MartiniWorks Podcast Dec 19, 2025

Reality Of Owning an R35 GT-R & Being a Full Time Content Creator

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Concept

Tokyo Drift

Tokyo Drift is a movie about street racing in Japan, where drivers slide their cars around corners in a style called drifting. It shows a lot of cool cars and racing scenes that many car fans love.

Car

Nissan GT-R

The Nissan GT-R is a fast sports car that many car enthusiasts love. It's known for its speed and technology, making it a popular choice among racers and fans.

Term

The transmission light is a warning light on your car's dashboard. If it lights up, it means there might be something wrong with the part of the car that helps it change gears, and you should get it checked out.

Car

Nissan R35 Gtr

The Nissan GT-R is a super-fast sports car that people admire for its speed and cool technology. It's known for being really powerful and is loved by car fans around the world.

Term

Godzilla mode

Godzilla mode is a special performance setting in the Nissan GT-R that makes the car go really fast and perform at its best. It's named after the car's nickname, 'Godzilla', because of its power.

Term

Miami blue

Miami Blue is a bright and eye-catching color that many car enthusiasts love. It's often used to make cars stand out and look more exciting.

Car

Toyota 4Runner

The Toyota 4Runner is a tough SUV that can handle off-road adventures. It's popular for its strong build and ability to go on rough terrains.

Part

RFX 17 wheels

RFX 17 wheels are special wheels made for cars that can make them look better and perform well. They are popular among car enthusiasts.

Company

Rohana

Rohana makes custom wheels for cars, allowing owners to personalize their vehicles. They are recognized for their quality and style.

Term

305 tires

305 tires are a bit narrower than 325 tires, but they still help cars stick to the road well. They're commonly found on performance cars.

Term

325 tires

325 tires are wide tires that help cars grip the road better. They're often used on fast cars to improve handling and stability.

Car

Audi R8

The Audi R8 is a fast and stylish sports car made by Audi. It's known for its great performance and looks, making it a popular choice among car enthusiasts.

Term

Datsun

Datsun is a brand of cars that was made by Nissan a long time ago. They are known for being affordable and fun to drive, and many people still love them today.

Term

MSRP

MSRP is the price that the car maker suggests you should pay for a new car. It's like a starting point for how much the car costs when you go to buy it.

Car

Toyota Supra

Car

Honda S2000

The Honda S2000 is a small sports car that is very fun to drive. It has a powerful engine and is loved by many car fans for its great handling and performance.

Part

bell housing

The bell housing is a part that covers and protects the connection between the engine and the transmission. If it has problems, it can be expensive to fix, especially in certain cars.

Term

GTR transmission

The GTR transmission is part of the Nissan GT-R sports car. It's built to handle a lot of power and helps the car shift gears quickly for better speed and performance.

Car

Nissan Altima

The Nissan Altima is a car that many people use for everyday driving. It's known for being comfortable and good on gas.

Car

Nissan Maxima

The Nissan Maxima is a larger car than the Altima, and it is designed to be sportier and more luxurious.

Part

thermostat

A thermostat helps keep the engine at the right temperature. If it breaks, the engine can get too hot or not work well.

Car

Nissan 370Z

The Nissan 370Z is a fast sports car that many people enjoy because it has a strong engine and handles well. It's designed for those who love to drive and want a thrilling experience.

Car

Infiniti 370Z

The Infiniti 370Z is a sporty car that is fun to drive. It looks good and is designed for performance.

Term

horsepower

Horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine is. The more horsepower a car has, the faster it can go and the quicker it can accelerate.

Term

full bolt on

'Full bolt on' means adding parts to a car that improve its performance without changing the engine itself. It's a way to make a car faster by just replacing or adding parts.

Term

CBA GT-R

The CBA GT-R is a version of the Nissan GT-R made between 2008 and 2011. It's known for being very fast and having advanced features that help it perform well on the road.

Car

Chevrolet C8

The Chevrolet Corvette is a fast sports car that many people love because it looks cool and drives really well. The latest version, called the C8, has its engine in the middle of the car, which helps it handle better on the road.

Part

twin turbos

Twin turbos are two devices that help the engine get more air, which makes it more powerful. They help the car go faster and perform better by increasing the amount of fuel that can be burned.

Company

Texas Speed

Texas Speed is a company that makes parts to make cars go faster and perform better. They are known for their work on high-performance cars like the Corvette.

Term

turbo spool

When you hear a 'turbo spool,' it means the turbocharger is working to increase the engine's power. It makes a distinctive sound that many car fans love to hear when accelerating.

Term

backfire

Backfire is a loud noise that happens when fuel in the exhaust system ignites unexpectedly. It can sound like a pop or bang and is often a sign of a problem with the engine's fuel system.

Term

ECU

The ECU is like the brain of the car's engine. It helps the engine run smoothly by making adjustments based on information from sensors, ensuring better performance and fuel efficiency.

Company

Continental

Continental is a company that makes tires for cars. They are known for producing reliable and high-quality tires for different driving conditions.

Part

Extreme Contact Sport 02

The Extreme Contact Sport 02 is a type of tire made for sports cars. It helps the car grip the road better, especially when driving fast or taking sharp turns.

Part

DWS06 Plus

The DWS06 Plus is a type of tire that can be used in all seasons, meaning it works well in both rain and dry weather, making it a good choice for everyday driving.

Car

Mazda Miatas

The Mazda Miata is a small, two-door car that is really fun to drive. It's popular among people who like racing because it's light and easy to handle.

Car

Mercedes-Benz Bclass

The Mercedes-Benz B-Class is a small family car that has a lot of space and nice features. It's a good option for people who want a comfortable ride with a touch of luxury.

Car

Fiat 500S

The Fiat 500 is a tiny car that looks cute and is easy to drive around in the city. It's perfect for people who need a small car for getting around town.

Car

Acura Tlxs

The Acura TLX is a fancy car that feels nice to drive and has a lot of cool features. It's a good choice for someone looking for a comfortable and stylish car.

Car

BMW E46

The BMW 3 Series is a stylish and comfortable car that many people enjoy driving. It's known for being sporty and has a lot of modern features that make it a nice choice for daily use.

Car

Volkswagen Jetta

The Volkswagen Jetta is a comfortable and practical car that people like for its roomy inside and smooth ride. It's a good option for those who need a reliable car for everyday use.

Car

Toyota Corolla

The Toyota Corolla is a very popular car that many people buy because it's reliable and gets good gas mileage. It's a great choice for anyone looking for a simple and dependable car.

LIVE

Welcome back to the Martini Works podcast.

Alex is in the upside down.

Yeah. You know what I'm saying?

I know what you're saying.

Yeah. So we're here with a new special guest, but not really new because he's

been around here for a minute.

Yeah. You want to introduce yourself?

Yeah. So my name is Greg Stoll.

I am the creative producer for Alex Martini.

Like they said, I'm just really in the background.

Most of you know me from the Hong Bang.

I do most of my editing in the background.

You're home.

My home, a home away from home.

So yeah, I'm from Mississippi, moved here about like a year and a half ago.

Been working under the Meta Martini program for the past year and a half.

I was doing the marketing side at first.

And then towards the beginning of this year,

we transitioned into doing more content on the Alex Martini side.

Heck yeah.

Been doing that since January.

Been doing some rad things with him, a lot of motorsport stuff.

And so just been doing that and we're really excited for 2026.

Hey, been a busy boy.

Oh, it's I would say ever since moving here, it's been nonstop.

I was, I signed my contract actually for this job while I was in Saudi Arabia

for the Call of Duty tournament that I was at.

That's wild.

Okay.

Maybe making a hella content.

Yeah, no matter what it is.

Before I joined this the year,

I was actually traveling doing Call of Duty tournaments,

filming documentaries and things like that.

And Alex posted something on his story about needing an editor.

And I was like, I'll be there tomorrow.

And he was like, all right, see you this week.

Yeah.

And so after that, we're like, OK, let's be serious.

Let's do this the right way.

Had a couple of interviews with Dustin.

It was a little bit of a long process just because of what was going on here.

Gloria, that happened.

So they had to use the U-Haul to go to the Drift Mansion.

I remember seeing.

Oh, yeah, I was keeping it up every day.

I'm like, damn, they're really busy.

And let's go.

Let's go.

And Alex is driving to U-Haul from Wisconsin because his car broke down.

Oh, great.

So that sums up pretty well, too.

Yeah, it's been really cool to see you come on board

and all the stuff you've filmed and edited.

And I mean, you've done tons of traveling with Alex, too.

Yeah, I would say right off the get go.

The first one we did, he was like, you want to come with me to Japan?

And I would say Japan's like the bucket list thing for anybody in the car scene.

Right.

But as well as like growing up, like Fast and Furious and stuff like that.

That's what I grew up on.

So seeing like Tokyo Drift and stuff being out there, the underground scene,

seeing these cars, it's like, holy crap.

They made Tokyo Drift in real life.

They did.

So how did you get into like filming and editing?

Where'd you start there?

I guess we can just, I was around 14, 15, still competing Call of Duty.

That's why I got kicked into everything, doing some game battles and everything.

Were you making MLG edits back in the day?

I was.

The MLG edit, that's what got me my bread and butter.

I was 14 or 15 playing these game battles matches on Modern Warfare 2.

And so me and my buddies would just make YouTube videos,

just sitting there and Skype calls before discordant anything.

So there's some pretty embarrassing videos of me out there

that hopefully are unlisted for that good reason.

But so after that, I just had that editing always in the back of my mind,

passion and so growing up through high school, TJ Hunt and everything came out.

And so all my buddies literally through second period every day,

we would watch the new TJ Hunt video or Adam Lze.

And then the person that really pushed me to do what I do is Dustin Williams.

He lived about an hour and a half away from me.

Oh, that's crazy.

So when he graduated from USM, which is like the college away from me,

he packed all of his bags up, got his car and drove all the way to California

to film for Tanner Fox.

And I was like, that is what I want to do.

And that's what I strive to do.

So ever since 16, that's all I've been telling my friends.

I'm going to make YouTube videos.

I'm going to have a cool GTR.

TJ Hunt bought his GTR at the time.

The Deep Blue Pearl Black Edition.

That's by far the best GTR color that was the last one Paul Walker drove

in the movie when he did that little underground scene under the tunnel.

By far, that's like that's what got me into cars.

And that's also what got me hooked on to the GTR.

So I was like, I'm going to make YouTube videos and I'm going to buy a GTR.

And I told him I was all I was going to do that by was 21.

So when I turned 21, the next month, actually on Martin Luther King day,

because it was a bank holiday, I went to go get a check because with how my family is,

I'm very blessed to be in the situation I am.

My grandparents had all my life had had this account.

And so with how I did in school and everything, they were like, you don't need

this money to use school, so use that money for however you want.

And so I was like, perfect, let's buy a GTR.

I cut that money in half.

I went and bought a 2015 GTR.

I bought in January with around 48,000 miles.

And in the span of six and a half months, I put 11,000 miles on it.

Took it to all the slanted enough shows.

The only thing I really did to it was put a flamethrower tune on it.

So it shot 12 foot flames.

So towards the end, like when Gatlinburg was coming around,

the goal is always the widebody car.

And so the problem with GTRs is they're very expensive for the widebody kits.

So when I was pricing it out to have a widebody GTR,

I would basically have to put another GTR on top of my GTR.

Jeez, I didn't realize it was that expensive.

Yeah, I would say all in all, to do a widebody kit with the wheels and everything,

I would say you're looking around 35 to 45 on a GTR.

That is so crazy.

So rocket, rocket money, pandem kit alone right now is like, I think 14, 15.

And that's raw, raw, no carbon or anything.

And then you also the wheels, which what size were your wheels?

Well, we haven't got to that part.

They don't know what car I got.

I was I was like, crap, I want a widebody car.

That's the dream.

So just one day I'm scrolling on Facebook Marketplace and this widebody

Miami blue GTR pops up for sale on Facebook Marketplace.

I'm like, I want you.

And so a week goes by, the guys like, hey, dude, I'm getting so many like

spams and stuff like that.

I'm going to take the listing down, but if you're still interested,

I'm completely up to sell it to you.

So I'm like, oh, a car that's not even on the market.

I'm for sure getting this car.

So I went to Gatlinburg.

I was actually supposed to buy it at the show in Gatlinburg.

My bank told me it was going to take two weeks to get the money.

So I was like, OK, I'll make a deal with the Nissan dealership

because they gave me the same amount of money I bought for the car.

But I put 11,000 miles on it.

I'm like, I'm like, I'm going to take it back.

That's free money.

I basically drove a car for 11 months free.

So I was like, one one request is I get one last weekend.

So I took it to Gatlinburg, drove through all the mountains and everything.

I never forget as soon as I get back to the state line,

a transmission light comes on service transmission.

Oh, shit.

And so your stomach had to fucking drop.

Yeah, I was like, oh, please don't be broken.

Like this is the GTR.

Literally, it's like I'm like, it's happening.

It's finally happening.

And just to clear it up real quick.

So you're you have an R35 GTR in your possession.

You're selling that one because you want you found one a marketplace.

Why body ready to go?

Wide body wheels, bag should ready.

The only thing I was going to do is just change it to make it mine

because I know the people in the car scene is like, oh, that's such and such car.

Yeah, yeah.

I was like, you need to make it your own.

So 100% at home, that transmission light.

I cleared the code.

I let them know that.

Hey, you need to service it.

And they're like, OK, that's completely fine.

They gave me the check.

Flood in North Carolina.

Swindle them.

Good. They swindle everyone else.

Fun fact about that car, that GTR that I sold to the dealership.

Actually, six months ago, check the car fax and it failed

emissions three times in Texas because it was shooting 12 foot flames.

It's it's it's running Texas 2K down there.

The thing about those cars is to switch it to the flame tune.

You have to hold the cruise control and it has modes one, three, four

that you can pick on the speedometer.

And so the fourth is Godzilla mode is what they call it.

So I left it on Godzilla mode when you drink it at the dealership.

So any time that they rev the car or drove the car past three thousand

RPMs and lightly tapped the throttle, it literally sounded like an AK-47.

So diabolical in my head.

I'm like, and they probably never knew how to fucking turn it off.

Yeah, exactly.

Because I had the OBD like the oh my God, I'm like in my head.

I'm like, failed emissions three times.

Now, why is that interesting?

Maybe the flame.

So I'm glad that car is out of my hands because it was definitely on

his last leg.

Do you miss it?

But I actually went to North Carolina and I bought a 2009

Pandem Rocket Bunny.

It was on work VSKX's.

Okay.

Um, and then VSSX my bad, sorry.

And it was wrapped in Miami blue and Nasatec Miami blue, which was always

my dream color Miami blue, but the previous owner had it.

So I was like, crap, I can't keep this color.

So I'm just driving one day and for some reason I drove past the new

forerunner and they had that lunar rock greenish color.

And I'm like, hey, oh, hey, yeah.

That color is so good.

It's so good.

My logic to that is like, I wanted to do a Nardo gray, but everyone in

their mother loved that color and that color went crazy.

And so in the sun, it's like this nice and mint color, but when it's

in the shadows, it literally looks like a Nardo gray.

So I did that as well as I sold the works and I went through Rohana.

Shout out Rohana.

They made me some custom RFX 17s with 12 inch in the rear carbon barrels.

So those were some, some meaty jammers that had what car 20 by 12s, 20 by

12s in the rear and then 20 by 11 and a half literally truck wheels.

Three 25s in the rear, three or fives in the front.

Like, damn, I gotta say, hopefully Joe's put up a photo of Greg's R35 because

it was so sick.

Oh my God, I love that car.

We were following it when we were down in Gatt.

He had it down there.

I'm not kidding.

That that fucker was almost paint to paint on the road.

Like it took up the entire lane.

It was so wide boy license plate.

Yeah, check out the worst part about that car was transportation.

So like that's the main reason why I always drove that car as well is

because literally no transport company.

Yeah, like you have to have a 95 inch.

I think it was like 95 inches and rear tire to rear tire.

That car is 93 inches.

Jesus Christ, that doesn't leave a lot of room for air.

No, that carbon fiber lips.

Yeah, so a lot of danger in that as well as like you said how wide it is.

I think the legal limit on the road is like 74 and a half, 75 inches.

So it's like it's paint to paint, but it's like one inch away from getting pulled over.

Now, I had that car for almost three years.

I took it to every slam enough event.

I put I think around almost 13,000 miles on that car.

Loved it to death.

I'm a I'm a die hard GTR fan boy to the day I die.

But I ended up selling it at the beginning of this year, just because

with all we had going on, the martini works racing and everything, that kind

of struck the bug and I was like, got a got a race, got a race.

Yeah. Yeah.

So a little bit maybe going out of the stance culture and more into the race

culture, I would say so.

I mean, my heart still lies in the stance culture.

I would say at the end of the day, dream car for me will be a bagged R8

on some nice wheels that like New Gen R8.

That's that's the ultimate car for me.

But at the same time, the GTR, it got me so comfortable in that platform.

It made me kind of de-realization of the like the older 90s and thousands

car. So like I'm starting to pick up more of like the Datsun doing the whole

series with the Datsun.

Yeah, really.

Other cars, some other cars that are here that you don't know about yet.

Just a lot of things have inspired me to go more on the, I would say,

cheaper side of the market, just because there's so much more to offer.

Yeah. And there's a ton of potential in those cars, too.

That's what I learned, too, is like necessarily like the MSRP of the car

doesn't necessarily dictate how much fun you'll have with it.

Because like I think I've said before in the podcast, but I've had like just

as much fun driving my Supra as I have an S2000.

And that really opened my eyes a lot.

Not I did love the Supra and that was probably one of my favorite cars of

everyone, but it's like I still like to this day, I'd hop into an S2K.

I'd purchase one, I would get one and it's like they weren't the same

price as the Supra.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, now they are.

You're right. You're now they are getting to the same price as the Supra.

But I know what you mean.

Greg, I think a lot of people aspire to own an R35 one day.

I think that's a dream car for a lot of people.

They are fantastic cars.

Since you've had multiple and you've owned them for years, do you have any pros

and cons or things to look out for with them?

I would say, and then I'm always looking at them to look in the market and stuff

like there was just one that popped up for sale for like 60 grand.

And I was looking up like crazy.

I'm like, OK, let's look at the my checklist when it looks at GTRs.

I look at the owner history.

If a GTR has more than four to five owners, you need to be scared.

That's kind of a roughly because most of the time, the last three to four

owners of that car literally put their whole bank account into that car

and are making payment to payment.

So if anything breaks, they're SOL.

So they didn't fix it pretty much like, you know that you're you're going to

have to have a hefty bill when you buy that car.

I would say the transmission.

Luckily, both of my cars that I bought had the bell housing replaced.

Bell housing is the most common issue.

It's a lot of people think it's the transmission in the GTR.

But what happens is there's a the bell housing trans like the fitting to the

transmission, there's this little rubber grommet over time that wears out.

And so if you side by side with a new bell housing to this other like the old one,

there's a massive play in it.

And so once that gives out the transmission, that's what causes the transmission.

Causes other issues.

So as long as the bell housing is OK and the card is in good condition with service,

most of the time, GTR owners are very respectful for the cars.

There are those few that are, you know, those thirty, forty thousand dollars

that are one hundred and fifteen thousand miles that are launching it.

I think the first one, the first one I bought that blew my mind.

They usually say a GTR transmission last eight to nine launches.

And what? Yeah. Yeah.

I know a guy that launches way more than that.

Not you. Well, you know, well, you know, you guys know.

So on the first one, I opened up the tuner and it said launches activated 24.

And I was like, oh, this is like a Russian roulette right now.

So anytime I'll launch this car, there was always like a flip of the coin.

It was pretty much like I didn't know it recorded launches. That's cool.

Oh, so you can't see it in the Nissan system itself.

OK, an ecu tech. They have a phone app.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah.

And as well as if you go through the actual Nissan dealership

to get like a PPR or something like that, they plug it into the actual computer

and they can read it on the back end.

So but you can't keep tabs on.

So even though some owners think, oh, well, this guy, this guy, there's a there's a dog.

Might have seen him on my team works couple of times.

Yeah, he's been here around more popular than me.

All right, see you on.

But no, on the services with those.

I thought she lost my train of thought.

Oh, we were just talking about about housing

like issues on the R35 and the transmissions and launches.

Yeah. So with the launches and stuff like that, they might like people

like I'm going to launch the car, but like they'll never know.

They always know. They'll know.

Trust me.

So you just got to dot your T's and I's when you look into those cars,

as long as these cars are really maintained and you meet the owners.

A lot of these kids, too, a lot of I say kids, because a lot of people

that own GTRs nowadays are my age, 20s, 25.

Yeah, hell like because it is that like you said,

it is that affordable super car to get into the affordable.

It's still a lot of money, but I mean, when you're getting them for 50, 60 K,

you're getting so much car for that price.

It's really hard to compete with it.

At the end of the day, that car is a Nissan.

It's a Nissan Altima site.

Easy. I'm not kidding.

You go look on the inside.

There's so many parts that you're like, oh, my God, that's on an Altima

or like the ceiling, like the roof.

Oh, I bet that's the same stuff they use for the Maxima.

And it's like I had a thermostat go out on my first one

and I bought the part from Nissan for 30 bucks.

And I'm like, OK, something's not added up and I get it.

And it's Infinity 370Z.

Like all the logos around open it up and my buddy, he had a 370Z at the time

and he goes, bro, that's the same thermostat that I have on my car.

So it's like it just kind of made me realize at the end of the day,

it's literally just a glorified Maxima, which is a lot of horsepower.

Yeah, so those cars are super powerful, super reliable.

You can take it from Florida to California and have no issues.

Yeah, but I think they are a little bit underhyped, honestly,

especially to as they've come down in price.

I know they're everywhere.

I know like Nissan's made them for so long, but they are such good cars.

If you've never been in one, if you've never driven one or rode in one, do it.

It'll change your mind about you'll you'll become a fan.

But yeah, like our buddy used to have one.

He'd take us and he would launch it quite a bit.

It literally puts your stomach in your throat.

It's crazy. They haul ass and then a few mods to them.

Oh, yeah, you're making serious power 650 on full bolt on.

I mean, I would never floor that car to like all the way to the floor.

And I did it like a few times.

But every single time I did it, I would always have to process like, what was that?

Yeah, it pulls like a freight like the millennium animal.

Yeah, I'm like, oh my God, where am I at now?

The tunnel vision 100 percent like another thing.

Like those car like the problem with Nissan with the GTR is like,

don't mean to drag them out, but they built that car for almost 20 years.

Not much changed over the platform throughout the whole.

Yeah, just a couple facelifts and stuff.

I was going to ask if there's any differences because like you said,

the first one was a 2015 and the other one was a 2009.

So they go off with three different titles.

So the first might be wrong butchering it.

But 2009 or 2008 to 2011 was a CBA GTR.

And then from 2011 to 2016, they did a DBA,

which was a little bit upgraded on the transmission software upgrade.

And then the facelift.

OK, that's what happened in 2017.

And that became a forgot what they were CBA DBA.

And then I forgot what the other one is.

But the 17 and up was the last model.

But all they did was just like the infotainment alone.

It's like fresh it up.

Yeah, there was nothing really extravagant on the powertrain

that like would change people.

And like at the end of the day, you would go to the dealership like,

oh, there's a new GTR.

I'm going to sell my old one.

You would go sit in it.

It's like, what's what's new?

I'm going to keep my old one.

Japanese cars, if they figure out a recipe, they will not change.

They don't fix what's not broken.

Like you said, with the forerunner.

Yeah, that's what I'm comparing Toyota.

Yeah, once they figure out something that starts selling,

they're like, we're going to rinse and repeat until it don't sell no more.

And they're going to do it for the next 20 years.

It worked.

Yeah, well, you go look at those GTR threads and group pages pretty much.

There's about five to 10 people every month.

It's like, why is this GTR still the same?

Like we spent the same year.

I'm not going to spend 200,000 on the final edition GTR

that looks exactly like the car in 2016, just because it has.

Because it's numbered or whatever it is.

Millennium Jade.

People get worked up about that, but at the same time,

there's a lot of benefits to it for the consumer too,

because it's like, even for the forerunner or whatever,

when you make it for that many years,

there's so many readily available parts.

There's so many forums.

And if you have any issues, they've been answered 5,000 times.

Nothing really changed.

Every modification under the sun is available

because they've been out that long

and people have been producing and making parts.

When you buy like the first year of something,

you don't realize how much it kind of sucks

because there's so much R&D and development that delves.

That's what you're just waiting.

Yeah, development that needs to be done.

And then two, even once it is, you get the parts,

you're getting the first rendition of the parts.

They don't fit.

There's quality issues because you're learning.

Like it's kind of a blessing in disguise.

And I don't mind when manufacturers

make the same thing for a bit.

In some cases, just because you get the full package,

I feel like, when they can perfect it.

Yeah, they can really flesh it out.

I agree.

Like the C8 is a good example.

Before working here, I worked in Atlanta at Sissyo Performance,

which was Twin Turbo RA, it's Lamborghinis.

And that's when the C8 platform had just came out.

And so we were like one of the first,

I think we were actually the first people

to do a Texas Speed Cam and Twin Turbo C8.

So it had a cam on it and twin turbos

and it made around, I think, 900 horsepower.

One of the most insane sounding cars.

You would start it up and it would just rip your ears.

But then you'll be sitting in a stoplight

and it's just chopping, shaking the whole car.

And then you floor it, getting up like 60, 70.

And you're hearing the turbo spool behind you,

just all the backfire.

But the issue with those cars was the transmission.

I don't think they fixed it until last year,

but like they had the TCMs locked.

So they could do all this stuff on the horsepower

and everything, but they couldn't put it to the ground

because the ECU or something like that,

they would snap an axle or something like that.

So that's the issue with the new platforms too,

as well as like you're waiting

because these manufacturers are not like,

they're locking down the software.

They don't want people to unlock their ECUs

and do all these mods and stuff

because they know that's gonna start causing more problems,

more warranty issues, and they're like, no, just lock it.

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All right, we'll be right back.

All right, Greg, speaking of real cars,

what about virtual cars?

I know you've been pretty big into sim racing.

I would say over the last year,

since Gatlinburg when I moved here,

I would say I've pretty much, I don't know,

Ben's up there.

He does a lot of all-fine racing,

but I would have done the most sim racing out of the gang

since Mike got hooked into it.

Yeah, quite the rig now too, Mike.

Once I sold the GTR, it was a perfect excuse

to treat myself to have the dream office.

I feel like you gotta go over your rig,

what you got going on.

So my buddy Trill Mike actually,

shout out to Trill Mike for setting it up for me

while I was out here working,

doing all the promotions and stuff we were doing at the time.

He came and built me a 5080 PC

with four monitors for my sim rig.

I have a SimMagic EVO Plus,

which is like an 18 newton meter wheel.

It's pretty top of the line.

Break your wrist.

The wheel that I have is a GSI wheel.

It's as close as you can get to a real motorsports wheel.

It's heavy as crap.

It's beefy.

I enjoy it, but I bought that back in April

once I sold the car,

and I've been doing nothing but endurance races.

I've been doing 24 hours, 12 hours, six hours,

anytime I get a chance, I'm doing it.

And just for those that don't know,

when you do a 24 hour race on a sim,

it's still, it's an actual 24 hour race.

Oh yeah, it's nonstop.

So like for example, two weeks ago,

me, Ben and our friend Eli did a 24 hour spa.

So me and Eli did the first beginning of the race,

which is about four or five hours each.

Then Ben and our friend Z came through

throughout the middle of the night.

I hopped in around, I think, three, 330.

But with me, a lot of people,

when they do these 24 hours,

and once they're done with their first two stints,

they'll go sit down, go take a nap or something like that.

Me, with me streaming it,

I'm sitting there pretty much the whole 24 hours.

So you're just up straight, Mike.

I enjoy it, I don't want to miss it.

I imagine it's like, it's gonna be fun to watch.

It's fun to watch as well as the voice chat.

There's a lot of people talking in there.

So like, you know, at 2 a.m.,

you're just sitting there bantering about something like,

oh, here's always the country guy that's talking at 2 a.m.

I was like, how's everybody failing?

Oh, I'm awake now, Johnny's on the mic.

I got some entertainment.

So it's always fun to just sit there.

And also, if I do get tired,

I have a futon in the office.

I'll just get the webcam turned around.

And there's been some times where I've fallen asleep

on the stream, just absolutely dead on the futon.

I have a few pictures.

You have like an alarm set.

Like, what happens if you miss your stint?

Like, does someone else just like, all right,

I'm going 10 hours?

Kind of funny you mentioned that.

Oh, Greg.

Two weeks ago, during that race,

I had my break in the middle of the night

and I was supposed to come back at like 3.34

and I was sitting on the couch watching TikToks.

And next thing you know, I wake up and it's 5.30.

And so Z was sitting there,

had to do an extra two stints,

which is around 45 hours each.

Or not 45 hours, yeah, 45 minutes each.

That makes sense, yeah.

And so I get back and he's like,

oh my goodness, you're back, thank you.

I am dying.

And I gotta mention, Z's not from here.

He's not American.

He's from Europe.

And so he was like, oh my, my feet, I am dying.

Are you ready?

I'm like, Z, I am so sorry.

And so I got back in the car

and we actually ended up finishing fifth in that race.

Dang, out of, came through.

Out of 50?

Holy crap, okay.

I will say one impressive thing for me this year

is every 24 hour race I've done, I've placed in the top five.

If we don't include this one,

every race I've done, I've placed on the podium.

Damn.

So I feel very confident with my swim skills

over the last year.

Shout out Lars and Alex,

especially being under Alex last year.

He's gotten to work with Mazda.

We got to go to a racing school.

So me getting to film the whole racing school,

I mean, I basically went to a racing school for free.

They just like absorbing all that information.

I still have all the footage and everything.

So it's like at the end of the day,

I just don't have my certificate.

But I technically did go to racing school.

I just didn't drop the car.

That's dope.

That's super cool.

Now you said you're a buddy that you race with.

He's from Europe.

How'd you meet him?

How'd you get into racing

with someone across the world?

So Lars has a good friend, Eli Pungu, is his name.

He has his whole discord community that he streams to.

And we have a whole crew called the pun crew.

And so two weeks before a race or something like that,

he'll throw in the discord like,

hey, Daytona signups.

And so there'll be like 15 or 20 of us that all sign up.

And we have four or five different teams,

like the pun crew white, the pun crew pink,

the pun crew official.

And there's just all these teams just racing with each other.

And there's all these people from Europe, America

and all this stuff.

And so actually a pretty cool thing this year

that was the sim racing expo.

And one of our teammates, Clark from England,

he's a race mechanic over there.

He actually flew out to race and hang out with us

and stuff like that.

And he was like, bro, I love America.

One thing I always love is when foreigners come over here

and they get the true American experience,

you take them to Waffle House, you know.

Greg loves Waffle House, by the way.

I'll tell you one thing.

If I could do one thing in Wisconsin

and talk to the government, we need Waffle House.

They're missing out.

That's great.

We go south for like shows and stuff.

The first thing Greg's doing is going to Waffle House.

Three meals a day.

Waffle House, I'm not even kidding.

Waffle House is watching dinner.

Every time I drive back from Mississippi,

I always like, do I stop at the last Waffle House

and get this together?

Dude, we'll door dash Waffle House

to a cabin in the middle of nowhere.

I don't know, I didn't even know that was possible.

If there's a will, there's a way.

100%.

The first thing I do when we get to the cabins,

oh, let's see what's on door dash.

Oh, there's Waffle House.

I'm set for the week.

It don't matter.

I was like, by the way, speaking of cabins,

the SimRace, we actually brought our SimRace down to Gat

and we put it out on the deck.

So that way, like the SimRace was like looking out

over the mountains and they're racing.

That was beautiful.

It was so cool.

Our way of touching grass.

Yeah.

Looking at grass past the monitor.

That was about as close as it got.

That's dope.

Do you have advice for someone like looking to get

into SimRace or SimRacing, I should say?

Because it's like daunting to get into.

There's so much to it.

I don't know what's crap, what's good.

How much money do I actually need to spend to start?

Yeah.

So I would say even before I moved up here,

I did a little bit of SimRacing.

I had my own like $500 set up I had back home.

And you don't need to go to the top of the line.

You don't need to go to iRacing because iRacing is a very

heavy investment month to month.

You're paying $12 a month and then there's a new car out

or a new track for the schedule each week

because they update the tracks each week and each of the cars.

So if you don't have that, you have to spend $12.

I had no idea.

I did not know any of it.

Hey, here's a deal.

After you buy 40 pieces of content,

so after you spend $15, 40 times, you get 20% off.

Oh, what a steal.

Skip it, he doodah.

Instead of spending $15 per car and track,

you're spending a solid $11.99.

And that's expensive in itself then.

So that adds up.

So it's like depending on what and there's

so many different car models.

Let's say you want to do GT3 racing.

There's so many GT3 cars.

There's so many tracks for the GT3,

but then there's also the formula cars.

There's the prototypes and everything.

And in order to get to the right niche,

you have to spend so much money to get into that right class.

So it's like iRacing isn't the go-to right away,

I would say, for beginners because you're

going to burn a hole in your pocket really quickly

and you're going to burn out.

Why am I spending this much money

and I'm not actually having fun?

So what would you recommend?

Right now, I would say Le Mans Ultimate or Aceta Corsa,

Evo that just came out.

Aceta Corsa Evo just came out last week

and I've heard nothing but great reviews about it.

But Le Mans Ultimate came out about a few months ago,

like six months ago.

And I would say that's the closest I've had fun

on a SimRacer compared to iRacing

without having to spend $100 a month or something like that.

Le Mans Ultimate I think was $30, $40

and they have the tracks, the cars, just like iRacing.

Now are the cars and stuff that you get,

are those developed by the developer of iRacing

or is that like community built?

So iRacing has a whole team and they work

with these motor store programs so they work with them

so they work with all these other companies.

And so for example, they just dropped a new season today

and one thing they really worked on these last couple of months

was the new Porsche came out with the new 992 GT3 car

and the Cup car.

So they spent these last few months developing with Porsche

the car and stuff.

So it's the team working directly with that.

That makes more sense.

They actually just announced Cosworth

is a dash company in telemetry program for actual racing.

So teams and stuff at these actual tracks

use that to tell telemetry and stuff.

They've actually provided that now in iRacing.

So after you're done with racing,

if you want to go break down your telemetry

and like, hey, well, I'm not struggling in this sector

or stuff like that.

They have so much more technology developed into it.

That's insane because I know for other simulators

and stuff out there, Microsoft flights them for instance.

There's a community-based thing where it's like,

the add-on stuff is like, it's community built.

So if you're like, oh, I want this other plane

that sometimes they're free, sometimes you buy them,

they're made by people just like you and me.

So it makes me feel better that, yeah, okay,

if you're heavily invested in the sim

that you're actually getting something

that was like worked directly with the Porsche team

or something to develop and it's not just like,

oh yeah, just go spend 20 bucks on Joe's Porsche.

It'll be good.

These cars on iRacing,

they are as close as you can get to real life

when it comes to the simulators and stuff.

Like I said, of course, it is very good in its way,

but there's just a lot of technical issues.

Like I've run a lot of technical issues when I like,

I just want to go drive an SVJ on a set of course

and I couldn't do it because the file

or something wasn't installed properly

compared to like iRacing,

like all the cars I know are gonna work

and it's gonna be hesitant, it's gonna be seamless

and I have not to worry about it, et cetera.

It's just a headache.

So like, we've kind of realized that here too

because we have both, we'll have one set up with iRacing

for more of like the actual track racing stuff

and then we have a set up for drifting.

It's like, the set up one's like always like airing out

or the pack you're packing.

Once you get it set up though,

it's usually good for a bit,

but it's like you want to change something,

then everything goes kind of haywire.

Okay, so let's say, all right, we figured out

a set up is good if you don't want to be paying

all the monthly fees, everything like that,

but like what about the physical hardware?

Do you have any recommendations on like something

that's not gonna cost the price of a R35 GTR?

I mean, at the end of the day,

there's no excuse on a gear.

There's a guy locally named Cam.

He races Miata's and his whole racing career

has been on the Logitech steering wheel.

It's like $300 from his car.

Really?

That's so cool.

G29 or whatever it is.

Yeah, and he's won, I think he won the Miata World Championship

this year.

On that?

Like no, not on that, like in real life.

He does actual racing too.

And so he races Mazda Miata's and he's very dominant

in the Miata scene, but as well as on the iRacing scene,

he's won multiple championships on iRacing

and it's all off of that $300 wheel.

Like he doesn't have what I have.

So it is a little, it's like, I spent this much money

and this kid's kicking my ass,

but it's like at the same time,

he is a very skilled driver.

So like at the end of the day, equipment's preference,

but Moza, if you're not really reliable on Logitech,

Moza I would say is the best affordable

to get into iRacing.

They, I think the R5 is around $300, $400

and that's for Ben still uses that.

I mean, Ben is the true of like,

when it comes to gear, you don't need gear.

I mean, he started off with it mounted to his desk

with his rolling chair blocked off with wood.

So like-

So you wouldn't push yourself back.

There's no excuses on the gear.

It's just all, like I said, all its preference,

but Logitech, Moza, Turtle Beach just came out

with its own wheel that was pretty sick.

It comes out with this whole control panel

and things like that.

So SimRacing gear is becoming a lot more affordable.

So I would say, yeah, which is really good.

Yeah, I'm glad it's blown up as much as it has

because usually when that happens,

the more brands that come in,

the more product that's out there,

the prices tend to come down a little bit.

So as I remember, like when it was first starting

to blow up, it was like, you know,

we were looking at it and it's like,

dude, this is so expensive and holy fuck.

Right now we're in another golden era of motorsports

coming into like 2026, 2027.

You have these Formula One drivers like Max.

I just actually saw something today

that Charles Leclerc was figuring out a way

where he can do the F1 season

and also race at Le Mans this year.

So it's like a lot of these big names

and a lot of these Nordschleife has now made it

to where you can get your B-Class license

off of SimRacing, which is pretty cool.

Like you don't have to go to the Nordschleife

or to get your B-Class license now.

You can do that and it's just gonna get bigger and bigger.

You got Genesis, you got Toyota coming in with the new GR.

Like we're coming up on these next few years

where I think these cars that we're gonna see coming out

and these racing, we're gonna see some of the best

that like the 90s DTM stuff,

we're gonna see some of those moments

that like we grew up in nostalgia.

So I'm very excited for it.

I feel like it's gonna get so competitive.

Like it's just good already, isn't it?

I know, but it's like, it's just gonna elevate that

to like the next level.

I feel like you're putting in this much hour like on a Sim

and then like going out and it being very, very close

to real life as far as just like technicality stuff.

You're getting really close to at the point

where like these simulators,

people are going to start relying more on that

and more or less on like the development

of like Harding and stuff like that.

Like Max Verstappen on a podcast last month was saying

if I have a kid now, like I'm not going to put them

in a cart for a year, I'm gonna give them on a simulator,

put them on that for 300 days

and that's where they're gonna get their real experience.

So it's like, when you have a four-time Formula One

world champion saying like,

Harding and this day and age is not really important

compared to sim racing, it's like, okay.

That's a big shift.

It's a big shift.

It is crazy to think about, but however there,

is that one piece that just like can't be replicated

or simulated and then I think is that fear, right?

When you're in person of like actually crashing

or hitting a wall or any of that stuff,

like that's the one piece where like that's what changes

on the track, but everything else has gotten so crazy

down to like tire wear and learning the turns

and fuel and everything like that is all topped here now

and it's getting insane.

But yeah, there's just that one piece that I don't know.

I would say it's the feet.

Like me and Laura is like to say it's like the butt,

feeling in your butt.

A lot of people have these like speakers to the back seat

so they can feel like when they're hitting a curb

or something like that, but like podium one,

they have like these $40, $50,000 simulators

that like when you're turning left and right,

they slide with all these like access suspension things

and stuff like that.

And me and Laura has driven some of those

and it's like, yes, the feeling is a little bit more,

but like you said, you're still missing that fear.

Like the, you can't reset.

Like that's always gonna be there

because you know, I just got to press this button.

It's gonna be fun.

We build a sim rig and if you crash or you go off,

it gives you a purple knurple.

Really hard.

That way, because all it really is is consequence, right?

That's what your fear is.

Consequence, I don't want to get hurt.

I don't want to have to pay for this.

Well, if you crash and you get the meanest

purple knurple every time, you're gonna learn real quick

and you're going to be scared while you're driving.

So I think that's just what we got to do for sims.

No, no, no.

I remember seeing that there was a VR company

like a year ago or something like that,

that like they made a headset where like it could,

if you like died in the game or something like that,

it could like actually kill you in real life.

Okay, that's some like, that's crazy.

Like black mirror stuff, but like imagine like you have

like your headset on and it's like you hit the wall

and it's like, oh, well, you got a broken arm now.

Oh my God.

It's like, you got to call, you got to call.

Hey, what's wrong?

I was racing my simulator back home

and I hit a wall and my arms broke.

If it turned into that, I'd rather just go really.

I mean, with the feedback on some of these fucking things,

like people are literally breaking their arms and hands.

I'm almost broken my thumb a few times.

Dude, why the fuck you guys got that shit set so high?

Yeah, I feel like even a real vehicle isn't that much of dudes

like warming up because they have their shit set to max

and it like is almost launching them out of there.

And they're like, yeah, my arms are hurting.

That's good.

It's like, what?

There's one Instagram guy, I forgot his Instagram app,

but he's literally jacked like Hulk Hogan.

And like you're watching him turn and his veins are like flexing

and you're like ripped.

Now that is a little shit.

My excuse is I don't like going to the gym.

All right.

So turning that thing all the way up

and going on the Norge lifer for 30 minutes.

I got my workout.

It is a workout.

I was going to say, is there any benefit to having it that high?

I would say yes and no.

No, because over time, your hands start

cramping because like you said, that's like you're like

waiting to rip it.

Yeah, pretty much.

But also at the same time, after a certain amount of months

and weeks of doing it, you get used to it in those cars.

And each car, for example, we race LMP2 cars.

I race that at like 14 Newton meters of force compared to my GTPs

that like the I race at 18 Newton meters because those cars are

a little bit faster and I need to be on edge with those.

But also GT3s, I think I run at like 10.

So it's all preference, but also at the same time,

I enjoy it because at the end of the day, when I'm done with it,

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I feel like I actually feel like I did something just sitting

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All right, I want to take a moment.

I know we're not all sports fans, especially some car enthusiasts.

They just follow the car enthusiast stuff, but we need to take a second.

It's Monday after Sunday.

Packer fans are in a bad spot right now.

I almost didn't come to work today.

I need to know how you feel.

It was hard to do this podcast with Micah Parsons confirmed ACL tear.

Christian Watson is getting roughed up.

A lot of the guys in the Packers getting roughed up.

That's why I want to give my thoughts to Micah Parsons ACL, RIP.

And it's been tough out here.

So check on your Packer fan friends.

Check on their knees.

Yeah. Yeah, we're everyone's limit.

Donate my need of Micah Parsons.

Everyone's losing their knees this year.

ACL. I don't know what's going on.

What's in the water?

Yeah. So you're telling me the Packers are not going to the Super Bowl.

I would say our season's on.

She done.

It. What's even the point?

Let's say they did go the Super Bowl only one.

Micah wasn't part of it.

Jordan. I love J Love.

I got J Love Jersey.

I love all the pay.

But it's like Micah was such a big part of the team this year.

I will say one thing about being from Mississippi and now living somewhere

with like an NFL team when the Packers win, McDonald's gives you free fries.

Oh, hell yeah.

Like that, the hockey team, the Brewers and stuff like that back in Mississippi.

There was nothing.

The closest thing we had was the Saints.

So it's like every day I would see all the Packers win.

I'm getting me some free fries the day.

It is kind of messed up.

We don't have an NHL team.

We have the Chicago Blackhawks and then like Minnesota.

But here in Wisconsin, I guess we have the Milwaukee Admirals, which is not NHL.

Yeah, you got some like the minor leagues.

Yeah, exactly, which is kind of cool.

But it's kind of how did Wisconsin not end up getting an NHL team when we were here?

Yeah, we got snow.

We got ice and we got good sports fans.

It just doesn't make sense.

But anyway, enough sports while I talk, Greg, what do you think's coming up for 2026?

Are you planning on getting another car now that the R35 is gone?

Where you see your career going?

What's up?

I would say when it comes to cars, I think we're starting simple.

I'm still rocking my daily since I got when I was 16 in high school, 2010.

Accurate TL, 200,000 miles.

Sentimental car.

No, not sentimental car.

I just think it's accurate.

I just want to let you know that car is bulletproof and thank you.

I've jumped multiple railroads.

I would use that.

That car has been through hell and back.

I would say that in Minecraft.

Yeah, in Minecraft, in Minecraft.

But the thing is, it's been through all of that war.

All I've done is tires and all change, no timing, nothing on the baby.

That car is just reliable, gets me to point A to point B

and it's been everywhere.

Atlanta, Wisconsin has no issues.

So I would say getting rid of that, I'm most likely to get into another Acura.

I would say the refresh new Integra.

No, I would say I prefer the new TLX's over the over the Integra's.

I'm imagining just get one of those in that nice blue or something like that.

Put some workmeisters, carbon sides on it and then maybe some air lift for pee.

That would be sick as well.

Is TLX, is that the one that they had a wagon to?

Or am I just what we see in an Acura wagon?

I think it's the TS set.

TSX. Oh, maybe that's it.

Yeah, it looked so good.

I think it was lowered or bagged.

Oh my God, dude, they can look super good.

Yeah, the wagon versions of the TL are really sick.

I love I've always loved Acura.

I just my main concern is I guess you can call me a Gen Z in this term,

but I don't have car play.

Like that's the one thing I hate.

Like I'm having I've come to love car play.

Yeah, 100 percent.

Every time I get a rental car or something like that, it's got car play.

I'm like, oh, I just keep this like don't get me wrong.

I like older stuff, 90s stuff, early 2000s stuff.

But I can get behind just putting Apple CarPlay and everything.

It is really nice.

I'm willing to buy it like.

Because there's an expectation now.

Yeah, and it's also like I do love the older stuff.

And it's like, you know, I happen, you know, S2000, E46, or I hop in my two

words like I don't expect that.

I don't want that in there, you know, like I'm here for one reason in this car,

you know, but it's when I hop in my 2011 BMW and there's nothing

and I'm using a fucking Bluetooth like FM transmitter still.

And it's like, this is, you know, it's like 2011.

Yeah, I mean, we should have at least Bluetooth in the goddamn car.

100 percent.

I will say with my my Jetta, when I had that, I kept a stack of cassettes in it.

And I always had a cassette and that's kind of I didn't mind that.

It was kind of nice.

Like I'd listen to stuff I didn't normally listen to albums.

I wouldn't normally always listen to.

And I'd listen to the whole thing.

Yeah. So. OK, I guess I don't.

One thing I'll never forget when I bought my car, the accurate, I bought it at

CarMax and I was just going through it, looking through all the stuff.

The thing I found on the back was a DVD and it was a media movie.

Don't know. I don't know why.

But for some reason we were just we're going for a test drive and like I

pressed the eject button and a media movie pops out and I'm like,

I'm trying to like process it because, hey, there is a screen there.

But like, it's not going to play media.

So someone tried. Someone tried.

It didn't work there.

It's either that or someone really loves media and just would listen to it

while driving. I don't think they pulled off the strangest prank ever.

Here you are. How many years later? Still talking about it.

That is hilarious.

The they have like a pre-mix soundtrack on it.

That literally sounds like Mission Impossible if you press the wrong button.

There's a little weird things about that car, but overall I like it.

I would say that would be my goal for the daily.

Is the daily replace the daily is the goal for sure.

But when it comes to like my fun car, I would say just what we have going on

with martini works racing, the S 2000 is currently being rebuilt as we speak.

Day by day, month by month.

I would say before year by year, year by year, decade by decade.

The car has been broken ever since I've been employed.

Same. Actually, the same.

It was always broken.

The day I got here, the car looked exactly like that.

So that's getting fixed.

So hopefully we'll be able to get to drive that on some track days.

We'll be fine. That'll be fun.

Is it as a fun car? It's a good car.

I've heard nothing but things about it as well as down the road

when I get my racing license, hopefully by the end of the year and stuff like that.

Opportunity to drive the P.F.M. and things like that.

That'd be really cool.

I'm excited for the team to take that out and really rip on it

because I don't fit in the P.F.M. really.

Yeah, me neither. So that's why I said I'm excited for the team.

I'm excited to watch it drive.

I've not seen on Formula One where like one of them runs out of gas

and they just sit on the side of it.

I mean, you can just hop on the side.

We'll go a little putting around you this year.

You know, nothing, nothing more than thirty five real quick.

We were talking about like car features and stuff that they have.

As you guys know, we have the Mark 8 GTI been trying to drive the shit out of it.

Yeah, for two reasons. One warranty expires.

If anything's going to go wrong, it's got to go wrong now.

Number two, it's cold as shit out.

It was literally like negative 20 this weekend for multiple days.

I didn't want the battery to die.

We have some shit tires on it right now.

We got to get some new Continentals and put those on it.

Yeah. So right now it's still the tires that came on it.

But they're crap.

But I went and drove it just so the battery wouldn't die.

And my reminder to me that had a heated steering wheel.

So I turned that on. OK.

I didn't realize how good a heated steering wheel actually is.

Same change. Yeah, it really is.

I thought that was just like, you know, a whatever.

Like now that I've done it, like it actually warms your body up.

You have your hands warm first.

It's really heated seats plus heated steering wheel.

You're like, whoa, but the ultimate winter ultimate combo is

when you get the key and you do the start in the morning.

When it makes me feel like I'm an absolute degenerate and lazy.

But like when you're like double start, you're like, oh, I know.

In the next 10 minutes when I get in that car, I'm going to grab that wheel.

It's going to be nice and warm.

And it's like, it's spoiled you.

Like to the point where it's like now, like when I don't have that in my car

every day, I'm like, I got to start the car.

I got to walk down the stairs.

I got to turn it on myself to run outside real quick.

Yeah. I was speaking to that this morning.

I woke up and it was absolutely freezing in my house.

And I'm like, why is it I got to walk downstairs?

My front door is just wide open.

Jesus Christ, Greg.

Your apartment got heat included or no?

Yeah. OK.

That's great. Leave it open.

No, I'm just kidding.

I'm like, I'm walking in the living room in my boxes.

I'm like, dude, it's like it's the door open.

Like is it snowing inside?

And I go look and it's just wide open.

And I'm like, that's crazy.

At first I'm like, someone breaking like that.

Get right. Yeah, for real, for real.

Like so I have a dog cam for him when I leave him out.

And I'm like, go through that.

Didn't see anything.

I'm like, OK, I'm just an idiot.

It was absolutely freezing.

Yeah, I bet it's been freaking cold.

Wisconsin is a pretty safe state, but great.

Shut your door.

Yeah, you're going to lock next time when it's negative 20.

I was I was telling y'all this weekend

I went snowboarding for the first time and it was negative 15.

Yeah, you're real for that.

I was actually I got hot.

I had to come back down to the car and take off my hoodie.

And then after doing that, I completely.

The only time that like I noticed because I snowboarded a lot

too and I was like the only time I ever really noticed it being

cold is like on the chair lift up.

It's like, yeah, right.

OK, I'm ready to ready to be up here.

Like you're you start sweating because you're out there working it.

And then you get on the lift and then the cold air

like freezes the sweat.

That's when it gets cold.

You're up like higher when you're actually good.

Dude, yeah, snowboarding is like a physical toll 100%.

Oh, I can tell you from head to toe today.

Oh, I bet.

Have you?

Oh, it's because, yeah, you're from Mississippi.

I didn't even think of that.

So like, have you ever gone before?

Was that first time first time?

Jesus, damn.

And you went negative 15.

I know that snow was hard as shit.

Oh, it was actually pretty nice.

I guess we did get some snow recently.

Yeah, I think Wednesday or something like that.

But no, I fell and I didn't really feel that bad.

Like my butt hurt for a second.

I was like, this is nothing.

I'm getting right back up.

And then so I rode for the rest of the day.

How were you on Sunday?

I was doing good.

I was able to pick it up pretty quickly.

Usually the next day it's always like, oh, god.

I woke up and Oz texted me.

He was like, how's your neck feeling?

Because I took a pretty gnarly hit down

a black diamond on the last run.

And everybody on the chair just saw it.

You just hear, oh, that's the worst.

It's so embarrassing whenever he's watching.

He called it like, I think they call it,

I'm still learning the terms, like a headknocker.

That's what they call it?

It's like, yeah, I smacked my knuckle.

I'll teach you what a swirly is.

You ever go Wisconsin swirly?

You guys do it all the time.

Not in a toilet.

Speak for yourself.

Go out in the snow and give you a squirt.

A.T.R. is going to be here after this.

Give you a face wash.

Snowboarding is like a canon event in Wisconsin

because there's literally nothing else to do.

I've been snowboarding since I was about seven.

My brother got me lessons.

And I used to go out to Utah to snowboard a lot,

but it is extremely dangerous.

I broke my arm and my wrist.

I have a plate and 10 screws now because of it.

So Greg was trying to get me to go out snowboarding with him,

which I want to and I will.

But I told him before our trip coming up here.

What trip, Dakota?

Do we, do we release that info?

I mean, I mean, Joe said, I mean, so I'm going to do it.

We're going to Japan, baby.

The gang is going to Japan.

It's really quick.

It's coming up really quick.

Couple of weeks here.

I still can't believe it.

I know it's insane.

It's wild.

Tokyo Auto Salon, baby.

So Alex went like we were talking about earlier.

He loved it so much.

He's like, the gang got to come.

He's like, you guys stay here for SEMA.

We'll see if we can work out Japan.

Yeah, that was one of the main.

Conversations me and Alex had at Tokyo Auto Salon last year

was like me and him had such a blast compared to SEMA

because it's more of what we're into.

And so going, it's like, just imagine Dakota and Gels out here.

They would absolutely love it.

And the content that we're going to make.

All day of food we're going to eat.

It has been a lifelong dream to go to Japan.

And I am beside myself at the thought of being over there soon.

So I'm so excited.

Definitely will report back to you guys.

The best food, the best cars, and the most fun stuff

that we do there, it's going to be absolutely insane.

I've always wanted to go.

I've always had an interest in Japan.

So the fact that we can do it through Martini Works

is just absolutely insane.

Yeah.

And it sounds like we got some really insane stuff lined up too.

So of course, we'll be releasing videos and stuff for you guys.

You'll come along with.

You'll be there.

It's like you'll be there with us.

I don't know about that 14, 15 hour flight.

The whole moat.

Like I said in that group chat, the dream water is the wave.

You drink that dream water and you take like a four to five hour nap

and you wake up and you're like, oh, I'm going to be.

Is that that water that water boy had?

Remember the blue vial?

Is that dream water?

So I actually found dream water when I was flying home from Saudi.

I was fine.

It was a 17 hour flight from Dubai.

It was a direct flight from Dubai to Montreal

because I was going to visit somebody at the time.

And so I bought three of those at the airport.

And so I'm like, let's drink one, drink six hours.

I'm like, OK, how much left I got on the flight?

It said 12 hours.

I'm like, oh, God.

So I drank another one knocked out for another four hours.

Holy crap.

Like it really works.

Like it's like a five hour energy drink.

You just take a little in reverse, but in reverse hour, no energy.

And it works in five to 10 minutes.

You're like, oh, this is going to be that kind of freaks me out a little bit almost

like it was going in.

Yeah, it's just watermelon time.

It's just fruit water.

I might have to try, though, because like I have this.

I don't know what it is.

I'm not afraid of flying.

I have flown a ton, but I cannot sleep on an airplane no matter how hard I try.

Dependent, especially if they're like uncomfortable.

Like I maybe that's it.

Yeah, because we're bigger guys.

You're like tucked in knees and it's like, I know I'm a bigger dude.

So it's like, I don't want to like inconvenience

like anyone like sitting next to me.

So especially if I get like a fuck ass middle seat.

Yeah, that's yeah.

I'm just like this the whole time or if I'm like in an aisle seat,

I don't want to like, you know, bump into like the people walking by.

So I'm like, you sit like this for too long and it's like everything hurts.

There has been a couple of times I've hit.

I think I prefer.

Well, no, window seats go to then aisle seat, then mostly.

But I'll say I've been smoked by the car dude.

It's bad.

It hurts.

They're ruthless.

I get it, though, but it'll be worth it for Japan.

So I'm going to bring my switch.

I might beam it up.

I'm going to be putting my skills to the test.

Yeah.

Gels has this amazing ability that before we even hit the run before

before pushback.

Yeah.

Snap.

He's out.

Oh, I look at my just get fucking.

But it's like I just want to go wake him up.

I've noticed that like on longer flights, like, you know, if it's over,

like the longest flight I think I've been on is like four hours.

If it's over four hours, like I'll get, I'll be good for like two and a half.

And then that's it.

Then you wake up.

So that's what I'm worried about.

It's like I'll be solid for like the start of it.

Like I normally am.

And then for the next like 14 hours, I'll be like.

What do we do?

I know I'm going to, but it's going to be insane.

Tokyo Autosalon is going to be, I'm so excited to go make videos and

get photos at Tokyo Autosalon that we're going to see some of the

motorly insane stuff in the world.

Weirdest, wackiest cars you've ever seen.

I cannot wait 20 exhaust on a Corolla.

Oh, dude.

Time me out.

I'm going to make the craziest videos.

I'm going to be yelling.

It looks like light.

I'm a queen.

They're going to want me out of there.

That's why I'm, that's why I'm nervous.

I think I'm too loud for Japan.

Like I'm going to see that stuff and be so excited.

No, they're not going to want you guys to leave.

We're going to be like, we love martini.

I was saying, I was saying we should go like full Midwest out there,

like where flannels, cheeseheads, like, I feel like they would love that.

They'd be like, what the hell are these guys?

Yeah.

Just throwing out packs of cold cheese curds at everybody.

I think we can get some spotted cowards in Japan.

Oh yeah.

Teach them what Wisconsin is.

You know what I'm saying?

Uh-huh.

Bring a little bit of our culture to their culture.

They love that.

That'll be a good idea.

So that's some insane news that we got coming up in January here, which is just.

That's not even it.

Hardly.

Just with you guys, like I said, that's Tokyo Auto Swan.

Then right back after that, we're back for the 24 hours of Daytona.

Me, Lars, Alex, Dustin, and Ben will be racing that.

And then the following week after that, it's the actual 24 hours of Daytona

that we'll be attending the Goat.

So are you guys going to sleep in 2026 or is it just no sleep?

What a wild start to the year.

You've seen how I've operated the last year.

So it's going to be just the same for me.

So yours me.

No, we're fine.

We're fine.

And then after Daytona for me, I will be going back to Dallas for the first

Call of Duty tournament of the year, which is going to be sick.

Back to his roots.

Back to my roots where it all started.

Great.

So those Call of Duty editors might be on something because I know of quite a few

people that we've worked with over the years and they started out.

They started with like game edits.

Yeah.

Call of Duty edits.

MLG and machinima is where it's at.

That's where it's bred the true editors.

See, I was a little bit of like a window liquor back in the day.

I didn't know how to do all those cool stuff that you guys are doing.

So I literally set my camcorder up on a chair with five boxes pointed at the TV.

And that's the only way I knew how to get my game footage.

Yeah.

I mean, that really was edited that.

That was like the only way that I knew of back then.

Yeah.

I didn't have no that or unregistered hypercams.

You had all the runes.

Oh, gee.

Gear the the HAPOG HB of ER is what everybody got started on.

You know how, you know, good they have it nowadays.

I hit window G on my computer.

I can record anything.

Yeah.

I want any gameplay.

Even my PS5 has a capture of my switch.

Everything has a capture that would have blown my fucking mind back in the day.

It blew my mind today.

I wanted that so bad that I was a camcorder at my TV.

I'm not joking.

I didn't have to go to some sketchy website to get the piece of software for totally

legally download the software and coding your bit rate and all this stuff.

And you're like, I just want to press stream.

Yeah, I just want to stream capture cards.

All that stuff was so confusing.

I just recorded my TV.

That's the easiest way to go about it.

No, I'm I'm like the OG like forerunner from that.

Shout out for had the Elgato, all that.

Oh, yeah, I've been doing true.

I was a start off in trickshotting.

Yeah, that's where everybody starts off, face clean and stuff like that.

But then I got into more of the competing side.

So I actually started playing going, competing, playing tournaments and stuff like that.

That's wild.

That's dope.

Well, go play Call of Duty and start editing your clips.

Terrible.

And then maybe, yeah, new card, honestly.

They're giving you out for this week.

I bet you they are.

I still ain't going to download it.

They made a whole statement last week or the week before about like, hey,

just want you to know, we know it sucks.

So here's what we're going to do.

We're going to give the game out for you for the next week.

And it's like, oh, it's about the people that, you know, bought the game for a hundred dollars.

I have shit and I charge people for my shit.

It's still shit.

If I say now, I'll give my shit to you for free.

I still don't want it.

Still shit, you know what I'm saying?

So I don't want it.

I'm disappointed in God.

I'm a huge God fan.

Let me say like Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, that was my shit.

Black Ops, still some good games in there.

There's some go to games in there, but I was definitely in Modern Warfare.

It's time for a new series.

And yeah, they need to figure it out.

Let's go back to World War Two or something.

Sorry to break your guzz's heart, but they've already announced next year is

going to be Modern Warfare 2 again.

Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 4.

No, Modern Warfare 2.

Oh, they said Modern Warfare 2.

Modern Warfare 2, 4.

Because we already have Modern Warfare 2 like five times.

Yeah, I'm not making it six times.

Modern Warfare 2 came out when I was seven years old.

That's now we have Modern Warfare 19 and Modern Warfare 2 and now

Modern Warfare 3V3.

I'm confused and I'm over it.

Anyways, comment your favorite call duty down below and I will card it if

it's the right answer.

Thank you, Greg, so much for coming on.

I appreciate you.

Where can people follow you at?

If they want to follow you.

MWR Greg, Martini Works Racing Greg, and as well as on Twitch,

Martini Works Racing Greg.

That's two G's, by the way.

Two G's, by the way.

Yes.

It's not an autocorrect or type.

No, it's not because two G's is confusing too.

T-R-E-G-G.

There we go.

That's how you spell Greg.

Gorg, some people call it.

But no, those are my two pages.

TikTok as well as I just do post some content.

So I'm just the guy streaming for all the guys and just having good times.

The guy streaming for all the guys.

That's Greg.

He's a guy for the guy.

I'm a guy for the guys.

No, I love watching Greg's 24 hour races.

If you haven't go check it out.

Especially when he falls asleep.

Yeah, that's a big one.

You don't want to know.

You don't sleep.

Dude always has a red bull in his hand.

That's true.

But speaking of that, where is my red bull?

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Bye Skye.

Bye.

About this episode

Greg Stoll, a creative producer and content creator, shares his journey from gaming to automotive content, highlighting his experiences with the R35 GT-R and the challenges of being a full-time creator. He discusses his passion for cars, particularly the GT-R, and the modifications he's made, including a widebody kit. The conversation also touches on sim racing, the evolution of gaming technology, and the upcoming trip to Japan for the Tokyo Auto Salon. Listeners will find insights into car culture, content creation, and the realities of owning high-performance vehicles.

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Enjoy the podcast? The best way to support is modding your car at https://martiniworks.com/Today we have Gregg on the podcast to talk about the multiple R35 GT-R's hes owned, along with getting the job to be the videographer and editor for Alex Martini. Along with that, Gregg has some sim racing experience and offers some tips for people looking to do the same. A huge thank you to Gregg for being on the podcast and for you listening & supporting! #cars #podcast #automotive Pick up our Coffee run here! https://martiniworks.com/products/other/show-merchA HUGE thank you to Continental & Fortune Auto for being the official tire and suspension of the MartiniWorks Podcast! Let us know if you need a set of tires or coilovers. 🏎️Check out the main channel!🏎️: @MartiniWorksOfficial 📦We also have an unboxing channel 📦: @MartiniWorksUnboxed Follow Gregg @gregg.mwrFollow Dakota @dakotastoneFollow Gels @akagels

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