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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you guys. You guys are actually brothers.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Yeah, yeah, yes, I'm the oldest of ten. Ian is
the youngest brother, but second youngest. Yeah, kid, Utah's making sense.
Now that's not where we uh we have We never
lived there growing up.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Arizona's where we lived.

Speaker 4 (00:23):
Okay, we'll just see how the you know, where the
conversation leads us.

Speaker 5 (00:26):
Yeah, I like it?

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At hangel on.

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Speaker 4 (02:20):
It feels like chuck. It feels like it's gonna take
a little bit more to keep you on the rails tonight,
but we're here for it.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
I am a little flat happy. It's we're recording the
summer Memorial Day weekend and I don't know what day
it is. Do I go back to work tomorrow? Who knows?
Who cares? I went to my old house literally today
driving around and was just in off somewhere and found
my folks. Yeah, found way to the wrong house. I
was like, when did we paint the garage door? All right?

(02:48):
We don't live here anymore anyway. I am super stoked.
I've had these people on my radar for a while
as a customizer. I have really admired a lot of
the work from this channel and from its creators. And
you know them, you love them. They're at every die

(03:08):
cast show and event. I don't know how they do it,
but they're always there. And we tour a tour de force, Yes,
a dynamic duo if you will. Of although there's more
than two we'll talk about. We'll go with two for now.
We're doing by two of the three tonight. You may

(03:29):
also know Warren as a g funk retro. Did I
say that correctly?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
That's right?

Speaker 1 (03:34):
I believe I did nice doing my homework g funk
Retro on the YouTube and the Instagram's some amazing customizers
and some all around real cool dudes. When it comes
to the world to die cast. They've got incredible collections
and you can catch them streaming on all your favorite
streaming services. I believe you screen stream on YouTube and Instagram. Correct.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
Yeah, we dabble on a little bit of everything.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Alright, you're gonna see them streaming all over the place.
They're streaming, they're screaming. They love tiny cars, as do we.
So we're going to talk about those today. Ian Warren,
thank you for joining us on the show today.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Yeah, thanks for having us. And we typically there are
three of us. We have, well four of us, so
we have James or doctor Fla Fisher's or other brother.
He couldn't make it, and then we got my best
friend growing up, Yabra, he can't couldn't make it either.
But so when you're talking about those conventions and being
out and about, usually there's four of us. And yeah,

(04:28):
but we we appreciate you having two of us on.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Oh well absolutely, and hopefully we'll get the rest of
the crew at some point in a future episode. But
we appreciate you taking the time to hang out with us.
And yeah, I wanted to ask you about some of
those videos because I.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Hear so yeah, me too.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
A bunch of y'all doing really fun sketches lots, and
you're dressed as men in black at one point, and
we're gonna talk about all that today, but before we
get started, let's talk a little bit about the Weber
Brothers in general, where y'all came from, and where the
tiny car love started.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
So I started collecting, I guess back in the eighties.
I had a little a little box, so a little
box like this, I can show you. It's something like this.
This is what I had, and I had my collection
in there, and then over the years, you lose them,
you forget about them, and then I guess one of

(05:23):
my hobbies is one of the things my passions is
is to go thrifting, to go do your garage shells.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I've always liked doing that. And every now and then I.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Would pick up a car here or there, something from
the eighties that I was like, this is I used
to have this car at one point, and nostalgic, yeah,
And so it went into into a shoe box up
in the closet, and over time it grew to thirty

(05:54):
or forty cars, and then one day I was looking
at them and then I actually cleared off the top shelf,
and then I laid them all out, and so every
time I opened it, I went into the closet, I
could see my little collection there. And it stayed like
that for a number of years during moves and stuff.

(06:15):
We moved from Arizona to Utah and then later on
up to here, Washington State, where I live, but that
shoe box of cars always was somewhere right. I knew
where it was or I'd come across it, and so
I would say I was like a closet collector, like
I always had some sort of little passion for it.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
I just didn't really know what to do with it.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
And then Ian, well he can tell you history, and
James one day I can tell you his story. But
he brought up this idea of the convention, that there's
a convention in LA and that he's like, this year
I want to go, and so we all, it was me,
James and Ian at the time. We were like, Okay,

(07:01):
let's go, let's let's try this thing. That opened my
eyes to what you see now. And I came back
from that collect from that convention with like forty cars
like that I was not expecting to buy, because you
can buy convention cars, and then obviously there's thousands of

(07:25):
rooms that you can just shop until you can't shop anymore.
And that kind of was where it spawned and where
it kind of took off, and all the cars that
were in the closet that came out, and then this
space started to get filled.

Speaker 3 (07:40):
And so this is where we are now. And now
I've gone down a bunch of roads.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
And when I say go down a bunch of roads, like
I've collected, I collected a bunch of premiums at one point,
and then I stopped collecting those because that road never ends.
And then I just started collecting certain certain ones and
certain castings.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
That I will show you my Warren before before you
showed that one. So the thing about Warren is that
like he gets fixated on a casting that he really likes,
and then he goes down the rabbit holes of trying
to find all of that casting. It's been a lot
of fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
He clearly hates the gmc.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
Irvy, Yeah, exactly, exactly hates that one. Was one road
I went down back all the boxes. But there's the
few three or four or five castings that are staple
and everything else. He's like all right, I've I've found
them all and I'm gonna move on, but go ahead
and show that one one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
So this is actually my my favorite casting the thunder
roll out.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Heck yeah, and I have.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I have twelve of the thirteen versions or variations, and
I'm even gone to certain lengths to even even customize them.
And so this is a oh wow, a record that
I made last year. So yeah, it's just that we

(09:02):
talked about it weekly.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
The roads will go down and then.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Like, okay, I've filled that one, I've found that one.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
What's next. The collection is always evolving.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
And and I'd say getting better and better. But it's like,
what can I do now to stay in the stay
in it and keep it, keep it going.

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Speaker 4 (10:21):
Warren, Real, quick, what year convention was that? And before
you went to that convention, are you saying you basically
had your shoe box and that was it? And now
that's what we're looking at after the convention.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, so twenty twenty twenty two, in right, that was
our first year.

Speaker 5 (10:38):
We've gone three years out there, So backtrack, yeah, twenty two, So.

Speaker 4 (10:42):
Three years ago, three and twenty four, three years ago.
That room was nice and clean.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
It was nice and clean there.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
This wasn't amen, This wasn't even the fifth Avenue garage
back then.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
That's what this is called. This is this was just
a storage, little storage room.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
And I'll just pen I can pen the camera on
a little bit so you can see this. My wife
got me this, so I blame her for I saw
the eighties stuff. I blame her for not just Ian
for spawning.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
Before the Hot Wheels Room, it was Harry Potter's closet, you.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Know what I mean? Like, right, assess that, right, I mean,
obviously it's not your fault. I mean that's what we
need to get established.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
That's right. It's not my fault the case.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
You No, it's building yeah, a little bit more so.
Like so, I get asked often how long I been collecting?
Pretty much forever I quit opening them. I don't know,
ten twelve years old. Our dad was a collector of things,
and so I became a collector and didn't want to
wreck the package and whatnot. Go to college and I
same thing. I had maybe three or four boxes in

(11:48):
my closet and I just kind of add to it
here there. In fact, when I met my wife, she's like,
or years later, she's like, I had no idea when
I first met you that you were obsessed with hot
wheels because they were all in the clause, they're all
tucked away, the collectibles. And then but for a long
time I was like, I want an office or somewhere
that I can the situation room as we call it,

(12:08):
that we can have all the hot wheels up and
display them very nice. So then you fast forward. It's
ironic because I lived in Washington, Warren was in Utah.
I moved down to Utah and then us three brothers
would go collecting and again hit the garage sales or
whatever to try and find more die casts and whatever
that we were collecting, and then he moves up to

(12:29):
Washington and I stay here. But it was pretty cool.
So there's a big gap between us in age, and
so we were able to kind of like spark that,
you know, closer relationship. And I moved down here and
a lot of it was centered around die cast and
then now with Warren moving away, we've been able to
keep that connection close. We do our YouTube streams. We
try to go to the conventions, usually ends up being
Vegas and LA although next year Dallas sounds really appealing

(12:52):
for us. We're itching to get out to a nationals.
So yeah, I mean it's a great hobby, great community
when we get do cool things like this and meet
with other cool people.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
So well, I'm very flatter. Do you think this is
a cool thing? Yeah, we're doing our best here. So
you were mentioning before the show, y'all have quite a
few siblings. So out of all of them, only only
three here in the hobby or does anybody else collect or?

Speaker 5 (13:18):
Only three? But they're all aware and they all they'll
send out text messages, Hey do you want this? I
found this was the best.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Yeah, you get the whole You got a whole network.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
My brother is always sending me like, hey, I saw this,
Saint Kroger. Is it good?

Speaker 5 (13:32):
Yeah, exactly exactly, Warren. Do you got that blue thunder
roller at the mailing?

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh? I have it, so I'll find.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
It pull it out. So a quick story about this one.
So I was living up in Spokane and I'd been
collecting for years, but I didn't hear about the KD. Again,
this was kind of like before the internet. I mean
we had internet, but like I wasn't going that deep
into it. And I was working for the radio station
at the time. I was over at the other city
in Cordelane, Idaho, and and so I was working and

(14:04):
I heard about KD and I was like, oh, I
show up. So I show up to kDa, excited to
look a look through some cars, be able to get
the mail in. And I'm the only person there until
about ten minutes before it started, maybe five, and then
about forty people show up. I'm bombarded by everybody, right,
and I don't get picked. I don't get to go
through cars. I did pull twenty cars to get the

(14:26):
mail in. So it's actually up on my wall that
that was my first mail in that I pulled or
submitted for that one. That one, yeah, that one, yep.
So so it was at that moment when I missed
out on KD because and everyone brought their families, their kids. Now,
by the way, like I'm all for it, I'm all
for the fire or family environment. But what the world

(14:48):
didn't know is how large my family is. And so
if you can't beat them, you join them. And so
the next kDa, you know, I hit up everybody. I said,
mount up, Weber's let's go. And across across the west coast,
we hit all the cape kmarts. I got e sheets
for days, I got mailings, we're pulling soupers. And then

(15:09):
I was that was a little bit of a spark
as far as Warren and James as well. And at
that point then now it became like you're saying, like
my sisters don't collect, but they're well aware of what
to look for, and as they're looking for cars and
things for their kids, they're they're looking out for us too.
And that also goes like sweepstakes. Think about that. The
twin mill, right, the mobile one twin mill, the white

(15:31):
one and the gold one, or or back in the day. Actually,
back in the day, SMA stand just came up. Back
in the day, they had the Camaro. You could like
submit for the blue Camaro right in the acrylic and
I had all my family do it and I ended
up pulling like six of them, which is like wild,
Like people are like yeah, six, I'm like yeah, because
we had a gang of winner. So it is definitely
a family affair.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
Nice. Yeah, my brother's always keeping an eye out for me.
The other day, speaking the thunder Rollers, it wasn't the
other day, it was like six months ago, but he
he texted me from an antique shop and somebody was
selling a bunch of the later the maroon metallic maroon
thunder Roller.

Speaker 5 (16:06):
It was a great for customs man, yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:08):
Exactly, selling them for a buck fifty apiece on the
card there it is all day. And I was like, yeah,
give me three of those because those are all that
is a that is a custom dream right there, because
the the thunder Rollers get even even that one. I
know that's one of the later ones that's not as desirable,
but it's still, like you said, great for customs. And

(16:29):
I have a soft spot for that casting as well,
because it's about the closest that Hot Wheels got to
a one sixty four actual one sixty four scale semi
truck for a long time. Yeah, and I still am
a little I still have a little bit of a
pet peeve for that exclusive Optimist prime that they did.
That was it was actually like one eightieth scale. When

(16:50):
someone's life let it go, I have to let it go.
I know. I know they were doing it because they
were doing it hot wheel style and they wanted it
the same with of the track and all that stuff
and that. So I make it, makes it in actual
Hot Wheels, but the elite semi truck is not. It's
actually true one sixty four. So if they can do
it with that, they could do any a la.

Speaker 5 (17:07):
Yeah, they could tell you. There's there's definitely especially with
die cast, and there's a lot of cars and whatnot
that we want made, but we want it made a
pretty specific way and if they do it long. The
biggest one for me for years, for years was the
McLaren f one. Oh yeah, please make a McLaren f one.
And then to have a to have an RLC like

(17:30):
I was blown away, like I could not and it
was burnt Orange because I played Need for Speed growing
up and that was Cardio Unlock, like the cheat code car,
Like I could not believe it. Right, we get it
and the doors are absolutely garbage. Yeah, Now, of course
we all go to the conventions and I think it
was in Vegas talking with Brendan and I'm like, bro,
like talk to me. He's like, oh my gosh that

(17:52):
they they pulled back production on the on the F
one for like what three years because they're trying to
figure out the doors and get it. Maybe they need
ron and they're a little bit sooner to be able
to figure it out. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
But yeah, that was a disaster.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
Yeah yeah, but it's funny because it is a disaster
and it's one of my favorite cars up on the wall.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
Sure, well, it's got an interesting story to it. There's
always these really interesting things like this last year with
Dike hat super Con with the Jada Show exclusive being
botched and them only having a few of those to
give out, and so everybody like it worked in their favor,
I think because everyone was talking about it and everyone
was trying to get these ones that had these not
quite perfect packages on them because hey, that makes them

(18:33):
even more rare and more interesting.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
It's an error.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah, I don't even know if that's an error.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
It's just like, oh, it'll be sold as an error.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
It'll definitely be sold as an error, for sure.

Speaker 5 (18:44):
So I think you have that fine line between collector
and scalper or like how how you're and that that
there's there's this ongoing debate. You see someone at the
pegs pulling off cars and are they friend or foe
or is this someone that can talk cars with or
Ita that is looking for that green stripe to just
the symbol to flip or whatever. So yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
I mean, yeah, it's a We've talked about that on
this show before, and it is a good point because
if you're a collector and you come across staff, it
doesn't hurt to have that as something you can trade
or is something that you can give to your friends.
So like, if I come across a bunch of zamas

(19:28):
or something, even something as simple as that. I did. Recently,
I had a weird thing where I showed up in
a Walmart and they had it was the the Texas Too,
which is not called that the Autosen or whatever. Yeah,
the fifty three Chevy and the jeep Cherokee, and they
had like twenty three of one and thirty five of

(19:50):
the other. In Xamic. I was like, huh, that's the
I took like five of them and left. But I
was just like, yeah, I mean, I'm not even really
a Zamic guy. I bet I have friends who are,
so I wouldn't consider that like scalping. If I'm picking
up a couple that I can go, oh, well, I
can take this to a convention and use it as
a trade or something like that.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
Or well, I bet you if I was next to
you and we see it at the same time and
there's thirty of them, you'd.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Be like, yo, man, yeah, exactly exactly.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
But then there's those people that are like grubby, hungry,
You're like, yeah, throwing hands.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
So I gotta ask, gentlemen, because what I saw of
your footage in Vegas, I was pretty dead gum impressive
looks like you guys had a plan and I think
it was executed. Tell me about the mission statement for
going to the super Con last year or this past February.

(20:46):
You didn't just go, you guys pretty much it was
a web or takeover. So tell me what the plan
was when you all went to Vegas.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
I'll take this one.

Speaker 5 (20:56):
He's the man with the plan.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
This was my plan was to repeat. It's in the
Corneral Competition. I say repeat because me and Yeah won
the first we're one when we went. So last year,
well not was, I guess a year ago was the
first time that we all four went together. Ian had

(21:20):
gone before James had gone. But so me and Tony
we actually won the Cornal competition and you get to
when you win that, you get two cars, a one
of one and a one of two, right as winners.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
So my main focus was to go there to repeat.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
But this year we had to then face our own
blood because James had come a day late last year,
so he couldn't make it, so Ian had to scramble
and try to find a partner. And mind you, this
is thirty minutes after we walked on site, like they
were literally starting this thing. And so we've men. Tony

(22:06):
partnered up. He ain't had to find somebody somebody off
the street. He didn't really, I don't even know if
he spoke English. But but that's why that's why I
went this year again. That was one reason, but was
to repeat, which we did. So now we have two
of the there's only two or two of the one

(22:26):
of the ones, and they're both up here in Washington.
So now there's a lot of events that you get
to do there besides that, and so it's a good time.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
I do want you all to talk about your experience,
but Ian I want you maybe to piggyback, because what
I was going for was not everybody was wearing suits
and matching sneakers and and doing videos dating videos. So
tell us tell us all about that.

Speaker 5 (22:57):
Thank you. Yeah. So to Warren's part point, we are
all we all have something that we like doing these
at these conventions. I go one hundred percent for the customs,
so well not one hundredercent, but that's like my main focus.
In fact, that's why back in the day I started
going or wanted to go, was I build and I
spend all this time and I don't have a place

(23:17):
that I can compete in showcase. And if you know
anything about the Webers is we are really competitive. So
whether it's downhill racing or customs or cornhole, it's like,
let's go, let's play. That's what happens when you have
nine siblings and you're fighting for seconds, you know what
I mean, who can get seconds first at the kitchen table.
So it was I love doing videography, putting videos together.

(23:42):
I love recording my cousin, building my customs, making the
quick montage videos and stuff. And I started doing some
recap videos at some of the conventions. It gained in
popularity from La to Vegas. And so we're coming into
Vegas and we all got our approved time off from work.
Tony Yah is his name, that's why we call him. Yeah,

(24:04):
but Y'ah was approved, and he had his big old mustache,
and we each have our different looks, right, And we
went to last year in La was our first year
going to the dinner when Matt Gabe was awarded, and
and we're like, let's dress to impress. Let's all get
the same shirt. We get on on Google find some

(24:24):
hot wheel shirt from China. Takes a month to get
here and we sent the link to everybody. We all
got it, and then of course we all got the
Paul George shoes and so we're like, let's let's let's
go in style. And so then we're out there, and
when when you're a videographer, when you're trying to piece
together a trip or or whatever it is, it's getting
little shots here and there. And so I was like,

(24:47):
we need some hero shots of us walking around in
our suits and stuff like that, or us getting ready.
And that's right when the Kendrick Lamar you know video
was going. I was like, bro, I got it. Let's
let's do this. Let's let's walk in with some swagger
and style. And ironically enough, ninety percent of that was

(25:07):
filmed during the dinner the award. But we all had
to sneak out individually because we couldn't all get up
in our same outfits and leave at the same time.
So we all like sneak out the back curtain and
then we'll go upstairs because we needed to do it
when no one was there, while everyone was at the tunnel. Yeah,
when everyone was at dinner, we ran up to the tunnel,

(25:29):
ran up to the skybridge, and so yeah, we like
to have fun and we're loud and sure, either you
love us or you hate us. So yeah, well okay
with both.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Hey engagements engagement, right, that's the name of the game
here on YouTube, which I wanted to ask you about.
I'm glad you mentioned the videography aspect of things, because
I'm always curious at what point you take this from being, oh,
this is the thing I collect to this is the
thing I create content about. So what was it that
it sparked you to first pick up a camera?

Speaker 5 (26:03):
That's a really good question. I've I got a high
school or sorry. My graduation gift in high school was
a camera, a digital camera. And that's like right when
I was switching from film to digital and so I
was taking a lot of pictures and then I realized
they can do video, started recording some stuff. So I've
always liked it.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
And then mostly timing, Yeah, timing right when?

Speaker 5 (26:26):
Yeah, yeah, so timing, And then as far as like
like to me, it's part of why I collect hot wheels.
I love to shoot them, I love to customize them,
I love to like I can remember people. You got
the Lambley Group, you got Orange Diye Cast, you got
all these influencers or whatever you want to call them,
and they would get cars I had never seen, and

(26:49):
I want to see the close up. I want you
to take the car, and I want to be able
to see it every detail. That's what I love to
do when I get the cars, is I want to
look at it, drool over it. So to be able
to shoot them, to be able to share that, I
get a lot of enjoyment out of because I know
people like it as well, especially when you're talking some
of the rare cars like the Mattel Creations, the Collaboration ones,

(27:12):
or the I got the Fearless at the five hundred.
Do you guys remember the Fearless at the five hundred
with Tanner Foulest did that big jump over the NDY
five hundred or whatever, and they had an exclusive car
and I won that one, and I remember shooting in
like a lot of people hadn't even seen it or
knew anything about it. So to be able to give
them that experience of seeing the details and the packaging

(27:36):
and et cetera. So I think it's just all encompassing
of the hobby in general. I love to shoot them too.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
And customizing. So what was the first car that you
ever took a drill to.

Speaker 5 (27:51):
That's a good question.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
It was the main line. I think it was.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
Actually I might have it over here, give me two seconds,
let me try and find it.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
No worries, I can find mine right here, say jump.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Into This is a question for the whole crew, so
I'll have to break it down a little bit.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
So, yean is one a number of awards.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
And I knew I had some sort of little i'd
take grain of talent because like I was always in
art school, or not art school. I took art in
high school, and I considered I would sketch and stuff.
So I'm like not like our other, like our brother
in law who's actually an artist. But I knew I
had some some stuff in me. But like, this is

(28:36):
the first.

Speaker 3 (28:37):
One that I did.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
One of the first ones that I tried was this
one where I thought it would be cool to put
one of.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
These but those of the big fat tires.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
On yas car tigers on it.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
And then yeah, then here's another one. So these are
the first two that I attempted.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
And I would say they I mean I would let's
just say I've come Like the wheel just came off
I've come a long way, says that.

Speaker 3 (29:01):
But give I give credit because he's like, you just
got to do it right.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
That's like you see a lot of those YouTube videos
people like how do I get started or whatever.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
It's like, you just.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Gotta attempt to drill a car, and if you mess up,
it's okay because you're gonna find out next time.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
It's a little bit easier. It's a little bit easier.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
So, yeah, was this something you did, read like, fairly
recently or were you customizing way.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Back within the last three years.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
Yeah, okay, So those are the first two I started with,
and then that thunder Roller is one of the latest
ones I did.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
And then I got a couple and yeah, shown the mule.
The mule, Oh yeah, the mule is see if I can.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
So he won just won Vegas for this one.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
So this one, this was my first.

Speaker 4 (29:49):
That's what I was about to ask. I saw somebody
got a trophy.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Yeah, there, So I was pretty pumped about that. It
was not honestly, I was not. I wasn't expecting it
per se.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
I was.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
It was an idea that I got watching gas Monkey
Garage that's based on an actual car that sold it
Barrett Jackson for seven hundred and fifty K, so you
can actually find it. I don't I can't remember what
it was called. But I saw that in the video

(30:23):
and I was like, oh my, I got to make that.
That is like so cool that mine doesn't do it justice.
But but yeah, that's that was That was pretty cool
to get that one.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah, it's been awesome to see his progression too. It's
it is. It is cool to be able to see
what people come up with and customizing. So yeah, I
it was Actually it was before Instagram, we had Facebook
and there was a car I'd never seen before and
I hit him up. I'm like, yo, where'd you get this?
I think it was actually on the trade boards back

(30:56):
in the day and they're like, oh, I made it,
and I'm like what, Like you made it? What does
that even mean? So then customizing okay, so you can
customer you take it apart and I didn't even have
a drill or nothing. Same thing was worn like actually,
they canceled our art program by the time I was around,
but I always enjoyed our I did metal shop, wood shop,
so while everyone else was like welding like a trailer together,

(31:18):
like I was welding a little art man, you know
what I mean, Like, so yeah, so ironically enough, ironically enough,
my first custom it was a Ferrari, which now they're back,
but so that all read before. So I just painted
the painted around it black, put some real writers on.
It looks like I used super glue to piece it
back together, which is absolutely classy. And that's kind of

(31:42):
how it started. And I was I was doing that
a little bit, and then there was a there was
a guy from Jersey and and his customs were phenomenal,
and he's like, hey, I'm going to create a Facebook
page where customizers can come on and share best practices.
We'll do some competitions. And I was like, man, this
sounds awesome. So it was real tight knit. We had
at most twenty five people in the group, and in fact,

(32:03):
if you weren't like participating, we would just kick you out,
like you're not in it. You're here to like just
get secrets, you're not. So we'd have like two or
three custom contests a year, and I grew so much
in there, and little competitions and we do little prizes.
It actually got heated at one point because people were
like editing their final photos and sending them in and

(32:24):
I kind of got an eye for that and I
was like, yo, like that's not what your car looks like.
So anyway, so I was I was customizing and then
there's a competition online. Die Cast Heroes actually put it
on one of their first ones and this was and
it was actually Superfly magazine back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
so Superfly magazine. They didn't have Diecast Heroes yet. They
put it on the competition and submit your cars and

(32:48):
you win prizes. And I was like, this is amazing,
and I submitted. I submitted the bat slug so it's
like front end is comby, the back end kind of
sloops down like a slug and it's black and I
threw little bat wings on it. That was the coolest car.
Like I was like, man, I'm gonna do so wellness
competition and everyone hated it. They're like, this thing is

(33:08):
like it's not a real hot where or it's not
a real car. It's unrealistic. I'm like, that's the point.

Speaker 1 (33:13):
It's art.

Speaker 5 (33:14):
Man, Like, no one for a long time really or not.
I won't say no one, but not many people really
understood my style. It's different, and I'm trying to think
like out of the box, and so that's why like
that didn't go too well. Then the prizes, there was
like some hiccups and shipping it out, and that's also
we can segue in a minute into our competition. That's
why we ended up doing our competition and I got
I got a getting of prizes over here, ready to

(33:35):
ship out for that. But so that's when the convention
of like I want to go to the convention, and
we were actually going to go the year before that,
but I didn't have the newsletter, so then I didn't
wasn't able to pick up the tickets and I didn't
know they sold out in seconds.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
I'm like, oh yeah, I got.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
To wait a whole nother year. Like this is so stupid.
The system was broken, in my opinion, So we disagree
with that. Yeah, yeah, but I mean that's that's essentially
how it got started. And what's therapy for me. I
go in the garage for an hour or two and
tinker and work through all the crap of the job
and everything else.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
So yeah, chuckle chuckle, tell you he was one hundred
and twenty seconds late to the hot wheels Nationals ticket drop.
Can we go back to Vegas for one second? Ian,
because did I see one of the coolest collaborations I've
ever seen with you and Lee Allen in Nuclear.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
Mans talk about that it was like an out of
body experience working with that man. So Lee Allen is
literally a legend, living legend. If you somehow out there
are are living under a rock and don't know who
who Lee is, like, you're crazy, but no. Yeah, So
we met Lee. It was our first convention Warren. Right, Yeah,

(34:52):
We walked into his room and I was like, oh
my gosh, this is this is like my safe haven,
Like this room is a and it's art, it's it's
hot wheels, it's and I think actually we were drooling
over a pair of Jay's. So Warren was talking about
being a thrifter. He's him and my other brother that
got I don't know, a thousand pairs of shoes, like

(35:15):
just more shoes than he would ever need, you know
what I mean, because they're all collectibles. But so Lee
had made some custom shoes and we walk in and
just like I was blown away, Right, So we stayed
in there for probably a couple hours, just talking talking
about customs talking about building. It was really cool because
he was giving us tips. And that was my first convention.

(35:35):
So I brought my cars down to go in. I
brought like five, like way too many, and I'm like, oh,
this is this is what I'm putting it in. And
he was like he loved my work, which was flattering.
He's like, I've never seen anyone do anything like this,
and I was like, I've never seen anyone do what
you're doing. So that was like three years and then
and then somehow, I actually I think it was Lee
was like, yeah, we should collaborate on something at some point.

(35:57):
And then the following year we we said it again
and we said, okay, we're actually going to do it,
and then we went on the hunt for some cars
and that's when we made the little nuclear what did
we call it? ONEE the infection. The infection made that infection,
and then and we we we made ten of them,

(36:17):
I think or six of them I don't even remember now,
with a couple chase and then this last one, yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
The fire and ice.

Speaker 4 (36:27):
Yeah. Collab A lot of a lot of buzz, a
lot of buzz about this one.

Speaker 5 (36:31):
Yeah. So we we pretty much pretty much he the
the artwork is phenomenal, second to none, but I respect
when we talked about I talked about that first competition
with super Fly Magazine I tried to get into and
people not understanding my work. It's similar with him, like
he's got that brain that just like I want to go,

(36:53):
like here, here's like the mold. I want to break
out of it. And so I thought that. Yeah, I
thought that way too, and a lot of aspects, and
so it's it's really cool collaborating with him and like, well,
what if we did this, and we're we're literally sending
each other like little sketches, what if we did this
and this, and pretty much he's like I want your
style on one side, I want mine on the other,

(37:13):
kind of a ying and yang, like I just want
to like break a car apart and throw a bunch
of spikes and stuff into it. So yeah, it turned
out amazing, Like I honestly I get speechless about it
because I just don't eat, Like it was just one
of the coolest experiences.

Speaker 4 (37:30):
So yeah, I remember seeing that, Chuck. Do you remember
lots of people always at the table when we were
walking the floor when we were doing our shows.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
Yeah, thank you. It was honestly a pretty fun experience
to like a couple guys at bottom and then recognize me, Hey,
can you sign it for me? And I was like, oh,
my gosh, that is so cool. Yes, I'll sign it.

Speaker 1 (37:50):
That's awesome. You have a really unique style. I did
want to ask you about your your customs because I
do customs myself, and I'm I was just curious where
the uh the steampuck love came from and and was
that art class where you really started messing with metal,
because you get you have a very unique look and
you use a lot of real metal in your builds.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
Yeah, yeah, I do. I I love the metal side
of things. I do understand and respect to the three
D printers and those that do that, and and especially
those that are creating their own designs for three D print.
That's pretty wild to think about, right, not just going
on finding the file. So yeah, metal and woodshop growing up.
And then like I was saying, I was in that

(38:31):
that group and Jimmy he ended up passing away, but
he he used a lot of metal and and so
he almost became like a little a bit of a
mentor for me in the in the customizing game of
what tools I should get when when I should or
what kinds of metal, and our competitions that we would have.
We would have themes, right, a batmobile theme, a ute theme, trucks.

(38:55):
I think we did Volkswagen one time, and I'd say
once a year we came back into another steampunk theme
because me and Jimmy liked it so much and so
it just like steam steampunk and then you sprinkle in
a little bit of Mad Max or post a apocalyptic
my batmobile like it was all bloody and like the
paint was all splattered, like you just like mowed down

(39:17):
a bunch of zombies. So in my mind, I'm trying
to like think outside the box with it. But the
Mad Max steampunk genre, it just it resonates. It sits
in my head rent free, and I'm always like, what
else could I do with it?

Speaker 1 (39:32):
It's great and that you've you've definitely changed people's minds
about not getting it because you've got quite a lot
of hardware on yourself now to prove that you what
you're doing.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
So thank you.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Yeah. Yeah. The first one that we went out, I
competed as amateur because it was my first competition and
I mentioned going onto the garage and it being therapeutic.
After my dad passed away, I went out into the
garage and I tinkered for like a month, and then
I came out with that steampunk one that I want
amateur with that first year and ever since then, it's

(40:02):
like it just kind of keeps pulling me back to it.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
So yeah, yeah, and you had you had the Speaking
of the Steampunk k VW. You had a video of
that that went just a little bit viral. Like what
was that like to wake up one day and go
from like covid the have a couple hundred views to
almost a million views?

Speaker 5 (40:20):
Yeah, the one on YouTube? Yeah, yeah, that that one
was that one was crazy, And that was I was
actually I was working at Verizon and the Samsung rep
came in and she's like, hey, I got this YouTube
called tech with Brett you should follow. I was like
all right, So I pop on and he's like, wait
what you got like so many views, like thirty thousand
views on this on this one? And again same thing

(40:42):
that was like those videos of my customs were like
slideshow videos, like not a video of me making it,
but like I took a bunch of progression photos and
put it together and I was like, oh, really, Like
I didn't even like really it was like I uploaded
it and forgot about it. He's like, you are you
monetizing it? And I was like, I don't even know
what that means. So he helped me do all that years ago,

(41:03):
and that one was among those videos that he helped me,
like understand captivating people. Sure, so yeah to see that
one and it went up over a million. And that's
even again, before like you could upload videos on Instagram,
like it was all pictures on Instagram before, and so

(41:23):
that was like pretty cool. And now million views on
Instagram's like it's not as cool as like a million
was on YouTube back in the day.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
So sure, sure, yeah, that's gonna be rewarding to you. Go, hey,
it's it's nice to see my work getting here. I appreciated.
And then you've had quite a few videos do really
well on YouTube and I know you've tore it up
on Instagram. Do you do you feel like Instagram is
the better platform now for diecast?

Speaker 5 (41:47):
Yeah, I mean YouTube's YouTube's cool, but like, I don't know,
there's there's something a little bit more instant and like
community wise with Instagram than then on YouTube. I get
people which I don't know. I guess you can message
me on YouTube, but I'm not going to see it.
I don't even know where to look, to be honest.

(42:07):
Here on Instagram, a quick DM like hey, how'd you
do this? Or someone tagging or whatever. And I mean
a lot of the homies that we meet out at
conventions and stuff, it's like, yo, we're on Instagram and
I'm like, oh, let me follow I'm like, oh, I'm
already following you that. The issue with die cast fellows
is that a lot of them don't show their face.
They just show cards. So I meet you in person

(42:29):
and I'm like, oh, I had no idea what you
look like. So I try to break them old a
little bit as far as the Weber Brothers and trying
to a little bit of face. You can, yeah, see
the characters.

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Speaker 4 (43:21):
Let's talk about the Weber Brothers. Warren as the elder statesman,
I'm gonna go to you first. What is what is
the Weber Brothers brand? When I say that, what is
that trigger in your head? And what do you what
do you want to do with that to make this
hobby better? Is there is there a plan for that?
Or y'all just flying by the seat of your pants

(43:41):
showing up at these conventions.

Speaker 7 (43:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (43:44):
No, I think the Weber Brothers as a whole is
I think we're trying to push out this community of
customizing and trying to bring in customizers from not just
locally but all over the world. And this competition that
we're putting on for the third year, we're trying to

(44:05):
streamline and make it. How can we make it easier
for people not to You don't have to physically send
in your car and worry about getting it back. You
just send pictures and you send a brief summary of
what you did, and so as Weber Brothers as a whole.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
That's what we're.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Trying to promote, is this community of customizing and that
anybody can enter. Got We've got a lot of prizes,
a lot of people are have seen what we've done
and have backed us, including Lee, he's one of the judges.
So we've got some guys from from actually from hotels,
some actual designers come in and help us judge. So

(44:49):
it's it's it's not personally what I like or what
Ian likes or what James likes.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
We all have a little say and what we think
is a really cool custom and who deserves the title percent?

Speaker 4 (45:05):
How can people get in on this?

Speaker 1 (45:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:08):
And do you want to take that one?

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Sure? You mentioned YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. We are on all
the platforms, but Instagram seems to be kind of the
melting pot for a lot of customizers, which is actually
if you think about some of the older generation customizers.
There's been guys at the convention. I'm like, who are you?
I was like, do you have an Instagram or YouTube
or something I can follow? Like, I don't know what

(45:31):
that is. I'm like, oh my gosh, my guy, Like,
if you were to just put your content online, people
would love it because this is amazing. So we try
to hit all the platforms, but my Instagram, so dji
web it's the pen comment at the top and then
the rules are in my bio. But we posted on
Facebook too. We post it on on YouTube. But to

(45:52):
piggyback off off a warrant. When you think about this community,
this community, it's interesting. There's some aspects of it that
are a little touchy and like can be negative, the
scalping side and things like that, but then there's like
this huge side to it that's like culture and car culture,
die cast culture. I went out and did the Mattel
that revealed right and talk they kind of accorded me

(46:15):
into talking about my dad, which I get emotional and
what's it mean to collect die cast cars? And what
it does is it pulls at your heartstrings, It polls
at those memories as a kid, Like for us, it
was these are affordable presence of my kids, or that
my parents can get the kids. Right. So as a
little boy, I want a toy car. It's a dollar.

Speaker 4 (46:35):
Here you go.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
You can have eight or nine of them, and that
that was like my birthday and I was like hyped
on it. Right. So there's a lot of there's a
lot of positivity in hot wheels and die cast and
car culture, and we're trying to continue and push that forward.
And what we saw was that there was a gap
where artists or custom die cast builders. Because I found

(46:58):
the gap because I couldn't compete when I wanted to.
I felt like I was a high caliber artist wanting
to compete against other custom diecast artists and so without
and I couldn't go to the conventions at the time.
So I was like, well, what if we create our
own competition, And again I pulled a little bit from

(47:20):
that Facebook group from years ago. I'm talking fifteen, fourteen,
thirteen years ago, when we would compete in there and
that's what we do. We'd submit our photos, we would
have judges in the group judge and we go from there.
So this opera and actually there was one and I
think it was like China or somewhere somewhere crazy Japan,
I don't know, and it was, hey, you can enter

(47:42):
this competition. You got to mail us your car and
then we'll put it on display at this convention or
this auto group whatever whatever, and now that's it. So
I'm like, wait, so you're keeping my customs, like you're crazy.
And so that's how I pitched it to the brothers
when I was like, what if we did this? We
got pictures and and I had submitted and gotten into

(48:05):
Diecast Heroes magazines I don't know four or five times,
and new Tony and Carmen and I I reached out
and I said, hey, we want to we want to
host one. What do you think about putting it in
the magazine? And they loved it. They're like, well, absolutely
want to do it. We'll call it the competition issue
and Ian, if you can run it, then just give
us the stuff. And and now as I'm looking back,

(48:26):
I'm like, man, they're getting a good end of this deal.
Like I'm just sending them a gang of content for
this magazine. I'm just getting Tony Carmen. I'm kidding. And yeah,
I mean the rest is history. So to sum up
what Warren said, like, we're trying to keep that positivity
going forth and forward in the die Cast community, and
we see an opportunity to do that with customs. We

(48:47):
see that an opportunity to do that when we're at
conventions and bring the bring the hype, bring the fun,
like not not create drama in the rooms as we're
nickel and diming over over cars, Dubai and this, and
it's like and it's funny because at times we all
kind of check each other like hey, Warren, like let
that one go for cheap because the guy needs it

(49:08):
or the guy wants it, or hey, you know, I don't.
I can't tell you how many times my other brother
has signed me up to make a custom for somebody.
I'm like, bro, you have no idea what it takes
to build a custom, right, Like, But at the end
of the day, it's just yeah, positivity in the in
the community.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Oh I agree, I I kind of. I feel like
customs are almost the saving grace of the hobby because
they're it's very easy to get wrapped up in the
oh well it's this grade level of case and oh
I had it grated and I had this is this
of that or whatever. And at the end of the day,
almost all of these are their cars. They're they're toys.

(49:47):
And I used to say, I don't say this anymore,
but I used to say I would never own a
car I wouldn't drill. And I've had some people give
me very special cars now, so I wouldn't drill those.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
But for me drill this one.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
I would. I would drill that one with a half
inch bit until there was nothing left. And yeah, I
just think it's a great way of doing expression and
getting stuff out there that I like that, especially with
hot wheels they're small. There's a ton of things you
can do with them. You can do steampunk that you do,

(50:20):
or the insane detail that Yogi does over a Jakarta
die cast project or locally what I love seeing. There's
a Tampa customizing scene. There's like Richard Vasquez and Billet,
Tony Customs and Mad Visions and they get together once
a month at a paint shop and they show off
these beautiful airbrush so they're all like lowrider customizers and stuff.

(50:42):
So they've got like all the like glass paint and
the amazing no decals but incredible detailed lace work and
stuff on these one sixty four Sco cars. And I
think there's really no wrong way to customize. You can.
You can as long as it's your thing. And some
of my most prized ones are not the ones they're
the ones that people have made, have either given them

(51:04):
to me or have bought them, and those are true
one of ones and they and like you said, like
I briefly got the crazy idea when I when I
saw your card, I was like, oh, maybe I could
be like one of these people that customizes die casts
and make a living. And you know, for the amount
of time that you put into these things, people will

(51:26):
not pay what they're worth time wise, unless you're super
duper famous Navy, And even then, those cars are not
going for what that person put into them.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
Chuck, and I think we're also we'd be remiss if
we didn't mention the benefit our hobby is becoming more
and more social. We're all tapped in and and we've
all got tags for different socials. But our hobby offers
a chance to get a loan in that workshop and
work on that car. And really, calm me, mind and man,

(52:01):
and this day and age, how bad do we need that?
So what a what a fantastic copy we have? Can
we just real quickly, Ian or Warren, one of you
just give us some dates on when is this custom
contest gonna happen? When do people have to have their
stuff done just real quick.

Speaker 5 (52:18):
Yeah, so you have to have in your entry by
the end of July.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
So okay, plenty of time, guys.

Speaker 5 (52:25):
Yeah, July three. So it was gonna be the end
of where's my mouse up there? We go, let me
just verify that date. But it wasn't gonna be the
end of May, but we extended it because some builders
wanted to build a brand new build for this. Now,
mind you, we're here every year. So ironically enough, if
you guys head out to LA, which you should, I've
already got my customer ready for LA. So as a customizer,

(52:45):
you kind of your future thinking and ideally when you
think about the Weber Brothers competition, this is year three.
Guess what we're gonna be back for year four. So
get your head right this winter as you're in the
shop or whatnot.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
There's no theme, right, it's anything that you want to
put in.

Speaker 5 (53:02):
No theme, no amateur, no pro. It's one one big
melting plot pot of all the best customizers in the world.
And it is worldwide. I think last year we had
was it like twenty nine countries represented orn something like that.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (53:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (53:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
One of the big draws is that you get to
be in the magazine if you submit, everybody who submits
gets to be in the magazine, and then you get
to be immortalized in a magazine, right, I mean if
for nothing else, if you're you might not track the
top ten or whatever, but to say, hey, look I
was in this magazine. Sure, I'm on page thirty two.

(53:43):
That's mine, that's mine.

Speaker 1 (53:44):
Yeah. Together, it's a great feeling. It's really that's cool
enough Yeah for me, Yeah, exactly. And you're you're helping
move the hobby forward, You're engaging with other people, and
you're bettering yourself for it. I think it's a very
zen thing, a meditative thing. Calms me when I work
on them. I'm looking forward to getting back to doing

(54:05):
customs again. I was very excited to hear about the
date change because I will be moving the end of June,
so I might be able to have my shop a
little bit set up and do some building by then.
I'm usually pretty quick on mine because I'm not a
heavy duty fabricator. I'm more a paint and finish person,
so I do weather stuff. So I prefer to do

(54:28):
things that look like realistic cars that have aged and stuff,
So my stuff doesn't really win a lot. I did
win it the twenty twenty four o'clock You're Nationals in
twenty four. Well I came in second for a diorama
I made, but thank you, and so that was a
good feeling.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
But I haven't won a thing.

Speaker 5 (54:44):
That's all right, you haven't entered anything.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
David.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
It's coming, David, it's coming.

Speaker 1 (54:49):
You missed one hundred percent of the shots you don't
take David anyway, that's correct. I've got a few of
David's customers. I like them a lot. They're very special
to me. But yeah, yeah, and I think again. Folks,
if you haven't checked out, first of all, go check
out DJI Web and Funk Retro and all that stuff.
But also check out our friends Tony and Carmen over

(55:10):
at die Cast Heroes Magazine. It's an amazing project. I'm
so glad that thing exists. This project would not be
where it is now without Tony and Carmen because they
were want first guest, the second guests. Your buddy was
the first guest.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Yes, that is true.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Yeah, we had a pilot episode and then we were like, hey,
we're doing this thing and we should Tony and Carman.
They're like, yeah, we'll be on your show, And because
of them, we got a whole bunch of other guests
and I really kind of took off from there. So
we're very grateful to them for helping us out and
giving us free publicity without us asking for it. And
so it's a great thing for the community, even if

(55:49):
you're not a customizer. It's fun. Magazine's full of really
fun content and it's got a lot of really cool
cars to look at and learned about. Venders like Hayden
Over at EHHW Customs. Great dude doing amazing stuff. You
were talking about three D printing, and that dude designs
every single one of those things himself. It's one hundred

(56:10):
percent unique to the hobby. And he's doing awesome stuff
with cartooned and with hot wheels, and he's.

Speaker 5 (56:16):
One of our sponsors by the way, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Yeah prizes, and they're great also he sells a lot
of really really cool stuff. So anyway, check that out, folks,
and before we wrap things up and anything else, you
want to go over real quick because we're I know
we're at time.

Speaker 5 (56:33):
Yeah, I would just add real quick with this custom competition,
that I have got a gang of prizes in my
house ready to be shipped out from Cartooned. We got
hot wheels, we got M two sent us the biggest
box and they're all chase cars again. Hayden sent us
a bunch of stuff. We got Tyrone at rim Riders.

(56:55):
The winner is going to get a custom longboard made
by them. You get two hundred and fifty protect those
from Sterling protectos again. Nuclear Minds is in on this.
You get one hundred custom stickers with either your logo
or your die cast on it. Like there is so
many prizes.

Speaker 4 (57:12):
Did you just go to every table in Vegas?

Speaker 1 (57:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (57:15):
Pretty much. Pretty much. I'm kissing babies and shaking hands
out there and and I'm gonna do it now. Now
it's the third year, so it's pretty cool, is I.
I just sent him an email and said, hey, I'm
doing it again, and they're like, all right, what are
you doing in Yeah? And this is the first year
the M two joined in. Sean was yep, yeah, and
he's like I'm in And I was like, I got

(57:35):
one more question. Would you be a judge for us?
And he's like yeah, And I'm like, oh, that is
so cool. So yeah, Sean Shawn's gonna be a judge.
We got Matt Gabe and Dwayne Vance from Hot Wheels
their judges.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Nice.

Speaker 5 (57:49):
Of course, the Weber Brothers are going to be on
there judging, so Lee will be judging. Trying to make
a big deal first, Yeah, to be judged by an
actual designer of diekers, no pressure.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
Yeah, custom trophies too, the winners, so it's right, you
get you get to put that on your mantle so
you speak, or in your garage wherever.

Speaker 5 (58:11):
Yeah, but no, man, Chuck David, appreciate you guys having
us out and being able to spread some more awareness
of the opportunity for customizers to get in the magazine
win some cool prizes. It's free to enter worldwide. We'll
ship it to China, Japan, Germany, which we have done.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
So all right, folks, will you check that out and
make sure you pop over to dji web on YouTube
and Instagram and Facebook and follow die cast heroes so
you can keep tabs on this really cool project. But yeah, again,
Ian Warren, thank you so much for being on. Like
I said, I've had you guys on my radar for

(58:49):
a long time. I was thrilled to see y'all in
Vegas and glad we could finally make this happen. So
thanks again for being here. We'll hopefully have you back home,
and we got some more brothers to join the show,
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