VW's are Just "KLUNKY" - Klunk Garage Creator Liam Sianko-Gundlach Ep31

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All right, everybody, welcome back to Dub Life Diaries. My guest today is Liam

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Sienko-Gunlock, the creator of Clunk Garage,

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one of the coolest Volkswagen story pages that I've seen on the internet out there right now.

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If you've seen those mini documentaries about VW history popping up all over

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your feed, odds are it's Liam.

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He's the guy behind these very cool videos. He's got this unique mix of like

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historical knowledge and digital media chops that makes his content feel like

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part car culture, part time machine. Very cool.

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Liam's first VW was a 2016 Golf. And since then, he's been knee deep in project

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cars. He's had a Caprile. He's had a Beetle.

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Now he's got a Fox. He's built a community around sharing what makes Volkswagen

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so legendary across generations.

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Today, we're diving into how Clunk Garage got started, the stories behind his

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builds, and why VW history runs so deep for him.

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Ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome Liam to the podcast.

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Hello. This is up, my friend.

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And my question is to the listeners...

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Should I drop videos of these podcasts? Not just the podcast,

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because the podcast goes, right?

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So my question is, would you watch it?

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If I spent the time, I edited the videos down, and I would obviously dress them

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up, right? I'd make them cool. I'd add flash.

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I'd add, you know, when somebody mentions a car, I'd probably add a picture

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of the car, that type of stuff, right?

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my brother, Liam, back to you, man. Back to you. Enough of me.

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Now, I got to tell you man you got one of the coolest

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vw story telling pages online right

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now anywhere that i've seen thank you uh

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very very exciting clunk garage is

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the name to it before we get into it just tell me what are you driving right

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now as a daily so i traded in my 2016 gulf which was with me for like four years

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absolutely love that car i traded that in for a 25 gli jetta i that has,

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just the automatic transmission, which I,

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surprisingly got a lot of hate for having the auto, but I'm like,

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it's a lot easier to drive for me, so. Especially when you're texting.

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Right, yeah. Easier to distract driving. No, I love that car.

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It's great. Just took it up to Mount Rainier a couple of times, and,

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It's a blast. Absolutely love it. So if you had to sum up your VW journey in

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one sentence for somebody who has never heard of you or seen you before,

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what would you say? Man, learning.

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It's hard to figure out a sentence for it because for me, it's such a long line

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of so many different things I've learned about cars, about the culture.

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It's hard to like totally sum it up because i mean

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i wasn't a car guy when i first joined kind of

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the volkswagen family i didn't know anything about cars

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and so as soon as i got my gulf and

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i started to dive into like vw history and how these are modified i'm just like

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man like this is this is the culture i want to be a part of and there's such

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a rich culture to it and man it's hard to explain i don't know like a sentence

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man yeah it's more it's more like a feeling.

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And I get it. I get it. So you built this, you built this platform around the

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history of these cars and you tell these stories so well, where did the obsession

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first start for you? When I can, I can probably say it better.

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When did you get bit by the bug? So to speak.

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Oh man. It's weird because like, I grew up with Toyotas. That's all we drove in my family.

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My first car was a Corolla, great car. Japanese cars are awesome.

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Next car was a Camry, right? it was like okay i

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i never really dove into the

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volkswagen german market and

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it was random because when i was like 14 i was

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walking down a sidewalk and there was this like super low

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hatchback that drove by me and i'm like what is this car

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i've never seen it before like what is

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it and my little brother who has always been in

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the cars unlike me he was like that's a

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gulf and i was like oh shoot like that's sick and

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then ever since that one experience i was like

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man i gotta get a golf and so

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i i just remember when it

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was time to trade in the camry to get something new i was

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like okay guys like we were trying to convince my name gotta get a gci like

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this is my my next step and every gci we looked at was like it was super beats

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of crap people didn't treat them right and then my mom was like maybe you should

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just get this like base model golf,

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I was like, all right, let's try it. And I wasn't convinced it was going to be my favorite car ever.

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And then I just started driving it, modified it like crazy, got it lowered on some coilovers.

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And it was, it was like probably the best experience while also being super chaotic at times.

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But it really showed me, I'm like, I can't, I can't leave this brand now.

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I'm kind of, I'm, I'm way under on this now.

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So we got to keep going with it. So I love it. I love Volkswagen. so

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much because of that so awesome man so clunk

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garage such a such a unique name where'd the

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name come from it was so random like

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my brother and i we had just gotten laid off from a

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tow hitch company we're running the social

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medias and we were like getting super interested

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in kind of starting our own youtube page where

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we went to car meets and kind of talked about

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the different vehicles we saw and showed off

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us modifying our cars and we're like what is like

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a good name for this and we're just

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going through different noises and like how to

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say them and clunk for some reason just it just

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fits so well and i think clunk in general

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kind of encompasses volkswagen in general because even

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in the newer models there's something clunky about

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them like my my gli the dsg transmission it clunks like first a second and that's

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that's just how they're made they're supposed to be though and i i love it i

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love it so much yeah what's the vibe you want people to feel when they when

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they see one of your productions i call them mini documentaries.

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Yeah i i want people to just be interested in the history behind it i sure they

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don't have to like vw they don't have to be into cars i think they just,

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I want them to enjoy my format and enjoy how I talk about these things because

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put a lot of time and effort into writing the script, editing them.

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Yeah. And it's like, you don't have to be a car person to enjoy it.

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You just, you can enjoy the history behind it and how Volkswagen came to be.

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It's, it's a lot of fun. I've already learned some stuff.

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Oh, that's cool. Okay, good. I've already learned some stuff.

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They're like mini and they're perfect, especially the, because it can teach

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you in a very, you know, small amount of time. And I'll tell you what I learned,

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which, and I think I might've even messaged you or commented and you, you responded.

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But what I heard back in the day was when the Caddy, when it first came out,

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I, I, yeah, I was, I was told that, that by somebody, I remember one of my old

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VW mechanics that the first year it was made, that it was made with an air-cooled engine.

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And I thought to myself, you know, that would be an unbelievable collector's

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car because I've never seen one in my life. I've seen them all modded out,

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all lowered and, you know, all, all bad-ass, but I've never seen one with an air-cooled motor.

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So I've like been on the search, you know, I always go back and I look for the

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oldest ones I can find, you know, and then I'm like, oh man, nevermind.

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You know, it's, that's not the one. So I asked you that day and you were able

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to give me a little history lesson.

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So appreciate that. well and side note

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on that too i i can see where maybe that that idea

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would come from because brazil did use

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an air-cooled engine in actually the generation of car behind you they had the

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vw gull which is the base platform for the fox that we get in the states and

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that had an air-cooled engine to start off and the air-cooled engine lived on

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in brazil and mexico for quite a long time.

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Okay. And then they went to water-cooled and their water-cooled system is even

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different from what we have in the States.

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So it's, it's, it's crazy. It's all over the place. Yeah.

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So. You just talked about this a second ago, but you, you grew up in a Toyota household.

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When did Volkswagen even kind of start hitting on the radar?

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I know we, we, we kind of talked about it, but how old were you?

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So it was 2020 when I got the Gulf and that was when my whole family switched

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with me to go to Volkswagen.

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Man, how old was I in 2020? Was that when you moved to Idaho?

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So that was, yep. So I went to college in Idaho and I was eight, I was 17, 18.

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Dang, man. I I'm a, I'm, I'm still very young.

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You're a young buck. That's good though. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's great. I got that golf and then my dad got a Tiguan and then my mom got

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an Audi and then my brother got a Jetta TDI.

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Then he traded that in to get golf gti in

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great falls green which is a great color for a golf oh

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man you guys got the whole the whole flam damleys into

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it i got i got everybody down with me

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it's crazy yeah we've loved our cars like it's it's become our identity now

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so at what point in the timeline did you guys or even just you yourself decide

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i'm going to turn this into clunk garage and i'm going to focus specifically on Volkswagens?

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Yeah, it was that initial layoff from Torkelift. That's the towage company.

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When me and my brother started making the content, we did a lot of long-form videos.

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Is he older or younger? He's two years younger than me. Two years younger,

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okay. He actually did go to mechanic school for Volkswagen.

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So he had the hands-on experience that I was lacking.

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But I had the background of going to college for digital media and marketing.

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And history as well so then i could

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kind of we could collaborate and create kind of

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this business out of it so it was a perfect collaboration and

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so we went to these these little car meets then we got to bigger car meets just

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went all around the pacific northwest to these different shows and griot's garage

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had a couple of them then there was one in pacific waterland which is down in oregon and.

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Huge now you talked about Mount Rainier

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a short time ago yeah so you're in

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you're not in Idaho or Minnesota anymore you're you're oh

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no I moved to Washington now yeah yeah fun

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fact back back in my my my prime I call it my prime my early 30s I owned a fitness

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company that was a national brand and I sold some locations out there in DuPont

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in in Buckley in Ording yeah it was a it was a small.

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Health club facility that I had some contracts in, but I was able to come out

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there with all my kids. You know, we did the Pikes market in Seattle.

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We did the, the, what's that? The big movie screen 3d. I saw the IMAX theater.

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Oh yeah. Yeah. I saw Johnny Depp when he was Alice in Wonderland. Yeah. It was cool. Yeah.

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And all that, but yeah, we really enjoyed it.

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We well watched and we did all the fun stuff there, you know, that you can do very,

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very, very cool spot it was july when

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i started my contract out there and i

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thought it was really strange that nobody had air conditioners but

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when i noticed why at night yeah too damn cold yeah i have the ac blast right

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now because it's like 90 degrees outside but yeah yeah yeah it's it's pretty

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nice i have my windows down and stuff i'm like oh my god Way better than Minnesota,

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where it was just freezing cold everywhere.

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Yeah, I bet, man. I'm down here in Florida, where it's hot all the time and wet and humid. Exactly.

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Wet and humid. Can't escape that heat at all. Oh, you can't, man.

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You can't. And if you open a car door outside, it's even hotter. You get the heat wave.

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Yeah, man, it's down here. You were talking about you went to school for history.

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And I feel like that's cool to touch on this because you've got this blend of

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history and storytelling and really what sounds like just pure car love.

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Like, how did you figure out such a successful formula for the videos that you make?

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It's funny because I never thought I would be doing these short form documentaries,

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especially at the start, because like even in college, I was really bad at college.

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I was not very good at history. I, I'm not very good at reading.

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I've always struggled with reading.

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So I'm like, how am I going to make historical based videos?

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And then all of a sudden I just was like, man, I'm keep going down these rabbit holes.

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And then passion drove me to be able to read this material, learning about these cars and

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And I started off making kind of clickbaity videos where it's like,

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oh, VW is dying or like something crazy.

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I'm like, OK, I got to get right.

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And I'm like, all right. And I never I didn't have the passion yet.

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But then I just randomly was like, what if I focus on particular models? And I did.

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And those models then turned into all right.

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Now I got to tell the history of how that car was made and who made it and why

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it was made. And it's like, man, rabbit holes are my favorite thing ever.

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And so it really, it helped me go deep into it.

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And now my writing has gotten tremendously good with, with how I can just add

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in sentences kind of just while I make,

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while I'm even saying the script, I'm adding my own sentences into it because

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it's just, it flows so good.

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Yeah. We saw ad libbing, ad libbing. Ad libbing. Yeah.

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That's part of it. Yeah, I was going to say that's part of knowing your content

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so well that you can add to it to enhance.

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I think that's well played, brother. Well played.

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Thank you. Yeah. What do you think one of the hardest parts about running Clunk

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Garage is across multiple platforms?

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Because I've got my podcast on, I want to say, six platforms.

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So I know where my struggles are, but I want to hear about yours.

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What do you think your struggles are about multiple platforms?

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You know, I'm about half of that, three, right? So I got YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

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I think the hardest part is understanding

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how interactions work on each platform. yeah man amen because he.

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As much as I've learned about it over

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the years, I literally still do not understand it all the way through.

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I mean, like, my TikTok grew extremely fast in the span of three months.

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I gained about 2,000 followers in no time. Yeah. Now it's, like,

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slow moving. I'm like, okay, what happened?

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Instagram, I post the same videos, but people's attention spans are different on each platform.

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Right. So I posted on Instagram and now I've somehow, I'm all of a sudden right

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next to TikTok and followers.

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And it was like, it's crazy. It doesn't make sense how this works.

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Listen, I'm still trying to figure it out too. And I noticed that you almost

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have to change the script language of the post for each platform.

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Because like, for instance, Instagram is less talk, more hashtags or tagging

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and inviting collaborators and less, you know, I guess verbiage.

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Facebook is more about what's in the body of the post and less about what it's

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like. It's super strange.

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And even on LinkedIn, LinkedIn, you have to take your video and you have to

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turn it into a leadership lesson.

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For the world. I know, right? It's pretty bizarre, but, you know,

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chat GPT could probably help you a lot.

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Taking it and turning it into, you know, just for the post.

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You know, towards the beginning of script writing, I use chat,

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like, quite a bit to help it out.

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Well, you can write everything, right? And then you can put it in there and

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say, spit it back out in a matter of whatever.

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And it's actually super helpful and it saved a whole bunch of time.

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And it did at the beginning when I was trying to post every day.

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And then I noticed the quality of the content wasn't there.

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So then it was like, okay, now I know how to write because chat was helping

00:19:12.675 --> 00:19:15.815
me so much. Yeah. And now I just write everything. Nice.

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I'm like, even better than chat was. So I'm like, all right,

00:19:18.635 --> 00:19:21.675
we're good now. Yeah. No, that's great.

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Talking about the following and the videos and what's taken off and what isn't,

00:19:26.775 --> 00:19:32.275
do you remember what your first video that you posted on either of these platforms

00:19:32.275 --> 00:19:35.455
that really popped off? Do you remember which one it was? Oh, yeah.

00:19:35.775 --> 00:19:40.435
Oh, yeah. So let me hear about it and let me hear what kind of traction it's had. Oh, heck yeah.

00:19:40.755 --> 00:19:45.435
Yeah. So on TikTok, which was the first platform to grow extremely fast,

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it was one of my older formats when I was still making videos in my car.

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So the audio was off, the colors and the quality wasn't there.

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But somehow that video grew to, I think it's sitting at like 120,000 views. Yeah.

00:20:01.595 --> 00:20:07.235
You know? And it, it was, it was out of nowhere because I had been posting other

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videos that just maybe a thousand views and that's typical.

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But then this one just went crazy.

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And then I kind of looked into it and the followers I get, I was getting were all South African.

00:20:19.540 --> 00:20:25.080
Because I talked about the City Gulf in South Africa, which was the Mark 1 Gulf

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that just continued on in South Africa.

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They just kept building it. They absolutely loved it. Kind of like the beetle in Mexico.

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Whereas, like, they just didn't let that thing die. So, they just kept updating

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it over the years. South Africans loved it. Yeah.

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Yeah. South Africans loved it. So, like, I think probably, like,

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1,500 of my followers are just South African. And I'm like, okay.

00:20:47.240 --> 00:20:49.980
Yo, that's awesome, though, man. And to have a worldwide following,

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I've done a podcast with a company in South Africa called Afribeagle.

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And I met the owner and then his marketing manager, he and I kicked it off.

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You know, we had a great conversation.

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I ended up coming back around, circling maybe 15, 18 episodes later.

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And I interviewed him, the marketing manager, by himself because he's just got

00:21:12.160 --> 00:21:13.880
such a unique story himself.

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But yeah, man, South Africa has got a big scene, big Volkswagen.

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Especially the air-cooled side for

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sure oh yeah well they're doing there's gonna

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be a new me down there i think in the

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next few months like jamie orr is hosting that one so oh

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that looks fun yeah cool very cool so volkswagen's history is is wild you know

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i i get to hear about a lot of it through you know some of the people that i

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that i touch tell me what would surprise somebody most about VW's past,

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especially pertaining to the Beetle, that they might not know?

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The Beetle wasn't an original design, I think is the biggest one.

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Ferdinand Porsche did design it, but it was already used on the NSU Type 32,

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which was a full two years before the Type 1 ever came out.

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And I'm like, that's a thing. I thought the Beetle was like its own thing.

00:22:11.343 --> 00:22:16.343
But no, they were already doing that format way before the Beetle ever came out.

00:22:17.103 --> 00:22:25.283
And the other big fact that I love, so after World War II, Volkswagen was basically non-existent.

00:22:25.463 --> 00:22:27.743
They were bombed to oblivion.

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Wolfsburg was basically not a thing. And then out of nowhere,

00:22:31.883 --> 00:22:35.983
the British came in and they're like, let's rebuild this factory and start it back up.

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So kind of the new volkswagen

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was kind of british derived which i find kind

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of amazing yeah and not a lot of people

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realize that like everybody talks about like okay yeah it was from

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like nazi germany right i mean like sure yeah yeah

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it was but the the

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actual i think historical value to it is

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that it was it was revived by by allies

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and then brought over to the u.s and people love

00:23:03.663 --> 00:23:06.443
it now so it's it's crazy it amazes me

00:23:06.443 --> 00:23:09.263
so much yeah that's so so so cool though

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what would be maybe one of your favorite weird vw

00:23:13.103 --> 00:23:17.703
facts that you've uncovered while while you know doing what whatever works required

00:23:17.703 --> 00:23:22.663
making these documentaries i think probably one of the weirdest is the audi

00:23:22.663 --> 00:23:30.723
tt and how it got its name because a lot of people don't realize how much this company, NSU,

00:23:30.963 --> 00:23:36.923
played a role in just helping out Volkswagen and Audi to build some of their

00:23:36.923 --> 00:23:39.943
best cars ever because they had the NSU Prins.

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TT, which was their name, and then they ended up using it on the Audi TT.

00:23:44.963 --> 00:23:48.723
And that was like a span of 40 years, I think, between the two of them.

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And a lot of people don't realize that.

00:23:51.687 --> 00:23:56.147
Like VW and Audi, they bought all these companies and then they're like,

00:23:56.307 --> 00:23:57.587
we're going to reuse this name.

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Like, I don't know how many years later and try to make a successor to something that wasn't ours.

00:24:02.607 --> 00:24:06.667
It's so fascinating to me. That's actually really, really cool.

00:24:07.267 --> 00:24:13.887
Yeah. If you had to crown a model as maybe the most influential VW ever made,

00:24:14.107 --> 00:24:15.827
who's going to get the title?

00:24:16.047 --> 00:24:20.067
It's easy to go with Beetle. I think type one, I mean, that thing lived on,

00:24:20.247 --> 00:24:24.067
lived for 70 years, which is insanity. Insanity.

00:24:25.247 --> 00:24:30.127
1938 and frankly, before that as well, but fully produced from 38 all the way

00:24:30.127 --> 00:24:35.907
to 2003, which I don't, there's not a lot of cars that can compete with that longevity.

00:24:36.307 --> 00:24:41.447
So I would say that's, that's one of the most influential things ever,

00:24:41.447 --> 00:24:45.187
but I would say that's in the air-cooled side, especially,

00:24:45.527 --> 00:24:50.527
once we move to actual water-cooled vehicles, the Gulf very much takes the cake

00:24:50.527 --> 00:24:54.787
for that because that kind of brought them into the hot-hash world.

00:24:55.207 --> 00:24:58.267
I feel like they were the reason a lot of people got into hatchbacks.

00:24:58.787 --> 00:25:04.747
And it was their best-selling model for many years, especially in the 21st century.

00:25:05.147 --> 00:25:10.627
How do you think, knowing the history of VW as much as you do now.

00:25:11.587 --> 00:25:16.187
How did it change the way that you see the modern culture as it is today?

00:25:16.427 --> 00:25:20.247
It shows me how many different groups are within the culture.

00:25:20.747 --> 00:25:24.347
You got air-cooled, water-cooled. You got 21st Century.

00:25:24.587 --> 00:25:28.667
You got each platform has their own group. So you could say like...

00:25:28.667 --> 00:25:30.847
Each model has their own. Each model.

00:25:31.647 --> 00:25:35.907
NQB has its own group. You got Golf Mark 4, right?

00:25:36.127 --> 00:25:40.227
Golf Mark 3. It's like, there are so many Instagram pages that I follow that

00:25:40.227 --> 00:25:43.787
are for specific models and each of them have thousands of followers.

00:25:44.603 --> 00:25:49.123
And it amazes me. I'm like, you're telling me. Sometimes hundreds of thousands.

00:25:49.723 --> 00:25:54.043
Hundreds of thousands. Actually, easily hundreds of thousands to spell out of these. I see that too.

00:25:54.223 --> 00:26:01.003
And I'm like, you know, I'm just more, I guess, inspired and wowed by the levels

00:26:01.003 --> 00:26:03.143
that even my podcast has touched.

00:26:03.363 --> 00:26:09.243
Like I have, you know, I have podcast software that shows me like where all

00:26:09.243 --> 00:26:15.023
of my listeners are coming from. And I think up to 35 countries I'm downloading

00:26:15.023 --> 00:26:18.063
It's like, what? Yeah, how?

00:26:19.783 --> 00:26:25.303
When Bangladesh, India showed up Like my eighth week I was like,

00:26:25.623 --> 00:26:30.963
man, get out of here Ain't nobody driving air-cooled dubs in Bangladesh So I

00:26:30.963 --> 00:26:35.723
go online And I'm like, you know Let's look up the air-cooled scene out here

00:26:35.723 --> 00:26:37.663
I typed in a few things And bro,

00:26:38.283 --> 00:26:43.423
I pulled up I was shocked i mean yeah they do a lot they mack them out they

00:26:43.423 --> 00:26:47.663
they they do all the same stuff we do they lower them they soup them up they

00:26:47.663 --> 00:26:51.903
i mean it's like wow man it's that's one of my favorite sides of it though because

00:26:51.903 --> 00:26:55.563
these people from different countries they all modify their cars differently,

00:26:56.043 --> 00:26:59.123
and you even look at how germany started like the stretch tire

00:26:59.123 --> 00:27:02.443
look with the smaller wheel yeah yeah and how that's

00:27:02.443 --> 00:27:05.263
all of a sudden transcended boundaries and now

00:27:05.263 --> 00:27:08.903
everybody does it and wow this is cool it's

00:27:08.903 --> 00:27:11.523
similar to how the japanese scene works with a lot of

00:27:11.523 --> 00:27:14.183
their cars you'll see volkswagens that are

00:27:14.183 --> 00:27:17.483
modified kind of like a jdm vehicle and you're like this

00:27:17.483 --> 00:27:22.403
is cool how do you guys think of this so like man it is it is cool now let's

00:27:22.403 --> 00:27:25.703
talk about some of your projects for a second you've had really really cool

00:27:25.703 --> 00:27:31.763
ones 89 cabriolet you had a 73 beetle was it a standard or a super beetle it

00:27:31.763 --> 00:27:35.163
was a super beetle super beetle and now the 88 fox.

00:27:36.123 --> 00:27:42.503
Out of these three that you've worked on and collected, which car taught you the most?

00:27:42.663 --> 00:27:45.903
It's weird. Each car taught me different things.

00:27:46.383 --> 00:27:50.923
I think the Fox has taught me the most because of how just different it is.

00:27:51.183 --> 00:27:54.123
And finding parts for it is nearly impossible.

00:27:54.403 --> 00:27:59.943
Everything's in Brazil. And Brazil has crazy tariffs and crazy export import tax.

00:28:00.303 --> 00:28:03.343
So it's like getting parts is going to be a struggle for sure.

00:28:03.563 --> 00:28:05.843
And I think that's a huge learning thing for me. because I'm like,

00:28:05.923 --> 00:28:10.023
how am I going to do this? But it's also exciting because I know when it's built,

00:28:10.043 --> 00:28:11.023
it's going to be amazing.

00:28:11.723 --> 00:28:17.283
With the Cabriolet, I kind of learned what to look for before I buy a vehicle.

00:28:17.803 --> 00:28:22.023
With that, it was like I was working at O'Reilly Auto Parts in Keuna, Idaho.

00:28:23.743 --> 00:28:26.123
And it's like in the middle of nowhere, basically.

00:28:27.264 --> 00:28:30.324
I was doing a parts delivery, went to this dealership. I'm like,

00:28:30.464 --> 00:28:32.624
oh my God, there's a Cabriolet sitting right there.

00:28:32.804 --> 00:28:36.104
And I'm like, oh my God, like one of my dream cars. This is amazing.

00:28:36.724 --> 00:28:39.264
Then I made the mistake of buying it.

00:28:41.204 --> 00:28:44.424
Yeah. I noticed there was, oh, there's front end damage. Oh, this is great.

00:28:44.944 --> 00:28:49.384
This is awesome. Oh, then you start unpeeling the onion.

00:28:49.604 --> 00:28:53.524
You're like, wait a minute. There's more layers to this. Oh man.

00:28:53.804 --> 00:28:57.544
And with Cabriolets, once that top is donezo, that

00:28:57.544 --> 00:29:01.004
interior gets bad oh it's bad

00:29:01.004 --> 00:29:03.644
and so like once i it was

00:29:03.644 --> 00:29:06.444
moving time i was coming out here to washington i'm like

00:29:06.444 --> 00:29:10.644
yeah let's let's go for with something different and before

00:29:10.644 --> 00:29:13.544
the before the cabriolet was the super beetle that

00:29:13.544 --> 00:29:16.784
also had rear end damage and so i was like all right we got

00:29:16.784 --> 00:29:20.244
it from a friend for like a thousand bucks which is crazy crazy deal

00:29:20.244 --> 00:29:24.024
i love the super beetles how big they are but yeah

00:29:24.024 --> 00:29:26.864
learning learning like what to look out for

00:29:26.864 --> 00:29:30.224
for sure now i know the fox in itself it

00:29:30.224 --> 00:29:33.464
doesn't get really that much love from the vw community as

00:29:33.464 --> 00:29:36.364
a whole what do you think drew you as a person

00:29:36.364 --> 00:29:39.044
to that car oh i was looking on

00:29:39.044 --> 00:29:42.004
facebook marketplace so my my brother had just gotten

00:29:42.004 --> 00:29:45.264
a 90 gli and i

00:29:45.264 --> 00:29:48.764
was like i need to find a white car this

00:29:48.764 --> 00:29:51.844
is gonna sound crazy i need to find a white car that's

00:29:51.844 --> 00:29:55.164
that me and him can cruise together and they

00:29:55.164 --> 00:29:59.524
would match pretty well the fox showed up i literally had no idea what a fox

00:29:59.524 --> 00:30:04.424
was this is before i was doing history-based videos so i really just didn't

00:30:04.424 --> 00:30:08.564
know anything about it went all the way up to blaine washington which is right

00:30:08.564 --> 00:30:14.364
next to the canadian border and i was like this is crazy it was slammed to the ground.

00:30:15.121 --> 00:30:19.501
It was one of the best-looking VWs I've ever seen. Two-door wagon.

00:30:20.041 --> 00:30:23.281
I'm like, I have to pull the plug or pull the trigger on this one.

00:30:23.781 --> 00:30:28.241
Drove it four hours home. I was like, all right, this is going to be a project.

00:30:28.721 --> 00:30:33.141
And it's crazy because this thing actually, when I was taken into Cars and Coffee

00:30:33.141 --> 00:30:38.001
and different meets, people were like, this thing is sick. I've never seen a car like this before.

00:30:38.241 --> 00:30:41.021
And I'm like, neither did I until I got it.

00:30:41.261 --> 00:30:45.581
So, yeah. So let me ask you about the listeners.

00:30:45.581 --> 00:30:51.781
If somebody was maybe deciding to maybe pick up an old VW project,

00:30:52.381 --> 00:30:56.661
learning what you've learned on these past cars, what's one of the first fixes

00:30:56.661 --> 00:30:59.261
or one of the first mods that you would tell them to do?

00:31:00.761 --> 00:31:04.861
I think suspension's really important i've again

00:31:04.861 --> 00:31:07.841
learned this with the fox because i got

00:31:07.841 --> 00:31:11.261
it they had welded the struts shorter and

00:31:11.261 --> 00:31:14.661
that's one of the first mods a lot of people do to these cars but

00:31:14.661 --> 00:31:18.481
i would say beefing up the suspension especially since

00:31:18.481 --> 00:31:21.681
suspension parts with with time they get very hard

00:31:21.681 --> 00:31:24.761
to find and finding the suspension

00:31:24.761 --> 00:31:27.841
parts of the fox are oh it's a pain it is the pain

00:31:27.841 --> 00:31:30.561
but i would say that would be like the first thing to look at

00:31:30.561 --> 00:31:33.601
if the car could run just do the suspension like

00:31:33.601 --> 00:31:36.601
even if the engine has issues just do it it's going

00:31:36.601 --> 00:31:39.501
to make the life so much safer when you're driving that car

00:31:39.501 --> 00:31:43.701
oh man it'll make it way easier yeah that's a that's good feedback and a really

00:31:43.701 --> 00:31:48.421
good and that also brings out another point of a podcast i just put out last

00:31:48.421 --> 00:31:54.261
week well yeah it brings up the term stance you know when you when you get your

00:31:54.261 --> 00:31:56.861
suspension tuned and dialed in and, and,

00:31:57.021 --> 00:32:01.041
you know, your car is kind of like stanced out and you made all your adjustments,

00:32:01.481 --> 00:32:02.641
you know, it's kind of like what you say.

00:32:02.801 --> 00:32:07.501
It's, you know, it, it kind of gives the car, like, it's like the icing on the

00:32:07.501 --> 00:32:10.541
cake. It gives it the, the, the true, the character.

00:32:10.741 --> 00:32:15.461
So man, what a, what a great, yeah. Yeah. I think that's a good idea. The suspension.

00:32:15.721 --> 00:32:21.361
What do you think would be one of the hardest things about keeping these old cars alive and running?

00:32:21.561 --> 00:32:24.281
Finding the parts, always finding the parts.

00:32:24.881 --> 00:32:28.821
Okay. It's like, especially when you have the original motor in it,

00:32:29.321 --> 00:32:34.381
finding the specific parts that fit that engine. It's, it's a challenge. It's a battle.

00:32:34.781 --> 00:32:38.441
No, I had, I've had a Beetle since high school.

00:32:38.641 --> 00:32:43.741
I bought a 72 standard with an auto clutch automatic.

00:32:44.121 --> 00:32:47.301
You know, it was a stick shift, but it was no clutch.

00:32:47.741 --> 00:32:53.041
70,000 miles on it. Great car. But, you know, it was old in 96 when I bought

00:32:53.041 --> 00:32:55.481
it. It was already, you know, what, 20 something years old.

00:32:55.661 --> 00:32:59.001
Anyway, point is I couldn't find the parts.

00:32:59.341 --> 00:33:06.261
So back then, 97, when that happened, I had a company down here, guy, Daryl from DNA.

00:33:06.581 --> 00:33:09.581
I had him just put a standard four speed in it with a clutch.

00:33:10.332 --> 00:33:16.172
Right. Because I, so I had to change that. Well, fast forward now to these days,

00:33:16.172 --> 00:33:22.232
I bought my wife a 71 Carmen Ghia because that's her favorite old air cooled.

00:33:22.692 --> 00:33:27.692
Yeah. It's a beautiful car. And we found it one owner, female,

00:33:28.032 --> 00:33:31.652
46,000 original miles up in Pennsylvania.

00:33:32.152 --> 00:33:34.692
It was in a barn in Pennsylvania.

00:33:35.632 --> 00:33:41.692
Last 10 or 15 years, maybe started once a month and it's a beautiful car, beautiful car.

00:33:41.932 --> 00:33:44.872
Well, the transmission was clunky.

00:33:46.832 --> 00:33:50.832
Yeah, I can say that because I know you'll get it. So I naturally,

00:33:51.112 --> 00:33:56.432
you know, I'm not the best mechanic. So I took it to a local shop here and dude,

00:33:56.732 --> 00:33:59.452
they were able to find, not just find the parts, but fix it.

00:33:59.572 --> 00:34:03.692
And it shifts like, you know, probably the day it drove off the showroom floor now.

00:34:03.932 --> 00:34:07.772
So I just think it's really cool. And that's kind of the point that I wanted

00:34:07.772 --> 00:34:12.712
to make was I too noticed over the years that parts were hard to find.

00:34:12.972 --> 00:34:18.792
But I also have noticed that in recent times, because the culture is so big

00:34:18.792 --> 00:34:20.672
and because it's so popular now,

00:34:20.972 --> 00:34:25.792
some parts are easier to find than, you know, maybe they were in the 90s so

00:34:25.792 --> 00:34:31.972
there's that side of it too yeah well and especially if the car is popular in a.

00:34:33.414 --> 00:34:39.114
I mean, you got people 3D printing bushings, machining whole parts.

00:34:39.414 --> 00:34:43.754
Yes. I mean, you can build a whole car now if you have a mill or whatever it's

00:34:43.754 --> 00:34:45.634
called. It's like, oh my goodness.

00:34:46.014 --> 00:34:49.314
Yeah, dude. Yeah. No, I totally am in a grants.

00:34:49.594 --> 00:34:55.314
And that's cool. So it's a double-edged sword. Parts are hard to find, hard to source. Yes.

00:34:55.834 --> 00:34:59.994
But I think as the culture continues, hopefully

00:34:59.994 --> 00:35:02.834
it'll get easier over time because we got

00:35:02.834 --> 00:35:05.714
to keep these things running right that's like that's like the main thing

00:35:05.714 --> 00:35:09.054
so you've spent a lot of time in the history in

00:35:09.054 --> 00:35:12.534
both the air cooled and the water cooled circles do

00:35:12.534 --> 00:35:15.454
you think the rivalry is actually real or

00:35:15.454 --> 00:35:18.434
do you think it's more just playful of the air cold

00:35:18.434 --> 00:35:21.414
versus the water cooled it's weird i actually got

00:35:21.414 --> 00:35:24.334
a comment on a older video talking about

00:35:24.334 --> 00:35:29.134
i think it was talking about my jetta and it was an older gentleman i believe

00:35:29.134 --> 00:35:37.314
who was like he's like i i i can't stand this modern volkswagen garbage he's

00:35:37.314 --> 00:35:42.234
like air cold air cold are the only good vws i'm like all right cool.

00:35:42.974 --> 00:35:46.794
I'm like i think younger generations i

00:35:46.794 --> 00:35:50.034
don't think they really care older generations especially

00:35:50.034 --> 00:35:53.714
those who have seen vw change as drastically

00:35:53.714 --> 00:35:56.654
as they have i get it because they

00:35:56.654 --> 00:36:00.254
have gone a direction where reliability isn't

00:36:00.254 --> 00:36:05.634
always their concern and air cold was reliable it was very reliable and water

00:36:05.634 --> 00:36:12.314
cold has its issues so okay i can it's playful now it's playful now i can take

00:36:12.314 --> 00:36:15.854
that but here's but here's what i gathered off of what you said and and i like

00:36:15.854 --> 00:36:18.694
it and that is that for the younger generation,

00:36:19.054 --> 00:36:23.154
the water-cooled might be more popular. Here's my point. I just want,

00:36:23.772 --> 00:36:28.552
people to like Volkswagens because it's such a cool company and,

00:36:28.552 --> 00:36:30.232
you know, such a cool history.

00:36:30.732 --> 00:36:36.772
I just think it's, it's always interesting to me when even guys your age, man, are, are into them.

00:36:36.852 --> 00:36:39.212
And again, I knew you were young. I'm 48.

00:36:39.572 --> 00:36:43.292
You know, I knew you were definitely younger than me. So when I,

00:36:43.292 --> 00:36:46.752
when I saw you and I decided to reach out to you, that's what I thought.

00:36:46.852 --> 00:36:50.412
I thought to myself, here's a young guy that's into Volkswagens.

00:36:50.592 --> 00:36:54.832
So I, I need to learn more. I need to learn more. Because that's kind of like

00:36:54.832 --> 00:37:02.432
our job as, you know, the senior generation, meaning older than you, right?

00:37:02.652 --> 00:37:08.072
Our job is to make sure that you are included. You are involved.

00:37:08.072 --> 00:37:09.592
You are learning things.

00:37:09.732 --> 00:37:15.652
You are excited about the Volkswagen culture because we want it to continue.

00:37:15.912 --> 00:37:19.172
That's why we do all the things that we do. So, but yeah, man.

00:37:19.292 --> 00:37:23.212
It sounds like you do and it seems like everything's going in the right direction.

00:37:23.212 --> 00:37:26.152
Should I I like it I like it that's the purpose of

00:37:26.152 --> 00:37:28.992
my content I I create it in

00:37:28.992 --> 00:37:32.332
the in a style that's appealing to maybe younger generations

00:37:32.332 --> 00:37:35.072
but the information in it appeals to the

00:37:35.072 --> 00:37:39.552
older generations and so that's kind of yeah I'm hooked

00:37:39.552 --> 00:37:42.452
I'm hooked I love your videos I love yeah man

00:37:42.452 --> 00:37:45.252
it's it's awesome I I love what you're doing

00:37:45.252 --> 00:37:48.612
keep keep rocking it do you go to shows any

00:37:48.612 --> 00:37:51.352
any Volkswagen shows I know you said you and your brother you know

00:37:51.352 --> 00:37:54.132
went around you started you know look yeah what's one of the better

00:37:54.132 --> 00:37:58.332
shows that you've been to out there and that scene i would say waterland waterland

00:37:58.332 --> 00:38:01.132
was amazing uh tell me about it how

00:38:01.132 --> 00:38:04.652
many cars tell me about it was absurd so

00:38:04.652 --> 00:38:07.992
it was basically it was in the wood something drag

00:38:07.992 --> 00:38:11.132
strip i wish i knew the location specifically it's a

00:38:11.132 --> 00:38:14.252
huge show though they had audis from like

00:38:14.252 --> 00:38:17.952
the old generation audi quattros as

00:38:17.952 --> 00:38:21.132
well as old vws all the way through new

00:38:21.132 --> 00:38:24.292
vw and audis and it was like this is this

00:38:24.292 --> 00:38:27.052
is heaven i even saw some of the cars

00:38:27.052 --> 00:38:30.152
that i had researched before and was

00:38:30.152 --> 00:38:32.832
shocked to see them there like the sp2 which is

00:38:32.832 --> 00:38:36.132
not an american car those are awesome dude they're

00:38:36.132 --> 00:38:38.812
so cool yeah they're so cool they kind

00:38:38.812 --> 00:38:41.612
of look yeah yeah i think they're

00:38:41.612 --> 00:38:45.072
so awesome such a sexy little nice little and yeah

00:38:45.072 --> 00:38:47.992
man yeah yeah it was i was so amazed to.

00:38:47.992 --> 00:38:50.852
See one in oregon because it's just

00:38:50.852 --> 00:38:55.032
not possible but i was like wait a minute see her here yeah yeah yeah i know

00:38:55.032 --> 00:38:59.392
i saw one on facebook marketplace too like a month ago i was like i'm there

00:38:59.392 --> 00:39:05.052
how much was it yeah god do they have it for 20 or 30 yeah sounds like i had

00:39:05.052 --> 00:39:08.732
been fitting too i'm like these are rust prone like.

00:39:09.621 --> 00:39:12.641
To the max so i would i would be aware but it's

00:39:12.641 --> 00:39:15.821
cool that it exists out here so yeah for sure your

00:39:15.821 --> 00:39:18.741
your mini documents are like super

00:39:18.741 --> 00:39:22.001
polished walk me through your process

00:39:22.001 --> 00:39:29.181
from idea of a car and a post that you want to make to production to posting

00:39:29.181 --> 00:39:34.681
it it's it's it's kind of it sounds like a long process but it takes me maybe

00:39:34.681 --> 00:39:40.921
four or five hours to make a full length video and post it it It all starts from one singular idea,

00:39:41.101 --> 00:39:48.021
whether I get that from a comment section or I got it from some VW media I just randomly came across.

00:39:48.061 --> 00:39:52.661
That's happened multiple times where I'm scrolling through Instagram. I'm like, what is that?

00:39:52.761 --> 00:39:55.541
I guess I'm making a video about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What happened?

00:39:55.981 --> 00:39:59.821
All the time. Then from there, I'm like, all right, now I got to do research.

00:39:59.821 --> 00:40:05.661
So while I'm I kind of write the hook at the end for the intro and then I start

00:40:05.661 --> 00:40:09.421
getting all the links together and I just go through and I just read and read

00:40:09.421 --> 00:40:11.001
and read I'm scrolling and scrolling,

00:40:11.521 --> 00:40:14.961
taking in information reading multiple articles and then

00:40:14.961 --> 00:40:17.921
I'm like all right now read it through make

00:40:17.921 --> 00:40:20.901
sure it looks good now I got to come here which is my apartment

00:40:20.901 --> 00:40:24.921
I'm it's linked to my my parents house so it's kind of nice that we're all together

00:40:24.921 --> 00:40:32.001
yeah it's so awesome and so then I come up here set up my my light set my camera

00:40:32.001 --> 00:40:36.701
up make sure everything's like set and looking good read the script with my

00:40:36.701 --> 00:40:38.381
teleprompter app on my phone.

00:40:39.149 --> 00:40:44.189
And then, boom, time to edit. And that's a span of like two hours most of the time.

00:40:44.509 --> 00:40:49.009
And that's probably the longest part, I would say, the editing.

00:40:49.189 --> 00:40:52.509
It feels the longest because I'm just like adding photos.

00:40:52.909 --> 00:40:58.809
For me, that's the longest part too. Longest part is, this part's the fun part.

00:40:59.129 --> 00:41:03.929
Then, you know, I got to edit this whole thing, you know, and make the sound progress.

00:41:04.469 --> 00:41:09.389
Yeah, exactly. The sound's got to be equal and, you know, I got to take stuff out.

00:41:09.549 --> 00:41:15.369
And I want to touch on something that is not a part of, you know,

00:41:15.429 --> 00:41:16.829
my questions I've got for you.

00:41:17.249 --> 00:41:21.089
It's the Wu-Tang poster behind you, baby. Yeah, man.

00:41:21.469 --> 00:41:26.509
Talk to me about that. You're a young guy to be repping Wu-Tang.

00:41:26.609 --> 00:41:28.209
Let me hear how that got started.

00:41:28.689 --> 00:41:31.849
Yeah. I mean, I'm even wearing a G.I. Joe shirt, right?

00:41:31.969 --> 00:41:39.829
Like, and behind me is an N64. So I, I mean, here's the N64, right? Yeah.

00:41:40.269 --> 00:41:45.309
I'm not, I'm not someone who likes a lot of new stuff when it comes to media.

00:41:46.029 --> 00:41:50.329
Huge Wu-Tang fan. My mom got me into Wu-Tang. Oh, cool.

00:41:51.009 --> 00:41:57.509
She listened to Tupac, Wu-Tang, all the rap groups from the early 90s through the late 90s.

00:41:57.709 --> 00:42:03.269
I graduated high school in 96, man. I, I feel like I ate breakfast most mornings

00:42:03.269 --> 00:42:05.869
with Tupac and Biggie. Oh, heck yeah. Yeah.

00:42:06.229 --> 00:42:09.169
Yeah. That was our whole life back in the, back in the nineties.

00:42:09.349 --> 00:42:11.089
Your mom is probably my age.

00:42:11.769 --> 00:42:16.469
He is. No, she actually is. I believe I'm trying to remember. We're like 47, 48.

00:42:16.689 --> 00:42:20.809
I don't know how old she is. My dad's like 52, but yeah. And he's the other guy.

00:42:21.829 --> 00:42:25.169
Yeah. So, and that's that, that, that's that era, that generation,

00:42:25.169 --> 00:42:26.729
a little bit older than me.

00:42:26.729 --> 00:42:34.629
They were into the hardcore Rock Into the early 90s That's still what I listen

00:42:34.629 --> 00:42:38.169
to as well I'm a huge Tool fan My dad and I go to,

00:42:39.014 --> 00:42:45.734
we went to a aftershock festival down in Sacramento. That was all like heavy metal and rock.

00:42:45.914 --> 00:42:48.414
So there's tool three 11s, my favorite band of all time.

00:42:48.614 --> 00:42:51.474
So I listened to them on the, on the daily. Yeah. Cool.

00:42:51.894 --> 00:42:58.414
It was fun, but I will say early rap, like mob deep is one of my favorites. Let's go.

00:42:58.814 --> 00:43:03.934
Yeah. Yeah. It's so great. So, so with, with attachments to New York like that,

00:43:04.274 --> 00:43:06.654
do you, do you like West coast rap?

00:43:06.874 --> 00:43:10.094
Like, like, like Tupac. And did, Okay.

00:43:10.374 --> 00:43:15.854
Yeah. Good. Yeah. Good. Yeah. I don't, I don't listen to Tupac like as much, especially anymore.

00:43:15.994 --> 00:43:19.534
I used to listen to him all the time, but now I'm like, I'm a full Wu-Tang fan.

00:43:19.674 --> 00:43:21.074
Zara face is one of my favorites.

00:43:21.554 --> 00:43:26.854
I don't know if I've listened to Zara face. i'm happy i'm smiling because you're

00:43:26.854 --> 00:43:31.794
young and i love that that culture the hip-hop culture oh yeah can also continue

00:43:31.794 --> 00:43:37.094
so back to your back to your videos what do you think makes a car video.

00:43:37.934 --> 00:43:40.794
Attractive enough to be shareable you think

00:43:40.794 --> 00:43:43.794
it's a mixture of like you were saying the way you described

00:43:43.794 --> 00:43:46.554
how you you create a hook and then you create a

00:43:46.554 --> 00:43:49.594
sound and then you create like the visual aspects like

00:43:49.594 --> 00:43:52.954
what do you what do you think makes a car video attractive

00:43:52.954 --> 00:43:55.914
enough for somebody to say oh hell yeah i'm sharing this one

00:43:55.914 --> 00:44:01.694
it's about creating an aesthetic about it my my early videos i wouldn't say

00:44:01.694 --> 00:44:05.254
they're super shareable because again i was in my car there wasn't a lot of

00:44:05.254 --> 00:44:09.594
things going on in them i was just talking had some photos come down and they

00:44:09.594 --> 00:44:14.594
just weren't to me they weren't up to up to par with what i'm doing now,

00:44:15.375 --> 00:44:18.855
Now it's like I make sure the colors look good.

00:44:19.095 --> 00:44:22.955
I'm making sure the captions have like a style to them.

00:44:23.135 --> 00:44:27.815
The music I put in the background is either like old school jazz to kind of

00:44:27.815 --> 00:44:31.355
match with the historical bass videos. Oh, man.

00:44:31.775 --> 00:44:36.535
I'll do like a lot of drum and bass for early 2000s vehicles.

00:44:36.975 --> 00:44:40.135
Or like how can I bring everybody in?

00:44:40.375 --> 00:44:46.455
The monitor behind me is used quite a bit for... All I do is I play commercials that were from that era.

00:44:47.635 --> 00:44:52.055
Bro, you got a lot of thought into this, man. I knew this would be a good question.

00:44:52.055 --> 00:44:54.275
I have to, you know? But that's why they're blowing up, man.

00:44:54.415 --> 00:44:57.815
And you're getting hundreds of thousands of views. I'm excited.

00:44:57.815 --> 00:44:59.775
I'm happy for you. I think it's so cool.

00:45:00.155 --> 00:45:04.615
Thank you. Yeah, it's the positive and negative that I'm kind of a perfectionist at times.

00:45:05.195 --> 00:45:11.295
Yeah. Well, no, it's great. And I, I love looking at the screen behind you and

00:45:11.295 --> 00:45:15.275
recognizing that that's in a lot of your, your videos and you're right.

00:45:15.495 --> 00:45:19.815
You're always playing stuff from, you know, back in that era or that time of

00:45:19.815 --> 00:45:23.175
that. I'm just like, dude, this is, is really cool.

00:45:23.315 --> 00:45:26.875
So I was happy to, uh, to ask that question. Cause I, I feel like,

00:45:27.415 --> 00:45:31.635
yeah, I think it's important for people to know how much thought and really

00:45:31.635 --> 00:45:37.575
artistic talent goes into this. I mean, it's, you know, there's, there's a lot there.

00:45:38.135 --> 00:45:43.115
It's all about how much effort you can put in for, for how much time.

00:45:43.235 --> 00:45:47.435
Like, I feel like anybody can do this. They just have to put their mind to it

00:45:47.435 --> 00:45:48.975
and be consistent. It's yeah.

00:45:49.215 --> 00:45:54.015
Yeah. Well, I'm gonna argue that not everybody could.

00:45:54.715 --> 00:46:00.475
Yeah. It takes a certain somebody you can, and you do a very, very good job of it.

00:46:00.595 --> 00:46:04.335
But yeah, man, give, give, give yourself a pat on the back. I always try to

00:46:04.335 --> 00:46:05.415
give credit where it's due.

00:46:05.975 --> 00:46:11.275
And so if somebody wanted to maybe start creating VW content,

00:46:11.515 --> 00:46:15.735
because that's basically what our, both of our channels, both of our processes,

00:46:15.935 --> 00:46:19.095
both everything we do is all kind of VW based.

00:46:19.255 --> 00:46:23.875
But if somebody else wanted to start producing VW content right now,

00:46:24.015 --> 00:46:27.035
what advice would you give them? Understand the history of it.

00:46:27.618 --> 00:46:33.198
I think that's the big thing. I see a lot of car reviews about Volkswagen products.

00:46:33.478 --> 00:46:36.578
And a lot of the time people show off the car and how it is,

00:46:36.698 --> 00:46:43.398
but it's like they don't technically know why that car is there and how VW got to designing it.

00:46:43.618 --> 00:46:48.598
And I feel like that's a very important side of things, especially my generation

00:46:48.598 --> 00:46:54.978
who is very content obsessed and really into like, I'm going to be the next creator.

00:46:55.198 --> 00:47:00.878
It's very common. And I think a lot of them don't put in the time and effort

00:47:00.878 --> 00:47:05.118
into researching the actual history of it. And I think that's important.

00:47:05.818 --> 00:47:10.218
Yeah, man, that's very, very, very well said. Yeah, it is important.

00:47:10.218 --> 00:47:12.318
And you don't think that it would be.

00:47:12.478 --> 00:47:17.678
But like, for instance, you know, I had to research you and your page and go

00:47:17.678 --> 00:47:21.118
look at all your videos and look at your views and learn you.

00:47:21.318 --> 00:47:25.138
And then I say, hey, you know, if you want to register as a guest,

00:47:25.138 --> 00:47:28.438
if you're cool that, you know, go online and kind of give me your VW backstory.

00:47:28.818 --> 00:47:31.778
Normally I get a paragraph or two from people, right?

00:47:32.578 --> 00:47:37.878
Then it's like, Oh dude, then I got to go to work because then I have to manufacture

00:47:37.878 --> 00:47:40.998
all these questions and kind of create an outline.

00:47:41.238 --> 00:47:47.498
And there's a lot of planning and, and time in front of a screen that is just,

00:47:47.678 --> 00:47:49.998
okay, let's go to his YouTube. Let's go to his TikTok.

00:47:50.278 --> 00:47:53.818
Let's go to the first video he posted. Let's go to his most popular video.

00:47:53.878 --> 00:47:59.058
And like, there's just a lot so i can even imagine on your side of it as well

00:47:59.058 --> 00:48:05.158
for sure man what about a dream collab for you or a dream feature yeah who would

00:48:05.158 --> 00:48:13.038
who'd be your dream to collab with oh it there's so many for me it's just about collaborating i.

00:48:13.746 --> 00:48:17.926
I think there are maybe the people that I would love to. I think once my,

00:48:17.926 --> 00:48:20.046
so once my following started to

00:48:20.046 --> 00:48:25.926
grow on TikTok, I got followed from Humble Mechanic as well as Jamie Orr.

00:48:26.066 --> 00:48:30.746
When they both followed my page, I was like, this is big. This is big.

00:48:31.246 --> 00:48:35.986
Yeah, it is. They don't follow me, man. And I think I may have even reached

00:48:35.986 --> 00:48:40.786
out to Jamie a while back, just inviting him on the podcast, man.

00:48:40.806 --> 00:48:44.266
I don't think I ever even got a response. not because he wouldn't,

00:48:44.406 --> 00:48:45.846
but maybe just because he's busy,

00:48:46.206 --> 00:48:50.246
which is same thing happened to me he followed me, I sent him a message,

00:48:50.386 --> 00:48:55.046
he read it that was it, but I'm like alright, he followed when you're busy,

00:48:55.166 --> 00:48:59.466
you're busy, I get it yeah, exactly, but I think once I got those follows,

00:48:59.706 --> 00:49:05.946
and then even my VW Beetle RSI video that I made, Volkswagen liked that post,

00:49:06.026 --> 00:49:08.806
randomly they liked it on TikTok, and I'm like,

00:49:09.346 --> 00:49:12.666
alright, so those are automatically three and

00:49:12.666 --> 00:49:16.646
i'm like that is awesome

00:49:16.646 --> 00:49:20.306
i know i noticed just a few days ago my

00:49:20.306 --> 00:49:25.286
youtube is is it's kind of starting to grow i think there's like 70 or 70 or

00:49:25.286 --> 00:49:29.586
so followers now but i was looking through them and i'm like wait a minute volkswagen

00:49:29.586 --> 00:49:34.326
of hong kong's following my podcast i'm like now and then i click on it and

00:49:34.326 --> 00:49:37.446
they have like a million something followers i'm like i'm like.

00:49:39.066 --> 00:49:44.866
Okay okay like that's fine i'll take it it's funny yeah and i don't ever like,

00:49:45.479 --> 00:49:49.899
I don't try to do like the trendy stuff like my kids tell me like,

00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:52.979
oh, you got to always tag Volkswagen and all this stuff.

00:49:53.099 --> 00:50:00.039
And I don't, you know, because I want to be that quality that they come to me, you know. Exactly.

00:50:00.279 --> 00:50:04.979
I feel like we're all I'm doing sharing stories of the community.

00:50:04.979 --> 00:50:08.619
And I think that that's important that somebody's documenting these stories.

00:50:08.879 --> 00:50:12.979
It is. Not just the history, but the culture, the people, the families,

00:50:13.299 --> 00:50:16.279
the, the, you know, the rides that they're putting together,

00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:20.079
the car shows that they're, you know, all that stuff, man, needs to be celebrated

00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:22.859
because it's such a, such a cool scene for sure.

00:50:23.359 --> 00:50:26.839
And what's what's so amazing about it is that when

00:50:26.839 --> 00:50:29.839
you show the passion and show the love for the brand and

00:50:29.839 --> 00:50:33.039
kind of yeah what it's done for you all these things you

00:50:33.039 --> 00:50:36.059
get the attention of those people naturally like you're saying so

00:50:36.059 --> 00:50:38.839
like tagging them doesn't change anything because it'll

00:50:38.839 --> 00:50:42.579
just naturally get their attention yeah exactly i kind of think it's cheesy

00:50:42.579 --> 00:50:47.479
to tag to me it's like you're trying to yeah that's fair i mean for me i'm like

00:50:47.479 --> 00:50:51.899
i i wasn't tagging originally and then i just i did start tagging Volkswagen

00:50:51.899 --> 00:50:57.299
on my posts but I'm not like I'm not going to tag an individual unless I should maybe I should then,

00:50:58.359 --> 00:51:02.239
I mean it's up to you it hasn't changed anything for me.

00:51:03.299 --> 00:51:06.079
Everybody that everybody that follows me that

00:51:06.079 --> 00:51:09.519
has a following it was all natural and that's I

00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:13.039
think that's how it's just going to happen anyways like I've

00:51:13.039 --> 00:51:18.959
been chatting with one of the guys I don't know what his position is I think

00:51:18.959 --> 00:51:26.299
he's like head of design for VW his name's Stefan Vosswinkel so like Vosswinkel

00:51:26.299 --> 00:51:32.219
very German but I posted about the Beatle RSI and I was like.

00:51:33.020 --> 00:51:36.940
I was, I just love that car so much. I reposted it on my story. I'm like, this is great.

00:51:37.560 --> 00:51:42.180
And he had been following me for a while. And then he, he sends a photo of their,

00:51:42.180 --> 00:51:44.720
the RSI that's in their museum in Germany.

00:51:45.300 --> 00:51:48.040
And he was like, Hey, let me know when you're in Germany. I'll let you test

00:51:48.040 --> 00:51:50.720
drive this one. And I was like, are you kidding me right now?

00:51:51.340 --> 00:51:54.340
You know, I was like, this is great. When I, when that happened,

00:51:54.440 --> 00:51:57.640
I ran over my parents. I'm like, guys, you've got to see what happened with this.

00:51:57.900 --> 00:52:03.440
That is so absolutely so cool. And again, that's another thing like your passion

00:52:03.440 --> 00:52:06.060
is opening doors that never would have opened before.

00:52:06.720 --> 00:52:10.240
You know, Volkswagen's diving pretty hard into the, you know,

00:52:10.720 --> 00:52:15.340
electric, you know, the EV market with stuff like the ID Buzz and all the other,

00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.580
you know, really cool electric cars that are coming out.

00:52:17.860 --> 00:52:22.000
Do you think, your opinion, all this history that you have, do you think it's

00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:25.220
good for the brand or do you think they may be losing touch with their roots?

00:52:25.660 --> 00:52:28.340
Losing touch for sure. there's parts of

00:52:28.340 --> 00:52:31.100
it where they very much are doing callbacks to what

00:52:31.100 --> 00:52:34.000
they've done in the past like the buzz is just a type 2

00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:36.840
right they electrified the type 2

00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:39.560
and they did that in I think it was 2004 they made

00:52:39.560 --> 00:52:45.840
a concept car that was the VW micro bus concept and that had a VR6 in it but

00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.640
it was also a callback to the type 2 and then it was like 20 years of making

00:52:50.640 --> 00:52:55.820
this concept and then they made the ID buzz and I'm like for electric car This

00:52:55.820 --> 00:52:58.840
is how you should do it, in my opinion.

00:52:59.140 --> 00:53:03.400
I think the soullessness, and this is going to sound very aggressive in a way,

00:53:03.580 --> 00:53:12.140
the soullessness that comes from the ID series with the naming convention of saying ID3, ID4,

00:53:13.260 --> 00:53:14.220
it's boring.

00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:18.400
It kind of just makes it all seem like it's all the same.

00:53:19.180 --> 00:53:24.500
It's kind of like this, I don't know how to explain it, this future of just lack of creativity.

00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:28.900
And I'm like, all right, please, please stick with the creative stuff.

00:53:29.120 --> 00:53:32.920
Like, like you guys are very good at it. Let's not, let's not stray away from

00:53:32.920 --> 00:53:36.500
it too much. The ID buzz, super creative. Love that car.

00:53:37.120 --> 00:53:42.340
The IDs, ah, not, not crazy, you know?

00:53:42.460 --> 00:53:45.400
And I miss, I miss the Foxes that they would do.

00:53:45.580 --> 00:53:49.620
I miss even, even the new beetle that I just made a video about today.

00:53:50.600 --> 00:53:54.240
That's another one that I think was it defined,

00:53:55.360 --> 00:53:59.780
Y2K era VW and when they were trying new things and trying to be different from

00:53:59.780 --> 00:54:03.700
everyone else and I think now they're fitting into the mold of like what everybody

00:54:03.700 --> 00:54:10.100
else is doing and I hope that changes because I just saw that Honda is backing out of the EV,

00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:14.020
like conversion and I hope VW does the same because,

00:54:14.980 --> 00:54:17.260
they need to stick with the roots a little bit,

00:54:18.094 --> 00:54:26.974
I like, I like what you said. And I'd also love to see the ID buzz with a VR six or that'd be sick.

00:54:27.154 --> 00:54:31.994
Yeah. Or even, you know, a motor out of the R eight or just something absolutely wild and crazy.

00:54:33.314 --> 00:54:37.214
I saw a posted one slammed. I'm like, that is a cool looking car.

00:54:37.254 --> 00:54:41.214
And I see him in person every once in a while. I'm like, all right, like, cool.

00:54:41.554 --> 00:54:44.614
Yeah. My wife and kids like them. They, you know, but again,

00:54:44.774 --> 00:54:48.074
this is the next generation of, you know, of, of, of kids.

00:54:48.094 --> 00:54:51.634
Kids that either Volkswagen is going to be cool or it's going to be,

00:54:51.654 --> 00:54:53.014
you know, just the next car.

00:54:53.054 --> 00:54:55.754
You know, it was always super cool for me growing up.

00:54:55.874 --> 00:54:58.294
So let's talk about Plunk Garage.

00:54:58.534 --> 00:55:03.474
What's next for you guys? Any builds? Is there a, any type of a series or any,

00:55:03.554 --> 00:55:06.194
any new video content or anything else that you're working on?

00:55:07.014 --> 00:55:10.274
Just like you, I'm trying to get into the YouTube world of long form.

00:55:10.594 --> 00:55:16.554
Cause originally, I mean, I started clunk with my brother and of course he had

00:55:16.554 --> 00:55:18.894
the mechanical experience, I had the media experience,

00:55:19.414 --> 00:55:24.554
and then he dove really deep into the Lego stuff and he works at a Lego shop

00:55:24.554 --> 00:55:27.734
and his Lego collection is absurd. But,

00:55:28.555 --> 00:55:32.575
he just he Volkswagen wasn't really a sting anymore so I'm like all right so

00:55:32.575 --> 00:55:36.435
that's where the content redirection happened when I was doing it all on my

00:55:36.435 --> 00:55:40.555
own now and so the mechanical side of it and the car show side of it I'm like

00:55:40.555 --> 00:55:43.555
okay now I gotta figure out how to do this on my own.

00:55:44.455 --> 00:55:49.475
And so I think build wise I'm still trying to build the fox and I really want

00:55:49.475 --> 00:55:54.115
to make videos about that it's just about getting the parts and getting the

00:55:54.115 --> 00:55:59.255
money to spend on the parts right and then the other side of it too i as i showed

00:55:59.255 --> 00:56:03.075
that n64 i just got beetle adventure racing.

00:56:03.735 --> 00:56:06.575
And that's an n64 game that i'm trying to make a video

00:56:06.575 --> 00:56:09.395
about because i i want to talk about the history of why that

00:56:09.395 --> 00:56:12.955
exists yeah video game because

00:56:12.955 --> 00:56:15.815
vw does not do that very often so i'm like all

00:56:15.815 --> 00:56:18.935
right and then yeah it's like what

00:56:18.935 --> 00:56:21.995
what is next i mean i also talked about that that

00:56:21.995 --> 00:56:25.655
offer that i got from a vw guy in wolfsburg

00:56:25.655 --> 00:56:28.435
factory right he's like come take a

00:56:28.435 --> 00:56:31.975
look at this rsi when you're out here i'm like all right cool and

00:56:31.975 --> 00:56:37.575
he said you give me a backstage tour of the factory i'm like dude now i gotta

00:56:37.575 --> 00:56:41.635
redirect again so i can make this happen i'm like all right what kind of new

00:56:41.635 --> 00:56:46.455
content do i need to do to get me to that next level and i'm like this is fun

00:56:46.455 --> 00:56:50.155
i i love that You're looking at it through that lens though.

00:56:50.335 --> 00:56:53.995
Yeah. You're not just going to keep going, you know, which you are,

00:56:54.135 --> 00:56:58.375
but you're going to keep, keep, keep reshaping and, and, and doing what,

00:56:58.495 --> 00:57:00.655
you know, what's important. I think that's so cool.

00:57:00.755 --> 00:57:03.895
And I can tell this story too, cause it's so, so, so cool.

00:57:04.255 --> 00:57:07.875
So I had a guy on the podcast in South Africa.

00:57:08.135 --> 00:57:14.195
His name was Chris Cozzi and he's the owner of, um, Afro Beetle in South Africa.

00:57:14.595 --> 00:57:17.215
And we're in the middle of talking, you know, and I'm like, you know,

00:57:17.755 --> 00:57:21.515
so you've mentioned a couple of times your, you know, your classic VW collection.

00:57:21.655 --> 00:57:24.575
I'm like, you know, how many cars are in this collection? Are we,

00:57:24.675 --> 00:57:26.515
you know, 10, 20 cars or what? He goes.

00:57:27.250 --> 00:57:32.670
Oh, no, no, no. We're probably closer to 100. I'm like, 100?

00:57:33.050 --> 00:57:36.150
I'm like, okay, 100 what?

00:57:36.470 --> 00:57:44.410
He's like, oh, well, everything from 1943, 42, all the way to 75,

00:57:44.410 --> 00:57:50.630
he's got them every model times two in storage in South Africa.

00:57:51.410 --> 00:57:57.890
It shut my whole podcast down. I was like, like, hold on a second, man.

00:57:58.070 --> 00:58:01.530
What? These are all in storage. He's like, yeah. I'm like, has anybody ever

00:58:01.530 --> 00:58:03.390
seen them? He's like, yeah, my family.

00:58:03.870 --> 00:58:06.970
I'm like, wow. Right. So it was so intriguing to me.

00:58:07.130 --> 00:58:11.810
I was so excited to hear this, the thought, the dream that one day some of these

00:58:11.810 --> 00:58:16.310
cars would be, and a lot of them are right-hand drive. He's even got some left-hand drive. Wow.

00:58:16.710 --> 00:58:21.590
Yep. That when, you know, several months passed, I had talked to his marketing

00:58:21.590 --> 00:58:27.270
manager again and had him back on the podcast just a short time ago, Marcel.

00:58:27.750 --> 00:58:33.230
And I talked to Marcel about that collection and guess what? Marcel has seen it.

00:58:34.470 --> 00:58:39.970
So he's got them spread out in different buildings, but they're inside.

00:58:40.270 --> 00:58:44.550
Now, some of them, he said, haven't been started or ran in 20,

00:58:44.690 --> 00:58:49.690
30, 40 years, but they're there. And mileage probably too.

00:58:50.030 --> 00:58:52.790
Yeah, dude, come on. How cool, how cool is that?

00:58:53.030 --> 00:58:57.810
So super intrigued by things I hear and see all over the world too,

00:58:58.110 --> 00:59:02.770
because of this platform, it's enabling me to, you know, and,

00:59:02.770 --> 00:59:06.410
and Marcel even said, Hey man, if you're ever in South Africa,

00:59:06.810 --> 00:59:08.590
you know, I'm like, yeah.

00:59:09.255 --> 00:59:12.655
How can I get there? You know, and a lot of these guys, I talked to a lot of

00:59:12.655 --> 00:59:15.795
these guys, you know, that are all that do shows all over the country.

00:59:16.275 --> 00:59:20.635
And we're talking, you know, killer four or five, 600, 800 cars,

00:59:20.895 --> 00:59:23.055
you know, big, big productions, big shows.

00:59:23.475 --> 00:59:26.335
And when I hang up with them, I do calls, you know, podcasts,

00:59:26.515 --> 00:59:27.555
things like this conversations.

00:59:27.615 --> 00:59:33.255
I really, in my heart, I want to go, like, I want to go see this show that they're putting on.

00:59:33.475 --> 00:59:36.335
So I do the same thing, man, that you just said.

00:59:36.515 --> 00:59:42.255
I try to figure out, okay, this is not what I do full-time, but how can I make this happen?

00:59:42.275 --> 00:59:45.515
It's intriguing because I want to, because I want to.

00:59:45.735 --> 00:59:50.055
How about this one? If you could own any VW, no budget, any era,

00:59:50.275 --> 00:59:53.795
what would your dream build be? Going right back to the Beetle RSI.

00:59:54.755 --> 00:59:58.635
I don't know why I love that car so much.

00:59:59.035 --> 01:00:04.615
It's weird because I make a lot of historical videos. I talk about a lot of cars.

01:00:05.115 --> 01:00:10.595
And once I made that video about the Beetle RS side that I had never heard about,

01:00:10.775 --> 01:00:13.875
I was like, oh my God, this thing's amazing.

01:00:15.135 --> 01:00:20.695
VR6, wide body kit on a new Beetle with a spoiler that's stock.

01:00:20.895 --> 01:00:23.455
And then it has the R32 Mark 4 wheels.

01:00:23.695 --> 01:00:25.875
I'm like, this is ridiculous.

01:00:26.315 --> 01:00:33.235
And so my dream is to very much own one of those if not, I do want to buy a

01:00:33.235 --> 01:00:37.975
new Beetle and just put a kit on it, and it has to be a diesel Beetle because that would be sick.

01:00:38.855 --> 01:00:42.415
That's my... Yes, and they can handle a lot too, those diesels.

01:00:42.655 --> 01:00:45.435
They can handle... 1.9 diesels. Amazing.

01:00:46.675 --> 01:00:48.215
Alright, I got some rapid fire

01:00:48.215 --> 01:00:54.075
style questions. These are demand a fast response, so are you ready? Yeah.

01:00:55.155 --> 01:00:58.175
Favorite VW engine sound? 18T.

01:01:01.634 --> 01:01:06.734
One VW, if you could daily it from now until forever, what would it be?

01:01:07.014 --> 01:01:08.674
I'll just take my Jetta for right now.

01:01:09.054 --> 01:01:15.974
It's a tough one. That's a very tough one. How about the most overrated VW of all time?

01:01:16.214 --> 01:01:18.974
Most overrated. God, I love VWs so much.

01:01:20.734 --> 01:01:24.494
Everybody, there's always two sides to this question. And when I say that,

01:01:24.574 --> 01:01:26.654
I mean there's two camps. And here's the camps.

01:01:27.134 --> 01:01:31.794
One camp says, overrated? What? What are you talking about, man?

01:01:31.794 --> 01:01:35.094
I love VWs. There's no way, right? None of them are overrated. They're all awesome.

01:01:35.714 --> 01:01:39.934
Others, they spit out a model, you know, and they'll tell me.

01:01:39.994 --> 01:01:40.974
So there's always two camps.

01:01:41.574 --> 01:01:44.094
I think I got one. All right, let's go.

01:01:44.754 --> 01:01:48.574
Either the Mark V GCI or the Mark VI GTI.

01:01:50.194 --> 01:01:57.394
Okay, okay, overrated. How about underrated, the most underrated VW of all time?

01:01:57.574 --> 01:02:01.714
I think Mark 7, 180 TSI Golf.

01:02:02.234 --> 01:02:08.434
It's a base model, cheapest one, but it's underrated for how much power it can

01:02:08.434 --> 01:02:09.754
push and how good they can sound.

01:02:09.934 --> 01:02:16.014
If we talk for a few minutes about your followers, about some of the comments

01:02:16.014 --> 01:02:21.274
and some of the stuff, I know it's an energy that's worth talking about because,

01:02:21.714 --> 01:02:23.314
well, it's starting to happen to me.

01:02:23.574 --> 01:02:29.694
Like I'll wake up in the morning and I see like there's people arguing on my post and stuff, right?

01:02:29.774 --> 01:02:33.194
And it's like, dang, man, I'm just trying to produce a podcast here.

01:02:33.314 --> 01:02:37.934
But the shorts, you know, especially on TikTok, man, they blow up and they have

01:02:37.934 --> 01:02:39.374
all kinds of energy around them.

01:02:39.554 --> 01:02:41.794
So I always like to talk about this.

01:02:42.434 --> 01:02:46.234
So if somebody asks you then from your following, from your comments,

01:02:46.254 --> 01:02:52.254
what would be a go-to tool for you, maybe one you always keep in your car, what would it be?

01:02:53.574 --> 01:02:58.354
T20 for the engine bay, especially where the air filter housing goes.

01:02:58.534 --> 01:02:59.994
I believe that's all T20.

01:03:00.634 --> 01:03:04.574
Also, just something to change a tire. I think that's probably the most important.

01:03:04.774 --> 01:03:07.514
I think that's pretty important. You got to do that.

01:03:08.234 --> 01:03:14.094
Another fan, if another fan wants to know a car that you might regret selling,

01:03:14.294 --> 01:03:19.514
obviously a VW, which one of them that you've had that you got rid of that you

01:03:19.514 --> 01:03:22.014
wish you never would have? My Mark 7 Golf.

01:03:22.274 --> 01:03:27.314
Even though it was falling apart, I had driven it. It was hitting 90%.

01:03:28.421 --> 01:03:33.741
93,000 miles. It had a IS20 turbo, so it was turbo upgraded.

01:03:34.681 --> 01:03:41.101
Intercooler changed out. Water pump was freshly done. And I drove from Washington to Idaho.

01:03:41.401 --> 01:03:44.961
And on that trip, the car just started dumping coolant.

01:03:45.481 --> 01:03:49.781
Turned out one of the things broke on the intercooler, so it was just dumping everywhere.

01:03:49.921 --> 01:03:53.801
And I was stranded in something powder, Oregon, like middle of nowhere.

01:03:54.101 --> 01:03:55.201
I was like, what in the world?

01:03:56.001 --> 01:03:59.441
Oh, man. we've all got our stranded stories

01:03:59.441 --> 01:04:02.521
for sure oh i know yeah my so my mom's old

01:04:02.521 --> 01:04:05.721
co-worker at the funeral home came

01:04:05.721 --> 01:04:10.461
and picked me up in a hearse and then we drove to yeah yeah

01:04:10.461 --> 01:04:15.781
show up to the wedding i was trying to get to oh my gosh what a cool story so

01:04:15.781 --> 01:04:21.221
yeah you show i mean man nothing says death sentence like showing us showing

01:04:21.221 --> 01:04:28.161
up in a hearse man yeah that's funny yeah so clunk ClunkGarage on Instagram,

01:04:28.621 --> 01:04:33.161
on TikTok, on YouTube, where can people find you online? What's the handle?

01:04:33.381 --> 01:04:36.481
Is it just ClunkGarage? Yeah, it's just ClunkGarage. Is it understore garage?

01:04:37.221 --> 01:04:44.501
No, it's all ClunkGarage. So Clunk, K-L-U-N-K, garage, G-A-R-A-G-E.

01:04:44.701 --> 01:04:49.341
Again, he's on these three platforms, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.

01:04:49.861 --> 01:04:57.201
Follow him, like him. You guys, you're going to learn stuff from these videos. They are so cool.

01:04:57.381 --> 01:05:02.361
You guys are in for a treat. If you haven't already seen Clump Garage, you're about to.

01:05:02.641 --> 01:05:05.721
And what a treat. What an absolute treat. All right.

01:05:05.961 --> 01:05:10.001
Anything that you got coming up as far as production coming that you could let

01:05:10.001 --> 01:05:12.081
out now that people can be looking out for?

01:05:12.991 --> 01:05:18.171
Well, I post every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I'm trying to make a long-form

01:05:18.171 --> 01:05:22.551
video right now for YouTube, so go subscribe to my YouTube channel,

01:05:22.711 --> 01:05:25.911
and we'll get some views going on that. We'll get some traction rolling.

01:05:26.591 --> 01:05:29.851
All right, final question I got for you. After all the years,

01:05:29.991 --> 01:05:34.331
after all the cars, I say all the years, but you're a young man, but still. A few years.

01:05:34.671 --> 01:05:38.151
Yeah, after some of the years, after a few years, after the cars,

01:05:38.471 --> 01:05:42.371
what do you think keeps you hooked on Volkswagens?

01:05:42.991 --> 01:05:48.051
I think probably one of the biggest things people talk about is Volkswagen love

01:05:48.051 --> 01:05:52.671
and just how it relates to, especially the Beetle related to peace and all these

01:05:52.671 --> 01:05:54.451
kind of hippie terms, right?

01:05:54.731 --> 01:05:58.231
Yeah. But I think that's really what keeps people attached to it.

01:05:58.311 --> 01:06:04.831
There's such a love about Volkswagen culture that it's hard to escape it once you're in it.

01:06:04.911 --> 01:06:10.111
And I think that just keeps me motivated to keep going because I'm so passionate about it now.

01:06:10.151 --> 01:06:15.131
And I never would have thought I would have been passionate about it five years ago. I got goosebumps.

01:06:17.051 --> 01:06:21.411
So cool, man. I'm happy for you, man. I appreciate you coming on and responding.

01:06:21.691 --> 01:06:25.531
I know I'm just an old dude, you know, trying to have a little fun with these,

01:06:25.771 --> 01:06:26.911
you know, with this community.

01:06:27.211 --> 01:06:31.571
So I do appreciate your time. I thank you for sharing your story.

01:06:31.791 --> 01:06:34.751
And that's a wrap for this episode of Dub Life Diaries.

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Thanks for riding along with us and diving into these incredible stories of

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the people in the dub that drive their dreams. If you loved today's episode,

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Reach out to us. You can find us on all socials at Dove Life Diaries or shoot

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Dove Life Diaries at gmail.com. Until next time, keep the engines humming and

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the wheels turning and always follow the road that inspires you. This is Joe Person.

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I'm signing off. I'll catch you on the next ride.

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Music.