June 15, 2022 • 57 mins
In this episode of Uninfluenced Matt Holden and Mike Ritland talk Lamborghini Huracan Performante (Underground Racing UGR) vs BMW S1000RR Brentuning (BT moto). We had a great time catching up and a solid QA session. If you have any questions send them to Ask.Uninfluenced@gmail.com
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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Catching Up
7:57 - Lamborghini Huracan Performante (UGR) VS BMW S1000RR Brentuning (BT moto)
20:03 - QA Session
28:40 - Bar Brawl Story
33:39 - Hardening Schools
45:16 - Beard Question
48:16 - Transmissions
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0:00 - Intro
0:36 - Catching Up
7:57 - Lamborghini Huracan Performante (UGR) VS BMW S1000RR Brentuning (BT moto)
20:03 - QA Session
28:40 - Bar Brawl Story
33:39 - Hardening Schools
45:16 - Beard Question
48:16 - Transmissions
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(00:25):
So it's been two weeks since werecorded this shit not shit, this great
show. It's been two weeks sincewe chewed all this up and shit it
out. So what the hell youhad going on for two weeks? Uh,
let's see. I mean personally,I guess just I've had a bunch
(00:48):
of shit going on That's kept mebusy. It's kind of outside of the
shows and and whatever, which Iwon't I won't really get into, but
yeah, just personally, I've hada busy couple of weeks since I've been
running around and been out of townand uh, just handling shit. So
um. But yeah, other thanthat, um, not a whole lot
professionally, other than just the standardstuff. But yeah, I've been doing
(01:11):
baby stuff, dealing with all that. Um, there's some stuff personally,
kind of like Mike that goes it'sgoing on with us and the baby that
I'm not going to discuss on theair, but those close to us know
what it is, and that takespriority over everything. The wife got tired
of the Dannali. I don't knowif it's a record breaking time, but
(01:36):
fucking I think the Lexus is stillto her. She got the f sport
RX three fifty f sport and Idon't even think I even fucking got the
title work and fucking license plate forWe traded that fucker in. Yeah,
but she went back to her roots. We always seem to go back to
BMW, whether it's fucking seems likemotorcycles now, fucking the Day League cars,
(02:01):
BMW resall value to me right now, everybody's resall values all over the
place. But BMW's resale value isn'tquite as good as Mercedes, which I've
never understood because their services top notch. The build quality of their cars I
think is way up there. LikeI'd said it before, I've talked to
(02:22):
many people. If they would havetook that Ia and put the fucking M
engine in it, the V eight, yeah, I'd probably own one of
those motherfuckers. Yeah, just becauseof how good BMW builds their ship.
But she went back to an Xsix M competition. Last night I raced
Tesla Performance. I don't think itwas the X. It was a Model
(02:45):
what's the other one, the Modelthree? The slope backfucker. He just
kept jumping and jumping and jumping,and you know we're still in breaking beer.
I put that bitch in m twoand just fucked him up, something
about those those BMW's are just builtwell. So she wanted it. We
got it back. So the pastweek and a half I get to thank
(03:07):
Sean Ryan because I reached out toone person that I know is more dorky
than I am when it comes toresearching shit, and it's him. And
I was like, okay, bro, for real, strange question. He's
like, okay, hit man.You know he's thinking and show guns baby
seats. What you're rocking up withit? And I told him my two
(03:30):
options I was looking at and he'slike, you're good, but car seat
we have just it won't fit atBMW because it's you know, it's a
big bulky wheels all in one motherfucker. So yeah, my normal upgrades and
searches or cars motorcycles in the pasttwo weeks have been strollers and car seats.
Yeah, I mean, nothing wrungit up. It's a priority.
(03:52):
I will say to two things.I guess the BMW versus Mercedes thing.
I think the BMW is a bettercar. Um Where I think Mercedes beats
BMW is their interior quality I thinkis higher, kind of borrowed from their
S class stuff. And it's nota knock on BMW. It's not that
(04:14):
there's is bad, it's not.It's very good. I just think Mercedes
is just that extra level of refinement. It's not that it's better, it's
just more refined. Yeah, itseems nicer. Um build quality wise,
you know, there's really no difference. They're both exceptionally well made. And
then exhaust note. You know,the MG exhaust note is arguably the best
(04:35):
stock exhaust note out there consistently,I think, I would say across the
board. Yeah, even with supercarsand ship ye and no matter which fucking
Molly you have, mean, youcan get a little MG a forty five,
you know whatever. It sounds likea fucking monster, or all the
way up into their you know,standard by Turbo and it just sounds really
(04:56):
really good. But I think thosetwo fuckers because BMW's done a lot better
with their exhaust notes on the Mcompetition series. And that's what a lot
of people don't realize. When youget an a MG, it don't have
to have the S to have thatbad ass exhaust note, but the BMW
has to have competition or it don'thave that exhaust note yep. Uh,
so, yeah, there's that andin that same vein. I guess,
(05:19):
uh car car news wise, myI did so. I when I got
my truck with the generator, andit was an F one fifty King Ranch,
uh and it was I don't I'venever liked the spec. It's just
that's what they had, and itwas hard to get the power boost models
with the seventy three generator, whichI do use and prefer, but I
(05:41):
just I wanted to a generator.And so back when I got it was
about a year ago this time.I ordered a new Raptor at that same
time and it took that long toget in. It just came in this
last week and you know, wecan put some photos up or even do
a review on it maybe, butthere's not really much to review. I
mean, it's the it's the sametech as the as the new generation F
(06:01):
one fifties that that I just spenta year with and we did that review
on. So it's really no differentother than it's just all black. Um.
It does sound a lot better andthe modes on it are are considerably
better. There is no start stopbutton, which is nice. Yeah,
it's just all it's always not infucking eco mode or whatever, which is
(06:23):
which is pretty handy. And theengine doesn't go on and off the way
that the power boost does because ithas to because it's got the the electric
motor and the engine break and allthat. But I love the truck.
It's awesome getting a shell put onit later this week. And that's my
work truck in that same vein speakingof BMW's um just because traffic is so
(06:44):
bad and how how big of avehicle it is, and I just you
know, it's got BFG all terraintires and they're fucking big and loud and
whatever. I don't want to puta fuck ton of miles on that truck
just driving around town and running intoDallas back or whatever. So I did
pick up a new Daily driver.It's not here yet, but to be
(07:04):
continued, I'll tell you what Imay have already kind of fucked up the
h what it might be, butwe'll let you guys guess and see what.
See what the new Daily is thatwe'll keep my truck in the driveway
a little more often, just forthe running around town stuff. But I
wanted it to be practical, comfortable, but still fast, and fun to
drive. So you guys throw yourguesses out there. Yeah, I don't
(07:27):
think you just said the brand.Yeah well either way. Yeah, on
a plus side, out ordered acar to race his new ship. Yeah,
hopefully i'll have it in six toeight months. By then you won't
have your ship. I probably stillhave that something's fucking horribly wrong with it,
which I don't think now that it'sgood. So I want to talk
to you about something we got senta video of a UGR car Stage three
(07:53):
plus racing a BMW S one thousanddouble R stretched with brend tune of stretched,
lowered and strapped. Yeah, thatis a distinction. The strapped makes
a huge difference keeping that front enddown with that that amount of power.
But that's brand stage two, Ithink, Yeah, it's it's pretty much
(08:15):
every bolton you can put on theBMW other than the velocity stacks which the
rider has coming in. Uh,it does a three four sixty two one
thirty consistent. So if we couldput that video up right here, and
(09:01):
that's it's just Nettie Nettie to watch. I mean, you got to give
it to the to the bike inthat case. In a couple of ways,
one. Um, you know,it gets the jump and it will
every time. You know, there'sa linear power build in that in the
car that that you can't that you'renot going to get around, you know,
(09:22):
which, uh is just kind ofthe law of physics. I think,
unless you do rolling anti lag butthat's I wouldn't I wouldn't want to
do that. I'm sure the ownerdoesn't want to do that. But uh,
but you know, it gets outyou know, a car and a
half or so, and holds itconsistent up until uh, you know,
fairly high speeds until the car catchesand and passes it. But you know,
(09:48):
I think it's what's neat about thatvideo, is it It doesn't take
anything away from either the car orthe bike. It makes both of them
look good. I think, youknow, which is rare. You know,
usually one looks better than the otheror whatever. But I think both
are equally impressive, just in differentways. And uh, and shout out
to the writer for doing it.Can we say his name? Oh,
(10:09):
that's up to you, I meanshould it ain't up to me. It's
up to him, I guess.But if I'll leave it out for now,
if you want it in their chimein and the fucking yeah yeah in
the comments that kind of that wasme just because of the nature of it.
I don't want to assume that thathe's good with it, but you
know that's ballsy writing. I mean, there's a significant bend in that that
(10:31):
race. Uh, you know thatyou can see in the in the video
he's pretty leaned over at at areally high fucking speed and uh and can
really squeeze everything out of that bike. So hats off to Hats off to
him and the and the car driverfor doing it. But what I think
is really impressive about that because youmentioned both look good. Usually when you
(10:52):
see two big brands, which brandTuning and Underground Racing u g R,
some people would go by if youGI are racing, they're gonna show their
side and the competitor will never showtheir side. Brand Tuning the same thing.
They're gonna show their win. Thecompetitor will never show their side.
This race was so good they bothshared it. Yeah yeah, and it
(11:13):
it because it speaks volumes for bothvehicles. I mean, in all honesty,
it's amazing. Watching the video.I keep in my mind thinking because
I know what the power bands andall that are I want to say when
the card takes over it's fourth tofifth gear because it looks like a significant
(11:35):
boost game. Yeah, but shit, it was fun to look at the
video and see all that that happening. Yeah, that's that's impressive. Shit,
I mean yeah, like I said, on all accounts, it's uh,
it's just some mean, like whata time to be alive. The
fact that that's possible in two platformsthat are so vastly different and they're both
(11:56):
that that good is pretty pretty fuckingcool, and it's need is usually when
you see a race at that powerlevel, neither vehicle was driven or ridden
there. They were pulled on atrailer. Yeah, and now yeah,
not the case. Uh yeah,they met They met there, you know,
from driving from from quite a wayas a way to do it and
(12:18):
then drove home. So yeah,it's a I mean, it speaks volumes.
I mean, it's part of thereason why I own a BMW motorcycle.
You own a BMW motorcycle. Uh, part of the reason why we've
spoke so highly of underground racing foryears. Yeah. Uh yeah, I
mean there's there's absolutely nobody in thebusiness that even comes close You know,
(12:43):
to to that company for for thosetypes of builds, you know, I
mean not not even close. Likeit's it's so desperate as far as the
you know, the contrast between themand everybody else, it's it's almost fucking
embarrassing, honestly. I mean,like they're just so good at what they
do, and they've been doing itfor so long and have done so many
of them that they you know,they have such a bank of knowledge to
(13:07):
draw from, um, you know, in experience to be able to know
how to do it right and troubleshootif there was an issue or whatever,
but there there just rarely is,you know, and to have that kind
of performance in a super reliable platformis almost unheard of. I mean,
think about all of the different buildsthat we've done that we're a fraction of
(13:30):
that that we're nothing but problems,you know, Like I mean, adding
one hundred or one hundred and fiftymaybe two hundred horsepower to pick a fucking
platform, and it's like this enginelights on and then that fucking happens,
and then this breaks and then that, you know, and it's like these
guys are overdoubling the wheel horsepower withabsolutely no fucking reliability problems, you know,
(13:50):
it's just it's incredible. So it'sa real testament to their competency.
I haven't driven a HUGR car,but I have wrote in it, and
I've wrote in an other I wouldsay pretty well known turbo builder's car.
And I got asked in a message, kind of them wanting to be glorified,
(14:15):
what do you think of that thatbuilt? And my response was,
it's not in fucking day. Thedifference in those builds, yeah, oh
yeah, which one's better? Theunderground racing is and and it's for simple
things. The simple thing is theyknow what works and they put what works
in there. No flash, No, hey, if you hold this you
(14:35):
can get rolling, anti lags,shoot flames out of it. And no,
if you want a good car,you need it to do this and
this from A to B and hey, do this and you can drive that
motherfucker wherever you want, drive itto the track and go fuck people up,
you know, versus the other one. I did drive that one,
and you drove the shout out ofit too. Yeah. No, I
(14:56):
drove that month because you were like, man, something just seems off.
Yeah, treat it like a bitchand tell me what you think. Yeah.
And then I came back and Iwas like, it's quick, but
you're right something something's not right.Yeah. And when you get in that
level, it shouldn't be that way. Yeah. And it goes to kind
of what we've talked about customer service, their customer service, because I've talked
(15:20):
to the owner of UGR multiple timesand emails, and even if it's a
dumb ass question like hey man,what what color of those break pads?
Fucker like black bitch like all theother breaks pass, you know, but
he'll mess it, she'll send itback, versus you could be a customer
with some of these other upgrade shopsand it can be a week or two
before you hear any fucking thing.Yeah, yeah, even when you ask
(15:43):
him in it and it could bea serious I mean I just went through
that. Yeah, yeah, no, I know what I mean. Yeah,
I mean should I've been talking toto Kevin at UGR for several years
now before I became a customer,and even when, even when I went
with a different company first, hestill, you know, was super respectful
and answered my questions and you know, it was always fucking top notch I
(16:03):
mean, yeah, those guys arefucking awesome. I can't speak highly enough.
I'm not trying to blow smoke orno or you know, we're not
sponsored by them. We're not gettingany free shit. Like. To me,
it's just we've you know, betweenthe two of us, we've been
through a lot. Up. Yougot that fucking shirt and they gave you
a car for free. About theshirt, got the car for free?
Most expensive shirt I've ever had.Uh No, it's just you know,
(16:26):
to me, it's like, youknow, if something's good, they deserve
to be to be talked about,and that deserves to be showcase because it's
increasingly rare that companies put out thatkind of product and operate the way the
way that they do. But yeah, because I mean you have brand tune.
I would put them in some motorcycleand that same. Yeah, phenomenal
(16:48):
guys. You know when I wentto my new setup, dude, they
were yeah, and they hooked meup and I wasn't asking to be hooked
up. I'm like, hey man, I'm gonna give you a shout out
on our show. Blah blah blah. No, Like, hey man,
you're a current customer, you're apass customer, do this, do this,
and boom, we'll get you hookedup. And yeah, I mean
I've talked to them a few timestoo. They don't know me from fucking
(17:08):
anybody in same thing like super responsive, super professional, they're their tunes are
always really really good. I've I'vehad, you know, basically no issues
with their tunes or products, andum, yeah, it's really good.
But one of the last thing,I guess, you know, stroking people
off wise and then we'll move on. But to me, one of the
(17:30):
really neat and most impressive things aboutthe UGR guys is is how much you
can ramp up from there and keepit the same reliability and kind of same
process. You know, you cango as low as eight hundred wheelhorse power,
I mean as low asthma. It'sstill super high, but you can
do nine hundred thousand, eleven fiftyyou know, thirteen hundred, fourteen hundred,
(17:51):
fifteen hundred, sixteen hundred, seventeenfifty two thousan twenty five hundred,
three thousand, like the sky's thefucking limit. You know, you can
just keep going up and they cankeep accommodating those builds, and they've done
it. You know, and soit's like you can really do whatever you
want with them, and it justcorrelates to having to build out other parts
and components in the car to beable to handle that. And they've done
(18:12):
it, they know how to doit, and they and they have a
process for it. So yeah,they're they're they're awesome guys. But well,
it goes into some people have askedwhy we both like Swiss watches and
things like that. I would equateto someone's knowledge of knowing how to build
something and make it reliable, qualityworth asking for. Elon Musk has a
(18:34):
quote that customer once asked him,why am I paying you thirty bucks?
And you weren't here an hour,you know, And he said, my
hourly rates thirty bucks. But Ifixed it in ten minutes. But you're
paying an hour. And okay,so why am I paying for an hour?
You're here in ten minutes because ittook me ten years to learn how
to fix this in ten minutes.Yeah, so you're paying for the ten
(18:55):
years. I was just here forten minutes. And that hits fuck and
hard as a business owners than someonewho's into quality shit. You know,
you see someone's price of a watcha car build, you're like, god
damn. Then you've experienced it andit's like god damn. Yeah, you
know it's yeah. I mean youget what you pay for most of the
(19:17):
time. There are some things closedand otherwise that don't yet I'd say you
get me paid for it there.I don't know if that's some bad when
you just wear a man that we'resuper expensive. Yeah, yeah, I'll
that's your problem now. But anyway, so good, good stuff. I
hope you enjoyed the video, andI'm sure there will be more to come,
(19:37):
especially with what what's going on inthe background, which we'll get into
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We're gonna get into some questions.I was gonna do a lot more.
(20:26):
We got another show we're actually recordinglater this week, which I think
may end up replacing this one,and this one will go later. We'll
figure that out. But go tothat rust come guy. I know that's
not his name, that it's coolor if it was. So We're gonna
(20:51):
get into some of you guys questionsbecause I don't like having them all built
up. It feels like I'm abusingyou fuckers. Okay, so here Russ
comes. He's probably gonna get madat hell, bitch that ain't my name.
Uh? Do either of you haveany experience with BMW drivers driving like
complete assholes. I've seen so muchof this in my years of commuting to
(21:17):
and from work. There are memeson the internet about this, so it
has to be a thing, right, love the show? Well, Russ
or he rides a BMW. Iown BMW's and I'm a total fucking asshole,
but I can tell you I drivethe same wather I'm on a BMW
n a BMW in my fast card, in my fucking f one fifty.
(21:41):
If you're in my fucking way,I'm gonna get around you. Yeah.
I don't fucking care how I haveto, I'm gonna get around you.
Yeah, I would say sort of. You know, to me, there
are assholes that drive every brand,But I do know what you mean,
and that usually the M cars,not just BMW, but I would say
more of the M cars. Pickone fucking M, two, M,
(22:03):
three, M, four, M, five, M six, M eight.
You know, is there an mightthat the XM fucking pick pick a
number? You know. I thinkyou know more than anything. It's just
the type of person that that buysa car that's designed to handle well and
be fast and to be driven hard, usually is going to drive it that
way, which for most people Ithink equals driving like an asshole. So
(22:27):
I think there may be I'm notsaying you're wrong. I'm just saying that
you know, your idea of whatdriving like an asshole versus somebody else's may
be different. I suspect that mostof the people, most not all.
I'm sure there's some that think canactually want to drive like an asshole.
Don't think that they're driving like assholes. They're just trying to enjoy their car
(22:48):
and drive it hard, and thatcomes across like them driving like an asshole
because of it. So it's alittle bit subjective, but I do know
what you mean. But I alsothink, like I said, it applies
a little bit to anybody that hasa car that's performance designed and meant to
be driven hard and fast and enjoyed. Is that if that guy is in
a sea of commuters and utility vehicles, that's that's gonna stand out and seem
(23:14):
like you're you're being a dick abouthow you're driving. But uh, well,
there's this one fucking lot asshole thatfucking follows us to these meats.
He drives like a fucking asshole.He's in a BMW and it's Robin's Egg
blue by the way. Yeah,it's like, look at me, fucking
blue. It's not as what isit easter? It's kind of fucking from
a rap on it next week,next weekend? Have you seen his friend
(23:37):
end? Since he followed the GTfive hundred, No, is it all
fucked? Oh dude, it's fuckingbad. Wait wait to fuck him up.
It's not my fault. I toldhim not to get too close.
Like, if you can read this, I'll read it. Why is the
automatic transition not seen popularity in motorcyclesas it has seen in cars. I'm
(24:00):
gonna preface this with I'm not thefucking gearhead motor guy. I'm going to
take a stab at it. Thoughit could be totally off. This is
just the way my brain works.Is I'm gonna I'm gonna guess it's two
things. Is One is that withquick shifters and blip shifting technology being what
it is, you kind of don'tneed it. There's three things so that
(24:22):
that's Number one is that it's alreadyso easy to shift without using the clutch,
with the quick shifting technology that exists, it's kind of irrelevant, kind
of you still have to actually dosomething. Yes, it's not doing it
for you. The second thing isweight automatic transmissions, especially in such a
small platform, I would think wouldbe enormous, would would make the engine
(24:45):
big and heavy to the point whereit would be hard to make it a
motorcycle at that point, I couldbe totally fucking wrong. I'm just guessing.
And then the last thing is thatdriving a motorcycle that there is a
level of driver engagement that is necessaryarea at a much higher level in terms
of upshifting and down shifting faster andgoing through the gear as quicker to where
(25:06):
I don't know that an automatic transmissionwould work the same way. I could
be wrong. Those are my threeguesses at why you haven't seen that.
But there are a few cruiser bikes. I may speak out of term,
but I'm pretty sure BMW has acruiser, and I think Honda has one,
and there's one more I'm pretty sure, but they're cruisers, and they
(25:27):
do have an automatic transmission. Butwhat they're doing using the blipping system automatically
instead of you know, using yourfeet kind of like a multi clutch transmission.
But yeah, on a sport bike, especially with the new blipping and
stuff like that. Hell, Irarely ride with my clutch hand unless we're
(25:48):
really getting fucking after it. Myclutch hand, I can just keep on
my knee, my leg. Ijust fucking ride and shift up down whatever
I want. So there's really noneed on a sport bike for it.
Uh. And like you said,weight and everything else, and then the
downshifting just I don't think it cankeep up well. Transmission they would need
would just be huge and yeah,because I mean if you think about it,
(26:11):
like even even in cars right whereyes, it's an automatic transmission.
If you look at the fastest timesautomatic transmissions in cars now are faster than
humans how they can drive a manualBut there's a there's a catch to that.
It's kind of the equivalent to blipping, and that they're still in manual
(26:32):
mode using paddles, not relying onthe transmission to do it. If you
watch any track time that that's done, or even for myself, I know,
like if I'm driving around town whereI've got to go up and down
in d gears, I'm always usingthe paddles and it's way faster. Like
if like the piece is the fastestdownshifting car I've driven, it's still not.
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It still doesn't do it the wayI do it, or a human
being would do it. When you'rewhen you're having to do it fast and
slow, way down quick and whatever. When you break and it goes down
two or three gears in a fairlyshort time, it's still not the same
as doing it yourself with the paddle. So take like the new GT three
as an example, you can getit in manual or an automatic, and
it's it's a way faster track carif you do it an automatic, but
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it's not in pure automatic. It'san automatic but using the paddles in that
kind of pseudo manual mode. Soto me, that that's basically the equivalent
is is it's an automatic transmission,but that you're manually shifting without a clutch
the same way, you know.So I think that's that's probably going to
be the case for a long timeor maybe even ever, especially with electronic
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electric cars being what they are interms of not shifting. Is that I
don't know that you'll ever see internalcombustion engine automatic transmission technology get to a
point where where it can actually doit faster and better than a human being
in that environment, in a tracklike environment. I don't think it'll ever
get to that point. But thingstoo, but you never know. I
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mean, we wouldn't have thought someof these electric cars doing what they're doing,
go to some of the older onesif we can, All right,
Mike, did the bad guys,especially in Afghanistan get all coked up and
high before a fight? Any ideaof bad guys being doped up or Nah,
that's a good question. Um.In a lot of cases, in
most places in the Middle East,Um, in the afternoon and evening,
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a lot of the gentlemen chew onon cot and other things similar to that,
which is an opium based chewing tobaccokind of thing. Um where yeah,
they get all fucked up on itand um, and then they're they're
out of their minds. I meanthey're kind of out of their minds anyway.
But but yeah, that that isa fairly common common practice and a
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lot of places over there. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it's not
a bad question. I'm surprised.I'm gonna go and say that's Brandy wrote
that, and usually he rather shit. Uh, most epic barroom brawl use
guys took part in we're witnessed doesn'tneed to take place in a bar.
It's not a bar. It's notnot a barroom brawl. Then I was
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at a bowling alley. Yeah,I mean I've been in bar fights.
Uh, you have some. Idon't know if you can talk about.
I'll say one that I that Iwitnessed, because I'm not going to talk
about any that I've been in,even even with statute of limitations. I'll
just say one that I witnessed.We were in Hawaii, and uh we
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were on deployment, so I waswith you know, Seal Team three Echo
Platoon, and we were staying onthe main island, but we were on
the west coast of it, whichis more of a locals type type of
area. It's the southwestern part ofthe island. We were staying in these
old, like abandoned army barracks,and there was you know, some in
town parts nearby that you know,there was a couple of grocery stores and
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restaurants and stuff, and we wentto a chill and it was me and
two other guys were sitting at abooth and there's like a row of booths
that are along the edge of abig area of like bar tables where you
know, that's where the bar wasand so they're serving drinks and food in
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there or whatever. And so we'resitting in one of these booths next to
this big open area with all thesebarroom tables, and it's pretty much all
Hawaiian Samoan locals in there. Andthen our our three fucking white asses,
and it's pretty full. There's probablyI don't know, thirty thirty five people,
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and you could tell that it waslike they all most of them knew
each other. It was like abig family, you know, or a
couple of big families that had abunch of tables and whatever. And there
was a sit down table and thenlike a higher elevated table, and you
couldn't hear it at first, butyou could tell that they were kind of
eyeballing each other. And it wasa girl sitting at the sit down table,
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sitting there with I think her husbandand another guy. And then it
was a table with like two couplesand one of the guys at the taller
table was having words with one ofthe girls sitting I don't know if they
knew each other or what the fuck, but they were. They were kind
of jabbering back and forth, andit's you could tell it was starting to
get heated. Now you could kindof start to hear him, hear him
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yelling at each other and U andthen they just, you know, it
goes silent for thirty seconds or so, and then all of a sudden,
the guy at the elevated table verycalmly stands up without saying anything. Call
me, just walks over the tableagain, doesn't say shit, just leans
back and boom, just fucking clocksthe girl and flattens her. And like
that was the light switch that justthe entire room just erupted. And now
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you've got like thirty five, threehundred and seventy pounds, six foot eight
samoan dude, just beating the shitout of each other. I mean there's
fucking tables, flying chairs, breakingover each other's fucking heads. I mean
it was like glasses shattering. Imean it was total fucking mayhem. And
we're just sitting there watching this,like, dude, is this a fucking
hidden camera show? Like where isAshton getting ready to fucking jump out the
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closet, you know, screaming punkedor what like. It was the craziest
shit. I mean in all thefights I've seen or what have you or
even been in, like that wasby far the craziest because it was huge
and it was just it was nuts. And in Hawaii, all of the
most of the cops drive their owncars because it's so overpopulated. They don't
want double the cars of the copshaving their personal cars and having a cop
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car, so most cops use theirown personal cars as their cop cars,
and they slap a light on it. So you see like fucking fifteen sixteen
fucking Mustangs and fucking Corollas and shipjust flying into the parking lot with cherries
on the top and dudes jumping out. Some of them are in uniform,
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some of them aren't. Fucking nightstickscome in. They just start beating the
shit out of everybody in fucking tazingpeople and it was fucking nuts. It
was like some shit out of amovie. But somehow they managed to get
get everything under control and got itquelled. But you know, we were
just sitting there for like a halfhour watching this crazy shit happen, and
finally we left here like, dude, fuck this. Yeah, but yeah,
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it was It was nuts, that'sfucking crazy. Yeah, it was
awesome. I'm gotten like you.I don't really want to talk on air
about boar fights that I've been in. Yeah, uh, not a part
of There's something called a lawsuit andall that that can still happen. Uh.
The other question I don't even careto answer to you, which one
the third or fourth? Uh?Well that's why the fuck is it so
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hard to swim? Well, Randy, it's not so the best way to
learn is getting the fucking water.Yeah, fucking prick. He started off
well yeah, like uh, likea naturally aspirated engine. You lost steam
at the top end. Randy.Hey, Hey guys, quality content as
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usual. Long time listener here.I'm finding it difficult being a new father
to concentrate on anything besides the schoolshootings. My sons are two and five.
The thought of sending my voice ofschool is weighing on me. Matt,
what are your thoughts, especially havinga baby at home? And Mike,
if you were put in charge ofsecuring those schools, what would you
do. I'd like to pick yourbrains before I go to the next school
meeting, just trying to do something, feeling pretty helpless like many others.
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You go ahead, since you gota newborn, that's I mean, it's
tough, but it's always been tough. I mean there's been ship in schools
forever. The difference is there's socialmedia. Now, there's news and political
people pushing it more and more.And while they're pushing it, it's driving
these fucking people that are insane tobe like, oh, I can become
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famous by going to shoot up aschool. For one, we shouldn't glorify
these fuckers for doing what they're doing. They shouldn't get any media attention outside
of there was a shooting out ofschool. Who did it? You go
look it up. We're not goingto publicize all this shit on the TV,
the internet. You look it up, you find it out, because
at that point it can be publicrecord once they're But when we glorify it
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and make these dumb ass kids ordumb ass adults become instant celebrities for doing
bad shit, yeah, that's nota good precedent to set. I mean,
at that point it's hey, Ican gonna rob this fucking store,
and as long as I'm live onfucking Instagram, I'm become famous for that.
Yeah, but it starts at themedia level and the politicians and shit
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like that, which I don't thinkwe're ever going to see go away.
As far as sending your kids toschool, you almost cheat your child not
sending them to in some sort ofschool, whether it would be public,
private, however you decide to doit, because that social interaction they need
that we talk about all the time. These phones are taking that away when
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they leave school. The social interactionstops the iPad. Same thing us as
new parents. What do we donow for babysitter? Chare have this iPad?
Watch YouTube? Have this iPad watchcartoon Network or fucking Netflix. Shut
the fuck up watching iPad? Wedon't interact with our children as much as
we should. So therefore, ifwe take away school too, what social
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interactions it's having? You know?And to me, I think it's it's
dangerous and should there be more security? Yes, I've thought that for a
long time. A lot of theschools around here up in Dallas area are
actually a pain in the fucking assto get into, even as a parent.
So some of these people walking arounddoing stupid shit. You don't hear
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about it in the really big cities, in places like Dallas, Fort Word,
things like that. You hear aboutit in the smaller suburbs and shit
like that. But my kid's gonnahave to go to school now, I'm
gonna have to decide if I'm goingto send him to a private school,
public school, but he's gonna havesocial interaction. I think we're cheating our
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society. And we've talked about itover and over with electronics, So yeah,
my kid's gonna go. Is itscary? Yeah, But it's also
scary going to the mall and takingyour baby out of the car and walking
with all this bullshit up in amall parking lot. Now, someone could
come up rob you and shoot youright there. Yeah, someone could walk
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rob you at the grocery store.I mean, the fact of the matter
is the same shit can happen nomatter where you're at. Having at a
grocery store. And where was that? New York Detroit? Yeah? Yeah,
so, I mean, bad shithappens everywhere. It's just a matter
of are you protecting yourself to helpprotect your family? Yeah? So I
have a number of points that Iwould make. First off, one of
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the statements you're saying you're finding itdifficult to concentrate on anything besides the school
shootings. That's not by accident.To Matt's point, the media, social
media, and the mainstream media inparticular, it's their priority to keep you
concerned, worried, and pissed offor a combination of all those things,
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because that translates to you concentrating onschool shootings and watching and listening, which
means money for them. And Ihate to say that and I'm not just
saying that that that's absolutely the realityof it. Um. That's why that
that is the way that it is. It's it's because it's intended. I
find it useful as well as essentialto look at data, Okay, Um.
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And this is not minimizing those thekids that are killed in school shootings,
it's not. But it's simply meantto add some perspective, some healthy
perspective in terms of data and statisticsto understand, you know, the severity
of a problem, because that's reallythe direct correlation is how bad is something?
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Well, how often does it happen? And the reality of it is
is that in mass school shoots,the number of kids that die per year
compared to a lot of other things. I'll use one example, I'll use
two examples. Drowning, drowning inprivate backyard swimming pools. All right,
it's about ten times the amount ofkids drown in backyard swimming pools in the
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same same age range that you're talkingabout, and even younger than die in
mass school shootings. When was thelast time you ever heard, Hey,
there was thirty seven kids that drownedthis month in backyard pools you've never heard
that, right, Why, okay, that the numbers are higher, You
don't You don't ever hear that innews stories because I'm not going to say
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nobody gives a shit, but it'snot going to draw headlines and people with
their mouth open saying holy fuck,really and and tuning in and watching it,
you know, and you know thatthere's no factions of Congress that are
demanding that you know, we haveyou know, common sense pool legislation to
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drive around with concrete trucks and fillin all of these pools because nobody needs
a swimming pool in your backyard.Okay, that there's none of that,
right, Why isn't there any ofthat? All the reasons that I just
said, so I won't beat thatfucking dead horse. Another thing is opioid
overdoses. Right. This is thecollective average age, which is, you
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know, under fifty five, buteven in the eighteen and younger minor range,
it's tens of thousands of kids aredying every year from overdoses. Now,
I won't say that that's never mentionedon the news, but it's rarely
mentioned, and it's never mentioned withthe same level of vitriol and gumption and
divisiveness that exists, like it doeswith gun legislation. So keep the data
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in mind. Now having said that, that doesn't mean that you just accept
because it statistically doesn't happen that often. That doesn't mean that it's not terrible,
and it doesn't mean that you shouldn'tdo something about it. So in
terms of your question of how Iwould do it, there's there's two main
things. Which is number one isdeveloping a a perimeter around every school that's
difficult to get through, very difficultto get through, which by itself inherently
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creates choke points. You know,one way in, one way out.
In this case, I would dotwo, so that there's one on the
front, one on the back,or one side whatever, so that there's
not only one way to get inand get out in case of an emergency
of fire or whatever. But Iwant to caveat that with the exterior perimeter
is a good distance from the doorsof the school, so there's you know,
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there's one or two main ways toactually get you through that main perimeter
that goes around the school, andthere is an armed guard there all the
time, unlike a school resource officerwho's dealing with tardiness, skipping school,
drugs in the school, fights,all of that other bullshit. This armed
guard has one priority, one responsibility, and that's it, and that is
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to defend anybody trying to get intothe school that's not supposed to be there.
And that's it. That in andof itself would fix a lot of
these issues. Would I would saymost of them. Is that if all
of these guys know that there's abody armor toting fucking uh, you know,
M four or you know, somesome sort of good competent fucking rifle
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standing there on duty looking out forstuff like that, it's going to be
a lot harder to do it aand it's and it's going to deter most
of that from happening. Bum.The last thing I'll mention is to Matt's
point, on order to your otherquestion, I guess is, uh,
you know what to do? Doyou send your kids to public? Private?
Whatever? I do actually have mixedfeelings. And here's where I wouldn't
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say Matt and I disagree. It'sjust my thoughts have evolved a little bit
in terms of seeing what's being taughtin public schools, what's not being taught,
and what's being allowed to take placein there. I'm not necessarily of
the opinion that public school isn't asa necessity anymore. Fifteen twenty years ago,
absolutely it was, and even whenwe were growing up, one hundred
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percent it was the amount of bullshitthat's in there now. To me,
if you can swing it, myrecommendation would be to homeschool. Um.
But that's not just you know,here's a computer and I'm going to let
somebody else do it. It's takingan active role and legitimate participation in your
child's education. So that's not justschool work. You know. Yes,
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there are a lot of curriculums onlineor even hard copy that you can that
you can have that are you know, kind of somewhat monitored by by organizations,
and there's a ton of them outthere to choose from. If you
want to focus on religion, orfocus on conservatism or libertarianism or liberalism or
whatever, there's a lot of differentangles you can go if that's kind of
the the vibe that you want toinject into your your child's education. But
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a lot of it needs to comefrom you guys. Manners, um,
you know, handy shit around thehouse, life skills, UM, you
know, instead of watching movies,fucking going outside and and you know,
planning tree and fixing things and shitlike that. That isn't taught in schools
anymore. And frankly it's rarely taughtinside people's houses too, you know.
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So if you can do that,that would mean my recommendations, take an
active role, do a lot ofthe teaching yourself with assisted if you can
swing it. I'm not naive tothe fact that most people financially and what
have you can't do that. Inthat case, that's a tough choice.
Maybe go with a private school that'sgoing to teach them exactly how you want
them to be taught, or asclose to that as possible, and or
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put them in social activities, whetherit's sports teams or whatever it is.
Fucking boy scouts, pick something wherethey are going, because to Matt's point,
they've got to get out and dothings with people. It doesn't have
to be in school, but itneeds to be somewhere, and it needs
to be both legitimate and enough towhere it's not like a thirty minute fucking
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play date at the park with acouple of fucking window liquors that they don't
know and are never going to seeagain. There needs to be a sense
of community and they need to beinterjected into that communit so that they feel
a sense of community as well.But I'm not minimizing it. It is
a tough decision. But to me, it's you're kind of in the shit
or get off the pop moment ofyou know, you'd like to be able
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to delegate that and trust somebody elseto do it. The reality of it
is, for too long now,there's been too many instances of public school
systems failing our fucking kids on somany levels that I don't have a lot
of faith in them anymore. Butit is a good point with the homeschooling.
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Hey you called holsters. They don'teven make sense. It's like,
hey, your mouths holster, thiscoy? Yeah, I seek you're with.
This is meant to be a funone, not that shit. What
the stort about it? But interestedin both your opinions on this. Okay,
(45:59):
I'm thirty three years old. Iprobably have more salt and pepper in
my beard than you guys do.I'm a plumber, supervisor and a large
commercial project anyways or anyway, Ikeep the beard because it makes me look
older and contractors take me more seriously. The flip side to this is I
also only have older women showing meinterest until that awesome question of what year
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did you graduate comes up? Toshave or not to shave? That is
the question. I mean, there'sa few things you can do there.
You can die your beard. Youcould how old was it thirty three?
Oh? You could definitely get withthe chicks that are older, so they
could teach you some shit you ain'tknow nothing about. When the motherfuckers tie
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you up and start hitting you withwhips and bucking shit like that, look
freaky, motherfuckers. I mean,I don't really get hit on by older
women with my beard and everything.To be honest with you, here's what
I I'm just gonna I'm gonna answeryour question with one simple question. Which
one is more fucking important to you? Would you rather be taken serious at
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work or would you rather have youngtrim fucking hit up. I'm going to
assume that it's probably being taken seriousat work, you know, focus on
the ship. That's important, honestly. I mean, because the reality of
it is is your your fucking beardis gray. Right, So if chicks
don't dig that, and they wanta guy that looks like he's nineteen,
You're fucked anyway, right, AndI would say further, why would you
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want to mess with a chick thatwants you to look fucking young? Right,
So embrace your fucking age, don'tworry about it and stop stop looking
like you know, let it cometo you and either stumble on it or
you don't. But to me,like, if if you focus on the
ship, that's important, the othershit is gonna come. Like to me,
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it's a cosmetic thing that I don'tthink deserves your attention. I would
also say that proof reading goes along way, right, mint is is
misspelled. I don't know what notthat distort about it even fucking means.
And then you said but interested inboth your options on this, I'm assuming
you meant opinions things like that,like I don't give a fuck house salty
(48:14):
and peppery your beard is. Whenyou spell like you're in fucking fourth grade,
that makes me think you're way youngerthan thirty three. So I would
work on that. But I'm justfucking with the unbusting your balls kind of.
But that's that's my take on it. Yeah, well, he said,
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all right, this is gonna bethe last one. You're an influenced
Hosts, Mike and Matt thank youfor the fabulous podcast. I'm a car
lover and I love to drive.An anomaly in my world. If everyone
I know hates driving and could givea shit about cars, you gotta find
new friends. Yeah, for real. And that's why I'm asking you,
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guys these questions. Have either ofyou had to drive a right hand drive,
manual transmission vehicle and a foreign countryon the opposite side of the road
to what you would normally do.If so, is it easy to adapt
and orient yourself. I'm asking thisfor a future travel destination where I would
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be doing this, and I feelas if it would take some time getting
used to. I never have.I have in Australia, and I will
say that it is a motherfucker orit was a motherfucker for me to get
used to. I never really didit. It was awkward. We were
there for the better part of themonth grand and I wasn't driving all the
(49:39):
time. But yeah, it wastough, tough to do it, and
especially being on the other side ofthe road, like it's all decked up
I would say at this point,like I doubt that you'll have to have
a manual transmission. I mean unlessyou're going to, like on a safari
where it's for sure going to bea you know, a manual transition transmission.
(50:02):
Because it's some you know, crazyfor runner or GEP or something that
that's all they have. It's goingto take you some time to get used
to it. No, no twoways about it. A question number two,
what do you think about people buyingsports cars but then not driving them
so as to put kilometers or mileson the vehicle for resale value. I
have to say this irritates me,as a car is to enjoy for driving
(50:24):
pleasure. You know, here's mytake. That's not my gig. I'm
not going to say it irritates me. I don't get it. But I
also think it's important to mind yourown fucking business. That's not the first
time I've said that and here recentlyand gotten attention for it, but I
do. It's like, you know, it's it's their money. If that's
(50:44):
what they want to do, thenfucking have at it. You know,
it's not what I would do,but you know, to me, that's
one of the beauties of a relativelyfree society or how it should be is
that you can do that stuff andyou ought to be able to. But
I agree, and then I think, you know, they're meant to be
driven. I drive, you know, we drive the ship out of our
cars on purpose because I agree,like, I'm not going to spend that
(51:06):
money on it to fucking stare atit, you know, if I want
to do that all by a fuckingmona Lisa or whatever. But yeah,
I think Matt feels the same way. H Yeah. I mean, if
I'm gonna own something, granted,my last two bucks, I wouldn't say
I put a bunch of miles onand that's why they're my last two bucks.
Yeah. The new one I haveprobably have already put as many miles
(51:29):
on it as I did collectively thelast two. But yeah, if I'm
not gonna drive it, or I'mnot gonna enjoy the drive while I have
it, I'm not gonna keep it. I mean, it's just it's not
worth having. I could do othership with my money. If I'm just
gonna let it sit there. That'sthat's my opinion. As far as what
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others do with it, that's theirmoney too. They do whatever the fuck
they want with their money. Uhyeah, that's it. Also, would
you rather drive an auto or manualtrans mission cars? I don't know anyone
who drives a manual stick shift carapart from myself, and I read that
only five percent of new car purchasesare manual transmission. We are your thoughts
(52:10):
on this. To me, it'spower. It all depends on the power
level of the vehicle and what I'mdoing with that vehicle. Today's automatics,
like we talked about earlier in theshow, they're just so fucking good,
and especially when you're getting Ferrari,Lamborghini, Porsche, the cars like that,
the high end sports cars and exoticsand supercars, they're just so fucking
(52:32):
good. Now, if I hadCayman GT four that all I was doing
was minor track stuff with it,gonna be fun to have a little stick
shift in that and fuck around.Would the PDK be faster, Yes,
But I think the fun and theexperience of fucking sitting there throwing gears in
(52:54):
a small track in that car,I think would be a blast. But
to me, it's power level andwhat you're doing with the vehicle. For
me, I would say kind ofsimilarly, but I will just say,
you know, the stick shift experienceis cool, it's fun, it's neat,
but it's it's more anomaly or occasionallyI would not want to have my
(53:17):
daily driver be a stick shift,or even you know, if I had
one fast car, to have itbe a stick shift either. To me,
like we were talking about earlier,the happy medium is a really really
fast transmission in manual mode where you'reusing the paddles. I would say that
if you have not driven one ofthose, you know, try to find
(53:37):
somebody or rent, go to atrack and rent an experience or whatever.
To me, that is the bestof everything because you still have both hands
on the wheel. It's safer,it's and it's to me, it's no
less engaging. Oh yeah, ina way, I think it's more engaging
because you know the difference between havingtwo hands this way and you can you
can do this. You know,you can flip the and pull the paddles
(54:00):
up and down while you have bothhands on the wheel, Like you feel
more connected to the car into theroad than than doing this. There's just
more going on. It's fun andit's cool, especially I'm assuming you're probably
more in our age range where maybeyou learned on a manual and that's why
you still drive one and like oneor whatever. I'm there with you,
(54:20):
like, don't get me wrong,it's it's awesome both from an experience and
nostalgia standpoint to still throw around afucking stick shift. But if if your
priority is performance and connection to theroad and really fucking squeezing every drop of
performance out of a car, areally good transmission dual clutch in manual mode
(54:42):
using the paddles is fucking where it'sat. It just is. I mean,
there's just so many advantages to it, and it's, like I said,
I don't think it's any less fun. And both of us do kind
of the same thing. We knowwhen our cars performed the best with the
dual clutch, so we leave itan auto down shifted to get to where
we want and then let the transmissionto its thing. But around town both
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of us throw that bitch a manualon, fucking play with the gears,
fuck around. It's just it's fun. Yeah, yeah. Is this a
dude or a chick? You'd haveto ask them because their name isn't gonna
tell you, right, yeah,definitely a chick. Okay, much respect,
Yeah, mad respect to you.I'll just say m m K because
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okay o good. No, it'sit's great questions. It's cool to see,
uh, you know, your lovefor a manual transmission. It's awesome.
Yeah. Um, but yeah,I would recommend drive driving one like
that because I didn't read the name, and when I saw the sincere you
know at the end, I waslike, holy shit, hang on,
no, I need to know becausethat totally changes my whole thoughts on that
(55:52):
question. That's she got some madrespect. I'll tell you what. You
come come here, all right.It sounds like you're overseas because your reference
klimeters and and talking about going onvacation to somewhere where it's it's going to
be that way. Come here.You can drive one of these cars in
uh in manual mode with an automatictransmission, in manual mode using the paddles,
(56:14):
and I'll bet you'll be a convert. How about that? You're invited
I concur Uh? Yeah. Wellthat's it. Guys. You have a
question asked Uninfluenced at gmail dot com. We'll get to it in a few
months. Yeah, maybe get toit between now in twenty twenty three,
it's just been busy. We bothhad a lot going on, so we're
trying to play catch up. Wegot some really good I know of two
(56:37):
good guests and two good shows.We've really got going. Other than that,
stay tuned. You got any ideas, ask the questions. He's bitches
s yeah,
So it's been two weeks since werecorded this shit not shit, this great
show. It's been two weeks sincewe chewed all this up and shit it
out. So what the hell youhad going on for two weeks? Uh,
let's see. I mean personally,I guess just I've had a bunch
(00:48):
of shit going on That's kept mebusy. It's kind of outside of the
shows and and whatever, which Iwon't I won't really get into, but
yeah, just personally, I've hada busy couple of weeks since I've been
running around and been out of townand uh, just handling shit. So
um. But yeah, other thanthat, um, not a whole lot
professionally, other than just the standardstuff. But yeah, I've been doing
(01:11):
baby stuff, dealing with all that. Um, there's some stuff personally,
kind of like Mike that goes it'sgoing on with us and the baby that
I'm not going to discuss on theair, but those close to us know
what it is, and that takespriority over everything. The wife got tired
of the Dannali. I don't knowif it's a record breaking time, but
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fucking I think the Lexus is stillto her. She got the f sport
RX three fifty f sport and Idon't even think I even fucking got the
title work and fucking license plate forWe traded that fucker in. Yeah,
but she went back to her roots. We always seem to go back to
BMW, whether it's fucking seems likemotorcycles now, fucking the Day League cars,
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BMW resall value to me right now, everybody's resall values all over the
place. But BMW's resale value isn'tquite as good as Mercedes, which I've
never understood because their services top notch. The build quality of their cars I
think is way up there. LikeI'd said it before, I've talked to
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many people. If they would havetook that Ia and put the fucking M
engine in it, the V eight, yeah, I'd probably own one of
those motherfuckers. Yeah, just becauseof how good BMW builds their ship.
But she went back to an Xsix M competition. Last night I raced
Tesla Performance. I don't think itwas the X. It was a Model
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what's the other one, the Modelthree? The slope backfucker. He just
kept jumping and jumping and jumping,and you know we're still in breaking beer.
I put that bitch in m twoand just fucked him up, something
about those those BMW's are just builtwell. So she wanted it. We
got it back. So the pastweek and a half I get to thank
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Sean Ryan because I reached out toone person that I know is more dorky
than I am when it comes toresearching shit, and it's him. And
I was like, okay, bro, for real, strange question. He's
like, okay, hit man.You know he's thinking and show guns baby
seats. What you're rocking up withit? And I told him my two
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options I was looking at and he'slike, you're good, but car seat
we have just it won't fit atBMW because it's you know, it's a
big bulky wheels all in one motherfucker. So yeah, my normal upgrades and
searches or cars motorcycles in the pasttwo weeks have been strollers and car seats.
Yeah, I mean, nothing wrungit up. It's a priority.
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I will say to two things.I guess the BMW versus Mercedes thing.
I think the BMW is a bettercar. Um Where I think Mercedes beats
BMW is their interior quality I thinkis higher, kind of borrowed from their
S class stuff. And it's nota knock on BMW. It's not that
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there's is bad, it's not.It's very good. I just think Mercedes
is just that extra level of refinement. It's not that it's better, it's
just more refined. Yeah, itseems nicer. Um build quality wise,
you know, there's really no difference. They're both exceptionally well made. And
then exhaust note. You know,the MG exhaust note is arguably the best
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stock exhaust note out there consistently,I think, I would say across the
board. Yeah, even with supercarsand ship ye and no matter which fucking
Molly you have, mean, youcan get a little MG a forty five,
you know whatever. It sounds likea fucking monster, or all the
way up into their you know,standard by Turbo and it just sounds really
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really good. But I think thosetwo fuckers because BMW's done a lot better
with their exhaust notes on the Mcompetition series. And that's what a lot
of people don't realize. When youget an a MG, it don't have
to have the S to have thatbad ass exhaust note, but the BMW
has to have competition or it don'thave that exhaust note yep. Uh,
so, yeah, there's that andin that same vein. I guess,
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uh car car news wise, myI did so. I when I got
my truck with the generator, andit was an F one fifty King Ranch,
uh and it was I don't I'venever liked the spec. It's just
that's what they had, and itwas hard to get the power boost models
with the seventy three generator, whichI do use and prefer, but I
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just I wanted to a generator.And so back when I got it was
about a year ago this time.I ordered a new Raptor at that same
time and it took that long toget in. It just came in this
last week and you know, wecan put some photos up or even do
a review on it maybe, butthere's not really much to review. I
mean, it's the it's the sametech as the as the new generation F
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one fifties that that I just spenta year with and we did that review
on. So it's really no differentother than it's just all black. Um.
It does sound a lot better andthe modes on it are are considerably
better. There is no start stopbutton, which is nice. Yeah,
it's just all it's always not infucking eco mode or whatever, which is
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which is pretty handy. And theengine doesn't go on and off the way
that the power boost does because ithas to because it's got the the electric
motor and the engine break and allthat. But I love the truck.
It's awesome getting a shell put onit later this week. And that's my
work truck in that same vein speakingof BMW's um just because traffic is so
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bad and how how big of avehicle it is, and I just you
know, it's got BFG all terraintires and they're fucking big and loud and
whatever. I don't want to puta fuck ton of miles on that truck
just driving around town and running intoDallas back or whatever. So I did
pick up a new Daily driver.It's not here yet, but to be
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continued, I'll tell you what Imay have already kind of fucked up the
h what it might be, butwe'll let you guys guess and see what.
See what the new Daily is thatwe'll keep my truck in the driveway
a little more often, just forthe running around town stuff. But I
wanted it to be practical, comfortable, but still fast, and fun to
drive. So you guys throw yourguesses out there. Yeah, I don't
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think you just said the brand.Yeah well either way. Yeah, on
a plus side, out ordered acar to race his new ship. Yeah,
hopefully i'll have it in six toeight months. By then you won't
have your ship. I probably stillhave that something's fucking horribly wrong with it,
which I don't think now that it'sgood. So I want to talk
to you about something we got senta video of a UGR car Stage three
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plus racing a BMW S one thousanddouble R stretched with brend tune of stretched,
lowered and strapped. Yeah, thatis a distinction. The strapped makes
a huge difference keeping that front enddown with that that amount of power.
But that's brand stage two, Ithink, Yeah, it's it's pretty much
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every bolton you can put on theBMW other than the velocity stacks which the
rider has coming in. Uh,it does a three four sixty two one
thirty consistent. So if we couldput that video up right here, and
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that's it's just Nettie Nettie to watch. I mean, you got to give
it to the to the bike inthat case. In a couple of ways,
one. Um, you know,it gets the jump and it will
every time. You know, there'sa linear power build in that in the
car that that you can't that you'renot going to get around, you know,
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which, uh is just kind ofthe law of physics. I think,
unless you do rolling anti lag butthat's I wouldn't I wouldn't want to
do that. I'm sure the ownerdoesn't want to do that. But uh,
but you know, it gets outyou know, a car and a
half or so, and holds itconsistent up until uh, you know,
fairly high speeds until the car catchesand and passes it. But you know,
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I think it's what's neat about thatvideo, is it It doesn't take
anything away from either the car orthe bike. It makes both of them
look good. I think, youknow, which is rare. You know,
usually one looks better than the otheror whatever. But I think both
are equally impressive, just in differentways. And uh, and shout out
to the writer for doing it.Can we say his name? Oh,
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that's up to you, I meanshould it ain't up to me. It's
up to him, I guess.But if I'll leave it out for now,
if you want it in their chimein and the fucking yeah yeah in
the comments that kind of that wasme just because of the nature of it.
I don't want to assume that thathe's good with it, but you
know that's ballsy writing. I mean, there's a significant bend in that that
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race. Uh, you know thatyou can see in the in the video
he's pretty leaned over at at areally high fucking speed and uh and can
really squeeze everything out of that bike. So hats off to Hats off to
him and the and the car driverfor doing it. But what I think
is really impressive about that because youmentioned both look good. Usually when you
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see two big brands, which brandTuning and Underground Racing u g R,
some people would go by if youGI are racing, they're gonna show their
side and the competitor will never showtheir side. Brand Tuning the same thing.
They're gonna show their win. Thecompetitor will never show their side.
This race was so good they bothshared it. Yeah yeah, and it
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it because it speaks volumes for bothvehicles. I mean, in all honesty,
it's amazing. Watching the video.I keep in my mind thinking because
I know what the power bands andall that are I want to say when
the card takes over it's fourth tofifth gear because it looks like a significant
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boost game. Yeah, but shit, it was fun to look at the
video and see all that that happening. Yeah, that's that's impressive. Shit,
I mean yeah, like I said, on all accounts, it's uh,
it's just some mean, like whata time to be alive. The
fact that that's possible in two platformsthat are so vastly different and they're both
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that that good is pretty pretty fuckingcool, and it's need is usually when
you see a race at that powerlevel, neither vehicle was driven or ridden
there. They were pulled on atrailer. Yeah, and now yeah,
not the case. Uh yeah,they met They met there, you know,
from driving from from quite a wayas a way to do it and
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then drove home. So yeah,it's a I mean, it speaks volumes.
I mean, it's part of thereason why I own a BMW motorcycle.
You own a BMW motorcycle. Uh, part of the reason why we've
spoke so highly of underground racing foryears. Yeah. Uh yeah, I
mean there's there's absolutely nobody in thebusiness that even comes close You know,
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to to that company for for thosetypes of builds, you know, I
mean not not even close. Likeit's it's so desperate as far as the
you know, the contrast between themand everybody else, it's it's almost fucking
embarrassing, honestly. I mean,like they're just so good at what they
do, and they've been doing itfor so long and have done so many
of them that they you know,they have such a bank of knowledge to
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draw from, um, you know, in experience to be able to know
how to do it right and troubleshootif there was an issue or whatever,
but there there just rarely is,you know, and to have that kind
of performance in a super reliable platformis almost unheard of. I mean,
think about all of the different buildsthat we've done that we're a fraction of
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that that we're nothing but problems,you know, Like I mean, adding
one hundred or one hundred and fiftymaybe two hundred horsepower to pick a fucking
platform, and it's like this enginelights on and then that fucking happens,
and then this breaks and then that, you know, and it's like these
guys are overdoubling the wheel horsepower withabsolutely no fucking reliability problems, you know,
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it's just it's incredible. So it'sa real testament to their competency.
I haven't driven a HUGR car,but I have wrote in it, and
I've wrote in an other I wouldsay pretty well known turbo builder's car.
And I got asked in a message, kind of them wanting to be glorified,
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what do you think of that thatbuilt? And my response was,
it's not in fucking day. Thedifference in those builds, yeah, oh
yeah, which one's better? Theunderground racing is and and it's for simple
things. The simple thing is theyknow what works and they put what works
in there. No flash, No, hey, if you hold this you
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can get rolling, anti lags,shoot flames out of it. And no,
if you want a good car,you need it to do this and
this from A to B and hey, do this and you can drive that
motherfucker wherever you want, drive itto the track and go fuck people up,
you know, versus the other one. I did drive that one,
and you drove the shout out ofit too. Yeah. No, I
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drove that month because you were like, man, something just seems off.
Yeah, treat it like a bitchand tell me what you think. Yeah.
And then I came back and Iwas like, it's quick, but
you're right something something's not right.Yeah. And when you get in that
level, it shouldn't be that way. Yeah. And it goes to kind
of what we've talked about customer service, their customer service, because I've talked
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to the owner of UGR multiple timesand emails, and even if it's a
dumb ass question like hey man,what what color of those break pads?
Fucker like black bitch like all theother breaks pass, you know, but
he'll mess it, she'll send itback, versus you could be a customer
with some of these other upgrade shopsand it can be a week or two
before you hear any fucking thing.Yeah, yeah, even when you ask
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him in it and it could bea serious I mean I just went through
that. Yeah, yeah, no, I know what I mean. Yeah,
I mean should I've been talking toto Kevin at UGR for several years
now before I became a customer,and even when, even when I went
with a different company first, hestill, you know, was super respectful
and answered my questions and you know, it was always fucking top notch I
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mean, yeah, those guys arefucking awesome. I can't speak highly enough.
I'm not trying to blow smoke orno or you know, we're not
sponsored by them. We're not gettingany free shit. Like. To me,
it's just we've you know, betweenthe two of us, we've been
through a lot. Up. Yougot that fucking shirt and they gave you
a car for free. About theshirt, got the car for free?
Most expensive shirt I've ever had.Uh No, it's just you know,
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to me, it's like, youknow, if something's good, they deserve
to be to be talked about,and that deserves to be showcase because it's
increasingly rare that companies put out thatkind of product and operate the way the
way that they do. But yeah, because I mean you have brand tune.
I would put them in some motorcycleand that same. Yeah, phenomenal
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guys. You know when I wentto my new setup, dude, they
were yeah, and they hooked meup and I wasn't asking to be hooked
up. I'm like, hey man, I'm gonna give you a shout out
on our show. Blah blah blah. No, Like, hey man,
you're a current customer, you're apass customer, do this, do this,
and boom, we'll get you hookedup. And yeah, I mean
I've talked to them a few timestoo. They don't know me from fucking
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anybody in same thing like super responsive, super professional, they're their tunes are
always really really good. I've I'vehad, you know, basically no issues
with their tunes or products, andum, yeah, it's really good.
But one of the last thing,I guess, you know, stroking people
off wise and then we'll move on. But to me, one of the
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really neat and most impressive things aboutthe UGR guys is is how much you
can ramp up from there and keepit the same reliability and kind of same
process. You know, you cango as low as eight hundred wheelhorse power,
I mean as low asthma. It'sstill super high, but you can
do nine hundred thousand, eleven fiftyyou know, thirteen hundred, fourteen hundred,
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fifteen hundred, sixteen hundred, seventeenfifty two thousan twenty five hundred,
three thousand, like the sky's thefucking limit. You know, you can
just keep going up and they cankeep accommodating those builds, and they've done
it. You know, and soit's like you can really do whatever you
want with them, and it justcorrelates to having to build out other parts
and components in the car to beable to handle that. And they've done
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it, they know how to doit, and they and they have a
process for it. So yeah,they're they're they're awesome guys. But well,
it goes into some people have askedwhy we both like Swiss watches and
things like that. I would equateto someone's knowledge of knowing how to build
something and make it reliable, qualityworth asking for. Elon Musk has a
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quote that customer once asked him,why am I paying you thirty bucks?
And you weren't here an hour,you know, And he said, my
hourly rates thirty bucks. But Ifixed it in ten minutes. But you're
paying an hour. And okay,so why am I paying for an hour?
You're here in ten minutes because ittook me ten years to learn how
to fix this in ten minutes.Yeah, so you're paying for the ten
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years. I was just here forten minutes. And that hits fuck and
hard as a business owners than someonewho's into quality shit. You know,
you see someone's price of a watcha car build, you're like, god
damn. Then you've experienced it andit's like god damn. Yeah, you
know it's yeah. I mean youget what you pay for most of the
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time. There are some things closedand otherwise that don't yet I'd say you
get me paid for it there.I don't know if that's some bad when
you just wear a man that we'resuper expensive. Yeah, yeah, I'll
that's your problem now. But anyway, so good, good stuff. I
hope you enjoyed the video, andI'm sure there will be more to come,
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especially with what what's going on inthe background, which we'll get into
it in the coming weeks. Butyeah, yeah, we've got all this
stuff fucking takes off. We gotworking. This is gonna be a very
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We're gonna get into some questions.I was gonna do a lot more.
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We got another show we're actually recordinglater this week, which I think
may end up replacing this one,and this one will go later. We'll
figure that out. But go tothat rust come guy. I know that's
not his name, that it's coolor if it was. So We're gonna
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get into some of you guys questionsbecause I don't like having them all built
up. It feels like I'm abusingyou fuckers. Okay, so here Russ
comes. He's probably gonna get madat hell, bitch that ain't my name.
Uh? Do either of you haveany experience with BMW drivers driving like
complete assholes. I've seen so muchof this in my years of commuting to
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and from work. There are memeson the internet about this, so it
has to be a thing, right, love the show? Well, Russ
or he rides a BMW. Iown BMW's and I'm a total fucking asshole,
but I can tell you I drivethe same wather I'm on a BMW
n a BMW in my fast card, in my fucking f one fifty.
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If you're in my fucking way,I'm gonna get around you. Yeah.
I don't fucking care how I haveto, I'm gonna get around you.
Yeah, I would say sort of. You know, to me, there
are assholes that drive every brand,But I do know what you mean,
and that usually the M cars,not just BMW, but I would say
more of the M cars. Pickone fucking M, two, M,
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three, M, four, M, five, M six, M eight.
You know, is there an mightthat the XM fucking pick pick a
number? You know. I thinkyou know more than anything. It's just
the type of person that that buysa car that's designed to handle well and
be fast and to be driven hard, usually is going to drive it that
way, which for most people Ithink equals driving like an asshole. So
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I think there may be I'm notsaying you're wrong. I'm just saying that
you know, your idea of whatdriving like an asshole versus somebody else's may
be different. I suspect that mostof the people, most not all.
I'm sure there's some that think canactually want to drive like an asshole.
Don't think that they're driving like assholes. They're just trying to enjoy their car
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and drive it hard, and thatcomes across like them driving like an asshole
because of it. So it's alittle bit subjective, but I do know
what you mean. But I alsothink, like I said, it applies
a little bit to anybody that hasa car that's performance designed and meant to
be driven hard and fast and enjoyed. Is that if that guy is in
a sea of commuters and utility vehicles, that's that's gonna stand out and seem
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like you're you're being a dick abouthow you're driving. But uh, well,
there's this one fucking lot asshole thatfucking follows us to these meats.
He drives like a fucking asshole.He's in a BMW and it's Robin's Egg
blue by the way. Yeah,it's like, look at me, fucking
blue. It's not as what isit easter? It's kind of fucking from
a rap on it next week,next weekend? Have you seen his friend
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end? Since he followed the GTfive hundred, No, is it all
fucked? Oh dude, it's fuckingbad. Wait wait to fuck him up.
It's not my fault. I toldhim not to get too close.
Like, if you can read this, I'll read it. Why is the
automatic transition not seen popularity in motorcyclesas it has seen in cars. I'm
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gonna preface this with I'm not thefucking gearhead motor guy. I'm going to
take a stab at it. Thoughit could be totally off. This is
just the way my brain works.Is I'm gonna I'm gonna guess it's two
things. Is One is that withquick shifters and blip shifting technology being what
it is, you kind of don'tneed it. There's three things so that
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that's Number one is that it's alreadyso easy to shift without using the clutch,
with the quick shifting technology that exists, it's kind of irrelevant, kind
of you still have to actually dosomething. Yes, it's not doing it
for you. The second thing isweight automatic transmissions, especially in such a
small platform, I would think wouldbe enormous, would would make the engine
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big and heavy to the point whereit would be hard to make it a
motorcycle at that point, I couldbe totally fucking wrong. I'm just guessing.
And then the last thing is thatdriving a motorcycle that there is a
level of driver engagement that is necessaryarea at a much higher level in terms
of upshifting and down shifting faster andgoing through the gear as quicker to where
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I don't know that an automatic transmissionwould work the same way. I could
be wrong. Those are my threeguesses at why you haven't seen that.
But there are a few cruiser bikes. I may speak out of term,
but I'm pretty sure BMW has acruiser, and I think Honda has one,
and there's one more I'm pretty sure, but they're cruisers, and they
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do have an automatic transmission. Butwhat they're doing using the blipping system automatically
instead of you know, using yourfeet kind of like a multi clutch transmission.
But yeah, on a sport bike, especially with the new blipping and
stuff like that. Hell, Irarely ride with my clutch hand unless we're
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really getting fucking after it. Myclutch hand, I can just keep on
my knee, my leg. Ijust fucking ride and shift up down whatever
I want. So there's really noneed on a sport bike for it.
Uh. And like you said,weight and everything else, and then the
downshifting just I don't think it cankeep up well. Transmission they would need
would just be huge and yeah,because I mean if you think about it,
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like even even in cars right whereyes, it's an automatic transmission.
If you look at the fastest timesautomatic transmissions in cars now are faster than
humans how they can drive a manualBut there's a there's a catch to that.
It's kind of the equivalent to blipping, and that they're still in manual
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mode using paddles, not relying onthe transmission to do it. If you
watch any track time that that's done, or even for myself, I know,
like if I'm driving around town whereI've got to go up and down
in d gears, I'm always usingthe paddles and it's way faster. Like
if like the piece is the fastestdownshifting car I've driven, it's still not.
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It still doesn't do it the wayI do it, or a human
being would do it. When you'rewhen you're having to do it fast and
slow, way down quick and whatever. When you break and it goes down
two or three gears in a fairlyshort time, it's still not the same
as doing it yourself with the paddle. So take like the new GT three
as an example, you can getit in manual or an automatic, and
it's it's a way faster track carif you do it an automatic, but
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it's not in pure automatic. It'san automatic but using the paddles in that
kind of pseudo manual mode. Soto me, that that's basically the equivalent
is is it's an automatic transmission,but that you're manually shifting without a clutch
the same way, you know.So I think that's that's probably going to
be the case for a long timeor maybe even ever, especially with electronic
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electric cars being what they are interms of not shifting. Is that I
don't know that you'll ever see internalcombustion engine automatic transmission technology get to a
point where where it can actually doit faster and better than a human being
in that environment, in a tracklike environment. I don't think it'll ever
get to that point. But thingstoo, but you never know. I
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mean, we wouldn't have thought someof these electric cars doing what they're doing,
go to some of the older onesif we can, All right,
Mike, did the bad guys,especially in Afghanistan get all coked up and
high before a fight? Any ideaof bad guys being doped up or Nah,
that's a good question. Um.In a lot of cases, in
most places in the Middle East,Um, in the afternoon and evening,
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a lot of the gentlemen chew onon cot and other things similar to that,
which is an opium based chewing tobaccokind of thing. Um where yeah,
they get all fucked up on itand um, and then they're they're
out of their minds. I meanthey're kind of out of their minds anyway.
But but yeah, that that isa fairly common common practice and a
(28:48):
lot of places over there. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it's not
a bad question. I'm surprised.I'm gonna go and say that's Brandy wrote
that, and usually he rather shit. Uh, most epic barroom brawl use
guys took part in we're witnessed doesn'tneed to take place in a bar.
It's not a bar. It's notnot a barroom brawl. Then I was
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at a bowling alley. Yeah,I mean I've been in bar fights.
Uh, you have some. Idon't know if you can talk about.
I'll say one that I that Iwitnessed, because I'm not going to talk
about any that I've been in,even even with statute of limitations. I'll
just say one that I witnessed.We were in Hawaii, and uh we
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were on deployment, so I waswith you know, Seal Team three Echo
Platoon, and we were staying onthe main island, but we were on
the west coast of it, whichis more of a locals type type of
area. It's the southwestern part ofthe island. We were staying in these
old, like abandoned army barracks,and there was you know, some in
town parts nearby that you know,there was a couple of grocery stores and
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restaurants and stuff, and we wentto a chill and it was me and
two other guys were sitting at abooth and there's like a row of booths
that are along the edge of abig area of like bar tables where you
know, that's where the bar wasand so they're serving drinks and food in
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there or whatever. And so we'resitting in one of these booths next to
this big open area with all thesebarroom tables, and it's pretty much all
Hawaiian Samoan locals in there. Andthen our our three fucking white asses,
and it's pretty full. There's probablyI don't know, thirty thirty five people,
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and you could tell that it waslike they all most of them knew
each other. It was like abig family, you know, or a
couple of big families that had abunch of tables and whatever. And there
was a sit down table and thenlike a higher elevated table, and you
couldn't hear it at first, butyou could tell that they were kind of
eyeballing each other. And it wasa girl sitting at the sit down table,
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sitting there with I think her husbandand another guy. And then it
was a table with like two couplesand one of the guys at the taller
table was having words with one ofthe girls sitting I don't know if they
knew each other or what the fuck, but they were. They were kind
of jabbering back and forth, andit's you could tell it was starting to
get heated. Now you could kindof start to hear him, hear him
(31:22):
yelling at each other and U andthen they just, you know, it
goes silent for thirty seconds or so, and then all of a sudden,
the guy at the elevated table verycalmly stands up without saying anything. Call
me, just walks over the tableagain, doesn't say shit, just leans
back and boom, just fucking clocksthe girl and flattens her. And like
that was the light switch that justthe entire room just erupted. And now
(31:45):
you've got like thirty five, threehundred and seventy pounds, six foot eight
samoan dude, just beating the shitout of each other. I mean there's
fucking tables, flying chairs, breakingover each other's fucking heads. I mean
it was like glasses shattering. Imean it was total fucking mayhem. And
we're just sitting there watching this,like, dude, is this a fucking
hidden camera show? Like where isAshton getting ready to fucking jump out the
(32:08):
closet, you know, screaming punkedor what like. It was the craziest
shit. I mean in all thefights I've seen or what have you or
even been in, like that wasby far the craziest because it was huge
and it was just it was nuts. And in Hawaii, all of the
most of the cops drive their owncars because it's so overpopulated. They don't
want double the cars of the copshaving their personal cars and having a cop
(32:31):
car, so most cops use theirown personal cars as their cop cars,
and they slap a light on it. So you see like fucking fifteen sixteen
fucking Mustangs and fucking Corollas and shipjust flying into the parking lot with cherries
on the top and dudes jumping out. Some of them are in uniform,
(32:51):
some of them aren't. Fucking nightstickscome in. They just start beating the
shit out of everybody in fucking tazingpeople and it was fucking nuts. It
was like some shit out of amovie. But somehow they managed to get
get everything under control and got itquelled. But you know, we were
just sitting there for like a halfhour watching this crazy shit happen, and
finally we left here like, dude, fuck this. Yeah, but yeah,
(33:14):
it was It was nuts, that'sfucking crazy. Yeah, it was
awesome. I'm gotten like you.I don't really want to talk on air
about boar fights that I've been in. Yeah, uh, not a part
of There's something called a lawsuit andall that that can still happen. Uh.
The other question I don't even careto answer to you, which one
the third or fourth? Uh?Well that's why the fuck is it so
(33:36):
hard to swim? Well, Randy, it's not so the best way to
learn is getting the fucking water.Yeah, fucking prick. He started off
well yeah, like uh, likea naturally aspirated engine. You lost steam
at the top end. Randy.Hey, Hey guys, quality content as
(33:58):
usual. Long time listener here.I'm finding it difficult being a new father
to concentrate on anything besides the schoolshootings. My sons are two and five.
The thought of sending my voice ofschool is weighing on me. Matt,
what are your thoughts, especially havinga baby at home? And Mike,
if you were put in charge ofsecuring those schools, what would you
do. I'd like to pick yourbrains before I go to the next school
meeting, just trying to do something, feeling pretty helpless like many others.
(34:22):
You go ahead, since you gota newborn, that's I mean, it's
tough, but it's always been tough. I mean there's been ship in schools
forever. The difference is there's socialmedia. Now, there's news and political
people pushing it more and more.And while they're pushing it, it's driving
these fucking people that are insane tobe like, oh, I can become
(34:43):
famous by going to shoot up aschool. For one, we shouldn't glorify
these fuckers for doing what they're doing. They shouldn't get any media attention outside
of there was a shooting out ofschool. Who did it? You go
look it up. We're not goingto publicize all this shit on the TV,
the internet. You look it up, you find it out, because
at that point it can be publicrecord once they're But when we glorify it
(35:07):
and make these dumb ass kids ordumb ass adults become instant celebrities for doing
bad shit, yeah, that's nota good precedent to set. I mean,
at that point it's hey, Ican gonna rob this fucking store,
and as long as I'm live onfucking Instagram, I'm become famous for that.
Yeah, but it starts at themedia level and the politicians and shit
(35:31):
like that, which I don't thinkwe're ever going to see go away.
As far as sending your kids toschool, you almost cheat your child not
sending them to in some sort ofschool, whether it would be public,
private, however you decide to doit, because that social interaction they need
that we talk about all the time. These phones are taking that away when
(35:52):
they leave school. The social interactionstops the iPad. Same thing us as
new parents. What do we donow for babysitter? Chare have this iPad?
Watch YouTube? Have this iPad watchcartoon Network or fucking Netflix. Shut
the fuck up watching iPad? Wedon't interact with our children as much as
we should. So therefore, ifwe take away school too, what social
(36:15):
interactions it's having? You know?And to me, I think it's it's
dangerous and should there be more security? Yes, I've thought that for a
long time. A lot of theschools around here up in Dallas area are
actually a pain in the fucking assto get into, even as a parent.
So some of these people walking arounddoing stupid shit. You don't hear
(36:35):
about it in the really big cities, in places like Dallas, Fort Word,
things like that. You hear aboutit in the smaller suburbs and shit
like that. But my kid's gonnahave to go to school now, I'm
gonna have to decide if I'm goingto send him to a private school,
public school, but he's gonna havesocial interaction. I think we're cheating our
(36:59):
society. And we've talked about itover and over with electronics, So yeah,
my kid's gonna go. Is itscary? Yeah, But it's also
scary going to the mall and takingyour baby out of the car and walking
with all this bullshit up in amall parking lot. Now, someone could
come up rob you and shoot youright there. Yeah, someone could walk
(37:20):
rob you at the grocery store.I mean, the fact of the matter
is the same shit can happen nomatter where you're at. Having at a
grocery store. And where was that? New York Detroit? Yeah? Yeah,
so, I mean, bad shithappens everywhere. It's just a matter
of are you protecting yourself to helpprotect your family? Yeah? So I
have a number of points that Iwould make. First off, one of
(37:44):
the statements you're saying you're finding itdifficult to concentrate on anything besides the school
shootings. That's not by accident.To Matt's point, the media, social
media, and the mainstream media inparticular, it's their priority to keep you
concerned, worried, and pissed offor a combination of all those things,
(38:07):
because that translates to you concentrating onschool shootings and watching and listening, which
means money for them. And Ihate to say that and I'm not just
saying that that that's absolutely the realityof it. Um. That's why that
that is the way that it is. It's it's because it's intended. I
find it useful as well as essentialto look at data, Okay, Um.
(38:31):
And this is not minimizing those thekids that are killed in school shootings,
it's not. But it's simply meantto add some perspective, some healthy
perspective in terms of data and statisticsto understand, you know, the severity
of a problem, because that's reallythe direct correlation is how bad is something?
(38:53):
Well, how often does it happen? And the reality of it is
is that in mass school shoots,the number of kids that die per year
compared to a lot of other things. I'll use one example, I'll use
two examples. Drowning, drowning inprivate backyard swimming pools. All right,
it's about ten times the amount ofkids drown in backyard swimming pools in the
(39:17):
same same age range that you're talkingabout, and even younger than die in
mass school shootings. When was thelast time you ever heard, Hey,
there was thirty seven kids that drownedthis month in backyard pools you've never heard
that, right, Why, okay, that the numbers are higher, You
don't You don't ever hear that innews stories because I'm not going to say
(39:37):
nobody gives a shit, but it'snot going to draw headlines and people with
their mouth open saying holy fuck,really and and tuning in and watching it,
you know, and you know thatthere's no factions of Congress that are
demanding that you know, we haveyou know, common sense pool legislation to
(39:58):
drive around with concrete trucks and fillin all of these pools because nobody needs
a swimming pool in your backyard.Okay, that there's none of that,
right, Why isn't there any ofthat? All the reasons that I just
said, so I won't beat thatfucking dead horse. Another thing is opioid
overdoses. Right. This is thecollective average age, which is, you
(40:19):
know, under fifty five, buteven in the eighteen and younger minor range,
it's tens of thousands of kids aredying every year from overdoses. Now,
I won't say that that's never mentionedon the news, but it's rarely
mentioned, and it's never mentioned withthe same level of vitriol and gumption and
divisiveness that exists, like it doeswith gun legislation. So keep the data
(40:42):
in mind. Now having said that, that doesn't mean that you just accept
because it statistically doesn't happen that often. That doesn't mean that it's not terrible,
and it doesn't mean that you shouldn'tdo something about it. So in
terms of your question of how Iwould do it, there's there's two main
things. Which is number one isdeveloping a a perimeter around every school that's
difficult to get through, very difficultto get through, which by itself inherently
(41:07):
creates choke points. You know,one way in, one way out.
In this case, I would dotwo, so that there's one on the
front, one on the back,or one side whatever, so that there's
not only one way to get inand get out in case of an emergency
of fire or whatever. But Iwant to caveat that with the exterior perimeter
is a good distance from the doorsof the school, so there's you know,
(41:28):
there's one or two main ways toactually get you through that main perimeter
that goes around the school, andthere is an armed guard there all the
time, unlike a school resource officerwho's dealing with tardiness, skipping school,
drugs in the school, fights,all of that other bullshit. This armed
guard has one priority, one responsibility, and that's it, and that is
(41:51):
to defend anybody trying to get intothe school that's not supposed to be there.
And that's it. That in andof itself would fix a lot of
these issues. Would I would saymost of them. Is that if all
of these guys know that there's abody armor toting fucking uh, you know,
M four or you know, somesome sort of good competent fucking rifle
(42:13):
standing there on duty looking out forstuff like that, it's going to be
a lot harder to do it aand it's and it's going to deter most
of that from happening. Bum.The last thing I'll mention is to Matt's
point, on order to your otherquestion, I guess is, uh,
you know what to do? Doyou send your kids to public? Private?
Whatever? I do actually have mixedfeelings. And here's where I wouldn't
(42:36):
say Matt and I disagree. It'sjust my thoughts have evolved a little bit
in terms of seeing what's being taughtin public schools, what's not being taught,
and what's being allowed to take placein there. I'm not necessarily of
the opinion that public school isn't asa necessity anymore. Fifteen twenty years ago,
absolutely it was, and even whenwe were growing up, one hundred
(42:59):
percent it was the amount of bullshitthat's in there now. To me,
if you can swing it, myrecommendation would be to homeschool. Um.
But that's not just you know,here's a computer and I'm going to let
somebody else do it. It's takingan active role and legitimate participation in your
child's education. So that's not justschool work. You know. Yes,
(43:22):
there are a lot of curriculums onlineor even hard copy that you can that
you can have that are you know, kind of somewhat monitored by by organizations,
and there's a ton of them outthere to choose from. If you
want to focus on religion, orfocus on conservatism or libertarianism or liberalism or
whatever, there's a lot of differentangles you can go if that's kind of
the the vibe that you want toinject into your your child's education. But
(43:46):
a lot of it needs to comefrom you guys. Manners, um,
you know, handy shit around thehouse, life skills, UM, you
know, instead of watching movies,fucking going outside and and you know,
planning tree and fixing things and shitlike that. That isn't taught in schools
anymore. And frankly it's rarely taughtinside people's houses too, you know.
(44:07):
So if you can do that,that would mean my recommendations, take an
active role, do a lot ofthe teaching yourself with assisted if you can
swing it. I'm not naive tothe fact that most people financially and what
have you can't do that. Inthat case, that's a tough choice.
Maybe go with a private school that'sgoing to teach them exactly how you want
them to be taught, or asclose to that as possible, and or
(44:29):
put them in social activities, whetherit's sports teams or whatever it is.
Fucking boy scouts, pick something wherethey are going, because to Matt's point,
they've got to get out and dothings with people. It doesn't have
to be in school, but itneeds to be somewhere, and it needs
to be both legitimate and enough towhere it's not like a thirty minute fucking
(44:49):
play date at the park with acouple of fucking window liquors that they don't
know and are never going to seeagain. There needs to be a sense
of community and they need to beinterjected into that communit so that they feel
a sense of community as well.But I'm not minimizing it. It is
a tough decision. But to me, it's you're kind of in the shit
or get off the pop moment ofyou know, you'd like to be able
(45:13):
to delegate that and trust somebody elseto do it. The reality of it
is, for too long now,there's been too many instances of public school
systems failing our fucking kids on somany levels that I don't have a lot
of faith in them anymore. Butit is a good point with the homeschooling.
(45:37):
Hey you called holsters. They don'teven make sense. It's like,
hey, your mouths holster, thiscoy? Yeah, I seek you're with.
This is meant to be a funone, not that shit. What
the stort about it? But interestedin both your opinions on this. Okay,
(45:59):
I'm thirty three years old. Iprobably have more salt and pepper in
my beard than you guys do.I'm a plumber, supervisor and a large
commercial project anyways or anyway, Ikeep the beard because it makes me look
older and contractors take me more seriously. The flip side to this is I
also only have older women showing meinterest until that awesome question of what year
(46:23):
did you graduate comes up? Toshave or not to shave? That is
the question. I mean, there'sa few things you can do there.
You can die your beard. Youcould how old was it thirty three?
Oh? You could definitely get withthe chicks that are older, so they
could teach you some shit you ain'tknow nothing about. When the motherfuckers tie
(46:45):
you up and start hitting you withwhips and bucking shit like that, look
freaky, motherfuckers. I mean,I don't really get hit on by older
women with my beard and everything.To be honest with you, here's what
I I'm just gonna I'm gonna answeryour question with one simple question. Which
one is more fucking important to you? Would you rather be taken serious at
(47:07):
work or would you rather have youngtrim fucking hit up. I'm going to
assume that it's probably being taken seriousat work, you know, focus on
the ship. That's important, honestly. I mean, because the reality of
it is is your your fucking beardis gray. Right, So if chicks
don't dig that, and they wanta guy that looks like he's nineteen,
You're fucked anyway, right, AndI would say further, why would you
(47:30):
want to mess with a chick thatwants you to look fucking young? Right,
So embrace your fucking age, don'tworry about it and stop stop looking
like you know, let it cometo you and either stumble on it or
you don't. But to me,like, if if you focus on the
ship, that's important, the othershit is gonna come. Like to me,
(47:50):
it's a cosmetic thing that I don'tthink deserves your attention. I would
also say that proof reading goes along way, right, mint is is
misspelled. I don't know what notthat distort about it even fucking means.
And then you said but interested inboth your options on this, I'm assuming
you meant opinions things like that,like I don't give a fuck house salty
(48:14):
and peppery your beard is. Whenyou spell like you're in fucking fourth grade,
that makes me think you're way youngerthan thirty three. So I would
work on that. But I'm justfucking with the unbusting your balls kind of.
But that's that's my take on it. Yeah, well, he said,
(48:34):
all right, this is gonna bethe last one. You're an influenced
Hosts, Mike and Matt thank youfor the fabulous podcast. I'm a car
lover and I love to drive.An anomaly in my world. If everyone
I know hates driving and could givea shit about cars, you gotta find
new friends. Yeah, for real. And that's why I'm asking you,
(48:54):
guys these questions. Have either ofyou had to drive a right hand drive,
manual transmission vehicle and a foreign countryon the opposite side of the road
to what you would normally do.If so, is it easy to adapt
and orient yourself. I'm asking thisfor a future travel destination where I would
(49:17):
be doing this, and I feelas if it would take some time getting
used to. I never have.I have in Australia, and I will
say that it is a motherfucker orit was a motherfucker for me to get
used to. I never really didit. It was awkward. We were
there for the better part of themonth grand and I wasn't driving all the
(49:39):
time. But yeah, it wastough, tough to do it, and
especially being on the other side ofthe road, like it's all decked up
I would say at this point,like I doubt that you'll have to have
a manual transmission. I mean unlessyou're going to, like on a safari
where it's for sure going to bea you know, a manual transition transmission.
(50:02):
Because it's some you know, crazyfor runner or GEP or something that
that's all they have. It's goingto take you some time to get used
to it. No, no twoways about it. A question number two,
what do you think about people buyingsports cars but then not driving them
so as to put kilometers or mileson the vehicle for resale value. I
have to say this irritates me,as a car is to enjoy for driving
(50:24):
pleasure. You know, here's mytake. That's not my gig. I'm
not going to say it irritates me. I don't get it. But I
also think it's important to mind yourown fucking business. That's not the first
time I've said that and here recentlyand gotten attention for it, but I
do. It's like, you know, it's it's their money. If that's
(50:44):
what they want to do, thenfucking have at it. You know,
it's not what I would do,but you know, to me, that's
one of the beauties of a relativelyfree society or how it should be is
that you can do that stuff andyou ought to be able to. But
I agree, and then I think, you know, they're meant to be
driven. I drive, you know, we drive the ship out of our
cars on purpose because I agree,like, I'm not going to spend that
(51:06):
money on it to fucking stare atit, you know, if I want
to do that all by a fuckingmona Lisa or whatever. But yeah,
I think Matt feels the same way. H Yeah. I mean, if
I'm gonna own something, granted,my last two bucks, I wouldn't say
I put a bunch of miles onand that's why they're my last two bucks.
Yeah. The new one I haveprobably have already put as many miles
(51:29):
on it as I did collectively thelast two. But yeah, if I'm
not gonna drive it, or I'mnot gonna enjoy the drive while I have
it, I'm not gonna keep it. I mean, it's just it's not
worth having. I could do othership with my money. If I'm just
gonna let it sit there. That'sthat's my opinion. As far as what
(51:49):
others do with it, that's theirmoney too. They do whatever the fuck
they want with their money. Uhyeah, that's it. Also, would
you rather drive an auto or manualtrans mission cars? I don't know anyone
who drives a manual stick shift carapart from myself, and I read that
only five percent of new car purchasesare manual transmission. We are your thoughts
(52:10):
on this. To me, it'spower. It all depends on the power
level of the vehicle and what I'mdoing with that vehicle. Today's automatics,
like we talked about earlier in theshow, they're just so fucking good,
and especially when you're getting Ferrari,Lamborghini, Porsche, the cars like that,
the high end sports cars and exoticsand supercars, they're just so fucking
(52:32):
good. Now, if I hadCayman GT four that all I was doing
was minor track stuff with it,gonna be fun to have a little stick
shift in that and fuck around.Would the PDK be faster, Yes,
But I think the fun and theexperience of fucking sitting there throwing gears in
(52:54):
a small track in that car,I think would be a blast. But
to me, it's power level andwhat you're doing with the vehicle. For
me, I would say kind ofsimilarly, but I will just say,
you know, the stick shift experienceis cool, it's fun, it's neat,
but it's it's more anomaly or occasionallyI would not want to have my
(53:17):
daily driver be a stick shift,or even you know, if I had
one fast car, to have itbe a stick shift either. To me,
like we were talking about earlier,the happy medium is a really really
fast transmission in manual mode where you'reusing the paddles. I would say that
if you have not driven one ofthose, you know, try to find
(53:37):
somebody or rent, go to atrack and rent an experience or whatever.
To me, that is the bestof everything because you still have both hands
on the wheel. It's safer,it's and it's to me, it's no
less engaging. Oh yeah, ina way, I think it's more engaging
because you know the difference between havingtwo hands this way and you can you
can do this. You know,you can flip the and pull the paddles
(54:00):
up and down while you have bothhands on the wheel, Like you feel
more connected to the car into theroad than than doing this. There's just
more going on. It's fun andit's cool, especially I'm assuming you're probably
more in our age range where maybeyou learned on a manual and that's why
you still drive one and like oneor whatever. I'm there with you,
(54:20):
like, don't get me wrong,it's it's awesome both from an experience and
nostalgia standpoint to still throw around afucking stick shift. But if if your
priority is performance and connection to theroad and really fucking squeezing every drop of
performance out of a car, areally good transmission dual clutch in manual mode
(54:42):
using the paddles is fucking where it'sat. It just is. I mean,
there's just so many advantages to it, and it's, like I said,
I don't think it's any less fun. And both of us do kind
of the same thing. We knowwhen our cars performed the best with the
dual clutch, so we leave itan auto down shifted to get to where
we want and then let the transmissionto its thing. But around town both
(55:05):
of us throw that bitch a manualon, fucking play with the gears,
fuck around. It's just it's fun. Yeah, yeah. Is this a
dude or a chick? You'd haveto ask them because their name isn't gonna
tell you, right, yeah,definitely a chick. Okay, much respect,
Yeah, mad respect to you.I'll just say m m K because
(55:27):
okay o good. No, it'sit's great questions. It's cool to see,
uh, you know, your lovefor a manual transmission. It's awesome.
Yeah. Um, but yeah,I would recommend drive driving one like
that because I didn't read the name, and when I saw the sincere you
know at the end, I waslike, holy shit, hang on,
no, I need to know becausethat totally changes my whole thoughts on that
(55:52):
question. That's she got some madrespect. I'll tell you what. You
come come here, all right.It sounds like you're overseas because your reference
klimeters and and talking about going onvacation to somewhere where it's it's going to
be that way. Come here.You can drive one of these cars in
uh in manual mode with an automatictransmission, in manual mode using the paddles,
(56:14):
and I'll bet you'll be a convert. How about that? You're invited
I concur Uh? Yeah. Wellthat's it. Guys. You have a
question asked Uninfluenced at gmail dot com. We'll get to it in a few
months. Yeah, maybe get toit between now in twenty twenty three,
it's just been busy. We bothhad a lot going on, so we're
trying to play catch up. Wegot some really good I know of two
(56:37):
good guests and two good shows.We've really got going. Other than that,
stay tuned. You got any ideas, ask the questions. He's bitches
s yeah,
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