Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another episode of Ka of Nukes. As always, I'm your, I'm your host, Mr. Whiskey. I'm having trouble maintaining my composure here with one of the most exciting and most funny, funniest, however you wanna put it. Topsiders. I know. But yeah, we're here after the Thanksgiving break.
Hope y'all had a great time with your families and friends, and had some Turkey and ham and whatever it is you do. And in fact, last year I was able to have Thanksgiving on the ship thanks to, uh, sky, right here, culinary specialist. We're gonna call him Toto. Topsider. Cs been in the Navy a couple years now, but he's gonna go ahead and introduce himself.
Give a little intro. Come on, man. Uh, what's up y'all? Uh, yeah, like you said, I'm, I'm Toto man. Just, you know, I like gold car, I like old cars, you know, always had a big, have a big dream of becoming a mechanic one day and, you know, just try and just get out, survive this in seven months left that I have, and just, you know, go pursue what I always wanted to do when I was a kid.
So. Yeah. Yeah. And of course the question we always have, we always ask is, why did you join the Navy? Was that your original intention, that branch? Is it a family thing? What were your goals? And, you know, how, how did you end up doing all that and, and how many years you been in so far and how you enjoying it so far, or lack thereof?
Uh, I mean, to be honest with you, when I joined the Navy, I really didn't have no plans after high school. I didn't have that mechanic dream really in full fruition till I guess, I guess recently. So all I'm really just, I, now that I know what I want to really pursue after I get out and now it's like, you know, I want to really go pursue this shit for real.
'cause I've realized, you know, my old dreams came back and being a professional racer and all that stuff, you know, 'cause that always been a big dream of mine. And I always wanted to be able to just do nothing but just work on cars, build 'em, race, 'em, just, just having a blast and enjoying life. Why kick the bucket eventually?
Because honestly in my opinion, two things. One is life is way too damn short to drive something boring and reliable. And second EVs are gay as fuck. Hey. Hey. So for those of you who don't know, that's just uh, the abbreviation for electric vehicles, correct? Yes. Yeah. So, so you're very against that. I mean, we can talk real quick 'cause in, um, civilians versus Nuke, 'cause one of our episodes we had, uh, guest star Nico come on and we talked about electric vehicles.
He owns a Tesla, he's all for it. He spent a lot of money on it. And we talked a lot about how it's constantly evolving and the different things with it. Why, why are you against it? Uh, both environmental side and then just as a car guy? Alright, so, well for starters, I'm not necessarily a hater on EVs, right?
I know that GaN Jr, was one of my idols. He actually has a Mach e Mustang that has put it on like 1400 horsepower to all four wheels. Uh, according to him, on his video that I watched about him, he said that a lot of the old guys that he used to work with that existed during the hot rotting era of the sixties, those guys fucking were like super happy when they got behind the wheel with them.
'cause they were surprised at how powerful an EV engine could be and the potential it could be to make the, the make a new wave for speed and power. But in my opinion, I feel like EVs, although they're fast, I feel like a lot of people go over the fact that you can look at the facts online and look at videos and everything.
'cause lithium mining is a very, very, very dangerous for the environment, more harmful, according to, you know, a lot of experts of, there's more dangerous than fossil fuels. So, personally, as much as I don't wanna say that EVs are the suck. I just don't prefer them because I'm more of like a fucking a VA loving, loud as hell, race car type of guy.
I like big American power. I fucking love, you know, hearing an engine roar. Fucking just around the highway, like every morning when I wake up as a kid, I'd be hearing like all my streets, just literally cars. Just going down the big ass exhaust or fucking thumping their fucking music down loud as fuck.
Just the base boost just going down. Then shit. My dad, my old man actually used to have a higher boost in his uh, uh, motorcycle. And you know, I remember as a kid we used to, you know, hang out a lot and go to Red Island and drive down. There was a good time. You know, I always had that need for speed in me since I was a kid.
But the only thing that was purporting me back for getting was my license. Of course. You know, they say, you know, at 22 years old, getting a license seems like a little bit too late. But in my opinion, when it comes to this or anything, you're never too late to chase your dreams. You're never too late to give up.
The people who tell you that it's too late are people that don't want it bad. You just, there's two people in this world that exist. The people that kind of want it and the people that actually want it, the people that actually want it are gonna be the ones that get it and actually get it popping and actually do chase that dream.
No matter what people say, the ones that act that kind of want it, they're gonna be like, oh yeah, I wanna do this. But they're not serious about it and they don't take the necessary steps to do it. 'cause no one wants to play the long game for success anymore. Everyone wants to just have a shortcut or just fucking get an easy way out or win the lottery.
Yeah, but let me, I'm gonna be dead honest. My parents wanna win the lottery one day too. They do, but you have a better chance of finding a fucking unicorn than you fucking doing the damn uh, win the lottery. Lemme be honest here, because everyone wants to have that easy success ticket. That right there, the lottery to me like an easy success ticket because once you win that money, you basically, your life has changed forever.
You're never gonna go back to being who you were before, once you the lottery. But I feel like, in my opinion, success. Especially with, for racing drivers is a very long process. 'cause you have to be consistent. You of course, you know you gotta sponsorships, you gotta be able to have a lot of the know-how and actually be a good driver and develop that.
'cause some people start a little later than Yoris. For example, Anthony Alfredo, he's a, he's a, he races in the, uh, in nascar. He started racing at, I believe at 15, 16 years old. Right. And they say usually some people start at eight years old, younger as hell because they had, it allows 'em to develop that driving skill early on so that motor skills are lunch.
Were better than people that start out just regular driving or racing. But I feel like, in my opinion, it doesn't matter because he got lucky. He said in this video, in his luck, he got lucky racing and got picked up by a team, I think I wrong, in his early twenties. And he got tested for them. And he is not officially licensed as a racer.
And also another person's a good example was Ken Block. He was been my idol. And unfortunately he passed away this year in during the new year, the second day of the new year. And he started racing in his thirties. But he was a businessman beforehand. He was a basically a self-made millionaire. He sold his company for $80 million and he could have settled on that, but he did it.
So on the video that I watched about him, they said that he basically was scouted out by someone. He had developed a natural driving talent that they saw in him. So they had him basically racing. So after a good while, he got signed to super rally team and basically the rest is history. Like the guy literally, I think is the most iconic motor sports figure in all of racing.
There's no one who compares in status or, what's the word for word? Notoriety, I don't think. No, I'm say notoriety. Infamy. Not in three, neither. Nah, he's not infamous like that. Like more successful, more iconic than Ken Block. He is. In my opinion the pinnacle of what more sports is, he can do anything. The man built a fucking all-wheel drive SWAT 65 Mustang with 1400 horses, twin turbo name somebody in the world who thinks of shit like that.
Nobody else except for Ken Buck would think of something like that. And that's why I love him so much. He is the most baddest motherfucker that ever exists in motor sports, period. I don't give a shit. Who the hell? I don't give a shit if Kevin Harvick or fucking any of the other NASCAR drivers have more, have championship wins up the ass.
No one. If he ever get, if, if Ken Buckle was alive and ever in nascar, I guarantee you that man would fucking clean up shop. He would be unstoppable. But of course some people don't really go down that route. 'cause nascar, of course, as you everyone knows, anyone who knows about the sport is very expensive.
Is very expensive. You, I believe I looked it up on, on Google, apparently, in order for you to even start, you need like $15 million on deck in order to even start in a season. Money fuel. Fucking gas tires. The, the course, the fucking labor fees for the team, the car itself, it's racing's not cheap, but for some people, you know, that's why some people stick to more or less like the like.
Um, well I'm trying to get in an autocross level 'cause autocross for all you people that don't know is a very cheap and very um, uh, what is it called? Um, very uh, accessible motor sport to get into because it is literally like a benchmark before motorsports because a lot of people say that mo people in autocross, if they wanna go professional, that experience you have in autocross, they can take that shit with them to maybe professional career because it teaches you about how to race on a track.
You're not gonna go like, fucking go put your hammer down, you're gonna go fucking flying on a race course. 'cause they're usually sitting on parking lots. They set up clones in the parking lot and they have a whole course ran. You basically are just in a time trial. You basically take it, your car, whatever it is.
And by the way. If you guys are interested in doing autocross and you think that you don't have a car set for it, let me tell you this, you could take anything, your daily driver, anything that you have with you can be a, an autocross vehicle because they say that as long as it's not a truck or any SUV something that's heavy and within coming in the corners, it could use anything.
A classic car, a modern car. It doesn't matter what it is, no matter what country it's from and can use it as long as the course passes a, a regular expression, like a regular, just to see and make sure it's safe to drive. Other than that, you should be good. Get a helmet, some gloves, and you should be good to go.
And I, that's really what I wanted to do since like I got the idea for it, I always was actually interested in doing that and I've always wanted to actually get into road racing for a long time. But, so it's the only way requirement I need is my license. I'm already a, uh, like one step away from that. So once I have that in hand, literally all I'm gonna do is get my little beater.
Probably like, maybe that dust I was looking at on Facebook marketplace, like there's like five Gs or maybe like there's a Camaro I'm looking at, at eighties Camaro for like about three grand that's fucking up in Delaware. And I'm thinking I'm gonna go take my pops there with me and try and go convince 'em to go on a road trip with them to fucking go get that shit.
That shit. 'cause we, my family's in the cars, but we've never had a classic in the family. And I'm gonna be that person who brings that classic into the family. 'cause it's about time that our family, our car loving family is, you know, gets a classic. But aside from my sisters, I don't think they're really into cars like that, like I am and my father.
But, you know, I could probably convince 'em, I could probably get 'em down that path of with time. It, it'll take some time. And it seems like they're in the tuners, like mage or some shit. You know, they, they're not bad cars, but you know, they're just like, yeah. But other than that, yeah, it's just that piece of, oh, hey man, all you gotta do, if you just buy your sisters a car, I mean, they'll, they'll love it man.
You ain't even, it don't take much to convince someone to love a car other than. Uh, you, you don't wanna be into classics. Well, here's one for free, man. They, they'd be down for it, supposedly, except, you know, it was funny when I was learning how to drive, my parents didn't wanna teach me. They paid in New Jersey.
The requirement is six hours behind the wheel. That's it. That's all I had pretty much when I took my road test and when I took my road test, it, it had to be a certain number of months after my six hours. So I had not drove at all. I had not been driving at all. And I, I took that thing with a former Marine and he thought that he was like a drill sergeant still at the driving test.
I mean, I mean, you had to sit up straight. I mean, this guy, like, I, I, they were warning me like, man, you're gonna fail no matter what. This guy's a, um, you know, he thinks he's still in. He's still in, man. But, um, I passed with no driving experience. You know, my parents were like this, Hey, if you wanna learn how to drive, you gotta buy your own car and, um, you, because we don't want you on our insurance.
And the thing with that is. I mean, when you start learning to drive, you're what, like 16 typically is like, I think most states now is, is around 16. And it's like most high schoolers don't have a job. And if they do, it's not until halfway through at least. But yeah, so, so that was the whole, you know, deal with that.
And then I never drove again really until later on in the military, uh, driving Big Red's car. And then eventually I got my own. But my youngest sister, as it is with the youngest sibling, they get everything. You didn't have. I mean, when she turned 16 parents said, here's you want a free car? And she said, no, I don't like the car you picked out.
What car was it? Um, man, I don't, I don't know. It wasn't, wasn't anything too fancy. Um, my dad had just gotten in it from an old lady, had, uh, had a family member pass away or, or she passed away and it was like only had maybe 30, 40,000 miles on it. Basically brand new. It was like a 2020 and, uh. Perfect condition and my dad didn't want it.
He wanted to get a different car and he told my younger sister, you could have it for free. And she said no. Regardless of what it is. A free car is a free car, especially when you're 16, especially that son of a bitch, a fucking 16, nine roller. I'll be fucking hype as fuck. I still look in my driveway and fucking at home and like, Hey son, I heard you got your license.
Hey, I got you a car. Well, it's not really a car, it's more of like a a she. I'm like, and what is it? I'm like, it's a fucking shit. Yeah, I'll be fucking jumping up a fucking walls. If I fucking found a Chevelle roller in my fucking driveway, I'd be like, yep, project beater. Let's get it. I'd be happy for anything, man.
Hell yeah. Fucking spoiled people. Hey, turn down a free car. I mean, come on. You could always fix it up. And for your first car, your first car is never gonna be your dream car. I mean, I mean, we've, we've accepted that. I know you're trying hard to make your first car, your dream car. I mean, it's not necessarily a dream car.
I mean, I would say classics in my eyes, right? Beaters, like look on Instagram or Facebook, right. People. There's a whole page dedicated to old ratted out muscle cars. AKA beaters, patina builds Those cars are not necessarily meant to be show cars. They're not meant to be like the fucking most well equipped vehicles.
They're meant to do one thing, be fast, loud, and have fun in them. That's literally it. That's the only reason why I'm so accustomed to American muscle because they are the definition of fun. I mean, tuners are fun. Don't get me wrong. They're fucking pretty badass. But in my opinion, they're not to offend no tuner guys that's probably in this podcast.
Muscle Cars without a doubt, are the most intimidating things ever 'cause anyone can drive a car, but it takes real balls to drive a car with no a b, s or no fucking power steering because that shit right there is literally the most difficult. Oh, there you go. You already did it. You didn't know what it is.
Fuck it. You already it. Is it a handful to drive something without any assistance with it? So all you cast, no offense to you guys who drive all that, you know, electronically powered sheet, get you inside behind a classic that has no A, b, s or power steering, and tell me the big difference between that and your a BS and power steering equipped charger.
By the way, charger four door chargers are not muscle cars, they're sedans. Just so you guys know. Right. Which is actually what I wanted to ask you, Mr. Totto, which is for those of our listeners who aren't really car people, you keep saying, you know, classic this, classic that and, and Muscle Car. This Muscle car that give, give, give us a little list of, of those types of cars that people would be familiar with.
When you say classic, what are you referring to? Okay, so I would say my top three are, I would say obviously maybe a lot of people know you this 'cause for anyone to watch the first Fast Furious, you know, well, exactly what I'm about to say. The 1970 Dodge Charger. That car was the reason that I changed my mind about tuners because that fucking blower and that initial drag set when he rev that engine just raced Brian in that first movie.
That shit fucking floored me. I fucking was fucking, I was just so engulfed in that fucking moment when it popped that wheel, even though it was a real wheelie. 'cause fun fact, the movie that was not a real wheelie, they actually had a bar propped up in the front, under the car. And when they pushed this shit up, it actually took it and actually like simulated it being a wheelie.
But it's not. 'cause for those of you who are not familiar with how cars work, you cannot do a burnout in a wheelie at the same time. You're not gonna go nowhere. That's not how physics work, right? A real drag car, you either gonna you with the gas and it goes and it hits the wheel. 'cause all the power goes to the fucking rear wheels and it just fucking shots up like a wheelie.
That's how you get wheelies. 'cause a lot of power goes to the real wheels and you hit the gas and you just go and it's just fucking. It, it is awesome, but by the way, it awesome as fuck. Oh, by the way, also, have you ever looked up drag racing crashes on, on YouTube? Them shits are fucking awesome as hell.
That and old vin NASCAR race car crashes. That's like, I think the crash is like the best parts about racing too. I mean, of course the racing itself, fucking go bunch of bumper fucking, you know, I nail biting moment where, who the fuck's gonna win at the last lap of the race. But the crashes, that shit is like, without a doubt the best parts, the best fucking parts.
Like Tony Stewart said, once, if we have a crash, half the fuel before the end of the race, we gotta do a restart to fucking do that shit. If you don't believe me, look it up on YouTube. Trust me, he, he'll say that same exact words, but onto the list says number two would be, uh, let's see. I think this is gonna be a car I think a lot of people are not familiar with from more par fans out there.
Might even not familiar with this one. Um, a 68 Dodge coordinate RT for, and by the way, RT means Jordan Track means I had meant for both. So. That car, I think is very underrated. I think I like to to consider that, to be like a more bulkier, bigger charger because you can tell by the like side by side the comparison of the, of the designs.
You can definitely see that there's a, it is obviously a fast back, so obviously the sames the same, the uh, platform. But it definitely is a lot more bulkier, a lot more like heavier side looking. And aside from the charger, it looks more sleeker. It looks more like more muscular line, like it looks more like clean and shit.
Like it looks like a fucking, like just you pull up that and all paintings drop on all the hose when they come around here, bro, all the paintings you dropping. But by the way, a little side note, don't get a classic 'cause you think it's gonna impress girls. Okay? If you're gonna get a classic 'cause it impress girls, I think you have the wrong idea because back in the day, those cars were family cars.
All right? A lot of those car classes were family cars. Four, two door coop with five seats for a whole family. And they were also reliable. So before you guys say that they're not reliable, remember this is back in the day when Nissans, Toyotas and fucking supers were not even a thing. So they had to be reliable.
They had to be go to family cars. So there was no way in hell that you would ever see a Toyota or anything in the F about that field of all the classic road runners, chargers, Chaves, Plymouth, motherfucking Codas, Mustangs, you like every, everywhere you went back in the day was nothing but classics.
Alright, now on the the third one, I was gonna say, um, let me see. It's a hard, this is a hard choice because I have a lot of 'em I like, but I think this one right here is a car. I think a lot of people may, not a very few people are familiar with a 67 Plymouth, Belvedere, that car right there, I think. If I had to choose between those three, I think I honestly would go for that.
Belvedere, because it's very, I think underrated. I think it's very, very like overlooked for like some of the other cars around it. Like maybe like say for like around the same year, the Mark one charger or something like that. But then Belvedere, man, you look up on Google, six, seven, Belvedere, man, them fucking are Fastbacks, bro.
Them fucking cars are beautiful. Like a lot people shit on fucking like older fucking types. Like the 64th Belvedere. People look at it shit like, Ew, what the fuck? That shit looks ugly. Like look, it's a classic. Look, Richard Petty raced one of them motherfuckers in nascar. Like my whole, like right here.
I'm looking at 'em right now. Like, look, if you're looking up on you on Google Images, bro, I'm telling you, you guys are sleeping like a motherfucker on Belvedere, man. Like them especially six, seven ones. Bro. I'm telling you, if I had to choose between those three, I had to go with that Belvedere. Man. I'm sorry, I, I, I, I mean I'm love the charge.
I love the fucking, I love them coordinate, man. But. Me personally, I would probably just pick the Vel deer bro, because a lot of people overlook that shit. It's for like a charger. 'cause everyone, it's overrated. Honestly, Dodge Charger's kind of overrated, in my opinion. It's very valuable, very collectible.
Yes, but everyone wants one and everyone wants it. 'cause yeah, they're expensive though. To get, especially restored, you fucking can pay an arm and a fucking, like, unless you're not a millionaire collector, like I'm not obviously a million collector, but even if I was rich, I still would've fucking spent fucking over half a million just to fucking get a brand new restored rest mind charger.
Fuck that. That literally, I could use that fucking building myself in into a better fashion in a fucking race car. That shit could be, that'd be a badass race car. I don't have that much type of money, but hey, it's not like I'm gonna get, and I'm gonna eventually get there. But you know what I'm saying?
Like, you know, a lot of these kids, man, they always just think that, you know, they see a muscle car and they're like, they're the best motherfucker on the street. Like, look, you can have a muscle car and think you're the best motherfucker on the street. But let me tell you something right quick. It, it doesn't matter how much experience you've had behind the wheel.
A muscle car is meant for people who have actual like balls. Because if you think that to drive your fucking Tesla to your fucking D into a fucking driving your fucking charger and, and that fucking scat pack or that Hellcat y body, if you don't know how to handle that power, you're gonna have a very hard time fucking controlling that car.
Okay, let me tell you this, because actually, lemme actually, no, no, no. Let me back up a little bit. Lemme back up a little bit. Lemme rephrase that. If you have a muscle car, right, you gotta treat it with respect. You have to treat it with respect. If you are buying one because you wanna impress bitches and you wanna pull bitches.
Look, let that be your prerogative. But that's not the reason they were made. Like I said, they were meant for people who want to have fun, meant for people that want to actually like get down and or let me actually cars, old cars in general, right? These old cars were meant to be driven by people who wanna have fun and actually experience the stories and the culture behind it, right?
These old cars have stories, have soul, have passion, have a very deep rooted history in car culture that a lot of these kids, they say they won a classic, but they wanna just save up to buy one. That's a difference between a car guy and a non-car guy, right? You wanna buy the fucking car to collect it and say that you have it restored.
What the hell is the fun in that though? I understand. If you wanna be someone like me who wants to build their first project and wants to actually get under the hood and build a car, an actual classic, then yes. I guess some people nowadays are lazy and they don't wanna actually work on shit or do anything anymore, especially in our generation car.
This car generation, bro, I'm telling you, some kids are just lazy as fuck. They just don't want to do nothing. They don't wanna, they don't wanna do nothing. They don't wanna fucking get up and pursue nothing. They don't wanna fucking actually strive towards anything anymore. They wanna fuck bitches every fucking day.
Fuck around with the hoes. And they think that right around the fucking clapped out. Ultima is fucking, there's, they're a badass. Like I'm talking about they fucking, there's a fucking a four door, a sedan, ultimate fucking 23 inch fucking, fucking forges. Like, bro, what the fuck? Who, what? Who told you that shit was hot, bro?
Well, who the fuck told you, if you think it's hot. Alright, fine. Fuck it. You, you, you do, you boo boo. But I'm not gonna fucking, you are never gonna see me fucking cut in a fucking Ultima on 23 inch forties, bro. I don't care. I have a maximum back at home that my father has got sport mode. That shit stuck.
But hey, I like the car just the way it is. I'm not gonna fucking modify that shit because it actually looked pretty good in maroon. Alright? I'm not gonna lie. And it put some written like stock type wheels on it. It looks pretty nice. So I'm not gonna front, but my, my, from my opinion, I would never, ever, ever fucking be caught in a behind a wheel of a fucking Nissan for my first car.
I don't give a fuck. I would drive a shit box and I'll fucking not give a fuck. A fly fuck. All right? I'm a old sold like that. I really don't give a fuck about the reliability aspect. I just want to build a card, have fun, I want take it to a track. Fucking bang some gears and fucking just have a good time or enjoy life like, like every person in our generation should be doing.
'cause lemme tell you, this little life fusing a little like life note. If you're someone like me who listened to this, who's in the military, lemme tell you something, right? If you choose to do 20 plus years and serve your country and you feel that's your purpose, I have nothing but respect for that. I respect that.
I definitely appreciate you. I got something. I got personally, I got seven months left and I've already realized this ain't for me because I realized that I wanted to live my life. I wanna enjoy it on my own terms and be able to do everything I always wanted to do. So I was super young. 'cause that free college money is pretty nice.
So I mean, I'll go take that and not take it for granted. I'm going to take it and go full force into that shit. I'm gonna never look back though, but there's no ahead of time, even though I'm still in there. Got a couple months left. You know, thank y'all for your service. Thank y'all for what y'all do and I appreciate, you know, you protecting your country.
Because my father's also very passionate about the military. 'cause even if our country's going kind of to shit right now, and it's kind of looking like bad for America right now. 'cause if y'all do keep up with the news and everything, know shit, shit's going downhill for America fast, shit's going very downhill.
But I just have, I actually have nothing respect for the fact that even though this, this shit's going down the hill, you guys still are willing to serve and protect the freedoms that we choose, especially for car people. Oh bro. I can't even imagine how life would be like if fucking like some cars like Russia fucking was in charge of fucking cars and shit, bro, it, look to them, bro.
We fucking would drive a lot. Lots off fucking day, bro. Fucking lots. Every fucking day, bro. I swear. But. Other than that, I appreciate what y'all do and honestly, man, like, especially 'cause I know fucking someone fucking like, you know, me and him. He used to be in the Navy or fucking Mr. Whiskey. He was in the, in the military, used to be, you know, a reactor and fucking one of our homies at our house that we accruing this shit at right now, he's a second class right now.
He's still in. So, you know, I got a number of respect for him and everyone that's still in who wants to actually still serve and do things. 'cause remember, if you got, if for anyone who's actually listening to this has not, had, never been in the military, not in a military family, it's a very hard decision to make and a very hard sacrifice.
Like, let me, I'm gonna keep it real with y'all. The mental, the mental start of it is not fun. Let me tell you this. Depression, anxiety, PTSD, that is not fun, let me tell you that right now. Because you go into that shit every day and you feel like fucking shit is not going well for you. Or you feel like you're just stuck in kind of a rut sometimes.
Because unless you have a job that you genuinely and like to do and enjoy, they're gonna feel like. You're just fucking at work every fucking day. You have nothing to really, to show for it, and you have nothing to really pursue or lean on. You feel me? So I feel like, um, in my honest opinion, you know, if you're gonna enjoy the military, find a job that you think is gonna be something you're good at and something you genuinely want to do.
Because I know people that are CSS right now that actually like being CSS and probably gonna reenlist to another term. But I feel like the deep down in the back of my head, I feel like they're not gonna try and pursue that full time like for the rest of their life. Because me, I may be a, I've been a cook when I came in here, but I've always had a big passion for cars.
I've just like said earlier. So I'm not going to necessarily to undermine myself and choose to leave my potential passion to waste because of the job that I'm doing currently. I'm not gonna let that affect how I want to pursue it and how I want to actually be. In tune with who I am to dunk. 'cause if you guys don't know, my father's a fucking speed demon.
My dad fucking can drive like a motherfucker. He, I remember when, there were times when we were, I remember there was a time when I was a kid, me and him went to the marina back near my house. It was winter. It was the fucking road was frozen. This man goes over there with me in the car and he goes over there and he rips the fucking E brake and he fucking does a whole circle on the fucking thing.
I thought we were gonna go into the water. I thought we were gonna go swimming with the fis. But the man's a very skilled driver, and I tell him every day, if you didn't go through the unfortunate shit you went through when you were younger, I guarantee you, you would've been a badass race car driver. You would've fucking whooped some serious ass behind in the wheel, but you would've fucking just been.
A fucking badass. But unfortunately, you know, life happens, shit goes downhill. You know, sometimes life doesn't go the way that we always want to, but we gotta just take a life of a grain of salt and fucking make lemons out. Lemonade our lemons. So we gotta just make, do what we have. And honestly, just a little closing before I turn over to him.
Fucking just wanna, you know, thank, you know, everyone's too serving. Thank you for your service. I wanna, you know, be, you know, very just like, open about this, just wash all asses, you know, don't get caught with your pants down. And I would just say, don't try, you know, let these people you know, that tell you that if you wanna do something, don't tell 'em that you can't.
They don't let 'em tell you you can't do it 'cause you can't do it. It's up to you to decide whether you want to take it and actually do it, or you just wanna just let them tell you and dictate what you wanna do. So don't give up on your dreams. Don't fucking let 'em dictate what you do. Always go fucking a hundred percent, 10%.
Don't ever quit on your dreams. 'cause I'm telling you, you never try and you never know. Right. And we got a lot of things to address now. And the the last thing you just said is something I wanna address also because, you know, your chain of command is supposed to be there to support you. But lemme tell you this, if, if you have a dream of doing something else outside of the military, you have to remember at the end of the day, your chain of command and Big Navy's job is to keep retention.
And so, I'm not saying they will do this, but I have seen it happen where they're gonna tell you, man, it, you're never be able to find that job. You're not gonna be able to do that, you know, because of the economy or this or that. They're gonna try to talk you out of it and you're gonna be like, man, I need to do another 10 years before I, before I'm smart enough or financially stable enough to, to be able to do that.
Don't let the military hold you back. You have to remember at the end of the day. You know, they're kind of like a salesman, you know, retention, especially with the recruiting crisis going on. And, because I remember when Homewrecker was trying to get out, homewrecker and I were getting outta the Navy at the same time.
I mean, they were trying to convince him, saying, well, what are you gonna do? You know, your resume doesn't look good enough as it is, or this or that. Lemme tell you, there's so many military hiring programs. I mean, when I got out, hopped on LinkedIn and you'll have all these companies reach out to you and they say, Hey, we get paid by companies to find them.
People with military experience for X, Y, Z. So, so don't let that discourage you. The other thing I wanna say is Mr. Totto over here mentioned, you know, if you're gonna go into military, try to do something you're passionate about, I'm gonna actually go in and, and warn you the opposite. The only reason I say that is because I've seen a lot of military members where even some css, uh, you know, Totto and I worked in the gall a little bit together and there was a CS there, tall, lanky fella.
And he said, I loved cooking and, and the galley has killed my passion for cooking after working all day. I mean, it's a different breed of cooking, you know, even, even the bakery or if you're into mechanics, all I want you to know is if you're going in, is that the military version of whatever it is that you're passionate about or you wanna work?
It's gonna be completely different. If, if you love nuclear engineering, you love nuclear science, know that, you know, being in the military and being a nuclear operator is totally different than, you know, watching Oppenheimer and, and studying and stuff. Or, you know, if you like working on cars and you're like, man, I'm gonna be a mechanic and I'm gonna get to work on all these gears and equipment and stuff.
You might end up just turning valves for a living. So, definitely, you know, make sure you know what your, your tasks are and what you're gonna be doing, uh, when you have that job. That's, that's what I'm gonna say right there. And, um, Mr. You were talking about, you know, how the, the mental health side of course, how, how down it can be.
And you and I are both from a ship that had a lot of suicides. Were any of those close, uh, sailors to you? And if so, how did that affect you or just in general, how did it affect you knowing that kind of stuff was going on in the ship, including the murder, which I think really caught everyone off guard.
I mean, I was on watch that day, home record came down and it is like where you got the all hands call? I was like, no, I've been here on watch. What's going on? He is like, man, captain called everyone emergency meeting all hands to the, to the Hangar Bay and Captain was crying. We had um, I believe it was an, uh, aviation guy, uh, ended up murdering his wife also active duty at home.
I mean, do you remember that day and everything that happened? Oh, well, I'm not gonna lie. I kind of have, I remember that part. I remember the murder part. What happened. 'cause I know, I remembered. I was asking like, what the fuck was going on? I was like, they said that someone fucking murdered somebody. And I looked at the, they showed the pictures of who it was, and I was like, wait a minute.
I recognize those people. I've seen them run the boat. I'm like, bro. Are you serious? Like how the, you have to be some sick motherfucker to try and straight up just, especially dual military, right? Holy fuck. Like you gotta really just be like in a very bad mental state. 'cause I'm gonna, I'm gonna say a little piece though on the mental side of it, right.
Shifts mental, I'm not gonna front it is not necessarily the best route. If you're feeling down, I would say if you're gonna, if you are in a very bad crisis, right? I would say seek help, definitely, but try and seek civilian help because they are licensed people that actually know how military members are and how they actually feel.
'cause when I went to go to my mental shit, they literally gave me a fucking paper of fucking all these different emotions I had to look at. Right? That's exactly what they do. And the thing with the, because what he's talking about is, is true. Because the thing is you also have a lot of military members that wanna fake symptoms of negative mental health to try and get out.
And so. Navy medical's job isn't necessarily to diagnose and treat, uh, on some sense, as homewrecker put it to me one time, their job is to filter, you know, who actually needs help, who doesn't. And it's very difficult. But yeah, I mean, one time I, this, this was my help session, the guy was like, look, you have control of your emotions and you can either be a rock in the street or you can be a plastic bag drifting in the wind.
You can either go with the flow and all this stuff. And you know, sometimes it's like, man, you know, I'm not saying they don't take you seriously, but sometimes they kind of just brush you aside and Yeah. And it's crazy. You know, I didn't know either the people involved in that incident with, with the murder.
So it wasn't really, didn't really impact me like that. But on one level it was like, man, this, these were people who were on the ship that we saw and, and now they're gone and, and thinking this could be us, you know, this could be us, or, um. You know, I mean there was some, definitely some heart touching one MCs where, I dunno if you remember this one, but Captain came on, he goes, I'm tired of losing sailors.
You know, we've had all these suicides and now I had some sailor get drunk going so fast on a motorcycle when he crashed it cut the motorcycle in half. Fuck. And so I, I I, I assume that includes him too. And, you know, he had to make that phone call. Ma'am, your, uh, son was lost while commuting from the ship.
He, uh, or, or during his free time, whatever it was, you know, the captain, regardless of, of what happens, has to make that phone call home. And I know it took a toll on him. It definitely took a toll on him and, and those kind of announcements, man. But yeah, anyway, like I like, oh, and the other thing I wanted to say was you mentioned like, do something you're passionate about.
And just remember if you get the, the issue with the navy and the military in general is you could get your dream job in your dream location. Let's say you're a cook on a, on a shore duty cook in Hawaii. What, what could be better than that, right? But you could have the worst chain of command ever. Or you could have the worst, you know, place ever, but the best chain of command ever.
And, and that's one of the things I hate is that your life, and it's just like the civilian world too, i i, is so dependent on, on your boss only. The thing with the military that makes it worse is your boss also kind of controls, you know, your life outside of work, you know, whereas civilian boss, like, shoot, they can try to call you in, they could do this or that doesn't really happen.
But in military they say, Hey, you know what? You're gonna come in and work all weekend. You're working all weekend. I mean, we talked about it before in the show in Nuke school. You know, we had Saturday and Sundays off, but a lot of us were in there for. You know, nine hours or so studying because we have three exams a week sometimes.
And so when we do have those weekends off, we try and enjoy them. 10 o'clock, emergency muster the whole base on Saturday Shave. Check what? I'm dead serious. They called us in, people were in different states, had a drive back for emergency, must shave check on a Saturday. Wow. That's some bullshit. I know. If you got called in right now, you'd probably be asked for a shit, huh?
Well I won't fucking get a bottle of this fucking sprint off to the fucking face, bro. Dead ass bro. I'm gonna be like, listen, I know for a fact I am on. Do you right now? I'm not fucking, I'm on off right now. So you call me in for some bullshit. You best believe I'm going to MIA, bro. Fuck you. Alright. Yeah.
But anyway, bringing it back, back to a couple things you said about cars. I got a lot of questions here. So one thing I wanted to mention was you talking about getting cars and scooping up cars for, uh, you know, to attract women now. And you named like all these cars that are young generation trying to use.
Now, what's interesting is. My father, you know, the father of some podcasters I listened to and even some podcasters I listened to and may and maybe your pops if he was a speed demon when he was young too. They all had, um, Thunderbirds and Hellcats that that was, and I don't know if that was what got the women or if it was these guys or if those were just the cars available by the time.
But it seems like all the older guys I know who went around picking up girls left and right, you know, of our father's generation, that it was those two cars were like everyone had those. What, what's your opinion on those cars? And you want one of those and did your pops drive one of those? What? What's the deal with that?
Well, so for starters, my father unfortunately never really had the opportunity to do that. Even though he is in very big into cars, he never had that, um, what I would say had the opportunity to do that. 'cause he had a very rough upbringing, so he never really had the opportunity to drive those types of cars.
But I think the main reason that I was in a car such as an early age, I think is because. He, since he never had the opportunity to do the stuff that he, that they were doing back in the day with those cars and being passionate about it, is because he knows that deep down his son will be the first one in the family to do what he never got to really do.
And I think it's my sole purpose and my sole duty to be a mechanic and to be a hot rod and a gearhead because I think it's because that, because of how he was brought up and how what he went through is the, it is like the main sole reason why I'm big into old cars too. 'cause he knows that I'm going to be, I'm in, I'm gonna be into old cars.
So I gotta make sure as a son that I do what he never got the opportunity to do and do what live the life that he never had the chance to. So when he looks at me and I see him, he sees me on the track and he sees me fucking rowing down that fucking, that quarter mile drag strip. I know that he is, have nothing but a big smile on his face.
And he gonna be happier than a motherfucker that his son's living in his dream, because I know that deep down, this is what he would've wanted too. But because of, like I said, of his unfortunate upbringing and how rough it was for him, he couldn't do that. So I'm gonna make sure that I'm gonna be the one in the family to do what he should have been, what he could have not have done when he was growing up.
And I say this to everyone who has a family member or a mother or father that is in the cars like that, and they're opportunity to if you're, if they're in the cars, right? But you know that they never really had the opportunity to pursue that because of how they were, how they grew up or whatever the case may be, do yourself a favor and pursue that.
I'm telling you, people say that cars are expensive and it's a very expensive hobby. It doesn't have to be, you can be a mechanic and learn to finesse the fuck out of a lot of parts and do a lot of things that most of these kids nowadays think that they know is be that they this cool. Most kids go to a mechanic shop and get fucking overcharged like a thousand bucks for a simple fucking oil change.
Or even for a tire rotation too, or a the case May B. And knowing how to do this shit under the hood. I have a whole book about how to do basic maintenance on the car. That shit can be done for free and can take less time. And you feel better knowing that you did it yourself and it was your own hands that you fixed the problem with your vehicle at hand.
That's why I'm such a big, very, was in so much into auto mechanics and that when I get out of the military, I'm gonna go to college and trade school to learn how to do that shit. 'cause I've always wanted to be a mechanic. I've always was so fascinated by auto mechanics, tuning cars, building 'em, everything about cars.
I don't give a shit about how long I've been in the military, was a cook. It doesn't change your passion. If you let the military job you're doing change your passion, then clearly you must have not wanted that that badly. I would say this. If your chain command is telling you that it's impossible or your or your peers are telling you because you either this, you can't be what you want to be, fuck 'em.
Let me tell you this. I have multiple people on a daily basis telling me that because you're a cook, you can't be a mechanic. That's bullshit. What do I do outside of the, I'm gonna tell you what I do after work, what I do after work, when given that I fucking, you know, do every so often 'cause it's kind of off and on.
But I read my books. I have a whole fucking locker filled with up a section of nothing but car, books and magazines, reading about other people's bills and rides, and have a whole book about auto mechanics in my rack that I read on a daily basis. If you take the time outta your off time to pursue and learn about what you want to do, rather than fucking waste your time going to party with your friends, I'm gonna tell you this, you're gonna feel much better 'cause you know that you're already moving up better in life than your friends are.
'cause what they're gonna do with them bitches in the hoes gonna try to even bring you down to the level with them. People hate uc. Oh wait, hold on. I already said that. Wrong. People hate when you're doing better than them. People hate it when you're successful and you're striving to be someone better and more better if you gotta cut those people outta your life 'cause they wanna bring you down.
Fuck. So what? People come and go, bro, please do not let those motherfucking hoes hold you down because they just wanna fucking have you stay at their level 'cause they're afraid or that you can make it better than them. Fuck 'em. If fucking success comes, if envy comes with success. So what? Yep. Go like tu short saying in this song, bro, go so far fucking up that they can never catch you.
If you do that, I guarantee you, you are gonna become stronger than you ever fucking thought possible. So fuck them if you get beaten down by this work or by your peers saying you can't do this, as long as you get the fuck back up and keep pushing. There's not. They can never stop you. The only way you can, the only way someone can stop you is if you're dead.
Don't stop at all. Even if you fucking, you get hurt physically, you recover from that shit, you keep going. Right? Because only when you, you dead in the water, six feet in the ground, that's when you of course can't do nothing. 'cause remember, your life's over when you're dead. So who the fuck cares? Because a lot of people are gonna die and they're not gonna be able to say that they pursued what they wanted to actually do with em.
Dreams never came true. Their dreams will never come true for some people. So fuck the fear, fuck whatever's going on and pursue that son of bitch. It only get hard because of course you're trying to make a new life. It only gets hard when you're trying to make a life and you try to cultivate and become a different person and make the life you always wanted.
So always keep pushing like your fa my father tells me, keep pushing, keep your head up. Always fucking focus on your goals. Stay focused. And I'm gonna say also a little, a little, uh, a little thing for this, right? About porn, right? Alright. That is in my opinion. The most simples, most fucked up things that life has ever fucking done.
How in the fuck right do you expect for people to become who they want to be? But yet porn's a thing, right? It's a distraction. It, it, it's, it's scientifically proven that porn is rewires your brain. That it fucking makes you fucking addicted to that shit. To the point where you don't wanna even wanna do nothing except watch it.
It's a fuck. It's evil. And I used to do that all the time, bro. Even kind of, I'm still kind of struggling, like even like I wanna try and stop, but it doesn't happen. But I also force stuff to stop sometimes. 'cause it's like, bro, all these bitches shaking their ass, fucking doing this, getting fucked and all that stuff, you know, I look to some people, it's the best fucking thing.
But you do understand, right? These motherfuckers are basically paying, they're hoes. They motherfuckers are whores. They guys fucking grew up wanting to fuck for the rest of their life. They wanna live this fucking stupid ass life thing that is cool, is not really cool, bro. Let me tell you this. Well, the only reason I wanna cut in is because this is something I'm also very passionate about, which is the, how much, uh, of a corruption social media is All these OnlyFans, there's, there's women who are posting, they make 150 K or more a month just on, on posting images of them, not even naked, just them doing these teases, all this stuff.
And, and it is a distraction and not, not just, you know, these sexualized women, but honestly what we call a doom. Scrolling. Get, get hopping on your phone and you end up scrolling through memes and you're like, oh, I'll just look at a few memes. Five minutes. Next thing you know, it, it is been an hour and a half and you just keep scrolling.
This is funny. Oh, this is funny, this is funny. I wanna see more. You know, and it's all a distraction if you're gonna doom scroll, uh, at least. Be scrolling for hours through, through stuff that'll help you. Educational stuff, like, like Mr. Toto, his feeds all cars. It's all facts about cars, new, always learning new things, checking out new cars.
You know, you gotta feel, it's like a diet man, you know? You gotta feed your body what you need, what you want, you know? And, and I totally agree. All, all this, this porn and, and all, and it, you know, it's so inundating into us through, through the rap culture mm-hmm. Which we're gonna talk about through, um, I mean, it's just everywhere.
You, you can't hop on Instagram or any other social media without seeing a pair of tits or, or a thong. Mm-hmm. It's, it is like impossible. And if you like it, they're gonna show you a little bit more, if you like that they're gonna show you a bit more. Because I know with my Instagram feed now, it's like, if I like something, they'll start populating it.
And the more I like it, it's, it's everywhere. And it, it'll go through phases now. Right now my feed is filled with uo. Just 'cause I had liked a few Yu things and now it's just all pictures of Yogi Moto. Right, right. You know, but IX Son. Yeah. Zoia. But, um, I know, like, I'll admit, I like Jenna Ortega. I think she's hot.
I think she's cute. Know I dunno much about she's not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And um, you know, I like to, I liked a picture of her and I followed her account a little bit and now I get all these fan pages of her, they're always posting pictures of her. My whole feed is like filled with it and I need to cut it out.
Now it's just yugi and Geno or take it or, or, um, you know, or military memes, which I, I, I, I have to watch those because, you know, there's so much relatable military content out there and that's what this channel hopes to, you know, fulfill as well. But yeah, you gotta, you gotta cut that addiction and, you know.
Forget porn. Get, get a real life partner, man. Yeah. The world world, yeah, definitely. And you know what's gonna help you get that? Because some of you're like, oh, well, you know, I'm not good looking enough. I'm not, funny enough, I, I can't find love. There's someone for everybody. Exactly. There's someone for everyone.
And, and sitting around watching porn all day is gonna get you nowhere. You know? What's gonna help you find a partner actually working on yourself and, and, and pursuing your hobbies. And some women actually like a man who has a glow up real, lemme tell you this for real. I've seen a lot of guys, you ever seen some of them fucking celebrities like Post from Malone or some of the people in high school?
You see the high school photos, even some, yeah. I've seen some movie actresses like, dang, like they ugly acne glasses, races, strain tracks. And then she, now she's like, hot as fuck. Now she looks like Scarlet Johansen like, bro fucking, she's like a bad motherfucker. Like, come on, like, trust me bro. Your time is never too late.
It's your time is not just come yet. That's what I've learned like recently, is that it never is too late. Your time is not come yet. God will. 'cause, I mean, I'm not really a big God believer because like my father, but I believe that he, that there's always a reason for everything. That everything happens for a reason and nothing happens by accident.
So don't ever try to rush the success process because it's not gonna help you and it's not gonna get you to that where you want to be. There's no shortcuts to success. Yeah. And what I'm gonna say is, you know, it's important to think about the future, but sometimes people be focusing too much on the present in the future and they don't have the ability for, you know, the perfect time, the perfect reason that requires you to be able to know that you're gonna look back and, and realize everything lines up.
And you know, some people wanna, well, I want results right now. Like you said, our generation is, they want everything instantaneously. I mean, and that's also because of social media is programming people to have. No attention span, easily distracted, instant gratification. Even with, you know, with, with how fast, you know, Amazon Prime, not a sponsor, but you can get stuff same day.
Same day. Yeah. Not a sponsor. You can get stuff same day and all that, you know, instant gratification. You can look up anything on the internet, even now with the ai You, I like, that's a whole discussion on its own. But you can just type into like chat, GBT or other AI generators. Gimme an essay on the Great Gatsby.
I love that book. Amazing book. And be like, I want you to analyze every motif in this book in a five page essay at a ap, you know, English class level. And it'll generate that. And you know, and I'm worried now you have AI fueling, not only, you already have social media and everything, you, you can get everything the same day.
You can get just instant gratification. Now kids are getting to the point. They're not even gonna have to do their homework, you know? And, and same thing we were talking, big Red and I were talking about, I really don't understand the whole vaping why, why people vape. What, what's the interest in it? And again, it's that like, that, that dopamine, that nicotine hit like instant gratification.
You know? I don't, I don't know. I don't get it. You know, you can work hard and, and it's gonna suck, but you're gonna look back and be like, man, look at this collection of cars. I built this by hand. Yes sir. Wait, what are you gonna get when you're older and, and you live in a crappy, overpriced apartment and you're still watching porn and, and, and hitting your vape.
No, that sounds like a very shitty life. You know, like, that's a, for real, that's like, that's a life I'm afraid of. That's a, like a of life I will wish to avoid. And, you know, I, I'll, I'll say it now, I'll make some enemies with this statement, but I really just, it's not that I don't respect only fan mottos and, and strippers and all that, but I know there's a single mom right now working a double shift at a restaurant with three kids at home.
'cause some dick of a man left her. And, you know, she's putting in the work she could. I'm telling you that mom milk porn, she could, she could make hella money right now, but not, but she wants to be a respectable mother for her kids, for her future husband, for her family and friends. You know, and that's the thing.
I mean, and, and, and what I like to look back is, you know, I, 'cause I try to fill my feed with religious quotes too, and, and motivation and, you know, sometimes that Sigma male, you know, Andrew, uh, what is it, Andrew Bateman or American Psycho stuff? No, Tate, right? No, not Andrew Tay. Um, Patrick Bateman. Who's that guy from Oh, from, yeah, yeah, yeah.
American Psycho. Yeah. I'm sorry. They like put him, they make like a little compilation of him after any cool quote. I'm like, but I've never seen that movie. It's on my list. But, you know, one quote I saw is, you know, what, what benefit is it to a man if he gains the world, but loses his soul? You know, and our soul, our morals, that's what separates us from plants, rocks, and animals.
All that I, you know. I don't believe in sentient life outside of earth. I think, you know, we're the greatest species and, and we're here and you know, that's what separates us from everything else. And hey, you know, there could be other life out there that also has morals and all that, but you know, that's kind of what separates us.
And if you give that all up, you know, I don't know man, but speaking of rap culture and social media and stuff, now you talked about how you love hearing loud engines and all that. I'm for that on the track, but I don't like it off the track. I don't like it in my neighbor's garage. I don't like it on the public roadway.
I don't like it on the highways. I don't need you revving up your engine just to speed past the mailbox at the apartment complex. 'cause you think you're cool 'cause someone's outside walking their dog. Well, I'm sorry, I can't wait. Hold on. Lemme put in for a second. Okay, so for all my car people out there, right, I kind of want like counter what he's saying.
I mean, I'm saying it's annoying a little bit, but remember. There's a guy who has a old dirt racer behind my house, literally has an old dirt racer as loud as fuck. But if I speak for everyone who will reason with me on this shit, I love the sound of that engine revving up bro. Loud as fuck, because I want, I actually run out there to see what the fuck is actually making that noise and see who the fuck has that big ass va revving shit on the cam, bro, I actually am, I like wanna run out there and fucking like, see what the fuck is that outside?
Like, I fucking run out there with my shoes on. Fucking, fucking just like, pull out the fucking thing. And to my surprise, it was a fucking dirt racer out there, fucking a, a stripped out dirt racer, a race car. And I'm like, whoa, what the fuck is that? I'm like, I, and I was fucking like so fast I was gonna talk to him.
I was a little shy. I didn't fucking, it literally didn't look like nice people. I wanted ask him about the car, but it was like, I, I kind of was shy. I didn't wanna like go up to them and ask Joe. I just like, fuck. You know? But that's a dope ass car. It's like, for anyone who, anyone who would agree, me, me, me on the statement though, sometimes them engines are allowed as fuck to wake up in the morning, bro.
Hey, I would love to have that as alarm clock. I'll tell you that much. Look, I, I get it. It's like, wow, that guy built something. What's going on with that? But if I'm sitting at a stoplight and you're next to me in a pickup truck with a Carolina squat, and you've got floodlights on the front of your company truck, dude, I hate that.
Which is what I wanna talk to you about. I know, uh, they banded recently in South Carolina when I was stationed there, but the Carolina squat, AKA, you know, the back wheels are low. The front wheels are high. My, you know, as Homeworkers said, you're, you're driving while looking at the sky. Where the hell you going?
Well, what do you think about that? On not only, uh, it's most popular on pickup trucks, but I've seen it on some cars too, on some older cars as well. What, what do you think about that? Whoa, I can already tell you. Got the look of disapproval on your face. All right, so for trucks. Keep that shit down south, if that's, what is it?
Didn't that originate in the south? I'm not sure where, what'd they call it? The Carolina Squad. Squad. I wanna assume squad, assume squad truck. The, the squatted trucks. Yeah. I'm like, I'm pretty sure anyone correct me on this shit if I'm wrong? I'm pretty sure it's, it. It originated in Texas, in the south, but in the sixties there was a, a era of muscle cars called street machines.
That's when the back was raked up like an inch or two and gave up a very aggressive look. Like a fucking, like a panther or a tiger about to pounce on your ass fucking when you're on the drag strip. That's fine. That's an inch or two. That, that's, that, that right there is where I'm be like, yeah, that's a bad ass.
That was badass, right? But squatting the back and lifting the front like a foot or more like a fucking, like a low rider. I'm like, look where the, what, who, who, how are you gonna fucking even see where the fuck you're going if you're driving? And that shit lowered and the back and, and the front's raised.
Like where, what, where are you going? Where, what the fuck? Well, who are you impressing with? That shit. Even on the fucking YouTube channel, I've heard, I fucking watched a video about an honest, um, what is it called? Honest, uh, trucks commercial about something that fucking like, bro, like we don't claim fucking that damn culture, bro.
Like who the fucking vendor that shit. Like, I don't know who invented that fucking culture. Like who thought, you know what, maybe we rolled down the fucking rear a little bit. Yo fucking like, like a low rider, right? Like a low rider or some shit, but keep the top of 'em raised, right? We fucking could just be riding like fucking some dirty and shit.
Like, no, no bro, look, I'll take a low rider over a fucking squad truck any day of the week. Alright? I'm not even into low riders like that, but I literal take a low rider because at least those cars have hydraulics and you could actually fucking make, do some crazy hops and shit and you know what I'm saying?
Like, I even watched Jim Counti, if you've already, you don't know. Ken Block literally fucking took a segment where he literally drifted under a fucking low rider. Like literally the guy bounced the car up and he drifted right under that shit like two, three times, like, and it was in LA where car culture is fucking prevalent.
And now, and oh by the way, California's trying to fucking yo fucking car culture for y'all. If y'all don't know. 'cause for real, they're trying to fucking ban fucking gas powered cars and shit. They're trying to fucking ban classes all together on the East coast. I'm lucky they're not doing something like that.
But like I said, for Yoyo West Coast, you know, you better, you know, move somewhere else that's prevalent cars. 'cause I mean, soon enough they might fucking, you know, try and put a lockdown on that shit. 'cause California, you know, is, is bad out there for car people again. And we always bash on California on this podcast.
I'm sorry for all my California listeners, especially because half the military is from California in Texas. But we were talking about, you know, basically the electric companies in California complained because they, they had been given an incentive for people to drive electric vehicles, which is, you know, um, basically, you know, one of the incentives is you don't have the gas tax, right?
You, you know, you're not paying the tax that you have on gas, all that. There's. Not a lot of maintenance. You know, obviously when something breaks for an electric vehicle, it's a lot more specific. It's a lot more, I wanna say, I guess the, the labor cost is much higher than, than regular mechanical stuff.
But, you know, in certain places, I'm not sure if it was California or not. I remember we talked about it now I, they're like charging you extra taxes for having an electric vehicle because basically they're like, Hey, you're not paying gas tax. We're gonna give you this. And, you know, it's a whole thing.
It's like, well look, I chose to, to buy an electric vehicle, which typically are more expensive than, than regular vehicles, especially the newer ones. And now you wanna charge me extra for it? Like, I don't know if that's fair or not. You know what, what I don't approve of is free electricity, you know, because there's a lot of free charging stations for if, oh congrats, you got an electric vehicle now the electricity's free.
Well look, if I had to pay for gas station, I have to pay for electricity regardless of whether. Look like this is the vehicle I bought. Why should I have to, why should my tax money go to pay for their vehicle's fuel? Right? I mean, what's, what, what's your thoughts on that? Hmm. Whoa. Okay. Shit. You mind like giving a brief summary of what you did?
Icons down for a second. Hold up. See, sorry. The A, DHD over here, but fuck you, you know. Well, basically, what do you think? So if you buy a gas powered vehicle, you gotta pay for gas. But if you buy an electric vehicle, there's free charging stations and depends where you are, obviously, right? If you're in Montana, you're gonna have a hard time finding it.
Don't buy, don't even buy an electric vehicle if you're in Montana. This is stupid. But like California, New Jersey, even, um, Georgia, I've seen a lot of free, you know, charging stations, we talked about this. Even the parking garages have reserved parking for electric vehicles where you can charge. So, and they're like, and my, you know, French tries saying, well, you know, we're paying for the parking garage.
Yeah. So am I, and then I gotta go stop for gas on my way home and now it's costing me time and, and money. So, you know, what do you think about that? Or you think if someone buys an electric vehicle, they should have the free electricity because they get a pat on the back and a thumbs up? Uh, you know, honestly, I feel like for all your people out there who've got EVs, I feel like honestly you should be allowed to have free electricity.
'cause I mean, let's be honest, I even fucking heard that a, a new Tesla cost like 80 Gs off the back for a new one, and that is something expensive. So I would say charging you ags to pay off a, a Tesla, which let's be honest here in the future, who the fucks are they excited over fucking Tesla in the garage?
Who? The, I don't know. I really don't know. Because now. I noticed that there's a big rise in like different car companies coming out with the EVs and shit. Like first it was Tesla and now you got Lucid, you got fucking Reac. You got all these other electric vehicle companies trying to take over. Subaru Ford just dropped.
You know, I was looking at the Ford Maverick is a hybrid, is a half electric, half gas pickup truck, 40 miles per gallon, man. Well, the only exception I have to that rule is the erase Corvette. That hybrid is the, if the new Dodge Daytona was a hybrid, people wouldn't be pissed because at least it brings the best of awards and you have an option rather than you're forced to have to do electric because they're Dodge people.
They are some die hard Dodge fans. Right? Die hard people would be this probably from back in the day when it first came out to now when they fucking in the modern age die hard. And I know for a fact that when I first heard about this new Dodge coming out, I was so pissed. I was like, what the fuck is that, bro?
An electric exhaust. What the fuck that bull's gonna fucking make a fucking electric sauce where shit fucking a, fucking a lawnmower or some shit. Like look, I don't know about you, but if they chose to go hybrid, because I apparently I heard that. Um, there's a rumor I think that apparently Dodges got a Hemi coming out a secret project, Hemi Engine for a Hemi.
I don't know if it's true or not, but apparently they're not cutting the cord on the Hemi just yet, but I'm not sure how true it is. But if it's true that they're really working on some, uh, a gas powered Hemi for these new generation people, maybe they might end up wearing their fans back. 'cause they know that they're die hard fans.
They love gasoline, they love their fucking big VH and hemis. So they might fucking do this as a way to fucking try and pull people back in. 'cause we all know when they first announced the EV shit coming out, they probably were like, what the fuck is that? Like, what the fuck? Like. I don't know man. Like I personally feel like if you did what a Chevy did and state uh, did a hybrid, I feel like you would still be safe.
But Ford right now is the only one that's truly, truly combustion right now. 'cause Ford, right, they made a, a dark horse Mustang right now. Ford. A Ford Mustang dark horse and they're making a Ford GTD, which is a fucking track souped up version of it. Wide body everything. Angel, horsepower, natural aspirate, streetcar.
That shit is badass. You ever, if you ever look it up, look it up, please. 'cause I'm telling you, that shit is probably the most badass muscle car I've ever seen in my life. Like, honestly, it is like, without a doubt, I think fucking the most menacing looking shit ever. And it's like, well, it's unreal. It's fucking unreal.
But yeah. Yeah, I've got a project, a car project I'm working on in my mind for the future, which is I want to get a gray silverish color vehicle. I'm not sure what kind yet. But I want it to be gray and silver, maybe with some, some blue on it. And I want Godzilla, uh, on like the, you know, the giant sticker decals on, on one side of it.
And I think that would be pretty cool. I kinda wanna make it like a, a zilla kind of car. I don't know if it's gonna be for racing or not. Now, when you finally make your, uh, first car, you know, souped up and everything, you're going to take your pops down to the track and, and let him go for a little spin in it.
Fucking ride am bro. I'm telling you. Oh yeah. I'm telling you, man. Like, the moment that I fucking bring on my first classic muscle car, I'm gonna tell you. The first one gonna ask me is, Hey, Charlie, uh, you think I can drive it? Yeah. I'll be like, okay. As long as you don't break it. I mean, fuck, we will, let's go.
Yeah, remember now it's my, it's my car, so, you know, it's not like I'm driving your maximum. So, I mean, you're gonna, you're gonna have to, you know, make sure that you, you know, I'm the one driving the damn thing. It's my car, so please don't break it. 'cause remember, it's still a work in progress. It's still a beater, right?
It's still kind of like, not perfect yet, but it's a work in progress. All right? So it doesn't matter 'cause. The mechanical aspect of auto mechanics is not easy, but you can definitely learn very easily how to do it. 'cause trust me, a lot of people tell me this, it's a stressful, but it's probably the muscle we've ever had working on the cars.
Some people actually have a lot of, uh, stress relief working on a car because you're so focused on fixing that car and just honing it to your image that you just are not focused on anything else. You're just working focused on your car. 'cause to me, the car, especially the old car, is a best friend, is a best friend.
It'll be with you for everything. Breakups, hardships, losing a job, whatever the fuck it is, it will be with you and you'll fucking just, it'll be your best fucking friend. All right? Hell yeah. And don't believe me. Go on Instagram. Look at all the fucking quotes and shit already there, bro. I'm telling you.
Cars are the best and whoever the fuck, and, and the douche bag who probably listen to this, I think he know, he know his name, who told me. That is not everything respectfully. Go fuck yourself. I'm sorry if you're talking about who we're talking about AKA Playboy, blonde hair, blue eyes. He, I was actually gonna bring him up before because, you know, he has the Carolina squad and he does it to, to get the ladies and ladies listening, email us at a couple of [email protected].
Why do you like, please email us a couple of [email protected]. Why do you like the Carolina squat? Like, what, what, what, what, as, as a woman or, or a man who likes these, these vehicles, what do you look at it and, and, and think to yourself? Wait, wait. They got the most awkward fucking looking donuts ever, bro.
I'm like, put like the fucking little, like from, you know, fucking wolf. Forever from elf. Like, fucking I, the fucking, the fucking door. That's what I think about when I see that shit. Like, ah, fucking, just fucking, just being a little kid and shit. But by the way though, a good, that's a good movie for Christmas if you ever seen El bro, that's pretty good.
I've seen that multiple times as a kid. Yeah. My mom and dad is a pretty good shout out to Elf. Yeah, shout to Will Ferrell. I mean, I don't think he's gonna listen to the podcast anytime soon, but hey, hey, will Ferrell come on the podcast and we can discuss Elf and how you felt about making it? Yeah, man, he's busy now being the villain in every, uh, children's movie nowadays.
The Barbie Lego movie he done, he turned, he turned a leaf man. He went from everyone's favorite elf to now he's the villain. Zeto, though was supposed to be the villain of every fucking thing out there, bro. Like he literally Gene Carlo, I think I've never seen fucking him in anything except for being a villain in a movie, bro.
And, and even fought Price Six, he's literally the villain in a bunker Six. Like I've never seen him as a good guy, Gus from Breaking Bad. Oh, you know what's funny? I've never seen Breaking Bad though. I've seen my mom watching it, but I'm like, I've never actually seen the whole series. I think I might have watched that shit.
My mom, it's on my list. On my list for sure, bro. I've gotta go home and watch this shit with my mom, bro. I gotta go because I know, I remember was a kid, she's like, oh, can watch it 'cause it's not for kids. But now that I'm older and I'm going ask Man, I'm like, Hey mom, you think I watch with you? I'm gonna ask for that when I get home.
And for New Year's. Yeah, gotta watch it with their whole family. Fuck it. The whole family watch breaking back. Fuck it. Yeah. I gotta watch freaking, so I'm an a m Cubs list member. A M C's, not a sponsor, but yeah. You know, I, I pay like $25 a month. I can see up to three free movies in the theaters a week, which is a good deal.
And I got for five, um, I don't know, maybe it was like 15 bucks. I got a popcorn bucket this big, every time you go, you keep that bucket for the whole year. $5 to get it filled up all the way, uh, free, uh, size upgrade on drinks and everything. But this isn't a sponsorship. I, I'm gonna tell you all the perks of it though, you know, because, you know, I've been seeing a lot of movies I wouldn't normally go watch because it's free.
You know, I might as well. I, you know, and I really wanted to see actually grand charisma because, you know, I saw the trailer, I thought it was fake at first, and then they're like, no, this is like, based on a true story and everything. And I was like, man, this actually looks pretty awesome. And for some reason in, in Georgia, I don't know if it was just where I was at or whatever.
They would not, they had no showtimes, so I missed it, but I really wanted to see that. Did you end up getting to see that? Unfortunately, I didn't. 'cause my mom called me one time and she told me about the movie and I believe it came out like what? August 11th? I think it came out. Yeah, sometime this past fall.
I like fucking, I told her, she told me, I was like, Hey Charlie, um, you told the Grand Funeral movie because I, I called you 'cause I thought about you and like the whole like, game of the racist type shit. I'm like, oh shit. Because like, I'm like, oh damn. Like that's kind like, was that It's fucking trying to, is that, trying to say something real quick because I mean, if y'all, a little bit of racist history for y'all.
He's right about the movie. The movie is based on a guy named Y Yarborough, I believe I pronounce his last name, Yong. He was actually a, uh, grand reasonable fan who raced on the sim, who spent his whole life racing on gt. And then the, uh, the GT Academy was a, a program where they take sim races from all across the world and they put 'em in a test to see who could handle themselves behind a real car.
And the person who completed the tech academy. Got to race for Team Nissan. And that's the guy who, the movie is based on where he actually made to Team Nissan. And he raced in the 24 hour lamonts and he actually won. And he became a racer though his lifelong dream, the impossible dream, which is not really impossible because for those side noble people who wanna be, don't discourage yourself because you're thinking you're a little older like me.
'cause like I'm in my early twenties, right? People think that fucking 'cause you're early twenties is impossible to rearra her. Remember, like I said earlier in the podcast, Ken Block was in his early thirties, 10 years after I'm even trying to pursue this shit. But he was a naturally good driver. So after a couple years he got signed on to rally team for Subaru.
That's a pretty fucking big deal. 'cause Subaru has a very long history. Kyle McRay is one of their fucking most iconic rally drivers of all time. He's fucking like the most infamous drivers for Subaru. And fucking, let me tell you this. He was a businessman, like I said, co uh, Ken Box a, a businessman before he even came a racer, but he was so in tune.
I would be someone more, he wanted to be a racer then. So he fucking went on race for a couple years until he got signed on. And then, like I said, the rest is history. His daughter currently, Leah, she's 17, she's fucking taking the reign After her father passed, she's about to fucking, is competing I think in, um, if I looked up, uh, correctly, what was it?
Um, an F1 academy, like she's fucking racing now. She's gonna be in the F1 Academy now trying, I think, trying to go to F1 or some shit. I'm not gonna front, but that shit be pretty badass. Pretty fucking badass though. 'cause Ken Block passed away at 55 years old. A nearly 23 year career as a racer too soon, man.
Too fucking, oh, you had said it too soon. Fucking, let me tell you this, man, don't ever discourage yourself and say that it's impossible, bro. Just don't let these fucking rich kids. I know there's a lot of people that's rich kids, bro. They get like, there's a guy that's in the fucking formula wheel drift, that's 14 years old that raised a, a full blown Corvette cool YC He could drive and he can drift really well, but that's not necessarily the way to go.
'cause then you raise someone who's spoiled. They don't know how to really work for anything 'cause they're giving anything on a silver platter. The parents provide for everything, the money, everything. And I'm not a hater 'cause his parents have money. 'cause I fucking wanna make that shit for myself the hard way.
I wanna become a racer the hard way. I know that I'm better than everybody else that's trying to cut their way through the, the ropes because people who race and start off from the bottom, ask any racer or any dash car driver who's raced at grassroots level, they will tell you that the fucking, it is very hard to think that you're not going anywhere in the sport.
But you have to have patience and be willing to keep pushing until you make it to the top and then keep pushing even more until you know you eventually had enough of that shit. It's never, it is never too late. To make your dreams come true. I'm telling you this right now. 'cause everyone, like I said, fucking keeps telling me that you're too old to race.
There's, that's bullshit. Bullshit. All right? If you're someone on this podcast that's trying to be eraser like I am, just know that it's not fucking too late. You can still make that shit come true and you can still make that happen. The only thing I haven't done yet is I'm waiting for my license when I do my road test next week.
Because once that happens, then I'll have everything I fucking need to start doing grassroots racing, and that's literally all I have to do. And the rest will be history from there. So just to, just to put that out there. Yeah. Now, I know you mentioned that your dream and your passion for racing and cars kind of died and went away for a little bit.
You know, what's the deal with that? And when you were growing up, you know, did you go, did you watch NASCAR every week? Did you go ever go down to the race in, in person? Or, you know, with your upbringing, how did that happen? You know, what, what got you into cars, obviously other than, than obviously your dad was a big influence on that, and, and why did it go away and why did it come back?
Well, I wouldn't necessarily say that it went away because when I was growing up, I watched a lot of Monster Jam when I was growing up. So for those of you who are not familiar, monster Dam is literally like a, a series where literally, of course, monster Trucks, you know, they fucking are basically like some freestyle motherfuckers.
They don't really do heavy racing. They're not like a big, big thing. It is, it is a big thing, right? But it's not super like on par on NASCAR though. But although I believe it should be because fucking the monster trucks that they drive are fucking like probably the most wicked shit you've ever seen in your life.
The shit that they do in Mosh truck don't compare to anything, to anything in more, anything in more sport. Like that shit is like the most wicked shit ever. Back flips, fucking wheelies, motherfucking like two wheeling shit donuts and all that shit. Like they, it's like mayhem. It's literally fucking mayhem.
But. The one thing that got me into, well, got me into really wanting to be a racer was I was playing a lot of racing games when I was growing up. Midnight Club Forza. Need for speed, actually Need for speed shift was the one game that actually wanted me to fucking be a racer because I remember I had a wheel for it and I sucked at it.
Because remember, I didn't know how to drive at the that, that I, at young, right? So I kind of crashed everywhere and I kind of sucked. But that game was my father's favorite racing game, and I played it myself through completion, and I loved every fucking aspect of that shit. The environment, the sounds, the cars, everything about that game was fucking lit to the second power.
I swear it was without a doubt, like the one thing that got me so heavy into cars. I mean, I got, I got older my parents for, for what type of cars I'm into, of course, obviously, like I said that before, I like old muscle now. So I'm really big on tuners anymore, but. While I was growing up, I was into everything.
I liked everything that was fast and fucking had an engine. Today, especially the modification of the old for aftermarket part of it was actually super awesome. But you know, I honestly feel like when it went away for a little bit, 'cause I was kind of going through a little bit, you know, like I feel was just a feeling, especially like now.
'cause like, I'm so, I'm like kind of feeling a little impatient because, you know, you wanna cultivate a new life for yourself. You want be able to chase your dream. But it feels like where you're at right now, you're stuck. Especially in the military, you're fucking stuck on a contract, ugh. Right? For like, for like fucking, like, like five years at a time.
And it's not even the contract part, it's the, you don't have control of where you live. You know, because you can't, you know, right now, especially if you wanna move somewhere else, how are you gonna buy a, a, a garage or a storehouse or, or a house and set up and you can't buy all these car parts, especially living on ship.
Even if you have your own place, you know, buying and storing cars and everything. I mean, it, it makes it difficult. So, so I totally get that. Seven months, man. Whew. Oh my gosh. Counting the days. Stop, stop reminding me, man. You're gonna make it go by. Flow slower. Go by slower. But yeah. So if you were to, you know, become a NASCAR racer, let's say, you know, you're working on your shop and you get scouted for some reason, and maybe you're participating in some illegal street racing or something, you get scouted, you know, and, um, who, who would you want be your sponsor?
You know how they got the sponsors? Yeah. Stickers and stuff. 'cause I already know Eminem's 100% not a sponsor, but, uh, I like to eat them. So it is, no, not a sponsor for this podcast, but it is a sponsor for nascar. Yeah, for nascar. And I, big Burger King. There's a, there's a lot of companies that sponsor nascar, so this is many, many avenues.
So probably you probably like a Krispy Kreme donuts probably, right? You fucking dude, shut the fuck up. Hate you. Oh yeah, I hate you. But, uh, what, what are you thinking man? I mean, so I would say na naturally, um, motorsports, you have to basically be a little more fluent and more, I would say open because motorsports is a very like multiple, uh, avenue, uh, career path.
'cause some people pursue, try to pursue one at more sport, but they ended up discovering one more sport. They like a lot better. So they pursue that instead. Like dry racing, touring, uh, uh, stadium, super trucks, offroading motor gp, motorcycle racing. There's many avenues to take. So there's a lot of options that you can pursue.
'cause you may not be good at one sport, motor sport, but then you find out, oh shit, you know what? I may not be good at track racing on the road, but I find out I'm actually very good at fucking buggy racing and I actually wanna do that instead. And if I, oh shit, I'm good at this better. So I let pursue that instead.
So. Don't limit yourself to just one aspect of motor sport. Be open to everything and be open to try to everything. 'cause you may never know, you might be very good at one more sport that you weren't good at before. So, well, you know, speaking of, it's kind of the same category, but definitely something different.
What about motorcycles and, and dirt bike and all that? I, I've never really heard you mention it. I mean, you get into the Harley Davidson or anything like that. I mean, when I was younger I had a fucking motorcycle that my dad would take with me to my, uh, with my sisters to the fucking back of the, uh, uh, elementary school.
When I was younger. We would have the motorcycle. It was a small motorcycle. It wasn't something like too big. It was like fucking, I would say like, I don't think see in the podcast, but you can't, it's like, like this big, it had like a, maybe like a a hundred bush CC motor. It wasn't even that powerful.
Right. So what we did was we had, we took turns, we fucking started at one end of the field. It was a big field by the way. And we got in with a helmet and we just fucking, our dad just said, just go fucking, just gun it down, gun it down the fucking, the field. Wow. And I remember. When I was in the driver's seat, I remember this very well.
Responsible. I think I was, I was like, I think I was crying when I was doing the thing. I thought I was gonna die when I hit the throttle. But then I looked back on, it was like, oh, what the fuck? Why was I being such a fucking bitch? It was like I wasn't gonna die. The worst I idea was fucking was fall in the grass.
I fucking got my shirt dirty. But that's really all it was. But I actually like, kind of looking back on that, that shit actually pretty, pretty fun. I actually like that shit, you know, fucking, just going at it, fucking, just going down, up and down the fucking field because that's why we did it more often. I was like, I gotta have more fun with it and shit.
You know? My sister of course didn't really like the aspect, so. Right. Obviously I guess we all know, uh, who the speedy of the family's gonna be soon enough. Right. And I don't think I even have to ask this question. No, God, but this, no. 'cause the answer's already pretty obvious. But if you have a son, are you gonna inundate him into this culture?
I feel like you're gonna have yourself a little, let tell driving buddy little, you know, okay. Right. Lemme tell you this. Right. Let not gonna force him to be a race like I am. Right. Of course, of course. If he chooses to take a different path. Like my father told me, I don't give a shit what you do as long as you are stable, have a good career, you have a good education, and you are happy with what you're doing, no matter what the fuck it is.
I don't give a shit about all that education. Financiability and cleanliness. That's it. If he was to be a part of this, look, I'm gonna expose him to it a lot, a young age. If he's fascinated, he's willing to want to actually learn from me, then I will pursue it and push it on a little bit more to the point where he's gonna be like, oh shit, I don't wanna actually learn this.
For real, for real. Yeah. But if he doesn't want to, then I'm not gonna force a dream on him like that. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, of course. But. You know, every Christmas he's gonna open up his stocking and his, his boxes. Oh wow. A new Hess truck and Ooh, some hot wheels. Look at this classic American muscle.
Ooh. See? Yeah. You gonna, you're gonna slowly in man. And if he likes that shit, then guess what's gonna happen. We're gonna, I'm gonna push it a little bit more. 'cause like I said, people sometimes, you know, switch up how they are and they kind don't lose interest in some things. Right, of course. Yeah. But I'm very passionate about old cars for a reason because I've always wanted to live that life and actually wanted to build and be like a very old school.
Like I always, always want to have a shop too. Very old vibes, like vintage signs, a fucking shell, A spark co. Motherfucking old Rock, holly motherfucking, oh hell, Penn Oil. Hell yeah. Got the whole vibe going, man. Oh bro. Vintage style shop everything. High rods and fucking muscle cars every fucking wear. No fucking sign of tuna.
Well, okay, lemme back up. We'll, we'll, we'll service tuners too, if you guys really are into that, so just don't get discouraged by that. But yeah, don't worry. Uh, Mr. Mr. Torito here is gonna come back on in the future, you know, maybe a year or two from now, maybe more. And he's gonna come drop the name of his shop and, and, and, and give the email and we'll have a link to the website so y'all can hop on over.
It might be, it might not be two years, you know, it might be, it might take a while, it take a little time, but I mean, I have that idea of the shop name in my head, but it might change, uh, in the future, so. Oh, shit. I think there's a little, thy Is it loud? No, no, you're good, you're good. But I'm gonna say we're, we're gonna keep it a secret just so any of your, um, you know, parasitic little car workers out here ain't trying to steal that shop name, you know, next thing you know we're gonna have Get fucking cop, right?
Motherfucker. Yeah. Hey. But if you do that, he's just gonna open one called the better version of, you know, he's gonna have big letters, the better. And then the, the title. Oh my God, I just imagine you doing what my dad did when I was maybe 1-year-old. My dad had me, uh, in the car going 120 miles per hour.
You know? What, what responsible, how old are who are you driving? Like 1-year-old? Well, I don't, I don't remember, you know, my dad, he was a cop for 25 years, so I mean, when he was, you know, they had charges and stuff always going fast. But he used to race, like I said, Thunderbirds and Hellcats. And he had, uh, when I, when, around the time period when I was being created, you know, he had a lot of, uh, Mustangs and I know when I was a kid, we, we, he had a green Mustang and he got really into those and.
You know, between the wife and having multiple kids, you know, more kids kept coming and all that, you know, went from all mustangs to minivans, you know, that's what happens. The decline of a man. Yeah. Why the fuck the toys decline of a man? All the toys went away. Yeah, they went, went for good. They went away, man.
No Grand Torino's and nothing like that. No. El Caminos. We almost picked up a El Camino not too long ago. What the fuck? Why did you pick up an El Camino? And, uh, the, you know, I don't know. I just thought it looked kind of cool, you know? Um, it's, it's very popular in Hispanic culture and, you know, I was dating a lot of Mexican women at the time and, you know, I, I, maybe I get the El Camino go down the neighborhood, but when we looked, there was one part that was missing from it.
And it's something they don't make anymore. Something they rarely ever made, which is, and it was, I don't remember, but it was like that part would've cost more than buying like a new vehicle, you know, engine. No, it was like just some peace in it, man. Like, I don't know. I'm not, Hey, I'm not a car guy yet.
But after listening to you and your passion, I'm gonna start reading some manuals and, and like Mrs. Red said, I'm gonna start changing my own oil. I'm tired of paying a hundred bucks. You wanna fucking get a, a punk Crazy Barracuda? No, no, no, no, no. The um, the fiance wants a pink Dodge charger, like 1970 Dodge Charger, all pink, custom made, you know, expensive.
I want, I wanna get into, I call your, I gotta call your fucking Mrs. Bro and ask her about shit. Yeah, ask her about that. Yeah. I gotta ask her about that because I mean, I'm not saying I'm, I'm a big fan of Pink. I'm not really a big fan of Pink. All right. Yeah. But I look back to, listen back to like Little Boo.
She's like, one of the lines, like fucking is like, he goes, like, goes like, um, fucking, just because Lil Boosty wearing pink. Don't think I fucking can't jump on the shit, make you leave it like, hey, some or some shit like that. Yeah. Hey, no, I mean, I'm not, I'm not against the feminine colors. I think the Plum crazies a nice look.
The purple, I mean, you can get some purple and, and all that. And then. Pink Jeeps and all that. There ain't nothing wrong with it, but I'm more of a, a black and silver kind of guy, you know? I mean, like when I was a kid I always wanted a black convertible. It didn't matter what kind, just roof down. But I don't, I can't stand, no offense to you man.
I can't stand vehicles low to the ground anymore. They're nice to look at. But driving wise, I mean, I can't remember the type of car, but my godfather one time took me out and, and, and he's rich and he has expensive cars. I mean, it was like you were touching the ground. And I don't like that. I like being high up.
I like my car to be big. I can kill people. I can smash into vehicles and be safe, but not kill people. Hey, not intentionally. Not intentionally. Yeah, not intentionally. Alright. Like if I'm on a car crash, you know, I don't like this small vehicle man. Like, you know, I like the big vehicles. I like to see everything.
I like to be up on the road. I like to be able to bully people because you gotta be an aggressive driver in, in, in this state. In age, especially in Norfolk. Especially in New Jersey, especially anywhere South Carolina. I've yet to been to a state where it's actually a nice, pleasant drive. Don't go to Florida.
Uh, driving. There was a pain too. I mean, they just different breed, different species. People, people, I just honestly don't understand how fucked people who spend their whole lives learn how to drive than I did. And they can't drive stuff. Can't drive for shit. I just don't understand that you spend, you learned from your parents before.
Well, no road test or nothing. You did your license and all that shit and you still can't drive. How the fuck is that possible? Yeah, and like I said, the, the biggest part of the military factor into that is every base I've been stationed at, you've got people from every different state and they all drive different.
You got this guy used to, he's only ever driven on dirt roads. You got this guy's used to bumper to bumper traffic. You got, you know, people who are, they're trying to say, well. You know, you're supposed to cut people off and then you got other people saying you should let people go. And you got people saying, let's all just drive fast and aggressive and, and take care of each other.
Because I had Florida drivers trying to say, well look, we're not used to being able to not be aggressive, so we have to be aggressive because we believe that other drivers won't give us the opportunity. You know? And I've definitely been with some, uh, sailors who had some mad road rage. I mean, um, I'm not gonna call him out, but I have shipmate.
There have been times put a dent in the door. He gets so mad. He just puts a dent in the door, man. Jesus. I've been close to doing that too. I mean, I've definitely had some incidents and I'm almost gotten outta my car a few times and, and sometimes it can't be helped. I was in the McDonald's drive through and I couldn't pull up any further.
The guy behind me starts honking 'cause he can't get to the window. I said, look man, I can't pull up any further. And it's midnight too. They stop honking. Still can't pull up. Nope. The line hasn't moved. They decided to start honking again and I'm like getting agitated. Third time's the charm man. Honks at me for a third time, fucking third time.
But yeah, third time this cocksucker has a nerve to honk at me in the drive through line. No one can go anywhere. And I was about to get outta the car. Like there's not a lot of times, okay, there's been plenty of times where I was gonna get outta the car, but this was the first time that I actually hand on, on the handle, ready to get outta the car and they just drove off and they're like, man, f this McDonald's, I don't, I don't want this.
You know? I was already in a bad mood. I came there for the grimace shake, happy Birthday grimace. And they didn't have it, bro. They were out of it. And so, yeah. But we're gonna call it an episode for here. You know, we've had a great discussion on cars and you know, Mr. Toto, do you have anything you'd like to add?
You know, any closing statements about cars or anything? Honestly, not really. I would say, you know, whatever you float your bow, whatever cars you into, don't, I won't knock you for it. You know, just everyone has their preference, everyone has their opinions on them. Just we're all, the car community is like one big family, you feel me?
No matter what you drive, no matter what the fuck you do, not fucking trying to, Coke fucking tore. No, fuck you. Hold on. That's exactly what I was gonna say. He, he said it, but I'll say family, he goes, we're all one big family. Now, I haven't seen Fast and Furious, but I, it, you know, it was all over my Instagram feed, you know, these memes about, you know, VIN Diesel saying family, the power of family, you know, and um, I was actually, now, I don't know if you have to see all of them technically, but when they, you know, showed Jason Momoa versus Dwayne the Rock, uh, Dwayne the Rock Johnson versus Vin Diesel and everything, I was like, that looks pretty good.
I did see Hobbes and Shaw, but you know, that's a side story and everything. And yeah, Shaw, I just watched it, but. I mean it's 'cause I love Dwayne Rock Johnson and it was him, you know, Samoan power versus all this other stuff. But yeah, so we're gonna end it there with we're family, you know, family is what matters.
Uh, get yourself a car, get yourself a job. Have some fun in that damn car too. Yeah. Not too much fun. You might end up with a girl pregnant, but you know, look and look eventually my goal is to fucking end up having a little mini me. That's the only, only thing If I had to adopt a kid. If I don't get lucky, fuck it.
I'll adopt a kid. I don't give a shit. But yeah, other than that, just, you know, if you're, like I said, for all the car people out there, you know, do what you gotta do. You know, if you wanna press girls with 'em, I won't knock you for it. But for the love of God, please just know what the fuck you're doing with the car man.
Don't get the damn car. 'cause you wanna fucking pull bitches in it. Please. Yeah, be safe please. Like, just know the car you drive, know how it handles, know how it works. I guarantee you you're gonna fucking be fucking around with a, a demon and you're gonna fucking end up going to wrap it in the telephone pole.
Okay? Don't do that. Alright? Yeah. And you know what? If you do conceive. In, in a car. That car should be your kids. You know, that should be their inheritance since, you know, you made them in that car. I think that's only fair. Yeah. But yeah, Mr. Torito will be back on at least two episodes. One, you know, no car.
It's just that military life. Talking about some funny stories from the galley, from cargo, from the ship. Maybe some tragic stories. I know he's got both. Oh yeah. Maybe more of the latter, but I'm ready for that episode. There's plenty of Oh, of galley stories we got and, and what, and one last thing to put before I turn back into him for all the, the guys in the Navy, please stay very cautious of the Navy hoes that, but I'm gonna save that.
That's an episode of its own. That's, I'll say that for later, but for another episode. But just like I said, we'll, we'll come back to that in another episode. Right. And, and if you want any other, if, if you can't wait for that episode. Go scroll through the feed. We've had plenty of stories and I gotta tell you that the Army has it pretty bad too.
I mean, no, for real. They had a whole club of, they had a special club made to keep track of all the deployment schedules and stuff to, to warn each other about when their husbands were coming back and everything. Like I said, worst story I've heard is, you know, I talked with an army guy, basically this guy got married, you know, suddenly decided during a school or whatever and gave her full power of all his life.
He came back from deployment, she had taken everything and made him responsible for her new boyfriend's truck payments and he couldn't get out of it. Wow. Yeah. So just some horror stories and then again, in the future, Mr. Retta will be on with his shop name. Oh. With his website. It's a fucking, it's a work in progress.
Work in progress. But he's gonna be back. And Yeah. Or he might be back as a famous NASCAR racer and you know, we'll see. You never know what happens. I know you never know, but you won't know if you don't do what he's doing, which is being passionate, putting in the work, putting in effort. And you know what, d the Ron Johnson said it best.
It's about drive. It's about power. We stay hungry, we devour, put in the work, put in the hours and take what's out. Oh, oh yeah. But that's all for today, ladies and gentlemen.
