thumbnail after we only did that. And when it's done, it ends abruptly. That'd be the best way at maximizing our viewer retention and possibly even, uh, just getting us more views, more subscribers overall. But at the same time, it's like, we've just done it this way for so long where it's all these bits. And I feel like it's just more entertaining and it's more like personable. And, uh, it just makes for a way better show if you can get into it and start connecting with the, uh,

you know, the characters and all that and is made for a much slower route in my opinion. But at the same time, it's like,

We got some of the best subscribers on YouTube, in my opinion, because they feel like they know us because they have been so involved in our lives because we don't just go and do a video of us doing the one thing and keep it right to the point. Like, we add our touches in. And, yeah, so I don't know. I've thought about that, though, quite a bit. Yeah, I agree. I mean, the slow grow has built the best following, the best supporters. Doing it the way we have, yeah. Mike.

Here's a question for just you. Where do you get the ideas for clothing designs slash who would be a dream client to do graphic design or clothing work for? Well, the ideas come from all over. Luckily, we live in a world

surrounded by basically the internet you know social media luckily i have these guys sending me they'll say this is sick and then send it over and then i go that is sick you know save it boom onto there uh there's plenty of places online to get inspiration there's plenty of places online to get like design elements but dude i don't know it's always been just sit down okay

What's cool? I bring up the ones that I do have saved, kind of go off there, kind of go, I don't even know, dude. It's weird. The process. It's incredible because you're putting out like what, 30 new designs like every six weeks. Right. You guys should see Mike's font book.

You should also see Mike's puke board of the designs that don't get used. I call it the puke board because... Dude, sometimes he'll be like, oh, I feel like we should use one more shirt and we're sitting there in our merch meeting and I go, dude, pull up your puke board and we'll pull up his puke board and there'll be a thing on there from like four months ago. I'm like, dude, that's fucking sick. Let's do that. Or then we maybe alter it a tiny bit. Yeah, it'll pull up the puke board from four jobs ago. Yeah, and then it's like,

Well, wait, I never even saw that from last time. So that's fine. But yeah, even the font thing, if those of you who don't know what fonts are, it's the, I don't even know how to describe a font, but the way people know what fonts are, I'd like to think so. How many fonts do you think you have? I do like over 2000. That holy shit. Dude, talk about how I've just seen him type out. So I'll go. All right. Life wide open three bars.

Okay, let's look for a good font. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. When are we going to hit the Bs? Yeah. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. B. Scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. C. It's starting to get to the point now where it takes me too much time because I go through all of them. There's a beautiful thing called Control Z. So make like a logo or a design and then copy it.

and then tweak it slightly, copy it again, change the colors, copy it again, change the colors again, copy it again, add a different symbol.

um so that's that is the process pretty random but also like how creative do you think you are or versus how talented at making designs are you would you say it's more creativity or it's just being better at running illustrator uh stuff that is already out there as yeah as time has gone on

I'm not really ashamed to admit this as time has gone on, it's less creative and better at doing what I do.

better at um finding the right shirt for this because i mean there's some designs that i completely knock off you guys have seen that and then there's other designs that i those are like the dummy zone like auto zone like people know they're not over and they love them yeah so those and like the the coors light one in particular i've loved since the since i finished it because the c for c boys and the l for life wide open the light like it's perfect so those ones you

You know, you sit down. I'm still proud of that because like I changed a logo that isn't supposed to be into that. And sometimes like I can't draw.

at all you guys know that i mean i really can't so if someone else on fiverr has to drop for me that's okay with me as long as the design looks cool yeah we still pay for it yeah yeah we still pay for it still curating it you know i think that like i almost consider myself like a merchandise a merch drop curator yeah you're like a merchandiser right like i get the garments and get everything where it needs to be but at the end of the day if if like

I'm just changing the words of a cool looking badge. That's okay with me. Like, cause at the end of the day, we're just making merch that we want to wear. That's cool. That we hope you guys want to wear too. I think something maybe to add just that we've realized is it's not always about being the most artistic or the most creative. It's just like, like sometimes the most simple things go crazy. Like dirt bikes, like,

Yeah. Just a basic font right on the shirt. Simple. People love it. Goes, sells out three times in a row. Like it's like no can do. Creative in a different way. Yeah, exactly. Creative in a way that also brings in a character. Like look at Danny Duncan and Virginia rocks. She's like,

Shit goes nuts. I mean, what do you do this year? Like 40 million in merchandise sales or something like that? Something crazy. I don't know where we saw that, but yeah. I saw 50. He said it's valued at 50 million. I don't know if that's 50 million revenue or just valuation. But that's crazy. And that's something that we've learned over time is we used to think like it was all about how, you know, necessarily like putting like the most artistic touch. And I sometimes see that with like...

Even editors, they try to make this whole cinematic thing out of something that... It's just like, just show the fucking thing, dude. Yeah, totally. And we used to do that when we were first... In our early stages of editing, I feel like, we would make something that doesn't need to be this whole cinematic thing cinematic. And it's like, oftentimes...

Just make the thing, dude. Yeah. You know, just show what people want to see. Right. Don't overdo it. You know, I don't know. But also sometimes you got to overdo it. Like, look at Yeezy. Like Kanye West, his shit is overdone yet simple. You know, I guess some of us, but anyway, sorry. That's why it's endless. Like it'll, that's the best part is that it's endless. It can be ever changing. We'll probably always do merch because I really enjoy doing it. And it's just, it's fun. But,

I feel like we never get backlash on merch or anything like that either. That's what I really enjoy. I think people really like it. It doesn't feel, for me especially, or for any of us, it doesn't feel like this money-making...

thing we have going on like like it's for some youtubers it really is it feels like a genuine like outlet it's all we wear to support us and it really is all we wear like when we were going to go rob evan of his vehicles i'm looking in my claws i'm like dude i straight up don't have anything that says cboys tv on it so i had to wear a cboys tv sweatshirt with a flannel over it

Like, that was the only thing I could find. Yeah. God damn it, that reminds me. Ken, can you bring me that shirt? Evan, can you bring me that shirt? Dream collab, though, real quick. Yeah, he said Mike and Kanye West. He said person that I would design for. What's your favorite brand that you would make a logo for or some kind of design? Wow.

for me, I'd be like sick to collab with like Vans. Yeah, I can see that for sure. Which is very skater-esque and it's not so much up our subscribers alley, but drink apple juice because OJ will kill you. Brilliant. I love goofy shirts and that reminded me of it. And so I'm going to start wearing, I've been curating a ton of

of goofy shirts that i'm gonna wear every podcast but i keep forgetting because i want to put them on till you guys see me i love that my buddy ken did that one time yeah it didn't end up very well for him though i saw a really funny shirt earlier that ken i think would absolutely love let me pull it up here yeah dude i i thought that this would just like resonate really good with you ken did you see it just says uh resonate with you really well ken

It just says, tax the poor. It's, you know, like parody. I don't think they actually mean tax the poor, but.

It's just like they don't mean commit tax fraud unless it's Canada. It's just a joke. Being that you guys are from the Midwest and most of your viewers could possibly be from the Midwest where hunting is a big part of some people's lives. Have you guys ever thought of doing a video about hunting? Personally, I love watching your bow fishing videos and watch you guys shoot guns. I feel like some of your viewers would enjoy a hunting video from boys.

Short answer, yes. Yeah, I'd love to do that too, but it's just not something YouTube accepts. You can't have guns. You can't have... They used to allow it, but you just can't nowadays, and that's just the rules. So...

We got to abide them because we need to respect YouTube and their community guidelines. Unfortunately, yeah, they got the way it is. And it's like, it's pretty clear that they don't. And I think the worst part is so then you're going to get a handful of people that are like, no, still do it and just don't monetize it. Right.

But YouTube still throttles the absolute shit out of it. So then it just seems like this video that ends up on our channel. It's like work and time where I'd rather just go and do it and enjoy it. Not have to film it. Not necessarily having to film it, but just like... Your new hobby. That would be fun. You literally can't film it, so you don't have a choice. I should. Yeah, and also, like, we just bought the new land where the track is, but there's a section of wood. Hey, dude.

I mean... I'm out there every morning. Yo, I'm not joking. I think I'm a homer of fun. Dude, you 100% could. Every time I go out there, I see deer. Evan and I are going to deer hunt that this November. Are you? Did you get that passed by the landowners? Yeah. Wait, what? But yeah. You'll definitely see deer, dude. I looked... Well, so looking at the pond, the pond is full of deer.

full of deer tracks. I'm like, let's just try it. Let's go out there. You should. Now, I'm like, can you imagine? I have my own hunting land. I looked it up. I think it's rifle zone because I don't have a shotgun. I'll come with as long as, well, Evan, not to point you out, but if he gets into the tees too much, I don't know how comfortable I feel with him having a gun around me. Yeah, is that something that you don't mix? Tees and hunting? Is that even a question? Of course he mixes it. No, I was like...

you can hunt in Minnesota and not drink. I think that's probably illegal to not. The other way around. Actually, I just applied for my permit to purchase is what you need to buy an AR-15 in Minnesota. So hopefully once I get that, I'm going to go and buy one. And

On with it? No, just shoot. Like, set up targets, Tannerite, shit. But you can't even blow up Tannerite. Like, we can't do anything with fireworks. We used to. And that was, like, so fun, dude. It does suck because, honestly, like, blowing stuff up is so...

Like, that is a passion of ours. Yeah, it's exhilarating. We've had to keep that off camera. And it's something that I, that's something we'd probably repeat because it's just never not fun. We blew up the dishwasher. We were blowing up everything for a while. Like, we blew up all our garbage cans. The jet ski. The jet ski was awesome. Dude. And we were doing it all in an HOA development. Right in the middle of people's sheds.

It was fun times. Fun times. That was fun times. Different times. Different times.

We were still getting demonetized at that point, but I think we were just like, oh, video must have got demonetized. We just didn't look into anything. We were so dumb, dude. Well, it was different too. It was different, yeah. We cared, but it was like, well, I guess that's just part of another step. Right. Did y'all ever think you would be successful and that this would turn into your business? I don't want to say I knew, but I always just like was striving for it so hard. Like making YouTube videos is the only thing I've thought about for like

the last six years over the last six years now, you know? And it's just like, you just want, I just want it so bad. And, uh, and, but no, I like, obviously you never know. Yeah. You know, but all you can do is just dream and keep focus on that goal and keep working at it. Like, like I had a vision board I made,

Which is basically you put up a bunch of things that you have that you want in life. And whether it be like good health, which is one of the things on it. I had like a million subscribers on YouTube. I had a GTR on it, like all these things. And I would always look at it every morning before I would go to work or whatever I was doing, you know. So I don't know. It's just there was a goal. Yeah. I don't know. For me.

It was opposite. Well, right away, when you said, let's make a channel, I don't know if I've said this before, but I was like, dude,

You know how hard it is to get big on YouTube? I do remember you telling me that. You're like, we're going to be able to get more followers on Instagram than YouTube. Yeah, and I was just like, and I was still down. I mean, for a small moment, I was like, eh, yeah, let's, well, I'll help you edit, whatever. But I was like, nah. And then, of course, this made me sound really stupid. I was like, dude, I've tried YouTube before.

It didn't work. Please don't go dig up my old videos. It is tough. It's tough to watch those. But yeah, I was like, I was the naysayer. I was like, dude, like a lot of people say, it's

It's not you want to be a YouTuber, but the cool thing was is that you were driven and it made me driven. And then once the, I guess the views, the slight amount of views and slight success came, I was completely changed. I said, we have something here, which you were already saying. And then everyone else has started saying it too. We have something here. And then the drive completely changed. Like looking back, looking back, I feel like,

I mean, I was just at such a low, just rock bottom. It was like, only way you can go is up from here. And it was just in, in a weird sense, it was very comforting. Like, I almost feel like that was like the most, um, comforting time I've had even before now, because it was just like, I really didn't have anything to lose. And I just like had this idea and I just was trying to really work towards. And, uh,

Yeah, I don't know. It was just something comforting in that. I don't know. Looking back, I just remember just being very comfortable. Like I felt good because it was like I have something to aim at. Yeah, I was like I was confident that we could get views. And I know that's not what it's all about, but I was confident that people would be somewhat interested in something we're going to do. I was confident in that, but never turning into a business.

You know, never, never making an LLC. I mean that even that when it changed, okay, we need to make a business so that we can get a joint bank account and that money, the small amount from YouTube and go in there. Even once that happened, I go, Oh, this is cool. Honestly, I didn't know that it even was possible to be as big as we are now. And we really aren't that big in the grand scheme scale of YouTube. But like, so to be honest, I didn't know we'd be like this level, uh,

I thought maybe coolest would be buying some cool parts for my Subaru at the time and just dirt biking and stuff. I don't know. That's awesome. I don't know if you guys feel this, but I've always felt like every single step of the way, like at 10K, 100K, 500, a million, I've always felt that we are doing such a good job and I'm so proud of us.

I've never been like, man, I can't wait till we hit

1.7 million subscribers. Like I bet, I wonder how that's going to feel. Like I've always just like focused on the present and how good it feels just to like have what we have. Yeah. I always got, I guess thought about like, man, a million is going to be cool. But even at that, I was like, I think even right now at 250,000, like I'm just so proud of like where we're at. I definitely like that. I'll look grateful. Yeah. Like every time it happens, like,

I mean, when, especially a million, that's huge. We're not like, all right, 2 million it is. I mean, we, we dwelled and celebrated like genuine, genuine celebration for, for not only a million, but for everything, 250, 500, everything. Yeah. Like every, like honestly the entire step of the way. And I always knew like, dude, we're killing it right now. And I just can't wait for like this to just continue on.

With just like this mindset and this like everyone's attitude towards it, because I think what we have is great. And I mean, we could go into we could go and do anything. I think going to like any industry with like the same attitude and work ethic, we could kill it. Like I said, unlike this talk show I was on the other day and I was like, honestly, I think if we wanted to be.

like a lawn care crew we could be the best in the area honestly kill it yeah and he was like we'd be working our asses off dude we'd be showing up like plowing driveways as long as we got evan on the team he goes you guys would have those you guys would have those lawns done in record-breaking times dude i i think that they're out of i guess my piece of advice for no matter whatever it is you're doing you gotta just keep focusing on that next step don't focus on three steps ahead

Just, well, I mean, it is good to consider that, consider that, but just take it one step at a time, no matter what you're doing and you will very slowly grow and do something, but you just don't want to not even take a step at all because then nothing happens. Yeah. Like straight up. Better take a really small step and then be happy that you made that step.

then yeah i mean then try yeah then being scared to take a big one and then not doing it at all yeah you know you got to have some if you want something you got to just go and take initiative and go and try and get it you know try and start working for it that's the first thing you got to do you know and that shit happens fast like yeah i think like the smaller steps you take the faster things happen no 100 and you're focusing on just when you're in it

It goes by so quick, dude. I don't know. I heard this really good analogy. It was, I believe it was a kid and it was the older sibling was stressed and said, I have to find a new apartment. I have to graduate from college and I have to get a job. And the kid goes, that's just three things.

And like you look at your life and just you don't look at them as all they are. You just look at like, I just got to get this one thing done. And then you get the next thing done. You get the next thing done. You get through it. Boom. Inspiration. Love it. We occasionally we do get inspirational on here. It's good. A little bit. We got depth.

Right, we got depth. The only thing I don't, I try not to do when we're doing inspiration, I don't want to sound like we're being cocky. Hopefully no one's taking it as that at home. I guess we're just trying to help and give inspiration and tell you the straight up truth of what we're thinking. Well, this is just like our business and our business is online and it's very like transparent. Whereas like,

I don't think our story is very different than most businesses. You know, it's like, it's like the same grind. It's the same start from nothing, uh, go broke for the first three years, fake it till you make it kind of thing. Like every business kind of has that. Ours is just public, public. Yeah, exactly. Success isn't really accidental. Like you gotta fucking make it. You guess like you work for it. I don't know. Is that? Yeah, absolutely. There's meant much truth to that.

All right. I got one last question. It's fitting because it ends every single one of our videos. What does the dog at the end of the videos mean to see boys? Can I answer it since I made it? I have no, I have no idea. So the reason why, so I, you know how, like whenever you watch a TV, never, Oh, that is a good question. I've always wondered that there's, there's really not a whole lot of mean to it. I guess. Uh, I remember I made it in our college house just cause

Just because I was like, I feel like this would be a cool little touch to end each video on. And basically, it's just like a copyright thing of the date when the video was made, the year that it was made. Just like any TV show. Like if you watch it like a SpongeBob episode, there will be like a little thing at the end that would play. Or like Jimmy Neutron. They always had the monkey. Hi, I'm Paul. Yeah, exactly. That's just like. Does that have the date on it?

I think so, yeah. So ours just has the copyright sign of the year. I don't know if I'm doing it right, but I just did that at the time. But now it's our own thing. And the dog is actually... It used to be the mayor of Cormorant. The dog is now passed on. But when we started...

the mayor of Cormorant was a dog. It's public, like look it up. Dog mayor. It'll be Cormorant, Minnesota. Lex dog is mayor. His name was Duke and he had served for like four years as a mayor in

In Cormorant. And the whole reason he got elected was because there was two dudes that were trying to run for mayor and no one really liked either of them. So then they were like, hey, let's just elect this dog. And everyone voted for the dog. So really funny. Duke. Served and protected. It is funny that you say it like that, though. You're like, I didn't really mean for it to be a thing. We've always...

We've always loved Duke the Mayor. We didn't. I mean, we saw him walk wandering around. We have one photo with him. I think we've met him one time. No, I've met him more than that. He used to just walk around. He would just straight up walk around the Cormorant store, walk from the liquor store right down Main Street. You'd always see him. He was kind of a celebrity. He had to get in line to take pictures with him. We have a picture one of our first days filming with

With him. Yeah. That's right. That was the Bonneville day. Yeah. Really? I got a freaking camera strap around my neck because I was like, this camera is $500. You got to wear the strap if you're holding this thing. That's when Ken said he was going to drive the peanut through the Pits 611. The Pits 611.

CJ said he was going to buy a GTR or trade it to a GTR. If you go and watch that first video, there was so many things that were like, damn. And that's crazy kind of what came from that. Did Ken drive his car through the pits? No, but one day I think he will. And it's going to be very suspicious when we're seeing cars buzzing around and police and there's a giant hole in the side of the pit 611 and no car. And we're going to be like, Ken.

Going back into that though. You finally fulfilled your dream. It's crazy how what you say, what comes out of your mouth, it goes out into the universe and always comes back around to you. If you mean it. Me personally, I'm extremely careful about what I say and I don't know. Because I personally feel like what you say, it manifests into reality. I don't know. And I've

Believe that for the longest time. You can be a little spicious, but not super spicious on certain things. I think it's stitious, but spicious is nice too.

No, I agree though, CJ. Law of attraction. Good and bad. Yeah, it's the law of attraction. Good and bad, exactly. That's why you got to be careful. Those were all great questions. Yeah, it was kind of fun. Those were good. Obviously, you picked the more in-depth ones, but they were all great questions. I think we had even more. We just had to cut it. Yeah. I mean, there was some like, who's the hottest female celebrity and worst dating story, stuff like that, but there's always more podcasts. Let's end it. Hottest female celebrity. Megan Fox.

I was going to say Megan Fox too. Or Kim K. Yeah, I'd agree. I think Megan Fox though takes the cake. You both can't have Megan Fox. Oh, I'm sorry, man. I'm sticking with mine. Well, I went first, so. I don't even know how to pronounce her name, but like Anna de Armas. She's a fucking babe. Are you guys kidding me? I don't know who the hottest celebrity right now is. Oprah Winfrey. Oprah Winfrey. No. Lizzo. Lizzo.

I always had a crush on the Harry Potter girl, like Emma Watson. But then she got this short haircut and I got scared. And then she grew her hair back out and then things are good. I'll find out later. We'll talk about it later. Well, on that note, hit the copyright Duke. Oh, yeah, I'm putting that in there. Okay. I don't know if it sounds like that, but thanks, guys. Hey, subscribe.

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