Inside The Lifestyle of a Professional Dirtbiker
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- I'll take this. - No, no, I'm gonna need that. - What about Mike? - I just wanted to ride my bike. I didn't wanna be at school with a bunch of kids drawing pictures and shit. - Skateboard's my weak point. - He was trying to kiss me.

It does more than sleep in those vans. You want to hear a crazy date story? I got a crazy date story, actually. Next weekend, I'm racing a Red Bull race. And I just came and rode on the roof of a pizza ranch. Like, I'm in the pro class. No other pro is doing that. Like, they're all at the gym training right now. And I'm like...

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2 a.m.? You guys were up until 2 a.m. We got one in the bank. Yeah, we were up until 2 a.m. You guys were working until 2 a.m. Yeah, we...

Uninvoluntarily worked till 2 a.m. When Spenny's in town, dude, it's grind time. I walked in upstairs and it was like 10, 22 to be exact. Mike was sleeping on the couch in here. And then I like set a picture on him. He didn't wake up. Everyone else was in here like walking. They were looking at him. I got a bunch of video of it. He did not wake. He didn't even flinch. We order our shirts through...

through this company and like they flew out to come and like see the facility because they were just like we got it like these guys are ordering so many shirts they came out to come see and meet with Justin and all this and Justin was giving a tour and you were just sleeping in here they walked right in and then you're like oh and like you were just like

Four guys on the couch all piled up. What's funny about that is Justin texted us last night and he goes, hey, just letting you guys know, giving a tour to these people from Azcaller. Mike, please do not be sleeping on any of the couches. Had strict instructions. And this is what you look like. This is what you look like.

Evan! Bro! Evan, we're in a sealed room. I was sleeping like a little baby. Oh, look at you. It's hard to be mad at a face like that. Let me see. You do have such a unique ability to sleep in the most uncomfortable positions. Mike, have you been all right lately? Every time I see you and we're not doing something, you're snoozing. I love sleeping.

No, I know, but have you been getting enough Zs? Well, obviously not if you were up until 2 a.m. filming a podcast. Yeah, no, not last night. This might be the portion of Micah's life where his sleep schedule is finally going to flip around and be normal. He's so far off, he's on. You think we're getting closer to that? I think we're getting closer. He's been sleeping a lot during the day, so I think we're slowly rotating back. Like, I just...

Actually... No, I'm on a better sleep schedule than I ever have been in probably my life. I thought that, honestly. Oddly enough, I got a picture of you 40 minutes ago sleeping in the Sprinter van. That's because I didn't get enough sleep. I know, I know. I just saw this and I went, oh, kind of concerned about this guy. He's always sleeping. Somebody mentioned something about hot dogs in the Sprinter and Mike was like, hot dogs, hot dogs. He did wake up to that. Well, welcome on the podcast. That's a lie. The official podcast. That's a lie.

during, you know, normal functioning hours, Spenny. Feels good. This is my first one ever. No, you did one. It's my first pod. Dude. Not ever, but like with you guys. Oh, with us. Okay. Well, hey, man, we're honored to have you for the first time with us. Mike, you kind of got to work from home fit right now. Sorry to go off of Spenny, but... He's running camo and...

I just threw the flannel on because it's cold in here. Checkers and flannel. Raining. And camo. So, Spenny, you've been traveling all over? Yeah, traveling. All over. Bikes, Europe. Yeah, you've been in Europe. You drove a camper 40 hours across Canada a month ago.

So a little background on our buddy Spenny. Spenny is the best dirt biker we know, which I always look to Evan because I believe that you are the best of many things, people that I know. Clearing out a room. R6ing, for sure. I believe Evan is the best fast dirt biker that I know. But Spenny's the best technical. Like the dude on a dirt bike moving slow can go anywhere, including over an air conditioning vent on top of the...

Spenny is the best at riding over things that should not be ridden over or jumping over things that shouldn't be jumped over. Last year when he was here, we had him drive up Mike's inflatable that he had just gotten, like hard enduro over it. Then you jumped over the mini truck that we put a ramp onto. You jumped the mini truck while it was moving. Oh, onto our limo. Yeah, onto the limo.

Onto the limo. Onto the limo. And then today, we did this trials bike thing. It would have been in last week's video. You saw it. Well, we're just fresh off of the boys riding on the roof.

Of Pizza Ranch. Pizza Ranch, dude. Pizza Ranch, dude. Oh, God. What's even happening? That's what happens when you hang with us. Yeah, things get weird. New zone unlocked. Yeah, new zone. Actually, Pizza Ranch has some really nice features on the roof. Imagine people just start riding on Pizza Ranch roofs. They're like, yo, we're not the only people that have air conditioners on our roofs, guys. You can go anywhere else. No, there's a good variety of obstacles up there and...

Good traction, too. The next series is on top of McDonald's. No, there's a big championship on Target. Me and Evan were talking about wheel tapping the KFC bucket that spins. That'd be sick.

Trials bikes, man. Isn't it funny just how wrong it feels being on a roof? Like your entire life, your entire life you're told do not go on a roof. Obviously, it's like the whole elevated surfaces. It's dangerous. When you're up there, you're always just like creeping to the edges and just like peeking over. And like trying to hide too, like making sure nobody sees you, but like everybody saw us.

Cops came. Cops came multiple times. Three cops came. Four cops maybe. One of them was a fan. Yeah, he just came to say hi. Stopping by to get a picture. I walked out and I saw another cop there. I go, oh, great. I think he actually said that on the radio. They said, yeah, the Seaboys are at the Pizza Ranch right now. And then he heard that on the radio. So he drove over because he heard that.

It was just such a bizarre moment. Obviously, you're ripping heaters and pizza ranches and chucking little glass bottles at the wall as hard as you can. And then you're just throwing bowling balls everywhere. Yeah, it was just such a strange moment. But hey, we're here as your de-renovator team, all right? Not destruction. We're de-renovators. Some people want you to come in and renovate their place. We come in and de-renovate it. Yeah. They don't know about that, though. You got to tell them...

why we were there D-Renovin did you mention that oh that wasn't in the last week's video it's not in the last week's video it made no sense yeah yeah yeah fuck basically our friend he bought a bowling alley and like that was combined with a pizza ranch and they were gonna tear it down so they called us and we went over and just like destroyed it

But yeah, that makes a lot more sense. That's coming in like a couple of weeks. That won't be, it's coming in a couple of weeks, but yeah, I mean, they were both crazy, but Ken's like the neighborhood was not prepared for that. Yeah. It is just fun. I don't know. There's something nice about just like, it's, it's hard to turn it off. Once you get going and you start just wrecking everything in sight, it was honestly quite dangerous in there. Cause we had like, it was us. And then Spencer's crew, other Spencer, uh,

And like, there were so many people, like it was like having people ride a

a track in all directions, like going in reverse, going forwards, and hitting the jumps from the sides as well. You got to creep around the corner. Yeah, you're like... You might take a bowling ball to the chest. It just gets carried away. I was wondering when we were doing it, I wonder if there's a category of YouTube, you know how they have ASMR for certain things, maybe just opening a two-turn Tony or something. But is there a section or a genre on YouTube where it's just one...

one and a half hours of destroying everything in sight and it's just like raw imagine like that's what it was like when you throw up the fireplace on at like a family gathering but it's just destruction dude we should almost just make a video it's like our year-end recap video but just destruction and honestly probably do pretty good that's just our normal content that sounds like our normal content yeah that's true yeah that was a lot of fun though

I had a great time until I teed up this ball, smoked it, and then I hit something like directly in front of where I hit, came back, hit me, and then I think it hit the wall, and then it hit Dalton, our filmer in the nuts. Hit him square in the nuts. It hasn't been the same since, dude. Dude, no, no. I actually felt really bad about that, but I also got hit too. It would have been one thing if it just would have hit you. I mean, you hit the ball. You hit the ball.

I know. What did you think was going to happen? There's four brick walls around you. You're hitting a golf ball off a driver. Yeah. What did you think was going to happen? No, I wasn't surprised. I was just more...

I was confused as to how it happened because it all happened so fast. Like, I hit it, and then it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I'm on the ground, Dalton's on the ground, and the ball is nowhere in sight. I was standing back a little bit for that one, and it was kind of like watching it in slow motion. I see it, like, ricochet off where the bowling alley was, and then it ricochets off you. Then I see Dalton just double over in pain, and it was like, oh, that looks like it's

Not good. Yeah, that was not good. Dangerous work environment. Yeah, thank God your shin was there to break the momentum before it hit Dalton. Dude, straight up. Can you have like an injury? This is going to be like a gnarly bruise. Oh, yeah. Right here. Yeah, that's pretty solid, actually. It's going to be a good bruise. The exact size of a golf ball. Do you bruise normally? No. Dude, I don't bruise at all. By the time this podcast is out, though, I'll take a picture and we'll just put it right here. Yeah. What it looks like, I guess, a couple days later.

I don't know. I guess I bruise. I think everyone bruises a little bit. I like don't. Dude, I don't bruise. Yeah. Really? I've had some major slams. I broke my ankle and didn't even bruise. Really? Yeah. It was just swollen. It never, didn't change color of the skin. What's the science behind that? I have no clue. I mean, I feel like it typically happens to girls, but like Alondra, if you, if she like bumps into a pillowcase too hard, she gets a bruise. Oh.

Yeah, it's pretty common with girls. That's what I'm always with females. It seems like when they get a bruise, they remember exactly like they're like, yep, I have a bruise here. This is what I did when I did it. Oh, really? I feel like girls are always like, I don't know. Oh, that's how I am. I'm like, what's that giant bruise on your leg from? I'm like...

I don't know. Do you guys sometimes like poke people's bruises when you're like, what's this bruise from? And then just like while you're saying it, you also poke it? Give it a little tap. I don't do that, but now I kind of want to. I don't know. It's kind of a dick thing to do, but hey, what's up with this bruise? Well, Ken.

I'm replying to Justin. Sorry to interrupt your scrolls break there, but I'm replying to Justin, but okay. So we got some terrible news. It was absolutely devastating getting that news in the car. Yeah. What a hell. I just, I feel like I was driving and I just could not physically process it. So Ken was running for mayor of our town, Cormorant, Minnesota. Uh,

It was him and then three other dogs. Had it in the bag. We thought that he had it in the bag. I mean, 100% had it in the bag. Yeah, so... 100%. So he had the most votes. Statistically. Yeah, so the voting was all on Facebook Marketplace. Or...

Yeah, you got to buy a TV or something. All the voting was on Facebook. So obviously, like, Cormorant is not a sanctioned governed city that needs an actual mayor to make decisions about. Not to downplay it, Ken. It would have been very important. The Instagram bio would have been the most important thing I could have won out of that race. Exactly. He was thinking about it for the clout, right? Voting was open to the entire world.

And so we made an Instagram post about it. Ken's running for mayor. It was him and three other dogs. We thought that Ken would have had it in the bag. Little did we know that we had some corrupt politicians that were counting the votes, and they threw Ken out. They had other plans, and Ken was foiling them by winning. That's the sad truth of it. It's almost like this entire election was predetermined before a single vote was even cast. No, I'll tell you exactly what happened.

They were discriminatory because you're a human being and the rest are dogs. They had this whole idea like, oh, it'll be fun to have another dog as mayor, even though it's not going to be as fun because no one's going to be able to replace Duke. You were actually going to do some stuff around here. Yeah. And then the next runner up was Jake's dog. And obviously Jake has the next amount of pull. So like he probably put a story up and got a thousand or however many votes and

And then the other dogs were just probably getting like 10 because the rest of Cormorant voted maybe for them. So like there's rumors flying around the Cormorant village, you know, small town people talk and,

It's kind of disgusting what they did. Yeah, what's the word, Ken? I don't want to say. Jake's dog won by a landslide. It was like 74% of the votes went to Jake's dog. So everyone thinks, though, that Ken was still a part of it, and that dog still won 76% of the votes, and so Ken got like 14 of them.

Well, no, they just straight up eliminated Ken entirely. And they said, okay, out of the three dogs then. But my question is like, why did they let you in there then? What's the point of even going through all that? What was the point of that? Yeah, you were. He spent campaign dollars, dude. I did. Yeah. I drunkenly bought a billboard. Yeah. Yeah.

And then the news came and interviewed. That's going on national news, dude. Like, it's been all over. Can we play the? Yeah, I think so. I have it so we can play it. We'll just insert it in right here. Have you guys seen it yet? At a time when campaigns and elections can be so contentious, along comes the race for mayor in Cormorant Village. This is no ordinary election. The results are in. And after tens of thousands of people voted through social media, the four-legged winner just wants naps and belly rubs.

One problem, though, the election may be contested. That story tonight from WDAY News reporter Kevin Wollivant in Minnesota Lakes country. You just immediately loved her. She was just a sweet dog. It's yet another perfect, lazy summer day on Lake Ida. And the Great Pyrenees, Khaleesi, seems to still be campaigning for mayor of Cormorant. Ear scratches and puppy love.

But Khaleesi should relax. After a hard-fought campaign, including billboards, Khaleesi has been elected mayor of Cormorant, a town so small there is no city government. She had some tough competition, though. But Khaleesi isn't the only one who had a dog in the fight. Meet Ken, Ken Matthews, one of the Seaboys. Yeah, it was me and three dogs were up for election this year.

The Seaboys of rural Cormorant have nearly 4 million YouTube followers. People that love their shenanigans. A worldwide fan club. And so when Ken Matthews kind of threw his hat in the ring. Ken didn't actually know he was going to be running for mayor. We just signed him up. And then he found out once the local paper came out. Ken went all in.

Billboards popped up from here to Minneapolis. In the streets, like, shaking hands, securing votes. He was kissing babies. Like, I just can't believe he didn't win, quite frankly. Parades, a campaign team. But Khaleesi beat him. Yeah, you always want to see full transparency with everything. And now with the coronation set for this weekend...

There's talk of discontent. We might be protesting. Khaleesi has come a long way. And Khaleesi isn't the first dog to be mayor of Cormorant Village. You may remember Duke, another great Pyrenees. He reigned over the Lakes Country community from 2014 to 2019. After four successful campaigns to get reelected, Duke finally had to retire because of health conditions.

at the age of 13. I remember the mayor hat for sure. And I love that it started as a joke. His friends signed him up, but now he wants the job. Who's not going to vote for Khaleesi? Sorry, Ken. See, it's rigged. Oh, not again. I saw it.

People are actually sending it to me. For the record, I absolutely... I had four people reach out last night. Asking if you were alright. Dude, it looks like a meme. It is. It's so funny. It's so funny. It doesn't feel real. The news reporter looks like he was having a great job just...

like interviewing us. Great time. Yeah. They were kind of dogging on Ken too. Like even the reporters at the end. Yeah. They're like, they're like, why would this guy think he could beat a dog? Like they're just like, it was weird. All I know is we're going to be protesting this Saturday. I'm angry. Podcasts already be out, but we're protesting.

We're protesting. Stay tuned. That's going to be in a YouTube video. Seems just like Cormorant's trying to fill a hole, you know? This hole that Duke left. Voting another Great Pyrenees. Yeah, like it looks even the same. And then Jake's dad stole one from another state and brought it here? That was the other funny part is as soon as they were planning on this. It's like they were planning this. Yeah, it doesn't. Some things are adding up.

but Dave hops on the phone, calls us right after the news that his dog won after they cashed the check that he wrote him to buy the votes. Yeah. Allegedly.

just kidding but he goes he goes yeah i don't know i mean they said you that our dog won by 76 i think it's just because you know it came from like a town that everyone knew the dog and they must have voted and it means you're like dave what the fuck are you talking about right now dude no this isn't legit dog dog no pun intended yeah they're delusional yeah

All I know is that dog is not my mayor. Dog's nobody's mayor. It's an appointed official. It's imposter. It's not my mayor. It's imposter.

Dude, a dead dog doesn't even have thumbs. It is pretty funny that Ken lost to three dogs. Dude, that is insane. You probably took dead last. Well, yeah. If all my votes got thrown out, then of course I got dead last. The thing is, I want to be like, oh, no one wanted to vote for you, but you had everyone voting for you, even the locals. They were wearing your shirts. They were putting your signs in their yard. All the signs we put in Cormorant Village got stolen and placed in neighborhoods. That is flattery.

It is flattering like driving down my road and seeing like all the signs that were in front of Home Run Village and now they're on my road. I think I actually seen some signs when I was crossing the Canada border way like 3,000 miles back. They had them up? They had them up. Yeah, they had them up. It was big. Some boomers in the local bar was like,

talking about Ken running for mayor, and they were like, they just want him to win so they can get away with more stuff around here. I was like, what do you think Ken's going to be doing as the fake appointed mayor? You think Ken's pulling for us to do more bad stuff? Yeah, right? He might put on more laws to keep us in place. I just thought it was funny because hearing the other side of like, no, we don't want him in.

as mayor of our town. Like it has any official meaning. You guys hear that all of our social security numbers got hacked? Wait, Spenny, you're Canadian. Do you have a social security number? I got a social insurance number.

Not as much as the kid's number. It's a little bit different. It's a little bit different. What does it do? Can you say yours and then also your date of birth? Throw your credit card number. I don't even know mine by heart. Is that a thing you're supposed to know by heart? It depends on how much you have to use it. I have to use mine so much that I know it by heart. Oh, dude, I never really use mine. What's yours, Mike?

Nice. It's crazy, though, dude. If there's no security in the number, is it just like a social number? No. I just wonder what they're going to do with them. The article I read said almost every American got their social security. They're going to clone. They're going to clone. Who took it? Hackers. It just said hackers. But it's like if everyone got theirs stolen, then it's got to be some sort of... That's kind of what I thought. I was like, is it even that big of a deal? Essentially, it's like I just stole...

all the money in America. And then it's just like, what happens? What are you going to do with it? What do you do with it? Money's nothing now. So are you supposed to get a new one? Can you get a new one? You just said freeze your...

Freeze your credit. I don't even know how to do that. Oh, I did that a while ago. I don't have any credit. Nobody's more locked down and secure than Ken. Ken, what are some like, what's some advice for people out there? Like what are things that you do that just wouldn't seem real? Like I have not never thought to lock down my social security number. No. How does he dumb this down for you to understand? I don't know. Like a few years ago, like,

information was part of one of a series of data breaches and was like it was a scarring day a youtube video the worst day of his life like one of the things was like oh you can like freeze your credit or whatever so if you want to apply for new loans or something you have to like unfreeze it otherwise the banks can't pull it that makes sense so then it was like okay you know anytime you have to get a loan you just have to unfreeze it for a day or two and then it just goes back

So that's kind of slightly inconvenient, but you just got to... They just say like, oh, your credit's frozen. Can you unfreeze it for us? This is totally off topic, and I'm sorry. We'll get back into Ken's Ken-isms. But why has this dude got a GoPro recording him? Can we not get him like an actual camera, Brian?

we don't know ryan ryan steals too much money to have that in the budget we have another camera like seven cameras laying around here we just toss a gopro we do he's a big part of the podcast too he's a big part have you ever requested a camera dude's in fish it was an iphone for a little bit so we are that was a lot better by the way he's done super view no it's it's the one where it like is super wide and then it like distorts your face but we we

He's on Superview.

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How many podcasts have we done and we haven't gotten Ken an actual camera? This is 135. Dude, the budget's tight around here. Yeah, because you steal all of it. Look at our cords, dude. My cords got stolen from here. It's tough. The problem is actually lenses. We have lots of camera bodies, but we don't have a lens without setting them up over there. I think a lens is cheaper than an actual GoPro these days. We had two wides. We already have the GoPro, so that's free to just put that.

Don't we have two wides laying around somewhere? Ken, I'm going to do something about this. Yeah? I'm going to do something about this. Ken, I want to get you on an actual camera. That's what I like to hear. He is a big part of the podcast. Well, it's hard to say. He is. People do always say when Ken sits over here, so nice to have Ken in the podcast. Oh, that's nice. I love that. They do love it. I love that.

I think it's tough because it's like some podcasts he's not here at all. So then our new expensive camera. I'm not by any means not justifying it. I think he should have a camera too. No, we have four of these cameras. And then other podcasts, you know, like he might not be very talkative. So we don't have to cut to it much. What do you do with that board in front of you, Ken? Can you scoot that into the frame or maybe it is already in frame? Ken, press one of the sound boards.

Like why do you- Press number one. Next time you're gonna get my hopes up, could you please take me to a grease monkey? Cause I like to get lubed up before I get s***. Huh? Some lube would be nice. Or at least a courtesy lick, God. How about a little courtesy lick next time you decide to f*** me?

Wow, Ken. When did you load that up in there, dude? I didn't. Oh, you don't have to lie to us, Ken. It's almost like the person in the middle did. I loaded that on there the day we got the board. What are the other ones? What do the other ones do? I only loaded one sound on there. You should be a little more dialed. When there's an awkward moment, press that. That was so loud. That was really loud, yeah. Scary, too. That was scary, too. That was actually kind of scary. Halloween music. Don't even have headphones on. He doesn't have headphones.

No shit. Ken's not paying attention half the time.

The dude can't even hear us. He's sitting on the other end of the room. At least we took the TV that was blocking. Yeah. Where the fuck is the new TV? I wonder where. We don't even have a TV to watch now. You took it down to play Fortnite. Oh, pretty soon the desk is going to be gone. What happened to the desk? There's chairs in the middle of the room. Cheap ass chairs. I did buy new chairs that aren't broken, but I don't think I brought it up here actually, to be honest. I don't think I brought it up here.

I think it's still sitting in the kitchen. I put together like three chairs the other day. One's sitting there and the other one's in the kitchen. I don't think these chairs are an upgrade. No, I also bought the cheapest Amazon chair that you can, dude. It is funny. This has been a pretty successful podcast.

Like, if you got rid of this table, this would be the cheapest fucking podcast set ever. Like, it'd be as bare bones as it gets. Some junk that we found around the shop. You just set it up in some random, like, spot. Like, oh, we're going to make do. But we didn't sit for this long.

You have this stuff behind us. That's good. It is kind of just junk that we found around the shop. What should we hang up on the wall? Hey, let's hang up our 100,000 subscribers play button. Come on, dude. I'm working on it over here. Come to the video with an idea, brother. I think the back's pretty lit. I think the most random is the damage see-through spark prop.

That actually might be. That was just misplaced. Or the Ford Raptor. Is that CJ's Ford Raptor? Should we record Ken with this instead? Is that a GoPro 3? No, this is a GoPro Hero. The first GoPro ever. That's rare. I kind of need Evan in here for this.

Your sister was texting me the other day, Ev. His face when you said that. You want to get in here? What do we got going on here? All right. So your sister sent this to me after last podcast when you surprisingly started backing up fruit booting, a.k.a. rollerblading. This guy thinks everything's Cheeto, but then all of a sudden you bring up rollerblading. The actual one of the more Cheeto things. That's not Cheeto. Cheeto.

That's not Cheeto. I'm like, what? You're going to say that's not Cheeto out of all the other things you walk around all day and call Cheeto. If they're out there getting after it, why is that Cheeto that some kid is passionate about riding his fucking rollerblades? If someone's out on a Harley riding wheelies...

enjoying putting on a thousand miles. That's not Cheeto. No, you just combined two things. Doing a burnout. If you're doing wheelies on a Harley, not Cheeto. If you're going bar to bar with your belly hanging out on the Harley, that is Cheeto. All right, what do we got with these fruit booters? So his sister sent me these. Don't call them that. That's offensive to Evan. Is it? Yeah. It's not offensive to me at all. You call them fruit booters up north?

Dude, I'm glad you're such a fan of this footage. I've never heard fruit booters. That's new. It looks like you're on a scooter here. Dude, that was the most legendary skate spot in Cloquet. Cloquet Youth Center. Well, yeah, it's middle school. That's a nice little four set. Nice. Whoa. This is an edit.

Damn. I didn't know you were a cheerleader like this. Is this a sponsor me video? This looks like it was a year before we had you join the team. Did I remember making that? That was sick actually. From the, I don't even know what they were called. It looked like a cassette that ran in the camera. Oh, it was a disc. And then hooked that up to the TV and had the VCR and

The VCR was attached to the TV like it was a one-piece deal and then like there was a mad delay So it was so hard to like you were at it pausing and stop. Yeah. Yeah And then the next one I think it's actually on YouTube. No, we haven't chefs on this. Oh, I'm surprised this hasn't gotten more No, we've had we've done we haven't seen you know one you're in your rollerblades on us with a speedo on Oh

Yeah, we were just super burned. Oh, my God. Wait, that's you. Oh, my God. What do you call that trick? That's the definition of fruit booting right there. That's an air hump. That's the definition of fruit booting. You're air humping. Dude, I just threw on a Speedo and an orange ski mask and hit the streets. This is why he was like, no, no, no. Scootering and rollerblading is sick. Dude, that's not Cheeto. That's insane. Is the camera shaking because the guy's laughing so hard? Wait, why did you do this?

Dude, literally just me and a couple buddies were bored, so we wanted to do something. Just a couple regular guys having some classic fun. Just a couple dudes hanging out with Speedos on. Just a couple regular guys having fun, man. 14 years ago. Wow. Dude, you've came a long way. I've been in the game for a long time. That's crazy.

Dude, I'm not going to unlock it, but I got like probably 30 videos on YouTube. But as soon as we started hanging out, I locked them all down. I didn't delete them just in case, but yeah. That's good. Why? I mean, they're all stupid. I don't know. Just dumb. Pull some of them up. Let's watch. I don't even know if I'm signed into my... So that was on your account? Nah, that might have... No, I don't think that one actually... No, that's definitely not on my account, actually. Eric Free Fry. Eric Frick. Frick.

Should we be concerned that CJ has your sister's phone number? Nah, she's married. And his mom's. It's a little more concerning, but it's probably fine. We were just chatting. That's all we were doing. Okay, here's a classic scooter one. We spelt the word manual wrong. I called it world's longest scooter manual. Could have been me and CJ editing it. Manual. Manual.

I went like four city blocks doing a wheelie on the scooter. I love how they all say, buy Evan Chef. Dude, that's cool. Yeah, what, like, I'm a... Man, you always sign your art. Is that you? Yeah. No, that's him. Man. Man, you always have been a wheelie boy, haven't you? You look like a punk. I was a little punk. The pink scooter throws it off a little bit. How old are you here, Ev? Ugh.

Probably 14, maybe. How do you slow down in a downhill scooter manual? You don't, but that's the only reason you should go so far because you needed to go down. Right at the end, there's a Corvette that drives by. Did you show the Evan Schreff Speedo video? Yep.

He doesn't have headphones, dude. He doesn't know what's going on. I'm just looking through all the videos on YouTube. Ken, we just showed that. Just got to talk a little louder for him, guys. Yeah, just a couple BMX videos, a couple ski videos. That's unbelievable. I'm looking through his catalog. Well, yeah, but weren't you just listening? Pretty much every video on there that's tagged Evan Chef anything is not posted by me or from me. Sorry.

Something that I thought was pretty funny after you commented on what he was wearing is yesterday, oddly enough, Evan goes, Ben.

You think I'm a stinky boy now at 30? You should have smelt me at 13. I didn't change my underpants for 45 days one time. You did say that. Because they were my lucky underpants. Dude, I remember them. They were from Old Navy. They were baby blue with goldfish on them. Not the insides. And I don't know what made me decide that they were like my lucky underwear. And it was during the summer.

So for whatever reason, I just kept running them, hit them with a little Axe body spray. You didn't wash them once? No, and the craziest part about the whole thing, because I didn't do my own laundry, obviously, how did my mom not notice that?

That there were no underwear in circulation. She probably was just happy she wasn't washing skid marks out and she didn't want to ask questions. Dude, I finally had to retire them because the undercarriage of them literally just blew out. It was like, it was literally the outer seams and then like a middle stitch up the middle. It was like some misshapen thong. I just had to. Oh my God. How long did you have?

Dude, the worst thing is, is after that run, I think I sent him into the laundry and my mom's like, these things are shreds. You got to throw them away. I'm like, no. I got to keep those. You're going to sew them back up or what? I don't know. I think she washed them. I think I just fired them back in the drawer and they sat there for a while and told us too fat to fit them anymore. How bad did those smell after 45 days of wearing them in the summer? They smelled fine. They smelled like Axe body spray. Yeah.

No, they probably smelt exactly how you think they smell. I feel like you could get like a rash doing that. Like sweaty beard and just wearing it constantly. Building up my immune system at a young age. That's probably true. Where you run in like the whole like wear them one way and then flip them inside out and then you flip them backwards and then you flip them backwards inside out. That is a good way to get four days out of it, but I've never fully agreed with that because then the part that was backwards the day before now is in the front like...

It's not really a good method. At least not for me. Yeah.

Bad hygiene. I would just like to say I went and got Ken headphones and he looked at them and didn't even put them on You don't even walk in those on Ken. Are you gonna ask questions about something? We talked about five minutes ago I was trying to do more research on Evans YouTube videos. So did you show it the scootering one yet? No, I'm still trying to find ones that have Scooter montage. What about the one that he wheelies down the hill? I haven't found that one yet because it's private. Good luck. I

Can we get back to the guest here? Spencer's sitting here. Are you guys going to argue this whole time? What am I doing here? I'm just learning stuff about... Evan might have been a little Cheeto back in the day.

Isn't Axe body spray kind of Cheeto? Not when you're 13. That was the cool thing. I had Old Spice. I thought in Canada, Axe was kind of Cheeto. Dude. Old Spice was the cool one. Do you not remember the Axe commercials in the mid-2000s? They were lit. Like Ryan Sheckler, double pits to Chesty. Oh, that's true. That's true. He was hitting. Who was the moto guy that did one? It's probably Deegan. Wait, did Sheckler come up with double pits to Chesty? That was just their slogan. I mean, just, yeah.

But I think that like, I think every athlete there, there was a handful of them. I think they all did a double Pista chest. Maybe it was Sean White. He did. He did some act stuff. Did you Adam Jones? That's right. He came up with it. He was the first one to double Pista chesty. It was kind of legendary. Yeah, that was pretty legendary. Yeah. That was really stuck. Like talk about somebody just doing something and then your brand is just like forever known. Yeah.

That does make X kind of cool. I am literally having flashbacks of the middle school locker room. We had to share a locker room with the older upperclassmen, and this one guy was just a bully. He would just intimidate the younger, everyone in my class in the locker room. So one day, once they left...

I took the Axe thing and all those holes in the water. I just sprayed the whole bottle on his clothes and then just left. And then the dude smelled like Axe for the rest of the day. Wow.

Just for the love of the game. I didn't even tell anyone. I didn't want to risk it. I was like, I'm going to get this guy, but I obviously couldn't do anything. So I just... Everybody's walking around. He's walking around. Everybody's telling him how good he smells. He probably smelled terrible. You put too much of that on your clothes, you smell terrible. Gives you a headache, too. Yeah. Maybe gave him a headache for the rest of the day. Yeah, that got him. That showed him. I don't know. I thought I got him better. Your guys' reaction makes me think I didn't really get him that good. I feel like that's pretty good. I made the horrible mistake of...

under my own will just seeing if i could fit into a locker oh no and you and you are you sure they didn't push you in the locker they would not let me out and all of a sudden i was stuck in a locker and it was it was after swimming so i'm in my swim trunks in that cold little metal no no no you're swimming

We had a pool at our school. You suck at swimming, dude. You got it all backwards. You're wearing your Speedo out in public, but your swim trunk's in the pool. You got to run it the opposite way. So they left you in the locker for how long? I mean, not that, like, five minutes, but, like, I hardly fit. That sounds terrible. Dude, it was terrible. Yeah, and you start to panic just a little. Like, I'm not overly claustrophobic, but I was... Yeah, and there's nothing you can do. Like...

like you start screaming yeah trying to get the teacher to go but I'm sure only made it funnier dude how they finally just let me out before like the gym teacher came in and someone got in trouble do you eventually get used to getting stuffed in the locker no it was literally the only time and I just I don't even know why I did I'm like oh I think I can fit and I go in and that door clicks shut I'm just like no it's like when we put Mike in the trunk that would have been even scarier because it was dark I

At least this had light coming in. One time I got put in a locker by... Forcefully? They were my friends, I swear. They were my friends. Forcefully? I think more of like the, we should see if I could fit kind of thing. And then... I know exactly what you're talking about. Then they obviously lock me in. And I start squirming naturally. Let me out, let me out. Back to the...

banging on it, you know, trying to get out. And then it opens up and I like fall out. And there's a teacher standing there, right? And she starts yelling at me for making a ruckus in the locker. I was like, this is my fault. I was stuck in the locker. There's class.

class in session. I wasn't stoked about being stuck in there. So what went on in Canadia schools? Same type of stuff? Old Spice instead of Axe? Yeah, Old Spice, Axe. There was some Axe. Getting locked in lockers. Dude, the one thing that I was hustling in elementary, middle school because I was going to all these dirt bike races and they're all monster sponsored. So I was getting flat and

Flats of Red Bull and Monster, and I would take it and fill my locker, and kids would meet me at my locker at, like... I'd text them a time, and they'd come and meet me, and I'd sell them a Monster. In elementary? In middle school, for sure. Like, 7, 8, 9. Damn. There's this one kid named Kyle...

Of course. Shut the fuck up. His name was actually Kyle? Yeah. I swear to God. He was the biggest, biggest consumer. I remember him. His name was Kyle Jones and he wore purple shoes, purple fallen shoes. Well, that's not Cheeto. Dude, that was pretty cool to have him.

Jamie Thomas, great shoes. And he would come to my locker every single day and he'd be like, yo, dude, you got a monster? He's like, I got four bucks. And I'd give him a monster every day. And I always had it stacked because I was at all these races and that's when they would hand it out for free everywhere.

Really? Just a hot, walking monster. Dude, I was like hustling Monster and Red Bull so hard. Were you paying tax on that? No, no. That was just... That was all under the table. You ever get caught up getting high on your own supply? No, no. I never drank them. I never drank them because my parents were like, well, you can take them, but don't drink them or whatever. And then...

And then here's the best part. Just sell them at school. Yeah, just sell them at school. So here's the best part. So I'm like grade 10, 11, and 12. I'm racing in the States and now I'm learning that everybody's like smoking cigars, like wine cigars, cigarettes.

Chewing tobacco. But in Canada, right then, they banned flavor nicotine. So I'm going to the States every weekend, and I'm getting my allotment on chewing tobacco, like Coke Mint, Coke Wintergreen, getting all the flavors, stuffing my boots full with it. And my parents are buying it for me because I'm only 16 or 17. Why, damn, dude.

Because I was like... They just were cool with it? No, I was like, hey, my buddies want me to get some coat for them. Will you buy it and I'll take it to them? And they're like, yeah, sure, we'll buy it. But you can't do it. And I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to do it anyways. I didn't want to do it anyways. So I was buying a tin, or I was buying a log...

for like 20 bucks or whatever how much it was and I was selling a tin for $25 so I was making $125 per log what was that 20 US and then 25 Canadian we gotta be specific yeah yeah but that's when the dollar this is like when the dollar was super close so it was almost no it was the opposite so it was better to buy stuff in the US than Canada

So I was hustling tins. You were slinging them out of your locker still? Well, no. By that time, my parents had bought a sprinter like your guys' black, a black sprinter, and I was driving that to school every day. Slinging out the black sprinter. So I was slinging tins on the black.

He was a straight up dealer. Dude, I was an actual dealer and there's kids that were like, they're like, dude, buying a log a week in high school, chewing a log a week in high school is like kind of gnarly. Oh, so you were just raking it in. Dude, I was making, I was like making like,

couple hundred bucks a month off kids buying like tins for me in high school I tell my parents I'll be like yeah I'll give you like 40 bucks every time parents were getting into this with you well it wasn't like what do your parents do for a living or maybe don't answer on here maybe don't answer on here

What the fuck? That's so funny, dude. Hey, nobody's going to turn down a free $40 bill. Hey, $40 is $40. $40 is $40. Dude, you're like Copenhagen's youngest sponsored athlete. Dude, I was just trying to go racing. Just trying to go racing, man. It's expensive. It's expensive. There's no doubt about that. Just trying to buy some grips for my dirt bike and some tires. Well, let's get into your racing a little bit. So...

How the fuck did you get this good at dirt bikes? So obviously you were racing initially. Was it always Enduro? Because you were a professional. You still are a professional Enduro cross rider. Yeah.

Well, yeah, I don't know. What the fuck was so funny about that? What was so funny about that? You were just like, how do you get so good at dirt bikes? What you do is just pretty broad spectrum. Dirt bikes. You're not... You can race. You can fucking ride on the roof of Pizza Hut. You're dirt biking. You're right. You're right. I am just biking. Yeah, you're dirt biking. Yeah, honestly. So I've always grew up with bikes. Like...

My parents got me a bike when I was three and they took me to the track in Canada and I was like begging them to go get a bike so they got me a quad. Whoop.

Oh my god. Dude, I was pissed. I woke up on my birthday. You were pissed? And there was a quad there and I was like, this is not a bike. How old were you? Like three. I might be three, but I know this is wrong. That's funny, dude. Dude, I was so mad they bought me a quad. And then I started riding the quad and I rolled it off a bridge and I was stuck under it. On purpose? Oh yeah.

Oh, no, no. By accident. I got stuck under it. So then my grandpa was on a ride on mower and I rolled off the bridge on our little property. So then they realized that the quad was too dangerous. And then they bought me a bike. Finally. That's why a lot of people don't ride quads. Yeah. Dangerous. You know, they don't. Can you imagine if you stuck with the quads? Dude. It might be just like Ryan. Imagine riding. Nothing. Dude, instead of me and Evan riding dirt bikes on the top of, uh,

the pizza plate pizza ranch it would have been me and Ryan riding quads on the top of pizza ranch we probably wouldn't even know you you guys would have been in the parking lot just spinning donuts doing two wheels dude Ryan

If I was a quarter, I would have hit Pizza Ranch with you. Thanks, dog. So you started racing. I started racing dirt bikes at four, and I went to my first couple races. Dude, I used to be such a bad kid in school. Well, yeah, no shit, dude. You got to explain that one out. Yeah. No, like young age, like four, five, six. Kicked out, or what were you doing? I don't know. I was just...

Silly string and silly putty. Those fucking little wristbands, like the shaped wristbands. Silly bands. Dinosaur bands. Silly bands, yeah. I was super ADHD, but the only thing that I was stoked about was riding bikes. So I would like fake sick.

and not be sick and then my parents would stay home from work or whatever to keep me and then I'd just go ride and my mom... I don't know how they would let me ride, but I would fake sick and I wouldn't go to school, but then I'd somehow at the end of the day start feeling better. Like halfway through, I'd feel better. You might get taken away from your parents. At the age of 25, they'd take him away and put him in social services.

Hey, you never know. Canada might do that shit. Your parents right now are just like punching the fucking TV. Shut up. Shut up. Your first podcast ever and you're doing this? Dude, I just wanted to ride my bike. I didn't want to be at school with a bunch of kids drawing pictures and shit.

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That's fair. To be fair, it did work out for you. But OK, so you're skipping school. You're all of a sudden feeling better at the end of the day. So, yeah, I was riding whatever started racing and then I

I switched. I had a friend get hurt. I was always racing moto because I thought moto was so cool and I thought off-road was so lame. So I raced moto and then one of my friends got hurt and my parents were like, all right, we don't want to see you get hurt. So we're not going to do moto anymore. So then they started making me ride off-road and then I thought it was so lame. I was like,

They wanted to take me on trail rides and it was so hard. And I was like, I could never pick up my bike because I'm not a huge guy and I was never huge when I was little either. So I could never pick up my bike or start my bike and I just hated it.

And then, I don't know, like, 15, 16, right when I got my license, I started, like, just going to the track every day and just riding a lot. And then that's when I started taking racing seriously. And I was... I'd always done everything. Like, dude, I used to cross-country ski race. I used to race moto. I used to ski. I used to snowboard. Like, just...

like cross country at school, badminton, volleyball. Like I was always just doing like every single sport possible. Are you one of those guys that's just good at everything? Like pretty talented? I'm not good at everything, but I've done everything and I want to be good at it. So like I always had like a skateboard and I always had to like

be the best out of all my friends because I hated like them being better than me like if like if one of my friends showed up to the skate park and hit a kickflip on his skateboard for the first time I'd go home and practice that and the next time I show up I'd be doing like a very old kickflip or something like I was always just trying to like one up my buddies I guess sounds like my buddy Evan but he's just never figured out how to how to ride skateboards yeah the skate skateboards my weak still working on still working on so I did like everything like

I'm the same as Evan. Like, I was ripping scooters. I was, like, mountain biking, BMXing. Like, anything I could get, I was trying to do. What if you were going to do it at all? Rollerblades. Yeah, I rollerbladed. Like, not legit rollerblading, but I had some, and I, like, ripped them, like, doing 360s and stuff. Well, like, if you did it at all, as soon as you got a taste, you're like, it's no fun to suck at this. You at least want to, like...

That is a serious... I think that's a good point, though. It all kind of adds up together and creates a well-rounded individual who's multi-athlete. I've crashed in every single sport. Some of my friends are the best in the world at dirt biking, but they crash and they'll break their wrists. And I do the same crash, maybe even bigger, and I don't get hurt. But I've also crashed doing every single sport, I feel like. So I've just built a...

muscle memory of like how to crash or how to do like different weird things. You're like a cat. Yeah. I don't really are like a cat. I feel like a cat too. Like I feel like I could just like jump out of a tree and somehow land on my feet. Like it's weird dude. Like off a Zorba sign. Well is there a clip? Yeah. There's probably clips of us on the Zorba side. How the hell did you guys end up on the Zorba side? Well so. We're going to get fucking banned from that place. They were kissing on top of the Zorba? They were kissing.

The last time I went up there, I said, oh. No, we were hugging on top of the Zorbazine. Well, we had to hug just so we didn't fall. It's literally a two-by-six. We had to hug. We had to kiss and do. Are we kissing? The last time I was up there. Did you kiss me on the Zorbazine? That's why I go home after 10. I said, I will never do this again because that board is rotten with conduit to it. Did you kiss me on the Zorbazine? No.

Yo. You're the closest thing to him. Oh, my God. They wanted the whole Zorbas to see. Let's get up there and kiss. I can't believe it didn't break. Like, this board is rotten. Yeah, dude. Every time you get up there. And I do it, like, five times. I'm like, I'm never doing that again because when that gives out. You've been up there five times? You're going to have to, like, start putting spikes on that thing so you stop going up there. Like the bird spikes. Grease the pole. No.

It kind of gets everybody going. They finish their drink. They're like, heck yeah. And they go spend some money. Dude, everybody was stoked. There was like 15 people around filming. It was crazy. Was the owner out there filming too? I think he was pretending he didn't know what was happening. I also told him I wasn't going to do it anymore. And then like a half hour later. I think you were. You looked out the window and there's

Is he? Both of you guys up there kissing. There was no kiss. Can we? I'm not even mad. I'm just more confused. This is happy for you. That was a survival tactic. Two people on a Rottato 2x6. No, we need a line. They were going to die. We had to kiss. We couldn't leave it on the table. It was going to be our last kiss.

Dude, I think you get some pull around there, Evan, just because you spend so much money there. They're like...

eh, it's Evan. Just let him do what he wants. If he wants a kiss on the sign. If he wants to go up on the roof, let him do it, I guess. I don't know. There's some crazy guy on the sign. Oh, no. That's just Evan. He says he's going to jump. Dude, I was trying to jump. I was so scared. Like, we were hugging, and the board was so small, and, like, Evan was pushing me up, and he was pushing me up, and I was like, dude, I got to jump. I got to jump. Like, I have to jump. No, but I'm telling you, you can't. We're 15 feet. Like, were you liquored up? No, I was sober. You were sober.

One of us drunk trying to kiss you. He was trying to kiss me. I'm more concerned that you were sober doing all this. Well, he just invited me up and I was like... I didn't think it was...

I didn't think it was gonna be that bad until I got up there. And then I got up there and I was like, holy shit, dude. And the worst part, the light is blinding you so you can't really see down. You can't even see anybody. The bugs are so thick around that spot, like they're just in your mouth. They're in your eyes. It's terrible. Dude, it's terrible up there. It's so bad up there. It sucks. There's a sweaty, stinky boy trying to kiss you.

Evan does it like three nights a week. I'm so concerned about Spenny getting down safely. I'm like, you can't jump. You got to swing over to the pole and slide down. Dude, Evan was actually like, he was holding on to me. He was so comforting too. He was so comforting. Yeah, he's like a little nugget. Big warm body. He's like, wait, don't jump. He's like, don't jump. Just come in closer. Spenny, Spenny, Spenny.

Don't jump. I didn't know you got gay head elevated surfaces. No, no, no. When it rains and when he gets up on the side. I didn't want to send Spenny back to Canada with a blown out ankle. Don't jump, don't jump. Just get closer.

Bro, I'm so concerned about Spenny jumping and hurting himself. I think, I don't really remember exactly what happened because I think he was getting down safely and I got absolutely bodied into the swamp. Dude, and there's a cliff. And there is a cliff. I fell into the swamp. Dude, he fell into the rebarb.

I swear, you get more beat up off camera. I'm down safe. I got down and I was safe and I forgot heaven was still up there. And I look back and I see a body falling through the air and then I see a bunch of reeds and cat tails flying all over the place.

That's what I wake up to is a video of Evan falling eight feet to the ground into the swamp. We found out that Ryan doesn't know how to get down from elevated surfaces either. Bro, that was hilarious. What do you mean? I got down just fine. Well, like seven minutes later. Take it slow. You look like the little kid, like reminds me of Aiden when he climbs a tree and he's so excited to get up there. And then he's as high as he's going to go and he looks around and then just, I don't know what I'm doing. He just frees up.

Yeah, when you were hanging off the roof of Pizza Ranch and your legs were dangling. It was awkward to watch. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. And we're just like, just drop. You're like six inches off from just getting down. I don't know what's underneath me.

The ground! It's scary, though. It's scary. And there's a sharp edge you're hanging off, too, man. No, it is blind. I'll give them the benefit of that one. It's blind. It is blind. You had to go, like, tin roof, which was slippery, to an air conditioning unit to the ground. Imagine being 15 feet up, blinded by the light with a sweaty guy trying to hug you. Kiss you. But, yeah, anyways, the bike stuff. Yes, yes.

Yeah, go back to it. Let's hear it. Oh, yeah, yeah. Don't skip ahead, though. I'm actually curious. No, we're running through the whole timeline here. We'll go through the whole timeline. Yeah, Mike. Whatever. Copenhagen at three. I started selling whatever, trying to race dirt bikes, and then 16, 17, I was like...

should I go pro skiing or should I go pro dirt biking? And then I was like, what a dilemma. I wasn't that good, but like I had gone to some like ski camps and I'd gone to some dirt bike camps and I liked them equally both. I think any way I would have went, I would have been pro. Like I have like that mindset. Like I agree. Anything that I do, I want to be the best at. And like, I don't want to like half ass anything. So if I would have gone and been like, I could have been a skater. I could have been a skier, but like,

the wheels have always been like kind of my thing like I always mountain biked and like dirt biked and did whatever on the wheels so then 16 17 I start racing in the U.S. I got good enough in Canada that I could win like some local stuff and then I was like what's the next step it's the U.S. and then started going to the U.S. got good and then I got picked up by my first team in the U.S. when I was

17 for what it was a ktm satellite team out of washington and uh enduro cross yeah enduro cross and hard enduro what's enduro cross enduro cross is like man-made obstacles in a stadium with like 16 riders on the track and it's like cutthroat everybody's like slamming each other there's crashes everywhere and we're hitting like huge rock lines like big tractor tires and

And you're doing it for like seven minutes and there's three motos. And whoever does the best in the three motos wins the overall. Like whoever gets the farthest? Yeah. There's logs, water. Logs, water crossings, like rocks, cars sometimes, like just weird obstacles. So I started doing that and then I went to a desert race in Arizona.

Arizona and I won it. And then the team was like, Hey, you won this race. You should go to the next one. So the next one was in Vegas, went and won the next race in Vegas. And this is like desert racing. So I had, I had an Enduro cross bike, which was set up different. I had a hardened or a bike, which hardened row is like big mountain skiing. We're going up like huge mountains. You don't even know what you're going to see. You could see like

Five foot water crossing, river crossing, or you could find like a rock wall that isn't even rideable sometimes. And we have to help lift our bikes up. Like you have to get there and like second, first, second and third and whoever will help each other sometime. Like,

The tracks are that gnarly. They're super grueling. We're out there for five hours. Like, it's gnarly. It's some of the gnarliest, like, riding you can do. Super hard on your body. I was doing that, and I had a bike for that. And then I was racing desert, so, like, I was riding a lot of motocross. Like Baja? Not Baja, but, like, kind of like Baja. Like, sand whoops and, like, just, like, a moto track with no jumps, but through the desert. So, kind of gnarly. Like, rocks and stuff. And so, I did three series...

And then that year was 2018. I won a U.S. Works Championship. That was, like, right when I was, like, all right, like,

I'm actually getting good at dirt biking. It was weird. I'd come off of the race and I would tell my parents, I'd be like, I'd win and I'd beat all these like super fast kids. And they're like, how do you feel? And I was like, I feel like I'm not that fast. And they're like, yeah, but you won. But I was just getting so good that like, it was like becoming effortlessly. I did that year. And then the next year I got sick and that was COVID 2019. No, 2019 I got sick. And I was just like, I went from being like a really, really fast rider. And I just,

could like my training went downhill i got really sick and then covid happened and then i was like i need to start finding something to do because i couldn't race as much because i got super sick so then i was like maybe i should start youtube so i started vlogging the races which is like was from the sideline no no i was racing them but i was like vlogging everything i would do so i would go then it got hard because i was driving to the races i was mechanicing on my own bikes i was

filming my own vlogs, editing my own vlogs, like getting my own sponsorships. Cause I didn't get a team. Cause I, so you fell off the team. I fell off the team after I got sick. Were you getting paid back before you got sick? Yeah. Yeah. So like that was your full-time job. I missed,

uh, the first semester of grade 12, my graduation year. Cause I was in the U S racing, uh, dirt bike series. So it was weird. Like I graduated high school with all my friends, but I was gone for half the year. And then I just came back, graduated with them and then went back to the U S and kept racing. How much were you making like a senior in high school when you're running full time moto? So that year I won a chance. I think that year I was like,

50 or 40 K us. I was only working. It was good. It was really good. It was really good. And then I was working. I had this program at high school where I didn't have to take options and I could work in the afternoon. So I'd go to, I'd go to class 9am to 12 and at lunch I would leave and I'd go to a dirt bike dealership and I'd work as a, an apprentice mechanic and I was getting hours into my blue book and I was like,

Maybe I'll be a dirt bike mechanic when I'm older. So I was building hours so I could go and just test my first year as a mechanic. And then I just was like, by that point, I was so sick and tired of working on my bike and other people's bike. I was just like, I can not be a mechanic. So I bailed on the mechanic thing, but I was working all through high school and I was the only kid in high school out of all my friends that had money because I was winning races and making money. I was working from lunchtime till six every single day.

So I was making like 18 bucks an hour every day for like the whole grade 11, grade 12. From 2020, I started making YouTube videos. They're not even anything crazy, but like just vlogs behind the scenes of what it's like to be like a pro racer. And that helped me with my sponsorship. And then I started building like my own platforms. And then...

At that point, I had met Buttery Films in California, which a lot of people know. He's like a legend on YouTube. Like, honestly, dirt bike community legend. Just honestly, just vlog legend. He's been on the podcast. Yeah. Did you know him, like, before you met him, obviously? You knew he was YouTubing and, like, doing his stuff? Yeah, I knew who he was. The way I met him was I met Medium Boy because he was filming back then. And he came to film my KTM team's photo shoot.

And that's how I met him. He got hired to do it? So he got hired to film my photo shoot. And this is when I was the champion too. So I had like the number one on my bike and stuff. And then he was like taking all these sick videos and photos and whatever. And then he's like, we're going to go see Young Pinch in San Diego tonight. Like you should come. So then I was like, yeah, I'll come. And then I went and I met Buttery and like all the California kids and

And then we started doing this thing. We'd go to the tracks and the tracks would be perfectly groomed and perfect. But there'd be some huge rock in the parking lot. And I'd look at it and be like, dude, I think I can hit that. And he's like, what do you mean you think you can hit that? And I'm like, dude, like, I think I can ride my bike over that rock. And he's like, all right, let's film it. And then we started going to all these tracks and I was just hitting these weird obstacles, like rocks in the parking lot. And like...

started like jumping out of cars and I like I think in like 2020 I rode my dirt bike through his house and did wheelies in his kitchen like I was doing circle wheelies in his kitchen and it was just like I don't know we just started hitting weird stuff and that's the way and then you're the king of that now I think that's your MO dude now we're riding on Pizza Ranch

One thing leads to another. I've always been a racer, but now I'm just like, I honestly like it more just doing like fun stuff. Next weekend, I'm racing a Red Bull race. And I just came and rode on the roof of a pizza ranch. No other pro is going to, like I'm in the pro class. No other pro is doing that. Like they're all at the gym training right now. And I'm like on a podcast and hitting pizza ranches and throwing bowling balls through TVs.

That's why we get along so well. Those guys aren't friends with us. That's why we like you, Spenny. You have the talent, but you're also a good time. You're not taking yourself too seriously. I'm a pro. I can't be riding dirt bikes on top of pizza ranches.

Dude, I don't really have as many sponsors anymore because the race... Some of the companies in the industry are, like, super racy, and they're like, oh, like, that's kind of dumb or whatever. But some companies think it's sick, so I just, like, prioritize myself around the companies, like, that think that's cool. Like, you guys have Kenda helping you out. They help me out a bunch, and they're, like, stoked on it. They're like, yeah, you just rode a dirt bike through a house. Like, they think that's sick. So now I'm like...

I cater my whole like sponsorship program to suit like what I'm going to do. Cause I know what I'm doing, but then also like, I'm going to go and do a world championship in Europe and,

But I'm also, like, going to go hit a Red Bull race in Tennessee and then film dumb stuff with you guys. You're just down for it all. Dude, I'm just down for anything, honestly. So, like, you got this. Well, you've had a few now in the time of us knowing you. But you have these moto vans. And they're built out for, like, sleeping in. You can haul all your bikes. Like, I go and, like, look in it.

What? Does more than sleep in those vans. As you would imagine. You can cook in them. You can do everything. You can clean in them. You can do anything. So anyways, it's interesting though. Like you go in there and like how well thought out they are and like you could live, you live out that thing for the most part and you just go

going all over the United States in it, which is just... I mean, I think it's super interesting, and you've been everywhere. It's kind of a weird lifestyle. It is. Like, the moto community... You're by yourself, too, for the most part. Dude, I'm just by myself. You're meeting up with your friends, but... Yeah, through biking and just racing, I have friends all over the country. I don't call myself a couch surfer, but, like, they became, like, family friends just from racing. So, like, if I go past their house and I don't stop, they'll be like, what, you're in my town and you got a hotel? Like...

Like, we're not friends. And I'm like, yeah, like, dude, like, if you want me to come stay, I'll come stay. So then it's because you're a good time. Like, yeah, some people just have that about them where it's just like, bro, we love it when you come to town and hang out with us. And you are always, always welcome. The door is always open. And that's where like, yeah, if you drove through the town and you didn't stop, I'd be like, what would be a little weird? I'm not gonna lie. I'd be like, what? Yeah.

Yeah, so I don't know. I just, now I do have a van. I got a bed in there. The bed gets used sometimes, but... Evan, this dude is so revved up. Why are you looking at me? This dude is so revved up after talking about the side kiss. Oh, my God. I have nothing to add to this. But that's the moto, honestly, the moto lifestyle. It's kind of like a surf lifestyle, you know? Like, it's just, like, super chill, laid back, like...

We're all just doing the same thing, just hanging. Any of my friends, if they want to come to Canada, I'm like, dude, you have to come to Canada. We got an extra room at the house. They come, stay for a week. We go hit the mountains, do whatever, show them the Canada dream. In Calgary? Yeah, Calgary. Dude, what's the one race in Europe somewhere that's super legendary? Harrisburg. Harrisburg? Harrisburg?

Erzberg rodeo. Yeah, Erzberg rodeo. Have you done that? No, I need to. I want to do it. Dude, when you do it, that'd be sick if we flew out and filmed it and maybe put Evan in it. Dude, no. Can we do this? I'm going to start training now. Can we actually run this in 27? I'll take this. No, I'm going to need that. What if we put Mike in it?

Good luck. Dude, I'm not even kidding you. Like, if I had more money, I would do everything. Six days? Six days Team Canada, I could do it. But it's like 30 grand. To race one race, 30 grand? Yeah, because you have to ship. What are you paying for? So it's six days racing in the row, and you ride for seven hours a day. It's literally insane. It's like the Iron Man of Iron Man races. The KTM six days. The KTM six days. But they also have an Erzberg.

Rodeo. Specific bike as well. KTM. Dude, you have to buy a brand new bike, which is like 12 grand. You have to run the KTM. No, no. You can buy any bike. I was like, damn. You have to buy. You can't go and ride for six days straight on a used bike. You start with a brand new bike. It's total. Yeah, you start with a brand new bike, zero hours. And when you're done six days riding in a row, it has like 40 hours on it. That sounds like a used bike that we'd buy.

Maybe even more than 40 hours, but that's like in six days, 40 hours. Yeah, it's a lot. And it's probably... That's a lot. Work to the max. Yeah, you're racing it. So like... Where's that at? Every year it switches. I think this year it's like...

What do you keep looking at me for, CJ? Sorry to interrupt, but... It was amazing. I'm sorry. Ivan, why'd you interrupt them? I was just thinking about Evan, how he was saying he doesn't have a lot of time to race anymore. He used to race. I'm like, well, here we go. Entering this race, you're going to have fucking seven minutes straight of riding. Dude, Evan, Ersberg Rodeo. Time is just an excuse for being fat.

So many people ask me, they're like, oh, you got to come do this race, you got to come do that race, but I can only do so much. I'm just a regular guy with a moto van, you know? That's true. You can't drive the moto van. I can't drive my moto van down there. Isn't there a ferry or something you could take? She flies you over there.

Yo, just tearing up Europe with the MotoVan. That'd be the dream. If I could ship that thing to Europe and rip around. They make MotoVans over there. I was going to say, you could just buy one. Yeah, you could. You could. That would be pretty awesome, though, if we went to Europe. We've never been to Europe, so it'd be kind of cool to do something like that. Dude, I want to go to Iceland. I want to go on a big trip. Amsterdam? Sure. Whatever you want. So last year. What do you want to do in Amsterdam, Ev? Hang around. Hang around.

Find some elevated surfaces. Check it out. Find some signs to climb up on, too. Probably. Ride on a pizza ranch. They got pizza ranches down there. We could ride on one. KFC. KFC. We'll find something to do. But yeah, I got a weird resume now, you know, like.

I probably have the weirdest resume out of any pro that I hang out with. 100%. Yeah. I'd agree. I mean, most of them probably would be like, I guess just nervous to do anything odd like that. Yeah, to do a 180 on top of a pizza ranch. It's like, it's not worth it. Yeah. And now I just like, I've hit so much random stuff. Like I can look at, and you guys have seen it. I look at something and I'm like, all right, I can do that. And you guys are like, I don't know. It seems a little sketchy or whatever.

Yeah, I mean... DJ usually is getting... Well, at the worst... No, I just don't want you to get hurt doing something for our video and, like, I just am looking out for you. I would never go too hard, though. I'd never go too hard where I'm, like, think I'm actually going to really get hurt. I just don't expect you to do anything. I just, like, if you think... When you're confident about something...

It makes me second guess. I know. It does make me second guess. They don't really even wrap their head around, like, the trials bike thing. And you're like, I got this. Like, are you sure? Like, dude, just chill. Roll the camera. Let me run this. Yeah, yeah, true. Once you say that, then I'm like, all right, let's roll the camera. Yeah, that's true. That's true. But I got a weird confidence now where I'm just like, most things I look at, if I think, if I'm like, oh, I can hit that, then I'm like, usually good to hit it. But if I'm like, look at it, I'm like...

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know about this one, boys. Like, it probably isn't going to go. I can't imagine what that looks like for how many things that you have done just effortlessly for you to look at and go, I don't know, boys. It'd have to be like a three-story brick wall. Do you think that if you came in fast enough, you could make it to the top? I don't know. If you just throw a log at the bottom, I'll pop off.

pop off it. Do you have a stick? That's what you'd say. That is crazy. Yeah, there's like a small twig right here. Yeah, perfect. Put that down right there. That's what you do. I literally did that. Ben's like, where do you want this? He's like, you want this stick right here? I'm like, yeah. He's like, this stick right here? I'm like, yeah, just put it right here. He's like, right here? Are you sure? Or on the van, you're like, oh man, I think I gotta shovel up a lip. You put like two scoops of dirt and you stomp on it. Literally. Dialed.

I'm envisioning shoveling for an hour like you're going to build some jump. Evan was literally out there with the skid steer prepping the van jump for probably 30 minutes to an hour. And I was like, I went over and looked at it and he's like, how does that look? And I was like, yeah, I'm just going to get a shovel and fix it up real quick. I took a shovel, literally put two piles of dirt and just kicked it in with my foot and then hit it. I believe it. So I did good. I was real close. I was close. You were close. You talked about like maybe being a skier. Yeah.

Then you decided to go pro dirt bike. What do you think would have gotten more chicks? Dirt bikes. Dude, dirt bikers don't get chicks. You must not be a dirt biker, dude. I don't get chicks. Really? All that time on the road? It's lonely on the road. But I'd love to have a nice girl in the passenger seat. I got an open seat. Just a door short, town to town hop. Passenger doors always open.

Back door's always open too. If you got a bike, if you got a bike, that is. There's only room for another bike. You're falling asleep. It's Evan. He's wearing his lucky underwear. If you see a moto van with a SW17 sticker parked at a Flying J, the doors are always open.

Oh, my goodness. Dude, I don't know. Skiers rip. I think if I could be one person that was good at something, I'd probably choose golf. Really? It's the lightest duty on your body and you make the most money. I know, dude. I roll up in the morning out of bed and...

I need ratchet straps to pull my body out of bed because I'm so sore. Really? Dude, I'm so sore. My hips hurt. My back hurts. My neck hurts. My shoulders hurt. Dude, you guys don't even know this. I've had a hernia since March last year. I got tendinosis in both my shoulders. I've never even had an injury in my shoulders, but they're injured from just riding too much. Really? Yeah. Yeah.

The last like hour of you talking about how sick it is to be a moto guy. I was like, I should, I should do. Obviously I cannot because I'm an idiot. As long as we don't go throttle on it. It's a dirt bike. It sounds so sick. And then you start talking about how much pain you're in. I'm like, oh, okay. Yeah, no, it is sick. It is sick. It's sick to like, fuck. Yeah, it is. It's sick to just hit cool shit. I'm going to be honest.

But at the same time, like you got to look in the mirror, Ryan, and just know when you're not that guy. Yeah, I know I'm not, but. Ryan's in like some moto gear. I actually. Just imagine him in like a full set of moto gear. I've seen it before, and I would like to not think about it. Put it down.

Put a trailer hitch on the Corvette. I'd be fucking sick. Joe Holler on the Corvette. You could just pull up in the rig, take like one lap, just chill, put out the vibe. You'd pick up some chicks for sure at the check. I'd be absolutely the most punchable guy at the check. Put out the vibe. Dude, no, but wait. Something about the moto guys getting chicks, this is something that I...

I hang out with a lot of moto guys, and normally chicks think that moto guys are the creepiest dudes that they've talked to. Really? I've talked to some girls, and they're like, you're a moto dude, and they're like, oh, that's such a red flag. They're like, I dated a moto dude. He's a douchebag. And I'm just like, oh, okay. You tell them it's a red flag if they dated a moto dude? But then I'm like, wait, I'm not a moto guy. I'm an enduro guy. Yeah.

Unbelievable. Dude, moto guys, some of them are gnarly. They're gnarly. I'd say all of them are. I don't know. They're just gnarly. Like, they're just different. Different breed? It's just a different breed. Like, you just are smelling gas all day. You're getting covered in oil and stuff. What are you talking about smelling gas? You run electric, bro. I know. I run electric, but I still like to smell it when I'm at the races. Get a quick whiff. I still got the two smoke. I know. I know. Go on there, huff a little bit. Get the feeling. So, what?

Yeah, so Spenny's riding a Stark. We have two Sparks. Shout out, Stark. Not Spark. Stark. He's riding a Spark jet ski. Did I say Spark? The first time you said Stark, the second time you said Spark. Oh, I'm confusing myself. You don't want those things to spark. No, you don't. Water and batteries do not mix. You get a fire. You get a fire.

No, Spenny's on the Stark. What do you think of electric taking over, like, the power sports world? It's never – I don't think it's ever going to take everything over. It's going to be its own thing. Like, it's just like a leaf blower. Like, some people like the electric ones. Some people like the gas ones, you know? Like, they're just different. Bro.

Put it on the table. I don't think it's that funny. It's funny. You're interrupting the podcast. CJ is dialing in. What is wrong with that? He's dialing in. Cheeto.

You don't even know what that is. It's an ionizer. No, it's not. Then what is it? Do you have an app on your phone that tells you what's happening inside of that water bottle? Can you change the color of the light? One second. No, I can't. That means it's running out of battery. I do apologize, Spencer, but I found it awfully hard to concentrate when CJ was using this pretend toy to make him feel healthier. It doesn't make me feel healthier, but I'm hoping it will. What's the brand called?

Fisher Price. Eco Go. What is it? Eco Go. What's the thing you do that makes you feel the healthiest, you think? Just being sober. Boom. Drinking water? This guy on the end over here. He's such a pervert. He's such a pervert. Oh, okay.

Dude, is it raining outside right now? No, I'm serious. I think being sober, like not drinking, not everything, like nicotine, chewing tobacco, zins, I drink rarely. But anything else I don't ever do, but I don't think it's like, it's not going to help you out there. All right, well, what's the second thing, man? I don't think this is breaking news right now. There's got to be something else. There's got to be something else you're doing, dude. Something more practical. All right.

I'm gonna play this play this for you. It's a short little thing cuz I know you can't read Evan and Into the mic and then everyone here you drink your sparkly water Evan and then you might sparkly water dude Just like normal water. I got bubbles in here, too So you put hydrogen water so it improved it not only feeds the hydro files in your

You don't even know what he's saying. It will improve the absorption of nutrients and supplements in your stomach. It actually helps enzymes further break down. They complete what's called this lock and key method in your stomach. The studies on neuroinflammatory disease and chronic inflammation are astounding. The benefits of...

Right there. So it basically just reduces inflammation in your body and especially has been shown in studies that it reduces neuroinflammation. It tastes like normal ass water. I just figured if it, maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't, but you can't do anything that's good for you around here. You guys got to

fucked up head Ev and you're chirping him for it I'm just trying I didn't know that's what it was about just trying everything I can no it's not it's just like for everything it might be good for you it might not but either way it's just water so who cares was that water bottle less than $100 no this one wasn't I have two of them how much did it cost this one was $200 okay everything on reddit said it's a scam but I was just going to

say Google is a scam. Every single Reddit comment was this is a scam, this is a scam, this is a scam. But is that guys like Evan on there that are saying that? I mean, I

I mean, I don't know. What kind of guys are saying that? Maybe it is. Chester. Either way, I'm just drinking water. What's the difference? Evan's really fired up about that water bottle. Well, I just think it's a crazy little device. Especially because we're using bottled water anyways. I thought maybe it would make more sense if it was a purifier out of your tap. It might make the water better. It might not. I don't know. I'm going to do it, though. Sometimes...

Doing crazy things that even if it's a 3% chance of making you feel better is worth it. Yeah, Spencer, you had a health problem you were talking about? Yeah. I got sick for like a year. I was training and racing so hard.

In 2018, like, I was doing, I did 30 race, 30-plus races that year, and I was training every day. I was working, and I was just so run down, and then my stomach started falling apart, and I got this thing. Basically, I was sick for a year, lost, like, 40 pounds, which I'm already, like, super skinny. So, like, imagine me losing 40 pounds, and you could, like, see my cheekbones and stuff. Yeah, I got super sick, and then I got diagnosed with this thing called Crohn's disease, and

But now I'm better. Now I give myself this shot every two weeks. Yeah, I'm with CJ, though. What, like bedridden? Oh, bedridden for like a year, pretty much. Like, you want to hear a crazy date story? I got a crazy date story, actually. So this is when I was in my Crohn's flare-up. So just dying from Crohn's, but I'm like, I should probably go on some dates. Like, I haven't been seeing any chicks or anything. So I go on this date with this chick, and I'm like...

freaking out hoping that I don't have a flare up while I'm with her. And she's like, we go fly fishing or whatever. We're walking down the river and I'm just like, we're like 30 minutes from the car at this point and I'm feeling good. I'm like, all right, this is going good. Everything's going good. And then we just like get 30 minutes away to the fishing hole. I turned to her. I'm like, Hey, this is going to be really weird. But like, I got this really bad stomach problem and like, I can't really control when I have to go to the bathroom because

But, like, I have to go, like, right now. Oh, no. And she was, like, she's, like, oh, my God, like, I'm so sorry. Like, I was, like, yeah, like, I'm, like, super sick right now. Like, it's, like, not contagious or anything. Like, I swear, like, I'm fine. But, like, I just got to rip into the wood. Really?

And I'm like, are you cool just to hang here? Like, I got to rip into the woods. Like, I'll be back in five or ten. What'd you wipe with? Sock? Probably just a T-shirt. No, I was wearing this Fox Honda T-shirt, and it was my favorite T-shirt, and I had a hoodie on. Oh, nice. I was like, I didn't tell her, but I just, I had to hit the Fox Honda T-shirt, and I was bummed, too, because it was nice. Could have at least tried to just rip the sleeves and salvage the T-shirt. But it was one of those nice shirts, and I wasn't strong enough because I was all malnourished.

from my disease that I was getting. So I couldn't rip the sleeve off. So put it on a sock. But dude, I was like, it was the most awkward date I've ever been on. Like, Hey, like I got a bad stomach problem. I'm going to diarrhea in two seconds. So like, I'll be back, but just hang here. Don't leave. Like, can you put on like a podcast or something? So that's what would happen whenever you had a flare up, you'd do it instantly. So like, if I had a flare up happen, I had maybe three minutes to get to a toilet.

And otherwise, if I wasn't, it was going in my pants. And I like, dude, I could be like laying full plank, pinching my cheeks, and it would still come out. Like really? Like fighting it as hard as possible. That had to have gotten, like put you in so many bad situations. Dude, I was at red lights like three minutes from my house and I ran red lights because I was like, I don't want to blow up my van seat. Right.

I'm sorry. Not like to mean to laugh, but... No, it's hilarious, dude. It's actually hilarious. So what happened with the girl? Did it work out? That was your only date with her. That was our only date. We never went on another date ever again. Was it because you weren't vibing with her or she just was not in... Well, I imagine...

her going and telling her friends be like her friends are like hey how's your date go yeah the dude had to run to the woods for 30 minutes to take a shit 30 minutes well it wasn't five or ten damn bro like i was just i was so bad i was just like major stomach pains just never getting it all out just dying it was so bad but yeah so i'm with cj like i would hit that if somebody was like hey if my doctor was like hey this might actually help you a little bit like

It doesn't hurt, I don't think. Yeah, like the slightest chance that it makes you feel better. Yeah. That is crazy, though, dude. I'm going to go buy a copper bracelet. Those little balance bands? Power bands? Yeah, power bands. You guys remember those? I maybe might have been better at middle school basketball. How much money do you think power band actually made, though? Did they get sued? Dude, power band made a lot of money.

a lot. They had the whole gimmick about it. You'd go to the store and they'd be like, move your back. Or they'd push you one time and you'd step back. And then you'd do it the second time but you'd be prepared for it. I saw that in Sturgis. We walked by when we were doing our Harley gear up. I saw that too. We had the guys pushing on her arm or whatever. There's that one nerdy kid that would get it at school and he'd be like,

You'd be like, what's that on your wrist? And he'd be like, oh, it's a power band. Actually, you want to try it? It actually works. And then he'd do the little stupid demo and show you and be like, dude, I don't think this works. When I was in the eighth grade, everybody had those power bands. Yeah, me too. Or the I Heart Boobies ones. I don't think those are doing anything. They were just cool. Yeah, those were cool. Those were sick. I think they did equally as much. Dude, I Heart Boobies. Most of those things were just literally a sticker on some rubber and then it was like, oh. The I Heart Boobies bands, they're just...

Were so sick Back in the day Like if you had one of those You were the man Or the Livestrong The Livestrong Livestrong That was like 2000 Wasn't there a big Controversy about that Or maybe they were Just people bootlegging them Or whatever No so like It was a big deal Because I don't actually know why It was supposed to All donate to cancer But there was people Making a lot of money off it It was Armstrong You're right

Yeah, it was Armstrong. There was a bootleg. When did you... When it came out that he was like the doping thing. Yeah, I think it was right after. That was. Because he was like one of the biggest celebrities and then the doping thing and then, you know, all these kids are wearing the Livestrong. Yeah, I burnt mine. Cut it in half. Really? You were that mad about steroid use? No, I probably just threw it out or something.

Did you remember when? No, actually, that's kind of sad. Never mind. Anyway, they're still selling power balance bands. They got hit with a $57 million lawsuit. Yep. Hard to come back from. That's a tough one. Do they make mouth guards? Balance guards. So, Benny, they test for steroids and EnduroCross. So, it's an AMA sanction, and they can, but they don't. They might start if you show up like this, though. How much of a benefit...

Would there be to be that bulk? No, you don't even want to be that bulk. That's what I'm saying. Like, it's not even like a... Dude, when you go to the gym, like for moto or whatever, for enduro, whatever I do, training, pizza ranch, whatever you want to ride. Dude, I don't ever, like, I'm not at the gym trying to get big to look sick. Like, I don't care about looking sick. I'm like in there rehabbing a shoulder, rehabbing an ankle. Like, I've never gone to the gym and like...

Like, hit curls and be like, dude, my pipes are going to look sick. Like, I've never gone to the gym for looks, ever. I've never worked out for looks, ever in my life. Your function working out. I'm function working out. Like, I'll go and I'll run on the treadmill or hit the rower, and then I'll do lower back because when you're riding enduro, you're standing so much, and I want my lower back and my core to be strong because it's going to make me better on the bike. Is that really why you want a strong lower back? Well, maybe other reasons, too.

In case of a crash, I want to make sure that I can keep my back tight. Exactly. Hit it like a cat. Hit it like a cat. I go to the gym a lot, and I don't think I've ever gone in there and tried to make my body look different. I know a lot of people go to the gym to stay fit, but I'm going there to...

be like all right if my shoulder's hurting i'm gonna go and i'm gonna do like a bunch of rehab stuff with bands and stuff and even my the the dudes at my gym have came up to me and they're like some of the they're like body lifter power lifter dudes they'll come up to me and they're like hey like what are you doing and i'm like oh they're like are you athletes like even the workers like one of the dudes is a trainer he came up and he was like well he's like he's like are you an athlete or something and i was like yeah and he's like oh i could kind of tell because you were just like really

rehabbing like he could see from what I was doing that I was like doing it for a purpose I'm not just like trying to like get big muscles not muscles that are not functional yeah I have muscles that are not functional dude the funniest thing about that too let me see I mean it's like I maybe look stronger than I am I don't feel like I'm that strong it kind of looks like you like put your thumb in your mouth every morning to blow yourself up

Like the boy, the guy on the bubble gum, the bubble gum guy. Dude, I'll tell you who is functionally strong. Our filmer, Dalton. Oh, dude. Bro, every chance this kid gets. He just wants to show off his muscles. He's young, dude. That's what it is. A young lad, 18-year-old, and just hungry to prove how strong he is every chance he gets. This dude picked up the trials bike.

Like this, dude. He put it on his shoulders yesterday. It started just walking. We're like, bro, you know, you can push that thing. He's got fucking wheels. He is. Dude, he put his safe on his back. Like a gun safe. Like a huge, a huge ass gun safe. Here's a picture of it.

And he carried it up the stairs into his office. All right. On his back. I have something I need to come clean about. Oh, he didn't do that? No, he had some help. I just told you all that because it was way funnier. Oh, dude. Dude, this whole time I thought that he did it. And I believed it. No, I believed it. He's like 600 pounds. Every chance he gets, he's picking shit up. Who helped him?

His girlfriend's dad. No, dude, he's funny about that, actually. I think the other day I was like, hey, Ev, could you, like, get my child's bike out of the truck or something? He's like, oh, you grab my ramp and take my child's bike out. And he heard it from across the shop. And he's like, oh, you want me to come lift it? Really?

Rips his shirt off real quick. You can't lift with a shirt on. He's like a young CJ. How I remember CJ back in the day. The dude didn't wear a shirt for an entire summer. That's because we didn't have AC in the shop. We still don't have AC in the shop. We have AC right there. It's way better than before. Dude, you'd be sweating just sitting on your computer. Anywho.

Different times. I will admit after watching Dalton pick the trials bike up three times in one day, yesterday when I sunk it, I'm like, all right, I'm going to pick this up. I was in the swamp with bad footing. There was no chance I could get that bike up on my shoulder. And I tried pretty hard. It's functional strength. It's almost like a dad strength or like.

Young boy does not have dad strength. I don't know what it is, but he has not unlocked old man strength. I think he's just got really try-hard strength. Dude. No, I think, yeah, he's young, and he wants to prove that he can. And he also has never woken up with a sore back. So he isn't scared of lifting anything. And that does scare me that...

He's going to hurt himself. I'm like, dude, you don't got to pick up the fucking bike. Just push it. He's like, let me carry this across the parking lot. He's going to the gym after anyways. I know, but still, dude, it's just... Throw your back out good once and you're screwed for the rest of your life. I'm dealing with it. You were just standing there when you threw your back out yesterday.

I don't know, dude. I was leaning over the bike and I stood up and I was like, what the fuck? I was like, what the fuck? Something's up. And I was walking like this and Evan's like, yep, you just threw your back out. I'm like, I didn't even do anything. He's like, yeah, that's how it happens. Next time you're at the gym, trade out the curls for some crunches. I do back and I do crunches. Get that lower back. I maybe was just trying to crack a joke. I'm actually fairly strong. But...

I'm just going to say it. I'm actually fairly strong. You're trying to clear it up. You're trying to clear it up. So you didn't actually throw your back out? No, I did. Something happened there. Because you were laughing. It wasn't bad, though. It wasn't bad like you. Like, mine was, like, it was literally for, like, four minutes. I just, like, kind of, and then just kind of, like, straightened back out. But you were laughing because you're like, I can't believe that, like, I did nothing. Yeah. And it hurts pretty bad, and I didn't do anything. I just, like, bent over. It was weird. I was laying on my couch watching our videos, and my TV is, like, above my face.

my fireplace. So it's like, I kind of like lay back on the couch and like head rest kind of on like the corner of it. And I'm like looking up this way and something happened in our videos where I, I sit up to laugh. Oh my God. And as I sit up to laugh, I immediately feel something in my neck. Right. And I'm like, Oh, Oh. And then I like stand up and I'm like trying to like kind of just shake it out. And I'm like, Oh my God, I think I just threw my neck out watching TV, dude, watching our videos. And I'm like, it's always something with our fucking videos. I,

I'm watching this shit on the TV, and, dude, for the next three days, I couldn't move my neck from it. I was like, damn, I'm getting old, dude. Well, it's the repercussions of front-flipping a mini truck and basically falling 15 feet. Yeah, you're like me, dude. I didn't even hurt my shoulders. I'm just sitting here and my shoulders hurt. I think I got a date at that Zorba sign anyways. Who you bringing? I'm tapping out tonight.

Give him a couple more highlights and he'll probably meet you over there. Yeah, okay, buddy. Two more highlights and you'll be inviting me up just like you were last night. Fuck yes, Benny. Benny, come on up.

Come on up. You want to plug your socials, Spenny, just so they can follow you on Instagram, YouTube, all that? Yeah, so my YouTube, I mean, they're just dirt bike shenanigans. Sometimes we do other stuff, but mostly just like race vlogs and random other stuff. But it's my name, Spencer Wilton, with two S's, and then my...

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