The Untold Story of ChrisFix | FACE REVEAL

suspense no oh my gosh seriously right oh whoa you're so handsome Chris fix is the largest Automotive Channel on YouTube with nearly 10 million subscribers teaching people how to fix their cars however most people have no idea who he actually is and he's never agreed to do a podcast until now this is my first podcast ever so here's the entire story of chrisfix and trust me it is not what you'd expect oh by the way if you enjoy episodes like this make sure to subscribe because we post brand new episodes every single week thank you guys so much and now let's begin hey guys Chris Vicks here with the Graham Stefan show what's going on what's up it's so weird seeing you here but like hearing your voice because I've seen your videos before you've never shown your face on the videos and you've never done podcasts before never this is my first podcast ever that's crazy thank you so much for doing this and also we got the I believe you're the largest Automotive Channel on YouTube yeah yeah 10 million subscribers just under 10 million hopefully hit 10 million next year and uh wow you know it's at the end of the day it's just a number it's just cool how many people hearing that number how many people I'm able to help you know so there's people who are interested enough to uh to subscribe and join and watch my videos every month you know yeah and that's also 10 years on YouTube right yeah well so the beginning wasn't really it was me making fishing videos and having a good time with my friends and like putting me hitting waves on a boat to the music like so it wasn't always like this it was just when I got my first car I wanted to learn how to fix cars so I wasn't reliant on somebody else and also I saw what like mechanics did to my parents when they brought a car in and so I was like why not let me be reliant on myself let me learn these skills and uh pick them up from different places from my dad he would teach me how to change brakes uh my dad's friends mechanics that are in the family or that we're friends with um and I just go from there and learn as much as I can tinkering is huge once you know the basics you could okay I just need to remove this bolt you know a certain size socket fits on there you remove it and you could break things down put things together it's pretty Bare Bones yeah simple you know Macy's um Audi was out of uh AC fluid and it was YouTube that taught me how to refill that incredibly easy like you don't even need to take it into a shop to refill air conditioner fluid or the freon yeah it's so easy to do and it was like crazy video though yeah you had to pull the my refrigerant video so then you could see always wear gloves you know eye protection so you don't hurt yourself or any protection uh yeah so I guess everything was gonna blow off in my face I'm always super cool what happens if like this just explodes I'm dead my hand's gone yeah yeah I'm always just I'm super careful because I want to teach people how to be careful so it's like they don't get hurt doing this because a trip to the hospital is going to cost you a lot more than saving you know a thousand bucks yeah are you ever worried about liability if you have a video teaching someone how to do something and they screw it up or they get hurt like has that ever come back to you oh it's never come back to me um I think I am very thorough I mean there's always the disclaimers in the description I think people know going on YouTube and doing it yourself like you're taking that risk yourself you're Gathering that information uh you know I'm not licensed or anything I'm not showing people hey this is how you do it uh as a licensed technician you know you have to follow this method I don't it doesn't cost you know it's free for the public to use as an educational piece so I've never really had that concern and I'm also super super thorough and uh I always cover like I just right away I just talked about oh yeah the first thing I did was like safety goggles and and gloves for protection because right away I think okay that refrigerant could be cold you know and it could cause you frostbite or could shoot out at you um which you know you also learn from experience that that happens yeah um so I'm not really concerned about that no and I also I forget I don't care about well I shouldn't say I don't care but I'm less concerned about the liability as much as I don't want my viewers to get hurt like they're all very important to me so I want to make sure I teach them the right way to do it that way they are smart about it you always hear okay use the the respirator and you'll see people like oh you don't need to use a respirator I'm like it's a good idea you're working on you know sanding anytime you sand you should use a respirator even though like not everybody in this in the industry will do that let's start here I'm sure the viewers are going to wonder about the helmet sure no one's seen your face it's so you're probably watching you're like okay this is a little weird and I get it but you have to understand there's two things one my videos are all about teaching you guys how to fix your cars so if you are learning how to fix your car you don't need to worry about me like I'm not important and I was never in my mind I'm never important it's the information that's important that's why I spend you know a week before I make a video Gathering as much information going out and learning about okay this individual car how is this done okay how about this car and what are people people going to run into so it's it's not like it's about me at all it's always about here's what we're doing and I'll be completely honest with you I never thought about turning the camera around so like I know it sounds weird it was like I look back and I think back is never come to my mind to be like oh let me film this way because if I'm talking about breaks I'm filming the brakes but do you think that's maybe a 10 years ago thing like when you first started fewer people were vlogging like I was good friends with uh Gordon f-spot and up until recently he's never showed his face I'm like dude you gotta show your face because he started around the same time as uh we're just like it's just after James the strad man okay and stratman's channel just blew up yeah but I think a lot of that was that connection of just like showing his face and like who he is as a person versus just filming from behind a camera for sure there's there's connections people make in different ways I think the connection people make to me is not as a uh it's not me in my personality as much as they're able to get their car fixed because of me so I was just at SEMA that's why my voice sounds a little weird I've been doing demonstrations all week talking to thousands of fans it's incredible and anytime I talk to those fans it wasn't like hey your YouTube videos are so entertaining they're so you made me laugh and there's nothing wrong with people who make people laugh or entertain people at all it was hey you changed my life because I learned how to fix cars uh I'm now super interested in cars or I I don't like working on cars by I was concerned if I go to a mechanic they'd rip me off but I learned from your videos like what they said was accurate or I was able to speak smartly about it it's my new hobby I became a technician all I I was able to get to work and not get fired you know I couldn't afford to change my brakes but you know I was able to through your videos and and now I can get to work and not get fired it's all positive things like that yeah and it's less because of you know what's behind here and more because of what you see in front of you yeah so when you go in public do you wear you don't wear the helmet you don't wear the whole apparatus right like you you'll show your face and yeah so at SEMA for example I will sometimes walk around with this on it seema's very car oriented so I'd say about like 75 percent of the people there know me so and there's a lot of people and there's a lot of cameras so I'll walk around wearing the helmet when I do my demonstrations or whatever I wear my helmet I got um I was a nominee for influencer of the year uh through SEMA and you know to the dinner I work shirt tie and I have my helmet but during the dinner it's like fancy you know yeah during the dinner I put my helmet under the table nobody knew who I am because I don't have any there's none of this on me there's there's no hat there's I just don't know who I am just my friends like Adam you know what knows who I am and uh TJ hunt they know who I am nobody else does they're not going to take pictures so you know try to expose me so I just take the helmet off nobody knows if I win put the helmet on walk up on stage but but let's say that some of the cars you drive might be recognizable maybe in the area you live in or have you ever had it where people like Snap pictures or videos and be like you're the guy driving that car you wanna know what I don't know if it's just luck or if it's really my fans my fans are pretty respectable like I've gotten pictures taken and they blur the license plate for me and not everybody knows how to do that you know right so it takes like extra effort to do that and they'll blur license plates this my face is a little too exposed through the glass so they'll they'll lightly darken the glass or blur the glass um maybe that's some that's keeping some of them mystery alive like they want to be the ones to say hey I saw it but you can't but you just saw it exactly I get questions like that hey can I get a picture without the mess just for me you know I'm like there's too much risk involved in that I work pretty hard at keeping it secret on purpose and so that's that's the one aspect again there's two aspects the one aspect is hey it's not about me it never was about me and even that 10 million subscribers I still tried not to keep it about me which is probably why I've never done a podcast um but uh I I like to to just keep it about the work that's getting done and the next thing is my friend so at SEMA I took my race team yeah I was very fortunate to bring him out and we do the lemons race and my best friend Garrett took me out to dinner I was like an appreciation thank you we went to a nice Wolfgang Puck restaurant he was so excited like all the stakes are great here and I wore none of my my swag normally like this is my this and khakis is my uniform this is why I wear every day yeah like a Steve Jobs thing where I you should see my my closet it's this merch yeah this I had the college shirt on I had nice pants you know and and nothing on me except that and nobody knew who I was but even if you're in your hometown and you're going out wearing just a Chris thick shirt it just doesn't like it never happens where people try to Snap photos or anything no you know everybody's really respectful one person tried to do that and they told them what are you doing what the heck are you doing you know and uh my fans are great like I I'm incredible yeah because my viewers are like like me it's not about the Famer I think they just want to learn how to fix their car they just want to enjoy the car community so yeah I mean eventually I'm sure somebody will try but I do my best to like be reasonable and and hopefully they respect it and all you could do do you think one day you'll do a face reveal like dream did maybe 10 million subscribers I might have something kind of planned we'll see it's really incredible occasion to be like at 10 million subscribers like that's a that's an unfathomable number like like yeah but you're getting there you're incredibly yeah you're very close yeah yeah I feel like you could get there within a month or two if you just posted a few shorts But first you want to thank our sponsor vid IQ guys we have all been using vid IQ on our channels for literally years now and it's hard to put into words just how 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video content start making the most optimized content possible and take your video performance to the next level by using the link Down Below in the description and signing up and now with that said let's get back to the podcast I think it would be cool to talk about because you started YouTube I know you didn't say technically 10 years ago right yeah but like where you were in the beginning of your YouTube career because now you're doing it full time yeah and uh and how you basically ramped that up until now and when you realize you could probably do it as a business yeah like what were you doing before YouTube okay this is gonna be an interesting story I don't think anybody really knows this so this is a first but I started I love fishing in Marine Biology and the ocean oh that's why you like The Reef that's what I like that that's so cool yeah so uh that I actually became a rainbow just Bells I'll start like back a little bit more so I wanted to go to this marine biology high school it's like uh out by me they do these specialized high schools almost like vocational schools but for stuff that's not necessarily technically technical like it's not like auto mechanics and hairdressers and HVAC it's like marine biology and biotech and pre-med and computer science I wanted to go to the Marine Biology one and I missed it by one person so they only accepted like 30 people and I was number 31. my parents pushed so hard they talk to politicians I was able to go in the next year of high school but I ended up getting into the culinary version of it in my school like near my house and uh I was like what the heck I could cook fish you know I always take that if there's an opportunity and I could include what my passion is and see like value in it like everybody's gotta eat everybody's got to cook here's a good opportunity I did the culinary school thing went there um learned all about cooking I was able to run cross-country and track Varsity all four years I just love Athletics that was always a big part of my family and uh I just at the end of that I got credits to go to college and I couldn't I think it was two years or two I forget two semesters two years something like that where those those that culinary school would count towards College culinary college didn't sound like a real college to me it is and looking back I learned so much but it's real college but specific for culinary I actually think that's better but I wanted that that formal education of You Know Math Science History English you know that's what I was used to my whole life that's what everybody goes to school for so uh I decided to apply to Rutgers and doing go to marine biology becoming marine scientist yeah it's a good school for that I loved it it was awesome we did crazy things we sent a unmanned glider it looks like a cruise missile that goes up and down in the ocean uh all the way across the Atlantic first time ever you know it was a cool thing to be a part of I didn't even play like a huge role or anything like I I helped guide it like once or twice but I still felt like part of this team that did something cool and it was really neat every oceanography class A's like no problem and it wasn't like I have to study it was this is going to be awesome I can't wait to read and and learn I learned that I do better at that not reading I hate I shouldn't say hey I dislike reading I like learning visually like with the professor or on YouTube um and that's when I started driving you know this is college driving around I uh I drove to school to save money whether that was a smart a 1996 C4 Corvette no way yeah so I had an old Deville in a 92 Cadillac DeVille that was technically like my first car wow and uh got into an accident somebody ran a red light and my parents were super proud of me they're like why not let's get you something I think we had like a ten thousand dollar budget I said let's get you something under 10 grand my dad loves Corvettes I wanted a Chrysler Crossfire I don't know if you've ever seen it I remember this and I did this come out 2003 for something like that okay and they didn't run very long but it looked unique it had the wing that went up on its own or you press a button like I just love the quirkiness of stuff like the Coupes it's yeah it's Unique it's different like how many do you see around I love that stuff my dad loves Corvettes one day we went down to uh to like this this dealership row we call it and there's a Corvette for sale and we took for a test drive he drove and we got back and we were smiling ear to ear and the salesman's like like it looks like you guys had fun and from there I understood what cars could make you how they could make you feel something it's not just transport from A to B it's it's not just looks it's also a feel and uh so we look for a Corvette it was my dad's Mission too we got one and uh beautiful car and I drove it back and forth to school I saved that was 10 grand but to to stay one semester at school was 10 grand did your parents ever worry about safety with the car no I was always very responsible like since second grade we've had a boat that's like since we love boating so much we've had a boat and my dad would let me drive the boat I mean I'm giving him on his lap and stuff sure but even as I got older I would go out on a I have this like 10 foot boat with a little five horsepower motor it let me go out I don't know how like if I ever have kids I don't know how I would let them do this but they let me go out they trusted me enough and I would go out on this little boat and take my own fishing trips and stuff so I think they knew I'd be respectful of of the speed be the power and it's not to say I didn't make stupid mistakes I feel like we all do it I spun out once in the rain by accident because I gave it too much power you know but I knew that I was given an amazing opportunity to have like this car who drives a Corvette to school right you know and I I love this car I didn't want to damage it I took so the care I took for this thing I cleaned it all the time it's like how I learned a lot of the detailing stuff I've done um so I don't think I think they might have been concerned a little like any parent but they uh they knew I was responsible so but yeah College was great Okay I uh I worked for the Homeland Department Homeland Security through Port security uh with Stevens Institute and that's uh was it Marcus Brownlee he went he went there okay so I worked with Homeland Security there did the port security we could detect the snapping shrimp versus a scuba diver so like they wanted that kind of you know marine biology aspect of it and then that's when YouTube's like hey and in the meantime I had like some videos in the background of me fishing going on excursions of fishing trips and doing research and stuff like that and then a couple of how-to videos because anytime I had to change the brakes or something or uh trying to think change the oil yeah one of the First videos I did was me going to a Corvette meet and greet it's just all the people with Corvettes and that was like really young everybody else was older I met one other friend who was still my friend now who was young and I just filmed us driving around having a good time and and uh anytime I need to fix something like the water pump went on the Corvette I was like forms are great that's like how what we use back then but they're just pictures they're static I didn't know how this guy got from ear to here with the picture and a little text I was like I could teach people how to go from here to here in a video really smoothly so no sorry no you're good I was just gonna ask for the motivation when you initially started creating those how-tos wasn't necessarily to potentially turn it into a business but it was just because you couldn't find resources like that that could accurately and easily show you how to fix cars yeah it was like you wanted to help other people basically exactly I just wanted to help people I to be this is going to sound weird I didn't know what subscribers were I didn't know you could make money on YouTube I didn't know that was a thing like it was just I didn't mind providing free content I thought it was better than making a forum post trying to explain this all I was like I'll just make a video on explaining it so um yeah I started making those videos and people started like latching on like hey I like this and I would go off of views again I didn't know what subscribers were I knew what a view was I didn't know what subscribers were um so I just go off of hey this got a lot of views so people obviously need to learn this so I want to learn this so what can I do that's similar to this okay water pump let's do um what did I do next like oil change I'm like everybody has to change their oil then brake job and and these videos were like quick and dirty you know I didn't have I had a little Panasonic Lumix camera um this is before I don't even know if cell phones were were like you know what we have now you know we we can't you couldn't film on a cell phone for sure yeah um and I just do my best and try to teach people and I took my time I was very slow I talked cautiously and and like a deeper voice and not as excited and like I I was very cautious you know and it just got bigger and bigger and how and so you would learn from forms so you go in the forums learn how to do this yourself and then if that issue came up again you would video it correct to a degree and smoother okay correct yeah like a lot at this point of my life I knew a lot of this stuff from boating sure so boat engines and car engines are the same the heat exchangers are different one has a radiator one has a heat exchanger with salt water going through it otherwise it's got spark plugs uh it you know it's got a belt it's got a water pump it's got all coolant it's got all these things that cars have it doesn't have brakes so I had to learn brakes but I learned that from like my dad and my dad's friend and so I to afford a boat because I love fishing my parents knew that they always always were huge supporters of everything I did they're like hey it's gonna be you know we're cutting it close with the finances with a boat it's expensive but if we'd maintain it we winterize it we do all that stuff give it a try so we got a smaller boat and my dad would be like okay here's a spark plug here's how to do it go do the other seven and I'd be able to fit in the tight places where you can't normally reach you know as an adult and I'd be like doing this and then my boat neighbors would be like hey how about a hundred bucks to go do that to mine and here's like I think this is like fifth grade now fifth grade me like okay or here's a tool set oh you and I have this really nice tool set it's yours just do the spark plugs just change the water pump I can't get in this tight area can you connect these wires can you can you splice these wires you know simple things like that that I would learn and they'd teach me and uh so I just learned from all over anywhere I could learn from I would try to learn from wow yeah and then how long did you begin doing that like uh what was your work schedule like when you when would you have time to film these videos so it's College it's like studying and I worked at Pizza on Sundays so like it's just whenever I I've always I was very good at studying efficiently so I would just there's a lot of spare time I don't know I didn't realize how much spare time because I was always like oh man I wish I could just skip college and go straight into a job because I saw if I could make money right away then I'd be better off down the road you could invest it that's why yeah I followed you um so I knew that at early age I was like man I wish I could just get right into this and just skip all this other stuff just the stuff that I like want to learn and need to learn to get a job done like the marine biology thing this is right around when the economy was shot and uh so I was at Rutgers I graduated they actually accepted me into their grad program because they liked what I did with the Outreach the videos and stuff I took these complex topics and I made them simple for like the general public to know and which is really hard that's one of the hardest things in science like if you and if you mess that up you mess up everything for everybody all the controversy around global climate change and all this stuff is because scientists not all of them know how to explain things so like if you could take things and explain it in a way that makes sense and that's real like it's a lot better for science you know um so I went to get my masters and my sister sent me an email for the New Jersey State Police and this was supposed to go to my cousin and I I sent it to him but I was like oh they have the Marine Division and I really liked the Marine Division when I go fishing I see them out there the Marine police were always like really nice people they always waved they take care of you if like something bad happened you know they're right there I saw myself I could do that I could hang in my head you know this is young naive me I'm like I could go fishing in my spare time on the boat you know and realistically I learned that's not the case but so I applied so like 25 000 other people it was the first time they had the application process open and uh in a long time like in like 10 years and I got accepted 230 people got accepted wow and I was like yeah do I continue this Masters and my my everybody I spoke to was like it's going to be tough to get a job you're gonna have to go get your PhD and then after that you have two more years where you're doing your post Doc and I'm like my advisor at Rutgers like you see all these names there's three jobs here for Professor you see this this is somebody that you know you applied to to go to school their school down in Miami they want to work here and I had all these professors that have like 10 20 years of experience how am I supposed to do that out of postdoc like how they why are they going to pick me over somebody who has crazy years of experience so I'm like I'm getting stuck in this I love it I love marine biology if I'm gonna get stuck here and I'd have to work for the government or something which isn't there's nothing wrong with that but it was not what I wanted to do I wanted to like become a professor and and have my own class and do my own research I didn't want to do like Government research I was like I'm kind of getting stuck into an area that I I didn't really necessarily wanted to be and I couldn't find an opportunity and the state police thing came up I got in I'm very physically fit like doing the runs no problem I was a cross-country track person pushed up all I scored 100 on their physical fitness tests I must be saying I passed their background investigation you know no criminal record none of that stuff the paperwork I'm not even gonna lie to you 12 inches Stacks it took six months to do all the paperwork they knew more about me than I knew about me they're like hey on this day why did you have this police interaction and I'd be like what I don't know like I have to really think about that oh my God the background investigator she was super nice um she uh she was like you have to figure it out and then you have to write an essay on why you have this police interaction that you didn't list and I was like so I like looked at pictures to figure out dates and like oh that's when I saw a power line fall and I called the police to let them know so it was like simple things like that but they like they make it they do a couple things they make it really difficult to weed out all the people like yeah I'll be a State Trooper you know no like if you want it you're gonna have to work for it and um and so I did all that passed the psych test past PT pest all that stuff I got in and it was the most epic miserable experience of my life so it was it's worse than the military we had military guys in there and they're like what the heck is this they make it miserable on purpose they want people to leave and they want to teach you that you know you follow orders follow all lawful commands you know and it was tough It's a sleep away Academy so you sleep Monday through Friday and then you have the weekend to gain your weight back and I'll explain that in a second and uh and maybe get some rest and probably not because you have work that homework you need to do so you wake up in the morning let's just say on the first day the first day we got there woke up in the morning get to to the academy you get yelled at and I've never been yelled at like this in my life what do they yell at you for anything anything literally like one guy's hair wasn't sure enough another guy I'll give you an example yeah you're supposed to sound off you know when they're like uh blah blah blah you go here sir oh you know I'm not going to yell on the mic but you yell here all uh here sir as loud as you can it's not natural to do this one girl was yelling uh here sir and it sounded like she was whispering and we're all just like you can't you have to look stand at attention you're looking straight and we're just like what is she doing she's the trooper who surrounded her like a swarm of bees um and they just want to hear you sound off and I don't know what her problem was or what she was nervous I don't know she couldn't yell and that was uh the last time we saw her you know wow so I'm good I'm confused this is for uh Marine policeman correct state troopers so the state troopers have the aviation they have the Marine police they have uh dragon for they have all these it's the whole entire State uh the police work for the whole entire State they go basically where it's really bad or there's no funding for regular food so they're going to train you for everything so that they could be like we're gonna put you here yeah okay so we have boxing we have swimming we have all these different things uh and they put you in the worst locations like they put you as far away as possible from your house so yeah so what's that schedule like then yeah so so I'll it's interesting so um so I go through the academy I'm a quarter of the way through which felt like three years it's a six month Academy and uh we're boxing and they put you they find your weaknesses mine is you know I'm pretty skinny like I'm smaller um they put me up against a guy who's like 250 260 pounds you know and and we're boxing and he gets I know to protect my face you know duck in and protect from getting knocked out didn't know to protect my ribs so he snapped one of my ribs um I didn't know it was broken and there's no time to like they ask any injuries and I was like oh if I say I have an injury they're going to send me to the hospital I'm going to lose time I could get put on injury leave and I don't want to do this again so I just went with it and then a week later I kept going with it and I was like I couldn't breathe so we'd be doing so in the middle of the night they'll pull the fire alarm it'll be like one o'clock in the morning and we'll be out doing PT for hours until it's four or five o'clock and then have you go back in and it's freezing cold out you go into a nice warm room the room just spins when you're trying to sleep you don't sleep you get back up and you go and do your your daily routine and um it was it was miserable but it taught me I'll explain that in a second um and so at one point we're doing sit-ups for an hour straight and it's not pop it's not physically possible and they pick on the weak ones to like hey like you're not doing any sit-ups so they'll surround you and and yell at you and stuff and I was every time I go up crap back crack crack and then after that hour we had to do jumping jacks and I was winded every time I lift my arms up for the jumping jack I could feel my ribs it was it was bad and I was cramping up because I couldn't breathe and I was like I pushed this for a week like I boxed again yeah I swam and and there's a lot more stuff every day it was just non-stop work so anyway long story short any injuries here sir went to the hospital Rib was was broken off and they're like yeah you're done like you have a year of recovery before you could go back and I was like what the heck am I going to be doing for a year and it's funny one of the Troopers before I left he's like this job it sucks like it's not fun you see all the worst stuff you go all the worst calls it's not like you it made me really respect the police they're not going there and and seeing the best stuff they're seeing the worst stuff and uh he said I hope you never come back and he's like I don't mean that in a bad way but I hope you go find a job on Wall Street or you know something he said something like that and uh you know that kind of stuck with me and in the meantime I was like what do I do I work at pekko as like somebody takes care of the aquariums and I was like I have this YouTube channel in the background with a couple videos it's making me like gas money for the week like 20 bucks a week or something I said let me double down on that something I could do from home I could do with broken ribs and I started working on the YouTube videos I made two videos a week now back then it's completely different if you look at my old videos you would get it so I made those videos and it started growing exponentially and Brands started seeing that like I remember 3M flew me out to their headquarters that's big yeah wow like 3M you know yeah I went from going from like I don't I couldn't I don't even know how many subscribers I had maybe 10 000 because again I didn't focus on subscribers I just wanted the views because I wanted to teach as many people as possible so I didn't have many subscribers 3M and this is early in YouTube's infancy you know like people didn't know it was like a real thing so I went to 3M they taught me how to do body work they taught me because they wanted me to learn their products and stuff but for me it was like hey it's sandpaper like it's I could use 3M I could use any company it's still sanding body work like it's the same thing so it was great I got to learn all this stuff and uh and I kept going to these cool events I got to drive never came to fruition but the uh Elio which was like a three-wheel car that was like got 84 miles a gallon it was really inexpensive um and it was all these cool things I was helping a lot of people and the Troopers I knew some Troopers and bad things were happening to them some passed away some got hit by drunk drivers like a lot of bad things and my parents knew that I knew that like friends knew that and they're like hey maybe you should run with this YouTube thing you're young enough if it doesn't work you could always go back to the police you'd always go back to school or whatever anything and I always wanted to be an entrepreneur I always wanted to open up a restaurant like a Subway or not like a real restaurant but like a franchise yeah where I could expand and grow and and this was my chance for the American dream to start my own business and do my own thing so I just started making videos and I took the the hardcore of the State Police the you could never do anything right which is like the comments uh no sleep which is like editing non-stop making sure you're still professional making sure that you say the right things um Again State Police recipe that's the culinary school how to create a recipe or a formula create a good dish my videos are a recipe so I was able to recreate each video even though it was different oil change brake change and then the marine biology complex topics making really simple I put all those things into one package for everybody and that's kind of how the channel that is an incredible story crazy right that was you're a great Storyteller by the way nobody knows this except like my friends and stuff so this is the first yeah yeah podcast exclusive guys that that was great you told that so well like you man where do we even start I'm curious so much about the the training academy do they do they pay you for those six months that you're there how did you make it the most miserable thing possible because they want the best of the best in some ways it hurts them because like I was smaller like I'm you know 150 pounds like it's not big for a trooper and but there's a reason because like on the highway car blows past you they they joked about it you know when they're doing our body mass index thing you know they they go over and they're like you're a twig like you're gonna get blown over by a semi so I get and if somebody's fighting you as a trooper you're by yourself backup's 20 minutes away like there's a lot of scary things you know so they pick on those weaknesses on purpose so like it's tough they make it really difficult and everybody has a weakness you know and they find it quickly in the Academy have you always been really disciplined because it seems like everything that you've put your your mind to in the past whether that be education like Academia or uh you know the the academy thing it seems like you've always just worked extremely hard is that has that always been the case for you or is that something that you're always having to be like mindful of hey I gotta buckle down I gotta work harder is that just innately who you are for sure I think it's a combination of who I am but I think it's the reason I'm that way is because of my parents like I saw how hard my dad worked to allow my mom to stay home and raise us you know so I saw him go constantly go to work and he still made sure he came to our soccer practices or cross-country meets but he was working non-stop and he started and he was at a low position he worked his way all the way to the top and I saw that and uh you know they're always the ones that like pushed me to like be as good as I can and then I didn't want to disappoint and at the same time I saw the value in being trying to be it's not better than everybody else but trying to stand out from everybody else not just working hard but being passionate about it and uh that was always like I just I thrived myself I couldn't find myself sitting around you know I always have to do something I like to try new things like I started beekeeping I know nothing about wow that's cool when did you start doing that it's this is my second year now the first year they didn't do so well but it's a learning experience and this year hopefully they make it through the winter I feel like you like anything with a helmet like you would have to have heard that yeah you should take up fencing afterwards hey I actually like I'd love to try it you know I love trying to I went to a rodeo the other day I've never been yeah I just everything I love learning and experiencing new things and uh like I just started Chris fish and it's Chris fix but for boats and fishing and specifically for the Marine stuff there's not a lot of people it's expensive boats are expensive so I'm like I could teach people like I do on chrisfix for fixing their boat like I put through-hole uh transducers in which the guy quoted me like 15 grand for the GPS radar through hole transduces I'm like I'm not I can't pay that that's crazy so I bought them myself and like I know what I need to do I show how to do it and and teach people now Raymarine the company the products I use it's not sponsored or anything like I bought everything myself they use my videos to teach their installers I had the guy from Raymarine tell me I was like that's pretty cool should I get any money for that like can you like you know can I get some free product can I get a nice flare you know like night night vision camera or something yeah I gotta I gotta tell you I'm I'm like Raymarine I am sponsored by Lexar so uh but I I did want to say you have saved me a ton of money awesome uh I watched your video on buying a used car I think when you're buying a Jaguar yeah right uh which I did not know what to look for at all you saved me so much money so if anybody's gonna buy used car I recommend that video and then when I was broke like eating 90 Cent Ramen broke I had no money to get my brakes changed and um I did them myself and now that I make a little bit of money I will never do that again because it was so sketchy like with the spring thing do you know what I'm talking about though yeah for your drum breaks yeah yeah I get it it was so sketchy so I'll never do that again so the question that I'm getting to is are there anything in cars that you would tell your fans not to touch themselves or or is it kind of like the maybe you need more experience I'm just curious if there's anything that you think that's kind of like maybe you shouldn't do that I mean it's always based on doing what you're comfortable with you should never like I was like pushing myself but like so the rear glass on my mom's Milan broke and people are like oh you have to have a glass professional doing I'm like okay I get why like if you do it wrong the glass could come out but like if I follow the processes that like they use and as long as I'm smart about it like it'll be fine and it is fine same thing with brakes people are like hey you're going to teach somebody how to do brakes around like I just showed the whole process it's completely right and like for people who don't know how to do brakes they're the ones who are going to be like oh it's complex you need to you know you can't do that really not hard like it's it's simple they fit in place there's I think there's there's four bolts you know if you're replacing rotors there's four bolts what I'm curious what's your formula for making videos because I would see your videos and think there's only so many times you could teach people how to change the brakes and like do the common stuff so yeah how do you how do you keep current keep a schedule I would imagine you just you start doing like throwing a Lambo you're like throwing throw do an oil change on the Ford GT use use the car and like hey here's how to do it like no one has the Ford GT but like the curious how how it's different maybe I don't know yeah yeah this is uh this is kind of like what I dread now because I I work I I you have 10 million people watching your every move and you have people waiting for you to mess up and I do things that are out of my comfort rage sometimes they're that are really complex and since I try to make these videos relatable to all different cars I try to cover different things so if I'm like taking a clutch out and I know okay well this clutch is going to look different than the clutch on another car I'm going to try to explain both but then there might be this one person who has this clutch so I try to make it that you could follow all like whatever car you have you could get the job done so I take a week sometimes writing out outlines making sure I'll go outside and I'll do the job on the the we're just gonna make this brakes are easy you do it your eyes closed at this point so I'll go and but just as an example I'll go and do the brakes on the other side of the car and I'll write everything out what's the process what did I have a hard time doing um even knowing what I'm doing what I have a hard time doing okay this bolt was kind of tough so I'm going to teach people okay they're going to run into the same issue so how how are they going to get this off okay use a torch or use leverage so get a breaker bar what happens if you break that bolt and you know it's in there because a lot of people are afraid to work on their cars because they're the what ifs what if I break it so bad that I can't fix it or I get stuck in the day you could just tow it you know it costs you a little more money but it's worth the risk um so I come out with this really long outline and it has to be like it can't be like hours long this video so I have to narrow it down I have to pick the right things and I have to make it as like a recipe I have to make it easy to follow I can't just jump from point to point so how do you do this and then I'll go and film and I'm bad at speed like right now I I'm it's easy like yeah this is good because we're having a conversation but in the videos I'm not good at speaking like nobody I'm the same way I say the same thing multiple times so I get it right yeah so it's it's hard and one thing I learned is when you're trying to worry because I film and do everything myself I hold the camera and I'll use my hand gestures to point and all this stuff pick things up talk about it you're watching the camera you're watching for white balance you're watching for contrast you're watching for exposure you're watching for Focus you're also trying to think about what to say smartly and concise and efficiently and you're not trying to talk about things that are out of the scope of your outline but you already only have a limited amount of time otherwise the video could go on for hours so I mess I take cuts a minute of my video probably it takes me like three hours to film at the end of the day like if you broke it down like realistically like the intro minute talking about like planning to or just like just filming just the filming wow yeah there's a lot of shots that I have to put things back to make sure I get that shot again because it was out of focus and you can't see because if the camera's here you're working around the camera it's hard enough to work on cars with the space you're given now put this big DSLR camera with a big mic so you could hear the stereo noise and and get your hands behind it or around it it's impossible you don't realize and I I'm not realistic I'm like oh I'll get this done in 20 minutes I'll be able to knock this out you know my my friend's belt just started squeaking I'm like I'll make a video real quick before I go to SEMA and you know have content to to edit on the plane and I start filming I start planning I'm like this let's be real here this is never gonna happen so there's a lot it takes a lot of time to get these shots and just a shot of getting a belt there's a radiator in the way how do you how do you go around that do you disassemble the radiator use a smaller camera sometimes you have to disassemble the radiator to do a job that doesn't require it I don't show that in the background like you you don't need to know the radiator is disassembled so I can put my camera in there it has nothing to do with the video of changing your belt but because I want the viewers to see exactly what they could see and the process I'll do that you know and it might be crazy but that's what I do and then when I make you make mistakes you know when I make mistakes now say something wrong or I'll say uh nut instead of bowl or or whatever in that case that's simple enough to fix and post but sometimes I'll go back out and reshoot it because I just don't like how it comes out so this isn't a five paragraph essay that you constantly produce this is a dissertation so at the end of the day this video will be the best the best video you watched on YouTube for how to change your whatever it is how to change your bricks how to change it yeah how do you top that because I'm sure it's like me where you've explained a concept but nobody goes back and watches the old video so you got to do it again well that's the good thing you do my old videos still get hundreds of thousands of views so that's why these are dissertations these are like it's it's the science that you you could go back to and it's still real it's still relevant yeah so they'll watch these old videos and it's still perfectly fine but how do you keep finding things to fix oh you have junk cars I have like 12 junk cars yeah well they're not all junk but I have 12. yeah like the braid like you get the brakes you make a few videos of that like now like you're done with breaks then you go on to the radiator you're done with the radio like how many components are in a car that you could realistically go and like I'm gonna fix this today and it's different I have enough videos for like planned out in my head for the next five maybe even 10 years like things just happen like the glass breaking in my mom's car yeah that was just freak we my dad slammed the the trunk glass broke Boom video I got a flat the other day Boom video it's a short actually and I'll post it you know I love that so I'm gonna see how that does even though like it was very my Niche you know it's like how to quickly it's good for us being quick because that's when you need it yeah so it's just there's tons of things I was driving my Hummer to go to the race with I'm towing more than I probably should tow with a Hummer and the transfer case clunks oh my God now you gotta be kidding me I'm afraid it's gonna lock up so I got towed home and uh how to replace the transfer case or how to rebuild it yeah and speaking of cars you know my Volvo I mean um no but I mean I did buy this Volvo off of gram and uh I I just need to take the door panel off because I still haven't paid for that vote you don't have to air your grievances on the podcast paid for the vault nope make your friends pay for cars you give them oh oh that's the guy that was the biggest uh comment that we got evidently they don't pay though so that's uh yeah yeah so I mean really it was free that's the other cool thing like a lot of the cars that you see on my channel that kind of like disappear I don't sell cars I have a problem so they either go into storage or I see somebody who needs a car that I know and I'm like hey you know this this Prius is like good Prius now with the battery I'll say like how much it's worth on the channel and like I sold it for that much because that's how much it's worth and then I'll just like hey I'll sell it to you for a dollar you know and and give it to somebody who actually needs it um and I find that like it's cool that I'm able to do that through my YouTube channel yeah just from the viewers watching I'm able to help somebody out in their life and make a difference um so I help another person with a Trailblazer like and and it's not like they can't take care of this okay I can but having this weight off your chest of hey I need a new leaser hey I need to find a used car I know the car is good I worked on it you know and the car's bulletproof now so here perfect do you buy cars then just to fix them up yeah so that's I feel like that's a lot of when I get a car that's why I buy it like I never buy it I haven't bought a good car except the Hummer but even the Hummer like when I bought it I didn't want a project car and I saw the deal of it you know I'm like oh man this for a Duramax Swap this was like a really good price why I went to go see it I'm like now I know why and I was like I told myself I called my dad I'm like yeah Dad this needs too much work on and he's asking too much and my dad's like you flew all the way out there just make him an offer and I told the guy like hey I'm gonna make you an offer you're not gonna like it but I'm here my dad told me to and I was making all these excuses right and I made them the offer and eventually he just like and I wouldn't go up I told myself that's it and eventually he okay they'll now have another project car but yeah so I like cheap project cars I can't tell you about a lot of the new ones because they haven't come out yet and they're not coming out I'm very slow um because I take a lot of time with the videos so um but one of them I got really cheap and it just needs a couple of things and it's an affordable Supercar like it's actually affordable like I paid 20 grand for it can you tell us what car it is I can't can you bleep it out yes so I got a great car yeah that's a deal it's a death trip yeah that don't those have a ton of issues usually no the window regulators don't work that's one of the main issues so I knew that and they're expensive they're like I think it was 500 each regulator and the bolt comes out of the crankshaft and causes issues and you might need to completely rebuild the engine and this boat was starting to come out the owner is like oh I don't know why the belt is coming off and I'm like here's a risk I take it either needs a new engine and the engine is very unique um so it would be expensive I'm like do I take this risk and it took it can't you just look at the car and be like hey just give me 10 minutes a lot of this stuff you have to do in order to get deals you need to do stuff that is risky it's risk reward if you have time to go look at a car so does some other person they could see it they're an expert too they could see it they could take that risk but if you buy a car from somewhere there's not a lot of people where not a lot of people are going to pay this money it's it's the risk and then you get shipped to you and the reward is like this should turn out good like I can't wait to show everybody so and I have another car like that as well I could I could keep going on but the the free car my neighbor gave me he's like hey I'm getting rid of this car they wanted like a hundred bucks to tow it away I'm like well no don't do that you know it's worth money in the parts and cats just give it to this I have a a junkyard that I'm friendly with they'll pay you like 300 500 bucks for it it's like how about this why don't you take it and try to start if not go do that and and the money's yours I'm like okay I remember bringing the car back to it's the the red Honda it's the how to start a free car um and he told me all the stuff they tried to do to it and the mechanics that he had I guess just didn't diagnose it right and I was like I'll just show the steps of doing I'll show my process and if it works awesome if it doesn't then I'll show the process of getting rid of a junk car and and it would be the timing you know I showed okay check compression check uh fuel check spark check air check timing that's pretty much everything you know and it was just the timing the the belt skipped a few teeth and yeah luckily didn't I don't know if it was interference or not but luckily it didn't interfere you don't have like Pistons hitting Valves and people loved it I think that has like 15 million views or something 10 million views something like that because it gives people like that hey I could get a free car from a neighbor that's a possibility I could find a junk car that's inexpensive 500 Trailblazer 300 Del Sol I spent a lot of time looking for these deals they're real deals they're real life like this this is real you know I don't fake anything and it takes a lot of time to find these things anybody looking for cars because your goal is to find average cars that a lot of people could afford and show like is there a reason you don't say you go the hoovies approach be like I'm gonna buy this 1990 Ferrari whatever you know three four eight and I'm gonna fix that up and do cool cars like that like Exotics that just break down all the time which is awesome yeah no that's uh I'd say there's two reasons for that one is if I brought a Ferrari to my driveway it would get stolen like having cars out on my driveway versus having like a nice garage to keep cars in it'll get stolen so like that's the first thing so I can't really have like super nice things and the second reason is and the more important reason is it's not what my viewers are doing you know my viewers are normal people like me who are just trying to fix their car and and they want to learn about cars they want to buy an affordable car fix it up uh start a new hobby start a new passion customize it maybe you know make it their own go to a car show or just get to work and it's not it's not people aren't buying Ferraris like what percent of the population has a Ferrari you know versus what percent of the population has a Honda Civic or a Prius or you know so were you going to get deals like if someone's watching this right now and they want to get a good deal on a good used car what would you do so I like using a bunch of different places so I like using eBay Motors Facebook Marketplace Craigslist used to be good but now I think they charge you because it's it's not good anymore so I don't even look um but those two are the the main place but there's a site called Auto Tempest that it takes all these sites and you do one search and it'll search all of them at once which saves me time because you know we don't have a lot of time when we're doing all these YouTube videos so I'll just constantly search that for something I'm interested in the Del Sol people love that thing they're waiting for of the turbo and I've been not good about it the whole covet thing messed stuff up and it was just supposed to be a joke I was supposed to make a video on replacing piston return Springs I love the Honda del Sol so I was like I'll do it on that car and I found one with a head gasket leak and uh I was like this is perfect I'll make the joke video and then you know I'll fix it then I have a little Honda to drive around that I love always love the Del Sol it's quirky it's it's cool it's Unique it's different people want to see it get Turbo they want to see more about it and they just they fell in love with it a thing that I thought was a joke where okay it's piston return Springs April Fool's cool and they're like oh what else are you gonna do to it like we know this is a joke but what else like we want to see cool stuff yeah so I always see comments on YouTube videos that say like oh if this guy's car breaks down he gets excited so I'm here to ask you is it true would you get excited if your car stopped working while you're driving to a degree so like the Hummer that's my daily driver when it broke down and it's not easy to work on because technically you should be inside with a lift and and the parts are expensive and that's like the one like you're talking about the Ferrari that's like my version of the Ferrari that's my dream car it's nobody has them because they only made like 11 000 and they had all the military ones but it's not like each one yeah you're not coming to my channel to learn how to fix an H1 or at least most people right there are so a lot of the Homer Gods I've become friends with them which is awesome you know but what is that you know let's just say it's 3 000 people like none of my videos have 3 000 views they all have you know millions of you so people are watching it for for fun but um so like that's that's like my version of the Ferrari and what what was the question I'm um do you get excited do I get excited yeah so it breaks down that that situation no I was not excited it was like you gotta be kidding me this is my daily and I that this is the one car I bought that I didn't want to work on even though I knew it was kind of a project car I did all the little things when the other cars break a little bit Yeah like when the rear glass broke my dad's like oh we could call you know the glass company safely whatever you know and we called them up and they're like oh it's gonna be like 500 and we could get to you in like a week we're like it's gonna rain so I'm like okay this is not just my experience this is millions of people's experience I'm like hold it let's get the glass from the junkyard order it on eBay got it through a junkyard they shipped it to me and uh and I showed how to fix it and it's a real life example of like a bad situation that's good the tire the flat and the tire so my neighbor just had work done at her house and they didn't clean the street very well Nails all over and uh there's a flat and multiple cars unfortunately certainly I was like this is a real life example it's not just happening to me this is happening to millions of people let me show you how to do that so I take a bad situation and I'm not like excited I'm not like yeah my car is broken you're just out there laying nails down here we go yeah they're like your cars are always breaking like it's real life you know like I buy cars that are not well taken care of before I get them and that's the whole point that's why they're so cheap and they break down until I fix all the parts like my pickup truck was was like we got it really cheap and it was not taken care of and so thing after thing broke and I fixed each thing and now it's you know it's good have you ever broke a car on purpose to make a video about it I haven't and I don't have the time to do that people are like hey you just broke that on purpose oh we I see how oh there's coolant coming out and one of my videos are showing how to install a uh an intake on the Mustang a performance intake and they think it's some people not it's it's got to be a small percentage they're like oh you just you broke that so you could show that no coolant's pouring out of there because it's a common and problem on these the plastic cracks and I drift the car so it expedites that and now I'm showing how to replace it you know so you were talking about that uh mystery car earlier that you're like sometimes you got to take a Gamble and and uh you know see see if you can get a deal the I think the average version of that that I think like a normal person would go through is have you ever seen like on carvana that something's like I don't know I don't know what they call it but like they say they inspected it have you ever bought a vehicle on carvana and actually like looked at it as somebody who knows what they're looking at I haven't bought a car in carvana because their prices would be an amazing video though right especially right now common yeah that's true carbon is having a lot of issues because the titling I don't know if they solve those issues many issues the other issue is that they lose on average 3 200 and everything they're highly unprofitable and the only time they've ever made money was one quarter in 2021 when the inventory that they bought from 2020 went up in value only time they've ever been profitable that's interesting see I I don't know the finance out of that finances are a dumpster fire it's amazing so bad not profitable but still have this multi Billy is it billion or is it high Millions like I don't know what their valuation is now I think it's going to be zero well yeah yeah so but like like uber is an Uber not profitable or something or they haven't they posted some profit but it's like it's on the line and think about like everybody uses Uber like came to Vegas Uber boom that's the first thing I thought of you know what Uber am I gonna get so um but yeah I haven't bought a car from carvana Mostly because they're supposed to be good like the cars are supposed to be inspected they're supposed to be like when you buy it from them you're supposed to be getting a car that is you know you don't have the Shady dealers like putting sawdust in the the coolant to try to cover a head gasket leak now whether or not I mean they're not doing it obviously but the cars they're getting could potentially have those problems and their their professionals could miss it um there's so many things that that you see in the industry that like it's Shady you know like how do people do this how how can you how can you get somebody a car that's this messed up and no it's gonna fail you want to hear that tell us about some of the Shady tricks so the PT Cruiser I don't like the PT Cruiser my parents got my sister PT Cruiser for her first car and uh and it was perfectly fine uh I didn't do the inspection this is when I was younger so I didn't do the inspection or anything um you know they got it from a you know reputable used car dealer and it ran fine for years like it was it was good for I shouldn't say years it ran fine for a year and that is a long enough time where you're like okay it's not the dealer that did anything wrong when something goes wrong my parents are driving on the highway all of a sudden boom the temperature spikes before my dad could even get over to pull off car just the engine melted it overheated wow the head gasket went well the head gasket they used sawdust they didn't even use a good product they used sawdust to clog the head gasket and eventually it just it went now can you prove it was the dealer that did that no it could have been the guy who traded into the dealer or the auctioned the dealer got it from or whatever and can you say like the dealer knew about it no but somebody knew about it along the line somebody did something like shady that that ended up hurting somebody down the line you know luckily it was we were in a SP I mean we lost money on that car you know it had to be junked it was there's no by the time it was used and and uh a year later and the miles that were put on it and then the head gasket going I was like I'm just going to take it apart to see what went wrong and there's sawdust everywhere the whole cooling system why did they do that what does the sawdust do so it's it it doesn't like don't even try it they have better products I actually did a video on Legit products to save you from a head gasket leak like my dad's Jag had a head gasket leak and he needed to use it for work so I was like we're not replacing the head yes I don't want to do this you have to drop the whole engine cradle and it it's like just three thousand dollars in Parts if the dealer did it was like six grand so it's worth more than the car and I was like I don't want to do this but he's like well I really like this car I just want to use it to get through the the winter so I got a head gasket sealer and a bottle and they great products now surprisingly everybody hates them but for this type of situation the car is junk you're never going to be able you're not selling it you're going to donate it or or for parts of the junkyard you know and you're not going to try to sell it and you just want to try to get a little bit more time out of it you pour it in the radiator and it has a liquid glass so when the combustion gases which are really hot touch that liquid glass it evaporates the water from it and leaves behind the glass wow so it only happens where the combustion gases are coming out the head gasket so it doesn't clog your radiator and I pulled the radiator out and I showed all the veins on the clip no clogs it doesn't clog any of that so the sawdust what it does is kind of the same the the coolant the reason why you're losing coolant is it's going through the head gasket into the engine so the sawdust is in there mixed in the coolant and it builds up more and more the idea is it builds up more and more than clogs it doesn't work like the the gasket sealers in the can actually today are decent and they actually do work for that but they get bad rep because the old ones sting they eat dealers and and people everybody who uh who's shady and wants to just like pass something off that's bad could do it to their car and I get it it's not a good thing but if you're like an honest person you're doing it to try to help yourself so you have more time with your car yeah I think it's great what other things happen like that so it's a sawdust one I got a car from an online salvage auction and this taught me a lot I was going to do Salvage Auction videos I was going to teach people like hey here's a good way to get a really cheap car that has like a branded title like Salvage flooded whatever and here's what the look for here's what you could do it to fix it and I got this Salvage and this has never been seen by anybody I got this Salvage BMW to make this video and I didn't know any better and this BMW has been basically passed around and everybody thinks the same as me oh look at this thing it's awesome and they get it and it's been they took um sheet drywall screws and they screwed them in to keep the bumper together they welded the tie rod instead of replacing the tie rod um they banged out stuff uh the so it was a front-end Collision they cut the airbags and closed the airbag covers they left it open so like if you look at the pictures carefully you're like the airbag looks a little weird but if you're like looking quickly you're not seeing it in person and they cut the airbag out so you can't see so like a lot of shady things like that I'm like I can't make these videos because I'm not I'm not a trained professional but I see enough cars where I'm like I could pick these things up and I missed them so I'm like why not I'm gonna stay away from this stuff and I called the company the the salvage company I'm like listen I know it's as is where is and it's all my fault but this is dangerous like this is welded tie rods like you falsely represented a vehicle that like it's a sheet metal screws going in and covered and painted so you can't see it looks like the Bumper's still on I took those screws out behind that's a mess so it's people basically getting these this junk car and they're passing it around fixing it up enough so that they could get their money back you know and wow so it's like gives everybody a bad name you know are there any types of cars you would stay away from any makes or models or like certain situations like flooded cars maybe yeah so I'm a big advocate of dry go get what you like so like my dad liked that Jaguar X-Type everybody in the comments could will be oh you know the the Jaguar X types of horrible car it's unreliable and are they right to a degree maybe this car didn't give us many problems but it's something he enjoyed and he had the means to use me to fix it up you know like so so like get something you really like the Hummer Hummer H1 horrible like technically is a horrible vehicle to Street Drive It's Made To Go in Humvee in uh tank tracks off-road 35 miles an hour in a convoy not 55 miles an hour on a highway uh on the road you know all that stuff so I'm a big advocate of uh get a car that you like that way you know if something does go wrong whatever you're fixing a car you like you get to drive you don't life is so short just enjoy riding driving what you what you want you know now flood cars because especially since the hurricane down in Florida and I was actually just talking to my my buddy about this salt water is horrible yeah like so it's it's hard to tell if the car's been flooded above the car how much sometimes it's just like if you hit the door still sometimes it's like hey this is a write-off this is we don't want to it's a flood car you don't know what's gonna happen in the future water gets in all the computers on the floorboards like there could be issues and how's the deal how's the insurance company deal with that they just write it off they say okay it's totaled and you get that car you could clean out all the water dry it up and if it runs it could run fine forever or you might have an issue five years down the line a year down the line I don't know if I would say stay away from it because there's a price you could get really expensive cars for cheap for doing that but just know the risk reward no like hey I'm buying this thing there's a chance it's not what I expect it's not like buying a a new car where it's warrantied and all that stuff have a little confidence in your abilities and just do what makes sense like know the don't be there's no good deals like know that they're I shouldn't say there's no good deals when you have a good deal is a reason let's put it that way sure so know that there's that situation and you could fall into that the bad part of it and have a problem and I mean you've worked on so many cars I'm sure you've probably noticed a pattern with certain makes though it's like oh unlike you know a Ford Focus or whatever this tends to go wrong or this the Ford Focus tends to have more problems than like a Toyota Camry or Corolla is there any like pattern that you recognize among certain makes where you know stuff tends to go wrong more so with those cars let's say someone wants to buy a used car they don't know anything about the seller they don't know anything about anything right but they just see a Camry and a Ford Focus yeah would you lean them in no one of the two directions go test drive it see which one you like better which one do you think looks better um and I mean both of those are economy cars so like they're every car has its problems every single one every single car so like Toyota everybody says Toyota is so great they don't break down they do just like every other car they do have great reliability but when they do break down those parts Toyota parts are expensive I just uh rebuilt is a marine engine it's Yanmar but it's a division of you know Toyota or whatever they use Toyota parts the parts are crazy it's like insanely expensive compared to a Ford part where they they have so many and they're really not that expensive I really honestly truly believe that you should drive stuff that you that you want to drive and um I'll I'll stick to that but yeah like every car so like when you're looking to buy a car it's good to go and type in like common problems for XYZ your year make and model I could use let's use the Mustang the drifting for example very common issue with that the odometer stops working because the little gear in there gets stripped out and you don't know the real mileage and if you're test driving the car you don't notice it not going up could have 500 000 miles on that car and it says 120. so that's like a common problem that basically affects them all the it I was talking about the uh air intake has the coolant going through it and it leaks because it's plastic it cracks very common problem with those um the bushings in the rear suspension they go bad over time and you know you could have bad suspension problems and and easy to fix but another common problem that's different than if you're looking at a minivan or something you know so try to learn those problems by just doing some quick research type in the year make and model and um and on YouTube and something to see if like you're making model fix and then you're you're missing a keyword what are you fixing and those keywords will hopefully like fill in like radiator fulfilling okay well this has a guy will be like oh there's a radiator problem on these cars so let me show you how to fix it so you learn that what are your thoughts right now on the used car market used car market is I think a big bubble I think it's gonna so I'm not a finance guy and I could be completely wrong I feel like it's like a 2008 bubble with a housing I feel like it's similar with the used cars people are paying 20 30 100 000 over MSRP depending on what it is I saw the new what was it super oh no the the Nissan the the 400. oh yeah the Z yeah it was like 49 000 sticker and they wanted a hundred and five dealer markup you know what someone's paying it yeah well those people yeah like no offense to them but they're part of the reason this is a problem I love the free market and and I love the like it to self-regulate but like money was pumped into our economy and now people have extra money to spend and now they're they're using this money in in bad ways and poor decision ways so they're buying these cars over sticker you should never pay over MSRP I I could get at MSRP for every single car out there or less well I shouldn't say every single car every normal car out there sports cars and limited edition things like every you'll get a a Ford an F-150 or something and the guy's like oh we have a price markup because of the uh whatever it is whatever their excuses Pinstripes you know they you can get that at MSRP you go find somewhere else spend a few minutes to go shopping there are dealers that will do only MSRP and I think people paying more than that the car is worth MSRP after you take a car off the lot it's worth less right now no but economy is going to simmer down and then it will be worth less I think it's crazy how it's become so normalized now to drive a car and then expect to sell it for more I remember well I'm not we all remember driving yeah the good old days when like it became Common Sense the car would immediately lose 20 of its value as soon as you drive it off the lawn and now it's not the case it's so odd but I was doing research for a video that I had posting this week and BMW said that they're going to be producing less to keep their price point the same they don't want to make more and have their cars drop in price anymore Tesla is a great example of this of just like a build to order and they're increasing the cost of autopilot to keep those used cars from hitting the market at a lower price and impacting sales Ford even came out and said that they want to now do a build to order model or they're looking into it where customers would be able to purchase cars direct now that might just be the electric cars for right now but that's how they want to move it always starts somewhere yeah but Mercedes also chimed in and said something similar that they want to focus more on the luxury Market which means they want to keep their prices the same so I think all these auto manufacturers are really realizing if people are paying this price we would be stupid to make more and drive the price down we may as well make less charge more we have higher profit we'll have the same profit margins making less cars less overhead yeah I mean as the manufacturer that kind of makes sense it does and there's no proof like they're saying oh it's it's uh you know because we can't get chips and stuff like that which is probably true yes there's no proof though like they it's not like they're there's a way we could audit that and see yeah I've heard stories I've heard stories that a lot of the dealers are keeping cars on the sidelines to make it look like they're you know they don't have inventory to make you pay more I've but who knows uh yeah the chip shortage just seem to be that the main narrative right now is that there's not a big enough supply of chips they can't make as many cars as there is demand but even for the used cars I mean it's just it's it's extended throughout everything right now I find that as like job security because once they start doing this only like really wealthy people are gonna be able to afford new cars yeah they're gonna just go up and value somewhere like getting a new car right now think about it the F-150 or it was an F450 or 350 I pulled up and uh that was dropped off in that car is like 120 Grand that's the house I know in some states like yeah that's a house the issue I think right now is with the loans that it's so easy to get an auto loan yep and unlike a house where they do an appraisal and they have someone physically go and check out the house do the comps it doesn't exist with cars it's just what price are you paying we'll give you 150 percent of that to account for tax and registration license and fees here you go enjoy and there's very little oversight on loans exactly that's what I said Thank you like 2008. I think so that's because that's what happened in 2008 with the housing right correct me if I'm wrong yeah people are getting loans that they probably shouldn't have gotten and then the market crashed yeah what's even crazier is that uh I don't know the exact statistics I believe it was 20 of people admitted to lying on their car loan application to get the card that they wanted another one was that and maybe correct me Alex because you edited the video but there was another part where I think it was only 30 of the loans that were submitted were actually verified so you have a big portion that were never verified and you have one in five people lying on their application think of how easy it is just to write because they don't do income checks right a hundred thousand instead of 80 get the car that you want I think what's happening is that uh it's kind of going towards that area where people are no longer looking at the price of the car and they're looking at the monthly payment and so when Banks start offering these 86 months ridiculous car loans it's like well you know who cares because you know my payments only only seven hundred dollars like yeah you know so you you can't afford that though yeah so that was that was another crazy thing is that the average car payment is now just over 700 a month the average loan I think it's 76 months is 70 able the average loan is 72 months there you go the average person 72 months but the average person uh gets a new car at 71.6 months so like right as they're about to pay off the car they sell the car roll it into another 72 month loan and start the process over again they never fully owned the car crazy is that it's interesting that is insane yeah insane yeah holy cow I mean I've only ever had old old cars my entire life yeah same I've never had a new car never you've never bought a new car yeah so I'm a believer of using your skills Tesla was was the only car that I bought new what about the well you least I guess the Mercedes right that was a sublease that was a sub that was a sub please yeah because the guy put like five thousand dollars down and then he had 18 months left of his lease it was swapalease.com uh and so I just picked up this guy's deal and he had pre-paid for the maintenance so like I got all of this stuff free I think my payment was oh gosh I think it's 430 a month or something like that but uh it was like a somewhat brand new C-Class and it was like the C-Class with the sport or whatever it was but that was a great car it's cool getting deals even if it's something simple like that I know there's something more special about the car when you get it as a deal versus yeah you get ripped off I don't know how if I got ripped off I would I don't know if resents the right word but I hate my car because like I got one on me you know like somebody somebody ripped me off with this thing every time I see that car I knew they got me like so I think getting the deals is like that's like what keeps me happy with my cars well you'll be able to get good deals uh because in the video that I'm posting it was found that subcompact car prices have fallen 3.6 week over a week interesting and they're continuing to go down the only category that did not go down a price were the sports and luxury Vehicles this is exactly what happened how I remember in 2008 the Hummer came out the H2 and H3 and they were gas guzzlers and everybody's like has all this money Hummer just came out the EV Hummer came out now you know uh what you just explained now and all this is it's just like mirroring what I saw in 2008 so I mean it's just things I'm connecting again people saw the Hummer as a good tax write-off because if it's weight yeah yeah over six thousand pounds or six thousand pounds so that had it was funny in La they called it the real estate agent car because all the Realtors were buying the car for the write-off but you also have to be able to afford the fuel that's true too and the maintenance and this is true yeah so and then when things go sour what's the first thing you get rid of your luxuries like your boats your luxury cars yeah uh and then like Hummer to me is a luxury car you know you get rid of all these luxury things in the market Falls that Homer that I drove they gave me the uh the new H1 the oh not each one the Hummer EV part of me really wants that car and three seconds zero to sixty nine thousand pounds I thought it was 2.9 or it might even be 2.9 beat three seconds is there a party that would buy that yeah not for the price right now they're selling about 200 Grand well you well I don't know what you could like it never go for like I said never go above MSRP but MSRP is like 115. yeah even at that price like I just think it's such a cool looking car I I don't like Cosmetics look yeah and the crack crab walk is really neat it's such a gimmick the crab walk is useless I use it off-road it's completely useless but the rear steer after having rear steer and taking it off-road it lets you make these turning the these the Turning race is insane it lets you go really tight and you don't have to back up and make K turns like my Hummer offer I took in the same spot my Hummer in this Hummer I have to make a k turn to go around a certain area this thing rear steers automatically you go right around crab walk I'll be honest with you I mean there might be a way to use it that like it's it's useful for yeah it's just a gimmick it's cool it's really cool looking I love the uh the the range that you could get on a car of that size to get what was it like 250 miles I think it's three something three don't let that fool you because the one downside was it was like 80 bucks to fill up and also at a home charger like 120 volt it took forever to charge really yeah you would have to definitely get like so I used 150 I think they go by amp hours or amps or or I don't know exactly what the charges go by I I know 150 is real is pretty high um and it for 20 minutes it went up 70 miles I think uh and then but if you use a home charger it could take like a day to fully charge it maybe even longer I don't I hate it 240 volt uh no 120 volt so like a normal home charge yeah you know if you if that's not bad I mean because I was charging my model 3 at just with an extension cord and I just plugged it in it got five miles uh per hour I didn't care I rarely Drive anyway so it's always charged see but for us we work from home like and you have other vehicles but for somebody who needs to get back and forth to work oh yeah and they have to rely on this like I don't know it's just they're pushing it too fast and they're forcing it instead of like like making it like a another decision we could make so that's just it bothers me because they're like hey we're not making gas cars anymore we're Banning them like that that hurts like guest cars it's cool like the you see the new Gymkhana can block he used the electric car it was awesome it was really crazy cool he went through Vegas to like he has this electric Audi it was really neat but there it was just missing and they did a great job with the production they did a great job with the stunts it was just missing the noise it's not like an electric car which is I guess kind of cool but it's missing that bro and like the the flashes and the bangs and you know what's going on in there it's like yeah it's like organized chaos and in the engine and like I don't know I guess that's just us growing up with that maybe the new generation doesn't I think I think it's probably just what you're used to something like I buy cars based on how the exhaust sounds you know like it doesn't sound really cool or is it like kind of lame yeah well do you think that's going to make gas powered cars more expensive just like in terms of like a like a this is one of the few gas powered cars left like the old Ferraris and being like a naturally aspirated car yeah yeah yeah yeah stick shift is now more expensive instead of cheaper I I don't know I honestly don't know Jay Leno said that he thinks it's gonna be like the horse everybody used horses and then finally they came out the car but horses now are like a luxury you know they're expensive um whereas horses back then were a necessity so it wasn't expensive so you're on to something I think initially no um but eventually probably yeah what do you think about the move towards automatics and egaris versus Manual of course trying to bring it back for manual I like just the Innovation like it's all it's all good I personally like stick but I get it like if you've been in a stick car and you're in traffic it's miserable yeah like especially if you have like a performance clutch or something thing but at the same time if you're on the racetrack if you're drifting you need to stay car you know like that's just something that you really want it's all personal preference like if it stinks because I know mass production they want to bring the prices down as much as possible but I wish they could always give that option so that like this is going to be my fun car so I want it stick this is going to be my daily driver so I want it automatic I don't know yeah one thing you mentioned earlier that surprised me you were mentioning editing your videos you edit yourself yes I do every so everything my channel is done by me except any contracts I make I have a lawyer I don't know the legal Mumble jumbo although I've gotten pretty good at it because I've seen enough but I always like to be extra careful and like what there's there's no competes and there's all this and that I like uh I like making sure I'm like handshake is like a real thing you know I'm honest in to my word so what's your team look like just you and a lawyer well the lawyer isn't really on my team she's just somebody I hire when I have stuff yeah that I need legal things done um so say that's me that's incredible that's one of the few people I think that that could get to we'll round up we'll say 10 million subscribers on their own yeah very few people have done that without without you know a team behind them it's cool it's it's uh it goes to show you what you could do in in your driveway at home with common hand tools by yourself and do you do the audio in real time as you're fixing up the car or is it something that you put in afterwards I've always wondered I've wondered that so much so many people do and like I answered so I answered four hours of comments every day like that's I like to help people and so for hours it's four hours wow every day every day what what hour to what hour sometimes it's sporadic most of the time when I wake up it's like an hour like I'll I'll get right up brush my teeth eat some breakfast or do you do like top comments newest if people want to get their comment responded to how do they do it it's just they just have to comment a lot right throughout the day yeah I mean there is I didn't like doing this but this is what people want me to do you could like pay for the membership thing I made it 99 cents as cheap as possible so that your comment comes to the top so I could get it and the reason I did that is because that's the only way you could like guarantee I see it otherwise I mean it's like how many comments a second do you get right you know um so I I do try to answer four hours a day and I can't answer all of them a lot yeah but it's important because this is like part of like the learning process it's like going to a class with your professor and you can't ask questions those are the worst classes but if you have a question you could raise your hand and they can help you that's great I see a lot of similarities between you and Graham yeah Chris are you like afraid that you know bringing in an editor somebody to help is going to change the content or change how you know maybe people perceive it maybe they don't know your style or or is there a different hesitation if I could bring in an editor I'd do it in a second I've had multiple people try to edit my videos the way I film people hate me so going back to the audio question yes it's done while I film but it's also done post sometimes so like if you want to hear I shouldn't even say post it's done right after I fix it let's just say we're unscrewing a bolt I want you to hear that that that ratchet noise but if I'm talking while I'm ratcheting it it goes over that you don't hear both or you hear like a mix of it so they get that really crisp sound a ratchet away you hear you know the ratcheting noise I won't say anything and then right after that I'll take the bolt out and you'll hear the bolt come out like that's how quiet it is and then I'll flip the mic around and say okay now we're going to use a 16 millimeter sock well I don't know I picked 16. now we used a 17 millimeter socket and we're gonna break this loose and you know that snap I'll stop the audio you'll hear that snap of the bolt breaking loose and we're going to remove this the rest of the way and you'll hear the ratchet so now you have this really crisp audio and is it extra work yes a lot like it it like triples the editing time and then if there's like a mistake I'll go over and do voiceover like sometimes I just say things I'm like why am I dumb like why how how did I not catch that I said some I said nut instead of Bolt like what the heck and I'll go back to where I was at the car and I'll put the mic there if the wheel was off I'd take the wheel off so I have the same exact audio and uh and I would try to mimic that audio and if it works great if not I'll reshoot that whole thing it's so funny I do the exact same thing uh for b-roll uh when I could just speak I'll sit in the exact same spot put the curtains in the exact same way say it yep can't tell the mic facing the same everything everything is the same I know that's one of your concerns yeah you know you guys are like oh you know it might sound a little bit different for the different bikes and like we want to make sure it sounds real crisp and I totally get that and uh so hopefully you know it doesn't mess things up too much that is crazy about the comments because I answered every single comment they're like 99.99 of comments until I hit a million subscribers same same exact thing yeah it was actually here in Vegas I couldn't keep it my first trip in Vegas I couldn't keep up that was the first time I was like oh man I went to SEMA I'm like I'm answering comments before I go to SEMA and it's taking so much time like this is the first time this is it that is great yeah I would wake up in the morning and I wouldn't get out of bed until all the comments were answered from the night prior and then I'd go to bed but not go to sleep until I answered all the comments and it would be like I must it must have been about four to five hours a day that I was spending just answering comments and I just wanted to keep it up until I hit a million and then I went down to an hour a day after that just answering comments that's good good answers but even now um every time I post a video for the first hour after posting I'm there just answering comments it's always Alex and I people are floored they're like they think it's a bot or if they think I pay someone else to answer but little do they know it's me and Alex sitting and Alex comments from his own account but I'm sitting on the couch answering comments and everyone's like this is Graham Graham wouldn't I'm like yeah it's me yeah actually answering comments yeah and all the platforms yeah it's a lot of work even DMs like sometimes I tell people hey because on YouTube there's no way to oh my car mix is like blah blah blah blah sound yeah and they just type it out there's no way to hear that sound but hey DM me on Instagram real quick the video I'll try to listen and and diagnose it you know it's not always possible but I try you know yeah so but that's good I'm glad I'm not the only one no I've never met anyone else who's really who's gotten to your point without help I think strad man is another example he had an editor and uh camera guy briefly I think for what eight months to a year but now it's just him yeah and I don't think he has any other plans of changing it and I think that's what keeps it like really homey and authentic it's just that it's just like him in a camera he's the one that's editing he knows kind of sense of humor in there something personal about it you could give Two Chefs the same recipe and it would taste different yeah so like you I could give the footage and give it to I could edit it and I have an editor edit it it'd be completely different even if they try to mimic your style and stuff because I've tried it I've I have a file on my my Google Drive that when people email me and say hey I want to edit for you I could do it I know I can I hope I hope they can I re like I I would love to have a life because right now I just work 16 hours a day seven days a week what's your schedule like Now work like walk us through like an average day what would what would that look like sure I wake up uh I'll get some breakfast I'll answer comments uh you know brush your teeth that's simple stuff go right to whatever I'm doing let's just say I'm planning a video go right to my computer and start whatever I need to do to plan for that video right now line um go through it in my head whatever it is and let's just say we're filming that right that day right I'll set everything up set all the cars up so I work in a driveway I work outside hopefully the guy next door isn't doing the lawn next door is not a problem across the street the problem because he blows his leaves like a lot and you can't have that ring yeah I hate that all day and then also the leaves and the fumes it smells so bad to leave the dust gets all over so I'll move the cars around I'll set everything up make sure like the lighting is good I have these big uh what they call soffits the the lighting um soft boxes soft boxes yeah I have that set up and I'll get the tools set up and I'll run through everything and start writing things down make sure okay I have this I have this I got the intro ready let's shoot the intro today and I'll shoot the intro and I'll take a million Cuts I'll make sure the tools are like perfectly set up I say everything efficiently smoothly I'll go in and edit it and be like I got that Intro by the time I'm done doing that it's uh usually I don't break for lunch I kind of just work through that it's kind of near dinner time I'll eat dinner and then after dinner I'll go back to my my office my whatever and I'll work on the computer edit plan for the next day answer comments go to sleep repeat is there a reason you don't have a warehouse or something so that you could prevent sound distractions it's it's so tempting but I really feel like people seeing me do these what they think is complex things it's just a car but what they see is complex things done in my driveway at home with common hand tools I try not to use power tools but I mean more and more people are getting power tools today but I try not to not not to use specialized tools unless you can rent it for free or it's like a complete necessity you could like you see me doing this at home in my driveway like it's it's no no lifts jack stands and Jacks like everybody if you're working on a car that's the bare minimum what I'm doing is like the bare minimum so you could do it yourself it's it's it stinks though because you can't make videos quickly yeah and that neighbor's out there I can't work how do you balance that with the social life or do you do you just accept that like hey right now I gotta grind this is my time to head down for sure um so you I grind that's just like how I've always been and I I do take like okay my friends say let's go fishing today I'm like today we're going fishing and that's kind of why I started Chris fish because I felt bad fish and this is how bad it got or how bad it still is I felt bad fishing because I'm not making the YouTube videos and because I read the comments yeah they're like oh what the heck's taking so long I'm like I'm out fishing today and I see what the heck's taking so long and I'm like I owe it to them to like not go fishing and just continue to work on this project even though it's gonna you know it's just constant work and it's not healthy so I'm like oh if I make a fishing video channel then I can video as I I just made more work for myself really but I try to like come up with a reason to like to monetize go fishing you know that's funny that's why I started the Graham Stefan after hours originally I'm like Hey listen we work we could just film it yeah yeah we could film ourselves making money and make more and so we just did that that was the so we created this to family but it was easier when Jack was looking here just make more work for yourself it was you don't think about it you're like oh we're just I'll go fishing yeah in the moment we thought it was I mean we were being productive they're great videos it's fun by the way to look back at those videos oh yeah because it's a trip because now those videos are like a year and a half old good look back at what we were doing that day a year and a half ago and they're so well done like the amount of work that went into making a silly little Vlog but like Alex has been so long editing those things yeah remember those Alex nude those were my babies like I you did a great job but you know what though I feel like all that was part of like a lead up to doing what I'm doing now you know I feel like without that everything would be different because I there were some pretty bad edits and there was some pretty good edits and I feel like it all it all was a learning experience yeah and the first video was edited by uh we had this guy Colby come in and he edited the first one then Alex I think edited the second one and you see the difference between Styles too it's like the same content but different editing totally different like senses of humor we're putting that but uh yeah we just created way more work yeah but we kept it up for a year did a full year of uh Vlogs once a week hey it's good to try stuff you know it's always worth giving something a try and see what happens yeah otherwise you'll never know I have a question to ask man if we came here yeah I opened the door for you and and you're wearing that helmet like I'm just curious like I just really want to see what's underneath like is that yeah is that is that possible like just for me or us you know what just for you guys really okay gosh it's really yes we have to be we have some contracts I'll have you guys something you know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah cool let's see take the helmet off oh my gosh suspense no oh my gosh seriously right oh whoa you're so handsome Jack calm down man wow wow I cannot believe what I'm seeing with my own eyes so now you guys know the reason why yeah wow let's keep the ladies away yeah yeah how can people find a mechanic that they can trust and do you trust mechanics that's a great question I have okay this is gonna be tough for me because I've never used a mechanic I kind of pride myself on that oh wow so like I'll try to fix everything I mean I used like tire change places I think the best way to do it is Word of Mouth like who do your friends use and do you like them do they like them and then you just go that way uh that's probably the best way to go about it because they're going to be completely honest you know and and what about when you go to get an oil have you gotten an oil change um no there we go that's crazy okay so when people go to get oil changes a lot of the times you go for the oil and they say oh this is broken this is broken this is broken this like literally create a list of 10 things that you apparently need to fix ASAP on your car and when you say when you say well is my car gonna break if I don't fix this stuff they always go you know anything every single time I get an oil change so I like to believe that most people are going to be like be good people you know and they they see like hey a boot is ripped on a ball joint and they're like hey you might need a new ball joint or you see the boots ripped on an axle and they're like you know you could get dirt and you're gonna need a new axle or at least replace the axle boot and they see these things and and doesn't need to be changed right there if you could yeah if it's hard to afford it like doesn't nah not necessarily but they're gonna their job is to point out anything they could see that is is potentially wrong and in your head like you want to have it's not the space shuttle but you want to have everything running perfect that way you don't get stranded you know but do you need to replace every like I drift I I race a lemons BMW like we we do stuff that's like we make it work you know so I've seen I've run on cars on tires I've drifted on tires that have had um bugs in them they drift just fine and some people are like oh once you get a plug you should really you know get it patched inside I've run plugs forever and like realistically no it's fine but it's hard to answer it that's why it's important to find somebody that you could trust you know somebody that like has great reviews from your friends and family because those are people are going to be honest with you but I mean the reason why I made my channel was because if you don't know those things you don't know how to fix your own car you have to rely on somebody else and It Automotive has a bad rep for you never know getting taken advantage I went to Valvoline that I got my oil done there and they did my transmission fluid and then I went back you know four months or so later to go get my oil done again and the person checks my transmission fluid as they usually do and he's all yo this is so overfilled and I was like well what does that mean because I have no idea like if they say my transmission fluid is over I don't know if that's bad or anything he said oh it's pretty bad and I'm there and I'm texting my friend who like Sells Cars he like buys cars cheap and then fixes them up and resells I'm like do I need to fix it's lucky you know I'm like do I need to fix this this problem he's like ah you're probably fine I'm like okay yeah so it's just it's a common thing it just happens yeah so like a overfilled transmission it could cause parts to have too much pressure inside low SEALS or like overfilled oil the the bottom of the rod could hit the oil and create Bubbles and the bubbles get sucked up now a bubble isn't oil it's air so it's not protecting the components that are no good that are need to be protected you know so like there's there's it's like anything else there's truth to to everything and there's also people who are not just not not good people and trying to take advantage of you that's why again super important to find people you trust because at least you hope they don't take advantage of you what do you think is the ugliest car ugliest car gotta be the Aztec you know like that doesn't do is that the one that uh from Breaking Bad yeah yeah yeah yeah I have to think about that I don't know maybe I'll put that down in the comments how's that sound sure okay I'm I'm so sorry but I think a PT Cruiser is just that no don't be sorry I thought the same thing or my parents got it I was like no it looks it looks like a an insect is what it kind of looks like yeah you know the key is soul I don't really that's yeah that's not a good one yeah that's I would agree with that kind of like to have this old look but I also like the Hummer H1 like I like that I like that I like the Hummer H1 it's just I don't like that one window that kind of Curves around and bothers me yeah I get that I hated the look of the uh The Pagani I should never say never because I'm a really hard worker but like you could do it a few good Investments you watch the main she subscribe to Graham Stefan make a few good Investments over a long enough period and uh there you go thank you so much man of course thank you for having me this is great first podcast ever you go first podcast ever we feel honored this was a great episode I really appreciate that you're a fantastic Storyteller thank you very much thank you any message you want to impart on our viewers before we close it off uh no just always so you heard my story of how I kind of got started doing my thing and I think like always when you have something that comes up when you're when you're going to school and you have this opportunity as long as you can find some interest in it take that opportunity even if it's not exactly what you want worst case scenario you learn something new and you fall back and you start doing something else so always take your opportunity and not just working hard but being passionate about it that's important because everybody works hard like no matter I shouldn't say everybody most people will work hard but not everybody will be passionate about it and that's where you differentiate yourself perfect thank you so much appreciate it no problem