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Well, yeah, but the mine is more elegant. It's true. Yeah, it's like formal. Yeah. Like Hannah and I when Hannah had COVID, how we dined the opposite.

Oh, yeah, six feet away, dining table. I was like, give the butler, bring the salt. Yeah, I feel like I was in the gilded age, which is a show I am like ashamed to say that I watch. It's good at the actual age.

No, there it is, but also it's the television show, and it's like a show for my mother.

And for some reason, at some point out of boredom, I started watching episode one, but now I am in and current.

Why is it for your mother and not for you? Oh, because it's about like these like terrible, awful, scheming, high society people in the I turn to the century.

I think it's probably just before the turn. Is it billions, but with old clothes and horses? Yeah, but like it's more based around like the women of the society.

And the men are like kind of side characters, except for one husband that has who's like a shitty railroad baron. Like, you know, but like, yeah, I don't know why I watch this show.

It's like, I don't watch a lot of shows, but for some reason I'm watching this shit.

We're trying to watch the bear, which is a comedy. And I like it's a great drama.

It's a great show. But once I learned, and this was years ago, I realized that it's classified as a comedy at the Emmys and stuff.

I can't get that thought out of my head. So every episode, there are episodes where there's like one written joke in the whole episode.

Sure. And I just watch it. People are crying yelling at each other. People are having panic attacks. No, there needs to be.

And I'm like, this is BS. The last episode, you know, Sarah, like last year had a really rough year with her dad and her brother.

The episode covered both of those topics. And not in a funny way.

No, no, no, and no trigger warning. Yeah. So I'm just like watching her cry. And I'm like, and I'm also like, I'm pretty forgiving.

And if it's a dark comedy to dark comedy, like this has so few jokes in some episodes, it really bothers me.

I mean, listen, that sounds like some recent, you know, reactionary stand-up sets I've heard.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the better.

There should be a category at the Emmys for panic attack inducing stress series like the bear, which is pretty much with that.

That, whatever that was, the first season, the, the episode that was like the long cut, where it was just a fucking panic attack for 46 minutes in one take.

Jesus Christ. That was too much.

For the family gathering, that was just right. Yeah, that kind of thing.

Fucking Jamie Lee Curtis, Harlan, a turkey.

And it's a, it's a great show. Acting, writing. The way it's shot. Everything's magic. And if you just put it as a drama, I'm on board.

When I, just imagining, I don't know who's fault is it.

The bear is like a comedy. I don't know.

I'm going to get to the bottom. I'll tell you what.

Because if it's, it's one thing, if it's like someone, if an EP did a production loophole, it's like, hey guys, guess what?

We're going to win.

We got just enough jokes to stay, you know, because to qualify, it's probably like, well, if I was a comedy for an Emmy, you need a three jokes per episode.

However, they probably could sneak in.

Other alternatively, if it's, you know, something that is chosen, they're nominated in this category by the Emmy commission, what are you going to say? No.

You know, you're going to say no to the golden statue.

But I feel like it wouldn't, it wouldn't win a best comedy against.

It's like, it's a comedy.

You're a senator. And they're like, look, you know, you're supposed to listen to what your constituents want to do.

But here's a boat. What are you saying? No, it's a boat.

You're not going to say no to a boat.

I think this is the Johnny Knoxville movie.

Remember he went in like the whole like, you know, person competing in a special Olympics thing.

And then like, you're not good enough to be in the real Olympics or the special Olympics because they're actually amazing athletes.

I feel like this is like, oh, it's put in the comedy part.

Like, well, it's not as funny as 30 rock. I know it's off the air.

But like, yeah, that's just anyway, that's my rant about.

No, sorry. A comedy, it's like, what the, it's like, well, it's like a porn.

I know what a comedy is when it's presented to me.

Right. You know what I mean?

Yeah.

Pretty sure I know what a porno is.

I know it when I see it.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. As long as it's not like some fucking preacher saying that shit and like a regular person, you're fine.

You know.

I mean, that was the senator who said that. I think during the case against what's his face?

Larry.

Oh, Larry Flanley.

Larry Flanley.

Yeah.

I mean, listen, if that senator doesn't have the horde, the horde to end horde.

It's a research library.

Oh, porno.

Matt Ferrell.

Am I not supposed to study the material upon which I am fighting?

I believe I'm supposed to study that material back and upside down.

And if.

Give me that Kleenex.

You would ejaculate during the course of my research.

I mean, I one could not be helped.

That's how we know it's pornography Matt Ferrell.

If I ejaculate during the studying of this bill of this legal argument, then we know it's pornography.

And if I don't, I'll try again.

We are heading there.

We are very much heading there.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, cars.

Hi.

How are you?

It's a good, like, fucking little warm-up vibe.

Who was on the island?

I don't know.

Don't forget.

Yeah.

Everybody, don't forget.

Well, keep talking about it.

The end two.

So there is a.

Me and Spike Ferreston did a television show in 2014.

It was the first time we ever really hung out.

And there were four people on this television show.

Four hosts.

Me, Spike, Sam Smith, and a NASCAR driver named Brian Vickers, who was a lovely guy and whose

wife, he is now divorcing the story broke yesterday, allegedly.

Red girls for Jeffrey Epstein.

Whoa.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

And.

Is that why they're getting divorced?

Or is this like a.

If that isn't the reason why I'm saying somebody.

Was it already happening?

And then this just got discovered?

No, no, no.

Okay.

This was, it was known.

There was, there was other stories about this, about the wife.

Wow.

Yeah, yeah.

And when we met them, she was driving Ferrari, brand new V12 Front Engine Ferrari.

I think it was either, I think it was a 599 at the time.

And told us that she was an interior designer in like Palm Beach.

And it turns out that she did have, in fact, an interior design business registered in Palm Beach in a building for Epstein owns.

It was like, yeah, it was some, some interesting things.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's how it was connected to cars.

Okay.

Yeah.

Poor Bra.

There's a Ferrari in that story.

Wow.

Huh?

There's a Ferrari in that story.

Hey, there you go.

Brian Vickers was pretty fun.

I enjoyed hanging out with Brian Vickers during that TV show.

He was a good time.

Nice.

Yeah.

He was a good time.

Lift the mic a little bit, just because that's important.

Is it true?

That's that for Brudan.

Oh, wow.

They really, they really did crank this thing down.

They made no bones about that.

There we go.

I see.

One day we're going to need to replace those.

We're going to be $1,000 for those little knobs.

Better?

Yes.

I sound good now.

Uh, cars.

Well, we shouldn't go too far without talking about that little Mazda 3 that they just picked

up.

I got this thing last Mazda 3 stick shift press car.

And so there's no pictures of it.

I'm going to have to get it.

Sorry.

Um, but uh, it actually like, it's a fairly old design.

They've been making one that looks like this for a while.

Um, and it was the hatchback, which I think does look nice.

And the interior, man, if you're someone who doesn't want like too much screen in your

life, this is a great place to be.

That's true.

Really nice materials.

Um, everything you touch.

There we go.

That's it.

The gray one right there.

Yeah, that's it.

Um, I don't love the exterior styling of the car, particularly that last bit above the

rear wheel.

I think looks a little strange.

It's a, it's a really thick pillar.

It's a very, you know, because the glass doesn't wrap around, the back glass doesn't wrap

around at the side.

Yeah.

Like it does with some other cars.

Let me get it.

It doesn't like affect your rear visibility.

Like there aren't big blind spots or anything, um, but I just, I don't think it has, I don't

think every angle is good.

This fret three quarter.

Pretty good.

Yep.

Rear three quarter.

Profile profile, not because the front is, is like this nice trim aerodynamic.

I like the, I like the eyes of it.

All that stuff looks great.

And then, and even the a pillar from here looks really thin and then you go to the back

seat.

It's like, it's like they did the sedan first and then they went, shit, we need a hatch

back.

You know, like they did with the Ferrari Roma being convertible.

It's like that.

It's a good question.

Um, but, uh, and, but how, how long has it been since we've driven a brand new front wheel

drive, naturally aspirated stick shift car, like a pretty long time.

Yeah.

And what I really appreciated about this was like the linearness of it and, uh, the fact

that like you could, you could accidentally, if you weren't paying attention, just like

sit at 6,000 RPM in this car all day because it was so smooth.

Yes.

Smooth.

It's easier to forget to shift around town.

Yeah.

If you were the kind of person who really wanted to drive a manual transmission, but you

also had like a bitch of a commute, this would be fabulous.

It's not fast, but it's like fast enough.

It's fast enough for everyday driving for sure.

It's just not fast to be exciting.

Yeah.

Um, but the inputs are nice, steering wheel, lovely pedals, great seats were nice.

Seats are really comfortable.

The dash is simple, but looks pretty elegant.

Um, I feel like it will be not timeless, but close.

Like it's just so simple and neat that you go, I mean, we, I just looked at, we tested

one in 2021.

Yeah.

So it's four years later.

Yeah.

Still looks pretty good inside.

Yeah.

Hasn't done anything offensive.

It just doesn't have the touchscreen.

You have to do the puck thing, right?

Which I, I've, it is annoying to use car play with a puck, but I was surprised at how

quickly I was able to do things that I expected to take a long time, like just navigating through

car play.

I expected to be much more annoying with the puck than it actually was, so they've done

a great job of making like, not shortcuts, but laying out where the buttons land as

you rotate and you see, you know, it goes from whatever, like zoom in to zoom out to,

you know, go back and all that stuff and it, it, it worked pretty good.

It does work well and driving at night is really nice because the screen isn't super bright

and the gauges in front of you are really not too bright.

So your eyes stay, this is a thing that as I, as, as, as a, I'm, as I get older combined

with the fact that there's fucking cars or full of screens now, I really start to notice

this.

Like, it's really hard to find cars where your eyes remain adjusted to outside.

Yes.

And like, when you do find one, like embrace that shit because it's nice like this.

Yeah, look how clean this is, this, this interior, that steering wheel is as perfect

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Like holding it?

That's about as close to a Porsche steering wheel as you're going to find for $30,000.

It's almost a perfect mimic of a car.

I mean, I just got out of the M5 touring that you gave me

and there's just so many weird buttons and shapes.

And granted, I just got into it, I'll get used to it.

However, this steering wheel here is simple.

It looks nice.

The feedback on the buttons is like a nice spring rate.

It feels like a more expensive car.

And that's what Mazda always gets right.

They make their cars feel a little bit more expensive than they are.

Yeah.

So if you were like, if you were doing a lot of highway and like,

I got like, you know, you get like mid to high 30s all day, regular gas,

you know, and there's no turbo that's not going to be a stressed out engine

unless you absolutely kick the shit out of it constantly.

There isn't an LSD in this one.

So it's not, you know, it's not super sporty.

But it is like, it is reasonably engaging to drive.

I do wish that like that there was the combination of

an incredibly smooth engine.

There's like no clutch feel at all.

So you find yourself like from a stop not being able to like elegantly pull away all the time

and riding the clutch a little extra or like, you know, not realizing like,

if you come to a stop and you're just like in neutral,

like if your foot is like resting, like just touching the gas a little bit,

like it can happen in any car, like there's no resistance.

So you don't just be like, and you won't even know it tilts at like four,

because it's so refined.

Such a smooth engine.

Yeah.

It also rides better than the CX-50 Meridian edition we had.

Yeah.

Where do God this has slightly better software spring rates or something.

It's just a little bit more comfortable around town.

I mean, it's smaller.

It's lighter.

It's got lighter wheels.

It doesn't need heavier springs.

It's the opposite of the M5, which has all the springs.

The thing has like truck springs and it's weird.

It's real weird.

All the spring and none of the damper is insane.

I get what you're saying.

I drove it for five minutes and you know, I know you put the thought of my head,

but it felt like A-dass was on.

Yeah.

And it's not.

And it's just, but it doesn't tram line as much as, you know, GD500 when it would do that.

You knew that's what was happening.

What, three old five fronts?

This is 255 front.

So I think the tram line is so subtle that you don't notice it at first.

And then you're the frog getting boiled.

You're like, is that what's happening?

Is that what it's not electronic steering itself?

It's just the road, but only a little bit.

It's like enough to make you unsettled.

But not enough to like move the car where you focus up.

Well, I don't want to detour into M5 land because it's too easy to do that.

And you've driven it for seven minutes.

And I want you to drive it for reels, because you will have many thoughts.

And I have many, many thoughts about the M5.

But, but this Mazda, if you, if you're like, I got it because there are so few manual transmission cars left.

We should be, we should be trusting all of them.

Yeah.

Whatever stick shift, I asked all the fleet guys.

Like, what stick shift cars do you have?

Like, there's almost none.

But look at that.

Look at that beautifully elegant and simple air conditioning control bit right in the middle.

The cup holders in front of the shifter.

So they're never in the way of your elbow when you're, when you're rowing gears.

Like the fucking $150,000 Porsche, we spent all morning.

When I put my coffee in the cup holder, you had to do some like back to the future door.

Yeah.

And they were driving to do that.

It's a rotating cup working.

Yeah, yeah.

That's the move, right?

Back to the fucking Marty McFly.

I had to reserve the back end over the top.

Yeah.

Like I was stealing fish.

Yeah, clearly that car was like not designed for stick.

Why don't they put the good question?

Why don't they put the cup holders in front of the shifter in the Porsche?

Put the HVAC controls in the back where you don't really touch in that much.

That's, I don't know.

There is definitely a reason.

There's definitely, oh yeah, that mean.

That cup holder's not a problem at all in the PDK car.

In the PDK car, that doesn't, that car a couple is all right.

And there's a far dash one on the right.

Yeah.

So you can like really use that one if it matters, but yeah, it's annoying.

The stealthy one in the Porsche is nice.

Somebody in some nerd in the forums has like made a thing

that you can get, I'm sure.

That puts the cup holder in the front.

That like, yeah, that's like it like it, instead of it being here,

it's like a 3D printed part that fits in that fitting,

but like moves the cup holder over here for if you don't have a passenger.

That's the accurate NSX move.

Right.

Yeah.

That's sort of the foot well cup holder.

Also, um, yeah, it doesn't go on the autos.

The autos have it.

The autos has the elbow.

Did that one.

It's back here.

Oh yeah.

NSX is on the side.

NSX was the, yeah, that one's crazy.

This also, I like going back to Mazda 3 gauges.

Simple.

Nice.

I mean, real analog, sure.

Like a little old school.

Maybe you can do it with like one screen somewhere if you wanted to.

If you had to get fancy, but like this look, this works totally fine.

Yeah.

For, dude, for this thing gets so many things right.

If you like driving a lot, and if you're doing a lot of miles,

like, oh man, I don't, I don't really want like a Prius or something like.

I need something that's like keeps me alive, you know, inside.

Yeah.

Like this will do it.

And also if you get stuck in traffic, the controls are light enough

that you won't like go insane.

That's true.

Yeah.

So I liked it.

I actually, I actually did like it.

Maybe there's some way in the aftermarket.

If there's like some clutch helper spring or something,

you just take out and all of a sudden there's clutch feel.

That would be maybe nice, but, but aside from that, I mean,

and it's, it's not fast, but like, whatever, it's fine.

Yeah.

For commuting, for it's, it was pretty fun.

Yeah.

And if you like stick shift and you like touching good, good inputs,

that's what it's for.

So thank you to Mazda for letting us have a go for that one.

Should I talk about Intersect, the watch thing?

Yeah.

Then I was out this weekend.

So Intersect is an awesome, awesome show.

It's actually put on, but I also did no Instagram,

but they have their own Instagram for Intersect,

because I figured I was doing this bit later.

So it's a watch show for enthusiasts put on by the notice guys,

who I did the collab with for the canyon.

And it's 30 brands come together at this brewery space

in Long Beach and and show their wares.

And you can buy watches there and you can put in, put orders in,

but that's not really what it's for.

It's really to like, because a lot of these,

what you call micro brands or niche brands,

you know, they sell online, they advertise on Instagram,

they promote online, but a lot of these companies like,

they don't have stores, so you can't really try something on without buying it.

It's just like the nature of the business.

So you listen to influencers or whatever,

but you never really know.

And so a lot of times you'll see something that looks cool on Instagram

and then you get it and you know,

it doesn't really look great on my wrist or whatever.

And that can happen at the very high end Swiss level as well,

except usually you would go into the boutique and try it on before you,

before you took it home.

So at least there's that.

Most of this stuff is done mail order.

So anyway, it's a great opportunity,

you know, like a traditional auto show,

like the LA auto show,

to actually, you know, test drive some of this stuff.

So I went and checked it out with Hannah.

It was really fun.

We were promoting the mother of Pearl Canyon.

People were really into the green canyon.

I think we sold almost every single one we had.

I actually saw some notices other newer designs in person for the first time.

They have one called the trail tracker,

which I don't love the name trail tracker,

but it's basically their version of a Rolex Explorer 2.

But it's this like gray like DLC coating on the whole watch and bracelet.

It's basically like a hiking mountaineering kind of vibe.

And I think you would really like it.

But I made a list outside of notice,

who I'm clearly biased towards,

of my five favorite, yeah, it's nice, right?

It's very cool.

Yeah.

My five favorite watches from Intersect.

Because a lot of times,

like there's so many micro brands that when people ask me,

like, what's a cool watch?

And like, I don't have something at this price point.

So like every watch it's on this list

that I'm talking about is under $2,000,

which is a price point that like we're trying,

everyone's trying, we're trying to hit a lot more.

Like I know that's a lot of money for people,

but like it's a lot less than 10.

And like what we're trying to do is get like quality watchmaking

to two people at that price point.

Well, I think to clarify,

you're saying it's less than 10

because the big brands that people know about,

right, those kind of start Omega Rolex, whatever,

that's kind of where they start.

That's like 5,000 and up.

And that's for many people is like not even close to a reality.

And for these brands,

the stuff they sell starts at like 600,

but nothing on the list that I have here is over 2,000.

Most of them are around 1,000, which is a,

you know, you want to get, if you want something like quality

that's that that's kind of,

you do have to spend a little bit of money,

like componentry ain't fucking free.

So, this is sort of my top five,

not in a ranked order.

This isn't the winners.

I just wanted to familiarize people with some watches

that I think are cool,

that wouldn't have come up in a conversation

of what should I be buying questions.

Because we could ask this a lot.

We do.

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This one I keep going back to

and I've almost bought it twice.

This is called the Jack Mason Strato Timer.

They were selling at Intersect at a show special for $10.50

but the regular price is $11.50.

Extremely handsome watch GMT.

It's basically halfway between a Seiko Turtle

which I'm wearing right now and a Rolex GMT.

And it comes in a whole bunch of different dial colors,

bezel colors, you get on a Jubilee racelift,

you get an Oyster bracelet.

They're all about the same price.

They're not too thick.

They have sort of a cool vintage vibe.

They have different elements pulled from

different visual elements pulled from different styles.

You can sort of pick out the bits of inspiration

from other places.

Nevertheless, incredibly handsome watches.

I sent Zach the link of the one with the white dial

and the reason I like the one with the white dial

is because Rolex doesn't make one

in this particular combo.

They have other combos that sort of mimic Rolex colors.

But if you're going to do something

that even remotely knocks on the door

of being a Rolex homage, which I don't think this is,

but certain elements do get close.

Make it get it in a different fucking color.

Right, make it different to not make it look

like you're trying to knock off a Rolex

because it's just a bad look

because there's so many cool watches at every price point.

You don't need to fake it, you know.

So it's it's a it's got a good movement.

Miota GMT automatic.

It's it's finished ish.

It's got some finishing on it with it with a display back.

So anyway, I've almost bought these twice.

And every time I you know, it's funny is

the reason I keep coming back to it

is because it sits right in the at an event diagram

of visual elements I like.

Yeah, the problem is I already own all the watches

that have the visual elements I like.

Like a turtle Pepsi with a white dial.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a fabulous look.

And they have them in all these cool colors.

I've just been like, man, it's like

right in the middle of shit I've already got.

I just I don't need to to plug that.

That's funny. You own the circles.

Yeah, this is the event diagram.

Yeah, overlap.

Yeah, so like someone could get in

and get a taste of all those circles

right here if that's what they wanted to do.

Like if you wanted to get a bunch of elements

that I love in a watch put together

smartly in one place, this is it.

It's a great watch.

And I've met the people a quick,

quick said micro adjust class.

Love it.

Yeah, yeah.

And so that's a cool one.

I really like that one.

This one is called Soul Labs.

And this is the watch I bought.

Oh, you bought a watch, right?

This is the only I limited myself to one.

And only if I absolutely fell in love with it

and had to have it.

This is called Soul Labs.

It's listed here for 1300.

I got it for under a thousand for show special.

But this actually, is this, is this not all the pink one?

Yeah, this is like a pink and purple.

Yeah, wait, they have it.

It comes in other colors.

The one I got, the one I'm getting has the blue.

But this chrome, this chrome, I must have sent you

the wrong color, but this chrome bracelet

it really reminds me of the ikepod stuff

from the 90s, the Mark Newson stuff.

No, that's the day one go up.

This one's called the day two, which is this guy.

So what's so cool about this watch?

I mean, the dial is super funky.

You got to love it.

The bracelet is super funky, shiny chrome.

And then it actually has a date, date, excuse me,

it has a date movement in it.

But as you can see on the dial, there is no date.

The big triangle is the hour hands.

The hollow triangle is the minute hands.

And the one behind it is the seconds actually.

No, there's another hand behind.

Right, but yeah, that's the seconds.

But you see the gradient disk that you can see through the dial.

So that's actually the date wheel.

But instead of showing a date, it's a full gradient.

So every day, the gradient color looks a little different.

That's cool.

Every day, it looks a little different.

That's a very cool idea.

And as soon as I picked this up, I went

just like the Myers-Manks.

I was like, absolutely, this is the one.

Super funky.

Yeah, that's very cool.

I like these kind of art piece things.

Like I like the icon pot or whatever.

Yeah, I think they're very cool.

Because a lot of these micro-brands,

they exist sort of in the middle.

They have elements that are inspired by other brands,

you know, and oh, by the way,

it comes with this desk clock.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, that's cool.

That desk clock is sick.

Yeah.

I might be, I might time the show with that.

So how fun is that piece?

Look at that.

I mean, that's just kind of.

Yeah, that's really rad.

Super funky, right?

So this is a little more off on guard.

But I think it, if it reminds me,

there's a watch by a guy named Alan Silberstein

that's almost very, it's cartoony,

but it's Bauhaus,

and this is like that.

It's very fun.

So I bought one of those.

That's going to be fun.

I think that's going to be my quail watch.

That's a good quail watch.

It's a good for them with manks.

It's going to be party time.

It's going to be.

If you go fancy,

there's so many people that have way more money

and you're far fancier.

I can't fucking out reach those people.

Forget it.

No, nothing I got even,

even would register on their radar.

It's either Aquinaut,

or excuse me,

Aquinaut,

I'm sorry, buddy.

I apologize, James,

for saying Aquinaut rather than Aquinaut.

You know, with the 48 dials.

Yeah, it's either that.

It's silly shit.

It's got to be silly.

So this one,

I've never heard of this brand before.

They're called Strom,

S-T-R-A-U-M.

And I love a fabulous dial.

And these things fucking rip.

They glow.

They have gradients.

They have these sort of carved

brass dials that almost look like waves

or drippings of paint.

And they come in all these different

dial colors.

I think I only pulled up.

These are,

this are 1700.

I think they were 1500 at the show.

But if you go up at the top menu,

there's that.

All those,

Jan Mayan down a little bit.

All of those are completely different

and fun colors.

Like look at that,

look at that burst one from the center.

So these guys are,

these guys are doing dial work that I would say,

not quite GranSaco level,

the precision

of GranSaco isn't quite there.

But certainly the expressiveness

and the use of color blasting.

And the fact that it's great.

Well, it looks like the three-dimensional,

like the dial looks like it's...

Yeah, like snow, right?

Right, like terrors of,

or not terrors, like the terrain of the moon.

Yeah.

And so there's a whole,

look at some of the,

the Arctic ones or some of the other ones are,

really, really beautiful.

And integrated bracelets

and well-integrated straps,

summer titanium,

summer steel.

There was some other special edition.

The basalt ones are really cool

with these basalt dials.

Isn't that cool?

Like, it looks like Mars.

So I really liked these.

So these, you know,

these at the show were 1500,

which I thought,

I thought, man, if I...

But I do have the GranSaco's also,

oh yeah, so there's these different colors

of these tundras.

Apparently,

the folks behind this brand

go on a lot of long camping expeditions,

camping trips,

and they get color inspirations from that.

I understand that.

There's a very GranSaco thing to do.

But I thought these were very handsome.

They use a quality movement.

And if you like a big blast on a dial,

this is what's up.

I love the gradient.

I mean, that's what I like to notice.

I just like having the color shift a little,

even if you don't move.

Yeah, it's cool.

So that's a really cool one.

This one, not a new brand.

I've seen these on the internet a bunch,

but this is the first time I got to try them on.

Studio underdog.

Really cool brand doing very cool stuff with colors.

Oh, I follow these guys.

Their shit is themed like avocado,

and watermelon, and pizza, and stuff like that.

Out of England,

using a variety of components from different countries.

I think their movements are from Asia,

but this new one, the salmon.

These are fucking sick looking in person.

I love them.

But they only come in two sizes,

like 34 and 37 millimeter.

That's 40.

Whoa.

Yeah, excuse me, that's 41.

Wow.

So they're small.

And they're thin, you know,

so if you, it's the kind of,

it's the size that you or I would wear with a suit,

but you wouldn't wear this with a suit.

I mean, unless it was like a really fun suit, I guess.

But like, it's not, this isn't a formal watch.

I'd wear it out at fun times.

I'd think God, if they make a 40 or a 41 of this,

take my money.

I loved looking at these.

They're so cool.

This one is a mono pusher chronograph,

which means rather than having a stop start and a reset button,

it's all on one.

Stop start reset is on one button,

but a bunch of really fun colors and special collabs

and shit like that.

Really cool.

Oh, there we go.

I think I started following you talking about them once,

and I thought it was such a cool way to get these real

rad bursts of color.

But then finding out how small they were,

I was like, oh, that doesn't even,

even my wrist, like that would look a little small.

It would look a little small on you.

You could, you could probably pull it off

under a suitably, okay?

Yeah, yeah.

But if you have a smaller wrist,

definitely check these out.

These things, you can wear one of these

in a room full of heavy hitters.

Like people rocking six figure shit in a room,

you walk up in one of these,

one of these really good, good colors,

and people will be asking you to take that shit off

and pass it around the room.

Gare and Teed, 100%.

It's cool.

For, these are about, I think these are about 2,500.

They're a little over the threshold.

But again, that this shit will get you

a seat at the table with big boys.

And the other ones that I brought up so far

will not necessarily do that.

This one, these I liked, I never really

experienced the brand Stella before.

And they have a bunch of beautiful

dials, scroll down, because we're just looking

at the back of one, what we call linen dials.

The dials are, they're different colors

of what looks like linen fabric

and in some cases actually is.

I mean, look at that, isn't that nice?

I mean, you love a good texture on a dial.

You don't see as much in the darker blue

or the black, but the light gray linen,

the white linen, this light blue linen is exceptional.

And these are also very affordable.

They are not super expensive.

I mean, they're $1,000, $1,185.

They were like $950 at the show.

But I just think that's a great looking dial

with it's got applied indices,

meaning like the notice,

the numbers and the, the hour markers

are placed, they're extra bits that go

on top of the dial, they're not painted on the dial.

It's a higher end thing to do.

But I just, you know, if you're going to wear a cool watch,

I think a dial that draws you in and keeps your attention.

That's why like these textures and colors.

And so I think this is just very, very handsome

and would be a good versatile,

goes with any outfit kind of vibe.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, I'm going to do it.

Yeah, I think that was at the last one.

I think that was all five, right?

Is there another one?

That was all of it.

Yeah, that was all of it.

Cool. So, you know, it's, I think they're doing,

they're doing other intersect shows.

LA isn't the only one.

But LA is every July.

I went last year and it was like double the size this year.

So super sick, great place to really try,

try stuff on and you know, a lot of the people

behind the booth are the founders of the brand.

It's not like they just sent some fucking person.

You know, you're talking to the head of the brand sometimes.

So, and we sold a bunch of watches too.

So that's pretty cool.

Got the video from Mike,

Don at Max, cars running.

Cool.

He got me some aviation-inspired seat belts,

which sounds very fun.

The wheels came back from powder coat.

They look good.

It sounds, it sounds almost like they

should maybe be driving it soon, if not like to tomorrow.

Sure, imminent, right?

I mean, it's got seat belts and it's running

and when you saw it, it had suspension on it.

Oh yeah.

So, or, no, when I last saw it,

I went down with Debrawn after you.

And like the, everything was in.

Other than like steering wheel seats

and like the rest of it was like there.

And they were just waiting for some,

the software guy to,

which obviously they have sorted.

So, how excited.

Very cool.

Oh yes.

Speaking of cars that are almost done.

Have you seen the new Faraday future?

So, I got invited to go to this thing.

So did I.

Multiple times and did not go.

And actually, I now am sad I didn't go.

I regret not going because when I saw it on

the screen, I was like, I would have laughed so hard.

I know, I know.

But I also am glad I didn't go down

because it was a pain in the ass downtown

on in the evening.

And it's a terrible car.

You know, I jump ahead.

I regret not going to the cyber truck launch.

I regret, you know, these catastrophic disasters

that we got invited to and other people go

and tell us what is, I don't know, oh, man,

I would have loved to see a fucking crash.

It's like going to a demolition derby.

Like, yeah, shit had gone.

Yeah, shit had gone.

Yeah.

The couple up a picture of the car though

because it's hilarious.

Was there something you wanted to,

you were saying there was something you wanted to show me?

Was it, oh, these are photos from the launch?

There's, I mean, there's a couple things.

I discovered new things while looking

for the thing I wanted to show you.

The Faraday Future Faraday FX Super One,

which is the most Chinese name shit.

The big story with this,

because for people listening to the audio,

don't worry, you won't be left out.

Think of a minivan?

Great.

You got it.

It's a tall minivan.

It has a television screen where the grill should be.

That's, that's one of the stories I've discovered

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