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“You Must Be the Comedians” · That Car Show

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And I hope I'm not oversharing here, but I walked into Dan's
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place in Seattle and I see this pistol on the ground.
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Welcome to this week's That Car Show.
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We talk about driving a box truck from Seattle to LA without
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killing Ryan or myself. We share the secrets on how you
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bribe Brian into driving an Audi for over 1200 miles.
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You're not supposed to laugh at this ship.
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This is the one we're going to use this one, sorry.
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And then finally we talk about Lindsay and her new best friend
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Sterling and how he guided her through Faithfuls in the form of
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a Land Rover. Should I re redo that again?
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But we no, I think that's perfect.
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That's great. I love it.
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Yeah, I can't. Wait to work.
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Hey, it's that car show. We are back.
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Dan is back. Good to see you, Sir.
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I do. I saw a lot of you over the
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last. Week, right?
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Well, Congrats on last week. I thought it was a really fun
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episode. And oh, thanks, great to.
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Have Derek on the call as well, so yeah.
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Kids a star I like him I. Had a couple of questions around
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it. Yeah, Derek seemed to refer to
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this rhyme Barky dictionary. So is this something that's
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going to be available for the holidays?
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Yeah, it's in the children's section.
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Yeah, I've, I'll put my purchase in because I want you to sign it
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for me, OK? Yeah.
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I mean, obviously there's going to be a pre-order and like
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friends and family. So, Ryan, just keep us updated.
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Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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This is self published just so you know.
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Well, I really like that. Like as Derek described, like
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it's a picture book. So you're right, actually, it
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appeals to all the ages. That's that's what's not to
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love. Yeah, that's that's yeah, he he
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was awesome. That was that was really a lot
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of fun and we've gotten a lot of great feedback on that episode.
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So we appreciate all of it. I think it was our best episode
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to date numbers wise. So let's let's keep it, keep it
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going and can't wait to have him back on.
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I really just like the way that he I like his take on the car
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world, right? And he's just a hell of a nice
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guy too. So.
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Yeah, and you're right. Like thank you so much for to
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everybody that has listened and shared their thoughts and it's
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always fun to hear from people, especially when it's positive.
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Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
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But we welcome all feedback, of course.
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Exactly. So Dan's back.
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Dan and I are back from our U-Haul ex Audi collaboration
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convoy from Seattle to LA. What a trip.
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We we drove, we ate, we slumbered.
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Yeah, motels, hotels of all types, Inns, motor lodges.
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Do tell. You were mistaken for famous
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comedians. That's.
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Right. Yeah, well, infamous comedians,
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maybe. Infamous comedians, Do you want
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to know the story? Do you want to hear the story?
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I mean, I want to hear all the stories, so let's just dive
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right in, OK, So because you guys just did Seattle to LA, so
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the bulk. Of the park for sitting.
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In US and go. Yeah, Dan has a new job in LA
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and I followed Dan and his U-Haul and yeah, Congrats, we'll
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get to that eventually. But, and I followed him in his
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Audi SQ5. So I definitely had the, the,
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the nice, the nice seat, I guess.
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And we did it over what four days.
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So we took our time and we we took sort of the interior
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highways, Interstate. So it's beautiful, but you know,
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it wasn't quite like the coast, but you know, time was of the
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essence and it was a long enough drive as, as it was, I think it
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was like 20 hours or something, right?
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So, but Dan and I both share a love of, of the movie Stand by
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Me. And so Stand by Me was filmed in
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Brownsville, OR and Dan had been there before.
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I had not. So we we stopped in Brownsville,
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OR and I think that movie was released on Yeah, that was the
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first step, right? Yeah, yeah.
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So. Well, we kicked things off just
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to roll back from one second. Yeah, right.
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We kicked things off by attending the singer Castle.
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Oh, right. How can we forget that for?
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You minor. Minor, right?
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So epic. Yeah.
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So. Yeah.
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So. But I think Lindsay, you had
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been there the night before. I was there, right?
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Yeah. Midday Friday, you know,
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checking it for you guys, making sure it was OK, and then you
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guys got to go on Saturday. I mean, I'm nothing.
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It's not. I'm a giver and I want quality
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control for you guys. So yeah.
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That's that's right. Seems to happen a lot, but yeah,
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right. And that was a great event.
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It was good to see our singer friends again, saw Sheamus, ran
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into some other friends from here there and, you know,
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everywhere Eric and Amity and Jeff Jones made some new
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friends. It was great.
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It was awesome. It was.
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Well, you got to meet Will and Jake that run the One Drivers
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Club in Redmond, right? I think I did.
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Is that right, Dan? Yeah, so Will was the gentleman
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with the bears. Right, can't forget it I.
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Mean they were both working. Super well, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would imagine not long
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conversations, but enough, enough to say hi, yeah.
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No Hell of a place I think. They were getting support from
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someone and that someone didn't really know what they were
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doing. So there was a couple of
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situations where these really nice cars parked up and it's
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like we're really sorry you need to move those to the other car
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park because this is reserved for A964 or a GT3.
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So some cars got moved, but it was Will and Jake did a
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fantastic job and that's great. Everyone had a smile on their
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face. That was the starting point for
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the road trip. Yeah, it was like a top.
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Gear event, wasn't it? Yeah, it really was.
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Dan was kind enough to have proffered hockey.
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Hockey talkies, walkie talkies for us.
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So we got to pretend we were big.
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You know, big rig truckers the whole time.
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So did you guys come up with like handles?
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Did you have nicknames where you're like?
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I did for Ryan. I did for Ryan.
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Which was can. You see the big dog of the
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barky? Dog.
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OK, big dog. Yeah.
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And I think I should have been like hauling Hank or something
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like that. I don't know.
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You got to be careful with those, right?
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Yeah, but yeah, we, we, we had fun with those.
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And so yeah, as I, as I was getting to we, we ended up going
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to Brownsville OR. And.
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And Brownsville is what a beautiful like just corner of
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the world just in this movie. Was was was released in 1985 on
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my birthday in 1985 and it was set in the late 50s and in 2025.
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It looks exactly the same. So like it is, it is exactly
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that town with that vibe. It's very small.
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You can absolutely like things are like, you know, it's not
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like, you know, 1 scene was here and they turned around and they
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filmed the other scene 3, you know, 3 miles away, like, Oh
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yeah, there's the other, you know, the next scene.
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It's all, it all makes sense, right?
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It's all. What's the word I'm looking for?
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It's very. Cohesive.
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It flows well, Yeah, it's cohesive.
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It tracks, right? You know, we saw the alley, you
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know, with the, with the where the gun goes off, you know, do
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you want to be The Lone Ranger, the Cisco kid?
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You know, I got my picture back there.
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We saw the, the, the tree right where the tree house was.
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In fact, the damn branch where the tree house stood is still
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there. I mean, it's just like it is on
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screen. It's amazing.
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This is like 40 years later. It's literally four years later.
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And the most amazing thing is there was really nothing in the
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way of, like, I don't know, plaques or or, you know, tourism
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literature. Yeah.
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Yeah, I think total missed opportunity missing.
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A point. Yeah, yeah.
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But it was. I'd love to go back someday and
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spend a little more time, but it was awesome.
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Thank you, Dan, for indulging me.
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Much like in the movie, the dining options in Brownsville
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are sort of slim. So we found a place that I swear
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I thought was a strip club, but it was a little more of a bike.
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When the when the front door is a black steel door with no
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window. No like.
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That feels. That's generally an indicator of
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a certain type of establishment, yeah.
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It is not that. I would know, but.
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No, and I don't, I wouldn't know either, but it it, it was the
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highest rated culinary option in town.
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And so we went in and we, we got kind of the, you know, the, the
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once over by, you know, the two or three tables of locals that
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were were there. Interesting.
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Not from around here. Obviously not from around here,
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but you know, everyone was so nice and, and we, we got our
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food, we sat outside. We're the only ones outside.
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I had to laugh because the outside area had these big tall
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wooden fences all around like the patio and they cover up one
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of like the most beautiful vistas I've ever seen in my
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life. I guess you just get used to
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these things when you when you live near them.
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But I had to, I don't want to say I had to laugh because it
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was obviously very sad, but there was a literally a missing
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boy poster on the door of the place.
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So if you know the movie, the whole movie is sort of
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predicated around this group of kids looking for this, this boy,
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right, who's gone missing. And his name again was browser.
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Yeah, Yeah. And this kid had a very the
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browser kid. This kid had had the same
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initials. It was very strange, but we ate
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our meal outside and then we came back in to pay.
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And in that time, the woman tending bar had changed.
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And so we're kind of waiting. She's she's like fixing
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something in the bathroom, the men's bathroom, the toilet had
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had gone weird or something. So she's trying to find a piece
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of tape to tape up a sign that says it's not working.
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And we're kind of joking with her.
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And then she looks at us and, you know, she hadn't seen us
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before. And we kind of emerge from that
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side. She goes, you must be the
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comedians and and we couldn't really what he turned me trying
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to be funny, you know, but apparently they were having a
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comedy show and, you know, in 15 minutes and and the comedians
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hadn't shown up yet. And I want to look at Dan.
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I'm like, Dan, this is our big break.
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Let's just run with right? Like.
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You're absolutely right. That's exactly why we're here.
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But Dan was dressed all in black.
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He had his, like, backpack over his.
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You know he's British, right? I mean, they sure as hell hadn't
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seen me before, you know, But we, we, we realized pretty
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quickly it was a comedy show. I don't know who the audience
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was because the apparently there were 4 comedians coming, 4
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comics coming and that that was the sum total of the audience to
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that point. But good burger, good people,
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beautiful, beautiful area. That was day one.
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That's. Something a heck of a kick off.
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It was great. There's a lesson here if you
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want Ryan to help with it and you sell it to him as a
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vacation, right? And you say that you're going to
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go to some movie spots. Yeah.
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And you're. Going to have good burgers.
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Yeah, we. Didn't even talk about the hotel
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in Brownsville. Yeah, I really like a baby it.
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Was like a motel. Yeah, I think it was a
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Travelodge or something of those ilk.
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It was fine. But it was fine.
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It was. It was fine.
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It was. Interesting look you and you
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were able to go on with the next day.
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Yes, yes, very quiet, right. So I slept like a baby there.
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But and then the next day, yeah, we got back on the road.
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You know, Southern Oregon is absolutely gorgeous.
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Northern California. I'd never been, you know, that
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part of the of either state. I've never been to Oregon
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before, for that matter. And it was gorgeous and went
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past is it Mount Shasta, which, Yep, is like this ominous Mount
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Fuji looking, you know, volcano. That's Northern California.
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Absolutely stunning. Gorgeous, gorgeous.
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Went to the world's most dystopian McDonald's for lunch
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there. Wait in Mount Shasta or in
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Shasta? Yeah, like, like, like there
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shouldn't be fast food restaurants there, right?
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It's too gorgeous of, you know, an area.
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But we walk in and I guess I hadn't been to a a McDonald's in
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a while or like walked in and they've literally, at least in
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this one, removed all the furniture.
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Put some sort of like Soviet block play structure in the
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middle, right? There's one guy, the counter
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there's only about 3 feet wide. And the expectation is that
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you're supposed to order on a kiosk.
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God, I sound old, but actual old people were in there completely,
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you know, heads exploding trying to figure out, you know, what to
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do. They just wanted to fillet a
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fish or whatever, you know. So that was interesting.
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How long did it take? About 25 minutes, right, for the
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robots. Gentleman didn't.
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Know there was an old. Gentleman.
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Yeah. Yeah, you did.
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Yeah, I. Helped him sort out what his
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order was. Yeah.
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Yeah, it was. Yeah.
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Let's move on quickly. It was it was it was
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interesting. So I guess I need to leave the
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house more often. But this was all new to me.
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But it makes you appreciate your in and out, right?
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That's right in the neck of the woods.
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So, you know, no robots there, no kiosks.
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But you're right, it's good to get out and see what's happening
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in the rest of the world. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah, it was. We had so much fun.
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Just the banter back and forth, stopping for places and that you
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all had to stop a lot, right? Because what'd you get?
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9 miles to the gallon? Yeah.
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It drank fuel and so we had the walkie talkies for comedy.
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Yeah, actually, we should have probably captured some of it
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because it was quite funny, wasn't it?
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It was comedy gold. I can see why they thought we
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were comedians by the end of the trip.
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Like they've been spying on us by a walkie-talkie and obviously
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they've seen. You know, it's amazing what lack
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of sleep and you know, a box on wheels will will do.
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But beautiful area, you know, and then as we got further
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South, you know, got a little more grapes of wrath, right, but
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still beautiful lots of orchards and stuff and we our next stop
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was in Winters, California. Great little gem of a town and.
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Where is. Real vibrant little Main Street.
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Well, Dan, where is Winters? Yeah, it's near Sonoma, just not
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far. From OK, so wine country esque.
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Maybe. Getting there, Yeah, maybe on
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the edge of the wine. Country.
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Yeah, this seemed more like Apple country.
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And, and this is day 2. This is 17 hours into the trip,
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maybe a little bit less, maybe 16 hours.
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This box truck is not easy to drive, no.
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It's. Tiring.
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We. Yeah, it's like 15 feet long.
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Yeah. You've got no like if you get to
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a junction, there's not AT junction.
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Your visibility is like non existent.
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So in the end you just pull out on faith because you can't see
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left or right because you're at an angle.
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So it's like, all right, I'm in a box guard and it's fully
14:24
insured, so. Yeah, screw it.
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Meanwhile, I was in the Audi listening to, you know, sounds
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through a thing and all of Sinisterius.
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What's that? Mozart.
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Yeah, yeah. Basically, you know it wasn't.
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That much smoking a cigar. Right, right, right.
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You know, Dan, Dan was so kind. He outfitted the vehicle with
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snacks and and beverages. So there was a point where I had
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a full pound of red Twizzlers in my belly.
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But it was. Appreciated the most.
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The host with the most. You've got to look after you.
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You're a wing man, haven't you? That's.
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Really, I was going to say, I mean, I think as Chariots go,
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Ryan definitely got the better end of the deal.
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Absolutely God and I, I don't know, we, it was, it was fun,
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right? We we spent the night before we
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got to LA in Valencia, CA. So kind of the North End of I.
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Guess LA. Tony, Magic Mountain is is is
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there the M likes magic Mountain.
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Yeah, I also like traction control, but my Ford, the
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traction control stopped working three times at three different
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periods on the trip. So I had no traction control.
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I went to Chico. Is it Chico in California?
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Yeah. The winds were so strong that
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the the wheel was permanently at.
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What would you call that? I guess you would call that
15:45
2:00. Would it be?
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Yeah. So I'm literally like fighting
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the. Wind.
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They're just holding this at an angle, not pointing straight
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because the wind was so strong. So yeah, Mr. Mozart over there
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had the good deal. That's.
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OK, Yeah, I mean, it really makes you appreciate the
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aerodynamics of modern cars when?
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You're driving there? Yeah.
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I would not. Yeah, the block sidedness and
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you just go, Oh my gosh, yeah. I was like, what wind?
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What wind, you know, but right. Dan and I enjoyed an evening at
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the Extended Stay America in Valencia, where our neighbors at
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a certain hour, call it the golden hour, they all push out
16:25
barbecues to to cook dinner. So I'd never seen that in a in a
16:31
hotel before that. Sounds like quite an experience.
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We survived the smoking area. Yeah.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I think there was some permanent residents is what I'm getting.
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In and. So how did you?
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Land well, I slept well. How did you land on Valencia as
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your final destination of the trip?
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Yeah, it was master planning because I wanted to get.
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Into LA. Not at rush hour, right?
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Yeah, but it was. But we ended up getting in rush
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hour. So the Valencia was supposed to
17:02
be the stopgap to the point where then we could plan our
17:05
trip into LA. Because for those that have not
17:07
driven in LA, traffic tends to be very busy and changing lanes
17:12
sometimes can be really hard. So the final day turned into a
17:17
military operation, and I'll say that was mainly on my behalf.
17:21
So I'm calling junction terms by the mile, the half mile, the .2
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of the mile. We end up taking a minor detour
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in one of the freeways where the freeway disappears.
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The lane disappears without any notification to just just
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outside Valencia. So yeah, I kind of off roaded it
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for a moment there and luckily no one was hurt.
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I. Didn't even see it.
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I didn't even see it was. And Dan let me just for the
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record, Dan was so kind because at every junction, so to speak,
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you know, Dan, I had my own room, paid for dinner.
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Like, I mean, you know, even when I tried.
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So Dan was a a gentleman, never once made a move on me the whole
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trip. I'm kidding.
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Despite playing me with dinners and you know I.
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Mean so I'm hearing multiple missed opportunities on the
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trip. We didn't capture the CB audio.
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Nothing quite as romantic, no. Big dog action.
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Whispering sweet nothings through a set of cheap walkie
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talkies. Channel 21.
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No, but we had a we had a nice meal in Valencia at a Japanese
18:36
restaurant, which was fun. And I broke my 30 days of not
18:41
drinking by having a couple of beers because it was, I was at
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that point, you know, where I felt like I needed a beer.
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But it was good. You just completed it, got up
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early Coast. Road trip.
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That's yeah. Yeah, it was, It was awesome.
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And and then the next day was into LA, which we passed a big
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brush fire and we. Oh yeah, yeah.
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Culminated at a really nice hotel.
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Yes. Yeah, which was great.
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Which which I might be broadcasting from right?
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Now I think you're just going to move in.
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I this is great. Yeah.
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You're like speaking. Of so sweet.
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OK, so did you what Like one of my favorite things on road trips
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is the car spotting. So what were your like top three
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favorite car spot moments for each of you?
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That's. A good good.
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One. Yeah.
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What was that car that cut me up?
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Do you remember? There was a red?
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You read it? It was an American.
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Oh, like a Monte Carlo? Or like a Earnhardt?
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Earnhardt. Edition there was one that
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decided to really push their luck and cut me up and then
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proceeded to go into the further traffic.
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Yeah, so that that definitely wasn't one of the favorite.
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I saw a Lamborghini. Yeah.
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Urus, we don't see many nice cars in Portland, like just in
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on that road, like, you know, the odd Porsche, but that's
19:57
about it, right. Oh, as we were driving into LA,
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there was a beautiful Lamborghini.
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Yeah, like a like a purple, I guess it was Aventador.
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Yeah, that's that was probably. I feel like and the modern ones
20:11
look so good in purple it's just like.
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Oh, yes, yeah. It's perfect.
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And the guy had his baseball cap on the wrong way.
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Yeah. That's all about the
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aerodynamics. You can't win them, all right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I'm shame to admit it.
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I know that was in the Audi. I actually flipped someone the
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bird the other day. Welcome to London.
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Yeah, I'm gonna get short before.
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You're officially a native. You take more than two minutes
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of the traffic lights and they use their horns.
20:45
And I hope I'm not oversharing here, but I walked into Dan's
20:47
place in Seattle and I see this pistol on the ground and it was
20:50
like an air like an air pistol that, you know, he claimed was
20:54
for for self-defense with pigeons or something.
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But. Pigeons.
20:57
You know, I'm thinking, you know, and he tossed in the
20:58
trash. We just, you know, you know,
21:00
when he move and it's like that last day and you just start
21:02
throwing stuff in the bin, right?
21:04
And and we should have packed that for a way, but yeah, we
21:09
would have been dead for sure. So.
21:10
We might, we might be a two man crew immediately.
21:13
Right, right, right. If you're going to pack a gun in
21:15
LA, should probably fire bullets, but right.
21:18
But Dan treated me to the nicest meal in LA that last night.
21:24
We went to Lowry's in Beverly Hills.
21:27
Oh my gosh, yes. You know what?
21:29
It's been there forever. I went there.
21:31
Forever. I went there as a kid when we
21:34
went, yeah, we went to see Phantom of the Opera and then.
21:37
We used our. Lowry's.
21:39
When I was like, amazing, Yeah. I guarantee you it hasn't
21:42
changed. No, that's one of the best parts
21:45
for it. Yeah, 1938 is, is, is what I
21:48
looked up and the meal was great.
21:52
Our server guys, I think she had been there since 1938 and she
21:57
was, she was amazing. She was absolutely so nice.
22:00
Yeah. That's one of the cool things
22:02
about Lowry's, I think as a company is like, they do treat
22:05
their people so well that people are there, you know, they've
22:08
been there for decades and they're happy to be there.
22:11
Well, well, this lady and she was a lady, uh, let's call her
22:15
Doreen. I don't think that was her real
22:16
name, but she looked like a Doreen.
22:18
I have since constructed a whole like back story for her, like
22:22
how she came to Hollywood and then her Paramount contract was,
22:26
you know, dissolved once like color film came on the scene.
22:29
And she's just been like mixing salads tableside at Lowry's for
22:32
the last 60, you know, years. And but she was, she was
22:35
amazing. She was absolutely amazing.
22:37
Made my night, so thank you. Wherever you are, Doreen, and
22:41
you're probably not listening, and your name's not Doreen, but
22:44
Lowery's on La Cienega. That was quite the recommended.
22:48
It's like an experience. It's not.
22:49
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dan did have the prime rib.
22:54
I mean, that's the only, that's the only real order.
22:56
That's the move when you go there.
22:59
Well, they have the chicken. That's right.
23:01
Yeah, that's right. Yorkshire pudding in many
23:03
locations in. The US, right?
23:05
No, it was really good. Like the, the, the good.
23:08
Like the the corn and the and the you know.
23:11
The. Potatoes and so, so good.
23:14
Yeah, I'm sure it was $500.00, but it was delicious it.
23:17
Really is such an LA institution.
23:18
So that's really. Good.
23:19
You got to. So good, So good.
23:22
Yeah. Anyway, thank you Dan for a
23:24
great trip. I I am not the easiest
23:27
travelling buddy, I'll admit that, and sometimes I can be
23:30
really short. No.
23:31
Ryan just sucked it all up. I I think we got to a point
23:35
where we were driving through LA and he's like, which area is
23:37
this? And I went.
23:37
I don't fucking. Know well like dance like my you
23:42
know like he's supposed to know right like he's literally just
23:44
moving there you know and I've I've got questions like I'm a
23:47
tourist from Iowa you know it's. What's it?
23:50
Yeah, Thanks for putting up with me.
23:52
Across the LA County border, Dan's supposed to know
23:54
everything. Come on.
23:55
Right, right. And he will give him six months,
23:57
give me time. That's amazing.
24:00
Well. That's like my friends that did
24:02
the rebel. They came up with a system
24:03
beforehand where if they were being, if they felt like they
24:06
were being short with each other, they are like we always
24:08
had a bag of candy in the car so one of us could grab the candy
24:11
and hand it to the other one and it was our way.
24:13
Oh, that's great. Like, just cool it, yeah.
24:17
Lindsay, the challenge is you got to make the candy last for
24:19
longer than an hour, right? You know, that's the only.
24:22
Ryan hadn't even know the Twizzlers.
24:23
Like what do you think the plan was there?
24:28
You know, Dan referred to them as Red Vines and you know, and
24:32
maybe that's what they're called, but Red Vines are
24:33
different. Red Vines are almost like food
24:35
based, right? Twizzlers are like a plastic
24:38
based food, right? And so.
24:40
I never food. In them.
24:41
No, no, yeah, that was that was a lot.
24:46
That was a lot. But it was it was good.
24:48
It caught us through Red Bulls Celsius drinks, which I think
24:52
are like Red Bulls for wimps. We had those.
24:55
We had. What else did you pack in there?
24:57
Oh, very healthy granola bars offset.
25:00
Yeah, the the the Twizzlers. It was a party, but and then I
25:05
got it all right. I got to just let me put in a a
25:08
quick, just a quick. I don't know what you want to
25:12
call bump for Dan's new pad. Holy crap.
25:15
Dan's new pad, which we didn't actually get to see, but I got
25:19
to see the lobby and the pool on the 6th floor.
25:23
It's it's right across from the La Brea Tar Pits.
25:26
Oh my gosh, that's awesome. I mean it like the location is
25:29
awesome, you know? It's like the 12th floor, right?
25:32
Or the 12th floor, OK. Yeah.
25:34
So you have. Beautiful.
25:36
Woolly mammoth skeletons and a pool on the 12th floor.
25:38
I love it. Yeah.
25:40
Yeah, but it's a really small apartment, so.
25:43
Well, it's gorgeous. I'll be sleeping on the roof, I
25:45
think. Can we go back to You're not the
25:47
easiest travel companion? It sounds like there might be
25:49
some stories there. I didn't experience that at all.
25:54
Ryan's been too kind. I just after a week of packing
25:59
so like a constant week of packing.
26:01
Yep, then Ryan turns up helps me with that final day of packing,
26:05
which is generally here's a bag. Hold it Ryan.
26:08
I just throw loads of crap and. Dan was throwing money away.
26:12
Like it's just like, you know what, I don't have time for that
26:14
$9 in quarters. Let's just throw it in the
26:16
trash. $9 like 25. Dollars at least 18.
26:21
Yeah, I didn't eat either. You have to get ruthless.
26:26
There's a point where you get ruthless.
26:27
Yeah. I gave her part of moving
26:30
because you get to the point where you're like, oh, that
26:32
actually doesn't matter and I'm tired enough that I'm fine.
26:35
With it, Yeah, yeah. And I found a load of Porsche
26:38
stuff that I was going to Chuck out, put it in a bag and gave it
26:41
to Ryan. So that was that problem.
26:43
So he puts it in a Microsoft backpack of which he had 11,
26:47
right, I think. But yeah, so then you can't say
26:49
no to it because it's literally packed up ready to go.
26:53
And then like I'm getting looks in the airport like I work for
26:56
Microsoft so I have. A new favorite backpack.
27:00
But yeah. But grade me delta.
27:06
So, so, so to sort of paraphrase a famous line and stand by me,
27:10
there's one thing I didn't understand, Dan, and that's why
27:15
was there a set of walkie talkies in the bag you gave me,
27:18
yet you bought another set of walkie talkies?
27:21
That's a good. Question OK, so I searched for
27:23
about a day to try and find the water and I couldn't find them
27:28
and I had a storage unit I had to empty out as well as the
27:30
house. So I decided to think ahead with
27:34
all these like trips you plan ahead and you try and plan for
27:37
risk and all that sort of stuff. And I thought, well I don't know
27:39
where they are. I know I owned a pair.
27:41
Ryan, do you have a pair we can use?
27:43
No. So I ended up buying a new pair
27:46
on Amazon and then literally a couple of hours later finding
27:48
the old. Pair but it.
27:49
Was too late to cancel, yeah. I'll make a nice gift for a
27:52
ride. There you go there.
27:53
Was that how? You find when something is
27:56
missing is you buy a new one, right?
27:59
Yeah, No, the old one. I'll turn that.
28:00
Magically, yeah. Yeah, and I hope I'm not over
28:03
sharing here, but Dan lived in a very nice building, right?
28:06
I forget what it was called, but it was kind of like lofts and,
28:09
you know, and they have a near their mailroom in Seattle.
28:12
Yeah, W West Seattle. But they have a shelf for like
28:17
people who are moving out and have things they want to.
28:22
What's the the you want to pass the donate?
28:24
To the building like you off. Donate to the building, right?
28:27
Yeah, so, you know, bags of unopened coffee and coffee's
28:31
like 30 bucks a bag. So things like that, you know,
28:33
whatever. And there were things that I'm
28:34
like, damn, no one will ever take that.
28:36
And then again, this is a nice building, right?
28:38
2 seconds, they're gone. Magic.
28:40
It looks like they were magic hills like in the.
28:43
Building eaten condiment, you know, containers and things
28:46
gone, you know, but so that was fun.
28:50
But yeah, I did see. One of the maintenance guys and
28:53
his pocket was full of toothbrushes.
28:56
New toothbrushes. New toothbrushes even he has a
28:59
line right that he won't cross. Yeah, it's great, right?
29:03
Someone else can benefit from it.
29:04
Yeah, right. Yeah.
29:05
Yeah, Yeah. That's great.
29:07
Yeah. Yeah, anyway, LA man now.
29:10
Back to. OK, so Ryan, So what were your
29:14
what were your three favorite like car spotting moments on
29:17
the? Trip.
29:17
Yeah, yeah, Dan, I think owes us two more.
29:20
But you know, because I was a child and I was a child who
29:26
loved Chips, I still like, I don't know, Phil Wormanside
29:29
whenever I see like a Chips motorcycle, although they're no
29:33
longer Kawasaki's, I don't think.
29:34
I think they're Harleys and BMW's now.
29:36
But that was fun. I saw a a couple really nice
29:40
sidekicks, Suzuki sidekicks or possibly Geo trackers along the
29:45
way, which was which was interesting.
29:48
You don't see those every day even here in in Denver.
29:52
And what else? There was a hidden police car.
29:56
Yeah, that was a tricky tricky. 1.
29:58
Super crafty. Yeah.
30:00
Yeah. Like, properly hidden, not like,
30:02
Yeah, normally you get the two eating Donuts in the middle
30:05
verge, right. This one was hidden behind like
30:09
a hedge. Oh yeah.
30:10
I mean, we, I wasn't, I wasn't capable of speeding in that Ford
30:13
thing. But yeah, maybe we're going to
30:16
catch some. People, yeah, I don't to dance
30:18
mode, didn't see a whole lot of exceptional stuff until we got
30:20
to LA, right? Yeah.
30:23
But you look at the regions that you're in like the car culture
30:26
is LA of all of. Those yeah, yeah, but great car
30:29
scene in Seattle. I mean, that event we went to
30:31
was fantastic. Lots of very, very cool cars.
30:33
Great, great place. We quickly swung by the shop.
30:38
Is that what's called the the shop?
30:39
But what is it the? Yeah.
30:42
It's just the shot. OK yeah, as well.
30:45
And so that was cool to see a second place.
30:47
But but back to LA because LA Dan, I'm so happy for you
30:51
because LA is just awesome and, you know, just there's so much
30:55
energy. Car scene's great.
30:57
We we spun through the Peterson real quick, which is always a
31:00
thrill. Uh, lunch at the Minx Cafe.
31:05
It's a favorite. Of all of ours.
31:06
I mean, it's just. You can't go on that.
31:08
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, even.
31:09
The garage, you know, parking garage has good stuff so.
31:13
That's I think that's the mark of a good karma car museum as
31:16
you pull in and you're like, I don't even need to go inside and
31:19
then you go inside and it just keeps getting better.
31:21
So tell. OK, so tell us about.
31:23
In the lobby, yeah. We get in the lobby and Ryan
31:27
immediately knows someone from the ground.
31:30
Oh, yeah. Shut up.
31:31
Peter Brotman. Yeah.
31:32
Oh my gosh, whose name? His name wouldn't come to me,
31:35
you know, at first, but we figured it out.
31:39
Yeah, he was just casually dropping by.
31:42
I love Peter Brotman and his his Lamborghini is my daughter's
31:47
favorite car. Like his his literal car is her
31:49
favorite car. So hell of a car, yeah.
31:51
Purple Mira. Yeah.
31:53
No, green, green, green, I'm sorry.
31:55
Sorry, purple. Yes, yes, yes, one of.
31:57
Those purple Lambo, green Mera. Yes, yes.
32:00
That's a pretty good two-part solution, right?
32:02
Absolutely, Absolutely. Or purple Aventador.
32:05
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, Peter's just
32:07
such a character and he's so fun and.
32:09
Just he's awesome, yeah. He has a great collection
32:12
himself and like, yeah, it's always a treat to see him and
32:14
that you guys got to see the car too.
32:16
The Mera. Yes, yes, yes, very brief noise,
32:19
yeah. That's awesome.
32:21
We got to visit the new vault as well, didn't.
32:23
We Yeah. So OK, So what makes it the new
32:26
vault? Yeah, so they've expanded out
32:30
the the undercroft of the building and they've decided to
32:35
put some cool cars in there. So you've now got a guided
32:38
walkthrough. Instead of being able to just
32:41
explore wherever you want, they do a curated walkthrough.
32:45
And it's, you know, you go in there and I think a lot of it
32:50
may be staging for this new 80s and 90s exhibit is coming.
32:53
Yeah. But we walk in and there's the
32:56
Schizetta Zazetta. How do you pronounce it?
32:58
The the the. I think it's Chizetta, but.
33:03
There we go. Chizetta.
33:05
Yeah, I believe. Followed by a Pearl White 959.
33:08
Yeah. And then in the corner, there
33:11
are three Lamborghinis that Ryan took particular attraction to.
33:17
I don't believe. It yeah, you don't see an LMO 2,
33:19
you know, every day or double O2 or however, saying it these
33:21
these days. But I mean, next to then an
33:24
early Countach, right, I mean, you know, early ish countach.
33:28
I mean, it was, it was and then just positioned in a way where
33:31
it just made a great photo, right?
33:33
Like it was a, you know, the cover of it, like an 80s synth,
33:36
you know, album or something, right?
33:38
She's like, I know this song, Wait a minute.
33:40
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, It was.
33:44
It was. Yeah.
33:45
Just to add to what Dan, Dan, you know, said, it is definitely
33:48
much more of a flow. And one of the things like now
33:50
is most of the cars seem to have placards that say what they are
33:52
and why they're special, right? Because some of the cars, the
33:55
beauty of the vault, right, is some of the cars seem very
33:57
ordinary. And then you, you hear the
33:58
story, right? Like, you know, it looks like an
34:01
old Benz. And then you find out it's
34:02
Imelda Marcos's, you know, pepper spray, you know, fling
34:08
smokescreen aircraft landing light, you know, bends or
34:11
whatever, right. And so that, that was cool.
34:14
I, I just, it's, it's, it's been a transition, it's been a, it's
34:17
been an evolution that vault. And I feel like it's, it's, it's
34:20
really where it needs to be now and just just awesome.
34:23
It's one of the one of the best things about the museum,
34:25
honestly so. It is well and I think among
34:28
like between the three of us, we've been lucky to see like
34:30
almost all of the iterations of it, which makes it even more
34:33
interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
34:36
It's just such a great place. It was fun to see, you know, the
34:38
80s nineties exhibit billboards popping up, you know, all over
34:43
LA. That one is going to be a
34:44
banger. So make sure that you go check
34:47
that out. That sounds like Matt Farah.
34:49
Sorry. Hey, we.
34:51
Have our influences right? Imitation is the sincerest form
34:55
of. Flattery, right?
34:55
That's, that's, that's right. What's the one?
34:58
We're going to mob that car. The next time we're just going
35:01
to mob it. But so you guys mobbed the
35:03
moving van down the West Coast? That's what I'm hearing.
35:05
As much as a moving van could be mobbed, right?
35:09
We got bricked up is. That another place, right?
35:16
Yeah, hate to tell. You.
35:17
It's actually blue licorice. Yeah.
35:22
Yeah, surprised. Oh, man, yeah, although that,
35:25
that we talked about this once, I think on the steering
35:27
committee, there's that licorice that you tear off and it's
35:30
filled with something and it is like blue or something and it is
35:33
just like crack. I I don't know what it it's like
35:36
a filled licorice. I don't know.
35:37
Look it up. It's it's so good.
35:38
It's just that's next level. A pound of that would probably
35:41
kill you, but you know it's. If you want Rome to move a car
35:45
for you, you just have to promise him that licorice.
35:48
Filled licorice notice. Since I was a little kid, that
35:51
has been a a working currency with me.
35:54
Yeah. That's that's all it takes.
35:56
You know they got ramen noodles and honey buns in prison, right?
36:01
So while we were causing chaos on the I-5 S, what have you been
36:06
up to? Yeah, well, I got to go to thank
36:10
you to Jaguar Land Rover. I got to go to the Land Rover
36:13
Defender Experience at the Quail in Carmel and offer some
36:17
Defenders. Nice.
36:19
The weekend was for Mother's Day, and so that was my second
36:23
time off roading Defenders. I got to.
36:25
The first time I got to do it was at the Destination Defender
36:27
event in Malibu in November in the fall.
36:31
It's a rough life. You know, like I am happy to
36:34
take one for the team so I can bring it back and share with all
36:37
of. You next time take the team
36:39
please. Right.
36:39
Yeah, that's the goal, right? We get to the point where the
36:43
whole team gets to go. So this was a really cool event.
36:47
Land Rover put it together and it was offered to Defender
36:49
owners, so their customers. But it was the weekend before
36:52
Mother's Day, and so they offered it as a Mother's Day,
36:55
like, celebration and experience for women to come and bring
36:58
their defenders and put the cars through their paces and really
37:02
experience where these cars truly shine.
37:05
I mean, this is what they're designed for.
37:07
Like, this is their history. I was talking to Jeff Ahudin,
37:11
who handles PR for JLR North America, and he said, you know,
37:16
a lot of the customers don't realize, like, the green Oval
37:19
badge, like, it really does still mean what it has meant
37:21
through the history of the brand.
37:23
And they are still incredibly capable and as much as they're
37:27
used for the school run and daily life, that's one of my
37:31
favorite things about them is that you can drive them to the
37:35
off road area and it's a lovely drive there because you have all
37:38
the creature comforts and then you can kick ass on the trails
37:42
and then drive it home and be just as comfortable.
37:45
But I mean, and really the team at the Quail location, like
37:51
could not have been nicer. They all had incredible stories,
37:54
like Sterling in particular, who runs the school, and then
37:57
Brenton, who's one of the head instructors.
37:59
Sterling. And I got to chat for a minute
38:01
because it turned out that my dad was actually at a vintage
38:03
race event at Laguna Seca, which is just a few minutes from
38:07
Quail. And they were nice enough to
38:09
loan me a brand new 1:30 to go to the track to see my dad
38:13
because like, we're, we're like 20 minutes apart.
38:16
You've got to, you know, like I have to take advantage of this
38:19
and spend some time with him and like, you know, that's always
38:22
nice. So got to go in the paddock with
38:23
him. It was an SVRA event and his
38:27
friend that he cruised for during Car Week who has the 65R
38:33
Clone Mustang that he races. They were racing there because
38:36
to qualify for the vintage races at Car Week, you have to race
38:39
two or three times during the year ahead of it.
38:42
And then you tell them like here's where I've raced and they
38:44
look at the qualifications and then you get in for Car Week.
38:47
So they were there doing that, one of the qualifying races.
38:50
So I got to go in the paddock and it was a very interesting
38:53
class. It's much more diverse than
38:56
during car week where it's more specific, you know, time period
38:59
or make of car. Like the car next to him was a
39:02
935 Interscope car Porsche, yeah, which was stunning.
39:07
And there was another 935. There was a brand new Aston
39:09
Martin in his class. Really.
39:11
Oh that would be awesome to. Watch really cool mix of cars
39:16
you know so it was it was like the perfect weekend for me
39:19
because I got a taste of like being at the track and vintage
39:22
racing and I got to do it from the comfort of this amazing 130
39:27
and then go back and hang out at quail with.
39:29
There were some other women in the media who were there to
39:32
cover the event. And then the next day we got to
39:34
meet up with the customers who had joined as well.
39:38
And there was 1 gal in particular.
39:40
She had brought her 12 and 14 year old daughters with her as a
39:45
Mother's Day experience. So well, you know, when we did
39:49
the day, they went through a bunch of different exercises
39:51
with us and we started out just doing kind of basic trail like
39:55
crawling and driving and learning, learning the cars
39:58
really in their capability because they have all of this
40:01
technological, you know, support basically that lets you off road
40:05
with confidence and the cars do so much of it, but not in a way
40:09
that it takes away from your experience.
40:10
It really just. You know, you can depend on them
40:13
and they're designed to do this so you could sort of just relax
40:16
and enjoy the actual off roading.
40:18
But then we got to one part that they were calling the Fulcrum
40:21
where we were learning like how do you go over a really steep
40:24
obstacle? And at one point, you know, like
40:27
the front left tire was 4 feet off the ground.
40:30
And they're, you know, that's when we started learning how to
40:33
spot for each other and how you work with a spotter because a
40:36
lot of times you can't talk to each other.
40:38
And so they had Daphne Green works with the school and she is
40:42
a legend in the off roading world.
40:45
She's done the Camel trophy for a long, long, long time.
40:48
And she's just this amazing mix of like warmth and humility and
40:53
just like badassery. And she absolutely knows
40:56
everything there is to know about off roading.
40:59
And she's worked with Land Rover for a long time.
41:02
And so she was my spotter going over the.
41:04
Fulcrates. I'm like, listen, I don't know
41:07
whose life this is, but I'm so happy.
41:09
Yeah, yeah. But it's a wild experience
41:12
because, you know, you inch forward, Yeah.
41:15
And you know, the car is going to tip forward the front wheel,
41:18
you know, and you're doing the opposite.
41:20
The back wheel then is 4 feet in the air.
41:22
And I had this really fun gal with me, Steph Kay.
41:26
She's from the Bay Area, and she normally covers food, but she
41:28
was there to cover this off road experience.
41:31
And she let me drive the fulcrum.
41:34
And after we did it, I said, how was that being a passenger?
41:36
You know, I'm in control. I'm like, there's an element of
41:40
you have a little better sense of what's happening in the
41:43
moment. And I so I said, how was that as
41:46
a passenger? She said, you know, it wasn't
41:47
actually as sort of drastic as we both had.
41:49
And I said, yeah, me too. And she just held up her phone.
41:54
She's like, Are you sure? And it was me making this
41:57
shocked face as the car settled onto the front wheel.
42:00
We need to see that that's. We'll find it.
42:04
But yeah, I mean, and then we had, I think the most memorable
42:07
moment was at the end they had us really experience the hill
42:11
descent control, which is kind of one of their signature, you
42:14
know, like capabilities of the cars and you descend the hill,
42:18
the car handles it so you don't brake, which goes against every
42:23
human instinct that you. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
42:25
And you know, Sterling and I had gotten to know each other.
42:28
We got to talk on Friday when he got me set up with the 1:30 and
42:31
then he ended up being our coach for a good chunk of the day on
42:34
Saturday. So we've gotten to talk a lot.
42:36
And he came up to the car and he said, all right, I've set the
42:40
and one of the interesting ways is the way you control the speed
42:42
for the hill descent control is you use the cruise control so
42:45
you can set the maximum and the minimum speed.
42:48
So he came up and he's like, all right, I've set your cruise
42:50
control, You're all set. And he said, I'm going to walk
42:52
you up to the edge. And it was like, if you've ever
42:55
been on track at Laguna Seca, when you go down the Corkscrew,
42:58
there's a moment where all you see is the nose of the car and
43:00
the sky. So this was like the off road
43:03
equivalent of that because we got to the edge of this hill and
43:06
all I could see was the nose of the car down.
43:09
And so he's like, all right, I'm going to walk you up to the edge
43:12
and then you're going to take your foot off the brake.
43:14
And he's like, and the only thing that you have to do is not
43:18
touch the brake the entire way down.
43:19
Wow. Yeah.
43:20
And it was, you know, for me, like, I'm just getting started
43:24
off roading. It was a 26° incline, which was
43:29
significant for me. And I really had to talk myself
43:32
into taking my foot off the brake.
43:34
But that was me. And the car, like, the car
43:38
handles it like a champ, as you would expect.
43:39
Like, they're so good. But so it's an exercise in
43:43
character building of like, OK, got to trust the equipment.
43:46
So where at the quail is this? I'm trying to picture where you
43:49
were. So there's the lodge where
43:54
there's kind of like the Golf Club, which is right by where
43:57
the quail like event is during car week, right on the golf
44:01
course. It's right across the main road
44:03
from that, the school. And then you go back into the
44:06
hills behind the. Resort.
44:07
OK, cool. And they have, I think like 120
44:09
or 130 acres of trails. No kidding.
44:12
So well kept secret because Land Rover are permanently there.
44:15
They've got a. Right.
44:16
They have that. That's what I learned when I
44:19
went to the event in the fall is they have three permanent
44:21
schools. One's at Quail and Carmel, 1 is
44:24
in Asheville, NC, and then one's in Vermont.
44:26
And then they also have a mobile team that moves around the US.
44:30
And that was, that's the team that does the Destination
44:32
Defender events because they move, you know, they have them
44:34
in New York, they've done them in Austin, obviously Malibu.
44:37
So yeah, this event was part of sort of letting the community
44:42
know that it's something that they have available and hoping
44:45
more people take advantage. And Lindsay, you talked about
44:49
Laguna Seca. I think we should congratulate
44:52
firstly, the friends of Laguna Seca because last week they
44:55
announced a very significant partnership.
44:58
They've partnered with Porsche. Yes, Porsche is now the official
45:01
car of Laguna Seca. It's amazing.
45:04
They're looking at they can have a driving school there as well.
45:06
So yeah, sign me up. Yeah, I know.
45:09
That's awesome. Congratulations all around.
45:11
And it sounds like the race track is safe, which is what we
45:13
all want to hear. And yeah.
45:16
Yeah, a long a long history to continue.
45:19
Excellent. One of my favorite places.
45:21
Yeah, yeah. So yes, highly recommend,
45:24
especially if you have a defender because I think if you
45:26
own a defender it even comes with a portion or a day at one
45:29
of the schools. And.
45:31
You know, you really get to enjoy what those cars are
45:34
designed to do. Yeah, yeah, it's Sterling.
45:37
Has Sterling been with Land Rover for like decades or am I
45:40
thinking of someone else? So you might be thinking of
45:42
Sterling Moss, who Oh my Sterling actually met at Laguna
45:48
Seca, Oh. It's yours, Sterling now isn't
45:50
it? Now he's my Sterling.
45:54
I know I left and I went OK. I just.
45:56
I want Daphne Green in my pocket or on my folder all the time.
45:58
I want Sterling in my pocket all the time.
46:00
Like just just like such an amazing team and they really
46:04
love what they're doing. And they were so excited to
46:07
share it with everybody who was there and make sure that
46:10
everybody had a good time and felt comfortable and felt
46:13
confident. And, you know, I mean, one of
46:16
one of the people in the group was this really incredible
46:19
woman. I want to say she was late 70s,
46:21
early 80s. She showed up.
46:23
She has a Defender 90. It's gorgeous.
46:24
She had found it, you know, sourced it and bought it
46:27
herself. And she was definitely the
46:30
oldest in the group. But like, what a badass.
46:33
I mean she. Did absolutely.
46:34
She'd all be so badass. They had her go 1st and she was
46:38
like, Oh my gosh, of course you know, everybody's watching.
46:40
Me. Yeah, Yeah.
46:41
And, yeah, I mean, she was a widow.
46:43
And she said, you know, of course would I rather be doing
46:45
this with my partner? But that's not how life unfolds.
46:47
So it was such an example of resilience and, like, never stop
46:52
learning. Never stop trying new things,
46:54
like, you know, get out of your own way in a sense.
46:57
And, like, just say yes to things.
46:59
I mean, it was so amazing. And the reason I asked about
47:02
Sterling is years ago I did a Land Rover, just a day long
47:05
driving school with a guy and Sterling, like that's the name
47:09
you want, right? If you yeah, that role.
47:10
Right. Well, he has been with the
47:12
company off and on for I think 15 years.
47:14
So it's. Possible OK, that would that
47:16
would track. I mean, I think I did it in my
47:19
parents discovery too. So that was probably at least 15
47:22
years ago, but I remember just learning so much in that, you
47:26
know, day, right? You know, then, you know, and so
47:29
much of it is counterintuitive, right?
47:32
And of course, now the tech and you know, the vehicles
47:34
themselves have come so much further along.
47:36
How is the 130 have only ever driven the 110 in in the new?
47:40
Defense, I was really excited to try it because I'd only driven
47:43
the 110 also. Yeah, well, this will be great.
47:45
I can share with you guys, you know, I could share with our
47:47
fans and, and just for my own personal experience because I
47:50
see them, you know, occasionally on the school run or whatever.
47:53
They look good. They look, they look.
47:54
Proportions are right, Yeah. I think the, I think they all
47:57
look great at this point. They've done such a good job
47:59
with the design. And so that was one of the first
48:02
things I did when I got in was look in the rearview mirror and
48:04
turn around and look behind me to see like, does it look like a
48:06
wind tunnel? Because it is longer, You know,
48:08
it's about two feet longer than the 110.
48:11
And what's so crazy is that it looks the same as a 110.
48:14
They've done such a good job with the design that you don't
48:17
notice that it's so much longer. And like, I took it from quail
48:22
to the track and I went over a Lorealist grade for those
48:24
familiar with the area, which is a very fun road.
48:27
And, you know, I thought this will be a good test of the car
48:30
because it's not a light car, obviously.
48:32
And that's a challenging Rd. You go up quite a bit and down
48:35
and it's windy. And the only limitation was I
48:37
got stuck behind somebody that was really slow.
48:41
He. Would not have Land Rover.
48:43
Right. I'm like, listen, come on now.
48:45
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
48:47
No, it was. So awesome.
48:48
I we need to just get out and do more of this stuff.
48:51
You know, just more of these opportunities.
48:53
There's a Rocky Mountain Automotive press event coming up
48:56
here in a few weeks. They do every spring and there's
48:59
a whole portfolio cars. Apparently there's an Arturo
49:01
this year, so that'll be fun. Well, you got to drive a
49:05
defender last year with the Steelys on it, right?
49:07
God, a couple of times and I fell in love with it.
49:10
You know, just that would be the one I would want if it wasn't
49:13
the 2 door, the short wheelbase with the giant V8.
49:17
So how about our how about our friend Jay on Spike's car radio?
49:22
How about our friend Jay on Spike's?
49:24
Car. It's always so fun to hear Jay
49:26
and I think it felt like he delved a little more into the
49:29
story, kind of of Sheffield. This time because he's been on.
49:32
Before and we've heard sort of a rough framework, but.
49:35
Have you been on spikes before? He's been on spikes before, but
49:38
it's been a. Bit yeah, OK, OK OK because
49:41
yeah, he he's great. He's just he's such a modest guy
49:44
such a nice guy, right. And I absolutely love what he's
49:47
doing with the watches and, you know, just that green watch is
49:51
so cool. Some of the stuff that's in the
49:52
pipeline and we need to have him on you know, we we had him on
49:56
the steering committee, had him on the road show, but we need to
49:59
have him on that car show. He always comes bearing gifts,
50:03
which is. Nice bonus.
50:04
I mean, we're not going to complain about that, right?
50:06
No, that's so Jay, if you're listing the next time you're in,
50:10
you're in town, one of these towns, right, because we.
50:12
Can do this remotely Anyone of the?
50:13
Town hell, you don't even have to be here, we just give you a
50:15
link right? That's how this works.
50:17
So love to have you back on. So I know he's, he's just such
50:21
a, he's such a generous, like just such a genuine generous
50:24
person, which is like makes it even more fun.
50:27
And yeah, I mean, yeah. Should we do a wrist check?
50:29
I have my Navy face one on. I I I have an explorer 2 on
50:34
tonight that oh. And has Speaking of green
50:38
watches. Yeah, yeah, yes.
50:40
But the point is that those watches in Sheffield, Yeah.
50:44
Live, live happily next to these, you know, that's right.
50:48
But I think at this point I actually probably wear my
50:49
Sheffield watches more than anything else, right?
50:52
They just, I don't know, they're easier to live with, so.
50:55
Well, and I feel like they're so you can, I mean, dress them up
50:59
and dress them down like they go with everything.
51:02
And it's like if it's a casual outfit, it elevates it.
51:04
If it's a dressy outfit, they fit right in and they're so
51:07
useful and functional and you don't stress about like, oh, I
51:11
bumped it into something. Or whatever.
51:12
I just. I they're my favorite,
51:14
absolutely. I've said before, I'll say it
51:16
again, I get more compliments on my Sheffield's or more questions
51:19
than I ever have with Rolex or any other brands.
51:22
So, yeah, you know, so do you remember that button, the now
51:25
you know button? Yeah.
51:27
I've had so many, like I was at Willow I think in the fall and I
51:31
was taking pictures and I somebody saw me taking a picture
51:34
of my watch with the Willow sign and they were like, what's that?
51:36
And they had never heard of the brand.
51:37
And I got to tell them all about it and they're like, I'm going
51:39
to check that out when I get home.
51:40
Absolutely. Yeah, so.
51:42
It's it's a conversation starter on top of.
51:44
Absolutely. Absolutely.
51:46
Yeah. But what else do we know?
51:47
I mean, it's damn near an hour, but Dan, you are are fully
51:51
ensconced in in this hotel room in LA waiting to move into your
51:55
your actual place this weekend. Feeling good?
51:59
Yes, I it's been a long week, so I'll be happy when I'm Yeah, so
52:04
it's been nice too. I pinged you earlier and you
52:07
said, Oh yeah, I was just hanging out by the pool.
52:11
How? Was yesterday Ryan?
52:13
How was yesterday? I felt like I deserved it after.
52:18
I think it's because this TV is keeps changing.
52:21
I can't change it. So it's he's.
52:24
Just he's treating us to the mood lighting in his very nice
52:26
hotel. It's a colloidal silver that we
52:29
were talking about before the last show.
52:32
Right, I'm on a new health kick. I'm looking a little blue.
52:36
Anyway, that's right, That's right.
52:38
Yeah, until that candy. Back to the filled licorice.
52:44
Nice call back. Where'd we go?
52:46
Any of the car stuff guys? I mean, I feel like there's
52:51
always car stuff, right? Yeah, yeah, I'm.
52:54
At the Advance Wagon Fest. This weekend, yeah.
52:57
That's Monday, Peterson. Adam Peterson and I believe Matt
53:02
Farah is going to be bringing his Tycam with HRE wheels, so I
53:09
guess he's doing a partnership with Advance and you can get
53:12
stickers of his car. Oh that's awesome, I got to see
53:15
the car at Air Water and it looks fantastic with the new
53:18
wheels on it. Nice, nice, nice.
53:20
Lindsay, you going to be anywhere?
53:24
I may just be on PCH just doing some informal car spotting.
53:27
Something something good. Well, I hope to be at the Fuel
53:31
Fed Boulder event on Sunday and then also Vance is doing an
53:33
event here on Saturday. But my daughter, my 12 year old
53:37
daughter is doing her first 5K on Saturday and I don't know
53:39
that I can have a great time and hope to see my Fuel friends in
53:43
Boulder on Sunday. So yeah, that's awesome.
53:48
Real quick. It is.
53:50
It is. There's I'm not doing the. 5K
53:52
with her. There was a time I could have
53:55
done that, but that time is not now.
53:58
But you're going to be there to support.
54:00
That's what matters. Absolutely, Absolutely.
54:01
We're proud of her and she's. She I got her a Myers Manx Cafe,
54:06
a sweatshirt that she very proudly wore to school.
54:10
This. Yeah, you know the look with
54:13
your. Daughter Lindsay.
54:14
Right. They wear these oversized
54:15
sweatshirts and, you know, yeah, there's a whole.
54:18
Yeah, that and the braces, like there's a lot.
54:21
Of like 12 year milestones, absolutely, absolutely.
54:24
But just a quick. Reminder if I may, if you're
54:27
listening, thank you. Make sure that you do follow us
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on Instagram. It's that car show podcast and
54:33
then us individually and make sure you subscribe, you rate and
54:36
review whether it's on Apple podcasts or Spotify or what have
54:41
you right wherever you find your we.
54:45
May have some stickers. For you in the very near future,
54:47
absolutely, Absolutely, yeah. Stick them wherever you can.
54:52
Bathroom stalls, flag poles, mailboxes back in EU halls.
54:58
That's that's right. That's great, Dan.
55:01
We'll look back and laugh. I mean, we actually already are
55:04
so right, you know? Right.
55:05
Right. Sign of a good fight.
55:06
I haven't. Returned it yet?
55:08
Though so we. Can't just return on Saturday
55:11
afternoon. May just fall in love with it.
55:13
Never want to. Wish me luck.
55:16
Yeah, stay tuned for part. Two, I guess next week, right?
55:19
Yeah, absolutely don't go moving anytime soon.
55:21
Though stay where you are, right?
55:24
On that note, always be driving. We're that car.
55:27
Show and we'll see you next week.
55:28
Thanks for joining us. Thanks.
55:30
Good night.