How Ryan Almost Went To Jail
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Welcome back, man. You were on the first one, and now you took a little two-episode hiatus. Yeah.

You got some heat for the first episode. Everyone was so getting after you because apparently you didn't say enough for them. Dude, this is hard. It's a little intimidating being up here. People are just like, yeah, just speak. And you're like, no, I don't want to interrupt anybody or, like, talk over, which everybody else was mad about too. So I was like, damn, sorry. Did you feel like you had stuff to say and you didn't want to talk over it or what? Because the rest of us were talking over each other. And I say that because, like,

if you have something to say around here, if you don't speak up and say it at like the right time, it is, it is timing, you know, you're going to just get run over. That's what I think I was worried about was not have, or not saying it at the right time. Definitely did definitely have things I wish I'd brought up, but,

but we got more podcasts. Luckily for you, we have plenty of things for you to talk about today because you're kind of on the hot seat. Fuck, this is my hot seat. Oh, is this Ryan's hot seat? No one told me either. Wait, wait, wait. It's not that big of a deal. It's still going to be a normal episode, but you are slightly on the hot seat. We're going to grill you a little bit. And...

You know, just get a nice charbroil on you. Well, Ken got tons of clout for the last one. We did extend the invite to have him back. You know, Ken, you did really well. But he was like, nope, that's all I can handle. Are you done? Are you one and done? Well, no. Are you a one-pump chump? One-pod chump? One-pod chump, baby.

This is Ryan's moment to shine, though. Yeah, Ken doesn't want to overshine Ryan. The way he said, I'll be back, made me scared and excited. We got a guest on here, Tint. Tint, get out of here. What the fuck? Since my first podcast is jumping in here, I left you guys a little gift underneath the tables here. Oh, my gosh. Why do I not see it? It's literally under the table. It's literally under it.

Holy frick, Tint! I was wondering! Me too? What? I was in on the joke! He said you guys. Tint, that was phenomenal, man. That was good. Are we going down on a knee? The boys are buzzing. Let's do this. Let's do this. Hey, no early starts. Ken? You got a timer? Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Hold up. Ken! Ken! Chill. Chill. Chill. Go. I'm practicing!

Holy crap. Wow. Oddly enough, I was actually planning on going into this podcast not drinking. I've been trying to lay off the booze during the week. I think my brain operates a little bit more. Also, I have another theory on this. And it's not the week for the record. I feel. I mean, it's Friday. It is, yeah. How is that going for you, Ben?

So far, which part? The not drinking thing. Honestly, up until five o'clock on today, Friday, you're doing pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Okay. I have a, I have a theory actually about the not drinking part going into the weekends. If we like let loose on a Friday, cause we're a Friday night and Saturday. Cause we usually film on Sundays. Um,

Recently, it's kind of been off the ball on Sundays even though. So lately, we've been filming way more Saturday afternoons than ever. Yeah, that's true. So kind of letting loose on Saturday nights and then Sundays.

Do you feel like you're more refreshed on Mondays? Dude, I never go on Mondays. Being that you had a fun weekend and you were able to kick back and relax? Excuse me. I don't. Do you guys? Or Monday, you're like, ah. It's like taking... Monday's almost like a waste day where it takes your brain some time to turn back on. Yeah, lately I almost feel like if we were to do something, and we totally could, if we were to film on Sundays, I think I'd feel better on Mondays. Yeah.

Every Sunday, like I used to work at Zorba's and like every single Sunday they have their Sunday Funday and like literally 19 people call me and text me and they're like, you got to come on Sunday. I'm like, I just went out all weekend. Like, I don't know what to tell you. And like, I don't normally, but then when I do, I hate my life on Mondays. And then did you say no this Sunday? Yeah. Did you say no this Sunday? No. That's why I said I don't normally do it. But then I did do it this Sunday. What time do you show up to work?

Two. You know, to circle back to your question, Ben, going into Monday, dude, when we take the weekends off, we don't rest. We just like turn up the dial and don't film anything and everyone goes wild. And I go into Monday like with like the freaking Monday scaries, dude. I'm like, holy shit. I have so much stuff I need to do. Yeah, that's a great point. Actually, Monday scaries because we almost put off. There's a million people.

wanting a video this week and i gotta either come up with more stuff to put into that video edit the one that we already have film like it's just it's a lot i mean it's pretty uh i do i definitely have anxiety when monday comes and it's because we just hit it so hard on the weekend but i mean i don't know i feel like people like us that spend so much time working like we we work and

Although it doesn't look that way from the outsider's perspective, we work a lot more than pretty much 99.9% of people that we know. I feel like you're more, like, tended to go and booze hard, you know? Like, people that work hard play hard, too. Yeah, exactly. And it's just constantly, like, brainwashing.

burning the candle at both ends is what my mom tells me. Oh, yes. My mom says that too. Same. I was just thinking about this today, actually. And people always go, oh, man, it must be so nice to pick your own hours. You don't have a boss, all that. Quite the opposite. One, like today, it is 5.08. Yeah.

On Friday. And we're just sitting down to start the podcast. And Ryan gets really, really upset. I do. He does. I totally do. We'll probably talk about that later. I'm a psycho. No, I mean, that's not the point. But I do remember reading something. This is just a quick quote. It was like, yo, I traded my 9-to-5.

Good for you for my, I'm self-employed now. Now I work all the time. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. Yeah. I traded my nine to five to a 5am to 9pm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So back to what you said, Ryan, would you rather have a boss that told you you got to be here at 9am and you can leave at five? Um, no, I definitely wouldn't want to have like someone telling me what I have to do, which is tough because we all tell each other what we have to do, but like we're all in it together. Um, yeah.

I would rather work later and start earlier and do all that to build something that's like ours. But some days, like, it sucks. Some weekends we're filming, we're like, yep, let's get up at 8 a.m. so we can go to Vinny's, which is, like, fun. Of course, we're like, oh, yeah, we have to take our Mustang mudding thing. But, like, you have something that's, like, planned. Or we might just go, yeah, we got to film on Saturday. I think unpredictability matters.

is sometimes hard for me. So then when we're like, yeah, we might film on Saturday. I don't know though. But even when you go to like film those fun things for say Vinny's, it is still stressful because it's like, okay, like do we get shots of this? Like, is this turning out? Like, what do we need to do to make this more entertaining for the viewer? Yeah.

Are we doing a great job explaining this? Like, you are working. Yeah, definitely. It is fun, though. It is fun, but... Or it's like when we were water skipping. We're all in the boat. Ben's recording. I'm recording on a second camera. Ken's flying the drone, and Ryan's driving. We don't even have time to necessarily be like, dude, this is so sick. You know, we're all locked in. Although, it is super sick, and we were having a lot of fun. But, you know, execute the job. We got to make sure...

that we stay grateful to that and like understand that if you had to go do something else, I guarantee you if like, let's just say you had to go and find another job and you started working at, let's say a bank, you were going to be a teller at a bank. You would fucking do that the first day you'd get halfway through back. Yeah.

Regret. Why didn't I work harder? Why didn't I work harder? I do not like this. I miss the hard times that I had doing what we're doing right now. So you got to make sure you keep that perspective. Totally. It's definitely all perspective on stuff like that, I feel like. You kind of get inside of something and it's hard to like appreciate all the things. But then when you look at it on the outside, then you're like, damn, that is. We get so jaded to like everything. Exactly. It's like terrible. Yeah.

I just bought a new car. You guys will see it on the next video of Seaboys TV. But, like, I've wanted this car for my whole life. And I was super, super excited. And, like, I finally fucking got it. And I get in and I drive it. And, like, the next day I was, like, driving. I was like, hey, cool. Yeah, I mean, like, I feel a little bit happier. But I feel like after a certain threshold, you only can increase so much.

And, like, we just live this, like, dopamine ride, which is terrible. That's not how you're supposed to live. It's true. And it's just, like, diminishing returns as time continues to go on. Ben and I were talking about that, though, on our way out because we were just in town. We had an hour-long drive back here before the podcast. We were talking about just, like,

Making sure we don't lose that appreciation for things because it is very easy to get jaded. We move fast. Things are constantly evolving, constantly moving. There's so many things going on here. And just appreciating what you have. I think this can go both ways too then. So I'm talking about the group. As a group, we get a lot of toys. If Ryan buys something...

I get to experience that. Right. So, so if, uh, Ben buys his C8 Corvette, like I'd never even seen one in person. Uh, maybe a couple, but anyway, I was super stoked. And now, uh, I get to experience everything. C8. I can ask him for a ride if he wants, if I want to drive it, he'll probably let me drive it, but it can go the other way too, where you get that C8. And then I'm like, cool. I've, I've experienced everything I would ever want to about a C8. I've ridden in it, you know, all that. Yeah. Um, like anything that we, that we buy, uh,

It doesn't just come down to you. That's so true. Anytime you guys make a move, I get to experience the upsides and the downsides of it. You almost experience everything five times. Yeah. Which is so interesting, the line of work that we're in, how easy it is to justify... Anything. Anything. Making, like...

like really extreme purchases like that, that honestly most people could never justify until they have like enough passive income to, uh, you know, cover their expenses of it. You know, people talk about that a lot when they're like, Oh, don't buy a, uh,

until your passive income can pay for it. But for us, it's like, it makes, it literally, it doesn't make sense to have money in the bank because let's say I have a hundred grand in the bank that, that hundred grand is making me zero money or whatever. The bank is like 0.008%. But, you know,

I go out and spend $100,000 on a car. Well, then I immediately have off of the cuff five videos. And then that could make a return of $30,000 or something like that. And it keeps the ball rolling. And then it keeps the ball rolling, growing the brand. You could make more than that, honestly. Hi, I'm Angie Hicks, co-founder of Angie. And one thing I've learned is that you buy a house, but you make it a home.

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I have fully done things around the home that I think look good and then a bang in the night and I wake up to a shelf collapsing, a painting falling off the wall. Like it, I've seen it all go south. I own a home and I can tell you, I know how much work it can take. Whether it's everyday maintenance and repairs or making dream projects a reality, it can be hard just to know where to start. But now all you need to do is Angie that and find a skilled local pro who will deliver the quality and expertise you need.

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Which is interesting because... Way to go, Jamie. Jamie's back on his shit after Ryan was up in the bar. So...

Me and Ryan actually had that conversation a couple weeks back. About his jet ski. This is the one time it didn't work out. Yeah. You fucked me. I'm sitting there like, you know what? Let's talk about the jet ski. Okay, so me and Ryan are in the truck.

And I don't know how it came up, but I was just like, I want to buy a Lamborghini. So I kind of told Ryan. I planted that idea in Ryan's head where I was just like, you know what? Blow your money. We're in such a weird position. Blow your money. Like recklessly. Not in that termage, but it kind of came off like that, right? Can I just say one thing before you step in?

Not blowing all of your money. You still have money in your bank. But yeah, you're recklessly spending a lot of money. The line that stuck with me that Ben says, he goes, yeah, man, it's honestly selfish of you to have money to save your money. That's what he said. He said, it's selfish. Not of me or of anybody who goes, it's selfish of you to save your money and just hold on to it. And I go, fucking dick.

And I go, yeah, you're right. It is. And I go, I've always wanted a stand-up jet ski. Fuck it. Yeah. If there's one on Facebook, I'm buying it. I'm going to buy the best, most expensive one I can find. It was literally the best, most expensive one in the tri-state area. And it has disappointed me.

He rode it for two hours. Yeah. About that. And it's costed you so much money in repairs and it's not even fixed yet. I've only ridden it for the video. Everyone goes, well, you get the backflip yet? I'm like, no, it broke during the video and I have not ridden it since. So like two days later, Ryan goes out and spends 14 grand on a standup jet ski. That was supposed to be like the best standup jet ski of all time. That thing's a piece of shit. We basically put it in the water.

And from the first five minutes, we were like, there might be something wrong with this thing. I still don't know if there was. I don't think there was. Maybe not. Maybe we were just idiots. I don't know, man. The way it looked. I know everyone's like, you're wrong, CJ. You didn't ride it. But, like, I was looking at it, and I was watching him ride it, and I was listening to it. And I was watching the videos. I was like, this one doesn't seem like something's right about it. Sure enough.

It looked great. It did look great. We convinced Ryan to try and backflip it. Well, yeah, I was like, let's go into that a little bit. Okay, so everyone watching our videos, right, they're going to expect you to do a backflip in the first video or maybe shortly after that. Because it's like a stand-up backflip jet ski. So it's like, and if I were in Ryan's shoes, I just remember being like, ah, I would hate this right now. I was like, I don't want to.

We've ridden a stand-up for, what, collectively an hour. They're hard to ride, and then it's just like, cool, so you're going to backflip it in this video? And Ryan's like, well, probably have to. At least try. That was the vibe, and that's another hardship of making content. It really is. I would never personally buy a backflip jet ski just because I know then I'd have to fucking backflip it. Exactly. So there was that. And I don't want to do that. You're smart. It's like buying a fast car. You buy a fast car, everyone's going to want to see how fast it is.

And then, boom, you're in jail. Or, boom, you fucking sunk your jet ski in and it sucked up a bunch of water and it corroded the internals because you didn't know there was a bunch of water in there. And now you have three grand into the new motor and it's not even done yet. What is going on with your jet ski now? What's the overall...

Okay. Well, it got water in it and I knew that's bad. So I tried to start it and then trying to start it so much, drain the battery, the low voltage on the battery took out the ECU. So then the ECU broke. So I had to get a fricking ECU from Australia. Then the ECU from Australia comes after like three weeks and

So then water has been sitting in the engine for three weeks. So then I try to start it, get it running. You heard it. And I was like, yes, this is great. Put it all back together. Won't start. I'm like, what the heck? We tear it apart. Turns out it was the entire inside of the engine was rusted and had rocks and it was just a total mess.

So it's now fully broken, new crank, new pistons, new cylinders, everything. I will say I've never seen the inside of a motor rusted like that. With 45 minutes on it. Yeah. So dumb. So anyway, $2,500 later, I should have enough parts to get it running again. Yeah, man. That sucks. That's when like a...

You know, that's the domino effect of one conversation going really sound. One time, though, it has actually kind of not worked out. Normally, when we make the dumbest purchases, we can justify buying this shitty fake Lamborghini. Because it is shitty. I'm not going to say how much money, but that first Lamborghini video made...

It paid for the fake Lamborghini. And then... And then Ken uploads it to Facebook, and the Facebook one makes $10,000. Yeah, that's insane. I'll say that. The Facebook made...

15,000. We're Facebookers now. Didn't even know that you could make money on Facebook. Everyone's in the comment section. You guys are so fucking dumb. All this, I was like, I already knew it was going to. No one buys a fake Lamborghini. Especially at that price. Let's keep that in mind too. But it was so on par for our brand. But yeah, it worked out and it unfolded. And now it's like anything we do with it is just straight profit. And every time we use it.

It's like a million view video. We can justify the dumbest investment. We can make an investment out of damn near anything as long as you can make it entertaining. Yeah, that's the best part about our lives. Lately, we haven't been so destructive. Like I know we did that with the Amazon stuff and before that. That stuff was cheap in the grand scheme of things. But you'll get people that are like, wow.

Like, you buy it just to destroy it. And then I'm like, well, obviously you don't get it. If you get it, just be entertained by the video and just understand that we're making it back. You know, but like... Dude, why do people care?

I remember we got an email about the chairs. Like, chair smashing is our thing, bro. Yeah, that was ridiculous. Let's talk about this. We're known for smashing every white plastic chair in sight. We've smashed probably coming up 500 to roughly 1,000. Bro, that's so high. That is way more than... We've probably smashed like 150.

We bought, like... When we went to go buy $200 for Randy, we came home with, like, $50. Okay. Yeah.

We've bought... We've broken... All right, for story's sake, let's just... We've broken a million chairs. I don't know how many chairs we've broken, but we've broken more white plastic chairs than probably anyone else in the world. Because I don't know why anyone else would do this. But we've broken all these plastic chairs. Some mom writes this book of an email, sends it to us, and it's talking to us about...

we are setting such a bad example for kids breaking the white plastic chairs and then how it's filling up the landfills with plastic and like

we're starting this trend of breaking them, which is only going to add more plastic to it. And I was like, holy shit. I didn't, I didn't think about that. But also I think that lady was giving us too much credit. It's a, yeah. I don't think anyone else is going out doing that, but also like it's a white plaster. It's going to end up in the garbage anyways. Out of everything we do that. Imagine the demand for white plastic chairs increase so strongly that we are affected. We're affecting single handedly infecting the environment.

If that's one of those things, you got to choose your battles. We are that influential over the plastic chair market. That shit was funny. And I bet your kid watches. The kid probably doesn't even know. Because if they care that much to email us... If your mom's a caring bitch, they could have been hurt. Jesus. Sorry. Let's move on. Ryan. Ryan. You are in the hot seat. So... Ryan's like, am I? How do you...

When did you become such a psycho? I knew this was coming, dude. I just didn't think it was coming this fast. I didn't know where he was going with it, but it was such a subtle lead-in. I mean, you might as well ask it right out of the bat. Dude, I don't know. I don't know how I became this. I've tried everything. Do you ever heard caffeine makes you angry? I cut out Mountain Dews. How hard did you try that, though?

When was the last time you saw me drink a Mountain Dew? As soon as Ryan found out that the Mountain Dews weren't crediting to his psychoness. You want to know something, though? Ryan is the nicest guy you'll ever meet. If you get him ticked off in the right way...

You do snap. Hold up. So what else did you try and cut out, though, before we completely ditch that one? Like, what else did you think it could be? I tried cutting out TV at night. He tried integrating more jerking off. Were you Googling this?

Yeah, you just Google why am I irritable. Oh, that's a great word. Okay. Yeah, and that's what I feel like it is. But still. The caveat to me, you said I'm a nice guy, which I would like to think is true. You are. You're debatably, I mean, next to Micah. If I had a new friend, which I never have a new friend, but let's say I did have one.

I'd bring them around, and I know you two would be easily the most nice and friendly towards them and treat them the best. Not saying these guys wouldn't, but you're going to go the extra mile. Yeah, I could agree with that. I don't know why I am the way that I am, but I'm really nice. I'm nice to people that I don't know. You could literally hit me with your car. You could hit me with your car, and I'm like, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have been...

In the park, you know, whatever. You are that kind of guy. You say sorry. I'm sorry. Yeah. But then people that are nice to me and love me like my friends, the people I work with, those are the people I'm going to ask for. I don't know why. I wouldn't go that far. I wouldn't say that you're an asshole. But we also kind of push your buttons. So we do ask for it.

Yeah, but not like really because you guys are never like that. Bunch of dicks. I don't know. Everybody's the same to everybody, I will say. Everyone gets their own shit. You know what's funny, though, is when we're picking on Ryan, that's not what pisses him off. It's like when I'm picking on Ken, that's what pisses him off. And things are getting way out of hand or like they're getting off schedule. It's kind of like.

Like at the bachelor party when they were wrestling on the dock fighting, whatever. And you were, you were pretty mad about that. Why were you mad? Why were you so mad?

He's causing a scene. And then my first instinct is go. I wasn't that mad. Totally was. Totally was. I think it was because I was like, all right, guys, you've been doing this for like since Ken woke up. Like it had been like two hours. 10 in the morning till about noon. Yeah. Till about noon. It was Justin's bachelor party. I just wanted to go on the lake. I was getting off schedule in my brain. I was like, let's go. Let's go. I want to get out.

drink whatever and then I don't know I was like alright just quit and I think it was a little bit like we were filming I was like oh it's Justin's bachelor party I don't know if he's upset talk to him he was totally fine but I was like

I don't know. I just was like sick of it in the moment. And I was like, stop. And then shortly after you guys did. But God damn, then I watch it in the video. It was hilarious. And then it was hilarious. Ryan is super duper nice, like 90% of his entire life or more, whatever. We stretch the psycho thing.

Yeah, we definitely do. But basically, it's the person that just is super nice until they just snap. And it's not like a bad snap, like he's going to fucking shank somebody. You're just like, bro, like it just boils over and then it happens. And so, honestly, one, it's almost nice to expect that to happen, but we expect it so much that we obviously clown on it. Sometimes I can tell. That is the thing. We...

make it seem like it's more than it is, which I think we've almost convinced you that you're more of a psycho than you are just by calling you like our resident psycho. I think you've got my girlfriend freaked out. Stuff like that. She's like waiting. Stuff like that. Is he going to hit me? We haven't been dating that long and like...

We really haven't gotten into anything. And she's like, you're always so nice. Why does everyone say that you're a psycho? And I'm like, I am, but I'm not. I don't know really how to explain it. I will say Alondra is like your kryptonite. You are just the happiest guy around her.

You are. You're always very happy. But you're not even faking it. You're not faking it. No, no, no. He's just genuinely happy. They're in, like, their own little world no matter what's going on, which is... It's beautiful to see. I love seeing it. So she's worried, huh? I mean, she's... I'm sure... She has asked. She's like, are...

You're going to... Are you going to go psycho on me? It's like one of her kinks. Like she's asking for it. Go psycho on me. No, baby, you don't want that. Trust me. And we're over here like, trust me, you don't want that. Does that piss you off when we call you a psycho? It definitely probably makes you more mad.

I wouldn't make you react to it, though. You don't react to it like, I'm not a psycho. He understands the reaction and the response, like I was saying last time. Well, because sometimes you call me a psycho when I'm clearly not. And then I go, okay. And then other times when I...

Actually, I think it's because you call me a psycho when I'm not being a psycho. But all the times when I freak out and I'm being a total lunatic, you guys let me slide. You don't confront me. It's because you're a fucking psycho, bro. Okay, it's true. Everyone just step away. We're going to let him cool off. That's how you get punched in the face. I won't say too much since Jamie can't defend himself, but Ken...

calls you psycho if you literally tip over on accident but ken is also equally as afraid of ryan when he does go psycho so ken doesn't say it when it's like that's true yeah yeah like ken's the last dude you really hide when it comes when it's real dude i hide i run away

I mean, what's Ryan going to do? Punch me in the face? Probably. Ben's like, I'm not scared of that. Dude, there's actually a story that one time you probably don't even know this. So little? This is going to be a good one. It was my ex-girlfriend's birthday party.

And you were pushing my buttons that day, dude. We were at Chubbs. I can picture. I know the spot. I remember. You were like, get your shit together. You were just all up in me. And I was so mad, dude. I literally turned around. I was like flexing. I was literally going to hit you. I don't remember that. Yeah. I do remember that. You were probably so drunk. I was so drunk. And I remember waking up in the morning going,

man, I can't. Thank God. Thank God I didn't hit Ben. That would have been awkward. That would have been. One time, one time when we were drinking, Ben tried to punch me, but I blocked it. And then like, I was like so fucking happy. I blocked it. He like came with this. Do you remember this? It was right by the hot tub in the old shop. I was like, I was fucking with him. He started fucking with me. Like he started hitting me on the side of the head. Well, I didn't hit you on the, no, I kept,

I was kicking you on the shin. He kept slapping me. No, I was kicking you on the side of the shin. He kept slapping me. I was kicking. I was kicking. But not that hard. And then you went... He was pissing me off. And, like, went like that. But you threw, like, kind of, like, sideways. Thank God you don't know how to throw a punch. So I literally... I literally just went like this. And, like, your wrist hit. And then, like, I was like, holy shit. This dude's actually pissed. And I, like, stepped back. This dude. And then literally, like, 30 seconds later, he's like, hey, dude, I'm sorry. Thank God. But...

The post-punch clarity. Exactly. That's true, man. You know one thing I got to say about Ben? Ben loves to get under people's skin. He likes riling people up. You know what he doesn't like? Anybody that comes back at him. Yeah, anybody starts razzing you, you get pissed. Bro, it's like that one video when I told you that you were getting dumber every day. You were genuinely rattled. He was rattled.

I'll say from my standpoint, I don't think that you get pissed, but you don't take it well. You'll talk about it throughout the day. Yeah, like he kept bringing up like, oh, yeah, CJ's dishing it out now to everybody. Can't do anything right. I was like, I just told you you're getting dumber every day. That's not that bad. All I got to say is if it makes anybody feel any better, I'm terrified for my hot seat. Okay, anyways. This is my hot seat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's move forward here. Ryan, essentially,

Since you're in the hot seat. What were you doing before YouTube? What were you doing? I don't know. For work. For work, I was working landscaping. I was about to transition into working construction. That really sucked. I feel like our lives, like recreational-wise, were always very similar. Like we're kind of doing on a smaller level what we do now. We're still riding dirt bikes on the weekends. We're still going on the lake, stuff like that.

I don't know. I spent a lot more time in Fargo with my Fargo friends. You were in college. I was in college. In a frat. I was in a frat. So you were kind of working the labor lifestyle. But I mean, you were in college. You were going for business, correct? And what do you think you would have done with that degree if it wasn't for this? I knew this question was coming. What do you think you would have done? If you don't have an answer, yeah, that's fine. I was thinking about this today when Ken and I were packing hats. And I feel like...

Many times in my life. I'm not in control of it And maybe that's why I'm get upset sometimes but like I never know what I want To do like I never knew what I wanted to do for a job I just knew that I had to go to college like that was that was the next step next step if you didn't have anything online Yeah, mm-hmm Had to go to college and then I was like, well, I guess after that I'll figure it out I thought about doing construction with my dad, but I suck at that. So

So that wouldn't have worked out. Like I truly don't know what I would be doing if I wasn't here. And I think it's tough on me sometimes too, because sometimes I feel like I don't know what I'm doing here. And I just like, I want to do better. I want to like do the most. I think we all feel that way sometimes. Yeah. And it's tough. So you, you didn't feel like you graduating college cause you graduated with a business management, something like that.

Do you feel like you were like more prepared uh being graduated with like a degree like to go out into the world or you're just as confused as you were when you went in? I feel like I learned things but I feel like you learn more about like interacting with people And like creating a network like that's what I would say college did for me was like meeting people and like

establishing connections through like something to do. So like after college, you're like, oh yeah, you know, I went to school with this guy and he does this thing. And it just kind of like taught you how to be an adult. That's how I feel. College teaches you how to be an adult, but I don't feel any more prepared. Like I was speaking up in class being like, oh yeah, no, for this tax thing, this is how like you can do it. Cause I remember in my business tax class, they're like, oh yeah, this is like these three ways. And I was like, oh yeah, this is how we did it.

I learned that prior to my business tax college senior year of college. I will say I wish I did have a college degree like you, but obviously I'm not going to fucking waste my time doing that right now. It just simply wouldn't be worth it. But it doesn't necessarily gain you. But if it would have been ideal, obviously I would have taken it. So that is nice that you have it. I feel like the complete opposite. It is nice having like it's a flex saying like I didn't.

Like, really go to... I mean, I went to college, but I didn't finish or... It's so weird. I feel like in the... It is almost like a flex now, kind of. If you're doing well. Yeah, if you're doing well. And I feel like legit... If you're not, then it's just like, wow. Directly in the middle of that. Like, I went to two-year school. I was, like, in and out. I was, like, graduated before Ben graduated high school. Obviously, I'm older than him. But, yeah, two years in and out, I went for graphic design, which worked out perfectly. But...

Yeah, it's like, had I not graduated and we were doing exactly this, I don't think I'd be too upset about it. Dude, when people are like, oh, should I go to college or not? Or what should I do? You're like, what do you want to do? Yes, yeah, for sure. But I always reference how good two-year degrees are because of how well you've done with it. But like, you don't...

You go in, you get your two-year degree, and you know exactly what you're going into after it. I feel like that's how two-year degrees work, right? There was no generals. I mean, there was public speaking, which honestly helped me. Yeah, they don't dick you around. And psychology, which helped me too, but that was it. It was just like I went in there to learn what I needed to do, and then they send you off, and they have speakers that literally graduated from the same place that come in, and they're like, yep, I freelance, or yep, I work here. And then you're like, all right, I can do that. They even kind of set you up with a job. I personally think that the trades are –

uh, only going up. And I think that like the typical, just like four year college degree, unless you're going to be like a doctor, a lawyer or a dentist, you know, somewhere you need to go. If you're going for like business or like whatever arts, uh,

Like stuff like that, I don't know if it's necessarily going to separate you from the pack because everyone has that. And like unless you have some experience or something to prove, like you're probably not going to outshine the other guy trying to get the job. That's true. It's like a lot of things you're going to be a step ahead if you just have some random experience in anything. Whether that experience is like, yeah, I got hired on a gig doing something that I never went to school for, but I learned how to do it on YouTube and then –

Right. So you were in college. We talked about this on the first podcast. I was out cause I was, I dropped out. Ben wasn't in it. Michael wasn't, you know, so like you were a popular guy in college. Like a lot of people knew you, you, you had a lot of friends. You're, you're good at making friends. Um, so we started up this C boys like TV thing. Um,

on YouTube back then. It wasn't very like, no one really knew about YouTube. People still don't know about YouTube, but they just like didn't understand how was their reactions towards it? Well, that's like, it's tough. Cause I had friends that were really like supportive of it through, but then there was a lot of people that were kind of like, Oh, what is that? Oh,

Cool. They were making funny. Yeah. It was kind of like a, they were like backhanded compliments. It'd be like, Oh, you're going to go film a video this weekend. I'm like, right. Like that kind of like, yeah. Yeah. And I don't think it really became an issue almost until we'd gotten to like a bit larger of a point. And it was like, I don't know, say a hundred K and it was like, we were doing it and people then would hear it.

And they'd be like, oh, Ryan's one of those C-boys. And they'd, like, come up to you in a bond and be like, so, how's C-boys? Yeah. Try to, like, make fun of you. And I'd be like, how's class? Like, I would just always, like, try to brush it off. Right. You're such a nice guy. No, you could always just tell that it was, like, kind of a backhanded compliment. They weren't genuinely wondering how you were doing. They were trying to chirp you. They were trying to put you down. It was like a chirp. Yeah. And I think that was pretty tough for a while. Like, during our C-boys, like, years at the beginning when we didn't really have, like,

Dude, the startup phase is always so hard. Exactly. And you had that wearing on you. Yeah, because I had a lot of outside people. I remember this, like conversations we had.

And I was like, no, you guys don't understand. Like, this is what people on the outside are saying. Yeah. And you were kind of, it was, I'm sure it was kind of embarrassing. It impartially in a way, it just sucks getting razzed. It was not our full-time job. None of ours. I mean, what did you think like was going to come of it? Did you even like, I mean, what, what did you, what'd you think of it at the time? Did you think it was ever going to be something or do you think it was just kind of something we were going to do as a fad? It was just something to pass the time. What'd you think?

Uh, I mean, I always believed in us and like what we could do, but I would definitely say my mentality was like, yeah, it's worked so far and we're going to keep, we're going to keep doing it until it doesn't work. And now it's kind of the narrative that I like stuck with. But for a while, dude, I, same, same. I agree with that. I was just like, you'd see the numbers and you're like, well, at a hundred K,

why would we turn back now? You know, it's just like, I think it's going to work. So I'm going to keep pushing for it. People still say that though. Yeah. Yeah. They're like, what are you going to do after? Bro, what are you going to do? I didn't think we'd be at a million. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously. Yeah. Goals.

Right, right. But like, you know, I didn't know where we'd be at a million. I don't know where we're going to be at five. I don't know where we're going to be at ten. And there's a beauty to not thinking that deeply about it. Obviously, make some goals and plan for things. But there's a beauty to being like, I don't know, but I'm enjoying it and we're growing. Yeah. I remember just one particular moment and you might have just, I'm sure you had a lot going on. You kind of had a snap.

But I brought the camera with for something. I was filming something that we were doing. And it was in the very, very early days. And you were like, why are you filming this? Like, stop filming this. Like...

I'm like, people are making fun of me at school and shit. Like, I remember that. And I was like, oh, damn, like, I felt kind of bad. And I like, put it down. But I was like, no, fuck those guys. This is gonna be you're gonna be huge. I don't know if I said you're gonna be huge. But I was like, fuck those guys. Who cares what they think? You always had faith in it, like full 100% faith. You had a vision from it from the beginning. And that's what like, I never had. But I didn't have those people in my ears chirping and so hard where we're located.

we don't hang around any other people like us that are, and they're like us, but they're not like us. Like they're not doing our thing. They're not in our world. And it's like when you're surrounded by so many normal people, you start kind of almost like comparing yourself to them. And you're like, I don't know if I'm doing the right thing. You know, you start second guessing it. And I think it's just so important that you don't compare yourself to others because

like that you know yeah i mean if you want to be normal then obviously look up to people that are normal that's an interesting thing is that being normal it's to some people that is a compliment when i when i was a kid so i played hockey growing up all my years i would like i wasn't like the i was sometimes a good player and other times i was the worst player and other times i was probably in the middle i would say more so but i remember i would be coming home from a game or whatever and i'd be like

I did better than so-and-so. My dad would be like, so? Why are you comparing yourself to him? You should be comparing yourself to this guy. To this guy because he's the best. And I think that's something that, you know, it almost makes it hard for us because, like, we look at everyone around us. They live, like, just the very textbook lifestyle. We don't live that life. We didn't really sign up for that life. We should compare ourselves to the people that we want to be like. You know, so, like, Logan Paul.

And I'm not saying you need to be exactly like him, but your idols, look up to the people that are doing better than you, not people that are...

just but it is interesting to compare yourself like for hockey for example the best player on the team you knew him you met him you play with him you get to compare yourself if you want to to him but i was like we compare you know yeah to his game uh we compare ourselves let's say to like nalcar logan paul or anyone big on youtube or anyone that we aspire to be like that's how you grow but yeah absolutely but we don't

get to meet them necessarily and hash it out or even get their brains, pick their brains or even view what they're doing in person. If you want to, if you want to keep going up, you got to compare yourself to people above you. If you're going to compare at all, you really shouldn't compare. But if you, if you want to, I mean, maybe self reflect and try to make yourself better than sometimes it is good, but never compare to somebody who's doing equally as good as you or, or,

worse than you because then it's like you're never gonna move up yes and you're just like oh i'm doing good and i'm i'm i'm i'm just fine i don't need to i don't need to work harder i don't i don't need to do better exactly and that's kind of the moral of that uh that point i wanted to get into so we asked ken this did you ever see yourself being a youtuber

Not until we were YouTubers. Not in a literal million years. The only backtrack I have on that is there was a time in my life when I said the only thing I'm good at is having fun.

And you are really good, dude. I always wanted to be a professional snowmobiler. I want to do this. I want to do that. Like I could see myself in an unusual lifestyle, but never would have thought that YouTube would have been the path that would have taken me there or the road that I'm on.

Isn't it crazy how you used to say you wanted to be a professional snowmobiler, and you basically live that same lifestyle? And I don't have to be good. You don't have to be good, but like 10 times better. Like, you know, you're so much, there's so much more to you than being a professional snowmobiler. You hang out with them. Dude, you know them all. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm not saying that. I'm saying, like, there's so much more to Ryan Iwerks than he's a professional snowmobiler. Mm-hmm.

Granted, I don't know if that's a compliment. I would say it is. You always want to be like, it's like being a basketball player. You would want it to be more to you than just being good at basketball. All the basketball players you talk about is because they live this lifestyle or they act this way off the court. They have a personality behind them.

So when did you see it becoming a reality? Because you worked... What was the last job that you had before you went full-time? I worked at Corwin, the detailing center. That was an eye-opening experience for people that were truly content with just a job.

be just doing their day. And we were kind of like coming up and it was new year's like Christmas break of my senior year. Cause I'd quit. I did a construction the summer before started that job back up.

And then I was like, all right, I'm going to be done doing this. And then that whole semester I went full time here. And anytime I would have spent working at Corwin, I came, I drove out to the lake like three or four days a week, like cram my schedule together so we could come, we could print shirts at the time. Yeah. But that was the moment when I knew I was like, all right, I'm going all in on this. Like I'm not even going to think about doing construction after I'm done, which was my initial plan. Yeah.

It was like, all right, now this is what I'm going to do. So going into it, did you have like kind of a game plan of like, this is what I want to like do once I'm in the business? Or is it like, I'm going to just dive in and figure it out? A bit of a dive in and figure it out. At the time, like our business has changed a lot. We were doing a ton of

like screen printing stuff like that like I would say that was one of my main roles yeah at that point was like helping in whatever way that I could just to get like those shirts out the door and managing all of that and then now it's grown so big and we've kind of changed it that Ken's taking it over yeah but like at that time I was like all right this is what I'm going to come in and start to do and then we'll see where it goes from there you know what's crazy is is even back then

It was like taking such a chance on like this is what it could turn into or this is what my role could be because like we really weren't getting paid. And it was like constantly changing, you know, what we were doing. It was basically just like a huck and pray every single day. Which besides the schedule we created now, it's still that way. There was times in that year where like...

credit card payments would come up because I kind of lived the same way. Like I had a little bit of a check coming in at least. And it was like tight. There was more, there was times when I would like pay the minimum balance on my credit card. Cause we wouldn't, we wouldn't get paid. And it was like, yeah, boys, we, there's literally no money. We have no money. We paid all of our bills, but there's nothing for everybody else. Like we got to keep grinding. And those were like the, some of the most like nose to the grindstone. Yeah.

Maybe we weren't even doing it the right way. Like you talked about in the first. But we just were fucking there to work. We were grinding. Your back's up against the wall. Like you had no option but to try to make money and like make it work in any way that you could. Yeah, it's crazy how long that was our mentality. It still is. Obviously, it's changed a little bit. But it's crazy how long it was just like, fuck it. Just put in the work and figure the rest out later. I feel like it's like a slingshot.

Like you, you pull this back. Right. And like, you're building all this momentum and now we finally let go. And then we built up and we're at like the point right now where it's like, even where we like finally have like caught up. We're like safe ish.

But, like, we have so much more to go. And we're, like, shooting at the moon. Like, now we're pointing. We built up all our momentum. We already got momentum. We got our momentum. But now we're, like, trying to point where we want to go and, like, keep the ball in the air, I guess. Circling back around to just the other part, that's what I'll be forever grateful for being able to, if your back's up against the wall...

to just work harder. Like I'm super grateful for that. And by that, I mean work harder and then like, you know, make more content, make more whatever, and then get that money back. But if you, if you are working like a normal job, if you're working for someone, or if you're working for someone who's working for someone, you can't do that. You got to go out and get another job. And so, or whatever, you know, you got to go out and mow someone's lawn or whatever. So like, that's one part I've been super grateful when our backs against the wall, we can, uh,

to brainstorm and make money, I guess. It's been a really good thing versus having to find other ways. Just like spend more time. I mean, we spend the time, but it's like, or yeah, but yeah, I guess go grab another job and you're just like peddling. And, and I definitely don't want to talk down on anyone who's ever in that situation, but it's a beautiful thing being able to have your back against the wall and then push forward and

In a positive way. We went full business on this podcast. That's why we're number one. Yep. Let's get a little off business. Let's get into some good story time. Ryan, your driving record is impeccable today. But when you were a kid, you were like a nightmare. You were a nightmare. You had every ticket. You had...

lost your license. I think you were facing jail time. You got a good lawyer. You got a good lawyer. Facing jail time. You were facing jail time. In a freaking Scion TC. Dude, I always wanted a fast car like you had a WRX and stuff. I was like, man, if I had that, that'd be great. I would be in jail. I'd still be in jail. We're dead. Let's get into how many tickets you had and then your worst one. Well, you had two really bad ones. Well, my first ever ticket was

I was showing my buddy Luke how fast my car could go on a dark country road. We were doing like 95 or something like that because it hardly could go over 100 miles an hour. But we did it so much. But we did it so much. And the cop pulled me over and let me off because I was like 16. I'd had my license for like three weeks, and he gave me a 65 and a 55. And I did not take that like –

Off the hook? No, I just kept going. Just kept driving fast. You're like, wow, nice guy, nice guy. Man, all cops are nice. I don't know. I probably got like three or four. I remember like pretty frequently I was one ticket away from losing my license. Like that was the line that I rode. I was like, all right, if I get one more ticket, I lose my license, I can't speed. And then that one would go off a bit. Okay, I'll get another.

And one day, well, we started doing this thing or I started doing this thing. And it was how fast I could make it. I partook in that too. Yeah. We kind of all did. And once you set this record, I was like, I can't even touch that. I'm not going to try. I still to this day can't tell what it was. So the competition was how fast you could get from the lake to Fargo. And it's normally a 50-minute drive now, at least 55 somewhere. And I

I think I had it down to like... It was in the 20s. Like high-caliber. 26. I don't know how that's possible. Yeah, the average person does it in 46. Yeah. Basically, you just double the speed limit the entire way. Like, I remember down a road curves like 95, 100. Unbelievable. I don't think I have the balls to do it now in my car. Unbelievable. We were so dumb. We didn't know, like...

If you hit a deer at 100, it's going to hurt. It's going to possibly kill you. It's going to, for sure, total your car. But we never, for some reason, even hit any. No, dude. I never stopped at the stop signs there. You'd blow them like 65, 70. I remember that. How would you not see cops? I see cops all the time. Dude, the same. I think times have changed. Times have changed. But I remember I would do the same thing, and it was just like, you would just, it would be a cop, like,

Like, playing chicken with yourself. How long can you hold the pedal to the floor? And I think my best was maybe, like, in the 30s. Yeah, you were in the 30s. I don't know how the frick Ryan did it. You told me. And I remember... You texted, you averaged 105 on the main straight. You didn't... Allegedly. You didn't basically lift the whole time. Allegedly. Allegedly. This was years ago. I mean, six years ago? What's the statute of limitation? I don't know. Dude, who gives a fuck? They're not gonna give a... I don't know. Anyways, so...

That shit was crazy. You and the Scion TC was nuts. That was by far my most reckless driving age. 180 horsies of just going. To the floor, man. Everywhere. We took that thing through the field. All of the fields. Scravel roads. We'd load up and it ripped the e-brake.

We drifted on dry pavement. Once we figured out we could drift on dry pavement, my back tires were literally shredded. They had flat spots in them. My favorite part is that you then would just roll that into the winter. If anyone's wondering how to not go into the ditch in the winter or whatever, slide around, just get new tires. Ryan didn't, but somehow just rocked it. We got chased by a gold Jeep. I'm not going to go into this story because it's kind of funny, but...

We got chased. Some dude just, like, pissed off that we were ripping on a lake. And then, yeah, we were all on the... And then Ryan, he's like, yeah, dude, he chased me up to 100 on this, like, back road. And I went 100 with the tires I have, which were, like, racing slicks. I'm like, dude, how do you not die? Snowy road. How do you not die? It just makes you look back, though. Like, how many young kids are out there with your license? Like, dude, when I'm in my Evo or...

even my new car now, but especially the Evo. Cause I feel like people think they maybe have a chance. Then I'll have so many kids come up and want to race. And just like, they, it's maybe a kind of fast car, but I'm like, dude, like, I'm not going to risk racing you on this road and possibly both of us lose our license or, or some, someone get hurt. Um,

But like back then, you didn't think about that. There was no consequences. That's the best part about being a kid, dude. There was no consequences at that point. But there is. There is consequences. There's real consequences. There is. Don't live your life like that. No, it's not. You got to be careful for sure to the young drivers out there. Yeah, you should say, I felt like there was no consequences. It's a feeling. I was like, if you want to go rip,

you're going to feel like you might be invincible, but I was like, you're just as not invincible as anyone else. We're very lucky. So tell the story. Tell the story about it. That damn near put you in jail at how old were you? I think I was, I don't, yeah, I probably was 18. Um,

I'd went into Fargo and it was like 3 a.m. on a Wednesday. I had to work my landscaping job at literally 5.30 in the morning is when we were leaving. And I'm like, great, if I get home, if I can get another like 30-minute drive home, I can sleep for like two hours. And I just...

hauled ass out of four i think i texted i was like leaving fargo now and i was gonna text when i got to my door so it was like well past midnight at this point yeah yeah it was like 3 a.m i come flying over this hill and i just had a hunch just a hunch that i was like i don't i think there might be like a cop up here something i don't know slowed down to like a hundred like that was that's what it was it was a hundred on the dash and uh i come over the hill radar detectors and i was like

lock up the brakes. Turn off, cop pulls out behind me, comes up, gun like out of his holster, coming up across the street. And I'm like sitting there looking like, oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck. I'm like hands on the steering wheel. He comes up and he like puts his flashlight right in my face. And my cat, my family cat was sleeping on the passenger seat. And the guy bursts out laughing. And I go, oh, I'm totally off. I'm like, eh.

He's like, man, this guy's white. Who the hell does 100 with their cat? It was a baby kitten. But anyway, yeah. So he goes, are you drunk? And I'm like, no, I'm dumb, but I'm not that stupid. I didn't drink at the time. I was like, I would never. And so he goes like, okay, well, give me your license. Do you know how fast you were going? And I was like, oh, pretty fast.

And he was like 101. And I was like, because I knew as soon as you break 100, 100 is you lose your license. And if you have a passenger is attempted manslaughter. So I was like, so he goes back. I'm like, maybe he'll let me off. Like, you know, let me down to 100, literally 100, 99, whatever. Yeah. Yeah.

And so he comes back and goes, okay, here's your ticket for 101. Should just be a ticket, like whatever. I go to work or I go home just sick. I'm literally sick to my stomach. I wake up at 5 in the morning. My dad's up too. And I'm just sitting eating my cereal, like shaking. He goes like, what's wrong? What's wrong, dudes? And I'm like, I got a ticket last night. And he goes, oh, no. How much? I was like, 101. Oh.

I think he just like calmly stood up and walked away. He was so mad. He literally couldn't even look at me. I was like,

Because he was already paying how much for insurance on you a month. Oh, my gosh. Because you were, what, 17 and your insurance was like 500 bucks a month? No, it went. For how slow it was, it was not cheap. If you maybe have a number on that of what it went to after that ticket. I'm pretty sure it was borderline illegal how much they charged us for insurance after that. Bro, you were probably like more than most people pay for DUIs. Probably. Honestly, at that rate. And so anyway, I had to... I went to high school with this girl and...

I was like, Hey, your mom's a lawyer, right? And she's like, yeah, for like businesses. And I was like, can she represent me in court? Cause I'm gonna lose my license. And she's like, ah, yeah, I think so.

And so anyway, I got represented and didn't end up losing my license. We fought real hard. Or going to jail. Or going to jail. Were they threatening jail time? I think it's like, you know, like jail time and a fine. And so, yeah, I got it down to $99. So it was a $385 ticket. Not bad. And I paid a couple thousand for the lawyer fees. And then I had to go to a crime prevention class.

Which was one of the highlights of my life, honestly. I never knew how much the lawyer was either. You were with actual kids who were probably going to commit crimes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. There was young people that had like, they were in gangs.

And they were, like, trying to scare them out. It was, like, a scared straight thing, but, like, just in a classroom. And it was all these kids. They were, like, yeah, I got caught with a gun. They're just screaming at Ryan and everyone else, obviously. Like, that's what I picture scared straight like. No, it wasn't, like, the Holiday Inn in Moorhead. We were, like, sitting in a little boardroom. We got cookies and stuff like that. Really? Yeah, it was...

but they're on drugs. Yeah. But there was, yeah. People that had gotten, it was mainly a lot of Dewey's, a lot of Dewey's. And then a couple of kids that were like, yeah, I got caught with a gun. I'm 16. Uh,

And then there's you. And then there was me. I was like, oh, I was doing 101. Attempted cat slaughter. Attempted cat slaughter. That's what we call that story. Damn, that's a crazy story, dude. You did get pulled over a lot. Yeah. And then after that, I kind of cleaned my life up. You learned your lesson. Yeah, definitely learned my lesson after that. Yeah, not just driving. Like, you literally cleaned his room. Everything. Everything.

And then I started to get window tint tickets. Yeah, that's just bogus as it gets there. Those probably will never go away. I have a slight story I can add to my early driving days. I rear-ended my second grade teacher. I forgot about that. Yeah, right before Christmas. So I'm in Fargo driving down. The traffic was busy. I wasn't used to having a lot of traffic, so the stop was... Everyone backed up, and I was looking for a restaurant, and I was going, rear-ended this van, fucking hard.

hard dude and i had this this like older red jeep and she hops down she's furious what the hell and then she sees this music oh cj and i was i felt yes i felt and cj was still in second grade at this point i'm in like 10th grade or ninth grade but yeah totaled out the jeep it's still it's still right i mean it was total because it like it cost more to fix it but it's still like it was just bent up and

I mobbed that until probably senior year. Yeah, I rear-ended my senior year. That's really all I can say. Speaking of tickets, I was going to ask you guys. I don't know why I counted this because I got pulled over so much, and this is not like a one-upping Ryan story. I don't have that many tickets, but I get pulled over so much, you guys. Not anymore because I don't drive that much because I lived at the shop, so whatever. But I have gotten pulled over 52 times.

since i was 16 how that's 10 years 52 times in 10 years how well how do you not get tickets i think guys my question i do i do but how do you not get pulled over and it's just an automatic like oh it's been pulled over 52 times that's the crazy part yeah it's like so for the the speeding ones i'll get the tickets there for the window tins i'll get them there but other than that

You can make up. For what? Like, what do you get pulled over for? Yeah, I remember, so, like, in my Buick, one time I got pulled. This is more of a bogus one, but I got pulled over because my license plate was so dirty that the cop didn't think I had one. And then I get pulled over later on, and he's just like, yo, you were swerving all over the road. And I was just like, ah, I just got new tires, and, like, I got to get it aligned. And I was texting. And I'm also drunk. Yeah, but so you don't say those things. Oh, okay.

but uh you were 16 at the time here it's pretty easy to get out of but yeah dude it's crazy 52 times like that's insane it's just hot how do you keep track of that i don't even know because you keep track because once it hit like 25 or 30 i was just like dude i get pulled over so much but i don't get tickets like it's crazy i'm just gonna keep track of it so i started tallying my phone and i have probably like 10 tickets to show for it so like

It's like getting pulled over five times, getting one ticket. And a careless driver. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Does that hit your insurance by the way? Honestly? No, no, it hasn't. My insurance hasn't gone up, which I was definitely most worried about, but like from the careless driving ticket, you got from, from the video when you had the Subaru on the ice. I think the worst part is like when the dumbest ticket, I know. And they were pulling up and I, we were just about to stop. And if we would have stopped, it would have been nothing. We would have just been chilling right on the ice. And,

And then I remember Tint was like, dude, cut it, cut it. I'm like, what are you saying? Is something wrong? Yeah, I was like, is something wrong with my motor? And I'm like, no, everything's good. And then he pulls up and then like, we told you to stop, bro. That was just bogus. Everyone who watched that video knows that's bogus. I mean, I've had plenty of other like...

When cops or sheriffs come up to us, like multiple of each variety, come up and say, man, so did you fight that ticket? And then we go, no, we just kind of don't want to bark up the tree. But they were like, that was bogus. I cannot believe that. That ticket was pretty bogus. A lake in the middle of nowhere. I mean, I respect if you got to like...

If they see it, obviously you can't let it slide. But he actively searched us out from following us on Snapchat or Instagram or whatever, which we were dumb and we're posting that shit at the time. But who would have thought? We didn't think we were doing anything wrong. We didn't go out there like we're being bad boys. If anything, we were patting ourselves on the back for being so planned out. Yeah, this is really good of us. Not doing it in a Walmart parking lot. But anyways, he comes and tracks us down and hands it to us.

Yeah. I guess that's how it goes sometimes, but you gotta, sometimes you just gotta bend over. Fuck. Seriously. Should we talk about the limo? Yeah, so we're sending the limo down the road. Unfortunately.

Unfortunate times. Everyone listening to this is going, what do you mean by setting it? Are you going to jump it? No, we're selling it because honestly, it's just gross. We've had a lot of good times in it and it doesn't work that well. We've kind of graduated. It's time to get something else or just not have it. Mostly the lack of AC makes it gross. It's so hot in there. With like 15 people and you breathe in and there's no AC and then we're just like, ugh. Yeah, you feel sweaty and then it smells. It smells bad. It's always got this...

It's got this lingering scent to it. I can never figure out what it is, though. It's not light. It's heavy. It's mice. Ken just goes, mice. Let's maybe not say that. So anyway, we're selling it. We got our eyes on a slight upgrade, which is slight, but it's going to be sick. I want to get a party bus. I think we shouldn't even fuck with this. I think we should because we're acting like the thing costs a million dollars. I think we should fuck with it because...

Which one? The limo. You want the limo over the party bus. I just want it because we're all like, what are we going to do? Tint and marker, we'll throw down, and then Seaboys throw down, and if we want, we can throw down too. It's six grand. I'm down. Yeah. All right.

I mean, the people listening right now that don't know, we have this limo. It's a big limo. Long boy. Yeah, it's a long boy. We can pile in like 18, sometimes 25. We've had so many people in there at one point where the center of the limo is dragging, going down the road. But we bought it originally kind of as a joke.

just for video but i don't think it's a joke anymore it's not a joke anymore we found out truly how convenient having a limo is because like rolling around we got five guys you immediately add you know our girlfriends our friends you're rolling at like 10 people it's like well shit do you want to take two cars it's a good time or should we all just pile in the limo everyone you know play music have a good time we can go out to eat go to the bars um if

you can legally drink having a limo was truly we found out a cheat code yeah yeah and now i think people in the area are seeing us like rolling around in this limo and piling the entire squad out and then when we're leaving bars we're bringing all of our friends with too so that's how it gets so piled in there but people are finding out like oh shit that's a hack like

Like, it's truly a cheat code having a limo. That's why I'm saying, why aren't we just going full send? Get a party bus. Just get a party bus because it's going to be great. We can stand up in it. The issue with the party bus, though, is it, like, kind of, I think it complicates trying to find a driver. Like, I don't think we could just have your little brother drive a party bus.

I mean, the small ones aren't that big. I'm actually not that worried about that. He's getting a CDL. I'm more worried about... Oh, so you do need a CDL. I don't fucking know. I don't know either. Do you know? Do you need a CDL for a party bus? No, it's private use. You don't? Perfect. Okay, so I'm not that worried about that. I'm more worried about the legitimate purchase. So we're talking about that we were looking at this party bus that's $15,000 and this limo that's $6,000. So...

We're already just sitting around just like, should we do it? Should we do it? And then you add a $10,000 bill to the party bus, which, again, I'm down for. But it's like, how long are we going to dick around trying to find a good party bus that's way more money? And then we're like, are we ready to justify it? That's what I'm getting at. This limo, we could go cop today because it's just that cheap. Yeah, the other thing is, do we want to get another half-sender kind of piece of shit?

But I think with this one, luckily with the excursion, why I do like it is it well-made content. I don't know if the party bus would necessarily. It's not funny. It's true. And like our limo was so shitty it was funny. This excursion, though, it does have content behind it that could possibly be made and people would enjoy because if you lift it up, put big wheels on it,

That's actually pretty badass. Can we do that? Yeah, that's fine. So, I mean, no one, again, to fill you guys in again, it's an excursion. It's a super long boy excursion. And I would assume that you can just put an excursion lift on it, and then we'll get custom offsets to get us some wheels, and it'll actually be sick. I don't care if we drive it for a year. That's just what I want to do. Drive it for three months for all I care. I am not disagreeing on the party bus because I think that's where we'll end up. I'm down. Does it smell? No.

No, that's the best part. It's here. What? It's here? Mark, you...

All right, decision made. We're buying an experience. All right, wait, wait, wait. Mark just pulled up in that limo that we are potentially buying, but now something tells me we're going to buy it. It sounds like we just bought it. Holy shit, dude. Now you just watched real time how shit works around here. Again, the last podcast we ended with a pirate ship, and now Mark's like, by the way, I brought it. It's here. Hey, Mike, do you have any plans this weekend? You've been on a roll lately, bro. Yeah, I do. I'm going to a film festival tonight. How many girls are you bringing home? At least two.

possibly for really i can you imagine bro mike your life is like i'm just watching you blossom into this playboy it's quite honestly entertaining to watch thank you i love to see it you know just move from there yeah you can we talk about can we talk about last weekend's i don't think so can i a little bit i think that's more inappropriate than any of them can i just mention don't maybe her relation to you before

It's Micah's cousin. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I didn't know where you were going. No, but it is Jake's ex. Oh, my gosh. But not the one that he dated publicly. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's not that gal. To be fair, Jake has had a lot of exes. You wouldn't even know who this one is. That's true.

But Jake was cool with it. Yeah. He loved it. Me and Jake are homies, dude. Like, actually, like, Jake doesn't give a fuck what I do, and I don't give a fuck what Jake does. I know. I love it. I love it. People are like, isn't that weird? It's Jake's ex. I'm like, dude, no. Jake was probably like, Mike, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it. Considering we rode home together. Oh, really? Yeah. They got dropped off in the same car. Oh, that's even better. Wait, how many girls are you tunnel buddies with Jake? Just stop me when? Stop. Okay.

After I got past the first, I was like, wait, we'll keep going? That's impressive. What? No, I want to actually say three, but. But you mean four. But I mean four. Well, sure. Jake's mom. Now we really got to wrap this up, you guys. Jake's mom. All right, on that note. We'll see you guys next time. We're giving away another sign. So just subscribe, like, follow us on Instagram.

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