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Yes dude hit me again
Hit me one more time
Holy fuck, are you okay? Are you dizzy?
No, I need to take a breath.
Jesus Christ.
Yo, happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Happy Thanksgiving.
This is a special little extra episode.
We all know that there is no true Thanksgiving
without Danny doing the gobble.
Oh, my goodness.
So many people messaged me about that.
Like, are we doing the Thanksgiving boncat?
Of course we are.
We're doing the gobble.
We gotta do the gobble.
Yeah, yeah.
I think it's kind of tradition now.
It's tradition.
It is that weather is going to be cold on our Thanksgiving
here in Northeast PA.
It's going to be like low 30s, 20s at night and stuff.
So, you know, that's like typical late November rain, you know?
Yeah, November rain indeed.
Like, it seems that we've locked out that we haven't had much
of the white stuff.
I'm not going to say the s word.
Yeah.
I'm happy about the rain because now it cleans off the salt
off the road because Chad from PA, you know, he's doing his
thing out there and saying, fuck us.
So, yeah.
And that time of season means there are deer out and being
that there are deer out, you did what?
Dude.
So, the deer slayer, the black wagon.
The deer slayer.
Yes, black B5 and a half a slot wagon is back in action.
It's back on the road.
It hasn't slayed yet.
Right.
I don't want it to, but it is out.
Dude, it took me an entire day to clean the car.
Yeah.
It was rough.
Sure.
It wasn't like Garrett Rabbit Jopping's Mark 4 GLI rough.
Yeah, they're sitting under a tree for years.
But it was probably sitting for a year.
Oh, yeah.
I've moved around the driveway and up the road a couple times
or whatever.
But dude, what people don't know, you're under pine trees.
Dude.
You're under these huge, Danny lives in a pine forest.
He is like, he is Northeast PA's version of pine parents.
Dude, it's awful.
There are like a hundred foot pine trees that are surrounding
his house and you took a bunch down.
I've taken about a dozen trees down.
Not all pine, but Jordan were pine.
I'm probably, and this is not even the exaggeration of joke,
and it's over the years, not at woods, $15,000 in tree work.
Dude, people don't understand when they're huge trees like that.
And these aren't small in diameter either.
These things, you can't, like you could go on one side, bear hug it.
I could go on the other side and bear hug it.
We aren't even going to touch our hands.
Like that's how big some of these trees are.
So yeah, it's thousands of dollars.
Take something like that down because you have a main road
out front of your house.
You have, you have like on each side, you have, you know,
you could hit a house and I mean, it's got to be our lines.
Professionals got to come in and do.
You can't just drop that.
No, you'll fucking destroy someone's life with that.
We had to actually get a crane for a few of them that were
where like my old pavilion was in the back of the carport.
Yeah, because at the time I was knocking it down.
Yes.
So we didn't want to like hit it once that was gone.
There was a couple of trees that we had to get dropped or get
cut down and the tree guy came out was like, he looked at
everything once the old carport was down was cool.
I can do this and this and then it was a little miscommunication
with my Mason guy that was coming to pour the foundation for
the new structure and he wanted to come in like the very next
day and pour in the concrete and the tree guy was scheduled
the day after he came up and he was like, I rate mad like,
dude, what the fuck?
And I'm like, I didn't realize the guy was coming.
I thought he because he squared everything out and I thought
he was going to be there later on in the week and like he was
like thinking that he was going to be able to utilize the area
to burn a bunch of stuff because an open area.
Sure.
So like he won up like felling one of these tall pines and
dropped it.
And this is like an 80 foot pine tree and he did a pretty
damn good job of it, but like he wasn't happy about it.
Sure.
And the job went at probably a lot faster for him because he
wasn't just going a little by little, but it was just, it
was just one of those things.
It's amazing to see tree guys come out and actually like scale
the tree and then just take it off section by section and
kind of place it exactly where they want.
Oh, yeah.
It's it's something else.
Those guys are fucking nuts.
Yeah.
And he's a one-man band too.
So like this guy, he's good.
Um, it's funny because I have one more tree left to get cut
down and it's in the front of the house and that's where I had
the deer slayer parked for pretty much this past year.
The amount of sap on that car.
I took like, I usually like, uh, have a, uh, a square bottle.
Yeah.
Um, and I put alcohol and rubbing alcohol on it and it
bought three hours of just taking sap off the car and the
paint is it, I didn't give a fuck because like the car is
not a show car.
Yeah.
It's so it's like, it's presentable for now.
I got to cut the paint and then actually like, you know, do
a cotton buff and try to bring back a shine, but it looks
a thousand times better.
Um, but that tree that's in front of the house, that's the
last one to get cut down.
I don't know if we're going to be able to do it before winter
here.
Um, but I've gone estimates anywhere between two to $10,000
to cut down this one tree.
The one out front right on the road, like the, the bad one.
Yeah.
So like, yeah, cause you need like a crew to even like stop
like traffic and right.
So like the, the one guy was like, it's going to be like
10 grand and it's like, no.
And then with the lovely part company, I call they said to,
and I think it's one of those things that they have like a
couple of people do it a couple of guys and they're
going to go up and do a little by little and whatever and
probably not do it like with a crew that shuts down the road
because they have enough confidence in themselves of
what their abilities are.
Yeah, or they're completely naive and they have to deal
with their abilities are.
Dude, they dropping across the fucking main road.
Yeah, you'll get, you'll get a fucking fine from the state.
Oh my God, dude.
Um, yeah.
So I don't know.
We're going to see if we can get that done or not before
winter.
I was hoping to get it done because that's the last tree
that's around on our property to actually get cut down.
Yeah, it doesn't matter because these fucking pine trees are
so tall that all the shit still blows in the way.
Yeah, but at least you don't have that stuff that's directly
falling right on your shit.
I mean, yeah, yeah, exactly.
It's brutal.
I remember when I was stopping by and you had fucking trees
like way before you started taking them down, every single
car was you be there for 10 minutes and you leave with shit
all over your car.
It's crazy to see the pictures of like when we first lived there
like before we first got the house to now.
It's just a 90 difference.
Can't even see it.
Like you couldn't even see like the backyard.
Um, all right.
So that is going on with me.
Deer Slayer is on the road.
I got to do some work on it.
I got some shaking going on from the passenger side.
Um, I gotta see what's happening with it.
Um, other than that, it's running well.
Um, I had some vacuum line leaks I took care of and just
did some service on it.
Just doing all the change and basic maintenance and are
learning at me.
I'm like, it's nice to get back into it's like putting a like
it's like putting an old baseball glove on.
Yeah.
Like I don't know what it just, I guess just seems like it's
more quote unquote my car than any of the other cars.
Like, yeah, I get that.
It just seems like it was just nice to be in.
Um, even my kid was like happy to be driving in it, which
is, I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm getting him like hooked on like ship boxes way too young
of an age.
Oh yeah.
I think you already got him hooked on him.
Dude, he asked this question and like I laughed in my heart
sank at the same time.
He goes, data, why does your cars always break down?
Your head just slowly goes down.
It's a combination of like breaking down and running out
of fuel.
You know, it's like today we just randomly happen to be
running some errands.
I'm in my Dodge Ram pickup to no weight Ram and I don't really
drive too much, but it's got a hundred and forty one thousand
miles on it.
Go to start it starts up shuts off started again.
So it starts up starts shuts off.
No idea.
He's looks at me and I'm like, I'm not sure.
He's like, we're going to have to call mama.
I said, no, we're not.
We're good.
We're good.
Let me see.
Try it again and start and stay on.
I want to get when I got home kind of looking at things.
The battery negative terminal is kind of loose.
So it's just getting old.
I got to get any wire because I try tying down more.
I won't tighten anymore.
So it must be this is a loose connection.
So yeah, you got that car out.
I still have to put the deer whistlers on that.
Ian Robert Scott.
Me.
Yep, I still have them.
I got to put them on.
Can you buy deer whistlers nowadays?
Just can you get them or I didn't know if they were like a
vintage thing.
You know, Amazon or something probably has they were huge like
in the 80s and shit like that.
Yeah, I think everybody had him and they didn't do nothing.
Yeah, just fucking just whistled right into the side of a deer.
And it's funny because I think Volkswagen maybe was came out
some technology in Australia a few years back because I guess
they're having like they're having a lot of kangaroo hits.
Oh, yeah.
And like sends a sound or something out of the car or light.
I'm not exactly sure.
But if you lived in do we ever talk about that a little bit
if you lived in Australia, you would be the kangaroo slayer.
I would be there just like they're just stand up deer.
Dude, I would be dead because like they're jacked.
Yeah, this motherfucker will pull me out of the car.
Those those that do they piss me off.
Dude, they'll like hop onto the hood and like punch through the
windshield.
Not you.
You go right through them.
Grab me.
Yeah, you take care of them.
The slayer would flip and fucking kangaroos left and right.
Yeah, I wonder if there's actually technology that these
car manufacturers are working on to try to deter animals because
you hear all these bullshit noises about like these EVs when
they back up.
Okay, that's cool.
But it does nothing because this is a noise for like no reason
at all because like if you're dumb enough to see a car not
moving, you know what?
I can't stand the now.
Have you seen the laser beams?
No, do you mean like their lasers now?
Like they have made there's no more headlights.
There's it's like literally some new cars are like lasers.
No.
And now what they'll do is if a car is cut, maybe has this hit
America yet, but I've seen videos.
If a car is coming your way, it actually like creates this
patch where the laser will go on each side of a car coming.
It's like it's almost like this blind spot.
So the car can go through without dying and smashing into
a fucking oak tree.
If that thing is fucked up.
No, but lines you.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
If something if something glitches out like everyone's
dead, it is pointing the sky.
The airplane falls out of the sky.
Yeah, because because shit is just so wild anyway.
It's everything is just so bad.
Um, I actually think maybe it was a was a Connor that was
talking about this too.
I think in their latest podcast, but yeah, it's not good.
Yeah, it's bad.
Um, and they they might have to deal with it over there more
so than way, but I did see I did see videos that it sounds
like it's really expensive.
Also, cause like dude, a headlight now is like, I don't
know, five to eight hundred dollars on a good day.
Yeah, you get the like a newer headline of cars like
eleven hundred dollars for a headlight.
Yeah, although those headlights now don't seem to like go like
a shitty normal bulb headlight does.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know what to think about.
I mean, it is nice to see.
Yeah, that's true, but I have like a stockpile of H4 bulbs.
Yeah, just because of why random headlights and like go to the
junkyard has pulled them out so many times and parting cars out.
So I'm good.
I'm like bulbs.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, so speaking of Connor, just a side note here, um, we're
talking about cleaning up things and, you know, just getting
things organized like I'm the last podcast and that's what
he was doing as well.
And he want to bring Otis, his mark three GTI back into like
this garage because that car has been sitting for a few years.
Green car.
He had a green car up top since he like he built a new building.
Um, and that's been off the road since like, I don't know, 2018.
He named that car Otis.
I never knew that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So is there, do you know anything about like a background on that?
I'm not exactly sure.
Um,
just curious.
I always hear him just say my mark three.
Yeah.
No.
Yeah.
He's he's named it Otis.
Um, I haven't named my cars.
Um, I think that's okay.
They take their, they take on their own names.
Yeah.
Because like the deer slayers, the deer said, and the celebrity,
right.
Um, the, my, my son is named the silver mark for the R32 wagon,
which I'm, I'm cool with that.
It's like exactly what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like he's saying like, uh, my son just named my other vehicle a dodge ram.
Right.
Yeah.
It's like the sinker wagon is just the synchro wagon.
Synchro.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, I know it's funny hearing your son be like, dad, are we going to take the
synchro or whatever?
I know it's so because that's what he says.
He'll look at me with like a puzzled look on his face.
He'd be like, do you want to take the synchro wagon?
Yeah.
I'm like, no, not today.
Do you want to take the road?
All right.
No, not today.
Like, you know, it's like, it's like, it's like pouring rain outside or like,
you know, the foot of snow.
He has just like random questions like that.
That's awesome.
If there's like salt on the road, you want to take the truck?
No, not taking the truck because it'll rust out the dodge.
Yeah.
He's like, why, why do we drive mama's car, which is a tour egg into snow?
And then, uh, so I was like, it doesn't rust out as fast.
Exactly.
It's not even a joke.
It literally just doesn't rust out as fast.
It's, it's so great to have your like a good winter car.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is so important.
And that's something that for a long time when people are growing up in the
Northeast, if they're in the cars and they actually want to save a car from
the road, then you get a beater.
And then what do you do with that beater?
Like the beater usually is so fucking shitty.
Yeah.
That it's then not reliable, but you need it for like six or seven months
right out of the year.
You're taking the most unreliable car and hoping it print against your winter.
Yeah.
Or you get an actual nice car for the beater for the winter for the Northeast.
And then you're like, oh, this is really nice.
Yeah.
This is really nice.
I should start modding it and then save it.
So you then you get another shitty fucking car and you know, the cycle continues.
Um, I think that's kind of like my life recently because that's how I got the silver
slayer, um, because, oh, you know what, the eventually the deer slayer is just
going to like be, you know, to beat up and just have too high of miles and
whatever to really, you know, be worth it put back on the road.
And then I got that car and obviously that's not the case right now because,
um, dude, the silver, so the silver slayer has like 150,000 miles on it.
Runs great, good running car and everything.
I think it's just cause like the silver on that car is what's like,
uh, I don't know.
It just doesn't do it for me.
I have too many silver cars.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Everything's silver.
Yeah.
So, um, getting it back into the black wagon was just like a nice change of pace.
Yeah.
Um, I bet there's something to that where even like, say you're, you're driving like
a jazz blue 20th or something.
Yeah.
And the fact that you just see the top of the jazz blue like hood as you're
driving in your peripheral, I bet that changes your mood.
Oh, absolutely.
You know what I mean?
Like different colors, just seeing them like, you know, you're, you know,
you're kind of surrounding yourself with a certain kind of color throughout
the next like hour of drive.
And I bet that's kind of like a subconscious thing.
It probably changed your mood.
Like if you had a bright fucking pink car, something you probably pissed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And it's funny because years ago, everything we owned was black.
Yeah.
Everything we had.
So it was like, we had a black mark for DTI.
I had a black Dodge Ram.
I had two black B three passats, one sedan, one wagon.
I had a black motorcycle.
My Raptor 660 quad was black.
Yeah.
Everything we had was black and now it's like everything's silver and it's like,
why?
Yeah.
I mean, I'm fine with the silver color.
It's whatever we took around about it and like, you know,
why I don't care for them and whatever.
Um, but it is kind of a boring color.
It is boring.
I think, um, I think that silver works great on older cars.
I agree.
I think silver is, uh, is something that could really look good.
Like if you look, say like an old 911, like, you know, like that looks fantastic.
And like almost like a sterling kind of silver.
Yeah.
It's just different.
Now the silvers that we have, like they don't pop and shine.
It's just kind of like more of like a flat looking silver in a way.
You know what I mean?
Or maybe it just doesn't work on the body lines as much as like older cars, even
like a Beetle.
Like if you see a silver Beetle, you don't, you didn't see them much.
Right.
And when you do, it's cool, but I think it's like has something to do with the
curves and stuff.
Yeah.
That's true.
I do, I do agree that it does work on older cars.
And it's funny, like a Mark four now, cause this seems like it's an older car to
me, even though it's not, but it is.
Yes.
Exactly.
Cause like you'll see like newer, whatever Mark sevens, Mark eights.
And it just drives by and like, I don't even like look twice at it.
Not me either.
It's just whatever.
Yeah.
Um, I think the silver does work while I'm wagons.
So going back to like my situation with these cars and stuff, um, the silver
slot wagons going to be the next to go after I get that finished up.
Um, that's how I get out of my life.
Yeah.
And, um, after that, I really want to get my, uh, pickup truck swapped over this
winter and get the G 60 swapped on.
Um, and dude, I would love to run that billet charger that we were talking about.
I was just going to say, so we didn't, we haven't really talked about your truck
in a while.
Yeah.
Um, so you, are you thinking about that?
I'm thinking about it because I have the slice on charger.
Is it on other cars yet that are actually functioning that like you can see
or see or like I didn't really look into it too much more.
Yeah.
Um, cause I saw, I saw it being produced and I see it like sitting on shelves
and stuff and like sitting on a bench and it looks cool.
Yeah.
But I wonder like what it sounds like.
That's my, you know, sound is so important.
That's why the Lysolms like, so like everyone's like, Holy shit,
what is happening?
Right.
And it's, it's such, it's such like a iconic kind of like, yo, that's obviously
got a Lysolm charging.
Oh, absolutely.
Um, but I wonder what this thing sounds like.
And your, your pro charged fucking wagon is nothing sounds like that.
That's just a different sound.
It's so weird.
And I have a lead.
Um, I can't really say too much about this just yet because, um, it's kind
of a kind of a quiet thing right now.
How should I say, but I have a lead on potentially cogging that whole setup.
Really?
Like the charger, the crank, alternate all the stuff, basically modeling
it after the group a rally cars, like how the setup was on the rally race,
uh, G 60s.
Um, so if I can come to fruition next year or so, that would be the
shit because those rally cars, the G 60s, obviously the chargers in them
weren't actually considered G 60s.
They looked different than a G 60 itself.
Um, I'll show you a picture real quick, but they were just so crazy
and then radical in design.
Um, they're putting out 300 horsepower out of an eight valve with this setup.
And it was just crazy.
Um, so I'm hoping that that would be the next step for the pro
charged wagon.
Um, so as well as like, I got a leg out.
I need to do something with the drive train.
Um, so it's definitely going to get a hall deck swap.
Oh, okay.
That's that.
That would make sense.
That's the next plan with that car.
Yeah.
Get the, get like, uh, get it tuned, you know, really get it on the dyno
properly tuned and then go from there with that because the biggest issue
with that car has always been belt slippage and, and having issues
with the belt and, and obviously I've had fueling issues with it because
of the tunes and I just need to get the bugs worked out of that car.
Sure.
So cause I want it to be able to be driven.
Yeah.
And with that setup, that pro charger should push around north of 300
horsepower, which would be insane.
Yeah, that'd be awesome.
So I was talking to Colin at TT and I ordered a cam four to have a new
cam to throw in her 276 cam, I believe it is.
Um, so he said that, that, that cam will work the best with that setup.
And obviously he knows cause he's been doing this for, you know, longer
than like, I've been live.
So there's that.
Yeah.
So no, that's like kind of like I got going on and exciting things for
the next year, so to speak.
Cool, man.
Um, I know that this is basically just kind of a, uh, a bonus episode,
if you will.
Uh, we didn't have a huge plan.
I do have a bunch of questions or whatever.
I asked a couple of things.
What should we talk about?
I also said, um, you know, you and I talked about it was basically like,
what, what do you guys do for?
What was the question exactly?
Yeah.
Like what are like your like traditions car related or not?
And I thought it was a interesting topic because there might be a decent
amount of people that do car related stuff on holiday because if you think
about it, Thanksgiving is one of those holidays that like, okay, you go
to families, you're driving there, you eat a bunch of shit and then you're
driving back.
It is a perfect opportunity to actually go on a nice cruise or go on back
roads or take a drive for hours because you're going to visit family for,
you know, hours on end.
And yeah, what's like, that's actually, I think it's really cool.
Cause like for us, most of our family is within say an hour of us, um, that
we see on the holidays, people are driving three, four, five hours to go
see family.
So like it's like a great opportunity to be able to get in a car that is a
fun car and just rip around.
It is.
You know what else is cool about that?
And I've done many times is like, say my uncle is having the whole family
over and that's where we're going for Thanksgiving.
Yeah.
And it's just before roads get shitty and we have to put away cars.
Sometimes, sometimes it works out great and the weather's good for cars
because it's cooler and everything else.
So most cars are running pretty good.
Um, you know, and I'd bring like a slammed beetle over and everyone
would come outside and they'd be like, this is crazy.
Like you drive it like this, you know, the people that aren't really like
hard people.
Um, or just seeing that car in general because you're like, oh, that's
crazy.
You have this thing out or exactly.
And I always, yeah, there's something special about that.
There's something special about Thanksgiving and that we don't get
to experience it too much, but Christmas, like that's where I get
sometimes when I see people in like the Carolinas or even over in
California or whatever.
And like, I know it's corny, but I think it's like, I don't know.
I just think it's always been cool when say you take like an old
fucking boss or something and you completely deck it out.
Yeah.
In like the Christmas shit and drive it around lights on your roof.
I want to fucking, I want to bust so bad.
And just to like, to make it, um, like I was thinking when you and
I were together in Halloween and we were taking our kids around from
house to house and you know, we're down in this one town near us and
it's great just to like get out.
But like, I was thinking even then like to have a fucking a boss.
Yeah.
That everyone can pile in and you just drive like to the next house
and everyone climbs out and you know, you could decorate it up and
shit for the holidays.
Yeah.
It's just like, it's just a cool thing.
Volkswagen's I've always seemed like, I don't know.
That's maybe a corny slogan, but perfect for the holidays.
Like I know what you mean.
Been perfect for the holidays.
They've been these quirky little cars and then like these things
you could pile a bunch of people in.
Yep.
Um, or just an efficient vehicle.
I can get through like anything like, you know, a lot of the older
air-cooled stuff had so many articles and ads with it driving in bad weather.
Oh, the air-cooled stuff.
Yeah.
All the time and Beatles are from fantastic in the snow.
Right.
But I mean, even like you picture like, I don't know, in my mind, like,
you know, this is just something that's like, I don't know, just popping
up, but you're at a ski slope and you're with friends.
Yeah.
And this is like fucking 1985 and a bunch, you know, four or five
people like gather in a rabbit and they go to the top of a hill and you like,
they got us, you got to rack on with skis on the top and everything else.
And like, I can just picture that moment, you know, like you having a drink
or something, you come outside and your rabbits just sitting there
and it's packed full of shit.
And that's how you got there.
And you got there on 52 miles to the gallon because you have a 1.5
liter fucking naturally aspirated diesel.
But like shit like that is just, you know, and now, I mean, the wagons
and stuff like the Mark fours, the Mark five, the Mark sixes, I could see
all that.
That's all, that's all like very much like travel-esque kind of vehicle.
And then now it's just like, what do you got?
Like a fucking Taos or whatever.
It's like cool.
Yeah.
It's like the way it was.
Everything's just the same.
Just yes.
No matter what, so everything was, there was so much different variety
the way it was before as opposed to now everything is just the same
and same colors and blonde is boring.
And I do have to say Volkswagen has tried, but they always missed the
mark.
We always talk about the missing the mark, but they tried to bring back
like nice cool colors in the buzz.
Just portraying sucks.
And then it's so funny because like everyone seen the videos of Volkswagen
sharing the story and we shared it last year, like during the wildfires
after the fires when the blue bus was on the mountain side and it looked
like it was unscathed and untouched.
And even though the passenger side was burned up a little bit, but the
driver side was really in good condition and Volkswagen actually saw
that and want to reaching out to the owner and restoring it for them.
I think that's it's sick.
And like we talked about this last week on the last podcast about Volkswagen
needs to go back into producing a lot of these parts because even them
at Volkswagen, the two guys that are working on this bus were like, Oh
man, where are we going to get the parts for this?
This is fucking Volkswagen and they're saying.
Yeah, they're probably buying all kinds of aftermarket.
We're getting the parts for this.
Yeah, I know.
You don't fucks.
Like make them sell them.
Yeah.
You know how many people would be chomping at the bit to buy no longer
available parts because like, let's face it, they are at the market parts
out there, especially in the air cold scene.
The air cold scene is huge.
Yeah.
And a lot of it's just not good.
Yeah.
Garbage doesn't fit good.
Yeah.
They're cold scenes a little better than more new or modern stuff because
a lot of newer stuff is just all Chinese garbage.
Yeah.
But if like a manufacturer like as big as Volkswagen wants to get back
to an enthusiast based, I know, just have their base come back as
enthusiasts produce parts for these cars.
Like it was almost like it was sad and like it almost like made me mad.
Watching that video was like, Jesus Christ, you can't, you guys came
to see what the hell you guys are talking about here.
Yeah.
So anyway, but it was cool to see them restore that boss and get it back
to the owner and that's a feel good moment.
They're trying to pull out the heartstrings and have these feel good
moments, which is, which is great.
Is it going to make me buy a fucking buzz?
No, or a chaos or an Atlas with the two leader in it.
Yeah.
No, not at all.
I hear you.
So I'm off the soapbox.
It's all good.
Let's go over some questions or answers or whatever you guys kind of
threw at us.
It's kind of a random day and we're going to just hop into some of this.
So.
Uggie boo boo says on a road trip with a passenger, who gets the front
cup holder?
That's funny.
That is funny.
Well, if it's in a mark one, a mark two, there is none unless you
like, you know, may something happen.
Yeah.
I say whoever's driving.
I say, if you're writing bitch, you're writing bitch.
It's funny.
Um, if you're like going to be through the sock and you have the
little plastic cup holder folds out on the passenger side, they're
both on the passenger side.
So I guess the passenger would like gets the last laugh on that one.
Yeah.
Um, like on the mark four to later mark four style cup holders, it
all depends on what size the cup is because you had the one that has
a handle, hit the handle and you had the one that's just like a big
enough for like a smaller base and it gets larger on the top.
But now, um, with my experience, if you got our 32 and you've known
this because Arthur twos, you can't have a fat cup in there.
No, because the seats don't allow them to fit.
Right.
Um, so I think it's a very open question, but yes, I think the
driver should get preference because he's the fucking driver.
Yeah.
And you can put your cup in the back seat.
If you need to put your cup right up your fucking ass, hold it the whole
time.
If it was up your ass, you know it.
Uh, yeah.
Uh, Avant Reeler says, uh, he says just smashing deer.
That's awesome.
Because I know.
Hold on.
Yes.
Um, with, with up your ass, you would know it.
Um, I work in a prison.
The craziest thing thing I've seen up some experienced, boofed up
someone's ass was a green pepper.
I would just to use to eat.
I don't know if they're going to use it to sell or to eat a green
pepper.
Yeah.
That's it.
Yeah.
No, it was, it was cut up and like put in a bag and, you know,
like a classic show is just a green pepper.
It was a green pepper.
Wow.
That's wild.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
That's pretty crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um, also Avant Reeler says, uh, cool winter beaters and why isn't
there a show?
Oh yeah.
Cool winter beaters and why isn't there a show for them?
So dude, that is awesome.
It is a great idea.
We should do get together as all the time, you know, like in the
winter time, all the time is never going to work, but it's like
maybe all the time day.
It was like once a month.
I know my car club would always get together and this in a winter
time was all the winter beaters.
Yes.
It was never a show for it.
It was just all us hanging out as friends and you happen to have
your beaters outside.
If you had a show for everyone's winter beater, it would just look
like traffic.
I don't know.
Dude, nowadays in 2025, I think there's, I think I'm going to give
them, it's going to be like a fucking, I'm going to give the
Volkswagen community more credit than that.
Yeah.
And I think you're still going to see a decent amount of like beaters.
Now no, no mark threes because they're all gone.
No, they're gone.
But you're going to probably see a mark two or so, maybe some
mark ones, you're going to see a shitload of mark fours and fives
and you're still going to see them slammed on some, you know,
you'll see like a canned wheels or some decent like whatever's
you know.
Yeah.
I picture like a mark, like a bunch of mark six TDI wagons
rolling in, you know, I mean, great, great cars, a bunch of
tore eggs, true, a bunch of Q sevens, people that get older
that like have families too and then they have to start hauling
all kinds of shit around just like a random Silverado stupid
shit.
But I think we should try to like put together like a show, a
beater show that would be so fucked up, dude, but like it
has to be like Volkswagen only.
Yeah, we so we used to have or like Volkswagen product
wagon only not a Silverado this guy that is local to us has
a speed shop and he used to have like a Volkswagen winter like
it was like also like a bowling thing.
Yeah.
So it was like a winter thing and it was primarily Volkswagen
base and it wasn't a show for the car, so to speak.
Yeah.
Well, you had a good amount of like everyone's Volkswagen guys,
you know, yeah, not a bad idea.
What else we got?
Paul P. The real or how many realtors we got here?
He says you think that the Vdub.
Okay.
So do you think Vdub will also be putting the DAZ a the
DAZ a motor in the R?
I, I don't think so.
I, I know there's been like some quiet rumblings about it
and stuff.
Yeah.
If they did, we probably wouldn't get it because we don't
get anything cool.
If we got it, it's going to be $75,000.
It's going to be right next to the buzz.
Yeah.
Price point.
I just can't imagine them doing it like.
Dude, if they were to do that and keep it at the price of
the current Golf R, I think there was no way it would be
at the price of the current Golf R.
Well, the thing is, like if it's not going to be in the RS3
anymore, like this continued or wherever the case is.
Yeah, but it would be like this, you have to think because
it's been two liter dude since like what 2012.
Yeah.
So now they'd be like, yo, we are doing something special
because they're going to try to pinch every penny out of
that, I think.
That, but also like you got to think like this is the technology
for these motors is already old technology.
Now he's going to be like, okay, we're done with this.
Now you can have our leftovers.
I don't know.
Yeah, I don't either.
Because you can't, it's a GTI.
It's a glorified GTI.
You can't price it at $75,000 because no one's going to buy
it, but it's folks like, you know, do dumb shit like that.
Yeah, for sure.
Yes.
Dude, this one's fucking deep.
Okay, let's do it.
Frosty beads says, and no crying on this one.
Okay.
Oh no.
He says you walk into a room with everyone you've ever known.
Who do you look for?
Geez.
Yeah, I can't even answer that.
Do you want me to start crying?
Yeah, yeah, I'm assuming it's your mom or something like that.
But that, that's fucking, that's wild.
That just gave me goosebumps.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's going to be like, I'm sure it's somebody that, you
know, somebody someone that's like gone, not here anymore.
Right.
And they, they just really miss them.
So there's two people in my life that I would say that's very influential.
It would be my grandfather.
He passed away when I was a junior in high school and my mom.
Yeah.
That's way in 07.
So for both of those, those are the two people I would be
looking for the most.
Um, actually, it may be my other grandfather too, because which was
my mom's dad, um, he passed away when I was in eighth grade.
So I was pretty young, but like I would love to tap into him more so
now than like ever before because the young age, I didn't know anything.
I didn't know anybody I was young, but like he was a welder and like I
could have learned so much from him being a welder.
Um, and he would just make and create and fabricate and fix and like he
would do everything and it's like that kind of knowledge is just gone.
It's gone with those kind of people.
Yeah.
This is not there anymore unless you have someone like that to teach
you and train you.
Like, like, I remember he would go out.
He had like, I don't know, five acres of property and like he was in this
like late sixties or early seventies and we'll just cut down fucking
trees with an axe in the woods, not a chain saw, just trees.
And then there's your firewood for the next season.
Yeah, it's crazy stuff.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
Fortunately, I haven't lost a parent yet.
And, uh, so I, it would be one of my grandparents for sure.
I mean, I've lost, you know, some friends.
I've lost people that I work with some people that were close and stuff like
that, um, you know, lost some dude that I was with for almost every single
day for a year to suicide and all that.
But, you know, it's, it's wild man.
Yeah.
Probably my grandparents, I'd say too.
Yeah.
Um, Frosty beads also says mental health check for the boys.
How you guys doing?
Dude, I almost want to ask you how you doing after a question like that.
Man.
But, um, yeah, dude, I'm doing good.
No, it's Thanksgiving.
You know, I'm, I'm happy.
I'm doing well in the shots of him because I know he's, you know, had some
stuff he's had to go through with family wise and everything.
So just hope everything is well, man.
And everyone's healthy and doing well and on the up and up.
Um, no, I'm doing well.
I think I've cleared my mind of a lot of things because of like getting
some stuff done that I wanted to project wise and have an idea of what
I want to go moving forward with cars and not having 11 cars.
It's so nice to start simplifying.
Yes.
It like, it clears the mind.
Yes.
The more simple you can be.
I think that the healthier everybody is sometimes, um, simply diets says.
Invite all the car buddies and have a mini car show outside.
Yeah.
That's awesome.
This is like the theme is this, this is the time.
Yes.
And, and everyone is like down for that.
I know Mark James was kind of doing that a little bit like he was having some
like month to get together to try to keep it up and up.
And it's hard to do this stuff because everyone's just so busy.
Yeah.
Simply diets also says, why is it so hard to find super chargers for 12 valves now?
Cause everything is, you know, it's either broken apart because people like real,
you know, they needed parts for stuff.
I mean, obviously I don't make them anymore.
So that's the biggest problem.
Um, you can find kits that are like, you know, just pieces that you have to
find other pieces to actually complete.
Yeah.
That happens a lot.
Or these are on cars that like these cars are tucked away and they don't,
they don't want to be parted with because like.
I think, you know, when, when people spent a lot of money, sometimes back when
they were 18, 20, 25 or whatever, but it was already decades ago.
Yeah.
And you have that car, that car doesn't owe you anything.
And I think a lot of times that's where a lot of these cars were.
We always wonder where the fuck are these cars?
Where they're gone in these garages with people that might not be on social media.
They might just be doing family stuff.
And you may never see that.
You may not see that car for another 30 years.
Yeah.
And then all of a sudden someone passes away and the family doesn't know
what to do with it.
They're like, what is this?
I don't even know what this is.
Look at Pat's R32.
Sure.
And that's a car that I'm a granted.
He was a lot older and now he wanted passing away and the car was just kind
of gone from the scene for not a very long time.
No, but that's a car that was gone.
All of a sudden it comes back out for sale and stuff.
And it's like, Oh, you know, people remember that car.
Yeah, exactly.
And I wish you just, we had like this, you know, some kind of telekinesis
something where we could just know where there's like pinpoints.
Oh, there's a beaut in this garage right here.
Like you can't even imagine.
Like you just know there's something waiting to come out because the problem
with that is the sharks because we, if everyone had to like say we had
like a diagram or a map or whatever you want to call it, like we know
everything is those people would never be left alone.
I think you're right.
Because you got these sharks out there.
This won't leave people alone in some of your cars.
Some of your cars, some of your car.
That's true.
And in like low ball, as well.
I'll give you four grand for your supercharged VR.
Yeah.
Corrado with 60,000 miles on it.
And it's, it is something to be said.
Like if you are willing to pony up for, you know, someone's car that maybe
you've been chasing for for many, many years.
Yeah.
But yeah, when someone sees something like that and but dude, you never know.
Cause sometimes you can get that deal.
I have an American segment quick.
Oh, shit.
To touch base on that.
Go ahead.
So a few years back, there was this father and son and he knew
were two super birds, Plymouth super birds were in this guy's backyard.
And the guy had these cars sitting in the backyard for years and the guy knew
what he went over his house, started talking to the guy a little bit,
trying to be friend him.
And he said, listen, I know what those cars are to you, what they mean to you.
But if you ever decide you want to part ways with these cars, let me know.
Um, and we'll go from there.
So years past and the guy reaches out to him and he said under one condition
is the both cars stay together and you guys do it as a father, some project.
Oh, shit.
That's how I was older.
Yeah.
At that time.
Yeah.
Of age to like actually, you know, about to start driving and stuff.
They want to be storing both of these Plymouth super birds and it was
like a father, something.
And they never talked about how much money was paid for these cars.
You know, one was in better shape than the other one.
But if you know anything about Plymouth super birds, they, they go upwards
of a hundred thousand plus.
Oh, yeah.
Depending on their drivetrain and stuff.
But, um, if you look at like there's things out there like that are still,
I think special.
If you know somebody that has something and if you're not the asshole that
like persists, but if you say, Hey, here's my number.
If everything ever happens, let me know.
I think that goes a long way and just, just showing that you're genuine.
I think you could be persistent and also be genuine.
I think like if you really think that it could, it would mean a lot.
And even if the, say the owner, like you always looked up to him as a kid
or something.
Yeah.
So then you finally, you know, you have the means to, to acquire, say like, for
example, like, you know, my, my neighbor when I was growing up had corvettes.
Yeah.
So say like, I finally wanted one of his corvettes and then I started bugging
him, you know, come on, please.
Like whatever, you know, you don't, you don't hassle the shit out of somebody
where they're like, they're like, get the fuck away from me.
Right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I think, yeah, I think for sure.
It's just, yeah, it's all about respect.
Yeah.
Um, yeah.
That's awesome.
That's cool story.
Jetta to NR says what Thanksgiving dish should be swapped out with hot dogs.
Interesting.
I love Thanksgiving.
I love, I'm, I like food.
There's not green bean casserole.
You don't like green bean.
Fuck green bean casserole.
Dude.
And the reason why I say that and whatever it's going to be up there with the
peanut butter, I guess, but I don't like onions.
Okay.
So like anytime I see green bean casserole has the layer of the stupid crunchy
onions on them, they can go fuck themselves.
Jesus.
Those onions are, they're just not it for me.
Um, I like green beans.
I'm not, so I'm not swapping.
I'll definitely do hot dogs.
I'm not swapping anything out for hot dogs.
I got, I got something for this.
I like hot dogs.
But, um, well, we always do like the pigs in a blanket as an order.
Okay.
So like, I think, I mean, can that be considered hot dogs?
Yes.
I think so.
Yeah.
It's definitely hot dog.
Yeah.
Now we're from Northeast PA.
People, do you know the whole Valley Scranton, Wilkesbury, Piston, the whole,
the whole area, they don't know what pigs in a blanket are.
They think pigs in a blanket is something completely different.
Really?
They think it's the stuffed cabbage.
Really?
Yeah.
Because there's like all the like pollocks and stuff that, that's like
halupkis.
Dude, they say they call the stuff cabbage pigs in a
blanket.
So you're like, well, wait a minute, next time you hear that, ask them
of what they're talking about, especially if they're like local us.
They don't know what the fuck is going on.
All right.
So Ian poor, that's a question for you.
If you, if you happen to be listening, I know he knows what I'm talking
about.
Um, is that what you guys call him in the valley?
Cause you live in the valley.
What, what pigs in a blanket are.
Yeah.
There's little hot dogs.
Yeah.
They're hot dogs.
Do wrapped in like croissant pastry.
Exactly.
So fucking good.
They're so good.
Put a little spicy mustard on them.
Hell yes.
Yep.
So I'm going to throw this out.
I'm going to, I'm going to be fighting on this because my mother-in-law,
um,
Refuse.
All right.
So coast law.
Here we go.
Is do you consider coast law a good side dish for Thanksgiving?
Do you have it usually for Thanksgiving?
Do you not?
No, we don't have it for Thanksgiving.
Okay.
I want, I love coast law.
I love it on hot dogs.
That's why we're talking about hot dogs.
Sure.
Um, I like cost on hot dog with a pickle.
Whatever.
Um,
I look at coleslaw and think of coast law as like a summer coleslaw.
Sounds very weird to me now.
We've said it too many times.
So I think it'd be like an outdoor barbecue dish.
Yeah.
Of course.
Like having like ribs or pork burgers, burgers, hot dogs.
Yeah.
Macaroni salad side dish for that.
Yeah.
She only makes it on Thanksgiving and Christmas weird.
And I like told my other half.
Listen, I want you can tell Danny's fucking pissed about I want
coast law in the summer and I said it like before last summer.
Yeah, summer.
And I just waited and waited.
You know, it's common and waited.
Oh, all summer.
Never got it.
Of course not.
Never got it.
It's not Christmas.
I made jokes about it.
It's not funny in you.
Endos.
Yeah.
She didn't get that.
I fucking pretty much said make me coast law.
She's not going to do that and never make coast law in the
summertime.
Yeah.
But sure as shit.
It'll be there on Thanksgiving.
Fucking a and I'm going to take a picture of it.
I'm going to give it to middle finger.
So all right, man and post that shit so everyone knows what
you're talking about.
Absolutely.
Because like I think it's a little weird.
I'll say that it's a little.
Thank you.
I appreciate it because I'm I mean, I'm going to eat it.
I like.
I won't put it on my plate because there's so many other
good things on the in.
No, you're just being you're just being total.
You're dude like I don't want this like coast law dish.
She's still making it with love and you just fucking push
that ball right to the side.
This running all of my play.
It's like a side of the table.
It's like fucking breaks on the ground.
This is Christ.
But I just think I will just spit on your mom.
I'm like alone in like my household with this coast law
situation because everyone wants close situation because
they all want it for Thanksgiving.
You care this much dude and out of spite.
Yeah, I can eat it at all.
I have a half of fork for whatever.
This would be like yeah, that's good.
But like no, it's like yeah.
Okay.
All right.
All right, let's move on.
Danny's fucking fuming.
Vdubman91 says what are your other hobbies besides Volkswagen's?
Why is that funny?
No, because I think it's like 99.9% of everything evolves around Volkswagen.
No, dude.
So for me and it's funny like I'll think about this stuff now.
I'm like oh yeah, I'm this.
I'm a dad.
I do this and that and it's like a lot of its past tense because as
we get older, we don't do things as much as anymore.
Like I used to be an avid skier.
I used to love going out on the slopes and the mountains, tearing it up.
I haven't done that in years.
It's literally so now because because of having kids involved in
stuff to like a lot of around kids.
Yeah.
So like for me, it's a lot of baseball, a lot of baseball stuff.
And I love baseball.
I used to play baseball.
I'm a big fan of baseball.
So like my kid goes to these clinics like off season.
So we've been going to baseball clinics.
I played barely softball in the summertime.
So that's one of my main things is barely softball, baseball stuff.
Yeah.
Sports in general.
But also we have side by side.
We have a quad and we go off-roading, go through the woods with that.
My little one, he's got a dirt bike.
So he rips around on that thing.
Yeah.
So that's kind of what we've got going on.
Yeah.
I love music.
I play music.
I play a bunch of instruments.
I play in bands.
I've played in bands all my life.
I love just jamming with my friends.
I'm fortunate enough to have a bunch of close friends that are all actually good
musicians.
We get together and play.
I like guns.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We have, I have a bunch of guns.
I go shooting.
I like being outside.
I like riding my bike.
Yeah.
I love going on our, we have a pontoon boat.
I love going on our lake.
We have a nice lake here.
So that's huge for me.
Those are the kinds of things that I love.
Yeah.
VW Euro trash says working on cars.
Yeah, of course.
This is the time.
This is the time.
It's a great time to work on cars because if you're fortunate enough to not have
to work on the holiday, it's a good time to get caught up on stuff.
And because there's only so much food you can eat.
There's only so much like hanging out family you can do.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Need to like, okay, I need to break our breather and it's nice to like go and
just work on something and like get something done that you will be meaning
to or even if it's like that whole thing of like just taking an hour.
Yeah, like if you don't have all the time in the world, just an hour to finish
one thing.
Yep.
That's huge.
And if it's just doing all change or it just feels good to get that one thing
done.
That's what happens with me as I overwhelm myself with too much shit.
And then I have to like just take a step back and just pace myself with just
getting a small thing accomplished at a time.
Sure.
And it's just it's rewarding.
Yeah, definitely.
Um, what was I just gonna?
Oh, you were saying you can't eat all the time and stuff.
And, uh, dude, when I was like 18 to probably like 25, I would fucking destroy
plates of food.
Yeah, man.
I would go and if it was time to eat, it was time to sit down for Thanksgiving.
I would have a full, I mean, heaping pile and then I would go for another full plate
heaping pile.
And sometimes I would put shit on a third plate.
Oh, yeah.
It was just like, that's just how I could eat.
And I didn't feel like I was having a heart attack or I was fucking keeling over.
Now, like I actually, I've actually kind of been proud of myself where I'll just do
one plate and I'll eat it.
And even though I want to have more, I'll just be like, just stop.
And then I'm actually like comfortable and it was a good time.
Yeah.
Instead of like dying in the corner.
Dude, it's sweat.
Yeah.
I mean, it's so funny because people talk about, oh, Turkey puts you into this like,
you know, whatever sleep state or whatever.
And it's not at all.
No, it's overeating.
Right.
It's a bunch of bullshit.
It's like the 4,000 calories you just ingested and your body can't like handle it.
Yeah.
You're like a bear looking for a cave.
It's time for hibernation.
You know what I mean?
Exactly what happens.
Yeah.
It's insane.
Yeah.
Uh, Connor McCann says, have you guys gotten any non-car specific goals that you'd like
to achieve over the winter?
So right now, Danny and I are sitting in a unfinished basement.
That is huge on my to-do list.
The traffic is still staring at me.
Yep.
I would like to start working down here.
At least I'd like to get my studio completely in and then set that all up.
That is like a huge goal for me.
And then on the other side of that wall is like where it would be like a main hangout.
I want a fucking 90 and screen down there.
Jesus Christ.
I want people to come over and like, if you know, if we're going to watch a game or something
like I want this to be the spot, maybe a bar out there for drinks and everything else.
That is and then like outside work.
I have a lot of stuff to do.
I've come a long way.
I have two yards.
We still really haven't sat down for like a good fire outside of everything.
So I got a good big ass fire pit with huge boulders around it and stuff.
That's cool.
But then I just want to start cleaning up and then I need a fucking walkway and there's
just a bunch of shit.
I'm going to get a 40 foot container soon just for storage and put it in the back of
my property and those are some of my plans.
Yeah, man.
You have like some really gnarly looking couches over here, the leather ones you've had for
like I think for a while.
That would be great for this downstairs space or even for like the studio.
Yeah, they could fit in the studio.
Yeah, so like this is going to be pretty sick to when this is when this gets done.
It's a nice space down here for me.
I think I pretty much talked about it on the last podcast, but having my outdoor building
now I have a shed.
It's in the back of it.
That's going to be area for storage.
So this getting organized with most of my shit so I can get stuff out of my garage so
I can actually utilize the garage for more car storage and working on cars.
But I think just simplifying things and organizing things is what my goal is.
That's not car related as well as cutting that fucking pine tree down in front of the
house.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's where I'm at.
Yeah, for sure.
German bomber.
Okay.
You ready?
Let's do it.
You know what he's going to do.
Oh, I already know.
Come on.
Okay.
So he has junk, daily or garage.
Okay.
All right.
You got a Gen 1 viper.
Okay.
Sick.
You got big foot number one.
Oh, that's even better.
Or you got KB's Hunicorn.
Holy shit.
That's wild.
It is wild.
I think I know what I'm going to do.
Okay.
Let's hear it.
Oh, man.
This is crazy.
I do.
This is a tough one.
I think I'm junking big foot because I don't give a fuck about big foot.
I think big foot's cool and it was iconic.
But like, I'm not going to daily big foot and you also can't fit big foot in your garage.
So for me, big foot's going.
I think I'm daling the Hunicorn.
Dude, fuck yeah, man.
And I don't know which Hunicorn this is because wasn't, didn't they call like the last like three?
I mean, I know it's the Mustang, but what was the truck?
Wasn't the truck also the Hunicorn?
Or was that like something else, the Hunitruck or some shit?
Yeah, it's got a different name to it.
All right.
So the Hunicorn is like the like fucking Mustang.
That's a wide body and crazy.
Okay.
So I'm going to daily the Hunicorn.
I'm going to junk big foot and I'm going to garage the Viper.
Not because I even really, I mean the Viper was, I thought the Viper was sick when it first came out.
Just because that's the only thing left is what I'm going to do.
What about you?
So I think Gen 1 Bigfoot is a shit because Gen 1 Bigfoot wasn't that big.
Like the original Bigfoot was just like a Ford fucking truck with a lift kit and like, you know, decent like super swampers on it basically.
Like big tires, but like.
Yeah, still a fucking size of a lift and stuff.
Not like today's.
Right.
So I think just because of like the fuck you thing, I would love to daily the shit out of Bigfoot.
All right.
I love a Gen 1 Viper.
You just start smushing deer instead.
You just actually roll them over.
Yes, but I've never been a fan of not having a roof on them.
And like, I didn't care like how they looked as to as opposed to like when they came out with like the GTS style Viper to have the full roof and everything.
I like that look better.
Right.
So even though I'm a Mopar fan.
Yeah.
I'm going to fucking junk the German Viper.
Oh shit.
And I'm going to put the unicorn in the garage because that's like a one off car, one off build.
That's never going to be done again.
And it's like has so much history, prominence.
Yeah.
Videos like everything.
So like a car enthusiast.
I think that car is like kind of like a, I don't know, a car that you would want to keep around.
Sure.
All right.
That's what I got.
German bomber definitely thinks a good ones there.
Hell yeah, dude.
Um, Mark to Jetta coop says, uh, how about favorite memory?
Uh, like awful hole in the wall bar for a first Thanksgiving with Jeremy says, I mean, dude, we have some hole in the wall bars around here.
And this is again, when we're talking about like this special time, like, I don't know what it is or something in the air.
There is.
And, uh, we have some hole in.
The wall bars, like we took Connor when he came over from, from Europe, like he came over and, you know, we took him to our shitty bar, which I love.
It was, it was great to like take Connor and Lee out to the, it's called Pats.
Yeah.
And Pats bar does burgers in a little hole in the wall grill.
Like it's literally built into the wall.
The grill is like eight by 10 inches.
Yeah.
It is this tiny little, you're not going to get like 50 people.
You're getting two burgers at a time.
Yes.
It is this little flat top that has grease on it from 1962.
Yeah.
And that's why everything tastes so good.
It's so good.
Yeah.
That was, that was really cool.
Um, yeah.
So how about exactly a favorite memory?
I, I, I don't know.
But yeah.
Like, well, being able to look at the holidays, maybe like a favorite holiday met, you know,
like a Thanksgiving memory possibly.
Um, I don't know.
It's tough.
It is tough because like you start thinking back and it's like, I feel like it's like a
movie where like you start like flipping the pages or something and also starts going
faster and faster and faster.
Yeah.
It rushes by so fast.
And you just like, Holy shit.
I know.
And like, stop.
Stop.
Anytime when I was a kid and I got something like, like a cool, even though they were like
say a cheaper from like, say, uh, like Radio Shack, it was like a, you know, an RC car.
Hell yeah.
Like an RC truck or something like that.
That you, I couldn't wait to take that outside, even though there was snow and shit everywhere.
Like that, I, that was like some of my favorite memories, stuff like that.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Like, I think this time, um, especially around holidays and stuff, like I remember growing
up and I grew up in the area that has a lot of kids and there was like, you know, it was
a little development.
So like there was roads and it was, uh, very quiet.
There wasn't a lot of traffic, but every holiday, everybody would do their holiday thing.
And if you were home, every kid would come knocking each other's door.
Yeah.
You want to go outside?
You want to go outside?
Can you come out and play?
And we would do a holiday, like, like the NFL does, um, we would do a holiday football
game and just fucking play that sick.
Just football.
It was, and I think it's fine.
Keep bringing up Ian.
I believe Ian does this still with his like buddies that he grew up with and they do like
a holiday football game on Thanksgiving.
And we used to do this kids all the time and I haven't done that in years.
And it's, it's like such a good memory because like it was just in the moment.
Yeah.
For sure.
It's crazy.
Crazy.
Yeah.
It's hard to get in that moment nowadays.
It is.
Um, Fuffalo Bucker 89 says it isn't officially Thanksgiving until MAV does the gobble.
Yep.
The gobble has been gobbled.
Yes.
It has.
Um, Fuffalo bucker 89 also says how to start and only fans to pay for my financially crippling
Volkswagen edition.
Dude, it's funny because I was like joking around about like this with my other half
and like, it was like, you should start doing, you know, whatever one, you know, and only
this only that and this joking around and it's like, is it are people really making
that much money?
No.
All for this stuff.
Or is it like, it's like the top, it's like the top 3%.
Yeah.
Or is it like a cup of coffee you can buy and that's about it.
I think from what I've read before that only fans gives the most people that are actually
like involved with it, they make less than minimum wage doing what they do.
That's insane.
Yeah.
So that's crazy.
Yeah.
It's just a fucking waste of time.
Yeah.
You're better off from like me or us.
We're probably better off just going through our like garages or acts and selling parts
off that we haven't hoarded for, you know, 20 years and we'll probably make a good amount
of money off of that.
Not your GTI says wintertime garage prep, electric, heater, insulation, lifts, storage,
lights, etc.
Yes.
All of them.
Yes.
Seriously.
I mean, that's what everybody wants to do.
I need to get heat in my garage.
I've been contemplating putting like, I mean, because I have like a propane heater, you
hook up, you know, you know, barbecue grill tank tube, whatever, but I want to get like
a heat source to actually put in like a larger propane tank outside and hanging like maybe
like a 60 to 75,000 BTU propane heating system in the garage.
So I want to hit up my buddy about that.
So Joey Boo, if you're listening, I need to hit you up and you come on and give me an
estimate.
We got to get some heat going.
And also with the way you're at it, just serves my furnace.
There you go.
Uh, Folden says, did I say Folden?
No, you said Folden.
Okay.
I thought so.
Folden says, um, you guys see the new replica DigiFizz being made and he says they make
one for Mark threes.
It's cool.
It's, isn't that what Vanick has?
Yeah.
The Mark twos or what the DigiFizz was created for in a Mark three.
I think it's kind of a cool concept because no, I know they're made for Mark, but I'm
saying like, isn't, isn't, uh, it's one of these.
That's what I mean.
Yes.
Yes.
I believe so.
Yeah.
Um, I think, you know, for Mark threes, so this is my own personal opinion.
I know where this is going.
I hate the Mark three cluster.
Oh, I can't stand what I thought you're going to say to Mark three dash or cluster.
I've never been a fan of it.
I don't know why I just think, I don't, I don't know.
I've never been a fan of the mark and how that Mark three setup looks.
So I think it's like a, a newer look to it like that or like a
older look.
Yeah.
New or older retro look is be really cool.
Yeah.
Um, old digital stuff was always cool.
Yeah.
Uh, and I, I always go back to like the, the 300 ZX that the 84 my grandfather was
going to give me and my dad said, you'll kill yourself and he didn't let me have
it, um, basically had the same thing only in Nissan's version.
Yeah, basically, you know, it had that whole ramp up of the RPM and everything
else, you open the door, say door, a jar, stuff like that.
So that was like the C four Corvettes had all the digital gauges and stuff.
They're just cool.
That was a cool time.
Definitely was.
Uh, Chris Walsh photo says the new Genesis, the wing back concept,
competition for RS six question mark.
Did you see that?
Yeah, dude, I saw that recently.
And I was like, I just saw it yesterday.
Wow.
I was like, that's a Genesis.
It's like a shooting break.
It is bold for sure.
Um, I do think it absolutely is competition for the RS six just because I
mean, look what they did.
Like they saw an RS six and they were like, well, we can do something like that.
And you know, it goes back.
It's like, it is cool looking.
And if the price point is less than RS six, then I think it's got to come.
It's, it's got, it's, it's in the conversation.
Yeah, for sure.
If it's the same price point, it's not because it got, I think again, it goes back
to, you know, um, brand recognition and you're going to have this Audi you can
buy or this Hyundai.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm just playing the devil's advocate.
The Genesis brand has done a lot.
They've come a long way and I mean, I don't even pay, like I see a Genesis
every once in a while.
I guess I don't even really look twice if I saw that car, I certainly would.
I'd be like, holy shit.
Um, it's like the Buick.
Remember the Buick who came out the wagon and I was like, that's kind of cool.
It looks like a great daily driver.
It, yeah, and it looked like an all road.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But like it was cool.
Um, yeah, it would have been a good daily driver.
Yeah.
I think, I think it's pretty cool.
Uh, I'm not disgusted by it.
That's for sure.
Yeah.
Small pop hypothesis says now that you sold the R 32, have you had, do you have
space for a car that you're trying to buy PS?
Hey, jet.
Yeah.
For sure.
Jet.
And it's awesome.
There's a car.
Yes.
Yeah.
Everyone knows that story.
But, uh, I, I am not really looking to, I mean, I'm always looking to not really,
but yeah, I'm not like, I'm totally okay.
And that's sometimes how it falls in your hand.
You know what, dude?
I, I didn't say this yet.
Um, but you know what I'm really looking for.
Okay.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
And I'm looking to also, you know, get rid of my, uh, my tour egg and, uh, and I'm
talking like, uh, like a 17 to 19 Duramax.
Like I've always wanted like, that's like my dream truck.
Uh, so I, I might end up getting one of those one day.
Cool.
Yeah.
Um, JC Stomper says fire, like, like a fire pit, I'm assuming, cause he does that
quite a bit.
Absolutely.
This is the perfect time.
Yes.
Love that shit.
Yeah.
Cause even with our building going up now, um, it's completed our area.
Back there, our fire period is actually really cool.
And we haven't got a chance to really use it yet a couple of times.
And, um, I'm excited about that as well.
Yeah, dude, definitely.
Uh, Justin Weisskopf says, um, tire smoked turkey.
That's funny.
Uh, Justin Weisskopf also says favorite or current best sites or IG accounts to
gain Volkswagen knowledge.
I hate being put on the spot with things like this.
You know, it's interesting about that.
Like, you know, with, um, my pulley, you know, everything that's happened with
that, with this passing stuff, like the rabbit hole is a very good, um, YouTube
chance to go with checkout because there's some things on it that might be useful.
Oh, sure.
And that's like, and he started the rabbit hole also on, on Facebook too.
Like, so yeah.
Yeah.
The Mark one rabbit hole, uh, right.
Group, because again, a lot of stuff on vortex is just not there or like the
right, the write-ups are still there, but you don't see the pictures.
You know, your vortex has always been a good source.
Um, you know, also, if you look at, depending on what you're getting or what
you're buying from, what places, there's some like decent write-ups from a lot of
the parks vendor.
Like FCP Euro, they'll talk about things and have videos in depth.
Um, one auto, um, they'll have some stuff on there as well.
If you need to, you know, just see what's going on with something that you might
be putting together or just like doing like basic maintenance kind of stuff on
that more than anything, but yeah.
As far as, uh, Instagram accounts constantly drop in knowledge.
Uh, I mean, it's, it's cool watching home mechanic and, and that's true.
Stuff like that DAP always drop and stuff.
Cause they have a lot of stuff that they've gone through and home mechanic
has gotten a lot of stuff that he's gone through over the years.
So you might be able to find something, you know, that's a few years back that
might help you out on something older.
Yeah.
That's for sure.
Um, who else we got?
Uh, auto Kreeg says, um, what's your best non-car related memory from a car
show weekend?
Interesting.
There was this time we were at Mark to Mayday when it was raining.
Who put, who pushed that up?
Or was it just you standing there and it just happened to empty out on you?
Yes.
So we were standing 10 fucking Danny standing on the, uh, on the side of a 10.
And I swear to God, five gallons of water just dumped on Danny as he was
standing there, you know, he was in shock and it was like cold rain too.
If anyone's ever seen the movie Christmas with the cranks, um, Tim Allen is coming
out of this shop and like Santa asked him if he needs an umbrella.
All things like, no, I don't need an umbrella because I'm already so in all
of a sudden, like this water dumps off of like an awning and it's like five
gallons of water.
That's how it was.
Yeah, it was.
Yeah.
Um, so for me, um, Jesus.
Oh God.
So I, I, I've, I've mentioned this before in a podcast years ago, but anyway,
fucking raised to L and we're all hanging out.
Like this was, um, with the group of friends, uh, we were staying at the
carousel and we had like a little condo there and one of our friends, he left
and he was just out doing whatever he was doing drunk, just fucking, you know,
hanging out, watching cars go by, whatever.
He gets back to the like condo and he's drunk as shit and he's fucking torn apart.
It looks like he got like mulled by a velociraptor, a shirt's fucking hanging.
He's tore up like he's bruised.
Um, he scratched and then he like goes to, um, walk to like, quote unquote,
his room, but it was actually our room and our friends were on an air
mattress on the floor and like the air mattress is there and then he tries to
walk across it and like just fucking loses his balance, slams up against like
the sliding glass door and just like slides down like it's a fucking movie.
And then like gathers himself up, goes out the door and then I don't know,
I guess passes out on the deck or maybe he finally found his room.
Yeah.
It was one of the funniest things ever.
Oh my God.
And then there's also the time that we're down in East 12 when the guy fucking
scorpion in the middle of the street.
Oh yeah.
Dude, anytime you think about that, it was like three in the morning.
Danny and I are sitting on the side and another friend of ours were just sitting
on the sidewalk, like literally just watching the last few cars go by.
And you hear the beat of this guy's like shuffling his feet and hear like, yeah.
And dude, this guy's wasted.
We're about a dough roller.
We're sitting on like the curb of the dough roller.
And this dude, this would be right before they put in those, those
median like, uh, fences and he's fucking shuffling.
He's looking down.
Like he's all disheveled.
Like his fucking one fucking foot is like barefoot and his other one just
has like a slipper on and he's got like a torn up white shirt on and his fucking
his shoulders are just like bouncing up and down.
And he's like, it's like his head is very heavy on his body.
You could tell this dude was wasted.
And then he just fucking hits this rock that sends him.
He like, yeah, it was like a pebble that fucking, he hit it right.
And it just fucking throws him to like, he does a 90 degree turn right
towards the middle of the road, right in the coastal, like right in the
coastal, right across coastal.
Yep.
And then he fucking hits that median and he goes over and he hits it so fucking
hard and he does, he totally scorpions the back of his fucking feet touch the
back of his head.
He ate shit and like road rashes face.
And like, we're like, Oh, and then like five stories up on a balcony of like one
of the whole condos across the street, there was dudes hanging out there and it
must have saw the same exact thing we saw.
So we, we go, Oh, those guys are like, Oh, from a distance.
It was one of the funniest fucking things he got messed up.
And then there was the guy who came over and like helped them out was like, are
you good, dude?
You're all right.
And you just see the guy that's fucking sitting on a curb just like with his
hands in his face and just was not, that was like rock bottom for that.
Dude, it was so funny.
Um, Mark two, Jettacoup also says Kami X one or a Zender ZX, Z six.
I mean, those, I don't know specifically like, I'm assuming it's the Zender kit
that I'm, I can picture in my head.
Um, I don't know it as a Z six kit, but like, I like both kits honestly.
I think they both are, are awesome and time period.
So it's funny because like the Kami kids, and I'm not going to say the X one or
uh, you know, going to specifics, but like in the B three passats, I prefer to
Zender look over to Kami personally.
Right.
I think Kami looks really nice.
Yeah.
Um, I think it's, or even like for me, um, the ABT, the apt kit for a B three
passat, which is like, you don't even, you can fucking find it is unattainable.
That's like the tits.
I would want that on my car.
If I was able to get that kit, that'd be cool.
Um, but I like the X one kit.
I prefer, I think the X one can, I like how it looks.
I like that's a, you know, arched, full arched kit.
And I just, I enjoy the way it looks aesthetically.
I don't know.
I think maybe cause I also maybe see it more often.
I don't know.
Uh, OG Mark one madness says Turkey should be replaced with brisket.
What do you think about that?
You know, it's funny about that brisket like family down in Texas.
That's probably what they do.
That's what they do.
Yeah.
They don't fucking do Turkey.
It's I mean, I like Turkey too.
I enjoyed Turkey.
I like Turkey because like you can have all the leftovers of like, you know,
everything with Turkey, you know, whatever you say, which is our Turkey and
gravy or whatever, um, brisket is where it's at.
I think brisket is the shit.
I think, I think a Turkey in a brisket together would really be
absolutely great.
We do, we, so we're doing two different kinds of Turkey.
We're doing a deep fried Turkey and we're doing an oven roast Turkey.
We kind of do this little competition to see which one's the better one.
And it's like the flavors usually better on a roasted one, but the deep fried
hands down comes out juicier to have the little crispiness to it, you know,
to the skin it's really, really good.
Nice.
Yeah.
Brisket's works out Lionel says top three favorite car related movies.
There is this movie.
I don't know about top three, but there was this movie that I always really liked.
It was like one of Spielberg's first movies.
It was called dual.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
And that was the guy, I think it was a driving like a dodge dart.
And it was just like a, um, basically like a tanker truck that was
following this dude everywhere.
Basically the guy in the dark like cuts off the dude in the tractor trailer.
And then it's just like this dude, just like menacing old like sweaty truck
just following this little red car around trying to fucking run him off the
road and kill him.
I always love that movie.
That, that's get to actually really good movie.
Um, there's so many car related movies, but for me,
American graffiti, Christine, the Wraith.
There you go.
Um,
that's a shout out to the powder slayer.
Cause I know he's up there with me on the Wraith.
Nice.
Um, Les says wash everything that runs before eating.
Yeah.
Yep.
Dude, absolutely.
Um, VW man too says, I think it would be cool for you guys to have on
bearers, uh, cars and coffee guys on the show.
Listen, man, we, uh, we get a bunch of people that say, you know,
should we come on the show or can we come on the show?
We have a list of people.
I'm not opposed to it.
Yeah.
We just like, when we find the time, sometimes at the same time as when we
find the time, we then talk to other people say, you know, you want to come on
now and sometimes it's really last minute.
You know what's so funny about how we scheduled things.
I feel like our timing definitely works out, uh, more so than not because there's
times we've had, we've wanted to get guests on and people on and then it didn't
line up and then it did line up and it seemed like they might have just been
coming out with something new or exciting or they maybe like got a new location
or building or whatever.
And like it always seemed like it's like the perfect timing for it.
Yep.
Uh, type 17 says any trends in the community that you once didn't like that
you've come around to liking, that's a good question.
That is a good question.
Um, when I first got into Volkswagen's, I didn't care for, and I think this is,
this makes sense for a lot of people, but like in the early 2000s, um, it was
kind of like when some of the, the say like the period correct shit from like
the Mark ones and Mark twos started kind of like going away, like the body kits
and everything else.
Now, ironically, everybody thinks they're so cool again, but like they got kind
of like, I remember when I first got into it and looking at some of the
stylings like that being like, that's like hundered out to me.
Okay.
Like, and I thought it was just like, let's just keep it as clean and as
simple looking as possible.
Yeah.
Um, there definitely was a time where like, like that nineties look like Volkswagen.
Like it was awesome for a time.
And then for like so many things, a lot of people were like, nah, and now like all
that stuff is back because one, it harks back to like that, you know, that
certain time, but like two, like all these things are so hard to find and get
anymore that if you can acquire these pieces, like it's so cool to see again.
You know what's cool also about it in, uh, kind of touching on that and going
with it more so is like at that time in the nineties and early 2000s, you might
have had like this sick body kit or whatever the case was, but then you
had like the huge wheel gap because it wasn't nice coral overs.
It wasn't air ride and like the stance wasn't there as much as it would be
saying now, because we have so many more choices now to like really, um, set
the stance apart to really tie it into a car.
It's supposed to tighten it up for sure.
Yes.
And so I'm looking at like, okay, if you look at, say, I don't know, if
you're looking at something, okay, like we're just talking about those, the KMEX
one kit, stuff like that.
You've got a more two with the KMEX one kit, but it's got like 14 inch
tires on it and there's no spacers and it's like, you know, a wheel package
that has, you know, a foot in between the wheel gap.
It's just a different look.
You know, it's not taken away from the look from the nineties is because
it was what it was.
Um, Vanix car, Vanix GLI that he had before the gray GLI that was all
kitted out and had the whole front end and like it was on what maybe it was
coil overs, but maybe it was just a cupcake.
I don't remember, but it wasn't like stupid slammed and there was actually
some meat on the tires and like that to me when he was doing that and I didn't
know Vanix, but I knew his car is right.
Um, at that time when that came out, I thought it was very much like ironically
done in my mind at that time.
Yeah, I'll give him kudos to saying like, dude, like he was kind of like, fuck it.
Like I'm going this old school way where a lot of people were doing the opposite
and doing like very clean, like, no, we're not touching body kits right now.
We're doing that.
So like, I, you know, that was cool.
And now like it's just all around cool.
And I respect them once again.
I remember seeing, um, I was down Virginia beach and I was there like with my
cousin, I think, and we were doing this kind of like just hanging out at beach.
And this was, I don't know, maybe like Oh three, maybe it was Oh two.
Yeah.
And a Jetta with a wings, West body kit came out and like around a corner.
And he was like, God, that's awful.
And he, he said that.
And I kind of looked at it too.
And I was like, yeah, like I used to think that was awesome, but like you're
right, it doesn't look good anymore.
Me, I don't remember the year.
Sometime where it was like, it became whatever and then I think it was, it was
post fast and furious.
Yeah.
It's not like it just, the, not the look at that time period was right.
Because that's when I feel like the Honda's got crazy.
Like when, like right after Fast and Furious, and that's when like wings were
going on top of minivans and it was like anyone that could do anything bolt on
whatever and shit was getting so fucking gaudy.
That, you know, it's funny.
Cause like, if you look at that car from Fast and Furious with the
wings, West body kit, the Mark three Jetta, um, that stance was terrible.
Yeah.
Awful.
It was the car itself looked okay for the time period, but it didn't like, it
was just terribly.
It's just the one scene when, when they're going to the store that Brian,
whatever worked at, and they're coming down and it was like that gold, like
yellow civic, the hatch.
Like those cars were actually like stance nice.
Yeah.
Like they actually look good.
The Jetta looked like shit.
Yeah.
They had it still like with a lift kit on it, like stock suspension, whatever wheels.
But there were some like good Hondas in that movie that were like, actually, they
looked good.
Like I think it was Hector's car, his body or whatever that we're coming in.
Cause then he had like that puke green, like, like shitty brown colored car.
Wasn't like a dark greenish brownish, whatever.
I think it's also a hatch, but yeah, it's, it's just funny.
Um, I, you know what's funny too is like tires.
I mean, obviously like because of tire size and lack of tire sizes, but like, I've, I
liked more of the meaty looking up the tires now as opposed to being really
stretched out so much so that I hit a pothole, it's going to pull off the wheel.
Yeah.
I mean, there's certain looks for certain things, but in general, I think we
said that the other day where it's like, I just start like, I just like the way it
looks when people can drive their cars.
Yeah.
We're supposed to be forward, but like, Oh, that'd be too fat of a tire.
Yeah.
I wouldn't want to run that fat of a tire.
It's like a 45 series tire.
Um, type 17 also says happy Thanksgiving guys.
Thanks for what you do.
You too, man.
Yeah.
Thanks.
You appreciate it.
Um, slow wagon says Danny's turkey impression.
There's another one.
Thank God we did this dude.
Yeah.
It's slow wagon also says Mark one swap stuff, vag fare.
Um, I don't know.
I think that's, I think that's a, when I said, what should we talk about?
Yeah.
Um, Mark one swap stuff in what, in what sense?
I'm not exactly sure.
I think it's like what, what's probably like, uh, we talked about the one
fours in the swaps and the Mark ones before, um, and more so like last episode,
um, and VR swaps and what works, what kind of vehicles you think, you know, with
the VR and the Mark one and not to debate with that.
So I think like, it's kind of like something that.
Did, did you see the tech 53 video?
No.
Of Fred getting in his shirako or that shirako that he put the one four in because
he's been, you know, he's been like doing like R and D stuff or whatever.
Well, he's just like laughing like a child.
That's great.
Like he's so happy.
That's awesome.
It sounds fucking good.
Yeah.
It has a bunch of power.
I think one fours are going to be the way to go in a lot of swaps.
If everything gets ironed out, yeah, definitely.
And I think that's obviously what he's trying to do.
Um, I don't know long, like it looked like the first run was awesome.
I don't know longterm if he's going to run into anything, but like, man, yeah,
I think it's such a viable option.
I was great with the one four.
It's not a two liter.
Yeah.
That's it.
It's just not a two liter.
You mean an ABA?
No, you're saying a two liter turbo.
Oh yeah.
It's so great.
It's something different because it's not a fucking two liter turbo.
Cause it's awesome.
Everything, no matter what manufacturer weighs like 78 pounds.
Yeah.
Like you get a store in the back of the trunk.
The, you know, just get from a bone yard and the store in the back of anything.
It's, it's so light and dumb.
It's such a great motor, but like it's not a two liter turbo.
No, like ABAs, not a rag on ABAs, just because whatever.
Yeah, it's, it's fine.
It's ABAs are great for what they are.
They really are because they're an indestructible kind of motor.
I think it's good motor, but I think the one fours are really going to be what's
going to be the thing coming up.
Yeah.
I hope everyone figures it out.
And then it becomes like, you know, really kind of like an easy trigger
pull to be like, you know, if you want that car that you've had forever to become
reliable with good power and you want to like finally get it back out on the road
and turn key like that.
Yeah.
Turnkey.
That'd be sick.
Yeah.
Um, that is all I have for now.
Uh, it is Thanksgiving in less than a day and a half.
Uh, we're at the 130 mark.
So I think we did pretty good.
Want to wish everybody a happy Thanksgiving.
Yes.
Happy Thanksgiving.
And everyone out there be safe on the roads.
Um, just enjoy some company with family and friends and maybe take a rip and
maybe just, uh, rent something in the garage.
Yeah, absolutely.
And, uh, we are thankful for you guys.
Listen.
So very thankful until next time.
Hey, later.
Nice.
About this episode
Thanksgiving 2025 brings a lighthearted and humorous discussion among the hosts as they share personal stories, car-related anecdotes, and holiday traditions. From cleaning up the 'Deer Slayer' to reminiscing about past car shows, the episode captures the essence of camaraderie and nostalgia. They touch on various topics, including the challenges of maintaining classic cars, the importance of family, and the joy of working on projects during the winter months. The hosts also engage with listener questions, adding a personal touch to the festive conversation.
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