Lance Kohn - Education and a Life with Volksrods Ep37

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To learn more about this class-leading VW magazine.

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All right, welcome back to Dub Life Diaries.

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We are sitting down today with a guy who's been shaping minds for over 15 years,

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running the number one test program in the country at American Heritage Schools.

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He's a leader in education, a master at helping students crush the SAT and the ACT.

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And on top of that, he's a lifelong Volkswagen nut. But his first car was a 69 Beetle.

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He's built countless VWs since then. And right now, he's rolling with three

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unconventional Volkswagens in the garage.

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Education, classic dubs, and unconventional passions. We're diving into all

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of it with Lance Cohn. Welcome to Dub Life Diaries.

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Thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Pleasure to be here. Yes.

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Thank you for your time, brother. It's a Sunday. We're going to rock this today, man.

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I appreciate it. I have a quick story for how Lance and I met,

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which is a lot of us, right?

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We're in the dub scene. We find stuff on Facebook marketplace.

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Well, I think I got targeted one day. I was looking for some seats for my thing.

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And all of a sudden these beautiful iron ace bomber hot rod seats pop up. And I'm like.

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There's no way these things even fit in my car, but they're so damn cool.

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I've just got to find a way to make this work.

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So I bought them with the intention of putting them in the car.

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But that's how Lance and I met on Facebook Marketplace.

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He started sending me pictures of what the seats looked like mounted in the

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cars that you're looking at behind them there in these Volksrods. They are beautiful.

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And the rest was history. So yes, man, thank you.

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Also, last shout out, and then it's back to you because that's what this whole episode is for.

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But shout out to my buddy, Chris White, Riverbank Customs out of Pell City, Alabama.

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Man, this guy is just such a standup dude. Such a great father,

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great person, great husband.

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All about the VW communities, all over the Southeast, going to different shows.

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Okay, my brother. It's back to you. Back to Lance.

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It could be about, as long as Volkswagens are a part of it, we are.

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Yeah. So let's talk about how, I guess, young Lance grew up.

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Where did you grow up? Southern California, actually.

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Oh, okay. Southern Cali. Tell me about your life in Southern Cali growing up.

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Well, I was actually born in San Fernando Valley in 1977.

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So really the 80s in

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you know southern cali which volkswagons were

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everywhere and everything right yeah

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i mean it was just such a big part you see them everywhere you go and you know

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when it came time to get my first car it's just that's they appealed to me and

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they were also a obtainable right they were at a price point that a 16 year

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old kid could go i'm gonna work all summer at this carpet cleaning company.

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I'm going to have enough for my first car. And, you know, because we were broke

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growing up. So Volkswagen made sense.

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And that was, that started it. I mean, from there on out, I was Volkswagen crazy

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because they, I've always had one in the background.

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Oh, so we're going to touch on the story behind the 69 bug in a second,

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but I want to talk about your professional life because education is,

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is, is really kind of what you do professionally. Was education always something

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that you were drawn to Or did it come later in your life?

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I wish I could say it was You know, realistically When I got out of college

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And came to South Florida,

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And I came down here because my old man was living down here at the time.

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And I was kind of like pursuing this DJ career because I had this DJ passion.

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And South Florida just made like a lot of sense as a place to be when you want to be a DJ.

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So that's really the beginning of it all was coming out here and DJing.

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And I did that for over 20 years in South Florida doing clubs and corporate events.

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I'm your age, brother. So I remember the, the, the nineties raves and I remember,

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and I remember what was going on at those raves. Okay.

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A whole different lifestyle, but long story short, I had met,

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I was DJing in a martini bar out here in Weston and I had met my wife who I've

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been with now 18 years. Awesome.

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Congratulations. Thank you. Got three amazing children. Amazing.

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And when the pandemic hit, the DJing stuff kind of had to stop because there

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was just no, you know, it was really hard to make any money at it when they

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were canceling everything.

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So the fallback wound up becoming just doing the teaching full time.

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Now I was doing the teaching on the side, but it was because of my wife that

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I was doing the teaching on the side.

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I hadn't thought about education until I met her and she was doing private tutoring

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and she was working for this guy doing these national merit classes.

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And it was just like this thing, she got pregnant, and we didn't want to lose the money.

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So I got a college degree. I was like, I'll prep the material.

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I'll walk in there during the week. I'll teach. And then on the weekends, I can DJ.

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It worked, you know, and it worked.

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Oh, sure enough. Once the pen, like I said, once the pandemic hit,

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the DJing just kind of took a backseat and our company was really doing well

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at that point. And it was like, this is, this is what I'm doing now. This is it.

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So we went full blown with it and we've been doing it. But 15 years worth of

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teaching, 16 years worth of teaching now.

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Awesome, man. So let's go back to the story behind the 69 Beetle,

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which was, I believe your first car, right?

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Yes. So that's the one. I literally got a job at a carpet cleaning company.

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Okay. And what's the funny part? I wasn't cleaning carpets. I was the dispatcher

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answering the phone calls, taking all the sales calls.

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Because, again, the teaching, the voice, the DJing, they all kind of go together.

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They do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man.

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They do. They just really do. They really do.

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I did the, you know, all summer I made basically $1,500, $1,600 working all summer back then.

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You know, not a lot. But I bought the car for $1,100, found the car,

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and at the time, an old-school auto trader,

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sitting there with the auto trader, making the phone calls, setting up the appointment

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to go meet the car, begging my mom to be a ride, you know.

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And here's the funny part. Bought the car, $1,100. We get in the car.

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My mom's following me home.

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She had, at the time, a Subaru XT6.

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Don't know if you remember this car. I don't. But describe it and I probably will Pointy nose,

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Like cut off back Ugh you have to look it up Subaru XT6 it was one of the Ugliest

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but But it was a turbo and the thing moved But anyway,

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I'm following her home From picking this car up my first stick First car you know.

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Somebody slammed on their brakes in front of her. She slams on her brakes,

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misses the guy's bumper by a millimeter.

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I'm in a 69 bug in the nineties and early nineties.

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And the thing just doesn't stop. Cause obviously I'm sure it needed a break

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job and God knows what else.

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I was six. Push them all the way to the floor, man. Yeah. And I slammed the

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bug right into the rear end of my mom's car all the way home from picking it

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up. Oh, it was, you know, where they push the front bumper in and then you go

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to open the hood. It's really hard because it hits the bumper now.

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You know, so that was the issue. Okay.

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That was the first one, man. And I drove that wheels off that car for years

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because first, first car above.

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Like we went everywhere in that thing. My first Beetle to me,

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it wasn't my first car, but it was my first to me when I was 17,

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fresh out of high school in the Tyrone Square Mall parking lot here in St.

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Petersburg for $2,000. I had 76,000 miles.

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It was a 72 standard Beetle auto clutch.

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What year was this? It was a 72. Well, what year did you buy it? Oh, 96.

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That was 96. Yeah, I bought mine. It had to be like 93. So right in that same time frame. Yeah. Yeah.

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So I could have, I guess, when I was 16, I could have bought one.

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I was into them still, but just didn't have that opportunity.

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Remember earlier, like we were talking, they were affordable back then.

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Yeah. I had my job at Jiffy Lou back in the day. And I paid $1,100 for the bug.

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Yeah, I paid two grand for mine. Running, driving, no rust.

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Like, you know, good luck finding that now. Good luck.

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So looking back, do you see connections between your love of tinkering on cars

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and your love of teaching kind of meshing?

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You know, I find myself a lot more the student when I'm working on cars because

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I, I, one of those things where I think I'm better than I actually am.

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Right. Like I don't, I know there's, when I hang around with guys that just

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know so much and so talented and it's like, I feel you get humbled very quickly.

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Like it is not my strong suit. I have a vision for like the way things should

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look aesthetically. But if I don't have people helping me, I couldn't pull it off myself.

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Oh, dude, I feel that so well, so well. It's the same way for me.

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I'm not actually, I'm not that mechanical, in fact, and I'm not even really that artistic.

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But I, you know, I have a vision still, and I still want things.

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You know, I know what looks good to me, at least, and I know we can accomplish that.

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But I have to do it through others as well. And I'm not saying as well,

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I think you're much more mechanically gifted and inclined than me.

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But I understand Yeah and that's 100% it Because like even right now we're welding

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together The frame of the bed of this one here The black one And we're trying

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to remake the bed It's like this one It's actually a really cool story behind

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this one But I bought this one off a guy He was out of either Minnesota, Illinois,

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Milwaukee Somewhere up there And he had taken the bug It's a 61 bug It was cut

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in half They grafted on a 1950 Ford cab onto the back.

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The rest of the bug was still a 1961 underneath.

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Everything about it. Like, you know, the brake system, the front beam,

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the, you know, the air shocks in the front, the way they had the airbags or

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air shock suspension put together was like very didn't you couldn't sit in the

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car and put the air up. You know what I mean?

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The bed would do this going down the road that was on there before.

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So I bought basically the cab because the metal work alone was worth it.

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Right. So I'm like, and I'm looking at it going, I can't do that.

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That'll work. Not myself. I could weld some stuff, but I can't do that.

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Right. So I'm like, let me buy

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that cab. And then now we basically have rechanged everything on this car.

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And we're, it had a type one motor in it. I'm putting all the wiring in a new motor in it. Awesome.

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Yeah. So there's things I could do. There's things I can't do,

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but I, I a hundred percent hats off to all my buddies, man, because that's what

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makes a lot of this stuff possible.

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Yeah. I totally get it. I've got them too. You know, in our little version of

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the VW community here in the Tampa Bay area, you know, we've got a strong community up there.

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Yeah, dude. And you got those guys that stand out that are, you know,

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that are very, very skilled craftsmen.

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You know, and yeah, man, you, you have to utilize talent like that.

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You can't just let it sit around. You got to, you know, build stuff, please.

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We all want to see what you create, you know, that's a big part of it.

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I love going to shows and I love seeing all the B-Dow.

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Like No-Dow is one of my favorites to go to because it's so relaxed.

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So cool, you know, B-Dow is there and different takes on things and you see

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stuff that gives you ideas. And it's like, this is what it's about.

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Any other shows that you frequent?

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Yeah, Bub Jam. Yeah, Bub Jam I like to go to.

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I've taken, so I took the blue one, but it wasn't blue at the time.

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It was white with a bunch of stickers all over it, actually.

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The first rendition of that card.

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Before it made, you know, it redid it all. But I took it when it was white.

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Last time it went, I've been quite a few times, but never with the Volkswagen.

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Always just with the one time when it was white.

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I'm dying to take the black one once I get it done. No Save, my other favorite.

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And then it's all the local stuff over here that I can actually get to.

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You know, because I trailer. These are not rain cars. I have to trailer it.

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Sure. No, all good. Many folks come in, you know, once they get them in,

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once they get them in town, you know, they, they go park them somewhere and then come to the events.

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We have a couple of events. I have them all around town when I get there. Yeah, exactly.

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We've got a couple of events here in Tampa Bay. I don't know if you've heard

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of V-dubs over the Skyway. I've done that before too. Yeah.

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I did that in my 63 green one that I had. Oh, cool, man.

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Up over the Skyway. That was such a cool event. Yeah, that's coming in April this year.

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This will be the 27th year. And then downtown the pier, downtown St.

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Pete, we've got B-dubs on the pier.

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We just did the first one. It looked awesome, man.

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Congratulations. I was looking at all the books online and I'm like,

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I wish I could have gone. Yeah.

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Well, we're going to do it again, January 24th. We're going to do it when it's cooler. Yeah.

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So it's coming January 24th of 26.

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Okay. Yep, yep, yep. So that's not in my national merit season.

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So I might actually be able to get away then.

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Oh, that'd be cool, man. It'd be cool. Especially if you came up and brought the rods for sure.

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So back to the career.

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How did you go from, because in the timeline, right, you were tutoring,

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you were teaching, and then versus what you do now, you run like the number

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one program in the country for test prep.

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So how did you go from tutoring to evolving into that?

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Yeah. So essentially, like I said, my wife was teaching these classes at American

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Heritage, but she was working for a guy.

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The guy had like a contract to run those classes at the school.

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My wife was the one in the classroom making the curriculum, teaching the classes.

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This guy was just the business end of it, you know, had the deal.

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Did it for years. She did it for about four or five years with him.

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In that time, she had gotten pregnant with my son.

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I took over, started doing the classes so we didn't lose the money, did it and worked.

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And then he hired me on kind of like full time, too. So I was also doing that

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during the week. And then I was still DJing on the weekends.

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We wound up leaving the guy because he was just, it wasn't right,

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right? The relationship didn't work. So we wound up leaving.

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We went over to FAU, Florida Atlantic, and they have a high school there.

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And we created, my wife and I created our own company at the time.

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We got in with FAU and we started this national merit prep program for that school.

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We got them to number two in the state. So American Heritage Schools down here,

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they have a plantation campus in Fort Lauderdale, but they also have another

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campus up in Boca del Rey.

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And every year, they're always the number one and number two school in the state

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for National Merit Scholars.

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Except for that year when we were number two in the state and B, their other campus.

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Soon as that happened, the owner of the school reached out to us and he said,

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hey, you guys got to come in. We want to sit down and have a talk to you guys,

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you know, whatever, whatever.

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They hired us on. My company wound up doing the national merit test prep for,

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took over for American Heritage Schools.

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And for one year we were doing, because we were still in a contract with FAU,

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For one year, we had the number one, two, and three schools in the state because

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we were running both campuses.

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Dude, man. Watch the FAU, which was insane. It was just ridiculous.

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Needless to say, the stuff works then. Yeah, because what we teach, right?

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Long story short, we're still employees for American Heritage School,

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but my company handles all the SAT, ACT, PSAT, prep tutoring that they require for both campuses.

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So that's how that all transpired

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and within that time the pandemic hit the

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djing fell off and then i never looked back now i

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do some car shows once in a while i'll bring it out for uh but that's it that's

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it and it's all teaching all day every day yeah right here at this desk but

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i did i drop you change the backdrop yeah i have to yeah yeah i get it it's

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one of those requirement things, right? And it makes you do it.

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I get it. I did coaching and training from my camera, from a zoom screen all

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the way through the pandemic.

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In fact, back then, height of COVID, I had gotten my second shot.

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Not that I even want to talk about that, but I was traveling a lot and that's

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how I was feeding my family.

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Well, guess what you had to have to get on an airplane back then?

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You had to have your COVID vaccine. Oh yeah. Yeah, so even though I really did

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not want to get it, I had to.

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Anyway, I take it, and then at the time, it was the Johnson & Johnson one,

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so I had to get the second one four weeks later or three weeks later or whatever it was. Anyway...

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First one, I take it cool. Second one, both my wife and I can track COVID.

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The reason why I'm telling you this is because I, through the Zoom screen,

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I taught a class with like 20 students in it online, positive for COVID.

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I'm sick as hell still teaching the class, but that's. Hey, but you do it,

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right? It was the same thing for us when the COVID hit.

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We were the quickest company to go all virtual with our tutoring.

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Like we were easily set up. We had it rocking. We had a schedule available.

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We created an app where kids were able to go on and book our schedules.

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And we didn't have to have parent phone calls as much anymore. We just streamlined it.

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And by doing so, now we started doing all the classes online, the private tutoring.

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And what we found, which was very interesting, we have, so the program that

00:19:51.277 --> 00:19:55.597
we do at American Heritage Schools, we bring in, invite, between the two campuses,

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over 250 kids get invited into the program.

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And that's from spring until October right now, a couple weeks from now.

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About, out of the 250, about 180 really take advantage of the program,

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but that's all done in classes virtually now because of the pandemic.

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So I got 50 kids in a class, 40 kids in a class at a time, every single day of the week, right?

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And I have six teachers and all of them are running classes at the same time.

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And everybody's got 40, 50 kids at different points of the week.

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And we're just going through these programs. Well, what we found was the interesting

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part, because it was virtual, because of the ease of access,

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these are all the highly motivated kids.

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They have strong scores. They want to make national merit.

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They're driven, right? So because of that, our turnout was better.

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The attendance was better. The kids were, we brought up, there was always a

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misbalance in the two campuses for how many national merits dollars.

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But because we were virtual, the kids at both campuses were getting the benefit

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of all the teachers and they leveled them out.

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We got so many more out of the whole group.

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Wow. It was better because we can do this, but it's only because the kids are motivated. That's it.

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If you have kids that are not motivated, this is a horrible way to do this.

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So let's play Mythbusters for a second.

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What's the biggest myth about test prep?

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That you can bust. Biggest myth about test prep. That's a good question.

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What would be a myth about it?

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Realistically speaking, that you can cram it. You just can't.

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I love it. Not the SAT, not the PSAT, not the, it's not crammable.

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If you're one of these people that like to procrastinate and kind of wait,

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I get it every year. I get students all the time that jump in and they do this.

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You know, two weeks before a big SAT. Oh, I just want to get a few lessons and

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do some tips and tricks and, you know, come up a couple hundred points.

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And yeah, that's not a thing.

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You know, and I wish sometimes you can tell that straight to them that that's not a thing. You can't.

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Right. At the end of the day, you kind of have to work with them and do the

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best you can and try to give them crash courses when they require it.

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But the best prep is spaced. You don't want to do it.

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The best prep is prep. It's prep. It's prep.

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You got to do it. A lot of people are afraid of the work, but you do it consistently.

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Like I tell my students, make a habit out of it. You know, there's no substitution for repetition.

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How do you convince parents or even like kids, like stressed out kids,

00:22:26.248 --> 00:22:28.768
skeptical parents that test prep matters?

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Like what's the pitch on test prep?

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Well, we're teaching is not test prep. What we're teaching is critical thinking.

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Okay. So let me rephrase that then. How do you convince skeptical parents and

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stressed out students that critical thinking matters?

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Because at the end of the day, it's how it becomes applied. It is universally,

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you know, you can apply this universal because you have moving forward.

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They're going to go to college.

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So you want to be a doctor. You got to take an MCAT. You want to be a lawyer.

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You're going to be an LSAT. You want to get a real estate license,

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right? Let's talk about a real estate license. You do real estate.

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Multiple choice tests where there are strategies, tips, and tricks that will

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apply. You think that different from what we're teaching for SAT? They're not, right?

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When you're on the real estate exam, are you going to pick an answer choice

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that says all blah or never only this?

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Like, no, it's. No, you start to learn. You can even see like the trends.

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It took me a few times actually to get through. My wife.

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Has a background. She went to Rollins College in Orlando, her background's education.

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And I was always asking for like, you know, help me get like,

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you know, learning cards, flashcards, like help me do this, help me do that.

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She always used to tell me, no, no, best way for you to learn is to do it.

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Yes. And stop asking everybody else to do it for you. Right.

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So finally, you know, probably 10 years after I took it serious,

00:23:51.087 --> 00:23:56.907
the only way I passed the Florida real estate test was by learning the content.

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Yeah, you really have to. I mean, there's ways, right? So I have a real estate

00:24:01.107 --> 00:24:06.187
license. I have a series seven for stocks and series 63 for commodities.

00:24:06.427 --> 00:24:08.067
I even have a Florida roofing license.

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The reason I have all these licenses is because I'm a good test taker.

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That's all it really is. Oh, see, I like that.

00:24:15.607 --> 00:24:19.887
I'm a horrible test taker. But if you understand, and that's the thing,

00:24:20.027 --> 00:24:24.987
that's what we're teaching students is the critical thinking aspect of how to look at this stuff.

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You can't be looking at a test and through the lens of, you know,

00:24:29.647 --> 00:24:32.007
why is this the right answer and what could I do here?

00:24:32.027 --> 00:24:35.827
You need to be looking at a test that might be easier to prove these other ones wrong.

00:24:36.527 --> 00:24:39.747
Yeah, dude. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Great point. Great point.

00:24:39.867 --> 00:24:42.587
It's a different mentality, right? It's because you want to critically think,

00:24:42.867 --> 00:24:48.167
problem solve your way into it, which is why I'm an advocate for the SAT over the ACT.

00:24:48.787 --> 00:24:54.087
The ACT is a very heavy memorization type test where the SAT does a lot better

00:24:54.087 --> 00:24:55.587
with critical thinking problem solving.

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So and I like that aspect of it. So when I'm teaching students,

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I love being able to show them how to look at something that.

00:25:03.543 --> 00:25:06.963
From the side, from the top, from the bottom, from the front,

00:25:07.043 --> 00:25:09.663
just giving them multiple perspectives. Yeah.

00:25:10.063 --> 00:25:13.523
The light bulb moments, that's when they happen, right? When it finally connects

00:25:13.523 --> 00:25:16.843
and they connect and you're like, oh, they do.

00:25:17.023 --> 00:25:19.323
Oh yeah. I love that. I love that too.

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There's a lot of my students, they read some of this stuff. And with the real

00:25:22.383 --> 00:25:23.723
estate, I'll give you a great example of this.

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I remember when I took the real estate exam and you're reading the terminology

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that they're giving you for these questions.

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And you're so focused on the terminology that you're

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missing the action you're missing what's happening so

00:25:37.183 --> 00:25:41.883
my students the same thing they get to an sat passage talking about i don't

00:25:41.883 --> 00:25:46.903
know why why colony collapse disorder causes this type of and they get so wrapped

00:25:46.903 --> 00:25:52.803
in the subject there they miss the important stuff the relationships the verbs

00:25:52.803 --> 00:25:56.103
the actions that's oh yeah good stuff all right,

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I tell my kids all the time, I'm like, I don't care how hard a passage is.

00:25:59.323 --> 00:26:00.483
You can't fool me with the birds.

00:26:01.963 --> 00:26:06.703
I know my birds. So you could keep looking at that genius special name that

00:26:06.703 --> 00:26:10.663
they made for that animal. But I'm going to be down here picking the action that matters.

00:26:11.783 --> 00:26:16.503
That's such a cool touch because I don't have a background in education at all.

00:26:16.723 --> 00:26:20.523
In fact, I probably ran from it as far as I could as early as I could.

00:26:20.523 --> 00:26:26.563
Just because, you know, ADD, you know, dyslexic, dysgraphic,

00:26:26.803 --> 00:26:31.443
I was all kinds of Sylvan Learning Center fun when I was growing up.

00:26:32.223 --> 00:26:35.503
It's very discouraging, right? Yeah, man, totally.

00:26:35.863 --> 00:26:41.043
Because I can't, you know, and, you know, this is probably why your business

00:26:41.043 --> 00:26:45.643
exists because there's tools to help guys like me, you know, pass tests.

00:26:45.963 --> 00:26:51.243
And I needed those tools, right? But really, what I needed was dedication and commitment.

00:26:51.503 --> 00:26:54.203
And that's what I got it from.

00:26:54.563 --> 00:26:58.743
Dedication and commitment, I always feel is, I don't know, I feel like it's

00:26:58.743 --> 00:27:02.543
a bit of a misnomer because a lot of it is motivation and interest.

00:27:03.343 --> 00:27:07.003
I was highly motivated this time, too. Yeah, and that's the thing.

00:27:07.083 --> 00:27:11.403
If you're interested, if it's what you want to do, there's nothing going to

00:27:11.403 --> 00:27:14.283
stop you from figuring it out. I don't care if I'm sitting there watching a

00:27:14.283 --> 00:27:18.923
YouTube channel at midnight in my garage, trying to figure out how to change

00:27:18.923 --> 00:27:21.583
a tube or the bushing in the tube.

00:27:22.383 --> 00:27:27.563
Like, it doesn't matter if I want if I'm in that motivation state of inspiration.

00:27:28.507 --> 00:27:31.427
I'm going to do it. And the same is true with education. You have to act as

00:27:31.427 --> 00:27:33.987
if you have to act as if this is really what you want to do.

00:27:34.087 --> 00:27:36.967
If you don't want to do it, pretend, but, you know, fake it.

00:27:37.347 --> 00:27:40.407
At least that's what I tell my students, right? Because I want them to do well.

00:27:40.627 --> 00:27:43.327
So sometimes you got to tell them to fake it, you know, just,

00:27:43.527 --> 00:27:48.407
but yeah, if you're, if you're inspired, if you're into what you're doing. Yeah. Yeah.

00:27:49.107 --> 00:27:56.747
Do you have any like maybe favorite success stories or students that have stuck out in the past?

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Like, you know, somebody like like me, maybe that that isn't good at test taking

00:28:01.367 --> 00:28:04.587
that struggled, struggled, struggled, that then, you know, went through your

00:28:04.587 --> 00:28:07.187
program and was able to move on with their lives.

00:28:07.527 --> 00:28:12.807
This one or two every year, man. Man, that's great, dude. Good for you. It's just a lot of kids.

00:28:13.067 --> 00:28:16.907
So you see these kids that come in, like I remember one year we had one kid

00:28:16.907 --> 00:28:22.727
who, he was just one point shy of the cutoff for getting invited into the program.

00:28:23.427 --> 00:28:27.827
And he was also at the time, he was a faculty member's kid too.

00:28:28.147 --> 00:28:32.347
So somebody who had worked at the school. So we're always like,

00:28:32.547 --> 00:28:36.887
to me, the cutoff number that we set for kids to get into our program isn't

00:28:36.887 --> 00:28:40.507
as important as them wanting to be there and do the work.

00:28:41.209 --> 00:28:47.409
So we lowered the number for the whole school one point. So a bunch of other kids also got in then.

00:28:47.529 --> 00:28:50.129
That way it was fair. But we also let that kid in.

00:28:50.569 --> 00:28:52.569
I've never seen a kid who worked so hard.

00:28:53.069 --> 00:28:58.389
The kid just put the effort that was, it blew us away because he wanted it,

00:28:58.469 --> 00:28:59.849
right? Yeah, man. Awesome.

00:29:00.309 --> 00:29:03.629
He was the highest scoring student we had that year.

00:29:03.829 --> 00:29:08.009
I love that. And he was the lowest scoring coming in. So seeing that kind of

00:29:08.009 --> 00:29:10.269
change is always rewarding.

00:29:10.269 --> 00:29:13.089
You know because you hear it and then there's others you get

00:29:13.089 --> 00:29:15.989
text messages randomly like a girl couple years

00:29:15.989 --> 00:29:19.449
back she went to usc she got accepted to usc they

00:29:19.449 --> 00:29:22.389
gave her a special dorm room because she was a national merit

00:29:22.389 --> 00:29:25.649
scholar they gave her a laptop they gave

00:29:25.649 --> 00:29:28.489
her her own college advisor while she

00:29:28.489 --> 00:29:31.289
was like a unique one that was a much smaller group

00:29:31.289 --> 00:29:34.529
of kids only merit scholars and they

00:29:34.529 --> 00:29:39.549
gave her a per diem so she had like money every day for you know small but like

00:29:39.549 --> 00:29:44.129
covers food this that and the other like you hear these stories and you're like

00:29:44.129 --> 00:29:49.329
kids going to school for free and getting all this stuff you know and it's like

00:29:49.329 --> 00:29:53.109
because of what they answer 20 more questions right on this desk,

00:29:53.740 --> 00:29:59.740
Crazy, but such is life. They do the same thing with credit scores to Americans.

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Have you noticed a difference in, you've been doing this a long time,

00:30:05.960 --> 00:30:08.700
you've seen multi-generations come through now, have you noticed a difference

00:30:08.700 --> 00:30:12.000
in the way kids learn now versus the way they learn?

00:30:12.140 --> 00:30:14.460
You'd have been in what, 18 years, 18 years ago?

00:30:15.040 --> 00:30:19.400
Yeah, I mean, well, probably 15, well, 16, I guess. 15, okay. Either way, either way.

00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:25.280
No, not really. I mean, I think that, you know, I always laugh because you hear that about education.

00:30:25.540 --> 00:30:27.280
Like, you know, we're not number one in education.

00:30:27.560 --> 00:30:30.160
We're not number, our education system is terrible. Our education is.

00:30:30.600 --> 00:30:34.160
And yeah, that is true to some extent on some parts.

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But when you look at the groupings of where the smartest kids are coming from,

00:30:38.320 --> 00:30:41.340
if you look at like schools like I'm in right now, American Heritage,

00:30:41.500 --> 00:30:42.680
they are just second to none.

00:30:42.680 --> 00:30:45.860
Our top percentage of kids are

00:30:45.860 --> 00:30:50.760
competitive worldwide 100 so it's

00:30:50.760 --> 00:30:53.700
there yeah there is probably a large chunk or

00:30:53.700 --> 00:30:59.120
swath you know parts of the country where education is really hurting but overall

00:30:59.120 --> 00:31:05.240
if you look at our best and brightest our breast and brightest are beating a

00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:09.900
large chunk of the world as well so it's a very deceiving thing when people

00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:12.240
say oh well you know Our education system is terrible.

00:31:13.140 --> 00:31:15.640
The ones who are not taking advantage of it, yes.

00:31:16.408 --> 00:31:20.068
But the ones who understand how to use the system, understand how to take advantage,

00:31:20.288 --> 00:31:26.108
understand what it takes, what effort needs to be done, they're thriving.

00:31:26.588 --> 00:31:29.148
Educational, you know what I mean, as far as that's concerned. No, I got you.

00:31:29.268 --> 00:31:34.268
I got you. And I understand that because my wife is an educator and she homeschooled

00:31:34.268 --> 00:31:37.828
all of the first four of my teenagers.

00:31:37.828 --> 00:31:41.288
They're all my youngest teens

00:31:41.288 --> 00:31:44.048
15 be 16 in june and then

00:31:44.048 --> 00:31:46.848
they go up from there up to 19 and she's got

00:31:46.848 --> 00:31:50.668
all of them through you know with yeah dude

00:31:50.668 --> 00:31:53.568
it's if you have the time to sit and do the

00:31:53.568 --> 00:31:56.368
teaching and everything that's great you know and that's a big part of

00:31:56.368 --> 00:31:59.208
it too like that's actually one of the fields that we've

00:31:59.208 --> 00:32:02.448
been breaking into slowly as well homeschool homes

00:32:02.448 --> 00:32:05.308
floors yeah yeah yeah hey that's that's a

00:32:05.308 --> 00:32:08.548
good market yeah they're still taking SAT you know

00:32:08.548 --> 00:32:11.628
ACT they don't do PSAT but they do SAT ACT

00:32:11.628 --> 00:32:15.088
stuff like that there'd be no downside to you

00:32:15.088 --> 00:32:18.268
know and I know there's a big convention that happens in

00:32:18.268 --> 00:32:21.108
Orlando Orlando every year and we're gonna go

00:32:21.108 --> 00:32:24.208
go get ourselves out there and you know kind of yeah

00:32:24.208 --> 00:32:27.468
we used to go we'd pick up all kinds of nuggets and

00:32:27.468 --> 00:32:30.268
meet people and yeah it's it's great it was it

00:32:30.268 --> 00:32:33.068
used to be at the Gaylord back in the day oh i

00:32:33.068 --> 00:32:36.088
love that place me too man me too that's a cool place

00:32:36.088 --> 00:32:41.248
man it really is man it really is all right let's shift gears pun intended let's

00:32:41.248 --> 00:32:46.288
get i like that oh yeah let's get back to volkswagen so this first bug this

00:32:46.288 --> 00:32:50.668
this first bug that you worked on your first car what did working on that car

00:32:50.668 --> 00:32:54.268
teach you about life that textbooks never could.

00:32:54.929 --> 00:32:57.689
Patience in a word i mean

00:32:57.689 --> 00:33:00.689
that's a pretty good answer man i don't know if there's anything beyond that

00:33:00.689 --> 00:33:03.549
i we got a accelerator cable stuck for three

00:33:03.549 --> 00:33:08.149
days give you an idea right we were trying to pull an accelerator cable out

00:33:08.149 --> 00:33:11.629
me and my buddy in his backyard at his house just the cable snap right yeah

00:33:11.629 --> 00:33:16.809
yeah oh yeah common mistake all the cars happens with all of them you know i

00:33:16.809 --> 00:33:20.069
went to go pull that out my first time messing with it messing with it pulling

00:33:20.069 --> 00:33:23.349
the you know pulling the whole pedal assembly out,

00:33:23.529 --> 00:33:25.969
you know, making sure. And it had broken the back.

00:33:26.569 --> 00:33:31.849
I didn't know enough to say I should probably take the freight end and tape

00:33:31.849 --> 00:33:35.949
it up prior trying to pull it out. So you had to reroute it.

00:33:36.329 --> 00:33:42.729
So, well, when I went and pulled the cable in the tube, it got stuck. It got held up.

00:33:42.769 --> 00:33:46.689
A piece of metal got held up and pinched and something that was probably rotted

00:33:46.689 --> 00:33:49.349
in there, you know what I mean? And just not allowing it to pass through.

00:33:49.629 --> 00:33:54.509
And no joke. I mean, there were moments where me, my two of my buddies are sitting

00:33:54.509 --> 00:33:57.169
there and they look like a cartoon with the three of us feet up,

00:33:57.549 --> 00:34:01.009
got the cable and we're all pulling on this thing, trying to get it out of the

00:34:01.009 --> 00:34:07.189
tube, pushing it forward, pulling it back, greasing it, shooting W for three

00:34:07.189 --> 00:34:10.409
days before it finally broke free and we got it out.

00:34:10.569 --> 00:34:12.789
So, yeah, patience. Yeah.

00:34:13.489 --> 00:34:16.729
That's got to be number one. You know, good, good answer for sure.

00:34:16.729 --> 00:34:21.009
And I know in your past, you owned a bunch of VWs over time.

00:34:21.249 --> 00:34:25.249
And I know you've done a lot of stuff to these cars, but like looking back,

00:34:25.429 --> 00:34:30.129
what's been one of your favorite cars, I guess, or your favorite build so far?

00:34:30.669 --> 00:34:33.789
I'd say, I mean, the ones I'm sitting on are my favorite right now,

00:34:33.929 --> 00:34:34.789
obviously, just because.

00:34:35.511 --> 00:34:39.511
They're so unique and I'm really into them, but I want to talk about those though.

00:34:39.791 --> 00:34:43.391
Let's talk about them because the listeners deserve to hear.

00:34:43.551 --> 00:34:46.031
I'm looking at them. Y'all, y'all can't see them.

00:34:46.231 --> 00:34:50.311
Right. But, but so you've got three, two in the garage.

00:34:50.531 --> 00:34:53.551
Is there right now? I got three. Yeah. So right now I have three.

00:34:53.871 --> 00:34:58.231
Well, I just sold, I sold two. I had, there's a couple that got away and there's

00:34:58.231 --> 00:35:00.831
still photos that are sitting on my walls right now.

00:35:01.011 --> 00:35:05.171
We all, we all got ones that got away. So the Telefunken bus I don't know if

00:35:05.171 --> 00:35:08.431
you saw that in my thing This guy Okay,

00:35:08.931 --> 00:35:12.991
panel Bay window panel Yeah,

00:35:13.191 --> 00:35:19.671
it was a 69 Bay window panel bus That I did a full Telefunken theme on Really

00:35:19.671 --> 00:35:24.251
cool interior I did, you know those in the studio Sound deadening panels Yeah,

00:35:24.371 --> 00:35:28.991
the foam panels Because you know on the panel buses You had panels for the bottom

00:35:28.991 --> 00:35:30.511
But you didn't have panels for the top.

00:35:31.251 --> 00:35:35.931
So I filled all that in with the sound deadening suit. It's just for looks.

00:35:36.291 --> 00:35:39.491
Yeah. It was, it was probably killer on the road then. Oh dude.

00:35:39.511 --> 00:35:41.451
It was so cool. It just looks so cool.

00:35:41.851 --> 00:35:47.371
But I sold it at a time where the market was just through the roof and I couldn't,

00:35:47.511 --> 00:35:49.631
I couldn't say no to the price.

00:35:49.951 --> 00:35:53.071
So that was one of the ones where when I, when I sold the bus,

00:35:53.151 --> 00:35:56.131
I wish I kept it because that was just such a great bus.

00:35:56.271 --> 00:36:00.271
And then I had a 67 fastback that I sold on bring a trailer. Yeah.

00:36:00.791 --> 00:36:06.271
And I got 16.5 for the Fastback Ooh, you wouldn't get that today I was like,

00:36:06.731 --> 00:36:12.051
bye, it can go That's right, that's right I got almost 30 for the Bay Window,

00:36:12.646 --> 00:36:16.026
Derek, man, you sold it like the height of the market.

00:36:16.366 --> 00:36:20.746
The height of the market. And I used that money to actually completely rehab

00:36:20.746 --> 00:36:23.426
the Volkswagen Volkswagen over here, the blue one behind me.

00:36:24.386 --> 00:36:28.386
Let's hear some details about that. So describe these unconventional builds

00:36:28.386 --> 00:36:31.086
that are in the garage right here for the listeners.

00:36:31.446 --> 00:36:34.946
Yeah, so for the two that are in the garage, right now the one behind me,

00:36:35.186 --> 00:36:36.986
the blue one, is the one that's in a magazine.

00:36:37.246 --> 00:36:41.486
I built that one. Originally, it was all matte white with pearl in it.

00:36:41.946 --> 00:36:45.806
What magazine is it in? It's in Airstyle. It's over in Europe,

00:36:45.946 --> 00:36:47.986
big over in Europe. Yeah, Airstyle.

00:36:48.246 --> 00:36:52.266
Yeah, they're just cool guys. They reached out to me. They saw the pictures

00:36:52.266 --> 00:36:54.846
online of the car. They've gotten everywhere.

00:36:55.446 --> 00:36:59.346
The guy reached out. He goes, hey, have you ever been featured? No, never.

00:37:00.066 --> 00:37:04.846
So he sent me some email with a list of questions, and you go through, you answer everything.

00:37:05.166 --> 00:37:08.846
And my buddy Eric Fernand with the Green Boats ride, and a lot of people in

00:37:08.846 --> 00:37:10.386
the BW world know Eric Fernand.

00:37:11.046 --> 00:37:15.386
Yeah, green one on the other side But he He actually.

00:37:16.366 --> 00:37:20.426
He actually took all the photos of the car Because he does some photography

00:37:20.426 --> 00:37:24.666
stuff Like as a hobby kind of thing But he's good at it So he took all the photos

00:37:24.666 --> 00:37:28.006
We sent it all off to them And then before you know it The guy calls me up He

00:37:28.006 --> 00:37:29.646
goes, I got good news I'm like, yeah, what's up?

00:37:29.706 --> 00:37:33.966
He's like, you made the cover Holy dude Cool, dude, that's awesome You know,

00:37:34.046 --> 00:37:37.586
I was all excited about it But yeah, so the blue folks are on it It's a 66,

00:37:37.966 --> 00:37:41.826
all original When I got it Got into a really bad accident.

00:37:42.126 --> 00:37:45.966
I took parts off rather than putting parts on. And that's how she was born a

00:37:45.966 --> 00:37:48.866
Volksrod. We've got a five inch chop on it.

00:37:49.346 --> 00:37:52.546
Excuse me, five inch chop on it. And it is a Fernan chop.

00:37:52.766 --> 00:37:57.446
The Fernan chop, or an imitation of one. The Fernan chop is my buddy, Eric Fernan.

00:37:57.566 --> 00:38:02.146
They invented a way of chopping the roof of the car without needing extra roofs.

00:38:02.906 --> 00:38:06.866
Oh, it's a big thing. And you can also see it in the back quarter window.

00:38:07.246 --> 00:38:12.446
If you look at the curvature in that back corner, some chops,

00:38:12.646 --> 00:38:13.786
they're very squared off.

00:38:14.006 --> 00:38:16.666
Some chops, they're very pointed ours.

00:38:16.926 --> 00:38:21.566
If you look at ours, the curvature is very much like stop and it doesn't have

00:38:21.566 --> 00:38:26.106
any sharp turns to it or pointiness, that kind of thing.

00:38:26.226 --> 00:38:29.806
It's a really clean curvature, which is to me,

00:38:29.806 --> 00:38:32.806
what made it so appealing right so five inch

00:38:32.806 --> 00:38:36.166
chop on the car the car has been extended eight inches out front so

00:38:36.166 --> 00:38:39.206
it's eight inch longer wheelbase that's what makes it a volks rod

00:38:39.206 --> 00:38:42.166
is by you know we're giving it that hot rod

00:38:42.166 --> 00:38:45.106
raked look bigger tires in the back smaller tires in

00:38:45.106 --> 00:38:48.426
the front the whole front end everything underneath the hood has been cut out

00:38:48.426 --> 00:38:52.926
where the gas tank was i'm running a round spun aluminum gas tank in there instead

00:38:52.926 --> 00:38:58.826
with the air system also the rear of the car you've got a 2276 turbo motor in

00:38:58.826 --> 00:39:03.366
it whoo baby yeah it puts 200 to the wheels when we dynoed it.

00:39:05.126 --> 00:39:10.286
Rocket ship she scoots she scoots and she's surprisingly quick right so like

00:39:10.286 --> 00:39:13.346
one of the things i like about it is like light to light i actually found out

00:39:13.346 --> 00:39:15.026
the other day we were pulling out of a car show

00:39:15.410 --> 00:39:19.130
And I got to find out exactly how quick it is because it's only 200 horsepower, right?

00:39:19.570 --> 00:39:25.170
But only for what? 1,100 pounds? Well, you look at like modern technology, modern cars, right?

00:39:25.430 --> 00:39:29.710
Everything rolling off the line now is like starting at 200 for the most part,

00:39:29.850 --> 00:39:30.690
you know? Right, right. Sure.

00:39:30.850 --> 00:39:34.710
We're pulling out of a car show a couple of weeks back and it was a Golf R.

00:39:35.290 --> 00:39:38.930
Like a newer Golf R, 2022, 2023, something like that Golf R.

00:39:39.090 --> 00:39:40.930
We're sitting at the light coming out together.

00:39:41.190 --> 00:39:44.930
He jumps on it. I jump on it. And I walk them. Oh, yeah.

00:39:45.410 --> 00:39:48.290
Just enough to walk them. And I was like, okay, so I'm a little faster than

00:39:48.290 --> 00:39:52.770
a Golf R. I'm happy with that. That's not bad for a bug.

00:39:53.310 --> 00:39:58.410
No, dude, that's really cool. That's really cool. So it's truly a hot rod.

00:39:58.650 --> 00:40:03.770
It is. I wanted it to be, you know, that was always my thing, the hot rod look.

00:40:03.850 --> 00:40:07.770
And as a matter of fact, just to go how hot rod I liked it, the color of the

00:40:07.770 --> 00:40:11.990
car is 1932 to 1934 Ford Washington blue.

00:40:12.350 --> 00:40:18.790
Oh, cool. No metallics, no pearls. It is that old school Ford hot rod blue.

00:40:19.030 --> 00:40:23.330
And then the contrast color is all a very light beige.

00:40:23.530 --> 00:40:27.130
So the interior is beige. The rag top is beige.

00:40:27.470 --> 00:40:31.710
And it gives it that nice dark blue beige contrast. It's just gorgeous.

00:40:32.090 --> 00:40:35.750
Do you have the hot rod seats in that one or are they in the black one?

00:40:35.850 --> 00:40:40.970
No, those are actually, I took stock seats. We cut out five inches from the

00:40:40.970 --> 00:40:45.950
round frame at the bottom. Welped it back together And stuck it onto the stock

00:40:45.950 --> 00:40:50.550
frames So the seats sit exactly the same depth as the roof.

00:40:51.122 --> 00:40:54.422
Right. We cut the roof five inches. We drop the seats five inches. Perfect.

00:40:54.762 --> 00:40:58.922
So when you're sitting in there, you've got a ton of leg room because you're lower in the car.

00:40:59.142 --> 00:41:03.042
Right. And it's just this really cool with your arm up right at the window.

00:41:03.222 --> 00:41:09.362
We actually, because we chopped it, we welded up the entire window seam all the way around.

00:41:09.762 --> 00:41:13.822
So there's no windows in the car. Right. Not the driver, passenger door windows.

00:41:13.982 --> 00:41:15.782
They are gone. Those have been welded up.

00:41:16.442 --> 00:41:19.622
And we Dura-glassed over it the whole nine and made them smooth.

00:41:19.622 --> 00:41:23.322
So you just sit there with your hand up on it, you know, with your arms sitting

00:41:23.322 --> 00:41:26.082
up on it, and you're driving down the street, and it's fantastic.

00:41:26.602 --> 00:41:32.902
Oh, yeah. It looks fantastic. Y'all, everybody's going to see this because I'll make it the thumbnail.

00:41:33.262 --> 00:41:36.122
So everybody will be able to see these for sure.

00:41:36.342 --> 00:41:41.362
But they can also check you out online where I know you'll be sharing your pictures

00:41:41.362 --> 00:41:43.262
here. But tell us about the black one now.

00:41:43.562 --> 00:41:47.942
So the black one was built by a guy named Eric Shelton. Like I said,

00:41:48.082 --> 00:41:49.282
I think he's in Minnesota.

00:41:49.622 --> 00:41:52.702
Illinois or somewhere up in that area i forget exactly where

00:41:52.702 --> 00:41:55.562
he had built the car i guess back in

00:41:55.562 --> 00:41:58.342
2016 17 where he chopped the car

00:41:58.342 --> 00:42:01.022
in half he did a whole he grafted on

00:42:01.022 --> 00:42:03.742
a 1954 truck cab to the

00:42:03.742 --> 00:42:07.042
back so the actual 1954 truck cab

00:42:07.042 --> 00:42:11.102
window the metal work was superb like

00:42:11.102 --> 00:42:14.102
i was i bought the car for the metal work was really

00:42:14.102 --> 00:42:17.102
the reason i picked it up he actually had to somebody else

00:42:17.102 --> 00:42:20.002
that guy had it for a while did a couple little weird

00:42:20.002 --> 00:42:22.742
things to it or different things to it that i did not my thing but

00:42:22.742 --> 00:42:25.402
they were cool it was cool but then he had it for a

00:42:25.402 --> 00:42:28.642
while was sitting in his garage i saw it for sale for quite a while and the

00:42:28.642 --> 00:42:33.802
look of the cab i knew i immediately had an image when i saw it like i i knew

00:42:33.802 --> 00:42:38.122
what it was should look like you know kind of thing my cool yeah no good of

00:42:38.122 --> 00:42:44.102
that they say that these cars when they when we find them that they talk to us kind of yes you No,

00:42:44.342 --> 00:42:48.562
so I jump off the page, man, like a marketplace and I'm sitting there late at night.

00:42:48.943 --> 00:42:53.603
Me too, bro. Me too. Why is that one just yelling at me? Yeah.

00:42:54.303 --> 00:42:57.563
And then you always want, or I don't know about you, but I, I always want to

00:42:57.563 --> 00:43:00.443
like, I start thinking, I'm like, how can I make this happen?

00:43:02.343 --> 00:43:05.983
How can I make this happen? Yeah. People start spinning. I'm like,

00:43:06.023 --> 00:43:08.743
if I sell this, if I make it. Yeah, dude. Me too.

00:43:09.263 --> 00:43:13.223
Me too. I can make room on the side of the house and then it can live in the

00:43:13.223 --> 00:43:14.323
trailer in the meantime.

00:43:14.823 --> 00:43:21.063
That's how I find space. Like, and then I swipe and it's gone. I know.

00:43:21.543 --> 00:43:24.383
And you know what? Every time I tell my wife too, I go, see,

00:43:24.523 --> 00:43:26.883
I told you I should have jumped on that one. Right.

00:43:27.403 --> 00:43:31.223
Yes, dude. It happens all the time. I see it too. Oh, it's too much, man.

00:43:31.583 --> 00:43:36.243
Do you ever bring, do you ever bring your students into the world of automotive

00:43:36.243 --> 00:43:38.383
or do you keep things completely separate?

00:43:38.543 --> 00:43:42.363
It's very, I did bring them into the DJ world a little bit during the pandemic

00:43:42.363 --> 00:43:43.643
when we were all in lockdown.

00:43:44.023 --> 00:43:48.703
Yeah, sure. I would do on Friday nights, I would create a Zoom link like this.

00:43:49.183 --> 00:43:53.603
My DJ stuff all set up and piped in with good audio to the computer.

00:43:53.943 --> 00:43:58.263
Dude, I remember some guys from the 90s that were big radio guys.

00:43:58.323 --> 00:44:00.083
They were doing that online.

00:44:00.383 --> 00:44:03.703
They had all kinds of people showing up on their live feeds.

00:44:03.743 --> 00:44:07.203
Yeah, I only did it for my students because I knew they were locked down and they were bored.

00:44:07.523 --> 00:44:13.463
So on Friday night at 9 o'clock, I would do Club Merit. And I would basically stream in my DJ set.

00:44:13.463 --> 00:44:18.343
And I would do a one hour DJ set I used to send them all a Google sheet To fill

00:44:18.343 --> 00:44:22.563
out requests And I would take the requests And I would create a one hour set

00:44:22.563 --> 00:44:26.963
And then every Friday night I'd sit and I'd do a one hour mix,

00:44:27.423 --> 00:44:31.623
Sweet dude, good job Yeah I did it for like, I don't know Whatever it was,

00:44:31.683 --> 00:44:37.583
like 6-8 months or whatever During the lockdown that I was doing it What a crazy time to be alive Man,

00:44:37.683 --> 00:44:41.423
back then Flying all over the country I was With a freaking,

00:44:41.503 --> 00:44:45.363
with a mask over my face I looked like an armed burglar. I know.

00:44:45.703 --> 00:44:48.963
And it was like, I would sweat underneath it. I've always had this beard.

00:44:48.983 --> 00:44:52.423
It's like, you know, what in the crap are we doing now?

00:44:55.035 --> 00:44:57.875
You're on a ball spinning at how many thousands of

00:44:57.875 --> 00:45:00.835
miles an hour like yeah right we're like nothing nobody

00:45:00.835 --> 00:45:03.595
knows we're all just over here doing our

00:45:03.595 --> 00:45:06.355
best guessing like that's that's the way i look at it right

00:45:06.355 --> 00:45:09.155
like yeah so anyway that was the story of the black one and

00:45:09.155 --> 00:45:12.095
then yeah which i'm redoing what's the motor what's the.

00:45:12.095 --> 00:45:14.915
Motor and the transmissions in these so the trans

00:45:14.915 --> 00:45:17.575
are i got a pro street in the boats for the blue

00:45:17.575 --> 00:45:20.255
boats rod uh it's a pretty much

00:45:20.255 --> 00:45:23.575
just of stock well so this is a 1961 bug

00:45:23.575 --> 00:45:26.795
but it's been converted to irs in the back okay

00:45:26.795 --> 00:45:30.475
so it's sitting with a 70s transmission

00:45:30.475 --> 00:45:33.975
and axles and then i put an 1835 type

00:45:33.975 --> 00:45:37.635
3 motor in this one i bought it with a type 1 but

00:45:37.635 --> 00:45:40.735
the type 1 the shroud's so high that i'm trying

00:45:40.735 --> 00:45:44.815
to build a really cool bed for it and i don't know that's a 60 61

00:45:44.815 --> 00:45:47.855
61 so that was what a 1200 back then yeah

00:45:47.855 --> 00:45:50.575
probably a 1200 the motor that was in it when i got

00:45:50.575 --> 00:45:53.535
it was like a 1600 somebody 16 and again it's

00:45:53.535 --> 00:45:56.655
so custom there's nothing stop sure but it

00:45:56.655 --> 00:45:59.355
was still a type 1 motor and a type 1 motor when you're

00:45:59.355 --> 00:46:02.595
doing a vw pickup thing was never

00:46:02.595 --> 00:46:05.395
my thing like i see a bunch of guys that have taken a

00:46:05.395 --> 00:46:08.235
vw bug and converted into a pickup and they

00:46:08.235 --> 00:46:11.455
all got that type 1 motor hanging out the back yeah yeah i

00:46:11.455 --> 00:46:16.055
can picture that it doesn't look right to me so i immediately pulled that motor

00:46:16.055 --> 00:46:20.435
chunked it and we stuck an 1835 type three motor in there because it's flat

00:46:20.435 --> 00:46:24.315
so i still have to build the bed where it's going to be up kind of high but

00:46:24.315 --> 00:46:29.435
at least it'll be flat i won't have this monster shroud hanging yeah yeah no good call.

00:46:30.057 --> 00:46:32.997
So that's what I'm doing with the motor and that thing. And then I turned it

00:46:32.997 --> 00:46:36.857
into, you know, I went full Volksrad with it as well, where we're just going to run no fenders.

00:46:37.517 --> 00:46:40.717
It's, I got the spikes on the hood. Like I have the spikes on the hood on the

00:46:40.717 --> 00:46:45.117
other one, you know, the whole concept was. Yeah, super Mad Max slash.

00:46:45.717 --> 00:46:49.177
It's got, it's really its own kind of independence. Like looking at that,

00:46:49.397 --> 00:46:51.057
both of these cars sitting in your garage.

00:46:51.057 --> 00:46:55.057
I picture being in Miami and walking on the beach and seeing like,

00:46:55.077 --> 00:46:57.557
like two jacked dudes with like

00:46:57.557 --> 00:47:01.697
two really good looking girls walking with them. Those are your Beatles.

00:47:02.917 --> 00:47:05.897
It's so funny. My buddy the other day put a post up. He was like,

00:47:06.017 --> 00:47:08.597
he put his two Volkswagen's up and I forget what he said.

00:47:08.637 --> 00:47:11.717
He was like, you know, my trouble or my rebels, something like that.

00:47:11.817 --> 00:47:12.577
He goes, these are my rebels.

00:47:12.877 --> 00:47:15.057
So I put mine up. I said, this is my convicts.

00:47:17.817 --> 00:47:22.237
I'm in line with her. Yeah, I see two juice diesel dudes walking down the beach.

00:47:22.437 --> 00:47:23.377
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.

00:47:24.597 --> 00:47:30.477
What's cool about it is you're not held to just the VW world with these, right?

00:47:30.677 --> 00:47:35.377
So when I go to shows, I can roll into a rockabilly show and it works.

00:47:35.517 --> 00:47:39.237
I roll into a hot rod show, it works. I go to a Volkswagen show,

00:47:39.357 --> 00:47:40.617
they love it. Yeah, yeah.

00:47:40.777 --> 00:47:44.297
It doesn't matter where I go with them because they're so, you know,

00:47:44.357 --> 00:47:48.957
they're interchangeable, I guess. I don't know that they can go anywhere, right?

00:47:49.457 --> 00:47:55.537
So that's kind of, and then I have one more. I have a kit car from the seventies, a 1976 Invader GT.

00:47:55.997 --> 00:48:00.197
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the, uh, it looks like, uh, the car from Speed Racer.

00:48:00.677 --> 00:48:06.357
Yes. Very Speed Racer-y, but not, I have a later one, 76, not the earlier ones.

00:48:06.457 --> 00:48:11.137
The earlier ones have, they call them like a duck bill because the nose looks very duck bill-ish.

00:48:11.357 --> 00:48:14.237
Is it GT5 or GT4? GT5.

00:48:14.673 --> 00:48:19.433
No, the five. The five. Yeah. I'm looking at it, dude. Sick car. Sick looking car.

00:48:19.893 --> 00:48:24.053
Yeah. It's a red one. It's got the gullwing plexiglass doors.

00:48:24.793 --> 00:48:28.293
You know, 1641 motor in the bag, all fiberglass.

00:48:28.473 --> 00:48:31.813
The car weighs 1600 pounds. Oh my goodness, dude.

00:48:31.993 --> 00:48:36.333
So the goal is I want to take the motor that's in my blue Volksrod now,

00:48:36.473 --> 00:48:39.533
the 200 horsepower motor. I want to throw that in the invader.

00:48:40.173 --> 00:48:44.993
I want to put a bigger dual fuel meth injected motor into the blue boats rod

00:48:44.993 --> 00:48:48.773
that's the goal alright so we're going to be seeing you on the drag strip eventually

00:48:48.773 --> 00:48:52.953
no I really don't want to race them because when you race them you break stuff right.

00:48:54.753 --> 00:48:58.393
All the race people I know they all like dude how much money am I going to spend

00:48:58.393 --> 00:49:03.953
on this part but they love doing it but I wanted to be I wanted to really piss

00:49:03.953 --> 00:49:07.473
people off light to light that's all I just want people to go.

00:49:08.272 --> 00:49:11.392
I can't believe I just got killed by a bug. Like, that's it. That's all.

00:49:12.032 --> 00:49:15.512
I know, but it's so funny because that bug with 200 horsepower,

00:49:15.892 --> 00:49:19.712
I swear, I'll tell you, depending on the driver, you can even take,

00:49:19.792 --> 00:49:22.412
you know, some of these 1600s that have, you know.

00:49:23.112 --> 00:49:27.232
Upgraded exhaust and maybe dual carbs and they got a lot of spark and,

00:49:27.252 --> 00:49:31.032
and, and those things are peppy enough, man, to, you know, to leave some of

00:49:31.032 --> 00:49:32.772
these cars of today in the dust.

00:49:33.152 --> 00:49:37.392
You know, rear wheel drive, the motors in the back over the rear wheels.

00:49:37.572 --> 00:49:41.712
Yeah. Squats and it goes I tell people all the time I'm like look First,

00:49:41.952 --> 00:49:45.532
second, and third They're going to be mad at me After that it's got me After

00:49:45.532 --> 00:49:49.032
that it's all yours Take off You know once we get Into fourth gear You're going

00:49:49.032 --> 00:49:50.432
to tick my butt But first,

00:49:50.472 --> 00:49:53.772
second, third I'm just going to be irritating Is what I'm going to be Because

00:49:53.772 --> 00:49:56.732
you're going to be like How is this possible That this dude is up there right

00:49:56.732 --> 00:50:00.812
now You know And everybody laughs You know it's one of those things They know it's a bug,

00:50:01.372 --> 00:50:06.952
It's a bug So how about life lessons What's the biggest life lesson that you've

00:50:06.952 --> 00:50:10.932
learned from being in the Volkswagen community?

00:50:11.232 --> 00:50:15.992
Man, I'd say for me, I don't know if it was really a life lesson for me as much

00:50:15.992 --> 00:50:20.792
as it was learning from watching other people, right?

00:50:20.992 --> 00:50:24.712
What do they say? A smart man learns from his mistakes, but a wise man learns

00:50:24.712 --> 00:50:28.032
from other people's mistakes, right? Yeah, well said.

00:50:28.472 --> 00:50:33.732
And I think that more of the life lesson would be more recently with watching

00:50:33.732 --> 00:50:39.972
just the amount of judgment in the car community that has plagued it a little bit.

00:50:40.824 --> 00:50:46.084
Yeah, just it's something I never want to do. Yeah, I really enjoy everybody's build.

00:50:46.324 --> 00:50:52.344
I don't care what you do to it. I don't care how wild it is or how stupid people think it is. Right.

00:50:52.804 --> 00:50:55.584
Just the fact that you're trying, you're doing it.

00:50:55.684 --> 00:50:59.904
Like, I know my limitations and there's people out there that make me look ridiculous

00:50:59.904 --> 00:51:01.644
in their abilities, right? Sure.

00:51:02.344 --> 00:51:04.704
That's fine. But you know what? I'm still going to come out,

00:51:04.944 --> 00:51:07.144
still going to hang out, still want to see what you're building.

00:51:07.344 --> 00:51:12.944
Bring it out. I'd better a parking lot full of mixed cars than no cars, in my opinion.

00:51:13.444 --> 00:51:17.324
No, that's the community, dude. That's the vibe. That's why you're on the podcast.

00:51:17.324 --> 00:51:20.544
That's why we're telling these stories, because that's how we are.

00:51:20.664 --> 00:51:26.984
You don't go to the Camaro or the Mustang or the Charger show and have those same welcomes.

00:51:27.584 --> 00:51:29.084
No, you don't. You don't.

00:51:29.724 --> 00:51:35.544
No, you don't, dude. And you roll in. Yeah, so there's 15 Corvettes that the

00:51:35.544 --> 00:51:37.584
guy just bought and showed up to the show.

00:51:37.744 --> 00:51:40.824
And then there's a bunch of Mustangs with the same exhaust and the same wheels

00:51:40.824 --> 00:51:42.004
and the same this and the same that.

00:51:42.884 --> 00:51:48.544
Yeah. You know what? Dude, they're there. And better there's cars there than not.

00:51:48.664 --> 00:51:50.064
Because especially guys like

00:51:50.064 --> 00:51:53.784
us, older guys like us that are still into Volkswagens, there's not a ton.

00:51:54.524 --> 00:51:58.364
There's not a lot. You know, there's not a lot of people. Like nowadays, you get a show together.

00:51:58.544 --> 00:52:03.144
You get 50 to 100 cars show up. You had an amazing show. That's right.

00:52:03.444 --> 00:52:06.524
That's right. You know, but like back in the day, I used to go to California.

00:52:06.544 --> 00:52:10.764
We used to go to Pomona. It was thousands of Volkswagens from end to end.

00:52:11.404 --> 00:52:14.604
It would take you days to walk through Pomona. Yeah, you know,

00:52:14.824 --> 00:52:16.544
there's not that many left.

00:52:17.149 --> 00:52:21.169
No, they crushed a lot of them and, you know, they didn't, they didn't save a lot of them.

00:52:21.249 --> 00:52:24.769
And it's been a lot of time now, you know, we're looking, we're talking about,

00:52:24.969 --> 00:52:28.429
you know, the height of the, of the culture I feel was late eighties,

00:52:28.649 --> 00:52:30.809
you know, into the early nineties. Yeah.

00:52:31.109 --> 00:52:35.189
The whole hot tuna and, you know, the, the, the bright colors and,

00:52:35.409 --> 00:52:37.749
you know, it, it's kind of cool. It's coming back.

00:52:38.569 --> 00:52:41.789
Yeah. I've seen a few of them. There's a couple of posts recently of some eighties

00:52:41.789 --> 00:52:46.069
style ones at that brown one that I just saw on Facebook that had the multicolored.

00:52:46.469 --> 00:52:49.229
Yeah. the pink top carmen guilla with the

00:52:49.229 --> 00:52:52.049
pink and the purple yes yeah dude yeah what the

00:52:52.049 --> 00:52:55.049
heck out of that man are you kidding me those things are so cool

00:52:55.049 --> 00:52:57.829
i totally totally agree thank god for

00:52:57.829 --> 00:53:00.609
guys like us that are still holding on for dear life and

00:53:00.609 --> 00:53:03.609
keeping it cool i creeped around and that's

00:53:03.609 --> 00:53:06.289
what i love doing like i love just jumping in especially here i'm in

00:53:06.289 --> 00:53:09.009
broward county right i love jumping in the

00:53:09.009 --> 00:53:12.129
boats rod just to go run some errands during the day sitting around regular

00:53:12.129 --> 00:53:14.889
traffic and i'm driving that thing the blue one

00:53:14.889 --> 00:53:18.349
right everybody's giving you smiles and thumbs up yeah

00:53:18.349 --> 00:53:21.069
man like it people like especially when you

00:53:21.069 --> 00:53:24.129
see like kids in the back seat looking and pointing and tapping their parents

00:53:24.129 --> 00:53:27.009
like mom mom look at that's a beetle like they

00:53:27.009 --> 00:53:30.609
don't even know some of them don't even know they come up to you what is that

00:53:30.609 --> 00:53:35.009
thing man oh you're like it's a bug they're like what what's that with those

00:53:35.009 --> 00:53:39.909
spikes everybody freaks out but that's what you do it for you want the kids

00:53:39.909 --> 00:53:44.129
to see it you want them to be like you know inspired to be creative like that's.

00:53:45.083 --> 00:53:50.963
Love these things, man. Love these things. VWs as a whole, is it a hobby to you?

00:53:51.043 --> 00:53:54.663
Is it therapy? Or is it a way of life? I think it's a mix.

00:53:55.383 --> 00:54:00.023
I'll always have VWs in my life one way or another. So in that sense,

00:54:00.043 --> 00:54:02.503
it's a way of life. I think hobby, absolutely.

00:54:02.743 --> 00:54:05.983
It's all I want to do when I have my own time.

00:54:06.883 --> 00:54:09.763
Therapy? Depends on the day, you know.

00:54:10.023 --> 00:54:14.143
Sometimes I'm working on the car, and I don't know if I'd call it therapy.

00:54:14.143 --> 00:54:17.483
I guess the screaming and yelling is good for you, you know? Sure.

00:54:17.983 --> 00:54:22.503
But then there's other days where it's like you finally get it to start or you

00:54:22.503 --> 00:54:25.243
finally get something to look the way you wanted it to look.

00:54:25.363 --> 00:54:30.243
Or, you know, that's therapeutic as heck. That's a very, you feel accomplished.

00:54:30.623 --> 00:54:33.883
Yeah. So like you said, a good mix. It is. It really is.

00:54:34.383 --> 00:54:39.263
So in the world of test prep of what you do for work and the world of technology,

00:54:39.583 --> 00:54:45.483
right, as AI and chat GPT start to, you know, continue to evolve.

00:54:45.663 --> 00:54:50.163
What do you think's next for test prep? Do you think that, you know.

00:54:50.871 --> 00:54:55.571
I guess AI as a whole, you know, websites like chat, GPT, et cetera,

00:54:55.711 --> 00:54:58.551
are they, are they changing the game or is it good?

00:54:58.771 --> 00:55:01.771
Is it bad? What are your thoughts there? I mean, there's a lot of good.

00:55:02.411 --> 00:55:05.691
I'm not going to deny it. I mean, one of the beautiful parts for us is if I'm

00:55:05.691 --> 00:55:09.591
working with a student and they're struggling with a specific question type problem,

00:55:09.771 --> 00:55:15.211
I can jump into AI and say, hey, you know, write me a hundred main idea questions

00:55:15.211 --> 00:55:19.711
in the style of SAT, you know, from medium difficulty to hard difficulty.

00:55:19.711 --> 00:55:23.271
And it'll just write those questions instantly. I can send it over to a student

00:55:23.271 --> 00:55:26.411
and they can work on it. Right. I mean, that's killer. To me, that's awesome.

00:55:26.671 --> 00:55:30.411
The ability to just create a resource. Like I remember, you know,

00:55:30.531 --> 00:55:34.811
just recently we got rid of a lot of the books, but I have a library in my house,

00:55:34.951 --> 00:55:40.091
essentially, of SAT books going back from before we started this all the way to current.

00:55:40.531 --> 00:55:43.811
I don't have books anymore. Everything is PDF. Everything is digital.

00:55:43.811 --> 00:55:49.031
Everything is so, you know, having at my fingertips access to everything.

00:55:49.031 --> 00:55:50.891
I think that part of AI is fantastic.

00:55:51.191 --> 00:55:57.771
As far as teaching is concerned, again, as a resource, it's excellent as a supplement.

00:55:57.951 --> 00:56:05.571
As far as like showing students how to think properly, I don't see how AI is going to pull that off.

00:56:06.220 --> 00:56:09.100
You know what i mean i think that's still there still has to be the human

00:56:09.100 --> 00:56:12.140
element there is kind of what i'm hearing yeah yeah because

00:56:12.140 --> 00:56:16.040
to me i feel like you know you're literally teaching students how

00:56:16.040 --> 00:56:18.960
to think you know because like i have to explain

00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:21.660
to them like on something standardized like if you have to think your

00:56:21.660 --> 00:56:24.520
way into an answer choice you're doing it wrong because you shouldn't

00:56:24.520 --> 00:56:27.380
have to do that it's an evidence-based test right so it

00:56:27.380 --> 00:56:30.420
should be explicit it should be in your face it

00:56:30.420 --> 00:56:33.320
should be you know but they that's something that

00:56:33.320 --> 00:56:36.060
how is ai going to explain that that what you did there

00:56:36.060 --> 00:56:38.940
like i could sit with a student i love this i could sit with a student they'll

00:56:38.940 --> 00:56:41.880
go through a question they'll get the question wrong and based

00:56:41.880 --> 00:56:45.480
on their answer choice i could tell you the assumption they make right so

00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:48.420
like if you answered this i know that's because you read this

00:56:48.420 --> 00:56:54.060
line and you said he said this so it must mean this dang dude but i gotta dialed

00:56:54.060 --> 00:56:58.460
in somebody that right like what's how's ai gonna identify the reason they pick

00:56:58.460 --> 00:57:03.320
the answer choice they pick it's not no human element there i mean i don't know

00:57:03.320 --> 00:57:06.560
maybe it will maybe there's something in that, like, hey.

00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:09.400
Better be careful because it's probably listening to us right now.

00:57:09.780 --> 00:57:14.080
Yeah, you know, it's that Terminator, man, Skynet.

00:57:14.340 --> 00:57:17.620
That's right. That's right. Watch out for Skynet, man. They're coming.

00:57:17.860 --> 00:57:23.740
What does legacy mean to you, both as an educator and as a VW guy?

00:57:24.080 --> 00:57:27.940
As an educator, like I said, I want to know that what we did for the amount

00:57:27.940 --> 00:57:33.780
of time we did it changed as many students' paths as possible.

00:57:33.780 --> 00:57:42.500
They got into a school they didn't expect They We made for them The path easier You know somehow.

00:57:43.571 --> 00:57:46.591
At least with that education, to me, that's all I can ask for.

00:57:46.671 --> 00:57:48.651
When I was DJing, I said the same thing to myself.

00:57:48.811 --> 00:57:52.711
For me, even when I was DJing, it was like, I want to know that what I did tonight

00:57:52.711 --> 00:57:58.551
made 300 people happy or 1,000 people in this club happy or 10 people at this corporate event happy.

00:57:59.511 --> 00:58:03.071
It's that thing we were talking about from the beginning. It's like caring about the outcome.

00:58:03.291 --> 00:58:09.791
So you're already better as a human because you actually care about what's supposed to happen.

00:58:10.371 --> 00:58:14.231
Not just, hey, here's this. So you can get to that finish line.

00:58:14.391 --> 00:58:18.251
It's like you care about, you want to grab their hand and step over that finish line with them.

00:58:18.791 --> 00:58:21.811
I, you know, I, I, my impact, I'm not, look, I'm not famous.

00:58:21.971 --> 00:58:24.571
I'm not one of these people that are going to change the world,

00:58:24.571 --> 00:58:28.671
but if I make a difference in my small corner of my community, I'm happy.

00:58:28.991 --> 00:58:32.551
And I feel the same way about my cars, right?

00:58:32.711 --> 00:58:37.011
Like when I build these things, I want to know that somebody was inspired by it.

00:58:37.131 --> 00:58:40.271
Somebody saw it and will always remember that car they saw, or,

00:58:40.411 --> 00:58:42.711
you know, that, that's it. That's why I do it.

00:58:42.791 --> 00:58:45.711
I want to enjoy it while I drive it. I want to break some mess.

00:58:45.951 --> 00:58:48.091
You know, like I want people driving down the street like, wow,

00:58:48.351 --> 00:58:50.331
that's cool. I love it, man.

00:58:50.691 --> 00:58:54.071
Impactful side of it. To me, that's my definitional legacy with these things,

00:58:54.171 --> 00:58:56.431
you know? Yeah, no, I love it. You remember.

00:58:57.391 --> 00:59:00.811
Rapid fire questions. You ready? All right. Let's do it. All right.

00:59:01.071 --> 00:59:03.551
Favorite VW model of all time?

00:59:04.051 --> 00:59:05.791
The one I haven't had, the Fritalin.

00:59:06.511 --> 00:59:10.151
Ain't that the truth? That's always the one we haven't had. It's the Fritalin.

00:59:10.151 --> 00:59:17.091
I would love, for me, that would be the ultimate one. That's crazy. Yeah, those are rare.

00:59:17.351 --> 00:59:21.771
If I could get, you know, but 80 grand, 100 grand, like, that's not in my future.

00:59:21.991 --> 00:59:24.931
But, you know, we do well. We don't do that. So, yeah.

00:59:25.211 --> 00:59:30.331
I mean, if I had the one that I only wanted. Sorry. Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right.

00:59:30.671 --> 00:59:34.271
If you had to pick one and one only, SAT or ACT?

00:59:34.971 --> 00:59:40.691
For us, SAT. SAT. All right. Next question. and dream road trip.

00:59:40.891 --> 00:59:42.791
I've been playing with this idea for a while.

00:59:43.371 --> 00:59:46.091
Northwest, PCH Northwest.

00:59:47.406 --> 00:59:50.646
Yeah pch northwest so like going into

00:59:50.646 --> 00:59:54.326
like grand canyon up into yellowstone like

00:59:54.326 --> 00:59:57.366
you got the four corners up there yeah yeah that whole

00:59:57.366 --> 01:00:00.086
yeah yeah i've driven the country quite a bit but

01:00:00.086 --> 01:00:03.166
that's one of the areas that's just one of the prettiest areas in

01:00:03.166 --> 01:00:06.126
the country so so beautiful how about

01:00:06.126 --> 01:00:08.886
hardest test hardest test that you've

01:00:08.886 --> 01:00:11.966
ever taken oh that's series seven for sure

01:00:11.966 --> 01:00:15.086
okay stop test was brutal learning about

01:00:15.086 --> 01:00:18.126
hedging and everything else oh you got stereo systems

01:00:18.126 --> 01:00:22.246
in the volks rods the blue one yes not yet

01:00:22.246 --> 01:00:27.586
what's your go-to type of music or go-to music when you're when you're cruising

01:00:27.586 --> 01:00:34.606
you're asking a dj that question my my playlist has got to be one of the most

01:00:34.606 --> 01:00:39.346
eclectic but i think that's a lot of people nowadays right essentially but my

01:00:39.346 --> 01:00:41.046
playlist is very eclectic i I mean,

01:00:41.186 --> 01:00:47.586
it's a mix of everything from house music to yacht rock to alternative rock to, I mean,

01:00:47.926 --> 01:00:50.126
it's, it's every, it's just everything.

01:00:50.126 --> 01:00:53.826
I have a love of music, always have, which is why I DJed for so long.

01:00:54.006 --> 01:00:58.606
And there's not much that turns, turns me away musically. There's just not.

01:00:59.006 --> 01:01:02.066
Yeah. So I'm, I'm, I'm your age and I come from that.

01:01:02.186 --> 01:01:05.486
But I had a couple of buddies even that lived in my house that were DJs and

01:01:05.486 --> 01:01:08.566
did the whole scene in Ybor City and, you know, all that fun stuff.

01:01:08.566 --> 01:01:17.366
So I remember the days But I remember the artistry That also went with that These guys,

01:01:17.566 --> 01:01:22.166
they weren't just DJs They were like musicians too Because their timing was

01:01:22.166 --> 01:01:27.446
impeccable Music selection was impeccable Their ability to understand knowledge

01:01:27.446 --> 01:01:32.606
And baseline and harmony And just all of that stuff was just impeccable And until you,

01:01:32.626 --> 01:01:37.166
or if you Until you challenge yourself to try it.

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You really don't have a respect for it. You know, people say,

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oh, it's just DJing. No, it's not just.

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I went to go audition at this famous Irish sports bar that was down here.

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And it was like a DJ competition and like the winning DJ was going to get a

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residency kind of thing, right? Cool, yeah. That's how they were pitching it, whatever.

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So they held this whole audition and I went in there with my own system.

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I had my decks and everything and I'm sitting there waiting my turn and I'm

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listening to all these younger DJs. At the time, I was a little bit older than they were.

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Not much. which are like 10 years ahead of everybody that was auditioning.

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And I'm sitting there listening and it was, everything was the same.

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Everything was the same.

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It was like, everybody was like pissed off at another guy because they were,

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Oh yeah, I play, I wanted to play that song. Oh, you got my song. Yeah.

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And I'm sitting back there going that I picked the wrong music.

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Like I'm worried about what I'm about to play.

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I did my set and I'm doing like mixing into like AC, DC, TNT in the middle of

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a house track at the time. Hell yeah.

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Years ago. and the owner of the club came up

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to me afterwards like dude i want you like and not

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that it wasn't for the competition purpose and he was like dude the mix of

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music he was like everybody played the same stuff i was like exactly you've

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got to have you've got to have a variety of stuff you know you want to expect

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it you know something that makes everybody just go oh whoa where did that come

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from you know that's that again did i make you happy will you remember this

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moment yeah love Love that. Great question.

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I did my job. Good vibe right there.

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What's one piece of advice that you'd give your 17-year-old self today?

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My 17-year-old self today? Yeah. Buy Apple.

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You know, not for nothing, but like, yeah, Google, Apple.

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Hey, man, that's pretty awesome. That's pretty awesome. How about advice for the VW community?

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Maybe, maybe somebody is inspired by you, by, you know, the fact that you may

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not have a traditional, you know, Volks, you know, Volkswagen because it's the rod type, right?

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I know you probably get some pushback from the original type guys in the community,

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but somebody wants to customize their car.

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They want a Volks rod. They want to do what you're doing. What kind of advice

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do you give that person that, you know, might not be brave enough or maybe hasn't

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been bit by the bug yet, so to speak, to venture into the rod, you know, rod segment?

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Don't be afraid to piss off the purist once in a while, man.

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Like, yo, brother, there you go. It's don't change things.

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So, you know, nothing gets inspired unless something's different.

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You know, you got to break something to make something right. Like that's my opinion.

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At least that's how I always looked at it. So for me, yeah, as far as that goes.

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Don't, you know, don't, don't be so judgmental and don't worry about people

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who are that's, you know, what I took away from that was you,

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you got to break something to make something.

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Yeah. Cause it's true. Right. Like that blue one wouldn't have happened if that

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lady didn't run a red light and hit me. Right.

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Yeah. Yeah. You got to break something to make something. There it is.

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Break something to make something.

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We broke it. We made it. And it's killer now. Like I would, to think that that's

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the way it was going to turn out, who knew?

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And the car is everywhere I go. People are like, man, that's so cool. That's so this.

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It is though. It is. It is. I love it. Totally, totally agree, man.

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That's why I didn't even know I was a Volksrod guy until I was a Volksrod guy.

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Right. Now I'm like, I get other ones here and there and I'm like,

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but look what's living in the garage.

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You know, what's in the garage are the Volksrods. It's not...

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The Invader is cool, but it's fiber class, so it's sitting outside because I'm

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less worried about that one than I am just these guys.

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It's just...

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Keep doing it, guys. Everybody, please keep doing it. I don't want this to go away.

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Yeah, me either, man. Well said. I'll try my hat's off to you,

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sir, for the same reason, talking to people, doing this stuff.

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Yeah, thank you. We need this. This is my therapy, right?

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Being able to have a buddy I can talk to and talk Volkswagens and jets.

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And just the life in general. And again, I seem to say this a lot because it

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always kind of ventures this in the conversation with my guests,

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but you're the reason that I wanted to do this podcast. It's guys like you.

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It's guys that have two of these cars sitting in their garage.

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You'd never know it by what you do for work, et cetera.

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And a lot of the people that work around you probably don't know that side of

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their life either. And that's what is so cool to me is that I've never taken

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a car to school to pick up my kids. Never. Not once.

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Your type of person is right here in the Volkswagen community.

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And you guys need to be celebrated, man.

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You guys are the ultimate dub life type people.

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You're living the professional life. You're building these cars.

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They're awesome cars. You know a lot about them. You're learning tons of stuff

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that correlate with life and your professional career.

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Dude, you're a rock star, bro. You too, man. Thank you so much.

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I really appreciate the invite for this. Yeah, of course, man.

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That's a wrap for this episode of Dub Life Diaries.

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