039 | Can a Hyundai Elantra N Break 5 Seconds? Track Day Results, Bugatti Costs & Creator Life
Cool Cars with Chris: Car Talk, Driving Tips & Auto Life
039 | Can a Hyundai Elantra N Break 5 Seconds? Track Day Results, Bugatti Costs & Creator Life
Cool Cars with Chris: Car Talk, Driving Tips & Auto Life · Jun 22, 2026
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Car
Hyundai Elantra
The Hyundai Elantra is a compact car that’s meant for everyday driving. Some versions are tuned to feel more sporty and performance-focused. The podcast is mentioning it as a car that brings more performance.
Car
Ford F350
The Ford F-350 is a large pickup truck designed to pull trailers and carry heavy loads. It’s built for tougher jobs than a regular passenger car. The podcast is describing one that was lifted and had a V8 engine.
Term
diesel
Diesel is a type of fuel used in some cars and trucks. It’s different from regular gas, and the price can change depending on where you are.
Place
San Diego County
San Diego County is a specific area in California. The hosts are saying the diesel price they’re talking about is for that local area.
Car
Tesla Semi
The Tesla Semi is an electric truck used to move goods. Because it’s electric, it needs charging, and charging can be expensive depending on how and where you run it. The podcast is talking about the cost of filling it up.
Car
Hyundai Elantra N-Series car
The Hyundai Elantra N is the sporty, track-focused version of the Elantra. Here, they’re talking about a 2022 car and when the Elantra N first came out.
Car
Hyundai Veloster
The Hyundai Veloster is a small hatchback car. Some versions are built to be more performance-focused, like the Veloster N. The podcast is talking about whether that was the model the speaker had before another one.
Car
Hyundai Kona
The Hyundai Kona is a small SUV-style car meant for daily driving. Some versions are made to be faster and more exciting to drive, like the Kona N. The podcast is referencing which Kona model came first in the speaker’s timeline.
Car
Hyundai i30
The Hyundai i30 is a small hatchback car. People have asked for it to be sold in the U.S. because they want that specific type of car here.
Car
Volkswagen Golf
The Volkswagen Golf is a small car, usually a hatchback, made for everyday driving. Some versions are tuned to be faster and more fun, but they still look and feel like the same basic Golf. That’s why people mention it when talking about the sportier Golf models.
Term
full tank of gas
A full tank makes the car heavier. Some people think that running less fuel might help you go faster, but on short tracks the difference can be minimal.
Term
reaction time
Reaction time is how quickly a driver responds at the start (or launch) after the signal. On short track formats, small differences in reaction time can strongly affect elapsed time because there’s less distance for the car to “make up” mistakes.
Term
grip
Grip is how well the tires can “hold on” to the surface. If you have more grip, you can accelerate harder without spinning the tires.
Term
octane
Octane is basically how resistant the fuel is to premature “pinging” or knocking in the engine. Racing or performance setups sometimes use higher-octane gas to keep things stable when you’re driving hard.
Place
Rancho Santa Fe
Rancho Santa Fe is a place in California (near San Diego). Here it’s just where the speaker gets their higher-octane racing gas.
Term
PSI boost
Boost is extra air pressure made by a turbo or supercharger. It’s measured in PSI, and more boost can mean more power, but the car may limit it to protect the engine.
Term
six gear
“Six gear” means the car is in 6th gear. Different gears change engine speed (RPM), which can affect turbo boost and how responsive the car feels.
Term
full throttle
Full throttle means you’re pushing the gas pedal all the way down. It tells the car to request maximum power, so you’ll see the biggest changes in boost and engine behavior.
Term
emissions
Emissions are the exhaust pollutants a car puts into the air. Governments set rules for how much of these pollutants cars are allowed to produce, and the host is talking about how emissions behavior can be changed to meet those rules.
Term
fuel economy
Fuel economy means how far the car can go on a given amount of fuel. Higher fuel economy usually means you spend less on gas, and the host is saying that the Volkswagen scandal involved claims of better efficiency too.
Car
Golf Volkswagen Gate
In this podcast, “Golf” is mentioned because of an emissions problem that affected some Volkswagen Golf cars. Since the Golf is a common model, the issue got a lot of attention. The speaker is connecting the Golf to that controversy.
Term
ECU tuned
Your car has a computer called the ECU. “ECU tuned” means someone reprograms that computer so the engine runs differently than it did from the factory.
Term
spare ECU
An ECU is the car’s engine computer. A “spare ECU” is an extra one you can swap in so you can change how the car is programmed without doing it from scratch each time.
Term
drag tires
Drag tires are made for quick acceleration in a straight line. They usually grip really well for launches, but they may not work as well for road-course driving all day.
Term
stock wheel size
Your wheels have a specific size, and tires have to match that size to fit correctly. Using the same “stock wheel size” helps keep the tire setup similar to what the car was designed for.
Term
Michelin Pilot Sports
Michelin “Pilot Sports” are a type of performance tire. They’re meant to grip well when you drive hard, but they can still work for normal day-to-day driving.
Term
tread wear rating
A tread wear rating is a number that estimates how long the tire tread will last. A lower number usually means the tire won’t last as many miles.
Term
track tires
Track tires are made for faster, harder driving on a race track. They usually grip more, but they wear out sooner and can be louder on the street.
Term
bracket racing
Bracket racing is a way to race where the goal is to hit a specific time, not just be the fastest. You do a couple runs to figure out your pace, then you try to repeat that time as closely as you can.
Concept
dial in a specific time
“Dialing in” means getting your car and driving consistent so you can repeat the same kind of results. Instead of guessing, you make a few runs to learn what works, then you try to repeat it.
Concept
five second range
They mean they want their timed run to be in the 5-second zone. It’s a big goal because it usually takes a lot of grip and power to get that fast consistently.
Concept
crack into that
It’s just a way of saying “finally reach that goal.” Here, the goal is getting into the 5-second times.
Car
Rolls-Royce Phantom
The Rolls-Royce Phantom is a very luxurious large sedan. It’s designed to be extremely comfortable and quiet when you drive. The podcast mentions it because the speaker still owns one.
Term
depreciation floor
Depreciation floor means the lowest price a car tends to settle at over time. The host is saying the car hasn’t gotten cheap enough yet to reach that “bottom” price.
Term
oil change
An oil change is when you replace the engine’s old oil with new oil. The host is saying that on extremely expensive cars, even this basic service can cost a lot more than you’d expect.
Concept
ownership cost
“Ownership cost” means what it takes to keep the car going after you buy it. The host is saying that for very expensive cars, the ongoing maintenance can be almost as big a cost as the car itself.
Term
lock box on the oil filter
Some cars put the oil filter behind a locked cover. That makes it harder to do an oil change yourself and can push you toward a shop or dealer.
Car
Bugatti Veyron
The Bugatti Veyron is a famous ultra-expensive, ultra-fast hypercar. The host is saying Bugatti came back strongly and the Veyron was part of that comeback—helped by Volkswagen Group money and support.
Car
Bugatti EB110
The Bugatti EB110 is an older Bugatti supercar from the brand’s past. The host is using it to compare Bugatti’s earlier “big moments” to the later Veyron comeback.
Company
Volkswagen and Audi group
The host is talking about Volkswagen Group (which also includes Audi) taking control of Bugatti. The idea is that this ownership helped Bugatti afford and build the Veyron and later cars like the Chiron.
Car
Bugatti Chiron
The Bugatti Chiron is another top-tier Bugatti hypercar that came after the Veyron. The point here is that Volkswagen’s involvement helped Bugatti build cars like the Chiron too.
Term
super car
A “supercar” is a very expensive, very fast sports car. The host is basically wondering who would be the first person to buy Bugatti’s top-level car after the brand got revived.
Term
manual
“Manual” means the car has a stick shift. You use a clutch pedal and move the gear lever yourself to change gears.
Term
splitter
A splitter is a front lip that extends downward under the front bumper. It helps the car’s airflow stay more controlled, which can make the car feel more planted at speed.
Term
diffuser
A diffuser is a part under the back of the car that helps air flow out smoothly. Better airflow can help the car stick to the road more when you’re going fast.
Company
Remac
Rimac is a company that makes very advanced electric performance tech. Here, the host is talking about how Bugatti and Rimac were combined into a more unified setup.
Company
Volkswagen Audi group Bugatti
Bugatti has been connected to the Volkswagen Group, meaning it’s influenced by how that big company runs its brands. The host is saying Bugatti used to feel different under that umbrella than it does now.
Company
private equity firm
A private equity firm is a company that invests by buying other companies. When they own a car company, the focus can shift toward financial goals, which can make things feel “wonky” compared to how car enthusiasts expect brands to be run.
Term
change your oil
Oil has to be replaced regularly so it can keep the engine lubricated and clean. The host is saying this kind of basic maintenance matters for long-term reliability.
Term
making these things last longer
The host is talking about doing routine upkeep so the car doesn’t wear out early. In the next line they mention basic maintenance like oil changes.
Term
EV game
“EV game” just means the whole push to make and buy electric cars. The host is saying some people think that push is slowing down or changing.
Term
EVs
EVs are cars that use electricity from a battery to move the car, instead of burning gas. The idea here is that they may be simpler mechanically, so they can be less prone to certain failures.
Term
bulletproof
“Bulletproof” here just means “very hard to break.” The host is saying EVs are expected to be reliable, except maybe for the battery part.
Term
battery technology
Battery technology means how the EV’s battery is built and managed. The host is implying the battery is the main area where reliability might still be a question.
Term
full on living room
The host is using “living room” as a metaphor for very comfortable rear seats. They’re saying some people upgrade mainly for comfort and tech, not because the old car is unreliable.
Brand
Mercedes
Mercedes is a luxury car brand. The host is using it as an example of a car that can be loaded with lots of features and comfort upgrades.
Term
fully specced out
“Fully specced out” means the car is configured with lots of add-ons and upgrades. The host is saying those feature-rich versions can look and feel amazing.
Term
cockpit
“Cockpit” here means the cabin feels built around the driver, like a focused driving space. The host is saying some cars feel more immersive and sporty because of that layout.
Car
BMW E63
The BMW 6 Series is a luxury car line meant for comfortable, long-distance driving. The podcast mentions an older wagon-style version from the early 2000s to mid-2000s. It’s brought up as a car from the speaker’s past.
Term
rear facing back seats
Rear-facing seats are seats that look backward instead of forward. They’re commonly used for kids because they can be safer in certain crash situations, but it can feel unusual for adults.
Term
three row
A three-row car has seats in three different rows, so more people can ride together. It’s especially useful for families or road trips.
Term
500 horsepower
Horsepower is a way to describe how much power the engine makes. More horsepower usually means the car can accelerate more strongly.
Term
active side bolsters
Some car seats have side pads that can move. When you turn, the pads push in to hold you more firmly so you don’t slide around.
Concept
best of both worlds
The host is describing a design tradeoff: fully bolstered seats can feel too restrictive all the time, while non-bolstered seats don’t hold you well in corners. Active bolsters aim to give comfort during normal driving and extra support when cornering.
Car
Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car made for speed and fun driving. People often talk about it because it’s a well-known performance car. In the podcast, it’s mentioned as something the speaker owned.
Concept
keep up with the Joneses
It means trying to match what other people are doing or owning. Here, it’s about not buying a car just to impress neighbors—buy it because you actually like it.
LIVE
Hey, what's happening? How are you doing today? Thank you so much for being here. I am Chris
and this is cool cars with Chris. And on today's fantastic episode, your courage has got that
really cool Hyundai Elantra in car. You know, the end is more performance and horsepower and
cool things like that. But also he takes that car to the track because he's trying to get a really
quick time with his Hyundai Elantra in and he's tapping into that really cool octane learn. It's
a Hyundai Elantra in specialty. So we'll find out about this. Plus also, if you have a car,
a expensive car, you got to do some maintenance on that car, you know, $20,000, $30,000 costs for
say an oil change on what a Bugatti Veron. That's just crazy money right there. And topping it off,
we're talking about what's it like being a content creator, whether you are a YouTuber or
a podcaster or a Instagram influencer or tick tock or tick knock, talking, whatever they called,
we're talking about all that stuff on this episode. Let's go.
Hey, what's happening? How are you doing? I am here with the coolest car,
coolest car podcast in the coolest world ever with the courage. Hey, buddy. Coolest world ever.
I'll take it. Forget about all those other worlds. This is the coolest world. Man, you know what?
You know what? What would the world be without cars? Let me tell you, it would be like Little
House in the Prairie, realize what it would be. It'd be like wagons and Amishville. Yeah, that's
basically it. Like there's, you know, there's places where, you know, again, they just don't,
they know that it exists, but they don't buy into it. And, you know, it was interesting.
I saw a while back guy like posted, he lives in an area where a lot of Amish folks live and they,
you know, drive their horse-drawn carriages and, and he drives, you know, fancy cars and things
like that. And he has neighbors where he just sees passing them while they're in their horse-drawn
carriages, waving to them in the morning. And that's just their life, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I
just think to myself, maybe I didn't drive long enough and it breaks on you enough times.
You're probably thinking maybe I will go on Amish. Maybe they've got something to this,
you know? Maybe, you know, I get it, you know?
It's possible. You're like mid, mid project that you're just you throw the wrench down, screw,
I'm going back.
Do you think maybe that like the Amish think about like modifying their k-buggies with like
splitters and like wings on the back like rims?
No, but I, I would suspect that like you would like,
cause they, cause a lot of times they have like,
they'll have the horse, but then they'll have the carriage
itself and it'll be pretty decked out.
Like I bet you any money there's like, you know,
got a whole sound system built into a carriage and like,
What powers it though?
Is it gotta be like,
Yeah.
Tristan either do they, I don't think do.
I mean, solar, I don't know.
Yeah.
They, they probably get a little creative
to make something like that work.
But I bet there's like, car shows,
but their version of car shows in the Amish community,
I bet you any money.
Horse shows, really what it is,
really horse and plow and buggy and things like that.
Well, that's something I don't have to worry about.
So, you know, we have cars,
especially in Southern California,
like there's so many cars on the road.
And I know that, I mean,
there are a lot of EVs on the road now these days too,
but I wonder if people who have EVs today with gas prices
being as high as they are today,
if they're just like laughing all the way to the bank,
I don't know, you know, I mean,
I wonder if it's hard even getting EV today,
like see what do order one right now?
Or what if it's like a waiting list?
Just because the man's, you know,
the man's probably gone up, you know, for sure.
There was a meme floating around too,
or a little short clip where like the,
it's like from some movie where they captioned it.
And it's like, you know, it's captioned
when you bought that VA and then gas prices started to go up.
And like, it's basically like Denzel Washington yelling
at this guy is like, yeah, is this, is this fun?
Is this fun now?
Like, are you having fun?
Well, you know what it is?
I knew a guy years and years ago,
I spoke with this guy, he had a big giant F 350 bought used.
It was like lifted B 33350 big V eight,
V ten, I think it was.
And yeah, you know, when you get that truck,
he said, I got it during the like,
this is a long, long time ago
when they had a big gas price crisis back then,
which is probably a good deal compared to today's prices.
But, but anyways, he was saying you got it
during the gas crisis and like a used car lot
because they were just giving away pretty much
because no one would buy it
because it was like gas was super expensive.
Like this right now.
And so that's probably if you're looking to buy
maybe a V eight or something like that,
it might be a good time to buy one,
especially like a used one because people aren't buying them.
Yeah, I did weirdly enough.
Surprisingly, it's just like as strong
as the car community is now.
Sadly, I think people are still just like saying,
hey, I want what I want and I'm still going to buy
a big, big V eight or whatever.
But, you know, that would be nice.
Or diesel truck.
Do you see the price of diesel lately?
No, as the time record this, it's averaging,
I think somewhere in the 730, 750 per gallon range.
Is that, is that statewide or nationwide?
San Diego County, San Diego County itself.
Yeah, that's what I've seen.
I mean, I've got it myself.
I've seen diesel for seven.
It was like 750 a gallon.
This was like two weeks ago.
Yeah. Wow.
Yeah. Some sweet friend there.
Small tangent, but I think you were the one
who kind of told me about this in the past.
But when I was driving on that back road
and I had to get gas at the off-brand gas station
a little while ago, I saw it.
They basically had like a diesel section
where they had diesel fuel,
but they had the different types of like
just kind of a regular diesel.
And then they had the red dye diesel,
I think that you had told me about.
I never saw that in person.
But when I saw it, I was like,
I remember Chris was telling me about that that,
and it says on there that like you're not allowed
to use this for like commercial use.
And you know,
they actually will check the tanks
and there's a fine for that.
The DOT has like a little toolkit
that they will randomly check your fuel
and they'll put a little sample thing into your tank
because the tank on the fuel tanks are big.
So you can put like a straw or a stick in there, you know.
And so they put this little thing in your tank
and they actually test the, look at the actual fuel.
Maybe it's a little,
might be a little Q-tip kind of thing or something like that.
Anyways, if it's pink at all,
you've had red dye in your system at one point.
It has to be completely clear.
If there's any pink to it at all, it's a fine,
I don't think shut you down.
Let me have you suck it out, whatever.
I mean, the fuel literally,
it's exactly the same fuel as it is.
I was going to ask like, what's the, what's the difference?
The only difference is it's dyed.
And the only reason why they dye it,
it's just so they can mark it.
They can mark it, physically mark the fuel
so that they can physically see
this is the wrong type of fuel for state,
for like highway vehicles.
It has to be like an off-road vehicle,
like a generator or a backhoe or a construction,
something rather construction-wise.
And is it cheaper?
Like is it, is essentially cheaper to buy
because it's for that use?
There's those, I think there's only no state taxes on it
or the roadway tax on it.
So regular fuels, you have first taxed on regular fuels
and the regular fuel taxes paid for the roads
and all that kind of crap, right?
And so with the red dye fuel,
there's no tax on there.
I mean, far as like dollar to dollar,
I don't know what the price is,
but that's kind of what I know.
And that's how they, it's how they mark it
so they catch you.
So they can catch you.
Yeah, cause if you're, if you're trying to skirt it
and say, hey, you know, I'm going to save, you know,
save money, you know, cause I'm not in tax, you know,
they're always cheaper because of that, but.
I've done it before where I was at a job site
delivering red dye to a construction site
and the foreman on the job site's got his diesel truck
or whatever he's like, hey, can you fill me up?
I said, I read dye.
Don't worry about it.
I don't care.
Don't worry about it.
Are you sure?
See, I don't worry about it.
Okay, buddy.
You're, you're lost.
And so I threw it in there, whatever.
But the thing is we take it to the dealership,
you get a service, whatever they pull the filter out.
They'll see pink in there, pink or whatever.
And they'll like, I don't have to report it,
but they let you know, like, hey,
you put red dye this in you at some point, you know,
or whatever.
So there's that.
But, you know, they get their, get their money somehow.
It's only designed for like generators.
Anything that's off road, off the highway, you know,
from my, from my, my, my mini bike off of you.
Did you take diesel?
No, it doesn't.
It takes just, yeah.
I wouldn't be surprised if it took diesel.
And that thing could be, I don't know, like, no, I mean.
Yeah, no.
But some of those generators,
all those generators take diesel and they are loud
and they take big massive tanks.
And I only can imagine what it takes to fill those things up
and fill up even a regular semi truck, you know,
it's, it costs a lot of money, you know, to fill up.
And these tanks are two, 300 gallon tanks,
maybe 300 gallons, but 200 gallons.
And at 750 a gallon, man, that's like $1,000 or something.
And like work wise for our, like, you know,
for job sites when they're powering them,
while we're still doing construction for like trailers
and all of that, they have, usually have diesel generators
and they're big, like, you know, big, you know, multi-kilowatt,
you know, hour, 7000 gallon tanks on there.
Yeah. And they have to make sure that it's like, you know,
if it goes down, like a lot of times,
if that's power and other critical stuff,
like that's a big issue.
So they always have to make sure that's topped off.
So it's never a question of, you know,
if we're gonna fill it up, it's like we have to.
And so budget lines are like, you know,
making sure that they account for the fact
that we have to, how much fuel,
like how long is the generator gonna be running?
How much fuel do we need?
And we just have to buy it.
So, you know, there's a lot of,
there's a lot of industries that strictly depend on it.
And when the cost goes up,
that that's more overhead that you got to pay, you know.
The cost, everything goes up and that happens.
So today you took your car,
which is the Hyundai Elantra N-Series car.
What year was your car, by the way?
22.
2022, what year did they first come out
with the Elantra version of that car?
That was the first year.
The first year.
So it was a, it was a late 21 model,
but it was, you know, it was a 20, it was 22 model.
Before that, was it the Veloster N they had before that?
And then they had the, was the Kona N maybe?
I'm thinking of, was that before or after yours?
That was before, yeah.
So I think the Kona N came the same year.
I have to fact check that,
but I think the Kona N came the same year as the Elantra N.
And then, yeah, the Veloster N was like 2019.
So that was, that was the first thing we got.
I'm sure you probably know,
but other markets have had other versions of N cars
for, you know, for a few years before we got ours.
So we, everybody's always said they wanted them
to bring the actual I 30 in,
I 30 in hatchback to the, to the U S
because that's literally just like a, like a GTI golf R,
you know, kind of the same shape or whatever.
The same shape. Yeah.
The Veloster was always a little different
because it's, it's actually a three door.
I'd like the Veloster look at the Veloster.
It looked very, very sporty.
I mean, even like the base model one they had,
which is not the end version,
like guess the base model one,
I remember the end did come out eventually.
I don't, did the end come first
or did they have like another version before the end come out?
They had like the base model, then they had another one.
They had that, they had so,
they had sort of that two generation thing with that too,
where we kind of call the first gen that the frog,
the frog style, where it was like the, the rear end really,
like it just like now, whenever I see it,
I just think of a frog,
but it was a little bit more like, you know, shaped,
like it almost looked a little more SUV-like,
but it had like the two center exhausts in the middle.
And that was like the, yeah, that was the original.
And they had like the turbo version of that,
which the turbo version, that was not the end then?
No, that wasn't an end car at that point.
It was just like a turbo version of the Veloster,
like Veloster turbo.
I remember that came out, yeah.
And then the end came out after that, I'm guessing.
So you took your end to the track today.
And what is it like going up there?
And when you get up there, the dumb question, I guess,
do you go through the full tank of gas for quicker times
or half a tank for quicker times?
That's actually a good question.
Normally, I would probably be like a half a tank
just because of that.
Yeah, like, you know, technically weight saving.
Does it make a difference really?
I mean, probably not just in the distance of the track.
Cause it's like, like we talked about it's a really short,
you know, less than a eighth, you know, mile track.
You know, some folks still are like, man, you go there,
just to like run that short run.
And it's just still fun because it's like all about
the reaction time and how you launch
and how much grip you get.
But this time I did go with a full tank
just cause I just so happened to have filled up before,
which I filled up with faster slower.
So I mean, I definitely, I ran my best time out there
this time around, but that was for different factors,
I think, but I did run by 95 octane fuel
from my little secret location in Rancho Santa Fe.
Oh, is that the place that sells racing fuel?
Yeah. So they, they do sell a hundred,
but then they sell 95 and then they sell 91.
What's the cost for that?
Just curiosity here.
It was like, it's like, you know,
nine bucks a gallon.
How many gallons you put in there?
12.
So it was about, it was about a hundred bucks.
Wow.
You know, it's not my usual get.
I mean,
Now when you do that on your car,
cause you have the octane learn,
how quickly does it adjust to that 95 octane?
It actually was a lot,
it was a lot quicker than it has on 91.
Because usually when I'm like on a long highway drive
is when it'll tend to do it.
And I noticed, you know, coming,
cause I had to actually go down to Santee
that same evening that I fueled up.
And then I came back up to Temecula that same night.
And I noticed halfway into the drive
that it actually was starting to pull like the,
the higher like 20 PSI boost.
So I say, no, is it the boost goes up?
Yeah. Yeah.
Does it tell what this working or not?
Yeah.
It's, it's, it's such a cryptic, you know,
kind of, kind of archaic thing where like,
if I go to pass somebody, like, you know,
go around somebody in six gear and,
and I noticed that like, you know,
full throttle, it only goes to like 15 PSI.
I'm like, oh, well it's not octane learn.
And then all of a sudden you'll go to pass
and you'll feel like, oh, this is like a bit faster.
You look down and it's like, you know,
pegs between like 18 to 20 PSI.
That's, there's no, there's no light.
There's no, no other warning you get other than
I wish they had like something on the dash.
It says, give a hold to the digital display.
You could have something pop up and saying something like
octane learn in effect or activated or something like that.
You know?
I've thought about this for a while,
why they potentially haven't done it because again,
they have like the, the facelift version came out in 24.
And so that was like sort of the second generation
of the Elantra in and they still never added that.
I'm starting to think that the reason they didn't is because,
and you know, I don't want to out Hyundai because, you know,
I don't want them to have any issues down the road.
But I think that there was issues with,
you remember the Volkswagen, you know,
diesel gate kind of thing where they were,
they said that basically like the car could switch
like its emissions and things like that to pass better.
But then like it would get better fuel economy.
That was a big sell on it though.
It was like better fuel economy
and better for the environment too.
A lot of people by Volkswagen's are probably like hippies
and stuff like that.
Like I could think they bought into that. Yeah.
Yeah. But my thought is that it might potentially cause issues
with like, with, with just regulations.
If you have something that, you know, clues you in to say,
like all of a sudden, like you have more performance
than the car questionably has like stock.
And what's wrong with that?
Again, I don't think anything's wrong with it.
But you know, apparently, you know, like that,
like I said, that was a big issue for that
with the Volkswagen gate deal.
And I think it's just for them,
it would just cause some headaches
that they're not wanting to deal with.
So at the end of the day, a lot of people just end up
getting the car like fully ECU tuned
or get a spare ECU that's tuned with a different tune on it.
And it kind of negates it.
I'm the one that's still dealing with it.
But again, it's, you know, first world problem.
The car still feels, you know,
first world problem heavily for sure.
But the car felt great out there at the track today.
Like I said, ran my best, you know, time out there.
Are you on your new tires?
I am, yeah.
I took the drag tires out there, air quotes.
Yeah, they just the front to get all four.
No, so I'm thinking about if I were to actually take it
to like a circuit track to potentially get a set,
you know, that will fit my stock tires
or my stock wheel size and get the same tires in the back
because they are really, really great track tires.
They, you know, the Michelin Pilot Sports that come on stock
are pretty great tires just all around.
Like they give really good performance,
but you can still get some daily drivability out of them.
These Toyos are not ones that you want to be daily dry.
Like, you know, the car makes, if you, you know,
like lifted trucks with like the big, like meaty tires,
when you hear like the noise that they make
when they're like at, you know, kind of high speeds.
The whistling sound, I mean.
That whistling noise.
These tires make that noise when you're like around
like 65, 70 miles an hour.
So, you know, they're not for like long commutes
and driving around and they have a really low,
what does it call it, tread wear rating?
Oh, so they kind of wear out faster?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
No, so instead of like being like 50,000 mile tire,
probably closer to 20 or 30.
Yeah, they're about 20, I think that's what a lot of people
on like the ratings when I was looking at them,
they're like, yeah, 15 to 20,000 miles or so.
So you really would want these to be like your track tires.
But I am thinking about potentially getting a set
for the backs if I were to ever like really take it
to a track to have some really good performance out of them.
But yeah, they're holding up well.
Luckily, I don't, I really only use them when I go out there.
So I'm pretty sure mines will last for a while, but.
Oh yeah, definitely.
Definitely now.
Was it busy out there today?
It was.
Yeah.
Well, it's a nice day on a Saturday.
I mean, it's a nice day out there.
You know, I get it.
So did it wait very long between sessions?
Like long wait time?
Yeah, as we were talking about before this, there was a,
so they tried to do, they've done this before,
but they tried to do bracket racing this time around,
which basically all it means is that, you know,
if you have two or three runs to dial in a specific time,
like whatever your, you know, consistent time is,
you have the, you test and tune until you kind of lock in a time.
And then the goal for like every other subsequent run
is to run as close to that time as possible.
And so you'll do that like three or four times
until like they get to a point where there's, you know,
two cars that are running against each other.
They had some issues with how the tree was sort of
clueing people in the start,
and then how it was like timing them afterwards,
where there was just so much confusion on who won,
who didn't win that bracket.
And so there was a probably good close to 30 or 40 minutes
where like they were just trying to deliberate
and figure out who was going from round one to round two.
And so we're all just kind of sitting around and, you know,
kind of it was pretty, it got pretty hot out there
kind of midday.
So we're kind of hanging around.
And there were some folks that were still doing the testing
to them, so they were still just kind of doing,
doing their passes and things like that.
But all in all, like, you know, I know it,
whenever you try anything new,
you're always going to run into some quirks
and things like that.
But, you know, it was a little, little bummer
that really I only got, you know,
five runs when comparatively,
like I would probably be closer to 10, you know,
if not more, even with the number of cars that were there,
normally you would still get a good amount of runs,
but if you could, how many runs would ideally
you'd want to do at a session up being up there?
Like how long you stay there?
That kind of stuff, I gotta even know.
About like two or three hours, I would say.
In those two or three hours,
how many runs would you like to do?
Like 10 or 15.
That's like, yeah, that's cause it's such a short track
that like it is, it is, I always joked that it's over
before, you know, before it started.
Cause it's like, you know, you get your hit,
you go and you're back in line,
but it is still like exhilarating when you're doing it.
But yeah, 10 to 15 runs, like, yeah,
you're, you're consistently probably every, you know,
10 minutes or so getting a run, maybe even less than that.
And so it's just kind of the constant flow of action,
you know, versus like I said today, you know,
we got a couple of, you know, good ones at the beginning,
but after a while, you know,
we were sitting around for 30, 40 minutes,
not doing anything and, you know.
Is there a place to hang out or just hang out in your car?
No, you just, yeah, hang out outside of the car,
you know, or inside the car,
if you get tired of standing out in the sun.
Cause we're like waiting room or waiting area
or like that, is there?
If you're racing in the staging area, not a lot,
but they do have like a whole section for, you know,
spectators and they have crewed and some vendors.
They've got that, I guess.
I'd imagine there's like a parking lot.
It, yeah, it, it, it almost is,
but they've started to kind of build some stuff
and kind of have some vendors.
There were two separate fires, actually,
they broke out while we were there, not to deregulate.
The car fires or like wild fires?
Wild fires, actually.
Oh, wow.
We were out there and like, you know, one, the first one,
we were like, you know, what's that smoke over there?
And there was a guy who actually is a wildland firefighter
that was there today, he was like, oh, that's a fire.
Like, you know, let's, let's see how quickly they put it out.
And they put that one out in like 20 minutes.
So it was pretty quick.
And then probably not even 30 minutes later,
like all the way, you know, far away on the other,
you know, other direction,
there was another one that broke out.
That one went out, went for a little bit longer
and I was starting to kind of worry
cause that was the direction that I was going to get home.
But, you know,
if you did, if you did block the road,
if you fire hit your path home, how would you go home from,
how would you go home from there?
I'm sure there's some roundabout way
cause we were in Paris and, you know,
I don't know the areas.
I don't know.
I wouldn't know.
Like, I mean,
The 215 is your main, you know, highway to get out there.
Is there another road that goes around the 215?
Like a side road or something?
There probably is.
Yeah.
15, I guess that, I mean,
they all bought a neck of the,
and tomato there.
So I don't know, like everyone fire broke out here
in San Diego years and years ago.
If anybody was like East of Alpine,
East had to go out to the desert.
And I made it back.
That was at my brother's place or whatever out that way.
And the fire was blocking the,
cause the fire was on the freeway,
like blocking the freeway.
And so he had to like,
I went the back way home here.
So I'll make it,
make it out of there.
But I guess everybody who lived that was out there
cause Alpine got torched.
They all went to like the desert or whatever,
like out that way.
And so it kind of,
it kind of figured out like your way home.
And I kind of know like,
it's basic common sense to have like a good evacuation route
or a way to like figure out a way to get around
or get home or get where you gotta be.
Sometimes you can't,
because that's where you live
or the roads or who knows what, you know?
But you had a good time today running your car out there.
Let me ask you a question though,
courage here about your end card and all your cool times.
What is your goal with running your car out there?
Like what is your ultimate goal?
Like you keep, keep getting tires and faster times
and octane learning at 95 octane.
But what is the ultimate goal?
Yeah, good question.
Really, I just want to get into the fives.
Like, you know, that five second range.
When I, it literally was like 606, 605, you know,
6.05 was like my best time out there at 6.051.
Are you gonna get a license plate frame
or something that says 5.0 or whatever?
5.0 second flat or whatever?
Yeah, 5.0 time is like, yeah, that's,
there is like super quick.
Like there's a couple of guys that are in that realm,
but yeah, it's definitely, you know, in my head,
I'll have like, I'm in the five club
if I'm able to crack into that.
Like once you, once you get breaking the fives,
we was 5.9, whatever it is,
are you going to like get a t-shirt sticker
for the back window?
What are you going to do?
Honestly, it's really just going to live free of my mind
and my mind only probably.
You're going to get video though.
You have to get video.
Yeah, yeah, content or it didn't happen.
You're always recording.
You're always recording, right?
I always go.
Always 33 cameras going.
Like I had the other cameras.
What cameras you got?
What are they?
That 360 cam.
I had that on the back.
I have the Insta 360, like the logo pro style inside the car.
I have my medic glasses.
Shooting down the front of the windshield.
Yeah.
Okay.
And then you got the camera,
the glass on your head, the actual,
the metal glasses, right?
Yeah.
Are those metal glasses into 4K?
Are they just 1080p or what are they?
I think they're 1080p and they only shoot in portrait as well.
So like, if you're using it for like long form
and you want to get landscape,
you have to crop in to get it to like,
it won't naturally.
Oh, so it's like made for like Instagram?
It's made for social media.
Like, well, it's like Instagram, yeah.
Well, I see a lot of people use them
all the time for stuff, Instagram.
I always kind of wonder how they're filming it.
I mean, I'm assuming they're all doing medic glasses
because they're doing like interactions on the street
and like inside the casino, dealing cards and things like that.
But they have cameras going.
You're not about to have like a camera just like this.
Right.
Or whatever and things like that.
So, but see, all three cameras go.
I actually run the drone out too, actually.
Oh, are you allowed to use that there?
Yeah, I know the guy there, one of the guys that runs it.
And well, the guy that owns it
and then one of the other guys that does media.
So they're usually cool with me kind of bringing
and just getting a few clips here and there.
Some people that like didn't work at the track
didn't really know that.
And so I could hear them in the background like,
oh, there's a drone here.
They're not supposed to be here.
This and that.
And like,
turn it down.
Yeah.
And so I was like, you know, even though I know that again,
they're cool with me doing that.
Like, I want to buy one for years.
I've always wanted a drone.
I thought they're super, super cool.
I love drone video and footage.
And I was like, always wanted to buy one.
But I'm like, all these rules and stuff is like,
where do you even fly the thing?
Like, I'm like, I'm like, well, why would I buy something
that I can't use?
You know, that's kind of what I feel about drones.
I mean, could think of like this cool video.
I sucked into a wormhole of like all these cool drone videos,
you know, beach shots, wave shots, you know,
flying really faster in the loops and stuff
and doing all this cool stuff.
Like, yeah, it looks like pretty cool.
But, you know, I mean-
There was a point where,
cause I got into it really like right when,
right in like 2016, 17,
when they did the whole like FAA part 107 license thing.
Like I took courses on it and like, you know, one,
there was a group of folks that was like, you know,
kind of one of the first that had that in San Diego.
And that was when I really was like trying to kind of
build a business out of it and everything.
And, and, and there got to a point, like you said,
that they're just, it just started getting
so heavily regulated that, you know, it's like,
there's so much going into just being out,
just to go out and get a little bit of,
you know, a little bit of footage here and there.
And so I put it down for a while.
I actually still have that Phantom 3, you know,
in my, like in my garage,
I haven't touched the thing in years,
but I got the little small,
the small little DJI one that I use now.
And that one, I just love,
cause you literally just pull it out, throw, you know,
throw up in the air.
It is noisy because it's so small and the little,
the little motors are literally just like at, you know,
going at 11.
Like bees or whatever, you know?
Yeah.
You know, I, I, I see, I saw one at Costco,
I almost picked it up.
I was staring at the thing for like five minutes,
like reading the, the, the manual back and forth,
back and forth.
Like I wonder if someone courage has,
there's something similar to what you have.
I don't know.
It was by, I forget what brand it was.
I'm a DJI.
It might have been.
Cause it was DJI, cause they, you know,
they have the Neo, but they also have the, the mini and,
you know, some,
it was a small one like that.
It looked like when you fold up,
like you have kind of deal and it was,
I think three or 400 bucks, I remember correctly.
Yeah.
I was at Costco and I'm looking at the thing and I'm like,
then I think like, what am I going to use the thing?
Yeah.
How am I going to use it?
Like, how am I going to use this?
Can I use it? You know, like, how am I going to use like,
like for me, the coolest thing ever would be like,
be able to like drive and like have a thing follow me
and like automatically follow in the car.
And like, you know, like that'd be the ultimate goal for me,
I think, but like,
They might as like those follow features,
but they don't, they don't work for like you being in the car.
That's the only, like people have found workarounds.
Like if you have sort of like have the window down
and you, and it's close enough where it can see your face,
then it'll kind of work a little bit,
but it won't follow you if it can't really see like,
see a person.
So it won't just follow a car.
What's the point in that?
It's the whole fun.
It's like have the fall to fall the car, you know,
like all those drifting videos and things like that.
That's what it's about, you know, like,
like that's why I had another guy.
That's, that's why you should get one.
It's like, I'll hire you to give me some drone shots
and be driving or something.
All right. I have to go through a few drones.
I'll run them over or something like that.
Crash. I don't think they do a group crash him too.
There was another Instagram account or account I saw somewhere.
It was like drone fail videos.
It was like people like dropping their drone in the water
and like the ocean.
Like I'm going to set the drone up
and like trying to set up on the little edge of the boat
and the drone just like falls in the water or whatever.
And it's gone kind of thing.
So that's something else to do with these, these drones.
But, you know, I think they're pretty cool.
Like I wanted to get one for years.
I never did.
And I'm still using the old GoPro cameras
and way back in the day.
I mean, they were upgrading, but you know,
GoPro has a new camera coming out with a new one.
It's called the mission one or calling it.
I don't think it's available yet,
but it's supposed to be like cinematic quality,
not just like GoPro, I guess, you know, and so
you're getting more like,
cause I know what GoPro is a lot of times is just it's good
at like those action shots and like the framing for those.
But you can't really do it's not really meant for much.
A lot of movies use GoPro.
So you use you, even the older GoPro is like the ones
that I have, even older that you were using in cinema
because you can change the frame frame rate to 24 frames a second,
like a cinema camera, things like that.
So I, but I'm not, I'm not a big camera nerd.
So I don't know what any of this stuff means, but I do know
it's got a really, the new one's got a really like a one inch
sensor on it. I think it was like really big.
And but the thing that gets me is that, like, if you can get
a camera like a GoPro, the new GoPro mission one with adapters
and whatever, it may cost you a thousand bucks
while the extra crap you're going to buy me more,
but still cheaper than a $5,000 like basic camera.
Yeah, a basic cinema camera, like a Sony, something or other
is like five grand.
And so, I mean, if you don't really know how to use that
to its full capability as well, like a 5000 dollar
camera, it's like kind of wasted anyway.
Yeah, I mean, yes, I guess, man.
I mean, I think it looks all looks cool.
I mean, all the shots.
I mean, I also like people that can take your iPhone
and do some really cool stuff with their iPhone, just their iPhone.
There's really cool shots, you know, footage, pictures, videos,
all the cool things.
One thing on that I found interesting.
Again, I know, I know there's no other podcast out there in the world.
So the disregard this comment of another podcast that I was listening to.
But were there other podcasts out there?
Who knew? Who knew?
Who knew? That was a possible possibility.
It's just talking and, you know, having conversations like this.
But I was listening to another podcast about what that if you ever
seen Forrest Otto reviews, the guy, the guy curly hair, you know,
black guy, he, he does a lot of like, you know, kind of the
on Instagram, the quick cut kind of things.
So yeah, stuff, probably. Yeah.
He's he kind of started doing it more on YouTube, but then obviously,
like we talked about kind of started bringing this footage over to other place.
Actually started on TikTok first.
And then I think he went YouTube.
He tried some long form for a while, but he did an interview, you know,
on this podcast and kind of talked about how, you know,
how he built the channel to kind of where it is now.
And one of the guy asked him, like, oh, like, so what are you guys
using the film when you guys are doing this?
And it's like, oh, just an iPhone.
And he's like, you, you've gotten to the point with like, you know,
multi-million, you know, subs and all these different platforms and everything.
And you guys are still just using an iPhone.
And he's like, yeah, it's like it works as quick.
Like they barely even like kind of overly core graph things.
They just kind of, they just kind of go for it, do a take.
If they don't like it, they retake it, like not a whole bunch of advanced
planning, and it's pretty crazy what you can do with an iPhone camera.
Let simply said, they're really good.
I think if I say, I wonder for like that, for example, if they just buy
the phone by itself, like not a carrier planner, like just buy the phone
just for the camera stuff, just for the camera, you know, you can think about it.
Like what's an iPhone?
Cause you can buy my iPhones of 15 and I can plug in a USB-C, which is like
put in another, so you can plug in another like portable hard drive.
You can save on it, right?
Instead of using the actual camera, you can save it, save directly to the hard drive.
You can mount it on those cool, fancy rigs they, they make.
I've seen the fancy iPhone rigs for shooting film and stuff with.
You can rig one of those by the, by the phone for what, maybe a thousand
bucks or whatever in the rig.
You're in for like 2000 bucks, whatever, which is just cheap from 5,000.
And, you know, they shoot pretty decently, I would think.
I don't know, you know, I mean, I don't like to shoot every, I don't
like to shoot a lot of stuff on my iPhone, tell you the truth.
Unless I'm out and about, it's the only camera I have.
I just, I just are quick videos and quick, you know, selfie videos, things like that.
But I don't like to put up my, I'm filled up my iPhone, you know, memory
with like stuff, whatever, although I don't know if it's filled up or not.
But I just had to deal with that.
Cause I, I saved a lot of my, yeah, I save a lot of my like clip, like, you know,
kind of short form clips, send it over to your phone, don't you?
Oh yeah.
To make, cause I'll use like edits or like other like phone based stuff when I'm
just doing like a small Instagram reel.
And so I ran into that and I found out actually the issue wasn't the, wasn't
that those videos I was bringing over, it's the fact that DJI, the, the flyout
for my drone, it, it saves logs and things like of, you know, your
flight records and all of that.
And I went into the database to see like, okay, like how much is in here.
And I, I literally, it was like two or three minutes of scrolling of all
these like files that get saved every time you fly.
And so it just, it built up so much over time that I think it had like, it was
like 25 gigs worth of files that were saved from that DJI app.
And, and then all with everything else, it was, it was at like the maximum
capacity. So I had to basically delete the app, then reinstall it so that it
deleted all of the logs and everything and kind of started fresh.
And again, now I got, you know, almost 30 gigs free on my phone now.
So how much memory is your iPhone?
Which one, which one do you have?
120, I think.
128.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The 120, yeah.
128 gig.
So which I think usable.
I think you can only use 120.
That's probably why I was remembering that, but.
I think mine's a big daddy.
I think mine's either a gig.
The 250 or, oh really?
Or the, the terabyte or the half terabyte.
Oh, that's a half terabyte.
I remember, I remember specifically, because my other laptop was also
a half terabyte, like 512.
And so the phone was 512.
So the phone on my computer basically the same storage base, but I got extra
hard drives floating around here.
I, I back up everything on extra hard drives and all that kind of stuff.
And with cloud storage, do you, you can store things in the cloud and things
like that, which makes it very useful.
But, but, but out there today, filming with your three cameras and
getting it going and everything.
Have you ever worried about one falling off the car?
Like the one in the back.
Have you ever done it?
No, I've been, I've been lucky.
And I, you know, I obviously make sure, especially with the, with the mount,
the, the 360 mount.
And that's the most difficult of camera, all of them, right?
Yes.
So that would make sure that was like glued to the car.
Yeah.
And it gets a little hairy because like the, the
self, the stick, the invisible stick that like, you know, when you shoot,
you know, yeah, it makes it invisible.
So you can't really see like the bar itself.
You can see the mounting posts and there's ways to edit it out.
But the, the mounting stick sometimes flexes when you like go over bumps and
stuff like that.
So I've watched footage later and like seeing that it actually like gets pretty,
you're like, you can see like a bouncing in the back.
And, you know, I've, I've been like looking in my rear view mirror sometimes
thinking like, Oh, this, this is going to hold.
And it's never let me down.
Like I should have full confidence in it.
But every once in a while, you kind of, you kind of worry about it a little bit.
But yeah, that's the thing with me.
I don't have any, I was looking at sticks like the one you have.
I was looking for my cameras that make a bunch out there, bunch of different
brands and things like that.
I could do one for mine, but I don't think I would get the full invisible
stick like you get, I'll probably get like, I don't know how it'll look.
You know, like, what kind of, what would, what would I see if I had like a stick
like yours back in my car with my GoPro?
Well, we did, when we went out to Willow Springs.
Yeah.
But you had the, the, the 360 I'm talking about with the regular gop.
Yeah.
That's, yeah, it'll be, that'll be kind of a different because it will be wide
angle, but I think you're going to get, yeah, you're going to get like the stick
in the mall and everything and all that kind of stuff.
Yeah.
And it depends how you angle it, whether you get the car or you get just above
the car, kind of a thing or whatever, but, but so you, so you got all three
cameras going, you were all of things.
Are you going to put a video together?
Oh, we did today.
So potentially something I've been running into with my channel, particularly
is I, it's, I can't really like, I haven't really gotten a lot of viewership
from videos that are just like a specific event.
It's usually I try and like mix it in with something else that I'm doing.
And like, I'm not always doing projects on the car.
So it makes it kind of tough sometimes, but I've noticed like the, even the
last video I posted, even though it's kind of, it's kind of gotten stagnant
the last few days.
Initially, like there were a lot of like comments, a lot of likes, a lot of,
a lot of views, because people were actually kind of, and a lot of
retention because people were interested because I was doing the, the inlet install.
And like, they were actually working on the car videos.
I think let's do better.
I think let's do better.
If you're, if you're showing like how to install something kind of stuff, I'm
sure let's do way better than track videos.
I'm guessing, I don't know.
Yeah.
And so now what I've been doing is, yeah, I kind of throw in it, like, you
know, adding in a second element to the video to say, you know, stick around
cause we're going to do this.
Like we're going to Willow Springs or KDM day is actually the next one that, you
know, I want to throw in there and throw some footage from there with the, with
another project that I worked on a few weeks ago.
And so this one will probably make it into some video at some point, but I
just don't know exactly when cause it's, it's, it can't, I'm not going to use it
as the main focus.
Like I'll probably do some Instagram reels on it and just, you know, kind of
some, cause I did get some really good like past clips, like with my, with the
glasses and everything, but a full video, like it'll probably be in one.
I just don't know when.
So do you think the algorithms like out to get you right now?
Cause I think, I think a lot of people are complaining about that.
The algorithms, like, like a lot of viewership is kind of like, cause it goes
up and down with, you know, algorithms and whatnot and stuff.
Do you think there's any issue with algorithm stuff?
I just think it's, you know, certain content just isn't really getting
prioritized right now.
Like, you know, you, you start to notice that, you know, what, whatever's
trending and right now there's just a lot of stuff, like in the news and, you
know, politics and all of that kind of stuff that's, that's really getting
pushed a lot more than, yeah, but a lot of the kids, a lot of kids like the car
stuff, like they're like the car, channel cars, they don't care about the
politics stuff.
So like, I don't think, I don't think it affects them, you know, as much.
So it all kind of depends on your audience really is.
And I think, I mean, I don't know.
I mean, I've been taking it, I've honestly been taking your, your advice
where we talked about it before, how, you know, really building like a YouTube
or an Instagram platform or whatever, you know, you, you have an algorithm to
like, even if in the now, right now you're not really getting the results
you're expecting to get, it can, it can just change, you know, where, you know,
the algorithm pushes it in some random way or whatever.
And, and so I've just kind of kept that in mind that even though right now,
like I, I don't feel like my videos are getting like the views that I really
think they should with the amount of effort, millions, man, I just want,
like, you know, I just want to hit the thousand subscribers right now.
That's all I like.
I'm so close.
Like I'll get like little spikes here and there.
After, after this video goes posted,
just pity sub if you want to.
But you know, it's funny, funny.
I did hear something.
Okay.
Speaking of video, like, okay, you, are you aware about how Apple podcast is now?
Well, they've been in a video podcasting for a while a long time ago,
but they kind of shut it down.
They're kind of getting back into it.
You hear about this?
No, I didn't.
Okay.
So you know, Spotify has video and audio on their, on their app,
whether you watch the podcast and video or audio, whatever, whatever.
So Apple podcast is going to get in the same game,
but Apple podcast doesn't host anything.
So the way you get video up into Apple podcast is through a media host
that actually supports video podcast.
And then they have it all set up and it gets sent over there.
Like, it was, so it's very similar with Spotify does it,
but Spotify does it all in house.
So they're all in one place.
So Apple podcast is doing, but it's what I heard though.
Some made a comparison.
Everybody was saying, everybody was saying like,
Hey, why bother paying extra money to do a video here?
Just go to an Apple podcast.
Why don't you send your audience to YouTube or whatever,
and they subscribe on YouTube and become a subscriber YouTube, whatever.
The problem is I've noticed this too with YouTube.
I subscribe on one of my accounts.
I kid you not to like 200 different channels, right?
And for the longest time, I thought they all were dead.
I thought they weren't making any content.
It turns out the algorithm is blocking me from seeing the settings
I subscribe to the algorithm actually blocks your content
that you want to subscribe to it blocks that stuff.
So you can't actually see it.
It really is focusing on getting you out, getting new stuff out to you,
like new videos and new creators in front of you and pushing new stuff.
And I realized that they're saying that like almost every algorithmic platform
does this.
The same thing with like you follow people on Instagram, Facebook, whatever.
You may see their stuff, but you'll see a lot of other stuff too.
But I've seen it big on YouTube because there's a bunch of channels I followed
and I'm like, where's their stuff?
Are they like not making content anymore?
And I guess they were, but I never saw it.
And so with Apple stuff, they're saying with the advantage of you
want to do something with Apple is that with podcasting,
every single thing you subscribe to, you see in your feed.
And that's it. Nothing else.
That's all you see.
Now Apple will be changing the game, adding some suggestions and things like that.
But the things you subscribe to, you will see.
So if you're doing video on Apple podcasts, your viewers will see that video.
Only see that video to see that video.
You know, kind of thing where with YouTube being algorithm,
you know, I'm only seeing stuff that they decided to throw in front of me.
Well, this is pretty frustrating, you know.
Yeah, no.
And I can, which I feel like it's like a double a sword because I can see the
benefit because like you said, like you're, you're probably going to get some
recommendations from some smaller channels or like, yeah,
ones that you would have never come across before.
And then it seems like more so that they're using maybe your sub,
like what you sub to, to now open the door to suggest other things
that might be related to that, maybe not.
Like I've got a lot of things that I'm not, you know, that I don't sub to.
It's not like a, it's not a genre that I really have searched on my own.
But it comes up in your channel, right?
It comes up your feed whenever.
Yeah.
So it's, there's, there's that where I really just don't know where a lot of
that's coming from.
But, you know, the benefit is that, yeah, like maybe they're smaller creators
that will maybe get some videos in front of some people that they wouldn't
because of that.
But yeah, to your point is like, you know, you originally sub to whatever
channels you did because you were interested in their content.
And then all of a sudden, even though they're making more content,
you're not getting suggested that content seems a little weird.
Or it might be like at the bottom, you know, like if you're going in on
YouTube house, like that first row of stuff and like a middle, middle row
of some stuff, and there's probably rows of stuff way at the bottom.
They're probably way down there.
You never make it that far, you know, because you click on one and then
it shows you like suggestions for other things like that, you know,
kind of stuff or whatever and things like that.
So that's the game you got to play.
If you're going to deal with the algorithm world, you know, it kind of
sucks, but that's kind of, that's kind of it.
You know, like we're all dealing with it.
You know, we're all trying to figure out and get our stuff in front of people.
But I think like there's ways to teach the system.
Like it's like anything, I mean, money makes the world go round.
More money, you can spend more money on, on whoever, whatever it like.
If fluff your number is fluff your subscribers, fluff your whatever.
Yeah.
He goes on and on and on.
So many people have talked about that how, you know, in the immediate
that it might, you know, show some benefit and, you know, in your counts
and your view count or even your sub count, but long, long run.
A lot of times like they're not, they're not coming back.
And so therefore, that's the thing I couldn't figure that because if even
if someone subscribes me anyways, they like my stuff, they subscribe.
But you was like, well, he had no use of subscribe to that channel.
But we're going to show you something else.
Here's something else. Yeah.
Right. So you're like, what the hell, man?
Like, I, you know, I mean, that's why I think one creator told me that
YouTube subscribers don't matter as much, but it's easier for him to say.
He's got like a 100000 subscribers, you know?
Yeah.
I mean, it's like, you get this advice from people that have like, you know,
Oh, totally.
Like, oh, I've gotten it already.
Like, yeah, I got a million subs.
It doesn't matter, you know, whatever, you know, like it's so easy, you know,
just post, post you doing nothing.
And then you make like a million, you know, dollars and, you know, whatever
and all those kind of stuff.
So it's kind of weird.
Like, like taking advice from people that are like on the mountaintop, you know,
and be on the mountaintop, it's like, you know, I don't know, you know,
but speaking of, speaking of cars and cool things on the mountaintop,
you were telling me earlier about the, was the there on?
Oh yeah. Yeah.
So what happened to the
Yeah, a little unobtainium.
Yeah, we do.
I know we don't tend to talk about the unobtainium stuff on the.
I know, like the car, you know, when I think of the Veyron,
I think of like the first time you said it today, I was thinking like, oh, yeah,
that car you find at Walmart, a toy section for their remote control.
That's that's the car, right?
Yeah.
You see the remote control toy car for Christmas.
That's what I think.
Yeah, because you never, it's not something you're seeing, like, you know,
or the penalties for the be the one, but definitely the Veyron was one
that was like a remote control, like toy car.
I'm like, okay, that's cute and all, but so what's going on with that put?
Now, did they drop that in price?
We pick one up today.
What's going on?
There's a bit on talking YouTube at Boli and they get the Vin Wickey guy.
He's, he's, I don't know if he still has his, I think he does.
Actually, no, I think who he had one too, but his, the one that he bought
was just in shambles and all kinds of stuff going wrong for him to even
get it for the price he got it for, which was still like insane.
So unfortunately, no, we're not, we, we haven't hit the depreciation floor
for those to the point where we might have one.
But I don't even want one.
I think are ugly.
So you try to think are ugly looking cars.
So many people have said, you know, again, yeah, look, look so subjective.
Your opinion, obviously, some other people share that too.
But the, the biggest thing is just like what it would take to keep that car
any type of.
What's the oil change cost of thing?
I mean, you know, there's only some certain people who's going to do it.
First of all, do they make special, special parts?
I remember that when the Apple, like original Mac computer came out,
they have like special tools to open the back.
Do they have the same thing on this car where it's like special type of
tools to like pull the filter off?
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Or open the hood or change the tires, like special tools.
You can't buy and we're talking the, the, the Veyron.
But I mean, you know, the, the Chiron and all the other special versions of
those, like those, those all are going to be, you know, all these particular
situations to do just the simplest of things is, is definitely it's,
it's built into the price for sure.
But, but the interesting thing just about it in more just a high level
that I thought would be good to just, just chat about it, just the fact that
and I looked that up actually, a typical oil change could cost
anywhere from 20 to $30,000.
The price of a car.
Literally the price of a car.
It's like you were thinking about a car.
No, you just, you have to maintain this, this price possession of yours.
There's a thing.
I wonder, I wonder if you bought the car and you want to do everything yourself,
could you, or do you have to like go, I mean, could you physically,
if you see about the car cash at your car and you would have gone to the car,
could you change oil yourself as, as possible or is it like locked?
There's like a lock box on the oil filter, as I'm saying.
The winner's a wheel, there's a way.
I'm saying it's like, it's like you're by a house where you knock a wall
down and do whatever you want.
You know, it's your house, you can paint it however you want, whatever, you know.
Well, that's a good point though.
Because when it comes to like older, I don't want to say older now, but yeah,
that car is, you know, it's getting on 20 years old now at this point.
And, you know, that, that is, you can get away with that kind of stuff.
But the, one of the big things we were fighting is now is that modern cars,
like, you know, with the NISTIC, a really are, they're having like,
you know, walls where like software limitations on being able to do certain
things and, and, you know, a lot of cars, you know, but McLaren has been famous
for where they've started to make like their engine bays inaccessible without
literally like basically taking the car apart to get to it.
So there, there's points and the Veyron's probably somewhat similar in that,
like it would take a whole lot to really get in there and really do something
major, but there's getting a point where people are not able to do the things
that they were able to do to, you know, do the cars because the manufacturer just
felt like, you know, we don't need you doing that. We want you to come to us.
So make our buddy whatever it's like, it's like, can you imagine?
I don't know if this is possible. Can you imagine if like the Veyron makes you
like take the engine out, just change the wiper blades?
There's some module that you have to change first to then change the wiper blades.
All out engine service, just to change the wiper blades, whatever.
I mean, people will still buy it though. That's the sad part. People will still buy that knowing
that. But I think if you're so rich, you have so much more, we're talking like buy yachts,
like nothing. You're taking these cars to your, your one, you're not driving these cars as often
really as like anybody's driving in regular cars and you got somebody that's like, you know,
maintaining, maintaining for you probably at that point. And, you know, there's a small majority
of people that really probably hadn't know anything about what it takes to even owning it,
like know anything about and no knock on them. Like, you know, if you got to the point where,
you know, you can, you can get everything that you need taken care of with the car and you just
get in it and go and enjoy it for a while, let it, and then go store it away for a while, like
more power to you. But there's a lot of people that probably don't have any idea of what it
really would take to have that car going. They just have somebody that takes care of it for them.
And, you know, again, cool spot to be in, but there's something about when you really are
in the cars is, is kind of knowing like you're maintenance schedule and like, you know, this
is, this is what it takes to do this, you know, this maintenance item or whatever. Like, you know,
I just kind of take pride in that. Maybe it's just because again, because I'm, you know,
because I'm not wealthy. So it kind of, because I can't, I have to pay to do that.
I think it's most people, but, but I think a lot of people take it one step further, like when
they buy, buy or lease a car from a dealership, they'll, you know, do the option of like the
service option and they'll do like whatever else option. So they don't have to worry about stuff,
you know, kind of, kind of thing on top of that, whatever, but you're still paying a payment and
all that kind of stuff. So what's going on with the Bugatti? Are they, are they in business yet?
Well, we'll see. So, you know, Bugatti kind of had his resurgence back when they had like
the EB110 and those cars, that car in the 90s, but the Veyron was really kind of this big,
you know, sort of back to reality for Bugatti after being like, you know, you know, post war,
you know, basically company that throw, you know, was really thriving back then and kind of died out.
And the reason why they kind of had that resurgence was because of Volkswagen and Audi group.
They purchased Bugatti, they owned a stake in Bugatti and that, you know, funding helped them
really create the Veyron and from there create the Chiron and turn into, again, this global
company now that you're producing these multi-million dollar cars.
But what's the first person to buy the first like super car from Bugatti, you think,
after Volkswagen took them over because you think about it because if they were kind of like,
I don't know the history on Bugatti, but if they were kind of like a lesser brand and then
Volkswagen comes in and builds them up, some sucker had to be the first guy to buy the first
like super car that they came out with. It must have been super cool and they must have,
must have had like this crazy marketing scheme or something to be sort of the guinea pig for
because what kind of history do they have before that? You know, kind of a thing. I mean,
some of these car brands have such history like Ferrari, Lamborghini and things like that. So,
I mean, Ferrari comes out with something, you know, you already know what Ferrari is,
you've heard of Ferrari. But at that point, I kind of wondered like if, you know, Bugatti,
if they were like kind of a nothing company before they became big, the first person to buy them,
maybe, maybe the guy was so rich or girl, who knows, was so rich, didn't care, like drunk
one night. Yeah, whatever it's, there's a couple of million dollars in this car, whatever, you
know. Well, the interesting thing about that too is that you get, you know, when you get to that
level of, you know, you really, you could, you could buy anything. Like you have all of these
options of, you know, these cars that you could get, but you're also surrounded by a lot of people
that can also get those same cars. A lot of times people just want to be different. Like they want
to, they want to feel like. Yeah, or be the first, like some of these, some of these
early investors, you think, you know, they might jump on something early thing that's worth more
in the future, things like that. I don't really get tips from that information. I'm going to
get money to spend on stuff. I mean, who knows, you know, like that's, that's another level of
wealth that I will probably never in my lifetime even come close to.
Yeah, not even sit in the same room with kind of close to, I mean, honestly, like a dream,
dream of minds is just to like, you know, to potentially have like a car that I like,
you know, specked out, like, you know, to say that this is, you know, and it could be anything.
Like it doesn't have to be like a crazy, you know, insane million dollar car. Like just,
just to say like, I ordered this car, like with this spec, you know, with this,
these seats, like with this material, with that, you know, just to say that most companies do that
now these days, almost, almost everyone does that. Have you got their website? I think you can
order from which everything. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying personally, like to be it,
like I've never been able to do that. Like the end I still bought used, even though it had
5000 miles on it, like, you know, I pick out the color and pick out the color that we bought,
your car was your other choices of ends on the lot. You could have chose like different colors
or anything like that. No, that was, there was only two or three really in like a 50 mile,
no a hundred mile radius for sale. So you would have chosen a different color. Would you
it really? Honestly, it was just like, it was, it was trying to find a manual.
I was just heavy on trying to find a manual and it was really hard to find them back then.
That's what I mean. Same with the Z. I was the same with the Z. It was like trying to find a manual
and it just ironically happened to the same color as the car used to have, ironic.
I almost bought a black one that was in Costa Mesa for sale that was also a manual,
but that was actually one of the re, I didn't want another black car because I already owned one
at the time. Okay. Well, it matched, I guess. Matchy, matchy. I get it. Yeah. But it's just
so hard to just like, I'm, I'm, I'm one of those that like, you know, just obsesses about like,
my car doesn't have to be sparkling clean, but there's, there's, I get annoyed,
like when you see a black car that's got like water spots all over the place and, or you spent,
you know, you spent a good hour or so cleaning the car and then all of a sudden like, you know,
an hour later and it looks like, you know, it looks like you didn't do anything like that,
that I feel like lighter colors hide that a lot better. And so it might, yeah. You know,
I didn't necessarily want a white car. I was, you know, I, I always thought that white was kind
of a little boring to be honest, but the thing about the end that was cool was that, you know,
it has all of those red accents. You've read trims and things. Yes. Yes. It does it. The,
the red on the white kind of, kind of, I think it looks good because red and black kind of
blends in too much. But I think I remember the Nismo version of the Z of my Z, I think they got
white and red, white with some red accents around the splitter and the backs in the diffuser and
things like that. They've got some red trim on those. So I get it. It works. You know,
I think even the lettering, it's like, you know, red in there too and stuff like that.
So, so, so Volkswagen, you said they're getting rid of all of their cool stuff or what?
So they, they just, so it was, as of late, it was a weird kind of ownership structure,
how Bugatti fit in with everything, but Porsche was actually the one who like owned some stake in,
in Bugatti and, you know, there was the whole combination of Bugatti and Remac, you know,
where they were basically, they're one company steel at this point. But the main reason I was
bringing that story up is just that it's, it's sort of like an end of an era kind of thing where,
you know, the, the, the Volkswagen Audi group Bugatti was a totally different Bugatti than even
what they had going on in the nineties. And now you're getting into this era where, you know,
again, they're, they were bought by a private equity firm, which, you know, we've seen with
other companies how things get a little wonky when a, when a non car company owns like a majority
stake in a car company, you, yeah, we were talking about Lamborghini, like Lamborghini
passed hands so many times in the late eighties nineties, you know, they're owned at one point
by a company called the random company called Megatac. Oh yeah. Megatron was their CEO, I heard.
Yeah. Megatron was their CEO and which, you know, to be honest, is not that much of a stretch
because the dude, the, the dude owned mega, he owned Lamborghini and he also owned a company
called Vector. If you remember, they, yeah. Vector, they're the body kits, I think, right?
For the G35? No, no, this was, yeah, well, this was like a full on like car company. Like it was,
I did a video actually a small short on the, on the company's history, but it was like a super
small, like American company was building these like insane spaceship type cars or whatever.
And the company Megatac bought Vector, but the owner of Vector really thought that he was going
to have more control over the company when he got bought. And they basically ended up hostily
taking over the company and taking it from him. No way. And then basically using like, you know,
what he had already been building for a new prototype car to like now combined with Lamborghini.
And so they had a car that was sort of a Lamborghini, but it wasn't a Lamborghini and
just a whole lot of weird things where they were doing crazy stuff, but also cost cutting in weird
ways. And, you know, point being is that when you have these private equity firms that aren't in the
automotive industry, you start getting decisions that are just made more for just like, how do we
get some money out of this company rather than like, you know, how, how are we going to make
like this car company? I actually mean something. And, you know, they won't care at all. I'd feel
like, you know, no, they don't because it's all about making money. And they're your company,
you're, you're in business to make money. And even like the car company, you can,
you can say the same about the car companies themselves, like Volkswagen out, they didn't
want to make money, but they are, they're, they're also in the realm of like, you know,
this is a car company. So we're making decisions for the longevity of being in the car industry
versus, you know, a private equity firm and not, not to say bad about them, but again,
their priority isn't to, you know, maintain this brand image or anything of that sort.
It's how much money can we, can we get out of this and pull out of it until we pull out of it
and do something else. Well, I mean, you know, times are tight, you know, I mean,
a lot of companies are pulling out of the EV game and with gas prices being crazy, diesel prices
being crazy and cost a barrel of oils, crazy high right now. It's kind of a weird place to be.
And also too, another thing I didn't think about this is that, you know, most cars built within
the last 10, 15 years, maybe even 20 years, let's say 15 years, built with the last 15 years
are it easily go 100,000 miles or more easily, almost every car out there go easily 100,000
miles, right? So I kind of wonder if, do we need to be buying new cars like all the time,
you know, quite regularly? If these cars are lasting, I think it's just a personal preference
really new design, new tech, you know, new screen backup camera, you know, seat warmers,
who knows what, you know, like that's what it is. That's why Mercedes does so well. I've
watched the Mercedes videos where they're constantly like, you know, selling customers,
new cars, trading new cars and like, they have a car, it's like a year old and they're trading it in
on some new Mercedes, who knows what, because it's got the, the red leather stitching and it's got
like the different kind of seats and it's got all the stuff and it's got the, all the fancy
system inside there and all the latest tech and all the new stuff. It's just a newer car. I mean,
I get it. Some people have to have new stuff and I kind of wonder if your car company,
I've heard the story that like, some people say car companies put flaws in their cars
so that you break after 5,000, 5 years. So it makes you go buy a new one kind of a thing.
I heard about that. I don't know if it's true or not, but I also heard about these cars going
forever too. Like running joke with a Toyota, like the old Toyota can, but it's kind of like
300,000 miles or whatever it's been kind of a thing. So I don't know, man. I think that
there are some people out there, they have to buy the latest and greatest like phones or cameras
or cars or whatever it is. They have to have the newest thing every single time. And I don't know
if it's because they think that the newest thing is going to last them longer or if it's because
they want the bragging rights of having the newest thing. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's, and to be honest,
yeah, like some people, I think people have different reasons for that, but to your point,
there's some people that really, they feel like, yeah, after two or three years, I just got to
be in something new. And I have wondered this though, where like you said, cars are obviously
more reliable than they are. You got one offs and situations. Yeah, you got to change your oil kids,
please. Like this basic maintenance. Yeah, you got to still participate in making these things
last longer. But to that point, and kind of like you said, even though a lot of people are pulling
out of the EV game, it's when cars really become to that point of like EVs and really they're
supposed to outside of the battery technology, they're supposed to really be quote unquote,
somewhat bulletproof. It's like they don't have as many mechanical parts. The technology is obviously
better than a lot of other cars out there. Like, you know, some cars are still able to kind of
still compete. But, you know, what really now at that point drives you to, to get into a new,
a new car when, you know, there's no need to do it from reliability, reliability standpoint.
And then, you know, you're not really going to get that much more tech advancement unless like
you're getting, you know, unless you're getting a car that has like a full on living room in the
backseat or something. I've seen some cars, man. Let me tell you some cars look amazing and they
look great. And I get like, I mean, once you get into the ladies Mercedes like fully specced out,
I mean, I get it. Like I seen some of these, they, they look amazing. They got all the cool stuff.
I mean, the seats are carved towards your body for God's sakes, you know, like the whole thing
that's just very tight, feel like a cockpit and, and I'm sure they're all, all the cars are like
that. I mean, all, all of them really, but I think for me personally, the only thing reason
I would consider getting a new vehicle, the same reason I got my last new vehicle is because of
reliability is the vehicle I have now going to make it any longer. If that's questionable,
maybe I'll upgrade to something new. That's the only reason I ever upgrade to something new,
but you can, you can fix almost anything with money, obviously, you know, money,
mix, we'll go around. So if you have enough money, I kind of learned that with my other house too,
but household issues and problems and stuff, but like the money throwing at it, yeah, you can
fix whatever you can fix it. Yeah. You can fix whatever. I guess cars are kind of the same way
too. So when it comes to cars, it's like, I think people are just like, hmm, it's an appreciating
asset. It keeps going down in value. I mean, it's hit the floor or whatever. So I keep spending,
spending money on it to get to keep it going, or do I just buy something new and don't worry about
it. Yeah. So, you know, if you're into that stuff too, like honestly, if you're in the cars,
you're in a, you know, and I, you know, I think there's some special like, you know,
area reserve for just like special cars, like something that, you know, a car that you see that
like you're, you know, like I, I enjoy like what that car like represents or like, you know, it's
like a special model or something to that sort. Like that, I feel like, you know, like what they
don't make anymore, like a 350G something more, you know, well, I mean, and that's like what we
talk about all the time is like, I'm just such an advocate for like the use, use market, you know,
just like finding used cars that have like had their depreciation or in a stage where you can
buy that car, put in still some money and still be less than the newer version. One thing I was
going to say, you were mentioning Mercedes and like their newer features, but one, I had a chance to
drive like one of those old, like the early 2000s or early to mid E63 wagon. It's back in the day
and it was like probably like five years ago now at this point. And the coolest thing outside of the
fact that like this, you know, this wagon that is practical, it even had like the rear facing
back seats all the way in the back. So it was a three row, essentially it had, you know, your
middle row, but then it had a rear facing back seat in the, in, you know, in the back as well.
It was nice, it kind of weird jumper sheet kind of thing. Yeah, like you kind of, it kind of sits
down in the floor, but it folds out and they're, they're supposed to be safe and you can, you
know, have your kids ride back there, you know, it'd be a little weary, but besides the fact that
it also had like 500 horsepower even back then in the early 2000s, the thing was super quick and
sounded insane. But the coolest thing was that, and this was a feature from the early 2000s is that
they had these like active side bolsters in the seats where when you corner, the bolsters actually
come up on whatever side that you're leaning to, to like hold you into place. So it was like the
best of both worlds where you, you didn't want to necessarily have like a, you know, fully bolstered
seat. It's like that all the time, but when you start getting in the curvy rows, the seat adjusts,
you know, for you to be more situated in it. And I was like so blown away by this, like, you know,
and it was at that point, it was like a 12, 13 year old feature, but I'm like sitting here just
like, man, I get this is like the coolest thing ever. I just think that there's, there's like,
there's things that are cool about older cars that, you know, might not be the latest and greatest
technology, but I'm all about like, you know, finding like the quirks and things that like,
you know, we were doing back, you know, five, 10 years ago that were the hot thing back then
and paying way less than I would to try and get the hot thing that is now, you know,
that's the same thing with like, like phones, you know, I remember when iPhone four came out,
it was like, my, my personal take as iPhone four, when it came out, it was like the best phone,
like ever. It came out, like it changed the game. It did all, it had like so many features,
new features that we never saw before on a phone, you know, like no other phone came close to it.
And of course, other phones followed and things like that. But then we kind of hit this like
plateau where like, what was the greatest feature that maybe he's got more memory,
maybe he's got a bigger camera, you know, or whatever, you know?
When it comes to phones, it's just so, I'm just so uninterested. That's like the one thing where
I'm just so uninterested in new phones. But it used to be, I used to see them back
when iPhone four came out. I was so into that. I was like, oh, yeah,
this iPad's coming out. What's this cool thing? iPhone four, you know, and like,
like, it was super cool. FaceTime came out. It was all super cool, you know?
And now it's like, who cares? You know, like,
it's like, it's an inconvenience. Like if I, if I break my phone or something,
and I have to get a new phone, because I'm like, I don't really care what new features it has.
I just, I'm just worried about the fact that I got to like, redownload all my contacts and
get used to a new, you know, which I, with the iPhones, you're not really getting used to much
because it's, it's all the same. Pretty simple. Pretty similar. Yeah. Well,
you upgrade to iPhone, iPhone. It's pretty simple. Pretty, make it pretty easy. I'm just saying that
like, like I was on that, you could upgrade every year plan on my, my carrier and never,
never took it, never did it. I just have the, the whatever phone I have.
And so long as I don't break it, if I break it, I'll take it in that kind of thing. But I mean,
I don't simply have to buy the latest tech to buy the latest, whatever. I gotta,
I got a Mac mini. It's a fair, one of the newer ones, but it's not like it's brand new. I didn't
buy anything yesterday. I bought the thing like a couple of years ago, you know, and then my
laptop, which is like six years old laptop. I still use it today. I use it every single day.
I actually use that. So I use, I use old tech. It still works. Old cars still work. As long as
they work, they work fine. You know, you don't have to get the latest and greatest. You know,
I mean, I guess get whatever you want to get, whatever is your thing, I guess, do your thing.
What makes you happy? Make your money, make you happy. You know, that's it.
But don't feel like you need to do it. You need to do it just because, like, you know, again,
that's a good reason to get to figure out what that reason is. Exactly. And, you know, like,
what does it do for you? You know, just make you happy. Does it make you money?
We talked about it before. You can easily play the KEPA with the Jones. I got to have the newest
thing ever. Oh my gosh. Especially in cars. Cars, you definitely can do that with cars. If you have
a neighborhood, like your neighborhood, you know, cool cars right around the neighborhood,
everyone's like, cool car. Look at my cool car. Look at my cool car. You know what I
know? If it's a lot of times here, though, it's like a lot, it's older cars. Like, you know,
yeah, that's true. Yeah. You can still get into the same deal. And you can still spend a lot of
money on old cars, especially older, older ones. But like, I remember the other house I owned,
I had all the coolest cars in the neighborhood. You know, even the last house I came out of,
I think I owned about a Corvette though. I think in there, I see, I think more than houses,
but other than that, like, like I own all the cool cars there too, for the most part. And,
and people used to say like, Oh, you're trying to keep up with the Joneses. Dude, I am the Joneses.
I am the Jones. Yeah.
Keep up with me or whatever. But no, I never, I never, like even today, I pulled in, pulled
them back in here and the guys sitting outside the grass here out front. There's lots of really
nice cool cars. And they said to me, I drove the Z in here. Oh, thanks man. Thank you. Appreciate it.
So I say that a lot. And I do get that a lot with the car. And that's when they can have
the old cars that like, it's all got that cool vibe. People still liked it when they saw me
drive it. They always had cool car a lot and things like that. So it's a cool feeling when you do,
people do appreciate the car you have, even especially with an old car. That's not really
worth a ton, but it's a lot of fun and it looks cool. And I enjoy driving it. Yeah. You know,
this is all about. If you enjoy it, like I said, you know, that's, that's where's that, you know,
do what makes you happy. But if you're doing it because you think that like, Oh, I'm going to
enjoy it because everybody else enjoys it. Or I got to, I got to do it because yeah,
my neighbor's got to see, I got to have a Z too. Or like, you know,
or BMW Mercedes or Audi or whatever it is kind of thing. You got, you got to just chasing the tail
at the end of the day. You know, it is, it is. Well, courage has been fantastic.
Where can everybody find your amazing YouTube channel? Yep. Well, thanks for the plug. And
yeah, I loved it. I can actually use this a little more often, but check out the driven dad
22 on YouTube, Instagram, all kinds of car stuff going on and a couple of recaps. I'll do some
things we might talk about on the pod too. So feel free to check it out. And I'll put the links
to it in the show notes down below. You click on down there. It'll be linked to that linked
to everything. You can follow everything at coolcarswithchrist.com, social links, YouTube links,
all links on links, on links, links, links. There's going to be a t-shirt down the road.
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And we'll catch you on the very next episode.
About this episode
Chasing a track-time milestone, the hosts and guest dig into whether fuel strategy and octane learning can help a Hyundai Elantra N crack the “fives,” debating full vs half tanks and discussing 95-octane runs, boost behavior, and tire choices. The conversation then widens to creator life: filming gear, drone rules, and how algorithms shape what audiences see. Along the way, they compare hypercar maintenance costs and even explain why red-dyed diesel gets checked and fined.
Original notes
What's happening everybody!
On this episode of Cool Cars With Chris, Courage is back from another track day with his Hyundai Elantra N, and he's getting closer than ever to reaching his goal of breaking into the 5-second club. We talk about his latest runs, the difference 95-octane fuel makes, Hyundai's unique octane learning system, and whether his new drag tires are helping him get the results he's after.
We also get into rising gas prices, diesel fuel costs, and even the world of red-dye diesel. If you've ever wondered why some diesel fuel is dyed red or why using it on the street can get you in trouble, we've got you covered.
Later in the episode, we dive into the crazy world of Bugatti ownership. Imagine spending $20,000 to $30,000 on a simple oil change. We talk about the Bugatti Veyron, the realities of hypercar ownership, maintenance costs, and how modern manufacturers are making some vehicles harder than ever to work on yourself.
We also spend some time talking about content creation, YouTube, podcasting, social media algorithms, drones, cameras, and what it's really like trying to grow an audience online in today's world. Whether you're making videos, running a podcast, or posting car content online, you'll probably relate to this conversation.
Thanks for hanging out with us and being part of the Cool Cars With Chris community. If you're enjoying the show, be sure to follow, subscribe, and share the podcast with a fellow car enthusiast.
In this episode:
• Hyundai Elantra N track day results
• Chasing a 5-second pass
• 95-octane fuel and octane learning
• New drag tires and performance upgrades
• Gas prices and diesel fuel costs
• Red-dye diesel explained
• Bugatti Veyron maintenance costs
• $20,000-$30,000 oil changes
• Modern cars and repair challenges
• YouTube growth and content creation
• Drones, cameras, and social media
• Automotive passion and car culture
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⏱️ Chapters
00:00 🚗 Can the Elantra N Break 5 Seconds?
01:13 🐴 Life Without Cars & Amish Hot Rods
03:14 ⛽ Gas Prices Are Out of Control
05:06 🔴 Red Dye Diesel Explained
09:47 🏁 Hyundai Elantra N Track Day Recap
12:05 ⛽ Full Tank vs Half Tank at the Track
12:55 🔥 95-Octane Fuel & Performance Gains
14:21 📈 Hyundai's Octane Learning Mystery
16:16 🛞 New Drag Tires & Best Time Yet
18:07 🏎️ Bracket Racing & Track Day Delays
21:08 🔥 Wildfires Near the Raceway
22:55 🎯 The Goal: Joining the 5-Second Club
24:05 🎥 Filming Every Run With 3 Cameras
25:15 🚁 Drones, FAA Rules & Car Content
29:07 📸 GoPro vs iPhone vs Cinema Cameras
30:58 🎬 Building a Car YouTube Channel
38:45 📊 Are Social Media Algorithms Broken?
40:28 🎙️ Video Podcasts vs YouTube
45:52 💰 The Truth About Bugatti Ownership
47:20 😳 $30,000 Bugatti Oil Changes
49:15 🔧 Why Modern Cars Are Harder to Fix
51:52 🏆 Bugatti's Rise Under Volkswagen
57:08 📉 The Future of Bugatti & Rimac
01:02:00 🚗 Dream Cars, Specs & Ownership
01:08:45 🎤 Final Car Talk & Wrap Up
01:12:27 👋 Thanks for Listening
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