Target Apologizes for Selling “Racist” Costume + LIVE From The Motor Enclave In Tampa, Florida!

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I was doing Hannity's podcast show there. And then I was going to get in a car, a rental car. I was going to go from West Palm to Tampa, where we are. 200 mile, touring mile drive. They have a car reserved for me at the Hertz rental car. And it just goes to show that everyone needs to check everything all the time. Because it's like there's a car for me at the Hertz rental place four miles away. Okay, fine. I'll just jump in the car. I don't care what it is. Get in there. I got a 200 mile ride ahead of me. The guy goes, "I see requested an electric car." I didn't request an electric car because, well, it says here you requested an electric car. I don't know who the fuck requested an electric car when you're renting a car. It's kind of the opposite of that. You went range and fuel as well. You got it. You reserved an electric car. I'm like, I don't know why. Who specifically would go, Mr. Corolla needs a rental car? And it must be electric. Well, anybody who's ever taken a trip longer than 50 miles in an electric car will immediately make sure that they never get another electric car around ever again. So I go, "I don't want a electric car." Yes. Well, you got one. And then that's all we got. And I'm like, "I got to go 200 miles." And then I start thinking about it. I'm like, "Okay, it's probably 250-275." Like a Tesla is like 325. At least that's what it says. Now look, knock 15-25% off of what they tell you the range is. It's all highway 70 miles an hour from where I am to Tampa. So I know how fast those miles scrub off. Like, I drove out to the desert to do a car thing in my all-electric outy. It was like 110 miles away. You get on the freeway, you go, "Oh, the destination's 40 miles." And I got 85 miles on the range. You're going 75 miles an hour. You look down, you covered seven miles. It scrubbed off 23 miles. Like, it goes fast. So I go, "Okay." I get in the car. It's fully charged. It has 230. I'm like 2/3. That doesn't feel like enough to get me. And by the way, I am lame. This use your app and find a charging station on your way to Tampa. Yeah. Never going to happen with me. And also, the other thing too is nobody says anything. The car is a pole star. It's an all-electric company that contracts with Volvo. But you get into this electric car. It's like out of a movie. It's 108 degrees outside. It's an all-black interior. It's not parked under a morning or anything. And I get in and it's floor to hot. And I just immediately start sweating. There's no start button. There's no anything on a pole. So you look at it and you're like, you start pushing like radio knobs. And you start it, I think, by taking the turn indicator and pushing it in. There's nothing that says start. There's no green button. There's no anything. God forbid the guy behind the counter. It hurts. It would go, it's a little bit tricky with the electric car. It's on the left side of the column. Like there's nothing. You just get the car. You stare the car. Sweat just dripping down my forehead, sitting this all-black interior. Hotter and snot in there. And through the grace of God, I get the things started. I think you never know. And then the shifting thing, it doesn't even light up. It just says like P R. And I'm like just pulling, trying to figure out, I have no idea what I'm doing in this stupid car. Now, first off, I don't know, what percentage of Americans drive a pole star? And here's the whole thing. When you rent an electric car, give the guy, have it come with a little flyer. Just have the guy hand you a thing. So starting on the left in order to engage the transmission, pull the thing twice, or whatever. Something. He's like, have fun. Yeah. When you said pole star, I thought they meant like the ticketing concert, ticketing dates, venue, website thing. I was like, I don't even heard of this thing. It's a little pile of crap. The problem is his August has one. So I could get out of the car and go, what a dinky pile of junk. Because he has one. So anyway, I whitenuckled it all the way here. I just stared at the range. That's all I did was just stare at the range. Ended up, ended up making it. Just under the wire. I will say, in my Audi, if something was 200 miles away, and that thing said 230, you weren't coming close. Wow. But somehow in the pole star, it is. Yeah, I drove that this morning. And the four miles here was just blaring audio the whole time because I could not figure out how to turn it down. There's knobs, but they're not. No, there's nothing. There's nothing intuitive. That thing needs to come with a tutorial. Like you need a guy who speaks Swedish to sit you down and tell you how to work that pole star. Yeah. And starting it totally unintuitive, right? Yeah. You would have no, there's nothing that says star. Yeah, with AI these days, why can't we get Troy McClure to come back and just get Phil Hartman, the voice of that and be like, hi, I'm Troy McClure. You just bought a pole star. Let me show you. You might know me from other vehicles such as the Volvo 83. And you may recognize me from today, we kill. Tomorrow, we die in Gladys to Groovy Mule. That's the greatest line ever. The other thing, in just the confusion department. So I check into a nice hotel in West Palm. And it's upscale. I think it's called the Ben. And it's nice. And by the time I get in, it's late. It's like 1230 at night. And I'm going in there. And I'm going to bed at 1, 130. I want to sleep in. But I have a paranoia. And my paranoia is the damn maid to always combine it like nine. You know, they have to get in at nine. I don't know why there should be a mechanism. By the way, we're like the guys who showed up late at traveling all day. Don't go to that guy's room. But all right. So I always hang, they do not disturb thing on there. By the way, the do not disturb thing. That little lanyard that we hang off the door with the hoop and the crack in it. Those have not changed since the beginning of time. What has changed is we went from a door knob to a door handle. We went to a straight handle from a knob. When those things were invented, they were invented for a knob. So you'd put the thing and you'd hook it on the straight part of the knob. And the knob would prevent it from ever falling off. Now we all have door handles and not door knobs. They have the blades out there, which means they always fall off. Yeah. Somebody needs to modify these things. Somebody needs to go, these things were made when man used knobs. That was 28 years ago, every time I say somewhere, I pick the thing up at least four times over the course of the three days. I'm staying there. So I go in and I go, all right, I don't want to go to bed. I want to put the stupid do not disturb because they're going to come in there. Bang on the door in the morning. I go, where is it? It's not hanging on the inside of the door. It's not stuck to the wall on the inside. There's no button. The button's the best. You sit the red light. I do not disturb. No button. And I go, so I start looking. That's 12.30 at night. I'm opening drawers in the desk and I'm going, where the hell is the do not disturb thing? I literally turn the room up. I tear it apart. Like a FBI agent looking for cash. I turn the whole room apart. report. - There's no do not disturb. So I go, all right, I'm just going to bed. By the way, I can't get the thermostat to work right 'cause it's super tricky. - Oh, sure. - It's like a full star. You're hitting a fan, keeps coming on. I'm like, I went to a button that says down and the button that says up, no, no, no. We got a screen and you have to keep hitting it. - There's a moana. - There's a rental stand involved. And I'm sound like, okay, so of course I go to bed, go to bed at 130, you know, 8.45. - Oh! - You know, and I'm like, gosh. So I go in there, I go, I open the door, you know, half bone or my underpants, and I go, no, no, I don't need the maid. But I want to hang something on this door. You guys are going up and down the hall. I'm going back to bed. I don't want to do this again. So I go to the maid. I go, where is, where's the do not disturb thing? Or is she super helpful? She goes, it's inside, it's inside. - Yeah. - It's inside. - It's in your room. - She points, like, it's that, it's inside. I go, okay, it shuts the door. But now in my underpants, woken up, pulling drawers open, bibles and looking at drawers, opening up other things. Like, I'm just looking all over the place. Not there, nothing there. Not, can't find it. Looking for the laminated, whatever. Rudy, let me show you what they use. - Okay, okay. - You took a picture of it. - I filmed it. - Okay, I did, okay. - And where it's located. And, just like the guy at the Hertz counter, when I checked in 11th, 1230 at night, that bitch never said, hey, listen, we don't do stuff like other places. Like, and by the way, when you don't do stuff like other places, you have to say something. You have to go, I know, I know you're expecting to find the laminated thing with the do not, that we don't do that. I'm gonna find a film that is, and then I'm doing 20 minutes on a chop salad, and then we'll do three minutes worth of news. - Fantastic, yeah, yeah. The whole time we stayed at last night, I left the counter. I don't know if you guys had the deal with the number of the room, but all the numbers of the room started with two. Did you notice that? Yeah, so I go to the second floor, and the guys like, I go back downstairs and go, where the hell am I supposed to go? My room number is 214.50. He goes, you go to the 14th floor. - You're right. - I was like, why is he starting with a two? - I, I, I, okay. Again, if you did maintenance there, you would know. - Yeah. - All right, this is a film, I just filmed me walking into my room. - Okay. - And you, and I will show you where the do not disturb thing is. It is these yarn tassel rope that are hanging on a wall six feet off the ground inside. - Yeah. - You would never, and 10,000, it looks ornamental. - Yeah, that's what, I thought when I first saw that, I was like, oh, that's a nice little chapsky. They got in the wall there. - I had to go down the next day and go, I need a new do not disturb. I don't have a do not disturb thing. And he's like, I do, it's on the wall. But by the way, made. Thank you very much, bitch. When I go, where's the do not? It's inside, you could have just walked in. You could have walked in five feet and just pulled off a one. Here it is. By the way, everyone is confused by it. You're the maid. It's inside. - Label it. - Yeah, anything. There's a thumbs up. It's literally hanging on a thumbs up. We'll put the video into the news segment. - It's inside, it's the least helpful. I walked back in, all I did was tear the room apart again. And I'm like, it's not in here. There is nothing in here. So finally I go down to the desk and I just go, it's hotter and balls in here. I cannot work this thermostat. And I have no idea where they do not, and they guys, well, they do not disturb. I'll show you. You can't even describe what this is, right? I, he comes in, he pulls the rope thing. I gotta, just get the stupid laminated thing. - Also, is there two of them? Is there a red one and a white one? What's the difference in the two? One is like, one is do not disturb, and the other one is lightly disturbed. - It's top and bottom, if you must know. So then he goes, takes 10 minutes, pushing on my thermostat screen. And he finally gets the air to come on. But it's like, you gotta go to fan, then you need to go fan setting mode, and then you go to fan set. And that's like, how about you just hit it, and there's a thing that goes up or down, and then I just go down. And then they always put it on here. It's like, you had it off. Yeah, I didn't have it off. I don't know how to turn it off. All right, that's that. - Yeah, also, why are they coming there at 8.45 in the morning? If check out is not until 11, I don't want to made knocking on the door until 11.01. - I wasn't even checking out that day. That was the following. - Oh yeah. - All right, so then, I got one more thing we'll post and we'll do the news. I order, I go down the restaurant. I don't know what's all kind of high flutin'. So I order the Southern Chopped Salad. - Okay. - Southern Chopped Salad. See what that looks like there? You can't go wrong with the Chopped Salad. I'll tell you what I hate. I hate leafy greens, but I love chopped up iceberg. So when you get a Chopped Salad, by the way, it says it comes with tomatoes. It comes with the fucking mini tomatoes, the mini brown, anyway. Chopped Salad, right? So I order a Chopped Salad because again, I don't like chewy, leafy, cutty greens, but I like chopped up iceberg. And that's what they chop on iceberg. Let me show you the salad that arrived. - What is that? That looks like a Southwest salad. That's not a straight-up Chopped Salad. - It's not Chopped. - No, there's nothing Chopped about it, right? And so the waiter comes by, it's all leafy. It's exactly what I don't want. - Yeah, it's a bag of lettuce that they give you. - It's a bag of weeds. And so the guy, the waiter comes by and he goes, I go, this said Chopped Salad. And he goes, that's Southern style. I go, what does that mean? He goes, it's Southern Chopped Salad. I go, but it's not Chopped. And he goes, yeah, well, it's a Southern style. I go, so in the South, a Chopped Salad is a non-Chopped Salad. And he goes, yeah, that's Southern style. I go, it says Chopped Salad on the menu. It's not Chopped though. He goes, yes, it's Southern. - Yeah. - Okay, change your fucking menu. It says Chopped Salad. Why do you do this? And also it kind of gives me the, yeah, it happens a lot. Where people, yeah, I know because people think they're ordering a Chopped Salad. And you just drop off a bunch of fucking shit that got pulled out of a mower bag and dump it on a thing. It's the opposite of a Chopped Salad. Chopped Salad for people who don't like salad. Basically, and this is all the green, chewy, cutting crap. And it is like Southern style. And I kept going, all right, so in this, a Southern style of Chopped Salad is a non-Chopped. There's no chopping. And then they're called a Chopped Salad. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Anyway, so incorrectly. I was angry. - Yeah, well, the Southern Chopped Salad and the calling every beverage a Coke, like maybe your society needs to switch it up a little bit. - We're fixing something around this, yeah, between that and this stupid do not disturb thing. I was just like, could you just do stuff normally that we could get by? You could have a Chopped Salad and you could have a do not disturb thing. And I could get on with my goddamn life. - Yeah. - All right, sorry, news, news. Do some news. Target is apologizing for selling a children's Halloween costume that some described as reminiscent of racist, menstrual caricatures. And apology from us. We pulled an offensive Halloween costume that should have never been a part of our assortment, Target said in the statement, posted to his website as a company, we got this wrong and we are deeply sorry. - This is a huge mistake, apologizing. 'Cause next thing you know, I saw like Black Lives Matter lady that were having a press conference. And at first off, you're setting the whole movement back. The answer needs to be, would you grow up and get the fuck on with your life? Nobody cares about this stuff. It's a Halloween costume. And clearly it's not made to be racist. Who would do that? Now shut up and go about your way and get a job. That's all it should be. Instead it's always, we're deeply saddened and disappointed. Okay, I think my take on this thing is they got bit by their own snake. It's just basically like sort of a witchy goblin kind of, it's just a standard Halloween costume. Their mistake is they used a black model. So what they do, what corporate America does now is if you have four kids pictured, two of them need to be black or one needs to be in a wheelchair and one needs to be black and one needs to be Hispanic or one needs to be fat, anything. The only people that evidently don't complain are the Asians 'cause they don't need to be, they do not need to be represented. But if you're gonna do one kid and your Walmart, you do the one kid, he's gotta be black. So they took a black kid and they put the black kid in the outfit and the thing had a weird like smiley face thing. And with the black kid, it made it look like it's a mold kind of turn of the century, menstrual goblin or something. And that's why they got fucked. If they just put a white kid in that outfit, no one would have said anything, it would have just played like a witch outfit or a warlock outfit, but also you're not allowed to take old-time drawings from like 140 years ago and go, see you can see certain similarities. Yeah, every piece of American ending, and pottery had a swastika on it from 300 years ago. What shall we do? Burn down the Iroquois tribe, you know what I mean? Like get 'em to apologize to Jews, you know? It's like you can take almost anything from a hundred years ago and hold it up to another thing and go, it kinda looks a little, that doesn't make target racist. I believe what is, I don't even know what it is. So you go, so you buy that outfit for your nine year old and he's going, 'cause I want to make fun of black people this year. So I went that one, like, do you think that's how it works? Do you think anyone would even know what they were talking about? Like you could have showed that to 5,000 people and people would have went, I don't know why you're showing me this. And then you get this stupid race thing and then everyone is weak and they cave and then they apologize and when you apologize, then it actually does seem like this thing's correct. Like you did something wrong and now you're apologizing and it just gives more momentum to the race hustlers out there. It keeps it going for another year. It adds fuel to the fire and it does not help black people at all because it just makes black people go, see? When it's not going on, we're not a racist society. Like you are hurting black people so much by trying to convince them we're living in a society that doesn't want them. I couldn't imagine anything more demoralizing. And by the way, why study? Why go to school? There's a school to prison pipeline. You want to get stuck in the pipeline? Why even go to school? Like we are just trying to demoralize black people. Now the hustlers, you know, the Al Sharpton's and the Lake Great Jesse Jackson's all the people, they're getting paid. I get what they're doing, MSNBC, but target, please, just go. By the way, why not the best excuse for anything is? That's nuts. That has nothing to do with that. Of course we never did that. No, we're not going to apologize. It has nothing to do with what you're saying. You're making something up. Now go do something else. But instead they always go, we deeply regret the insensitivity. All you're doing is setting black people back further. You fucking idiot, stop it. Come on white people, knock it off. And black people, would you get the fuck over it? You should be embarrassed by this shit. You should go, I said nothing to do with me. I don't know what they're fucking talking about. Like it's embarrassing, it's condescending. What are you going along with it for? Just because it's bullshit. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is renaming Lake Ontario to be known as Lake America in the United States as he escalates his trade war with Canada. The Republican President signed an executive order directing the Interior Department to update the lake's name in the US geographic naming service. Is that on the border with Canada? Yeah. How much of it is in the United States? Ooh, that's a good question. I will, here's how I will come down on this. If there's a greater percentage of gallons on the United States side, then we should, whoever has more lake should get to name the lake. That's the way I would look at it. And Lake Ontario has more, come on. You're from the city, you're from the state of 10,000 lakes? Yeah, well, why don't you know more about lakes? (laughing) It looks as though there is more of the lake inside of Canada than it is in the United States. On the bottom part of what you're looking at. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm scrubbing right over it. I don't know. Is that line that goes? This line goes right through it. Yeah, so this looks like there's a little bit more of where is the border exactly? So this white line? Yeah, this white line. Man, I don't know, that's looking like more in the, that is a toss up, man. That is a coin toss right there. We're just gonna have to find, we're gonna have to find our toughest UFC fighter against the Canadians toughest UFC fighter. And we're just gonna see who gets to name this lake, right? Like we're just gonna have to get, oh no. Maybe we should have Gavin knew some fight Trudeau. Oh, you know, he's gonna knew some's gonna mail it in 'cause that pussy doesn't want a situation. Oh, Lake Ontario is slightly more in Canada with about 54% of its surface area located in the Canadian territory. All right, well, I'll talk to Trump and tell him sadly, there's just a couple more ounces on the Canadian side so we can't go through with this. Yeah. But that's a close one, man. Speaking of Trump, he also announced a major oil agreement with Venezuela Friday, saying that the US has secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of the country's proven oil reserves. The United States of America has just entered into an agreement with the country of Venezuela on the biggest oil deal in world history. Trump wrote on truth social. He said that the agreement was reached at no cost to the American taxpayer. Listen, I'm all for energy. I mean, we're sitting here at a racetrack, essentially surrounded by things that require energy. And it's such a cop out when all those tree hug and pussies are like, we don't care. I don't need that you need energy for everything, everything you got, everything you want, everything we need, everything that got us from a society that was agrarian and kind of, you know, we basically killed soil and killed chickens and stuff to skyscrapers and, you know, fancy airplanes. Everything we got is because of energy. And the more of it, the better, the cheaper, the better. It's a lot cleaner now. Like people are like, you know, with cars. I mean, just think about what was coming out of the tailpipe of your stepdad's car versus what's coming out of the tailpipe of a new Honda. It's like, you could literally just stand behind a car when it's running in a parking garage and have a conversation with someone before you get into the car. In the past, your eyes would be watering. You'd be lightheaded. You'd get carbon monoxide poisoning. So energy, good, Trump, fine. - Mm-hmm. I don't know how you got here to Tampa, but I had a fly through BNA Nashville. Well, they're gonna go ahead and rename the Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton. They made the announcement on Friday, Tennessee Governor, Bill Lee made the announcement saying that his office and Nashville International Airport plan to rename the travel hub after Dolly after receiving an outpoint of public support for the measure. I was watching a thing on Dolly Parton today. How much time over her 80 years did she spend getting put together? You know, like makeup, hair, whatever extensions? Like, forget about any plastic surgery, recovery time, surgery time, like whatever. Just literally putting yourself together just to go make an appearance. Like, it is, I think it's why guys get so much more done. Although Dolly was able to waste all that time and get everything done. So she should be a role model to all women. But I think about it, dude, like, you know, you get up, you put your ball cap on, you put your hoodie on, you just leave, you know what I mean? Like, you think about like Pete Davidson. Guy never has to spend his whole life, never spend 10 minutes plucking something you're putting makeup on or just get paid, just go walk out on stage, just go bang models, you know? Never has to do anything. Think about the time invested. Like, you're talking about Trump. When we would do celebrity apprentice, when I did celebrity apprentice, celebrity apprentice and I can't remember all the women or years or whatever. But a lot of the women were a little bit past their prime in the sense that they were stars. They were on TV shows. They were on sitcoms or what have you. You knew them from the '90s or the '80s or something like that. And now they're getting a little longer in the tooth and they're not doing the hit sitcoms and romcoms and stuff. And so celebrity apprentice comes calling and they go, "Yeah, I'll do it, I'll do it." But you remember me from my '80s sitcom where I was like 27 and hot. And now I'm like 54 and we stayed at the Trump Tower and they would come pick us up at the, they'd come pick us up in the Extendo van and like 7am to go do our task, you know? And you'd go downstairs to get ready to hair and makeup bagels and stuff like that. I'd come down there like 6.40, 6.45. Like just put a little powder, give me some hair gel or whatever. There'd be ladies in that makeup chair since 4.45. Like they'd be planted in that seat since 5am every single day. Like they had to do it between the hair and the makeup and the whole thing and I was like, "God, that is a time suck." And that is a bitch, right? I was listening to the great Rory Scoville the other day and one of his old stand-up records and he's got about the hardest 45 minutes of the day is when his wife says, "I'm going to go get ready for bed. Why don't you jump into bed and wait for me. Don't fall asleep." And it's just him waiting there while his wife is going through all of the routine, you know, the makeup and the goggles and the makeup remover and all this shit. And he's like, it's the hardest 45. And as I was thinking, I'm like, "Yeah, it really is, man." Because it's just, "Hey, I'll literally just jump into bed with whatever I got on." Sometimes it's nothing at all. You just go to bed and that's it. Yeah, I mean, being a dude, you know, maybe I should get philosophical about this because. Women live seven years longer than men, which I don't like, but I would say that if you took all the time they spent putting the makeup on, taking the makeup off, and standing in line to use the bathroom at the concert, would add up to exactly seven years. So I think. It evens itself off. Yeah, we're just like, and if someone said, "Adam, you can live an extra seven years, it's just going to be applying makeup, taking makeup off, and waiting in a line, it's so fine to take a squirt," I'd go, "It's take me now, I think I'm good." So maybe we're even, Rudy. Yeah, yeah. You think about that? Absolutely, yeah. Yeah, it's just God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And now there's no God when it comes to chops out, and do not disturb signs. That's when I'm angry with God, but now I'm kind of back with God. Former NBA player Royce White brought his WMBA draft campaign directly to an arena on Friday night. Just days after Ennis Cantor Freedom was thrown out of a game, White attended the Indiana Fever's game against the Connecticut son, the former NBA first-rounder, was seen inside wearing a wig. He was greeted with a friendly welcome by fans as multiple people stopped to shake his hand and take pictures with him. Yeah, and Ennis Freedom got thrown out of that one game. I think it kind of, he got thrown out of a fever game, right? Yeah. Back some days. Yeah, Sophie Cunningham had made a three. He got up and cheered, and then that gal from, I think it was the Chicago sky said something like, "She's not going to sleep with you." And that's where it all started. But she went all fun. She went all fun. Yeah, that's where she came at him, you know? That whole exchange is like kind of indicative. If you just went, where are we as a society? Well, you have a league that won't define a woman. So all progressive people will no longer define what a woman is. So then you have a guy go, well, if you're not going to find what a woman is, then I'm going to claim I'm a woman, which is on them, just say what a woman is, you idiots. I don't know why Katanjee Brown Jackson, Supreme Court and all that stuff. It's not that hard just to say what a woman is. And by the way, it doesn't make you mega, it doesn't make you hit Larian, it doesn't make you anything. You just go, this is what a woman is. Look, Katanjee Brown Jackson, you got a dog? Yeah. What kind of dog is it? It's a Labrador. Boy or a girl. It's a girl. Okay. See that? Yeah. Not hard. We just did it. We just did it. Super easy. And I bet they would all do that, by the way, they don't have dogs that have cats. But if you say like, what kind of kid do you go, oh, it's a tabby. What? Boy or a girl? Boy. They wouldn't hesitate. They wouldn't go. Yeah. I'm not a biologist. They would just tell you what the fucking cat was. You can't. You can't. Even just do that in real life. You can do that. So we set up a system where we won't allow that. They won't do it. So then you got a guy who goes, all right, I'm going to make fun of you. And I'm going to show up the game. The enus canter shows up at the game. And then he just sits there. He doesn't do anything. And then when his favorite player drains a three, he cheers. Okay. I'm sorry. This is not illegal. He bought a ticket. He's sitting in his seat. And he cheers. Now, you don't like him and you don't like him there, but he's not doing anything. By the way, assholes, when you go protest ice, I'm sure they're not happy that you're just standing there blocking them or getting in their way or wherever, but you're allowed to stand there. We have a free country. Yeah. You're not allowed to block the van or you're not allowed to take your car and try to run one of them over, but you're allowed to stand there. We've all agreed on that. Those are your rules. You love those rules. But so he goes and he sits there and this is this is the new world order. First part is we don't know what a woman is. That's the reason he's here. He's there because you guys don't know what a woman is even though you do. And then the second part is he cheers when his favorite drains a three. And then the black chick goes nuts and starts screaming at him. She has a meltdown and guess who asked the leaf? So black lady, I know and it's like, we don't want to upset the black people. It's kind of like a weird kind of racist thing where it's like, hey, bitch, you're getting paid. He's not professional. Oh, he set her off. Well, I'm sorry. He didn't do anything. Yeah, yeah. So she, bitch, go hit the bench. Yeah. Or you leave. So now she's going to get the security and the security is going to escort the dude out who didn't do anything because the black lady was having a meltdown. That's where we're at as a society. Everyone market, put it in the vault. If you want to know this, that entire little exchange, you'd go, what was 2026 like? What was going on? What was the temperature? I would just show my grandkids a one minute clip of that and I go, that's where we are. Black chicks meltin' down. People not being alone. And guess who asked the leaf? Yeah. The dude who bought the ticket who didn't do anything. 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You can leave us a message at 888-634-1744. This is why the terrorists hate us, ladies and gentlemen, look at us. Just day-drinking, looking for, looking at trucks, nobody needs. Nobody needs these trucks. I drove a 79 Nissan long bed with a lumber rack on it and an Adelief and the rear suspension. I could put 30 sheets of drywall in that pitch and make it up, Laurel Canyon. Nobody needs this shit, but the point is, is we're Americans and we want it. Yeah. I am so jealous of these kids and these. These motorized BMX wheelie machines out here, old guys, are you with me? If you had one of these things when you were 11, you wouldn't be alive today, would you? Would you be alive? I was going ramp to ramp on a huffy. If I had one of those things, I would definitely have never seen my 13th birthday. I would have never -- we would have never been bar mitzvah. I'm kidding, there's no juice within 200 miles of this place. Maybe the lawyer guy over here, I don't know. I like the day drinking. We doing some day drinking out here. I like that. I love the -- I like the Bloody Mary and the Mamosa, because those are just -- that's basically sanctioned day drinking alcoholism, but it has a purpose. If you can't suck off of a flask at 9.45 in the morning, but you can have four bloody marries and no judgment, is a judgment-free zone. I like to do a little drinking myself, and I don't know if you guys remember. If you guys do any flying during COVID and want to have to fly commercially during COVID, that was tough. That was tough. I realized, by the way, it varied a lot when you flew during COVID. It depended on where your flight crew was based out of, right? Because the mask up in between bites. Remember that strategy? Remember that? Mask up in between bites is really the same as me saying, "I have a traffic safety idea belt up in between lights." But if you had a flight crew that was based out of Houston, you were cool. You could just sit there, and some 63-year-old flight attendant would be like, "Where the mask? Don't wear the mask. I don't care. I'm going to sit on this jump seat and smoke. We're probably not going to make it." But the worst seven words you could hear while flying during COVID was on behalf of your Seattle-based flight crew. That meant that bitch with the Fauci candle is going to be up your ass the entire flight. So I wasn't sure, because somebody said they're taking the booze off the flights. Remember, everyone was fighting on the planes, and they said, "We're going to take the booze off the flights, and I wasn't going to fly during COVID without my medicine." That's for damn sure. Neither would this bloody Mary Mrs over here, right? So somebody told me, "Pack a flask." And I said, "Thank you, fellow alcoholic traveler. I will do that." So I packed a flask, and I was sailing through, I had an early morning flight, flying to Texas, Friday morning, LAX, 8 a.m. flight, going through security at 7 a.m. and I get pulled out, so one holds my backpack up. You know that feeling when they go, "Who's bag is this?" And it's your bag, like all of a sudden you feel like El Chapo starts whiting, starts thinking about making a run for it, starting a new life in Mexico. So I go, "That's my bag," and the guy starts rifling through it, pulls the flask out. Looks at the bottom of it, says 7.0 ounces. I go, "What's the problem?" He goes, "3.5 is the max." I go, "Okay, a lot of science going down. Should we mask up in between this conversation?" So he goes, "Double, doubly loud, boom loud." So I said, "So what are we going to do? We're going to throw the flask away. It's got my initials engraved in it." He goes, "No, we don't have to throw it away, but you've got to dump half of it out." Thank you, Alcada. So I'm like, "All right, we'll dump half of it out. Just do it in this trash can here," and he goes, "No, not this trash can. That trash can over there." I said, "Well, that's on the other side of security." He goes, "Yeah, you've got to go back out into general pop, dump half of it out, and then come back around again." I'm like, "Damn, it's got my initials in it." All right, fun. So I give my bags, backpack, I give all the stuff to Mike over here who I'm traveling with. And I say, "I got my flask, I got my boarding pass. I'm going back out into general pop. I don't be back around." So I go back out to the trash can, the designated dump can, 7AM, LAX, be high of activity. And I'm like, "Where's that guy? That security guy?" Because there's only two guys in the airport who know the story, and I'm not talking, right? So I'm like, "Oh, he's occupied over there, patting down an elderly amputee." And I'm like, "Well, I'm not flying this airplane," who goes, "Oh, I start sucking off the flask. 7AM, empty stomach, having eaten since six the night before." And I'm like, "All right, what the hell?" So I'm sucking on more. Now I'm catching a buzz, but I don't want to come up heavy. If I don't want to come up a half ounce heavy and have to do another lap around retard park, sorry to this lady who's wearing a shirt that says, "God is love." But there will be some blue language along with the show. You guys are good with that? All right. All right. All right. I like it. Is that your son? He's got a personal cooling device around his neck. Yeah. You know, we had when I was a young man's son, it was called a hose. Just put the hose on our head, and then we'd suck off it because the hose water. If someone would come out with an energy drink that tasted like hose water, every dude over 50 would buy it. So where was I? I was drinking at 7AM, kids. Stand by that trash can, sucking off that flask, getting angry. What the hell kind of society if this thing turned into? God damn it. Sucking off it some more, now I'm all buzzed, but I don't want to go and get way the flask and have to go around again. I'm sitting there sucking in some point. I look up, and I see people are filming me. Man show guys, hit rock bottom. 7AM, just drink a buy trash can at LAX, Kimmel's hosting the Oscars for a third time. Corolla's drinking by trash can at LAX at 7.10 in the morning. Where's he going? He's not going anywhere, he doesn't have luggage, he's just drinking. So I get back in line, now I'm standing there smelling like booze, I'm drunk. I got no luggage, and I'm just standing there waiting to go through security again, get up to the security check guy. He's like, you got any luggage? Like just a flask. By the way, you want to get to the top of the terrorist travel list, travel alone with a flask and no luggage, you'll bump one way ticket to Bay Root guy right off the leaderboard. So I get in line, go mad, I got the moms with the Lulu lemons and the kids, you know, give some room, he smells like booze, he seems agitated, I'm just, yeah, you get a toothbrush and socks in any town, this baby's got my initials in it. So I get up to the line, get to the conveyor belt, I don't know what to do with the flask so I just put it in the basket, and then it's just me and the flask, making the loneliest pilgrimage ever, just sea-less celebrity-ness booze, traveling through the airport, get to the other side, security guy looks down at the flask, looks in, he's like, you got any luggage? Like no, just a flask, totally true story goes, have a safe flight, I go have a safe flight, you don't know what I've been through, he goes, have a safe flight, I go, go wait, go get your scale. It's like we don't have a flask scale, I'm like, then go get your flask dipstick, you gotta check this thing, it was then and there, I figured out these guys were dumb, and I also figured out a way to get as much booze as you want through any airport in America, you could get a 55 gallon drum of Yeagermeister through any airport in America, as long as you stamp 3.5 ounces on the lid. All right, it's John Clay, no John Clay Wolf, all right, well that's good, we got Steve, right? Steve will come up, Steve, why don't you come up here and grab a mic, Steve Calamusa, I just knocked my water up, all right, don't slip on this. Steve, come up here and grab yourself a microphone. So Steve has a very interesting business, supercarclaims.com, so you ensure these supercars. - What we do is actually we handle diminished value claims. So Brad is a friend of mine and I-- - Pull that mic up tight there, sorry, sorry, yes. - Brad is a friend of mine and there's some owners in this club that are friends of mine as well. And I didn't have cars when I was younger that I didn't have any nice cars. As I became a little bit more successful, I got nicer cars, my friends did as well. And what I realized is that the insurance companies do not pay diminished value on cars without a fight. So I dedicated a portion of my practice, right now my practice has about 100 employees and I did a lot of sophisticated litigation for a long time handling class action litigation, product liability cases. And I had friends come to me and say, hey Steve, they will not pay on diminished value on my 993 turbo. Somebody backed into it, hurt the quarter panel. It was original paint. Now they don't want to pay for the diminished value. They'll pay to repair it. So I started getting involved in these claims from my friends and seeing the denials come back from the insurance company and decided that this was something that was routinely happening and I wanted to do something about it. So to help fellow car people, I created division in my firm and we do exclusively that. There's 20 people that only do diminished value claims. - What's the best car you've worked on, you and your company? - I've got an interesting story about a GT3 touring where this is Porsche. - Porsche. - Sorry, we got the family over here with the neck coolers. So they might not know we're talking about a Porsche. - This is everybody's nightmare. So, Porsche GT3 touring paint a sample in the garage. The wife is at home. There's a home inspector coming in and the home inspector says, "Hey, I gotta go into the garage." The wife says, "Do me favor my husband's on his way home. Please don't go in the garage." The home inspector's like, "I've worked around cars before and don't worry about it." He goes into the garage, he pulls out the attic ladder. The attic ladder falls out of the ceiling, hits the roof, carbon fiber roof of the car, shatters the roof, hits the windshield, hits the hood, and slides down the side of the car to $60,000 worth of property damage. The wife who is an attorney, she tries a hand of a claim on her own. She makes a $30,000 demand for diminished value which was insanely low. They say, "We're not gonna pay 30. We're gonna pay 10. She contacts us. I get involved. I withdraw the 30." They say, "Oh, no, no, no, we'll pay the 30." I said, "No, that's off the table." Because anybody that owns a GT3 touring does not want a car rich stories. Anybody who buys a GT3 touring does not want a car rich stories. So the end result of that was, they want to pay $203,000 with diminished value and loss of use. So if you took, when I was grown up, if you took my house, my grandparents house, and every car, an adult in my family had, and combined it, you couldn't get to that number. You know how many ladders would have to drop on my family? Before we could get to that $203,000 mark. - My father didn't graduate from high school, so I feel very blessed to be able to afford these cars, so I do. - What's the nicest car you have? - I have a roof RTR, which is-- - Hold on. - That's a Porsche. - No, I know it is, I feel again, it's a beautiful car. - Roof's are having quite the Renaissance, I would say. They're really making a, I don't know if you want to say making a comeback, but I see them all over the place now. And you know, I mean, roof is crazy, but also obviously, singers pretty cool. Probably not as cool as the roof, as long as you're standing here. I'll say that where the Gunter works once over there. - Porsches. - Porsches, all porches, neck, fan, family. - I started off with a rusted Bronco, though. That was the, I'm worked in, you know, as a bouncer in night clubs and worked my way through school, so I feel very blessed. - Which Bronco, OJ Bronco, or first gen? - First gen Bronco. - First gen. - Nope, the early 1978, so it wasn't a small gen, it was the, into the OJ, but not the 93 to 95 gen. - The worst, I would say, let's see if we can figure this out. Number, number two. Bronco, two, that's bad. Mustang, Cobra, two, that's Cobra, two, or Jaws, two. (laughing) What, what is it worse to, from the original? Like, I don't know that you can get much worse from Jaws to Jaws, too, but what about the original Cobra, to Cobra, too, and what about the Bronco, to the Bronco, too? - So the only saving grace of the Cobra, too, is that you could get a five liter in it, I think. - You could get a five-o in that. - You could get it, so that's the saving grace, but it was kind of ridiculous looking, and it was a slap in the face to the original Cobra, for certain. - Yeah, but what about Jaws, too? - I mean, that was a slap in the face, 'cause Richard Dreyfus, Spielberg. - That was bad. - That was bad. - What is so I'm trying to think, give me your fame. I'll start first in the Hunkett junk department. My mom, we only bought used cars, we could never finance anything, so what we had to pay in full for the car, my mom had a VW square back, that would just vapor lock all over the place. It was, we had no car ports, so it would just sit out in the sun all day, and you'd climb in, and you have to put a beach towel down, so your legs and spot weld to the final seats. That was a pile of crap. Your parents have a good pile of crap. - We did, and I don't think my parents understood carbon monoxide, because we had a car. It was an old Catalina, where the floor was a little rusted out, and we'd be sitting in the back, and it'd smell a little bit different than it should, and we'd get a little woozy on our trips, that would take care. - Well, in the VW square back, the station wagon, the engine was in the car, under a piece of three-quarter-inch plywood that was in the back. So you did know what was going on with that engine. You'd get the car, I was like, nine, I was like, I think she's running a little lean. I borrowed my sister, had a 67 Dodge Dart. Yeah, sweet red. And probably had like a slant six in it or something, and I convinced her when I was 18 to let me borrow it to take some of my friends to Tijuana, you know, to read to young kids in the library before we came back. And I borrowed her Dodge Dart. I made it from LA to like San Juan Capastrano, thing was overheating the whole time, put a rod through the side of the engine block, abandoned it by the side of the road, and San Juan Capastrano. I think we hitchhiked basically to Tijuana, came back three days later with no car. But I did junk it in San Juan Capastrano, and I gave my sister the $40. I got, and she was pissed off, but I spun it. I said, hey man, I saved you a lot of trouble because you could have been in this car driving to Tijuana and blown it up, and that could have been a dangerous situation so you're welcome. I had a, what else, what other pile of crap did you have? Let's see who can do, you know they do those things in school reunions where they go, who's driven the furthest? - Right. - Who's had, whose parents had the biggest pile of crap in this room growing up? Can we out, we can out do, and by the way, let me just tell you something with some of these cars, like the old Bronco or the VW square back. I know it sounds cool now. It was a pile of crap back there. It's the same as the lunch truck. I work construction, I always ate off the lunch truck, and when I try to tell my kids, I used to have to eat off a lunch truck. They're like, oh, was it the Kobe beef lunch truck or the super talk, I know it was the crap lunch truck. - There was one, the lunch truck story. - Right, there's no air conditioning in the Bronco, - Oh, air conditioning. - Right, I was not allowed to leave the restaurant. - Where, what pile of crap did you have? - 72 beetle. - Right, yes. - VW 72 VW Bugs, it's another car that was a pile of crap back then, but now it's kind of nostalgic and cool, so you don't get any points. like I don't get with the lunch truck. (audience laughs) You out of Bronco too? - There you go. - Yeah. Those things rolled over all the time. - Right. - And by the way, if they did roll over, the roll over protection was a thin piece of fiberglass shell, just enough to gash you before you get pulled out of it by paramedics. All right, who's got better than a VW bug? - Yeah, yeah. - 76, Plymouth, Valari. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's a pile of crap. (laughs) You know, oh, I wanna just say this real quick. When Americans, and by the way, I don't wanna get political, but this is why this socialism crap is not gonna work. I'll tell you why. America, back in the '70s and the '60s, we had the market cornered. So we didn't have to produce efficient cars that were safe and worked. We made crappy American '70s cars, and we got cocky too. We had the Landau roof. We were gonna pollster the outside of the car. We couldn't have pollster the inside of the car. Everybody's dash was blowing up on the inside of the car. But we decided we're gonna pollster the outside of the car. And we were like, yeah, who's gonna stop us, the Japanese? But then Toyota and Nissan, and all the little Japanese Honda started coming in and it forced America to up their game. That's what I'm saying. And that's why we shouldn't vote for socialism. All right, man, back here. 76 AMC. AMC. Hornet, that's a pile of crap. By the way, all you need to do is hear AMC and you win. All right, all right. You had made AMC because we could have had a Gremlin, we could have had a Pacer, we could have had Hornet. You know how I like, the height of American prestige was the Levi Gremlin and the Levi Pacer. What? I was kind of, I never really thought of this, but it was a big selling point. They would do the interior out of Levi's, but considering in 1976, every American was already wearing Levi's inside of their car, then it was redundant, right? I mean, any car you got into had a Levi interior 'cause that's what your ass was all. Right, 100%. It's a powerful thought. You ever think about that? Neck fan family? This kid's about to pass out. I'll tell you, there's nothing that warms the heart of a performer more than a third-year-old kid head on a table, just literally passed out. And I know it's gonna be from boredom, 'cause you ain't even drinking yet. All right, what else do we got? All right, we're not gonna out do anything that starts with the AMC, oh, the Matador. The AMC Matador. Remember that sled? Yeah. That was a beaut. That car was crazy because from the outside, it was like the biggest car ever built, the inside was much smaller than a VW rabbit. Tiny car, yep. You couldn't get into the inside, but good news. If you were in the back seat, if you could make it into the back seat, you would have an opera window. That's right, really, it was just a viewing port. So your friend's gonna make fun of you. All right, what else do we need to know? Give me another good story. Give me an expensive car that you can intervene on. All right, so a gentleman aspires to buy his first Porsche. He buys the Porsche. First Porsche. That's a Porsche, oh, okay. Yeah, Porsche. Yes. He aspires to buy his first Porsche. He buys the car. And when he buys the car, he says, you know, I'd like to have the calipers painted red. I couldn't afford the S, the S comes with red calipers. I want to have the calipers painted red on his vehicle. The Porsche dealership that he buys it probably says. So he goes down to pet boys and he gets a rattle cam. Well, he decides it's close. Really, yeah, close. I like this guy, yeah. So what he does is he leaves it, the Porsche dealership. And they say, we'll take care of it. We're gonna paint your calipers red for you. Come back in a couple of days. He gets a call in a couple of days and they say, we got a little bit of a problem. And he says, well, what's the problem? He said, though, your car has been damaged. So he goes through the dealership and when he sees it, his car was on jack stands outside. They hired somebody to take the rattle cam and paint his calipers. So his car was on jack stands, wheels off. Someone was masking the fender wheels, hitting it with a rattle cam to spray the calipers at the Porsche dealership. Well, to be fair to them, at least they took the rims off. I would just rotate it, you know. And so while the car was on jack stands waiting for the rattle cam spray paint to dry, a home inspector comes by. Somebody backs out of their parking spot, doesn't see the car on the jack stands. Hits the car in the rear end, knocks off the jack stands. The car falls on the ground, breaks the suspension components underneath it. And now insurance gets involved. Dirty car facts. They have to order components for the car. And it's now his dream car that he waited for. And all he wants it was red calipers has a dirty car facts. Right. Sort of a brand new car, it's a dirty thing. Yeah, so that is like in the car world, you know, if it says salvage or if it says like, oh, you're buying a vintage car, a vintage Ferrari, a vintage Lamborghini, but it's like the engine block serial number doesn't match the Venn number on the car. That hurts it a lot. It's kind of like a hot chick with a couple of kids, you know what I mean? Like, all right, it's still good. But there's a little mileage there. 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Stop by O'Reilly auto parts today or visit us at oReillyauto.com/atom. Hello and welcome to Pluto Fault. If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, just stream it for free on Pluto TV. We're all your blockbuster favorites are landing all summer long. Catch anchor man, the legend of Ron Burgundy. Fantastic. The Matrix trilogy. Welcome to the real world. Mean girls. Side up. Titanic. I'm the key in the world. And so much more. For showtime. Press nothing. They're free. 24/7. So fast. On Pluto TV. Stream now. Pay never. Yeah. So what do you? Yeah. Now you got the Scarlet Letter on the car fast. Right. Right. So the insurance company paid to fix the car. However, now he's recognizing that the car was in the shop for a number of days, actually about two months waiting for suspension components. And now the car is worth less. So they didn't want to pay anything on diminished value and when the smoke, you know, the dust settled, we got him $64,000 on that plane. Wow. So it takes the sting at, and listen, we're not asking for anything other than kind of what would take the sting out of it. When he goes to sell that car, he's going to probably receive $30,000 or $40,000 less for it. And then plus the time he was there without the car, even though he's paying insurance on a Porsche, you know, he's paying everything Porsche, but his car is sitting in a shop someplace. Right. Right. So he's going to, when you go to sell the car, you're going to take a hit. Yeah. This gets you paid to compensate for that hit, not to mention the price of a divorce attorney because his wife said, don't do it. The calipers look good and silver, honey. Don't do it. But he said, no, I must have read calipers so I can stop better. And now he's divorced. Steve, thank you very much for coming out here tonight. Thank you, again. Thank you, everybody. Your hands together, good job, Steve. All right. Our next guest is a guy who I actually, who used to own this Porsche right here. That is, that is my Porsche 935, but he sold it and somehow I got it. Carlos DeCasada, everybody. Good to see you. Carlos, have a, grab a microphone. Yeah, have a, have a seat. If you like. Well, sit there. I'll sit. That's good. What do you got? I've been to Carlos's garage, which is not far from where we're sitting, although I'm not going to tell any of you pukes where it is, because he don't want you over there messing with his stuff. He wouldn't say it, but he told me to say it. It's got some cool porches in there. Race cars, everything from stuff that may have run Daytona to stuff that ran. I think it got some Indy stuff in there as well. Yeah, a lot of mostly porches, but some Indy cars. We have Roger Penske's first Indy car, which was 1968 Eagle. That was race by Mark Donaue. So if it's an Eagle, if it's an Eagle, then isn't it a Gurney car? It's a Gurney car, yes. Okay. Yeah. Dan Gurney, great dude. I think I interviewed him just a little bit before he passed away in his shop in Orange County. It was just an amazing impression. And you've raced. Give us the top five of your races and then why we should be jealous of you and your son. Ran Emsa for many years won the 24 hours of Daytona twice. First time in 2007, my son, Michael, was six years old on the podium with me. And 10 years later, we ran together in 2017. And we won the 24 hours together in that race. And he ran it at 17. Oh, yes. Oh, what we are all doing when you're 17. Run in Daytona? No. He is the youngest winner of the 24 hours of Daytona. I believe he still holds that record. Really? Yes. What car did you run? What class did you run it? We ran GTD. First time was GT. 2017 was known as GTD. What, which cars were you running? The Porsche 2007 was a Porsche Cup car. And then, well, it was known as Grandium Cup. And then, in 2017, it was a GT3R. You know, the thing, I mean, you can correct me. But when they used to do these endurance races, Daytona, Le Mans, Sebring, you have to take it easy on the cars. Like, I mean, like, I talked to Dan Gurney about this, you know, Le Mans 60s, late 60s, 4 GT. You know, he'd be at the end of the Le Mans straight. He'd start coasting and downshifting. He didn't want to wear out the brakes, you know. So, even though it was a 24 hour race, you were kind of going seven or eight tenths through the race. These cars are so well built now that you can go 10 tenths for 24 hours. I mean, you can go full sprint for 24 hours. Is that correct? Yeah, that was our strategy. You know, I sort of raised it. That was your strategy. That was everyone's strategy. No, it wasn't. It wasn't. It was. It was. It was. It was right about the turning point. I think now everyone's probably going 10 tenths. They are. No, they're absolutely going 10 tenths now. But when I first started in the 90s, you know, we'd run the 24 hours and I'd always told my drivers, you know, let's just take it easy. It's not a sprint race. You know, it was back then when you had manual shift. Now everything is paddle. And there's, you can't make a mistake. But when it was manual shift, it was very easy to make a mistake and do a downshift overrub blow your motor. And that was it. And it happened a lot. As the years went on, you know, in the 2000s, the sequential. And then from there, it transitioned over to paddle. It just became a sprint race where it's just people were driving 10 tenths and the cars went and breaks. So, God, I saw, I was watching at 24 hours that they tone about. I think it was about four or five years ago. And I think there was a portion, a Ferrari, 488 or something locked up. And there was like three minutes left in the 24 hours. And these guys were going hard, literally bumper to bumper over the rumble strips. Like the whole nine yards up until the very last second of the race. Like it was, it was incredible. Yeah, it's really amazing now, because with the BOP, they're really trying to balance the cars, they were all equal. So, I would say the driving's gotten a lot more aggressive. There's some drivers getting a bad rap for being too aggressive, but it's just a nature of the race now. I just, you tell me, you've done a lot of racing, Carlos. You know, if a car has an advantage and it's doing a little too much winning, they'll add some weight to the car. They're looking for parity. And maybe they'll make the diameter a little smaller for the intake. Whatever it is, they want these cars to be equal. So, they will add weight to a car. They will do something to a car that's too dominant. But I think what they should do is put the guy's mother in the car. I feel like that's enough to equal things out. She's yelling at him the whole time, white knuckling it, slow down, trying to feed him. You know, that's enough to bring the couple of seconds a lap off of that car. What do you pitch at at the next driver's wheel? Talk to him about that. Talk to him. Don't just give me the lip service this time. And I want credit for this idea too. Yeah, we used to get very frustrated with BOP. They really are trying to make it equal now so that, you know, you don't have one car that dominates. You know, it's a little frustrating because it's like when we were running the GT3R or the Mercedes GT, we were running the AMG that was the last cars that we ran. We would get frustrated because we'd show up at a certain race. We'd get BOP where we felt like we were at a disadvantage. But then a couple of tracks later, a couple of races later, we'd be very competitive. So it depends on tracks that the BOPs that they hit you with. I got a better idea. I'm going to take this. I'm going to bring this idea. I'm going to translate it into the news of the day. A lot of talk about men competing in women's sports, right? And these high school guys are whooping up on the track. They're beating everyone in track. Hey, young fella. When you get to high school, if you become a woman, you can take all the records. I'm not saying you have to. I'm just saying you want some trophies. I'm just saying. Come on, mom. Explain the joke to the boy. The point is this. Why not let the boy who says he's a woman compete with the girls, but let's add a little weight. You know, I mean, like take a sports bra and put some sand in it. You know what I mean? Slow the guy down. You want boobies? We'll give you boobies. Now run the hurdle of that. That would be a great BOP, I think. Go ahead and tell him so that was another idea I had next your next driver's meeting. So what's coming up for you? Now I just got back from Laguna Saka and we did the Rolex Historic. Oh, you were just there. I was there. Yeah. What were you running? I was running the Porsche 1973 Porsche iRock car that was driven by Adrian. Oh, that's right. You're running your iRock car. Damn guys and their Cameras. Yeah, that's a cool piece. And by the way, that iRock car, those things are worth a lot now. You'd be too modest, but I'd say more than two million bucks, right? It's worth quite a bit. Yeah, so let me tell you, years ago, one of those was coming up for sale. Maybe even your car. It was at Pebble Beach. It was like at RM or Gooding. It was one of those auctions, you know. And it's, I like them, but you guys know what iRock is? International race of champions. All right. You guys know what iHOP is? Yeah. So we've got the more iHOP crowd over there. I got the iRock crowd in here. So one of these cars is coming up for sale. And it's like, I don't know the estimate is four, five hundred thousand bucks, which sounds like a lot. But I'm like, that's a, that's an RSR Porsche. That says it. That's a pretty sweet car. And so I say to Bruce Kenapa, who's the Porsche guy, you know. I go, Bruce, I'm thinking about this car. I think it's just be a good car. He goes, well, what are you going to do with that car? It's not really a race car. It's not really a street car. It's an iRock car. It's been modified a little bit, but you can't bring it out and run in this run group, you know, with 935s and all the other big stuff. You're going to get dust in this car. You can't do anything with it. So I was like, thanks for the advice. Bruce, I did not buy the car in 10 minutes later. It's worth two and a half million dollars. Now, I knew it was a great investment when I picked it up, but listen, I went out there and ran the iRock race. I beat, you know, a number of the Camaros and some of the Pontiacs. And I beat the other Porsche that was there. That's all you got. That's all I could have. I've got other Porsche. You don't have to beat. A heavy weight, if you're a middleweight, you have to beat all the middleweight. That's exactly it. Right. Even if the heavyweight is an ugly 80s Camaro. So, and you don't, you know, people sell the time. How are you going to go out and race a car that's worth that much? I don't think you think about it once you get in the car, right? You just drive, you just drive the wheels off it, right? Yeah. I mean, you sort of have to pay attention to the drivers that are driving out there, the ones that are more of a liability and just watch out when you approach them and, you know, just, you're always driving defensively when you're driving vintage racing, so. When is, what's the next stop for you? So I've been running a lot quite a bit in Europe, did the Goodwood members meeting? Good wood. Good wood revival, limousine, good wood. Good wood's the best. Yeah. It's awesome. Yeah. Two weeks, I had Portugal to race in Portugal, so I'll be racing a Porsche 935 and a Formula One car that was Mario and Dredi's Formula One car, Alpha Romeo. What year is that from? 1981, that one, 1981. So how did you get my Porsche before I got my Porsche? No, that's funny. I knew that that was a Paul Newman car driven by Paul Newman in '79. He won Le Mans with it, and back then it was a guy that had it by the name of Chapin Scent that owned a company called Electrodine, and he had an Electrodine sponsorship on it. I don't even know if you know this, but that car was very, very significant. It was '79, the wine-tropic car, and then in 1980, it ran as the Apple computer car. And then in 1983, they converted it to 934, and it was known as the yellow school bus and one of the 12 hours of seabring here in 1983, one overall. And so with that pedigree, I really tried negotiating that car, I picked it up for what I thought was a good deal, and definitely a good deal I picked it up, because I think it paid 200,000 for it back then. Wow. What year did you buy that thing? I bought that car in 2006, around there. Wow. Wow. And what did you pay for that car? Around 200,000. Wow. But. And that was two cars. The other car that came with it was a 944 GTR with all the spares. Is that like a cup car? No, no. It was a factory-built GTO car. Those cars are going up in value. Oh, they are. Two. For sure. Yeah. It gave it away. Wow. I wish I could have held on to that one too. Wow. That was 935. He'd drive in in Europe. So I bought back in 2000, who's heard of the Winnington brothers? Is that anyone ever heard of them? You guys know the Winnington brothers? They're in legendaries, so you tell a story. I'll tell the story. Kids hold your ears. They were drug runners from Florida, I guess, or at least in Florida. They bought Road Atlanta. They flew airplanes. They raised airplanes. They raised cars. They basically were speed junkies who sold drugs to junkies, essentially. But they took the money, and they put it into cars and planes and boats, and their cars were always unsponsored, and so people would always be a little suspicious, and they started. They made up their own perfume company, so they could have a fake sponsor, so people would not be so suspicious when they pulled up to the track. But they were sort of just high-octane, crazy, go-fort kind of guys. They bought Road Atlanta, they'd land airplanes, and the back straight of Road Atlanta. They were flying P-51s. They're flying P-51 Mustangs at Reno, like I don't know how much more of an adrenaline junky you could be than the Wittington brothers. But they had 935 portions. Better help, this episode is sponsored by Better Help. We have things we want to improve on. Right now, trying to put down my phone and stay a little more present with people. Tough, but I'm getting better. Better is a feeling defined by you. And for Better Help, it's a Better Help therapist who really gets you. It's a focus on global emotional well-being with thousands of therapists and millions of members in over 100 countries. It's progress right now, it's me getting better at staying off my dang phone. Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com/corolla. That's BetterHELP.com/corolla. Hello, and welcome to Pluto Fo. We're all your bloodbusters, favorites, or landing all summer long. Fantastic. The Matrix trilogy. Mean Girls. Sad Dog. Hi, Tannin. And so much more. For showtime. Press nothing. They're free. 24/7. That is so epic. On Pluto TV. Stream now. Pay never. So, yeah, if you're driving one of the Wittington brother cars. Yeah. I'm driving one of the Wittington. So I bought that car around 2017. It was a 1979, 935 that was a factory car. They raced at the 79 season. And then at the Daytona finale they converted it to a Kremmer K3. And they won the race. But at the end of the race it started a rain. And the car crashed at the checkered. And ran into some other cars. So the Wittington brothers went ahead and disassembled the car. Took the tub and put it away. And their airplane hang around Fort Lauderdale. And there it sat for over 40 years. And I had a friend that reached out to me. That the car was available. And I told him I would take it. I had to put it all back together. And I put it all back together. And you know what? When they were restoring it, they found three kilos of coke. Oh, yeah. It was a true story. Now, the Wittington brothers, they got the coolest story ever. The Le Mans story. I mean, think about this. They go to Le Mans is sort of unknown drivers. They're going to drive for Kremmer, who did the K3 cars. He was a Porsche 935 guy. And it's two brothers and a professional driver who was, I don't know, horse quack or something. Rob Stomlin. No, not Stomlin. Okay. Yeah. One of the kids will tell us after the show if it was Rob Stomlin or not. So these guys, so the team owner says, I'm going to put my factory driver in this car, my professional driver in this car. The German guy has been campaigning the car all around Europe. He's running first. Then you guys can get in the car and the 24 hours of Le Mans. And they go, no, we want to go first. We drive first. And he says, no, no, you're not driving first. And he says, yeah. But if your guy drives first and the car breaks or he crashes the car, then we don't get to drive. And they go, well, that's racing. That's how it goes. So you drive second, the professional driver drives first. And then the Kramer brothers go, how much do you want for the car? And the guy goes, what? And it goes, we're going to buy this car. How much? And I don't know what it was back then. It was a couple hundred thousand. It was a lot by 1979 standards. Like, you know how many VW squarebacks Chris Corolla could have bought for that money? So they just go into their trailer, go into the Duffel bag, get out two hundred thousand dollars cash, give it to the dude and go, now we own the car. Now we're driving first. The car wins Lema overall, takes first. And I think it's the last factory production based car to win Lema overall. And becomes probably the most valuable 935 in the world. No questions. It's the most valuable. Yeah, Bruce Meyer. Oh, you got to tell that story though. Oh, this a great story. So these guys are notorious drug runners. They're in and out at prison. There's a lot of speculation when they give the car to the Indie Museum, whether the thing, whether they gave it to the Indie Museum, or they lent it to the Indie Museum while they were in prison and all kinds of stuff. But at some point, a good friend of ours, I guess, probably no Bruce. Bruce Meyer, rich guy from Beverly Hills, the nicest guy ever. He buys the car. He gets hold of it. He trades a car to the Indie Museum. Gets the car, takes it to our butt, or buddy, Bruce Kenapa. Bruce Kenapa does a full restoration on the car. They bring it out to winter speed days in La Gunasaka. I was there driving a Paul Newman car. And he's bringing it out for the first time in like 25 years. And all of a sudden, a bunch of guys. with DEA windbreakers and black sedans come pulling up with a flat bed with walkie talkies and everything. Bruce is freaked out. They're like this is a we're confiscating this car for the IRS, the Winnington Brothers O-I-R-S, all its money. They put it in a flat bed. They just pick it up and they all light up your sirens. He's freaking out. Right. Bruce Myers is freaking out and they just take off with his, I don't know, $8 million. Porsche 935, the entire thing was staged. This guy, Bruce Kennerbub, paid a flat bed, paid all these actors to show up with DEA windbreakers on, pulling up and Crown Vicks. I mean, these are, you know, this is like rich guy practical jokes, you know, poor guy practical jokes. Let's just put some shaving cream into the toothpaste. Come on, that's a good one. This is rich guy stuff. As you call it, rich guy poor guy, right? Rich guy, poor guy. Yeah, pranks, right? Write that down. All right, put your hands together for Carlos everybody. Thanks, buddy. Good job. I hope we can combine, re-look at some of your stuff before we hit the road. All right, where is, let's see, who we got left. We got Brad Alashansky. I hope I said that right. And James Bremis here. Brad's the brains behind this whole thing. And James is the muscle. Don't mess with him. So let's talk about this for a second. Check my notes here. James, you are from the Big Brothers, Big Sisters organization. Yes, sir. I got involved with them many, many, many years ago. And just say, you know, what an outstanding individual I am, this is all pre-celebrity crap. This wasn't like, well, I got a DUI and my publicist told me I need to do something to help my image. I did this when I was poor driving a Zuzu trooper back in the day, the most underpowered SUV on the planet. But I, yeah, I started probably like 92 or something like that, but tell us how you got involved. Yeah, so I have a younger brother and he actually got me started. He's eight years younger than me. He did it in college. And when I lived in New York, I was in New York for 11 years. I was far away from my family and I just wanted to rebuild that kind of connection again. So I got involved with the Big Brothers, Big Sisters in New York. I joined their Young Professionals Committee. Me and my wife moved here two years ago. We had two kids. So I didn't have much time to get involved for the last two years. But recently this year I joined the board of directors down here in Tampa. Yeah, I don't, I would encourage anybody to get involved. It's a lot more rewarding than you could really imagine. And I think you think it's going to be kind of a time suck. You know, like, oh, I got a, at least when I was doing it, they said you got to commit at least every other weekend for the first year. I think it was. And it was like, wow, that's a lot of, you know, it's like a commitment. It's all worth it. You actually get more out of it. I think I got more out of it than my little brother did. I really, I really do. But, and how do people get involved? Like, can they go online and just go to? Yeah. So the program has probably evolved since you volunteered. There's a lot of different ways to get involved. We have workplace programs, so you can sign up to have little s come into your place of work and people want to volunteer and work with them there. They can do that. We have big futures, which is college age, littles. So, yeah, a lot of that's meeting virtually, which is a lot more conducive to, you know, people with busy schedules, right? Because they're going to school. They can't always meet in person. So there's a lot of different ways to do that. But if you go to bbbs.org, in the top there's a button that says become a big. You type in your zip code and it'll connect you with your local agency. I haven't been a big brother for a while, but I'm thinking about taking these two home with me. Yeah, because I'm looking for a neck fan. And I just, wouldn't you kids like to live in Malibu, California? It's so nice out there. Yeah, I'll take it. I'll use the neck fan. There you go. I don't know if it, I don't think it works. No, I got to turn it, you got to turn it on. Well, but first off, little Lord Font La Roy, how hot can you be? We're indoors. There's air condition. Yeah, I'm sweating my ass off. I'm busting my hump up on the stage. You're just sitting there fall asleep watching me. What kind of calorie burning are you doing? You damn right, I'm taking this thing home. Wait, I need the charger. I can't just take it home. It's not gonna be good. That's just a regular charger. Oh, man, this is so much better. Man, if I had one of these things when I was your age, I'm gonna take it over the world. Said I was just sitting in a sweat box in North Hollywood. Just, I couldn't get me worked on. I was fanning myself the whole time. Alright, so, sorry, where were we? Brad, you're the, I don't know what, what was your official title here, Brad, because this whole place is you, right? Yeah, I'm the founder and CEO. So I created it and I run it. It's amazing. Put your hands together for Brad over here. I may take this girl too and maybe that dog. So these things are opening up. I mean, it's turning into a thing, which is kind of crazy. These, you know, places where people can have a second home, a car condo, keep their car, a track, and the whole facility. It's an interesting concept, but it seems to be working, right? Yeah, when I started one of Michigan 10 years ago called M1 and everyone said, it was crazy. Roger Penske said, you know, that's not gonna work. No one's gonna buy those things. And, you know, the audience, I thought was there. It started because my parents were talking about the nostalgia of going to drive-ins and diners and places that welcome car guys. Right. And I wanted to recreate that. So that's what we did and kind of grown in here. They just announced one, actually, I don't know if you saw this week. Boris said the former NASCAR driver is opening one in Lake Elsonor. Lake Elsonor. Yeah. That's, that's in California, right? Yeah. It's called Elsonor Ring. Yeah, it just got back from Peru where I did one of those. Spring Mountain, yeah. Spring Mountain, like it's really quite an interesting look. If you, you know, if you got to the place in life where you can afford something like this, it's really nice because you get to be with your cars, you get to be, but better off than being with cars, you get to be with car guys, instead of Hollywood douchebags, who don't care about cars. And that's all I do is hang around with the Hollywood guys and they're like, huh? I don't know. I have a golf cart. That's all. Nobody knows anything about cars room, room from, which is, which is sad. The key most of these places are private, not open to the community. My model from day one was we need the wealthy guys to start the process by buying the real estate. But we do tons of events from cars and coffees that are free, driving schools that you can pay a few hundred bucks to giant shows and events and trade shows. So you got to really, my model's more inclusive to all different audiences. Most of these places are just really rich guys, playgrounds, closed to the public. Yeah, that's the way I'd like to keep it. Let's get some of this riffraff out of here with the crap of my stuff. Now someone's gonna get me a mosa. Hold on a second. This kid's got a backup neck fan. This guy's a two neck fanner. He's a double neck fanner. You got a backup neck fan in case some sea lists celebrity grabs your first neck fan. Oh man, this kid's living too high on the hawk. I was thinking about adopting him, but now he's got too much attitude. He's gonna come walk it in. Where's my neck fan, bitch? All right, I'm gonna return this neck fan. Now put both of them on. Double up that neck fan. At some point, once you get 40 to 60 pounds of neck fan on you, there's diminishing returns because you're sweating so much, just dragging them around, you know. So when you're building your next one or where you're building your next one, well, we're gonna have a few cities here in Florida. It takes a long time to get one of these out of the ground, but it's definitely, you know, the key for our businesses, you got to run like a business not a hobby. So one is it's fine, hard find the property, getting it zoned, you know, easier than if it was in California. Obviously, I don't know how he's gonna do it in Lake Elsonore. But there's a few projects in the works. We're gonna expand this project. We're adding more garage, more amenities. We built this amazing ecosystem here. Tampa Bay is an incredible car community. When I came to Tampa, I'd never been to Tampa and a data map said this would be a great place for it and everyone in Tampa is like, "There's no car guys here." We had probably 3,000 cars today and it's a giant car scene. Tampa is a car guy place and there's more car guys, probably per capita here, really only second to the neck fan community. Poor kid shows up once he get out of the heat, take a load off, he's got the main whole comedian making fun of his neck fan. It's all jealousy, son. It's all jealous because of my horrible childhood. I couldn't afford a neck fan, you know. Poor dad had to stand next to me and just wave a flip flop at me. That's all we had back then. We didn't have money. So we got more on the way and how big is the track here? It's 1.72 miles designed by Herman Tilka, the Formula One track designer. It's actually a very technical track. Obviously we don't have a lot of elevation in Florida but we've got an incredible super elevation designed into the track. So the real drivers, I love it. I'm not even a driver on the track. That's the joke about the industry with me. What are you racing? I'm like, I don't race. Yeah, yeah. You own the horse. You're not the jockey. Better to be the owner. All right, put your hands together. Thank you for your riding James. All right, Rudy. Let's put a fork in this one. 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