A deep dive into the lives and stories of famous bald men, blending history, pop culture, and personal anecdotes. From Julius Caesar and Winston Churchill to fictional icons like Walter White and Dominic Toretto, the hosts explore how baldness shaped identity and legacy. They also share personal experiences with hair loss, discuss innovative tire technology from Nokian, and cover a Porsche GT3 lemon law case. The episode wraps with updates on the Overcrest Driving Team and tales of vehicle and boat repairs, mixing humor with heartfelt reflections on change and resilience.
This episode covers 4,000 years of baldness from ancient Egypt to the modern era. We talk about pirates, wigs held together with bobby pins, a reform school kid who became champion, a man who fought an empire without raising a fist, and the most famous silhouette in history.
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""His father was a stock car racer, not a famous one, the local circuit kind. A weekend warrior who smelled like motor oil and loved his kids more than anything on the track.""
A stock car racer drives cars that look like regular cars but are specially changed to race on tracks. They race in competitions that lots of people watch, like NASCAR.
A stock car racer competes in races using cars that are based on standard production models, often modified for racing. This form of racing is popular in the United States, especially in local circuits and NASCAR.
""He and his younger sister grew up in the garage and around a car that the father had built with his own two hands.""
A garage is a place where people keep and work on their cars. It's like a special room or building for fixing and improving cars.
In car culture, a garage is often more than just a place to park cars; it can be a workshop where cars are built, repaired, or modified. It serves as a central hub for enthusiasts and racers.
""He ran a market in a garage and he raced a quarter mile stretches of empty road at night with people who would die for him. That's how he lived his life, friends, in return. A quarter mile at a time.""
A quarter mile is a short distance used in car races to see how fast a car can go from a stop. It's about the length of four football fields.
The quarter mile is a standard distance used in drag racing, measuring 1,320 feet or approximately 402 meters. It is a common benchmark for testing a car's acceleration and speed over a short, straight course.
""He was not a legal man. He hijacked trucks. He lived outside the system, but he had a car and the code was simple. You show up for""
Hijacking trucks means taking trucks by force without permission, usually to steal things inside them. It's against the law.
Hijacking trucks refers to the illegal act of forcibly taking control of trucks, often to steal their cargo. In some car and racing cultures, this is associated with outlaw activities outside the legal system.
"Who else stops a nuclear submarine with a Dodge Charger? Exactly."
The Dodge Charger is a big, fast car made in America. It's famous because it appears in movies and is known for being strong and cool.
The Dodge Charger is a full-size American muscle car known for its powerful engines and aggressive styling. It has been featured prominently in popular culture, including the Fast & Furious film series where Dominic Toretto drives one.
"Speaking of family, I would like you to tell us about Nokia, who is one of our longest and most loyal partners. Tell us about Nokia Tire."
Nokian Tire is a company that makes special tires that work really well in snow and ice. They were the first to make tires just for winter.
Nokian Tire is a Finnish tire manufacturer renowned for inventing the winter tire and specializing in tires designed for harsh winter conditions. They are known for innovations like studded tires and advanced tread designs.
"They are, of course, the world's foremost producer, very much the inventor of the winter tire."
Winter tires are special tires that help cars drive safely on snow and ice. They have a special design that keeps them from slipping.
Winter tires are specialized tires designed to provide better traction, handling, and safety in cold weather conditions, especially on snow and ice. They use unique rubber compounds and tread patterns to maintain grip at low temperatures.
"the new Haka-Polita 01, which has the retracting, self-retracting studs. Let me say something. I want to interrupt you here."
Self-retracting studs are tiny metal pieces in tires that can move in and out. They help the car stick to icy roads but hide when not needed.
Self-retracting studs are a tire technology where metal studs embedded in the tire can retract or extend automatically. This allows the tire to provide extra grip on ice when needed, while reducing road wear and noise on dry surfaces.
"Now, I don't know if Nokia is going to be able to lobby the government of Minnesota to overturn whether you can drive studded tires or not, because that sounds very expensive. But I hope so. ... nokiantires.com."
Nokian Tyres makes special tires that help cars drive better in winter, especially on ice and snow. They use smart materials to keep the tires safe and quiet when it's warmer.
Nokian Tyres is a Finnish tire manufacturer known for its innovative winter tires, including studded and all-season models designed for cold climates. Their tires often feature advanced compounds and technologies to improve grip on ice and snow while maintaining durability and comfort.
"I hope so. I'm curious if these get like a different qualification, because they're only studded some of the time they deploy and retract as we know. It is responsive. The stud behavior through an advanced tire compound when the road temperature is at or below freezing..."
Studded tires have tiny metal pieces that stick out to help cars not slip on ice. They work really well in winter but can hurt roads, so some places don't allow them.
Studded tires have small metal studs embedded in the tread to improve traction on icy roads. They provide better grip in winter conditions but can cause damage to road surfaces, leading to restrictions or bans in some regions.
"In addition, of course, they have their surpass A01. Yes, surpass AS01, which is the high performance all season tire may specifically for drivers who want the most of their cars without sacrificing capability when the roads get slick..."
All-season tires are made to work well in many kinds of weather, like rain or light snow. They are good for everyday driving but not the best for really bad winter roads.
All-season tires are designed to provide acceptable performance in a variety of conditions including dry, wet, and light winter weather. They offer a balance between traction, tread life, and comfort but may not excel in extreme winter conditions.
"They also come with a 55,000 mile warranty. Nokia and tires pothole protection. So if you happen to damage your tire, we're on repair. Nokia will place it for free."
Pothole protection means if your tire gets hurt by a hole in the road, the company might fix or replace it for free. This keeps you from paying extra money.
Pothole protection is a tire feature or warranty that covers damage caused by potholes, often including free repairs or replacements. This helps drivers avoid unexpected costs from common road hazards.
"All right, Jake, why don't you take this moment to tell me about FCP Euro. We'll make everybody wait just a just a just a little bit longer, huh? Yeah, FCP Euro is an online retailer of OEM, genuine aftermarket and performance parts for European cars, BMW, Porsche, Volvo, Audi, Volkswagen and more. Their catalog is your one stop shop with over 275,000 new products, including of course, their expert assembled kits to make shopping simpler."
FCP Euro is a website where you can buy real and high-quality parts for European cars like BMW and Porsche. They have lots of parts and even kits that include everything you need for a job, and they promise to replace parts for free if they ever break.
FCP Euro is an online retailer specializing in OEM, genuine aftermarket, and performance parts for European cars such as BMW, Porsche, Volvo, Audi, and Volkswagen. They offer a large catalog of over 275,000 products and expert-assembled kits to simplify repairs and maintenance. Their products come with a lifetime replacement guarantee, including wear items like brake pads and oil filters.
"The common gear fixes that it's a platform built by real car people that allows you to digitize all of your car's records, your maintenance builds, photos, provenance, all organized, all searchable, all in one place."
Common Gear is a website where you can keep all your car's important papers and pictures in one place on the internet. This makes it easier to show your car's story to others and can help when you want to sell it.
Common Gear is a digital platform designed for car enthusiasts to organize and digitize all records related to their vehicles, including maintenance, builds, photos, and provenance. This helps preserve a car's history and can add value when selling.
"Maybe instead you said screw this to family and responsibilities and being an adult and you said, I'm going to go out and buy a brand new GT3. Why not? Doing that instead, okay? Crisis, crisis time. Hair's falling out. Hair's falling out. Existential crisis. Going to buy a GT3, yes. Well, as we know, you know, you can't. You can't just go and buy one because the weight is insane in addition to, you know, the price. You get on the list, you do your order. Or the allocate. You can't even get one even if the weight. Exactly. Which is why the use market is so crazy. So this explains why a long time portion enthusiast named Abdul-Lenziz, a Florida man, picked up a... Florida man? Florida man. Yeah, I should tell you something right away. He picked up a 2022 GT3 with just 34 miles on it. This was sold as a new car."
The Porsche 911 GT3 is a special version of the Porsche 911 made for racing and fast driving. It's very light and powerful, so many people want one, but they are hard to get new.
The Porsche 911 GT3 is a high-performance variant of the Porsche 911 sports car, known for its track-focused design, naturally aspirated engine, and lightweight construction. The 2022 model is highly sought after, with limited availability leading to long waiting lists and a strong used market.
"which by the way is, even though it was a couple years old, that is basically market rate, right? It's MSRP is around 160."
MSRP is the price the car maker says the car should cost when you buy it new. Dealers might sell it for more or less than this price.
MSRP stands for Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price, which is the price recommended by the car manufacturer for the vehicle before any dealer markups or discounts.
"the car had reportedly spent over a year in Porsche's very own technical apprentice training program, where it was used as a hands on training tool, which is a play way of saying it had been taken apart and put back together by people who are still learning how to take things apart and put them back together over and over and over again."
This is a training program where people learning to fix cars practice by taking cars apart and putting them back together to get better at their job.
A technical apprentice training program is a hands-on educational program where trainees learn vehicle repair and assembly by working directly on cars, often disassembling and reassembling components to gain experience.
"When the purchase asked the window sticker, the dealer goes, Oh, shoot, you know what, we must have lost that. We don't we don't see it. So that's suspicious. Then he gets the car home, opens the glove box, and he found the window sticker."
The window sticker is a paper on the car's window that tells you how much the car costs and what features it has.
A window sticker is the official label displayed on a new car's window that shows important information such as the MSRP, options, fuel economy, and other details about the vehicle.
"opens the glove box, and he found the window sticker. But it said big, bold type over where the window sticker would be PCNA car, not for public sale."
PCNA means Porsche Cars North America, the part of Porsche that handles cars in the US. A PCNA car is one that the company uses for things like training or shows, not for selling to regular people.
PCNA stands for Porsche Cars North America. A PCNA car labeled 'not for public sale' indicates it was intended for internal use such as training, promotional, or dealership purposes rather than retail sale.
"Now, Aziz then brought the dealership to court and won the lemon law arbitration, forcing Porsche to buy the car back."
Lemon law arbitration is a way for people to get help if their new car has big problems that can't be fixed. It can make the car company buy the car back or fix it properly.
Lemon law arbitration is a legal process that helps consumers resolve disputes with manufacturers when a new vehicle has significant defects that impair its use, value, or safety and cannot be fixed after a reasonable number of attempts.
"...the diesel. And it just lives on a trickle start charger now because it's called Hanlon's razor."
A trickle start charger is a small charger that keeps your vehicle's battery charged when you don't use it much, so it doesn't die.
A trickle start charger is a device used to slowly charge and maintain the battery of a vehicle, especially useful for vehicles that are not used frequently to prevent battery drain.
"However, you know, power steering pumps that that just sometimes fail unlike unresponsive. I was trying to make a link."
The power steering pump helps you turn the steering wheel more easily by using fluid pressure. If it breaks, steering becomes hard and unresponsive.
A power steering pump is a component in a vehicle's power steering system that helps reduce the effort needed to turn the steering wheel by providing hydraulic pressure.
"However, when you have like both the hubs locked in four wheel and you have the heavy ass plow on the front and you're like trying to turn through a snow bank."
When you lock the hubs on a four-wheel drive vehicle, it makes the front wheels work together with the back wheels to help the vehicle move better in tough spots like snow.
Locking the hubs in four-wheel drive vehicles means engaging the front wheels to turn at the same speed as the rear wheels, improving traction in difficult conditions like snow or mud.
"So I got it all figured out now. I've got like a vacuum pump that breaks every month. No, I fixed it. I got so Volvo uses a vacuum pump for different things."
A vacuum pump is a part that helps create suction in the car to make some systems work better, like the brakes. Volvo cars sometimes use this pump for different jobs.
A vacuum pump is a device used in some vehicles to create vacuum pressure for various systems, such as brake boosters or emissions controls. In this context, Volvo uses a vacuum pump for different functions in the vehicle.
"they have a vacuum switch that basically it turns on. What's it called? Hobbs. Called what? Hobbs. Hobbs switch. That's what it's called. Why is it called the Hobbs switch?"
A Hobbs switch is a small part that turns things on or off in a car when the pressure changes. It helps save energy by only running parts when they are needed.
A Hobbs switch is a type of pressure or vacuum switch that activates or deactivates a system based on pressure levels. It is commonly used to control devices like vacuum pumps so they only run when needed, improving efficiency and longevity.
"the glow plugs would draw so much amperage that it would change the noise of the vacuum pump. So now I have to, what about your dome light? Can you just be like, okay, yep. Oh, that's actually not too bad. Just leave the door open a little bit, except the dome light doesn't work on the driver's side. Only all other three doors work, but not mine. There is a glow plug light in the dash because they didn't make this truck in a diesel."
Glow plugs are parts that heat up the engine in diesel cars so they start better when it's cold outside. They use a lot of electricity and usually have a light to show when they're working.
Glow plugs are heating elements used in diesel engines to warm the combustion chambers for easier starting, especially in cold conditions. They draw significant electrical current while active and often have indicator lights on the dashboard.
"yes. Here it is. For a cylinder air cooled motor. Great. Five speed. Awesome. Runs and drives."
A five speed is a type of gearbox where you can choose between five different gears to help the car go faster or use less fuel.
A five speed refers to a manual transmission with five forward gears. It allows the driver to select gear ratios to optimize power and fuel efficiency.
"I did buy a brake caliper for it too because it's my fix where I just bolted. I put a bolt through the brake line."
A brake caliper is a part that pushes brake pads onto a spinning disc to help stop the car when you press the brake pedal.
A brake caliper is a component of disc brakes that squeezes the brake pads against the rotor to slow or stop the vehicle. It is essential for effective braking performance.
"I put a bolt through the brake line. Yeah. Yes. That's starting. I've blocked my brake line."
A brake line is a small pipe that carries the fluid needed to make your brakes work when you press the pedal.
The brake line is a tube that carries brake fluid from the master cylinder to the brake calipers or drums. It is critical for hydraulic braking systems to function properly.
"You forgot to winterize your boat. I did. I winterized it. However, I found two freeze plugs that are all, by the way, misnomers. They're just casting cavities. They're not actually holes. Yeah. Yeah. They don't, they don't do anything. They don't. They happen to be on the water jacket sometimes. Right. And when you freeze your block, it turns out they do actually pop out,"
Freeze plugs are little metal caps in the engine that cover holes made when the engine was made. If water inside the engine freezes, these plugs can pop out to stop the engine block from breaking.
Freeze plugs, also known as core plugs or expansion plugs, are circular metal caps installed in the engine block. They cover holes left during the casting process and can pop out if the coolant inside freezes and expands, potentially preventing the engine block from cracking.
""That would be, what is, what's in there? It's a 454, a 7.4. No, not the, what did you do? Did you just drain the water out or did you run it on the pink stuff?""
The Chevrolet 454 is a very big and powerful engine often used in boats. It helps the boat go fast because it makes a lot of power.
The Chevrolet 454 is a big-block V8 engine with a displacement of 7.4 liters, commonly used in boats and performance vehicles. It is known for its high torque and power output, making it suitable for marine applications.
""make like six and a horsepower on a single screw. That would work.""
A 'single screw' means the boat has one propeller that pushes it through the water.
In boating, a 'single screw' refers to a boat powered by a single propeller shaft and propeller. This contrasts with dual or multiple propeller setups.
""We should talk to our, our friends over at Mercury Marine next door. Next door? Yeah, they're in Wisconsin.""
Mercury Marine makes engines that help boats move through the water. They are a big company that lots of boat owners trust.
Mercury Marine is a leading manufacturer of marine engines and propulsion systems, including outboard motors and sterndrives. They are known for innovation and reliability in boating.
""Yeah, yeah, they're only like 200 grand for the crate motor. Just what every open bow boat needs.""
A crate motor is an engine that comes all put together and ready to go. You can buy one and put it in your car or boat without building the engine yourself.
A crate motor is a fully assembled engine that is shipped in a crate, ready to be installed in a vehicle. It is commonly used for engine swaps or replacements, especially in performance or restoration projects.
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In 1990, he made his first grand slam final at the French Open. The night before the biggest
match of his life, he got in the shower and felt the hairpiece come apart in his hands.
He called his brother in a panic and they clamped it back together with 20 bobby pins.
His brother looked at it and just said, yeah, I don't know, just don't move.
The next morning he warmed up and prayed not for victory, but for his wig to stay on.
He spent the entire match terrified that every lunge every dive for a ball would send it tumbling
on to the red clay in front of millions of people. He lost.
Hey guys, welcome to Overcrest. I'm Chris and I'm Jake. How's it going, Jake? How's your
seasonal affective disorder with another photo snow? I don't want to be the guy that
holds the weather. Here's the thing. It's not even the fact that we got a blizzard in March here.
It's the fact that it has taken its toll because it got cold again. Things are breaking.
Things are breaking. We'll get into some things that are breaking. Yeah, go ahead. Maybe we'll
save it for Driver's Club will do. I've got something for you that I put together. This is
for you. Just for me. It's just for you. And then afterwards, maybe do a little bit of news
and some Driver's Club stuff. So stick around. Okay. Jacob. Yes. What's your middle name?
Daniel McDonald. Sorry, Daniel. Jacob Daniel McDonald. So, you know, I have two middle names
as well. Did you know that? Do you? Uh, Christopher, let's see if I know it. Oh, I, I, it's, it's,
I'm going to recognize it. It's something Richard Carlson. I did not know Carlson at all. Yeah,
that was my mother's maiden name. Well, what I didn't know is actually my, this is a stupid
conversation. People are going to skip over this. I didn't know that was my, I had to do a turn your
mic down just a little bit, Jake. I didn't know that I had another middle name till I had to go
get a real ID. And then they're like, Oh, well, actually on file with the state of Wisconsin is
blah, blah, blah, blah. So apparently when I recently realized this, yeah, I didn't know this.
So it's, it's my mother's maiden name in there. Anyway, Jacob, I put together an episode for you.
And the reason I did this, and remember, you can just don't guess. Okay. Don't guess. I'm not going
to ruin the fun. Don't ruin the fun for the listeners, but afterward, it's hydrazine.
It's not hydrazine. It's not pervitin. By the way, we just released a very fun episode on
pervitin, which is a very interesting drug. It's energetic. It's an energetic episode.
It's an energetic episode. Anyways, all right. The reason I brought this episode up,
and don't start guessing things. Okay, not even now. I'm not. Okay. No. Do you understand?
Just being clear, you have, you have one of the most beautiful heads of hair
of anyone I've met. And it's always, it's always up in the air and it's always fun. It's very thick.
It doesn't seem to ever go anywhere, fall out, which I, which made me think that you
don't know what it's like, or you don't sympathize with the bald man. So I have put together the
here's the thing though. I'm already interrupting. I'm not guessing anything, but I'm already
interrupting. It's a trade off because I don't grow good facial hair. Like I try, I try the
mustache thing. I'm probably just going to back out of the mustache thing completely. I'm going
to like a little later with it because it's related, right? Like if, if you can grow a full
bushy beard, you're more likely to lose your hair is my understanding. Like there's a relation
there. It's a trade off. And I'm on the side of that teeter totter that I would like to be.
Yes. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yes. You know, you don't have a bad chin. You don't have a bad chin.
So if you had a horrible chin that was like inset two inches and you couldn't grow a beard,
that would be sad because you could hide it. Good because I have a terrible shaped head.
I have like, my head is flat right here. I'm not, it's not circle. I don't have a circle head.
All right. Yeah. I don't even know what my head looks like. All right. This is Jacob. Okay.
The top 10 bald men to ever exist. Are you ready?
This is for like 50% of the population who's, who's bald. They're going bald.
They will, they will greatly enjoy this. It'll be a marauder. That would mean every man on earth
is bald. 50% of the population. No, that would be half Jake.
You've said 50%. This is for 50% of the population. Yes. That's half. 50% is one half of a hundred.
Yes. You're okay. But, but I'm saying half of the population is men. So not every single man is bald.
Well, of course. Go just, just read your damn story, Chris. This is, this is, this is an episode
for everyone, but it's male oriented. Okay. Got it. Does that, does that solve your mathematical
demographic problem? No, it doesn't. Good Lord. Continue. In 1500 B,
that would have been a good one. I, Mr. Clean is not on this list. I was like, I hope I'm not actually
like, no, Mr. Clean is not on here. That would be good though. That would be good. Okay. In 1500
BC, I don't want to stop you from having fun, Jake. You have as much fun as you want with this.
No guessing. No guessing. Okay. In 1500 BC, somewhere in Egypt, a man who was losing his hair
stood in front of a priest, recited a prayer to the sun god, and then swallowed a mixture of onions,
iron, red, lead, honey, and crushed alabaster. It did not work.
Dear raw, dear raw sun god. Please, please. I kind of don't want to be bald. Like, please. And then
the priest dude is like, here, have some poison. Have some poison. Take the poison. You can't be
bald if you're dead. Well, unless you're already bald, but your hair does continue to grow after
you die. Yeah, I know your hair. Okay, so it's grow. Yes, I have heard that. I do. Yeah, it's
true. This did not work. Or the iron and honey and crushed rocks alabaster did not work, which
probably the alabaster was to turn it into a paste, I imagine. Okay. Didn't you say led? So a few led
too. Yeah. Yes, red lead. Yes. Yeah, lead. Yep. So a few generations, so they were bald and dumb.
Yeah, that's what the whole hence the poison comment. Yeah. Yeah. So a few generations later,
someone else tried rubbing the fat of a lion on his head, then a hippopotamus, then a crocodile.
They, they, they rubbed an entire hippopotamus on their head. The fat, the fat of a, all these
like virulent, all the hippo, hippo, lion, crocodile. It was the fat of all these virulent
animals. Yeah. Yeah, these are, these are manly things. We're going to take part of it and
rub it on our head, rub it on our bodies. None of this work. They still do this kind of stuff
in like Asian countries with like bones and testicles. Usually it's like, usually it's like,
like ground up testicles or something. Yeah, like bowl testicles. For the longest time,
I thought Red Bull had actual bull juice, bull nut juice in it. That's, yeah, I always thought it
had like, I know it was a, it was a meme. That actually would be a really, that'd be a really
good selling point actually. Like they should. You would drink it more if it had bull jizz in it?
No, but it'd be something where it's like, it's, it's, it's got something. Holy crap,
we've only got one. There's something there. There's only one paragraph in Jake. We gotta,
we gotta go. Okay, okay. After a thousand years, Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine,
the guy we literally named the doctors oath after. Yeah, he was a damn hypocrite though,
Chris, quite the hypocrite. He was, he was, he smeared a paste of pigeon shit and horse radish,
on his own thinning scalp. It did not grow back. And then you've got King Louis, the 14th of France,
who lost his hair to illness and responded by commissioning wigs that weighed 20 pounds,
and sometimes had cages with live birds inside them. Why? 20 pound wigs with birds decoration,
decoration for 4,000 years, men have been going bald, more than half of all men will.
And for 4,000 years, we have tried everything to stop it, everything except the one remedy
that has been clinically proven to work. You ready? Um, no, no judging by that. I am certainly not.
Castration, castration. Oh, it turns out this photo.
I thought that was a person tickling, tickling someone's underside with a feather.
It turns out it was much more violent than what that was. It was scissors and scissors.
It turns out that the same testosterone that makes you a man is the thing that kills the hair.
No testosterone, no baldness. The Victorians actually ran with this. Yes, go ahead. Hold on.
We watched Game of Thrones. Why was it the dude, the bald dude who was castrated was bald,
and he was like the guy, you know, that was, I'll tell you. No testosterone, no testosterone.
Right. So he's bald. It should be the other way around. He should have full head of hair.
Well, maybe it was what I mean. It was later in life. Yeah, maybe.
It turns out that the same testosterone that makes you a man is the thing that kills the hair.
No testosterone, no baldness. The Victorians actually ran with this and decided that bald men
must be more virile, more intellectually superior. This was nonsense, but it made them feel better.
The truth is far less. Obviously, I am extremely smart and I have lots of hair.
Your hair follicles either care about testosterone or they don't just genetics.
So then Jake, this is a bit about the ones who didn't hide the ones who shaved it,
lost it, didn't care or just let it go and became more because of it. This is the top 10 bald men
to ever exist. Okay. When he was young and this guy was a genius. This is not an exaggeration. He
was a chemist, a researcher, and he founded a company with his college partner that would
eventually be worth billions of dollars. But something went wrong between the two of them,
something personal, and he walked away or was pushed out. It depends on who you believe.
Either way, he sold his share for almost nothing and watched them from the outside as his former
partner built an empire on the work they had started together. He got married, had a son.
He took his teaching job at a public high school because he needed the health insurance.
He worked a second job at a car wash on weekends. He was the most overqualified person in every
single womb he ever walked into. And then he got a diagnosis, lung cancer, inoperable terminal.
He was 50 years old and he was going to die. And the life he had lived up to that point was so small,
so quiet that it would barely leave a mark when he was gone. So he did something.
He shaved his head and the man who looked back at him in the mirror was someone,
his wife and his son, and everyone who had ever known him had never met. This man was not a good
man. What he did after what he did after that shave destroyed his family, destroyed his community,
and left a trail of broadies across the American Southwest. He was, for the first time in his
adult life, not pretending to be someone he wasn't. Here's what makes him essential to this list.
His transformation is the most famous depiction of baldness as identity in the history of storytelling.
Before the shave, invisible. After it, terrifying. The hair coming off was not a side effect of his
illness. It was a choice. It was the moment he stopped being the man the world expected
and became the man who knocked. You may know him as the chemist from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
His name, of course, is Walter White, and you may know him as Heisenberg.
Really, a fake photo with a fake guy. Mrs. Producer. That is a 3D animated
of Walter White. There you go. Your first person on the list is a fictional character?
That's right. That's right. There he is with hair. Before he became amazing. Before he was the one
who knocks. I'm glad I didn't joke at the beginning because I was going to say Walter White at the
beginning when you said teacher who got cancer. Don't guess. I'm not guessing. You almost just
told me you almost guessed. You said I almost guessed. And then I stopped myself because I
know not to. All right, number nine. This guy grew up with working class in Los Angeles.
They're not all fictional characters. They may be, they may not be. It's all up in the air.
His father was a stock car racer, not a famous one, the local circuit kind. A weekend warrior who
smelled like motor oil and loved his kids more than anything on the track. The little boy worshiped him.
He and his younger sister grew up in the garage and around a car that the father had built with his
own two hands. His father was killed in a racing accident and the boy who watched it happen tracked
down the man responsible and beat him nearly to death with a wrench in front of a crowd. He went
to prison for it. I know when he got out, he was quieter and harder, but not empty. No, he came home
to the same house. Feel free to scream at your radio, everybody. That's fine. He came home to the
same street, the same garage. There he kept his dad's charger and he built a family out of people
who had nowhere else to go. There was a girl he had loved since he was a teenager. She stayed.
There was a friend who was like a brother, a cop who came into his life undercover and ended up
choosing loyalty over the law. There were others, people the world had written off, people with
records and bad luck and nowhere to sleep and he brought them all to the same table and fed them
and called them family and he meant it. He ran a market in a garage and he raced a quarter mile
stretches of empty road at night with people who would die for him. That's how he lived his life,
friends, in return. A quarter mile at a time. That's right. He was not a legal man. He hijacked
trucks. He lived outside the system, but he had a car and the code was simple. You show up for
your people, no matter what, no exceptions, no hesitation. He drove a car his father built
and he never lost sight of what mattered. His name, of course, Dominic Toretto and he would
want you to know that you don't need friends when you've got family.
You literally started this one by saying not all of these are fictional characters.
And then went on to describe another fictional character.
That's called gaslighting. That's called misdirection.
Yes. Yes, it is. Who else stops a nuclear submarine with a Dodge Charger?
Exactly. Next up, we have Mr. Peanut. You can do anything. And then we're going to have
who else can be on this list of fictional characters.
Missed opportunity to call out to the burnt peanut. Everybody call out to the burnt peanut.
I meant the actual Mr. Peanut with the top pad and planters nuts.
Speaking of family, I would like you to tell us about Nokia, who is one of our longest
and most loyal partners. Tell us about Nokia Tire.
They are, of course, the world's foremost producer, very much the inventor of the winter tire.
And they, of course, have released their most recent tire, which is probably the biggest,
what did they say? Their CEO called it the biggest invention in tire technology since
the advent of the winter tire itself, which is, of course, the new Haka-Polita 01,
which has the retracting, self-retracting studs. Let me say something. I want to interrupt you here.
I was getting tires balanced at the tire shop, and I've got the Nokians with the studs outside.
And we were talking, you know, it's Samaritan tire. Local shop, love them. If you're local,
best tire shop in town. Hands down, there's two of them. One of them is on you or something.
No, no, no, no, no, they didn't. I've been going there for 20 years. Blake there is awesome.
Anyway, I go in and I was just talking to him, and I was talking about Nokia tires.
And I said, Hey, I've got Nokia stud tires on the car outside. And this girl's eyes lit up
because she thought it was the new ones. And she was excited. Oh, really? Yeah. She's like,
Can I see them? And I'm like, Oh, it's not the new ones or whatever. But I'm just,
I just want to point this out. People are excited about this is a big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal.
Now, I don't know if Nokia is going to be able to lobby the government of Minnesota to overturn
whether you can drive studded tires or not, because that sounds very expensive. But I hope so.
I hope so. I'm curious if these get like a different qualification, because they're only
studded some of the time they deploy and retract as we know. It is responsive. The stud behavior
through an advanced tire compound when the road temperature is at or below freezing,
the rubber stays stiff and keeps the studs firmly in place. But as the temperature rises and the
road surface warms, the compound softens and allows the studs to sink deeper into the tire.
So it's the best of both worlds. You get better grip while remaining quiet and protecting the
road surface when the weather is warmer. In addition, of course, they have their surpass
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grip and traction matter. Or trying to escape your seasonal effective disorder in Minnesota in March
with snow. I backed right. You know the big mountain that gets at the end of the driveway?
I just backed right over it idle speed. No problem. No problem. Not a problem.
They also come with a 55,000 mile warranty. Nokia and tires pothole protection. So if you
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nokiantires.com. Number eight. This guy was born in a mid sized American city. His mother left
when he was young. His father was cold and dismissive his whole life and never once told the boy
he was proud of him. He grew up hungry for approval that would never come.
He barely finished high school. He got a job at the nuclear power plant
locally, not because he was qualified, but because they needed a body and he married a woman who was
smarter and kinder and more patient than he had any right to ask for.
They had two children. That's not true. Just kidding. They had three children. He was not
a good provider and he was not in a tent of husband. He forgot things and he broke things.
He did his best. Chris, come on. And he ate too much and drank too much and fell asleep at a station
and made the same mistakes over and over again. Yet every single time his family needed him,
he showed up not gracefully and not on time, but he showed up when his daughter needed someone to
believe in her. He did when his son needed someone to take the fall. He took it when his wife needed
a reason to stay. He gave her one barely. It was barely enough, but it was enough.
He's not a hero. He's not a role model. He is the most honest portrait of fatherhood ever put on
screen because he gets it wrong almost every time and never stops trying. He lives at 742
Evergreen Terrace with a wife named Marge, a boy named Bart, and daughters named Lisa and Maggie.
His name is, of course, Homer J Simpson.
Wow. Whoa, there he's little in here. Oh, there's a little guy. Little guy right there.
Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. Homer Simpson, one of the most legendary bald people of all time.
Now these could be fictional or they could be real. We don't know. We don't. We don't know.
Starting to sense a theme here, we may say. This legend was born in 1966 in Brooklyn.
Bedford Stooveson at first, then Brownsville, which at the time was the most violent neighborhood
in New York City. His father left when he was two. His mother was an alcoholic. He had a lisp
been a high voice and he was small for his age and other kids beat on him constantly.
By the time he was 13 years old, he had been arrested 38 times, 38 times by the age of 13,
38 times armed robbery, petty theft, whatever was happening on the block that day. He could barely
read. You like these mysteries. Don't you? Check your brain is just going a million miles.
I love it. He was running with a crew that used to empty cash registers while the other kids held
people at gunpoint. What he got sent to a reform school upstate, a juvenile detention facility
called Tryon. And that should have been the end of the story. Kid from Brownsville does time comes
out worse. Cycle continues. But there was a counselor Tyron named Bobby Stewart. Bobby Stewart
was a former Golden Gloves champion and he saw something in this kid that nobody else had ever
looked hard enough to find. Stewart taught him the basics and then called a friend, an old boxing
trainer up in Catskill, New York, a 70-something year old man called Customado, who had already
trained two world champions and basically retired into obscurity. Demado watched this kid hit the
bag one time and told him, if you want to stay here and if you want to listen, you could be the
one. Demado took him in. When the kid's mother died two years later, Demado became his legal guardian.
He fed him, trained him and watched old fight footage with him and slowly turned a boy who had
never been told he was worth anything into the most terrifying force the sport had ever seen.
He became the youngest heavyweight champion in the history of boxing at just 20 years old,
just one year after Demado, the only father he ever knew, died without seeing it happen.
His name is Iron Mike Tyson. I did not know that one. There you go. There you go. We got him.
We got him, boys. We got him. Yeah, Mike Tyson had a hell of an upbringing and he's always lamented
the fact that basically his father Demado never got to see him become champion. He died. He died
before he could get a ton. And there the two come together. There they are. There they are.
All right. This is number six, Jake, number six, six.
This guy's, this champion's father was an Iranian Olympic boxer who changed the family name when
he came to America. He settled in Las Vegas and built a homemade ball machine in his backyard
out of modified pitching device that fired tennis balls at his children like a cannon.
The kid hated tennis from the day he could hold a racket. His father didn't care.
At just 13, he got sent to a tennis academy in Florida. He shaved the sides of his head
into a Mohawk and wore denim cutoff shorts on the court, just despite everyone around him.
He turned pro at just 16. By 19, he was one of the most famous athletes on the planet.
And at 19, he started losing his hair. He did not shave it and he did not own it. He panicked.
He got a wig, a full mullet hairpiece that he wore during matches held in place with a headband
and a prayer. For five years, the most recognizable head of hair in professional sports was completely
fake. In 1990, he made his first grand slam final at the French Open. The night before the biggest
match of his life, he got in the shower and felt the hairpiece come apart in his hands.
He called his brother in a panic and they clamped it back together with 20 bobby pins.
His brother looked at it and just said, yeah, I don't know, just don't move much.
The next morning he warmed up and prayed not for victory, but for his wig to stay on.
He spent the entire match terrified that every lunge every dive for a ball would send it tumbling
on to the red clay in front of millions of people. He lost five years later,
somebody loved told him to just just shave it. Yeah, he said it felt like she was asking him
to pull out all his teeth, but he did it anyway. And it took just 11 minutes.
He went to the Australian Open and didn't drop a single set on his way to the final,
not a single set. He said afterward that the wind had been the wig had been a shackle.
And once it was gone, he was free. He lost his first grand slam final because he was more worried
about his wig than his opponent. He won six more after he finally took it off. His name,
Andre Agassi. Agassi. Yeah, the man, the man that I never knew that story. That's crazy.
Look at that. That's not real, dude. That hair is not real. That was the wig. That's not real.
That's wild. Isn't that insane? Unbelievable. Obviously that that's real. Early days there,
early days. All right. Number Jacob, number five, number five. All right. He was born in 1874
into one of the most famous families in England. His father was a prominent politician and his
mother was an American socialite and neither one of them had much time for him. Maybe his lack of
parenting causes baldness, Jake. I'm, I'm, yeah, there's kind of a theme here, isn't there? There's
he was raised largely by his nanny, a woman named Elizabeth Everest. And he later said
she was the only person in his childhood who showed him what love was. He was a good student.
He failed the entrance exam, though, to the Royal Military College at Sanders,
twice before barely escaping through on his third attempt. His father died shortly after,
already disappointed in him. He was 20 years old and already completely written off.
He joined the army, saw combat in India and Sudan, and then got himself hired as a war
correspondent in South Africa during the Boer War. In 1899, the armored train he was riding was
ambushed. He was captured and thrown into a prisoner of war camp in Pretoria. He climbed
the wall there, dropped into the night and walked nearly 300 miles through enemy, enemy territory
with no map, no food and no contact. He made it out alive. Wow. Big time. He came home a celebrity,
ran for parliament, lost. He ran again and won. And then for the next 30 years, he was the man
nobody trusted with power. He switched parties, backed catastrophic military campaigns. He drank
too much and painted watercolors. And he warned anyone who would listen that Germany was rearming
and that a war was coming that would be worse than the last one. Nobody listened.
By 1940, he was 65 years old and considered a relic of British politics. And then the Germans
invaded France and everything collapsed. And the only person the country trusted to stand in front
of the fire was the old man they'd all dismissed. He did not win the war with a weapon. He won it
with his voice. He stood behind a podium, bawled and round and utterly unimposing to look at.
And he spoke. And what he said held the nation together when there was no rational reason to
believe it would survive. He was written off by his country for 30 years. And then his country
needed someone to stand in the fire. And he was the only one left. His name is Sir Winston Leonard
Spencer Churchill, the man. And he gets a bad rap these days. You know, he really does.
It's like a little bit of rewriting of history. And I think he was a pretty good and very timely
man to have at the helm during that trying time. You know what I bet he wish he had when he climbed
over that wall? I bet he wish he had a way to navigate, Chris. I bet he wishes like which
where boundaries were, you know, land boundaries. Yes, that might have been not actually going to
Rhodesia or something. Yeah, well, you know, maybe he should have had on X. Yes, I believe he should
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All right. This is number four and we're at half an hour. Yeah, we'll be we'll be good on time.
All right, this next balding genius legend man was born around 100 BC
into a Roman family that had a famous name and no money. The name carried weight in the Senate,
but the bank account did not. He was by the standards of Roman aristocracy, a well bred
nobody. When he was in his mid 20s, he was captured by pirates in the Mediterranean.
They held him for ransom and set the price at 20 talents of silver. He laughed at them. A talent.
Yeah, I learned a talent is the, yeah, that's cool. Hey, Jake, do you know why they put the
little ridges on the edges of coins? Yeah, it's because you used to be able to shave it down.
Yeah, you know, and still spend it because that's the coin, right? But then after a while,
you'd have a pile of silver. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. So the little ridges, you know,
it doesn't get found out. He told them they had no idea who they had and demanded they
raise the ransom to 50 because 20 was an insult. While he waited for the money to arrive,
he joked with the pirates and recited poetry to them and told them plainly and cheerfully
that once he was free, he would come back and crucify every last one of them.
They thought it was hilarious. He was released. He raised a fleet, hunted them down, and did
exactly what he said he would do. He went on to conquer Gaul, which is modern day France,
Belgium and parts of Germany and Britain. He crossed the Rubicon with a single legion
and started a war that he won. He became dictator of Rome and the most powerful man
in the entire world, Western world. And the entire time he was losing his hair.
Ancient historians describe him as deeply self conscious about it. He grew what he had long
in the back and combed it forward. This Jake might be the original comb over.
When that wasn't enough, the Roman Senate passed a special decree
allowing him to wear a laurel wreath at times. It was technically a military honor,
but it was widely understood to be a favor to his vanity. He conquered the known world and
still could not get over what was on top of his head. He was assassinated in 44 BC,
stabbed 23 times on the floor of the Senate by men he trusted. Every emperor who followed
took his name as a title. Kaiser, czar. All of it traces back to one self conscious bald man
who changed the calendar. This is a man who told the pirates he would come back and kill them.
And they laughed and he did. 2000 years later, we still name a month after him, July.
He is not the creator of the Caesar salad. That was Caesar Cardini also bald. This guy's name is
Gaius Julius Caesar. Mr. Mr. Not Caesar salad. Yeah, there he is. The first original
comb over. I don't mind Caesar. What's your favorite salad, Jake?
I like Caesar. Yeah, that might be one of Caesar's actually. Wedge salad for me.
Blue cheese steak. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, that's very good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What is this? What
Oh, that's the Caesar. That's Caesar. Cardini. Yeah, that's Caesar. Cardini. The event are the
Caesar salad. Got it. I thought it was Julius Caesar, Caesar salad. Poor Caesar. Cardini,
never getting his due. What a bummer for that guy, right? All right, moving on to number three.
And we're getting good ones here now, Jake. These are going to start getting really good.
And now we're kind of into like, these are some really relevant ones. You know, we got
Churchill. Yeah, Julius Caesar. These are some really important dudes that didn't have any hair.
Okay, I know what you're doing here, Chris. Every other man on this list became more powerful
after losing his hair. This one lost everything when he lost his. He was born to parents who had
been told by a messenger of God that their son would be set apart and consecrated. There was a
covenant. The boy would live under a vow that included one rule above all others. His hair
must never be cut. As long as it remained, he would carry the strength of something beyond
himself. And he did. The stories say he killed a lion with his bare hands. He fought a thousand
men with nothing but the jawbone of a donkey and he walked away. Very random thing to use.
Well, that's what you got. You know, you got what you got. He tore the gates off a city
and carried them up a mountain. He was not a general or a king. He was a weapon. And then,
unfortunately, he fell in love. Her name was Delilah and the men who wanted him destroyed
Delilah came to her first and said, find out where this man's strength comes from.
Like every woman she betrayed him asked him three times and three times he lied.
Just kidding. Just kidding. Just kidding. The fourth time he told her the truth. If my head is
shaved, my strength shall leave me. She waited until he fell asleep in her lap and called for
a man to cut his hair while he slept. When he woke up, it was gone. All of it. The strength,
the covenant, the identity, everything. His enemies seized him and gouged out his eyes
and chained him in a prison. We spent days grinding grain like an animal. But here's the part that
people often forget. His hair grew back and one final act, blind and chained between two pillars
of a temple packed with 3,000 of his enemies. He pushed and he pulled and the whole thing came
down on all of them, including himself. The only man on this list who was definitely stronger with
his hair than without it and the only one who brought the house down on his way out. His name
is Samson. Yes, Mr. We got a picture of Samson. Nice. That's not Samson. Is that Samson? Oh,
it is. Look, he's bald. Look at those creeps. Because she's going.
Poor Samson betrayed. Yeah. Yeah, poor Samson. All right, you ready? What's the number? There's a
the song. That was horrible. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Because that has a line there.
Samson. Ah, yes. She cuts your hair.
Yeah, you definitely don't want your wife to cut your hair.
Born in 1869, number two, number two in a coastal town in western India. This man's family was
uppercast. Comfortable. His father was a local government official and there was money and status.
Expectation often comes with both of those. At 18, he sailed to London to study law.
He arrived in a three piece suit. He took dancing lessons and tried to learn the violin.
He was by every measure a young man doing everything in his power to become the proper English
gentleman. He passed the bar and returned to India and failed almost immediately.
He was shy, terrified of public speaking and could barely hold his own in a courtroom.
So he took a job in South Africa, figuring he'd spend a year doing legal work and then
come home. And then on a train from Durban to Pretoria, everything changed. He had a first
class ticket. A white passenger objected to sharing the compartment with an Indian man
and the conductor told him to move to third class. He refused. They threw him off the train at
Pets Maritz Berg station and he sat on the platform in the cold with his luggage. In that moment,
something turned over inside of him that would never turn back. He stayed in South Africa for
21 years. When he finally returned to India, he had shed the three piece suit entirely.
Now he wore a simple white cloth and he shaved his head and he did something that he had never
done before. He fought an empire without raising a fist. He marched 240 miles to the sea and made
salt from the ocean in open defiance of British law. They arrested him and he did not resist.
They beat his followers at the Dharasan assault works and not one of them raised a hand to fight
back. The international press watched it happen and the moral authority of the British Empire
cracked in front of the entire world. He was jailed over and over and each time he came out
thinner and quieter and somehow harder to ignore. And in 1947, the British Empire,
the largest political entity the world had ever known left India. Not because it was defeated
in battle, but because it had lost something it could never give back get back 300 million people
followed that bald man in a white cloth and the most powerful empire in human history packed its
bags and left his name of course, Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi. Number two. Number two. What
brought down the British Empire? Yeah, I didn't know the back history of him either.
You know, you always kind of hear of the, you know, the peaceful protest thing that
that you did, but you didn't you didn't know that he was just a regular dude that, you know,
couldn't even speak to anyone in public and went to South Africa and got thrown off a train.
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Wouldn't you say that? You would say that? All right, let's move on to our number one.
Our number one. I get it. Yes, yes. You are thick. What are you doing?
You're, you are thicker than your hair. This, this absolute legend. Number one. This is my
number one. Okay. My number one. This absolute legend was born in 1963 in Brooklyn, New York,
the fourth of five children. His father worked at the general electric plant and his mother
worked at a bank. When he was a toddler, the family moved to Wilmington and that's where this boy
grew up. He was not the best athlete in his family. His older brother Larry was better,
stronger and more explosive. They played one on one in the backyard every single day and Larry won
almost every time. The younger brother later said that everything he became started in that
driveway, getting beat by a kid two years older who refused to just let him win. In his sophomore
year of high school, he tried out for the varsity basketball team and he didn't make it.
They put on, put him on JV instead. There are a lot of stories about what happened next and most
of them have been exaggerated over the years, but the core of it all is true. He went home
and whatever he felt that night, whether it was embarrassment or anger or something quieter,
he came back the next day and started working in a way that he had not worked before.
He made varsity the following year and led the team. He got a scholarship to college,
hit the game-winning shot in the national championship as a freshman, and was drafted into
the NBA third overall in 1984. This guy was not the biggest player. It wasn't the tallest,
but he had something that other guys didn't and it was not just talent. It was an absolute
borderline pathological refusal to lose. He took everything personally, a slight from a teammate,
a look from an opponent, a newspaper headline. He stored all of it and converted it into fuel
and they went out and destroyed whoever was standing in front of him. He started losing
his hair in his mid-20s during his first MVP season and his hairline began pulling back around that
time. By 1989 he was shaving it clean and here's what matters about that. In the late 1980s a bald
head on a young black man in mainstream American culture was not what it is today. It was not
aspirational, it was not stylish, it was what happened when you got old. He was 26 years old
and he had just shaved it and dared the world to say something. Nobody said a word because by then
the silhouette was already iconic. The bald head, the long shorts, the tongue out, the ball in one
hand, six feet above the rim. You didn't need to see his face, you knew exactly who it was. He
didn't just normalize baldness for black men, he made it the most recognizable image in the history
of the sport. Six championships, five MVPs, two Olympic gold medals, 14 all-star selections,
a shoe brand worth more than most country's entire GDP. And then there is the logo, nothing more than
a silhouette of a bald man jumping. That's it, that's the whole image and every single person
on earth knows exactly who it is. His name of course, Michael Jeffrey Jordan, the goat, the
absolute goat. And you know, I didn't know that it was, you know, he set a revolution with that.
I was, I was unaware, but yeah, there is with hair. Man, I remember watching Michael Jordan
when I was a kid and really inspiring me. You know, as a kid he didn't, I guess I would have been like
12, 13 years old when he was winning championships and doing all the things that he did. So I didn't
really get like the whole work ethic thing. But then he had that game where I remember watching
it and they said he had the flu, the flu game, where he went out and played in the championships
and scored like, I don't know, 130 points or whatever it was, I don't know, I'm not that much
of a nerd. But I do remember going, wow, wow, the guy just played in a basketball game while he has
the flu. I didn't, at that point knew what the flu was. I remember I barfed on my birthday cake
once. Oh no. Oh, I was like, bleh. That was so, it was so very sad. That's it, Jake. That's the,
that's the top 10 list. Actually, there's one more. Okay. He was born in the mid 1980s in the upper
Midwest. Quiet suburb. Nothing remarkable about the geography. His mother was in and out. She was
drug addled, but kind and she and his father were never married. His father was always working on
bridges far away. And while he tried his best, he was often violent. For a while, the boy lived
with his mother. And then one day she dropped him off at his grandparents doorstep. That was that
left like a package on the porch. His grandparents raised him and they gave him
something no one else had, which was a steady house and a place where rules made sense because
the people enforcing them actually loved him. He went to college in San Francisco to study
3D animation and special effects engineering. And he remembers his grandmother crying as he
walked down the jetway to leave for college. It was the farthest he'd ever been from home and
the farthest anyone in his life had ever believed he would go. He came back to the Midwest and got
a job in a photo lab and learned how a camera worked. He started shooting weddings and then
became a manager at Best Buy. What a career. He moved in with his father in high school
before this. And in his early 20s, they had gotten it. This is wrong. I had AI right. I actually
had AI right about me because I felt so uncomfortable with us. Jake. Yeah. Yeah. He moved
in with his father, blah, blah, blah. He worked on cars, blah, blah, blah. He started car clubs
with hundreds of miles of cars. His grandparents did get to see what he was building, but they
never got to see what he built. He's okay with being alone. He learned that young on a bicycle
at sunrise with nowhere to be and no one expecting him back. And he still believes that some of the
best moments a person can have are the ones where no one else is around. Recently, his wife made him
shave his head. And when he looked in the mirror, he thought about every man on this list, the Egyptian
with the crocodile fat, the Roman with the laurel wreath, the fighter from Brownsville,
and the tennis player with the 20 bobby pins and thought, yeah, I belong here. His name
is Chris Cluel.
That's a transformation. There it is. There it is, ladies and gentlemen. That's it.
So you, I called this this morning. We were on a call and you accidentally lifted your
head a little bit like that. And I was like, what, what was that? And I should have put it
together and doing the bald thing. You didn't till till just recently. I didn't. No, I didn't.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Well, this is it. You know, this was Jesse comes to me. She goes, it's time.
I go, yeah, it's time. I'm going to put my hair out to pasture and she gets the trimmer,
you know, and she's going trimming the hair, doing the thing. And of course, we get about
halfway done and it dies. So I'm stuck with like half of my hair. I'm in my underwear on a towel
in the, in the bedroom, just like, well, I can't leave like this. It's just the kids hate it.
They're like, who are you? I'm just, I do have a normal shaped head though, which is good. I have
a very round head. I don't, I don't have any dents. I do have a scar right here somewhere.
I remember when I was a kid, I was walking next to this fence and my arch nemesis, I can't
remember the little shitty kid's name. He's a bully, you know, threw a piece of asphalt over a
fence and it hit me right in the head. It's got a little scar right there. But I got a hard head,
so it didn't dent anything. Just, just gave me a. We do know you're hard headed. Yes. Yeah,
all right. We've got other things to talk about. How does it feel weird though? It's cold. It's
cold and shocking. Every time I look at it, I don't really like it very much. I was always
been a hat guy though. So I feel like, yeah, because, because I've been balding for like
10 years. Like I have a bald spot on the top of my head and my hairline is receded like
really far back. Are we, are we just going back to photos?
These are all these photos. These are all photoshopped of me. There's me as, yeah,
me with my audio stack. What else we got? Me as the guy from the, the JB. Oh no, the
Maxelle commercial. She does not have any photos of my bald spot, apparently. I, I think this
probably stays, Jesse really likes it, or at least she says she does and we're pretty honest
with each other. So yeah, I'm bald now. So that's the first person I called was Kenny. I called Kenny
and Kenny Perkins our buddy and helps out. Yeah. So I, and then I walked into the, so Blake that
works at Samaritan tire. He's always had his head shaved. First thing I walk in there, I go,
I'm in the club. And I just took my hat off and he's like, ha, welcome to the club. But you know,
I'm in the club. Feels weird when your head's on a pillow. I wake up and sit up in front of the
mirror. I'm like, Oh God, just, it feels like a, kind of like a passage. Like I'm old. I had to
shave my head cause my hair was falling out. So appreciate your hair, Jake. Appreciate it very
much. All right. Before we get into a little bit of, uh, we got some news and I know, you know,
we might, do you want to, do you want to roll into some stories or what do you, what do you want
to do here? Do you want to, you got a news article for us? Do you want to do one, one news
article that we'll do some of your whatever is fucking broken? Tell me about, tell me about the
common gear, Jake. Tell me about common gear before we get into all this other stuff. Yeah,
let's do it. So, you know, the story of your car matters just as much as the machine itself ever
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and you can go to the common gear.com, make your account for free and start building your car's
digital legacy today. Check him out. All right, what have you got for news for us, Jake? Give us
one and then we can talk about broken things. Let me give you one, let me find it here. This is
kind of fitting because, you know, we're talking about clearly you had a big change by shaving
your head. Well, let's pretend for a moment there was another big change. Let's say history was
different and you didn't decide to buy a house last year. Maybe instead you said screw this to
family and responsibilities and being an adult and you said, I'm going to go out and buy a brand
new GT3. Why not? Doing that instead, okay? Crisis, crisis time. Hair's falling out. Hair's falling
out. Existential crisis. Going to buy a GT3, yes. Well, as we know, you know, you can't. You can't
just go and buy one because the weight is insane in addition to, you know, the price. You get on
the list, you do your order. Or the allocate. You can't even get one even if the weight. Exactly.
Which is why the use market is so crazy. So this explains why a long time portion enthusiast named
Abdul-Lenziz, a Florida man, picked up a... Florida man? Florida man. Yeah, I should tell you something
right away. He picked up a 2022 GT3 with just 34 miles on it. This was sold as a new car.
Now granted, he bought this just last year with 34 miles on it. But again, this was basically
a clean, immediate, no weight GT3 brand new. So okay, I'm going to buy it. He paid 281,000,
which by the way is, even though it was a couple years old, that is basically market
rate, right? It's MSRP is around 160. When you start, you know, optioning it, you'll get up to 200.
And, you know, with the demand and everything else, the fact that this one was available right
there, 280 grand brand new GT3. He's a happy man, right? Sure. They said it had 34 miles on it because
it was used for light promotional purposes. Basically, it was like a showroom car, you know,
light, light, light promotional purposes like lighting it up.
Yeah, maybe. No, I think it was more like described as maybe they brought it out to,
you know, an event or something. Car show, cars and coffee, something. Yeah,
it was just their dealership car, right? Well, according to the recent lawsuit,
that was not at all true, Chris. What happened was he started to see issues with the car.
And when they dug into it, the car had reportedly spent over a year in Porsche's very own
technical apprentice training program, where it was used as a hands on training tool,
which is a play way of saying it had been taken apart and put back together by people who are
still learning how to take things apart and put them back together over and over and over again.
When the purchase asked the window sticker, the dealer goes, Oh, shoot, you know what,
we must have lost that. We don't we don't see it. So that's suspicious. Then he gets the car home,
opens the glove box, and he found the window sticker. But it said big, bold type over where
the window sticker would be PCNA car, not for public sale. Pretty subtle, right? So,
wow, after the issues actually started, electrical problems undercarriage components that had
clearly been removed and not quite reinstalled with the precision they would be expected.
Technicians when he brought the car in for service reportedly confirmed what you're now
thinking. This car had been worked on before a lot. Eventually, it became undriveable
with electronics issues and all sorts of weird gremlins and just rattles and things not working.
It sat for nearly a year. Now, Aziz then brought the dealership to court and won the
lemon law arbitration, forcing Porsche to buy the car back. However, why would they go through that
horrible PR? Just give them his money back and take the car back. Like, what are you doing?
Yep, it's still it's still not settled, though, because sure, they agreed to do what the law told
them and give the money back due to the lemon law. But they did not agree to refund things like taxes
and finance finance costs and like, you know, title and license and all of that. So he is
basically appealing this and saying like, come on, what are you doing? Like, and also suing
them for damages, by the way, because now it's they've had his money for this long and yeah,
you could have earned like what would you earn if you had had like just a for two a year and a half,
two years just in spy or something. You could just made a ton of money. It's yeah, as it stands,
he still has the car, which is a nonoperable. The dealership and Porsche have declined to comment
on the issue. The lawsuit alleges everything from misprint, meprosintation to outright fraud on their
behalf. So it is a good thing you simply shaved your head and not go out and buy what was not
even that big of a steal of a deal. But I never chalk up to malice, which is most often incompetence.
Yes, somebody fucked up. Yes, never. What is it that you there's a saying? Yeah, never. Yeah,
there's a saying it's never to malice what could be. Yeah, in competence, which is more often than
not incompetence or stupidity or right accident or whatever. It's just yeah, nobody like nobody
nobody went ooh, I know what we're going to do with this car. Let's make some money that just come
on. Nobody would do that. But then why aren't these idiots at the dealers just saying like,
oh crap, yeah, here, let's let's refund you and we'll get you on a list for another new GT3 like
and then they could make more money off the dude. But instead, they're paying all these legal costs.
It's just so stupid. What a nightmare. What a nightmare. Absolutely. Speaking of nightmares,
Chris. The overcrest driving team. What a nightmare. No, I was going to talk about
things breaking over here. But well, let's talk about something that we're rebuilding.
Yes, let's talk about something that we're rebuilding. As many of you know, and I've seen
a lot of people upgrading their membership so they can get cooler stuff. We're redoing the
overcrest drivers club to be the overcrest driving team and you're going to see new branding roll
out with that. You're going to see if you go and you look at the list of stuff that you get.
It's new. I used to get something once and then that's it. Now you get something once a year,
twice and twice a year. Is it once a year twice here? I don't remember if we're going to pick
once a year. Once the same Mrs. Producer. What does it say? I can't read. That's way too small.
I think it's once a year. Blah, blah, blah, blah, but maybe we'll maybe we'll annual drive annual
yep. Okay, annual drop, annual drop. First drop is going to be this summer this summer. If you're
not a member now, you need to sign up. Get it. Get on the game. It's like five bucks. You can get
something really dope. It's going to be dope. It is sign up after you see everyone posting their
cool thing that they got. Well, you're going to have to wait a year because you're going to have
to wait a year. But yeah, but don't don't be that guy. Don't be that guy that just signs up.
That's why I'm saying don't do that. Don't do that. Just sign up now. Don't be a freeloader.
You know, it's like you guys spend more money on that on on coffee and Red Bulls. I know you do.
So give it to me and Jake instead. Give it to overcrest. We can do cool stuff.
Anyway, that's overcrest productions.com forward slash. I don't know anymore.
Anything direct directs to but for now, if you want to just go look at stuff, you can go to
patreon.com forward slash overcrest is where you'll find and the link in the show notes,
it'll be there. It'll be there. Yeah. Jake, what what broke? What's cold? What's what's no good?
Okay, so I'm going to start with like most not horrific and pretty much expected to then the
Jake's top 10 things that broke in the last two weeks. Okay, got it. 100%. So we got a ton of
snow. It was very heavy and wet. So I broke out old Bessie, the old rusty plow truck, the diesel.
And it just lives on a trickle start charger now because it's called Hanlon's razor.
Mrs. Producer just sent it to me. Okay. Hanlon's razor is an adager rule of thumb
that states never attribute to mouse that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I like that. I like that very, very, very much. I feel like most of the razor that
government can be attributed to that. Is there something where it's like, well,
I feel like there's so many conspiracy theories out there, right? They're like,
yeah, this is this is all conspiracy. It's the it's the new world. I would say that's not
stupidity that I would say that's abdication of responsibilities where a lot of the government
problems come from. Okay. Yeah, I don't want to talk about I don't want to talk about. Go ahead.
We won't continue on. However, you know, power steering pumps that that just sometimes fail
unlike unresponsive. I was trying to make a link. Yes. So I was using the plow truck because
the snow was very heavy. I couldn't move with anything else. What? You just bought a truck.
Yeah. It doesn't have a plow on it. Why not? I'm not gonna. What is the point of you have never
what is the point of this truck? What is the point of this truck? Which this new truck?
The one you just bought. That's my daily truck. You have a daily truck. I cannot believe I cannot
believe how and then I have my summer truck. Jake, that truck was the dumbest thing you've
ever purchased. I cannot believe it. I enjoy it. I'm sure it's very nice. I'm sure it's very
doesn't make you happy. You get into it and you're like, yeah, it's a nice truck. Yeah,
that's exactly what I do. Yeah. And then you get in the other one, the plow truck and go,
I hate my life. Yes. 100% 100% because it but it's I like still use it and want to use it
because you don't realize how violent. Well, it's basically because I hate that truck. I'm just
not nice to it. So like, I just, you know, running things slamming it apart into reverse. Yeah.
However, when you have like both the hubs locked in four wheel and you have the heavy ass plow on
the front and you're like trying to turn through a snow bank. And then all of a sudden you're like,
what are all these red drips everywhere around on the snow? That's kind of weird. What's bleeding?
And then all of a sudden you hear the power steering kind of groaning. And then as you're
trying to turn, it's impossible because if you don't have any power assist on that, then it's
yeah. And then your brakes don't work because it turns out with a diesel, there's no vacuum,
of course, for your vacuum assisted brakes. So they use the hydro assist, which by the way,
your trooper, you should look into a hydro assist because I assume that thing is power steering.
So I got it all figured out now. I've got like a vacuum pump that breaks every month. No, I fixed
it. I got so Volvo uses a vacuum pump for different things. And they have a little,
they have a vacuum switch that basically it turns on. What's it called? Hobbs.
Called what? Hobbs. Hobbs switch. That's what it's called. Why is it called the Hobbs switch?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's just a pressure switch. So it doesn't run all the time. It starts, it goes
and then just turns off when it reaches vacuum. So I'm fine. It should, it should now last quite
some time. I'm not fine. The only problem is, the only problem is, is that I used to use that to
know when my glow plugs turned off because I don't have a light because it would,
the glow plugs would draw so much amperage that it would change the noise of the vacuum pump.
So now I have to, what about your dome light? Can you just be like, okay, yep.
Oh, that's actually not too bad. Just leave the door open a little bit, except the dome light
doesn't work on the driver's side. Only all other three doors work, but not mine. There is a glow,
there's a glow plug light in the dash because they didn't make this truck in a diesel. So I just
have to figure out a way to do it and figure it out. And there's other things I want to do,
like make the cruise control work because it, I could, and I want to make the air conditioning
work because it could. So there's all kinds of things I would like to do on that truck. So I
should probably stop trying to just sell it and finish it. That's the spirit. Yeah, so things
rusted. So no brakes on the plow truck. So yeah, no brakes, no, well, I mean, the brakes already,
like no brakes. Well, remember, you may recall the calipers were seized. Yeah, the calipers
seized open and then I ejected the brake pads. Remember, it was like grinding wheel of stock
and I just kept going and the brake pads just went out. So then the power steering high pressure
line burst open. And so I was like, I kind of want to be able to use this a little bit. So I got
the new power steering line. I did end up and you're not doing this work yourself. Why are you
doing this work yourself? That is like the most hellacious work closed, Chris. Lucky dog. Oh,
they did. Yes. Unlucky. Very unlucky. You know, you know what you should do is you should get
that little, oh, I wonder, you should get that little truck thing. The pin's gower. No, the pin's
gower. Why? What? I got the ad right here. That's the most practical vehicle I could ever buy.
Impractical. No, no, this thing's awesome. This thing's awesome. Hold on. I am going to,
you could put a plow on this. It doesn't even have an enclosed cab. It's
yes. Here it is. For a cylinder air cooled motor. Great. Five speed. Awesome. Runs and drives.
There you go. There you go. Look at this thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Look at that. It's got an enclosed
cab. What are you talking about? It's got windows. Yeah. The cloth top. Uh-huh. There is some dude
that daily drives one of these in Siberia and doesn't complain. Guaranteed. How much is it?
$7,800. Yeah. No, thanks. I don't need that. I'm just going to put my new power steering
line on and I did buy a brake caliper for it too because it's my fix where I just bolted.
I put a bolt through the brake line. Yeah. Yes. That's starting. I've blocked my brake line.
Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Just use the skid steer. My God. Just put a. Again, you clearly have never
plowed because that doesn't have enough weight to it actually to plow big. It has plenty. Plenty
of weight. You just have to get it off the road more often. So you just have to do this more often.
Yeah. That's lame. It also doesn't. It's, it's, it's less lame than driving a truck with no brakes
that you are going to hate yourself. Here's what I want you to do. Promise me you will do this.
Okay. Just right now. Promise. I promise. It's, it's something you will do so you can promise.
I want you to promise me that when you are doing the work on this truck and you are in the middle
of it, please promise me you will call me. Okay. That I can do. Okay. So when you are in the middle
of this brake line hell, you have now promised to call me and I'll record the call. I'll hit
record on the call and then we'll, we'll revisit this later when you, and maybe we'll do a video
call because you're all your knuckles are going to be bleeding everything else. I'm not doing it
today because it's cold, but it's supposed to be warmer. It is cold. So I'll do it then. It is,
it is, it is. Well, you won't need, you won't need the truck for quite some time anymore.
So you might as well just park it and leave it alone. Yep. That's where it is. So what else
that's like the, yeah, that's kind of lame sucks, whatever. Then the more serious problem is I,
you know, it was the last couple of weeks ago when it was like actually feeling like spring.
I went out to the barn and I like was going to put the charger on the boat and make sure
everything was good to go there and like start to clean it up a little bit. And I opened the
hatch to look in the engine compartment and like my light, what is that down there in the hull?
Oh no. That's weird. What is that? Oh, I have a video. I'll send it to you. We can,
we can put it up later if you want. Okay. Well, I just would rather have you describe it.
Let's, let's use the art of narration. Okay. I'm, I'm seeing the reflection
of a circle down in the hull about that big. And I was like, yep, that's round. What is that?
I pick it up. Huh. It's like a brass circle. It's kind of like a cap. That's weird.
Like a pilot bearing? No. Should I just tell you what it was?
Okay. So it's, it's circular. Yeah. How big? It is the size of a 50 cent piece. Okay. And it, it,
Oh, I know what that is. Oh no. Jake, no. And then I find another one. You did not. You did not.
You forgot to winterize your boat. I did. I winterized it. However, I found two freeze plugs
that are all, by the way, misnomers. They're just casting cavities. They're not actually holes.
Yeah. Yeah. They don't, they don't do anything. They don't. They happen to be on the water jacket
sometimes. Right. And when you freeze your block, it turns out they do actually pop out,
but 90% of the time you also have cracked your block. So I have two things. One, the one side,
the one plug that fell out was clearly not factory. The rest of them were all painted,
you know, with the block. This one had marks where it's like clearly someone put it back
in and it was copper. So A, maybe it wasn't put in totally tight. And so like maybe I'm gonna get
lucky. Um, maybe not. So I bought, they make, because they're hard to get to, I'd have to take
the starter off and the manifold off to even get them back in there correctly.
We'll just fill it up with water and see what happens. There's literally giant holes in the
side of the block, Chris, where these go. Oh, you can't get the, you can't get the freeze
plugs back in. It's not just, you have no access. So they make like a little rubber,
like temporary ones. So I bought those. I'm going to put those in. And then I have a
full hookup rather than using the stupid ear things. Like I could put the ears over the
transom where it sucks up water, but that can't really tell what's going on. So I bought the
full inline like hose hookup thing so you can pressurize the engine with your house pressure.
And I'm going to, well, you can't do not too much pressure. You're going to pop that rubber
one out right away. That's just going to pop out of there instantly. So I would just, I would
just take the, okay, I don't know how your boat works, but do you have like a rubber tube that
connects your exhaust manifold to your hull, like the big rubber tube? Why don't you just take that
off and then just fill up that side, fill it up with freaking water, just pour water in your
exhaust manifold and fill the engine up. I think does kind of, yeah. Well, it's shovel hose in there.
Yeah. Oh, whatever. You'll figure out that. That sucks the exhaust anyways, but that's how
you fill it up easily. And I can use that for water rising. I wish you the best of luck. That
would be, what is, what's in there? It's a 454, a 7.4. No, not the, what did you do? Did you just
drain the water out or did you run it on the pink stuff? I ran it dry and I put pink stuff in it.
The problem is, I don't know. I don't know what the problem is, but
mysteries. That's an honest, I, I would have already tried to figure this out because this
would keep me up at night. When did you figure this out? Over the weekend? Oh my gosh, dude,
I couldn't live with that. How do you live with yourself? Oh, I, because you just want to,
what do you want to, can you put two motors in there? No, you can. That came, that boat came
with duals, but then you'd have to like plug the center transom hole and put two new transoms in
or like two new, you know what I mean? Like the hull's already been cut before the single,
but you could get like a built 502 and make like six and a horsepower on a single screw. That would
work. We should talk to our, our friends over at Mercury Marine next door. Next door? Yeah,
they're in Wisconsin. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I'll just give us the state over crate motor. Yeah,
there now we're talking. Yeah, stop, stop being such a wuss. Yeah, yeah, they're only like 200
grand for the crate motor. Just what every open bow boat needs.
On that note, guys, unless something else broken, do you have another broken thing?
Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure. But those were the two main things. Okay. All right. Thanks for hanging
out guys and giving me moral support. Every bald person sent me some moral support on,
on, on Instagram or the discord. I'd love to hear your bald story. And also if you see any big block
engines for sale, let me know for the boat. Let them know. All right. It's fine. I think you'll
be okay. I do. I think you'll be all right. Optimism. I love it. All right. That's it for now, guys.
We will see everybody. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You have a story to tell Jake.
What? Oh, hot chimney sweep or something.
Oh, is this driver's so
Oh, yeah, let me tell this story on the driver's club. That's no big deal. Everyone else. See you
later. You're free loader. Okay. Adios. All right. So we need to have our chimney.
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