“This Cop’s Full of Sh*t”: Daily Driven Exotics on Bad Cops, Supercars & Gumball 3000

Do cops treat you different because you drive supercars?

100%. My rule with cops is, look, you have to catch me in the act. The car went sideways, they tried to correct it, it went the other way, hit the light pole, and then hit the fire hydrant.

So how many times do you think you've been pulled over?

Oh, yeah, like, because I've had other officers that are fans of the channel come to me and say, hey, there's a clip of you in the national police training database. Police officers are on this pedestal that they should be on because they do something that is extremely hard.

Yeah.

Of respect for first responders, firefighters, police officers.

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One of my old cars.

One of them.

I brought the Diablo SV here and then Matt bought it off me and now won't sell it back to me.

That's how it's gonna work.

Yeah, dude.

Yeah, those are some really cool cars. Some of the. The older Lamborghinis, I don't fit in.

Really?

Yeah, like the Kunta, that white one.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, like tessarosas and kutas. Yeah, those were buil Italian men with cigarettes hanging out of their mouth and some random garage in Italy. Yeah, the modern stuff.

Nobody else needs to sit in this.

And the seats are crooked.

Yeah.

And the pedals Are crooked.

Well that is was funny when I first got in the mercy that. Because that's a very special.

The blue one.

Yeah, the blue one behind us.

Yeah.

What are they asking?

1514 Canadian.

Yeah, 1.4 Canadian.

Call it, you know, million bucks U.S. yeah it's a man a factory built manual gated V12LP640. So the last manual V12 they ever made and they didn't make many of them because this is the era that they came out with the paddle shift E gear and everybody wanted the what felt like an F1 type of technology. And this was literally the last that they made of those cars. They only made I believe 5 or 6 manual svs.

Are you serious?

Which are like a 5 million dollar USD car if you can. If you can't even find an owner that would be willing to sell one. I think the closer there is one close to us just over the border in Washington at Katz Exotics. Roy Katz has a white manual that I think he said if anybody wants to buy it he'd sell for 5 million bucks.

5 million bucks.

Then there's two other white ones in North America and then there's like a kind of a burgundy interesting kind of pantone painted version in Switzerland. And then there's two other ones that kind of are eluding me. That's it dude.

The crazy cars. Matt let me drive it one day and it was just the. The experience was so unique and I remember talking to you about it and that was actually a question I had for you because you used to have a mercy gated.

I had that exact car just yellow.

Just yellow Y and I don't. I've never gotten this story but what, what was happening with the car. It needed some. Something need to get fixed and then you. And then they had to try to test something out and it didn't work out. Like that's a pretty.

I'd say yeah, it didn't work out. Yeah. It's an unfortunate story. I bought this car out of Florida. I came to the boys and said this is like my dream car. I know what the value of these cars is going to do. This is the last manual V12 Lamborghini made and. And we have to find one an lp. There's other pre LP Murcielagos. So the very first iteration which is this yellow one here, they actually have two of them and a silver one over here. But as any manufacturer develops a car they make it better and better and they create improvements. And the LP is the best version of The Murcielago short of a sv, but they made even fewer of those as we just spoke about in manual. So I thought my shot of getting one would be this LP car. I found one in Florida. It had a body kit on it, so it looked like an sv. The guy even put the sticker on the side, which I was like, this is awful. But I did my homework, hadn't been in any accidents, which was my fear, And I ended up picking up for285,000 US dollars, dude. And right now, that car's worth a million.

Yeah.

So I was never going to sell it. And through my journey of ownership, I obviously maintain my cars. I take my cars up to August Garage and they were doing services on it. It's always gone great. And it got to a place where my gearbox, when I would shift, was just a little chunky, even after it warmed up. And I said, hey, maybe we should just replace the synchros in a gearbox. And they said, yeah, sure, we can do that. So we ordered them, they replaced them, they said, your car's ready. I went to pick it up and everything was fine, except for in first gear when I had to accelerate. I don't accelerate soft like someone test driving your car would. I just. I get into it a little more because I want to hear the car and experience it. And it popped out of first and I was like, oh, that's weird. Maybe I just didn't put it all the way into gear like it was.

In gear and you just step on it and it would just pop into neutral.

Yeah, pop into neutral and it'd rev up. So it did that three times. And within the first three stops of me heading home, so I turned around and was like, no, there's something wrong. You know, they just did the gearbox. So it's clearly something's just out of alignment. That's all it was. And I took it back to the garage and I was like, I gotta drop this back off. I have to go get my daughter from school. Can I steal a car? They gave me a car. I went and got my daughter. An hour after getting my daughter, I'm sitting at home, I get like seven text messages of this vaguely fuzzy yellow Lamborghini from about three blocks away, crashed into a pole. Oh. And people are like, is this your car? And I'm like, I knew exactly when I saw it. The area not even a block away from the garage, this open field, it's the only light pole and the only fire hydrant. And there's no Building. No, there's a curb, but that's it. And I immediately called and got the man, we're so sorry. Like, we went to take it out for a test drive and as we were driving down the road and, and mind you, this is middle of winter. There's lots of sand and salt put on our roads. It had snowed recently, but it had dried up and it leaves all that residue on the road. And so they test drove it. And first gear in that car is really tall. You can do about a hundred kilometers an hour in first in a mercy. So they, I told them too. I was like, you got to get on it, by the way that I, I said, you got to get on it to experience it popping out.

Yeah.

So I think they pulled out of the driveway and got on it and in that little bit of a curve on the road was on it. The car went sideways, they tried to correct it, it went the other way and it hopped the curb. Split decisions, hit the light pole and then hit the fire hydrant. So it basically did in like three sides of the car. It was a, in the end it was not a total loss, which was a headache with insurance. So I got the car back wrecked and a bunch of money, not enough to cover really what I needed. But I ended up just selling the car to a friend who was more interested in taking the project on of rebuilding it.

But you've driven. I mean the Mercy. Gated. What do you have now that's gated? You have the.

I have a first gen. Yeah. Gated Mercy, which is what I drove here.

You drive those things like.

Yeah, everywhere. It's no joke. Like.

And like give them though. Like, that's the thing. When I drove that car, Matt is like, hey, let's drive that million dollar car. I, I drove as if like every shift had to be perfect and all.

This stuff and well, if you don't, if you aren't familiar with it, it's very much a bit of a finicky car because the motor needs to warm up.

Yeah.

But to war. Which you can do by starting the car and letting it idle.

Yeah.

And letting the oil and water temp and all that. So now the motor is going to run a lot better. The throttle bodies and all that are going to respond better. But the gearbox cannot be warmed up without the car moving. So you have to know for the first probably 10 minutes of driving immersion. I gated Murcielago.

See, that's where I.

You need to go chill because it's gonna feel really chunky you probably noticed going into second it was like it almost stops you and then you have to like pull it in.

Yeah.

And going into thirds the same but after about 10 or 15 minutes of driving the car, the gearbox warms up and then it starts to get like buttery smooth.

So you cannot, I didn't get to buttery smooth.

Yeah, you cannot shift fast in a gated mercy until it's gearbox is warm or else you're going to grind gears and wreck stuff.

I might have missed that experience cuz everybody kept saying oh my gosh, it's the best. But I was just so nervous and it felt very like mechanically tough.

Yeah, I'll take you on my car sometime.

I would love that. I think that would maybe give me a new appreciation. I, I, I want to talk about cops. Okay. Cuz like obviously I don't speed, but friends of mine that do tell me they have issues with police and I.

So you don't, you don't. Just so we're clear, you don't speed ever.

I don't speed ever unless I'm on a like I, it has to be legal. I'm just not going to do that.

Really?

No, I'm just kidding.

I am, I'm hold you accountable to that one.

No, no, don't, I can't, I can't have that one hold I speed.

I think the mis, misconception though is, and I want to talk about this real quick before we get into the cop side of things. People think because they see our videos that we're speeding all the time. It's not all all the time. There are times when I'm just cruising and ironically when we are speeding or driving spirited, I do have rules I'm not going to and my rules have changed as I've matured both in my business but as an adult and being a family guy. So I have rules where I won't speed or I won't do the more risky, dangerous stuff that I know is, is rec considered reckless. So I think sometimes when I, when we get into the cop stuff, when I get pulled over and I'm like, hey man, I wasn't doing anything wrong to the cops, people think I'm lying. But I don't post cop videos where the cops have caught me doing something and I deserve it. Those videos actually never get posted. I get pulled over more than what people see on the Internet. And those are the ones where I take the l, I take the ticket and I'll pay it. The ones you see on the Internet. Are the ones where I was actually driving with a group of cars and I was actually the one maybe with a few other guys doing the speed limit. And we had chilled out and been doing the speed limit and obeying laws for the better part of 10, 15, 20 minutes or 30 minutes or an hour. Even if we're on a rally like in an eight hour day, you're not flat out for eight hours. So my rule with cops is, look, you're a police officer. To become a police officer, you took an oath. It's like going to court. You took an oath to follow the law to a T, which means it's cat and mouse. You have to catch me in the actual. You have to have evidence. Just because you saw me ripping around or you knew I was ripping around in a video from a week ago doesn't mean you get to come out and give me a ticket like a week later. You have to be able to prove it. Right. Like that's the world we live in. So yeah, sometimes people get in the comments and like, oh, you weren't speeding. It's like, no, I was, I wasn't speeding when I got pulled over for that, that time period. And I've had a few videos recently where the police pulled me on. They let me go because they knew they had nothing.

Yeah.

I had a double header one day actually, like and pull over in the center. Yeah. In the morning on the way to a car show. They let me go.

Do cops treat you different because you drive supercars? You think like, do you think they'll.

More likely to pull you over 100, 100. Also over the years of doing daily driven exotics and filming these police interactions where police are wrong or they don't know the law. And I kind of hold up for them that that's not correct. And I've gone and filed complaints on certain officers that have gone too far with it. That's changed the way police also interact with me and everybody because they took one of my early videos from five or six years ago and they put it into the national database. Because I've had another, other officers that are fans of the channel come to me and say, hey, there's a, there's a clip of you in the national police training database for like a certain type of. I don't know if it's for all officers, but for like a certain type.

Of police officer, what is it that.

You feel they've changed how they interact with people who are filming them? And I think they just probably reiterated what was already Told to them, which is you're trained. You're supposed to be calm, collected, and in control of the situation, not the other way around.

Yeah.

Right. So if a police officer walks up and starts being verbally aggressive.

Yeah.

And that only that can just simply be like talking really loud or maybe not talking. Right. If they're, if they're manipulating the situation on purpose, that's not a good thing. So, you know, I've had videos where the officers lying, stuff like that. You know, I pulled you over for running a stop sign, like in Beverly Hills. And then never brings up the stop sign thing again. And never gives me a ticket for that. And gives me a ticket for not driving in California on a California license.

Yeah.

And tells me I can't drive here on a Canadian license. Well, that is completely wrong.

Yeah.

Right. I filed a complaint on him and I've seen that. Never had an issue with Beverly Hills pretty much ever again.

Ever again.

The cops. Yeah.

What? So how many times do you think you've been pulled over if you just had to throw.

Yeah.

Like, I know. Are you over, like 150?

No, below that.

Okay.

I would say I've been pulled over probably, you know, probably like 60 to 70 times.

And for you getting pulled over in.

A decade plus of doing this.

Yeah. But you and a lot of time and seats, like, that's.

So we're talking like in a 12 month period, you know, maybe five or six times.

Okay. And for you at this point, lights go off, you're just like, no big deal. Pull over.

Be calm.

Yeah.

Ask questions.

Yeah. Well, and this is, this is my follow up. Right. Because for my friends that do drive and speed, not me, but those people, they want to know the questions. Like, because I've watched, like, it seems like you have this logical kind of like, question, question, question, question. Is it because you're trying to get them to admit to certain things? Like what's your thought process around what you ask a cop to essentially prove your innocence? Or set up a framework for you to be able to dispute a ticket. Before we get back to the episode, if you're enjoying it so far, could you go ahead and do me a huge favor and leave a review on Apple podcasts or Spotify Reviews help us get up in the rankings, which gives us credibility to reach out to bigger and bigger guests. We can bring them to you. It would mean so much. Let's get back to the episode.

Sure. Well, first of all, you got to know what you did. So that goes back to what I just said.

Yeah.

If I was caught. And I know.

So, like, you go buy a guy. I go 100, and it's a 50 zone. And he spins the lights on, turns around. You're like.

I'm like, I already have my license, registration for him because I already know what he wants.

Yeah.

And I hand it to him and he asked me what was I doing. I just, I. First of all, I never admit that I'm speeding on. On site. You don't want to admit. You don't want to admit anything. Right. Because you never know where the pullover could go.

Yeah.

You know, you don't know if this is a, like a really aggressive officer or something bad could happen that then I need to go to court for. But if it's just a traffic violation, usually I hand, I say, I got license, registration, and my insurance card and don't say anything. And then if he goes, what were you thinking going that fast? I just say, I reserve the right not to answer any questions.

You'll say that?

Yeah. And then at that point, they usually just walk away. You gotta stay here. And they usually walk away and come back and either sometimes give me a warning because they know who I am recently, or they come back with a ticket and they say, sign the ticket. I sign the ticket because I know it's required. I take my ticket and I go on my way. And don't argue, don't. Don't ask a bunch of questions. Now, okay, If I've genuinely been not screwing around, and I know there is no way this officer is. I'm not saying they're lying, but let's say they, their information is based on maybe another car. Right. There's lots of. Where I drive. A lot of the time, there's lots of supercars. And most people have no clue the difference between a McLaren, a Lamborghini, Ferrari. They'll just see a car, and if it's red, they'll call it a Ferrari. Right. Just subconsciously. So if he pulls me over and says, license, registration. I said, what would you pull me over for? He goes, your speed or whatever, they're going to say, oh, you were with a group of people. Everybody was reported. I say, okay, do you have any evidence? Do you. Not the people who called you in, do you have any physical evidence that I was breaking the law? I'll say that sometimes. And the tricky part is, by law, they. In California now, as of January 1, 2024, they do have to tell you what they pulled you over for. Now, that's for California, but there are places where they don't really need to engage with you at all, other than just giving you the citation if that's what they want to do. And I've had that experience, which really doesn't lead anywhere other than then you got to go get an attorney. So. But if they do engage, they might say, well, I got you with radar. Right. Well, if I know I haven't been speeding for the last 15 minutes and I was genuinely following the law, I know this cops full of.

Yeah.

So then I just go hard. I'm all in. I'm like, cool, you got the radar. You got the radar gun.

Yeah.

Cool. Can I see it? When was it calibrated? Yeah, right. Where were you? So where were you positioned that you got me? Right. All this stuff. And if they answer the questions, well, you can take all that and use it as a defense. I've had a bunch of different scenarios where the officers told me something that I'm like, there's no way. So at that point, I just basically ask him more questions about, you know, how long he's been in office.

Doubt in them that you like, is that kind of. Yeah. How long they been an officer? Or is it because you're trying to let them know that if they. If they decide to give you a ticket, that there's 100% chance you're going to dispute it because you have the questions?

No, at this point, I'm just being a YouTuber. And the longer I can get them to talk, the longer this police interaction is on the side of the. The highway. Yeah. The better the retention rate of the people watching the videos.

This is all for context.

So at a point, at this point, I'm just like, hey, you know, it's legal for you to film the police. So if. If the officer is telling me I did something wrong and I know I did nothing wrong, well, I'm going to monetize it. So now it's just like, drag it out. As long as I can ask as many questions as possible, you know, but be polite, be calm. It's not going to serve you well if you're aggressive, especially, I mean, not even with a cop. I mean, just like, the Internet's not going to like you. So just be calm, cool, collected, be educated on what are the laws, you know, especially about vehicle code. So things like your car. Right. I. I've been educated that, you know, just because from Canada doesn't mean that my car being allowed is. You know, they can't give you a ticket for noise because there's noise ordinance that they can give you tickets for within a certain city. So that's when you just have to take a bit of a slap on the wrist. Now, it's not going to hurt your driver's license or give you points or anything like that if you're a foreigner, but you, you don't probably want to argue too much about that. I've learned that one the hard way.

Yeah.

But then there's other things where I got this one recently on, on the Senna in the double header pullover with the Senna. Just the other week, the first officer told me I had to have a front plate because that's the law in California. And I was like, hey, bro, let me educate you quickly. I'm from Canada and I'm from a province called Alberta, and they issue one plate. I physically don't get a second plate to put on the front. Well, I'm not going to argue about it. He says on the side of the road, you have to follow the laws of California when you're here. And I'm like, well, that's where you're mistaken. That's where the officer is wrong.

Yeah.

You know, as a tourist, you need to follow certain rules when you enter the states. Right. But there are certain things that are.

Local to the state, local stores.

Yeah.

Vehicles coming through the state can be stopping and putting stuff on a car every time.

I've gotten a no front plate ticket, which is dumb. It's a 25 ticket. It's like a fix it ticket.

Yeah.

I've just sent that to my attorney. I've never paid one.

Yeah. And would you recommend that anybody that gets a speeding ticket or noise violation or window, whatever, they get a ticket for that they should fight it again.

I think if you're in the right. Yeah.

Okay.

Right. I mean, you got to remember, police officers are on this pedestal that they should be on because they do something that is extremely hard. I have tons of respect for first responders, firefighters, police officers, because not just the, the, the physical aspect of it, when it comes down to a physical altercation, but the, it's really more a mental game.

Yeah.

But at the end of the day, they're human beings just because they have like a badge and a gun and a uniform, they're just people. And there's good ones and there's bad ones.

Yeah.

Right. So you have to treat them with respect when they walk up to your vehicle. And if they're disrespecting you, it's better to walk a line of integrity and just ask lots of questions and keep them talking and let your camera do the rest. You know, take your cell phone and put it up on your dash and just film the whole thing. Protect yourself.

I never thought about that. Yeah, I've always. You know, I'm Canadian, so it's just like, I'm. You know, I'm so worried.

Yeah, I say that, too, a lot.

Yeah, it's. It's one of those things where obviously, you know, one time I had my windows tinted and I literally switched lanes at night. Driving at night, which I never did. So it was kind of funny that I. I didn't realize how the tint. I couldn't see. And he pulled me over, and he was right, because I almost hit him. I literally changed lanes. I almost hit him. He said, what are you doing? And he looked and he's like, dude, that's not legal. And I'm like, I'm sorry.

And I probably thought, you're drunk.

Yeah, probably. He gave me, literally the. The fix it ticket or no. He said, if you come tomorrow, I'll rip it up. So I took the tint off, went to see him. He was. He was cool, dude.

That was here in Canada?

No, that was in New Brunswick.

New Brunswick, yeah.

Other part of Canada, but definitely Canada.

Yeah.

You just got back from driving one of my favorite cars, the Esco.

Oh, yeah.

Like, dude, what? How. Like, out of all the other cars, and I know you've driven a lot of them, but, I mean, a. It's Chris, right? The ad. The. The shop. Is it Chris? No. What's this guy's name who owns YouTuber? The guy that had the. Your buddy that let you.

Oh, James.

James, yeah.

Mr. JW.

Mr. JWW. Right, JWW. Anyway, so, I mean, he must really like, like you. I mean, that he does.

I think James likes me.

So crazy. I'm like, I know a guy that's driven a Yesco. Like, dude, that. The Koenigsegg is, for me, I think it's one of the coolest hypercars because he's like, you know, Christian is essentially the Elon Musk of supercars, for sure. Like, for legit engineering. I'm a big, big, big fan of all the stuff they build. And, man, the sound.

Oh, it's insane.

The theater of it. Like, just even the. The spec of that one specifically in London.

Like.

Yeah, if you had.

This is not a fun place to drive, for the record.

No, no. It's just a great place to go be goo goo gaga over in 3 million dollar hypercar.

So have you ever driven or ridden in any Koenigsegg?

No.

They are all surprisingly very different versus if you drove a Lamborghini Diablo from 1999 and then drove a first gen Mercy and then an LP and then drove an Aventador. There are similarities where in the Koenigsegg model lineup I've had the opportunity to drive in a CCX actually. Yeah. With a manual gearbox. I've actually driven a Regera, I've actually. Which has no gearbox in the context of its final drive. It's just. It doesn't shift gears. There's no way to shift gears. It just goes. I've driven an Aguera RS which shifts gears very aggressively, very much like an SVJ but has double the horsepower. And then I've driven the Esco which is this modern, the newest technology from Konigsig. Like you said, Christian's a just an engineering genius and they've got this brand new gearbox that I will not even come close to attempting to explain.

Automatic and manual, right?

Not known that is now that's the CC850.

Okay, sorry.

That, that even that I know it gets really confusing. And then there's also this Agara that they converted where they took the Agara motor out of it, put a Yesco engine in it and put the gearbox from the CC850 in it. But then you can also switch it over so that it runs off paddles as well. Like just Google it. We. I don't want to confuse the people watching but we'll get to the point that I was going to make which is the Jesko is again so different from anything else. Like every car that I mentioned that they've made, other than the windshield looking like the same way, when you look through it, they all drive completely differently. They all feel really planted. That would be one similarity. When you're driving Konig's egg, it's very confidence inspiring. But the Esco, first of all it's got like no flywheel or something like that. I don't know if that's right or wrong or if it's a super light, but I think it's got no flywheel. This new gearbox they engineered and so when you touch the throttle it's like the closest thing I could guess what an F1 car would be like cuz F1 cars are already idling at several thousand revolutions per minute and then they rev up to like you know, 15 or 16 or 17,000 RPM. You could literally barely Touch the throttle. And it was just like, wow. And I've never experienced that before in any car. And I've driven just about everything.

Factory exhaust.

It's completely like.

It's rare to experience a exhaust sound through the camera. And watching that video and seeing everybody's reaction, you could feel.

Yeah, well, we were driving. I was driving the. Yes. Go. There was a Regera following us. So right there, you can tell the difference between the two cars through sound. And then. I love James. James says driving the Regera is like driving, like, marine equipment. Like, it's like driving a submarine. It's like. Oh. It's like. It's got this really deep tone. You don't hear any gear shifting when it drives by. It's just a completely different beast. But all made from the same manufacturer.

Yeah.

And then on top of all that, just the. The lightning quickness of the shifting in the Esco, the sound we talked about because of this new engine design, and then the looks of it. I mean, it looks so much, you know, crazier. The arrow, when you see one in person, it doesn't do the photos justice, you know? And I was driving an attack, which has the crazy wing that's floating at the back. Yeah, it's all active. It all moves.

That's the crazy part that it's just come straight across.

It's so fast. I only got through first. Second, like, ripping on it on that one part in London, that was like a side road. There was nobody around, and it was like, yeah, thank God it's got adequate brakes. It flies. What.

What were the quirks and features that surprise? Like, what. What did you think was neat about the car inside?

It's really endless. Inside's pretty classic Koenigsegg, except for it's got a new display that's attached to the steering wheel.

I'm still undecided. I don't know if I like it.

It's cool.

Is it?

So when you turn, the wheel itself itself writes it, like, self levels.

Yeah.

Yeah. It's really neat. I think it's cool. I've never seen any car ever do that before. I mean, it's like McLaren when they came out with the whole. The dash flips up and down. Yeah, that was really cool.

Really cool.

I actually thought when they first introduced that, I was like, oh, that's gonna be the first thing to break. And I don't know anybody that's ever had an issue with that thing flipping out every time, right?

Yeah, sometimes I'll put it up if I Want it even in track mode.

Other things that were really unique about the Jesko were just the little subtle things. So like the new headlight design, the new tail light design. Because when you look at Konig's eggs, they kind of again have a different theme to each model. There's certain things that hold true. Like the windshield's always.

Yeah. The design layer.

Windshield.

Yeah.

Crazy AR to it. Wouldn't even want to know what one of those would cost to replace. But. But then this car is just like so new from the ground up. Like.

And I've always loved the Koenigseggs, like whatever you want to call it, like open body look like if you hit the button and everything. Just like transformer style.

The doors, the doors will open up. Dude. The front opens up and then the rear.

Clamshell.

Clamshell opens up and exposes.

You know, it's just, it's just.

It actually opens up this way. Yeah. And exposes the motor and everything's carbon fiber.

Everything and. And branded like the, the titanium nuts have the logo. Like everything.

Yeah, yeah. It's a. It's an incredible car. They made more than they've typically made in the pasta cars like Regera. I think they made 80 in the world.

That's it.

They made. They're making 125 yes goes unfortunately, two days after I left London or drove that car, a fully exposed carbon body Yesco unfortunately caught fire and burnt to the ground in Greece. That went real viral. Everyone saw that.

Yeah.

They immediately looked into what caused that. I don't know what it was. Maybe that's been released now, but you know those cars are hand built. Take years. These guys have got their yes goes and only 25 or six have been delivered out of 125. And they've been waiting three plus years for their car. So this guy who had his car burned down, they're going to build him a new car.

Wow.

Yeah. Instead of being like, well you got your one of 125 and it burned to the ground because obviously it was a manufactured defect.

Yeah.

So yeah.

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And just so you know, Konig Zig London, the dealership that just opened.

Yeah.

Is.

And is that James's dealership?

James is involved in it. James's business partner.

Okay.

So that. That car belongs to the dealership. And they were very fortunate to be able to get that car because they actually.

So I was gonna ask.

That wasn't their car. Oh. They got that because of other circumstances. I don't know if I can explain.

Okay.

Or if I'm allowed to say how they got that car. But that car belonged to someone else. They no longer could take it. And the factory offered it to them. That's how they got it, basically.

Okay. It wasn't like a dealer.

They didn't inspect that.

Yeah.

That was someone else's car. Which is why in London, it's left hand drive, which made it easier for me to drive.

Yeah. It looked so cool. What? Let's talk about Ferraris because I know.

You'Re a big Ferrari fan.

Well, I've got the P style and then my Neighbor's got a 4, 5, 8, Mansory kit. It's one of the. I think his Instagram says one of one in Canada, which.

I'm the white one.

Yeah. Alan, he's my neighbor. And then. But I've heard. I've never. I mean, I'm new to Ferrari, but they don't like people messing with their cars. Why. And like, are they calmed down lately or what?

Well, there. There's some myths around that.

Yeah.

There's the infamous and nasty YouTuber. Automotive YouTubers love to take advantage of this myth. The whole Ferrari cease and desist letter. The thing Ferrari doesn't want you to do. Any brand wouldn't want you to do this. You can appreciate this, being an entrepreneur and building companies is you don't want the brand you work so hard to build to be tarnished in any way. So Ferrari doesn't want you modifying something that they built and then calling it Ferrari. They don't care if you modify their cars. Just don't call it Ferrari. Right. So. And they also don't want you to tarnish their brand. So if you try to force a brand collab, so you go buy a Ferrari, Right. And you have a company selling designer shoes and clothing. This is a true story, by the way, Philip Plein. And you take your shoes and put them on the back of your Ferrari near the Ferrari logo and take a bunch of photos and try to use Ferrari's likeness to promote your products. You'll probably get a cease and desist. In fact, Ferrari sued him and won.

Yeah.

So he took a pair of his designer shoes, put them on the back, said Ferrari, took photos of it, and Ferrari was like, no, that's the. Your brand is bringing down the value of our brand because of what your brand stands for. And. And they won in court. So.

So is the cease and desist letter not real or they.

Oh, it's real. Okay. I know people have gotten them over what? Over modifying something. And then. So, for example, if you were to modify a Ferrari and you modified the front fenders and you put a body kit on it, and you take the shield. Let's say your car was specked with a shield, you take the Ferrari logo, you take it off, you put a completely new fender on, which has nothing to do with Ferrari, and put the shield back on. That ain't gonna like that because that is no longer an original Ferrari part that you were putting a Ferrari logo on. And I know that for a fact because my friend James, Mr. JWW just released a car called the Evoluto. I think I'm pronouncing that right. And he took the Ferrari F355 chassis and they retro, like, modded it.

Yeah.

To be all modern. And they reinforced the chassis with carbon and made it more rigid and drive really good and redid the whole motor. And he. And I asked him this question, like, you're actually gonna build a car based off of a Ferrari, and then you're gonna sell it like singer, Like Porsche was singing.

Yeah, yeah. Or Bravis.

And I said, what? What can you not get in trouble for? And he said he hired attorneys to basically pretend like they were working for Ferrari and they reverse engineered it. If we were Ferrari's lawyers, what would we sue you for?

That's cool.

They came up with a list of 18 things or something like that. And so basically, nothing on the car that they touched could have the logo back on it, except for the front grille, because the front grille on the car stayed original and it had the prancing horse on the front of it. So they think they could put that back on, and that's okay. But it doesn't say Ferrari anywhere on the car because everything else in the car was modified. New paint, new everything.

So it's just a chassis. Anybody looking at it would they think.

What'S a chassis in a body? But they modified the body. It's a full carbon car. It's like psychotic how they built this car. It's over built. It's Amazing. It's beautiful. Manual gearbox. Now I can show it to you.

That's so cool.

Yeah.

What, what do you think? Having been in the supercar industry for so long now, what do you think most people wouldn't know about the industry that you've learned? Like, they'd be surprised to learn like a normal person. Like just they understand the supercars, but they're like, what? Like what would they be surprised?

I just go to the. The basic again myth that they're really unreliable and expensive to maintain. Modern supercars are not that they're a Lamborghini Huracan, any model of it, anything from the first one they built to an STO to a Technica, their final edition. Any of those cars are daily drivable, bulletproof to the point where I actually probably have more confidence daily driving one of those cars than some of. Than some Toyotas.

That's a big statement.

They are so good. I promise you, if you were to go buy a Huracan, even a used one with 20, 30, 40, 000 kilometers on it, which in fact my streetcar I bought with 40 +000k, who is. They're selling their car through August. They were actually a DD fan and I bought that car and I've driven the living daylights out of it, plus supercharged it. No problems, nothing.

Whoa.

And it's. Mine's like one of the most modified hurricanes on Planet Level.

You did all the stuff you're not supposed to do.

Full race body kit.

Yeah.

Supercharger. That's the actual snorkel roof scoop that's from the race car actually is connected to the engine with the race car filter in it, which all had to be tuned. I don't have a single engine light. I don't have a single light on my dash. I have handbrake in my car from like a drift car. We got rid of the paddles. Deleted the paddles. I have the paddles now hooked up to a rally style carbon style shifter. So shifting up is back, shifting downs forward. I mean, I. Dude, I have my own private little area in LA that I beat the hell out of that car. Third gear burnouts to the point where I'm doing a burnout in third gear. The wheel speed's like 100 miles an hour. So much smoke you don't know which way's up. It's like being lost underwater in a cave. And car starts. No issues.

Never problem. No issues.

I don't even do the oil change, man.

People are worried to put like exhaust on cars. Worrying that's going to mess it up.

There are certain cars, depending on the manufacturer, that if you don't do certain things in the right order, it will create little. Little hiccups.

Yeah.

But usually nothing detrimental to a modern day.

Yeah. They're built to protect themselves.

Now, ironically, that Diablo is so good, I just picked a really good one. But let's say Diablo generation, even murcielago generation early 2000s, if you don't get the right car, the accessories, the motor itself is pretty bulletproof. The gearbox, especially manual, is going to hold up really well. The E gear, because it's robotic, can have, depending on how you drive it. If you do a lot of reversing out of a long driveway, reverse really chews up the clutch in an E gear mercy. But if you avoid the things you know to avoid and do oil changes and services on time, they're really not gonna let you down. I just drove my. My Mercy with my wife. Boston to Boca Raton, dude. Eight hours a day. Not an issue.

That rally. I will say that car. The interior is so bright.

Yeah. You have to wear polarized sunglasses.

You have to.

It does reflect off the windshield.

Holy cow. Like, put. Put that interior, like, show everybody like I'm. And I love blue. It was like, honestly, that blue. And you guys did the blue. It looks custom to your shirt. Yeah. Like a little lighter. Yeah, lighter. A little bit more neon. Poppy. But man, I'm watching videos. I'm like, how do you see. Like it was.

Yeah, it reflects and that. I. I can't take credit for that concept of a blue interior on a white ext. Your car. I was really inspired to do that when I met a guy by the name of Mike in LA who owned a one off Agara R. It's called the Agara RS1 and it's white and carbon on the outside with a little bit of blue detail. And then the interior is that blue. And I saw that car and fell in love with it. And I was like, one day I will do an interior mod and it'll be that blue color. It turned out really good. Minus. They always have to have polarized glasses.

So sharp.

Yeah.

What else about the supercar industry? I mean, there's the whole fiasco, I think I've heard, with like, just allocations.

Yeah. I mean, what, like Ferrari, your favorite brand?

Yeah, I would say McLaren's my favorite brand. Is it slowly? Yeah, I. I'm a die hard McLaren because they're. They're the first. It was my first car. Non pretentious. Didn't make me feel like I had to jump through hoops. Ferrari is just the sound in the engine. The theater of the Pisa, specifically. That's the only car I've owned. Just has made me really happy. But yeah, I've just the allocations, the. I'm trying to get GT3Rs right now. The like.

Yeah. So I was going to say Porsche and Ferrari are the top of the tier for the. They really reserve the right to reward the longest standing clientele list based on what? Very politically. Beautifully way to explain you've owned previously or what you're willing to buy right now. That is the not special cars. And I know lots of guys, I have lots of friends that have gone out and bought plenty of the Portofinos and the Lussos and the. You name it to get like the piece or to get, you know, whatever's coming up next. Lamborghini never really made you, you know, kind of like the 4 GT behind us over in the back. You won't see it. But the newer 4 GT, the. Those cars, there's only five. You had to apply.

Yeah.

Now they made more of them in the end. Oh, did they kept adding more?

Yeah, yeah.

I don't even know what they're. But every single one. You had to apply online on Ford.

Yeah.

Write something performance website. Yeah. Send all your social media and yada yada. So Ford would do that. And then if you own the car and got an allocation, you also signed that you could not sell it for 18 months.

18 months.

Lamborghini was never known for doing that. But now with the V12 replacement of the Revolto, that now is the car that came after the aventador. It's a V12, naturally aspirated V12 with hybrid assist, 1001 horsepower. I recently drove one beautiful car. Actually sounds pretty cool on the interior. Can't wait to see somebody straight pipe one. But that car, it wasn't that you had to apply to get it. They picked who were going to get them early on. But you did have to sign something saying you couldn't resell it right away.

Okay.

So if you want to sell, it has to go back to the dealer. And I've already seen some people playing games on the Internet where they're saying we have a revolt for sale. And it's like, well, that's impossible.

Yeah.

And I can guarantee you Lamborghini knows exactly based on where you are, your goip and the spec of the car, they'll know what client that is. Right. I haven't even Delivered that many of them. So that's kind of a ballsy move of a dealership to be like, hey, hit us up. We have a revolto for sale. It's like, no you don't.

Is it?

But I mean, that person's in trouble.

What. What is the game that I've seen people play where they're selling allocations sometimes? It's fake. I mean, that's a whole thing in itself.

Fraud. Yeah, you gotta watch over fraud.

Like wiring 50 grand for an allocation and then.

Which seems dumb because when I've seen that, it's like really big ticket cars.

Yeah.

You know, I've actually saw that a lot with the Yesco. I saw guys saying they had yes go allocations.

Really? I didn't think it happened like the Middle east level.

That's what I saw. Huh. Yeah. And the Porsche GT3 RS is selling for. It was, for a while there, it was like double when they first came out. Yeah, yeah. Don't buy that car for double. No, it's going to come down. Everyone has.

Yeah. What. What other stuff do you think the who's. Who's doing it best in the supercar space? Because there's some new ones coming out, right? These new electric.

Yeah. It depends on if you're a fan of that. You know, I feel really old saying this, but I, I hate electric cars.

Okay.

Yeah. I just think it's too premature. I think that the electric cars are, and this is my opinion, are not the thing that's gonna remotely even put a dent in the, you know, problem of why they're allegedly here. It's very interesting to me why the governments are pushing for manufacturers to be full electric by 2035.

Yeah. Now especially low production numbers. Like the supercars.

Right. Like hybrid assisted cars. I don't have that big of a problem with like look how cool the P1 is. I was just talking about how the P1 out accelerates a Sena and that's only due to the electric motors.

Yeah.

You know, so that's cool. But let's keep the combustion engine around and let's make cars sound cool and keep that soul and that enthusiasm that we like. And cuz electric cars just lose it.

You know, it just. It loses the theater.

It does.

So when you look at the. Because you said you drove the. Revolto.

Revolto. Revolto, yeah.

And when you pronounced it, I was like, well done, sir. Because I'm not going to get it.

Usually I pronounce everything wrong when it comes to.

Well, you got that one. I Think nailed. Compared to an SF90, how did do you feel like?

Man, you can't compare them.

Yeah.

Lamborghini is such a different beast. And I love. I used to love doing this when I was, you know, not into owning and driving exotics pre dde. I used to be like, oh, yeah, the Lamborghini this versus the Ferrari that. It's like they are apples and oranges.

Yeah.

They are so different. They're not even on the same trajectory for what they're both trying to accomplish.

Yeah.

So comparing them is impossible.

Kind of silly.

It's silly. It's goofy. Now, an SF90 is a wickedly fast, cool car. I think it looks cool too.

I mean, is there a point where it going from zero to what the hell am I doing? Like that. That.

Where does it stop?

I mean, that's the thing with the electric assist. Like, the P stuff for me is a lot of power. I couldn't imagine having some torque filling where it literally goes from like 0 to 1.4 seconds into a tree at warp speed because, like, it's just so much.

You'd be shocked. So driving the Revolto, thousand horsepower, brand new Lamborghini.

Yeah.

It didn't. Now I'm a bit jaded. I have a lot of thousand plus horsepower cars in various different engine trims and stuff like that. Yeah. So I'm used to it, but I was expecting it to be more violent. It's not.

That's what I was asking.

You could hand the keys of a thousand horsepower Volto to your wife and she could cruise you.

Feel good.

Not a problem.

Okay. So that's quite different.

It's not like the snappy instant gonna shoot you like a rocket into a tree.

Yeah, yeah.

No, yeah. It's amazing. There was a time when 400 horsepower was like the big thing. Godly. Yeah.

Well, then. Then I jump into the GT3, which is, from a driver's experience, just so fun because it's not overly powered. So it means you really get to play with the car at the upper limits without, again, without getting in trouble with the law. Right. You get that 9,000 RPM and it's just the audio of it. Yeah. Somebody's debating because, like, this is. I remember I went through this struggle when I bought my first car around, trying to make it about what I wanted, versus I was taking a lot of opinions from other people.

Yeah, I've been. I've been down that road.

It's just. It's tough because you're like, I don't know. So I'm not going to not listen. But at the same time, I don't want to buy something for somebody else. Like, I want the car color. I want, I want the kind of. What do you. If somebody was buying their first supercar, regardless of what they're spending, how would you tell them to approach the decision of what kind of car they should get for them? Before we get back to this episode, if you prefer to watch your content, then go find me on YouTube. I have this episode on YouTube. I'm Dan Martel on YouTube. Just subscribe to the channel, turn on the notification bell because then you'll get notified in real time. It'll tell YouTube to tell you got a new episode, so you'll never miss anything. Now let's get back to the episode.

That's a really good. That's a good question. I. I do get that question. And I tell people to go out and test drive cars and get a little bit of experience under their belt before they go and just drop their money on something. Drive, drive all, as many as you can. And through that experience, just like anything in life, you're going to come out with an understanding of what it is you liked over something else. And then at the end of the day, if you, if you're buying used, just try to buy something in your favorite color. Right. Because you can be staring at it every day for a long time.

Yeah.

If, if you kind of have a little inkling like, oh, I want something really loud, but that's not really something you've ever done before. Don't do it because it'll just bite you in the butt. Like, if you get a lime green Porsche and you take it home and that's. The rest of your house is pretty muted, it's going to stand out like a sore thumb. You're also going to get a ton of attention. So you definitely need to buy a car based on your current situation, personality, you know, don't get in over your head. Don't try to buy something.

And even that.

Don't buy something by the price.

Yeah.

Just because a car is more expensive doesn't make it cooler.

Yeah.

Everybody watching you drive around your car, honestly, no one cares. Everybody's thinking about themselves.

Don't buy something by the price. Is that what you said?

Yeah. Don't, don't. Don't go and get an exotic car just for attention. Right. Like, don't go out and be like, I think, you know, verde scandal. Aventador is going to be the best car because it's to going get me a ton of attention. Right. A lot of people don't like driving Aventadors. Like they're kind of clunky. It's. You got to get into how that car drives to appreciate it. Even the svj which is the best version of that model line. And I have people who are like, I hate the svj. And I'm like, that blows my mind because I love it. One of my favorite cars of all time that I've ever had. Right. But that's the difference between people, your experience, what you do. So go out, buy something that is definitely within your budget and buy something that you've done the homework on based on maintenance. Because there are cars that require more maintenance. Like you buy a Bugatti Veyron. This is a little over the top. But to some people Bugatti Veyron is still, you know, it's only in that one. One. One to one, you know, call it 2 million for a rare spec. But like they're a million dollar car. Like I could have got that instead of a Senna. Here's a good example. Example. I could have got a Bugatti Veyron for the same price I paid for my Senna. Do you know what the service, the service scheduling on a Veyron is? Well, first of all, the tires are glued to the rims.

Is that why they're so excited? Isn't it? That's one reason or something.

Yes, yes. You change the tires, which by the way, you cannot take to any tire shop.

No, they have to go.

Car goes to the two Bugatti, they take that. They used to take the rims and tires off. I think there's a machine in North America that does it now. But they used to take your rims and tires off, send them to back to France. They take your tires off, they put new tires on for $55,000 USD. You do that three times. Then you need to also replace the rims because they're glued to the rims. Now you're like at a hundred plus thousand dollars after three tire changes. The oil change in that car is like $25,000 because they have to go in, take all the body work off. I mean that car is ridiculous. And then they made the Chiron, which has none of those issues. Use if normal tires, you can put them on. But if you don't understand what you're getting into, that's where you can get into hot water.

Yeah.

And as you go into the later years of supercars, some of them have More maintenance, like a Murcia Lago. I love this car, but you got to stay on top of the maintenance because it's got older tech. It's the accessories that are going to let you down. It's like a belt or a pulley or, you know, your aco goad or the petcock valve on your mercy radiator. Those are things that fail. Not the motor, not the trans. Most of the time.

That's so cool.

Yeah.

I want to ask about Gumball because, I mean, rallies again. I was watching rallies. It seems like you guys are creating so much content. You're meeting fans. I mean, your fans are ridiculous. I messaged you while you were doing.

I was like, dude, don't mess around.

They are passionate. I love it. And the way you guys support them and give them like you did the, the key things and you're just always trying to just love on them. What if somebody's considering, because I've never done a rally. People that have supercars have never done a rally. What would you say to them?

Kind of like buying a car. Start small.

Okay.

Right. Even if you could afford to go on gumball, the next gumball, by the way, is Southeast Asia. We start in Vietnam.

Did you find the car? Because I know you came here looking for one. Did you guys get the car that you're going to ship there?

So in the end, we got my car done.

Like, no way.

Literally by the last hour, it was my Aventador svj, which I've already done two of my three gumballs in. So now it's going to do its third. I ship that car to Europe and back. Now that car is in a container on its way to Vietnam. So yeah, I mean, that's the big boy pants rally. Right? Like that is on different continents than you live and your car's on. There are.

And it's a. How much is it to go to gumball? Like all said and done, expenses, travel.

Shipping, that depends on the person. Okay, so the entry fee for this one, I believe is about a hundred thousand dollars USD. That doesn't include you getting your car to and from the event. The event's in Vietnam. So pay for all that. You pay for all your own gas. You have to get by special insurance, which is through gumball. So we're talking 100, I'd say I, I will be into this with Dave for DDE as 175,000 USD expense by the time we do the rally. Get back now. Dave and I are middle aged. We're middle aged we're fun guys to be around, but we don't go to clubs.

You don't have a support team.

I don't drink.

Yeah.

And when Dave drinks, he doesn't drink a lot. He has a couple of drinks. We don't do anything else. We don't do any recreational drugs, gambling. We don't. I gamble a little bit, but not like, I don't go. Some guys go like 20, 50 grand in.

Yeah.

I'd go and spend a few hundred bucks at a blackjack table because it's fun. But, like, that's where your expenses are going to add up if you're like the person. And there are guys that come out and do this who want to do, like, bottle service at the club every night on gumball. Right. The flex that gets. I mean, forget about the entry fee. These guys are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in a week doing crazy stuff. I've seen it. Because you can go to the club and want someone.

And some of them, you said, like, because of the. The trunk space we were looking at is some of them have support vehicles. They don't have to worry, but they'll do the sto.

Yeah, right. Sto. There are people who are breaking. There's a lot of. STO is actually on this year's gumball.

And the SEO has zero. This is the smallest frunk I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah. It's only meant for a helmet.

It's like the barely fits a helmet. It wouldn't fit a double xl.

Correct. So, yeah, these guys are. These guys are bringing support vehicles like Escalades and stuff that are wrapped to match their car. Some guys bring three vehicles. And what's crazy is in the Middle east, in Europe, you could rent an exotic car and do gumball. You cannot rent a car in Asia. So every One of the hundred plus supercars that are coming, it's between 100 or 120 they have. Every one of those cars is the person's actual personal vehicle. So we call this, like the big boy version of gumball, because you can't just. You can't get out of the shipping fees and just rent a car for 25 grand for. No, no.

You got to be all in.

You're all in.

Let's go.

But if you're going to do a rally, I would suggest North America. There's plenty of good rallies. You go do Gold Rush rally, which I just did with my wife. Tons of fun. You started in one location in North America. Drive eight or nine days and Another location, they have events planned all along the way. I really believe that it's a lot of fun and that's why I did.

It, you know, so, so wrapping up on that specific theme, what are your philosophies for people that like, what would you tell somebody that owns a supercar or is thinking to get one in regards to the ethos of sharing it with the, the people? Because like I, you know, like, man, you came to my office and you parked out front and we came out, it was an a car show, like literally. And you were so kind letting people take photos and be around and like, do you. Is that something that you're like, hey, if you have these kind of cars you should share versus trying to keep people away and get mad because they take a photo. What was your, what are your two cents on that?

Yeah, again I think it comes down to your personality. If it bugs you to have that type of money invested in something and you take a lot of pride in it, which I get, you know, and you are nervous because maybe you've got some scar tissue from another experience or something like that's on an individual basis. I'm all about sharing. I really believe what you put out to the universe is what you're going to get back. I always try to put out tons of positive energy. I never think about people hurting my car or having a door ding because people ask me all the time how you bark in the senna amongst all the other cars they call, you know, the regular cars when you go to the grocery store, when you're at the hotel and I just say, well, I don't know, I've never had a door ding. I don't put that out there. I don't think anyone's going to hurt my car. Right. I think it's meant, I think it's the mentality. I love sharing the car. If I can, I'll let people get in it. If there's a lot of people, I say no because that you let one person in.

I try to, you're done.

I try to be fair. Right. So if I let someone sit in it, it's either going to be a child where I can be like, oh, I let the kids sit in it, you know, and then I can say no to the, you know, 19 year old teenager and all the other adults at a car show because I'm like, I just let the kids sit in it for a sec and they're like, I get it. But yeah, if you're around at a gas station, I Put plenty of people in my car. So I've had a few people. Just like again, last week when I was driving to Senna, I had at one gas station a young kid. Get in. And then I, like, had another gas stop the following day. I had like, probably a 65 year old woman who was just losing her over this car. And I was like. I was like, this is so cool. I don't only get older women who appreciate the car.

You want to sit.

So I was like, you want to sit in it? I was just pumping gas. But yeah, Yeah, I like it, dude. No one's gonna hurt the car more than me. Right? That's my opinion. I'm like, get in it. Kick the carbon on the way in. It's all ppf. I've protected it all.

You have?

Yeah.

Damon, I appreciate you on so many levels and, well, thank you for watching the channel.

Dude, I had no idea you knew who DD was. Like, our brand so far back. I thought you just figured it out when I started working with August and you were starting to buy supercars.

No, man, I. You inspire. As you know, there's a people that you get to meet and then there's bazillions of people you'll never know about that you've definitely inspired on this journey. And I called them Claire Mindset. Like, to your point, what you just said, the philosophy of what you put out, you get back to me. I had this mindset that I didn't want to be too showy and too. You know, I'm Canadian. I just. I don't even wear a watch. Like, I didn't want to be that guy.

I used to. I got rid of them.

Yeah. And then I realized I was depriving myself and everybody else because I wanted to use my car to inspire, to show them. So I do stuff with that rescue. We do. We always bring the cars. And I just. It's been. It's been some of the funnest moments in my life way more than the business success. And you've inspired that. So thanks for that. Thanks for being here, man.

My pleasure, man. Thanks for having me again. Your. Your podcast Success and your YouTube channel is taken off. Our last one we did. Rocked it, dude.

It was crazy. And your fan showed up in the comments and I was like, of course. This is amazing.

Yeah. Engagement. I tried go engage with them too. There's a point there where you can't reply to everybody. Guys, I apologize if I missed you.

He would if he could, but he's got a family.

Oh, man. Yeah. And Dave and I do it all.

Yeah.

You know, if Someone's commenting in YouTube 90 of the time it's me. But that's it. We don't hire people to go and reply. We want it to be genuine, authentic show up. Yeah, we show up and there's days where I just can't. You know, between all the platforms you.

Do the stories channel is impressive.

Yeah, it's crazy how it took off.

Hey, yeah.

People just want more of what are we doing when we're not holding a camera for the main channel.

Yeah, it's awesome. Thanks again, man.

Thanks for having me.

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