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#150 - Behind the Bay Doors: Life as a Nissan Tech · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  Welcome back everybody, to another episode of the After
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  Hours podcast. On today's episode, we have a
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  bunch of current and past Nissan technicians, all of which are
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  good friends of mine. I'm been trying, I've been
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  trying to have this podcast episode for I think over a year
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  at this point. And we finally made it happen.
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  We got Eddie, Brian, Chris, Nick and me.
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  We all worked. We all have been Nissan
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  Obviously, I mean, I, I, I, as I was doing this podcast, I would
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  be like this. This would be one of my favorite
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  was for the young, the young guys out there looking to see
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  All right guys, welcome to the Faction After Hours podcast.
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  We're here to bring you another episode tonight.
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  We have a guest. No, just kidding.
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  We have 8. We have 4 guests.
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  We have the Nissan crew. Is that what this is?
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  This is the Nissan technician episode.
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  OK, we have the Nissan technician episode.
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  These guys all have a variety of cars, so it's good.
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  It's like a good time to get an overview of absolutely nothing.
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  We're just going to talk about bullshit for the next couple
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  hours, but we have Nick, Brian and Eddie as well as Chris.
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  Chris is here. Chris is here.
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  Hello. Welcome, everybody.
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  Welcome. Welcome.
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  Welcome. It's nice to see you, dude.
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  Chris, it's nice to have you on the pod.
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  Thank you. The last time I was on the pod.
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  Nine years ago. Well.
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  Wasn't it? 50 lbs ago too.
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  Yeah, no 900 lbs ago, dude. 55. 55.
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  Yeah, you're not lurking. No, MO.
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  You the star. This is you I think.
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  The last time I was on the episode was probably below 30s,
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  yeah. Definitely below the 30s.
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  Yikes. Somebody's got to keep the
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  lights on while Frankie's not. While we're in here bullshit and
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  working yeah literally. So this is pretty much I mean
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  some of the listeners know I worked at Nissan.
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  So this is pretty much like all my Co workers here right now
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  except what like Miyagi and those pretty much where.
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  Is Miyagi worked at Nissan 2? Yeah.
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  Yeah, that was. Fun.
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  Yeah, we got a lot of videos. That was a movie.
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  What? Miyagi What?
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  Was it? No.
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  What? What?
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  Every day him being present at work was a movie.
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  What was he doing just. Now could you?
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  The water just. Smoking cigarettes and just just
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  getting mad at everybody. Yeah, we'll show you what Miyagi
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  was doing at work. Why?
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  Oh no, they're pulling up paraphernalia on their phones.
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  They've everybody's got their phone out, right?
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  Now when I said we were doing this podcast, they just all of a
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  sudden started sending me crazy videos.
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  I was like Oh my God dude, have. Them ready just boom boom boom
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  boom boom. So you guys all worked with
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  Frankie? I knew Eddie from working with
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  Chris. That's this one I.
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  Worked with Chris, hold on, get Eddie and Mike and get close to
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  that. So I worked with Chris and
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  that's How I Met Frankie and the faction crew.
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  When you were at Ramsey or you were?
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  When I was at Ramsey and then when I came over to Lynn's,
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  that's when I met Brian. Oh, we're name dropping on this
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  shit all right. That's when I found out you knew
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  Chris and everybody and you know, the big world just became
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  small. Yeah, for real, Because I was
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  popping into Nissan, really. And and I had what did I have?
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  I had a coupe and then I had the Hatch.
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  And I also brought a multitude of other bullshit in between
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  that. Like I brought the truck there
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  like my Land Cruiser, I brought it there for an alignment.
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  Who was every oh, I miss my boy. I miss my boy every, bro.
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  That was Chris's manage. Was it your boss?
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  Was it you guys's boss? What was he?
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  He was technically my manager. Do he look like a guy that owned
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  a bagger? And he did Harley.
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  He did have a bagger. He looked like a beast on that
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  thing. Yeah, dude, his head was freshly
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  clear coated. That's how shiny it was.
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  Oh my God, he had a dude, right? He had a white Rd. glide.
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  Oh wow, damn, did you Chris knows where those?
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  Are did you know? Did you know every?
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  No, I just. Remembered, I don't know bikes.
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  No, I don't think so. It just looked like everybody.
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  So you guys worked together at Ramsey?
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  So me and Eddie worked together at Ramsey.
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  Yeah, yeah. OK.
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  And then I missed you guys by a year.
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  At Bergenfield. In Bergenfield, yeah, I only saw
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  you which which is Nissan drive. I was like look right hand.
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  Drive. Oh yeah.
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  Every time you drive by the shop, yeah.
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  On the way to Ramsey. Yeah, yeah.
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  This makes sense the the division.
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  Yeah, it does that. We were because the longest time
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  we were together was at Bergenfield.
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  Yeah, Bergenfield. Well, not technically, probably
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  not. Oh, but you left and came back,
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  right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  OK. So that probably was the longest
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  time we were all together. What did?
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  What did each of you do like? What were your respective duties
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  like you? What did you when?
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  I was working with them. I was in the Parks Department.
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  OK. And then what was Nick doing?
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  I was like, fucking everything. You were a technician?
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  Yeah, technician. Everyone here was a technician
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  except me, right? Yeah.
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  I was a tech for. You were one year, I thought
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  this whole time Frankie was a tech like replacing NV 2000
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  harnesses and. Shit.
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  Hell no. But I.
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  Don't. I don't think you came to
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  Bergenfield as a tech. No, I was in parts.
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  Hawthorne Nissan was where I was a tech for like a year.
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  Oh, that's when I still didn't know you.
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  Yeah, no, that was 2012. Eleven something like.
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  That it's the shop that have Bay, Bay, Bay and then Bay.
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  That was Bay. Bay in front of Bay.
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  That was the shop that got in trouble for fucking I'm.
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  I'm just saying whatever because fuck that guy.
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  Is that guys don't even exist. Yeah, get that.
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  Get if if. Yeah, if you're on the mic, make
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  sure. You're on rule of thumb if it be
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  a hog with the mic. If you're going to grab it, just
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  grab it. I like the way you.
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  Do that. All right, Eddie.
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  OK. OK.
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  Look. At this guy, he got the grip.
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  Watch the beer, you know. It's, I don't know, it's
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  something to just be mindful. No, but this dealership, they
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  were. What was the craziest thing
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  about the dealer? I feel like you know more than I
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  do, you know? Yeah, OK.
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  Oh God, what? What?
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  What kind of crazy are we talking here?
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  So. Allegedly 2 Nissan dealers and 1
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  Infiniti dealer and they were always like getting in trouble
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  for shit and apparently they didn't pay the rent for a few
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  months at the Infinity dealership.
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  Bro, a few months. Bro one Saturday all the techs
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  came to work and the doors were just locked.
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  No one could get in. It was like work was.
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  Stuck. Wait, what?
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  Infinity where? Englewood.
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  That's Englewood. Okay, was that around the same
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  time when all this shit went down with the remember when they
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  got caught letting out loaner cars and then people were
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  stealing the loaner cars and like.
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  No, what was that? This is what I said is after,
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  but I remember what you're talking about.
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  People were taking the loaner cars and doing some like.
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  Weird shit. Activity.
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  Good idea. Yeah, 370Z.
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  They were based someone was letting them use the rental cars
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  to like run drugs. Ultimas and brogues, my God.
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  Yeah, they were doing some wild cars with.
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  A good good. Rent.
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  Yeah, that was author. So I heard we just got Hawthorne
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  where they were doing warranty claims.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah. And then we were like, I was
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  there for. That and then using like
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  AutoZone parts. It's worse than that.
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  I mean, well, we all know in the dealership world smoke like you
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  smoke. So what what that means is like
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  you tell the company that you change the part but you don't
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  change the part. This is kind of insider
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  information right now and I wonder if any of a dealership
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  you are at the more the more it's going to happen.
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  I wonder if anybody listening who is a tech 'cause I'm sure
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  there's a few of you who are techs, boy and girl, fucking
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  that see this shit. Yeah, I'm wondering if this shit
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  happened still today, and I'm sure it'd probably be fucking
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  yeah, like. I don't want to talk about shit
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  that's going on. Like obviously if if you're at,
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  if you're at your current job, like don't bring any of that
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  shit up, but. I would say it's still
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  happening, but probably not as bad as The Way.
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  They got more ways to. When I started dude, that's.
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  'Cause we were at shitty ass dealerships.
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  Bro, that dealership I violated, yeah yeah, bad.
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  OK, yo-yo yo. What do you?
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  Mean two years. I was a rich as mechanic to be
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  honest. Yo, that was banking every week.
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  So how about that one? Week.
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  Were you there for that week? There was I just.
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  But once his face comes in, the service man Emilio.
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  Emilio. So that was one week, right?
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  One week. Remember, this is smoke.
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  So smoke is you claim a job, but you don't really do the prepare.
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  So one week I think I hit. I think I did quote on quote.
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  I did 3 upper oil pants 15 hour jobs.
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  In one week. In one week.
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  That wasn't it though. I I forgot what else I did.
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  Whatever 45. Hour No bro, bro.
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  I'm just chilling. Just the tip.
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  That's the tip. Watch How.
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  That one week, whatever I think it was.
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  That same week, I forgot what else I claimed I supposedly did
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  following next week. Emilio at the time he comes in
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  the what? Was the total though?
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  What was the total hours? That's what I'm about to get to.
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  He comes in. He comes in super happy.
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  And I'm I'm happy as shit because I killed last week.
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  He's like, oh, so Mr. Brian, you finished with 116 hours.
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  See my paycheck. He goes, how the fuck you
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  finished with 116 hours? No, no, no, no, no.
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  Everyone was there. There was a meeting.
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  He called everyone to the middle, everyone in the
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  building, and he's like, all right, we got to go over
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  something. Brian, how the fuck did you get
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  100? 66 just like that, just like
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  that. He's like, Brian, how the fuck
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  you fucking were 116 hours I was saying.
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  We're all standing there trying not to laugh.
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  I was like, I was, I was busting my ass, but I was working.
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  He said I was moving. He literally, I was like, I was
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  moving, I was working. He was just like and he had like
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  no response after that. He was pissed, he was pissed,
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  but. Because he has to explain that
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  to the warranty. What do you call?
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  It warranty the warranty administrators.
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  Yeah, that like goes around from dealer to dealer.
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  Yeah, basically if they travel different to dealer to dealer,
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  then yeah, you have to, you have to explain this to them like you
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  know, you have to justify the work.
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  Yeah, that's getting done. And then even more so, you know,
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  the claim is going to see one tech number for, you know, 50
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  hours across 2 days. Yeah, I was killing you that
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  week. And you're telling that might
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  raise a rent you're tying really quick?
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  If that car went in there for a fucking upper oil pan or
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  whatever it is that you just said.
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  No, no. No, that wasn't an evident like
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  let me look down here. Whoa, why is this stopping over?
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  Let me. Explain something real quick.
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  A lot of these smoke drops if they're warranted, like if
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  you're doing, there's two different there's warranty and
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  then there's cash, right? Cash is like your car broke, you
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  brought it to the dealer, you got to get it fixed.
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  If you're smoking cash work, that's bad.
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  Yeah, you're an idiot. That's real bad because then
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  just then it could come back and whatever if you don't want to do
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  yeah, usually smoke is warranty and it's fake from the start.
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  That's yeah, that makes it sound a little bit better.
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  Remember smoke? That's the magic word in that,
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  yeah. Yeah, like that upper oil pan
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  was not leaking at all and all you do is.
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  Smoke and mirrors, yeah. If.
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  You inhibited it would break clean.
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  I mean, I was very good at all the transfer case leaks whether
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  it happened or not. Very good.
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  Meaning what? Very good.
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  You know, first service 5000 miles.
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  Yeah, transfer case is leaking, you know, easy, you know?
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  Yeah, I got it fixed in 40 minutes.
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  Have a nice day. Yeah, but it and that was back.
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  They didn't really check like today.
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  It's insane. Oh, so it actually did change,
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  like over. There a lot of it changed.
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  Oh, OK, so now what? Do you guys do about warranties
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  here? Oh, we don't do no warranty.
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  No, we don't really get too many comebacks.
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  But what is it, 90 days, 90 days labor and then parts is
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  whatever. I mean, if the part manufacturer
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  wants to warranty something for two years, that's on them.
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  But yeah. The best is when Brian made all
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  those hours that one week, that was the week he was like, yo,
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  you need to come back to Nissan. We're making mad money over
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  here, is that? When you went back.
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  Oh. My.
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  God, when I went back. And then, and then, and then
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  everything ended like right. Well, shit got slow.
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  I mean it wasn't really vape because we were still smoking
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  out the shop. We was all vaping like crazy.
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  Like bro it was brother. The writer will come up before
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  he will even talk to the customer.
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  Yo, I got this such and such card coming in, what can we do?
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  It's like he's already giving you homework before he even
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  writes up the ticket. Yeah, because you guys, you got
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  to remember the service writer is going to make money too, so
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  everyone's eating. At that point, parts is eating,
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  selling parts. Tech is eating, doing the job,
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  doing the job, and the writer is doing it because he's up selling
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  so much work. And then the dealership goes out
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  of business. I mean, well, more like they get
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  audited and then yeah, Nissan white coats and suits show up to
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  the dealer and they want to see all the old parts.
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  Yeah, but I don't think that ever.
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  I never seen. People Hawthorne.
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  It had to happen to Hawthorne. Dude they were smoking
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  transmissions every day. Bergenfield I never seen, you
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  know, clean suits to ties and all this shit.
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  No, but I think Hawthorne, somebody from Nissan showed up.
• 17:43
  Like Oh yeah, for sure. And not didn't even say they
• 17:46
  were from Nissan, they were just a customer with a car.
• 17:49
  A customer. Yeah.
• 17:50
  Oh, they got one of those. Video you know oh they.
• 17:52
  Undercover. Boss team they.
• 17:54
  Undercover Boss They. Hit you with the sting on.
• 17:56
  That show. Oh, now Jesus is you.
• 17:59
  That whole show on. Camera I beat Brian's STI.
• 18:03
  Oh. He said on camera Jesus beat
• 18:08
  Brian's STI. Brian.
• 18:10
  How do they like they say in in in the law, there's no proof
• 18:14
  that you, we, we even race. So get you little 2 door coupe
• 18:20
  the shit out of here. He ran away pretty good.
• 18:21
  I know it's what usually the others Dominicans do, They talk,
• 18:27
  they shit. They're different types.
• 18:29
  Yeah, they're still different types.
• 18:30
  Me and him are different. What was this going on at you
• 18:33
  guys's dealership, The one I was hanging out around?
• 18:36
  So it would happen, but it was never really anything major.
• 18:40
  So for a short period of time, the Murano head gaskets were
• 18:45
  really popular until maybe a year and a half in the
• 18:50
  dealership got audited. I mean, I really like my
• 18:54
  paychecks during that time. So what happens during an audit?
• 18:58
  They come in and they say where are the old head gaskets?
• 19:01
  So, you know, they might ask for old head gaskets, it might ask
• 19:05
  for a history, you know your your repair order history for
• 19:08
  the past six months. Separate your cash and your
• 19:12
  warranty. Yeah.
• 19:14
  And they'll look at trends like how often or who's recommending.
• 19:18
  Yeah, it's pretty easy to get caught when you're doing this
• 19:22
  shit. Honestly.
• 19:22
  Unless. You, yeah.
• 19:24
  Absolutely. Yeah, a tech could still be
• 19:26
  blind and not even know what a head gas leak could be.
• 19:29
  But I I don't know, this time when I checked it, they needed a
• 19:32
  head gasket. Yeah, that's why they Nissan
• 19:35
  created a TSB for leaks specifically.
• 19:38
  So if you saw just crust on the edges they needed, it's not a
• 19:41
  leak. A leak is when it hits the
• 19:44
  ground. What if I shook the car really
• 19:48
  hard? I mean if as long.
• 19:50
  As it hits the ground. Whoa, delete that.
• 19:53
  Damn. Dude, you know what the greatest
• 19:55
  spot about? I'm not going to name which
• 19:58
  Nissan dealer it was because now you're going to have to pick out
• 20:00
  of these three that we just talked about.
• 20:01
  But dude, the one at you guys's dealer.
• 20:04
  Not looking at any of US 5 here specifically, but it was the
• 20:08
  best place to test the drift car at.
• 20:11
  Night that's. Cool.
• 20:12
  You know what spot you know? Yeah, bro, that was the best
• 20:16
  dude. And it was like a second from my
• 20:18
  house. You mean like behind the
• 20:18
  building? Yeah.
• 20:19
  Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:20
  No, no, no, I mean like in the showroom.
• 20:22
  No, no, it behind the building. It was perfect.
• 20:24
  Yeah, it is a good spot. Me and Chris learned so much bad
• 20:27
  right there. What the fuck?
• 20:28
  Yeah. Oh man.
• 20:33
  I was going to bring something up up you probably don't want to
• 20:35
  bring up where you work right now.
• 20:36
  No. No, you don't.
• 20:38
  Have a bunch of names that you guys.
• 20:40
  Don't work at well, the only names.
• 20:41
  Were really dropped was Hawthorne and they're out of
• 20:42
  business so doesn't really matter.
• 20:44
  So that's a Hawthorne in Bergenfield, which is?
• 20:46
  Technically also out of business.
• 20:47
  Sister stories at the time and and Infinity management.
• 20:51
  Yeah, all new management. So Everett's not there?
• 20:53
  But Englewood, he's the. Same owner, everybody else,
• 20:56
  really. Oh, he's done.
• 20:58
  Like completely. Englewood is the Kia dealership
• 21:01
  now. Englewood Infinity.
• 21:04
  So. So the owner, that guy's gone.
• 21:06
  The owner of Bergenfield was Bergenfield, Yeah.
• 21:09
  Hawthorne and Englewood. Yeah, he, those were all his.
• 21:12
  He's gone. He's gone.
• 21:13
  I don't even know. I didn't know that they.
• 21:15
  Live in a final. It happened to him.
• 21:17
  Finally, wait a minute, but Melvin's still at a.
• 21:21
  But like you said, new management.
• 21:24
  OK, these are just. Old bosses that rotate around
• 21:27
  man, come on. You know, but.
• 21:28
  That's Melvin Parts. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:31
  He he worked. With He's still at Englewood.
• 21:33
  For a little bit. But that's the life of the
• 21:35
  dealership. I don't know if you were still
• 21:36
  there you. Literally just hop around, hop
• 21:38
  around and you stay in the same, yeah.
• 21:40
  But you guys have been pretty comfortable for a minute.
• 21:43
  Right now where I'm at, yeah. Or is the?
• 21:46
  I've only been there about it. It's coming up on my second
• 21:49
  year. Yeah.
• 21:50
  Is the tech industry still busy? Like do you, are you guys seeing
• 21:54
  like a slow down in cars and shit?
• 21:56
  Is that a thing or is it still busy as fuck?
• 22:00
  It's a thing, it does happen, but there's not much you can do.
• 22:04
  But I feel like it's just what's going on in life.
• 22:08
  It's not in you. Do you have no control over it?
• 22:10
  Flat rate does suck. Yeah, I'll tell you straight up,
• 22:13
  it sucks because if you ain't getting no work coming in then
• 22:16
  you literally going home broke. That's why your job, so that's
• 22:18
  why their job right now is better than.
• 22:21
  I mean I don't know about 17 or whatever before but I know our
• 22:26
  situation was fucking trash from Hawthorne.
• 22:29
  Bergenfield 17. Yeah. 17 might have been better
• 22:32
  but it was still shit. You guys never guarantee at 17,
• 22:35
  right? 17 actually did.
• 22:37
  You did, but what? Was it management?
• 22:40
  Like was it 2020 hours? No, I was guarantee 40.
• 22:44
  Oh, it was at. 17 Yeah. Oh.
• 22:46
  OK, cool. So some of these dealerships
• 22:48
  have guarantees like, but they're going to pay you 40
• 22:51
  hours whether you make it or not.
• 22:52
  Other dealerships don't have that.
• 22:54
  I'd be fired. Like pay me for my 40 hours.
• 22:56
  Yeah, but if you, but if you hear yeah, here we go,
• 22:59
  guarantee. Now you're going to hear what
• 23:00
  what it sounds like when you don't have a guarantee.
• 23:03
  When I went to. Yeah, you can say it.
• 23:05
  Bergenfield I started off as Lube tech hourly.
• 23:09
  I was like what, 13 an hour at that that time.
• 23:12
  Dude back when minimum hold on wage.
• 23:14
  How much was one item wage back then?
• 23:16
  That's what you came in as, yeah.
• 23:17
  They they hired me at 13 an hour hourly.
• 23:20
  I would have shot all of them it.
• 23:24
  Was what happened like wait wait wait when?
• 23:26
  Was this? 2016.
• 23:29
  OK, so we we're hanging out already.
• 23:30
  Yeah. What was minimum?
• 23:31
  Was minimum wage back then like $8?
• 23:33
  How much was it? Well, my, my, my rate was 12 at
• 23:37
  Ramsey. That that, that was minimum
• 23:40
  that. Was yeah.
• 23:41
  Yeah. Wait, no, no, Malcolm, do you
• 23:42
  mind looking that up? I don't think that that was what
• 23:44
  it. I think minimum wage was like 8
• 23:46
  bucks. I think at that time you
• 23:48
  probably right. Maybe like it was not like bro
• 23:51
  back then you could probably buy Chipotle bowl for like $8.
• 23:54
  Look, I told you 2016 $8.38. Does that got to jump from $8 to
• 24:01
  fucking? What is it now?
• 24:02
  What is it now, 14? I think 16.
• 24:05
  Is it think 15? Holy.
• 24:09
  Shit in fucking what like 3 years that?
• 24:12
  Didn't know three years from 16. To 25.
• 24:14
  That was literally. No.
• 24:15
  When did it change? That was nine years ago that I
• 24:17
  just brought up. 2016 was nine years ago, Pops. 1920. 19.
• 24:21
  OK. So like 2-3 years?
• 24:23
  There was gradual increases. I know it shot up at one point
• 24:27
  though pretty fast. It had to have.
• 24:29
  There we go. That that there's a chart right
• 24:31
  there. OK, It says they.
• 24:32
  Just went up a dollar every year.
• 24:34
  Holy shit they did. Yeah, it really would.
• 24:37
  Wow. So you were you were Lubin for
• 24:40
  13? Years.
• 24:41
  So I was I was hourly for about four months, $13 an hour and
• 24:47
  then someone came out, I want to name who you 3 know who it is.
• 24:54
  He came out and was like, all right, we're going to make you a
• 24:56
  fire rate tech at 15. All right, no problem.
• 25:00
  What's the guarantee? We don't got a guarantee right
• 25:04
  now, but I guarantee you that you'll make at least 30 hours a
• 25:09
  week. And I'm like what?
• 25:12
  OK, probably within probably within two months, I was
• 25:18
  averaging 15 to 20 hours. What would you drive in the a
• 25:22
  week? No, I had the Sylvia.
• 25:24
  Why don't I remember? This I got fired from Ramsey.
• 25:31
  How I do I remember that? You worked there right before He
• 25:33
  got there about a year before. How was that experience for you?
• 25:36
  He's the same. Yeah, taking barely any money
• 25:39
  and barely any hours. Dude I was averaging about
• 25:41
  $150.00 a week. Yeah.
• 25:44
  Back then I would buy you a horse and a carriage and shit.
• 25:46
  You were there too, remember when management changed and
• 25:49
  there was a week that you made like 8 hours bro.
• 25:51
  Oh, but. That's when I first started, so
• 25:54
  when I first got into Bergenfield, which is.
• 25:57
  No, no, no. Yeah, that's my first week.
• 26:01
  When I first I never I was never hourly ever.
• 26:04
  I don't know what hourly is when I went, only when I went to
• 26:06
  FedEx. When I first got into
• 26:08
  Bergenfield, it was my first dealership job and they were
• 26:11
  down the street in Church Church St.
• 26:14
  First day I start whatever I'm working, not knowing shit 'cause
• 26:18
  I'm new. Week goes by, boom.
• 26:21
  I get my check. I see my check, that
• 26:23
  motherfucker says 100 bucks. I say ain't no way.
• 26:26
  I went a whole week and I I worked every day and I got 100
• 26:30
  bucks Go to my manager. I was like, yes, I think my
• 26:33
  cheque is wrong because what do you mean?
• 26:34
  I was just like, I only got paid 100 bucks.
• 26:36
  He said, yeah, you only worked 8 hours.
• 26:37
  You only produced 8 hours. I was like, but I just started.
• 26:40
  He goes, yeah, better luck next week.
• 26:42
  You better work harder. I said what?
• 26:44
  That's a. Fight right there and.
• 26:46
  Then ever since that I was just like flat rate sucks but it.
• 26:50
  Like. But it like it build it.
• 26:52
  It changed who you are because now you're just going to be
• 26:54
  hustling for your money. But that was the worst week ever
• 26:57
  in my life. Yo, can you?
• 26:59
  8 hours. Malcolm, can you get that video
• 27:01
  or no? The one I just.
• 27:03
  Sent you. We, we, we just talked a lot
• 27:04
  about the negatives. What is what is give me
• 27:09
  something funny like, bro, remember Rary?
• 27:13
  What was his name? Who?
• 27:14
  Rary. The karaoke machine.
• 27:15
  Dude. Kerry.
• 27:16
  Kerry. Young boy.
• 27:18
  Let's let's talk about that guy. Bro, there was a guy Filipino
• 27:21
  bread. Yeah, there was there was a guy
• 27:24
  at Chris and Eddie's dealer, OK? He knew he knew how to have fun,
• 27:28
  bro. He opened the door right in the
• 27:30
  roof chandelier, wasn't it? There was a. 2002 Pathfinder.
• 27:34
  Yeah, there was a chandelier boom right in the right in the
• 27:36
  Dome. Karaoke.
• 27:38
  Karaoke machine. This was inside the dealership.
• 27:41
  Yeah, they knew how to have fun over there.
• 27:43
  It's not all bad, like some of the funny shit that I remember
• 27:47
  about the dealership. When you were.
• 27:48
  There, there was so much funny shit going on.
• 27:52
  Alex. Alex was working at the dealer
• 27:54
  too. That was funny as fuck.
• 27:56
  Dude that was one of one of my first fiberglass repairs was in
• 27:59
  that dealership. Bro, me and Eddie, you said Jam.
• 28:03
  Yeah, dude. For.
• 28:05
  Sure, the Chris that was on the Chris playlist originated dude.
• 28:10
  We jammed in Bergenfield. You can even ask Frankie, dude.
• 28:14
  With I'm, I'm gonna have to just say, yeah, I don't think it's
• 28:17
  gonna matter. But with Massey, I think me and
• 28:20
  Massey had a dance battle every single day at work with Michael
• 28:24
  Jackson music all day. It was.
• 28:26
  Just who the fuck is Massey? I'll show you.
• 28:28
  Forman of Bergenfield, OK. Of the shop.
• 28:31
  Hell yeah. Old, old cat, old dude.
• 28:35
  But he had our mindset somehow. He had our vocabulary, talk like
• 28:41
  us and everything, so it just felt comfortable.
• 28:43
  Yeah, but this guy was nasty. Changed my fucking life
• 28:47
  honestly. That's.
• 28:48
  Nice best friend. Exactly.
• 28:49
  Some of us hate him. Some of us love him, but don't.
• 28:52
  Hate. Him.
• 28:55
  You hated him for a minute, but. I think Kate's a yeah,
• 28:59
  understatement. That is a strong term.
• 29:01
  Here's a video of Nick when he was in the middle of making no
• 29:04
  fucking money. That was me after the Christmas
• 29:08
  party, hungover so bad. Like I don't want to go in here
• 29:16
  right now. Look at the Pedialyte on the
• 29:25
  desk. The Pedialyte on the desk.
• 29:30
  The right boot is united. You're not ready to do.
• 29:32
  Malcolm, the bottom one I just sent you.
• 29:35
  I remember getting into a car at like 12:00, Nick, that kind of.
• 29:47
  Looked like me for a hot 2nd that was.
• 29:49
  Really scary. That was when Miyagi was working
• 29:52
  there. Yeah, the second.
• 29:55
  That's Massey. Right now, so this is Massey.
• 29:56
  He's the one. That ran this shot.
• 29:58
  Here we go. Here.
• 29:59
  We go hey, yo, hey, he's got move.
• 30:04
  He's got him from yo This, this was.
• 30:07
  Bergenfield. I mean, yeah, this was
• 30:08
  Bergenfield. This.
• 30:09
  Is every. Day, every day.
• 30:10
  This looks like my my actual. Boy, it was so interesting.
• 30:13
  Bro if you have someone in a shop like that it makes the.
• 30:15
  That's one of my most. Fun jobs I've had there.
• 30:17
  You go, there you go, there you go.
• 30:20
  Damn. My boy got shacks on the.
• 30:22
  Head shinier than the sun God damn.
• 30:28
  Dude. Oh.
• 30:29
  My God, that was that was the most fun.
• 30:31
  You'll have is when you're not working.
• 30:33
  Which is pretty much every week there.
• 30:35
  Yeah, it sounded like a majority of the days it was like.
• 30:37
  That, yeah. Every minute you're there, you
• 30:39
  were just not really working. As long as you have someone in
• 30:42
  the shop that's funny, the best days of the dealership are going
• 30:44
  to be the two years before they go out of business.
• 30:46
  That's going to be the the most fun you have.
• 30:50
  Fuck, ain't that. That is actually probably true
• 30:53
  as hell. It's.
• 30:54
  It kind of is like that's. Another thing that we was do.
• 30:57
  And then we went to another dealership and they went out of
• 30:59
  business too. Maybe it's.
• 31:00
  Us but change of change of name that time you were talking
• 31:03
  about? Yeah, yeah.
• 31:05
  But technically, they went out of business.
• 31:06
  Went to auto Eastern, yeah. And then yeah, but that was ran
• 31:10
  by some. OK.
• 31:10
  So the situation with that was it was.
• 31:12
  It was like some Chapo people. Yeah, like these guys from
• 31:15
  somewhere in South America, Ecuador.
• 31:17
  Ecuador owned or they wanted to own a Nissan factory, a
• 31:22
  production factory. In.
• 31:24
  Order to do that they needed to own dealerships Nissan wanted
• 31:27
  them to own dealerships so they owned I don't know if I should
• 31:31
  say them but whatever Roo 17 the one in Hackensack and they owned
• 31:35
  Englewood cliffs that's not even there anymore and those were
• 31:38
  their three dealerships that they so basically they own these
• 31:40
  dealerships and they don't give a fuck about them they just care
• 31:42
  about their factory so they don't even like.
• 31:45
  They didn't care. They don't give a fuck about
• 31:46
  anybody that was in that building or those buildings.
• 31:50
  It's like when they make a homologation car, they don't
• 31:52
  care if it's a piece of shit, they're literally just trying to
• 31:54
  make a fucking race. Car yeah, that's kind of what it
• 31:56
  felt like yeah and those dealerships just fell one by one
• 32:00
  it. Was bad.
• 32:00
  I think for a solid 3 months, I'll say four months, there was
• 32:04
  no brand new car in the lot. It was just you pull up to work,
• 32:08
  drive to work, you could park on the lot where new cars will be
• 32:11
  at and it's just empty lot and just a shop.
• 32:14
  Remember Nick, they move us around.
• 32:16
  They literally just didn't care. They moved.
• 32:18
  They moved us to the fucking Hackensack.
• 32:20
  No, first I went to Englewood Cliffs.
• 32:21
  There was one tech working there, one master tech.
• 32:24
  They sent me over there to help him and I was still on flat rate
• 32:27
  bro and Oh my tickets Mike, but. Then they they sent me there too
• 32:34
  at one point because there was no one in parts.
• 32:36
  They were running a dealership with no one in the parts
• 32:39
  department. It was a dungeon.
• 32:41
  I don't know if you were there the same time I was.
• 32:42
  No, I was sent to. Hackensack.
• 32:45
  OK, so then you went to Hackensack.
• 32:46
  Then I went there and I'm like, what the fuck is this?
• 32:49
  It was just no one in there. And I'm like, I'm just like, how
• 32:52
  are we supposed to work? And then there's one technician
• 32:54
  and like once in a while an old lady would come in for an oil
• 32:57
  change and that's it it. Would be all their old customers
• 32:59
  because they changed they would change the phone.
• 33:02
  No, they changed the phone number and then all the
• 33:04
  customers didn't know that they were open.
• 33:05
  So it would be just the customers that used to just show
• 33:07
  up from back in the day were the only.
• 33:09
  Customers and the dealership part.
• 33:10
  The front of the building was completely empty.
• 33:12
  Yeah, there was nothing. They were just selling no cars.
• 33:14
  Closed business. It was crazy.
• 33:15
  It looked like a garage like it. Was that's insane.
• 33:18
  I, I think I remember this time because we were getting a lot of
• 33:22
  overflow, other dealers that had closed down or yeah, it's
• 33:27
  probably that they lost their ability to do warranty work and
• 33:31
  it was just, we were just getting the bottom of the barrel
• 33:34
  work. Yeah, just all your noise
• 33:38
  complaints and, and just ridiculous things.
• 33:42
  Then then me and you worked at Hackensack together and it was
• 33:45
  bad. I have the video of the shop
• 33:47
  being completely empty and Frankie hanging himself.
• 33:51
  He's like going around the whole shop and nothing's in the shop
• 33:53
  and he gets to the parts department.
• 33:54
  I'm just fucking hanging by a news.
• 33:58
  No, but. And they try to unionize that
• 34:00
  shop right at the end. Oh yeah, that was.
• 34:02
  Crazy they try to unionize it right at the end.
• 34:03
  They're like, Oh yeah, the people for the union.
• 34:06
  We went out to dinner with them and they're like, yeah, don't
• 34:08
  worry. We've never seen anything crazy
• 34:10
  where they'll like sell the dealership or anything.
• 34:12
  They try to unionize it. They sold the dealership.
• 34:16
  In the middle of them doing that, they sold the dealership
• 34:19
  because they were basically just trying to sell all three of
• 34:20
  those dealers. But that happened with Otto
• 34:23
  Easton before I went to 17. We were getting approached in
• 34:27
  the parking lot. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:28
  They were trying to do all of them.
• 34:29
  They were just. Approached, but you know, don't
• 34:31
  tell nobody where you know where we're talking to you guys but
• 34:33
  yeah, we, you know we're trying to come in here and unionize
• 34:36
  this whole thing and I'm like. But you already.
• 34:43
  Just didn't. Talk.
• 34:44
  You already had a guarantee. Though they got.
• 34:45
  HR meetings about that they're. Like, Hey, you could, you can
• 34:49
  say no to unionizing people. And then it's like, it's like a
• 34:53
  little video and it's like, hey, join our union.
• 34:56
  No. And then the lady like turns
• 34:58
  around in the little demonstration video.
• 35:00
  I'm like what the fuck am I watching?
• 35:02
  To make the worst. To be honest, I feel like in
• 35:04
  that situation there's no reason to unionize if you have a
• 35:07
  guarantee. But maybe there is because
• 35:09
  you're going to pay union dues and all that bullshit.
• 35:12
  Yeah, what? Do you have to do like, a cord
• 35:13
  of blood? Yeah.
• 35:15
  Oh. Sorry, Nick, you did.
• 35:16
  It I think that's the reason why we all were just against it.
• 35:18
  We're like we're good. We got we can't guarantee 40
• 35:21
  like even if we're slow or not even getting a a car, what 5
• 35:25
  cars out of the week? I can care less.
• 35:28
  I'm still going home with a 40 hour check.
• 35:31
  It's not my fault. And motherfuckers don't want to
• 35:33
  come in and service their cars or the shop is going down, or
• 35:36
  they're getting sold or they're getting sued or who knows,
• 35:39
  whatever the case may be. Crazy times.
• 35:43
  Yeah, that sounds like hell bro. I don't know if I can do that.
• 35:47
  Bro, we were just trying to fix people's cars every day, every
• 35:51
  day, just trying to do the right thing and we were just getting
• 35:53
  screwed. I feel like you were always
• 35:56
  trying to do the right thing and then someone would just come and
• 35:58
  be like, yo, you got to smoke this job, You got to smoke this
• 36:02
  whole fucking and you're like Nick's like, I just want to fix
• 36:04
  the car correctly. And like, no, you can't.
• 36:06
  There's no money. You got to you got to rob, you
• 36:09
  got to rob people. Like it was just so fucked up.
• 36:12
  This this was our dealer during the middle of the day.
• 36:17
  Wow. That's I could skateboard in
• 36:18
  there. I don't think I've ever seen a
• 36:21
  completely empty shop. It wasn't a moment, it was a
• 36:24
  different 1 I think. Dude an in ground alignment
• 36:27
  rack. Yeah, I don't.
• 36:29
  I mean, yeah, you did do alignments there, but not I
• 36:31
  don't. Yeah, that was that must that's.
• 36:32
  The kid that made his own AC. That's the kid that would tell
• 36:35
  me I was. You need Jesus.
• 36:36
  Yeah, I need Jesus because I watched fucking superhero movie
• 36:40
  or something, I thought. It was porn.
• 36:43
  I was like, whoa. Yeah, like you watch Batman.
• 36:45
  He's like, you can't be watching that.
• 36:47
  You can't. Batman is imitating God.
• 36:50
  I was like, OK, I just was trying to have fun but all
• 36:52
  right. What were you guys all driving?
• 36:54
  You had the Sentra, Eddie, was that?
• 36:56
  No, you had the Skyline already. I think I got the skyline right
• 37:00
  before Chris left. OK, but it was Sentra Nation
• 37:03
  still for you? I think I had like a newish
• 37:06
  maxima. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:08
  I forgot about the maxima. I had a newish maxima and then
• 37:13
  bought like a salvage title sentra outlet after that.
• 37:17
  What about y'all? What did you guys drive while
• 37:18
  you guys were working together? Because Frankie had Did you
• 37:21
  bring the? Did you have the Nissan 240SS?
• 37:23
  Yeah. You know, did you ever bring the
• 37:24
  D car to work? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 37:26
  Oh hell yeah. That's what got me into
• 37:27
  drifting. Yeah, but you didn't drift yet
• 37:29
  because you don't want to break your car.
• 37:33
  Fair enough. Fair.
• 37:38
  Enough. I think I was Dominican, as
• 37:40
  Dominican can get. I was driving a Camry.
• 37:42
  Oh damn, I was going. To see these undercards
• 37:44
  scenario. About to get music and doing all
• 37:47
  the extra Dominican activities. Hookah now minus the hookah
• 37:51
  stuff. No I was into hookah heavy at
• 37:53
  that time dude. That was mandatory at that in
• 37:56
  that era. That was like a hookah wave,
• 37:58
  bro. Dude, Chris, Chris, Dude Chris
• 38:00
  used to do the craziest tricks with that shit, bro.
• 38:04
  Yeah, no, yeah, no. I sort of got Chris would be
• 38:07
  fucking fucking like, whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 38:10
  Whoa, hairbender. Yeah.
• 38:12
  Hairbender. That shit was cool or Chris
• 38:14
  would always do this thing Chris would do.
• 38:16
  This Yeah, at Ramsay, during the winter when it's dead slow, I'm
• 38:19
  just fucking walking around. Just.
• 38:21
  Yeah, dude, he would blow these O's and just go like, and then
• 38:24
  you're like, get that away from me.
• 38:26
  Like what are we? What are we doing here?
• 38:27
  Chris knew not to bring that shit here.
• 38:29
  Yeah, yeah, you go over here casting spells on Frankie and
• 38:32
  shit. You got to send them that video.
• 38:34
  What is this? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:36
  I'll send it. Dude, this has been this has
• 38:39
  been interesting. I can't believe.
• 38:41
  Do you got any questions? For these technicians were all
• 38:43
  techs? Do I have any questions?
• 38:45
  Like about the life? Yeah, why does the so the oil
• 38:48
  travels through the whole shop. Like you could just go up there
• 38:51
  Goo goo, goo goo goo to that little filler thing.
• 38:53
  That shit was crazy to me. You mean like the air knob?
• 38:55
  This. Thing dispenses.
• 38:56
  Dude, there was this thing and Chris would walk up to it when
• 38:59
  he's doing oil changes and he would literally just get the oil
• 39:02
  from the ceiling. It was crazy.
• 39:04
  From the ceiling. Yeah, it was God-given you pull
• 39:06
  this leverage from. Dude, yeah.
• 39:09
  Like it was like. Yeah, we got that coming next
• 39:11
  week. No.
• 39:12
  Oh yeah, yeah, this shit is cool.
• 39:14
  It's. Cool as hell.
• 39:15
  Delivery system one day at Ramsey I already.
• 39:20
  Know how's it going? This everyone's, everyone gets
• 39:23
  oil to the same place. And it's like this quarter inch
• 39:26
  pipe, it disappears into the ceiling, you know, 30 feet to
• 39:29
  the left, 40 feet to the right. And it's, it's pretty much held
• 39:33
  up with like duct tape and zip ties.
• 39:35
  And somebody's getting oiled. And all of a sudden it's like,
• 39:37
  hey, there's no more oil coming out.
• 39:40
  And everyone's looking at the pump like what's going on?
• 39:43
  Meanwhile 2 days over there's a car completely covered pouring
• 39:49
  all over and and the tank is pressurized with air.
• 39:51
  So all you know, 34500 gallons of oil are just pouring all over
• 39:57
  this car. Oh my God, dude.
• 40:00
  And like, you know, we're all mad scrambling to the back of
• 40:02
  the tank to shut off the air supply, but it's coming.
• 40:06
  From the ceiling and just dropping.
• 40:07
  From the ceiling and just dropping onto it.
• 40:11
  It's raining oil on this car. Is that part total?
• 40:14
  And then no, it it was just completely kept quiet.
• 40:18
  But then when we get to the air supply for the tank, there's no
• 40:21
  separate air supply for that single tank.
• 40:24
  So you just have to cut off the compressor to the entire shop
• 40:27
  so. Everyone's just on battery power
• 40:29
  and hand tools for the rest of their room.
• 40:30
  Come on, everybody can't. Wait, oil changes?
• 40:34
  And you guys just wash, wash the car and.
• 40:36
  Bring it outside. Just it got sent to detail.
• 40:39
  Oh yeah, give it. Sent it to the detail.
• 40:41
  You're a detailer. That oil covered thing comes
• 40:44
  into your Bay. Oh my God.
• 40:46
  Why does it smell like 0 W 20 in this?
• 40:48
  Let me just ruin all of my tools or whatever.
• 40:51
  On this, did you guys do the oil change inside the car or like
• 40:54
  let? Me guess that that car was a
• 40:55
  waiter. They were absolutely waiting
• 40:59
  explanation. So I don't think they ever told
• 41:02
  the customer that other than hey.
• 41:05
  We cleaned your car. The car was the car.
• 41:08
  You know, we're going to detail the car.
• 41:09
  We had a little incident. I found two leaves on your car
• 41:12
  and I gave your car wash. You know.
• 41:14
  Hey, I just want to let you know we we did do a solid.
• 41:17
  We washed your car. We actually detailed it you.
• 41:18
  Know that little window in your office?
• 41:20
  I'm picturing the customer. Just listen sitting.
• 41:22
  Right. That's the best part about that
• 41:25
  dealership. There's no fucking window.
• 41:27
  No, there was windows, but the windows all face my bang where I
• 41:31
  was working. Nice.
• 41:32
  So, you know, everyone just had a clearview of what I was doing
• 41:36
  and you know, I'd always have fun with it.
• 41:37
  You know, I'd sometimes just look at the car and just shrug
• 41:40
  my shoulders like I don't know what's going on here, you know?
• 41:43
  The best part of the person? Watching Oh my God.
• 41:46
  Oh my God. The best part of your shop,
• 41:47
  every time I would go to pick up parts it's just the alignment
• 41:50
  rack is right in the front and the fucking sticker on the
• 41:53
  alignment rack is just a guy from Mr. DS with the crazy eyes.
• 41:56
  Oh my goodness there. This looks good to me.
• 41:58
  No, I put that there and it just, it drove the manager crazy
• 42:02
  for like a week because he kept tearing it down.
• 42:04
  I just print another one and stick it right back on.
• 42:08
  Dude that was so bad. That's like the first thing a
• 42:10
  customer sees it took. Him about a week for him to just
• 42:14
  give up, yeah. Because I was there, I took.
• 42:16
  Him back down I was. I just kept putting a new one
• 42:18
  back on there. We had a oil story too at
• 42:20
  Bergenfield. Giuseppe, you all know this.
• 42:23
  Yeah. Do you have that video, Brian?
• 42:25
  You had one of you had something where you walk in.
• 42:27
  Wasn't working there. Oh, you weren't.
• 42:29
  No, not when. I was, I think I was too busy.
• 42:32
  Someone had their name. Dropping the shit out of him.
• 42:35
  It was so bad. So in 17 you had, we had these,
• 42:40
  I don't know, these waste oil. I don't know, I guess AutoZone
• 42:43
  or Harbor Freight waste oil. So you had to like close, close
• 42:47
  the top off, put an airline to it and it'll pump out.
• 42:50
  So my man goes, he's like, yeah, I'm gonna go drain, you know,
• 42:52
  empty the tank out he goes. Doesn't close anything.
• 42:56
  Just straight air hose to it. Boom, air hose, brother.
• 43:00
  The rod where you catch the oil just shoots up to the ceiling.
• 43:04
  Shoots up. Yeah, and just oil just shooting
• 43:07
  up. It's everywhere.
• 43:08
  And we all turn around. And just.
• 43:12
  And then I forgot what Massey said.
• 43:14
  Massey says something that he always says.
• 43:17
  Motherfucker. Bro I have no idea bro.
• 43:20
  We just turn around and my man is completely black yo.
• 43:25
  He didn't move he just stood there like he just stood there
• 43:28
  boom pumped it, oil went up. He's looking at it, raining on
• 43:31
  him, looks at us. Looks around.
• 43:36
  Looks around and just looks at the tank and I'm like, you could
• 43:39
  disconnect the airline so it can stop, yo.
• 43:43
  So there's like the back of the lot.
• 43:44
  There was like a garage for I guess storage but we didn't use
• 43:47
  it for like loading or anything. Bro the ceiling, the wall, the
• 43:50
  floor, it's just oil everywhere. Bro I walk in it.
• 43:54
  Gets to a point, hold on. He gets to a point.
• 43:56
  He's drenched, so drenched his shirt is drenched.
• 43:58
  He said fuck, why not let me take off my takes off his shirt
• 44:03
  and it just big old belly fucking rinsing his shirt with
• 44:06
  oil and everything. I'm just like ain't no way bro,
• 44:08
  you did this. It was pretty bad.
• 44:11
  Dude, I walk in. They were there earlier than me.
• 44:13
  I walk in that door, I walk in from the back.
• 44:16
  I get in, I go and I look and it just just have to be covered in
• 44:20
  oil like this, looking at me like.
• 44:22
  My man. I'm like.
• 44:24
  To. Fuck.
• 44:25
  Did you do? And he's like, I fucked up.
• 44:28
  I'm like, he was, he was so weird.
• 44:32
  Like he didn't say anything. He was always silent.
• 44:34
  Yeah, he was. He was one-of-a-kind.
• 44:36
  Yeah. And I just look at him and he's
• 44:37
  just like, naked, covered in oil, like, no.
• 44:40
  Shirt. Black this.
• 44:42
  Is the. First thing you see when you
• 44:43
  walk into work. The light skin kid.
• 44:44
  But bra it was. There was no light skin in that.
• 44:48
  Oh my God, what's? Those tanks, how much oils do
• 44:53
  those tank? I probably had like what we
• 44:55
  have. It's probably a fucking like no
• 44:57
  like 400 fucking Oh, you mean the?
• 44:59
  Little one, the red one. The little cat, Yeah, they're
• 45:04
  probably like maybe 3130. 40 yeah, a whole 30 quarts, yeah,
• 45:08
  whole thing on him. Everywhere.
• 45:10
  On him ceiling. And the.
• 45:12
  Ceiling. It was on the ceiling.
• 45:13
  The ceilings are tall as fuck in there.
• 45:15
  It was high ceilings. I'm telling you, it shot up.
• 45:17
  It shot. The wall all over, then the oil
• 45:20
  just. Shot up, it looked like a
• 45:21
  fountain of black oil. Yeah.
• 45:23
  Just a fountain of black oil just shooting everywhere.
• 45:26
  I walk in just everywhere, all over the walls, at the floor.
• 45:28
  I'm like what the fuck happened? God, that was great.
• 45:33
  No, at Ramsey, remember the big caddies, right?
• 45:36
  Yeah. There's a quick disconnect.
• 45:37
  You don't have to shut a valve or anything.
• 45:39
  You just. But then you turn the lever
• 45:42
  because it sucks it out. There was no level on the tank.
• 45:48
  You know how the big waste oil tank, So you know how many times
• 45:51
  people, because you connect it, you hit the lever and then you
• 45:55
  walk away and go. Do you know how many times
• 45:57
  people have overflowed that tank?
• 45:59
  And then you walk in the back of the shop is just a lake and
• 46:03
  there was Eddie's bail. It was.
• 46:05
  Eddie's Bay, my bays were back there by that waste oil tank.
• 46:08
  And, you know, there'd be no sound, no audible sound or
• 46:11
  anything like that. I would just, you know, turn
• 46:13
  around to walk away. And it was just oil.
• 46:15
  We're taking on oil everywhere. We're taking on oil.
• 46:18
  Yeah, exactly. What happened is 17, that time
• 46:20
  where we went to the backroom and shit blowing up, what was
• 46:23
  that? Do you remember that it was in?
• 46:26
  It was definitely in the Shabba 17.
• 46:28
  I guess the compressor blue. Not that was.
• 46:31
  What was going on in there? When the whole shop flooded he
• 46:33
  talking about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 46:35
  Maybe it was a. So we had a writer.
• 46:37
  It was your first day. We, we had a writer, right?
• 46:39
  I guess. I guess he was Portuguese or
• 46:41
  Brazilian new, new to the whole being a service writer.
• 46:45
  I don't know what made him come grab pliers or some shit.
• 46:49
  So he grabs pliers from me. I think my, my toolbox was
• 46:51
  there. He said, oh, you got any pliers?
• 46:53
  I was just like, yeah, sure. I was like, what do you need?
• 46:55
  He's like, oh, just regular pliers, grabs it, goes into the
• 46:58
  bathroom. I'm like, huh, So that already
• 47:02
  blew me. It was confused, He goes in,
• 47:06
  replies. Next thing you know, he comes
• 47:07
  out, he's drenched in water. I'm like, bro, what just
• 47:11
  happened? I popped the door open.
• 47:14
  He broke the sprinkler. Bro the sprinkler broke.
• 47:18
  They broke, so he's spraying water all in the bathroom.
• 47:21
  So he comes out. He came and see me just so so
• 47:23
  so. And he?
• 47:25
  He's like the sprinkler broke and he's handing me my pliers
• 47:28
  like this and I'm like, bro, what the hell did you just do?
• 47:31
  And we and then the shop foreman at the time he had to go in
• 47:33
  there. Yeah, he had.
• 47:35
  He threw on goggles and he tried to turn it off.
• 47:38
  And if you don't know when the sprinkler goes off, it's there's
• 47:41
  no stopping it until everything clears out.
• 47:45
  Water kept on. We had like probably a couple
• 47:47
  inches of water in the whole shop.
• 47:50
  The whole it looked like a pool. It was 17 Route 17, Hasbrouck
• 47:54
  Heights pool. It was bad.
• 47:56
  It was bad. That was my first day and
• 47:59
  they're like, thanks for helping us clean up the flood.
• 48:05
  You brought this here. Get out.
• 48:07
  Oh my God, dude. And I was on flat rate too.
• 48:13
  I give him, you know, if for effort he tried to go out into
• 48:17
  this category of working on things and touch the sprinkler.
• 48:21
  He just he said he saw him go in the bathroom, but.
• 48:23
  The but the worst thing he asked me for reply is thinking I'm
• 48:26
  thinking he's going to go back up front, maybe take a license
• 48:28
  plate or something off. He he popped EU turn and went
• 48:31
  into the bathroom. I'm like, I hope you're not
• 48:34
  going to like cure yourself for something bro.
• 48:35
  And then I'm I'm responsible. He goes in, comes out and he's
• 48:42
  close. Yeah, the sprinkler broke.
• 48:45
  I'm like, what? Open the door?
• 48:46
  The door, right? Back I.
• 48:50
  Was like, I ain't going. The fact that he grabbed them
• 48:54
  from you dead face and we want the fucking sprinkler.
• 49:00
  Doesn't even make any sense. You were fine and the whole shop
• 49:04
  was fine just two seconds ago. You go in there and you you
• 49:08
  don't know until you literally open that door.
• 49:10
  You swing the door open, it's just white and there's just
• 49:12
  water going everywhere. And that's that's a stink as
• 49:15
  water. That's the situation when you
• 49:17
  close the door, you see the chaos or you open the door, you
• 49:19
  see the chaos and you just close it and like.
• 49:21
  I'm going back to my bed, going back to what I was doing
• 49:23
  exactly. Was crazy.
• 49:25
  Malcolm's got a video of it, the last one.
• 49:27
  Oh my goodness. Oh my God, you.
• 49:35
  Can see the door just creeping. Yeah, what?
• 49:42
  Is he doing he? Didn't have his dirty ass water.
• 49:46
  That's his first. Day.
• 49:50
  Oh man. Slowly closing the door.
• 49:54
  Oh my goodness. Bro with the.
• 49:56
  Yeah. You got a break in like so with
• 49:59
  Steve. And that's our locker room, bro.
• 50:03
  That's the bathroom and the locker.
• 50:04
  Room so hard left behind that door is the locker room is what
• 50:07
  we got dressed for our uniforms right we keep our shoes and all
• 50:10
  that yeah so much for that I'm just.
• 50:12
  Picturing. I'm just picturing this dude
• 50:14
  calmly walking up to Brine. Yeah.
• 50:15
  You got pliers? Oh, yeah?
• 50:17
  What kind you need? Oh, you know, anything?
• 50:19
  Yeah. So I had them.
• 50:19
  They don't know. We just walked back.
• 50:21
  Pliers and I was like, yeah, sure, here, take him.
• 50:23
  He's like, and I'm thinking he's going to cross in front of me
• 50:25
  because my toolbox literally was where everybody was recording
• 50:28
  at. So I'm thinking he's going to go
• 50:29
  back to the front. No, he went through that door
• 50:32
  and I'm like. So I.
• 50:33
  Literally look at him and I'm like strange.
• 50:35
  So I keep working on the car and he, I'm telling you, it was no
• 50:39
  matter the more than 10 seconds, he comes back out and he's just
• 50:44
  drenched. And I closed and handed me my
• 50:45
  pliers back and I'm like. What just happened?
• 50:49
  Me pushing the door open, I said oh shit, let it go.
• 50:53
  And I was just like, yo, there's a mess in that bathroom.
• 50:55
  That's when the shop foreman went in at that time.
• 50:58
  It's like I'm on flat rate I'm not getting paid for.
• 51:00
  That, yeah, no, that's the bad part.
• 51:02
  That's another bad part about flat rate.
• 51:04
  Yeah, you pay your technicians flat rate, they ain't doing shit
• 51:06
  else. How come you have not posted on
• 51:08
  social media that would go viral?
• 51:10
  Yeah, you really should be posting that shit.
• 51:12
  But there's a lot I feel like this, I just, I don't know, I
• 51:15
  feel there's a lot of videos that we got that we can.
• 51:17
  You know we should make an Instagram called.
• 51:18
  Videos. Called some some funny word
• 51:21
  about dealership. Yeah, something like that.
• 51:23
  Dealership memes, yeah. The best is all the videos we
• 51:26
  have are like none of them of us working on cars.
• 51:28
  Yeah, definitely not. Not a single.
• 51:30
  One. Not a single one working on
• 51:31
  cars. Like I think maybe there's a
• 51:33
  video, one video of me working on a car.
• 51:36
  I was like standing in an engine Bay of a Murano like.
• 51:40
  No engine area. Yeah, it was your video.
• 51:42
  Oh my. God I wish we had all the videos
• 51:46
  but because. Dude, I got to go.
• 51:47
  Back there's yeah, the oil 1, the best.
• 51:49
  There's a lot of them. The best is the dealerships we
• 51:51
  work at is like where the most like messed up things would
• 51:55
  happen. Like like the cars?
• 51:58
  Like, just like the oil example, like the oil shooting up to the
• 52:02
  ceiling. Just like the most messed up
• 52:03
  thing you'll ever see in a dealership.
• 52:05
  Give me, give me another one. I'll.
• 52:06
  Give you another one. I got one.
• 52:08
  Oh, yeah, you're right. Chris Go.
• 52:08
  For it, it was my fourth month at at Bergenfield, Massey and
• 52:14
  Rocco. What's the, you know, the the
• 52:17
  sensor thing in front of the rogue sport for people?
• 52:20
  At Aidos. Aidos or whatever the radar, you
• 52:23
  know it's supposed to auto brake when someone's walking in front
• 52:25
  of you because. It's supposed to.
• 52:26
  Oh no. Bro Nick.
• 52:29
  'S got a story too. Oh my God, I don't remember it.
• 52:31
  You, you know the you know the size of the shop, right?
• 52:34
  17 No, no, no. Bergerfield.
• 52:36
  Bergerfield, right. Rocco is going like full speed
• 52:40
  down the shop. There's who's the the service
• 52:44
  writer. MMMM.
• 52:47
  He walked past, but then the brake thing wasn't working.
• 52:50
  They had just this big cardboard and Rocco just punched it
• 52:54
  across. The.
• 52:56
  And the customers in the waiting room.
• 52:58
  Oh my goodness, bro. I thought you gonna say you hit
• 53:01
  Mike. I thought it hit Mike.
• 53:02
  I thought you got close. I have a video something.
• 53:04
  I remember them doing the ADA shit before they really well
• 53:07
  because the dealership was so poor that they wouldn't buy the
• 53:10
  correct equipment. So they just be like, yeah, just
• 53:12
  set the fucking mirror and then just be setting shit up like
• 53:15
  Haggard. But I think you're crazy if you
• 53:16
  actually trust that, and you're gonna stand in front of the car.
• 53:18
  That's a crazy car. Yeah.
• 53:20
  You know, way ever standing or. You're crazy.
• 53:22
  That way. I'm doing that to catch a
• 53:24
  lawsuit. I'm doing that to catch a bag,
• 53:26
  dude. That's what I'm doing.
• 53:27
  Yeah, you ain't catching no bag of the dealership.
• 53:29
  You're just getting smacked by a car but.
• 53:33
  Possibly. Definitely ain't getting no
• 53:34
  money. It's true, Nick, what happened
• 53:37
  that one time with Madison, didn't you?
• 53:38
  Smack something. No way, no way, no way, no way.
• 53:47
  He hit a pedestrian. Good, good, good.
• 53:52
  Keep it in the family. Keep it in the.
• 53:56
  I'm reversing the frontier and Massey would just be on his
• 54:00
  Yeah, massive speed on his phone, just zoned out, bro.
• 54:03
  He's in the middle of the shop just standing there and the the
• 54:06
  car had no reverse camera saw and he's short.
• 54:08
  I couldn't see him, bro. I'm just reversing, bro.
• 54:12
  I hit him. I thought I'm in a frontier.
• 54:14
  I thought I hit an Altima, bro. That's how hard it was.
• 54:17
  I get out of the car. I'm expecting a car to be
• 54:19
  damaged. He's on the floor screaming bro
• 54:24
  yo, he went. Blind bro.
• 54:27
  They said. They said I turned like I'm
• 54:29
  white. They said I turned like super
• 54:31
  white after. That I was like, oh.
• 54:34
  I hit someone with a car. He sent them a couple feet when
• 54:37
  he when he backed. So you saw him?
• 54:39
  I didn't see, I see him reversing.
• 54:41
  I didn't even see Massey in the middle of the shop.
• 54:43
  But it's also Massey's fault for being in the middle of the shop.
• 54:46
  Why are you going to text in the middle of a shop?
• 54:48
  And you know, you're just going to stand there and you know,
• 54:50
  yeah, I love this section. And then you're going to end up
• 54:54
  getting smacked by a Frontier by Nick.
• 54:56
  Bro. He just launched forward and I
• 54:59
  was just like, oh shit. And then all you see is Nick
• 55:02
  come out. Are you OK?
• 55:12
  That's the right thing. He just turned into like a
• 55:14
  ghost. He was just.
• 55:17
  I was like, you're so I'm. So fired.
• 55:22
  Oh. Fuck.
• 55:22
  And of course you know me. Me.
• 55:24
  Everything's a joke for me. I'm laughing and then just say
• 55:29
  your message. You're an idiot.
• 55:31
  Why are you in the middle of the shop?
• 55:32
  What's happening? It's a frontier, bro.
• 55:34
  You got smacked by the bumper and the bed.
• 55:36
  You just got launched. I'm.
• 55:38
  Picturing like the hardest. Bumper too, yeah.
• 55:40
  So then it's like an actual, like it's like that energy.
• 55:45
  Bro it felt like I hit an Altima like I thought I got up on the
• 55:48
  hood of an Altima with the pickup truck.
• 55:50
  It was a. That's what it felt like in the
• 55:52
  truck. So you ran him over?
• 55:55
  That's what humans feel like then when you smack him.
• 55:57
  Over the car? Yeah.
• 55:57
  I've never. I can't relate.
• 55:59
  I've never hit anybody with a car.
• 56:01
  Thank God yo. Thank you.
• 56:03
  That was. Before I was there, I think.
• 56:04
  I don't think I saw it. Yeah.
• 56:05
  So then this was after you were gone.
• 56:07
  I think. You remember when that tall,
• 56:10
  lanky dude. I already knew where we were
• 56:12
  going with a great job. You were there.
• 56:15
  Yeah, I know, I know. Wait, no, he wasn't there.
• 56:17
  No, but I know who you're talking.
• 56:18
  About yeah, yeah, yeah. Because he he used to come and
• 56:20
  hang out at our shop too. Yeah.
• 56:22
  I forgot his name and it's better we not even mentioning
• 56:25
  him because. He's been around, I've seen him
• 56:26
  around. So it was a tall dude I think he
• 56:28
  was doing what was it, brakes on AFX?
• 56:30
  He was doing brakes, so he's on a, he's on a lift.
• 56:33
  This is an Infinity too, and he's doing brakes on an
• 56:35
  Infinity. Yeah, there's a whole, he's a
• 56:37
  new tech, by the way. Does the whole brake job lowers
• 56:43
  the car down? Just give them a structure of so
• 56:45
  it's almost towards the end, so it's a lift and then the
• 56:49
  alignment racks behind and then there's a brake machine there.
• 56:52
  Yeah, this is a terrible location.
• 56:53
  There's a lift on one side of the one side of the room and
• 56:58
  then there's an alignment rack on the other side of the room.
• 57:00
  So it's like real tight to get out and, and the lathe is, is
• 57:04
  right there too. And a wall.
• 57:05
  There's like a corner of a wall and the alignment rack and then
• 57:08
  his lift on the other side. Yeah.
• 57:10
  So he he finishes his brake job, jumps in the car, starts it up
• 57:14
  and hits the gas, goes back, hits the brakes, go straight to
• 57:18
  the floor, just Rams it in the building and the lathe and
• 57:21
  everything. Smacked everything.
• 57:22
  It was the wall, the brake light, everything, everything,
• 57:24
  everything. Dude, I'm enough, he goes.
• 57:26
  What the fuck? You gotta be kidding me.
• 57:29
  And I'm just like, dude. I'm in the parts department.
• 57:33
  I'm sitting down. I'm looking at Melvins next to
• 57:36
  me at the computer. You just hear the whole building
• 57:41
  shakes and I go, what the fuck was that?
• 57:44
  And Massive goes Melvin goes someone going to get fired.
• 57:47
  He's still typing and he goes, someone going to get fired.
• 57:52
  I was like, what the fuck was that?
• 57:54
  I go outside and the car's fucked.
• 57:56
  Quarter panel's fucked, everything's fucked.
• 57:57
  The. Car.
• 57:58
  Got totally tail like. And that was a waiter.
• 58:00
  There was a waiter, there was a waiter.
• 58:02
  I was a waiter getting a brake job waiter.
• 58:04
  You're a waiter and then you hear your car hit the building.
• 58:06
  No, the worst is I really, I really want to be there.
• 58:09
  When a writer got to tell a customer what happens, that's
• 58:12
  yeah, we're doing a brake. Don't want to be there.
• 58:14
  No, I want to be there. I mean I want to be.
• 58:17
  As a third party, yeah, I would love to be there.
• 58:20
  You probably had to be there my. Time I had to be there because I
• 58:24
  I ran the shop. Yeah, you've been in like you've
• 58:26
  been a foreman. Yeah.
• 58:28
  Technically, you kind of are one right now.
• 58:30
  Yeah, I guess depending on the day of the week.
• 58:31
  Yeah, depending on the day of the week.
• 58:33
  Literally, it depends on the day of the week.
• 58:35
  So you probably had to deal with this shit.
• 58:36
  Oh, absolutely. You know, I've had, I had, it
• 58:39
  was the one of the worst weeks of being a foreman where I had
• 58:44
  one tech. And you know, when I became a
• 58:46
  foreman, not too long before that, a bunch of techs, you
• 58:51
  know, they switched careers, some of them retired.
• 58:53
  So they just grabbed Lube techs from all the other store
• 58:56
  locations and put them in our store and said, hey, this is
• 59:00
  your crew. You need to make them exactly
• 59:02
  like you. And I said thanks guys, thank
• 59:04
  you for that. And you know, a couple months
• 59:07
  after the fact, this one week just happens and this one tech
• 59:10
  is working on on an Altima and he's just doing your routine
• 59:14
  rear brakes. And I don't know how he set up
• 59:16
  the lift because it's not his first time.
• 59:18
  He's already been working on cars for years.
• 59:21
  Front end of this Altima just falls over.
• 59:24
  No. On the onto the ground.
• 59:26
  Oh my God. Just hits the ground and I'm
• 59:30
  running across the shop to make sure that he's not under it.
• 59:33
  He's standing at the back of the brake lathe and he's just
• 59:35
  looking across the shop like, Oh my goodness.
• 59:40
  And then two days after that, I'm sorry, a quick Lube.
• 59:45
  One of the quick Lube guys is pulling in a car and you know,
• 59:49
  I've constantly yelled at them to slow down, slow down because
• 59:52
  when you pull into the shop, it's kind of blind, you know,
• 59:55
  especially with the they have the wash bays on one side, the
• 59:58
  alignment rack right in front. Slippery Had people.
• 1:00:00
  Yeah. And you have people that might
• 1:00:02
  be hitting the left out the building.
• 1:00:04
  He comes flying in. The guy washing the cars is back
• 1:00:08
  in the car out. Boom.
• 1:00:10
  Both of them. Front end of this car.
• 1:00:12
  Rear end of that car. That was a good week at work.
• 1:00:15
  That's what I know, it gets better.
• 1:00:17
  It's just one more incident where I'm working on the Titan
• 1:00:21
  on my lift and I kind of have a brace with a pole Jack just to
• 1:00:25
  keep it balanced. And there's one of the quick
• 1:00:28
  Lube guys. He's back in an Armada out and I
• 1:00:32
  hear it hit the back of the Titan and I'm like, yo, you got
• 1:00:35
  no more room. That doesn't stop him.
• 1:00:38
  He just keeps going. The Titan falls forward.
• 1:00:41
  No. Hits my toolbox.
• 1:00:43
  No, I'm I'm running because I was working on the Titan at the
• 1:00:46
  time. I'm I'm running across to get
• 1:00:48
  out the way the roof of the Armada, the back glass, the
• 1:00:54
  front bumper, side rail. I feel like I heard about this.
• 1:00:58
  Two cars falling off lifts in one week.
• 1:01:00
  Yeah, yeah, that was, that was a very expensive week.
• 1:01:03
  What happened? Who pays for that?
• 1:01:05
  You paid for the dealership. You bought an Armada?
• 1:01:06
  Oh, OK, so you bought? An Armada.
• 1:01:09
  No, what what happened? What happens is, you know, as a
• 1:01:12
  foreman, you get paid off of production and gross profit.
• 1:01:14
  So you ain't. Getting that, there was no
• 1:01:16
  profit that month. Yeah.
• 1:01:19
  So were you there when they had to tell the customers?
• 1:01:21
  Oh yeah, absolutely. I had to be there.
• 1:01:23
  I had to be there to speak with the customer.
• 1:01:26
  What was the first one that he got?
• 1:01:27
  Came in for a break. Job so the first person they
• 1:01:29
  were they were really understanding and I was really
• 1:01:32
  surprised by and you know I just I just wanted to fix their car
• 1:01:36
  right give them whatever they. How could you even fix?
• 1:01:38
  Like what was? Was it fucked or was?
• 1:01:40
  It not that bad so it definitely needed a front bumper headlight,
• 1:01:45
  both side doors skirt yeah that one like hit the ground the the
• 1:01:52
  other two cars just minimal you know a bumper, a front bumper on
• 1:01:56
  1A rear bumper on the other. One of those customers
• 1:01:59
  definitely took advantage of it and he had me fixing the front
• 1:02:02
  end of his car as well. I would be doing the same shit.
• 1:02:05
  Yeah, and then the older person is was really upset was the
• 1:02:09
  Titan owner. Yeah, 'cause you know, it was a
• 1:02:13
  really new Titan by a. $70,000. Truck.
• 1:02:15
  Yeah, Imagine it's the Cummins one.
• 1:02:17
  It probably was. No, no it wasn't.
• 1:02:18
  Thank God it wasn't, but it was. It was a fully loaded like you
• 1:02:22
  know every option checked off. It's like a $4000 truck now.
• 1:02:26
  Relax, Yeah? Now it is.
• 1:02:29
  Fucking Titan. And it's like, well, sorry, so
• 1:02:33
  your step rails, they're on back order and we don't know when
• 1:02:36
  we're going to get them. Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  As is this door that's, you know, your rear door.
• 1:02:43
  The fact that you guys had two cars fall off the lift, yeah, in
• 1:02:46
  one week is pretty nuts. Thank God I never experienced
• 1:02:49
  that. Yeah, me.
• 1:02:49
  I've never dropped the car off a lift and you know I.
• 1:02:52
  Don't want to even be there. That shit just got to be crazy.
• 1:02:56
  It's just it's airless. Like I'd rather see, you know,
• 1:03:00
  oil shot up to the ceiling or someone backing up into a wall
• 1:03:04
  and get on that mud pumping the brake.
• 1:03:05
  If oil is not pumping the brake, it's insane.
• 1:03:10
  Yeah, how many times did the quick loop forget with the oil
• 1:03:12
  filter? Huh.
• 1:03:13
  Oh. Plenty of times, plenty of times
• 1:03:16
  they would start the car and they would, sometimes they would
• 1:03:19
  back it out 2-3 feet before stopping and they were just, it
• 1:03:24
  would just be oil everywhere. I think Miyagi did that once.
• 1:03:29
  I. Think.
• 1:03:29
  He did bro. I forgot.
• 1:03:30
  I don't know. I don't know who it was and I'm
• 1:03:32
  not going to name him, but they forgot to put a filter on it.
• 1:03:34
  Call Miyagi right now. They backed out of the the Bay.
• 1:03:39
  They drove right away. And drove out to the lot.
• 1:03:41
  Yeah. And there was a track of oil the
• 1:03:43
  whole way. This motherfucker drove it back
• 1:03:47
  with no oil. That's like like you got to hear
• 1:03:53
  it. I think when you turn in the
• 1:03:54
  wheel or something, you said there's.
• 1:03:57
  There's you're on the podcast. The oil pressure light comes on
• 1:03:59
  immediately. Let me ask you a question real
• 1:04:01
  quick. Hold up.
• 1:04:03
  We're just talking about the dealership life and everything
• 1:04:06
  that was going on. Do you remember doing an oil
• 1:04:10
  change and forgetting to put oil filter on or something?
• 1:04:13
  No, it was, it was the yeah. Can you tell us that story?
• 1:04:18
  I don't. Even remember what it was, it
• 1:04:21
  was like, but they where there's like a ton of fucking cars in
• 1:04:25
  and out and they had us just fucking pumping it out and then
• 1:04:28
  one car you just forgot to fucking.
• 1:04:30
  I think it was just a drain plug.
• 1:04:32
  I didn't really. Oh I I forgot to put the drain
• 1:04:35
  plug. In yeah, so it wasn't.
• 1:04:36
  I dropped the. Car.
• 1:04:36
  I dropped the car and I just started pouring oil and I'm
• 1:04:38
  like, huh, still fucking empty. The next thing you know, it's
• 1:04:45
  fucking, it's all coming out. OK.
• 1:04:47
  That's what it was. So you didn't drive it?
• 1:04:50
  I don't think I ever left. Dude, we're, we're talking Eddie
• 1:04:53
  here. Eddie said.
• 1:04:53
  He he had two cars fall off the lifts in one week.
• 1:04:57
  In one week. That's a bad week.
• 1:05:01
  It's a bad week bro. Oh, all right.
• 1:05:04
  Well, we'll see you later. I'll be out of work.
• 1:05:06
  What lug nuts? I forgot to find lug nuts on one
• 1:05:09
  car. How'd that?
• 1:05:10
  How'd that go? It came.
• 1:05:12
  It came right back. Yeah, cars.
• 1:05:14
  Fucking wobbly. Oh, I did that.
• 1:05:15
  But you remember the dude that looked like Ronnie King?
• 1:05:19
  Old guy that. Was the same that.
• 1:05:21
  Was the same day though that. Was the same day.
• 1:05:24
  What's the commentator? Oh, as the boxer?
• 1:05:25
  As the Rodney King as the oil pan.
• 1:05:29
  So there was AI don't. Even know I.
• 1:05:33
  Don't know how old this guy was. I'll say late 60s.
• 1:05:36
  Yeah, we talked about that. 50s, late 50s, late 60s.
• 1:05:39
  He was a tech. I know who.
• 1:05:41
  You're talking about. He was a tech.
• 1:05:43
  So this guy does, I think no, he wasn't no master tech in in a
• 1:05:47
  way he was the master tech. It just ain't no way.
• 1:05:49
  But you remember him who old guy, old tech that we hired at
• 1:05:54
  at Bergenfield. He looked like Ronnie King, yo,
• 1:05:58
  straight Afro, silver hair, whatever.
• 1:06:00
  I don't think I remember that. You had to be there.
• 1:06:03
  OK, give me a story. Simple.
• 1:06:05
  It's going to be pretty good. I think he did an oil change and
• 1:06:08
  rotate and he did the rotate and I think it was a rogue or
• 1:06:12
  something. Whatever car leaves doesn't even
• 1:06:16
  leave for like more than 5 minutes.
• 1:06:18
  Customers calling? Yeah, my wheel just went flying.
• 1:06:21
  Oh. My God and.
• 1:06:23
  They're like, OK, you know, we're going to send you a tow
• 1:06:25
  truck to get it back. Same time that's happening, the
• 1:06:28
  owner's coming in. He's coming in with his, you
• 1:06:29
  know, his, his Bentley. Hot shit.
• 1:06:32
  Oh, the actual owner of the dealership.
• 1:06:33
  Yeah, the actual owner, Yeah. Pulls in hot shit.
• 1:06:35
  Oh my. God.
• 1:06:36
  And the customer's going crazy. That's when the tow truck pulls
• 1:06:38
  up. I remember that.
• 1:06:39
  And then he grabs Massey, the shop foreman at the time, pulls
• 1:06:42
  him over to the side and he's he acts him.
• 1:06:44
  So who was it that did it? And they don't even point
• 1:06:47
  fingers, but I can like communicate with my eyes.
• 1:06:49
  And then I see Massey turn and go, nods his head.
• 1:06:52
  He goes all right, walks up to him.
• 1:06:55
  He's like, get the fuck out my dealer.
• 1:06:58
  He's like, Sir, get the fuck out my dealer.
• 1:07:00
  I'm just like, oh, brother. I think it was a truck, the tire
• 1:07:04
  just gone, completely gone. And I felt bad because he's a
• 1:07:08
  old dude. But then again.
• 1:07:11
  You should know. You should know what you're
• 1:07:13
  doing. You have two tasks between the
• 1:07:15
  oil. Put oil in tire rotation, loosen
• 1:07:17
  lug nuts, tighten lug nuts, torque lug nuts and torque them
• 1:07:21
  once they touched the the ground.
• 1:07:23
  Of course you're not going to torque them in the air.
• 1:07:25
  But no, his job was too difficult and the tire went
• 1:07:28
  flying and he got fired that same day.
• 1:07:30
  To be honest with you, I don't remember what he looked like,
• 1:07:32
  but I remember that day. It was a old guy.
• 1:07:34
  Yeah, he was. He was there.
• 1:07:35
  That short that I don't even fucking remember.
• 1:07:38
  Yeah, I was there literally that quick.
• 1:07:39
  I think he probably maybe worked 2 weeks, 3 weeks I'm.
• 1:07:42
  Not going to say the owner of that place name, but that guy
• 1:07:44
  fucking sucks. I hope he fucking dies.
• 1:07:46
  I fucking hate that Dick. Yeah, dude.
• 1:07:48
  He he was an asshole. He's a piece of shit to all his
• 1:07:51
  employees. Bro.
• 1:07:52
  They would have one parts guy in every dealer and they thought
• 1:07:56
  that was enough. And I'm like how do you expect
• 1:07:58
  the parts department to make money when they don't have any
• 1:08:01
  parts drivers and they don't even have anyone to manage it
• 1:08:04
  because the manager is doing all the counter work.
• 1:08:05
  And and then they would come in and be like, oh, why these
• 1:08:09
  numbers so low? Bitch, you didn't hire anyone.
• 1:08:12
  Yeah. Yeah, What?
• 1:08:13
  And then I remember the first time.
• 1:08:14
  Oh, you weren't there. I don't.
• 1:08:16
  Maybe you were there the first time I got hired.
• 1:08:17
  No, you weren't. It was me and Justin.
• 1:08:19
  It was before you even got there.
• 1:08:21
  Justin. Yeah.
• 1:08:22
  Justin worked there. Yeah.
• 1:08:23
  Yeah, he worked there in 2015. Fourteen.
• 1:08:26
  He. Was there?
• 1:08:27
  No, he was there in 2015. I think I only worked with
• 1:08:30
  Justin for like a few. It was a few before he ended up
• 1:08:34
  going to drifting. Or.
• 1:08:34
  But they hired me for parts, right?
• 1:08:37
  I was there for a week, for two weeks, and the owner comes in.
• 1:08:39
  Oh, I didn't tell you to hire him.
• 1:08:40
  Yeah, you're fired. So they fired.
• 1:08:43
  Yeah, they fired me. And then they rehired me again.
• 1:08:45
  And I'm like, you sure I'm going to actually get hired this time
• 1:08:47
  or like. What?
• 1:08:49
  The guy just came in and fired me and he didn't even seem like
• 1:08:51
  you guys didn't even ask him. That's wild.
• 1:08:53
  And then the second time, I guess they wanted another person
• 1:08:55
  in there. But it was always Melvin doing
• 1:08:58
  everything at every dealer I was at.
• 1:09:01
  Like he was doing everything in the parts department and it was
• 1:09:04
  just, he was really smart. He's really smart guy, but you
• 1:09:07
  can't do everything. Yeah, he's stretching somebody
• 1:09:09
  too thin. Yeah, he literally would be
• 1:09:11
  like, Oh yeah. Like on the phone, like, yeah,
• 1:09:12
  yeah, I'll try to get your parts to you.
• 1:09:13
  Yeah, by like 1:00 PM, he would get in the car and leave and go
• 1:09:17
  deliver parts, leave the dealership with no parts
• 1:09:20
  department and then come back. I'm like.
• 1:09:21
  What? His own car?
• 1:09:23
  Yeah, he'll leave in his own car.
• 1:09:24
  I remember he would pick up parts in his own car.
• 1:09:26
  Yeah, yeah. Maxima, I think it was at
• 1:09:28
  Hawthorne, yeah, for a short period of time.
• 1:09:31
  Now, he's doing this for two reasons.
• 1:09:33
  One, because he's nice. Two, because he's trying to bump
• 1:09:35
  his Commission check up because he's gonna make money on
• 1:09:38
  Commission that paper pop. But like, you can't do that.
• 1:09:42
  Like they need another person in there.
• 1:09:44
  So two people would have been the ideal 2.
• 1:09:46
  People was me and Melvin for like minimal 2 years I.
• 1:09:49
  Remember, they hired him and then the owner fired him and
• 1:09:51
  then they hired him again. Yeah.
• 1:09:53
  And then yo, but then, oh, this was great too.
• 1:09:55
  The second time when they hired me, I came in Melvin's like,
• 1:09:59
  Melvin's working with me for like maybe like 2 weeks and then
• 1:10:02
  and then he just goes, all right, they need me at
• 1:10:05
  Hawthorne. So it's going to be you.
• 1:10:06
  I said what? And he ran.
• 1:10:08
  He was. Running.
• 1:10:08
  I just ran that dealership parts department.
• 1:10:10
  It was my second week there. I'm like, I have no fucking idea
• 1:10:12
  what's going on. Like I don't even know how to
• 1:10:14
  use the computer system. And they're, he's just like,
• 1:10:17
  yeah, you're good. I'm like, what the fuck?
• 1:10:19
  And I'm, I'm working like 60 hours a week and get no
• 1:10:22
  overtime. I'm like, no, like I'm not doing
• 1:10:25
  this shit. That's what they did a lot of
• 1:10:27
  slave everyone. Yeah, that guy's a Dick head.
• 1:10:29
  The owner of that business is a Dick head.
• 1:10:31
  He deserves everything he got. You know, it's funny because I
• 1:10:33
  never, I never worked with you, but the what you're describing,
• 1:10:38
  I know exactly who it is. And that's how like that of a
• 1:10:42
  reputation this person has and how it just like travels so fast
• 1:10:47
  to, you know, dealerships that aren't even connected.
• 1:10:51
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, for sure.
• 1:10:52
  I mean, he had what he had the three, right.
• 1:10:55
  So I mean, there's only, he had two Nissan dealerships in the
• 1:10:58
  county and there was only four or five, five or six at that
• 1:11:02
  time. Person does not own any
• 1:11:04
  dealerships anymore. I think that's so.
• 1:11:06
  Funny, I don't think he does They're.
• 1:11:08
  Retired now. They cashed out.
• 1:11:09
  They sold the dealers. I don't think they do.
• 1:11:12
  But also another story with the owner.
• 1:11:14
  I remember I was going on vacation.
• 1:11:15
  I think I've already been working there for a year and
• 1:11:17
  change. So I'm due for a vacation.
• 1:11:20
  So I put my my vacation in and I told shop foreman Max.
• 1:11:23
  I was like, yeah, I'm going to I'm going to Dr. for for
• 1:11:26
  vacation. He said, yeah, don't worry about
• 1:11:27
  it. Next thing I know someone else
• 1:11:30
  is telling me or I think the owner heard or heard about it.
• 1:11:33
  He was just like, and if he goes on vacation, you fire him the
• 1:11:36
  day he comes back. So now I go to the shop for him.
• 1:11:39
  I'm just like, is this happening?
• 1:11:40
  Let me know right now because then I'll just quit before you
• 1:11:43
  even fired me. He goes, Nah, man, he's just
• 1:11:46
  playing around, just like, so I want to see you go over there,
• 1:11:49
  talk to him, and I want to see that he's actually playing
• 1:11:52
  around. He was over there talking to me.
• 1:11:54
  He's like, yeah, I think he really does want to fire you,
• 1:11:55
  but I don't think he's going to fire.
• 1:11:57
  You just just. Just go ahead and enjoy your
• 1:11:59
  vacation. I'm like, do I got a job when I
• 1:12:01
  come back? Yes or no?
• 1:12:02
  Like let me know right now, because if not I'll just go
• 1:12:04
  start looking for something right now.
• 1:12:06
  I mean, I did the same thing at Nissan.
• 1:12:07
  All did the same. Thing.
• 1:12:09
  We all did the same thing it. Was it was bad?
• 1:12:11
  Because when, when you're when you don't value your boss or
• 1:12:15
  your manager or you don't value them, so you don't give a fuck
• 1:12:17
  about that job. Like that's the treatment you're
• 1:12:19
  going to get if your boss treats you like shit, that's you should
• 1:12:23
  give them the same fucking energy right back.
• 1:12:25
  No, exactly. Yeah, the Cali trip in 2018 when
• 1:12:28
  we all went, yeah. We literally all you guys
• 1:12:30
  fucking went too to super D that year.
• 1:12:33
  I told them I was like. I told them like, oh, this is
• 1:12:36
  the event we're. All working.
• 1:12:37
  Together now, Yeah. We're all in the same fucking
• 1:12:39
  building. It was the same like auto group.
• 1:12:41
  I was in. Hackensack.
• 1:12:43
  I remember they told me, yeah, yeah, that they were like giving
• 1:12:45
  me a hard time and they're like, I was going to go.
• 1:12:48
  It was like Friday, Saturday, Sunday and I think I took Monday
• 1:12:51
  off and they're like, yo, just make sure you're back on
• 1:12:53
  Tuesday. And I remember going on the
• 1:12:56
  trip, I already applied for a job.
• 1:12:58
  I went for a Ramsey Infinity and I remember getting a text on
• 1:13:02
  Monday we're. Over there, yeah.
• 1:13:04
  Like I got a text from one of my Co workers.
• 1:13:06
  He's like dude I'm sorry what happened?
• 1:13:08
  I heard about what happened. I'm like what are you talking
• 1:13:09
  about? I was like bro I heard you got
• 1:13:11
  fired. I'm like, I didn't hear anything
• 1:13:14
  but thank you for giving me a heads up.
• 1:13:15
  And then dude, like an hour later I get a call from Ramsey
• 1:13:18
  Infinity saying that like I got a job offer, thank God,
• 1:13:21
  accepted. Me.
• 1:13:21
  Yeah, yeah. And I was like, bro, I'm going
• 1:13:23
  back with a new job, yo, I remember calling off Tuesday and
• 1:13:27
  then like, you remember what happens if you don't come in on
• 1:13:29
  Tuesday, right? I'm like, yeah, I'm it's fine.
• 1:13:31
  I'm going to take another day off.
• 1:13:33
  That's. Funny.
• 1:13:33
  As fuck. On Wednesday I went in and I was
• 1:13:35
  like, yeah, this is my last week, I'm out.
• 1:13:37
  So they didn't fire you though. Just for going on vacation,
• 1:13:39
  you're going to fire someone. Yeah, but they didn't fire you
• 1:13:42
  though, right? People.
• 1:13:43
  They just someone he heard you were going to get fired and then
• 1:13:46
  yeah. I've taken 2 vacations at my job
• 1:13:48
  and it's been three months. What was?
• 1:13:50
  It I've taken 2 long weekends at my job and it's been two months
• 1:13:54
  or three months. Yeah, no, these dealerships,
• 1:13:56
  like I mean, the current ones, everyone's out right now is
• 1:14:00
  fine, but the ones before that was fucking bad.
• 1:14:03
  Much. Better than we were before.
• 1:14:05
  Yeah, like, I, I mean, I told my I was a Dick head.
• 1:14:08
  I was like, I'm taking two weeks off.
• 1:14:09
  He's like, what? I'm like, I'm just letting you
• 1:14:11
  know that I won't be here for two weeks.
• 1:14:13
  You could tell me if I'm gonna have a job when I get back.
• 1:14:15
  I remember that. Yeah.
• 1:14:16
  And then that and then you guys tried to get off work.
• 1:14:18
  We did, yeah. I.
• 1:14:19
  Somehow managed to get it and then that's when I think you
• 1:14:22
  asked after me and then it was just like what the fuck?
• 1:14:24
  You guys can't all. Go on taking off at the same
• 1:14:27
  time, just say. Well, yeah, that's.
• 1:14:28
  Right now, cuz we're going either way, no flights is bought
• 1:14:30
  already but on that flight no matter what.
• 1:14:34
  And we all, everyone like follows each other too.
• 1:14:36
  Like if you leave a dealership and someone leaves, like Brian
• 1:14:39
  escaped. He escaped Bergenfield.
• 1:14:42
  And then he's like, yo, they need a parts guy.
• 1:14:44
  And I was hitting or no? You hit Nick up first.
• 1:14:46
  I think or opposite first, I think I, I, I left Bergenfield
• 1:14:50
  for sure and. Then and that and that might be
• 1:14:52
  you and. Then I think I hit up Nick for
• 1:14:55
  for a tech position. I think you came, or I think it
• 1:14:57
  was you first I. Think it was me.
• 1:14:58
  It was like this, Yeah, it was close.
• 1:15:01
  Well they were looking for both tech and parts, so just that
• 1:15:04
  you're looking for a parts guy you want.
• 1:15:05
  To work, but that happens often, right?
• 1:15:06
  Oh, it absolutely doesn't. It's more management.
• 1:15:09
  Yeah, it's more with management than than individual techs I've
• 1:15:15
  seen, you know. Yeah, because management's like,
• 1:15:16
  oh bro, bring your friends. Yeah, yeah, right.
• 1:15:19
  Like. You know, they try like, you
• 1:15:20
  know, poach their old crew. You know, we had a manager.
• 1:15:23
  He actually got a cease and desist letter.
• 1:15:25
  Yeah. Because he was.
• 1:15:27
  He took two techs with them to another dealer I was.
• 1:15:30
  Trying to. How is that legal?
• 1:15:32
  I I have no idea. That's crazy.
• 1:15:36
  But they did, they did send him a cease and desist.
• 1:15:38
  He will serve papers. That's fucking crazy.
• 1:15:40
  But that's the dilemma of how where I'm at right now.
• 1:15:44
  Why? So remember, I was at 17.
• 1:15:46
  Turn this thing to you. You got to talk like in this
• 1:15:48
  part. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:49
  So I was at 17, worked at 17. I was just like, I'm fucked,
• 1:15:52
  that I'm tired of cars. Went to FedEx.
• 1:15:54
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Got into some Bush with FedEx,
• 1:15:55
  went back to 17 and at that point the management at that
• 1:16:00
  point I didn't even like them and neither the other people
• 1:16:04
  that I was with liked them either.
• 1:16:05
  So I got to a point we did a four tech transfer so we grabbed
• 1:16:11
  4 techs. Boom.
• 1:16:13
  Went to the dealership that I'm at now, grabbed all fours, left
• 1:16:16
  them with no shop foreman and three techs.
• 1:16:19
  That's fucking crazy. So it gets crazy.
• 1:16:22
  So we come over here, we're here now we're taking, we didn't
• 1:16:25
  really take over because I, I want to say we took over, but
• 1:16:27
  we, we packed that dealership up, which is way smaller than
• 1:16:31
  17. But at the same time, the
• 1:16:33
  dealership that we went to that foreman left and when were we,
• 1:16:36
  We just left from what the So it's like we traded places and
• 1:16:41
  then it happened the same thing. He started recruiting people and
• 1:16:44
  people started going over to. That dealership.
• 1:16:47
  And it's just that's literally how the life of a dealership
• 1:16:49
  goes. Sometimes it's either because
• 1:16:51
  the management is greener on you.
• 1:16:52
  Not always greener on you. Know that better than anyone.
• 1:16:56
  It's either because of management or it's literally you
• 1:16:59
  guys are leaving as like a group and you're going to accept that
• 1:17:03
  as a group Or are you just going to keep looking for a text and
• 1:17:06
  you're not going to find a solid tech or you're not going to find
• 1:17:08
  a real tech that's actually stands behind the resume that
• 1:17:13
  they're handing you? You might do.
• 1:17:14
  A lot of dealers. Supposed to work in every Nissan
• 1:17:17
  and Infinity dealership in Bergen County.
• 1:17:20
  They are all the same. You actually did except for
• 1:17:23
  Hawthorne, right? Yeah.
• 1:17:25
  Yeah, Yeah. So you worked at every single
• 1:17:27
  dealership in the county except for one.
• 1:17:28
  Yeah, that's how I work. For 333, including the current
• 1:17:33
  one, but between. All of us.
• 1:17:35
  We work for every single one. Between me and Chris, we work
• 1:17:40
  for every single one except. Now they worked that too.
• 1:17:45
  Yeah, but that's all I needed because it's yeah, in in our
• 1:17:50
  county, Yeah. We worked at every single one,
• 1:17:54
  Bergen. Oh yeah.
• 1:17:56
  Yeah, we are not the problem though.
• 1:17:57
  You know the story, they say. Like if a tech keeps hopping
• 1:18:01
  from. Dealer to dealer, there you're
• 1:18:03
  the problem. Tech no you.
• 1:18:04
  Don't feel that way we. Are not the problem.
• 1:18:06
  Nick's always just wanted to fix.
• 1:18:07
  Cars. I just want to fix people's cars
• 1:18:10
  bro. Like legit fix the car.
• 1:18:12
  Like you tell me there's something wrong with your car, I
• 1:18:14
  want to fix it and I want to get the car back to you fixed,
• 1:18:16
  right? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:18
  But Nick was like against the smoke thing.
• 1:18:19
  He's like, yeah, you know, I want to do this.
• 1:18:22
  Nothing's wrong. I got to fix the car.
• 1:18:24
  I was like, cool, you fix the car.
• 1:18:25
  Well my pockets are getting fatter and I'm going to keep
• 1:18:28
  milking the fuck out this shit because I need money.
• 1:18:32
  You have to do both unfortunately.
• 1:18:33
  Bro, you know it was the first red flag applying to
• 1:18:36
  Bergenfield. What?
• 1:18:37
  I went there, I filled up my application, handed Mike my
• 1:18:41
  application and goes, all right, we'll give you a call.
• 1:18:43
  Literally calls me 10 minutes later.
• 1:18:48
  Yeah, that's. Right.
• 1:18:48
  And then I came back and he was like, Oh yeah, we'll talk.
• 1:18:51
  Can you start tomorrow? I'm like, sure.
• 1:18:55
  That was the first one. I should have never went there.
• 1:18:58
  They saw, they saw. When you learn they saw they
• 1:19:00
  came from Ramsey and then they're like, we need them now.
• 1:19:03
  They saw the pay and they were like.
• 1:19:05
  Oh, probably. We can get him for a little bit
• 1:19:06
  and then before he realizes he fucked up.
• 1:19:09
  Isn't that insane? No, but the fun of the part is
• 1:19:10
  that I was getting paid 13 at Ramsey.
• 1:19:13
  Then when I went to Bergman I was like, I'm a bump into like 2
• 1:19:15
  bucks. So I put at 15 and you're like,
• 1:19:19
  we could you could start tomorrow.
• 1:19:21
  We can only do 13. And I was like fuck.
• 1:19:24
  So you're taking a pay cut? No, I wasn't.
• 1:19:26
  Oh, I was getting the same pay. I was trying to get it higher
• 1:19:31
  and then I had no job. So I was like, you need a job.
• 1:19:35
  I needed a job now. And I was like whenever.
• 1:19:38
  Then I got fucked. Sorry, I got fucked for eight
• 1:19:40
  months. That sucked because Crystal that
• 1:19:42
  that Bergenfield dealer was way further away from my house than
• 1:19:45
  than the Ramsey dealer would. When Chris was working at
• 1:19:48
  Ramsey, bro, he'd be taking breaks.
• 1:19:49
  He'd show up at my house, we have lunch.
• 1:19:52
  Having a good Oh yeah, When I used to do Pdis, what else to
• 1:19:55
  do? I would go to the lot.
• 1:19:58
  I'm like, I pick up breakfast. Do I eat breakfast in a brand
• 1:20:03
  new car? I'll take like a I'll take like
• 1:20:06
  a 1520 minute nap and then I'll be like then I'll call Carl.
• 1:20:09
  I'm like, oh, you're home. Like, yeah, I just got back.
• 1:20:11
  I'm. Like pulls up a brand.
• 1:20:12
  I pulled in a brand new car. That is.
• 1:20:14
  Insane. His mom comes out.
• 1:20:15
  I was like, oh this is nice. Carl Carl literally lives like
• 1:20:19
  the exit. No, Eddie knows.
• 1:20:20
  Yeah, Eddie was up a new. Yeah, it's passed by as well.
• 1:20:23
  I mean, it's not that, you know, it's not that crazy.
• 1:20:26
  It's like a test. Drive I think dude you if if if
• 1:20:30
  roads were not thing. It was literally like, oh, maybe
• 1:20:34
  400 yards away from my house. That ramp next to your house?
• 1:20:38
  Sick that. Shit is crazy, yeah.
• 1:20:40
  Are you talking about the one you?
• 1:20:41
  You did. Yeah.
• 1:20:42
  Yeah, no, there was. That was the first like 17
• 1:20:46
  southbound. That was the first time I ever
• 1:20:49
  felt a crash, like a drift, like like a you were.
• 1:20:53
  Drifting that ramp. Catastrophe Chris drifted it and
• 1:20:57
  AZ open or whatever. Is that a VLSD dude sopping wet?
• 1:21:04
  It was so wet and that was easy and the tarmac in that spot is
• 1:21:08
  just straight oil like it was so shiny so then.
• 1:21:13
  For context, we were already rain drifting before that.
• 1:21:17
  Yeah, we were. We went to.
• 1:21:18
  Ramp No. No.
• 1:21:20
  The the, the, the, the. Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:21:22
  There's a spot. I don't think we're we're doing
• 1:21:24
  OK. Yeah, we.
• 1:21:25
  Were. Yeah, definitely don't talk
• 1:21:26
  about that spot. We were having.
• 1:21:27
  Fun but. Dude I learned a lot there.
• 1:21:29
  That's why I learned how to do third gear.
• 1:21:30
  Shit is over. There, that's.
• 1:21:32
  Good. But we were we were having a
• 1:21:34
  good day because it was raining. Chris does this ramp just like
• 1:21:40
  like fast. It just went whoop, boom, we're
• 1:21:44
  spun around. I'm like, oh fuck.
• 1:21:48
  And then there's a little median curb, like a small one.
• 1:21:52
  But it there's a incline. It goes just.
• 1:21:54
  Like a slope. Yeah, a little bit.
• 1:21:56
  Chris just backs it up. Boof.
• 1:22:01
  The VQ. Nothing.
• 1:22:02
  Oh no, you guys are stuck. I'm.
• 1:22:04
  Beached. Fuck what do I do?
• 1:22:07
  So I I think I leave. I go to get a Jack and some
• 1:22:11
  wood. Not in the middle of the night
• 1:22:12
  by the. Time.
• 1:22:13
  It was the middle of the day. Oh, no.
• 1:22:15
  By the time it was too late, there tow truck came.
• 1:22:17
  Yeah, Tow. Truck was already here.
• 1:22:19
  I'm like OK, what do I do with this?
• 1:22:20
  OK, gone tow truck pulls Chris off.
• 1:22:24
  It just pops over the curb cars. He has to tow it, right?
• 1:22:28
  He has to tow it. That's he tows it like 2.
• 1:22:31
  Buildings down. Yeah, to Porcelainosa or
• 1:22:33
  whatever. That tile spot, not
• 1:22:35
  Porcelainosa. There's a flooring spot.
• 1:22:37
  Drops it right there. Me and Chris keep driving to.
• 1:22:40
  The rest of. The day, yeah.
• 1:22:41
  I think he only charged me like 100 bucks just to get it off.
• 1:22:44
  Yeah, that was my first ever crash was that ramp.
• 1:22:47
  Fuck that dude. And then the downhill one.
• 1:22:49
  That one was a sick, sick one to drift.
• 1:22:51
  Spinning out on an on ramp is definitely the worst feeling.
• 1:22:53
  It's the worst fuck. Terrifying.
• 1:22:56
  You're going to hit someone when there's someone behind you and
• 1:22:57
  you're like, God damn it, I just ruined this guy's whole day.
• 1:23:01
  Yeah. Those are fun.
• 1:23:02
  Chris would like. Dude, I was on a cruise.
• 1:23:05
  Chris would be on his lunch break, he would pull up, my mom
• 1:23:09
  gave. Like aside from our family,
• 1:23:12
  there's like two other people who got the house code and Chris
• 1:23:16
  was 1. So then Chris got the house code
• 1:23:19
  and he was on. Inside your house.
• 1:23:20
  Yeah, he was having lunch. He Facetimed me.
• 1:23:22
  He's like, yeah, the he was building an Sr. for me in the
• 1:23:26
  garage. Like it was fully apart in oil
• 1:23:28
  filter boxes, all the boat, all the bolts from Nissan, like you
• 1:23:31
  know, the grey oil filter box, There's just so many of them in
• 1:23:34
  the garage, just like. Organized 5 Absolutely.
• 1:23:37
  Yeah, just straight fucking all of them.
• 1:23:39
  And then he was just building the head, built the block.
• 1:23:43
  Done. I come back from the cruise.
• 1:23:44
  Is Sr. built in the garage? It was.
• 1:23:46
  Sick. Damn, that's sick.
• 1:23:48
  Dude, Chris, was that just living in there, man?
• 1:23:50
  Yeah, he faced on me one time and I had just microwave Vienna
• 1:23:53
  sauce in the. Kitchen.
• 1:23:55
  I see the kitchen. Floor.
• 1:23:56
  I'm like bro. Chris was never late for work
• 1:23:58
  that week. Dude it was sick.
• 1:24:00
  You should have just full blown slept.
• 1:24:01
  Yeah, you probably should have. There were a lot of times where
• 1:24:04
  I stayed over because. We was working.
• 1:24:06
  We were doing stuff. I was like, I got work tomorrow,
• 1:24:07
  I'm just going to stay here. Yeah, yeah, you just go.
• 1:24:10
  So you guys got any advice for people listening that are
• 1:24:13
  looking to get into the automotive industry?
• 1:24:16
  Yeah, when you go on a road test, always go to your friend
• 1:24:18
  shop. OK, maybe not that, maybe not
• 1:24:22
  that. All right, my bad.
• 1:24:24
  I was going to tell him. A story?
• 1:24:25
  Yeah. Brian, How?
• 1:24:26
  About that, I was going to tell him a story about the when I
• 1:24:29
  came by in the two cars, the Maxima and the Z, not the.
• 1:24:32
  Z. Why not the Z?
• 1:24:34
  It was neither of our cars. That's the problem.
• 1:24:37
  It's. All right, I haven't worked
• 1:24:39
  there anymore. So I was Rd. testing Z, right,
• 1:24:42
  used car. It was convertible automatic.
• 1:24:45
  So whatever I'm driving it, driving it, I come by.
• 1:24:48
  I was just like, yo Frank, look at the Z, he's like it's a
• 1:24:50
  stick. I was like, no, it's automatic.
• 1:24:53
  And I was just like, I bet you can't slide this.
• 1:24:56
  He goes, yeah, we switched seats that.
• 1:24:58
  Was the worst idea I ever had. We switched seats, he went down
• 1:25:01
  some St. and I was just like, aye, he's like aye, hold on.
• 1:25:04
  I was just. For the record, I don't do this
• 1:25:05
  to anyone's car. We there was no owner to the
• 1:25:08
  cars, allegedly. It's what I'm saying.
• 1:25:10
  Oh yeah, yeah. So it's normal cars like?
• 1:25:12
  Oh, it was. It was a.
• 1:25:13
  Fucking It was just a used car. Oh, that's why I do it.
• 1:25:16
  That's the reason why I let you do it.
• 1:25:17
  That makes more sense. So he dumps in the car, boom.
• 1:25:20
  We were driving down the street. It was some street off.
• 1:25:23
  I forgot where it was. And he's like alright, hold on.
• 1:25:25
  And just doing figure eights getting sideways.
• 1:25:28
  I was like, oh, this is cool. And he's like alright, let's go
• 1:25:30
  back to the shop. Comes back.
• 1:25:32
  He's like alright, see you later, I'm going back to work.
• 1:25:34
  We just destroyed tires on that car.
• 1:25:35
  Remember when we tried and it was a used car?
• 1:25:37
  Remember, I tried to do a burnout and it wouldn't let me
• 1:25:39
  do a burnout. I was like, I was just drifting
• 1:25:40
  the shit out of this car, but I can't do a burnout.
• 1:25:42
  Yeah, it just, it was, it could slide, but it won't burnout.
• 1:25:44
  Yeah, it was like, and you hit the if you're on the gas and the
• 1:25:47
  brake at the same time, it's like, no, it was.
• 1:25:49
  Pretty wack, yeah. How about that one time about
• 1:25:52
  the maximum? How about the one time I pulled
• 1:25:54
  up in the maxima? I think it was like a 12 maxima.
• 1:25:57
  I remember the oh, when you just screamed at us.
• 1:25:59
  Yeah, remember, I pulled up. I think I I hauled ass.
• 1:26:04
  No, I pulled up and I'm screaming out the window.
• 1:26:06
  I was like, hey, do you guys tune?
• 1:26:09
  VQ's here and someone just screams out the garage.
• 1:26:12
  Nah, I was like, OK, And I just said I burned out from the door
• 1:26:17
  to the stop sign. It was raining that day, turned
• 1:26:20
  off traction. I just stepped on it.
• 1:26:22
  I'm spinning tires all the way. And then I come back near that
• 1:26:26
  day, I'm just like, yeah, that was, I said not a good idea, but
• 1:26:30
  that was a customer. Requirement that is.
• 1:26:34
  That was the good old days when you actually work close.
• 1:26:37
  That's literally a true story. When you used to work close to
• 1:26:39
  us, that was fun. I remember going on lunch
• 1:26:43
  breaks, you know, having a road test customer cars and you know,
• 1:26:47
  well, Chris worked with me at the time and, and, and it was
• 1:26:53
  very high end Ubers to Wendy's. Oh goodness.
• 1:26:59
  Yeah, so you know, I was, I was the only GTR tech.
• 1:27:04
  No. Had to had to drive it.
• 1:27:07
  You know, he had a, he had a complaint about some shuttering
• 1:27:11
  sometimes at higher RPMS. Oh yeah.
• 1:27:15
  I have to. Test I hire RPMS I have.
• 1:27:17
  To test drive it. So, you know, it's about
• 1:27:20
  lunchtime. I look over at Chris, you know,
• 1:27:23
  he's, he's in the middle of working or singing, whichever,
• 1:27:26
  whichever might be happening at that time.
• 1:27:29
  And I said, hey, do you want Wendy's?
• 1:27:31
  He's like, yeah, He's like, I'll meet you in the back.
• 1:27:34
  And it's a secret. It was.
• 1:27:35
  Yeah, it really was. Yeah, what was what was wrong
• 1:27:38
  with that car anyway? I think he just needed a tune up
• 1:27:42
  and trans and dip fluids. Done.
• 1:27:46
  Because it was. It was.
• 1:27:47
  Older it it was older and it it, you know, surprising had a lot
• 1:27:51
  of miles for a GTR, you know, it was definitely like daily
• 1:27:55
  driven. Damn.
• 1:27:57
  Yeah. So, you know, pick, pick Chris
• 1:27:59
  up in it and we're flying up and down 17 in the GTR, you know, in
• 1:28:05
  One Direction with no food and in the other direction with a
• 1:28:08
  bunch of Wendy's. Dude it's a deadly driven GTR.
• 1:28:12
  The Wendy's too. You guys had to probably go down
• 1:28:16
  this way a few back this way a lot.
• 1:28:20
  Yeah, back this. Oh, yeah, I definitely, I
• 1:28:23
  definitely got to, you know, hit triple digits in that car.
• 1:28:26
  Well, that dealership's a good dealership to be test driving.
• 1:28:29
  Yeah, 'cause you can't get to that dealership easily, you
• 1:28:31
  have. To no, it's you know where it
• 1:28:33
  is. It's great because you have to
• 1:28:35
  get on and off the highway, but it's also terrible if anything
• 1:28:37
  happens on the highway right there.
• 1:28:39
  Yeah. Oh yeah, like that there.
• 1:28:41
  And there was a. And there was a lot.
• 1:28:43
  Yeah, that happened on that highway like.
• 1:28:45
  Right there. Wasn't that one accident that
• 1:28:48
  someone was crossing the highway?
• 1:28:49
  Someone was crossing the highway.
• 1:28:51
  They. Were playing I.
• 1:28:51
  Think, I think in front of the hotel that was next to the
• 1:28:54
  Nissan. Oh, yeah.
• 1:28:56
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they just, they just got
• 1:28:58
  crushed and like sent. What the fuck is that place
• 1:29:00
  called? Horizon Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:29:03
  yeah. And the entire highway was shut
• 1:29:05
  down. We were stuck there until maybe
• 1:29:09
  like 8:00 at. Night.
• 1:29:10
  Oh my God. And then there was, there was a
• 1:29:13
  time, I remember it was like, you know, maybe one week to
• 1:29:16
  another where an 18 Wheeler took out the a power line that went
• 1:29:20
  across the highway, you know, going north and by the quick
• 1:29:25
  check took the power line out. And then we were just stuck
• 1:29:29
  there because they shut the highway down in both directions.
• 1:29:32
  And then not four or five days later, you know, another 18
• 1:29:36
  Wheeler took the same power line.
• 1:29:37
  Out, Oh my God, going. The other direction.
• 1:29:39
  I think it was the same guy, he said.
• 1:29:42
  I didn't do it right the first time.
• 1:29:44
  And it's funny because I think I want to say it was the second
• 1:29:47
  time I was outside getting a car and like, I heard tires
• 1:29:50
  screeching and I looked up and all of a sudden I look at the
• 1:29:53
  power lines and I see them do like this bounce.
• 1:29:56
  Oh my. God yo, that was a good thing
• 1:29:58
  about Route 17 Nissan because you had the exit ramp right
• 1:30:01
  there. But that's I think 17 has the
• 1:30:04
  best location Rd. test location. Yeah, yeah, because you could
• 1:30:07
  leave. You come out and you got a, you
• 1:30:09
  got a track set up and you can just haul ass or you can do the
• 1:30:13
  loop around if you know you want to get a little sideways or
• 1:30:15
  whatever. Or it's just I think any car
• 1:30:18
  that I Rd. tested or used car it was getting violated like I got
• 1:30:22
  I think I had a it was a 5.0 Mustang.
• 1:30:25
  This is not what I want this conversation to be about, sorry.
• 1:30:26
  For the record, sorry 5.0 Mustang used car.
• 1:30:30
  I think I had left with my Co worker Sammy.
• 1:30:33
  I was just like yo I was going to Rd. test real quick.
• 1:30:35
  I got to check it for brakes. So jump on whatever jump on 17
• 1:30:39
  make a left and I'm driving reach the light by the shell
• 1:30:42
  Starbucks. I was just like, I see what this
• 1:30:45
  these Mustangs are about, boom. I launch it, haul ass, boom.
• 1:30:50
  Right into a pole. No, I didn't.
• 1:30:53
  I reached the diner pop AU turn and I launched it again.
• 1:30:56
  Next thing I know, I'm getting pulled over.
• 1:30:58
  Oh, shit. The cop pulls me over.
• 1:31:00
  He's like, yeah, I'm pulling you over for speeding and that's why
• 1:31:03
  you spill. Just like, yeah, I just did.
• 1:31:04
  I didn't do no brakes. Yeah, I just did brakes and I'm
• 1:31:06
  trying to, you know, break in the brakes real quick.
• 1:31:08
  I work right here at 17. He goes, yeah, no, that's not
• 1:31:12
  going to work out and gave me a whole, the whole speeding
• 1:31:14
  ticket. I had to go to court a couple
• 1:31:16
  days later. I was just like, oh God, so much
• 1:31:18
  fun for Rd. testing a car. I mean, it was good.
• 1:31:21
  It was loud. It wasn't fast.
• 1:31:23
  Damn, surprised he didn't let you go.
• 1:31:25
  No, I the hell no, Theodore play didn't work.
• 1:31:28
  Me, my uniform didn't work. All row in my hand didn't work.
• 1:31:32
  None. None of that worked.
• 1:31:33
  How fast are you going? I don't know what I hit to be
• 1:31:36
  honest. I banged.
• 1:31:37
  I went one through 4 so. You're moving.
• 1:31:42
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:31:42
  You were moving. That was I was.
• 1:31:44
  Moving. So I was moving.
• 1:31:46
  Yeah, I was just betting the brakes in.
• 1:31:48
  Sorry, you're going 110 miles an.
• 1:31:51
  Hour. I really don't know.
• 1:31:53
  That's. Crazy.
• 1:31:54
  I got hit with a fat ticket once in a customer car and I had I
• 1:31:57
  had driven it overnight just because it was already the end
• 1:32:01
  of the day. And I say, look, I'm not going
• 1:32:02
  to be able to do anything in the next 30 minutes.
• 1:32:04
  Like gave me permission to take it home.
• 1:32:07
  It was a it was a Cummings Titan.
• 1:32:10
  And you complain about lack of power going uphill.
• 1:32:12
  All right, cool. You know where where we work is
• 1:32:14
  perfect. There's a nice steep hill to get
• 1:32:17
  back to the dealership. So I'm going up, up 17 that next
• 1:32:21
  morning and I'm doing about 7080.
• 1:32:25
  You know, I'm touching 90 at some point I'm wondering what
• 1:32:27
  the hell this guy's talking about.
• 1:32:29
  This truck is driving perfectly fine.
• 1:32:31
  And I see the light reflection behind me 'cause I can't see
• 1:32:36
  the, the truck. There's a Bergen County sheriff
• 1:32:39
  because this, this Titan was, it had a lift kit on it.
• 1:32:42
  So I just barely see the lights. Behind.
• 1:32:45
  And I don't know how long he was already behind me for.
• 1:32:48
  He was trying to catch up. You should have just nailed it.
• 1:32:49
  Yeah. You would have lost him with
• 1:32:51
  that black smoke. Yeah.
• 1:32:54
  And he and he stopped me. And, you know, I give him and
• 1:32:57
  say, hey, you know what? I'm just trying to work here.
• 1:32:59
  You know, I'm just trying to verify this guy's concern.
• 1:33:02
  He's all like, yeah, no, not my problem.
• 1:33:06
  And I had no paperwork to the truck other than the repair
• 1:33:09
  order and my license. And that's.
• 1:33:11
  It protect the serve. He's like where where's the
• 1:33:13
  insurance card? It's like, it's not my truck.
• 1:33:15
  It's like, where's the registration?
• 1:33:16
  Not my truck. It's not my truck.
• 1:33:18
  Yeah. Here's here's the here's the
• 1:33:20
  owner's information. Here's my license.
• 1:33:22
  That's the best I can do for you.
• 1:33:24
  Yeah. And he hits me with three
• 1:33:25
  tickets. Jesus.
• 1:33:26
  Christ. 11 for speeding and the other.
• 1:33:29
  For not promoting, that's your work stopping that's.
• 1:33:31
  Ask wait, I have one. Ramsey, right?
• 1:33:33
  Dude, them Saddle River cops ain't no joke.
• 1:33:35
  They really ain't no joke. Those were the ones.
• 1:33:38
  Saddle River, Mahwah, Ramsey cops all sucked.
• 1:33:41
  They pulled me over for shit like loud exhaust sticker on the
• 1:33:47
  windshield. I had one sticker on the
• 1:33:49
  windshield. Supposedly you can't see, right?
• 1:33:51
  You can't. See.
• 1:33:52
  Yeah, I was like, what's like you're?
• 1:33:53
  Blindfolded. So that they loved pulling me
• 1:33:56
  over. Dude, I tried to run away from
• 1:33:57
  the cops and fucking which one was that?
• 1:34:01
  It was when, you know, when you come down the hill.
• 1:34:04
  I think it used to be Olive Garden.
• 1:34:06
  I don't think it's Olive Garden. Anymore I.
• 1:34:07
  Think it's a dealer? Yeah, it's a dealer now.
• 1:34:10
  It's a dealer now. Damn, now you can't even get
• 1:34:11
  pasta. Fuck that.
• 1:34:13
  So down the hill right there. They're right next to the Boot
• 1:34:16
  warehouse and the Playground store.
• 1:34:18
  Do you know what I'm talking about?
• 1:34:19
  Right before the Valero. The speed shop down there.
• 1:34:22
  Right, yes, there was a speed shop down there.
• 1:34:23
  Still is right there. That's awesome.
• 1:34:25
  There's a cop sitting right there and I blow by and I'm
• 1:34:30
  like, OK, you know what? I'm running it.
• 1:34:33
  No, yeah, no. It was my first like 2 weeks
• 1:34:37
  with my license. Dude right there.
• 1:34:40
  And you decide to run it I'm. Running it because I was doing
• 1:34:42
  like 100 already, OK, because I was coming down the hill.
• 1:34:45
  It's not fast, but let's hear how this goes.
• 1:34:47
  Look, that was 100 miles an hour for fresh.
• 1:34:49
  You're about to go up a hill. Right now we have fresh.
• 1:34:51
  Decentras. Fresh out the license, fresh out
• 1:34:55
  the license centre, fresh out the DMV.
• 1:34:57
  This this license is burning a hole in my pocket, dude.
• 1:35:00
  Like I. Just got the car, everything 100
• 1:35:03
  miles an hour, 3 kids in the car.
• 1:35:05
  I have Kylie's law which is back then it was.
• 1:35:08
  I don't think it exists now. You cannot be driving past
• 1:35:12
  sundown or 10:00 or whatever, and you can't have more than one
• 1:35:16
  non family member in the car. I've had three.
• 1:35:20
  I'm doing 100. I'm like, yo, we're going to hit
• 1:35:22
  100 miles an hour. It's sick cop right at Valero
• 1:35:26
  'cause obviously I don't I don't know how to practice
• 1:35:28
  responsibility at that age. I'm just fucking around.
• 1:35:30
  I want to go fast at 100. It's about to hit the uphill and
• 1:35:37
  I'm like. Your foot got heavy.
• 1:35:39
  Yeah, I needed to. I needed to like stretch my
• 1:35:43
  calf. So I'm like, yeah, floor it.
• 1:35:47
  What Car were you in? It was a Audi A5 or A4.
• 1:35:52
  It was slow as shit. It was the slowest car I've ever
• 1:35:54
  owned. It was as long.
• 1:35:55
  As it wasn't a Nissan Sentra. No, but.
• 1:35:58
  But we're going. We're going, We're going, we're
• 1:35:59
  going. We're going long enough and
• 1:36:02
  we're going further, faster than the cop enough that we hit the
• 1:36:07
  Wendy's. That's how long I was running
• 1:36:09
  for. We hit the Wendy's.
• 1:36:11
  I'm like, fuck this. I'm losing him in the town.
• 1:36:14
  So I, I hit the brake. I fucking take the exit.
• 1:36:16
  He. Was behind you or like.
• 1:36:18
  I don't, I don't know, but I will tell you he probably was
• 1:36:20
  like right on my ass and was like what the fuck is this kid
• 1:36:23
  doing? Just falling right by.
• 1:36:26
  Why, why, why does this kid think he's running right now?
• 1:36:29
  But I'm like adrenaline pumping, pull over.
• 1:36:32
  Like I take the jug handle. I go right into my orthodontist
• 1:36:35
  office. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to
• 1:36:36
  this parking lot right here. Bam, right into the orthodontist
• 1:36:39
  office park, turn off the lights, turn off the turn off
• 1:36:42
  the car 10 seconds, like 2 seconds later.
• 1:36:46
  Not ten seconds, 2 seconds later.
• 1:36:48
  Boom. Like the whole cow, Oh my God,
• 1:36:52
  every fucking Saddle River cop, Ramsey cop just pulling into
• 1:36:56
  this bitch. I'm like fuck.
• 1:36:59
  You thought you got away. This is.
• 1:37:01
  So bad. This is.
• 1:37:03
  So bad probationary license. My parents are going to beat my
• 1:37:06
  ass till next week. Dude fuck.
• 1:37:09
  So I'm sitting. There, yo, he got out the car
• 1:37:11
  closes it. He's walking away like Don
• 1:37:12
  Toretto. No, with a jacket.
• 1:37:15
  I didn't even. Walk down the street, I.
• 1:37:17
  Had no time. I literally parked it, turned
• 1:37:20
  the car off and the lights and, and just they, they, they all
• 1:37:24
  flew in and then they're like. What the fuck?
• 1:37:26
  Do you think you're doing? Get out the.
• 1:37:28
  Car. I'm like hands on.
• 1:37:30
  I'm like, ah, OK. Like I get out of the car.
• 1:37:33
  Walk to the back of the car, I'm walking to the back of the car
• 1:37:35
  and walk to the trunk. Like a hands on the trunk.
• 1:37:37
  Yeah bro I did the whole thing. Oh my God, this is my first time
• 1:37:40
  ever getting pulled over as a licensed driver.
• 1:37:44
  Dude, you watch Fast and Furious I.
• 1:37:46
  Got pulled over right away. They put hands on the trunk.
• 1:37:48
  The other kids in my car, they're all a little, they might
• 1:37:50
  have, they have not had their licenses yet because I was 17,
• 1:37:53
  they were probably 16. So I'm just hands on the car
• 1:37:55
  like this. And then they're like, you know,
• 1:37:58
  you know, I can, you know, I can end your driving career right
• 1:38:04
  now. And yeah, yeah, give me the
• 1:38:06
  fucking. Thing I'm like like please don't
• 1:38:08
  like, you know? Please don't put it.
• 1:38:10
  In please don't just sitting there, just sitting there like.
• 1:38:13
  Please. Don't.
• 1:38:15
  Please use Lube. Like, please, like, don't do it.
• 1:38:18
  No, he's like, all right, we're going to let you off with the
• 1:38:23
  biggest warning. Of no way, yeah.
• 1:38:25
  What the? Fuck.
• 1:38:27
  Oh, you were doing a little stroking my shit.
• 1:38:28
  I got lotion on my shit. No, no, no, I was pretending to
• 1:38:30
  have a seizure. I was like fuck.
• 1:38:31
  No, please don't. Please don't.
• 1:38:32
  Please don't my parents are going to beat my ass please and
• 1:38:35
  he's like all right, I'm going to let you off with a warning
• 1:38:37
  bro, the warning where I'm like OK, I'll go straight home.
• 1:38:41
  He's like go straight home I'm like OK, no problem We get out
• 1:38:45
  of the parking lot bro, we have 4 cop cars are following me to
• 1:38:49
  my house. He's.
• 1:38:50
  Like. All on. 17 all in a line.
• 1:38:53
  I take the exit. I live right on lake.
• 1:38:55
  Please tell me your mom saw this.
• 1:38:56
  Dude, no, I live right. I was concerned that that's what
• 1:39:00
  they were going to do. Like I I was concerned they were
• 1:39:03
  going to I was going to pull into my driveway and they were
• 1:39:05
  going to pull in and they're going to tell my parents exactly
• 1:39:07
  what the fuck I did you. Should have pulled up to like a
• 1:39:09
  hoarders or something. All right, I'm home all.
• 1:39:12
  Right. Hey, I live right here because
• 1:39:14
  there is one I think is there. Down the road I think there was
• 1:39:17
  1. Yeah, there was.
• 1:39:19
  One. There was one on 17 in Paramus.
• 1:39:21
  That was the worst maybe. I'm thinking of that.
• 1:39:23
  I don't. Know.
• 1:39:24
  Oh yeah, I might be. Thinking.
• 1:39:25
  Or maybe it's on 4? No, the one in four is gone.
• 1:39:28
  It's a Chick-fil-A now, I think. Definitely the one in Paramus
• 1:39:32
  that was there for a while. That was actually Carrie's
• 1:39:34
  favorite place to. Go Yeah, The one next to the
• 1:39:38
  Range Rover. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:39:40
  yeah. Dude, they used to have
• 1:39:41
  unlimited wings in there. I wish they would bring that
• 1:39:43
  back. Wait, I think they didn't bring
• 1:39:45
  it back yo. Wait, wait.
• 1:39:46
  That Hooters is gone? No.
• 1:39:48
  Yeah, all of them are gone. Really.
• 1:39:49
  No one. By me, Yeah, there's one by me
• 1:39:51
  as well. But in Flemington.
• 1:39:52
  Yeah, but this guy's two hours away.
• 1:39:55
  See you. No, me and me and Nick are going
• 1:39:57
  to get get Hooters now, yeah. Are you guys close to each
• 1:40:00
  other? Yeah, he's the closest person to
• 1:40:01
  me so far that. That's my God.
• 1:40:02
  There you go. Have you got a friend there?
• 1:40:04
  Probably. Closer to him though, what was
• 1:40:05
  it? You guys are still probably
• 1:40:07
  closer to him than me. Nah, Clinton's like 15 minutes
• 1:40:10
  away from it. Dude, I literally live like on
• 1:40:13
  78. That's sick.
• 1:40:15
  Like it's, it's pretty hell. It's.
• 1:40:17
  Pretty we got some questions from from some listeners.
• 1:40:20
  Can we go back to the question of what is the advice we'd.
• 1:40:23
  Please. Yes, please, Nick.
• 1:40:24
  OK, you're going to have to mess up a lot before you start
• 1:40:27
  actually fixing shit. Wait, what does that mean?
• 1:40:29
  Like, you got to mess up people's cars.
• 1:40:32
  Unfortunately. You're.
• 1:40:32
  Going to learn. You're going to.
• 1:40:34
  Learn from every car that you break.
• 1:40:36
  I'll never forget my first buy back.
• 1:40:38
  I'll never forget. Buy back, buy back?
• 1:40:40
  What does that mean? Like I couldn't fix a car and
• 1:40:43
  they bought it back because I couldn't fix it.
• 1:40:45
  I finally fixed it and the customer's like yo, I don't want
• 1:40:47
  this car anymore. It was a QX56IN Armada dude.
• 1:40:52
  I couldn't fix it for two months.
• 1:40:53
  Wait, they just bought the car? No, they had it, but I had it at
• 1:40:56
  the dealer for two months. Could it was.
• 1:40:57
  That that lemon. Law, yeah, lemon they they can
• 1:40:59
  lemon law it. What was wrong with it?
• 1:41:01
  I don't. Want to say.
• 1:41:03
  OK. Well, the problem was all the
• 1:41:06
  buttons. They didn't respond at all.
• 1:41:10
  All the buttons in the middle did not respond at all and I
• 1:41:12
  couldn't figure out what was wrong.
• 1:41:13
  Was this at Burnfield Nissan? No, this was at Ramsey Infinity.
• 1:41:16
  I was going back and forth with tech line.
• 1:41:17
  They're like put a radio in it, put a screen in it, put
• 1:41:19
  everything in it. I put all that shit in it.
• 1:41:21
  Nothing fixed it. I.
• 1:41:22
  Put. Everything.
• 1:41:24
  Hey, yeah, at some point they just say throw everything.
• 1:41:28
  In put a chassis harness in it. Yo, I did do the dash harness,
• 1:41:32
  yeah. Literally.
• 1:41:33
  That's crazy. It was a blown fuse and I messed
• 1:41:37
  up bad. I messed up bad because I
• 1:41:40
  initially found the blown fuse bro.
• 1:41:43
  And this is when I used to smoke a lot of pot.
• 1:41:45
  I put it back in the wrong spot so it was still and I didn't
• 1:41:51
  figure that out for for like 2 months bro.
• 1:41:54
  Oh no, that is like the empty spot.
• 1:41:56
  Yeah, because the empty spot was right next to the.
• 1:41:59
  Snow yo this. Is my biggest mess.
• 1:42:01
  I wanna buy that car from that dealer and be like, yo, I'll,
• 1:42:04
  I'll take you for two months. I'll take it.
• 1:42:06
  But how did you find out what the problem was?
• 1:42:10
  I was going through the circuit and I'm like what the fuck did I
• 1:42:12
  miss? So you found it I.
• 1:42:13
  Was like, yo, I got to go back to the basics.
• 1:42:15
  I went back to the fuse. I figured it out.
• 1:42:17
  That was like, Oh my God, I put the fuse in the right spot.
• 1:42:19
  It was fixed. I told one of the techs he's
• 1:42:21
  like don't tell anyone, don't tell anyone about this so.
• 1:42:24
  You just told a lot of our listeners who are worldwide and
• 1:42:27
  they're going to tell I don't work.
• 1:42:28
  There anymore? I'm good, yeah.
• 1:42:31
  But that goes back to what Frank was asking, like what advice you
• 1:42:34
  gonna learn from you just fucking up bad And it could be
• 1:42:38
  to a point, a blown fuse. And you do.
• 1:42:40
  You're like 9 miles away from the first check up that you did.
• 1:42:43
  Start at the. Base and that's shit like that.
• 1:42:46
  I have a question for well. Do you have any input on this
• 1:42:48
  before we jump to another thing? Yeah.
• 1:42:50
  So I, I would always, you know, just, you know, going back to
• 1:42:53
  what Brian said, just don't forget your basics as you, as
• 1:42:57
  you progress through, through your career.
• 1:42:59
  It's really easy to just think that it's the most complicated
• 1:43:03
  thing. You know, I can't stress enough
• 1:43:06
  that, you know, especially when it comes to like electrical
• 1:43:08
  problems, go back to, does it have battery voltage?
• 1:43:13
  Because sometimes, you know, not enough for too much can just
• 1:43:17
  create a load of problems. This literally.
• 1:43:20
  Just happened yesterday. I think that car is fixed.
• 1:43:23
  We had a car come in. What?
• 1:43:26
  Was it Chris? The car would randomly shut off.
• 1:43:30
  While driving it would like. Like cut off and then come back
• 1:43:33
  on. And, like, his Zeus is like
• 1:43:35
  trying to figure it out. He's like scanning the PCM, the
• 1:43:38
  IPM. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:43:40
  And then I'm looking around. I'm like, OK, this battery
• 1:43:42
  ground is kind of loose, but that wouldn't really shut off a
• 1:43:44
  car. It was still run off the
• 1:43:45
  alternator. I was like, oh, alternator, go
• 1:43:48
  to the alternator. The positive post was loose.
• 1:43:51
  And then and then they told us that they just did the
• 1:43:54
  alternator. Like a few months ago the
• 1:43:56
  customer did the alternator herself.
• 1:43:58
  But that's the one bullshit you go through.
• 1:44:00
  But I was. Thinking of BCMI was thinking
• 1:44:02
  like they. Won't tell you that shit.
• 1:44:03
  That's the bullshit you you're going to go through and you're
• 1:44:05
  going to deal with a customer won't tell you what they did to
• 1:44:07
  the car. And then you literally, you
• 1:44:10
  know, you'll figure that out. Maybe whatever 10 hours in you
• 1:44:14
  into trying to repair the car and just like Oh yeah this guy
• 1:44:17
  replaces alternator or just Oh yeah, I replace my alternator
• 1:44:22
  yeah I think you should come in when you complaining about your
• 1:44:25
  car what you done to your car that's on it it's also the.
• 1:44:28
  Service writers Fault. That too, I'm I'm at war with
• 1:44:32
  service writers. I put them all in their place.
• 1:44:35
  All day. Yeah, exciting.
• 1:44:37
  Every day, just full. War Eddie, Eddie, sometimes.
• 1:44:40
  Sometimes he's like, yo, you say the right things, but sometimes
• 1:44:43
  at the wrong time. And there's never a wrong time.
• 1:44:47
  100% true. You'll be 100% right.
• 1:44:49
  It's like, you know what? They didn't need to hear that
• 1:44:51
  right at this moment. Like there's no end of the day
• 1:44:54
  thing. I'm you're not safe with me at
• 1:44:56
  all. You're going to hear right there
• 1:44:58
  and then because I'm already hot.
• 1:44:59
  But why am I going to be cool down and then let you know how I
• 1:45:03
  feel? You know, if I'm already high
• 1:45:04
  and I'm already on on 1000, you're going to hear right there
• 1:45:07
  and then. This is funny too because you
• 1:45:09
  guys are on the same You guys have teams in your dealership,
• 1:45:11
  right? It was.
• 1:45:13
  Was. Yeah, yeah, not enough staff
• 1:45:15
  anymore. Because you guys are on the same
• 1:45:17
  team basically. So you would just you would all
• 1:45:19
  see the same shit. But so you got to see what he's
• 1:45:22
  doing and Vice. Versa.
• 1:45:25
  Oh, he sees everything. Chris, do you have any input for
• 1:45:27
  new technicians? Or new technicians probably
• 1:45:31
  wouldn't start a dealership. It's kind of it's a it's a very
• 1:45:37
  steep ladder to climb because dealerships is a lot of
• 1:45:41
  politics, politics whether the dealership is good or not.
• 1:45:45
  My probably my only advice is find a local shop that's willing
• 1:45:50
  to pay you to learn that's. That's cool, yeah.
• 1:45:54
  You guys all started at dealerships other than?
• 1:45:57
  I did. Chris, you started a dealership,
• 1:45:58
  no? No, I started at a performing
• 1:46:00
  shop. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:46:02
  OK. So you guys all did?
• 1:46:04
  I started at Bergenfield. Now, who went to tech school and
• 1:46:06
  who didn't? Did you all go to tech school?
• 1:46:08
  I. Went to tech school.
• 1:46:10
  We went. We.
• 1:46:10
  Went to Lincoln Tech together. OK.
• 1:46:13
  You went to tech, I went to UTI. And you did too, Chris.
• 1:46:15
  Yeah. So you guys all went to tech
• 1:46:16
  school, OK. So what do you have to say about
• 1:46:19
  that? Do you think it's worth it?
• 1:46:20
  Do you think? I say if you want to.
• 1:46:22
  I say if you want to get into the dealership, just go straight
• 1:46:25
  into the dealer because no matter how much tech school you
• 1:46:28
  have, they're going to throw you on the oil change line anyway.
• 1:46:31
  Yeah, and you're going to learn in that oil change line.
• 1:46:34
  And then while you're sitting down, not doing anything, go and
• 1:46:38
  interact with the other techs, see what they're doing.
• 1:46:41
  You know, find someone who's willing to answer 10,000
• 1:46:45
  questions. What if they think that kid is
• 1:46:47
  weird or some shit and then you guys just talk shit about him in
• 1:46:49
  the shop? Well, we're going to talk shit
• 1:46:51
  regardless. We're going to talk.
• 1:46:53
  Shitless, I was going. To say they always talk shit and
• 1:46:55
  that's fine, whatever. It's going to happen, Yeah, you
• 1:46:58
  know. To to back Eddie's statement.
• 1:47:02
  Yeah, when they went to go apply at Ramsey, I was working at a
• 1:47:05
  performance shop. I was doing engine swaps, trans
• 1:47:08
  swaps, suspension installs, everything.
• 1:47:10
  Within my first two years of becoming a mechanic, all that
• 1:47:13
  experience didn't matter because I had no dealership experience.
• 1:47:16
  So when I went to Ramsey, I was a express Lube.
• 1:47:20
  So you literally when you get to a dealership, you start at the
• 1:47:22
  bottom. If you are have no knowledge of
• 1:47:27
  any mechanical knowledge or and you don't know anything about
• 1:47:31
  cars, LTI is a great place. If you do have knowledge and you
• 1:47:36
  can like know the basics, just go straight to a shop or a
• 1:47:38
  dealership. I kind of agree with that.
• 1:47:41
  Dude, you know what LTI was sick for the parking lot.
• 1:47:45
  Yeah bro. Oh my God.
• 1:47:48
  Dude. I I drifted the IS there like a
• 1:47:51
  couple years ago because I was like I was at my parents house
• 1:47:53
  and I'm like where the fuck can I test this out?
• 1:47:55
  Oh, I know where we could go like and there was like that
• 1:48:00
  little off road testing section. Oh yeah, the hill.
• 1:48:02
  Oh. Yeah, dude, you can launch
• 1:48:04
  fucking crazy shit off that. Somebody that that was the way
• 1:48:08
  that you figured out in the parking lot, who was actually
• 1:48:10
  learning at that school and who was going to drop out.
• 1:48:12
  The kids that were drifting during lunch.
• 1:48:15
  That's what I heard. Miyagi.
• 1:48:17
  Miyagi, his brother, Fucking Dan.
• 1:48:20
  Yeah. What the fuck?
• 1:48:22
  Yeah. Jesse, I would come out for
• 1:48:23
  lunch and all I hear is like an RXA, just like 9000 RPM smoke in
• 1:48:27
  the parking lot. I'm like all.
• 1:48:29
  Right. Yep, yeah, because the friends I
• 1:48:32
  have well, this is how it always it was always I remembered my
• 1:48:36
  friend Dustin. He's the one who taught me how
• 1:48:38
  to drift. He taught me how to work on cars
• 1:48:41
  for the not for the most part, but he was one of the people he
• 1:48:45
  would always he went to Lincoln Tech and he would always say
• 1:48:48
  fuck that shit, like don't go to Lincoln Tech.
• 1:48:49
  Like he would always tell everyone like, no, don't go to
• 1:48:51
  the schools, like it's a waste of money, this and that.
• 1:48:53
  And then some other people would say the same thing.
• 1:48:57
  But then I'd like look at my whole group of friends and I'd
• 1:48:59
  be like, wait a minute. All the ones that are actually
• 1:49:01
  smart and know what they're doing went to Lincoln Tech.
• 1:49:04
  So it was just weird. I was like, they're all telling
• 1:49:07
  you not to go. But at the same time, those
• 1:49:09
  mother fuckers are the ones that are that actually learned
• 1:49:12
  something. And no more than all the other
• 1:49:14
  people I know that didn't go and are trying to work on cars.
• 1:49:17
  So I think it's all depends on what you put into it.
• 1:49:20
  It depends on how you. That could have been Jesus.
• 1:49:23
  It depends on how you apply yourself.
• 1:49:25
  It might be. He's warming up.
• 1:49:26
  That sounded like a Rotary. Yeah, I'll.
• 1:49:28
  Turn on my car right now. What'd you say?
• 1:49:31
  What'd you say, Nick? It depends on how you apply
• 1:49:33
  yourself. Yeah.
• 1:49:33
  Yeah. Because like, I was eager to go
• 1:49:35
  in there and learn how to work on cars and shit.
• 1:49:38
  But then there were other people in there that their parents were
• 1:49:40
  just like sending for school. Yeah.
• 1:49:42
  They didn't want to be there. And I remember, I remember being
• 1:49:44
  in class and I remember not being like getting the four
• 1:49:46
  point O's or, you know, not doing the best in class.
• 1:49:49
  And everyone's like, yeah, you're not, you're not going to
• 1:49:51
  be able to do this. I'm like one of the few that
• 1:49:54
  still actually works on cars. Yeah.
• 1:49:56
  And it's like, it's like, I wanted to do that.
• 1:49:59
  I knew I wanted to do that. Yeah.
• 1:50:00
  It's about how you apply yourself, pretty much.
• 1:50:02
  A lot of actually. It's in the.
• 1:50:05
  Road is out. But yeah, I don't know, it's
• 1:50:09
  just some people just were forced to go there by the pair.
• 1:50:11
  I remember I went for the tour, like the open house thing, and I
• 1:50:15
  was like, yeah, maybe I'll go here.
• 1:50:16
  I ended up going to a Community College for two years and not
• 1:50:19
  going to LTI. And then I ended up working at a
• 1:50:24
  dealership while I was going to school.
• 1:50:27
  And I got lucky because I knew Justin who was working there and
• 1:50:30
  he got me a job. And once I got my foot in the
• 1:50:33
  door and I was, I realized, oh, you just have to get your foot
• 1:50:36
  in the door. Once you're in here, you're
• 1:50:38
  pretty much set because LTI, they don't give you a CS, they
• 1:50:41
  don't give you any. They just give you a
• 1:50:43
  certificate. You leave it.
• 1:50:44
  You leave with AAC AC air conditioning when you take When
• 1:50:48
  you take the air conditioning class, you get a.
• 1:50:49
  Yeah, six O 9. AC Yeah, that's just the handle.
• 1:50:52
  Yeah. Yeah, you can buy refrigerant.
• 1:50:53
  Buy refrigerant, yeah. So I think trace school now what
• 1:50:58
  we're in the what's going on in life in general, it's probably
• 1:51:02
  not even worth going. That went back in 11th.
• 1:51:05
  Oh yeah, school was 24. I think UTI now breaks half of
• 1:51:13
  half 100. It's like 50 grand. 50 grand for
• 1:51:16
  Lincoln Tech. No UTIUTI.
• 1:51:18
  Same shit. I don't go.
• 1:51:19
  Fuck, probably 50 grand. I paid more.
• 1:51:21
  For that, are they giving you a free car?
• 1:51:24
  And it's a year program. Yeah.
• 1:51:27
  That's even worse. So.
• 1:51:28
  You're like a look it up. You're literally.
• 1:51:30
  Just setting How much is Lincoln tech for debt?
• 1:51:33
  Basically that. And you think you're going to
• 1:51:35
  pay off that debt working at a fucking dealer?
• 1:51:39
  Oh, I mean, yeah, you're going to put your life through hell,
• 1:51:40
  You're going to want to freaking hate life, and you're going to
• 1:51:42
  have to figure it out. It depends what.
• 1:51:44
  You it builds character. It's still 32.
• 1:51:48
  Look up. Look up.
• 1:51:49
  When I went in 24 TI. That is literally my college
• 1:51:52
  education bro. Yeah, it was 20 so.
• 1:51:55
  It's still 3 when I went. OK, it's still.
• 1:51:57
  It's still when. I went in 2014, it was 27.
• 1:52:02
  I always thought it was around 30 grand, so yeah.
• 1:52:04
  Jesus. That's back What?
• 1:52:08
  That's current, all right. So Brian was wrong, thank God,
• 1:52:11
  but. Bro.
• 1:52:13
  Bro it's. Still a lot.
• 1:52:15
  Yeah, it's a lot of. Money.
• 1:52:16
  Wait, Malcolm, can you look up Jersey?
• 1:52:17
  Somehow they kept the price the same over the last 10 years.
• 1:52:20
  I also think you guys are longer a program.
• 1:52:25
  The LTI is 13 months and I think UTI is 15. 15 or 18?
• 1:52:30
  Yeah, depending on what you're going for.
• 1:52:32
  I mean, you could extend it. You could extend it if you
• 1:52:35
  choose like a Nissan class, if you choose BMW, but mine was a
• 1:52:39
  solid year. And then you could pick a BMW
• 1:52:42
  called the Fast Track or some other stuff.
• 1:52:45
  So did UTI help you get a job at a specific dealer?
• 1:52:49
  I was. I went to the one in Orlando.
• 1:52:51
  Yeah. So I was already in Florida and
• 1:52:54
  Orlando was already boring. Did they help me?
• 1:52:57
  I wouldn't. Would they have helped me?
• 1:53:00
  But it just, I guess it looked good on a resume.
• 1:53:02
  Yeah, that's pretty much it. And people, dealerships idolize
• 1:53:06
  people that came out of UTI because it was like, I guess
• 1:53:10
  better than Lincoln Tech, But I didn't know anything besides the
• 1:53:13
  difference. Yeah.
• 1:53:14
  But Lincoln Tech didn't it? Helped back then, I don't know
• 1:53:17
  about now. Does Lincoln tech do?
• 1:53:18
  Lincoln Tech does help you get into dealerships.
• 1:53:20
  OK, I didn't get that help because I was already working in
• 1:53:24
  a performance shop, but when I applied to Ramsey, that was my
• 1:53:27
  saving grace and getting hired and my parents just bought a
• 1:53:30
  car. Yeah, Ramsey was really big on
• 1:53:34
  hiring anybody that was coming out of that Mahwah campus.
• 1:53:38
  OK. Like the director there just had
• 1:53:41
  deep ties with every single dealer up and down 17.
• 1:53:45
  I mean, it's funny because I didn't get my job at at Nissan
• 1:53:51
  because of the school I was actually picking up lunch at
• 1:53:54
  like Taco Bell and the service manager having me walking out.
• 1:53:59
  I was in my uniform and he's just asked, Hey, you know, how
• 1:54:02
  much longer do you have in your program?
• 1:54:04
  And that's crazy. And I, and I said, and I said
• 1:54:07
  Duomo, you know, I think I have like, you know, three months
• 1:54:10
  until my internship period where I can just go to work.
• 1:54:13
  He's like, this is your car is again, at the time I had a Mazda
• 1:54:17
  Protege 5 wagon and it was clean, I guess.
• 1:54:22
  And you say, oh, that looks really well taken care of.
• 1:54:24
  Like if you want stop by after you're done at school and apply.
• 1:54:29
  And I got, I got in doing quick Lube there, you know, working
• 1:54:34
  from like 3:30 to like 8:00. Wow.
• 1:54:38
  Yeah. Damn they were poaching people
• 1:54:40
  at Taco Bell. Oh my God, he looks good.
• 1:54:46
  That's, I mean, it's definitely good info because like if I was,
• 1:54:50
  you know, 20 years or 19 years old, again, I'd, and I heard
• 1:54:53
  this conversation. I would love to hear this
• 1:54:54
  conversation because you don't know what to do.
• 1:54:56
  Like people ask all the time, like should I go to a tech
• 1:54:58
  school? Should I not I?
• 1:54:59
  Think my best opinion is what Chris?
• 1:55:01
  Says yeah, his is definitely right.
• 1:55:03
  If you don't know anything about cars, then you probably should
• 1:55:06
  go and. Don't want to create a debt?
• 1:55:08
  Yeah, in your life. And you got to be sure that you
• 1:55:10
  want to do this too. That's.
• 1:55:12
  The main thing? Yeah, which is almost impossible
• 1:55:14
  because. It's, it's a big investment and
• 1:55:17
  and, you know, and it goes to anything you go to school for,
• 1:55:20
  like, you know, what you put into it is what you're going to
• 1:55:24
  get out of it. Yeah.
• 1:55:25
  So if you're OK with blowing forty $50,000 on, you know, a
• 1:55:30
  bachelor's degree of, you know, communications, congratulations.
• 1:55:34
  Like you're going to work at Best Buy the rest of your life,
• 1:55:37
  you know, potentially, yes, potentially.
• 1:55:39
  And, you know, if you, if you go to a tech school, you just, you
• 1:55:43
  have to take it serious. Yeah.
• 1:55:44
  You know, with any, with anything that you know you're
• 1:55:47
  spending money on. OK, now would you do it again?
• 1:55:54
  I think, hold on, someone's going to call that.
• 1:55:57
  I got, I got Jesus over here calling him out.
• 1:56:00
  I just. Really.
• 1:56:00
  Actually here trying to race. Down I sent Jesus home in his R
• 1:56:05
  33 because it's too slow to get his booster card to get spanked
• 1:56:08
  by a simple STI. I guess we're actually racing
• 1:56:12
  this shit. I'm a spanked the fuck out that
• 1:56:13
  shit. The call out was serious.
• 1:56:16
  Yeah, I actually, that's my train of thought.
• 1:56:18
  Damn. Speaking of call out bro, a
• 1:56:21
  quick little DM from Josh here. Josh Deleis, your favorite
• 1:56:24
  buddy, sees garage. He's like, this guy is going to
• 1:56:28
  finish a car. Why would Josh say that shit,
• 1:56:33
  Malcolm? Final bow.
• 1:56:35
  Why would Josh say that shit? We had a personal fucking
• 1:56:38
  conversation. Ain't no fucking way you better
• 1:56:41
  hurry to fuck. Anyway, would you do it again?
• 1:56:44
  We're going to start with, we're going to go to every single one.
• 1:56:46
  Of you do what again? MTI, go to a tech school, become
• 1:56:49
  a mechanic. So because I had almost no
• 1:56:53
  knowledge, I would have to go to the tech school.
• 1:56:58
  Let me ask this differently. If you could do everything
• 1:57:01
  again, would you still be a mechanic today, or do you think
• 1:57:03
  you'd go? Differently, I'd still be I love
• 1:57:05
  what I do. OK, I hate the politics behind
• 1:57:07
  it, but I love fixing cars. OK, Chris, you better be careful
• 1:57:11
  now. Josh said don't tell him it.
• 1:57:14
  Was would I do it again? Yeah, I'd probably do it again.
• 1:57:20
  All right. I don't.
• 1:57:22
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll do. That Brian, I don't think I'll
• 1:57:28
  do the trade score again. No.
• 1:57:30
  I would just probably try to jump into the shop and shadow
• 1:57:35
  off of that and learn my knowledge off of that.
• 1:57:38
  OK. I would do it again.
• 1:57:41
  Whole thing, yeah, because I didn't know.
• 1:57:44
  Excuse me? I didn't know how to do an oil
• 1:57:45
  change when I got to Lincoln Tech.
• 1:57:47
  And now like, look at all the shit we do.
• 1:57:49
  That's that's I had a feeling that that's what happened with
• 1:57:51
  you, but I didn't know for sure. That's fucking crazy.
• 1:57:54
  So you literally did not know anything about cars and you went
• 1:57:56
  to Lincoln, So you're literally the perfect example of what
• 1:57:58
  we're talking about. Yeah.
• 1:57:59
  OK, Cars do. I fix right now.
• 1:58:02
  Everyone's going to hate me for this.
• 1:58:03
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all right, I want to say
• 1:58:05
  it. Go for it.
• 1:58:07
  I work on Teslas right now. Yo, you know, I didn't know if
• 1:58:11
  you were allowed to say that, but that was the funniest shit
• 1:58:13
  ever, bro, when I saw you because, like, I was a dude.
• 1:58:17
  No, I was leaving work. I'm walking bro Literally
• 1:58:21
  excruciating with fucking rage because every time I left that
• 1:58:25
  establishment I wanted to fucking.
• 1:58:27
  Hurt somebody? Yeah.
• 1:58:29
  Yeah, Fiserv. Oh shit, name drop.
• 1:58:32
  Hell of a place to work for. I'm walking through the parking
• 1:58:35
  lot, Thank God. Ray of sunshine right here.
• 1:58:37
  I'm like, Oh my God, what the fuck are they doing over there
• 1:58:41
  at Tesla? And then a couple of days
• 1:58:43
  earlier I saw you or maybe a week before and you were like,
• 1:58:46
  yeah, they basically send us on these calls or whatever and and
• 1:58:49
  they don't know how to do anything most of the time the
• 1:58:51
  owners. So I'm like looking, I'm like,
• 1:58:54
  yo, that might be Nick over there.
• 1:58:56
  So that I from across the lot, I'm talking like he's 100 meters
• 1:58:59
  away. Yeah, I just go Nick.
• 1:59:05
  I'm like, who is that I? Might purposely drive out that
• 1:59:09
  way and just go. Yo and.
• 1:59:10
  Then just drive. The best is I thought I had to
• 1:59:13
  tell the customer. I was like, I don't know who.
• 1:59:14
  That is, and then I. Think I texted you.
• 1:59:17
  I was like, yo, if someone was screaming at you, that was Carl.
• 1:59:20
  And they were like, what? The fuck?
• 1:59:23
  That was one of the best experience is working on.
• 1:59:25
  A Tesla. All right, I'm going to jump
• 1:59:27
  into some of these questions because it's been a while.
• 1:59:30
  Some are ridiculous as usual and some are serious.
• 1:59:33
  Someone asked shipping to Canada in the future.
• 1:59:35
  We already do ship to Canada, so that takes care of that one.
• 1:59:38
  All right, Mike Martino, bro, you could get.
• 1:59:40
  It he's probably talking about body kits.
• 1:59:41
  We we shipped some body kits too.
• 1:59:43
  Is that actually Martino? No.
• 1:59:44
  OK. I was going to say, I don't
• 1:59:45
  think he needs to order anything.
• 1:59:47
  Worst Nissan to work on that? Is a good question.
• 1:59:52
  NV2000 van harness replacement. I just, I keep bringing that up
• 1:59:57
  because I swear to God, I I went into Chris's dealer.
• 2:00:00
  You remember that one vent dude? The whole interior.
• 2:00:04
  Not that there's a lot of interior anyway, but the whole
• 2:00:06
  fucking harness was out and I was like, what the?
• 2:00:09
  Fuck, I got 1. You know, wait, I actually have
• 2:00:12
  to combat that because like there, there is so much room in
• 2:00:16
  these envies and there's almost nothing in them.
• 2:00:20
  So, you know, your harness consists of like, you know, 12
• 2:00:23
  wires fire that goes. It's just in the fact that you
• 2:00:27
  have all the space in the world to like just RIP the harness
• 2:00:29
  out. Everything is exposed.
• 2:00:30
  Is that a book time fiend kind of job?
• 2:00:33
  Like if that was time, you could beat it.
• 2:00:37
  I would say you can get close to.
• 2:00:40
  Abuse the time. On that, yeah, you.
• 2:00:42
  Can get straight time. Harnesses are straight time and
• 2:00:45
  and you can you can milk it. But straight time, meaning
• 2:00:49
  they're going to charge whatever it takes them to do.
• 2:00:52
  It's not a book. There's no like 2 hours for
• 2:00:55
  saying you did a wire repair and all you did was plug in a
• 2:00:57
  connector to a fuel pump or that.
• 2:00:59
  Module more. Smoke more.
• 2:01:01
  Smoke not the sidetrack, but Speaking of the NV, do you
• 2:01:05
  Eddie, do you remember that time I, I forgot what I was doing?
• 2:01:08
  This is when they made me flat rate at Ramsey.
• 2:01:10
  I had to install something in the in the the back.
• 2:01:15
  I think it was either the divider or something or some of
• 2:01:17
  the lights. I had to install something, but
• 2:01:19
  it was 98° outside. I let the shit run.
• 2:01:23
  Cabinets. Yeah, the cabin is The cabin is.
• 2:01:25
  Yeah, the. Outfit Van Yeah.
• 2:01:27
  Oh no, With the cabinets. And shelves.
• 2:01:29
  Yeah, dude, I I turned the car on, I put the AC on blast and it
• 2:01:33
  was in there for like an hour. My service advisor goes, you're
• 2:01:39
  going to kill everybody out here.
• 2:01:42
  This, this van was just running in the shop for like an hour and
• 2:01:45
  a half and and Chris is inside with just a couple lights and
• 2:01:49
  just enjoying everything because he's got the AC just fully
• 2:01:53
  cranked in there. Meanwhile, we're all like
• 2:01:55
  getting carbon monoxide poisoning.
• 2:01:57
  Me first because I work the closest.
• 2:02:00
  What do you, what do you, what do you think the most pain in
• 2:02:03
  the ass Nissan is to work on? I want to say armadas.
• 2:02:08
  Nick, you don't think so? It depends on the repair you're
• 2:02:10
  doing because like armadas, the AC lines that tuck under the
• 2:02:13
  frame is terrible. If you've ever had to do that,
• 2:02:17
  there's one Infinity that is the absolute worst, the QX30, which
• 2:02:21
  is a Mercedes GLA. Well, there's a problem you.
• 2:02:25
  Put that in your mouth. Oh yeah, yeah, put the mic in
• 2:02:27
  your mouth. The.
• 2:02:28
  QX30 that is a Mercedes GLA is like the worst one to work.
• 2:02:33
  On Yeah, I remember when you told me that shit.
• 2:02:34
  I was like the body. Harness, the interior harness is
• 2:02:37
  the entire car has to come apart to replace that.
• 2:02:40
  And then also I've seen like dude, I had one where there was
• 2:02:44
  oil leaking through the harness into the ECM.
• 2:02:47
  The car would not turn on. I'm like, what the Hell's going
• 2:02:49
  on? I'd take the connector off for
• 2:02:51
  the ECU and there's just oil in the how did.
• 2:02:54
  It even get there. Dude it ran through from the PCV
• 2:02:57
  valve all the way to the ECU. Through the harness.
• 2:03:00
  Through the harness I was like, I don't.
• 2:03:03
  Know, I mean, that's kind of impressive in itself.
• 2:03:05
  It's a Mercedes. It's kind of impressive that you
• 2:03:07
  found that too, to be honest with you.
• 2:03:08
  That's kind of. Crazy.
• 2:03:09
  I left that dealership to go to Tesla and I left that car there
• 2:03:11
  like that. You have a habit of doing that,
• 2:03:15
  Nick. Hey, remember the Maxima?
• 2:03:18
  No. Bergenfield.
• 2:03:19
  Bergenfield. Remind me?
• 2:03:22
  You don't want to be reminded. I remember.
• 2:03:23
  Leaving Bergenfield with a dirty floor.
• 2:03:26
  Massey wanted to. Kill him.
• 2:03:28
  He wanted to murder you for this Maxima.
• 2:03:30
  I don't remember what job it was.
• 2:03:31
  Oh it. Was the Bluetooth wasn't working
• 2:03:34
  and I left it there like that. Left it all apart.
• 2:03:37
  I think everything was off on. That day, Oh, and Massey said.
• 2:03:41
  Massey said No, I'm waiting for Nick to get back and fix it and
• 2:03:43
  we're like, I don't, I think he's coming back my.
• 2:03:45
  Toolbox is not. There, Yeah.
• 2:03:46
  And. And he's like, no, he'll come
• 2:03:47
  back. And we're like, OK, he never
• 2:03:51
  came back. Yeah, he never came back.
• 2:03:54
  All right, well, I'm going to go with 300 ZXI.
• 2:03:57
  Don't know, I think. The difference between me and
• 2:03:59
  the You 3 is that you guys see all newer these ones.
• 2:04:02
  Yeah. I deal with the old piece of
• 2:04:04
  shits so I still think it's Z32. What?
• 2:04:08
  Do you think, Brian, I'm gonna still go with the Armada and if
• 2:04:12
  you need to do anything with AMV just but the big MVI think it's
• 2:04:16
  the 2500? 2500 Any any tall any.
• 2:04:19
  Tall and tall. Envy.
• 2:04:21
  That you got to work on just as simple as setting it up on the
• 2:04:24
  lift. It's annoying even if you're
• 2:04:28
  doing an oil change, you got to set that big ass van on a lift
• 2:04:31
  and try to make it. It also depends how big the shop
• 2:04:35
  is. Yeah, if you got a big shop, OK,
• 2:04:36
  maybe it's going to be easier. But where I'm, where I'm at,
• 2:04:39
  it's like this is the way we're sitting is how tight our lips
• 2:04:43
  are. That's how I.
• 2:04:43
  Put my truck on the lip. It's so.
• 2:04:45
  Try, so try to get your truck going this way to not this way,
• 2:04:47
  yeah. And up in the air.
• 2:04:48
  Not fun, yeah. You worked at GM for a minute,
• 2:04:51
  Nick. How was that?
• 2:04:52
  Because all those motherfucker trucks are big.
• 2:04:54
  Oh, I. Worked at Cadillac.
• 2:04:56
  I worked at Cadillac. Yeah, so like, but I was a loop
• 2:04:58
  tech. Thank God.
• 2:04:59
  OK, But it was like every oil change was an Escalade.
• 2:05:01
  And then I remember one time they had me do a tire rotation.
• 2:05:04
  It used to be a Hummer dealership.
• 2:05:05
  I did an H2 Hummer tire rotation.
• 2:05:08
  Yo, you're like. What the hell is I was?
• 2:05:10
  Young back then and I. Fucking they're like not love
• 2:05:12
  nuts you couldn't do. Nuts.
• 2:05:14
  I did it but I was like dude, I can't do this shit every day.
• 2:05:16
  Should. Have brought your.
• 2:05:17
  Roll car. You couldn't lift the should
• 2:05:19
  have brought your. Roll the wheel on the roll car.
• 2:05:21
  And then just rolled it over. And just smack it on.
• 2:05:24
  That would get annoying as fuck honestly.
• 2:05:26
  I think the best car for Nissan that guy right now.
• 2:05:28
  Well was until I I ran into an issue.
• 2:05:31
  I think the frontiers. Are good you're saying?
• 2:05:33
  You barely see them in the dealership.
• 2:05:34
  That's probably in my opinion. Yeah, that's the well, they're
• 2:05:37
  newer. They have a new model now, but I
• 2:05:39
  was going to say they were the oldest model but I guess they
• 2:05:40
  just changed it like. VQ.
• 2:05:43
  VQ 440383.8. The only VQ.
• 2:05:48
  Left yeah, those trucks are bad ass just for the fact that you
• 2:05:51
  better see them in the dealership and if you do this
• 2:05:52
  for an all change tire rotation. They got the Chris Forsberg
• 2:05:55
  edition. Oh yeah, that's a real, I swear.
• 2:05:58
  To God, Yeah, I swear to God. That's awesome, someone said.
• 2:06:01
  Out of all the professions in the world, why choose to be a
• 2:06:03
  Nissan technician? Oh, I can know this.
• 2:06:08
  One real quick, I'll go first. Like we said from the beginning
• 2:06:11
  of this episode when I hit the 115 hours, that's why I stuck to
• 2:06:17
  my Nissan. Yeah, that.
• 2:06:20
  Is right, the cars break a lot. Came from Honda to Nissan and I
• 2:06:24
  was like, wait, these cars break a lot, so that means there's a
• 2:06:26
  lot to fix, yeah. So work at a Maserati dealer is
• 2:06:30
  what you're saying? No, do not work at a Don't,
• 2:06:33
  don't pick. One where it's all broken and
• 2:06:35
  shit. So Hyundai.
• 2:06:36
  I think I worked at easy to fix. I think I worked at Nissan
• 2:06:39
  because we all fucked with Nissan's and I was like, oh, if
• 2:06:42
  I work here, I can get parts here.
• 2:06:45
  And yeah, yeah, that's kind of what I was trying to figure out.
• 2:06:50
  But what about you, Eddie? Oh, you just got you got hooked
• 2:06:52
  up. Oh, actually, yeah.
• 2:06:55
  The first job you got where, what dealership was that?
• 2:06:57
  That was Ramsey. I was there.
• 2:06:58
  OK, so you kind of, yeah. So you got kind of, you got to
• 2:07:02
  hook up with that job and then, well, the guy saw you at Taco
• 2:07:04
  Bell and then just stayed there. Yeah, pretty much.
• 2:07:08
  I mean, if it was a Mercedes guy, you would have worked at
• 2:07:10
  Mercedes. Yeah, like.
• 2:07:12
  You know, I always, I always like Nissan's.
• 2:07:15
  You know, the the car that made me fall in love with Nissan's
• 2:07:19
  was a a Nissan Sentra SER Spec V Yeah.
• 2:07:25
  And it was I really liked it. You know, it was 2.54 cylinder
• 2:07:30
  6B manual and it had Brembo brakes and I just.
• 2:07:34
  That's Sr., right? Yeah, no AQRQR Ultima motor.
• 2:07:38
  That's like a 2005. One, it's the newer.
• 2:07:40
  One the bubbly, one OK. Yeah, and you know, and.
• 2:07:43
  I like that engine too though. I mean reliability.
• 2:07:46
  Wise Kim's factory with LSD. Oh well.
• 2:07:49
  Which was a lot of fun to drive and that car actually made me
• 2:07:53
  fall in love with the brand. Chris, I'd ask you, but you
• 2:07:57
  worked at a You probably didn't even care about Nissan,
• 2:07:59
  honestly. Yeah, you work at the Nissan
• 2:08:02
  shop ever now? I did have an opportunity.
• 2:08:05
  I got poached for Hyundai. Oh yeah.
• 2:08:08
  Yeah, but I wasn't trying to place replace engines all day.
• 2:08:10
  Fuck that you. Were replacing an engine for two
• 2:08:13
  hours or three. Hours.
• 2:08:14
  It's bad. What warranty?
• 2:08:15
  Yeah, yeah. That's what they pay.
• 2:08:17
  That's what they pay. Dude, I heard that.
• 2:08:19
  I knew this one kid who was doing like transmissions all the
• 2:08:22
  fucking time. That's Nissan.
• 2:08:24
  No, no. Yeah, Nissan did.
• 2:08:25
  Go make money off your transmissions.
• 2:08:27
  No, he was in Hyundai probably. Getting paid for hours.
• 2:08:30
  Horrible. Yeah, horrible, horrible.
• 2:08:32
  We see them all day. And I laughed at him.
• 2:08:35
  Like, you're doing a four hour trans, I'm doing a Ultima Cash
• 2:08:39
  13 hours. Damn.
• 2:08:41
  And it's probably way easier than what you're doing.
• 2:08:44
  Then and even then, like you know the Ultima Ultima warranty
• 2:08:49
  book times you're getting almost 8 1/2 nine hours to replace the
• 2:08:54
  trans and you know if you actually get good on it, you can
• 2:08:59
  do two of them in a day if you really.
• 2:09:00
  Want you can do, you can do it one of those in four hours,
• 2:09:03
  yeah. Damn, I do pathfinders in
• 2:09:05
  midday. The whole thing.
• 2:09:08
  A Pathfinder Transit, Yeah. 13. Hours.
• 2:09:10
  That's pretty good. Pathfinder today is is a good
• 2:09:14
  it's a long day, but it can be done.
• 2:09:17
  You know, Ultima, Ultima, they practically fall out, you know?
• 2:09:21
  Those CDT. Transmissions and centrus.
• 2:09:24
  Yeah, Centrus, when you don't have to remove a subframe to get
• 2:09:28
  it out, it's like this is gold. What's the best way to bleed AVQ
• 2:09:33
  cooling system? Nick goes.
• 2:09:36
  I know there's one. I know the whole procedure by
• 2:09:38
  heart. OK, the first thing you got to
• 2:09:40
  do is fill it with coolant, then the little bleeder knob on the
• 2:09:43
  back. The.
• 2:09:45
  You open it the heater. Core hose the.
• 2:09:47
  Heater core hose only the only the 30 fives have it though.
• 2:09:51
  You got to open it up let the let all the bubbles come out.
• 2:09:54
  As soon as you see it's just coolant close it.
• 2:09:57
  Run the car for like 20 minutes, 20 minutes.
• 2:10:00
  Like Rev it for three at 3 grand, let it go, then let it
• 2:10:04
  sit you open the valve again and see if it's, you know, only
• 2:10:07
  cooling or if they're still airing and you just got to keep
• 2:10:09
  doing it. So you're not even doing the
• 2:10:10
  whole. Do not lift the car.
• 2:10:12
  Do not lift the front of the car.
• 2:10:13
  I did that to my car once it started overheating.
• 2:10:16
  Yeah, because that that bleed valve was actually the highest
• 2:10:18
  the. Highest point, yeah.
• 2:10:19
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
• 2:10:22
  Yeah, someone should have told us that.
• 2:10:23
  I remember one time I was bleeding a this M35, bro, This
• 2:10:29
  was one of the funniest cars they've ever fixed.
• 2:10:31
  This guy comes in with an M35. He goes, yeah, my car only
• 2:10:34
  overheats on Saturday, but I'm trying to bleed the car.
• 2:10:42
  And back then I thought you had to open the bleeder with the car
• 2:10:44
  running, bro. And you know how they get
• 2:10:46
  brittle? Yeah, bro.
• 2:10:47
  I tighten it, the engine's running.
• 2:10:48
  That shit snaps. All the coolant just comes out
• 2:10:51
  of the car. Oh.
• 2:10:53
  Goodness, yeah, man. Is he at the dealer at least?
• 2:10:55
  Yeah. He was in my Bay with me and I
• 2:10:57
  had to get my manager to kick him out.
• 2:10:59
  It was it was just so funny. I'm like bro, your car does not
• 2:11:01
  know what day of the week it is. He was going to see Shorty on a
• 2:11:06
  Saturday and she lived on a hill, That's what it was.
• 2:11:09
  I should only overheat on Saturday I.
• 2:11:10
  Remember. Turning that car out, that was
• 2:11:12
  so funny. Totalling it.
• 2:11:14
  Yeah, he came back trying to say some bullshit.
• 2:11:16
  He goes, yeah, I dropped coins in the in the.
• 2:11:19
  That shit had a Christmas tree on it.
• 2:11:21
  When he came back, it had every line.
• 2:11:22
  It wasn't related to what I did. He's like, yeah, drop coins in
• 2:11:25
  the in the power socket and all these lights came on.
• 2:11:29
  They're like, yo dude, what you got to do?
• 2:11:31
  I was like, all right, it needs a BCMAECM.
• 2:11:34
  This harness, that harness, all this shit.
• 2:11:35
  You want your car totaled? I got you, bro.
• 2:11:37
  And I remember taking parts off the car once.
• 2:11:39
  I was told it was totaled. But it's like awesome.
• 2:11:42
  It's just those stupid shit you see at the dealer bro.
• 2:11:44
  Yeah, a lot of that's funny. That was actually stupid shit.
• 2:11:48
  That's two questions in here. Best way to believe AVQ cooling
• 2:11:50
  system. So maybe you guys just gave
• 2:11:52
  everyone a some some useful info.
• 2:11:55
  I didn't know that was a thing. Yeah, me and Chris been bleeding
• 2:11:58
  it differently than that and haven't really ran into a
• 2:12:00
  problem. It's just the.
• 2:12:01
  We don't really. We we never lift it.
• 2:12:03
  We just put it in the driveway. I mean, we do crack that valve
• 2:12:06
  in the back, but. What sucks is only that's.
• 2:12:09
  Really the. Key The thing is the the HR 3
• 2:12:12
  point fives and the three-point sevens don't have the bleeder
• 2:12:15
  valve in the back and that's what'll mess you up.
• 2:12:17
  Only like the early Gen. VQS.
• 2:12:19
  So what do? You do with the ones that don't
• 2:12:20
  have it. Honestly my suggestion is go on
• 2:12:22
  Z1 and buy the valve and just replace it.
• 2:12:24
  It's super easy to do. I just did 1 so they make one so
• 2:12:26
  that way you can. And it's aluminum.
• 2:12:28
  Put the. Valve.
• 2:12:29
  Yeah, yeah. You put the valve in, it makes
• 2:12:30
  your life so much. You can also get the metal one
• 2:12:32
  because they come back to you. Plastic, yeah.
• 2:12:33
  OK. Yeah, the plastic ones.
• 2:12:35
  Sucks that is the one failure point of every VQ.
• 2:12:37
  Yeah, for a cooling system it will.
• 2:12:39
  Actually, any VQ yeah my the the exterior has the plastic one had
• 2:12:42
  really plastic one yeah a firewall and the firewall yeah,
• 2:12:46
  but somebody had already did the Z1 what he's.
• 2:12:49
  Those are the tardiest for breaking those poles.
• 2:12:51
  Yeah, they just crack and then the hose separates.
• 2:12:55
  Engine overheats. Yeah, you.
• 2:12:56
  Look at it. It breaks, Yeah.
• 2:12:57
  Pretty much I think I grazed like my knuckles on one and like
• 2:13:02
  boom cooling everywhere. We used to replete because for
• 2:13:06
  some reason Nissan sells it with the hose and we used to just do
• 2:13:09
  both hoses. That shit is the worst.
• 2:13:13
  There's so many questions in here, I'm just trying to pick
• 2:13:14
  them. Like I would love to do all of
• 2:13:17
  them, but there's too many. Like hardest repair you've ever
• 2:13:20
  done? Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet
• 2:13:23
  Are you driving deck with the top down or up you?
• 2:13:26
  Remember when we replaced? The top knives you ride, that
• 2:13:29
  you set it on fire, it is what you do.
• 2:13:32
  You pour gas in it with the top down, Yeah.
• 2:13:34
  You set it with the top up so you don't convert it and you
• 2:13:38
  leave it like that for the remaining of the life that you
• 2:13:40
  own that car. Because once that shit takes the
• 2:13:42
  shit, I don't think you're going to have the money to repair
• 2:13:44
  that. Wait, so they really break all?
• 2:13:46
  They're they're so fragile. 15,000.
• 2:13:50
  Dollars. Yeah, $1000 That's car's
• 2:13:52
  garbage. I'd rather buy 15,000 Mcdoubles.
• 2:13:55
  Fuck that. Oh my, you're getting a Mcdouble
• 2:13:58
  for a dollar. Nowhere.
• 2:14:00
  Me and Chris just used to say that back when we first we were
• 2:14:02
  playing at. Elite, I remember that.
• 2:14:05
  Someone. Actually it was warranty.
• 2:14:06
  Thank God bro I remember the service manual says you need six
• 2:14:10
  people to lift that. It says it in the owner's
• 2:14:13
  manual. 6 people. It says if the top ever becomes
• 2:14:16
  stuck, you're gonna need six people to to open it.
• 2:14:21
  Mm hmm 'cause they didn't want you closing it again.
• 2:14:24
  I just wanted you to tuck it in the trunk and that's it.
• 2:14:26
  I remember I had to do APDI on one of those when they first
• 2:14:29
  came out and I was like, I don't, don't make me go get gas
• 2:14:31
  in there. And they're like, no, you gotta
• 2:14:32
  go. You gotta go with the top down.
• 2:14:33
  You probably look like the craziest lesbian ever,
• 2:14:36
  literally. I was like, please don't make me
• 2:14:38
  go do this shit. They're like, no, you gotta do
• 2:14:40
  it. I'm like, alright, I don't.
• 2:14:41
  Know why they hear? That and the and the owners.
• 2:14:44
  The owners of those convertibles are so weird because I, I just
• 2:14:49
  remember this, this rash of like a month and you know, it was
• 2:14:52
  January and we had four of them show up and they all said, yeah,
• 2:14:57
  my top isn't working. And I'm just like, it's 20°
• 2:15:00
  outside. What are you doing?
• 2:15:03
  What are you doing? It's.
• 2:15:07
  Pretty. Mind blowing.
• 2:15:08
  One question just says does the pain ever end?
• 2:15:11
  No. No.
• 2:15:15
  No, no. That's.
• 2:15:17
  Crazy. It gets.
• 2:15:18
  Worse. What if Nissan changed their
• 2:15:22
  name to Nizbussy and instead of selling cars, they stroked it,
• 2:15:27
  say. What?
• 2:15:29
  This is they stroked. It I mean, you know, kudos,
• 2:15:34
  kudos, creativity. I like.
• 2:15:36
  This is what I'm talking about right there.
• 2:15:38
  That brings me to another question, which was is Nissan
• 2:15:42
  dying off in the car market? What can they do better?
• 2:15:46
  So I'm a firm believer that Nissan's not going to go
• 2:15:50
  anywhere. All right.
• 2:15:52
  You know they they can't and you know they have plenty of money.
• 2:15:56
  The the thing with Nissan, and you'll see it across other car
• 2:15:59
  brands is Nissan will always produce a Nissan.
• 2:16:04
  They won't re badge something. Oh yeah, that's well, except
• 2:16:08
  that Mercedes. Well, so so The funny thing
• 2:16:11
  about that Mercedes collaboration is Mercedes wanted
• 2:16:14
  the V Val system. Oh, so they made a deal?
• 2:16:17
  So they made a deal, you know, and so they wanted the V Val
• 2:16:21
  system and they wanted a pickup truck for the European market.
• 2:16:25
  And Infinity was like, and we want a car that actually.
• 2:16:27
  Works. So we want, you know, we want an
• 2:16:29
  entry level, we want an entry level like SUV.
• 2:16:34
  So you know, in in Europe there are re badge frontiers as
• 2:16:40
  Mercedes. Oh.
• 2:16:41
  Wow. Then they got the V Bell system
• 2:16:43
  in different. That's so weird to think of a
• 2:16:45
  Mercedes driving around. That's a fucking frontier.
• 2:16:47
  And it's a frontier. That's just bad ass though in
• 2:16:49
  my. Opinion I'd be like I bought the
• 2:16:51
  ugliest fucking interior Mercedes but.
• 2:16:54
  Your truck ain't breaking. Yeah, true.
• 2:16:55
  It's not, it ain't. You can't.
• 2:16:57
  You can't break one of them. Yeah, it's like.
• 2:17:00
  I'm telling I stand behind it. Frontier's a badass truck it
• 2:17:03
  might be. Ugly.
• 2:17:04
  But those trucks? Are they might be ugly?
• 2:17:07
  Those trucks are Nissan probably has the best rear wheel drive
• 2:17:11
  transmission yes on the market. Oh, that too.
• 2:17:14
  Yeah, yeah. Besides the CD0 Zizer, but yeah
• 2:17:18
  I. Don't know about that.
• 2:17:18
  We don't talk about that. Yeah.
• 2:17:21
  CD000. Any automatic rear wheel drive
• 2:17:25
  transmission? Yeah, no, I'm good.
• 2:17:26
  But also the Z transmission is good too, I mean everyone uses
• 2:17:29
  it. Yeah, the the seven speed or you
• 2:17:32
  know, not the automatic, but the manual.
• 2:17:34
  Like everyone, yeah, everyone uses that in other cars.
• 2:17:35
  I mean, you got one, right. So yeah, I mean, they they make
• 2:17:39
  some good stuff. But least favorite job to do on
• 2:17:43
  ABQ power? Last question.
• 2:17:45
  What can Nissan do? Yes, yeah, I want to hear Nix
• 2:17:47
  opinion. On it.
• 2:17:47
  They need to bring back all the real Dr. Infinitis and stop with
• 2:17:50
  this CBT. Was it VC turbo?
• 2:17:53
  Shit like bring back the FX truck.
• 2:17:55
  Where's my Q50? Where's the Q60?
• 2:17:58
  The. FX was such a badass.
• 2:18:00
  Dude the fact that they kept going with the Murano and didn't
• 2:18:04
  keep the the FX truck, it's like bro you had a ASUV.
• 2:18:10
  I didn't realize they got rid of that thing so.
• 2:18:12
  There there was a variant of the FX that you got a 5 liter VA
• 2:18:17
  with four wheel steering. Oh wow, I don't want any of
• 2:18:20
  that, no. It was.
• 2:18:23
  It was good. The normal FX had a VQ.
• 2:18:25
  That was the best thing about it.
• 2:18:26
  It was like a VQ and the lights were so small that she looked
• 2:18:31
  sick. I'm sorry it was a 5 point O
• 2:18:33
  liter twin intake Vivel. It had like 420 horsepower.
• 2:18:38
  It was. It was fast.
• 2:18:39
  It was. It is fast.
• 2:18:41
  What was badass? What year was that?
• 2:18:43
  Dude it was a rare car. Things like 4-9 to 12.
• 2:18:46
  Yeah, something early on. So instead of those cars, now
• 2:18:49
  they have that Mercedes thing or they just have nothing.
• 2:18:51
  The Mercedes is gone now. They actually.
• 2:18:53
  Well I remember they were gonna they said they were bringing
• 2:18:56
  back the FX style with the QX55, but that ended up being a front
• 2:19:00
  wheel drive CVTVC turbo. Where's the S 16?
• 2:19:04
  Yeah, what about that? Good question.
• 2:19:06
  Wait, what are you doing maybe now with the this new CEO,
• 2:19:10
  younger minded CEO? Yeah, dude, it's been a while.
• 2:19:13
  I'm pretty sure the BRZ, the FRS there, I think those cars are
• 2:19:16
  selling pretty well. Like what are we?
• 2:19:18
  What? Are they?
• 2:19:18
  They have nothing else to compete with, right?
• 2:19:20
  Now, yeah, like I, I don't get it.
• 2:19:23
  I feel like it's a good time, especially since since their
• 2:19:25
  sports car right now is fucking $50,000 or whatever it is.
• 2:19:28
  Dude, you're lucky if you could buy a fucking Z for 50,000.
• 2:19:31
  They start at 40 something. The space model though like you
• 2:19:33
  get like. Dude imagine they came out with
• 2:19:35
  an S 16 and it didn't look like shit and they had like even if I
• 2:19:38
  don't care if I don't want it to be a high, but even if it was
• 2:19:42
  like. I'd be so scared that it would
• 2:19:45
  come out looking ugly like shit. Yeah, I know it's scary.
• 2:19:48
  I guess when I'm buying the Toyota 10 out of 10 times.
• 2:19:51
  Bro that new GR86. Bro yeah if it's turbo now to
• 2:19:55
  the next one if it's. That one's turbo fingers.
• 2:19:58
  Crossed they put that three cylinder turbo in that fucking
• 2:20:00
  new GR86. That's what I'm hoping for.
• 2:20:03
  Then Frankie's buying us too. That would be that would be
• 2:20:06
  cool. I just don't I don't get the
• 2:20:07
  whole like so we we had AGR Corolla in the shop the other
• 2:20:11
  day and I was like, this is a nice ass car and they actually
• 2:20:15
  made it. Why don't they actually make the
• 2:20:17
  other ones like like the supra? That was a joke.
• 2:20:21
  Like that was fucking embarrassing.
• 2:20:23
  And then the the FRS I'm like looking under there.
• 2:20:26
  I'm like, this is a fucking Subaru.
• 2:20:27
  Yeah, everything. To me, it's like a Subaru.
• 2:20:30
  Yeah, it's a nice car. The GRE 6 is a nice car but I
• 2:20:34
  don't know. This is weird.
• 2:20:35
  S16 is needed. That was one of the questions in
• 2:20:37
  here. What's your opinion on 100 men
• 2:20:40
  versus one gorilla? Who would win?
• 2:20:46
  I need Brian's take on this. I don't even know, bro, that
• 2:20:49
  gorilla's going to fuck everybody up.
• 2:20:51
  You think? I think so.
• 2:20:52
  Yeah. Well, I'll depends what gorilla,
• 2:20:54
  but I think I don't know. Gorilla's ain't going to die.
• 2:20:57
  How you going to kill it if there's weapons involved?
• 2:20:58
  No. Yeah, a human ain't winning.
• 2:21:01
  But with 100 of them. Still ain't winning.
• 2:21:04
  You think I just throw them off? The first one dies.
• 2:21:06
  He's gonna smack five with one one slab.
• 2:21:09
  Yeah. You had 95 second slab, you're
• 2:21:12
  85, so it's light. The first human dies from that
• 2:21:17
  gorilla and the other 99 humans will be like.
• 2:21:21
  Yo. I don't know about this one
• 2:21:24
  because we're smarter than that. Well they always say the the 1st
• 2:21:28
  10 to 20 people are just going to be cannon fodder and then the
• 2:21:31
  other ones are going to get. On ponds.
• 2:21:33
  Yeah. And then the other they just
• 2:21:34
  gotta like swarm them. 100 people you can encase a gorilla
• 2:21:38
  if you all like human chain like this.
• 2:21:40
  Yeah. But it's, I don't know, it's a
• 2:21:42
  hard one for me. I don't know.
• 2:21:43
  Bro gorillas got like the way we got strength in our feet is in
• 2:21:47
  their arms. Yeah, they're, they're insane.
• 2:21:49
  You're going to get not smacked, but kicked into the you're going
• 2:21:52
  to get kicked in the face. Chris, what do you think?
• 2:21:54
  What's the environment you're fighting at?
• 2:21:56
  The environment that's important, the fucking, the
• 2:22:01
  fucking Lincoln Tech parking lot, Yeah.
• 2:22:03
  The parking lot. Miyagi wins.
• 2:22:05
  Gigi's chat. If it's if it's Miyagi's in
• 2:22:08
  there, yeah, we're good. I.
• 2:22:12
  Don't know. I don't know, dude.
• 2:22:13
  How big is the? Gorilla.
• 2:22:14
  It's full size. I act.
• 2:22:17
  Like a goat and I just act like I'm dead.
• 2:22:19
  Malcolm, what do you think? Leave me alone.
• 2:22:24
  Honestly, I think the humans are winning. 100 rich one.
• 2:22:27
  Yeah, yeah, humans. All right, all.
• 2:22:34
  Right. Cool.
• 2:22:36
  Oh, this is Wags. How often do dealer mechanics
• 2:22:38
  not complete the service they were paid to do correctly?
• 2:22:43
  I think we kind of covered that. So basically another point,
• 2:22:46
  another rephrasing the question. How often do we not do
• 2:22:50
  multipoints? How often do dealer mechanics
• 2:22:53
  not complete the service they were paid to do correctly?
• 2:22:55
  Or you're saying multipoints? Yeah, you know.
• 2:22:57
  Like customer comes in and does like, you know, they want to do
• 2:22:59
  like A30K or something like that.
• 2:23:02
  Fuck, I can't add to this. I say you.
• 2:23:08
  Look at Tesla. I'm gonna go with that does
• 2:23:10
  happen. It does happen and it's and it's
• 2:23:14
  more a time crunch issue. I feel it's more you know, the
• 2:23:20
  the customer wants it done or the advisor wants it done and
• 2:23:23
  the time frame and what you need it done alongside other other
• 2:23:27
  task. You just you have to make it
• 2:23:30
  work. You know why I think he's asking
• 2:23:31
  this? Because he brought us his
• 2:23:32
  Cadillac to do a trans flush the other day.
• 2:23:35
  And apparently if you don't flush it correctly, like there's
• 2:23:38
  still metal in there and the trans is a GM and I like.
• 2:23:41
  That's your first problem. Yeah, but.
• 2:23:44
  Pull the filters or whatever out.
• 2:23:46
  He said when we did it, it felt better, but when they did it the
• 2:23:49
  first time it felt exactly the same.
• 2:23:52
  Well, yeah, you know, a real transmission flush and you know,
• 2:23:56
  for any car is you're gonna, you want to pull the line off the
• 2:23:59
  cooler and run the car. Yeah, because that's going to
• 2:24:02
  get everything out of the radiator, the transmission, the
• 2:24:06
  torque converter, which holds most of it.
• 2:24:08
  Yeah, I think, I think him having it done twice is what
• 2:24:10
  really helped it. Yeah, that's the way I did it, I
• 2:24:14
  mean. I got a story for you.
• 2:24:16
  I was doing A at Bergenfield Nissan.
• 2:24:20
  I was doing like a like A30K or something like that.
• 2:24:22
  You. Just did the oil change.
• 2:24:24
  I did the oil. No, I did the oil change and
• 2:24:25
  then there was a brake flush on there.
• 2:24:27
  Oh, no, no, it was not 30K. It was like a 60 or 75, but I
• 2:24:30
  had to do a brake flush. I go grabbed the machine.
• 2:24:33
  Massey called me. What are you doing?
• 2:24:37
  I got to do a brake flush. Nah.
• 2:24:38
  Empty the reservoir and fill it up.
• 2:24:41
  All right. And that's the shot form the.
• 2:24:43
  Shot form is yeah just empty the reservoir, spray weight with
• 2:24:46
  some spray 9 brake plane and put.
• 2:24:48
  The fluid in. Yep.
• 2:24:51
  So it depends on the dealer you go to and depends on if you know
• 2:24:54
  people. Probably the dealer.
• 2:24:57
  Is setting in. But you but you also can't go to
• 2:24:59
  the dealership, say you want a 90K or whatever the case may be,
• 2:25:02
  whatever you want mad upsells on your car.
• 2:25:05
  It's like, yeah, I want all this done to my car.
• 2:25:07
  It's 9:00 in the morning, but I got AI got a doctor's
• 2:25:10
  appointment at 10:30. Oh yeah, that's on you then,
• 2:25:13
  yeah. No, it's going to get done, I
• 2:25:16
  guarantee it. Is that brake flux going to be
• 2:25:19
  done? Is that cooling flux going to be
• 2:25:22
  done? Is that transfer was going to be
• 2:25:23
  done? Yeah, it was done.
• 2:25:25
  All right, yeah, we changed the air filter.
• 2:25:26
  You know my little stickers on the BG, put them to the side.
• 2:25:29
  I get paid on them but. Yeah, we changed the air filter.
• 2:25:32
  But you can't. You can't just assume you're
• 2:25:34
  going to get mad work done and you're rushing the tech to get
• 2:25:37
  it done at a certain time. I think as a flat rate tech you
• 2:25:40
  got to do what you got to do to get paid.
• 2:25:42
  Let's. And that's what kind of ruins
• 2:25:45
  the whole dealership thing for the for the customers and for
• 2:25:49
  the mechanics. So you know the flat rate thing,
• 2:25:51
  the flat rate fly rate needed to be changed fucking 40 years ago
• 2:25:55
  and it still hasn't been changed.
• 2:25:56
  Flat rate will literally make you or break you.
• 2:25:58
  Yeah, I mean the guarantee thing does help.
• 2:26:00
  Or you just going to suffer. Yeah, you literally going to
• 2:26:03
  suffer, which you might not suffer, but you're going to
• 2:26:05
  suffer because you're going to have no money.
• 2:26:07
  Yeah, it's not for the weak. You know, you have.
• 2:26:11
  You have to not only work fast, but it's got to be correct.
• 2:26:15
  Yeah, because if you mess something up, then, hey, guess
• 2:26:16
  what? Now you're fixing this car and
• 2:26:18
  you're not getting paid on it. And if your dealership is, you
• 2:26:22
  know, really like a bunch of assholes about comebacks and
• 2:26:26
  stuff like that, Oh, you know what?
• 2:26:27
  Whatever parts you got to use now, it's coming out of your
• 2:26:30
  check. And they'll make you pay for it.
• 2:26:32
  Yeah, some places will do that. Well, we're going to end this on
• 2:26:37
  a bad note. No, we're going to end it on a
• 2:26:38
  good note, Carl, you got a book this weekend.
• 2:26:41
  Nope, we're going to save this for a different episode.
• 2:26:43
  Has nothing to do with what we just talked about.
• 2:26:45
  Yo if you work at DCH Honda, my mom services her car there.
• 2:26:49
  Let me catch you doing any of this bullshit we talked here
• 2:26:52
  today. It's a rat.
• 2:26:54
  It's a rat white Honda CRV. Don't fuck with that one.
• 2:26:58
  Do you can't say white CRV, you got to maybe throw a plate.
• 2:27:01
  Number. No, I'm not going to.
• 2:27:02
  Because it probably is going to happen and it probably has
• 2:27:04
  happened to her. Unfortunately, she's the type of
• 2:27:06
  customer where that would probably happen to her.
• 2:27:09
  And it sucks because it's it's really has happened.
• 2:27:12
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fuck and.
• 2:27:14
  You know, I, I'll tell you, you know, working, working as long
• 2:27:17
  as I've been in the dealerships, we definitely do our best to
• 2:27:21
  keep everything on the up and up.
• 2:27:23
  But you're going to have your bad apples out there who are
• 2:27:25
  just going to want a flat rate and all they care about is their
• 2:27:28
  their paycheck at the end of the week.
• 2:27:30
  Yeah, they're not viewing the cars.
• 2:27:31
  They're they're not viewing the cars and and you know what, I
• 2:27:34
  respect that. You want to get paid, cool, but
• 2:27:36
  at least have the respect in the industry to do it right.
• 2:27:42
  And on that note, I've. Heard of technicians just they
• 2:27:45
  wanted, they said they do tire rotation and they'll like swap
• 2:27:49
  the center caps or the hubcaps. Yeah, that kind of lazy.
• 2:27:55
  Shit, that's bad. Yeah, just for the fact that
• 2:27:57
  customers mark their tires. I love when customers mark their
• 2:28:00
  tires. I had a customer mark their
• 2:28:02
  hubcaps. They, they marked their hubcaps
• 2:28:05
  and I said, well, you don't need a tire rotation.
• 2:28:07
  They said, well, I'm paying for it.
• 2:28:09
  So I, I took off the hubcaps and rotated them just just to make
• 2:28:13
  them feel better. You know, they wanted to put,
• 2:28:15
  you know. You're just like, you literally
• 2:28:17
  don't. Need, yeah, more worn tires in
• 2:28:20
  their drive wheels. Yeah.
• 2:28:22
  You know, you don't need a rotation.
• 2:28:24
  You know, if you want to spend the money, do it.
• 2:28:25
  Something else. Hey, you need a filter.
• 2:28:27
  You need this. But they were headstrong about
• 2:28:30
  getting the tire rotation. I said OK, cool.
• 2:28:32
  And I took off the four help caps and rotated them because
• 2:28:36
  the car didn't need a rotation. I was just wanted him to just
• 2:28:40
  stop bitching. Yeah.
• 2:28:41
  I mind fucked the customer once they marked the tires with like,
• 2:28:45
  I don't know, I guess Poly tire, tire chalk, but that's what I
• 2:28:48
  used. So they marked each four of them
• 2:28:51
  on the inner side of the tire, like the dash, dash, dash, dash.
• 2:28:56
  So I rotated them, still did the rotation and I added two more
• 2:28:59
  dash. So it was like 1 dash and I
• 2:29:00
  added two next to them. So now they had all had three
• 2:29:03
  dashes. They got the car back and
• 2:29:05
  they're like, oh, you know, your tech didn't rotate my tires.
• 2:29:08
  And I was just like, I actually rotated your tires and I was
• 2:29:11
  like, how, you know, I didn't rotate.
• 2:29:12
  He's all because I have a dash on them.
• 2:29:13
  Just like, yeah, you have one. I gave you two more.
• 2:29:17
  And if you don't believe me, you can ask my manager to show you
• 2:29:19
  the camera that I rotated. But this, the whole tire marking
• 2:29:23
  thing, I get. I guess you know you've been
• 2:29:25
  fucked somewhere else, but you're not going to catch me
• 2:29:29
  with that. But I.
• 2:29:31
  I give them. Everybody, yeah.
• 2:29:33
  Give them the the credit for actually laying down on the
• 2:29:36
  floor, getting inside the tire and putting a dash mark on the
• 2:29:42
  entire on the. Could have just rotated your.
• 2:29:44
  Tire this psychotic work you could have.
• 2:29:46
  Just done that yourself. Did you get a Jack?
• 2:29:48
  Take off 1 tire, boom swap and you could have just done your
• 2:29:50
  tire rotates 1. Thing that like just mark it on
• 2:29:52
  the outside. This guy went the extra mile,
• 2:29:54
  yeah. And all four of them were all
• 2:29:57
  four of them were on the inside of the tire.
• 2:30:00
  This is this is cute. Well, I've been wanting to do
• 2:30:02
  this for a while, so I'm glad we finally did it.
• 2:30:04
  And I feel like we've been trying to do this for like over
• 2:30:05
  a year. But I think there's a lot of
• 2:30:08
  great information this podcast and thank you guys for coming.
• 2:30:10
  Yes, Sir, thank you. And hopefully we do it again
• 2:30:12
  another time sometime, see if you guys are still working by
• 2:30:15
  the time we we get back. Yeah, for real now.
• 2:30:18
  There's going to be no card, there's going to be no dealers.
• 2:30:20
  Left just for the record, you all said you would do it again.
• 2:30:24
  I, I would do it again. I I'd do it again.
• 2:30:26
  Yeah, we all heard that so. I think that if.
• 2:30:29
  I get rich between now and when you want to do this next
• 2:30:32
  podcast, you know. You're going to be out.
• 2:30:34
  I just need to experience hourly rate.
• 2:30:36
  Yeah, I would love to be hourly. That's.
• 2:30:39
  I know that's what Nick is right now.
• 2:30:41
  Flat rate is you start losing hair bro.
• 2:30:45
  That'll be the next conversation that we come back to.
• 2:30:47
  We'll do flat rate versus hourly.
• 2:30:49
  That's the first conversation. Yeah, I.
• 2:30:50
  Think that LTI route is. Yeah, I know you don't agree
• 2:30:55
  with that. Yeah, I know a bunch of
• 2:30:57
  bullshit. You just got to go hang out with
• 2:30:59
  somebody who went to Lt. As long as you can get your foot
• 2:31:01
  in the door. Which was Chris.
• 2:31:02
  Chris would trickle down that information to me.
• 2:31:04
  Yeah. Where All right, let's.
• 2:31:07
  Go eat. All right guys, this has been
• 2:31:09
  another episode. Thank you for tuning in.
• 2:31:13
  Enjoy. We're going to crack this book
• 2:31:14
  open on the next. One next, one final bout.
• 2:31:17
  Matt Geggie's Cardiac Arrest Final bout World Tour book.
• 2:31:21
  We're going to go check that out on the next one.
• 2:31:22
  Sorry Mac, and good night. Peace.
• 2:31:27
  Peace. Whoa, Nissan dealership life,
• 2:31:47
  huh? Yeah.
• 2:31:47
  What do you think about that? Because you were there that
• 2:31:49
  whole time. God.
• 2:31:49
  Bless anybody who brings their car to a dealership.
• 2:31:52
  That's what I was thinking at the end.
• 2:31:53
  I was like, I was like, maybe they shouldn't have said all
• 2:31:55
  that. Like that was a lot of.
• 2:31:57
  That's on them. Yeah, I was like, that's, I
• 2:32:00
  don't know, maybe a little bit too much information guys.
• 2:32:03
  But I mean, it's like anything, I mean, if the conversation I
• 2:32:07
  the podcast, I don't want to hear the chefs in the back of a
• 2:32:11
  Chili's restaurant. That's what I that's the
• 2:32:13
  podcast. I don't hear.
• 2:32:14
  You know what I mean? Yeah, like, bro, I put my ball
• 2:32:17
  sack on everything. I don't want to know.
• 2:32:18
  Like whatever you're doing to my food, I don't want to know.
• 2:32:20
  So yeah, I don't know. I mean, if regular people are
• 2:32:24
  bringing their cars to a dealership, like it is what it
• 2:32:27
  is. Like that's what happens.
• 2:32:29
  That's what it's like valeting your car like you really think.
• 2:32:33
  Yeah, but hey, not all dealerships are like that.
• 2:32:36
  No, not all of them. The struggling dealerships.
• 2:32:39
  Probably 70% of them are like. That.
• 2:32:42
  Yeah, I'd say, yeah, OK, maybe, I don't know, maybe in the South
• 2:32:46
  is different. They're nicer down there.
• 2:32:47
  I just want you guys to know Faction Motorsports is not a
• 2:32:51
  dealership. No, we are not a dealership.
• 2:32:53
  We are no way better so. Yeah, we pretty pretty much do
• 2:32:57
  the exact opposite of. Whatever the hell that.
• 2:32:58
  Comes That's why those guys work at the dealership.
• 2:33:01
  That's there's a reason I didn't hire any of them, all right?
• 2:33:02
  Only Chris was the one at all of them.
• 2:33:04
  No, I honestly, I wish I could hire Nick Bryan.
• 2:33:08
  I wish I, there's been times where I wish I could hire all of
• 2:33:11
  them because they're, they're really smart, but they're just
• 2:33:14
  stuck in a place where they're like, I mean, the pay is good,
• 2:33:17
  they got health benefits this and that, but you know, they're
• 2:33:20
  not working on performance shit all day.
• 2:33:22
  They're working on fucking Ultimas and this and that.
• 2:33:23
  So I don't know it, it sucks, but it's, it's weird.
• 2:33:29
  When I asked them that question, I did not expect the answer I
• 2:33:34
  got. Oh, would they do it again?
• 2:33:36
  Yeah, yeah. I mean.
• 2:33:38
  All of them said yes. I mean, they, I feel like if
• 2:33:41
  they wouldn't do it again, they would be out of that industry
• 2:33:45
  already. And they're all still in the in
• 2:33:47
  the industry. Yeah, like, I mean, I love it.
• 2:33:49
  I mean, I could understand Chris obviously working here.
• 2:33:52
  It's probably a fucking dream, I'm sorry to say it, but it
• 2:33:54
  probably is. And Eddie I can understand cuz
• 2:33:59
  he's, you know, he's a basically a foreman so he's getting paid a
• 2:34:01
  lot of money. Nick and Brian was the one that
• 2:34:04
  I wanted to hear cuz Brian's had to experience working at other
• 2:34:06
  jobs. Yeah, he he stopped the
• 2:34:08
  dealership life for a minute, worked at FedEx and then went
• 2:34:11
  back. Yeah, to the.
• 2:34:12
  So he got a taste of like union fucking off at work.
• 2:34:16
  You barely couldn't at work, you know, this and that.
• 2:34:19
  And he still was like, I also think once once you get into the
• 2:34:23
  dealer like like Bryant, Brian has way too much fun at work.
• 2:34:26
  He has to, he's like, he's a character.
• 2:34:28
  So like when you're surrounded by people and you'll have that
• 2:34:31
  energy, like it's a fun time. So yeah, it's, it's a hard life
• 2:34:35
  decision to make, But I think if you guys are looking for a
• 2:34:39
  career choice, I I don't think it's a bad one.
• 2:34:41
  Yeah. Some of the best jobs I ever had
• 2:34:43
  in my life were at car dealerships for sure.
• 2:34:45
  And if you, if you love being a McKenna, you're going to find
• 2:34:48
  the place that you're going to feel the most comfortable and
• 2:34:52
  feel like it's your home, you know?
• 2:34:54
  And you can always change what you do at a dealership.
• 2:34:57
  Yeah. Like, if you're like, you know
• 2:34:58
  what, I kind of want to become a service writer.
• 2:35:01
  Someone is probably going to be like, you know, if you're, if
• 2:35:03
  you're actually competent and good at your job, they're
• 2:35:06
  probably going to be like, oh, yeah, we'll start training you.
• 2:35:08
  If you're trying to get out of this and you're thinking about
• 2:35:10
  leaving, we'll we'll start training you to be a service
• 2:35:12
  advisor. Yeah, there's a lot of room for
• 2:35:14
  growth at a dealership. Or you could sell cars and do
• 2:35:16
  coke in the bathroom. You know, and yeah, make, you
• 2:35:19
  know, $150,000. Yeah, or nothing.
• 2:35:22
  Or nothing, you just spent it all on coke.
• 2:35:24
  Or just depends on the season? You know, sold one car this
• 2:35:27
  month. Yeah, just make sure you're
• 2:35:30
  wherever you're going to make sure it's a good dealership with
• 2:35:32
  a good reputation. And that's pretty much all the
• 2:35:34
  advice I got for you on that. But just so you guys know, Jesus
• 2:35:38
  and Brian did race after this podcast.
• 2:35:41
  We saw it in real time and Brian smoked his ass so.
• 2:35:46
  That was a sick race. But Jesus, Jesus would not
• 2:35:51
  agree. So I think it's going to be
• 2:35:53
  another rematch. Eventually, yeah, they need a
• 2:35:54
  rematch. They need to get on on the
• 2:35:57
  tarmac strip. Guys, if you haven't heard we
• 2:36:02
  are doing a Thrash Racing seat giveaway for the month of April.
• 2:36:07
  What this means is every $5 spent on the website gets you
• 2:36:09
  one entry and any faction merchandise products gets you
• 2:36:13
  double entries. So, and this isn't just a thrash
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  racing seat we have in stock, this is if you want a special
• 2:36:19
  order 1, you can special order 1.
• 2:36:21
  You know there's some left in California I just heard today.
• 2:36:25
  So I got a list of those so you know wherever you want to.
• 2:36:29
  If you want to wait for one, that's fine.
• 2:36:31
  If you want to grab one and get it sooner, that's fine too.
• 2:36:34
  Just spend $5 on the website and you are entered to win.
• 2:36:37
  Yes, like Frankie said, we have a website to order parts on
• 2:36:40
  factionmotorsports.com. We sell everything from general
• 2:36:45
  maintenance stuff like brake pads and rotors to engine mounts
• 2:36:50
  to seals for any senior. I mean all seals for SR20 to
• 2:36:56
  racing seats like crash. So a lot of Nissan parts.
• 2:37:00
  A lot of Nissan parts on the website so we are a parts
• 2:37:03
  retailer. Don't forget order on our
• 2:37:05
  website. If we don't have what you're
• 2:37:07
  looking for on our website, give us an e-mail.
• 2:37:09
  We might be able to source it for you.
• 2:37:10
  Yeah, and if you guys are local, feel free to come in.
• 2:37:13
  We have a, we have a full speed shop here with all parts in
• 2:37:16
  stock. We got a lot of Nissan parts in
• 2:37:17
  stock. If you guys have two 40s and
• 2:37:19
  you're local to us, we probably have it.
• 2:37:21
  And if you have a 2:40 and you're local to us and you
• 2:37:23
  haven't been here, you probably should just stop in.
• 2:37:25
  I heard about some guy the other day.
• 2:37:27
  He's like, Oh yeah, my buddy's got 240.
• 2:37:28
  He lives down the street. I was like, we don't know.
• 2:37:30
  Yeah, what the heck? Like he's just come in here
• 2:37:33
  anyway and just take a look around.
• 2:37:34
  He's probably probably find something he wants or could get
• 2:37:36
  some information from us or you know, just know where he can go
• 2:37:40
  if he needs some help with something.
• 2:37:41
  Yes, I know a lot of people work on their own cars but.
• 2:37:44
  Yes, we have a lot of parts in stock here, a lot of OEM Nissan
• 2:37:48
  parts in stock in the shop. So if you're local, need to pick
• 2:37:51
  something up, come through. Also in stock, we have a lot of
• 2:37:55
  Origin Arrow in the back right now, a lot of fenders for 180SX,
• 2:37:59
  a lot of Type Threes. We've got some S 1486 stuff.
• 2:38:05
  We also have our Origin container coming in July, next
• 2:38:09
  month or month and a half. We're we're, it's, it's on
• 2:38:12
  schedule. For July, we'll see what happens
• 2:38:14
  with that, Yes. So it's gonna be a lot of stuff.
• 2:38:17
  Yes, if you're interested in seeing what the contents is in
• 2:38:21
  that container, give us a call, give us an e-mail.
• 2:38:23
  We'll see if we, we'll see if we got what you're looking for and
• 2:38:26
  you could do a little pre-order. Yeah, definitely want to
• 2:38:28
  pre-order that stuff because we only got, I want to say like a
• 2:38:30
  couple of each body kit, Like, yeah, once once they're gone,
• 2:38:34
  they're gone and they're probably not going to come back
• 2:38:35
  for another few months because it is not cheap to import that
• 2:38:39
  many Origin Lab label parts. Yeah, guys, if you can't afford
• 2:38:42
  it right now, don't worry, a firm's got your back.
• 2:38:44
  We have a firm on the website. So what this means is you can
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• 2:38:51
  So check out a firm when you're placing your orders.
• 2:38:55
  And as far as merch, man, we don't really have much merch
• 2:38:58
  right now. But but good news, we did go
• 2:39:01
  through our merch yesterday. We got counts of everything.
• 2:39:04
  So we will be placing A merch order very soon, probably before
• 2:39:08
  the end of the week. So for those of you who've been
• 2:39:10
  looking for that one shirt that we've had out of stock for the
• 2:39:14
  longest, like that SR20 shirt, we will have it in stock very
• 2:39:17
  soon, hopefully in time for the next big event.
• 2:39:21
  So and that's like that, that's my favorite shirt, but that's
• 2:39:24
  the one that what do they call it when they don't screen print
• 2:39:26
  it? They it's screen printing, but
• 2:39:28
  it's something else. Discharge or discharge, Yeah.
• 2:39:30
  So it's like an extra process where it sinks into the fabric.
• 2:39:33
  Yeah, it's really smooth. It's not going to like crack and
• 2:39:36
  all that. That's any shirts that we have
• 2:39:37
  that we can do that on. We have our printer doing that
• 2:39:40
  right now. So yeah, we're just trying to
• 2:39:42
  sell the highest quality merch we can.
• 2:39:46
  I guess another thing we should mention is we do have a full
• 2:39:50
  service center here. So yes, yeah, guys, if you need
• 2:39:53
  your cars worked on, if you need, Chris was saying today
• 2:39:56
  he's like, I, I need some general maintenance work in the
• 2:39:58
  shop, man. I need to be doing some, some
• 2:40:00
  brakes on a fucking Hyundai. Like I just want to be doing
• 2:40:03
  something normal. I'm tired of putting Sr. 20s in
• 2:40:05
  every week. Pulling them out.
• 2:40:07
  So let's make Chris happy If you guys are local to us and and you
• 2:40:10
  got or you got friends that are that live over here and they
• 2:40:12
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• 2:40:14
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  We do alignments, we do tire mounting, balancing, we do
• 2:40:20
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  to. Wow.
• 2:45:03
  It's like you got to, you know, people fly in their tuner, then
• 2:45:05
  you got to fly in the. Yeah, you got to fly.
• 2:45:07
  Fluid transfer tuner. All right, guys.
• 2:45:09
  Thanks for listening. Thank you guys.