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Episode 91

Episode 91 – Joe Diehl & Jeff Squier on Military Service, NEPA Street Scene, PTSD & Future Plans

January 2, 2026

Episode 91 is a 2-hour-35-minute casual conversation with Joe Diehl and Jeff Squier, founders of NEPA Street Scene – the inclusive Northeast PA car enthusiast community that's been bringing people together since 2012 for shows, meets, cruises, and charity events.Joe shares his military journey starting at 17 in 2001 (just before 9/11), deployments, injuries, and dealing with PTSD. The episode covers building NEPA Street Scene, the passion for cars, mental health advocacy, tech interests, and p...

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I'm right

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beside a hearts open fire will never tire.

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We gonna come fly.

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I will fly.

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Questions that the one that I sent you.

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I like how you guys come here.

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Well I'm structure the hardest part and.

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I'm so regiment on everything.

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I don't even know.

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Like upbringing.

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I think it was like,

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How soul was always structured.

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But I do believe maybe getting to

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structure was I when did you.

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Get in there?

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When did you get.

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Oh 17 and.

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Did you know when I was 17?

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Oh, okay.

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So 2001.

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Was it after 911 pre 911.

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We're going to talk real quick.

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So summer of no your role

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2001 schools ending.

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Holy shit.

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So I'm a junior.

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College I want to attend.

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However,

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I'm like, recruiter for what?

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Sergeant White was his name.

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You remember the photo?

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I took it, I got a photo with him.

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But anyway,

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he comes over talks.

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I kind of was like, what's going on?

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My mother was like, it's free.

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College. Like, this can help you.

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Let's listen to what they have to say.

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Because the Army.

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For the National Guard. Okay.

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Right over town at the Watchers Armory.

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Never once would you think so.

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You get paid every month, free education.

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You know what I mean?

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So her father so listen to him sit down.

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But there are sign on bonuses.

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And again, his pitch always was.

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No one has deployed since World War two.

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So like.

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All right, you know what?

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You know what I mean?

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So I sign up July 6th.

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2001.

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But it was this brand.

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So when you get basic yet. No.

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This can help you.

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We can you can definitely get to college.

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Money won't be a thing.

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You know people are talking everything.

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Teachers are getting a little nervous

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Yeah.

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Yeah. And you're like, oh my God,

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how did someone fly into it?

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And then tower two literally happens.

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And that white guy watching. Yeah, I'm.

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Yeah, I already knew.

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it's all going to change.

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Yeah, everything you thought.

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And I'm sitting, I'm sinking in my chair.

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It was like, ship out five months,

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And that was awesome.

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Like that was such a cool chapter.

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To further an end that my buddies,

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So they all sign up local.

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We all go to Oklahoma together.

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Wild.

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Then, they were senior, so they came home.

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me and Joe Jakes went over.

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Now, where'd you go?

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Yeah. You know what I mean?

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Afghanistan was hot and heavy.

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I tober 2001, it started.

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So Afghanistan was heavy. Iraq was coming.

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Back. Iraq was 2002. 2003 of March. Yeah.

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So then we're about to get into it.

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I was at tanks when they started bombing.

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Yeah I.

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Like or you really. Spill some for tanks.

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Was the best.

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I mean all my buddies.

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It's just it's,

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Blah, blah, blah blah.

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But then try not to tell him we're out.

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He's like, this is the, the fry go alert.

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has to got away going where, you know.

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But we'll let you know.

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Hey, we are definitely going get ready.

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Six weeks out, we're going to Fort,

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And then we were going

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that's crazy.

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It was wild.

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So that's kind of maybe what stems.

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now that don't that aren't late.

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Yeah.

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Oh, I mean. Never forget that stuff.

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when he went down to visit. Awesome.

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And we were all like, fuck yeah.

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I share that every year on 9/11.

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So Facebook, I have that video.

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You know what I mean?

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Like, I can't hear you and I do

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So how old are you?

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I'm 40. You're. Yeah.

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How old are you? 42.

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I'm the oldest one here. This sucks.

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This fucking sucks.

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So how it so.

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That's okay though.

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got introduced to got to be somewhere.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Was I always that way? No.

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20 years ago, maybe not so much, but,

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I may never get back on track.

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Yeah, right. So what's your origin story?

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Are you West Sider?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, we all do it.

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We all, we all know. So the up.

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Yeah. I'll age myself as well.

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I went to Bishop Pan in 2003.

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You know,

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Where I live on Cornell.

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Okay, yeah, over.

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Over by Main Avenue, by CNN's church.

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Oh, nice.

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for a couple of years and came back.

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it was like, oh, this is what happened.

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Yeah, well,

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Yeah, a great school. And it's like.

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You could see. It.

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Hold on. Yeah.

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Like, I do a lot of political stuff.

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The people who live here get used to it.

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It's true.

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And they get used to it real fast.

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And when I do. Visit, I call them signals.

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No, no, you're right.

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you know, the mayor and stuff like that.

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And it's just, it's, it's it's not

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That's the one we grew up. Yeah, exactly.

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No. It's different.

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Yeah. It's.

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like they're buying houses in cash.

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And when you turn it into that like.

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Like those houses didn't go for sale.

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A family member. Sure.

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But in your family, you know what I mean?

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Like, it wasn't an outsider coming in.

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He was always somebody that.

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Funny story. About that.

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since I got my license in 2002.

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You get made fun of for driving.

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Yeah.

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But if it's.

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A bad.

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If I have something cool within

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a year, it's totaled.

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A guy texted me about three months ago.

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I'm like, sure, what's going on?

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He sends me pictures of it destroyed.

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Is this because people like, just so.

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Don't want to drive?

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Drag racer went goes every weekend.

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He's been doing that since I was a kid.

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He just retired.

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He goes, yeah, I think I'm done.

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And I'm like, this is your whole life.

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he he's big money.

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Yeah.

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mid 70s is like what my dad wanted.

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It was. Yeah.

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It was all like it was like, what was that

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Shit. It's like a famous movie.

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American Graffiti. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So it was kind of like that.

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I know what distributor caps are.

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I know a fucking I know all of it. Right.

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a lot of people.

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Not even.

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All right,

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So don't ask her anything.

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Just look. At her.

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And, you know, I,

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I had a 91 Pontiac Grand Prix.

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Okay. Our car, it was gorgeous car.

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Yeah. You know.

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Dropped. We dropped.

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And that whole summer.

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We were 12.

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To 12 inch Memphis subs in a sealed by.

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I seal it first. Yes, yes.

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I stayed for a love of that platform.

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They're very reliable.

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They're very, you know, just safe cars.

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Oh my God, dude, I got a new car.

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As I got in the car.

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with cars that had like.

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Are you. Mostly? Yeah.

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I work there, okay. You know, the.

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And, you know,

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really have a platform for it right now.

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Car is car enthusiasm.

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Currently now current.

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the street scene

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What? The title was there.

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Baby oil.

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Oh, sorry.

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No, no, no. There. No. Diddy.

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Yep. Baby. Yep, yep. Kind of go.

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That bad boy records.

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That was our first club.

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You know, we we used that.

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We used to.

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Oh it's Kaiser.

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Oh, Kaiser.

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Yeah.

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And you've already been to war.

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Yeah, yeah I.

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Remember

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who are just,

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a grew up and just don't do it anymore.

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And I remember this black

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f body Camaro, loud as hell, pulled

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And I was awkward as hell.

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And then I eventually got one

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There was. Like back in the day.

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There was a. Group. Okay.

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You were part of the founding of. Correct?

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Yeah, I would say that, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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I'll say and we'll get into that

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Mine was kind of the opposite.

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Performance was. Performance related.

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Getting started.

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Drag racing books.

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And just that.

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So just I always remember

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So I always knew cars existed.

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Nag. Right.

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That's all I know. And they just never.

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Isn't that crazy? It is.

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But who did you call?

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So we were doing now.

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Did you do you know what happened. There?

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No, I heard it was guys a right.

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They run up, they run our park.

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Or is it the parking? The. It's.

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They bought.

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You know, I never.

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I was just going to say that. Yeah.

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Hold on.

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Well.

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I'm, I don't think it was an issue.

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I could be completely wrong.

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We're not like.

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Yeah, yeah, but then they, you know.

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They I don't care if they're wrong.

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It was a good turnout.

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Yeah.

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You'd walk around on they Aug.

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you know, circle of cars. Yeah.

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Oh, down this huge dirt hill.

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So it just separated all the, the cars.

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Oh yeah. Where they put the pavilion.

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Yeah. Yeah. So I think oh yeah. Yeah.

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Everybody around you.

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Yeah.

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Like the thing that pisses me off.

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You're pissed at your dad.

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Yeah.

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And it's true. They get rid of 20.

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Yeah, everyone knew him.

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That was just very.

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That's awesome.

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You know, just awesome. Exactly. Yeah.

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where, like, people don't understand

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But but ultimately it's about connection.

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is fading for one word clout.

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Really. Social media on.

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Link in bio. Yeah, yeah. So,

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wink wink, you know.

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And then, you know.

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But it's.

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But that's it.

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All right, bro, you're so right.

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And when did you start noticing this?

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That was the stance world.

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let me go ball back up a little bit.

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How fast can I go?

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So it was never about autocross.

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It was how fast can I go, blah blah blah.

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So weight mattered.

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He was more style than performance.

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So do the early car scene days

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We're having this style performance,

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That was that way.

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It was more performance based.

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Yeah.

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We'd make trips like your car,

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No, no. Had that always always there.

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Some guys thrived on it.

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They're just putting a tune on it.

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They're throwing an intake on it.

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Suspension doesn't matter.

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Someone else brought that up once. Yeah.

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Parts of wish.com or a carbon fiber. So

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real build stopped happening.

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Okay.

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That's expensive.

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If you're buying intakes, exhaust tunes,

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power adders like nitrous superchargers

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What does stance mean?

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You might define a better than I.

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Everyone has their own tastes. Whatever.

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But it's just, you know,

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you've seen these cars

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Just park.

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You know, and the it just

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it's hard to explain if you if you.

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So why why was it called stance though.

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Because the way that the car has.

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Oh it has. Like a stance correct.

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Yeah. Okay. And it's the.

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A better stance. There.

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They're towed out. Correct.

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you know, my, my BRC has. Right.

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You know, I have, you know,

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good, you know,

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you know, from all angles.

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It handles good, handles like a go cart.

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So that's like a different kind of stance.

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So again, you did it to park it.

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But this is stuff from like

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Snoop Dogg videos and shit, right?

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Yeah. Three wheels. So again. Yeah.

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That took over because that became.

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to say I have suspension work wheels.

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So here's him.

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Yeah high performance.

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You know that again could get inspected.

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That's even how the drift scene began.

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So it's easier to build something, even

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You don't just have glass windows.

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Well, no, they only go to events for it.

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I don't think it screwed it up.

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I think that, honestly,

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Yeah, the Coke, the car.

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So I think that's still going.

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Yeah.

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You know, I have my first of.

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These six come out the year I did. Yeah.

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F1 was out.

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Yeah. So I remember going to that.

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So it was already huge. You already had,

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nobody was big.

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What was the big car?

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Car magazine.

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Sport compact car.

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That's a sport compact car.

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and it was like, I need a black fast car.

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I got beat that train coming.

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It was like, I'm buying my dream car.

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still up there.

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And in that world, in that moment of 2005,

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350 horsepower was beyond relevant.

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Yeah. That was something.

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You know what I mean?

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Yeah. Yeah.

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How do I, you know, I remember me.

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this guy Eddie.

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All we were street racing back in the day.

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We're friends today.

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Awesome guy.

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You know what I mean?

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You guys are racing over Market Street.

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That was huge.

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I'll always

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It wasn't insulting.

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We'd even have cameras back then.

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There's no.

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Our cameras were LG, V 6800.

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There's not. That they. Had one megapixel.

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Yeah.

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I'm telling you,

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Any light?

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Why that stop?

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Well, so let's just go. It did it.

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So there was a crash.

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Yeah. So there this is when it ended.

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I remember me and my boys.

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So this must be in 2008 ish ish.

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Had a three valve Mustang GT.

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Right? Right.

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And that was it.

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Like everybody stopped.

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They'd be sitting in the car parking lots.

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Did anybody complain for those years?

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It was like you were done.

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because, you know, like you sell your car.

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But yeah, I'm.

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And I'll tell you, here's why.

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He came down later through me.

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I bought a 2009 Pontiac G8 in, late 2009.

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And honestly, I was

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You know, I get you.

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Guys are surrounded by law enforcement.

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And my grandfather was a cop, too.

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So, you know, it's like I

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Yeah, I. Spent nights there.

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So that was another hang out.

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When do we hang out there?

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Back in the day. 2009.

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I remember we spent a summer there

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And remember, we would go back there.

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Or get challenged.

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A race that was.

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I didn't know they were still doing shit.

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They were like there was.

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Yeah.

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literally like 150 200 horsepower cars.

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Right.

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Yeah, there it is. Is down there. Yeah.

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We would park there right.

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And it was like. Did you like radios?

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No, no we didn't.

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you had to go.

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and we'd be going all different areas.

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I'd be going. Back.

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Yeah, I.

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So it was like it was so much fun.

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So it was enough time to.

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Like there was a driveway as a you.

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Yeah.

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Whether you're losing an inch or a mile.

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You know.

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There'd be like 20, 30 of us. Right.

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Or they're spectators and it's still.

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every single night and the Scranton police

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If we weren't back north south,

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Okay. The lollipop. The lollipop was back.

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So that was back.

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And then you know. We had that was big.

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That was a huge spot to go to.

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So you guys were doing it

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But it's like you look back at it now.

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oh three.

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I don't know how old am I, then? 19.

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But we never had issues with crashes.

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We never had any vehicle issues like that.

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Whether they skid off the. We never did.

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Okay.

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We did. Yeah. Maybe.

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Oh, so. It's not random.

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Yeah.

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It's it could be like an out of state

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Yeah.

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We were parked more towards garages,

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And this guy just,

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by the bank there.

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Really? And honestly, he was fine.

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I'm, I was a little.

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But we always had.

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But it was a little.

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We you should have known.

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There was a Sonic a but.

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Dixon no Kidder Street in Dunstable.

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So when we kind of brought.

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I got out. Yeah, July of 2010.

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So we're down there were doing me.

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You still have the bug.

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Oh yeah. You never say that.

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It got worse. I'll be honest with you.

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So even, like

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean.

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Like, it's only gotten worse.

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It's almost like so.

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I came back to Fast and Furious like that

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opened the I put the spotlight on things

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So as you know,

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The Gateway Days

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came from that

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And that's what started it.

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So then it became a group.

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That was the start of any street scene.

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Any street racing. Yeah.

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And that's how it first was formed.

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That's it. It was almost like.

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Yeah.

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It was event.

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It was kill stories, right?

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It was like, hey.

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Yeah, yeah.

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They used to

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oh, we're doing street street racing.

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And he had stickers and stuff like that.

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It was a form?

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It was an okay, okay.

[00:43:49 - 00:43:51] Speaker: Unknown
Remember old school for everything.

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Yeah.

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Like username.

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Bring them back, please.

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I love that stuff. Right.

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Did everybody know who each other was?

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Mostly. Yeah, mostly. Or you knew the car.

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Yeah. Whatever. Jetta.

[00:44:10 - 00:44:11] Speaker: Unknown
Okay. You know the yeah.

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You know, so that's how it started.

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Right.

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And you know, I some of us have this idea.

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So I'm talking to my friend and and and.

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You gotta remember that.

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Like we set of.

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whatever your forte was. Right.

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And then

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Right. And giant.

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What's it that's.

[00:45:49 - 00:45:51] Speaker: Unknown
That's all it was, right? Giant.

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You know. On Greenridge. Street. Yeah.

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Right.

[00:45:59 - 00:46:02] Speaker: Unknown
And then, you know, the whole lot is full.

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Happening?

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That's a, giant.

[00:46:10 - 00:46:12] Speaker: Unknown
Like you got, you know,

[00:46:12 - 00:46:13] Speaker: Unknown
giant called.

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You guys can't be here.

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And we're like, well, where can we go?

[00:46:16 - 00:46:18] Speaker: Unknown
And they're like, well, we don't know.

[00:46:18 - 00:46:19] Speaker: Unknown
But not here. Right here. Closing time.

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We're not causing trouble.

[00:46:30 - 00:46:31] Speaker: Unknown
Right.

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So guys are Kaiser Garrity, okay?

[00:46:36 - 00:46:36] Speaker: Unknown
Yeah, yeah.

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A hundred cars rolling out, so I.

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Have a video on my phone of that. Right.

[00:46:45 - 00:46:47] Speaker: Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. Filmed on like an iPhone.

[00:46:48 - 00:46:50] Speaker: Unknown
Like like it's like a BlackBerry phone.

[00:46:50 - 00:46:51] Speaker: Unknown
But like an iPhone 12.

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Whole lot is full. Yeah.

[00:47:06 - 00:47:08] Speaker: Unknown
And then I watched I launched the forum.

[00:47:14 - 00:47:17] Speaker: Unknown
So fast forward like a couple weeks later.

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What did we learn that night which changed

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Yeah.

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Can't be cowboys and just you can't.

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Just show up because there was another,

[00:47:43 - 00:47:45] Speaker: Unknown
But after. Pops.

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So we, Parler.

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Brought to you by John Phillips.

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Thank you. John. Thanks, John.

[00:47:56 - 00:47:57] Speaker: Unknown
I did send you an email.

[00:47:57 - 00:47:59] Speaker: Unknown
Thanks, buddy. I'll just send them this.

[00:47:59 - 00:48:03] Speaker: Unknown
So with that being said,

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we got. And you there.

[00:48:04 - 00:48:05] Speaker: Unknown
Very good. That's right.

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And that was a pain in the butt.

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We had to go to the Wyoming Valley Mall.

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So that's the thing.

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Yeah, I get a park in the mall.

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You know.

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Sonic was huge. Like, we huge.

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We planned the Sonic, bring it online.

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We put it on our Facebook. Right.

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you'll see a picture like a,

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You know, where Fkb is.

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So yeah.

[00:48:56 - 00:48:59] Speaker: Unknown
And that's where we all rolled out from.

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Until this day. That's our meetup spot.

[00:49:01 - 00:49:03] Speaker: Unknown
And that's the premium, you know.

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Dollar General zone. All right.

[00:49:04 - 00:49:05] Speaker: Unknown
What is.

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No, no, no, no, it's still there.

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I was like, okay, place. Yeah, baby.

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I don't remember which ones.

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And a buddy of mine's Donald Wilkesboro,

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We're rolling in from Allentown, right?

[00:49:34 - 00:49:36] Speaker: Unknown
We roll into Sonic from Stratton.

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And you can see all of our cars.

[00:49:44 - 00:49:45] Speaker: Unknown
You can see his Camaro.

[00:49:48 - 00:49:49] Speaker: Unknown
Except for one of them.

[00:49:49 - 00:49:51] Speaker: Unknown
Except for Sean's S2000.

[00:49:51 - 00:49:53] Speaker: Unknown
Yeah. Are in the junkyard. Guarantee it.

[00:49:53 - 00:49:54] Speaker: Unknown
And maybe your Camaro.

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I'm still on him to buy.

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Easily. We're having a blast, right?

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Sonic is literally making money.

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They they can't even keep up.

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So we're they're hanging out.

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Right.

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Or was it just 12.

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I forgot this kid in the Honda Civic.

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This is the first night.

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This is the first Sonic. This one.

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Yeah. This is the first big storm. Yeah.

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But this is the first big Sonic.

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Yeah, right.

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Like 50 horsepower, right?

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But he does. Right into a curb.

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Destroys it. Yeah, right.

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That was the end of that, right?

[00:51:03 - 00:51:05] Speaker: Unknown
Few weeks, maybe like 2 or 3 weeks.

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and I send it to Sonic.

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This happened.

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It was unfortunate.

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you know, yeah, you guys can do it,

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The one you talked to?

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Venue permission had them on.

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The mall was the hardest one.

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They were the biggest.

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It sure was. It was.

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We assigned four.

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And that was all part of it.

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only where like we could park 60 cars.

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And then I think it was 2020.

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We changed the meats for two years.

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Quaker steak.

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Quaker steak House.

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Up in Dickson City, the reason.

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And what was his name? Pat.

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Arizona Ranch Wings, by the way.

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I miss the loop tubes. Yeah.

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Oh, many memories with those.

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And they they were so good to us.

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Yeah, they were, Between the venue.

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The drinks, then they didn't have to.

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It was they were awesome.

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five, six people in the building. Right?

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We would have.

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Like the garage doors would open up.

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But we'd be.

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Great because they served alcohol. Yeah.

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They did.

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Yeah.

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And but we.

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And in between.

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How the hell did they go out of business?

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We all wasn't.

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well, we took a break from a bit,

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All 13.

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Yeah, I might have got into. 14 to do 14.

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With his weekly or monthly.

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Weekly.

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Every Sunday night.

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So that's what was so big back then.

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We were overfilled like we were.

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Perpendicular. Perpendicular up.

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That was a great, great moment.

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And I were jobs changed? Yeah.

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And it just came this moment of like,

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And that's where today anymore.

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Or at least somebody. Correct? Correct.

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Then too.

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for lack of a better term.

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Never a good thing. And and.

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Always do.

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You need people. And really.

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If you want to fill every spot.

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We fill every spot. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Like our numbers 200 plus.

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I'm not I'm not getting out of bed for it.

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And so when we host something

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Sonic, I know we have to park people.

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Yeah, because if I leave it up to you,

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Sure. People still not working correctly.

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Which brings us back to.

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That's right.

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So we got to fit them.

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So you have to let us back cars up

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and all we ask is just turn it off.

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Turn it off, because all your issues come.

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You're gonna turn up your stereo.

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Go me. People go look at cars.

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Go take pictures.

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I don't mean that in a in a bad way.

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He's always with us.

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We're going there like we have him.

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He posts all our pictures.

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Like it?

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Yeah.

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You're going, you know what I mean?

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And that guy's just getting like

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It's all right. Glare.

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All that's so hard. In the sun. Yep. Yeah.

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Met Bob at a Sonic meet.

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Here's us driving in.

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And he got one?

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who's this guy?

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My dad's in the media.

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So he's been a blessing.

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So that's all we ever ask.

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But also like, don't be scared to police.

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Others like Jeff

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hear them,

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Yeah.

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Yeah, and it doesn't always work that way.

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And again, yes, it's our venue.

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I that is I make videos every day.

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That is my favorite.

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You can't pull Dan Casey.

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He's on to something.

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That's my name.

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You want to make a Joe Park series?

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I can't believe that you.

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I always thought it was a weird.

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Like it was just like a

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Although you can't park.

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It's incredible.

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It's so funny.

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It's all and people losing their minds.

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Like yeah I know.

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Oh I needed that.

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Did you. Film it? No, I have to start.

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I love watching those. But.

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So what happened?

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you guys just recently started.

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So the thing is, is that like

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Happens, like.

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Life happens.

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You know, I did my thing.

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You know, I moved to I moved to Florida.

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You were Florida for.

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Largest city in the country.

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It is my land landmass. It is.

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It really is. Yeah.

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I was in Orlando.

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I drove there once and.

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Then I went to school there.

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I'm I'm going to be sick all year.

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Dallas. Okay.

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No, it was more of a,

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it was a financial decision.

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How was it during Covid down in Texas?

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Did anyone notice? No, no.

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Life went on normal.

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No it did.

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you know what I mean?

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I want to say in like

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the beginning of 2024,

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Joe was 23.

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I tell that story. Don't it's so.

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And then when we, So

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I think Ford started for 423.

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Oh, I think it's at Ford.

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It started.

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So Thursday night would be the car meet.

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Over over by the Radisson.

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Above? No, above Quaker Steak.

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Yeah. So they didn't live long? No.

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And I thought how perfect cars, girls.

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And, you know, minimal clothing.

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This would be perfect.

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This will sell. As the only way.

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Minimal clothing is the only way.

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Go up there and woman's great.

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She's like, I've done these in new Jersey.

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I know what to do.

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and, marketing was good.

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setting it up, advertising it.

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Well, as good as it could be,

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they put on, like, two bartenders.

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Oh. You can.

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So here we show up, you know, 150 cars.

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What are you expecting?

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To do your. Job. Like expect a big night.

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Well, we give it.

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And they were out of everything.

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So this went on for the summer of.

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And yes.

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So we go on for the summer of 18.

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I think it was every three weeks.

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People showed up.

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Did you tell them like I was going weak?

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You're like, hey. Yes, what happened?

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And I got fucking bartenders.

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Dick was

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We did dequeue for a summer.

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But again, small parking lot. Queen.

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Dairy Queen. Yep. Right by the casino.

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So fast forward to 23, where,

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you know, I say Jeff's job is stabilized.

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Mine is.

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Well, they have a big thing.

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Always been our group is always been.

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And style is the phrase today.

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So it's not locked into a make or model.

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As we were established.

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We'd go down with 40 or 50 cars.

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And I stood there in this like Carlisle.

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Like an hour and a half. Away.

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Two hours by the hour, 45.

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Maybe it's a little over two hours.

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It's not that, but it's on. How.

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It's 81 all the way.

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The largest non

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Like a nonaffiliated. Yes.

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There was one.

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I don't think they do it anymore.

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Motor Club? Yeah. That right.

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And Hyundai was big.

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Volvo was big.

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Like it would.

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I think second place was probably.

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The by Volvo. Volvo was huge.

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And third place was any pay street scene.

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because Audi could be nationwide.

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So we started doing that.

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And no one was together.

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you know, broken hearted.

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As I said,

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Because all he ever wanted to do

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This is the Valley was split up.

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Wilkes-Barre driving down separate.

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No one's talking to each other.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But it goes back to his point.

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It was about the clout.

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It was about I just want to get pictures.

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Always says, rally the valley.

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Rally the Valley.

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Like it's such an expensive hobby.

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Yes. Now, like pottery, you're macrame.

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You spent more money than I did. Yeah.

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Know that's how most people win the race.

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We got to start posting. We got to.

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February of that year.

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My plan was to, I was going to fly

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to Philly, and I was going to rent, like,

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Something silly.

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No orange super.

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Yeah. This is for Carlisle.

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This was our build up of like Carlisle 24.

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We're back.

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We're going to.

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And. Then kick off the pace.

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This is a whole other rabbit hole.

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So instead of renting a,

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Porsche. Right.

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And also with you. Yeah.

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As a Catholic said, lift. Up your hearts.

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Roman Catholics that.

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They went to Saint Anne's growing up.

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Yeah.

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drove 5000 miles from,

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didn't something.

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So. Yeah.

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Mistake one. Right. Maybe. But.

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Oh, you're drifting.

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I'll admit it. I'll admit it.

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You need to, you know, you.

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Duly standard. Oh my. God.

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You start off in second. Yeah.

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Oh my. God.

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Yeah, whatever I want now.

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Yeah. It starts.

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You know what I. Mean? Yeah.

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Doing its thing.

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Oh yeah. Yeah.

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We went on the show field.

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So you can hit the valve open it up.

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Yeah. So it's awesome. It's cam out.

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I had there was some kid next to me.

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Yeah. So he he's revving it.

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Yeah.

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So here, give me some beads.

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I really I rubbed did a.

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Little too high, a. Little too high.

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It was absolutely pouring.

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Yeah. It's on that point.

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Yeah. Gotcha.

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So that's normal.

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And then we had our tent,

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They give you like a full size tent,

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Okay.

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To make this when the party won. Yeah.

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We had a. Blast Andy Tomko two of. Them.

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We had a blast.

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And I for one, I was

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completely sober.

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The whole time.

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100%.

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Yeah. So,

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and then.

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And we had the best hotel that whole.

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It was two blocks away.

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So I find it leading up to it.

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They give a great price.

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For what it's worth,

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we booked.

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We stayed two blocks away.

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I'm telling you, one year old. Yeah.

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So yeah, we try to do it for 25.

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Whoa. She's telling me, I give you a deal.

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I never shut up.

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I almost got fired.

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What does that mean?

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And now there was. No isn't that.

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Now they want it up.

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So now for 25 they wanted to upcharge.

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And it was a two night stay minimum I.

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Think it's a three night stay minimum now.

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So I didn't call them this year.

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Where does it where does the event tax go.

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That's right.

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So she does that go to like build bridges.

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What is that event.

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So it's Hilton's pocket.

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Yeah.

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No, because it was 400.

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Almost a I think it was like 350 for 400.

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You know,

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No one's going to do that. No.

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Be like, come here, this is great.

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So we didn't get it this year.

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But that year for 24.

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Phenomenal.

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I couldn't.

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I rented a little. To no no no no no no.

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Yeah.

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Was the RPM supposed to be?

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Right.

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you know it's a lot.

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Well, he rubbed it and shut it off. Yeah.

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And then so he damaged it.

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Then he shut it off.

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So he never got to hear the noise.

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So you have to drive through the pavilion

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I think. Something. That. Right.

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I thought he was joking.

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We're throwing fuel in there.

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And he's like, so I got a problem.

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So I do the judging, I drive through,

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What am I going to do? Right.

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So I called a flatbed right.

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to see Pop's Auto shop and yeah.

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Hashtag C pop. Where is he?

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He's awesome.

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All that nonsense I did last year.

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You know, on my SS 735 horsepower.

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Yeah, I see pops.

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All capable.

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Of more than that. But, you know,

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and, towed it there

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to the tow was, like $750.

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What do I do?

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Like he cleaned up the build post.

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I bent over bent one. But so he was.

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But thankfully that was it.

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And I got I say, well,

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And I had minimal work.

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Here's the stupid part.

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Yeah. You want to do a cam?

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So that was that was Carlyle last year.

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And you know, I had anticipated

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But I stayed for 13.

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with lots of people.

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I had both my cars up here because I flew.

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This is last summer, right? Yeah, 2024.

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Yeah. So Carlisle opened the door in 24.

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together, go into 24.

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So it still shows people want to get out.

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They want to get together.

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A lot of new faces.

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There's new people coming.

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A guy buy a car

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Yeah. Did you keep pumping it?

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I know okay.

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But so are you Italian? Yeah.

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You you talk with your hands.

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And said, what do I do?

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What do I do with these rookie Bobby?

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The last episode is Eddie.

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He put his hands down here. Yeah, yeah.

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How do I keep these things?

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So yeah.

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And yeah what the beauty of the year was.

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We were motivated and he was home.

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Oh, it's like our supporters, you know,

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Oh, two complete strangers like that.

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They see the stickers.

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or you're doing this.

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You guys are the guys who do the meats.

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He's a guy from Tanners ville.

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so come out with us.

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Driven to. Duty.

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Like what? Okay.

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So explain that.

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Well I said what's the difference

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wanting to also showcase our own stuff.

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You know what I mean?

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So it.

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Was like the shit that you do, like.

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Our cars, like, here's our cars.

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So you're also trying to like,

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and a hub of information.

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like a parlor one advertisement.

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So we have a big base, you know.

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How do you compare that?

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By followers? Just by numbers.

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Like we're almost 5000 people.

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People coming up to. Us on Instagram.

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You know, you see the like

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Engagements for.

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Right.

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The going to TikTok more.

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We're going to branch out like

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We want to branch out.

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and branch out into much bigger things.

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You could be a car enthusiast.

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Come see what we have.

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Yo, you come to Driven to Duty?

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We did over 300. So it's driven to duty.

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Oh, what tell you about that.

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So what?

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We did over 400 cars this year registered.

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Like what Jeff or I would have.

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We have it at the show.

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You love Lamborghinis, Ferraris.

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Bring there?

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A 434 over two, but a 430 and a.

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A few Urus SUVs came out.

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So again, we can give you anything.

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Yeah. No, that's the beauty of our car.

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Shows are beauty of our car

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and what's going to show up. You know.

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That's what brought us success, though.

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So they're not into the newer SUV's

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import scene, modern muscle there.

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However, what's new muscle.

[01:25:08 - 01:25:09] Speaker: Unknown
Like what can I do?

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The Camaro I had was his go to, Cts-v,

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And now that's still an antique today.

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The marrow knew that. Unless.

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They really knew muscle.

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And again that's a 20 you.

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this around the Fast and Furious time.

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there like these things. Fucking sock.

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Back these.

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But these are not like the Chevelle.

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I mean, that

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I mean, I just don't see

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It was just like it was mechanical.

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in its in its infancy.

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They started then other C5 that other.

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Than the 4.6 Mustang.

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But that was a Dodge.

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That was worth.

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And then you see like as time goes on,

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That came back. Yeah.

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Old names Camaro GTO. Yeah.

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However, the last platform that I.

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I guess I'm just a snob about.

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Yeah, I get those older muscle car.

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Dodge Challenger or whatever.

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We're again back to 400.

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Some horse to start.

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Oh my God, here's 707 horse.

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So that's when we say modern muscle.

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It's in that era of. Does it horsepower.

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I just don't like the way car sound today.

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They're all. Turbos.

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Are they coming back?

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I think the turbo they worked they did.

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Yeah. And that's okay.

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I don't think that stuff's good.

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My opinion on it all is,

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is that number one the cars today suck.

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Most of them on the whole.

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Not whether or not to say.

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To EPA stuff's bullshit.

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uses more fuel when.

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Oh, yeah, I'm like, why is this even here?

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Like, who?

[01:28:36 - 01:28:38] Speaker: Unknown
Propaganda, propaganda and money.

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Yeah. So, like, make you believe.

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So like going back to like.

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You makes you feel. Hey, my car shut off.

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I feel like I'm saving the earth.

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You're wasting more gas. You.

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What if you just said stop?

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Like you're firing it back up

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I mean, do you have it?

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Nobody on the dashboard?

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So that's like so again, like, I'm

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That's so. Dumb. Or you can tune it out.

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If you do.

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Like I had a Silverado.

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They had it and you can.

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You're giving a piggyback to the computer.

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You're right.

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I don't like neutral.

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You're not Island a red light.

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no button.

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Oh, gosh.

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It's like, no, it's not like.

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Off right. Off.

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So you know what's here? There.

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and it cost more money.

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Think of the shutdown.

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That's equivalent to what plague GM.

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You think of.

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No, no, no displacement on demand.

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I remember this.

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Well,

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Right.

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And, the I had a 2009 Pontiac G8.

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Right? My favorite car I've ever owned,

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his favorite car.

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In my mind, it was. The best one.

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He had my favorite car he hit.

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He stole the best one I had. Yeah.

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One night with my one ex.

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Pull it over.

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Okay? Whatever.

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Start it.

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So I do the normal human thing.

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And then I do the other normal thing.

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Oh, it's a wire.

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this is when Pontiac was still not.

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It was right at well

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So, I had it flat added to, I in Pontiac.

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I think that you went down and.

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Yeah, you went up.

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into the cylinder. Right.

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Check out the camshaft. Right.

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And this is normal.

[01:32:46 - 01:32:49] Speaker: Unknown
This at this moment at GM General Motors.

[01:32:49 - 01:32:51] Speaker: Unknown
This is happening nationwide.

[01:32:51 - 01:32:53] Speaker: Unknown
Still a problem.

[01:32:57 - 01:32:58] Speaker: Unknown
The C7 Corvette.

[01:32:58 - 01:32:59] Speaker: Unknown
Still still doing so.

[01:32:59 - 01:33:02] Speaker: Unknown
My my buddy has a, a Cherokee.

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Dear God.

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They just don't.

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I mean.

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if the

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So he had to get like an aftermarket. Yep.

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They do that with even Vin numbers.

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Get rid of the EPA.

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They're dollar stupid, penny smart.

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No, we didn't get rid of that one yet.

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But the EPA's still there.

[01:33:53 - 01:33:56] Speaker: Unknown
But it's still penny smart dollar stupid.

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It'll save their lives in it.

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I only know he's eating camshaft.

[01:34:09 - 01:34:10] Speaker: Unknown
It would have cost. About three grand.

[01:34:12 - 01:34:15] Speaker: Unknown
This happened in May of 2011.

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The car was at the shop for three months.

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The whole almost the whole summer.

[01:34:19 - 01:34:21] Speaker: Unknown
The car, I couldn't get parts right.

[01:34:32 - 01:34:33] Speaker: Unknown
Ask him about that.

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Everything get my way right.

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I'm a. Keith.

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Yeah. Kevin. Whatever.

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Karen's husband. Yeah. Yeah.

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Right. Kyle? No.

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Yeah.

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Keith. Probably my kid.

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I have. A monster.

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So I could be a Kyle, but,

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So, I complained up the chain to them,

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Yeah, it's still there. It hasn't moved.

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And this is at item Pontiac.

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Yeah.

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And then a few months, Jeff math.

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in Delaware and ripped it all out with

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It's it's not.

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It is.

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Is it because nobody is there?

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Think. This way.

[01:36:03 - 01:36:06] Speaker: Unknown
Realistically, will you save money on gas?

[01:36:13 - 01:36:15] Speaker: Unknown
I don't know the full breakdown of it.

[01:36:16 - 01:36:17] Speaker: Unknown
But but that's a good thing.

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So think of that.

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Has to talk to each other.

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All the sensors.

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Always. It's always the lowest bidder.

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Are you going to save money on gas. Yeah.

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you could take at the end of the year

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breaks and falls down into the motor,

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It's all that money.

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I saved that gas money.

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So happy.

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I'm, I'm helping the EPA.

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You know, it's just it.

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He's a brilliant guy.

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Ran for state rep. Real nice guy.

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And he's. He's incredibly intelligent.

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As people who just, like, live off the.

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in like the 80s in the 70s.

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so that the vehicle is fuel efficient,

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And who's in who's in bed with all stuff.

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I always yeah, it's always like that.

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It's like if you take that analogy

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why is there all going to break?

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They're going to buy these twice from us.

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So when it. Comes back to us, me off.

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Called?

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Controlled obsolescence.

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That's the easiest way to understand it.

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And that's that's where we are.

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Just.

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Yeah.

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As fast as mine is now.

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Over time it'll be imperceptible.

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So pissed off.

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I think that that just pissed.

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My fridge, that's all.

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Let me tell you something.

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I got married in

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middle 2019. June 2019.

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Everything goes fucking crazy.

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Like 2021, 2022.

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Oh yeah.

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Fuck them. I don't blame it.

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she has a refrigerator from the 1940s.

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Still runs.

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The old saying,

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Know on purpose. So you buy more shit.

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That aside, you guys do a lot of goodwill.

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I was so driven to duty.

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We're doing well.

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Like people are dying to get out.

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We did a few, again meets.

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We donated to cancer 2012, in 2012.

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Right. So how are we going to do this?

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So I made a phone call to my buddy Paul.

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Well, we grew up with Paul.

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Who is that asshole?

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Oh, my gosh.

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He's he's one one of the guys.

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Great as I can be. I love pileup.

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Everyone loves. Well, yeah.

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Wait wait wait.

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Shout to lobby. Yeah. So it'll. Shout out.

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With the win.

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doors, they advertise deathless doors.

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Right.

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Then long. Down by that, down by the, the.

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No Shoprite.

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Oh there's so.

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So now my band used to play there.

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Our old pre Jeff, that was our hangout

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But that was our hangout.

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into the door.

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Well, that answers a lot of questions.

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So that answers it with Ethan. Yeah.

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going to do this?

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My first goal was the armory on,

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oh, do you have street racing hanging out?

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Go back to Wilkes-Barre.

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Yeah.

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But the parking lot is too small.

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You know, you argue.

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But even inside there's it's not that big.

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your footprint gets smaller.

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Yeah. Flat huge. It's open.

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Yeah. Let me let me see what I could do.

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So here's Jeff and I swung.

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And this was the only like basket we had.

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they come back. Yes.

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Colonel Morales, love the idea, dude.

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Let's do it.

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So now it's like, game on.

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Yeah, we had.

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So I kind of made a network of everybody

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who's my boy?

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I brought a bunch of our customers to.

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So we come up with like 30 some sponsors.

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So bring a booth set up.

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But then it's like, need a DJ?

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We got to provide food.

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So it really kind of evolved very quickly.

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But it was really like laying down.

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How do we make people comfortable?

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what can we do?

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Yeah.

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and around.

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So I really found the passion of

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It does.

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So that was one.

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Paul's involved.

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In need. How awesome.

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Not just Pinterest. That's right.

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Like it's it's deal.

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They're all local.

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My guess.

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I went to Joe up there.

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Yeah, I went the other night.

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So it's amazing.

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But then and they,

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So that's how we got Road Scholar and all.

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My dad are very good friends.

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So I, I grew up with this on Pat Duffy.

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So grew up with Pat, his father.

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Knowing the. This was kicking off. Yeah.

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Hit me up like I might have some friends.

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He got road scholar McGrath's and

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Yeah like phenomenal.

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Great family helped us out.

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Again, that's about mental health.

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And there's something else.

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What else is tied to the show?

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Well, Griffin Pond, I did subway.

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Needed toys for tots.

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We've done that a few years.

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Is memorial burgers.

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Oh, yeah.

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They have the, here for.

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That's the pedal car show. Yeah.

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For Kaley penned out.

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That was, a car show out of, Wayne County.

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So it's not just like.

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Rallying the valley.

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The money doesn't come to us at all.

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You know what I mean?

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So we've really shifted our focus.

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It's about showcasing what do you drive?

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This time around since 23 til present.

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26 is Kim and I have been talking.

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I mean, there's so many.

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I mean, we. Had to talk about we there's.

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There's a lot there's a lot on the table.

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Oh, so with the money. That's right.

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getting sponsors on board for stuff.

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Their logo was on it.

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Yeah.

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So we didn't own everybody we've had.

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Again, I'm a customer

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He's done vinyl wrap tent wrap for me.

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One was what?

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I can't believe I was close on that.

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One was like,

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no, what was what, ten months the maroon.

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And so. Yeah.

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Every way we could, you know what I mean?

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where we park

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That's right.

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We don't need to hear you, rabbit.

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We don't need to be great t shirt.

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You know, slide sideways like this.

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You could do the s could be that.

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And the what's that thing called where.

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Don't be an. Asshole.

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It's true though.

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Like I only had one.

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I heard a rum.

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And I'm like, son of a gun. Yeah.

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Yeah. And this guy's revenant.

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So I just go up and, you know, doors open

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This kid almost intercepts me in the side.

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And I said, are you the host of the show?

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He's like, no.

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And I said, why am I said, so?

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Yeah. Oh, oh okay then.

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But it's like, I don't know why.

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Why would you challenge me?

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Because everybody's got to be a gorilla.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. But anyway, this kid did. Hey.

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No problem.

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I'm sorry, but as simple as that.

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Like trying to get a flame video.

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Yeah, you could do that at your house.

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That's right.

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Like, why are you around 200 cars.

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Clowning an asshole?

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That's right.

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It's like, go make your TikTok video go.

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So, you know, 2025 was very successful.

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And the big difference is that,

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you know, 2024, we did a 2024 was.

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A huge comeback.

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Successful.

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I mean, it was just it was our first year.

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And, you know, I remember I.

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I want to know what we did wrong.

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Has to be something. Yeah, it's something.

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Right.

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because again, we've done it so long.

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We've done this so many shows like we.

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Missed this year.

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We started planning the show and

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we know.

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It was late. It was like June early.

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You know, all of us.

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We started planning it back then.

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judging and preregistration.

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It was an absolute game changer.

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I also.

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Built an app on your phone or whatever.

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It was.

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Right?

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You can go and pre-register your car.

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Here's your desk card, how we do.

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Yeah. So he led that front.

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But then my rebuttal was,

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Pre-registration in this area is tiny.

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Yeah. So how do we make this faster?

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in the

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Yeah, I have to do that now. Judge it.

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That's that's minutes.

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Should all be there. Before the judge.

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So I was like

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Because they put the thing in there.

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So that's huge. And it was all paper.

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It was all paper, pen.

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I almost died of heat stroke.

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He almost dead, right? Yeah.

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Because I'm really smart sometimes.

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No, not. So,

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it made judging.

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Also terribly modest.

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It made judging, a lot easier this year.

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Way easier.

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It it it it just did everything for us.

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Like the, the the.

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Yeah. We have. Better next. Level.

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And you mentioned being modest, right.

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I'm it does, it does.

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But I got something up my sleeve okay.

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And then you know talking about.

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Up your sleeve.

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That it that out.

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What is that?

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That was a guy.

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He's, Oh. Troublemaker.

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He's going to these transduction.

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Edit that output. Send it to us.

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That's right.

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It'll go in the group message.

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So, my, I plan on doing something

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Good.

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And back to optics.

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it's like, okay, 20 bucks, fill this out.

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Done. Right.

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name, address, blah blah blah blah blah.

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Here's your dash card.

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QR scan it. Right.

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Registered, they might not be registered,

[01:58:37 - 01:58:39] Speaker: Unknown
And then it tallies all the results.

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So, you know, three, 4:00 comes around,

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It's not like last year

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Yeah, trying to stall right.

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So you know

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Yeah. It does.

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Yeah. On the computer.

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Yeah. It does it for you. It's real. Time.

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But again the beauty was like.

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A computer.

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It did club participation.

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Watching that race, that.

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Was awesome.

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that was, that came down to like one car.

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the winner,

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And so did I. All the way through.

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I it was two clubs.

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The for the, club quality.

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It came down to like 50 or 60 or.

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No, it was a.

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club quality.

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That was a close one.

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And I believe 717 outlaws 7171. Yeah.

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You know.

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But if you bring a lot of fives,

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You know what I mean.

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Right.

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We had,

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I don't know if you know any

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But these guys are old school.

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They brought their laid out many trucks.

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Right. We had Sunset Park.

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Yeah, we had other cars. Club.

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We had. Even this.

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The SUV's from New York came,

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We had Keystone State Studios.

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You know, we had, local guys.

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As always.

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Those guys drove three hours to get to.

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Us, you know.

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And they came in one.

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I mean, that shows how many came.

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So really an awesome showing.

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Yeah.

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You know what I mean?

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like that.

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Bob had a drone video.

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you look at our Instagram, though,

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Yeah.

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And, one more quick shot I want to give,

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We had another group come out.

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Six star sovereigns. Yep.

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North.

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And then we had another group

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What are they from? Boys they've been in.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah yeah. Yeah, yeah.

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Awesome. And I'm not a Honda guy.

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Awesome. Yeah. My God.

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You know,

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I mean that came down to one car

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till the very end. Participation.

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It was awesome.

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you know, running the show

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this is how judge we are.

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And I'm going through like the,

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Right?

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It made it made, you know, the everyone.

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Else does it.

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Everybody else pre-registered.

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My goal with it and my fear.

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So let's touch on this for a second.

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Let's go back a tiny pinch.

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that was successful.

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Was the request that got approved in 24.

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Stayed local.

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The building is owned by out of state.

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Was it, Indianapolis who owned like that?

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Indiana, I think Indiana.

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National guard units.

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So the approval goes out to them.

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We waited six months from December

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Wait it for just a yes.

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We get told no. Yeah.

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We get told no.

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So now we're like.

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We should go out above and beyond.

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And that's where we get told no.

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Like we don't do fundraisers.

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So then it was like, now what? Yeah.

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So I'm one day working

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And I was having a coffee.

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Thank you so much.

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I made a bad joke with Andrew around.

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Like, man, I wish

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And Andrew's like, well,

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He goes, why don't you check it out?

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I'm like, really?

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What do you mean?

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Should we jump in the car? We drive over.

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He and he has this.

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You saw the show. There's monster flat.

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Lot. Yeah.

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But he goes, I could clear it.

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You could use it.

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Really? He goes 100%.

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I was like, so we can't go inside, right?

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So we have to import a johns.

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You want insurance plan? Yes I do.

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So some small tweaks we had to do. Yeah.

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Anyway, so we get approved for Toyota.

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That's how Toyota happened this year.

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We were denied it.

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And Toyota to how long to approve you.

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Yeah.

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You know,

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He was so, so happy.

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So he blessed us with that opportunity.

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And that's how Toyota happened.

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Toyota is also on for 26.

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So October 4th of 26.

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And we have a bunch of changes.

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Mark your calendars.

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But yeah, mark your calendars.

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It's a it's official.

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Yeah.

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We had to jump ship.

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We said we'd get back to.

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Do you remember it got canceled.

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We talked about that.

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What venue did they go to?

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So they were doing the.

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They they came to the armory.

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They canceled the day.

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They're going to McDade for this year.

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That got canceled.

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We waited six months for a no.

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I knew that wasn't going to happen.

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So I made a comment on their thing.

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Something I said, well, also I'm blocked.

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I'm off their page.

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They thought we set it up.

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Oh, we can't do it.

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Yeah, we two got denied.

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So they end up hosting a leader meeting.

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And that was wild.

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So it was a weird meeting, but,

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we had to get a new venue.

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Did you guys get approval?

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How did you get a yes?

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And we did it. Yeah. So.

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But that's how we got the Toyota.

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Oh excellent job.

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I do I'm real excited.

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We could. Yeah.

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So tell them tell tell the world what.

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What's in store for next year.

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No I mean like the this oh what.

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Oh so tomorrow.

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Said I'm excited.

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So I want some benzos

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work.

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So tomorrow as we bring in TJ.

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Very well tell. People what you're doing.

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So like. So.

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So what do you want to do for 2026.

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Dirt track racing.

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But also want to get into, like,

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Right. Passion.

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What got you. Started?

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And I mean, I this was a fan.

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This was I had an absolute blast.

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Oh, I knew we would.

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I think I had my concerns

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Why? It's great. But here's the thing.

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right. I wish I would tell you.

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I would tell you.

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She's like, she's like.

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I met my one.

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At Carlisle, right? One year.

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She's like, oh my God, does he?

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This is voice really sound like that?

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He she dated you. For ten years. Yeah.

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So wait a minute. That bad? Yeah.

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So hold. On. But anyways.

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Pick better bitches.

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Oh, I did okay.

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Good. So.

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And that and I didn't.

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You're probably dead.

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Like you literally need an email.

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That's it.

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Yeah. You know, it's.

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That's all YouTube is.

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It's just a TV channel. Interesting.

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That's right.

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I can I guess that's.

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So you have like

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So like your playlist, your road.

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Yeah. Your street scene. Right.

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You know, I want to do I want to do

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short content.

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I want to do, you know, TikTok.

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100%. That are local.

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I've also known TJ.

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Yeah.

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involvement his

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His OG knowledge of the car. 100%.

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Oh, yeah.

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Not tomorrow.

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But, well, you know what I mean. And then,

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And I feel as though, it's.

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And someone else on the team.

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It doesn't necessarily have to be Joe.

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I mean, it's like you said.

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I mean, this arm was like 30 bucks, and.

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It's surprisingly how cheap.

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So you want to like.

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Get a decent webcam.

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It makes me look not like a potato.

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You know, look.

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Up. Like a sweet potato. Sweet potato.

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Had people come in,

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That's right.

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And the hotter the house of horse.

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You know. Oh yeah. Yeah.

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You can like like if you play it right,

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That's what I'm saying.

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Oh yeah.

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That's what that's what you want to do.

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you know, would you call it the Valley?

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Yeah. It's not just us. That's right.

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And you guys and you guys are just like,

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I'd be huge.

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another takeaway for another

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time, whatever.

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But there's also a lot of.

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True. That's the that's okay.

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you make venues money and you fundraise.

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Because that's the curiosity.

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That's the thing where it's interesting.

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Oh, you guys do this, you guys do that.

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Why do you only do it that way?

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we don't have that problem up by us.

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So this is why we do it.

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DF it's always everybody's got a story.

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Every car club, every fucking.

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Like when we told.

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Like when I used to watch,

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What? There's a story. Yeah, yeah.

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So, like, I.

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Was in that movie with that movie, but.

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You might do an interview with a guy

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like was murdered by a serial killer.

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you know what I mean?

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So it's like there's always something

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Oh, yeah.

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It doesn't mean you have to agree with it.

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Like cars. Cars are like chicks, man.

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You like

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I like brunets,

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And I think in cars

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I tell my dad all the time, my dad, my dad

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he will get.

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Wow. Just about cars.

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Just about cars.

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And they're, they're pretty.

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Sure I got maybe four minutes on me. Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I just don't understand it. Sure.

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And you guys are into something that, like

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many people, don't have passions anymore.

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No. That's the one thing I've noticed too.

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I bought a house,

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I had this one for.

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Except I actually made money on this.

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Good.

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And, you know, I saw the

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the level of passion that

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And it was all it was mostly him.

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I was going through some other stuff.

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I was just getting ready to plan

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you know, pick up where I left off.

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And then we're at Carlisle.

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The one day I think it was the second day,

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because the first day was kind of a blur.

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Alcohol's a hell of a drive.

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And my man.

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Uncle also showed up, Rick.

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Simpson. Oh. He's good. Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah. And, Dad, I don't know,

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Look it up and,

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you know, I just see, like, it's crazy.

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It goes. Back to like.

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So, yeah.

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Big time. Is back.

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It brought me back to berries.

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Screw it.

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Put the tents together, fly the banner.

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Right? Yeah, we did that.

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What crowned.

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Like, do you?

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they'd have to pay for a tent

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or. We are broad.

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You know what?

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You get over 25 people, the tents free.

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Yeah, but it's ongoing.

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They came down and had a blast,

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But they've been doing more. Look at them.

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phase and stuff like that of 20 years ago.

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So when you tap into nostalgia,

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Give it a reason.

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But you got to realize, like in the 80s

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So that car is it's 60 years old. Oh, God.

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I don't think it's called nostalgia,

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And again. It's the environment.

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You know what I mean.

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But again, we're all talkative.

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It's bring whatever, everything.

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Bring your Subaru, bring this.

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Yeah.

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There's nothing to do.

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There's no car meets. This stinks.

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There's nothing to do. It stinks.

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Where?

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Bring your car out.

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Come out with us.

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Meet other like minded people.

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Two in May? Yeah, 1617 or 1516.

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What everybody hang out.

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You know, him and I were sitting

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you know what I mean?

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But also invite others.

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But how do people find you?

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I their social handle is.

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That's another thing I want to improve.

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You know,

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I mean, we're almost at 5000 followers.

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Our. I'm working on

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But, you know.

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No. The sewer is it.

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Well no.

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Yeah.

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Do you want to hear something crazy. Yeah.

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Like 60% of ChatGPT Reddit.

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And do you know who runs Reddit.

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There's like one

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Reddit users

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look into it.

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It's crazy. That is crazy.

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You and I should.

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It seems like you're a pi.

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Old school like troller and stuff.

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Oh, we both were. We still. Are.

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Are you totally.

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We've both.

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We both stopped.

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We've matured. But it's hard for us.

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I we always had me.

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People understand that.

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it is like a friendly ribbing.

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Yeah, it's joking around. Yeah.

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We have to sensitive.

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But I tell you what it is.

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It is. It's always funny.

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They don't think he's oh my 100%.

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I love AI. Great.

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So my point is it's like, let it drop.

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You know what gets me upset though?

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If you can't take a joke online,

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No, you're in a bubble.

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And we've learned this.

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And it didn't go well.

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It didn't, it didn't, it did.

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We had a few, so we had to dial back.

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Just joking around.

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we've had a limit.

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I think we're heading towards there again.

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You can, you can, you can break somebody.

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I don't know, everybody's talking about.

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But what I did see

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And everybody hated each other.

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when they walk during the down the alley.

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You know what I mean?

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But when they see each other.

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Me and him are like.

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Yeah, like he.

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He was busting my ass this morning.

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He he he was making trans jokes.

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That's awesome.

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It's a term of endearment.

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But it's also like a camaraderie.

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You know what I mean? Like it's.

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you could you can send one back here.

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What a joke.

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So is they're gay.

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It's tough. It is.

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All right.

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and it's like, man,

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I love George Carlin. He.

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Could you imagine if he was alive, though?

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Yeah, he's.

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I hope he would dish it out both ways.

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And when I, when I would do my

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I listen to all of his skits

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I got to rewatch his last one.

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I'm like, wait, that wasn't dark.

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He was telling the truth.

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I fly once every 3 to 4 weeks.

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Oh yeah,

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It was because he was.

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cars on Jack stands.

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Like you have for you.

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You can give it back.

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It's going to have

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unless it's something like.

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And they loved it.

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Well, I mean, that's not something that I.

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Like I'm. Hiding or, you know.

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I was at. A wedding, a fake account.

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I was at a wedding. Right?

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This was maybe a year or two ago.

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He's a he's a quadriplegic, right.

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Or nicest fucking guy in the world, right?

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Wow. I went, I'm like, yo, really?

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And he goes, yeah.

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He goes, why?

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So do I put in your mouth.

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Or I put it? Yes, I did it.

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He was the nicest guy.

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His wife is fucking gorgeous and awesome.

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Like, you have to be okay with it.

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you got a problem, you should be nervous.

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I mean, the NSA is watching them.

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I gotta be, yeah, they not got gotta be.

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The NSA is watching all four of the group.

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Five of the group messages of it

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Just like we.

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Lost the camera again. Goddamn it.

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Okay, we gotta. Go.

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Where can people find you?

[02:31:11 - 02:31:12] Speaker: Unknown
An EPA street scene.

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Facebook.com, slash EPA car scene.

[02:31:25 - 02:31:28] Speaker: Unknown
Okay. And what's TikTok?

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I have to I don't really know.

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We're going to start more.

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We do have a, a link tree page.

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It's just link.

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Oh, just like every other.

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Only fans.

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Yeah.

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Subscribe to the, Nepa street scene.

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OnlyFans.

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Do you pay.

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For the link tree or two?

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No, that's.

[02:32:10 - 02:32:12] Speaker: Unknown
That's on the specific pages themselves.

[02:32:12 - 02:32:15] Speaker: Unknown
But you get the formatting. So you know,

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TikTok is just any street scene.

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It's also Nepa street scene.

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So I'm trying to cover all the bases here.

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And EPA streets.

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Inc.com will be live soon.

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It's going to.

[02:32:41 - 02:32:43] Speaker: Unknown
It's like the repository for. It, is it?

[02:32:43 - 02:32:45] Speaker: Unknown
It is easiest to do.

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I also do

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I think we have a twitch

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You know, a 2026 plan.

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I've got to put more thought cycles.

[02:33:11 - 02:33:12] Speaker: Unknown
for the car community.

[02:33:12 - 02:33:15] Speaker: Unknown
Sonic is still going to happen.

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Montage.

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The shops at montage.

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come up.

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But Sonic's on board.

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Right. Like October 4th.

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That's common 100% at Toyota.

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But the best to find us would be Toyota.

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And our Toyota's grand would be, Facebook.

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That's going to be the best.

[02:33:38 - 02:33:40] Speaker: Unknown
Did you say time flew, guys?

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See how much time. Really. Flew?

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That was over 2.5 hours.

[02:33:45 - 02:33:46] Speaker: Unknown
That was insane, right?

[02:33:46 - 02:33:49] Speaker: Unknown
It goes fast, doesn't it? I had a blast.

[02:33:49 - 02:33:49] Speaker: Unknown
I had a blast.

[02:33:49 - 02:33:51] Speaker: Unknown
It seems like it seems like

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that felt like they were five hours.

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And this one just this one.

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I had a blast. Thank you so. Much.

[02:34:00 - 02:34:01] Speaker: Unknown
Did it get you more comfortable?

[02:34:01 - 02:34:03] Speaker: Unknown
Maybe you can. Leaps and. Bounds.

[02:34:03 - 02:34:03] Speaker: Unknown
Yeah, yeah.

[02:34:03 - 02:34:04] Speaker: Unknown
This this broke.

[02:34:04 - 02:34:06] Speaker: Unknown
It's Mister Rogers Neighborhood, man.

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I think

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You should. But I want to focus.

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I want to do.

[02:34:19 - 02:34:21] Speaker: Unknown
You mentioned a great a great analogy.

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Channels.

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I want to do one that's tech stuff. Yeah.

[02:34:25 - 02:34:25] Speaker: Unknown
And I want to do one

[02:34:29 - 02:34:31] Speaker: Unknown
We'll talk about that off camera.

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Let's see I want to please so,

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You know, my cats are number one.

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My number one is tits.

[02:34:43 - 02:34:44] Speaker: Unknown
Yeah, yeah, it's still there.

[02:34:46 - 02:34:49] Speaker: Unknown
I'm screwed. But I'm there. Yeah.

[02:34:49 - 02:34:50] Speaker: Unknown
Jeff.

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Joe, thank you guys for being here.

[02:34:55 - 02:34:57] Speaker: Unknown
And thanks for being awesome Americans.

[02:34:59 - 02:35:00] Speaker: Unknown
Anytime, man.

[02:35:03 - 02:35:04] Speaker: Unknown
We made it.

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We made it. Yeah. First time I.

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