A JCW Show Special: Meet Don Baskin

Hey guys, sorry we missed a show this week.

I went to Tennessee, you might have seen it on our YouTube channel, the Don Baskin interview

and 1000 car collection.

There was a long form interview in that and I asked Bobo to take that unedited interview

and put it up here for you guys today to get a little something on the side since I

missed you last week.

See you Saturday morning bright and early.

The YouTube's located at JCWShow.com and that video is tracking ahead a million

for the end of the week.

It's pretty exciting.

Thanks.

We're going to Covington, Tennessee to go buy Don Baskin's massive collection.

It's got a thousand cars, one of the largest collections in the country.

But I ended up discovering the story behind this car empire and the way this guy thinks.

This is the most interesting son of a bitch I've come across in a long time.

I see you on TV all the time.

Oh yeah?

I've been doing the radio show for 20 years.

And I don't know if you ever hear me on the radio on.

In Memphis we're on the Max.

Is that the rock station?

Oh, I just think it can be on the radio.

So the cars that when we're driving up and they got the stickers on them are those co-parts?

Some of them are about co-parts.

I mean, I got some of the questions on where to start.

But like I told the guys when we got here, I'm like, okay, now I know where I understand

who I'm dealing with.

Yeah, yeah.

Because I've been, not like this, but you know, you're just a trader.

Yeah, I try.

We're a trade.

Horses, pigs, rags, straigs.

I got a bunch of horses.

Bunch of cows.

Right?

Yeah.

I suppose you've probably ever made a trade for land.

Yeah, I got a lot of land.

I got that billed over.

Some food you can't walk in, but I guess I got two big old cotton warehouses full of cars.

I mean, I got 970 inches.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

I thought we were just going to come up and try to buy a handful of cars.

JD said that you were serious about it.

I want to sell them all.

Yeah.

Okay.

What are you going to do with it when you're done?

Biggest of the land?

Might start buying again.

I don't know.

Probably we'll run out of room.

So when you started, I mean, obviously you made the money on the equipment to buy the cars

and then you probably...

Yeah.

But were you buying wrecks in the beginning?

I always bought wrecks and big trucks and some cars and fixed them up, you know, for

years.

I was buying for A.A. and co-party would come along, you know.

Right.

They didn't get so competitive.

Now they're so big you can't buy nothing.

No.

And it's all over the world.

Ain't no way to buy no bargain no more.

The whole world like that.

Right.

The margins tie it.

It is.

Yeah, I don't know how to get on them all the more.

I sell a lot from Ritchie Brothers, which he's done that outrageous too.

I sell a lot to Ritchie Brothers.

Sammelcast, I thought that a little bit.

Oh, yeah.

Because once the Sammelcast really sat in and opened the whole world, I've been on that

thing that you're used to moving.

Oh, yeah.

It's hard to buy.

Were you shipping stuff overseas a lot back in the day?

I did in the years, yeah, 90s, yeah.

We big salvage yard too, some day we cut 20 cuckoos, you know, sell them motors

and grant me the room and got them all scrapped on off.

And do you take them?

Are you like a, what's that company called where you get all the car parks?

Oh, yeah.

KQ.

Are you?

Is there LKQ at truck parks?

They have got one or two.

Yeah.

Is that what do you catalog them all and have a website where they know to go to

your deal to get your parts?

No, no.

I use a lot of them parts just for fixing up my trucks.

Like I buy a truck motor bed, I'll take one out of the other trucks, put in

it or over all of it or whatever that does it.

Now we buy mostly dead trucks and fix them, that's the only house I got to make

any money from.

But I got them listed in there, but I've had coffee like 10,000

months or something.

Looking, yeah, looking at a, you finance a lot of it?

I do, I do a lot of finance myself and then I get a bunch of finance, you

know.

Right.

But I don't owe nothing on none of it.

When we rolled up, I said, old Don is not all a 60-day turn.

No.

I never, it's very hard for you to believe it, but I've never borrowed one

dime from a bank or no financial institute.

I believe you.

I didn't have the money, I didn't buy it.

I'm the same way.

Yeah.

I've done it before, but now I'm 100% cash, I don't, I don't.

Our game is so, I don't know if you're familiar with what I do, but I'm,

I run a lane at, I'm Mannheim's largest customer.

Yeah.

And I run a lane at Dallas and we sold, this year we only did 35,000, but the

other years during COVID we did 53 was on high.

I know.

So you can imagine what that is.

So we got seven lanes going, one in California, one in Chicago, yeah.

And there ain't no bank going to cover that.

Yeah.

No.

I know.

You ain't got no title, no title, no car, because the car's gone.

You know, there's like, there's nothing here to finance.

You can take a bunch of cash and put it with the bank and get doubled

down on it.

Yeah.

But that's, they don't want any part of this business.

No.

They never would.

I asked them one time about bonds of money.

You had to go through so many hoops.

I just told the people that I dealt with when I was starting out, they

knew me and knew I wouldn't know the crook, man.

They would, you know, make a hole to check for a couple of days.

Sometimes I moved a few of them or something, but I've always never had

nobody mad at me over no money or nothing.

I mean, because I always did exactly what I said I'd do.

Right.

But it's a tough world out here now, though.

I'm tell you, it's just different.

I mean, things are different from me.

I mean, we still retail all that 100 bucks a week.

Really?

We sell a hell out of it.

That's a lot.

We do.

We sell a hell out of it.

We sell it a wholesale price.

Right.

And, you know, a man can walk up, buy a truck, five, six

thousand dollar cheaper, come from the same place, the same

mileage.

They're bad for me, you know.

Good Lord, been good to me.

When I was 14, my daddy was in the car-sourced

business.

Yep.

So I told him, I said, me and him couldn't get along.

So I quit school and I went to buying big trucks and

sourced them.

You know.

This is cool stuff because a lot of people don't believe this

is the truth.

I'm the same way.

Yeah.

This man, I can tell already.

That's what I said the first 500.

I know he started with $500.

That's right.

And he's worked it to this thing.

And all of his wealth is tied up in this inventory.

Right, right.

And he knows, unfortunately, because you probably got a

little bit of autism before they were saying what

autism was because you got the memory.

And to do this game, you've got to have this

memory that is completely photogenic.

Right.

Yes, the inventory list matters.

Right.

And yes, it helps you, but you know.

Because you remember everyone you bought and what

you didn't.

And the ones you buy at auctions, you don't have a

feeling for that much because you did it so fast.

Yeah.

But everyone you bought off the street, you

fucking remember.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

So the.

It's OK.

So I interrupted you.

The first 500.

Was how did it start?

Well, first 500.

My daddy created me enough to buy a truck,

a big truck that was burnt.

Okay.

It was a 9,500 GMC, like a 69 or

71.

Pretty new back in.

And I took a cab off when I bought off another

truck, put on it and made like seven or eight

thousand.

And you were held?

I was 14.

Okay.

And that was when you just ruined yourself at

that moment.

You were never coming back.

I never went back to school.

Never went back to school.

Why would you need to?

I kept on.

I mean, I knew how to read and write,

you know.

Right.

So then I went back to buy.

So what year was that?

That was, I was born in 57.

So it'd be about 14 years or that,

whatever it was.

So mid 60s, 70 or something?

Mid 60s.

So in the mid 60s, you made 7,000 on a

truck?

One truck.

That started with 500.

Right.

And you went and did it again?

Yeah.

I mean, I did it over and over and I

started getting good people that trust

me and I was buying big packages from

like, you know, truck sales in Memphis.

I went down there one day, you know,

I was just driving around Memphis.

I still do it.

I drive around Memphis to all the

truck lots and what they don't,

what they could sell that they don't

sell.

Right.

Because they want to turn money.

Right.

You do it?

Well, I do.

I go like, you know, truck sales

had 7,9500 GMC trucks.

And I,

What year do you think we're in?

This was about 74.

I bring this up because this

guy's are remembering the deal

from 74.

Oh, yeah.

And you remember all the deal.

Go ahead.

I bought 7,9500 GMC's had 238

Detroit's 10 speeds.

They've been sitting on his lot

down there.

Of course.

I've seen them four or five time

when I do that.

And I went there one day and I

said, uh, I want to buy them

trucks.

And he told me, he said, you've

been down here so many times.

Have you got any money?

I said, I wouldn't be down

about that a month.

Right.

And he said, uh, we'll take

7,000 a piece.

That's 50 grand.

So I told him, I said, I'll

give 35,000 for him right now.

Well, they had never dealt

with no cash on.

Yeah.

But I had, didn't have no

bank account.

And I had, before I sold other

trucks.

So I paid them for them.

They did take cash.

You don't make cash at the bank.

Make sure everything's good.

Anyway.

And then I started there and

then I can remember that deal.

Then I went deal after deal after

deal.

People won't sell their

trucks.

And I was so interested.

So you had more money than

your dad pretty quick.

Yeah.

Was he jealous?

No.

He never was jealous.

What about grandpa?

Because I helped him.

I helped him.

When I'd get a truck in that

they could retail because I

got what it's wholesale and

moved trucks so fast.

And because he wouldn't have

been doing it.

Right.

I mean, I was doing things.

I was going to Texas.

I was going to come out to

California, Arizona, buying

packages.

Were they taking drafts?

No.

I just always had cash money.

Right.

I'd bring suitcase.

I had a couple of boys with

me.

We'd pay them cash.

I mean, I paid my taxes

all the way through.

Everything I owed, I'd

paid.

I mean, I never, because I

had my daughter, she was

young.

It's about 10 or 11 years.

She was keeping up with my

stuff already.

She was keeping your numbers?

She still does it now.

She was keeping your numbers?

Keeping my numbers and

keeping what we paid for it,

what we got for it, pay the

taxes.

10 or 11 years old is when

we started.

Yeah.

My son is the same way.

They still with me to the

day.

How far through school did

they get?

My daughter went to college

through college.

My son went to...

I think he might have

finished high school.

But he's...

You think I'm a crack

jack.

Now, he's a cracker.

Oh, yeah.

I mean, he don't...

He'll get to every damn

everything he sells.

He still sells.

He sold down trucks that

they retail each one of them.

Right.

I mean, he gets a kick at it.

I mean, that's what he does.

He loves it.

He just like me, just

loves it to death.

My daughter don't love it

as much as we do.

She does love it.

She does work still at

the shop.

She don't love it like me

and Skip love it.

My son's skill.

So that day that you

bought those seven trucks,

were you nervous as a

whoring church?

Nope.

I was never nervous.

I said money ain't

nothing but money.

And if I lose it,

I know how to go back

scrapping and make it back.

Right.

And to this day,

I still sell you used

truck parts.

I got a big scrap yard

and a whole scrap

on a haul.

11 loads yesterday.

I mean, I haul

scrap on it every day

when it's high.

It's high right now.

It's not real high,

but it's high enough

to be...

I can turn it.

I need the room too.

I mean, I don't run out

of room up there.

But we've been hauling

for probably like

three, four months right

now.

When you buy those

cars off a copar,

why do you do it?

Where are you going?

I've got something going on

with me

that

I just like to buy.

I understand.

Because it's made you

so much money.

Yeah.

But I've learned that

you buy things.

You used to go

buy a copar

and I ate

when they come hauled

together.

Right.

I buy a few now

without me

like I used to.

What's the biggest

package you ever

sat down and did?

I'd say about

three or four million.

What's the

biggest package you ever

sat down and did?

Three or four million.

Yeah.

Mostly we just retail.

Right.

But I have wholesale

them.

I got a deal

with Freak coming.

I'm not going to mention

name, but up there in

Nashville.

And they was

pretty big at the time.

And he got the guy

got to like him.

Because I'd give him

a number.

And I say this number

is good for six months.

Right.

Even though they

went out or went up,

he wants a number

and he can

back it up.

Well today

I still buy

trucks for him.

It's like

that.

And he just

knows.

He don't mention

nobody because he knows

if I tell him

I'm going to pay him

he might

wire the money right

then.

I don't look at him

I'm going to do nothing

because I know what

they trucks are.

Right.

If you get

a bag when

everyone wants

to buy you just

get a bag when

I look at them

worry about it.

I never worry about

nothing.

When I buy

I don't

never worry about

nothing.

I never had

too much

pay too little.

I never had that worry.

That's a gift

because I still

you know

I've bought and sold plenty

and

I still go through

to my head a lot.

Yeah.

But my margins are

tight.

Yeah.

Real tight.

See what it is

I just don't want to

I need to get

better at it.

When we were

booming hard

and got in

50,000 cars

and COVID was rolling

I quit worrying about it

because it was all

working out so good

and we'd sell

cars this day

but more

than we

caught hot.

And then we'd go back

the next week

and pay

what we paid

that we sold the cars

for there.

That's right

because you could

make more in it.

It was the craziest day

of thing.

I straight

I didn't miss

too many cars.

It was a

moment in my

car.

Cars and pickup trucks

there's too many

people doing it.

When I

started in this business

what I started

right now

it wasn't

one or two people

like

I'd go by

50 trucks

and two or three

days we

didn't even

sold them all.

And we'd

make 5, 6 grand

a piece of it.

And I just kept

doing it

and doing it

and paying taxes

and I said

I'm going to get in

the car

old cars

can't hold them

and take

some money

off my

taxes.

So I started

buying them

cars and

sell one

every once in a while

and I never laid

an eye on it.

We

sit right here

and here

we sit right in here

and

run the gas

out of any of these

cars in here

and put new gas in them

and they

crank up

any of them will

that's just the way

they are.

I don't crank them

very often

but about once a year

I go through

and they got

boosters

come around

crank them

out a few minutes

and cut them

black off

but it's hard to keep

all the

admin

of cars

just like these

and I got

a couple more

buildings it's not

quite full

but they

got cars in them too.

I

never want to try to

get

I'm

68 years old

and I

figured

I don't want this

burden on my kids trying

to sell it stuff

and if

I could sell it

I'd sell it

but I don't

just let them have it

and they do

what they want to do

with it.

Well dealing

with me

while back

I bought some

bargains at

Co-part

when they had that

big storm

we had

where everything

went silent

I bought

a hell of a car

a few muscle

cars

but a lot of

trucks

it just

got

where nobody had

the money

and you could buy them

cheese

which storm

were you talking about

Katrina

yeah

that was when

I got

embezzled real bad

back then

motocross wreck

I had a

General Motors

Ford and Dodge

Chrysler Jeep

franchises

so I could send

my wholesalers

into the factory sales

but Katrina

happened in this

customer that we did

a bunch of business with

was going to set up

a tent down in

New Orleans

and have

them be selling cars

and they need

me to pump

cars to them

and I was

sitting in a

wheelchair

hell I was

sitting in my

hospital bed

with a laptop

buying these

million dollars

and it busted me

when I was 32

so I'd start over

so I started

my story like yours

I started with 7 grand

not 500

but maybe damn

many other equivalent time

in 96

yeah

and then

when I started back over

really I got on the radio

cause I was in a wheelchair

I didn't know what to do

with from a wheelchair

and I was like

I can't make the car

actually more

I'm never gonna walk again

I was pissing through a stick

and then I started getting

better and I got on the radio

I was like

maybe I can get the cars

on the radio

and it worked

but long story short

I had to

start over

you know

have you ever had that moment

doesn't sound like you have

never have I mean

I never missed no cars

but you know

cars and margins so close

but you know what got me in trouble

is what you said earlier

I had

a GMAC floor plan

I had a Dodge Chrysler

Credit floor plan

I had a Ford Motor Credit floor plan

so I had all this money

and when you don't

when you're using other people's money

you're not watching it

like to watch your money

yeah

well I did

I should say when I started out

I just took me through it

I mean

I mean it wasn't them

I couldn't be here now

today but

I never backed up on nothing

I mean I bought trucks

they come in they trucked

went out

I still buy trucks for me people

went out on 20%

but I stubbed my word

and they said

you gonna have to

I said yeah I'm gonna do

what I said

I don't buy trucks next time

because those big waves

that we go through 9-11

was my truck

and obviously

I made more money

when it waved down

yes because you have money

where I make my money

because I buy trucks

that you could cost 20,000

two days ago

you might have 7,000

yeah

and I just stopped buying my own

I mean I bought

a bunch of time

I bought some trucks at one time

but not

you know they wouldn't come in

all the same time

you could have

you didn't have no money

you could move them

but I always kept money

I mean I just

one thing I did

they want to say

well let's put in

an interest man

I said no

I don't want

a little 2% interest

in our hell

I don't want that shit

I don't want to mess

just like yeah

you pay me 10%

and I might do something

right

but 2% I rather just tie it up

in trucks you know

and I just spent

spent spent spent

but today

it's not that way

I mean I've got

970 big trucks

I got a big place

right down here

and I got this place

in another place

I got a platform

I got sale there

one of them

some days

like yesterday

I mean slow right now

bad slow

we sold 10 trucks

we have sold

40 trucks a day

I mean we sell

we sell them like

do you floor any

of the people that

I do a few

but not very many

probably 10

they bought for me

they get me too

it's frustrating

when you go

floor somebody

it makes enemies

that easily does

yeah

cause they can say

how sorry I am

but they the one

didn't do the deal

you know

they didn't pay the payment

it's some bitches

that live fancy

they ain't got no money

no

I'd rather see a man

walk in a cover all

and I had a man

walk in a dead young

whole old shirt

and a pair of breeches

cause most of them

that man said

crawl brawls on

he reached that

be a british

and he'd come out with a

cash

so let's talk about

this collection here

and

you know

seeing you

and meeting you

is kinda scaring me

cause I've got

a little version of this

I keep my shit

moving

but

I pull some off

the assembly line

and put them in my barn

and I'm sure

when you started this

or was it

it was a plan

to always have a bunch of cars

to get this money

I really planned it

okay

I bought the chivalry

did a ship out up here

and they offered me

chivalry

where I'm at now

and chivalry did a shit

and I said

I don't want it

oh you bought the real estate

I bought the real estate

from chivalry place

had an auction

he said

yeah

bought them up

and they had an auction

didn't get it through the auction

they had

it didn't bring enough

so we just

negotiated

we drove through there early

we still don't sell

the salvage

I use so much of it

but we do sell

like people order

10 motors

with this can

they gonna put them

over all of them

put them in stock you know

we do that

we do a lot of that stuff

but when you bought

the Chevy real estate

they wanted you

to have the franchise

and you said no

I didn't want it

I don't blame you

I had the forward tractor

and John Deere

at one time

one of the margins

was so close on that stuff

they said

what about you

them two

I said

it's all paid for

I almost sell it

I bought a lot of stuff

from them

when I get ready to sell it

you know

by brand new tractors

they built bargain

all bound

so you're known in this zone

as the guy that put a number

people call me

all over

that I've dealt with

and they don't know that

like Taylor Martin

I used to go

to every one of them

I bought

so many trucks

cause I knew

what I could get from

I always mess

with high mileage stuff

big trucks

me and

me and had miles

mostly what I mess with

what were you

and JD

working on

were y'all working on him

auction?

he wasn't going to have an auction

up here

but

I'm just going to tell you

where I'm at right now

it's just a hard place

for me to sell these cars

I mean I like them

when I come out

and walk around

every week or two

have a bad day

I walk around

his car

and have a day

to be better

but I got to sell them

cause

my daughter

my son

they don't really

care about them

and I think

about dad

they would never sell them

cause that's just

I feel like they were doing

a disservice to you

disservice to me

so you want to sell them

all

but all means everything

outside too right?

everything

I feel like I have one day

outside

and rest on the inside

and how many

is it all on the computer?

no

I got all the titles

but I ain't got none

you don't have them

logged in the system?

I got them

logged in my business

up there

I mean but the inventory

of cars and titles

is in a computer

yeah

okay good

I may have one or two

titles that we wait

yeah I got you

a few of them

the last ones I bought

but we

do you know the difference

between Don's cars

and Don's trucks

titles?

count?

no

I just know

that we

I should have a little bit

over 900

like 970

but that includes the junk?

no

okay

now it comes to

outside cars here

but not down the street

nothing down there

nothing

so that's what's called

Don's Trucks

I bought two cars this

morning a

morning

come up and

bought them

I've been trying to buy them

a while he just

finally brought them up

to get the money

they just

are they here?

they downed it

I didn't

brought them up

yet

I bought

I bought ten cars this

week

but that moment

around Christmas

I always buy a bunch of

cars

you've been talking

about cars for a while

on the phone and today

those are your Christmas

presents

that's right

and you're excited about

them

yeah

I love

you gotta pull these

things out

and I so

to enjoy them

cause they get water

down with everything else

and you can't focus

on that memory

we're talking about

we clean

things up

about once a year

and have people

come to look at them

I have so many

people come

I mean

I go through

last time

there were

a thousand people

come to them

eight hours

really

and all I did

give them a bottle of

water

I come down

with them

like in

you know

like this

I call

rat roddy

whatever you call it

catty

is it catty

that's old

forward

I just

seen that

thing

at an auction

it was

like a meekle

or something

years ago

when he first started

I've had that car

probably

for 25 years

and I

maybe not that long

about 20 years

so it rolled through

with a bag on it

cranked right up

and the guy that sold it

was happy to say

back in I was

about a month

when I bought it

do you know Dana

very well

meekam

I know him

fairly well

I bought a few cars

off him

he's always been

good to me

I spent the day

with him

up in Wisconsin

about a year

too real rich

yes

I think he was

his home

looks like

what you would

imagine

but with a little

bit of class

to it

that looks

like something definitely

out of here

or something Ralph Lauren

would have

he's got a

$13 million

Ferrari

da da da da

he got some big shit

but to get a guy

like that off

he's got

to be big shit

he's seen everything

Peterbilt's calling

you got a big one

do it

hello

I ain't had a chance

I'm with a customer

give me a few minutes

and I'll do it

I think

did he

see any pictures

he said

what

let's look

do you mind

say he's getting

called on the trade in

from Peterbilt's store

and they're sending pictures

of the trade in

in the description

he's got to hang a number on it

so that they can work

their deal with their customer

that's right

what is it

but it's a

2020 Peterbilt

is it a sleeper

yeah big sleeper

yeah

got a savings condo sleeper

how many miles

over a million

so it's been done twice

been done once

the motor

never been done

well then look

there's 60 grand right there

yeah

but what I did

I can do it

I can hold one for five

five

six

five

really

yeah

I buy

I buy so many parts

and I buy them at like

like the end of the year

like yesterday

they had 12 kids

that they sold

and they brought them back

so they don't know

where's something missing

in them

or what

they don't think

it's nothing missing

but they don't know

so I told

he said

what were you getting

for it

he said come back to me

I said come get them

are you giving them eight grand

for that truck

yeah

is that about right

about eight

yeah

they're bright enough

but you gotta do it for

bright 15

will you sell it

with a million

or will you do the motor

I won't do nothing to it

I'm on dyno

and I got dyno

and I can show them

dyno part

but if it needs overhaul

and I overhaul it

sure

but if you put it in

a blow-by

and I got a big dyno

and I got boys

dyno them all day

every day

dyno is old

I mean it's like

I bought it in like 2,000

and I upgraded all time

but I put them on dyno

if you're not gonna hammer them

I'm gonna hammer them

I make them

flip the wheels on the dyno

if you do the motor

what do you get out of it

I can do the motor for 5,000

but what do you get out of it

we do a lot of them

do the motor and charge

10,000 more

sure

but I can do it for 5,000

I mean

I got boys do it

nobody else can do it

for 5,000

I got boys can do it in a day

they do it in 12

13 hours

put a brand new head

I got kids in stock

I got all the pistons

line kids in stock

they're going there

and do the whole overhaul

and won 16 hours

they work all that

and then come to

Air Connect for the rest of the week

I mean I just want

another money to live

but they've been working for me

since I was

Trump started

you know what

it would cost to go do that

oh yeah

it cost you 40, 50, 60

I don't know

I have people

who want me to overhaul them

for me

I don't want to do that

well before we get into these cars

I noticed the

Trump stuff all over the time

and I might get

I want to hear

some hot sports opinion

about you

what do you think this country

I never thought

it would get this bad

right

and I thought he would bring it out

but he ain't brought it out

I mean I'm really disappointed

what did you think he would bring

oh get it out of the funk

I think get out of the funk

get it that's like rolling in

but our bet is still good

but nothing like it was

at one time

well I mean

the rate cuts are

obviously in the start

but the tariffs

you know that's

that tariff money

like Mazda

they're just eating it right now

they're losing money

and that price

has not shown up

in the new car yet

and when that price

really shows up in the new car

it's going to funk so hard

oh yeah

it's going to be

it's a different world

out here right now

and you're out here

it's not a

this world's not that different

don't bother me

but when you get

if there's just one ounce

of not bringing nothing

it wouldn't even bother me

I mean it just

doesn't bother me

I mean I've been through it

I've been through the lows

how many times have you been married

uh

just a few

I got one of them

with right now

I got one right now

she's uh

I already knew the answer

she was

I went to her marriage

when I was 16 to 17

maybe 18

I went to their marriage

I was one of the best men

in their marriage

and then

he got to run around

and she divorced him

and then I've been single

for a good while

and I started dating her

and the next thing I know was married

you know

she's just a good woman

I mean

she's gonna go to church

when it's open

and she's gonna do right

and are y'all still good

oh yeah

and I was at

when I was selling my

I'll tell you a little story here

it was

at

Lawyer's

divorcing

she was divorcing me

and I had to give her a bunch of money

the first one

a bunch of money

and

my

daughter and son

called me at 12 o'clock

or 11 o'clock at night

and said don't settle

we found what she had

installed millions from us

so good

so

I went into the courtroom

and I was giving her 7 million

and

I told him I wanted to re-nig it

I said I'm not giving it to her

and she said y'all need to go talk

so I went back around

and called her

when nobody was me and her

I said I got you called

I was stealing money from her

and it was a corporation

they said I can prosecute you

and I said

I'm going to prosecute you

before extinct

I said I'm pretty good friend of the

yeah

and I've already contacted

which I had

and I

it went from 7 to 3

so I settled with her

3 million

but I was just fixing to give her 7 million

did you tell her just get you

I bet the first offer was

get the fuck out of here

and I won't put you down

I ain't paying you nothing

yeah I said

I thought about it

first offer I'll give her was 3 million

okay

we wanted to be done

I want to be done with her

because you knew that

she was my CPA

I put it through school and everything

I mean she was a CPA

she was the nabbing buddy

I got a good friend

out in California

who's famous

I won't say his name

but his wife was his lawyer

and just fuck him

don't work

silly

that man had stole

lots of money

I mean

launches

she was the type

she'd go by

two or three thousand

there was a close

like when she left

and I got my daughter

and we

what she stuff

she didn't pick out

she had 37

pair of brand-new black pictures

and all of them was the same name on

I mean it's all the same good stuff

but no reason for it

no reason

I mean she just

spent money to spend it

and she spent money

I mean

how much she stole

that woman that got me

for all that money

she

this will make sense to you

so

she came to work

from this other dealership

is my controller

and this

this dealership I bought

was two, three hours away

from me

first problem

so all this is going on

but

she was his lover

he was broke

they set this up on the front

side

and then I'm selling him

all these cars

and he's taking them down to

Louisiana for Katrina

and she is not

getting paid on him

but every once in a while

she goes to the bank

and gets a check

for ten thousand

seven hundred

twenty thirty seven five

and there was no

bid number on it

so what she was doing

is selling them to him

for about ten percent of the

value

but the actual transaction

did occur

and we did surrender title

and they did

they had the detail on their end

but she was stocking them in

as sold for the prices

that we agreed to

making a thousand

making eight hundred

making eighteen hundred

losing five hundred

and so in my books

it looked good

but there was no cash

and it was just shrinking down

shrinking down

the problem with it

you probably

you already get it

they actually did a deal

and she said well he lied

he wanted me to stock them

in for that money

because he was just trying

to buy another day

oh yeah

she was like my wife

an average

you know

and at the bottom of it

was meth

and that's one thing

I've seen in my career

oh yeah it's meth

you don't even know

they're vampires

oh yeah

when you get on meth

you turn into a vampire

you cannot

I've had people

working me

you know that stuff

lately

they steal everything you get

that you've ever had

have meth behind them

and you don't realize it

when they get on it

and they're people that you

trust it

and they get on that

they can't hardly get off it

they get on that shit

and they just

they change

they don't care

they steal anything you got

right

I give them drug tests

oh man

often

because these sales

make it get me big

because I got the titles

all in there

and hopefully

you know

we can pay

with a cashier check

they can't be stopped

or something

we'll get them

you know

I told them

ain't nobody getting no

title

cause they got cash

you won't get a title

I'll put it all to bank anyway

those EFTs

they can call back too

oh yeah

oh yeah I don't do it

a hard wire

is pretty solid

I do all

one way they can get that

title

is

green cash

compared to the bank

cause I want to make sure

it's all good

or a bank wire

not an EFT

no a bank wire

but our business

is 90% bank wire

in the rest of the case

we don't do no business

if they don't give us a

check

come back and check

clear

we'll let them do it

we got

we got a lot of big cars

Lamborghinis

$500 million

and hey boss

I can hand sell this

to so and so

so that's cute

but

so and so

ain't gonna pay me

man

he will pay me

eventually

gotta go through

a bunch of

hoops and play

bunch of games

and the lady

didn't show up

and she can't sign

the check

and he's out of town

oh yeah

I don't go through

that's when you mess with cars

and trucks like you are

you can't do it

but I can

because

it's still a lot of truck

leaders out there

but it's not narrow one of them

like me

right

and they'll call me

I don't care

every used truck

a lot cause me

every place

within two or three

miles call me

and I'll tell them

how to trade

and they'll go my number

a lot of times they said

well we got a better offer

I said well take it

they'll have it

they'll always call me back

I say

90% of the time

after they say that

I'll low on me

I said no

you done shopped me

shopped me where it's going to hurt me to sell it

cause everybody's got a picture of it

everybody's got a picture of it

just like these cars here

they don't nobody know about them

and they don't know what I'm going to do

that's why I don't want nothing

you know you put just

what we do in here on camera

but I don't want nobody

I'm going to have an auction

and sell every one of them

yeah

do you want me to buy anything today

I really don't want selling out here

I just want to sell it all up

but it's just so many in here

I don't know what they'd work

you know I bought them years ago

just like it had a whole line of

transamps at one time

I got a few over now

like you don't have the good ones left

I noticed

no I still got

I mean I think they good

I mean but I bought them cheap

right

do you want to walk some cars

and try to make

and we'll just start

let's work on tan

and see what we come up with

okay

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