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Your party and the awards you give out are becoming so coveted, you know, and the trophies that you guys do and the, you know, the bling necklaces and everything.
I mean, and what party could pull off Jimi Hendrix, Star-Spangled Banner, you know, the entire version and have everybody into it.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Chris Jacobs in studio. You've done the show before. This is the first time you're doing it in studio.
So we're very excited.
And Josh is super nervous.
Thank you for that.
You did. You helped me. I think you're the first threefer.
Oh, really?
I think you're the first threefer.
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It's my honor, man. Well, yeah, I've been looking forward to coming in to see you guys,
because as you know, my hometown is Chicago, and the timing works out perfectly.
Because you called me, you're like, come in the studio, when are you going to be in Chicago next?
And I was like, well, I'm coming in from a catkin and the Bears game, more importantly.
Oh, thank you, sir.
How many Bears games you've been to this year?
Just the opener. I went to see the Minnesota win and loss.
They're on the roll right now. They're on the roll right now. You could be the...
Seven of their last eight. I hope you're not the bad luck.
No. It's always been an interesting experience being a Bears fan,
because you get hope immediately following even a loss.
You know, they lose and then you're like, I hate this team.
I'm giving up on these guys.
And then come Monday, you start psyching up for the next game.
So I mean, it's in my blood.
We've had season tickets since 1971, the year that they moved to Soldier Field.
My dad had them, and when he passed away, he left them to us.
So now we have them.
And yeah, I'm hoping they don't leave Soldier Field, because if they do,
they'll probably be priced out.
I think the seat licenses in Arlington Heights are like quarter million bucks a piece.
It's crazy what they're going to be asking for it.
But I'm going to the game on Sunday,
and it's Aaron Rodgers' last appearance in Soldier Field.
And I'm hoping we can show him the door with an ass kick.
Is he playing? Didn't he?
He did, but he's going to do everything?
It's his non-throwing hand. He broke a bone in his wrist, his left wrist.
And that M&F'er will do anything to play against the Bears, exactly.
Can I curse on this show?
Yes, that mother of a fucking Aaron Rodgers.
Who I hate with every fiber of my being.
He is an interesting dude, though.
I'm not a sports guy at all,
but I watched a little bit of that documentary.
He said, it's an interesting cat.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it just out of pure hatred.
From the competition level?
I have never been an Aaron Rodgers fan.
I'm Cowboys fan, so I have an equal hatred for, you know...
Redskins or Giants?
Packers are the same thing.
Let's say Go Bears.
Let's toast to the Bears.
You guys got your monogram glasses.
When I watched the Jets, I watched the HBO, the Hard Knocks.
I will say watching him as a normal person and how he reacts
and how he acts with the other rookies and younger players,
I started being like, alright, he's a normal guy.
And I'm sure I had a different level of respect after watching that.
He's still a weirdo and he does his own thing.
But at the same time, I kind of respect the fact that he does march to it.
If he was playing for a different team, you would have...
If he would have never been at Green Bay, you'd have had a different...
For sure. No, absolutely. You're absolutely right about that.
There was an extra level of hatred because he was on the Packers.
And he beat us so many times and I witnessed it in person so many times.
And it hurts.
And then, you know, he didn't play against us when he was playing for the Jets,
but now he's coming back as a stealer and it's definitely his last time
because he's retiring.
And I just so badly want to send him out with a loss
because it would take away probably about 20% of the total pain
that I've felt in my lifetime as a Bears fan.
How many times has he lost in Soldier Field?
Only a couple.
I think only once, maybe twice at the most.
Yeah, no, it's bad. It's a bad record.
He's got the bragging rights.
A good weekend weather, so it's going to be great.
Yeah, it's going to be perfect football weather, like 55 degrees.
Yeah, it's going to be great.
And we have the most amazing seats, too.
We're on the 25-yard line, south end zone, behind the Bears bench.
And we have four aisle seats in the sixth row.
So it's the greatest seats in the whole stadium.
Are those temps good for the old pigskin?
Josh, is that...
That is great football weather.
It's great football weather.
I see those fuckers playing in the snow.
Have you ever tried to use your hands when it's cold out?
That's the thing.
I open a car door and do it wrong and it's like,
my hands do not...
Those cheeseheads, they thrive on being like,
we're real fans.
We're going to be in that.
I don't care how big of a man you are,
how big of a football fan you are, that's got to be miserable.
Absolutely miserable.
Yeah, but those guys, I mean, they're, you know,
the way they get into the game and the way they focus
and they're, you know, moving and sweating,
and I'm sure they feel a little bit...
Oh, the fans? Yeah, no, the fans.
Well, you know, they're pouring me another drink
and they don't feel much.
Have you ever been to Green Bay?
There's nothing else to do besides the Packers game.
I mean, that is like the thing about that town.
There's the stadium and then there's maybe
some houses around it and that is it.
Yeah.
The town owns the team.
Yeah.
We came back from SEMA and my son's 11,
had a football game and it snowed
and for like three years,
oh, we got to play a snow game.
I want to play a snow game.
I'm not wearing a base layer.
We're going to go tough.
We're going to scare the other team.
I'm like, yeah, dude, you're wearing a base layer
and you're going to freeze to death,
and you're going to scare both teams
on the sidelines crying.
I can't feel my fingers. I can't move my toes.
Fingers are turned into glass.
Just a touch of a face mask
on your fingers in the cold.
Parents weren't much better in the stands.
Of course not.
Coming right off of SEMA, man,
you were busy.
The only person that rivaled your busyness
and on-air appearances
was probably Fab Guy Ryan.
I think he's trying to become the new face of SEMA.
He's the mayor. He's the mayor of SEMA.
He's certainly the mayor of Central Hall.
I saw more Fab Guy Ryan pick
than anything else in my social media.
I mean, he never got tired, too.
I've seen like 30 interviews with him,
either the Mustang or the Aston Martin,
and he's just enthused city
and he's pointing everything out.
I'm happy for those guys
because Mike and Jim are very low-key,
very subdued,
and so to have a guy like Ryan
repping the brand is super
because he knows everything about the cars, obviously,
and is very happy
to give anybody a full tour.
Yeah, he does great with it.
He does good.
Mike and Jim go up there and just dismiss everything.
It's fucking things a piece of shit.
He don't want to know nothing about this fucking car.
He goes up there and it's like, he's good.
Yeah, he does.
So SEMA Live, you were busy all week long
and you're doing...
That's like from doors open to doors closed.
Yeah, I was in my seat at 8.45.
I got a half hour for lunch
and then I was there till 5.
5 and then 4 on Friday.
It was long days, but you know what?
I love doing it.
I was actually the only bummer about being up there
the whole time because I wasn't able to walk around the show.
So I really didn't see as much as I wanted to.
I saw a little bit of Central Hall
and that was about it.
But to have the people
who I was able to interview on the show
was just amazing.
I think I did 16 on day one,
15 day two,
probably about 15 day three
and maybe 10 day four.
And we just covered everybody.
Except for you guys.
I don't know why we didn't have you guys up there
because that would have been a blast.
We're old days, man.
You didn't check your junk mail.
Damn, that's what it is.
That's on us.
They were down there live for the unveil.
But I'll tell you one thing.
Big hair muscles.
There's stuff to do
every single night at SEMA,
obviously, right?
And I'm like, I'm an old enough guy
where I know that the next morning
is going to be hell if I go out the night before.
So I reserve one night to go out
and that is, of course, Thursday night
to the Roaster Shop Party.
And it once again was
so much fun and
what a great venue.
You guys upgraded in such a major way.
Luckily the pool area was
roped off because multiple people
would have wound up in there.
We made sure to do that.
We just talked about that with
fab guy Ryan.
No disrespect because I'm part of this community.
All the degenerates, including myself
would somehow end up in the pool.
As the night goes on.
There's next year.
I got permission for next year.
We looked at it. We said, you know what?
Because we did have that whole section.
Right here.
Smart move.
But it's cool.
Your party and the awards you give out
are becoming so coveted.
And the trophies that you guys do
and the bling necklaces
and everything.
I know you kind of halfway
mean it as a joke, but they're so cool
because they're so well done
and such quality stuff.
It's really cool to win those
and to have those.
And it's so important it is
everybody shows up to that party.
Nobody misses that party.
It's a humbling experience for sure
just to look around.
It's something.
But the trophies are wild
because to your point
it did start off as it's a gag.
This is funny.
But then when you really sit down
and you figure out we had engineers
design them.
We machine the RS logo.
It's not cheap by the way.
Josh sits down and he hand
bedazzles him. He places all those things
in the chain.
Then we machine the little chain adapter.
Then we fabricate the thing.
It's probably a $10,000 chain.
If you really figured if you build it
do a customer for later hours.
You went in somewhere and ordered that.
You factor the gold in it's about
$12 or $13 a piece.
There's a lot.
Advanced playing does a lot
of gold plating.
You put in our stuff.
You saw the behind the scenes factory.
There's a whole assembly line
of bedazzling going on.
Between you and me it was arts and crafts.
Supercenter over here.
It is fun to be able
to do something that is fun
like that.
It's fun to not
be able to take it so seriously
while also taking it very seriously.
What party could pull off
Jimi Hendrix Star Spangled Banner
the entire version
and have everybody into it.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Good job.
We missed on one spot.
It was a big miss.
At the very beginning
we did
last year at
Jewel
we told the DJ we want to do Star Spangled Banner
but let's do like a montage.
Let's mix it up.
Staple 10
Hendrix you can mix in
Whitney and stuff like that.
He went
basically Hendrix straight into Staple 10.
No big deal.
It turned out good.
We had the same conversation with the new DJ
at Drace
or Soleil.
No problem.
I got you.
I know exactly what I'm going to do.
I think we even said not the whole Hendrix.
But with that confidence
you're like oh man he's got this handle.
He knows what we mean.
Well then it goes in
and first of all
nobody, that was the first time
that that song had ever been played.
Nobody's ever listened to the whole thing.
No one can make it.
It's like trying to watch Space Odyssey
all in one sitting.
It gets to a certain point
and it's borderline disrespectful
at a certain point.
This is about to change.
It's going to change
and then it just got into like
I'm looking down
I would want to crawl out of my skin.
But I'm as close to you
as I was the DJ.
I'm standing on the side and I'm trying to make eye contact.
He did a great job.
But this son of a bitch
he knew exactly what he was
because he tried to basically hang his head
in reverence.
It's not an eye contact kind of thing.
I'm like
I can stare through your soul right now.
I know you know that I'm looking at you
because you're not doing what we said
and he just hangs in there in the whole thing
place. That was not intended
because nobody would do that.
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I was thinking to myself
this is wow they're going to go for it.
They're doing the whole thing
to do what was going to happen
and I was like alright they're not going to fade out.
No, they're not.
That falls under the good idea of bad execution.
So we're not doing that again.
We're not even going to mention Hendrix next year.
Well, my original point being
you guys
you've set the bar for
entertaining and unusual
and it was a total success
and Tim comes out and does his thing
which is hilarious in its own right.
By the way, he was going around
the room and I was thinking two things
God, he knows
everybody and I hope he doesn't
make it over to me.
Everybody was saying the same thing.
Courtney came out unscathed
because she wasn't in there yet.
He caught
our wives and they kept
moving back and moving back
trying to get behind the column that was there
and he caught them.
They weren't prepared for it.
She's not a public speaker.
It's just her birthday today too.
Happy birthday.
Like any good hot rod builder would do
I'm here hanging out doing a podcast.
You're working.
So happy birthday.
We're doing the teasing
for next year. There's going to be a
special edition. It's going to be the
Hot Rod Wives podcast.
We're going to have a montage of a bunch of wives
from builders out there in the world
talking about how they can all commiserate
about how
two months leading up to SEMA.
It's a good idea to get that together.
It's a great idea.
It's probably not a positive outcome for us.
Anyway, for the spouses, right?
It's a great idea.
That's what the people want.
You know what this motherfucker did?
The odds are in favor of it going badly.
Yes.
If you had to choose one of the odds
they're probably going to go bad.
You're a concierge.
Let's not do it.
Let's cut it off really short.
Fade them out.
You can always tune in for a train wreck
before you're going to turn into anything else.
Exactly.
You definitely stop and watch the entire car accident, don't you?
Absolutely.
Slow way down.
Get over to that closest lane
so you get the front row view.
Are you enjoying doing it?
SEMA lives, that's still Bud's deal, right?
So you enjoy doing it
or are you still working off a 55-year contract with Bud?
He's got something on you
that he's like,
you got 30 minutes for lunch.
Dude, that is a slave driver.
He's a slave driver.
Bud and I go way, way, way, way back.
Chip and I are the only two people
who appeared in every episode of Overhauling.
So that's a little feather in our caps.
But I love Bud.
I love working with Bud.
He's no nonsense.
I get his personality.
I give it as good as I get it from Bud.
We have a shorthand.
He doesn't need to tell me much.
He knows that I understand his vision
and that I get it
and I know what he wants
because that's kind of what I want to
and I know how to give that.
SEMA Live is a long grind,
but it's really an honor
to fill that role for SEMA
and kind of be the conduit
for the people who aren't able to be there in person.
Yep.
And I love it, man.
And look at the people that I get to talk to.
It's crazy. I'm sitting up there next to Mario Andretti
and I'm like, wow, this is really frickin' cool
that I'm getting asked this guy
basically anything I want.
And we went into the whole history
of his racing
and he's the only guy to win F1
and Indy and Le Mans.
He's a living legend
and I'm sitting there next to him talking.
We had everybody up there,
so it was great.
The only drawback was I had to literally
be in the seated position for like
eight hours a day.
My knees are screaming at me by the end of it
because I'm not able to, you know, flex them
and not being able to see the show.
Those are the only two drawbacks
of hosting SEMA Live.
But other than that, I frickin' love it.
I hope it goes on for the next 15 years
and it allows me to become more involved
with SEMA also.
I had a meeting with the SEMA Action Committee
yesterday and I'm going to be kind of taking up
the yoke
where Leno is leaving off
because he's got so much on his plate
and it will still be called Leno's law
which is great, but I'm going to be kind of
the face of it moving forward.
We're going to be put in the bill
back in front of the California
legislature in 26
and hopefully get it passed through
because it's personal for me.
I just had to smog my 85-911.
And yeah,
well no, it didn't fail.
I had to pay my registration
so they made me go see what's called a referee.
Do you guys have those in Illinois?
It's like a state department
where they really go over your car
inch by inch.
And I'm sure they know what they're doing.
Oh yeah, of course.
But the weather's great.
70 all the time.
It's the weather tax, that's why we live there.
So it passed at the ref
because I knew it would.
It passed at the smog place
and I have an awesome Porsche mechanic
in LA that I work with.
Marco at TLG Auto, shout out to him.
He's the best.
They told me after they passed my car
that I think really what they wanted to do
was have a really good Porsche come in
to kind of set the barometer for now.
So you're not a benchmark?
Yeah, exactly.
Well, I'm honored.
Thanks a lot for choosing my car for that.
But no, so I'm going to be
very involved in the advocacy
of those laws, which will hopefully happen
in 26, if not 27, 6, then definitely
in 27, but it's ridiculous
that these cars that are classics
I think it's 25 years from 1990
and older now are considered
classics. What a mind blow
is that a 1990 car is a classic.
Definitely doesn't make you feel young.
That Grand Am is a classic.
In Illinois it's 25.
Yeah, 25.
Oh, did I say 90? Sorry.
2000 is a classic car.
It's 35
in California.
That's the SEMA
and it's now just SEMA
action, right? Because they dropped the network.
I think I saw something there.
But that group, we've had a lot
of them on the podcast and then
we've met a couple of new people at SEMA.
We've said it a bunch of times
every time we've had anybody.
This has been the best.
The last three, four years, this has been the best
SEMA staff and guidance
and action and everything.
It is a great team.
It shows in the show itself.
I was so impressed with the changes they made
to the convention center itself.
The logistics are handled so well.
You get 160,000 people coming through there
but it never felt crowded.
It never felt like I was waiting
to get
out of there.
I was thoroughly impressed.
Mike Spagnolia is such a great guy.
He's so cool. His whole team is really cool
into it.
They're car people themselves.
That's the difference.
The big difference in the key component.
It is amazing to see the positive changes.
Just being there.
It's a hip place to be now.
That was a trade show years ago.
You were literally going to a trade show
and now it's a bad ass place to be.
It just keeps getting more and more relevant.
It's a FOMO factory.
If you're not there,
you feel like you're gluting
into a live trade show.
Big time details.
What was your
biggest surprise,
if something that is
on the come up or has gotten bigger
than you expected it to be, trend wise
or anything at SEMA?
Much of the show but you could take it in.
Well, battle the builders
was very impressive again.
The young guns category.
I thought it was going to happen this year
that a young gun was going to win the whole thing.
The days of like
and also the young guns.
Unfortunately, there's still that one old fucker
hanging around over the top.
By the way,
my opinion, I love Troy.
Very good friend of mine.
His roadster was unbelievable, well deserved
win but if you win the Amber award
I think that kind of takes you out
of the battle the builders running.
It's too much of a ringer.
You should not be able to win that prestigious
of an award and then enter it into battle
because it was just he
he hedged, you know what I mean?
It's Michael Jordan walking into a high school
correct basketball.
At this point, I'm wondering why they
haven't ran battle the builders to be
debut cars.
That's kind of where I'm going.
It should be its first major competition.
But the C-10 industry
if
you debut at Detroit,
debut at Grand National,
debut at SEMA, debut at Columbus
where he is to show up and win
and spread the love a little bit.
I agree.
The Young Guns category winner with his C-10
that truck was unbelievable.
I think he got your award.
He's coming on the podcast here in a couple weeks.
Obviously Troy and then
Pete who built that 356
did you guys get a chance to get a good look at that?
Yeah, I didn't see.
The slick car.
He put some details in there that were
just unbelievable.
Being a Porsche fanatic,
classic Porsche fanatic, that 356
took the cake for me. I was hoping he was going to win.
356 coupe?
Yeah. I think it started out
as a B
but he tricked it all
out and customized
the hell out of it and it was unbelievable.
It was fourth?
I think it was a coupe.
The thing.
Did you look at the thing at all?
I didn't see it in person
It was kind of bum that I didn't see it in person because
It's mind blowing.
Yeah, and that was one of the drawbacks.
I wasn't able to get a good look at these things.
That's a dude we should reach out to
Ron Jones.
To get him on here.
I don't know what goes on in that dude's head
to come up with those ideas to create that
but that thing is so good.
That might have been the most talked about
vehicle. I mean short of the Ring Brothers
asked him but
got a lot of hype.
I never did see it.
I'm just like you.
I didn't get around much at all at the show
so I don't get to really take it in.
So there was that car and then
Battle the Builders I think is what really
impressed me the most about SEMA.
It's becoming such a prestigious award.
I think it's been going for like 12 years now.
I hosted the first couple years of it
and AJ has been doing it ever since.
She did it with Tanner for a number of years
and then she's doing it by herself now
and just
love
sophistication that these young guys
are coming in with. I mean it's like
they've been doing it for 20 years. It's crazy.
Bobby Allway said it. Troy said it.
Chip said it about all these young guys
who are coming up to like there's a
blowing people away. Yes they have the
advantage of technology but what they're
doing with it is so so special.
Thomas's C-10
like if you were just walking through
a show and saw that you wouldn't know
that that wasn't built by
one of the biggest names out there.
It's like you checked every box
because we went and we looked at that.
That's a truck we looked at pretty good
and everything you look at is
touched, finished, done,
executed. And that's not a truck.
You're talking about technology. It's got some
technology in it but I
hear that. Bobby says it all the time.
I'm really good friends with Bobby
Allway. He always says
that with all this new technology.
Let me tell you,
air tools are new technology.
That's a thing that he says.
There is some builds
and cars that get built that are
overly
complicated and are achieved
by modern technology
but fit and finish is fit and finish
and there ain't technology out there
that can make it paint lay down
and buff it out. Believe me
if there was. Technology can't give you a vibe.
People would own it.
Technology can't grab your soul
and say, look, technology can't
nail stance
from looks.
There's some things that just still take
and that's, I mean, Thomas nailed that.
That was the only thing that that truck
was missing a little bit. The stance?
It had a little low on the back. It didn't sit quite right.
I don't know why that is but
he's coming on the show.
We'll talk about it. He knows exactly
what he's coming into.
One of the other builds
that I was very, very impressed with
was the Chevelle
that Velocity Restorations had done
in conjunction with Dutch Boys
which was on a roaster shop chassis
which was in the SEMA live display
so that car I did
just drool over every single day
and there was so many touches man.
The favorite being
the door handles which I see is a trend now
in custom building. They're using those modern
door handles where they pull
it's no longer a latch release
they pull out like a modern door
and it's such a trick touch.
I don't know how long they've been
doing that in the
custom car world if that's something
new or not but I'm new to it
and it really impresses me.
Kendig kind of came out with that.
Yeah, well his handles are a little
different because they push his in
and pulls out like that but this is where
the whole handle kind of looks like
a traditional handle and the whole handle pulls out.
Have you seen it?
The hand digs you mean? No.
The last one? No.
It's not flush.
It's a handle that looks like
a traditional handle.
Did you see Josh Sanders handles?
I wonder if it's those handles that are on that thing.
Yeah, he's got a whole new product.
He had the charger that was
in HRI
the charcoal one.
And he's a young kid
great shop.
He's been on the podcast
and super talented.
That dude can do everything. Absolutely everything.
Got some new products. Well, his new product
there was this handle
that same thing, it pops out.
I wonder if that's the philosophy of using that one.
We've named it.
He doesn't like the name
but me and his wife have named it.
That's right. What did you come up with?
The love handle.
He does not like the name
but I told him I could see it.
You just got to make the logo, right?
Why he looks so familiar.
He looks just like the dude from Red Clay Streis
the lead singer that Brandon.
Every time I look at him, I'm like,
I feel like I've known you for him.
He just needs to throw the right shirt
and throw some sunglasses on it.
Cool them up a little bit.
That kind of look.
Yeah, that Sanders street rise though.
That handle is really, really cool.
You're not having to screw with the button and all that stuff.
There's the whole handle pulls out.
The way that it feels
and the way that it closes is just so modern
because it looks vintage
and then you grab it and it pulls on
and it's like, whoa, that's unexpected.
When you're doing Seema Live
and you're running through so many different people,
like you said, you talked about Andretti
and you've got people that have done this.
You've got FabGuy Ryan
that's a natural on camera, right?
How much has he paid both of you guys
for these mentions?
It's just protection.
We're using it as protection.
Dude, there's your guy.
My bad.
You've seen Josh mouth off.
You've seen the altercations.
You're like, hey, Sean.
Get him out of here.
You've also got, you know,
newer guys in the industry.
You've got Hot Rod Bill.
You got some people that aren't new in the industry.
Like in Alan Johnson, you got people that are just not
talkers and especially not on camera stuff.
What is the, and you've dealt with this a lot.
What's the trick?
How do you get the flow?
How do you get them to get comfortable?
We just use whiskey.
Whiskey's good.
I've got to bring that up to Bud.
Let's get a couple bottles up there.
Some guys, obviously, are not as comfortable
on camera and speaking,
but I just kind of make everything
as conversational as I possibly can.
So they forget about the cameras
and just have a conversation.
I see through my questions
what they want to talk about.
What they're comfortable talking about.
Mostly it's about
what projects they're working on,
their experience at SEMA.
Those are always kind of easy ones,
but their answers will prompt me
to ask questions that,
I want to get something interesting out of them.
So it's a
case-by-case basis, I guess,
the best way to put it, but luckily
most of the people that we book on the show,
they know what they're
going into and they're prepared
and they know what they're talking about.
I'd say, you know,
8 or 9 out of 10 of the people
that interviewed were very good
and very
comfortable talking to me on camera.
How much prep are you doing beforehand?
I do a little bit.
The producers
are very good in the sense that
they give me like a boilerplate
questions, but most of these people
who I'm interviewing, I know.
So it's just like family reunion
kind of makes it easier.
Shoot the ship for about 10 minutes
and it's great.
I feel so
honored and privileged that they trust me
to do it because
to do what I do at SEMA Live,
you have to be very integrated into
the community.
So it's my honor being just a host
and not necessarily a builder.
Yes, I was on a build show, but I'm not a builder.
The fact that these guys respect me
to talk to me
on their level is humbling to me.
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We've talked about that all the time.
I'm sure that it happens
in other industries. However,
this is the industry that we all know
for so long. This seems
as though it's a unique
that no matter where you are
in a job in this industry, it is
very difficult to bullshit
your way through anything.
And the realness is because of
like you said, you're not a builder.
You've been in this. You can speak
the lingo. You know
enough to have the questions. You know
these people. That's there. Versus
just somebody that's great
on camera that can absolutely
run an interview that is just
reading stuff. If it's going over here
like it's it comes across. We've
seen that on automotive
nobody and nobody in particular.
Up until you got like here to the road
so I thought that was you got here in bullshit.
Didn't you? Wasn't that your whole
tail?
You told me that.
But you got to have like facts
about the bullshit. Yeah, you got
a lot of knowledge.
You have to hide the lack of knowledge
effectively.
But yeah, it's it's it is something
that you can't like fake it.
You can't fake, you know,
honest about like, man, I don't know
how that works. Explain that to me.
But if you're just like completely
you know, fish out of water in this
it's difficult for on the
entertainment side or the host side
or trying to put on a show.
If you have no car knowledge.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean that's
you'd be just
inappropriate to be doing
it. But I have been in situations
outside the automotive world because
I host everything.
So I like to
do just enough research where I can
make it seem like I know
what I'm talking about. You know, even
though I don't and I know I don't but I can
I switch it
over to like a curiosity approach
versus like, hey, let's
talk about this and we I'm gonna
I'm gonna ask you loaded questions that show
that I have a little bit of knowledge about this versus like,
you know, tell me about
this table, you know, where it's like
curiosity versus like, if I knew about this
table, like, oh, this this is an old
train floor, right? Yeah.
And it's a it's two different approaches
and you have to quickly be
able to determine, you know,
if you know what the person
is going to be talking about.
The only guy
who's ever pulled it off successfully that
didn't know shit.
I watched Bob Vila home again.
Yeah, he didn't know
Chicago guy know his
fucking nail from a screw really
we used to joke about it all the time.
How do you know this old house?
Is this a fact? This is a fact.
I used to watch it religiously. I know
my dad would watch it was Norm Abram in the
New Yankee Worm Workshop Norm
can make some shit, right? Bob
they'd follow him through and Bob would be
like, so what are you guys getting ready
to hammer up those those
here and they're like, Bob, these are
we're framing like a wall or
you see we're laying down the asphalt
here, Bob. That's that's concrete
about Bob. That's wet. That's wet, Bob.
And then he's like, there's a ton of blue.
That's like a known thing. There's no
bloopers about it and everything. No
kidding. Yeah, I gotta do a deep dive
on that because I used to watch that show
every week because he was he was based in
Chicago, right? I don't know.
Honestly, I thought Bob Vila would. Yeah.
So yeah, this old house and every
week. I didn't know he didn't know he
would be like that ruins like
my these guys are throwing up that
two by four. That's two by twelve, Bob.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, based in Chicago. There you go.
It auto populated.
Yeah. Oh, Bob Vila is not.
Oh, not. Oh, hi. Sorry.
He is taped. Oh, he taped episodes
there. But where's he based? We're in
1990 via spent time in Chicago
Filming Center for a show home again.
OK, but I used to watch it when I
was a little kid. Yeah.
It'd be like the 80s.
Late 80s, early 90s.
Oh, in 90 he was in Chicago
for Wicker Park.
In 2016, he was involved in a lawsuit
regarding unauthorized use of his name in Illinois.
And you just used his name
without authorization.
Bob Vila doesn't know shit.
Look at that.
Yeah, I'm telling you spends a little time on
if you just put it into you to like
Bob Vila bloopers, I guarantee
that's a whole thing.
I'm there and I witnessed
it firsthand. I like that.
So we talked about
I was going to say, let me turn the tables on you guys.
What were some of the builds
that surprised you guys at SEMA?
The young young guys
stuff for sure. Yeah. Because you're just
not used to seeing them
in such a short amount of time like
I felt like for us anyway, it took a long
time to build up
to get to that level like
you hit these milestones of like
you get your fabrication to a level
and the next thing is like you start figuring out
how to get some machine parts incorporated
in your build and then your budgets kind of go up.
You get the right customers and these guys
it's like, dude, you guys are, I mean, you haven't been
alive long enough to kind of go up
like the stair steps to get there.
Now they're jumping steps. They're leaping stairs
right off the bat. They're like that level.
Carbon fiber and perfect panel gaps
and custom
billet parts and 3D printed parts
is right and the look is right. That was probably
the thing that caught my eye
the most.
I didn't get to just like you. I didn't really
get to see the show. We ran through it when you're doing
the award stuff to check the cars, but like
I couldn't really get a
vibe for what was what was
new, what was going on and get to the new product
section. Yeah. I never made it
out of Central Hall. Walked right past all the
damn trucks. I didn't see I did
I missed totally missed Toyota tread pass because
I missed that. I was going to try to see it Friday
afternoon, but they started
rolling it up like three o'clock
on Friday. So I totally missed that.
One other build that really impressed
me was Jason Engel, who also
was on a Roadster Shop chassis.
I can't remember the name
what he trick rides. Yeah.
That Mustang that he built. It was in the
TMI booth.
Yeah, the black one. That was
wild. That was really nicely done too.
Yeah.
We talked a little bit about it with
Ryan and Hunter the other day. More so
than builds my biggest, I guess
surprise or not surprise take
away and surprise from SEMA as
a whole was more
about the
or the attitudes, the
positivity.
It seemed like
I've never
across the board from
an old builder to a young builder to everybody.
There was not that
that like underlying
drama animosity or
this was going on and these guys were bitching about
this or this. Everybody
across the board was so
overwhelmingly positive.
Support.
It was like everybody fed off of it
and like started Monday more. I mean Tuesday
morning when it started and in it just like
it snowballs and it kept going. Everyone
like was so happy
and on the attitude side talking about
the younger guys. We've had a lot
of them on the podcast. We're going to have some more of them on
the skill level absolutely
and these things go hand in hand
because it
Karma always works itself out.
These guys have
some of the best attitudes. They might
all be horrible people behind the scenes
so we're just talking about what we've
interacted with them. But when they've been
on the podcast you talk about
some of these guys built his own wedding ring
for his wife.
They built his own house.
Then this guy built his own. The talent that
they've got. But the humbleness
is something that
as long as we've been in you always run in
those guys that
no faults of their own
they want it and they want it now
and when they don't get it now then it's somebody
else's fault. So you get
like screw this guy and he's taking this
start getting those animosities and those clicks
and they're like these are
just like I'm trying
I'm going to do the best I possibly can do
there's enough jobs out there for everybody
and if you like what I did great
if not like I'm not trying
the just it's so wild
to see in a good way
the attitudes are amazingly positive.
Yeah and I'll go back to battle the builders again
as an example all those guys
you know I think they had over a hundred
submissions to begin with and everybody was
kind of like rooting for each other it was so
cool to be a part of battle the builders
and you're right the attitude is
excuse way more positive than it does
negative I didn't feel any negativity
anywhere in the show it was just everyone was
so stoked to be there because it's such
a cool show and
you said that you know yeah it used to be
a trade show now it's a it's an event
it's like you can't party it's
everything it's like
if you weren't there you'd feel like you missed
five years you know a hundred percent
yeah and it's
not that there's been horrible things
happen in the past but you know you get
the you get in in the past it seems
like you've you've kind of gotten in your
pain and you've worried about your own stuff and
it's easy to be like you know hey that's
you just kind of start putting those
and it's obviously the world and everything that we
going through in the last this was the
I mean met the best most
positive experience
that I can remember at SEMA ever and I
just I hope that
that continues that's because it's good
for everybody yeah and once again
the Roadster Shop booth was like the center
of the universe I mean it's amazing you
guys have the best booth
keep improving it every year and and this
year was such a grand slam because you had
all of those beautiful
builds surrounding your booth and to do that
multi-car reveal
was amazing very
very cool effect and all those cars were
just tops I mean
I think that was my favorite part of the show is just seeing like
the diversity this year
like in the past it's just a ton of
first-gen Camaro's or Chevelle's
I mean there was international
scouts
Marino's
Allen's 80
anyone 80
C3 Corvette
man was that cool all types
Aston Martin I mean just all types
of different stuff to kind of I think breathe
a little bit of fresh air into the
industry definitely yeah
well we were talking a little bit before we started
how you know the father time
is undefeated the the you know you
hardly ever see the 32's
and 34's anymore you see much
fewer tri-fives now
you're seeing all those late 80's early 90's
cars really coming into vogue as
customs and it's it's cool
to see it is it's cool
but it also everything
comes back around as well though because
for me personally
like I got that black 29
5 window
coupe down there that's in the lobby is mine
and I've like I've just come full circle
it's what I started doing it's what I
loved back like when I was
16 17 18
and now like after
20 something years of building like high
end muscle cars and
modified muscle cars like to me it's
that's kind of I'm like really geeking out
on really bitching
nostalgic hot rods yeah I don't
know if that's maybe I'm
a little different case just because I do it
for a living I don't know if it's
that way it is guys but it
it definitely seems like it could
trend it could I mean you know
the younger generation might come back to
those certainly I just see
less of those building history
at the same time so many of those
have been done also
that it's almost hard to you know
do many better than the examples
we've seen yeah I mean I think
Jeremy's right though the pendulum always
as far as it swings one way
and it swings back the other way and
people are down different timelines so
you know depending on how far you swing
one way you're going to be
swinging back this direction as somebody
still swing in that way of reaching
the height of pro touring or whatever it is
but everybody does because
in a nutshell
psychologically automotive
aftermarket enthusiasts
are
individualistically
tribal yeah so
you want to be individual I want to be
my own person my own creativity
drive my own thing with my
and that I created with my own mind
however as long as I can be part of the
automotive tribe
different automotive tribes if you're a
non-car guy I don't care if
you understand it because
you're not a member of my tribe
but you want to be individualistic
so as soon as your individual
group inside that automotive tribe
starts to get a little bit bigger you're like
oh shit I'm not much individual anymore
let me find the next thing that's just the way
it is you bounce
around to the next thing you're trying to keep going
trying to keep going trying to keep going it's not
that you just want something to be
different but it's psychological
like man I've done those five things
that's what's the next thing and you're like man
I haven't even thought about vintage
hot rods in 15 years
I haven't been on you know the ham
I haven't been on jalopy journal I haven't like
I used to know everything about like what's the best
flathead and what's the best this so you
start getting interested in the things again
and you start going that direction
because it is different it's new it's
exciting it's something to learn over again
for the young guys I guess it's it's hot
riding history too like they should know their
history and you know I guess every young builder
should do a 32 you know and do a try
five you know just to say that
you know I've I've covered that genre
but I do send I do
see the trend as being
that like I said
before we started a
50 year old now whatever car
he coveted in high school absolutely
is the one that he's going to want to turn into a
custom today never fails
yeah never what your parents had
or what you had right growing like for me
like I mean I had a grand
national and I sold it for five
grand more than I bought it for and I thought I was the
smartest guy in the room but that's really
literally the one that got away for me like I
would never sell that car again because
I had it I love that car in high
school it's my favorite car in high school
and if I still had it and it was totally
stock you know
I would I would never sell that car again
because that was the one but you might
drive it now and be like
are you serious oh they're terrible
you know they're typical GM
car and the whole you know interiors the same
as every other GM car was produced
that time but if I could afford it
I would love to turn that car into something like
what you guys have down the lobby and that's
but you're that holds true across the board
that goes across every automotive
genre because I mean
imports the
you know Supra the s2000
those cars are coming
like and those values are skyrocketing
and it's of the same era
you know as Fox body
as you know third gen Camaro as that
late 90s early
late 80s early 90s
go into exotic cars and look at what
you know late 90s early 2000s
you know some of the rare rare
it's going it just goes all the way across
the board at that 45
to 50 year old
of when that is the cars
the same way those are coming up
and up and up and up and we see them crossing
Mika Mokshin block all the time and they're going
for these crazy prices because there's a dude
who's like wow that was my dream car
when's the last time you sent a 300Z
X twin turbo T top car
they completely disappeared
I didn't even know what that is
to be honest with you
what is it
300Z T top car
with a twin turbo
had been like a 95
kind of V
let's see
what makes it
the Iraqish looking
oh it's
yeah looks like a little like
there it is right there
ooh check out the blades on that
when those came out
those were so futuristic
those were like the first car with the
flushed headlamps and
just that kind of real wind tunnel
friendly look get a side profile
of those wheels
like the
3000 GT
there was a
Mitsubishi 3000 GT VR4
which is the all-wheel drive
at one of the cars and coffees the other day
like Chicago Motor Cars or something brought up
it had like
1800 original miles on it
and you look at it and you're like holy shit
and you walk up and look at it and you're like
yeah I remember these
but those things are like that stuff's coveted
Mitsubishi clip stuff and the all-wheel drive
you know that those things are bringing
big money in that it's all the same era
has a Subaru SVX car on yet
no a Subaru SVX they made
they made three of those worldwide
that was a full-blown exotic car
you remember the Subaru SVX
no it was the half glass
the window rolled up into the window
it's a weird car
every time my 3000 GT story
where those like have such a
memory
you mean geese
I'm unfamiliar with those
1989 Subaru SVX
that is a
spaceship
I had one buddy in middle school
his mom had one
we would sit out in front
and wait for him to pull up
because literally it was like it's a Subaru
there's a lot going on
in that car
maybe that explains why I coveted a Ford Pro GT so much
look at those stuff
there are other lines
and you guys could build
a chassis for that car
I'm a purist
I'd keep it stock
what's your 3000 GT story
when I was a kid
I had a girlfriend
that car was early 90s
this is on your wife's birthday
that's fine
and her parents were incredibly wealthy
they lived in this beautiful
super modern like crazy modern
home
giant circle drive
in Riverwoods
so she had two older sisters
the sisters were probably like 6-7 years older
maybe a little older than that
we won't go into names
people don't want to be named
she shared her birthday with Michael Jordan
yes she does
still to this day I remain friends with her
older sisters
back when I was a kid they looked like playboy bunnies
they were smoking hot
like unbelievably fucking gorgeous
and the dad bought a matching
3000 GTs
so there's a young Jeremy Gerber
standing there at a pool party
and watching these two girls come out
like the hair is all
permed up and stuff in that era
getting into these 3000 GTs
and I'm like it is like watching a porno
it was cool
things went into slow motion
oh my god what's going on
moving into stereo started playing
white umbros on
good thing they weren't dude
but I'll never forget
like that car to this day
indelible memory
people don't forget
what pushed you into the
portion of the air cooled stuff then
my dad always had 9-11s when I was growing up
so just always were
very warm fuzzy feeling
and
so we used to shoot overhauling down in
Irvine for a couple of seasons
and it was a 50 mile drive from Burbank
where I lived down to Irvine
and so at the time I was driving this big
heavy Dodge Magnum
that foos had put 20 inch wheels on
and it was like I felt every single bump
in the road and it was just you know
magnums are rattle boxes to begin with
so I needed a little zipper car
and so I was thinking about
a Z car and I opened up the auto
trader remember those
so I was standing in a 7-11 by my house
open the auto trader
and he said
I didn't even buy
the auto trader I pulled out
I saw an ad for an 85 9-11
which is what I have
and I dialed up the number and just so happens
the guy lived in Laguna
which is next to Irvine
so I drove there during lunch the next day
and the guy answers a door
and he was selling it for his dad
who had had it in Palm
Desert as his like winter car
and we went back
and forth and I got it for a great price
I think I got it for like 19 grand back then
right this in 2005
and I saw
the guy that sold it to me at SEMA
like two or three years later and he's like
yeah you still got that Porsche I'm the guy
that sold it to you and he was expecting me
like oh no I flipped it and made five grand
you know and I said dude
I will never sell that car I love that car
with every ounce of my heart
and that guy who sold me the car
you know him it's Reed Morales
who is now my brand manager
he also reps Christy Lee and Faye and yeah
and so we just
became friends after that
and several years later
this is probably 10-12 years ago now
he said I'm starting a management company
and
and I said well you know I brand manager
that I could use you
and so we struck up a partnership
back then and we're friends
we're production partners and he's my brand manager
and that's awesome
I think that's a hobby
can do that
yeah right
what other hobby has
we've heard those stories
maybe golf
which is my other obsession
golf?
you think you buy a set of clubs from a guy
off a fucking facebook marketplace
and then he turns
he's giving me my golf
he's giving me my golf manager
not gonna make any money
for that hobby you're not over there
making those kind of connections
no but you make a good point though
this is kind of the only hobby
industry where something like that
and then the stories are wild
because it could be years or decades later
and it comes full circle
and we're like oh my god we know each other
yeah you bought that rare
often house or intake
and then it turns into a
it's just wild
we've heard so many of those stories
about a car
or a love of a car
or a hunt for a car
a conversation that comes up about a car
the stories of being on a plane
and he's like oh I see you're looking at so and so
and so are you into cars
and then by the end of the plane
now it's a business partnership
and they start a company
it's the great unifier
the love of the car is unique
in the fact that the automobile
is so diverse
but one guy can love
air-cooled Porsches and another guy can
love Mopars
and they can relate because
it's four wheels and a steering wheel
and that's really the essence of it
and that's what brings us all together
that's why SEMA is...
I didn't think
Mopar guys could like anything but a Mopar
no it's true I am a living breathing example
and I guess it is
because of my dad
my brother's had cool muscle cars
and that's where my love of muscle cars came from
and my dad had Porsches
and that's where my love of Porsche came from
but they speak to me equally
in different ways
obviously I think where they cross over
is style
Porsche just nailed it from the beginning
with the 356 and then into the 911
they just nailed style
and there's different versions of that style
and of course Mopar
just I mean
it's like licorice
you know if you like Mopar
you really like
Mopar
I mean Chevy guys
okay I get it Chevy you got a choice of
ten different brands
Mopar you got two
do you like licorice?
I hate licorice
I'm a chocolate guy
I'm a chocolate guy
it is funny though
back to the car thing
the equalizer is
there's times
if you don't know somebody say it's a social media thing
right or you is a celebrity
or it's somebody that you hear about something
and then you see
that you know they've got a vintage car
they're a car guy you're interested in like
they've got to be cool then
even if there's been times where it's been
somebody that I've like
generally disagreed with on stances
you know they've never met the person whatever
and they're like oh fucking dude's crazy
you're like oh
maybe I mean he's probably not that bad
right maybe we should at least have a conversation
he can't be that fucking stupid and also be into
these cars you're like it's a pretty cool
Camaro yeah exactly
that's true almost all the time like 99%
of the time that 1%
the guy's probably driving the red
Callaway C7
convertible and I'm at dinner
with them no well yes
it's gotta be red it's gotta be red
yes I think the perfect example
of what you're talking about is Kevin Hart
like Kevin Hart you look
at him you'd never imagine he was a car guy
and then you and then you find out oh he's
got these cool customs and then you
discovered the level
to which he is a car guy and you're like
wow that is very cool
because you know it's all walks
of life and then you
you see the builds that he has commissioned
and it's all just the
highest quality stuff yeah
really cool stuff I've
I've made it like a
personal
thing even through this podcast and conversation
we've had we've talked to like
Rogan about it as well
I'm trying to find the common
thread like what's
there's gotta be something that
ever that that
what makes you the type of
person that is so into
automobiles
or vehicles or in I don't care
about style I don't care about old new
that's just for it's a former transportation
you know there's sports
and there's hobbies and there's crafts
and there's all kinds of things that you
you're creating something you're doing something you're doing
also but cars is just it's a it's a form
of transportation and it's art
right I've
I've never been able to kind of like nail
or anybody else explain of
like we had this type of person
you know from a psychological
standpoint or the way you were born
or where you were raised or where this stuff
probably would lend you to be into
those types of things you know
you know warshack test to see yeah
that's I think it's like if you
say it's art it is art but it's like the most
visceral art
functional yeah like you
can't you look at a painting it's beautiful you can't
just make any sound just hangs on the wall you can't
open it you don't you turn it around and look
behind it and it's there's nothing there
there's so many facets I
agree and people can be obsessed with
different areas only like the looks
of the style never drive it
other guys want to drive the wheels off of it
100% other guys want to build it
I uh some of the driving thing I
would come to that too and ask a question
it's a pertinent question to you
I get what you're saying and that's probably
why there isn't a way to quantify it
but if you talk about like
what generally would make
somebody want to join the armed forces
right a man or woman join the armed forces
or branch the military it's generally a
reason it's a couple of things right
it's a kind of longing to prove themselves
they can do it some of these kind of things
right it's common threads among
if you are want to play team sports
in high school and want to go to the next level
sometimes it's just one of the common threads
that stuff I'm just
saying that generally it's all
general I've said it multiple times is
generally speaking that if you're into
a certain type of thing then you fall
into a couple of different categories and
it makes sense of like oh yes okay
you and I are both like this
the cars though
there is no
common thread
you can everybody can get
in for a different reason
some from very young some from
even later in life
sometimes it's I was never into cars
I would I needed to
find something it was the next thing and then
it you know 40 years old
they're hooked
they're bought in and they're a full blown car guy
it's just again I'm not asking for the answer
it's very interesting that there's
it's fun for the whole family it's just
it's just good
you know
I wasn't trying to ask for the answer it's
interesting to
it's unanswerable it really is
it's a rhetorical question at best because
that you just don't know you can't define it
it's the ultimate
you know I do not know I could
I know what it is
but I can't describe it
but every single one
I talk to that is an enthusiast
they can pinpoint
the moment
they can be like I was this age
it was a Sunday
I was in the backseat and so and so drove by
or this vehicle I would read this
magazine I saw that they all
have like the impression
what's funny when you think
like the people who don't they just don't
like I'll drive that
I'll drive that model A around
and that thing I mean it's open headers
like Limefire exhaust it sounds like a
fucking top fuel car and I'll be sitting there
at the light and that thing's just cackling
and shaking and I mean it looks
for young kids today they don't know what
the fight looks like I mean it's an antique
it's crazy it is
and you'll sometimes you'll pull up next to
like it could be a group of dudes in a
landscape truck and they're going crazy
over it but then I'll pull up next to like
two young girl like 16
year old girls or something in a little
SUV and just sit don't even look
over it like I know you fucking here
like it's like it's
shaking your whole fucking car but you
would think just to like wouldn't it
you'd be curious as to what it is like
but it's it doesn't
register resonate at all with some
it's just a vehicle that's there they're just they're
driving they're worried about them and I got
someone with my kids that are driving a hot
ride and we'll pull up next someone came
we'll be like oh there's a guy in a Porsche
there's a guy in a Corvette you pull up next
to him and they're just like this looking
out because he didn't fucking look over
I'm driving a thousand horsepower Chevelle
yeah he's driving a Corvette or a Porsche
he didn't look over not a car guy
it's funny I do this little
thing on on social media that I call seen
on the street and I see cars all the
time you know I do 10 me comes a year I
go to shows like SEMA and Grand National
Roadster show and you know I'm always
around unbelievably high level
cars but if I see a beater
ass 66 Mustang
parked on the side of the road I will
literally pull over jump
out of my car take two pictures of it
and post it and say seen on the street
because it's so cool to see him out
in the wild and it's a piece of shit
compared to what I normally see but I'm so
stoked to see it there
amongst all these cars that look
exactly alike and
it's just I don't know that's I think
that's what it is it's it's like we always
we notice because we're car guys
a million people a day
just drive by that car and don't even
see it it's why the old champagne Toyota
Camry's there's one every
morning on my way to the gym
on a little side street
tiny little house with a little
single car
outbuilding got little carport
well yeah basically there's a fucking
70 Duster sitting there
and it's a little that's a car it's a little worn out
yes it's a little worn out but
it's like I've seen it for
four years I try and I look at it
every single day right and it just
every it's like it I'll never
not drive past there but
you have no idea what the front door color
is what trees what the landscaping
looks like or anything like that but you know
exactly the car that's sitting there
it's that house with the Duster
you talked about you said
something about
you know some people want to drive them some people want to look at them
you mentioned the fact of it being
art
I know you like you and you
talk about the experience you talk about the driving
of it
I saw something today
I think it was from
Spikes
podcast yeah right
first yeah yeah and they were talking
about
I think it was Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo
I saw that too he was talking about his car
collection and he doesn't drive how many how many cars
do you have in your collection he's like
you know he doesn't even know right like a real
car guy knows exactly how many
cars he has in his collection he could name
every single one of them what's in them
how many miles when's the last time he drove
them 100% yeah but
my quet so that
he said to his credit
Cristiano said it's
just like collecting art so for him
he might as well be collecting paintings
or sculptures or whatever for him it's just so
is cars so is
he wrong
he's not wrong but he's not a car guy
I think it's an art
collector when you look at that scale of net worth
to him and that yeah he's got enough money to be
right oh yeah I understand but you get to
a point you can do it every one you sort of just
gotta get rid of it I'm not I'm not
taught but he's not gonna have an enthusiastic
conversation about one of his cars in his
collection he's just gonna be good yeah I
have a I have a mercy a logo
that's gold plated you know yeah but
it's and yeah it's for one of us probably
gold labor
yeah exactly I was not
you know the specific case of just him
and his collection it was more of a jumping
off of there is a lot of
collectors out there that would consider
themselves car guys and they know
the details and they know the facts and
they know the history and however
their enjoyment comes from
knowing those facts and looking at them
and seeing them and not driving him and
those guys get a lot of shit because they don't
drive them and if they're getting the same
enjoyment that we do
out of driving it I have a hard
time saying that they're doing it
wrong I'll give you a perfect example
Mekum and Kissimmee in January has a
collection of Ferraris going across 46
Ferraris to Alpha Romeo's that were owned
by this guy Phil Bachman that's the
yellow yes the yellow collection
he he was proud of the
fact yeah there it is right there
he was proud of the fact that his
cars were so low mileage
and his friends would all be like Phil
put some miles on these cars man enjoy
them he's like hey I'm gonna enjoy
my cars how I want to enjoy them
and so he really is the perfect example
of a real car guy yeah who
enjoys the cars the way he
wants to enjoy him he's the kind of guy who
could tell you every single speck about
every single one of those cars he still
has the very first Ferrari that he bought
yeah he got 2F
50s
I'm sorry 2F 40s because he got one
from the factory and one from the dealership
he wasn't sure the factory was going to be able to get
him one he got on the list but he wasn't
sure he could get one so he went to the dealership
they both came back and said yeah we got
you when he goes I want them both
we had a similar problem but neither delivered
yes
but he is but Bachman
is a perfect example of what you're talking about
and I just I see a lot of that
you know the negativity side
of like oh if you're not putting miles
on them and you're doing this you're not a car guy
and you're not doing you're doing it wrong right
we see the same thing in whiskey all the time
oh you're putting it on ice you're not you're doing it wrong
or you don't like this or you're not drinking it
you're just have it up there on display it's like
whatever the hell you want exactly we went to
that scott's buddy
were we in Nebraska
we swam by his place
the transmission guy just the most
unsuspecting collection you're doing
he bought
one of our customers the guy who owns the grand national
we went to the wheel hub event
you can turn that off now by the way
we're racking him over
we go to that wheel hub event and then we left
a little early and our customer is like oh bro
i got a friend who's got a car collection
let's go check it out
well his friend with the car collection
bought like an old department store
he was like here came our
150,000 square feet
i'm guessing something like that
and it is
immaculate
flawlessly restored muscle cars
displayed just beautifully
and i mean you name every
bad at hemicutas
like big mopar guy
one of every color in 70
and then one of every color in it
crazy stuff
you know they're not getting driven
he's a fucking car guy
he enjoys the shit out of him i'll bet
that enjoyment
he's got a bar sitting right in the middle of the thing
and that's probably the enjoyment
i mean you remember
we were all kids
follow with me
it's similar but different i get it
but being kids
with hot wheels cars
and there was kids
that would come over and they would want to run them on the track
and bash them into each other
and then there was i'm like
we can take them out of the package and look at them
but let's not bash them into each other
i like looking at them
i like looking at the details
and i like keeping them nice
i used my dad's side cutters
and i cut all the fucking roofs out and i modified them all
customizing
but just using it
to like play with and like
be destructive
you're still in the cars
but it's kind of the same thing
if you're enjoying it
who's to say that you're doing it wrong
the barometer is
a car guy
a car guy can have cars
and drive them or not drive them or have one car
you're a car guy because you're passionate
about automobiles
you can have this
unbelievable collection
and just be like
not really know about it
you're collecting
for the sake of collecting
you're not collecting based on passion
that's the difference
it's the same exact mentality
and while we're on this subject
car guy is a car guy
passionate
he's getting his enjoyment the way
he wants to get his enjoyment
same shit can be said for all the
built not bought bullshit
it's funny that they're not a car guy
because they got enough money
to have somebody build them a car
you're not as much of a car guy as me
because I would build it myself
by the way that's pretty fucking frugal
because to buy something
is a lot more economic than building something
we all know that rule
I hate seeing that shit
I can't stand to see that
I can't stand being criticized
for buying instead of building
I hate that
okay this guy's got six cars
that's 60 years that would take
to build those all himself
like
and he's enjoying the shit out of them
I'll never
I can see why they say it
I'll never agree with that
and we make our living doing that
we make our living building cars for customers
to enjoy them
the must be nice guy
exactly I was about to say that
that's a certain genre of the passion
so there's guys out there who just enjoy
the process
of seeing these cars being created
and kind of being the general contractor
of these cars
maybe they're dabbling into themselves as well
but to be a high net worth
individual and to be able to build a car
like what you guys build
is a section of the passion
in and of itself
there's other guys who just go
I want it immediately and this is what I like
I just got everything that I'm into
and I want to have that car immediately
whether you want to drive it or put it away whatever
but it's all based on that passion
for the automobile
just do it
I don't think we've ever discussed
but let's say
that unlimited budget
what goes in the Henning car collection
what's the first purchase
H2
unlimited budget
but you've already got the H2
and you already put the chrome rims
and all the little accessories
you've got the train horn
chrome handles
at this point don't you think if I had unlimited budget
I'd already moved to the EV
why would I still be riding around in the fucking H2
what's the
the showcase of the collection
that's an H1 alpha for sure
if I'm going to Hummer
with the machine gun
I still have the itch
to be scratched is I want
for Rambo Lambo
I want the LP
2000 or whatever the thing is
that's going to be the first car you go out and buy
that's the first one
car
killing machine
in between alpha mobile
car wise
and then you're taking it just straight to the dealership
Lambo dealership to make it work
that's one that you won't drive
I don't want it
I want that built
I want that
I think that build would be really cool
I don't want to talk to Bobby about that
Bobby wants to do it
he's a Lambo guy
that's the next
that's the next Aston Martin
that's the next groundbreaking holy shit
that's a game changer
that's 100% a game changer
50 cal mounted on
you're not building it like Rambo
would have it you just use that name
to describe the vehicle
it's not the Bert Reynolds Lambo
it's the Rambo Lambo
I got it
because he owned one
that's why they called it that
Stallone had one
the
first thing
I'd probably
have to have a pretty
Ripper split bumper Camaro
really
70 trans AS 70
but something with some history
like a Baldwin motion
or like a drag car
no like a trans
am car
race car
I love the
second Jim Camaro
I always say 70
it's a pinnacle year
Ferrari, GM
almost every manufacturer
you can point towards the 70
to say that this is their absolute pinnacle
I say it all the time I meet them
I'm a 70 model
so I'm partial
but I love 70 Mopars
I love 70 GMs
70 GTO
is unbelievable
70 Mopars are split though
because the big bodied ones
the Roadrunner I think they lost it a little bit
in 70
in 70
body style is one year only and then it changed again
in 71
70 Cuda champ
first year for the really awesome
e-bodies you know the challengers
and the Cudas
but I like
the Roadrunner from the 70
all squared up and stuff
I like the 60's
68, 69's are the class
those are the ones everyone goes for
I kind of like the 70's in the Roadrunner GTX
just because they're less popular
maybe is why I like them more
but certainly a 70 Camaro
I just love that body style change
that's what I love about the manufacturers
back in the 60's too
you look at the Corvette
it changed subtly
every single year of its existence
from 1953 all the way through
the C2's
through 67
there was
if you know what you're looking for
you can easily tell the difference between
a 63 and a 67
if you know the body cues
and same thing with the Mopars
there were little touches
they never rested on their laurels
and said we're just going to put the same car out again
and that meant back in those days
changing everything
you had to change all the stamping for the sheet metal
and everything
I know right exactly
I'd have to buy the green 69 Camaro
George's old car
I'd have to have that
okay
and I'd have to have the 57 post
from Bob Johnson
good looking car
I'd have to have a 56 Chevy
two door post
the black that I want to do
you also got to have one of those
good guys visors with the hair sticking out
this is going to be your car collection
those individual cars
I'm not talking about 57 Ford
I'm talking about that car
you shop in the merch department at car shows don't you
get the Hawaiian shirt with the bell airs all over
there's a very particular
there's a very particular
it's the only active subscription to
auto trader
there's four pages thick nowadays
I had to go get at the PO box
I don't fold it
there's a very specific
56 post
that I want
very specific build
a couple have been built
they've come close but
I want a sleeper
down in the nose
but with what
the tri-five Chevy's
they could
be the perfect
size vehicle
for a build
for a build the way you would want to do a build
for a usable vehicle because they got
all the hood room to do
anything you want to do
you can sacrifice the back seat
to do whatever you want to do in the back
100% but even like seating
you got all 502 in there
you've got all the room
it's a great size
car to build
to do
you could have 1200 horsepower in that
and make a road tour car
with power windows and have cold air
and it's sit like it's not
been touched for 40 fucking years
and go around corners
you could do all those things with that car
you don't have any constraints
in like interfenders
you don't have any constraints under the hood
you don't have any constraints from oil pan
blower
aerodynamics
do you just overcome it with another couple hundred
a couple hundred horsepower will take care of that
but it really is a
I like
67 Chevelle as well
but those have more challenges to do
a lot of things that you would want to do
not that you can't be overcome
but I think a 56
that looks like it
doesn't do much
but does a lot
would be on my list
do you see the one that Mark Warke had at
black one with the blue interior
yes I did
he's got
good shit
do you know Mark Warke from Amarillo
no
he's a cool dude
but he's a guy that just
everything he has
is fucking cool
he's known for the
he's been to Corky Coker's place right
I have not been to Corky's place
and he was on Seema Live
this past
earlier this month
so you've seen pictures of his
you've seen the Indian
seen the big Indian neon
so that was a two sided sign
so Corky Coker has one
Mark Warke and Amarillo has the other side
and it's in his place
that's cool
but it's Amarillo
it's dry
middle of nowhere he's got all these buildings
he's got body shops
but you go out just in the boneyard
stuff of projects
and it's like
seven fucking badass trucks
that all could be great
and then you see these carnival rides
that he's bought from a traveling
carny place
that's fucking cool
that rocket ship would be great hanging on the wall
everything that he has
it's a great reason in a place
you're like oh I could see why you'd buy that
I wouldn't have ever bought it
but now that I see you have it
it's fucking cool
I've tried to buy many of things that I couldn't
because Mark had bought them before
you go to any swap meet in Texas
and you're looking like oh that's a badass
like gas station sign
or something new
how much is that
oh that's sold Mark just bought it
25 times it's happening
he bought that
he buys cool
that little section of the industry is unbelievable
because before the cars go
Mekum always sells what they call road art
the prices are unbelievable
these guys are as
into these means and pumps
as they are cars
to build out their mancapes
yeah I've seen
talk about Mekum some
you've been doing a lot with Mekum
we have
channels Dana
he's actually got a chassis
for his truck
but I've never
never spoke to or never broke Brad don't know the man
yeah he's local
Lake Geneva right?
let me tell you a story about Lake Geneva one time
my brother in law
and I were up this was probably
this was during COVID so 2020
we drove up to Lake Geneva
and we're walking around the lake
and in between the lake and the houses
there's this path that you walk along
there's all these boat houses
and we come to this one boat house
and in the boat house is all this
Automobilia
and I'm like oh this guy's gotta be a car guy
we're looking in there and he's got
valve covers and miniatures and everything
and I googled this house
and somehow I found it
and it's Dana's house
and it is spectacular
yeah I've seen the house
yeah so it's big green
stylish style house and he's got this
pool house and I guess underneath
the pool is his car collection
yeah in there so there's a video I think
somebody did a video tour of it
on YouTube somewhere
a family friend was there for some event
and sent me some pictures of the
yes subterranean
so I emailed him because I had his
email this is before I started working
this was in between my working for Barrett
now working for Mika and I emailed him
like dang I can't believe it I'm outside your house
come up and y'all check it out
I mean your pool dude
right now my guy can jump in the pool
he is
so down to earth
and salt of the earth and he is
a pure car guy
like he knows he's got such a
depth of knowledge in an unbelievable
car collection and he has just
managed to find
a niche in the industry and just
crushed it crushed it I mean those
guys crush and again I did Barrett
Jackson for six years I was in that world
I've been in the Mika world
now for the last four years about to
go into my fist starting in January
and I can tell you that I so
much more enjoy Mika
not only because there's more of them
but their clientele are
more real car guys
it's not so much like
a show like Barrett Jackson was
Barrett Jackson was a blast especially
Scottsdale I loved my Barrett Jackson
experience but Mika
I feel so much more like a car guy
okay at Mika
and I just I love
the community I love their clientele and the
focus is on the cars
and you really feel that at the Mika
he's been doing amazing
I'm sure him and his staff and all that
the
when you think that like well there's nothing
left to sell the new
rare one of rare connection
or collection and this things
going and then this like
me in January is going to be
Seinfeld's car well that
was unbelievable the 917
was an unbelievable experience
he lands
heavy hitters yeah the
heaviest I mean we just saw that little clip of the Bachman
collection I mean that that's
an unbelievable collection and that's one of
probably five or six
off the charts collections that are going
the Bianco Especiale the
only white factory
250 GTO is going
at Mekum Kissimmee that thing is
going to be just you know
yeah I can imagine what that's going to be
what the 917 go up to I know
it did sell after 26 mil
at bid to and then
it sold Jerry sold it afterwards
I mean it was the whole the way the whole thing
came to be and was executed
was kind of genius
you know between Jerry and Dana the
the podcast I watched
of Jerry them
them trying to get all the details
bikes and then Jerry
given what he was going to give
that was they did it so well
you're like you didn't tell me what happened
but I know what happened
and just that the provenance of that
particular 917
and just the 917 program
I mean once that car hit there was
I mean they just blew
the competition out of the water from 1970
on if Porsche had stayed in the mall
they would have won it every single year
and now I think there's
V8 or V12
there's a V12 there's two V6's
made it together yeah sorry not V12
flat 12 yeah yeah it was
two flat 6's made it together
and just an unbelievable
car to be in the presence of and hear it start
up and roll by me and
I mean of course I had a front row
seat I was literally two inches away
from the cars it's rolling across the block
and the place was just full focus
on that car it was amazing
I wonder what compels him to sell
that particular car
yeah I don't know I mean I think
he talked
he talked a little bit about that
that it was
just the hunt then the acquisition
and then the ownership
and then
next phase stale yeah
the next phase was thing and
it was you know there was 26 mil
certainly opens up the car buying
budget for some sure
the thing is if you follow like
so until it's really really
cool
and has changed a lot like
he went through a phase
where he's already dumped like
he dumped 90% of his collection
in less than a year
about you know six seven eight years ago
just and it wasn't it was just about
like a refresh of like I've done this
now try so we free up these
and then you acquire the next
step and then he's kind of doing that same
not a lot of cars but
you just rotate through have you been
to
Bruce Myers place
his one downtown yeah
no I have not he's invited
me there and I've been I've been trying to get
down there because I want to see that cobra in person
you need to yeah
we're just have not had the opportunity
we're planning some remotes
right around Grand National
it might do and do one from
there we might do that we've already done it once
we're gonna do it probably do it again
we've done one from his place downtown and
anyway you want to talk about car guys
I mean we just mentioned two of the most famous
and most dedicated me between Jerry Seinfeld
and Bruce Meyer I mean you know it just
Bruce Meyer to me
talk about down to
earth and humble and approachable
and like every time I see him
he's so warm and like
gives me a hug and just I
feel so connected to the
car world through him and he is a legend
just a legend
you know it's it's 200 mile an hour
club and he's just he's the best
we've got to do there's so
many more stories that he didn't get to tell
and
now I think he's like understands
kind of what we're doing we're gonna we're gonna
do it again there so
yeah yeah right
we could turn so yeah we need it
we'll let if that happens
you we're gonna we'll let you know man I would
I would love to come down and crash that
you're gonna say amazing
unlimited budget
that would be my second choice would be
anything in Bruce Meyer's collection
just anything it doesn't matter yeah
he's got the most like just
sexiest like best looking
tasteful collection of cars
I'm surprised he doesn't have a gt-40
like a real gt-40 yeah the only thing he's
missed he's probably hasn't there's not
he told you why why
he says everything's gotta have like a story
he's like a one of rare it's gotta
the rarest it's gotta be beautiful
it's a beautiful car I understand
but if maybe you can't get
the rarest and the
the one he wants so you want to hear a
good rare story that just blew my mind
it's a memory that I will never ever
forget you know guys know Rob Coffman is
right it's Rob Coffman he owns
RK Motorsports in okay okay
talk another
unbelievable real deal car guy
drives his stuff he owns
the 1966 gt-40
Le Mans winner no shit
yeah McLaren and
that's why Bruce doesn't have
one because that's the one he would
want one he should have
Chris Ames and Bruce
doesn't have one the famous story
you know the you know Miles was told
to lay back and they won because of the
starting position all that shit
he owns that car fully restored
they had that the Le Mans
display at Pebble Beach I think
two years ago three years ago
so I kind of know Rob and so
he was standing next to his car and I'm like
Rob can you look he's like
get in you know so he
lets me sit in the car and then
he's like you know what let's start it
so he starts the car
yeah I was just in Dana Meakin's pool
this is fucking awesome
nothing bro
that like
and by the way you know
Ford vs Ferrari very popular movie
right that's a dramatization of what the
actual story was they took a lot of creative
liberties if you want to see the real story
watch Adam Corolla's 24 hour
war that's the real story
with archival footage
unbelievable movie
so and I was
I am so into
1966 Le Mans that race
and you know the subsequent three races that they won
for Narelle last time Ferrari won
was 65 until they won again recently
but that story of
1966 and that car in particular
the number two black car
Rob's got it restored to
race quality I sat in it
he started it up right after I sat in it
and that like to me that's like that's one of those
cars where it's like you feel
the history you're like holy shit
I'm holding the steering wheel that
you know Bruce McLaren was holding
when he won this race and it's
like stuff like that
I just geek out about so hard
you know those those cars
that are because it's the car
that's like the Seinfeld's 917 was
like that you own that car you drive it
what's it oh 100%
that was this car you drive
why not it's a fucking force it was
a race car
it's I understand you can get
you can buy engine parts and Napa for that thing
I'm not I mean it's cool as
shit but I'm driving the wheels
off that car I would
I would drive it but
that's that's a you'd loop
it out yeah that's too much
it's too much car for you dude
I understand your apprehension
I got a similar I got to sit
my favorite hot rod of all
pretty close
oh you've caught a bass before
I caught one that was this big
favorite hot rod of all time Pearson Brothers Coupe
and we're at Bruce Myers
and he's got the Pearson Brothers Coupe
he's like dude jump in it
and I'm like normally I would be like
now I'm like I'm in there just like
touching things it's so
rich and yeah I didn't get to start it
he's got he's got a yellow bird
yep which is
you know pinnacle pinnacle
in the Porsche community pretty much the things
like
it's sensory overload when you're in there
right and he's super nice and there's again
because the only reason he has it
is there's got to be a reason right so there's a story
to everything it's not just like oh yeah
I've you know always wanted a you know
Red C6 Corvette it's
there's a story about every single one of them
and the you have to listen to the podcast
because he did a really really good job
but the Mercedes it was in there that was
Kerry
Grant
yes Kerry Grant
he's got his is it a goal wing
no it's the Ralph Lorenz goal wing
yeah it's Ralph oh he's got Ralph Lorenz
goal wing yes it's Ralph Lauren by the way
I was I was schooled on this one time
it's not Lauren it's Lauren
sounds fancier
it's like a it's like a late
40s early 50s like
mauve pink
Mercedes convertible
and it's it seems very
out of place right but there's Ralph Lorenz
that's why no it was Kerry Grant
always carry grants guy and you're like
you start talking to whatever and he's he's telling us
is like hey it's got to have the prominence
and it's got to be beautiful right so
asking him and so we're like so tell us the story
he's like oh you're Clark Gable
isn't yes
it's Clark Gable
yeah all right you're right you're right I apologize
one of those old school movie actors
yes but it was like a
it was like a 15
it was like a 15 year chase
to get to get to car
right and it was the story was
basically to be able to get it
wasn't so much about the beauty
of the car the time and it is
a good looking car it just doesn't fit
with the rest of stuff but it is
I mean the like then he tells the stories
of like what he used to do in that car
and the word that went around with Hollywood and stuff
yeah he know
that dude knows everything
oh he's about
I mean I would put
him above almost everybody in the
car world as far as the knowledge
the collection such
an awesome guy because you know where
his place is like where the car collection
is it's it's downtown right it's
downtown L.A. somewhere we're not gonna
it was downtown no we're not gonna talk
about the actual location because we
told not to but it if
we'll talk about he lives in Beverly Hills
yes and he's got a bunch of cars at his house
yes but he also has a
if you know Beverly Hills real estate like
have a bunch of cars at your house and Beverly
Hills is well have you guys seen the way
his his garage operates like
you open his garage door and it goes back
like a hundred feet it's crazy
yes but Beverly Hills real estate
like boom and right now is it pretty
it's sizes
it's size of homes and like
to be able to have the real estate to have
that many cars more than one car
yes but no it's
it will he walks
from his house to the shop
okay well that
and the shop is is
we'll talk about yes yes
outside the podcast but I thought it was
downtown but well I want to go
yes wherever it is wherever you guys
are gonna be in January when
please invite when you're parking
and I pray it's not and you're looking at
me you're looking at a sign
and then you're looking at another sign
and you're like so it's so that's where we're going
okay it's wild
all right super fucking cool
and he's awesome covered
yeah all right so Grand National
you're gonna are you gonna be you're gonna be in Cali
for Grand National right well I'm
yes I'm Mikam Kassimi
is like I'm there for
10 days like from
like the 8th to the 18th something like that and
Grand National is like the next week
okay I'm always in town for Grand National
we're either gonna do it I think we're gonna do it
right after Grand National we've got a couple
of different remotes that we're supposed
to be doing yeah trying to work
we're we're
we have a booth at Barrett
and then it's the following weekend so it takes us out
of the shop for a long time so we're kind of
trying to work it all where do you guys
stay when you're in California
well yeah the last time
we went we didn't make
any hotel reservations because that's kind of how
we roll sometimes and there happened to be
some sort of like that's why
Josh's beard and hair is there was some sort of like
dress level remember that there's some sort of medical
convention oh that was when we were going to San Diego
right we get in late and we could not
no hotel we
we went to 40 hotels
and they're like I'm not
I'm not a horrible clean freak
I slept in all my fucking clothes
so I finally Google something
I get a hold of so and they're like
we got purple or it was
was that what it was do not run a black
light in this hotel but they had
they had that just so happened to have
three rooms and they're reasonably priced
too and we go
and we were renting them by the hour
right it was did the side
save free HBO
now but it was one where they gave you the remote when you
check out my my door
like the door knob
the door knob had no latch
right so we didn't latch so you had to
we had to push it and put the little hook in the loop
thing on the top of it like you're in
like you're in a
beach shower
luckily I had flip flops I showered
it was not the worst place I've ever stayed
we generally stay for
historically we've always stayed next to the
the piano bar in downtown
Pomona nice
where's that at
what's the name of that town yep
Pomona is where it's got
it's got another name
Riverside
no it's like it's like an old
town and they got like one little street
got a bunch of cool restaurants and stuff like that
on it it's kind of to the R I thought
no no
there's a piano bar
next to
like a
courtyard a big courtyard
I don't know I drive in
where I live it's a cool little town
whatever the name of it
San Ramon is right there I know but it's not that
you know the town I'm talking about we always
talk about we're going to go to whatever
is the barbecue place on the corner and then
we go to walk to the street
parking I don't know anyway
the piano bar is really cool okay
it's a it's a it's a well known area
if we could think of the fucking city
but I know nobody do
hmm let's get our crack research
team on that for sure have him get back
to us where should we stay at
well that's what
I was asking you guys like where do you stay
in Pomona or do you stay like
and drive in Pomona we'll hang at the
host for a while but
we don't ever stay there usually I don't
really know a lot of Pomona
hotels where are you
at I live in Burbank
okay so yeah so
probably like it takes me like 40 minutes to get
to Pomona but I
that's I love that show absolutely
love Grand National Roadster show that's a good
show yeah go visit Bill and Ted
and San Dimas
how was it getting acclimated from
Glencoe to
Burbank well I mean I've been
in California for
I mean the majority of my life
I went out for college in
88 and stayed out there
ever since so the
the acclimation process was
long but very easy
I mean growing up as a kid I knew
I wanted to go to California I just
I felt it like I just my
parents took me on a vacation out there when I was like 12
and I was like oh wow it's 70 in February
and the air smells like flowers
this is where I want to live
yeah that's
not the case of all of LA but I live
in a very nice little pocket
and so I try not to leave
my neighborhood when I'm home because I enjoy
it so much because you know LA
is very diverse
and there's very lots of interesting and dangerous
places in LA so
I try not to leave my little pocket of
serenity but
I really I enjoy living in California
because of the
so many things to
do and kind of close
to a lot of different things you know you can
have Arizona and Utah
and Vegas and San Diego
and Mexico and
San Francisco and Hawaii is really
close compared
to Chicago so I
love living in California it's definitely got
tons of drawbacks
like the smog laws but
I mean with like we said before
you pay the weather tax yeah you know
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going back to purchasing your Porsche
how fucked up are people
in California that they need a winter home
that's warmer than
well
his winter home was in Palm Desert
Palm Desert have you been to Palm Desert
I have
Palm Desert is amazing
especially if you're a golfer
or just like you know
leisure oh yeah thermal there you go
yeah I mean it's unbelievable
Palm Desert to me
my family's had a house there
forever I mean since I was a
teenager like a young teenager
so it's got a special place in my heart
I love Palm Desert I love going out there
you just feel serene
so
I don't think it's fucked up because
LA is a rat race in Palm Desert
it's like you know chill
you refer to it as like a winter
vacation well winter everybody else
just turns the heat up five
people from Chicago
have a winter spot in Palm Desert
yeah like the New Yorkers go to Florida
everyone kind of Chicago
and west goes to Palm Springs
and Palm Desert the city we stay in is
Claremont Claremont oh yeah
okay it's a silent
R at the beginning it is
I really messed it up
starts with an R but you put the R in the middle
of the work as long as you've been
in the Valley though you can't get rid of the
Midwest or the North Shore
vibe because there's something
about you that I'm like
you feel like a dude
who I like maybe went to high school with
and I'm like oh it's close
you just like click it's like
fucking Midwest and especially the North Shore
you don't ever lose the Midwest though do you
I will always be a Chicagoan
I mean everybody you always hear
like you just don't lose the Midwest
I have the pride I mean I got tattoos
Chicago flag star right there
I got Chicago right here
I love
Chicago I love being from Chicago
I love coming back to Chicago
it feels like home to me
and yeah I mean
it's just it's a mentality
and it's you know I love the sports teams
I love downtown it's like I'm flying
into Chicago and I landed O'Hare and I'm walking
through our hair I'm like
I'm home yeah even though I don't live here
I'm home
I've been here since 1970
it's a tough city
to be man I mean we
I was out there last weekend we go out
we're like foodies me and my wife so we go
downtown a lot we're going out again
tomorrow with you fuckers but
that city
it like it just can't be beat
it's the best there's some ugly stuff
that goes on there but it's
it's the best fucking city in the country
I don't understand why everybody complains
about O'Hare because the amount of airports
going into O'Hare is
easy
it is so fucking easy
when you get wired you know I mean
shit I travel I travel probably half the
year I mean I take at least a hundred flights
a year and so I'm all over the place
far as airports going
you're gonna probably spend some time taxing
at O'Hare
not as much as Dallas but you do spend a lot of
time taxing in O'Hare
Dallas airport suck Atlanta is the worst
I hate Atlanta airport I hate Atlanta
it's a passion
everything that I possibly
can do to not go to Miami's hands down the worst
have you flown into Miami lately
I try not to I try to go to Fort Lauderdale
it's 3,000 miles long
like you have walked halfway back to Chicago
when you get to your gate
it's a yeah it's big
I flew out of Miami when we came back from
last year
it's big but there was no
major like Atlanta just
sucks like there's nothing you can do
to get away from that
Atlanta feels like it's constantly under construction
even though it's not
it still feels like it's under construction
and there's always a problem
Atlanta's filled with problems
before we get to standard questions
you posted a couple of pictures
on Instagram on your fitness
you've got what's the
what's the 250 you're hitting
250 workouts that's my goal for the years
250 I did 240 last year
that's 20 a month and so I
helped it by 10 so I'm trying to hit
250 this year
so you're taking weekends off
it doesn't matter I try to get
either 5 or 6 in a week
and it doesn't matter what days off I take
sometimes like at SEMA I had to take
3 days off in a row so you got to catch up
and do like 6 or 7 in a row
were you at the gym Friday morning after our party
no
I was not
I went twice when I was in Vegas
and by the way what surprised me most
was I got there
on the first day I went to the gym
I got there at 5.45 thinking
I'll just be the only one there
there was at least 300 people in the gym
at 5.45 in the morning
it was fucking crazy man what is it about
Vegas people love to work out
they love going to the gym
our wives came
to the party this year
and so we thought oh no problem
the party rolls out
with this one we went to 1.30
no problem the party's going to be over
well
generally you're more responsible
when the wives are there
turns out not
cause then they were the ones who were like
we're going out
after the party
we laid down to go to sleep
at 6.45 the next morning
see I was smart I did
I left when the award started
I left
cause I knew it was going to be a big rush
I had a zoo getting out of there
and I had to be up at 6
to be ready to go at
8 o'clock
I left and it was the smartest thing I did
so I can't even fucking imagine
we were throwing this big SEMA party
and we made the intelligent decision
like you said as you get older
it's noticeably more difficult to recover
so we made the intelligent decision
that the night before
you know what the best thing to do is
go get a bunch of tables
practice all your customers
and all your best buddies
and just blow it out
and come in at 2-3 o'clock in the morning
just absolutely blasted
Monday night prior to the first day of SEMA
wasn't a great move either
now well that was Vinny's peer pressure
fucking Vinny's always peer pressure
no that was Courtney's pressure
followed by Vinny's
Courtney is a legend
hey
we did everything we needed to do
proved that we could do it
we did but at this age
seeing the sun come up
I have to say
it's gotta be the last time I'm gonna do it
it has to be
there's two ways to see the sun come up
there's one way where you went to sleep
at 9 p.m.
and you're all refreshed
you're like ahhh
if you're still awake
and seeing the sun come up
you feel like the worst
it was a sobering moment
when you're walking into the cosmo
the cosmo has the little balconies
and you open the door and you're like
fuck
the meads in there
go away
me and my wife were
we got in
and then it was like
to open up the curtains
and it was both of us like teenagers
we literally was like oh wow
it's been a long time
that was crazy
well good for you
so you're gonna hit 250
you got plenty of time to hit 250
I'm on great pace
I'm on great pace
I actually yesterday was
223
I'm obsessive about
my workouts
you guys go to the gym so you know
it becomes a habit and so if you don't go
you're like oh you feel
like you're contracting
it is my solace
it is my kind of
I feel so fucking good when I'm done
with a workout
I do anytime of day
whenever I can fit it in
if I've done workouts at 8am
I've done workouts at 8pm
what's the routine you got
are you on an app
well I do three different workouts
I do one it's a tabata
where it's four different
exercises eight sets
of each one
and then you do 20 seconds
on 10 seconds off
it's a height workout
exactly
and then I do one called 1000 reps
where you do 10 exercises 100 reps
a piece with
light weights
and then 10 pushups in between
each one of those so you end up doing 100 pushups
and then 1000 reps of 10 different exercises
and then I do one called
cardio which is I do a half hour
on the fan bike
fan bike is an ass kicker
and you really find out how long
a half hour is when you're doing it
you think you're going to take half off
you're like oh I'm just going to let the arms do this
and then let the leg
I don't have anything else to do it
it's all about distraction I watch
YouTube I listen to music
just keep your mind off of the fucking clock
that's right in front of you
and then I finish all of them
with 200 crunches
got to get the crunches in every time
and it usually takes me
in between a Tabata takes me
25 minutes with
the crunches
1000 reps takes about 45 minutes
and then the fan bikes a half hour
than another 10 minutes of crunches
you're on it
it's another time
I'm 55 years old it's like if not
now when
fighting that number
I should have started
30 years ago
fuck
go ahead say something
no I wasn't going to say something
I was just SEMA just fucking threw me off
I fell off the wagon
I only missed 3 days at SEMA
only 3 days
missed most of it and then it's tough getting back in the saddle
but it's motivating too
if you miss a bunch of days in the road
it's like you can't wait to get back in there
and get it going again
every single morning
just because I know there's going to be when we're traveling
and doing stuff like that
and it's the best in the morning too
and then your day
you can do anything else during the day
because your workouts and if you're working out late
you're like oh I still got to get this in
I can go at lunch sometimes
whatever
but I cannot lift
in the daytime
if I looked like you I'd be hitting it 7 days a week too
like
no questions
are you smoking on the bike
or while bench pressing
we used to
before they closed this gym
there's a gym right across the street
we used to go together and we'd walk out
and immediately we'd walk up the door
like a cigarette
my doctor told me not to quit
huge pet peeve
he said you just drop if you quit
yeah she said you've been doing it since you're 14
and you drink whiskey just keep doing it
don't fuck with it
it's such an inconvenience
for those around him
it's not an inconvenience
I don't smoke around you
you don't ever smell me smoking
I think it's unbelievably rude
when you just walk out of meals
immediately after
you're not paying attention to the discussion
at the meal anyway so me not being there
you have ADHD
and if I walk out and smoke a cigarette
I'm carrying the whole conversation
well that's the problem
he's turned into Tony so you don't even know he's gone
then you leave and now it's on me
this is Jeremy
not at dinner, I just am spaced out
then I get up to walk out
oh you're just leaving
no I'm not on my phone at dinner
I'm not like a cool person
so then you leave
and now it's on me to engage
and carry the conversation
it's only a cigarette
if it's a long dinner we go to the city
if it goes on for about an hour
I'll pop out
but it's just because you're drinking
you're having a good time
you're cold outside
now when I go out to smoke
in Chicago
if I go out to have one cigarette
I lose, I end up coming back three or four cigarettes like
that's just the way it is
he's foaming
now what are some of your favorite restaurants
in Chicago where do you guys like to go
I like, I mean shit there's so many
good ones but there's a new one
that's badass that's called Acid or Bastion
that's like, it's rated one
of the top steak houses now
but like Bavettes
is killer
don't do an Ed DeBevix regularly
Rainforest Cafe
I've got a friend of mine
that's not a big lawsuit about that
about Rainforest Cafe
there's some killers but I've got a friend of mine
who owns a bunch of chains and stuff
downtown so Nisos Prime
we were just there
we're doing Bizarre Meats
tomorrow night
there's some killer spots
not really
but there's a
what the hell is the name of that other steak joint
that
the RPM Steaks Killer
doing in Lowry's
no, not Lowry's
we all went there together
I'm trying to think of the name of it
RPM Italian
RPM Italian is killer
Gibson's Italian
because the view
you're looking straight down the Chicago River
and it's just killer
Gibson Steak obviously is amazing
Gibson's Italian
have you ever been to Formento's
it's over on the west side of the highway
you know where Girl in the Goat is
it's basically right across the street
from Girl in the Goat
it's my favorite Italian in the city
but Chicago Cut is like
my jam because I love sitting outside
along the river
the patio is right on the river
and they're just old school
feels super like Mafioso
which I love that vibe
I want to go to that I've never been
it seems a little cliche but Jean and Giorgettes
never been
but it just feels like I should
that is old school also amazing
in fact I think of Jean and Giorgettes all the time
because I collect match book covers
that's like on top of the pile
so I always walk by and I see it
and I'm like yeah Jean it's an
old school good feel of Chicago
and what about pizza what's your go-to pizza in Chicago
I'm a Lumo Naughty's guy
I like Lumo Naughty's deep dish
love it too and they can ship those
everywhere it's amazing
you bet Pequod's
that was my mind
Pequod's is good
not exactly like a play like
Pequod's great for a takeout
the pizza itself
it's like
Skokie Niles
well there's one downtown too
the downtown one
and then in the suburbs
Barnaby's
I think we talked about this before
we used to go there with our kids to get pictures of beer
on Skokie Highway
is that the one?
in basically Glencoe and Northbrook
yeah more Northbrook
but you'd go in there
14, 15
I mean it must look like I was 9
they'd serve you a fucking picture of beer
like you'd go in and just
old school
like the water pictures
the plastic pictures the old style
we'd go in there and all our buddies just
drink beer
because you had the
I was 15 because a friend was just
driving so he got a friend who was 16
you'd go in there
take a beer
picture of beer
what kind would you like?
a cold one?
whatever your best beer is
medium to best beer
your least flattest beer
do you have a beer du jour?
I'll take a good one
give me a large good beer
so needless to say I don't really
remember the quality of the pizza
because it was more of a beer drinking
Piquads is an experience
Piquads is all about the crust
thin crust guy though
Uncle Jerry's
really really good
really?
it's a banger
coming from Glencoe
you ever do Buffalo Joes in Evanston?
no Buffalo wings
dude
we have an amazing place
in Glencoe called Little Red Hen
so that's where we'd always get our
pizza and wings and burgers
what was the
what was the breakfast joint over there?
Sarkis
Sarkis dude
I'm disturbed
about Sarkis because one time the cops
came in during school and we all had to run down
in the basement
and there was a bathtub full of meat
in the basement
and I was like oh that
it really
I'll never forget that image
and I'm like oh that's what I've been
for the past how many years
I mean Sarkis is a legendary place
what was the name of the breakfast joint
you always used to talk about eating in Elgin
because this morning at the gym
they were doing this special on this
place the wooden booth
American diner something I don't know what it was
it was a name
Baker Hill Pancake House was one of them
it was the apple something too
they're just like little Greek
places yes they were doing a special
they've been around for 40 something years
the other hoagie hut in Highland Park
or Highwood
yeah no I mean I know
I've heard of hoagie hut but I have not been there
it's no longer
we would always go south
we'd go into Winnecke and Kenilworth
and Evanston yeah we wouldn't go north
so you did probably the pancake house
oh yeah on Green Bay Road
yeah Walker Brothers
and the Walker Brothers downtown is amazing too
in Gold Coast
we went to school with the Walker Brothers daughter
did we really?
and we're Kerry Walker
who's in between our age
her dad was a Walker brother
didn't know that until after he graduated
cool so that pancake house
they did a scene you remember the movie Ordinary People
it's this old 70s movie
I think they won a couple Academy Awards
but anyway they filmed it in Chicago
and there was a scene filmed in the pancake house
on Green Bay Road
is that that place still there right
still looks exactly the same
it's amazing to get the big
apple pancake
49ers
49ers is the thin ones right
it's like 7000 calories
it's like 7000 calories
breakfast is basically just
crushed sugar
those thin ones are so good
my favorite thing
you really can't beat the Chicago and the surrounding suburbs
for food and drink
yep as good as it gets
agreed
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I think we should bring his question in
of the unlimited budget
what's that car
we can start there
unlimited budget what's the first car you're putting in your collection
let's start it with you got the unlimited budget
because
somebody was in a hurry
to get like something at the gas station
but you were the guy that got the scratch off ticket
and you couldn't make up your fucking mind
so you were standing there for 45 minutes
while the guy behind you's pissed off
you had to get the fucking scratch off ticket
but you want a shit ton of money
on the scratch off ticket
is it one car or multiple cars
well it's just like one like
budget's unlimited
this is a billion take-home after taxes
well I mean
let's start with my dream car
the triple black A-R-Cuda
four speed
I definitely want a pro touring Grand National
like Kevin Hart
that was in the Magnaflow booth
few years ago at SEMA which was just
off the charts
solid third place for the Grand Nationals
maybe fourth
I would
like a white Grand National
yes
did you guys go to
at Meekam
two years ago I think it was there
I know there's one that floats around social media
that's a badass
it's such a cool look
Porsche ST
I'd get a GT3 touring
I'd get a 73RS
I would pretty much cover all my
GT3 touring
because I don't like the wing
and I like the manual transmission
okay
the wings on the RSs are just
too much for me
the clean lines of the touring and they're more comfortable
they got the
the 18 ways versus the sport
the ST
is the ultimate Porsche in my opinion
that thing is just unbelievable
and I
mean
there's so many cars that come across Meekam
that I would buy if I could
I love pro touring cars
and so give me
a 71
Roadrunner body
fully blacked out pro touring
I was going to ask you about that
we were going through the 69, 70
and I was going to ask you where you stand on those
because I think they're fucking cool
like the 71 to 73's
quarter windows gorgeous the front end
it's like a
it's a love it or hated car
if you got the color matched bumper it looks a lot better
the chrome bumper doesn't look as good on the
71's but I love the 71
body style it's unique
the right shop could kill it with that car
you set it up like little
NASCAR style you cut the
wheel openings and set it low and then you
like the petty like the Richard petty style
it pops
yeah and
I mean god I don't know there's so many cars that I love
and
but I think that's a good list
that's a nice collection
T350H a black one with the gold stripes
the Hertz edition
I mean those things are so badass
what do you buy your wife what would you want
my wife is more of a
she's more into like the
40's and 50's look like early 50's
okay Lincoln
yeah you know what she would love a Lincoln
she'd love a Lincoln continental
yeah probably like 66
okay but yeah but she
but as far as like the 40's
style goes
man I don't know
she just anything from that
era is kind of like what attracts her
yeah she's drawn to that
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one of everybody's favorites
probably haven't done this
we didn't do this when you were on last
new segment new segment
your most memorable
law enforcement
interaction story and I want to hear
like you know bud's not going to fire you
bud's got you for another hundred years
right bud's probably going to hear
I want to hear behind the paywall
Chris Jacobs story
first of all
knock on wood I've never been arrested
oh that's good for you
never been arrested so that's
I have a you know I take pride
in that and hopefully that continues
um but I have
it's not that hard
it's
it reminds me of a big chestnut
lyric an unexpected
unexpected pleasant
run-in with the law
which I've had a few of those before
so maybe that's maybe maybe I'll flip
the script on you guys and tell you about a memorable
law force law enforcement
experience that was actually very memorable
in a good way that's fine that's great
so I was
I was rushing through Griffith
Park one time which is this
big public park in LA and it's kind
of a cut through if you want to save some time
and not take the five freeway which
is always parking lot traffic
and it was Christmas time and I was
going to rush to get
some Christmas presents and I was
blitzing through Griffith Park you know I was going
like 16 at 35
and there's always cops in there and
I got pulled over
and the cop comes up to the window
and he's like do you know why I pulled you over
and I'm always honest when I get that question
I guess I do I was probably going too fast
you know the worst thing you can do is like
say no what are you talking about
then the cops just
you're on bad terms
so I said yeah I was probably going a little too fast
like yeah you know you were let me get your license
and registration I give it to him
and he goes back to his car
he's there for a couple minutes and
he comes back to the window
of the car and he turns to
back to his partner in the car
he goes I told you
this is him
and I was like oh yes
I'm going to get out of this
so he's like listen man
you got to slow it down here I go
I totally understand he goes
listen you got to do something for me
and I don't really want to ask you this
can we take some pictures together
and so I got out of the car
and I put them back
and he's giving me what taking pictures
and stuff and I'm like this is fantastic
thank you it's paying off for me
the cops that's good yeah it's
and he didn't give me a ticket
it always hey if it came
in handy it came in here that's
when you need it but that moment
when he turned back to his partner
I told you I told you it was him
I was like that's awesome
thank you chipfus
I've got one to spawn off
of that yeah
how hard of a transition was it
getting on 294
to getting on the 5
that's good
I'll never understand that
you mean how we put the
I don't know it's something so
in fact Saturday Night Live did a whole skit
about that
the Californians
it was Bill Hader
and some other people
that took the 5
to the 110
to the 134
talking about
to get to Huntington Beach
where we shot over Holland
and I would drive every single fucking day
it would I would literally take
4 or 5
different freeways to get there
depending on what route
was less traffic
it would literally be the 134
to the 5 to the 710
to the 110 back on the 5
to the 405
get off on beach
here you land in O'Hara you jump on 294
correct to 94
exactly there's no thus
there's no thus so it did
it did take a little
getting used to not saying the
when I'm back here in Chicago
let's see next up a little bit of curveball
you get
you get the black AAR
that's the first car you get
it's ready to go
rare and blaring
you've got
4 hours to do nothing
no honeydews, no nothing
kids great, wife's great
you can just take off
tear off in it
what's the soundtrack you're popping in
what are you listening to
I mean
I'm an old school classic rock and roll guy
so it's either
Stones, Zeppelin, The Who
Beatles
you know
early Ozzy
Black Sabbath
where you driving to
Leonard Skinner
talking to your
probably
there's one of two ways you can go
you can go Mulholland if you want the curves
AR CUDA probably isn't as good for the curves
as one of those Porsches I mentioned
so I'd probably take the AR CUDA
on a rip down force lawn
which is just long and straight
no stop signs, no stop lights
and generally no cops
so you can get it up
pretty good there
Beatles
I'm a Beatles fan too
whole Beatles
there wasn't really much of an era of Beatles
they lasted like 8 years
I love the Beatles
completely different
what's the song
I mean
I consider the white album to be just one long song
so I gotta say like that
medley of golden slumbers
and she came in through the bathroom window
you know and
that section of white album is
when I was
11 or 12 years old
I used to go on family vacations
for Christmas to Acapulco, Mexico
and one of those years
I got a Walkman
and Abbey Road
and Sergeant
Peppers on cassette tape
and I listened to those two cassettes
over and over and over again
so like fixing a hole
and
pretty much anything off of
Sergeant Peppers
or Abbey Road
I mean
everything
Rubber Soul is probably the most perfect album
just like
I could listen to Beatles all day long
every day
I'm a big vinyl file
collection so I mean vinyl
just sounds the best especially when it's classic rock
so I get into
Beatles
deep dives and I just will play them over
and over and over again yeah so
I'm on Digipony or Your Blues
did you watch the documentary
on Apple TV where they are
developing those songs
have you not seen that documentary
oh you gotta watch that dude
it's called
I think it's called Let It Be
the documentary may be called Let It Be
but it's about the creation of that album
and you literally hear these songs come to life
because they play them over and over
and over again
all the different crazy things
that they were
I think I saw some of that documentary
but it's some of the weirdo instruments
that they're talking about doing right
or is this a different one
this is actually very
straightforward
yeah that was more Sergeant Peppers
but it's amazing because Digipony is one of my favorite tunes
I absolutely love that song
every time I hear it
it gives me the fucking chills
it's all Lenin
McCartney was like the
melodical genius
and Lenin was the
ripping away and getting down
to the soul of your being genius
like he can come up with a lyric that's just like
how the hell did you just
speak to me in that way
so I'm gonna blow your mind
and I'm gonna put you on to something that's amazing
right now
look this up right now on YouTube
can you do that Jamie
so I've got a couple, some buddies of mine from high school
were in a fucking killer band
and it just kind of fell apart
but they were the closest thing
to the Beatles that's ever existed
look up the Red Walls
Digipony
and they're sort of trying to
early 2000s they crushed it
so I'm gonna
give a shout out because they're trying to make a comeback
it's pretty obvious that that's what you're doing
right there
listen this dude was one of my
lesser clippers they're not hard enough
to play on that Lenin
lyric
you can't even indicate anything
you say
what did you know
me
you can't even say that I want you
alone
you can't even say that I want you
alone
I took my soul
all I want
all is you
everything I've got to
be just like you want it to
oh that dude
we just mind melded there
you gotta see this documentary
cause you'll hear Digipony 9 million times
really? yeah
but dude if they develop the song
I'm gonna watch that if you want like just a revival
of something that could have been the Beatles
listen to these dudes
are those guys brothers? yes
they're brothers but they didn't turn out an album
since like the mid
2000s maybe 2010
and they're Chicago guys cause you went to high school
but they were like this close
to fucking killing it
a few years too early
and it just slipped away
and you know what that pygmy line is from
is the beginning of
one of the tracks on
Abby Rover he goes
I'd like to say thanks on behalf of
me and the boys
and I hope we pass the audition
but dude I used to hang out
like back I mean shit we were kids
I mean and this dude would be sitting there
like freshman year of high school
smoking a cigarette
playing the guitar and he looked like
he was like 20 something years old
high as shit
yeah he's a freshman
I'm looking my son's a freshman
he's like a little boy
and this kid was like
I'd go over to his house and he's like
higher than shit sanded on his guitar
again smoking a cigarette like Asian style
I mean cool
everyone else is wearing abracame cargo
right yeah bell bottoms
you name it
did you guys ever go to bitty mulligans? no
it was this old school music place
I can't remember what year it closed down
but it was like right in the transition between
Evanston and downtown
it was awesome little music venue
we used to go see this band called Junction
there and this guy was a guitar player
and he was like the next
Stevie Ray Vaughan
just ripping yes we used to go see
him play there I don't know if he
ever made it
but he was back in the day
he was like you know we were all like
this guy's got it
Chris you got
this weekend you're here for
macaque and that's muscle car
and Corvette Nationals right? correct
and this year they're featuring an amazing
collection of hemi cars which I'm really
looking forward to seeing my buddy Ryan Brutt
who goes by the handle the auto
archaeologist you guys probably know
him he's been doing a bunch of previews
from there and I'm also looking forward
to seeing the guys
from Mopars 5150
Troy and the gang and then Derek
the vice grip garage is going to be there also
oh sweet
so it's a
all day tomorrow? yeah all day tomorrow
all day Sunday I'm going to the bears game on Sunday
but I will be there Sunday morning
early to interview Peter Brock
for meekum he's going to be
there with his
63 Corvette
custom that he's
done because you know Peter Brock was one of the designers
of the 63 Corvette
C2 and so I'm
really looking forward to talking to Peter
I mean you know living legend
the dude's like almost 90 and he's still
shots attack and you know his history
with Shelby and everything it's just legendary
yeah
the only thing that we are missing
on semi standard questions
before we wrap this up is
oh you're going to go there
we got to go there because I
have a feeling that I know
which way this one's going
go ahead if you ask the question then
Burt Reynolds or Sylvester Stallone
and why
just in general
in life in the world you got to pick one
and
I got to go with Sly
I fucking knew it
I knew I fucking knew
I figured it
I picked up on it too
Sly is just a fucking
complete badass I mean
let's start with the beginning of his career
he did not give
in he had a vision for
Rocky and they wanted to take it away
from him and he said no fuck you
this is my vision
sooner or later people just give up and be like you know what
fuck it make the movie I'm tired of it
and he wrote it directed it
starred in it
and won an Oscar
he's a fucking legend and he's done
I mean look at how many legendary
things I mean sure
Burt's a car guy but he's known
as a car guy because of smoking the bandit
about the car then about Burt I love Burt
Burt was great but fucking Sly
he's not Sly he's Burt's great
I'm not going to deny that he's not Sly
you picked up
on a note you were like
I think I can get a win
and you went hard
I'm a winner dude I can't get wins
I picked up on the same thing
I picked up on the same thing it's when I was going to shut it down
without it going
you knew he was cool
yeah that's right
we're working on a little something
yeah you're working on something
working on a little something for you
okay I can't wait
and by the way how many times they had to
have Burt how many times
he had to sell a movie
you don't ever talk about like
remember movies did he write any movie
let me give you the ultimate Sly
double feature yes and everybody
needs to do this
watch Cobra
and over the top
back to back over the top
great Cobra's the worst movie
fucking dude he never takes his sunglasses
we are hanging out
he wrecks his murk 900 times
he cuts a piece of pizza
with his scissors
for breakfast
no one is more bad
and he bags brisheed nils
no one is bad as he gets
he walks around with a fucking mat stick
that mercury was the worst movie car
don't worry about that
worst movie car
the charger
and the bullet lost 19 hubcaps
you don't have to worry about it
that was a great car
over the top is a good movie
I'll give you over the top
it's about as good as it gets
it's like a switch
look at that
oh man
this has been an absolute fucking blast
I know you've done a lot of podcasts
way more professional than this
I hope you had as good a time as we did
I want to reset my barn
come back for number 4
oh you killed the bottle
you can see
the dead soldiers there
if you kill a bottle
that means you get to autograph it and sign it
you don't get to do that
go to macaquan
mika when is the next auction
you are going to be at
December
which is a smaller auction
and then in january
in kisimi florida
4500 cars
what's the big one for mika
kisimi is number 1
and spring
classic in india is like 1a
but kisimi is the big one
we need to get dana on the podcast
that'd be good
is he full time in lake june
or does he live in chicago
I think he's full time in lake june
Chris has been amazing
thank you guys
anything you ever need
let us know
I'm sure we're going to run into each other real soon
thanks man
in january with bruce mire
100% doing that
see you again next week
About this episode
Chris Jacobs returns to the Oil & Whiskey podcast for a lively discussion filled with sports, cars, and personal anecdotes. He shares his experiences as a lifelong Bears fan, his thoughts on the current NFL season, and his excitement about upcoming games. The conversation also dives into the automotive world, touching on SEMA highlights, notable builds, and the camaraderie among car enthusiasts. With humorous exchanges and insights into the automotive industry, this episode is packed with engaging stories and reflections on the passion for cars.
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This week on Oil & Whiskey, we’re joined by Chris Jacobs. One of the most familiar faces in automotive television and car culture. The first and only guest to appear on the show for the third time! Chris shares stories from throughout his career, his time around some of the industry’s most memorable builds and personalities, and why he continues to stay so connected to the car world after all these years.Grab official Oil & Whiskey gear at oilandwhiskey.com. Good time, bad advice, great shirts.
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