This Car Show Costs $1,500 to Get In..

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I'm Alex.

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And we hope you guys and gals are loving your fall allergies

and going back to school.

I'm wearing a hoodie.

That's scary.

I'm not.

I'm cold.

That never happens.

I'm like, because I'm usually here first

in the morning at the shop.

And I always have to look at the weather,

because yesterday it was 77.

I'm like, OK, I got a time how long the garage door can

stay open.

I was like, 11 o'clock.

Because once it hits 12, it's like 75,

starts to get a little muggy, and then all of a sudden

everything is trapped inside these four walls.

But today's been gorgeous.

It's perfect.

I've been riding the bike to work recently.

And 50 degrees on a motorcycle is cold.

That's legit cold.

You've got to bundle up if it's 50 degrees out.

Until springtime, then 50 degrees feels incredible.

Yeah, 100%.

I don't know how those temperatures

mean to or feel two completely different ways six months

apart, but they do.

They absolutely do.

Speaking of nice weather, you were at Monterey Car Week.

Yeah, Monterey, California, Monterey, Car Week.

Yes.

And it's always 75 and sunny there.

Monterey, California.

Every day, every single day.

That state, everything about it, in terms of being

an automotive enthusiast, is terrible

and does not want you there.

But man, is it a gorgeous state.

It is so pretty.

Perfect.

Everything about it.

You start to realize why people move there

and spend their atrocious amounts of money.

Millions of people.

Literally.

Yeah, we got to spend it in Monterey, which was gorgeous.

Super cool little town.

And then just all of the little nooks and crannies of it.

It felt very European.

So what the heck is it?

Yeah, explain what it is.

It's a car show.

I've never been.

It's a bunch of car shows.

I didn't even know about it.

Oh, really?

Yeah, I didn't.

Yeah, I mean.

I've only ever heard of this this year.

And it's like, I know you were going.

But then, I don't know if it was because you were

posting about it, and I was engaging with yourself.

I feel like I got hit with every single real carousel,

everything that was posted about Monterey Car Week this year.

And I've never been hit with that stuff before.

Yeah, so Monterey Car Week is something

that's been going on for not 75 years, but I think 69 years.

Nice.

So it started in 1950.

Essentially, a group of racers wanted to race.

And so they started racing on the public roads

in the Monterey area.

Everything went well.

And in 1955 or 1956, a Ferrari hit a tree.

That person.

And so they said, maybe no more racing.

And so they're like, well, we still want to get together.

And they're like, all right, great.

We'll just come back and look at some cars

and do some stuff.

And so essentially, the Monterey Car Week

started to form in the late 50s.

And the Pebble Beach Concorde Legans.

I don't tell me how many times

I said that wrong in front of people that had posh accents.

You're from Wisconsin, it's fine.

Yeah, so that started essentially way back then.

And it was a way to kind of show historical culture

to the cars that have been built up until that point.

And then every year it just got bigger and bigger and bigger.

So the week started with pretty much just the race

or version of racing.

And then the concours or the concours.

So do they still do race?

So they don't.

No, the Ferrari tree.

They did.

That is what fun story.

Because of that crash in Pebble Beach back in 1956 or 55,

that crash, well, it's a Monterey,

is what started the actual construction of Laguna Seca.

No kidding.

OK, so do they do stuff there during the week then?

Yes, so now they do.

I mean, it's grown a pretty good amount

almost every single year outside of what happened in 2020.

But this past year, and for the last few years,

I want to say maybe even longer, Laguna might yell at me.

But Laguna Seca holds a motorsports reunion of sorts

where they bring out a whole bunch of vintage race cars

from different eras, different decades of racing.

And they race them.

And so Laguna Seca is very much a part of the whole week

as anything like the Quail.

But there are, I think, over 29 different automotive events

that happened during the week of Monterey.

So it's a bunch of separate events.

Yeah, a bunch of different stuff.

So everything, like, there's even

a concourse called Lemons concourse to elegance.

So instead of it being like really nice, perfect cars,

it's all Lemons, like weird cars that run in like the Lemons

24 hours.

That's cool.

Kind of related to that.

I saw the car from Christmas Vacation that was fully

restowed.

A wagon?

Yeah, and like the music was playing out

like the back.

And it was awesome because I gave the guy a thumbs up.

And he's like, what did he say?

Oh, he's like, Shedder's full!

And then just kept driving.

And I'm like, this is awesome.

So yeah, there's stuff like that, Porsche and BMW,

all these companies now, they have their own thing now

because it's gotten to a size where

they want to host their own private imitation stuff.

Is there an actual main event, though?

Because automation, for instance, here at a time,

they threw into a multiple event weekend.

But there was always still the auto motion car show,

which was the original one.

Is there an actual original one?

Yeah, so there's an official series of events.

And they would always recommend those ones, I guess.

But they have, I would say, the big three

would be the Friday is the quail.

And the quail is a motorsports meet,

and it's held at the quail.

And a bird.

And it's also a bird.

It's also a bird.

What's the quail?

The quail is a motoring meet.

Motoring meet?

Yeah, that's what they call it.

It's a very nice, very expensive car show.

I think a ticket to get in was anywhere

between $1,500 and $2,800.

Jesus Christ, are you kidding me?

And they only give you out $3,000.

And it's a lottery system.

Everything in California is just insane.

I want to know what the vibes are like

compared to like Gatlinburg, Slamdana,

Svierville versus the quail, the bird event.

I feel like I have an idea, but I gotta know.

I mean, once you're there, maybe it changes me.

Everyone loosens up a little bit,

or is it like Pinky's out?

There's definitely some Pinky out energy.

But the quail was really cool

because if you could find the right,

it's just like a car show.

It's like, if you find the right kind of person there,

you're just gonna have an absolute bang on time.

And so there were some people that were there

that were just the most incredible people

I've ever talked to.

Like they own an F-50, but they've owned an F-50

since it came out and they just had

kind of a stroke of luck with it.

They drive it everywhere.

It's got 27,000 miles.

They love it.

They're there to have a good time.

They're there because their buddy

with the multiple Ferrari car collection invited them out.

And it was nothing more than that.

They're just sitting there having a good time,

just drinking and vibing.

Okay, so $1,500 a ticket to get in.

Just to get in, right?

How the hell do you get like,

what requirements do you have to meet

to get like your car in this event?

Yeah, it's like what is that?

So that's crazy because the quail is orchestrated

by a team, but one of the guys

that really kind of takes the lead on

is a guy, his name is Gordon McCall.

And he has, he's a motorsport enthusiast

and also a motorcycle collector.

He's got a really cool collection.

He's also very nice, very, very, very educated

in historical vehicles.

But then he's just got a really good connection

of people all across different motorsport types.

And if he doesn't, somebody that he knows does.

So like this year, his big thing was

he had obviously the standard, you know,

vehicle manufacturers that all came out

to release, you know, funky cars.

And then he got in touch with Laguna Seca

who was running a unique event for the IROC series,

which is the International Racing of Champions, I think.

And he asked them if they wanted to come to the quail

to display their cars.

And they're like, well, we can't

because we have the cars at Laguna Seca

and we need to, like we've got racing

and we've got our whole display over there.

And then Gordon was like,

well, we'll do a full police escort.

You guys can drive the cars from the racetrack

with the police escort, come to the quail during lunchtime,

and then show off the cars until you need to take them back.

And they're like, bet.

So like, Jeff Gordon and all these like infamous,

famous NASCAR drivers that are over at Laguna Seca

hop in these vintage IROC cars,

drive these loud as hell NASCARs, essentially.

With a police escort into the quail.

And it was so cool because the quail is,

you know, they're wearing the suits,

they got the summer suits on,

you know, they're drinking the champagne and the wine

and they got all the free stuff.

And then here come these loud as hell,

just monstrosities of domestic vehicle production,

driving through the grass,

barely able to keep traction.

And that was, I thought that was really cool.

That is, so did you meet Jeff Gordon?

I did not meet Jeff Gordon.

I always liked the Jeff Gordon livery,

the, what was the out point or whatever?

Yeah, yeah.

DuPont.

Sorry, thank you, you're welcome.

I knew what you meant.

But those are really cool.

Yeah, so that was really fun.

The quail is, it is expensive.

I think people would say like,

oh, I'd never spend $1,600 at an event like that.

But at the same time,

the, I think the kind of person that's going to that

might not necessarily just be a car enthusiast.

They're more car collectors.

Like a lot of the people there

are like car connoisseurs, you know what I mean?

Yeah, so it kind of sounds like

it's an invite only thing then for like to have your car in.

Kind of going back to that question.

Yeah, I think those guys,

I think like Gordon and the team,

it's invite, but it's also,

you can, you can obviously apply your car.

Sure, okay, okay.

And they, some do get accepted,

but they usually have like themes.

Yeah, so like-

This year it was like something with the F50, wasn't it?

Yeah, so it was like a lot of the Ferrari tribute.

They also did like a pre and post war category of cars.

That's cool.

They did an F1 livery trophy.

So they had some F1 cars there

from, you know, different notable things.

Like they had the Marlboro Ferrari,

which was pretty iconic.

It was in the controversial race with Michael Schumacher,

I believe it was, I think, yeah.

I'm just trying to remember it all, but they do that.

And then the trophies are cool.

Like they're obviously, you know, fancy.

I was gonna say, what kind of trophies get handed out

at this kind of event?

Well, the winner got a Rolex, of course,

and a really nice, a really nice trophy.

Covered half his entry.

It went to an F50 GT1 that had to be pushed on to the,

the tops of-

Right, it had to be pushed.

Because it couldn't-

Start, oh.

Well, it was, I think it was a little bit of that

to be honest, but I also think it was the clearance.

They were really concerned that the clearance

on the front of the car wasn't gonna make it onto the ramp

and they didn't wanna start the car

because the car was too jittery

to actually get onto the ramp.

So then they just all pushed it out.

Can do it like smoothly.

Yeah, but one of the coolest cars,

I will say that was there, that made me very happy.

There's two of them.

Number one, there was a red Toyota 2000 GT.

That's sick.

The first time I'd ever seen one in real life.

I'd never seen a 2000 GT in real life

and it was awesome.

Yeah, now that you say that,

I've never seen one either.

No, they're super rare, super expensive.

Yeah, that car is more gorgeous in person

than any photo ever.

And it was so cool to see because like,

you could see how Yamaha had

like the wood grain instrument cluster

and you could see that they had these side access panels

for, you know, different sort of stuff

for like the oil and things like that.

That was a really cool car to see.

Then actually the second car I really found interesting

was Larry Chen had his R34.

That's cool.

In the coil hiding in the back.

It was really neat.

That's super dope.

I ran into him three separate times,

took three separate selfies

and every time I ran into him,

I never actually saw him walk into the place.

He just spawned in.

Wait, was he good at that?

Was he dressed up or was he still in his photography?

Larry Chen was still in Larry Chen clothing.

I've never seen him look any different.

I loved it so much.

Four cameras hanging off.

Yeah, I was looking at the Lexus,

like the new Lexus prototype

that they unveiled, the GT3 version

that they're calling an LFA successor,

which I don't think it is.

But I was like looking at the car

and I shit you not.

Just walked out behind it.

And I'm like, where did he come from?

There is no door back there.

There was no one back there.

And then all you just see is him.

So it was really good to see him.

He's awesome.

His car looks fantastic, complete rest of mind.

Pretty much from the ground up.

I know they tore the whole thing apart.

Oh my God.

Put it back together.

And it had some really like neat little small features.

Like usually the GTRs have that

like protruding fender grill off the back.

So it kind of has like by the door,

it has this like little triangle cut out almost.

And his didn't have that.

So at first it kind of looked like they were,

like they were GTT front fenders, but they weren't.

He has an R34 GTR, but it was really cool

to see in person.

You know what?

I know he's really proud.

I was talking about R34 GTRs the other day

that surprised me.

We did a post about it on Martiniworks,

but I didn't know R34 GTRs had a first gear lockout.

Really?

Yeah, just like reverse lockout.

They have that for first gear too.

So you don't money shift into first gear.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

Which is nice.

Yeah, I was looking up.

Yeah.

I liked that.

I was looking up weird like facts and quirks

about the R34 and one of them was there's a reverse.

I honestly would not mind that in more cars,

to be honest.

I don't think I've ever in my life,

money shifted into first gear ever.

So I'm whatever about it,

but maybe it's because it's right hand drive,

but multiple times I've put it in first.

I've caught it.

The GTT?

I've caught it.

Yeah.

You might shift the GTT multiple times.

Please don't money shift the GTT.

All right.

Gels has canceled part of it.

Yeah, canceled from the,

there was a lot of people like when people started

getting in their cars and leaving,

you could also tell it was always so,

if you want to people watch,

it's a very expensive trip,

but people watching at the quail is just as much fun.

Oh, I know.

Because there are very much two groups of people.

There are the people that are like gloves on,

shoes off, new shoes on,

ass in first, checking everything,

get in the car very carefully,

not adjusting or moving.

Nothing goes in the driver's seat, passenger seat.

Very carefully turn on the car.

I saw groups of people where they actually

brought mechanics out to turn the car on and off.

They didn't know how to turn their own damn car on.

Because the cars were so old,

like they had special processes

and they needed to do it a certain way,

and otherwise the car wouldn't start.

Like there was this old Ferrari,

I have no idea what it was,

but like the mechanic was working on the engine

to get it to start, then started it,

then turned it back off,

then gave the key to the owner,

then the owner got in,

then turned the car on and then he left.

And then I saw the complete opposite.

I saw a guy in a,

it was an Enzo, a gray Enzo.

And the show was over

and he's like, hell yeah, let's go get a beer.

And literally hops in the car,

he's got like what look like fancy looking tennis shoes

and like a long, long t-shirt.

Turns the car on, fucking puts the thing in reverse,

puts the thing out and you could see the staffer like,

wait, wait, wait, wait, we want to help you get out.

And he's like, no, I got it.

He was just going to go up this curve.

No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.

And so they tried to like help him out.

And he's like, ah, it's fine, don't worry about it.

He's like, you might hit your bum.

I don't care, whatever.

If I ever make it to the quill,

somehow I sneak my fat ass in there.

I'm gonna go around and I'm gonna be like,

oh crap, I forgot my wallet in my Pagani.

Can you spot me two grand?

And I'll just go around asking people that

and I'll leave Rich.

Cause two grand is nothing to these people.

You spot me two grand.

I forgot, I need two grand for a beer.

Can you spot me?

And they be like, oh yeah, it's a young chap, bam.

It was pretty intense.

I think obviously the money element is a lot,

but it was cool.

Was mostly everything like stock then?

Was there anything modified?

We said Larry's car was there.

So that's pretty, it's got like-

Larry's car had a, I'll tell you what,

there was, I think it was a,

it was either 11 or an 80, 85 that was there.

That was, it was a drift car.

I don't know how it got in.

It was there.

That was sick.

There weren't much for aftermarket mods.

There was a bunch of cars that were modified,

but there were modified versions of factory cars.

Okay, I was gonna say, yeah, like,

you know, like were the Ferraris on like

different wheels or did they have a carbon

or anything on it or was it-

Not really.

They were just-

A lot of it was just really clean stock cars.

I would say there was a 400R that was on the outside

that was slammed and it looked really cool.

Outside, God damn.

Well, I mean, it was on the inside, but outside.

Like it was on the entry.

She was in, but in here and outie.

Yeah, yeah, that was pretty intense.

That was a Nissan.

Was there anything that you didn't expect

about the event?

You went in thinking one thing

and it was different once you got there.

Oh, gosh.

I think I expected,

I think I expected people to be more difficult to talk to.

Sure.

Yeah, that's what I would think too.

Yeah, I think, obviously there's an element

of like me carrying around a camera,

which might, you know, either detract people

from wanting to talk to me or whatnot,

but anytime I could find an owner when I spoke to them,

they were the, like, they have a lot of pride in their car,

so I think people mistake the pride as like arrogance

because they have money and it's really easy to connect that.

And some people are like that.

Don't get me wrong.

But I think when people start their car

in front of a group of people, regardless on

if the car is worth $10,000 or $2 million,

they have the exact same smile,

the exact same like shit-eating grin

where it's like people are looking at me,

they hear my car, they're looking at my car,

my car is cool.

And it's like, that's the same exact thing

that happened at the quail.

Every time somebody turned their car on,

I could tell they were so excited for other people

to see it.

Just like when you go to a slam-enough show

and it's like you pull in and you have your car

and you do it a little rev and everybody's looking

at you downtown and you got that like that.

Yeah, I'm that guy, I'm that.

It's the same exact thing.

Right, so wait, did they do burnouts?

No, so that's probably like.

Any gas station meets afterwards?

That's 100% probably gonna be the second segment

because I think a lot of people talked about

how Monterey Car Week is like overrated

or it's going downhill.

Yet everything I saw was all stuff happening

outside of the events.

It was all stuff happening on the tiny little

two-lane roads going in and out of that city

or at a gas station that had 100 cars

that's meant to fill five.

And that's a whole different side

of the Monterey Car Week, so.

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See you in a second.

Tell me about the Monterey takeovers.

Yo, I don't know what happened there.

So this is a thing that I can safely say.

I was not a part of it.

You can unsafely say.

Unsafely, I can say that, what did you do out there?

No, no, it's not that.

Give us the secret song.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

Like the Monterey car week has cars everywhere.

The Monterey car week has cars everywhere.

People will say, you don't have to go to any of the events

to see the cars.

And I think that's a great thing

and a terrible thing at the same time.

If you go downtown, I went with Diana and Becca

and we sat outside downtown

after the reunion at Laguna Seca.

We had a glass of wine.

We just kind of like unwinded before we went to dinner.

Actually, you rewinded, you winded.

I winded myself.

Anyway, and it was really nice.

We were sitting there, we were having a drink,

life is good, and every third car is just something insane.

Lincoln Continentals slammed on the ground,

a lifted 991 Porsche, minty Datsun 510.

They sat there all day.

Literally, and then a Ferrari F40, and then randomly a 993.

And it was just like, cool car, cool car, cool car.

And that's awesome.

But what ends up happening is in the era of,

I think social media and how old I fucking sound right now,

is there are people that go there

to make a social status statement.

And then they use it to create content,

to perceive themselves as being a part of this higher

echelon group of people.

So they go, they bring their Porsche,

they make a bunch of noise, they do a bunch of burnouts,

they do a bunch of dumb shit,

and then they get the views on Instagram.

And then what ends up happening is people then start to say,

oh, well, Monterey Car Week's overrated because of everyone.

And it's like, no, it's those people

that are making a bunch of noise

and doing the stuff that they're not supposed to do

that's causing the issues.

But like,

Like any event?

Yeah, it's like any event.

So what you're saying is it's not just specific

to stance cars?

No, no, absolutely not.

Crazy, even the high-end shows.

My everyone does burnouts.

My most controversial take is that the crackle tune

of BMWs at stance scenes are identical

to the new Porsche GT3RS owners with the titanium exhausts.

Wow, that is a hot take.

Different income category, same behavior.

Same behavior.

They both do the same thing.

Every time the light turns green,

they rev it to piss hell.

It's loud as shit.

It's almost god-awful too much, right?

And then when they go to the stop,

BMW 335, same exact thing.

Dude says it.

Slightly different, slightly different.

They're wearing, instead of wearing a comfort colors,

they're wearing a linen t-shirt top.

And instead of having no product in their hair,

they have a small amount of Pompeii.

And that's literally the difference

between those two people and maybe a tax bracket.

Alex has us like his Ferrari isn't the loudest

God damn thing in the world when his valves are open.

Yeah, right.

No, I mean, I think there's,

people say it's overrated, I think they're wrong.

It's not overrated.

It is perfectly rated.

There's a lot of people.

I think that's why the tickets are $1,600.

3,000 people, Jesus.

Yeah, I would say if you go,

I would say if you want to go

and you want to not spend that amount of money,

go to Laguna Seca.

The stuff at the Laguna Seca,

just the overall reunion was incredible.

Did you go to Laguna Seca?

Yeah, and it was insane.

I mean, if you love racing,

if you love just cars and maybe the prestige

of like these one-of-one cars,

you maybe don't care about as much.

Bro, you could spend two, three days at Laguna Seca.

Easily, because there you're meeting people

like Scott Pruitt and Jensen Button,

who are just racing cars there

and happen to be like multi-record-winning racecar drivers

and they're just like in their pits.

They're just working on their cars.

They're just doing stuff like that.

Was that your first time at Laguna?

Yeah. What did you think of it?

Insane. It's so cool.

It's a roller coaster.

It's a beautiful, amazing track, beautiful area.

It's like the roller coaster of love for grip cars.

It's like U.S. Air, California edition and bigger.

It's just in a mountain.

Yeah, I didn't know that.

Yeah, me neither.

We went up there and we're like just going up and up

and I'm like, where the hell are we going?

And then it's just like in a bowl.

Yeah, then you just drop down.

Yeah, it's such a cool thing.

In the corkscrew in person, too, is a mild, bigger, more

intimidating than on a Sim or in a picture.

A lot of walking.

Yeah, we got to do a ride along with Ford Performance.

Oh, wow.

Whoa.

You went around Laguna Seca?

I went around it.

Oh my god.

I went around it.

You corkscrewed?

Yeah, and I told him to make a mistake.

I'm jealous.

You did not make a mistake.

I didn't realize how short the track is.

Like in a full sprint, it's quick track.

It's not super long.

Well, we're used to fucking road America.

God damn highway.

No, it was really cool.

The corkscrew is a place where you don't quite

get the gravity of the drop.

You see it with your eyeballs.

You go in blind, right?

Like you're coming up that hill and it just kind of appears

and you do it.

Yeah, on the Sim, you're like, oh, this is not a big deal.

But in real life, you're like, Jesus.

Even the walk, if you're down in the pits,

if you're down in the pits and you look up

to where the corkscrew is, it looks like it's a mountain away.

Yeah, it kind of is.

And it makes you climb.

And it makes no sense.

My brain couldn't quite grasp this track at all.

It was so weird.

I won't lie.

It took us a couple of breaks to get up there.

You know what was really fucked up about the whole thing?

So we're climbing the mountain to get to the corkscrew.

And it's like desert.

And I'd swear, every 15 minutes or so,

Gels yell, snake!

Freaking the fuck out.

I'm not even like inherently afraid of snake.

It just seems so plausible that a snake could be right there.

And it would get my ass every time I hated it.

I don't know why that was like.

I've never done that before.

No, I don't know why that trip in that area specifically,

it just, I just, like yell it.

I was so surprised because I kept asking the guy

because we got, we got chauffeured up.

So take that as you will.

Pinky's own.

He didn't have to worry about the snakes.

But I asked the guy, he was very, very nice, very German.

I was like, how often do like e-brakes fail on this hill?

Because everyone parks on it and the incline

or the decline of that hill is like, it's steep.

And he's like, oh, that bends from done to done.

I tried really hard on that accent.

That's all good.

No, it was a really great event.

We got to see all the different generations of Formula One.

So that was kind of their special display.

So we got to see everything from the Red Bull,

I think it was the RB21 or 19.

But we saw like, they had Landos actual McLaren out there.

So like full running car.

Zach Brown was out there.

He was driving, I think a Jag, an old vintage Jag.

I got to see the Mazda 767B.

Wow.

I got to sit in the Mazda 767B, which is even cooler.

What didn't you get to do?

I didn't put on sunscreen.

Oh, that's a big mistake.

Yeah, that was a huge.

It can be kind of deceiving

because sometimes you go out and it's like 70 degrees.

Right, yeah.

It's not like inherently like hot

because you burn up.

Yeah.

Yeah, I burned up.

All right.

I got a really important question for you though.

Oh yeah?

How was the food?

Oof.

Like at the quail.

If you eat snails,

I feel like they got to have some crazy stuff.

So this is an embarrassing story.

Okay.

I like that.

So at the quail, we got to meet up with Tom Christensen

who is like known as Mr. Lamar.

He is the most successful endurance race car driver

of our time.

He's an incredibly gifted driver.

He is impeccable in his sport.

And we got a chance to sit down

and talk to him, have lunch with him,

and then I had a one-on-one interview with him afterwards.

Nice.

And so after our group kind of session,

we sat down and we had lunch.

And so I went in and there was food.

It was good.

I wasn't really quite hungry

because I was more nervous about talking to Tom

because I really wanted to have like a good conversation

with him, not a TikTok conversation with him.

You know like there's a difference

in how you ask those questions, you know?

And so I grabbed some rice

and there was like some sushi,

which was decent.

It was good.

And then I got done and I went

and I grabbed another plate

and I was like, I'm just gonna have a nice, easy plate.

I'm sitting right next to Tom.

Like he's at the head of the table.

I'm right to the left of him.

And so I'm like, I'm gonna grab a little bit

of the rice and chicken

and then, oh, this is really cool.

It's like a chocolate cheesecake in like a little like cup,

you know?

And it looked really, it was like a coffee cup.

It looked like a little mini coffee cup.

And I'm like, that's super cool.

So maybe like there's some espresso in it or something.

So I go and I take it, I put it on my plate

and I go and I sit down and then I left

because I needed to go check the batteries on the camera,

make sure everything was good for my interview.

Well, unfortunately that wasn't actually a coffee cup.

It was chocolate that looks like a coffee cup

that was now getting heated up by my chicken

and rice that I put on the same exact plate.

And so when I go back and I sat down,

Tom like looked at me

and like the very first thing he said

to just me was, do you usually eat your chicken

with chocolate?

And I was like, yes.

I was like, no, I'm like, no.

Yes, you had a problem with it.

I was like, no, I don't.

That was a mistake.

That was a big boom mistake.

Wait, so like the cup itself was chocolate?

Yeah, it was a fucking Willy Wonka?

How were you?

Yeah, it was, I ate it.

I ate it.

You ate chocolate chicken?

I ate chocolate chicken.

It was pretty good.

It's pretty much mole, you know?

It was just different.

Chicken and rice and chocolate,

that's what they had out there.

And sushi.

No, it was good.

The whole thing, like anywhere you go,

everything is free, which you'd hope for.

Yeah, but it is free.

It's not, you pay in.

Ice cream.

Yeah.

It ain't free.

That's such a Midwest thing.

I was almost paying for it.

Such a old ass.

I did have like five cups of coffee though

and ice cream though.

I really, the first half of the day,

I was so like high strung,

just trying to get everything

that I thought I needed to film,

because every corner I turned,

there was something wildly different.

But then I get about two.

I was like, maybe I should enjoy this event.

And Becca was like, I've been telling you that

this whole time.

So then we went, we got coffee

and we got ice cream and I walked around

and we filmed some more stuff.

I took a picture of me jumping in front of an F-50.

Only to realize that the owner of the F-50

was sitting right on the corner watching at me.

Is that who was like looking at you in the photo?

Yeah, and then he, at the end of you,

was like, that was a good jump.

Thank you.

I tried really hard.

I'm sweating.

He goes, good.

Do you ran away?

Yeah.

Okay, we gotta go.

Put chocolate on your chicken.

Did you go to the aquarium?

No.

Oh man.

Is there an aquarium?

The aquarium dude.

The aquarium.

That's the craziest goddamn aquarium

I've ever seen in my life.

I did not.

We had a lot of fun casually just hanging out

with who we were with.

There was only a few people.

I got to meet, actually,

this is another really cool story.

When I was a kid and I used to sell

my RuneScape accounts for real-life money.

That's illegal.

And my mom would randomly get to-

I can't believe you're admitting that.

Reported.

My mom would randomly get deposits

to her PayPal account for $180,

which was a pretty good deal.

Oh yeah.

As a mom into this?

Yeah, but listen.

I was like 12, 11.

I was making bank back in the day.

Okay, I was making a good chunk.

Monkfish, all time high.

Don't even tell me about Monkfish.

I know you know about Monkfish.

Over 80,000 of my bankers.

Yeah.

How much they sellin' for these days?

Not much.

Everything's, I don't know.

The market's going crazy.

There was actually a recent thing

where there's bots are unleashed right now

and like something broke.

So the bot detection thing isn't working in RuneScape.

They're goin' fuckin' buck wild.

So in turn, the market is crashing

because there's bots doing everything

and selling all of their stuff.

So just overload it.

I don't think anything's worth anything.

Monkfish back in my day.

450, shark, 1.3.

I remember when granite malls were 150K.

DDS is 35.

Anyway, so I used to sell them, I'd get 180 bucks.

And then I would get, my mom would give me that.

And I used to take $40 of it and $20 of it,

I would spend on a movie, popcorn and like a drink.

And I'd always go to the one in Eau Claire,

the one in the mall,

cause that one was way better than Micon at the time.

And then the other 20 bucks is when I would go,

there was actually a bookstore.

I don't wanna say it was Amazon.

It was a bookstore over by Best Buy, across the street.

And I'd go in and I would get a Dupont Registry magazine.

Like almost every month

because we went every month to this bookstore.

And so I would get it and I loved it.

And I still have them, they're at my house somewhere.

I must have like 30 or 40 of them.

That was pretty cool.

But they always had like a thicker outer bound.

You know, so, and then on the inside,

the stories were incredible.

The pictures were beautiful.

And I learned a lot about cars

by reading the Dupont Registry.

And when I was on this trip,

I was making introductions to the team that was there.

And so I got to meet a couple of people.

Some people were from road and track.

Some people were from car buzz.

And then I met this guy whose name was Charles.

And I had asked him.

I was like, so Charles, like, what do you do?

And he's like, oh, I work for a magazine,

a publication company.

And I was like, oh, what is it?

He's like, oh, I'm the editor in chief

for Dupont Registry.

Oh, that's crazy.

And so his name is Charles.

And I got to meet him and oh my God,

he was such an incredible, just wealth of knowledge.

And he lives in Southern Miami.

And just all the things that he had to share

and talk about were so cool.

And so on Sunday when we went to Pebble Beach,

we were kind of walking around

and just trying to enjoy

because we had been there since 6 a.m.

I asked him.

I was like, Charles, what do you know about these cars?

And he's like, ah, I don't know much.

He's like, I don't know much about a lot of these cars.

He goes, I know a little bit

about the Formula One cars over there,

but most of my experience isn't with these cars.

And I was like, you want to go for a walk?

And he's like, sure.

Like, let's go for a walk.

So Becca, Allison, and I think her name was Millie

or Minnie went with us.

We went down to the Pebble Beach

because it was like probably a five minute walk.

And then Charles and I walked

from the very first Formula One car

all the way through all the generations

to the final Red Bull car that they had on display.

And Charles knew more about those cars

than I am convinced the collective internet

knew about those cars.

We stopped at every single one.

He'd be like, well, actually,

you see that side profile right there?

Well, what happened there was

Arttan Sena was so upset

at the Hungarian Grand Prix

that he yelled at his chief engineer,

blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And so you'll see that that side profile

is different than that.

That's because of that.

And then in 1992, and we just kept going

from car to car to car.

And he would tell me all of this information,

just like this.

And it was all one story.

Like, we must have walked for 80 minutes, 85 minutes.

And the story never stopped.

But the story was never boring.

He knew so much about these cars.

And it just like, it reminded me

about how much pride I think publications like that

and other car groups like that

take to knowing these cars

and these drivers and these people.

Because even when we sat down

and we talked with Tom Christensen,

Charles knew him and he knew so much about him.

And even stuff outside of what normal questions would be

that the conversation when Charles

would ask Tom a question felt so old friend to old friend.

But it's not like they'd known each other.

It's not like they're best friends.

It's just he knows so much about Tom's career.

It was just, it was super insane.

It was very like inspirational to see

these people care about not just the car,

but like the story of the car.

Right.

You know, cause we like, we tell a lot of stories

and we're on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram.

And he's in publication.

He's in print, which is just a whole different world.

But you never really get to see that in our world.

Stance cars aren't doing publications, you know?

I think that'd be so cool.

That would be sick, you know?

And the only publications that I feel like

people really give a shit about are like

when the annual work or SSR magazine comes out.

It's like, that's super cool.

But that's not a publication.

That's just, here's the things we can sell this year.

I feel like, I think it was like,

Stance Nation was like, I feel like the closest to that

for the longest time.

Cause they'd have like write up features

on like people's builds and cars.

And I always thought that was super cool.

But ever said, yeah.

Prime Stance Nation went crazy.

It did.

It was, it was really cool.

Stance Nation was always so good.

I think Dino will always be like the number one person

that credit for me understanding the introduction

of like Stance car.

Like proper Stance culture was, was from Dino.

Cause he, and he still does it.

Like his YouTube channel is one of my,

my most favorite channels to watch

because he's so good at just like casually explaining things.

See, there's no, I'm almost envious

because there's no dramatization, over dramatization

of like what he's doing.

And content has gotten so overdramatized

for the sake of getting a view

because like that's how it feels

like you can only get a view.

Then he'll cut me and be like,

so today I'm going to show you this private track in Japan.

That's multimillion dollars.

Nobody's allowed here.

So we're going to check it out.

Come on.

And then you, the camera's so casual about it.

It's just like following him around.

It's like, damn it.

I want to make content like that, you know?

Oh, but anyway, sorry.

No, it's okay.

It was good.

Monteric car week.

Check's out.

Would you go again?

Yes.

Yeah.

You have to kind of shed your preconceptions about it.

That's good to say.

To enjoy it.

Because I think if you go in thinking

that people are rich and have their nose in the air

and they don't want to talk to you,

you'll naturally find those people.

I think if you go being a car enthusiast

and you just want to talk cars,

like I talked to some of the people

that owned these cars in Pebble Beach

that were five, 10, 30 million dollars,

they did not care.

They were just stoked to be there.

They wanted to share their car story.

They wanted to talk about their car.

And some of them were so neat, you know,

like they would explain like,

okay, well, here's how you actually light

the headlamp in this car.

Like it's an actual like lamp system

that you have to use charcoal and this and that.

And then you got the damn Flintstones.

Yeah.

And they're like, well, I've got my other car here.

They'll be like, yeah, let me show you my other car

though, because it's the same car

just a couple of years later.

But this is how they started to do it.

They use gas and they use this line here

and this line went up and it was pressurized

and it went into the headlamp.

And then when you turned it on,

that would then create this gas reaction

and that would cause your headlamp to turn on

and be like, do you want to see it?

I'm like, yeah.

He's like, okay, it's going to take a few minutes.

Is that all right?

I'm like, yeah, I'm like, of course it is.

It's a turn the lights on.

It's pretty soul mighty.

You know, these people, they just, they love it.

It was great.

It was like dollar cars.

They even turned the damn lights on.

A car that one that nobody would ever be able to know.

I didn't even know this car existed.

It's called a 1924 Hispano H6C.

And I abbreviated all of it

cause there's like 10 other words that go along with it.

What year is it?

1924.

And this guy drove it.

100 years old.

And it has mahogany planks that are bent to the chassis.

Mahogany.

And then 85 individual rivets to assemble the whole car.

And then it's sanded down and then it was cleared over.

And I said, it kind of reminds me

of your typical S chassis.

And I said this out loud.

Nobody knew what an S chassis was.

And I immediately remembered that I was not in the presence

of the tuning culture.

They're like, what?

This is wood car?

Wood car.

Wood car one.

Well, literally is wood car.

That car did not win, but yes, that is the car.

And he won a Rolex too.

That car's insane.

You had to show with wood car to win.

It was a, it was a pretty interesting car.

It's the Flintstone.

Yeah, but they have a dude.

Is that the one you had a light, the headlights on?

No.

What I will say,

I was gonna say, that's dangerous.

This is the car that won.

Okay, let me see.

Ooh, that is beautiful.

Wow.

Yeah, the orange on black is gorgeous a little bit.

Mahogany on black, I should say.

I'm sorry.

It's a gorgeous car.

It's a really pretty car.

Becca called it.

Cause we saw all the cars coming in

because we did a dawn patrol it's called.

So we saw all the cars roll in,

which was really cool experience sunrise

coming up gorgeous golf course, you know, blah, blah, blah.

And it drove by and Becca was like, that car is gorgeous.

She's like, that car is going to win.

And I'm like, oh, ha, ha, whatever.

Bro, it fucking won.

She called it in the beginning.

I have the video at six o'clock in the morning

when I'm recording every single car of her saying

that car is going to win.

And we knew nothing about this car.

It's so crazy.

Like cars like that, you know, not only existed

but like still are around and like are driving

and stuff like that.

But we went to the Peterson Auto Museum

and we got to go into like the vault.

So like they're like storage when they cycle cars out

and like it's kind of like their motor coach.

I guess is what you would call like area.

So it's like all the stuff from like the 1910s,

1920s, 1930s, like all like pre-war stuff.

And we're like, you got like the Duesenbergs

and like all of that stuff where it's just

they're just huge, just massive vehicles

that kind of style.

And it's like, dude, I can't believe that those

were just rolling around on the road back in the day

and like the amount of work and shit

that had to go into those things

and like the size of the engines and stuff.

Like they're like, I would relate those more

to like a fucking like train than a vehicle.

Like because they probably were taken off

the inspiration of a train or a carriage.

It's insane.

Yeah.

The cars are so cool.

And I think it's, it's a reminder

as to how big this industry actually can be

versus just like the space we play in.

Right.

Larry and I talked about how it was,

it was kind of interesting,

you know, when does the era change over

for the generation that's next, right?

And what is the next generation?

When does the ultra rare F50 GT1

turn into the R33 GTLM, right?

From Keep the Dreams Alive.

When does the Lamborghini Qantas

turn into the E30 M3?

You know, like it's that,

where does that start to happen?

I feel like it already has, honestly,

with some of those cars

because, you know, with like the 400R for instance,

it was like such a big deal when, you know,

a couple of those like got over here

and like started like going to like shows

and things like that.

And like some of those like very, very limited vehicles

have gotten around.

I feel like it's kind of there,

but it's not to the level that like something like that is.

It should be pretty interesting.

I'd be excited to hear if you're listening,

your thoughts, whether you're listening

on Spotify to drop a comment

or YouTube to drop a comment.

But we're going to take a small break,

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but that was really cool.

So shout out to those guys.

We got to hang out with the gears and gasoline guys a bit.

And then we also hung out with Fortunato

and we've been there and we've checked them out

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and it was just really cool to see the enthusiasts there.

You know, it's smaller than you think it is.

I don't mean that in a bad way.

It's tight knit.

And everyone there is passionate about what they do.

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So what's next, Alex?

Yeah, I don't know.

What do we got coming up here?

In the next couple of weeks?

Yeah, pretty much.

Well, okay.

So if you guys and girls don't know,

we got a lot going on.

And we've spent an atrocious amount of time

working on it already.

And hopefully, you love it.

Yeah, what you're hearing in the background

is one such project.

It's a secret car.

Yeah, so we got, yeah, so we've got,

we've got, can they see secret car?

No.

Oh, thank God.

We got a lot going on.

So we're going to be at Slamm Enough.

We're going to be at Slamm Enough Gatlinburg

or Cereville.

We're really excited for that.

It's at the beginning of October.

We are bringing a super special booth for this year

that we're working on right now,

that we've been working on for the past,

I would say, month or two.

So really excited for that.

We're bringing a surprise car.

Two surprise cars.

We're bringing another surprise car.

We're bringing two surprise cars.

Hopefully, we don't have second surprise car yet.

He actually messes with me just now.

I'm not even kidding.

My God, heard that before.

He's asking if I want to buy two.

I promise you guys, you cannot comment

and guess what this car is.

I promise you, you can't.

So go ahead, try.

You're wrong.

Nobody knows that this car exists, except for us.

It's a 1924 piece of wood with wheels.

So we've got that going on.

And actually, one of the big things

that we've been working on, I guess,

is like a little side project.

I've always wanted to do something special for the Gatlinburg

vibes and just kind of like the energy

and how it all feels while you're up there in the mountains.

And I know I personally love waking up in the morning,

sunrise, and just before starting the day having

like a cup of coffee.

So we're actually working with a local roaster

here in Appleton and a company called Motivator.

And we're bringing our own limited edition

two-row style coffee to Gatlinburg.

Probably one of the coolest things we've ever done,

to be honest with you.

I'm not even like a coffee person.

I think that shit's dope.

OK, and it's not like, oh, we just white-labeled coffee

and we're putting Martin works on it to sell it.

It's not like every single person here tried it.

And we've been having coffee.

We've been shaking.

We need to try this one.

We've got to choose how it turned out.

And I think it's like, I'm not just saying this.

I genuinely think it's super good coffee.

I am ecstatic.

I was nervous about the idea because when you mentioned it

and I didn't know how much say

or how involved it would be or if it literally just kind

of be like putting a label on it.

But this coffee turned out amazing.

I don't typically drink black coffee.

This, you could drink just straight if you wanted.

It's that good.

And this espresso has been the common one.

Yeah, we're really excited.

We have a caramel blend.

Caramel because I wanted to do something that was,

I love caramel blend, but also to kind of take after

like a little bit of nod to like my old cat

who's named Carmel.

And then we did an espresso blend,

which we kind of catered to both those that like

a little bit of a darker roast, but also those

that like espresso martinis.

So I actually did try it into the some espresso martinis.

You know, it just, you got to make sure it works.

And it worked.

It's really cool.

We're going to have a bunch of really great stuff

at Severe.

The merch is looking fucking sick.

Yeah.

I'm so hyped about this apparel this year.

Yeah, we got, it's going to be a cool one.

We're really excited.

We've been trying to put a ton of love into it

because I think you guys and gals have given us

a ton of love in the community.

And so when we go to these things,

we want to make sure it feels like we give a shit.

So yeah, we've got new merch dropping for the event.

We've got coffee.

We're going to have coffee there.

We're going to have the SimRigs.

We're bringing Mario Kart.

No, we're not bringing.

The turf?

Three tons of fake grass.

Oh my God.

It's cool while it's here, but it is the biggest nightmare.

Yeah, I don't think, I hope, I have a feeling

other vendors are going to be doing grass this year.

And I feel so bad for them.

Have fun with it.

Okay, here's the difference though.

They're going to get like that like

boat carpeting and carpet.

Super lightweight, clean, doesn't make a much.

We had legitimate like college field turf.

This is literally what it came from a college.

Yeah, from Lawrence.

Lawrence.

No, not Lawrence.

Lambo field.

Oh, that's real.

Oh, yeah, that's true.

It is actual grass.

It's not turf at Lambo Field.

Concordia, yeah.

It's Concordia University.

They're like, I don't mean,

I still don't know if they're looking for that.

If you look close, you can see the stripes

from the field.

We had to paint the stripes, yeah,

because they literally ripped it off.

There's so much rubber pellets and sand in that shit

that I had no idea.

You move it and you have a sand plate place

laying there afterwards.

We've got a lot going on.

We're not bringing the turf.

I tried to initially bring portions of the turf

and I'm pretty sure I almost got left outside.

You're going to break one of our backs.

Yeah, so we're not doing that.

But we do have some, like we got some really cool stuff.

We got some custom tables getting made.

They're actually literally getting worked on right now.

They turn on good.

So yeah, we're really excited.

We got that going on.

We've got some new stuff going on to the website

in September as well.

If you guys and girls don't know,

we've been kind of quiet on the build thread front lately.

We haven't talked about it too much.

We've been dropping some awesome cars

that have been adding their stuff to the carousels

or the build threads.

We saw some wagons get added.

Oh, it's so cool.

Yeah, we posted that on Instagram.

You guys loved it and we wanted to let you know

that probably by the time this video is going live,

we're just about on the teetering point

of updating the entire thing.

We have a whole new build thread adding process

to make it easier on you guys and gals to add your cars.

We're going to have new filters on the build thread page

so you can search easier, what you can sort by,

vehicle types, wheels, things like that.

And then we're really putting a little bit more pressure

on those that are adding their cars to the build threads

to tell us more.

We want to know more about your story.

Yeah, please add more photos for Pete's sake.

Yeah, like tell me about your car.

Some of you guys got really cool cars and you're like,

yeah, that's too much stuff to mention.

No, mention it!

Yeah, mention it, that's the point.

And tell me about it.

If you guys haven't added your car to the build threads,

this is going to be the perfect time

as we relaunch the build threads and add it.

But we go through every single one of those

and we check them out, we read them

and then we share those stories for you guys.

We'll tag you.

We can invite you to collaborate on the post.

If you want to be on our feed,

that's the best way to possibly do it.

So spend some time on it.

You don't have to whip through it in two seconds

if it takes you a day or two.

It saves your progress too.

It takes you 15 minutes.

Go through it and write the story.

Get some good photos.

We all got iPhones now.

You can take a decent couple of photos of your car.

It's your pride and joy, so make it look nice

because I promise you it's not getting uploaded

and forgotten about.

We actually go through those,

we check them out every single day.

Absolutely.

Yeah, I'm really excited for it

because I think that was one thing when we started this

we really wanted to have is see other people's builds,

share other people's stories.

Cause yeah, the cars are dope,

but there's always a story behind a car.

Not enough places connect the people with the cars.

You always see images of cars, dope cars,

but what about the person behind it?

I think that's what's been so cool too.

Recently we've gone to a lot of events

and we've got to share stories with people.

We bring them on, we interview them.

Sure, they might be a little camera shy at first

or they're a little nervous,

but we've heard such cool stories

and got to know people

and you always are able to kind of crack the egg,

crack the code and get people to lighten up

once they can start talking about their car

and that's the best.

My favorite thing is that,

like we went to FinalBot this last weekend

and we were walking around kind of like

before everything started

and they had like a show area,

like outside of like where all the vendors and stuff were

and it's like FinalBot obviously a huge drift event.

There was this fucking like ScionXB

and it's like, I immediately,

I'd like to kind of, we got to film with this guy

because like he rolled up,

he immediately popped the back of this XB open,

pulled out a frickin' lawn chair

and just started playing video games.

And I'm like, there's something up with that.

And dude, this, the biggest ScionXB fan

I think we've ever met, such a cool guy,

he was telling us everything.

He was like, oh these seats were only available

in the Japanese version and I can't believe

I got them because they actually,

he was showing us like, they like,

they slide forward the normal,

the US ones didn't do that.

It was, had like some body kit on it,

it was big, he had like an insane air set up on it.

It's like that shit, I just loved it

because I'm like, it's an XB,

but it was such a cool XB

and it's like the story behind it

and why he appreciated it.

How passionate he was about it.

And why he was so passionate about it,

I thought was so cool.

And like, so it's like, go to FinalBot.

Oh yeah, we did a video on an XB at FinalBot.

It's like, yeah, it's fucking good, it's cool.

That's the cool part about the,

a lot of stuff that's coming up

and we really enjoy Gatlinburg or Severeville for us

because it's like the,

it's kind of like the end of our typical season

because then after that we have SEMA

and we have PRI and we've got some other stuff

and there's stuff that happens on the West Coast

like every other weekend

so please don't get upset when we say that.

But like for us, we kind of treat this as that like.

This is our, this is like our final hurrah of the year of like.

I'll see you when I see you.

Yeah.

Now it's kind of like one of those, you know,

it's like where the movie ends

and they like nod to each other

and like walk in separate ways.

Like, is there going to be a sequel?

Yeah, is there going to be,

that's us as we get into the next few weeks.

So.

And we start cooking.

And we start cooking up.

We got more stuff to do,

but we're really excited.

It's been fantastic to have your guys

and gals of support.

Thank you so much for picking up a car part

for Martini Works.

If you haven't, if you haven't

and you want to support,

subscribe is always a great way to do that.

Leaving a five star on the podcast

is an awesome way to do that.

And honestly, once we get this coffee up and rocking,

that's gonna be a really awesome way to support as well.

Cause if you love coffee, maybe you like cars,

but you don't need car parts,

you just enjoy listening in.

Maybe you can do it with a cup of coffee.

Coffee in the podcast, perfect man.

So as soon as we get ready,

we should, fingers crossed,

next week we will be able to see our bags

getting all.

Bagged.

Damn it.

We'll see our roast go into our bags

and I'm very, very excited to see that process

and then it's done.

We should put a little label on the bottom

with the coffee bags.

It's like B-A-Y.

Oh, damn it.

Coffee bags.

We approved the design already, damn it.

Maybe it can be the title of it on the website or something.

Yeah, there we go.

Martini Works coffee bag.

Why do they call it a cup of joe?

I don't.

Because of joe coffee.

The creator and founder of coffee.

Oh.

Sorry.

Why do they call it?

I don't know.

I took a guess.

I gotta be pretty dang close though.

The phrase cup of joe most likely refers to the average man

as joe was a common nickname for an everyday person

or it comes from a combination of coffee related terms

like Java and mocha that became shortened to joe.

Other popular theories suggest that the name came

from Joseph East Daniels, a US Navy secretary

who banned alcohol on ships

or from the Joe Martinson Coffee Company.

That sounds like an AI response.

I liked my response more.

It was.

I wanna hear your responses.

Let me know what a cup of joe means.

What do I think a cup of joe means?

I honestly think a cup of joe was

from some random ass person in the South probably

that had really great influence

and just had the nickname for coffee

and then it just stuck.

Maybe if we sell enough coffee bags

we can get you a new mic stand

so you can quit rocking with it

the whole entire podcast.

Every single video I do on my own channel

I get this goddamn thing.

I don't know why and the amount of comments

are people like just tighten the microphone.

It is tightened.

But I do and it just, it does it.

I'm sorry.

I've like, I noticed it

because I can hear myself

and I'm like, why am I getting further?

Then I have to lift it again.

So I'm sorry.

I appreciate you guys.

Yep, sorry for derailing it.

Have a good weekend.

We'll talk to you next week.

Bye.

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