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Ferrari Fridays: The Clickbait Conundrum — YouTubers, Truth-Stretching, and the Collector’s Eye · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Now onto this week's topic, I'm going to talk about something
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  that's really annoying to me, and that is automotive YouTubers.
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  For those of you that watch Tyler Hoover, they actually, I just saw it this
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  morning and I don't know if it dropped yesterday, but they kind of did one.
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  Cause I can't remember the website, but the website did on
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  like the top 10 most annoying.
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  Things about automotive YouTuber.
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  So I want to say they beat me to the punch, but I'm getting more specific in
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  regards to YouTubers that I guess, utilize Ferrari as their, uh, talking point or
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  thumbnail or whatever you want to call it.
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  And there's quite a few of them out there now.
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  Well, I should say.
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  I think it's on April's Garage, his new girlfriend, partner, I don't know
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  what you want to call her, someone who kind of came out of the blue.
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  Tyler divorced his wife and also now he's living with this person in
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  Nebraska or Kansas, wherever he lives.
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  She's riding his coattails to having a successful YouTube channel.
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  Not saying it's wrong, but you know.
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  I'm not sure how far she would have got on her own, but hey, to each their own.
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  They were discussing it, going over the ones, and you know,
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  there were some ones in there I'm going to touch on too as well.
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  I'm not going to get into naming names.
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  I'm not going to sling mud like that.
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  But what I'm just going to talk about is the topic.
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  And there's a few of them that really just annoy the shit out of me.
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  Pardon my French.
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  It's baffling how people get sucked into these things in regards to
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  looking at the thumbnail and whatnot.
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  Cause especially the ones that whatever the title of thumbnail is, has
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  absolutely nothing to do with the video.
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  And it's like talking about hardship or talking about this or talking about that.
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  And it's just like, you get into watching.
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  It's like, it has nothing to do with it.
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  That's not even the topic you're talking about in the.
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  I don't get it, but I'm an older guy.
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  I'm going to be 55 here in another month or so.
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  So my mind works and brain works a little more differently than these.
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  Teenagers and 20 some year olds that these things get sucked into and watch, you
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  know, They want to hear all the loud bangs and pops and people just drifting cars
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  and whatnot We kind of like to talk to the more mature audience people that like
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  to learn about things You know if you go over to my channel You'll see that, that,
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  you know, we hit up a bunch of events.
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  We try and check out automotive people that are building stuff, creating
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  stuff, you know, and get more about their story and find out about them.
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  You know, that's just me.
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  Well, I get a million subscribers.
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  No, probably not.
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  It would have to be a miracle.
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  We can hopefully get a decent amount, but anyways, that's a whole nother
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  argument anyways, too, but onward.
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  First thing I want to talk about one thing that annoys me.
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  You see the thumbnail title screen, whatever I call it,
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  and the person touts out.
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  I bought the cheapest da da da in the United States.
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  Or I bought the cheapest in the UK.
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  Wherever it's at, wherever they're shooting it.
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  One, that's kind of a ballsy statement to say that you bought the cheapest.
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  Because did you really, I mean, where'd you buy it from?
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  I mean, just do a kind of a quick Google search on auto tempest, you know,
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  and find say, all right, I'm going to just have them sort by the cheapest to
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  the highest price and go that route.
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  Who knows?
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  I mean, I'm sure if you do a little digging, you find something cheaper,
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  but again, that just drives me nuts when they, and you see it all the time,
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  I bought the cheapest, this or that.
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  So they get, oh, let's find out what's wrong with it, da, da,
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  da, you know, that kind of stuff.
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  Something that's going to have a high mileage.
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  I don't care if you are, you know, you're buying a Lamborghini,
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  Ferrari, whatever like that.
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  Yeah, it's got high mileage, it's been a good, yeah, you're going to have it.
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  You could buy an Astrovan that's got 200, 000 miles on it cheaply for 500 bucks.
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  It's going to have things wrong.
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  It's just an old car.
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  And it just annoys the heck out of me because you see it all the time.
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  I want to say people aren't creative enough, but, you know, obviously having
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  to come out with content continuously.
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  Because once one does it.
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  Then sure as heck enough, you're going to see multiple ones in the coming
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  weeks, people doing the same thing.
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  Oh, I'm going to ride that one because they look at, oh yeah, they
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  got some, they got all these views.
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  They got all these likes.
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  So I'm going to do that too, but can't do the same car.
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  So I'm going to do something different.
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  They go find something different or maybe they just find the same branch, different
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  model within that brand and do it.
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  That just drives me insane because you buy.
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  And then they just do a few, a little bit of TLC, and you
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  know, then, hey, there it is.
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  It's always interesting, and you see some of them do it, though.
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  But, once that's done, that falls off the radar.
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  That car's gone.
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  It's history.
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  You don't see it anymore.
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  Well, this is what happened to it.
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  You'll see other videos down the road where you see in the
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  background, whatnot like that.
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  It's like, why don't you go into about, okay, now you did all that.
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  Why don't you turn around and resell it and let's see if you
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  made some money or whatnot.
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  Is it still the cheapest?
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  You know what you got into it.
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  And another thing as a side note that also drives me insane when these guys work up.
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  Pricing on it, you know, I'm not gonna get in name names, but you know, you'll
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  have some of them They'll start going.
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  Okay, you know car cost this this part cost that this kind of they are
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  not including a labor rate in Those numbers so they're like, oh look
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  I ended up getting this thing for basically 20, 000 below market what
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  they're going for and I fix it up that it up Well, yeah But how many hours in
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  total not just you but everyone helped you went into doing that if you got?
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  500 hours total amongst you and whoever else is doing it At what,
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  a standard labor rate, especially on an exotic car, 150 an hour?
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  You know, even going on the lower end, 125 an hour?
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  Do that math.
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  That adds a chunk of change to that total, but they just don't include that in there.
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  Very deceptive, and you would hope that people would catch that
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  and realize, well, wait a minute.
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  If I took that to a shop to get everything done, they're also going
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  to charge me a labor rate because these people don't work for free.
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  You know, they're not shooting YouTube channels where they're hoping that, you
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  know, they get 500, 000 views and, you know, they get their ad return on it from
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  YouTube and they get a check from that.
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  It drives me nuts and seeing these guys do this stuff.
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  Next one that really bugs me, now we're going to get into
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  specifically talking about Ferraris.
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  There's someone, there's a very large channel out there, and you
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  guys probably better figure this out.
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  Claiming this is, it's the only Ferrari drift car, Ferrari F12 race
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  car out there, blah, blah, blah.
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  How do you know that?
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  You're just making this statement.
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  Now don't get me wrong, what they built and created is really cool.
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  I mean, they did a heck of a job.
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  And while I should say the one individual that built it for them, that they
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  had hired and brought into it, did a phenomenal job and it kind of sucked.
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  He left.
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  And again, you guys probably figure who I'm talking about and kudos to
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  him though, to go live his life.
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  He, that him and his family, they had, you know, a mission.
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  They had a dream of what they want to do.
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  And then he went and did it, you know, not to say that he won't be back.
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  I have a feeling that in a year or two, he'll be back because
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  they'll probably start to wear a bit thin sailing around the world.
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  doing whatever and living on a boat.
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  I'm sure I can get old after a while, especially it'll be one thing if
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  it's just you and your wife, you and your spouse, you and your partner,
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  whatever, but you know, they got two kids, all this kind of stuff.
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  Younger kids.
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  I mean like that.
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  I mean, who's going to, who's going to homeschool?
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  I mean, you have all these tangibles.
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  I could see us starting to wear a real thing.
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  The guy's got gasoline running through his veins.
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  It wouldn't surprise me to see him back in a year or two doing some
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  things like, Oh, we're taking a break from sailing or this and that.
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  We got to come back.
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  We're taking a break for, you know, whoever, but I can go back to them.
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  They're making that statement that this is the only one in the world.
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  And again, I find that hard to believe, you know, when someone makes a bold
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  statement like that, how much research did they get into in regards to that?
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  Cause I, you guarantee there's someone else out there that took that car.
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  Now, did they go to the extreme?
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  They did.
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  No, probably not.
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  I mean, these guys stripped this down, built the tube chassis,
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  everything like that, and just basically, you know, bolted the panels
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  back on and everything like that.
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  But I mean, it's a phenomenal build.
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  And what he's doing with everything like that is fantastic.
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  My opinion, they're getting a little fake about everything.
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  You know, the content becomes more, you have to cater to your
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  crowd because to their point is overhead, everything like that.
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  And then you got to bring in the money to be able to do these bills, everything
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  like that, but getting a little cheesy.
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  Now I know off camera, everything, these guys are not as enthusiastic, I guess
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  you could say, or not as, you know, I mean, they're, they're good guys.
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  It's just that who they cater to.
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  I'd love to see their demographics on their views or stuff like that, because
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  it's obviously a very, very younger crowd.
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  And.
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  The main people on the channel, they're in their forties.
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  So, I mean, they're not young, but you see what works and then you stick with it.
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  And then I want to say you get pigeonholed, but you kind of got to
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  follow that path because all of a sudden you become enslaved to what you're
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  putting out there on your channel.
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  Because, hey, you know, again.
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  You're getting driven by views and hits and likes and everything like that.
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  So, you know, it's, uh, something to watch.
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  But, again, I would really hope and wish that when someone makes
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  statements like that, it's like, you know, did anyone else go out and look?
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  I mean, obviously we know there's other Ferrari race cars out there.
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  You can buy them from the factory, people build them up themselves
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  and everything like that.
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  There's a likelihood there's another F12 type race car out there.
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  Probably somewhere someone that doesn't splash their life all over God's creation
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  on a YouTube channel But you know making that statement I'm waiting for it to
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  also and pop up somewhere somehow someone says well, I built one I built one ten
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  years ago, you know, someone's line again Probably not as extreme because these
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  guys went crazy with what they built.
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  I mean, it's super cool what they built I'd love to drive the thing.
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  It's got to be a blast Again making statements like that just kind
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  of irked me a bit Are you sure?
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  That's the only one.
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  But again, you know, you're driven by your thumbnail.
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  You're driven by, you know, traffic.
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  You've got to drive to it.
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  So you've got to make something that's bold and makes a statement like that.
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  Next, we are going to talk about someone who, and I can't, she gets tons of views.
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  And now I just said it, you know, it's a female.
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  I can't watch a thing because the way she talks, that just drives me insane.
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  And how many views and whatever and subscribers she's got, I
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  mean, I don't know, it's baffling.
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  But, this person did a video a while back about Ferrari
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  wanting to buy back her Ferrari.
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  And I think it says, Ferrari wants my car back, or blah, blah,
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  blah, or wants to buy back my car.
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  Bullshit.
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  One, it was modded beyond all belief.
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  It had a, um, a body kit on it, all this stuff.
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  I didn't like it.
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  I'm sure the younger generation, younger crowd, they, you know, thought, Oh, it's
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  so cool, but, you know, I'm a purist.
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  But to make that statement, because the dealer, if it was an actual authorized
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  Ferrari dealer, And they bought that car back whenever Ferrari probably take their
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  dealership license away because what they did to that car goes against everything
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  Ferrari is about and stands for it.
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  And if you're familiar with it, they have no issues throwing out cease and desist
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  for people doing stuff to their cars.
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  You know, they're very, very, how can I say this correctly, uh, protective
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  of their brand logo and everything like that out in the marketplace.
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  Making that kind of statement is just, I, I saw that and I actually,
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  I just started laughing hysterically because it's like, no, they did not.
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  It was a used car dealer that deals in exotic cars and that.
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  I wanted to get it back because one, they were going to ride the coattails
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  of saying, hey, we have so and so's old car here for sale, you know,
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  and that's going to drive hit stuff.
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  Now, are a lot of those people able to buy and afford that car?
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  No.
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  But they probably would sell it quick or they might just sit on
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  it for a bit and advertise it and put some stupid number on it.
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  But it would, uh, you know, give them a lot of exposure, you know, so it'd
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  be a good investment on their part.
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  But to make the statement that Ferrari themselves wanted to buy
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  it back, no, I don't think so.
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  And again, it's sad because people will see that thumbnail and see the
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  title and be like, Oh, wow, man, Ferrari wanted to buy her car back.
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  Oh, that's so cool.
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  I mean that tells you right there Ferrari digs it.
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  Bullshit.
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  And again, you know, hey, you can put whatever the heck you
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  want on your thumbnail and your videos, everything like that.
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  It's just baffling though, that people fall for that.
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  Again, they might just want to watch and see the car or what not, I don't know.
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  See the content, I don't know.
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  But, I just don't get it, how someone puts that statement out there.
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  It falls back on you.
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  It falls back on that person.
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  They might have people they hired and work for that person
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  that creates all that stuff.
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  Does their video editing, does all that stuff, creates a
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  thumbnail, then puts it out there.
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  But again, it's your name attached to that.
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  So now this, you know, tag is put on you, so to speak, that, you know, you're
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  making these type of statements, even though you didn't create the statement,
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  you didn't create the thumbnail, you didn't, you know, but you did the content
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  it's tied to you, you're the face of it, you're the face of that brand.
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  So whatever you put out there comes back on you doesn't matter who your workers
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  or bees whatever put up together or whatnot It's gonna come back on you.
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  I'm more cautious about stuff like that I mean, I I just I don't like making
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  weird statements like that And I don't maybe that's why my channel doesn't
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  grow as fast as I'd like it to but I just again Statements like that just
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  drive me insane I mean, and this person has been known to do a few other ones
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  that have just been just so, so wrong.
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  But again, what can you do?
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  It's, um, what people do.
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  It's just, you know, again, it's all about driving traffic to their YouTube channel.
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  You know, it's just unbelievable.
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  And here's the other thing that drives me insane.
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  You get these people, and obviously their family's got just boatloads of money.
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  You know, hey, if they made it on their boat, hey, there's a few guys out
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  there that, hey, they built it from the ground up, you know, and God bless them.
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  They busted their ass, were able to afford the stuff.
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  But what I can't stand is you get these guys, kids, obviously
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  it's daddy's money, family money.
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  And again, they're so detached from reality in regards to, Just everything.
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  You know, they don't know about real world, real life.
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  There's a couple channels out there.
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  There's, there's a father and son.
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  They're rebuilding.
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  I think it's a four or five, eight.
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  Don't have a lot of subscribers or that, but it's, I like to challenge it because
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  it's really cool to see it's a father son.
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  They bought it.
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  And obviously They're not hurting, they don't have tens of millions
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  of dollars in the bank account.
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  You know, they're kind of bootstrapping this in essence to rebuild this car.
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  And God bless them.
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  So it's kind of neat to see that.
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  I mean, that's, I mean, that's me, that's me personally, I guess.
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  That's the content I prefer to watch.
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  Something that again is educational.
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  I learned something from watching because one, hey, someday.
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  God willing, you know, I get my hands on one.
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  I want to know how to repair some of this stuff, because again, kind of going back
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  to my earlier statement in regards to labor rates, you know what, if you can
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  fix it yourself, you can save yourself a ton of money because working on cars,
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  Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsche set, it ain't cheap when you send it to a dealer
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  or just a mechanic or anything like that.
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  You know, again, kind of going back to Mr. Hoovey, Tyler Hoover stuff, you know,
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  he's, he's had a few Ferraris go through.
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  No, he had that 355 famously that burnt to the ground and he made that
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  statement just in this recent video that that kind of really kind of
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  blew up and made his channel take off in regards to it because it's like
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  everyone I guess wanted to see misery.
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  I don't know.
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  Then he has that 456 that he had bought that was on car track, but
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  he bought it from the Middle East or from Dubai or something like that.
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  But it just, I think he's on his third engine rebuild.
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  But what I like with him, what he does, I like, I watch Tyler's stuff.
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  I do.
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  I watch his stuff.
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  It's interesting, but it's kind of, I don't say interesting,
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  but it kind of a head scratcher.
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  You know, you built this big old channel because basically all it is.
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  He goes, finds a POS of whatever, gets it home somehow, either drives it up
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  to, or gets it dumped off at the car wizard, Omega Auto Clinic, then they
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  start going, he fixes it, Tyler comes in, periodically, what you got going
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  on, what'd you do, oh you did this one, what'd you do that one, because
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  he always has multiple cars in there.
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  He shows them the bill.
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  Whips out the card, pays for it, you know, and a lot of stuff's not cheap,
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  but it's interesting because they go through everything right down the line on
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  that, on the bill, on the bill, which I did, I really like to see because that's
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  reality right there in regards to cost and everything that that's what it took.
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  If you bought one and you have actually no mechanical wherewithal.
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  And you send it somewhere and get it done and look at it.
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  Now, hopefully you do a little more research on the car for you.
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  Buy it.
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  Unless you have a YouTube channel and you're like, I bought the cheapest
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  blah, blah, blah, you know, and.
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  I'm just going to go and throw a bunch of money at things and, and do it that way.
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  So, and again, Hey, that four or five sticks.
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  And by the way, very underrated, fantastic car front engine V12, obviously
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  get a factory manual, but you can do a, you know, a swap on it as well.
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  Touring coupe.
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  Very underrated.
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  I ain't not the best looking, but still it's not a bad car, but it's a lot of fun.
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  Great car.
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  Got that.
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  And then he has that Testarossa as well.
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  What is that?
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  Did he buy a 308?
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  320? He's got a couple of them.
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  So he gets these things and God bless him.
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  He keeps cranking them out and obviously he gets other brands and stuff like that.
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  But again, what I like about that, it's realistic in regards to what it's going
• 18:14
  to cost and take to get that repaired.
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  So.
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  He shows it, which is awesome.
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  Do other people?
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  No.
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  I, I got one off topic there, but again, going back to these people that buy a
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  pristine car, they order a brand new one and they were on the list and they
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  got able to get access, dah, dah, dah.
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  And when there's a will, there's a way you could buy whatever.
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  It's just that, you know, you've got to think outside the box of it.
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  You know, those are the other ones that are annoying.
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  Again, no concept of reality, cost, price, anything.
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  Oh, we got 50 cars and we got this and da da da.
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  You know, um, kudos, but there's a better way to approach it.
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  I'm going to call out Mr.
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  Steve Hamilton because he is a great, great guy.
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  Super nice.
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  I met him in, um, Uh, what's his other guy's name in it that helps him
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  and does all the videos with them.
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  I can't think about top of my head, but anyways, that's a guy
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  that built everything ground up.
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  I really like that.
• 19:09
  I had the opportunity to meet them last year at the triple F collections, the
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  event, which sadly, you know, due to their mother's passing, they're not
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  having it this year, possibly in 2026.
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  But that's a whole other story to talk about.
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  Uh, those guys are super nice too.
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  I met them at Moda last year.
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  Very, very nice.
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  Super nice family.
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  The old man's fantastic.
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  Great people.
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  So it's gonna kind of sad to see him go away.
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  But anyway, it's back to Steve Hamilton.
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  We'll come back to Triple F. But anyway, Steve Hamilton at his shows, he
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  actually opens up the cars, lets people sit in them, everything like that.
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  Take pictures.
• 19:41
  You know, there was massive lines for all this, you know, the Pagani he had
• 19:45
  and what was it, the Bugatti, everything like that to be able to sit in them.
• 19:48
  So that is super cool.
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  I mean, that's awesome.
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  That's a guy that knows where he came from, respects it.
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  And look, Hey, it's a car.
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  It's a beautiful car.
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  It's a fast car.
• 19:59
  But.
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  Hey, let other people get that chance.
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  Cause you cannot go into a dealership and just kind of poke around
• 20:06
  and say, Hey, can I sit in that?
• 20:07
  Hey, can I sit in that?
• 20:09
  You know, they're going to be like, no.
• 20:10
  Can you buy it?
• 20:11
  Can you afford it?
• 20:12
  You know, that kind of thing.
• 20:13
  He lets you get in a car.
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  So, which is really cool.
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  So.
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  Kudos to Steve.
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  He doesn't do things where he's buying the cheapest, this, that, whatever.
• 20:20
  He spends a lot of money on cars, that's for sure.
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  But you know, the way he goes about sharing it is brilliant.
• 20:27
  So kudos to Mr. Hamilton.
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  Shout out to you, Steve.
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  Yeah.
• 20:30
  Kind of side note on the triple F guys.
• 20:32
  I don't know if everyone was kind of watching those guys from the beginning
• 20:35
  of that, but back in the day, the family had a. It was a plastics business.
• 20:41
  I don't know if it was injection molding or whatnot, but they built themselves
• 20:44
  a mastic, massive plastic business, something in the plastic industry.
• 20:49
  I don't know what, I never really didn't delve in it too far.
• 20:52
  And they sold it for over a billion dollars to some entity.
• 20:55
  You know how much after that they net?
• 20:57
  I don't know, but they sold that for over a billion dollars.
• 21:00
  I need to take a sip of my diet Mountain Dew, and this is not paid
• 21:04
  endorsement, but I thrive on this stuff.
• 21:06
  You know, it's kind of a bad habit, but you gotta have a habit.
• 21:09
  So anyways.
• 21:10
  The Triple F guys, they decided to start accumulating these cars, started the
• 21:14
  YouTube channel, everything was great.
• 21:15
  They built this, the old man built a massive house, but they already had an old
• 21:18
  house, because they were, they were pretty wealthy to start with having that plastic.
• 21:21
  So they were doing well, they had, you know, some nice cars, stuff like that.
• 21:24
  Sadly, you know, their mom was battling breast cancer for quite a few years, and
• 21:29
  then she passed last year, and it really, really, you know, decimated those guys.
• 21:35
  Going through that myself, but my mother passed away very suddenly back in 2017.
• 21:40
  It's a huge blow as someone that's, you know, obviously
• 21:43
  very important in your life.
• 21:44
  You lean on, you get strength from, you get support from.
• 21:47
  They finally released a video the other day and.
• 21:51
  One of the Frecka boys did it.
• 21:53
  I'm trying to remember.
• 21:53
  It's the older guy.
• 21:54
  Older one.
• 21:55
  About, yeah, hey, they've been laying low and this is why.
• 21:57
  And that they're probably changing direction.
• 22:00
  Who knows?
• 22:00
  Cheryl come back in some shape or form.
• 22:02
  You know, their event was really cool.
• 22:04
  They did the event because they did it to raise money for Make A Wish.
• 22:07
  I'm a big supporter of Make A Wish.
• 22:08
  But you know, they had some really cool stuff.
• 22:10
  Now, they were more of a McLaren.
• 22:12
  Centric with their a lot of their stuff and Pagani that kind of stuff never was
• 22:16
  so much Ferrari We should've been lean more Ferrari, but you know, hey But
• 22:19
  they have a really beautiful four five eight, which I know they love because
• 22:23
  they all said and come back Oh my god.
• 22:24
  Why don't we drive this more?
• 22:25
  It sounds great No, no, and I agree because if you ever have the chance
• 22:30
  Our opportunity to buy a 458, get one, put some pipes on, everything
• 22:33
  like that, that thing is glorious.
• 22:35
  The last naturally aspirated V8 they've created, so it's beautiful.
• 22:38
  But anyways, I kind of got off, um, a tangent here.
• 22:41
  But again, like the Triple F boys, you know, how they go about
• 22:43
  doing it, you know, like they're doing their events, it's great.
• 22:45
  So, there's people out there that do it correctly, they don't try and
• 22:48
  bait you, but again, it's clickbait.
• 22:50
  It's getting these people to watch your video, that's what you want.
• 22:53
  It just drives me nuts with what a lot of these people do in regards to, cause
• 22:57
  it's just a lie, it's a blatant lie.
• 23:00
  misinformation, whatnot.
• 23:02
  But again, you got to get people to watch your videos, right?
• 23:05
  Anyway, I'm going to sign off here for this week's episode.
• 23:08
  Uh, hope you enjoyed it.
• 23:09
  I know I kind of just babbled about things.
• 23:11
  It was more about venting and about people just on YouTube that
• 23:15
  just make blatant, stupid lies in regards to making statements.
• 23:20
  And I'm sure you'll figure out ones I was speaking about that I didn't name drop.
• 23:24
  But it is what it is.
• 23:25
  But again, guys really appreciate you listening.
• 23:27
  Stay tuned.
• 23:28
  Have another episode next week.
• 23:29
  Don't know yet what I'm going to talk about.
• 23:31
  A lot of interesting stuff going on in the collector car market in regards to higher
• 23:35
  end stuff, race cars, what have you.
• 23:37
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• 23:38
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