The Beetle, the Song & the Journey Aiden Fleischman Ep78

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Dub Life Diaries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The podcast where passion meets the open road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, welcome back to dub life diaries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is gonna be a fun one, guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a young man that is just an awesome young dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so stoked to have this guy on the show.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I want you to do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Roll me for a second, all right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Picture this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're 16 years old, you're driving a Ford Ranger truck when you spot a blue 1972 Super Beetle sitting on the side of a dealership lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You fall in love with this car instantly, okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The problem is the dealer wants $12,000 for this car and you're wondering to yourself, how in the hell am I gonna afford this thing?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, where most people would move on,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Not this guy, not my next guest, all right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He went home and checked this out, wrote a song about the car, okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: That song ended up winning an international songwriting competition.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A year later, after some heartbreak, he went back to buy this beetle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Only to find out this dealership now has been shut down in the owner, disappeared while facing some legal issues.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, where the dream would have ended there for most people,

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[SPEAKER_00]: again, not my next guest.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So while scrolling on Facebook Marketplace one evening, he noticed something that almost nobody else ever would have seen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He saw the rear bumper of this exact same beetle hiding in the background of a completely different car listing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, how cool is that?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, so this truck is fast as he could track this beetle down, bought it, and then spent the last couple of years of his life pouring every dollar from his part-time job, every late night, every busted knuckle, every ounce of determination, bring in this car back to life.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Today,

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[SPEAKER_00]: He still drives that exact same Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's pulled the engine a couple of times.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's broken down probably more times than he'd like to admit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's made some life long friends because of this little blue beetle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's proving that sometimes the craziest dreams are the ones worth chasing, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those stories that reminds you that a Volkswagen is never just a car, all right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Aiden Fleischman, welcome to Dublife Diaries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Happy to have you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we talk a lot on this podcast about the youth, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We talk about how it's up to us, like the older guys that are in the culture, to make the youth get excited about it, brother.

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[SPEAKER_00]: you're excited about it already right it's like we got to slow you down so so I'm super excited to have you all thank you so much for taking the time not just a register but to be willing to come on and share your story with us with the Volkswagen community so before we dive in let me give a couple shout-outs to my sponsors

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[SPEAKER_00]: It is back to you, sir.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Back to you, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You about ready to get into this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, brother.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So for those that want to know, tell me, how old are you now?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm 18 now, and I'm going to college.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll just graduate at this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is like my last summer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's I'm free before I'm off the world.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So 18, I will tell you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You are probably one of the youngest people that have ever been on this podcast, which is really cool, in my opinion.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But does it feel weird kind of realizing that you already have this incredible VW story?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It does feel a little weird sometimes, because I...

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[SPEAKER_01]: I go, I go to a lot of shows, I go to any timematic gas station at Walmart, I always get stocked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm kind of become almost like a little local icon around here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was, I'm not trying to boast about myself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Everyone kind of knows as the kid with the blue bug.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just really, because that people come all the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They tell me stories.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They tell me all these times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And some stories, I probably shouldn't be hearing at this age.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that's the kind of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, that's the reason I started this podcast, you know, I've got a life, you know, in these cars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I bought my first one when I was 16 as well right down here in 1996 and in St. Pete 72 also, but a standard beetle and it was an auto clutch and it was a great, great, great car, but I heard the same stuff right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I heard all these same stories and stuff and and really got bit by the culture at a really young age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I've seen this, but again,

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[SPEAKER_00]: The reason I started the podcast is because I have a lifetime in these stories here in these stories.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So a value what you're saying, I'm glad that you're attracted to it, you know, my kids close to your age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've got one that's 19, one that's 21.

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[SPEAKER_00]: One that's 16, so I'm kind of right here with you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My kids, I've only got one out of five that are even interested in Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's got a 2022 MK 7.5.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, nice car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a very nice car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think my goal was for one of this age, this age and time, I want to be that dad with the really cool stories that are unbelievable.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just when I want to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Brother, you're working on it, okay?

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to get into it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But tell me this, when did you actually first kind of get hooked on cars?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So

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[SPEAKER_01]: My grandpa has always been into cars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember there early as car, I remember having, he actually had a Porsche 911.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was out, he was 26, brand new, 2016, 911.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And my parents tell me that I've known I've been into cars before the time, like they tell me they have pictures of me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would literally line up all my hot wheels on the ground and name off the train, like it would go almost like classes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this is a fast car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a car like to go off the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would kind of organize them from that, and yeah, cold, and built, and built, and then I still, of course, I got hooked on fast and furious and all that, and had all that dreams and all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I remember, I watched Smokey in the Bandit, and I was just absolutely captivized by that transam that I just, I wanted that there was older cars, so.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's talk about Volkswagen's in where they kind of already on the radar, like even before this blue beetle or was this your first taste of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, I was always a four guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I still love forces today.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My grandma, my grandpa, we do old forks and all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He has a 57th underbird that I like to take out and the Volkswagen kind of as soon as I saw it,

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[SPEAKER_01]: The reason I kind of fell in love because it kind of looked at me, it's really weird to explain, but it felt like in that dealership lot, when I passed by it, it looked at me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was like, hello, me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, okay, well, I like Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went check it out and I knew I was so green when it came to Volkswagen's like, I had no clue when I was looking at.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if I thought $12,000 was like, I guess the regular price.

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[SPEAKER_01]: even though I've come to figure out this car is definitely not worth that amount of money.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, but it's worth whatever you're willing to pay for, brother.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but yeah, it kind of that's where it kind of started was looking at the bug from across the road.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I went checked it out and I was like, that's when it kind of started my kind of started to research and more and I did kind of like the idea that it was a good first classic car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I was, when I was, of course, one of us are 16, we want to have this like, we have this dream having like a Mustang, we want to have a fast car, we want to have a cool car flashy, you know, it's, and then I've heard when it can get older that kind of goes away, but it's not going away, but yeah, it kind of.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That idea was there and I wanted a classic car like I said ever since I was little I wanted classic cars I wanted I always dreamed of having one and it sent everyone said that Volkswagen's were the best one to start out with because they're easy to work on reliable the whole nine yards for a classic car they're the best to start out with.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_00]: let's let's kind of journey here them because you didn't buy it right away right didn't you didn't you you know talk to them at the dealership they told you the price you were like holy crap 12 grand you know I can't really afford that at this point so it kind of walked me through you know what happened because it didn't take you like a year or so to acquire the car after you've worked found it yeah so um i'll tell you about you exactly so i was coming down

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then I come to a stop light and I look to my left and there's a big Chevy Tahoe and then a Toyota Prius I think and then in the middle of all these like brand new cars it's I'm telling you it's stuck out like a sore thumb like in a by the way the size difference from a car today and the bug is wildly different and so I look at like wow that's a little outcast over there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and of course I fell in love with it and I immediately stopped what I was doing, I forgot what I was doing at the time, and I pull over into the lot and I took a check it out and I'm looking at it and I see a big old price tag on the back windshield says 12 grand, like dang, I'm broke, I didn't go 12 grand.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy, we'll say that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a guy and he's walking me through it and I remember him starting it and I was like whoa and like you could not wipe the smile off my face whenever he started it and I was like completely captivized by this car and I started talking on my head well how about this?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have that truck right there, I trade you for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Or at least trade it so I can put a little bit down on it, something like that, make him an offer.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he calls the guy that it was consigned under and the guy said no, absolutely not.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was trying to get rid of it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I kind of took my loss there went went to whatever I was doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I came back home and

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[SPEAKER_01]: picked up my guitar and I opened up my notebook and I just started kind of writing a bit, started writing a nice little melody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I got this really nice chord progression going down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I kind of started thinking about the bug.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't stop thinking about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I started writing about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I had that, you know, as a 16 year old, you want to grow friends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want a Volkswagen bug and a pretty girl.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I want.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the only two things I need in life right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and what's funny is, I've either had one of the other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, it's kind of what the song was about, was this yearning for having this book.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I can't stop thinking about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't get off my mind.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went home and I told my parents about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were like, yeah, that's a little out of reach, but we can do that, maybe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Put your mind to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Get to have that encouragement, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But most kids, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: They don't go home after some disappointment and write a song, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's like, so talk to me about being musical is it, is that something that you, have you always been kind of a musical cat?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, I see here's the thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I grew up, I grew up listening to like CCR.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's a really, really good blues play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I grew up on the blues because the blues is about letting blues out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My whole life, I've just listened to music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember one of those probably about seven or eight years old.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember picking up my mom's little acoustic guitar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just kind of started learning and I started taking lessons.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it just kind of came to this now where I'm playing shows.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm writing music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I have a whole collection of guitars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just I just love to play.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's almost like a release.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like it's a therapy almost.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I understand that and something else I wanted to touch on before I get too far past it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've talked to a lot of other cats in the past about these cars naturally.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is what this is, a Volkswagen podcast, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we always kind of draw the same conclusion that like a cat, these cars actually find us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you say, man, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just like it was smiling at me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was looking at me, you know, I'm telling you, it just kind of breeds into the psyche of these cars actually do find us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They have a way of finding us and the ones that are supposed to be a part of our journey.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They end up becoming a part of our journey one way or the other.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But the coolest thing is, man, did you ever imagine in your life

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[SPEAKER_00]: that this song that you wrote, what end up becoming an international songwriting competition winner.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, so not in a million years now, it was actually a lot for me to go into that competition, because as a songwriters and poets, we don't, we don't like to share our stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because sometimes it gets personal, it gets said.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes, because I know I write about heartbreak, I write about this appointment, I write about happy things, I write about positive things, like keep a good balance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But those things that they're personal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't really like to show people my work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I go to this competition and it's really, it's gosh, it's like a strange thing, it's a strange feeling because I've never shown in my parents have never heard my music.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Nobody has ever heard my music except myself.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that was the first time for everybody and surprisingly blew everyone out of the water and I was like, oh, wow, so my music is good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: people like this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I kept writing and I kept writing and I wrote a lot of blue songs and I can I feel what's nice is I feel a lot more comfortable doing that now and showing people my work and doing that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So do you did you ever think or did the thought over cross your mind that had that trade been accepted when you first offered it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: If you would have somehow found a way to get this car off that car

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, the song would have never happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you, that's the song would have never happened.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is up?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would have pulled up in the bug and just kind of went on from there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's cool what disappointment sometimes can bring, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: So sometimes with the greatest opportunities in our life are born from disappointment, are born from heartache, from things that don't end up coming to fruition, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah 100% that's that's what the blues is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's it's disappointing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's heartbreak and so the song that the Volkswagen song that I wrote it was a little more cheerful and I had more of like a Paul McCartney vibe to it and I was

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[SPEAKER_01]: But a lot of the songs I write are blues.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of rave on inspiration from it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of Albert, Albert King in it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just a lot of just pouring my soul out when I can't, when you can't say something, you say it through music.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Very cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what you do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Understood.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you perform the song still or to this day and do you know I do one of my most one of my most popular songs is called cold Sunday.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's about again heartbreak it's a cold Sunday all my summers gone away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know and.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a killer song and I remember playing it one time I was at the Pensacola Gallery night and I was playing it and I was in so, so into that song that I literally started bleeding all over my guitar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: My hands were just going nuts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have pictures of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And what was what were they bleeding from from playing the guitar from playing the guitar yeah wow you I could show my guitar was covered in blood it was awesome yeah that's that's that's that's wild probably a little awesome probably a little wild too right it's just the soul man it's the soul of those

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you had mentioned in your storyline of about getting out of a bad breakup.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How much does something like that make you kind of rethink your life and what direction you're going and all that type of stuff?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, as a 16 year old, when you find your lady was getting around with another man, you just kind of, you kind of reef, you think about what you could do, we could have done the different, you could have done,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know like what did I do what why why did I deserve that and you just honestly if I could give advice to anybody in the world in a break up don't take things too serious you're taking too serious you won't get hurt if you're not hurt you're having fun if you ever lonely you go to music that's deep bro that's deep now looking back you know for me

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[SPEAKER_00]: be in your age.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went through a similar thing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I had a long, you know, pretty long-term relationships, same similar situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got cheated on, etc.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not trying to lay it all out here and do this well as me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I remember being a young man and having that type of heartache.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I remember the feeling.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And when you were just kind of talking about that feeling, you know, it kind of brought me back there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I've built my wife 25 years.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, we have a fantastic relationship, five kids together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's been a very long time since I've experienced any type of pain like this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I remember the pain so, so it was so deep that I could barely eat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember yeah it was hard and like it's it's not fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean I think everybody goes through it but also you just got a it's you're young you got to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just what she's just what happens

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[SPEAKER_01]: So you just had to have fun and enjoy the moments that you have with them and just look back and don't ever think anything went bad.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember my dad told me back then, he's like, look, you know, life goes on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to, it's not going to make sense right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But please understand and you know, life goes on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to eat, you got to get up, you got to, you know, make, make the best of your day still.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I started to, you know, he told me back then time heals everything the more time that passes the easier it's going to get and brother, let me tell you as soon as I got my life back together, it was probably three months, maybe four months where I started, you know, being normal again and being willing to just, you know, not think about her all day long and, you know, ever consume my world as soon as I got back to normal, she wanted to come back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's always what happens, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Always what happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They come crawling back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They come crawling back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: My dad was like, don't you dare take it for me.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure you blah blah blah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I did?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I took her back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Bro, she wrote my heart again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, you live in your larks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You live in your larks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Don't just break down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You live and you learn, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Even you learn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, when you break your heart and bugs just break down, there you go, there you go.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So move and pass the relationship and move and pass some of that heartache.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go back to some positive stuff and talk about after you couldn't buy the beetle.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you went through and you, you, you, you know, one this contest, you know, talk, let, let's talk about what buying the beetle looked like now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So in the timeline, you go back to this dealership now because you had, what did you win?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you win a sum of money or like tell me tell me what winning this contest did for you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So winning the contest was more like bragging rights.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I got a little gift bag.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I had some guitar picks, a capo, and just like a nipper something like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was just some regular little awards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it wasn't just like the physical awards.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the, it was the mental, it was honestly a mental award.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, I was scared to show people my music and now that I really people like it, it's out there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so you go back to this dealership to look for this car and the car and the dealership are gone that the whole thing was gone like it felt like the week before I saw it and then it was gone.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was the wildest thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I go up there and it's like the the whole lot is chained off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And later when I went to back to the guy that can had the car can sign the original owner of the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He actually told me the story about how

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[SPEAKER_01]: The guy that owned a lot, he knew him pretty well, and he had a DUI charge, and he was skipping on court.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Damn, the police came, the police came and just shut it all down and arrested him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they, I remember, Hincey and the police called him and goes, yeah, you need to get all these cars out of here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because I'm going to get back to all the cars in a minute.

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[SPEAKER_00]: wild.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it almost sounds like a movie, truly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it does.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just this system of events that's happening.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I kind of went through my head like, do I really, does it really, does this, am I really destined to get this book?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, bro.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now gets even cooler, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, these cars find you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So walk us through this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this whole marketplace experience kind of enters the picture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So tell everybody what you're doing on marketplace.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What are you looking for and what do you actually see?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly at the time, I kind of, um, it was probably about a month later after I figured out the dealership and closed down and it just wasn't hadn't seen it since.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was looking for a book because ever since I saw that when I wanted one, there was no doubt about it that I've wanted one, and I wouldn't stop bugging my parents about it, and I wouldn't stop, I wouldn't, I would tell everybody that I wanted one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just kind of scrolling through marketplace and I'm looking through other bugs and I found a crispy listing for a gold 76 280Z like I'm telling like these this thing was a deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm living and for a pristine condition when I've seen those things go for 30, 40,000 dollars and I look in the background.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I see the like the deck lid and I see on the back, because I can tell it was the, I could tell it was the same bug because it had the sticker on it that said like it was like a Poly political party sticker on there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, and vividly see it and you can see the deck lid and you can see the bumper and I was like that's that same bug I was looking at

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mess with the guy, he's like, I'm like, how much do you want for that?

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, five grand, come and get it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Whoa, bro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is that price drop, quick.

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[UNKNOWN]: Ha ha ha.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I went straight to my parents and I was like, we're gonna get in that bug and they're like, where's the five grand?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, well, how am I gonna get five grand?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I didn't want this bug to sell.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did not want somebody to come and scoop it up and me not ever see it again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is the part I didn't tell you in my description was um I actually went to my grandmother and she she is the one of the real reasons I have it because she goes I will loan you the five grand a while and she puts so much trust to me I paid her back within 24 hours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dude

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[SPEAKER_01]: I put my, I put my, I had a 94 or four range, or which by the way, was so pipped out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like this was a 90s kid's dream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It had a sub box, Chris metal flag paint, white walls.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it was, it was the, the whole nine yards, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I sold that perfectly running truck for this car that I don't even know runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been sitting in a barn for God knows how long when the consignment

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some guy came look at it every once in a while.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's just one thing after the next one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, well, should I have sold the truck?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I go up there and we go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, my parents did not know I knew how to drive a stick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had learned on my buddy's car of mine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had a twin turbo Dodge Neon that I learned on.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't, so they got my grandma to because she drove a Z28 with a four speed and for a whole life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: She's probably, she's still driving us to the same way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We get in the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It barely starts and it's sitting there back fire and spit and pops out of the back and she gets in and she can't figure out how to put it in reverse.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, bugs have a very specific way to put into like go down and then up and back and then you're just like I don't do this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We spent like a good three minutes and by the way, the guy would not show us how to do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We were like sitting there struggling or grinding gears and all that trying to put it in reverse and we finally got it by reading that little pattern on the cigarette box.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I was a good tester, but in that point, I knew it could start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I knew it would start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when it did start, you again, you could not wipe the smile off my face, because I knew this car was mine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and the paint you see on that picture is all original.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was like one of the only good parts about it was the paint.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all original, too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's all original.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That thing looks great, bro.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, must have been inside or something for a number of years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was actually kept in a warehouse for 40 years, public ship.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What year is this one again?

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is a 72, so he bought it for his son to drive around his son, drove it around for a little bit, and then his name is Eric.

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[SPEAKER_01]: His name is Eric, was called Eric.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And Eric, he's a car collector.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He had 98 cars in that warehouse.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he just pulls the bug.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm telling GT40s, GT500s, Mustang Fastback.

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[SPEAKER_01]: See, it probably four buses in there, a couple of things, three more beetles in there that he just liked.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, I just want to get rid of this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's that I never drive it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't really work on it.

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

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm like, OK, well, I'll take it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we start talking numbers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm talking with Eric and we start talking numbers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I go, well, you want five grand for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to offer you 4,500.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'll take it right now, because I had the cash on me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he goes, biggest blessing of all time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're a nice kid.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll give it to you for four grand.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He knocked off the price himself while bro.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's really funny is like the business side of me, I'm, I like to do sales, I like to sell things and wanted to keep a straight face, but I couldn't keep a straight face the whole time looking at the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't care that it ran out of gas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't care that it broke down.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this is awesome.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, I bought the car for four grand.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he actually owns a towing business out in the local city of Pensacola, and he's like, I'll get it towed to your house.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he towed it to our house and we had it expressed delivery right there in my driveway and in the morning, I woke up with a puddle about that big driveway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, oh, this is this is going to be fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This is going to be a real coaster.

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[SPEAKER_00]: so walk me through you get this car like what are some of the first things that you notice or that that go wrong aside from running out of gas and aside from this puddle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the reason that it so I know all books writings they go like kind of notice that over time and one of the biggest problems I had was it left it didn't leave a mark it left a puddle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had pictures of it where where I came home from work and it just like a whole

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I would have to remember, every day in high school, I had to refill the occupets like a gallon of oil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, every day when I left, I would have to refill it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I probably spent like 80 bucks a month on oil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the first thing that went wrong was actually the holding mission system.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was super old and dated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The spark plugs were all seized to the heads.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I finally took me like, I had never touched an engine in my life.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had never worked on a motor.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've done subsystems, I've done all this really like cosmetic work, a teenage here's going to do, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I never touched a motor before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I had no clue what I was doing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm kind of winging it here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I changed the spark plugs in the back firing stop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm like, that was an accomplishment.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And when we take it on its maiden voyage, on the maiden voyage, we went to Walmart of all places to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We went to Walmart.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We actually broke down in the Walmart parking lot, the fuel pump went out literally like I've known this car for like three days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dan, it's just one thing after the next and that's one kind of a regret setting, but I can't like I'm persistent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I keep going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, this is going to work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to make this thing a tank.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I just, we get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I pretty much just like Jerry rake the fuel pump to like pump fuel again and we get it home by the way, Walmart's like three minutes from my house.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not like a 30 minute drive or anything like that here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We get it going again and I park it in the, I didn't by the way, I didn't know it was the fuel pump.

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[SPEAKER_01]: when the fuel pump went out, kind of sort of like I just kind of like kept touching stuff and squeeze and fuel lines and all that and like messing with stuff until it started again in a Walmart parking lot and we just kind of the I bought a new carburetor for it and that was the biggest mistake I think I've ever made was that was the first lesson.

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[SPEAKER_01]: is buy good parts by German parks by nice I've literally bought I think they're fifty dollar carburetor off of Amazon oh no yeah that thing to my car for like a month and a half I could not figure it out again I'm great I'm great as the grass that grows in my yard it's like I didn't know what was going on and one of my buddies he my neighbor he he came over and he kind of taught me if you think money he's in just some price he comes over and he's very patient with me

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he just he teaches me all of these things about this car and I'm slowly learning things and making mistakes, bust and knuckles doing all this stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And over time I start to learn more things and I start to do some things on my own.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I don't know, I change the exhaust and I put some cool mods on it that make it cooler, make it faster, you know?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've even pulled the engine a couple of times, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, you've gone through some stuff, like to bring us up to speed, like what are all the ways that you've kind of brought this thing back to life and made it your dependable daily driver?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dependable daily driver, it's still in the works, but, but, walking through all the things that I did, it was a lot of trial and error.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I tried to do a vacuum advance conversion in the card in like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was 30 miles from home and the littered distributor just cut out on me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I knew it was an distributor because the gas went into the float bowl.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The card doesn't want it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So actually it was the Volkswagen Club, the local Volkswagen Club, the towed me back home.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we, and that's another thing of the Volkswagen Club, I entered that and they've helped me a lot through this as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I put one of those empty glass packs on there, which that sounds pretty cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I put a, I made a surf rack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the guys from the club actually donated that rack to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was an old, it's a 1960 rack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty in bad shape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like you could touch the wood and it would just snap.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I completely restored it, recromed it, did everything.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I tried my best to fix all the rust, but it just kept going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just like it's kind of a part of the car now because the rack is like crooked it's crooked a little bit so it's kind of like an icon of the car is the crooked rack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's nice because I can take my surfboards around go surfing on the beach and just I've done so much like fun stuff to the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've the reason I pulled the engine the first time was because I wanted to do a full clutch job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: like I wanted to grow up bearing pressure plate, clutch, flywheel, rear main seal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to get through that whole inside of the motor and then I did the transmission mounts.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did everything while I was down there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, while we're here, mod is what we'll do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and that's actually was a super easy job.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I learned a lot from that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I never pulled a motor on a Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I pulled the motor on an MG midget before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I never pulled the motor on Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know I had to go down, not up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was a little weird.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, this thing goes under the car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we did the pull clutch job and what's funny was a week later.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have to pull a motor again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's that was the most frustrating fix I think I've ever had to do because

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just pulled the motor, I just did it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to do it again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So what happened was this torque wrench that I was using, I've said it to like 400 foot pounds or something like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was actually the spring inside of it was broken.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it didn't know it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it only went up to 200, but it's set up to 400.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh no.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I torque it down and only goes to 200, but I didn't know it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: lock that thing down like any move it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's like a Jesus bolt right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got and we just and it was actually the club that helped me again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They are always there for me and that's something I've learned because that the club is always there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna talk about the club in a little while.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me how it feels being, you know, a young man, 18 year old kid now driving something, you know, daily, even that you actually personally rebuilt yourself.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It feels a little, um, a overtime, I'll be honest, over time when you drive it, it kind of just becomes an ordinary part of you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you drive something every day, it's going to come a little car, but the fact that like it makes me smile every time someone I see it in a parking lot and some somebody will come up like check it out or something like that is just this is not something that everybody does like I went above and beyond to get this car and get it right and learn off of it I made a vow to myself when I bought the car to never take it to a shop never take it to a shop I had to learn everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I really dig that about you, I really do, you know, because it's not every day that, you know, a young person is going to come into this scene and kind of have that, I don't know man kind of that old soul.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love what you've experienced because we say this in the culture all the time, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: People come for the cars, but they stay for the people.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So obviously, that is very true to you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You've kind of found your home with oil-sliccer society.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Talk to us about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How did you meet Glenn?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the land, there was an event.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've always kind of seen Glenn around on the group, the Facebook page, and all of that, and I've never actually met him in person before.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have a lady in our group called Volkswagen Barbie.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: She's been on the podcast.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, really, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, Volkswagen Barbie, she hosted an event at her house called Volkswagen Barbie Barbies.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tech session camp out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: How cool can you be?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, seriously, the tech session camp out was normally, once a month, we do our annual tech session where it's for a few hours while all gets together and we help each other work on our cars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been wish we had that here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We don't have that in the Tampa market.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You, you should start it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You should start a tech session.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, anybody with a lift?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I do.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And we have talked about that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we kind of all get together and we work on our cars, but we've never done one where it's like multiple days.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This one was a 3D day long tech session.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Damn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this was the first time I ever pulled my motor as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I got the kind of easy way where I got to put it on a lift and do all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So people kind of criticize me on that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you did the easy way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I pulled the motor and I got it fixed.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't care.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not the easy way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You did it the smart way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we, and by the way, I'm never done anything that's really camping before, so this is my first time sleeping at a tent.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we, so we get on Barbie's house and I'm not going to tell you all about there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're big comb powder and they like that, but they, they have a lot of land and we get, and I'm the first actually in line for the lift.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I get up there and it's about two

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I start working on my car, just I have all the parks here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a buy myself and we're just here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm starting working on it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Get first dibs on the lift.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So on the lift I'm doing that I'm starting to kind of scout out and I have scout everything and then Glenn shows up and Glenn he's a really nice he's very tall.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, Len and I, we, we start talking and we start chatting.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We start to really bond together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he starts helping me work on my car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He teaches me how to kind of pull my motor and with the bolts are and kind of tricks on how to do it a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, he just, he was a super big help on that whole tech session.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love his teaching style.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I watched a shit ton of his videos.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I just love his teaching style.

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[SPEAKER_01]: amazing the way he teaches.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What was what was really nice about Glenn and I'm kind of Glenn for a minute here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: was the fact that he didn't at that tech session, which is a crazy story, was I worked on my car for 48 hours straight, no sleep, literally going off energy drinks, I was doing stuff non stuff, I replaced all the fuel lines, I went to the motor, I rebuilt the fan, went through the alternator, did the intake moves and I just kept going deeper and deeper into this car, just to get it done and I actually haven't leaked a drop of oil since then.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, that's crazy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I fact, in fact, it's all coming together for me now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: When Glenn was on the podcast, we talked, I don't remember if it made the show, but we talked about you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he had mentioned somebody from the tech sessions that was, was leaking a whole bunch of oil since that tech session isn't leaking any oil at all.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, well, that's a good job, that's great.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's me, well, it's a small world.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we,

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[SPEAKER_01]: We actually, so it got to a point in people started showing up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They started, they said, everyone started kind of showing up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there was probably about a hundred people there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All kind of just helping each other out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we were all, there was a bunch of people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a big old Volkswagen show.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm still on the lift.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing all this stuff and Glenn stayed up with me until four o'clock in the morning and helped me work on my car.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, dude, what a cool guy, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And he helped me do all of it and what I really like about Glenn is that he understood this is my car, I'm going to do what I want to do with it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go as far as I want to go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to try and hate on the other guys, but a lot of the other guys there, they're kind of arguing over who's way was the best Glenn goes, this is the way I would do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to recommend this, but if you don't want to do it that way, that's completely fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We'll do it in another way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And if you don't feel comfortable doing that to your car, that's okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that does that just made me feel very comfortable there and it was it was a lot of like well he you should do this you should do this and then people started messing with it like doing it there way and like well please just I'm already here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's rope it in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do it one way or one way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember on the oil, the oil leak, it was the, the some studs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They were all stripped out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I, I retapped them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I put the drop studs that go from eight mil to six mil.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I put red lock tight on them and I sealed them up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And what people would do is they would take them out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I wasn't looking and then like doing it their way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, if anybody touches the red lock tight again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to freak out because I haven't slept in like 30 hours.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was on edge.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going completely off white monster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are pretty good actually.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are delicious.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They are sugar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Not sponsored by the monster by the way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: but yeah and Glenn was just there the whole time for me and also Glenn showed up I had a I always host cruises and I do my annual every year I'm a I'm an ice cream addict I will eat tubs of ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't care who judges me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: When I'm in my room after a breakup there's a tub ice cream in me.

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[UNKNOWN]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching I'm listening to like all right we got to ask now what kind of ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What kind

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got a few flavors.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's hear it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Basket Robbins Gold Medal Ribbon, number one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The best one of them is I'm Caramel Chocolte Vanilla Mix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Beach dip, Graham Cracker, we're a little bit of blue raspberry.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's surprisingly good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Ooh, and also just it's kind of this kind of a dull way and if I really like Vanilla.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a seven-year-old that likes Vanilla.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't like anything else.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a chocolate peanut butter kind of guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, like a Reese's Cupman.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like it a lot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the size cream here locally, that I've actually found out you can get other places.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But there's a place that I worked at.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually one of my first jobs called Larry's Ice Cream on CP Beach.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They had an ice cream flavor.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're called Smurf, which was blue raspberry ice cream with marshmallows in it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't think it's, uh, but yeah, it was just so good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's always, it's exactly what Beach Day is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just to ask Brand Cranker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, cool as hell.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I bet you it's awesome because that's, that's one of my favorite favorite flavors of ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, it's, it's a favorite.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll freak you out with with with my favorite ice cream of all time.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You ready?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is it?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Rum raisin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rum raisin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a rum raisin.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not the kind of person to judge other people about what they like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're your taste buds.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You like it personally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I you would never catch me in a million years from raisin.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's so good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, let's go back to Glenn.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So every year, every summer on July 19th, I host my annual ice cream, my magical journey to go get ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is the exact name.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is eight ins magical journey to get the sweet nectar of ice cream.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I love it, dude.

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[SPEAKER_01]: On the end of July 19th, is National Ice Cream Day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I remember when my first year doing it, we had a whole thing show, whole slow people show up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in my second year, Glenn was the only one that showed up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I met so much to me that he showed up for that was just, because I like to enjoy, I like to enjoy things with my friends.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I actually did, I host a lot of careers as with them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did my 18th birthday cruise.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did the ice cream cruises.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The club is popping, you know, I'm part of the club now too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I get all the emails and you know Glenn sure has that club dialed in man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a blessing actually.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I wish I was up there to participate in a lot of the stuff that you guys do, but I'm baffled at the amount of of number one organization, but number two participation the amount of events that you guys do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: pizza this ice cream that and tech night this and tech night that I'm like damn man you guys I think going all up there I am part of two clubs I want to give a shout to the the Pensacola Volkswagen Club like Pensacola VW happenings and all that I know you the Glenn and all of them had kind of like a rough tussle but I'm like kind of in the middle like I'm like well I like both sides I mean there's no this is not what Volkswagen's are about this is what about it's right right in the game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know anything about either side.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I like Glenn and I've heard of the other, you know, Pensacola stuff and I'm shoot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I like them too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're great guys and they're, they're all great people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, oh, it's trying to see, yeah, but yeah, Glenn's a great guy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can go on for going for hours.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What do you think it is about Volkswagen's that seemed to attract just genuinely good people?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, they say birds of a feather kind of flock together, but I feel like Volkswagen's are the staple here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So what do you think?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's because Volkswagen's are just naturally happy cars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a big old smile on their face all the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's one thing and also just they people, the people who grew up on Volkswagen's, they were all, they all had somebody to mentor them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just like some people are mentoring me because I'll be honest, I know how to work on my car a lot more than I'm when I first got it, but still there's things I have no clue how to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure, I have to help.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You go in a more thing because I've seen the Ford clubs because you my grandpa will get a Ford show's and all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you'll go there and they'll be like, well, they just a constant battle to talk about themselves.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, well, my seats are original.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, my headlights are original.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have an original, bow-cover bolt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just have a Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's cool.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, all right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, it's just the commute.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're all together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a learning experience together.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We all learn from each other.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's what we do is we're a community together.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, love it, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's, let's fast forward a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We'll go outside of cars for just a second.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you're in college now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You said, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I start Monday.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's talk about that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How how do you balance your life, your music, your school, and, you know, classic Volkswagen's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the program I'm actually going in is air cooled mechanics.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No way, bro, they're having a class for that, so it's an aviation maintenance, it's aviation maintenance and engineering class.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, wow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have a full ride scholarship to go and I, I, I, I know nothing about planes and I went to tour.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just always wanted to fly over this is what I wanted to do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If I put myself to do it, I'm going to go, I'm going to do it like I like learning new things like I learned how to do gunsling the other day.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's just what this is what I do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I just wanted to think of the time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was like, well, I've always wanted to fly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was going to work on planes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I look at, I go in the hanger where, like, their hanger is a classroom.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I look over at like the engines that you have to rebuild.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, that's my motor.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the same motor I have in my car.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If they're all air cooled stuff, that's what they're like.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, it kind of gave me a little bit of boost to confidence in that program.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, well, I know a little bit about this now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, it's it's going to be a hard class.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, but I know I can get through it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's my mindset as I know I can do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I can get through it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how I get through working on the bug is I know I can do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know there's going to it's going to work again.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know we we're going to get this fixed.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they say attitudes everything and you have the right attitude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the that's the best start period ever, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is is a a positive attitude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What is next for the car?

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[SPEAKER_01]: What is next for the car?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna, I don't wanna jinx, I'm gonna knock on with here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, um...

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, I don't want to touch it because it's like it's working fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, well, what if I want to do this?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And like, well, we should do this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And no, I want to do dual carbs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But wait, the carbs work in fine right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think the carbs is next.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I want to do a do a carbs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe some dual 34's.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have always wanted to upgrade it to like a 17, like a 1700's DC, right, just because, but that's a lot of money.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of money that I don't have right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We just we're we're trucking along and anything that just kind of peaks my I'll just get it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if I I've always wanted a whale tail.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know it doesn't really fit the build because the build's always been like a little surfer bug.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can go cruise around in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm looking more towards like a 70 street machine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've always seen these bugs where it's like the centerline rims kind of that rake stance to it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a little tail on the back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's another machine.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No problem.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And one day maybe you get that big motor.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And just right now, I'm trying to keep it like trying to keep it dependable right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of my goal is just keep it work and keep it going to do its regular maintenance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This guy, it's the only thing that's really bothering right now is the suspension.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because at the point there's a strut system, it's pain in the butt and one of the sway bar mounts, the head of the bolt came off and it came down and it made the sway bar go from this to like this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the car's a little out of whack, but it has nothing I can't fix.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look what I can't not do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Anything on the car left to restore or are you are you pretty good there?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, there's a lot to restore in the book, this suspension.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, this suspension.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've done a disc break conversion.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've kind of soup.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I've kind of done the motor of it made it to where it it's going.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And this suspension is my worst fear because there's just so many little bolts and components and things I don't know about that kind of scare me a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I'm slowly learning, I'm slowly getting peace by a piece.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but if you're working on them and diving in, you do just like the rest of it, man, you're going to pick it right up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I believe I can.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I believe I can do it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just going to be, it's going to be a learning process.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a little scary because the whole front end was kind of rusted out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's all the bolts are like, if you twist on a bolt, it's going to break.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, there's no saving it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no PD blast, anything I can do to it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What about other Volkswagen's?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Any, any dreams of, of, of haven't won a, do you like buses?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I've got a gear, do you like gears?

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[SPEAKER_00]: You like type three, do you like things?

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[SPEAKER_00]: What?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And do, so I like Westphalia camperbusters.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love those, um, um, I do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I have always liked like a 68, 69 bug.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I've always liked the more stock look, just a more stock thing, not anything too crazy, like lower, slam to the ground.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if some people love to do that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's also what I love about the Volkswagen community is that we can kind of do anything we want to our cars and it's not gonna be like we're gonna be shamed for it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah, love that, I went to a foreshow.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And some guy, he just, he completely changed a Mustang from what it was.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And people were people will criticize him saying that like, well, that's not, that's not, that's sac religious and all that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Who cares?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, what makes you happy?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's what, that's what I love about Volkswagen.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You can have some guy that likes to slam it on the ground.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I've literally seen a bug monster truck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Some guy put monster jam tires on a bug and it was awesome and just everyone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so that's that that's that that's

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[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely our culture.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the things that I'm most proud of myself is regardless of your background, your career, or whatever you are.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know that you can go to a Volkswagen show and meet all walks of life and see cars from pristine paint to patina to absolute rust buckets and they're all equally as cool.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of personality in these cars.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you seen my wife's paint job on our Carmen gear?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have not.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm going to show it to you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh wow, that's pepper.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That is

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[SPEAKER_00]: So she's got some she's got some Porsche wheels going on at here in the next week or so I'm just waiting on some parts.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just had to get two of the tires replaced I bought four new tires for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to go somewhat staggered but

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[SPEAKER_00]: my measurements were off and the the the tire for the back I got was a tiny bit too big so I got a 185 60 15 for the Porsche 15 by 7 that I'm running and the 185 can't cut it so I went down to a 175

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[SPEAKER_00]: 55 series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a little smaller this way and a little smaller height wise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've already taken the front and put it on the back.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I know it's going to fit.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I've actually got those wheels at the tire guide dropped them off today.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, getting that done.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But back to you and the Volkswagen community, you're right.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the coolest thing about, you know, these cars is everybody has

01:00:03.919 --> 01:00:08.322
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, have I always wanted to cut a bug and half and make it a manksmires?

01:00:09.003 --> 01:00:12.185
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, that's like that would be one of my dream Volkswagen.

01:00:12.205 --> 01:00:13.006
[SPEAKER_01]: This is a manksmires.

01:00:13.506 --> 01:00:13.887
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

01:00:14.027 --> 01:00:14.487
[SPEAKER_00]: That's cool.

01:00:14.507 --> 01:00:14.928
[SPEAKER_00]: This hell.

01:00:15.408 --> 01:00:17.389
[SPEAKER_00]: One of mine is Volkeraad.

01:00:17.910 --> 01:00:18.911
[SPEAKER_00]: I love the Volkeraad.

01:00:19.231 --> 01:00:19.411
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:00:19.451 --> 01:00:20.272
[SPEAKER_01]: I have seen those.

01:00:20.312 --> 01:00:21.332
[SPEAKER_01]: I do like the Volkeraad.

01:00:21.352 --> 01:00:22.433
[SPEAKER_01]: There's actually one for sale.

01:00:22.473 --> 01:00:25.816
[SPEAKER_01]: One of my buddies has one for sale for like I think nine grand right down here.

01:00:26.242 --> 01:00:27.383
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I love those.

01:00:27.463 --> 01:00:36.230
[SPEAKER_00]: I love chopping the top and the big motor and taking all the fenders off and, you know, I think that's the coolest thing to do with a beetle.

01:00:36.731 --> 01:00:38.112
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about the future a little bit.

01:00:38.332 --> 01:00:46.118
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, where do you see yourself in 10 years are, you know, because I know a lot of guys that say they've had a beetle since high school, right?

01:00:46.359 --> 01:00:50.502
[SPEAKER_00]: And now they're my age, you know, and they've had this car 25, 30, 35 years.

01:00:51.122 --> 01:00:53.785
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see yourself in 10 years still driving the same beetle?

01:00:54.673 --> 01:00:58.897
[SPEAKER_01]: I do see myself driving, it's not daily driving, you know, of course, that would be absurd.

01:00:59.297 --> 01:01:10.286
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think, yeah, I definitely see myself keep in it and driving around, maybe give it it to my kid, you know, giving it to my kid and letting him enjoy the same experience I have.

01:01:11.007 --> 01:01:16.732
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, I mean, there's, I've made so many memories in that car after my school.

01:01:17.092 --> 01:01:20.295
[SPEAKER_01]: And what's funny is that like, a lot of people, they don't remember the memories.

01:01:21.285 --> 01:01:22.767
[SPEAKER_01]: that they had in high school because they're old.

01:01:23.228 --> 01:01:24.510
[SPEAKER_01]: I remember them because they just happened.

01:01:25.351 --> 01:01:31.300
[SPEAKER_01]: And they didn't happen just too long ago, like they say, you can't fit eight people in a bug.

01:01:32.081 --> 01:01:33.123
[SPEAKER_01]: You can do it.

01:01:33.143 --> 01:01:34.425
[SPEAKER_01]: You can definitely do that.

01:01:35.435 --> 01:01:38.297
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got some wild memories of my high school times.

01:01:38.958 --> 01:01:42.020
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I had my car around your age.

01:01:42.760 --> 01:01:45.362
[SPEAKER_00]: I drove my car from 16, 16.

01:01:45.402 --> 01:01:47.023
[SPEAKER_00]: The summer I was turned in 17.

01:01:47.084 --> 01:01:48.725
[SPEAKER_00]: I got that car in 96.

01:01:49.345 --> 01:01:50.826
[SPEAKER_00]: And I drove that car until I was 21.

01:01:52.007 --> 01:02:15.253
[SPEAKER_00]: and I actually sold it to my brother who had it for another couple years and then sold it to one of his friends and then we lost we lost track of it but just to talk about the memories and the high school times and the craziest stories ever just like years and looking at the picture behind me now I had a little bit of a different style roof rack it wasn't quite like that but I you know we would put

01:02:16.033 --> 01:02:18.575
[SPEAKER_00]: four or five, six surfboards on that sucker.

01:02:18.736 --> 01:02:27.224
[SPEAKER_00]: And I would have two people sitting in the front seat, you know, one sitting right on the e-break, one sitting, you know, and then I'd have three or four people in the back seat.

01:02:27.624 --> 01:02:31.127
[SPEAKER_00]: And we'd be going up and down, you know, the West Coast, especially when there was a break.

01:02:32.108 --> 01:02:36.510
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, we would serve, you know, and we go look for, so we drive down south of Venice.

01:02:36.530 --> 01:02:54.316
[SPEAKER_00]: We check the north and the south jetty and, you know, then we would drive to another, another beach and check there and we even did a ton of East Coast trips where we drive straight up into Orlando straight out to the Patrick's Air Force base and, you know, straight out to Coco Beach and, yeah, man, uh, I got a ton of memories in that car.

01:02:54.836 --> 01:02:57.137
[SPEAKER_00]: So when I hear you say that, I'm like,

01:02:57.937 --> 01:02:58.537
[SPEAKER_00]: Cool.

01:02:58.978 --> 01:02:59.398
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:02:59.478 --> 01:02:59.918
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

01:02:59.938 --> 01:03:00.278
[SPEAKER_00]: Memory.

01:03:00.379 --> 01:03:02.240
[SPEAKER_00]: I made a shit ton of memories in my beetle.

01:03:03.741 --> 01:03:05.241
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:03:05.281 --> 01:03:06.982
[SPEAKER_01]: I like I told you in the little biographies.

01:03:07.022 --> 01:03:11.685
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a lot of stories that I can tell my grandkids and not tell my kids.

01:03:11.865 --> 01:03:14.467
[SPEAKER_01]: That's OK. That's OK. That's what makes life so cool.

01:03:15.147 --> 01:03:15.367
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

01:03:15.387 --> 01:03:18.349
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's I look at that car.

01:03:18.589 --> 01:03:22.832
[SPEAKER_01]: And if I ever thought about selling it, I don't think I could put myself to do it.

01:03:23.432 --> 01:03:26.334
[SPEAKER_01]: Because every time I get in that car, every anytime I, I don't know.

01:03:28.647 --> 01:03:35.631
[SPEAKER_01]: Any time I look at, I don't know, the back seat, I'll remember a time that like I all my brother's friends were piled up in the back seat.

01:03:35.691 --> 01:03:42.616
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I'm telling you every time we hit a bump, the exhaust would scrape down and you could see sparks pointing out the back.

01:03:42.736 --> 01:03:44.937
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah, it'd be a probably five guys back there.

01:03:45.297 --> 01:03:46.198
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.

01:03:46.678 --> 01:03:50.881
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you do ever end up selling this, this beetle.

01:03:51.721 --> 01:03:56.865
[SPEAKER_00]: don't beat yourself up, man, because I sold mine, right, from way back then.

01:03:57.386 --> 01:04:04.712
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've had these bugs I've owned over the course of my life now that I've been able to establish new memories in.

01:04:04.872 --> 01:04:11.958
[SPEAKER_00]: And I've got, you know, in this new kind of level of nostalgia through these other cars that I've owned over the course of time.

01:04:12.038 --> 01:04:12.138
[SPEAKER_00]: So

01:04:12.879 --> 01:04:18.982
[SPEAKER_00]: If life takes you down that bumpy road, try to hang on to it because I sure wish I did and I would have a lot of my cars, right?

01:04:19.382 --> 01:04:20.462
[SPEAKER_00]: Especially the first one.

01:04:20.922 --> 01:04:27.825
[SPEAKER_00]: But if life does end up taking you down that path, don't worry, brother, you'll get another one and it'll be just as cool.

01:04:28.346 --> 01:04:30.346
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what would happen is I would sell it.

01:04:30.426 --> 01:04:34.608
[SPEAKER_01]: And then like years, years later, I would find it again, but I'd come back to you.

01:04:34.668 --> 01:04:38.570
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, exactly what would happen until you met that's exactly what happened.

01:04:38.850 --> 01:04:39.130
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

01:04:39.250 --> 01:04:41.431
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they find us and they sure do.

01:04:42.251 --> 01:04:44.411
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that and you're exactly right.

01:04:44.471 --> 01:04:47.572
[SPEAKER_00]: I bet you it would still wait for mine from high school to find me.

01:04:48.072 --> 01:04:49.732
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what.

01:04:50.112 --> 01:04:56.634
[SPEAKER_00]: Now your mom gave you some advice back in the day that's really stuck with you and this quote that you have in your in your in your back story.

01:04:56.654 --> 01:05:01.055
[SPEAKER_00]: If you follow your dreams and you don't have to ask it, you can do anything.

01:05:01.655 --> 01:05:02.975
[SPEAKER_00]: How often do you think about that?

01:05:03.627 --> 01:05:04.587
[SPEAKER_01]: I think about that every day.

01:05:05.147 --> 01:05:09.628
[SPEAKER_01]: Every single day, any time I try and do something, anything I put my mind to is that don't have acid.

01:05:09.928 --> 01:05:10.888
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't have acid doing.

01:05:11.708 --> 01:05:19.410
[SPEAKER_01]: Because you're going to wonder, because Matthew McConaughey said this, you're going to wonder what it would be like if you didn't.

01:05:19.430 --> 01:05:24.430
[SPEAKER_01]: If you did it all the way, if you have acid, you're going to wonder, what would have happened if I didn't?

01:05:25.371 --> 01:05:30.552
[SPEAKER_01]: And what would have happened if I would have gone the full ways and I would have just, I would have done it all.

01:05:34.062 --> 01:05:39.524
[SPEAKER_01]: If it went wrong and went wrong and you just you do that and you'll get whatever you want.

01:05:39.544 --> 01:05:42.164
[SPEAKER_01]: If your persistent will do, you'll accomplish whatever you need.

01:05:44.225 --> 01:05:53.748
[SPEAKER_00]: What would you tell another teen who's maybe chasing a dream like this, you know, that that might seem unrealistic to some people?

01:05:55.588 --> 01:06:00.590
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, um, this kind of, this kind of is a big question for me because

01:06:01.865 --> 01:06:04.726
[SPEAKER_01]: This was the kind of thing, it was a big step.

01:06:05.187 --> 01:06:06.267
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a big decision.

01:06:07.027 --> 01:06:15.852
[SPEAKER_01]: I had a perfectly reliable truck and I was going to sell this for something that breaks down all the time and it's just like a dream.

01:06:16.132 --> 01:06:17.673
[SPEAKER_01]: And to some people, it was a stupid dream.

01:06:18.825 --> 01:06:25.708
[SPEAKER_01]: What I'll be is, don't let other people decide what your dreams are and decide what they're whether they're good or not.

01:06:25.768 --> 01:06:27.689
[SPEAKER_01]: If you like something, go for it.

01:06:28.350 --> 01:06:29.810
[SPEAKER_01]: If you look at that car, go for it.

01:06:29.830 --> 01:06:35.253
[SPEAKER_01]: Whether it's a thunderbird, a bug, a boss, Mustang, Camaro, whatever.

01:06:35.873 --> 01:06:37.234
[SPEAKER_01]: If you like it, you like it.

01:06:37.774 --> 01:06:39.195
[SPEAKER_01]: And if you want it, you go get it.

01:06:40.135 --> 01:06:41.316
[SPEAKER_01]: Don't care what anybody else says.

01:06:42.337 --> 01:06:42.957
[SPEAKER_00]: Great advice.

01:06:44.384 --> 01:06:56.253
[SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what I had to tell myself is when I, for a long time, I seek everybody else's approval to like, well, you're not, you're not going to want a classic card if you're not going to want to drive a stick every day, you're not going to want to do that.

01:06:57.254 --> 01:06:59.356
[SPEAKER_01]: But then I was like, well, I want to do this.

01:06:59.716 --> 01:07:01.377
[SPEAKER_01]: So what do you say or not?

01:07:02.227 --> 01:07:15.816
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I did it too in high school as well and I wanted it to and you know, I'm telling you I think that the first day I brought my beetle home, my dad had this big ass house on the water.

01:07:16.897 --> 01:07:20.599
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, what you, what are you doing, parking that thing in my driveway?

01:07:21.060 --> 01:07:25.302
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, oh, man, I think that's freaking shot to the heart, man.

01:07:25.322 --> 01:07:30.226
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, right before that, I had a 78 Ford truck that didn't have floorboards.

01:07:30.846 --> 01:07:35.088
[SPEAKER_00]: In Italy, Italy, Doyle too pretty bad and, you know, he said the same thing about that truck.

01:07:35.108 --> 01:07:37.088
[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, man, I've all the vehicles you could have.

01:07:37.149 --> 01:07:40.770
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do you keep picking these cars that nobody else wants?

01:07:41.050 --> 01:07:44.191
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, because everybody wants these cars.

01:07:44.251 --> 01:07:45.492
[SPEAKER_00]: You just don't realize that.

01:07:45.652 --> 01:07:51.134
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm not going to lie from, from when I bought the Volkswagen, I have noticed there is, and I think this is everywhere.

01:07:51.154 --> 01:07:52.014
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been a trend.

01:07:52.735 --> 01:07:58.657
[SPEAKER_01]: There's been this almost like a Volkswagen aesthetic that I've been seeing where people just buy them for the aesthetic.

01:07:59.676 --> 01:08:04.197
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's so they're going up and about you, man, they're going up and people are getting hard.

01:08:04.237 --> 01:08:05.658
[SPEAKER_00]: They're getting harder and harder to find.

01:08:05.838 --> 01:08:16.361
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though like we're in the culture and we're on marketplace every day, you know, I joke around all the time and say that, you know, I'm on marketplace probably two hours a day looking for Volkswagen's and opportunities.

01:08:17.121 --> 01:08:21.202
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably spent too much time on marketplace, but they're harder and harder to find.

01:08:21.342 --> 01:08:24.943
[SPEAKER_00]: The prices are going up anywhere in a little bit of a down market right now for

01:08:28.264 --> 01:08:31.846
[SPEAKER_00]: were not down like we were, you know, in the 90s, you know, in the 90s.

01:08:31.906 --> 01:08:33.186
[SPEAKER_00]: I paid 300 bucks.

01:08:33.547 --> 01:08:34.147
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, dude.

01:08:34.267 --> 01:08:34.767
[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

01:08:34.887 --> 01:08:38.529
[SPEAKER_00]: And I talked to guys all the time that are like, yeah, man, I got my first beetle for 50 bucks.

01:08:39.189 --> 01:08:40.090
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, what, dude?

01:08:40.170 --> 01:08:41.530
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I paid 2 grand for mine.

01:08:41.630 --> 01:08:42.571
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was a good deal.

01:08:42.631 --> 01:08:50.134
[SPEAKER_00]: But back then, in 96, this car was a 72 standard beetle autostick 76,000 miles, man.

01:08:50.154 --> 01:08:53.616
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a one owner, I bought it from a little old lady and it was her baby.

01:08:54.216 --> 01:09:11.706
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, if you want to give me all the nuances and you treat them to take you around the parking lot and show you how to shift and I'm like lady, no, I want the car like here's the money like let me get out of your hair like you know I knew what I wanted that I wanted to just get my show on the road, but yeah man, but yeah, no back to you back to you for sure.

01:09:12.426 --> 01:09:13.406
[SPEAKER_00]: How about life lessons.

01:09:14.147 --> 01:09:14.967
[SPEAKER_00]: What's what's this.

01:09:15.468 --> 01:09:16.368
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, what's this car.

01:09:16.408 --> 01:09:21.711
[SPEAKER_00]: What's Volkswagen taught you maybe about life that has nothing to do with cars.

01:09:23.991 --> 01:09:32.159
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, fantastic lesson in a young man fantastic lesson be very honest with you before I got the bug.

01:09:33.780 --> 01:09:38.985
[SPEAKER_01]: I was a very boastful person like I would boast about my guitar stuff and how good I am at guitar.

01:09:39.505 --> 01:09:42.846
[SPEAKER_01]: Even though I look back on the videos and me playing at that time, I wasn't that good.

01:09:43.406 --> 01:09:51.209
[SPEAKER_01]: But like on the set, tell everybody and knew how to work on cars and I knew how to do this because I thought it would make me look cool and it was almost like lying a little bit.

01:09:51.669 --> 01:09:54.049
[SPEAKER_01]: But it was just very much boastful about myself.

01:09:54.089 --> 01:10:02.752
[SPEAKER_01]: And then when I got the bug, it was like, there's levels to this, like, I need to humble myself and I need to kind of take advice from other people.

01:10:03.312 --> 01:10:05.353
[SPEAKER_01]: And I need to kind of humble myself

01:10:09.415 --> 01:10:15.817
[SPEAKER_01]: Because if I don't have a car in the morning, I'm not going to school or else I got to find another way.

01:10:16.497 --> 01:10:21.458
[SPEAKER_01]: So I got to humble myself and I got to kind of just, I don't know what the word is.

01:10:21.478 --> 01:10:27.480
[SPEAKER_01]: Just stay true, stay true to say true to myself and kind of put myself in check.

01:10:29.400 --> 01:10:31.421
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, I'll probably say it 10 more times.

01:10:31.441 --> 01:10:32.881
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to boast about myself.

01:10:39.123 --> 01:10:43.724
[SPEAKER_00]: give me one word that describes the Volkswagen community.

01:10:46.704 --> 01:10:51.885
[SPEAKER_01]: One word, you know, I read this question and I it took me like, I can't.

01:10:52.025 --> 01:10:54.566
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like a took me like two days to think of an answer.

01:10:55.846 --> 01:10:58.707
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just it would all come down to passion.

01:10:59.787 --> 01:11:00.307
[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, Martin.

01:11:00.667 --> 01:11:02.027
[SPEAKER_01]: Running passion.

01:11:03.907 --> 01:11:05.388
[SPEAKER_01]: I get some passion passion.

01:11:05.408 --> 01:11:05.948
[SPEAKER_01]: There we go.

01:11:06.048 --> 01:11:06.448
[SPEAKER_01]: Passion.

01:11:08.143 --> 01:11:09.764
[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a great answer.

01:11:10.645 --> 01:11:11.906
[SPEAKER_01]: Passion, that's what we do.

01:11:12.026 --> 01:11:15.108
[SPEAKER_01]: And it like passion is we want to pass down this.

01:11:15.928 --> 01:11:17.970
[SPEAKER_01]: We want it like just like me, like my buddies.

01:11:18.950 --> 01:11:21.592
[SPEAKER_01]: My buddy Justin, like I was saying it, he was there from the beginning.

01:11:21.832 --> 01:11:27.896
[SPEAKER_01]: He was there like when I was in my garage, just like looking at this like I'm, what do I do here?

01:11:28.917 --> 01:11:30.137
[SPEAKER_01]: What the heck am I looking at?

01:11:31.336 --> 01:11:59.541
[SPEAKER_01]: He was there and he passed down this passion to me and I'm also teaching other other guys like my one of my buddies he's just he's become a junior this year and he's getting his car and he wants a bug and he's I'm helping him I'm helping him look for one I'm sending him listings on what to look for what to do with it and and if he ever need to help I'm always there for him because they're people were always there for me beautiful love that.

01:12:01.309 --> 01:12:11.116
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I might not know everything, but I mean, I had learned a lot from being humble, excellent attitude man here here we go again full circle on your attitude.

01:12:11.136 --> 01:12:12.077
[SPEAKER_00]: You got a great attitude.

01:12:13.338 --> 01:12:19.502
[SPEAKER_00]: If your future grandkids are listening to this episode one day because it's going to live forever.

01:12:19.522 --> 01:12:23.445
[SPEAKER_00]: It's online, as soon as it goes live, but it's it's there forever.

01:12:23.945 --> 01:12:26.127
[SPEAKER_00]: What's going to be one story that you hope they remember.

01:12:26.147 --> 01:12:28.849
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sorry, I hope they remember.

01:12:30.801 --> 01:12:36.103
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there's too many to count.

01:12:36.343 --> 01:12:50.026
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, so when I was I was going down by I was going down to Destin Florida in that area because I had a paint shop off from me a quote because I wanted to do a white two tone as you can see in the picture that never happened.

01:12:51.027 --> 01:12:55.188
[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm trying to go to a quote and the distributor like I said

01:13:00.587 --> 01:13:05.189
[SPEAKER_01]: And I break down, and I'm on the road, it is hot.

01:13:05.269 --> 01:13:07.790
[SPEAKER_01]: It's like 105 degrees outside in Florida.

01:13:08.290 --> 01:13:09.211
[SPEAKER_01]: It's always hot here.

01:13:10.151 --> 01:13:13.353
[SPEAKER_01]: And we go and I don't know what to do.

01:13:13.473 --> 01:13:16.354
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, at that time, I didn't have any money.

01:13:16.694 --> 01:13:18.595
[SPEAKER_01]: I had like $30 in my account.

01:13:19.255 --> 01:13:20.776
[SPEAKER_01]: I couldn't pay for a tow truck.

01:13:21.636 --> 01:13:24.437
[SPEAKER_01]: I call a tow truck and they're like, there'll be $200.

01:13:25.918 --> 01:13:28.079
[SPEAKER_01]: They wanted like $200, 300 bucks just to tell me

01:13:30.797 --> 01:13:38.503
[SPEAKER_01]: So I call my buddy again, Justin, I call him and he comes out there and we're like, what do we do?

01:13:39.324 --> 01:13:39.724
[SPEAKER_01]: What do we do?

01:13:39.804 --> 01:13:45.789
[SPEAKER_01]: And then a guy in an F 250 passes by and he makes a U-turn.

01:13:47.090 --> 01:13:47.911
[SPEAKER_01]: And he comes into there.

01:13:47.971 --> 01:13:48.692
[SPEAKER_01]: He comes by me.

01:13:49.092 --> 01:13:49.833
[SPEAKER_01]: He parks it next to me.

01:13:49.853 --> 01:13:51.754
[SPEAKER_01]: He goes, you're eight in, right?

01:13:52.235 --> 01:13:52.975
[SPEAKER_01]: Like, how do you know me?

01:13:53.876 --> 01:13:56.558
[SPEAKER_01]: Or something like, if you're in the Volkswagen Club, I'm going to club too.

01:13:56.578 --> 01:13:57.559
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to go grab my trailer.

01:13:58.392 --> 01:14:05.857
[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to go, we're going to get you home, but I'm like, whoa, holy moly, like the your friends are always going to be there for you.

01:14:06.718 --> 01:14:12.142
[SPEAKER_01]: And like, Matt, that was, that was like, I don't know if you're religious, but God was there.

01:14:12.362 --> 01:14:13.463
[SPEAKER_01]: God, the Lord was there.

01:14:13.943 --> 01:14:20.508
[SPEAKER_01]: And he was helping me out and he, he, the if Ian wasn't there, I don't think I would have gotten that car home.

01:14:20.848 --> 01:14:22.349
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know how I would have.

01:14:22.369 --> 01:14:23.250
[SPEAKER_00]: That's so cool, man.

01:14:23.510 --> 01:14:25.651
[SPEAKER_00]: And to give credit where it's due, I love that.

01:14:26.051 --> 01:14:27.733
[SPEAKER_00]: And I got a story that they're going to remember.

01:14:28.450 --> 01:14:28.710
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.

01:14:29.191 --> 01:14:33.074
[SPEAKER_00]: How about that their grandfather wrote a song about a car that he couldn't get.

01:14:35.215 --> 01:14:37.257
[SPEAKER_00]: And he ended up finding it and it found him.

01:14:37.557 --> 01:14:39.459
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what a cool story.

01:14:39.919 --> 01:14:40.760
[SPEAKER_00]: What a story.

01:14:41.320 --> 01:14:42.301
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a catchy song.

01:14:42.361 --> 01:14:43.782
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a really, I still play it.

01:14:43.822 --> 01:14:46.084
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's a pretty catchy song, man.

01:14:46.104 --> 01:14:48.646
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't.

01:14:49.006 --> 01:14:49.907
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to contest.

01:14:50.785 --> 01:14:54.247
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I mean, I've, I've performed it a few other places.

01:14:54.267 --> 01:15:01.770
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't perform it as much as my other songs that I do, because a lot of my other songs are a little more relatable to people, you know, they're, right, you know.

01:15:02.170 --> 01:15:03.411
[SPEAKER_00]: And I should eat love, man.

01:15:03.691 --> 01:15:14.415
[SPEAKER_01]: So, and, you know, some people, I always tell people, if I play this song, I go, if you ask me, if you ever, you ever talk to me, I'm a talk you're head off about both flackets.

01:15:14.776 --> 01:15:16.816
[SPEAKER_01]: So I've talked your head off about so much, well, so much.

01:15:17.057 --> 01:15:18.417
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, but everything I talk about

01:15:22.118 --> 01:15:27.069
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that's when it's every time I play it, it gets people happy and it makes me happy to play it.

01:15:27.329 --> 01:15:28.933
[SPEAKER_01]: And still fun song.

01:15:29.574 --> 01:15:30.135
[SPEAKER_01]: Thank you.

01:15:31.778 --> 01:15:34.220
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, man, I got some rapid fire questions for you.

01:15:34.240 --> 01:15:34.960
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll do it.

01:15:35.640 --> 01:15:45.347
[SPEAKER_00]: These questions demand a fast response as I always say every episode of the story comes up and I'm not going to talk you out of it, but these questions are designed for a fast response.

01:15:45.607 --> 01:15:45.927
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:15:47.188 --> 01:15:47.608
[SPEAKER_00]: You ready?

01:15:48.129 --> 01:15:48.509
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm ready.

01:15:48.589 --> 01:15:48.949
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it.

01:15:48.969 --> 01:15:50.150
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, rapid fire.

01:15:50.410 --> 01:15:51.571
[SPEAKER_00]: Manual or automatic.

01:15:52.011 --> 01:15:52.431
[SPEAKER_00]: Manual.

01:15:52.732 --> 01:15:53.132
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:15:53.532 --> 01:15:55.994
[SPEAKER_00]: OK. Super beetle or standard beetle.

01:15:57.034 --> 01:16:01.816
[SPEAKER_01]: Superbato, because in a standard battle, you can't see me fit in a chick in the car.

01:16:01.836 --> 01:16:04.097
[SPEAKER_01]: So in the front, it's like a tradition for me whenever I'm on a date.

01:16:04.457 --> 01:16:21.463
[SPEAKER_01]: I like I open up the trunk, the front, and I get a wheel sitting down together, and I remember I was, I know you said, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to, you want to,

01:16:22.022 --> 01:16:31.151
[SPEAKER_01]: We went down under, under what we call the three-mile bridge and we were just sitting there and we were All right, she was all up over main where she was all, however I'm in.

01:16:31.351 --> 01:16:38.718
[SPEAKER_01]: We were just looking at the, we're looking at the ocean and the pasture of my church pulls up next to me because he recognized the car.

01:16:39.258 --> 01:16:40.259
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my goodness.

01:16:40.279 --> 01:16:40.620
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like.

01:16:46.551 --> 01:17:00.794
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey Joe, that's kind of our little thing was that, like, you can't fit a chicken to the front of a standard beetle, okay, so super beetle it is, super beetle it is all day.

01:17:00.814 --> 01:17:01.694
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

01:17:02.014 --> 01:17:02.714
[SPEAKER_00]: How about this one?

01:17:03.074 --> 01:17:04.695
[SPEAKER_00]: Oval or split window?

01:17:05.855 --> 01:17:06.475
[SPEAKER_01]: Oval window.

01:17:06.515 --> 01:17:08.536
[SPEAKER_01]: I think I can't see out the back of the split window.

01:17:10.520 --> 01:17:19.547
[SPEAKER_00]: Cut, stock, or lowered, stock, stock, cut, I dig it, grown or black wheels.

01:17:20.757 --> 01:17:21.597
[SPEAKER_01]: Crumb wheels all day.

01:17:21.837 --> 01:17:27.399
[SPEAKER_01]: I am an absolute like I know this is in a Volkswagen rim, but I am an absolute Crager lover.

01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.881
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Crager SS and he's slot maged Crager's.

01:17:30.921 --> 01:17:32.001
[SPEAKER_01]: I love Crumb wheels.

01:17:32.341 --> 01:17:34.202
[SPEAKER_00]: Great, great looking wheel.

01:17:34.342 --> 01:17:35.983
[SPEAKER_00]: I love those as well.

01:17:36.043 --> 01:17:38.264
[SPEAKER_00]: My whole background is low rider culture.

01:17:38.824 --> 01:17:41.705
[SPEAKER_00]: Crager's were real big and low rider culture back in the day.

01:17:41.765 --> 01:17:43.566
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, man, I like those a lot.

01:17:47.767 --> 01:17:48.447
[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously room frack.

01:17:48.467 --> 01:17:49.708
[SPEAKER_01]: I got to carry my surfboards around.

01:17:49.968 --> 01:17:50.448
[SPEAKER_01]: Heck yeah.

01:17:50.528 --> 01:17:51.008
[SPEAKER_00]: Heck yeah.

01:17:52.168 --> 01:17:53.609
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, how about this one?

01:17:53.669 --> 01:17:56.550
[SPEAKER_00]: Carverated or fuel injected.

01:17:57.310 --> 01:17:59.670
[SPEAKER_00]: Carverator because I don't know how to work fuel injector.

01:18:00.871 --> 01:18:03.872
[SPEAKER_01]: Your bottle of water out of the road and I could just pull out an idle jet valve.

01:18:04.092 --> 01:18:10.513
[SPEAKER_01]: I can just clean it out and then be on my way if I got a pull out fuel injectors and hand a wiring the less wiring the better.

01:18:12.454 --> 01:18:15.735
[SPEAKER_00]: What is your favorite VW engine sound?

01:18:17.967 --> 01:18:34.000
[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, when it's not breaking, uh, when it's a thing though, uh, I feel like most people are going to say like the the tweeter exhaust, but, um, honestly, my favorite sound is either the horn or the blinker like the blinker switch.

01:18:34.401 --> 01:18:34.981
[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I don't know.

01:18:35.081 --> 01:18:35.562
[SPEAKER_01]: It's with that.

01:18:35.622 --> 01:18:38.364
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just like, it's a little chime cool.

01:18:38.885 --> 01:18:40.106
[SPEAKER_01]: I dig that for sure.

01:18:40.446 --> 01:18:40.786
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

01:18:41.647 --> 01:18:45.050
[SPEAKER_00]: How about, how about favorite road that you've driven on.

01:18:45.783 --> 01:18:50.045
[SPEAKER_01]: favorite road I've ever driven on and I have a story about this too, let's hear it.

01:18:50.805 --> 01:18:56.167
[SPEAKER_01]: So every single day, every day, I haven't missed it in a long time.

01:18:56.908 --> 01:18:58.888
[SPEAKER_01]: I do this drive called the shoreline loop.

01:18:59.369 --> 01:19:03.290
[SPEAKER_01]: And in this shoreline loop, it is not more than an eight minute drive.

01:19:04.011 --> 01:19:06.932
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's, I call it the Gulf breeze tail of the dragon.

01:19:07.650 --> 01:19:10.612
[SPEAKER_01]: because it goes through all these beautiful winding roads.

01:19:10.952 --> 01:19:15.576
[SPEAKER_01]: It's got trees really beautiful, million dollar homes on a beach side.

01:19:15.996 --> 01:19:19.839
[SPEAKER_01]: And you're just cruising through these corners and taking these corners real nice.

01:19:19.879 --> 01:19:22.480
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just a nice road to drive on.

01:19:23.041 --> 01:19:32.247
[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember I, like, every day, it was just, it was my kind of relax, it's kind of get my mind off of things.

01:19:32.267 --> 01:19:35.369
[SPEAKER_01]: You know, with college right now, it's been really stressful.

01:19:36.495 --> 01:19:37.555
[SPEAKER_01]: I can just listen to music.

01:19:38.376 --> 01:19:40.776
[SPEAKER_01]: Drive that road and just cruise.

01:19:40.997 --> 01:19:41.317
[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.

01:19:41.337 --> 01:19:44.538
[SPEAKER_01]: I can give my mind off everything.

01:19:44.598 --> 01:19:44.978
[SPEAKER_00]: Dig it.

01:19:45.738 --> 01:19:47.159
[SPEAKER_01]: So it's cool too.

01:19:47.879 --> 01:19:54.001
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I said, not more than an eight minute drive and it's just around some corners and there's no stop signs or red lights.

01:19:54.061 --> 01:19:56.862
[SPEAKER_01]: It's just straight around cruising and then you're done.

01:19:58.903 --> 01:20:02.244
[SPEAKER_00]: How about favorite or best?

01:20:02.384 --> 01:20:02.944
[SPEAKER_00]: Should I say

01:20:06.682 --> 01:20:18.052
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, favorite show I've ever attended was, uh, our, the Volkswagen, uh, Pensacola Volkswagen Club, our VW Club, um, Emerald Coast National Meet.

01:20:18.412 --> 01:20:24.217
[SPEAKER_01]: We do it at five likes, Speedway, and it's just, it's a three day long car show where we just camp out there.

01:20:24.898 --> 01:20:30.963
[SPEAKER_01]: And we, effort from people all around the world, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky, like I've seen people come from Montana.

01:20:31.991 --> 01:20:38.413
[SPEAKER_01]: driving their bug or bus all the way down to see the show and they'll probably have last year they had about 1200 cars.

01:20:39.253 --> 01:20:39.913
[SPEAKER_00]: Dang, man.

01:20:40.053 --> 01:20:40.854
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a big show.

01:20:40.874 --> 01:20:43.474
[SPEAKER_01]: I want to one show I really want to go to his bugs on the by you.

01:20:43.874 --> 01:20:45.235
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Derek Henry.

01:20:45.275 --> 01:20:46.615
[SPEAKER_01]: I really want to go to that one.

01:20:46.635 --> 01:20:47.836
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that one's going to be pretty fun.

01:20:48.236 --> 01:20:50.116
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Derek, Derek's a special guy.

01:20:50.376 --> 01:20:51.757
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been on the podcast too.

01:20:51.817 --> 01:20:55.698
[SPEAKER_00]: And we've seen each other at several shows fantastic human being.

01:20:57.303 --> 01:21:00.244
[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's he's an awesome guy and he was also there from the beginning.

01:21:00.304 --> 01:21:01.844
[SPEAKER_01]: I was actually one of the first podcasts.

01:21:01.864 --> 01:21:06.606
[SPEAKER_01]: He went on that I went on I went on hits my cast on YouTube.

01:21:06.786 --> 01:21:07.706
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, cool man.

01:21:07.786 --> 01:21:09.867
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but he's he's a special one for sure.

01:21:10.747 --> 01:21:18.450
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, how about one tool one tool every VW owner should carry a tool not a part right.

01:21:18.910 --> 01:21:19.450
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, tool

01:21:20.290 --> 01:21:36.659
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I always carry around went to Walmart and I went got one of those like $40 a one ton trolley jacks it is so much easier to change a tire when you have that little trolley jacket will fit it will literally fit in the corner of your front.

01:21:37.320 --> 01:21:47.364
[SPEAKER_01]: And it's just it's so much better than that when you have to like put on the side and crank up it's just if you have that it helps so much and it's not more than 10 pounds just carry it around with you.

01:21:47.944 --> 01:21:49.764
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so cool a jack.

01:21:50.104 --> 01:21:50.565
[SPEAKER_00]: I like it.

01:21:52.145 --> 01:21:56.827
[SPEAKER_00]: How about this one one VW myth that is completely wrong.

01:22:06.528 --> 01:22:13.676
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if it's worth the area I'm in or like, because I'm a good looking dude, but like, you can drive, everyone thinks you gotta drive a Mustang, a Camaro or anything like that?

01:22:13.696 --> 01:22:27.832
[SPEAKER_01]: No, you want chicks, you buy a book, buy a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book, not a book

01:22:28.965 --> 01:22:29.665
[SPEAKER_01]: Here we have a color.

01:22:29.845 --> 01:22:41.629
[SPEAKER_01]: I have always, like, I actually really like Glensbug, the 72, the ESA 72 that looks like more of like an early 60s and I love like the Emerald Marine green on that.

01:22:42.329 --> 01:22:48.631
[SPEAKER_01]: I also really like the yellow and the one I have is the Royal Blue, I think, which I really like that one too.

01:22:49.131 --> 01:22:50.091
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, great color.

01:22:50.151 --> 01:22:51.292
[SPEAKER_00]: That blue is a great color.

01:22:52.152 --> 01:22:52.412
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah.

01:22:53.993 --> 01:22:56.233
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, how about this one?

01:23:00.082 --> 01:23:01.602
[SPEAKER_00]: if your beetle could talk.

01:23:02.363 --> 01:23:04.643
[SPEAKER_00]: What would it say about you as a person?

01:23:07.124 --> 01:23:08.784
[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, this was one of the hardest questions.

01:23:09.144 --> 01:23:21.048
[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I don't know, I think, I don't know if it would thank me or call me an idiot, but, um, I don't know.

01:23:21.088 --> 01:23:26.549
[SPEAKER_01]: I think, I think it would probably, I think, I think it would thank me for getting out of that barn.

01:23:27.009 --> 01:23:29.330
[SPEAKER_01]: It literally never got, it never got touch.

01:23:30.369 --> 01:23:34.739
[SPEAKER_01]: It was like it just, it was meant to be driven and it did it.

01:23:35.761 --> 01:23:37.806
[SPEAKER_01]: And like I said, it's sat in that barn for 40 years.

01:23:37.986 --> 01:23:40.432
[SPEAKER_01]: It only had 15,000 miles when I bought it.

01:23:41.157 --> 01:23:41.597
[SPEAKER_01]: Dang him.

01:23:42.217 --> 01:23:43.118
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm not joking.

01:23:43.138 --> 01:23:45.759
[SPEAKER_01]: It had such a low mileage when I bought it.

01:23:45.779 --> 01:23:48.920
[SPEAKER_01]: And that's that just proves another point that like it just sat there.

01:23:49.401 --> 01:23:50.281
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

01:23:50.301 --> 01:23:59.805
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it would honestly thank me for taking it out of there and just giving it a new life and not just keeping it in a garage all the time and taking it out for a show once a week.

01:24:00.385 --> 01:24:01.626
[SPEAKER_01]: I drive that thing every day.

01:24:02.026 --> 01:24:04.007
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I dig that for sure.

01:24:05.708 --> 01:24:06.048
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

01:24:08.244 --> 01:24:12.725
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, that's kind of, that's driving every day.

01:24:12.985 --> 01:24:15.526
[SPEAKER_01]: My thanks for driving me every day and keeping it up with me.

01:24:16.606 --> 01:24:18.467
[SPEAKER_00]: So gratitude, it would say thank you.

01:24:18.867 --> 01:24:19.347
[SPEAKER_00]: I dig that.

01:24:20.047 --> 01:24:20.468
[SPEAKER_01]: I love it.

01:24:21.168 --> 01:24:22.028
[SPEAKER_01]: I hope you'll make me.

01:24:22.168 --> 01:24:22.948
[SPEAKER_01]: It better thank me.

01:24:23.128 --> 01:24:23.548
[SPEAKER_01]: Jeez.

01:24:23.809 --> 01:24:25.169
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a great, I'm a great.

01:24:26.095 --> 01:24:34.159
[SPEAKER_00]: because you drive it a lot, you pay attention to it, you work on it, you give it the attention it deserves.

01:24:34.679 --> 01:24:42.262
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's really when you hear a lot of folks when they sell their cars or whatever, usually in the description, that's what you hear.

01:24:42.423 --> 01:24:48.345
[SPEAKER_00]: That don't have time for this anymore, it just sits there, doesn't get the attention it deserves.

01:24:48.685 --> 01:24:51.107
[SPEAKER_00]: Sounds like here's does, so that's pretty dope, man.

01:24:52.127 --> 01:24:52.587
[SPEAKER_00]: How about this?

01:24:52.627 --> 01:24:53.908
[SPEAKER_00]: Finish this sentence for me.

01:24:55.861 --> 01:24:56.862
[SPEAKER_00]: Life is better when.

01:24:59.204 --> 01:25:04.148
[SPEAKER_01]: Life is better when you enjoy the little things and you have gratitude.

01:25:05.189 --> 01:25:09.853
[SPEAKER_01]: You think you thank God for everything and you thank you appreciate what you have.

01:25:10.253 --> 01:25:15.477
[SPEAKER_01]: If you spend your whole life chasing more, you're never going to have enough.

01:25:15.978 --> 01:25:17.079
[SPEAKER_00]: Never going to be satisfied.

01:25:17.999 --> 01:25:19.541
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's, I mean, it's like,

01:25:20.475 --> 01:25:32.124
[SPEAKER_01]: could I get a better bug, could I get one, could I get one that's $30,000 that some guy went completely through and it's never going to break down in the future?

01:25:32.164 --> 01:25:36.368
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I could totally do that, but it's the little things that count.

01:25:36.388 --> 01:25:45.235
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, every time my bug, it does something funny the other day like yesterday, I was driving and it was torrential down before.

01:25:46.389 --> 01:25:51.731
[SPEAKER_01]: Like my, and my windshield, my bug kind of pranked me and the windshield wipers wouldn't turn on.

01:25:52.511 --> 01:25:53.572
[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, okay.

01:25:53.612 --> 01:25:54.932
[SPEAKER_01]: We're not doing this right now.

01:25:55.892 --> 01:25:56.833
[SPEAKER_01]: And they turned on.

01:25:56.853 --> 01:25:57.533
[SPEAKER_01]: I was like, okay.

01:25:57.633 --> 01:25:57.973
[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

01:25:58.013 --> 01:25:59.354
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks.

01:25:59.794 --> 01:26:00.554
[SPEAKER_00]: You just had a talk.

01:26:00.854 --> 01:26:04.596
[SPEAKER_01]: You said a talk to her appreciate the little things in life.

01:26:04.636 --> 01:26:05.596
[SPEAKER_01]: And you'll be happy.

01:26:06.076 --> 01:26:08.257
[SPEAKER_00]: There's your car hub a name, Maggie.

01:26:08.792 --> 01:26:09.712
[SPEAKER_00]: Maggie, okay.

01:26:09.832 --> 01:26:11.313
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, she's got a name all right.

01:26:11.713 --> 01:26:14.734
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a wrap for this episode of dub life diaries.

01:26:15.354 --> 01:26:20.876
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for riding along with us and diving into these incredible stories of the people in the dub that drive their dreams.

01:26:21.476 --> 01:26:27.058
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01:26:27.618 --> 01:26:31.199
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01:26:31.699 --> 01:26:32.039
[SPEAKER_00]: Awesome.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Reach out to us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You can find us on all socials and dub life diaries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Or shoot me an email.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not hard to find.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Double life diaries at gmail.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Until next time, keep the engine tummen and the wheels turning and always follow the road that inspires you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is Joe Person.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm signing off.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll catch you on the next ride.