Glenn Obert -The Duckman- Building Greatness and Growing a VW Community Ep72

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[UNKNOWN]: is either a misunderstood genius, or he's a complete lunatic with a welder, and an unlimited access to junk piles.

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[UNKNOWN]: All right, for over 20 years, he's been one of the loudest, one of the funniest, one of the most unapologetically chaotic personalities in the air cooled Volkswagen world.

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[UNKNOWN]: This man has built an empire out of scrap metal, bad decisions, rusted refrigerators, and pure determination.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's chopped apart cars, most people are too scared

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[UNKNOWN]: He's engineered bizarre VW inventions with names that sound fake, but somehow actually work.

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[UNKNOWN]: He has survived internet drama, club politics, enough fabrication disasters to probably violate several state laws, and somehow through all of it became one of the most recognizable personalities across the VW scene.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's got a 1956 chop-top oval beetle that is legendary is YouTube channel, Duckman Cycles and VW Garage has helped inspire tens of thousands of builders to stop making excuses and just start creating.

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[UNKNOWN]: This dude is sitting at about 92,000 subscribers.

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[UNKNOWN]: After getting pushed out of his former club during one of the biggest controversies the Gulf Coast VW scene has seen in years, this dude came back swinging and launched one of the fastest growing VW clubs around oil, slicker, society, international.

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[UNKNOWN]: They've reached about 150 club members and just under 200 days, we'll talk about that.

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[UNKNOWN]: crushing energy, ladies and gentlemen, hide your scrap metal, lock your Volkswagen's up.

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[UNKNOWN]: The Duckman has entered the building, Glenn Ober, welcome to Dublife Diaries.

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[UNKNOWN]: Hey, thank you so much.

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[UNKNOWN]: I really appreciate you being here.

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[UNKNOWN]: That was quite an intro.

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[UNKNOWN]: Wow.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm fine.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm not.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm not.

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[UNKNOWN]: My friend Glenn, it's back to you.

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[UNKNOWN]: No more shoutouts.

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[UNKNOWN]: All right, next shot.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's mine next shot up there.

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[UNKNOWN]: All right.

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[UNKNOWN]: So let's go ahead, man.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's roll the sleeves up.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's get going for those who don't know you or have never heard of you tell us who is Glenn Obert.

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[UNKNOWN]: Who is a question is one of those ones that people always get wrong because they never really describe who they are and they just held their name But who I am is a I'm a mischievous character.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm somebody that always gets in this stuff and I'm the guy to like to take the the road less travel I'd like to get into trouble not so much trouble, but that mischief mischief is the zest of life of course, and that's what keeps you going and Somehow I always manage to get into things and I always come out smelling like roses

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[UNKNOWN]: We're gonna talk about some of that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it's it's a lot about drive decisions and a plan and when you have those things and you put the right tools in place You can get to where you need to be and that's who I am Otherwise more recently Well, you may have known me as the Duckman Cycles VW Grudge and you may also know me for some of my other YouTube channels But you might also know me from having skier the duck in the past the pet duck that I used to carry around everywhere to live to be almost 18 years old and I loved her a death

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[UNKNOWN]: And if you don't know me for one of those two things, and more recently, you might know me as the director of the oil-sliccer side.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, that's on this side.

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[UNKNOWN]: So there's a lot of things that I get into.

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[UNKNOWN]: And if I come up with an idea, I'm the guy that makes it happen.

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[UNKNOWN]: OK, awesome.

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[UNKNOWN]: The guy that makes it happen.

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[UNKNOWN]: Again, thank you for making it happen.

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[UNKNOWN]: Thank you for your energy.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's get into what you do.

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[UNKNOWN]: What's one of the weirdest things you've ever pulled out of a junk pile of thought?

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[UNKNOWN]: You know what?

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to make this work for a Volkswagen.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, aside from the washers and dryers that you've been seeing your build stuff out of us, I'm not going to buy a body part if I have something in the yard.

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[UNKNOWN]: I can just cut up.

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[UNKNOWN]: But the weirdest thing was probably the top half of an ATV that I welded onto the top of Volkswagen Pan.

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[UNKNOWN]: Have you seen that one, the ATVW?

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[UNKNOWN]: No, but I'm going to share it.

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[UNKNOWN]: you're right at like a four wheeler has a hand clutch has a hand throttle in a stick shift on the right side okay yeah it's a really interesting piece I took it to the local motorcycle dealership down the street I've been friends with I told it over there and they saw me coming down the road with it and like what is he up to now?

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[UNKNOWN]: And then I drove around the back and it's wider than a beetle because it has super wide slicks on it and they were just like everybody was dumbfounded because I got the the top of the chassis from them and they're like, now we know what you're up to.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's actually, I'm going to share that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I can't wait to.

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[UNKNOWN]: Where are the names of you?

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[UNKNOWN]: We're duckman come from it.

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[UNKNOWN]: What point did people actually start calling you the duckman?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, back in the 90s, I had a parrot named Duckburder.

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[UNKNOWN]: And, you know, most people usually named their AOL Handler or something back in the day after their pet.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I did exactly that.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was DuckburderAOL.com, which is no longer an email address.

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[UNKNOWN]: It don't spam me.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I became known as Duckie shortly after that.

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[UNKNOWN]: And then I ended up with skater the duck.

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[UNKNOWN]: So people just started calling me the Duckman.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it just stuck.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I ended up moving it over the internet.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, no, she was a duck.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, you said you had a duck back then.

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[UNKNOWN]: I thought, sorry.

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[UNKNOWN]: I thought you said you had a skita.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm sorry.

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[UNKNOWN]: Duck burger was a parrot.

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[UNKNOWN]: Skita was the duck.

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[UNKNOWN]: So, tell me what kind of parrot it was?

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[UNKNOWN]: Um, it was actually a proper parakeet, a quaker.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay, quaker.

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[UNKNOWN]: So the green and quaker, we see them on the power lines all over Florida.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, you do over there a tamper, right?

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've seen a couple of here recently, too.

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[UNKNOWN]: I haven't seen them before, but yeah, more recently they're up here now, too.

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[UNKNOWN]: I had a buddy that had a quaker when I was growing up.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was trained.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was really cool.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was a really cool bird.

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[UNKNOWN]: It could step up.

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[UNKNOWN]: It could talk.

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[UNKNOWN]: It could do all kinds of stuff.

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[UNKNOWN]: I was into Burns, too.

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[UNKNOWN]: African Grey's cockatoo's cockatails, even.

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[UNKNOWN]: I had a cockatiel.

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[UNKNOWN]: I had a pedestal sink in my house when I was growing up.

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[UNKNOWN]: And at the bottom of the pedestal sink was this was this little kind of a nesting box.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, shit.

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[UNKNOWN]: Now that I'm a

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[UNKNOWN]: So, well, this bird used to get out of this cage, which I let him have free range, right?

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[UNKNOWN]: He'd walked down his little ladder.

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[UNKNOWN]: This was the cockatiel, and he would go into that little area.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I sometimes I'd lose him and be like, oh my gosh, where is he?

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[UNKNOWN]: You know, I don't know where he, and finally I found him.

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[UNKNOWN]: He'd lay, she would lay eggs in there.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, man, it was actually nuts if I knew a little spot and that's what they do.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's exactly right.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's exactly right.

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[UNKNOWN]: Cool bird though, but I love I've always loved birds.

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[UNKNOWN]: So when I hear duckman and I hear about your your past with birds, I think it's cool conversation.

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[UNKNOWN]: I do enjoy my birds especially by chickens nowadays as I told you I needed to get them set up this morning before I could start the interview because otherwise they'd be in the window right here Bang and on the glass squawking and I do have roosters too and they will just scream their heads off if they haven't been fed

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[UNKNOWN]: I hear them interrupting your videos all the time they do and usually they're quite quiet until I speak when they hear my voice then they got overpower me they're they're competing they know it's time that's funny so you have been building I guess weird stuff you've been documenting chaos online for a time over 20 years

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[UNKNOWN]: The YouTube thing, like did you ever imagine that YouTube would become what it's become now when you started, you know, 20 years ago?

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, no, honestly, I didn't, um, back when I started, I mean, 10,000 subscribers was a lot.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I remember when I got my first thousand people were impressed by that, and then I had my first video, which had 40,000 views on it, and that was just an amazing staggering number for the day, you know, 20 years ago, back before a YouTube was even owned by Google.

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[UNKNOWN]: it was its own thing and I didn't expect it to grow into what it is and it's changed so much too now everybody has such polished productions it's no longer about the little individual creators so much anymore everybody puts these huge budgets into it with a film editing crew and cameras and lights and a million dollar budget projects and I just can't compete with that and I do the best that I can with what I got and I think I do pretty good for what I got.

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[UNKNOWN]: you do pretty good, man.

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[UNKNOWN]: 91 and a half thousand subscribers.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, that's impressive.

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[UNKNOWN]: And that's just the one channel.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've got several more, and as few people don't even know about it, it's me.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've been up to a lot of things over the years.

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[UNKNOWN]: Super impressive, still though.

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[UNKNOWN]: Was there a moment that you realized, you know, back in the beginning?

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[UNKNOWN]: Like,

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, no, like people are actually watching this, like you got us.

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[UNKNOWN]: I never had a, I never had an oh, no moment.

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[UNKNOWN]: I had a, oh, really, moment.

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[UNKNOWN]: What can I do with this now that people are listening to me, you know, I have the power to influence and then to discuss things of people and to share ideas.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I was never frightened.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've always been somebody that's been, uh,

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[UNKNOWN]: one in the spotlight and my teachers used to say it is cool.

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[UNKNOWN]: Why do you draw attention to yourself?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well clearly it's worked for me.

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[UNKNOWN]: You'll never be anything.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah sure.

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[UNKNOWN]: I think I did pretty well for myself to be able to retire at 39 years old doing this.

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[UNKNOWN]: You know, I don't have to worry about anything else by calling attention to myself.

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[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I could say that wasn't so much an oh no, it was more of an O'Reilly.

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[UNKNOWN]: But the air-cooled community, Volkswagen community, I guess, as a whole, I mean, I kind of feel like we're a little bit different, right?

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[UNKNOWN]: Do you feel like VW people seem wired differently than normal car people?

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm sure you've had your opportunity to see a wide array of different car cultures.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, very much so, I mean, just for the fact that these cars look so different is really nothing else that's like it and they were produced for such a long period of time relatively unchanged that it's such an identifiable icon of a character, I'm not even calling it a car, it's a character, these cars have personality.

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[UNKNOWN]: And as a result, their owners are also just as eccentric as these vehicles are.

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[UNKNOWN]: And whether it comes to opening up a manual and looking at how these things work, because these four and the shabby guys get on all the times that you're doing that wrong, I'm like, no, this is a Volkswagen.

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[UNKNOWN]: You don't have to tighten those heads to 100 foot pounds.

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[UNKNOWN]: stuff like that.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's just, these cars are very, very different.

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[UNKNOWN]: You don't work in the same way, and as a result, the entire culture that goes along with it is just different.

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[UNKNOWN]: We're much more free thinking, I think.

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[UNKNOWN]: We're much more sharing, adventurous.

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[UNKNOWN]: We have more of a bond with each other, and I think we're a big family.

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[UNKNOWN]: We're just a huge community.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, speaking of community, is the community getting weirder?

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[UNKNOWN]: Or is it getting softer these days?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, I guess it depends on who you asked that me.

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[UNKNOWN]: I see a lot of people bring cars to me.

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[UNKNOWN]: The ones that I make through your pair of videos on that they're not interested in working on these cars.

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[UNKNOWN]: They don't want to learn how and they expect that they could just turn the key in and drive it for 10 years like you can.

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[UNKNOWN]: Any new car off of any one of the dealer lots and these cars do need a little more tuning.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I'd say it's probably getting a little softer.

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[UNKNOWN]: But there are a lot of young folks that are coming into our club that are joining our tech sessions that want to learn how these things work and Aden was one of our big guys.

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[UNKNOWN]: He just turned 18 years old and he tore his engine out of his beetle for the first time at the tech session and replaced a whole bunch of seals with our guidance, but he did majority of the work himself and was his result was good.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, he was leaking everywhere and he was making just puddles.

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[UNKNOWN]: His mom was so mad at him.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, I saw him.

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[UNKNOWN]: He got that all straightened out.

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[UNKNOWN]: He was the MVP of that weekend.

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[UNKNOWN]: He worked on the biggest project and the majority of it himself.

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[UNKNOWN]: He was amazing.

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[UNKNOWN]: And after that was done, then he was helping other people with the new knowledge.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, he really absorbed me so to that.

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[UNKNOWN]: So is it getting weird or soft?

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[UNKNOWN]: I'd say it's probably getting a little softer because just it's it's broadening.

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[UNKNOWN]: There's more demand for these cars to use to be in.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it's just the general public is getting into the mouth.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, I can take that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I saw him and I thought his success and I saw him, you know, credit a few of the folks up there for for that tech sessions.

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[UNKNOWN]: He learned there.

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[UNKNOWN]: He applied and he now he's not leaking, which which was really cool.

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[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I saw that.

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[UNKNOWN]: And not a drop.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, when does that happen?

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[UNKNOWN]: Every folks when I get into a little spot here and there at least not a drop.

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[UNKNOWN]: Right.

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[UNKNOWN]: We say we're just marking our territory.

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[UNKNOWN]: Right, I mean, that's one of the reasons for their name.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, oil slickers, eh, it was just, we had to choose that we make spots We do and the guy I just helped yesterday actually he was wearing an oil slicker shirt He had a sticker on his car and his car is over here right now the oil cooler burst on it So he just had a puddle on the ground underneath it where it was idling for a minute because he couldn't even get it started I saw that promise just low on gas and

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[UNKNOWN]: It's just a puddle was amazing and some lady came up and looked at the stain, looked at his shirt and went, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, um, you know, I get asked a lot actually in the people that do get to meet me in person.

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[UNKNOWN]: I think I'm going to be crazy.

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[UNKNOWN]: Climb up the walls kind of guy.

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[UNKNOWN]: They also think I'm a lot shorter than what I am.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm six foot three, not five foot five, like some people always think of little for some reason, but I'm pretty much the same person, but on videos, I think I take more chances.

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[UNKNOWN]: I take a lot more chances, I make a lot more mistakes, but when the mistakes are really bigger, they look just absolutely dangerous.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't want to have other people do or copy what I'm doing, so that's where editing comes into play.

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[UNKNOWN]: I tone it back a little bit or I say don't do this and then I show but whenever I turn a camera off It's always when the good stuff happens And so I try to leave it on always and do the best that I can but yeah, otherwise Real life doesn't allow you so many do overs, so you do the best you can with what you got again And that's what I do here, but yeah, and my pretty much the same person yeah for the most part I'm just a little noise here on camera and I'm bolder and I speak like this I don't do that in person.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay

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[UNKNOWN]: What was your life like before Volkswagen's maybe completely consumed?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, that's a hard question because Volkswagen's have always been a part of my life.

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[UNKNOWN]: Since I was just a wee little guy.

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[UNKNOWN]: My first picture that I have of myself sitting on my father's lap in his beetle, looking over the steering wheel, he wasn't driving it by the way.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it had the stencil on the door of his auto body shop that he had at the time, and they've always been in my life.

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[UNKNOWN]: Even after my parents got divorced, my mom's boyfriend had a Volkswagen, and then the stepfather had a Volkswagen.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I mean, they were always there.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, they were just always there.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I said, Mom, I think you have a type.

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[UNKNOWN]: Not so much me growing up with the Volkswagen saying you have the type.

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[UNKNOWN]: Anyway, she thought that was kind of funny.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, the Volkswagen has always been in my life, but when Volkswagen's are absent from my life, it was always computers, technology, motorcycles, and, well, women.

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[UNKNOWN]: Got a date.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, got a date.

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[UNKNOWN]: Fair enough, what was your first Volkswagen outside of your family?

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[UNKNOWN]: Like the first one, you actually purchased and or acquired.

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[UNKNOWN]: person was mine was 18 years old.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was a 1969 Volkswagen Beetle.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was a gray, kind of a silver gray.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was probably just really oxidized silver.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it ran.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was a single port, 1500.

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[UNKNOWN]: Forers were gone, heater channels were mostly gone, and that being a decent auto body guy was going to help me with a lot of the metal work, and he got the forers pretty much together, and in hindsight, I probably should have ran with it from that point.

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[UNKNOWN]: I probably could have started driving it, but he really wanted to paint it up, but the both of us kind of got a little fatigue down the project and ended up sitting for a little while, and then career choices came,

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[UNKNOWN]: things happened and couldn't necessarily get back to it until finally I got settled.

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[UNKNOWN]: I got a house and I had a job in one location rather than bouncing all over the country.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, the first one was a 69 beetle.

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[UNKNOWN]: And when I sold it, I put all the original parts back on it.

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[UNKNOWN]: And anything that I bought that was newer or unused went onto the oval that I have today, 30 years later.

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[UNKNOWN]: Wow.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I kept all those parts because, you know, the prices of these things just skyrocket.

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[UNKNOWN]: Like, they'll super wide fiberglass fenders on there.

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[UNKNOWN]: Do you see what those costs now it is?

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[UNKNOWN]: I do.

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[UNKNOWN]: Like, 2,500 bucks for the set.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I think then I spent $500 on the set.

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[UNKNOWN]: I stole them.

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[UNKNOWN]: There was something I was just glad.

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[UNKNOWN]: I didn't fling them or send them off with the car.

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[UNKNOWN]: Especially since the guy was just going to turn it into a manx anyway.

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[UNKNOWN]: So he was scrapping the body.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I was like, I couldn't do that.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, first one was a 69 and some of that DNA still lives on in a 56.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: So let's talk about beetles for just a second.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's touch on them.

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[UNKNOWN]: Why do you think that beetles actually look people so hard emotionally?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, um, the American public is very

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[UNKNOWN]: car centric people are drawn to automobiles here probably not so much in other countries but right here we love our cars and people's cars usually reflect their personalities.

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[UNKNOWN]: We get back to that whole eccentric in Volkswagen's you know people being weird and different and this whole Volkswagen's are.

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[UNKNOWN]: So

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[UNKNOWN]: For somebody to be weird and attracted to something that's so unique and so special, it becomes a very emotional attachment.

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[UNKNOWN]: You love it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It becomes a possession and not just a possession, but part of your character, your persona.

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[UNKNOWN]: And to let it go, it's extremely hard for some people.

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[UNKNOWN]: I know I've acquired some cars over the years that belong to people that they were emotionally attached to.

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[UNKNOWN]: One such girl I had bought one from, she and her father were working on to that couldn't finish it because he passed away and to her it was just a huge deal to get that car back up on a road.

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[UNKNOWN]: She wanted to see it running and driving just so she could sit in it.

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[UNKNOWN]: She was just, it was part of her life and part of her, her person.

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[UNKNOWN]: And yeah, because that it's very emotional thing.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, part of her identity.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was and I mean these cars very much are and I feel so weird when I get in the Nissan or something I have a Nissan and honestly I haven't driven it many years Because I'd rather be in the Volkswagen's and I have more Volkswagen's and honestly when the Nissan brakes which is broken right now the Volkswagen is the parts canter

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[UNKNOWN]: You never think of it that way, usually it's the modern cars, no, no, no, the Volkswagen's the parts get it.

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[UNKNOWN]: The Volkswagen's been more reliable, but yeah, I think that's why we look up for these things emotionally to become very much a part of our lives and our identities and becomes a member of the family.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's not just a car.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, well said, super cool, and I agree with you.

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[UNKNOWN]: I agree with you.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've had several, and I feel the same way.

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[UNKNOWN]: Some of them I've even let go, and I still miss them.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, to this day.

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[UNKNOWN]: So let's touch on fabrication for a second.

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[UNKNOWN]: When did, you know, your dad had a body shop and it sounds like you kind of always been kind of good at that side of it.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I guess in your more or less late teens or your adult life, when did fabrication really start to become kind of second nature for you.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, it did all the way back even when I was just a kid.

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[UNKNOWN]: Despite having come from a family with money, nothing much was handed to me.

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[UNKNOWN]: The family was just, I don't know, maybe they gave me a school of hard knocks, and they wanted me to be somebody of my own be my own person.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I was never given very much.

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[UNKNOWN]: So if I wanted something, either had to acquire money to buy it, or had to work to acquire the knowledge and skills to build it.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I found that building was more interesting because I could make something that you can't buy.

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[UNKNOWN]: Something better or something otherwise, and I always took that step outside that box or outside those boundaries.

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[UNKNOWN]: And if I did buy something, maybe I'll buy that cheaper model because I can make it better than the better model.

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[UNKNOWN]: So there's always some things that I did with that.

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[UNKNOWN]: So it always came second nature to me.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's just I always like tinkering.

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[UNKNOWN]: I always like playing with things.

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[UNKNOWN]: And when I started finding that dad had a toolbox, that would stuff I needed to.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I still have all of his vintage tools today.

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[UNKNOWN]: So many people told me, throw all that stuff away after dad passed.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, do you know how much those tools are worth?

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[UNKNOWN]: And the quality of these things.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, my craftsman tools.

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[UNKNOWN]: They might have a lifetime warranty up.

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[UNKNOWN]: But every time I break, I got to replace it.

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[UNKNOWN]: His tools are older than I am, and they don't break.

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[UNKNOWN]: Wow.

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[UNKNOWN]: They're fantastic pieces.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said I'm not letting that stuff go.

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[UNKNOWN]: In fact, I can't wait to have a shop space So I could put all that stuff in there and actually utilize it without it being buried at a long car garage But yeah, it always came second nature and I just I like tinkering.

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[UNKNOWN]: I just really like tinkering

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[UNKNOWN]: I've got a son that likes tinkering and I'd like to say maybe hopefully one day he'll have the same conversation with somebody and he'll say that it's always been second nature for him.

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[UNKNOWN]: This was the guy that was taking apart stuff, you know, five, six years old, you know, dad, can I borrow, you know, your screwdriver, your tools or how do I get this harder?

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[UNKNOWN]: He was always, you know, coming to me trying to get stuff, taking apart and then, you know, he'd always come back to me and be like, well,

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[UNKNOWN]: kind of got myself into this, you know, what do I do now?

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, look, I don't have to make paint up a mind like you do my friend.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, so I.

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[UNKNOWN]: But figure it out.

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[UNKNOWN]: And he would.

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[UNKNOWN]: And he still does.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's 17 now and he's he figures shit out.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's so cool to see.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I that's awesome.

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[UNKNOWN]: And very relatable.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I bet that's why I brought it up for sure.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, when I was talking to my mom on Mother's Day, she was actually discussing with me about how she used to go in my closet as a kid and she finds something I had been missing for months, disassembled and all the good stuff that was taken out of it was used for something else because I built something else, I was always in trouble for that kind of stuff too, but

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[UNKNOWN]: So was my son for sure, kind of cool how that works.

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[UNKNOWN]: He actually is also the one that is interested in helping with, you know, wrenching on Volkswagen's when we get that opportunity to do some work.

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[UNKNOWN]: Awesome.

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[UNKNOWN]: Stay not late late nights before and, you know, gets, gets right down and gets on his back and gets underneath them and just starts working.

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[UNKNOWN]: So, yeah, man, cool kid.

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[UNKNOWN]: Um, let's touch on the Duckman cycles and VW garage.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm interested just to hear how did this concept maybe even, you know, the name, how did it all start?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, I have several YouTube channels.

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[UNKNOWN]: The first one started out just a personal blog kind of thing.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm just doing a little bit of this and add a round pants to cola and the occasionally work on my motorcycle, occasionally I've worked on this and that.

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[UNKNOWN]: And this was at a time where I had a small absence of Volkswagen, so there's been a two or three year period.

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[UNKNOWN]: I didn't have one at all.

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[UNKNOWN]: And at the time, I had lots of motorcycles.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I started taking apart my motorcycles doing an upgrade on this and break swap, you know, a new chain and sprockets.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I started making videos that I noticed those videos were getting way more views.

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[UNKNOWN]: So we started up a new channel called Duckman Cycles.

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[UNKNOWN]: And on the Duckman Cycles thing, all of a sudden I got a new Volkswagen.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I started doing some Volkswagen videos and I know those got better reviews than the motorcycle stuff.

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[UNKNOWN]: And being back in the Volkswagen world which was my heart and passion anyway, I started doing a lot more of that stuff.

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[UNKNOWN]: And you see it

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[UNKNOWN]: Those videos, the motorcycle content, I still do some motorcycle stuff once in a while.

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[UNKNOWN]: Like, the personal blog stuff to like visiting tech sessions, cars, shows, anything I might be doing around the house if I'm doing some plumbing work or something I might show that that kind of stuff doesn't come up too often anymore.

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[UNKNOWN]: Most things around here work pretty good.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, that's pretty much how it started.

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[UNKNOWN]: And that's where it came to be.

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[UNKNOWN]: And almost 92,000 subscribers later on the biggest channel, it's doing pretty good.

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[UNKNOWN]: Q and relatively across all my channels, like 130, 140,000, I'm doing, doing okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I'd say so.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'd say so.

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[UNKNOWN]: Doing all right.

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[UNKNOWN]: You had mentioned earlier that maybe Chevy and Ford guys would kind of beat you up.

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[UNKNOWN]: But talk, bring me back to the early YouTube days, because that's, I mean, even before we really knew YouTube was going to become something.

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[UNKNOWN]: where people brutal to you or are they more supportive to you in your vision?

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[UNKNOWN]: In the earlier days, people were very, very supportive.

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[UNKNOWN]: The community was small.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was much smaller.

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[UNKNOWN]: We were a bunch of like Volkswagen people were accentuates.

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[UNKNOWN]: People that wanted to talk about our lives and that was considered almost kind of weird at the time because it wasn't so mainstream, not everybody was doing it.

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[UNKNOWN]: especially on video right i mean the community right video you know i remember back to the 90s you know mid 90s going to bug jam and everything you know the community was still the community my first veto was 17 years old fresh out of high school you know i knew the community was something back then uh but yeah no i you know the community for sure but on film is kind of where

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, things are different.

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[UNKNOWN]: People at previous two that were doing typed out blogs, you know, you actually typed out message, take a picture of something and maybe once in a while it appeared in a selfie and they weren't even called selfies yet.

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[UNKNOWN]: But that was earlier in days.

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[UNKNOWN]: And then, of course, video vlogging, vlogging came about and YouTube started its thing.

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[UNKNOWN]: And, you know, back in the early days, the 10,000 subscribers was considered a lot.

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[UNKNOWN]: And even to have a one video with a few hundred views was considered good.

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[UNKNOWN]: You know, it was just kind of an amazing thing, but back in the day, people were very supportive.

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[UNKNOWN]: We had this thing called subs for subs.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't know if you remember that, if you were around for the day.

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[UNKNOWN]: But if you subscribed to me, I subscribed to you.

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[UNKNOWN]: We were very supportive of each other's community.

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[UNKNOWN]: And the comment that on each other's videos and tried to boost ourselves, but proud of ourselves, even if it was manipulated.

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[UNKNOWN]: We tried to give ourselves some better numbers, and effectively it was good.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, that's how I got my first 1000 subscribers.

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[UNKNOWN]: I think in like 60 days or so, and that was kind of amazing for back in the day.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, that sounds very VW community-ish as well, right?

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[UNKNOWN]: It was.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was.

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[UNKNOWN]: Despite there being no videos for Volkswagen's on my channel yet at that time, there was, yeah, it was very Volkswagen-ish.

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[UNKNOWN]: It had the same kind of feel.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: So for you, what was harder?

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[UNKNOWN]: The fabrication side, learning fabrication, or actually learning how to film yourself without completely looking totally crazy.

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[UNKNOWN]: I never worried about looking crazy.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't have that problem again.

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[UNKNOWN]: Drawing attention to myself.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is what I'm good at.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I never worried about looking at saying, that's probably where most of my ridicule comes from.

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[UNKNOWN]: But people don't understand my idea.

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[UNKNOWN]: They will criticize my unfinished product.

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[UNKNOWN]: And you can't criticize somebody's unfinished project without actually knowing what the direction is.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I can't give you my my visual, maybe I can draw it out or something.

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[UNKNOWN]: But even then, you know, it's only as good as my artistic ability.

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[UNKNOWN]: I might look like I'm crazy, probably because, not just because I'm loud in that bounce around, but because you just don't know what I'm after.

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[UNKNOWN]: You don't know where I'm going within.

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[UNKNOWN]: I think that's probably direction, but I never worried about looking nuts because I always followed my projects through.

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[UNKNOWN]: Nothing's ever done.

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[UNKNOWN]: I like to say that.

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[UNKNOWN]: Nothing's ever finished and I get that question probably once a week.

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[UNKNOWN]: Do you ever finish anything?

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[UNKNOWN]: No.

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[UNKNOWN]: No, I don't.

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[UNKNOWN]: Because if it's done, I'm just going to take something else on it apart anyway.

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[UNKNOWN]: And we're going to move on and make it bigger, better, somehow.

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[UNKNOWN]: Something's going to change.

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[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I never worried about looking crazy.

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[UNKNOWN]: Never.

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[UNKNOWN]: Modern creators, you know, the newer YouTube folks, do they have it easier?

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[UNKNOWN]: Do they have it harder?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, as far as the stigma is concerned and making videos, they don't look as weird anymore doing this stuff, so it's probably easier for them to get started, but it's harder to get established.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'd say it's much, much harder to get established.

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[UNKNOWN]: Some people do have that magic, and YouTube gods will just smile down upon them, and I don't know for what reason, but they'll end up with 100,000 subscribers in the first month.

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[UNKNOWN]: And their videos are exactly the same as mine, the only difference is it's a different face.

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[UNKNOWN]: Maybe they're pretty or maybe they're not.

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[UNKNOWN]: Maybe they, they, they, something's different.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't know.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't get it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It maybe it's all any algorithm.

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[UNKNOWN]: Maybe the computer chooses something.

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[UNKNOWN]: Maybe it just, it does what it does.

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[UNKNOWN]: But it's hard to get noticed and to see if just hundreds of millions of different folks now when it used to be tens of thousands to get notice.

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[UNKNOWN]: So you really have to do something different.

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[UNKNOWN]: You really have to be a bright, obnoxious loud and have, you got to have a hook.

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[UNKNOWN]: Something has to be unique that draws people into you.

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[UNKNOWN]: What's going to be different about

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, and I think for me it's just this personality and the chickens and the ducks and that kind of stuff.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's it's fun and Well, you think it's a little hard to be definitely unique.

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[UNKNOWN]: They're not like any other video any other people that you watch You're definitely a one-of-a-kind type guy

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[UNKNOWN]: I think it's one of the reasons why I have this success and it also helps to have that hook and then the hook and the pass has been the ducks and the chickens and it helps sometimes to have a pretty lady help you.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I'm not going to say that some kind of sexist re-barker or something, I protect those ladies that come on when people say the trashy comments to them.

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[UNKNOWN]: We might act trashy on camera, but we're not trashing people.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's show.

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[UNKNOWN]: You're putting on a show.

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[UNKNOWN]: Right on.

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[UNKNOWN]: Speaking of the show, was there ever a time in over the last 20 some odd years that

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[UNKNOWN]: You may even consider stopping or quitting.

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[UNKNOWN]: I have quit several times.

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[UNKNOWN]: In fact, when I had my last girlfriend around 10 years ago living here, I had no opportunity to make videos.

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[UNKNOWN]: Again, I don't sound sexist here, but when you live with somebody that breaks things constantly, you always find yourself repairing the plummeting, fixing the electrical, misappliance, it's busted, this needs to do it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I was always around the house doing something to my time and I had to step away from YouTube for about two and a half years or so.

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[UNKNOWN]: I still got up the occasional video and stepping back

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[UNKNOWN]: and more recently after the drama from last year, I took a personal hit.

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[UNKNOWN]: It took my motivation away from me for a bit.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I'm not going to say that these other people did that to me one, but I'm going to say they may have actually won a battle, but they didn't win the war.

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[UNKNOWN]: So despite having beaten me down a little bit, you did, you did take something away from me.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I'm still making my videos and I'm trying to push back into it now.

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[UNKNOWN]: I have a backlog of a lot of things

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[UNKNOWN]: But we'll get to that point sometimes soon.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, I have stepped away.

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[UNKNOWN]: And like I said, this past year, I've kind of stepped away.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm not releasing things on schedule anymore.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's pretty good for about two videos a week, sometimes three.

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[UNKNOWN]: And now you're lucky if you get one a month, maybe one, every two months.

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[UNKNOWN]: how are the views?

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[UNKNOWN]: Because of that cadence change.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, they weakened.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, they weakened.

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[UNKNOWN]: They've softened.

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[UNKNOWN]: And the other thing is weird, too, is when I don't put up videos, I get more subscribers, when I put up a video, subscribers go backwards.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I don't understand that, weird.

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[UNKNOWN]: Something in the algorithm is doing something.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's really weird.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'll go up, you know, every couple days it goes up, I don't know, five, 10 subscribers.

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[UNKNOWN]: And then if I put on a video to go negative, five, 10, but if I don't put up a video for months, plus 100, plus 200 subscribers, what is going on, I don't understand how that works.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, so something you're probably not going to be able to explain with with with the, yeah, I'll never forget that one out.

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[UNKNOWN]: Exactly.

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[UNKNOWN]: I still try to figure out for my podcast, you know, for views and reach and trying to find the target audience, which is the VW community.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I have seen, you know, those abs and flows as well.

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[UNKNOWN]: And sometimes you're all

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[UNKNOWN]: Sometimes your videos, even your smaller reals, if you will, end up getting crazy traction almost end up going viral and you get tens of thousands of views and then other times the ones that you know for sure are going to be awesome and have the best knowledge and information and the coolest attraction and the coolest hook, they get a hundred views and you're like,

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[UNKNOWN]: You can't make no sense.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't understand how any of that works.

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[UNKNOWN]: Like I said, I'll put in some videos and some of the videos I know are awful, but I put up a thumbnail with a girl in it boom 10,000 views like overnight Yeah, yeah, it's a stupid video

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[UNKNOWN]: In that crazy way, it makes no sense to me.

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[UNKNOWN]: One thing I haven't done that I just won't do because this is a passion project for me this podcast is pay.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm not going to pay for subscribers or pay for marketing yet.

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[UNKNOWN]: I just don't see, you know, maybe one day down the road if I get a sponsor that wants to, you know, I just I don't see it as something being a passion project that I'm going to, you know, I guess essentially spend money on.

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[UNKNOWN]: spend my time on it because I enjoy it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I enjoy talking to people.

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[UNKNOWN]: I love the Volkswagen community.

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[UNKNOWN]: I enjoy that side of it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's you know, a lot of people coming to my email and say, hey, man, with all of this stuff that you got going on for yourself, you could really turn this into a thriving, you know, blah, blah, blah.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, yeah, not interested, man.

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[UNKNOWN]: Not interested.

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[UNKNOWN]: And a lot, I get that too.

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[UNKNOWN]: A lot of people not.

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[UNKNOWN]: And they, they, they want to kind of ride the

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I get that very much too.

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[UNKNOWN]: All of my subscribers and my views have all happened organically.

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[UNKNOWN]: I haven't bought them except for the sub for some things in the very beginning.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, that was part of our community.

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[UNKNOWN]: We were helping each other.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: But after that, it has been very much an organic growth.

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[UNKNOWN]: I haven't advertised.

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[UNKNOWN]: I haven't told people I'm going to pay you to do this.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I haven't needed it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I haven't needed it.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I have received offers over the years for this and of that and that's great because that is organic.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was brought to me.

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[UNKNOWN]: I didn't go to get it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It came to me and this is one of the reasons why things had grown and the same with oil slicker society.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, I haven't paid for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I haven't gone out to solicit, you know, new members for our club.

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[UNKNOWN]: It just happens.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, apparently just you do the right things people notice you and it happens that's how I found you I found you from a couple posts and I remember you know several months ago I commented on one of your posts.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, hey, we got to get some of you oil slickers on on the podcast And I think that we appreciate that the first comment that you had sent back You know that we had started that conversation, but yeah, no, I I love the organic side of it and I'm in I'm in I'm in tune.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm right there I'll be the same way

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[UNKNOWN]: Now, you're famous for turning literal, quite literal garbage into usable VW parks, where does kind of that mentality come from?

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, again, I wasn't given very much in the past, so I had to work or build what I wanted.

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[UNKNOWN]: So my ability might even make me, um,

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[UNKNOWN]: self spoiled, perhaps, you know, I take my abilities for granted.

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[UNKNOWN]: So that's why I like doing what I do and I guess, I don't know, it's just it's there.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's it's hard to explain when it's just something that's always been part of me.

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[UNKNOWN]: So it's just that's who I am.

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[UNKNOWN]: My identity.

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[UNKNOWN]: I am a chinker.

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[UNKNOWN]: I have these hands and as long as I have my hands and my skills said, I can do anything.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I mean, I say anything people say, well, you can't do that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, I'll try.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I try to encourage people all the time and like, well, I don't know how to weld.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, there was a time.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said that, too.

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[UNKNOWN]: I still don't know how to weld.

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[UNKNOWN]: I get it done.

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[UNKNOWN]: I get your work.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't have to run a grinder.

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[UNKNOWN]: So you can make anything work.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, that's part of my mentality.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's part of my person.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's hard to explain your actual character and who you are as a person when it's just something that comes naturally.

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[UNKNOWN]: What's one of the craziest junkyard engineering type solutions that you've really ever actually made work?

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[UNKNOWN]: Um, the ATVW is one of them.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: Everybody told me you can't get a hand clutch to work on a on a Volkswagen again.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, I did.

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[UNKNOWN]: I used a break booster actually to make a motorcycle clutch work with it.

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[UNKNOWN]: So that was pretty clever in it was functional.

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[UNKNOWN]: It still requires a good grip if you're going to be in traffic.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's it's murder absolute murder.

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[UNKNOWN]: It does work and you are able to shift and I put the shift on the right side on purpose because you have to grab the clutch to shift.

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[UNKNOWN]: Everybody told me to put it on the other side of what reached across.

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[UNKNOWN]: That doesn't make sense.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let off the throttle shift and then grab.

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[UNKNOWN]: So that worked out very, very well.

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[UNKNOWN]: Steering, no steering box.

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[UNKNOWN]: It actually works off the steering shaft on the handlebars.

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[UNKNOWN]: So that all worked out pretty good.

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[UNKNOWN]: Otherwise, traditionally the rear end is just an IRS beetle.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's all standard in the back.

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[UNKNOWN]: The shift also comes out of the side of the tunnel at a 45 degree angle.

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[UNKNOWN]: And when it came out, I then bent a bus shift rod to get it up tall enough, so that way it worked out.

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[UNKNOWN]: So the shift pattern is standard traditional, everything works, even though it looks like it shouldn't.

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[UNKNOWN]: People can't wrap their brains around how that works, but apparently what I had done, a lot of the trike builders had actually done similar things in the past.

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[UNKNOWN]: So what I came up with wasn't a new idea, this is something that had done.

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[UNKNOWN]: Some of these guys do it at a 90 degree angle, and the shift still works.

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[UNKNOWN]: I thought that was fascinating too, but 45, and I got that going.

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[UNKNOWN]: One of the other ones was the chop-top beetle.

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[UNKNOWN]: When I got that card, it, I don't know if you saw the older pictures of it, it was just caving in on itself.

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[UNKNOWN]: And when I unbolted the steering column, the nose went, whoop, bed up in the air.

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[UNKNOWN]: The steering column was holding the front end down.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was structural because it was so rusted.

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[UNKNOWN]: Whoa.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was that bad.

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[UNKNOWN]: You could grab the door on the card and lift the tire body and twist the body in its position.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was a strangest thing to see that.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was just amazing.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was so bad.

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[UNKNOWN]: The apillary above the the driver side was rotted through.

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[UNKNOWN]: And once I had opened the doors, the doors hit the ground and the body started to fold.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I actually just cut through the middle of the roof just to stop from twisting up the body.

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[UNKNOWN]: That much more.

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[UNKNOWN]: I was trying to save as much of it as possible.

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[UNKNOWN]: But it was destined for the scrapyard.

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[UNKNOWN]: But just to bring that thing back from from death, which I get a lot of trash for.

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[UNKNOWN]: Why drew in a good car?

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[UNKNOWN]: It was like it wasn't a good car.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was never a good car.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it probably was before the hurricane got it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was under six feet of sea water, by the way, for several days and then the guy put it out in the yard and left it outside for 10 years in the rain with all the salt water on it.

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[UNKNOWN]: So it's just, that's why it's so bad.

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[UNKNOWN]: it was just really, really bad.

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[UNKNOWN]: But the other thing that worked out good on that was the hidden door hinges.

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[UNKNOWN]: There's no hinges on the outside.

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[UNKNOWN]: Beetle hinges are external.

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[UNKNOWN]: I put hidden hinges in pockets inside.

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[UNKNOWN]: They opened frontwards.

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[UNKNOWN]: I didn't do suicide because everybody does those.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I put the suicide style hinges in the front.

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[UNKNOWN]: And that was an engineering piece because everybody's telling me it's not going to work.

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[UNKNOWN]: All of the doors going to open.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's going to hit the fender.

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[UNKNOWN]: All of the doors never going to clear.

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[UNKNOWN]: They weren't brilliant.

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[UNKNOWN]: And when I took it over to Earl over classic car creations, it did my paint work, even he looked at.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's like, you did a good job on that.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's like, thanks.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've never done it before.

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[UNKNOWN]: It took me two weeks to get the first side working and then one day to do the other side.

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[UNKNOWN]: So he hit that practice side out.

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[UNKNOWN]: I got the format figured out and then I made a one day video.

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[UNKNOWN]: Our record is about eight hours in and just as it was getting dark, I had the hinges working.

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[UNKNOWN]: That worked out pretty good.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I also have a CR500 Honda 2-stroke motorcycle I've been working on.

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[UNKNOWN]: I put that engine into an SV-650 frame, which was kind of cool, but then I realized the frame is kind of big heavy bulky of design for a twin cylinder, four-stroke, water-cooled engine, just a much bigger heavier chassis, and I said I want to build something smaller and lighter, so I ended up getting a CR 250 dirt bike frame and put sport bike suspension on it.

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[UNKNOWN]: So that thing is going to be pretty good.

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[UNKNOWN]: Whenever I decided to finish that up, uh, I've kind of with that on park for a long time.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's one of my oldest projects.

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[UNKNOWN]: One of the ones I started on YouTube really digging into things.

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[UNKNOWN]: This goes back probably about 15 years ago.

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[UNKNOWN]: So it's one of the oldest projects that I've been working on.

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[UNKNOWN]: So someday I'll get around to that.

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[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, it's, uh, it kicks started and bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, bring, you know, two stroke, one cylinder blows out smoke out the back of it.

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[UNKNOWN]: And when I was riding a lot with a bunch of other guys, I was hoping to get out on the robber all the sport bikes and stuff showing them up with a little motorcycle that weighs, you know, 200 pounds.

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[UNKNOWN]: I think it's the way to wait, nothing.

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[UNKNOWN]: Go out in the little twisties, which aren't very many of in Florida, but show them up, which I do on the Ninja 252, but I can't imagine it would be like with 50 horsepower instead of, you know, the 25.

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[UNKNOWN]: So, what have you been impressive?

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, hold on.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've also got a little, a little, a little, doodle bug.

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[UNKNOWN]: You know what doodle bug is?

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh.

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[UNKNOWN]: A little Coleman doodle bug.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's a, it's a kids bike.

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[UNKNOWN]: They're about this bit.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's it.

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[UNKNOWN]: They have this baloney tires on them.

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[UNKNOWN]: So put it, a 200's.

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[UNKNOWN]: So the, the Coleman, like the campsite little bikes.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, kinda.

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[UNKNOWN]: Usually kids go on another really small.

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[UNKNOWN]: I told them when you might be thinking I was the adult one.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is the kids one.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it's literally this bit.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't know if you can see my hands are camera.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's this bit.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I put a Honda 200cc engine into it.

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[UNKNOWN]: And instead of the, I think two horsepower that it has, then it has like 12, and because it's so short and I'm so tall, I sit off the back of it anyway.

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[UNKNOWN]: So you just give it a light blip on the throttle, wheelie instantly.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I think they max out with kit on 10 or 15 miles an hour govern, if you take the governor off, you might get 25.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I hit almost 60 miles an hour on it, and I was afraid to go any faster, because the brakes are meant for a child.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's too low speed, not a 300 pounder going 60 miles.

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[UNKNOWN]: So anyway, I ran out of road, because it is only 200cc.

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[UNKNOWN]: It takes a lot more road to get up to speed, but I mean, that is just intensely fast on a little bike that's smaller and lighter than I am.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I can admit that it's a lot of fun though because it's so small and it's so easy to toss around I could write it in my little front yard and not ever going to straight Pull the wheelies up the handle.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean it'll do burnouts.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's got it's so small and it's so much fun And if you fall you're already so close to the ground that you just put your hand down

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[UNKNOWN]: You know, and actually hurt yourself.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, not fast though.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, you're probably going to go off at speed.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's a different story.

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[UNKNOWN]: I was fully geared up for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, knee pad shoulder pads.

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[UNKNOWN]: I was wearing armor helmet.

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[UNKNOWN]: I was fully geared up gloves.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I was I was geared because those tires that were on there had been sitting out in a weather for a long time and they were very iffy.

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[UNKNOWN]: So don't copy what the duckman does.

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[UNKNOWN]: The first kid safety first.

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[UNKNOWN]: So let's talk about being resourceful because I think it's a lost skill.

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[UNKNOWN]: Do you agree?

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[UNKNOWN]: Do you think being resourceful is actually becoming a lost skill?

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[UNKNOWN]: Um, I'd say yeah, especially with the advent of AI.

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[UNKNOWN]: Although I suppose AI could be a resource, but if you're using AI, and we actually had a conversation with somebody about this just yesterday, um,

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[UNKNOWN]: People are using AI for so much of everything anymore that they're just not using their own creative minds or using their own hearts to put stories out on Facebook.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's just for example.

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[UNKNOWN]: Now I don't mind using an AI artwork because if you want to create a banner or something, that takes time and there's a lot of work that goes into that.

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[UNKNOWN]: But one of the reasons why it looks a little better and I'm gonna give you a hint guys is I actually draw the banner out first and I give it to the AI and tell it what I want it to do.

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[UNKNOWN]: So then I get an actual

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[UNKNOWN]: what you're looking for instead of something that's yeah so yeah a lot better but yeah people aren't so resourceful anymore than not using the tools that they have um

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[UNKNOWN]: now that they're relying too much on technology to give them the answer and I think a lot of people and this is just Volkswagen stuff people want to put their key in their car start and go and I think that's the only put the key in the car anymore now it's just put the key in your pocket and go but yeah the resources it's just not there people just want things to work they replace things that break they don't look into this stuff anymore and you know it's actually related to AI just came to mind it's not even in my notes here a friend of mine

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[UNKNOWN]: was setting the end play on his engine and you know you put the three shims in there you can be any anything three or more you can't go less than three.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's now he figured out using math to come up with the shims and he says I don't think that's right so he went to an AI and he AI confirmed he was right.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: What's wrong?

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[UNKNOWN]: He says, the engine doesn't turn.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, so it's blocked tight when you tighten up your gland.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's just, yeah, I said, well, your shims are too tall.

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[UNKNOWN]: He says, but I did the math on it and AI confirmed it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, stop for a second.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, how many of these pranks have you said M play on?

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[UNKNOWN]: Zero.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is first one.

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[UNKNOWN]: What's that good?

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, and how many has chat GPT set the M play on?

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[UNKNOWN]: He looked at me, he didn't know how to answer that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, well, has chat GPT ever been and anybody's garage setting the M play?

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, OK, here's what we're going to do.

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, take the crank off, take your shims out.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I looked at the shims.

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[UNKNOWN]: You had two of the thicker ones, one of the thin ones.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't remember what the specs were on it.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I said, OK, take one of the thick ones out.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's put two thin ones, one thick one, bolt it all back together.

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[UNKNOWN]: Put it all together.

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[UNKNOWN]: Measure the ampoule.

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[UNKNOWN]: It was perfect.

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[UNKNOWN]: They said, how did you do that?

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[UNKNOWN]: I said, it's intuitive.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've been doing this over the years.

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[UNKNOWN]: I didn't have to measure it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I knew the fact that you were locked up, so let's go one thinner and see what happens.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's that simple.

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[UNKNOWN]: So resourcefulness, AI is not what you're looking for for answers most of the time.

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[UNKNOWN]: If you need it to communicate an idea or just to bounce things off of somebody because a human's not available,

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[UNKNOWN]: or maybe you're too shy to talk to another person for being ridiculed.

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[UNKNOWN]: Maybe they are as good tool for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I do sometimes use AI for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've got this.

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[UNKNOWN]: What do you think of this?

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[UNKNOWN]: Is this going to be something that's a valid idea?

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[UNKNOWN]: Is this garbage?

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[UNKNOWN]: I have trouble with empathy sometimes.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm broken that way.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't have a personality for them.

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[UNKNOWN]: My personality is machines and animals.

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[UNKNOWN]: You know empathy for me doesn't work the same way as other people.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I've learned what I'm supposed to do and what I'm supposed to feel but I don't necessarily have that.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I don't understand these things.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I will talk to an AI sometimes by how to approach people.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I don't say the wrong words.

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[UNKNOWN]: It also doesn't help that I'm from New Jersey.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I'm one of those guys.

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[UNKNOWN]: So an AI sometimes is how I use confrontation, because I'm not afraid of confrontation, and a lot of talking in front of other people.

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[UNKNOWN]: Sometimes you just need to know the right words to use.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I don't say the wrong things that rub people the wrong way because I do live in the South now and I'm not from where I'm from and being a different personality, not being afraid of words.

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[UNKNOWN]: These things don't hurt me because I don't experience that.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I don't have that feeling the way other people do.

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[UNKNOWN]: So the epithes not there.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I do have some trouble with that.

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[UNKNOWN]: Me as a person, but that's getting personal.

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[UNKNOWN]: But nonetheless, there it is.

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[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, resourcefulness.

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[UNKNOWN]: AI's.

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[UNKNOWN]: Use them sparingly.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's a tool, but like any other tool you can't use it too much.

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[UNKNOWN]: You can't go through the garage and use a hammer on everything.

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[UNKNOWN]: You know what I mean?

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, kind of good.

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[UNKNOWN]: But results not going to be great.

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[UNKNOWN]: That was a good, that was a good quote.

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[UNKNOWN]: I like that.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it's true.

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[UNKNOWN]: Can't use AI for everything.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I can even, you know, put it over to, you know, the realm of my professional career, which I've my wife and I own a real estate company here in St. Pete, but I've been a sales trainer for 15 years.

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[UNKNOWN]: and inside of training, it's become very easy to say, here's what I'm looking for, go, right?

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[UNKNOWN]: And then AI spits out this, you know, beautiful outline and makes it so easy, I guess, right?

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[UNKNOWN]: But here's what I noticed.

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[UNKNOWN]: When you take a lot of that human element away, you're not as impactful.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yep.

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[UNKNOWN]: Period.

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[UNKNOWN]: Absolutely correct.

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[UNKNOWN]: You're just not as impactful.

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[UNKNOWN]: So absolutely correct.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's good.

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[UNKNOWN]: You might even get good reviews and you might even hear, you know, from some of these, you know, tech managers that I work with.

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[UNKNOWN]: Hey, man, that was a really good session.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I feel

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[UNKNOWN]: that it's not as impactful as the stuff that I come up with based on my experience, based on my suspicion, based on what I know these guys, based on my experience.

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[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I, the same analogy.

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[UNKNOWN]: You can't just run through the garage and use a hammer on everything.

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[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, man.

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[UNKNOWN]: No, you can't.

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[UNKNOWN]: You can't.

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[UNKNOWN]: I just have to discover the say I too is I can tell when people are using it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't know if you can notice it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I can tell and there's only so many AI's out there that do create a content.

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[UNKNOWN]: Maybe it doesn't really good ones that people are used every day and the trouble is to say, it was used the same words, it was used the same phrases, it was used the same style punctuation and it's punctuation that people don't tie, it's not on your keyboard and they're using this punctuation.

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[UNKNOWN]: So when you see that, it's AI.

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[UNKNOWN]: Good call.

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[UNKNOWN]: Good call.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's AI.

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[UNKNOWN]: I can tell you're using an AI.

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[UNKNOWN]: And if you can't speak about your event or the things that you're doing from your own heart, right, then it's not yours anymore.

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[UNKNOWN]: Now you have an AI doing it.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's a tooth.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's so fake.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's so fake when they do that and I use my own creative content because you hear me I'm running on my mouth.

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[UNKNOWN]: I do this constantly.

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[UNKNOWN]: I can get on the keyboard and do the same thing I could just start whacking on these keys right here and just give it a long string of information Right and when I do that I might send to an AI for some spell check and then it likes to change to its punctuation Which kills me.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh Yeah, it's like oh you're changing the style of my writing.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is not me

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[UNKNOWN]: Let me do it my way.

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[UNKNOWN]: So anyway I'll do it for a spell check or something or if I phrase something incorrectly or if I'm going to hurt somebody's feelings and make sure the AI gets a look at this and tells me you don't maybe need to make an adjustment on that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I will use it for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: But creative content I create my own content.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it includes the artwork.

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[UNKNOWN]: I might use the AI to embellish it, to polish it up.

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[UNKNOWN]: But I don't use it to create my artwork exclusively.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's mostly my stuff.

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[UNKNOWN]: And like I said, just rubbed and polished a little bit to make it look better.

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[UNKNOWN]: And honestly, AI doesn't pretty good job in that sometimes, because I can give it the most stick-figured drawings.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it can make it you and me out of it, which is just amazing.

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[UNKNOWN]: But the reason why they're structured look correctly in the cars are facing the right ways because I drew the mail.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, and I can talk on the amazing, because I'm definitely one of those guys that will lean into technology.

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[UNKNOWN]: On the technology side, and kind of the it's cool side and leaning into AI, I recently asked

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[UNKNOWN]: You know, my favorite color is green and my wife and I have a 71 carman gear that we wanted to, you know, I guess have a little bit of fun with I've done some of the the rest I fixed a lot of the rest we're going to talk about rust here in a second, but I fixed a lot of the rest I don't like the trim the the chrome or the aluminum piece of trim on the bottom of those carmen to pieces.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I like it when it's flat.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, last year, year and a half or so ago, my son ran into the car with the lawnmower and Oh, no.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, and backed up, you know, bashed up one of those pieces of trim and dented the car back there.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I ended up taking the trim off and then it was just a little hole that was exposed.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I, you know,

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[UNKNOWN]: So I brought it to a body shop, somebody's familiar with Volkswagen's, and I had all those not bonded, I had them all welded, and I had them all closed and done properly.

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[UNKNOWN]: And then they painted.

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[UNKNOWN]: So now the whole bottom of the car, it used to be this beautiful, you know, force-green paint, you know, new bumpers, it was a great looking car.

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[UNKNOWN]: Now it's nice looking paint up top, primer on the bottom and rust repair, thick.

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[UNKNOWN]: My wife started saying up through a year ago, I don't even want to be seen in the damp thing.

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[UNKNOWN]: I think it looks like shit.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, no, yeah, I'm like, okay, well, let's, let's get it painted then.

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, so we started looking into that and then she's like, no, let's, let's wrap it.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's wrap it for our brand.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, okay, that thing got a cool.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's look into wrap it and do, I want a couple different wrap shops.

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[UNKNOWN]: They went over $5,000 for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh yeah, yeah, it's expensive.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, okay, pay for that.

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[UNKNOWN]: Exactly.

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[UNKNOWN]: That was my point.

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[UNKNOWN]: So we kept, you know, kind of tinker and what we were going to do.

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[UNKNOWN]: Anyway, I'll make my point.

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[UNKNOWN]: we lean into AI.

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[UNKNOWN]: All right.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I upload a picture, a cool picture of my car in front of a mural.

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[UNKNOWN]: There's murals all over St. Pete.

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[UNKNOWN]: I take pictures with my cars in front of murals.

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[UNKNOWN]: Big huge murals on the side of these buildings.

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[UNKNOWN]: They're so cool looking.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I said,

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[UNKNOWN]: create a futuristic paint job out of five different colors of green and, you know, kind of give us this like comic book slash cartoons style image.

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[UNKNOWN]: And dude, it spit out this ridiculous crazy ass paint job that was the coolest thing ever that I ended to my friend.

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[UNKNOWN]: I don't know if you saw any of my posts, but I ended up sending it to my buddy Matt McAllister down

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[UNKNOWN]: Well, she think of this man.

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[UNKNOWN]: He goes, dude, I can do that.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, nice.

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[UNKNOWN]: No shit.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is the car in front of a mural.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, wow.

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[UNKNOWN]: You know, that's what I visually imagine too, which is what's crazy and I right.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I actually like I'm out and do.

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[UNKNOWN]: I have those wheels.

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[UNKNOWN]: Those are the, the, the Porsche, the phone dials.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've got them and I bought four fronts.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I got the 15 by seven because the eights are wider in the rear on the Carmen Diaz tough to fit without fabrication.

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[UNKNOWN]: So plus I have the wheel spacers to adapt the, the, the lug pattern.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I had to go 15 by 7 all the way around.

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[UNKNOWN]: So I've got those wheels on it too.

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[UNKNOWN]: But anyway, there's there's that.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: Now check this out.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm cheating looking on your Facebook here.

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[UNKNOWN]: I see, uh, okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: I see this is actually underway, isn't it?

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[UNKNOWN]: It's under way, man.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's got that accent.

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[UNKNOWN]: He's down in the.

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[UNKNOWN]: Wow, look at this.

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[UNKNOWN]: Look, this is.

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[UNKNOWN]: There it is.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's what I'm looking at as amazing and then I'll show you.

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[UNKNOWN]: It makes me want to drink a mountain, too.

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[UNKNOWN]: Here's a week.

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[UNKNOWN]: Got all the lines.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's what I'm looking at right now.

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[UNKNOWN]: Excellent.

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[UNKNOWN]: Wow, come in and then let's see.

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[UNKNOWN]: Karma getting, huh?

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[UNKNOWN]: Karma getting, that's what I named it.

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[UNKNOWN]: Karma getting, nice.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, karma getting.

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[UNKNOWN]: And instead of Carmen guilla, and instead of Armageddon, because the paint job was just so fucking nuts and out there, I'm like, you know what?

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[UNKNOWN]: Armageddon, Karmagia, Karmagia, how about Parma get it?

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[UNKNOWN]: It's nice when those names happen organically.

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[UNKNOWN]: Just like the other things happen organically, these names just happen.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: And whether it be my cars or whether it be my chickens, I just let the names just happen.

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[UNKNOWN]: Everybody was asking, what do you get a name in?

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[UNKNOWN]: I'll wait till it happens.

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[UNKNOWN]: And you know when you get the right one.

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[UNKNOWN]: And if you name it, the right one always comes later.

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[UNKNOWN]: And you're like, oh, I should have.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'll get in fits though.

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[UNKNOWN]: And this does.

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[UNKNOWN]: It does.

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[UNKNOWN]: And you picked the right one, I think.

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[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, she's had it for a couple of years, several years now, in fact.

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[UNKNOWN]: And she named it Cleopatra first, because it was like this Emerald Green, kind of a deeper green.

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[UNKNOWN]: the original color on the car from 71 was Irish green.

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[UNKNOWN]: So it is kind of deeper, more of a, you know, a little bit more of a glossier, deeper paint job.

57:32.221 --> 57:36.982
[UNKNOWN]: But once I got the rust fixed and everything now, we went, we went full on completely nuts with it.

57:37.042 --> 57:40.822
[UNKNOWN]: So now, yet now, karma, karma get in this the name now.

57:41.082 --> 57:43.443
[UNKNOWN]: We've retired Cleopatra.

57:44.636 --> 57:49.459
[UNKNOWN]: it's it's sharp and I mean he's not even done yet and he's really got something there I can't wait to see what it turns into.

57:49.779 --> 57:50.139
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah man.

57:50.159 --> 57:50.999
[UNKNOWN]: That is really nice.

57:51.300 --> 57:52.740
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, yeah, I figured you'd like that.

57:52.780 --> 58:03.026
[UNKNOWN]: So talking about leaning in to to AI, you know, that AI concept was actually designed by who the fuck knows.

58:03.066 --> 58:04.727
[UNKNOWN]: I mean a computer an algorithm.

58:04.827 --> 58:09.910
[UNKNOWN]: Right, but I've ran with it and so did so did Matt, you know, and he did.

58:10.030 --> 58:10.890
[UNKNOWN]: He's he's doing a really

58:14.212 --> 58:15.053
[UNKNOWN]: Let's talk about Rust.

58:15.735 --> 58:16.396
[UNKNOWN]: Why Rust?

58:16.816 --> 58:19.701
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, why are Volkswagen people so attached to Rust?

58:21.584 --> 58:23.307
[UNKNOWN]: Um, I'm not.

58:27.146 --> 58:27.546
[UNKNOWN]: I'm not.

58:28.206 --> 58:29.147
[UNKNOWN]: I liked things shiny.

58:30.147 --> 58:40.810
[UNKNOWN]: I suppose the rest that I'm attached to was the you know that that project car and maybe that's the way I look at it, but the rest quickly gets cleaned removed or patched up and then you know of course glossy coat is put over it.

58:41.630 --> 58:47.091
[UNKNOWN]: Maybe I was raised that way my dad just didn't like rust on cars either he'd see patina cars and it would really bother me.

58:47.111 --> 58:48.852
[UNKNOWN]: I see patina cars and I think it's really cool.

58:49.472 --> 59:02.401
[UNKNOWN]: especially for the car to show with war wounds and those scars for all those years that it had and each one has a story and my dad didn't appreciate that but I do But I wouldn't I don't think I would have a patented car or rat rod.

59:02.481 --> 59:07.065
[UNKNOWN]: It's not my style not my thing So I'm not necessarily attracted to that, but why are people attracted to it?

59:08.345 --> 59:11.508
[UNKNOWN]: You know these Volkswagen's were throwaway cars

59:12.548 --> 59:16.091
[UNKNOWN]: I hate to say that in either way, but they were a budget throwaway cars and they were treated this such.

59:16.131 --> 59:17.812
[UNKNOWN]: So these cars have a lot of wounds.

59:18.332 --> 59:19.953
[UNKNOWN]: They have a lot to show for all these years.

59:20.013 --> 59:23.856
[UNKNOWN]: And I think that there's not too many other American cars that are remaining.

59:23.876 --> 59:29.960
[UNKNOWN]: They have quite the same amount of, you know, disrespect given to them that turn into character.

59:31.281 --> 59:34.784
[UNKNOWN]: It's probably the best way, just mal-treatment, just lack of attention.

59:35.224 --> 59:36.205
[UNKNOWN]: And they're still around.

59:37.225 --> 59:38.165
[UNKNOWN]: These cars are still here.

59:38.205 --> 59:57.592
[UNKNOWN]: You don't see the patina on these old American cars quite so much Right these Volkswagen's are the ones that have it so I think it might be even hour thing It's might be hours, you know the Volkswagen community thing, but maybe that's I can't really speak for others I'm just just you know spitball and that one, but yeah, I'm not attracted to Russness necessarily Unless it's I think it's project.

59:58.072 --> 01:00:01.173
[UNKNOWN]: I think it's become very popular Especially because

01:00:03.163 --> 01:00:16.649
[UNKNOWN]: shiny was cool, you know, in the 80s into the 90s, the hot pinks and the, you know, the purples and the, you know, the bright kind of themes, you know, into the early 90s, the whole thing on colors.

01:00:16.929 --> 01:00:17.749
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, neon colors.

01:00:17.769 --> 01:00:22.491
[UNKNOWN]: That was all kind of really popular rust, patina, you know, where they really wasn't the thing.

01:00:23.132 --> 01:00:29.034
[UNKNOWN]: When I got back into the Volkswagen community in early, like 2018, 2019, right before

01:00:31.459 --> 01:01:00.384
[UNKNOWN]: uh... when i had got back into it uh... mhm as after you know raising my kids and probably taking a good twelve to almost five fifteen year high atas i had noticed when i got back into it that the patina in the rust was like now this new kind of celebrated badge uh... almost of honor in inside all of that yeah yeah and i'd you know even go into the shows and stuff i'm like you know at first it kind of hit me and i'm like

01:01:01.383 --> 01:01:09.345
[UNKNOWN]: Why are we celebrating this beat up like what happened to shiny and cool and restored and, you know, lustrous and all that?

01:01:09.985 --> 01:01:13.225
[UNKNOWN]: But the more I saw it, and like you said, you said it perfect.

01:01:13.926 --> 01:01:27.088
[UNKNOWN]: The more I saw it, I kind of started to respect it as this kind of badge of wrong, this war scars, this, you know, look how much this community, these cars have been through, look how much they're worth now, look how much it's celebrating.

01:01:27.648 --> 01:01:28.589
[UNKNOWN]: And to be honest, brother,

01:01:31.169 --> 01:01:31.489
[UNKNOWN]: shit.

01:01:32.370 --> 01:01:34.132
[UNKNOWN]: I might want a patina car.

01:01:35.253 --> 01:01:39.637
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it's, you know, it started actually becoming a little bit more attractive to me.

01:01:40.237 --> 01:01:55.552
[UNKNOWN]: So when I thought about this outline and thought about your projects and thought about all the shit you tinker with, I thought you could definitely talk on why people, especially the Volkswagen community are maybe more emotionally attached to patina or to rust.

01:01:56.192 --> 01:02:07.958
[UNKNOWN]: respectfully, I respect that you're not into it yourself, but I love what you said, you know, because we do celebrate, you know, the, the, the war scars in the, in the bad water.

01:02:08.058 --> 01:02:11.800
[UNKNOWN]: And I think that, that we as a community are proud of that.

01:02:12.220 --> 01:02:13.061
[UNKNOWN]: And I, I do.

01:02:13.121 --> 01:02:14.081
[UNKNOWN]: I think it's character.

01:02:14.261 --> 01:02:15.482
[UNKNOWN]: It's personal, personal.

01:02:15.862 --> 01:02:18.944
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, these cars are all very, very personal.

01:02:19.184 --> 01:02:21.545
[UNKNOWN]: They're very fine intricate details.

01:02:21.826 --> 01:02:29.410
[UNKNOWN]: Every frick in one is just a little tiny bit different in, you know, and even in the patina, the patina patterns are different.

01:02:29.530 --> 01:02:35.354
[UNKNOWN]: You know, the rust pads, it really becomes this kind of whole thing and I agree with you.

01:02:35.634 --> 01:02:36.815
[UNKNOWN]: It maybe it is just us.

01:02:37.675 --> 01:02:43.878
[UNKNOWN]: Um, I've seen, you know, some other car cultures have to airbrush, you know, rust.

01:02:43.918 --> 01:02:54.444
[UNKNOWN]: They got it over the top of a beautifully restored, you know, body, but then it looks like it's rusty and shit and from a distance, you're like, oh, yeah, and you get up to it and you're like, well, hold on a minute, man.

01:02:55.124 --> 01:03:02.888
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, run it, run it, run it, run it, run it, run it, run it, run it, I got a friends beetle.

01:03:02.928 --> 01:03:03.549
[UNKNOWN]: It's like that.

01:03:03.609 --> 01:03:03.809
[UNKNOWN]: There.

01:03:03.829 --> 01:03:04.109
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:03:05.255 --> 01:03:24.042
[UNKNOWN]: they they polished as much as the steel as they could so had swirl marks in the steel some of the rust got through in a couple spots because i guess it didn't attack attack it is attentively as they should have so it's just clear coat it over that and like i said you get up to it it's like wow looks pretty cool you get up to close so you're like i wasn't very well done

01:03:26.724 --> 01:03:28.545
[UNKNOWN]: It's probably one of the ugliest cars in town.

01:03:28.585 --> 01:03:30.427
[UNKNOWN]: In fact, he won an ugliest car trophy.

01:03:30.467 --> 01:03:31.968
[UNKNOWN]: One of our car shows a few years back.

01:03:33.189 --> 01:03:34.810
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, there was no car that was uglier.

01:03:34.830 --> 01:03:35.871
[UNKNOWN]: We were all looking at that one.

01:03:35.891 --> 01:03:37.692
[UNKNOWN]: He was just like, oh, my car.

01:03:39.153 --> 01:03:40.454
[UNKNOWN]: That was just so bad.

01:03:42.176 --> 01:03:45.358
[UNKNOWN]: I'll send you pictures of that one too, for it's just awful.

01:03:45.498 --> 01:03:48.701
[UNKNOWN]: Even whenever I put it on my YouTube channel, people are like, what is that?

01:03:49.056 --> 01:03:50.858
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, cool, kind of cool.

01:03:51.018 --> 01:03:54.320
[UNKNOWN]: It looks even worse now because he's just beat it up over the years.

01:03:55.982 --> 01:03:57.283
[UNKNOWN]: Let's touch on the chop top.

01:03:57.743 --> 01:03:59.124
[UNKNOWN]: Let's get some top.

01:03:59.164 --> 01:03:59.745
[UNKNOWN]: Let's talk to him.

01:03:59.765 --> 01:04:01.646
[UNKNOWN]: Right, let's talk to him on the on the chop top.

01:04:02.107 --> 01:04:06.390
[UNKNOWN]: When did I guess this vision for this car first first hit you?

01:04:06.751 --> 01:04:08.372
[UNKNOWN]: Tell me tell me this back me up.

01:04:08.392 --> 01:04:09.253
[UNKNOWN]: Tell me the whole story.

01:04:10.403 --> 01:04:11.784
[UNKNOWN]: Well, I was one of the Beatles, you know.

01:04:12.224 --> 01:04:15.267
[UNKNOWN]: And when I got my first one when I was 18 years old, I was very proud of that car.

01:04:15.307 --> 01:04:19.090
[UNKNOWN]: And I knew it was going to be cutting it up to repair all the rust and problems that had had.

01:04:19.690 --> 01:04:21.411
[UNKNOWN]: But I went to some just random car show.

01:04:21.431 --> 01:04:22.612
[UNKNOWN]: And this was in Fort Myers.

01:04:22.652 --> 01:04:23.353
[UNKNOWN]: I used to live down there.

01:04:23.893 --> 01:04:27.176
[UNKNOWN]: And in Fort Myers, they had just cars and motorcycles.

01:04:27.256 --> 01:04:28.737
[UNKNOWN]: It was, I don't even remember where it was.

01:04:28.757 --> 01:04:29.718
[UNKNOWN]: There's just stuff.

01:04:30.458 --> 01:04:31.399
[UNKNOWN]: Anybody could bring anything.

01:04:32.677 --> 01:04:34.738
[UNKNOWN]: And some woman rolled in in a chop top beetle.

01:04:34.979 --> 01:04:36.380
[UNKNOWN]: It's the first time I had ever seen one.

01:04:36.540 --> 01:04:38.601
[UNKNOWN]: I didn't know that a car couldn't look like that.

01:04:38.621 --> 01:04:39.602
[UNKNOWN]: And I thought it came that way.

01:04:39.622 --> 01:04:41.083
[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, Dad, when did they make these?

01:04:42.364 --> 01:04:43.784
[UNKNOWN]: And my dad's like, that's a chop top.

01:04:43.804 --> 01:04:44.705
[UNKNOWN]: Somebody built that.

01:04:45.566 --> 01:04:47.627
[UNKNOWN]: And I had no idea that such a thing could even be done.

01:04:47.687 --> 01:04:49.708
[UNKNOWN]: I just my mind hadn't opened up to that idea.

01:04:49.808 --> 01:04:51.510
[UNKNOWN]: And I said, that's what I want.

01:04:52.270 --> 01:04:54.752
[UNKNOWN]: And my dad went, ah, not to a beetle.

01:04:55.543 --> 01:05:21.741
[UNKNOWN]: like why he says because all those curves and all those shapes it's going to be the hardest one to cut me says I'm just not interested this is a seasoned body guy that have been doing body you know 40 years like I just I don't want to touch that this is not interested too hard so what if I bought a well there and I started cutting he says you'll never finish it and he's probably right 18 years old I wouldn't finish it because I didn't finish the car ultimately because both moved down with our lives did other things but yeah that was when I

01:05:23.282 --> 01:05:25.823
[UNKNOWN]: And as you know, I ended up selling that car and I pulled the parts off of it.

01:05:26.684 --> 01:05:34.108
[UNKNOWN]: And then I ended up buying a 69 and a 73 up here years later, we're talking 15, 10, 15 years ago.

01:05:34.128 --> 01:05:37.130
[UNKNOWN]: And I had those two cars and I'm looking, I'm like, I want to chop one of them.

01:05:37.150 --> 01:05:38.831
[UNKNOWN]: But they're too good to shame.

01:05:39.611 --> 01:05:42.633
[UNKNOWN]: You know, they had some four-pan problems, but that's not body problems.

01:05:42.673 --> 01:05:45.474
[UNKNOWN]: If the body were just collapsing, that's the project I'm looking for.

01:05:45.514 --> 01:05:46.635
[UNKNOWN]: I said I really want an oval.

01:05:47.589 --> 01:05:50.471
[UNKNOWN]: said, all right, well, I'm going to take the saw to this 69 beetle.

01:05:50.812 --> 01:05:51.652
[UNKNOWN]: We're just going to cut it up.

01:05:52.393 --> 01:06:00.820
[UNKNOWN]: And then on Craigslist, that same night, I saw an ad for an oval, just down the street from here right across the street from a Walmart.

01:06:01.241 --> 01:06:04.043
[UNKNOWN]: There's this oval sitting over there and the guys looking to scrap it.

01:06:04.063 --> 01:06:08.006
[UNKNOWN]: He wanted like 3,500 bucks for it and I like that's not worth it.

01:06:09.187 --> 01:06:12.269
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, the cars, you know, everything was just caving in on it.

01:06:12.629 --> 01:06:13.609
[UNKNOWN]: The doors were shaking.

01:06:13.629 --> 01:06:14.930
[UNKNOWN]: The whole body was just twisted.

01:06:15.350 --> 01:06:16.651
[UNKNOWN]: I said, there's no way it's worth that much.

01:06:16.711 --> 01:06:17.651
[UNKNOWN]: It's not that much there.

01:06:18.131 --> 01:06:20.032
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, this is spare parts for another project.

01:06:20.332 --> 01:06:22.573
[UNKNOWN]: You'd have to make everything the whole just spare parts together.

01:06:22.613 --> 01:06:23.134
[UNKNOWN]: He knew that.

01:06:23.694 --> 01:06:24.334
[UNKNOWN]: And he liked me.

01:06:24.354 --> 01:06:25.175
[UNKNOWN]: He took a liking to me.

01:06:25.195 --> 01:06:26.135
[UNKNOWN]: And he liked my vision.

01:06:26.575 --> 01:06:28.076
[UNKNOWN]: And he says, I want you to have this car.

01:06:28.116 --> 01:06:29.757
[UNKNOWN]: And we work out a really good deal.

01:06:30.792 --> 01:06:31.493
[UNKNOWN]: so much of a good deal.

01:06:31.533 --> 01:06:34.675
[UNKNOWN]: In fact, he gave me the car three floor pans with a couple extra engines.

01:06:35.116 --> 01:06:38.879
[UNKNOWN]: He just said clear my yard of all the Volkswagen stuff that you see says I got to get it out of here.

01:06:38.899 --> 01:06:40.160
[UNKNOWN]: This is why I'm scrapping everything else.

01:06:40.440 --> 01:06:40.780
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:06:41.361 --> 01:06:46.785
[UNKNOWN]: So we took the the beatle off of his trailer because it was going to go to the scrapping yard that day.

01:06:46.805 --> 01:06:53.871
[UNKNOWN]: He says I had given up selling it and I came home and I looked at it and I said this is the one this is the one we're going to cut this one.

01:06:54.551 --> 01:06:59.917
[UNKNOWN]: And I made the first video of me cutting it apart and oh I caught a lot of hell about it but nobody understood just how bad it was.

01:06:59.937 --> 01:07:01.098
[UNKNOWN]: I had to shake that door.

01:07:01.579 --> 01:07:02.940
[UNKNOWN]: The door would literally do this.

01:07:02.960 --> 01:07:05.243
[UNKNOWN]: You could just lift the door down.

01:07:05.703 --> 01:07:06.784
[UNKNOWN]: It was like a Lamborghini door.

01:07:06.804 --> 01:07:07.485
[UNKNOWN]: It didn't mean to be.

01:07:07.525 --> 01:07:09.107
[UNKNOWN]: But I just fold right up.

01:07:10.769 --> 01:07:14.753
[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I knew that was the one that had the vision and I said we're going to cut this one.

01:07:15.193 --> 01:07:15.373
[UNKNOWN]: And my

01:07:18.083 --> 01:07:19.023
[UNKNOWN]: thought changed a little bit.

01:07:19.043 --> 01:07:20.484
[UNKNOWN]: I wanted a slightly different style.

01:07:20.784 --> 01:07:24.666
[UNKNOWN]: I didn't want to just lower the lid and I have been studying roof chops for over all these years.

01:07:24.686 --> 01:07:30.449
[UNKNOWN]: They even made a few model cars to understand the shapes and intricacies of how I wanted to cut this thing.

01:07:31.229 --> 01:07:34.111
[UNKNOWN]: And everybody told me you have to cut it into six pieces or eight pieces.

01:07:34.131 --> 01:07:35.912
[UNKNOWN]: You got a section at roof and this is what I said.

01:07:36.332 --> 01:07:36.772
[UNKNOWN]: No you don't.

01:07:37.672 --> 01:07:38.693
[UNKNOWN]: I said it's not going to look right.

01:07:38.713 --> 01:07:39.353
[UNKNOWN]: I said, look at that one.

01:07:39.373 --> 01:07:40.154
[UNKNOWN]: How it's been sectioned?

01:07:41.087 --> 01:07:41.848
[UNKNOWN]: that car's flat.

01:07:42.668 --> 01:07:43.749
[UNKNOWN]: Everything's goofy looking.

01:07:43.789 --> 01:07:44.689
[UNKNOWN]: It's all spread out.

01:07:44.709 --> 01:07:45.430
[UNKNOWN]: It doesn't look right.

01:07:45.450 --> 01:07:47.672
[UNKNOWN]: That natural curve, that bubble's gone.

01:07:48.352 --> 01:07:50.273
[UNKNOWN]: Somebody says, section it and then put a bubble on it.

01:07:50.313 --> 01:07:52.275
[UNKNOWN]: I said, well, then your roof gutters look straight.

01:07:52.935 --> 01:07:54.536
[UNKNOWN]: And you get this dome at the top of it.

01:07:54.876 --> 01:07:56.377
[UNKNOWN]: And it looks like the top of my bald head.

01:07:56.398 --> 01:07:57.959
[UNKNOWN]: I said, that don't look right either.

01:07:57.979 --> 01:07:59.179
[UNKNOWN]: I said, that's no good.

01:07:59.700 --> 01:08:03.642
[UNKNOWN]: So I decided I'm going to do this with one roof.

01:08:04.323 --> 01:08:06.424
[UNKNOWN]: And Eric Fernand, you know, Eric?

01:08:06.885 --> 01:08:07.085
[UNKNOWN]: No.

01:08:07.925 --> 01:08:09.306
[UNKNOWN]: He's one you need to interview, too.

01:08:09.406 --> 01:08:18.412
[UNKNOWN]: He had a whole chopped up beetle that he had built 10 plus years ago on volksrods.com.

01:08:18.452 --> 01:08:20.153
[UNKNOWN]: I guess it was, I think they're still around.

01:08:20.613 --> 01:08:23.875
[UNKNOWN]: They have a forum and he just documented his entire project from start to finish.

01:08:23.895 --> 01:08:25.476
[UNKNOWN]: And I look at the way he cut his roof.

01:08:25.997 --> 01:08:27.298
[UNKNOWN]: And he didn't section the roof.

01:08:27.318 --> 01:08:31.340
[UNKNOWN]: He actually took the roof and cut it diagonally from the back windows down under the

01:08:34.242 --> 01:08:35.543
[UNKNOWN]: and I said, I like what he did there.

01:08:35.983 --> 01:08:46.228
[UNKNOWN]: So I'm going to base some of what I'm doing on that and spread the pillars out instead and do all the little intricacies and the pillars to make the pillars open up so that natural roof is there.

01:08:47.229 --> 01:08:52.272
[UNKNOWN]: But when I do this natural roof, I want to tip it forward just a little bit on the front, bringing this down.

01:08:53.200 --> 01:09:07.171
[UNKNOWN]: So the windshield is actually only about that tall and it got a lot smaller than it would have been otherwise otherwise it might have been like that, but and the back window is look a little bigger as a result, but it gives it that aggressive stance it's leaning forwards and she just looks angry.

01:09:13.035 --> 01:09:39.528
[UNKNOWN]: but that was a vision I went with and I ran with it and I used one roof with a couple small slivers from this and of that because remember I did have to cut that roof in half when it's the car broke so I had to graft it back together and I had to extend it about that much in the middle just to give it a little bit more reach so I could get that natural curve and the natural slope was there and when I brought it to Earl over at class of car creations and he had it for I think about two and a half years while he was doing the paint and the work on it as you know paint work will shrink

01:09:40.328 --> 01:09:46.996
[UNKNOWN]: So he did all the fill in all these places because big chopped up is all this and that is welding scars and he had to do a little bit of this and that to it.

01:09:48.077 --> 01:09:51.621
[UNKNOWN]: And if you start putting filler on things it has what he calls dieback or shrink.

01:09:52.321 --> 01:09:56.706
[UNKNOWN]: So if you immediately paint over it, your paint shrinks and you get a groove.

01:09:57.507 --> 01:09:58.688
[UNKNOWN]: So it's just a looks awful.

01:09:58.748 --> 01:10:01.749
[UNKNOWN]: So any filler that you put on a car, you have to make sure to accommodate for that.

01:10:01.769 --> 01:10:05.451
[UNKNOWN]: So he had lots of time to let the material shrink back.

01:10:06.192 --> 01:10:10.554
[UNKNOWN]: But when he finished it up, he's looking at it and he goes, I saw a regular beetle the other day.

01:10:10.574 --> 01:10:11.954
[UNKNOWN]: It looks weird.

01:10:13.135 --> 01:10:17.097
[UNKNOWN]: He says, I'm so used to looking at this chopped up and it's so beautiful.

01:10:17.357 --> 01:10:18.678
[UNKNOWN]: The shapes are just perfect.

01:10:19.018 --> 01:10:20.479
[UNKNOWN]: He says, a standard beetle looks weird.

01:10:20.979 --> 01:10:22.460
[UNKNOWN]: He says, it just doesn't look right to me anymore.

01:10:23.980 --> 01:10:43.011
[UNKNOWN]: I will admit, before I ask you about your biggest challenge on that car, I will tell you, I will admit this, I want a Vultra, and it's only in recent times, last probably 24 months or so, really it's been since I've started doing this podcast and I've had a few guys on that

01:10:47.153 --> 01:10:48.735
[UNKNOWN]: I, I, they stand out.

01:10:48.875 --> 01:10:50.716
[UNKNOWN]: That shows a look at them now.

01:10:51.037 --> 01:10:51.737
[UNKNOWN]: Love them chopped.

01:10:51.797 --> 01:10:53.639
[UNKNOWN]: I love the truck versions that they make.

01:10:54.139 --> 01:10:56.021
[UNKNOWN]: I love the larger back tires.

01:10:56.061 --> 01:10:57.502
[UNKNOWN]: I love the extended front ends.

01:10:57.542 --> 01:11:00.685
[UNKNOWN]: I'm really just having this attraction towards them.

01:11:01.286 --> 01:11:02.927
[UNKNOWN]: And I keep going back and forth, man.

01:11:02.947 --> 01:11:05.149
[UNKNOWN]: I've got a 62 beetle that is.

01:11:06.158 --> 01:11:16.326
[UNKNOWN]: it's pretty solid man, you know, it's got a few spots, passenger side floor needs to be done, couple spots up on the car, rest it and need to be done.

01:11:16.826 --> 01:11:18.468
[UNKNOWN]: And I keep going and forth, I'm like,

01:11:19.618 --> 01:11:29.741
[UNKNOWN]: Bolksrod this thing or restore it and lower it and kind of, you know, do some of the classic beetle stuff that I also, you know, I'm a classy guy, man.

01:11:29.761 --> 01:11:30.922
[UNKNOWN]: I like that look too.

01:11:32.682 --> 01:11:35.123
[UNKNOWN]: I don't, I just don't know right now it's a project.

01:11:35.443 --> 01:11:39.645
[UNKNOWN]: It's I've got a 1776 of my garage that I'm waiting to.

01:11:40.485 --> 01:11:41.145
[UNKNOWN]: to put in it.

01:11:41.265 --> 01:11:48.609
[UNKNOWN]: It's got, you know, it's, it's stock 1200 sixable in it now, pain in the ass.

01:11:48.789 --> 01:12:06.016
[UNKNOWN]: It never wants to start the battery out of the ice, you know, every time what you jump it with exactly so every charger that I keep on it plugged into an extension cord and then sometimes that doesn't work and I'm like, man, this is just, it's just, it's too much.

01:12:06.056 --> 01:12:07.437
[UNKNOWN]: So now it sits under the cover.

01:12:08.417 --> 01:12:11.739
[UNKNOWN]: And I'm really trying to decide what I want to do with this.

01:12:12.139 --> 01:12:15.980
[UNKNOWN]: Carmen Gi is the project that we're completing and working on right now, though.

01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:21.803
[UNKNOWN]: So this 62 is taking the back burner, but the point was, I want to vote throughout their so sexy.

01:12:22.183 --> 01:12:22.983
[UNKNOWN]: They're so cool.

01:12:23.744 --> 01:12:24.724
[UNKNOWN]: I like them so much.

01:12:24.824 --> 01:12:31.307
[UNKNOWN]: I even like when you open up the back, you know, and this 1776 that I have came off of the track.

01:12:31.867 --> 01:12:53.021
[UNKNOWN]: So it's already got that external kind of, you know, spun around and big ass exhaust that just shoots straight out, you know, which I was going to have to take off to put into the car and so that sometimes I look at the back of the for some of the Volkswagen's and I'm like, man, they took that off that all that engine would just sit right back there, man, it looks like you know, yes, right in.

01:12:55.171 --> 01:12:57.232
[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, anyhow, this ain't about me.

01:12:57.252 --> 01:12:58.053
[UNKNOWN]: This is about you.

01:12:58.253 --> 01:12:59.854
[UNKNOWN]: Back to this card though.

01:12:59.874 --> 01:13:02.095
[UNKNOWN]: What was, what was one of your biggest challenges?

01:13:02.135 --> 01:13:03.796
[UNKNOWN]: What was one of the hardest parts of building it?

01:13:03.816 --> 01:13:04.457
[UNKNOWN]: Was it the roof?

01:13:05.825 --> 01:13:06.746
[UNKNOWN]: actually that was easy.

01:13:07.306 --> 01:13:11.229
[UNKNOWN]: I had the vision for it and because the roof is one piece it's just put it on.

01:13:11.949 --> 01:13:24.098
[UNKNOWN]: The hardest harder thing for that was making the pillars line up because the roof as you know they slope upwards like this so the pillars get more narrow so when you drop the roof down and you cut a section out of it the pillars don't line up anymore.

01:13:24.498 --> 01:13:26.780
[UNKNOWN]: So you have to take all the pieces and stretch them this.

01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:29.642
[UNKNOWN]: A lot of ones have to widen top ones have to come out.

01:13:29.682 --> 01:13:30.162
[UNKNOWN]: Everything needs

01:13:31.323 --> 01:13:35.184
[UNKNOWN]: Just, yeah, it was a lot of work went into that, but the roof was actually the easy part.

01:13:35.624 --> 01:13:39.025
[UNKNOWN]: The roof, if I were to redo when I could probably do it in a weekend, that's not too hard.

01:13:39.045 --> 01:13:44.367
[UNKNOWN]: The doors were a lot harder because a lot of moving parts in there and there's more pieces that need to fit right.

01:13:44.907 --> 01:13:49.268
[UNKNOWN]: And because of the roof sloping forwards and the pillars having changed, now the doors need radical adjustments.

01:13:49.749 --> 01:13:53.590
[UNKNOWN]: And I don't even know if the window is going to roll up all the way yet because of the way the pillars lean.

01:13:53.610 --> 01:13:55.230
[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to have to come up with a solution for that.

01:13:55.970 --> 01:13:58.091
[UNKNOWN]: You still have the solution might be the solution.

01:13:58.111 --> 01:13:58.771
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, it's in the garage.

01:13:58.971 --> 01:14:00.732
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that's what I thought.

01:14:01.734 --> 01:14:02.776
[UNKNOWN]: Hey, it's an apology.

01:14:02.796 --> 01:14:04.140
[UNKNOWN]: Have you ever thought about selling it?

01:14:04.180 --> 01:14:06.766
[UNKNOWN]: Or is it just an absolutely no way never will?

01:14:07.784 --> 01:14:11.667
[UNKNOWN]: You know, the question comes up very often and I've get offers all the time.

01:14:11.707 --> 01:14:13.749
[UNKNOWN]: In fact, I just got an offer a few weeks ago again.

01:14:13.769 --> 01:14:21.114
[UNKNOWN]: It's just it's not where I want to be because to me, the car is priceless, it's something I've wanted my whole life and then, you know, it's an 18 year old dream.

01:14:21.134 --> 01:14:24.877
[UNKNOWN]: I finally getting it now, middle-aged man, finally getting his toy car.

01:14:26.258 --> 01:14:30.482
[UNKNOWN]: So, I don't think I could let it go unless somebody really getting his stupid offer.

01:14:30.522 --> 01:14:33.804
[UNKNOWN]: And if that happened, you know what I'm going to do back to the garage or build another one.

01:14:36.590 --> 01:14:38.531
[UNKNOWN]: So let's touch on some of your inventions.

01:14:38.832 --> 01:14:41.153
[UNKNOWN]: I think it's really cool.

01:14:41.193 --> 01:14:43.335
[UNKNOWN]: I want, and I'm excited to hear about this.

01:14:44.576 --> 01:14:58.686
[UNKNOWN]: At what point did you start to think, maybe some of this stuff I'm creating, and I should maybe start thinking about selling it, or, yeah, but tell me kind of how this started to metastasize.

01:14:59.688 --> 01:15:02.509
[UNKNOWN]: Well, I had solutions to problems.

01:15:03.029 --> 01:15:08.130
[UNKNOWN]: One of the problems I had, particularly with my quack and bushing is that little nylon bushing, and I'm sure you've replaced these things.

01:15:08.590 --> 01:15:11.211
[UNKNOWN]: Everybody has, if you're on a Volkswagen, you're gonna replace it after some time.

01:15:11.571 --> 01:15:11.931
[UNKNOWN]: Explain.

01:15:11.951 --> 01:15:12.771
[UNKNOWN]: And you used to be cheap.

01:15:12.791 --> 01:15:13.391
[UNKNOWN]: Bushing is.

01:15:14.011 --> 01:15:14.652
[UNKNOWN]: To sum up.

01:15:14.752 --> 01:15:15.832
[UNKNOWN]: Well, we're gonna get to that.

01:15:15.912 --> 01:15:19.573
[UNKNOWN]: The original bushing is just a nylon bushing that goes in your shift or shift.

01:15:19.593 --> 01:15:21.753
[UNKNOWN]: It slides right in a little hole and you shift goes through it.

01:15:21.773 --> 01:15:24.694
[UNKNOWN]: And I'm not trying to be perverted here, but it slides right in there.

01:15:25.114 --> 01:15:28.255
[UNKNOWN]: And that bushing will fall apart and then you have a loose hole.

01:15:28.635 --> 01:15:32.138
[UNKNOWN]: and your shift will bang around your misgears and it's just a horrible, horrible experience.

01:15:32.178 --> 01:15:33.919
[UNKNOWN]: Now, the parts are relatively inexpensive.

01:15:33.939 --> 01:15:35.320
[UNKNOWN]: They used to be less than $1.

01:15:36.001 --> 01:15:40.424
[UNKNOWN]: Nowadays, it costs you up to five bucks for one of these nylon bushings and when you install it, it breaks.

01:15:41.305 --> 01:15:43.387
[UNKNOWN]: Like I just spent five bucks on this thing, it's already broken.

01:15:44.198 --> 01:15:46.419
[UNKNOWN]: So you better buy two, because hopefully the second one will work.

01:15:46.939 --> 01:15:51.540
[UNKNOWN]: But I created a part that completely replaces that out of modern materials.

01:15:51.560 --> 01:15:58.382
[UNKNOWN]: This actually uses a, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, you're a thing, a modern, you're a thing that's soft and squishy and has self-healing properties.

01:15:58.402 --> 01:16:01.043
[UNKNOWN]: So if it gets a scratch on it, it'll actually heal itself up.

01:16:01.743 --> 01:16:05.585
[UNKNOWN]: Well, hey, if you cut it, if you cut it, it's ruined, but if you put a little scratch in it, yeah, it'll self-heal.

01:16:06.525 --> 01:16:10.487
[UNKNOWN]: These things are soft, so they still absorb vibration.

01:16:11.067 --> 01:16:15.028
[UNKNOWN]: There are other solutions on the market that are made from brass or delrin, but then your shift or vibrates.

01:16:15.068 --> 01:16:17.269
[UNKNOWN]: And everybody that I know that used one of those has the same thing.

01:16:17.289 --> 01:16:19.990
[UNKNOWN]: If the shift or shakes all over the place, the mind doesn't do that.

01:16:20.010 --> 01:16:21.211
[UNKNOWN]: You get a nice soft piece in there.

01:16:21.711 --> 01:16:23.152
[UNKNOWN]: It also eliminates the metal ring.

01:16:23.632 --> 01:16:30.134
[UNKNOWN]: There's a metal ring in there that holds that split nylon piece closed, which is just awful, because when you push them in, they start to do this.

01:16:31.915 --> 01:16:59.508
[UNKNOWN]: My piece is concentric and closed, so when you install it and then you push your shaft into it, it stays locked in the place it goes nowhere And it has to be completely obliterated for a team of fallouts, so they should last a lot longer and my experience because I test all my own products They've made it through the hot summers here in Florida, and they made it through the freezing winters where it's snowed here in Fetscola And they never felled up, they never shattered broker You know, they never just the shifter feels just like it did from the day I installed those push-ins

01:17:00.108 --> 01:17:10.814
[UNKNOWN]: And in addition to the quacken bushing, which is the piece that goes underneath the shifter, I also created a set of shaft huggers that I call them, which is the pucks that go in the back that holds your shifter out to your transmission.

01:17:11.314 --> 01:17:18.238
[UNKNOWN]: And I design those a little differently too, so they wrap around the shaft, rather than being two flat things on a round surface, because what does that do at rolls?

01:17:18.678 --> 01:17:21.880
[UNKNOWN]: Wants to just shift and roll, this actually will hold or hug the shaft.

01:17:22.460 --> 01:17:24.480
[UNKNOWN]: So these things, it just worked really, really well.

01:17:24.560 --> 01:17:29.621
[UNKNOWN]: And whenever I go to an event, I always have some in the car, because people always say, I want one now.

01:17:29.901 --> 01:17:32.582
[UNKNOWN]: So I think I'll start at that, which is a small batch.

01:17:32.622 --> 01:17:33.882
[UNKNOWN]: I fixed a couple of my own cars.

01:17:33.902 --> 01:17:35.722
[UNKNOWN]: A lot of trial and error went through it to make it work.

01:17:36.362 --> 01:17:38.103
[UNKNOWN]: And then somebody said, I want one.

01:17:38.123 --> 01:17:39.043
[UNKNOWN]: So I made a couple of them.

01:17:39.063 --> 01:17:39.783
[UNKNOWN]: And I sold a few.

01:17:40.383 --> 01:17:41.503
[UNKNOWN]: And then I always said, it was I want more.

01:17:41.523 --> 01:17:42.223
[UNKNOWN]: So I made a batch.

01:17:42.243 --> 01:17:43.184
[UNKNOWN]: And that sold out quick.

01:17:43.204 --> 01:17:44.684
[UNKNOWN]: And I'm like, now I need to make a big batch.

01:17:45.184 --> 01:17:51.045
[UNKNOWN]: And now at this point, I need to invest in some new tooling to make some more, because I nearly added them again in my tooling and started to fail.

01:17:52.533 --> 01:17:54.056
[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to get some new parts made up.

01:17:54.497 --> 01:17:55.038
[UNKNOWN]: I love that.

01:17:55.058 --> 01:18:01.169
[UNKNOWN]: I love to hear the the innovativeness, the inventive side of that and that it's successful.

01:18:01.189 --> 01:18:01.810
[UNKNOWN]: That's so cool.

01:18:02.251 --> 01:18:04.075
[UNKNOWN]: How the heck do you come up with these names though?

01:18:05.555 --> 01:18:07.297
[UNKNOWN]: Um, part of my personality.

01:18:07.557 --> 01:18:09.238
[UNKNOWN]: Again, I can't tell where these things come from.

01:18:09.258 --> 01:18:12.120
[UNKNOWN]: Maybe I have a, you know, a link to an alternate dimension somewhere.

01:18:12.140 --> 01:18:13.922
[UNKNOWN]: I just, I have an antenna.

01:18:14.242 --> 01:18:15.643
[UNKNOWN]: I'm receiving signals from aliens.

01:18:16.164 --> 01:18:17.525
[UNKNOWN]: It's just that the name just come to mind.

01:18:17.865 --> 01:18:20.667
[UNKNOWN]: And being that it was a dark thing and that it's a bushing.

01:18:20.687 --> 01:18:21.888
[UNKNOWN]: You know, it's like a cracking bushing.

01:18:21.908 --> 01:18:22.609
[UNKNOWN]: Somebody's name.

01:18:22.629 --> 01:18:24.210
[UNKNOWN]: I have a cracking bushing.

01:18:24.811 --> 01:18:25.591
[UNKNOWN]: So I Google it.

01:18:26.612 --> 01:18:28.693
[UNKNOWN]: And there's nothing on the internet about cracking bushings.

01:18:28.713 --> 01:18:31.554
[UNKNOWN]: So I call it a dirt cracking bushing, or a dirt cracking bushing.

01:18:31.574 --> 01:18:34.154
[UNKNOWN]: It's like to say, I'm probably using a poor accident for that.

01:18:34.415 --> 01:18:37.115
[UNKNOWN]: And I had a little trademark next to it, and it's my product.

01:18:37.435 --> 01:18:39.036
[UNKNOWN]: So now people mention cracking bushings.

01:18:39.056 --> 01:18:42.637
[UNKNOWN]: They know it's the duckman, and they know what it is because of what it is.

01:18:42.657 --> 01:18:43.938
[UNKNOWN]: So one named for everything.

01:18:44.298 --> 01:18:45.358
[UNKNOWN]: And that's why I came to that mine.

01:18:45.398 --> 01:18:46.218
[UNKNOWN]: A shaft hugger as well.

01:18:46.238 --> 01:18:46.758
[UNKNOWN]: I think it's literal.

01:18:46.778 --> 01:18:47.139
[UNKNOWN]: A shaft hugger.

01:18:47.159 --> 01:18:54.901
[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

01:18:55.449 --> 01:18:57.392
[UNKNOWN]: Yes, the logic converters.

01:18:57.412 --> 01:19:00.297
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, what problem were you trying to solve with coming up with these?

01:19:01.579 --> 01:19:03.322
[UNKNOWN]: Three into two wiring for tail lights.

01:19:04.003 --> 01:19:06.607
[UNKNOWN]: I had a gentleman bring over a car here that was doing a 12-volt.

01:19:08.541 --> 01:19:09.902
[UNKNOWN]: This was at a 12-volt conversion.

01:19:09.922 --> 01:19:11.582
[UNKNOWN]: It was a partial 12-volt conversion.

01:19:11.602 --> 01:19:12.503
[UNKNOWN]: He had a six-volt car.

01:19:12.963 --> 01:19:14.524
[UNKNOWN]: And he had these little 12-volt adapters.

01:19:14.564 --> 01:19:15.864
[UNKNOWN]: He wanted only on certain lights.

01:19:16.705 --> 01:19:19.426
[UNKNOWN]: And it went, oh, what are you doing?

01:19:19.706 --> 01:19:20.686
[UNKNOWN]: Because this is the way I want to do it.

01:19:20.706 --> 01:19:22.547
[UNKNOWN]: I want to change out the degenerator.

01:19:22.667 --> 01:19:23.748
[UNKNOWN]: I want to keep everything six-volt.

01:19:23.768 --> 01:19:25.428
[UNKNOWN]: I'm like, well, everything's not six-volt.

01:19:25.669 --> 01:19:26.949
[UNKNOWN]: Hey, if you're using these adapters.

01:19:27.529 --> 01:19:28.410
[UNKNOWN]: So anyway, he, um...

01:19:29.398 --> 01:19:32.682
[UNKNOWN]: got some 12-volt LED snowflake tail lights.

01:19:33.463 --> 01:19:35.846
[UNKNOWN]: And the wiring that goes into them is three wires.

01:19:35.866 --> 01:19:38.950
[UNKNOWN]: There's a ground and there's a bright and a low, and that's all there is in there.

01:19:39.391 --> 01:19:40.653
[UNKNOWN]: On later model tail lights,

01:19:42.139 --> 01:19:44.301
[UNKNOWN]: You have three wires that goes into it.

01:19:44.321 --> 01:19:47.543
[UNKNOWN]: Your tail light, your brake light, and your turn signal.

01:19:47.603 --> 01:19:49.845
[UNKNOWN]: So you've got to compline those three wires into two.

01:19:50.105 --> 01:19:51.046
[UNKNOWN]: And that doesn't mesh.

01:19:51.106 --> 01:19:51.686
[UNKNOWN]: They don't work.

01:19:51.706 --> 01:19:55.129
[UNKNOWN]: And if you try to double two of them up, then you end up with goofy things happening.

01:19:55.149 --> 01:19:58.732
[UNKNOWN]: Your brake lights come on on a wrong side or your turn signal turns on both sides.

01:19:59.692 --> 01:20:01.254
[UNKNOWN]: It's a bad situation.

01:20:01.694 --> 01:20:06.318
[UNKNOWN]: So what the logic converter does is it separates these signals out to where they're supposed to go.

01:20:06.938 --> 01:20:12.642
[UNKNOWN]: So if you have a break-light signal and a term signal come on at the same time, it makes that one side flash.

01:20:12.662 --> 01:20:14.603
[UNKNOWN]: So it turns the on signal if this makes sense.

01:20:14.643 --> 01:20:15.864
[UNKNOWN]: The break-light is currently on.

01:20:16.404 --> 01:20:19.206
[UNKNOWN]: Instead of being on, it turns it to an off signal.

01:20:19.226 --> 01:20:20.507
[UNKNOWN]: So it turns the break-light off.

01:20:21.630 --> 01:20:23.811
[UNKNOWN]: Instead of it flashing, it turns it off.

01:20:24.392 --> 01:20:27.713
[UNKNOWN]: So it's logically converting the signals into what it works to.

01:20:28.154 --> 01:20:29.474
[UNKNOWN]: So he had this goofy setup.

01:20:29.494 --> 01:20:30.475
[UNKNOWN]: He had this 12-volt lights.

01:20:30.495 --> 01:20:31.856
[UNKNOWN]: He had the wrong turn signal switch.

01:20:31.876 --> 01:20:33.677
[UNKNOWN]: And I said, there's only one way I know how to make this work.

01:20:34.117 --> 01:20:35.798
[UNKNOWN]: And I said, we can use a trailer adapter.

01:20:35.818 --> 01:20:37.619
[UNKNOWN]: But then you're going to have these wires.

01:20:37.659 --> 01:20:38.439
[UNKNOWN]: And it's going to be a mess.

01:20:38.479 --> 01:20:42.441
[UNKNOWN]: I said, I'm going to design you something that we can actually take your Volkswagen plugs.

01:20:43.822 --> 01:20:45.544
[UNKNOWN]: plug them all in right to where they belong.

01:20:45.564 --> 01:20:47.605
[UNKNOWN]: So simply just pull your wiring out plug it into this.

01:20:47.986 --> 01:20:50.748
[UNKNOWN]: Maybe an extra jumper wire or two and solve your problem.

01:20:51.288 --> 01:20:56.773
[UNKNOWN]: Anyway, I went and I produced a product, produced a circuit board and that was the original prototype and it works so well on that car.

01:20:56.793 --> 01:20:58.555
[UNKNOWN]: I said, okay, we have a prototype that functions.

01:20:58.575 --> 01:21:01.497
[UNKNOWN]: Let me make a couple adjustments to this and let's sell them.

01:21:01.877 --> 01:21:04.239
[UNKNOWN]: And as soon as I put them on the website, they started selling too.

01:21:05.258 --> 01:21:14.941
[UNKNOWN]: I have pressed myself with that and I even run one myself and I turned it around backwards because instead of it being for tail lights, it works on my double glass headlights which has a little running light in the bottom.

01:21:15.661 --> 01:21:19.582
[UNKNOWN]: I put an extra bright bulb in there and now it's running light and a turn signal.

01:21:20.142 --> 01:21:23.963
[UNKNOWN]: So when running lights are currently on it gives it off signal to this side so it will shut it off.

01:21:23.983 --> 01:21:28.285
[UNKNOWN]: So I worked out really nicely on there and I'm very proud of my product and I use it.

01:21:28.825 --> 01:21:31.526
[UNKNOWN]: And in addition I have another product here which is on my desk

01:21:32.666 --> 01:21:33.287
[UNKNOWN]: little dusty.

01:21:33.307 --> 01:21:34.848
[UNKNOWN]: This is my original prototype.

01:21:35.249 --> 01:21:38.873
[UNKNOWN]: But what this is is my signal switch headlight control.

01:21:39.453 --> 01:21:40.594
[UNKNOWN]: Can eliminate your headlight switch.

01:21:41.055 --> 01:21:42.777
[UNKNOWN]: This is something I have released yet to the market.

01:21:42.857 --> 01:21:44.959
[UNKNOWN]: I have the prototype is currently running well.

01:21:44.999 --> 01:21:46.601
[UNKNOWN]: Actually, the production version is running in my car.

01:21:46.621 --> 01:21:47.441
[UNKNOWN]: This is the prototype.

01:21:48.134 --> 01:21:50.737
[UNKNOWN]: But how it works, eliminate your headlight switch.

01:21:50.877 --> 01:21:52.078
[UNKNOWN]: How do you turn your headlight song?

01:21:52.719 --> 01:21:58.205
[UNKNOWN]: I always like Japanese cars at particular because you can turn a headlight song from your turn signal stock.

01:21:58.865 --> 01:22:00.187
[UNKNOWN]: A lot of Nissan's and Honda's in that way.

01:22:00.207 --> 01:22:07.214
[UNKNOWN]: I said, I wish I could do that on the Volkswagen, but there's no stock that you can replace the Hasola switches and you just have a high beam lobby.

01:22:08.315 --> 01:22:14.019
[UNKNOWN]: So I said, what if we had a little computer that controls your high beam low beam switch?

01:22:14.599 --> 01:22:25.587
[UNKNOWN]: So if you pull a switch one time, running lights come on, you pull the second time, the headlights come on, you pull it a third time, your headlight, your high beams come on, and then it's high low, high low, high low, hold it two seconds off.

01:22:27.689 --> 01:22:33.871
[UNKNOWN]: You have one wire, one wire controls all your headlights.

01:22:34.171 --> 01:22:36.332
[UNKNOWN]: And that's what this little guy is right here.

01:22:36.352 --> 01:22:37.672
[UNKNOWN]: This is the prototype of it.

01:22:38.152 --> 01:22:42.814
[UNKNOWN]: Webfootenterprises.com, my website, so it's a great little product.

01:22:42.874 --> 01:22:45.414
[UNKNOWN]: I've been running this for, I guess almost a year now.

01:22:45.814 --> 01:22:48.175
[UNKNOWN]: This was an idea that goes into and I'd show you.

01:22:48.215 --> 01:22:49.215
[UNKNOWN]: It's out here on my desk.

01:22:49.255 --> 01:22:50.416
[UNKNOWN]: This is my whole computer.

01:22:51.296 --> 01:22:52.997
[UNKNOWN]: for my 56 level.

01:22:53.017 --> 01:22:57.119
[UNKNOWN]: I have an entire circuit board here several circuit boards that's going to control the entire car.

01:22:57.660 --> 01:23:00.501
[UNKNOWN]: Every single light will come on independently if I so choose.

01:23:00.941 --> 01:23:02.522
[UNKNOWN]: Everything's controlled by a computer.

01:23:02.842 --> 01:23:07.365
[UNKNOWN]: So I can break out my phone and I can click headlights on.

01:23:07.785 --> 01:23:09.046
[UNKNOWN]: I can click start car.

01:23:10.406 --> 01:23:12.167
[UNKNOWN]: All that stuff from my phone.

01:23:12.607 --> 01:23:13.467
[UNKNOWN]: It's all available from there.

01:23:13.487 --> 01:23:14.727
[UNKNOWN]: I can even have it make sound effects.

01:23:14.768 --> 01:23:16.108
[UNKNOWN]: It's all built into this boring.

01:23:16.248 --> 01:23:18.109
[UNKNOWN]: So it can talk to me if I wanted to.

01:23:18.509 --> 01:23:19.549
[UNKNOWN]: Doors are unlocked.

01:23:19.569 --> 01:23:20.349
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, it could crack.

01:23:21.069 --> 01:23:21.750
[UNKNOWN]: I can whistle.

01:23:22.270 --> 01:23:24.771
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it could talk like that writer if I wanted it to.

01:23:24.811 --> 01:23:26.971
[UNKNOWN]: You know, I can't could become alive.

01:23:27.351 --> 01:23:30.532
[UNKNOWN]: I probably use a sexy female voice because I'd be more fitting.

01:23:31.473 --> 01:23:33.473
[UNKNOWN]: But yeah, it has the ability to do all this stuff.

01:23:33.513 --> 01:23:33.953
[UNKNOWN]: It turns on.

01:23:33.973 --> 01:23:35.074
[UNKNOWN]: There's 32 circuits.

01:23:39.837 --> 01:23:41.550
[UNKNOWN]: have things through different things at each switch.

01:23:42.675 --> 01:23:47.058
[UNKNOWN]: doesn't necessarily control one item, because the switch can be programmed to do multiple things.

01:23:47.759 --> 01:23:51.282
[UNKNOWN]: Like I did with this thing where you pull the switch multiple times and it does different things.

01:23:51.302 --> 01:23:53.403
[UNKNOWN]: You could double tap things and have things do things.

01:23:53.423 --> 01:23:55.565
[UNKNOWN]: You go hold things for two seconds and it does something different.

01:23:56.066 --> 01:23:57.727
[UNKNOWN]: So I've tried to set it up intuitively.

01:23:57.747 --> 01:23:59.528
[UNKNOWN]: There's a lot of programming that's going to have to go into.

01:23:59.548 --> 01:24:02.751
[UNKNOWN]: That's another one of the things to do computer programming that's actually my background.

01:24:03.191 --> 01:24:08.656
[UNKNOWN]: So I've seen it's retired from that mostly, but I'm using my skill set into building this board here.

01:24:08.696 --> 01:24:09.836
[UNKNOWN]: It's sitting right here on the desk.

01:24:12.497 --> 01:24:17.858
[UNKNOWN]: temporary wires and things, bridging to circuit boards and things that are just going to fly apart.

01:24:18.498 --> 01:24:24.679
[UNKNOWN]: So it's a test motor right now, I probably shouldn't ask then what's next because that is next.

01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:25.700
[UNKNOWN]: Right.

01:24:25.900 --> 01:24:27.120
[UNKNOWN]: That is something that I'm working on.

01:24:27.140 --> 01:24:27.380
[UNKNOWN]: Yes.

01:24:27.880 --> 01:24:28.420
[UNKNOWN]: That is something.

01:24:28.440 --> 01:24:29.780
[UNKNOWN]: There's a lot of different things.

01:24:29.840 --> 01:24:34.421
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, after this car gets together, I do have my 67 bus that I need to finish up.

01:24:35.902 --> 01:24:36.882
[UNKNOWN]: I was working on that.

01:24:38.599 --> 01:24:52.606
[UNKNOWN]: I forget the name of the hurricane that came through here, but I was out of town at the time, so I had just lost my father at the time, and I was down to his house cleaning things up, and I was on the way home when the hurricane hit up here, and it was forecast it not to come here, but it did.

01:24:53.046 --> 01:24:57.869
[UNKNOWN]: When was it just made him, oh, I want to say 2021, maybe 2020.

01:25:01.633 --> 01:25:04.075
[UNKNOWN]: It was in September was any anniversary of Ivan.

01:25:04.095 --> 01:25:05.275
[UNKNOWN]: I can't remember the name of it.

01:25:05.836 --> 01:25:06.416
[UNKNOWN]: Adam, try that.

01:25:06.876 --> 01:25:07.777
[UNKNOWN]: I'm drawing a blank too.

01:25:07.817 --> 01:25:10.539
[UNKNOWN]: I keep wanting to talk about the ones from just a couple of years ago.

01:25:10.819 --> 01:25:11.239
[UNKNOWN]: Sally.

01:25:11.600 --> 01:25:12.780
[UNKNOWN]: A lead was Sally.

01:25:12.920 --> 01:25:13.621
[UNKNOWN]: Okay, Sally.

01:25:13.661 --> 01:25:13.901
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:25:14.101 --> 01:25:15.282
[UNKNOWN]: Evercane, Sally.

01:25:15.342 --> 01:25:17.744
[UNKNOWN]: I came through in late September.

01:25:18.144 --> 01:25:18.724
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:25:18.804 --> 01:25:23.748
[UNKNOWN]: It was on the anniversary of Ivan, which happened in 04, which is the same hurricane that messed up my beetle.

01:25:24.947 --> 01:25:29.390
[UNKNOWN]: Now I messed up my bus, you know, exactly 16 years later on the same day.

01:25:29.891 --> 01:25:31.132
[UNKNOWN]: Anyway, my bus was out in the yard.

01:25:31.152 --> 01:25:36.536
[UNKNOWN]: I had just bought $10,000 than $10,000 worth of patch panels and things for it.

01:25:36.556 --> 01:25:38.417
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, I have all kinds of stuff out there.

01:25:38.838 --> 01:25:43.301
[UNKNOWN]: And I had it nicely covered with a 10 out in the yard and I rolled it out, worked on it, rolled it back in there.

01:25:43.321 --> 01:25:45.403
[UNKNOWN]: And that was very actively working on this thing.

01:25:45.903 --> 01:26:08.197
[UNKNOWN]: When hurricane threw my tents up in the trees through my body panels all over the garage all over the yard right there flash rusted everything everything just flash rusted i just became completely discouraged with the project i put a new tent up put it all away and i said i'll get back to that another day i'm trying to get a shop and some work space that's also one of my near future things and i want to put the bus in there

01:26:09.433 --> 01:26:12.316
[UNKNOWN]: and take it apart, and I mean, really dig into it.

01:26:12.336 --> 01:26:13.357
[UNKNOWN]: Just like I do with this beetle.

01:26:13.397 --> 01:26:15.479
[UNKNOWN]: That's the reason why the beetle has such a unique shape.

01:26:15.939 --> 01:26:17.161
[UNKNOWN]: Isn't because I just chopped the roof.

01:26:17.181 --> 01:26:20.604
[UNKNOWN]: I actually built that car up in pieces because it was just so, so gone.

01:26:21.104 --> 01:26:23.126
[UNKNOWN]: So everything is just finicky on it.

01:26:23.146 --> 01:26:24.448
[UNKNOWN]: And I want to do the same thing with the bus.

01:26:24.468 --> 01:26:25.308
[UNKNOWN]: Just take it all apart.

01:26:25.669 --> 01:26:26.730
[UNKNOWN]: Go through every single piece.

01:26:27.350 --> 01:26:28.271
[UNKNOWN]: Get all the rust out of it.

01:26:28.571 --> 01:26:29.452
[UNKNOWN]: Again, no rust.

01:26:30.913 --> 01:26:32.054
[UNKNOWN]: and put it all back together.

01:26:32.454 --> 01:26:33.475
[UNKNOWN]: So that's where I'm at with that.

01:26:33.495 --> 01:26:34.515
[UNKNOWN]: It's another project coming up.

01:26:34.836 --> 01:26:36.617
[UNKNOWN]: I'm cool with that, you know, too.

01:26:38.098 --> 01:26:39.158
[UNKNOWN]: My wife feels the same way.

01:26:39.198 --> 01:26:44.141
[UNKNOWN]: She doesn't understand the whole patina thing, and she didn't want any rust.

01:26:44.701 --> 01:26:48.764
[UNKNOWN]: There was a couple bubbles coming up and her lights up near the headlights on the guilla.

01:26:49.164 --> 01:26:52.266
[UNKNOWN]: And there were a couple spots at the very bottom in some of the rocker.

01:26:53.026 --> 01:26:56.709
[UNKNOWN]: Um, and she just didn't know she was like, no, let's let's have it fixed.

01:26:56.729 --> 01:27:01.293
[UNKNOWN]: If you're having all those trim hole trim holes fixed, let's have all the rust fix too.

01:27:01.353 --> 01:27:01.893
[UNKNOWN]: So we did.

01:27:02.294 --> 01:27:02.954
[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I do.

01:27:03.655 --> 01:27:06.977
[UNKNOWN]: I totally get that totally get that the, the no rust thing.

01:27:07.478 --> 01:27:09.679
[UNKNOWN]: Um, you know, and then you even know like,

01:27:10.600 --> 01:27:17.443
[UNKNOWN]: even people that don't know that much about rust or body work, they probably rust is really kind of almost like a cancer.

01:27:18.523 --> 01:27:21.044
[UNKNOWN]: It can be great.

01:27:21.224 --> 01:27:28.567
[UNKNOWN]: And it can become something that continues to grow and then even pops up an area is close by and that kind of stuff too.

01:27:28.647 --> 01:27:31.748
[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, I'm with you to an extent.

01:27:32.671 --> 01:27:42.019
[UNKNOWN]: I do love a little bit of patina these days, just because it's grown on me and probably more than anything, what's grown on me is Volk Trots.

01:27:42.699 --> 01:27:43.520
[UNKNOWN]: They're just so damn.

01:27:43.560 --> 01:27:45.482
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it's nice on the right car, absolutely.

01:27:45.782 --> 01:27:47.523
[UNKNOWN]: By the way, check out Eric Fernand's build.

01:27:47.564 --> 01:27:48.744
[UNKNOWN]: I'll send that information to you later.

01:27:48.765 --> 01:27:54.770
[UNKNOWN]: You're probably using user picture here in a video, but he's got a Volk's rod and I based my roof chop off of his project.

01:27:55.110 --> 01:28:00.574
[UNKNOWN]: I recognize it's a beautiful, you know, beautiful down south of me, you know, Lance

01:28:02.078 --> 01:28:02.939
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, he's friends with Lance.

01:28:03.319 --> 01:28:05.281
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, they, you've got the same job.

01:28:05.301 --> 01:28:06.962
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, they usually roll together.

01:28:07.603 --> 01:28:07.883
[UNKNOWN]: We do.

01:28:08.304 --> 01:28:11.547
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, Lance became on the podcast last year.

01:28:11.787 --> 01:28:14.149
[UNKNOWN]: And we talked with his rods and his builds.

01:28:14.209 --> 01:28:15.250
[UNKNOWN]: And he's got that truck.

01:28:15.290 --> 01:28:17.091
[UNKNOWN]: And that other badass vote truck.

01:28:17.312 --> 01:28:26.300
[UNKNOWN]: He's one of the guys I was telling you about that really kind of, not necessarily turn me on to him, but really made me really start pushing or part of wanting one.

01:28:26.780 --> 01:28:39.003
[UNKNOWN]: Um, he had mentioned his buddy, you know, Eric and stuff back then and I think we even may have even talked about trying to get Eric to come on, but I don't know if he wants to or didn't want to back then or whatever, it's all good.

01:28:39.063 --> 01:28:39.624
[UNKNOWN]: No big deal.

01:28:39.664 --> 01:28:40.464
[UNKNOWN]: It's a nice guy.

01:28:40.784 --> 01:28:41.584
[UNKNOWN]: I know I would.

01:28:41.604 --> 01:28:44.145
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, I reached out to him back in 2020 because, uh,

01:28:44.605 --> 01:28:50.067
[UNKNOWN]: He lived in, uh, or still lives over in West Palm, and I was in Fort Myers, and I was just I'm down here.

01:28:50.528 --> 01:28:51.668
[UNKNOWN]: I really want to see your car.

01:28:51.708 --> 01:29:01.012
[UNKNOWN]: I said, I built so much of my own project based on your cuts, and I did so many things based on that, and I have these same shapes and ideas, and I said, I just love it.

01:29:01.032 --> 01:29:02.773
[UNKNOWN]: He says, is anyway, I can come over there and see it.

01:29:03.273 --> 01:29:04.133
[UNKNOWN]: He's like, sure, come on over.

01:29:04.153 --> 01:29:05.114
[UNKNOWN]: And it's just very inviting.

01:29:05.134 --> 01:29:06.874
[UNKNOWN]: You meet me over here, and we'll take a ride in it.

01:29:06.894 --> 01:29:07.395
[UNKNOWN]: I'll let cool.

01:29:07.935 --> 01:29:11.957
[UNKNOWN]: Anyway, I got there, and I didn't expect that everybody was going to know who the duck man was, because they did.

01:29:13.177 --> 01:29:38.256
[UNKNOWN]: and they had a party for me, it took me out, they had a soul cruise for me, and they had all the Miami guys came on up and it's probably about 30 cars, it was just a huge adventure, they were so warm and inviting and I didn't expect any of that, I was just figuring to be, hey, we'll have a drink or something laugh, you know, look at your car and I'll go home, no, I spent the whole night out there and it was just a, it was in the adventure, I made a whole video of the day two, it was, it was fun.

01:29:38.996 --> 01:29:39.657
[UNKNOWN]: It was really fun.

01:29:39.817 --> 01:29:40.477
[UNKNOWN]: I'm very thankful.

01:29:40.837 --> 01:29:43.059
[UNKNOWN]: Let's go opposite end of warming and fighting.

01:29:43.459 --> 01:29:43.719
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:29:43.919 --> 01:29:44.980
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, here we go.

01:29:45.140 --> 01:29:48.322
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I know.

01:29:48.362 --> 01:29:50.324
[UNKNOWN]: We like to save the best for last, all right.

01:29:50.344 --> 01:29:52.045
[UNKNOWN]: So, oh, the best stuff for last.

01:29:52.065 --> 01:29:52.325
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:29:53.306 --> 01:30:03.472
[UNKNOWN]: Without naming any names, tell me, tell us, tell us what happened that you've kind of touched on a few times here in this episode that that pushed you to leave your old club.

01:30:05.153 --> 01:30:05.794
[UNKNOWN]: Well, um,

01:30:06.872 --> 01:30:07.833
[UNKNOWN]: It was a leadership table.

01:30:08.633 --> 01:30:10.635
[UNKNOWN]: While Bill, who was the president of our club, I said a name.

01:30:10.655 --> 01:30:11.595
[UNKNOWN]: That's the only one I'm going to say.

01:30:12.276 --> 01:30:14.797
[UNKNOWN]: Decide he's going to retire from the club for a multiple different reasons.

01:30:14.817 --> 01:30:16.539
[UNKNOWN]: You got some stuff going on and going to get out.

01:30:17.019 --> 01:30:20.561
[UNKNOWN]: So I thought about stepping up myself and he was for the idea.

01:30:20.581 --> 01:30:22.162
[UNKNOWN]: He's like, you probably should do that.

01:30:22.182 --> 01:30:24.024
[UNKNOWN]: But I was like, I don't have time for this.

01:30:24.044 --> 01:30:25.465
[UNKNOWN]: I retired for a reason.

01:30:26.805 --> 01:30:27.966
[UNKNOWN]: I don't want to hate this drama.

01:30:28.006 --> 01:30:28.887
[UNKNOWN]: I don't want the nonsense.

01:30:28.907 --> 01:30:31.409
[UNKNOWN]: I don't want to have to be the leader again and run another business.

01:30:32.209 --> 01:30:35.232
[UNKNOWN]: And he's like, well, and maybe you should rethink about it, and I kind of did.

01:30:35.272 --> 01:30:38.876
[UNKNOWN]: And then all of a sudden somebody else stepped up and if somebody else, I was supportive of it.

01:30:38.896 --> 01:30:39.416
[UNKNOWN]: I was like, good.

01:30:39.456 --> 01:30:40.237
[UNKNOWN]: This is a good choice.

01:30:40.918 --> 01:30:43.180
[UNKNOWN]: Well, negativity came out of it.

01:30:43.200 --> 01:30:44.461
[UNKNOWN]: It's just a lot of negativity.

01:30:44.882 --> 01:30:47.825
[UNKNOWN]: A lot of people tour, just tour its people ideas.

01:30:47.945 --> 01:30:55.613
[UNKNOWN]: It was just a large amount of anger, arrogance, difficulty with sharing things and ideas, trying to steer this person or people.

01:30:57.067 --> 01:31:06.771
[UNKNOWN]: And down the right road and just steer them into the right direction, I said you're taking a path of no return, you're damaging the reputation of the club and it turned into outright hatred towards me.

01:31:07.292 --> 01:31:11.694
[UNKNOWN]: And I'm like, I'm trying to help you up on your side here, so this is my club too, this is my home.

01:31:12.694 --> 01:31:18.677
[UNKNOWN]: And if everybody else is hating on these ideas that you're doing and these things aren't working, we need to make adjustments and we need to do them now.

01:31:19.497 --> 01:31:20.598
[UNKNOWN]: I said you need a PR guy.

01:31:21.425 --> 01:31:22.525
[UNKNOWN]: I'll do your PR.

01:31:22.646 --> 01:31:23.366
[UNKNOWN]: Who could do a better?

01:31:23.446 --> 01:31:25.026
[UNKNOWN]: I'm the guy that draws attention to himself.

01:31:25.367 --> 01:31:26.267
[UNKNOWN]: And they set it themselves.

01:31:26.307 --> 01:31:27.307
[UNKNOWN]: You're the face of the club.

01:31:27.788 --> 01:31:28.248
[UNKNOWN]: Well, fine.

01:31:28.388 --> 01:31:30.829
[UNKNOWN]: The face of the club that I need to be the face of the club.

01:31:30.889 --> 01:31:33.530
[UNKNOWN]: You don't want me talking to people apparently for whatever reason.

01:31:33.550 --> 01:31:35.711
[UNKNOWN]: There was these personal problems with me.

01:31:35.911 --> 01:31:36.811
[UNKNOWN]: It didn't like me personally.

01:31:37.171 --> 01:31:38.332
[UNKNOWN]: Maybe it's because I'm loud.

01:31:38.372 --> 01:31:39.892
[UNKNOWN]: Maybe because I'm obnoxious.

01:31:39.932 --> 01:31:42.994
[UNKNOWN]: And my name and picture were to be anywhere in the dictionary.

01:31:43.014 --> 01:31:44.674
[UNKNOWN]: Probably being next to the word obnoxious.

01:31:46.715 --> 01:31:50.779
[UNKNOWN]: So very often I do rub people the wrong way and very often it's on purpose.

01:31:52.440 --> 01:32:06.293
[UNKNOWN]: So when I got to the point that anything that I was trying to do that was helpful to steer the club in the right direction was being just just trying not be foul because I never used foul language and any of this stuff ever, ever.

01:32:07.359 --> 01:32:16.013
[UNKNOWN]: And that's important here and that's part of this topic because this other people can stand up in front of a crowd of the club and curse and swear and I've never done that.

01:32:16.734 --> 01:32:20.440
[UNKNOWN]: I stand up in front of the club and don't sit down with my knees to my chest.

01:32:20.621 --> 01:32:21.262
[UNKNOWN]: I give people

01:32:22.218 --> 01:32:24.360
[UNKNOWN]: respect, absolute respect.

01:32:24.380 --> 01:32:31.768
[UNKNOWN]: So this, the way the club is being treated, the way the people were being handled, the way things volunteers, elected officials were being kicked out.

01:32:32.348 --> 01:32:37.073
[UNKNOWN]: Things were just, it was, yeah, I know, you're elected to be this role for the next year.

01:32:37.773 --> 01:32:39.115
[UNKNOWN]: You don't like the way they're doing things.

01:32:39.135 --> 01:32:39.735
[UNKNOWN]: You kick them out.

01:32:40.897 --> 01:32:41.717
[UNKNOWN]: That doesn't work.

01:32:42.498 --> 01:32:43.379
[UNKNOWN]: You kick me out because

01:32:47.457 --> 01:32:48.317
[UNKNOWN]: I'll never understand this.

01:32:49.158 --> 01:32:50.878
[UNKNOWN]: I'm from New Jersey as I've made clear.

01:32:51.058 --> 01:32:59.001
[UNKNOWN]: And where I come from, whether you're a wise guy or not, the biggest earner is the one that determines their rank.

01:33:00.242 --> 01:33:03.863
[UNKNOWN]: So if you're coming in with the most money and that's something that I was.

01:33:03.883 --> 01:33:05.023
[UNKNOWN]: I'm gonna do my own horn here.

01:33:05.083 --> 01:33:07.524
[UNKNOWN]: I coming with about two thirds of the money every year to that club.

01:33:09.105 --> 01:33:14.347
[UNKNOWN]: And you're not on the side of the things that I'm doing and you're not helping me to do my job instead you're working against me.

01:33:15.723 --> 01:33:17.423
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, you're kind of in the wrong spot.

01:33:17.843 --> 01:33:19.064
[UNKNOWN]: You kind of don't need to be there.

01:33:19.224 --> 01:33:24.865
[UNKNOWN]: And the way I see leadership is, you have to take your, actually, just who types of leadership.

01:33:26.105 --> 01:33:40.827
[UNKNOWN]: It's the one kind of leader that can take somebody and make themselves look above them by knocking them down, whether they be condescending, maybe they criticize their work, maybe they overwhelm them, maybe they're just rude, all those things happen.

01:33:40.847 --> 01:33:44.688
[UNKNOWN]: Or there's a second kind of leadership, where you take the people that are below you and you put them above you.

01:33:45.524 --> 01:33:47.386
[UNKNOWN]: you say they're doing a better job than me.

01:33:47.666 --> 01:33:48.827
[UNKNOWN]: I know they can do this.

01:33:48.887 --> 01:33:51.909
[UNKNOWN]: They can handle this and you give them all the tools that they can to succeed.

01:33:52.870 --> 01:33:54.371
[UNKNOWN]: That's the leader that I want to be.

01:33:54.712 --> 01:33:55.532
[UNKNOWN]: I can't say that I am.

01:33:55.572 --> 01:33:56.733
[UNKNOWN]: Somebody else has to tell me that.

01:33:57.074 --> 01:33:58.295
[UNKNOWN]: That's the leader that I aspire to be.

01:33:58.335 --> 01:33:59.576
[UNKNOWN]: Instead, we were getting a letter.

01:34:00.577 --> 01:34:01.457
[UNKNOWN]: And that just pushed me.

01:34:01.658 --> 01:34:02.318
[UNKNOWN]: It just pushed me.

01:34:02.338 --> 01:34:03.239
[UNKNOWN]: And it got to the point.

01:34:04.500 --> 01:34:10.385
[UNKNOWN]: One afternoon, we're all this negative PR because they don't know how to handle PR and they don't know how to say the right things to people.

01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:17.684
[UNKNOWN]: has aggravated and upset, not just our club, but the club surrounding us.

01:34:18.464 --> 01:34:23.968
[UNKNOWN]: So a 250 mile radius from New Orleans, Itala has eats, you know, north of us in Alabama.

01:34:24.448 --> 01:34:29.671
[UNKNOWN]: Everybody's upset because we had the biggest car show in this local community.

01:34:30.512 --> 01:34:34.534
[UNKNOWN]: And to watch everything just crumble and fall apart was very upsetting everybody.

01:34:35.744 --> 01:34:38.707
[UNKNOWN]: So people began to reach out to me and ask me what's going on.

01:34:38.768 --> 01:34:40.710
[UNKNOWN]: And I said, well, I'm not doing the PR.

01:34:40.810 --> 01:34:42.472
[UNKNOWN]: I can't, I can't say.

01:34:42.572 --> 01:34:45.295
[UNKNOWN]: I'm not here to tell you negative things.

01:34:45.335 --> 01:34:46.576
[UNKNOWN]: I'm here to tell you positive things.

01:34:46.636 --> 01:34:53.705
[UNKNOWN]: And if they are doing something that's off, maybe you need to use the right words to make it sound good.

01:34:53.825 --> 01:34:54.485
[UNKNOWN]: Pollish it.

01:34:55.305 --> 01:34:59.328
[UNKNOWN]: Instead, you're giving a turd to everybody and you're telling him it's a turd and you're expecting them to eat it.

01:34:59.968 --> 01:35:00.809
[UNKNOWN]: And that doesn't work.

01:35:01.569 --> 01:35:04.091
[UNKNOWN]: At least make it shiny and put a little seasoning on it.

01:35:04.531 --> 01:35:07.573
[UNKNOWN]: You know, make it better than what it is and you're not getting that.

01:35:07.993 --> 01:35:11.996
[UNKNOWN]: So that day that I said, if you don't want to help with this, I'm not going to help you anymore.

01:35:12.456 --> 01:35:14.517
[UNKNOWN]: And I used a Batman quote and I forget what it was.

01:35:14.537 --> 01:35:17.739
[UNKNOWN]: If a Christian bail was on the subway train and he was about to...

01:35:18.800 --> 01:35:20.261
[UNKNOWN]: stamp somebody or something.

01:35:20.341 --> 01:35:23.124
[UNKNOWN]: And the bad guy said to him, oh, so you're just like us.

01:35:23.884 --> 01:35:28.528
[UNKNOWN]: And Batman says, no, I'm not going to kill you, but I don't have to save you either.

01:35:28.548 --> 01:35:32.071
[UNKNOWN]: And he jumps off the train and the train crashes and explodes and everything like that.

01:35:32.411 --> 01:35:34.933
[UNKNOWN]: So I gave him that bad man quote and I stopped answering them.

01:35:35.253 --> 01:35:35.674
[UNKNOWN]: I was done.

01:35:36.893 --> 01:35:40.755
[UNKNOWN]: The following morning and I don't know if you know, but I actually ran the website and all that such.

01:35:41.435 --> 01:35:43.877
[UNKNOWN]: And I just started pulling plugs at everything and shutting things down.

01:35:43.897 --> 01:35:44.757
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it was going down.

01:35:45.377 --> 01:35:49.339
[UNKNOWN]: And then I got an nasty phone call and nasty phone call says, you've been fired from the club.

01:35:49.579 --> 01:35:50.360
[UNKNOWN]: I quit yesterday.

01:35:51.100 --> 01:35:51.901
[UNKNOWN]: You know why I quit?

01:35:52.501 --> 01:35:53.902
[UNKNOWN]: I quit because you wouldn't listen.

01:35:54.942 --> 01:35:55.702
[UNKNOWN]: You wouldn't listen.

01:35:56.023 --> 01:35:57.043
[UNKNOWN]: This is exactly it.

01:35:57.083 --> 01:35:58.984
[UNKNOWN]: You didn't listen to me quitting even.

01:35:59.644 --> 01:36:01.605
[UNKNOWN]: So anyway, I wouldn't answer the call.

01:36:01.866 --> 01:36:02.846
[UNKNOWN]: I got voicemail.

01:36:02.906 --> 01:36:06.188
[UNKNOWN]: I listened to half of it and the answer was, we're going to do everything on paper.

01:36:07.187 --> 01:36:08.008
[UNKNOWN]: get rid of the website.

01:36:08.228 --> 01:36:08.708
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:36:09.869 --> 01:36:11.051
[UNKNOWN]: This is deliki.

01:36:11.471 --> 01:36:16.235
[UNKNOWN]: Um, I talk to my legal advice to make sure I did the right things.

01:36:16.275 --> 01:36:16.996
[UNKNOWN]: He says you're good.

01:36:17.536 --> 01:36:20.039
[UNKNOWN]: He says it's always that possibility somebody might sue you for it.

01:36:20.059 --> 01:36:21.520
[UNKNOWN]: It's a well, the time frame they're going to sue it.

01:36:21.540 --> 01:36:22.201
[UNKNOWN]: They'll never get it.

01:36:23.268 --> 01:36:24.229
[UNKNOWN]: says, still can happen.

01:36:24.289 --> 01:36:25.510
[UNKNOWN]: I said, it's going to cost money.

01:36:26.371 --> 01:36:28.494
[UNKNOWN]: Who wants to pay money for, you know, a nonprofit?

01:36:28.974 --> 01:36:30.596
[UNKNOWN]: I said, I want to be disconnected from them.

01:36:30.836 --> 01:36:32.157
[UNKNOWN]: He says, do they have their data?

01:36:32.618 --> 01:36:35.781
[UNKNOWN]: I said, yes, I put a fail safe in place.

01:36:36.422 --> 01:36:41.847
[UNKNOWN]: So that way, if anything ever happened to me, and this is being a wise IT guy, season for having done this 30 years.

01:36:42.468 --> 01:36:43.849
[UNKNOWN]: If something happened to me, what would they do?

01:36:44.229 --> 01:36:45.069
[UNKNOWN]: They have their backup.

01:36:45.850 --> 01:36:52.052
[UNKNOWN]: All of the backup data is in their PayPal account, because every order that comes through, I send a copy of it over there at a full invoice.

01:36:52.493 --> 01:36:55.714
[UNKNOWN]: Here's your car registration, you're make model name, right?

01:36:56.014 --> 01:36:57.375
[UNKNOWN]: He bought a t-shirt, what size?

01:36:57.415 --> 01:36:58.255
[UNKNOWN]: It's all there.

01:36:58.876 --> 01:37:00.096
[UNKNOWN]: They have all their data.

01:37:00.636 --> 01:37:08.080
[UNKNOWN]: But they wanted my data, because my data is nicely formatted, and it's got a this, and it's got a that, it's a list, and it's been manipulated.

01:37:09.300 --> 01:37:10.561
[UNKNOWN]: Go manipulate your own data.

01:37:11.081 --> 01:37:12.102
[UNKNOWN]: It's on your PayPal, go get it.

01:37:12.162 --> 01:37:14.103
[UNKNOWN]: And this is where I told them if anything ever happened.

01:37:14.123 --> 01:37:16.964
[UNKNOWN]: And more than once, express that.

01:37:17.665 --> 01:37:19.606
[UNKNOWN]: You can find your stuff here.

01:37:20.506 --> 01:37:21.247
[UNKNOWN]: They want to do that.

01:37:21.727 --> 01:37:23.688
[UNKNOWN]: Instead, this is the best part.

01:37:23.948 --> 01:37:26.350
[UNKNOWN]: They turned me into the deemed end.

01:37:27.231 --> 01:37:29.072
[UNKNOWN]: He destroyed everything.

01:37:29.432 --> 01:37:31.452
[UNKNOWN]: He stole the whole club.

01:37:31.852 --> 01:37:34.413
[UNKNOWN]: He's the most awful person in the world.

01:37:34.753 --> 01:37:36.634
[UNKNOWN]: And then of course, they turned on all the personal things.

01:37:36.674 --> 01:37:38.134
[UNKNOWN]: He's a woman, nice, always.

01:37:38.474 --> 01:37:41.295
[UNKNOWN]: He's doing this and I told you some of that.

01:37:41.315 --> 01:37:45.856
[UNKNOWN]: I'm not even going to elaborate about that because those topics are radioactive and disgusting.

01:37:46.616 --> 01:37:47.617
[UNKNOWN]: Absolutely disgusting.

01:37:47.937 --> 01:37:51.578
[UNKNOWN]: And the things that I don't do is touch people or touch their cars.

01:37:52.418 --> 01:37:55.459
[UNKNOWN]: And I mean, I'm being loud about that because I can't express it anymore.

01:37:55.479 --> 01:37:57.960
[UNKNOWN]: You don't mess with people or their cars.

01:37:58.380 --> 01:37:59.601
[UNKNOWN]: That's part of our community.

01:37:59.961 --> 01:38:01.201
[UNKNOWN]: It's an untold rule.

01:38:01.221 --> 01:38:02.642
[UNKNOWN]: You don't have to say that.

01:38:03.282 --> 01:38:04.102
[UNKNOWN]: You should just know it.

01:38:04.523 --> 01:38:06.503
[UNKNOWN]: You don't mess with people in their cars.

01:38:06.663 --> 01:38:07.124
[UNKNOWN]: Period.

01:38:07.924 --> 01:38:08.104
[UNKNOWN]: So.

01:38:09.323 --> 01:38:14.506
[UNKNOWN]: After I had quit, I probably said some things are some people that made them upset because that's my right here in America.

01:38:15.027 --> 01:38:18.509
[UNKNOWN]: I get to voice my opinions on things and I even use opinions.

01:38:18.549 --> 01:38:19.069
[UNKNOWN]: I use facts.

01:38:19.089 --> 01:38:19.870
[UNKNOWN]: This is what happened.

01:38:19.930 --> 01:38:20.790
[UNKNOWN]: This is why it happened.

01:38:20.850 --> 01:38:21.611
[UNKNOWN]: This is where we are.

01:38:22.251 --> 01:38:23.012
[UNKNOWN]: No name calling.

01:38:23.692 --> 01:38:24.272
[UNKNOWN]: No threats.

01:38:25.573 --> 01:38:27.494
[UNKNOWN]: I didn't say I was going to hurt anybody.

01:38:28.575 --> 01:38:28.795
[UNKNOWN]: Tell.

01:38:29.356 --> 01:38:29.816
[UNKNOWN]: This is it.

01:38:29.896 --> 01:38:30.316
[UNKNOWN]: This is it.

01:38:30.596 --> 01:38:33.018
[UNKNOWN]: One polish shiny done and I'm out.

01:38:34.519 --> 01:38:35.980
[UNKNOWN]: And then I just watched everything go.

01:38:38.927 --> 01:38:43.568
[UNKNOWN]: the started collapsing and I, I'm laughing about it now because we can.

01:38:44.048 --> 01:38:45.568
[UNKNOWN]: Then it was just it was frightening.

01:38:45.648 --> 01:38:47.229
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, I was upset.

01:38:47.729 --> 01:38:57.731
[UNKNOWN]: I was really upset because this is something that I had built along with wild build about a 30 year legacy in this club and I have good eight years running a car show registration, everything else through our website.

01:38:58.671 --> 01:39:04.852
[UNKNOWN]: I took our car show from 80, 90 cars to over 200 and it was just growing continuously.

01:39:06.197 --> 01:39:16.842
[UNKNOWN]: Just to watch this, I'll just fall apart because some new people stepped up and decided that they didn't want things the way they were and that things worked, but they didn't like the way it worked.

01:39:16.922 --> 01:39:18.082
[UNKNOWN]: They wanted something different.

01:39:18.883 --> 01:39:22.444
[UNKNOWN]: And unfortunately the public generally didn't agree.

01:39:23.144 --> 01:39:24.245
[UNKNOWN]: They just generally didn't agree.

01:39:24.745 --> 01:39:28.187
[UNKNOWN]: So very quietly I sat in the background and they

01:39:32.235 --> 01:39:34.356
[UNKNOWN]: I kept getting asked by other people in the local community.

01:39:34.376 --> 01:39:35.476
[UNKNOWN]: Are you going to start your own club?

01:39:35.496 --> 01:39:36.716
[UNKNOWN]: And it was, it was a no.

01:39:36.896 --> 01:39:38.617
[UNKNOWN]: No, no, I don't want to start my own club.

01:39:38.637 --> 01:39:39.057
[UNKNOWN]: I really don't.

01:39:39.637 --> 01:39:39.837
[UNKNOWN]: That's it.

01:39:39.857 --> 01:39:40.837
[UNKNOWN]: I'm really not interested in that.

01:39:41.217 --> 01:39:43.998
[UNKNOWN]: And then I started getting people says, you need to start a new club.

01:39:45.438 --> 01:39:45.778
[UNKNOWN]: Thanks.

01:39:46.919 --> 01:39:49.840
[UNKNOWN]: I said, yeah, I said, what we have is just not in.

01:39:49.860 --> 01:39:51.000
[UNKNOWN]: I said, you were doing things before.

01:39:51.040 --> 01:39:52.240
[UNKNOWN]: We liked the way you were doing things.

01:39:53.300 --> 01:39:55.141
[UNKNOWN]: People know who you are, people respect you.

01:39:55.161 --> 01:39:58.122
[UNKNOWN]: And I was like, but this is not what I'm seeing.

01:39:59.957 --> 01:40:04.259
[UNKNOWN]: People are telling everybody these things and others are believing it.

01:40:04.319 --> 01:40:05.819
[UNKNOWN]: I said, no, most of us don't believe it.

01:40:05.859 --> 01:40:08.300
[UNKNOWN]: We just want to be included in a car club culture.

01:40:08.320 --> 01:40:09.581
[UNKNOWN]: And this is the only club we have.

01:40:10.361 --> 01:40:10.801
[UNKNOWN]: They're okay.

01:40:11.562 --> 01:40:14.643
[UNKNOWN]: So I started planning, came up with the name first.

01:40:15.732 --> 01:40:18.234
[UNKNOWN]: There's oil slickers, and I'm like, oh, there's another oil slickers.

01:40:18.815 --> 01:40:19.255
[UNKNOWN]: Can't do that.

01:40:20.877 --> 01:40:27.143
[UNKNOWN]: No, it's like, well, why don't we make a sound like a little culture or some kind of a private, you know, group organization, something secret, a secret society.

01:40:27.163 --> 01:40:29.606
[UNKNOWN]: And I was like, oil slickers society.

01:40:30.306 --> 01:40:32.729
[UNKNOWN]: I know we got something, OSS, okay.

01:40:32.749 --> 01:40:33.450
[UNKNOWN]: We got an idea.

01:40:34.608 --> 01:40:38.012
[UNKNOWN]: And then I said OSS, OSS, OSS, that doesn't sound right.

01:40:38.693 --> 01:40:40.334
[UNKNOWN]: Ozzy Osborn had just passed the time.

01:40:40.855 --> 01:40:44.379
[UNKNOWN]: And I was like, Ozzy OSS, I, international.

01:40:45.020 --> 01:40:45.660
[UNKNOWN]: Let's think big.

01:40:46.241 --> 01:40:48.223
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, I was like a society international was born.

01:40:48.303 --> 01:40:49.685
[UNKNOWN]: I got this all written out on paper.

01:40:49.705 --> 01:40:51.146
[UNKNOWN]: And this was sometime in late September.

01:40:51.827 --> 01:40:53.129
[UNKNOWN]: Start with the logo.

01:40:54.180 --> 01:40:57.002
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, I can't go with a logo, I can't go with a color orange.

01:40:58.363 --> 01:40:59.944
[UNKNOWN]: Did that because it's warm and inviting.

01:41:00.264 --> 01:41:01.545
[UNKNOWN]: It's also was a seasonal thing.

01:41:01.565 --> 01:41:03.026
[UNKNOWN]: We launched on Halloween of all things.

01:41:03.046 --> 01:41:06.048
[UNKNOWN]: Just coincidentally worked out that way and our colors just happened to be black and orange.

01:41:06.388 --> 01:41:08.729
[UNKNOWN]: So I was like, this is just, it's, it's meant to be.

01:41:09.190 --> 01:41:10.611
[UNKNOWN]: Everything just worked out that way.

01:41:11.411 --> 01:41:17.253
[UNKNOWN]: So I launched it silently without saying anything on Halloween in the afternoon, evening.

01:41:17.913 --> 01:41:19.774
[UNKNOWN]: I was the first registered member.

01:41:20.674 --> 01:41:29.577
[UNKNOWN]: The next day was the show with New Orleans, and while Bill Haugan over there, and I was watching my machines, which were actually in that closet behind that door where my servers live.

01:41:30.377 --> 01:41:39.442
[UNKNOWN]: and I was sitting right here at this desk making sure that nothing felled up because everything that I had built for this website, everything in a structure, everything was untested at this point.

01:41:40.042 --> 01:41:42.064
[UNKNOWN]: Nobody had been through the system yet except me.

01:41:42.884 --> 01:41:43.584
[UNKNOWN]: Is it going to work?

01:41:44.485 --> 01:41:50.008
[UNKNOWN]: And more importantly, are people going to want what I've built?

01:41:50.328 --> 01:41:51.889
[UNKNOWN]: Are people going to be interested in this?

01:41:52.950 --> 01:41:55.151
[UNKNOWN]: And my original plan, my original goal,

01:41:56.344 --> 01:41:57.845
[UNKNOWN]: which isn't even happened yet.

01:41:58.505 --> 01:42:01.367
[UNKNOWN]: Suppose we mid-summer, because we just started summer last weekend.

01:42:02.408 --> 01:42:06.491
[UNKNOWN]: So sometimes mid-summer, I wanted 20 to 30 members.

01:42:07.652 --> 01:42:08.212
[UNKNOWN]: That was the goal.

01:42:08.592 --> 01:42:12.075
[UNKNOWN]: 20 to 30 members, I figured about nine months of time, I could get 20 to 30 members.

01:42:12.355 --> 01:42:13.856
[UNKNOWN]: I'll get a decent following.

01:42:14.236 --> 01:42:16.798
[UNKNOWN]: And we can finally start organizing a show or something with that.

01:42:17.838 --> 01:42:20.520
[UNKNOWN]: Well, the first week we had 50.

01:42:23.142 --> 01:42:24.383
[UNKNOWN]: I still can't believe that myself.

01:42:26.854 --> 01:42:29.325
[UNKNOWN]: Tell me this, what is member?

01:42:29.767 --> 01:42:31.093
[UNKNOWN]: What does it take to be a member?

01:42:32.116 --> 01:42:37.219
[UNKNOWN]: Well, it's real simple, um, hop on onto the website and pay your fee $20.

01:42:38.079 --> 01:42:40.241
[UNKNOWN]: That's the initial thing as far as the paperwork is concerned.

01:42:40.521 --> 01:42:41.561
[UNKNOWN]: What does it take to be a member?

01:42:41.802 --> 01:42:43.903
[UNKNOWN]: Um, you want to be part of a community.

01:42:44.383 --> 01:42:45.564
[UNKNOWN]: That's really what this is about.

01:42:45.584 --> 01:42:47.265
[UNKNOWN]: It's about love and sharing.

01:42:47.865 --> 01:42:49.706
[UNKNOWN]: This is about being a weed culture.

01:42:49.746 --> 01:42:50.767
[UNKNOWN]: It's not about a weed culture.

01:42:50.787 --> 01:42:51.987
[UNKNOWN]: It's not about an eye culture.

01:42:52.007 --> 01:42:55.249
[UNKNOWN]: And you said it best in your other posts, which is what made us communicate.

01:42:55.810 --> 01:42:57.170
[UNKNOWN]: It's not us versus them.

01:42:57.751 --> 01:42:58.091
[UNKNOWN]: This is a

01:43:01.693 --> 01:43:06.958
[UNKNOWN]: It also includes all the clubs that are around us, even though I was told by the other leaders that other clubs don't matter.

01:43:07.398 --> 01:43:08.379
[UNKNOWN]: They matter greatly.

01:43:08.419 --> 01:43:14.225
[UNKNOWN]: The entire community matters around the world, internationally, which is again one of the reasons why we chose that name.

01:43:14.945 --> 01:43:19.970
[UNKNOWN]: We as a Volkswagen culture support each other, even if it's just verbal or there.

01:43:21.141 --> 01:43:37.859
[UNKNOWN]: But you make sure locally here, I'm sorry, I was saying so you probably didn't expect your near 150 members a little under 200 days impressive, rather and the first two months it was 100 so by the end of the year we had 101.

01:43:40.198 --> 01:43:44.003
[UNKNOWN]: And 155 sitting right now currently, the last I looked that actually could be different.

01:43:44.264 --> 01:43:44.825
[UNKNOWN]: Let's find out.

01:43:45.365 --> 01:43:45.926
[UNKNOWN]: I'm curious.

01:43:46.347 --> 01:43:47.008
[UNKNOWN]: Go ahead, come on.

01:43:47.208 --> 01:43:47.969
[UNKNOWN]: Let'll refresh you.

01:43:47.989 --> 01:43:48.910
[UNKNOWN]: Let's do something dramatic.

01:43:48.950 --> 01:43:49.451
[UNKNOWN]: No, still 155.

01:43:49.491 --> 01:43:49.711
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:43:49.751 --> 01:43:52.315
[UNKNOWN]: So 155 members with 173 cars registered in the system.

01:43:52.335 --> 01:43:52.695
[UNKNOWN]: 250 photos.

01:43:57.192 --> 01:43:57.752
[UNKNOWN]: Very cool.

01:43:57.892 --> 01:43:58.772
[UNKNOWN]: Yep.

01:43:58.893 --> 01:44:00.513
[UNKNOWN]: 17 different states five countries.

01:44:00.813 --> 01:44:02.614
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, it's it's growing.

01:44:02.914 --> 01:44:03.434
[UNKNOWN]: Cool.

01:44:03.594 --> 01:44:06.395
[UNKNOWN]: I was thinking out of the box once again.

01:44:06.635 --> 01:44:07.475
[UNKNOWN]: I was thinking bigger.

01:44:07.515 --> 01:44:08.975
[UNKNOWN]: It's not just about Pensacola.

01:44:08.995 --> 01:44:11.096
[UNKNOWN]: This is about all of us.

01:44:12.296 --> 01:44:24.580
[UNKNOWN]: And it's just the analogy I had been using because I had been hearing from others that the other club was saying that there's not enough room in this town for two clubs and it's going to be a turf war and like come on guys.

01:44:25.485 --> 01:44:40.876
[UNKNOWN]: you know there's this pie which is our community and this is the analogy I use every single time and there's only so many ways you can cut up that piece of pie until you're getting these little tiny slivers for everybody and everybody likes pie and you want a little sliver of pie but you want a big piece of pie.

01:44:42.477 --> 01:44:43.898
[UNKNOWN]: You tell me you Joe you like pie.

01:44:43.918 --> 01:44:49.061
[UNKNOWN]: I'll depend on what kind of pie I'm down with pie.

01:44:49.862 --> 01:44:52.524
[UNKNOWN]: Would you prefer a small piece or reasonably big piece?

01:44:53.251 --> 01:44:55.353
[UNKNOWN]: I'd probably have a reasonable, reasonable big piece.

01:44:55.933 --> 01:44:56.233
[UNKNOWN]: Right.

01:44:56.714 --> 01:45:02.358
[UNKNOWN]: Well, here with the oil slicker society, we're taking all the pieces of the pie, giving to you at the same time.

01:45:03.158 --> 01:45:03.919
[UNKNOWN]: You get the whole pie.

01:45:03.939 --> 01:45:05.280
[UNKNOWN]: Ooh, not.

01:45:05.360 --> 01:45:06.701
[UNKNOWN]: You get the whole pie.

01:45:06.941 --> 01:45:08.582
[UNKNOWN]: It's not about pieces of the pie anymore.

01:45:08.862 --> 01:45:10.864
[UNKNOWN]: It's not about arguing, you're picking, you're choosing.

01:45:11.164 --> 01:45:12.785
[UNKNOWN]: It's now giving everybody everything.

01:45:13.185 --> 01:45:14.026
[UNKNOWN]: You get all of it.

01:45:14.766 --> 01:45:16.848
[UNKNOWN]: It's their entire culture, it's our entire community.

01:45:17.168 --> 01:45:19.470
[UNKNOWN]: Everybody is joining together on this thing.

01:45:20.561 --> 01:45:41.795
[UNKNOWN]: And because of this, this culture, which we focus on, I don't think, yeah, everybody else hasn't really put this into, to print or into a bylaws structure or anything else until, I might be the first until I came along and actually did this and also everybody's going, you know what, but that might make a lot of goofy mistakes on YouTube, but he might be on something here.

01:45:42.847 --> 01:46:04.332
[UNKNOWN]: And I kind of know a lot of followers from and I mean people from all over people have never talked to before people in other states are just like I want to support you in what you're doing we really like this and I've even been approached in other other states in other areas to open other chapters already yeah and we're so young I know isn't it's amazing it's absolutely amazing so I have to think bigger my targets and along around the Pensacola Bay area.

01:46:05.034 --> 01:46:06.695
[UNKNOWN]: My culture, the targets.

01:46:06.915 --> 01:46:07.596
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, there you go.

01:46:07.996 --> 01:46:12.499
[UNKNOWN]: We thought about that with salty dub with sage and with salty dub.

01:46:12.519 --> 01:46:19.463
[UNKNOWN]: I think the, it's not a club or anything yet, but the Facebook page has over a 1,200 followers.

01:46:19.903 --> 01:46:25.246
[UNKNOWN]: And it's, it's just our business that we started to, to start promotional events.

01:46:25.306 --> 01:46:29.709
[UNKNOWN]: You know, we do like four or five events per year here in the Greater Tampa Bay area.

01:46:34.452 --> 01:46:58.782
[UNKNOWN]: but same stuff people email us and they're like hey man we need a salty dub you know central california southern california we need one in New Jersey in New York and you know Miami wants to get on and it's not something that we've established or even have put thought behind yet we both have full-time jobs and and all of that but again this is not about me I just think it's interesting to hear how

01:46:59.462 --> 01:47:10.290
[UNKNOWN]: When things I feel like are meant to be, and your heart is in the right place, the general public ends up showing up, and they want to get behind it, and they want to support it, dude, you know.

01:47:11.071 --> 01:47:14.494
[UNKNOWN]: The words I keep hearing, a lot of people were saying, it's proof that it was needed.

01:47:14.954 --> 01:47:15.855
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:47:15.875 --> 01:47:20.498
[UNKNOWN]: It just happened to do the right thing, and then I'm amazed that it was me.

01:47:20.518 --> 01:47:22.860
[UNKNOWN]: I figured it would have been somebody else to do something like this.

01:47:22.920 --> 01:47:26.023
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, I'm an idea guy, but I'm an idea that builds things for myself.

01:47:26.603 --> 01:47:26.903
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:47:26.943 --> 01:47:28.544
[UNKNOWN]: Ultimately, I did build the club for myself.

01:47:28.584 --> 01:47:38.768
[UNKNOWN]: If you've, you've brusher, browse through our bylaws, you'll see that all the things that I wrote up in there were the things that happened to me that I'm not ever going to let happen to another member.

01:47:39.128 --> 01:47:40.208
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, good, good.

01:47:40.428 --> 01:47:41.869
[UNKNOWN]: So all that was written up in there.

01:47:41.949 --> 01:47:44.570
[UNKNOWN]: One of the big things is our freedom of speech or Bill of Rights.

01:47:44.690 --> 01:47:45.990
[UNKNOWN]: We have that in this club.

01:47:46.010 --> 01:47:46.731
[UNKNOWN]: You can speak.

01:47:47.231 --> 01:47:49.812
[UNKNOWN]: Of course, we're asking you to be nice.

01:47:52.173 --> 01:48:00.880
[UNKNOWN]: If you go to an event, don't start cursing and swearing and then everybody and you know flipping off children kind of thing But keep keep yourself civil But freedom of speech is encouraged.

01:48:01.240 --> 01:48:16.693
[UNKNOWN]: We want you to speak out because we want your opinions We want to fix things and make them better if they need to be so that's why we're here And so far I think I've done the right things because Not many people have wanted to make any changes at all people are really on board with what we're doing and it's growing

01:48:17.883 --> 01:48:18.503
[UNKNOWN]: it is growing.

01:48:18.763 --> 01:48:20.744
[UNKNOWN]: It's growing so fast.

01:48:20.824 --> 01:48:21.484
[UNKNOWN]: So fast.

01:48:21.564 --> 01:48:22.385
[UNKNOWN]: It's it's scary.

01:48:22.765 --> 01:48:30.947
[UNKNOWN]: There's like, you know, all this this positivity that we have here is just we don't have negative press releases of any sort.

01:48:30.967 --> 01:48:35.569
[UNKNOWN]: And I haven't had to say anything bad at all till my members yet except one of our products wasn't selling that well.

01:48:35.949 --> 01:48:37.910
[UNKNOWN]: So we're just going to discontinue it.

01:48:37.950 --> 01:48:38.310
[UNKNOWN]: So what?

01:48:39.810 --> 01:48:40.570
[UNKNOWN]: everything has been good.

01:48:40.990 --> 01:48:46.372
[UNKNOWN]: But, you know, when negativity, you can't have that be the basis of your club or your organization, your culture.

01:48:46.992 --> 01:48:50.333
[UNKNOWN]: I said negativity isn't sustainable unless you're a weatherman.

01:48:50.933 --> 01:48:52.834
[UNKNOWN]: If you're a weatherman, the negativity's great.

01:48:53.094 --> 01:48:56.435
[UNKNOWN]: You know, if you're the press, negativity's great, people buy this stuff.

01:48:56.795 --> 01:48:58.515
[UNKNOWN]: For us, no, we don't need that here.

01:48:58.956 --> 01:48:59.476
[UNKNOWN]: We don't need that.

01:48:59.496 --> 01:49:00.436
[UNKNOWN]: This is about positivity.

01:49:00.456 --> 01:49:01.056
[UNKNOWN]: It's about growth.

01:49:01.076 --> 01:49:03.677
[UNKNOWN]: It's about helping the community and making things better for everybody.

01:49:05.020 --> 01:49:07.201
[UNKNOWN]: Let's touch on that community aspect.

01:49:07.501 --> 01:49:15.405
[UNKNOWN]: What are, what are things that come to the top of your mind that the Volkswagen community gets wrong today?

01:49:16.125 --> 01:49:20.047
[UNKNOWN]: Versus, what are some of the things that they actually still get right today?

01:49:20.447 --> 01:49:22.468
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, a community, that's a very good question.

01:49:22.868 --> 01:49:26.950
[UNKNOWN]: Ah, seeing is how I'm very actively involved in the pants of cold of community.

01:49:27.390 --> 01:49:30.712
[UNKNOWN]: And I have been elsewhere, you know, I've been in Western Kentucky before.

01:49:30.732 --> 01:49:32.353
[UNKNOWN]: I've been in Fort Myers, I did New Jersey.

01:49:33.274 --> 01:49:34.960
[UNKNOWN]: I gotta say that our community here.

01:49:36.372 --> 01:49:39.033
[UNKNOWN]: is in general, more inclusive.

01:49:39.113 --> 01:49:41.554
[UNKNOWN]: There's a lot more folks wagon owners that want to do things.

01:49:42.354 --> 01:49:48.036
[UNKNOWN]: And I think getting people to actually participate in things is probably what people are doing right.

01:49:48.516 --> 01:49:52.958
[UNKNOWN]: If you enjoy your Volkswagen, instead you enjoy the culture, get out there with people.

01:49:52.978 --> 01:49:55.919
[UNKNOWN]: You don't leave that thing in the garage to rot because guess what, it's gonna break.

01:49:56.499 --> 01:49:57.720
[UNKNOWN]: It just sits there, it's gonna break.

01:49:58.460 --> 01:50:00.841
[UNKNOWN]: So you have to get out there and you have to participate in your community.

01:50:00.861 --> 01:50:04.062
[UNKNOWN]: It doesn't mean spend money, but it doesn't mean get out there, be seen.

01:50:04.662 --> 01:50:05.182
[UNKNOWN]: get noticed.

01:50:05.682 --> 01:50:10.083
[UNKNOWN]: If people are traveling in the car group, we're doing this on purpose because we want the people to see us.

01:50:10.143 --> 01:50:11.124
[UNKNOWN]: It's our advertisement.

01:50:11.524 --> 01:50:14.644
[UNKNOWN]: And as a non-profit, we're trying to help our community.

01:50:15.545 --> 01:50:20.466
[UNKNOWN]: And we eventually will be earning more money because of more recognition that being seen.

01:50:20.886 --> 01:50:22.506
[UNKNOWN]: So do participate in a community.

01:50:22.526 --> 01:50:28.768
[UNKNOWN]: And if you can't spend money great, spend money in the local businesses, spend money at local restaurants, and do these events together.

01:50:29.188 --> 01:50:30.628
[UNKNOWN]: And that's one of the things that we do with low-risk liquor.

01:50:30.648 --> 01:50:31.348
[UNKNOWN]: We're very active.

01:50:31.368 --> 01:50:32.669
[UNKNOWN]: And we do two, three events a week.

01:50:33.129 --> 01:50:33.289
[UNKNOWN]: We're

01:50:34.849 --> 01:50:38.535
[UNKNOWN]: And that might be one of the other reasons for our success because other things weren't happening elsewhere.

01:50:38.555 --> 01:50:40.237
[UNKNOWN]: There was nothing going on for months of the time.

01:50:40.838 --> 01:50:42.361
[UNKNOWN]: And we pack our calendar.

01:50:42.581 --> 01:50:44.965
[UNKNOWN]: Which is another thing, by the way, we got a beautiful calendar on our website.

01:50:44.985 --> 01:50:45.465
[UNKNOWN]: Have you seen that?

01:50:45.946 --> 01:50:46.347
[UNKNOWN]: I haven't.

01:50:47.368 --> 01:50:48.550
[UNKNOWN]: The calendar is awesome.

01:50:48.891 --> 01:50:50.293
[UNKNOWN]: Want to share your screen and show it?

01:50:52.299 --> 01:51:01.405
[UNKNOWN]: no, only because I have multi monitors six of them and I don't know what it's going to do so you might end up with a screen, you know, this big.

01:51:01.706 --> 01:51:11.893
[UNKNOWN]: So yeah, that won't work, but if you go to oilslickers.com forward slash calendar, you can actually have a look at it, but all of our events are right up there on our calendar, and it's not just our events.

01:51:12.613 --> 01:51:16.476
[UNKNOWN]: It's the entire Volkswagen community events from its 250 mile radius.

01:51:16.916 --> 01:51:22.320
[UNKNOWN]: That's all away from New Orleans to Tallahassee all the way up to Tana Hill, where northernmost show is that.

01:51:22.340 --> 01:51:25.903
[UNKNOWN]: So everybody that's within that umbrella can put their events on this calendar.

01:51:25.923 --> 01:51:29.505
[UNKNOWN]: Now we might put some that are slightly outside of that if it logically makes sense.

01:51:29.525 --> 01:51:32.848
[UNKNOWN]: Of course, you know, if you're, you know, 30 minutes past hour pass, it's fine.

01:51:32.868 --> 01:51:34.229
[UNKNOWN]: You want to participate with our community.

01:51:34.589 --> 01:51:35.370
[UNKNOWN]: You can put it in on there.

01:51:35.770 --> 01:51:37.571
[UNKNOWN]: But it also doesn't have to be a Volkswagen

01:51:39.513 --> 01:52:00.909
[UNKNOWN]: yeah it is you got it so doesn't have to be a Volkswagen specific event it can be any event that's folks wagon friendly and you see tonight we have that one that's flashing there we're going to be meeting over it but it's thirty three for the uh... uh... Volkswagen takeover of the bad boys of the bedboys are mostly american uh... american cars and they invited uh...

01:52:02.082 --> 01:52:09.747
[UNKNOWN]: Amold coast folks wagon club, which is the other club over to them and they post an event for that I said you know why don't we tag along this all community let's get all the folks Wag is out there.

01:52:09.767 --> 01:52:15.050
[UNKNOWN]: Well Needless to say all slickers dominated the event we have more than the American cars even we just

01:52:17.198 --> 01:52:18.319
[UNKNOWN]: So they're so happy to see us.

01:52:18.339 --> 01:52:19.179
[UNKNOWN]: They can't like to have us.

01:52:19.239 --> 01:52:29.524
[UNKNOWN]: We're going to be there again today and Fred, the president of the bad boys, which is again, mostly American cars, was very thankful that it came out also in New Jersey guy from right where I'm from.

01:52:29.564 --> 01:52:31.665
[UNKNOWN]: So we're very easy to relate to each other.

01:52:32.265 --> 01:52:32.986
[UNKNOWN]: So it's a blast.

01:52:33.206 --> 01:52:38.889
[UNKNOWN]: All events, anything Volkswagen or Volkswagen friendly from our umbrella can go on that calendar.

01:52:39.309 --> 01:52:45.612
[UNKNOWN]: And in time, as we start to expand out to other chapters or other regions or whatever we start doing from there, we'll add other events to this calendar.

01:52:45.993 --> 01:52:52.491
[UNKNOWN]: and I'm gonna dial the men so you could say here's my zip code give me a mile radius show me everything on the calendar boom boom boom there it is

01:52:53.294 --> 01:52:58.918
[UNKNOWN]: You know, again, being a programmer and having all this data at my fingertips, it works out really nicely.

01:52:59.378 --> 01:53:01.000
[UNKNOWN]: And anybody can add an event.

01:53:01.380 --> 01:53:03.001
[UNKNOWN]: There's a button on the top that says, add event.

01:53:03.601 --> 01:53:06.143
[UNKNOWN]: If you don't have a oil slickers account, you don't need one.

01:53:06.504 --> 01:53:09.806
[UNKNOWN]: Just go ahead and put a name password in there and give yourself something to log in.

01:53:10.046 --> 01:53:11.447
[UNKNOWN]: Pay your events, submit it to me.

01:53:11.907 --> 01:53:15.030
[UNKNOWN]: And then I police them just to make sure that they do meet the criteria.

01:53:15.050 --> 01:53:20.654
[UNKNOWN]: Again, being in the area, being Volkswagen friendly, and not being pornographic or something nonsense.

01:53:22.615 --> 01:53:23.496
[UNKNOWN]: employees and systems.

01:53:23.996 --> 01:53:26.277
[UNKNOWN]: Anybody knows any about poison your system, it's me.

01:53:27.898 --> 01:53:31.760
[UNKNOWN]: We have our salty web site and we get uh you would be

01:53:32.918 --> 01:53:33.658
[UNKNOWN]: Well, you wouldn't be.

01:53:33.798 --> 01:53:57.228
[UNKNOWN]: You would probably be right in line with understanding the amount of spam and bullshit that people post, even like if we post an event on an events tab on Facebook because of the traction and the amount of people that are following our events now, you know, in the thousands, there are people that will comment below one of our events and say,

01:53:57.828 --> 01:54:00.189
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, you know, we're still selling tickets if you want.

01:54:00.229 --> 01:54:02.751
[UNKNOWN]: Just send us an email and it's like, who are you?

01:54:04.012 --> 01:54:05.172
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, those spammers.

01:54:05.232 --> 01:54:05.572
[UNKNOWN]: Yes.

01:54:06.053 --> 01:54:06.833
[UNKNOWN]: It's completely.

01:54:06.853 --> 01:54:07.153
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:54:07.974 --> 01:54:08.694
[UNKNOWN]: And we did.

01:54:08.874 --> 01:54:10.655
[UNKNOWN]: Um, folks, I should shut that off.

01:54:10.775 --> 01:54:11.916
[UNKNOWN]: I'll talk to you about that later.

01:54:12.296 --> 01:54:12.696
[UNKNOWN]: We did.

01:54:12.816 --> 01:54:13.317
[UNKNOWN]: No, we did.

01:54:13.337 --> 01:54:14.237
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, you didn't got it.

01:54:14.717 --> 01:54:19.760
[UNKNOWN]: I'm just relating to you and experience that the spam or spam is terrible.

01:54:20.040 --> 01:54:20.481
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:54:20.541 --> 01:54:20.881
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah.

01:54:21.021 --> 01:54:21.341
[UNKNOWN]: It is.

01:54:21.361 --> 01:54:21.961
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:54:22.342 --> 01:54:22.582
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:54:23.672 --> 01:54:28.738
[UNKNOWN]: Yes, I got a final question for you before we do a question and we almost done already.

01:54:28.918 --> 01:54:29.238
[UNKNOWN]: Fire.

01:54:29.258 --> 01:54:34.144
[UNKNOWN]: Well, I know we're already two almost two hours 15 minutes in and I promise.

01:54:34.204 --> 01:54:35.125
[UNKNOWN]: I'm having a good time.

01:54:35.425 --> 01:54:38.689
[UNKNOWN]: I've probably should not be minutes, so I don't want to take too much of your time.

01:54:38.809 --> 01:54:39.009
[UNKNOWN]: But.

01:54:39.650 --> 01:54:41.151
[UNKNOWN]: I told you to get me a microphone.

01:54:41.171 --> 01:54:41.692
[UNKNOWN]: I would talk.

01:54:42.613 --> 01:54:43.313
[UNKNOWN]: I love a fan.

01:54:43.333 --> 01:54:45.775
[UNKNOWN]: This is going to make a fantastic episode.

01:54:45.935 --> 01:54:48.097
[UNKNOWN]: Again, I thank you so much for your time and your energy.

01:54:48.538 --> 01:54:50.659
[UNKNOWN]: Here's a here's an awesome question for you though.

01:54:59.353 --> 01:55:00.413
[UNKNOWN]: I haven't heard that one yet.

01:55:01.074 --> 01:55:04.195
[UNKNOWN]: Even though it's so true and it should be one I hear all the time.

01:55:04.595 --> 01:55:04.955
[UNKNOWN]: I haven't.

01:55:05.516 --> 01:55:05.956
[UNKNOWN]: Good word.

01:55:06.436 --> 01:55:07.196
[UNKNOWN]: That's the strong one.

01:55:07.376 --> 01:55:07.877
[UNKNOWN]: It's inclusive.

01:55:08.057 --> 01:55:09.117
[UNKNOWN]: Everybody has to be together.

01:55:09.597 --> 01:55:10.258
[UNKNOWN]: Super structure.

01:55:10.278 --> 01:55:10.878
[UNKNOWN]: Gotta be inclusive.

01:55:11.118 --> 01:55:12.058
[UNKNOWN]: Yep.

01:55:12.138 --> 01:55:14.059
[UNKNOWN]: If I were to give it a second one, I would say loyalty.

01:55:14.900 --> 01:55:15.520
[UNKNOWN]: Okay, man.

01:55:16.180 --> 01:55:17.661
[UNKNOWN]: Both fantastic words.

01:55:17.761 --> 01:55:22.983
[UNKNOWN]: Usually I hear things like family, you know, that type of stuff, but inclusive this year.

01:55:25.091 --> 01:55:25.832
[UNKNOWN]: I like it, man.

01:55:25.872 --> 01:55:26.472
[UNKNOWN]: Thank you.

01:55:26.512 --> 01:55:27.573
[UNKNOWN]: Good good good stuff.

01:55:27.593 --> 01:55:27.833
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:55:28.333 --> 01:55:29.534
[UNKNOWN]: Rapid fire questions.

01:55:29.554 --> 01:55:31.836
[UNKNOWN]: These are questions at the man to fast response.

01:55:32.036 --> 01:55:32.336
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:55:32.416 --> 01:55:32.977
[UNKNOWN]: Now, okay.

01:55:33.397 --> 01:55:35.618
[UNKNOWN]: If a story comes of it, I'm cool with it.

01:55:35.839 --> 01:55:37.220
[UNKNOWN]: I'm not going to derail you.

01:55:37.460 --> 01:55:42.884
[UNKNOWN]: However, rapid fire means typically top of the head first response.

01:55:42.964 --> 01:55:43.724
[UNKNOWN]: Go with the gut.

01:55:44.725 --> 01:55:46.046
[UNKNOWN]: Just spit it out there.

01:55:46.106 --> 01:55:46.466
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:55:46.546 --> 01:55:47.747
[UNKNOWN]: I got, I got to feel them.

01:55:47.767 --> 01:55:48.868
[UNKNOWN]: This ain't going to be hard for you.

01:55:49.688 --> 01:55:51.790
[UNKNOWN]: These used to get me a trouble with my guidance counselor.

01:55:54.869 --> 01:55:55.189
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:55:55.229 --> 01:55:55.710
[UNKNOWN]: You ready?

01:55:56.810 --> 01:55:57.030
[UNKNOWN]: Yes.

01:55:57.591 --> 01:55:57.911
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:55:57.971 --> 01:55:58.531
[UNKNOWN]: Rapid fire.

01:55:58.571 --> 01:55:59.032
[UNKNOWN]: Here we go.

01:56:00.132 --> 01:56:02.474
[UNKNOWN]: Split bus or oval beetle.

01:56:03.875 --> 01:56:05.116
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, that hurts.

01:56:05.896 --> 01:56:06.176
[UNKNOWN]: Both.

01:56:07.577 --> 01:56:07.817
[UNKNOWN]: Nope.

01:56:07.898 --> 01:56:08.538
[UNKNOWN]: Got a big one.

01:56:09.779 --> 01:56:15.643
[UNKNOWN]: I'm going to go with the awful, just because I'm more done on it.

01:56:15.783 --> 01:56:16.203
[UNKNOWN]: There you go.

01:56:16.283 --> 01:56:16.923
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, well, it is.

01:56:17.304 --> 01:56:17.584
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:56:18.424 --> 01:56:22.327
[UNKNOWN]: Most overrated VW trend in today's market.

01:56:24.913 --> 01:56:25.613
[UNKNOWN]: Chinese parts.

01:56:26.553 --> 01:56:26.913
[UNKNOWN]: Ooh.

01:56:27.594 --> 01:56:27.974
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:56:29.314 --> 01:56:29.874
[UNKNOWN]: Well said.

01:56:30.814 --> 01:56:31.314
[UNKNOWN]: Ah, yeah.

01:56:32.154 --> 01:56:36.075
[UNKNOWN]: Most underrated VW modification.

01:56:36.575 --> 01:56:36.675
[UNKNOWN]: Oh.

01:56:36.695 --> 01:56:39.296
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, I got everything hard about that one.

01:56:41.116 --> 01:56:41.716
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, there's one.

01:56:41.756 --> 01:56:42.676
[UNKNOWN]: It's just comes to mind.

01:56:42.696 --> 01:56:43.557
[UNKNOWN]: My crack and pushing.

01:56:43.597 --> 01:56:45.197
[UNKNOWN]: I mean, everybody needs a good shit pushing.

01:56:45.677 --> 01:56:47.977
[UNKNOWN]: There must have given myself a plug.

01:56:48.158 --> 01:56:49.538
[UNKNOWN]: That's a very important piece.

01:56:49.898 --> 01:56:50.238
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:56:50.843 --> 01:56:54.367
[UNKNOWN]: It's a very important piece of so many people don't fix it and shift like garbage.

01:56:54.387 --> 01:56:57.150
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, the quack and bushing got black and bushing.

01:56:58.872 --> 01:57:02.296
[UNKNOWN]: Best junkyard score ever for me.

01:57:02.717 --> 01:57:04.038
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, that has to be the oval.

01:57:04.859 --> 01:57:05.019
[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

01:57:05.040 --> 01:57:05.760
[UNKNOWN]: All right.

01:57:05.860 --> 01:57:06.401
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, my oval.

01:57:07.102 --> 01:57:08.624
[UNKNOWN]: One tool you can't live without.

01:57:08.924 --> 01:57:09.545
[UNKNOWN]: Oh, this computer.

01:57:10.632 --> 01:57:11.693
[UNKNOWN]: Ooh, okay.

01:57:11.893 --> 01:57:14.975
[UNKNOWN]: Yeah, this computer, I have to do all my editing on.

01:57:15.035 --> 01:57:16.636
[UNKNOWN]: This is a big piece to my life.

01:57:16.996 --> 01:57:21.539
[UNKNOWN]: I haven't feel I know where this one's gonna go, but carburetor's or fuel injection.

01:57:21.999 --> 01:57:31.204
[UNKNOWN]: I do like both, but ultimately, if you take care of an aircool Volkswagen, and I say carburetor's, but I am gonna do fuel injection on my own car because I'm challenging myself to do a technology thing.

01:57:31.224 --> 01:57:35.167
[UNKNOWN]: So I will be doing some kind of home-brewed fuel injection system on my beat of.

01:57:35.880 --> 01:57:39.522
[UNKNOWN]: Cool, favorite VW engine sound.

01:57:39.702 --> 01:57:49.386
[UNKNOWN]: Flafork, most hated automotive phrase.

01:57:49.446 --> 01:57:54.969
[UNKNOWN]: The people that confuse cranking the car with turning over the car, with the car firing.

01:57:56.009 --> 01:57:56.890
[UNKNOWN]: You know what I'm saying?

01:57:56.910 --> 01:57:59.471
[UNKNOWN]: Because as we're all different terms, and they all be used differently.

01:58:00.733 --> 01:58:05.374
[UNKNOWN]: But at the same time, but if in context, you're using improperly, I'm not gonna know what you're saying.

01:58:06.195 --> 01:58:07.255
[UNKNOWN]: Those always get me.

01:58:07.635 --> 01:58:08.335
[UNKNOWN]: The car cranks.

01:58:08.876 --> 01:58:11.336
[UNKNOWN]: Okay, so it's fire and off, though.

01:58:12.837 --> 01:58:13.937
[UNKNOWN]: So it turns over with the key?

01:58:14.297 --> 01:58:15.818
[UNKNOWN]: No, okay, so it's not cranky.

01:58:16.038 --> 01:58:18.839
[UNKNOWN]: It's just, you know what I'm talking about, yeah.

01:58:19.719 --> 01:58:20.799
[UNKNOWN]: Okay, okay, good.

01:58:21.099 --> 01:58:22.080
[UNKNOWN]: And interesting.

01:58:23.920 --> 01:58:26.561
[UNKNOWN]: Tell us one thing that people misunderstand about you.

01:58:30.676 --> 01:58:33.258
[UNKNOWN]: A lot of people can't relate to me because I'm just a different person.

01:58:33.278 --> 01:58:34.339
[UNKNOWN]: I'm a unique personality.

01:58:34.999 --> 01:58:45.206
[UNKNOWN]: And even when I've been studying for personality traits all the way back to school and even when I've taken personality tests online for fun, I always come up with some very unique results and these things say, just I'm not like everybody else.

01:58:45.266 --> 01:58:46.747
[UNKNOWN]: And I get that and I know that.

01:58:47.228 --> 01:58:51.611
[UNKNOWN]: So very often people don't understand where I'm coming from or what I'm doing or what my intent is.

01:58:52.111 --> 01:58:54.212
[UNKNOWN]: So very often, I'm looked at an negative light.

01:58:54.433 --> 01:58:57.195
[UNKNOWN]: You know, maybe I'm nefarious or I'm dangerous or I'm harmful.

01:58:57.235 --> 01:58:59.116
[UNKNOWN]: None of the above, I just am different.

01:59:01.063 --> 01:59:23.838
[UNKNOWN]: Usually that's the the one that gets the most attention though in the most energy right is the is the different one the unique one the one that's the one of a kind type Yeah, person you know what comes with that though usually is a following a lot of people that actually relate to it because we're so surprised All we're all little you know different

01:59:25.199 --> 01:59:28.580
[UNKNOWN]: We are different, and that's what I like about people, actually.

01:59:29.060 --> 01:59:33.641
[UNKNOWN]: So one thing I like about people, and I never realized I was a people like her until I did this club.

01:59:34.361 --> 01:59:36.261
[UNKNOWN]: I started to realize how much I do like people.

01:59:36.301 --> 01:59:39.622
[UNKNOWN]: I used to be a real business throwback, I think people are always going to do the wrong thing.

01:59:39.642 --> 01:59:47.223
[UNKNOWN]: I noticed that people, when you have somebody that's put the right things in place, the people are making their right decisions, and they are making their right choices, they're taking care of each other.

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[UNKNOWN]: And this inclusivity that I mentioned before is important, and yeah, that's where I'm going with that.

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[UNKNOWN]: What do you want people to remember about the duckman?

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, like after a diet or something?

01:59:59.494 --> 01:59:59.714
[UNKNOWN]: Sure.

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[UNKNOWN]: Like I see, we can, yeah, what do you want?

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[UNKNOWN]: I got the Frank Zappa answer to that one.

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[UNKNOWN]: It doesn't matter.

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[UNKNOWN]: I won't be here to tell.

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[UNKNOWN]: I am very, very easy to find.

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[UNKNOWN]: You could search oil-sliccer society, international, or just even oil-slicters up on YouTube, Facebook, or on Google, or any of your favorite search engines, is your guaranteed to find us.

02:00:40.371 --> 02:00:43.334
[UNKNOWN]: If you want to hit the website up directly, go to oilslickers.com.

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[UNKNOWN]: And if you'd like to have a personal conversation with me or you want to know more about my YouTube channel, I'm really easy to find also.

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[UNKNOWN]: Duckman Cycles is the easiest way to look for me search for those in any of your favorite search engines.

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[UNKNOWN]: Look for me on YouTube, Facebook, I'm there.

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[UNKNOWN]: I've got Facebook groups for chat.

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[UNKNOWN]: Oh, she's like, that's so many favorite chat groups.

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[UNKNOWN]: Just for me, which is amazing, but again, draw the attention to myself, but you can easily find me on all these different places.

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[UNKNOWN]: And if you want one place that you could find everything and I know you're going to love this.

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[UNKNOWN]: Check out DuckShit.net.

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[UNKNOWN]: All of my links to my social media are there, all of my contact information is the best way to reach me always because if I change anything, you'll find it there.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[UNKNOWN]: Duck shit.

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[UNKNOWN]: Net.

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[UNKNOWN]: Let's, let's, let's go.

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[UNKNOWN]: Duck shit.

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[UNKNOWN]: final message to the Volkswagen community from you final message yeah I love each other I mean it's really important take care of each other if you have somebody that's broken down somebody needs help this is part of our community our culture other clubs other cultures are not like this you don't see them oh power guys rushing out to get a tow bar to bring somebody home

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[UNKNOWN]: it's about the Volkswagen guys.

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[UNKNOWN]: So take care of each other.

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[UNKNOWN]: It's really important.

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[UNKNOWN]: Embrace the new people.

02:01:52.912 --> 02:01:54.092
[UNKNOWN]: You get new people to come in here.

02:01:54.112 --> 02:01:56.793
[UNKNOWN]: They don't know this stuff and I mentioned that earlier in a video.

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[UNKNOWN]: They don't even maybe not even want to work on these things.

02:01:59.574 --> 02:02:00.935
[UNKNOWN]: They just want to be part of that culture.

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[UNKNOWN]: Even if they don't have a Volkswagen, then they want to be part of their culture.

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[UNKNOWN]: Invite them in.

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[UNKNOWN]: And we have some members that have Camaro's.

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[UNKNOWN]: Some members that have other GM products.

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[UNKNOWN]: Why are you here?

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[UNKNOWN]: It's like, I want to be with you guys.

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[UNKNOWN]: I want to do what you do.

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[UNKNOWN]: So come on out.

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[UNKNOWN]: Bring your cabero.

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[UNKNOWN]: Come on.

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[UNKNOWN]: Join us.

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[UNKNOWN]: And that's really it.

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[UNKNOWN]: I mean, just inclusivity.

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[UNKNOWN]: Bring everybody.

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[UNKNOWN]: Bring your friends.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is your family.

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[UNKNOWN]: We have chosen you.

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[UNKNOWN]: And I want you to be there.

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[UNKNOWN]: That's really what it's about.

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[UNKNOWN]: So tell everybody that and include everybody and whatever it is that you do.

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[UNKNOWN]: And it doesn't mean you have to give them free parts, so you have to give them free help to everything, but be there for them when they're looking for help.

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[UNKNOWN]: Find them the answers that they need.

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[UNKNOWN]: And that's a wrap for this episode of Dub Life Diaries.

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[UNKNOWN]: Thanks for riding along with us and diving into these incredible stories of the people in the Dub that drive their dreams.

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[UNKNOWN]: Do you have a story to tell or know somebody else who's living the dove life?

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[UNKNOWN]: Awesome.

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[UNKNOWN]: Reach out to us.

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[UNKNOWN]: You can find us on all socials and dove life diaries.

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[UNKNOWN]: Or shoot me an email.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm not hard to find.

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[UNKNOWN]: Double life diaries at gmail.com.

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[UNKNOWN]: Until next time, keep the engine tummen and the wheels turn in and always follow the road that inspires you.

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[UNKNOWN]: This is Joe Person.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'm signing off.

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[UNKNOWN]: I'll catch you on the next ride.