Comedian Abbas Wahab

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They have an amazing track record. Go to offtherecord.com slash TST. That's off the record.com slash TST for 10% off all legal services booked through Off the Record. One more time. That's off the record.com slash TST. Alright folks, on the show today. Abbas Wahhab is back in studio. This dude is so funny and so many percentages of his bits are about cars. A comic who bases most of his act on cars. I love it. What's not to like? He's touring the US and Canada right now. You can hit the link in our show notes to get tickets to see him when he's coming to your town. Right now, Abbas Wahhab is in studio for the Smoking Tire podcast. Let's go. And get entered to win today. Chips. He made a movie, the remake of the TV show Chips. Did you ever know that show? It was about a movie before my time. Oh, it definitely was before your fucking time. But it's your kind of show. It's about two California Highway Patrol motorcycle officers. Love it. And it's like action comedy. And it was in the 70s and 80s. It was a comedy TV show. But Dax's version. Dax remade it as a movie with Michael Pena. Oh yeah. And it's a buddy comedy, but he directed it. Dax did. I'm assistant entirely. So Dax also directed a movie called Hit and Run before that. Yeah, which like was a little bit of a hokey movie. It was in mid 2000s. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I think I saw that. But he just wanted to do all his own stunt driving. Oh, car chases in this movie. That's a very little happens in the movie. Like a bunch of car chases. He's like Tantino riding in all his own stunts. Yeah. He also when he did Chips, it was the same thing. And so like it's like it's got enormous cred. Yeah. For me as a gearhead movie. Yeah, because the car shit's all really accurate. The filming. He's doing all the driving all his own stunts and his own driving. And I was like, he's like, like a red neck Tom Cruise. Yeah, it's like doing unnecessary stunts. We got a big chase coming up. You could probably just drive in this scene. What if he drifts in? Well, because if the show it would be like it was two motorcycle cops in the big stunt, be like they went around a balloon that had fallen in an alley and it was like they went around a car and he he has seen Jocana. He's riding downstairs and stuff. He's like, what if we, you know, level us up for 2020 post Travis Pastrana era? Or he came on our podcast to talk about it and like other, you know, whatever the view are asking him, you know, about what it's like with Michael Payne. And we're like, or shot for you. Mounted shot. Yeah. Had it on the arm. Was it all let go, bro? You guys know that she's fun. And then he had his own podcast suspiciously soon after that. He had a great time. Yeah. He's a good idea. Dude, you're a natural. You said that Rogan thing. You're natural. You got to start doing this. Make a living doing this. He sold it like a hundred million dollars. Yeah. Spotify. He's still on. Oh, he like sold it, but then you probably have an agreement to be on my DAX or Rogan. Oh, sorry, DAX. Okay. Oh, so he did that thing too. He did the that thing. Gotcha. Oh, man, I got some big money out here, boys. I'm the most depressing one. I and not that I don't think, you know, those guys with huge numbers shouldn't be worth some huge amount of money. Yeah. I met a dude who was a nice enough dude whose name I'm not going to use, but he was a nice enough dude. Can we connect the dots? He told me he had a podcast. You might not, because I don't think this is Bobo. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this is a completely different young person that I met at the ice race. Okay, cool. Okay. In Montana. And he has a podcast. Yeah. It's a tech podcast. Yeah. And they do it five days a week. Okay. Like hours a day. Okay. It's it's it seems like a lot of work. Yeah. And the numbers are like not as much as the numbers of like this show, but it's like episode to episode episodic numbers, the raw numbers are are are good. Yes. And he apparently, you know, makes made has quite a lot of like concurrent views on live stream, because people put it on as like a news program. Yeah. Yeah. In the background while they're working, whatever. Good for this dude. I just found out that he sold this fucking podcast for like $200 million with it. And he isn't Joe Rogan and yeah, yeah, yeah, Shepard or Will Arnett or Amy Poehler. It's a it's a tech, a tech dude. It's just a tech dude with, you know, that's crazy. You know, immediate with medium numbers who see who I'm happy that this person now has instant generational wealth. Yeah. This show is actually going to be all about solid state batteries today. That's why you got to try to increase the value. Welcome to the Smokings Entrepreneurship Hour. Yeah. You guys brought me in. What's your rising grind routine? Spike your numbers. A broad evaluation. The uphill battle that we do. You're trying to create a stand up career based entirely on automotive material, which is, which is a tough fucking needle. It's not entirely. I will say that. It's not entirely. It's not entirely. Well, people come out, sit, think in that. So it's like, dude, you know, you throw stuff at the wall, see what sticks, right? And then just my love of cars come somehow surface like the, you know, the cream always rises type stuff. Yeah. So it's like, I'm doing all this funny stuff online, just doing stand up every night. And then when I talk about cars, it does exponentially better because I'm bringing something different to it. Sure. So that was like, you're in the room. I'm talking about online online online. So then what happens is I get all these car people. This is like two, three years ago. I think this is why I think car people see someone finally talking about cars. They share that. They go, oh my God, these guys finally talking about cars. I'm going to send it to my car friend. So then for it started with me just doing my an hour and then people be like, bro, I got literally came up to me one show two years ago, goes bro, great show, but do more car stuff. And I was like, Oh, okay, what do you drive? He goes, Oh, I don't have a car. I was like, go figure out your life. What are you, get back on the bus and figure your life out. But but that's the moment I realized, Oh, a lot of these. So then now it's like a good third of the show is car inspired. And I do it right off the top because all the us are autistic car guys are like, otherwise, but then they play the point, you know, but but then all of their significant others, all these women, there's a moment of the show where it's kind of like, what is kind of do a joke like this is the whole show, by the way. And then I'll switch gears into like, you know, life and it's not 100%. And even us, you even 20 minutes into being like e 46. And like, that guy works out, you know, you know, that guy's that whatever Jiffy looper, you're gonna be like, okay, talk about your cat or like, you know, that's literally this show. Yeah, this show, we can't talk about cars for 90 minutes. Yeah, you start itching. Yeah, okay, it's like, Hey, yeah, this leads me to a just take a quick poll, though, you go to see a band or an artist perform live. Okay. And it's someone you're casually into. Maybe you know, like one or two of their songs, like the hits. Yeah. Do you want them to play the hits upfront, spread, you know, in the or do you want do you want them to close out with the hits? Me personally, I want it, I want their new thing to be sandwiched in between hits. I want them to open middle and close with hits. You want the compliment sandwich. It's not the same with comedy because I can't keep but exactly exactly. I want the eagles, you want them to open with Hotel California or New Kid in town or whatever. And then you want them to kind of close with the same thing, right? Put the new thing in the middle. It's like a one hit, one Dery kind of band, maybe that's opening for the eagles or whatever. They got to do their thing six times. When not like us, remember Kendrick two years ago? Was that last year? Yeah. It was like a year of not like us. Yeah. Apparently he did it like six times or like eight times. That is like LA show or something. I believe that because it was like twice in a row open with it. That was the thing like Kanye and Jay-Z when they went to, but they went to Paris and they did that song and they said like a record. Let's get the numbers up. Let's get, let's sell this. Let's drop controversy. The Rogan line, I'm just saying the name of the song. But they did it like six times in a row and it was like the marketing everyone around the world was talking about it. So yeah. Nah, I know what you mean. It's like so funny. But you see the audience. You know the thing where they're in France together? They're speaking about a trip to France in this song. It was just a couple, I think it was a couple pals in Paris. Is that what it was? They achieved financial success through traveling through Paris. Let's listen now to... Fuds in Paris. Fuds in Paris. That's awesome. I was hanging out with my buddy Christian Hand and he was talking about, we were joking about this and I think, I think I'd want to probably hear the band close with a hit if there was just the one. But Christian said he saw a couple of artists throughout the late 80s and 90s do open, middle and close with the one hit. Oh, you have to. Yeah, you have to. I think it was, was it, I think it was Blue Oyster Cult? Is that fear, the, don't fear the Reaper? He said they played, don't fear the Reaper. And he said, I think it was John, John, John, I think as a 90s singer, he was a radio DJ. So he had to go see. He had to go see. He said he did the hit three times and then closed with doing it in Spanish. He's got to give it new for himself. Dude, if I was in that audience and you're a one hit wonder, or even any of these like iconic people and they close on a new song, you know it's not the real close. You know they're going to come back on stage. Of course. Right? It's just basic stage craft. Yeah. Yeah, you're like, this isn't, they're going to leave out and we're all going to be like, my wife hates an encore. Does she? Hates an encore. She gets mad. And I'm like, they got a pee, have a little beverage before. Thank God for you though. That puts the brick in. This guy is, that takes the stress out of your life. You know, God bless your life. Hey, she hates an encore. You're going to slide the blue chew ad in right here. Blue chew gold. He's like, I'm not done yet. And she's like, you better be done. You better be done. When your wife insists on an encore. Good night, Springfield. There will be no long call. This is Cleveland. What? Matt, just play the hit up front, please. Oh, and on my anniversary. Is it your anniversary? It was, 420 was my anniversary. Do it 427 for me. Is it 427? Well, yeah. So 7, we, we, you almost got that right wedding date. Screwed up the timing, bro. I'll tell you what, if your, if your wedding is 420, your, your friends will remember to wish you a happy anniversary years later. Yeah. Even when all others have forgotten. Yeah. Yeah. Um, this is funny. I'm a, I'm a, I'm like, I smoke weed a lot, you know, not in the sense of like, I'm like, yo, I'm the, you know what I mean? Yeah. But I'm not exactly in the culture in the way that literally on 420, I went to dispensary in New York to get a, you know, pre-roller too. And she had a box behind her. She goes, and here's a free one on the house. And then I'm like, Oh, well, you guys got a promo going on or something. Didn't even know. And then the store was packed. You didn't even know. First of all, the dispensary was packed and was so alive. And there was free donuts. I realized, Oh, someone's birthday. It's none of it. I'm like, Oh, it's a project. No, it's, it's 420. Oh yeah. You're buying costumes on Halloween for a different like a party. Exactly. Exactly. Hey, what's going on with all these people in like grill outfits and stuff going on here? And you're buying a grill outfit. Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Yeah. I'm just on a holocaust. Yeah. I don't even excuse to read this drunk. So all the green up the road from here and, uh, you know, is the, uh, the Snoop Dogg store is just right here. Did everyone's got a dispensary out here? Yeah. But I mean, if you're going to go to someone's, I mean, Snoop Dogg's, there's, you could do worse than Snoop Dogg's dispensary. Right. Jeter, Derek Jeter. Did they have because I just, in that dispensary, it had a big little like stand up from being like Jeter. No, there's a brand of weed called Jeter. It is not associated with them. I do not think it is associated with Derek Jeter. The marketing was so strong. Oh, Derek is Jeter. Correct. It's Jeter. But it was such strong branding. I'm like, that's him for sure. Well, the weed industry, I mean, the retirement path. The packaging in the weed industry is so innovative and awesome. Dude, dude, especially the edibles, but also like the trademark infringement that goes on in the weed industry. Oh, it's the Wild West. I was in the weed store. I went to the Snoop Dogg store on 420. It was a shit show, by the way. There was parking lot vendors. Like it was nuts. There was a huge line. It was fun though, 50% off. And so there was a weed brand called Elon Musk. That actually just is hilarious. It works great. Yeah. There was like Ford Bronco Indica. Yeah, it makes you autistic. There was just like, there was the amount of trademark infringement. You just started firing employees. You started naming people X4, 3, 2, 5. Yeah, exactly. I love you X4. Well, you have my babies. And your own hair. I love you Gama Batman symbol. You are my favorite of the 27. Yeah. Which one are you? Which one are you? Oh, man. Oh, you know, he's like, it's not really a car company anymore, that Tesla. He pretty much is giving up on cars. He's a villain. No, no, he's in the future. I've been saying this for like 10 years. Guys, gotta take a quick break because support is coming in from Aura Frames. And you know what Aura Frames are. We've been talking about them for a while. They're those digital frames that are the perfect gift for your mom, wife, or partner. They can capture and relive mom's magic every day. What about throwing in there a candid shot that she never knew you took? A special shot from a moment in your history. And Aura brings it back into her purview whenever you want, right? You can send little blips of joy to the person in your life that is the most important. 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But like, he's not gonna die at 100. He's going past. He's gonna be like 150 on a spy stand. Exactly. But it's, he, have you seen Total Recall? Of course. Total Recall is like one of his favorite movies and he doesn't either doesn't or even more scarily does. He's cohagan. He's literally he owned the guy who owns the air. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He owns Mars. He owns the air space. They're getting like him and Bezos like they're like blu or they're like dibs on space essentially. Yeah, he keeps all the space like trans weird people and the the freaks quote in the in this one corner and is threatening to kill them by cutting off their air if they don't do it. He was I mean, that's no, no, he's gonna be president of Mars. He's gonna be worshiped on Mars. Like 100 years from now, Mars will have people on it and he will be like the guy that will be his cult. Yeah, yeah, it'll be his prairie rage or something. People did it with yoga in the earth. Imagine leaving the earth setting up life in another planet. They're gonna worship you dude for like a thousand years will be and if you don't, we have Mars, Moscone and yeah, yeah, I'll praise be changed the name of the planet, but he'll use he'll use cheap domes that don't have UV resistance, which will turn the people into mutant freaks. Of course. And then he'll go, ew, mutant freaks and banish them to the corner. Like Venus is where we're going next. Where have I heard this story? He'll get tanned and he'll be really upset about it. Yeah. So he'll be like, oh, that's literally the plot of total. And you got to pay the monthly premium for the UV protection. Yes. Like look, we know it was free at the beginning. You want to upgrade your dome, right? Recurring revenue. You guys, you've seen these three titties over here. You like you want to have two titties, not three, right? We're getting gamma rays next week. So I would, I would upgrade if I were you. The sunburst coming. Yeah. You should really upgrade. Highly recommend it. Mm hmm. Just saying. I think I'm going to put UV tint on the windows of my house. Oh, yeah. I didn't do that. And I kind of regret it. That guy does it. The guy that tinted my car, he mostly does residential now. Yeah, we got to do that. He's like, I don't like to do cars. Buildings are easier and sure I would get paid more windows or flat. I guess you save your couch from like sun. Dude, it damages. Well, what do you save your, well, cooling, cooling your house, certainly in the summer. The UV, but UV doesn't do too much heating like infrared. Like the lower end of the spectrum does more of the heating. The UV, they'll do more of like biological damage or like the grade, you know, paint finishes. That's right. It fades the wood. Not the primary source of felt heat, but yeah, yeah. It damages people and things more. Science! I don't want to fucking fade my wood. Yeah. Okay. You got some nice wood at the crib. Got some okay wood. Yeah. We got some smoke and tire. Some dark blue shoes. $200 million podcast? Yes. It was me. That was me. Dude, I haven't told Zach yet. Yeah. What the fuck? We got to talk, brother. Yeah, no. My wood is very precious to me. I watch those YouTube channels of people that take a... Yeah, literally this. This is the slab table. This is literally it. Now I'm looking at it again. I watch this stuff. They put the epoxy resin. Yeah. They fill it. They sand it down to like 1000 grit. Yeah. And then this is like an $8,000 table, isn't it? Matt, how much is this table? No, it was a shout out to my homie, Mickey Iwasaki, who made us this table. Is that the guy that does fat fenders on 9-11s? This guy smokes cigarettes and then cuts up trees and just makes tables. He's just sitting on a chair. Yeah, he's like, what if I pour plastic in the table? You know what is this guy? N'Kai? Is that what his name? The rear wheel body. N'Kai. Yeah, I've not met him. What a legend, though. Yeah. His rider is amazing. I need like a Marlboro Camo. Two cartons of Marlboro Reds and somewhere I could smoke indoors while I use an angle grinder. And they bring him a nice chair, too. They bring him a nice chair, like... And they put it right in the middle of the shop and he's got sandals on and he kind of crosses his... It's such a vibe. They're like, Steve, get up, Steve, give him your chair, Steve. But this is a Herman Miller box. Give me your fucking chair, Steve. And bring the ottoman. My body owns a Porsche dealer, sir. My body owns a Porsche dealer, sir. Man, they were having him come to a build. And fucking he calls me and he goes, Matt, he wants to smoke while he works. I go, yeah. Of course. And he goes, but we were going to do this in the showroom. I go, well, you got to make a decision. Get some filter, HEPA filters in. Because you got a show. If he doesn't smoke, you're going to ruin... Like, this is not going to be a good show for you. This is no grit, no work. Exactly. I mean, that's like a church booking bad religion by accident. Like, they're a popular band we hear. Not sure. What's with the shirts? He's the Dave Chappelle of this car stuff, huh? He is? Yeah. Because he gets to smoke. Oh, right. Yeah, exactly. Whatever. If you hit a certain level of artistry and whatever you do, yes. Indoor smoking rules no longer apply to you. Sure. That's a crime for poor people. Yeah, exactly. Sean Penn. Who is that? Is this Sean Penn? No, no, no. Sean Penn smoked at the Oscars all night and they said he got worn six times, which is like, all right, he had six cigarettes then. And he looks like he smokes every day because he does. I love that. The security guy being told you have to ask him to leave now. Yeah. He's I am Sam. He's gonna, he's about to win. He just played like a psychotic army guy. Oh, doing that. His role is great in that. The way he walks, he nailed that walk. He nailed that walk. Those like ex veteran guys, his face, the army. Dude, he nailed that walk. I mean, his face looks like the Dutch bread we eat crinkled up like an old bag. I would definitely let him have grits in the studio. Guys, taking a break from the action because support is coming in fast like Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, who's now got a podcast and you're always asking me what I'm listening to when not recording this show. And right now it's this, the new season of Drive with Jim Farley. In it, the Ford CEO talks to some of his favorite people about what they're driving and what drives them to succeed. Like Formula One driver Daniel Ricardo. Listen, there's a well-worn trope about racing drivers not being interesting to listen to. But if there is one that is interesting to listen to, it is Daniel Ricardo. I think this guy's takes on stuff and life are great. And look, Jim is a racing driver also. I personally raced against him like two months ago. And for me, a CEO that drives race cars on the weekends is about the pinnacle of CEOdom when it comes to car companies. So the two of them together obviously have a lot of things to discuss on Drive with Jim Farley, which you can get on your podcast app. Very easy to find. Drive with Jim Farley. Check it out. Like, yeah, sure. Whatever you want. Not to tell him not to kill you. Dave Chappelle, yeah, he'll smoke wherever. Smoked, too. Smoked. Yeah, and no one will say a thing. That is a nice privilege of being that successful. If you like smoking, which listeners of this show. You're a big, not a big, probably big vaping audience. Not much. Huh? Still think about it. Cigarettes? Every day. Yeah. Oh yeah. Every day. Love them. Damn. Every day. That's what I was thinking about. Whenever we talk about cigarettes, he romances it and I'm still clad. He's out of a flash. They're so gross. I get it. I get it. It's so gross. People shouldn't smoke, but also, you get it. Mm, that I enjoy. Look, when you flip through the photos, there's always him sitting. Nikai's like wearing Uncle Rico pants. Just cutting. He's also a style icon. If you actually pay attention to what he's wearing and like, he's always got like some next look. It's like a high top sandal he's wearing right now. It's like he's like a height beast wearing cigarettes, smoking. He's pretty much as cool as it gets. To be Japanese and not give a fuck is as high a style icon as it exists. It looks like he should have a fragrance, doesn't he? Yeah. Doesn't he look like he should have a wrap album, a fragrance. Yeah. Like doesn't necessarily look like a guy who does body work. No, not at all. He looks like a music producer. Yeah, that exactly looks like the Japanese Rick Rubin. Dude, what a legend. I'd love to meet this guy. He's mashed up with Skrillex. It was awesome. Yeah, we have friends that are good friends of this dude and say really great things, but just as a character that exists in the universe, you know, there should be a, wow, that's, see, that looks like a good place to smoke cigarettes and cut up fenders. Yeah. Outdoor pavilion. That should take that wall out in preparation for him, huh? Just thought he was a writer. Yeah, we're going to have to take that north face and wall out. It appears that this is RWB Manila. So they have probably built a outdoor like stadium in the Philippines for him to come. And he is an icon because have we talked about any other body shop work? I mean, ring brothers, they do amazing work, but we don't go look at the picture of them building the thing. Right. You know, it's where, yeah, where it's a performance. Yeah. That's exactly why the cigarette is so necessary. Yes. Because what he's smoking indoors, just immediately that, it has that sphere. That's already iconic a little bit like in cigarette inside is like, whoa, it's like 1965 or like, well. By the way, he's also saw zalling a 993 and flip flops. Yeah, exactly. Would like a perfect line by hand. Yeah, look, I think he's wearing crocs. Great forearms. What a legend, man. What else do you want? Yeah, see those crocs and he's got flair on him too. Oh yeah, he's dressed like Bobby Lee a little bit. He's dressed like Bobby Lee. And it's not even an Asian, the Asian thing. Hey, I'm just, if you're looking, Lee, that's so yeah. Have you seen that movie, Bus Boys yet? Uh-uh. Is it good? I haven't seen it. I want to go watch it. He's a car, he kind of dressed like Carl also. Oh yeah, a lot of chefs just dressed like this because they need comfy feet and that doesn't really matter what they look like from like, I don't know, the nipples down pretty much. What's it was, chefs and tattoos? When did that become a thing? Chefs and tattoos. And tattoos. Chefs and tattoos. I don't know. Artistry. Probably all the same time, right? The aesthetic of being a chef versus, I mean, I don't know, I think chefs are always like pirates. Do you think chefs and tattoos preceded like tattoos popularity and everything else? Because they weren't that popular when I was like 20 and then all of a sudden it was like, everyone's getting sleeves. Everyone's getting, everyone's getting, I didn't like, and baristas have sleeves and now it's not tough anymore. Yeah, 10 years ago. I worked like some event with a celebrity chef. I was just like literally a bus boy and, or like clearing tables and stuff. And the celebrity chef just, he would keep coming out to take photos with people because they would pay a bunch to eat there. Yeah. And so they would be like, I can we say, I forget his name is some French guy. But he's just like, you know, they're such an aesthetic the way those cocktail bartenders, sure, I get their like custom leather, that has like, it's like, I don't know what the string is. It's like chain link on one side, and it's tight and fitted in the white shirt and just sleeves. And he's like, got this sounds like lute, author glasses. Ludo Lefebbe. All right. That is the guy, the Petitois guy. Toimac and Petitois. He's a TV show. He's, he's all the TV. He's great. It's all an aesthetic. I mean, for sure. If you're a chef on TV, that's a different story because you're going to Hollywood yourself up or magazine magazine. Yeah, sure. Because they all do picture things. Yeah. Except my boy Carl, who gave no wonder it's also like a way you can individualize yourself because everyone all the chefs are wearing the same uniform essentially, but you do forums. So you go, well, here's who I am. Yeah. Because always I'm just here. Here's the bit you'll see that in a beard. But even these high level ones, the uniform goes down to the wrist. So it's like Carl used to say that, you know, back in the day, they would wear toks, the hat, the hats and the different the height of the toke was how much power you had in the kitchen. So if you were a dishwasher is real low and then that's hilarious. And they don't do that anymore. Now the guy with the AP in the kitchen, that's the chef. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Expensive watch. Just listening. It's just a hierarchy of watches. Plus we got a Rolex on. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The G shock is doing the soup. Yeah. And yeah. So that's what you do. Dude, I was watching the news the other day and there was like some fire or something in Philadelphia and they had the Philadelphia fire inspector on the news and like bro, the helmet he was wearing, the badge that was on it. It was it looked like a Saturday night live parody for firefighters. Like the size of the badge. That's his crown. The funniest thing I've ever seen. And I think his said like, holy shit. Yeah. Did you find a photo of it? Yeah. I think so. It shot, it was hilarious, bro. They're all just standing there being very serious. Did the badge look like it should be mounted in the rear window of an impala? I mean, this is an old one. Whoa. But the new one, it was all gold. This one is like a fabric. Holy shit. It's like take a police badge and literally by scale eight times and just put it on a firefighter helmet. It's giant and hilarious and they're like, yeah, you know, at the scene it was like, it's a very serious. And I'm like, is this a joke? Let's see if I'm a Mel Brooks movie. It looks like Lord Helmets helmet. Bro, it looks like aliens like pretending to be humans. Is it? Wow. I mean, even just the visual that Zach has provided with this photo, I can see the scale and that's very silly. It's hilarious. I was like, that's so fun. Was it a ceremonial? No, no, no, no. They were like, oh, it just. Oh, boo. What are these? It sent me the wrong way. Yeah. Look at this. Look at this. Here's like, wow. Yo. Yo, yo. All right. If you're facing this person, people will think you would not be able to see their head. And the chief, I think it is bigger. Okay. Look, so once you take the assistant off, they increase the 30% in size. For the record, red lives matter or whatever. Absolutely. But the. Respect. I'm not laughing at firefighters, but I don't know. Firefighters like this helmet. That's crazy. This helmet, not even the helmet, just the badge. The shield eclipses the helmet when viewed from the front. Bro, it looks cartoony, doesn't it? The shield is like a bit cartoony. It looks like a costume. And the one I was watching, it had this one actually sits directly over the helmet. There's was sitting like, it was over it. It was like, it had two, three inch gap over. It was sitting way above. I was like, what? I wonder if this is a game. How do you put that away? It was on high risers. Yeah. Wow. Like that one looks badass. This one fits in. It's all part of it. Like these ones were sticking proud. That's like, this is right here is where you've gone plus one on your wheel size here, but you don't want to go plus two. Oh, right. Yeah. It just gets crazy. This is like a 17. No, it's like an 18. That's an 18. Go back to that guy. This is a 20. That's a, that's dub deuces right there. But it looks like this is how they identify quickly, you know, the hierarchy. I guess. Out in the field. Keep going. This is mechanic. Keep going. Oh, they all have them. They all have the big, the big shield. That's about as far right there. Well, these are all. Photos of them fighting an actual fire for people. For sure. Um, but, uh, and the one of the first one, if you go back to the really big one, it had like a manti fin up at the top connecting it to the hell. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're going to need accessories just to keep that thing. So any firefighters are listening. First of all, we appreciate you. So explain why this is this a new thing. No, I haven't seen that in any other department. It's not like that by any means. The Canada's not like that. Philly is a funny place in that way. That's like a Philly firefighters like that's as American as a catcher. That's your hard mother for the fire fighter. That's you eat only cheese. Thanks and only from Jim's. Yeah. And you're still alive. Just by, oh yeah. And you throw batteries at the Eagles when they're losing. Yeah. Oh, it's definitely a Philly thing. Here's another. You know, they don't really, they grease the light poles before big games. That was what because people go and celebrate winter loss. They climb light poles. They climb the street lamps. So like they literally walk around greasing these things. Spraying. Because they literally walk that far. That's fire. Yeah. If like, if they, if the Eagles win. Yeah. They set the fucking building on fire. If the Eagles lose, they set the building on fire and roll the cop cars. Like it's crazy. The crazy town. And grease budget for the poles. That's crazy. I love Philadelphia. I owe, I really, I owe them a visit. I went to college there. So I spent a lot of time there. Oh, I fucking, it's, it was the best for college. It's the best town. It's like a little mini manageable New York. Yes. Exactly. Yeah. It does really feel like that. But with, with people that are like even funnier than New York people. Yeah. It feels more like Detroit there. Because I live in like Detroit area for some years. It's more walkable. Alex, are we excited for space balls too? Space balls. I guess space balls for me was like before. Does. All.哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎 Something eight five eight six something But it's not the search it's baseball is the new one. I'll watch this so long You really should watch again I'd say it doesn't exactly hold up, but it doesn't know no they have it. Yeah, but it is funny It's I mean it's like the comedy pacing is different, which is you know a thing and then Monty Python still holds up It does it holds up better and it's older. Yeah, I think Something about the Brit dry humor British this maybe lives through time better some about dry humor ages better where it's like Maybe it's because it's like There's some Matter is real older. Yeah, I mean I don't want to say spaceballs doesn't like hold up like some of the jokes are still very funny I think I rewatched it like four years ago And it some of them are like and then the pacing of it is just so different from coming now that it just feels slow Yeah, who's the guy that was an airplane the lesson is he Was in I guess before that was a movie was a show, right? That show I watched just and I never watched the show I just saw a clip of like a shoe shine that they would give that would you see this clip Funniest fucking thing I've ever seen I rewatched airplane like two months ago. It was the series that I came after before I'm not sure but The shoe shine everybody keeps go to him. Leslie Nielsen shoe shine. Yeah, Johnny the walking shoe shine Johnny so good that first one This is a pull isn't the show police squad That was before naked gun. Yeah. Yeah before they go Yeah Okay, he's a recurring guy but this actor who plays the shoe shiner is in a ton of like 80s comedies playing like the weird Olds yeah effectively, yeah, sorry everybody if you were Yeah, oh, yeah, we've been back for a second we in but we uh Next up we have our app totally freeze the program that records our podcast who responses you guys but shut up to them No, I definitely pay fucking retail to use I mean come on So yeah, and then the other club I saw then a doctor comes up to him. He goes he goes He goes I got a patient. He's got a mild melanoma this he goes. I don't know Maybe this or that he puts the money and he goes you got a cut in from the vessel I That's pretty good bit. Did you give him four milligrams of some out of hide is like of course he's like you want to operate on Do that's funny, but that's basically chat GPT now. Yeah, no, I fully is dude I'm a plane everyone around you is just like just doing the queries and like reading and the secrets I was sitting next to a Teenage late teenager college kid maybe on a flight like last week and He was coming from wherever to wear to LA and he was a sailing in some kind of a race And I was he was wearing a sailing team Whatever just like and I sail so I was kind of interested and I and I just couldn't help myself I glanced over and he had the rule book for the upcoming race on his phone He opened on his phone. It was some document and he just looked at it for like two seconds quick scroll close it Opens chat GPT drops this in and just goes summarize this for me And it did blablabla and you know He starts reading the summary and then he just starts copying and pasting things back and forth and he's essentially just using chat GPT to summarize every single thing in his life and I'm like The one hand I'm incredibly impressed at the speed at which he is doing this on his phone like really fucking fast Yeah, I'm clearly not optimizing what is possible with my phone And I don't think my hands can move that fast anyway, but I was also like oh man. This is like there's like a dependency Oh, yes. Yes. Yes, and and and just assuming what the answer was right You know it was not not you know further search was not ever done So I was like I was impressed but also nervous dude. Am I remember spark notes back in the day? Oh, yeah You had to learn to write around them a little bit so teacher didn't notice Yeah, exactly. Everyone had the same the themes. What are the themes of? And to the Janks whatever If it if the website was down you're damn, I gotta read the book You know I mean gotta do this for real people like they're outsourcing critical think yeah, so it you know what I mean on all fronts So and obviously they're gonna the AI stuff is gonna be prevalent everywhere everywhere But when it does go down for whatever reason there's like you know Processing center Outage issues or something it's gonna be like it's not just like I gotta read the book. It's like People are not gonna realize like especially the new gen that never you know had to raw dog just troubleshooting Yeah, dude when there's like a cell phone outage somewhere for everybody people kind of you know bug out a little bit because people asked like fully It's like you know used to call a parent or advice an older person be like, you know, I've got a bump and I don't have the insurance All AI so so people are just gonna be like People I think people are literally gonna like fall apart well there I saw a news story today that some law firm got in trouble Legally because they were using AI to like just to write, you know, some of their briefs Yeah, and it was full of like crazy typos But they didn't proof it because like like this kid they just shipped it and then in court They got in trouble and they called out by the judge and they had to call it AI hallucinations They're like sorry our AI hallucinated a little bit. It's like no no you didn't proofread and then they found like in the firms Like terms and conditions it says trust do not trust everything We have to verify it which they didn't the there was a lawyer that Submitted a full AI written thing that cited case law that wasn't real Like in some like it was a year or two ago It was sort of in a little more in the beginning of that again the famous case of Neptune versus Venus It was clear that the disease just totally non-existent case law and they're like Oz versus Dorothy says You are not doing your job You just getting a liaison that'd be like you hire a lawyer to do something they just type in the inquiry It's and then they just Export PDF and email it to you. You're like what like I'm a lawyer not a middleman. Yeah, exactly. What are you crazy? So get good lawyers get good lawyers. Don't don't get yeah anyway I got the I got a tick one right now from Volkswagen and driving these new cars Everything bro everything no one has something to press your right hand on anymore. Have you noticed that? Mm-hmm? There's nothing they should be a shifter. Yeah, all consolidated to hear or a wheel so it's and the screens are all bigger Driving new cars. They all feel like driving a living room Because you're leaning you're leaning now on the middle thing because you got nothing for the right arm You got a big screen and a road. It just feels like I'm driving my living room I think there's that's intentional man. I was just had the new charger and it has a shifter Thank you. It's actually like a quote pistol grip shifter That's just that's just like marketing name more like it's more like a mollusk grip Yeah, some kind of sex toy grip that it is an actual pistol But rubbery, but it is you you can rest your hand on the shifter. I did like that dude What I just my body feels so imbalanced on a cool Will put your hands 10 and 2 it's like all of the all of the cars have lane departure follow distance They they optimized and they're so set up for you to have very little input Yeah, and then so your your arms naturally leave the steering wheel always You know one will be on it for me the left and I go that's like me comfortable, but now it's like Okay, your arm is here. I just I just feel uncomfortable. It's like you only have one place to put it Yeah, and over time you you want more you lean you're leaning and then it's like this is just my I feel like I'm sitting I'm driving on the high I do that I drove a Crown Vic for two three years and it no bolstering or anything It's terrible great and I leaned and it fucked my back up. Yeah. Yeah big time the lean's not great I actually get sometimes because I have to do really long drives I actually get bruises on my elbows Resting them on either the arm bubbles on my left arm Just sitting here and like son on Sun cuz I was doing a lot of miles or school everything just Whoa, this would always be darker in the summer my left time. Yeah, I'm a car guy The big the big wide screen is the new thing in the new Mercedes. Yeah, we talked about it last show What do you think that's a lot of screen? You're like no no they tell you and you have a young kid they're like no screens before to their fucking a car Yeah, you know what I mean that I close your are you gonna have to put a blindfold on your child the new Lincoln's for full I was in the nap, but but it's like thinner though, and it's and it's past the dash It's at the end which is interesting. Yeah, it's an interesting choice the new like BMW does that too They haven't passed it. Whereas the BMW or the Mercedes is it's here. It is Upfront everything the dash. Yeah. Yeah, it's like yeah clouds. I thought after the Last the EQs and whatever that they would maybe dial back the screen a little bit, but they don't know they've doubled Yeah, I was really surprised after because no one had good things to say about that EQ s or EQ that I drove was like driving around like a fucking Coachella tent Well, it was too bright. Yeah that interior the screen is a is a grass if and also like the Like the disco lights across the whole it was so much. Yeah, this is the mood lighting or whatever. Yeah That's the EQ s that's what you drove. Yeah It's fucking disco. That's a lot. Yeah, that's like that's that's what concepts in 20 That's every future concept also like the you know the blue Lighting that halos around the the dash and there's so much eye fatigue. Yes, absolutely It pulses different colors like not not like you can change into different colors Like it will on its own do this like to match music or something shipping shit Yeah, I mean you can you can turn this off, but it's and you Although if you have all if all these screens are on it might actually be nicer on your eyes to have light coming from other sources Otherwise, you're just looking out at you know, they have to do it for that. It's so much light When do you think you think we're gonna have? Like the windshield screen thing I think if with way low and I think they'll have it in like 10 to 20 years Looking at the windshield is just Nothing is 10 to 20 years away. Honestly at this space. Actually, I had no idea you guys have way most like this. Yeah Do you try one yet? No, you should why is it because they're fun? It's amazing. Well, is there a camera inside for what you're doing? I Unless there's like a 30 minute drive real quick. Yeah, I people probably are fucking but there is a cabin camera Yes, and they are they like being like you terms and conditions say no banging in cabin I have no I've never tried to fucking away. It's not something that I would Here's the funny thing about guys your wife's car and cars I don't think we ever made it to the way mo do you think I think that people who are fucking in like limos and cabs and stuff already Are the people who would be fucking in way most good point and they really want that driver? Yes, absolutely. I don't prefer that. Yeah, I don't mean to like infer everyone's peculiarities But like what's it called when you like people watching? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah watches I mean I think people in real attack probably are That's so good to know I got a show but also like I think wait I rarely get in a dirty way mo. Yeah worst I've ever seen there was a beer can rolling around on the floor of the way Mo I got in once and that is I've ever seen so Do they have are they constantly going to a depot or is someone right here? Yeah, it's around the corner They just kind of quickly clean them up and get them no No, I think they clean them each day or they at least check them You know and clean them ish each day and when they charge them they do like whatever like a 12-hour shift Oh, I think I'm taking their 8 a.m. They like fucking ants marching out altogether. It's like interesting. It's Being in New York, you don't see it and we don't have them in Toronto So I'm like coming out here seeing this and San Francisco. I'm like Seeing it like the way they're dispatched out here. I'm like, oh my god These these guys gonna replace everybody in the whole country Well, so Boston's fighting against waymo really aggressively because like cab drivers. It's its job. It's a career Like they're really trying to fight for the people which they should I don't my head They're always like some weird outlier little thing in San Francisco. You see three of them I did not know they were on the road. No Yeah, I was like, oh, yeah, this is the takeover right here It won't be ubiquitous soon. It won't be ubiquitous until someone figures out the insurance. Oh Yeah, that's probably why it's in a lot of these states. It's like a liability nightmare Well, the state has to allow it. Yeah, right. You have to explicitly allow autonomous vehicles Yeah, and then it's well who's gonna ensure them waymo's self-insured. They're owned by Google so they don't need They can ensure themselves. Yes, they can start an insurance company. They can afford it But if it's your car, yes, if you're if you buy a Whatever and you just send it out. Yeah Well either to send it out or to use the mode while you're in the car and it has a crash or hurt somebody who is responsible No OEM Will take responsibility of it. Yeah, I heard Tesla's on full self-driving Europe right now They finally allowed in Europe what they've had here. Yeah for the last whatever They don't have something better self-driving. No, it's something it's still the one here where it's like put your hand back on steering wheel It's the same. Got you. They you were not allowed to use that at all in Europe. Oh, so they just unlocked They just allow them to use it. Yeah. Yeah, they don't Europe that doesn't have something here if you're not ahead on this one Oh, I thought they'd be more ahead on their head on safety. Yeah, they are not ahead on this This is not safer. I'm just saying it's not so Have you ridden any of these BYD's yet yourself? No No, I have not the only Solomon Canada They're about to they're about to let them in I do a joke. I'm like The EV market is like 1950s NBA and be why these like black eyes Be why these days for big yellow dick That they're an invasive species, you know what I mean because they're freaking doing their EV on a way faster pace of development Yeah, they skip over a gas car for the most part They really did. Yeah, so it's like what are they gonna do? They're gonna eventually they're gonna make their way in so what are they gonna be like you have to Manufacture them in America or how do they because they're gonna make their way in sooner or later How do you get they could tear off the shit out of them? Yeah make them? You know too expensive to be worth that's what it is right now Yeah, or whatever probably just doing that apparently that's seagull that BYD seagull is like 11. That's like the cheap BYD cars like 11 grand so even out of a hundred percent tariff it's like it would still be one of the grand cars Yeah, they'll still be really cheap. Yeah, I we do have like a a grand they say we have in this country like a Lack of affordable new cars. Yes, and people who only have $10 to $20,000 to spend in a car are forced to buy something with higher mileage and more wear That's gonna have more mechanical problems as opposed to a small but and basic but new car Yes, that will run for ten years without giving anyone a bullshit, you know It looks like a Honda fit doesn't it? Yeah, it looks like a sad whole fit. Yeah I'm not out here being like yeah bring it in ASAP, but like 5-minute charging like they're there on like baddest battery chemistry's that are like just charge fast They have very high voltage chargers. Yeah, it'll be like 500 kilowatt hour five or five. Yeah. Yeah, and there you know There's fires, etc. But There's a few things there's the cheap labor there's the the integration They own like the battery the death of everything everything, you know the the government sort of organizing all of it You know to where they have control which we would not probably want here But it does like create a system that cranks out cars cheaper and more efficiently So I mean and it's six dollars a gallon out here. Yeah, so it's six dollars a gallon out here Yeah, and but here there's half the cars on the road Seem to be electric 33% a lot in it. It's like crazy tight cans every third cars that I can in LA the percentage of EVs is very huge Yeah, I do that as someone who lives in this town. Yeah, I will never drive a gas car again for you pure electric No, no, no For for fun. Yeah for for weekends. Yes for that kind of stuff for you absolutely But for my every day I was just thinking about this because I I I just spent a week in a gas car a brand new one and I got back and I just got into this new Genesis gv 60 right now magma driving downstairs And I'm just going dude after a week of driving a gas car getting into an electric car is such a fucking Revelation dude just how nice it is listen. They're gonna wait. It's gonna win Yeah, we all know it's gonna win right We all know exactly what I'm driving dude this thing I may write about this for road and track this month I was hoping the new charger would be the budget Bentley GT. It's a big GT. Yeah, you know, I thought it would be it's got a lot of power I It was not I got back I get in this this is the budget Bentley GT This has the closest interior to a Bentley GT that you could do for under a hundred K They're not playing that shit the quilting dude the seat somebody sat in a Bentley GT and said you copy this seat I'm telling you the shape structure of the seat they got as high as they could get with the they got the quilting all that Silver is real metal. It's cold. It's like nice and cold in the morning the They somebody benchmarked the Bentley GT for this car. There's a lot of similarities plus you have a really low dashboard Which I love you've got great great nice It's got a small footprint great turning radius. It's like the size of a Q3. Yeah, yeah But a ton of front space. I am like Super stoked on this car. This is the daily Bentley for most people No, Dennis is not One and it's 73,000 because it's the performance, you know one you have the magma one I don't it's not magma yet. Yeah, this is just called I think magma is gonna be next year. Got it. Yeah What is that that when you power it on it flips spins over and it's the shifter That's kind of cool. Oh, so it's like glass But there's there's hard those buttons are all metal there's a there's a scrolly knob for your station It's nice. I thought you know I'm sure this is well done They the controls are on the steering wheel are super similar to Bentley's controls Somebody somebody went let's knock off a Bentley here and they did it in a way that I can it's totally fucking relate to Korean Bentley right there. I'm gonna be a G90 Black prestige that's gonna be dope Genesis. It's a bummer because I I'm like in British Columbia for three four days for shows Alone. Yeah, I'm like this is a car you want to be in the back seat of this is like long wheelbase That back seat is on some s-class shit So my uncle Phil has one of these the wife of the guy who gave me the Mercedes. Yeah, he's got one of these It's fine. That has a button to open and close the door. Yeah, this is already driven in this Exactly, that's why I feel like kind of like what the this is the budget flying spur for sure. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes It's this I think it's got air suspension Or at the very least a very nice adaptive shocks Was excellent looking than the new sevens. Yeah. Yeah, oh my god refresh Oh my god, dude seven series and s-class used to be like this Bro as far as luxury flagship sedan go let s-class is just so far every time I see a seven series I'm like what the fuck happened. Yeah, what is it giant rectangular prism? It's not great and and I haven't liked the seven series in I got to say 20 years. Yeah Yeah, see that's what I'm saying like it's just it gets more of a rectangular prism every time it just doesn't it just doesn't do it For me. I don't really know what we're doing here, but I hope they're happy It looks like a concept like judge dread three I get it just it's very angular and brash and like he's 740 Yeah, look at that Somebody made a set a sportie shortie I if you if you someone would pay 200 grand if if a singer like outfit made a sporty shortie with You know, yeah Like there's not a lot of cars you could singer eyes This would be a good choice. That's beautiful Dan of all time this right how beautiful is that best? How beautiful is that every time I see that you see these in New York a lot and You know that little rusted, but you're like damn that was beautiful car They nailed it right there when I was growing up in New York and these came out and all the rich people got them They saw these were so popular and they still like you have all the newest everything evolved past them in their parking All around them. This is the best design wise Yeah, it's just kind of like Pete there and I don't I don't exactly even know why like I look at it There's nothing specifically remarkable about any part of it, but just it as a whole When it was a box in a perfect way, yeah Just kept getting highest remain the boxy but grabbed it pulled it higher Yeah, this and the Audi s8 from that period work all the Audi bro the 2002 Audi the one that scato has that you know God help you if you own one of these and all of their nightmare Keeping them running. Oh, yeah, damn. They look nice. Yeah, like that old flagship sedan look beautiful I think we want to see yours to me as you think about it. That is year the year 2001 in the year Think about the year 2001 for like flagship You know merced flagship sedans. You're the Bentley Arnaz. You have this You have the said this the seven series the with the one we just looked at those little Mercedes compressors that were driving around Okay compressor E39 M5 the key with this car is you have to do the s so that was the steering wheel I had in my s4 that made me want to vomit you needed to get the it looks like a dodge and trip Oh, it's terrible. You had to get the three spoke optional steering wheel The four spoke balloon I call that the beluga whale Stereo it's ugly. Yeah, bro wood fucks That is like a s guitar The plus minus shifting that when I saw that as a valet I was like whoa Oh About this car look at the gauges the double thick white needle. Oh dude I know regular a8 and s a4 and a the a's and a thin orange needle. This is the autism by the way The s's got this fat white bright white fat needle I thought that was the coolest fucking shit dude. I was looking at x5s and like 2020 or 2019 is the final year They had they stopped having analog dials. Yeah, and they just switched to just that digital What and everything is that now? Yeah, I'm like man. It's such a bummer something about digital something about just the analog Yeah, I need a gate a needle something about it sure I don't know what it is You know how you get an analog you need to spend more money if you if you are not looking at an x5 and instead We're looking at a Bugatti. Yeah, of course. You have fucking you'd be able to look at the gears The clock is like a AP. Yeah, everything is visible. It's called the tour beyond it's named look That's named after all the one with the crazy steering wheel that like floats you look the speedometers and should have Gears that you can like that's what I'm talking about see that's I'm gonna start saying if you got a Pagani You could have some like real gears and that's my problem. Yeah, you're not Wrong cars boss. I need to frickin get a tech fuck you gotta go you go you're at the wrong dealership So go down the streets of the Bugatti and it's pedometer goes to 550. Yeah kilometers I mean, I think I think a kilometers as a Canadian. Yeah most of the world. I'm putting that on what do most cars Speedos stop at you know in Canada in Canada. Yeah, like Yeah, 220 220 220. Okay, that's most very good cars. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty wild goes to I remember when I was a kid I freaking looked there was a badass Corvette parked outside of McDonald's I looked aside and they had domino up to 300 Yeah, 300 like it was a big deal when the when Bugatti came out with the Veyron Is it like 320? The speedometer was for 300 miles an hour. Yeah, just and it the car didn't really have screens Yeah, but when you turned it off and walked even if you looked in the window from the they wanted to make sure That always showed in from the window you you could clearly see a speedometer that goes to 300 like that Which is a pretty baller move. That's crazy That's what I always do when I was a kid just like look to see what the final number is. Yeah Someone's got to read it's really funny when you when when you smoke weed as an adult and 99% of that weed smoking is like by yourself The idea of mad culture I know I know that's why I'm out where I was like why did why a free joint? Yeah, right? Well, I like a deal Yeah, yeah, now when I go to the weed store it used to be like what's the strongest shit you got now? You can't ask that now. It's what's on sale. Yeah, no, I'm always in there like honestly, they'll be like we have a 30 I don't I don't even want that honestly. I'm like give me a 25% in the car Infused no In hash or you don't smoke no, not really you don't keep yeah They'll like they'll like wet it and roll it in key. Oh boy inside there I don't even know what they're doing. They just increase in poncy 10 20 30 percent. That's a beer with vodka in it Exactly, you just kind of like you stop getting verbal you go. Yeah, fully non-verbal eye contact But it's like Activate music a little bit and just kind of have this that's why I'm smoking a little bit, right? Sure That's what I'm going for I'm trying to not want to murder everybody. I see exactly baseline to me. I'm just like Yeah, no, I don't do I was when I go to the store. I'm like give me what would have been amazing in 2004 You know what I mean before you all learned most of this science you're doing. Yeah, you know what I mean Yes, you like I'll take it. Yeah, and I like I get the smalls. That's the secret I mean no no no like instead of like if you want to buy ounce Yeah, I buy ounce instead like flowers. Yeah, yeah, and that's like my mouth. Hey, whatever. What money bags here smoking time This shit is so cheap. I know it's like a hundred bucks. I would I would retail in 2004 an ounce for four hundred dollars That's crazy now I'm going to the fucking Snoop Dogg store and swiping my credit card for an ounce for maybe a hundred and twenty five That's what I'm saying. Maybe you know what 25 years of inflation later. This is so cheap It's crazy. Yeah, the only thing the only And he's canner's weed was always half the price He's always be like in Canada was 10 bucks a gram and in America is 20 bucks a gram Now now it's pretty much it's all kind of converged on It's a $10 pre-roll and like everywhere you go to $10 pre-roll or you can get a three pack of half grams for 15 bucks Like it's like all kind of the same shit. Yeah, but the movie is small It's the it's I buy ounce of the little small popcorn nuggets not the big show offy nuggets They sell them for cheaper. It's the same weed. It just doesn't display as well Break it up and I'm throwing that shit in a grinder. I don't want full Like it's the same shit and it's you're gonna shred it out for 75 bucks 70 bucks Yeah, but it's like exposed like it's shredded Party yeah, exactly that's what's good about the nugs. They stay moist for longer, right? Yeah No, we had a weed sponsor though for a while and it became problematic that Jackie child Okay, dude it no, he's the last time that's that you smoked me up with that. I did he's Yeah, he's the only but uh, no we were sponsored by tradecraft farms shout out to him And I got a QP a month which is a problematic amount of weed Speaking of things that are problematic sending you like Xanax What so much Tylenol Speaking of problematic our patrons over at patreon.com slash smoke and tire are never problematic In fact, they're very supportive if you want to ask questions for the live show watch the live show Get the show before everybody else get extra show get a show without ads and get access to exclusive Merch and collabs and all of those things do it Not weed though anymore Yeah, let's also plug his dates real quick Yeah, but first patreon.com slash the smoke podcast first that's true Also a boss wahab dot com has your live schedule. Yes, sir. Zach has put on the screen. It's with with coasty Tonight tonight my drop comedy tomorrow. I will be at Zephyr Zephyr theater Tom that's the 23rd this is the 23rd of April. Yeah, I don't know when this comes out But I'm tomorrow we're trying to do it tomorrow for you. So I'd be beauty. Yeah, that's April's Zeffer theory LA 24th San Francisco. Yes, sir, and then on the way home back to New York hitting Columbus, Ohio First time doing a show in Ohio the attic comedy club pull up to that and then I'm out in British Columbia next week and Seattle on May 3rd more dates after that just go on boss wahab.com We'll put the link in the show captain like Zach will you flippin sit back to the other page and make the word German? No. Yeah I'm a Jew. Yeah, the opposite Can you notice? They're nice now We we imported all their bed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we know what it is. We find some they work for us You keep doing that. Yeah, exactly. Even when I came in there like upstairs now a lot of German cars. Yeah Can you notice these nuts? What is the canyon arrow? What is the funniest car? What's the funniest car funniest car? You know what every time I see a Pontiac Aztec It kind of makes me laugh a little bit. It makes me kind of smile a little bit Funniest car I Mean an Aztec is pretty funny to me. I mean, well, is there a perfect answer for this? You guys are all What's how would you ask that question? What's the funniest? I mean, I see like the SSR The other Chevy pickup truck. I'll just go. Oh, that was taken out of an animated movie It's I think it's even worse than the PD cruiser. It just looks like it is around Like it should show up with clowns in it, you know from the dealership and like a birthday cake and the cabin looks tiny on it Too so it's like it's a tiny two-seater. You're like with huge fenders. It's weird tiny truck bed Right. I do like how many people I've seen in a K truck is a pretty funny little vehicle K truck like a tiny little Japanese pickup truck like that people are buying now for like 7,000 oh dude these oh my god, bro. I love these they're awesome, but they are pretty funny. They are funny Like to me that's less funny more just like pure utility tiny you could carry stuff with it fit in a tiny parking spot I don't just makes total sense to me about half the ones I think are being used for utility the other half are being used for pure style. Yeah Funny Oh, no, he's just burning oil because I think the Sam bar was like a two-stroke or something. Oh, that's what all that's Endurable yeah, I love it Let's see Oolly conkels auto bond what group of car enthusiasts have the worst sense of humor Gotta be Porsche people right? I don't think Porsche people have the worst You get any any pushback on your because you cover every OEM every like facet of cars Well, it's now I get press cars so I got a Nissan armada recently and Right when you say nice they come they come and it's like you get these press guys You're trying to you know come in objectively and check it out and stuff, but you know, obviously Stellantis didn't do a lot of good for the PR of Nissan so people right away attack Nissan wait Stellantis that what do you mean? Oh, sorry not slant is um, who's the owner group of just Nissan? No, no, who owns Nissan? I mean Nissan and Renault have a partnership But they don't have a parent company I thought it was a parent company Was it the Carlos scone? Era and after the fact, you know my first car was a Nissan Centra. So there's a billion problems But the Nissan is what people come at nowadays. This is say that Because the all the ultimate means the CVT kind of fucks you know the worst sense of humor I mean, I think the 9-11 people are kind of like not that 9-11 has kind of become used to be like That's the car to get to work hard get that now. It's kind of like They're all 200 grand for like a base 9-11 and it's all like Collectors want the air-cooled ones and it's just kind of like tech bro money people. Yeah, it's not really about like I love cars I want that air-cooled one. It's all that car will appreciate 10% a year. It's like a portfolio piece now I've Ferrari people really take themselves very seriously dude, you know a friend of mine got a Ferrari Aroma not even like he's got he's got like crypto made crypto money and Just out of he showed me the Ferrari and then I'm looking at the rims I'm like, oh man. These are like sick and I don't know what this is. He goes The thing is about Lamborghinis is Lamborghinis is new money and Ferrari is old money And I go bro, you just got money goes It goes into your brain like a frickin Money bro if you have money you had a Ferrari before you had to buy a Roma to get into it We're looking at the rim Duffel shuffle retirement Club favorite road trip snack that's not a black coffee and Marlboro Red 100s. I mean there isn't a better one Jerky Sweet sweet one Yeah, I like a roasted a dry roasted nuts. You say D's nuts not specifically that brand but Dry roasted dry roasted peanut is my road then you need too much water like too much liquid They're just too too much sodium going on. You're just like you just gotta get I play that game for hours I'll do the popcorners big bag and like a Gatorade. Yeah, okay I'll get it back and forth electrolytes here. Yeah, sodium and electrolytes, and then I've got a pee, but all right, whatever I find I find standing up for a little bit every hour and a half is good for me Anyway, like in your seat like one of these are getting out getting out of the car. It's a good for my back It's good for my bladder. Yeah, it's good for my brain, you know oh I can't I can't I haven't Fact-checked this claim, but don't judge an engine by its cover says a as of 2025 the Subaru BRZ Has taken the WRX's spot as the most ticketed car in the US Do you see this more as an increase in the enthusiasm surrounding the BRZ or the fall of the popularity of the WRX? Both yeah, I get probably both You know the the BRZ people are they like the the pure rear-wheel drive. Yeah We're gonna drift this thing so they're probably doing more stunt stuff than the WRX people the WRX and yesterday I used to be like I'll work hard. I'll make some money. They're just vaping hard, right? They're not even doing anything crazy Nones going off-road with the WRX, but I imagine BRZ people are doing stupid shit. That's true I also think they they kind of they stopped making the dub the STI Whatever WRX is softer and not really is like friendly now it does but like the There's just more used BRZ and shit around yeah for kids to buy and drive stupid. It's the cheapest you can get into a rear-wheel drive car pretty much Right pretty much a manual rear-wheel drive car that has source based in Miata. Yeah exact So that is going to lead to shenanigans shenanigans young people in a real-world drive car doing shenanigans We'll save the watch question for next time Mach Machiavelli, that's pretty good Dream City venue you wish to perform at dream city venue Ah, this is not really a dream city. I'd love to do a big venue in my hometown I grew up in London, Ontario Canada shout out London, Ontario So we have now it's called the Canada Life Place. That's the biggest venue in so grown up It was called the John LeBat Center then it was called the Budweiser Gardens You know I these years keep getting here you guys got crypto and whatever though So now it's always had stupid names for stuff and next is gonna be called the Amazon Prime Yeah, you know recreation center Yeah, but now it's called Canada Life Place I love to play just the biggest venue my hometown just to be like you know That's like what Kevin Hart played like ten years ago to just feel like yeah, you know It'll be called the Waymo love the Palantir location. Yeah The Kalshee fucking gamble on everything. Yeah Saudi Arabia fun place. Thank you to our Saudi Arabian owners. We'd like to thank them Get a get a homeless hot dog. It's basically like the Qatar embassy now. Yeah, you have to show a passport Dray from Houston. What is an unreliable car you would all buy even though you know better Well, you know he's going on about Range Rover at Range Rover, dude My good friend Juat is general manager at London, Ontario Range Rover So every time I go there and I shit talk Range Rovers all the time That's another one where we can all shit talk them and it will not affect sales one bit Very true Range Rover is like they just took I even in LA. It's like the aesthetic they nailed the aesthetic Mm-hmm, and they even at one point apparently we're doing putting money into increasing reliability and stuff like that and like kind of doing a push to reduce claims etc And it had no effect on sales. They noticed like Yeah, it's just the aesthetic and the name that sells and they're very comfortable and extremely do dig They're really they're really nicely. They're really nice sounds. They feel great. So for sure Range Rover sport SVR baby all day. I buy a full-size Range Rover. Yeah. Yeah Because you don't have any evidence that the new ones are you could the I would buy the cheapest full-size Range Rover Which I got one as a press car. Yeah, it was a hundred and five thousand bucks Yeah, a lot of money, but but for a full-size Range Rover great and it had like Pretty much everything features. Yeah, it was great. Very comfortable very comfortable Queer shift and gears says at our recent lemons race at mid Ohio our transmission got stuck in fourth gear in a 1996 Maxima everyone on the team ended up running faster lap times by three to six seconds Compared to their first day have you ended up with similar issues that ended up for the better? I've never ended up faster with the car So yeah, how does that mean how does that make it that doesn't make sense though? I mean a couple things that happen one is they got faster on because they just got better at the track You know their lap times are probably just gonna be better on day two than they would be on day one correct correct second is But not third one saying third we're saying fourth. I know yeah And I'm looking at all the corners. There's a lot of straightaways there. That's I guess no This is the track. It looks like there's a lot of easily run this track in fourth gear And I'll tell you why the the straightaway the entry onto the straightaway is Gonna be probably the boggiest bit, but that that hairpin which it this Course yeah clockwise it's downhill So that you're going downhill on that hairpin onto the front straight So you got a little assist the front straight is slightly downhill The whole roller coaster bit at the top of the north end of the foe at the other thing is mostly downhill Some is back this bit where Zach is on the east side is back uphill, but it's fast Yeah, and you kind of got some inertia You can stay at a higher speed like above like 60 70 miles an hour the whole time yeah, and the bits that are slower You have a downhill assist got it and you always keep in speed. I think It's interesting. Maybe your drivers kind of crazy though Maybe your drivers were just better when they could focus on their line and weren't shifting Maybe they weren't blowing the tires off lower gears Maybe they were just smoother You know all of those things yeah, how interesting about us I've never had a car that broke and then we went fast Probably focus on the momentum if you said that like third gear I think yeah, okay To I don't know about that you know top up pretty early, but third yeah, I could see that fourth You're like what fourth very interesting. Yeah. Yeah, maybe you were fifth gear We like what maybe they weren't over driving the tires and the tires were holding up better how interesting Christian says can you explain how all car companies have to use smaller gas engines for emissions and global standards? But Ferrari will put a v12 in their SUV and Hummer said they're going back to gas and hybrid well So the Hummer's ditching their their electric comer well Or they're giving a range extended probably gonna have an electric one and a hybrid No, I don't know like there But here's the thing with the super small volume players I don't think they have to do EPA the same or emissions the super small ones like Ferrari I'm to do Ferrari is special because they're under another parent company So Fiat does gets all of their numbers from the mass and then they let them have an allotment of like Anything goes. Yeah, but also they do still have hybrid product They're the the the 296 is hybrid the new 849 Testarosa which replaces the SF 90 is hybrid the F80 is hybrid But there's going to be a hybrid version of they do that for performance though, right? But it's okay, but it still gets them the credit. It doesn't matter why you do it if you do it. Okay, so yeah, they so so Ferrari's math says well, we can still put a v12 in the 12c and we can put a v12 in the Pure O'Sunghway If we do these other things to balance it out. I mean fucking dude, it's not all all car company GM Is still making a manual black wing with it gets eight miles of fucking gallon, you know Not for the CT for whatever the CT 5 black wing this is the that's the only one left, right? Is the only manual v8 they took out the the small ones at the city for Well, they're canceling the four and the five after 2026 But the CT 5 will come back. Yeah according to car and driver. Yes That's a badass car right there. Yeah, it's awesome Yeah, I mean so that it used to be like M5 in that right and then M5 went, you know full hybrid 5,000 pounds So now it's actually in a special place that nobody else's for sure. Yeah So like yeah, you know and companies that want to sell in different markets to different type of customers have different global regulations So like the M5 hybrid for instance, they really need to sell to people in like the UK Yes, where those plug-in hybrids are very advantageous to the Standards that those like everything anything that comes out now. That's not a hybrid. I'm actually like surprised like I'm shocked Yeah, just from like from a mass point of view fuel economy Yeah, and from a performance point of view performance, you know what I mean? They get those little charges. They put little electric motors So now it shaves like a third of a second off it adds weight But or they'll try to put the motor in there to like smooth, you know gear shifts and whatever they like If you don't have the resources to do it properly Yeah, you can make a car real shitty by trying to do a hybrid like you got to have the resources to make the integration very Smooth and really good and so there's some people that don't have like Nissan dude You don't want an Nissan hybrid Solantis obviously they just shut down their hybrid division not because they didn't think hybrids worth investing because they were so shitty Yeah, they were dead so many problems like, you know, so a great hybrid is great Like a bad one is like a Pugared flag is just that technology so ubiquitous now you think they would just benchmark it take it Take a Prius rip it apart. Yeah, figure out what they did. Yeah, every rap for only comes hybrid not Yeah, they did because if you look 99% of the road are hybrid. They're like, you know, what are we doing? Yeah Darian Lux says you're allowed to make any one race car from history street legal. What's your pick and why? What street legal race car would I like to drive that is not currently street was the CRK GTR street legal There was a street version of it Yeah, but there was you could one could could argue that the racing version was the back flippy one having Yeah, having had that poster I'll have to go at the CLK and I always just love seeing CLK GTR so many letters I would like to have the plate put on that T1 Raptor thing that Zach and I got to have a go-in which is Ford's carbon-tum Dakar Race vehicle that's like a truck like it's called Raptor, but it's not a right. I think I saw it It's like a psychotic buggy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's got like a giant winch or something in the back What's it got in there? No, no, this is a it's this. Oh this I have never seen that car that looks like a Mars Rover That's sexy as hell. Yeah, it has a you guys We got to ride a ride with their pro. They was it beat Do a jump did you guys do a jump? We did some small one some small one There was air for sure, but there wasn't like a big It's like some Ken block shit right there But it's the the the the speed that you could carry over whoops was you could carry a hundred miles an hour over What's got a Mustang engine effectively in the middle and then it's carbon fiber. Yeah, and so you know the wheels I've never even heard of this and it's an eight into one exhaust which makes it sound like a Formula one car It sounds real crazy like eight headers or yeah, like all eight headers go into one is just high-pitched very cool Yeah, cool. Would you would you drive a race car in the street? Do you have a choice for this question? Then I say see that kid you did yeah Sorry, no, I just brain damage We got five minutes and so don't break for the kink says do you think we'll ever see aftermarket a das tuning? I'd love a tailgate mode for left lane campers. I don't think you'd have a I don't honestly I don't know what that's saying a das so So like a das is like Lane keep assist all the safety assist okay and get very intrusive and annoying Oh, yeah So I think that in the future there will be people like Cobb tuning and APR and these companies will have Just like they can tune for horsepower They'll be able to tune so that you when the car turns on all the a das systems are not on by default You don't have to turn them shits off every time awesome what? Don't break for the kink is saying a Custom programmable a das that would for instance tailgate people. I don't know That in a car no, but I'm I bet programmers left somewhere else will got it okay I think you just have to do it manually you're gonna have to do it manually I truly think like people will always find a way to metal with cars in some way because there's too many people Someone will eventually sell a program that will make it like if every car is autonomous they'll go well Here's a little spicy version, you know, and they'll do that. Yeah, the problem is tailgating See if you like you know you want to tailgate somebody for a left lane camper, right? So it's like you want to get an asshole out of the way, right? But then if you're not doing it to somebody who's left lane camping you're being an asshole So it's an asshole right right right are you the asshole or are you trying to stop an asshole? Yeah, you have to do it. Don't make a man. You like your dad did and his dad before I don't think tailgating works flashing works Better than tailgate night. Yeah, even yeah day I'm leading these events across entire states and I have to be flashing people to move over all the time And I have a pretty high success rate America's pretty bad about that where it's most of the world at Canada to yeah What's like most of the world's like oh I need to get out of the way Yeah, but here people like fuck you. I'll do what I want like there's a little bit of that Hey, I'm here like there's not it's not really a left lane passing lane Mentally, I just want to not drive behind other people. Yeah, and I'm going For over and that's as fast as anybody should ever be going so yeah You run into that a lot here when they're like and they're like proud that they're not moving You pass them they just won't move their neck you like some states are better than others. Yeah, Vada is really good Yeah, yeah, Texas is pretty good. Texas is good. Yeah, I like driving in Texas Um Dallas is a little annoying sometimes, but there I'm just specifically in there in their etiquette of pulling out of the way Yeah, yeah, dude. Thanks for coming by last minute good show. Thank you for having us Go check out those tour dates at a boss wahab see me like calm or on the socials. Yeah catch them in LA That's me in our day you're getting this show when it goes up. He's in LA on the 23rd. That's today So, uh, yeah, I give them a follow on Instagram tick tock your reels are very funny. Thank you, man. I appreciate you Thanks for having me and a very high percentage of your comedy is about cars. Yeah Yeah, you probably like your comedy Thanks, dude, and thanks to our patrons for asking such good questions. We appreciate you guys Zach and I are going racing so we'll see you from the other side of that race next week. Peace out