On this episode of the Gas Monkey Car Show, we sit down with the host of the hit TV show "Gas Monkey" and talk about how he got started with the show and how he built it into what it is today. Gas Monkey is a show about a group of guys who go out and buy and sell cars and have a good time doing it. It's a fun show to watch and listen to and it's a blast to be a part of the crew. We talk about the history of the show, how it came about, and what it's like to be on the show. We also talk about some of the cars he's been driving and some of his favorite memories of growing up in the late 80's and early 90's. It was a pleasure to have the chance to sit down and chat with him and talk with him about his life and his love of cars and what he's up to these days. Enjoy the episode and don't forget to Like and Subscribe to the show! and share it with a friend who needs a good ol' car show story like him! Thanks for listening! Love ya! -The Crew at CHAD'S Garage -Jon & Matt Jon & Matt, Matt, R.J. & Chris, Mike & Sarah, Chris, J.A. & Sarah Thanks Jon and Sarah, Matt, for coming to visit us at the show this week and talking about our favorite car show, Gas Monkey! Jon, you're the best in the business in the world! Sarah, Sarah, I love you, I'm glad you're here! Mike, I hope you like it, I know you'll come back next week! and I'll see you soon! Thank you! --Jon and Matt, Mike, too! Cheers! CHAD! Steve, Jon & Sarah! "The Crew" -Jon and Sarah -Mike, Mike & Brett, . Tim, Paul, Jody, B. & Brett , Paul, D. B. - Ben, JB, John, , J. & K. , D. & J. B., J. . . J. M. & G. & C. J., R. & A. J. , S. & M. & S. M., D. C.
00:01:27.000How would I tell the story diplomatically?
00:01:30.000Realistically, I was watching the shows that were on TV at the time.
00:01:33.000I've always been a car nut and a motorcycle guy and what have you, and I realized one night that my kids are never in the room watching it, and my wife's not in the room watching it.
00:01:44.000The shows that were on were a little bit too much bravado, and I'm a tough guy.
00:01:49.000So I dug it, and all my buddies dug it, but the wives and stuff.
00:01:52.000And I was like, golly, they're missing a big chunk of the market here.
00:01:54.000If you could tone down that part of it a little bit and still have a cool brand and still be a cool guy and get the moms and the kids in the room.
00:02:32.000Well, The way I approached it was just like when I was a kid and my dad had a garage, not open for public garage, but he had a place that we kept his car.
00:02:43.000The neighbors would come over and they'd tinker and they'd drink beer and that's what car guys do.
00:02:47.000So we kind of took that approach of that's what Gas Monkey does.
00:02:50.000We just drink some beer and play with some cars and goof around.
00:02:54.000Just like Saturday afternoon, but all week long.
00:02:56.000Did you have any of a background in automobile knowledge?
00:03:24.000And that's kind of my strong suit is saying, okay, Porsches are fixed to be popular, so we're going to get into 356s or Broncos like the one you drove in or what have you.
00:04:42.000Then you got the gas crunched and then everything got four cylinders and it was a bad time in the late 70s for sure.
00:04:49.000It was a bad time, but it's a good time now.
00:04:51.000It's a really interesting time now for muscle cars.
00:04:55.000The race is so crazy that they're putting out street legal cars you could buy from a dealer with 700 plus horsepower, and almost every dealer has one now.
00:05:41.000I think it could be a little dangerous, you know, when everybody out there thinking, hey, I can drive a 700 horsepower car because it's completely different than, you know, a normal one.
00:05:49.000Well, did you see the video of the guy from one of the head guys at GM who took it on track, like, one of the first days they were releasing the car and he spun out on the first turn and slammed into the wall?
00:07:47.000A lot of planning and we've learned over seven years now and 130 of them that, you know, We've just got our process in, and the crew that I have at the shop now is unbelievably phenomenal.
00:12:36.000Everything we're building now, when the new season comes out in June, people are going to be amazed because we're building this kind of stuff.
00:13:03.000If it weren't for employees, vendors, and customers, business would be great.
00:13:08.000We don't do a lot for the customer until we've built it for ourselves, and then we sell it to them.
00:13:15.000But as far as coming in off the street, we just like building what we want to build, honing our skills, and then we find a buyer.
00:13:22.000Every once in a while, I'll have a guy come in and go, look, this is what I want, but I won't call you.
00:13:28.000I won't come in there with a new steering wheel.
00:13:33.000That's why a lot of times cars do take seven months or a year.
00:13:37.000Because the guy that's having it's built is in there every other weekend going, oh, I don't know, maybe we move this over here and paint it purple.
00:13:51.000I mean, it's still a business decision.
00:13:53.000I'm trying to build it to where I think it's going to do the most money at the end of the day and stay true with what's going on as far as that particular car and what's going on in the marketplace and technology and what have you.
00:14:06.000And we do get a lot of calls where people come in and go, okay, I want that exact same thing.
00:14:11.000You know, and so we'll build another one.
00:14:12.000Well, sometimes you do buy cars and just sell them without doing anything to it, right?
00:14:21.000You know, we'll buy something, bring it in, maybe just put some wheels on it or whatever.
00:14:24.000But usually it's just clean it up, get it run, and sell somebody else the dream because not everybody can afford a fully built car and or they want to do it themselves.
00:15:06.000And 1966, you know, 65, 66, like he's got a GT350. It's not really a 66 GT350. Every part of it, all the fenders, everything, it's all newly fabricated steel.
00:15:19.000We're going to do that this season, too.
00:16:17.000You're going to always have to massage it and get it right.
00:16:19.000Well, I've been paying attention to this guy for a while, and essentially what he's been doing is honing the process over the last few years.
00:16:25.000And he's got a company now that makes...
00:16:29.000I think it's called Dynacorp that makes all the parts.
00:16:32.000They make everything in terms of like the bodies.
00:16:58.000What I don't like, I mean, I like the way they look.
00:17:01.000If I look at like a 67 GT500, I like the way they look.
00:17:06.000But if you try to hit the brakes on one of those things, or if you try to make a turn with those old tires, everything's fucking that skinny, and the balance is all wonky.
00:17:44.000If you go back from, you know, a 1970 car to a 2019 car and you drive it and you hit the brakes and you do all the numbers, like stopping 60 to zero and handling.
00:17:55.000I mean, the cars of today are pretty ridiculous.
00:17:58.000It is absolutely amazing, the technology that's out, and the fact that we can use that technology is so much easier.
00:18:03.000I mean, you can build these kind of cars, or anything you dream up, because you can literally do it right here with your, you know, your Google in your pocket.
00:18:42.000I mean, I'm all for maybe some disc brakes or safety or whatever, but I like the squeaking and having to learn how to drive it and figure it out.
00:19:09.000Yeah, and they're going to hold on with that as long as they can, but you know, your big competition cars, Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo, Mercedes, you know, you can't get a manual.
00:19:18.000Wow, everybody wants that Nürburgring time.
00:19:21.000They all want that super fast Nürburgring time.
00:19:24.000And unless you have a double clutch transmission, unless you have paddle shifts, you're going to miss a second here, a second there.
00:19:30.000And then people are going to look at it.
00:19:32.000It's so ridiculous that people look at those times.
00:19:35.000Yeah, because the average show isn't going out there and doing that.
00:19:38.000I mean, modern cars, I mean, like the ZL1 that we were talking about earlier, I think they're down to, the 1LE, I think is down to a 7 minute and real low seconds Nurburgring time, which is fucking crazy.
00:19:53.000That's faster than a GT3 RS from a couple of years ago.
00:20:32.000I mean, when they first started making those, what was it, seven or eight years ago, maybe a little longer, I had a client have me getting one.
00:20:40.000He brought it back the next day, scared to death.
00:21:26.000We've already chopped the top and brought it down so that it doesn't have that clam mouth and looking, you know, windshield.
00:21:32.000And so we're taking all of a bunch of our styling cues and definitely all of our driving components ideology and we're cramming it into a 72 Rivie.
00:25:56.000What I try to do that I can't stand is they'll take something with that idea and they'll go, okay, I'm just going to pull the body off and cram this under there and weld it together and hope it works.
00:26:04.000And we make everything adapt to the old car and still work, though, the way it's supposed to in a brand new car.
00:26:12.000Yeah, I've seen, you know, there's a guy online that has, on Instagram, GT500 Super Swap.
00:26:19.000He took an old GT500 body and put it on a GT500 from a modern chassis and piece it together like that.
00:26:28.000But I was always thinking with a setup like that, you probably can't have airbags, right?
00:26:38.000Yeah, you get into the geometry and the direction of the airbag.
00:26:42.000Look how beautiful that looks, though.
00:26:44.000Yeah, but you don't want to play with the R&D of trying to put an airbag into something like that unless you really, really know what you're doing because a fraction of an inch off of being where it needs to be, that airbag could do more damage than good.
00:26:59.000It's weird, though, because you're dealing with a totally different size body, too.
00:27:25.000What they're doing is they're putting a carbon fiber body on a modern GT500, but they're using a 67 Eleanor body, but they're making it out of carbon fiber.
00:27:58.000It looks like it sits a little too high, and it looks like they're worried.
00:28:03.000I don't know anything about them, but to me, looking at it, it's like you need to get it down a little bit, get a little more attitude, get a deeper dish on the wheel.
00:28:11.000Well, I think what they're doing is trying to use all the geometry of the modern car.
00:28:42.000They're doing similar cars like that, too, but they're doing it from the ground up.
00:28:47.000There's a lot of people doing it because it's...
00:28:50.000With technology coming the way that it has, it's not as hard to do as it used to be.
00:28:56.000It's still a laborious task, don't get me wrong, but you can make all those systems work in anything.
00:29:02.000See, a guy like you that's a car guy, you look at an Eleanor and you look at it like it's played.
00:29:07.000But a person who doesn't see them all the time, who's not in the car industry, when was the last time you saw one of those fucking things on the street?
00:30:15.000And now everybody's doing it, and it's what have you.
00:30:19.000Yeah, but I mean, how many of them are out there in comparison to, say, a modern ZR1? There's probably not nearly as many of those out there.
00:30:27.000I bet you there's thousands of those out there.
00:31:30.000Living in Dallas, I have to do my business with the people out here in LA, and I'm getting off work before they've had their two chai lattes and walked their dog and showed up to the office.
00:33:19.000I've been a member of the same country club for about 19 years, and I've probably played about 50 rounds of golf in my life, and they've got me playing in the Pro-Am, the Celebrity thing, and I'm like, well, whoever gets teamed up with me...
00:33:37.000Because the way I look at it is, all I'm going to do then is be pissed off that I can't do what the guy told me to do.
00:33:44.000Right, so it's going to get much better.
00:33:46.000And then it's like what I tell him on top of that is I'm like, okay, you think you're so good at golf because you can shoot 72 or whatever.
00:33:53.000Well, mathematically, this is an 18-shot game.
00:40:04.000Yeah, and the monkey's, you know, he's that lovable character that's also a pain in the ass and kind of in there messing stuff up all the time, but you can't shoot him because he's just...
00:43:04.000For the next 24 hours, I'm responsible for them.
00:43:07.000If they leave and get run over at the corner or whatever because I made them leave, I forced them from the property, they're my responsibility.
00:45:05.00068. You can probably find a picture of that on the net, but it's a remake of the one they used in Thomas Crown Affair with Pierce Bronson when he's on the island.
00:50:28.000To want more, to do more, to give yourself motivation.
00:50:31.000A lot of people just save and save and save.
00:50:33.000And I'm more like, okay, I'm going to do something that I probably shouldn't do right now so that I know I got to work hard to make sure I don't have to give it up.
00:51:08.000Well, when I was young, when I first got into printing and advertising, shit, I could barely make rent.
00:51:14.000I think I was buying my suits at a resale shop, but I would go to Neiman's and look around and think about what I was going to buy, just putting the motivation in my head.
00:51:24.000I guess there's a big movement now with making your imagination bored or whatever.
00:52:47.000But I'll tell you, your past guest, Mr. Elon Musk there, he kind of ruined it for us because now we actually have a possibility of getting in a car wreck in space.
00:52:57.000Yeah, you could get in a car wreck in space because that car's just floating around out there.
00:53:00.000What if that car slams into a fucking alien spaceship that's coming to save us and Elon Musk just frivolously shot that fucking thing into orbit?
00:53:09.000He just shot it up there and they let him with a robot sitting in the front seat.
00:53:13.000You know what we were joking around about?
00:53:14.000Like, what if that guy in the front seat is actually a guy who fucked his wife and he decided to kill that guy and stick him in a fucking space suit and shoot him into orbit?
00:58:09.000I was like, dude, that was perfectly, I mean, back, this was in the days before the sprinters were so popular, so it was like a stretch limo, which is, you know, you just really don't ride it anymore.
00:58:18.000And I was like, that's a hell of a shot.
00:58:20.000I came out of the back window, 120 inches up to the front, hit the guy square in the fucking chest.
01:02:09.000Well, where I'm at in Dallas, literally I can go to the corner gas station and there's a lady there just sawing the corn off the cob and puts it in the styrofoam cup and squirts all the crap in there.
01:06:59.000Yeah, politics, that is the one thing that people say you shouldn't talk about.
01:07:03.000But isn't that what helps us to talk about it?
01:07:07.000It's just that people are so fragmented.
01:07:10.000People fragment out everything you say, and they're like, well, you know, it's like you said something, but then they turn it into this one little sentence going, wait a second, he said these two descriptive adjectives and this fucking noun and this verb, and look at what he said.
01:07:27.000I told my people to buy cuntscreening.com.
01:07:31.000I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but we're going to use it.
01:07:33.000Well, if we could just figure out a way to put microchips in everybody, we'll know where everybody is and what everybody did, and that way we'll know if you're a cunt.
01:07:42.000You walk past this little thing and it goes, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
01:07:45.000Yeah, you'll walk by, he throws burritos, but he's a good guy.
01:11:43.000And now, you know, he just passed away, but he came around, you know, he does the Barrett-Jackson stuff with us, and I've got a friend of mine that owns a company, Restore Muscle Car, that does just Trans Am type stuff, and it was cool.
01:11:58.000Those Smokey and the Bandit years were when I was in high school.
01:12:24.000I mean, look at all the other ones that people don't talk about a lot, like Hooper or Stroker Ace, not to mention Cannonball and all the other ones.
01:12:32.000I mean, they were literally a group of guys that kind of took over Hollywood for a small period of time and just had a blast.
01:14:09.000Mine I bought, my dad was actually mad.
01:14:11.000They said, my parents told me that I couldn't get it because they said they couldn't afford the insurance and everything and they didn't know I was always hustling and doing stuff and what have you.
01:14:19.000So I just showed up at home one day with it and they were like, we told you.
01:14:23.000I said, I paid cash and I paid for a year's worth of insurance up front.
01:14:27.000And my dad's like, Where the fuck did you get that money?
01:14:32.000So I take him to my room, I show him my shoebox, and he's like, Richard, that's more than I make.
01:14:39.000What were you doing to make that money?
01:14:41.000Oh, dude, I was a hustler back then, selling car stereos out of my trunk, you know, selling anything anybody would buy, raking leaves, mowing yards.
01:14:51.000I mean, I was kind of a geeky kid at the time and a little bit on the small side, so I had a lot of free time.
01:14:55.000I wasn't exactly banging the cheerleaders or anything.
01:14:59.000You know, so I knew I just always kind of was a hustler and wanted to make some money.
01:16:21.000Well, I've actually kept up with my mom, and we talk about it every two or three years, and it reminds me of why I don't talk to her anymore, so...
01:16:36.000Yeah, I had a stepmom and it didn't turn out super great, but she did teach me a little bit about math and, you know, how to run books because she was basically a thief.
01:18:39.000These people, I mean, my dad has really advanced Alzheimer's, and he knows that he misses his Mustang, I took all his bicycles away, and I need to get laid.
01:20:18.000It's prescribed through Medicare or insurance or whatever to where maybe somebody gets a knee or a shoulder replacement or maybe it's an injury or cancer or what have you.
01:20:29.000And so it's a very rewarding business.
01:20:31.000We probably have 3,000, 2,500, 3,000 patients at any given time all around the state of Texas.
01:21:54.000Yeah, but my dad was a straight-up product of the 60s and 70s, so he would dye his hair blonde and his eyebrows blonde and shit and walk around looking like Matthew McConaughey from Dazed and Confused.
01:22:33.000I'm at the skating rink eating a 99-cent corndog meal, and he'd come pick us up, usually around 10 or 11, with some irate skating rink owners sitting there pissed off.
01:28:33.000You're so used to dudes sweating on you.
01:28:36.000Like, because you're always, like, guys are sweating.
01:28:39.000Like, there was one time that I was rolling with a friend of mine, and he got on top of me, he mounded me, and he was sweating in my fucking face.
01:28:46.000Like, his chest sweat was dripping in my face, and we were laughing about it.
01:29:05.000There's a lot of jiu-jitsu schools in Texas.
01:29:06.000I'm looking up stats on the STD thing for older people, and this says an article I found said only 5% of adults are using Medicare to take the STD tests.
01:32:13.000Yeah, he gave me these joints that would make you think about people you fingered in high school and want to find them on Facebook and apologize.
01:33:00.000Out in the desert, they're developing this enormous property where they're going to grow weed, and they're also going to have this huge place where people can go and have this resort.
01:33:20.000The people behind it have deep pockets, and they're going hard.
01:33:24.000Because what people have seen in Colorado, and people are starting to see in Washington State, and now in California, is there's this enormous amount of money involved in marijuana.
01:33:36.000If you're doing it, and you're taxing it, and you're doing it responsibly, the way I look at it, it's no different than going to the store to buy a beer.
01:33:43.000Any asshole can buy too much beer and do something stupid.
01:33:46.000We've had four shots in an hour on a radio show.
01:34:11.000If you're a person who likes fun, are you trying to stop fun?
01:34:16.000Like if someone wants to smoke a little weed, have a little tequila, drink a couple of beers, as long as people are being responsible.
01:34:23.000Yeah, I don't see a drastic difference between alcohol or marijuana as long as you're obeying the laws, being responsible, paying your taxes.
01:34:35.000Imagine if all the people in the world were you, me, and Jamie.
01:34:39.000And if Jamie had decided that he thought that we were criminals and we're not allowed to drink alcohol anymore, Jamie's going to install prohibition in our small community, he'll be ridiculous.
01:35:28.000In their defense, there's probably a bunch of people who are stockholders, and there's a lot of decisions that are made by lawyers.
01:35:36.000Before people get angry about something that CBS decides to do, you have to understand that CBS is responsible for the employment of untold thousands of human beings.
01:35:47.000They're going to have Bud Light ads right next to this.
01:36:32.000The thing about it all is you've got to be honest and let people form their own opinions, and part of being honest about these things is telling them the pros and the cons.
01:36:42.000Everything is a pro and a con, including old people banging it out in nursing homes.
01:36:52.000The pro and the con is my dad's a pro banging old ladies in a nursing home, but the con is he's probably got some stuff on his little wiener down there.
01:37:01.000Yeah, he's probably passing some biological footballs.
01:37:16.000Live like John Travolta and the boy in a plastic bubble and fucking lock ourselves in hermetically sealed chambers and never touch each other again?
01:38:35.000I feel like Adam and Eve would talk like British people.
01:38:37.000Because anytime they have a movie where people talk like old-timey, whether it's Gladiator or whatever, everyone talks with an English accent.
01:40:30.000If that was a guy from Jersey that was selling you that, you'd be like, look at this asshole trying to lie to me about his bullshit frying pan, right?
01:44:40.000Some of the nicest people that I've ever met ever are professional fighters.
01:44:44.000That's a weird thing for people to hear.
01:44:46.000But I think that for men, there's something about trial through combat and just understanding what it's like to overcome unsurmountable obstacles for the average person.
01:45:44.000Someone took a phone and it had a sound like a hair cutter and they run it by people's heads and they run away and people freak out on them.
01:46:22.000Which I kind of call continuity because it's like, do these people really believe I just did this in an hour or was it over the course of a few days, okay?
01:46:30.000I mean, I always tell them, I'm like...
01:46:33.000What do y'all think, as producers and networks and whatever, how bad do y'all think the American public is?
01:46:40.000I mean, how unintelligent that you have to do a scene where I just walked in your door and sat down here and put on my headphones, and then they flipped me over somewhere else going, yeah, so I walked in the door and put on my headphones.
01:47:35.000I love my show and I love what we do, but I'm like, why do I got to come out of the door, put my headphones on, and then go, so I got there and I put my headphones on.
01:47:43.000It was unbelievable, especially after I came through that door.
01:48:17.000Why do you think they still break up shows with commercials?
01:48:20.000Wouldn't it be more effective if they didn't do that?
01:48:22.000It's just a monetization problem, I'm sure, but I think you could get a little more bang for your buck by having this episode by so-and-so.
01:48:32.000Not only that, I think instead of having two or three ads every five minutes or whatever they make it do, how about you just have a couple of product placements?
01:49:46.000I'm like, oh, we had way more viewers than that.
01:49:48.000I wonder how they do really know and whether they just accept the fact that even if they don't know the real numbers, at least they have a reliable percentage that everyone can agree on.
01:49:58.000So if everyone agrees on it, they'll set their advertising rates based on that agreement.
01:51:05.000Even if they're not using it as some sort of a rating system that affects the ratings of a television show, you would think that they would want to know how effective their product is.
01:51:13.000If you can measure that, why wouldn't you measure that?
01:51:45.000The biggest disparity has got to be satellite and cable, right?
01:51:51.000Because they're not allowed to measure those.
01:51:53.000The mobile phone thing, like mobile phones, they say Netflix specials, like comedy specials, they say 40-something percent of people plus watch them on their phones.
01:53:24.000It's not a new article, it's just an example of one.
01:53:27.000I was going to say that the TVs have been known to watch what's on your screen and send that data back to a database based off of everything that's currently live on TV. The same thing happens with audio streams and Shazam.
01:53:42.000There's a couple of different companies that do that.
01:53:46.000Yeah, so then they'll sell that back to advertisers.
01:53:49.000Sort of like the same way what's happening with some of these apps.
01:53:52.000That's how people found out that companies are tracking you because there's third-party companies that are selling that data once they have it because they don't need it for everything.
01:54:01.000See, the problem with this kind of shit with people is that that's not what the agreement was.
01:54:06.000The agreement wasn't that you tell people what I'm watching.
01:54:09.000The agreement was I buy a TV from you.
01:58:09.000But that's also, if you open yourself up to comments.
01:58:13.000Well, somebody brought one up the other day that was a general discussion question and said, you know, why don't we just do DNA for the sake of your board?
01:58:39.000We know to go shoot them in the back of the head.
01:58:41.000Well, we certainly could do that, but we would have to place a gigantic priority on getting the very best people in law enforcement.
01:58:51.000You would have to eliminate all shitheads.
01:58:54.000You would have to pay those cops way more and treat them With the respect that they deserve as people that literally are protecting you from violent criminals.
02:02:49.000Especially those guys, the producers, the camera guys, the sound guys, the people that are sitting in the discovery offices and all that, they have jobs.
02:02:56.000This is my life I'm putting on every single day.
02:02:59.000And so not only do I have my whole life on it and in it, but then I have to deal with filming it.
02:03:05.000And I've tried to explain that to them because they don't care to a point if the show does well or bad because there'll be another Richard down the road.
02:03:24.000And they have a formula that they try to follow and they have a lot of like set up scenarios where people get in trouble for things where they're not really getting in trouble.
02:03:33.000It's just all set up in advance, you know?
02:08:07.000I just left Barrett-Jackson, and when you see something roll across the stage, and you're just like, bleh, why in the hell did somebody just buy that?
02:11:36.000Yeah, 69 Mach 1 and the Boss 429. I need to get into building some of these movie cars because I've seen some of them up close and they're shit.
02:11:46.000Go to Classic Recreations, Boss 429. Go to this.
02:13:20.000Everybody's interior game stepped up, too, because it used to be like the Germans and the Japanese had much higher build quality with the interiors, but Corvette has had to step up its game considerably.
02:13:32.000The new Corvette's a very nice interior.
02:14:05.000What they are is these lights that used to have clear covers, and instead we got this thing from Octolights, and they're a company that makes, it's like a photograph of clouds that you could see through.
02:14:19.000So we put it over the top of the light itself.
02:17:44.000I'm pretty sure they thought that all dogs were like a combination of a bunch of different things, like wild dogs and different things that eventually became like a mastiff or something.
02:17:55.000But now they realize, no, Every single dog, from a Chihuahua to a Great Dane, comes from a wolf.
02:18:03.000Yeah, but, I mean, there's some dogs that, what do you do with them?
02:18:06.000I mean, you've got a 150-pound Mastiff that just lays there and slobbers.
02:19:10.000And he was a trainer of dogs for movies and shit.
02:19:14.000You know the movie The Incredible Hulk?
02:19:16.000The one with Eric Bana, when Nick Nolte plays his dad, and Nick Nolte's the bad guy, and he's like a scientist, and he sticks the Hulk serum into these dogs, and he turns these dogs into these big, giant, hulking mastiffs.
02:19:29.000Well, the original dog was actually my friend's dog, and he was a trainer of these dogs, and he brought him to Fear Factor.
02:19:37.000And on Fear Factor, these dogs were just laying around, like, super chill.
02:19:46.000He's a Regency Mastiff, and his name was Curly.
02:19:51.000So, anyway, this guy, he developed these, he raised these dogs and made them to, he bred them to this place where they just had no aggression.
02:20:02.000No aggression to dogs, no aggression to people.
02:20:05.000This dog was like a hulk, just a giant mass of muscle.
02:20:09.000But you can come up to it, anybody can come up to him.
02:20:11.000Pet it, little kids were petting it, and he was like gently kissing their face.
02:25:53.000I should, but you can actually order stickers now that are the rubber letters that fuse themselves into the rubber on your tire, so you end up with a white letter like that, and you can put anything on there.
02:28:19.000Well, there's a gentleman out of Japan.
02:28:22.000and he does all of these raw welt cars by hand and uh go to him um what is the the guy's name so i could uh give the guy his props but that dude right there with the i love rw t-shirt on he's uh his name is akira nakai and he all raw welt cars he does himself so he'll fly out from japan he sawzalls your fenders off Puts these flares on the front and the rear.
02:30:25.000We did a 996, like a 2000, 2001 convertible, and did the LS swap.
02:30:32.000And we finished that in late 2016, and I had a brand new 2017 911 Turbo S in the Signal Green.
02:30:42.000And if I didn't mess with the buttons, if I didn't turn off all the stuff, I could not get away from that car until about 140 miles an hour.
02:32:37.000I sold it to a customer, no bullshit, for a pretty amazing amount of money for a 280Z. And it was being shipped, and the truck burned to the fucking ground.
02:34:22.000There was no E46 M3. No, E46 is like, it's a super well-balanced, 50-50 balanced car from like 2002, 2003. And many people think it's like the gold standard for M3s.
02:34:36.000Because M3s, there's something that happened to M3s.
02:34:39.000And right now, I like the fact that an M3 became an M4. Like, stay right there.
02:35:25.000And it was, you know, a 3,000-pound car.
02:35:28.000And it had 333 horsepower and is perfectly balanced for the right amount of thrust, the right amount of grip with the tires, because they weren't the widest tires, but they were wide enough.
02:35:39.000They had a little bit of fender flare.
02:35:40.000They made them wider than the standard 3 Series.
02:35:42.000And it's just a perfect, understated-looking car.
02:35:46.000When you look at that E46 M3, you look at that car, you're like, that's a fucking good neutral zone.
02:37:59.000After I would get out of it, I was like, this car has everything I like.
02:38:02.000It's understated, and yet it's wicked.
02:38:04.000It's got V8 power, but yet it's not preposterous, like the wheels don't break loose every time you hit the gas.
02:38:11.000It has a double-clutch transmission, so it's good in traffic, and it also has a whale, because it's got this high-revving V8, and it's so many things that I like.
02:39:09.000But for real, I like watching racing, but I really don't care if you get there first.
02:39:13.000All I care is about going sideways and correcting and hitting the turn at the proper apex and stomping on the gas and knowing when to break and knowing when to dig in.
02:39:24.000If you get ahead of me, I don't give a fuck.
02:41:58.000Even though it's like one of the favorite things of people, people love to laugh.
02:42:03.000It's one of the rare things that gives you a very specific reaction.
02:42:06.000Like, if you go to see a movie and it's like a rock movie, like Jumanji or something, it's fun, sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's exciting, but there's a bunch of shit going on.
02:42:15.000You go to see stand-up, you go to see Kevin Hart do stand-up, you're going there because Kevin Hart is a drug dealer, okay?
02:42:24.000He's here to hit you with some fucking high-level, gigantic arena laughter, and you gotta walk out of there going, holy shit, that was fun.
02:44:21.000So the reverb and the sound that we get out of there, even the guys from Crew, when they played, it was a deal with Dodge and me and them and Baugh.
02:44:30.000They were supposed to come in and play like 41 minutes or something, and they played for like an hour and a half, and we're like, we hadn't played anything like this in decades, and the sound is fucking insane.
02:46:20.000Look, if you're a drug dealer and you're making millions of dollars off cocaine, an egg of coke, imagine how fucking valuable an egg filled with coke would be.
02:46:54.000You're sitting there thinking with your buddy or shooting the shit, and you're like, oh, I just thought of something really cool, and you Google it, and you're like, ah, fucked up.
02:46:59.000It's probably someone getting arrested for having it up their ass.
02:47:02.000Did you see that CIA spy kit where they had to stick it up their ass?
02:47:07.000Fugitive ostrich farm fraudster Martin Evans extradited...
02:47:34.000You know, I've done a lot of the world rallies and...
02:47:37.000The gumball 3000s and the bull runs and all this.
02:47:40.000So one guy appeared on the scene for a few years and it was kind of weird.
02:47:43.000He was like there but he wasn't there and he was kind of not really competing but he had all these expensive cars.
02:47:50.000Turns out that that's all he'd been doing for four or five years was shipping these cars from town to town on regular shipping trucks full of trucks.
02:48:01.000Who's gonna search a Lamborghini Murcielago?