Hiring Back our Ex-Business Partner, Do We Fight? & Our Towns New Mayor
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- People can change over time. - This is a big personal growth moment for Ken. - Look at Dalton's, this is 15 hours and two minutes. - Oh my God, Dalton. - I bet I think of half of like the video ideas that I come up with driving. We get along a little too well. - So we might have to change something about that. - I'm so much happier doing this. Dude, when your friends are your coworkers and your coworkers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario.

I don't know if we can talk about this on the pod, but did you guys fucking watch the debate? Yeah, bro. Dude, I've been getting so many videos from it, and it's amazing that that was actually something that happened. That was great TV. Was it? I couldn't watch it. Oh, my God. It's so entertaining. Literally, it's like a South Park sketch. It is. It is. Yeah. I got served a South Park reel right after I was watching debates, and it was like, all right, the giant douche.

Against the turd sandwich. That's an old one. That's an old one, yeah. I was like, dude, man, what is it? Reality imitates art? Art imitates reality or whatever it is. If a South Park sketch hasn't happened yet in real life, it's only a matter of time. No, it was genuinely entertaining, though. I'm only about halfway through it. It was like a movie. I would say if you have an hour and a half, just sit down. It's just genuinely entertaining. Wow.

Here's my opinion. The Democrats knew what they were doing. They were throwing Biden to the wolves. There's no way that they thought that was going to go well. I'm surprised they let it go. They want him to maybe step down, like whoever's pulling the strings. So they were like, oh, yeah, let's 100% send him to a debate early enough so then they can put Newsom in. I don't know if you guys watched the commentary afterwards, but that's the only thing people were talking about.

I think it was CNN that was the one that was broadcasting it. And before, they were talking about how, yeah, this is going to be a great thing, earliest presidential debate in history. It's great. And then immediately after, they're like, yeah, that was a big mistake. And that was a bad idea. I don't know, though. Why would they agree to do that if there wasn't some hidden agenda like that? It's still a month and a half out from the convention. He still technically has been nominated as the...

Yeah, I think this was like a trial to see like if he had the chops or, well, that gives us enough time to maybe get somebody else in there. Yeah. Because like it makes no sense to me. Like I'm just trying to make sense of it in general. You can't avoid it for forever though, you know? Like it's inevitable. How do you like avoid it for forever? So they probably just had to eventually face it head on.

I don't know. I'm not going to take sides on either side. It was great TV. That's all I got to say. Did you guys see there's another big election going on? They're looking for a new mayor of Cormorant. Whoa. Yeah. That's big news. First time since Mayor Duke. Biggest thing to ever come out of Cormorant, actually. It was in the paper. Did you guys read the Cormorant paper? There's a paper? I nominated. Did they mention what species they wanted to be? They said anyone of any age...

Shape, size, or fur? I nominated a guy by the name of Grant Matthews. You're running, Ken. Can you imagine Ken as the mayor? What would be your first thing? Tesla chargers on every corner? Absolutely. Every single light bulb. He's blowing through the budget. What would be the first thing you'd change about Cormorant, Ken? Make it...

I don't know. Great. A little less depressing. Damn, Ken. That's our town, dude. I can't believe the mayor would say something like that. Put a roundabout in. I wouldn't say Cormorant is depressing. Put a roundabout in. That'd be great. I wouldn't say Cormorant's depressing. I would just say there's nothing there. Yeah. I would say the nice part about Cormorant is you kind of have a blank slate.

You're not working with much. It's not like you have to rebuild anything. There's nothing to rebuild. There's nothing there. You just get the title and that's it. You're chilling. What if we got a dog and we elected him mayor? Maybe he wouldn't be old enough by the time there was an election. When's the election? November?

I'm sure it's the summer. Yeah, like because he would still be like four months. Oh, okay. So he'd be like four weeks old. I mean, who says we got to get a puppy? That's true. Yeah, we could adopt. Yeah, we got to find an old dog, dude. Anybody that's running for election has to be damn near dead because they're so old. I don't know how well we've explained this on the podcast, but our original mayor used to be a dog, and it was like the first famous thing. Yeah.

living being to come out of Cormorant. The reason that he got elected, it was because of him or our friend Jake's grandpa. And nobody wanted our friend Jake's grandpa to win. No, it was another guy. Oh, and then one other guy. And so they said, well, we should elect the dog that always just roams the neighborhood. And that's what they did. Imagine that. You two are going at it, and then some dog ends up beating both of you. Right.

You're like, what the fuck? Wow, they really did want either of us in there. But when they did that, I think that they were the first people to ever elect a dog into running the town, and so it kind of took over the internet. Well, that, and I think it just created a little bit of magic in Cormorant. A little bit of magic, and now there's just...

that you can just feel it in the air and that's why so many great things happen here. Yup. But he was on Duke. The mayor was on Ellen. I want to say maybe Dr. Phil. Uh, I don't know if it was on Dr. He kind of went on like a, he went on like a media tour. Yeah. Talking about all over policies. Ah,

That was great. Yeah, he... He started saying, he's like, never mind. He had a Chrysler Sebring that he'd taken all the parades. Yeah. He was driving it, too. Yeah, he paid for it with his media money. That's what I would do if I became mayor. I would just blow...

Maybe not the whole budget, but I would blow the budget on a campaign. I would Duke. On hot dogs. No. Yeah. Could use a hot dog stand. No, I'd be a giant Duke Memorial. Like a giant dog. I still think that we just got to do that. Where do we put it?

In Cormorant. Yeah, obviously. Maybe the Cormorant Park, but ideally if we had a spot in Cormorant, then it could live there forever. But I don't know who else is going to do it, so we got to step up and get a Duke Memorial. That's also why we have the dog with the dog bark at the end of every video or podcast. For the copyright, the picture is actually the dog. It's just a nice tribute. A little special touch. It just makes Cormorant just that much cooler, in my opinion. It's just funny. It's got a little bit more depth.

Absolutely. Totally forgot to do a little special introduction for our special guest. We have our homie, our friend, Justin Hanson, as you guys all know him, on the podcast today. You've been on the podcast many times before, but... Yeah, I mean, if you've been watching C-Boy's TV for a long time, you would obviously recognize Justin. He's been on the pod a couple times as well.

But you've taken on a new role within the team, which we haven't really talked about, but you guys could probably... A game-changing role. Exactly. You guys could probably tell from the outside. Justin is now on as... What's technically the title? Merchandise Manager? Yeah, Merchandise Manager. Fucking overlord. And so he's...

been on the team now for the last couple months absolutely reinventing what we're doing getting it streamlined because you know we're all creative and and business-minded in our own ways but some things need like uh an engineer's touch a little bit of systems put in place so he's been able to help us get things in on time create new products and uh it's really exciting to have and better serve you guys at home so i mean just from having better products to better

better service and faster shipping and doing a great job just and we have some new stuff dropping uh is it this week or would it be next this week this week oh we've had really really cool custom lots of good stuff already but yeah uh something that he had a hand in and we've had some awesome help getting like we have skateboards coming out which you see on the wall it's actually not that one's a prototype but that one and then another duck camo on but just so much cool stuff that we

got to bring to life. The coolers, the backpack coolers are my favorite. Those are so cool. I love those. Chug buddies. Impact vests. We have a life jacket. Impact vest, life jacket. All the party suits are still coming too. I think it's really cool. The Life Wide Open is

Is becoming more of a brand than merch. I think that's really cool. That is the goal. It's really cool. I mean, to give you guys credit, like when I started, I have no idea how you guys were as successful as you were because none of you have any time to manage some of the like details of what like goes on behind the scenes. And,

I was shocked at how much like of a backlog of work there is and still is, but also you guys have so many ideas and really good ideas. So it feels good to be able to like bring some of those to life. So when we were looking for somebody to fill the position, you know, we had it posted out there and, and Justin actually reached out because you saw the listing. Yeah. I saw the listing. I was like, cause you just happened to be looking for a new job or additional work. I wasn't even looking for a new job. And,

And the whole backstory of it is when we were going out to, out to Iwerks for the Super Bowl, my wife, Megan and I were talking about it and like, you know, it's so cool to see all the guys like be as successful as they are and how much the business has grown. It's like so cool. And she just asked, she's like, if the opportunity ever arose, like, would you ever like want to get back on the team? And I was like,

Yeah. I mean, if it ever like came about, like I would love to be able to help out and see what they're doing and do whatever I can. But a couple of weeks later I saw the listing. I just saw it. I don't know if it was on Google or wherever, but I was just like, huh. Indeed. Yeah. Yeah. And so I just asked him, I'm like, Hey, I'm working from home. Like I've got spare time. Is this something that you want me to do in the spare time that I've got until you find the candidate that you need for it? And then, yeah. Well, when you were like, yeah.

So you text me and you go, hey, have you found anyone for that merchandise manager? And I was like, yo, CJ, I think Justin's got somebody for us. Yeah, we were sitting there. Which we had actually a fair amount of people applying and we were going through the applications, but we weren't by any means like, ooh, this is the guy. So we're like, oh, Justin's got somebody. And then I text you back and I was like, hell yeah, bro, who you got? Oh.

Actually, me. And I remember sitting there. I was on the plane with CJ, and I was like, dude, you won't believe this, but Justin is interested in the merch manager. And we were immediately like, oh, yeah, that makes perfect sense. I think my first thing I said was, how didn't we think of that? Yeah. We were sitting there trying to think of who do we know you think that would be good at this? And then he says that, and I go, why didn't we think of that? Things did move fast because you were like...

I wasn't necessarily applying for the full-time thing and then we kind of were very quickly like that's what we need bro and like full circle I just I'm so happy that you said yes and we were able to offer you that position because I mean you you had a good thing going and I just gotta say you're on to another good thing yeah if not better I mean full circle dude I just like it's the

Coolest thing ever. Yeah, dude, it's so cool. Like full circle is such a great way to describe it where it was just like the door opened and I was like, yeah, why not? I didn't even put in like a two weeks at work. Like I told him like I have another opportunity. Like I'm able to start immediately. Like do I need to go through a full two weeks? And they're like, yeah, whenever you're done with your stuff, you're good to go. Wow. All right. So I think I started like six days after I did the application or interview. Quick turnaround time. Yeah. I just remember

talking with the guys and saying, we need somebody who's corporate to fix these systems, you know, to keep everything in line, but also a degenerate. We were like, all right, corporate degenerate. Oh, God. And we were like, okay, we're kind of getting hung up on just corporate people, which we don't want, or just a degenerate. And we were like, we got enough of those around here.

And you texted me and I was like, there it is, the corporate degenerate that we've been looking for. Justin's always had a term called big braining. And that's what we all collectively were like, Justin's going to come in here and big brain some of this shit. Yep.

No, it's been so fun. Like, well, you guys were all gone on a trip when I started. Yep. That's right. Because you guys were all across the country and it was just me and Ken here for the first couple of days. I just like sat next to Ken and asked him a hundred questions a day. And he's like, God, this was a mistake. He just puts his AirPods in one time while you're talking to him.

It feels really good. I know like there's a lot of stuff that's still in process, but yeah, it's, I'm so much happier doing this, which was like, I don't know. I was very fulfilled doing the work that I was doing before, but I didn't have any emotional connection to it really. Like I had great coworkers and I liked the work that I did, but dude,

Dude, when your friends are your coworkers and your coworkers are your friends, it's the best possible scenario. So it's been really good. I enjoy it. And I mean, just speaking from like our side, it's like the flip of a switch putting you into the team. Everything is doing so much better. But also, it just feels so good having someone that we trust and we also know is going to do a good job. Like I just...

never once have we had any hesitation about that and that made it so easy and just feels good. Yeah, no, I'm glad that you guys trust me to like make some of the decisions on the stuff that has been moving forward and in like the corporate world, you guys are all at like

180% capacity of workload. Like you guys work 14 to 16 hours a day, every single day, you never stop. So like, if I have like a hidden agenda, it's to like pull that back. So you guys can live and breathe a little bit outside of the insanity that is your day to day and trying to get stuff in line so that everything can run a little bit more autonomously. And it's good to see that it's working so far. It is. I would love to be able to

chill out a little bit. I don't really foresee that. I don't really foresee that happening anytime soon. It's not because of you. I think they're just so... Like, it seems like...

hiring you on. And then I was like, all right, sweet. That's covered. Now what's five other things that can just fill that void now of like, all right, you got like 14%, you know, open now. And then it's like, fill it up with another 45. You know, when we released the products to you guys, it's obviously a ton of work in the backend. So like that moment at seven o'clock video ready or not is like the deadline. Like everything has to be 100% perfect at that moment. And,

And normally it's me and Ken literally just furiously working at the last second. And this last merch drop before the R8, our biggest giveaway yet, you know, all these big advancements, like it should be 10 times as worse as it's ever been in the past. And about four o'clock rolls around and I had all my stuff done. I walked back and Ken looked like he wasn't about to explode with stress. And I go, you good? You need anything? He goes, no, I think I'm ready. And I go,

I think I'm ready too. And I called you. I was like, are we good? And he goes, yep, yep. Got a bunch more things to handle, but we're good. And I'm like, holy shit. Is this what it feels like to have things ready? Yeah.

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for my first time being on that side of it in however many years, like to see how much you guys have grown and how much that process has changed. It was good to like get it all smoothly ran out for that first time. So it was good. And it's still been going really good. Yeah. It's crushing.

But, you know, something that we're trying to do is like build out the back end. Like we're building this new warehouse right now and it's just going to be for merch. And then we're going to move it from here actually over to the new spot that we're building at the farm right now. But we're just kind of trying to, you know, reinvest back into what we're doing. And that's why we brought, you know, you on and turning this into more of a brand, like I said, than just merch. And I think we're on the right track. And you guys have a fantastic brand and you've got a lot of aspects that you're

going to and plan on expanding on. So dude, the more we do of it too. And the more that we get for products that aren't just t-shirts and sweatshirts, like the more I love life wide open, like it's like seriously grows on me, like as a brand name, like every single day.

Like it is just so cool. And the more I see it out in the world of people wearing it and tagging us in pictures of them dirt biking or at a concert or like so many different things that are like actually, you know, seeing it in the real world is just so cool to me. And the more I, the more I love it. Yeah. It's, it's awesome. It's, it's such a great, I mean, there's a reason so many people get that tattooed. That's one of the biggest things. So universal and like such a great like motto to go

by. When's the Life Wide Open homemade tattoo kit coming? Oh my gosh. Yeah. Just a little stencil. But no, seriously, like the more and more people I just keep coming across as the more it grows, there's so many people that literally live by that. Mm-hmm.

And then, I mean, it seems more and more evident to me that anything moving forward with products should be something tied in with that. Just to move backwards a little bit, one thing also I love about Justin is he'll do these crazy calculations. He's like, yeah, so we're going to need a warehouse by this much square footage, and then you'll be

outgrowing that in about this many months and like he's just so dialed you know like like it's just it's just great but uh going back to life wide open when grandpa was on the news yes dude dude guy he's living life wide open he even like he's like the biggest freaking advocate and like merch plugger for us did you guys know that was happening i did not yeah i didn't not until like the day earlier my mom had texted and asked if we could send this photo or something

Which they didn't end up using. He had called me last Friday, so a week ago.

And was like, hey, so, you know, the Roger Maris Cancer Center. I don't know if they've just taken a liking to me or if they heard my story, but they're doing an article on prostate cancer and prostate cancer awareness. And they're wondering if they can use your guys' footage of the haircuts. And I was like trying to kind of put two and two together. I was like, so they're doing a article or what now? And he was like, I don't really know much, but...

Yeah, I mean, I'm assuming that he walks into that place and is just like so grandpa Ron about it and has made friends with everyone. Well, he has made friends with everyone. My aunt, his daughter, was telling me that when he walks in there, everyone, you know, giving him hugs. They know him. They love him. They know him by name. You know, the nurses that aren't even working with him. And...

they did the news article on them. And dude, I was watching the news before that. Like what a depressing. Oh yeah. I don't know what the last time that you guys like watched all the news, but it was like, dude, they were talking about drug charges and homicides and all these things that they were just like trying to get clicks off of. Right. That are like happening, you know, local or even just like in the state.

And then it was just kind of refreshing that it was like an actual heartwarming story. And I'm sure they try. I'm sure they try and do that. His was longer, too. His was the longest one. It was a long segment. It was two minutes. Everyone else had like 15 seconds. Yeah. But I was just watching it. And then that came on. And I was like, maybe there is a little bit of hope for the news here. But...

It was a great article. I bet you what happened is they were planning on writing an article on prostate cancer. They maybe went to the clinic and was like, hey, we're trying to do this. And they maybe asked for, do you have a certain patient who would be a good...

spokesperson or whatever and they're like Ron yep there he is and then he just also happens to be YouTube famous and have all this footage as well and just have an interesting story America's grandpa I love when they had Ron Schmidt and then it had like the quotations Grandpa Ron yeah that was funny

I literally burst out. I don't know if it was laughing or in shock when he said, yep. And when he's done with treatment, he wants to go skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon. I know. I called him. I was like, dude, come on. You can't just go around saying that kind of stuff. Now you got to do it. Yeah. After he completes his treatment, Grandpa Ron says he wants to be the oldest man to go water skiing behind the world's fastest pontoon in August.

Well, so he was saying that to me when I talked to him last week when he was asking if they could use the footage. And I was like, you know, I kind of just brushed it off because I don't really want him doing that. I was like, yeah, Grandpa, yeah, we can talk about that. Just hoping that it would kind of just end there. Now it's on the news. And then he says it on the news and I'm like, dude.

We're actually going to have to do this now. You can eat shit water skiing. You're going pretty fast. It just not seems unnecessary. And let alone, why do you need the world's fastest pontoon? You're not going to be going full speed. That's the,

That's the one upside to it. I love how they left that in, though. Not just behind a pontoon. Yeah, the world's fastest pontoon. Or with his grandkids, behind the world's fastest pontoon. You know, I was watching the news and watching the segment play out, and I was like, oh, this is great. And then they show him eating shit on the bowling lane. And I go...

The news just had to do that, didn't they? I'm just curious how they knew to find that footage unless he mentioned it to them. It's not like that's labeled in a video. They would have had to go to a video that doesn't have anything to do with Grandpa Ron. You're right. Out of the 500 videos they have, go to the back end. He must have mentioned it. Knowing him, he knows every single video that he's a star in. Oh, yeah. Dude, though, I was like...

You really had to mention that one. Out of all the things that we've done with Grandpa Ron, if he's not playing golf, he's out blind man bowling. He's out faking being blind. Out faking being blind. I was like, all right, I'm not sure if that was necessary. You could have left that out. The rest of it was good. I couldn't blame him for it because that is also my favorite Grandpa Ron clip too.

Yeah, I mean, we're guilty of always showing it too, but it's always like adding context to him being like a crazy bastard. Like the guy is just off the handles. You never know what he's going to do. And that's a perfect example of it. Right. But as far as like the news article of like a heartwarming, you know, this guy, this guy is hit him with it. It's like a jump scare in the middle of the night. I was like, that was just not tasteful. So unnecessary. I was recording it just on my phone. And then that pops up and I'm just like, Ooh,

I just can't help but just still go, fuck, that's bad. That was bad. I mean, the dude can eat a fall like Gavin. Yeah. And after it happened,

we bring him back because we were trying to bring him to the hospital to just get him checked out and he was like Evan refusing to go but he was actually like putting down his foot he was like I'm not going if we're going anywhere we're going to the bar yeah and we were like well we're not doing that so we'll just I guess we'll just bring you home and we bring him home we walk in we see grandma grandma just sees it on our face immediately of like something happened and we go he ate shit like really bad grandma and her first words are what

well he's pretty tough and I was like no grandma you don't understand how hard he fell and she's like

I don't think you understand how tough he is. To be fair, I mean, yeah, he never did complain about it. Like a rock. Exactly. So he knows that would take a fall. I'd like to talk a little bit about last video. For one, you mentioned Evan's back. Yeah. Like, dude, that guy. So he injured it on the sand rail. He is actually gradually getting better. He's been going to the chiropractor. You can see him getting better as he goes. And he said literally he went there, felt like shit, and he like noticeably feels better after leaving.

But we still went to go get him x-rayed just because the chiropractor actually suggested just to double check just to make sure. Because, like, he was seriously, like, laid up. He was hobbling around. He was walking around. He was all curled over. Yeah. And then the freaking little toy car in his hinder. That's so good. That's something else. So, he...

Thought that we were going to do like a x-ray and then Photoshop a really small penis in there. Cause like sometimes x-rays, but you couldn't put that on YouTube. That was the initial plan. So we settled with toy car. It was an actual debate. We were going back and forth with what we were fucking with. I'm like, Oh man, I hope that your x-ray doesn't show your little dick and all this stuff. And he's like, Oh my God, he already knew where he thought that's where it was going. And then just the toy car up there. And,

It was funny. They got it out, and they found out that it was a Honda Civic. Oh. At least it wasn't like a Gen 1 Cummins or something. I know Gavin was here during that time. It was still a Honda, though.

After it, Evan goes, well, maybe I could shove a tow truck up there. That's funny. Yeah, after Evan wheelied the sand rail, you know, it's like weird to throw your back out. It can happen on anything and that's what it happened on. And he was like,

bedridden aka we're out in the mud and he's just laying on the ground yeah for the next hour while we're filming ken and i were mobbing our uh broncos around i was hit him i did too i legitimate because he's wearing brown overalls laying on the ground all muddy can you imagine how mad he would be actually like you got yeah he wouldn't take it wouldn't take him out he'd just be fucking pissed dude i thought he was like seriously yeah what the fuck you doing

I do love when he freestyles. Bend your wheel. Mike's got a bent rim. I thought he was a pile of logs. Oh, my God. It just looks like another clump of mud. Yeah.

Yeah, that would have been so bad. That would have been really bad. The wheelie trainer. Oh, yeah. A lot of comments about the wheelie trainer. People are loving that and they want one of their own. I think it'd be great. That'd be something for us to... You two really have a passion for it. So, like, I mean, you're like, we really got to sell these things. Well, the thing about it... I don't see us making a ton of money on them. Obviously, that's not what it's about. It's about training people. Giving people the gift of a wheelie. Yeah, yeah. So, the thing about it, though, is...

We got scammed three times trying to buy one. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, there is no company out there that makes one that actually will deliver it. You got scammed? Like, where you paid them money? Yeah, Ken, we need to get that money back. Can you refund that on the credit card or dispute it? I mean, yeah, just let me know who the person is. Dispute it? Yeah, I will. It happened three times. Like, I got quite a bit of shit for my whole Suron deal, which was pretty stupid. But you got scammed three times? I think you guys might be the dumb ones. How much money did we spend in total trying to buy one? I don't know, five, six grand? Oh!

Well, we were trying to make this video happen. And obviously you think one of them, like the first, you know, one of them's got to work, but like, did you pull the trig on the second one before you knew the first one was a scam? No, the first one probably was. I'm just wondering how that happened. I don't know the context of it, Mike. You got a good point. You got a good point. Okay. It's a valid argument, especially when you bring your sir on. Three times is an exaggeration. The first one was like a legit, it looked great. The site looked legit.

And I ordered it. It said it would be here in seven to 10 days. I'm like, perfect. You guys will be ready to roll on this video, whatever. It was ordered like in April. Yeah. Still never came. And then I was like, fuck, what the hell? Maybe it's going to come, but customer service wasn't working. I'm calling them, emailing, couldn't get anything.

Start looking at other options that people that build the same thing. And it's typically just like some sketchy bike life guy on Instagram. You DM them. It was a Venmo type of situation. Didn't send them any money. This was kind of like, I mean, I'm sure they'd probably do it, but Big Wrench and Gavin said they could build it in like two days.

So that's what we ended up doing. Based on the first one that you found that you did pay for and never came. That one's sweet. It's just crazy. Yeah, that was like you were showing it to me. I'm like, wow, you know, it's got adjustable whatever and it's got the swivel wheel. And it was just sick seeing Big Wrench and Gavin being able to look at that and they recreated it beautifully.

Like to a T. And I mean, I've been vocal about it from the start. I don't see how you guys don't think that we could sell that many of them. I'm not worried about how many we could sell. I'm just not trying to jam up Big Wrench and Gavin. No, no, no, no. You would have a different, like an actual manufacturer. Let's do it then. Manufacture them at scale with correct equipment that they're laser cutting all these pieces and every single one is identical. And yeah, you're not going to sell as many of them as t-shirts or whatever, but there is definitely a demand for them. And if you can set the price accordingly,

Right. Not price gouge these people. Obviously, it's going to be expensive to build and whatever. So they're not going to be like cheap. The competitors are selling them at like two grand.

That's how much one costs or two or three grand. I mean, I think if you could do 1,500 or even 1,000, 1,000 sounds a lot better, but who knows how much you'd have into it. I just think you could sell them. You saw how well it worked. Yeah. My back is all blown out after that. Really? What? How? I got to go to the chiropractor. How? Dude. Hey, picture. You wrote it down to the ground. Picture how blowed out it would be if that didn't exist. Yeah. But it's been hurting for a couple days now. Really? Yeah.

So that was a prototype. We'll obviously need to do a bigger pad. Yeah, wrong time for that plug. Bigger pad. I think, no, seriously, so many people are interested in learning how to wheelie, but they don't want to skid their back off. I did tell you, Ken, whatever you do, don't let go of the handlebars.

And I did. Why? You were popping some wheelies. You were at 12 o'clock at one point. It felt cool until it was like too far. And it was like, I can't save this. Well, that's the beauty part of it. You don't need to save it. Yeah, I know. And then I'm on my back getting dragged across. Can I, I gotta just tip my hat. You still did it. And I can honestly say this. You would never do a wheelie like without that. No, no. I probably would never do one without that at all.

So I got to just say I was pretty impressed to see you out there hanging 12, even though it was only for a couple seconds. But still, it was a sight that I never thought I'd see. As Evan would say, it was Cheeto, but I didn't do it. I don't think it was, dude. What if Evan got addicted to the wheelie machine? I can dance on the seat. It's great.

But no, for you, like... I mean, think about how good he could actually get at wheeling where you can, like, work out the... Yeah, exactly. ...off out the details of it and then... He's, like, changing the full front tire on it. Exactly. It's like a sim racer for, like, you know... Evan or really anyone, yeah. No matter what your skill is, you could still learn something from it. But if you guys watch the video, Ken, before he fell off the back, did amazing. Like, you went 12, you pressed the back brake, and I think the beautiful thing about it is that it shows someone what the balance point feels like.

That's what I think. I mean, that's what everyone's scared of. Because you're not chasing it. Yeah. Like our filmer Dalton, he's ridden dirt bikes before a lot and he was kind of in the power wheelie crew and he's like, oh, that's what the balance point feels like. Makes wheeling so much easier. So much easier. But it's scary to find, especially on a big bike. But if you're on like a little pit bike, finding the balance point is way easier because you're going like...

15 miles per hour. You're not going to eat pavement quite as far if you do slam. Me and CJ, when we used to wheelie back in the day, you're just power wheeling and you're just chasing it. You're constantly just running the front tire down. Next thing you know, you're going 70. I've got to give you a little more credit. One thing that you did forget to mention is that at least on a four-stroke, there's some engine braking. That's where you guys finesse that. You could stand up wheelie for like

Honestly, as long as you had a road for. So there is some engine braking and then you obviously eventually chase it out. Yeah, I feel like you guys are underselling yourselves a little bit for how you guys could wheelie for a long time. We just wouldn't drop back. It was a power wheelie. We wouldn't drop back. It was just like you'd get to this point and you'd kind of just hold it. It'd just be like idling. I shit so hard back in the day. Do you guys remember when I was riding the 150, my 150, and I went over backwards over by Jake's mom's? Yeah, that was bad.

That's the thing with... And I went through a... It was a jacket, sweatshirt, t-shirt, and then into my skin. And now I'm still scarred like on my shoulder from it. But it just... Road rash. Yeah, dude. Ken didn't even care about road rash. He was out there in those little shorts. He had the wheelie trainer. It's just funny when you bring up like a wheelie simulator. I feel like simulators are getting crazy and everything. Obviously, there's driving and flying and all that. But now with VR, dude, look at this. You can...

simulate working on an engine. Oh, yeah. I've seen this and it's like it's all extremely realistic. Bro, if you guys need an engine to work on, we got plenty of broken shit. Come on over and you can work on it. Yep. No experience needed.

You don't even need to have any VR training. That's the beauty of this. There's no way I'm going to... Even if I had all the time in the world, I can't just take an engine and be like... Can you imagine sitting down inside? I'll get it back together. Again, if I had all the time in the world, I don't think I would do this. At least you could learn something. I'm sure it trains people. I could see them using it at tech schools or something. You'd learn a lot better just literally working on something. They'd have those at actual vehicles. I just imagine Gavin doing a full day of wrenching here.

Going home. That guy lives for it. Being a farmer and playing Farm Simulator, I don't think it happens, but it would be crazy. I love the comments. Little kid holding flashlight DLC. That's so funny. Did you guys have that growing up? Holding the flashlight for your dad? And just constantly like, hey, over here. My dad would literally call me the gopher. Is it possible to lose the 10mm for ultimate at murder?

I was actually wondering that. Can you drop a tool and lose it? Circling back towards Justin, Justin prior to working here was an electrical engineer at a company. He went to school for it, did the whole things. I saw this reel where this guy created this kind of like a Jarvis type machine. Justin is always doing what we would call big brain activities. He's always big braining things. Look how sick this is, dude.

So it uses chat GPT, and then it scans golf clubs and knows what they are and what he wants to do to it. Let me go in farther here.

I love that people are actually using this AI stuff for something cool. How come every time there's a computer, like a voice you're talking to, they name it Jarvis? It's because of Iron Man. Okay. Yeah. But even in the Benchwarmers. It was Jarvis? Jarvis. I think they talked to the house. Was it Jarvis and Richie Rich or whatever? There's a lot of Jarvises. Jarvis started out as a butler name.

Jarvis. And then he's just like, yes, sir. Interesting. I have this one kind of a dumb bitch on my phone named Siri. So they're not all named Jarvis. Do you guys use Siri? My Siri's a dumb bitch, too. I don't know. Never. Ever works. Ever. I guarantee it. Watch this. Watch this. Hey, Siri. Well, nothing. I have that turned off because that shit's annoying. No, mine just doesn't listen. Hey, Siri. Man.

He's asking this thing. I know he has it set up. Yeah, he's asking it to do all this stuff and like, yeah, just build me this. And all I'm is asking Siri to do is make me a reminder for my haircut appointment on Thursday. And don't forget to actually remind me. And then she'll just put it in my to-do list and then it just...

Never mind. My grandma uses Siri like religiously. Like if we're sitting here and we're like, wow, I wonder how many gallons flow through the Hoover Dam. She'd go, hey Siri, how much? Like instead of typing in because you know it's easier for her to speak. No, old people love it because they're just not super quick with the typing most of the time. Every time that I try and use Siri or even type text...

Oh, yeah. Talk to text. It always messes it up so bad. I'm usually driving when I'm doing it. And I have to like...

then take my time to delete it and then try and do it again. I'm like, oh my God, this is not working at all. Do you run like car play when you have your phone in your car? Yeah. Okay. So that's another thing that I noticed. If you're talking to your phone and you talk to text, it's pretty accurate. At least in my experience, it's pretty accurate. But if you're in your car, it goes through the mic into that. And so then I'm like, oh, it must just not work in the car. And then I'm like, let me try yelling. So I'm like, oh,

I'm on my way. And then it starts typing it all perfect. I'm like, I look like such an idiot. I won't back down.

I think it's just the mics in the Broncos are so bad because it's so windy in there. They're just focused more so on performance when they build those vehicles. Another thing I got to get off my chest is Ryan was scrubbing through that video. Quite literally not scrubbing because Instagram took away the scrub feature and in my opinion makes the app way more trash. It makes them more money I'm sure. More engagement. You just have to sit there and watch it again. A minute long video or maybe that was even longer. You can't scrub through it and then there's the part that

you want to watch again? Like how dumb. Why did they get rid of that? I don't know. I did notice that. I wasn't sure if my phone was just glitching. Yeah. You can't on the bottom. I think my phone only does it on videos that are over a minute. Mine only does it on videos that are over three minutes. And at that point, definitely should have a scratch. What you guys put that shit on YouTube? Phone time. Oh no, this again. Oh God. So I'm not going to lie. Mine is going to be horrendous because lately I've been watching King of the Hill. And so I set it up and then I fall asleep.

But instead of turning it off, I just hit my phone down and then move my head on the pillow and the AirPod falls out and I deal with it in the morning. So it's going to be bad. How do you find it? Just search screen time. Hey, Siri, find my screen time. Dude, we're going to be messing up everybody at home, dude.

Hey, Alexa. You're welcome. Holy shit. I spend a lot of time. Mine is almost double yours. Oh, shit. Yeah. I have seven hours, 48 minutes. Holy fuck. What do you have, Ken? Two hours, 56 minutes. Wow. I do not believe it. For the week? What?

What? Wow. Holy fuck. Look at Dalton's. This is 15 hours and two minutes. What? What are you doing, Dalton? That's what you're doing in your office over there? You can shut it off, you know. Does yours include your computer?

No, computer's separate. How is that even possible? Are you even awake? Dalton's texting his girl. Hold on a second. How do I know? Because I do watch a lot of video. Mine's all from watching podcasts on YouTube. Yeah, because I have eight hours of being on max. That's just when I fell asleep. I mean, I got six hours and 50 minutes. And even if that is a little bit skewed by falling asleep, which looks like at least an hour or two. What was yours, Mike? Four hours and 55 minutes.

And what's yours, Ben? 4.30. Us three are really in the same boat. Where are you at, Ryan? Seven hours. Holy shit. But if you look at the thing, it's... Seven hours and it's down 150% from last week. That's good. No, it's up 158. Oh, oh, oh. Because I started falling asleep to it. Yeah, so it is skewed. But yeah, like mine says up 9% from last week. It's one of those many things like you don't actually want to do the math on it because then you start looking at it and you go, dang.

How many pickups do you guys have? That's a thing. I only have one pickup. It's a Ford Raptor.

94 today. Holy shit. How many pickups? Daily average is 309 pickups. Mine's 192. 169. Mine is 50. Damn. So, Ken, when you're ignoring us in the group chat, you're really just ignoring us. You're not looking at your phone. I just don't pick up my phone a ton. Are you on your Apple Watch, though? No, I don't have. I never wear that. I lost it. Actually, no, I found it in my car because it was under one of the seats and it's just dead. I got to say, I'm pretty surprised by that, Ken. Yeah.

We used to give you so much crap for all the scrolling. You're like the lowest of all of us. We used to just call him Scrolls. Literally are. Scrolls. Some people can change over time. I guess so, actually. I had 150 pickups. This is a big personal growth moment for Ken. I'm impressed.

I'm impressed. He's always wheeling. That makes me want to be better, Ken. Dude started wheeling and put his phone down. Get outside and ride a dirt bike. Learn how to wheelie maybe. Like my phone just does everything in scheduled summary. So it's like it just summarizes it every few hours. How do you do that? What you got going there? Then it's not like a constant ding, ding, ding. It's like every hour. It's like here's a summary of what you missed. Mine's like Shopify orders and all that. Not the best for urgent stuff, but other than that,

Yeah, can you push us through? So like our texts that matter. If I need to get a hold of Ken, I usually call him. I don't even waste my time texting him. So I changed that on my phone. We're now like if any of you guys call... Sorry, Mark. I don't know if you're on this, but I'll get you on it. It rings. We're like... Oh, out loud. Yeah, it's like an emergency bypass. Oh. Right? Yeah. And I...

grabbed evan i was like hey evan let me see your phone and he's like why yeah he probably didn't like that no and i was like i'm gonna turn it on so when when i call it rings so i can get through to you you know like i'm not gonna call you on friday afternoon to talk about you know your week because you were here you know like i'm gonna call you with something important so like you can go through uh no no i'll just do it later i go i know you don't know how like i'll just do it quick for you buddy like let's do it together he's like no

We'll do it later. Then he ran away. You just got to FaceTime him. Then it always goes through. He had like every number blocked. I don't know. He said he gets like 150 calls a week.

Really? Or maybe a day or something like crazy. Light numbers. Yeah. And so obviously if it was Ken saying that, I'd be like, well, yeah, we put his phone number on a billboard. It makes sense. No joke, it got leaked. But for Evan, I was like, well, we haven't done anything with you, so I don't know who's calling you. Unless he's just a part of some scam program that's hit this guy. Gambling help hotline or something like that. But instead of help, it's just people that call each other when they want to go gamble. Yeah.

You guys watch this video I just saw on Instagram. It's of a bull. Oh, yeah. I saw this, dude. Just watch. Oh, no. So this is like the national anthem where everyone's getting ready, fired up. Oh, shit. Just wait. Yeah, he... Don't wear red. Don't wear red. Oh! Oh!

Looking like Johnny Knoxville at that thing, dude. Is this woman all right? Dude, he turned her into a stand-up flapjack. I can't imagine that was good. Man, so many people had this on camera. He just goes and starts fucking people up. Where do you hide from a bull? In a white t-shirt. In a black t-shirt. Or just run. You got to do circles. I was so confused, but look at this. They don't even move. Bro, he triple tapped her. That's so unnecessary. They don't even move. They're just watching.

Yeah, dude. I don't think they were paying. They literally just turned around. You don't expect to have a fucking bull run up.

Everyone has so much to say about this, but realistically, she and her crew was larried at the rodeo. You weren't paying attention. She's like, dude, I didn't have that much drink. You're not standing in the middle of the ring. But one thing, if a bull's ever chasing you, not that I've had to deal with it, Ryan should be the one telling us, you're supposed to go side to side. If you run straight, that's your... Because it's faster than you?

Well, no. I mean, you just have better odds going running in like zigzags or going, you know, go left or right or turns. Do turns because they like running straight. Interesting. What slows them down is when you start fucking turning because he's charging you. It's like, yeah. You got to run a slant. In math. In math.

In Madden, you just can't beat the juke. Circles. You just can't beat it. I guess that makes sense. If it starts getting close to you, almost circle back around it and then keep going. Don't wear red to the radio. That's probably the best thing to take away from that video. What the fuck was she... I guess you don't expect for a loose bowl. How common is that though? How many times has that happened where the bowl

jumps out of the arena. Solidly. That's so bad. They're like bad ideas. So you got wearing red to the rodeo. You got walking into your dentist holding a pop. Eating candy. Taking your driver's test with a beer in your hand. That's probably a bad idea. Pretty obvious.

I heard one yesterday where this guy said that he failed his driver's test. It might have been Ed Sheeran because he –

picked up the phone when he was driving. Whoa. What was he thinking? I slipped through a stop sign in mine. Did you really? I passed. Not all the way through, but just farther than you were supposed to. In the winter? Yeah. I did the opposite. I stopped, and there wasn't a stop sign. Oh. Baller. I don't know. I was being extra careful. Have you guys seen the new trend, raw dogging a flight? Yes. Stop.

Dude, I do raw dog flights. Yeah, sometimes. But then I think some of the guys are taking it too far. Raw dogging a flight on a base level would be like no headphones, no phone, no movies on your iPad, no book, like just nothing. You just sit there. You watch the flight thing.

and that's it. But then guys are taking it to another level. They're like, just raw dogged an eight-hour flight, no water, no snacks, no nothing. Like a fast. Dude, and then I don't know if they're actually doing that. Pretty funny though. And then some dude, I saw a meme that was like, just raw dogged a 15-minute drive to the liquor store. No music, no beer. There is nothing...

Quite more mind clearing than, than raw dogging a drive though, where you're just like, Oh yeah. Where you have no music on and then just like kind of the background noise of, of, uh, driving down the road. And then you just like, dude, it's amazing. The things that you'll think about. Yeah. But I always hate when some of those drives I'll get done and then be like, what did I even think about? Maybe there's some beauty in that and maybe not. But then sometimes when I consciously try to,

try to think and then think about how I want to remember what I'm thinking about later and still don't remember about it. Yeah, you got to write them down in the notes. I bet I think of half of like the video ideas that I come up with driving. Really? Yeah. And I will...

always either put them in my notes or text them to CJ if they're surprises or things like that. And that's where my Siri comes into play or my, my talk to text. And then I'm like, no, I'm like, it's like a big thought that you need to get out trying to get it done. And then half the time it probably comes across as like, makes no sense. You ever watched the Lincoln lawyer? No, that's the whole basis of that show or not the whole basis, but it's a lawyer who can only think effectively when he's driving in a car. Really? Really? So what's he do when he's in court?

He just pulls his Lincoln all the way into the courtroom. It's pretty crazy. Of course he drives a Lincoln. Yeah. What do you guys think you listen to more in the car nowadays? Podcasts or music? I always used to make fun of my dad as I got older or in my younger years because he would listen to the radio. I go, who in their right mind is listening to the radio? And now I would say for like 90% of the time, I either do podcasts if it's a long drive or

And if it's a short drive radio, and if not radio, nothing. I thought you were just going to say, I only listen to the radio. I'm like, we lost him boys. Yeah. Why is that? That I listened to the radio. Yeah. I think it's sometimes just a pain to find music. And the radio is normally awful music, but at least it's,

on. You don't have to connect your phone. You don't have to pull your phone out if you're driving. I do the same thing. It's either that or nothing. But if I'm going to go for a drive to the gym, throw on a podcast. I think it's because you're dating a little personal DJ too. I don't have to think about music. She's normal size though. She's probably a normal size DJ. I was going to say this when you were talking about how raw dogging and thinking about the drive. I'm

That is such an interesting way to say, like, yeah, you're not doing anything. But podcasts kind of ruined, like, my love for listening to music because before there was a time it was just, it was either music or nothing. And now it's like... And it was hard music.

Sometimes, yeah. And I don't do that nearly as much. But if I am not in the mood for a podcast, I'm still like, yeah, I'd like to listen to a podcast. I definitely don't want to listen to music right now, though. And I'm like, when do I ever say that? It's just weird to say. Do you still listen to hard EDM? I hear it in Justin's office sometimes. You come in there, it's like... I still get a lot of it actually from Justin. Ooh.

Mark's in the back like, damn, that actually went kind of hard. Dude, I can't get away from it. Even with like podcasts, I still listen probably 20% podcasts, 80% music. And it's not all just,

mayhem music justin you got to get the subs back in the truck dude so just justin had a bmw what was your bmw it was a bmw 325 xi god that thing was awesome and falling apart by the dude because of your subs dude that thing that thing didn't have a tight bolt left on it and then you have what two 12 yeah it was two competitions two sundown sa12s and

And like a 3,500 watt amplifier or something like that. Those subs are actually in the boat. Are they still running? I believe they both are new because they've independently quit. And then I buy a new one of the same thing. But the amps don't go on. All warranty program on those things. Yeah. Jake actually, for a stint before the boat, put them in his mom's outback and like...

Had he left them in there as long as Justin left them in his BMW, also would have rattled that apart. Yeah. How's the boat doing then? Yeah. It's okay. When you turn it up, the side of the hull flexes so hard, the water like...

Yeah. Bubbles on the outside. Yeah. That is awful. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize probably how annoying it was until there was another boat out on the lake that like has a decent speaker system and you can hear the bass like in your house. And I was like, damn, our setup was quite a bit better than that. Yeah. Dude, it was with your boat and the subs.

The only time I didn't like it is when I happened to be sitting above him. Oh, yeah. That was just miserable. Yeah. And you got a packed boat. There's nowhere else to go. Yeah, it just shakes you. You got to take it. Yeah, but now we turn him down. We've matured. The thing about the boat, though, is...

It's an open space, right? But with Justin's BMW, for example, it's just such a confined area. So you feel the air next to your head shaking. You feel every single poomph.

of the sub, like in your chest and your hair and your face and like everything about it. It was like such a experience that only should last like 30 seconds. Oh yeah. I had no business driving to school every day with those going full volume. I was going to say, so like that was just when like the homies were rolling with you, but were you rocking that when you were? Yeah.

Rod dog in it? The rod dog that I had then was I would just sit no music on and it would just be the amplifier static and the subs would still be firing. It's like, oh my God. Just to feel something. Yes. You could like fold down part of the back seat in that car and I cut out the foam in the back seat

so that I could fold it down and it would be all the way open to the trunk. And I could float a piece of paper in my driver's side window as the subs were going because it would just like move so much air and it would just sit there. Mark is like, hell yeah, in the back. Mark sitting on the couch back there. Did you have a concrete floor in your car?

Yeah, you put a concrete floor in because it flexes the enemy. Flexy glass, bulletproof windshield. There's just levels to it all. Wait, what? Dude, Mark's done a lot. He's lived a lot of life. Yeah, your setup would put four 15s. Oh, my God. I'm just trying to put myself in that position where that would be. That would really be about it. Yeah, you got to be about it. If you at the age of whatever you would have been when Mark had that, your granola ass would have disintegrated.

I imagine you were like saving up for each sub at that point though, where you're like, all right, just made an extra 200 bucks buying another sub. That is insane. Did tint have that too? Jesus Christ. Everybody did. I mean, yeah, everybody did. Everybody did. Something to be said is that so many cars, their, their stereos aren't very easy to replace. So that makes it more difficult, but like,

They come with the factory sub, whether it's shitty and tiny or decent. But you're not going to pay a bunch of money to then replace that sub when you've got a sub. Most of the time, it's for the cars that just have no base whatsoever, which in my opinion is a horrible experience. Yeah, I'd agree. You call me a granola ass?

I just called you a granola. Oh, okay. I think he said granola ass. He said granola ass. Granola ass. Like, why would he disintegrate just because he was so small? Yeah, he had no gluten in him. No glue, nothing holding them together. There was actually a couple comments that was like, Mike's got to throw it back. Ben's being hard on Mike this episode. I think it was when he was talking about maybe you almost burning your house down. Mike's got to throw it back? Yeah. On Ben? What? Pause. The people will be glad to hear you did.

Everybody likes a little bit of controversy or this and that, which we don't have a ton of around here. Controversy sells. It does. And we really don't. We get along a little too well, so you don't see it much. So we might have to change something about that. No fist. Granola. Beach. Granola, Ben. Granola ass.

granola ass it's more along the lines of just not always just being like on the exact same page like at some point you gotta disagree or argue or throw a shot just to make things a little yeah a little spicy people love it when we make fun of each other which we just do naturally but like if we cut all that out a

lot of like the funniness like people just love that dry yeah people love it we fight like brothers basically it's like when people say like do you ever get not get along you go yeah kind of like brothers like yeah you all know whatever you're doing like we all do it with each other's best intentions in mind but we are with each other all the time so we get on each other's nerves i'm no i'm guilty of it it was funny one time i was hanging out with my other friends like my college friends and

And I was with him for a whole weekend and nobody said any like mean things about each other. And I go, we don't know each other. I go like, holy shit, this is a positive environment.

Driving nuts. If no one's talking shit for a whole weekend, I would lose my mind. What do we say? I messed up and no one called me an idiot. Yeah, that was strange. My self-confidence was through the roof. Yeah, I didn't get completely crucified when I dropped that thing. They actually told me it was going to be okay. I was just so caught off guard.

I figured they had to have been messing with me and something big was coming. Something big. If I'm being a little whiny bitch, then... You're going to get called out. Well, I get called out. But also, like, if it's your significant other, you're like, oh, I got it. Whatever it is, I don't know what yet, but I got to do something about it. But for us, you're like, well, give him a couple hours and then we'll just... Get over it. Yeah. Just blow over. Ben's going too hard on Micah about his hot dog addiction. Yeah.

It's not a problem. It's a problem. It's not a problem. It's a lifestyle. I thought you were going to be on my side, Ken. It's not a problem. It's a lie. I thought you were going to say it's not a hot dog. It's a brat. If there's anything that would be my line, that's my line. So, Justin, since we have you here, we'd be remiss to not bring up some things of the past. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. I was reflecting the other day about when you edited one of our videos, you

You remember that? Oh my God, yeah. Damn, do I wish you would have stuck with it. I don't know if you do, dude. What was it? It was Life of a Seaboy, right? Yeah, it was one of the... No, that was Mike. That was Mike. It was the one... Ken edited a video, too. Ken edited a video? On his MacBook Air. Shut up.

What was the one that you edited? It's like the third one. It was Seaboys TV Summer 16. I thought that was Mike. It was more of a montage. Seaboys TV Summer 16. I hate to say it, but it might be our least viewed video.

It probably is. At $119,000. It deserves to be the least. After summer 16, they were like, well, I'm more interested in summer 17. Had to put a year on it. Yeah, the SEO on that video was pretty bad. Ken edited a video. He edited when Spencer got his silver Mustang. Oh, it was the snowmobile one. Yeah.

Which snowmobile won? It's a winter one. I know that for sure. It was a winter one. We break too much stuff? Uh-uh. It was the old sled gets big air. Really? Blenders giveaway. Not bad, Ken. 651. He left. I get him. Where'd he go? The old intro. It's like freaking you wonder where everyone is and it's like Ryan's at work. CJ's at work. Justin's being a pussy. No!

There's no way he edited that because they added in cats. I'm pretty sure it was the Spencer's Mustang one. I think I edited that one. It was the snowmobile one. We'll see if he remembers. Yeah, it was jumping the 370. Ken, do you remember which video that you edited?

I remember it was a pain in the ass to upload, though. Was it the old snowmobile gets big air? Was it the jumping the 370? I have no idea. You don't have any or nothing? I think there was a couple I did. We're going to have you start getting back into that, Ken. Next week, you're going to add it on top of shipping and all that. Just super stressed. On a holiday week.

A holiday week. Yeah, that's right. We're all going to be on the boat, so we're going to have you go back into the editing bay. Damn, I can't believe I was even able to edit that video on the laptop that I had. That laptop had no business editing anything at all. I feel like at the time, though, at the time, you were probably like, it's a power outage. You for sure wouldn't tell. This one has six gigs of RAM. It's going to handle it great. It was great. I didn't have any problems with it until Jake put Gabe Cornwall

on a Friday and then left it open all weekend. Yeah, did that have something to do with how long it was open for? That laptop ended up dying very soon after Jake messed with it. Yeah, so that's right. Man, he's going to break it up. Jake, watch that corn on your...

I love how he grabbed your computer and I knew it. Well, he was doing it to mess with them, I think. It was like a prank. And then it toasted it. Yeah, it got so many things down on it. But that's because you like Windows, dude. If you were on a Mac, you'd have been just fine. Are you still on the Windows? Well, no, he's on Mac. I'm on Mac now. How do you like it? He's fully converted as a... I like it. Do you? Oh, you'd rather have a Windows?

If I were to build a PC that was going to be like a crypto mining one or a gaming PC, then I would want it on Windows. But Mac is great for everything that we do here. He's just saying that because we gave him a Mac. Once I got used to it, the keybinds and everything are different, but it runs great. That's a 2018 Mac.

And it still works awesome. They last a long time. I feel like in that type of deal, it's like Macs are like Mercedes. You don't really mess with them. They come and they are what they are. And then a Windows is like a 2006 Mac.

Corvette or Subaru. Sure. It's just like, as it is, it's, it works. But if you take all the pieces out of it that it comes with and custom make it to your liking, it's a pretty good rig. Yeah. It seems like to me. And not nearly as reliable. Exactly. Yeah. And my experience with windows computers is like, yeah, they're better probably.

right out the box if you get the right one, but they don't last as long. They seem to only last like two years, maybe three max, whereas like a Mac just lasts for a long time. Yeah, and that's, I mean, in my opinion, that's honestly changed here in the last couple of years. Like now that Apple makes all their own silicon, sorry, this is getting nerd shit, but...

Apple makes all their own silicon for their chips now and they function way better than anything else. They all perform most things on the market. What's silicon? Do you want to know? Like the plastic wrap that they wrap it in? Yeah, so they make the custom wraps. No, that's what they make the...

integrated circuits out of. So they have their own chip that is their GPU, CPU, and RAM all in one chip, I believe. And it's incredibly efficient. Ryan, I thought that... Now that all the listeners are asleep. I'm glad to hear that. Because, you know, like Apple's always like, they just like to go iPhone 7, 8, 9. They're like, we went from the A16 chip to the A17. Obviously, it's going to be better, but I don't know anything about that stuff. That's all you need to know. Yeah.

Ryan, when you said that you were digging up some old stories from Justin's past, I thought for sure you were going to talk about the incident. Oh, God. I thought that's what you were. When you were referencing that, I was like, I think that's blacked out of my memory because of how aggressive that was. I was like, oh, man. We were on the phone with him, right? Was that all over the phone? Yeah. Thank God he was on the phone. Yeah.

I don't know what would have happened. We would have had to call the cops. I don't even remember what the context was. I don't even remember what the background of it was. I just remember there being a phone on speakerphone and me just... That's it. He didn't even know who you were talking to. Dude, you were so passionate. Yeah, you didn't know what you were talking about or who you were talking to, but you were fired up. Yeah, that was bad. That was really bad. That was pretty funny.

It's funny. I don't think I could unlock being that mad like anymore. I don't think I've got that in me. She was fired up. Context, we were talking to like a supplier that we had worked with for our old. Well, we just got in this big jam up and then. Because. We were trying to fix it. And maybe I'm forgetting, but like, weren't they in some like weird type of like personal. It was some, some cahoots. Yeah. There was some weird. We were getting the short end of the stick. Weird background relationship and we were just getting shafted on it. Yeah.

Now I'm getting mad again. All right. Maybe change the subject. Justin's getting fired up. There's a couple ounces of whiskey in your tummy. I don't remember exactly the details of it, but I remember asking Jake because I was like, man, maybe we really overstepped on that one. And I was like, who's a successful business guy and how would they handle it? And I was like,

hey, Jake, what would your dad do if that happened to him? He's like, he would have probably hopped in his plane, flew right to wherever they were at, and be like, what the fuck is this? I was like, oh, maybe we didn't. But I was like, man, if you had a plane, then we probably would have done that. I'm glad we didn't have a plane. I think of that in so many things. I'm like, oh, it's a good thing this was a slow grow because, man, there could have been some...

Some mistakes like that that were just good to make early. Dude, 100%. Yeah, I think we've made so many mistakes and I'm very happy that we got them out of the way. Granted, we still make a mistake every single day. I think back to how many things that we've done wrong and there's no way that you can learn that without just doing it. Nobody can teach you that or tell you that to like how to avoid things unless you just go through it. Mm-hmm.

That was just one of them. Because we were talking about that a couple podcasts ago, and Justin then texts us the group chat afterwards, and he goes, just listen to the podcast, kind of blanking on what story you guys were talking about, but I think he's coming back to me. I just started sweating in my bed. I'm like, God damn it. That is so funny. Your voice just kept getting higher. And like, as trying to not like yell, like, what the fuck? You're like, what?

It kept going higher and higher. By the end of it, you were like...

I couldn't breathe because I was probably so mad that I was just running out of breath. We had to step out too. I'm pretty sure I scared you all out of the room. I think he's handled it. I was definitely scared. I was like, I don't know what to do. You know what would be fun is to go back to that old shop, that first shop and just see it. I don't know. For some reason, I remember a lot of it, but also it's like it never even happened. And we were in there for so long. I can still feel like

on that carpet and like going up to Mike's office or bedroom bedroom slash office and being crunched over CJ falling down the stairs. Yeah. Shit. Bringing a man getting stitches. I think it feels like I have more memories there because like we

still here. If we move from here, I'd go like, man, the memories at this shop are way that, but yeah, I, there's some really good memories at that first shop, especially because it was so small. Like we quite literally had to stand closer to each other when we were like in the kitchen area and stuff. Yeah. Well you live there, Mike. So you spend more time. That's true. But I, I lived here too for just as long as I live there. That's true. Maybe longer. True. Yeah. I'd love to, if, if the people want to see it, maybe we'll do like an unlocking. Yeah.

Memories of the old shop. And we can go through some stuff and talk about it. Because, man. Carpet in the bathroom. Carpet in the bathroom. Diabolical decision to have carpet in the bathroom. That was good times, though. I was just at my parents' house the other day. And I went upstairs to the loft where it all started. Where, like...

Mike, you used to live there too. Man, Mike. Yeah, Mike's just kind of bounced around. He's like a nomad. Some might call it a couch surfer. Couch surfer. There's a little more dialed than that, but pretty much couch surfer. And I was just up, I was up at, in the loft where we used to, you know, first started editing the videos and shipping the merch out and Mike lived there. And it was just like, it seems like an eternity ago. Yeah.

I guess thinking back to like nine years ago, that is a pretty long time ago. Like think about nine years before that. I would have been like eight.

We're actually at eight years. You said nine? Yeah, July 20th of 2016 is when the channel got made. So we're actually coming up on eight years in the next 20 days. I've been saying it's wrong. I've been saying we're coming up on nine. I don't know if we're boosting or hurting our stats. Probably better off saying eight years. With the journey of people leaving, coming back...

All the things that have happened along this. I don't think, well, I know for a fact, if it had happened differently, we wouldn't be here right now. But I, I truly think if things hadn't went the way that they did, I don't know if we would all, if we'd all be here right now. So thank God it did happen that way. Justin, it's,

fucking fantastic having you back around and we're a great addition to the team. We're thankful to have you. It's awesome to be back. It's awesome to be back. Well said. You're stronger than ever now. Next time we run a pod like this, we'll have to have Jake on too. It might get a little tight, but we'll go back to the original seven. Leave a comment down below if you want to see that pod with

With the OG crew. Yeah, back at it. But yeah, we'll see you guys next week. Subscribe if you haven't. Peace. Peace. Peace.