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How do you feel about building on those grounds that are haunted? I mean, just get rid of what's there and then start fresh. I don't think that's how ghosts work. This thing's like super dangerous. Oh damn, she's on it right now! Oh my gosh! It says, okay, this is a sticky one. Oh. Yo, we're gonna let Mike handle this one. Punch him in the face, next one.

What up, guys? Welcome back to the Life Wide Open podcast. What are we, number 106 on this one? It's a Saturday right now. The Vikings just played. They just lost. Classic. How many podcasts have you started out like that? It's tough, man. Fresh off of a loss. Just getting that out of the way. Cracking the last Tony in existence. Is it really? Yeah, I was wondering, where'd you find that thing? Well, Ryan actually found them, but in a cooler from the summer. So they might be a little... They're skunked, but when Tony's...

skunk they ferment because the alcohol is from sugar so they get stronger like i bet you that thing's running at least 11 percent right now really yeah no they get the job done the story is only one the story behind the tony's is uh there's a tiktoker his name is two turn tony shout out to turn and uh he sent us an entire palette of his drink

two turn tony t's and uh they lasted us you would think that an entire pallet it was 204 cases would last long time didn't no we blew through i mean we were pretty cavalier about giving them away because we wanted everybody to try it but what'd they make it three months three months three months max and that's the last one the last one i know i hope you enjoy that i don't know what's happening this winter there

There is no winter. I feel like Cindy Lou Who in The Grinch, you know, saying, where are you, Christmas? That's how I feel right now. And I feel like I'm getting old because I'm like, as a young kid, if it doesn't snow before Christmas, I'm upset. I'm actually upset. But now I'm just like, roads are nice. Yeah, I'm not like that mad about it. Obviously, at some point, we're going to need snow for the content that we make. But I'm like, if we need snow, like, we'll go west. But we'll get it. It's crazy. Winter came. The lakes froze.

And then fall came back. The lake's unfroze. It rained. They're all unfrozen. So we're going to potentially go surfing on Christmas. I'm so excited. That could be the best Christmas gift that I could ever receive. Half the lake is frozen and half the lake is water. So the other morning I was coming to work.

One half of the lake had a boat on it. There's guys out there fishing in a boat. And then on the other half, there was two guys in a spear house ice fishing. Dude, fishermen just love to fish. I know. And they love thin ice almost more than us. This is true. It'll be interesting, though.

When we take your boat out on Christmas, hopefully we don't find any icebergs. Yeah. I was thinking about that. I was going to ask, or are we going to use your boat? It's easier to get out. It probably serves better, but it sounds like he kind of just offered up.

i mean it was your brilliant idea so i'll let you can't argue with that i was thinking about this though i was playing the side of my head i was like okay so let's just say we hit an iceberg in the middle of the lake the boat goes down like how far are you making it swimming it in that water like it's 33 degrees true like put the life jacket on and you you'll just you'll make it yeah you'd be fine how many people lived from the titanic i've

I've actually never even seen the movie. Really? I haven't either. No. Wow. Ryan's the only one who's seen it. Cut the freaking podcast. It's a long movie. I haven't seen so many classics. Sit down. We're watching the Titanic tonight, boys. That's what I say, too. I go, okay, so it's kind of like they made a romantic movie. See, that's where I'm not that interested in it. The hours. 2,200 people and passengers and crew were on the Titanic. 706 survived. Wow.

They only had 2,200 people on there? I thought there was more people on that. Ships weren't that big back then. A cruise ship today is huge compared to what the Titanic was. And that was a big ship back then.

back then how did they survive who saved them they have lifeboats is there any people that are like like you're in the middle of yeah there's in the middle of like the antarctic right yeah but there's back then it was like the only way to get between the u.s and europe was by boat it's like there's boats going back and forth all the time it's kind of like today there's planes going back and forth between the u.s and europe all the time but a boat can stop so they just called other boats in and then they just like sent out a distress signal and took a little bit

Like, I wonder how long these people were floating. The Titanic was like at the bottom of the sea by the time they showed up. But that only took like 11 minutes or something ridiculous, right? Or was that a long sinking? Was it the Edmund Fitzgerald that sank fast? I don't know about that.

Was it this year that the whole like Ocean Gate thing happened? Yeah. Yeah. The submarine? Yeah, that was this year. Man, isn't it crazy to think like how much stuff has happened this year? Like how many memes have been born? And it just seems like you live like one week at a time for whatever like the whole news is fixated on. Exactly. Can't put the meme...

Each year somebody does a meme calendar and then you can keep track. And it's so fun because it takes you back to like, oh yeah, I remember when Ocean Gate was a meme. Man, the world moves quick. It does. It really does. I love how... Okay, January was the cop.

That one, classic. Classic. Good start, dude. Classic. This is good. Space Balloon. Yeah. Silicon Valley Bank. Bud Light when Bud Light went down. Gorlock the Destroyer. Man, she was that big of a deal, huh? Oh, big deal, bro. June makes sense. July. Dude, I haven't even seen that video, Ben. No, I haven't. I've never seen the full video, but I just don't know. I just heard in the back, that motherfucker is not real. Oh, yeah. I don't know about you.

Yeah. But that person is not real. Yeah. She was tweaking, dude. I feel bad for her. Yeah. But why was she tweaking? Probably has mental illness or was on some kind of drugs. She was just tweaking. No, she just looks like a Karen. She was just like tweaking. No, she's... Well, it's funny. She looks like one there, but I don't think she was on every other... She's owning it, though. She's got like a mental breakdown. Yeah. Like... She ended up posting some TikToks and she... This newfound fame. And she seemed chill. Oh. Yeah.

Oh, that's good. She's probably got a PR team now. Here's your 12-month strategy to recover from this. We have the merch drop going live this Tuesday. What is August? What is this one? I have no idea. I don't know. I don't remember that one. I kind of want to see what's going on there. Zoom in on it, screenshot it, and then go to Google and then just pop it in in Google. Crazy that you can do that. Yeah, I use it all the time. Really? I've actually never really used it, but

Dude, I use it. I know it's powerful. If I'm watching something or like anything comes across, I guess, my phone and I don't want to take the time to like research. Type out words. Yeah. Yeah, that's probably a better way to put it. Sometimes you can't. Sheer wielding man, folding chair in Alabama brawl. Oh, man. They went WWE on it. I don't think I have either. That's his weapon of choice, the folding chair. He watched too much WWE. Yeah, him and John Cena both.

How did this one make the yearly meme calendar, but we've never heard about it? Yeah, I don't know. I guess anybody can make a meme calendar, so anybody can put their meme on it. Oh, shit, it's not a video? Should have known that we couldn't have gotten trustworthy news from CNN. Oh, Ryan, you're just trying to backtrack after they found out you voted for Hillary. Yeah, I know. I left that in because Ben went, oh, I don't want you to get everybody to think you did, but apparently everybody blacked out. No, I left it in.

And everybody thinks I did now. Because I cleared it up for you. I go, Ryan didn't. Ryan didn't. And you took my part out, I think. Because I remember listening back. I was like, damn. He did himself dirty. I was very confused by that. I even gave you an out. WWE is fucking calling that guy. That's a good wrestler name, too. Reggie Ray. That is a good wrestler name. That was when they lost the fighter jet. Oh, yeah. And they asked the public to help find it. What is up with that? That's insane. That one was almost so bizarre. It came across my screen. And I was like, well, this isn't.

There's got to be something more to this. I think the funniest one is the cop in January. That was a good start to the year. Of course. They've been overusing that picture of her face for so long, and I just saw another one on Snapchat. Like, what's she up to now? Yeah, what is she up to? I didn't watch it. I'm like, who the fuck cares?

That one just had trains calendar 2023. That was her. Fucking savage. Mike was cleaning out his little side-by-side unit that he bought from his grandpa. And he pulls out of the glove box and...

What was it depicting? It was like a drawn picture. Yeah, it was like a, I didn't get it. It was like a funeral and it said cost for the Norsemen, like, I don't know, people from Norway. It was $4.79 for the funeral. Cost for Italians was $479 and costs for Jewish people were $4,700. I didn't get it at all. And that was a picture of like an elaborate funeral. And I was like, man, dude, grandpa, grandpa was showing people memes.

We were just cracking up about that. Let's say it gets a good laugh from his buddy, John, and he's like, oh, John loved it. I got to print out 10 more of these things. It was all folded up. You could tell he put that shit in his wallet. He had it ready. I can't wait to take this to the Steam Threshers reunion. Corey's going to love this, dude. Dale. It's like the revolution.

It's like the revolution of getting a chocolate out of your buddy. Now you just send it to him over, you know, messages. The revolution of it. Yeah. The revolution, dude. The evolution. Fuck. Goddamn. You know what's bad with CJs? Correct me. The revolution. Oh, my God. I quit, dude. Wow, dude. You guys are too far gone. It's just bad times, dude.

Holy shit. You know how we talked a couple podcasts about my broken car, how I crashed it? I took out a green box. That's what did that damage. But I got a bill the other day from the internet company. And I was like, this is weird. Why did I get a bill? Like my mom, they sent it to my like,

I was just confused. Why am I getting a bill from Arvig? And then it said like pedestal, like pedestal rebuild. No way. How much? 800. What? Yeah. How would they find you? I don't know. It's hard to say, man. Oh, man. Who would have thought? Honestly, I think it's from the podcast or they like, it was kind of by the roadhouse. So maybe they're like yellow car like this. Maybe you should pay it, Mike. I'll probably pay it.

I'll probably pay it. You know what's funny, though, is I wonder if a snowplow hit it. That's what I'm saying. I get it. It's a public service. It's a public utility, isn't it? No. They're private. Creating a little narrative here. No, I'm just, you know, like if a snowplow hit it, do they send the county a bill? It was pretty far off the road.

the road. You're lucky to be alive. That was an accident. That box could have hurt you. It destroyed your car. You should send him a bill for your car. Yeah, exactly. The box hit my car. I think that was the worst part. Had I not hit the box, like, I mean, I'd be looking at less damages, obviously. You know what, though, Rob,

Ryan and Mike. Ryan, you're pretty heated here. Mike, maybe just pay it because I don't want them cutting off our fucking Wi-Fi. I already wrote the check. So Adam, the guy who bought the SEMA truck. Yeah. Oh, did he make it home? Yeah, he's on his way. He loves it. He loves it. He's texting me about it. He's like, it drives great. Like, everyone is giving me thumbs up. I'm like, yeah, dude, you can't go anywhere in that truck without getting attention. So yeah, he loves it. He's happy. Oh, he's so happy about it. He made it back to Florida.

Yeah, he flew up here and I guess is in the process of driving it all the way back to Florida. And he's just stoked. Him and a buddy came up and he's like, yeah, dude. His buddy was saying, he's like, dude, he just loves you guys. And this is a huge opportunity for him. I'm like, oh, really? 69,000. That's cool. Yeah. What a deal on that truck too. That was a good deal. That was a good deal. Good for him. His buddy was like,

Do not get the hype of this truck. I personally would never buy it, and I think it's ugly. But he did pull up in a Nissan Altima, though. He said that to me. I don't know if he did say that to me, but he said it to him, I think. He was like, I would not buy this, but...

He loves you guys. Man, wow. In my head, I was like, damn, Nissan Altima. That's pretty basic. Yeah. However. Was it his actual car or was that just a rental car? It was his. No, they drove up from Chicago. That's where that guy lived. He worked with a Nissan Altima. There's nothing wrong with it, especially when you work for Nissan Corporate. Well, yeah. And they gave you that car. They didn't even give him a Maxima. Well, what are you going to drive, a GTR? No.

That'd be great. That'd be better than an Altima. I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with an Altima. You just can't criticize another man's vehicle when you roll up in a maroon Altima. Precisely. And he was a great dude. Yeah, they were both. Just a little jibber-jabber here. I've seen this clip a few times now, just coming off the roasting in Nissan, I guess, but Marquise Brown. Brown Lee. Very hot take. Brown Lee, yeah. Very hot take. He goes, hot take, but...

a nissan's never made a good track car i don't like gtr and everyone's like whoa that is a hot and then they like clipped it over with some hard song of like all the sweet race cars nissan's built i'm like you can't see that is a pretty hot that's a bold statement nissan's made some insane race cars over the years yeah i'm trying to figure out where he's got that from but yeah i mean between all of their gtrs i mean from the beginning yeah like they were pretty revolutionary

Pretty evolutionary. No, revolutionary. Kind of evolutionary. That's the correct term. They were revolutionary. So, Ken, your mom came over the other day and, like, dropped off your Christmas presents or something? No, it was Christmas decorations. Oh. She wanted me to have a stocking on her fireplace. Yeah, you need one, dude. Put it up. That's nice. Alex said they're just for decoration. That's fine.

That's fine. The stockings? Well, yeah. And then they're not going to match, and then it's going to be weird. Oh, I think that's fine. Do you put it up downstairs, though? You have your own? There you go. No, not yet. Ken, why don't you go hang it up at your new house? And when do you want me to help you move into that place? When are you leaving? Maybe three years. Three years? Three years, maybe. You're kind of a lad. You are a patient man, Mike. She looks at me after she got Ken the stocking and goes...

you probably don't even have one there. And I was like, no, I don't. I thought it was your Christmas gift. So I was like, so Ken's not going to Christmas, huh? We got to get Ken's mom on the pod. I would love to. Is your mom busy right now? Call her up. I'm sure she's doing something. I think she had a, what was it today?

It's like their garden club thing. Sounds about right. It's December. It's December. They're preparing, Ryan. They got to get these gardens ready for April. You're right. I'm sorry. That's why I'm not in the club. Prior preparation prevents piss-poor performance, Ryan. Wow. Prior preparation prevents piss-poor performance. Yeah, they call that the...

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Your mom pulled up in a new car. Yeah, she tried to hide it. She tried to hide it from you? She was like, I want to buy a new car, but I want your advice on a new car. And I was like, okay, when you get back from Alaska, I'll help you go car shopping. And then she just goes and buys a Subaru. But she had previously had a Subaru that she sold because she didn't like it, right? Yeah.

So how does she like this one? She's going to like it for about six months, and then she's going to hate it, think it's the worst car in the world. She's going to sell it and then think it was the best car in the world. That's what she's done with every car in the last 20 years. Well, she's already reached the hate it point. No. So she was saying that there's AI in there because she's a pretty big conspiracy theorist, and she thinks that the Chinese are listening to her.

Or that the AI is trying to get her. I'm sure they are. You know what would be funny? Is if we hid a hidden camera and then a little speaker in there and then had a Chinese person speaking into it. The Bluetooth device. She'd go just like, what? Dude, that would be funny. We stopped pranking Ken and we started pranking his family members. They're just like, what the fuck is this?

I'm not sure if Carolyn even knows that we have a YouTube channel. It takes a little bit of explaining what we've been up to. I'm sure. I mean, that's a pretty fair statement for anyone, though. So it does surprise me that you bought a house right next to your family. Good deal. It was good enough that the family being next door overrode it? I mean, I can build a wall.

Ken's going to build a wall. I love that. So he separates his family from... Not just a fence. Like, yeah, something modernized looking wall. Something Trump would build. Yeah, that really would put a weird thing in the family because they're about building the wall, but then also they're like, but the wall separates me from Ken. No, no, the rest of them, they love...

They love open walls. Oh, really? Yeah. So the wall would also piss them off if you put it between the two of you. Oh, okay. My bad. Didn't know that. I think that'd be pretty funny though, Ken. I think that'd be par for the course. The first day you get in there, you build a massive brick wall. I can't see over it. They're just like shadowed from the sun. It's just like they have no sunlight anywhere on their property because it's so big. At the top, Ken just puts barbed wire too. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. It doesn't even look pretty. It looks like it's trying to stop bad people. Well, it just doesn't look good on my side. We got to go over there, Ken. I got to check that place out. I want to demolish it before summer.

Let's get to it. Let's go over there right now and destroy it. Grab the limo through it. Brain starts racing when you say stuff like that, Ken. Yeah, we should open up like a... Pretty good about that. Have like a driving range in there. That would be funny. For cars and golf balls. Oh my gosh. That'd be a great bit. There is like a half basement, so you drive a car in there, it is going to like fall through the floor. I almost guarantee. I take it that it's pretty old. Oh yeah. Nobody's lived in there in probably 10, 15 years. There's mold all over the place. There's dead mice all over the floors. Thank you. It...

needs to be... It's not salvageable. You could save it till Halloween and run a little haunted house. Ah, yeah. A little side biz. Dude, I was on the outside of it. His curtains...

are like just like deteriorating oh oh it probably is haunted really how do you feel about building on those grounds that are haunted just get rid of what's there and then start fresh i don't think that's how ghosts work i agree yeah you just they go with the house the house disappears i'm not sure if they like that what about the hallowed grounds yeah i don't believe in that ken we got to check the walls before we start tearing that thing down i can see there being some like money or some hidden valuables in there

Or we might have to call Evan. There might be a bestest. Yeah, man. You know, Mike's turning you into the county. Dude, that is a brutal job. How's the farm coming along? I haven't been over there in probably three weeks. Oh, is it really? Have they painted the shipping containers yet? Not yet. Oh. Well, that will really start changing it. But they're going to start sheet rocking this week. Really? Yeah. They're chipping away. Yeah, we got to go check that out. Yeah, the farm remodel's coming along. It sucks.

It just, when it was here, it was like you were so involved in it, but you can almost kind of forget about it over there, which is nice. We don't do anything over there. Because we can keep our work flowing here. But I try to go over there at least every other night and check up on it. And it's so fun having something like progressively changing. Yeah, you're getting to see it. Like that, you can physically watch the change happening. Yep. Which is pretty legit. I had to take a break this week.

editing and do a little dirt work in the skid steer it's like therapeutic for your soul man get in some heavy machinery and mindlessly operate it felt good i think even doing manual labor like like i me personally i don't want to do that every single day but like you spend let's say one day doing some good manual labor like for instance us cutting all the ice with the chainsaws and then using the show you know that's quite a bit of like work like physical labor or even just like helping like

my dad build a brick retaining wall, let's say, or shovel out some stuff, you know, it just feels good. Like it's rewarding. It does get done. And it's also just good for you. You know, that just comes down to the, I guess the main thing you could equate that to is like mowing. When you quit mowing, you know, we don't mow our lawn anymore.

Evan knows. Well, Evan mows it here, but it just reminded me of like 2 Chainz. What have you been up to, 2 Chainz? He's like, I bought a lawnmower. He's like, ever since, he's like, I lived in an apartment and then when I was rapping, I got money and then I never mowed my own lawn. I've never mowed my own lawn before. That's crazy. So he got a lawnmower and mowed it and I'm like, that's...

Every man should at least mow his lawn a couple times. I wonder if we have any friends that have never mowed. I'd be curious. I'm sure there's somebody. It's just one of those things you've got to do. There's somebody that's just been in the city. Just pampered. Never mowed before. I guess if you grow up in an apartment. That's what I mean. Well, yeah, but I mean. A development where they mow your own lawn or something. Yeah. True. That brings up a good point.

yesterday I spent all day around here cleaning basically. And it's one of the most therapeutic things to do is clean, but it's also on like the same token draining. Like I have this weird balance where when I'm working or have other work to do, it's like,

damn, I really could be doing the state sales tax, but also the shop floor needs to be scrubbed. So I think I'm going to do that instead. And then you tend to put yourself further behind. And it's something that I really, really struggle with is trying to find the balance of like cleaning up around here and keeping the shop in order so we can do other things. And then also doing the tasks that...

are on like your secondary to-do list, you know? Cleaning the floor, mindless. Those are the best jobs when you're trying to like get away from the stuff you have to do that takes all your brain. But yeah, it was like you cleaning the shipping container. It was like you're taking all the stuff out. You're like, this is going great. And then as soon as you had to start thinking, what should we keep? What should we...

Oh, then it's stuck, dude. I don't want to do this anymore. I got everything outside and I almost just quit right there. But I was like, damn, I ruined the whole shop. It's so dirty. I have to finish. We got one of those. It's basically like a push lawnmower, but it's a sweeper. It's got like two little things in it. Floor scrubber. Oh, yeah. Oh, and the sweeper. Shout out Brenco for that. They hooked it up, dude. With the scrubber. Well, for the scrubber, but the pusher sweeper and you just...

literally just push it around like it's a lawnmower and it sweeps up the floor. So nice. It's amazing. I love doing that after like a long day of editing. It's so therapeutic. That's what I mean. It's like this therapy for it. Yeah. There's nothing better than cleaning the garage. Besides for drinking beer in it, Ryan. Well, that's true. At the same time though. Exactly. And you've got to clean the garage to drink beer in it. I feel like one job that I hope that I stop, uh,

enjoying at some point, but my therapeutic job is breaking down boxes. I just love grabbing the empty boxes. Yeah, just throwing the utility knife in them, breaking them down. It makes it feel like there's a, oh, that was the end of the process. The merch came in in the boxes. But yeah, I just love breaking down boxes. And I sing a little song, breaking down boxes, breaking down boxes. Never heard that. Yeah, no, I made it up. I made it up. Okay.

What do you do that's therapeutic, CJ? I'd say working out is probably my most therapeutic thing. You know, just go to the gym, which for me, it's probably not the same as other people. Like most people hate going to the gym where I'm just going there. Like I'm just kind of like maintaining. I'm just doing like...

whatever. I'm not pushing myself that hard, but I'm listening to a podcast. I've always wondered what you do. I'm listening to a podcast. I mean, I'm still putting in work, but I'm not like, like hating it, you know? Yeah. You are going, leaving, trying to keep your heart rate above 85% for the hour and a half. Yeah. It's just nice. It makes sense. I remember like, and I'm in no position to like say anything about what you do at the gym, but the few times that I went with you, I'm like, damn, like CJ just chimed.

over there. He's chilling again over there now. You got to get rest in between sets. As soon as you told me I do the gym differently, it's therapeutic for me. Make

Makes sense. Totally makes sense. Dude, that's me in my sauna. It's like the absolute best thing ever. Turn that thing on, sit there, and just watch it warm up. So excited to hop in it. Sometimes I'll just turn it on and hop in it. It's just nice sitting in there. And then by the time it's warm, I'm ready to get out. I just love it. It's the best. I'm trying to get one of those. Very therapeutic. I was in the sauna with Gavin the other day, and...

We like chat quite a bit throughout the day. And then we both got in the sauna. Just 15 minutes. Just didn't speak. Dude, that's beautiful. Sitting in there and just chilling, sweating. And your hands are too sweaty to go on your phone. So yeah, you might play some music, but no music at that point. But yeah, you're not like, you know, in the hot tub, like you keep your hands out so you can go on your phone, which I enjoy. But like in the sauna, your hands are too sweaty to operate it. Yeah. I popped my phone up and I just watched something. It's interesting how much,

phones have changed the game for hanging out. Like hangs aren't as good anymore because the phone is so accessible and even just a few minutes, like right now when we're all sitting, nobody's looking at our phone because we're chatting. But if you're at dinner and

And even one person pulls out the phone for just a little bit. It's like a, it's like a ripple effect before you know, to other people. Exactly. Then someone goes, Oh, well, Mike's on his phone. I I'll, I'll check my Instagram quick. And then before you know it, the other two are like, Oh shit, well they're on their phone. I'll, I'll grab mine. And you just fall out of the conversation. Yeah.

It's honestly like sad I feel like And the few times That we do do the stack You know stack your phones In the middle We talked about that before It works 100% of the time When we put our phones In the middle The conversation gets better Obviously the phone use But extremely annoying When we're watching a movie And you like look around And like

half the people are on their phones. You're like, you're not even watching the movie. At a theater? No, I'm talking like sometimes like we do. Like if me and Alex say, like sit down and watch a movie and she's like, let's watch a movie. Let's do, you know, whatever. I'm like, okay, yeah, sure. I'm prepared to watch and pay attention, but you just go on your phone. You're like, you're not watching the movie. Like sometimes when we go over to your house and have like theater nights, sometimes half the people are on their phones. I'm like, it just kind of like

It ruins the vibe. What the fuck are we doing here? No one's even paying attention. Exactly. And then you're like, well, damn, I'll just watch the movie I want to watch. Fuck this movie that we all collected. I'm sitting here watching a movie that you guys all want to watch and you guys aren't even watching it. You try to come together and pick a movie, but yeah, no one's caring. Especially if it's a movie you vouch for, too. You're like, come on.

I think it's difficult with us because we spend so much time together that even let's say that is an airport or a dinner and stuff like that isn't necessarily special. Not that it's not important, but we're just like, I spent 12 hours with the boys today. Dinner is just the final step to me going home and then getting on with whatever I got to do. So we're, we're a little more apt to go on our phone, but.

I think when we don't and we do the phone stack, we have this game that we play when we go out to eat where everybody takes their phone, they put it in a stack, and you can't touch it because likely your phone is in the middle of the stack. And there is a consequence for if you do touch it. Yeah, what is it? Is it shots or pay for dinner? Either or. We only do that, though, when we have like...

Let's say our girlfriends or friends outside of this. But if we all just went out to lunch, I would literally not care if you guys were on your phone. No, for sure not. But if you got like, oh, you should pay attention, try to be present in the moment, give it your all. Yeah, I think the looking at your phone, looking for some type of...

whether it be like dopamine stimulation, something like that. And then it takes away the fun from whatever you're actually doing. Like I've noticed that when I get in these like black holes of like constantly looking at my phone, even like,

I'm working or we're doing something and you're like, Hey, go grab a jump pack. And I'll like run over there and then I'll, I'll look at my phone quick and it just takes you out of the moment you're living in. And the worst part is, is that, I mean, I'll speak personally. I can't stop doing it. I know. Yeah. It takes you away from the moment so bad, whether it's really quick or for a long time. Well, you guys are whoop guys now, but do you think Mike having an Apple watch makes it better or worse for looking at your phone? Better.

because you, I'd say better because, yeah, again, you know, your phone doesn't light up when you're wearing your watch. Notifications come on your phone and then you know what you're getting. Whatever you're getting, you know what you're getting and you don't take your phone out and you also can't scroll Instagram or, you know, Facebook Marketplace. You can't do that on your watch so it's not going to make me do that anymore. Yeah, the issue with the whoop though is then you're just constantly checking your stats. Yeah, it's like gamifying. I mean, yeah. I like the whoop because it's like anything, dude. It just provides

provide stats to like your life.

for instance, and basically the way you're living. And then it gamifies trying to be healthier, which is good for you. You know what I'm saying? It's kind of like when you play Call of Duty at the end of the round, you know, or the game, you watch it go up a little bit. It gives you your points and how much more you need to get ranked up. I'd say it's kind of the same. Like that is what made Call of Duty addicting for me. For sure. This is kind of the same way. Like you're like trying to get better sleep. You're like trying to...

Figure out how to just be healthier. Yeah, with the sleep too, they do sleep debt. So if you get like, you know, seven hours of sleep one night, you're supposed to get... A little more. Let's just say seven hours and 45 minutes. And so then you're in debt 45 minutes. And then if it continues to like add up throughout the week, and then at the end of the week, you're in debt like three hours, four hours to your body. Yeah.

Then you can like, you know, sleep in a little bit, bring it back to, you know, where you're supposed to be at. I like that. That's interesting. I just think it's a big thing. Like everyone is trying to be healthier nowadays. Like it's seriously amazing. But just the Fitbits, the whoops, that even the Apple watch, like all these things that provide statistics and basically gamify life.

is contributing a pretty fair role to it. I feel what makes you interested and you can see it. Cause even if you were every day, you're like, okay, I'm going to go for a walk. But then when you can see your steps or your hour counter or whatever, it's like heads up. Yeah. That's nice dude. Today, this is very out of pocket for me. Cause considering I haven't done this in years,

two and a half years. I was just waiting. I didn't know there was a Vikings game today. I was waiting for you guys. I was like, man, I got pretty much everything I was doing done and I'm like, I'm going to go run a mile on the treadmill. We didn't have a treadmill. We didn't have it. Fuck. Yeah.

I went downstairs into the workout room, and I was like, oh, yeah, we used our treadmill for a stupid bit. You should have just ran outside. No, and then I thought about that. I'm like, well, I'm not going to go run outside. But I was just looking on Facebook Marketplace. Is it cool if I pick up another treadmill? A couple hundred bucks. Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, a good one, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Get a good one. Dude, Greta got a treadmill. I've told this. I guess she got a Peloton treadmill. Those things are, like, super dangerous. They're, like, all recalled. Really? Really?

Why? We got to call Greta. Oh, damn. She's on it right now. You better stop it right now. Oh, my gosh. Ben just throws his headphones off, sprints to his truck. A kid died on one, so they recalled all of them. How? Thank God, dude. Kids are dying from pop and soda and candy at an alarming rate, but a treadmill takes one out. He should have stayed on the couch and played video games. He was trying to ride his pit bike on the treadmill. No, he had it at full speed, and he just kept rolling.

He got pulled underneath it. And he ate it. Ate him up. Ate him. How old was he? That's super sad. Yeah, that is sad. He must have been really young. It doesn't say. But there's 87 other people who got injured from it. Wow.

Oh, my God. You know what, though? Dude, I'm not surprised one bit because me and my dad and I had to call in Justin to move this treadmill down my stairs, bro. It legit had to have weighed 500 pounds. Maybe not that much, but it was so heavy. It was a full three-man job. So heavy. So anyway...

Next time you want to run, Mike, you can just come to my house and use a treadmill. I got to have you sign the waiver. Yeah, of course. Obviously, you know, are you going to run on that treadmill too, Ben? I probably should. I don't know. We'll see. At some point, I have not used it yet, but I set it up.

like 14 minutes before i came here to film this so i have a pretty valid excuse today it was gnarly though i literally thought i was gonna have to call you guys in for back really is that big i was like this might be a five-man job my dad is like call everyone you know not that i've had to do it really at all but like there's something about me that just i don't want to call you guys to help me move stuff it's one thing if i'm like hey i just need help for five hours i'm

moving like everything out of there. That's one thing. Cause you either are going to be like, I mean, or I'm out for five hours. What if I'm like, Hey, I need to move a couch. Um, like the next time you're in Fargo, can we meet up? I get that. I'd help you. I know you would. I don't like asking for that stuff. It's because it's, I get what you're saying. And I've dealt with the same thing.

just moving into my house. It's because I ask so much of you guys every single day. I feel like you don't... Gotta draw the line somewhere. Yeah, you do actually. You don't owe me like one more thing, especially on your free time. Yeah, I agree. That's it. That is it. That's why I never ask you just because I'm like, getting some free time. I'm not trying to have them waste it using...

trying to help me, you know? Yeah. I feel bad too because I've called Justin a couple times, but he lives right by me. You owe him a case of beer. I do owe him a case and every time he comes over, I give him a hug and I go, bro, I am so sorry, but this is one heavy bitch, dude. Justin's at home right now icing his back. He helped me move my son up.

I swear, bro. The poor guy even got to use it? He lost so much trust in me after that one. Did you not tell him what he's moving before he comes over? I said, it's a sauna, but it shouldn't be that bad. Oh, yeah. That's for sure. It was gnarly. Well, I bet he's going to be pumped for your new safe. Oh, gosh. That's the cherry on top. It's a gun safe. Justin would legit block me. I've got this in-room 72 gun safe.

72 gun gun safe. Can you help me carry it down the stairs? I don't want to tear up the yard. We need to do it today because they're cementing the walls around it tomorrow. He's like, how big is this? So it's me, you, and who else? Just us. Oh, Gretel helps you out. Yeah, I go, Gretel. You're like, oh, Chris.

Yeah, that is crazy when people have to crane them in while they're building the house. I guess gun safety. That is cool. I was watching a Flair video, and he got a Mac Daddy safe, and they had to build it around the house around the safe. That's so baller. I don't know if it does, but that's got to essentially bring the value of the house up. Not a lot, but a little bit. I got a built-in massive safe. Can you get out of the safe if you were in it? Probably not. That's a good question.

Why are you asking? Well, I was thinking it could double as like a safe room. Oh, yeah. Oh. Oh, yeah. Well, obviously safe. But like a bunker room or like a tornado room or something like that, right? I feel like there should be if it's that big. It would make sense. What if like a breeze came and blew that door shut? Walked in there. You didn't have a phone. You were a single man. Yeah, that's a good question.

a good question. I think too if you go missing I guarantee if they came and checked out your house they wouldn't look in your safe. They don't know the code. That'd be a bad deal. Let's say they do get up to the safe and you weren't yelling at the time because you've been in there for 48 hours or whatever. That's what I'm saying. It's like a super nice safe so you're like

And they just look. Yeah, you're like, dude, I didn't need this fucking safe to begin with. You're like, what if a tornado rolls through, knocks out like all the cell towers, the power, and you get locked in there and like the house collapses around it? What do you do?

I don't know when you're just done. Man, shit, dude. I don't know. You probably do the same thing as the first scenario. Just sitting there. Does your house have a safe that you bought? Fuck no. Because like, well, yeah, what if the hypothetical person we're speaking of was trapped in there and then they just went, oh, yeah, he disappeared, but we can't get in the safe because he had a big code.

And then he's in your house. How long would you last? Oh, this is a great question. Horror, horror movie scenario. Let's say zombie apocalypse.

Not what are you doing? How long do you want to live? How long do I want to? I think about this a lot, actually. Every time I watch a scary movie. I think about this a lot. Like, if a zombie apocalypse comes, one, am I ready? Absolutely not. But two, do I even want to live? I would. I'd fight back. So you're a fighter. I'd see how long we could go for. And what are you doing? Where are you going? I'm doing something sick, dude. You'd be freaking traveling with other people that...

Are not infected yet And you'd be fucking Walking dead Yeah dude They don't make any movies About the people who quit They make them about the winners You just lay down Like what You just go find No I do something sick No I've just thought about You know like How prepared do you wanna be Oh

Oh, I guess I'm not going to be prepared for that. I'm not going to waste my time. Like, obviously, you're going to have the will to fight, you know, but like the doomsday preppers, like what state of mind are they in? Because like, you know, what's the volcano that if it erupts, the entire world is fucked? Yellowstone. Is that what it is? Straight up Yellowstone? It's straight up Yellowstone. Straight up Yellowstone. Okay.

This season on Yellowstone. Rip. Yellowstone's gonna explode. God damn it, John. If that volcano erupts, you go over the world, big boy. This is Jamie's work. This is Jamie's work. I'm gonna kill that bitch. I think, like, basically everybody...

I think everyone within 100 or 200 miles is just instantly dead. And then the ash cloud is going to pretty much cover the whole world. That's what I'm saying. Put me in the vaporization blast zone. If the whole world is going to be Antarctica for the next millennium,

Take me out, dude. Right. That's what I'm wondering. You could probably make it through that, though. You'd have some fucking gear. I got my monosuit on. Yeah. What kind of gear do you... What do you mean? I mean, if the whole world's going to be Antarctica, you just rebuild. Oh, you legit mean snow gear. Yeah. Yeah, you'd probably be all right, right? Yeah. I can't believe this dude's like, I'll give up. This is like half the... We spent half our life...

living in Minnesota. No, that's not the problem, dude. It would kill off like every life form, like every plant. And pretty soon you're living on just Twinkies. So we'd be fine. If you have it. Like the air outside wouldn't be safe to breathe. I don't have a goddamn Twinkies in here. Ryan's wearing his monosuit. Running around the world in my...

Jake and Dave are over there like, thank God we bought all this soup. Yeah. One of my dad's really good friends bought, I want to say 100 pounds of rice. Wow. Might even be more. 100 pounds of rice. How much soy sauce did he buy, dude? That's a good question. Better have some yum yum sauce. I didn't think about that, dude. A lot of rice. And then he bought like 15 ARs. Okay. Lucky. Because he's worried about what?

his neighbors coming over and asking him for rice. So word gets out that he's the only one that much rice. Yeah. I mean, you need guns. All right. So you guys got, there's a new movie ironically about this on Netflix called leave the world behind. Crazy. And yeah, it's good that they have a bunker in it and all that. I didn't love the ending, but worth the watch. Uh,

It's kind of what you said. It's like, yeah, I'm going to fight, but it's like, yeah, how much are you going to prepare? You might buy 15 ARs and a bunch of food and build a bunker, and you'll never see more than a dog trying to bite you, you know, as far as danger goes. So that'd be tough. But, yeah, I'd...

on the, what would I do? I would fight, but, uh, I wouldn't build a handle much emotionally. Let's say like I'm fighting and, and I, I have to watch like Ken gets like bit and we have to like watch him die. And then, and I,

and I have to watch everyone around me. You are stone cold. You would literally handle the best. I would just, I would after so much people around me dying, I would get really discouraged. And then like, that's what would, the emotionally like losing other people around you. If I had a good crew the whole time, I'd be like, we're fighting till the death. But it's the point of living. If like all your homies die, dude, I think a really good podcast would be with a doomsday prepper in his,

Bunker. They don't show those things off, dude. Someone might. Someone might. The right guy might. A flashy doomsday prepper. Looking for clout. The smart one. Yeah. Some of those guys can like straight up.

straight up live off of their food for like years like 50 years wow uh that was what i was going to say is that um this is more of a terrorist attack and the whole plan of the terrorist attack was to turn the country into a civil war which i am i don't know that was the interesting part is it wasn't even a terrorist attack it was the u.s oh it was okay the

But yeah, like I don't like to think about that happening, but I mean, it kind of is. It's like when someone's in rough shape, like I bring CJ over to the neighbors and the neighbor's like,

Get off my lawn. I'm trying to save me and my family. Like, even though you've known him for 10 years, like just everyone was cut throat. And then you might get someone that wandered their way from three miles away. That's just like, well, let's just kill whoever. Cause I, I feel like living. Yeah. That terrifies me is people turning on each other just to survive. Makes a guy wonder, you know, that's what I'm saying. That's, that's my hot take.

The world starts ending. It's not like the gradual, you know, like, oh, you can maybe make it through, but freaking zombie apocalypse style, like shit's going south. It's not good. You're one of like a couple thousand people left. I'm like, come on, dude. Let's rob a plane, go skydiving, no parachute style. Like, let's go out with a bang. Hey.

I'm not trying to fight off zombies and live in a bunker for my whole life. And I'm sorry if that's a hot take and not the correct answer, but I'm not trying to live in a bunker my whole life. No, I don't want to live in a bunker. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Fucking Yellowstone goes off. You can't go outside because the whole world is noxious. Noxious. It is toxic. That's a little different. Toxic fumes. Because it is toxic. So you'd have to stay in a bunker. So like you literally have to stay in there. But for the like zombie thing, I.

I personally take the worst route and stay in the bunker. If I don't have to risk dying every day... There you go. You guys can eat me then. I'll sacrifice myself for y'all. Really makes you think. Man, I've been watching some heaters lately on Netflix. I feel like I'm so many...

Good shows behind. Yeah. Same. Do you guys have like that list that you put in your notes when someone tells you about a good show and you've got this list like infinitely long of the shows that you could never watch, but you know, you're sitting at dinner with somebody or drinks and they're like, you got to watch Bodies. Yeah, for sure. That sounds great. And then you never, never watch Bodies. Ryan, you are my list. Every time that I finish a show, I go, what should I watch? I'm going to ask Ryan. This dude knows everything.

You are so well-diversed on what shows you do watch, and you'll know which ones I would like. For sure. I do appreciate that. It goes back to what you were saying earlier about being on your phone during a movie. Me and Greta started a series the other day, and she was reading a book on the first episode. And then get to the second one and go, what's going on? Get this. Get this. Dude, get this.

I'm actually fired up about this. She was reading her book, right? And I go, are we not watching this then? And she was like, I'm just reading my book. Uh,

Like, you can keep watching this. We've been traveling. I download all these episodes. I'm three seasons in. Oh, man. And Greta comes to me last night and goes, should we keep going? We should watch Suits. I go, I've been watching Suits. We're too deep. I'm on the third episode. The third season. The third season. And she was like...

We were watching that together. And I was like, no, we weren't. We were not watching that together. You read a book the entire first episode. Similar scenario where I'm watching the movie. I'm like, this is... I'm liking this movie. It's actually that movie I was just talking about. But I'm liking this movie. And then Sydney was on her phone and halfway through she goes, can we watch something else? And I'm like, yeah, sure. No problem. I'll finish it later. And then...

I'm like, I had to watch half of it and get into it the whole time and turn it off. Alondra will do this thing when she gets bored with a show. She'll just search up the ending or if it's really scary. We'll just Google the ending. I'm like, why?

Why do that to yourself? It's good for her. So I'm like, just don't tell me, let me live through this moment. But I'm always like, why did you just Google the end of the movie that we've been waiting to see for a long time? Yeah. Or like on Netflix, you can like scroll through the episodes and then like read them and then, and then you can like get, you know, keep going season to season. They don't give you much, but they still give you enough to like,

You know, spoil what you're watching it for. For sure. And I was like, what's the point? Well, it's just like the teaser. It's tough. But yeah, I agree. Whenever I'm downloading them for the plane, I like try not to read them. Yeah. Just click the things. Same for that. That squid game show I was just talking about, the game show that they did. Someone, like a news article, posted that the winner hadn't gotten her money yet. And then everyone's just like, bro. Yeah.

you just outed the wind like because the episode hadn't quite dropped oh yeah everyone's like oh oh i really like it dropped maybe the same time they released it but people didn't have time to watch it and you're like oh all right so i put out on our story a few weeks ago on the life wide open podcast instagram had some people voice memo in if they needed some advice so this is fun wow i love this this one's from weston hackbarth dude this is like a radio show

What do I do if I'm riding my dad's brand new sled around the yard? I try to drift it and I slide it into a tree and it takes out both the skis. Do I call him while he's at work and tell him that I crashed his brand new sled? Or do I try to fix it before he gets home?

That's tough. You order the parts and then you call them. Well, first off, you're not going to fix it if you took out the whole front end. I love trying to drift the sled because if you kind of know, snowmobiles don't really drift. And when you try to drift them, they end up going, tipping over and whatnot. But yeah, I guess if we learned anything trying to hide your mistake from your parents, you

Rarely, rarely ends well. If it were me, I'd like do what I could to order every part that I need and then be like, I broke it.

I don't know if I'm capable of fixing it, but I ordered the parts already. I feel like in any situation like that, you got to come clean. You're not getting anywhere no matter what you do by trying to lie or hide your way out of it. I definitely wouldn't call him at work. I'd just wait until he gets home and be like, listen, I messed up, and I'm going to take full responsibility for it. I'm going to try and pay for whatever damages I can, if not all of it. One thing in this day and age, a new snowmobile, pfft.

It ain't cheap. Fuck no. 15 plus. So, like, that could be a factor, too. It's easy to total a slide out, too. Here's one from Dylan. Yo, boys. Yeah. Scenario for you. So, I know you guys kind of live in a small town and had some success. Just wondering kind of how you deal with other people's opinions or how people look at you. Does that stuff get to you or not really? All right. Peace.

It's a good question. That is, yeah. I mean, we definitely deal with that. There's some haters for sure. And I'd say general consensus, we don't let it get to us. Yeah, we don't even care. But that doesn't mean that it never does. Yeah, or never has. Yeah, yeah. It's funny though because you don't see your haters until you have like a little bit of a bobble and then they come out and they're like, oh, I knew they would fail or like this. So it's...

It is always interesting to see, you know, like the people that actually have your back. If shit goes south for an instance, those are the real ones. But like any small town, like you're going to have like the small minded people that like they clearly don't want to leave the small town and they don't get what you're doing. And they want to just almost like hold you down. I think you're going to have that literally anywhere that you go.

I think the less that you like give a fuck actually what they think as long as like you're okay with what you're doing. Like if you're not confident in what you're doing, then you're going to let other people's opinions like get to you. But like when we first started making videos, I think back to it and like I can't believe that like we didn't care about...

about what anyone said or like thought watching these like videos back because it's like most people's opinions were pretty valid like it was like you know stupid or like cringy and like at the time it's like we didn't care and like didn't let that affect us one bit and we were so stoked on it

But, yeah, I mean, there was plenty of haters. There's still... So, like, here's an example. I'm not going to out the restaurant, but there's an owner of a restaurant that we eat at frequently. And he's never said anything to our face, but he talks shit about us to other people. And they've told us, you know, yeah, he's always saying whatever about you guys. And, like, from my understanding, he's just saying, like, oh, yeah, those guys are...

and it's like they're doing all the, you know, whatever. But there's plenty of stuff he said. But we don't care. And we still even go there and eat all the time. In fact, my plan was next time I see him, just because I've been hearing more and more, is I'm going to eat and I'm going to go up. And when I'm walking, I'm going to be like, hey, it was great as always. Appreciate you guys. You know, just like to kill him with kindness. Because I'm sure he probably doesn't know that I hear that he's talking shit about us. But yeah, so anyways.

I mean, you just can't care. That's probably the bottom line on it. It's easier said sometimes than done, but you really do. You just got to focus on whatever you're doing. Dude, the only people hating are people that are below you. Very true. Like nobody's ever like hating on someone lower than them. You know, like the people winning aren't like,

like making fun, you know, like talking down. Yeah. Or they're scared because you're coming for them. Yeah. Yeah. That's the only other reason I guess. But yeah, true. But yeah, I was going to say we use this line as a joke and as a real thing. Um, if some, if one of the boys is like screwing some, something up, they're doing, you know, Ben and I might look at each other and go, some people just don't get it, man. But then we also use that as a real term, you know, someone's hating or like, dude, some people just don't get it. Don't get what you're doing. Yeah. It is funny though. How the tides always turn.

Especially in moments of... The bobble, I like what you're saying. Yeah, like the bobble or when stuff isn't going right. That's when they like the quick... Yeah, then you see their true colors. Let's hear another one. I just graduated three months ago, high school. I've been working 50 hours a week full time as a technician at a Ford dealership. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing with my life.

My dream was what you guys have. I grew up as a kid always doing YouTube videos. Stopped doing it because everybody told me it was unrealistic. And now I'm trying to join the army and I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing with my life. It's kind of going to shit and I don't know what to do, honestly. I haven't been able to get a girlfriend or nothing. I've been single. My ex cheated on me one night. Long story short, I don't know what I'm doing. Love you guys. That's tough. Dude, my advice to him is like,

99% of the world doesn't know what the fuck they're doing. But this guy's actually doing something. He's working 50 hours a week. He wants to go into the military. Both of those are extremely honorable. It sounds like he wants to make YouTube videos, but he's thinking he should go into the military because he doesn't know what he's doing. But you're right. Most people don't know what the fuck they're doing. We don't know what the fuck we're doing half the time, but we just figure it out as we go. And I think that is...

actually the biggest thing is figuring it out as you go. It's very easy to be like, oh, I don't know what to do, and then you just stand still. Nothing happens. But if you're like, well, I'm going to figure it out as I go, and you just start, then you can at least get the ball rolling. It might be a slow roll at first or whatever, but at least you're doing something. But still, yeah, there's literally –

nothing wrong with what you're already doing. Exactly. I mean, working as a technician 50 hours a week, um, or going into the military, like both those great jobs, man. Like there's nothing wrong with that. But if you truly want to be a YouTuber, uh,

I would say that you should probably maybe keep working, but also start doing YouTube on the side and start evolving and building as a YouTuber. Just start. Start making videos and then focus on making the videos better and just study YouTube and figure out... Don't listen to...

Don't listen to the haters, man. Listen to the haters a little bit. And yeah, they could sit there and talk shit and say all that stuff. But if you're already doing a job, you can say, well, this is my hobby. I like doing this. Because if you actually do like doing it, that'll be the true testament. It doesn't happen overnight. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. We worked this and another job for, what, like three, four years? Three or four years. We were doing both, you know? Like working here at night.

printing shirts editing till two in the morning and then going to work the next day and and or school or whatever you were in but also it's not as glamorous as like you would think that it would be like it's not easy no it's like becoming i guess what's your pinnacle success like youtuber would be it's not like you're gonna have everything figured out you're not gonna have no more money problems you're gonna be working way more than you already are right now uh you're

You're probably going to be thinking about it all the time. You're going to be thinking about it all the time. You're probably still going to have relationship issues because you won't even have time for one. Yeah, that's for sure. It's not always better on the other side of the fence. The grass isn't always greener. Truly, there's a lot of differences, but the only real difference is you're working for yourself. Other than that, the work doesn't get any easier. Yeah, I'd say that's probably the most glamorous side. It's like being able to do what you want, make your own decisions. But as far as like...

feeling like you've like made it or like it's you're happier because you're now a YouTuber. Like that's not, that's not the case. I think it's just doing whatever you want to be doing. And also that's a good thing to mention, not trying to discourage you from doing it, but behind the video that you watch each week on YouTube, there is so much more work and thought that goes into making these things happen than what you see. Yeah.

So like, and not trying to discourage you and you'll, you'll learn that as you start going, if you want to make good videos and videos that are getting, you know, high views, there's a lot more that goes into it than just being funny on camera when it's rolling. Yup. And, and the last thing I'll add this, obviously his kind of goal is to not be a technician at the Ford dealership. However, that among many other, like when you're working for someone else, it is worth working,

walking the walk. So proving yourself with the work you do, it is worth saying to your higher ups that I'm working, like I want a promotion, you know, walking and saying, I want a promotion. But yeah, uh, I think I forgot to do that too. Like, uh, you just, when you're working for someone else there, the boss is rarely ever going to come to you and say, Hey, I want to pay you more. It just doesn't happen. So that's a big part too. Like if you,

If you think you're working hard and can show you're working hard, it's not insane to ask your boss for a raise. And hit up our boy Ken because he's got a squeaky roof that he really needs fixed. They're supposedly almost done. Oh, and it's Bronco. Oh, yeah, yeah. All right. One more? Yeah, yeah. It says, okay, this is a sticky one. We can't mention any names here because it's going to stay anonymous.

But what would happen or how can I solve this issue if I potentially fucked my best friend's ex-girlfriend? That actually goes back. Punch him in the face. Next one.

No, he already did it. He's going to get punched. To be honest, every situation is different. That's a different situation. We don't know what his friend's like, if he's a hothead or if he's a chiller. Yeah, and what their relationship was like. How long have they been broken up for is a big thing. As he moved on from her, I mean, definitely hate to say it, man, but not a bro move. But, I mean...

there's nothing wrong with being sorry about it and, and coming clean for sure. You know, I, this is going to be a lot better coming from you. Cause that otherwise she's going to hold that over. That's true. Somebody else figures out from somebody else. It'll probably come out. Yeah. Unless you're lucky. So then, I mean, if you, if you don't say anything and then it comes out definitely much worse than just coming clean. But if it's like a lot of time has passed, it's,

Man, that is a sticky one. Man, if he's got an inkling that you did it and you did, and he's going to like, it'll just never be the same. So you'd be better off just coming clean. Godspeed, brother. Yep. I'm enjoying these. I'm talking to a girl. I already met her parents and it's only been a week, but I'm not completely sure if I like her and I'm going off to college. So...

I don't know. And I feel bad if I break things off with her after I just met her parents. Man, if you're not feeling that, just end it now, man. As far as going into college, if he's not head over heels, can't stop thinking about her. Yeah, it doesn't get any easier. Let her down easy, soldier. Or you could just let it kind of play out and see where it goes. I mean, to me, it's not that big of a deal. But I guess it's different and situational. Me and this girl's parents...

Especially if you're in high school and you went over to her house to hang out and you were like, hey, not that big of a deal. It's only been a week. That's nothing. I wouldn't let the parents hang up your decision like that. I've heard that before and people are like, oh yeah, I met the parents right away and I'm like, oh yeah, around here we just call that normal.

You know, like hanging out. Yeah. Like going. Yeah. Nice to meet you. And then, yeah, yeah. I don't think they, I think maybe if you were older, let's say you lived in a different city and you meet this girl, you go out at the restaurant and then you go to her hometown and like meet him and eat dinner. Like that's much more official. But like, if you just, you know, it depends on how you met him, which sounds like it was pretty casual. One week is nothing. And they're in high school. Dude's just like, dude's just like,

I don't want to be with her, but I already met her parents. So I'm going to have to marry her. Just spends the rest of his life because one week. But as parents meet him and they're like, that dude's a fucking idiot. Yeah, who knows? Maybe they're hoping it doesn't work out. And the worst part was they were kind of mean to me. Yeah. I mean, obviously it's a tough spot, but I feel like you do a lot of maturing and growing in college and it wouldn't be the worst time.

To be single or start a new chapter in your life. It's situational. It's situational. Who knows what's going on? Maybe we're going to read that and they're like, we got married 10 years later. I don't know, man. But I wouldn't let the parents, that's the best advice. I wouldn't let the parents hold up your decision. Just see where it plays out, man. You two do your thing. Don't take it too serious and see where it goes. Mm-hmm. No need to make a solid, like, right now decision, but...

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