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Driving a 1971 VW Westfalia Bus | Joe’s VW Tales and Sporty Miata Memories
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Joe is the ultimate road-tripper, and his stories will ignite your sense of wanderlust. He paints vivid scenes of piling into a VW Westfalia bus for spontaneous cross-country adventures – an ode to an era when the journey was the destination. From campfires by the roadside to an unexpected find of a mint Mitsubishi Conquest TSi in the desert, Joe’s life is a string of happy automotive accidents and cruiser culture camaraderie. When he eventually downsizes to a nimble Mazda Miata, the adventures don’t stop; they just get quicker! Joe describes chasing sunsets on winding roads and the simple joy of a top-down drive. This episode brims with auto adventure vibes and includes practical nuggets too, like vintage auto body insights he learned keeping the old Westfalia running. Most importantly, Joe reflects on the people he’s met and places he’s seen, proving the car you drive can lead you to a richer life.
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Welcome back Planet Earth 2 to All the Cars I've Loved Before, your authoritative podcast on life lessons through cars, and hey where automotive history and American history make your history. But guess what? Our viewership no, I should say listenership, because you can't see me, I'm having a bad hair day, which is a good thing all over the world, which we will get into in a moment, and real happy to have today's guest with us and we'll introduce him in just a moment. But before we get underway here, let me introduce my partner in crime, mr Doug, which is the smarter half of the two of us, but I think I edge him on the air even on a bad air day. How you doing, partner. How you doing pal, doing great.
Speaker 2:Good to be back here with you.
Speaker 1:Always, always, and hey, I just wanted to. Before we get into today's episode, I want to bounce over to our some of our our data data here, the stats is data analytics statistics, the statal analytics is what I like to call it.
Speaker 1:But anyway, favorite thing behind the scenes, uh, this is not really published anywhere. This is very super secret information. Uh, I guess it sort of makes me a spy. But for our last five episodes, top countries and territories where we're listening to United States overwhelmingly. Not surprising. I'm in the Southeast United States, in the Republic of Florida. Doug is in the Mid-Atlantic here. So okay, united States, right, but did you know I'm going to go in descending order. We have listeners. Guess who's in the two spot? You got any idea, doug? Canada, it's a large continent in the southern hemisphere and Crocodile Dundee is there and he's probably our listener. It's Australia.
Speaker 1:So in the two spot is Australia, germany yeah, so we're really. This is widening. The depth, breadth and scope is widening here. Then Sweden, argentina I'm sure that's Lionel Messi is checking us out Norway, canada All right, so for you hockey fans, nepal we get listened to in Nepal, rooftop of the world, with the prayer flags how do you like that? Netherlands and India round us out. So hey, if you're listening in these places, thank you for listening. If you're in this place, want to be on the show? Guess what? We are just a few electrons away. Christian at CarsLovecom. Doug at CarsLovecom Check us out online, carslovecom. By the way, we're getting a lot of traffic there too, partner. I see that a lot of people just get the episodes from there, which really kind of surprised me as we move forward in this whole endeavor to see people just get it right from the site as opposed to a podcast streaming platform.
Speaker 1:But you know, Doug is always under the hood of the website changing the oil and, you know, getting the timing on the spark plugged Right. So any any updates to, to the marketing. He's kind of our chief marketing officer. I know we're talking, we're going to talk about fan mail here for a minute, but I was just going to say if you're in any of those countries and want to be on the show, hey, just reach out, just shoot us an email and we make it easy. Talk to any of our guests and it's relatively painless and we haven't lost a patient yet. So what do you say to all that, doug?
Speaker 2:Anything to add? Yeah, no harm, no foul. Yeah, we'd love to have people from all over. We'd love to hear the feedback from people in other countries. Are we talking about interesting cars and great stories, and do they resonate?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and I like hearing what people grow up overseas. What was that like? What did you drive? What's the car culture? And so we're always looking for international guests to be part of the conversation. Speaking of I, I'm real excited to meet our guest here, joe, today, and for introductions I'm going to pass the baton into the gently outstretched dam of mr doug yeah, so, uh, joe and I go way back, um, so far back, older than over over over half of our age.
Speaker 1:So you've known him longer than me actually, and that takes some uh, I have.
Speaker 2:I have probably go back to middle school with Joe Really, but yeah, oh, wow. Joe is born and bred, I believe, in Annapolis, Maryland.
Speaker 3:Right, Joe. Yeah, I was born downtown Annapolis in a hospital that's now condos.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, exactly Exactly. And yeah, joe, I think you've lived here your whole life, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I spent, I think, five years in Florida. You know one and off, but majority of my time definitely in Annapolis.
Speaker 2:Yep, yep, same here, Same here, yeah, and yeah, joe's a big car guy going back to his father, maybe even farther back than that. And yeah, joe, we're super happy to have you on the show and just hear about some of your cars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, where do you want to start?
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you think? Christian Well?
Speaker 1:I always like, first off, where in Florida were you?
Speaker 3:Or did you just kind of bounce around my father retired in 1987, and we moved to Cocoa Beach. I lived in Cocoa Beach for about a year and a half. We came back Then once I finished school, and after I worked as a mechanic in Annapolis, I moved to Fort Lauderdale and then South beach and then St Petersburg.
Speaker 1:Oh man. You got the whole Florida experience yeah.
Speaker 3:I was in Fort Lauderdale on the days of like, the candy store was still there at the belly flop tower. Oh which is a long time ago I dig that.
Speaker 1:Thank you for sharing that. All right, man. So that's a true, true florida, true florida experience there. So, yeah, so what we like to do typically on the show is kind of start with your first car and sort of uh, so what, what was your first car? And then, if you need to, you could take a step back even further. We've had some guests talk about you know, hey, I, before I even drove, I was getting my, getting my fingers black and greasy with my dad, my big brother, with my, you know, somebody showed me. So where does it start for you might well be the best place to begin so my grandfather used to race cars and he passed away when I was 10.
Speaker 3:But he got me first, got me into cars, and so I would go to his house in the summers and mess around the garage with him. Um, and then I drove my first car, when I was probably about 12, with my dad. He had a c10, uh, chevy pickup like a, you know, the predecessor to what they call the square body, now one before that it's like a 1970, 72 or something. Um, and that was when I first drove a stick shift with that truck. Um, but my first car I ever owned I never, never had it registered, but I had a 72 Beetle that I bought from a neighbor. I literally just drifted it in my parents' driveway. We had a dirt driveway and I wore ruts into the driveway. I bought it when I was 14. The first car I ever drove with legal tags on it that was mine was a 71 Volkswagen Camper.
Speaker 1:I love that. Okay, so we're going to dig into the VW branch in your family tree, or trunk, as it were, in your case. So let's go back to your grandfather. What do you remember? Do you remember you didn't know. You said he passed on when you were 10, but I'm curious about he raced in a NASCAR regional series somewhere in Pennsylvania in the late 1950s, and then he had a really bad wreck and my grandmother wouldn't let him race anymore.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, Okay so you didn't see him race this pre-dating no, no, we had pictures.
Speaker 3:My grandmother had pictures of his cars and stuff, but he worked for Ford, so he was a World War II vet, spent four years in the South Pacific and came back and worked as a Ford mechanic the rest of his life, gotcha.
Speaker 2:Nice. So the NASCAR was just kind of a hobby, if you will.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nobody back then did it for a living. It wasn't. You couldn't, you didn't make enough money to live. It cost you a lot of money to do it back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, maybe he had some sponsorship from ford, perhaps I don't know, maybe his, his mother or something.
Speaker 3:He was really close to his mother. She maybe paid him, I don't know. I don't know a lot about it. I just know there are pictures of it and that he raced nascar when years before, you know, 15 years before I was born nice, nice, and you're, and you're, uh, and your father probably, uh, got the bug from him.
Speaker 3:No, because it was my on my mom's side. I said my father. My father was a lot older, he was born in 32, and his father was a lot older, he was born in 32. And his father drove a Model T across the country before there was a national highway system.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I cannot imagine. I've heard about that I've heard about that that was a big promotion to get cars. Hey, it'll make it.
Speaker 3:And it took a month or something Like it was. I've done it once and we five days driving, towing a boat across the country. So it took them about a month in a Model T and that that had to be, I don't know, probably in the twenties.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would say probably twenties, early twenties, the latest, yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, yep.
Speaker 3:So the car thing goes back in my family a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, think of the adventures, everything that you just mentioned. All the adventures, the lore, yeah, all about family. Ok, so I didn't mean to derail the conversation, but it's hey, it's, it's a core competency, as I say. So back to the VW.
Speaker 3:Here you were about to talk about the, the, the quarterback. Did you say no, no, I had a. I had a 71 west value camp mobile gotcha, okay, okay, yeah, that was uh, that is it. Just I don't know. I was into volkswagens and my dad had a friend at work that was selling it. I think we paid 800 bucks for it and I I drove it for I think two years um, and then I money shifted the motor and bent all the valves in it and, uh, I so this was your high school?
Speaker 3:yeah, I had my my sophomore year of high school. I drove that maybe sophomore into my junior year of high school and then I blew the motor up one day and then, uh, this, my sister at the time was a deadhead and she had a friend who was going on tour and he bought it from me, put a motor in it, left and then I got a phone call, my you know, obviously at my parents' house, and he's like hey, call him from a pay phone. Hey, I broke down in Albuquerque, new Mexico. I have to leave it here because I can't miss the next show. If you want, I'll mail you the title and you can come get it. What?
Speaker 3:That's what the guy said, and I was like dude, I'm like 17. How am I going to come to Albuquerque, New Mexico, and tow a Volkswagen home to Annapolis so that one? I don't know where it is. It's probably sitting on the side of the road in the desert somewhere. He might still be waiting for you. I don't know. I don't know. I never heard from the guy again.
Speaker 1:He still might be passed out.
Speaker 3:That was the beginning and end of my first car and I had a lot of good times in that car.
Speaker 1:Oh, I was just about to say, yeah, let's not bury that lead. So you must have been the party boss in high school.
Speaker 3:Not really we that leads. So you must have been the party boss in high school. I not really. We didn't party with it much, I mean, I wasn't at all a deadhead or hippie type person, you know. But uh, I know we had a lot of fun, you know, sliding it around in the snow and uh, for sure I know I could only go over 60 miles an hour if I got about 10 feet behind a semi truck going downhill and then I could get about 75, um, but it was really cool it had.
Speaker 3:It had a fold down bed in the back. The pop topped up it had a top right yeah right, yeah, had the little like one bed up there and then it had a tent that hooked to the side and had a giant vw symbol on it and apparently those are super valuable and rare now and I have no idea, like when I sold the thing, how valuable those would be down the road who, who, who knew what?
Speaker 2:what color was it, joe? Was it brown?
Speaker 3:it was, it was white, okay, okay, yeah, my memory failed me, but I had a brown one at one point too, but maybe that's what I'm thinking it wasn't a camper and it was a newer one yeah, I think it was more this squared squared one right yeah, it was a modern van again yeah.
Speaker 1:So how did you guys meet? Was it high school, or was it, yeah, high?
Speaker 2:school middle, probably middle school, middle school yep, yeah, you guys had classes together.
Speaker 3:You would geek out over well we didn't have a really big school. I think our graduating class was only 300 people, or 350 people. Yeah, not like we had a thousand. Everybody knew everybody back then.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was easy. Now I think the graduating class is like over 500.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'm sure At least that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so we know what happened to the Volkswagen. Right, and not your first Volkswagen, probably not your last, as you have a story, but after you kind of wrecked the engine, sold it to the deadhead, what did you move on to?
Speaker 3:So my dad had bought my sister this really nice Oldsmobile Delta 88 convertible. It was baby blue with a white interior. My sister was a bit of a train wreck in high school. She would forget to put the top up and it got rained in a bunch of times. Oh, no.
Speaker 3:She would run it out of gas and call my dad and bring her gas. Finally, he was like no, you can't have this car. He gave it to me and gave her. I can't gave her like a honda or some little piece of crap. So that's the car I had when I graduated high school into college, um, and that car was really cool. It was big. I think we could put like 11 people in it, you know. I mean it was and it was fast.
Speaker 3:It was fast for me back then it had a 350, right, yeah, but they had what they called a rocket motor, 350 rocket motor which had aluminum tappets and I think it was about 700 RPM higher red line than a standard small block Chevy Nice, and it had a turbo 400 in it, so you could really get on it without destroying things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it was a convertible, yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it was as big as a whale. Right, it was massive. Yeah, I think it was about 18 feet long.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And it got on a good day. I got nine miles per gallon.
Speaker 2:On a bad day, he didn't check.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I didn't pay for gas, so I didn't care. Yeah, very good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, gotcha, gotcha and yeah. So your dad gave you that car because your sister wasn't being responsible with it. Yeah, did that go over well with your sister?
Speaker 3:oh no, she's still mad about it. Still to this day oh yeah, wow.
Speaker 1:Did she drive a convertible now or did she? Did she learn her lesson? Did she feel like she had to redeem herself? No, she's.
Speaker 3:She's never owned a cool car since she's always had little crossover suv things you know like or like a pathfinder, or I think she drives a. Uh, what is it a?
Speaker 1:rav4 now. It's wise to know yourself. Wise to know yourself good on her for sure yeah and so.
Speaker 2:So, joe, we were talking before the show you currently own about eight cars.
Speaker 3:Yeah, if I have my numbers right. Yeah, today I own about eight Yep. I mean that includes my wife's minivan and my daily driver, Toyota Sequoia. I tell everybody, if you're going to have one car, own a Toyota.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's the one that doesn't need any work right.
Speaker 3:Or minimal. You can just ignore them and they just run Yep.
Speaker 2:And you just built a thousand square foot garage I think you were telling us Yep and for your car projects and to do some work on other people's cars as needed.
Speaker 3:Yep, yep, it was a big process, process I bet, I bet now.
Speaker 1:Now, how do things fit in the garage? Are they kind of parked around the perimeter? You're putting in a lift, do you? Yeah?
Speaker 3:so I put in pads when I built it for a lift.
Speaker 1:Okay, um I don't have the lift in yet.
Speaker 3:Um, but my garage it's got a 20 foot door on the front and a 10-foot door on the back, so you can actually pull through it. Oh, I like that. So, because it's in normal speak, it's in the front of the house because I live on the water, so the garage is between the street and the house, so you can't see my house when you pull up, which is really nice. So you just see a garage when you pull up, which is really nice. So it's just, you just see a garage when you pull my driveway. I like that.
Speaker 1:I like that.
Speaker 2:Garage. Tell where your heart is. Garage full of cars. So um. Some of these cars have been barf barn finds right Joe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, field find was his word, which I love.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have a 62 Beetle. That a mutual friend of ours, you know, james McRae, yeah, yeah, so he owns a restoration business in Easton. He does.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so he restores cars. He's worked with the North Street Garage in Easton I think they're maybe in Oxford doing doing some bugatti restoration work and, um, so he found this car. He's like, hey, you might want this car. The guy the local guy used to work for a volkswagen dealership over there and who had owned it since new and had given it to his son and the son I don't. It ended up having a bent push rod. That's why it was parked and it had been sitting in this field for about 15 years. We went over with his trailer and pulled it out of the ground. It was literally buried to the floor in the dirt. That's my next project in the queue when I finish the current one I'm working on.
Speaker 1:Okay, so what is going to need to be done to that car? Obviously yank, the upholstery Is there rust.
Speaker 3:The funny thing is the upholstery is perfect in the car. How?
Speaker 1:can that be no idea?
Speaker 3:So the car was an anthracite gray car. It had been painted primer gray over the anthracite paint and it looks. It looks like a patina out you know rat rod right now and I think that's the route I'm going to go with it Put a new pan under the thing, essentially, and uh, and I'm going to do an electric conversion with it. So it'll it'll do a hundred miles an hour and it'll have a 90 mile range with the kit that ev west sells. So that's my current plans with it, because to get the same performance I'd need to spend about twenty thousand dollars and build a turbo motor and that would be completely unreliable and obnoxiously loud and require lots of maintenance and it wouldn't go with that gotcha.
Speaker 1:So that was the thought process. So that's that. That's really now. You don't own any other electric cars, but have you had experiences? Okay?
Speaker 3:yeah, oh yeah, yeah. I have a lot of guys, um, I know with teslas and um, and a friend of mine just bought a hummer truck, the hummer ev, and uh, and that's an insane thing too.
Speaker 2:Nice, nice. And is there anything you won't do on cars, joe? Or you can't, because it seems like there's.
Speaker 1:Well, the guy's got. No time he's got. I can't do alignment.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you'll do body work. Do you paint?
Speaker 3:No, I mean I can, I don't, because it's not good to do it in your garage. Yep um, but I have a good friend who is a painter who can do all my paperwork for me.
Speaker 2:Okay, I need his number. I've got a. I've got a 9300 zx.
Speaker 3:That is five different colors what color did it start out?
Speaker 2:Black. I forgot, but it kept getting hit on my narrow street.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I know the feeling because I have a black Mazda.
Speaker 1:It's been hit three times on one side. Yeah, yeah, but Doug's a mad scientist. He likes to get in his garage and play and know rap.
Speaker 2:you know, experiment with different raps and and, yeah, man, I mean it's like, uh, you know, not at joe's level, but uh, yeah, so so um, you know, we're around the same age, so obviously, uh, 80s and 90s cars are probably your favorites, right yeah, I.
Speaker 3:I mean, if you look at what I own, that's most of what I own is 80s and 90s stuff. Yeah, there, you can still work on them. You know my last I had a. I had a 2010 bmw 530. That was just my daily driver and they had a service bulletin that was never sent to me about clogging sunroof drains and the spare tire. Well, filled up and destroyed the body control module, about six other modules and uh and that was an eye-opener on modern cars to uh, avoid them. Yeah, yeah, and it was. It was a known flaw and they, you know, and it. I bought all the modules online and installed them myself, but then I still ended up having to pay $700 or $800 to get the whole thing coded to the car.
Speaker 2:Golly.
Speaker 3:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the end of it. Well, it comes down to the whole right to repair movement, which is really a big thing. That really angers me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm with you. Do you know about that, christian? The right to repair movement.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've just been reading in the news recently about that. There are laws in states and they're pressing for because when you talk about there's almost a freedom of information piece there too.
Speaker 3:I think the biggest group of people it affects are the farmers, right, who say you have 1,000-acre or 1,500-acre farm and there's 10 of those farms in one area, in the middle of Ohio or Idaho or wherever Iowa cornfields, and there's only one, john Deere pack, and it's harvest season and you got to get that corn out of the ground and good point you're, you're really in dollar combine goes down and you can't fix it yourself because you can't plug the diagnostics into it.
Speaker 3:Right, it's a real issue with those guys I mean the car guys and stuff. It's just kind of like oh, I'd like to do it, you know, change my own battery without paying bmw 100 to code the car to it. But for the farmers it's kind of like, you know, it's like you got to get your crops out of the ground before they spoil. And sometimes you know there's that equipment goes down and they can't fix it.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep no, really good necessity I, I hadn't thought about that. That that's a really interesting argument. Yeah and uh, you know, on these bmw products, my, uh, just, you just said something that reminded me my, my, my oldest son's first car was a mini bmw product and and drove me nuts. You know having to go get a battery, but you can't, just, you know, like on my act here, you can't just sort of you throw the battery in there and uh and walk away.
Speaker 1:Now it's got to be they they have that intelligent battery sensor yeah, exactly, that's right, that's right, and so you know an additional complication, or dependency, as it were, which to me means dollar signs. So you know it is what it is Right, makes the world go round.
Speaker 3:So BMW got around the antitrust implications of that by offering you a free, basically a dial up service. You could plug your laptop in and it would take about 20 hours to code it yourself. What, really yeah, so that was how they got around it. What a good nugget. Great nugget, I'm done with BMW products now. Okay, so we just lost our sponsorship with BMW.
Speaker 1:Yeah, great nugget, that's it.
Speaker 2:That's a nugget, so for sure so, uh, I did want to ask, joe, like one of my favorite cars that you own that I haven't seen, but I always wanted one is the, uh, chrysler conquest? Yeah, that's a cool car and you've still got that. You've got the graphic equalizer right oh yeah, it's got it all.
Speaker 3:It's got the seat belts that run up the window and it's. It makes turbo noises and it's. It's pretty fast, right? It's? Yes, if you're not used to really new fast cars, it seems really fast. It's got a boost gauge that goes up. It only makes six pounds of boost with a stock turbo and a stock wastegate and it's bone stock. It's only got 90,000 miles on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And that car is red or black? No, it's white with a red interior.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's what I was talking about. What?
Speaker 3:year, joe, it's an 89. It's the last year they made it. It's the SHP. Oh, so they caught special handling package. So it has eight inch wheels in the front, nine inch in the rear. Let's get staggered 16 inch wheels. It's really hard to find tires for it, but I redid the whole car during COVID, so I was.
Speaker 2:I remember that didn't work for four months.
Speaker 3:I sat at home for four months and went through the whole thing. I bought every single replacement part for the suspension and engine. Everything got replaced. It's like a new car now. It runs perfect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, it's a Dang. It's cool that you still have access to it, yet you sold it to your friend. Right yeah, yeah, but what's been your favorite car? I mean, there's been so many, whether it's one you own now or one you've had.
Speaker 3:I think my favorite car is sitting right in front of me and it's my 94 Miata I bought for my 30th birthday.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 3:I've had it for 21 years now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what color is it? It's black, okay. Yeah, my 94 was black too With the tan leather interior and tan top. Yep.
Speaker 1:How often do you drive it, joe, same here, I haven't driven it much this year.
Speaker 3:Because it has a, I got to take the fuel tank out. Oh, I got to take the fuel pump out. The fuel pump is, when it gets warm, it starts getting loud and intermittently not working, so it starts idling badly. But um, it's really. It's kind of pain in the ass because I have a roll cage in it to get to the fuel fuel pump, so I haven't messed with it gotcha.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, no, you know, it's funny. I'm looking at buying like a, or I was looking at buying like a 95 and the guy let it sit because the fuel pump went out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and so it's not far from my house, so it's tempting without the roll bar. It's about a 10 minute job yeah, he.
Speaker 2:But he was like yeah, it's like two thousand dollars. I'm like, how can that be?
Speaker 1:it's not, it's a hundred dollar pump, I know.
Speaker 2:I hope he's not listening yeah, if you have a bmw guy it add in the dial-up good grief. Yeah, got to find a landline. Yeah, yeah, and your wife's been very supportive of your hobby, right? Yeah, she likes cars too Nice.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we've gone to Bear Jackson auction together and looked at stuff and she supports me 100% with my stupid car stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what's her favorite car? That's helpful. Would it be the Miata?
Speaker 3:I don't know what she um, probably the Porsche because it had car play.
Speaker 2:That's it. That's a good reason. So on on that note you have a oh, four, nine, 11 convertible. It's a good reason. So on that net you have a 04 911 convertible. It's a let's see, it's a six-speed, I'm sure.
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 2:Six-speed manual yeah.
Speaker 3:Silver, black, interior.
Speaker 2:Yep, I've seen it on St Margaret's Road. So, yep, yeah, with your license plate. Yep, big boy.
Speaker 1:Yep, well, joe, as they say, pictures or it didn't happen. So we got to see some pictures of this garage. When you get it squared away, are you? Look at this? He's in it now. Look at this. This is like. Jay Leno's garage Look at this.
Speaker 2:I know, I know, oh, he's killing it yeah, look at you, I'd never leave.
Speaker 1:I'd never leave. That is fantastic. Well, thank you for sharing that, Joe. Yeah, if you could love to get pictures of that and throw them up on the website. But wow, so you said it's not done, but it looks in a state of finish.
Speaker 3:I mean, you said yeah, the electrical's only roughed in now um we're doing a uh, mr cool mini split system in it. Yep, yeah, and then, um, we're gonna finish two of the walls and I'm gonna hang some tvs and have a couch in here and oh, let's see.
Speaker 1:We're never gonna see. You'll never see this guy again. He's never gonna leave the garage.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna, I'm gonna invite myself over his house now. But, I'll bring my DeLorean over.
Speaker 3:I know that's a car I've never driven.
Speaker 2:All right, it could happen.
Speaker 1:Sounds like you guys. Yeah, sounds like a pleasant afternoon spent together. Well, I tell you what Joe, it was great meeting you. Thanks for sharing some stories from your past. And hey, thanks for having us in your garage as well as our listenership. So you know, you know, by association, there's a, there's a, an Argentinian, a German, a Denmark and Australian, who's just, you know, who are all hanging out in your garage together. So thank, you for having us and we appreciate your time bud.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I'll share this. I'll share this to all my friends around the world, so yeah, please, yep, yep.
Speaker 1:You have friends and listeners all over the world. So, yeah, as always, look at the time. I mean half hour in the books. Uh, really pleasant, walking down memory lane with Joe making a new friend. And yeah, doug, is this okay if we could mention fan mail one more time?
Speaker 2:Again, feel free to reach out, Go ahead. Yeah, so fan mail is a new feature on our podcast platform, so you'll see a link. If you look in the show notes, it'll say click here to contact Christian and Doug. It's literally a text message. So love to hear feedback. Super easy, no email required. Email us too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, roger that. So, as always, follow the show, download the episodes. You never know when you'll get caught not having access to some sort of cell tower. So download the episodes, follow, let us know what you think. Leave us a review. Positive ones, help us. If it's negative, just email that to us. How about that? We got a deal. So anyway, hey, that's this week's show.
Speaker 2:It's a wrap. Season two.
Speaker 1:That's it. That's it, We'll bookend it. Thanks, Joe Great meeting you pal.
Speaker 2:Thanks, Joe Great meeting you, pal Thank you Joe, thank you guys, thank you hey we'll see everybody next time.
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Speaker 2:Take care, take care Bye.
