The Wildest Car the FBI Has Ever Seized.

Here's my thought, and I'm going to say this, and I'm going to have to go, but like, ehh, so

here's what I'm going to say, yes, this is very egregious, the sky seems like probably bad

news.

Yeah, he's like a trash human, he's a trash human, however, I'm kind of impressed, Chris,

like what I was about to say was like, you have to be pretty smart and pretty industrious

and like be kind of like a go-getter to really good for a Canadian.

Hey guys, welcome to Overcrest, I'm Chris, and I'm back.

No, I'm Jake, Jake is back, he's, he's back, he, I thought you would be Tanner than you

are, because you were always adjusting my white balance because I'm very tan in person.

And I feel like it's not coming through correctly.

Yeah, well, you don't look very tan.

So now I don't believe that you were on vacation at all.

Should I get a white sheet of paper?

So for you guys today, we've got a bunch of news, and then Jake and I were going to kind

of spend some time with the driver's club after we're done and talk about maybe some

projects and things that are going on.

And I like it where we went, what we did and some other said such type things.

I'll get right into the news.

I've got a good one for you.

You're ready to lead things off.

I'm excited.

Let's go.

This is, this is the hall of fame of bad life choices, Jake.

Oh, hall of fame.

The FBI more more than either the what was their name?

The Menendez Brothers.

No, the family where I showed up as a turkey.

Oh, yes.

That was a bad decision.

Yes, that was a bad decision family.

That this was also this is hall of fame, bad life decisions.

The FBI has just seized a $13 million Mercedes from an Olympic snowboard

named Ryan Wedding, who apparently decided being an athlete wasn't enough.

So we built his own cocaine empire instead.

And look, this is not Sean White doing 1080s out of a halfpipe.

Let's be honest, this guy finished 24th in the parallel giant slalom.

Do you know, I it's parallel.

It's a weird hybrid event where some orders secretly wish they were just

skiers because it's like you go down and you just kind of like touch the slalom thing.

This dude was solidly mid pack and realized he was not going to make Canada proud

on the snow and apparently decided to take a shot in the cocaine industry

instead of this guy.

That's I feel like I mean, the mugshot is very different than what I'm seeing

on the right. Yes.

Well, on the right, I don't that's that must have been him right before

they that's just photos they had of the guy, I guess.

Like actually on the FBI most wanted list after the two thousand two.

What is a 13 million dollar Mercedes?

I know you're going to get patient, but I just wanted to focus on that.

We will. We will.

After the two thousand two games, which was in Salt Lake here,

he drifted around the fitness and outdoor scene.

This is pre-influencer.

I think if this would have happened today, he would have been OK

because he could have bought like a van and like, you know,

gone snowboarding and taped himself and I'm an Olympic skier

and he probably could have done a done a better job.

Anyway, he swapped that out for wholesome athlete image

to cocaine across continents.

And the feds say he did not just dabble.

He built an operation big enough to land himself on the FBI's

10 most wanted list, which I think that's a pretty big deal.

Yeah, that seems like it.

He had an accomplishment for 15 million dollar price tag on this head.

15 million.

Now you turn this guy and you get 15 million dollars.

Is it just not just like is it just drug trafficking?

Is it has he been like killing people along the way?

Because that seems very like it's pretty egregious.

Federal prosecutors say this was not just freelance hustling.

Wedding allegedly built a full blown supply chain

that started in Colombia, moved north through Mexican cartels

and crossed the border hidden in semi trucks and cargo

loads before getting broken down in stash houses around SoCal.

From there, the operation pushed product in a major US cities

and up into Canada.

They say he handled everything like a business, distribution

crews, money laundering through faint companies, crypto wallets,

muscle to keep people quiet.

One witness who agreed to testify against him was murdered

in Columbia.

OK, and the feds claim he ordered it personally.

That's why he's not treated like some washed up athlete

making bad choices.

They're calling a top tier international trafficker.

Can I? OK.

Pause. I'll tell you what I can.

I only I read the indictment.

No, no, no, no, no.

It's nothing about you else here.

Here's my thought.

And I'm I'm going to say this, I'm going to have to go.

But like, so here's what I'm going to say.

Yes, this is very egregious.

The guy seems like probably bad news.

Like, he seems like he's like a trash human is a trash human.

However, I'm kind of impressed, Chris.

Like what I was about to say was like, you have to be pretty smart

and pretty industrious and like be kind of like a go getter.

It's really good for a Canadian.

Well, like he literally from ground up made a vertically

integrated enterprise that just happens to be very illegal.

You know what I mean?

Like if you should have snowboards and bindings and like snow pants.

That's what I mean.

Like this guy seems like a very shrewd businessman.

And like very accomplished.

You could have like wedding winter here, but.

Yeah, I'd like with a name like that, that seems super marketable.

Yeah, or like a super wedding weddings.

I don't know.

The FBI hit a warehouse in LA and found the crown jewel

of his drug lord starter pack.

A 2002 Mercedes Benz CLK GTR Roadster, one of six, not six

in the country, six on the planet.

Wow, this is not the usual rich guy Mercedes with quilted seats

in the massage button.

This is not a grandpa car, Jake.

No, this one does backflips on the most long straight.

It does.

This is what happens when a real race program

accidentally spits out something with a license plate.

OK, so you got to remember the world that this thing

came out of is the late nineties.

Money is stupid and racing is even dumber.

And the FIA rules basically say, hey, if you want a race,

you need to pretend that your spaceship is a road car.

So every manufacturer starts cheating

in the most wonderful way possible.

Portia built a nine eleven.

That is not really a nine eleven.

It is the nine eleven GT win.

Stratz and Virgin, the Stratz and Virgin Stratz and Virgin.

This thing I always thought to say, I'm like, come on.

This is you look at this thing, that is not a nine nine six, bro.

It is not. It's not supposed to be.

It's a GT one.

I know, but there's supposed to be a nine eleven.

The nine eleven GT one.

Just like the CLK is not a CLK.

Yeah, I know.

McLaren turned the F one into a Swiss army knife

and Toyota shows up with the GT one.

And Mercedes with AMG took all of that and goes, fine,

we will just build a prototype.

Slap some CLK headlights on it and call it a day.

You're right.

So the race car.

Yeah, that's the GT one right there,

which looks like a headlights on it.

Literally, they just take their their their LMP prototype car

and then put whatever road car headlights on the front.

I mean, yeah, here we go.

That's that's the common thread.

Look at that. It's good. Yeah, it's great.

I love that. OK.

The race car came first.

All right, the CLK GT are debuts in the FIA GT championship

and starts deleting the grid.

It wins most of the races that enters

taking championships in ninety seven and ninety eight.

Does such a thorough job of ruining the party

that GT one basically collapses.

Other teams look at the car, look at their budgets and go,

yep, we're done. We're done. We're out.

We're done crying.

I'll go the series falls and the CLK GT

car is left sitting on top of the corpse.

This is the this car right here.

This is the winner right here.

The one she'll let Mrs.

producer pull up.

This is a homologation special in the purest dumbest sense.

The only reason the road cars exist

is because rulebook said they had to pretend this thing

was somehow related to a CLK you could buy at the dealer.

Underneath is a real race car, carbon fiber,

an aluminum, honeycomb, Moni cock and Moni cock.

Money money, Moni cock.

We'll just go. No, that's not good.

No, Moni cock in the middle, big steel

subframes at the ends and pushrod suspension.

Giant brakes. Jake, this thing has Formula One

Grand Prix suspension Grand Prix.

You know that this suspension that does this.

That's that's I can't see you.

But yes. Oh, that's OK.

The engine is a naturally aspirated V12 pushrod.

Yes. Is that what you're trying to get at?

Pushrod suspension.

Whatever you were doing here, it's hand gesture.

I didn't see it's this suspension that does that.

It does. Yes.

Mrs. Ruzer, pull up the photo.

It's right there. That pushrod.

No, I know what. Yeah.

Well, I don't know.

You didn't understand what this meant.

So I thought maybe you didn't didn't know.

Yeah. In road trim.

This doesn't have.

Oh, we could nerd out.

I'm not going to.

I was going to get into it.

How like with the pushrod suspension

in the single one or two, how we'll know

how there's like the Ackerman arm and the third member.

So it like how that's how it does dive and squat.

And then also it has anti roll bars.

We're actually just like a torsion bar right here.

Let me let me pull up a picture here.

I've got Mrs.

producer refuses to do it.

So I'll I'll know.

There we go.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, there you.

Oh, she pulled up a better photo than what I had.

Yeah. Yeah.

So that's anyway.

So because I'm sorry.

This thing is a naturally aspirated V12 6.9 liters.

Six seats, six speed sequential gearbox.

And in road trim makes around 600 horsepower

and does zero to 60 in under four seconds.

And we'll run out of steam around 200 miles per hour.

This thing is incredible.

Go back a couple slides to whatever that is that like the ABS system?

What is what is happening there?

Wow, look at that.

That's like a hard line wet dream right there.

Oh, those are all stainless.

Those must be like brake bias, right?

Or electronic brake bias system or something.

I am not smart enough to know what that is.

Let's just leave it at that.

OK, it looks nice, though.

It looks really well done, but it looks kind of bespoke, right?

Like some guy had to make that.

And then they they built like the distribution block for it

and everything like that. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, it's it's it's super neat.

So this thing topped out along 200 miles per hour.

This thing was legit.

Because of the obligation rules, they had to build those road cars.

So Mercedes and AMG cranked out a tiny batch, roughly 20 coupes.

And then because someone's two car ahead, the sense of humor,

six roadsters for people like you, Jake, I bet you would really you would.

I would love that.

Yeah, that's that's all up your alley.

Oh, yeah. So these things were sold for one point five million dollars

in 1997, which is around four million dollars today.

And inflation dollars. Wow.

What would you call that? Trump and Biden bucks?

That's what inflation dollars, inflation dollars.

So picture all that history and effort and engineering.

All those FIA trophies and carbon twelves, carbon tubs and carbon toys.

Yeah. And then zoom back out to this warehouse in L.A.

Agents roll in on a drug case and it's tucked into the corner

among whatever else this guy has stacked around.

And one of his is this CLK GTR, one of six roasters on earth.

The rarest version of the one of the craziest gosh,

the rarest version of one of the craziest

obligation cards ever built.

Now sitting there is a line item in a narcotics investigation.

I have to wonder if.

Like was he was it was illegally registered?

Is this like shell corporation?

Yeah, but like, oh, I think I don't know.

Or was this stolen?

Was this, you know what I mean?

I don't think you can steal a one of six like this.

How do you steal it?

That would that would be one movie, right?

That would be a hell of a movie.

I mean, I don't know.

I'm sure there's other stuff that he has that is not legally acquired.

You know, this is a thing that probably just bought a cash.

She's probably bought a cash.

Maybe you want it on.

I never mind. I'm not going to I'm not going to go there.

No, I'm not going to go there.

No, I'm not going on the price is right, Chris.

Maybe you want to have the prices right.

That's right. That's what you're saying.

So now this hypercar, one of rarest Mercedes ever built

is sitting in federal custody.

Imagine the guys that designed this GT one monster.

Twenty five years later, years later,

his partner is to a pallet of seized

Honda Civics and counterfeit Rolexes.

So from snowboarder to cocaine hairpin

to watching the FBI tow away your $13 million unicorn.

This is peak Canada currently.

I think that they should stick to maple syrup

and being aggressively polite

because the whole cartel thing

is clearly above their pay grade.

They should leave it to us enterprising Americans.

This is one good.

He basically had to work harder

to get even further north, though.

I mean, think of it that way.

Yeah, there's extra distance.

Extra two. Yes, exactly.

Two border exactly.

This is going to be one hell of a police auction.

You know, I did it.

This will be called a police auction.

Right. It doesn't.

They're not the police aren't going to put it on.

Bring a trailer.

Are they?

Could they?

Maybe.

Should we talk to our friends over there?

Yeah, we should see if we that hello.

Can we I know a guy and bring a trailer

if you want to sell it over there.

Yeah, yeah, let's broker that deal.

What, half a percent?

I'll take half a percent.

I'll take a quarter percent.

I was going to say that would be great.

It'll be great. I'll take it.

I'll take it.

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Yeah, so you imagine that in the story.

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But they also have, you can like make, create an entire like build

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Yeah.

I'll import it there anyway.

That would be great.

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Oh, look at the stuff she's finding.

Yeah, that thing's awesome.

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I need a, I need a bar on the front to put a wing.

Bull bar?

Yeah.

All right.

Internet notorious dipshit.

Whistlin diesel is back in the headlines.

And not because he dropped another super car off a loading

dock, this time is in an indictment.

Yep.

Tennessee authorities hit Cody Detwiler with two felony counts

for allegedly dodging sales tax on his Ferrari F8 Tributo.

The same Ferrari he set on fire in a cornfield for views.

So I saw this come across my stupid Instagram feed about

like him getting pulled away on hand costs.

And I was like, is this a publicity stunt?

What is this?

And they're like, no, this is really getting indicted for

tax evasion.

And that's as much as I had read.

And he was basically like, I always pay all my taxes.

I have accountants that do all this.

So do you know anything more about like how or what?

Yeah, I do.

I kind of look curious now.

Yeah, because I was trying to figure this out.

And let me let me get into this.

And if you have a question to ask me, because I did look

into it a little and I'll help you out if I can.

One thing I want to say is during the video, so basically

what he did is he took this thing and he drifted out in

the cornfield and what I can't think of it's the breaks.

And the thing is, is that inside the wheel is full of corn husks.

Yeah.

And I can't think of anything drier and more flammable than

course.

This is the dumbest thing anyone has ever done.

And what sucks is that when you, well, it doesn't

suck, but it's very telling.

Is that later?

They got a red bull can to try to put it out.

Come on.

Sorry, they're, they're idiots.

So, so what happened here was obviously the thing burns

the ground, but later on, he goes, yeah, we kind of

thought this would video was going to be kind of lame,

but now it's great.

You know, and it's just kind of very, very telling.

Um, yeah, I mean, that's, it's unfortunately the sad

state of, according to prosecutors, the car was

purchased in Tennessee, but registered to a Montana

LLC, a move that conveniently avoids tens of

thousands of dollars in, in sales tax.

Oh yeah.

There's the clip right there of this guy.

You can't hear it because there's, there's no audio.

But he basically says he's like this video is

going to be terrible, but here it is.

It's great.

Look at this.

All these fire trucks had to come out and help this.

Yep.

Okay.

So on the surface, it looks like a mundane tax case.

People register their exotics in Montana all the right

time.

And this is what I had to look.

I'm like, how does this work?

Like, why is it a problem that that they did this

at all?

Um, half the cars on Instagram have ghost

addresses and bozemen.

So why him and why now?

Uh, because the Montana loophole isn't illegal by

itself.

It becomes illegal when the state can prove the car

was bought, used, garage and enjoyed in Tennessee

while being titled in Montana solely to avoid taxes.

Most people who play the game keep their heads down.

They don't film themselves lighting the car on fire

with Montana plates and bragging about the purchase

on camera.

And that's the part that makes the story so fitting

for him.

He built an empire on torque on touching live wires

on touching raw nerves.

That is his real talent.

It's not fabrication.

It's not storytelling.

It's not driving.

It's provocation.

Finding the exact thing that will make real

enthusiasts cringe and hammering it until the

algorithm costs up a fresh million views.

Destroying things that actually mean something

to people who care.

He knows exactly which nerves are exposed and he

goes for them every single time.

And it's hard to watch someone carve out a career

so thoroughly from the worst impulses of the

internet and not feel something complicated.

He is massively successful.

Massive.

Yeah, massive.

And that is the bitter part.

He figured out that if you lean into spectacle

hard enough, if you feed the rage bait

machine with enough carnage, you can

bypass talent entirely.

You become a character instead of a person, a

product instead of a creator, you get rich

off the very people who cannot stand you.

I hate it.

I hate the entire act, the deliberate waste,

the smug grin, the middle school

frenetic energy that somehow metastasized

into wealth.

But under that irritation, there's

something else, something closer to pity.

Imagine waking up every day knowing your

relevance depends on being despised and hated.

Knowing your job is to poke at people who

actually love the thing you are

pretending to be a part of.

That's why the indictment landed the way it

did not because Tennessee is on a crusade

against every Montana plate on a luxury

car.

They went after him because he made the

easiest test case imaginable.

High profile guy filmed everywhere with

undeniable evidence of the alleged

dodge, wrapped in the added bonus of a

publicly destroyed Ferrari, a prosecutor

dreams of that kind of package.

They get to make a point.

They get a headline.

His own content becomes his rope.

He's already monetizing the arrest with

merchandise because, of course, he is.

That's the cycle.

Controversy becomes money.

Money becomes stunts.

Stunts become controversy.

And somewhere in the middle is a guy

who built an entire identity on being

the punchline pretending it's a crowd.

He's like if Mr.

Beast was an asshole.

Some part of me hopes the prosecutor

is a car guy, just like me, who's

finally had enough.

Fuck, I hate this guy, man.

You know, I don't I just I don't

obviously I don't know him.

Who knows if it's an entire persona

that might even make it worse.

Is if you like he Ivan, you finish

his video and then he takes his

overalls off and then goes and, you

know, goes he probably you know what

he does is he probably takes his

overalls off puts on sweatpants

and go cries while he watches

Mike Burroughs who actually creates

good content wishes wishing he could

be him.

Yeah, with like some tea, some

chamomile, chamomile tea and like

a pink robe.

I am such a loser.

Everybody imagine having to wake up

that way where your entire ego is

based on hate that people hate

you.

It's I don't know.

I he's not he doesn't make himself

out to be the villain of everyone.

I understand what you're saying

like he is right on.

He thrives on like that being.

Adversary, not adversarial even

controversial, I don't know

controversial, but I feel like

some people do like him.

I don't know.

Have you seen the Instagram videos

of the guy that destroys a nine

and six? He just like cuts up the

seeds and some ashes on the hood

and stuff like that.

It's it's not that far removed

from that, in my opinion.

Anyway, I haven't I haven't

he'll pay a fine.

Yeah, he'll pay a fine.

And I'm sure he lost every dollar

he spent on that Ferrari.

You know, the insurance company

doesn't go. Oh, yeah, we're

coming. Oh, yeah, no.

Well, you know what? I was here's

the problem. Here's what I was not

problem. But here's what I was

thinking of between

the publicity, the views,

the merch and everything else.

He's going to make money.

I know that's the sad thing.

That's the sad thing is whatever

the fine is, I bet he makes money

on the whole ordeal.

And same thing with that Ferrari.

He didn't lose money on the Ferrari.

Like, yeah, sure, he didn't get

it covered by insurance, but he

made money on that video.

It was pretty fun to drive.

But OK, dude, it just sucks

because it's like, I'll never

own a Ferrari like that.

I just won't.

I don't really want one right away.

But like, I feel like the reverence.

There you can be over reverential

to this stuff, right?

Like Ferrari, yeah, and can be over

worshiped, I understand.

But there's a certain amount of

reverence for brands that I that

I respect and I respect heritage

and stuff like that. And the guy

comes in. Oh, there's part of me

that like likes that he doesn't

give a shit about the reference

of something. I kind of like that

part. Yeah. At the same time, that's

why people I think do like him

is he's like the good old country

boy who's able to do these

things, right? That's why people

like that persona.

I know, but it's just kind of

like the lowest common

denominator, man.

Oh, yeah. Toyota has officially

confirmed confirmed development

of a new V8 engine, something

almost no one expected to see

in 2025. This is a concept

car. They think it might go in

this car. We don't really know.

This is not a revision of an old

platform or short run heritage

piece. It is an entirely new twin

turbo four liter. Oh, that's

cool. Built within Toyota's

next generation modular engine

family. The announcement lands

after several years of heavy

environmental branding and

electrification messaging across

the industry, much of which has

begun to unravel the push

toward a rapid universal EV

transition has stalled. And the

greenwashing that surrounded it

has weakened. It has not

collapsed entirely, but it has

faded long enough for internal

combustion to reemerge into the

open. Toyota is not acting in

isolation. Porsche recently

restructured its entire product

plan and shifted multiple future

models back towards combustion or

plug in power after EV demand

fell way below projections.

Folks within an Audi have

quietly extended their

combustion engine lifespans in

Europe for the same reason. What

was once marketed as sweeping

inevitable shift now looks more

like a fragmented transition that

varies heavily by region and by

our preference against the

backdrop to its decision to

invest in the new V8 is less of

an active rebellion, more

reflection of a broader

industry recalibration. Now,

I've been thinking about how

we've talked about this EV and

green stuff over the years.

We've been doing this podcast

a long time. And I would like

to say that I was wrong on

something. Oh, what? Yeah,

yes. So do you remember what I

used to say about this? Do you

remember what like my comments

were about what would happen?

Basically, that they have all

the manufacturers have invested

so heavily down this path of

electrification that they

cannot go back that they can't

go back and that they would

squeeze the government in order

to do it. Yes, exactly. I did

not expect Trump to be

reelected. Yeah, I guess the EPA

environmental lobby is not

squeezing Trump into forcing

this thing, these things down

people's throats. They're just

not. However, yeah, I think

that this is a brief resurgence.

Yeah, I don't think that this

obviously this doesn't go on

forever. So no, appreciate it

while it's here. We will have

we will have someone in office

that will be able to be

bullied or have their pockets

lined, or the cronyism will

get turned back on or they

just it's not it's not all

negative conspiracy or just like

money is rubbing. It's no, there

might be someone that actually

just believes and has this as an

ideal that this is, you know,

clean energy and this is the

way forward. Okay, idealist

boy, get the get out of here.

What? Get out of your mind.

You don't support the the

lobbyists and say I will I

will agree with your costs

and take your money if you

don't believe it a little

bit, right? Come boy, are you

naive? Are you being

sarcastic right now? I don't know.

I don't know. No, I mean,

there are a lot of people

probably is that this is the

correct thing to do. And this

is what what is needed. Yes.

So why not line your pockets

along the way if it's what

you believe? I mean, if the

opportunity presents

yourself, exactly. For

do is it is worth

recognizing what this

represents? Before you go on.

Sorry, I'm interjecting a lot,

but I got a text that is

totally off base. But I just

love that like this reinforces

I love the environment that

I'm in because I get a message

from my dad and it broke

through like the do not

disturb. So it's like, oh, I

better look at this. Do you

think this is too low in the

back? And he just has a

video of his C 10 that he's

currently just like

lowering. Like that's that's

the important thing that we

need to do. All right, I love

it.

Do you see the poster just

just made? Yes, I did. Chris

admits he's wrong. It's

perfect. I love it. I'm glad

we pause message that and hit

hit send anyway or notify

anyway. Yes. Yes. And so now

I have to watch it and I

don't know if I can share

this at all with you. You

can hold it up to the

screen. All right. Is this

too low?

I don't know. I can't really

see it. This doesn't like

any of that. Do you like my

new scratch or shattered

screen too? Oh, that's

Oh, I'm watching it. I'm

watching it. It's not too

low. Chris says that's not

all that's not too low at

all. Oh, wait, there's no

bot. There's no bed on it.

There's no so that's

impossible to tell. But

no, it's not.

I just love that these

are the things there like

everybody always says I

never admit when I'm

wrong. However, I will say

let me give you the

caveat here. I'm not

wrong. I am going to be

an asshole for now. For

now I am wrong. It has

been my being right and

has been delayed. I'm not

wrong. I'm temporarily

incorrect. You know,

perfect. I love that. I

absolutely love that. Oh,

man.

Idiot. This may be one of

the last clean sheet V8

engines. So we ever see

the one thing I was going

to say is even with this

resurgence, I would love to

know at manufacturers. I

mean, this is a great

insight into, you know,

Toyota at least, but other

manufacturers are they

saying, okay, let's take

our budget for, you know,

twenty six, twenty seven

and beyond and let's start

redeveloping new internal

combustion engine

architectures. I kind of

doubt it. I kind of doubt

it. But like this, that's

why I think this is like

the last clean sheet

cool engine. Yeah, one

of one of we might

see at least Toyota. Yeah.

Toyota of all companies has

a real history here. This is

the brand that gave us the

world, world the that

that one right there, the

one, you see to use the

and through our families was

like in the LS, the old

LS big body. These engines

were built entirely on

reputation on refinement,

the stability, the

discipline. LS V8 because

you were talking V8s and

then said LS and I got

the LS like the LS 400.

Yeah, like the Lexus, the

car. Yes. Right. Yeah.

Not not not an LS. Yes.

I think so. IS? No, IS is

the little sedan. That's the

sedan. LS 430. Yeah, LS 400.

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. LS 400.

You know, that is are hard. I

know the one you see in

particular became a benchmark

for a smooth balance over

built the V8 could be if

this new four liter twin

turbo follows even a sliver

of that lineage lineage.

It will not just be another

ice hole over it will be

continuation of a tradition

Toyota has proven that it

understands better than most

almost every everyone.

I know this is like I'm

pretty excited about this.

This is cool. You know, another

like a clean sheet engine, like

a high performance thing for

everyone, not some like some

crazy V12 in a super car.

I don't give a shit about any

of that. I don't care. Yeah.

Why don't you tell me a

little bit about some of our

older partners, Jake? Who

else we got on the on the

docket here? Well,

talk about Nokia and quick.

I'm going to talk about

Nokia. I'm going to talk

about let me tell you

this. Okay.

Well, I was going to say I got

I got the tires are

incredible. We've had like five

or six inches of snow here.

Yes. And Jesse's like

sends me a text message.

He goes, everyone is spinning

out in the ditch.

I don't understand what is

the problem.

What is the problem?

And so I have a story

to tell. Yes, please do.

I went on this

family vacation for a week

down in Palm Springs,

Florida, not Palm Springs,

California, not Palm

Bleach, Palm Beach, Florida.

Palm Bleach.

You said I was in Palm Beach

and then someone was

mentioning me like, oh, I'm

right here. No, I was in

Palm Springs, other side of

the country. The one in

California, the one with

all the Frank Sinatra.

You said you said Palm

Beach, Florida on the

podcast, regardless.

And I was like, we were

like, had to get stuff done

around the house real quick

and it was nice before I

left. I didn't

get to swapping over the

wheels and tires.

I did right before I left and

then parked the car like

right.

Yep. And so I didn't.

And I was like, it'll be fine.

So we drove it over to

Nikki's parents.

And then we all like took an

Uber over to the airport

because whatever is closer.

And so we get back

and there's six inches of

fresh snow. It's blizzarding

and I'm driving home on

performance summer tires.

How was that fun?

Well, to Jess's point

out, I don't understand what

people's problem is. I do.

It's called the incorrect

tire. Yes.

So Nocian does have

the correct tire.

They are literally the

inventor of the winter

tire where their haka

politas. It is definitely

haka polita season.

I can see that for sure

because I also had to

attempt to get up my

driveway, Chris, on summer

tires. It didn't work at

all.

So did you go ahead?

You had to leave the car down

there and then go plow.

And I left the car.

But then I was like,

I'll just leave it there

till morning because I was

tired. And then I looked at

the mailbox that I parked

next to that is our mailbox

and noticed that a car had

already hit it and knocked

it over while we were gone.

And I go, oh, well, I'm

not going to leave the car

here then.

If you're sliding into

so that I had to plow the

driveway and I was able

to get it only up halfway

the driveway and then I

literally changed out my

wheels and tires on the side

of my driveway in a snowbank

because it was that bad.

So yes, tires make a massive,

massive difference.

This was all wheel drive

with a super sophisticated

like torque vectoring

everything. Doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter.

On terrible tires.

It does not matter.

Get a good set.

You know what it is.

Winsor tires.

What is it?

You cannot defeat physics.

You just can't.

You just can't, man.

Triction is friction, man.

Either you have it or you don't.

Yeah, it's a real thing for sure.

So please check out

the Haka Polita or their entire

line of either winter

or your round performance

tires. They have the surpass

ASL one we've talked about a lot.

Haka Polita is of course the

forerunner for winter tires.

Check them out at nokiantires.com.

Best of the best.

All right.

So CEO of Open AI

Sam Altman just tried to cancel

his Tesla Roadster Reservation

to get his $50,000 back

after waiting seven and a half years.

And the most predictable twist

imaginable Tesla didn't even send

him a real reply.

The email bounced.

So this is this is the this is

the first picture.

Your reservation is complete

at the top there.

It says, hi, I'd like to cancel

my reservation.

Could you please refund me

the $50,000?

And this is what he got.

The email bounced.

It's the which that is like

main mailbox, too.

It's not like reservations

for the Tesla Roadster only.

He's banned.

This dude's banned from Tesla.

The email bounced is the

perfect summary of the Roadster

saga.

Elon Musk announced the fastest

car production car ever made

back in 2017, complete with

1.9060

and a 250 mile an hour top speed.

And it was going to block it, Chris.

Do you know why it's going to fly?

We actually got a string of missed

deadlines in twenty, twenty, twenty,

three, twenty, twenty, twenty, four

and now twenty, twenty, five.

Outland posted the whole thing

on X as you saw.

It was called the tail of three

acts by Astro Refund, your ban.

The funniest part is how small

it makes him look.

The head of Open AI, a guy who

claims to be steering the future

of all human intelligence,

spending his afternoon chasing

down a $50,000 deposit like he

stuck arguing with the cable

company.

Even better when you remember

where the outman musk feud

actually comes from.

Do you know, Jake?

I know.

So tell me.

I know nothing about open AI.

Chatchity, they own Chatchity

started in 2015 as a non-profit.

The two men co-founded

meant to be build safe, open source

AI for the benefit of humanity.

Yeah, that's Sam Altman right

there, the megalomaniacal demon.

Then Altman pivoted the whole

thing into a for profit structure

so we could bring in billions

from Microsoft.

Musk felt completely betrayed

and sued them over it and

launched his own competing AI

company, Grock X from X.

Now the two of them are locked

in this bizarre ideological

knife fight where each one thinks

he personally should get to

define the future of intelligence

on earth.

So watching Altman step up

and try to cancel a Roadster

reservation is pure comedy.

The man expected special treatment.

What he got was exactly what every

other Roadster customer has gotten

for the last eight years.

Nothing. Nothing.

Not even a human response, just

a bounced email.

So all joking

and humorous side, do we have

because Ivan, we obviously haven't

followed there is no road to

there is no production.

Any there is no confirmed timeline.

The new must promise for

twenty four never showed up.

The twenty twenty five production

vapor. Every insider update

points points the same way.

The Roadster exist as hype, not

hardware.

Is there a team even employed

currently working on this project?

Who the prototype thing

on the Roadster?

If they are, it's in secret.

It's like you're not going to know

until it comes out.

So but no, as of now, no nothing,

which is strange.

I, you know, I would much rather see

a cheap EV from Tesla than a

Roadster.

Like that's just like a little

yeah, that was called the Model

Three, Chris.

That was the model. No, no, no,

no, there's something else.

No, there's something else that

they were going to do.

Jake, are you wondering what

fifty thousand dollars would be

worth had Sam just purchased

Tesla stock instead of putting a

deposit?

Like if you had bought stock in

twenty eighteen instead of the

instead of putting a deposit

on what would have happened on

July 11, twenty eighteen

Tesla split adjusted closing

price was twenty one dollars.

So fifty thousand dollars would

have bought you about two

thousand three hundred and fifty

two shares.

As of October 30th, twenty

twenty five, it closed at

four hundred and forty dollars.

Your investment would now be

worth one million thirty five

thousand dollars or a twenty

point seven times return.

Holy crap.

Yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Yes.

Huh.

You know who can help you return,

Jake?

Is it on a tough road?

It's on a tough road.

That's right. You can find your

way and they will not give

you no financial advice.

Email. Well, no, I was going to

say you won't just get an email

bounce from from.

No, I seriously, I bet they

they have his email and Elon's

like some blacklist.

He is.

I love that.

You know, this bounces.

Yeah, it's so petty.

Dude, like these billionaires.

They're just what a bunch of losers.

That's all it is, you know.

Yeah.

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So I'm also excited about this engine.

Although I don't know what is going

to happen from it, but I'm guessing

had Kamala been elected, this thing

wouldn't have happened either

because this is a real stretch, dude.

General Motors is studying

a modern two stroke engine,

something that sounds impossible

until you look at where the

technology has actually survived.

The military has been one of the

only groups keeping advanced

two stroke engines alive for the last

decade using a pose only

piston diesels and tactical trucks,

armored vehicles, battlefield

generators and unmanned equipment.

These designs use two patients

sharing one cylinder with no cylinder

head at all, giving them high power

density, low heat signature,

excellent thermal efficiency

in fewer moving parts.

This is the this is the patent

diagram right here, which I look at

it. I don't really I tried deciphering

it and I can kind of figure out

but it's so rudimentary.

It's probably rudimentary on purpose.

They don't want people stealing

their shit. Yeah, I'll I'll explain

what what is going on here in a

minute. GM's research tracks closely

with that type of architecture.

Their concept uses high pressure,

direct injection, port controlled

airflow and turbo super charging

to solve the old problem of

emissions and lubrication.

The real value isn't putting a

clean two stroke clean sheet

two stroke into a Malibu.

However, this is about fitting it

into places where weight

efficiency and packaging matter

most like a high bridge range

extender module, heavy duty trucks,

commercial platforms, defense

contracts and constant low say

off road equipment.

Yeah. Yes.

Could you imagine a drone with

brap?

I feel like some current ones

are two cycle is actually

so two stroke engines never

broken a mainstream consumer cars

unless someone like

John Ludwick.

John Ludwick knows he's very,

very familiar.

As as we are as we know,

they're dirty, loud and difficult

to control.

Have you ever worked on a two stroke

Jake?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah, I've rebuilt these

two strokes and they're always

so they're what I love about

them is they're so dead simple.

Do you zoom in on that, Mrs.

Producer?

You I was in the whole souped

up moped game for a while

there, too.

I was vintage.

Yeah, DCC's.

Yeah. Yeah. And I had a

pook with the E 50 engine

that I like board out and I

had like a super light flywheel

and I had all the stuff going on.

So yeah.

So what kind of maybe

you can describe this a little bit

better, be more fun to have you

describe it to us to me.

Oh, boy, read what I wrote.

But what kind of

valves does the two stroke have?

Well, you OK, because

you want me to say it doesn't

have valves, but you can have

read valves.

Read valves. Yes.

Yes. So it what it does instead

is it has ports on

the side of a cylinder.

So depending on where the piston

is in its cycle, it allows

the vacuum of the cylinder

or the piston was coming down

to allow the air come in,

which is the fuel mixture.

And then as it comes back up,

it also opens the other port,

which allows the exhaust to come out.

So because there is

the ports are always open cycles.

Well, no, there's not because once

you reach above the exhaust

port, then you are in compression

only. Yeah.

But it's there.

They're kind of not.

It's not as precise.

Well, it's having like a valve.

That's correct, because there's a lot

of overlap by just by definition of it.

And that is generally why

they're loud and stinky.

Well, the stinky part is actually

because the bottom crankcase

is how they compress the intake charge

going up into.

And so the only way to lubricate it

is to actually have

that's why all your two cycle stuff

is premixed or it has oil injection

is kind of the more modern two cycle

solution, which everyone always rips

that out and just premixes all their

fuel anyways, because then you don't

have to rely on it and it won't burn

out if your oil injection goes out.

But basically you're burning

all your lubricating oil.

And so that is why it's not ideal.

And not ideal.

So.

This is why two strokes got pushed

in issues like snowmobiles, dirt

bikes, upwards of chainsaws.

You can you can unshare that.

This is proof.

So this is where we're at power.

Yeah, they're very light.

Lots of power or displacement.

Yep, exactly.

And they it's your power density,

I would call it is very high.

Yep, simplicity.

They're using things where simplicity

and weight matters more than long

term emissions or like daily drivability.

Only now with modern injection

and electronic control is there even

a chance of revisiting them.

So I didn't know really how this

worked other than that.

Looking at that diagram, which is

super shitty, you know, they don't

want anybody to know how exactly

how this is going to work.

But they're fixing the biggest flaw

in every old two stroke, which is

that the intake and the exhaust

ports are just fixed holes in the

cylinder wall.

When the piston moves, these holes

open whether the engine wants

them to or not.

So if they don't, they're not

variable, they just they just are

GM's patent as a thin

electronically controlled sleeve

that sits between the piston,

the cylinder wall that slides

up or down to cover or uncover

these ports.

That means the engine can open

the ports earlier or later,

reducing how long the intake

exhaust overlap or even partially

shut them off at light load.

So this is like 96, like kind

of in that region down by the

piston down there is that sleeve

will move up and down.

Sure. Physically moving.

It basically gives it variable

port timing, the two stroke

equivalent of modern variable

valve timing, pair that with a

direct injection that sprays

feel only after the exhaust side

is sealed.

And suddenly you stop the raw fuel

loss that made old two stroke such

a disaster for emissions.

So the concept of a sleeve

valve is actually not new.

And I'm trying to remember how

or where I know about this, but I

swear there was something from

long ago where they used him

in like tank engines or

something.

Oh, here we go.

Invented by Charles, the

night sleeve valve engines were

used in luxury cars like the

Willie Knight and aircraft

engines before World War Two.

Right. The technology was just

reasons.

No, it's just before like, you

know, standard pop it valves that

we know today, like overhead

valves or even not overhead.

It was like they weren't any

more efficient than this.

And so it was a very similar

concept, although a bit more

rudimentary how it work.

But the concept itself isn't

new. I just don't know that

if it was ever applied to a

two cycle or in this

capacity.

So I think I know what GM

is going to build.

Oh, boy. OK, tell me a V12

two stroke.

No, they will never to build

that. But if they did, it would

be a mechanical insanity.

A two stroke fires every crank

rotation, not every other.

A V12 already fires every 60

degrees in a four stroke layout.

Put those together and you

effectively get a V24

pretending to be a V12.

The power density would be

ridiculous. The torque would

feel like a locomotive hooked

up to a snowmobile.

A four liter version could easily

push eight to twelve hundred

horsepower in street trim.

Even more with boost.

It would be completely unhinged.

It would be the brappy brap of

Formula One.

Yeah, let's do it.

So there existed

a rally car that I'm trying

to find. It was some weird, I

think French atrocity

that.

Here it is.

What is this?

Oh, no, never mind.

This is just a home built thing.

Anyways, there is a two liter

V16 that someone made out of

two cycles.

I'm pretty sure that would be

insane.

And it just sounds.

It doesn't even sound good.

It's just the entire

time. That's all you get.

I miss I miss snowmobiling

quite a bit.

It is a lot of fun.

I really I really enjoy it.

I just I hated

that they wouldn't start sometimes

near you.

And have you been on a modern

snowmobile?

They're there.

Let me tell you.

Chris is unbelievable.

Modern engineering.

They're on to something there.

Yeah, with that.

Just a rider for design, just

posture.

So amazing.

It's so bad for my back to just

be sitting on the snow.

It's like leaned over like this

and they get sunk in the snow

and they're terrible.

So then I buy snow.

I'll just.

Yeah.

So they make it like a

Polaris.

No, they make a Polaris Indie

like a throwback version

with like the body

and stuff like that.

It's it's really dope.

I really like it.

And then they're you know,

they're four stroke.

But again, they're like

12.

They're like turbo

four stroke now.

I know.

But there's force injection.

It's wild.

Oh, I know.

They're too expensive.

I just look at the price.

It hardly ever snows.

And if I bought it.

That's the problem again.

So I'm never going to do

that.

Okay.

So speaking of

Oh, here's

here's a story that

I love.

I love quite a bit.

Cadillac Escalade owner

allegedly paid off

his entire $60,000.

Hold on.

Whoa.

Cadillac Escalade V.

Yes.

Which I was driving all week.

How was it?

It was absurd.

That vehicle

should not accelerate

that quickly

for how big

and heavy

and boxy and ridiculous it

is.

The front end doesn't look

very good.

But it does look quite nice

from the side.

It looks okay

on this vehicle

boxy.

But this whole

styling thing

of like all

all the front ends

of every vehicle

is just like

looks like a

Well, they have to hide all

the sensors, dude.

It's all the sensors that

are up there.

I know.

Someone asked me to like

go on a tirade about Portia's

new design language

with the new Cayenne

and the Macan

and I was sitting in front

of one and they're all

just they look like

they got their nose

smushed in

because it's all just

flat faced.

But anyways,

this thing's amazing

and I really want

a supercharged V8

because it's just

yeah.

Dude, how much are these things?

They got to be

Oh, they're 60.

Oh, yeah.

They're starting out.

Starting out.

Yeah.

Starting out.

Actually, no, that one,

it might be more

and this just might have been

his balance.

A Cadillac Escalator V owner

allegedly paid off

his entire $60,000

car loan using nothing

but GM reward points.

Wow.

Not you're sharing

you're sharing the screen

producer turn your screen

off.

Not cash,

not crypto,

not a side hustle,

just points,

the same points GM hands out

for watching ads,

clicking prom was

are doing mind numbing

engagement.

No way.

Really?

According to the reports,

the guy stacked

5.9 million points,

which at penny per point

comes out to about

$59,370.

Exactly the remaining balance

is 2024 Escalator V

and he didn't win

a sweepstakes.

The loophole was built

right into GM's own system.

The rewards program

was letting people farm

thousands of points.

Thousands of points

in minutes by grinding

through promotional videos,

then letting those points

be transferred freely

between accounts

with practically zero

oversight.

So we just made

multiple counts,

funnel counts

and one made pool,

apply to loan

and boom,

car paid.

That's amazing.

Also,

that loan balance that he had

was nowhere near the price

of this thing.

What are they actually

cost?

What's the MSRP?

The 2026 model,

if you wanted to go out

and buy a new one,

starts

at $170,000.

You know what's insane

is I was like,

oh $60,000,

that seems like

a starting point.

That's how out of touch

I am with

new car pricing.

Like holy shit.

It does have nearly

700 horsepower.

Our private chauffeur

when we were on vacation

had one of those.

Was it the V?

Yeah.

No, it was the electric one.

Okay.

Yeah.

That's 1,000 V years.

Something.

It was fine.

Yeah.

The V is, yeah.

Wow.

Why don't you just get

one of those

and insulate your

pool bar at the same time.

Yes.

Thank you.

I love your,

yeah.

Chris's financial advice

just to get that.

There were forums full

of people bragging

about racking up points

faster than GM could

come out.

Some folks were earning

50,000 points

every few minutes.

What?

You know,

if people figured it out

that GM finally panicked,

shut down the promas

and locked the transfer

system like someone

realized they left the

bank vault open overnight.

Oh my gosh.

GM has not said how many

cars were paid off

or if they're going to

try clawing any of it back.

But for a brief

glorious moment,

the entire rewards

program turned into

a digital loophole

that let every

people punch way

above their weight

and corporate loyalty

points became a weapon

of the operation itself.

That's amazing.

Honestly, I love it.

Every once in a while

the universe gives

the average person

a tiny crack in the wall

and instead of patching it

they drive a 60,000

pound supercharged

Escalade straight.

Yes.

I wonder if you like

created a program

that would just like

have like

hundreds of browser

windows open

and multiple IPs

and using like

VPNs to just like

do what they did

but just on a

massive scale.

You probably could

but if you did it

at a big enough scale

the lawyers are coming.

You know, I

true.

They'd be like,

wait a minute,

how do you have millions

of dollars worth of GM

points?

I bought a fleet of

Escalades.

All right.

Are you a member

of the driver's club, Jake?

Speaking of loyalty

points.

Uh huh.

Get it together, man.

Get it together.

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four slash driver's club.

You will not win a car

but you can win our hearts.

I was going to say

redeemable for Chris's

friendship.

No,

my friendship

cannot be bought.

That's the only

that's the only way

you get to be friends with

them. You have no idea

how much I paid the

driver's club you guys.

Yeah,

every month.

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forward slash driver's club.

We're actually going to,

uh,

I got one,

none,

one,

maybe one,

and we can maybe talk about

some other things on a

driver's club exclusive that

will continue after this,

after this story,

after this story here.

Actually,

we're at like an hour.

I'm just going to cut it

off right here.

Yup,

that was it.

And say,

bye to you all.

We're going to continue on

with the non freeloaders.

Bye freeloaders.

Yeah,

and now those that do

have

all of your loyalty points.

We'll see you next week.

See you next week.

See ya.

Goodbye.

Take care.

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