Trespassing Charges, Micahs Driving Record, and Kens WILD 4th of July
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You guys aren't allowed back at that Broadway Square for a year. It's like at the end of the summer, like where did the girls go? As soon as the boat was out of the water though, they just stopped hanging out with you. This I believe is my 63rd get time. All the women at the same bar were just walking through that thing. And he got struck by lightning. In the same weekend? No. I almost want to pick up right at the 4th of July here. Kenjamin.

Yeah, that's where we start. I mean... Kenjamin. We gave you a lot of power by giving you the world's smallest pontoon. I mean, that thing is an absolute magnet. Took a lot of responsibility. We'll slip that thing over. I'm glad that you understand the responsibility that you now hold. All the women at the sandbar were just flocking to that thing. Yeah, I want to know, like Ryan and I weren't there. I want to know how it started. You know, you troll over there on the world's smallest pontoon. Ken showed up. Yeah.

And the rest happened. Really? Yeah, that was about it. It was like the first domino that sent the rest falling. It's like Ken shows up. All these guys on their big, long, expensive pontoons are kind of like, what's going on here? And then like... Why is this guy so little? All of a sudden, they're like, oh, this guy needs some help anchoring down. So everyone's helping him because everyone wants to get around this thing. Oh, wow. Next thing you know, the guys leave, their wife stay. That is a very accurate description. And then...

And then not only was it, was it wives, but then like these younger girls start coming on. Yeah. My girlfriend, my girlfriend actually ended up over there for a little bit. That was pretty disturbing. Yeah. That was a scary part. I did notice there was a couple of women on there that were taken. So there was a good, but I was like, what am I going to say? You know, like I gave, I gave him the present. You're just dealing with the repercussions at that point. Exactly. Right. Yeah. So Ken's got all these girls on.

One girl's kissing him and stuff. Really? Oh, it was... Wow. Yeah, it was pretty awesome for Ken. You missed the event. No kidding, dude. I had to keep my girlfriend on a different lake. Like, look at this shit, dude. There were so many people. He couldn't even get... There was no room for him on. Like, it was time to go, and they were all still on his pontoon. And then, right here...

It starts like almost tipping and I get nervous because it's like three, four feet of water. I was worried someone's gonna get pinned underneath it if it did tip. So I'm trying to combat it. I'm like, help, help. Maybe two of the girls like bailed. Yeah, they just jumped in the water and that thing is like a 45 degree. They just bailed. Wow. Did you get them back?

They tried hopping back on. We had to limit the capacity. We were like, no more girls, no more girls. Yeah, Greta was actually pretty upset with you, Ken. For what? Well, that you would put her life in danger like that with a pontoon. I mean, it's just kind of assumed at that point.

Yeah, you assume risk when you're hopping on that thing. Yeah, you don't know if you're going to have a great time, get drunk, or fall off. Or fall in love. Or fall in love. It was funny, though. When we pulled up, you know, Ken was kind of mingling with some of the other pontoons. And obviously, very quickly, the wives were, you know, really eyeing up the mom chaser. And then...

The tides seem to have turned real quick for the husbands to immediately start not liking Ken. It was like, did you notice that too? Yeah, they're kind of...

Like people that we're like kind of boys with at the sandbar. And then Ken shows up in this thing and then they really flipped on it. They weren't too sure about it. Yeah. I mean, they're still paying loans for their big pontoons. Ken pulls up on a tiny pontoon, $3,000 pontoon. It's a tiny little dollar thing. Every chick on the sandbar is on it. I did have to keep it away later in the weekend just so we didn't have issues with some of those people. That's what I was going to say. Like small town, you know, there's only so many guys, only so many gals. Yeah.

It's kind of like a whole, you know, you got to play chess when you're talking to ladies like that. And you had all of the pieces, whatever the little chess dice thing are called, they're all in your court. It was amazing. I just love the idea of Ken maybe having a bigger pontoon and being like, dude, think of how many girls you could fit on this. And then like that being the whole reason, yeah, he's just alone on this like huge 26-foot pontoon. I think it just needs to be wider.

Yeah. It doesn't have to be any longer, just wider. I just like that. I'd take it. It's built with full-size pontoons, so the capacity is there, but the top heaviness is a serious problem. Like a little teeters. Did your chair hold up? It did hold up that time. You even had a girl sit in his lap.

Wow. Didn't break. Dude, that would have actually been really bad if it did break. It was so packed on. I don't know if they would have been able to fall backwards. Packed like sardines in there. So it was just... It's amazing. I feel like you guys really nailed it with this gift for Ken. You know? After years of it. It only took...

I don't even know how many toilet-related gifts before you finally... I mean, they haven't all been toilet-related. Yeah. There's been more than your fair share. Yeah, I'd say the majority of them have been toilet-related, but I wouldn't say all of them, Ken. Don't forget about the earrings that I gave you. Oh, yeah. Well, you initially gave me fake ones, but... But I did get you real ones. Where are those? I forgot about them. I think they're in my bathroom somewhere. Are your ears still... No. I took them out, and then they just closed up after a few minutes. I feel really dumb, but when did you get your ears pierced?

When everyone else got there. Oh, you never had to go through the piercing phase. No, because I ran really fast. But you also, that's right. Because I had to do the nipple. How did that come to be? There's so many things that happened. Did you opt out a nipple? I opted out a nipple initially. And then you ended up getting it eventually? I forget what it was that made me get my nipple pierced. Yeah, why don't you wear those? So you had your ears pierced.

Yeah. Ears. And then you eventually got your nipple pierced. Yeah. How did you not get out of that? Oh, it was parking in front of the garage door, wasn't it? Yeah. Oh, and then Ryan had to back in. And then Ryan backed the trailer in. That's right. Yeah, that's what it was. Ryan backed the trailer in. And that was for the ears, right? Or that was the nipple? That was the nipple. Got it. What was the ears? What was the ears? How do you not remember you got your ears pierced? This was like three years ago at this point. I feel like I should remember too. So many things happen around here. Yeah.

I don't remember what we did last week. I know, but it is. I'm trying to think too. I can't remember that one. What we did last week or what? Both. Both. But I don't blame you on that one though, Ken, because I don't remember what it was either. Such a good problem to have, but it is a problem. I think ears pierced Ken was my favorite version of you, Ken. I'm on cowboy hat, Ken. I like cowboy hat, Ken. Yeah, that one's pretty good. Which you still pull out now, but I don't think you're in your cowboy hat, Ken, era.

What about man bun Ken? No, that's long gone. That one was long gone. Wait, what was man bun Ken? I forgot. Oh, I remember now. Why did he have a man bun? I don't remember that one. It's his hairstyle. College wanted to do something stupid. Yeah, you were trying it out. Your hair was long enough to be in a man bun? Barely. Then I got rid of it. Was it like a little ponytail? Yeah, it was like a little pony on the top. It was a topper. Yeah.

Shaved sides. It was really dumb. Honestly, I didn't hate it. It just is crazy to look back and be like, yeah, I had a bad time. Looking back, you're like, oh, that's cringe. Yeah. Yeah. I wouldn't be like, Ken, you got to do that one again. No.

What other Ken versions are there? Bald Ken. Yeah, there was. European Ken. How long did you have? Oh, yeah. So Ken went to Europe one time. And you were gone for like, what, three weeks? It was like a summer abroad. It was like a month and a half. Oh, eight weeks. Okay. Ken was gone for eight weeks and then he came back. And the dude didn't know anything. It was like he went to Mars.

Well, one of those planets that has a shorter day and then it's like one day there is like seven years here. It was like Ken experienced five days in Europe and it was like 17 lifetimes here. You came back, you didn't know a single thing of what was going on. You guys get all these inside jokes going. You're still not a part of the inside jokes. So then you're just like, oh, what the fuck is that?

I feel like that was. Ken never really did recover from Europe. That one did put you just that eight weeks behind because we met so many new people. You guys started the chicken coop when I was gone. It was when we started kind of all really hanging out and probably started like boozing and hanging out with girls and stuff like that. So, so much changed. Before that, it was just bro-ing down. Hanging out at Jake's, playing a little Xbox.

So was Ken gone when we started like hanging out with girls way back in the day? Ryan had this boat that it was just like a straight up sausage fest for like the first three years of going on it. Right. It was just like probably 18 dudes every single weekend. It was lit. It was so fun. And then you made a friend and she would bring her friends over. Right. I remember that because you weren't wheeling all of them. I know that. No, for sure. Any of them actually. No, I think about it.

It quickly turned from like just all sausages to like a pretty solid ratio. Yeah. If I remember correctly. I remember we'd pull up with all the guys on the lake and they'd be like, damn, you guys brought all the girls. And I used to literally say that about you. I would just be like, man, I love having Ryan as a friend because he's got a boat and it's always full of girls. Man.

I can't even believe that I am the same guy. But the weirdest thing, the weirdest thing that we realized, and I still don't quite understand this, is like at the end of the summer, like where did the girls go? Like as soon as the boat was out of the water though, they just stopped hanging out with you. A lot of them live near. What was up with that? Ken, you might experience this. Yeah.

This is about to be a brutal awakening for Ken. Learn from my mistakes, lock a couple down, and also get something to do in the winter. We just got a trailer itself. So we named Ryan's boat the SS Gold Digger. We even put a gold sticker on the back of it that said SS Gold Digger. Which is what you do when you name a boat. You need a decal. I have a great picture of me next to it on my Instagram, actually.

My God. Your mom was proud. I would say she was the opposite of proud. I remember she wanted to take it off. I don't blame her. I think he was pretty proud. I think there is. And looking out and seeing Ryan with 12 chicks on the boat. He probably knew. He's like, none of these chicks even want to talk to my kid. But at least they're on the boat, you know? Yeah. I do remember that. I was thinking back this weekend because we hosted a ton of people throughout the weekend. And Sunday night came around. I go, whew, I'm exhausted. Yeah.

And then I remembered being like 18 and that's how it was every weekend. I go, man, my mom had to hate that. Yeah. But we never drank like, Oh yeah. We were just like straight chilling. Yeah. Doing it for the good time. Still make a mess though. And all that. It's just like the cleaning up and stuff like that. It gets just,

Kind of trashed. Like, pretty quickly when you have so many people over eating, drinking, whatever. Yeah. Go through so much food. It's like a tornado. Just goes through and they're gone. Yeah. That was Ryan's house. It's always fun, though. Ryan's parents' house, like, our entire childhood, though. That was the go-to spot. God bless him. Like, every friend group has, like, the go-to spot. And ours kind of bounced around, but...

Most of it was at your parents' house. Yeah, for sure. Yeah, we probably left just a trail every time we'd leave. My God, yeah. Used to come over, and so Ben doesn't have unhealthy food at home, and that's why he's so healthy. But he would come over and then eat all my sugared cereal and stuff like that. Yeah, the fruity dino bites. Ooh. Juice packs. Juice packs. Two, three, four bowls maybe.

Actually, Ben had an ongoing joke about getting turnt off juice bags. And I'm like, bro, they're just juice bags, man. But he had never had sugar. When I would go to CJ's house, his mom or my aunt would joke like, all right, we got to plump Ben up for the winter. We're going to be gone for a while. Going into hibernation. Going into hibernation. Got to fatten me up like the chipmunks. So, Mike, what's the deal with you got pulled over this weekend again? I did. And I do have a deal.

Or you guys. It's a real good one. What was this number? How many times now have you... This, I believe, is my 63rd time. And how many tickets do you have? Is it a lot of tickets? Like 15. Okay. So like pretty good ratio. That's a lot.

That's a big number. I don't know. I'm just a magnet. But no, I was coming out of the small town as you're crossing through. So it goes from 30 to 55, and I just sped up way too early. And Sidney's like, there's a cop right there. I'm like, yep. Classic. He just knew you messed up right off the bat. He pulls me over, and then he's taking forever. I'm like, yep, I'm getting a ticket. He was nice, which is good.

Good. It's always nice. I love that. Still got the ticket, but he comes up with the ticket and he's like, all right, you want the good news or the bad news? And I'm like, I see the ticket in your hands. So what is the good news? I don't know, man. Just let me know. Talk to me.

And then he's like, all right, so I bumped you down. You were 18 over. I bumped you down to 10 over. That's a beauty move. So that is the good news. I'm like, then the bad news is the ticket, right? And then he's like, no, I was running your name, like your profile, and I was supposed to let you know that you were trespassed from Broadway Square for a year. No way. And I'm just like, what?

And he's like, you know anything about that? I don't know anything about that. But like, is that ringing any bells? I'm like, Broadway Square. Broadway Square. And then I like almost incriminated myself. I'm like, I just bought a dirt bike from U Motors. Is it like 25th and Main? You're like, I don't know. You're riding wheelies? Yeah. And then he's like, nah, it's like Broadway Square. Do you know where that is? And then I was like, not really. And then he's like, something like e-bikes. I don't know what that is. Oh. And then I'm like, oh.

oh yeah when we were there riding over the little bench and then i gave that homeless lady a ride just you that's what i was like okay just me or or is it like the riders he's like i i really don't know i here's the officer who's in charge of that case uh here's his number if you want to call him which i don't yeah okay and then he's like yeah so if you just want to like let your boys know

So he knew to let all of us know too, though. So what? So he must know who you are. And then also, oh, then as this is happening, as this information is being provided to me, Sydney's, and he's on her side because he's, you know, off the highway. She's just laughing. Just like out loud. Like kind of hysterically laughing. It was like...

Laughing. And he's like, what's so funny? And then she's like, I don't know. It's just funny. Like, if you know. And then he's like, am I being recorded right now? And I was like, look him in the eyes. I'm like, no. And then he's like, oh, I just didn't know if I was going to make it up on YouTube or not. Like, he was in a good mood. And again, he didn't seem like he knew much. He's like, I'm supposed to let you know. I don't know what it's about, but you guys aren't allowed back at that Broadway Square for a year. So all of us or just you probably assuming all of us?

Assuming all of us, at the very least, Evan and I, which is fine. We don't really do anything there. Yeah, fuck the Broadway squad. I wasn't there, by the way. You weren't. I was driving the truck around running hot laps. All right. Probably good. You're in this one. Nope, that's not how it works. One falls, we all fall. Yeah, I mean, you're right. This is when an alias comes in handy. Alias? What are you going to put your...

Holy shit. I'm Grant. Wow. I never thought of that. Sure.

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Maybe it could be that it was because you were associated with that lady who was then destroying the flowers, even though you did not like her. And that actually could be. So maybe I should get more information about it. Yeah, maybe they thought that that was your girlfriend. I was talking to one of the guys who does maintenance for the city of Fargo, and he was saying they've been trying to catch that lady vandalizing all the downtown flowerpots for a while. No way. We had it on video? It's on video. Nice. Bro, they should be thanking us. And we're getting freaking trespassed?

I guess. Wow. They should be thanking us. That would be really funny if it was just me and it was because I was giving her a ride. So what? We can't walk on that side of the street? Or like that sidewalk? That's what I asked him. I'm like, I mean, we were just on the sidewalk. And he's like, the sidewalk's fair game as far as I know. But they put an ice skating rink up there in the winter. And I'm just imagining going on like a nice, fun ice skating date. Oh, and you get tackled. Yeah. They like squat you. There he is. Get him. They wanted him.

Mike's going around like wearing a mask. So we can't go there and we can't go to NDSU. Yeah. And something tells me the same thing would happen if we went there that happens when we go to NDSU. Nothing. Yeah. So Mike came. You should go take a picture and post it just like standing on Broadway Square. Post it up at Broadway Square. In a wony, wony.

Have a mustache on. Be like, you can't catch me. Oh, my gosh. A fake mustache on over yours. That's like Dave Portnoy from Barstool Sports got banned from all NFL games. Or maybe just the Super Bowl. But he snuck into the Super Bowl wearing a mustache. You know, like the most obvious fake mustache. I think that's hilarious. It is kind of funny because, like, downtown Fargo is riddled with crime.

Like everywhere. I mean, real crime, like murders, stabbings, drug use. I'd imagine that their problem was probably riding it over that little wooden bench. But also, what's the wooden bench there for? These things are pretty much just glorified mountain bikes. Yeah. We didn't damage it. That's what I thought it was from was when we rode over that, which the best part about that is when we pulled up to that area, Evan was like, dude, I don't like this.

I want to go. Never does. And then I'm just like, you wuss. We're fine. And then we just got to ride over this thing once or twice. He's like, we're out in the open. And he was like so sketched. And then we end up getting in trouble. Even though I told him about it and he thought it was pretty funny. Oh, I was going to say, does he know about this? Cause we should bring them back and like have like a sign.

It just says, I am Evan's chef. And just be like, yo, we're just doing a bunch of photos of us around town here. And have him do this right on the corner there and then call him in. No good, but probably fine. Yeah, probably fine. I'd say that one's probably all right. I feel bad because it's not really that funny to be like, oh, we apparently pissed off somebody. Some giant...

statewide billion dollar corporation decided that we were upsetting their flow of their unit there. It is kind of funny that Sydney was like, it's so funny that my boyfriend is being charged with trespassing. She liked that. Oh, she thought it was a bad boy, baby. And I'm just like, cut it out. You're like, stop laughing. The cop hasn't left yet. That's usually how I have good luck with officers. Just be very straightforward and no jokes.

No sarcasm. They don't like the sarcasm. They don't like typical Micah. That's probably pretty tough for you then, Mike. Dude, cops do not like sarcasm. That's for sure. I mean, I don't think anybody likes sarcasm. I don't think most people do. I mean, I don't know if this is groundbreaking information, but we don't really like the sarcasm sometimes. That is true.

That has to be so tough for you because you are like probably one of the most sarcastic people. That's true. But it is tough because sarcasm, it's like a little bit of comedy too. So if someone says something and then I'm sarcastic back and I get a room full of laughs...

That does feed the fire. How often is it followed up with laughs and not followed up with us just going, Oh my God. I would say like over half the time, probably just different crowd. Because if you guys are on the same page and I'm sarcastic to you as a whole, obviously that's not going to go well for me. I think it also depends on the situation too. We're annoyed. Then, then it's no good. But like if it's a funny scenario, yeah, that would be a good thing.

Then we're going to laugh. I don't want to relay the news on this one because I feel like it doesn't need to be said, but you guys hear about sketch.

I did. I did. I think it should be like, I did. It's okay. I did, yeah. I did. Everybody does things they're not proud of. His just came to light. I feel bad for the guy. Man, he's had a weird blow up. What a whirlwind of like the last, I mean, what, six months of his life? Yeah. Yeah, it's just strange. Like, he's definitely a very different individual. Yeah. Not saying it in a bad way, but it's like there's so many...

And his apology showed that. It was funny, but it was heartfelt. Yeah, he was funny in his apology. I like that. I thought it was funny. In a sense, he wasn't intentionally being funny or sarcastic. He was just being sketch. I know. Because I saw there was a video, and apology videos never hit. I've never watched one where I'm like, nice. I now feel apologized to. And when he walks in, he goes...

I dressed the elephant in the room. I got a haircut. I just burst out laughing. I was like, God. And I feel bad that I don't even know if we should call it an apology video. Cause is it like, I mean, he did apologize, but does he need to? Right. I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, I guess that's kind of where I'm maybe a little bit confused. Didn't do anything wrong. That's where I was curious what the video was or what he was doing that he had to apologize about it for. I think you got to just look it up. Honestly, man, I was less surprised that he had a gay leak than I was that he could drop bars the way that he does. Dude. The way that he freestyles? That was crazy. That one I actually had to sit up out of my seat and been like,

Where did this come from? Are we able to pull that up? Yeah. Can we say copyright? I did a little more research on that. And it sounds like he wasn't freestyling. Those were pre-written. And I'm like, here's still, here is the kicker pre-written or freestyle.

The man's got flow, which is really hard to do. Trust me. If you started hearing me try to rap. Yeah. If I gave you like the most, like a notebook paper of the most fire bars or myself, I just wouldn't build that. You'd probably be the best at it. Yeah, for sure. I don't think someone would go like, he's got it. And then when I heard the one, you know, one minute rap from sketch, I was like, he's got it. Yeah.

I'm not sure if any of us could actually maybe pick up like a rap career. Imagine if Ken, Ken, you start rapping. Maybe I don't have the flow for it. Yeah. Let's, let's listen to this. It's so good. Who's this with? Metro booming. Really? Wow. That was really good. That was actually, it was insane. Some people are just so talented and all these random parts of life. Like he, he just was born to be,

a star or an entertainer. Exactly. Yeah. I think about that a lot actually of like, you know, there's so many different Disney stars or Nickelodeon stars that are now like mega, mega music stars. That's always blown my mind. Maybe it shouldn't. Yeah, but it shouldn't. I just wonder like right place, right time. And then you don't actually have to be that talented. I wonder that like, how much does being a musician actually require like,

talent with singing. And obviously they have some talent if they're able to perform live, but like how much of that is taught?

You know, like versus just innate talent of like you're like you were just born to be a superstar. Well, that's what I wonder. It's like you could be the best actor in the world and be like, I just don't have a singing voice. But for people on Disney, they're just like, oh, yeah, I'm a really good actor and I can sing to Ariana Grande, for example. And like people are just like, wow, no one could ever sing like Mariah Carey until she came about. And she didn't come out of the woodwork. She was this huge childhood teenage star and then just.

happen to become, it just blows my mind. I think being a musician would be probably like the coolest thing ever. Like the coolest job ever. Like being able to, you know, perform in front of 100,000 people live like that. Like I was at a Morgan Wallen concert a couple weeks ago. And dude, it's just insane. Like,

Every single song that he has, every person in this entire stadium. So he sold out US Bank Stadium. Like 100,000 people or something like that. And every single person in there was just like worshiping him. Like knew every single word of the song. And it's just like, God, that's just got to be such a crazy feeling. I was when you said that like, oh, these actors and singers. And I was like, what would you rather be? A singer or an actor? And I thought at first I was like, I think I'd rather be an actor. You know, you get to like do cool things and whatever. And then I was like, no.

There's got to be nothing cooler than going up on stage and everybody there being about you. Singing your song back. The thing about actors, though, is they're fake. Yeah, you're not playing. You like the character that they play, but they don't really know you. Unless you're Tom Cruise. Yeah, then you are kind of just Tom Cruise. Yeah, he's kind of an anomaly. I agree with that, though. I kind of even felt the energy of a crowd when we did Boat Ramp Watching.

Dude, the energy around that boat ramp was just electric. It was positive energy. It was a lot, even from the dock, just watching. It really was. That was a beautiful moment. We got 100 people, and we took them boat ramp watching. It's our last video, if you haven't seen it. 90% of the people loved it. Cops showed up. They even loved it. They didn't say it, but they were like, what you guys are doing is not illegal.

And you guys are good to keep doing it. Just don't like turn a hundred people into something bad. Yeah, exactly. Turn it into like a riot or do something with that. Cause you kind of have like control over like a hundred, you know, you're the, you have the say over a hundred people of what we're doing. And in that case, it was just cheering on people back in their boats into the water. Yeah. Which was nice to hear. Yeah. They were super nice. I was terrified when they started walking on. I was like, my man Ryan out heavily. Yeah. I made me very happy.

I bet, dude. I'm standing on the dock holding the camera, whatever, and I just hear him come down and goes, which one of you is Ryan? I'm like, God dang it. I was like, oh. Why were they looking for you specifically? Because you were the one who sent the emails out? Because the bus, I had organized the buses and sent the emails. So I'm sure anyone they asked, they go like, who do you think is in charge? And so it was Ryan. I was nervous going into it a little bit. I was like, is this like...

we're not starting a riot, but could they flip it and somehow make it that way and actually bring us to jail for the weekend? I know it wouldn't be a big crime, but I was like, God, it's Saturday. I don't want to knock it out until Monday. And then when I saw him walking down, I'm like, oh, here we go. We'll see how this goes. I mean, I was along for the ride, but then when they're just like, which one of you is Ryan? I was like, oh, thank God. I did organize that event, so it probably would have been me.

I guess I got all the people there thanks for saying that publicly you're welcome I didn't know

Like to get a hundred people somewhere is a lot harder than you think. Not finding people. Cause thankfully everybody at home is great and comes out and they actually are super respectful and nice, which is helpful, but getting the right amount. Cause like you send out like 600 emails and then 200 people right off the bat are like, I'll be there. And then throughout the week they go, my cat's sick. My car broke down. I got to walk my dog. And then you like whittled down. So on Wednesday night,

I had gone from 120 people saying yes, because I knew there was going to be less people than that to like, I probably got 85 people who dropped out on me. I was down to like 20 people that were confirmed to show up and I was tweaking. So then I sent out a bunch more emails and we had one empty seat on the bus.

bus yeah dude that was that couldn't have been any better i was really really proud of that yeah that was really i was pretty proud of that too right i haven't told you that too but i was i couldn't believe we had two buses and they were each perfectly full yeah perfectly full i couldn't believe it yeah i love that because i was like should i ride the spinner you know i'm gonna ride with everyone else and then me and like grandpa ron's oh yeah and grandpa ron came chatting it up with everyone that was so awesome and then when he came back and he's like

Like, this is before we left. Everyone's kind of, you know, antsy. Just, what should we do? We'll just chill out. And then Grandpa Ron goes around and talks to every single person there. Yeah, he's like, I think I talked to everyone. And I'm like, there's 100 people here. That's crazy. That's awesome. Dude, Grandpa Ron, man. That guy is a special...

A special dude. We didn't get it on video, but one of the guys opened the door up and Grandpa Ron's standing there and he goes, why don't you go get a life? And Grandpa Ron goes, why don't you go fuck yourself? Yeah. He did tell him that. It wasn't on camera, though. What? Oh,

Dude, how could you look at him and say that out of all the kids? Go get a life that he could be like, I've lived three lives already. What are you talking about? Because I'm fucking Grandpa Ron. I thought that was so funny, though. That was the best. I know Grandpa Ron was actually the only guy I couldn't control.

everybody else was saying listening to me and whatever and i'd be like grandpa i can't you can't touch the cars yeah as they're coming by i had to tell him that too what was up with that dude just kept patting the cars i was like bro keep your fucking hands down grandpa i look over he's in the middle of the boat ramp like unhooking a trailer he's helping him out like oh my goodness this guy dude

It always amazes me how respectful our fans are. I know. They're some of the most well-behaved people I've ever seen out in public, which is hard to believe. I even have a hard time believing that saying that out loud.

But they are just, like, well-mannered kids. Like, they'll, like, get in line and, like, patiently wait to, like, talk to you or get a picture or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, instead of, like, a mob. Everyone, like, going nuts. Like, it makes doing stuff like that easy. Yeah. Which is good because then we'll keep doing it. Maybe not 100 people at the boat ramp again being the police. That one's probably done. That one's done. But...

But we need another 100 people. I don't know how we would one-up that one. Maybe 1,000. Yeah, see, I don't think... 1,000 people on the boat ramp, but we're going to have to go to a bigger boat ramp. I don't think it makes it any better. Imagine us at Havasu or something like that. People would definitely fight down there. Yeah, we'd need full-on grandstand stadium seating for that. I feel like it is just the most universal thing. Even I was...

nervous, pulling the boat up, and there was no one around. You know, like, when people are just in the boat with you. Dude, every time I go to the boat ramp now, I pray that nobody recognizes me as, like, the guy that puts people on blast at boat ramps. Oh, man. Because I know if I mess up, phone's coming out. They're going to be looking around like, you guys seeing this? About to go viral on this idiot. Whenever I pull up to the boat ramp, I just...

I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just tell myself I got this and I wish I could apply that to other things in life. But boat ramp now, like I'm not the best backer upper, but if you tell yourself you got it, you're better off. Something else I thought was funny that we didn't get on video was the one lady that was really upset with us for some reason. She kept calling us assholes and her daughter kept

like grabbing her and pulling her back and be like, mom, no, no. But when they're driving away, none of the cameras captured it, but like a bunch of people heard it. The daughter goes, mom, no, those are the seaboys. Mom, you're going to go viral. Mom, you're going to be a meme. Stop mom. No. And she's like, she like can't help herself at that point. The daughter's like, no mom.

mom, you're going to be a meme. I feel bad about that one. Yeah. Yeah. That one's tough. I think that's something that like our generation of people understand that if you're going to freak out in public, you're going to be a meme, but just other people that didn't grow up with that, the older generation. Yeah. It was interesting just how so many people like, like,

Yeah. Yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, it really just comes down to perspective. It's true. How you want to take it. It's true. It was kind of their choice. Yeah. We saw both ends of it. Yeah, exactly. And one thing that also I don't think was on camera is when those people pulled out, their pontoon was like kind of off the trailer. Happens a lot with pontoons, I guess. They got it. Yeah, we sent a bunch more people over and then we pushed the pontoon back on the trailer and helped them out. So we were being slightly useful.

there all right your dad was like the flag man everyone else was cheering heckling and your dad just like helping people when the tube falls off oh that was awesome that was that was so good so speaking of fourth of july activities you guys ever see that thing in alaska when they just drive cars off the cliff oh yeah so bad yeah like what the frick dude that's the coolest like thing that you do in your town ever

It seems like something we do here. I know. I wish we had a big enough hill. I guess I can't speak for everyone, but I do have that, you know, on the list, on the bucket list. It's a lot to go to Alaska just for that. And, you know, it is your 4th of July. Yeah. But, like, I want to go. That looks fun. They said they went for an hour and a half this year. What the fuck?

of launching cars off. Oh, really? Pop up some vids. Has that ever gone bad? Like, has a car not died launching off and then it catches some speed and it rips into the audience or something? Because, like, the audience is, like, right there. Right there. Did you see the one of it hitting the water this year? It's never hit the water before and a car hit the water for the first time, which is... Because the water's there that if a car somehow was to survive that...

It would then just drive and hit this pond. I bet you a Ford Raptor, like, in 20 years, once they start jumping the Ford Raptors off, bro, those things are going to be taking it. They're just going to keep going. I wonder how they started this. The real winner is whoever gets to take these to the scrapyard. No kidding.

Damn. That was close. Wait for the pan. I was like, oh, maybe the camera guy's there. No fucking everybody's right there. That was really close. So that was one of their farthest ever. But dude, those are our people right there. A bunch of people that are willing to just sit right behind a little pond. That's their form of protection. And so here's a thing of 2017 to 2024. So the river is moving.

And pushing people closer. But also, the crowd has like expanded significantly. There's quite a bit more people there. It's becoming more and more popular. That's crazy. So that town actually doesn't get dark because it's in Alaska. Oh. So that's why they do that instead of fireworks. Oh.

That makes so much sense. But honestly, yeah, I would love to go. It's tough because just the 4th of July is like the most special holiday in central Minnesota. You gotta be here. Those are people and that is a very cool event, but it's tough to tell other, you know, your friends and family, oh, I won't be here for the 4th. I'm going to Alaska to watch cars. Yeah, I could actually see you doing that, Mike. Well,

Well, yeah, I would do it, but still hard to explain. We could send you and Ken with a GoPro. I'm down. I am super down. Ken's going to be like, put my pontoon. GoPro 3. Yeah, we take a GoPro 3. It's all we got. 720p, baby. That is an inside meme. What's up with all the fireworks that you guys were watching this weekend? I wasn't there, but they looked insane. It was dope. This dude over on the lake.

who's got money coming out of his ears and is for the people, spent like 80 grand on fireworks. Yeah, I never heard a real number, but every time I heard the number, it was higher and higher and higher. I heard from the source, not directly him, but a family member, it was 80. I would believe it. In just fireworks, but then you had to pay for people to set them off. Dude, talk about just lighting money on fire. Yeah, I know. And that's what I was wondering while we were watching it. So these things are blowing up. It is the best fireworks show I've ever seen.

But I was like, I'm enjoying this, but I wonder, would you enjoy it even more if you paid for it? I feel like you would. You'd have to. So we do a very small firework show. I mean, it's pretty decent, but we do a good firework show for our family, but compared to that, it's very small.

And I have way more fun doing it than everybody else. Like I, cause you know, you bought it and you look at the box that doesn't tell you anything. And then you go, Oh, is this one going to be good? And then you ring them up, you string them all together and you're like planning it. So that's the fun part of it. And then you get to light it off. Yeah.

and hope that people enjoy it. And then also, I mean, I'd like to think when you hear cheers, just like if you were entertaining or singing, if you hear cheers for whatever firework just went off, you're like, nice. Nice. I did that. It's got to feel good, too. Like all these people came. They're getting a free show that they're enjoying. You got 80 grand in fireworks. It takes a while for them to go through it. So, I mean, midway through the show, I mean, sometimes I start looking around. I'm looking away. I'm missing fireworks, but I'm like, there's going to be plenty more. Yeah. Well,

I wouldn't be doing that if I was the guy who paid for it. Right. You'd be walking around making sure that everyone was watching. I did set a camera on a tripod. It's kind of sad that our lake association spent more money on the community fireworks show, and it was significantly worse. Really? Maybe they're just pocketing cash. They did not spend more than that. The Pelican Lake Association spent like $100.

Oh, yeah. Well, they messed up, too. They had a misfire. Really? Yeah. Oh, wow. What happened? A bunch of people. I don't know. It went wrong. There's a bunch of people out waiting to watch it. It was supposed to start at 1030. Some dude just pushed the button at 10. Oh, really? How do you do that? You just messed up. You just pressed a button. How do you fuck that one up? Just one button.

Like it doesn't even have like a safety switch. Like the red button, like the classic in the movies, like flip up the switch and hit the button. The one on Cormorant was like literally looking like a remote kind of looking thing with just one button on it. Yeah, I have a video of the guy on Cormorant lighting off. But his, I mean, I don't know. This is a pretty complex system. What? Wow.

But there's no way they're lighting them off from our boat. Yeah. No way. Yeah. Crazy. And then here he just watch. He like starts button mashing it. And then it was like finale time.

What? I love that. Did he even know what he was doing or was he just pressing buttons? I mean, I think he probably knows. That's insane. So this is coming from three barges on the water. Yeah. Fireworks are getting way more advanced. This guy's just straight up button mashing. Yeah, I think. I love that. I'm sure that was like part of the end, you know, like you have a system that goes through, but yeah.

I mean, at the end, at least for the finale. Maybe he was just trying to make sure all of them cleared, so he was just button mashing every single one. Yeah, that's the press all. And just Buddy on Pelican pressed that half an hour early somehow? I don't know. People were pretty disappointed. Somehow it was early and...

Half of them didn't go off or something, but they sent out an apology email. I mean, I guess accidents happen. So did you guys get charged for that, or is it all volunteer-based? I bought a phone book. Oh, that's where it goes. Oh, good. You did finally buy a phone book. I bought a phone book. $80. Good. $80 phone book? What the hell is that? Do you ever call someone out of it just because? No. You should fucking just call up a neighbor. You should upload like a... Hey, just figured, never really chatted with you before. Are you guys in there? Bought this stupid fucking phone book. I think.

I think so. No, I don't like under an alias name. I didn't want our names in it. I mean, shit, it's damn new. You should put that thing up on the wall. 80 bucks. 80 bucks for a phone book? I just don't know if I want like my neighbors having my phone number and like being able to call me if they have a problem. Yeah, well, they have ours now. You don't have a little phone book in your neighborhood? I'll buy two if you keep my name and number out of it. Tried that. Yeah.

Yeah, it didn't go so well. I remember that story. Oh, that's funny. But yeah, the fireworks definitely lit. Of course, like any fireworks, there's barges on fire. There was crazy shit going on. Ryan, to answer your question, if I have a neighborhood directory. Yeah.

I do. So I moved into this house last year. I very quickly kind of got thrown into like the neighborhood HOA drama. Oh. Like within like the... Okay, so there's like group chats in it, email, texting. Really? You have another group chat? So on email, they were like kind of like a couple of the neighbors are like going at each other. What? I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but it had to be like voted on by like the board of the neighborhood, right? Yeah.

Oh. Oh.

And then pretty much the whole neighborhood then found out about it. And this year, now that you say that, this is what reminded me of it. Dang. Out of the chat. Dude, I think they kicked me out of the chat. I think they don't want me knowing about what's going on in the neighborhood. I haven't heard anything. That's a good thing. It's a great thing. Do you care? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I don't care. I do not care one bit. Let them handle it. Yeah, they can handle it. And I pay my fees and everything.

I have not voted. And I always tell my neighbor, that's my boy. I always say, hey, you let me know if there's anything I need to vote on. But until then, I'm staying out of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because your neighbor is a fantastic dude. So, you know, like it wasn't someone close to you. Right.

Right. I'm not sure who it was, but it's funny. It's funny getting drama from other groups of things that don't matter. I still get it a little bit with like old groups that I was in and stuff like that. And I go, what are you guys fighting over? You got nothing to fight over. Like we got big shit that we could fight over every day. And we just don't because we're like onwards and forwards, dude. We got lots of shit to do. And I'm like, man, I can't believe we're arguing right now about, you know, something real stupid. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, we say that all the time. Like, we never have problems. It's like the external people that we're friends with that have problems. Yeah, you hear about the other problems. You're like, wait, what was going on? I did hear there was a spill here this weekend. Evan's out working on the track, but I heard someone got hurt. Oil?

I heard one of Evan's friends or one of my friends that was over here, they go, yeah, did you hear so-and-so got hurt while he was here? He didn't get hurt, did he? I called. Everything's all good. It was like the way the story was told to me is that someone fell and had gotten hurt on a dirt bike. And I go, great, here we go. Just why we say no late night dirt biking, right? I ask Evan. He's like, no, no one got hurt. And I go, well, if Evan actually...

I knew that Evan wouldn't say anything because if someone didn't leave in an ambulance, no one got hurt that night. So then I started asking around and it was okay. He just like fell and kind of skidded out. I mean, slight scrape, but one of the girls that was there too was like, yeah, he fell and, and,

you know, like got, got hurt, but he was, he was on it. What about Glenn? What about Glenn having that girl? He was like faking that injury. Oh, I was like, that's all I heard about. Glenn's got chicks on his mobility scooter. On, it's on his lap. He's riding around the mobility scooter and he's got the chicks sitting on his lap. Typical. Just kind of legendary. Yeah. I mean, I don't know about the faking the injury bullshit, but, uh,

But, yeah, good for Glenn. I'm glad that things were able to work out over here. I don't know how well they did work out because the next day I saw Glenn and I go, hey, I saw a Snapchat of you last night. And he goes, oh, yeah, with the Mackenzie chick? And I go, that's not her name. That is not her name. So that tells me how that ended. Yeah.

Glenn, dude, that guy is the fucking best, dude. Dude, it was like raining on and off. It's been raining a lot this year. Thank God Evan was gone. The way the rain makes him feel. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I forgot about that. You want to accept that, Ryan? No, I was putting my... It was Sunday. It was pouring rain. And I'm like, I got to get the jet ski off of your shore. And...

I'm like, this sucks. It's just raining. It's lightning. And I'm like, dude, I mean, am I going to get struck by lightning? And Sydney's helping me. And then I'm like, whoa, your hair is just all like standing on end. No shit. What? And I was like, what's wrong? And I'm like, it's crazy. You're like, I just didn't know. And I'm like, your hair is like standing up. And then I'm like, wait. And so then we just like run inside. Like we're running from an imaginary bear. Isn't that like what it means when you're going to get struck by lightning? The National Weather...

whatever, website is like, yes. That's when you're going to start staying on end. You got it. They tell you to do some weird, like get on your knees and like lean forward, but like don't get on the ground. Oh yeah. Cause also wet ground is really good for conducting electricity, which is always raining when it's sundering and lightning pretty much. Yeah. Yeah, man. Last night it was raining cats and dogs. I actually didn't, I don't think it was raining at my house, but I woke up and I saw Alex's story. She was like, I'm in a hurricane.

When was that? She was worried about Ken's pontoon, actually. She was like, Ken's pontoon is up. Like, I don't know what she was. I was sleeping. I was like, it's fine. Like, what are we going to do? What was going to happen? I was like, I mean, it'd be sitting outside in the rain at the shop or be out here in the rain. Oh, she was worried that it wasn't covered. I think partially, but I wasn't running out to cover it. There's no fucking. No. A T-shirt. There's nothing to cover. That too. It's a cockpit and a chair. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, so I wonder why would lightning strike a human versus strike like a big telephone pole? Yeah, or a tree or something way taller. Yeah, something that would be taller, you know? I don't know. Wrong place, wrong time. Yeah, wrong place, wrong time is right, but like... My buddy, Nicky, great dude, but has terrible luck with his cars. We were talking about this weekend because a drunk driver sideswiped his car while I was parked on the side of the road. And then one of his friends was like, yeah, and he got struck by lightning. What?

He was driving down. In the same weekend? No. Oh. Not in the same weekend. Sorry. He was driving down the road in the summer like a couple years ago and lightning struck his car. No. Yeah. Fucking like shattered the windshield. Bunch of crazy stuff. Did he feel it? That's scary. Was it like a coom?

Or was it just like it zapped it and he didn't? Yeah, I mean, like, I don't think he got zapped, but it like, I think that messed up his car pretty bad. I feel like they'll just ruin any electrical component in the car. Like, that thing just has to be totaled. Yeah, he was just driving down the highway, like around other cars too and semis. Was it a Tesla? It was not a Tesla. But he was okay. He was okay, yes. Well, I think he is. Man.

So yeah, I guess how many people a year get struck by lightning? We always come back to the lightning. I guess I'm always so curious by it. I know. It's such a weird thing. Lightning is very common.

And people are very common. It's true. Lightning is all over the place. People are all over the place. But how often do they collide? It says in the U.S. approximately 270 people get struck by lightning a year. So like one a day? 19 fatalities in 2022. 53 injuries. So there's some people that straight up get zapped?

53 injuries out of 200 some. 23 deaths per year on average. If you get struck by lightning, you have a 90% chance survival rate. Wow. That's like better than most things, honestly. That makes me feel good. What's like the side effect on it? Like, is it how big the lightning strike is? Or is it how big the lightning strike is?

Or is it how old you are or what you're standing on or like? Probably a combination of all of those. Comment if one of your family members has gotten struck by lightning. I wonder like, you know, I feel like everybody's got to know someone who knows someone. I guess technically I'm, I guess technically Nicky. So then I technically know someone. Say a park ranger got struck by lightning seven times. Dude, hang it up. I didn't know he's not just fibbing. Quit playing out in the forest. Yeah, like, you know, he comes back and he like dropped his hat in the fire and goes, who got struck by lightning? Yeah. Yeah.

And then he just had to really keep living up to the hype of it. Yeah, like he was known as that guy. So then pretty soon he's like going out of his way, like holding up lightning rods. The buzz starts dying down from it. You know, people kind of forget who he is. He goes, I got to re-up my hype again. Wasn't Thomas Edison struck by lightning? Because he was holding a key or something like that. It was Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison with the light bulb. It was Ben Franklin.

That's why did I think Ben Franklin too? Ben Franklin was the president. If you could be any old guy from history. That's Ben Franklin. Ben Franklin got stuck? Wait, Ben Franklin had the key. What was the kite and the key? His story isn't old as time. Catching lightning. Like what? Yeah. What was the key there for? Apparently it was like a metal wire between the kite and the key. Dude, I feel like back then they were just doing things. Oh yeah.

It was just like, fuck it, dude. I'm a national hero, future president, doing all these things. What came first? The lightning strike or presidency? Okay, he did it in 1752.

He was the first president. Oh, he never held the office of president. Really? When the fuck did I think he started doing that? How did he get on the $100 bill then? I think he was like the treasury guy. Oh, what a legend. Okay, what year did he do the treasury thing then? Oh, no, he was the first postmaster general. The hell's a postmaster general? I thought that's what you were, Ken. Ha ha ha.

And how does that get you on the $100 bill? Like, that's the best one. I know. There's no other better one. And, like, we obviously can't change it now. But, like, yeah, you do got to wonder what he did to be a part of that. Like, George Washington makes sense. Number one, he's on the number $1 bill. Like, I've heard some good things about Abe Lincoln. He's on a penny. You know, I know he's on a five, too. Kind of bullshit. He got the penny. He gave a man a penny. Wait, wait. Those are literally garbage to me. But anyway, like, I just feel like they were out there. They were just testing out the world at that time. Yeah.

Yeah, man, what a time. Eating mushrooms, doing whatever, you know? Dude, I was telling Greta this, too. I was like, man, who do you think the first person to, like, eat a watermelon was, though? Every single food or fruit had to have been tested by somebody. Sitting in your house eating your second watermelon of the day, just going like, who do you think ate the first one of these? I'm sure, I don't know, wherever it was naturally grown. Everything.

On earth had to have been ate at some point to see if it's edible or not. How many things aren't edible? How many guys like truly died from eating things that aren't edible? I mean, I'm sure a ton. Yeah. Throughout the years. Who do you think was like, this salad is good or that's poison ivy?

Eating poison ivy, that'd be terrible. That's a good point. Dude, also everything looks like poison ivy. Like when you walk into the woods, I know some naturist is going to be like, no, you can tell by this. But like everything has three leaves. Everything looks a little shiny. Dude, for all my body's concerned, everything is poison ivy. Dude, I'm downwind and I got that shit. So bad. Also lake itch, dude. I've been getting lake itch. I got that bad this weekend. Got her two times already.

Yeah. No good. Just going back to the presidentials on the dollar bills, I really look up to Andrew Jackson because he's the only president in U.S. history to ever make our...

Debt deficit go positive. Really? Okay. No debt. Isn't that crazy? The only president in history. I don't actually know how he did it. It just, I always remember that. And just one guy, like back then there was actually a chance, like there's nothing you could do now. He actually took it from debt and then above. And then ever since then, we've just been absolutely man. I don't know. I still don't know how that's possible. It was right after one of the worst financial crises is in American history. The

The elimination of the national debt was both a personal issue for Jackson and the culmination of a political project as old as the nation itself. Oh, it was personal. So it was personal. But like if someone tried to do that today, this is not possible. No. Which also seems insane.

Is it possible for our country to ever be out of debt? No. And we're all just like sick. Yeah. We should be good. Keep printing it. Yeah. That'd actually be a sick hat, even though it is bad, like it's a bad policy, but just print more. They'll print more. They'll print more. That's actually pretty good. That is pretty good. I haven't seen it. Damn, is that a good shirt? They'll print more. They'll print more. There was someone on the boat this weekend that was wearing a signed hat that said, elect that motherfucker.

Again, and it was signed by Donald Trump. It's pretty legendary. I was like, that's fucking sick. You're wearing that on the boat right now? Like just in, it's just not in a glass case? That's a good point. That's pretty sick. Yeah, that's a flex. Yeah. Well, at this point, if you guys know or don't know, the R8 giveaway is wrapped up.

which is why that's crazy yeah it is so we are working through all the entries and are excited to announce the winner um not sure quite when that will be but we'll keep you updated but yeah it's wild i'm so excited to give this card to one of you guys and 10 grand if you guys uh

bought anything or just checked out the merch or whatever, we appreciate all the support. For real. I'm excited to see who wins it because it's going to be such a life changing car to win and then you can sell it and you'll have $150,000 cash in your bank account and you could buy a house. You could buy two houses with

With that much money. You can buy two, three, four cars. That'll change your family's life. That's amazing. Yeah, 100%. So I'm excited for that. But yeah, we're kind of going back and forth of what we should give away next between maybe another car or something cool. Obviously, following up an R8 has got to be cool. Or a truck. Or a built truck or something like that. So maybe leave a comment down below and we'll read them. We'll see what you guys think. All right, guys. We'll see you next week. Have a great week. All right. Peace. Peace.

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