Ken's Mysterious Personality, Ryan Trying To Be Cool & Micah Copying Ken
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Yeah, I accidentally blacked out at family New Year's. I picked up a Bronco Raptor. I copied Ken again. And I saw that and I was like, damn, I actually kind of miss Mike. It took taking a week or two off from Mike for you to finally appreciate his humor. I think the airport is the safest place. You're just believing. It's called security theater. Here's 2024 though. Another year. You got me fired up there, Ken.

dude we're back first podcast of 2024 baby we're back boys it's just wild in here it is like anything's changed but we did take a little hiatus and dude you guys are all looking amazing really i almost feel more tired too i legit feel more tired do you really yeah i feel like that that happens every time we like maybe take a little bit of break i you know maybe catch up on my sleep and then i'm just more tired oh really that's tough that's weird

That sucks. When I came home, I was exhausted the other day. Oh, me too, dude. Then I hopped in the sauna, sweated all. I've drank like probably two gallons of water since yesterday. I'm focusing on my sleep. No alcohol. I'm dialing back in. I don't mean to brag, but I have worked out the last four days in a row. Nice, right?

Yeah, I'm off to a hot start. You're looking good right now. Yeah, you can see. I've also drank the last four days too. That's all right. That's balance. Balance. Wait until we get back to work and then you'll have worked out zero days straight. Yeah, exactly. And drink more beer. And then still keep drinking. Exactly. It's hard. But yeah, we all took a little vacation and last year we all spent it together.

But this year we went kind of our separate ways. Me, Mike, and CJ actually ended up in the same section of Florida. So we got to hang out, which was pretty fun. You guys can go all the way across the country, but I still managed to find you. I still want to hang out. God, I had FOMO. Seeing you guys hanging out, like when you guys were separate, I was like, ah, Florida looks fun. I was in Montana with Greta. And then next thing I know, Mike's with Ryan. And I was like, ah, damn, it looks good.

It's kind of fun. And then CJ's hanging out with them. I'm like, what the fuck? You felt a little unenjooted. Yeah, I was like, checking Snapchat. We had this planned for a year. Checking Snapchat. Oh, they're mini golfing. Oh, that looks so fun. Did you feel that too, Ken? I did. I felt the exact same way. Ken's in Hawaii. Ken's sitting on a beach in Hawaii checking Snapchat. I wonder what the boys are doing. I was sitting out. We were getting lunch and had a nice little pina colada. Mini golf? That looks fun.

And I saw what they were wearing and I was like, I'm definitely in a better spot. Oh, yeah. We were in jackets. God, how was Hawaii, dude? Shit ton of people, but it was nice. Was it? What kind of people? Just a bunch of Japanese people, a bunch of Americans. Dude, they love Hawaii. I didn't know how much the Japanese loved Hawaii. Is it close for them or something? Yeah. It's as far to Japan as it is the U.S. West Coast. Oh, no shit. But there's probably like...

The times that I've been there, it was like 75, 25. I was like, am I in Japan right now? I remember that. I did have the best sushi I've ever had in my life, though. Sushi. So who'd you go with? Yeah, Ken. I went with Tint and Angela. I almost wish we would have had Tint here for this. I know. I should have called him. He's probably all pooped out. He probably doesn't want to spend another day with Ken.

He's with you for two weeks. Yeah, Ken was third wheeling with our buddy Tint and his girlfriend Angela. Honestly, Ken, props to you for following through. I don't know what the plan was. If you guys just thought that if you booked the tickets, everyone else would follow. That was the plan. And nobody else booked tickets. So just Ken went with our friend Tint and Angela, which honestly, we love both of them. So I bet that was a great time. But was it weird third wheeling with them for eight days? A little bit. Yeah.

And I kind of went off, did my own thing a few days, and then came back together and met up again. So you guys got a table for New Year's? Yeah. Just you and bottle service? It was fun, yeah. Were you trying to flag over some Japanese gals that were dancing around? No, just had a night, and then New Year's hit and just got out of it. Why would you get a table and not try to flag over some Japanese girls? Well, it was a weird... What's the point of getting a table? It was a weird crowd in there, but...

I can imagine. I mean... I had fun. Yeah, I don't mean this in a bad way, but based on your Snapchats, it kind of looked like it. It was a weird crowd. Really? How so? Just, like, there's the local people, and then you can tell, like, the rest of the people were tourists. And, like, the tourists were just kind of sitting by themselves. All the local people were kind of mingling around, but...

It's a little clicky at the New Year's party in Hawaii. So do you do anything to break down some cultural barriers? Just talk to some people and then... Oh, that's fun. What'd you guys do? Just to explain, just so you don't feel a little... You feel a little better about this. We only probably hung out like two or three nights and maybe for like... I thought it was just one. I thought it was just one. And it was only for like maybe five, seven hours. So it wasn't like it was like a full day. Yeah, it wasn't the whole thing. We just like went out

to eat and got Italian and mini and mini golf. Oh, great. Yeah. Two of my favorite things. So anyways, but no, I was hanging with my girlfriend and then her, her dad actually tagged along. I love hanging out with him. He is so fun. You guys know him. I was more jealous of you getting to hang out. Yeah. Yeah. We're just, it's like hanging out with honestly is as much fun as hanging out with you guys, except maybe even a little more fun. Cause I hang out with you guys so much.

And you haven't heard all his stories. He's so funny, man. Like, he's just doing the funniest stuff. He's kind of like a Grandpa Ron. He is. He's a Grandpa Ron in his own way. Yeah. I was thinking that when I was with him. I was like, God, I would love to see those two together. It'd be a dangerous combination. Oh, my gosh. It would be. Just anywhere. Anywhere. I think just anywhere. They'd be tearing it up, just having a blast. He's like Grandpa Ron. Like, he can't walk in and, like...

without saying something to somebody, like cracking a joke. But everyone just receives it so well and loves it. Yeah, he's just waddling around, dude. God, I love that guy. Yeah, he's a good guy. What an art. I was thinking that when I was with him. I was like, I need to get better at just like... Commanding a room like that. Yeah. Well, he's got the gift of the gab. I don't know if I have that. I was wondering like...

I feel like if I said some stuff like him, it just wouldn't be received well. I think it comes with age. I think that might be part of it too. It's more disarming when he says it. It would come off as sexist or racist. I think that you have to own it. So if you just try it, if you just try being like that, then you're going to be like, that was...

Is that weird? Yeah. But if you got to really be about it. If that is you. I mean, it's also like the room, you know, like the room can receive it good. And like the people that you're with aren't like just burying their heads in embarrassment. Yeah. I mean, I was probably a good, like, you know, backup man. Like I'd laugh, I'd crack, I'd laugh and, you know, like, ha ha. And then we'd all laugh together and.

But yeah, it was fun. He likes to drink. We like to drink. We were just boozing and just hanging out. And it was very chill. Yeah. Yeah. I accidentally blacked out at family New Year's. I don't know how it happened. A couple of vodka Red Bulls lost my credit card. We woke up in the morning with Mike. Yeah, dude. You pulled a mic. You literally pulled a mic, dude. And Mike was very responsible, I think. I don't know. I don't remember. So we're sitting in the pool. Ryan's like,

What the heck should we do tonight? And then he looks up. He's like, in Cape Coral, the Baja men are playing. Like the who let the dogs out Baja men. But we didn't know that at the time. We're like, sweet. Maybe we'll keep looking. And then you're like, oh, they sing who let the dogs out. We're like, all right, we're going. That's what we're doing. What else do they sing?

One other song I knew, it's like, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. It's a whale. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a banger. That was one other one I knew. Bangers, dude, back in the early 2000s. They were very tropical. You can just make, like, one or two good songs that people are going to just consider a banger. You're set for life. And then you're just like, yeah, I don't know, in 20 years, I might be playing at Cape Coral for New Year's Eve. I shouldn't say set for life, but, like, you're going to always have work.

Yeah. We're going to always have work. For like those special occasions and it might be in a retirement home. That might be your audience, but you're still going to have some work. I like...

trying to figure out who wrote that song when I was a kid because you'd hear it and I was like that song is so good you know I'm probably in like kindergarten yeah I picked up one of the now CDs just because that song was on it those were like the first mixtapes yeah I guess you're right they made actual mixtapes it was just like the hits man and it was like clean hits it was like how Apple makes like playlists for you every week now like that was what you picked up instead they had full-blown infomercials for it you know yeah yeah

Yeah, the Kidz Bop ones. Yeah. Have you ever listened to those now?

I don't know how our parents put up with that. Yeah, I don't know. I just want to listen to something explicit. Yeah, exactly. Versus that, yeah. We're listening to Baby instead. This is some bullshit. I don't know. Do they even have a clean version nowadays? I feel like music has just gotten so aggressive. It's like, how do you clean this up? I don't know. How do you clean this up? You just, this is just how it is now. It's just a beat half the time, I think. Most of the words just get cut. Just a minute of nothing, just a beat? Yeah.

Dude, I think we should buy stock in Who Let the Dogs Out. Like Ryan bought Chill Bill. Oh, shit. I should buy their rights. You should have bought their rights in 2002. Yeah. Was everyone going hard? Oh, yeah. We were just like, this is it. It was the last song. Everyone knows it. Finally. It was Who Let the Dogs Out and then the ball dropped like the thing.

So it was pretty lit. You could hear it in everyone's chest. But dude, Ryan later that night was like, you know, pretty turnt up. And he was like, I don't remember this. So I'm pretty sure it was just those guys, the Baja men who let them out. I don't know.

I think it was you. I think you took a snap or something and you were like, 2024, is it going to be the year that we find out who let the dogs out? And I saw that and I was like, damn, I actually kind of miss Mike and his humor. I was like, that is such a Mike joke. It took taking a week or two off from Mike for you to finally appreciate his humor. Yeah, exactly. Now you're coming back around, dude. Bro, this is the funniest thing I was thinking about. When you got home on Monday...

Much earlier than us. And I'm like, give it like two days and Ben's going to be ripping. Yeah. And he was ripping. You had, you were firing ideas. Oh yeah. I was just right back. Right. It was like nothing else going on here. You were just churning. Yeah. I was going to send an idea. I was like, damn dude, I know these guys are like on vacation, but like, where the fuck is that? I'm like,

I'm like, I would like to go into the group chat and see how many consecutive messages I sent how many days in a row without a response. And I'm like, keep checking. Like, come on, they got to fucking see this. Like, there'd be a few easy ones getting answered. And then when it was like, should we run a meeting on Sunday or Monday? Or what are you thinking? And then Ryan's like, CJ, why don't you enjoy your vacation? We'll plan for Monday. I'm like, God damn it, Ryan.

Yeah, CJ was like, I can do it when I get back late on Friday. And I was like, just enjoy your vacation, man. Perfect, bro. I'll meet you at the shop. I'll be there, dude. Let's get back to it. Yeah, no, there is something about taking a little bit of time off that does refresh the ideas and kind of gets you re-inspired and fired back up. That's my notes have been...

They've been going now. It's fun. You just add stuff back in. I do love it. That's a weird cha-ching feeling when you are like walking somewhere and you like get to fire something in your notes. If it's a video idea or a podcast idea, it's a video idea.

But I did that in the airport because we were flying. So we spent some time in there. And there's a guy loading an ATM. He's on his knees. ATM's open. Bunch of people. Thought about robbing him. Not even that. Rob ATM. Because he has stacks of 20s.

Like this, like behind him. What? Really? It's like, here's the ATM and then it's like back here to his right kind of. Wow. And I'm like, bro, is that a thing? Wait, where was this? In the airport. I guess nobody's stupid enough to commit a crime in the airport. I agree because like that was an intrusive thought. You could have easily just slipped it.

I've said that before. I think the airport is the safest place that you could ever be in America. Safer than the U.S. Embassy. It really is. The airport is the safest place because they scan everyone. You know that nobody is armed. Armed.

And then what happens if they, you know, like, what are you going to do? Run out the gate? Oh, true. There's like nowhere to go. You're just believing. It's called security theater. Like people sneak shit through that all the time. Like there's some bad stats, but like how much people can sneak through TSA and get away with it.

What do they sneak through? Like a water bottle? I can't even sneak through my... Like people have snuck stuff through and then they realize like after security, oh, how did I get through this? But that's what I'm wondering. If it's like an unintentional thing and then it goes into the stat, like that's not... You guys see that? They run tests where like they'll purposely send people through with stuff just to see if they get caught. And there's like some stat where it's... It's a sting operation. This percent of people got through and they didn't catch them. What do you think is safer? Probably any government building.

I guess I didn't think about that. I don't know about that. Yeah, but why couldn't she sneak something through a government building? Like, do they do stats there? They probably just don't want people to know. I think the volume of people going through there is just so much lower. You know, like, over the holiday weekend, I think, like, 400,000 people flew that day through the U.S. Well, you think that a government building, though... That's more of a target. Yeah, more of a target. Yeah, they got more of a reason to keep it secure.

Yeah, but somebody bad could want to get in. I don't know. Whatever, whatever. Back to your ATM. That was it. Yeah, it was just an intrusive thought. Like the fact that he's got like... So what did you fire into the notes in this scenario here? I mean, pretty straightforward. Or was it for the podcast? I thought it was a video idea. Then I was like, what's the video idea with the guy in the ATM, dude? No, I just typed in money stacks.

stocking ATM at the airport. Probably due to refill our ATM downstairs. I think it's been out for a couple of weeks. That makes sense why there's no dice rolling over here. It's been tough. It's a big idea, guys. I watched this documentary on Amazon Prime. It was made a long time ago about blackjack players, professional blackjack players. They can count cards. They have this whole system. They, in theory, should be able to beat the game. They're playing it

You know, it follows this guy who's a professional blackjack player and he's like making his rounds. And eventually when you're just, even though they're not writing anything on a piece of paper or anything like that,

the casinos watch as you're playing and then when you're like betting and then you don't bet and then you're betting and then you don't like they know they're like he's counting cards in his head like he's a he's a professional yeah and they'll come and like like you're done here we don't want your we don't want your business anymore and they can kick you out wow and once you eventually get enough of like reputation they're all linked and they will send like the security photo from you and then you're basically like flagged

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So this guy, you know, he can win at blackjack and he knows he's, you know, flagged in the system. So he decides he's going to go and hit all the casinos, do one last run and try and like squeeze as much out of being a professional blackjack player. So he'd have like hidden disguises and all this and going to one casino wearing like a mustache would ever play a little bit.

get caught. He didn't even go and get like a haircut, like shave his head, go to the next one. He'd maybe be able to get away with that and he would make some money or he'd sometimes even lose. And this guy's got the most odds of anybody. And he's still losing. And he's still losing. So I was pretty turned off by that because I'm like, how the fuck am I supposed to win? So anyways, this guy was up like 680 grand. He played every day, seven days a week for a year and a half for 10 hours. Like at like a year, I think he was at like 600 some grand. And then he ended up losing like

quite a bit and ended up walking away at like a year and a half with only like, not only, but $475,000. And like, there'd be times when he'd like lose 10 grand a day. Some days he'd go 30, but it was the biggest turnoff for me because I was like,

This guy's losing 10 grand a day sometimes, and he's like a professional. He's the one who's supposed to be winning. How am I supposed to win it all? And then now I'm like, I don't even know if I want to play blackjack anymore. Wow. After watching it, it turned me off, man. I'm just like, well, what the fuck? Like, this guy was playing hard, dude. A year and a half worth. You know, he's rigging it at least for himself, and it's in his favor somewhat, and he only went up that much. Wow.

If it makes you feel any better, people that play slot machines know they're rigged and still play them. Hold on. There's that. What I'm more confused about is every time we sat down at the blackjack table, you planned on... I was planning on winning. Winning for everything. You know, I thought maybe eventually I'd get better

Having a higher chance? What is my odds of winning if this guy's going in and losing? No, I know, I know, I know. I say that jokingly. Obviously, everyone wants to win. That's why you gamble. But I think at this point, how many times have we sat down at a blackjack table together, got up a little bit, should have walked, didn't, and then lose everything? It's just a Hail Mary at the end. Every single time, dude. Every single time. I watched my first live stream kick the...

Twitch live streamed last night, and it was my favorite gambler, Vegas Matt, and Steve will do it, gambling together. It was so sick. It's funny because we ran into Vegas Matt. The stadium. The stadium, and he asked you guys for a picture. It was so weird because you guys were – Ryan asked us for a picture. Ryan freaking loves this guy. He goes, holy shit, that's Vegas Matt. Ryan walks up to him, and he asked Ryan for a picture. I'm like, no fucking way. This guy watches our shit? What?

Turns out he just wanted a picture with Vikings fans. Didn't know that Ryan's on YouTube or anything, but it was so funny. And then cropped Ryan out of the story picture. I was the only one who liked him. You in, was it? You two and Grandpa Ron were in it. And then I'm just cropped out. It's like, how do you mean? But anyway, still supported the stream. And they sat down and played blackjack. And...

Like, obviously, we're slightly degenerate, but I think we all have a little bit of... Those guys seem to be winning, though. Dude, it was chaos. They walked in there, and Steve was down at one point, like, 20 grand. And he's like, we gotta get this back. This big hand, big hand. He was like, throw 10 grand on a hand. And they're, like, sitting there. And then it went, and then...

They ended up playing up to where Vegas Matt was up five grand. He was like, I'm happy. I was just down 10. I'm up five grand. I'm happy. Steve's like, all right, I'm just going to finish this. I got to get up 25 grand and then I'll come and meet you.

Steve goes down another like where he was almost even. I'm like, Steve, walk. Like we're all, Randy's there watching. Alondra's on her phone because she wasn't obviously entertained by it. And then we're watching on the TV. And I'm like, Steve, walk away. This is so bad. Ends up winning like 30K.

By the end of it. Like, he was just kept playing and had all these different strategies and all the little side bets. And it was magic to watch. It was exciting. Relentless. I've recently kind of started watching some of their streams, too. They're kind of fun. Yeah, it is kind of interesting because, like, the –

The veil is like taken down. Yeah, exactly. You can see how they actually are. Yeah. You know, because you're doing it for three hours. Or you can have a better idea as far as what they're really like. But it's funny because I saw a statistic that live streaming is plateauing out. I saw that too. That's really weird. Mr. Beast, the manager, he put it out. So, yeah, slower cut content is on the rise. That to me was the most interesting thing. That's surprising to me, but it makes sense because I feel like it was like, you know,

you know, so heavy on being fast and like hard hitting and quick. And now people are maybe sick of it and it's kind of going the other way, you know? Anyways. Yeah. I do like watching the live streams. I don't know if we, we could do it for sure, but it just seems like there's so much, uh,

risk to it like you could slip up on something or it could just be boring and it's just boring it's funny because like those guys are rather like they're large influencers and like if they're pulling like 10k on a live stream yeah that's really down at 13k they're like this is a huge one yeah but like you had that on youtube you'd be pretty very disappointed yeah you know i did think of that i was like you could probably live stream like evan and mike's like track nights you know out at the track you could set something up and like

follow around and they whip in and i think people could watch different parts of that but you'd have to make them entertaining so that's where i think they're talking about it plateauing out i think so many people were just like i'm just gonna live stream yeah me watching tv and then yeah boring it is nice i think it's a good thing to just put on in the background a lot of a lot of times yeah it was easy we were talking but yeah we could still look at it yeah you just throw it up there michael

Yes. New Bronco. Oh, dude, I love it. I love it. I picked up a Bronco Raptor. I copied Ken again. I don't know what to say. Ken got a Bronco Raptor, and I was like, well, now I need one. I was, like, bummed about Steve for a little bit. The green Bronco? Yeah. For, like, a week, and then I drove this for a week. Way better. It's just like, oh. That thing is huge, dude. I didn't realize that, but even parked next to my Hummer or, like, your guys' truck, it's

They have some beef to them. Especially from the back. They just look so much wider. I think it might be wider in my pickup, which is a Raptor. I want to say they're about the same. That's wild, though. Because it's a smaller cab. When I was ordering wheels for it, I think he said it uses the F-150 Raptor rear axle. So it's about that width. Just the body is so much narrower. Hmm.

Obviously, it's nothing like it, but it reminds me of like a sprayer with a big gap underneath. It does kind of look like that. Dude, it's like the wheels are standing way out here. It's got kind of a little dense body, but yeah. You just love Broncos, man. Me and Ken, right? Ken, too. I think you love them more, though. I think so, too. Yeah. I was like looking at the security cameras the night Mike picked it up, and I was like, what's he doing?

what's he doing to this thing already? Call him and he's like, oh, I'm just putting some accessories on this thing. Yeah, you already got the wheels, the bumper. Yeah. Now I can sell the wheels and be like, drove home from the dealership. Yeah, and that's it. Put the bronze wheels. You have to pop a picture up, but I love it. It reminds me of like a big Hot Wheels car. Did you see that we have new blackout plates in Minnesota?

now really Minnesota how do you do that then yeah Minnesota released new plates so like in California you know you get the white with the red but the cool people do the black with the yellow I always thought they painted them themselves no yeah they're like from the state it's like an option you can you gotta pay for like some additional upcharge but it's

It's like, find the whitetail one, or you can buy a Vikings one now. I don't know why you'd want to do that. But now, yeah, it's a black plate, which just says Minnesota above it, and then it's just white. White text. Oh, so it looks like a classic? Like an inverse of a classic? I always had one for a couple years. It's

if you've ever seen those, but it looked pretty sharp. Yeah. Oh, dang, that's sick. So that's what I got. I got for the Bronco a black plate that says Steve 2. Steve 2? That's what you went with? Yeah. Oh, I love that, dude. I couldn't think of anything better. Did you guys see that Minnesota also got a new flag? Oh.

Why? I saw that on the internet. I was like, what's the point? I was hoping you would know. Yeah, I did see that. I was looking on the internet and I could not find a reason why other than... They needed a new way to fuck up this state. Like of all the things they can worry about, they're worried about the flag. Yeah, I did see Ma. I was like, I didn't know that was something we needed. And they're like, yeah, we made it modern and cool. Don't you guys love it? Everyone in Minneapolis is like...

Yeah, classic. I don't know why I did this. It was late at night when I read about the new flag. I see the design. I'm like, well, this is bullshit. So then I went on Amazon and ordered four Minnesota flags of the original. I was wondering who ordered those. I saw that on our Amazon account, and I was like, what?

what is somebody planning here? Am I ruining something by seeing this? Me ordering them, I'm like, Mike goes to March? I'm going to Mars. Planting that on there. No, I even asked myself the same thing. I'm like, I don't really know why I'm buying these flags, but, you know, just in case. You can't get them anymore? Yeah,

That is such a Mike thought. That's like, oh, man, I should throw this away, but what happens if I need it in the future? I better hold on to it. Well, that's because he's a true collector. Now I'm getting advanced. A true collector. I haven't even thought about throwing it away because I didn't own it. I needed to acquire it first. Well, he's not going to think about throwing it away. You will, Ben, when you see four flags sitting in the shipping area. What are these flags doing? They're not even the new Minnesota flag. CJ, am I good to throw these flags?

I don't care. Throws him in the garbage. Three months later, Mike's wondering where his spikes went. That's exactly right. I'm going to hook it on the razor whips. Show my Minnesota pride. I don't know if I have much Minnesota pride. I hate to say it. It is tough. I do. I'm proud to live here. Unapologetic Minnesota pride. I don't know why. I think it's the southern half of the state that maybe taints the...

feeling of the state, but I'm proud to live here. I know you are too, but I get what you're saying where you're not like Minnesota. I don't think we always make the greatest decisions. It's really ironic that we're talking this much about our state because last night I watched an informational video on YouTube about it. 13 minutes long, some dude's like, today we're going to be talking about the state Minnesota. Minnesota shows the whole history of it and how it used to be split up.

I'm like, what am I doing? Did you learn anything new? Yeah, I did. I need to go to bed. I didn't retain any of it. One of those videos. Yeah. Although 65% of people live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota. That only leaves...

35% of people live in the rest of the state. That is why it's so different. That is pretty wild. What do we got a stronghold on us? A couple of cities, mostly Minneapolis, Fargo, because they counted it, and the rest, that was it. If I were to move away, I'd want to go Florida, otherwise Las Vegas, and then I'd say Utah third. Because of the Mormons? Yeah, Salt Lake City is sick. I think it's just a nice place. At a hub, you're like four hours away from...

Anything. How was Florida? Did Florida kind of reignite like we should get a place down here? I love Florida. I'll never stop thinking that. But no, I guess it's hard not to think about it when you're there. You're like, man, I love it here.

But I'd love to do that one day. I think it's in the cards, but I haven't put a lot of thought into it. Yeah. I feel like there's other things that we probably need to acquire around here before we do that. We should probably finish our shop. Yeah. And it'd be tough as we get older. Yeah.

you're married and stuff and then you leave and you're, and you're like, we're going to just go and all live together in a house. Like you'd almost need to have each of us have like our own crib or some kind of spots that way you can bring like the fam with. Or we, yeah, we capitalize in the case that we're all married. We, uh,

Also film like a live stream. Maybe not live stream, but like a reality TV show in our house. It'll be exhausting. Holy shit. It'll be exhausting. It'll be a big ass fucking house. Huge house it'll have to be. A really big beach house. The show would pay for the house. Oh my God, can you imagine? And then we're also filming our YouTube videos. You just have another. I don't even know if it'd be a TV show. It'd probably just be another YouTube channel.

It might be the most lucrative. It might be more entertaining. And then it takes off like way bigger than Seaboy's TV ever was. I often wonder if you saw like the off-camera lives of

with all of our girlfriends and friends and everything. It would draw like a new crowd. Like all the guys that watch, all of a sudden they're girlfriends and they are like more interested in that version of our life. But they're all like, that sucks. They don't do anything cool. I mean, it is pretty intricate. I think people would definitely find it entertaining, but it would add another layer of stress for us. Oh, at that point, like our lives wouldn't be real. Yeah.

Our lives legit would not be real. Yeah, that scares me. I did find a nice place down in Naples. And two properties next door were actually for sale if we wanted to pick those up. But it was $175 million. Six beds, 16 baths. Holy shit. So, yeah, the payment's only a million dollars a month. Property taxes is probably a million bucks. Yeah, it was about $750. A year? Yeah, a year. I couldn't believe. I was like, who's buying this? How long has it been on the market? Yeah.

I don't know. Probably a while. Apparently nobody. Apparently nobody's buying it. When we were on the pontoon in Florida in the canals, it was so great. We could just be like, Ryan, what's...

This house is for sale. What's it worth? Oh, yeah. My dad weighs Zillow. He can't believe it. Yeah. How do you find that so fast? Like, you don't even know the address. I'm like, well, you just press the little. Yeah. I do that all the time, except I use on. Well, I use Zillow to see, but then Onyx also for like certain things. But I love doing that creeping on on people's personal lives. Yeah. It brought a more entertaining aspect to for sure. It's like house looking.

That is one thing when you talked about Florida, like did it reignite anything? I absolutely... The Minnesotan in me loves Florida for that because here, like everybody who's ever been on a lake, you cruise around in the pontoon, slow in the lake, you look at the houses, you look at the water. That's what you do. But you have the same lake, the same circle that you go around a hundred times a summer. But there, there's like...

I don't know how many hundreds of miles of canals. Go all over the place. You can go all over the place. You drive to like 10 different restaurants. It's the best. Yeah, it's weird. I'd never experienced that until I was with you and your dad last year, but it's like you're legit on just roads, but you're in a pontoon. Yeah. It's like every road has a canal on the inside of it, so you can go pretty much everywhere in the city just on a boat. Yeah. It's like the weirdest thing ever. It has more, like I guess, waterfront than Venice. More canals. Mm-hmm.

because that's what Venice is always known for. Is the canals? Around here, we always gawk at the really big houses. We're so basic for that. When someone's building a house, we're like, oh, yeah, how are they coming along on that? But in Florida, it's cool that you can kind of see, you can look at any different tier of

Those little houses are nice. Oh, I love that. Oh, look at that house. Oh, look at that house. And then you go to Miami and then you'd like, it can just keep getting bigger and bigger. You got the a hundred million dollar builds. Yeah. You see that guy in Fargo, he's building like the new, it's going to be the biggest house in North Dakota or something like that. And then the newspaper like fricking made a, wrote an article on it and like release the floor plans. And I guess initially like,

had like labeled like where his kids rooms were and shit and then yeah that's fucked up I think the whole thing's pretty fucked up like just weird why would you even need to write an article on that it's strange I didn't get their hands on that I guess it's public knowledge like what we were saying how we like to look into people's life Ryan Lee

but yeah i don't know it was interesting that just made me think of it yeah so yeah i mean you could everything is public knowledge when it comes to that i'm just surprised that like someone had the idea to be like let's put the blueprints in the article right there it's pretty polarizing though because some people are are like i was looking at the comments some people like this is so fucked up like respect their privacy and all this and then other people are like just hating on them because like they just

hate anyone who's rich or has money and like they don't have any sympathy for them and yeah it's just interesting reading the comment then they're fighting

Facebook's always good for that. Dude, I've really come around to Facebook. Really? Yeah, I love Facebook. Mainly Marketplace. You're getting everything. I've always loved Marketplace. Yeah, I know that. I've been getting a lot of inquiries lately. To buy people stuff? It's starting to become a more frequent thing. Any good ones? No, nothing good yet. Nothing that would be worth adding another headache.

How many vehicles you got right now? So you got your Bronco, you have four? Four. Run me through them again. Bronco, Subaru, BMW. Subaru 350Z. Oh, that's right. Water truck. Water truck. Five. How many of your vehicles run right now? I guess. Don't need work, need to be done to them. Two? The Subaru runs. I hesitated when you said that. I'm saying, how about doesn't need to be repaired?

Just one. In some way or another, dude. When Mike was waiting for his Bronco, he was driving the company truck for a while. I was like, man, this guy's got all these vehicles, but he doesn't have a single one to drive. Well, he was driving the Subaru, too, for a little bit. Before Evan jumped it? Oh, yeah. You're driving the blue Subaru. That was pretty funny. Or a rear bumper. Yeah, that was pretty funny. Like, I can't believe. Although then we thought, man, like six years ago, us would have been like,

Frick yeah, the company's got a Subaru like we can hop in. But then I did the same thing with the Ram. I'm driving and I was like, I really hope I, you know, the Bronco comes in or the Subaru gets done faster or something. I was like,

so I can stop driving this. And then I was like, wait, we didn't work our asses off to get a company truck to not drive. Yeah. I wasn't driving it. Right. It is nice to kind of fell in love with it. Driving it like going to a diesel truck sometimes can be tough. If you come from like your guys's trucks, it would ride rough and stuff like that. But once you get used to it, Ooh, it's the best. I started the Bronco and I'm like, it doesn't smell like diesel. Yeah.

I like that it doesn't smell like diesel. I love that smell. Diesel on your hands after you fill it up at the gas station. Smells better than gas. What's that? Am I right, Ken? Gas. That's right. I've never heard of that. I've been stuck driving an electric car for the last two months. Yeah, he's stuck doing it. He doesn't want to. He doesn't want to, but... When I was flying down to Florida, I was going through my phone because I didn't have internet, and you're pretty limited on what you can do, and I had about...

four Jack Harlow songs and that was all that was downloaded on my phone for music yeah it was tough I don't know like looped them I think it got like my normal stuff got bumped off so I was just like scrolling through pictures listening to the same Jack Harlow songs and so as I was laying there listening to uh way out by the last or for the sixth time I remembered something about Jack Harlow me and Ben went to the concert as well as my buddy Ken and then my buddy Ken disappeared and

You remember when you were up on stage with Jack Harlow? Oh, I forgot about that. I got asked to leave. But you were. Before that happened, what brought you to the VIP, like only girls in bikinis and Jack Harlow and his crew?

You guys had snuck onto the floor, which you had to pay extra for. Ken's like, fuck that. I couldn't find an opening to sneak into that. Okay. So I snuck around to the backstage bar where there's a restroom back there. Okay. And then from there, it's just a quick little security line into the back area. And the security line people got...

by somebody else and me and like six other people, random people just walked straight in there. What was it like up there? Like, did you feel like you were living on the other side? It was kind of weird. It was kind of more, I feel like it'd be more fun on the floor because, you know, up you're just like elevated. Everyone's like, hmm.

Looking at you. Everyone's a little too snooty. Then Jack Harlow bumps in and he's like, get out of my way, man. And then security rolls around and they don't have the right wristband. Oh, they saw you and they just kicked you out? Oh, yeah. Right before, they did one little security check, checked everyone's wristbands and everyone that didn't got asked to leave. Damn.

Legendary, though. I forgot about that. Yeah, I couldn't believe it. I was just sitting there in row 37 on an Allegiant flag. I go, man, my buddy Ken snuck up on stage. Ken's a wild man. To date, I've never seen women act the way they acted around Jack Harlow. It was crazy, dude. It was the wildest thing I've ever seen. These gals were just swooning.

Just swooning, and he's not even a good-looking guy. I was so confused. That's how I felt. I know it's a little different, but the same thing at the Skizzy Mars concert. Oh, yeah. It was a little more underground, but chicks were going nuts for him, and he's not the best-looking guy either. Dude, girls love a guy with talent and musicians, athletes and musicians. I think they got a lot of money, too. That helps. That helps. How do you acquire that type of...

I almost used the word juice, but I don't like that word. So how do you acquire that aura? How do I... How does this turn into... You probably stopped wearing a white long sleeve underneath. It's cold out. It's cold out. You know, Ryan, I feel like you...

a lot of... Anti-juice? No, no, no. Just listen. I think that you, if not already, I mean, obviously already, you're extremely cool. I think you're extremely cool and you have that factor.

but it's not the same factor as like Jack Harlow. I think it's more of like a Kirk Cousins type of factor. Right. That's great. For people that don't know Kirk Cousins, wouldn't you guys agree? Everyone loves Kirk Cousins. He's fucking cool. Okay. But you may be more of a line in that lane. I like that. So he's kind of asking how to obtain more of a Jack Harlow relationship.

How do I get in my Kirko chains? Yeah, but that is a good point. Well, I think you could just put a chain on it. It would be funny. You know, like, holy shit, Ryan's wearing a chain. This is so funny. Dude, he had, like, three chains on after the game. But then, like, you got Evan over here, and he's wearing, like, three chains. And you're just like, yeah, that's how he is. He's wearing, like, a camo, full camo onesie.

Yeah. I think you could, anyone could obtain that if they want, but they have to, again, they have to like, uh,

I'm talking like years, whether it's rapping or like singing or just practice, like gaining a talent and gaining a mindset that you're going to be. I think you're just who you are, man. Yeah. You can't pretend your whole life. Well, you can pretend your whole life. Yeah. But what if you want it so bad that you're not pretending? Everyone just thinks you are. What do you mean? Why'd you quote Ken? What is Ken pretending to be someone he's not? Well, when he goes on dates, he does. Yeah.

You're saying you don't embellish stuff? No. When I used to go on dates, no, my whole persona was not a lie. What if you were on a date with 12 women on camera? In front of cameras with your best friends on the other side of glass laughing. Laughing.

I'd feel more obligated to tell the truth. You definitely got to know what you're saying and who you're saying it in front of because they might take advantage of it, which Ken has now learned. You think I don't know that already? Ken, he's learned that so many times. Everything you say and do will be held against you in this group of friends.

Will be is the key word. I don't think Ken day-to-day, you're not lying to anybody or yourself. I think you're just a man of mystery. I think you're kind of like, you know? I agree 100%. We had to pick out. 100%. If you had to write a bio, I could write a bio on everybody quickly. But when it came to Ken, I'd go,

I don't know. Great dude. Love him. Hilarious. But I don't know. And then you start making stuff up. You just don't know the guy. You never know what's true. That's what I mean. You don't know what he's up to, where his next move is, who he's with, what he's doing. You just don't know. That's what I mean. He's going with the flow. I love that. In a mysterious way. On a mystery river. Yeah, as long as nobody knows.

Not a bad thing. I think people like mystery. Girls really like mystery. They might like that. On your speed dating, you could have just... Instead of just lying... You should have just played cool guy. Just be like... No, I've just not said anything. What do you like to do? And the kid goes, I don't know. I don't know. You tell me. That'd be a Ken's answer. What's your favorite drink? Why don't you find out at our next date? And then the girls would be like, that's my history. Oh my gosh.

Ooh, she's like, you know, sometimes I'm just not quick enough on my feet to come up with that kind of stuff. I mean, I don't know. What's your favorite drink? Lie. That actually was not a lie. That was not a lie. You could ask any of the restaurant, like the bartenders around here. They know I ordered that.

I will. Tito Soda with a line. I don't know if it's a continuation of the now you're trying to do that more or make it real, but now that I've been paying attention to it, I do notice you over that a lot. That was a summer thing. Ryan, I think back to your question though. I actually listened to a podcast with Jack Harlow. He was on Call Her Daddy. Greta wanted to listen to it. Alex Cooper is the greatest podcast interviewer of

of our generation. I mean, that's just a heavy statement. Do it. Very heavy. I don't know a lot of people. That's a heavy statement. All right. What about the guy who does hot, hot ones? He's got a production. Okay. And Theo Vaughn. All right. All right. Call her daddy. What about Oprah? All right. All right. She's tough.

top 10 top 10 top 10 um no she's she's just fantastic though she like goes in between like sucking dick and then like tell me more about your business that you're building two of your favorite things maybe that's why i'm like damn this girl just sure knows that it's a great show i like this you're looking at greta she's not even listening anymore

Good. You got more of these? I got more of these intrigued. Jack Harlow was like, like basically just like flirting and like trying to rizz the whole time. And I think like people like that, that do have that aura, they're just constantly like kind of flirting with them or like playing with them and like, ah, you're so funny, you know, like I don't know. Having confidence. Yeah, yeah. There you go. But it's tough to just have confidence out of nowhere, you know? That's when...

comes in like, oh, you're super talented at something, now you have a lot of confidence. Confidence in it. Because you're like, I'm the man. I'm a good quarterback. You seen me drift a front-wheel drive car? Like, that's your go-to? Do you have any, say, like, accolades or just skills that you feel like you really bring to the table? Dude, I can swing the TC. I was really cool when I was 16 at it.

So, yeah, you guys missed out last night. We had a time. Oh, I heard about this. Kind of called for a boys' night. I know you were just getting home. And, you know, we still made do without you. But we played Fibbage. Fibbage.

Have you ever... No one's ever heard of Fibbage? Yeah, I've played it. Yeah. Bro, we were crying. Who are you all with? You should probably run through the group. So it was me, Gavin, Ken, Justin, Cody, Jake. Oh my gosh. And we were just ripping fruit. We played it for three hours and we were crying laughing. What is it? The playing Fibbage for three hours doesn't sell me like I missed out, but the crying laughing does. It does. I can picture it because I know you guys, but I just...

I'm trying to figure out who can come up with the most messed up response to these questions. It basically is just like a random fact and then it'll leave a word blank. And so you're supposed to come up with a lie that is convincing that someone else would pick. But we just came up with the funniest thing possible and then played it like apples to apples style. You know it's good when the next morning in the group chat, somebody texts, man, I'm still crying. So Ben, are you still on your...

carnivore diet. Yeah. You are, you're back to it now. Yeah. So you kind of deviate when you, when you travel though, just to make life easier. Yeah. I mean, I feel like shit. Like I, I definitely, I try not to, um, cause it like sets me back and I don't feel good if I don't. Um, but yeah, yeah, I'm still back. I might hop on that. I just want to try it. Really? I mean,

I mean, it's... I'm not going to go as extreme as you because I think I could probably still... You should be able to put seasonings and shit on. Yeah, I just use, like, salt and pepper. But it's difficult if you're traveling. But, I mean, if you're at home and you can just set up, like... Sounds kind of nice. Just eggs in the morning and then do a steak at night. Yeah, I've lost, like, even more weight. I'm probably, like, 25 pounds down. Damn, dude. And, uh...

I've tried to like eat as much food as possible. Like this morning for breakfast, I had four eggs and four pieces of bacon and then a bunch of fruit. And so I kind of all I can eat. And I just try and eat like larger portions of it. And I'm still like, you're hungry.

Or you just don't feel fulfilled because it's just the same thing? Yeah, both. But also I'm trying to gain weight. I'm trying to put weight back on. Why? I don't think where I'm at is a healthy weight. I would have been happy losing weight.

10 pounds. What do you weigh now? Like 147. Holy shit, dude. I haven't been really like the rest of you. Yeah. I haven't been this small since like 10th grade in high school. What'd you weigh before? 175. I was like 172. Holy shit. I think I could lose some weight. Not, not necessarily even doing that. I just, uh, I want to do that.

And I want to try the Dana White's fast. How fast? Where you fast for, is it 72 hours? So you'd only drink water. But the reason I'd want to do it, not necessarily to lose weight, but...

it cleans out like your system. Cause I guess like it just eats all that. Yeah. You just burn off all your garbage that's in your system. But I've just recently, like, I'm just trying to be more healthy. Not that we're old, but as we're getting older, I just want to like try to make my body maintain it and be able to go for a longer. I mean, we used to, I mean, some of us still do, but like, I'll say for me, like I was, I'd drink every day, eat shit, drink,

like i wouldn't get any sleep now i like prioritize just like getting good sleep and like not drinking alcohol every day and all that so i want to try like some new stuff so yeah and i've been getting like on my supplements and everything i think probably two more than even like uh obviously appearance is nice but it's like how you feel you feel better i agree and i i think that is what

I could see for you to like what you really are searching for. It's just feeling. Yeah. I just want to feel better. Yeah. That's right. You know, what's funny though is, is I guess I didn't drink like every day. I would say probably like two or three times a week when I quit drinking because of my stomach. I was curious to see like how I would feel like mentally from like quitting drinking. And I quit for probably like a month and a half. And I honestly, I didn't feel any different. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, to me, to me. Yeah. I wasn't expecting you to say that. I wasn't either. I was expecting completely, yeah. Yeah. Honestly, the only thing I felt was more depressed. Because you don't have anything to look forward to. Because, yeah. And you're not getting that dopamine hit from eating whatever you want. Yeah, and I don't really think that I had a drinking issue where...

where I looked forward to it at the end of the day and that's the only thing getting me through. It was just always a nice little reward. And I just felt like without...

you know, having like that little reward. Granted, I had like no reward of even like good food. Yeah. So that was part of it too. But also like, I think a lot of good times come from like drinking with the boys or like when we're like out and about doing something, you know, just not experiencing that, you know, you have a little bit more like mental clarity, I guess, from not being like fogged by

buy like the booze or like hungover for a day or two days after if you really go on a bender. But, you know, those aside, just like overall happiness and overall just mood.

It's maybe not even so much the drinking, but it's the like not getting the social, like the camaraderie. Yes, that. Yeah, that too. I mean, to me, I guess I don't feel like the drinking is like a mental fog. Like I can get up and just go. But what I notice is I don't sleep as well. And now since I quit drinking so much.

I like I know what like a good night's rest feels like and honestly like not not a paid thing but like with my whoop and now I'm like able to put numbers to it I'm like well no wonder I don't feel good and then you kind of start figuring it out and I think I just know what it feels like to have a good night's rest and wake up like actually ready to go which I mean I don't know like you can wake up and still be like hung over a little drunk still yeah just like start firing and be ready to roll like I mean that's not like my problem yeah but

At the beginning of the podcast, I was like, man, I just feel drained and more tired even after taking a week off. What I noticed too is when you guys were all gone, I was a little sick, but I didn't have a reason to get up and get going. I didn't have to be to the shop and I didn't have to get shit done. I would just find myself sleeping in late or staying up late.

And then staying up late. Just scrolling. Yeah, scrolling because I'm like, I don't have to get up. And then, like, my whole day is just shot because I woke up late and I kind of got a, you know, a slow start. And then I'm just like, I'm literally sitting at home, like, texting Greta, like, yo, when are you going to be here? I'm so bored. I know how she feels probably all the time. Yeah, and I was like, that's why I'm sitting at home fucking firing texts in the group chat, like, all right. Yeah, because you're thinking. Yeah.

no i feel that when you guys give you home like i'm i'm like driving myself crazy right now i'm sleeping in i'm getting i'm getting more sleep and i feel like exhausted because of it and uh yeah there's something to be said about just like just getting back to to uh to work or like whatever you're working on or excited about or just something to do you were missing those dopamine hits of productivity yeah of doing something like moving uh

We'll just say the business along, you know? So like maybe if you would have started working out. I did work out. That's how bored I was. Did you feel a little bit better after that? Yeah, but I was like, well, now what? That's what it is. Short-lived. Now what? But I felt that even on like the last like day or two, I was like, damn, like been here for like seven or five days now. I'm like, I'm kind of ready to go. And then it's like we got two more days of kind of just hanging around.

i agree like i was getting bored i was like i was doing some stuff on the computer but uh i think that's the best part is when you get the break you uh like when you're burnt out on doing it not necessarily like i'm over this i'm not doing it but you're doing it like slow or not as like efficiently and take that break and then your next thing you do you're doing it because you want to do it that's what that breaks for yeah no there's i feel like we all got huge difference when you're doing something because it's

It has to get done or it needs to get done versus you want to do it. Like you're going to do it so much better when you want to do it. That's just the...

I mean, the basics of, like, anything you're doing. Yeah, sure. If you want to do it and it needs to get done, then it's really going to be good, too. But, yeah. I'd say, like, the main thing I took away from being away from you guys, even though it was, like, a week or maybe a little bit less even, is just, like, coming back inspired and excited for just, like, continuing to create

videos and um have a good year yeah i'm so excited to to make some bangers this year and we've got some bigger ideas some of our best ideas like coming up uh in this first like six months and um i'm just excited to film them and produce them and and drop them for the people because people have been really liking the vids yeah yeah dude like looking at the calendar like a blank canvas or like you know looking at the calendar and the idea board like

It's so fun being able to be like, we'll do that this week and we'll do that. And then we'll do that in a month. Oh, it's going to be great. Yeah, I'm excited. That's how the last meeting felt. Yep. And 3 million is coming up. I can't even remember what I guessed. And a billion views. A billion views? Yeah, we're coming up on 1 billion views on total channel views. That's fucking crazy. That's insane. You think about that? 1 billion views. There's not that many channels. You'd be surprised. If you go to some of your bigger, most favorite channels...

There's not a lot of people that are in the 1 billion. Like, large creators that you think would be in it, they're not. Interesting. Which, I mean, we've been doing it for so long and, you know, shorts and whatever else that is boosting it. But, yeah. Yeah, we did 500 million views last year.

500 million views, about a million subscribers. I think we're in the top 1,000 YouTubers per subscribers. Subscriber rank, yeah. That was nuts. If we were in a room full of 1,000 people, we'd be like the smallest dudes there. Yeah. Small dogs. Which I don't think we're that big on YouTube. I always say that. But that is cool. I'd say that's like the threshold. You know, when we first started, let's say it was even at... How many channels there are at 100,000, but a lot, a lot. And then getting to the top...

1,000 is pretty cool. We're at 1,050, so we're still outside the room. We're waiting to get in. It's probably very competitive once you start getting closer and closer, you know, because they're going to be posting and growing. 100%. Well, here we go, boys. Here's to 2024, though. Here's to it. Cheers, boys. Cheers.

You got me fired up there, Ken. All right. Well, that's a wrap. Peace. Peace.