A solo dive into the SEMA experience, this episode features Jay Finning reflecting on his past trips to the automotive trade show and sharing insights on the current buzz surrounding the Toyota Supra. He discusses the challenges of networking at SEMA, the political nature of car shows, and the excitement of seeing innovative builds. With guest appearances from industry insiders and lively anecdotes about travel and car culture, listeners get a personal glimpse into the highs and lows of being part of the automotive community.
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Special SEMA 2019 edition. Jhae talks about the 2020 Toyota Supra , discusses his rental car of the week and is joined by IG Profile Highlight of the Week guest Hansel of Leencustoms live from SEMA. Jhae also reminisces on his 2017 SEMA experience as a feature vehicle with Danny Nikkhoo freelancing from SEMA for ClassicCars.com. Jhae also talks about some pros and cons of his constant life on the road and share's some very first world problems. And we are joined by special guest NSX Nomad Johnny Lange for the builders corner segment and talks clutch replacement on an NSX.
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I am your host Jay Finning. This episode, I'm running solo,
I have no co-host. That's right.
I mean, you're stuck with my us then babbling about absolutely nothing. Here's the good news, this is
Seema week, which means this episode, I'll be talking about my trip to Seema two years ago and I will be covering IMA this year although I'm not there but good news is I will have some guests. Correspondence will be
interviewing them separately and getting them to this pod.
So we have some big names and store some exciting things going on. But first let me just talk about
stupid shit. It's a lot of you know and some
of you don't first off of this is your first time listening to this podcast is really called the hard parking podcast.
It's Automotive our culture. However, it's a podcast, it's
basically about cars but we don't really talk about cars.
So some of you know in my real job I do Healthcare it.
What that means is Is let me tell you what that means.
So, I travel back and forth pretty much every week of the year when I have a job. So, the joke is I totally car
people in Phoenix. Hey, if you see me during the
middle of the week, chances are I don't have a job sometimes.
I have a gig where I get to travel every other week, but currently, I'm working in Palm Springs and I travel every week.
So, when I was in New Jersey, I would lie for a half hours on the flight from Phoenix to New Jersey.
And then always be like five, Bauer's on the way back and you rack up a lot of miles. But the thing is, everybody you
fly with. Usually, if you see the same
people on the flight, they do. Basically the same thing in some
capacity, even if they're not Healthcare it, they do some sort of travel job, some sort of a consulting job where they're on the road all the time. So what happens is we all crew
Mi of the same time and you start getting status.
That is as good. I get to accrue miles and they'd
use miles or our trips. And so there's a pro.
The con is you're stuck on the plane.
You don't get that time back. What happens is as You gain your
status, you start checking the upgrade list, and I get upgraded to first class this week, it would be really nice and cushy to get upgraded first, class was the first class on the long flights, over three hours. To give you food was great food
but is still food and they just keep it coming.
They just give you as many drinks as you want.
So, a lot of people say, well, I like flying first class because the drinks are free. The food is free, it's not
really free because the tickets are expensive.
That's how I got to break it down.
If to say. Okay.
So I got this free Woodford. Reserve, is this Woodford
Reserve worth the price that I am paying for this plane ticket?
Absolutely. Not thus the perspective, you
have to have what happens is you get on this flight and you start checking the upgrade list before you get on and when I was flying to New Jersey, I would get upgraded every once in a while.
It felt great. When I started working in
Dallas, Dallas is only a two-hour flight from Sky Harbor.
So Dallas is the Hub. I fly American Airlines and you
don't want to be flying from Hub to HUB.
You want to be flying from Hub to headquarters because no matter what status you have, unless they've given you the concierge, you member status, you're going to be like number 20 on the upgrade list and let's face it.
And if you're out of the top form, the upgrade list, a lot of shit has to go wrong you to get upgraded to first class so they're almost like fucking with you when they dangle your name on that list at 13. 14 15. I think one time I looked up and
I was like number 26 on the upgrade list.
Why show me the fucking list you're sitting 8 to 12 people Max and first class typically on a normal size aircraft that means that first class has to drop off two.
Sometimes three times over for mediating.
Your shot. Show us the top four will give
anybody else, false hope. Okay, so anyway, we're going to
Palm Springs. It's a 45-minute flight.
I get upgraded all the time. Now, like, 80% of the time I'm
getting upgraded to First Class That sounds great, right?
Sure, what do five minute flight, which means this time for one drink maybe to the planes are really small.
You have to check your bag every time at the gate that means when you want to drink it, set of Premium, that's enough time to get a couple drinks in. So what happens is you bored you
sit down and they go would you like me to get you something to drink and you're looking at your clock and you're like your watch? I don't wear a watch looking at
my iPhone and oh we take off in 20 minutes that's plenty of time for a drink. Sure, I'll take that drink if
you don't take. Drink and you wait till you get
into the sky, you have time for one.
Drink the day I'm sitting there chilling with my upgrade and I have one drink, he flight. Attendant comes from the back
and he's up there shooting the shit with my tits in at this working first class. I'm just watching them, he's
grabbing all these snacks and this motherfucker is just crushing snack. After snack, after snack and I'm
looking I'm like am dude. If you stop talking him to maybe
you can bring me some fucking crackers up in this bitch.
And he reminded me of Chris Farley on Billy Madison.
When he was freaking smashing all those kids snacks on the bus when they went on the field trip with the kid peed on himself.
Then the old lady said if peeing on yourself was cool.
Call me Mi date Miles Davis anyway.
So something I do. We'll talk about cars later so
just fucking calm your shit. The type of work that I do, that
allows me to go on the car trips because they could to save my hotel points. Am I are Miles points, you see
me on Instagram? If you follow me at na2 NSX and
what you'll find is that the post on my page for usually always my car, However, when I posted my story, it's just me.
You'll see food. You'll see me.
Livin La Vida Loca. See me drinking I do this one
thing and appreciate those of you who actually participate.
I do this fun thing where I'm like, guess what?
I'm drinking because I like to drink Scotch, I like to drink whiskey. Well it's all whiskey, I like to
drink Scotch. I like to drink bourbon anyway.
So what I do is it looks like a lot of fun.
Sometimes it's the loneliest job in the world and I say that because, as I'm Sitting here in this hotel right now.
It's just me. So I go out and eat had a
wonderful dinner, but I like companionship, I like friendship. And with this gig or
specifically, I don't really know anybody.
I have a few co-workers on my team that are what we call full time employee. So they have families who live
in the area, a compensated, well, but they don't get a food stipend. So it's really difficult me to
say, hey, when we get something to eat after work, hey, let's go get something to drink it. Happy hour because you can
easily say for me. That's a rebate and they're
coming out of pocket. It's not really free for me.
I go over my expenses all the time anyway, but you know who am I to make that decision for them?
But I just feel like it's have to be Launches that hey, these people don't get it, like, I get it sometimes which means which makes it a lot more beneficial when I have co-workers who do what I do. So, sometimes on my team, I'll
be lucky, it'll be two, three or four of us, and at least one of us by us, I mean contractors. You know, all I need is one
other person. Be really cool.
And then we can go out and have happy hour.
We go have lunch together, whatever.
There's a lot of people like me to do what I do, but don't work on the same teams, unless the firm that I'm working for that.
Time which is the people who pay me to work at the hospital.
You know, some of the larger firms, they'll come out every quarter and of Representative, that'll take all their employees to dinner. And then that's when you get to
meet people on other teams that work for the same company.
Then you start Network and you build a little Squad.
I don't have a squad here. I had a squad in New Jersey at a
squad and Alice and we would do things, you know, once a month.
So unless I have something to keep me busy, there's times where it's like, okay, I'm getting 60 Looks for food a day.
I don't feel like going out tonight and then I just give a throw the Talon, maybe go to McDonald's, we would or not, or maybe like tonight, I went out and had a nice seafood dinner and had a glass of wine and sit in the hotel, you know?
So it's not all Glitz & Glam, sometimes it sucks to be on the road, but you trade that with some of the benefit of, you know, a rack of Hotel points and rack up here miles so that I can do things. Like go to Monterey car week and
minimize my out of pocket. Expense.
There's some of those events Pikes Peak Hill, Climb, some of those. Most of those events I'm able to
do because I've saved up Hotel points and I've stayed up air miles. And the thing is, believe it or
not. I really don't talk about my
cars at work right now. Nobody that I work with knows
anything about me. Unless I Googled me, they know I
have a family, you know, I have a dog, you know, I have a grandson. So happy, you were just learning
about having a grandson right now.
Like, I typically, Separate hobby from personal.
And so they either know, one thing or the other, I don't like talking about cars at work and less people are into cars because like, no one gives a fuck what you're really into your just want to know what you like to do, just because they're nosy. And what's funny is, this is the
first job I've had where I can sit in the car with my co-workers and they'll start talking about.
Well, I like this car like that car.
You know, one of my co-workers husband's I guess is into cars and they've gone to see Megan. She dropped the s word once and
I was kind of looking like, oh shit.
She knows about Seema but I've never once said, I don't have to have a Grab a turbo NSX and I have a little replica car makes up a, my car that you can buy off of eBay and I'm own and operate, a One auto movement, automotive car culture, and I have a podcast, a poblano and blah.
Blah, blah, another, I feel tempted, but nobody fucking cares. And when people do get, when
they go, oh, you like cars you in the cars?
I go. Yeah, I like cars.
Oh really well, what you have a car?
I said yeah, I just drive an Old 97 Acura And usually they're like, okay, that's cool, you want stops.
There's I don't know if they're specially to say, I have a 56 T-bird or 57. T-bird, or if I say, they're
waiting for me to say, oh yeah, I have a Dodge Demon, but I usually just throw that nugget out there.
I just have an Old 97 Acura if they perk up and start asking more questions and I come like you know sex and we just go from there. Every once in a while, you get
that old lady in the office or tells you about her husband or father, or whatever who does car shows and the The stuff with the American Classics, which is not exactly something that I can identify with to a certain extent.
But, you know, I can roll with it, but if I tell them, yeah, I drove a 97, Acura NSX. Oh, that's, it's really neat.
And in there out of contents, I just don't say anything at all.
We talked about what I'm obsessing about.
I always obsess about a bunch of different shit.
And right now, what I'm obsessing about is this podcast in the Quest for better, Hardware me tell you a little something about me because most of you have zero idea, but I used to mix music all the time. We're talking from 1999 and to,
I don't know, just as recently as a couple years ago, but I did it as a hobby. So there's times where I was
invited to come on and DJ at clubs, I was invited to come on to a local radio show. So, I mean yeah we're local
radio program when I was living in Grand Rapids, Michigan to be kind of like the guest nightly DJ, but I just kind of kept it closer to the vest and just eat it as hobby.
Had a SoundCloud page for the longtime still have one, but now it's a limited page. So a lot of the music I is gone.
As far as not accessible for you, listen to, but I do have it all available for download. But anyway, so my point is when
I decide to do something, I put a lot of effort towards it, for those of you who have seen my wrap.
In person. You seen all the detail that I
put into it and I did that. So, I did that in Photoshop.
I have no idea how to use Photoshop that.
Well, the most experience, I think I've had were Photoshop up before up until the point that I did, my rap was make an album covers for myself essentially. But anyway, I give it 150%.
And so when I did my music, what I would do is I go online.
I spent hours looking for good music and I can tell within the first few seconds, if I like the song enough to pull it, into whatever the project. Was I was trying to do because I
had three genres. I had two Hip Hop as like, super
chill in a sense, almost like coffee shop music.
And then I had, you know, kind of a middle Trancy catchy driving type music. And so depending on what
project, which one of those three main project I was looking for is what out, you know, kind of seek on some of these online sites and I paid for all my songs and I paid for them because I am hardcore about giving the people money who make the music but because I want quality.
So if you want quality, sometimes you just have to pay for it. And what happens is, when you
buy music in a WAV format or all at 320 or whatever bitrate, you have to make sure it's all the same bit rate.
So it comes across with the same volume in your ear.
Because if you mix them, it doesn't sound right.
No matter how good your actual song, selection is and your transitions are get the bit rates are off.
Then the levels of the song are off and that's just not good.
So I end up spending, you know, 65 $70 on You know, 25 30 tracks and after, you know, five or six months, I'd we do the all that down to like 52, probably 14 songs.
What have like 14 songs on this album and then I would try to perfect it, the best I can and release it on Soundcloud and or at least it to my NSX forums and had a pretty loyal following.
You know, I was never famous, never got big but it's really good music, I was do it myself. So anyway with this podcast it's
the same In a sense where you know, the content is whatever you make of it. Some people are going to love
it. Some people hate it because
again, it's not all cars. This is car culture, this is me
as a person talking about my life and I try to sprinkle in a little bit of Automotive news. Have a car.
So I feel like I can talk about it.
But, you know, the audio quality itself is a big deal for me, which means in order, if you have good quality, you have to have better Hardware. So now I have a pretty decent
microphone. I have an adjustable.
I think it's called a boom arm. It's got one, two, three points
of articulation, but it's the kind you clamp on your desk because I was recording on the road.
Now, Neighbors in the time because I really feel weird talking in front of people, which is like, if I were to record this at home, you know, I can see my wife sitting in the corner of the room, just staring at me or my dog.
Is he staring at me or somebody staring at me while I'm trying to record and doesn't? I don't know, I just can't do it
in front of people sometimes I don't know like right now I'm talking to myself into / fucking weird.
But anyway this this boom arm doesn't fit on this desk at this specific Hotel. So what I've had to do is I've
had to take one of the chairs and I laid the chairs on the ground and I'm using one of the crossmember supports of the chair. And that is what this boom arm
is attached to Super janky, but effective.
But yeah, so that's what I'm stressing about.
I really want this to be a quality audio podcast.
And the only way to do that is to get better equipment and so, you know, that's why we have our sponsors sponsors that put for sponsorship, money to get their shoutouts but they're really putting it forward to support the podcast.
And with that kind of offsets the heavy cost associated with better equipment, that's just life.
I have a field recorder now once I get another microphone, I'm going to able to be able to go to places and sit down with people side by side and have a conversation with her.
With microphones because face-to-face conversation is the best way right now? This podcast is primarily over
the phone but you know, it is what it is and it's only going to get better. That's what it is.
Still project update this segment.
By the way, is not yet sponsored.
So looking for a sponsor for the project segment.
Every time for my NSX, you'll last time.
You guys heard me talk about it. It's your I dropped it off at
science of speed and there were doing a bunch of work to the car. Got a lot of maintenance done,
spent a lot of money cars, not quite where I want it.
I thought it would be but it's been having some issues lately has nothing to do with science and speed.
It's just Turbo aftermarket issues.
It's just one of those things, they do some fine tuning with it, but it runs a lot better anyway.
I thought I was done for a while.
Didn't have any shows that I was committed to, for the rest of the year. And so, I went off and register
for import Face Off, which was last weekend and had a lot of fun. Want to import Face Off and
Chandler. So a Faceoff travels around the
United States. And they do two shows in
Arizona, typically one in Tucson and one in Phoenix, I think they do to a year. I don't know.
It's the first time I've been at a face off in four and a half years. I go to the car shows to compete
but I also go to the car shows to hang out with other car people, other car buddies. People that have built
friendships with over the last x amount of years and so because of that, I've had a lot of fun socome best Acura there was actually some competition there this year and that's always been kind of the bane of my existence is other Acuras and I never seem to wear have to worry about nsx's.
Unless I go to SoCal, I'm never going to win in California because over there you have Leah casino and you have Michael Mal and they're not getting in the show unless they win and their cars are badass. So they're always going to win.
So when I go to those shows, I just want some recognition and I usually get it, which is super cool.
When people tell me, it's the coolest freaking Bill they've ever seen, or the tell me all that.
Reminds me, when I was a little kid, you know, me and my brother used to watch that or my dad always talks about that.
To me, that's a win because my car's not for everybody, but now I'm also registered for elite tuner and December.
So if you guys want to come out and see the V F1 s NSX.
And if you are a sports complex and well, Peoria, Arizona that's December 7th from 6 to 10 p.m. and I'm also registered for what
used to be called future classes car show, which is in January, that's brought to you by classic cars.com.
Have a lot of stuff to get ready for our future classes change, the name. I don't know the name right off
the top of my head right now, but I'm doing some work with Otto USA awesome carbon and you know, who knows maybe a pride exhaust, one of my other main sponsors and friendships will have something cool by then and I'm going to be working a lot or I try. I want to work with carbon
Creator Rob, which you'll be a guest on the future podcast.
He's been in the industry for years, worked on all sorts of Seema builds. All sorts of famous cars.
You've seen on TV and you get an opportunity to work with a guy like that on a car. Like mine would be super
awesome. And super nice guy.
So I'm looking forward to doing some work with him.
And that's my project update for now.
All right, it is Jay's, Rental Car of the week, currently do not have a sponsor, for Jays were no car the week.
But this is a segment where I talk about one of the rental cars that I've had. Since I travel pretty much every
week for work this week. My rental car is a 2019.
Volkswagen Tiguan after doing some research.
I found out that I have the s C4 motion trim to the SE for motion. Trim is kind of mid-grade a
little second to their most expensive, 184 horsepower, twenty thousand dollars. The one I have is black has some
super weird generic tires. I forgot what they're called but
I looked at them when I get out of the car today at work and started snickering like what the fuck is that the vehicle drives?
Okay, it's pretty comfy. I would compare it a lot too.
Maybe the new Jeep Cherokees or even like a cheap Compass.
Which one would I rather have the Jeep Compass or the Tiguan?
Again, we're talking for a rental vehicle because I wouldn't buy either. I would take the Tiguan.
They both have apple carplay, which I like the carplay is a little janky on both and I'll tell you why.
I say that at least with the Volkswagen, I picked it up on Sunday night and I plug my phone in and nothing came up other than, you know, USB audio. So I struggled through the drive
to the hotel. I know.
First of all problems, Monday morning, I go to get in the car and go to work and plug in my phone and Boop.
What do you know, Apple car play with that being said, they're both kind of even in that Avenue driving around its kind of dirty, it feels sporty, but it's not.
But the overall Comfort level, the trim, the leather interior.
It's just it's just feels like a better made vehicle then what I would compare it to again, which is a like a Cherokee Compass things with their called the compass.
The thing that's like the same size as a Jeep Cherokee, but if you're going to rent a Jeep going to Grand Cherokee, you know, every once in a while there's like a like the Sahara.
Ocean Wrangler. I had one of those once.
It's pretty nice as far as the Tiguan Dome and look it up reviews on it and it, you know, rates eight out of ten.
According to, you know, u.s. News & K, PB has it a 4.3 I
would assume out of 59, out of a 10 and overall people really like it. If you get an option to pick it
up at a rental lat, you know? And if you like the smaller
compact, SUVs not a bad vehicle. It's got the auto turn off
feature like most Vehicles doing.
I've said before, first thing you should do.
Every time you start, the vehicle is find that fucking a, that looks like an Avengers icon and hit that button and disengage it for the Tiguan. It's the one that I have at
least is really clunky, so you get in the car and you come to a stop sign or a stop light and instead of it just shutting off, it does like this weird little Shimmer.
So either it wants to get down or it's a clunky auto shutoff system but again that's the 2019, Volkswagen take one.
The one I had this all black, what I read it again.
Then I would rent it again. What?
I buy it as a personal vehicle. I would not buy it as a personal
vehicle but hey to each his own, you be nice with some bigger wheels and some, you know, tires that I can recognize.
But of course you sacrifice ride quality with bigger wheels and tires, but it gives a fuck about that.
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Hey guys, thanks for having me. Um, I got a 2000 in SX that I'm
kind of take her around with a little bit.
I bought it with a quarter million miles on it and it was completely totaled. Every single panel in the car
was damaged. When I got it over the course of
a few years, kind of brought it back up to life and clutch is on its way out. So, or the next couple weeks,
I'm going to be tearing down in the clutch, or taking off the transmission, doing the clutch and then drop it at down to Florida, for NSX go. I paid so I started December.
So for a lot of us, we know you, we know you're very dramatic and you're always picking up in a sexism building and equipping them and then you have like your core one or two that you keep working with. So you're going to do a clutch,
how many times you've done a clutch before and if I want to do a clutch, what are some of the things that I'm going to need to know before I get started got a clutch a couple times before I guess one random bit of advice is I would highly recommend a transmission jack. Actually, if you don't have like
a to post or four posts left, that makes life a lot easier.
I'm gonna be a really dumb question but are those those specific to the type of like the engine placement of a vehicle?
Now I'm going to get a transmission check for a bit engine. Yeah.
From Harbor Freight. You know it's like it's just
basically like a real small Jack operates off a ratchet and you just ratchet it up and down and I think they're like 80 dollars or something like that but it'll really alleviate a lot of bench.
Pressing of a transmission with our core specifically Get the remove the subframe and you don't have to take too much off.
Do you know, not not entirely, you know, you got the there's a you brace underneath the car take that out, you know, take out the axles obviously and then, you know, kind of like just standard little transmission stuff.
I mean if you've worked on a Honda and the past, it's pretty much about the same. If you worked on another car in
the past is pretty much about the same.
But one thing I, you know, I am pretty mindful of especially with the nsx's, just pork specs on everything, you know, make sure you're just not really. Going overboard over corking
stuff because that's how you mess stuff up.
Majorly. So where do you get this clutch?
So what I'm actually going to do this time is on the in a 2's a use the the single disk as opposed to the twin desk, okay?
You can get, you can buy the single disc, the actual disc for Fairly cheap I think maybe about 350 or so for the desk, another four hundred and change for the pressure plate.
What becomes tricky is the flywheel.
On the in a twos they use the Dual Mass flywheel and that will run you like two thousand dollars for the.
So her John vassos is about as his advice is, as long as the flywheel is not hot spotted. Just kind of touch it up with a
DA sander and then just reuse the old flywheel, which is what I kind of planned to do. I don't know what the condition
of mine is going to be like. So it's obviously going to be a
little bit of figured out what I get in there.
Fingers crossed that you don't have to flip a couple Grand on a New flywheel. Yeah, I mean it's kind of a dumb
design But ultimately, you know, worst-case scenario, thankfully with me having have had a few of these cars.
I've got some other flywheels laying around as well that are good but I'm just going to try and reuse the one that's in there. What's going on right now as I'm
getting a whole bunch of finding in the clutch pedal and per couple people's diagnosis along with myself.
As we think that when it was, this had a new clutch in it about Ow, I don't know, maybe 40 or 50,000 miles ago and what the problem is is I don't think the actual input shaft was Grease properly. And so the input is actually
binding. So pull it all apart, see what
it looks like and kind of throw it back together.
I'm not trying to spend a whole bunch of time or money on this car but we'll see what happens. Very good.
So what we'd like to do maybe is we can check back in with you in a few weeks and kind of see where you're at reach out.
Let me know, and we can kind of go from there.
Are you renting up a little bit? I most definitely.
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Since this is the special Seema episode.
I figure. I would recap my time at Sima in
2017. Hopefully, well, I have a phone
call out. I have a message out to one of
my friends who is covering Seema this year.
As a member of the media. It was my electronics advisor
and along with a couple other guys.
Alan, yo, she stopped by several people stopped by to help.
We were working all night. I remember.
And we were supposed to wrap it up around 11:00.
I was supposed to get some rest and later on for five in the morning so that I can get to my Roland time at 10:30, why they gave me a role in time at 10:30. When I live several hundred
miles away is beyond me, but we ended up working all night and we didn't even wrap up till about 8:00 in the morning.
So, my preparation for Seema was alone.
Interesting. As I said before, in a previous
podcast, you have to hustle, really hard to find a vendor.
That is showing that will Sponsor or car and bring you in as one of their vehicles once that happens.
Other people start giving you stuff but you know you start working on your craft. I had some 3D printed parts from
I see 3D printers, they didn't get their.
So a few days before they needed to, that was my, that was my first time designing anything in a 3D program to be printed.
I designed the entire unit at once smart thing to do is to design each components that way. They print each piece, you can
polish off each piece and then a Assemble it.
So I had like these big bricks of these fighter jet panels that I design and so Danny. He spent a lot of time, sanding,
those things down because they were really rough.
So the idea was to send them down.
Put some shit over them. Sam down again, paint them, put
them in the car and have them ready.
He also spent half the night painting, the, or does it targeting thing called the crosshairs to emulate the F-14?
And so, we had the little Little radar display up in, he painted it with this fluorescent paint that glows underneath the black light and that took multiple hours, I don't have that kind of patience. He did a fantastic job so he was
kind of pulling double duty all night.
So we wrap up the project. It's like ate something in the
morning. I think inverse time he goes
home Alan goes home. I go upstairs, wash my face
changed my shirt. I ran upstairs, didn't get a
chance to take a shower, get in the NSX and start.
Driving got off a decision. I was doing fine until I got out
of the Phoenix area. Then I started, I just I could
no matter what, you know. So when you're driving and
you're real tired, you start seeing shit.
You start having conversations with people that aren't even there. You're kind of in this middle
zone of your sleep and you're dreaming, but you're also awake.
The only other time I ever experienced.
It was on I first bought my car in Minnesota.
I took a red-eye flight is at the time I was working in the Pacific Northwest. I took a red-eye flight from
Seattle to Minnesota In a Minnesota, went to my cousin's house, took a shower and seen her in years Louise.
She's awesome. Good artists.
Went to go pick up the NSX, drove from there to Milwaukee so I believe that was six hours. I don't remember now.
Whatever the Twin Cities to Milwaukee, I was on fumes as I got close to Milwaukee, I decided to pull over at a McDonald's because I was seeing shit.
I was talking to co-workers who obviously weren't In the car with me. Scary shit, fast-forward years
later, driving to Seema and I'm calling and texting.
A few of my buddies. So Charles to throw and my
friend Nick at just the tip on Instagram, shout-out in my friend, Nicky Brown and higher Solomon of higher quality detail. They were way ahead of me and at
this point I just wanted to catch up so they kept checking in with me to make sure I was okay and I was hauling ass yet kind of Fallen People along the way.
Like I said, I was a very dangerous decision shouldn't have done it, I survived, but once we rendezvoused at that point, it's like an extra kick. Now you're with people, you
know, your brain is energized and I rode with them all the way to Seema go to check in. I had blown my time by hours
ended up not being a problem. In fact, it end up kind of being
a blessing. Because what had happened was,
once I got in the line and got checked in, they were like, oh, you're in battle of the builders we've been looking for you, glad you're here. And what they do is, they have
all these cars lined up most. Most of these cars are all
feature cars. That means you're getting parked
anywhere. And, if you're the, this is your
first time at Seema, you're, you're outside unless your sponsor paid beaucoup bucks to get you inside.
So what happened was, I follow this big long chain of cars, they run out of places to park and there's three cars.
There's myself again a pretty badass older car black.
I don't know what kind of car was like an old Chevy or Morneau Ford, we're talking like 50s car, 50, 60, s, and another vehicle in the thing is it was obvious at this guy, it was in the black vehicle, the badass vehicle new the organizers because you're talking to the guys right on the golf cart and the guy kind of looked at him. He looked at as she goes.
Okay, just sit here for a while a few minutes later, he pulls up is okay, you guys follow me. So we start following him and
it's just us three. So we end up driving inside of
Team, uh, going through the North Hall, had it all on camera and we got the park inside and I think a lot of people are asking me because some of my friends, Nick and Aaron and Nikki they got some fucking shitty-ass parking like in the far back outside of the Syma map out by a dumpster.
And I was parked inside my first ever time at Seema in the North Hall. And I swear, they thought I'd
done something. I do, I had a friend, I had to
hook up. I was just in the right place at
the right time around the right people.
So all they parked the three of us cars in there.
I remember clean. My car off.
I was spent I had to work that week.
I'll check in a lot of stuff. Put my decals on because I had a
shit ton of decals and it got later, they started clearing people out, they don't kick you out.
But man, I lost my sunglasses that day.
I was just spent grab my backpack, took an Uber to the airport and went home, and there I was, and I flew back to Seema a few days later, think I got there on a Thursday.
So what Seema it was crazy. My time at Sima because I was
already a day or two late and then, you know, so you have a responsibility to the company's the people who have sponsored you you want to meet your sponsors.
You want to meet the representatives, say hi to him.
Made me go out and have a drink. You know, there's Seema parties
have been where I never went to one.
I didn't get invited by the way. And uh, but you know, there's a
lot of politics going on at Seema and you don't want to, you don't really want to believe it until you're in it, and you feel it, and it fucking blows. But there's a lot of money in
hand. There's a lot of handshakes
going on. There's a lot of people who are
good friends with other people outside of Seema.
So you have to make sure they take care of each other, have each other's backs and then your crew shows up and you want to hang out with your crew, but you can't hang out with your crew because your other crew from other.
You know, I know a lot of people all over the place.
So you know, if I, my friend, my buddy, Jake and Wisconsin is at Seema. Hey, Jay where you at?
Well, I'm in the North Hall. Okay, well, I'm in the South
Hall. I run over there to meet up with
Jake, say, what's up to PD and other buddy's like, hey Jay, where you a tour, One of the sponsors is like, Hey we're over by your car. We want to do an interview with
you. Shout the dribble back when you
were with Clarion and so you you leave your buddy and you haul ass back over to the car. Do a 5-10 minute interview, rest
of your buddies show up and you know you spend most time by yourself when you're in the show, then being able to walk around and enjoy things a day and a half is not enough time to walk around and enjoy Seema. It just isn't.
Then on the Friday, which is the last day I spent all day running around because Friday morning, I show up and I have a flat tire and so they have this thing called No seam ignited, which is open to the public for Friday's open to the public seemed ignited. It's like this really this
parade of cars that kind of goes people line both side of the road and then you go and park in this parking lot and everyone comes out and sees the car. It's really cool.
If you ever get a chance to have your vehicle and Sima, I strongly urge you to just Suck it up and do same ignited.
Because that's part of the experience.
You know. I had some friends are by that
point, they were just tired of dealing with everything and they were just ready to go back to the hotel and do whatever.
Not me. Who knows if I'll ever get back
to Seema. So I spent all day trying to put
are my tire because I had a flat tire.
Wasn't sure if someone walked by, it was really weird because I had these tire pressure monitoring system, but I wasn't sure if somebody decided to take it off and look at it and put it on and it put it on correctly. At some point, the middle of the
night, I lost like 20 pounds of pressure in the tire.
And so I'm talking to my buddy PD, hey, Petey, you anybody's got, any are because nobody has some, are you hook me up with the Pirelli guys? So I'm running all the way over
to the Pirelli trailer knocking on their trailer.
Start name dropping, and they hand me.
This air tank feels like nothing because while it's an air tank and it's pretty loaded. So, I'm going through the crowd,
getting over to my car, filling it up with are still don't know.
If I actually have a flat tire, not, or if I have a neat or something, if it's a leak concerned about the leak as you start thinking shit, I drove here, I'm not getting trailer and home. There seemed a ignited.
This this entire Vince going to be over in a couple hours.
I need to and I need to figure some shit out because if I have a flat tire, I'm fucked I can't do same ignited, be difficult, get home. It's not like I have a Ford
F-150 on some regular tires. I have a low profile tires, 18s
and 19's Finding the match. No, my tire sponsor, wasn't
there. Michelin doesn't do Seema, but
anyway, so I had a fill it up with air and I'm fighting the crowds. I spent all day trying to figure
that shit out. You know, my wife shows up, she
wants to show her support, I can't really hang out with her.
Anyway, end up doing seem ignited, do the parade, it was a great time everybody. Jeremy, who's in seeming this
year with his Mustang from Arizona.
And I told him a few weeks ago, when I saw him, I said, hey you're going to see him and he said, yes.
Listen to me, people that have gone to see more will tell you, it's a pain in the ass. Worst thing is ever, I said
fuck, I'm not listen to him. Go enjoy it.
Make sure you bring your walking shoes.
It's an opportunity for many people of a lifetime.
Not a lot of people get to go all the time unless you just balls deep in the industry and it's a bucket list item for a lot of people. And so fully enjoy it.
If you're in a competition, you don't win, fuck it.
You know, for me, I felt that I don't know.
It's really weird because I walked away from seemed a little disappointed because I didn't get any sort of press or coverage by any of the major import magazines or import media. And that's when I started to
feel that it was really political and it sucked.
But there were people who saw my car and appreciated the hell out of it and talk my ear off. And, you know, for those people
it was worth it. There's one guy, he would sit
next to my car. His wife was working and as a
vendor. Not Automotive related, but
something like cleaning supplies, whatever, and he would just come over there and sit down against the wall and stare at my car all day. Like all week, he comes there at
the car. So, you know, she came and
talked to me and I, you know, introduced us and we and we chatted in, you know, she gave me her business card and I am getting, I ended up getting a bunch of boxes of rubber gloves.
So, I use those exclusively for a year and a half because I had so many boxes, you know when I clean my car.
Want to get your hands dirty. Also use them to run the kitchen
and other other things but you know, so that's one of the cool positives that happen with Seema, no negatives.
Just some levels of disappointment, but you learn to, you know, table those expectations and understand that you know, it's it's it's an exam vendor show but it's a car show to it's both of those things but you know so I was in battles of the battle. The builders is no fucking
chance in hell, I'd be mad if I want anything because I knew looking at the competition, And I have a sense of perspective and I know how much work people put into their cars, which is why I don't get too mad. When I don't win at car shows
to, as long as the people who kick my ass.
I feel like they deserve it. And in most cases they do, but
sometimes it feels a little Inside Job fish and that's when it's no good for anybody but you know, that was my seam experience had a lot of fun with it though.
And so everything that I'm seeing this year for Sima, 2019 like I said, you know, I mean there's a lot of super super super super, super super is everywhere.
And that's a cool-looking car. I don't care what anybody says.
Now you're an idiot. If you thought that the FT1 was
going to be the Supra look in the way.
It looks, especially at the price that they were talking about. No fucking way it is.
No way. That would have been even
crazier than the see a Corvette in the way.
It looks basically breaking the internet at the price of their offer and imagine they have T1. So you have to forget about the
FT 1 and just look at the Supra, the Supra, even though it has fake Vince, like most cars and faked it.
Is it fake? That it's a good-looking car and
it's exciting to see the body kids and we'll will tire packages and wraps and all sorts of things that they're doing with the Toyota Supra has and speaking of wraps, by the way, Two years ago, I thought my rap was pretty good designed it myself, but the rap material, and the creativity level seems to have excelled overall. I'm not the most creative
person, I most crafty person. I'm at the most artistic person
but it's kind of challenged me to think about doing it again.
Next level it, because I'll break some news to you.
I actually was going to go to see my this year.
And I decided not to do it because I still owe money from last time. Misconception going to Seema.
Everyone gives you shit. You're still coming out of a
pocket. A lot seem is expensive and
there's very few people who were so accomplished that the amount of money they have to pay out of pocket is a bare minimum for most of us you're paying a lot of money out of your pocket unless you're at the level of like a b c Modo where he's so accomplished or Johnny Grunwald. So Johnny Grunwald is out, you
know. For Mazda, he has a badass Arc.
70 is an RX-8, has everything. And, you know, he's out at Seema
with a paid partnership. I don't know how much money he
came out of pocket, but I do know, or I heard, I won't be any time that he was basically given a car to play with.
That's next level shit. But for most people, even if you
get a deep discount, you're still coming out of money.
You know, like some of the big wheel manufacturers, they might tell your car there. But chances are you have to
figure out how to get your car there yourself.
And if you are going for the big boys, you have Shot because they're all about networking and connections and who, you know, that's why you'll go into the middle of the North Hall and you'll see a pedestrian build. And what I mean by pedestrian is
it might be a good build but compared to half the other shit at Seema. It's very pedestrian but it'll
be front and center stage. It'll get all the media
attention. You know, your get somebody like
mothers and McGuire's. It'll be all over the car you'll
have super Street all over the car and it's a pedestrian built compared to the others and that's because Was it was a car that was handpicked by somebody. Who knows somebody who's
somebody in the industry and or their modification shop, the car itself isn't that bad ass, but it's all about Connections and you see that first hand when you're at Sima and it feels kind of weird, not having sour grapes.
Nothing to do with my car, but I remember walking around Seema and seeing some badass cars tucked away in some weird spots, like the right-hand Drive rocket bunny in a sec.
So, they had talked down the hall down the middle of a corridor, down the hall, and a little room.
Because the airlift room, actually, but that thing was sick. It absolutely should have been
out front center, but unless you've injured off to the far regions of the exhibit Halls. You never would have seen it.
One of the really cool things about Sima.
Other than showing your vehicle, is your opportunity to network and say hi to other people or meet people.
So, I got to say hi to a lot of the NSX guys that I know online.
I've never met in person. Of course, obviously the vendors
You get to network with some people that, you know, outside of, or just just on social media, you know, you'll see, you know, Maxie famous people walking around and they're approachable. They don't have like, a Halo of
security around them might see Jay Leno, hey, what's up J?
And he will take a picture with you.
Anybody will take a picture with you but it's kind of cool.
Yeah, just kind of go outside and see I mean it's a shit show, it's a circus at times, it can be a major headache for people at times. Absolutely, what you get out of
it. What you put Into it.
And so, you know, the Silver Lining is your there.
A lot of people want to be there.
It is a trade show. So you have to have a pass,
which means you have to be related to the industry somehow.
So you can't just walk off the street on Monday.
Tuesday, Wednesday, will some Monday on Tuesday Wednesday or Thursday and going to Seema you're going to have to know somebody who's going to have to hook you up with some sort of fake credentials or you're going to wait till Friday, which is open to the public and you can go and pay for your mission.
And you can go and see everything that people have seen all week anyway unless they've moved the car and then of course they have like I said earlier, see May ignite a which is for the public. So it's a really cool event.
You know, after Seema, you know, you do the rollout, stay at the hotel so it was up to your boys. So Seema Friday night after
well, we'll say this. So Sima at during seeming
knighted, 90% of vehicles are gone, they're ghosts are packing up. You're going back to where
they're from because you got people coming from all over the world. And by Saturday, there's Nobody
left in town. There's a few local cars from
the route, and the are the region they're hanging out with their boys, the friends, you know, maybe the boyfriends, girlfriends flew in want to hang out, but the scene is completely gone by Saturday midday Saturday night.
So it's all about, you know, what's left, and then, you know, Sunday morning early, usually everybody goes home.
They drove their that is within, you know, for four or five hour drive, you know, and so that's Seema.
Let's get this, some Automotive news and the reason why I'm getting to the automotive automotive news is just because let's talk about the Toyota Supra.
So I told you guys so I told you so I told you that when the super came out why people while people hated it, some people like it. And all you have to do is sit
around and wait for this thing to be officially released people are in your start, modifying the fuck out of it, give it widebodies, give it Wheels, give it Aro, make You look sick as fuck, which is exactly what happened to the MK4 because I wasn't a pretty car, either some revisionist history.
We look back and look at the MK4 and say, wow.
I mean, that's a beautiful car. It's beautiful.
Now, was it beautiful than I remember when it first came out, I'm old enough to remember that, at least, big fat car compared to the MK3, I don't care what you say, and it drove like a fucking boat for my friends, Jimmy fat Jimmy.
So what we just call him and Texas.
Anyway, so bald fat Jimmy super, I had a sober one and I remember getting on the highway and You step on the gas you wait you wait you wait and then turbo lag, turbo kicks in car dips back. Like you're in a boat.
Wasn't a fun car to drive. Definitely wasn't a driver's
vehicle. And once people started
modifying it like Powerhouse did with the PowerHouse supers and started, making them fucking balls all the wall fast.
Then people started jumping on the bandwagon and from what I understand at Seema. There's a shitload of Supras, no
surprise. We knew it was going to happen
because the see a does not yet otherwise, it'd be a shitload of ch2, but the Supra is proving to you.
Right now the distilled, the import tuners vehicle of choice, that's not a BRZ or FRS, something a little bit better.
Granted, it is a BMW, but let's face it.
No one seems to give a fuck. And so now so they run 12 pitch
wolves out of the box. So you start seeing them all
over the Internet running. You know, tens elevens.
That's With light modification, and they're saying that it's easily capable of to modify these things up to over 1,000 horsepower with very minimum, bottom end work.
And I know Corvette guy says, well, we've been running middle Evans to see 6006 and they're right, but still middle Evans out the box. I'm sorry, Mitch wolves out the
box and 11s and height ends with minimal.
Modifications is basically restoring the Toyota Supra, the 2020 tour super to prom. Audience in the Import Tuner
seen. A lot of my fellow NSX, guys are
going ape shit. Crazy over it.
And like I said earlier, from what I'm seeing online Seema, 2019 is absolutely crawling with Toyota Supra is it's not without its issues, they had a backup camera.
Recall, they have a seat belt guide Loop recall.
Let's face it. New vehicles always have
recalls. So if you can't see the person
you're backing over, Or, you know, well, you want to make sure that your seat belt is buckled of course, but props, the Toyota for weathering the storm props to BMW for building the Toyota Supra. And it's just continues to be,
you know, a green light from here.
So I'm excited to see what kind of cool things that people are going to do with their super has, you know, John Sybil started, kicking out super designs.
You saw Samuel do kicking out super stuff and that's all it takes. You get the right influencers.
Behind these things, and the sky's the limit.
So, Props off again, to Toyota and BMW, and I fucking told you so, An opportunity to catch up with my good friend, any neeku, who was my audio, technical director during my Seema build and he's actually out at seamer right now.
Danny, what's up? Hello, hello.
I am sitting downtown, I'm gettin ready to edit some photos from today's walk around so I know it's just the first day.
You've probably seen some cool shit.
I don't know if you're able to Wellness it, go ahead and say you weren't able to see everything.
Oh, definitely not. There's way too much stuff to be
able to see everything on the first.
Stay. So who are you out there with
right now? You're doing some freelance
photography work and some column more.
I'm doing some freelance work, or our good friend, Rebecca Winn, and a classic cars.com awesome.
I saw some of our posts. Oh yeah, no, she, she does
really good work. So, some point this podcast I
gone through and talked about kind of the experience that I had was semen. Some of our crunch the night
before and how it was absolute. Hell, yeah, was something else.
That was a nightmare 10 of the kind of the definition of a simmer crunch, I had mentioned that I had you doing double duty. You were you were painting a
little I don't even know what you call it.
The little targeting a little heads-up.
Display thank you. It has a little crosshairs on
the heads-up display as well. You have me for and and sanding
very slowly in. We made Alan do all the sanding
because that it's just kind of a pain in the ass.
So that you started with it now and just started, he had like the thousand-yard stare as he was standing.
Yeah, by about. to his hating lie about 4 a.m.
So what have you seen out there today?
Oh, I got to go check out some of the newer stuff.
I mean, it's pretty much just FEMA.
Featuring the Supra. Are you in love with the super
yet? No.
Have you seen some supers though that you're kind of like okay?
Yeah, I mean there's like one or two but I like nothing has me sold on it. I think it's a good looking car
on this on this pod and another recording session.
I basically told everybody, I told you so I mean it's still a BMW but throw a little lipstick on it and people fall.
With it. I mean the one really cool one
that I really want to see is the gritty Supra.
It's on display. I didn't get a chance to make it
over there today, but it looks like a pretty mean, build.
I don't know which one that is. It is a fully built drift car.
What? I think it's in the 600,
horsepower range. So what have you seen today?
Other than that. So we're like, where have you
were? The North Hall?
Southall. Central I was all over the
place. So I hit all of those Halls, I
went hit tote read past because It is always a good time and I had some of the cooler Builds on the show.
Also, see anybody famous? Oh you know what minimalize was?
That was out getting Drift ride-alongs from Vaughn Gittin jr. Did you say Vanilla Ice?
Yes, I did. You seen anybody?
So my relevant. Not Vanilla Ice.
I guess. TJ hunt was unveiling his black
Subaru but in case the only social media person that people actually talk about that. I know of did you see the?
You see the HKS one? Did that was really clean.
So we had that in Phoenix, I saw that higher actually had it at HQ D. Oh, there's a lot of cool stuff
to be seen. It seemed especially if you're
and well I mean obviously you're going to be in the industry for their but a lot of the new aftermarket pieces that are available this year, you're kind of seeing the direction that technology is going and how much of a jump?
It's Made the last couple of years and some of the new turbos at the releasing and a lot of the fuel management stuff that is now available is a lot more than it has been the last year's end, so it's not just a.m. and alltech anymore.
Now you have Pro EFI is really coming up and as well as link.
Those are those are both really, really viable.
Your management. You know, is there a display out
there for those gravity? I think it's called gravity free
car batteries. Have you seen those?
She knows yet so buddy - Chicago has one in his anus X and there I want to say they like 800 dollar batteries your car.
I don't remember the technology behind it, but apparently it's really a badass and I guess for that price, it better be.
And I'm kind of curious on those.
And I also saw some sort of new starter technology.
I don't know if I saw it as SEMO but I did see it at Monterey so I would assume Though. It's like which Hall is that
that'd be like north of the north?
All right, where they have all those little weird things or in or down in the middle of the like hidden in the hallways.
I think it might be sorry. Either for the north all the way
through Friday. Do you know seeming 92 thing?
And when you're leaving did you guys drive out there?
I drove out here. Yeah, I'm gonna get to drive to
LA right after well, good for you.
Well, if you go happen to go through Palm Springs on your way home, you fucking son of a bitch.
If it happens to be during the week, make sure you let me know.
Well, I'll probably be Monday and I will definitely call you at a time. I'll definitely be here Monday.
Cool. Thanks for taking the time
horse. I'll talk to you later.
Hopefully, I'll see you next week.
Yeah, I shouldn't be back in town.
I leave Monday. Night.
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All right, we were joined by Hansel The Man Behind lean customers was badass little pens.
He is out at Seema. Right now live, how the hell's
your week been so far pretty hectic?
Oh yeah, man's been hectic. We had the opportunity to work
with. So, your tires on creating some
pins for their future cars in the tread pass and holy shit, man. It's just insane in here and
then you were next to John siebel doing autographs yesterday, right? Yeah.
So, that was pretty neat. He actually invited me out
because there were, he was doing a signing.
So I kind of crashed it but he invited me out there to sign with him because Cuz we're waiting on also be doing the pin release for the Maguire's tow rig that I actually designed for the pin, but he had created the actual render and final concept as well and he was giving out a poster with it.
We took, you understand how badass that is?
Yeah. Oh man, you have no idea.
Like you know, I'm thinking the whole time like, fuck last year.
I'm over here getting an autograph from him because you know, I admire his work and then this year, I'm right next with him fucking signing, shit. That's fucking insane.
So you've done so many amazing things with your pens and I worked with you. It feels like a long time ago
but I guess it was just what last year and yeah I mean you're everywhere now. Yeah you know that's actually
interesting that you say that because it's definitely been growing and it doesn't seem like it's going to stop anytime soon and now it's just kind of fortunate enough to create something for the auto Community where you know it could reflect on their passion, have you had an opportunity to walk around?
You've been kind of stuck in one spot.
Pot. No.
So what I actually took about this show was kind of meeting clients that I've worked with that.
I've only deal with through, like, email or phone or something like that, right? So being able to just kind of
meet them face-to-face and introduce myself, that's kind of what I've been doing at the show for the last two days, kW to McGuire's to Universal. Are, you know, obviously just
it's always good to kind of make that introduction, you know, did you find yourself being pulled from One Direction?
The other because when I was there a couple years ago to me, that was a super cool but super hectic, it's like, hey man, I'm in the North Hall, I'm in the central Hall, I'm in the South Hall and you're just like running back and forth trying to be, yes, exactly. That's how it's been.
And the thing is that I have people here that want to meet me and, you know, with because of the pins.
And, and one thing that John Cena says like, you got to stop being so secretive by yourself, you know, put yourself out there. So people recognize who you are,
you know. So when people find like, oh,
that's the guy that just depends.
Then again, you know, fast turn To like shake my hand and you know, it's kind of have a meet-and-greet kind of things.
Did you for work, right? I mean people are people asking
for autographs. I got in the Bell.
Yeah, it's funny. Now I'm obviously I'm not used
to that and yeah, so they'll have me sign different cards, Dude, That's badass. So I said this on my podcast
earlier and I talked to a few friends about it.
I'm thinking we maybe need to hook up again and do another pin soon. Yes, man.
I that's actually, that's still one of my top 10 favorite designs that I've done. Just because of how It was and
how fun it is, you know, there's something about like, doing stuff like that, that I really enjoy when it comes down to it, because it's just so unique. Yeah, so let's make that happen.
So what are your plans for the rest of the week?
You have more boost to go to or you just gonna enjoy yourself today and tomorrow. Yeah, exactly.
So cut, they're just wrapped up today right now.
I'm just hanging out at the toilet trespass.
They unfortunately do have a cool little Lounge area.
So just hanging out here, probably here till the show ends and I might call it a day like I won't be coming back tomorrow because tomorrow is just even more hectic.
Like, yes, just. So I might just even not even
pop in but if I do just be for a couple hours and then head back to LA, I got some special projects that I gotta still work on and launch for the holiday season.
Perfect. Well, I mean, I appreciate you
taking the time. I know you're extremely busy.
I'll add it to the Pod and let you know when the links out there and then we'll connect offline because we got to do some more work together. Yeah.
Perfect mile is definitely do that.
All right, thank you, man later. Bye, we want to thank Hansel of
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