The Real Reason Jake Left CboysTV
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I wish you never left.

Like, how long are we going to talk? Like, when do you... I think, like, it just goes as long as it goes. There's a lot of, like, over a decade of stuff we could cover here. I mean, more than a decade. It's coming up. Yeah, it's literally... Probably two. Jake, is this your first pod? Yeah, ever. Like, I mean, we rolled some for fun at home, but they didn't go anywhere. All right, boys. We're here. We're doing it. We're really doing it. The time has come. Dude, this is hands down...

Been the most requested podcast since we started the podcast, what, two years ago now? Yep. About 100 episodes, 90-some episodes in. Bring Jake on. Bring Jake on. Bring Jake on.

And I'm going to be honest, bro. You're one of my best friends and I'm kind of nervous. I'm glad someone said something on my way over here. I like pulled over. I'm like, why are you freaking out? It's a heavy one just because there's so much to cover. Yeah, that was literally what I was thinking. I'm just like at the end of the day.

We're all best friends, but there's just so much untold, unsaid, so much stuff going on. Yeah, I'm not worried about anything. But I think what makes it nerve-wracking is that we just want to tell it the full thing, you know, and tell it as accurate. Like, I'd hate for it to end and be like, why didn't I bring up that point? You know, I think that's what everyone maybe is thinking. It's heavy, man. All right. Gosh.

I don't know. I guess to add a little bit of context for the listeners, this is Jake Sherbrooke. He is one of the founding members of Seaboys TV, and we split ways...

What, three years ago? That's 780,000 subscribers. You guys want to know something crazy? You have more followers that probably don't know who I am than... Are you sure it was 780? Yeah, it was 780. It was on April 12th, 2020. Yeah, we've never told the story of, I guess, what happened between the splitting between C-Boys and Jake, and here we are.

Now we get to tell it. Time to tell the story. Wasn't there kind of like you couldn't come on for a while? Yeah, so that was the thing. So we're going to get into the beans of all this, but basically I could have came on right away and then ended up getting into like a massive lawsuit and then everything gets into like...

disclosures and you can't talk about anything and you know it just all got super messy like do you guys remember the time i came over here and you're like hey when you can get on the pot i'm like probably august that was two years ago yeah yeah that's crazy yeah so you've been in a lawsuit up until last month yeah a couple months ago okay it's crazy see i i've been refraining to even ask you like in real life um you know what the details of that are so i'm

I'm not I shouldn't say excited to hear, but also very intrigued to hear the story behind it. But gosh, I don't know. Where do we start? Well, I mean, I think we could start with I mean, part of the reason why you left also ties in with, you know, the guy who's been holding you back from getting on the podcast now for the last two years who you were in the lawsuit against is.

I mean, shit, where do we start? Do we? Because we can we can say anything. Tell the whole story. Do we just want to like give a background of how this person came about? We could start there or we could even start from like just the good old days back before we were even making YouTube vids. Just kind of give the backstory to. Dude, I can't believe you said that. I literally created a timeline. All the way up until today. All right. Let me see it. All right.

What do we got? Well, they're basically, so they're kind of just footnotes of key points we want to talk to. But basically, like, 2016, we started C-Boys TV.

Yeah, okay. So, Seaboys TV started. Basically, we have been best friends. There's a group of seven of us. We all lived in a town called Cormorant. Cormorant has a gas station, a liquor store, and a bar. There wasn't many people in the town. It's a village. There's actually no people in the town. So, all the people that are our age, we were best friends. There were seven of us. Us four sitting right here. Micah behind there. Ken, who is walking behind right now as well. And then our friend Justin. People ask...

how did you guys start like doing the things that you do like in the videos? And I'm like, dude, we've been, we've been doing the things that we do in the videos since we were 10 years old. We just never filmed them until CJ picked up a camera because he had bad concussions. He couldn't ride a dirt bike, drift the cars being in whatever we were doing. So he started filming it. Yeah. That was kind of my way of getting in the beans involved still. And, and, uh,

but not all not doing like, you know, like crashing cars into each other or whatever. Um, and I feel like people always were like, you guys should have a TV show, you know, like all the stuff that we were doing at that time, YouTube wasn't as prevalent. So everyone was like, you guys need to be on TV. Yeah. Yeah, we do. Yeah. We always thought that our group dynamic and our, our, uh, friendship was something special. That's something that you would see on TV. And, um,

Therefore, we always thought that we had something. And then once the video started coming out, people were entertained. It turned from...

basically the seven best friends just doing our weekend shenanigans for fun into making a video and really having no direction or or really any idea on how to make a proper youtube video but what we were really good at was just having fun at that point it was more so we were just doing whatever we were doing on the weekend and i was just hauling this camera around with a strap on my neck

I was so worried about breaking it. It was like a $500 camera and we'd bring it around and just film legitimately everything, whether it was like good, bad, whatever, you know, just us doing us no matter what it was. And it was kind of like, these videos were almost for us. Like it was just fun to watch and they would end up on YouTube. And then very slowly it just started gaining a following and it was kind of like a snowball. It was like, and then there's this little audience and,

And then it was kind of like Well now we We had this positive Reinforcement behind And we're like We gotta keep making more And it was fun It was like a game Growing it you know Hey Ryan Real quick Can you switch sides with me My neck is so fucked up I can't like look this way Yeah I can do that Alright His neck's jammed up From the mini truck Flip I swear I put on deodorant And it's not that bad You sweat? Yeah Oh my gosh Is that better? Tell me about your seat Yeah that's way better Oh yeah I moved a bad seat Welcome bro

Oh, this feels way better. Yeah, so I guess it needed to be said kind of where our...

you know, the foundation of C-Boys started. You know, people think that we've been making videos and that's, you know, we were never friends before, I guess what they see video like week after week. But like the things that we do now, we've been doing since we were little kids and we were just best friends having a good time. When we started making the videos and I remember we had a paycheck come in December,

of 2016 going into 2017 and it was for uh like out of the whole year i think we'd made what eight hundred dollars it was like 11 or 1200 bucks but technically we hadn't been going that long because when i made the channel it was like end of july and then when we posted the one video that actually made some revenue it was in like

of September. By the time it probably took off, maybe October. So like all that revenue was really just from that one shifter cart vid that popped off. And when I say popped off, it maybe had like 100,000 views. And then so we had to basically incorporate, make a LLC to collect that revenue

uh 1100 and then we didn't know what to do with it because we were like who gets what uh so we just donated it we bought toys or whatever made a video with that but uh at that moment ken was like if we're gonna start an llc who's gonna be a part of it and we were just like well all seven of us that's the only thing that makes sense and we just split it seven ways evenly across the board yeah i think everyone had like 14 or something like that and then that was the start of

seaboys tv as a company as as like kind of what it is now but um you know seven partners

And that's kind of where the problem is. Well, I mean, I think... The development of something great is what it was. Absolutely. And people have asked that. I mean, I even hear it sometimes now, like if I get talking to some old guy about business and, how do you make that work, you know, with seven or five or whatever. But I mean, the whole point of it is because then everyone's got equal, you know, gain and equal loss.

So like, cause I mean, if there was just, let's say one or two owners, then it's like,

The way all of us work is you want to at least have some control or whatever. You go up together and you go down together. Exactly. Everyone's got to pull their side. It just seemed that was the best way to do it, and it was. From there, we started to get a little bit of traction. We're making videos. We're starting to figure out what we're doing.

I don't know if I'd say starting. Well, I mean, we were at least on the right track. Yeah. And then this guy comes into our life and pitches us this TV show. Oh.

Goosebumps, bro. Come on. Yeah, we were pumped, though. You got to think about this. We were. At the time, at the age we were, it was something big. No one has got something like that to come in front of them. And YouTube wasn't quite as big as it is now. I think we could kind of see where it was going, but it still wasn't quite as big. And being on MTV or another big network like that seemed like...

That's the big break, you know? Like, that's, like, the end-all, be-all type of thing. So we thought it was just the biggest deal, and I remember just sitting on these, like, Zoom phone calls, just geeking out. Well, it started out with they pitched us that they were going to give us an MTV show, and then it turned into, like, Discovery Network, and then it turned into, like...

Planet? The Weather Channel. The Weather Channel or like Animal Planet or something. We're like, whoa, what the fuck? Where's this going now? The worst part was is that we were really close to the MTV show and we didn't get it because we weren't diverse enough. I don't know how I

how accurate that is. That's what they told us. Okay, you're right, you're right. But that one seemed like it was the closest and we were obviously most excited about that. And then from there, yeah, it was just like Discovery, Animal Planet. What would we do on Animal Planet? So that guy that came in and pitched the show

Let's call him Bob. I like that. Yes. We Bob. Perfect. So Bob comes in, pitches the show. We take basically like a month off of YouTube videos. And at the time it really didn't make that much of a difference because we were a lot smaller, didn't really have a schedule or anything like that. But, uh,

We filmed these, it's called a pilot episode, and it takes forever. Sucked. The ideas were terrible. I mean, how long after the initial talkings was it that we actually got to the pilot episode? Like a year or was it two? It was a long time.

I'm trying to think it, dude. The problem is it all just gets so slammed together, but I'm pretty sure we like started the talking and then it wasn't till like we had our new shop when we started filming the pilot episode. Yeah. Cause I was trying to figure out all of that.

And because we were like using the shop and the Maverick and going out on DL and doing all that stuff. So Bob comes in and starts working on this TV show. We filmed the pilot episode. It ends up not really going anywhere.

And then, and then this is like the craziest part that I always wonder about. But me and Ben were sitting in the shop. Do you remember this? Bro, I remember it like it was yesterday. We, we had just gotten our truck wrapped. The Duramax, we were sitting in the Duramax in the shop. We were feeling good. We just got off some merch sales. We were like coming to the end of the year and made some money that year. And we were like, damn, things are like going pretty good right now.

And then that call came in. Yeah. A call came in from Bob and it's me and Ben and we get in the truck and we just set it up and we just like, he basically goes, how are you guys doing? Yeah. Like, can we go like a, like a, like a what's up call, you know? And, uh,

Basically, he is like, oh, I got some ideas or whatever and wanted to run by you guys and blah, blah, blah. Basically, he wanted to come back and that's when he said he wanted to do something with all of us. I'm trying to figure out how to integrate to the audience of my mindset at the time. I don't want to say it was good or bad, but I was just in a weird headspace, you know?

And anyway, so this guy comes and basically says he wants to manage all of us, you know. And pulls our parents aside. Yeah. Like was talking to my dad and your dad and was like, I want to manage them and here's what I can do for them. And like promised, basically promised the world like a lot of these people do for anyone, I guess, in our position. There's going to be so many people that try and...

get their greasy little fingers on you to, to like, cause he saw something good. Cause he was talking to us. How are things going? And we were like, things are going great. We, we, uh, you know, we're selling merch. The views were doing well. We finally were getting traction and, and like had something good. And he almost saw that as like a opportunity to like,

We were snowballing hard. Yeah, like get in on it. And dude, here's the thing, and I'm going to say this right now because obviously we're going to go through a bunch of ups and downs in this. You guys dodged a bullet like so heavily. So like the amount of...

Oh, my God. I wish you guys... I actually don't wish you could experience what I had to experience through that entire time. It was terrible. So that was after we shot the pilot episode. And we spent like... It was probably more like two months doing this pilot episode. And I mean, I guess I'll speak personally from my experience.

It was just a shitty-ass episode. Like, it just wasn't that good. Yes. It never got picked up. It never got picked up, of course, but it took us, like, two months of time. And...

I guess speaking from my point of view, after spending that amount of time with him and watching this guy work and actually seeing him work versus listening to him talk on the phone about how he can do all this stuff for us and how he's going to make us rich and all famous and all this. Then when he showed up and it was time to get to filming, he didn't... In my opinion, I don't think he...

Knew what he was doing. And that's the thing. Like, you called it from the start, and I'll never remember that. But I'm going to be, like, fully honest, transparent. I was straight bamboozled and was drinking the Kool-Aid, obviously. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, so basically, we did that pilot episode, and it never got picked up. And then he came back in again. I finally thought we got rid of this guy because I was so annoyed of him because...

It seemed like every time he came in, he would hold up making YouTube vids. And we were at this stage. I'm like, we need to just keep pounding the pavement, keep growing this channel. Like we're going to get to this. And then he would just be here selling this fucking dream. Came to be a pipe dream. You guys are going to be rich. And I guess also to keep in mind, like at that time,

We weren't making money like individually, like we were maybe selling some merch, but we had, I mean, by the time it was all done being that we had a distributor that was doing it, it was like, we were really taking no money in our pocket. Right. Um, which we, you know, later figured out. And then once you do the numbers, there's a lot of stuff you learn when you're doing this as time goes on. And then we ended up pulling it in. But like, I mean, we were maybe making like 1900 bucks a month individually, like all of us, wouldn't you say? Yeah. Yeah.

So like we were hungry and we were looking for anything to cling on to, to make this work. So I can understand why you and even some of the other guys would, would be like,

Like, please, like, yes, we've been trying. Like, we want this, you know? So it was easy to be bamboozled in that, like you said, I guess, in that sense. Yeah, I think that's one thing that's good to preface is like that. I mean, I was like half and half on it. I didn't have the read that you did either. And I was like, I mean, I'll listen. I'll hear him out. And it, at the end of the day, came to a majority vote, but it was never like,

Jake's vouching in your headspace and we're all like, nah. I mean, it was like we chatted about it and we went back and forth for a little bit. You know, we had some in-person meetings and ultimately...

We took a vote. It's a complex conversation to have for a bunch of 19 year olds. You know, we were young and we're going through it. But basically what ended up happening was he came back in and he said the, like you said, the managing thing, he wants to manage us now and manage our YouTube channel. So he's not going to make a TV show for us anymore. He wants to manage our YouTube channel and then like try to pitch us to like

Some other company. Right. So this might be fast forwarding, but then we can come back. So basically how our structure was going to be, we were basically from what I was told greenlit for a show with like other cast members. And we were going to use those funds to then build the channel or whatever. Right. Well, obviously none of that happened of course, but that was like the whole thought process behind when it came to all of us and me is like,

We'll get these shows or whatever, do these pilots, and then we'll use those to grow the channel and whatnot. And you were closest with him because you guys were kind of like more buddies, I think. And he was kind of buddies with your dad over the course of time of spending time with you guys. Yeah. Oh, of course. You guys were buddies. So you were probably more in with him than us in that sense. Yeah, but he loved Jake. Yeah. He looked at Jake like his little superstar. That's what he saw. Like he came in, wanted to manage us.

And then it got to the point where we were like, all right, we got to take a, we got to take a vote. Are we bringing them on or are we not? Jake really wanted them and CJ really didn't want them. So I felt like I was in the middle of like, I have to like sway the decision of Ken, Micah and Ryan with these guys. All right, which way are we going?

And then I just went with CJ and I went with you and I took both of them. And my gut was just like, I don't have a good feeling about this guy. And I went with my gut and I told Micah, I told Ken and I told, I told, I told everyone, I said, my gut goes with CJ and that I, I don't have a good feeling about this guy. And that's kind of where everyone else was like, you know, it just doesn't feel right either. And I remember getting done with that meeting of everyone being like, all right, I guess it's just not the right fit. It doesn't feel right. And,

And then we thought that's where it ended. And I remember you walking out of that meeting and going, sitting in your truck and you hopped on the phone and who'd you call? Did you call after that? Do you remember that meeting of all of us being like, it's just not gonna, I'm not gonna bring them on. That's the thing is like, uh,

My mindset was so different then, but obviously it doesn't change anything, but I didn't really know how to feel or what to feel. Because beforehand, everyone was thinking about it and whatnot, and then I come into this meeting because...

I don't know if I was working for my dad or whatever. And then you just like, I remember you up at the whiteboard and you dropped this bomb on me and you're like, yeah, we're not doing it. And I was like, Oh, I thought yesterday we were. And like it, I like, we talked about it, but I like, there was obviously a meeting beforehand, which like I get, I'm not, I wasn't there every day, all day. I was doing other stuff. But, uh,

Yeah, I don't know. It was like prior to that, because I was been talking to Ryan too, and you probably remember this. He'd just be like, dude, like what's going on? Like, are you down or whatever? And I just...

Like something felt off with me. And it wasn't that like I wasn't having fun because like when we go out and film, I had a shit ton of fun and I loved all of that stuff. But I felt like I wasn't growing my self as a person, as like a business person, learning things, you know, stuff like that. I just felt like I was growing.

growing this character or persona that like was still me, but it wasn't me all the time. And I just didn't want to live that my whole life. You know, that's when I was just like, I think I'm going to go on a chance here, you know, and try something different. And then it was April 12th.

I brought all you guys up into Mike's room and I like told you guys I was leaving. And then April 13th was the last video I filmed with you guys at Tom's store when we all left.

Pretended to work there. So you went to **** said they don't want to bring you on, but I want to? Because the day I told you guys was obviously the day that a decision was made or whatever, that something was going to happen, something was in place, there was a plan, right? And there was a show greenlit, and I was obviously pitched this grand rainbow of a...

master plan you know and I was just like you know like I think I want to do this maybe it's like the next step into like having a mentor in life or like learning the business career or something different you know and like maybe trying to like compound my happiness and fulfillment and like

building me better as like a person you know and uh i said okay i'll do it like it'll it'll just be us you know that's when he pitched me he's like well let's just do it me and you you know he's like we can get other cast members and stuff like that and uh yeah so i just kind of went out on a limb and went with my gut feeling which holy shit um i couldn't have been farther from wrong on that one i'll totally admit to but that's the other thing too i uh

I wouldn't change it for the world because like the things I learned and the stuff I went through was like unbelievable, you know? And it, it kind of, uh, and when I say I wouldn't change it for the world, just the experiences I had, you know, the, the path and road that was took, obviously there was some super greasy and ups and downs in there that we can talk about later. Like what happened after I left and all that stuff. Yeah. Uh, just to speak though, like to your point of view, um,

like so the viewer can kind of understand, like we weren't doing that great at like where we were at. We weren't rolling in dough. We were just literally grinding and making like

1900, you know, like Jake said, he was working at his dad's turf business to make enough money to still do other things. So like it was like kind of working on a pipe dream. And in a sense, we've been doing this for what? Three, four years at that time? Right. I think we actually had like...

600,000 subscribers. Cause we actually, we have a, yeah, we have a plaque downstairs that a kid made and sent us and it has the date and it has like June and it says 627,000 subscribers. So like realistically we weren't like super huge. We weren't pulling tons of views. So like you can't really blame you for wanting to give this a try.

we'll get into this. But when I made that decision, like it was just a decision, like I was leaving, you know, and we were all still friends and we were upstairs. And like, I remember when you guys said like, Hey, if it doesn't work out, you know, you can always come back. Right. Yeah. And then I made the decision to just totally burn that bridge and like, we'll get into all of that. Yeah. I think, and I think we were, we were maybe hurt. Cause we were like,

I don't know if we were necessarily hurt. Like we were just bummed that you were leaving, you know? It was almost like, it was almost like we were bummed that, that you didn't fuck with the vision. Like we, like our dream, like this guy came in and sold you. And it was like, to us, we felt like that guy didn't have the credentials to sell you on it. And we felt that you were being bamboozled and lied to. Like, I mean, I saw it and I do want to say, I didn't go around and convince other people. We just strat flat out. Oh,

and everyone kind of just like i just don't think he's the guy man i remember after that meeting i drove home and it like i'm pretty sure like i i cried i i felt because you were leaving is is what you told us is you were leaving to go to chicago and i was so sad that my best friend since before confirmation you know we we would ride snowmobiles of confirmation together and it was like

man, my best friend is leaving and I'm not going to see him again. The same way that people feel when their friend goes to college or gets a new job or has to move across the country. Like that's how I felt. Dude, what it felt like for me, this is the only thing I could compare it to is like breaking up with your girlfriend for literally like, cause you're just,

I'm going to go try some other chick out. Things were going kind of good. It was fine, but yeah. But like... And that's like the thing is... I kind of put myself back in those shoes. It's like the person I am today is not even close to the same person, which is like really good. But I just...

you know, I was always having fun and I had like this, I don't give a shit about anything attitude. And like it, it kind of like just caught up to me really hard. You know, like I just was always like circling around myself wondering like, what am I doing? Like what, what do I need to do? It's like, wait, do I give a shit? No. And, uh,

That's funny you say that. Like you're saying when, like after you left, you were having those thoughts or during your time? Just like I haven't, it's basically like late 2019, early 2020, you know, I just like was doubting myself. I was just kind of super down in the dumps and I just wanted to like,

i was not in like a good headspace and i don't know how to describe it it was such like a mental thing for me because i was like just getting pulled so many different ways of like what to do what should i do you know like i have this group of best friends who are building something awesome you know like my dad wants me to take over the seating business there's this guy who's supposed to be some magical prince that's going to lead me to the promised land and i totally like put all my trust in everything into that i just like

threw my sack over my shoulder and put my eggs in those baskets, you know, and just got straight kicked in the balls. But that's the thing. And I just like, I kind of just went for it. And then I couldn't figure out what it was. And even like after he was gone and like me and Pat were going and all that stuff, like my mental mindset would slowly get better, but I couldn't figure it out. And honestly, up until maybe,

three months ago, I've like finally started to dial it in. Like, and it's crazy. And obviously there's so much that happens in between that, but man, I'm happy to hear that. Like, what do you mean? Like, what'd you dial in? Like, I, uh, I never told anybody this and I don't, I haven't told my dad, my family and nothing, but like, uh, two months ago I started to go to like therapy and stuff and like, just talking to people about like, what's been going on in my life. Like,

I don't know. I'll be like in the best mood ever. And I'm so good at like distracting myself from what, like I think about when I'm alone. And like, I think that's why it's so easy to like create content and fun. Cause you know, when you're just out laughing and having smiles, you know, it's so easy to just not think about that stuff. But like over time it would just build and build and build and build and build. And like, I just, it really messed with my head, dude, you know? And, uh,

I kind of in the last two months just like totally flip-flopped my life. Like I tried to start going to church every Sunday, started going to the gym every morning. This is like maybe a little personal, but I quit like jacking off. Really? Yeah. Totally stopped that. I take an ice bath every day and like every Thursday I go to therapy. And as of the last two months, like I've just been –

Frickin dialed you know And for the longest time And you told me this yesterday I'm like maybe I'm drinking too much So I stopped drinking for like nine months and six days a couple years ago And that didn't do shit to my mental health And I couldn't figure out what it was

I feel like, yeah, you definitely are looking the best, the most healthy I've ever seen you in my life. Yeah. I went from 225 to 181.6 this morning. Woo. Yeah. You're dialed. I mean, and obviously you can just tell in your face, like everything. You're the most in shape you've ever been. But also, I will say, speaking to your mental, you're much more predictable. I shouldn't say predictable, but you're much more...

less unpredictable you used to be very unpredictable and wild and maybe partly the reason why you maybe weren't super happy with i mean you would be able to answer this with your position at that time when you were still in seaboy's tv was like you were showing up and for one we didn't typically ever have a plan like we were just we didn't know what the fuck we were doing but for two you just were kind of like showing up and it was like

Just be you. Be funny. Just do whatever, you know? And kind of everyone was doing that. So it makes it stressful not having a plan, not having any organization. And then you're kind of like this wild man. Don't get me wrong. We were filming it during the moment. I love every single second of that. But it was like...

I wasn't learning anything. I wasn't doing anything. I wasn't getting any skills, you know, and I was just chasing a dragon, which was like a dopamine rush of having fun, you know? And I just felt like it just kind of wore me out because it was like, how long can I hold this up? And it, uh, it just kind of taxed me out. And I was just kind of looking for a outlet, you know? And, uh,

So did he come to you with kind of like a plan? Like, listen, we're going to get this structured program down. Yeah. The manager, were you, were you able to, he kind of gave you almost like this out, like, Hey, I can give you some structure. You can still chase that dopamine rush, but with a little bit of or legitness, what was the, it was more in a way of just like, uh, in my mind, what I thought it was going to be, it was like, uh,

a mentor, you know, in like a different world, you know, I could still, cause what I love to do in this, like, and I will forever, I love to entertain people and be around people. I'm a huge people person. I love, like, I have no problem being the center of attention. People pleaser. Yeah. You like making people laugh. Yeah. That's the thing. And like, I love that. Don't get me wrong. Like that, that is part of who I am, but I wanted to have this, like,

other part, you know, is what I'm saying. Like, I couldn't just live that. Like, and obviously you guys know we go to Zorba's and even if there's no cameras, like I stood up on the table for Micah and I'm like, Hey, everyone sing Micah happy birthday. Like, I love that stuff. Yeah. What you were going to do with that guy in that show, you were kind of still doing the same role though, as what you were doing here. Like you show up, you be funny, you be crazy. You, maybe you do whatever, like it might be a jump that day or whatever the hell, but

But did you feel like it was more of like, all right, like I got the time, the clock's ticking. I neither need to go with the seating business or, or make something happen now. Do you think that like the, there was like a clock weighing on you in a way? Yes. But I just like, uh, I felt like I just, if I was on that path, maybe it would like strike me into like learning, uh,

more than just doing that too you know like obviously there is like an evolvement of everything just like how this is evolved like this this is nuts you know like when i left like this this facility didn't exist and you guys just straight evolved the channel you know and like i just thought it would

evolve me into becoming like a better business person or maybe a different career line would open up. But I just thought it was like a doorway to something else, you know, and I just put my full trust in that. You know what though, Jake, I honestly, I truly believe that if you wouldn't have left when you did and made the decisions that you did,

none of this would be here and you had to go your own way because like at the end of the day, you just felt like you had to be your own leader, like make your own decisions. And honestly, in this, in like the way that us five operate is like,

There's really no one person calling the shots or like we all kind of work together. But like you, since day one, I've always kind of been like the lone ranger, like felt more beat, beat to your own drum or what is it? Go to your own. He does what he wants. Like I remember some days we'd be, you know, filming. I don't know if Jake's coming today. It looks like he's at home playing PS4, you know? Yeah. No. And it's, I think you're right in the way of, uh,

I definitely am that way for sure now. And, you know, I think I wanted to then, but I just didn't have anyone to like teach me to be like that, you know? And obviously it gets like kind of emotional and stuff. Cause you know, you always like, it's so crazy. I always, I get the question still to this day, you know, everyone's like, do you wish you never left? You know? And like, I look at all you guys, you know, and I think about it and I'll,

I have only one answer and it's not yes or no. The way I did, absolutely not. I wish I never did that, you guys. Like when I burned all the t-shirts and shit like that. That's pretty, I don't know. It wasn't cool. And I felt, today, I felt...

I feel super bad. And like, the reason I did that is I was making like a business decision in a way. And a problem with it is like, I was doing that decision off of emotions, you know, like that's,

That's literally the feeling and reason of why. And I'm not going to say this person's name because three weeks ago he came up to me in Zorba's and actually apologized for this. Really? And it was one of your guys' friends' bachelor parties. Oh, yeah. And anyways, it was just like the end of the night. And, you know, I was like still hanging out with you guys, but I was gone. I already went to Chicago and back and...

I was sad. I didn't know who I was. I was just a lost puppy, you know? And, uh, anyways, I just start getting lit up in the parking lot, you know? And I just didn't know what to do. What do you mean by lit up verbally saying like, why are you here? Yeah. Like, why are you here? Like you abandoned these guys, shit like that. And I'm just like, dude, I'm just trying to hang out, you know? And like, it was kind of awkward because everybody was a little messed up too. And like, it was just, it felt super weird. And like, obviously it,

it's totally different times that I was just like, no one kind of said anything, you know? And like, I just kind of looked around and I just like got in my truck and I

Went home and the next morning when I woke up, I just like chose violence. Like I was sad and it turned to anger. Yeah. So to preface, that was an acquaintance or a friend of like not anyone in our C boys group, but okay. I know what you're talking about. And that's when I say like, I let my emotions make a decision that I totally shouldn't have made, you know? And I almost think we need to slightly back up. But during that time then, so we were actually in,

kind of a legal battle with each other. Yeah. Uh, because so Jake ended up leaving Seaboys. Um, and in order to, you know, actually leave the company, which he wanted his name off the company because otherwise he would be liable for if something went wrong. Right. And we wanted his name off the company cause we're trying to build something. And it's like, we don't want him to, you know, if you're not going to be here with us doing it, then you can't be

you know, an owner in this. Um, and Jake, you gotta, we gotta give a huge, like, I mean, thank you to you because I mean, I remember from the first day when you said I'm going to leave, um,

uh, you know, obviously we were shocked, but you said, I don't want any money. Like, I don't want anything. Like I, I'm not trying to get money. I just cut me out of the, like, I'm going this way. I don't want to whatever. Um, which we really didn't have also on top of that. We didn't really have much money. We were renting a shop and we, I think we had an RS one. Yeah. And that's the thing. Like I, I truly did like want to see you guys like flourish at the time when I told you, you know, and it's funny, it's ironic. I'm like, I don't want a dollar. Well, the minimum buyouts are

So I got that bitch framed up in my office. Yeah. And I actually was going to bring it in, but I forgot. That should have been funny. But so before you left to go to Chicago, we had Jake sign a thing just saying, I will sell my shares of the company for $1. So we basically did it. We just hadn't, I don't know if we gave you the dollar yet or what we did, but you know, whatever. So it was like basically a done deal on paper. Right.

And the reason why we did that right then and there was because we were worried that when you went and got with this new manager, as soon as he gets involved in trying to do this separation, he's going to try and just take us for everything. Which, I mean, he kind of ended up doing with you later on. Obviously, we'll get to that part in the story. But we kind of saw that one coming. So we were trying to protect ourselves. And you were very nice to...

and easy about it you signed it didn't think twice and you know just because you weren't trying to obviously jam us up so i do appreciate that all of us do appreciate that because that honestly saved i think all this because i really don't i think if you wouldn't have signed that thing that document selling it for one dollar or you know just whatever cutting your shares off yep

I think that he would have just, you know, as, as he later on did, and as he had had done in the past, would have taken it to court, stretched it out and just basically try to bleed us dry. And we would have ultimately had to fold, you know, it would have crumbled. I think what we, what we had at that time. So, yeah, I mean, that was, that was huge. But, but anyways, I think there was when that guy chewed you out in the Zorba's parking lot, although we were like hanging out,

I think there was an animosity to us all because we were trying to still do this separation, but your manager was like,

it out. Like he purposely was like dragging it out and we had to keep paying lawyers and we didn't have money for that. So it was like we were... And we couldn't buy the shop. We were moved into the shop. We couldn't buy it because we were still on the business. We couldn't get a loan. And I think he knew that. I don't know if you knew that. Rusty Clark, an Army and Air Force veteran, needed treatment at a VA hospital.

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do you remember doing a zoom meeting yeah i mean a legal like you were pissed i remember that yeah yeah dude i like oh my god it was it was ridiculous i could tell on your face that you were already fed up of his shit no because pissed at us after this i remember that you were mad at us that's when it flipped that's that's when it so like maybe what happened no no no so what happened was like

I don't know if that was before or after, but basically like I just wanted like a clean rip just as you guys did. Like I just wanted nothing to happen. And then like when all these documents get sent over and you got someone in your ear like, hey, look at this, this, this, and this, and this. And I'm like, huh, maybe like these guys are trying to do like a dirty on me, you know? And then obviously now I'm just like,

well, I got to have my own team over here. That's why you never get lawyers involved in anything. I think, I mean, you just had the wrong people in your ear, obviously. Yeah, obviously. But yeah, going back, so that kind of started to create this animosity to all of us. Like, obviously we went from this is a clean break to now, I think there was some frustration involved out of both parties because it was...

I mean, at that time it was very hard on us because during that time, none of us were getting paid. So we were like, I think we went, I mean, fuck, like seven months, six months. And like, I just remember having like,

like we would kind of like get, I guess we'd get a little bit of paychecks, but I remember like, it was always like I had less than a thousand bucks in my bank account the whole time. And we were posting all these videos and it was kind of starting to take off, which almost leads into another point. When you left, there was so many people that were like in the area and obviously our subscribers as well that thought, Oh, they're done. Jake left. Like I legit had people like, I remember one time I was at,

I was eating dinner with my girlfriend's dad and they had a bunch of other people. And this guy, he was just like so rude to me. He was like, so what are you going to do now that Jake left you? I was like...

Like, what? I'm just going to keep on going. We're going to keep making videos. And I think a lot of people thought, oh, they're done because Jake left. He's the star. And it lit a fire under our ass for one. But then for two, it made us reconsider and relook at everything we were doing in the business. And we dialed it in. We started, you know,

Just from really the ground up, we started looking at everything. Like, how are we making these videos? Like, we would schedule out things, you know, and started planning and working on the thumbnails. Just literally everything because we were trying to just... Becoming strategic. Yeah, we became very strategic. Yeah. And, like, failure. Like, if those people would have been right... Yeah. Yeah.

It would have been a bad, like that was everything we could do to prove those people wrong. Like we were so fired up. That's like the coolest part. Because of how many people were telling us that we were, we were so fucked without you. Dude, that's the thing. And I love, and here's the crazy part. And it's kind of a good spot to, uh, bring this up and then we can continue. But, uh,

Coming back to when we were all together, do you guys remember being outside the shop? I don't know. It was just like a random day. We were all sitting around a fire pit and like we were just having a fun, stereotypical weekend, you know, and we were all...

like arms around each other like this is awesome we're gonna do it and like one day or ben said you know guys one day we're all gonna have our dream cars and i'm gonna own a lamborghini and the day i was stuck in the trunk of that other car and i heard a lambo pull up you know what the first thing i said was he fucking did it

But no, I literally like, like when I heard that thing come in, I literally just remember staring at all you guys and Ben saying that. And I'm just like, he did it. Like, and it was cool. Cause like,

I don't know if you guys know this. You know how cool it's been from like the outside perspective, watching you guys grow. Like it's, it's weird being a part of something, taking yourself out of that and just watching that thing climb to the top. It is the coolest thing in the world. Just like seeing the evolvement and like, cause when you're in it, you know, you're going just like 200 miles an hour and you guys kind of don't realize like,

how fast it's going, you know, and like just you, it, time blows by and you know, you just like watch this thing in like a matter of years, just turn into a staple and icon, like only a one of a kind in the entire area, which is like the coolest thing in the entire world to me. Like I, I loved it every second of it. It's crazy.

I think that goes to show like all the other outside people that were going on during this, just like that fight outside of whatever bar, you know, where that guy was young. It was all the outside people that really caused the problem. We were all, we all wanted to be good. You wanted a clean exit. We wanted a clean exit. We wanted to get back to work. You wanted to get to work on what you're doing. It was everybody else that tries to stick and,

their either hands for money or their opinion and stuff like that into a situation that can really be the downfall. It probably where some of that animosity that was created from us to you and you to us wasn't what we were saying to each other. It was what other people told us we should be feeling or what other people told us that they'd heard or what people said, no, this is how you should feel or, oh, he's going to do this.

Like the lawyers, oh, he's going to try to take you for this. You've got to put this language in. And I think that really goes to show that what we were is such, and what we are is such good friends that we just wanted to do our own thing. But it's the other people who don't understand the situation that can really muddy the waters. Yeah. It got like, dude, when you burnt those shirts, man,

People were hating on us. People were hating on us. We got so much hate. Everyone was on your side. And the worst part was the local people that always said we were going to fail. And they were commenting and reposting that. And then I truly saw who had our back. And I still remember exactly who did it and who didn't. Yeah. So that sucks for the people around the area. But I remember that. And I straight up had a breakdown of...

Then the next morning, I was literally sitting in my parents' kitchen crying, being like, my best friend did this to me and my other friends. Everything was just, like, come crumbling down. And that was, like, the moment, like, at the lowest. I think that was, like, the rock bottom of, like, all of our... Like, everything that happened. Like, that was... That was it. That was it. And then everything built from there. Obviously, it got better. But...

That was a banger, though. Like, when you dropped that, Bernie, like, that was like... Fuck. I remember when you dropped that. It was, dude. I was like, holy fuck. They got some serious production. Like, this is a great story. They got fucking Morgan Freeman. What was up with that? Like, I was just like... You guys want to know something? Is that really Morgan Freeman? It's an AI, isn't it? No, no. That was literally...

had nothing to do with that that was me and zach hubby yeah that was it and where'd you get the morgan freeman so that's thing ai wasn't out yet you got we were 21 years old ai wasn't out right and uh anyways i was watching a youtube video and it was morgan freeman telling all the memes of 2021 i'm like man i can't believe morgan or no what you're uh 2020 and i'm like man that's hilarious why would morgan freeman do this scroll down it's a guy who does voice reenactments oh

No way. It wasn't even Morgan Freeman? Yeah. And I literally like email him. I'm like, if you can say these words, I will pay you as much as you want. I need this by tomorrow. And he goes, done. It sounded so good. Yeah. And the funny part is though, you guys like right away, right after that, karma just kicked me in the ball so fast because my first video where like Viking costume. Oh my God. Can we get...

Can we get a copy of that? No. Can we please get a copy of that? Gone forever. It will never be seen. Bro, that shit. So before that, though, that was where it shifted. You had everyone on your side, I think, because you were a major fan favorite.

And I think a lot of people were like, you know, Seaboy's TV is still doing their thing. But when Jake comes out with his, he's going to be crushing it. Like, he is going to blow us out of the water. And then you drop that burning the merch thing. And I was like, damn, like, they actually can all of a sudden make videos. Because I was like, I didn't think this guy could do shit all along. But I guess we were wrong. I'm like, oh, fuck, because I'm getting nervous. Yeah.

Bob manager. Yeah. Bob didn't have anything to do with it. Whenever, whenever we say, whenever we say Bob's real name, just put a beep because otherwise it's going to sound weird. Um, and you can leave that in, but, uh,

But I remember thinking that and I remember like, oh, fuck. And then, you know, you guys end up finishing up. It was like, you finally come to the agreement. You get your name off the company. And keep in mind, I guess you had probably been not posting videos or doing anything online now for what? Like a year? Literally. It was like this guy took a year. Like he didn't just come out like it took him a year to make one YouTube video. And he comes out with your fucking first video. Yeah.

Dude, what was up with that? Like, you guys. That shit was... You don't understand. You guys can imagine how the pilot episode was if you've ever seen it. Okay, you guys. Here's the thing. Coming back to what you said. And then, yes. Like...

With that momentum, I probably could have just came out of the gate so hard, and it just slapped me in the face so bad. Well, you guys premiered it, too, so you were watching it live. Oh, and I was watching the live comments, and I was just like, just close the computer. It was just ripping. I was watching them, too, because I had my broken foot at the time, so I was all rested up.

And, I mean, keep in mind, you've been, like, promoting for a year. Like, I'm coming out with this channel and all this. Dude, that's the thing. If we would have just came out doing something, like, the three Instagram videos were awesome. Yeah. And despite the fact of, like, the whole ruining of the friendship and making it really weird, from the outside viewership, it created, like, just some drama and hype, and it was sick, right? Yeah, I think we just dropped the ball on delivering. To CJ's point, yeah, you had the catapult-loaded.

as it can be ready to launch whatever you want as long as it's awesome.

Dude. So we were out drinking that night because we were like, Jake's dropping his video tonight. And I was like, God, I don't even want to watch this. I figured it was going to just be like just shitting on us, ripping all of us apart, like all these different things, right? And then CJ texts, yo, you guys got to go and watch Jake's new video. And I was like, I can't, dude. I literally can't. I'm not trying to ruin my night. I'm trying to have a good time. And he's like, believe me.

It's worth the watch. And we get back to Tint's house, and we all put it on, and we watch it. And I shit you not, everyone was like this. And then it got done, and it was just silent. And we go... I was like, holy fuck. We're good! Well, it was like, dude, it was like the whole momentum shift of us getting shit on for the past year. And...

I'm not going to lie. It felt kind of nice. And I was just like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. This guy is a flop. I get what you're saying. Yes. No, you're fine. We had a feeling. And then that. So what? He got in there. What was going on on your side? He was like, here's a great idea. And you were just like, okay. No, that's the thing. Like, as being 21, 22, like.

so heavily influenced and I just put all my trust on him. And at this point, I'm like, I'm all in. I can't shake it. I do like, what am I going to do? Like, I already had those other three videos up there. There's nothing I can do at this point. I'm like,

Let's roll it. You know, get the Viking costumes out. Yeah, the Vikings costumes, bro. When you break the tripod, you're like, fuck this thing. Just broke a $25 tripod and threw it in the field. You put that in the intro? That guy, dude.

But yeah, anyways. I can't help my lap right now. I'm sorry. It just reminded me of something. When you were doing it, we're like, is he being held hostage? Why else would he make content like this? What's up, bro? Oh, hey, Cody. Dude, so you had to have watched that and just be like, we're fucked. No, literally. I want to know what was going on in your side. How'd we get there? So how we got there. So basically like...

How it became about or whatever. So, okay. As I was told, like there was a show that was greenlit, right? So we got to maybe give some context. So right after I left the boys, I ended up moving to Chicago for...

what three months maybe for it was like a summer the whole summer yeah basically the whole summer and i maybe came back like two three times and uh like i just i'm like dude we're not doing anything i called my dad i'm like come fly down here pick me up and it was like four hours he's like all right cool so anyways like the time i was down there so like i left you guys right at this time i'm like thinking all right i got this we got a plan i fly down there i uh

I didn't have any... I, like, literally took my clothes and a one-wheel. And, like, that's how I got around down there or whatever. And, like, I get to his house. And, like, at this point, I was, like, super drinking the Kool-Aid because...

Like, his house was pretty cool for what it was, right? And I come in, I'm like, all right, so maybe this guy knows what he's doing. And obviously, whole different story. But anyways, we start, like, getting to work down there, right? Like, making T-shirt designs and stuff like this. And, like, he starts showing me, like, a couple designs. And I was like, that's...

That is subpar. Like that is like, that's bad. Right. And I'm like, we need to change this up a little bit. Right. So like finally dial in some t-shirts, whatever. And now we're like,

Which is exactly what you need before making any content. Right, right. You need some t-shirts to sell to the people. All bass accords here. But I'm just rolling with the punches, you know. I'm following his lead on this one. I'm in it. Like, I'm going to do this new milestone in my life, you know. I'm trying something totally different. And so, like, we're working down there and,

Working on like other show pitches and stuff that was like going on. He's like, yeah, I just got to wrap up like these two projects or whatever. And then he's like, we'll get to work on some stuff. And yeah,

I was there for like maybe a week, two weeks. And we maybe did like three things that had to deal with me. Otherwise, I was like pressure washing his roof. And like, I'm like, I'm doing manual labor over here. I'm not even getting paid. You started a pressure washing roof? I have Snapchats of me pressure washing his roof. And I totally bet I can send you guys all that. Like, I literally like...

did edging did this did that i'm like wow i'm like next thing you know you're wearing a little uniform you're doing other people's lawns too oh my god anyway so like start doing yard bitch for a bit right so like i'm i'm playing this role i'm like all right cool it's whatever and um i don't remember if it was like fourth of july coming up or something was coming up and my dad like

flies down gets me go home and he's like how is it i'm like oh pretty good you know he's like wrapping up some other projects and stuff and whatever i'm like yeah but i had to like clean up his house and stuff like that because he was like selling it at the time or whatever and he's like oh he's like just give it time whatever you know like yeah stay true yeah you'd figure that like something's gonna happen and you know he's staying positive about it and he's like all right drops me off you know and

Go on DL and hang out with friends and have fun, whatever. Punch a washing machine. Oh my God, I forgot about that. I so forgot about that until you just said that. Whose house was that at? Dude, I don't know. We shouldn't mention it. What happened? We were just talking, me and you. It was the first time that we'd seen each other in like two months and it got kind of heated.

And you punched a washing machine. Not at our house. What were you guys saying again? We were just chopping it up. And then things got kind of escalated. And I was like, what are you doing down there? And I must have struck a soft spot. He talked about cleaning that roof. And he punched the fucking washing machine. Yeah. No, I totally forgot about that until you brought that up. That's kind of funny. No, it's all right. Anyway, so I go back.

And anyway, so like basically the whole time we're down there, we're just working on like merchandising stuff, you know, like the whole time we're down there. Like obviously we're- Like how many hours a day, just out of curiosity? What felt like all day, every day, probably only like-

a couple hours here and there because we're out doing other stuff because he's got these other unwrapped up projects bro i remember how he works yeah yeah you know exactly you're just doing nothing but he's taking a lot of time hamster wheeling it yeah yeah it's so hard when you like just put your full trust in someone because like i just kept giving them the benefit of the doubt you know but eventually like i just got totally like

Like we got to start doing stuff, you know, like people are asking questions, you know, like there needs to be a, like we got to do something. Like whether if we're going to just like shoot a TV show and that's like what we're going to do. Well, let's just go do that. But in the meantime, we're just like sitting here not doing anything. Like we like make a channel or something or go to work, you know? So by like the summer's over.

Like I just moved home. I'm like, dude, like we got a, and you had nothing to show for it. No, exactly. Zero. I had a couple of t-shirts and a hat out of the whole summer, you know, were they even for sale yet or no, no, no, they weren't even for sale. And like these designs might could have whipped up by the time this podcast over, dude, like it's pretty heavy. Anyways, I just pictured you guys having like 15 meetings throughout the summer about the same t-shirts. No, bro. But you don't understand. Like there was like, it was like,

thousands of them we're going through. I'm like, here's the deal. We just need something cool. Pick a couple of t-shirts and a hat. I'm going to wear it. We'll do some cool stuff. Kids are going to buy it. We'll move on, make new ones. Right. Like we're not going to find a perfected t-shirt that everybody's going to love. Yeah. And like, I kind of started getting like floored up with it. And I'm like, dude, we just got to go home. We got to start like filming something.

Both of you, right? Yeah, we both get here. And now he's living at my dad's house in the basement. And so... God, that was uncomfortable because now you guys were back in town and we still had this animosity to us. And it was like, now they're back here and they're going to film in Cormorant? So we're going to have two people, two groups filming around this tiny little town? Yeah. I remember thinking... And that's the thing is like...

Basically, the stuff we were doing is to do show pitches and pilots and stuff like that, right? I remember he wanted to do Quibi. What's Quibi? That was like the big thing. That's what I fucking left. That is what I left. Yeah, sorry. We said, why are you leaving, Jake? He said, I'm going to have a show on Quibi. Yes, Quibi. You are totally right. The whole network didn't even work out. Yeah, no. It literally like... That is the reason...

That I'm pretty sure is the reason why we came home and like started the channel is that thing just shut down. And dude, man, all these bad memories just hit me like a brick, dude.

But yes, anyways, there was this app called Quibi. If I remember correctly, what it was is that it was original content that you had to pay in order to view. So the reason why I was like, that will never work is because if it's original content that no one's ever seen before, why the fuck would they pay to view it? Like, you know, it makes no sense. Right.

But anyways, yeah. So basically Quibi failed. Yeah. Total flop. It was like a three month thing. Yeah. So anyway, so we come back, we start like filming stuff for pilots for YouTube. Anyways, he's like, got us all totally convinced. Like, okay, uh, we're green lit for whatever this is going to be. It's basically, it was, uh, do you guys remember, uh, I don't even know if I can say the name, but just beep it. Uh,

or whatever. Oh yeah. So basically like that was green light and there was just other cast members we were going to use. Right. And I was like at this point like whatever let's do something. Let's do something. Right. And yeah. So like yeah we're good to go. We're just waiting on this and that this and that you know and it's just like

It's the same story over time, you know? And I just got like kind of sick of it, sick of it, sick of it revolving. Like, yeah, just hamster wheel and revolving door. And then I think it was by the time we got to, you remember the video where we did like the pumpkin drop thing? Like we started throwing pumpkins out of the plane, onto the car or whatever. It was an all right idea or whatever, but like that video was filmed in September of,

and he didn't get that out till like october 20th and that's when we were like okay we got to do this like weekly if we're gonna do this right was he editing them yes so he had editors uh back home so we had like these big drives we'd upload them to the cloud or whatever or he'd mail them to him and like it would take so long to edit them and after that i was like yeah

You're just not going to edit these videos anymore. And literally out of nowhere comes Pat Reagan. Just calls me up and he's like, hey, I'm not doing Sasquatch anymore or whatever. And he's like, do you need an editor? And I was like, yeah, absolutely. And he's like, sweet, I'll come down tomorrow. Pat was like our buddy. We had known Pat and done a couple things with him over the years and just knew him. He was fantastic.

It was part of a film production crew down in the cities that it was kind of like the same thing of Seaboys, except they were just making videos for other people. And it was like very high production. They made the Just Another Day video. Yeah, the Just Another Day video, which is on our YouTube channel. It's like a... I can't remember what the edit's called, but it's like this edit. It's like a sequence thing of events. Yeah, and it was really cool. It's pretty sweet. They made that just for Backstories. He left that company. Jake left Seaboys at like the same time. Yeah. And then you guys...

Came together. Came together. Dude, as soon as Pat came on, it was like everything just clicked for... Like, the content, the thumbnails, the ideas, like, everything. Like, he just... He basically took over. Like, yes, he took over, like, the editing and all that stuff. And basically, like, at that time, you know, like, then...

and I just like run in the background. I'm like, I'm like this, none of this stuff is happening. Like I, whatever you said, like isn't happening and I'm getting kind of floored and I'm like, like me and Pat just kind of got to like go and do stuff. So like to just stay relevant, you know? Right. And, uh, eventually I think it was, uh, like December 31st. Like I was just sucked into

literally dry like with who my bank account okay like like december 31st like so were you funding these videos yourself the your manager yeah at the time wasn't chipping in any idea he had any like like we were funding all of it like those those vans in the pumpkin drop video like i went and bought the vans like all the new camera equipment everything like we built out my the studio like i paid for all that or whatever you know and

Come December 31st, like, I am capped. I'm like, dude, this isn't working. I'm, like, talking to my dad and Julie and whoever. I'm like, he's got to go. And, you know, like, they started, like, seeing it, too. Just, like, over time, they're like, yeah, nothing's happening. They're like, it's been so long. You had this full-grown-ass man living in your basement. Yeah, yeah. And, you know, like...

The benefit of the doubt was over, sir. What did Pat think of him? Did they get along? Pat did not like him. So basically no one liked him. No, yeah, no one. And like me and Pat just kind of like we're talking and I'm like, yeah, I'm going to tell him it's time to go, you know. And so were you like pretty pent up? Like were you like pretty pit? Like veins were showing. I was like, dude, I'm like, it was, it just crashed and burned. Like I got on the,

what was supposed to be the sickest flight of all time and it just turned around and landed back in fargo you know i didn't fucked you over yeah yeah it's like literally totally just like bent me straight over and i had nothing to show for it just blew a bunch of time and now i'm starting over from scratch kind of jammed up your name in the process with oh yeah i really did videos credibility yeah absolutely like it just everything totally flopped you know and then um

So yeah, I told him on December 31st, like, you know, we, you're, you're done. We're done. Like you have no equity into this. Like my, my literal, it's just me on the company. And like, I've been the only one putting money into this. And like my, my dad's been flying you back and forth. We've been paying, like you just cut ties, you know? And he did not like to hear that like at all. Like he was just pissed. He's like, what do you mean? Like,

stuff's just starting to take off i'm like what are you talking about no it is not obviously it's a nerve-wracking conversation to go into that's the thing like he was just trying to like pitch me on this and this and that and he hits you with a you know it's funny you say that because uh just got the email that we're actually good to go and i got a big meeting coming up and i'm like i really don't care about your big meeting dude like we all know you're just

kind of a, I don't know. Yeah. You've been playing us. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, it just turned into this whole big ordeal. And, uh, basically, so what happened? I actually, uh, sent out the lawsuit and all it said was, if you just walk away, it's done. Like there is no lawsuit. Like I just, I'm doing this to protect me. You just,

walk away because you have no sweat you have nothing to show for this if anything it damaged my name so much that like i should be asking you for a check but i'm like i don't want anything so you sent out the initial really yeah well i just sent the initial thing out that says all you got to do is just leave so you served them yeah basically and uh all i said was

Just you got to exit my life because he would literally just like keep coming back, like literally showing up and like, what do we do? I'm like, dude, no. Like trying to be like, hey, I got this idea. Yeah. You know, just trying to keep doing this thing. And I'm like, no, dude, like this. This is done. It's it's.

This is like in the past. I got to open up a new chapter. I'm like, I just burned every bridge behind me and then spent all my money in the meantime. And now I'm here and I got nothing to show for it. Like I got to, I got to do something here. And that was the start of it. He said no. And then it turned into a two year long thing.

Why? What was he trying to get out of it? He said I owed him like 400 grand. For what? His time? His time, yeah. For how long was it? Like eight months? And you guys did what? Nothing? Nothing. Yeah, exactly. The math isn't adding up. Everybody I tell this story to or sees it, they're like, dude, you got nothing to show for it. So you serve him.

He sues you? I don't know the exact terms, but I'm basically just like, if you walk away, go home. I even offered to bring him his stuff, which I ended up doing. I paid a guy to drive all of his stuff down there. All you got to do is just get out of my life. We're not working together anymore. We have no business. We have no LLC together. We have nothing. When all that was happening, was it like flashing back like, holy shit, this is how the boys felt on the other end of it with him?

him being like kind of when we started it was like you two and then you were going against him then yeah i i totally know what you mean uh it was like the amount of stuff that was just going through my brain at that time uh it's crazy and here's like the biggest thing what my uh i guess what i call it now and what my dad called it was like well you just like paid tuition at that point you know like just a lesson you know and uh obviously i've

Don't wish it upon anybody to have to go through something like that. But like I learned a ton and in a way, like it just got me readied up for the next two that I'm in now. You know, I got sued by a massive energy drink company and a sunglass company, which. What? Yeah. What? Yeah. Yeah. You getting sued by Bang was bullshit. Yeah, dude. And we can't say that. He had the name. Yeah. What? Oh, that was the other thing from when you came to us, told us that you left. You said, oh yeah. Also, we trademarked Bangin'.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, that created a little bit. Yeah. And we were like, what do you mean trademark banging? Mike made all the designs. You trademarked Mike's designs. Well, that was just funny because I was like, well, you deserve and that is your name. But then I was like, but manager sent all my designs in to get it trademarked. And I was like, what?

this? That was kind of a weak point, I think, because although it was like your nickname that we kind of gave you and helped, and then we all built it up almost through the videos. But also, I didn't really have a problem. It was weird, but also it was like, well, we can't keep using it anyway. So we were like, eh. But it felt like a...

I don't know. Like, I can see where you guys are coming from. Disrespectful thing. You log into the trademark thing and see all Micah's stuff. You're like, all right, what did you just, they want to say anything about it? Yeah. But honestly, I mean, it was, it makes sense that you would, you know, there's two points of views that could both be understood. Understood. Yeah. So then what? Bang? I think you're skipping. I think we need to. Yeah. Well, we're getting like, I think we need to stay on. He's still in this lawsuit right now for the next. Yeah.

Two years with his former manager. Yeah, so basically... It's like as if things couldn't have gotten worse, they got worse. Oh, yeah. If things couldn't have gotten worse, it just kept spiraling. Now you guys are suing each other. Yeah, and now it just turns into this big thing. And the problem with that is it just like...

hung up so much other stuff because it shows like a pending lawsuit if i'm like trying to get something that i could loan yeah all this stuff you know and like nobody wants to like ambassador anybody that could just like has to owe someone a bunch of money or anything like that you know and uh it just created a kind of a lot of headaches and i think the biggest headache was just for like

Me personally, in the back of my mind, you know, it's just like, oh, this is close to over. And then the hamster wheel starts turning again. And it's like, actually, we want this, this, this, this, this, and this. Dude, that was, I feel you. Because that's what he was, I mean, that was kind of happening with us when we were trying to get, do the official split thing.

with us it was like we'd come to an agreeance and then the goalposts would get moved by him it was like well we want this and we're like okay yeah you can have all the videos and use them whenever you want well we want this and it was like it just kept moving and it was just never stopped and it was similar in the fact that we couldn't get alone so then we were just like fuck yeah so i get it on a smaller scale i guess it's kind of similar just the underlying

The fact that you're in a lawsuit or anything with lawyers those days is so stressful. Especially when you're in a creative business that you have to be in a good mood. At 21 and you see these numbers, I'm like, I don't have...

any of that you know like you spent everything i had we want a half a million dollars yeah he's like well you know my time and uh did some of this and some of that at 400 grand i'm like for what exactly yeah that's what blows my mind the most he's like pay me money and you're like you didn't not only did you not make me any money

Because if you did, you'd maybe have a cent to pay him, but he took it. Also, it was like on both sides of us both having that situation, it was like a ton of money. And we're like, we don't even have close to that amount of money. I don't know where you're getting this from or who's going to give you this money, but we don't got shit. We don't got anything to give you right now. I think it was just make-believe numbers. Like, all right, $5,000.

6-0-0-0. Like, what do we want to go for? Yeah. And so that's the thing. So basically, at this point now, it's just me and Pat. And like, it's just this...

huge thing that's always there, right? And we're just like on the grind doing good and then some paper show up, you know, and then it's on the grind doing good. Then some paper show up and it basically is bills or killing the vibe. Yeah. Whether it was bills or just like now we want this and it's just going to take a ton of work that it's like it literally you guys I had a binder and I was going to bring it but I have a just like so they call it discovery where you bring in all the evidence, right? And we asked for like

10 things maybe his discovery was maybe like this thick I have a binder of all the stuff I had to supply it's like

All the ad revenue from here to here. Minutes of watch time. These videos that have been up. How his likeness got killed. I'm like, dude, you have 13 followers on Instagram. That's right. I forgot about that. The what? When you made your video. Yeah, you made your goodbye video and you kind of trashed him. Yeah. Weren't you worried about that? Yeah. So that's the thing though. Like I didn't use his name. It's, I literally just said like,

not trying to get sued, anything like that. And then the defamation claim comes through and it's like, you can see my face. And we're like, you can't like people know it's me. And I was like, no, they don't. And so that was his biggest thing. He was so adamant about like getting that video down, which was like, he's like, I've lost so many jobs because of, uh, that video, you know, people look up the last thing I did and they see that video. They'd,

And we were like requesting, you're like, show us when your last actual job was. And like, I don't think we ever got it, you know? And, um, but yeah. So you start making videos with Pat. So like once it was just kind of at a lull, you know, and like, uh, the ball kind of starts rolling and we like start getting traction and figuring out like what kind of videos we want to make and the route we want to go, you know, and stuff like that. And, uh,

It starts going pretty good, and then...

Anthony comes in and this is so random, you guys. Who's Anthony? Sorry. He's just basically me and Cody's partner or whatever. He's basically my business mentor and he's actually a fucking phenomenal one. He's just one of the boys. He's awesome. He's hilarious. He doesn't want anything to do with being on video or anything like that. He was super interested in the online...

store type of thing and uh at first me and pat were like super cautious like he sent us an email and he's just like hey i would love to learn how this works and we're like here we go again yeah here's round two and so we like ignore his email he sends out another one and um

We just ignore it. Anyways, I get this DM on Instagram from his daughter. She's like 15 at the time. And she's like, and I didn't know his daughter. She's like, Hey, I'm turning 16 soon. Um, I've, I saw your truck was for sale. I really want to buy it. And I'm like, okay. The clapper. Yeah. And you were like jumping on. Yeah. And so this, this is the best part of the story. So, um,

He told her, he's like, you know what? You negotiate your own deal. You want your first car. Like they made a deal. He'll get her first car. And so she's like, what do you want? And I just throw the Hail Mary out there, you know, just like not even close to what the things were. And she goes, uh, it's like 15 grand or something. And the thing was pretty clapped. Yeah. The clapper. Yeah. And she goes, okay, we'll be there this weekend. And I'm like,

oh yeah and uh anyway so they like show up i got my white mustang still at the time and i'm like get in let's go for a ride and i'm like swinging around the parking lot and we're hauling down the road whatever come back and they were all giddy and we were like checking out the truck and me and tony go for a ride in the truck and dude the rear end's literally about to like leave like you put it in gear and it's like clunk and he's like

so what is that back there i'm like oh it's gen one thing they all do that rolling around in the back yeah literally i'm like that's just a gen one thing i'm like mine over there does it too and he i didn't even realize but he came in the same truck and he didn't say like mine doesn't do that and he's like well she really wants it so i'll take it and he just hands me an envelope of cash and we go in the house and i just count it all right in front of him and he's like

All right, is it all there? I'm like, yeah, it's there. He's like leaving, driving it home and the thing's like falling apart. And he calls his wife and he's like, I just got so bent. I could not tell my daughter. No. Anyways, when he was there, he's like, yeah, I was the guy that was trying to email you. And we're like, oh, yeah, we're.

I don't know, kind of just trying to stay away from that stuff. And he's like, no, he's like, I don't want anything. And he's like, I'll actually make like a document that says I want nothing in return. But he's like, I'm curious how like the giveaway business works, you know? And he's like, uh, I just, I want to see how it goes. He's like, what if we just do this? He goes, I'll, uh,

buy your next item and uh he's just so i was like let me come in and see how like the shopify store works how you guys promote and stuff like that and he goes if you don't even make your money back he goes in the thing it says you don't owe me anything like i'm just curious to see how it works

and I was like okay so like we do it and I think we had like the slingshot or the ranger at the time and that was like the first one we did and Sonny's like well he's like would you ever help me like open my store and I'm like sure and like we just start like hanging out and like we actually got along like super well or whatever and he was like showing me this and that he's like well if you uh help me with my store he goes I'll like help you with like your accounting and stuff because at the time I was paying like

I think over 25 grand in a year just to have like my books done and stuff. Just because it's insane. Well, I'll handle that. And he's like, Oh, save you a bunch of money and stuff. And so like, I help him open the how Coke gear store or whatever. And we start doing that. And, uh, anyways, it just kind of evolved into just like being friends or whatever. And then, uh,

That's how we just kind of like started bums. And that's just kind of like our baby together, which is what we do. So he's just like the sunglasses business. Yeah. Sunglasses business. And, um,

that's just kind of what we do so he just hangs out with us and kind of like mentors us business wise handles the books and stuff like that but he likes going to like events and stuff like that so we just kind of hang out and uh it's freaking awesome because like that's the thing i was kind of looking for and i'm so grateful like ever since he came into my life like i was so skeptical so scared just like kept pushing back pushing back pushing back and like didn't want anything to do with it like

It's been awesome. Like I've learned more now than like I ever have, you know, it was almost that business mentor that you were looking for in the beginning. Someone who has run businesses and has done things. And, uh, and it's super cool. And we have like a lot of common, you know, and like, it's awesome because like, if I do something like,

super dumb, you know, and it's, it's not like the dad thing, you know, or you get like scolded by your dad or whatever. He'll just be like, well, that was stupid. You're going to do that again, you know? And he's just like, all right, let's like move on to the next thing. You know, it's kind of a mentor and a friend in business, you know, and kind of like just showed me the path of like running numbers, you know, and we just kind of do our thing on camera. And, uh,

Me and Cody are kind of like the promoter side of the sunglasses, and he's like, I'll just run the backside, and it works out really well. Nice. So what's going on on the YouTube end? It's literally just me and Cody doing our thing, and that's kind of what we're trying to dial in now, and it's so funny. So we, like, shut the Bang Insight down for a while because, like, sunglasses have –

Within the last two months, this is like the coolest part. So, you know, everything was just in my life kind of dwindling. And like I said, I started going to like the therapy and my better decisions. I mean, Cody started going to the gym every morning. You know, you just like you feel more dialed in when you're just like healthier in a better mindset. And you get more creative and stuff like that. And within the last two months, like I've been having...

so much fun never laughed so much and like it really rebuilt my relationship with cody which is like the greatest thing and uh cousin yeah yeah literally my cousin and like we've been

literally living it up together. And like, as soon as that starts happening, like other good things start happening, you know? And like last month when we were doing that 23 for 23 deal, like our videos were doing okay, but it was like nothing like in the millions of views or even like barely at a hundred thousand views and some were lower, some were higher. And it was like our best month we've ever had ever.

As far as sales. Sales. And it was like... It was awesome just because we were being smarter, doing better, like just...

overall looking at different routes we can go you know like we tried advertising on hulu netflix snapchat like all that like traditional advertising and stuff and like it works but uh it's so crazy i think i saw you liked it did you watch mtv jesse's thing when he's talking about the core thing yeah like that's literally what i saw and kind of like what we started doing and uh

I don't know. That's the thing. Like we, and I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself of like the success I want to see. And we're basically starting from the ground up and like bums has kind of just been like our baby. And I'd like, I've loved sunglasses forever. Obviously like the,

the shield and then it turned into the super big shield. The craziest sunglasses. Yeah. I don't even know if some of them could be called sunglasses. Some of them were like welding masks. Wear them, you know, that like, that's been the coolest thing. And like, I, I, I'm not going to totally ditch it, but like the banging brand to me is it's obviously super special. Cause it like built me up into who I am and I built it with you guys. And it's super fun, but I'm just,

I've kind of found a passion for like an actual like item, you know, and the cool thing about sunglasses is like some of the people that are buying them don't even know who we are. Like two giveaway winners ago, I called him and I'm like, you won. He's like, won what? I'm like, uh,

No, Timbersled with the... It was like the Pit Bike Timbersled. Oh, yeah. Anyways. Yeah, I saw that call and I laughed. Yeah. I was like, well, that's good. He had no idea. Thought it was a scam. Had never heard of us. Had no idea who we are. That's what you want. Yeah. That's exactly what you want. And I'm like, okay, we're reaching people that don't know who we are. And that's the thing that I love is like everybody...

love sunglasses, but I have so many people that are like, Hey, will you make a t-shirt? Like I'd buy one, but I just don't want it to say banging. And I'm like, I get it. Like it's, it's cool. You know, it's my audience is like, that's for my actual core audience, you know? But like,

It's so fun building something that has a chance of outliving my lifetime. Absolutely. And that's what I ultimately have a passion for. We've been just doubling down, and we just ordered a ton more shades and are looking at different manufacturers, new boxes, trying to figure out a way to get...

an ambassador program going where like athletes can have their signature shade or whatever. And like kind of trying to figure out how to snowball. And like my, my goal at the end of the day is to be like a, a blenders, you know, or like, uh, this, uh, something of like that, you know, like, yeah, I've just loved sunglasses so much. Well, I think you got a great name and, uh, and, uh,

I've heard the product's great, but I haven't gotten any bums myself, which is bullshit because every single person around here gets a pair of bums except for your boys. Dude, his girlfriend even has only like three pairs, bro. Unbelievable. You can't hook a homie up. I'll buy them. No, no. I tell you what. I tell you what.

I'll bring a bunch over. If you like them, then you buy them. No, no, no. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But no, it is. It's great. And I'm happy to see that. Yeah, you have created a product that is bigger than yourself and has the potential to be bigger than yourself or a YouTube channel or anything like that, which is awesome, man. I think that's exactly what

you know, people make videos for. Yeah, exactly. In our, in our case, you know, we're still trying to figure out even what that is for us. But, um, you know, I think that's the ideal situation for any creator is to, to, uh, create something like that. And then the cool thing too, is like, uh, it's just kind of been something to grab onto, you know, for hope too. It's just like, it honestly has helped like my mental health a lot because now I kind of have a

you know when you have like a vision or a path, like it's so much easier to, okay, I'm taking... Wake up every day with, you know where you're going. Intent. Yeah, exactly. And like that's the, like sometimes, and you guys probably get it, the hard thing is like, okay, let's sit down and have a meeting. What are we going to film? You know, and it just gives me like a...

sign of relief that we're like, we're making videos for a reason to push bums into being bigger than me or the YouTube channel or any like thing that I just, if it'll, it has the chance of catching on, you know, and becoming a, maybe not a total A-list mainstream sunglass, but enough to where like they'll sell themselves. And like, that was, that was the coolest part about last month. We didn't have a giveaway. We didn't have nothing going on. And like,

it was the best we ever did. And we're like, okay, like there's something there. Like people are buying them. $23 shades for 23 days.

And it was like a marketing, just a marketing idea. That was, yeah. Yeah. No, that was great. That was great. And leaned on, you know, being more creative and obviously it worked. And we were basically just pushing them through like Instagram, just coming up with funny reels, whether it was just like, I had like Andrew's kid do one or Cody's telling everybody they're all free, you know? And that's funny. People were just geeking out over it. And I was like, okay, like,

I'm loving this. Like we're in. They're cool shades too, by the way. Like all the styles are, you know, they're cool. And then they're at a price that's actually fair. Right. You know? So, I mean, it's really is a no brainer that people love them. And that's, you just had to get the product in front of them. Right. And that's like the hardest part is like, I obviously I bought like really dumb stuff, but I've never bought a pair of Ray-Bans because I can't keep track of sunglasses. You know, like,

We own a sunglass company and I'm losing them left and right. Like it's terrible. And, uh, but that's kind of like why I started it is just like a good, affordable, awesome speed kids, flashy college shade. And then you got like the more black or whatever for the older people. But yeah, it, uh, it's just cool how it kind of came full circle as a passion, but it started off with just big,

Big shades and then big shades. Then I'm like, okay, not everybody going to wear those. We did sell those. Do you remember that? Yeah, we had the bangin' shields. Dude, I have the original. I have the original. It's not here, but yeah. Those things, they were so cool, but you couldn't see shit out of them. Well, it said like bangin' and itchin'. Yeah, you're like, not sure what I'm looking at. But it doesn't matter. I look cool. So you don't make bangin' merch at all anymore? So what we're going to do, we do. So we're kind of going to,

evolve it. So I'm basically just going to be selling like limited packs. So there'll be a, um, a bronze pack, a silver pack, a gold pack and a platinum pack. And it basically, it'll just be like bronze. It'll be like,

T-shirt hat, silver bead T-shirt sweatshirt hat or something like that. And it'll just basically be kind of like drops of like a hundred. And just for the people that want the, the core, the OG designs are like the, the, I should say the OG group that supports the bang and brand, you know, but I'm like, my main focus is just like bombs. Like I'm all in on it. I don't want to forget about the other people that helped me, but like, I just, I love it. And I see it being my future. What, what,

did you learn after uh doing youtube on your own having a like a group of seven when we started you know and like being together being stressed out about getting stuff done and then going to two people you wear a lot of hats dude like it's insane like i still laugh when i see you holding a camera it's funny right because you'd never think it would ever happen and like

I've had to learn enough to use it. Like it just, it doesn't fit. Right. Like it's, it's weird, but like, I like it. I shouldn't say I love it, but like I have to learn to do it and like, I enjoy it. But, uh, just like making sure everything works like, okay, so we're having a drop tonight. Okay. I got to make sure all the products are cut in. I got to make sure all this got to make sure the inventory is good. I got to make sure the website's live. So really funny. Um, literally coming back to it. Uh,

we dropped a shade like two weeks ago and the only reason we did it is because i forgot to change it from draft to active and i was like why are none of these selling i'm like oh they're not on the website and uh so like simple stuff like that and just like keeping everything in a row and like working as a team like okay what are we gonna film how are we gonna do it when are we gonna do it do you have enough time to edit all right when you're editing i'll do this this and this and just like

Keeping your ducks in a row, you got to be dialed. It's full-time. It's seven days a week. But if you love it, and that's the thing. If you love your job, you don't have to work again a day in your life. Absolutely. And you're living it. I think a lot of the people at home don't realize how difficult it is

running a YouTube channel is like an actual, like a successful YouTube channel like that where you're actually outputting content and doing all the things, you know? It's a grind. Like it is, everyone's like, oh man, you guys must live the life. Just play all day. Yeah. They'd see us on a Tuesday or no, sorry. They see you guys on Thursday out at the bar having some beers. Like, man, you guys just get to party all the time. Like, no, actually we just uploaded a video and like today's probably the only day we get to do something. Now we got to go back tomorrow, you know? And like,

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday doesn't exist. It's just another day. It's just today. You're working. And it's amazing how fast you post on Wednesdays, how fast Wednesday every week comes. It's like it's Wednesday and then it's like...

boom it's wednesday again yeah it's tuesday and you're trying to figure out how you're gonna get the video up i just remember when we used to do two a week oh my god i don't even fucking know how we did it it just was a different time you just when you have your back against the wall it's really easy to like it's not easy but it's just like what else you gonna do me and pat did that for i

I think two or three weeks when I had that diesel pickup and oh my God, it was just, we were kind of both grumpy. It was brutal, you know, and like you need a serious team. I think what people sometimes don't realize is although the, what you're doing is fun, the capturing of it and making sure it all can be cut together and put into like a good presentation that's entertaining makes it fun.

It takes away the fun, you know, because you're not just going riding. You're like, okay, we need to get a shot here. Like did making sure the camera's on. Yeah. How'd that shot? Like, oh, we were into the sun. Like it becomes a little bit more stressful because you want it to turn out good. So that way you can,

output this good thing to your audience that you can be proud of. We literally just had that problem. So like a GoPro was recording and like it got bumped and then the screen just like glitched and it would have been hilarious. So we were going to basically...

It was a total flop prank, but remember when you guys did the water thing to Evan? Well, we were going to do that to Tony or my dad or whoever. Water thing? No, you put a bunch of water in the back seat with the lids on. Oh, yeah. So we were going to do that to Tony, and I had the GoPro on the dash. It was going, and it said it was going, and I didn't know he didn't have his seatbelt on, and I'm driving like an a-hole.

hole instead of all the water going everywhere the walmart dude just did us a super solid or walmart uh mcdonald's dude did us a solid put like the lids on tight wrapped them up put them in bags i ordered 15 waters none of the water spilt but i put his head into the window oh and like gave him a concussion instead of pranking him like he was sitting over here i thought he had a seatbelt on so i was gonna whip it over oh he flew across the back seat all the water yeah he ends up just getting slammed into the window he's like dude what what are you doing i'm like that was a

bad prank so is he okay yeah he's good but he's just like what were you trying to do and we're like we're gonna prank you but we missed it they give you 15 waters yeah i ordered five mcdoubles and 15 waters oh that's what they wouldn't do it for me that's because we strictly ordered water yeah yeah see i told him we had a crew working up down up the road classics yeah but that's even like the other thing it's like that and then like going into that prank you're probably wondering like

like, how are we going to film this? So do we just put a GoPro here? Should we have someone running a camera to get the other shot? Cause like, you know, and it just makes it difficult. Yeah. It makes it more, uh, just more work put into it. Right. Intensive. I can't tell you how Jake, you know, watching from the outside, going through all the emotions that we have, uh,

And now in the last few years, really coming back together. Now we're homies. We're sending memes in the group chat back and forth every day. We're texting, you know, what are you guys doing? Cody saying, get that bread in the morning, stuff like that. Yeah.

uh, to watch you find a rhythm again and be happy. CJ was talking about how you look healthier and stuff like that. When you smile now, I can tell it's real and you're not just smiling. So everybody else thinks you are. And I can't tell you as like your best friend, how good that feels to see someone doing well and being happy and catch a flow. It's the best dude. Thanks.

And like to piggyback off of that, obviously big ups to you. It's so cool being best friends with you and Cody and seeing you guys like that made me so happy when you guys like, yep, it's us two now. It doesn't really get much better than that because you guys, like you said, you rekindled the relationship and then started making. Well, that was the coolest thing how it came full circle. It's like, so me and Cody were like.

best friends from childhood up you know and then like we got into high school and then when we kind of went to college we started like slowly peeling apart instead of seeing each other every day you know we'd like come up to school or whatever we were doing and you know after pat left cody just kind of came in and it was awesome like it was so fun like we just started doing stuff and it like totally rebuilt our relationship and it was like those years that we missed like just

Came in in a couple months, and we were just giving her again, you know? It only made sense, too. Like, it just is such a natural collective. Yeah. Yeah. You know? For sure, bricks together. You know what's crazy? Cormorant's got to have the highest capita of YouTubers in the whole world. Like, screw LA, dude. Freaking Cormorant. Yeah, there's like... Population us, bro. No kidding, dude. There's what? Every other person's a YouTuber in this town. Yeah, literally. Literally.

Man. Now we got Big Wrench. Yeah, we got Big Wrench. Big Wrench now a YouTuber too. He has to explain to people. You starting a channel? Well, he's a part of this channel. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're bringing outsiders in. Oh my God, that's hilarious. What do you do for work? Ah, YouTuber. Yeah. Yeah. It is fun. It is fun. People in the town are going to be like, God damn, they're multiplying. Shops coming up everywhere. Jesus. Yeah.

How's Davey doing? Your dad? Dude, that's like the other thing too is I don't think my relationship with my dad has ever been stronger ever since like our work life kind of like separated, you know, like

like obviously, and I loved it and we get along great. It's not like we had any problems, but like we just work together all the time. And you know, like you don't really do father son stuff after you've been with them 15 hours a day for seven days a week for three months, you know, like that stuff. You just, when I go home, I'm like, all right, I want to go hang out with my friends or go do other stuff, you know? And now that I'm not there, um,

Like we do all kinds of stuff together that is just non-work related. Like in a couple of weeks, me and my dad are getting matching brands. I don't want to do it. It's going to suck, but I'm doing it because. Why don't you just get a tattoo? I'm getting one of those too, but I'm, I want. A brand's cooler. Yeah. We're going to actually get like the Sherbrooke S right on our chest. No way. Like a super.

man almost oh yeah dude it's gonna be awesome and i thought he was kidding he's like nope we're doing it they ordered the brand it's on the way we're flying to a cattle farm and we're just gonna lay on the ground and they're gonna do it at a cattle farm yeah we're gonna have a doctor there oh yeah uh we're getting matching brands a cattle doctor but so sick dude it's gonna actually be pretty bad are you gonna film that obviously oh yeah you can't not you know what's crazy you could get it too because it's an s oh yeah cody

He's just like, no, I got to film. Yeah, he's like, oh, someone's got to film this. We just do like rambunctious stuff together. You know, it's like he'll come up with an idea. He's like, let's try this. Let's try that. It's been cool. Dude, I'm sure some of the viewers have seen your dad on video, but if you ever meet

Jake's dad after you met Jake you go oh makes sense why he's the way he is yeah literally Apple like fell right under the table yeah we were actually we saw him I don't know it must have been a month ago now we were at the inn eating and he he bought all of our dinner on his birthday on his birthday we were gonna buy him dinner and then he bought our dinner that is the most deep thing ever he goes well you fuckers already owe me everything so what's one more dinner laughing

Hasn't changed. Yeah. I love that. That is funny. God, that is so good. Dave, yeah, that guy's one of a kind. So is there any, like, hold on. Let me go through this list and make sure. Yeah. We got all the time. This is great. Yeah. Hey, you go through the list. I got to take a break. Dude, I actually do, too. We're good to go. Can we take a pause? Yeah. Take a pause. All right, we're back. We needed to refuel.

Take a bathroom break. Empty the tank. We're back now. Yep. Now it's time to ask the real burning question, Jacob. Yeah. You and your cousin Cody raced your Mustang against his BMW. Did he really wax you? You guys don't understand. He blew my doors off. What's up with that, Jake? Dude, I'm telling you. No offense, Cody, but Jake. The curse is still alive and well. I ain't winning nothing. You went to fucking Texas to pick up this Mustang.

You get back here and you get beat by an almost stock BMW? No offense, Cody. Cody's got a fast BMW, but you would just think a supercharged fucking Mustang 5.0. The supercharger, it looks cooler than it is because it's a... It's just for looks? No, no, no. It's a warranty install. So it's maybe on like a...

20 more horsepower than factory so like it's got stock injectors stock fuel system it's literally like a bolt-on whipple and a whipple tune and that's it so why did you go to texas for it uh because it was a good deal and ryan actually kind of nailed it right on the spot so like obviously besides my pole debacle uh the body was in like okay shape but nothing like crazy

And the motor was super strong and it didn't have any wild parts on it, which I didn't want because I wanted like a solid car. And the blower is like 15 grand and the hard parts out of the way. Holy 15 grand. Yeah. Cause so it's a three liter Whipple and they can push like 30 pounds of booze, which is like 1500 wheel on a coyote. And it's on like four pounds or six pounds right now. Is that what our Ford Ranger has?

Are you actually putting a three-liter Whipple on your Ranger? No, we just bought one that has one in it. Actually? Well, we're doing something else with the Ranger. But anyway, so my end goal with this car is I just want to build it into a full-blown drift car. So that's what we're doing. So I've been talking with Vaughn and the RTR team, and they've just been loading me with parts. So I'm doing full...

90 degree fun haver kit, wide body kit. I got like the RTR wheel set up and I just want like the most rowdy, obnoxious daily drift car. Of course you do. The key word of that is daily. Yeah. See, that's the thing. Everyone's like, oh, you won't be able to daily it. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna. You can daily anything. It just depends what you can live with. Yeah, exactly. I almost asked, where are you going to drive this thing, Jake? But then you answered my question.

Everywhere. Yeah. I mean, dude, it doesn't... I don't think you could physically or possibly make a louder car than that white Mustang. And that's the goal. What? We're going to try. I want it back. I need it. What's up with Daphne? You love Mustangs, bro.

Dude, I do. And that's the thing. And I was, I wanted to go a different route. And like, you probably would have thought it was cool, but R34 is now legal in the US. Yeah. So I'm like, that's the route I want to go. And then like, I saw the new RTR most thing. I'm like, okay, okay. That's pretty sick. Yeah. And then I just like sent a hail Mary to Vaughn. I'm like,

How do I get one of these kits? He's like i'll send you over to my buddy jim and uh, you guys can work something out and i'm like Let's go so that we just went for it. That'd be sick. Yeah, but your first drifting experience didn't go that well Yeah, what's up with that too? It's right there. I got the video dude granted. It looks like it did pretty well for you Yeah, congrats on the viral clip. Yeah that jay, what's up with you mustang guys, dude? Okay, you just couldn't help yourself, huh? No, I uh

6.4 million people now know I can't drive. It almost looks like you did it on purpose. No, I didn't. I wish I could play it off and say I did.

I don't know, man. The cards are lining up. Yeah, you think I'm that good to perfectly put it in the pole? Yeah, that's a good point. Never mind. You think I'm that good, bro? Never mind. Yeah, good point. No, so I was like, Cody was at the shop. Tom was at the shop. I'm like, all right, I'm going to come in hot. Because I've done that corner a million times. I'm like, I'm just going to step it up a little bit. And it just looped out. The thing is with the Mustang, to turn them into drift cars or go drifting with them, there's a lot of...

A lot of actual stuff you got to do, such as, like, the steering racks in them are electronic. So, like, you know, like, in your drift car or, like, you know when you're just drifting a car and you throw the wheel, it'll return on its own? The Mustangs don't because it's electronic steering rack. And you should have bought a Miata. Exactly. Which...

In hindsight, I should have just kept the one I had and then just use that to practice with. You were explaining that to me the other day and you were saying that's why every, you always see these clips of these Mustangs doing like basically losing control and hitting crowds or poles or houses or whatever the fuck it's hitting in that video. Which seems to be a trend with Mustangs is because of that electronic thing.

steering rack? Yeah, well, the thing is that, like, the old Mustangs didn't have that, so it's still stereotypical. It's got to just be the driver. Yeah, that's probably too, you know, we're just a different breed. But the other thing, too, is so everyone's like, why didn't you hit the brakes? I had them locked up, but you got to, like, pull the ABS fuse because they go...

Yeah. So whatever. But I don't know. I'm just a bad driver, dude. Dude, so you're getting toasted, roasted and toasted in the Mustang groups or what? Oh, yeah. So there is a Mustang group on Facebook. I'm a part of it. Every Mustang person's a part of it. The page is bigger than my YouTube channel itself. And my videos front and center pinned to the top. And it says, this is why you don't or this. This is why daddy shouldn't give their sons their car. And I'm just like.

I feel like no Mustang guy has any ground to stand on. No, the only person that does is Vaughn and the goat, but we're all just trying to be like him. If there's one thing that I know, you're having fun in the comments in that Mustang group, though. Oh, yeah, I'm loving it. The amount of times I've had temporary ban in that group. Everyone is just violent in there. You've always been doing that.

You've never backed down from every Facebook group since we've been friends. Yeah, dude, there's this Snowcross page that Cody will send me and it's just like locked. I'm like, ah, banned from that one. You've never backed down to a Facebook comment section battle or Instagram comment section battle. You'll be there. Oh, yeah, I'm in. I'm keyboard warrior class A status. You're replying if someone's talking shit. Absolutely. I have been from day one. Do you guys remember...

Nicholas Conicello. Yeah, dude. First troll ever. Who was that guy? Didn't you guys get to the bottom of that? So for backstory, you'll remember now, Ryan. I have every single comment ever on my laptop in a folder. To the listeners or viewers, when we first started up our YouTube channel, this was in the first year, there was this one guy. His name was Nicholas Conicello. And he would comment like... I mean, as soon as we posted the video, it was like he would comment something...

very negative towards us and especially Jake just Jake and with Jake he would get very like personal with like factual details of his life that we hadn't even leaked yet so we're like digging on your family where the frick is this guy getting this information is this someone in the area with an alias name is this someone random that's doing a ton of research where are they finding this so what was the deal with that uh

Didn't you guys come to an amends? I think we all did and figured it out. But the weirdest part is, yeah, he knew my girlfriend. He knew everyone in my family. Like, he would just, like, come up. He was a stalker, dude. Yeah, and, dude, that's the thing. You know the comment that's like, first, he was first. Like, every single video. You know, dude, the weirdest part is then MTV hit us up and wanted to do a show on Catfish. That was another one. I think we thought he was that guy. Oh.

What if they were planting that? No, he was. What if they were planting? He knew about him. Bro. That's what it was. They knew about him. What if they set it up for the show? They're like, oh, perfect. This will be a perfect online presence to do a prank on. And they were setting up and then the show never aired.

I don't think that was it. That's a really good idea. Besides for the fact that it's bullying, like, it's just straight up bullying. Like, he was getting personal, bro. Like, for a show idea, like, creators meeting, like, their biggest hater, online hater. Yeah, that's what it was. It's just, like, catfish. Yeah. Yeah, but, I mean, it's just... Dude, that's kind of pretty wrong. Like, imagine if that wasn't me and someone who, like, took that stuff, like, tried and threw it. And, like, took their own life or something. Yeah, they're just, like, they were setting it up for some big show. Yeah, that would be...

Probably would just act like nothing ever happened, I'm sure. That wouldn't make the most sense. Fucking assholes. Otherwise, how would they know that he was our biggest hate? But where the fuck were they getting that information? That shit wasn't online. He was hitting details that only a person that knows you... In the area that is a friend of a friend. That knows you and has known you for a long time would know. It is very strange. You know what my only problem with your hot-headedness in Facebook groups is, Jake? What?

Everyone still thinks you're a fucking C-boy. And we get drugged into it. Every single time, dude. What was that deal with Power Crew? Last week, dude. Some guy you were beefing with. Dude. Hashtag C-boys. Hashtag all this shit. And we're like... If you ever do anything bad, it comes back on us as well. It's all of us. When I saw the hashtags and stuff, I'm just like...

Just kind of let that skirt through. But no, so there's this dude. He doesn't even deserve his name out there, but he's got a Lambo like Ben's or whatever. And he's a flex offender. I literally go, hey, I got a buddy that's got one of those, but he's not a dick.

And anyway, so we like start to try and gap him in this super and he's like, no, I know that thing's fast. I'm like, what do you buy a fast car and you don't want to race or whatever? And then like I went out for the drifting thing and just totally looped it my first run. That's tough.

So classic. So you kind of set that up on yourself then. But granted, he was kind of being a D-bag. Yeah, yeah. No, you put yourself in there. I was just trying to start a little something for the video, you know, and I was kind of kidding, you know. Did you have it on the video? Like you talking shit? Yeah, I'm pretty sure you put. Yeah, it's in the video. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm pretty sure it's in the first minute.

I literally see the Lambo come through. I'm like, oh, my buddy's got one of those, but he's not a dick. And he also thinks he can beat your ass. Yeah, his name is Ben Roth, just in case you don't know. Here's his number, his address, too. I'm here to fight. Your friend Jake said you wanted to fight me? Just in your front lawn on, like, a Friday morning? Like, huh, well...

uh it's news to me yeah no that uh i feel like that happens all the time still you know how many people we meet that are like have some kind of something to say and they're like yeah yeah you see boys yeah jake and and you get brought up and we're like nope nope nope nope nope nope he he left he left he he's actually on his own he's across the water he's on the other side of the lake yeah

He's on the south side of Cormorant. It's so funny how we both probably have like our own issues and we're still drug into both of each other's lives. Literally, like the tracks on the Raptor thing. Oh my gosh. All that stuff. Jammed up for a bit. Yeah, or I went to NDSU. No.

I mean, we might have probably did some shit to make... Some guy goes, you're not allowed around here anymore. I'm like, whoa, whoa, what are you talking about? I'm not... I wasn't there. And they're like, uh-huh, sure, buddy. What was the story with that one? Yeah, you went there with the toilet on the back of the truck. I'm sorry. Other manager. Influence vid. And then you got pulled over. Yeah. And they were like...

Yeah, you're blacklisted. Yeah. Because we were there like three weeks prior on our pit bikes. Yes, I know. They're like, we caught you last week with pit bikes. And they're like, if they see a camera, they're like, yeah, they're the only ones that do that. Yeah. I kind of kiss that goodbye like...

What would ever happen if we needed to go back to college? We got a little bit of credits built up there. You burned that bridge, buddy. We have nothing. No recollection you've been here. I'm like, what? I mean, I don't got much to show for it, but I got a little. My 16 credits. I had a half a semester. No, I had more than that, but you know. The only thing I have from NDSU is 30 unpaid parking tickets, and I still have them. That might be part of why you're banned. Whatever happened with that?

Still got them. Still ain't paying them. How many parking tickets did you actually... I have them all. No, I'm pretty sure... I thought it was more than that, dude. Didn't we bust them all out? I think I counted 33. We would hang them. Well, you would hang them all around the... Bangentation. Around the fucking... Just entryway in the college house, which basically turned into a merchandise shop. Just...

Yeah, there was like one seat and it was in front of the computer to print labels. Dude, I actually got really good at it though on how not to get them. So I would take one of my dad's vehicles because remember when you sign up for school, you put a car with a license plate and then that ticket would get attached to your account. Well, when I'd go to class at Berry Hall, I would turn on the strobe lights, leave the car running out front and go into class, come out, no ticket.

It was a hack. It's actually pretty funny. Yeah, that is a hack. Yeah. Yeah, I think you might have broke the system there. I was dialed. That's actually a really good idea. And I got front row parking every day. Dude. That was fun times, man. Yeah. We've had a lot of fun times together, but like. Here's a question I wanted to ask you guys. So I'm guessing you did watch my Why I Left video. Yeah. I thought it was very, very well said and well produced too. Yeah, I think that was my favorite video I think we've ever made. Crazy backstory on that one. Me and Pat were making it Day of Posting.

Pat was talking to me about how Premiere can sometimes crash and get rid of your whole project. And I'm talking, Pat's had like weeks into this thing. Like we, we, like we thought this whole video out, right? Like we're going to,

Like I got nothing to my name right now. We got no money. We got nothing. I'm like, I got this Mustang that's paid off and that's it. And so we're like, I'm going to make the why I left video and give away my car at the end. Right. Right before we're going to launch the video, maybe the afternoon of the whole project's gone. Like everything's gone. And so like we're like panicking and I'm like, this happen often. Like Pat's like, no, he's like, I just go into my most recently saved and he's like, it'll come back.

For like two hours, he's looking for this thing and he's freaking out. And finally he found like a, what are those files that are like lower quality? And then you can up them up or whatever and link the clip. So we got it back together and got it out. My God, dude. That had to be so stressful. Oh, it was terrifying. And then originally we thought like, oh, like Bob's logged into all of our accounts, you know, or like he did this. And no, it was like, we were like, it's first thing that came to our head because during that time,

I don't know if you guys remember, but there was like a month when, not a month, not quite, but like where we didn't post any videos because in between him leaving and us doing like our thing, like he like locked the channel, changed the password, changed all that. And like we couldn't get into it. And then we got it back real quick. But then, so we're like, oh my gosh, he's probably still logged into all these other accounts. We're like changing passwords, everything and stuff like that. But we got it. But my question was in that video when I was saying like,

What was more fun to film to you guys? Like now having pretty much almost every toy you wanted or like then in the beginning? Cause it's two very different times. Me and CJ talked about this yesterday.

We were talking about this with our friend Spencer and his filmer who has watched for a long time. And, you know, we're kind of explaining how we got a little bit more, a little bit more structure, a lot bit more structure right now. More options. And I think that we are so much more creative now because we have more of a budget. And I think creativity is a muscle that only gets stronger with time. And the more you use it, the more you become more creative. Right.

But to answer your question on the fun side is I honestly probably have more fun now. Really? Yeah. I think so. I can kind of see how you're saying that because...

There was so much... I'm unknowing back then. That was the thing for me is like... The fun side of it, I should say, is like when an idea would just pop up, I'd just get juiced. You know, when it would come out of thin air and like we just went and did it. Like, it was so hype. I disagree with Ben's answer, but I don't necessarily think it was more fun back then. I think both of them had their pros and cons. Back then, it was like...

It was fun in the fact that it was lighter. There wasn't so much weighing on it. Whereas now I feel like there's a lot more to live up to each upload. And also we have more, obviously, money put into making this a good thing. So you want to be good.

So, like, I remember it being lighter and maybe more just lighthearted back then. But also I remember it being slightly frustrating because people wouldn't – we just weren't really all on the same page. And it was hard to film, which is maybe why some of those weren't as good. Whereas, like, maybe now I would say all of us, you know,

you know, maybe how to make a video now just cause we have all done it over time. And maybe we've gotten a little bit smarter over the past seven years, you know, we can plan things out better. So in that, I remember being frustrated cause I'd be like, Oh, let's do this. But everyone was just kind of like moving at a hundred miles an hour. Just like, I,

I got to say, I think the whole journey to me has been like the same amount of fun. Obviously, the ups and downs and frustrations, but it's quite literally like raising a child. So you got your, you got a son and you're like, I kind of miss those old days when he was three years old and didn't know much and it was fun. We were just having fun. But also now he's like,

let's say 10, 11, 12. Now you can kind of do things with you. You might miss the old days, but you can do a lot more now. And that's kind of how it feels. Yeah, I get what you're saying. That's a great way of saying it. You really, you really got to be just being in the present and enjoy the process as it goes. Because if you're not enjoying the process and you're constantly looking, which you do have to look at the next thing, but like,

If you're constantly doing that, it just starts to really weigh, I find. That is like, I can't believe you said that because that's something I wanted to say. And that was like the biggest problem I had. Like, I have never been one to dwell about the past because the past you cannot change, right? Like at all, no matter what you do, no matter what you say, like nothing can change the past.

But you can change the future. But the problem was I was always looking in the future. And honestly, like, I didn't really realize that till I started going to, like, therapy. Like, I used to, like, live in the now quite literally, not care about tomorrow. But that's not a healthy way either because I was like, ah, future Jake's problem, right? Well, then I, like. That's a classic line of yours. Yeah. Future Jake's problem. Future Jake's problem.

Yeah, dude, I just remember doing that with my credit card. I'm like, future Jake, you are F'd. But yeah, it's kind of crazy to just like get pulled back in and now having a destination of where I want to go. The goal I see is like, even if I'm taking baby steps, I know I'm going in the right path rather than just like you're so focused on if you're on the right path to get there that like, who did that?

Who just ripped in front of them? That was Ev, bro. That was Mike? No, that was not me. It sounded like it came from... I think it was Ev. Ev's smiling right now. We're going to know if it was Ev real quick. Sorry. I'll pass out. You guys just ruined my moment. I was farting on you. I was farting on you. Ev, come on. Yeah.

But no, I actually don't think it was heavy. Looks too in shock. Big wrench hasn't said much. But no. And that's like, honestly, one thing that's like super helped me like mentally is like, you know, you only can do today. Yeah. Tomorrow's tomorrow. And which is like,

super big and I'm like glad I figured out now is like there there is like a balance in that rather than just living in the now literally versus just full-on future like just do it day by day you know something I've always tried to do is I've always been so proud of where we're at whenever it's been like when we first started

I was just proud that we had a following of 20,000 people. Like I was so stoked on that. And then a hundred and then we had a million and I've like tried to never compare what we're doing to anybody else or, or somebody else's success. Um, besides for our own and just constantly be happy with the success, but hungry for more. Right. And that's, that's something, um, you know, that I've always tried to remind myself of. And, uh,

I guess just trust the process of it. And that was like the hardest thing for the longest time, you guys, because like I was over there and you guys are right in the back door. So, you know, like always watching, always doing this, you know, and like it's just so hard to not compare. Or I should say it was, you know, like it was borderline impossible. Right. And in the mindset that I was in and now like that I'm kind of.

steering into a different lane as far as my end goal or product or where I want to do. My end goal, I love entertaining, I love YouTube, but I really don't think I'll do it forever. I'm going to do it as long as I can, but I'm going to do whatever it takes to... I want to work at BOM's full-time. I want that to be a thing. And that's the...

that was like the hardest thing for the longest time. And now I'm stoked if dude, I couldn't care of one person watches. Like I just love to entertain that person. And like, like you said, you can't compare because guess what? There's always someone better. There's always someone with a faster car. There's always someone bigger than you. And like,

it humbles you real quick, you know, and you get that. And just being happy with what you have and stoked for where you're going is like the coolest thing in the world. Did you feel like, I guess, the momentum shift of people then commenting on your videos, like comparing you to us? Oh, yeah. Like we still get that now. And like the thing is like you guys are a whole different monster than us, you know? Like our thing is like I just want to kind of do –

like car content and, uh, like we host turf wars and stuff like that. And like, Cody just wants to do rad dirt bike stuff, which he's fricking doing really good at, you know, he's like the only person around here to start doing backflips, which is sick. It's crazy. It's awesome. And, uh, for us to do like the snorkel thing and come up with ideas like that week to week to week to week to week to week, like that's just not like, that's almost impossible for us for just like two of us, you know, it's damn near impossible for us. Yeah. And that's the thing. Like,

we're just kind of in a different caliber of like staying in our lane and trying to grow something else using this, you know, and hopefully that can attract its own audience, which we've shown it does, you know, through just people not knowing who we are. And that's what I'm mainly focused on. Yeah. I think there's a lesson for that, like from that to literally anyone, no matter what you're doing, like you got to run your own race. You got to be you, you know, like,

You'll never be able to be a better version of somebody else. And no one else will be able to be a better version of you. So you got to just do... Am I making sense? Precisely. You got to run your own race and you got to do... You can't be constantly trying to do what other people are doing because you'll never do it as good as them, I guess. That literally was the mindset I should say I wasn't in. And that's literally why...

when we were at like 60k or 80k when i gave away my mustang i'm like okay they didn't give away a car yet let's give away a car yeah and it was like impulsive and bad and like i'm lucky that it like halfway worked like the the opening night like it was i should say the opening night and second night was like the biggest back-to-back day we've ever had um but it

Obviously you guys know like numbers profitability wise, what you buy your merch for is a whole different thing. If I was doing what I would do now, we would have been awesome. But instead me and Pat were like, yo,

We just made a bag. Let's go to Vegas. So we got tickets, went to Vegas. I love it. That is so you. I love it. Dude, the 21-year-old mindset, we're like, oh, my God, we're rich. And at the time, I was like, I don't need to get paid back for my car. Let's go to Vegas. I'll give that thing away to someone else, make a new one another day. What's the story of Vegas? You guys went. You guys won a ton of money. We won a ton of money. And by the end of the day, we didn't have two nickels together to buy a hot dog, bro.

God damn. Like opening slot, my brother pulls like four grand. And I was like, we are in. We go buy $300 steaks, suits. He gives Pat like 250 bucks. Pat, our son's up 3K on blackjack. And we're like, we are murdering it. I'm on craps. Or no, not craps.

roulette and I'm like okay this is awesome like I turned I think $100 into $1,500 I'm like we are kings we are awesome night two we have $16,300 we're like roulette table all black baby let's do it we got to go to Vegas with you man no hold on finish finish the story okay so how it went down right

Everybody was so messed up. There was no turning back, right? Like classic Vegas story. Like, you know, whatever people make mistakes, you live, you learn on, we got lucky. So my brother is so drunk that he's got hundreds falling out of his pocket and I'm finding him just from picking up the tray. And I'm like, this is great. You know, we are living it up. So we go to the roulette table, put in a thousand, boom, nails at 2000. We're like, all right, baby, let's go. All of a sudden we do 2000, we lose it.

We're like, okay, we got to do 4,000 to get it back. Classic, yeah. Oh, my God, we lost that. We throw everything in at one time, and it hit like 10 or 12 blacks in a row, and we're like, okay, it's got to hit one of these times. We go back to the room, get more money, and we're like...

All right, this is it. And yeah, we lost it all. Had nothing. And then... $16,300. Yeah, $16,300. Jeez Louise, dude. Dude, it was a lot of fun though. But there was like... Like that's the thing. Like we came out of there pretty unscathed because the only reason we went to Vegas...

We were supposed to go to Hawaii to meet up with like the go-go guys or whatever. When my brother calls me, he's like, Hey, I'm working in Vegas. There's a flight out of Fargo two days before for 40 bucks. Take it. I'm like, Oh yeah, we're in. And, uh, yeah. So we just start living it up, partying like animals. Like I'd never been to Vegas like that. Like I went when I was 15 and got robbed by a stripper. That's like the worst thing ever. But anyways, uh, Oh man, that'll still happen. Yeah. But yeah, I think that's what they are there for. Yeah.

Anyway, so yeah. So, dude, I think that it's so fun when the whole gang gets back together and we can film and have a good time and there's no like weird vibes or like two people trying to film like the same thing which we've kind of ran into. It's kind of weird. But now it's just like...

Like the homies hanging. Dude, especially after. And the vibes are there, bro. It's always so fun. Like when we were jumping into the pond. Yeah. That was so fun, dude. Gosh, I was in peak athletic form at the time, bro.

No, it's a dude. I will say it's, um, it's so fun hanging out again. Like just, you know, like obviously it's slowly faded away, but you know, like that feeling was always there and it was just like kind of if you're whatever. And then like when we went on the boat with Ryan, uh, like a couple of days ago or whatever, like,

the vibes are so high and like after this dude, I feel like it, it's, it's good, you know? And it, peace has been restored in Cormorant. Yeah. Peace has been restored. And that's the other thing too, is, uh, like I probably, I, I gotta say it where like, I mean it, but I, I like, I am sorry to you guys for the way like that everything happened. And, uh, yeah, I just definitely made my decisions out of like an emotional choice, you know, which wasn't the healthiest. And, uh,

But at the end of the day, karma kicked me and I was in the Viking costume and you guys got the Lambo. Well, fuck. We appreciate it, man. We love you. Apology. We love you. Fucking man. Yeah. And we have to vice versa. We're truly sorry if there's anything in that moment in time that we did to push you to make a decision like that. It's a two way street.

Yeah. No, it's a, I think this is the first time we've even said that out of both ends. Like, like obviously both ends probably owe each other an apology, but the way we operate, we just don't even need to really say it. We just kind of like, we're good now. Yeah. We're good. Yeah. Without saying anything. Yeah. It's all water under the fridge now, you know? Yeah. I'm glad it, it honestly, like this podcast, I'm glad that it,

Although it was a very long time before it came out, it was good that it took this long because I feel like, you know, there's just no animosity to it. I feel like the emotional level is gone. Yeah, like no one's heated anymore. Like there's just nothing really. It's been four years. Yeah, dude. It's been four years?

Holy shit. Right beginning of 20, or three and three quarters, end of 19, or... Four years. Yeah. That's crazy. Man, wow. Wait, I think, dude, this next year, I will have been gone longer than when I was here. Dude, isn't that crazy to think about, though, that we've been doing this for like eight years? Yeah. We're going to come up on a decade. I know. And we're like, oh, geez, man. We really are, though. I mean...

As far as that goes. And are you guys feeling old? Dude. Yeah, right now I'm feeling really old. I'm so jammed up. I don't feel necessarily old. Your hairline does. Cody's in the same boat, bro. Cody and I and maybe Mike, we're going to fucking Turkey. We're getting hair transplants. They got the cheapest transplants in the world. Jacob, go and get a dick enlargement. Yeah.

Yeah, no, we ain't going there yet. It is crazy, though. Like, dude, like time is going so fast. Like this summer is done. It's done, dude. We're going to be on snowmobiles. Like I look at our video schedule. We had a meeting this afternoon. We were, you know, writing down the next however many weeks, six weeks. And I'm going, holy shit, we're already at the end of September. Yeah.

It'll be October when we finish this last, like time flies, like the older you get. And yeah, just, yeah. I don't know. I, I'm really trying to just start enjoying, you know, the moment, the present, because it's like, you're only going to be as young as you are today. But, but the beautiful thing about where all of us are at and even big wrench is

We don't really have to grow up. No. Like, we will look older, but, like, in theory, we could kind of just, you know. You only are as old as you feel and as old as you act. You don't have to get all mature and lame. Yeah, you can be cool. That's up to you. I feel like even though our, like, I don't want to say regular jobs, but, like, I feel like our dads, even though they have regular jobs, you know, like building houses, chiropractors, seeding lawns, whatever it may be.

I feel like they have the same of a little bit in that in them, and we kind of got that from them. Young at heart. Yeah, you know, like, they all still kind of do rambunctious stuff, and they got the stories of their own, you know? 100%. Man, I'm glad. I'm glad peace has been restored, though, and I can't wait to...

like continue to do stuff with the whole gang dude i truly feel like that's like the best form of all of us we we all are in our truest form when we are together yeah we kind of owe dave well we don't count it we owe dave we told him thank you but uh thank you because when we you know before we were making youtube videos we would always be hanging out at dave's shop you know his turfing area

And whether we were, like, drifting cars around in the snow. Because, you know, he runs a turfing business, so he's got all this asphalt and heavy machinery that you don't want to slide into. Poles. Poles, yeah. But then also, like, a field that we could ride in and whatever. Like, you know, we would always be hanging out there, like, just...

I just remember spending hours. It would be like a Friday night at like 2 in the morning. We didn't even drink at that time or nothing, but we would just be hanging out. Snowstorm or we're just rallying. In your dad's shop. It's a used shop, so it's dirty, and we're hanging out, and we did not care one bit. Losing his tools and stuff.

Losing his tools. Gas on the floor. Yeah. We were just... Yeah, he provided a hangout spot for us, which I think... And also had space for us to almost come up with these crazy ideas just out of boredom. Yeah. That then...

slowly grew with us and we went from it. I mean, if you go back, you'll see there's tons of videos of us running around Dave's shop, just whatever. And God fucking, we'd be misplacing tools. Where's this? I'd be like, it's in Ryan's DC. It's pretty nice of him to let us dumbasses

hang out there and slide around and I mean you could have fucking hit a tractor or something who fucking knows you know that's why he bought us dinner the other day yeah you know we already owe him everything one more dinner but yeah so I mean that was pretty cool we couldn't have been here without everything that has happened and

In your life. Good or bad in our lives. Good or bad. Could have never ended up right here laughing without it. So thank God it all happened. Fuck. I love you boys. Yeah. Like it takes no matter what you did, whether who you are, there's like,

so many factors that can be involved in how something happened, whether they were a positive reinforcing factor or a negative factor. Like there's so many ways that like, it doesn't just happen by one person, you know, it takes, it's a tribe, man. It's a team and, or like a combination of certain events and different people that, you know, and, and like this wouldn't have been possible without obviously everyone in this room. And, uh,

I mean, plenty of more, dude. Whether from fucking...

Randy or your dad or whoever. Or just Tom at the Kormoran store. It was like there's just always been so many people that were cool to us. Yeah, dude. Tom's actually came in clutch. So we're building our shop right now. And we've been just basically filming out of his. I got booted from my dad's, bro. Oh, did you? Oh, yeah. He finally had enough. Oh, yeah. He's like... I'm like, you ready for round two? Starting a new channel up? He goes, you're out of here. Really? No, not actually. But...

Tom's actually fun to film with, you know? Yeah. It makes it easier because I can just leave kind of projects going and stuff. Yeah, Tom's a cool guy. He's into the same stuff. Yeah. He likes cars, derpy. He likes basically anything that's fun. Yeah. Dude, it's so funny. So, like, I was building my Banshee, and then, like, Tom heard it, and he just went and bought one for one race and sold it, you know? Like, he's heavily influenced, too. He's still a kid. Yeah, I love that. There you go. Tom's another example. You can fucking be a kid at heart. Yeah. Yeah.

So what are you doing with that shop? I saw on your video or just like Instagram, like you got like some, are you building that out right now? It looked like there was some kind of like structure being. So basically what we're doing, I'm trying to get out of the chicken coop. Oh man. Dave's old garage. Yeah. The coop. So the studio or whatever. So basically we're like warehouse and everything out of there. And we've just like, so outgrown it, you know, everything's just cluttered and crammed. And so basically we, um,

Kind of building the front half into just like, you know, like kitchen area and then there'll be a shower and stuff like that. And then like offices upstairs and then a little shop area. And then we're just going to basically build like a shipping warehouse. It's basically, you took this whole building and went like that and just kind of smushed it down, you know? Oh yeah. Yeah.

But yeah, it'll just be so much easier to work out of because then we're just straight across the road from the field or wherever we're going to film, you know? You guys are still overtaking Tom's tools and stuff? Yeah, yeah. It's so funny. I'll be like needing something like, hey, Tom, you got a saw over there? And I'll just be like, I'll let myself in.

Yeah, congrats on that. Nothing better than getting a space that you feel like you can expand in, you know? Absolutely. Dude, that was, like, a good feeling. It was cool, you know? Like, it's been such a grind of ups and downs. And finally, like, getting a building. And, like, we had so many, like, rental shops and stuff. It's like we're paying all this money to nothing, you know? Yeah. Yeah, you know, whether it's storage or my dad's studio or wherever. And then, like, now we just have a place of our own and, like,

Can't get kicked out, you know? Exactly. And you can do whatever you want with it. Yeah. Yeah. It's a major play. I mean, I don't have to tell, tell any of us sitting here, but like for anyone back home, I mean, invest in yourself, you know, big time. Like it's, it's huge. And obviously it's a big move, but like it's needed and it'll help in the content to come out of that. It's going to be incredible. And I mean, if you like, the thing is too, is like you outgrow that building, you go and build a new one or buy a new one.

you can sell that. Like it just, it's only the money just didn't go nowhere. Exactly. It's not like renting where it's out the door. Yeah. Well, maybe one day we'll get our own, uh, seaboy's bums line. Dude, I can't believe you said that. Uh, I was trying, but there was not enough time. I was going to literally make like a crossover one and give you guys your each individual personalized shades. And one said like,

whatever whoever's nickname would be so it'd be like big wrench i was gonna put howie on yours dude okay there's a bit yeah is is a crazy long backstory but we honestly still do it to this day and like i have to sometimes i'll like text cj or whatever but like

I convinced the people I knew Howie Mandel and I'm just like, I'll text him right now and then he'll like call me and I got the dealer no deal picture and it just says Howie Mandel and he'll be like, so, and I'll be like, yeah, whatever. But what, you know, how we, yeah, so stupid. It's just so random. But it's funny. It was, it was, and it's still a name in my phone. Love it. Yeah. Do you, do you feel bad about

blowing up that firework directly behind Ryan and almost losing his... Dude, I think about that. I think about that more than once. I actually think about a lot of things that I did. And that right there is a prime example where I was like...

Gotta get some content. Dude, that was one of the most savage things I've ever seen you do. That thing was loud. Yeah, dude. And we're like, Ryan's hearing sacrifice. Something that he can never get back. Yeah. And like, oh, I honestly, I really do feel bad now. At the time when Ryan was like ready to deck me, I'm just like, dude, it was funny. You know, like.

Don't get so mad. And now I'm just like, that was so dumb. Ryan's hearing is easily the worst. I mean, I'm not, we, none of us really have that great hearing anymore, but Ryan's is easily the worst. And you guys keep telling me that. And I go win. And they go, we always try talking to you and you don't, you don't listen. Yeah. You don't talk back. I know better. It was in the other pocket. No, it's between my legs. Oh yeah. But I literally, I just don't even hear him. Jake.

One of the last memories I have of you, a part of the group before you left, was it was March of 2020. COVID happened. Oh, God. So the whole world is getting shut down, and we're in Cormorant, isolated. We're like, it ain't coming to hit us. What do we have to worry about? We're in Cormorant. Fargo News.

Uber driver gets COVID. First sighting in North Dakota. Fargo man, if you have been, if you have ridden with this guy beyond lockdown, Jake is like, oh God. I got a call from him. I rode with that guy. Uber called you and goes, hey, we saw that you rode with the first breakout of North Dakota this last weekend. And Jake's like,

Oh shit. Cause we were like, yeah, let's just hang out in Cormorant. We'll be fine. Well, Jake was chasing a chick. Margo gets an Uber. Girls are getting in trouble. Kids. So Jake gets this call as we're all hanging out in like a circle together. We'd already been hanging out for a couple of days. Yeah. Yeah. And he, and he, he's like, I think it was on speaker and they say it on speaker and we all just look at each other and we just start babbling.

And there was a door that closed the main shop area and it had a window in it. And we just all back up through the door, shut the door. I'm pretty sure CJ already had bleach. I was sanitizing everything. Well, back then, you didn't know how bad it could have been, which I'm not saying it couldn't have been bad or whatever. We're not going to get into that. But...

I was like, we don't need to get this. So I'm fucking hand-sanding, wiping everything. And then we're looking through the window, typing messages on a piece of paper. And we just say, you got to go home. Jake had to go isolate for quarantine. I will never forget. I was just like, I felt like...

Everyone else was freaking out. Yeah, and I was like the homie that got it, you know? You're infected. I'm like, yeah, like I got the thing, and I just remember CJ looking through the door, cracks it, and goes, sorry, bro, you got to go. I had to go home for like two weeks. So I'm like not sick, playing way too much Xbox, got nothing to do. I'm like, can I just come hang out? And they're like,

sorry, dude, probably should take precaution. You know, we don't want to get everyone else sick. And I'm just like miserable. We were killing off the two weeks. He came back at the end of the two weeks. But yeah, fuck. That was such different times. It's almost like you forget that any of that ever happened. I kind of forgot about it. Yeah. Isn't it weird? Dude, there's endless and countless memories that are probably like forgotten. That's like just hilarious. Oh, good Lord, Ryan. Let's not bring up memories like that. What?

I can't show the world, but... Oh, whoa. That's back in the other one. Yeah, it's in the old shop. I'm looking... I was looking for a video of Jake on the other side of the door and us on the other side, but I can't find it, so...

Dude, it is never good to live in the past, but I do love going down memory lane sometimes. It is funny. It's funny. It's good. We kind of got to rekindle those memories. Yeah. Because otherwise you'll forget about them. And I honestly am worried, at least speaking for myself, I oftentimes forget so much. Like, I don't even remember what we did last week because I'm so focused on doing whatever we're doing now. We're moving at a million miles an hour that...

I hear these old guys talking about, oh, yeah, I remember when we did this, and we went down to this street, and then they were sitting here, and you got that. How do you remember that? Yeah, and I'm like, holy frick, I hope I'll remember these things. So it's good that we bring them up. Yeah, I like that. It's funny. One time, we were out to eat at our favorite place called Zorba's, and they have these drinks that are like half liquor, half Red Bull. Oh, no.

Like a full Red Bull can. Jet fuel. And Jake took it upon himself for some reason to, what, drink four? You tried to drink two in under a minute, and then you failed. So you went and got two more and tried to drink them in under a minute. I have the video. There are six total, and I think that would have been the tipping point. And then you got CJ coming around the corner with 12 Yag Bites. And I'm pretty sure Jake and I drank...

Ten of them. Between the two of us. It was easily the most rambunctious I've ever seen a human being. Rambunctious. I've never seen a human act the way that you acted. So we get Jake back to the shop, our old shop at the time, and Ryan had his F-150...

And Jake was so rambunctious, we had to just lock him in the back tailgate of the F-150 to just look at each other and go, what do we do with this guy right now? We're like figuring out the options. Like, do we bring him home? Do we let him stay in the box? Do we put him to bed upstairs? And we're just like, what do we do? Meanwhile, he's...

I just remember you eating the hundred bucks. Yeah. So we let him out and it was like, it was like if you had a raccoon or a grizzly bear in a...

in a cage and you let him out and he just went apeshit. But you gave the grizzly bear 14 Red Bulls. I'm running around. He's smashing the plastic chairs. He's throwing the chairs at the wall. You're laying on your new Mustang. No, that wasn't my iPad. I think it was Ken's. Or Cody's. It was Cody's iPad. Yeah, because that day, that was the day that we got the big Seaboy sign and I got my Mustang.

I was jacked. Did you guys remember? I like broke my wrist, your hand. I showed up the next day and you're like, what happened? I was still in the same clothes. Had to be at work at 5 a.m. for my dad. All that. Oh my gosh. That is one of my favorite memories. I have the video on. I think about that all the time, dude. Whenever somebody orders a trash can at Zorba's, I just think of you. I honestly hadn't been back to there. I literally probably hadn't had a trash can since then until like last weekend. Cody put one down in front of me and I was just like,

holy, I don't want to go there again. Are you more controlled now? I'll say like 100% for sure. But like, obviously there's like a difference. Like if we're having a bunch of fun and everyone's rallying, like I'm still me, dude. Like I still want to have a ton of fun, but like,

Like if someone's out partying on a Wednesday and like, I got stuff to do, like, no, I'm going to stay home. Like I got, I got, I got stuff to get done, you know, where before, like if I had work at 5am for my dad and like we were partying until three, I was partying until three and I was making it to work at five, you know, like, and, but it's like, it obviously isn't feasible and you have way different energy then. But yeah, I will say, um,

Because for like the longest time, I did think I had like a, you know, like a drinking problem or whatever. And I quit and like it wasn't that. But I don't know. I definitely say I'm definitely more controlled now and can like kind of throttle back. But yeah, before it was like all or nothing. But what do you mean? We were in 1920, 21 having a blast. Yeah. We were partying like rock stars. Yeah. Did you kid me? Give me an 850 horsepower Mustang and a bunch of Red Bulls. What am I going to do? Yeah. Dude, when you bought.

your C6 Corvette, and you were 16? 16, baby. That turfing money right there. Yeah, baby. That was crazy. That was like, I think that was the start. Pop up a picture. Yeah. Oh, I got one of those. Just imagine a 16-year-old kid that should not even be driving a Ford Focus for his recklessness and just overall decision-making.

And then put him in a Corvette, which was like in our eyes at the time was like the craziest car. And boy, did we find out how fast I think it's still the fastest I've ever gone in a car. 160 miles an hour. Oh my God, dude. That was the first thing I did when I got the car. I came to this. I came to this shop, picked up Ryan and I'm like,

Let's see how fast it goes. And we loop it like right out here, bro. Because we were used to driving cars that when you were going to drive them aggressively, you turn traction control off. Yeah. Yeah, you would always do that. Yeah, you're like, this will slow us down. No, we'd be driving, right? And we'd be driving normal. And then you see Jake's hand just slip forward and go.

Traction control off. Look over. Both of them look. You look at make eye contact and Jake goes, you ready, bro? And then after every poll, your dad would call. What are you doing? Oh, nothing. Just driving. You driving nice?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, bullshit. I can hear you all the way across. Well, dude, so that was the thing. So obviously I had to be on my dad's insurance and everything. And so like the rule was like I could get it, be on his insurance if he's allowed to put like a tracker in it. Right. So it shows my speed and everything. Right. So like any time I'd get on it.

It would just be like totally recorded. And I knew the phone call was coming after. But I think one of my favorite memories in that car is when I was with you and I thought I messed it up. We were driving to your dad's house and your dad was going to take a look at it. And something with like the oil pressure was going wrong. So we were going to like limp it there. And CJ's like, take it easy, be nice. And we're just watt throttle everywhere. And he's like, you're nuts.

nuke this thing, bro. Jake had no engine remorse or I don't even know what it is. Mechanical sympathy. If you have any sympathy or even like touch. No, you were a car sociopath. Yeah. Touch to like this vehicle is on its last leg. You don't have any touch that you're like, let's keep riding it hard. Dude, you were driving your mom's ass out back. Yeah. Blew it up. Blew it up. You blew it up.

My favorite feature is... You drove it for a day. No car drives. I had to put a new motor into that car and then we ended up just ruining it anyways. But the funny thing was the reason you got that Corvette is you wrecked your first car, which was a Jeep.

grand cherokee you rolled it right in front of me going back to like where you maybe used to be even slightly more or much more unpredictable you would just like go into wild man drift mode and so you right in front of me started drifting and then just dipped off into the ditch and rolled on the roof right in front of me dude i will never forget that because it was like uh new year's eve

It was super cold. It was negative 20. I'm in shorts, flip flops, and I'm ended up in the trunk. No seatbelt on my store. My story to my parents is I was plugging in my phone, lost control, but I didn't tell them until they found it. So like the Jeep was rolled. I go to the shop, get a skid steer. I'm mad. I stick the forks through the side of the door. The Jeep was fine. Yeah. Like it was a little dented up and then you totaled it. Bring it back. And so I set it in the shop and my dad calls me in the morning with a panic. He goes,

where are you? Are you okay? I'm like, yeah, I'm in bed. What's up? Totally forgot. I rolled my Jeep. And he's like, looking at your Jeep. I'm like, oh yeah, I hit some ice last night. I was plugging in my phone. He's like, what at 90? Yeah, the hood's just crushed in. There's four coals through the side of the door. Oh man, that was so funny. Yeah. I remember there was a point where you were trying to flip it over nicely and we weren't using like chains or any type of logic. We just use the bucket. And after a few missed ones, you just like,

Flip the thing over and just totaled it. I will say that's one thing that I'm kind of sad about as I get older, but it saved me a ton of money. It's like when something breaks, I go fix it instead of just... Instead of totaling it? Instead of just rot on it, you know? Yeah, what a normal person would do. Dude, we should have you do like a little one-on-one session with our buddy Evan. Have you ever figured that out yet? Wreck it all. Drive it into the ground. Yeah.

Jake, when I think about our early YouTube videos and what made them so special, it was the group camaraderie and everyone just having a good time and your compulsive buying and your compulsive acts. Everything that you did very impulsively where half of it would happen and then the camera would capture the other half because it was happening no matter what. Right. But you're going to buy the shifter cart.

So compulsive. And CJ was just like, no, no, no, let me come, let me come, let me come. And you were damn near down the driveway before he could jump in the back of the truck. You almost didn't let me film the buying of the cart. I do remember that. Which, like, think about that. Like, that vid was kind of like a Kickstarter. It was a staple, dude. You know, like, it gave us that boost. Yeah.

But yeah, almost, almost. Yeah. Cause everything had to be a surprise with you. Still does. Still does. Yeah. I mean, it's gotta be a surprise. I'm like, well, just let me in on the surprise. I'm trying to film it for the hard part is now. So like being on my own, as I'm building something, I'm like, well, the only people I'm going to surprise is the audience. So, uh, I probably should show the process, you know, videos, you know, I'm like, I can't, can't hide any secrets because it's me and Cody. You ever play pranks on Cody?

What, do you got one in mind or did I do something? I don't know if I remember. The pee beer prank, dude. Oh my God, dude. Beer bottle, bro. And Cody drank it. He didn't know it was pee in there. Dude, we can talk about this. So we were, you know, underage kids drinking root beers by a fire, right? Yeah. Yeah, and... As we do on Friday night. Yeah, we'd burn stuff. Yeah, dude. And anyways...

cody was like i can beat you in a chugging contest i'm like no you can't i'm like all right let's do it so i uh he's like talking to cj because i told cj what i'm doing and i take this bottle pour it out and i just fill it up you know with piss dude he drank the whole thing and cody beat me by a mile but he drank every last drop there we go there's p

There was some questionable stuff back in those early videos between Cody drinking your pee, Ben putting his face into Ken's ass. The whole video with the sex doll. Yeah. I don't even know if we can say Tina. Yeah.

But, you know, one thing about Jake, though, that I've always respected is you really know how to go into a deal and kick a guy in the nuts. You know? What kind of deal? You know, like that one time that we went and bought that four-wheeler with a kid? Yeah.

You guys had me so wound up, I literally almost totaled our pair. You were stopping at green lights, driving through red lights. You were so disheveled. I was just distra... You guys were not... You gotta fill the backstory. Okay, so...

We're looking for a four-wheeler to buy, and this can-am pops up a couple hours away. You got to show the story before that, though. So Jake was always buying stuff because he had excess money because he worked the turfing job and would get paid more money than the rest of us. YZ125 and stuff like that. He was probably making $20, and he was working more.

But he was always buying toys. He was buying stuff. And he'd always be like, yep, kick that guy in the nuts. Got it for a deal. That was always the thing. Like whether it was the four-wheeler or snowmobile, he kicked somebody in the nuts and got a hell of a deal. And we're always like, man, he is so good at getting deals. It was time to go and pick up these four-wheelers or one of these, one quad off of Facebook Marketplace. And we were like, Jake, you got to come with because you got to kick this guy in the nuts. You know what you're doing. We're going in like, dude, we're going to film the process. You take the reins. You take the reins.

So we get into this deal, right? And we're just like following. We're just stepping back. And we're like, let the master work. Let him cook. Let him cook, right? And Jake walks in there, you know, fresh off us hyping him up, right? And we're like, God, I'm excited to see the process. Yeah, we're going to finally see him kick someone in the ass. We show up. Jake is like looking at this thing, literally like kicking the tires, walking around. And he's like... He takes his finger out, puts it in the exhaust, smells it. He goes...

And we're watching and we're like, holy shit. So this is the process. No wonder why he gets the deals. He's picking this thing apart. And he's asking all these questions. And he's like, how are the rings? These guys aren't buying it for a second. They're just like, is this guy an idiot? The filter looks a little oiled. Smelling it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, this, right? And he finally goes, all right, man. Wanted five grand for it.

Let's do $35,000. He's like, nah, $5,000. The guys are not buying for a second. They're just looking at you. It became awkward. I think we stepped in. We're like, all right, this is just kidding. Awkward Jake taking the reins. $4,000. That's the best I can do. He's like, well, I'm selling it for $5,000. Finally, Jake's just like, all right, fine. He did not get the deal. $5,000, man. We're standing there at this point. We went in and then it just ended like this.

We load that thing up, hop in the car, and we are all just... Rooting and hollering. We kept going... What did it smell like? I literally almost hit a car, stopped at every green light, pulled into... What were we going? Red Lobster. And you guys were like, you gotta try and get a deal for the lobster too. What?

Dude, we were in tears. We were in tears, dude. We're sitting there, Red Lobster, crying. Thank God it was only us. And the subs that were next to us. They were like, man, what is going on with these guys? Oh, my God. Oh, dude. Yeah, so when I saw you driving to Texas or flying to Texas to drive this car back, I was like, man, that poor Texan, dude. He probably got kicked in the nuts. Dude. Ah.

I can make some deals, boys, but when we roll deep, it's hard. Yeah, when you roll deep with a camera. Yeah, bro, you got a camera rolling deep. He's got something to prove, too. That show is funny. Oh, so funny, bro. That is so funny. Dude, I think one thing... This is just kind of going back to the college thing, but I think one thing I...

I missed and totally love is all the stuff that happened that is just like total viral worthy that didn't get caught on camera, such as like swapping the projector. And when we were swiping Tinder, like I found that thing, put it on Tik TOK and it like instantly hit four mil. Really? Oh really? Yeah. And I don't know, just like the rambunctiousness that we all did in college was just kind of

It was a milestone for sure. Everything was fresh and new. You had so much energy going into filming, you know, it was just like you want, you were just, every time we did something, it was a tornado. Yeah. We were talking about this yesterday, actually.

I don't even remember. I don't think we were filming this, but remember when we were at Sane's shop with all the snowmobiles and you thought it'd be a good idea to grab a fire extinguisher off the wall and spray it. Oh, two of them. Two fire extinguishers and spray it everywhere in Sane's shop. Cleared all of us out and you're standing there. Party was over. After that.

Dude, no. So what Jay came up to me and he's like, hey, if you do it, I'll do it. Our buddy Jay. Our buddy Jay. Yeah. Jay Manaberry. Jay Manaberry. He's like, if you do it, I'll do it. I'm like, well, if you're going to do it, I have to do it. And so I just grabbed it, didn't think twice. He didn't even pull his pin, dude. I just cleared everyone out. And then G-Reg came in with me at seven in the morning. We cleaned his whole shop. I felt pretty bad. That's the only time I've ever seen Sane Skinner actually even remotely upset. Yeah.

Yeah, those fire extinguishers make a mess. I remember one time you sprayed me right in the face with it, Jake. Yeah. That shit really, like, takes the saliva out of you. You know, now that I'm thinking about it, aren't you guys just, like, a little happier that I'm, like, more mature and just don't fucking do shit like that anymore? Like, Ryan's hearing's better. No, the only thing I'm happy about, Jake, is that we don't have...

you and Evan on the same payroll. So ungodly broke. We would be just like,

I don't even, I can't even imagine. And it is fun. It is fun to get you two all revved up because you both have like the same very impulsive behavior and like the no care. Yes. Which is super entertaining, obviously, on the standpoint of like content and just being your friend. Right. But then when you got to cut the check for it at the end of the day, you know a little bit more now. It hurts. Oh, it hurts. Dude, that's the thing. Like.

Yeah, when I was cutting my own checks, I'm like, does it really cost that much? Like, oh, it's terrible. No, but it's all for the greater good. Yeah. Dude, we give Evan a hard time. We gave you a hard time for it. But, like, at the end of the day, we don't care. It's just funny to laugh about. I was going to say, it is funny. So, like, we go back to that bike bit where we were jumping the BMX bike into the pond. When I chopped that together...

It was like you never left. And it was interesting because I feel like in your videos, you're kind of running them and you're talking to the camera, you're doing the explanation. But then when you came back and were in Arvid, you went right back to that role of like, you were just fucking this goofball. You were being reckless, this impulsive, funny, you were saying the funny stuff. And like, not that you don't do that now, but like you went back to that same character and it was just like,

Literally like nothing ever changed. It's funny you say that. And like when I first felt that was Justin's bachelor party. Oh shit, that was fun too. And like the camera came out, like it just felt like normal. Like you could just do what you want. And you know, the thing is like when the camera comes out, obviously we are who we are, but you turn it on a little bit, you know, like you're filming, you turn it up. And like when there's something funny to be had, you know,

You do it. Yeah. Right. You know, cheddar was out that week. Yeah. There are always, there is something, there is like, it is, I mean, you can probably attest to this.

When you're not necessarily having to worry about the shot or any of that and you get to live in that moment and, like, be present and then make the – like, you're like, oh, perfect, I can make a joke here or whatever. There's, like, something that almost, like, it takes a pressure off that makes you do better on that side. Oh, yeah, absolutely. When you're not having to, like, worry and it's kind of cool too because, like –

it made me, you've been on both sides. Yeah. It makes me feel for like the cameraman to, okay, just wait, you know, like no reason of like ruining it or whatever. But, uh, I don't know. It's fun because like, I am that person. And like, now I have my feet under me and it's just like, it feels so good to like be able to come hang out and just do whatever we do, you know? And then like,

be able to have something of like my own to like more of the full package. Right. Exactly. And like, I don't know, it's cool, but yeah, I will say when we all get together, freaking hands off, bro. Cause it's like, it's so fun. It is. Uh, we have a blast.

Alright bro Well I think we've been Going for almost three hours Yeah We did our longest podcast It's crazy Three hour mark Okay And honestly I feel like we're Like we could go for another Three hours But Like the door is always open You know You're one of our best friends We love you And uh I'm so glad that You know We've rekindled this Everything that That happened Happened for a reason But we are You know Back to where You're always welcome over here And I'm

I'm so excited to have you in future videos. It's going to be so fun. Be in your future videos and have you on the podcast because I'm sure people loved you and are stoked for more. Yeah, and if there was any questions we didn't answer, I guess just throw them below so we know. Yeah, and I was going to say, if you're not already subscribed to Jake's channel, Jake Sherbrooke on YouTube, Jake Sherbrooke on Instagram, all that, we'll put it down in the description. Bum's Eyewear. Go check out all his stuff and...

I think that's it. Yeah. See you guys next week. Peace. Until next time. Yeah. That's a wrap. Sweet boys. Woo. That was lit. Dude. That was lit. That was lit. Woof, woof, woof.

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