JBug-Jason Wharton-200+ Volkswagens, Art & a Lifetime in VW Culture Ep76

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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine buying your first Volkswagen, falling so deeply in love with the culture that you eventually end up own in more than 200 of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, that's not a type error, 200 of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now imagine taking that same obsession and turning it into one of the longest running Volkswagen clubs in the mid-Atlantic creating artwork seen around the world, inspiring generations of enthusiasts, and somehow balancing it all while raising are you ready for this?

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[SPEAKER_00]: 8 kids!

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[SPEAKER_00]: work in a full-time career.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today's guest has lived every corner of the VW culture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's an artist whose work has appeared in magazines across the globe.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a skateboarder influenced by the legendary graphics of the 1980s and I remember those graphics so well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's a BMX racer who still lines up at the gate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rodgers, are you ready?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Watch the gate because I did that too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I raised BMX

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, he still lines it up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the founder of Strictly VW's Auto Club, a community that's been bringing Volkswagen people together for more than 20, seven years, and whether you know him as Jason Warden or simply as Jaybug, chances are, you've seen his artwork, you've crossed past with him at a show, you've been inspired by his passion that he has poured into this hobby for decades now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a conversation about chasin creativity, about building a legacy, about staying true to your passion, and proven that sometimes one little beetle can change the entire direction of your life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today I am joined by Jason Jaybug Warden, welcome to dub life diaries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, thank you for having me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you are so welcome man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Back to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You ready to do this man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when people hear the nickname Jaybug, what do you hope comes to mind for them?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my gosh.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So father family first.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I got like you said eight kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a fiance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: asked my fiance that married me a year and a half ago and we're about to get married in October skateboarder since at the beginning beating me x-rays are like you said and just a collector of just cool stuff from the 80s and 90s my childhood and of course Volkswagen culture that's me

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So people that have never met you before, who is Jason Warden behind Volkswagen's behind really anything else, you know, as just maybe a human?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a land surveyor full-time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been doing that for 25 years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So if people doesn't don't know me from Volkswagen and the other things that I just mentioned, then land surveying has been a passion for 25 years now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Also, yeah, I do a little bit of everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, my parents have a bakery, so I'm a cake decorator on the side, some weekends, and I'll do a little bit of everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A little bit of everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember the exact moment that Volkswagen's pretty much stop becoming cars and became an obsession for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so, you know, I got my first Volkswagen, 1995, my parents bought it for me because laid back up a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was skateboarding one day, now the side street, and a cool 67 slam bug on some five spokes for a buy, no engine, laid chrome motor, stinger, and I was like that, it's got to be the coolest car ever, and I was just about, just about, right, you start driving.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went to the local grocery store and picked up a, you know, a VW magazine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was VW trends and how VWs and I was like, this has got to be the coolest thing ever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And of course, I came home one night after I got my permit and my parents had picked up a 1969 beetle and it was in a garage waiting for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a project, holes and the floors, barely running, spray painted silver.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So then that's where it all started at.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: very cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What year was that, do you recall?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, 1990, four or 95.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I think they paid me 300 bucks for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right there, right there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So my first beetle fresh out of high school was 96.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I had I bought a 72 standard auto clutch off this little lady in this area here, well known in St. Pete called the Tyrone Square Mall.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I used to work at the Sears Automotive Center at a

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[SPEAKER_00]: And every day I'd come out of Jiffy Loop and you know, I'd get in my truck and I'd get in and I'd head out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And one night I got my truck and I look at the corner of the parking lot and I'm like, no shit, there's a little classic, uh, Volkswagen beat a little over there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I drive over to see it says for sale.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was two grand.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I called the phone number.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was a little lady answered.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she says, yeah, I'm right around the corner.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's like, you want to hang out for a couple minutes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll come show it to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She'll come show it to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I bought it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love those times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Only 70,000 miles on that car at that time and it was a fun car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had many East Coast trips, many, many surf trips with my buddies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, I race BMX as well all through my teens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So many of times we had BMX bikes crammed all over that roof rack and and just had a great time in that car, but yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What for you has kept this kind of obsession alive for now more than three decades in your life?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, it's just to me it's fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's enjoyable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, taking something that might, I find it's broken down, like a Volkswagen, learning about it, and then repairing it and getting it back on the road, there's a good feeling about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think, you know, saving them over time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is a lot, brother.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've owned more than 200 of these things now, I mean, one point did you realize this, this probably wasn't a hobby anymore for you, or, or,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, so you know how that came about my parents have been real supportive about the whole Volkswagen thing and So I got my first car was a 69 my father helped me out that he wasn't in the cars Wasn't my can't claim Klein, but we fixed that first 69 beetle using hardware store parts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the floor pans were Aluminum trailer scurrying and sheet metal screws and car you know, and oh, yeah, we hand painted that car with like a

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[SPEAKER_01]: Almost like a rustle and brushed painted it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was so to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was good time spent and then from there We were riding down the street one day and somebody had one in the driveway and We asked about he's like sure, do you know take that for 50 bucks if you want it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we went got it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We pulled it back home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a 72 super beetle

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think from there, you know, my parents were this real support about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We drive around the weekends and see one to drive away and go talk to somebody about it just to get their story about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it would end up coming home with us somehow, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I'm 17, my parents got a beautiful house with a circle driveway and there's seven Volkswagen's out back because of the making.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm grabbing them and picking them up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: being my buddy, Jim Leather, we're under him all night long, fixing them, repairing them, and then flipping them, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But back then it was, you buy him for 300 bucks and you made 1,500 bucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We sold him and it was like, it was wonderful.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's a lot of more money back then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They say the apple don't, don't fall too far from the tree.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, this, this is his driveway behind me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's current.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're talking about your parents.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested to hear a little bit about your your kind of your upbringing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What was your childhood really like growing up in Maryland?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maryland at the side of Maryland where from is kind of beach town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're about 20 minutes from Ocean City, Maryland, like a tourist area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Maryland Eastern Shore is very slow-paced,

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[SPEAKER_01]: A lot of farm land, skate culture was a big time where younger ocean city was a hot spot for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I mean, it was a really cool place to grow up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you're family from what I saw in your your your background in your past, your family had a very strong, you know, creative background.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember seeing something about your grandfather having that that sign painting company.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me how that influenced you as a young kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, so yeah, he had cast per sign studios.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure when it started, but you know, he hand painted signs and fire trucks and truck lettering and storefronts, probably up till the 80s when vinyl machines came in and when vinyl machines came in, a lot of signers retired.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's where I built my first Volkswagen was in his sign painting shop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because it was huge, you could fit up our engine or, you know, and I just remember smelling that the paint smells and the thinners and the paint brushes and all those signs hanging on the walls, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that stuck with me, you know, to this day.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, super cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What about your parents?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What lessons did your parents kind of, I guess, maybe teach you or influence or have influence over you that really still shape who you are today?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, my parents are a workaholic, just like me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So growing up, they've had catering companies, cleaning companies, limousine company at one point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then they had like a beer wine deli and turned it into a bakery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, the idea is we're rolling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that kind of stuck to me now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing the same thing, you know, with all my hobbies and jobs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But they've always been supported.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If there's anything I ever needed or wanted to try, they've always been behind me pushing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What do you need?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they've been great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hustlers, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That sounds awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that sounds awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And good and fluents that in you too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, jack of all trades, pry master or most of them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love it, love it, love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So skateboarding was big for you and your youth and your childhood, you discovered skateboarding graphics even before Volkswagen's, what was it about skateboarding graphics that really, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I have an older brother older brother and younger brother my older brother Yancy's eight years older than I am and he got into skateboarding and I just remember I was probably seven years old and it was a thrash or magazine You know sitting in his bedroom and I'm like I'll check this out and just flipping through those pages and seeing the skulls and swords And the crazy graphics of the 80s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, yeah, yeah, palparalta and Santa Cruz, you know and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just after seeing them, I remember just sitting down and trying to mimic those graphics on paper and that's how art started for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who were some artists, maybe that you admired growing up, just so I can kind of detect the style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right, also Jim Phillips is the Santa Cruz artist and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Vernon Johnson is the the power for all to artists.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those two were in skateboarding were who I saw on the magazines the most, you know, and then, you know, later years getting in a cars, it was at Big Daddy Roth, the rat think artist, you know, his hot rod style monsters were unbelievable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They made you happy, made you smile and they're cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So did you know early on in your in your life that creativity was really going to become part of part of your life part of your career?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, you know, drawing from a young age.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember doing a little contest at school, elementary school, drawing up things for rewards like candy bars and things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I started drawing things.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that at that time, my parents had a, you know, a beer wine deli and they used to hang my artwork in there and I'd sell them and hustle them for 25 cents or 50 cents.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's always been there, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: super cool man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate that because so I've always been in and around sales and I grew up around my father who was always a businessman and was always selling and from a time I was about seven eight years old I used to go to antique shows with him and he would set up a small booth with costume jewelry which is fake jewelry but still artistically crafted and pretty badass but he would

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I would end up doing thousands of dollars in sales for them from a young age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, looking back at it, it's probably because I was just this little cute kid that was selling stuff to all the little ladies at the antique show, but it gave me this hustler nature.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for my whole entire life, I've told stories about that because I listened to the way that my dad captivated people, the way he told stories and the way that he forced

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[SPEAKER_00]: connection and relationships and throughout my career, all doing sales, you know, became a sales trainer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And for the last 15 years, I've, you know, I've taught a class and I've just I've traveled the country and I basically teach sales and relationships, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I tell stories about how I grew up like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's interesting to me, always that what we're around and how we're influenced, how it ends up becoming us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I use all those skills today, you know, an even clan serving or whatever it is, you know, aren't just talking to people, you know, at one time crazy for a couple of years there, I wanted to sell baseball cards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that was the coolest thing ever.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was probably mid 90s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a big thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he bought me jewelry cases.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I put him in his, you know, the Delhi and sold him out of there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's always been pushing, you know, learning business, you know, yeah, it's cool though, man, that he gave you that outlet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, let's go back to the to Volkswagen for a second.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I want to touch on your, your, your first beetle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I know we, we briefly touched on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, um, and I know you said you, you, you restored a lot of it with with with with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, how important was it to you at the time that you kind of had this, you know, father son, you know, project looking back now today as a, as a, as a grown man with your own kids.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and definitely it made me respect it, you know, because the car that they bought me was not a running drive in car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was just pretty much a shell and a project.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And my dad's like, if you put this together and learn about it, you'll be able to repair it, you know, and you'll respect the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, you're not just going to film something that's already running and driving.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I appreciate that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's that's all amazing, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: that's life lessons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, life lessons, life lessons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He brought you to your first car show or your first first Volkswagen show back in the day, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's something after after I had that first mug, I didn't know a lot of people yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know there was a bunch of Volkswagen people out there except for in the magazines, you know, and, you know, magazines in the 90s, a generation, X and back,

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[SPEAKER_01]: magazines, then we're our social media, you know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everything, everything, if you want to have to work on something, you had to wait till the next month came out and go to the back issues or what's the trending thing right now or what the cars look like and bug out and a menace is kept popping up in there and it was only three and a half hours from us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dreams, you know, look at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to go to that car show and I remember my parents saying like, you know what you're into this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go check it out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They never been to the car show like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's go spend the weekend and and check out this show and cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've made the trip and I remember pulling up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: in the parking lot, which was on the other side of the highway from the show, and just seeing people carrying fenders and parts out of the show, and then the parking lot had just as many cars, you know, Volkswagen's out, then it did it in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So just pulling up there was like, there's people like me, you know, like, this is amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Going into the show and they had slalom and drag racing and

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[SPEAKER_01]: War cool air cooled spots in air inventors and just going in there and seeing the cars that I've seen in magazines before having features.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was like seeing a movie star, you know, and uh, that just stuck with me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that show I start going to show in 95 and and so the track is old domain in in Manassus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It closed probably five to eight years ago and it's now a townhouse

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was their, you know, a car that you might remember that really, you know, changed it all for a year or that you were, you know, you said it's like seeing a celebrity.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there was there any one that you really remember that stood out?

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[SPEAKER_01]: There was a few of them in there, but you know, the one that I saw in the magazines and it was a trends car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a yellow and white oval lowered.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And just very retro custom, I mean, it looked great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just remember going in the show, and this thing had carpet under it with a mirrors, and they had the wheel took it off the chrome drums, and they had just after seeing it, so many issues, and then seeing it in person was like, that's crazy, you know, this, that's the car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: so cool man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My first was a bug jam down here, which is a big show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, there's still 800 cars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It still goes on a matter of fact, these guys were we're at the last one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They come from all over the southeast and come down there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a great show, but 96, 95.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The year actually before I bought my, my beetle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was already into them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was already into Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was looking for one, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I go to Bug Jam for the first time and just like you, similar experience.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, dude, there's a lot of people that are into this, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And there was cars everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, wheels taken off and the mirror set up everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're on big blankets and, you know, people are set up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you know, low outer culture was really big back then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so a lot of mini trucks, etc., my brothers, I have two older brothers that were into and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of wanted to find my own lane and manage with with with Volkswagen's for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to talk about these 200 plus cars, you know, that you've had or you've had and sold or flipped or, you know, the as the story goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of heard about how somebody accumulates that many.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You had support and then cars were 50 bucks, 100 bucks, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's the how, but what I really want to hear is now that we know so much about them and we can identify what were some of the most rarest cars that you accumulated over time or maybe some of the most memorable vehicles that you did at one point own.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, so yeah, I think probably the third or fourth car I picked up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were going through an advertisement local here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was in the 90s.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And up near the beach, the first car I, and like I said, it was by the fourth car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We picked up was a $300.57 oval.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, and I remember looking at my parents saying like this is a good deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we should go look at this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we drove there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It had buried itself up to the lug nuts, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it was all there and it was 300 bucks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's probably one of the best deals looking back now, I wish I still had that car because I picked that car up and we drug it to high school and the Votech teacher that did welding was like, hey, bring it in here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll put pans and here channels and you can learn about that, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a great car, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man, I bet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Any standout that you regret selling the most?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, you know, after you drive on for a while, I've regrets on a lot of them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I've had five or six ovals, I've, you know, I've had a couple of sixty sevens and they are always a fun car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was fun year, I've had a notch back, I've had double cab, single cabs, a little bit of everything, you know, so I think I get attached to all of them before they sell and then, you know, I'll flip them and drive for a few months, drive for six months a year and then,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let them go and then take that money and buy two more, you know, and double my inventory.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Good, good, good strategy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Looking back did, did you have any that that, you know, were a total pain in the butt man that any that stand out that fought together step of the way?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I, this was just probably six months ago, I had a 73 thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the gentlemen restored it probably eight years ago at like our rotisserie rotisserie restoration.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was painted underneath it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was mint condition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On forced flingy passed away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The grunt and the things sat covered in the garage for about eight years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And his wife contacted me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She knew I was into the Volkswagen's and so it's Jimmy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First thing was a fuel lines and going through it and I could stick a screwdriver in the gas tank and it stood up from all the old gas and an advantage You know, wow, so I could play you went through brake lines gas lines changed the oil valves were stuck You know, I went through the whole thing and I can never get it to run right and

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[SPEAKER_01]: it's just crazy that the most perfect car has given me the most trouble and I've had some of the most horrible patented rusted out cars that I would drive anywhere, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but that thing, yeah, it got me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It had me so, uh, so frustrated.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The ever do you look back at any of them and and have any any stories on ones that you bought knowing that it just made zero financial sense to buy it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh, so there's there's been times that people've contacted me and been like, I have an old beetle in the backyard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We know you're the bug guy around here come take a look at it and.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just know I shouldn't bring this home.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's frosted.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, just give us 300 bucks for it and I feel bad because I see it buried back there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, somebody could use something off this or, or, you know, yard art even.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I yank it out and bring it home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and they probably should stay there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They might have taken why did I buy this, you know, but that's happened plenty of times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about the market because, you know, just even say, you know, buying a car for 50 or 100 or 300 or even a $1,000, you know, I got $2,000 that I paid for $1.96 is dirt cheap next to what they are, you know, now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man, give me your take.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How's the market changed since the night?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so that's one of the biggest reasons I got in a Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's was a JC Whitney cattle log and you could go in there and you had to fill out a, you know, paper in the back for what you wanted to send it check in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But things were so cheap back there in those catalogs through all the companies and then everybody seemed to have parts in the garage, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: cars were cheap, you know, but now it just seems like it's all getting a little scarce, they're getting a little more collectible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You start watching these big car auction and there's buses going for $100,000 and then everybody's gonna bus thinks that their buses are worth $100,000.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so the prices are definitely going up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the barn door, 21 windows in the Barrett Jackson.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw one go for north of 200 K. Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, that's crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, somebody that has a regular bus that's rusted out, what we'll say, I just saw one go for 200,000.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this has got to be worth a lot, you know, and I'm like, yeah, I'm still on these 1990s prices.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I was the wild wild some of the top up, you know, you're right, but man, you got to be fast and that is it man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I check market place probably 50, 60 times a day, I mean, that's I'm on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I do too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm always looking, coming for opportunities, you know, right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually looking for between 68, 69, 771, stop there at 71.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to early Bay window.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to have a, you know, a 10 top transporter, that's really my vibe, that's what I'm looking for.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I came this close to getting one just this year, in fact, right before the war and all this crazy stuff started happening with our gas prices.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I actually had a guy that was going to trade me for one for he was going to trade my Carmen guilla.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But before I had it painted before I didn't either any of the work done to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, man, I was so close to getting that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a nice bus.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was, uh, I was close.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was going to be a good trade.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, all things for different reasons and everything in life and it's completely fine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So ended up keeping the guilla.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you'll get a bet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they are the most comfortable riding buses.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love my slip one of buses, but baby windows are comfortable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I love them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't wait.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll all end up with one of these days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And talking about being quick that blue beetle in the background is a 67 beetle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I already have six in the driveway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't need another one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that one popped up on Marketplace last week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the price was just insane.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I gave

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[SPEAKER_01]: five other people I know the link and said you know what you're looking for a beetle here you go but you can't you can't wait on it you gotta be quick on it and I saw it sit there and sit there and I said I can't I can't do it if nobody's picking this car up let me know and I'll be right over yeah he said well some somebody is ahead of you and I let you know so I figured it was long going the next morning hit me up and said the guy passed on it

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll send you more pictures and some more information and I'm like, no, I'll be there in 20 minutes with a tow bar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you just go ahead and get it ready and of course I get it home and I drove it off the trailer and I look underneath.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no rust in the pans that hear channels are good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I got 10 people saying, hey, I buy that from you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wish I'd known it was for sale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like now you got to click on this stuff and when it pops up on marketplace, you gotta think quick, you know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I am a marketplace fiend.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I probably spend too much time on marketplace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, I do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people think I'm doomed scrolling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking for opportunity on marketplace.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm looking for Ari Ari always tells me she doesn't have to worry about me cheating with anybody She has to worry about me talking to Bill about a sixty seven beat-a-long market So let's talk about strictly VW's auto club here for a little minute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yes, so

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, before the club, like, I guess officially existed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You guys used to pack out, uh, uh, not your pizza.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think was, yeah, my first job, my first job was, uh, uh, uh,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Domara Shoreberg was a minor league baseball stadium and then I moved into not your piece which is a as a local Mexican restaurant which is it's going now, which it was still there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was great food.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, I already had my beat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It'll bend to the bug out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was already hooked and as I talked to the owner and said can we do a little car meet out here and he's like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All cars, and I'm like now, just strictly VWC, you know, and he's like, go for it, you know, and I just wanted to see how many people were in the area.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to meet more people, right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we did those monthly for two years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we usually average 20 to 30 cars, they would come up and then in 1998, I was like, this is really going well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We need to start a club.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, it's got to be strictly VWC.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's where the name came from and where it all started at.

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[SPEAKER_00]: cool you obviously didn't expect it to you know obviously grow and now be strong and still going three decades later but how cool is that really cool you know and and again my parents were supportive of it my mom actually hands stitched the first banner we had for parades and things

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just gotten huge since then, it's been great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm interested to hear your take on this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think separates clubs that survive the test of time versus ones that don't ones that disappear?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I don't, you know, if I could go back to 1998, I'd probably change the name from auto club to family because some people run these clubs very strict with a lot of rules, fees, and I think that calls us drama.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We put money into something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's always gonna be drama.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are a bunch of guys and girls that just want to hang out and barbecue or go do events.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no money involved.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, just show up and have fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no, you know, that's it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and I think that's what makes things last long because everybody just haven't fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How has club culture kind of changed over the years?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I think there's still a lot of, a lot of clubs that are laid back like we are and have a good time and have fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If anything,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it might be harder to find members now because I think a lot of people have grown up and sold their cars or there's not as many cars or maybe this newer generation is an end to them, you know, yeah, I mean, around here, you know, back then we were going to meet the numbers 20 30 cars now might be 10 people show up, which is cool, we're all close, we're all having fun, but it's just not as many anymore.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How has social media helped the hobby?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Helped it or heard it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What'd you say?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, I think it's definitely helped it, you know, because the 90s are before the internet, before social media, you knew your area, you know, and you knew car shows you went to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: with now with having, you know, social media, you're meeting people all around the world, you know, and I've going to show us, we went to Florida to the bug jam.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that's because we met some people there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we all packed up and went there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and hung out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I've been just went to the trip in Puerto Rico, met some friends there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a lot of social media in the guys there, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was talking early about Dino.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I met him on social media, you know?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Me too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then yeah, I'm going on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What a cool guy stand up.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Jack Sims as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Jack has been in our car club for years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's he lives about two miles from me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm just as has last night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're all tired friends.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, super cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What a cool guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I showed dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's actually he's coming up, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: His his his his podcast episode was in

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[SPEAKER_00]: So tell me about your philosophy on welcoming new, I guess enthusiast.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We could call it, but you know, new guests into your strictly VW's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, we welcome everybody, you know, and you don't even have to have a Volkswagen to come hang out with us, you know, we do, we do barbecues,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, when we first started, we did bowling nights at a local bowling alley.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We tried to have good family fun, you know, so we did that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had adult, adult, dodgeball league.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We did that one year, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's no rules, just come and have a good time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And long as there's no drama, you're welcome, you know, and that's it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We welcome everybody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the no drama thing, man, you know, I love that that's something I really do because I had the guys from 303 from Denver come on and, you know, that was like his only thing that he was promoting was like, look, man, I'm open, we're open to really have an anybody be a part of, you know, three.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but we don't do drama at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do drama.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope, and you got to snuff that quick, because that is a cancer for any club organization.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so luckily, we haven't had any of that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And all the years we've been here since 1998, we've never had anybody that's really been, you know, you know, drama for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's been good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I'm proud of that for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so our community in this local area is pretty, pretty drama-free as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I think Volkswagen and people in general, man, we're all cool, you know, relax people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's a Volkswagen thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a community thing, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Looking back, what are maybe some things your most proud of when you look back at the history of three, almost three decades of strictly VW's?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, just some of the best memories of my life, you know, we've had members come and go, but when we all get together, it's just fun and

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[SPEAKER_01]: Introducing like Ari just got into the Volkswagen himself and she had no clue about the core culture or Volkswagen culture And then our first event we went to we hung up their body eight food and laughed You know had good time and she's like I get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is really amazing and that's a good representation of our club And the whole Volkswagen culture is is just getting in there and having a good time and you know making memories Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Excellent.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I was touch on art for a minute

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[SPEAKER_00]: your your life basically.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you you found a way to combine art to combine Volkswagen's and kind of turn it into a career, if you will, paint that picture for us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell us how that came about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, you know, I was already doing hand-drawn cartoons and things throughout school.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was actually going to have a visual performing at Arts program, my senior year, which is

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[SPEAKER_01]: used to look at my bug because it changed paint job was about once every month.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had flames on it or I had you know painted it too tone or whatever and he's like, you know, some day I see it in your future you're going to be in a customizing vehicle somehow because you know what we see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: From there though,

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[SPEAKER_01]: It happened about 2,000 to 4 when Voltrod started getting big and Ratrod started getting big and a buddy of mine Scott boys came over and said, would you be interested in pen striping?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you'd be really good at it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and he gave me some pink one shot and a paintbrush and said, go practice with it and see what you can do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And man, I painted and painted and practiced, painted his helmet, and then I had a Volkswagen and I decided to give it a try, painted up the back end, every bite of local car meets saw that, of course.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they wanted their cars done, and looking back now, it's like that was so horrible.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know, everybody wanted the paintbrush

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[SPEAKER_01]: a motorcycle company, loaded gun customs, Kevin Dunworth, he's a big bike builder in the Delaware area, said, hey, I need a bike painted, a motorcycle painted that is built, would you do it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, yeah, absolutely, why not?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give it a try, I'm new at it, but I'll give it a try.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I pin striped it, I luttered it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Then he told me this bike is for discovery channel for cafe race or TV.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was on TV.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It made cafe race or magazine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And from there it was just crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Another bike builder Adam Caron from Caron's Customs picked me up and he did the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He builds bikes, takes him around a country, shows him, and then he sells him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's how kind of the whole magazine things started, how the whole pinstriping and art things started.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess it was probably around then what I was going to ask was there a moment where you realize that people like even from around the world now are starting to recognize your artwork, but probably at that time, right, getting into magazines and being on TV.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's true.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So so when he's guys, you know Kevin Dunworth, Adam Karms, when they went to the shows, they would take me with me, you know, taking me with them and they announced me to talk to people about me like this is Jason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a famous pen striper from Maryland and like

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[SPEAKER_01]: they were talking me up, and I was like, man, this is crazy, and I'd go from Maryland to Ohio, Chicago, but we've been everywhere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I toured with the International Mercicle Show and painted some of their shows, and the amount of people that just come up to me and say, yeah, we know who you are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're the pinstriper, and from there it's like, okay, this has gotten huge, you know, it's what the world has gotten around now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that's so cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there a difference in maybe the way you create arc today versus when you first start it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, I think when I first started pinstriving, I was looking at other people's design work and trying to mimic it, mimic their styles.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I think after you do it for years, you start building your own style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And now if I paint something now, I could definitely tell

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, interesting for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Johnny Jelopy came on and he said something, you know, similar about his own style, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What inspires your style?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of people will just come to me and say, here's an idea I have.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe here are some color choices.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you pin a stripe it or can you let it?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I do a lot of sign work as well in logos.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can you just put your twist on it and make it your style?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, my stuff comes from the hot rod scene of custom culture from

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[SPEAKER_01]: a lot of inspiration from Ed Big Daddy Roth and the Rattanks and the Masters and Hot Rods.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's my style.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, cool man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested to hear also about working with BMX companies of skateboard brands.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I haven't done too much with BMX companies, but I did the team that I'm actually on, stay ran racing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I designed all their jerseys and their logos.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Far escape word and go though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did a company in Texas, Veneen, I did some design work for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And speed lab wheels is a huge escape word wheel company.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's locate here in Baltimore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They gave me my own artist series wheels.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They actually have Volkswagen's on them because they had to be me, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's so cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, American ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're just a bunch of smaller skate companies that have used my graphics and logos on their product.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So is that a project that kind of stands out as a highlight for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, man, it's so cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would never think that you'd see my art on a skateboard or on some wheels somewhere.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But my name, you know, that means the world to me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so cool man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like a dream collab with the with the company or something that that might not not have happened yet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, the company is that that I've worked with and been great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would be up for working with anybody though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I mean, I think it's a great thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to touch more on on skateboard and on BMX and and kind of car culture because it feels like, you know, the Volkswagen community kind of attracts similar personalities and it feels like

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[SPEAKER_00]: a lot of us in the in the scene.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have skateboarding stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have BMX stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have Volkswagen stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why do you think that specifically those three overlap those three worlds kind of overlap so naturally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just think it's is that culture from the the 70s and 80s surf culture skate culture car culture at all this blends together If you know I'm going on sites before like pinstriping sites or hand painting sites and people are like hey what's everybody else's hobbies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let me see what kind of car you drive Like 70% is old Volkswagen bugs or many trucks, you know, and it's like that's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are it's a big group and all just marshes together for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so, so cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: As a father, as a career-minded dude, a family dude, what keeps you still involved with BMX today?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cause I, you know, in the beginning of this, we talked about how you're still racing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're still lining up at the gate.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I look back at those times in my life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I swear there are some of the best times of my youth, my childhood.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love racing BMX.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never think about doing it now at my age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I should.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm interested in you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What keeps you doing it, you know, today still.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's my rush, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just getting on a bike and the gate drop in and then pushing hard as I can, you know, for the track, getting the heart racing, getting the blood going, it's great cardio, good exercise, even my personal doctors like, man, keep riding the bike, it's good for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I just love it and the people I ride bikes with, I have a class that's 40 year olds and 50 year olds, you know, I mean, so we're all cool together hanging out, you know, it's just a lot of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is that class?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm in the cruiser class now and it's basically, I think it's 41 to 51, maybe it's somewhere in that and that range.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there's like a 10 year gap on there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that'd be cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I moved up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was, so I was in the novice class.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I started and I moved up to intermediate.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's my realized that I'm not fast as these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It starts slowing down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, I got 20 inch Blake.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My back and my hips were just like, there's no way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I moved back up to a 24 inch Blake.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm loving it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's a lot easier to ride.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like the Cadillac, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a Cadillac.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can still, you know, get a little bit air and fast, but I'm not, I'm not at such a been over angle and hurt so bad, you know, so I, yeah, I love the, I've raised crews are class two right in my late teens, but before I got out of it, well, maybe mid teens 15, 16, you know, era, but.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had that that 24 profile love that bike so much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I could bunny hop that bike so high, you know, like you said, I could air it out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't really hit like the long stretched doubles, but the smaller doubles that I could air out over and you know have my rear entry be real smooth.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I would do it, you know, and it always felt so good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love that bike that bike.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So just just like you said, nice, nice Cadillac a bikes for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: probably missed probably three months of race in this year and we just went on uh, Saturday night and said, let's go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was already actually my fiance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, it's her first time racing and we got done and it was like, man, what a rush.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm feeling great and breathe good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I can't wait to do it next week now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so it's an addiction.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, good for you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You see yourself slowing down anytime soon.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nes, like I was saying, I heard it not only go to the wheels fall off, and I think that's how I'm going to handle everything from here on out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to keep doing it to the wheels fall off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about life outside the hobby, the hobbies for a second.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You had had mentioned that you've been a land surveyor for 25 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk a little bit about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you kind of manage balancing that career with everything else that you do?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I'm a landserver and money through Friday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Usually, you know, six to four, I use that to my advantage though, because I'm on different jobs, lights every day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm seeing people's backyards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I knew what they got on a garage.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm a person.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I can sit in an office all day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I need to be outside, doing things, you know, and we definitely have cold days and hot days, but I love being outside.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I get done at four o'clock.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And at the beginning, they used to call me the laundry room artist because I wanted to still be involved of family's things, watching TV movies with the kids, so I would paint in the laundry room on top of the dryer, so I could be in the middle of everything still.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, younger days, I could push it till midnight, one o'clock and then start over again, you know, so I'd be involved with the kids and things too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, super cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And just the fact that you say that, you know, I know you're locked in there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested to hear this though.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How do you switch from the technical aspects of land surveying to creative style, you know, artistry style work?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so I think that, you know, surveying being creative for the arts,

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[SPEAKER_01]: the Volkswagen, it's all working your brain because I do a lot of boundary work and construction layout.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in that aspect, I'm solving problems all day long, finding creative ways of making water run from one side of a parking lot to the other and the construction field, you get home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That same creativity is working towards art and cars as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the same energy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Super cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now you're planning a wedding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a Volkswagen theme wedding.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whose idea was that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yours are Aries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Believe it or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One day she said, you know what we really cool?

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[SPEAKER_01]: We should have a, you know, and now she's done to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You tell she's hooked now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We should have a VW wedding.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I didn't know she was joking or not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, are you being serious?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You wanted to be serious.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, yep, if you're good with it, we're going to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So she was all about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was definitely her idea.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What should people expect for the cruise in?

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, so we gave it a name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's Pistons and Rings, and it's gonna be at Caught Classic Brewing, and that's a Stevensville, Maryland, and it's on October to 24th, and we're gonna open it up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a whole section to the left of the brewery, that has these cool murals in the walls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's gonna be the backdrop, it has a stage, and then we're just gonna fill it full of as many Volkswagen's as we can, we're invite all of our friends, our family,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anybody can come and we're going to have a big party and we're going to, you know, break some cakes in the breweries going to have food for sale.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just going to be fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're just going to have a good time, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Love that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How, how is it sharing a passion with somebody that now understands the,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, talk all that for a second.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How's that for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so it's so sorry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I met her, like I said, she knew nothing about car culture at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, she thought it was a bunch of old guys hanging out in a parking lot, staring at each other's motors, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we went to that first, the first meet, which was at caught classic where we're having the wedding at and it was a Volkswagen meetup that our club and another club across the bridge did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, well, this is really cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then we started doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: other bigger Volkswagen events and she's like I just can't get over the community how he people are getting together doing this and unfortunately last year we had an accident I was driving my bus down the road some my front of us and I made a short left turn to miss them and I missed them unfortunately already hit the door and the last came open and she

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[SPEAKER_01]: fill out in the highway and get it across the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my god, injured pretty bad, broke some bones.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, it was, it was a rough recovery.

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[SPEAKER_01]: she made it through amazing and I'm like she's never going to want to get in one of these cars again I mean that was a scary event you know shit and uh it took some time but she's like you know it's not your fault it's not the car's fault you know you saved our lives so being around that and she's came around and like man she's tough I can't believe it but she's back into it she loves it you know we do events together now it's amazing

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hell of a story.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's just absolutely crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Probably my wife's biggest fear.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And she's always checking those doors because it is that the doors are so light, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those old Volkswagen's that bus had those latches, like the pull latches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and they do not last very good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So don't skip on safety gear like to this day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's like, it's got to have safety seat belts around not getting it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, so don't skip on the safety.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you never think it's going to happen to let us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I had a 75.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: had the windshield down, had no seat belts in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My wife and I are coming back from map and out this Skyway PM crews on a November evening just last year and we're coming back and I go to get on the interstate and as soon as I go to get to merge into traffic,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm merging and I I go to pull over into the the the will be the slow lane on the interstate and I go to get over and I look over my shoulder right before I jerk the the wheel to get into the lane and I had to jerk the wheel back and like you know kind of recover from this dub truck that was barreling down the road that almost just absolutely Creme does and took us out I was probably doing 40 45 just getting up the speed he's probably doing 75

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoa, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's definitely one of the reasons why the thing I just had, you know, other than giving me a bunch of problems, I let it go because it definitely has thin doors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no top.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not a safety unit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the car, but yeah, you know, we've got to make sure the family's safe and I just picked her up, you know, she wanted a convertible and you could see it in the driveway back there in the blue set of any Carmen Gia with a cruise week and I bought that for and that got her back rolling again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She loves driving that convertible Carmen Gia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a cool car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've got a 71.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's my wife's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just such a cool car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Such a sweet, smooth ride.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's got the auto clutch.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, it is kind of, you know, it kind of puts along.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's, it's not really the racer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But dude, I love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love driving it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's, you know, what's a long point eight of point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Be very, very well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a quiet car because it's so, it's so stock.

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[SPEAKER_00]: that sometimes I'm listening to music in and I got this big, you know, speaker, Bluetooth speaker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I'm listening to music in it and I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm cruising.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll stop a slow down for a red light and I'll have to pause the music to see if it's still running because it's so quiet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, but she's amazing, man, and I can say I have all the hobbies I have and all the stuff I do, she's right next to me, jumping in and kicking butt, you know, so I love her death.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's awesome, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now out of everything in life that you've accomplished, I know one thing that you say you're most proud of is being a father of eight children.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about it, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's, yeah, tell me tell me what you're most proud of there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: oh man just watching them grow up man that's it's amazing just watching them grow up into adults uh you know four of my kids are now out and they have their own house that they have their own jobs and careers and uh one's about to make me a grandfather and then I'm

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[SPEAKER_01]: The four younger ones are going through it and going through elementary school to high school and it's watching them grow up, man, it's amazing and it's crazy how fast it happens, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When we're young, our parents tell us they warn us and they say, you know, life happens fast, you know, and you

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[SPEAKER_00]: you know, really enjoy these moments and etc.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you don't when you're young, but, you know, now that I'm older, I'm 49, and I've got five kids myself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, and quite literally, it feels like some of their best years, their baby years, you know, where there were these little babies looking up at dad saying, please hold me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that was a month ago, two months ago, and it's 15, 16, 18 years ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's just crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Crazy how fast the time goes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, my mom's

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my mom always said don't blink because it'll be over before you know it and she was right on with that man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, heck yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk about the future.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's next for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm just going to keep keep on doing what I'm doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And collecting votes wagons and racing and doing, you know, surveying.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I just want to keep on rolling.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Keep on making art.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Keep on collecting votes wagons that put them back out there and and restoring them and saving them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know keep on keep racing until the wheels fall off and just keep going so I can't do any more.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any projects that you're most excited about maybe in the near future here?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I mean, car was, I got a 64 single cab right behind you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've just about got it on the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I took it for the first ride yesterday and made it around the block.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm working out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw that post.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it went for its first ride yesterday and we made it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know how it is when you first put a card together and you build it you're waiting for something to go wrong or noise or smell or you know and we made it around and I got some other things that work out, but you know that first initial drive we got it down excellent man excellent are there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is there any accomplishments that you're maybe still looking to accomplish in the Volkswagen world?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, just finding, you know, building a better car over and over again, learning more about the cars, building a better car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I think everyone that I've done, I've learned something different on it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, so that's good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you hope strictly VW's looks like here headed into the future?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even, you know, 20, 25 years from now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I hope it looks exactly the same way it does today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just people smiling and having a good time and getting together and enjoying Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man, that's awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, dude, I got some rapid fire questions for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, these are questions that would in a sense, just kind of a fast response.

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[SPEAKER_00]: However, I'm not going to detour you if a story comes, you know, if a story comes and eats, dive in, tell it, rapid fire, are you ready?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it window or oval man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, of course, who wouldn't want us in a bug?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it will ever find one, but I would be just as happy with an oval window.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cow look or German look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am definitely cow look.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love the 80s, the 80s cow look style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No chrome, you know, painting wheels, black rubber, and lowered.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I definitely have to go cowlop nice patina or perfect paint.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope, I'm definitely patina.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I really think about a car that's been weathered and has the dings and dances much fun to drive and it definitely has a story.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It has a lot more character.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm definitely patina on that one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: early bus or late bay who definitely early bus for looks and late bay for comfort and driving I hear that a lot okay if you had a choose one beetle or car magia I am a bug guy okay I love driving the car magia but I always be a bug guy for sure Baja or street bug

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they are both so cool, but I think I'd have to go street street bug for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I love Bahas too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think about it too, which we went to a street bug would be it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you know, I really like myself lately.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Last probably year and a half, two years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've been just really into Voltrods.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love those two man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, favorite and talking about Baja's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I just watched that Baja movie that just came out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And man, after you watch that movie, you want to Baja so bad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love Baja's dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are especially when they're done up, you know, proper.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, big big front end and and just yeah juicy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love them myself Favorite decade of Volkswagen history.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say it's got to be the 60s the 60s or are the best cars came out of 60s, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's a fun time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I definitely go in the 60s

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, is there a dream Volkswagen that you haven't owned yet?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know what if if I could find a split window, I think that would be amazing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe a split window lowered with some, you know, some wheels on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think that would be a dream Volkswagen for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you have a favorite skate brand?

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, it's always got to be Palparalta.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, cool, cool, cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: For sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Favorite BMX rider and be a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But you know what's funny is there used to be a pro being max rider named Jason Wharton at Arizona and every time I go to races, every time I go to races, people would come over and be like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, he's the same guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's the race back in the 80's for Diamondback.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, we're not the same, but that's so funny that there was somebody with the same name racing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And Diamondback haven't heard that name.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Talked for Everbro.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool, Diamondback.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Mon goose.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Mon goose, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How about a favorite artist?

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[SPEAKER_01]: You got a favorite artist?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had to say that at a moment, it's got to be a big daddy Roth, you know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just became a licensed rat-fank artist last year, and that's kind of a big deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know the goal I had for a long time, and I talked to his wife, and we made it happen, you know, so definitely at Big Daddy Roth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Super cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, maybe most underrated VW modification.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, you go to have good seats.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, my, my buddy, Marko's, figure out what owns Phoenix the Postory here in Delaware.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he has done my last three Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is unbelievable how much comfortable it is to drive a car that has brand new cushions and interior.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it'll save your back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it changed the whole look of the car, but as far as like comfort man being 46 I've driven some cars with bad seat foam spring showing through and it just hurts getting out man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I would definitely say get your seats done

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like it dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great great great great one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's one Volkswagen myth that you'd love to erase forever?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, maybe he because everybody I talk to is like, they have horrible heat, but I haven't really had that bad of a problem with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As long as your channels are good and your he goes for hooked up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've melted packs of crowns from the kids in the back seat, so I know it works.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But everybody talked to all that they never have heat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, I'm the opposite, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm down here in St. Petersburg, Florida, and all the heat works in my my Carmen Gia.

01:02:15.563 --> 01:02:16.164
[SPEAKER_00]: And I do that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't really drive it during the summer because that heat blows so damn well.

01:02:20.249 --> 01:02:26.671
[SPEAKER_00]: that it's so hot and that thing and it doesn't have the vent window, you know, you can't open it up and force the air in.

01:02:27.191 --> 01:02:34.453
[SPEAKER_00]: So until until loose nuts comes up with a windshield for that thing, I'm going to be sweating it in the summertime.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drive it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when she'll never, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had a loose nuts in my last book and that they were great when she was 11.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, those guys, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are super quality.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those guys were just on just a couple of weeks ago.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great dudes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, all right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a good one for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's one word that describes the Volkswagen community?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, just happiness.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, the community is great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's so positive and welcoming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we just went to Puerto Rico for Vokie Fest and, um, everybody's so welcoming.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They didn't know us.

01:03:06.561 --> 01:03:09.842
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, we came from Maryland and we stayed there.

01:03:10.542 --> 01:03:16.247
[SPEAKER_01]: for the weekend and got shown around and fed and danced and it was just a great weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But that's a good representation of the VW community.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everybody's just so positive and happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One person in the VW community that you think everybody should know about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, there's so many, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'll tell you, well, I'll give you two of them because they've been very big positive influences in the VW community this year for me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: First one is D-note.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Live in that Votes life over in L.A. That's what I got my change from.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But he is a huge positive influence in a VW community always happy.

01:03:45.768 --> 01:03:50.632
[SPEAKER_01]: And Jack and Levette Sims are there from my hometown and saying the same thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They've always been there for a body and doing tech days and helping people work on their VWs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: post not VW shows, so those are my two favorites that everybody needs to go find.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, good, good, good mentions, and both those guys, awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They both been on what a pleasure to meet them both, you know, as as you know, and I've said before, Jack Scott, his, his episode coming up here in the next Valtzmania, what a fantastic guy and promoter, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's,

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, not just, you know, all events and shows and everything that he does inside the community for himself, but anytime he ever can try to get this podcast and front of somebody, he's for me and he's trying to get me guests and and what a great guy man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he works, he works hard for the video community man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He always has.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He really does and and it shows, but yeah, great, great dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I appreciate that for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when it's all said and done, what legacy do you hope that you, that Jaybug leaves behind in this Volkswagen scene?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Man, I just want people to say, damn, Jaybug was he was kind to everybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, everybody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And super positive, you know, I tried to have that

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[SPEAKER_01]: Good father and just loves life and loves everybody.

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