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That Porsche Girl Lara Newton. And Lindsey’s Perfect Lap. · That Car Show

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  This is after seven days getting up at 6:00 in the morning,
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  driving all day, drinking all night, smoking their lungs out.
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  Today on that car show, Precision driver and a Porsche
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  brand ambassador, that Porsche girl, Laura Newton.
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  We've got rallies, singers, French people being French,
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  Italian cars being Italian. Oh, and Lindsay gets engaged.
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  This is a fun one. Stay tuned.
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  Well, welcome back to this week's episode of that Car Show.
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  I'm Lindsay, and I'm here with Ryan.
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  And tonight we have my very good friend Laura Newton, whose
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  Instagram is that Porsche girl joining us.
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  Hi, Laura. Hi, how are you doing?
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  Hi. Good, Thanks so much for joining
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  us. So I wanted to give a little
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  intro about you. We met through Instagram.
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  As all good things, you know, these days, Laura's a precision
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  driver. She has doubled for actresses
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  including Julia Roberts, Mary Louise Parker, Jennifer Connelly
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  and Jennifer Coolidge, who is having a renaissance right now.
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  Yeah. And Laura has driven in
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  commercials for Ford, Ferrari and Mercedes.
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  And she's been a brand ambassador with Porsche for many
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  years now. She has an amazing Instagram
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  account, That Porsche Girl, where she's made a name for
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  herself with her unique, engaging content celebrating
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  Ryan's favorite mark Porsche. Laura and I met through
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  Instagram, like I said, and I think our friendship is
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  emblematic of what the car world has meant, at least for my life,
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  because we connected through cars.
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  And the first time that we met, we talked for I think probably
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  five hours and we never actually even talked about cars.
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  Yeah. Because, you know, I think like
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  Bassem and we've all said like cars open the door, but then you
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  immediately start to discover common life experiences.
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  I'm very lucky that over the last few years, Lara and her
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  boyfriend Lee and their family have been amazing friends to me
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  and my daughter. And at this point, we've been on
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  too many adventures to count all over, you know, Southern
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  California, multiple car weeks. And our most recent big
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  adventure was retro mobile in Paris in February.
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  Yeah, so it's true what they say.
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  Be careful who you meet on the Internet.
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  You might find yourself with a new best friend in Paris.
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  Yeah. So welcome, Laura.
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  Thank you for joining us. Thanks.
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  For having me, I'm excited. I just realized it's that car
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  show. First time I'm like, oh, we are
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  right in tune with each other. I love it.
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  Yeah, Was that? I don't think I realized that
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  until today. I don't think it was.
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  Honestly, purpose, it was that car show.
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  I wasn't even thinking. And then you said that car show
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  and I was like, because I said the other day, the best name
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  again, I'm like. Tell me again, yeah.
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  It's amazing how many names are taken, right, as you know,
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  right? Whether it's Instagram, whether
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  it's car podcast, but everyone's got a podcast, right?
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  So you know. At this point, yeah, I.
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  Know some of us have had three. Right.
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  Yeah, it was. It was a very interesting
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  discussion coming up with the name.
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  And I think what was funny about this one too, is that we all
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  thought it was taken. We thought we had reached into
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  it and somehow it made itself known again to us.
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  And we went, wait a minute. We love that.
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  And the name was really everything.
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  I mean, I was saying that to you because like to get that name is
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  really, I mean, it just encompasses everything too,
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  because I, I've even said to you, I wish I was that car girl
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  instead of that Porsche girl. And you know, and I've said that
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  since the beginning because, you know, it really limits you, but
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  it also puts you in a situation where other people like they
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  know of you as that one entity, but it also does stick.
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  So I've found out to use you my name and I keep going back to
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  it, you know, and and just because also now everything's
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  been built under that name. So like any Google searches, Is
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  that so? I just feel like I'm going to
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  stick with it. Absolutely.
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  That's who we know you as. We've got a ton of followers, so
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  yeah, yeah. How'd this also?
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  Something wrong, lady? Yeah, yeah.
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  Share. A little bit about like your
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  background, what you do, you know, up to this point and then
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  how you got into Instagram and like, were you always into cars?
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  Well, always, I mean, I think I've said this on every podcast,
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  so it's a little boring if anybody's seen any other ones.
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  But I I've just always been into cars since I was like 12 years
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  old. But even before that, I remember
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  being five years old and I think I've told this this story as
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  well, but I I saw like a giant race truck and I was like, that
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  person looks so cool. And it's not my aesthetic at
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  all. But at the time I don't.
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  Think I've ever heard that part. It's, it stood out so much.
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  And I was like, oh, it'd be so cool, you know, like maybe
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  someone was making fun of me that day if my mom just drove up
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  in a big race truck and then I got in with my 27 brothers, you
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  know, and my brother would never have defended me.
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  He'd be like. And.
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  Stupid so I I was kind of impressed by that from a
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  neighbor of a friend of mine who had one I was like, I wish that
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  was mine that's. What I need?
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  That would do every everybody so like impressed.
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  That would fix it. And then at 12:00, I've always
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  really what started was my mom used to hand the wheel to me
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  when I was really little, like 5 and 6.
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  I was shifting and she'd go OK shift from first to second, OK
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  2nd to 3rd and she would be doing her makeup and and.
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  What were you driving? Started to interrupt, but like
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  what were you driving at the time?
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  Were you? Shifting hate me the first one.
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  Oh well, you know what? This is really going to date me
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  because it was it was 3 on the tree.
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  Oh wow. OK.
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  And then she had a Chevette and sure.
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  Yeah. No, it's.
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  I don't know. I don't know if I was still
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  yeah, I think that was still stick.
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  And then yeah, it was for sure because I used to drove, I drove
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  it around the block and almost got in a car accident with it,
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  but. That's neither here nor there at
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  this point. The limitations and all that in
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  the long. Past imagine this is like her,
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  her mirror, you know, and she'd go grab the wheel and she would
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  do her makeup. And so I just needed to grab the
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  wheel and she did it one time to a friend of mine.
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  She's like grab the wheel and she the girl was 16 and had a
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  license and she goes, she just grabbed the wheel like and we
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  just headed off the road, you know, and I'm like, Oh my God,
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  what is wrong with you? And she goes, why did you do
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  that? Just grab the wheel, like, what
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  are you doing? And I was like.
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  You can't. You can't just pass the wheel to
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  anyone in the car. It has to be a trained precision
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  driver. But then it kind of shifted
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  because my, my mom has a friend and she, I was 12 years old and
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  she was going to go over and have a glass of wine with her
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  friend who just got a car. And she's like, come on over.
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  I just bought this car and she was a single woman.
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  She didn't have a husband. I say this all the time.
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  This is because this is really the origin story of Porsche for
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  me. And she, we went over there and
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  she had a brand new Porsche. And I was like, Oh yeah, like,
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  you know, I and I'm not married. Yeah, I can have one too,
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  because all the wives in our neighborhood had the minivans
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  and the, and the, you know, the SU VS and stuff.
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  And I was like, oh, she's, she's an executive.
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  She's like, she's like a man. Like this is really cool.
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  And so she was, she was just. And she wasn't, I always say
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  this, it's terrible because. But I say it because she wasn't
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  like this beautiful Barbie doll. She was like kind of very like,
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  you know, executive lady, you know, and real found her so and
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  just it was like I was just completely enthralled by it and
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  I was like, someday I'm going to own one too.
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  And it really was like to the point.
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  That was your taproot. That was your taproot portion.
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  It really was. And the first time I drove 1, I
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  think I was, I was 21 and I was so excited.
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  And I was my boyfriend car. He was a rich kid and I I was
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  driving it everywhere. And I passed him twice on
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  Beverly Blvd. He was at lunch.
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  He's like, you're really enjoying the car, huh?
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  I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I can get used to like,
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  yeah, you're going everywhere. I'm like, yeah, that's right.
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  But as as a kid who grew up with like Chevettes and minivans, I
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  mean, that was like a spaceship. I remember, remember that we, we
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  had Volkswagens, right? Like diesel Volkswagens.
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  Then we had a neighbor that had a 9/11 turbo, right?
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  Oh, yeah. That was just what is.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Aspirational and.
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  I had a neighbor that worked for DeLorean.
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  He had a DeLorean. Were you kidding?
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  Yeah. And then the whole scandal was
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  coming out and he had the DeLorean in the neighborhood.
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  It was really funny. But yeah, so we like.
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  Yeah, it was. That's pretty wild that you saw
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  one being used in real life because I mean, yeah, like a
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  data. Yeah.
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  I mean, you know, my reference for them is obviously Back to
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  the Future and then like as collector cars, but to see one
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  actually in real life is pretty unique.
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  Yeah, yeah, it really was. I don't think I had ever seen
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  one before or after for a long time.
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  Talk about spaceship you. Know yeah, I was pretty young at
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  that time but I didn't really log it in but I was always
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  enthralled by cars so I knew you know my mom would be like how do
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  you know What Car that is and I'm like I don't like you just
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  don't know just. It's just a thing, isn't it?
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  It's like built in, isn't it? It's yeah.
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  I mean, it really is like, are there other hobbies where it's
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  in our DNA like that? Because you think about, you
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  know, I mean, even my dad where like he's the one that exposed
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  me to the car hobby. Like his parents were not into
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  cars. He has always been a car guy,
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  like always, always. And so it's, you know, you just
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  never know. But I think you really are born
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  a car person And it it just depends on when you put it
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  together yourself and realize, yeah, that's where your passion
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  is. And did you grew up in in sorry,
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  Socal or? Yeah, yeah.
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  So, OK, so there were cars around and yeah.
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  Yeah, we saw them. I mean, we definitely saw like a
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  lot of Mercedes, a lot of you know, Porsches and stuff like
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  that. But you know, so I did get to
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  see them. It wasn't like I was so
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  enthralled with I I really liked how they were fast, but I wasn't
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  one. Believe it or not, after the
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  monster truck situation, which. You're going to have to check
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  that box eventually, right? I mean, I'm glad I did early,
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  but it was, you know, it was just we saw them all the time.
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  Like we saw nice cars and stuff like that.
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  But so I haven't ever been very obsessed with cars in that way
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  of like when I see a car, like when people are like really
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  trying to impress me. Like where do you see this
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  collection? I'll go.
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  I've seen it probably. Well.
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  It's like we talk about that. I mean, I think you and I are
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  very aware of how lucky we are to get to see the stuff that we
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  see in Southern California, in Orange County and Los Angeles,
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  particularly just driving around.
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  I mean, I've said before Car Week last year, I was at a
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  stoplight and realized there was a Koenigsegg like at the other
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  light, just just sitting there. And I think what's funny is
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  Laura and I laugh and we go, It would be really easy to get
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  like, bored almost because you go like we're seeing, you know,
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  you go to Newport. If you don't see a Ferrari
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  within 5 minutes, something's off the universe.
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  I mean, I always have my phone kind of ready to get catched,
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  you know, I'll be driving all like, oh, there as, you know, I
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  get something I don't. When you catch all these, I'm
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  like, you have to be ready, you know?
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  Yeah, well, in like years of practice and if you're
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  surrounded by them, you get really good at it because it's
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  like Derek Powell and I were laughing about it the other day.
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  Like the rage that you feel as a car person when you try to catch
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  a picture of something and you miss it and you're just like.
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  Isn't it interesting though, how like just the term exotic car
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  has really fallen out of favor? Like when we were young.
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  I mean, these were well. It meant this was something too.
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  They weren't really. They weren't commodity cars,
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  right? Yeah.
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  And the people that bought them, I think in a lot of ways they
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  actually drove them. Whereas now it's like it's the
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  10th car or the 20th car and they're like, yeah, we just, we
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  need one of those and like nobody's ever going to drive it.
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  That's it's, it's different now for sure.
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  But you know, but we also like even getting to see all these
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  amazing things. I think the TrueCar people,
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  like, we still appreciate it. We still get excited about it,
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  even if it's the 10th or 20th one we've seen because we do
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  understand we're. Lunatics too, like we go to
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  brunch all the time and or drinks or whatever right over by
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  my house and like any car that goes by, we're both like so
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  yeah, I mean so we both at the same time and SO2 car people is
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  really obnoxious. Right.
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  Yeah. Like it's a miracle if we finish
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  the sentence, right? Yeah, we don't.
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  Like, especially because a lot of the cars, you hear them
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  coming and so we're both at the window.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, it's something good.
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  What have you seen recently that's really like off the
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  charts? Oh wow.
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  Well. Put you on the spot, but.
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  Well, I was recently. Got back from Europe too.
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  So well, yeah, yeah. Talk about that then.
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  Yeah. It's well, let's talk about that
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  because I, I mean, the, the cars that I saw in it was funny
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  because in, even in Paris, there's a lot of Porsches and
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  things like that. But but actually I went days and
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  days without seeing them sometimes because I was staying
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  up in different areas like Montmartre and like not just it
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  wasn't more where people cruise around, you know, if you go down
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  to the east less. Car heavy, Yeah.
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  So, but yeah, we, I went to go to a rally called Torto.
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  It's looks like Tor Auto and it's Petro Auto which looks like
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  Peter Auto. That's my new Instagram account.
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  Because I was like Peter Auto and they're like, oh, Petro
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  Auto. And I was.
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  Like that's exactly what I said. Yes, that's correct.
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  That's funny. That group owns many, many
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  rallies and, and like I think even Le Mans Classic and all
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  those different ones, it's under the umbrella of Pedro Alto.
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  So and so I went to do media on the Toro Alto when we chose that
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  as opposed to driving it because it's very intense.
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  It's a seven day extravaganza. It's just from Paris down to the
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  South of France. Either they end in satchel pay
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  or they end in Nice or they end in Monica or whatever.
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  And we ended in Nice. And it was, I mean, from the
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  second it started to the end was just my, it was such a
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  highlight. I mean, I can't even say enough
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  about it because it was so intense.
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  So everyone was so close knit. It was a lot of French people.
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  So if you don't speak French, it would be kind of awkward,
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  probably because there's. A lot of time like eh.
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  Yeah, no, I mean, even me, I speak fluent French.
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  But when you're with people who are like, oh, they kind of like
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  they talk really quick and they're under their breath and
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  I'm like, you need to be like facing me.
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  So I'm reading your lips as well sometimes.
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  But I, you know, you get used to it, then you're like, all right,
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  I'm in the groove, you know, have a glass of campaign.
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  I'm like, I'm right there with you.
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  That'll do it. Yeah, Yeah.
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  So what kind of cars were these? Like is there a certain age
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  group? OK.
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  So like pre 60 or? No, if they have a time period,
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  there was like, I mean there was such a mix.
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  There was like old Ferraris and little Fiats and Mustang and
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  sometimes. He just.
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  I don't like Bush. Oh yeah, and you know a friend
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  of mine, JP Gadjic, who is, yeah, he's ATV guy.
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  Mustang enthusiast? Yeah.
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  His wife were in this black and white half and half.
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  They called it Cruella. Oh, nice.
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  Like right down the middle of that's.
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  French, right? Yeah, and so that was really
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  cool. And and there's a couple of
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  videos I have of him just blasting by us all in pit lane.
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  And so every day is is a different track.
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  And there's a regularity group too.
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  So the regularity people are all tooling around in the mountains
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  and people are just going balls to the wall at the at the the
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  races. So it is so intense.
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  And even as media, when we were leaving, we'd be like, OK, we
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  can get to breakfast at this time a little bit later because
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  we were up like all night just talking.
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  And it was a friend of mine. And we were just like up every
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  single night, you know, having so much fun.
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  And then at the end, everyone comes back, everyone has a
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  champagne. The cars all get disassembled by
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  their teams. It's like, it's like proper
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  racing. And they don't pull back.
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  So a lot of the guys are real race car drivers.
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  Like you can't just do the race section if you think that you're
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  good. You have to be a real driver.
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  If I would have been in regularity.
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  So we were like, no, we're doing media.
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  That's the distinction, so and you were in that group.
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  So OK, that's. Fine media.
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  So I could be whatever I wanted, but I was obviously going to go
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  to the track and watch the guys and, and most of them were men a
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  lot. Sometimes their wives were
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  driving with them, but if they went on the track they just
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  would have one person in the car at each at each time.
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  Define regularity, like for people that may not know what
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  that means. Well, they go around and they
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  have like they have timed sequences.
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  They do this in the millimillia as well.
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  Time sequences where you have to stay, you know, going 17 miles
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  an hour or kilometers an hour or whatever for, you know, 5
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  minutes and then you go to 60 kilometers and then you go down
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  to, you know, like and basically you want to be within a certain
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  amount. Most rallies you can.
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  Yeah, most rallies have regularity and or, or it's
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  usually like millimillia. Everyone's doing the same thing.
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  So everyone's doing regular on some courses and then you have
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  like one track day and, and, but this one was everything.
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  So I thought, oh, this is the track day.
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  And then I'm like, oh, there's another track day.
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  Oh, there's another track day in.
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  Like, amazing tracks I'm sure too, right?
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  Yeah. I mean, they're all like ones
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  you probably hadn't heard of because I hadn't heard of a lot
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  of them. But they're just in the
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  different locales that we would go to.
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  And it was, it just, it was incredible.
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  I can't say enough. And then you go into a castle
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  and have dinner and sometimes one does in a museum.
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  Yeah. And you know, just like what?
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  And a friend of mine is actually, I had done a rally
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  called the Pro Rider GT Cruising, which is Jerry
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  Blindberg, who does Wheeler Dealers France.
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  It's his rally. I don't know if he's doing.
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  I think he's pausing. He's he's doing them more in US
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  now. So.
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  But I did it in France with him a couple times and his I met
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  Gregory Cohen. He's also the chef on for the
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  Toronto, which he just everything was rolled out like,
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  I mean, just top notch. Yeah, yeah.
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  It's OK, we're friends. Rallies have really taken off
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  though recently. You know, I mean, you know,
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  there's the Colorado grand here, you know, there's a California
• 18:59
  meal, a there's the the copper state, right?
• 19:01
  I mean, right one and another and on the Peterson are friends
• 19:04
  at the Peterson Museum are doing some rallies.
• 19:07
  Yeah, more. And more moving forward.
• 19:08
  It's, it's such a great concept, right?
• 19:10
  Like it just works right? Well, Mara was able to do like
• 19:13
  her. I mean, she just got back from a
• 19:14
  pretty epic European adventure. Because you did the tour auto.
• 19:18
  Another one. You did a second one with
• 19:22
  Richard Mia. Yeah, it's a rally to Princess,
• 19:25
  but I I actually was going to do the same thing I was going to do
• 19:29
  media on. It's also a Petroto under that.
• 19:33
  OK, yeah. And so they own a bunch of or.
• 19:37
  I don't know how, I'm probably saying it wrong, but they are.
• 19:39
  It's under the umbrella. Involved, right?
• 19:41
  Petro Otto, Peter Otto for Peter Otto, we're going to go and, and
• 19:47
  so we just went to the opening night and had the, you know, the
• 19:51
  girls kick kicked them off. It was the first rally I ever
• 19:54
  wanted to do. So if they're listening, but it
• 19:57
  was the first rally. Yeah, we know they are,
• 20:00
  obviously. Yeah, it was the first rally
• 20:04
  that I wanted to do. And then I ended up doing the
• 20:06
  millimillia instead. This little this little thing
• 20:08
  called the millimillia, but it's a.
• 20:11
  Substitution. It's a girls rally and the girls
• 20:14
  dress up like, you know each other.
• 20:17
  So there was girls that look like bees.
• 20:19
  Then there was girls that are dressed up, you know, just in
• 20:21
  gowns or whatever on that night anyway.
• 20:23
  And then they usually have like matching racing suits or that
• 20:27
  kind of thing. So it's cute.
• 20:28
  So fun. Yeah, and then they had there
• 20:30
  was a lot of Porsches at that too.
• 20:32
  So I, I did a little story on my Instagram on that.
• 20:35
  So, but yeah, we'll probably do it next year.
• 20:39
  My friend and I, this is too short a time to really get it
• 20:41
  together and do proper, just get the proper car and do all that
• 20:45
  stuff. So, and it just ended up like we
• 20:48
  were so tired to the point where I was there for seven weeks.
• 20:52
  We were so tired from the first, the Toronto, that was the first
• 20:56
  week I was there that I mean, I thought it, I was like, I, I
• 20:59
  give, I was like, you know, you, you guys won like I am a late
• 21:03
  nighter, but you guys win. The last night we were drinking
• 21:06
  champagne for like 2 1/2 hours. I'm like, are we gonna eat
• 21:09
  dinner like you guys? Like, I get it that you're
• 21:13
  French. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:15
  I know my limits, you know, and I'm like, I can hang with the
• 21:18
  boys, but this is like, let's go eat, guys.
• 21:22
  Yeah. And then we all, I mean, it was
• 21:23
  like 4. It was, it was 1000 people.
• 21:25
  So I mean between. Huge rally.
• 21:28
  Yeah, it was. Well, it was between crew.
• 21:29
  I mean the cars, I think they had 200 and something huge where
• 21:33
  the million when I did it was 440, but so that's even bigger,
• 21:38
  right? It was crew and there was, I
• 21:40
  mean, there was so, so much to it, so much more to it even than
• 21:44
  the Millimelia, I would have to say.
• 21:47
  And I'm going out on a limb and I love the people from the
• 21:50
  Millimelia. So if you're listening, I just
• 21:52
  hope they're not listening. I think this is the best rally
• 21:56
  that I've seen in the world. So you've gotten to be up close,
• 22:00
  yeah. I, I, I actually Mark Oyon from
• 22:05
  Porsche Canada as the new director of Pedro Otto.
• 22:09
  So he did both of those. And so we became friends.
• 22:13
  We've been following each other on Instagram for a while.
• 22:15
  And I was like, oh, wait, wait. Yeah.
• 22:18
  It was his first year as director.
• 22:20
  And so, I mean, it was just done so well.
• 22:24
  I cannot say enough about it. I mean, it's just, it was such a
• 22:29
  highlight of my trip and I will be I will be doing it again.
• 22:32
  It's it is crazy like and you don't want to miss the racing
• 22:37
  because it's it's next level and there's real race car drivers.
• 22:41
  So it's it's really fun. Well, So what was the I
• 22:44
  remember? I mean, it was so fun, you know,
• 22:46
  following along on your stories and posts and all that and
• 22:49
  living vicariously through that. What was there was one event or
• 22:53
  it was one of the dinners where at the end they were doing like
• 22:55
  a seated worm almost or like mosh pit.
• 22:58
  Like what was that? That was last night.
• 23:01
  And again, she's like my friend. She's at her name is Meno.
• 23:06
  And she was like, no, it's just not over.
• 23:09
  No, no, no, no. So like, all of a sudden I'm out
• 23:14
  because everybody smokes. Everybody smokes.
• 23:17
  And I was joking. I said, should I start smoking?
• 23:19
  I've never had the urge to smoke, but people like don't do
• 23:21
  it. Like this is my first rodeo.
• 23:23
  Like, listen, I was what, all French friends at one point when
• 23:27
  I was with a French guy and I was like, I would be the only
• 23:29
  one holding the table when everyone went outside to smoke.
• 23:32
  I'm like, I'll just stay here. 12 of you, you guys go.
• 23:35
  So I don't. I'm not.
• 23:37
  I love that smoking lives on like it does in France.
• 23:42
  It's it's, I mean, I wanna say, you guys seriously, your skin.
• 23:48
  Yeah, ignore everything else, but like, can we start with the
• 23:50
  skin? Come on, I.
• 23:51
  Mean just for. I mean, I know you're not.
• 23:53
  It's gonna catch up. Right.
• 23:56
  I'm a negative poker, so you know, I like it's already abused
• 23:59
  my skin enough from being around me, but but you know, it was it.
• 24:05
  What was I gonna say about that? Well, that was the like mosh
• 24:08
  pity thing. Yeah, so I'm out in the smoking
• 24:11
  area getting second hand smoke. If you want to hang out with
• 24:15
  anyone, you got to go to smoke here.
• 24:18
  Sometimes that's enough, right? The second hand smoke, right?
• 24:21
  Yeah. I mean, I'm sure it's even worse
• 24:23
  for the people around, but anyway, so I, and I, somebody
• 24:28
  goes and I was like, it's like their last dance was playing and
• 24:33
  I forget. It was like, OK, I got to go and
• 24:37
  then I ran out and I got have my camera and everyone's like, you
• 24:43
  know, and they're doing whatever their chant is.
• 24:45
  I, I, I can't think of what the song is, but I've heard it
• 24:47
  before too. And and then I get up on the
• 24:52
  stage because why wouldn't I? And because, and I'm like, and
• 24:55
  everyone's like, because there was a couple people up on stage
• 25:00
  and then they were gonna crowd surf.
• 25:01
  I'm like, oh, I'm getting this like big guys, you know, going.
• 25:04
  To the wrong rallies. Right.
• 25:07
  I mean, this is after seven days getting up at 6:00 in the
• 25:09
  morning. Yeah.
• 25:10
  Driving all day, drinking all night, smoking their lungs out,
• 25:14
  you know, just, I mean, it was the most incredible thing.
• 25:17
  And so I go to go out, go out there and.
• 25:21
  And they're all the all of a sudden the lights go on, the
• 25:23
  band stops. Then now there's more music and,
• 25:26
  and everyone's like, they start sitting in like a like a
• 25:31
  centipede around. I'm like, what is going to
• 25:34
  happen now? This is.
• 25:37
  I can't even imagine right. And this everyone just starts
• 25:39
  diving on top of the the hands and they're pushing them back
• 25:43
  like this. And I was dying.
• 25:44
  And that's just. That's Livin right there.
• 25:46
  I'm just saying that's Livin and.
• 25:48
  Then we're doing it wrong. No, SO and it's like midnight,
• 25:53
  you know. OK, so we going to the club and
• 25:55
  I was. Like, all right, Laura, I was
• 25:59
  going to invite you under the I was going to invite you under
• 26:01
  the collar on a grand, but I don't think you're going to find
• 26:04
  that way too tame. I like there's no human
• 26:06
  centipede, no club it ends in. Centipede or nothing?
• 26:12
  I am like, you know, I, I I'm like I enjoy a good I come alive
• 26:18
  at night. That last night I was like, I
• 26:22
  just walked. I was talking to some guy.
• 26:23
  I don't know. He was just I I have no, if he
• 26:26
  stood in front of me right now, I'd be like never seen you
• 26:28
  before in my life. And we we were we were at this
• 26:33
  club called. I wanted to say hide but I think
• 26:37
  it's like, oh it's high close. The French hide that's.
• 26:41
  Right. And so, and it's got like a big
• 26:43
  devil's head in the middle of the dance floor.
• 26:45
  And then we go into this private section.
• 26:48
  I don't know, And there's a they're all with everyone's
• 26:51
  there. It's a huge club.
• 26:53
  And then outcomes a giant bottle of my way.
• 26:56
  I was like, guys, we really should call it a night, right?
• 27:01
  And I had a flight the next morning I'm.
• 27:04
  Like, absolutely not, no. I'm like, all right, hand me a
• 27:08
  glass. And then so I go and I was
• 27:13
  talking to some guy. I've no idea.
• 27:15
  And he I was like, what? And I was like, yeah, what, what
• 27:17
  again. And then I just go, I have to
• 27:19
  leave. I know I'm like, there's a
• 27:23
  limit. I'm, I don't like to get sloppy.
• 27:25
  And I was like, the time has come.
• 27:30
  My coach is going to turn into a pumpkin.
• 27:32
  I must take my leave. Yes, it was not bad and I want
• 27:36
  to and she was so amazing. She could have been a nightmare.
• 27:39
  We're like this went really well because we were we did not know
• 27:42
  much about each other. We had done one.
• 27:44
  We did the the pro writer GT cruising together, right.
• 27:47
  She's such a doll. I just loved her.
• 27:49
  She's she's younger than me and, and she, it could have gone two
• 27:54
  ways. I could have been like, oh, this
• 27:55
  one, she's a mess, you know, and me too.
• 27:58
  She's like, she wasn't sure she's like this.
• 27:59
  Could be we're just going with our feelings, you know?
• 28:03
  It's what they say, you got to travel with people to find out
• 28:06
  if you really are like In Sync and like learn about each other.
• 28:09
  I mean, we're like sisters now. Like we were, we were just, we
• 28:13
  just fell in love. We're like, you are just so easy
• 28:16
  to travel with. We were both on the same page.
• 28:18
  It was so cool. And then I walked up to I go,
• 28:23
  you can stay because I'm now I'm talking very sedate, but I have
• 28:28
  to go and I'm never the one that has to go.
• 28:31
  And she's like, oh, no. And she's she's 14 lbs.
• 28:35
  She probably probably 2000 glasses.
• 28:38
  Of champagne. She only eats champagne.
• 28:40
  That's right. No, she eats that.
• 28:43
  That's what's more annoying. And she's like, she's like, oh,
• 28:48
  OK. And I go, you can say.
• 28:50
  And she goes, no, no, I come with you.
• 28:52
  She's the sweetest. And she's like, we go back to
• 28:55
  the hotel and there was a vending machine with a
• 28:57
  charcuterie board. I was like.
• 29:01
  Again, we're doing it all wrong. We need Where are the
• 29:04
  charcuterie board vending? No Skittles for you for.
• 29:07
  You. Yeah.
• 29:08
  Oh, thank you. I was like, you're.
• 29:10
  And she's like just chowing down on this charcuterie board.
• 29:13
  And I was like, who are you? Like, yes, more of that, please.
• 29:18
  Come on. That's amazing.
• 29:19
  That is incredible. I got to meet her when we were
• 29:24
  at Retro Mobile and she was. Just delightful.
• 29:27
  Yeah, she's delightful. I mean, she's just the kindest
• 29:30
  person. She has such a good heart.
• 29:31
  And everyone, she knows everyone.
• 29:33
  So I was introduced to everyone. I mean to the I'm like I will
• 29:37
  forget your name. Like my sincerest apologies,
• 29:41
  yes, so. Lindsay.
• 29:43
  Lindsay is my you, you exclaim. So she likes to call me her
• 29:48
  inner ear because I'm like the, you know, politicians have like
• 29:52
  a body woman and I'm body woman. Like yeah, I lead and I'm like
• 29:56
  OK, we're approaching Mr. and Mrs. so and so and we met them
• 30:01
  at Car Week last year and they have the pre war Bugatti.
• 30:06
  And but and their their children aspire to be a dentist and a
• 30:11
  scientist, right? The mother does a wonderful
• 30:14
  sourdough, you know, like she knows everything about the
• 30:17
  family. I'm like what?
• 30:19
  I think my favorite, my favorite example of that, though, was
• 30:22
  when my daughter and I were on the plane on the way in to run
• 30:26
  sport. And yeah, and you mentioned
• 30:29
  Jerry Blindberg. He was between the two of you.
• 30:31
  You facilitated us going because Jerry had the tickets.
• 30:33
  And you? That's right.
• 30:34
  Which is amazing, I know, and I really want to do one of his
• 30:38
  rallies before too long. But so we were on the plane.
• 30:40
  We weren't even there yet. Laura was in Monterey already at
• 30:42
  an event, and I got a text from her in the air.
• 30:45
  Hey, who are those people that we met at Quail last year?
• 30:50
  Well. Janie and Bob, Yeah, Winston had
• 30:54
  the da, da, da. And I'm like, they were wearing
• 30:56
  yellow pants, correct? Yes.
• 30:58
  OK. They I'm like what is happening?
• 31:00
  That's a special kind of mine. Lindsay, Josh, that's.
• 31:03
  It's like she is an encyclopedia and I forget the 2nd and I
• 31:06
  really they say it's a wish thing.
• 31:09
  I really try. I mean, she I'm like, what
• 31:12
  happened? That I love.
• 31:13
  The intent is. There, Yeah.
• 31:15
  It's just, you know, I know Will Arnett was talking about it on
• 31:18
  Smartlist the other day because he has like, I have a good
• 31:22
  memory and I can track it back. I'll go like, OK, well, it was
• 31:24
  before this, it was after this. So that means it was October of
• 31:28
  1988 at 2:00 in the afternoon, and he was doing that on
• 31:31
  Smartlist. And I went, that's the first
• 31:33
  person I've heard that does that outside of me.
• 31:35
  And then they mentioned it on some show too.
• 31:39
  I do memories, but I I names they just like it's a weird
• 31:43
  name. I just met somebody on the plane
• 31:46
  and his name was I. Have a unique name?
• 31:50
  Well, that's cute. Freddy, it was Teddy, I think
• 31:53
  Teddy. And.
• 31:54
  I like the bear. It's a weird name, and his wife
• 31:57
  was something that rhyme with Teddy Veronica.
• 32:00
  Teddy, I forgot, but her name wasn't weird.
• 32:03
  His name was weird. So I was like, Teddy, you.
• 32:06
  Gotta have a unique name. Yeah, OK.
• 32:08
  But so in between these two rallies, you got to do something
• 32:11
  that I am incredibly interested to hear about.
• 32:14
  You got to drive on the Autobahn.
• 32:16
  Yes. So tell us all about that.
• 32:19
  And this is where my brain is so stupid too.
• 32:21
  I went OK, so I went to go to Porsche Centrum Gelderland,
• 32:26
  which I'm sure you've heard of. Or if you haven't you, you
• 32:29
  should look. So tell us all about that too.
• 32:31
  Well. Actually, Mark Wig, yeah, Mark
• 32:35
  Wig is, he's become a good friend of mine just through
• 32:39
  seeing each other. He's everywhere there.
• 32:41
  If if there's an ice race, he's there with his five.
• 32:43
  Oh, OK. And but he, when I was going to
• 32:48
  do the Millimilia in 2022, I was speaking with Porsche and this
• 32:52
  guy was going to be heading to Stuttgart.
• 32:54
  And he said, I'll get you a car because we needed a car at my
• 32:58
  sponsor was Fred Estein tires at the time.
• 33:00
  And they, they said, let's get a car over in Europe.
• 33:03
  And that way we don't have to transport it or do anything,
• 33:05
  save a little cash and, and you know, we'll just get one over
• 33:10
  there. And so I was waiting for that.
• 33:12
  This guy was going to Stuttgart and going to contact me and I
• 33:15
  was like, I'm not waiting because I really had very little
• 33:17
  time because we had to have it in like several months before
• 33:20
  the ticket. It approved and all that.
• 33:22
  And even though we were in the sponsor, the sponsor like it has
• 33:24
  to be approved and FIFA certified and all these
• 33:26
  different things. So that guy went to shoot guard
• 33:32
  and you know, lo and behold, Porsche was unable to get me a
• 33:34
  car. But during that time, I put it
• 33:38
  on Instagram, they're like, we, we just, we just can't possibly
• 33:43
  get everyone. So no shade on Porsche, but you
• 33:46
  know, they probably could. I think they have.
• 33:49
  I think they have a couple and they're about 5.
• 33:51
  They're around. So they're like a girl?
• 33:54
  No, I'm just kidding. So but.
• 34:00
  This guy really went to bat for me from Porsche USA and I was
• 34:03
  really pleased with that. But at the same time it was like
• 34:07
  what? And you know, they didn't know
• 34:08
  what it was doing. So I was what was I talking
• 34:14
  about you? Got to know Mark.
• 34:15
  Well I put it out on my Instagram and I got 7 cars
• 34:18
  offered to me which was amazing. I was like yes and Mark was one
• 34:22
  of them. He offered a couple of like 550
• 34:25
  spiders and something else and then awesome.
• 34:29
  Yeah. And I was thinking I'm like, I'm
• 34:31
  already freaking out about doing Millimelia.
• 34:34
  You know, I want to be a female driver.
• 34:35
  I wanted to be, I wanted to do with another female.
• 34:38
  I want to be an all female team, which is weird.
• 34:40
  There's a girl named Laura Lara who who she she has an all
• 34:43
  female team, which is interesting that there's another
• 34:45
  Laura. So that's right, it was.
• 34:48
  Do the Laura Squared female team, Yeah.
• 34:50
  There we should do Laura Squared, but she crashed one
• 34:52
  year, so I'm like, well. Forget her.
• 34:54
  Laura crashes Long So Laura. And Lindsay, female team.
• 34:57
  There we go. Yeah, yeah, So yeah, that's,
• 35:01
  that's the knock, Knock. I'm like, I don't crash.
• 35:04
  I've never had a crash and I never planned to have one.
• 35:06
  I've been hit, but I've never had a crash that was my fault.
• 35:10
  So. So we were going to do that.
• 35:14
  And then Mark reached out and I was like, oh, I already have a
• 35:17
  356, but thank you so much. And he, you know, we just talked
• 35:20
  a little bit, you know, and we just became friends.
• 35:22
  And so he invited me up to Porsche Centrum Gelderland and
• 35:24
  he says, I have some things we're we're going to do for you.
• 35:28
  You know, like he's like, you're going to you're I'm getting you
• 35:30
  a driver that's going to bring you on the Autobahn.
• 35:34
  And immediately I thought, never bring, you know, like my brain
• 35:38
  just already skipped a beat to like, Oh, no, I'm not going to
• 35:41
  do well there. Well, and so Porsche Centrum
• 35:44
  Guilderland, it's a Porsche dealer, but it also has a
• 35:46
  Porsche Classic Centre, is that correct?
• 35:48
  And that has created the whole thing.
• 35:51
  Yes, I mean he's got, he is like Porsche adjacent.
• 35:55
  Like if there's God and it's Porsche, Jesus is at the right
• 35:58
  hand. That's Mark like and.
• 36:01
  And and God is Porsche. I'm just saying.
• 36:04
  Yeah, well, and he people, it's funny because on the tour toe
• 36:07
  there was a friend of mine, Alex, who his car after a couple
• 36:11
  days caught on fire like the second day or something and it
• 36:14
  was just finished. So it was a beautiful, the black
• 36:18
  356 and it caught on fire. They put it out.
• 36:22
  They were really quick to get it out, but paint was bubbling, you
• 36:24
  know, all that stuff. And he had to send it to
• 36:26
  Porsche. He sent it to Porsche and he was
• 36:28
  on the phone with Porsche and he's like, I'm on the phone with
• 36:30
  Porsche and, and I'm like, oh, good for you, You know, like
• 36:33
  that's great. And he was on the phone to
• 36:35
  Porsche. Centrum Gelderland, like so many
• 36:37
  people think that Mark, because he's, he will, he truly loves
• 36:42
  all things Porsche. And he threw, he has other cars
• 36:45
  as well. And he's like a VW guy and Audi
• 36:48
  guy as well. And.
• 36:50
  He he is like you have a problem.
• 36:53
  I've got it like he is one stop shopping when you go there,
• 36:56
  there is there is he's got insurance for you.
• 37:01
  He's got he does the PPF, he owns the detailing service.
• 37:05
  He owns everything. He owns a whole block in in in
• 37:08
  his area and. And everything you could do.
• 37:13
  And he just bought across the way to make, yeah, a
• 37:17
  Harley-Davidson shop like in and his place is so impressive.
• 37:21
  Like he it left me speechless. And so if anyone has the chance
• 37:26
  to go and he he does, I want to say, I'm going to say this
• 37:30
  wrong, but I want to say 300 events a year or something, or
• 37:36
  might be like 260 or something. He does so many events and, and
• 37:41
  he just brings people in and, and if you need something, he's
• 37:44
  got it. He's got every allocation, I
• 37:47
  mean. Well, and he's in.
• 37:50
  It's in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, yeah.
• 37:53
  And so I just flew up there and he rolled it out and just, you
• 37:59
  know, we every night there was like different team members with
• 38:02
  us at dinner. And, you know, I, I made really
• 38:06
  good friends with one of the girls and like, he always had a
• 38:08
  girl there for me. So I thought it was really like
• 38:10
  accommodating as well, just because he was just very, he won
• 38:15
  me over completely. Like, because, you know, we even
• 38:17
  said he goes, well, we'll see how it goes.
• 38:19
  Right. Yeah.
• 38:21
  I think it's the theme. We all say that to each other.
• 38:23
  We're like, let's go on this trip.
• 38:24
  And then there's a little side eye like we'll see how this
• 38:26
  goes. No, yeah.
• 38:27
  I mean, it's like. We hadn't travelled together.
• 38:29
  Before the same he's like, is she going to be a nightmare?
• 38:31
  You know, because this was a job like he, he basically hired me
• 38:34
  to come up and see it and expose it and show it and do it all,
• 38:37
  you know, and he doesn't need my help because he is, I mean,
• 38:41
  he's, it is just incredible. Like every car is just better
• 38:45
  than the next. And, and he has the set, the
• 38:48
  classic center and just every inch of it.
• 38:51
  He does, he does wheels, he does everything.
• 38:55
  And then there's a museum. So they're actually doing a
• 38:57
  separate museum in that whole complex.
• 39:01
  He's just kind of buying up building as buildings as they
• 39:03
  go. Makes a mean burger too, I've
• 39:06
  heard. Then I'm sitting at, then I'm
• 39:11
  sitting at lunch and I'm just talking about, you know, Porsche
• 39:15
  or whatever. And, and I'm with the former
• 39:17
  chairman of the board of Porsche.
• 39:19
  And then he's former CEO of Audi.
• 39:22
  And we just were chatting and I'm like, thank you for not
• 39:24
  telling me because I like to meet people that way where
• 39:27
  you're just calling, you know, And I was like, oh, shut up.
• 39:31
  Listen to this. If I had any idea who you were,
• 39:37
  yeah. It's the coolest.
• 39:38
  Yeah. And this was just sitting in the
• 39:39
  dealership. So there was one guy that was
• 39:40
  buying a car and there was one other guy and, you know, and
• 39:43
  then, and I'm just sitting down to a sandwich and, you know,
• 39:46
  just kind of just shooting the shit.
• 39:48
  And it was like everything was just, you know, I can't say
• 39:52
  enough about it. Like, I really, this trip was so
• 39:55
  epic. I I, I, I'm really had such a
• 39:58
  great time. It's.
• 40:01
  Well it was like 1 amazing experience after another.
• 40:03
  I mean just for for many weeks in a row, which is pretty
• 40:07
  amazing. It sounds like Mark's place is
• 40:10
  really a destination. Like you would not be
• 40:12
  disappointed if you made that a destination on a trip.
• 40:15
  No, absolutely. And it and also if you buy a car
• 40:19
  there that the drive well, I he set me up with the owner of the
• 40:23
  drivers that he sends people out.
• 40:26
  If you buy like a brand new 911 he gives you with the car, he's
• 40:31
  like, I want you to go out with them because they'll teach you
• 40:33
  how to really drive the car. And you know, I've driven
• 40:36
  1,000,000, even 911 GTSS and stuff like that.
• 40:39
  So I went out in a convertible GTS and we, he's like, you know,
• 40:44
  took me around and he was having me break with my hands up and
• 40:47
  just showing how well the car handled and then pushed me to I
• 40:51
  everyone's like you're supposed to go faster than that.
• 40:53
  But I got to 153 miles an hour, which was really fast for me.
• 40:58
  There was a lot of traffic, like we were dealing even.
• 41:00
  He went out to show me some stuff on the Autobot and he's
• 41:03
  like, I'm just going to pull off because he didn't want to run
• 41:06
  out of Audubon for me to get up to my speed, right?
• 41:09
  And I just wanted to get over 150 and I did so.
• 41:11
  Nice. And that was a personal record
• 41:13
  for you? Yeah.
• 41:14
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, and I just blipped it,
• 41:16
  but I mean, I, I sustained, I was gaining like one 35140 like
• 41:21
  over and over and over. And then I got up to 153 and I
• 41:25
  was like, I want more. And he's like, he's like, we're
• 41:27
  running out of Audubon. So, and then you go back in
• 41:29
  there and you're like, OK, we're going 60 miles an hour.
• 41:32
  Yeah, it feels like you're crawling well, so.
• 41:33
  OK, So what did it feel like breaking without touching the
• 41:36
  wheel? Like, talk a little bit about
• 41:38
  that. Well.
• 41:39
  He, the guy was so good. He, he just really gets you
• 41:43
  there, you know, So he, we drove around and he'd be like, OK, I'm
• 41:47
  going to. He, he like when we're driving
• 41:49
  on the Audubon, I'm over 100 miles an hour.
• 41:50
  He's like, I'm going to pull you into this lane and then I want
• 41:53
  you to hard break when we don't have people behind us.
• 41:56
  Yeah. And I'm like.
• 41:57
  OK, he took the wheel. He just he to have anyone grab
• 42:02
  the wheel while you're going over 100.
• 42:04
  I was only going like 120, you know, I was sustaining 120 for a
• 42:08
  long time. He would pull it not not hard,
• 42:13
  but into the next lane. He's like we're going to do a
• 42:15
  lane change. How did that feel?
• 42:16
  Flashing back to that Chevette of your.
• 42:20
  She's been training for this her whole life.
• 42:22
  She. Didn't know it.
• 42:23
  I'm like, do I need to do my makeup right now?
• 42:28
  Yes, yes, you too. What?
• 42:29
  Are you trying to tell me is there something on my?
• 42:31
  I got something. Oh, hold on.
• 42:35
  So he he, he pulled it over into the next lane and I was like,
• 42:40
  OK, it feels like nothing. He goes now hard break.
• 42:42
  I mean hard break not he's like, no, that's not heartbreaking.
• 42:46
  He's like, slam it and I'm sorry, when you're going over
• 42:50
  100, you're just like, well, I'm going to ease it on and then I'm
• 42:51
  going to because I road, you know, and I just slammed it on
• 42:56
  and he's like, now what do you feel?
• 42:58
  I go not much. I mean, it is such a controlled
• 43:00
  car. It's the 2025 GTS.
• 43:04
  It drives itself like you get in a, especially when you get a new
• 43:06
  car. I always feel like just don't
• 43:08
  mess up Laura. And, you know, in Amsterdam, the
• 43:11
  roads are like really narrow. There's bikes everywhere.
• 43:14
  Grandpa's walking his dog. I'm like, OK and well, you get
• 43:18
  to flee. The country when all is done,
• 43:20
  like so you've got that. But yeah, it's you still don't
• 43:22
  want to. Hit anyone the like.
• 43:24
  You know Magnus can crash a car, but I can't.
• 43:26
  If somebody crashed the car exactly, we're screwed.
• 43:29
  None of the girls are allowed to crash, So what is the road
• 43:31
  itself like? Tell us about that the the
• 43:34
  Autobahn. The step highway Uneventful, but
• 43:39
  the. Legend is not earned.
• 43:41
  He was a really wealth of information and and he yeah, it
• 43:48
  was just a really, really cool experience.
• 43:50
  And his wife was on the side of the road taking pictures when we
• 43:52
  were going around and yeah, it was.
• 43:54
  And the the team at Porsche centric elder then also followed
• 43:58
  us for a minute, but then like we kind of lost him and you
• 44:02
  know, he's like, all right, yeah, so we but he he really
• 44:08
  taught you safety more than anything.
• 44:10
  He was like, you know, you shouldn't be on the autobahn.
• 44:12
  I'm like, first of all question the person that has trained
• 44:16
  probably better than most of the people.
• 44:17
  Right, I'm with a professional. You might want a Googler, But
• 44:24
  but, but also I was with an amazing driver that has trained
• 44:30
  everyone and it was interesting because he's a little bit older,
• 44:32
  like he not older, like he's not old, but he, he doesn't have
• 44:36
  readers. You know, after 40, everyone
• 44:37
  gets the readers out. Like I don't need them.
• 44:40
  And I'm like, I think it's because of, and I thought this
• 44:42
  was really interesting because he's always looking ahead and
• 44:47
  short distances and and it really does exercise your eyes.
• 44:50
  I said, I bet you that's what it is because we were discussing
• 44:52
  that. But because I'm like, it's so
• 44:53
  weird that you don't need any. He's like, no, I see perfectly.
• 44:56
  I don't understand. Wow.
• 44:58
  But yeah, cuz you think about the amount of time that he
• 45:00
  spends looking way in the distance compared to the rest of
• 45:03
  us is. Perception.
• 45:05
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 45:06
  So it was. I mean, again, I was like, are
• 45:11
  you kidding me? It felt bad getting paid to be
• 45:13
  honest. That's how you know.
• 45:17
  You're you're winning in life, Laura.
• 45:19
  Yeah, that's. You know, that's it.
• 45:20
  Was cool. I mean, they really, but they,
• 45:23
  and I'm sorry, I'm a talker and they're going to get their
• 45:26
  money's worth because I was wildly impressed with Porsche
• 45:30
  Central Gelderland I. Yeah.
• 45:31
  Yeah, I see a lot, you know, and you know, even like the I mean
• 45:35
  he had every Holland a police car and they let me drive a
• 45:41
  police. That's cool and.
• 45:43
  I did a police car and did a pullover, kind of joking around
• 45:46
  with the police car thing going around and.
• 45:48
  Again, you get to flee the country.
• 45:51
  Yeah, yeah. And then I had a GT3 Rs that had
• 45:55
  the little flowers all over it. They call it something blau.
• 45:58
  Everyone's yelling it up to the screen, but it's it's the blue
• 46:01
  and white flowers and it was all like a wrap on the.
• 46:04
  Like Delft? Potter.
• 46:06
  Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:08
  Yeah, it was beautiful, right? I know.
• 46:10
  We're going to demonstrate the inner ear right now.
• 46:13
  Yeah. By the way, it is I have a 991.2
• 46:17
  GT 3IN my drawer in my driveway right now.
• 46:19
  It's my buddy Evans. He's he shipped it up from
• 46:21
  Florida. That thing makes my GT4 look
• 46:24
  like a Miata. Like you forget like how like
• 46:27
  that's like that's heavy duty. Yeah.
• 46:30
  That's heavy duty. Yeah, I mean, it's, and yeah,
• 46:34
  I'm on these little roads. I'm like, you know, and you
• 46:36
  don't know what the rules are. You're like, wait, is that a
• 46:38
  wait? Do we stop here?
• 46:39
  We don't, we just kind of ease your what are we doing?
• 46:42
  I mean. That's like driving in Italy
• 46:44
  where you go, you come to a stop sign or a stoplight and
• 46:47
  everybody just dives for space and you're like, wait, there's
• 46:49
  no rules. This.
• 46:50
  Is amazing. And the Millimelia, I came back
• 46:53
  from the millimelia and I when or when I was driving after that
• 46:57
  I was in in Sicily. I, I went down to Sicily with my
• 47:00
  friend and I was driving and the light turned red and I stopped,
• 47:04
  you know, just to like, check. And then I was gonna go because
• 47:07
  in the Millimillia, you they're like, go, go.
• 47:09
  Bye, Bye. Yeah.
• 47:10
  And so I, and I'm like, oh gosh, I was gonna, I was gonna go
• 47:13
  through the red light, you know, because you, you get used to
• 47:15
  that for four days. You, you're going through every
• 47:17
  red light. You're going through
• 47:18
  construction zones. You're doing whatever you want.
• 47:21
  And then they give you tickets. You're like, the policeman was
• 47:23
  telling me to Vive, Vive. I you're gonna give.
• 47:25
  Yeah. That's your response to the
• 47:28
  ticket? I was told by the officer the
• 47:30
  official quote was. $40 yeah we got 8 tickets Lee was really
• 47:36
  well Lee we I don't know how many our car got because they
• 47:40
  are they paid them all but Lee got 8 and they paid those two
• 47:44
  but because he was just blazing everywhere just not realizing I
• 47:47
  mean it is very regulated in France it's very regulated I
• 47:51
  thought it was just sweet Switzerland because I I got a
• 47:54
  car from them and to 19/22/2022 and they gave me agents and that
• 48:03
  you you have to go 50 then 80 then 110 then 80 and then 50 and
• 48:07
  it's like I'm going to go after watching my yeah monitor it's
• 48:12
  the craziest because we don't have those parameters yet I
• 48:16
  think we're. Going to God bless the USA.
• 48:18
  That's yeah, that's. One good.
• 48:22
  Thing none of that yeah, very little of that I I should say,
• 48:25
  but that's so funny. Well where do you so.
• 48:27
  All right, so you do live in you're California.
• 48:30
  Yeah, I live in Newport Beach. Person.
• 48:31
  Yeah. What do you like to drive in the
• 48:32
  States? What do I what do?
• 48:34
  You like to drive in the states? Like where are your go TOS?
• 48:37
  Well, I live on PCH, basically right next to PCH.
• 48:42
  And so I'm always on there and it's just beautiful.
• 48:44
  Like you, you, you have such a variety going through Laguna.
• 48:46
  It's beautiful, but it's not really a great driving area.
• 48:49
  So obviously, you know, going up and doing the canyons and that
• 48:53
  kind of stuff is, is fun. But I mean, I've always been
• 48:57
  even more than just really wanted to RIP around.
• 48:59
  The car has always been a sanctuary for me.
• 49:01
  And so when I was mad at my boyfriend, like in high school,
• 49:05
  I would blast the music and I would go driving as fast as I
• 49:07
  could. I used to be very fast as a kid.
• 49:11
  I thought I was going to be a race car driver.
• 49:13
  I just didn't have a rich dad or going to pay for that thing and
• 49:19
  and my mom's car wasn't going to cut it.
• 49:21
  But I, I always look to it at his freedom, just getting out
• 49:26
  and doing my own thing. And so I just really enjoy
• 49:29
  cruising, you know, like, you know, that's I really just and
• 49:34
  then I, you know, like we have the 930 turbo and it's a lot of
• 49:38
  car to, you know, you it's funny.
• 49:43
  Vasim did a story on way back on like all the turbos.
• 49:47
  They went out to Willow and did it and he was saying the 930 was
• 49:51
  just a whole other, you know, it's just like a different, you
• 49:54
  know, it's called the widowmaker.
• 49:55
  So you're like, you have a little more respect, but I'm
• 49:58
  more about like kind of boosting it and then just kind of coming
• 50:01
  back and then boosting, you know, like, so I'm just like, I
• 50:03
  just have, I enjoy the speed, I enjoy feeling the power, I enjoy
• 50:06
  all that. But I really like to just cruise
• 50:09
  and and just enjoy the view and, and even like going through
• 50:13
  other countries. It was kind of such a fast pace
• 50:16
  and it it's faster each day. Like when you do the
• 50:18
  millimillia, you go as hard as you can.
• 50:20
  Like by the 4th day you're like, let's do this, you know?
• 50:23
  You're not seeing Italy, but I think that's a good, that's a
• 50:26
  really good description of the car as the sanctuary.
• 50:28
  And I think so many of us can relate to that.
• 50:32
  I mean that's it's, it's like 4 wheel therapy almost for a lot
• 50:36
  of us and you kind of. Space yeah, when I when I was
• 50:40
  working in LA, like every day, all day, like I had like clients
• 50:44
  all over. I was used to fit clothing for
• 50:46
  clothing companies. And so I would, you know, do
• 50:49
  like 2 and 3000 miles a month and people like, how do you do
• 50:52
  it? And trust me, I didn't like the
• 50:54
  traffic, but you know, I'm in my own zone.
• 50:56
  I'm listening to my shows, my podcasts, my, you know, my
• 51:00
  music, getting all my calls out. I'm like, I'm not at work in a
• 51:03
  cubicle. You know, this is part of my
• 51:05
  work. I'm usually being paid for the
• 51:07
  next job because it's a 2 hour minimum.
• 51:08
  So I'm moving from one to the next to the next.
• 51:11
  And I was just like I've told I did it for years and years and
• 51:15
  years, and it's been not a problem.
• 51:18
  You know, obviously I don't like to be stuck in traffic where I'm
• 51:21
  going to be late, but you know. Like getting to be behind the
• 51:25
  wheel is it's not a chore for you, like I think a lot of us
• 51:28
  can relate to. It's a treat.
• 51:30
  Are you a good vibes regular by chance?
• 51:33
  No. And you know what, it's funny
• 51:35
  because the cars I want to take up there, I just don't want to
• 51:38
  beat the crap out of them. Honestly, like that.
• 51:40
  There's like for one, there's a lot of terrible drivers that go
• 51:45
  up there. I mean, I mean, I and there's a
• 51:50
  lot of great drivers that go up, but like you're really on like
• 51:54
  an uncontrolled Rd. I think the track is safer than
• 52:00
  and has been seeing the crashes over the years.
• 52:04
  I mean, there's, but, you know, you come around the.
• 52:06
  I know that Balsam's hit a deer. Johnny's hit a deer, you know,
• 52:10
  so you're whipping around a corner and there's a deer in the
• 52:13
  road. You're taking a life.
• 52:15
  Yeah. And if it's a bicyclist, it
• 52:16
  might be him. Yeah, so it is a great Rd.
• 52:19
  though, and the community is awesome even, you know, I get
• 52:22
  there a handful of times each year from Denver and I run into
• 52:25
  people I know like, and that's the coolest thing.
• 52:27
  It's such a special place. It's such a my thing is.
• 52:30
  Thing the biggest thing is I'm not a morning person like.
• 52:34
  There's that. Well, and I think it's tough for
• 52:36
  Laura and I because we're like of the handful that come from
• 52:39
  Orange County. And so it's much more, it's a
• 52:42
  much longer proposition for us. Like there's the times where
• 52:45
  I've intended to go and I've told people I'm going and I get
• 52:48
  up and check the traffic, you know, pre dawn, and it's already
• 52:50
  like 3 hours one way. Yeah.
• 52:53
  So it's not always feasible, but yeah.
• 52:55
  Paul Kramer from Auto Kennel, he makes up every single week.
• 52:59
  So we have no, but he drives like a bat out of hell and he, I
• 53:03
  mean, he's always. He leaves so early.
• 53:05
  Yeah, and he's up at like 4:00 in the morning or whatever.
• 53:08
  I you know, we have to brush our hair.
• 53:12
  Yeah. Some of us not too.
• 53:14
  Much, but it is it is you're like you're right, Ryan, when
• 53:16
  you get up there, you know, you have the fun drive and there's
• 53:20
  an element of like you get to the point where if you're
• 53:22
  listening to, you know, satellite or, you know,
• 53:24
  streaming radio or podcast or whatever, there's an area where
• 53:27
  there's no service. And so it does sort of it's,
• 53:29
  it's very Zen when you hit that point and then you get up to
• 53:32
  Newcomb's and yeah, I mean the group of people, it's just such
• 53:36
  a quality crowd. And so it's like it's worth it
• 53:39
  it. Is.
• 53:40
  Awesome. I've been up probably 5 or 6
• 53:44
  times and it's, it's just a great group of people.
• 53:47
  It's, you know, and the air is fresh and you know, and amazing
• 53:52
  cars go up there and all the guys are bringing up their,
• 53:55
  their magazine cars and stuff. So that's really cool.
• 53:57
  But so I always tell people to go up there.
• 53:59
  If I, if I was coming into the area, I'd absolutely make it up
• 54:02
  there. But I, you know, you're spoiled
• 54:04
  because you're like, well, I can go any week.
• 54:06
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 54:08
  Lindsay, you're going to be in Denver on Friday.
• 54:11
  I am. And I want to show you a road
• 54:13
  that I think rivals Angela's Crest.
• 54:17
  Oh, I can't wait. So I don't know if you guys are
• 54:19
  going to have time, but. I think it sounds like we're
• 54:22
  going to make time. I may have to slightly adjust
• 54:27
  the the itinerary I heard. You're going to be in a good
• 54:30
  car, so. I will.
• 54:32
  Yeah. Well, we'll stay tuned for what
• 54:35
  the car is. Stay tuned next week.
• 54:39
  Yeah, yeah. Big week, big adventure ahead.
• 54:41
  Absolutely. What?
• 54:44
  Happened this week was did anything happen?
• 54:48
  I got engaged this week. There it is.
• 54:52
  Congratulations, I was. Like I leave for seven weeks and
• 54:55
  I come back and she's just, she's, she's taken, she's gone.
• 54:59
  She's dating someone. She's engaged.
• 55:00
  Yes. Yes.
• 55:02
  Our our #1 fan, Tori Alonzo and I are engaged.
• 55:06
  Which is just awesome. Yes, just awesome.
• 55:09
  We think Sir watches. Yeah, Q's and Q's with me.
• 55:12
  Right, he's on notice. Yeah, we're keeping him on his
• 55:15
  toes. Yeah.
• 55:17
  Can't wait, can't wait to meet him and just thrilled for you.
• 55:20
  It's yeah, some things just seem meant to be.
• 55:23
  I mean, quite literally, like nobody saw this coming, least of
• 55:27
  all us. Can I, Can I share the the
• 55:33
  inscription? Yeah, yeah, actually I think
• 55:36
  it's so cool. Your engagement ring says what
• 55:38
  on the inside? It says the perfect lap.
• 55:40
  Yeah, come on. Yeah, because one of.
• 55:43
  Our 3 words. One of the things that we bonded
• 55:46
  over, because we've been friends for years, we just hadn't met.
• 55:50
  And one of the things that we connected on was the love of
• 55:53
  Ford versus Ferrari, because Tory's a big movie guy and he
• 55:57
  actually owned one of the nine O sixes that they used in the
• 55:59
  movie. Really.
• 56:01
  Yeah. And.
• 56:02
  Then. I he's got some stories he's and
• 56:06
  that's he's owned several movie cars.
• 56:08
  He had one of the original Herbie's and yeah, I mean, he's
• 56:12
  always been into that. And then actually the car is in
• 56:14
  Orange County now because a friend of ours, Connie Summers,
• 56:17
  bought it and you know, I Willow is my home track in California
• 56:22
  and that's where I like. Singer's home track.
• 56:26
  Yes. So, so we had bonded over that
• 56:29
  and just the scene where, you know, Christian Bale as Ken
• 56:34
  Miles, like talks Peter through, you know, his son Peter through
• 56:37
  the lap. And it's ostensibly he's talking
• 56:40
  about driving the track, but you realize he's talking about life.
• 56:43
  And so that is one of the things that Tori said about me.
• 56:46
  Is that his perfect lap? So let's just.
• 56:49
  Put it in the ring and he needs. Her lap like to sit on, you know
• 56:53
  she's. There's so many, there's just so
• 56:55
  many applications. He just likes to see it on her
• 56:57
  lap all the time. It's.
• 56:59
  Beautiful, and you were. Well, watch checked, I know.
• 57:03
  That's right. What's up?
• 57:04
  Sheffield watches. What's up?
• 57:05
  And my Sheffield watch, they go, they go really well together.
• 57:09
  So there we go. Nice.
• 57:10
  Yeah, Yeah. This is Damn You're a Show, but
• 57:13
  I don't think we're quite done. I know well Lara mentioned
• 57:17
  singer with Willow and Lara got to drive the Singer Turbo, so I
• 57:21
  want to hear about that. Yeah, we like Singer.
• 57:26
  Yeah, it was incredible. Deb called me and she's like,
• 57:30
  hi, Deb. Hey, what did you feel about
• 57:36
  driving our turbo? And you know, excuse me, I'm
• 57:39
  like, do. You think it was a crank?
• 57:42
  Call. I was like I said, yeah.
• 57:47
  Because it's like the one basically right now, right?
• 57:50
  There's maybe there's a. Handful.
• 57:52
  But I don't know, you went to the the facilities, right,
• 57:54
  Lindsay? Yeah, I went when Avant's had
• 57:56
  it's the Turbo is their newest model.
• 57:59
  So this is the one that you drove is like the company's
• 58:02
  Turbo? Yeah, it's their like their
• 58:05
  press car basically because I mean, everyone's had their way
• 58:07
  with it. But it's held up well.
• 58:11
  Right. Yeah, It's incredible.
• 58:13
  I have to say. Those brakes are El touchy.
• 58:16
  They're very, very, very. Spanish too.
• 58:21
  It's it reminded me of being in the 930 turbo because it had
• 58:24
  that power feel obviously a bit more power and just a complete
• 58:29
  smooth, just great drive. Really, really awesome.
• 58:35
  And then the brakes are it takes you a second because you're like
• 58:40
  like you don't need to, you know, I drive a 69.
• 58:43
  So it's like maybe we should tap those brakes a little bit more.
• 58:46
  But you know, you get used to it and then you're you're going
• 58:48
  good. But it has like little modern
• 58:50
  features too. Like it doesn't roll back.
• 58:53
  You know, when you're you're putting everything is very, it
• 58:58
  really feels like, I mean, bear with me.
• 59:00
  It's like a daily driver, like it's that easy to drive.
• 59:04
  And so, you know, there, I, I love that about it, you know,
• 59:09
  and you know, just knowing it's so expensive.
• 59:12
  I was like, no, but it was traffic time when I got up there
• 59:14
  and they I said, no, you're driving me out to where I'm
• 59:17
  going to drive it because I'm not go through traffic in LA to
• 59:21
  get to it. So one of the guys took me out
• 59:23
  and it was. Who took you out?
• 59:27
  Oh, sorry, not to put you on the.
• 59:28
  Spot. I'm a singer.
• 59:28
  Well, So what? OK, So what is the?
• 59:30
  Let's call him Sheamus, right? Yeah, Sheamus is there, Michael.
• 59:34
  Michael's the one that did the tour when I.
• 59:35
  Was there? Yeah.
• 59:37
  But So what is the turbo start at?
• 59:39
  Did they tell you? Price wise, I think, I mean I'd
• 59:42
  have to look at, I want to say it was it, it's between 7:50 and
• 59:46
  a million and that's a. Few, I mean, yeah.
• 59:49
  Yeah, I think it's a million. So yeah, you're just like, you
• 59:54
  know, I don't know. But I I had a lot of fun with it
• 59:57
  and Lee was with me and he's like, you know, I'm going to
• 59:58
  drive it. And I was like not.
• 1:00:01
  I really, I was, I, you know, and he's a great driver.
• 1:00:04
  Like he would have had more fun than I would have in it.
• 1:00:08
  But you know, it's just, you know, there's, there's rules,
• 1:00:10
  but, and just walking around that facility, what a treat.
• 1:00:13
  Like that was a thing that was right before I left for France
• 1:00:17
  to like days before, like 2 days before.
• 1:00:19
  So I was like, what is happening?
• 1:00:21
  It was a very good spring. Yeah.
• 1:00:24
  It was nice even in France. That was just beautiful.
• 1:00:26
  I arrived it was like 75°. I'm like, what is going on?
• 1:00:29
  So it was really, really beautiful.
• 1:00:31
  And but the singer facilities are next level.
• 1:00:35
  All white, just beautiful. Yeah.
• 1:00:38
  Impeccably clean. It's like a church, like you
• 1:00:40
  walk in and you're just like. Yeah.
• 1:00:42
  And I'm like, can I take it like see there like no pictures?
• 1:00:45
  And then I'm like, I, she goes, well, we just do it because we
• 1:00:49
  don't want the customer's car to be in the background or
• 1:00:51
  whatever. Like you don't give away the
• 1:00:53
  surprise. So she's like, well, you can
• 1:00:55
  take a picture of this and you can take a picture of this.
• 1:00:56
  Well, you know, I'm like, so I was just kind of like getting a
• 1:01:00
  couple of pictures because I mean, I just walked up when I
• 1:01:02
  walked in. I'm like in Lee goes you
• 1:01:05
  literally this is like her her form of hell because I can't if
• 1:01:10
  I can't photograph. And we've been in a couple
• 1:01:11
  situations like that where it's like a super private collection
• 1:01:14
  and I'm like. You realize how instinctive it
• 1:01:19
  is for taking pictures and like you know.
• 1:01:23
  Just because you want to even look at it yourself and there's
• 1:01:25
  been no, they're like, you can take it and look at it yourself.
• 1:01:27
  I'm like, I see it. I don't need to look at.
• 1:01:30
  It they nailed that turbo though and I I haven't driven it, I've
• 1:01:33
  only looked at it right, but every angle is right.
• 1:01:37
  The accordion bumper. In Seattle, right?
• 1:01:39
  Ryan Yeah, yeah, a couple places now.
• 1:01:41
  And it's just, it's so good. It's just so good.
• 1:01:43
  Like, you know, you keep sort of walking around looking for like
• 1:01:46
  an awkward angle or something and it just doesn't happen.
• 1:01:49
  It doesn't exist. Yeah, I mean, we're so pretty
• 1:01:51
  and it really like has that full retro feel and but just those
• 1:01:57
  little modern touches that make you it just the ease of like
• 1:02:00
  because you know, the 9:30, it's like you get in and you're like,
• 1:02:03
  you know, like, yeah, you know, like adjusting.
• 1:02:05
  And and then this one is just like you glide in and you just
• 1:02:09
  feel a little, you know, and our, our car's is pimped.
• 1:02:12
  It's great. Yeah, it's really great car.
• 1:02:15
  But but it's, you know, it's really analog.
• 1:02:19
  And this one is very analog. But at the same time there's
• 1:02:23
  little subtle things and you don't even realize till you get
• 1:02:25
  out and you go, Oh my gosh, it didn't, it doesn't roll back
• 1:02:27
  right. And yeah, yeah, there's little
• 1:02:30
  the added features that are are great and the handling and you
• 1:02:34
  know, just it, I can't say enough about it.
• 1:02:38
  It was a really sweet car to drive and just feel like you're
• 1:02:40
  in an old car, but you have that new car feel so.
• 1:02:44
  Like all the creature comforts. I know I got to sit in it when
• 1:02:46
  it was here in Seattle because they did an event a couple weeks
• 1:02:50
  ago. And I thought even the interior
• 1:02:53
  was so much fun, like the fabrics that they had chosen and
• 1:02:55
  the green and the Plaid and it just, it was, it's a very happy
• 1:02:59
  car. And I like the, the mix.
• 1:03:02
  You know, the outside, it's kind of understated and then you get
• 1:03:05
  in and it's very lively inside and it's just like it really
• 1:03:07
  draws you in. Yeah, I met the guy who does the
• 1:03:11
  interiors and everything, and then they the people who pick
• 1:03:13
  the Leathers and the Leathers have to be perfect.
• 1:03:15
  And you just go around and everything is just white glove.
• 1:03:18
  It's, it's just, it just, it's really impressive because they
• 1:03:23
  went from like a little tiny, you know, place in the valley
• 1:03:27
  and then they get another little place in the valley and then
• 1:03:29
  they ended up with six places in the valley.
• 1:03:31
  And then now they have this big beautiful facility and they're
• 1:03:34
  pretty much outgrowing that too. I mean, there's no shortage of
• 1:03:38
  demand for sure for. This, Yeah, pretty cool.
• 1:03:41
  So I was talking to somebody the other day and we were trying to
• 1:03:43
  determine like what the next sort of car that should be
• 1:03:46
  reimagined is, right? So I know Singer has like a
• 1:03:50
  warehouse of 209 six fours or whatever, but eventually they
• 1:03:53
  will run out, right? So what's the like the?
• 1:03:56
  Next. Yeah.
• 1:03:57
  And they really do, you know. Yeah.
• 1:03:59
  And I had my first 964 experience recently and that was
• 1:04:03
  like the poster car for me driving or growing up, you know,
• 1:04:07
  that was what I wanted to drive. And I was a little underwhelmed.
• 1:04:11
  So you know what? Reimagine them all.
• 1:04:13
  Like, I'm OK with it. It's a better car reimagined.
• 1:04:16
  It was kind of the redheaded stepchild of I hate saying that
• 1:04:19
  because that's I have so many friends that are redheaded.
• 1:04:25
  Like that's just an inappropriate thing to say.
• 1:04:27
  Why would I say that? It's a safe space.
• 1:04:30
  OK, yeah, no one's hating me, right?
• 1:04:33
  But you know when I I'm so mad because when I was looking to
• 1:04:39
  buy I ended up with A997, but when I was looking to buy there
• 1:04:43
  was just they were giving 9/6. Four, they really were.
• 1:04:47
  They were. Nothing.
• 1:04:48
  And that was the first car I drove.
• 1:04:50
  The first Porsche I drove, it was a 964C2 Targa, which is
• 1:04:56
  actually what the car I drove that in, Porsche Centrum
• 1:04:59
  Gelderland, was the race, the police car, what?
• 1:05:03
  They were targets, yeah. And outside of their cars as
• 1:05:06
  well. So they were all targets.
• 1:05:09
  I. Could stand up and hold that
• 1:05:10
  little sign. That little.
• 1:05:13
  But they're just very easy to drive.
• 1:05:15
  They're like very like shifting easy cars.
• 1:05:19
  But but you know, they've, they've really, I think no one
• 1:05:24
  was upset about them taking the 96 fours because.
• 1:05:27
  Yeah. It was, yeah.
• 1:05:29
  So I think the next car that should be reimagined is the
• 1:05:32
  Mercedes R1 O 7. So like the one up there, like
• 1:05:36
  the SL. So like what is that the 71
• 1:05:39
  through 89 or whatever SL Because there are a million of
• 1:05:41
  them, maybe 10 million of them. I know it's it's not quite the
• 1:05:44
  sports car the 964 sports to be, but what?
• 1:05:48
  Would you want to do to it? I I, I just I feel like, you
• 1:05:50
  know, it's it's got a lot of potential right there
• 1:05:52
  everywhere. They're cheap.
• 1:05:53
  They're actually still cheap, right sure.
• 1:05:57
  You know, I I think that they they're more power could be made
• 1:06:00
  everything that Singer does does to their cars, right do them to
• 1:06:02
  these. Give that treatment to those.
• 1:06:04
  Yeah, You know, I, I was just, I'm trying to think of like,
• 1:06:07
  what other car did they make a bunch of that, you know, kind of
• 1:06:09
  unloved, still can be found for nothing.
• 1:06:11
  But maybe this isn't it. Maybe there's something else?
• 1:06:14
  There was one I was thinking of, but it's a great car.
• 1:06:20
  I can't think of it right now. Yeah, You find those and you're
• 1:06:23
  like, how come this isn't worth more?
• 1:06:25
  Like, why is this? Like, even the Dino was like, I
• 1:06:29
  remember looking in the newspaper and they were going
• 1:06:33
  for like $40,000 way back and like the 90s.
• 1:06:36
  And then all of a sudden they're worth all this money.
• 1:06:38
  I'm like, but it's the poor man's Ferrari, you know?
• 1:06:42
  And I had a friend who had one and they ripped around and I was
• 1:06:45
  like, whatever. And now they're like this big
• 1:06:49
  deal. And I mean, Ferraris, I just, I
• 1:06:52
  don't even feel like I fit in Ferraris.
• 1:06:53
  It's a weird thing. You don't fit in Ferraris.
• 1:06:57
  I'm not that tall, but I have a long torso and I have, I like
• 1:07:04
  the GT, the three. My friend used to have a 328
• 1:07:07
  GTS. She was like 23 years old.
• 1:07:09
  I was like 20-5, really. And her husband was 27.
• 1:07:12
  And he, it got a bunch of money from his dad and he was buying
• 1:07:17
  Ferraris and Ferraris and Ferraris and she hated cars.
• 1:07:21
  So he goes, alright, come on. I bought her something and I'm
• 1:07:24
  like, Oh my God. And she's like, oh, she got an
• 1:07:27
  SL. She got a A600SL when they first
• 1:07:29
  came out. Yeah.
• 1:07:30
  And she's like, what are you thinking?
• 1:07:33
  She she thought he got her a gym, like a workout gym for
• 1:07:36
  their house. And she walks up and she's like,
• 1:07:39
  Oh my God, he's like, bring Laura, bring Laura and.
• 1:07:43
  She goes, she'll make it better. She was a little dyslexic and
• 1:07:46
  she goes, it's OK. It was only $20,000.
• 1:07:48
  I go no, like I think they're like 120,000.
• 1:07:55
  That's another one. There's R12 nines.
• 1:07:57
  We should all be buying those up, right?
• 1:07:59
  I mean, they'll never be cheaper.
• 1:08:01
  It's AV 12. That's 600, you know.
• 1:08:03
  Yeah, yeah, I mean and it drove like a truck.
• 1:08:06
  It was like, you know, but we got in the she she had a, it had
• 1:08:11
  9000 miles on it. She never drove it.
• 1:08:12
  She had a little 328 GTS and I was like, let's take the Ferrari
• 1:08:18
  out, you know? And she's like Laura, you don't
• 1:08:19
  even understand. And she was blonde.
• 1:08:21
  I was like this color here. And she was, she's like, you
• 1:08:25
  don't understand. Like the looks I get, it's
• 1:08:27
  horrible. And so we get out and I'm like,
• 1:08:33
  and and then the windshield kind of comes to here.
• 1:08:35
  So you're like, I'm like, this is so weird.
• 1:08:38
  Poor Tom Selleck. Yeah, it's like you look at it
• 1:08:41
  and you go yeah, like we're not crazy tall, but like when I
• 1:08:44
  drove the three O 8 same thing where I'm like boy, we're.
• 1:08:47
  Kind of body, yeah, same body. So yeah, I get in and this guy
• 1:08:51
  looks over and like this and. And I look over and he goes he's
• 1:08:58
  like Oh yeah, you're right. I go, it's her car and he's
• 1:09:01
  like, no, you know, like whatever it was, you know, like,
• 1:09:06
  I mean, we should have been in that cars, though.
• 1:09:08
  I just drove my first 355 a couple weeks ago and it had like
• 1:09:12
  sparkle buckets which did not help me.
• 1:09:14
  I'm 64 and like 2:50 and also long in torso and I just look so
• 1:09:18
  silly. I look like an ape driving that
• 1:09:20
  thing. It was just not good and I
• 1:09:22
  wanted to love it and it drove well, but I I couldn't even get
• 1:09:25
  comfortable enough to drive it as.
• 1:09:27
  A yeah, that takes away from the.
• 1:09:29
  Driving I. Think it's for like littler
• 1:09:31
  people like jockeys, you know, like, because.
• 1:09:34
  Italians. Yeah, well, I mean, I, I don't
• 1:09:37
  know what it is like. They're not, you know, I fit
• 1:09:40
  clothing. So.
• 1:09:41
  So like, OK, I'm always like, we need a little inch here, a
• 1:09:45
  little take off here, raise the neckline, whatever.
• 1:09:47
  And so I feel like they need a fit model for.
• 1:09:51
  Right, but any Porsche, it doesn't matter which Porsche I
• 1:09:54
  can fit in. 914-920-4928 fits me just fine.
• 1:09:58
  So I guess I mean. People they, you know, say what
• 1:10:03
  you want about Porsche, I mean recently Supercar Blondie was
• 1:10:06
  like, it just doesn't, it doesn't do it for me.
• 1:10:07
  And I'm like, what? I know I was like respectfully.
• 1:10:13
  Well, some of us are drivers. I I just, yeah, I think, you
• 1:10:17
  know, like she gets a lot of grief because, you know, she, I
• 1:10:20
  mean, you know, any girl who's just going to be, I mean, a lot
• 1:10:24
  of those cars don't even have engines in them.
• 1:10:25
  Like, they're not motors because they're just honestly, they
• 1:10:29
  they're they're rollers. They're rollers.
• 1:10:31
  Yeah. So, you know, people are like,
• 1:10:34
  she doesn't even drive it. It's like, well, sometimes she.
• 1:10:37
  Can't. No one can, right.
• 1:10:40
  But, you know, she's got, she's done very well for herself.
• 1:10:44
  So she got her. And people would be like, you
• 1:10:46
  know, I think you're better than her.
• 1:10:48
  I go, well, about 10 million people don't think so.
• 1:10:51
  So yeah. But you know, at the same time
• 1:10:55
  you're doing OK. Yeah.
• 1:10:57
  Not what's the secret for social media success in your eyes?
• 1:11:00
  Like what's? I have no idea.
• 1:11:03
  I mean I. Like when did you, when did it
• 1:11:05
  click for you? Like when did you see that, that
• 1:11:06
  counter going like it, like it was a slot machine, you know,
• 1:11:09
  like it was just it. Never.
• 1:11:10
  Did the jackpot. It was in the beginning before
• 1:11:14
  Meta took over and and everyone will complain about when Meta
• 1:11:17
  took over. I actually was just on the phone
• 1:11:18
  with Meta the other day because they called me here and again.
• 1:11:21
  They've got a phone number. Yeah, I actually do.
• 1:11:26
  I'll send you what they send me. Yeah, they send you like tips
• 1:11:28
  and tricks or whatever. They want you to post like 3 * a
• 1:11:32
  day and put words on the title. I go.
• 1:11:34
  I'm not gonna lose my aesthetic. I'm sorry.
• 1:11:36
  I'll. I'll have followers because the
• 1:11:38
  people who follow me are generally older, you know,
• 1:11:41
  they're elegant and understated, you know, I don't know, but they
• 1:11:47
  don't close the. Crowd.
• 1:11:48
  They don't want like crazy. Demographic, yeah.
• 1:11:51
  Yeah, I don't know. I just feel like I don't want to
• 1:11:53
  veer away from who I am either. And I'm very picky about like
• 1:11:58
  brands that I work with because sometimes the brand is just not
• 1:12:01
  elevated enough or it, you know, or they want me to put like
• 1:12:05
  spinner rims on the cars or something.
• 1:12:07
  And they're like, we'll pay you up a zillion dollars.
• 1:12:09
  They actually offered me one of those.
• 1:12:12
  I don't know what those cars are, that they're like a
• 1:12:13
  motorcycle, but it's a weird car and it's it, it has.
• 1:12:17
  An organ. No, it's like a starts with an
• 1:12:21
  S, doesn't it? It's some sort of like sidekick
• 1:12:23
  or whatever. We'll give it to you for a year.
• 1:12:26
  And I was, I was like, I can't do it.
• 1:12:29
  Like I will be laughed. And then it was a it was a
• 1:12:31
  marketing agency and they were like, yeah, we figured it was a
• 1:12:34
  long shot. I was like, I mean, I'm a
• 1:12:36
  classic car girl. Like it.
• 1:12:37
  They people would just be like, you've sold out.
• 1:12:40
  You can't do it. So be really careful with what I
• 1:12:42
  do as well. So when I But when the growth
• 1:12:46
  came, it was kind of out of the gate.
• 1:12:50
  Bart Kirkins, who is a photographer for.
• 1:12:54
  He was doing a book on the book series Flat 6 Love Affair.
• 1:12:58
  I have it somewhere here. He Bart.
• 1:13:01
  Hi, Bart. Yeah.
• 1:13:02
  I was like 2 days into my Instagram and he goes, hey, you
• 1:13:06
  want to do a shoot? And I go, here it goes, you
• 1:13:07
  know, and then some other guy did it too.
• 1:13:12
  And I was like, oh, you know, like trying to be nice.
• 1:13:15
  I'm. I'm never like, shut up, you
• 1:13:16
  know? Yeah.
• 1:13:17
  And the other guy unfollowed me because he's like, I figured you
• 1:13:21
  were just getting too popular. And I go, well, that's sad.
• 1:13:24
  And I was like, that's mean. And then a goal, Sir.
• 1:13:27
  Yeah. For all of us.
• 1:13:29
  Followed him too is like well unfollow and then I forget who
• 1:13:33
  he was but he was some guy who obviously had his own issues to
• 1:13:37
  deal with but Bart was like hey he's like let's do some
• 1:13:42
  photographs and ever after that it kind of put me on the map and
• 1:13:45
  then Portia took notice and then they did a story on me it's
• 1:13:48
  somewhere here too. They did a story me and and they
• 1:13:54
  titled it Laura's World which. Oh, come on.
• 1:13:58
  I was like, I go, if I was going to write the title, I would
• 1:14:05
  have. I wouldn't even have ever.
• 1:14:07
  That's epic suggested that. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:09
  Thank you so much. So it was for Christophe wrist
• 1:14:12
  mags. I think amazing.
• 1:14:13
  Yeah, So is this, No, this is a new one.
• 1:14:16
  This isn't mine. This is the new one anyway,
• 1:14:18
  they're everywhere but the but so it and it just started
• 1:14:23
  growing and at that time you could see your growth, how it
• 1:14:26
  was going to grow. Like, sure, sure.
• 1:14:28
  I would go by August, I'm gonna have 20,000 and by August I'd be
• 1:14:32
  off by like 100. It was like 100 up, 100 down or
• 1:14:35
  whatever. And then it just was like it
• 1:14:38
  kind of fell off a Cliff and I was like, what's going on?
• 1:14:40
  And then I got something that went viral after I, they put me
• 1:14:46
  in jail for a second. I forget why.
• 1:14:47
  Somebody probably did something and I was like, I can't, I mean,
• 1:14:52
  I was getting like a hundred 150 a day.
• 1:14:54
  Like it was just like, whatever. And some of them were bots
• 1:14:56
  because like you, it's not, you're not buying it.
• 1:15:00
  They're just the bots. Yeah, they're.
• 1:15:02
  Out there, Yeah. And then they clean house and so
• 1:15:04
  you get like, you know, they drop off and never, but because
• 1:15:07
  the bots are such a part of Instagram, it kind of pisses you
• 1:15:11
  off. But I'm like, whatever, it's a
• 1:15:11
  number, you know? And then Meta took over and it
• 1:15:16
  just went to absolute shit. And I was like, like, I've been
• 1:15:19
  complaining and complaining and suddenly I'm getting another
• 1:15:22
  little boost. So but when I got the I had one
• 1:15:27
  go several million, like 4 million and I got 8000 because
• 1:15:31
  I, I just said I hit 50,000 and then I got 8000 in a month and I
• 1:15:36
  was like, Oh my God, now I look like I bought followers.
• 1:15:38
  And I. And I, I mean, I'd wake up and
• 1:15:41
  it was like I was like, Oh my gosh, I got like 200 followers.
• 1:15:44
  I'm like, Oh no, I had got 2200 followers.
• 1:15:46
  I mean, it was so insane. And Portia put me on a couple
• 1:15:49
  times and I would get 1000 followers.
• 1:15:51
  And Yep. Yep.
• 1:15:52
  So anyway, Dan followed me recently.
• 1:15:56
  Get out they. Went a little unfollowing.
• 1:15:58
  Followed you they. Unfollowed.
• 1:16:00
  No, everyone's complaining about it, but they, they've unfollowed
• 1:16:02
  like I'm and I'm talking this big game like, yeah.
• 1:16:05
  And then Portia followed me and then I looked and they
• 1:16:08
  unfollowed all like their drivers.
• 1:16:11
  Like I was like somebody who doesn't know anything about
• 1:16:13
  that. Was a glitch.
• 1:16:15
  Yeah. And I'm like, well, at least I'm
• 1:16:17
  a good Porsche. Good company.
• 1:16:18
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, that.
• 1:16:20
  Wasn't personal. Yeah.
• 1:16:23
  Yeah, they need to get their act together.
• 1:16:25
  Interesting, interesting. Or I need to be kind of German?
• 1:16:29
  What? It keeps it interesting.
• 1:16:31
  Yeah, it's always you just. Don't know.
• 1:16:33
  Is is that will? The real take away is it's
• 1:16:36
  always a struggle. You know, yeah.
• 1:16:38
  Yeah, I didn't. I was the accidental.
• 1:16:40
  It's, you know, I didn't think it was going to go crazy and and
• 1:16:46
  and it really isn't that. I mean, like so many people,
• 1:16:48
  like a million followers or whatever, but now a lot of
• 1:16:51
  people buy their followers and you know, you're just in a sea
• 1:16:54
  of, of hoping to stand out in a sea of like the liars and the
• 1:17:03
  real people. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:17:04
  So yeah, it happens, but. Maybe in a weird way, this sort
• 1:17:08
  of brings it back to where it was, right?
• 1:17:10
  Like kind of the real deal people, right?
• 1:17:11
  The people who are really creating quality content, right?
• 1:17:14
  Who, who the drivers, right? The.
• 1:17:17
  Well, my boyfriend always says just stay consistent.
• 1:17:20
  And yeah, and enough of the things of like the trips I've
• 1:17:22
  taken in the places I've been in the, in the events that I've
• 1:17:25
  done, there's a consistency. And so I think that's what is
• 1:17:30
  and there's an authenticity of that.
• 1:17:32
  So yes. And I do try to just stay in my
• 1:17:34
  lane and keep my eyes on my own plate.
• 1:17:36
  And then at the end of the day, you know, there's gonna be new
• 1:17:41
  and younger, stronger, faster, richer people that come along.
• 1:17:45
  What a pleasure talking with you.
• 1:17:46
  We definitely have to do a part, do a part.
• 1:17:48
  I'm a say Part 2, Part 2. It could just be the whiskey
• 1:17:51
  talking. But yeah, this was fun and hope
• 1:17:56
  you get to visit Colorado sometime and like Lindsay will
• 1:18:00
  be doing on Friday. Right.
• 1:18:01
  Yeah, We'll have to make a pilgrimage.
• 1:18:03
  I know, I think. It's my dad's tomorrow for we
• 1:18:07
  sold his house so we I'm going to.
• 1:18:10
  Not Colorado A. Few days ago I'm on the plane
• 1:18:12
  again and I hate to fly but it. Can't stay away, I know.
• 1:18:16
  Wait, that Porsche girl hates to fly?
• 1:18:18
  I hate to fly I'm. She's a driver.
• 1:18:21
  That's right. I don't know if you like, I've
• 1:18:24
  obviously control issues so I have.
• 1:18:28
  All Porsche drivers do, yeah. I'm known as being the worst
• 1:18:31
  passenger. Johnny Lieberman is the first to
• 1:18:34
  to say that cuz he took me out on GT3 and I was like, and
• 1:18:37
  again, not controlled Rd. yeah, like Angela's Crest.
• 1:18:40
  I'm like, I don't want to be. And it wasn't anything on his
• 1:18:43
  driving. It was just like if we come
• 1:18:44
  around the corner and there's a motorcycle on the ground, you
• 1:18:48
  know, I'm always that's why I'm a precision driver.
• 1:18:50
  I'm always like, what can happen?
• 1:18:52
  And they're like, I don't care what happens.
• 1:18:55
  So there's people who are like that.
• 1:18:56
  And then those people like me are like, give me a controlled
• 1:18:58
  environment or, you know, some walkie talkies.
• 1:19:01
  So I know nothing's around that corner and I'm gonna come flying
• 1:19:03
  around it. But yeah, so maybe.
• 1:19:05
  We get to talk about like the movies you've been in and the
• 1:19:09
  people you've doubled for the television spots you've done.
• 1:19:12
  So definitely please come. Back.
• 1:19:13
  You'll have to come back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 1:19:15
  Well, on that note, thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:19:18
  We're that car show and remember to always be driving and we'll
• 1:19:22
  see you next week. Thanks, Laura.
• 1:19:24
  Bye.