Comedian David Hahn on new cars

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So what happened to the Infiniti on the last episode?

We'll first off, you haven't listened to most recent episode.

I urge you to listen to it because it was our third student loan, forgiveness topic over the last 24 months, Brian coma, rejoin, the show. And of course, good friend of

the show was tankersley and just good friend in general, and we kind of talked about it. You know, Brian is paid all of

this stuff off years ago, myself and Wes.

Oh, a lot of money. She want to go back and listen

to that. It's a solid heady conversation.

No debating or arguing, just a bunch of, really well-thought-out opinions and what is this told ten thousand dollars really mean? Does it?

Is it a lot? Is it helped people does it not

help people or people getting checks?

No, they're not actually going to get checks, but I encourage you to go back and check it out. Also, I had mentioned that my

Infinity died. I had a hell of a weekend.

My hip no longer hurts from. You know, me falling into my own

swimming pool wish, I had that on video, so that last time, I don't would be nice. So I took the car to the

dealership. I'm glad it took it to the

dealership because you know, my son was kind of like I have a mechanic, a mobile mechanic. They can look at your car, you

can to save a lot of money by taking to the dealership.

Well I have Towing is covered by my insurance but you know had to make the decision in my going to take it home and try to figure it out myself or you know my son's mechanic contact or do I just want to take the dealership?

It's hot. I don't want to screw with it so

it said at the dealership for a Of days.

My service manager call me back. So hey man, we're going to do

this for a little bit longer. We're not quite sure what's

going on with it. Your diagnostic fees going to be

a little bit more because it is a little complicated.

Ended up being a starter relay. But there's one that's right on

the battery cable. Wasn't that one?

It was some some like, Underside one that you really couldn't see. I would have ever figured out

and I doubt that, you know, my son's miscellaneous mechanic would have probably figured it out especially if the dealership that specializes in those Vehicles took like a day, but I did get to cost and it was a little expensive and I said, I mean Shouldn't you guys have checked that like one of the first things you go? Yeah, typically and we did check

the one on top, which is same when I checked, but it took a little extra effort, which is fine.

It's all back at home. I have my daily driver backed.

It won't have to take the NSX everywhere with me.

Thank you for all your concern. Those of you who DM me on social

media to try to throw some guesses at it.

Thank God. It wasn't the key fob and would

have been embarrassing but again, I didn't pay anything.

It's just it's just taking the time to go get it, which would have kind of sucked after this word from for online.

We're going to be joined by comedian and fellow Car Guy, David Hahn and followed him for awhile.

Follows me for a while and he wanted to come on and I think it's a good idea. So coming up David Hahn.

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We're going to bullshit about some cars, and teach people who you are, and what you do, because I'm interested as well.

Yeah. So I had a job this morning by

day. I'm a home inspector and that's

that's how I paid the bills. It's a good job.

It allows me to work part-time and make more money than my wife and a boy. So Breadwinner read that upsets

that upsets her because she tells me that I always find a way to make the most amount of money for the least amount of effort. And then my response is Well I'm

lazy. Not stupid, right?

It'll work smarter not harder. Right.

Exactly. So that allows me to do stand up

at night and drive into La. I live out in Redondo Beach so

we're talking anywhere between a 30 and 45 minute commute depending on where it's located. What time of day that I have to

drive out. I've been doing stand-up really

for about Going on for years, I started out in La, which is, I guess, it's from what I understand.

It's the harder thing to do. So generally comedians as they

start out, they will start out wherever they are wherever they live, you know, Boston or Kansas City or Miami, or wherever they get a few years under their belt.

And then they make the jump to Los Angeles where their dreams can die a slow painful death, right?

So So I decided I decided that I wanted to make it even more difficult. You just stay out of started out

here which it does have. I think it has its it has its

advantages to some degree but I can see why people would think that it's more difficult to start out here.

Did you? So isn't I want to say is that

the Laugh Factory is like the super famous ones.

There's one super famous one out there.

That pretty much anyone who's anyone is either work there or done comedy there. I want to see his Pauly Shores

family so that's, that's the comedy store that's laughs after you coming. Maybe they've left that maybe

their Comedy Store gets their supplies from the left Factory while so yeah, Mitzi Shore. So, Pauly.

Shores. Mom Mitzi Shore.

Open The Comedy Store a few decades ago and so that's the world famous One. I just need a supply chain,

joking. It probably fell pretty flat.

Well I didn't get it, so I was also well known.

Yeah. The Laugh Factory is a place,

they have several locations. Okay, so there's the Laugh

Factory and then there's the Hollywood improv on Melrose.

So I did, I did my first stint at the Hollywood improv last week. I believe it was Wednesday.

It was really an open mic and so, how that works is This is at 6:00 every day I believe or maybe it's on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. They have an open mic and it's

called a bucket, Mike. So you write your name on a

piece of paper and make sure in a bucket and they randomly draw names out of the bucket now. Well, then, I suggest early yet

over Mike's, generally a really difficult but they're necessary and so they're necessary. Because if you're starting out

you Need a place to practice your material.

Now, they're difficult because you're in a room full of comedians who have no interest in listening to what you had to say. So, the probably on their

phones. This courteous enough to the the

comics in l.a. are courteous enough to not chatter during

your set. If you do them to comical call

you out on stage. So yeah, you know, and so this

room was packed. I want to say is probably that's

30 or 40 comics in there. Just hanging out all waiting to

go up and you know the mic only lasts two hours so you can be there two hours and not go up. And so people that'll happen to

people for weeks on end. I know the guy who hosts it and

he tries to, you know, if he sees people show up week, after week, to try to get them up. At some point, he'll make that

exception he'll just call them up because he sees them there, but I was fortunate enough to get called up and so I did my three minutes steps and the woman who books the talent there, I believe. I don't even know her name.

She sits in the back and she just watches her sin.

And from what I understand Comics have to show up every week. Have to be show, their faces

have to be consistently funny and then she might, she might call on you to do things like host a show or do a cold open or something along those lines. So yeah, that's how it is at her

at the comedy store has. It says its own Mike.

I think it's called potluck. Where you email, you sent an

email to The Comedy Store and they did, they just pick you randomly? And you're on a list.

Now, to do the Open Mic at the comic store.

I don't know how the laughter. I think the Laugh Factory also

has a mic but I don't really know how that works.

But yeah, I mean other than that man it's it's just going to dive bars or holes in the wall. One thing that I've noticed is

comedians will open up their own little Comedy Club.

So they'll run their own Open Mic.

So. Yeah.

And now it's Things are starting to see comedian start to create their own spaces so they can do their work.

That's what a buddy of mine did me, and buddy.

Did we started producing a comedy show?

And, you know, we're like, okay, well we don't want to wait around for people to book us on their shows.

We're going to make our own show, and so we put ourselves in our own show, and that's generally how it goes.

We do 10 to 12 minutes or own shows will book three or four Comics to do. 10 to 12 minutes and then we'll book a headliner

to do 25 and we just had our first show on.

I want to say was August 20th and it was great.

We sold out and that was a, that was a good start to something that we hope will be a long running thing and we're doing it once a month. Now, we're hoping to do it every

two weeks. But no, we'll see how that.

We will see how that goes. You're a froze up on The Mike

you had to have at some point. Yeah.

Yeah. Sometimes I still do because I'm

I'm almost 44 and my brain doesn't work as well as it did, when I was 24. That's just how it is, right?

You know. I'm just accumulated so much

crap in my brain that trying to remember something new.

Is it is it's tangibly, more difficult.

Like I remember shit that I was taught.

In eighth grade but I can't remember the new joke I wrote.

Two days ago sometimes. And so, you know, a lot of times

I'll go up there and I'll deliver my especially, if I'm working new material, if it's, if it's material already worked on, it's not really that much of a problem.

I might miss part of the joke here and there if I hadn't practiced enough, but if it's new material, I have my notes up there. Sometimes you have Comics is

reading straight from their notepad at an open mic.

Yeah, this is something that people people don't don't know about About Comedians and comedy is that they're the process is, you know, you're doing small. So, if you're a touring

comedian, the process is, you do a lot of smaller shows to work out your material. A lot of times, it's rough.

That's why they don't really record.

Yeah, they don't want you to record stuff.

I mean, there's stories of Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle.

They're doing like an hour and 45 at some club, and there's a lot of dead air. They're just Playing none of it

makes sense. And what's happening is we're

just saying things out loud. And that's part of the art and

it moves forward, the thought process.

So, there were times where I would deliver any joke and I just can't remember for the life of me.

What I'm supposed to say next or what?

I'm moving on to. And so, I just look over to my

phone as I say. Oh, okay, alright, so here we go

and then I move on to the next Joe.

So I think like you're one of the first people, and I'm okay.

So I've been on Twitter, a long time and embarrassingly long time to have like no followers. Might be a good thing.

Yeah, but you're one of the first people that I've noticed like any time you'll comment on something and if someone comments on some your comment back and and it's, you can kind of carry like a mini joke, conversation with somebody on Twitter and typically Twitter, you have to either be Blue check, mark verified or you have to be a complete troll.

I just a bad troll to get any kind of attention, so that's one of the things I'm like, okay this guy and then I connected the dots to Instagram. One day, I go.

Oh same guy, same guy. Yeah, well, I'm definitely not

verified, that's not something that I ever think will happen.

So I like a troll Twitter, mostly because it's the dumbest place on Earth. I fucking hate Twitter, it, I

hate it. And I only I only look at it

maybe every three or four days, my Of mine will he'll he'll direct message me some tweaks here and there.

Just to look at some something absurd.

But I hardly engage and when I do it's just a troll.

I know I'm one of those guys but I also I also like to tweet jokes on to Twitter mostly As sort of a notepad.

Yeah. But you're not, you're not a

mysterious egg on Twitter. You're a person.

Hi. Yeah,

fall back. Now say something that a person

doesn't agree with than your Russian blind.

It's all right, whatever? I don't, it's something.

It's like I said, it's all fun. I don't take any of it

seriously. But you know, it's So you're

taking this call from your original line.

I am house was a little Reverb E.

Yeah, so cars man. What do you got?

What do you want? So I know you from the NSX

forums and the owners group. I want to say I think I know you

from the OG. Innocent X Prime website.

Yeah I'm t-jon there. Yes.

Yeah. So you had a 97 correct correct?

Yeah. And what year did you buy that

12 2012? Okay.

So then we bought our cars at the around the same time.

So I bought Mine in April 2012. Okay, okay.

And so I think you, I think I remember you coming around about then and your car was very distinct because of the rat that you had on it. What which are more recent

definitely. Yeah, yes, I remember you.

I've known about you for quite some time at least for most of my, my NSX ownership. So I do have a 2002, Acura NSX I

bought in Tampa Florida, And it is a rebuild car.

And so I bought it from, if there's any NSX people who are listening to this are going to give you a kick out of this.

So I bought it from a guy named Shawn Geary, I don't know if your son so he was really popular.

For a while. I don't know what happened to

him. He was like fixing everybody's

cars and parts and doing shit like that.

Right. Again him.

Sean. I remember that?

Yes, yes he wasn't a. I bought it from him.

So the story goes there is a guy but he he lives and he lived in Chino Hills and so one day he was he was on the highway and I guess he hit a patch of water on the highway.

And I know his name is Jason, Novak the name says, Jason Jason, Novak was the previous owner my car.

So he hit a patch of water on the highway down in like Orange County somewhere and he spun and the rear of the car.

Hit the median, hit the concrete barrier.

You and the car got totaled out. So Sean at the time was just he

just had he had multiple nsx's in his in his driveway.

So at the time, he bought a 2004 silver from Sacramento that had an engine fire. So we got that, he bought Jason

Novak Soul car, he flew out to Chino Hills and he drove it back to Tampa from Southern California.

And I remember this distinctly because he brought an extra set of tail lights, To like secure to the back of a car because the there's a car it was it was it was it was pretty badly damaged and so he wanted an extra set of tail lights to secure to the back of the car, wire it up. So we'd have some, you have some

brake lights. He drove it all the way back and

he was gonna part it out and he didn't have ended up partying out part of that car. And there's a few people who

know this story. So the front end of my car of

its original Vin went to Regan you okay, okay, so his conversion is from my car and so I just messaged him.

One knows a dude. So I'm looking to get one of

these. I'm looking at the damage, it

doesn't look like it's terrible. Would you be able to rebuild

that for me and I'll just buy it from you.

And so I commissioned him to just rebuild that and he replaced the trunk Basically, cut the trunk had the trunk cut off, had a trunk from like an 03 welded on and just put the panel's back on and so, yeah, that's that's how I got that.

So I bought I drove it back to Sacramento is live in Sacramento. The time, I've had this car for

about 10 years and I want to say about 50. 54,000 miles.

That's not bad. Whatever happened to Sean.

So shocked. What happened disappeared and

just became like remember that guy Tomas key which he was not over yet. So I actually bought parts from

him underneath his other name and they want to say hey I want you Tomas key. He goes yes.

And then he just disappeared but I got what I wanted.

I didn't realize how much of a dice roll it was at the time.

Yeah. Yeah.

So Sean I actually still I still talk to him on occasion.

I yeah, yeah. So what happened to Sean was he

Divorced put his business. How are you told his business

out there? Makes a lot of sense.

He got divorced. And so that's what happened to

Sean and he's, you know, he's doing his thing now.

He's got, he still works on on people's cars.

He still works on on a few nsx's.

Yeah, I mean occasionally I you know I'll text him see how he's doing, that's good because you know that's back before I mean it's funny to say but even you know, seven years ago, social media was nothing like it is now in and so it's like hey what happened to Sean and I'm reading all this stuff.

I'm like, this guy used to be like everybody talked to him, talked about him and he was everywhere and also, he wasn't.

And so he started getting blamed for being always a scammer and I'm like, what? That's something, there's got to

be something else. And yeah, I mean that a

life-changing event divorcement. It's a big deal.

So, yeah, and I always find that I find that often times when there is a discrepancy or a gripe from a purchaser from a seller. It's generally miscommunication

or, you know, something along those lines short of being like Tomas key, or sure whoever. But yeah, Sean likes a guy, you

divorce. I think it forced him to sell

his NSX. because he had a 90 91 or 92 and you know he just I got

I don't know, maybe he had to sell it, I think he had to sell it and you know and you know I've sort of toyed with him and said look man you know if I ever come to sell my car which at the end it's not going to happen but I'll give him first right of refusal to buy it back mostly because it's in Really good shape. It's in better condition now

than it was when I bought it. And then, you know, I just had

the guys at HQ Engineering in San Gabriel do a ton of work to it so it's good to go for 10 years.

I did the coolant hoses myself back in.

I won't say 2020 that took two weeks.

It was a pain in the butt. I understand why people would

pay 1,500 to 2,000 dollars to have someone else do it.

Yeah, absolutely. But yeah, I Sai have that

ideally there for five years and then I finally just said, you know what, I want to get a daily so right now my daily is a 2021 Honda Ridgeline. This is probably the fourth

daily driver, had since 2017. So yeah, because I just kind of

like the room that I had a Honda Accord.

My first daily was a Honda Accord V6 with a manual.

Is a 2004. I really like that car.

One day. They just stopped working.

And then after that, I got a 2008, BMW X3 3.0 SI.

I had that for a year. I dumped 4,000 into it, to keep

it running, and then just got got rid of it.

After that I had a 2012 Acura TSX SportWagen that I loved.

One week after I purchased it the transmission.

Disintegrated Sweet. Let's yeah, good investment,

right? So I I was I was scrambling to

find a transmission and I look on eBay I saw a TSX transmission for I want to say three hundred bucks and then I paid another 700 to get that in. So a week after I bought that

thing, added a drop a grand into it for a new trainee.

And I got a 20-17 Honda Ridgeline.

And I want to say April or February of 2020 and then, yes, there's no, no, twenty twenty, twenty one.

So yeah, I got it in April 20-21 and it was just it was it was a nice truck. There's a it was let us say an

RTL front-wheel drive, it was everything that I needed.

And then, that was right before the car values shot up.

Maybe six or eight months later, I was just looking online said well, let me see how much a Honda dealer will give me for this so they gave me more than I paid for it.

On a trade in. So I just got upgraded to a

2021. So I'm driving this Ridgeline a

lot of people don't want to consider it a real truck which is fine by me like to think of it as an SUV with a birth defect. But it's very, it's very

comfortable II. Drove this thing to and from

Colorado three times at the end of last year and I couldn't be happier with how this thing. This thing drives, it's quite

incapable Probably not going to, you don't take it on a bunch of construction sites and complete a bunch of projects.

But for your everyday commuter small project DIY or it's more than capable in fact most of these trucks that people are good or just more like you know peacocking Overkill yes nice to say it's the same thing and this is this is the this is part of why I think maybe you and I hate the internet is that any time these these you know the automotive press be a card driver or rodent trap Rack or whoever it is comes out with a piece on some car you always got someone chiming in.

Oh yeah, well it's not a real truck.

It's not a it's a crossover like a bitch car.

That's a bitch car. That's the new Subaru.

Oh my god, dude, you drive a lifted pick up and you go get groceries, right, right? Except what?

When I go get groceries, you know, I'm writing and comfort, you know? So yeah, I don't understand him.

Honestly like this thing has a, I think it has a I think it has a payload capacity of about 1,500 pounds in the back, which in its class is very competitive.

I don't I think there might only be one midsize truck that exceeds that number it tells 5,000 pounds which it's not bad again. Yeah it's icy I don't know how

many pickup trucks I see out here almost no one's Towing something right. So I don't really care about

Towing if I wanted it. So I Don't know if I would need

it. So anything over 5,000 pounds.

I may not be able to tow my NSX on the trailer.

I don't know, good for sure. I could okay.

Yeah. How much, how much do those

trailers way, you think? I think 1200 pounds maybe well,

that's not bad. Yeah, yeah, my car is about 2950

with half a tank of gas, so, right, I mean and you could take it even, I could probably will not eat.

Not the type a space. You know, the old one, I could

probably talk to my Infinity but it's weird because I, when I'm trying to find a new vehicle, I always look at the towing capacity but I've never told her thing in my life.

He'll really yeah and I probably never will so it's one of those things where I'm like, you know like with the nc1 in a sex.

It's I look at the trunk. I'm like, I really like the car

not enough to sell my car for one, you know, before the type.

As it's got this weird hump in the back and I just can't pack as much stuff in the back, and it's like, I've packed the back of my NSX like twice and then almost 10 years, I owned it.

Moving and coming back from NS Expo. 2018, San Francisco.

That's it. It.

Yeah, I think I've only packed my trunk the one time when I when I drove back from Tampa to sell.

No. See, that's the honest, the only

time. So question question for you.

So you have that type assets. That's numb.

Now, would you not have an NC 1? If they didn't come out with the

typos? You know, I don't know.

I'm a it's kind of a one of those weird things where I may still have had my 97. Or I may have sold it for

something else because one of the thoughts was with this type as is like okay I didn't know regardless of what people think I didn't know 100% that I was going to get one.

Right. Once I got the allocation, I

still didn't know 100% that I was going to get it because you know, as a contractor I never know when I'm working.

I never know what our financial situation is you know when you get a car Like that people just automatically assume you're going to put 16 thousand dollar wheels on there, and get another eight thousand dollar wrap and do all this.

Like, no, man, I'm not one of these Lamborghini, guys, you know? Yeah.

And so, I didn't even known up until I finally signed the, you know, the loan paperwork that it was mine but the thought was if I couldn't get it, you know what, I've got an in C1 going into it. The answer would have been yes

but having gone through it, I don't know because it would have felt like a consolation prize in a super weird way because there's the in see ones are super fucking special but I may have like I wasn't trolling, I was dead serious.

I'll keep looking at these Aston Martin's you know 02:06 V12 Vanquish has because that's like a dream car that I've always wanted and the market right now. So low for those things, it's a

260,000 are fucking car that you can get for like 50 Grand like Not tried to get one of those type of deal even if it's a piece of shit, my breakdown every five minutes.

It's not my daily. Yeah, so yeah, I don't know, I

don't know. It is another thing is like, I

don't know if I would have if my intersex would have been more pure because you know is heavily modified and is a lot of fun, but it's still heavily modified. What I have been more inclined

to have kept it or what I have sold.

It sooner. Yeah, that's you know.

So did you purchase your your na2 with all that stuff on it?

Like was it heavily modified when you purchase?

It was that something that you didn't know it had the innate had the 02 to 0-5 conversion, you know, back when it was super popular that everyone's doing it t 37's, it had the hood, the NSX R hood and it had in a sex are, you know, basically the NSX starter pack, it had the downpours, intersects our spoiler. And that was it, you know, tan

interior and everything. So all the really the really big

stuff I've done with it. Huh.

Yeah, you know, I so I've driven a supercharged in a sex and I gotta stay, it's intoxicating. Yours was a turbo and what were

you pushing like 500 horsepower, something?

But I finally sold it to my friend Yoshi, I was doing.

For like 420 or 91 pump to to the wheels.

And then when I put E85 and and I was doing closer to 460, oh wow, yeah, so crank anywhere from 47 into like five twenty depending on what kind of gas I had in it and I'm going to tell you, I was always on the fence. I wanted to Michigan.

I drove a gentleman's turbo in a sex.

There's a love Fab in a sex. Okay, name.

Charlie let everyone drive it and I was like holy shit.

Shit. One day someday.

And that was it, like, I've never even driven it supercharging a sex, but you're driving that turbo on our proper turbo. Mmm, it's different.

Yeah. See, I can I technically can't

get a turbo. There's no turbo kit that I can

legally get in the state of California.

Correct. So the only the only Force

induction that I can legally have is a context supercharger because it's the only one that's carb certified and I did drive along with a cop techsoup. Charger and I gotta say, I I get

it, I understand why people want more horsepower because I think the the contact probably puts out of like 360 to the wheel and you know the the wine of which is larger and it's plenty.

Honestly I think if I think if my car had 350 at the crank That would be plenty. In my opinion.

It is like I've never felt so slow until I moved here.

And I'll go on these long, Supercar drive.

So we have these long stretches of Highway out here and all the fast cars. Take off, as soon as you start

and you don't see them again. So you get to the first

checkpoint which is usually gas station all the super slow cars are in the back and you're stuck in the middle sometimes even by yourself or with like the Altimas and shit.

That's because it's the modern Altimas, right?

Because yeah, our cars were great but and they're quick and they're fun. They were borderline fast.

Backed in, not fast anymore. You know I had a Infiniti qx50.

I think that's the four-door are Q50 Q50.

Yeah. And we're at Road America and in

this Expo and I was flying past Integra Type R zh' and in naturally aspirated, in a sexes. Call.

Yeah you took your thing on the track.

Yeah and ruined ruined two sets of brakes but you know that's another that's another story. What are your what are your

thoughts on? Because we've kind of talked

about this offline. New car comes out like though

case applied the Civic Type. R recently announced people lost

their mind. Some people love it.

Some people hate it. When the super came out, it

didn't look like the FT 1. I was right.

People are going to love it overall but people loved it.

People hated it. You know, again I think the

internet and social media. The great thing about social

media is that everyone can have their opinion.

The shitty thing about social media is that everyone can have their opinion. So you know, I would say that

the reception for cars like the Supra.

Yeah. I think it seems really positive

but you know the guy who hates it.

The guy who hates it will ever, everyone know that he hates it but it was never going to buy one anyway.

Right, so you're just hating for the fact of hating, which, okay, fair enough, a troll, a troll, the internet, sometimes, whatever, but you were never in the market for it.

Anyway, right, like, why are you talking shit?

Like the Civic, the Civic Type R.

Okay, I personally like the new design.

I think it's more mature. It's more refined, right?

It doesn't look like a Japanese toy.

Like, with the previous one, I always called it.

A boy, racer looked a little boy, racer for me, it was very bored racer and not, I didn't hate it.

Yeah, it's a beautiful and it's great to drive.

Yeah, I hear nothing but good things about it, the automotive press loves that car. You know, the Brits love that

car and the bricks don't like anything Japanese and if they did they would pretend to hate it, right?

So it's like it reminds me of every time Clarkson and them on Top Gear would test the NSX Type R they would do it in the rain.

Yeah and and as he's been those old bike best motoring videos.

You know, they're going on, they're going around the track and it's always raining. Yeah, you know.

So, you know, look the FKA I thought it was a little boy racer. Aesthetically, not my cup of

tea. What I would I drive one?

Yeah. What I spend the money if I was

in the market for it, I would strongly consider that car.

But you know, you got. You got the new one.

What is the SL 5 is? I would like to know what the

code word is. Where that when you yeah it's

just ait's, just the new Civic Type R.

No. Yeah, the new Civic Type R and I

look at it. And it's my eye is more

appealing. And I'm like, okay people who

are shooting on it, they don't even have the old type are right. So, you know, like what is the

other one better? Well, do you own one of those?

No. Okay, well, all right, well,

whatever you're just you're just there, they're just talking shit. So look, I love, I love that

car. My buddy just went to his local

dealership out in Champaign, Illinois and he just signed the papers, For his pre-order, he's got everything on paper in writing, he's got, he's got it in writing that.

So the out the door, price for that car is contingent upon the MSRP. So Honda has announced an SRP.

They haven't really announce anything about that car.

But so the paperwork that my friend signed was based on a - MSRP and rejecting it because I would and I haven't read shit about other car. But I think the fk8 was like 37

Yeah, 38 5 or something. Yeah, I've read some

Publications saying that the, the projected MSRP, they've they projected to be about 40. So I think on paper my buddy had

it written down to 45. So if it's higher than that,

then he can opt out of the agreement and get his deposit back. And if it's less even better for

him. So and again, they haven't

announced anything regarding that car.

I heard something like 325 horsepower.

That's been the buzz lately and, and then everybody who hates it.

It's going to turn around and want one to you.

That's how this world works. Well, of course, of course.

I mean, like, look, they were shitting on the Supra and You know, I was looking at the what is it?

Be the concept and the weight of the empty one.

Yeah, yeah, so the super when they came out with the with the concept was like that looks dope.

When they came out with the production car, obviously people were disappointed. They're shitting on the design

and I'm, I'm like, okay, it's not as cool, but concepts are exactly that. They're not beholding to

aerodynamics. Nor are they beholden to like

crash safety regulations. So what people don't understand

is that crash, safety regulations and the vehicle impact regulations also impact vehicle design dramatically dramatically. So that's why I think that we're

seeing a homogenisation of, of car designs.

Like a lot of cars, just look like each other to get better there in getting fatter. You mean, you're bigger wheels?

Are at our, yeah. Yeah.

I mean, they're like, for instance, what were they?

You gotta. So they're mandating like a

tiller b-pillar and c-pillar airbags.

So all right. Well that's just going to make

those pillars thicker which in truth which which sort of obstructs visibility out of the car you know and so all of these things, make the car heavier and bigger.

You know you have to do is look at a 1995 Porsche 911 and a 2021 Porsche 911 right next to each other.

It's almost like one and a half times it, you know the 95 version. yeah, I mean it's the day kind of have to be that big

and then when they come out with a car as small as I don't know what is. That was the Alfa Romeo 4C?

Is that is that it's a smaller one but it's still fat like if you put it next to your NSX. Yeah.

And you know, but before that type of car in the 90s would have been the size of a Miata. So you know and then people were

shooting on the newsy. I look, I don't like the front

of the newsy. It's too Square for me.

It almost doesn't fit the rest of the design, but the rectangular opening in the, yeah.

It's almost as if it was an afterthought but overall I really like the direction that they're going with that design.

It's very retro. I like retro designs.

I think Ford nailed it when they decided to go retro with the design of the Mustang. And then, you know, I think GM

followed with some of their muscle cars.

But, you know, people are shitting on the, I was reading some guy, he was shitting on the Z.

Why? Because the chassis is the same

as the previous Z. It's just sheet metal like that.

That's the fight. You want to pick with this

thing? Heaven forbid, they didn't

retool the entire thing. What?

Listen, I can understand it as being a cost-cutting measure.

Also. If the chassis was good like why

reinvent the wheel on that, right?

No pun intended, you know? Yeah.

It's like okay if you take the new Z and let's say, you take the, the final year of the previous generation, 370Z NISMO package, If you take the newsy, it would probably kick the crap out of the the Nismo. See, the 370Z on a road course,

substantially better. What's interesting is there were

a lot of, you know, sex owners and in C1 in a sex owners through weren't that impressed with the type S once it was announced okay new front end looks like a Lamborghini new rear end. It's only got a small bump in

Horsepower not worth it and then they were gone and everybody's Angry that they didn't get an opportunity to buy it, you know?

Like like I said, it's that's just what happens.

Yeah, you know and I knew you've driven both.

I mean I'm pretty sure you can access to the tangible improvements that were made for the type S.

Yeah, I haven't driven an in C1 hard since it came out in 2017, but just for my recollection and leaning on people, like, you know, Chris Wilson drove my car. When I first got it, you had a

science to speed and he said, it's a noticeable difference in every way, shape, or form. Right?

And I bet, I mean, I just thing is, Like if I got a base and see one, it would be way more cars than I would ever need.

And it's a great car. It's fucking fantastic.

Yeah, yeah. I mean it just I love the look

of the type S. It should have looked that way

the first time, you know, but I'm not going to get into the lead designer. You know, the Japanese actually

redid it. They are the Japanese.

Well, that's why it looks better.

Yeah, they sent in like these. Like that's not even In like

that's dead serious. They sent a car over to Japan

and said come up with some better arrow and they send it back looking like that. Well, listen that's what happens

when you let a culture who is so hard-working that they'll kill themselves. If they do a bad job, X is

facts. That's the type of work ethic I

want for engineering and designing my cars.

That's the kind of work ethic I want period people.

Yeah, contractors yard. Work.

You know, we need to adopt that over here in the United States.

Are you fucked up over here? Shit?

He just threw himself out of the window.

Dave, how can people get a hold of you, man?

Where can they find your comedy? To they just walk in and I mean,

it's pretty random I know. Right now, it sounds like but

you like you said, you started to thing earlier.

So you guys did your first one recently and hopefully do more.

Yeah, so I'm doing them once a month show in.

I think it's Hollywood. I can't tell but it's in Los

Angeles and it's in like he's Hollywood at right now at a comedy club studio called the third wiggle.

Once a month, it's shows called purposefully offensive.

We're speaking the subtext there.

It just lets everybody know, the type of show you're getting into for disclaimer title. It's right there.

Like don't don't show up to the show, all right, if you're easily offended, okay? Some material may not be suited

get over it. Right?

So we do it once a month show. Their, we're looking to bump

that up. Next year to every two weeks.

You can follow me on Instagram at the David Hahn.

Where you can possibly be offended by my posts.

I would like to think of myself as a part-time shit poster.

You know, it's funny because my in-laws follow me and sometimes I will post things with them in mind.

I know you're watching. Watch this.

I want you to think about this joke.

Next time you're sitting across from me at Thanksgiving, okay.

Oh man, they got early on. They tried to like talk to me

about my poster. I'm not listening to you.

Like you're you're taking this way too seriously, just stop it.

We talked about this before I think.

On the show. But one of The Inspirations that

I had to just do this, and I still pull punches.

I pull a lot of punches on my own podcast, but he'd said, if he worried about what all his guests and other people thought family friends, then he would never have got anywhere.

Oh yeah, of course. I mean that he says that on

occasion on any one of his like 37 podcast, right and as a comedian or anybody and entertainment you just can't worry, okay? If I say this is my wife gonna

kick my ass when I get home? Yeah, I mean my wife is sort of

had to I mean, she's always been very supported and stuff about my comedy in the things I post and it's why I have a stage name. So I can at least separate

myself in that regard, there's like a Viper Between, you know, her and my daughter and me and my comedy but she's generally been very supportive although sometimes I'll post something and she'll look at me my you sure it was like yeah.

Maybe this where there's like one time I made a post about something and my mother-in-law sent me a message.

She's like David, you know, I can't believe you would post something like this when so many women struggle.

With they I didn't even respond because I think we should go daughter. Okay.

Because I want you want we're not getting divorced.

Well I'd like yeah. I mean that in like I don't know

because if I feel like if I would have engaged that it will.

I look I first off. Adam Carolla says this.

It's sort of the Thing that I've lived by my whole life but he articulated it, I only argue when I'm right.

So that's not to say, I'm right all the time, but I only argue when I'm right and so if I know if I'm not fully sure that I'm right then, I'm probably shut the fuck up, at the very least.

I might just ask a bunch of questions but I feel like if I would have engaged that I would have escalated because I like to argue, it would have just got to the point where it's like, well, So you don't want me to say these things.

Well, that means I'm just going to say them even harder.

Sure, you know? And that's that's just how I've

been even even his growing up as a kid where if you told me that I couldn't do something, then it really just made me want to do it and there's an element of that with within comedians, like I say all comedians because I encounter some comedians out there who you know They complain about other comedians material.

And when I hear that in my head and I just say to myself, you know, they're never going to make it in any capacity because you can't have that mentality because something that there's nothing. If that's the case, there's

nothing from stopping someone else.

Saying that about them. Sure.

I'm not even saying like, I'm not like a lot of some of these accounts who were just straight up, just let me, let me see.

See who I can offend at the highest level, every time I post. I just if I think it's funny,

I'm going to I'm going to post in saying so he is the David Hahn. David have to do it again.

Yeah, please, let's do this, I really like talking shop like talking cars, just life in general.

I've, you know, I've, I've always been sort of intrigued by what you got going on. So I feel like I have a bunch of

questions and ask you to. So why are they Hey man.

It's been great. One of them.

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