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This one goes out to anyone looking to buy a car.
CarMax has all the options.
You like options.
Oh yeah.
Big options guy.
Sure, you'll buy a car once you've seen all your options.
All 45,000 of them.
It's a dance.
Pickups.
Four wheel drives.
They're all options when you're an options guy.
CarMax even has options for how you shop at home online or on the line.
Want to buy your way?
Want to drive?
CarMax.
Yeah, actually I do.
I really do.
I think...
Why do I want to put this?
I don't think it's...
Right now it's very age-specific.
You know, I think a lot of us that are older, you know,
nostalgic and we like to hold it in our hands,
but I do think that going forward at some point,
people that are just consuming everything digitally
are going to get to a point where they're like,
you know what?
I don't want to stare at this.
My eyes hurt.
You know, my back's bad.
My neck's bad.
And if I had this, I would hold this.
And for myself, like that car,
if it wheelied on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine or another magazine,
I would be way more excited about that than all the photos
I've ever seen of this car online, you know?
Like it's cool to see it on this,
but like seeing it spread across gloss pages would just be sick.
I would love that.
And I do think that at some point,
like because I'm already seeing it with niche magazines
that are on really good paper,
large format, like they're more like coffee table books.
Wheel hub, wheel hub, truck hub, they do a great job.
Yeah, yeah, totally.
But by the same token, like when I walk,
you're going to have to figure out a different way to present it
because when I walk into my grocery store,
Newt Track is like this big.
And the magazines, the legacy ones, a lot of the articles are,
well, they're written by the advertisers at this point.
Like there's not a lot of good stuff happening
in some of the legacy titles.
And I think you got to fix that first
in order to get people to actually want to spend their money on these things,
but the problem, like I think you're right.
I question if it will ever go to the Barnes and Noble Books a Million level.
No, I don't think it will.
Like when you come in and have that,
because we talk about it, we talk about it all the time.
I remember it was Sundays.
Sundays was the only time possibly
that we maybe didn't work a full weekend.
And there were Sundays, I would go make it my thing.
By myself, I would go to Books a Million is what we had.
And I would just go in and like it was my time.
You know, I might spend an hour or two hours or so there.
And not buy a single fucking magazine.
I had, well, I had, I had some reason print media is dead.
The shop had subscriptions to most of the magazines
and I was looking through,
but I was also looking at a bunch of other stuff of like,
I might look at some gun magazines.
I might look at some, you know, home design magazines.
I might look at some guitar magazines.
You always find something like scale trains, no model train magazines.
But it would be a time where you're just like,
you know, anything that would pique your interest,
you could peruse through.
And I question if it will ever get to that point.
But where I was going with that is you said,
the content of the legacy needs to get better.
But yeah, it's like chicken or the egg kind of thing of
if, if the market's not there,
why put the money into the better content,
but the better content needs to come before the market's there.
Somebody's got, somebody's got to step up.
The circumstances will have to be right.
Like the kids will have to want it, you know,
and then you're going to have to have to give them a reason to want it.
You know, you got to have more fry burgers working at these places.
You know, you got to have more Mike Gallimis.
You got to have more Alanashers.
You got to have, you know, Brian Scottos.
You got to have people who can tell a story.
And the circumstances, I don't think are right now,
but you're going to get there because like right now forms are dead.
You know, Facebook killed it.
They've been dead for years.
No, Photobucket killed it.
Photobucket killed the fucking forums.
I can still renew my subscription like any day now.
It threatened me all the time.
But like, you know, I read, you know,
because this is, you know, pre-internet or beginning of the internet,
I read Euro turn tuner, import tuner, off-road hot rod,
popular hot rod exterior.
I read everything because I just wanted to learn.
And now it's hard to do that even on Facebook
because searching for stuff is kind of difficult on Facebook.
And there's so many ads that I think at some point
people are going to get burnt out
on trying to get all their information through Facebook.
And the forums are already cooked.
Where else are they going to go?
They might, there might come a period of time
where people get out of their houses and go to a place.
And right now it's happening in record stores,
vintage record stores, you know,
vintage hide right now thing.
Maybe someday vintage magazines become a thing.
And oh, by the way, here's new titles next to these vintage ones.
I don't think it's now.
Like when I moved to Georgia, that was 2015.
And before I left, I went to the Long Beach Swat Meet.
I took all my CDs, all my magazines,
and I said, I put them out.
I'm like, I'm not bringing these things with me cross-country.
Oh, wow.
And I'll never forget.
Sure, that was such a bad idea.
Well, it was.
But the A.N. fittings were gone immediately.
The speech parts were gone immediately.
I was left and I started at a dollar a title.
I got down to a quarter a title.
In the end, I was like, you can have them.
I don't want to throw them away.
I will carry these to your car.
Could not give away CDs and magazines, right?
I brought them with me.
So when you guys come here at some point,
I'm sure you'll be here.
Yeah.
I have a urinal in there behind two swinging saloon doors.
And surrounded on those walls
are my entire collection of tape, CDs, and magazines.
Anything I've ever written is up on the wall there.
And a bunch of stuff I've never written.
I've just read from when I was a kid.
I think at some point, because right now,
my Run DMC raising a hell cassette is worth 30 bucks.
Going to happen to magazines, I think.
Well, it's good because I've hauled those probably 12 totes full of magazines.
First of all, we talked about this before.
How the fuck do magazines weigh so much in a tote?
If you fill a magazine of tote full of magazines, it's 750 pounds.
And I've towed them in probably three or four different moves.
And I still have them.
On my second move, I purged some.
I can't purge them.
But I purge them.
I can't do it.
Don't do it.
You know what you gotta get?
I can't do it.
Forge line wheel boxes.
They're perfect for magazines.
Got the handles in there.
Yeah.
Damn it.
Yeah.
Doesn't make them.
They do have the nicest packaging of any wheel ever.
I still have.
They're the nicest wheels I've ever bought.
So I don't know if there's tears and there's even nicer ones above.
And the packaging gets better.
But oh my God, Forge line stuff.
Forge line and motion race works.
They got it dialed race works.
Packaging is outstanding.
And you get a lollipop when you buy something every time.
Yeah.
It's all good companies.
Like Forge line is great.
We use them on a ton of builds.
And then you get it's like we talk about when we go to Rad Rides by Troy.
All of a sudden there's like HRE, right?
Yeah.
HRE does a different level.
Holy shit.
Like how can it be done that much?
I want to say better.
It's like Forge line.
We use a lot of them.
They're great fucking wheels.
But it's just it's another level.
Right.
It's just nuts.
You know, the quality, the like how the fucking machine work.
Cool stuff.
It's all about the packaging.
Never paid attention to the packaging.
It's always levels.
I just open them up.
Excited to get them.
Standard questions.
Funny enough, brought to you by HRE wheels.
What an intro.
What an intro.
What an intro.
No way.
What an intro.
Almost like it was scripted.
Almost like it was.
But it wasn't.
You guys are very smooth.
We should have it.
We should have a YouTube channel.
We should have a podcast.
All right.
Standard questions.
Couple of different ones.
I think we've we've kind of got a little bit of information.
But probably some more information still to be deemed
if we're going to make any type of guesses.
But first up, I think we probably know the car movie.
But we're going to ask it anyway.
Favorite car movie.
Oh, well that one's easy.
I already told you.
Two Lane Blacktop.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
All right.
How about the scene?
A horrible movie.
But it's my favorite work.
What's this?
What's the scene that sold you on that movie?
What's the one when you think
Two Lane Blacktop, what pops in your head?
Oh, make it three yards, motherfucker.
And you'll have an honorable view.
An honorable view, right?
Nobody was more than eight.
I usually don't line this Chevy up against a two bit piece
of shit forward.
But yeah.
Hell yeah.
I've never met that dude, right?
And I only know a couple of his songs,
but I watched a couple of interviews with them
after, you know, watching that movie.
Oh my God, was he acting?
Because that is not.
Not the same guy.
It's not the same.
Oh my God.
Well, I didn't even know the movie existed.
Really?
Until until moving up here.
And you said something.
We watched it at your house.
You're like, hey, let's watch Two Lane Blacktop.
I've never heard of that.
And he's like, oh yeah, it's James Taylor.
I'm like, well, I'm not like a big fan.
And like, he's like, well, no, he's fucking cool.
I'm like, yeah, James Taylor sucks.
Like his music is horrible.
Like he's that's a he's like, no.
And then you watch the movie.
I'm like, oh, all right.
Well, he's pretty cool in this.
Like the line, there's so little dialogue.
It's just like 10 words.
That Plymouth had a Hemi with a torque flight.
That's like one of the like one of five lines.
A Chevy block.
Some of the lines are 296, 454.
No shit.
Yeah, they just they're just rambling on mumbling.
Well, like I have the DVD set up for it.
And it comes with it comes with a script
and a whole bunch of commentary and stuff.
And the director would give them a page of dialogue for the day.
They didn't know what the hell was happening in that movie
when they were even in it.
Oh, wow.
And they really did the route.
Like you can go to the film locations and stuff.
And and they were really doing it.
You know, they were towing the cars for a lot of it.
But the the cast and the crew traveled that route.
It's pretty like raw, you know.
Wonder what the director's background was like.
Monty Hellman.
He had done like B movies.
And this is a B movie.
I think he had done nothing any of us has ever heard of.
And it wasn't a horror.
It was something else.
Um, but nothing, you know,
nothing any of us has ever heard of.
You know, a lot of those car movies from back then were,
you know, they're crappy, but they're they're fine.
Yeah.
But they did a good job of capturing like that.
It doesn't feel like a fast and the furious like seven.
It was it.
It's got a sense of realism to it.
That movie, which is, I think, what I like.
Yeah.
I always keep hoping with the next fast and furious,
they'll, you know, they'll make one for.
Bring it back.
Yeah.
I wish they would.
They always, it always Vin Diesel on social media makes it seem
like we're going back, but he says that every year.
So who knows.
And the next thing, you know, we're back into space shuttle cars.
We're in space.
Are they back?
Are they back from space yet?
I don't know.
Now, yeah, they are because they went to space.
And then I think there was another movie after that.
It sucks because we've talked about it.
I mean, probably more than just about anything is fast and furious.
And it is especially in my age and my,
starting career and what we were into and stuff to have that on
the big screen.
And I mean, we had a couple of cars from the shop there in the,
like in the theater, right?
For the big grand opening that night of the thing.
It was just, you're seeing, I mean, forget about all the
little things of like, you know, that's not right.
And that's not right.
Yeah, you can look.
It was, it was 95 percent of like the lifestyle.
And it's like, you've, you came out of there with a
different sense of you made a comment earlier that,
you know, everybody was looking down on, on, on many trucks,
right?
It was, it was, it was like all these are just thrown together.
Same thing was on imports, you know, and still, it still is to
this point, but there was a, there was a little bit of a
sense of validation of the mainstream once that movie
came out.
And you kind of, I remember rolling out with the car club,
you know, and there's probably 20 of us, you rolled
out with a little bit of sense of like we've, we weren't
on in the movie, right?
We had nothing to do with the movie, but it was your
culture that has been put.
I don't know.
It's difficult to describe.
Well, I fired up.
Like, I remember when we left the theater, everyone was
doing burnouts in the parking lot.
And then it's SEMA that year, or maybe the next
year. Oh my God.
How many Hondas were there?
Like, like you said, it validated it.
Like that movie blew up.
It's the reason I can't buy a Mark IV Supra.
Because they're a grand, you know, like it did so
much. And I'm, I'm a fan of like the first three.
And after that, I kind of lost.
Once Fryeberger's Camaro did a wheelie on dirt.
I was like, man, I don't know if that's possible,
dude, unless F bomb.
That was the F bomb, right?
That was a, wasn't that like a 14 speed?
It was a Nelson motor in it, wasn't it?
Nelson motor?
It was.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was in the fourth one.
Experimental or whatever under the hood.
That was that was cool.
She had back then.
I was on the flip side of the whole thing
during that era, because you guys are talking
about the import stuff.
But I had a big block 69 Camaro.
You know, it was probably about like 100 pounds.
Just like Vin Diesel.
No facial hair.
Like, but I thought it was fucking Vin Diesel.
You know, like, fuck these motherfuckers.
We're going to go race them.
No, I'm going to whoop some dudes asses.
Win some races.
Well, you've got Noss.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think you fired off.
There's no replacement for displacement.
That's right.
Yeah.
I did have nitrous on that thing too.
Usually we try to make a guess on a first vehicle.
So we asked a couple of questions beforehand
to get some information.
Was your first vehicle a gift or did you purchase it for yourself?
Kind of half and half.
My dad matched the money I saved.
I saved up $1,300.
He matched the rest of it.
Mom and dad.
Sorry.
OK.
You'll never, you'll never guess what it was.
OK.
We probably won't.
California.
We've got about 80 percent success rate.
Oh, really?
Oh, I'm excited.
California at the time.
California.
Yeah.
I was.
What year did you graduate high school?
93.
Oh.
93.
So all right.
You know, 91, you're getting a car.
90, 91.
It might not be able to guess it.
It's.
You might.
A lot of my era.
I got.
I've been having just like wild cards pop in my head.
Put the old wild card out there.
Volkswagen.
Sarako.
Oh.
That's a new car for 91.
That's a new car.
I'm just, I'm just letting it in from my head right on my
mouth.
I don't know.
I would drive it.
OK.
I was going.
Shrakos are cool.
The Volkswagen El Camino.
The Gulf front.
Oh, the Gulf.
Oh, yeah.
The, you know, what was he called?
I know he's called Mark.
It was Gulf Mark something, wasn't it?
Just as he said, I would never guess at that.
I've seen a couple of those recently that were cool.
Fender flares, 14 inch wheels lower.
They looked cool.
But no, wasn't that?
91.
13, 13, 2600.
It was a nice, nicer vehicle.
Can I change mine?
If you want, if you want to change it, you have a redo.
What is it?
So thank you.
OK.
You don't have anything.
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Man.
I'm really, I'm really all over the place.
Oh, fire.
Because he's had so many different things.
Fire away.
Was it something that you wanted to buy?
Like a car you were?
No.
Okay.
No.
I mean, it was one of those, my dad,
once I got my money together, I was like,
here's what I want.
We went and test drove it.
My dad was like, absolutely not.
That happened three times before I settled on it.
I did that on two different Fox bodies.
Test drove two Fox bodies and he said no to both of them.
I can tell you what he passed on
and might help you figure out what I ended up with.
Yeah, what do you pass on?
All right, give me a hint.
The first car we test drove was a 63 Nova SS,
327 with a power guide.
Dad passed on it because it only had two gears
and he didn't think we'd go on highway.
Because my dad didn't know about cars.
I'm going, this is a complete wild card,
but it's also a Nostalgia.
This is a 76 Monte Carlo.
It's an odd car, dude.
It is.
It's an odd car.
I don't know, I think I was closer
at the Volkswagen's Rock.
You were not.
What do you got?
You got a second?
No, it's fizzled out.
All right, I'm going Monte Carlo.
What was it?
You nailed the year.
76 Camaro, beige.
Refit you with four speed.
Damn.
You were in the year 76 Camaro.
You said Berlinetta?
No, it was the Berlinetta.
What the hell was it?
RS.
No, it had a spoiler and it had a 350 two-barrel
with a four.
No, it wasn't a two-barrel.
It was a quadra junk and a four speed.
A little hot, right?
Dark brown interior.
I think it was an LT with a brown interior,
tannish brown interior.
Like the dash was dark color, but the seats were tan.
And the only thing cool about that car
was it had big back tires, skinnies in the front,
and a four speed.
And then the tires went flat the first week of school.
But I didn't have any money
and I ended up on unroyal Tiger paws
that didn't look cool at all.
They were tiny and suddenly
that car wasn't nearly as cool as it was
when I bought it.
Tires, right there told you everything
about tires and stance.
Bigs and littles.
Tires and stance.
Yeah, that car went from looking tough
to like mean all with flat tire.
Your most, I'm sure you've had many,
but your most memorable law enforcement interaction story.
Oh my God.
I left the house party on my way to work.
Is this the most memorable one?
Shit, I don't know.
Must be a good party if you're leaving
and then going to work.
I left the house party on my way to work
in my mini truck.
And at this point it was,
I was living in New York, was going to college.
I was working at a mall installing car stairs.
And at that point, I had shaved the door handles
on the truck.
It was it was Caltrans orange
because that's the thing I could afford at Napa.
It had a roll pan and it was on airbags at this point.
And I get pulled over on the way to work
and I get arrested because when I moved there,
like the day I moved there,
I got a speeding ticket
and I didn't understand how computers worked back then.
Yeah.
I was like, they won't, they won't find me.
Give my California license.
I immediately the next day I get a New York license.
Didn't realize they had scum mods,
you know, and six months later I had a bench warrant.
Didn't know about it.
And I got pulled over, arrested.
They left the truck on the side of the road.
And by the time I got back to it, it had been towed.
But the airbags had leaked all the way down.
And so when the dude drug it up on the tow truck,
it ripped the roll pan in the back.
The window was busted
because they couldn't figure out how to get into it.
Because the door handles were shaved.
Like it was a, it was a thing, man.
That's probably the most memorable in terms of negativity.
That was the most negative interaction I've ever had.
I had a lot of other ones.
The license plate in the tailgate going east side, west side.
It was in the tailgate, recessed, but it was flush.
It was off to one side.
Like I kept it classy, you know.
Yeah, square and legit.
The spinning one.
Yes.
Yeah, so I got it, I got it sent to me.
Spencer sent it to me yesterday.
Yeah, he's got it full countersunk 360
and then it's on a motor and it's spinning.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
Oh, like James Bond.
That's cool.
No, spinning, you're spinning around, not rotating.
Oh, it was doing this?
Yeah, it was doing this.
Oh, that's kind of cool, actually.
Uh, the bench warrants I laugh at because
I thought, I still probably to this day think the same thing.
It's amazing the, the records that they can keep up with.
And then the things that they can't handle.
Like you could call them a hundred times at that three foot
deep sinkhole and they act like they've never heard about it.
Right.
But a ticket for five over, you know, a year and a half,
you know, ago, they're gonna, they know exactly who you are
and where you live.
And yeah.
And the things they care about and don't care about,
always interest me.
Like here's another interaction.
I'm towing my C10 to a truck show in Lake Paris, California.
And I'm using the company trailer, which is a three axle
heavy duty trailer that off-road magazine owned at DOT.
That's a CDL, right?
That's a CDL.
Big money, big money.
One car trailer, but it's got three axles and it has six
lug axles, right?
And I'm towing it behind a tundra, just squatted.
And all of a sudden I feel the truck waggle and I look
in my side mirror, just at the time, one of the wheels
on the left side of the trailer exits the chat, crosses three
lanes of traffic, hits the side door of a black RAV4, up on
the roof, down the front of the RAV4, changes direction, comes
back, punches the grill, the radiator, the hood, everything
smashes the windshield, just destroys this thing.
And we all stopped.
Like there was a lot of traffic.
We all slowed down and stopped.
And I'm like, oh my God, I'm going to jail.
I just totaled this car.
I'm sitting there and I call 911.
And while I'm on the phone with 911, the RAV4 with a flat
tire just bones out.
The limited windows just takes off.
And I'm on the phone and they transfer me to the cops.
And I explain what's going on.
And the cops are like, so you were driving on the road.
You got a flat tire in your trailer.
Everything's fine.
You're fine.
You're going to get your tire fixed and you're going
to go home.
And I'm like, yes?
I'm like, but what about the, they're like, what about what?
They left, right?
I'm like, they left.
He's like, then there's no problem.
And I was like, okay.
And he's like, limo tinted windows and they took off.
They're probably not here legally.
I was like, oh yeah, okay.
I can get it now.
And so you're not going to send anyone out here
to take a report?
No, we're not, we're not taking a report.
I was like, okay, play on player.
And so I pull off the highway and, you know,
went and bought some wheel studs and a tire and, you know,
the funny stuff they care about.
Yeah.
The things that are of importance.
Yeah.
Best piece of advice you've ever received.
If you knew tomorrow that you weren't going to be able to play,
how would you play today?
That's good.
It's really good.
It's really good.
Yeah.
I like that.
I like that a lot.
And explains the drag boat racing.
Yeah.
Right.
It might not be it tomorrow.
So get it.
But today is going to be awesome.
Love it, man.
Dude, this is absolute amazing time.
Oh, I'm having a great time with you guys.
Yeah, had fun fucking hanging, dude.
Yeah.
Next time we'll do it in person so I can drink with you.
We have to do it in person.
Yeah, we'll come by, we'll do some drag boat runs,
and then come do it out by you.
I would love that.
Recording in progress.
Sorry.
Yeah, we got to hit it, man.
We're like mobilizing a little bit here and there.
We got, you know, we've done a handful of...
Yeah, we got a California trip coming,
but we need to plan a plan that's, yeah, Southern trip.
For sure.
Oh, yeah, maybe you could record with other people around here.
I know you've had Fuller on, but he's not far from me.
In that area, right?
Yeah, we need to go fuck with Fuller anyway in his home turf.
Yeah, definitely.
I haven't been to his shop.
He's getting older, too.
We probably need to do it while he's got some time left.
Yeah, it'd be like a gene field scenario.
Yeah, he might not be playing tomorrow.
Mike, it's been great.
I appreciate it.
You're going to Woodward next week, right?
Or this weekend?
Next weekend?
Weekend, yeah.
That's going to be fun.
Oh, man.
Yeah, Roadkill Night starts Saturday, August 9th.
I don't know when this comes out.
I don't even know if I need to even say it, but...
It doesn't matter.
We're talking about it.
I don't know when it comes out, either.
Super fun.
I can't believe we'll race on Woodward.
We're supposed to go out there for a day.
We are.
We're going to go out for the Dream Cruise.
I think that's the 11th or 12th or something like that.
Yeah, this thing kicks off the Dream Cruise.
I think we're going on the following weekend.
Yeah, dude.
Whatever it is.
Have you ever been to Dream Cruise?
No, we haven't.
That's why we've never been.
Outstanding.
Keep here and keep here and our arms have been twisted to go.
Yeah, it's only as stones throw away from here.
Yeah, it is.
If you've got an arm.
You can't chunk a fucking stone that far.
It's a stupid statement.
It's a five-hour fucking drive.
I'll throw it over those mountains.
You're not throwing it.
It's like, you don't know.
It's our neighboring fucking state, dude.
It's right next door.
Maybe he skips the stone, you know?
Yeah, that's the way.
Skipping a fucking cross like Michigan.
You can't skip a stone either.
He's spent a lot of time skipping a stone like Michigan.
Ever seen.
Mike, it's been awesome.
We'll have to set something up.
Are you going to be at SEMA this year?
I will.
I will.
I think I'll be there.
I'm going to go to the SOSA Metalworks Party.
Oh, yeah.
That's a good great time.
Great party.
Cool fucking shop.
I haven't been to it, but a guy from Hemmings called me
and said the theme this year is drag boats.
They're going to build a swimming pool in that shop
and stick my boat in it.
And I'm like, hell yeah.
Now that's fucking cool.
Yeah, that is a badass party.
Dude, it feels like we've gone on two years and you go.
Dude, it feels like it's out of a movie.
It's like a movie.
It's a great time.
Great time.
It's bitching, man.
Cool show.
It's like a Fast and the Furious one scene.
Exactly.
There's like a fire going.
There's like people like sitting out
and all kinds of badass stuff.
They should be filming a movie there.
Yeah.
Oh, dude, that's cool.
Yeah.
Well, maybe I'll see you guys there.
For sure.
We'll see you out there.
See you soon.
Appreciate it.
Thanks, man.
Good hanging.
Thanks.
Talk to you, man.
Thanks.
That was a good time.
Yeah, it was short on recording on that.
I'm a little scared.
A little scared of how that happened.
What's that?
The recording started flashing.
I don't know when.
I've been checking on it and it wasn't doing that earlier.
So it's just running low on space, right?
No, when it starts flashing like that means it's
didn't get it to that, but it should have got it to these.
And it should have got it to that.
Just a little more work on the alias part.
We've got redundancies in the systems.
Sounds good.
That's backups for those that don't know.
For somebody that says they can throw a fucking rock to Michigan.
Yeah, he's making fun of you.
Yeah, I'll come across this fucking table.
That I can do that.
That's not too far for me to come across that fucking table.
Nice.
You should have said that earlier.
I'm saying it.
No, we're live.
We're still recording.
But it's not near as funny.
That's fun.
It's equally as funny.
70% less funny.
Yeah, I chuckled.
Yeah, Phil laughed.
That was really that was actually really fun.
I feel an intriguing guy.
I've always wanted to talk to him.
It's crazy that we've never crossed paths.
Right.
Oh, he's pretty cool.
Yeah.
But I feel like he might have thought that we were pretty cool.
We'll see.
Maybe we'll see what he tells.
Let's ask Fuller.
That sounds like he's like, hey, do you think we're cool?
So what did you talk to?
I mean, did you say anything?
So yeah.
So what did he say?
What's up with you, man?
We got back into the before we wrap this up,
we got back into the old Dominic tonight.
We did a tasting a couple episodes ago.
I was not here for that.
We did.
Yeah, you were not here.
Wait, where were you?
You weren't here?
Depends on which podcast it was.
You weren't here, though, right?
No, was it Pickleball or?
Did you get Svetsen?
Svetsen Jorgensen.
Svetsen Jorgensen from Sweden for the Pickleball team.
Oh, he had an ACL injury.
We couldn't.
Well, that's something you guys can talk about.
Yeah, you should bond it over that.
That's the reason you're coaching.
Oh, it was your MCL.
I don't remember.
I hate you guys.
So we got back into the old Dominic to try it a little bit more,
and it holds up.
It's good.
It holds up.
Well, that's the first time you're dipping into it.
So I was a fan.
Yeah.
Very, very good.
It's really good shit.
Yeah.
We are going to have to we got an invitation.
We're supposed to we need to go down and tour their facility
there in Memphis.
They got it.
They redid the distillery in the downtown.
They got a cool bar and shit like that.
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah, I like great story to what's different.
Drinking it.
So last podcast, we drank it.
It's like you're going into it.
You know, you're drinking it.
This podcast, you're just kind of pouring it.
And it's just something that you're sipping on.
And it's it's killer.
It's got that spice like cinnamon spice,
but not too overpowering.
Yeah, exactly.
Not to a level that's like too Christmas.
Yeah.
Borderline like rye ish.
Yep.
But not overpowering and kill you.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you this is a not only it's a buy it,
now we're upgrading this to find it.
Yes, I wouldn't.
I would agree that we left it as we kind of toss the rating scale
because we we lost the like the baseline.
We haven't rated stuff in a while.
And we just resorted back to the buy it.
But I agree with you.
It's now it becomes a.
Yeah, you should go find it.
This is the this is the old Dominic eight year.
This is a limited but it's it's out there.
Also they have in their repertoire.
They have they have all kinds of other
Bermans and other liquors.
That just pure.
They have they that's not the only thing they sell.
But that's I'll tell you that.
That's not the only thing they sell.
No, they do have they've got vodka and gin.
And they've got three or four other bourbons.
And this is their age one.
This is their first eight year.
The other ones are I think a blends of like four and fives.
This is their first one that's just just now recently.
If you're listening to this, it's literally just launched.
Are they in like regular liquor stores?
Can you get that at like a Garfield's beverage?
The liquor stores that sell them.
You can buy on it 100 percent.
Really?
Yeah, the ones that carry them.
Well, then be on the lookout.
Yeah, you can go to.
I don't want to send people on a wild goose.
No, you can go to Old Dominic dot com.
And you can find the distribute.
You can also buy from them online.
You can actually purchase from them.
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Nothing in the pickleball world.
Really?
Yeah.
Nothing in the pickleball world.
Damn.
Any hot prospects?
I fucking hate both of you.
The amount of people that came up to me at Columbus.
It was awesome.
Like legit, with Jesse from Loose Guy and Walkside.
I forgot about it too because he's like,
oh man, are you really like you're in the pickleball?
What?
Yeah, like, so how's that going?
What are you talking about?
I even had to be like, what?
I was like, oh, yeah, I forgot.
Yeah, he's super into it.
I forget a lot.
I'll be like, I forget a lot of the things I say,
but I believe it's been presented
in a very believable fashion.
This last story?
Yeah, I think so.
Oh, yeah.
But the thing is, nobody really knows.
We even don't know.
No, we don't.
I was on vacation in Florida with my family.
We don't know that for sure.
There's pictures I will show you.
The AI?
The shit you can do with AI nowadays?
I saw a picture of a cruise ship
in the Arctic in like seven feet of ice.
With a Hellcat doing donuts?
Yeah, I saw an ultima go through the side
of a plane in the air.
I saw an ultima on the moon.
You can't, that doesn't hold up.
There's no way for us to know.
I'm not that good of an AI.
Go to oilandwhiskey.com.
Get your oil and whiskey merch.
Got some new stuff dropping here soon.
Go to Old Dominic.
Do you even know those pens?
And get your pens?
Yeah, the pens.
And you missed out.
I think they're sold out.
I'd like to see it.
Can somebody post a picture that I want to see somebody
wearing the OW shirt that looks not like that?
Like that maybe looks a little bit better.
It's not the best representation of the oil and whiskey.
Do you think that's hurting sales?
I don't think it's helping it.
Honestly, I'd like to maybe we cut that out
and we just have Elia do a little B-roll
of just the T-shirt.
Maybe just the shirt, not that shirt on you.
Just we could put it right here, use the camera.
Do you think Cousin Mikey wears it better than Josh?
Honestly, he probably does.
Okay, now people know you're stupid.
That sounds fucking retarded.
Cousin Mikey's like a T-shirt kind of guy.
He's the kind of guy that's like, this guy wears a lot of T-shirts.
He's the kind of guy that takes his T-shirt off
after he gets too drunk.
That's the type of guy Mikey, because of Mikey is.
That's the guy that sands T-shirt after four beers.
That's the kind of guy I want wearing an OW shirt though.
That's about to take it off.
Yeah, because he's going to buy another one.
That's repeat sales.
Go to Old Dominic and get your eight-year reserve bourbon.
Go to HRE Wheels.
Go to weathertech.com.
Weathertech's great.
We were talking about this the other day.
You need to go to Weathertech if you're planning on going to road tour.
All kinds of cool stuff you can stock up on.
Phil's a big cup phone guy.
Phil converted.
Phil made me a cup phone guy too.
I started seeing, they got like universal bed mat stuff
for like the square bodies and stuff for the road trip stuff.
Better than me taking the one with my brother.
I'll tell you what, if you want to save your interfenders.
Don't bring the classic car studio guys with you.
We could thank, you know, Charles brought a really nice cooler.
Like they've got these beautiful soft Yeti coolers nowadays.
I had my shitty cooler, which is cool.
It's got some heritage.
We've brought on a bunch of road tours.
But you strapped it down.
I strapped it down.
It's not all his fault.
I guess I should have strapped it down.
But he brought like a fucking ice chest, like a vintage,
it's like a Viking chest.
And it bounced, it bounced itself around a little bit back there.
And it, that old metal isn't as thick as you think.
So the old fucking interfenders.
Yeah.
The old RS legend trucks going to need some metal work
in a repaint of the, the inner bed sides and inner rear wheel houses.
But yeah, it's an accident truck that get one of those.
No problem.
Yep.
Dude, do you think we should have a road tour, like reunion episode?
Yes, that's a great idea.
That would be pretty cool.
That's a very good idea.
What type of reunion?
Like a podcast.
Everybody that was on a week ago.
Everybody was on the road tour.
Couple, we will give it give it a couple more weeks
and then it'll be a reunion.
But it needs to, but we're not doing it for us to hang out.
We're doing it for everybody to listen to the stories.
It needs to be, it needs to be a little bit more timely.
Like we're going to tell the stories of things that happen
so people can hear about it.
It was just an idea.
I think let's go up to, it's just a stone's throw away.
We go up to Cousin Mikey's.
Dude, that's a plane's flight away.
It's a plane's flight.
It's right over there in Michigan.
We can take the ferry.
Take the ferry, dude.
Oh, we're going to meet at Cousin Mikey's and do an episode there.
I know, Jared nailed it.
The coolest thing about Cousin Mikey is his.
Barn.
100% dude, apps are fucking loosely.
Yeah.
He's got a great.
His wife's pretty cool too.
Really?
Yeah, she's fine time.
I don't believe I've met.
Yeah, you've partied with her in the parking lot at Columbus.
Maybe I might have partied a little too hard
that I don't remember.
Probably.
So we go to, we go to Cousin Mikey's house
and we do an episode there and we do a reunion
for everybody who's on the tour.
I'm in.
Or we can zoom people too from there.
No, I'm in.
There's a technology that's available.
I think that's a good idea.
Lobster Dave to ship in some oysters.
But he's done.
He's done.
The only problem is,
I know, but he's done enough.
We can do that start.
We can do that, but it might be a little self-serving
because I think you told me that when you look back,
you have access to some of the metrics.
And I believe you look back to let me know.
Then when we turn shouldn't have been told the microphone
over to Cousin Mikey, although I enjoyed it
because I get kind of a kick out of him.
This is bad.
It was the not the not the strongest performing.
We're not the strong.
What's the opposite of the strongest?
Would you say?
Not the strongest.
Not the strongest.
Let's just go in.
He, how about this?
He wins at the worst podcast we've ever done.
Yeah.
Well, there's my metrics.
I think we may have just got uninvited.
It depends on how you look at it, though,
because one way you could look at it is a golf score.
Less people listen to his podcast
than have listened to any of the other podcasts.
I like your, I like the way you're looking at it.
Golf score.
Yeah.
You try to get the lowest.
Yeah.
He definitely, he got the lowest.
He birdied it.
He eagled every hole.
All right.
You've never seen a score this low.
All right.
It's, it's the best score.
He's the Tiger Woods podcast.
Yeah.
Okay.
I got you, Mikey.
Got it.
Well, let's set it up.
I think tonight's a golf night,
which would also be a drinking night for Mikey.
We need redemption.
We don't, he does, he needs redemption.
We'll do this one.
This will be YouTube.
It'll be live.
We'll video, we'll get the garage.
A lot of video, a lot of fucking B-roll.
That'll help straighten things.
The garage is cool.
Yeah.
All right.
We're going to, we're doing it.
Set it up, dude.
Nobody else knows about this.
We're talking about it right now.
This all stemmed.
We veered wildly off track from Phil talking about
how good of an idea it is to get just a WeatherTech mat
to go in the back of your truck.
Yeah.
Truck.
Muscle car.
If you're doing a road tour, it literally,
what you put on it, it stays right on it.
Even ripping through that, what was that?
Washington.
Mount Washington.
Mount Washington.
Yes.
I mean, really getting after it.
Stuff just stays.
Ideally, you want to get the full size mat
that fits the truck, not take the one out of my Bronco
and put it in a truck.
Yeah.
Turn that doesn't fit.
But, well, it's significantly smaller,
so you just got to keep things very short.
The alternative is that you can absolutely
fucking Pantera the shit
out of your mint square body bed.
And wheel houses like mine.
But we got a body shop.
Dude, that thing hasn't been mint for years.
We'll see you again next week.
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Mike Finnegan from Roadkill joins the Oil & Whiskey podcast for a lively discussion about his automotive journey, including his experiences with classic cars, drag boats, and the evolution of car culture. He shares memorable stories from his early days in California, the challenges of building and racing cars, and his transition from print media to YouTube. The episode also touches on the nostalgia of car shows, the impact of Fast & Furious on car culture, and the importance of community in the automotive world. Finnegan's passion for cars and storytelling shines through in this engaging conversation.
In this episode, we sit down with Mike Finnegan, Co-host of Roadkill and Faster with Finnegan, to talk about building cars, making TV, and the wild road that led him here. From starting out as a writer and editor to becoming a face of automotive entertainment, Mike shares stories about working with David Freiburger, the early days of YouTube car culture, and balancing family life with constant projects and filming. The guys also dig into hot rod culture, unforgettable builds, and what keeps Mike chasing horsepower.