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motherfucking tell hi everybody hello welcome to the program it's noon on a friday you know what

that means when we're done with this shit the week is over no it's not it's not but also

I got a facial at nine o'clock this morning so it's not like I've had a tough day yeah that's

true I haven't had a tough day I've not I had a good day you don't happen this fucking week's act

two four five new customers 245 pounds oh right that is the lowest number I've seen on a scale

since I was 16 years old holy shit yeah 264 was wedding day wow yeah graduated from college

330 whoa when I met you you were like so you met me oh nine previous adult low 247 that was the

that was the lowest I've been as an adult it took a lot to fucking get there and it was when I got

hurt skiing that I lost it all so up down since then up down up down up down up down March 2023

fucking said no mo at 297 saw nutritionist got Sean and fucking head down so two years and five

months 50 pounds wow no cheat snow ozempics old school because it's the only way to fucking do it I

mean I don't hate on anyone who wants to do any of the surgeries or any of the drugs like fucking

do you whatever makes you look in the mirror and be happy with yourself like I don't give a fuck

for me for me the shortcut to anything isn't satisfying like doesn't matter what it is like

I'm not saying I've never taken a shortcut to something but it's that's rarely a satisfying

way to go but also if someone if someone crashes their car takes it to the body shop and then

continues crashing their car like eventually the car is gonna look like crap so if someone

does these different things like if you don't build the foundation of good behavior you will

probably eventually slide back right and so uh so yeah I mean and what's crazy is like actually

the real turning point first there was the two big turning points was one March 2023 when I made

those choices and I and I had a good good run over a couple months and then kind of lost it around

the holiday season of that year started to get it back a little bit but then when we went to your

bachelor party and I got back on the weed train you know what happened then alcohol consumption

way down oh way down yeah cut alcohol just no without trying cut alcohol by 75 percent that's

huge I mean huge and weed is also is an appetite suppressant for me I don't get munchies which

is a freak fucking thing but I don't so like but alcohol gives me crazy munchies so like

that was the kickstart a year ago to go from like 265 down to 245 wow crazy wow and oh yeah you're

welcome yeah thank you you put in you put in so much work I put a lot obviously you go to the gym

every day yeah I work out seven days a week yeah which is my arm I did four days in a row with my

trainer my arms are fucked up right now but but dude I'm gonna put a big it's like it's one of those

things it's like the fucking podcast like you're gone for two weeks so you gotta crush it when you

you know and and I work out in hotel gyms but not like you you work out in hotel gyms I can only

force myself to do cardio in hotel yeah which is far better than nothing but I just can't do a

wait circuit without my trainer like I'm fucking spoiled like that I need it like I need him dare

to do be like fucking do the thing asshole you fat piece of shit this is exactly how we talk I don't

think I'll I gotta do that for you know that's actually how I talk to myself that's why that's

why I started it but anyway that's great does feel nice to and I don't care about the number

so much I just care about how my clothes fit and I finally like finally like I'm looking in the

mirror and you're like hey that's all right that's why I told you that but when we were filming like

the wolf box ad and you did something I was like he's got like shoulders and arms now oh shit yeah

so but like more importantly like the lifestyle I've led like nutritionally for the last like

year I really enjoy I don't feel like I'm denying myself anything and and you know cool good times

right because then you're just enjoying life more yeah just don't get hurt otherwise you're fucked

but also that's the thing with working out dude Sean tries to like push me

and I go uh uh I go dude I know where you're coming from but if I don't get hurt today we can work

out tomorrow yeah you know that's like a huge one is like push but not not too hard yeah like

because like dude people get hurt he my my poor trainer gotta get shout out to him fit like Sean

on Instagram he comes to you if you're in LA book him Jim in a van he's great um he was spotting

someone and like dude and the person the client like fucked up and Sean tried to save the bell

and tore his bicep yeah like fucked that's like bad we're talking we're talking to Ferdy he tore

his bicep doing the ski car stuff because it's like you know like one of the one of the most

common ways people do that is they're doing deadlifts and they don't keep their arms straight

they flex them a little bit thinking that will help them lift all this weight and the bottom

sure because your bicep can't handle that and it rolls up like a window uh yeah you don't want

to do that consistency is yeah I'm the same way I was like oh I can't lift this much anymore I was

talking to musta about this and he was like after he musta was huge and and used to be very strong

and he hurt himself a little bit and when he went back to the gym he just like I lifted the bar for

a month he's like I don't care like people look at me weird I don't give a fuck I'm you know

humongous human being just do that and just show up and lift lighter and you can lift longer yeah

and plus with all the driving and shit my muscles are stronger than my joints like my joints are

fucked up and so like tendonitis and my stupid ham my quad tendon shit and so like my quad is like

way stronger than my quad tendon my bicep is way stronger than my fucking elbow and so like

my biceps like sure like no problem like another plate like I'm not saying like Superman but like

my bicep can lift way more than I can lift but my elbows will simultaneously snap right because

they spend tight or something 40 hours a week driving fucking cars around yeah that's one of the

good things um about rock climbing but that it takes a long time for people's tendons to toughen

like you could be a really strong person but you could still hurt yourself because your tendons

depending on what your workouts beforehand might be weak that's like you hurt your fingers a lot

like the old the that's like the rock climbing equivalent of like old man strength yeah like

what's that documentary about like that mr. olympia or one of those and it's like you know this young

guy who's like who's the game of thrones guy you know half nor whatever the fuck the guy's name

was it was a huge game of throwing the mountain yeah he throws that guy and then this other dude in

like the ukraine or some i'm insulting this person's legacy by another dude who's like like almost

like rocky but like 55 years old doesn't look that big works out like under a bridge like just

punching concrete you know seriously like looks like he's working out in like a war zone essentially

and then just goes and he's like you know in she's shorter and visibly much smaller and much much

older and it's in this and he just like wrecks everybody because he has this like unbelievable

old man strength it's just the cumulation of uh of whatever um it's the documentary wasn't about

a record but it was uh it was about these different uh disciplines or something like that just different

ways of going about like the strongest man someone in the comments will fucking not only know exactly

what i'm talking about but be like really offended at how poorly i just described the whole thing but

it old man strength good is the the the fucking moral yeah just just stay in the game for a long

time well that's also the peter atia like outlive thing which is like shout out to peter he rules but

like you know whatever you want to be doing in your 60s and 70s skiing golf running up the stairs

hiking driving stick whatever in your 30s and 40s work on the muscles and joints that would

make those activities easier you know like start it now especially he talked about i think not on

our show but a different thing is the quick quick reaction muscles really fall off as we age and

there's almost nothing we can do to stop that except lifting heavy weight that seems to help a bit

but that's why older people fall it's just like your your brain might go oh i'm falling but your

muscle can't react to put your foot in the right place and all that stuff yeah that makes sense

it's not what happened ace fraley didn't he just died from kiss he died like yesterday okay but uh

i think he got a like a brain bleed or something as a result of a of a slip and fall shit yeah wow

terrible falling bad um so anyway i'm fucking proud of myself and i have a few thousand people to brag

to to brag about so there we go um and speaking of me um know next weekend uh is it next weekend

two weekends it's november second and third two weeks two weeks november second third i will be at

the hilton head concourse hilton head south carolina be with my dad um come say hi hang out

let's get a beer i don't know if there's like a a meetup of any kind if anyone's doing any uh if

the hilton head cars i've never been to the hilton head concourse uh i don't know what kind of vibe

it is the um the the website and the photos indicate that it's a fairly traditional concourse but

who knows maybe there's a fun like side party happening that i don't know about um after all i

do um live near there so we're gonna hang out with with the old man and if anyone who's listening

to the show is gonna you go to their party that these guys are doing it he's 75 year olds cruising

and having a good time yeah so i want to see it november second is when i'm going sunday november

second um but if there's any events uh the day before days before that are worth me coming to

let me know i love i love that part of the country so fucking nice play a little golf yeah maybe i'll

go to the hilton head concourse by boat i'm just kidding i already looked it up there's no dock there

oh there isn't it's not at a it's not at a uh it's on a golf course but it's not a waterfront

golf can you drop anchor and then paddle board in your dad would be so down storm the we have

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yeah i mean i should say it because because i've had this idea for 10 years so copyright trademark

whatever but my goal is to with another person dress as the dumb and dumber you know folks i want

to wear the uh the colorfuls and tuxedos and then arrive at pebble beach concor by dinghy on the

on the beach side storm walk up storm the beach you know like in a nonviolent way but yeah and

then the key is to have passes right when they try to kick you out you just like you have tickets

yeah we just took a non-orthodox uh arrival yeah but that's what i want to do yeah i mean i like

that but i like wet suit or dry suit over the tux that would be all back off the dinghy scuba

to shore oh help for us very pretty pimp you know james bond done done done done done done

and you know philip with um airmanx was like hey oh fly the plane add to this you know have you ever

jumped out of an albatross at low altitude now we're just boom boom boom now what do what kind

of gym work do we need to do to train to jump out of a moving airplane like i'm in wearing scuba gear

but yeah no i'm not doing that and uh i don't think you can do that i mean maybe the navy seals

can't but i think even they prefer helicopters listen ken is like um no you know you have to do

hang i was out at we were i was hanging around some people's like when it's a fine you can that's

true oh the plane would land and we jump out we wouldn't jump out while flying low altitude it could

or it couldn't this is some batman stuff which i'm interested in commando you know it's like that

well you have to skydive out of the plane deploy parachute and then when you're low over the water

you whatever unclip parachute drop into water and then scuba in the ding or the dinghy rolls out of

the back like what c 130 look at you know a schwarzenegger movie you guide it down yeah and you

you glide it like a squirrel suit sure you wear it's mission it's mission impossible tom cruise

looks stunt coordinate you ride it like a squirrel suit down and then fire it up and now we're there

we need pastrana like he has to test this and if he lives we need scott oh get a call a zoom call

the other scott oh pastrana jim kana nine tom cruise you know michael bag yeah get them all together

you know rock rock rockheimer well we're gonna need rockheimer honestly not a bad way to die

like remember the guy that he squirrel suited into a couple of boxes of that would you die doing

if you don't deploy a parachute and you just trust the dinghy for slowing your fall you're dead well

even squirrel suit people use a parachute they do yeah yeah so you you squirrel suit with the dinghy

in the last minute you you cut i thought you meant you ride the dinghy like indiana jones remember

that remember that in the movie he jumps out all their they're on a boat and then they just happen

to land on the down slope which maybe technically would work like the gentlest thing in the world

dude i love the stunts in indiana jones because they're all like so clearly done in calabasas

i'm supposed to be like in the jungle tunisia dude in last cruise i just was watching last crusade

and in the hotel like on my trip and dude when they when they fucking exit the the zeppelin on the

in the plane and they get into this like motorcycle chase the nazis and they're in a like a stolen

morgan in the motors that whole scene is like i'm like was this in thousand oaks like is this supposed

to be in the black forest there's a pink very right there like malibu what are you doing over

here that's a coffee bean and tea leaf wait a minute yeah i love it um and now ironically they film

everything outside the country because it's cheaper yeah cheaper to fly cheaper to roco than to make

thousand oaks look like morocco snow unions now they make they're gonna it's all gonna look does

that look like it lana and why does everything look like suburban georgia yeah um so anyway

speaking of suburban georgia i will be at the hilton head concourse um you know it's funny i

i'm supposed to take a panamera there from you know portia it would be more fun if i took the

nine eighteen but those aren't good miles four hours highway each way that's not good that's not

nine eighteen miles that stinks nope that's just an uncomfortable loud car for four hours

yeah panamera will be way better for that yeah i don't even know which panamera i said but

everyone's laying around they're all comfy what a good death trap look at this belly tanker yeah

belly tankers them shits is dangerous um so anyway i'll be there and then uh if you're a watch nerd

like me uh and you're in los angeles on november eighth i will be uh appearing and doing a panel

at the grand seco i don't think there's a website for this yet zack at the grand seco gs nine event

like gs nine is their owners club if you get if you you become a member or you can enroll if you buy

one of their watches and uh is it on the calendar nope november all right november they're behind

yeah they haven't added yet it i just got booked the gig yesterday so um you know look out for it

it's i i don't want to say where it is in case they they haven't published it i don't want to

pull up their spot you know what i mean but um it was really fun two years ago if you want to come

this year it's really cool you get to see all the newest shit they do like japanese whiskey

tastings there's like watchmakers you get to meet some really really interesting people um

and uh it's fun it's a good time good sushi as expected so anyway that's going on um should we

talk about uh my free car should we talk about the last two nights of car events here in LA uh

or something else let's do let's do the car events then we'll do free car all right ping pong okay

so last night was larry chen as type s event uh in long beach formula d did you post pictures on

your instagram i put them on my story on your stories are they still exist it's yo story so i

hope they do you're right you were right there you were on the top of the list already um it was

cool they took over a parking garage like full-on fucking jdm style hot boy shit um larry was

selling books there was a lot of fucking people so many people and they said 10 000 people came

through and it felt like 3000 we're there while we were there we got there we were there from seven

8 30 i think but like uh a couple trends i noticed street glow is very much back oh for sure i didn't

i didn't know this i haven't i haven't guess i haven't been like seen enough but like street

glow is really back i think it's a lot of type s is business or a portion of it for sure is led

lighting for cars yeah so that there's that um i did not see so many supras but i did see a ton

of skylines lots of skylines that's true they were only i remember seeing i mean i know old

supers there were a lot of a lot of new so many new super i think there were three or four mark

four supers but this is a rare time where the skyline's outnumbered them 10 to 1 yeah for sure

um a lot of cool hondas uh that one dude that one si that we saw that wasn't even in the show

we were leaving that that blue one the 2000 si oh yeah oh that was fabulous uh and of course larry

was just like crushing it i said i saw i saw vin i saw ryan turk i saw uh jared d and i was down

there i know i know sung kang was down there uh do it promoting his uh drifter movie uh but he was

like bro he was mobbed well they did a i don't know if it's happening when we were there i guess him

and jared and some other folks did like a fireside chat yeah they did it was while we were walking

so that's why there was this huge crowd just gathered we couldn't even tell what they were

looking at there were so many we were trying to walk around like while those guys weren't doing that

how crazy the rest of the show had been if all those people weren't very packed there yeah super

fact and it was free i mean i don't know about showing a car but certainly getting in as a as a

pedestrian showing it they said uh first hundred cars that arrived were free and then every any car

that arrived after that at like 4 p.m. had to pay then just the normal parking garage rate oh oh yeah

because the yeah just whatever that is that garage is probably free during the day and cost money

maybe yeah um but it was rad i mean it was a really uh it was very much uh as close as you could get

i would say to doing a true like a jdm style parking garage show yeah like in la for sure the

background isn't quite the same as tokyo but like but the background is very much vice city so

in this long beach port like that is like the background it was effectively the same i mean i

like i like the selection of cars was pretty cool it was mostly japanese cars very few european cars

like i saw one new camaro one old nova and that crazy square body truck yeah that was a magnificent

sponsored magnificent supercharger build i think that was it that oh and then the mustang well

yeah i mean i saw i saw one jdm modified portia like a 997 convertible that like was modified as if

it was an eclipse which not hating but that's like that's how like right oh man it was very much a

third gen eclipse convertible yeah but it was a portion it was a portion yeah there's something

the way they lowered it the way they stretch the fenders it just changed the proportions

it turned it into an eclipse yeah and uh i saw like two bmw's

yeah i mean mostly japanese stuff which is maybe one or two volkswagen's like a little green rabbit

a little green rabbit with oh what was the license plate what's up doc what's up doc was great yeah

there was some cool stuff um that miyata we saw that had what does that body get called the coop

body the full coop body looks so good yeah that's probably that's just a fun thing that's having

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and now back to the show yeah we saw it was on our review all right so for those if anyone's like

listening live it has it it was an nb miata with a with a full fastback rear conversion

right i wouldn't do coop i would say nb miata fastback that's probably what that'll get us

that's it isn't that it is that this that might be basically that's basically the car yeah ccp

fabrication fastback top yeah okay that's yeah i think that looks awesome looks really good it

looks like dude with and the one that we saw at the show they had a bit of a different nose on it

it almost had like little mini aston martin vibes like 100 it was pretty pimp actually this looks

exactly like the car yeah i wonder if we could build one of those where the seat is far enough

that would be the kind of like race car i would like like endurance race car yeah just because

it looks awesome i'm down i think we stood there i think the longest of any of the cars there we

just were like uh that's pretty even from this angle that's good yeah pretty good also good pretty

good yeah i like that um and the one in the show this yeah oh look at this one this is unpainted i

think this one's unpainted but also he's got the fastback on but without it maybe it's got a

removable target roof also oh did the uh this guy's got a target roof taken off which is pretty slick

hmm it's from panos i don't know what that is it's pretty cool though i really like it yeah

me too that's fun so that was a good event and then we also went to uh race service to check out

the new rtr's um one of which i found i thought it was coming yesterday it's coming next sunday

okay so uh which we're gonna be storing it while it's in la here at westside but actually zack and i

'll get to uh yeah that's the one from carndriver get to make a video with it but this is the the

new four-cylinder one which is kind of cool it's like an eco boost and it gets um uh big breaks

from the gt performance cat pack it gets some like different chassis things from uh from the dark horse

it's got the drift brake programming um and it's an eco boost so i actually am kind of stoked to

drive this i haven't driven an eco boost Mustang since like 2017 at all i think me too i think we

rented one for something a long time ago yeah um i wonder how much lighter it is like how much

lighter let me look it up how much lighter the eco boost Mustang is i don't know it's probably pretty

might the last time i drove one i was like okay but it wasn't it wasn't that interesting uh jr

seemed pretty stoked on this one though and then he's also got one that's 810 horsepower which is

a gt-based one with a ripple on it and then there's this other crazy one that's coming out that that

really looks a lot like the rtr with the with like a crazy wide body on it it doesn't have

inboard suspension the way the rtr does but but it has sort of the same aesthetic and a lot of power

and other things um quick google says the eco boost Mustang should weigh at 150 to 200 pounds less

than a gt in the nose oh yeah so the equivalent equipment so that can make it feel pretty interesting

yeah i don't know i bet if you put square stance on one i bet it would turn in like real nice yeah

so that's pretty cool it looks fun it raised every race service they had the in and out truck

out there i swear the in and out truck burgers maybe because it was just so close from the grill

to my hand we're like better than in a restaurant i agree i i don't really like in and out i do not

go to the restaurant voluntarily ever but i was hungry there but that burger maybe i was hungry it

just hit the spot and i was like this is pretty solid i will only eat in and out on the road as

like a kind of an only option and i will not i don't get the fries yeah they're terrible you have to

watch the limb have to watch carls in and out review from when he came out to la and we took him

to in and out his in and out review is so spot on it's still on youtube it's amazing i probably

watch it once a year and he nailed it so much and i now i just get what he said to get

based on his and and he was right you get you'd skip the fries and you either get double double

animal style and a vanilla shake or two single cheese cheese burgers animal style and a vanilla

shake just interesting that that's the move i'll watch that video his restaurant i was gonna say

takedowns analyses are very funny no they're not takedowns i think i think he's incredibly

complimentary in to restaurants that somebody of his comedic caliber could easily shit on

but because he's he's a he's a fucking a back of house kind of guy like there's a lot of things

he said like that olive garden did well there's a there was things he liked at applebee's there's

things he like i mean he said he said that about mcdonald's like any chef in the world would kill

to make fries like this you know like stuff like that he also said that the in the about the flea

fish that it tastes like the tasted like the fish volunteered to be in this sandwich which is kind

of crazy funny oh yeah um but uh yeah no but his also his fucking his when he shits on something

it's brutal so it's really fun um right so the rtr thing was awesome um the cars seem pretty cool

can't wait to uh can't wait to drive them yeah jr's fun the 800 horsepower one i just like the

the wing on it looked good the color choice was good they just they put the right parts on there

man yeah it was nice um okay so i got a free car um and i have finally brought photos of it so i can

actually talk about it and bear in mind this is this is the this is going to be the the before

of a of a project car so start without second row the last the last one down there that yeah there's

so uh oh the um word and that's weird stand by boo so hannah's uh hannah's and uncle uh

and liz and uncle phil she has an uncle phil uh wanted to get rid of their 1994 uh mercedes

e 320 cabriole and when i was a kid and these were new do you know that this car in 1994

unadjusted for inflation was 85 thousand dollars unadjusted unadjusted this was an

85 thousand dollar car in 1994 these things were insanely expensive they were essentially the price

of s else wow yeah and so um they were like when i was growing up like rich people drove these

things and i always thought they were kind of cool biggie smalls rolled one of these in brooklyn

in one of the videos and obviously i mean today you know not much to look at right it's a whatever

one two four cab you see them around those sometimes but i thought this one is it's it's

two owners and it's uh but and liz and uncle phil have had it for like 12 years 13 years and it's

only 60 000 miles um but it's uh it's sat outside in their house in florida for the last uh couple

years under a carport but but pretty much outside runs drives okay but it's pretty scruffy so we were

talking to and you can scroll through uh the red it's red which is nice i mean red is a good color

i think it does need to be repainted but i don't think there's i don't think it needs a color change

adjusted for inflation thanks to the chat is 185 so that is and i'm looking right now at

Mercedes convertibles to see what they sell that is no you know you're s l 63 to get that much yeah

they don't sell in a four four yeah the s l 63 starts at 187 yeah in an s l 53 or they don't make

the s l 43 starts at 112 this is wow very expensive this was an expensive car so i mean we just sold

it west side a pretty good one for like 25 000 dollars a good one is 25 grand this one i could

probably get seven or eight four as it sits as a project but i don't want to do that so i was talking

to shant of cms motorsports who's the fucking amg the guy he's nuts i mean he's their their bodywork

is beautiful but also he's nuts um and so we were thinking of doing a fun cruiser project

and i said i want to make the this is the same chassis as the e 500 i said i want to make the

e 500 that that never and that never existed oh done easy easy so um if we don't have to color

change that's great but basically we get a complete uh 500 powertrain with a five-speed automatic

you can get the e 500 oem suspension or aftermarket suspension you get some nice wheels you do the the

front clip the entire front fenders and nose you get oem mercedes e 500 goes right on the doors

are the doors you don't need to change um the rear three quarters you have to make from these but

they're like no problem because we don't want to it's not a it's a wide body it's not a wide body

it's like just like the e 500 like subtle and then you do the rear e 500 rear rear bumper

and then you're essentially done uh and then you uh and look our rear bumper is

fucking holding it yeah it's got a fucking hole in it the front bumper does too so like fortunately

the panels that we would keep are in really good shape and the panels that were throwing away

and we're fucking throwing away um the whole the power it runs and drives it actually it drives

better than it looks um but we're throwing all that away or you know script maybe we'll sell

the engine sell the gearbox but basically throw it away and the go to the interior

the interior is complete not terrible uh actually yeah your dashboard is not cracked the dashboard

is not cracked um the the wood isn't totally fucked the steering wheel is in okay shape um

but we would retrim essentially everything like some crazy crazy color crazy yeah it'd be fun

you know socal socal good time it's red black leather um put a cool stereo in it um I don't

know if the e 500 had different seats from the regular but but whatever it is we're made do the

right ones uh the top works which is great that's fucking though if the top didn't work that could

be problematic so pretty sure we can uh do this project reasonably economically using this car

look i'm sorry oh yeah I think they're the same I don't I don't think they look pretty much the

same yeah uh well actually the bolsters look different really maybe the backs are different

I think they have I think the e 500 had slightly more uh bolstering on both the seat and the back

well we're I mean we you know I kind of I really like the fucking euro ricaros of that period that

everybody was doing too like that could be fun that'd be bad and also and you know my my stupid

back a good seat is important you have to have a good seat so we I would take out this this weird

you know this like uh not tough did but the oh yeah what do you what do you call that uh

door card curtain I don't it's like um Porsche's Porsche they call it like luxury leather or

something I fucking hate it that's the perfect description of it because that's what it's trying

to be yeah it's just like look we added leather here it's when the leather's not it's not loose but

it's like soft and wavy um it's uh it looks like a curtain to me it looks like a curtain hanging

across a stage yes that's exactly like it's draped yeah yeah exactly like our back curtain

get that's gotta go and you get the tartan yeah you know the you do bus fabric or you some

fucking crap we would look amazing ditch the burlwood replace that with something fun you know

it'd be so fun if you replace the burlwood with like like acrylic like the shift knob in the

Manx but like with like a scene in it oh yeah like like a comic type thing yeah yeah type thing

that'd be cool like a diorama yeah acrylic diorama that's like you know quarter inch thick right

so anyway like you know a little cruiser so this is not the driver's seat's pretty fucked if this

photo when you show the passenger seat first yeah it makes the interior look better than it is

and when you show the driver's seat first it makes the interior look worse than it is yeah it looks

like the the skin of a person who lived in the desert for 80 years yeah you're missing a knob on

the left side of the driver's side backrest yeah there's a cut in the back itself yeah there's a

tear in it it's the driver's seat is no way no we don't we don't I mean it can probably be repaired

it probably doesn't need to be thrown away but like you you but anyway I you know I think a

you know I think a cool a cool cruiser for a little while could be fun well this is kind

of you can make a comfortable Manx more comfortable like truly you know Manx has no windows yeah yeah

and if you can do this with whimsy and stuff but it has windows and a locking trunk yeah that kind

of thing and we looked up the hard top to where you were you didn't we do it together yeah it looks

good it looks amazing it's very good Sean said they're really hard to find and they're really

expensive okay they're most they're almost none of them are sold in America wow you got to get them

from Europe and then it's like ship them and who fucking knows so okay not I probably not worth it

because what happens is you put the hard dub on you still have to like exercise the convertible

top anyway and you have to store the top spaces and I was I said what if we like get rid of the

top entirely and make like a speedster tonneau you know like a two like two door it and he was

like you mean like chop the wheelbase I was like no no but like make a make a fill it in yeah fill it

in something I don't know with that well it's got a back seat right yeah so that cover might be so

long that the proportions would look that's true it would like let's go you know you'll be a big

tonneau it would look weird you know how it would look how it would look awesome is if you put the

front seats in the back seats and just extended everything rearward to give it like a super

long nose like an X caliber you know what I actually take it back because long buttresses look better

than short ones uh-huh and so if the buttress went from like here to here and wasn't too tall

yeah I don't know we need someone to someone's got a photoshop yeah the bold idea though you

know what you're doing you're building your the the german version of the sn95 speedster thing you

want that's what you're doing yeah you want to paint yellow do you know I don't like I don't want

yellow do you like this red or should we go for a different red because we you because it because

the thing is with the color change it's like the door jams and the engine bay and shit so

so like but we could change the red without really having to paint the door jams and the engine bay

wouldn't look that stupid that's true um I think I think I need to see it polished up yeah I think

here it's got a little pink to it here it's more red red you know fire truck red from the front

it's got a little pink from the rear three quarter once upon a time this thing was fire truck red

is that it's that awesome red that mercedes that are mercedes from that period that's painted that

color today that's really good it brings a lot more money oh it's a popular color it's oh great

I've seen on s l's a lot yeah yeah then I think maybe it polishes up really nice because painting

the car oh we have to paint the car you have to paint the car oh yeah we have to it's just a

matter of like but painting it the same color is way cheaper than changing the color yes that's

what I mean I think the color is fine I would keep the color I would too you know painting your engine

bay I mean there's a reason my engine bay is blue you know yeah it's really expensive yeah but we're

taking the engine out anyway oh that's true yeah the engine's coming out anyway oh I mean look it's

I think the color I think if we paint it the good red yeah it looks it'll look good then that's what

matters like it's what you want and if I'm not saying I don't like this color I'm saying it's what

it's literally what you want the engine's out I mean it's no better time but the red is a great

red the mercedes red looks awesome yeah looks like any good bright red so keep it yeah nothing wrong

with it and then it's more period correct otherwise you I think you have to go crazy

mint chocolate not like you know mint green something sexual chocolate purple green would be

right or BRB it's black and you know my chain is coloring too I don't know I don't know

fucking sky's the limit got a lot of decisions but this is a next year project because we have

we have to you know free up some finances first it's not this isn't this is gonna be a

this won't be a but but anyway just car has arrived spent Hannah's money that she just yeah right

baby you get to get the front yard she fought for her for two years and you're like I'll take that

thank you were you there when I told zuckerman that she was zuckerman gave out the willow spangs

with spike in them and I was like zuckerman guess what had a winner case she fucking beat

Elon you know fucking all this you know I'm so proud of her and he goes you know half of that's

yours and I was like I was like oh yeah he's like communal property right that's right he's like

you supported her I was like oh shit it depends on the terms of your your prenup but yeah that's

funny that's fucking cold I do that there a lot where she's like can I have some of your water

I go well half of it's yours yeah but I think this will be I think this will be a fun a fun one

to freight train around in totally you know yeah and Sean says the e500 complete e500 power train

costs nothing what do you think about air suspension I think a lot about air suspension on this car I

think this is an example where air suspension is definitely warranted yes because then you get I

do think that yeah park it looks good yep just drop it yeah I also think it's an example where

hydraulics are warranted if you want to make a bounce I've always kind of wanted to do those ride

like garbage like there's when they when you're going on the road yeah that's no good that's no good

yeah so cool yeah buddy I'm very excited for this free benzito I think keep it red I just the

thought of pulling out all these seams to paint the door jams yeah no I'm gonna red I don't

that's good that's fucking I made it red that's so funny because then if someone

gets a red Ferrari which is like the most I made it red in the world people like

because they're all red if all the Mercedes were red then it would be boring it's all the

Mercedes are black and silver so red is good that's true right dare to be different children

awesome yeah yeah all right cool so free car that's funny car let's go to the people unless

do you have anything else we need to cover today I don't think but no we're at 45 minutes no I'm

happy to go to the people because they have a lot to say the patreons we love them over there

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and it's how you get early and exclusive access uh to collabs and such oh speaking of collabs and

such the notice the next notice project is on the way it's it's it's happening it's in process designs

but on a recent episode I I teased the possibility of doing one more color of the canyon which we're

going to do uh it won't be available until March that's like that's which probably means April but

so which is good because it is a summer a spring summer color it's not a fall winter color anyway

so uh if you hadn't gotten one of the watches and you want a color that is very much me

and approved by all of my friends that I've showed it to so far who've said they want one

prepare prepare yourself have I seen this color yes I think no I don't know actually if you've

seen it have you seen all the colors I thought thought well I you made the I don't want to I don't

want to say you made this right yeah don't blow it up okay but I'll but I'll show it to you yeah

all right um anyway so there is another color coming and it is going to be very fun

and I'm very excited but but all the other colors are fully sold out oh I've seen it it looks good

oh yeah it's the one that's not up there yeah not the one I gave to my mom

yeah I think so anyway okay uh Dakar all the Porsches should I get a sports car even though

I live in a place wait can you make it zoom in a little Zach can I should I get a sports car even

though I live in a place with mostly open highway and straight arterial roads Florida I'm struggling

to balance what I want versus what makes the most sense for where I live tough call and I hear you

um let me just say Floridians don't seem to have much trouble with this um sports cars everywhere

yeah I mean look you can still enjoy a sports car on highways you know maybe you can't enjoy it as

much as if there's corners but like a 911 or a Corvette or a Ferrari 296 or a Cayman is still a

lovely thing on a highway and so much of it is about how you feel walking out to it getting

in starting it driving that this knowing you're in this thing that you like a lot yeah and like

sports cars a big world like maybe you should get a GT car maybe you should get a front engine

sports car that's more for highways I mean maybe instead of a Ferrari 458 you get an F12 or something

like that may you know maybe instead you know so uh you look at a GT a Bentley GT or something where

that'll that'll make sense for the kind of driving that you're doing um more so than a twisty you know

a Miata on highway I would I would say probably don't do that yeah like if you're talking about like

a little four cylinder slow car fast type I don't know why I keep doing put my glass back on slow car

fast type car like nah muscle car you know Mustang Camaro there's a highway car Vipers highway car

Corvette front engine Corvettes rear engine Corvettes mid-engine Corvettes whatever highway

cars like those are all fine mm-hmm yeah um bush did 997 got married last week and congratulations

wife gifted me the Rolex oyster perpetual that is fucking superb your wife has great taste

this is my foray into nice watch ownership can you give me a rundown on best practices

wow best practices okay let's assume the watch is brand new I assume it's brand new uh you have

a five year warranty Rolexes are my favorite watches because they're so durable you can

abs you can wear that watch every day even if you're a fucking construction worker for the

rest of your life like that's what that's why they cost so much money um and that's been my

experience with them you can treat them really badly and it's fine um and in fact makes them

better so my first best practice is wear that motherfucker don't store it away in a box just

to keep it shiny um if it really is you know it's hard it's a hard thing to to do but like

if it gets scratched like okay like whatever fucking move on live your life like one day

you'll have a kid and you'll be able to tell the story of that scratch and they'll want the watch

because of that scratch um servicing this is a very easy to service watch do not get it serviced

every five years wear it until it stops it's keeping good time and then get it serviced

parts availability is not an issue just you'll probably get 10 years 12 years before it starts

running a little funny you take it in you get a service whatever um and uh for cleaning it uh if

you wear it a lot you do want to clean it uh hand soap like liquid hand soap and an old

soft toothbrush both sides in between wear it in the shower once in a while get some shampoo up in

there nothing nothing to it absolutely into it wear it beat the absolute shit out of it

and enjoy and congratulations on getting married waymo handjobs from women i hardly know

what uh oh what other automotive journalist has the most influence on your opinions have

you reformed that opinion about a car and had a conversation with another journalist and then

change your mind about it on the next drive interesting question zack do you have one

i think it's it's definitely happened i'm just trying to remember in a specific example like

i know there's been times where i've disliked something about a car talked to someone who

i trust their opinion and they go i you know maybe they enter the corner like this or they

pointed out something i don't know and then i go okay and i just approach it differently and they

went oh yeah that's true um yeah i once i once told chris harris that something couldn't be done

in a car and then he proved to me that actually it could i just wasn't good enough at driving

and uh okay you know and so uh so to a certain degree i trust what chris has to say about cars

having said that you know chris talks about a lot about what cars are like beyond the limit

if you can't drive like that that may not apply to you at all um so nobody is gospel um so like

but i but when i'm listening when i'm when i'm hearing opinions from from other people about

cars i'm usually paying attention to the people that i know are really fast if you're if you're

really fast and we're at dinner at the press launch and you and i'm listening to here if we

end up in the same place they're actually less so the fucking me and that's so the other journalists

than the racing drivers you know you go to fucking spain um and do you believe you me at dinner

i am sitting my ass down next to your burgmeister and i am not getting up like you know that's

where you want to be or like if you're lucky enough to sit down next to like the head of

chassis development definitely or something like that man can you learn some shit so like that's

where i've had my mind changed more by the engineer that developed the system i was questioning

than by another journalist hmm um i feel like it goes it ping pongs like because sometimes i'm

skeptical that you know the engineer of course is going to paint the the brightest picture

and they're gonna say well we did this because we did this because we did this but you can

definitely learn a lot from talking to them of course uh like when i sat next to the head engineer

for the zr2 um bison edition and he pulled a fucking shock valve out of his pocket and he's

like here's all the here's the 15 things in this valve we can change i was just blown away it was so

cool to see what they could do that was very educational um but i mean if they want if you want

to name people chris jethro um andrew frankle um they're all british um i trust jack a lot because

they do a lot of track testing yeah jack he's a good driver me me and jack agree a lot on stuff

although he's a little less generous than me he's a little he's a little he's a little bit of a

harsher critic sometimes which is funny because he also makes you know films that are in participation

with the oems you know more than i do so uh that's a fine line to to to dance but we're

going to be together on 9 11 turbo launch but yeah he's a he's a very good driver absolutely for sure

um sergeant macaroni rolex watchmaker here all right i bought the canyon black pearl

and i'm super impressed with the dial and fit and finish on the watch after working on all

only rolex for years now that is such a nice compliment thank you very much for saying that

um i'm really glad you're impressed by it um unrelated question between the plans of reviewing

the honda passport trail sport uh can you get a photo of that sure i mean dude honestly like i

wouldn't do it uh for a video nobody would watch it but that's not to say that i wouldn't grab one

for a few days and hit the hit the trail just to see how it goes and for like instagram yep like i

would do that um does it have like real off-road capability or is it just like some knobbies

increase clown currents improve right i go does it have um just their tagline of the lows on

calling it slow is overselling a lot heavier than before not that practical well car and

driver was not impressed but uh i mean i i would have a go uh i would have a go is it is it a v6

it's the v6 god that thing is chugging along huh three and a half liter v6 285 horsepower

now with 4800 pounds they just keep adding gears now it's got 10 gears they just 4800 pounds

with 285 horsepower yeah it's not uh not fast i don't know but yeah well we we could try and

take it up the hill wait which what transmission is this thing 10 speed automatic okay but it's

trans is it a transverse or is it a is it longitudinal if this has got a halldeck's

fucking gearbox do it it's not gonna be good at off-roading i mean it doesn't necessarily have

to be but i wouldn't buy that trail sport thing with those tires for like on-road use

like that's just not going to be as nice to drive as regular tires standard all-wheel drive torque

vectoring rear diff i don't know we can try all right well we'll try we'll call we'll call honda

i'll make a note we'll call honda for you we'll say hey honda sergeant macaroni

uh we'll start it like a top gear segment we've gotten a letter from sergeant macaroni

passport trail sport all right we'll find we'll find some dirt rolex lt larry at king ranch for a

daily driver driven on twisty roads for my commute in the cat skills should i get dedicated summer

and winter tires are all-weather like michelin cross climate dude if your budget can do summer

and winter you should also like my daily for a daily that is driven on twisty roads like

if your daily is just is like a

a honda cord a honda cord and you don't have to drive below freezing very often i mean the cat

skills you probably do the thing about winter tires and the cat skills if it doesn't need to

be snowy if it's cold you're gonna have summer tire grip with your winter tires even if it's dry

yeah like driving on winter tires and the cold is so awesome you don't i mean the rubber like is

softer at that temperature it spreads out it grips the ground better and summer tires will do the

opposite effect when it's too cold they're very hard they they slip a lot more uh it's not a good

time yeah yeah i mean there's you can look this up on tire rack or somewhere like there's a there's

a temperature window you know that tires operate in and if they are safe out i think ps4 is it's

down to like 45 or something it's pretty low which is good but if you're driving below that they'll

be very hard and very slippery yeah um i would yeah that that's all we got on that but stew dog

this is a tough question okay and i'm going to read the question and try to answer the question

but for anyone listening if you plan on asking a question like this in the future i do need a little

more info in order to really be helpful uh my dad finally wants to invest in a nice watch for himself

a one and done watch for a man in his late fifties what do you recommend budget six thousand dollar

range i've been steering him towards omega tutor and grand seiko this is a that's a great budget

for a one and done watch you're getting a you're going to get a swiss or very high end

japanese watch high or medium high end german watch um uh it's the kind of watch that will

last forever um it'll look you can get something that looks great with every outfit i assume that's

what you mean by one and done um so you're probably talking about something that is in the general

genre of what i'm wearing right now which is the grand seiko bamboo dial 40 millimeter steel sport

watch um that can handle some water resistance that can handle you know t-shirt and jeans working

outside that can go go good with a sport jacket all the way up to just below tuxedo that's pretty

you know tuxedo you don't really want to if you're really fancy you don't want to even wear a steel

Rolex that's leather strap and thin and all that fancy shit but like six grand you're starting with

omega tutor and grand seiko bro right in the wheelhouse but there's a bunch of other shit too

there's cardiac uh there's there's panorai there's any number of um there's there's there's gonna be

like i don't know if you can get you might be able to get into some zenith you can probably get into

a bunch of oris and chris ward and like there there's so many companies sell like that's that

five is where like omega tutor and grand seiko start to get interesting but that's also like

the very high end of those brands right below that's like so the question is do you want to get

the watch equivalent of um

of a uh let's call it a Honda Accord okay fully loaded the extended leather the good wheels

you know all everything bells and whistles you know you got a $35,000 car you've optioned it up

to 48.5 the high end fully loaded shit or do you want to get an entry level Lexus that doesn't

have special wheels and it doesn't have special paint and that that that's kind of the comparison

so like omega tutor and grand seiko sounds like you want an entry level Lexus totally cool and

start there and just see what he likes looking at on his wrist i mean that's that's kind of from

there it's like what feels good what looks good you know does he have a big wrist a small wrist

does he like fucking green or black or blue or blah blah blah but you're going in the right direction

alternatively you could go in the other direction and go bell and ross bowman mercier

mont blanc um these other other type of like uh long jeans like entry level swiss brands and you

could buy the very top of that maybe Breitling Breitling you get a good Breitling for five grand

that'll last you a long time if there if he's a navy air pilot type yeah a lot of options at that

price point though you're really shopping at that price point um actually there's like there's like

so many options at that price point that i see how one could have trouble choosing like every swiss

company that isn't Rolex makes a watch at that price and they all make you know three dial watches

we're like all like all they all make a different chronograph yeah everyone's got it everyone's

like what is he like yeah like every company has like their version of the royal x oyster

perpetual like the three-hander blah blah omega aquaterra blah blah blah same shit um christian

says could you do a video with dugs swapping each other's cars or a collab coontash video

we're going to we talked about this and then my car got taken apart so like when my car is back

together like we are they'd feel very different now they'd feel very different now well he also

wants to know he wants to see mine after the full bushings and everything is done and also

his is a carbureted car mine's an injected car no i would totally do a video a coontash video

with uh with dug it's just that my car's been in pieces for fucking years did you oh did you go

back to the photos of the red Mercedes did you see the coontash in the background yeah it got

we put it over in the other building because it's going yeah there it is we put it in the other

building because it's going to daemians like soon is it in any of the other photos i don't

think it may i don't think so the maze are front a front on photo did i get one no no oh oh there it

is it's back there um for the record for anyone looking at this i have to save the record these

photos are there are zero customer cars in those fucking photos those are not customer cars those

are my fucking staff's cars yeah well i see is this Vinny yes that's Vinny's daily driver yeah those

are their staff cars okay that's Phil's truck yeah and that fucking that that's silver that's a

Ferrari 550 that got picked up to it was literally there because it was getting picked up today

that's my new building that i haven't started renovating yet but because because me

fucking i want to sell the spaces and all my shit ends yeah goes in there uh i can't wait

to the new building or i it's so funny it's like the fisherman on the dock where i'm going to have

my own area i could have just had my own like seven years ago i could have bought a little tiny

building it had my own area instead i'm going to have this giant fucking thing a whole operation

just so i can have my own area finally it's crazy uh in a boxer to the left getting rid of my z4

m40 manual after it got into an accident somehow barely affected the value hell motherfucking yeah

cut and run i ordered a ranger raptor as i wanted something more practical and there aren't many

good roads in florida for driving but there are good trails any other vehicles you'd think of

for the money uh i need something respectable to pick up clients every once in a while i mean

dude ranger raptors are cool yeah um you're very comfortable yeah you're only like your

competition is like a trd pro you know or i guess maybe a defender um i i mean i don't know you how

your clients feel out there but i think a ranger raptor when you keep them clean is a totally nice

modern car inside and is respectable enough i mean if these are super high net worth people

i mean they might have one anyway for like a ranch truck yes i don't i don't know that's a

that's a weird question because a defender is fancier so but depends on the optics yeah you're

not a real estate agent so i mean and how often do you drive these folks around like how much are

you going to change your purchasing and what you want in a vehicle for something that's occasional

yeah i think i think there's nothing i think a ranger raptor is a very respectable vehicle

alternatively maybe you want to look at a land cruiser but i don't think a land cruiser is

interesting as a ranger raptor not as fun you can't get into an octa those are really expensive

is anyone else making a vehicle that is raptory passport trail not trail boss trail manager what

was it called sport trail sport uh noah says looking to buy a new brz ts but with price hikes

they're hitting 40 k is the upgrade worth it versus the limited at 37 i live in downtown

porchester shout out to porchester drive mostly for pleasure something else i should consider

man 40 k what do you i forget what you get with the ts i'm looking to remind me um something tells

me it was like i think it was like bram brambos and seats i mean brambos certainly

are a good upgrade that i would say is probably worthwhile um by the way i love fucking porchester

porchester is one of my favorite places in the world and if it's also the dui capital of the

universe because the bars close in greenwich at 2 p.m on one side of the river and they close at

4 p.m in porchester to the other side of the river so if you want to see a real fucking shit show

2 15 a.m in porchester is the place to be uh all right the ts you get uh this is from a

Subaru dealership you got sti tuned suspension i think it did have different dampers different

dampers we drove it a few years ago maybe it's changed but it had different like sacks front

dampers yeah four um and you get brambos and that's all that they list don't you get ps ps4s tires

as well um let's see well the limited comes with ps4s okay and the ts brambos mirrors

all right ultra suede seats for three grand i don't know honestly i mean brakes are good

brakes are good good brakes are good good brakes are good good damn good factory tuned good dampers

are good uh i mean honestly those those are two things you might want to upgrade later and it would

cost you more to upgrade them and you would also devalue the car by upgrading them versus getting

the highest performance one that the factory will sell you and leaving it alone i think money in money

out you only spend about a thousand dollars net on that i bet it holds value better than the other

one and i bet if you can stop yourself from messing with it and leave it stock versus

ending up modifying the other one you'd be in better shape i would if you can it sound like

you're buying it new uh go test drive both in your area because if the roads i don't know what the

roads are like some of the roads in new york are great some are garbage well no i mean look in

portchester like the city roads fucking blow and you're five minutes from the amazing Greenwich

back roads where the good suspension where my parents live and you're and and good suspension

matters um i'd rather in that part of the world or excuse me like in that part of the world i'd rather

have i want i want a car that rides well and i would edge it 75 25 towards handling because

there really are like proper corners there um is that a buick says no uh oh i i don't i'm i

don't have the answer there's a apparently an issue with a kia ev6 subwoofer being out of face

that sucks uh whatever this is factory wiring era in uh in subwoofer okay well i guess they just

have to rewire it reversing a few wires uh running to the meridian subwoofer fixes it uh all right

easy fix easy fix but are most people buying the ev6 like wanting to rewire their own stereo

i mean hopefully you just bring it to the dealership you bring it to the dealer and they do it okay

yeah yeah but that's that's funny that's a oopsie davie hey i'm i all fucking all fuck up should be

that insignificant right okay i currently own a sorry rick says i earned i own a 13 lexus gs350

esport f sport and a 2019 sl considering calling consolidating into one not boring sedan i drive

roughly 40 000 miles a year so reliability is the most important uh last week i mentioned that the

es350 f sport uh was a pretty not terrible and zack said forever ingrained in his mind uh that was

five years ago and you've driven other cars since what sets this car apart uh from the rest of the

pedestrian vehicles i mean yes it was five years ago and i couldn't tell you what they've changed

since then i have no idea uh neither do i i mean i all i could tell you was i drove it right after

we had the lexus ls at the time and i the old ls is a new one whatever they were selling then

gotcha i just want to make not the one we owned the one no no no the current ls from that and the es

it was shockingly similar to drive considering it was front wheel drive the ride and handling

were just as good as the ls it had more rear seat room because it didn't have a tunnel

it was front wheel drive based it didn't really matter that it was front or wheel drive based

because those cars aren't good at like pushing the limits anyway but i remember having good

steering good braking good ride and handling and just being a generally very pleasant thing to drive

around i i'm realizing that i liked the gs350 f sport the es i don't think i drove i think i

edited the video so the es is not sear to my mind the gs was gs was rad that was rad it was like

felt like a more reliable m5 um no the es isn't like mind-blowing but it is a good handling car

and it's the es like i'm doing unkillable sarah's mom has one it's a 2012 it feels brand new

like it's kept clean and it's a hybrid it it still works it gets good mileage it's still there is

not a rattle squeak or anything in that car so i think if you're doing 40 000 miles per year

i would want something that is very comfortable the seats are formed to me perfectly or very

adjustable very supportive and something that is just going to be as little maintenance as possible

so if you already have this guy already this person aren't yet rick you already have a gs350

you're pretty familiar with you know lexus interiors and stuff uh so i think the question is

would you mind if it was front wheel drive and probably is about the same size as the gs the es

uh they are they're as close as makes no difference do they make the gs anymore

it'll be i don't think they make the gs anymore dude i haven't seen that in a minute i mean seems

like a great thing to commute long distance in yeah um ammo spit on that thing uh i'm looking for

replacement for my m2 35 oh uh considering a 240 i3 of 40 i as well as a julia veloce veloce

which is the two liter one i've never driven one of those have you know only johnny had one or

drove i think he he owned one and he said he liked it a lot that's that's as much as i know

yeah i mean i think the the newer julias like the the ones for the last three years or four years

since about 2020 i think the quality's gone up yeah uh compared to the earlier ones so i don't know

you know if you like your 235 they know that that's a good option out es3s are our all ones i

always seem to recommend to people they're lovely same with like honestly q5s q5s are nice

i think we would need to know more about what you do with your car like an m2 35 can be a

nice small gt cruiser for someone or if you're 25 or 30 and into mods like you could be turning it

into a 600 horsepower canyon missile so that'll also determine i think the s3 is such a great

all-around vehicle that's that does so many things well uh timay says our 981 boxster and

cayman's the best used Porsche value people say they're slow but they're now more special

because they have an na flat six and it's essentially the same car as the 718 in terms of

interior and experience uh i mean those those things are two are both true i mean a base 981

boxster cayman like is pretty slow i mean it does sound good but it like that's a that's a pretty

slow car i i drove one as a press car like it was slow um but i'd rather have the slow six

cylinder than a than a base two liter turbo so you're not wrong um and they are somewhat similar

i mean pretty similar to the 718 especially if you're talking about like a gt4 you know versus

a gt4 spider no the spider is different the 718 spider is different but um but yeah they they

i don't know about becoming i mean they're they've been a good value for a few years now so

i mean i don't know percentage wise if a 997 is a better value than a box i don't i don't know

about that but like they've been a good value for a minute so are they still a good value absolutely

yeah and they will be for a while but like now that you know the the they're they're gonna be less

so for a little bit now that they've stopped making the six cylinder so uh or stopped making the the

718 so like uh for a minute for a little bit like really nice 98 ones are going to float

anyway buick less saber oh oh you look the saber tooth tiger

uh pick my turro okay okay uh i need a car for a few days for the grand teresmo world tour

i don't know what that is but okay is that for the racing series is that for the i guess i don't

know uh many options around the same price integra a spec no current gen s4 integra a spec

in current gen s4 the same price integra a spec is nice but it is so that's not a type s that's

i know i know i drove it 2022 z4 no 2022 m2 maybe meata rf no your luggage won't fit yep 718 boxster

possibly i would say i'm doing keys doing canyons he's driving the k1 circuit he's driving around

i would say m2 or boxster leaning towards boxster i agree especially if the weather is decent you

can put the top down and do that whole la thing and look at palm trees and stuff yeah i would go

for boxster depending on when you live or m2 is just a little quieter a little more comfortable

if it's just you i would go i would definitely go boxster you got your two trunks you got your

power top that's what i would do i i think there there's no better turro car than a 718 boxster period

because they're fucking like 120 bucks he's talking about that being the same price as a

fucking integra a spec a spec come on oh updated drae from houston

we got the tycon 4 back with this lazarus level rebuild from portia uh okay before the new battery

pack install full charge was 250 miles now it's 300 plus so his his old battery was shit and his new

battery is good it's the 2025 battery pack which is better so dude i i someone's gonna have to talk

me out of buying another tycon when this one's done because these things rule um okay uh tail of

the puff the magic dragon um i don't what is this i don't really want to talk about that

okay uh sorry it's a it's a p-cody question and it gets too much into what won or didn't win

the stigs lauch and cousin oh the audio was good from the pro show oh from willow spring show yes

pro drivers uh the show the live show we recorded at willow springs uh is up as this month's

october pro show yep glad the audio was good that's what happens when though they spend lots of

fucking money yeah the the folks that ran the av there were absolutely pros yeah uh rick in

tennessee i have 130 mile commute five days a week and the first and last 20 minutes are tight

twisty lane and a half wide bumpy country roads and the other part is interstate i want a new daily

i want an e46 330 manual but reliability and fuel mileage would be nice considering a newer

miata or an 86 bro 130 mile commuter really gotta get the fuck out of here and honestly the 86

again the only one i drove was a ts but on the highway out to spring mountain and back it is

loud 100 doing that five days a week i would be so over in six months the decibel level is like

79 db just cruising yeah okay i my mind says gti yeah this this is a gti commute that is a great

choice yeah especially for the money you're gonna spend 25 grand gti maybe you could get a used golf

r but uh if you're worried about reliability you could get a newer gti maybe with a warranty

it's also simpler that's a that's the choice for it for sure yeah that's that's where i'm at because

you want a good ride you want you want it to be pretty chill on the highway you want good efficiency

but it's also got to be pretty fun on those twisty bits yeah a civic uh sport no si would also be

pretty good that would yeah like 30 grand new yeah that's a great car mm-hmm good shifter and clutch

showy chestnut heavy breathing in hannah's bedroom because funny but uh that's great boy

you know a little too much about our bedroom uh in my town there's an old black retired gentleman

that rides around all day smoking cigars in a black 78 catty deville with the license plate fly og

love a man like that live in their life that's there's a guy like that in the in the canyons white

guy alpha gtv same story his whole car is a fucking ashtray it's awesome this is maybe want to add

a cigar car to the stable joey chestnut says what would be your ideal cigar car to roll slow

bump tunes and rip stogies all day thinking a 129 sl i'm yeah you're that i mean my Mercedes my free

Mercedes project will be it that's a good point top down yeah i was thinking like a 40s Cadillac

would be sweet oh that too big catty big big old Cadillac yeah a i would say a an old El Dorado

like converted to electric not that it makes a difference but like yeah or a like rolls corniche

yeah that would be dope that uh what's that Mercedes the guy ls swapped and he's got a gated

shifter what was the Jag 280 or a Jag will be nice too yeah Mercedes this goes to the car event

yeah slammed ls swapped yeah 280 280 and that thing's kind of cool but also the Jaguar XJ

Jaguar XJR like Mike Spinelli had that's a good cigar car yeah yeah well you what you have to

really start you need a car that has poor aerodynamics because poor aerodynamics means no

buffeting at the windows and with a cigar you don't want buffeting you want but you don't

the Delica no buffeting with the Delica fabulous cigar car yeah smells like Dodge Spirit there

we go that's a good one new patreon member welcome to the club uh question if either of you became

the president rump row what car would you want made into the beast the limo for you that's a good

one yeah the problem is it it can't be something like fun no because that's a way 9 000 pounds

and be indestructible and it has to be american oh that too yeah uh i mean honestly ranger after

because i have so i have fun with that but i think you need i don't want a trx because it's just

already inefficient and terrible and too loud oh it's about to say something like a lyric because

it's got torque and stuff but if there's an emp that goes off yeah whole car turns off um

h1 alpha just to be a dickhead but yeah with a good diesel coming swapping it

or i could be like well if i'm president it's gonna be nas car because we're turning left

but i would i would i would have a i would have a chevy volt stretched like 37 feet long

that's fun hey that's a good one that's a very that's a very diplomatic choice yeah i think

vision 2002 says um is there a second half of this yes okay uh back in the day my dad

bought a brand new s54 equipped z3 m roadster i'm considering finding one to his exact spec to

revisit the good old days the question is will i be disappointed a lot of folks knocking as a

performance car and i don't want to end up regretting just not getting a boxer cayman or newer z4 m

what is the crux of journalists issue with the car i mean here's the thing i think these cars are

fun as shit i i don't have a problem with them at all i don't know who has a problem with them and why

the knock is that it's an e30 chassis and that's a shitload of power in an e30 chassis

and it's not that refined but that's also what people say about them in a good in a complimentary

way sure and we we you've driven s54 swapped e30s and they're amazing so with the right setup

we have plenty of friends that rock modified e30s and they're great to drive yeah and and

i mean now that car is a classic that car is 25 years old it's a that's a classic car so

it doesn't matter if it's like not as like good objectively as other things like you you don't

want it because it had better steering or power than a boxer in 2001 you want it because it was

your dad's car so i'm not sure how you're gonna end up being disappointed i think you're like

because you are you're predisposed to like it but you all this person also has a gti or a head a

gti you had an e39 m5 a modded 2002 you are the right person to enjoy this thing you know i think

the other people that are comparing it to boxer came in etc they're looking at it as an isolated

car and that's the in a vacuum those might be better in some ways but you have this like

back catalog of nostalgia and i think you're really gonna like it yeah um if you don't like it

hue blow me just is pretty wait i have an answer real a fast one for thunderclubber falcon bird

i don't really have a good answer for that oem best oem stereo i've experienced under 50 grand is

ironically in the integra a spec the els stereo is absolutely incredible that's true integra

akira does have a uh oh i just got a text i will have a panamera turbo s e hybrid to drive to

the hilton head concourse great uh what is your if you don't like it hue blow me wants to know

what is your opinion of hue blow i was interested in one i went to youtube and i was bombarded with

watch influencer videos saying hue blow is trash yeah i hate the people that that's uh

that's the case um i mean so here's the thing i don't think hue blow is trash i think i think

their reputation uh in the 2010s was like kind of well earned because it was all sort of about

the outside and not on the inside but they were priced pretty high um and i don't personally

i don't love how their watches look they've never made a single watch where to me was like oh yeah i

gotta have that having said that i don't if someone is wearing one i'm absolutely not gonna

gonna judge them or and i don't think i don't think most real people would in person judge somebody

for wearing a hue blow even if they were the people making a fucking video saying that they

sucked they're not gonna fucking walk up to you in person and say that it's a good way to get hit

in the face yeah i mean i think i think they make they make fine movements i don't think their

investment grade watches they depreciate but they're but they're nice if you like them they're

they're not shit um yeah um last one live axle rose what scene do you want to see lampooned on the

ig account angeles death highway next i i don't i'm not gonna encourage ai slop i think i i just i

don't i wasn't personally offended by someone deciding to put that i say i have cats in there

or something but like i just i don't i don't want that to be the internet man i agree i don't i don't

want to i don't want to put my videos up there competing with ai trash i don't want to fucking

live in a world where this fucking or a boros of of ai feeding it's like you know where the value

of all artistic worth uh ever created is just funneled upwards directly to sam altman right i

just at that and the perfecting of those programs so that it's easier to make realistic looking videos

which then can be used yeah for totally nefarious yeah like the the world was totally fine without

that stuff and like we don't need it it doesn't it doesn't make the world a fucking better place

like it's it's just we're just moving towards an internet where just computers are talking at

computers without any people in the way like no lessons are learned from the terminator movies

at all i just went i'm gonna end here because because here's where i see this this going i was

just at a it's tech week in la and i was invited to a tech week cocktail mixer with hannah and for

the most part it was interesting and fun and i met some people and then i met a guy it was a name

i don't actually remember and i was like i asked him what he did drone boats what's that what is that

well imagine instead of one navy destroyer you have 1020 foot drone boats that are programmed

and controlled the way that those drone fucking fireworks displays are right say and i go so like

you'd have the carrier aircraft carrier and they would you know they would surround the carrier

like a like a force field almost and he was like yeah yeah you could do that he's like or you could

decide to shut down a river or a canal and just you'd send us the swarm should i go

how many how many is a swarm he's like a thousand to fifteen hundred and i was like uh-huh and he

goes and you know how many operators you need for that humans and i was like how many and he goes

to from anywhere and i was like oh good good god i can't wait for this to be our our world

and so yeah so this is i mean this is where it's all this is where it goes you know where yeah

these billionaires computers fight these billionaires computers and anyone that isn't a fucking

billionaire or defense contractor just what like gets blown up well i think i mean yes and

my concern uh on top of that is if you remove the human element from armed conflict like

on the on the plus side and the way will be sold it well now there's no more human life we're not

sending our soldiers into battle etc etc it's like right but then you are then the citizens are

untethered from the actions of the administration or the do w do d and then we go well no one's

getting hurt so i guess this is the right thing to do and then they're just doing things with more

impunity or more in the dark it's why uh that book i read uh rutger bregman humankind it's about like

how uh in during world war two like opposing armies would like pretend opposing like regiments

would like meet up and like secretly pretend to fight because they didn't want to kill each other

really yeah yeah they yeah like they the they'd order them to kill each other but they're all

fucking just kids right you know and they'd they'd meet up in the middle okay like listen

we have to shoot at you but like we're going to shoot over your heads okay so when we shoot over

your heads you know you then you shoot over our and you know and we like will like pretend to

fight but like we really won't wow like that happened a bunch wow like the people don't like

always you know want to kill they're they're propagandized into that yeah but yeah if you

eliminate that that potential area of resistance where i have to convince regular people to do

terrible things and i can just do them right i mean this this form thing and this is me like

tinfoil hat stuff but if protests get louder or more volumous and i said i'm gonna say this

remaining peaceful but if people any in any country are frustrated and they're just walking

peacefully we have seen the response tends to be more aggressive and if you can have a swarm

fly over them and drop pepper balls or whatever then again the humanity is removed from that you

don't have police officers having to choose to interact with these protesters and make those

decisions against their citizens you can have someone in an office who's more of a shithead

yeah sociopath and they can do so much more by the way you've just described the first five

minutes of the movie The Running Man with Arnold Schwarzenegger where he refuses to fire on a

crowd of protesters as a military helicopter pilot refuses to fire on the protesters fights the other

people in the helicopter they subdue him they fire on the protesters anyway and they edit

together a video framing him saying i'm gonna like kill all these protesters and they put him in jail

and then to get out of jail he goes on the game show The Running Man that's like literally the

first fucking dude everybody that is running things now has learned all the wrong lessons

from all the fucking 80s and 90s movies they've just gone like wouldn't this be cool instead of

like actually having any kind of fucking moral clarity about these films i mean it's funny because

when you watch movies like that there's a movie with Ray Liotta called like the castle but basically

like there's always a group you know that there's the castle and there's the one on the island

right that's where i was thinking about oh god damn it no escape no escape no escape that kind of

sense so we we watch those movies and we see ourselves as the people who are imprisoned and can

fight back it's it's g.i. joe it's good versus evil whatever there's definitely some people that

watch those movies and go i would have built that fence way stronger like here's what i would have

done you know people watch Hunger Games and they see themselves as the people on top not you know

the yeah what's her name Jennifer Lawrence Katniss Katniss you know i've never seen the

Hunger Games and i know that really yep they're good i know i know i mean they were more fun to

watch a few years probably right yeah now they hit a little too yeah yeah except for like watch kids

no i mean all you have to do is look at one photo of Stephen Miller and go that's not a guy who

learns lessons from movies yeah did you if you really want to be depressed the some more news

about Stephen Miller that was out last week is an hour and 17 minutes long and holy motherfucking

shit he's trying to sell his very expensive house right now yikes yeah yeah because his neighbors

don't like wisely have made it very uncomfortable for him to exist in public as they fucking should

mm-hmm you shouldn't get to be a fascist and have people be nice to you did you see the clip i'm

sure you did of him on cnn and he says out loud like the president should have totally untethered

authority what's the word the word is a pair pair the word is um um such as the p

yeah and then he and he catches himself going i shouldn't say that in public yep um yeah some

it's a it's a word i'd never actually heard before and had to look up right plenary authority

yeah and then he just stops talking and he just freezes and stares at the screen and like would you

would you say hello do you hear us what and he just he doesn't blink no it's a real i fucked up free

and you're in the headlight maybe he's controlled by grok and he's actually a cyborg and and elon's

back they're going oh he messed up the programming again shit don't use the word plenary yeah look up

the word plenary now i mean obviously i forgot what the word meant i forgot the word two weeks

later but yeah what it means is he thinks the president can do anything anything that's what

that means it's fucking fascism um refer the definition is refers to power that is complete

comprehensive and not subject to any significant limitations so that's what the president's advisor

is saying to cameras on accident that he thinks the president has that cool king shit you guys

i fucking love it sunny day in california let's get fucking to it um that's our show guys sorry to

end on a on a downer but you know fascism is sad and uh on monday right yep monday live show monday

before i go to the airport and go to spain and drive the 911 turbo s already know maybe i'll

i'll see if i can if there's time maybe i can swing it because jack from savage geese um and

fenceki are also going to be in spain maybe we could try to throw together a hamon cast you

should um i'll try it's you know it's hard and everyone's fucking trying to get to get their

videos edited and shit them fenceki already did a video so tell him like you're not making a video

doing shit yeah um all right everybody we love you thank you to our patrons for asking such good

questions today sorry the last one triggered the lib see you later

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