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What Car Did Your Parents Drive On Their First Date? | How Cars Shape Our Stories with Justin
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What happens when the car your parents courted in finds its way back to your family decades later? In this heartfelt exploration of automotive heritage, Justin shares the remarkable story of his father's 1963 Corvair Monza Spyder that mysteriously returned to the family years after being sold, confirmed by Winston cigarette butts still lodged in the stubborn ashtray. Now in Justin's care, this baby blue convertible represents more than transportation—it's a tangible connection to his parents' early romance.
Cars have a unique ability to become vessels for family narratives and personal connections. Justin's automotive journey spans from his first 1980 Honda Prelude found in a newspaper classified ad to an exhilarating 1988 Honda Prelude Si with four-wheel steering that both thrilled and terrified his friends. His ill-fated relationship with a Volkswagen Golf diesel resulted in a spectacular mechanical meltdown—a runaway throttle situation that created an oil stain so permanent it remains visible on his parents' street thirty years later.
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Listener land you have found To all the cars I've loved before, welcome back. It's your authoritative podcast On automotive nostalgia, where every car tells a story, every car has a culture. It's time to plug in, dust off, get a little grease under those fingernails and I want to welcome new listeners or recent listeners. How do we know this? Through the magic of packet switching and capturing. No packets were tortured in the collection of this data. Ogden, utah, welcome. Ashburn, virginia, welcome New York City. Didn't know how do you like that so nice? They named it twice. A couple other places a little further afield. We are heard around the world. Yes, singapore. Yes, pakistan, welcome, welcome. It's good to have everybody here. What do you think about that partner?
Doug:Magic of the internet. I love it we don't even have to be syndicated.
Christian:Yeah, I mean around the world, I'd be okay with that, but yeah, and today's guest okay with that.
Christian:But yeah, and today's guest, we're very happy to have him. We're going to introduce him in a couple of minutes. Just reached out to us he said hey, you are my people. Yes, that's a direct quote. We got to get together, make it happen Some magic coming your way tonight. So Ogden, Utah, Singapore, Ashburn, Virginia, Pakistan, New York City, Welcome back. And I won't torture listener land by singing happy birthday, but we do have a very special birthday today, Doug. Do you have any idea whose it is? Here's a hint. We interviewed his daughter on a previous season of the show. It is none other than John DeLorean.
Doug:How do you like that, john Zachary DeLorean?
Christian:How do you like that, john?
Doug:Zachary DeLorean. Happy birthday in heaven, sir.
Christian:Amen, you know, I think we talked about this when we were meant to, when we spoke with her. His autobiography is a heck of a tale and I think you read at least one or two. You know owning one of his most famous inventions. You've read about him quite a bit, quite a bit Interesting fella.
Doug:You could say extensively. And I'm pretty active in the DeLorean community, partially just to find out tips on how to fix my car, but also, I mean wonderful people like Kat DeLorean are actually very active on Facebook groups and that's how we connected with her. So we're super fortunate. I mean, you know the man. The man died 20 years ago. So we're you know, talking to her was was you know as good as close as it gets to meeting him. So it was a true honor and privilege and it's the gift that keeps giving. Season one, episode 10.
Christian:I got to tell you and we'll go back a couple of years and this just kind of struck me when you said you were getting this car. And I know it was a bit of a dream for you and you always want to help your closest friends, you know, overachieve, get to their goals, make dreams come true. But I thought you would go get this car, bring it back and I would never see you again because you would be underneath this piece of steel forever trying to make it work. But it's been surprising to me that really the opposite has happened. You have met more people by way of this car. It's really just been a social. I mean, you know a lot of people have a lot of friends, people, person, et cetera, et cetera, but it's all of the people that have moved within your orbit. It's really a striking, bordering on stunning thing. Did you think about that?
Doug:Yep, and you posed the question. It's in our blog, but you posed the question to me If I hadn't bought the DeLorean, would we have the podcast? And I think the answer is no. Yeah, I think you can draw a direct line.
Christian:Thank you, john. Yeah, I think you can draw a direct line. Thank you, john. Yeah, absolutely. It's amazing how you set these goals up in your life personal goals, professional goals involving your family, friends, significant other, and in the journey of achieving them or reaching them or helping someone else reach them. It's all the little detours and off ramps and tangents and connections made along the way, but that's really neat.
Doug:Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, no, I'm smiling, thinking about all the people who smile and point when they see me driving the car. They don't smile and point at me, they smile and point at the car, and that makes me happy.
Christian:Yeah, but you're the one that steps out of it. You're not in a spacesuit, so it makes sense to strike up the conversation with you.
Doug:Except out of the back.
Christian:And so you get a lot. So before we go, it's just real quick. So at one point you said to me you weren't, and I forget exactly how you phrased it, but you got so much attention in the car and you have several other cars so you would just kind of park that car for a bit. But it's just everybody looking at you all the time and a lot of people have no idea what it's like to be famous and when everybody's looking at you all the time. You know. Imagine if you know your wedding day, where everybody is looking at you and you're the center of attention for the entire day. Imagine if your wedding day was every day of your life. That's what it's like to be famous. How do you handle that when you go out?
Doug:That's a. It's a I hate to say love, love or hate thing, but it is. You get asked about gigawatts, flux capacitor yeah, will it go 88? All the regular stuff, you know what.
Christian:Because you didn't buy.
Doug:Is that a Lamborghini? Is that a Ferrari?
Christian:Right, but but yeah, you didn't buy it. To seek attention is the funny thing, and I think you were really kind of taken aback at certain points and it's taken you a few years to settle into that. Well, and I don't drive it every day, it's not, it's a weekend it's not the daily driver, like it is for Brian Paoni, another guest, if you don't want to interrupt.
Justin:You got it. It just seems like a perfect excuse to completely make up a backstory and just take people for a ride could, could.
Christian:And that very deep voice is not casey casem, ladies and gentlemen, it is our voice for today, it is our guest for today. Justin, how are you? I'm well, sir, how are you? Beautiful, wonderful, better that you're here. And Doug, how did Justin come across our dashboard?
Doug:Yeah, so we got super lucky. Even though Justin and I live in the same state, we didn't know each other, so I would say he's a friend of the show. He was listening to the show while he was taking down christmas lights, uh, kindly sent us a message and uh, yeah, we've been chatting ever since. He's got some great stories about cars that we're gonna we're gonna jump into. But, yeah, he heard us on overcast. Of course, we're on all the streaming platforms, including YouTube, youtube podcast, but also we're adding video daily. But, yeah, justin found us on Overcast and you know, can't say enough nice things about the show and how he feels, how it made him feel thinking about his early cars, which is really the consistent feedback we get from people, whether they're car people or not.
Christian:Yeah, good point, and he reached out. He reached out. So it's as easy as being on the show, as being a fan of the show. So we're one text, one email away and really, in talking with justin before the show, uh, we, we had to tell him a couple times man, it's your show, we're here for you. We just kind of. We just kind of put guardrails up and, yes, you can smash through them if you'd like, but that's, that's why we're here. So what's the weather.
Justin:What's the weather by you today, justin, have to ask, because it's brutally cold here in florida 40 degrees in florida, poor guy uh, let's see, it was uh 27, I think was the high, 17 was the uh wind chill and last night and then today I was out there with the snowblower and the the chipper trying to get ice off the sidewalks.
Christian:that was the next question. That was the next question. That was the next question. Okay, well, glad that you are frost free. You look warm and toasty, but your first car wasn't a snowblower, was it? It was not. Let's talk. Let's go into the Wayback Machine. And instead of talking about the very first car, you had a special car that you wanted to mention. So let's get into that a little bit.
Justin:Which one are we talking about?
Christian:Was that the Corvair?
Justin:It was yes, and that is the one that I would really like to talk about. So I have a 1963 Corvair convertible, monza Whoa, and there's a great story behind the whole thing. My mom and dad were dating in. They were, they were married in 73 and they began dating in 70. And my dad had this car and they went on their first date in the Corvair and they went on a few other dates after that and then finally, my future mom said I'm never riding in this car again because the floorboards were rusted clean through to the road. Well, doors weren't closing right, top was leaking. It's a corvair, let's face it. Uh, so dad's like, okay, okay, okay.
Justin:So he goes on to buy another car and honestly I don't know what the next car he bought was. But, um, he gave that car to my grandfather and said here, do you want this to play around with? For a few years, I'm gonna. My grandfather had a 41 olds. That was his pride and joy. Uh, he's like, yeah, I'll take this. So he played with it for a few years and then, ultimately, he ended up selling it on end of story. For now, fast forward me. We were in the, I'd say, mid 80s, probably about 84, 85. My dad gets a call from a guy and I, unfortunately I don't know his name Called him up and said Mr Warfield, I believe I have the car that you and your wife are recording in. No, have the car that you and your wife were recording in. No, and I would. I want to sell it, but I want to offer you offer you the first right of refusal, whoa.
Doug:So when does this?
Christian:happen. That's like this is fiction.
Justin:Well, yeah, yeah, yeah which and this is what I wrote out to you or wrote to you guys, because I thought this was just like perfect. So dad's like, oh, okay, I'll go look at the car. So he and my mom went and looked at the car and it was baby blue, monza wire wheel caps and at the time it had a black top. And he's like, yeah, everything checks out. And dad said to mom I'm going to open the ashtray and see if there's anything in the ashtray, because the ashtray was stuck, the little lid wouldn't open. Now this is on top of the dash above the radio. And dad went to open up the ashtray and it was stuck. And dad looked down into there and he actually saw his win Winston cigarette butts from when he owned the car. So he got rid of it in 71, 72.
Justin:Gets a call from a guy I think you have your car. I think I have your car, do you want it? Dad went and looked at it and this is in the mid 80s and it turns out it was the very same car, totally wild. So dad bought it back from him and the guy had the engine rebuilt, transmission rebuilt, had done some body work to it, basically got it back on the road Now. It wasn't like a full showroom or show car restoration.
Doug:Yes, it was a, you know.
Justin:I'm a huge fan of roadkill, of don't get it right, just get it running. And that's what they did. And they did a pretty good job on the exterior bodywork. The engine was okay, mom and dad got it. They put a new top on it, they had some more work done on it, had new brakes put on it, so on and so forth.
Justin:Fast forward a whole bunch of years and then, and I guess it was about 10 years ago, um, I was my mom and dad ended up moving from maryland to north carolina and they took the car them, and there just wasn't a lot of places for them to to drive it, you know, cause that's something you want to cruise in, that's like a. You don't want to just bust out on the highway, absolutely. And um, so they drove it around for a little bit. And then my wife and I went down and I asked dad. I was like would you finally let me drive this thing? Um, put a pin in that. We'll come back to that. Um, will you finally let me drive this thing? He's like yeah, sure, so I take it out.
Justin:And this thing was a blast. It was sloppy, steering was sloppy, shifting was sloppy, brakes sloppy. Drive it around for a bit, park it back in the garage and it sat for a few more years and about six or eight years ago my dad called me and said I'm selling the Corvair. If you want it, come get it, otherwise it's for sale Full stop.
Christian:You got the right of first refusal too. How interesting Second time around With the equipment and the family.
Justin:Exactly so I called up my buddy Tiemann. I was like, dude, I need you, I need your truck and I need your trailer. And, like all of my friends who are awesome, he's just like yep, let's go, let's do this. So we drove North Carolina, hooked up the car, stayed the night. Next morning came back and it's been in my garage and I'm slowly getting it back up to, uh, to road worthiness. Nice, that's where it's at and uh, I'm hoping, um, I'm hoping to hoping to get it uh up and running. Uh, my, my mom's not in that great of a shape and I'd love to be able to put her in the passenger seat one more time. Don't know if it's going to happen, but I'm damn sure going to try.
Doug:Fingers crossed. You know what's so great about that. It just came to me. We've heard of right of first refusals before and those type of things. I've've heard of right of first refusals before and those type of things. I've not heard of somebody going back to find the previous or however many previous owners and say, hey, I've got your car. I think I've got your car, whatever. This nice gentleman went through the trouble for whatever reason, and man, that makes it like doubly special, like that's a I'll use one of christian's terms like guardian angel right yeah, and I I honestly don't know um the story behind that, like how he found.
Justin:I mean, obviously you can do a venn number search, but in these days of the internet that's easy. But we're talking totally different 84, 85, where you know that just wasn't a thing. So you had to do your research or already have um documentation on it and honestly, at this point I don't know if the engine and transmission are matching numbers to the chassis. I I don't know um.
Doug:I haven't really dug that in that far into it, sure well that I would um, it's a good segue, if you don't mind, since we're talking about papers yeah into how you found your first car. What? What was your first car?
Justin:that was a 1980 Honda Prelude, two-door silver.
Doug:My favorite color.
Justin:And we found that in the Frederick News Post and I think it was being offered up for like $1,500 or something dollars. And my dad and I went out and at the the time I didn't have my license yet I couldn't drive a stick, couldn't drive anything. And, dad, we went over there, we talked to the girl that owned it, took it out for a test drive. Of course my dad drove and you know, obviously, knowing how to drive a stick, he's like all all right, this is a really easy stick for you to learn. On. This thing's really forgiving, excuse me. Uh. So we went back, made an offer, bought it. Um, and the one one cool thing I remember, yeah, and I don't even remember her, I just remember her saying you have to take care of Ian, and Ian was the dog or dogs. Ian was the car's name. Okay, my first car's name is ian and to this day I still don't have any names for any cars except for that one, because somebody else named it.
Christian:I, I didn't know that anyone named really named cars until this show and everyone does, and and I started doing it. Uh, since we started doing the show here, that is fantastic. Okay, I have to ask the paper. You were very specific on the paper, the Frederick News, what did you call it? Now I got to ask you do you have any idea if that paper is still in existence?
Justin:Oh, it is absolutely.
Christian:Oh well, that's fantastic because, you know, in this day and age and in it just it just brings me back to how this is not really car related semi, but for millennia that's how people have gotten their information, some written record, you know, going all the way back to the town, crier in newspapers. And I remember being younger, younger, that's how you know when I first moved to the big city, that's how I got my first job man Getting it and going through not that specific paper, but get the paper and go through the one of the jobs, the one ads.
Christian:you mentioned the little trade rags that have the color picture of the cars, or sometimes black and white, and that's how information got around.
Justin:I mean, that was the thing you waited for the auto trader to come out and you're looking for a car. It was once a week they would come out and there was a whole bunch of circulations, whether be national or local. That was. That was the cool thing like you waited for that rag to come out and start flipping through, and then you, you had a pencil and you circled things and you made notes and you know, and you ripped it out, it was more tactile.
Justin:Yeah, yeah, you ripped it out, you would tape it to your wall, yes and, and you would cold call people Just a straight up cold call and say, hey, are you the guy that has the car? I'm interested in it. Can we talk?
Christian:Doesn't happen anymore. No, it does not. I was cleaning out. My oldest son went off to college recently and is cleaning out his room and found all these newspaper clippings that we had clipped out. And it's just. You know, my mom used to do that when I moved to the big city and she would send me the news from my hometown. You know she'd clipped the newspaper clipping and put it in the envelope and mail. Well, that's all gone by the wayside now.
Doug:That's all firmly in the past. Sorry, christian, I love this story about you and your mom, so you always wanted what car.
Christian:Several that I'm sure I'll never have.
Doug:But the Risky Business Porsche. Is that what we're talking about? Yeah, so you and you still have the. I don't know if it was a newspaper printout or whatever and it was preserved in what. What do they call that Plastic? Laminated, Laminated.
Christian:By your mother. Yeah, I somehow found this in the papers. I do have it, so I'll see if I can pull it out somewhere. But I do have it yellowed with age. It's in the newspaper, but yellow, and my mom was a teacher so she brought it to school, laminated it and then brought it um I can't say I've ever gotten close. I've looked at a few in the past, um, but still news. Maybe one day that's right paper.
Doug:And before we go on to uh, the next car, christian, I have a quiz for you. Yes, I'm trying to make your automotive knowledge better. Try my best. Wow, okay, what, uh? What do a uh volkswagen beetle and a corvair have in common? And I'm talking about old volkswagen beetle, not newer ones. And I'm talking about old volkswagen beetle, not newer ones. Both they're cool. You got it there, we. You got it guinevere, from fresher brothers would be very proud of you.
Christian:She's, she's very proud, proud of me, hopefully, all the time anyway. But let's just add another merit badge to the sash, all right? Well, let's move along to the next car on the used car lot in Justin's past.
Doug:Yeah, and I think it was another. Let's take it, I can't use that?
Christian:Was it another Prelude? Are you telling me that the Honda Prelude was a Prelude to another Honda Prelude?
Doug:You did it very well. Let's ask. Justin.
Justin:Let's go to the source First. I'm going to add to your answer that, yes, the Corvair was air-cooled, but it's also the Volkswagen and the Corvair were both rear-engine, rear-wheel drive.
Doug:Yes, another one.
Christian:We have a quiz master in our midst.
Justin:It was actually the time it was considered America's Porsche, because it was the only American car that tried to duplicate that platform of a car.
Doug:Yep, but I digress and they had a bus version. They had a truck version. Just like Volkswagen.
Justin:They had the what was it? The Greenbrier? And then I forget what the truck version of.
Doug:it was Like a side step?
Justin:Yeah, all right. So what was the question on the next car?
Christian:We were on your ninth Prelude. I think that you bought.
Justin:My ninth. So that was my second Prelude and that was an 88 SI four-wheel steering and that car was fast and it was low and it was sleek and it was fast, it was a five speed, but the most important thing that was, uh, it was a four-wheel steering car and it was kind of ahead of its time and not a lot of companies wanted to try to do that, because it is. It is kind of sketchy to learn how to drive that car.
Justin:Um and uh, when I would would take my friends out, um, my best friend, adam uh said they used to call me Jay at the time. Uh yeah, jay knew that car stuck and scared the out of all of us because I had such a good time taking friends for a ride on back roads and just whipping that thing around corners and in and out of straights and I just had a great time with it because I knew it would handle. They didn't and it was so much fun. Now of course you know I'm an idiot. I'm like you know 21, totally know any better. But, like you know, 21 don't really know any better. But, you know, had fun with it. I was invincible at the time. Would I do that now? Probably not, but yeah, happens.
Christian:Hey, what color was it black?
Justin:black with black interior, aluminum wheels um manual. You know, for the time it was an 88, so it had all the bells and whistles.
Doug:What else?
Justin:can I say about it? If I had the opportunity to buy one tomorrow, no questions asked, I would buy another one.
Doug:Well, there are some on bringatrailercom, but did you hear that Honda may be bringing back a Prelude?
Justin:I have not.
Doug:Yeah. However, you heard it here first America and the world.
Justin:I have not. But there's something about modern vehicles that they're so bulbousy, bulbousy and they they don't have a relationship to the ground that, yes, other vehicles or older vehicles have, where you can't feel the road, you're isolated from it and the car is almost driving you and there's, you know, there's so much noise reduction and steering control and uh uh, trash control and abs and all this kind of stuff. If I want to lock the brakes up and I want to slide sideways, I want to do that, that doesn't mean I'm out of control. It means I'm really in control and want to take control of the vehicle, and you really don't get that. You know, I'd love to have a new-troom, for that matter, and be able to have those, those options no, I'm, I'm with you.
Doug:I was driving my delorean and it had been a while and I was going like 75 and I'm like man, what would this thing feel like to go to 88, not to pick, pick an obvious number? And I think it'd be pretty scary. I've never driven it that fast and I don't want to.
Christian:You've no need, frankly, you've no need. You've no need.
Doug:Sure, but whatever the amount, like going 75 in my very modern 2023 car or 88 is a total different experience to what um Justin is saying.
Christian:Right. So now, speaking of another, totally different experience, I think we can squeeze in one more car here. Let's do it the dozens that he's owned. We got to finish up with a VW. There's gotta be a golf in this guy's past finish up with a vw. There's got to be a golf in this guy's past.
Justin:It has to be. Look at it, he's a vw guy. Look at this guy. So it's the one and only vw that I owned. Um, I bought at some point a 1986 uh golf diesel. And when I went and looked at it they had this thing tricked out looking like a GTI. So they had the headlights, they had the round headlights, they had the driving lights on the front and they had the black fender skirts over it and everything. And I'm like that car is sexy, I want that car. And then when I went and looked at it and saw it was a diesel, I went you know what? I've never owned a diesel. Let's sure, let's buy it, why not? And I needed a car, didn't know anything about teasers, and that car was cool, man, it was comfortable, it drove great, but it was slow. It wouldn't get out of its way, I think out of the box. It had like 53 horsepower or 58 horsepower, something like that. But I could pull a stump out of the ground with this thing, I mean yeah because the diesel torque yeah, exactly, exactly.
Justin:And um, that car was so cool, I, I really liked that car, it was so much fun to drive, even though it was, you know, like I said, couldn't get out of its own way. But, uh, I had a, uh, I was looking to get into something different and I had a local vw shop. I called, just cold called, and said, hey, I've got an 86 diesel, you guys are interested in it. They said, yeah, bring it up, we'll tell you if we want to buy it. Okay, cool.
Justin:And my future wife, you know, at the time my girlfriend, she's behind me and I was like, all right, well, we'll leave my parents' house, follow me up to the dealership and you know, we'll see what happens. We make it up out 300 feet outside of my parents' driveway and I went from first gear up into second gear and I pushed the clutch in, shifted it in the second and, no matter what I did, the engine speed kept increasing up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and up and this thing was screaming and I'm like 25, I freak out, I'm like and I don't know anything about diesels I freak out, decide to eject, eject. So I pulled the key and the thing kept running and the RPMs kept going up. So I jumped out of the car and I come running up to the front of her car. I'm like just go in reverse, go in reverse, back up, back up, back up, and she went in reverse and I ran away and this thing just ran itself completely out away.
Justin:And this thing just ran itself completely out huge cloud of smoke, huge dump of diesel fuel and oil on the ground. Neighbors called the fire department. Fire department showed up and they just stood there and watched it run out and I'm like what? Uh, what, what's going on? What I didn't know, because I was ignorant to how diesels worked that the head gasket blew and it was running on its own oil. So the throttle ran away, because it was a mechanical fuel pump Throttle ran away, it was running on its own oil, it was belching diesel fuel and oil out of its tailpipe.
Justin:And then, when the whole thing was said and done, of course the whole neighbor's standing, a whole neighborhood is standing around. Yeah, I'm looking embarrassed, I don't know what to do. Fire department's there, they're doing their thing, and then finally the fire department starts packing up and I'm like, um, what do we do about this? Like this is a, this is a thing, this is like I just belched a whole bunch of crap out on the road and they're like, oh well, you have to figure that out. And they packed up and left and I went well, uh, okay. So I ended up just pushing the car back into my parents' driveway, aww, and left this giant spill of fuel and oil on the road because I didn't know what to do. They didn't give me any direction like oh, you should call Hazmat, or you should call this person, or you should call that department, should have called Freisha Brothers.
Doug:They didn't even say get some cat litter and dump it on there.
Justin:It didn't say anything and, yeah, cat litter was what we thought. So, you know, I went out there and, like, did what I could. Well, to this day I can still drive through the neighborhood and this has been 30 years, I can still drive through the neighborhood and see that spot on the road because it actually dissolved the asphalt. They haven't fixed it.
Christian:Golly.
Justin:What are you doing with your?
Christian:camera. Oh no, I was just doing jumping jacks.
Justin:That story has me so discombobulated that you just said holy, I just thought the whole thing was so funny that the car ran away on its own fuel or own oil and I didn't know what was going on and the fire department was like, yep, peace out that's like what do you say to that?
Christian:that's just kind of uh, what? What a wonderful end to the podcast here. End of the show. Doug, I think this is the first time in our history where we actually made the list of the cars. Ran through it in half an hour. I'm pretty pleased. What do you think?
Doug:Yeah, I'm super pleased. Plus, we're going to have Justin back, because there's a whole other list of cars complete with stories. Um, we're gonna do a four-wheel drive edition, I think, of a show.
Christian:It's a jeep thing, dig it can't wait, but before we let him go, we have to ask about uh we we always check with guests to see if they have a cause that they would like to mention, share causes important to them, things that they're into, and Justin has what I thought was a wonderful one. Would you care to share Justin?
Justin:Local animal rescue. If you care about animals and you actually want to do some good, don't give to national animal rescue groups. Get to your local animal rescue? Um. Find your local dog or cat rescue. Donate food, uh, donate money for them to get that care. And when it comes to finding a new pet, don't what is it, don't shop adopt. Don't be afraid to take on a, an elder dog or cat? Um, personally, we had a dog that had six months to live. He was an awesome dog and we ended up having him for six years because he got love, he got care, he got good food, got attention, he had a warm place to sleep. He wasn't given six, eight months, but we had him for six years and uh, my wife uh got me a portrait, uh painted uh of him on there for our living room wall and he's still with us. His name is luke. Um, but just animals is the biggest thing to me and just just take care of your critters yeah, uh, wonderful mention here, perfect timing because it's extremely cold outside.
Christian:Yes, you know, they say about the peas, the plants, the people, the pipes Bring your pets and thoughts.
Justin:Don't forget about the pets, don't forget about the pets, don't forget about the critters, even if they're strays. Just give them a cardboard box to come in and sleep in, out of the weather. Just a little cardboard box and a towel, yep, you know, in a corner of a yard makes a huge difference to a critter. Um, it's, it's kind of messed up. You know, like I would, I'm more likely to help an animal in need than I am a human, because the animals are doing what they can.
Christian:Yeah, you know. Yeah, well, you got a big heart, buddy. You got a big heart and we have tons of animals. Yeah, it's. Yeah, your heart is well loved, I bet. Let's put it that way. Well, justin, it was really great to meet. You had a blast the past half hour, doug said, and getting ready for the show, he said this guy is going to be something else. This guy is going to be something else, and you did not disappoint. So we appreciate you taking time out of your day and spending it with us absolutely, and I'm happy to come back.
Justin:uh, definitely willing to talk to you, absolutely.
Christian:We'll do it. We'll do it. We'll have our people talk to your people. Actually, we need to hire some people to talk to your people, but we're going to start accepting resumes now, or you can just hire me. Yeah, we'll hire you to talk to yourself.
Justin:That's another problem we won't get into today. I talk to myself all the time for free.
Christian:Yeah, just don't answer yourself, Amen. Well, thanks, pal you did great.
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