Jesus Lopez (Gabe’s Custom Interiors) | From Boyd Coddington to Full Hot Rod Builds

I remember so vividly watching you like on TV and it's that's what's yeah wild

Most people know you as a the famous hot rod builder, you know you blast it onto the scene with that grim

Yeah, Camaro, and it's been like no looking back ever since I was a hey. I'm building this Camaro. They're like, oh, that's cool

No, like it's gonna be nice. Oh, okay. That's cool

We finally have the car in the interior shop somebody comes over and they're like dude

This is a nice Camaro. I'm like, I've been telling you

You built this I'm like, yeah, we've been building this for the past year

And he's like dude. You didn't tell me you were like building this. I'm like, I did tell you you didn't listen

You know Boyd was a big big factor and nobody knew my dad, you know

He he obviously did great work, but nobody knew who he was

You're talking about overnight once they started that TV show. Yeah, man. It's commercial. Oh my god

Like the phone would ring off the hook that point games was it was just the name the name you went from

Doing local cars, California cars to doing cars all over the country all over the world

Like everywhere it was nuts

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I changed it up nice clever nice intro buddy

Yeah, I got tired of saying welcome back. Yeah, it's good. It's good

It's kind of like if you're listening you already know that it's a episode. Yeah, run with that

Let's run with that one for the world. All right. I'm glad you got your stamp of approval

This week we've got Jesus Lopez of Lopez performance

Something we've been talking about for a while and really excited to get into this one

This one's this one's crazy because I started thinking about it last night

How old I actually am because and this is not

Do you're older than me? But I remember I remember so vividly watching you

Like on TV and it's that's what's yeah wild to that was back in the day when we all like pretty religiously

Watched the watch automotive television. Yeah before I just got

Few pounds ago

I remember seeing him from basically looking in the mirror at any get well

I was gonna go there address the elephant the room here. I mean, there's an uncanny resemblance

Looking dude

There's always see like

Pictures you know you pictures you come up on Instagram or something and I always send them to Phil

I'm like dude. You guys are twins like I'm sure I can do something right now with a really cool side-by-side

Yeah, cuz we're talking beforehand. I'm gonna have to wear a name tag for this one. That says I'm Phil

Man really appreciate you coming out. This is a this is a long haul for you, but I'm glad that you were able to do it and come

In person. It's always better happy to do it happy to do it before we get into this awesome whiskey you

You actually brought the heavy hitter with you you brought you wanted to bring some whiskey and you brought you brought his own like all

The way salmon. Yeah, what would you call? Yeah? Hey brought the whiskey whisper

Yeah, we'll go with that George the whiskey with George come on George

And you got it you got to hop on tell us about what we're fixing to have right now

Yeah, this is dude. I walked into this and we had he came with not just a whiskey

But like a suitcase of whiskey

Yeah, there's six or seven bottles right here off camera on the floor when I saw one that had the little paraffin wax wrap around it

I knew it's old. Yeah, because that's a secret of the pros

Yeah, when you want to keep those suckers from spilling as soon as he pulled it out as first hands like oh

Well, what's what's going on there and usually you know you mentioned it and I did feel guilty like having you up

We prefaced it with I felt bad, but that was always said for sure. Yeah, I feel bad

So what do you got and what is that so this is a

You brought you you brought up a good point earlier, right once you kind of

Had a bunch of stuff, you know experimented wasted a lot of money

You know because it's obviously a pretty expensive learning curve, right the the bourbon game a little closer. Just oh, yeah

Yeah, it's an it gets expensive ripe

And then you kind of kind of funnel out what you kind of don't want and then you build curiosity and the old stuff

Right because you go to you go to a share, you know

And then somebody busts out something from the 70s and the 60s and you're like only this has a very very different life

Addicted to that funk and then yeah, it's over with my thing is like Chicago basement when I get

And it's a Chicago fucking basement. I was like fuck. This is probably gonna be good

It's the it sounds

Off-putting when you sit like if you're trying to say man, it tastes like an old basement

Are you describe it as like musky moth balls sort of yeah, and you know I get a good way

But the smell and the taste I mean they don't go hand-in-hand correct

I've gotten into the dusty stuff years ago

It's just like you you get to like you reach sort of the pinnacle and then you got to find other shit to keep you interested

Whole another genre of this and that's dude. That's a holy grail right there

I mean, that's not something you're not gonna find that in your grandpa's basement. That's for sure. No, right

No, this one I just picked up from one of the groups, you know and as a trade

So so yeah, I'm happy to share it

It's actually my second bottle the first one I finished off in maybe three weeks

And this is saying a lot because at the house I probably have I don't know maybe 40 50 bottles open

You know at any given point. Yeah to finish one in a few weeks. It's that's I liked it

So you said this is a 91 right, you know what let me check hold on

Actually 96 you hit me say yeah

96 yeah

High school

15 year

Anderson club and this is old this is old heaven Hill. Yeah, it's old pre-fire pre-fire heaven Hill

You know, it's one of those things where obviously you get a 15 year age statement, right?

Probably back then I don't know maybe 70 maybe 50 bucks, you know, obviously it cannibalizes your you know heaven

You're having Williams 23's and then you know, you even the park is here. Just right. It cannibalizes all that environment

So they kind of dismantled the other brand, but there's still some still some out there

to drink and enjoy

On camera right here pull this off look at that

It's funny that

15 year

For like you said probably 60 70 bucks in which in 96 was not cheap, right?

That's it and twist off, you know and plastic plastic twist offs, you know

But nobody even thought about that wasn't like that was just the way

Yeah, it's a cool label to yeah, it saves you from digging the cork out of them

There's old yes, these corks will fight you. There's so many old great testies

Especially of that, you know late 70s through the 80s era of just twist offs that you're like

Sometimes spend some decent money in you know on secondary whatever you like

Click

Like 70s there's one there's probably a certain element of them that they designed to go with mustache

Hangs in the stash. Yeah. Yeah, that's fun. No is we need to just chase this but it is like anybody that's a big into you know

Aged meats or cheeses right it's got that and you can go too funky on some of that stuff for me

But it is does have that where you're like oh

Yeah, this is nicer right because it's old

So you've been messing with these dusties if you've ever had anything like prohibition era

Anything that window

It's the thing. I've always wanted to try just in Japan for the story. Yeah, I did it was a

The Harper was it eat? Oh, I W Harper. Yeah. It was like a 1942 something like that. Yeah, oh, no

Not for you. That was I was taking a world war. No nothing prohibition. No no prohibition

Yeah, they had that you know a lot of like medicinal with they change

They're still distilled stuff and they were just branding them as medicinal whiskies and you know

There's usually like fifths you but you get a lot of fists out there

But did you like a couple grand for what like there? Yeah, it's also danger because they didn't I mean they were I'm willing to roll

I know I understand but it was also a time of

You know you're doing things a little under the radar

You didn't have the a lot of the checks and balances of what you're putting in the bottle

I'm gonna go in and meet in your great grandpa after you take a sip of that

If it's if it's lasted and it hasn't evaporated that good and still got a you know good fill line

It's probably some seriously bad shit in there. Well, let's put this a shot and cheers guys

There's that oh

That's not that's not like anything I've ever drank smooth and sweet sweet

Good stuff that one you got like in the middle. It's not the aftertaste that that's the twang

It's right right in the middle. Yeah, correct right in the middle

You get like that like the drive a fall leaves. You know like leather baseball glove. It's just it's all there

And it's really good. I wonder how that'd be with like a bottled coke

Yeah, you're gonna mix it go ahead

Well, man, that's awesome, dude. Thank you very much for that. Yeah, I can't thank you enough for bringing

You you wanted to show up and bring that bring the heavy hitters didn't you well?

I mean, he's like, let me take care of the drinks

No one's gonna go down in history. Yeah. No, this is really good. Thank you

We're gonna have to connect on because you're a Chicago land guy, right? Yeah, you're not far from born and raised outside

Chicago near near Gates Park area. So like Western and 55th and then in 2004 I moved up to all different park

Okay, yeah, so that's where I stay now. And so you're messing around on like the Facebook pages and stuff trading and

You mess with that unicorn auction as much. No, no, no, but they're doing big things. They're a huge profit center for themselves

It's a nice resource because if you really want something yeah, you can get it correct. Yeah. Yeah if you're you know

Whatever wedding present

Yeah, you know something like that you can get it fast, you know boom

Which is nice

That's one thing we've never talked about on this podcast because we always talk about all we drink all these cool ass bourbons

And you really can't get 90% of them

But if you really want one that unicorn auctions, it's an app

You can take a killer app and there's like weekly auctions. You could buy anything you want

You're gonna pay dearly for it. Sometimes if you happen to have it. Yeah, sometimes you're actually gonna do

There's some stuff old dusty stuff that comes through that's not horrible every now and then it's not anything

That's like wild a great, but it's it's worth popping and getting it is easy. Yeah

Some of the dusty turkey stuff, you know, I need to off about 30 to 40% of my collection. Yeah, it's just such a hassle

I've been thinking I've been contemplating getting rid of might know a guy. Yeah. Yeah, get rid of the whole collection

Anything that's new and just strictly focusing on dusties. Oh shit. You're going hardcore. I'm thinking about it

I've got a lot of stuff that I'll probably never open that's probably pretty valuable and it would really set me up nice with a

Pretty killer dusty collection. Also something we shouldn't be talking about on a podcast

We would absolutely pay all of our taxes and everything that would be done on often

It's collector bottles the contents are secondary doesn't matter what the contents are

Putting black lace

Absolute

Man, but no, I actually got into whiskey with COVID actually I kind of pretty the belly and then

Pretty heavy the driveway beers. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah the garage parties and shit and the burbs. Yeah

Man, hey, so this has been this is awesome. It's been a long time coming man. I'm glad we got to do this

We got a lot to talk about. Yeah, lots of stories. Yeah, a few of them. Yeah, you've got like

Kind of like two parts of your

Career, yeah, you know, you've got the work for your dad and in the trim shop and then

Now you're like most people know you as the famous hot rod builder, you know, you blasted onto the scene with that grim

Yeah, Camaro and it's been like no looking back ever since I mean, we're still we're still working trying to get better

You know trying to get to your guys

It's hard to get better when you debut something like that. Yeah

Pretty damn high and it's I don't know how you get better than that be honest. That was a sick car

He'd really sick are you guys know better than anybody?

We're always trying to get better. You're always trying. Yeah

Yeah, sometimes you feel like you're going backwards and sometimes you feel great picture too. We're like fully

Dusted up a lot of cleaning after that. Oh my god. We we shredded that thing

After that was trashed. Is that where was we were on that same dry lake bed? Weren't we right off that Vegas? Yeah, that was

Xperia close to

Samaritano

From the Midwest sometimes they like they all look the same

Only one, I don't know right this things could be everywhere over there

Yeah, I mean it was it was a blast. So it was it was actually that was supposed to be a photo shoot

And that was the first time that we had set it down there and the owner

His name Caesar. He was with me and he's like, you know what I could drive it out here and not hit anything

Yeah, yeah, that's true. You could you will trash the paint and we'll have to detail for weeks and he's like I don't care

He jumped in and just took off and then before I know it. He's spinning out of control. No shit

And I'm like what what happened? He's like I was going a little too fast

I thought I could make a turn and it just and I just lost control. I'm like, it's the place to do it

I guess. Yeah, that'd be some good footage. Yeah, we had we did a little video after that and

It was fun. It was fun filming. How'd that car come to be? That was is was that your sort of

Like debut to the hot riding world on like a high high level. I guess I'm sure you built some other stuff before that

But before that we were only building our personal stuff like just stuff for my dad

I was building just I was I'm always into trucks, right? So I was just building personal trucks

but newer stuff not old stuff like I'll

S10s and Silverado's and stuff like that

but we would building my dad's cars build him a

68 C10

built him a 64 Pontiac convertible and

Caesar I knew him since he's a baby, right? He's a friend of our family

So he's he approached me and he's like hey, I want to build a car

And I laughed and I'm like dude like this is a lot of money

You know you want to build a car like he's like I want to build a badass car. I'm like

It's gonna be like this much money. He's like no problem. What if money is not an issue?

Fuck yeah

So I talked to my dad and I'm like hey dad

We have the opportunity to build this guy a car and he's like I don't want to do it

He's like I don't want to be involved with that

My stuff's interiors. You can do it. I don't want to do it. All right

So I talked to my brother. So I'm like, hey, you guys want to

They're like

Sounds like everybody's speaking from experience. Yeah

Yeah, one had just got married so he's like dude

I'm about to start my family like and my other my other brother had little kids at the time

So he's like I got baseball and I got all I'm like

All right, I'm gonna do it and they're like go ahead

So I have a shop and back in my house and that's where I started a

We had

No fucking tools, you know, like we'd been sheet metal over bottles and slowly started adding yeah a break and this stuff

But he approached me and that was the first one and he's like I want

The best of the best so we started with the road shop chassis. We put the mercury as before in it

A bunch of carbon work

Speedcore did the part of carbon for that. It didn't seem like money was a problem

No, because he was rolling through like the heavy hitter parts. Yeah. Yeah, it's six figures

Kind of like quick day one. Yeah, like checking a few boxes. Yeah, you say it's not a problem. We'll see

The funny thing is he did he come over to the shop

We had the chassis an engine and he's like, how do we have over a hundred thousand in that right there?

I'm like, well, you got you wanted the best of the best

HRA wheels on it. I mean you're just running through the cling cling cling good stuff though. It's all great stuff

How long did that build take that one took us 18 months?

Yeah, it's moving on something like that

We were only working on that car, you know, yeah, and I was working on that car

So I was working for my dad at the time

So after work I'd go back and work on it and then on the weekends. It was me and two other guy

Just the weekends were but it was not like working. We're just having fun. Yeah, you're doing what you thought

Yeah, somebody else's money. So it doesn't get any better than that. Yeah, it was never meant to be a business

I'm sure you guys hear this a lot, but it was not meant to be a business

Just us having fun in in the back

So as you're building it and you're putting all these you know

You're starting to put the vision together and you're all these ideas and buying all these great parts

where

What when does it start transition of what you're gonna do with it?

Like debut and shows like how at what point does that come into discussion because at first you're just like this dude

Once a badass car this to customers like yeah, let's do this

Let's do this and then you know sooner or later. You're like this thing's turning out pretty fucking nice

We need to show everybody and how yeah, so it was never really meant to be a show car

He just wanted to drive it and he now he drives it. He almost dailies it. Wow

Good for him. Yeah, but

So we were just building the car and I was telling because we knew we knew a lot of people right in the industry

So I was a hey, I'm building this Camaro and they're like, oh, that's cool

No, like it's gonna be nice. Oh, okay, that's cool

so then we finally have the car in the interior shop and

Somebody comes over and they're like dude. This is a nice Camaro. I'm like, I've been telling you

You built this I'm like, yeah, we've been building this for the past year and he's like dude

You didn't tell me you were like building this. I'm like, I did tell you you didn't listen

So

He's actually Steve strobe. He's like dude. You need to fucking take this to SEMA. You need to like get this out there

I'm like, he wants to drive it. He's like

Let me call John over at hot rod. He's like he should shoot this thing

So he did he we took it over there. He shot it. They did this little video thing

turned out great and then

We were at

Detroit

With the car that we did a interior on and John calls me and he's like, hey, we gave you the cover of hot rod

I'm like, oh, that's very fucking cool. You know for your first build that you were building on the side for not a business

Yeah, that's yeah, it's set in the bar pretty fucking high

I mean, you know everything just fell into place like very organically. We didn't try to

Try to take it to SEMA. We didn't try it just it just happened, you know

At the time there was a jet performance at SEMA

They're like, hey the car that we were gonna have in our booth fell out. Do you have it?

Actually, they told Sean Smith Sean Smith designed the car

And he's like a dude like they want a car. Can you get it done in time? I'm like

It's at the interior shop now like we could get it there

So that's how we got into the jet performance, you know, and then you guys did the

Top four on RS. Yeah, that's on our ass. Yeah, that's on our ass. So that was pretty

The car was like it's one of the few cars like you always remember the good ones and I remember

Like exactly where that car was parked remembers like the first time seen I can vividly remember like walking around the car

And there's a lot of forgettable cars not like talking shit, but that's a car that just yeah sort of sticks with you

I mean, it's that's a special car. So I remember at the party

Being on stage, I think like Dave can dig was there on stage

Troy from BBT and then that's when it was a

50s

Chevy once

Oh

Yeah

I mean, that's a that's quite the the breakout, you know first build

You said you mentioned it several times it was never meant to be a business so you're going through all that the emotions are high

Customers happy I assume

You guys are living the dream. You're at SEMA going to the best on our ass party. I mean, let's face it doesn't get much better than that

I mean cover a hot rod is pretty cool, but the best on our ass party. It's only so cool

Yeah, it's like it's amazing. They do 12 of those a year, right?

We do this once a year

Anyway

When does it when do you start having the internal discussions with yourself of like one?

I had a lot of fun. I'd like to do this again, but are you getting business at that point?

so at SEMA

They approach a guy approached me and he's a hair. I want to build a car to this caliber

There's a 69 Mustang

I'm like, yeah, we could do it

We didn't have any other work to do right. It was just that so he's like

All right. Well, why don't you use a San Diego guy?

So then why don't you come out when you get back and take a look at the car? Yeah

So that that's how it started and then and then the phone just started ringing the ringing ringing ringing ringing

I mean, I was my cell phone. I didn't even have a phone, you know, yeah, so

and

then I was working when I was still working with my dad and

I

Was just like scared

Not not too. I was scared almost kind of just like disappoint my dad, right?

Yeah, at the time I was running the upholstery shop

But it's like that's all I've ever done. I've never applied for a job. Anyway, like I grew up

Into the family business, right? Do you think he

Knew he knew before you said something. He knew he knew because when I finally did tell him

He's like, I'm surprised you lasted this because it was probably

probably in another year I

After SEMA that I still work full-time and I was just working at home

After work and the weekends, so it was three years of working seven days a week and weekends

before I finally said I

I'm gonna kill myself doing this or I just need to make a decision and live with

How do you take that?

Better than I expected. He's like dude like you don't understand the job of a father is

You want the best for your kids? He's like I see what you're doing and it's special

He's like I like the build like so I'm like

That's and he didn't follow that up with like having said that I got a lot of shit

You're not going anywhere. Yeah, so I did tell him I'm like, hey look I'm gonna do this

But if you guys need help

If you guys are stuck on something or you guys have a product like call me and I'll come over

He's like no once you're gone you're gone

You're out

But I mean we didn't have a conversation. He's like look I want you to I want you to do this

I want you to try it

He's like I know this is not gonna happen

But in case it doesn't work out you could always come back obviously the doors are open so that was pretty cool

You know and I was like shit. I should have done this a year ago

You got so much more work done got some sleep maybe on the weekends. Yeah

so

He took it he took it really really really good and and I appreciate that and

And I was always telling you I don't they're in San Bernardino, right? So I mean, I don't want to be in San Bernardino

I want to be I want to be in Riverside. I live in Riverside. So I was looking for shops. I couldn't find anything

This is the ones I had you know more work. I

Ended up in San Bernardino right next to my dad

I guess get lunch together. Yeah, so they see me every day. It's funny. They can't get rid of me

It's an easy trip to the upholstery shop. We literally push cars

So it's pretty awesome. Yeah, things work out for a reason you sort of blew over

You know who when he's talking about working for his day, but I was gonna go back to it

We're gonna make make this one a hopscotch around, you know, okay

Saying that talking about your dad we mentioned at the beginning about being on TV

So before you even have to get to this decision

You also mentioned the fact that you never applied for a job. So take us back to where this all began

This all well my dad

He had his own shop in Mexico at 16 years old, but building like furniture

Okay, upholstery for furniture and stuff like that

Then it was 18 got married to my mom and he's like, you know what we need to make a better life

So he came over to the States and he started working for a shop in Huntington Beach

I would do like for our ease and Rolls Royce and you know all these higher-end cars and and he loved it

He's like, oh my god, like this is what I want to do, right? So

He got a job in Bloomington, which that's where he had his first shop

He got a job in Bloomington and then they were working on hot rods and stuff like that classic cars

And he's like, no, I love the I love the hot rod stuff

He's like because we could build custom stuff like we don't get creativity. You don't have to follow in a

Blueprint and everywhere he would go. He was he was the best upholsterer, you know, like instantly and so all his bosses loved him and

One year my grandpa passed away his dad and he told his boss

Hey, you have to go bury my dad and he's like you can't go and my dad's like, I'm not asking you

I'm telling you I'm gonna go bury my dad. They're well, that's fine. You can you're going but when you come back

You don't have a job. So he's like, all right. Nice guy. Yeah. Yeah

Really understanding so he came back and yet sure enough didn't have a job. So

Do you guys have penny saver out here any saver back in the day? Well, it was like classified like oh, we had

Down in the south was thrifty nickel. Yeah, but yeah, same thing

He's looking through the penny saver and he's like on a shop for lease or so he went down and looked at it and it was

Down the road from this old shop that he used to work at he's like

It's perfect. So he rented it out

had no work and

Then a good friend of ours Ron mangas. I'm sure you guys have heard him

He's like hey, you don't he was actually Ron mangas was the cousin of this guy who fired my dad. Oh

so

Ron's like, hey, I heard you you starting your own shop. You don't have any work like if you want

You know, here's some seats. You guys could do the seats and

So my dad's like, yeah, I'll take whatever I can get like whatever you need help with I'll do it

So then my dad was doing that from his shop

one day

Boyd

His his right hand man. He just stopped by and he's like, hey you do a post for you here customer

He's like yeah, he's like, hey, I have a car down the street and the guy didn't finish it. He's like, can you guys do it?

He had like one of the car there at the time

and so they dropped it off and

He's like I need in three weeks

Yeah, no problem. We could get it done

So the guy came back a week later

My dad hadn't touched the car and then he's like hey these cars for boy cuttings

And do you know who boy cut into minutes like my dad's like, you know boy cutting to that

He's like this car has to get done. He's like, okay. I I'll get it done. Okay came back next week

My dad hadn't touched the car and he's like didn't even say word just turn around a left

The following week when his pickup time he rolled up with Boyd in the tow truck

And the car was done and the guy's like, how'd you get it done? He's like, I told you it was gonna get done

And he's I just worked all all night until it was done and he's like boy. He finished this in a week

Oh, that's set the

Bad precedent. I got an idea for a tv show

Give us like four more weeks in assembly to get these cars done. Yeah, so

Boyd never went anywhere else after that. It was that was it and uh

This was before that, you know, like you said, he probably got a good idea. Yeah for a tv show, but

It you know Boyd was a big big factor

In nobody knew my dad, you know, he he obviously did great work

But nobody knew who he was

You're talking about overnight

Once he started that tv show. Yeah, man. It's commercial. Oh my god

Like the phone would ring off that point. Gabe's was it was just the name the name

Like it was a brand overnight

He went from doing local cars california cars to doing cars all over the country all over the world

england

New zealand like everywhere

it was nuts

And we never imagined, you know, my dad never imagined having a shop in mexico

Seeing that's pretty cool and all this stuff like he never dreamt he'd be working on those cars. It's wild

So it's it's pretty cool. What ages do you start working at the shop?

When I was in diapers like that's all I remember like

My dad before he had his shop. He was working out of the garage

so

he we'd have like these uh

He'd buy the phone by a roll because it was you know, get a bit of price on it

And he'd have us unroll the whole like land out foam

It's what we used to cut the design in the door panels and stuff

We'd be out there me and my brother just uh texturing it so the glue could stick

He's like, you know, do this roll first and when you guys are done do that

So we're just in elementary school out there with wire brushes

Texturing this foam and stuff like that sweeping the shop or the garage

um

But that's all of all I've ever known is just working on

cars and classics harps

that's talk about

talk about the work ethic that you learned because I think it's very interesting because

Watching from the tv show right and you talking about knocking one out in a week and you know, we saw obviously there's some there's tv's tv

But at the same time

There's like deadlines, right? So if it says hey, this thing's gonna be done in five days or seven days or 10 days or whatever

It's gotta get done

You also talked about you were running basically a full-time shop even though it wasn't meant to be a shop

While you're running a full-time job working seven days a week for two years

That's work ethic, right?

I would like to hear more about those stories and I assume you learned all of that from your dad

Well, we have a joke that I didn't meet my dad until I was like 15 years

He doesn't like that joke very much, but it's good. So, um

That's all we ever saw right like my dad would just work and then when we

Like weekends or whatever mom. I was like go with your dad to go to work

You know, and we would just drive to hunting beach or wherever he was working at the time

And we would just sit there and just watch him work

like

We'd we would love to go because we would get candy bars and food and you know

But but we would just sit and watch him work and just talk to him about what he's doing and why he's doing this and

and just

learn

Really like from the root

How to build this interior for from scratch. Do you know at that point that you're learning? Are you just picking shit up?

um

No, we're just having a good time. Yeah, you know, we don't we don't look at it as work

We're just there spending time with our dad, you know, so

uh

And and he would pay us by like

Like even as candy bars or hey here go get a slice of pizza or and we're happy, you know, we're like this is this is awesome

it's cool

um

So but that's that's how we

Learned how to work that and I got a couple other stories that we'll get into but um

We learned the most by just fucking shut up

and

And then my dad come in I remember

Uh

We build our own armrest right so we would make a wood buck

And then fiberglass over it. So when we we would staple it to the table

We'd use a quarter inch uh staples

So one time I was doing it and I didn't realize I had half inch staples in the staple gun

So I like stapled it to the table

Fiberglass did and I'm like trying to get this thing off. I'm like what the heck is going on and my dad comes over

What did you do? I'm like, oh it's stapled it to the table

He opened the staple gun half inch staples. He's like grabbed it ripped it off the table and threw it in the trash

And I'm like I went to the restroom cried a little bit

Came back out and then he's like if you're gonna do something pay attention to do it, right?

And you know, we got to make sure

It's you lost time

I'm like, all right never happened to me

That is never happened to me. That's the way to learn. Yeah, what a great life lesson

And that's that right there is the exact thing that we're missing in this world today. Yeah, because

That's the way I learned. That's the way you learn that sticks with you forever

You know why because it hurt. Yeah, and you don't want it to happen

You don't like the the pain when you pussy foot around it and you have to kind of like dance around and like it doesn't hurt

You know, you tried really hard and I appreciate that

However, next time when you do it could you maybe just like that's never

Gonna resonate with somebody that shit. They forgot that as soon as you got done saying it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah

so, uh

I mean

He was a he was a great teacher, right?

Um

But obviously stuff like that would annoy him. Yeah, because it's like it shouldn't have happened. Right. So it was great. I mean

Yeah, me and my brother, we always messed around like hey, like why didn't the young brother get this treatment?

He should have got a little bit of this and he would have been that much better that much faster

Because your job to write his ass. Yeah, so that that's that's actually junior's job

So, uh, junior was caught and he's great now. My my youngest brother. Uh, he's putting in work now

But before oh my god

It was horrible. So there's three two or three three three babies gave gave junior

He's the oldest and then I'm the middle boy and then

Adrian's the youngest guy. Yeah, and then we have two sisters

How did your mom deal with that workload?

From your dad, like you said, you made the joke of you meet your dad till you're 15. Yeah, that's just what she knew

um, yeah, she knew that

He had a word. Yeah, she took her to the house and she made sure that there was food when we got home and

We had clean clothes and we we didn't we didn't need anything like we

Obviously, you know the way my dad started and stuff. We didn't have any

money like

It worked for everything you had right, but we didn't need anything like we had good meals

my mom would cook every single day

and work from Chihuahua so she would make hand flour tortillas and like

Yeah, you didn't need you didn't need anything. No, I mean we'd come home and we'd have uh a bowl of beans

With homemade tortillas

Are you kidding me? Like to me?

It was like you got it made. Yeah, of course. That starts happening. Yeah, it was the best meal because that's where we're from

That's what we ate, right and and now

you know

We eat like a little bit better and I'm like, I wish I had a bowl of both beans

Without the fear right and and you know, my wife always like

Like the simple things. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Well touching on that though going forward work ethic

And having that significant other having that girlfriend having that wife that also

And as generations change right the acceptance for some of that changes right you even talked about your younger brother, right?

He didn't get near the shit that you or your older brother got right

Generations change the same thing happens as life goes on now. You've got employees and now you've got stuff

It's I'd like to talk a little bit or hear some of that because we've we've talked about it a lot on this podcast that

We've all talking about like work life balance and make it well. There's no such thing as that

Reading between the lines you've gotten in trouble recently. You're trying to excuse yourself. No, not at all

The exact opposite the thing is I think he's josh is trying to

support his

chauvinistic

masculine

Like views which there's nothing wrong with no, there's nothing wrong with I agree with them as well

I think that yeah to flat out walk him into that to get exactly what you want differently in your head, right?

I was saying I was saying it nicer. I was saying it nice

But yeah flat out. I mean we've all everybody that's listening

This is this is this is as much of a benefit for us personally and this enjoyment as it is for people that are listening

And other shops coming up right whether they've been around for a long time or they're just getting started

I think it's it's something that doesn't get talked about near enough is

the

lack of

Success or opportunities that people think they haven't been given

Is a direct relation on the amount of

Bitching that they're willing to listen to at home, right and the younger generation that's like

The the work-life balance is a perfect example you can you imagine telling your dad?

15 years ago that hey like I've got I need to have a proper work-life balance or whatever. So I know

That's that then that's becoming more and more accepted of a thing

that's

Or you've got to like leave early because you've got to help your girlfriend

Maybe make dinner or like do the laundry the house is filthy

So you got to get home and kind of help her clean so you can't work late today

Yeah

But I mean we're dancing around and saying it probably pretty poorly. I'm sure pretty

Most people are reading between the lines

I'll end it with this and we'll keep going. I'd like to hear you take but that car right there

Was not built in 18 months

Without sacrifice and having a proper work-life balance. No, I had no life

really

but the thing is

when you have

The right people and the right partner the right family. Yeah

Um

It's

It's almost like they push you a little bit, right?

Like my wife had she been any other woman probably would have divorced me, right, you know, but but she saw

like what

I don't know. I guess the drive the drive. Yeah, sure

Yeah, she she saw me out there having a good time

And and she would not complain and that's the difference

I think if they're proud of you and they want to see you accomplish your goals and dreams

Yeah, then it everything's different. Yeah, everything's different. And at the time my wife was she was working full time

uh, we had

We had uh one kid already

Uh, my son has since he's 12 now

But it was it was a lot. My mom would watch my kid, right? I would go

um, whenever my wife was at work, I

Literally go to my mom's house

eat

See my kid for a little bit go home

Do this bring the kid put in the bed go back outside

And then my wife would come home. She would take over and I'd be out there working

And she's like, hey, it's like midnight. What time are you coming in? I'm coming in right now

And it's just like it didn't feel right

Like there was any obstacles

You know, so, um

I obviously give her a lot of credit for taking care of the family and and helping and helping me

like

Just have complete freedom. That's cool. I mean, I think honestly the the moral of the story really

Is that if you've got a wife or a girlfriend that isn't supporting

Your relentless drive and determination and the work that you're going to put in

Find a different wife or girlfriend. I was wondering where I was going to end. There's a shit ton of them out there

I mean plenty of them that are looking for like guys that are working hard to that. Yeah, I'm gonna put food on

She met me and I that's all I knew was cars, right? So she kind of already knew

Yeah, I've said I've used that so I'm like

Set the present you knew

You knew

Don't buy day old meat and then bitch about the quality like you knew exactly what you were getting into

Yeah, so um biting my tongue

But like going going back a little bit to like, um

I'm working at my dad's, you know before the how he met Boyd and stuff

Then the tv show started and blew up

uh

but it was um

It was fun

Because we would finish those cars in three days

so

Damn, just 24 hours straight just just rocking non-stop we'd go home eat come back

How old were you when the tv show kicked off? I was in high school

So, I mean how that's pretty cool. Are you going to high school like expecting everybody to be like watching the show?

No, because uh, we had we had just started the show right right and you had what a year to film probably before it comes out, right?

so um

But it was starting to get traction, right?

And

There was people stopping us like hey, I know you you know my dad like he'd go to vegas and everybody like hey

Can I take a picture like and my dad's like

Like it was like weird to us at that

um

but

But we would knock these cars out in three days and so my dad was fucking happy, right?

Because he's like we should do this too with every car. I'm like

You'll kill it

A car every three days get 100 cars a year next that by this time we could do it

Yeah, so we would do one like every three months, right?

So we we just when we felt like all right. We're catching our

You know caught back up. Yeah, and there's boom another another car and um, it became to a point where

Boyd was really like

Bringing us almost 80 percent of our business, right? Not just the tv

TV cars, but other cars that we he was squeezing in

You know at the time too

So

then my dad bought a piece of property in somberardino and we built the shop and

Boyd came to the open house and he's like hey, we're going to um

This is going to be the biggest year we've ever had

We're going to we're only working for celebrities now. Like we're top dollar stuff. Whatever you're charging me double it

He's like need him in two days. Yeah. Yeah problem. That was to follow but uh

Four months later he passed away

And it's like my dad, you know, we he just built the shop

Boyd was to provide 80 percent of her business

and he's like

Holy shit, like what are we going to do? Then it's 2008

Oh, that's a double whammy. Yeah, so

It's like it got to the point where he's like

You guys should probably start looking for a job and I'm like

We had cars, you know, like

But he's like, I don't know like this

Going through like recession and like all this stuff. He's like start looking for a job. I'm like, no like we're gonna stay here

Yeah, like we'll make it work. I'm like, I don't need money

Just give me enough to pay my bills and I'm happy and and my brother said the same thing. He's like, yeah, me too

Just pay our bills and

That's it

And that's what we did

We literally were just like it's riding the storm out just riding the wave. Luckily. I mean we rode it out and

We were fine

You know, and that's actually when I met you guys. I met you guys in 2000. You guys had that corvette

at pleasantin

And and so we had never to that point advertised or done anything, right? Because we didn't need it

So I remember we made like hero cards and we're going around pleasantin passing them out

You guys are right. Like, you know, are you guys cool? I'm like, yeah, we just you know, you need getting it

You're getting after yeah, and and I stopped by your guys's booth

You guys had a long time ago. Yeah, and I was like, hey you guys need an interior and I remember you're like, yeah

Don't look at the interior in the corvette. I'm like

Second time around it was beautiful. Yeah, I thought it was great. So, um, I was like

I was like, hey, I love that

Can uh

Can we work together? But he's like, yeah, I'll be you know, we're in Chicago. I'm like, I'll pay for half the shipping

If you're willing to I mean and we talked about it

I do remember that. Yeah, I remember your dad is he's like, hey

Well, I mean it's something to consider

Uh, never happened really, but um, it was scary. It was like setting a car around the world to get an upholstery done like we

A far trip for us like four hours or six hours and just driving to california was like light years away. Yeah, so, um

But it's cool that at the time. Yeah, that is why that's my first like

Time that I met you guys and obviously I we we knew who you guys were but that's the first time we met, you know

That's pretty cool. Yeah, it's very cool. But we

We were fans. You know, honestly, like that was my favorite part of the show

The american hot rod show was when the car was going upholstery shop because you guys rocked it out

It was always always good. It's going to games

Like you we were so engaged with it that you felt like you were part of it

Yeah, the two the two things that were it was always that and then uh,

Remember who was the the black dude that worked with roi old man. Roy. Oh, yeah

D. Lee. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Lee. What we gonna do today, right?

The thing that I enjoyed so much about american hot rod when they went to games was

There was this sense of

professionalism

in the simplicity because it was

Boom dropping the car off and it was it was very little

Conversation back and forth. So are you we're gonna do this one, you know, thinking about something like this, you know

And it's just air finger pointing like, okay, this you know this color this color. All right, we'll do that and then now

There was like confidence in like, you know, because we were just like trying right starting out

You know building stuff in garages and you know trying to make it and I remember watching that you're like

Now that that's gonna be great to one day ever if you ever were to at that point to where

You're trusting the you know the interior shop or whatever. Whoever you're subbing something out to where it's just

Brief conversation. You trust them. They trust you. You're like, all right, this color this color make it fucking cool

Yeah, you know and that was that was the thing of like that's that's really cool

Where it wasn't the micromanaging of every little thing and it was just like it's in Gabe's hands

It's in your you know, all you guys is like you're gonna make it make it nice. The other thing I wondered is

During that time did they run out of tan light tan cows?

Paul Atkins used up all the gray ones

Yeah

He hides on top of hides that was like the south versus the uh west coast difference

Everything was that light gray and then light tan light tan over there

Black it's hot in california man. The sun just beats down. I mean boy to put he put light tan and match it with

Any color outside color you'd go with anything. Yeah

He'd he'd go out

You know wild sometime would like that but like hard like yellow interior. Yeah, I was a little

Little odd, but it worked

Um, yeah, that was always that was always cool to watch man. I love the I think

Mostly I love watching the dynamic of all you guys was really cool

Seeing it like because you guys kind of jived it was fun. It was just fun to watch like and you know, the funny thing about that is

The first time we filmed

We just got to work right the camera was like just pretend we're not here

But we just worked we put our head down and we just worked and we got like

Two minutes not even like a little blip and we're like, that's it

Film for

That's what you gave. Yes our throwing tools

And you know did each other and so the producer told us like well, it's nobody wants to see work

I'm like, well, then what are we here for his problems? He was wrong. Yeah, everybody wants to see everybody work

Yeah, so he didn't want to see that drama. Yeah, so he's like you guys need to do something

Like you guys need to talk more. You know, we need to have more interaction

So then yeah, I started

Throwing stuff at my brother and yeah working and doing this and all of a sudden we got five minutes

And I'm like, oh, okay

See how this game works. So I told my brother like well, we're getting more time

That's better for us. Right. So we need to

You know do a little bit also still show our work, but we need to have fun. Yeah

So then we started having fun and we started like, you know

I was more the one that was goofing off and started

But it just kept giving us more air time. Yeah. Yeah, you got it like pumps and personality into it

That's definitely part of it. So and and so yeah, we started getting on what was everybody's special specialty

Like what was your thing? What was your dad thing? What was your brother saying?

So, um, my brother gave jr. He's the oldest he would do door panels. Okay

My dad would do my dad. I'm an uncle because it's a family business. My dad and my uncle

They would do the seats right carpets

I would do fabrication trunks

So like I would build all the panels out and then gave jr. Would print just wrap everything

He's just a magician with leather in his hands. It just melts

When you got a car as a new project, did you just start on the trunk and go ahead and put all the time into the trunk?

Before you you're just talking about Jeremy Carlson

We have an ongoing there's a lot Jeremy from avant-garde, right?

We we butt heads. He's one of my like really best buddies, honestly

But I'll fuck with him every time because as soon as he gets a car

I was I'm like, dude, you're clearly an ass man

Because the first it's right for the back of the car

And it could be there could be 2000 hours of fabrication needed inside

And it's got to go to seema and you've got like a week to do it

Dude, we could shut the trunk and nobody would know I'm like, dude, we'll close the trunk. You're like, you know, we're not

Let's get the seats. Let's go. That's that's my brother Adrian's job now. He does the trunks

And he's like, dude, why don't you open the fucking trunk? I'm like because the car looks better with the trunk

And still even at the shows like they'll be open and the trunks you close the fucking trunk

Nobody cares

I

I started a movement with trunk interiors that I'm going to take credit for because I'm so anti

spending too much time on a trunk interior

And we finally made it happen with Jeremy Katz on this grand national and he thought I was fucking crazy

I'm like, dude, just make it look like an 80s BMW

So you open it up and it's just you know, whatever that like kind of trunk liner material that you

Make it like utilitarian and that it just looks sort of rugged, but it's also finished speaker box carpet

And he's done with it. He was inviting me tooth and nail and if you do it right looks sanitary

Yeah, it looks so good. Now that's like all he does on him now people love the trunk on that car. Yeah

Which now started. Yeah started moving

I didn't realize that. Yeah, that's the kind of shit I do

You guys are talking about TV shows

Some problems

Trunks under the year coming up

Right

Uh, yeah, that was a shot at at Carlson, but it is funny how you like especially when there's a deadline

There's got to be the things of like all right

We're gonna try that there's we got to start with the things you absolutely have to see you need a seat

You can't go get away without seats

There's nothing that you can possibly do to fake

A seat not having seats because either the seats either there

Yeah, and it looks the way it looks or it's not there limo 10th the windows

You can you can reduce some fabrication and the intricacies in a door panel if you need to

Right because the time is there because ultimately you're kind of stuck

You gotta be right. The seat has to be the seat right start with the seats. I'm not telling you how to do your business

I'm just saying I don't want to bounce all over or get off on a tangent

But how do do you ever talk to your dad or do you have a view on it?

Like when you guys look at stuff like what guys like jeremy carlson and avod garter doing how it's just gotten

So techy and it's so like engineering based and design based versus

You know sort of the old school just dive in and get it done. Yeah, dad ever talk about that. Yeah

See like these young kids sit there

Computers and shit. He likes it. He likes it. They still can't stitch like I can that's exactly

He likes it, but he still likes to add a little bit of a handmade element, right?

He's like, this is what gives this interior soul

Like that it was hand sculpted. It was handmade. He's like, don't get me wrong. He's like that stuff is beautiful

Like the gaps are perfect. Yeah, everything is perfect, but it looks like a machine made

I'm like, well because the machine did make it. Yeah, you know, but a guy wrapped it

There's a I think there's the unique balance in

There's a bunch of stack up panel. I mean we're able to do things today

that

Back when you guys were hot when American

Hot Rod was kicking

We're coming on building there. We all as hot rod builders. Everybody wanted to build a door panel

With the dimension of a new car that you wanted and it was just a flat

Those rod doors pieces of plastic

I mean even even good interior shops, right? You were just basically

Stacking you know a flat door card and you just had to stack

Right and and you could never so the ability to get the interiors overall to look like they look now with the

Modern technology scanning and machining and foams and 3d printing and so like that

Absolutely is taken the entire car the depth and the layers the depth and the layers there now

There's the there's sometimes when you get a little carried away you lose it's just wrapping

Wrapping panels right stacking up wrapping panels wrapping panels and you lose some of the stitching and

That's where some I think you cross the old school

Craftsmanship with some of that and then that's when you do and some people do it

You know you get some designs where you you do have that good

I'm a sucker for a good french seam or you know there's there's and that's hard to do

Well, and the thing is over at the shop now now they have 3d printers now they have

They have a five-axis machine and they have

CNC machine

So now they're getting a little bit more

Into that with they have a full designer in house now a machine is

So but he still doesn't like to do everything that way, right? So they'll scan

They'll scan like did you guys see the tuka?

Interior the ring brother's blazer. Yes. So that's the first one they did like

With all the tech that they have at the shop is cool and it turned out it turned out pretty dumb. It did you know

But they're still we're finding it and they're and finding that balance like you said

Is there still a place for big al's carponents armrest to go into everything? No

Bring back one of those wild rods 37s you could bolt that sucker on

No

It's it's funny because I remember using those things like

you know

Billet base and then just put a little

The pad on it is to wrap the pad and put the screws in from the bottom side

But I guarantee you we're gonna be out like fort lauderdale one day when you're looking at those giant fucking yachts that you're like

Two owns these big out big out on the back and it's gonna be like ball milled. Yeah

He'd probably made an absolute fortune on this. Yeah, that's that's all everybody would use. Yeah

It's just gonna say big out on the back of a

60-something foot hatteras

Well, you talked about, you know, we talked about working for your dad. You talked about progressing on

Talked about this show

Talked about I mean we started with business side of things. Um, you did the Mustang

Where does how does it start progressing there where?

Like you're hiring employees and you know moving into and where you craft and what you're gonna do

Yeah, so

You know when I could first started it was just weekends, right?

So, um, I had guys two guys who would come in on the weekends. Just want to talk about that long ago

That was car was 2018 2019 20

That was 2019 see him in 2019. Yeah

Yeah, so so we're just working weekend. So I didn't have a staff I didn't have employees. Um, these guys would just come and

just mess around

So then I started hiring guys and and that car right there

I remember guys coming up to me. Hey, are you hiring and I'm like

I didn't I didn't even think about it, you know, yeah

But yeah, I'm I'm hiring and he's like, okay. Like we'll come on the weekend

And and I'll test you out again and and so that's how I got a couple of my guys and and then uh

We have a paint, uh, we do our own paint now and a painter too. It's like, hey, are you hiring? I'm like, yeah

He's like you have a paint team. I'm like, no, you're the paint team

And he's like, no, he's like, I really want to work with you. Like I saw the car that you did and I'm like, yeah, come on

So we're painting and doing everything in the back of my house

in these inflatable

Spray booths, you know

And so first we started with canopies and then just draping plastic over the canopies and then creating an old box fan with an air filter

Yeah, and but we would get it done, right? That's the but I think that's so

cool and important when

You've got a frame of reference

You've got a body of work of the lat previous, you know, 15 20 years of seeing high-end vehicles

You know in their naked state, right? You're seeing behind the scenes when you're putting interior

You're seeing the paint jobs. You're seeing the overall style

Not having done it. You've just seen it, right? You've been building stuff on the side. Well, then

Without the tools and the equipment or the people

It doesn't you don't have like a set, um

Set of rules to get there, right? You're just like, well, I know

What nice is and I know what it needs to look like after it's rubbed out, right?

I know what looks good and stands good and colors and stuff like that

I'm not good. I don't have to follow anything along the way and it's not I'm not chasing the

You know the hot rod starter kit of like I've got to have this piece of equipment

This piece of equipment this piece of equipment post all this on instagram and all of a sudden I'm good

You you've got the frame rev the eye the eye is the thing that you've got 15 years of and then while you're building it yourself

I don't care if you're spraying it in a spray booth in the backyard or whatever

You know, you're gonna do whatever you've got to do for the end result, right?

You got to put more clear on it to sand it off to get it flat enough like whatever it is. It's the

Yeah, the look so so it's funny you say that because yeah

Working all those years at the shop with my dad and he was doing for all these different builders

You know these cars and you would see stuff that you're like, holy fucking shit. How the fuck do these guys?

Do this, you know, yeah, like that's dangerous

Yeah, and then you see this other builders that it's just it looks like

You know, it looks like a surgery. Yeah room like yeah, it's like perfect everything

There's nothing out of place and so you just start picking up on that stuff and you're like

Damn if I were if I ever build myself a car, I'm gonna do it like that

and it's just like

The old backstage pass to uh, yeah learning there. Yeah really is yeah, and you just see see stuff

Like I'll definitely don't want to do that, you know, but this is I like the way they did this

Best thing to do is just run a big old bundle of wires like the whole wiring harness right down the top of the trans tunnel

Oh, that's the that's the best thing to do trim shops love that the easiest

Yeah, exactly and just foam up to it. Yeah, we're all guilty of that

That's gotta be tough on you though because you know the interior. Well, it's tough and it's also a benefit

Yeah, because you know how to do it to where it's conducive for the interior shop because you've been there

Yeah, but it's also sometimes harder to do it that way, right? Well, I know what my dad needs, right?

so I try to

Do things like

That I know he's gonna like I still get shit over it

Like he gets there and he's like man these fucking builders look at this

And I'm like, I try to help you out. He's like, yeah, of course he did. He's like you're just like all these builders that I'm like

Hey, man, I did that for you. Yeah, like now don't do that anymore. Who is the worst builder you've ever done a policy?

One of these days we're doing the pay-per-view episode

We're just gonna let it all air out

We're gonna have like a 20 builder panel and we're just gonna yeah, and then it's over view and just air it out

Like a roast session. Yeah, just air it

I sat there for five minutes waiting for one of you two to jump in

I actually was waiting for that from you

So what is it?

But I think that's really cool to talk about is like the frame of reference, you know

You said you've seen the insides, you know, Phil mentioned the backstage pass

But the quality that you knew you were trying to achieve

Irregardless of what you had at hand, right? Yeah, and then as you're working for that. I mean again

I still I'm still in awe that that was the first

The first stab. Yeah, right. That was that's that that's what you come on the scene with

And no bullshit just because you're sitting here. That is a heavy fucking hitter that

Lots of people that have been in business for quite some time

Haven't achieved that quality yet

And that's I don't think anyone else has built a car that they've gotten customers and employees off of

Yeah

That's pretty nuts

and

And you know what the the cool thing is that all my employees

Have all reached out to me and asked like hey, how can we work with you?

Sure, right now. Actually, I'm look I'm looking for another fabricator. So I've been posting like hey

We're looking for a fabricator, but up until this point like they've all reached out and that's gonna be pretty cool

That always seems to be how the like the great ones happen

Yeah, you can post ads all you want and you find some help here and there

But it always seems like the guys that are really gravitate towards the one. Yeah, they sort of find they're gonna fit

Yeah, yeah, I have an awesome fabricator right now and he just just killing me. I don't got to worry about him

Just let him go to work. That's great. Yeah, so how did this car happen?

We're not gonna talk near as much about this one because I don't know how that chassis situation happened

but uh

You moving on that was debuted in the air modus booth a couple years ago that thing

Really really really nice car. Yeah, so well, he the owner saw the owner of that car. His name is junior. Yeah, real

He saw

grim and he's like

I want to build

a car like grim

And I'm like, all right. Well, you know, it's gonna take a couple years to build and

You know, I don't know probably this amount of money and he's like

let's do it

um

He already had the chassis and the engine when he brought the car to me

We get down marketplace facebook marketplace or something. Yeah, that's the best way you could have saved that situation is telling us that

So he had the tmi interior as well that he just kind of stuck in there

He tried but you know, so so we just started building

And I'm like, fuck another Camaro, right? You know, how are we gonna make try to make this a little bit different than the last one?

So we added like a more like

euro

More feel and carbon a lot more carbon on this one

um, all the engine bay is all hand fabricated metal

So on the on grim was all carbon. So we love that contrast of the gloss black. Yeah against the satin. That's sick

Did y'all paint this one? Yeah, we painted this one

um

His wife actually wanted this car black

I'm like, I'm not painting that car black. She's like why and I'm like

Because it's gonna look like every other Camaro

I'm like, why why did you like grim? I said, well, I don't know it just impacted

If you if you see grim

You instantly know it's grim. Yeah, I'm like, let me do that for you

And make an iconic car for you. Yeah, it doesn't need to be black

Yeah, and we gave her different like, you know, these are four colors. You can choose from

Which one do you like the best?

And they chose this one

It took us three months to mix that color like just

spraying hoods

No, I didn't look right spray another hood until we got that color

If now I'm like, would you have painted would you rather?

us painted a black she's like, I love my car

I love everybody walks up to the car and said I love that color. And so that's pretty the color is amazing

the

that's a wheel

Choice that isn't easily pulled off and it really really works on that car

Yeah, looks good. Those are bricks in bricks and forged wheels

carbon barrels

What's uh, what's next in the pipeline? What are you working on now?

The 56 no man

as a fast track chassis

We need to get some it's a wheel. It's hard to pull off right there on the front and those are classic boys

We're thinking of running those but

He should

So we'll need to actually you need some billet controllers and billet spindles for that thing, but that that's

That's going to be the next

Big one. We're doing full carbon body on that. Really? Yeah carbon roof. Um, we're talking to get painted

We'll do like, uh

The paint scheme in between the molding then between the trim will be exposed carbon. Okay. Are you on a mission these customers keep saying

Money's not an option and you're on a mission to be like, I'm gonna find the one that's money

Money actually is an option. You keep saying that there's no bottom

That's that that's the chili's bottomless to start us

I bet you I can find the bottom

They start with money's not an option and then towards the end it's like, oh my god windows is going to stop

He said it was no option. Yeah, but this guy this guy's actually a childhood friend of mine

I played t-ball with him. I played baseball with him going to high school with him

and

He's like I want to he's in a wheelchair

No, but he's like I want a car that I could put my wheelchair in

He's like, so what could we do and I'm like, well the fucking no man, dude. Yeah, you know, and he's like, yeah, he's like

Let's fucking do it. So

But he saw Graham and he saw illicit and he's like, well, I want to build a car better than

And I'm like, well, that's that could be done. Yeah, well, we just look you just got to throw enough money

at something and well, it takes talent talent and time

Yeah, and and taste right because you could have all the money in the world, but you have horrible taste. It's no good

So I was like, what would be like a good example of that?

Big Al's carpone

So that's that's where that's going actually this is going to have a mercury S before it too

We were able to get our hands on another one. Were you? Yeah, it's a shame that thing's gone because that's a fun on motor

Yeah, I mean the way that thing sounds is just

Man, I can't believe you found another one

Yeah, you can't describe the way it sounds to people. It's like exotic, but American muscle v8

It's and the way you just like put your foot to the ground and it just keeps going and going and going. It's like

It's awesome. It's you know, we found maybe you've already done this, but

We've been putting like 456 gears in everything that has one of those and dude. It just wakes them up like

Night and day difference, but with like a t56 or something. Yeah, it is a different car really. Yeah

We've I've actually like gone back and swapped the gears out of some of the cars that we put that motor in

They had like, you know, 390s or 370s or something. Yeah, put a 456 in that thing and it will just

Yeah, come to life

Which might might

Change that out and see I would try it because like the little you know

Those motors are like a little

Temporamental when you're like kind of just coming off the clutch and down low

And it's like you could just basically step off the clutch

And the car it'll just carry it right off the clutch and then they just

Hits the power band so much right over it feels like yeah, and it works on that because you got so much

Top end so much more on the top side that it doesn't

We we had to do is rip the

The ecu and do we put a holly in it. That's the best thing you could do too. We could not get that thing to idle for

anything

And we as soon as we ripped it out put the dominator in there problem solved really yeah on an auto or was it

Was it auto transient manual? Yeah, we were getting they did idle when they run great

My gripe was that like fuel cut when you're shifting

You notice that like if you're trying to like

Shift fast like under power you get that like a very slight

Hesitation and then you're back in it where we'd used a holly on

That cuda that we did and that thing

Dude

So good. That's a good car gone too soon those motors. We got one sitting in a crate

Waiting for a special project. Yeah

Anybody's listening that has a good idea. Oh you're swirling that one away. It's so cool

Yeah going anybody

I think there's one more floating around there somewhere that somebody's trying to get rid of that

Where will you debut that at?

Have we don't know yet. We haven't really put any thought to it. It's gonna be

It's gonna be

a little bit year and a half

Till it's done two years year and a half full carbon body

When you talk about doing out of carbon, is there any significant changes to the body or you just kind of repop and

mostly stuff

We

Not really many significant changes. No

We don't want to take away too much

he still wants it to look like a 56 nomad and

Uh, he doesn't really we don't really care for weight savings. He he wanted to look he's like I want carbon

I just don't know where I want carbon. He wants to see the exposed. Yeah, he's like, but I don't want a lot

So he's like, let's do all it. Let's do all the window trim

Carbon, I'm like

Hydro dip that I don't want a lot. I don't want a lot. So let's do the whole body

And then paint it and just show a little bit. Yeah, so we're gonna yeah

The roof, you know, the roofs on those are fucking horrible. Yeah, they're just always rested to shit

So we're gonna make that in two pieces

And then I don't know maybe if people

People want that, you know, because you can't find them

Just throw a carbon roof on it

Give somebody an option to take like a turn a handyman wagon into a nomad if you got the roof skin too

So, uh

You could just slide a piece of carbon behind the trim and on the whole side of the car

Yeah, that would be faking it

Then you wouldn't be able to tell everybody that that thing's whole. Yeah, and they wouldn't be able to knock on it right there

That's the worst. Yeah

Whole things car. Oh, you get old car

Gremes in jimmy. No keep knocking on what is it about

A different substrate that you gotta knock on

I don't know

Even when you just did it even when it was sheet metal back in the day when you first started doing like matt finishes under the hood

Yeah, if it wasn't shiny, it was just like an invitation to just beat the shit out of it

Hey, why don't you go ahead and turn your knuckle over and just hammer on see if you can put a dent in it

Prove it's a little bit. Yeah, I wish your face was matt because I'd knock the shit out of it

That's the thing that I don't I never

Understood it

But that and then satin stripes. Oh you got to pick at him. Yeah, let me find the line

It's either satin paint or a sticker. You're gonna ruin it either way

But you just gotta pick at it

But if you had the same stripe in gloss nobody would ever think to even touch it

But what does that information do for that individual? Well, he felt like he touched it easy

Now that he felt it and he picked at it with this figure now

What is it? What does he accomplish because he whatever preconceived notion he had in his mind like if he thinks it's vinyl

Right and he feels it. Then he's like, yep, I was right. He's just wanting to know turn to the two other guys and scooters

Yeah, I told you that was told you exactly

He's fucking morons

Absolute fucking morons the dumb shit at car shows

It's just it's funny like these that you better settle down this year like you're getting yourself worked at was it last year that you

Uh, what was the pickup show? No, it was a couple years ago. You had that altercation with those dudes. It seemed yeah

It wasn't an altercation. It was pretty close. It was not as close as something could come to an actual like fists flying

Yeah, I used to love to fight

Josh too

Then I started a business and I had to stop

Yeah, that one was going there. He's they started going down the path of letting me know what uh

What they represented and then it was like, yes, maybe not the best for me

We used to do

They identified as gangbangers I identified it as somebody didn't give a shit

But we were about to find out that

Probably wasn't the best. Yeah, it's just they did something stupid

They needed to I was polite about it at first

Yeah, at first you were right and then you weren't well after when

I matched I matched the energy

What was the they they opened the door on the truck, right? Yeah, they kept slamming it. They kept slamming it

And I just pull out I was like, hey, hey, hey, let's leave the doors closed and then it was the response was

What the fuck did you just say?

So then the switch was like, dude, I started nice, but if you're gonna be an absolute fucking dickhead

Like the competitive nature means like, oh, you think you can be an asshole watch this

Um, yeah, and it just kept going from there. Yeah, I mean doing car shows all those years though

Oh

You I found guys sitting in cars. Yeah, and I'm like, what are you doing? I just wanted to see if I could fit

Yeah, I wanted to see how comfortable the seat was. I'm like, get the fuck out of the car. Yeah

you know, it's like

Uh, we had one time we did a car for well, I'm not gonna say the name but we did a car

Almost

That was real close

It's probably closest we've ever had

Anyway, there was have another drink

There was kids jumping

like

People they knew but the kids jumping from the back seat to the front seat stepping on the console spitting in the car

No, and I'm like

You know, you know what?

It's not my fucking car. This is they know these people and they're allowing it

So I don't I just never have understood the uh

What's different about a vehicle

That is like an invitation or even the fact that you think that you can put your hands

Touch it, right? Because the guy that built that car

Has more money or equal money and cares

Probably way more about that than he does his his wife and you would never walk up to his wife and be like

Yeah, just wanted to I wanted to see what they felt like. Sorry. Were they real?

That's a good point. I told you they were fake and so you're telling buddies that yeah, I knew that

You would never do that at no point in time

Would you ever think that that was socially acceptable to do it?

But on a car you can molest the shit out of it

You could I've seen literally of all ages young kids

They don't know any better their parents should be slapped because not allowing not stopping it

Then I've seen oh and literally from tail light tail light to headlight. They've just got a feel and I'm like

At what point in time?

What is it about a car?

That makes you have to especially a nice one. You're like, you know that these are nice

That happened to the gold Camaro at automotive and aeromotive

Just slid his hand all the way

And then he tells us but it feels smooth

No, don't feel

It's unbelievable. We had a black Camaro at

Autorama in Detroit

And it was on carpet

So they get a little bit of dust on them and we had a group of kids just sitting there drawing down the entire side of the car

And then I was an asshole for politely asking their parents to have them not draw on the side of the car

I don't remember that was that you weren't there for that one. Huh?

It was bruce's Camaro way back in the day. That's true that it's just

Unbelievable. We've had a pretty good run though. We haven't I feel like that's settling down

Maybe a little bit. Maybe people get more educated. Well, they're listening to the podcast probably. Yeah, that's what's that

They don't want to get fucking slapped

And we're building more survivors. We don't care about that's true. I was at a

cars and coffee local

a couple weeks ago

where a

Gentleman had his two

kids with him. Yeah

You could tell that

The wife told him to take the kids out, right? He was suffering of severe low T

And he has these kids and the kid has a toy car

A little bit larger than a matchbox car. Yeah, and he's running it down and some of these are

Like he I watched the kid and I knew that it was going to go bad

So I didn't step in and then I actually just left because it was the best thing for me to do is move myself

Your vehicle wasn't in harm's way. It was like three cars away. So that was

All right. Yeah, I was being selfish. I just said fuck it. I need to get out of here

So that yeah, but he I've watched him a brand new gt3 rs

Take this little toy car on the spoilers and from the spoiler and then across the quarter panel, right across the door

And down the thing and I'm like

What and the dad's why it's not like the dad's oblivious

He's watching. He's like, come on. Come on. Come on. Let's go and don't drop it in the vent. Yeah

Just that that's when they needed one of those like what your dad gave you that dude needed that

Right then and there and the kids needed to see it. They did right the kids need to see people

There's some little shithead kids nowadays. I'll be honest like

They need they need that that kid remember it for the rest of his life

The kids needed to see it and understand that when

They got home and the father tries to tell the wife some other story to explain his black eye or busted lip

That they're gonna be the ones to step it. No, no dad. No

We were remember I was running my car. We don't drive

Not anymore cars anymore. Yeah

Because get back a full circle back

Because it hurts. Yeah, it has to hurt to learn

I I've brought it up a hundred times emotional and physical hurt

There's the speed I bring up the speeding ticket thing all the time

If I just got a strongly worded warning even if I got yelled at right

It doesn't hurt my pocketbook enough to stop doing it. Why don't we let phil speak for that?

You know phil's pocketbook's gonna be hurting a little bit that 30 over one. That one stings

That's a vehicular

We'll see a vehicular endangerment or something like that. I got a 35 or an over in iowa. So did you yeah

Yeah, they get it's like the an aggressive driving

Let's put it this way

This this ain't this ain't one that you can handle via mail. This is one that we're like, you know

We're gonna circle back and talk about this one later in in person

We're gonna circle back and talk about this one in person at a later date the date's actually written right there on the back

I was here in Chicago. Yeah a couple weeks ago

What's the tbd? You really needed that Starbucks, huh?

Really wanted to get a picture on my instagram

It but it proves my point

I mean the hurt you had to go into the bathroom and cry a little because it hurt your feelings

And you didn't like the way that felt and you were gonna make sure going forward

If if it was just mildly uncomfortable if it was just

You know like ah, you know what you're right. I listened to him if it didn't hurt

It it doesn't imprint on you

And I saw it first time right Gabe jr. Got the worst of it

I got it a little less

The the younger brother didn't get any

You know, so the old man ran out

Yeah, he was just he was done. He's like, you know what I'm gonna be nice to this one. See how it goes

That's the baby though. That's the baby. Yeah

Took a little longer, but he got there

Uh, we're gonna start a movement with that

The tides are changing I feel I mean I you guys give me a lot of shit because I'm definitely older

Um, but you go back to western days, right?

When you were growing up there was

When I was real horsepower

You could say whatever you wanted to say

But there was possibly gonna be painful or life altering consequences, right?

If you wanted to go into a bar and and run your fucking mouth and talk shit

Then it was gonna get handled in a certain way and you had less people

Getting out of line and doing stupid shit because the consequences were so great. Um, and that's I'm affirmed

It's simple. It's very very simple

But if the more and more shit that you can get away with the more and more shit you're gonna try and get away with

You just keep pushing it

It's just the way it is. It's human nature. It's just it's gotta fucking hurt

Yeah, my my hurt story was actually with his uh

With my cousin his older brother in Vegas just gambling. It was a sophomore sophomore year college

First mistake Vegas spring break right five fucking days as a college kid stupid major mistake

Was there any uh, how many atm visits was that? Uh, it it took me only

One at the right

You know

Those things he's been there those things used to max out quick when you were that age. Yes. Uh, so yeah, I pissed away

I thought I had credit. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah, pissed away in my car payment. Uh, and uh

So I was taking a math class at the time and it was statistics and the teacher was actually really cool and all the entire, uh

Semester it was all around gambling. It was all around, you know, the the different games in Vegas stuff like that

You had it

The rain was coming out of here

Yeah, it took me to be about 20 minutes

650 bucks and I was walking to the atm for the third time and I was like, what the fuck am I doing?

This is chasing that dragon. Not my debit card isn't my this is my credit card. I'm like, no fuck this

So I stopped and uh, I actually I haven't gambled since

Haven't gambled since so actually it was probably the best 650 bucks I ever spent. Yeah

In the end it in the long run it saved you a lot. Yeah

I've never been much of a gambler. Yeah, I struggle a little bit. I

I enjoy it if I break the threshold of like a 200 loss. You're done. I'm done. That's it

The only reason I'll do is like if I could sit if I'll lose a hundred bucks

And I wrote it out and sat there for a while and had some cocktails and had fun then it's entertainment

Yeah, but I don't ever win shit. No, so I don't know you're right

If you if I if I start out and it's just loss after loss, you know, and if it's a couple hundred bucks, whatever

I'm done. I'll be done for the whole week if we're out there

by whatever my poor luck is always

I hit real big

Uh, the first couple first night or the first couple of nights that I play for a while

And I put some decent winnings aside. Well, then at that point it's it's big boy. Josh, right? Yeah, I got

I got all your play with the house. I got all

I got all the money right the problem with that is a lot because look at the hotels. They've built around

So the I look at and being smart you should just you know split that right and then play with the half

But I look at is like well, I've got this

And everything that I came out here with also right so now the bigger if I did that winnings

Yeah, my math. It's like well, I did the I did those winnings on those bets

So I'm just going to double and triple the bets right because obviously I'm just that good

Easy one. Um, well then the next like the third or fourth night

Then it's just like a wipe out. Well, then then you spend another

Several hundred dollars chasing back and then you're like, well, shit

I was up two grand and now I'm down

2,500 I lost the two and another five. This is fucking stupid

Yeah, I try not to get right in your math. You only lost 500. I did only lose 500. That's actually that's actually true

You just sit there and fucking smoke packs on a pun packs of cigarettes. I do that. It's a great time

We're staying at the park mgm this year. No, fuck you. I quit

Oh, we bought I quit his life

It's it's the

For all the reasons but smoking one that is the worst

greatest restaurant

In vegas the worst hotel

In vegas

Strictly because of the smoking and the rooms are pretty. Oh the rooms were shit

Speaking of chicago basement old funk

They were like moist that place that place sucks

What about bait and switch because it's not

Does it seem like that on the main casino floor floor? Yeah, it's clean

You know, they just ran out of money to go up and build anything. It was like a rehab deal, right? Yeah

Freshened it up. Yeah. It's like the people that are in rehab live in those rooms. That's that that's about

That was no smoking in the casino phenomenal. Yeah, y'all can't smell smoke in the casino floor

That's actually where i'm staying this year parking gm. Yeah, oh dude

Oh, hey, no, it's pretty good. It's not that bad. No, I should probably switch the rooms are shit. Yeah, honestly bad

It was legitimately you go in and it is like moist and musky

And the rooms are like it's like a fucking holiday and like an old holiday in in the room

Yeah, it's bad. But the the amenities are not like the casino is great. No smoking. So you don't have assholes like him just

Sucking down packs and new ports and blowing secondhand smoking. It's hard. Let it's our last

Last bastion just let us have it

Let us have it. I don't know dude. I you can't smell it that bad. They got great filtration. It sucks it up

I can smell it. Well, don't smell as much when you're there

Actually, it doesn't smell

Quite as bad as it used to it's not as bad, but it's not it's still bad

You smell all kinds of bad things all the time. Yeah

Yeah, I think you've you're not real considerate with it, you know, I kind of get that like you get this like

Hit it up. But dude, it doesn't go up. I'm so take that back. Take that back

I'm super considerate

all times of the year

Except when in vegas and we're vegas y'all are in y'all are in our house

This is the smoking building. We smoke what happens in vegas stays in vegas and then he lights up a cigarette

That's my go to

You gotta take a page out of my dad's book, I mean you hold the cigarette behind your back and nobody can smell it

Yeah, I this is a chimney just coming up

Yeah, I might I would reconsider it. Yeah, I wouldn't stay there

I wouldn't reconsider. I would just not stay there. I would absolutely now. I kind of want to stay there to see

It's bad. Maybe they cleaned it up

It was bad enough that you would think that that had to be the last hurrah and they had to have been

Getting ready to remodel it again. It's that that's not a remodel fix

It was still window unit. There was like that's that's a tear down. That's complete tear down. You're right. It's start over

Yeah, that's the classic like fucking window unit situation going on. It was like the old

The no smoking thing got me though because I I don't smoke and so yeah, I was like

It takes a certain kind of cool to smoke and it's and it's fine. No, it's not it

Don't don't be ashamed that you don't smoke a lot of people don't um a lot of people don't won't play in the nba

There's all kinds of things that people can't do

Yeah

I told you about the experience you

Identified it when we were in austin years ago that you said it's coming back around

Swing baby, but not in a good way because it's not like like bad ass dudes aren't picking it up

No, hipster young hipsters are picking it up colored hair as like a counterculture sort of thing

And when I was in

Louisville

I'm sitting there at some little cool cool little bar on a balcony and people are just fucking lighting up cigarettes

I tell you that Louisville's taking a little austin up the rear. Yeah, it's it's it's a

It's getting it's out there. Yeah, it's out

But they're I mean people you could tell they didn't know like what to do at them. They're like don't know how to like

It's like a cool

It's a starter kit. It's a starter kit

And they're not like really inhaling and they're like

It's they have to light it a couple times because it's dying out and they're also

It's like three four people. They're fucking smoking cigarettes. Like what?

Well, that's what I said

It's not it's not to act a smoke that makes you cool like anybody can go and try a jump shot

It doesn't you can't just do a jump shot just because you try it doesn't mean you can nail it

Maybe you need to study like he did getting to see like all the behind the scenes

You hang out with some old asian guys

Well, that's a different that's a different level and smoker. That's a different

I don't we even touched it on this podcast yet. We have not you it's quite possibly one of I think that was your contribution

One of your greatest contributions

because it is

100 true

it's

It's

Unbroken like it's it does not falter

No, go ahead. Go ahead. Josh brings this up once. We're like cat. He's like smoking

He's just trying to like, you know justify how cool smoking is

Well preface it just so this isn't just like just

Anism like we came up. We have a rich long storied history of

We do a lot of stories about people and their

Jobs and things like you're at the bar. You're talking about stuff the thing that we also do is we can

There's an art in coming up with a

crafting a backstory crafting a backstory, but also

It's I don't even know how to describe when you're say when you say something and you describe it in a very creative way

And it's something that's a that's a a constant truth across

The world that nobody's ever really touched on you can be like

You know what this type of people does a lot and it's this this is and you you listen you're like

Every single one of those types of people I've seen a hundred percent right or whatever it is

So this one yeah, go so this was one of those

Josh mentions that we're talking about smoking or something and how it's like not cool

It's like not cool. It's like you ever see a fucking Asian dude

I said, you know who can smoke a fucking cigarette smoke the shit out of a cigarette and we're kind of like wait a minute

And pay attention to it. I'm telling you what it is

It's the coolest thing you've ever seen. It's like fucking James Dean mixed with Bruce Lee

These fuckers can smoke a cigarette like I mean like roll it around

They're doing miniature kung fu moves with their fingers

And and smoke at the same time and not even put any effort to it

You couldn't bring it over try to be that cool and they do it so naturally

It's it's a it's a double jointed flip backwards, but looking normal smoke

Um, and then like sometimes the smoke will come out of places. You're like

Listen

I'm telling you anybody that's listening if you've ever pay attention spend vegas is a great place to people watch the backpack rooms

Not the park mg it might be in between these two fingers

But it sometimes looks like it's in other fingers

What you do one of the tricks is you you deep stage it you put it deep down in the yeah

And you you get it there if I have if I have a few in me I start that's suckers start steep staging

Yeah, and it'll come over the top

It's like

No, I I can um, but I'm I am uh, I'm ambi because

It's a great observation driving lefty every other time righty

That's how talented I am that's how long I've been smoking then I can do it just as cool with both hands

Wow deep stage though when you're sitting around hanging especially in vegas or you're sitting around in a place in drinking

Um, yeah, that's suckers starts later on in the night more drinks

It starts finding its way down in the deep v down there and then it then it gets into the

It seems just right around the corner. I'd encourage everybody keep an eye out because it's fucking cool

Yeah, not me asian smoking. Yeah, just to preface that old. It's like 60 and up

Yeah, but you can see every now and you see like a little toddler like you see videos on instagram

You see those those little puffball head like on instagram like three years old just pop it

Have you never seen those videos? No, I'll show I'll send you some of the channels I follow

Yeah, don't don't

Oh

This has been fucking epic

This is a great you you how do we get here? You did know I think yeah, it's the 24 year parkers heritage 23

You didn't know what did you guys think of that bad boy? Oh, I love I'm on the heaven heaven. I'm sorry

I'm on that now too. I started with the parkers is awesome. It's so I've never seen the 24

So that's a special bottle. I don't know if you guys have ever been to milk room

But the first time I did it was no longer there no longer there

I got a gift certificate right before kovat here. That was one of the spots fucking legit. Yeah, it was so

Email did you ever make it and the service was amazing? Um

Which one was this? That's the one at the chicago athletic association. No, yeah

No, it could ever send these repelos in these like before like the billy little you showed it to me when it was closed remember for

the kovat

Legit we never went the everything they turned it into a sushi joint

Oh, okay, which is actually for that space in japan. They're very like that. You know, you sit six seven people

I hope they let those dudes smoke in there

Do you ever tell them about the c word that we kept the pandemic? Uh

It just started dawning on me. We were talking through this we're talking about 2019 in the debut of grim

I've started

What I feel like people

30 years ago started looking at the like world war two where it was like pre-war and post-war

I'm looking at kovat as like yeah a bookmark

Where it's like pre like pre pre kovat and after kovat because it's like there's like that time

It was a huge fucking deal. I mean it's like oh so 2018 2019

I look at like again everything around uh car shows, you know in years of debuts and stuff like that

It's like my uh chronological order. So it's like off point 2019 was like pre kovat. That was

Last year of sema and then kovat happens

There's like a reset. It's pre-war post-war pre kovat post kovat. Yeah, and like I started my business

It's the greatest time to start a business honestly. I mean that's the that's the unsung truth is like right when the entire world is about to end

Yeah, you know what fuck it start a business. I mean you never know what's gonna happen

Yeah, and I was home. So yeah

You hang out in the garage and build some shit. Yeah

you

You did know what you were getting into coming and doing this podcast right you kind of knew

All right good. I just wanted to make sure that you it seemed like there was a moment there where you expected more

And I I was gonna make sure that you knew

Exactly what you were getting into because extreme lack of professionalism. Is it our on our end? Yeah, I could see

Just for a tent. I was like, oh, maybe he

Hasn't listened. I just wanted to make sure that you were fully prepared and you didn't expect this to like

us to be

Good at this

Exactly what I wanted to hear. Let's be a bigger launch pad than built in that Camaro for sema. Oh, yeah

There's a few more down there

Yeah, yeah, let's touch back on the bourbon

I

Feel like this has been one of those where

We're drinking regular stuff and you have like a really good bottle. Yeah, and you're like, wow

This is why I like drinking bourbon again

And then you've been on drinking good bourbon and then having all of these like

Fuck this is like significant next level. I really like drinking bourbon again. We got caught in a slump. We haven't gone

We haven't gone. We haven't gone

Hard and heavy with great stuff in a while and this is good to get back into it

Yeah, no, this is this is a bunch of unobtainium here 15

You have a 15

If not, it's okay. I got I got something cool down

He said he said no, I'm good on the I'm good. Yes. You don't like the 20

Uh, it's a little over-oaked for my uh for my yeah, uh the 23 and the 20

They're a little over-oaked uh in my opinion. I think the banger in the lineup is this in the 10

Oh the 10 the 10s killer the 10s the 10

It punches so far above its weight

It is it punches so far above its weight

But it's also because it's the the entry level in the line

And everybody's kind of like, oh, it's just the 10. It's just a 10 and I even started

You know having probably a few of those and it's like, oh, it's just a 10

And then it was one of those times when you know

It is the the right group where you're like, well, I'm not like they don't they're gonna appreciate this just fine

I don't have to go to that level and you start drinking. You're like, oh, shit

I need to start drinking this 10 year all the time. This shit's awesome. I feel like it's the other way like it's not pappy

The 10 just based on the bottle like the oh, yeah

You may be right, right? You may be right. Yeah, it's I don't think it was the original lineup

I don't think it was well, it's not but it's the pappy that they're getting at that bar at that night

Because that's they can look at the other ones, but they're not getting those and this for being such a popular bottle

That's something I honestly never had the stag junior. Oh, really? I saw a few open ones in the

I've never had it. Oh, okay. No. I mean, it's the younger, you know, it's the cousin. It's a little cousin

It's a little cousin. Yeah, it's a that one's actually to leave behind so that one's for you guys to keep

Oh, yeah, that was the behind. Yeah

What's that 131

Uh, so this one is the 25a. So it's uh, yeah, probably 132 something like that

Rocket fuel correct the george t-stag. We had a year

2015 2015 george gasoline dude the antique

Oh

Come prepared. Yeah, the uh the stag is the the the big boy stag george t-stag

Is when we won it's very definitely year dependent, right? Um, correct

But it's also in that evening that you decide you want to do it

It's so dependent on

How many drinks you've had before what you've been drinking

If you've been stepping up in proof or you you haven't been if you haven't been paying attention

You've just been drinking and you're like, you know what? We haven't tried this in a while

Let's try this and you do it out of order that cannot be it can be almost always a wasteful pour 100 percent wasteful pour

Correct. Yeah, because you're like, oh

Because if your palate is fucked, yes, if you're on like on your seventh

130 proof pour and you do that taste that right? Yeah, yeah

I'm still yet to find like what the sweet spot is to pour that

Yeah, it's like every fucking day

I just I don't know. I don't love it. I've got I've got one open

I've got a pretty good collection of them and I've got one open

And I just I've poured it a handful of times. I can't ever seem to get down with it damn

Okay, well, you are gravitating towards the dusties and those are you normally

Slightly lower proof and just a very different flavor profile. It could just be

Yeah, man, it could just be your I gotta give it a really fucking change. I gotta give it a running

It's like the the other antiques like the the William LaRue. Well, that's fucking great 2019 2017

But I just can't I don't know I'll have to give it another run. Yeah, but that's a weeded right?

So it's a little more approachable, right? It's it's in the weller line. So it's a weeder

Versus a straight bourbon, right?

What do you have?

As a sleeper that nobody knows about I brought it actually I brought it. Yeah, actually I brought a couple

the

The ok I the mgp rise are fucking phenomenal and then the

that is

Elijah Craig barrel proof a 119 after running through it's like the fucking cinnamon the barrel proof I've had

I've got all that. That's one 30 one 30

This one was so many of them. It's hard to get like how to remember what's what and

Correct, they come out with so many and some of them, you know, they're they're they're fine, but they're not like

Phenomenal, right?

This is one of the ones that a lot of people are kind of it's starting to get a little bit more popular

It's a little bit of a sleeper, you know pun intended in the car industry

But uh, yeah, this one it's it's fucking phenomenal. That's one of my favorites

That's which one's the year on the other Elijah Craig Elijah Craig, you know, and it's you know

They make a shit a lot of them when they do the run, you know, you know, whatever 25 30,000 fucking bottles

What was the one last year the eight to the five to two thirty two

The nine two three, I think nine two three. Yeah, that sounds like we're talking about porches over here

Watches

That one was good. It was a 13 year plus, you know, Elijah Craig. It was fucking solid. Did I uh

Totally screwed my buddy over Zach

We were it was his turn to buy around and I bought uh

The four gate kelvin collection just a pour of it. Yeah, the kelvin collection. Uh, so they got right now

It's up to five. So I don't I don't I'm not I don't get it like in the way. It's like you. I'm like just a face value

To know right the which one you're trying it's kind of like knowing which engine is in the fucking car

Okay, it's a big fucking dick. We've got one right there. Yeah, it's up there

But what I didn't ask for was the price of it and it was his turn to buy the round and they hand him the check

And I want to say it was because it was a two ounce pour. It was like 120 bucks or something

That's a bit much for the pour and I'm like, oh, you know, get you on the next one. It's a 199 bottle

It's a 199 bottle correct, which is obviously, you know at msrp. It's a lot for a bar or whatever, but

We had the four we had the four gate guys on the podcast

Pretty cool

And I feel way better after

Like listening to you like, oh, okay. Now I now I get it, right? It's not just smoking mirrors and stuff like that

And that that shit is they are good. That's why I got it. I felt that connection with it. No, but I

Well, you it was good though, right? It was great even better when you get to pay for

Yeah, I felt bad. I know you did. Yeah, I just did

Especially for a fucking for you. I mean if it was yeah, he didn't return the favor or even this it would be fine

Well, I picked up dinner earlier. So I didn't feel that bad. All right, but at the same time

It's like, yeah, I don't know the round before was like 30 bucks

Right. Yeah, 120 is way too much. I like that one

Yeah, the parkers is good stuff

I'm telling you what this stag is hitting me great right now after going through the flavor is amazing

It's like drinking maple syrup. It's so cinnamon bourbon maple syrup

Bourbon maple syrup. I love those guys

Dude, that does not

That's when I was talking about the progression and the things you drink. That's how I mean, that's 126 proof

That does not drink. No, no like 126 proof after we drank that

Try that next. It's really good. I'm shocked. One of the better badges from that is uh batch 12

Batch 12 is extremely extremely, but those are so also dependent on batches. Just like this is just George T

Your palate's that sophisticated. You feel like you can taste the difference in the batches? Um

I mean, I read the sticker. Yeah

All right, it's placebo. You don't think it's placebo. I mean, it's like the mash bill is the same. You know what actually, um

I've gotten a little bit better as I become deeper and deeper and alcoholic

I've gotten a little bit better to know

Yeah, where I can tell a little bit

I can at least tell the distillate even in a blind time

My problem is like your palate's always moving and with wine that happens a lot too. Like I'll love

Like a certain red wine and I'll it's be like my favorite all of a sudden. I'll drink it on a certain day

It just doesn't jive. That's a good point, bro. So like that it's like depends on the meal you had before

It depends on the price. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, there's this after it's as excited as I am right now

I'll go back to this again

In a couple weeks. Oh, I might not. Oh, that's depending on when I do it or the thing

These are these are wildly these very wildly in proof, right down to like 121 all the way to like 137

Correct. Um

I've had

Several that I've not liked. Yeah, but it's also to your point. It's not I can't pinpoint that it's because it's that proof

Or it's that mash it's so many different times and the palate changing

Yeah, we've had it. We've talked about it on this like what we've eaten during the day

What we're what we haven't eaten during the day what we've drank during the day and then what we've started with

There's been times we've hit I've I've hit my go-to favorites before and like that's just

It burns my tongue. It just hits my thing if I haven't eaten enough or something like that

I'm like, I'm just not feeling this shit tonight. Yeah, it doesn't mean I hate that bourbon. It's just right now

Tonight it's not good

Tonight that stag junior

It's it's it. I loved starting with that. Anderson amazing. I like yeah, it was nice. This was nicely curated

Yeah, it really was that's that's the that's some of the most flavorful

And pleasing bourbon that I've drank in probably a year right now that stag jr. I like it that much

You know what you should try is that so that there's a pretty special bottle that old fits 13 year

Have you really it's not tim palazzola brought it out here. That's just that's distillery only man. Yeah, that's good

I think this is distillery only if I'm not mistaken. Is it you're I mean you're definitely an advanced bourbon drinker

Above and beyond what we are

What's the that's a pretty pretty special bottle

It is good. Uh the one yeah

For for me some for some reason the 10 hits really well for me

But no, it's solid that the cancer is obviously beautiful. They do a really really good fucking job. Yeah, it's good marketing bottle

I mean, I'm my favorite pour is uh, um king kentucky and it's a it's a brown formant product

Yeah, it's actually a derivative, you know, got it. Yeah of this. It's an it's a lineage

Have you had that hogsworth? Yeah

I have not actually it's

It's pretty damn good. Mgp. No, it's it's his own. It's dude that started. Um, yeah here. Yeah

Uh, he started whistle. This is the dude that started whistle pig. Okay, and then now

Oh, okay. It's it's the same guy's got bakta. Yeah

So same same company as those bakta finishing armeniac. Yeah

Okay, yeah, and you know armeniac is just yeah, it's he's he's a dealer where he will buy those one two three

You know

115 year old armeniac barrels or whatever and he's he's they're the only four that exist

He's gonna buy those four do some blends and then he's gonna do his own bourbon and he'll age and some stuff like that

but

I've been seeing it. Yeah, um

He's been sending them some stuff from the bakta brand and then we started seeing that it's

It's decent. It's decent. It really is. Yeah, it's an inexpensive ball. Yeah, it's a hugely complex blend

So this yeah, it's got a fucking

Minnesota, tennessee france france france france. This is a very complex one. Yeah, it's good. Yeah

The bakta has got one of the best-looking bottles. It's got a great looking bottle. It's like a giant cologne bottle. Yeah

Actually, um

For uh, papi 20 and papi 23 to me

It has a very armeniac forward flavor profile

And you can pick up, you know, a really really good armeniac for like under 300 400 bucks, right? Yeah

Whereas, you know, a couple grand for a 20 or 20 30 200 for a

23, I just don't see the value. Right. Yeah, I'd rather get three king katakis

I still I'm like, uh, the 12 year lot b is right there at the top. Yeah, you like it

It's one of my one of my favorites. It's a very easy drinker very approachable. It's I mean, it's a solid little pour

Yeah, that's solid pour we tried the fall release of crown royal. I think it's crown apple

Oh, yeah, that's a nice one. Yeah, I think I've got a gallon of that under my desk

Tim got me actually

Some of the crown stuff actually is uh, I had one of them which was uh, it was I think it was a 16

year, uh, canadian rye blend

Um years ago, maybe five or six years ago, and that was actually pretty fucking good

You know, I had to the but it wasn't I don't know

I got to the point like a couple years out of college where I think they stopped putting alcohol in crown royal

Yeah, yeah

They kept putting in there. It's just your body wasn't getting the alcohol. That was the problem. Yeah

Dude, I've got something

I've got to get this to you because I picked this up. This was like a crazy facebook marketplace score

And I've got a couple bottles of uh, I think it's old shenly. It's a canadian whiskey

And it's like 40s like late 40s

And mint fucking bottles and it's a sale type shit. Yes, and it is so good. We drank it

Yeah, and you picked up a bottle of something too. Yeah, I've got I've got a canadian whiskey

Yeah, I got I've got three of the canadian clubs and can say I got 68 69 and 70

Yeah, have you tried any of them or no? No, they're there for

Is it's the right night where you're like, oh, yeah, we'll get into that. You're feeling like a mad mad night. Yeah

What was the other the old?

I can't remember the other fits. Yeah. No, it was uh, it was bar it was bourbon. It was

The the old canadian shit you can get for reasonable and it's one of those ones where you're like

I mean whistle pig is canadian whiskey as well for the 60s if you can get a bottle from the 60s, you know with a good

Fill line, you know for 40 50 bucks. You're like, it's a steal 100 percent. We're just gonna try that

Let's see you guys have any good spots you guys go to vegas vegas. Yeah, like bourbon spots or just hang out spots

We don't really do a lot of bourbon spots in vegas. We got a couple good eating spots

Yeah, um little little gyms that we'll tell we'll talk about off air

We don't talk about those on air that barbershop deal. What's that place called back in the cosmos like it's easy behind the barbershop

Yeah, we went there. That's a cool spot. It is a cool spot

It's hard to find anything because all those headlights. Yeah, yeah hard to find anything in vegas

It's like really authentic or unique like or has any sort of like really good

reasonably priced

Right. Well, vegas has always been about the the people like we'll

That's when we'll have like a decent little group. We'll find

a little

Spot, you know, and you could be at a shitty bar at a shitty hotel if you've got the right people

You'll have a great fucking time, right? And you'll just drink the uh

I mean i'm a i'm a red bull and vodka guy in vegas because it just keeps you fucking going

Yeah, it usually ends up being the chandelier bar at the cosmo

Yeah, that's actually a nice spot. We don't talk about all of our

Maybe by the chandelier. I didn't even know what it was. Yeah

chandelier. Yeah, it's right by the barbershop a couple levels. Yeah, that's usually where you can count on vinny just

wrecking you

Like just well because you know why he's got a well-rending supply of will not let you because there's consequences

It won't let you quit. There's there's never been a time that

We haven't been able to do a good

irish goodbye

Unless you're with vinny because that man will find you

You could start sneaking off. He's like, oh you think you're leaving. I'm like, how are you the only one that caught me?

He's like, I know what you're doing. No, I'll walk with you to the bathroom and you're coming back with us

You know, this shit is like a 2016, right?

Uh, yeah, it's been hanging here for a while. It's yeah, it's it's getting funky. It's fucking amazing

Actually, it's very very

Different from the stuff that you know the last five six years. Yeah, I don't know if it's getting oxidized being yeah

That definitely makes a different layer to it. It gets yeah, it changes. It's it's solid actually

I got a william larou weller. That's a

2015 or 2016 that's one of those like super desirable ones that I just haven't brought myself to open yet

It's amazing. I'm like three. It's fucking my wife texted me just today as a matter of fact. She's like, hey

There's a white box

Weller that I could get you. Hmm

The millennium the millennium is like 5500 msrp

She's like D. Well, that's what I texted back is like I said, I know what msrp is

I said, how what can we get it for she said msrp? I said, well, you didn't work hard

Does anybody actually drink that I have not tried it. I haven't tried it. No, it was 4900 bucks

I could get a 4900 started it like 70 7500 right? Yeah, it actually did start pretty hard the daniel

Oh, yeah, the daniel m. Weller the

What was it called?

Goddamn it. I know what you're talking about. It's got the little fucking

Thing on the top like a compass

Emmer was it the emmer

Emmer tea wheat. I don't remember. Yeah, I'm drank too much now

But it's $5,000 msrp for a bottle. Yeah, nothing's that good. That's not gonna happen. No, no, although I did

I have

So the mcallons right one of the things that scares the shit out of me about scotch is that

Even at msrp, the prices are fucking ridiculous, right?

I want to start getting into those really high age statements, but I got lucky in japan. So I had um a 92

Uh 18 year short run mcallon of 18 year. Um, oh my god

It's it was fucking life changing. So you you can get down with the scotches

And the bourbons and the tequila is no problem and the rice. Um, well, you said it when you came in here

You said professional

Yeah, yeah, yeah high functioning

Wow

My wife

If I'm gonna do if I'm gonna do a scotch night

I can do a scotch night, but there's times that people would be like, oh, this is a great scotch

You should try that and even and I'm like, uh, I know you guys are anti the bandaid taste

Well, yeah, yeah, the petered kind of bandaid taste. There's times for me too. It's like a marker sharpie marker

She's like she doesn't like scotch because it smells like a sharpie marker

And now it's like fuck you ruined it for me, too

But I'll still dabble periodically. That's a it's $300 class of sharpie marker. Yeah, correct. Yeah

This is the best fucking sharpie marker ever and then and then and then there goes down here the sharpie marker

The problem with the problem with that is you have to make a conscious decision of like tonight is scotch night

It's for me. It's never scars now

It'll be like one or two maybe and then I'll gravitate back to back to back to berber

I can't I can't mix and match. Okay. Now. I could maybe I could start with scotch and go back to berber

Agreed, but there's never a time I'll go to berber. You're like, you know what? I'll try that crazy scotch

Because that scotch is always going to be

Uh, just a wang to it from a bourbon. Yeah, to me. Agreed. That's just that's just great. It's a very different

Profile he retries was gifted. Uh, I think Andy leech got us this. We haven't opened it yet. Oh glimmerage

That's something that we gotta I mean, it's a fancy ball. Yeah, that's a thing. That's a you just shoot that

I've gone scotch and I'm going to the bathroom to throw up. So yes

Then you go back to berber. I do like it. No, I mean the thing is for example that 92, uh, you know fucking

18 year mcallon it was um

Actually, it wasn't 18 years 25. I have a picture of it. Uh, yeah, that was the bourbon talking. Um

Um

Back then for whatever reason it has more of a bourbon profile

Which I was crazy fucking impressed with because that pettiness was was not present

It was like heavy oak and then a lot molasses burnt sugars

You know, all of that shit came out of it and I was like blown fucking away. It wasn't cheap though

Is he coming out? Is he coming out to sema?

Well, I'm trying to come I went last year. Yeah, he's going he's going to f1 in mexico city

Yeah, but I'm trying to get him to come out to see at least a couple days

F1 and mexico city you get

You're handled on the on the party, right? You got your you got everything handled on party. You got tickets and all stuff

You gotta you get him a ticket. He's got to come Thursday night to the party

Yes, I'm I'm Juan right on the dave tag

Juan the fabricator you go be whoever you want the fabricator. Yeah, you're getting a new hotel. Anyway, so just get a second room

Yeah, I'll try make it happen. I'll try make it happen make it happen. It's only a couple days make it happen

Yeah, Wednesday, you said Wednesday thursday's all you need to be there is for thursday and thursday night

The only day and night that matters. Yeah, that's that's your guys party. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, you did mention that too when you landed

just know

The bourbon being served is not going to be up to your level, but we're going to have a great fucking time. That's all that matters

Maybe ginger ale if you want to get fancy

Sneak a bottle in

You would you would be amazed you would be amazed at the things that they will catch people trying to sneak in

Yeah, we had a what'd you get caught with? Yeah, I don't I don't get caught with anything

You can't catch a prison person somebody got this last year last year. Uh, that was just that was chris stafford's wife

She got she got bounced from the yeah, because she got into it at the bathroom attendant. Oh

There was a greening

One of the greenings jeff

There's a problem with socks wasn't it you had a 50-50 shot

There was a greening that uh, Jesse's too sweet. That was well. He didn't get tossed. He got denied entry until he

alleviated some of his contraband

It's the second sold sold out it's sold out and then we added more tickets and sold out again and now we're on the third round

Really? Yeah

It's uh, am I gonna be able to get into that thing?

Did you buy tickets? No

You're you're out of luck. Yeah, you're like, I'm paying for it. Can I be here?

We get there early we get in

Are they open we full transparency 100 percent?

This is actual honesty

We absolutely did not

Set aside any tickets for staff and us to get in

Fuck when we sold out we literally had that discussion last night and I gave you a number

I know I did uh, I just didn't do it yet. Okay, but we can do it

Well, this is actually it hasn't been done yet. This is as of right now. We cannot get in

It's actually the first time we're talking about this. It's fun. I'd cast that

This is happening

Uh, yeah, we teased around teased around it. Yeah, uh, it's the party is actually happening

Yeah

All right, it's gonna be a great time. All right. All right. It's going down with the it was formerly drays nightclub

What are they? It's solea now. There will be some signage. It still says drays. Here's the deal

This is all you need to know

Forget about any of that. It is solea formerly drays

It is at the Cromwell. It is the rooftop

nightclub bar on top of the Cromwell hotel

Directly across the street from the Bellagio

Go to the Cromwell

And go to the rooftop and easy. It's an awesome venue. Yeah, that's cool. This is the first time the new venue

Matt with the crazy obama buddy

No, no

Was that I don't remember

You know how I know this is going to be a great venue

Years ago, I have very little memory, but you know why I know this is going to be a great venue

Why is that as soon as we launched this and it went public? I got a text that

This venue he this person has been at

Several times before because barrett jackson has done several parties there before you were going to love it have a great time

Who is this individual? Nellie's got your cell phone number. This would be from the one and only bob johnson

Oh

Bob johnson said it's going to be a blast. How much more colorful was bob's not coming?

Not much more colorful. He's learned. You don't that would be a phone call

Been a phone call. It would have been a little more colorful. I listen here

Hey, tell you what you got to watch watch out for. Yeah, it's gonna be a fun time though. Look forward to that one

We come to standard questions

This is the point in the podcast where we do standard questions standard questions brought to you by the standard

In wheels hre

Yeah, that's we're riffing off each other. I said we weren't professionals. We are sometimes

Sounded pretty decent

You need to have grim back up there. We do. Yeah, we need the back. We need the proper background

We do we'll do right now. Look at that. We'll go back in time and right there. We zoom in on the wheel. That's a g-code wheel

Somebody could that's not the g-code right. Yeah, right. I know definitely not

What wheel is what wheel is it that is

Was it a one-off? No, it's not a one-off. It's it's one of their it's the

I wish I could tell you the name right now

Only problem with hre hp 107 everything's a number seven. It's really hard

It's good looking wheel though. It is a good looking wheel. Yeah

Great looking five spoke suits the car. It's not it's not one of the ream brothers

Nine it's one of hre's

Yes, the hp or the sp where the the end of the spoke goes up over the lift or what lip or whatever

It's kind of cool. It's kind of like an overhang. It's the one that does not have the exposed hardware. What uh, what finish would that be?

that uh, that was uh,

custom finish hre did to match the gold on the

Grill and so powder. Yeah powder

Standard questions first up, um

Favorite car movie

You both are on this so you both can answer individually you're a guest

I have to you brought all this whiskey. You can answer all the fucking questions you want to answer

I have to um, yeah

Gone in 60 seconds. I know that's uh, everybody said it's a good one. Uh fast and the fairest the og one. Yeah

My boys

They're 12 and 8

Fucking love christine

Really? Oh, I actually watched it a couple weeks

It's a hot ball movie. Yeah for young kids. I mean that's pretty impressive. Well, well, I told or they're twisted

Yeah, they're twisted. They are my boys. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, so I told them about this movie

Right because they love the my boys love everything

Or they love to know everything that I did when I was little my kids are the same

My son is nuts about that stuff. Yeah, so he's like so just the details. Yeah

Just a few weeks ago. They spent the night at my parents and

He's like grandma. What did my dad used to do?

Right when he was little

Oh, your dad would go into the frid and grab the orange juice and just drink it out of the

Someone all sends me a video of him chugging the orange

Like you he wanted to do exactly what you did. My wife yells at me to this day for that

Nothing, first of all, nothing tastes better than straight out of the jug. Number two

It's the most efficient way of doing it because there's no glasses to drink. Yeah, I'm thinking of you, baby

Yeah, yeah, how about this? You don't like it by two jugs and I'll be my judge

I want a milk carton for me and one for the everybody else

Yeah, I love that the one so one that just came because my son's the exact same way

Like he wants to know everything that I did and the one that I forgot about that I just told him about a few things

Yeah, is uh, do you remember sometimes they come back?

That was a steven king movie. You've brought that up which is christine as well

Because steven king. Yeah, very simple, but it had it was a 55

I think it was 55 or 56 chevy in it. Oh, but that's a cool ass movie

I've yet to see it. I haven't checked it out. I gotta watch it with them because pet cemetery steven king

Dude fuck pet cemetery

Dude, still to this day

Still to this day that movie that's the one, you know

There's two things which seed it was just a little gauge was the little boy that scared the shit out

I mean they killed like the kid came back and scared the shit out of me and then the cat was freaky

There's two movies. There's that and to this day. I can't get in bed without giving like a little extra hop thinking that

Chucky chucky's under there. I'm gonna slice

That was painful

I always give like a little like yeah, dude hop

I have

I know what i'm doing now. Yeah, don't do not

I don't fucking hard. I'm of age. I'm of heart attack age. No, my plan. I was just gonna

I'm just gonna continue to gradually lift your bed. Yeah

It's a quarter inch at a time. I'll take a year. I'll take one whole year and lift a quarter inch at a time body shimmy

One quarter inch per week and just where it keeps getting where you're gonna have to you're jumping you're giving a little jump

You're gonna have to continue to jump higher and higher and higher

You mentioned drinking out of the jug. I just wanted to let you know something the other day. This is

About this is when you know one that it's your house

and

You're the king of the castle

And that you're probably the most badass now ladies anybody listen it go ahead. Hold on

Hold on to them britches. All right. Hold on to them britches. Here we go

There was a time not too long ago in I would say in the last few weeks

Um

Little bit of a cold. All right. It was working through could not could not sleep. It wasn't COVID. It was it's COVID like all right

We're gonna it was COVID like right. We're testing for those antibodies because you've been

I was I'm fine now a lot of shit

fine now

so

middle of the night

could not sleep hop up

The thing that's gonna make me feel better is a cigarette. You know, what's also gonna go down great with that cigarette

I'm a little thirsty. I'll grab that jug of orange juice. I don't smoke inside the house. I smoke outside

I pop out on the back deck

I am

drinking orange juice

Smoking a cigarette. That's hard burn written all over in my underwear. You know when I get the urge to

Also, you gotta take a piss take a piss

So I mean it's three o'clock in the morning. You realize this is in Alabama

No, it's

I've got a rich. I've got a crit

Is this the cut off shirt the sunday shirt sunday? No, this is me and just me and underwear

Okay, this this is two o'clock three o'clock in the morning. I'm I got up from bed

So it's just me. I don't wear tidy whiteies. I wear a very particular single type of underwear that I wear every single day

Tommy johnson

No, it's good. It's a special pouch, right? It's just a special

special orthopedic underwear

Uh, so I'm out there youths. I'm out there just

whisting in the wind

Smoking a cigarette and drinking out of a orange juice carton and it dawned on me at that point in time. You're like

This is all that hard work is paid off. I can that was your yeah, I made it

I can do I can do

Whatever I want. That's where that's a scenario where a stray bullet hits

So

Game over and you that's your legacy. Yeah, like they find me too

You piece that's a good way to get an ashy butt and a dumped out there

Yeah, and with orthopedic underwear swinging in the wind just around my knees

What? Oh, it's nowhere near your knees. No, I'm talking about my yeah. Oh, no, that was

Beach

It was cold it was cold favorite car movie

The first one that popped into my head was garner 60 seconds, but I do actually like a lot of the uh

car action scenes in um

Another nicolas cage movie is uh the rock, you know with the fucking hummer and the fucking rocks good

Sean connery is a bad ass. Yeah that that whole fucking scene. I thought was fucking amazing

They tore up the fucking san francisco and yeah, it's still on. No, he wasn't in that one. Um

Also, no

Anyway, we're gonna call it at some point eventually right I think we probably need to mercy rule

Next up, uh

Best piece of advice

Best piece of advice besides don't use half inch staples

No, honestly, I was expecting you were holding a quarter inch sheet with a half inch staple and that ended up in your finger

No, I mean that's happened plenty of times, but uh best piece of advice. I mean

I would just say don't don't be afraid to do

To do what you want

When you want it, right? I wish I would have done what I did a little bit earlier

Um, but I was I was scared to

To like a disappoint my dad, right? Obviously that wasn't the case. He was happy for me and all that but

Just just do what makes you happy

Do what makes you happy. That's good. That's good

much you

drink bourbon

You know what the the the one that um

That just resonates really well. It's just failure's not an option. Just keep going. Just keep going

Failure's not an option. Just keep going. Hell yeah

Yeah

um

All right, we're gonna go

You grew up where high school years south south chicago south side chicago, uh, gage park

I went to gage park high school. All right. We're we're this is the first time. Good luck guessing that one, dude

I can't that's going to be your thing. That's going to be your thing. I don't I this is a

This is a pocket that I just don't understand

Um cta bus pass

Yeah, that's not no that's a no fucking car paper transfers back then and they used to staple the fucking thing

With the paper blood shots

So we go to uh, we try to sometimes if we if we feel in froggy, um, or we just

Want to try and guess

He's starting like google saying some shit, right? Are you trying to be cool? That's been a that's been a frog

That's a you feel you're googling froggy jump. That's been that's been a saying for 30 fucking years

Like socks on a rooster. Nothing. You've ever just don't fit. Yeah socks on a rooster

Yeah, you you're a good southern saying we have that's it's been a saying for

I'm sure it's a 50 fucking years

That's the first time I heard that we use. Yeah, I just used it now. You did. Yeah, um in lieu of something else proceed. Yeah

Thank you feeling a little froggy

That's what I think

You graduated in uh, 96 I graduated in 2003

I don't know where I got 96 from where he was in high school. That was when he was starting. Yeah. Yeah

You graduated high school in 2003. Yeah, you graduated high school. When were you in high school for 98?

Four years

98 I feel like he's starting

I

Tight, uh, age group age group here. What an appearance group. Yeah

What year are you? What year are you? 97. Okay, 97. What high school?

Uh

School hard work that's going to location or the name of the school. Oh, well, yeah

It was just it was a special little school that I went to my senior year

No, no, no that would be I didn't go to geared up for learning

I grew out of that one

It really wasn't a school

Oh

There's somebody at this table that went up went to it went the program that was geared up for learning my senior year

It was a program that was like learn or get locked up, right?

So there was a there was two different things like you're gonna you're gonna learn a little bit of something

hard knocks

I'll never forget it. I know you'll be in there's it comes

I don't think there's a weekend that we hang out a dinner that we go to with you and your wife

That somehow he doesn't work it in really it's just it's because I see it and I love the name

What do you see when you visualize it? What do you see? Uh bright colors

To get through interest so you'll stay so you'll so you'll stay engaged

No, it wasn't that but uh

The name I just more I'm more a good name wasn't yeah, I don't even care that you went I didn't brag about it

I'm more I'm more engaged with the name that a group of people that were like

You know what they won't feel so bad if we make this sound cool

And they it's

Horrible it feels just as bad now when you say it as it did back then that and the horse kick

That's if that's the two things that I will never in my entire life

And with a sprinkle of gussison

I got some bangers in my past you do. Uh, I remember I remember things

Uh, so in in north georgia, uh, lana suburbs is where I uh, I went to I went to couple

Yeah, I went to I was going to a school and then uh, was it a correctional facility in your year?

They said uh, maybe there's a better school for you to go to no, no, no, no that wasn't is that how they word it?

They're not there like you can't go here anymore

Oh, they yeah, they said you can't go here anymore

They didn't give me options. Uh, I yeah, I worded that a little

I appreciate the spin

Yeah

Georgia no, they just said you can't go here anymore. So you've got to find a different place

I should have an issue with pulling cd cases on people during uh altercations

cd cases

Yeah, turns out that'll get you out of a lot of trouble if that's what you claim that it was

Got it

Hey, we live and we learn

Um, we have to pay for those sins sometimes, um with our uh with our cassette logic with our kids

Yeah, and you get paid back with all that all that shit comes around. Can you believe what he did?

Hey, yep. Uh, yeah. Yeah

Yeah

You you you you're wildly off track. You're asking me questions. We're going we're going to pick cars first car

Yeah, we're going to first car and he sells that in Chicago

You're southern california southern california, but car and we're similar areas. We're o 397

96

I'm I'm changing this up for the first time ever. I'm asking another question that we usually ask later

When you graduated high school, what's the most listened to cd that you're listening to?

Listen to cd. No, I used

Listen to city or what I would listen to while I was driving my car. Yes. Yes. Yeah, yeah

Okay, what are you listening? What are you listening to? Well, it's the same thing

No, because I when I when I graduated I was driving before I graduated

So it was a little bit different. But what I was listening to when I was driving my car

I would almost every day I would bump

Twisted heat

You guys ever listened to no never even heard of that. So it's it's it's twisted heat by

Who the fuck is it twisted heat? I know can't heat. No twisted heat. So it's it's a rap song

I went out to play twisted heat

I'm not going to back you up on this one. Well, let's see what it is

Twist rough writers. Oh

Yeah, that's I can't believe you don't know twisted heat. Yeah, I don't know. It feels just film those twists. Oh, yeah

Yeah, yeah

Twisted here. I could probably sing it if I heard it better like fire that up the bass in this song

We got audio on that

That's exactly the kind of thing that I would hear in southern california and realize that I'm not in the neighborhood that I should be

As you're driving by is that twisted heat?

While you're listening is the is the bass is the bass thumping when you're listening to that

Thumping bad is your license plate rattle. Okay. Oh, it's it's almost falling out

The trunk

Yeah, okay, I like twist. I've never heard of that one before. Oh, you should listen. I don't think I've heard that either

Yeah, yeah, I've heard twisted dude. Say listen to twist a part on that one putting that on you being a

You know south sider. Yeah, well, what were you jamming? So

What was that jamming senior year because you can't on like public transportation?

It's a fucking walk. So you're right. I did not have a car

Senior year in high school. Um, but my buddy a couple of my buddies did

So with one buddy

He would pick me up from work and we would always jam out to uh, you were die back then capa dana capa dana

Wu Tang had just released his album

Yeah, so we actually he was one of the members and we uh, we listened to that all the time

But then when my other buddy it was outcast

AT ATL aliens

That shit was

It's I was came alive there. I was I was there when it happened and lived it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that shit was fucking high

For you this one feels those are like a rap

Connoisseur connoisseur. Yeah

He's probably gonna curate a museum at some point if if you could have gotten into

The challenger and just had said song come on

Every morning. What would it be?

Back then in WA

No, I wasn't gonna be a fan. Uh

Lot of bone thugs. Okay. Yeah, but what was I mean?

I remember the songs because he would drive me to school

The one with the siren the one that bone thugs at the siren

I don't know if there is one song good grief. This is gone

Taking a turn all of it. I want to do or die. Oh, yeah, of course. I'd listen to that now

But it was split because you were like and then it was like 311 sublime

Gene's addiction to will drive for it explore

No

It's just that's what my guess that was my guess it's california. There's two will drive regardless

To I'm sorry two door for it explores what I meant remember the two door

Yes, first first rooms with some subs in the back if I was wrong. I was wrong

It's just what I saw hand me down or something you bought hand me down suv or car

I bought it from my brother

So for tempo four door for tempo now. He's cooler than that. It wasn't about being cool

It was transportation dude what I could get at the time

Oh, you're trying to guess yeah, we're just trying to guess understood

I got nothing. No, I was gonna go OBS, but he said not cool. So

85 Honda Accord four door. Yeah, my dad did the interior and then we painted him in that blue

Pumping sounds 85 flip-up headlights, wouldn't it? Yep. Yeah. No. No no four four headlights. Okay 85

Yeah, Honda Accord. Yeah, I know I thought that was flip up. No, I just want to see I don't want you to know

I don't want to hear you know dual square headlights. No. Yeah, that sounds right actually 87. Yeah, maybe 85

Yeah, okay. Okay. All right. All right, and had um

Nietzsche bond wheels you heard of those Nietzsche bonds. Yeah BAH in I know all about some Nietzsche bonds

Imagine that car

Oh

That was my air. That's all I said. So I sold wheels

In that era. Yeah, one of Josh's 387 jobs. I mean, there's only like seven jobs granted

It was 85 Honda Accord, but we we did. Yeah, we could with it. Oh, we're in 20s, but they keep like you keep a clean

No

212s in the trunk 212s 212s. Yep 212s

Uh, what's the head unit? I was gonna go with with the speaker manufacturer. That's mtx's

No, I think there were no there were kickers kickers because it's an enthusiast. Yeah, enthusiast speaker

I blew up

Oh, wow, we had to connect with kicker at the time. So oh that makes sense it makes sense. All right, they hooked us up

First car you have you have I can't guess this is this is completely out of my era

This first car came when he was in his fucking 20s, dude after he was out of his mind. What would it be though?

Yeah, it was yeah, well 19 19. It was my freshman year of college

Freshman year of college

It was actually with my you know in um

Financial aid and then they give you a little bit of uh money to kind of buy books and stuff like that

But I was working at the time. So actually I already paid for my books. So I got this little check

And I was like, oh, it's whatever it is. All right. This is the era of just cars. Okay

So it is it's a car. It's either like a Buick a chef. It's a GM product. I think it's a GM product

It's your classic just four-door car. Yeah, and that could have been like, uh

Sob, right? Yeah, exactly. That's what I was it could have been any of the champagne four-door lasabrae or it could also be

a century it could be a century

Yeah, the it's fancy. It's lasabrae. My buddy that was bumping the the atl. Atl. It was uh, it was a

repainted be a powder blue north Carolina blue, uh, uh, lasaber

Yeah

It was the like the lure

Yeah

You could actually turn the wheel like yeah, you could grab it like a sailboat

Yeah, sorry to give you a lot of hints

What so what what was the actual naked model? Um, 1987, uh, Cadillacs at Denderville

Oh, but I did not have the valour seats. I had the vinyl

Oh, so silver silver

I mean, we're right. We're right there rolling rolling down to the docks to pick up a little bit of money

I didn't expect the caddy

Yeah, I actually got fucking rammed in it twice because it's outside Chicago. It was a beautiful fucking car yet

That's the shine caddy demands that that era caddy demands some respect people ain't gonna fuck around with that

Do you have no idea what you're doing?

But it was the 4100 v8. It was a dog shit engine dog shit. Do you have vokes?

I did not I did not I had the the the actual, you know, the nice spoked hubcaps and all that stuff

But I did not have the vokes then I have the vokes takes it up a notch

There's a lot of maintenance with fucking vokes. I was explaining that to Wyatt recently vokes. Yeah. Yeah

They kind of come back a little bit

You see dude, I saw a dude you'd come they come wrapped if you're if you sold them

They'd come to you. They come wrapped. No shit. Yeah. What's going on here?

There was a

A dude in a there's a new that link is a Lincoln Ford or that's newer sedan. Okay. Yeah, do you know what car that is?

The big the big it's got the door handled up on the thing

It's a great car it looked good

Fucking clean. Yeah

You can't just go and buy vokes bro. Yeah, I can see Scott

The Scott 100%

All right, next up, um

Most memorable law enforcement interaction story

Oh shit, there's too many

memorable

Either one if you if I just say you ever gotten fucked with the cops the first thing that pops in your head

Mexico

Oh, you don't want to federal

Oh, you don't want to fuck around down there though. No, no

So my wife's from one of the he could yeah, they'll never find a body

My wife's from one of the hada and

when

For one of the first times we went I'm like, I don't know. Well, I had a war friend chihuahua. I'm a family

I'm like, well, I had I heard there's like a lot of you know

Movement going on over there. It's like, no, it's real calm. Nothing ever happens movement. Yeah. It's a good term. Love love that term

Yes, I am

No, that's a professional way of saying it that's it's a lot of movement going on down there

So so she's like, no everything how everything's fine

So we landed it for the first time

We're on our way to her aunt's house

And there's a dead body in middle of the road

Around the corner from around so there was no movement. Yeah

So that trip started off a little rocky, right

We were like, okay, let's we're gonna drop off our bags. Let's go grab something to eat

I'm like my wife said, you know what jump in with my cousins. I'm gonna go with my aunt and we're gonna go to this restaurant

We jump in with the cousins

And we're going around the corner and we get lit up

and like

fuck

and for some reason

Her aunt gave one of her sons her purse and so there was a purse full of money in the back

Great, it's not a great sign. No, because there's four fucking dudes in the car with the purse. Yeah full of money

Yeah, and so now it's like the guys are the fucking cops are going through the car and they're like

Who's fucking purses this? It's like, well, it's did you you say your mom's? Yeah

fucking mom

Not a good idea. Yeah, I'm just saying they got in case you don't know don't do that. Yeah, just for future reference

They got these right. I know not to know

So they're sitting there with these rifles like pointed at us and and I'm like

Like hey, and I didn't bring my passport

So they're like, you don't have your passport. You got to come with us and I'm like

Motherfucker like my passport is I'll go get it. It's right around the corner. Like no, you don't have your passport

You got to come with us

and I and so the

My aunt the aunt comes and she's like motherfuckering you mother fuckers

How much money do you need to leave us the fuck alone because we all know that that's what you guys want. Yeah, right? So

She said hey you you stay over there lady and then he's like

To the cousin how much money you got

It's like

How much do you want? Yeah, he's like give me this one. He's like, okay

Handing them the money not here

Follow me around the corner and give it to me around the corner and because it's really like that

No, take it right here. You want the fucking money take it? No, follow me around the corner and give it to me around the corner

Oh, shit

And this and we got in the fucking car. We follow him around the corner. It comes up to the window

Put it in this little book

Slid the money in the book. Have a nice day. Oh, and I'm like

Fuck like they

They wanted to take me in not right for not no passport and they just wanted

Yeah, what's crazy to me? Yeah is how much did it take 100 bucks? Oh

But that's fishing right for them. Yeah, it's just it's fine get it done

But what's crazy to me is the fact that they singled you out for the passport, right?

because

That means you're

Who comes from the u.s. Or other countries down there to cause trouble, right?

That would be you'd be like, oh, you don't have your passport, but you're not a mexican citizen

You know what i'm saying? Yeah, that's the least or or they're just gonna fuck with you even more to get the money

That's what that's what there's no, I know that's what i'm saying. Yeah, that was the hook. That's the hook

One look at me and they're like, this is our motherfucker. Yeah

How does uh explain I thought it was good, but yeah wearing a shanjan shirt back that or probably yeah

Is it advantageous to have a little cash on you or is it not good then like would you say a little bit of cash?

Yeah, you don't want to have too much cash on you. Got it in case you need to

Yeah, this was a couple hundo. Yeah, it's a rare occasion. What is actually I have a better one. Well, I want to ask

We'll get to that. I want to on the on

explain

Either from a california terms or just nationwide

You've mentioned you're you're from chihuahua, right? Yep

And you're like I don't want to go to my wife's hometown, right? Because you're looking at that is like that's dangerous

What is the correlation as far as united states or in california between those two areas where you think that

Like chihuahua's safe, but you know, I never said chihuahua was safe. Okay. All right safer

Yeah, but I mean explain regions that would that be looking at like san diego versus south central

Would that be like what is what's the difference? What's the yeah, so chihuahua was more of a northern state? Okay, and um

So and they're more like a southern, right? Okay

Yeah, kind of like

More

Considered more order town. Okay. So it's a little more rule over there. No. No. Well, how does a big city?

Oh, yeah, you're right. It is a big city. Yeah. Yeah, so the

uh, chihuahua's more

Even though we have it's the biggest state in mexico chihuahua

I actually don't know how to explain that one. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I haven't been back to chihuahua since I was

Like a place I could like take no family on vacation. Well, that's how it's beautiful. Yeah, it's fucking beautiful

I just got back

Last week from there. We went to tequila. How come it seems like

The bahasur and down through that little finger has the least amount of movement

He picked up that word fast

Yeah, that word fast. Have you yeah, man? Yeah a couple times

So so rosarito valle de guadalupe, which is mexican wine country. Yeah, those places are

Amazing. Yes the food and the wine and everything is amazing, but they seem

Safer less movement. Yeah, well because it's because it's a border town

Okay, interesting

It there's the only movement

If you're involved in the movement

Otherwise they leave you alone really. Yeah

You're good. You're you may maybe have to pay a federally tax every now and then it's like that

But other than that, you're good. Yeah

And and you only have to do that if you do stupid because they don't want the heat

Yeah, the movement is not going to mess with you because they don't want the heat. No

It's not good for business

Gotcha. Josh did walk and watching narcos. Yeah, yeah, thanks. Oh, I have absolutely, but I

I'm intrigued by

I would want to I would like to know more and feel safer to visit way more

Oh, you should it's fucking beautiful

It's beautiful and it's really really chill unless you are involved in

Shit, if you look for trouble, you're gonna find it. True

Mexico city. That's not the best piece of advice. Um, well if you're looking for trouble, I don't want to never looking for trouble

You're looking for trouble. Don't trouble just sends trouble trouble

No, it's beautiful finds me. Yeah

Uh

You got another one. Yeah. All right, let's go. Let's go

We were in, uh, Rosarito

I went with my my wife was she was my girlfriend. You have no problem with us cops

You only get fucked with when you go to Mexico problems with us cops too, but we went to rosarito

and my wife was my girlfriend at the time and

so

We're in the truck

We're going back to the hotel and and her and her friend are in the front seat have a 2003 sovarado

With the flip-up armrest so

My wife next to me her friend next to her and they're fucking drinking beers, right?

We pull up to a red light and the cop is next to us and her and her friend

Oh

And the fucking cop lights us up right away and i'm like, what the fuck are you doing?

It's mexico, I'm like, so what?

It's a fight in laws. Yes, we can do whatever we want

So they pull us over and then uh the cops like

What are you doing? Yeah, it's like, oh, well, it's mexico. We thought that it was okay as long as he's not doing it

Like we're not fucking animals

He's like follow me and he took us to the fucking courthouse and I had to pay 350 dollars for that one

But but 350 and you're done three. Yeah 350 and you're good to go or they take your car. Whatever you want

And that's why so so that's why it's maybe like 400 and cats like yeah, you need cash

So you go to mexico you got 400 you got 50 bucks left over

Yeah walking around walking around

Hey, grab a haricho

You know, yeah, I got tacos

That's funny though that your wife's like

It's like a second drink

Favorite law enforcement interaction story

Most memorable most memorable so this one fucking sucked. All right, so it was um

College I had just bought my second car let go of the caddy and then

I was driving from midway airport, which is where my mom stays

To drop off the the girlfriend all the way in um

Addison and

Pretty much Harlem oak park oak park and addison a lot of movement down there by midway too. I've heard

Midway's got some action

Yes, yes

There's no easy way to get there right because I'm fucking I mean oak park in the heart

You know oak park and addison there's no fucking expressway anywhere nearby, right? And

So my my

Normal rot was just to go north on Cicero, you know, and then

Passing through Cicero, right Cicero town stoplight every two blocks maltese was the

What mayor commissioner or whatever the fuck she was back then

You know, she got really really fucking strict with window tents, you know, that was one of the little things that you know to drive

You know revenue and then stops and all that bullshit, right? So I got stopped

I mean her defense like 98 percent of the time if you've got 30 percent or darker

You're doing something

Trying to think I was a hot shit in math class

And then go into vegas, you know, I was a college kid. Yeah, you know

Uh, so yeah, so dropping her off. They stopped me, right? They stopped like fuck, you know, and they're like, hey, um

And I actually did buy the car with the fucking tents even though it's a golden excuse, right?

but uh

So yeah, they stopped me and like, hey, you know, the tents are pretty pretty dark

We're gonna have to uh, you know, that's what we stopped you like, okay, cool

So then they took my license took my insurance card or whatever everything was fine

And then the fucking tow truck pulls up

and I was like

It's not a good sign. No speaking from experiences

They don't come in they don't come just in case

Are you guys okay?

Yeah, no, no, no, they come to take shit. Yeah, they come to take shit. Yeah, they don't leave empty

So I'm like, um, you know, I could you know, you're gonna write me a ticket or you know, he's like, no

We're gonna we're gonna take the car and I was like take it. Where why? Yeah. Um, you know, my

You know, my insurance is in order everything, right? I appreciate it, but I'm good. Yeah

Yeah, no like no you got the tents and then so the uh, they impounded the car for the tents, right?

Yeah, I was wearing it was

25 30 degrees that night

And all I had was like a thin sweater and shorts because I was just driving her home and then coming back home, right?

Uh, they left me on the street. Uh, I didn't have a cell phone back then, you know, uh, didn't have a cell phone and uh

And won my shorts they get

I didn't believe there were blue and was you already you already said what you were listening to so we figured out

Context clues, right

Yeah, blue and was uh

What you're gonna call it flip flops probably. Um, just to get that

Because you know, that's the cali thing back then

Anyways, um, yeah, so the impounding my shit

Um, I had to walk to the nearest gas station to uh make a phone call, you know, somebody picked me up or whatever

But I was fucking freezing, you know, and then obviously the girlfriend was fucking pissed away. Oh, yeah. Yeah, um, then

Three day minimum impounding fee

All right, I'm sorry minimum impounding time

$500 fee for the for the tents and then I had like my little niece had just been born then

So on the mirror, I had like a little jordan shoe there because that was like her first shoe

She threw her out of so I had it hanging obstruction view of windshield. Oh, yeah

Yeah, they gave me a ticket for that and then, um

We even though we had our seatbelts, they gave us tickets for uh, not wearing the seatbelts $75 a piece

It cost me almost a grand. You couldn't see because of the tents

Yeah, yeah, it cost me almost a grand to get the car back. I want, you know, but

Absolutely dog shit. Yeah. Yeah, just just dog shit. Yeah, just dumb shit. So that's that's absolutely where pain

Is not

Proportionately applied to the right measure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I actually I might have even showed them my fucking, uh, UIC, uh

College, you know, like, hey, man, I got class in the morning. How am I gonna get to school? Do you still have 10 windows?

Uh, I do

I'm fine. It didn't hit hard enough. I'm fine

I'm a thousand percent drive through a sister room anymore. This is a

I'm a thousand percent fine with using the tent thing to fish

Right. Yeah, you want to pull them over?

Dark tent start hunting. Yeah, you don't find anything. Send them on their way

But there's no sense because you've pulled them over just to inspect. I mean, we can go into a down a long

Diatribe on just putting somebody into, you know, a penalty debt

That's that sends some people in the wrong direction

And uh, if you didn't find nothing you didn't find nothing right fish again cast again

You're gonna you keep casting you're gonna find something. But don't that's this fucking stupid to this day

I I don't drive through sister old town. I don't eat there. I don't nothing

I don't want nothing with that town. So as far as like whatever economic revenue, you know, impact

Oh, yeah, they obviously don't feel it, but whatever like you're not getting it

Chicago Chicago is funny though. Like I remember Chicago would have been fine. Yeah

You probably don't know this, but I was I was driving your Camaro that was

0102 that ss you had years ago. I was going to hang out with Ben. So I was trying to pawn that Jordan card. No

I was somewhere like on the north side. It's me. It's bro. It's mint

Somewhere on the north side and I leave like one stop light and just fucking get out that car

Just like below the fucking yeah

Like that instantly horse rivals. So it's like leave the stop light blow the fucking tires off and like

Next light turns red. Well, dude. I'm not fucking there's no way I'm stopping

Straight through the red light cop right there fucking blows me up pulls me over. I'm like fuck

In Chicago cops like dude the fuck are you doing? No, I'm like, I did I was going too fast. I couldn't slow down

Yeah, I know you got anything in the car

No, do I need to check? No, get the fuck out of here. No, really? Yeah, and I'm out. Yeah, okay

Check it later, dude. Watch this you pull that ship here like

Oh suburbs. Oh, yeah, they're nothing else to do. That's hit that. Well, Phil tried it. It's hit three over

Hit three over

We got an offer

Oh

I'm reading your license, but I'm looking at the truck and I

Looking at you and I just don't uh things don't add up. Yeah

But I live right there. Yeah, we're gonna have to get a sergeant to do this map because something ain't adding up

I have one one more. Oh, you absolutely

Anybody wants to keep on bringing them come on. This is another Mexico one

You have to stop going to Mexico. No, I love Mexico

We

Use that we were in Mexico for most of our law enforcement stories. Yeah

As most I mean, I have some us ones too, but the Mexico ones are better, right? That's really good. That's really good. So

Stupid, it's stupid. We're going to my bachelor party. Okay in Mexico, right?

It's five of us in a Cadillac CTS

Oh, yeah, your brother 2004 Cadillac CTS

And we're going to Mexico. It's good

We're

So we just crossed El Paso, Texas and we're going to go into Chihuahua

and there's a

A checkpoint in the middle of the road between El Paso and Chihuahua the soldiers are there

Just go ahead and did you drive from california to El Paso? We drove. Yeah, and yeah, it's 14 hours

to Chihuahua

16 hours, but we make it a 14. I'm sure you know this

When you see that don't hook a u-turn. No, just go ahead and

We when we stopped, right? Yeah, and and so they're like, hey everybody get out of the car

We need to check the car

All right, cool. We get out. Yeah, and and then they're like, um

Some of the soldiers are like checking and they're like

Hating all the door panels and

Trying to pull the door panel off. I'm like shit's custom. You need to get that door panel off. I got you

I'm the dude. That's what I do. Yes

And he's like, no, don't touch it. I'm like, okay

And then he comes over. He's like, hey, you have more than $10,000 in cash on you. I'm like, I fucking wish

And he didn't think that was very funny, right? So he's like, do you or not? I'm like, no, I do not

I got 350 bucks. Yeah

400 because I somebody tell I heard a story once that 400 was the proper

Proper amount

How much do you need?

So and so they're like, what do you do and they asked my brother and my brother was driving

It was his it was his Cadillac. He's like, well, I do upholstery and he's like

An upholsterer doesn't drive this type of car

This one does yeah

Well, well, we do he's like, what do you do?

I'm an upholsterer too

What do you do now that you're fucking with them? Yeah, one of the one of the camera guys from the show went to

The my bachelor party. He's like, oh, I'm a I'm a camera

I've I've I've videoed them doing upholstery

And then what do you do? Well

In spanish, he's like, I'm a paletero. That means I build pallets

Right, but paletero in spanish also means you sell popsicles

He's like you motherfucker

This is the first time me hearing the story I was going to say

You playing games

You're a camera operator and you sell pop

Yeah, he's like everybody get out of the fucking car

Fucking tore the car apart

Really?

Obviously they didn't find shit, but like

Did they tear it apart like no like where you can put it back together?

Yeah, we had to put it back together. Do they like just fuck it up?

Yeah, they just pulled all the fucking door panels off all the fucking christmas trees are done

Yeah, the trunk they fucking pulled all the liners off

And I was like, I told you motherfucker, I would have pulled that off

I mean one second for you nothing would have broke. Yeah

So that was another one

And then okay, you're on your way

We had a great time on my bachelor part. I bet I bet you had a great time

Should have went to vegas

We were at the right place

That is confidence right there

I'm

I'm going we're going to do a trip somehow. We're going to do a trip to mexico because I want somebody to shoot

I would love to but I'm like, I don't know that I want to go with you

We'll meet you at the resort

They might remember him

He used to drive that Cadillac

I know you got the lay of the land, but it sounds like they got like a senior frogs like where we're going

Yeah, you don't want to go there

The mexico city is legit though. Yeah, is it? Oh my fucking god. It is fucking amazing. You know, really disproportionately

They actually have the most mission star restaurants in a big city than anywhere in the fucking world

France fucking new york

Anywhere and their cocktail game is i thought mexico city is like a little dicey

Is that just nah man, it's it's

Correct for me city for me and you's can be a little bit of a problem

That's I says it's fine

No, no, no, this should be a third time going in like

Well, we stay we stay in polanco polanco's like the it's like the bevely hills almost

Of mexico, so it's it's it's fine. Is it like

When you see a golden little you know people walking golden

You're you're gonna feel fit right in all you guys are gonna be good

This table this side of the table it's like a clear divide. I mean a clear divide. Yeah

Is it like chicago whenever we get to the batter up every time we go especially to vegas

We get in the cab where you guys from chicago. Oh, oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah. No like you don't go to those areas

We've been to mexico city four or five times. We've never had an issue

Ever had an issue

Yeah, I mean, I don't go enough to have issues, but I picked the nice spots

I haven't been back to our hometown since I was a kid. So I couldn't tell you but mexico city

Just no interest

um

Just scared bro some of the stories and shit

Yeah, one of the stories that he uh from his brother, you know, when he first got his fucking

It was a beautiful fucking truck at silver out or whatever

He drove there and then they stopped him. I don't know if it was actually the the federales or the actual

Soldiers. Yeah, they stopped them. They had you know machine guns pointing at him

He had his kid in the car fucking car seat, you know, they checked or whatever and they let him go

But then he like drove back home. He's like, no fuck this. I'm I'm down with it. So yeah, I really there's

Yeah, it sounds worse than it is. Yeah

Machine guns in the head. I mean, that's pretty shitty

That's pretty shitty great for the most memorable stories. Oh, yeah, 100 I get it. Yeah, but it's enough for me to not be intrigued to go

Well, the food the food keeps pulling me back. No, no, and that's why I go to Mexico. I'll meet you. I'm a foodie

When you're talking about Michelin star restaurants, no, they have this proportionately in the world

They have the most mission

How about this? I I think I've solved the problem. Oh, you guys all these issues have came from the driving in

What if we all fly in and we'll meet in Mexico City?

That's the plan and then we hit a bunch of Michelin star restaurants

Everywhere, no problems. Yeah, let's just let's just do that. Oh, let's just not drive across the border

Yeah

It's so cheap. All right. We'll just everybody we're gonna fly down. They they see those california plates. Yeah. Oh, you're done

Yeah, you're cash cow. We'll bring we'll bring viny with us. I don't know that we should

Fucking a hector. They'll be like, I think we'll be I think we'll be good. Well, viny

You've met viny from viny's hot rods, right? We were talking about him

If you have not at the party at sima this year, you're gonna meet viny

Okay, because you and viny are gonna absolutely gonna get along. I machined the steering wheel for viny. Yeah, did you?

Yeah, for a Mustang. Okay. Yeah, if you so you never but you never met him

I've never met him. All right, viny's. You're gonna you're gonna meet viny. Okay. Yeah character

Yeah, yeah, like the coolest fucking dude vinesio madrigal

That's is viny. That's his actual god-given name. Yeah

All right, cool viny's the it's my fate my ultimate favorite story

Is viny's story of like we're talking about uh my square body

Legend truck that the seat's all fucked up and it's got what I call a mexican blanket on it

And viny's like I keep I keep telling the story and viny's like, yeah, yeah, if it's a fucking blanket, dude

And I'm like, yeah, it's it's like it's got the mexican blanket and something like well

What the fuck do you he's like, dude? I'm fucking mexican, bro. It's a fucking blanket. Yeah

It's a blanket stop putting that stop putting the extra on it. It's just a blanket

I grew up with a blanket

Yeah, you're gonna have a you're gonna have a good time with viny. Okay. Yeah, he'll be at the party

Yeah, they're bringing his crew. Yeah

Uh

All right last but not least

It's this has been the this has been this second half

This has been the second half of this season's favorite, right? I need I need to win did I?

I need a win or I might have to concede early. Nope

You just know giving up. It's not how hard you hit

I will not concede but uh

Very simple question

Uh, seemingly at this on the surface when you think about it, it's it's it's got some depth. Uh,

Sylvester Stallone or Burt Reynolds

Stallone

Okay, Stallone

How do you fucking beat Rambo?

Okay, you don't you don't you can't not you can't clear it

I'm it's a regional and cultural thing especially it's an age thing. I think it's an age. No it is

You and like the old fuckers

Yeah, like oh

Burt Reynolds is cool and like 1942 like we watched him. Yeah, it's like you're not talking about

You're not talking about too many different years from uh, uh smoking the bandit and uh, uh,

Rocky no, it's not what we're talking about. We're talking about rocky didn't start until rocky three

No, it's first of all

You're gonna talk about Stallone and say nobody talks about rocky one. The only reason there is a Stallone is because of rocky one

The only reason he exists

Right, right, right. Yeah. Yeah. He sold it a hundred fucking times in the hundred and first he got bought great

It is dog to get that and he maybe bought the and he bought the dog back. Yeah, that's great for movie buffs

I'm not a fucking movie buff. I'm a Stallone fan

I'm a fan of Stallone kicking the crap out of Ivan Drago. Shit, right? Like, okay. That's that's

I'm a fan of uh first blood, right? That's I still watch Tulsa king to

No, you know, I haven't if I could if I could understand him

I would watch it

I gotta put the closed captions on what's the problem dude. What is the problem? Tulsa king is he's hard

Difficult to understand

Did you say his southern accent? No, I said, I think it's the southern I think it's you the southern accent

It's because I have a southern accent. I can't understand other people

It can flip

It conflicts because he has he's got a certain way of speaking and you have a certain way of speaking and I think

I don't think that has I think they contradict

Yeah, I really do. I think the country you got you got two wins. You're going Stallone, too

Yeah, South side of Chicago. Actually, I can't even I can't even visualize but Reynolds. So it's still yeah

Yeah, and I watch and unfortunate for I watched the last episode in the fucking song

Yeah, that that's something to be proud of and what's all that hurt from drunkenstein. Yeah, that hurt

That hurt, but you know what?

Yeah, but dude, I didn't find I promise you I could find

Find it. I could find some pictures or videos of you that would be so detrimental. This first of all, okay

This is not about me and you I'm just saying everybody has something. Yeah, I know

Everybody has something. They're not proud. Careful. Careful getting geared up, right?

This isn't about

It started off

Don't touch the car door, bro

Don't touch the car door

I

It is regional and it is regional and I get that it's it's regional. It's a demographic

But it doesn't matter because it rains supreme

Would you say

Fucking hair and orange eyebrows and leopard print hair for like your

Shining moments. No, this isn't about this isn't about me. We're talking about individuals. I think Rambo

first blood the first one Rambo number one

a

absolute cinematic masterpiece

from

Start to finish from start to finish. It really was uh

Rocky one

Um, it was artsy, right a little. Yeah, I mean I get it. It was a budget budget. I probably

I probably like it now more than I did. Um, yeah, then younger

But it it's it's important and it's impactful because it kicked off everything that we know

There

There is unfortunately

um

Some highs very highs highs and some extremely low lows in

Instalones career. What are the fucking lows dude?

The one

So ask her bombs, right? Look, I like this. Yeah, exactly. It's I'm

Let's just we're not even we're not investigating fucking Bert Reynolds lows

Bert Reynolds lows are the lowest dude like the fucking no lowest

No, because you can't have lows when you're just like this

And let me tell you he had one moderate high. Let me know. Let me let me tell you something

How did you hear about drunkenstein?

Uh, and listener sent it to direct message for you. You didn't even know I did not know I and I was I was forthcoming with that

I had no idea once I saw it. However, I became overcome with joy and

Somebody dug it up somebody dug it up. Yeah, I didn't know about it

I 100% and in full transparency that we got direct message that video now that I've seen it though

The loan had a great pr team

Yeah, they buried it and they should have like everybody everybody misses think about like

I know you've had some mist. There's some fucking cars that I don't think you want to talk about

Yeah, how does this keep coming back to me and you this has to do with Stallone and Reynolds first

He's like a plunger bringing up ocean

You got the assassin the assassin I'm man enough to admit tonight. That's a good movie. Yeah, not really tonight

You get I liked it. I liked it. Yeah with uh, you got a two-time win with Stallone, right tonight. You won

Right tonight you won

Um, and I feel good about I still can't visualize Bert Reynolds, which is fucked up real quick before

What was your first car? Oh, yeah, my first vehicle ever

um

We had a we had a quick we went through I went through a decent amount of cars there from 16

To 17 but there's only one the very the very first one was a gift and that was a

1986

white

Pontiac

6000 four-door front-wheel drive squared off. It's the same. I mean, it's the same

It's the it's the it's the car. Remember when you drove when you drew a car as a kid

Yeah, but as a Pontiac always still had a head. No, it was it was the same thing as it was the same thing as a

Buick Olds, uh, chevrolet. What year was it? 1986?

Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, since question now, I gotta take a piss. Yeah, go for it dude

What was the fucking but I want to see this when we were talking about the Buick early and remember boris had the

It was always just the Buick, but it was

It was like the celebrity the

Oh, that's it. It was that car. That's ugly. That's still has the little

Oh, you're talking about that in the front. Oh, yeah, but the they do a little sprinkle of it. It's a funny. Yeah, that's that's the car

That's you do that is the car you should be driving to

Do you know what when?

That's totally the car you should be driving today. It didn't last killer street

It didn't last it was that street beast

Is a street beast right behind it the last picture. Oh, you're right. There's a back button on the browser that one is that one?

Yeah down

One down. Yeah the up to the right. There's a

Hey, what the fuck is a 34?

A damn hot

You want to see how many times I'm clicking on it?

Watch. Yeah, it's coming up. I clicked on it 16 times

I never even knew that was a car. Troy brought up the street beast. I brought it up for Troy. Oh, did you? Yeah

He built a couple of them red rise street beasts. Yeah, he's kind of known for that type of thing

That was the wheels it had on it the wire the wire. Yeah

I wish you it was white daily that thing today. I didn't I didn't daily it for long when I had it

What happened you wrecked that before the probe? There's no survive. Yeah, I wrecked it before the probe. There's no survivors

How did that wreck go down?

So that was uh

Is you and Cory? It was me and Cory. Yeah, 100% me and Cory. You left a sheet rock job. No, we were at my we were at my

Remember I told you stories about the school we went to where we had to

How many schools did you go to a couple of different schools or more jobs?

Well, wait, no explain the school to me because I don't want to hear about the school

All right, so we he's geared up to learn about your school

You remember that I've told stories about the this my senior year. I went to a

Alternative alternative school, right and we worked at our own pace, right? So you had paces, right?

So you got paces

You're flying through this. So you worked at a pace was the pace slower

Like the regular school you worked at your own pace

Okay, right. So that would actually be then that would be a slower pace

Then geared up for learning because if you could if you could have stayed at the current school

You would not be geared yourself up for learning and just slowed it down

That'd be like it'd be like a downshift, right? No a small because the pace that I worked at six gear

Maybe I was in fifth the pace that I worked at was so fucking fast because oh, so you were oh

You didn't belong there. No, I've told this story

My dad my dad is a preacher. My dad is a preacher to this day. This is an accelerated school

He was a preacher at that point in time the thing about having a I don't want to miss this, but I gotta go

Wait, there's a lot. There's a lot

Oh, we're gonna get this is just like the the cut and drive it. This is an accelerated school. This is more like a ap

like an uh

Like a like a savant school I

I excelled

Me and Cory excelled it like we were in ap. Yes

So you what what ux so you excelled and they put you in an advanced placement class. No, no, no, no, no

No, don't don't that absolutely did not happen. So then let's just let's call a spade a spade. I'm I'm I'm telling you

Exactly 100 the truth. I don't want you to dance around. I don't want you to glorify it. I want you to just hit me with it

This is I'm not glorifying it. Okay, so this is a school for

People that get that didn't make it in traditional learning

Right structure. They so they weren't able to gear themselves up for learning

They had to be taken out of the traditional school and put in. Yeah, sometimes kids are gifted in a certain way that they're that the teachers

Or they aren't talented. They aren't they aren't prepared

They are not uh, they don't have this proper skill set to deal with

These these talented of kids, right? So you have to move on. Yeah, and that's what we were we were we were moved on

Um, I mean, there's all kinds of stuff you had you have like government contracts and stuff with this school

And you had nasa coming in looking at these kids and stuff

No, yes, we're gonna stop because

They geared up for learning. We all know we all know at this point that I had you were geared. I had a hiccup

Right. I had a hiccup

And I had to I had to be pulled out of some regular classes amidst regular classes

It was in between periods. I was shifted to a a class that just kind of helped me gear up

However, I wasn't taken out of the school system. I was taken out for disciplinary action

All right. This has nothing to do with learning

The school system said we cannot handle your um,

Your your appetite for life, right? You because you are you like to live life at the fullest

We cannot handle you anymore. Okay. Um, so there was other we had that school. It was called ombudsman

It was local. That's another group name. Yeah. Oh, yeah

You guys and your names first school buddy. I had a couple bodies chase kaplan. Yeah

Aka meat whistle

went to ombudsman

Ombudsman. Yes, but um

Ombudsman was the school that was the school for the kids that they did either a shit ton of drugs

And the learning capacity was no longer there. Yeah, no drugs for me. Okay. I didn't do any I didn't do any much movement

Uh, too much movement. Yeah, too much excitement. Uh, couldn't sit still

So anyway, I'm gonna get back to the story. I'm literally going to tell you everything you want to know

I've told the story that on my in my senior year. I had to go to an alternative school because I was kicked out in 11th grade

right for behavioral

Excellent or whatever you want to look at it. Um, so

In my senior year about a two months in I we me and cori

Realized this school the way the paces that you learned right with the realize that it was

There was just one uh, uh master answer key, right? So the best thing we could do

We we slid that right out one day. Uh, uh, uh, we bar we we borrowed it, right?

My my dad's a preacher

There's a church

Uh, the best thing about a a church in that this is we're talking about the the the

Late 90s, right? So it's not like every kid had access to technology, right? It was very difficult to just

We had access to uh computers and copy machines, right? So

And stealing we and well the stealing part was that

We we had we had access to that. So we uh, we lifted a uh, uh, the answer keys

We made all the copies at the church. Um, and we were able to do that. This was senior year

Now rewind back to when I was 16 we had learned

We learned what to do in my senior year because of things we were doing in 16 where we

Again, once I knew realize my dad's church you're driving or you're literally driving in circles right now

No, I'm telling you trying to glorify this

And the I'm not trying to glorify anything

I went to a school because I got kicked out of multiple schools. How's that thing to be proud of just cut to the

Fucking chase. So we were at my dad's we're at my dad's church copying shit to cheat at school

Okay, I got that and we're leaving the parking lot

Corey's turning right

I'm like fucking waving at him and I blow through a red light four lane

And I get across the one across the two across the three and the fourth somebody hits me in the passenger front

Motherfucker here. We finally arrived at it. But you wanted to know about how stupid I was and I went to another school

That's where you started the questioning. Yeah, but you're dancing around in fucking circles trying to make it

You're trying to like justify it. I'm not trying to justify anything. We all know you wanted the story

What's just give me the name of the school. It was a special school. Give me the name of the school. No

Yeah, I won't

I won't ask jody or all your fucking dad. No, you the school doesn't matter

You want to know about the wreck and now you have you have poo pooed on my story after I've told it

Was it a school or a facility? I understand you've wrecked both of them were schools

I'm not I'm not leaving this podcast studio until I hear the name of the school. Which school the special school

The special school the special school that the other kids that did well

The one that couldn't get in

Based on the like I'll tell you the school

I will never tell you the name of the because it's a special school because it's almost as bad

Is this what I make for I'm gonna find out I'm gonna fucking dig into that. I'm gonna find out

It was you know, I will hire a private investigator. I'll spend fucking sizable amounts of money at least 400

That's fine. It was called. Yeah, what is it 350 will be the pressure. It was called the answer center

Is where you go in got the answers that is neck and neck with gear. I know that's why I said I didn't want to tell you

Okay, is that is that the is that the real name that's the hundred percent the real name

I couldn't make up anything worse the answer center. Yeah

It's where you went if you didn't have the answers they'd send you there to get the answers in georgia. Yeah

Is that why you read so much now? So you always have the answers the answers

No, he steals. I'm glad that we got here

I'm shocked as long as I've known you that I still haven't uncovered this kind of stuff

There's lots of things you'll never uncover

Well, it's buried this collection will uncover guys. It's it's deep. Yeah

Yeah, you got the skeletons you got farther now. Yeah, you've got a fucking walk-in closet

Is

Yes, fucking graveyard careful. We're gonna start digging up keep digging dude. That's like an Indian burial ground over there

What just telling you there's things there's things you could draw a colorful picture with colored pencils

What was your

91 christian lebaron 91 christian lebaron

We shared a couple years

Suburban it was like uh, well that was mom's car

The first car we own we shared. Yeah, you had the the lebaron the lebaron

It was a french sports car. What about your first personal car? Oh, yeah

Well, that was the first personal car because all right that you didn't share the first personal car

Uh, I built with with my dad a 69 camaro. Oh the one that's the one that's in the black and white car

That car's evolved like great times. It's been over the year. Yeah. Yeah, I did a 70 challenger

So, oh, oh, that's a fucking great first. This was before they were valuable. Yeah, I sold mine probably

At least three to four hours before they went through the roof

For the first bear jackson

It was like Chevy celebrity value. Yeah on on those cars

But yeah, we we bought uh, my dad bought bought the 69 car when I was

15

We found it on auto trader. It was like 4500 bucks

And then spent you know about a year building the car and that's kind of what started

Yeah, all this fucking crazy shit for me. Yeah the madness you got to redo that car

So it's not sitting in the back. I know man. It's

The problem is I know like what's underneath it. Yeah, every night in bolt is like, you know

Like I know the work that I did do it. Sometimes you just got to rip the bandit. I know he's gonna get geared up

But I put I mean revved

Josh might have the answer. Yeah

Yeah, I did I swear I didn't mean

100 000 swear I didn't mean the geared up for that. It just so happened when I said it admit I meant

To get excited about doing the project again, right? It's tough. It's hurtful. No, it just happened to come out that way

Yeah, it's tough to uh

To to get committed to to to take something that exists

And start over like you're gonna have to take it back. It's sort of a time capsule too. Like so, you know, it's memories there

You and pops, you know, yeah, so I kind of like like

It just sort of it's almost like yeah, if you take it apart you're kind of

Still got the plate plate system on it

The bottle didn't you have you know, it's still got the plate

But I'm building a 57 Chevy right now for me and my boys

And they're helping me

But it's not that we it's not that we don't have the detail, right? It's like

We're building this me

my boys

with the help of my guys, right, but

We're building this like as a motherfucking

Beater shop truck beat it. Yeah, right like it's gonna be

Fucking rust bucket shit, but it's gonna be something that we're driving every day me and my boys

And and so I bring them to the shop every weekend and we're working on this truck

And I think is that kind of what you guys were doing with the cabrera or no

it was

I have like an issue with I've got like an OCD thing and like a perfection thing

So he was doing that. Yeah, but I was doing something different. So like we can't leave that like that. Yeah, he was like

It's good enough. Like it's good enough. Yeah, Dan had to do less that he was checking things off of

And I was like a guy like so you're my son

You're my 12 year old son. Yeah, and I'm your dad. Yeah

And I'm like sitting in the garage like you know by myself

You know late night when I'm fucking 15 years old

And figuring out how because it drove me nuts that the gauge cluster looked like shit

And I figured out you could take like a silver paint pen and I'm outlining like everything on it because

Lines, yeah, make it look cool. Yeah, just to make it look like writer. Yeah, because it was chrome

Trying to brighten it up trying to restore silver would just look just as good trying to restore every single piece of the car

to perfection

And it that's just how that's how it registered with me and he was more like

Let's get it. Get it done. Get it done and let's get it done. Get it done. Leave it. Leave the fucking gauges

Who's gonna see it drive the motherfuckers drive an old car?

Yeah, yeah, so we have sort of differing views

But it but worked out in the end. Yeah

But that's probably why the car sit because the car sits because it will if I ever redo it

It's either perfection or I'm not gonna touch it

So either leave it alone and let it be nostalgic

Yeah, or it has to be or just do it right like flawless

Yeah, and I know the world's got enough flawless. That's a major

Undertaker that's that is true. Yeah, it does. It's got enough flawless cameras. It does don't don't why does it need another one? Yeah

I watched the doc the documentary

This shack documentary on Netflix. Do you ever do you ever take it out for a spin just like every once in a while?

I will and it's it's a little bit of a trip down memory lane

Yeah

Because there's some neat things about it that are just an absolute blast from the past if that's the case leave it alone

Yeah, and I kind of like that because it's like a time cap to back to

Yeah, it is. Yeah, if that's the case leave it alone. It's the same motor. It sounds the fucking same

Yeah, because the the actually the 57 Chevy that I'm building with my kids right now

It's it's the motor from the 70 El Camino

That my dad had when I used to I used to drive that 70 El Camino to high school. That's cool

That is that is that it's been so so we took that motor my dad bought a he bought a new motor for it

And I'm like, hey, what are you gonna do with that old motor? He's like nothing. It's a 400 small block. I'm like, I'll take it

Like what are you gonna do with that? I'm like, I'll put the throat in this 57 Chevy. We're gonna do

You're like, okay, have it

But to me it means something more. Yeah. Yeah, that's the motor. I remember spinning out of control in that fucking

And ending up in a fucking bitch, right? Yeah. So to me it's like, yeah, yeah, I want that motherfucker, right?

That's cool

Dude, this has been an absolute fucking blast

Absolute fucking black you never know what you're gonna get into

And I know we've said that all the time and I know probably listeners probably hear it tired of hearing that

When you start an episode

When listeners start an episode

Based on who's the guest and when we start an episode to sit down you have no idea

Where it's gonna go. What direction it's gonna go. What conversations you're gonna have what connection you're gonna have

How much fun you're gonna have

And they're all they're all different

um

I had an absolute blast of a time

For me, it's about hanging out. Yeah, this was a fun. You can tell by the spread of whiskey

That's sitting on the table and you brought some awesome stuff, man

Hell of a fun conversation because I appreciate you

Oh, absolutely amazing time guys for having us dude. Thank you for coming. Thank you for doing the shit that you're doing

um, thank you for trusting roachershop

I I still can't get over the quality that you've been able to put out

in such a short time as far as being pro builder air quotes and uh

You better get these livers ready because like fucking sema is coming up and we're gonna party

That's the quality won't be what's on this table, but the quantity will be yeah. Yeah

We're all gonna we're all gonna give that wink of like we yeah, it's a numbers game. It's a hundred percent a numbers game

No, let's do it. Hey, you gotta come out. All right. Stop. Stop. I'm fucking around. Let's do it. Let's do it

I'm making up. Uh, we'll see you again next week. See you

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