Sid Bridge: Comedians Talking About Cars Over Coffee

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Hey there, I am Kelly Zimnikas, and this is my podcast,
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Holler and Wine. I'm a stand-up comedian, I'm a documentary filmmaker,
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and I'm someone who just enjoys having conversations, which is
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what we are going to do here today. Going to
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invite on all sorts of friends, old and new. We're
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just going to talk about stuff and infuse it with
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some questions about cocktails. And we will end the podcast,
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just as everybody ends their conversations, with an affirmative tarot
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card reading. You know, totally normal. Come join us. It's
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time to holler and whine. On today's episode of Holler
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and Wine, I am just delighted to welcome on to
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the program my friend, fellow comedian, Sid Bridge, joins me today.
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And we are covering everything from boxing to comedy to cars.
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So much car talk on this episode. Oh, my goodness.
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But it is magnificent to watch and listen to Sid
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light up when he talks about cars. It's really, really great.
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And we recorded this, by the way, during the 2026
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North Carolina Comedy Festival. A big shout out to Jenny
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and Steve who put that on in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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It's mostly Jenny. I don't want Jenny to get mad
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at me. And also a lot of love to everybody
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at Union Coffee where we recorded this chat. And we
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were on the patio, so... bit of external noise we
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did our best to work around it but please pull
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up a chair come join us we're gonna start our
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comedy conversation engines that I yeah I like cars cars.
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It's time to holler and whine With Kelly.
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Unsurprisingly, there's an advisory. It could get ranty and yelly.
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But don't be afraid of a little tirade. You don't
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need an umbrella. It's time to holler and whine.
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With Kelly Zimbizquick. No?
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Kelly... used chapstick? Kelly's on Netflix.
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Kelly! Coco Vantropix.
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Well, cheers, Sid.
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Cheers.
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Now, what are you drinking from the good people at
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Union Coffee today?
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It's some kind of apple juice lemonade concoction.
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I like this.
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This is good.
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I am drinking a Jack Johnson, which is actually quite delicious.
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It's a coffee with banana milk named after the singer
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Jack Johnson. It's not a politician.
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Or a boxer.
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I feel like if it was a boxer, it would
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be much more espresso.
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Yeah, yeah. More of a punch.
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This is more very mellow, and it's got slices of
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banana in it, which is... I don't know.
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Look, I worked with boxers before. Some of them were
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very mellow.
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Oh, my gosh. Where did you work with boxers?
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I had an agency, like my own PR agency, briefly
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for like a year.
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Oh, my gosh.
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I didn't make any money, but I did get to
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work with a boxing promoter. And the first time, like
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the day after I met him, I was sitting there
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at a small press conference with Riddick Bowe.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. He was like 38 or 39 at the time
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trying to make a comeback, and he should not have
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been there.
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Why do you say that?
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I mean, bless his heart. He was still big, and
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he could still punch really hard, but his brains were
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very scrambled. Whoa. He didn't talk very good. Right. I
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don't think he had any intention of actually going through
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with the fight.
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Have you ever boxed? No. Have you ever... Are you, like...
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Do you go to boxing matches?
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No, actually, I....
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I was.
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I was trying to like grow this agency and I
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was meeting with an ad rep from a radio station.
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And he's like, we're talking, we're chatting. He's like, oh,
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you have to meet this guy. And he was in
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the building that I was in. So he takes me
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like a couple rooms down the hallway and we go
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in there and I meet this boxing promoter. We sit
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down and talk and immediately connect. Like immediately we're just,
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we're friends. Like he and I had all the same ideas.
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And he's like, I want you at my press conference tomorrow.
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And I'm like, all right, cool. Let's do this. And
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there I was with Riddick Bowe's hand was the size
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of my waist. This is not to cast aspersions on Riddick.
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He was an interesting guy, and he just didn't have
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it in him. He really didn't have the heart for
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when he was at the top of his game, but
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his comeback was not going to happen. He never did
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the fight. He kept his deposit. And we ended up doing,
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I did events with him. We did Hasim Rahman trying
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to make a comeback. And the coolest one by far
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was Shannon Briggs. Shannon is like, he has a presence,
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you know. He's like this big dude with these long dreads.
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But like really refined, really classy, really friendly. He's been
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in some movies. He's done some acting. So he's got
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like the whole, like, and and that was just the
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funniest press conference i have ever done dude dude sits
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down and like and like at the end of these
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things you're supposed to have like a stare down like
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a face off with your opponent yeah and uh and
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his opponent was like not really all there like the
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guy was there to lose basically and and his opponent
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was like oh like he even punched so many times
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all he could do when put a microphone in his
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face was say his life story um over and over
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again um meanwhile like Shannon's sitting next to me at
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the press conference. Me, this little Jewish guy. And I
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was like very Jewish at the time. I had my
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yarmulke on and everything.
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I was very Jewish at the time.
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He's like a foot above me sitting down. He's listening
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to the other fighters trash talk each other. And when
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the trash talk gets bad, he's like turning and going, oh,
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that's not nice. That's not nice. And then he gets
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up there to talk about his fight. And at the end,
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he goes to face off with the guy he's going
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to have the fight with. And he goes, no, this
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isn't what I like to do. And he gives him
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a big hug. And so all these reporters are snapping
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pictures of Shannon just hugging his opponent. It was so sweet.
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And then the fight comes around, and the main event
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walks up there, and Shannon knocks this guy out in
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a minute and a half. And I saw that. We
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knew that was coming. Oh, wow. But we didn't think
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it was coming that quickly. Right. And Shannon goes afterwards
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and does a post-fight interview, and he just turns to
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the reporter and says... I'm sorry. I didn't mean for
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that to happen. I lost my composure, and I knocked
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him out. I absolutely love that dude.
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I love that. I love, like, in my head, I
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think boxing. I would never step in a ring as, like,
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an amateur boxer. But I feel like that would be
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a good workout.
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A lot of people think it's a good workout, and honestly,
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it's a better workout than it is a sport. The
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whole sport was dirty. I mean, and I love this
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promoter guy. I still talk to him all the time.
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He's still promoting a bunch. He's got his hands in
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a billion things. Real P.T. Barnum kind of dude. And
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I was really rooting for him, even though, like, I
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made maybe... The amount of money I made off of
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that whole gig paid for this drink.
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Yeah.
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And it was worth it just to be standing at ringside,
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to be at the events, to talk to the people.
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Even one of the matches, I got to ring announce
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a match.
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Oh, man, that would be fun.
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It was a bucket list item.
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That would be fun.
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Yeah. You think about that, and you look at it,
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and you think, I bet that's pretty cool. And you
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would be right. It was every bit as cool as
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I thought. And the ring announcers are very protective of
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their gigs, so they don't want other people just acting
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like they can do it. So it was like a
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to-do to get me to be able to just do
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this one introduction. So I got to do the one introduction.
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Exactly.
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That would, yeah, that would be an awesome thing. That
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would be an awesome thing. Have you ever repped fellow comedians?
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Have I, like, oh, no.
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No? Okay.
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No.
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So you had boxing. Who else were you repping with
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your agency?
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It was, I was going after, it was public relations,
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a little bit of advertising, and I had just come on, like,
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right now I work for a real estate investment company.
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I left that company. I worked for it, I originally
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started there back in, like, 98. Oh, okay. And I
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left five years, like six years later, I left to
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start this agency. um so I was looking for some
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of that like just to to solidify it so like
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I was expecting to be playing in the investment world
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um but I wanted the fun so I put some
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fun advertising out there and some like just just to
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try and attract some interesting clients yeah um and uh
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I did it right when the economy crashed so uh
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You know, the boxing promoter was probably the coolest. The
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real estate almost paid the bills. Right. And then I
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got a little bit of city government work and then
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had some other interesting meetings that never went anywhere.
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There was a whiskey distributor who was making custom motorcycles,
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and we tried hard on that one. Oh, wow.
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Didn't quite get through. I'm also very intrigued by motorcycles.
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I like watching them. They're a very sexy vehicle. But
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I would crap my pants if I got on one.
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Let me tell you, I rode for one year.
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Oh, yeah?
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And that was enough.
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Was this pre or post having children?
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This was post.
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Oh, okay.
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I had a friend who really got obsessed with wanting
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to ride motorcycles, and he started learning all the ins
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and outs of riding the motorcycles and everything. And that started,
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you know, so vicariously I started to, like, want it. Mm-hmm.
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And they look so cool. Yeah. Even the tiny ones
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look so cool. They do. So I finally scraped up
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enough and got this little late 70s Honda CM400, like
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a little tiny street bike, basically. And it was terrifying.
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First of all, I was never that good at it.
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I took the course to get the license certification. And
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there's just so much you have to trust that the
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motorcycle will just do for you. um, instead of just
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controlling it, that it was, it was terrifying. Um, just
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going around a curve was terrifying. Uh, if you ever, uh,
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if you're ever on a motorcycle, make sure you tell
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whoever's riding it or if it's you, never go near
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those bridges that have grates in the middle. Oh, uh,
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cause the, the thing just starts wobbling across. Like you're
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apparently you're fine. You're stable. You're not going to fall over,
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but the bike just wobbles across like a, and, and
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you just feel like you're about to fall over. Um, So, yeah,
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I handled about a year of that. And I was like,
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I can't anymore. I'm going to sell this.
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Did your wife approve of motorbike riding?
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Yeah, actually. And she was upset because I got it.
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I think she was pregnant when I got it. So
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she didn't want to ride on it. And then I
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sold it, like, before she ever had a chance to
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ride on it with me. And she really wanted to
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ride on it. And I really did not want to
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have a rider on it at all.
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Yeah.
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Because I just wasn't. comfortable enough with me on it.
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It is, it is a very attractive looking vehicle, but
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for me, it's like, it's better for me to watch
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someone like Norman Reedus ride a motorbike.
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Well, I've always been a car guy anyway. So like,
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like moving into motorcycles, that's not really a natural thing. Yeah.
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I mean, they're, they're easy to work on, but they
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also just, they're not supposed to be upright. There's two
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wheels there, you know, like a car can sit on
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its wheels and not just tip over.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. You want to avoid the tipping over, uh, whatever vehicle.
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And all those motorcycle riders always do the same thing.
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There are two kinds of riders out there, ones who
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have fallen over and ones who are going to. And
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so I got out before I could make either of those.
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Option two.
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Like I knew that there was inevitability somewhere in there
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and I just.
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Yeah. Yeah. Did you ride a bicycle much as a kid?
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Because I did. I rode, being a kid who grew
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up in the 80s, a time when there was this ridiculous...
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phrase at least in my neighborhood on tv of it's
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10 p.m do you know where your children are 80s
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parents did not care where their children were so i
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rode a bike fucking everywhere but i never transitioned to
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something like a motorbike but a bicycle you couldn't stop
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me i was.
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Never home yeah well uh yeah i had a i
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mean yes i was i was that kid also i
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had a bicycle i i I rode it around the
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neighborhood all the time. And, yeah, you know, come home late, whatever.
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Parents didn't care. Yeah. I was an 80s kid, too.
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They did not care. I never, like, graduated up to, like,
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real bicycle. You know, I always had, like, the cool-looking
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kid's bike with the blue tires and the, you know.
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Yeah.
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I never, like, had more than one speed.
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Fair.
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I didn't learn to shift gears until I had a car.
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I never learned to shift gears on a bike.
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I know you're a big car guy. Has that been
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something that was passed down from grandpa, father, mother maybe?
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My father was really into cars and my first memory
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is sitting in his lap in his 1970 Buick Skylark
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convertible thinking I was steering that thing in the parking
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lot at preschool. Oh my gosh. I'm pretty sure all
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along he had his hand on the steering wheel somewhere
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where I couldn't see it. And that car set off
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my obsession with cars forever. I absolutely loved that car.
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It was a yellow 1970 Skylark with a tan top
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and a tan interior. And it held the record in
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the family for a long time. He kept it for
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like nine years and then finally traded it in. And
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that was like a really sad day for me. uh,
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cause I love that car. Oh man.
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Yeah.
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And then, uh, and, and I always was obsessed with
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kind of that car and I started, um, that and MGs.
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I was really an MGs. I was like, we had a,
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that was like one of the best days of my childhood.
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We had a friend who had a, had an MGB.
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And she took me for a ride and I'm like
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taking notes. I, I love that.
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Cause it's, that's obviously such a charming core memory for you. Um,
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Have you tried to, like, do you have a car
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collection at home? Are you trying to, like, find that
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car from that first memory?
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You know, that is a car I have not gone
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after so much. But I did end up, when I
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was in college, and I still have the car I bought.
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In 1995, when I was in college, I really wanted
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an old muscle car. Yeah. And I was lucky enough
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that my parents were paying for my college, so I
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took a job so I could make my own money
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and started sticking that aside and started shopping for something.
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And one of the first cars I looked at was
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a similar Skylark, but also I fell in love with
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this 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass that was at a little dealership
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in Roanoke, Virginia, and went and test drove it. took
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it up the street to a mechanic, put a lift,
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looked underneath and the frame was gorgeous. Like underneath it
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looked outside. Not so gorgeous. I mean, it was, paint
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was faded. It did not run well.
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Right.
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Um, and I didn't know for a while. Like, I
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was like, all right, I'm going to buy this because
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I don't necessarily want it to be fast. Like I
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just gotten a speeding ticket in my Mustang and I
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was like, let's, let's, I don't need it to be fast.
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I really want something classic. And, uh, and this is
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kind of unique and it's, so, um, And I'll learn something, right?
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Something will break. I'll learn how to fix it. That
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was famous last words. So I scraped up my $ 1, 800
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in cash and bought this car. Oh, my gosh. And
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drove it back. And, I mean, like, there's smoke coming
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out the tailpipe. And I'm just, like, you know, I'm...
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Absolutely in love with it, and I just started making
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mistakes left and right, like expensive ones.
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Gotcha.
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But it taught me a lot. I was like, all right,
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I want this thing to have dual exhaust and headers.
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So I took a hacksaw and started cutting off the
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exhaust system from the back forward to get it off
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in manageable pieces because I thought that was a good idea.
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Okay.
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And then I had to get, like, I don't know
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if you know, like, you don't sound like a car person.
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I am not a car person at all.
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So headers are, like, where you're, the side of the
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engine where the exhaust comes out.
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Okay.
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So it comes out into kind of a pipe that
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collects it all into a bigger pipe to go out
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in the back. And most cars, they have a stock
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thing called a manifold. So it's a big chunk of
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metal bolted on there. It's like a sleeve. And all
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the exhaust goes into that big chunk of metal. It
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comes out an opening into the pipe. There are these
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things called headers where instead of doing that, each cylinder
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gets its own tube that just smoothly directs it all
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down into one big pipe and then out the exhaust.
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And that gives you more power because it flows better.
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So I bought a set of these things. And I
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hacked off most of my exhaust system. And then I
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grabbed my trusty ratchet and went to unbolt those manifolds
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from the side. And those bolts were not coming loose
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and they were covered in rust.
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Oh, no.
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So I took a big pipe, and I stuck it
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over the end of my ratchet and made it into
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a long breaker bar to multiply the.
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You could be walking dead with this contraption.
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Torque, right? And that started working. So, like, one bolt
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after another, they're coming loose until I get to the
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last one, and I do that, and I hear a
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loud snap, and the thing, the bolt just breaks off.
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Oh, no.
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Yeah, so I was like, oh, boy, what do I do?
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I'm like, all right, well, you know.
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It's just one. The other three are good. So I
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just take them off and I'm like, I'll just put
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these new headers on now and just use three of
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the four bolts and maybe that'll be enough. So I
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go to put them on and I can't get the
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things on. Like you'd think, you look at a car's engine,
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you would think that they would just slip in there
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and fit. But they don't. They don't fit. There's like
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a whole bunch of stuff that goes into them fitting.
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So I'm like, now I have screwed up and I
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need to get help. So I bolted those manifold things
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back on, but I cut all the exhaust off. So
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I had about this much of an exhaust. Like, you
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can't see this on the audio. It's like three inches
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of exhaust coming off of these things. And I'm like,
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I have to get this to a shop. So let's
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just drive it. And I started it up, and it
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was so loud that, like, car alarms started going off
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in the parking lot.
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And.
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One thing I don't tell you when you hack off
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all of your exhaust system is that you need that.
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All that pipe actually produces a little bit of back
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pressure towards the engine. If you don't have that, it'll
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make loud sounds like a gun firing. Like you let
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off the gas like boom, boom, boom, like that.
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Good.
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I drove this thing. like 20 minutes to the shop
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that I was looking for. And every time I let
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off the gas, I was like, I was shooting people. Uh, and, and,
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and my friends follow me there and he's, and I'm like,
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this thing is so loud. What if I see a cop?
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And he's like, just turn the engine off. You see
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a cop like his coast. So I got it to
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the shop and what I learned from the shop is
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that when you try to work on your car, yeah,
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Before you take it to the shop, they get really angry.
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And they really don't want to work on your car.
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But they know you're going to pay them.
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Yeah.
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So I paid them to get that broken bolt out,
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which was very difficult. And to put those new headers on. Yeah.
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And they did that. And they gave me the car back.
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And then they very vocally explained to me what they
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had to go through To get this thing out, which
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I'm glad I didn't have to do. And they put
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the headers on and sent me on my way. And
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so now, like, it had some of an exhaust system. Like,
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it was, and it sounded so much cooler, by the way, like,
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if you've heard. Like, it sounded, and it drove cool.
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Everything was, it was a great improvement. What they didn't
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tell me was that I had bought the wrong exhaust headers.
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And instead of, like, telling me that, they bolted them on.
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Were they teaching you a lesson?
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Probably. To get them bolted on, they had to loosen
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the mounts for the whole engine, lift the engine up,
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bolt them on, and then set the engine back in
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the mounts. And that's when they discovered I had the
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wrong ones because the things hit the frame next to
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the engine and they couldn't get the mount all the
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way seated. So they put one of the bolts in
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for the mount for the entire engine and then left
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the other one out. and sent me on my way.
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And I didn't learn about this until I found a
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mechanic that I befriended.
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Oh fudge.
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And those were the kind of adventures that I had
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with this car.
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Oh my gosh.
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Within the first year, the engine started to have a
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rod knock and the transmission blew its seal and spewed
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the fluid everywhere. um so those are both like catastrophic
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kind of end of life.
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Moments for our car yeah but not for me um
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you kept trucking no i uh i went to the
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junkyard yeah oh wow and i was like first of
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all i was like hey this engine it's like an
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oldsmobile engine right like this oldsmobile engines were specifically oldsmobile
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in the 60s they weren't like Chevy engines.
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They were Oldsmobile engines.
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This kind of sounds like your Build-A-Bear.
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Yes. Yeah, I very much made this car mine. And
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I got a... So I asked the mechanic, I was like, well,
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let me ask you a question. They make two flavors
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of this engine. There's the small block, which is what
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I had, and there's the big block, which is much bigger.
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And I said, since it's all Oldsmobile parts... does it
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cost the same to rebuild a big one as it
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does the small one? And he was like, yeah. And
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I was like, so if I go to the junkyard
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and get the bigger engine, it's going to cost me
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the same. And he was like, yeah.
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Wow.
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So I went to the junkyard and I found the
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bigger engine. And we just built that and put it
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in instead. And I remember, like, this guy, this mechanic
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actually was really cool. He was able to let me
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come hang out at the shop, watch everything he did,
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show me how everything worked. And I'll never forget, he
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I come back from my spring break or something, and
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he's got the engine in, and he's got it running,
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and he's like, let's go for a ride. The hood's
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not even on the car yet, and he's like, come on.
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And I get in with him, and he's built this engine,
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and he's built this transmission for it, and he's like,
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hold on. And the stoplight turns green, and he steps
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on it, and the back wheels start, like, spinning, and
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00:25:13.700 --> 00:25:17.299
tires are squealing, you know, and the car just takes off,
488
00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:20.180
and then the transmission shifts into second gear, and when
489
00:25:20.200 --> 00:25:23.509
it shifts into second gear, the whole back end just, like,
490
00:25:24.509 --> 00:25:27.670
kicks out, like, foot, like, to the side, and the
491
00:25:27.710 --> 00:25:30.259
tires spin again, and then we rock it off down the,
492
00:25:30.269 --> 00:25:33.690
and I'm like, this is exactly what I was hoping
493
00:25:33.730 --> 00:25:38.349
it would.
494
00:25:39.569 --> 00:25:41.019
Be. That's awesome.
495
00:25:41.339 --> 00:25:45.250
So, That was back in 1996, and this car is
496
00:25:45.269 --> 00:25:47.349
still sitting in my garage. Wow.
497
00:25:48.029 --> 00:25:48.329
Nice.
498
00:25:48.490 --> 00:25:53.109
And, yeah, I've been completely through it a couple times.
499
00:25:53.329 --> 00:25:55.589
It's still, I've got a different transmission in it now,
500
00:25:55.630 --> 00:25:58.170
so I changed it over from an automatic to a manual.
501
00:25:58.349 --> 00:25:58.759
Yeah, yeah.
502
00:25:59.339 --> 00:26:02.500
I count bucket seats for it. It's everything that I
503
00:26:02.539 --> 00:26:03.119
wanted it to be.
504
00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:10.980
That's awesome. Are your kids allowed to go near it? Absolutely, yeah.
505
00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:13.599
Okay. Yeah, they, you know, I take it to, like,
506
00:26:13.900 --> 00:26:15.609
I'll take it to, like, a cruise inn every once
507
00:26:15.640 --> 00:26:17.250
in a while, and sometimes I want to come along
508
00:26:17.289 --> 00:26:19.009
and hang out and check out all the other cars
509
00:26:19.049 --> 00:26:19.549
and see everything.
510
00:26:19.650 --> 00:26:20.450
Oh, okay.
511
00:26:20.509 --> 00:26:23.250
They, like, I have, so you asked if I was
512
00:26:23.269 --> 00:26:27.839
a collector. Yeah. It's not my daily driver. I usually get, like,
513
00:26:27.859 --> 00:26:29.839
a different daily driver every couple years, so I've been
514
00:26:29.859 --> 00:26:32.000
through a lot of cars. I've had, like, a Camaro,
515
00:26:32.140 --> 00:26:34.799
a Firebird, a Trans Am, a Corvette. I've had, like,
516
00:26:34.839 --> 00:26:35.660
a Dodge Charger.
517
00:26:35.720 --> 00:26:35.920
Oh, my God.
518
00:26:35.940 --> 00:26:38.359
I've had a couple of Mustangs. This is my second
519
00:26:38.380 --> 00:26:42.069
Miata that I'm on. Okay. And I just like, I've
520
00:26:42.089 --> 00:26:48.539
had a couple of Corvairs. Oh, okay. And then I
521
00:26:48.579 --> 00:26:51.420
also like kind of added a third to the collection
522
00:26:51.880 --> 00:26:54.660
right before I moved to Virginia Beach. So I got
523
00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:57.140
a Triumph Spitfire and enjoyed that for a while. It's
524
00:26:57.160 --> 00:26:59.140
a little two-seater convertible.
525
00:26:59.279 --> 00:26:59.480
Okay.
526
00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:01.900
And then when I got the Miata, I was like,
527
00:27:01.920 --> 00:27:04.369
all right, I don't need two two-seater convertibles. So I... Yeah.
528
00:27:05.190 --> 00:27:07.769
I got rid of the Spitfire and got my Subaru project, which,
529
00:27:08.089 --> 00:27:10.130
you know, you mentioned, like, going back to your car.
530
00:27:10.630 --> 00:27:13.789
So this Subaru is very similar to my very first car.
531
00:27:13.809 --> 00:27:16.690
It came to me down as 1984 Subaru GL sedan.
532
00:27:17.569 --> 00:27:18.799
It was a cool car.
533
00:27:19.839 --> 00:27:20.990
Do you name your cars?
534
00:27:21.150 --> 00:27:21.339
No.
535
00:27:22.410 --> 00:27:23.839
What do you think of people who do?
536
00:27:24.180 --> 00:27:26.380
I have respect for that. I do have respect for that. But,
537
00:27:26.460 --> 00:27:28.319
you know, I don't know if there's a name I
538
00:27:28.339 --> 00:27:32.000
could give my car that, you know, would... enhance or
539
00:27:32.019 --> 00:27:36.480
not just detract from its already lovely list of appellations
540
00:27:36.509 --> 00:27:37.869
that come with it when you walk down, when you
541
00:27:37.890 --> 00:27:40.849
see it down the street. I got, the Oldsmobile, last
542
00:27:40.869 --> 00:27:43.349
time I had it painted, I decided to splurge and
543
00:27:44.130 --> 00:27:46.549
do what we call cloning in the muscle car world.
544
00:27:46.589 --> 00:27:49.309
That's where instead of having the regular version of the car,
545
00:27:49.349 --> 00:27:51.049
you go ahead and get all the emblems and the
546
00:27:51.109 --> 00:27:53.869
stuff to make it the more like rare looking version
547
00:27:53.890 --> 00:27:54.730
of the car, even though it isn't.
548
00:27:55.099 --> 00:27:55.339
Yeah.
549
00:27:55.960 --> 00:27:58.960
For an Oldsmobile, like mine was a Cutlass S originally,
550
00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:01.099
which is kind of like the sporty version of the
551
00:28:01.160 --> 00:28:01.880
Oldsmobile Cutlass.
552
00:28:02.099 --> 00:28:02.349
Okay.
553
00:28:02.369 --> 00:28:05.029
But if you like really had all the stuff, then
554
00:28:05.069 --> 00:28:07.569
you would get what's called a 442. That was like
555
00:28:07.589 --> 00:28:11.529
their more exciting version of that Oldsmobile. So I went
556
00:28:11.549 --> 00:28:13.289
ahead and got all the badges to change it to
557
00:28:13.329 --> 00:28:15.170
a 442 because it already had everything that a 442
558
00:28:15.170 --> 00:28:16.029
was supposed to have.
559
00:28:16.210 --> 00:28:16.630
Okay.
560
00:28:17.309 --> 00:28:19.670
But it just makes it look more exciting. So, like,
561
00:28:19.849 --> 00:28:22.690
you need a name if something's coming down the street
562
00:28:22.710 --> 00:28:24.410
and it's got these big emblems all over it that
563
00:28:24.430 --> 00:28:29.230
say 4-4-2. Yeah. And, you know, it just, like, it
564
00:28:29.269 --> 00:28:30.450
announces its presence just fine.
565
00:28:33.130 --> 00:28:35.519
I need you to retell the story you told the
566
00:28:35.559 --> 00:28:38.299
other night. We're in town, as I mentioned off the
567
00:28:38.319 --> 00:28:42.079
top in the intro, for the North Carolina Comedy Festival.
568
00:28:43.059 --> 00:28:44.880
And you were mentioning the other night at either a
569
00:28:44.940 --> 00:28:47.180
show or a mic... What did you do to your
570
00:28:47.289 --> 00:28:49.349
car to make it the Jewmobile?
571
00:28:49.569 --> 00:28:50.390
Oh, my gosh. Okay.
572
00:28:50.690 --> 00:28:51.970
What is this story?
573
00:28:52.970 --> 00:28:57.569
So this Subaru that I was mentioning, so it's a GL.
574
00:28:57.650 --> 00:28:59.710
It's kind of an 84, but it was made in 89.
575
00:28:59.710 --> 00:29:03.970
It's hard to explain because they continued making 84 Subaru
576
00:29:04.009 --> 00:29:06.660
hatchbacks for five extra years just because.
577
00:29:06.680 --> 00:29:07.339
So.
578
00:29:09.329 --> 00:29:11.410
I bought it, spent some time getting it running nice
579
00:29:11.450 --> 00:29:13.130
and everything. I was able to work on it myself.
580
00:29:13.210 --> 00:29:16.509
It was cool. And then there is this website that
581
00:29:16.529 --> 00:29:18.730
I'm friends with everybody at called The Autopian. It is
582
00:29:18.750 --> 00:29:23.819
the most fun automotive enthusiasm journalism website that there is
583
00:29:23.880 --> 00:29:24.140
out there.
584
00:29:24.180 --> 00:29:24.859
The Autopian.
585
00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:28.240
The Autopian. Highly recommend it if you're remotely into cars.
586
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:32.680
It's not for the bros who are out there driving
587
00:29:32.759 --> 00:29:35.970
Dodge Chargers and stuff. It is for every type of
588
00:29:36.130 --> 00:29:39.599
automobile fandom. Anyway, they had their first in-person event in
589
00:29:40.619 --> 00:29:45.440
Connecticut at this race track called Mime Rock Park. And
590
00:29:45.900 --> 00:29:49.200
so they had the track for, like, the whole, like,
591
00:29:49.259 --> 00:29:52.200
most of the day. And for, like, if you paid
592
00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:54.420
for a ticket, then you could go drive your car
593
00:29:54.460 --> 00:29:56.299
up there no matter what it was and drive it
594
00:29:56.339 --> 00:29:57.940
on the track. So I was like, all right, I'm
595
00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:02.190
going to drive my Subaru. And I live In Virginia Beach, Virginia.
596
00:30:02.710 --> 00:30:07.609
So this was like an 8 to 10 hour drive. Oh, wow.
597
00:30:07.690 --> 00:30:12.279
In a car that the odometer stopped working at 125,000 miles.
598
00:30:12.299 --> 00:30:21.680
It was made while George H.W. Bush was president. So
599
00:30:21.700 --> 00:30:25.450
I actually took that car to my favorite mechanic shop.
600
00:30:26.210 --> 00:30:28.869
And I said, just look over my work. And the
601
00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:33.309
only track requirements were It can't leak antifreeze, and it
602
00:30:33.349 --> 00:30:35.329
can't leak brake fluid. I was like, just look over
603
00:30:35.369 --> 00:30:38.410
my work. Make sure it covers those. It also couldn't
604
00:30:38.430 --> 00:30:40.680
leak gasoline. So make sure it covers those few things,
605
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:42.920
and tell me if you think it will make it.
606
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.859
And so they did, and they were like, everything was fine.
607
00:30:47.900 --> 00:30:50.920
You got everything set right. And I was like, you
608
00:30:50.940 --> 00:30:52.619
think it will make it? And they were like, we
609
00:30:52.640 --> 00:30:53.000
don't know.
610
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.099
We don't know.
611
00:30:57.299 --> 00:30:59.690
But I bought a ticket. I bought a track ticket
612
00:30:59.730 --> 00:31:02.049
for me. I bought an attendance ticket for my youngest
613
00:31:02.089 --> 00:31:03.910
daughter who wanted to come on a trip with me.
614
00:31:03.930 --> 00:31:07.890
And I was like, this is awesome. Yeah. Daddy-daughter time. Absolutely.
615
00:31:07.990 --> 00:31:11.200
And we drove this thing. I split the trip into pieces.
616
00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:13.779
So we drove like halfway, spent the night in a hotel,
617
00:31:13.819 --> 00:31:15.859
and then drove the rest of the way for the thing.
618
00:31:15.900 --> 00:31:18.240
And then I went to a car meetup for a
619
00:31:18.259 --> 00:31:20.640
lot of people that were going that morning before the
620
00:31:20.660 --> 00:31:22.700
track day. And I was like, I'm going to do
621
00:31:22.740 --> 00:31:28.289
something hilarious. As a proud Jew. I thought it would
622
00:31:28.329 --> 00:31:32.279
be funny if, first of all, my track number was
623
00:31:33.440 --> 00:31:39.359
a Hebrew word, chai, which is like also the number 18.
624
00:31:39.359 --> 00:31:42.480
So I took, the car is white. I took blue
625
00:31:42.819 --> 00:31:45.940
painter's tape and I made a chai on each door.
626
00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:48.839
Like it was the car's track number. And then I
627
00:31:48.900 --> 00:31:52.359
took the blue painter's tape and like kind of a
628
00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:56.460
la the... Screaming chicken on the Firebird. I put a
629
00:31:56.480 --> 00:32:02.960
star of David on the hood. And I threw a
630
00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:04.720
picture up on my Facebook and I was like, behold,
631
00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:15.619
the Jubaroo. And your reaction is exactly what I was
632
00:32:15.740 --> 00:32:19.099
hoping for. Because it was hilarious. It was absolutely hilarious.
633
00:32:20.579 --> 00:32:24.849
And the thing is, I learned something. First of all,
634
00:32:25.250 --> 00:32:27.529
I did not need to do that, and I probably
635
00:32:27.549 --> 00:32:30.950
should not have done that, because that car was so
636
00:32:31.049 --> 00:32:32.990
unique and is so unique. There's just not a lot
637
00:32:33.009 --> 00:32:34.109
of these cars left on the road.
638
00:32:34.130 --> 00:32:34.589
Right.
639
00:32:34.650 --> 00:32:37.190
Everybody was fawning over it like it was, like, the
640
00:32:37.230 --> 00:32:39.609
coolest thing they'd ever seen. Yeah, yeah. And it had
641
00:32:39.650 --> 00:32:43.769
no business on this racetrack. I mean, I was surprised
642
00:32:43.849 --> 00:32:45.970
when we made 70 miles an hour on a lot
643
00:32:46.029 --> 00:32:51.640
of the roads going up there. Yeah. And it got
644
00:32:51.660 --> 00:32:53.579
pretty good gas mileage. I mean, that was what it did.
645
00:32:53.599 --> 00:32:58.559
That's hilarious. It's, like, old Subarus are, even new Subarus
646
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:01.049
are weird, but old Subarus are even weirder. So there's
647
00:33:01.069 --> 00:33:03.009
all these fun, quirky things about it. Like, the engines
648
00:33:03.069 --> 00:33:05.750
are very different. They're very compact and low to the ground,
649
00:33:05.809 --> 00:33:09.390
so the car's supposed to handle pretty well. And it
650
00:33:09.430 --> 00:33:12.630
was a four-wheel drive, like, with a high range, low range,
651
00:33:12.670 --> 00:33:16.369
and everything. So it had all this, and a four-speed
652
00:33:16.450 --> 00:33:22.849
manual transmission. Like in a Subaru of that vintage, because
653
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:25.009
the engine is so low down in the engine bay,
654
00:33:25.549 --> 00:33:28.789
they put the spare tire above it. So you open
655
00:33:28.809 --> 00:33:31.269
the hood and you see like an air cleaner and
656
00:33:31.309 --> 00:33:34.089
then a spare tire. And I love opening the hood
657
00:33:34.109 --> 00:33:36.230
for people because it just freaks them out. And that
658
00:33:36.299 --> 00:33:40.940
just is my favorite automotive thing to do. But what
659
00:33:41.000 --> 00:33:44.279
I learned was like, you know, people were like fawning
660
00:33:44.339 --> 00:33:47.559
over it, coming over, taking pictures, taking video. Let's talk
661
00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:50.690
about it. Let's blah, blah, blah. And I'm running it
662
00:33:50.750 --> 00:33:52.930
on the track. We have like three tracks there. There's
663
00:33:53.230 --> 00:33:55.289
something called a skid pad, which is just a circle,
664
00:33:55.750 --> 00:33:58.089
like a really tight circle. And then they have sprinklers
665
00:33:58.130 --> 00:34:00.690
just putting water on it. So you get on that
666
00:34:01.230 --> 00:34:03.109
track and you just get to spend a few minutes
667
00:34:03.230 --> 00:34:06.029
going around in circles trying to make your car spin out.
668
00:34:07.029 --> 00:34:07.650
Oh, wow.
669
00:34:07.789 --> 00:34:09.389
And it is one of the most fun things you
670
00:34:09.409 --> 00:34:11.739
will ever do. Oh, wow. The goal is just to
671
00:34:11.780 --> 00:34:13.280
get the back of your car to kind of come
672
00:34:13.489 --> 00:34:16.969
out to the side, just slide around the thing. And yeah,
673
00:34:17.150 --> 00:34:19.849
and it was it was super super super fun. And
674
00:34:19.889 --> 00:34:21.639
then and then there's another track that's more like an
675
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:23.679
autocross course so you're going through all these twists and
676
00:34:23.719 --> 00:34:27.400
turns and everything and And I'm watching all this video
677
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:29.340
go down and I'm like, oh man, this car's gonna
678
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.019
be all over social media I should do like an
679
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:34.420
Instagram for it And and then I'm looking later and
680
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.280
like none of the pictures are going up. Oh And
681
00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.980
I'm like, oh, you know what? I'll bet people are
682
00:34:41.019 --> 00:34:43.260
really scared to put pictures on their Instagram on their
683
00:34:43.300 --> 00:34:45.380
Facebook and Of a car that looks like a big
684
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:46.159
Israeli flag.
685
00:34:53.730 --> 00:34:53.829
No.
686
00:34:53.849 --> 00:34:55.849
I was like, all right. Yeah. I get that might
687
00:34:55.869 --> 00:34:58.090
have felt a little insensitive to me. Like, look, I
688
00:34:58.130 --> 00:35:01.929
will not... I'm not going to get political. I don't
689
00:35:01.969 --> 00:35:05.099
think it's right that people feel that way. And people
690
00:35:05.139 --> 00:35:06.079
shouldn't feel that way.
691
00:35:06.099 --> 00:35:06.679
For sure.
692
00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:10.809
But... But, yeah, like, the pictures went, and I was like, ah,
693
00:35:10.829 --> 00:35:13.250
you know, I just denied my car. It's time.
694
00:35:13.789 --> 00:35:15.170
Right. Time to change.
695
00:35:15.190 --> 00:35:18.969
It's time. It's 15 minutes because I had to painter's
696
00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:21.530
tape a Star of David to the hood, and everybody's
697
00:35:21.570 --> 00:35:26.300
anti-Semitic now. So, yeah, it didn't make the time any
698
00:35:26.340 --> 00:35:28.460
less fun. It was like my daughter had a blast. Oh,
699
00:35:28.500 --> 00:35:30.480
that's good. And we got to, it was just, I
700
00:35:30.500 --> 00:35:32.219
got to meet a lot of interesting, fun people.
701
00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:34.239
I can imagine.
702
00:35:34.300 --> 00:35:34.579
Yeah.
703
00:35:34.989 --> 00:35:36.800
I can imagine the kind of folks who hang out.
704
00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:42.889
My brother-in-law, Don, to my knowledge, doesn't go to anything
705
00:35:42.929 --> 00:35:48.630
like that, but he collects cars. He's a chef based
706
00:35:48.690 --> 00:35:51.590
in Montreal and has reached a point where he can
707
00:35:51.650 --> 00:35:55.449
collect some pretty dope cars. But he will take one
708
00:35:55.530 --> 00:36:01.019
car each birthday and go to Le Circuit, which is
709
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:07.059
in Mont-Tremblant in Quebec, a racetrack. And you'll race that one.
710
00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:09.619
He'll take, like, one special car and do that race
711
00:36:09.719 --> 00:36:12.480
each year. So maybe he tries to do some wheels
712
00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:13.559
spinning on his own.
713
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.039
Oh, probably. I mean, that's the most fun.
714
00:36:16.619 --> 00:36:19.239
He loves doing that. Like, he picks the birthday car
715
00:36:19.260 --> 00:36:20.989
and he goes out.
716
00:36:21.610 --> 00:36:24.570
The best thing about this event was they put us
717
00:36:24.610 --> 00:36:28.230
in two groups. One group was the fast cars. And
718
00:36:28.369 --> 00:36:31.969
that was the most boring group to watch. Like, nothing
719
00:36:31.989 --> 00:36:35.570
but the same BMWs and Porsches, like, Speeding around the track.
720
00:36:36.489 --> 00:36:38.630
And these cars were made to do that. When a
721
00:36:38.630 --> 00:36:40.909
car is made to do that, I mean, yeah, it's
722
00:36:40.969 --> 00:36:48.989
exciting to the layperson. But the slow group, aside from
723
00:36:49.030 --> 00:36:52.530
my Subaru, there was a guy whose car that he
724
00:36:52.550 --> 00:36:56.389
planned to bring didn't make it. So he got about
725
00:36:56.429 --> 00:36:57.849
a mile from his house and it broke down. So
726
00:36:58.360 --> 00:37:00.199
he just went and rented a car.
727
00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:02.340
For real?
728
00:37:02.380 --> 00:37:06.940
Yeah, just went and rented like a small SUV and
729
00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:11.119
raced it on that track. Just took it out. And
730
00:37:11.260 --> 00:37:12.909
that was probably one of the more tame things that
731
00:37:12.929 --> 00:37:18.070
we saw. One guy came in like a Chevy conversion van,
732
00:37:18.630 --> 00:37:22.369
and then the one other dude who came from anywhere
733
00:37:22.409 --> 00:37:24.489
near me, and we tried a caravan, we couldn't get together,
734
00:37:24.849 --> 00:37:28.670
drove a van that he got from, it was a
735
00:37:28.769 --> 00:37:32.949
surplus Air Force van. And it was one of those
736
00:37:33.130 --> 00:37:35.710
vans where like the back is not a van anymore.
737
00:37:35.730 --> 00:37:38.449
It's like a big box, like a big metal box.
738
00:37:38.610 --> 00:37:42.449
And he had built it as a, he rebuilt the
739
00:37:42.510 --> 00:37:44.889
inside so it would be a mobile mechanic shop for
740
00:37:44.909 --> 00:37:47.840
his motorcycles. But he couldn't bring motorcycles to the track day.
741
00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:52.619
So he's like, I'm going to bring this van. And he,
742
00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:57.179
I mean, it's a diesel van. And he went full
743
00:37:57.239 --> 00:38:01.019
send on the track in this thing. My heart was
744
00:38:01.199 --> 00:38:04.579
in my stomach as I watched him go around curves
745
00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.880
and the back wheel comes up off of the ground
746
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:10.429
as he's going around the curve. And I'm like, this
747
00:38:10.570 --> 00:38:12.630
is the most amazing thing I've ever... Like, he stole
748
00:38:12.650 --> 00:38:14.780
the whole show. Everybody's... All the phones were on him,
749
00:38:14.789 --> 00:38:15.469
the cameras were on him.
750
00:38:15.510 --> 00:38:16.230
Oh, my gosh.
751
00:38:16.250 --> 00:38:19.110
It was unbelievable. There was a guy who... Oh, my gosh.
752
00:38:19.150 --> 00:38:23.420
Ran a Honda Odyssey with a luggage... With, like, luggage
753
00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:28.760
on the roof. There's... Two people showed up in.
754
00:38:28.789 --> 00:38:30.550
Not just a luggage rack.
755
00:38:30.570 --> 00:38:33.190
No, like, a bunch of big, you know, like, case things, like.
756
00:38:33.329 --> 00:38:33.949
Oh, my gosh.
757
00:38:34.050 --> 00:38:39.199
Okay. And there's two people had Citroën 2CVs. I don't
758
00:38:39.219 --> 00:38:40.320
know if you've ever seen these.
759
00:38:40.940 --> 00:38:41.239
No.
760
00:38:41.300 --> 00:38:43.960
Like, I'm not as good at pronouncing French as you are.
761
00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:45.179
C'est pas.
762
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:53.659
C'est pas. The 2CV. Like, the... The car was... Citroën
763
00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:57.010
made them back in the... Like, they made them since the... 50s,
764
00:38:57.010 --> 00:39:00.840
maybe even 40s. And they were, the specifications that they
765
00:39:00.860 --> 00:39:03.000
were given to build this car is that it had
766
00:39:03.039 --> 00:39:05.719
to help farmers work on their farm, so they needed
767
00:39:05.739 --> 00:39:07.960
to be able to drive across rough terrain with a
768
00:39:07.980 --> 00:39:10.239
basket of eggs in the seat and not break any
769
00:39:10.280 --> 00:39:12.880
of the eggs. That was their engineering challenge.
770
00:39:13.400 --> 00:39:14.619
That's fantastic.
771
00:39:14.909 --> 00:39:18.389
Absolutely. This car is, I'm trying to, you've seen, I'm
772
00:39:18.449 --> 00:39:21.570
sure everybody's seen one somewhere. Yeah. Like there was a,
773
00:39:22.130 --> 00:39:24.289
probably the most famous on television one I can think
774
00:39:24.389 --> 00:39:26.969
of is if you ever watched the cartoon Bon Voyage,
775
00:39:26.989 --> 00:39:27.590
Charlie Brown.
776
00:39:29.130 --> 00:39:30.570
I may have at one.
777
00:39:30.469 --> 00:39:32.800
Point in my life. Where they go to France and
778
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:35.780
Snoopy drives the rental car. The rental car was one
779
00:39:35.820 --> 00:39:43.440
of those. And, like, I mean, I think top speed,
780
00:39:43.500 --> 00:39:45.340
maybe you can get them up to 45 miles an hour. Like,
781
00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:48.889
they're not fast. And everything Sichuan makes is... Super, super weird.
782
00:39:48.909 --> 00:39:51.730
I mean, they are crazy weird cars. Okay. And what
783
00:39:51.750 --> 00:39:55.050
was hilarious is, like, one of the guys who had
784
00:39:55.150 --> 00:39:58.559
one is one of the people who actually, like, founded
785
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:01.500
that website, the Autopian. So he's got one, and he
786
00:40:01.519 --> 00:40:03.119
brought it up there on a trailer because he wasn't
787
00:40:03.139 --> 00:40:07.340
as crazy as me. And there's this funny thing that
788
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.110
he pointed out, that if you look at any advertisement
789
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:12.610
for one of these cars all the way up through, like,
790
00:40:12.630 --> 00:40:14.429
the 50s and 60s, for some reason they wanted to
791
00:40:14.469 --> 00:40:16.820
show how much stuff it could carry. So every time,
792
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:18.480
they would show it loaded up, and one of the
793
00:40:18.519 --> 00:40:20.179
things they would always show loaded up on the thing
794
00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:22.099
was a grandfather clock. There would always be, like, a
795
00:40:22.139 --> 00:40:26.159
grandfather clock. And the roofs, like, are canvas. Like, they
796
00:40:26.179 --> 00:40:29.090
roll back. Like, the sides are solid, but the roof is, like,
797
00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:31.619
one of those roll-back canvas roofs. Yeah, yeah. And so
798
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.429
there's always, like, a grandfather clock sticking out of things.
799
00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:37.769
So somebody showed up at the event with a grandfather
800
00:40:37.809 --> 00:40:40.829
clock just so we could shove it into this car,
801
00:40:42.489 --> 00:40:44.809
which they did. They put the grandfather clock in the car,
802
00:40:44.849 --> 00:40:47.780
and then he... ran laps on the racetrack with the
803
00:40:47.820 --> 00:40:55.909
grandfather clock sticking out the room i love that see
804
00:40:55.929 --> 00:40:57.949
that car enthusiasm does not have to be toxic people
805
00:40:58.929 --> 00:41:01.730
exactly you can make fun you can love cars and
806
00:41:01.789 --> 00:41:02.670
still be weird.
807
00:41:06.550 --> 00:41:09.429
Um do your kids come to you uh if they're
808
00:41:09.449 --> 00:41:12.389
driving do they come to you for car advice yes oh.
809
00:41:12.409 --> 00:41:13.590
My god that's the only time i hear from my
810
00:41:13.610 --> 00:41:16.469
two oldest uh the ones who have moved out of
811
00:41:16.489 --> 00:41:18.769
the house, is if something's wrong with a car.
812
00:41:18.789 --> 00:41:19.650
Oh, no.
813
00:41:19.690 --> 00:41:22.230
Like, if they text, hey, Dad. I'm like, all right,
814
00:41:22.250 --> 00:41:22.650
what's wrong.
815
00:41:22.550 --> 00:41:22.969
With the car?
816
00:41:25.309 --> 00:41:28.070
I love it because, like, I like hearing from them. Yeah,
817
00:41:28.090 --> 00:41:33.710
for sure. And honestly, to my oldest, when we were
818
00:41:33.730 --> 00:41:38.289
done with our Honda Odyssey, we took it to her
819
00:41:38.349 --> 00:41:42.130
because she's got two little kids and they weren't making
820
00:41:42.150 --> 00:41:44.110
a lot of money. So I was like, yeah, they...
821
00:41:44.550 --> 00:41:46.090
So my wife drove it all the way out to St.
822
00:41:46.139 --> 00:41:48.380
Louis where she lives and spent some time with them
823
00:41:48.880 --> 00:41:52.320
and then flew back. So, you know, I feel bad
824
00:41:52.340 --> 00:41:54.679
any time that thing breaks because I gave it to her.
825
00:41:55.579 --> 00:41:59.110
And then my second oldest, I helped her find herself
826
00:41:59.179 --> 00:42:02.070
a Honda Fit, which is like one of the most
827
00:42:02.170 --> 00:42:05.829
magical vehicles in the universe. I am a huge fan
828
00:42:05.889 --> 00:42:08.530
of the Honda Fit. Good to know. It's a tiny
829
00:42:08.590 --> 00:42:15.659
little Honda Fit. that is, like, a magical thing. Like, inside,
830
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:17.820
it's just, like, it's got so much space, and it's
831
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:21.059
so fun to drive. And she loves it. Oh, good. So,
832
00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:23.050
you know, she's trying to get as many miles as
833
00:42:23.070 --> 00:42:26.530
she can out of it. Yeah. I mean, she probably
834
00:42:26.550 --> 00:42:28.929
needs to get something new soon, but she keeps calling
835
00:42:28.949 --> 00:42:31.929
me anytime something's not right. That's good. And she's gutsy
836
00:42:31.969 --> 00:42:34.650
enough to try and fix things herself. Yeah, this is awesome.
837
00:42:34.889 --> 00:42:39.360
That's awesome. That's awesome. In my house, I grew up
838
00:42:39.380 --> 00:42:42.840
in a home where... My mother is the one you
839
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.400
go to for the car advice, the fixing. She could
840
00:42:45.460 --> 00:42:47.380
talk to you about parts of cars so the cows
841
00:42:47.420 --> 00:42:50.119
come home. Because she took an auto mechanics course in
842
00:42:50.179 --> 00:42:53.909
high school. And she, like, loved it. My dad is
843
00:42:53.949 --> 00:42:55.630
the one you go to for, like, if you need
844
00:42:55.670 --> 00:43:00.030
a dress hemmed. So my family dynamics are like that.
845
00:43:00.050 --> 00:43:00.469
I like that.
846
00:43:01.090 --> 00:43:02.190
I like that a lot.
847
00:43:02.889 --> 00:43:04.250
My mom loves cars.
848
00:43:04.409 --> 00:43:09.800
So my middle child, my two... So my middle daughter
849
00:43:09.949 --> 00:43:12.650
and then my son are both very much on the
850
00:43:13.090 --> 00:43:18.389
autism spectrum. Oh, okay. And so she wasn't... She just
851
00:43:18.409 --> 00:43:20.849
didn't have... They both didn't have a lot of interest
852
00:43:20.909 --> 00:43:23.710
in driving at all. And she wasn't like... She just wasn't...
853
00:43:24.369 --> 00:43:26.300
I couldn't even get her to show interest in it
854
00:43:26.360 --> 00:43:29.500
until I was describing... We were riding and she was
855
00:43:29.539 --> 00:43:33.239
riding in my Miata. And I was describing how fun
856
00:43:33.260 --> 00:43:38.230
the Miata experience is. Because... Hands down, Mazda Miata is
857
00:43:38.369 --> 00:43:40.809
probably the most fun car you will ever drive. Like,
858
00:43:40.869 --> 00:43:43.409
it's just everything about it is fun. Shifting the gears
859
00:43:43.469 --> 00:43:45.880
is fun. Stepping on the clutch is fun. Listening to
860
00:43:45.909 --> 00:43:48.030
the engine rev is fun. Everything is fun. And I
861
00:43:48.050 --> 00:43:50.159
was telling her about it. It's like an eager little puppy. Like,
862
00:43:50.239 --> 00:43:52.380
he's driving around and just wants to go, come on,
863
00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:55.400
come on, go over there. And that got, she got
864
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:57.579
interested in it when I put it in those words.
865
00:43:59.880 --> 00:44:04.219
And then she, so she, I talked her into getting
866
00:44:04.260 --> 00:44:06.860
in and trying to drive it. And, like, so her
867
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:09.659
first driving experience is getting in a manual transmission car.
868
00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:12.880
And she was so proud, you know, when she was
869
00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:16.760
able to, like, actually, you know, I feel like I'm
870
00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:19.880
good at teaching people how to drive manual because I
871
00:44:19.900 --> 00:44:22.590
just have a good method for it. But, yeah, so she,
872
00:44:22.670 --> 00:44:24.489
you know, and then that got my son a little
873
00:44:24.510 --> 00:44:26.789
bit more interested in driving, too. So we would go,
874
00:44:26.809 --> 00:44:29.110
you know, we'd, like, go on a weekend or whatever
875
00:44:29.130 --> 00:44:30.610
over to a parking lot and I would just let
876
00:44:30.630 --> 00:44:33.139
him drive around a little bit. It's, you know, they're
877
00:44:33.179 --> 00:44:37.119
still not quite there yet, but it's good to at
878
00:44:37.159 --> 00:44:39.260
least see a little bit of interest come out of them.
879
00:44:41.139 --> 00:44:44.360
I have to be honest. I think, no, not I think.
880
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.929
I know the only reason I got my driver's license
881
00:44:49.809 --> 00:44:56.750
was so that I could get a membership at Blockbuster Video.
882
00:44:57.250 --> 00:44:59.840
I'm sure there were other forms of ID. for the
883
00:44:59.880 --> 00:45:03.030
kids listening that don't know what Blockbuster Video was, it
884
00:45:03.050 --> 00:45:05.210
was a place where you went to rent movies, a
885
00:45:05.250 --> 00:45:09.789
physical location. And I miss those days. I miss, there
886
00:45:09.849 --> 00:45:14.789
is still one, it's a Bay Video in Toronto, Bay
887
00:45:14.809 --> 00:45:20.079
Street Video. It's the only movie rental place, I think,
888
00:45:20.500 --> 00:45:23.360
that still exists in Toronto. But going into a spot
889
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:27.099
where you could like search through films, you'd pick something
890
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:30.380
you'd never heard of. I fucking love that. Oh, my gosh.
891
00:45:30.570 --> 00:45:33.019
I had a love-hate relationship with that. Yeah. Like, I
892
00:45:33.059 --> 00:45:35.460
don't miss it, miss it. I like being able to
893
00:45:35.500 --> 00:45:39.519
just click on my TV. Fair. For the most part,
894
00:45:39.579 --> 00:45:42.519
have a movie I want available, but usually not because
895
00:45:42.739 --> 00:45:47.679
streaming has turned into a dumpster fire. Oh, it has. But, yeah,
896
00:45:47.699 --> 00:45:48.900
because I just, like.
897
00:45:49.289 --> 00:45:51.760
But I'd find something new at a video store that
898
00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:53.480
I wasn't expecting to watch.
899
00:45:53.619 --> 00:45:57.539
And 50% of the time, it would be terrible. My
900
00:45:57.559 --> 00:45:59.739
friends and I would go and rent movies based on
901
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:00.880
the cover. Yes.
902
00:46:01.159 --> 00:46:01.559
Yes.
903
00:46:03.440 --> 00:46:05.849
And there weren't a lot of advertising standards as far
904
00:46:05.889 --> 00:46:07.969
as what they could put on that cover versus what
905
00:46:08.050 --> 00:46:10.150
actually happened or didn't happen in your movie.
906
00:46:10.409 --> 00:46:14.570
This is true. Yeah. Now, combining movies and cars, are
907
00:46:14.590 --> 00:46:17.909
you a big drive-in movie guy? Uh.
908
00:46:19.150 --> 00:46:21.260
I wish. Like, we don't, you know, it's.
909
00:46:21.980 --> 00:46:23.340
There are not many around anymore.
910
00:46:23.380 --> 00:46:25.619
There are not many left. I grew up in Richmond, Virginia,
911
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:30.119
and there was one, there was a famous one there.
912
00:46:30.559 --> 00:46:30.940
Oh, okay.
913
00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:35.090
In a town called Goochland that closed down when I was, like,
914
00:46:35.670 --> 00:46:38.429
before I was 10, I think. But it was, like,
915
00:46:38.550 --> 00:46:41.929
right off the road. So for decades after, like, the
916
00:46:42.010 --> 00:46:43.840
screen was still there. So everybody would go by and
917
00:46:43.860 --> 00:46:45.219
was like, oh, I wish that thing was still open.
918
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:48.119
And it was never opened. It's not one of those experiences, though.
919
00:46:48.480 --> 00:46:51.719
It seems cool, but we romanticize it a lot because
920
00:46:52.099 --> 00:46:54.039
you sit in a movie theater and you've got a great.
921
00:46:53.929 --> 00:46:56.170
Sound shaking your feet and everything. Right.
922
00:46:56.190 --> 00:46:57.090
You sit in your car.
923
00:46:57.449 --> 00:46:59.769
You plug it through the audio.
924
00:46:59.789 --> 00:47:02.750
Well, the original ones didn't even have that yet. They
925
00:47:02.769 --> 00:47:04.909
would bring a little speaker that hung on your door.
926
00:47:05.550 --> 00:47:06.949
Right. I forgot about that.
927
00:47:07.070 --> 00:47:09.550
And it was like listening to your movie through a walkie-talkie.
928
00:47:09.909 --> 00:47:11.769
Yes, it was. Yeah.
929
00:47:11.809 --> 00:47:13.469
Now it's like you've got to hope your radio picks
930
00:47:13.510 --> 00:47:17.179
it up. Look, it would be an amazing experience to
931
00:47:17.199 --> 00:47:23.760
take my 1968 Oldsmobile to a drive-in theater, but it's
932
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:27.079
got the original AM radio, so I don't think, and
933
00:47:27.199 --> 00:47:29.900
one speaker in the dashboard for that. So sound will
934
00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:32.739
have to be, I'll have to figure another way out. Yeah.
935
00:47:33.280 --> 00:47:35.260
I feel like they had a bit of a resurgence
936
00:47:35.360 --> 00:47:36.719
at the start of the pandemic.
937
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:37.440
They did.
938
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:40.519
There was a lot of that happening. Comedy shows happening
939
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.260
at drive-in theaters. Yeah, there was a little, but it didn't,
940
00:47:45.519 --> 00:47:47.719
it didn't hold on. It did sort of when we
941
00:47:47.860 --> 00:47:50.389
were able to get back into being together.
942
00:47:50.409 --> 00:47:52.949
Like I think every once in a while, the people
943
00:47:52.969 --> 00:47:54.889
that do the cruising that I like to do, we'll
944
00:47:54.909 --> 00:47:56.710
do like a movie night where, you know, they'll put
945
00:47:56.769 --> 00:47:58.730
a big screen up and all the cars will point
946
00:47:58.769 --> 00:48:00.769
towards the screen and you get to watch the movie.
947
00:48:00.789 --> 00:48:05.159
It's just that like, They always pick a lame movie, so... Like,
948
00:48:05.199 --> 00:48:08.260
I have my own taste in movies. It's been, like,
949
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:10.139
over a year since we've recorded an episode, but I
950
00:48:10.179 --> 00:48:14.199
did a podcast for years with a really close friend
951
00:48:14.219 --> 00:48:16.320
of mine called Reels and Wheels. And so we took
952
00:48:16.380 --> 00:48:18.219
a movie and talked about the cars in it.
953
00:48:18.500 --> 00:48:18.780
Yeah.
954
00:48:19.900 --> 00:48:22.559
So, yeah, I'm like a very picky car movie guy
955
00:48:22.599 --> 00:48:25.420
and a big evangelist for the ones that I like. Yeah. Um....
956
00:48:28.750 --> 00:48:31.590
We're, as I mentioned, we're here in Greensboro for the
957
00:48:31.650 --> 00:48:36.610
Comedy Festival, the North Carolina Comedy Festival. How would you
958
00:48:36.949 --> 00:48:41.659
describe your past week as a cocktail? It can be
959
00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:46.239
as a drink. You don't have to go boozy. It
960
00:48:46.300 --> 00:48:49.300
can be any beverage. But how would you describe this
961
00:48:49.360 --> 00:48:51.440
past week of comedy as a drink?
962
00:48:52.039 --> 00:48:53.980
I guess if I had to pick a cocktail to
963
00:48:54.019 --> 00:48:56.079
describe this week of comedy, I guess it would be
964
00:48:56.119 --> 00:48:58.489
a Long Island iced tea. Or something, you know, one
965
00:48:58.550 --> 00:49:00.469
of those drinks where they just throw all the liquor in. Yeah.
966
00:49:00.550 --> 00:49:03.429
And you're just having the time of your life drinking
967
00:49:03.449 --> 00:49:05.119
the thing. And then before you know it, you are
968
00:49:05.320 --> 00:49:10.179
absolutely just three sheets to the wind. You're not sure
969
00:49:10.280 --> 00:49:14.530
where you are. Yeah. Like, this week has been just, like,
970
00:49:14.969 --> 00:49:19.599
non-stop every like I and and for me I I
971
00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:21.559
came in wanting to pack in every second that I
972
00:49:21.619 --> 00:49:25.039
could right um because and I talked to Jenny before
973
00:49:25.119 --> 00:49:27.780
I even signed up for the festival because you know
974
00:49:27.860 --> 00:49:31.789
she's uh Steve and Jenny who own the club yeah
975
00:49:31.849 --> 00:49:37.929
Steve's Jewish I'm Jewish Jenny knows everything Jewish um and
976
00:49:39.210 --> 00:49:43.050
Friday night is the beginning of a Jewish holiday. Right.
977
00:49:43.590 --> 00:49:47.070
And I'm not as religious as I was, but I'm
978
00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:51.570
still pretty religious. I was a very orthodox Jew for
979
00:49:51.590 --> 00:49:55.760
a very long time. Ah, okay. So the holiday is
980
00:49:55.780 --> 00:49:58.179
called Sukkot. It begins Friday night, and it's a holiday
981
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:00.780
where we build a little hut kind of structure in
982
00:50:01.139 --> 00:50:04.260
our backyard, cover it with something natural like bamboo or
983
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:06.940
pine needles or whatever, and Spend time out there. Eat
984
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:08.780
our meals out there. Some people sleep out there. I don't.
985
00:50:09.059 --> 00:50:09.719
Oh, interesting.
986
00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:16.239
Okay. So that holiday starts Friday night, and I like
987
00:50:16.260 --> 00:50:17.739
to be with my family for the first night, for
988
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:21.550
the first meal and everything. And the second night, invited
989
00:50:21.590 --> 00:50:24.199
everybody over from my synagogue to come. to mine and
990
00:50:24.340 --> 00:50:28.309
hang out and get drunk and learn a few things.
991
00:50:29.469 --> 00:50:31.210
So that meant not being here for the weekend days
992
00:50:31.250 --> 00:50:31.889
of the festival.
993
00:50:32.090 --> 00:50:32.690
Right.
994
00:50:32.929 --> 00:50:35.989
And usually what Jenny does when she's booking comics on
995
00:50:36.010 --> 00:50:38.579
the festival, and if you're a comic thinking about doing
996
00:50:38.619 --> 00:50:40.219
this festival, listen to her.
997
00:50:40.500 --> 00:50:41.159
It's so good.
998
00:50:41.420 --> 00:50:45.000
When she books you for a show on, say, Wednesday
999
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:47.889
night and then Friday night, she's doing that because you
1000
00:50:47.929 --> 00:50:50.300
need to stay in town. for more of the festival
1001
00:50:50.599 --> 00:50:52.739
like you can't be like hey can you do me
1002
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.679
friday and saturday and then i'll leave no like that
1003
00:50:55.760 --> 00:50:57.900
is that's not the point you're not here you're not
1004
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:00.320
here because you're doing your show you're you're here because
1005
00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:02.860
of the whole experience and and so i felt bad
1006
00:51:02.880 --> 00:51:05.139
because i was like i can only do wednesday and
1007
00:51:05.159 --> 00:51:06.519
thursday can we work something out and she was like
1008
00:51:06.579 --> 00:51:09.960
absolutely because she knows so um so she she totally
1009
00:51:10.320 --> 00:51:13.159
um let me have wednesday night and thursday night and
1010
00:51:13.360 --> 00:51:14.820
like i said i don't care when the shows are
1011
00:51:15.449 --> 00:51:17.699
that's not the point the shows aren't the point The
1012
00:51:17.739 --> 00:51:19.409
point is that everything else. I'm like, I'm going to
1013
00:51:19.449 --> 00:51:20.730
come in as soon as I, you know, as early
1014
00:51:20.750 --> 00:51:22.150
as I can get there. I'm going to go to
1015
00:51:22.170 --> 00:51:23.809
all the things. I'm going to meet all the people.
1016
00:51:23.829 --> 00:51:24.210
Yeah.
1017
00:51:24.250 --> 00:51:25.750
I'm going to enjoy all the shows. I'm going to
1018
00:51:25.769 --> 00:51:28.730
do the late mics and, you know, get maybe five
1019
00:51:28.750 --> 00:51:31.429
hours of sleep the whole time. And that's fine. And
1020
00:51:31.469 --> 00:51:34.050
that has been this week. That's why this is the
1021
00:51:34.090 --> 00:51:35.090
Long Island Ice Key.
1022
00:51:34.949 --> 00:51:35.389
Of the Week.
1023
00:51:35.449 --> 00:51:39.449
I drove all the way down here straight into, you know,
1024
00:51:40.449 --> 00:51:44.730
lunch with the comics and then the sessions that we
1025
00:51:44.769 --> 00:51:47.849
did and the mic and then... and then the shows,
1026
00:51:47.929 --> 00:51:51.389
three shows, and then an open mic late, and two
1027
00:51:51.429 --> 00:51:54.139
days of that. And then this morning I think we're
1028
00:51:54.159 --> 00:51:57.679
all meeting for lunch at 11.45 somewhere. And then I'm
1029
00:51:57.699 --> 00:52:00.159
probably going to have to get going. And we got
1030
00:52:00.199 --> 00:52:00.559
to do this.
1031
00:52:00.820 --> 00:52:02.650
We got to do this. We got to do this.
1032
00:52:02.670 --> 00:52:03.809
I have not missed a moment.
1033
00:52:04.670 --> 00:52:05.769
You packed it all in.
1034
00:52:07.489 --> 00:52:10.730
So much festival and i'm and honestly i'm i'm sad
1035
00:52:10.750 --> 00:52:12.230
that i'm gonna be missing some of the other shows
1036
00:52:12.250 --> 00:52:14.389
that are going on like this some of the things
1037
00:52:14.409 --> 00:52:15.309
they're doing are so much.
1038
00:52:15.230 --> 00:52:21.630
Fun it is by far my favorite festival i mean
1039
00:52:21.670 --> 00:52:24.489
there's such a great community of people who come back
1040
00:52:24.530 --> 00:52:28.889
to it greensboro is a pretty pretty lovely little spot
1041
00:52:29.010 --> 00:52:31.039
and Jenny and Steve are the best.
1042
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:32.489
Yes, they are the best. Oh, my God.
1043
00:52:32.550 --> 00:52:33.389
They are the best.
1044
00:52:33.610 --> 00:52:36.909
And, like, they do such a good job making sure
1045
00:52:36.929 --> 00:52:41.090
that all of these shows are attended, packed, that the
1046
00:52:41.190 --> 00:52:44.130
audience is hot. Like, so from the 7 o'clock all
1047
00:52:44.150 --> 00:52:45.090
the way to the 9.30.
1048
00:52:45.090 --> 00:52:45.349
Yeah.
1049
00:52:45.789 --> 00:52:49.050
You know, it's... The reactions are good. Like, the people are...
1050
00:52:49.329 --> 00:52:51.750
The comics are all, like, very friendly with each other.
1051
00:52:51.769 --> 00:52:53.489
It's not very clickish. You know, there's not.
1052
00:52:53.510 --> 00:52:55.150
No, we all hang out. Yeah.
1053
00:52:55.389 --> 00:52:59.269
And... If you're a comic thinking about doing this, don't
1054
00:52:59.309 --> 00:53:02.019
put it off. Because I've noticed that every year it
1055
00:53:02.480 --> 00:53:04.099
gets harder and harder for people to get in.
1056
00:53:04.360 --> 00:53:04.920
Yeah.
1057
00:53:05.000 --> 00:53:08.219
I think her entries go up every year. And this
1058
00:53:08.239 --> 00:53:11.409
year she did 152 comics. Yeah. And I think at
1059
00:53:11.469 --> 00:53:13.269
least that many got turned away. Yeah.
1060
00:53:13.570 --> 00:53:14.989
It feels like comedy camp.
1061
00:53:15.190 --> 00:53:15.429
Yes.
1062
00:53:15.789 --> 00:53:16.650
It really does.
1063
00:53:17.469 --> 00:53:18.369
But it works.
1064
00:53:18.469 --> 00:53:19.449
It does.
1065
00:53:19.469 --> 00:53:22.239
I got to come here last year and headline at
1066
00:53:22.260 --> 00:53:24.500
the Idiot Box on a weekend. That's amazing. And that's like,
1067
00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:26.760
you know, it was a great step for me because
1068
00:53:26.800 --> 00:53:28.820
I've been a feature for a long time now. So
1069
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:31.239
to be able to come out and headline a club.
1070
00:53:31.940 --> 00:53:32.880
Yeah.
1071
00:53:32.940 --> 00:53:35.800
It feels good. It feels good. And the Idiot Box
1072
00:53:35.820 --> 00:53:40.010
is attainable. It's a beautiful club. And the seating is like, what, 60,
1073
00:53:40.010 --> 00:53:41.179
70 people, something like that?
1074
00:53:41.179 --> 00:53:44.409
60, 70 people. And something I really love coming from Toronto,
1075
00:53:44.449 --> 00:53:49.389
a city that fucking loves stairs, it's an accessible club.
1076
00:53:49.610 --> 00:53:49.869
Yes.
1077
00:53:50.650 --> 00:53:54.219
Which I find a lot of my American friends kind
1078
00:53:54.260 --> 00:53:57.320
of giggle at me when I get so into this.
1079
00:53:57.440 --> 00:54:02.900
But there's the, I think it's like, Just the accessibility
1080
00:54:03.300 --> 00:54:07.320
laws in the States, which I hope do not go away.
1081
00:54:07.340 --> 00:54:12.659
I really hope they don't. But we don't have those
1082
00:54:12.739 --> 00:54:18.880
in Canada. And so Toronto clubs mostly are down 49
1083
00:54:18.880 --> 00:54:21.800
flights of stairs or up on, you know, the 15th
1084
00:54:21.889 --> 00:54:25.369
floor with no elevator. Like, it's really wild how.
1085
00:54:28.150 --> 00:54:30.719
For all the things that I'm grateful that we have
1086
00:54:30.739 --> 00:54:33.889
in our country, it's like this thing here of accessibility.
1087
00:54:33.929 --> 00:54:35.579
I'm like, oh, we need that.
1088
00:54:35.659 --> 00:54:38.340
All right, we got that, Canada. We got that. One thing.
1089
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:41.980
One thing we have over you. I mean, I guess
1090
00:54:42.059 --> 00:54:44.000
if somebody falls down the stairs, at least they'll have
1091
00:54:44.039 --> 00:54:49.780
free health care. So you don't really need the accessibility.
1092
00:54:49.800 --> 00:54:53.380
It's like on the flip side, you know that you're
1093
00:54:53.420 --> 00:54:55.280
not going to have to pay to get that femur
1094
00:54:55.300 --> 00:54:56.119
set again.
1095
00:54:56.199 --> 00:55:01.300
That is a fact. That is a fact. But at
1096
00:55:01.340 --> 00:55:05.380
comedy shows, speaking of, sometimes comics will have a merch
1097
00:55:05.420 --> 00:55:09.199
table after the show. You get your sticker, your shirt, whatever.
1098
00:55:10.039 --> 00:55:13.260
If there were to be a Sid wine at your
1099
00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.190
merch table, what would you call your wine?
1100
00:55:15.210 --> 00:55:19.630
That's a good question. I thought about this. I think
1101
00:55:20.369 --> 00:55:22.670
I would call it Redneck Renaissance.
1102
00:55:25.349 --> 00:55:25.929
I love that.
1103
00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:29.780
Because you have to kind of, like, encapsulate me a
1104
00:55:29.820 --> 00:55:31.679
little bit. That's kind of the feels that I try
1105
00:55:31.699 --> 00:55:35.139
to put off, you know? Like, I'm very, I'm somewhat
1106
00:55:35.159 --> 00:55:37.559
of an intellectual, but all the things I get intellectual
1107
00:55:37.579 --> 00:55:41.920
about are really things that rednecks like for the most part. Yeah.
1108
00:55:41.980 --> 00:55:45.639
Except for all the geeky stuff. But, you know, even that. So, yeah,
1109
00:55:45.860 --> 00:55:47.679
I think that kind of. That's a great name.
1110
00:55:47.699 --> 00:55:47.960
I like that.
1111
00:55:47.980 --> 00:55:48.739
That's how far I take things.
1112
00:55:52.530 --> 00:55:55.030
I like that a lot. Redneck renaissance.
1113
00:55:55.329 --> 00:55:55.449
Yeah.
1114
00:55:55.769 --> 00:55:59.190
That's good. Yeah, that would be a good thing. We
1115
00:55:59.329 --> 00:56:02.730
usually end this podcast off with I do an affirmative
1116
00:56:02.789 --> 00:56:06.030
tarot card reading. Oh, I did not bring my cards
1117
00:56:06.190 --> 00:56:09.670
with me on the trip because I but what I'm
1118
00:56:09.710 --> 00:56:11.489
going to do is tack it on to the end
1119
00:56:11.530 --> 00:56:14.030
of the episode. So it'll be a surprise what card
1120
00:56:14.070 --> 00:56:17.050
I pull after listening. I'll do it after. But I
1121
00:56:17.090 --> 00:56:18.110
will close off with this.
1122
00:56:18.650 --> 00:56:20.110
Just in case I don't... I mean, you could have, like,
1123
00:56:20.130 --> 00:56:22.090
brought a deck of Uno cards or something. I could
1124
00:56:22.130 --> 00:56:22.829
have brought a deck.
1125
00:56:22.869 --> 00:56:26.010
They do have Uno cards here at Union Coffee, actually.
1126
00:56:26.030 --> 00:56:27.659
I see in your future you'll be drawing four.
1127
00:56:30.579 --> 00:56:33.000
But I do like doing them because it's a bit of, like,
1128
00:56:33.039 --> 00:56:34.980
a joy drop to end the episode. So I'm going
1129
00:56:35.000 --> 00:56:37.900
to ask you this question, which I've asked a previous guest.
1130
00:56:39.090 --> 00:56:42.030
What is the best sandwich?
1131
00:56:45.510 --> 00:56:52.010
What is the best sandwich? Oh, gosh, that one. Like,
1132
00:56:52.829 --> 00:56:56.320
the wine didn't catch me off guard. If I am
1133
00:56:56.360 --> 00:56:59.699
doing a sandwich, what do I like to do? You know,
1134
00:57:01.159 --> 00:57:05.840
my go-to is really boring. But, like, we, you know,
1135
00:57:06.360 --> 00:57:10.889
if we're preparing lunch on Saturday because it's the Sabbath
1136
00:57:10.969 --> 00:57:12.789
and my kids, like, we get around the table and everything,
1137
00:57:13.329 --> 00:57:15.150
the easy one for us is, like, we'll pull out
1138
00:57:15.170 --> 00:57:17.730
a whole bunch of deli meat and, like, do it.
1139
00:57:17.829 --> 00:57:20.860
And I just like a lot of Like the perfect
1140
00:57:20.900 --> 00:57:22.739
amount of smoked turkey and then a little bit of
1141
00:57:22.780 --> 00:57:25.230
like rare roast beef if we have it.
1142
00:57:25.269 --> 00:57:25.630
Oh, nice.
1143
00:57:26.530 --> 00:57:28.869
And then put a little Italian dressing on that. And
1144
00:57:28.889 --> 00:57:30.750
then some of those like hot banana peppers.
1145
00:57:31.170 --> 00:57:33.809
Oh, that's a good cold cuts combo here.
1146
00:57:33.829 --> 00:57:36.360
Yeah, exactly. And then make sure it's nice and thick
1147
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:38.639
and slice that up. And that is enough for me
1148
00:57:39.139 --> 00:57:39.719
on a sandwich.
1149
00:57:40.940 --> 00:57:43.800
I like that. That's good. That's a good way to end.
1150
00:57:44.019 --> 00:57:45.380
I would now like to have one of those.
1151
00:57:46.340 --> 00:57:46.780
Glad I could help.
1152
00:57:46.949 --> 00:57:55.889
We're going to find one. Right, everybody. As promised, I
1153
00:57:55.989 --> 00:58:01.530
did do a card poll for Sid. As I was
1154
00:58:01.590 --> 00:58:03.699
listening to the show, I thought, you know what? I'm
1155
00:58:03.719 --> 00:58:06.119
just going to pull one card and we'll see what
1156
00:58:06.179 --> 00:58:10.639
the spirits say. And given how much we talked about cars,
1157
00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:15.360
I think this is a most perfect poll from the
1158
00:58:15.380 --> 00:58:19.809
good people at Listen Bitch. As always, link to get
1159
00:58:19.869 --> 00:58:24.210
your own pack is in the show description. The card
1160
00:58:24.269 --> 00:58:28.769
for this pull's episode, Sid. Here we go. Listen, bitch.
1161
00:58:29.929 --> 00:58:36.199
You are in control. You are in control. You are
1162
00:58:36.360 --> 00:58:42.599
in control. You are in control. That's pretty appropriate, given
1163
00:58:42.639 --> 00:58:49.389
all the car talk. Holler and Wine is hosted, produced, written...
1164
00:58:49.579 --> 00:58:53.880
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1165
00:58:53.940 --> 00:58:59.059
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1166
00:58:59.699 --> 00:59:02.570
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1167
00:59:02.969 --> 00:59:06.869
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1168
00:59:06.929 --> 00:59:10.250
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1169
00:59:10.420 --> 00:59:12.840
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1170
00:59:12.860 --> 00:59:16.139
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1171
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:20.659
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1172
00:59:26.320 --> 00:59:28.820
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