Tavarish Reveals The Truth About His Income, Divorce, and $2,000,000 McLaren P1 Rebuild

how's it going guys my name is tarish and I have a [Music] problem what started your obsession with cars honestly I was just like a kid that loved to uh take stuff apart put them put them back together welcome to another grand day I just saw a Lambo that was the first time I thought okay well maybe can replicate this you don't have to go more extreme you just have to have a compelling story every red flag is is a green flag for me I looked at this P1 that was underwater and I was like we should do this I do have something on the horizon that I think you guys are going to love and my most ambitious project ever and I think I needed just to realign myself a little bit with that Fred thank you so much for coming on the iced coffee hour oh it's uh it's it's awesome I i' I've watched you guys for a very very long time that is so cool and thank you for showing us your Warehouse so you've shown us over 30 cars that you own I've been a huge fan of this P1 series that you have going on well it's right now it's like a p like5 or something hopefully in the next month or so we'll have an engine and a drivetrain and hopefully we'll have it running yeah what would you see the value of this collection is worthless I I honestly don't know um I think the vinwiki guys have uh put like a number on it I think it was somewhere like 2 million or more than that I it's probably more than that because the P1 alone is I mean I paid 575 for it but now now it's now it's famous you know so now it's probably worth 576 so that's uh that's what we call profit good Roi it's really good Roi it's been $575,000 and now you make $1,000 that's good what started your obsession with cars honestly I I was just like a kid that love to uh take stuff apart put them put them back together I liked Legos as a kid and um I like cars trains planes uh just anything that just moved um I love the engineering of it I love the art about it when I became 18 I got a Nissan Maxima um which was just the the fastest car the planet cuz I had a V6 and 190 horsepower then I did a bunch of stuff to that uh learned a lot of stuff along the way you know did a manual conversion did an engine swap it just kind of LED from there and tavarish is not your born name it's not your birth name where's that come from and you have a interesting story of where you were born tarish is a Russian word and it means comrade or friend um and I came up with it when I was 12 and I couldn't think of anything more clever so um I was originally born in Russia essenti the Soviet Union so I was born in ' 87 and I came over to the states uh in 1990 when everything started you know falling apart Russian is my first language it was just a part of my identity and tvarish was just a thing that I felt uh I could carry as a moniker but it's it's phonetically spelled incorrectly uh from what it would be like from in Russian so in Russian it would be t o v a r i s c if you were to spell it phonetically um but uh I I wanted to put a little bit of a spin on it sort of you know like an American IED spin on it how were they able to go from Russia to living in the United States was that a difficult process no so we I believe um were refugees uh because uh when the Soviet Union came down we could we could apply for you know Refugee status we landed here and we lived in New Jersey and my mom was she became like a bank teller and then my my dad uh got any job that he could which would which included like cleaning toilets and you know basically making ends meat so we essentially lived in uh a Housing Development which I've said was like projects before it's let's say it's project adjacent um it was very nears makes no difference the the projects and we lived there with my uh aunt and uncle uh and we lived in a in a small room in their uh in their apartment until we can get our own apartment which wasn't really much better uh like down the street and then uh from there my parents just worked and worked and worked and worked and then they could afford their own house which is where they live today where do you think men's Obsession generally speaking comes from with cars that's a good qu are we on the philosophy coffee hour like I just I just don't know because I feel like guys generally speaking aren't super Aesthetics oriented you know what I mean but cars for a lot of guys like they appreciate the beauty of it they also like the mechanics and you know the engine and stuff like that but where does that come from okay so there are there are several things at play here number one guys are absolutely about Aesthetics because you have guys who are into watches and you guys are into clothes and and all this other stuff and because you want to attract a mate you know you want to attract people who are like-minded you want to involve yourself into a club or show a certain status uh I think cars do all of that in a very quick way so if I drive up in a uh Honda Civic that says one thing about me but if I drive up in let's say a BMW M3 that says something else you know and what that what that means to another person that's that's up to them but it definitely has a different statement so you have socioeconomic status you have uh style you know the car can be like an interesting color so that says something about you so it it's it's a bit like peacocking uh for for guys like so a lot of guys have that but then there's the uh the engineering aspect of it where you just appreciate a piece of engineering as art you can look at a engine you can be like oh well that has independent throttle bodies and it has this much power to waight and blah blah blah and this is really really cool and I love the way it sounds and you know it vibrates under your foot and you know you can appreciate that but most people like if you just dumb it down most people men and women uh it's just about status as far as the peacocking goes a lot of people are under the impression that you get a car like like a charger like an American Muscle and you're attracting all of the attention from other guys when you were single would you say that driving around in a nicer car definitely helped you out a little bit in the dating Marketplace no no absolutely absolutely not if you if you buy a car and you want to get women you need to you need to re-evaluate your your uh your your life choices because cars only attract dudes if you're into dudes though like oh my God oh my God that is like a gold mine for dudes yeah um no wonder Graham has the 4 GT exactly exactly uh no listen every car here uh attracts uh exactly zero women um I mean you could get them into these cars and they'll have a good time sure and maybe like pick them up on a date and it'll be a nice date but no woman has ever come up to me and said oh my God who's driving that car it's always some dude who's like oh dude how fast have you got how much does it cost and blah blah blah and like more than I can afford pal so that that sort of thing is just it's what people think will get you a date and laid but it won't actually read an article that went over the most attractive cars for men to drive to attract women and at the top of the list I think was Porsche just because it has that kind of status and classiness to it but I was surprised to see a Mini Cooper was on there and the Volkswagen Beetle or not be yes yes why because I think a lot of women want to drive that car like the car so that if they see a guy driving that car that's the car that they themselves want same with a Mini Cooper like a convertible Mini Cooper the Porsches are also like very feminine looking cars uh so I think maybe that says something about the men you know maybe maybe just get in touch with your feminine side you know maybe it's not it's not all about holding frame sometimes it's about what's in here you know when did you start fixing up cars when they started breaking this is my car trying to start um so honestly when I when I had my Nissan Maxima I wanted to modify it because I didn't have a lot of money and I wanted a nice car because I thought nice cars got your girls uh and now I know that that's not true but oh well so I late now yeah I was like whoops I'm too too far this um I thought you know I could get like a bigger stereo so I went on Craigslist and found the cheapest you know two 12in Sony explode subwoofers that I could fit in my trunk and then you know wired them up and then I realized hey I don't want an automatic anymore I want a manual so I I learned how to uh convert my car into a manual and then uh I wanted a little bit more power so I figured hey why don't I do an engine swap so I swap the engine with something a little bit bigger and then from there just kind of snowballed into well what other cars can I go into that are cheap like I can get them cheap and then maybe modify them a little bit and then enjoy them at the time I couldn't keep them so I would like sell them and try to do like a a profit thing like uh the show Wheeler Dealers um but I think I wasn't a good salesperson at all so I would never really make any money doing it and um the price for all this awesome performance uh value is uh th000 bucks so uh I ended up just breaking even but I had a cool story uh so then basically what I took from that is I uh I took the experience that I had from uh modifying fixing and uh restoring these cars and then I made that into a career uh because that got me into Automotive journalism later where was the money coming from uh this is me just saving up this is I mean these cars were cheap I I I used to get cars for like $500 so yeah I was uh these this is not a lot of money how long does it take to learn how to repair a car I've always wondered because I I was on a bit of a mission for a while to buy like an old kind of fun sporty car so I bought a Mazda Miata yeah miata's always the answer it came with so many problems and I started learning like the basics like spark plugs and random stuff like that but if the average person wants to know kind of the basics of fixing up a car and maybe if it's not running they can check a few things that do 85% of the solution how long would you say it takes to to learn the basics learning the basics doesn't take long at all um I mean anybody that has some sort of um mechanical knowledge like if you're coming in from zero maybe a few weeks you know I'm coming in from zero yeah gram had a hard time replacing the the wiper fluid oh yeah when we were together yeah oh that was tough I went on thankfully it's all on YouTube but I typed in the car I think it was the Volvo at the time 2006 Volvo uh and I found somebody who like open up the hood one it was one of those and it was just some dude who's like hey guys chrisfix here I you how to replace this and it was like a two-minute video it got right to the point and just I gave it a like did my part and it was easy but yeah I'm not mechanically inclined at all you know my job is not for everybody to be mechanically inclined because I don't think that would be uh realistic I I think my job is just to entertain people and and show them that there are insurmountable problems like for from the outset and then you can you know kind of like eating an elephant just just take it one bite at a time so whether it's you know putting uh fluid in a Volvo or like rebuilding a a million dooll hyper car um you can do it you just have to figure out what the what the problems are and then solve them one by one but you know what before we go into that we got to ask ourselves what is the future hold for business because if you ask nine different experts you're going to get 10 different answers are rates going up are they going down are we going to see a bare Market a bull market anything in between be really helpful if someone invented a crystal ball well I guess until that happens over 38,000 companies have already future proofed their business with her sponsor netsuite by Oracle the number one 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this path of becoming tarish so I uh became an automotive journalist I wrote with a uh company called Jalopnik and Jalopnik for those people that don't know is a um it's a car blog I mean it was one of the biggest car blogs on earth now I think it's kind of a shell of its former self um but uh we had a lot of people we had Tyler Hoover we had Doug deiro like a lot of people that are uh you know prominent in the automotive space now started in Jalopnik that gave me a really big um jumping off point because not only did they pay me to I mean I wasn't paid a lot but they paid me something to learn how audiences work like big audiences you know uh I I remember having an article do 100,000 views and I'm like oh my God and you have comments there so you have like instant feedback to what people actually think and you can interact with people and it was such a big you know like Eureka moment of like okay now I can command an audience and and then you know I want to see how people can actually digest my content um without me having to guess and what was the first video that you made on YouTube that really started taking off well the first YouTube video was of the Aston Martin that I had actually it's sitting right above you right there um and it was the Aston Martin that I bought from Doug deuro and the uh video I had was the things in this Aston Martin that weren't made by Aston Martin so I had like the key fob that was like a leather WRA key fob but I cut out the key fob and uh like the back of the key fob and then you lift up the flap it says Volvo and like they it's just such a thinly veiled thing like they just put a piece of the leather over it just so it doesn't say Volvo but then it's like a bunch of other stuff in the car it's like a like a part spin car so you have parts from Jaguar Ford and you know the the the the stock is like from a Ford tourist it cost $20 you know the mirrors are like from a Volvo S60 you know things like that and I think that video got like a million views and I'm like oh my God this was this was crazy but that was the first time I thought okay well maybe there's something in it for me that I can you know cuz I can replicate this cuz this was all my car my take and my idea for you know making a video so I'm like maybe I have more ideas that can that can actually you know make sense like this how did you afford an Aston Martin from Doug Deo so that car was $36,000 and I saved up uh I have actually went to my parents place um I was there yesterday in New Jersey and in my room my my childhood room was a board on one side of it it says like uh SEO um strategy or whatever so I was trying to do some like website SEO stuff for a company that I was um uh that I was working with and then in one corner it says Vantage by 2014 and I did that in 2010 and that was my goal for four years and I was like I don't care what I'm doing I'm I live with my parents but I want an Aston Martin V8 Vantage in four years and uh I think I bought that in like 2015 or 2016 so I was like one or two years late but whatever um so I bought that and uh I remember Doug buying that car and he bought it for like 40 something thousand and it was his Doug car and every Doug car that he had I knew that in a year he would sell because he was like okay I'm going to tell you how much it depreciated how much money I lost and I told him you're going to be able to you know depreciate this and do whatever you need to do I want to be the one that buys it off of you in a year and he says okay I had noidea a how much I was you know how I was going to make that kind of money because I was making like no money uh I was like you know I was doing Automotive journalism so you're making you know I was making $50 an article but I I I scrimped and saved and I got all the money together and I uh I went to Philadelphia and I bought that car so I mean that was one of the things that like I was laser focused on and I got it done and it was like a very real um Testament to like if I work really hard then maybe my dreams can come true did buy it cash or did you get a loan on cash the only loan I've ever taken out on a car is for that P1 wow I've never had a loan on any other car was it hard to get a loan on a completely destroyed vehicle no uh what rate did they give you uh we could talk about rates I I don't I don't want to say the maybe we should save the P1 talk yeah yeah we could save the P1 talk but uh we also the the financial talk for the fin Finance guy here um if I if I start talking rates you're going to your brain's going to explode we'll talk about it a little later keep people watching for the retention as soon as you hit the like button and subscribe by the way we flew all the way out here to Florida these episodes take a lot of time Toronto would mean the world to us just subscribe it's totally free check out our sponsors they make it possible they make it possible so okay for this Aston Martin you made that video it got a million or so views yeah that probably made you a few thousand bucks in AdSense then oh no no because I had I I didn't had no idea what a good AdSense strategy was um you weren't putting mid rolls or anything in I had no idea what any of that was so so uh I think I I was just letting YouTube do the thing I think maybe I made like $200 or $300 or something like that and then when that video did a million views did you realize now you could have a career doing YouTube videos buying cars like this I don't think you know it was like the the thing that told me I can do this for for a living I I always knew that I wanted to do something like this for work because I wanted into this uh like industry I wanted into this world um that's why I wanted to be an automotive journalist and you know I wanted to go all all around the world and see these cars that you know nobody ever sees how do you how do you get in front of like Christian von kig egg and see his new car like I don't know but I I know these people do so why don't I talk to them and ask them I did a lot of talking to people that have been doing things longer than me and then trying to learn as much as I like trying to be a sponge for what they know when would you say the money started coming in then because all these cars I imagine it's not you know cheap to to have no it's actually very incredibly expensive um so the the money started coming in once I got my Lamborghini which is that sounds you know like there should be one before once I got my Lamborghini that's when the it sounds like a small loan of a million dollars um no no so I actually had to sell my Aston Martin um I sold it for exactly what I bought it for $336,000 to my friend Gregson at shifting lanes and um cuz I had a little bit of money saved up I put that money and my saved up money and bought a 64,000 Lamborghini Gallardo spider and once I started making videos on that that was a first exotic car rebuild because it was fire damage that wasn't running and I got it running like this is before I had a shop or anything like that I did it all in my two-car garage about 10 minutes from here and then people started watching and my channel exploded like it went from 150,000 subscribers to like 500,000 in like 3 months and um I know a lot of people were taking note of that so uh I think that year and the year year after a lot of other YouTubers were like oh and I got this car from Copart and I got this and I got this and like it's all all these exotic car rebuilds and now all you see are people trying to want up each other and and getting like the next crazy crazy build and like this car uh hit a house and exploded and you know it's on fire for 72 years and uh and then you know they try to rebuild stuff like that I I don't want to say I started it but it was definitely one of the projects that that made that uh sort of more of a household name yeah how did you afford a Lamborghini though 64 Grand yeah well Ju Just with I had some money saved up okay um and then and then just uh with the 36 grand um so that's again I don't spend any money on myself uh I I wear the same clothes that I always wear I I get cheap T-shirts um don't really go I mean the only thing I spend money on now is cars and vacations back then I couldn't afford Vacations so it's like I spent all money on cars so if I if I would have went broke doing the car thing then um you know it's that it's just a business thing anyway so I want to see you know worst case scenario if I bought this car and it just didn't like I couldn't get it started or whatever I can still make some money back uh selling it for parts I can at least get get what I've got out of it or if I you know lost5 or $10,000 that's fine for the gamble you know so you were pretty calculated terms of your purchase very slightly calculated I I it's it's more of a like I have a brain and I know how my brain works and I will fixate on something until I get something to work and worst and again just worst case scenario if I had to sell this car for parts I could do it and make my money back it wouldn't be great it would be you know me uh having to tuck my tail between my legs but I I could do it and it's it's fine there a bet on yourself essentially yeah and where did the confidence come to allow you where where you thought I can buy a 62 or $64,000 burn down Lamborghini and make it run again was that just after like years of working on cars I was excited to see a a problem that I hadn't seen before I really like solving problems I like solving problems that nobody has solved before um because it it allows me to be creative in solving those problems that's one of the reasons why you know I got the P1 I got all these other cars because each one presents very specific very novel problems and that really excites me it's not it's not that like oh I really love Lamborghinis like I do I like Lamborghinis they're they're cool you know like but you know what's better knowledge so yeah there you go yeah I think I found your channel it was initially I don't know what came first uh I remember seeing the cheapest S-Class yes and you bought that for like how much was like three grand yeah like three grand or something and how much was that new new they were like 80 grand back and that was back in 2000 um so yeah and then I bought it for three so it's like I I love depreciated cars how does an $80,000 car get sold for $3,000 because a lot of things happen so uh that Mercedes which is the w220 it's a 2000 it had so many electrical Gremlins just for for instance the door locks uh were air powerered so yeah like so so it doesn't make the cl cl cl clink you know like like most normal cars make so the S-Class they wanted it to be more like you know so that was all Air powerered so the lumbar support was air powered the headrests that come up they were air powerered and all that stuff would always go wrong so I bought this car and of course like nothing worked but I figured that I could learn a little bit about how this car worked because I wanted a nice car I didn't have a lot of money so um I bought an electronic ignition system with a key basically it's just a where you put the key it's like a little RFID key and uh I knew that you had to pair that with the ECU and the shifter so I ended up buying this from like a junkyard for like $300 I went out I was living in New Jersey at the time and uh I went out to like Clifton New Jersey which is like 45 minutes away from where uh where we were you know living and uh ended up buying this installing it in a weekend and then I had a running car so like I buy this car just a kind of sight and scene for three grand I had a toad and then you know then I end up getting a running car I'm like and this car had 990,000 mil on it like other than this electrical issue it was a totally fine running car the engines are bulletproof the Transmissions are bulletproof they're very they're they're not quick but they're not slow um it gets decent miles to the gallon you can have uh five people in it very comfortably the AC was great like it's a it's a really really cool car so how much was that car worth when you were done fixing it up so uh the S-Class was probably worth I I I don't they weren't worth much really um I think I ended up selling it for maybe 10 grand or something uh but I I had done a lot of stuff to it like uh I I gave it a AMG body kit and some AMG Wheels but it was just still the same car so yeah I think I think around 10 is where where I sold it I think where I started really following your channel was when you bought the Pimp My Ride o van yeah that was an interesting one how do how does it how do you find that car to begin with it's such like a well-known kind of famous car selling for so cheap it was I believe you bought it for $800 so it's I I don't know maybe it's kind of like the uh the supermodel that's in a bar you you assume everybody's hitting on her but nobody's hitting on her cuz everybody else thinks that that even though it's not really a supermodel in a bar it was a old car in a junkyard um so you have this uh this Pimp My Ride minivan that's like pink and purple and whatever ever and I I saw this on a Craigslist ad and it was uh in up in Boston or Rhode Island or something like that it was up for sale for $850 and this thing needed all the work in the world but it said this was on Pimp My Ride and I mean I verified it it's like that that was the van and I gave him a call and I said hey is this still available they they said yeah I can wire you money right now and I'll have a car I have a truck come pick it up if I just lost my money that would have been fine like for the for the story if if they would have just like taken my 850 bucks um I would have been okay with that like as just a transaction just to make sure that I had that car because uh when it came here it was very clear that like everything needed refurbishment and that means that you know we could solve all these really you know kind of funky issues so over the course of like a week or two we got everything working back in that car uh it had a disco floor a a had nine um screens had three screens that that went uh kind of like popped down from the ceiling uh it had a bunch of subers in the back um had a jewelry making station and the seats were made of denim uh it had like a a footrest that was also a giant monitor uh but they didn't have like LCD screens they had like plasma screens that were super heavy so this thing needed like a big like actuator to move it you know that series on my channel did something like 22 23 million views so uh it was like number one on trending and it was doing something like 400,000 views an hour wow um yeah it was great I I never ever thought and it was like a $850 van best Roi car right there yeah I'd say so yeah yeah yeah I think that car um that van made me like 250 Grand like off those off those videos it's half of a P1 oh yeah yeah well half of that P1 yeah half of a salvage P1 or a really really nice house yeah that's how much do you think they spent on Pimp My Ride to do that car back in the day they did those cars in in like a month or two I would I would wager they probably put in 10 grand of like work and they they got all the stuff for free anyway um but like labor wise I'd say probably like maybe 10 grand um they they got some crappy paint on there they the actual work that they did uh credit where credit is due was good um they wired everything properly they uh they did things where you know they had like if they had to split a signal that would give it power um so it wouldn't degrade the signal because that it was all RCA back then um so yeah it was it was actually you know well-wired but it just didn't stand the test of time yeah did you end up selling that uh no so I uh I ended up giving it to a museum as tax write off um so but the Muse I might be getting it back I talked to the museum and we might be doing something with them so it's a Peterson Automotive Museum in LA are you serious yeah it's over there now but I might be getting it back as a package deal with something else that we we might be working on wow so yeah so how does it work if you donate a car to the Peterson Museum basically they uh they give you a gift of deed um or deed of gift or something like that and uh you sign over the car and and everything to them since they're a a nonprofit organization um you can you know you can ESS eventally just write it off like you were to give it a cars for kids or something um so you know I had an appraisal of this as a certain amount like say 100 Grand or whatever so like you can write that essentially write that off yeah interesting and how do they how do they value a car they like Pimp My so they they didn't do the appraisal so I I did the I I had somebody else do an appraisal so you need like a third party to do an appraisal um but uh Priceless yeah it's Priceless but you can it's yeah I mean could I could have said $3 million why not you know don't just don't pay taxes anymore I think like realistically with the show and with the uh the amount of YouTube views and all that stuff and the fact that we you know drove across country and we it's been on other channels and whatever like you can make the case that this is worth this amount of money just in terms of like sentimental value you know I agree with that what has been the most pain in the butt random thing that's come up while you're fixing a car I remember for my Mazda Miata we had this one thing where we ran we put a whole new sound system in the car super nice we spent half the value of the car just on the sound system alone and remember we wired the whole thing we took days and days on this whole thing I had no idea what I was doing so it took a long time and I had help of my roommate which was very nice but I remember we wired everything it was good we tried to listen to the system and it wasn't working 5 hours later we learned because it's an SE a 2se that one has a hidden amp that's under the center console way down there and all of the wires were being routed through that and that made it so everything else but no one's working on a 200 SE it's just like the normal Miata so no one was talking about it and then finally after going deep Dives on the forums you learn there's a hidden amplifier that basically made all of our wiring useless unless if we completely bypassed that amp so what has been like some random thing that just gave you a headache for a long time so the the thing that happens uh when you deal with cars like this is that there there's not really any forums that you can go to um that that have any uh solutions for you so let's say if you're working on a P1 we didn't know how to take the clam shell off and it's not like there's there's you know documentation on how to do that so we're trying to find all these bolts and all these bolts they're they're they're well hidden because you don't want to see bolts on a car that's you know a million and a half dollars so we're like prying on this thing and we're we're just like saying like all right well it seems like it's stuck here and we're like looking underneath the car and it's always like one like stupid 8 mm bolt and I remember on this car when I was taking the dash apart and the dash is this giant carbon piece and I like on video you see me just like wrenching this thing I'm trying to I'm like it's stuck on something I think it's uh the the steering column but the I took the bolt out and it should be good to go and it was like one tiny 8 mm bolt that I forgot and I went underneath I go oh Okay click click click click and then it just comes right out I'm like oh my God oh my it's it just it's one of those like well there's your problem but like you you I swear I looked under 10 times to to look at this and it was just like staring me in the face and I'm like oh that would explain it so there's there's plenty of those um examples everywhere in cars and uh like I don't know when I was working on a Bentley Continental GT I bought one of those cars for like 11 Grand because it needed everything needed basically an engine out and those cars you need um there's these vacuum hoses that are on top of the engine the only way you get to those vacuum hoses and they do crack that's why you need to get to them uh the only way to get to them is to take out the entire engine and that is essentially like a freaking Bugatti Veyron where you know you have 12 cylinders and two turbos and it's all-wheel drive and it's a giant power unit they have to bring down and everything has to be disconnected you have to take down the um the steering and the suspension and all that stuff and just to get to these little like 70 Cent hoses but you know what before we go into that not many people know that I have multiple YouTube channels like I got the Graham Stefan main Channel Graham Stefan show 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for free by using the link Down Below in the description thank you so much tube magic for sponsoring this episode and now let's get back to the podcast tell us a story of how you bought the McLaren P1 and why you went to such an extreme in terms of what many would call a gamble like you didn't know it would get you know become as popular as it did I mean I started this project by seeing this card die like everybody else did um on social media so on Instagram and Tik Tok you saw this car uh during Hurricane Ian floating down the street because its owner looked at it uh you know was was watching it from his uh door uh and you know float out of the garage and down the street into a tree and all that stuff and eventually it got uh lodged on what some people say it's toilet I don't think it's a toilet I think it's probably an outboard motor or something and uh then for the next three months nobody really heard anything about it but then I saw that it went up for sale on Copart and Copart is this uh you know site where you can buy salvage cars and whatever and I didn't want to buy it I really didn't want to buy it cuz I said well this is a million-dollar hyper car it's hybrid so it has an electric battery and it was all the way underwater and it's saltwater and saltwater does really really bad things to everything especially electrical so um I said this there's nothing on this car that's like savable it's like there you have to replace everything the auction started and then I think they put a Buy It Now of the car and there was a lot of um you talk about what this car would go for and I know Houston Kosta is a friend of mine he wanted to buy the car or and I know some other like dismantlers they wanted to buy the car just as like parts or you know artwork or something and they were in into it for like if it goes for 200 Grand I'll buy it you know or if it goes for 250 first it went up for auction and it went up to $400,000 and it no sailed uh so then it went up for auction a second time and it went for $ 398 so we knew that the market was around 390 like about about 400 grand for this car that's what people were actually willing to pay uh so then they put a Buy It Now of 600 Grand on this car 600 Grand was about half of what the car would be worth in good condition that car in particular was sold for $2 million uh 10 10 days before the storm hit cuz it was like had 3155 M on it it was a really really good spec it was like the the launch spec it was awesome car I saw that the Buy It Now went from 600 to 575 and I'm like hey so the the universe is now talking to me and the universe says you have to buy this car so I went to one of my friends uh one of my friends who has some money and I said hey do you know anybody who would be willing to lend me half a million dollars like in the next few days and he said actually I do so there is a bank that's here in Central Florida it's actually I mean I can give him a shout out it's climate First Bank I told them the entire story I didn't I wasn't like oh well I have this car but wink wink you know it does actually have a good title but I just can't find it um no I told him here's this car it was underwater here's all the videos this is what I do I make YouTube videos I have these exotic cars I've done exotic cars in the past and they were very amiliar with what I did because uh sort of like friends of friends they were like you know fans or whatever and I said here's how much I need for this car I need 575 Grand uh and I I think I added an extra thing for like you know Transportation or initial parts or whatever so I think I'm into it like 600 and they wrote me a check or I mean they sent a check over to Copart three days later we got everything done for the loan in 3 days what's their collateral on that because don't you say boy you're looking at it okay so it's not the car itself because they're taking a loss on this but you could basically say hey this doesn't work out you we got all these other cars yes one good thing is I don't I don't Finance any of my cars so all my cars are completely paid off uh by me so I I buy I buy all my cars cash so that means that I own all my cars I have this you know this garage full of cars here's what they're worth here's what you know some comps are and I will give you the titles to these you can have them as lean and uh and that way I want to have my car so I I literally put my enti put it up for this car what rate did you get on that loan not well we we can talk about that off camera because it's uh it's it's more than 10 and less than 15 okay okay yeah you we'll talk we'll talk after there financing options so so the so the financing was was not my main concern because my main concern was just getting the car I knew I could make money off the content and I knew that I could make you know make the content work if I have to pay 60 Grand what a year or something like that on uh to to have a P1 and have that on my channel and have that I think that's probably worth it just because nobody else in the world would be doing this so I I felt like that was a a pretty good thing to to do yeah I'm curious for the original owner of the P1 they bought a $2 million car and then effectively a week later it completely flooded yeah what did they do what did they was there any recourse their insurance how much did that cover especially when they sold it still for effectively 600 so next to this P1 was a brand new Rolls-Royce Phantom and they were actually in the same Copart U like facility and the Rolls-Royce was in really really really bad shape it looked like a like the Hulk just smashed it uh yeah I think he got paid out pretty well so the car he bought after this was a Bugatti Chiron so I think he's okay he's okay yeah he's all right so for the P1 what's been the most surprising aspect in terms of working on it just the fact that it is so everything there is bespoke like everything in that car is carbon fiber uh the wheel wells which in most cars are plastic or whatever carbon fiber there is a lot of like F1 technology in there so uh you know the wing has all these uh crazy Hydraulics that are only for the car they have to be you know calibrated specifically for this model and uh that works in conjunction with the suspension and then everything else is bespoke and you know I thought because it's McLaren oh they're going to have like a lot of parts that can go on different McLarens or whatever it's actually very little of that I've had to re like reverse engineer a lot of the stuff that they did uh at the factory because um I know rebuilding a P1 sounds like uh it's it's really easy uh but I actually wanted to go one step further and with this car we're trying to make the fastest McLaren on Earth so you know instead of of the p1's original top speed which is like 217 mph which was limited by tires or whatever uh we're trying to go for um the record McLaren which is the McLaren speed tail it's at 250 so I want to do like you know 250 plus 260 270 something like that how much do you think you're going to spend on this McLaren including the car less than a million dollars for sure and what do you think it's going to be worth by the time you're done with it that never matters to me I don't know because it all depends on a few things so the only thing that matters to people to buyers is like provenance so a car could have been crashed it could have something terrible could have happened to it but as long as it was fixed right or it has the right provenance it's still worth a lot of money like Mr Bean McLaren F1 got crashed twice oh but yes but it's still you know that car is still worth 20 something million dollars it's not it's never going to be you know worthless hunk of crap so I think if I rebuilt this and it was to the um sort sort of to the the standard of you know what a McLaren should be and it got the okay from McLaren or it got uh you know some accolades where it's like the fastest McLaren on Earth or you know we had it out to Goodwood and it and it set some records or just did something notable I think people would be like oh my God this is a really special car yeah um so and then I don't know what the what the value would be I mean you know $2 million3 million I have no idea um or it could just be people think that it was built by some stupid YouTuber and then they want to pay any money at all so I don't it doesn't matter to me yeah when do you think it's going to be done because you did a podcast a few months ago where you said two to three months two two to three months two to three months yeah I didn't say when those two to three months were starting so there you go that's a good point yeah there you go um no uh I think I'm always very optimistic very unrealistic with time like timetables my time management skills suck I always want these projects to to be quicker than they are but then you get hit in the face with reality where you're like okay well just the wiring harness which is back there um the wiring harness took $52,000 into that wiring harness in 5 months of work and this is uh one of my friends Adam he runs a company called smart EFI and and he's done all the wiring work to this car and we had to make a wiring harness for a P1 from scratch and this includes custom making a lot of stuff uh because not only are we I'm going to get a little bit here but uh the the original P1 has uh eight injectors we have 16 injectors now we have different turbos so everything is electronically controlled uh but we have to make that integrate with all the P1 stuff you mean you know which means that there's um more fans and more Hydraulics and more you know this and that and the active Arrow has to work and all that stuff so that's that's a big hurdle uh and then you go to the body work so the body work I want it to be all exposed carbon fiber but then we have to put you know can over it in order for it to be exposed carbon fiber we have to um you know fix the Body Works that's there then overlay carbon fiber make it perfect do the same thing for the doors and make everything fit and you know because we're doing a bespoke body for it so you know how much does that cost how long does that is that going to take I don't know how much original McLaren is going to be left by the time you're done with it terms of like a percentage I mean the the tub is going to be left um the frames are original McLaren uh I mean everything's a McLaren part um but we're just like modifying it and just kind of making it better and you know kind of it's just going to be a Chopped and Screwed version of of what uh what the car used to be yeah so if you're all in on this car let's say a million or so bucks by the end of it do you think that you could have started from scratch and done it for like 800 just built your own McLaren maybe but I mean that there's no way I can get a a tub of of P1 you know like there's there's certain thing for me it's all about the story and the story is that this car died famously like everyone saw this car die and everyone is going to be rooting for either either my failure or My Success uh nobody's going to be like oh I don't really care they're going to be like oh my God that's that seems like it's like it's impossible how's this guy going to do it or this guy's never going to do it and I want to see him fail you know so I I'd rather you know that be the story of the car versus me just going I want to make a car from scratch let's see if I can do it and then I just have $800,000 and I'm rich and I want to build a car so here you go like I I don't want that I want to be like the guy that's that buys this car that's way above his pay pay grade and he puts everything on the line literally that he's built over the years to do it so that's that's sort of where I'm at now on YouTube there is this Essence that you have to keep one-upping yourself you have to keep going more and more extreme because your audience is now going to set the bar at like a mlar in P1 do you worry what's going to happen when you're done with this car and how you move on from that to something that your audience wants to see or that's even better no because uh um it you don't have to go more extreme you just have to have a compelling story and it's all about the story it could be it could be this car it could be something notable I mean the Pimp My Ride van did better than the P1 ever did um so you know I can't pull 10 million views a video on a P1 uh but I can with a minivan if I find a car it has to have a really interesting storyline it has to have something that goes all right well that is a project that will never get done in my eyes but I want to see you solve all these problems to make the impossible possible do it ever worry you driving such an expensive car I mean you have quite a few here yeah that are worth money how do you get over that fear do you um I mean there's always a fear but at C at a certain point it just becomes a car you know it's like you know you fart in the seats you have some Chicken McNuggets and like that that's it it just becomes a car like I I remember I'm going to I'm going to name drop so when I went to J Leno's garage I I took my McLaren 675 LT and it was really really cool I mean Jay Len was driving my car that I that I built and it was it was awesome and then we go into this little parking lot and he scrapes the bumper and first of all I'm okay with that because that's what a bumper is for but he scrapes the bumper and I'm like okay well those are my jayleno scrapes you know like it's it's not you know what did he say when he did H what did he say anything when he scraped the bomb no but I I also I also didn't say anything okay so I'm like whatever um it it's because it doesn't matter to me um and you know I I a car is meant to be driven if like one of my guys here if we're like moving cars or like they they take the car like because I I I let people borrow cars all the time so if they if they borrow a car to take their wife out on a date and then I don't know they get a scratch on it or something like okay like it's it's not it's not a big like if if they were being malicious and like I saw them doing donuts and and whatever and like they didn't care and they're like smashed up the door like yeah then then I'll get mad but if it's like it's like a you know a mistake and like nobody cares like it's it's fine it it happens to everybody I'm not worried about it I would never get mad about that you lend your cars out to your employees to take their wives on dates well they're not they're not my employees they're I just I just yeah yeah my friend so um if somebody goes hey I want to you know take the the Aston out like this is not like if if if you're a subscriber don't like come come to me please uh no but just like uh you know my my good friends and I know that they're going to they're going to treat the car right yeah Rex is looking at me over here like yeah um yeah Rex asked me like every once in a while he's like hey can I take the GT3 out I'm like you go ahead buddy um huh I would what a well hold on what a good friend you are because I've been saying that Grahams should let me borrow his Lotus I was saying he should let me borrow his Lotus if I ever were to go on a date yeah and he says no I'm always worried about insurance the last thing I want is for there to be an incident to file a claim with the insurance company and for them to say sorry you can take my Miata if you want no but but take the G but the issue is less of that of let's say someone hits you or you hit them then they come after me you know that that's what I'm more worried about you're ideas in re is getting scared over there no so so here's here's the reality of of uh uh Supercar ownership if you have a car let's say you have a Lamborghini mercial Lago lp640 and it's worth about half a million dollars you're driving down the street and there are cars that are worth $20,000 driving down the street uh one of those cars rearend you or like let's say sideswipes you or something it's their it's their fault their insurance there's no way their insurance like is going to cover your repair your insurance goes after them and their life is ruined because you decided to take a take a drive out I'm more worried about that than me like ruining somebody else's life than somebody trying to come and be like oh well I'm GNA I'm going to take that rich guy's money or whatever because like honestly that's what insurance is for if you have good insurance they'll have lawyers that that will shut those people right up um I also trust the people that I give the cars to like they're not they're not complete idiots and they're not going to be doing burnouts at least I hope not um but uh but even if that's the case that's something I would be willing to deal with and then that's a lesson learned for me it's easier for me to just lend a car and then have somebody have a good experience and then and then that's it and then that car that person now now exper not now um appreciates that car the way I do yeah um versus me just going no it's my car I don't want makes sense it's partly why I've gotten really into lately replica cars yeah now I don't own a replica car but I want to say over the last year I've become like really obsessed with the idea of getting like a replica DIA or a replica I saw a replica there was like a P4 Ferrari like an old one from the 50s or 60s that was gorgeous looking and the idea that you could own a car that you know could be worth over a million dollar probably several million dollars for a fraction of the price that looks 95% the same thing seems really appealing to me even the Diablo that's behind you I was looking at that it's like i' I'd rather have this because I know for myself driving a real thing I'd never drive it I'd be terrified of it but driving a replica it's totally fine you don't have to worry about putting miles on it it's bulletproof if you want to do a replica of something like a little newer um I don't know like a Ferrari you know Enzo or like I just just spitballing here something that's like made in the last 20 years and you want a replica of that uh usually the way you do a replica car is by stretching frames and you know getting a 88 Pontiac Fiero and then just putting whatever engine in that but then you end up with a car that's that's literally hodge podge together and uh that becomes really really unsafe uh even though it looks the looks the part and whatever but like if you get in a car accident like who knows what happens when you know this car doesn't have crumple zone so does the engine just fall in your lap like what what happens so I'm I'm more worried about that end of things uh at least when I give people like say you know the keys to a Porsche GT3 or Aston Martin DBS like those are Factory cars and they have airbags and stuff like that they have like Safety Systems so I know if if they do get sideways or whatever it it won't be the end of the world it's still a very safe car yeah that makes sense for me I I think there's something appealing about getting an 80s or 90s car that is a replica that is like one to one some of these guys spend so much money and time building out these cars you know it's it's so crazy and I don't get it because the the repca cars the replica car people I just need to say they're insane they are they are crazy people because these guys they spend 20 years building this and it's like dude if you just got a job any job and you spent all this time working on this you would have bought the real car in like half the time like you you didn't have to have a replica like you would have like and these people are building kashes like I built you know Kash in 20 years I'm like bro 20 years ago they were like they were like free like what are you talking about like what now that now they're a million dollars but like what what are it it just it just what's even crazier is they go and buy genuine parts they're like I bought the real tail lights from the real thing and the real emblems and the real so you have all the retail markup on this stuff and then what what are they they a good deal if you buy it they never get their money back no because the divorce took everything away from those men um no I I think I like the idea of replicas um just if they're I I I guess there's a there's a there's a weird thing in me where I want to have like like a oneup on the man you know uh so like the Diablo behind me you know that that cost 2030 Grand but if you if you got a real one a real like 99 VT Roadster that's $400,000 is it 10x the car probably not you know like so if you put in another 30 or 40 Grand in that like you can make it look very very very convincing um so I think that would be like a good value but then a part of me is just thinking like it's it's a fake handbag and like who are you really fooling you know like are you trying to fool people or are you just trying to have like a fun time for me it's just like it's a fun time I know it's fake like if I ever you know get that car and and register it I'd put like fake Lambo on the LI license plate or something i' I'd make it very clear that this is not a real Lamborghini um but there are people who are like oh yeah well I have my Lamborghini it just so happens to have a Chevy 350 in it you know I do that cuz it's more reliable um but yeah I I just never get those people going back a little early before the P1 really with your video about getting out of your comfort zone you you made a video a few years ago it's just you talking to the camera going through a difficult time talking about openly depression and just feeling just really down and wanting to reinvent yourself how did you go about doing that and what what sparked all of that well I mean you know there's a lot of uh personal things that happened in in my life around that time and uh that year was very pivotal for me uh especially two years ago um you know my marriage was falling apart um and I mean a lot of that was like self icted um and and then I ended up like basically finding somebody else and it was like my my life turned upside down um in a way that I never I never thought uh it would you know I lost friends um but then I gained I gained friends that you know I didn't think I would uh people that stuck around and understood um you know what what went on um so I'm very very grateful to those people but like in terms of YouTube what I think uh I was doing in in those times were like I was just phoning it in and I knew that I was happiest when I was trying to solve problems when I was trying to find these you know stuff like the P1 and uh you know these these really big ambitious goals and I felt like for a while I was just coasting on my past successes and it it made me guilty because I was very very driven by guilt like just in my relationships and in general it's a motivator and it's not it's not a healthy motivator but it just does help along um so it was something where I felt like I wasn't giving my all to my channel and I I think people deserved better than they were getting because I felt like I was just phoning it in and I think that was the the uh the start point of me saying all right well it's not me giving up uh I do have something on the horizon that was the P1 that I think you guys are going to love and my most ambitious project ever um and I think I needed just to realign myself a little bit with that because you know there's I mean I I don't want to get into too much too much detail but there was there was a lot in that in that year that just made me reassess uh almost everything in life whether it's you know values and and the um the value of friends uh the values of family and who you're close to and relationships and and everything you know would you be open to talking a little bit more about that I'm curious what you learned about yourself and about those values you know I had a I had a marriage for quite a long time um for for about 10 years and you know during that marriage we had uh you know we had disagreements like like uh like every marriage but it was very clear at the end that we were we're very different people you know the idea came up that we should go to counseling and that that sort of thing and it just never happened mainly because you know I I was told oh that this isn't the kind problem that we need counseling for it was just kind of like brushed off and a lot of like the way I felt was like all my uh my wants and needs weren't really um taken very seriously uh they were just sort of like you know maybe pay some lip service to it and then and then they just they just go away or or they're just you know uh I remember once being told that uh you know I I I told her I had a really big problem with something I said hey I'm not happy I I think we need to fix something and her reaction was uh it's not that bad you're just making it up and I'm not trying to paint her in a in a in a bad light here because she's not a bad person she's a very very very good mother um but I I just that that's the way I felt in that in that situation and you know based on that I ended up you know finding somebody else um and it's NE it's never something I you know this is the first time I ever talked about it like um I I found somebody else that was everything that I needed like she was um compassionate and she was funny and she cared and she felt like it felt like uh you know when we talked she was like present and she actually cared about what I had to say and then I cared about her and we we really connected in a way that I've never connect I I didn't know that it was possible to connect with a person like that and what that did for me was it allowed me to finally put my happiness into the equation because I realized that for 10 years I'd been working I'd been you know just kind of existing um through like obligation like I felt like things were just happening to me because I'm the man I'm the bread winner and like things were just you know like this is what you need to do this is the next part of your life uh get married have a kid you know do this do that and then at some point you'll find some happiness but I happiness was just like something I Shrugged off I I just felt like other that was for other people once you meet a person like that you can't unring that Bell I could never know that I was that ha that I could be that happy with a person like that and then and then go back to a relationship where I I knew that I was going to be unhappy so like you know that's when marriage ended that's when you know and I'm never a person that I first of all I'm gonna don't take any relationship advice from me ever um but I'm not a person that would ever you know have a woman on the side or anything like that I'm not I'm not that kind of guy um but this this just seemed like this was the only way it could happen um so but I I know that because of that people got hurt absolutely and and I know that it was uh it was my fault and I absolutely take all the responsibility in the world for for what I did to uh to people I hurt but I think that there is something to be said about staying in a relationship not good for either people especially when you're that young you know CU you you guys are still young and so continuing on on something like that for the rest of your life just not doing anybody any favors rather than having the parents happy and living their own lives and exactly and and we had I mean we had uh me and my ex-wife we have we have a daughter and I I kept on thinking like is it is it better for us to stay together for the sake of the daughter than it is for us to be a part I don't think there's a right or wrong answer for this um because I know parents that have stayed together uh for the sake of their kids and for better a like sometimes it works out sometimes it doesn't I knew that I didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to be happy because I knew that if I if I was happy and I could provide for my daughter because like I was a soul bread winner and I I I made sure that you know my uh my ex-wife and my daughter are taken care of they they have the house they have they have every like she doesn't want for anything I I she knows that she's loved by uh both her parents and she sees us and and everything um so like I I want to show her that there is a life it might be not you know not with both parents together but both parents love you and the both parents like you can have uh examples of working relationships where people love each other and we're all a family and everybody loves everybody so like that's I think that was more important for me to show my daughter um than just staying with her mom out of obligation I wanted my daughter to grow up in a house where we're not fighting um I think it's very important because that that uh that can give a lot of anxiety yes um and I don't want I I I I grew up in a house where occasionally you know my my mom and dad would fight and I I I realized that it would and they wouldn't like fight physically but they just you know argument yelling or whatever and um it would affect me and I knew that it affected me because I remember sitting I think it was like fifth or sixth grade and I was sitting in lunch like with in with everybody like in the cafeteria and we would have this teacher that would Overlook the cafeteria just to make sure the kids weren't you know killing each other and the teacher was like screaming at a kid and I I started crying I should like uncontrollably I didn't know why and I was like I started getting embarrassed I'm like why am I why am I doing I'm like shaking and I'm thinking like oh it's BEC it's probably because um you know I have this like response where like I have this almost like a fight or flight when I hear adults screaming and I can't do anything about it so maybe it's maybe it's something like that I don't want my daughter to ever have that and you know right now she is like the happiest kid ever she's four and like she goes everywhere she's like an the theme parks and she's like the most spoiled kid ever she loves going to the pool she loves hanging out with with us and like yeah it's it's fantastic so I mean that's we just want to show her a world with only love and um and I I think that that's what we're doing so was there a striking difference in the beginning of your relationship with the new person that you're with versus your ex-wife right in the beginning you could 100% tell or do you think that that that striking chemistry with your ex-wife was maybe lost over 10 years no of marriage you think that there was an absolute yes Resolute difference yes well well one thing I mean when I when I started off uh in in my relationship that would become my marriage um that I was 19 when it started so I mean I was a different person I I had I mean uh if you think I have anything to offer Society right now then I mean I had nothing back then I was living with my parents up until I was was 27 uh or 26 and you know it was um I was a different person but then I never felt like it was a like a like a real big spark or anything like that um but then again I didn't know what I wanted um cuz you're you're just you know your brain's still developing and it just seems like because I've had a experience of having a relationship for so long and I knew what I didn't want in a relationship and it became very abundantly clear to me especially at the end um that this person that that came along she was everything that I wanted like like literally everything I could you know right now we're sitting in this uh you know sitting in my shop but I can't wait to get home and talk to her and tell her about my day because she's my best friend you know and it and it sounds stupid and sappy but like it's it's really you know I found I found my person so I'm curious what advice would you give your daughter when it comes to relationships if there's any advice I would ever give to uh you know my son or daughter I would just say have somebody that's patient have somebody that is willing to accept you for the the kind of uh person you are uh with all your flaws how long did it take you to come out of that uh depression it was quite a few months I was um doing a lot so I was filming my my show C Trek with Ed Bolan and and Tyler uh I was making the YouTube channel I was doing like a lot a lot of things and then um on top of that you know we had a newborn baby and then the relationship just wasn't really going anywhere like it it just wasn't doing well at all and it just seemed like everything was tough I'm not complaining because this is you know the greatest job in the world and you know I know a lot of people would kill for this position but um there would be times when I got when you know I to this shop and I see all the cars and the last thing I want to see is a car you know cuz it just it's just anxiety it's just what what needs to be done next and to turn a wrench it's like you know it's just like uh it's the last thing you want to do so um yeah I mean it it took it took quite a few months and especially after I moved out uh that became easier because I didn't have to uh then you know live in a house that was that was uh chaotic um but you know I still went to see my daughter all that all that stuff and even though our relationship didn't wasn't you know good in the end um in terms of like a husband and wife I still want to make sure that she's um a a very effective mother because she's a really good mother you know and that's like the most important thing to me uh when it comes to stuff like that so yeah I I don't I don't know I mean after that uh I I moved in with my my girlfriend and and uh we've been you know we've been very very happy ever since yeah I just want to say I really appreciate your transparency when it comes to stuff like this situations I'm s sure are like way more complicated and Nuance than some of the viewers might be making them out to be right now yeah I mean to be honest like I want to make because people are going to speculate and they're going to they're going to worry about things that have nothing to do with them but like I just want to show the broad strokes and show that you know if people are in a relationship that they um don't feel happy in it might not be the end of the world to end that relationship like there is a light at the end of the tunnel and even if you have you know a longstanding marriage or kids or whatever like really think about what that will mean and sometimes it means staying together sometimes it means hey uh let's talk to each other and say um let's get marriage counseling or like let's uh let's think of some pros and cons but sometimes you're just not compatible like you just realize you've either Grown Apart or you just never were there to begin with uh there are certain things um in life where you can't feel like you're just you're settling on on some things like uh you know if you have a relationship with a with a girl and she you know doesn't do this one thing that you think um you know a relationship should have and then if you if you bring it up to her she says well that's not important to me so I don't care it's like so where do you go from there you know you either say to to yourself oh well maybe I just you know maybe this is just my thing and I have to deal with it um you know you swallow your pride and then just like go without uh or you're just like all right well now I had to find somebody else so like there's there's no other real option but you know what before we go into that this section is sponsored by the Range Rover Sport because as I'm sure you guys have seen I am a huge car fanatic so much so that I even have a car on display in my office that 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uh is about a little over 80 a month where did that come from yeah that that doesn't make sense at all okay so all right kids Let's uh there's got to be something snuck unaware all let's talk Finance okay um so so I have four shops okay uh four shops with utilities is probably like 12 uh 12 Grand a month then I have the house house is about 10 uh house is 10 grand the house is 10 grand where's that coming from that seems like 10 am I wrong you mean where is that coming from it's a pretty big house well okay I no no no okay now I'm thinking about the utilities well yeah utilities the landscaping and the pool maintenance and all that cuz it's a large house with a lot of things but iage that's the mortgage I was going to say that I didn't imagine the mortgage to be that big but I guess no the the mortgage is pretty big yeah um so what you put down I think I put down 15% something like that is it sounding yeah right to you it it just depends on the interest rate what what rate did you get oh oh you're gonna so I bought this at the wrong time my interest rate is like six and a half could be worse could it could it could be worse worse some people are out there taking sevens could be better could be better could be worse you don't have uh the uh PMI too right like the private mortgage insurance no no no you wouldn't have PMI I no not on 15 uh if I if I had put down five then yeah um so the first house I bought for $299 I got that at four or something or like and that was like and that that wasn't even a good rate back when I got it but like but that house is paid for but this house I still owe quite a bit on it um so that's 10 grand a month but but then the utilities and all that stuff that's probably another two Grand than uh all my all the people that work here so that's probably another 45 how many pe oh that's not bad how many people do you have working with you four it's not bad yeah so we have yeah we have four um and then I mean I have my my alimony child support that that whatever um but uh and then whatever we spend on the cars but that that I don't usually count as a uh as a recurring charge because it's different different every time um yeah but I'd imagine the money you spend on cars you're getting back anyway in the value of the car like if you spend $1,000 on a car you could get sometimes yeah but I don't ever realize I don't ever realize that cost because I never sell my cars it's a problem when's the last time you sold a car I don't know when's the last I give I give these cars away what how what do you mean you don't know the last time you sold a car how many cars do you have I have like 30 cars yeah I don't know when the last time I sold a car is and you just give them away yeah sell them no I cuz they cuz they don't owe me anything they like literally if I if I went and took any of these cars and and lit them on fire in the middle of the street it it would it would be it' be a wash for me so it's it it doesn't matter to me like I think for me the only thing that matters is the story how much am I going to pay for the story and how much is the story Worth right so um if I true Enthusiast well thank you um but if I like that Porche 911 Turbo I ended up um I think I'm in that car probably 15 grand uh just because I traded I I bought a Bentley Continental GT for 11 Grand put it like a few grand into it and then I traded it for that and that car is probably worth 75 but since the car owes me 15 and I I think I put another I think I put another seven into it so car owes me probably like 20 or something car owes me 20 but I I have a really good friend that would really appreciate that car and I feel like for the story that you know I could put on a YouTube video that has a sponsor on it why not just give that car away and then that could be you know wow what would it take for me to become a really good friend of yours hey man you know I like your hair you know yeah yeah I like I like you know you got all dolled up today it's it's wonderful you're wearing blue which I have a lot of blue cars yeah so which you know what I'm going to give you the keys which which which one do you want uh I guess I'll take that one right over there okay you know what you can you can you're not a friend anymore man a real friend in that cor a real friend would have said the Supra so well the Supra is not that's that's Rex's Supra we actually gave that to him okay um so we uh we ended up uh building that over two years and uh brought that to SEMA and right before SEMA we gave that to Rex wow it's interesting you were walking us through your warehouses and you were like oh yeah this car I'm giving it to this person this car I already gave it to this person like holy mackerel that is I think um so cars are a very Human Experience I mean we're just talking about relationships and stuff but like uh all these things are very human experiences um you have your first kiss in a car you bring your baby home in a car um it's you know you have your first road trip and you have experiences like that and the metal doesn't really matter but it's it's all the um it's all the experiences and and the love and the and the pain and the anguish or what whatever like the the emotions that we put into these things and they're imperfect you know they they they have personalities of their own it's a very human thing so if I can give somebody a car um that that I know they'll appreciate you know because um they either need it or like this will change their life in some way then you know let's let's do it what are the logistics of owning so many cars like for insurance maintenance filling them up with gas making sure they're running registration that's a well what's easy in in Florida is that your registrations are done online and then you just get a you know every two years or something like that because I I try to do two or three years uh recurring um so every two years I get just a little slip that says you need to uh have a new registration uh for this car and uh yeah that's that's about it it's like 40 bucks to register a car uh to re-register a car you're still getting like three of them a month yeah uh so they I used they they hit around the same time so they're all like at the end of the year uh so around the end of the year I have to pay I don't know like a few grand or something just in registration which is not terrible uh insurance it's all on autopay and it's all through Grundy so it's not not a big deal maintenance these cars don't get driven a ton and other than keeping up on tires and oil changes and stuff there's not really much you need to do um you know they're not like 80s super cars where you're like all right you need an engine out and all this stuff like they're modern cars so you can just drive them whenever and I tried to drive them as much as I can uh but uh you know some of them just kind of stay up there you know for for decoration but uh you know most of them if I could take them out I'll I'll do it what car have you lost the most amount of money on I mean it all depends on what you mean by lost you know if you look at sheer money it have to be the P1 because there's no I mean it's $575,000 and looks like that so um I don't know what that really means because is it like value in the marketplace you know like is it it's just like bought and sold but you don't really sell I guess yeah so as long as you don't realize the loss true itch not a loss until you sell yeah I mean it's not a crime until you get caught right yeah there you go well I I don't know I mean I have a BMW M3 that I bought for $6,000 and we ended up putting like $25,000 into it and I know the car is not worth that it's like 200,000 Mile like previous vandalism and it's a car that does not deserve it we we gave it like this the craziest treatment we we did custom interior and paint and carbon roof and and uh redoing the engine and all that stuff but like at the end of it like what's going to be worth it's going to be worth less than what I put into it for sure but I also am I going to sell it maybe I mean it also could be uh like a giveaway car so you know if we if we give it away and it's like a vehicle to move like the merch brand forward or something then that's I don't really realize that loss now it's now it's worth that much more money yeah what's your least favorite car something you'd never own that's a good question because I don't think there is a car that I would I've owned a lot of really crazy cars like like crappy cars I think the only one I'd never own would be something like really boring something I don't know like P Cruiser I would I would absolutely own a py cruiser a p Cruiser because a py cruiser has personality it's ugly it's uh it's striking people look at it just because it has a personality doesn't mean it's a good one no it doesn't mean it's a good one but it's like it's cool it's just because a person is an you can still have a you know fun conversation talking to them once in a while you know like it people have an opinion about that car which is fine the cars that I wouldn't get are people or are cars that people don't have really opinions on uh Prius I like a first gen Prius second gen Prius so Tommy has I I think Tommy has a my my cameraman has a first gen Prius and he's like oh I hate this car and it's uh you know it's just an old Prius but I'm like I actually like the the engineering I like that when you drive it has like a little CVT and it has a Synergy drive and you can drive on electric power and then charges the battery like I I like all that stuff that's really really cool to me 2010 Honda Pilot that's not so my dad almost bought one of those uh and it's not a bad car I think it's 3.5 V6 andity uh they're okay they're all right they're they're not they're Mall crawlers they're not terrible off-road um but they're again if this is a car that was like passed down through your parents or grandparents or whatever and it's like hey I got the pilot and then you know you could take all your friends to the Beach or something that's a cool car so I mean I don't think there's a car that I wouldn't buy but like maybe not for the channel I don't think anybody would care about a Honda Pilot build um but you know just for me if I was like gifted a car I would never be like Oh I'm too good for that because I'm not if someone were to flip a car what are some of the red flags to look out for okay so you are now asking a junkie how to stay off drugs okay uh I don't know the answer to that question because every red flag is is a green flag for me I looked at this car that was you know this P1 that was underwater and I was like we should do this so um for most people I think you want to stay away from things that were you know saltwater flood uh major fire because um that would introduce a lot of um changing of the actual metal of the car you can't get that back no matter how much bodyw work you do on the top of it then you have electrical issues which which is wiring it all depends on the amount of skill that you have and the amount of project that you want so let's say if we're talking about like a Nissan Ultima and you want to rebuild it probably not worth it to get like the worst Salvage one imaginable but if it's like a oneof one you know Aston Martin Valkyrie and it's had some uh some crazy damage like maybe take that on if you can because you know this is like worth saving so it all depends on the on the project but like if you wanted to flip a car I mean honestly the best type of flip that you could do is get a car that's slightly neglected and slightly dirty and then all you have to do is clean it up um do a a nice you know oil change or service and then just Market it properly get some good pictures put it on Bring a trailer or uh or cars and bids or even Facebook Marketplace and then you'll make a killing what's going on with the car market right now do you do you see it going down in price because it seems like certain cars are really holding their value well but a lot of others I'm saying in insane deals right now on Facebook Marketplace I saw a Tesla Model 3 $14,000 for a 2018 Tesla Model 3 yeah yes what was wrong with it high mileage how many I don't know like 80 990,000 miles which I don't care these cars are like bulletproof from my perspective I'm finding so many of them now under $20,000 from model 3 Model S's I saw model S plaid on cars and bids that went for like 50 Grand was like 44 grand for a model s that was like 2 years old I'm thinking to myself this lost 50% in 2 years and the deals are only getting better the Cyber truck is still losing $5,000 a week in value yeah because because it's a cyber truck because I so um well my friend Rex he just bought a uh Model S I think it's 2016 and uh it has supercharging has free supercharging um it's a 90d it's not a p but uh it had 50,000 miles on it he bought it for 17 grand that's a lot of car for 17 grand is that the red one that we yeah we we drove that here it's there's nothing wrong with I thought that could be a 30 40,000 yeah had autopilot yes 17 grand that's the price of a Honda Civic the market especially for for used EVS is hitting the floor because a few things are happening so you have the uh the rebates and all that stuff for for new EVS they're they're going away uh so new EVS are becoming you know more expensive ens so people aren't buying them as much and the demand is going down I think the infrastructure is not where it should be uh in in the states uh and certainly not in the the rest of the world uh and people are just sort of getting you know there's range anxiety can be a thing honestly I mean if if you can have a Tesla uh in your house and you can charge it from your house it's a really it's not a bad car to have I don't know where the market is going um I am not a Tyler Hoover who is uh you know he's this used car sales and he knows all about the car market and whatever all I do is buy what I like and I never look at the market where it's like oh well this car is low and this car is high so maybe I just like you know ride the dip or whatever like if there's a car and I'm like hey I can afford that that looks like it's a good deal I'm GNA I'm going to get it like I look at what the other cars in the market are going for and I go okay that car's cheaper for what reason there you go what's the best car to own come on it's like you have to pick one the kids the kids are listening um I really really really really really really like that McLaren 675 LT I think that car is one of the best driver's cars ever made uh sounds great looks great and it's it's very comfortable to drive um I'm just losing enough weight that I can sit in the seats without my legs falling asleep so that's good uh it has very very um narrow seats but um that car is also it's it's incred ibly fast it's like stupid fast but next to that I would say the Porsche 911 GT3 uh the GT3 is the best manual driving experience I've ever had and it's not even close what makes it so good the car it has a naturally aspirated six-cylinder engine and I thought well it's a naturally aspirated 6 it's probably not going to have that much torque you know whatever but this thing revs like a motorcycle and it revs to like 9,000 RPM so you have so much usable range like you know it's it's crazy and it sounds like a bike it it sounds incredible it it's very very Nimble it handles like like it's this the stupid thing is like it handles like it's on Rails but like this this handles like it's it's just being like like your brain is connected to the car uh it makes you feel like a race car driver uh it also has the the little um rev matching so you know when you put it back into gear or like you downshift the gear it automatically goes into that rev and it it just like stays there there so you know you don't wear out the clutch but it also makes you just feel like you're in a racing car but you know it's a street car you can also drive it it has trunk space um it looks good I mean it's not it's loud but it's not too loud um and it's a Porsche so it's small it fits places so I really really like that I mean for most people I think a Porsche would be like the best all arounds if you got like a Porsche Turbo like a 911 Turbo S uh in automatic like their pdk I think that would be like the best allaround car you can get why does it seem like all these super cars or hyper cars are becoming SUVs seems like a lot of these brands are going in that direction why because they need to save their brands because those those those um SUVs are the only cars that people are buying what happens with uh these cars is that uh the rich guys buying the Aventadors um they have wives that also want flashy cars where they they can put their Birkin bags so they go hey we have this Europe and this is also a performance car but it's also a SUV and it's going to cost you $350,000 and they go okay sign me up for one of those but also I want an svj that's honestly what saves a lot of those companies so you have the Urus you have the dbx you have the Porsche Panamera and the Cayenne like those are really really hot sellers because people they want all the technology and all the stuff that goes in yeah the status of having you know a Lambo or Aston Martin or a Porsche or whatever um but they also want like practicality they want to be able to roll down the tailgate and put put down some groceries or something like that yeah when I saw Lotus make an SUV I knew that that was the direction they had to go so Lotus I'm surprised they didn't do that 10 years ago really uh because Lotus I I don't I don't see how they have any money left and there's no British manufacturer that is good at making money like they just don't U McLaren I'm fairly certain McLaren's going to come out with some SUV they have to because they don't have any money left does it seem like so many Car Guys hate Tesla uh because it's EV it's it's a so the EV thing seemed like it's foisted upon us as car enthusiasts and uh you want to have like what's the best car you know I'll ask you this I'll pose this question to you what's the best car experience you've ever had Lotus Elise Lotus Elise and you know you're in that car and you are you know rowing through the gears and you hear the engine behind you and it's a very visceral experience and that is like the Pinnacle of car enthusiasm it's you and the car and it's everything's very connected um and Tesla is the antithesis of that is it I have fun in the Tesla Roadster the one that's right behind me well the Tesla Roadster is a is is interesting but it is different from the Elise because um the Tesla Roadster is not what most EVS are most EVS are uh very quiet you can't hear them like one of the selling points is oh you can't hear any of engine you can't feel the engine it's just uh you know it's very quiet and it's you might hear a slight hum but that's it um like the the the quietest the the loudest thing about the car is the tires so that in itself loses a bunch of enthusiasts because they want to hear the engine they want to feel you know feel the feel something that there's like a human element like an animalistic element you know you want to hear the you know um so you lose that and then it just becomes there's no real skill involved it's just like all right well we're going to put you in a centrifuge and then you're going to hold on if you do a a a a launch in a Tesla Model S plaid and then you put your foot to the floor and like there's no there's no skill involved in that the car tells you all right take your foot off the brake and then you go and then all your organs get rearranged if you're in a car like a Lotus Elise and you're like I want to launch this thing and I want to get you know a 0 to 60 in 4 and 1/2 seconds and for that it takes some skill you have to have like the right pavement and you're like all right I'm going to launch it at 3500 RPM and and then like you're you have a lot of stuff happening like there's a lot of stuff happening in your own head so I think that all gets lost and that's why people don't really like a EVS because uh they feel like this future where none of the stuff that they uh cherished um as kids none of that's included and they feel like that's where the the the entire industry is headed with without them yeah what do you think some of the biggest car stereotypes are out there that are true uh Lamborghini owners uh being just like these uh these these weird douchebags um stradman disagreed he said that Lamborghini owners were like the nicest people relatable so some some of them are relatable there are a lot of Lamborghini owners that are that can't wait to tell you about their crypto portfolio you know like it's it's one of those things like they they get out of their car and they have like Lambo gear on and it's the same thing with a Ferrari guy the Ferrari guys are are very particular nowhere near as bad as the Porsche people Porsche people are very let's just say on the Spectrum uh because they will tell you about uh as Doug deiro calls them leather air vents and they're paint to sample and oh I got my allocation from my GT3 BL blah blah blah you know so like that that sort of thing is like I have this thing that you can't have and this is my entire personality and I'm going to get this thing in 3 years that you also can't have and that will be my personality in three years what about McLaren people McLaren people are interesting because there's not they haven't really been a company for that long and The Stereotype for McLaren owner it's very similar to a Lambo owner so I I I know that the lambo owner is more of a like a selfstarter so you you'll have more like new money entrepreneur that sort of thing but like I think um the lambo owner since that is an older brand you have people that buy like a merci Lago or you know an Aventador or something like that and then you have people that are like that's their entire uh personality they they put everything they have they have uh you know their entire um wardrobe is Lambo merch they need to tell you about their car they put their keys on the table to to know for you to ask about it what's it like driving a Lambo um but McLaren owner is like I don't I don't think that happens all that much I think they just like to drive their cars but then they don't really Drive their cars that much cuz they break down a lot what do you think is the most underrated car underrated car and overrated I would have to agree with uh with stradman um I think he said the GT3 RS or something I think that that's that's probably it because i' I've driven a GT3 with a with a um an automatic gearbox and it's just not as good it just isn't and a GT3 RS is that with an automatic gearbox and some arrow and and whatever in any other setting like in a track yeah I'm sure it's great you know it's it's great but it just is missing that one thing that Lotus elisee quality that you'd want in a car like that it has just the right amount of power 500 horsepower and you want that to be a manual so I think that people are you know killing themselves over this car for 400 $500,000 that's kind of ridiculous and what about the most underrated car underrated car I would say I mean I I'll look around and say probably an Aston Martin DBS like that that one so it's Aston Martin DBS I'm I'm biased and it's my money no object dream car but I love that car because it's uh I think it's probably one of the most beautiful Aston Martens they ever made uh it's also one of the best sounding I mean mine has an exhaust on it it sounds like an old F1 car um and with a manual it's it's really nice it's uh you know the the shifter is nicely weighted it doesn't feel like a sports car but it's a very nice GT car it's very well appointed it's comfortable so I think that's and for a car like that uh that punches above its weight class uh in terms of fit and finish and all that stuff I mean you can get one of those for like 150 now you'd be hardpressed to find anything like that for you know 500 yeah what car make would you say is the most unreliable something British uh for sure so any I mean pick any of the British Brands uh right now Aston Martin is probably okay because they have a lot of Mercedes parts in them uh McLaren is fairly unreliable uh and then I'd say lotus uh Lotus especially the older lotuses that they I've never I thought they were Bulletproof the the craftsmanship is shoddy but because they use a lot of Toyota parts Toyota parts are the good part yeah that's that's the that's that's the good part um so the the Lotus part they Lotus are really good Engineers they can't really put cars together very very well um and I'm thinking of like Lotus of like even past the Elise like the espri like I had two espr and those were like yeah bad bad um but McLaren I think Claren issue is that they have cars that uh kind of punch above their weight class and sometimes don't really reach the mark uh in terms of reliability so the original mp412c which is the the platform that this thing uh um started as it was uh you know they had transmission problems they had electrical problems they had like a bunch of these issues that they worked out throughout the years but then you know they they kept coming out with uh car after car after car like every 35 seconds McLaren comes out with another special car um and it just seems like they have tons of problems like their new artura they have tons of issues because of the V6 and hybrid and all that stuff what are your thoughts on whistle and Diesel and Cody if you're watching this we would love for you to come on our show Absolutely we've had on a lot of different car YouTubers we can come to you wherever whenever we'd absolutely love it give us a place and time you'd say would recommend I absolutely yeah yeah it's it's great uh they ate all my bananas and uh yeah they they took all my toothpaste and it's great I have talked to Cody once um but I mean I've never met him but I hear he's a really nice guy uh I love his videos I really I so I didn't initially I didn't know anything about him and all I heard was like negative and I heard like oh this guy whistling diesel all he does is like break this break these cars and blah blah and the thing that I love about his videos is the storytelling and he puts so much effort into present ation and people think that they're these like these like slap together videos but he's had like he writes these things out he writes uh plot lines out uh there's almost like a story and B story going on sometime and like just from a storytelling perspective it's it's really a master class in uh how to Market yourself uh and how to um get people to wait till the end of something uh so you have like really good retention and like I'm sure you know he looks at his metrics but like it's a it's a it's a fantastic fantastic watch like any of his videos like any of his videos from last you know four or five years have the same sort of formula and you know it's him uh showing something with like his very dry humor and it's very like genen Z so it's like lot lots of like popping and flashing in your face but it's not like overly done like I think Mr Beast is like Mr Beast for for me I can't watch a Mr Beast video because I uh I liken it to a a trailer for a video that doesn't exist it always feels like it's moving at way too fast a pace um and with whist and Diesel he lets things breathe uh sometimes and there there's like some want and Destruction for sure but um it it all goes to serve the story his pacing is fantastic as I've noticed I watched his cybertruck video yeah where he would go from a CM part where he's just talking like this and instant cut to the cybertruck just like jumping over something and then it's back to him just talking and it keeps you on edge yes I would say his videos are really one of the only few that I watch at normal speed everything else I watch in 2x really it's hard to watch it in 2x yeah I tried on the airplane cuz I downloaded his videos tried watching him 2x I had to actually go back and just play normal speed I can't do it I can't I can never do faster speed on videos because I I don't I don't know maybe it's the ADHD or something like that cuz I just start like I something about um like I get uh a lot of I guess stimulus from uh from auditory cues so like for instance I won't go to sleep if I hear like small noises so I have to have like big noises to to kind of cancel them out so I need to have you know specific uh set of white noise machines so like if I do 2x my brain goes this isn't right this isn't right this isn't right this isn't right why why why isn't this right and like it just it just won't turn that off and I know that I I I can't I can't be like all right well this is like if I watch Destiny at 2X or something like that's I it's just word salad you know so I'll go like 2.5 3x with the extension there's a YouTuber video player extension I didn't know that oh yeah yeah I'll share it with you after this video it's incredible but anyways on Cody I'm curious what do you say to the people that say he's disrespecting Vehicles like he did with the Ferrari when it burned down in the field or with like the old cars Like the Model T that he took and destroyed that I mean that's a that's a piece of History yeah but the Model T they made 17 million of those cars who cares I've never seen a Model T on the road nether have I I thought they were way rare they're a hundred years old of course you never seen one on the road the wheels are made of wood exist though where where's huh how many exist still still a lot you can you can find one for eight grand yeah are you serious why do I think these were like you should get no there are historical vehicles that are worth tens of millions of dollars and they're in museums right but a Model T like most of them got uh got made into hot rods you know like in the 50s and 60s so you have like the tea buckets and and stuff like that I did yeah it's like you can buy a Model T for not a 10 grand will buy you a really nice Model T what if you for a series got a Model T and like turn it into a McLaren how how does that work I have no idea but put a Ferrari when you figure that out then then we can do it that would be great yeah Ferrari engine Lambo the car's made out okay the car's made out of wood dude like I that's the funny part see what happens yeah just reinforce it with like a little bit of something you die see if just see if it you die that's like all right we're going to try to run into this brick wall and see what happens like you you die like that's that's it you don't need to figure that out um I mean it would be it would be interesting but like I that seems like more of like a Mr Beast type you know deal taking the old most Antiquated you know relic of vehicles and turning it into the most modern thing yeah I I I guess like what if we made a model te out of carbon fiber like okay yeah true oh boy oh like that's we get tens of views you know um no I I I don't know to answer your question about whist and Diesel I don't think anybody really cares about the you know you're disrespecting the cars I see a lot of comments that was a lot of that ha for the Ferrari one all you get through the top comments that love it but then you get a lot of people saying that was A500 $600,000 car not there not their money who cares like why why people care about things not saying that that lend you know you should it Merit because guess it be the equivalent of let's say you have a house that you that like in a housing crisis you get a house you're like let's burn it down and people are like that could have you know people could live in that house or you take oh somebody somebody would have just a family of six could have could have gotten that Ferrari try I'm just trying to come up with something 500,000 like you take food and you just take all this great food and you just throw it away like mind saying that they deserve credit or that we should you know let we should believe that right so so what I think is that those people think that whistle and Diesel doesn't have a real job and they think that he doesn't deserve the things that he has so if you if you base that on the fact that you know this guy doesn't deserve these really nice things and he's just breaking them oh he's just a kid he's this you know um negative impact on society meanwhile it's just entertainment all right this this Ferrari buron burned in the field did it hurt anybody no who cares it was a fun video to make do you think you could ever take it too far with yeah if somebody gets hurt yeah for sure okay but as long as nobody gets hurt yeah I don't care there's no just permanent destruction of something absolutely yeah listen if he wants to take a you know a McLaren F1 which is my favorite car in the world if he takes $20 million and he wants to light that $20 million on fire and run this McLaren into the wall at 200 miles hour and nobody gets hurt who am I to say what he can't who can and can't do you're giving him ideas yeah yeah great but I I just mean like why why can't we enjoy this method of entertainment like where where else are we going to get this I'm just thinking how many people would be outraged if you take the original Back to the Future car like the actual movie car and just explode it just blow it up so so like you're not even running it into anything just yeah yeah like the hero AC like yeah but take steal it from the museum and take a one one car but you buy it like you buy it but like a a true oneof one car like a car that won like Le man or like like you you take a oneon-one and you just blow it up sure really upset people yeah yeah I mean you could you could upset people that like but but again you know at at what point can you not do away this is stuff that Ken Griffin could do he has the money to be able to just buy whatever and just we light it on I yeah I guess I mean Mark Zuckerberg ever enters like an evil era I could see him just going down that path well what's the uh that there's that Lou CK bit where he's like if I ever become a billionaire I just buy all the pants and burn them no more pants you know so you could you could always do the thing where you take the really nice thing and destroy it you know the people that are waiting in line for a PS5 there's a guy that you know takes a PS5 and just smashes it in with a baseball bat in the parking lot and people are like oh no like but like what are we lo you haven't lost anything you you didn't lose your PS5 so who cares but people think that it's like this zero some game and then they just attach their own biases which is this guy doesn't deserve this because all he does is make silly YouTube videos and uh I I actually get this a lot that uh making YouTube isn't hard work so therefore it's not a job or like oh well I actually have to work for a living um like I don't get get to just like not do work for um and and make a lot of money and I always think about those people and I go why are like it seems like you're an idiot then because if there's a meth of like making a lot of money but you're not working why don't you just do that why don't you just do that see like it seems like that's what you think I'm doing why don't you just you just do it you do it yeah obviously it's it's a lot of hard work as you guys know um and there's a lot of late nights and a lot of a lot of sacrifices and a lot of money spent on really stupid stuff so the stuff that's been getting to us recently is the travel with this podcast we are spending this the overhead on on this podcast has never been higher and we're not just saying that to be like oh wo was us but it's gotten incredbly expensive the travel can be pretty brutal and recently we had a trip where we were like what three states or something like that and I got back and I got the worst fitis that turned into like sinusitis and I was sick and out for a week straight because of like overnight flights or whatever and you know all of the the crowd strike stuff that happened all our flights got we were traveling in the middle of that crowd got into the hotel at like 1:00 a.m. the systems went down waited there for an hour East Coast time after so it was s i it can be bral yes we are abely blessed shout out our sponsors we are absolutely blessed but it can be challenging quite challenging yeah trying to battle that being gone from home not everyone's designed for that I'm a home body I love staying home yeah me too uh so for me travel I get I don't want to say I get like anxious leading up to it but in my mind mentally I'm like okay one week we're going to be joh I got to catch up I got to get all these things done before we go and then once I'm here I enjoy it but it's always leading up to that I'm like there's a lot of stuff we don't talk about I mean in our last trip we our flight was delayed and we had to make it but it was delayed so we didn't know it was going to go what was going to happen so we drove across the state of right yeah we don't talk about this stuff we drove across the entire State uh to film an episode for you guys that was the funnest part of the entire trip it was canceling our flight getting a car and driving across the state in the middle of a storm oh where it was like lightning and rain so much rain by the way that everyone was slowing down on the freeway to like 20 miles an hour with their hazards on fun yeah but it was awesome yeah well you guys are going to have to um travel again I have an event uh in December that I would love for you guys to uh attend I know you guys are you guys are car guys uh it's a car event it's called wrench works it's going to be December 6th through 8th um it's a sorry the plug here but I just wanted to let everybody know um that uh yeah we're going to be at circuit Florida it's in arundale Florida it's a it's like this uh racetrack where you know we're going to be taking all my cars you know the cars you see behind you we're taking a bunch of other YouTubers and uh a bunch of people that have been on your podcast will be there chrisfix yeah shme and uh yeah hi guys I'm sh hi guys I'm shme and today we're going to be and today yeah yeah he's he's a Tim's so yeah we're going to we're going to do that and uh we hope to uh to see you guys there yeah we'll have like a little podcasting uh you know set up there so yeah be really cool what's your biggest insecurity oh my God yeah let's that's ack all right all right I I'll I'll uh I'll do a quick 35 minutes um so uh my biggest insecurity uh is letting people down um like I I don't I never never never want to let people down um and if it's uh it's allowed people to take advantage of me and I know that it it drives me to a certain you know there's a lot of guilt involved but I always feel like the level of success that I have is never um number One never enough but it's it's also not um not earned um like I got here uh through like ill gotten gains or or just just sort of like skated through and uh at some point you know the cops are going to come and tell me that I have to stop so it's like imposter syndrome so that's that's my biggest insecurity mine recently is that I've been afraid that I've peaked because things have been so good that I'm wondering could I ever surpass that that's been my biggest thing and then wondering is the best behind me I don't know I tend to think about things like if I died today or if I died tomorrow would I be happy with the things that I've done and I I feel like I've done so much that I feel like it's that's that's good for a lifetime um now there are certainly things that I I haven't done that I want to uh you know accomplish but it's just you know I I the the peing thing it h it has to happen at some point if it's right now that's fine if it was three years ago that's fine too so I'm going to do this thing till the wheels fall off um and if I ever think about oh am I am I relevant or like am I like that that's when you start getting a little bit like ego driven um and everybody has ego but I I I for me it's just like that that just seems seems a little icky like it seems Seems off like I shouldn't be having those those emotions where do you invest your money where do I invest my money we Haven we haven't talked about any investment I don't invest my money anywhere um like I I need to I need to do more Investments for sure um and I would love to talk to you about uh you know where where to do that and and whatnot you gave me a good some good advice about uh the credit card so I never had a credit card I never really did anything with a credit card but then you gave me uh good name of a credit card I got it and and uh now yeah I get I get points for stuff wasn't Financial advice oh that's definitely not Financial advice but for credit cards you your your spend is at such a level where you could get free trips anywhere in the world with credit card points yeah so I would recommend looking over it every eight months or so getting a new card okay there are so many great sign up bonuses right now that you could get two to three grand worth of free travel okay for 5 minutes work cool yeah so works for me um but as far as Investments uh I'm I've been looking into real estate and the usual like mutual funds and stuff like that I I'm I'm super boring when it comes to stuff like that I I would never like day trade or I don't have any crypto uh because I just don't know enough about those things um so I mean if you have any you know index funds index F honestly I would I would probably just take a portion of your income every month Index Fund it long term and that's it MH and then the index fund is is is what what do that was that you just do a total market index fund you get a little bit of everything 500 or something S&P yeah but that's just us-based historically that's done well but it doesn't mean it's going to do well in the future and year-over Year we're like 8% or something give or take okay some years some decades it's as low as three to four some decades as high as 15% somewhere around there that's it all right but otherwise I mean it seems like you're doing well enough just buying McLarens buying really dilapidated crashed cars fixing them up doing well on your channel and you'll see a higher Roi doing that than I think just about anything elseed thank you so much for coming absolutely come back anytime uh you should change your flights right now and we should take out one of these wish love to far could be another hour or two so make sure to subscribe hit the like button you'll see plenty more episodes like thisk check out our lovely sponsors they allow stuff like this to happen 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