To All The Cars I've Loved Before: Your First Car Tells The Story

1974 Mustang II: Defending America's Most Hated Mustang

• Doug & Christian: Automotive Story Enthusiasts • Season 6 • Episode 2

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At 14 years old, Jeremy and his father tackled a project most mechanics wouldn't touch: a complete 1974 Ford Mustang II rebuild.

What started as grease under fingernails and late nights in the garage became an ASE certification, an IT career, and eventually entrepreneurial ventures that would surprise anyone who knew him as "the Mustang kid."

Most people remember the Mustang II as Ford's controversial answer to the fuel crisis. Jeremy remembers it as the car that taught him he could build anything—even if his relationship with his father didn't always make it easy.

Here's what Jeremy reveals:
- What it's really like learning mechanics from your father (spoiler: not always smooth)
- The specific moment he knew he could tackle any mechanical challenge
- Why he walked away from being an ASE-certified mechanic—and what he learned from that choice
- His controversial business idea about Jeep Wranglers that could actually work
- How that teenage Mustang project still influences his approach to problem-solving today
- The one modification he wishes he hadn't made

But there's one detail about that first Mustang that Jeremy kept from his father for years. You'll want to hear this confession—and what happened when he finally came clean.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome back to All the Cars I've Loved Before. You know what? It's a little bit of a stale opening, doug, so I think we have to try something new here. How about Do it? Do it? How about? It is time for another high-octane, four-wheel-aligned burnout, fuel-injected, airbag-protected not Takata episode of Do? All the Cars I've Loved Before, your podcast, where every car tells a story. What do you think? I think that's good.

Speaker 2:

I like how you slipped in the airbag and that sore subject about Takata. But don't?

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

No, we can't do that anymore.

Speaker 1:

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Speaker 2:

Make sure you save these, because we'll put them out for a vote.

Speaker 1:

Let's save these, because we need to delete them as soon as I'm done. The only car enthusiast podcast whose vinyl top is sort of dry, rotting and looks great from a distance but terrible up close. And why were vinyl tops ever a thing? Huh, no, yes, keep going or move on.

Speaker 2:

It was a fake convertible.

Speaker 1:

Right, right, yeah, I, I guess that was what they were trying to impart. That's what I? Um, you know, and the only thing worse than the vinyl top was the headliner on all the gm products from the 70s and 80s. That would just kind of, you know, it was like a curtain coming down around your head at the most inopportune times. One more the only car enthusiast podcast that has to talk to its manager about the last lowball offer you made. Have some coffee, I'll be right back, how about? No, did I freeze again? No, no, no, no. The only car enthusiast podcast that was called by NHTSA for being incredibly boring. The only car enthusiast podcast whose cassette deck will also eat CDs and DVDs. Last one I have the only car enthusiast podcast that leaks green, orange and brown puddles in the garage. Well, all right, we'll put them to a poll. Put it to a vote. Well, welcome back.

Speaker 1:

Everybody Seems you have nothing better to do than to check out To All the Cars I've Loved Before a podcast. Everybody seems you have nothing better to do than to check out to all the cars I've loved before podcasts where every car tells a story. We get into life lessons through cars. Talk about the first few cars that you've owned, and get into what's happening in your life now, what causes you espouse, what brought you here? Where'd you get that first car, mom, dad? We've had a few guests, I'm gonna say recently. Who, who, uh, had a car that kind of made its rounds through the family, which I think is fantastic. That's actually as I reflect on it. That's my. I had a Rabbit VW, rabbit GTI. There was a ton of fun and it was my sister's the hot hatch. Oh man, I want one now. I've been thinking about that car a lot lately.

Speaker 3:

Well, Anyway, cars are good, we're going to find one. Bring a trailer.

Speaker 1:

Absolutely, absolutely. We're going to check it out so as we move, real excited about today's guest, so I'll be done with the babbling in just a moment. Again here we're seeing the numbers rise. Thank you, please follow the show. So hit the little plus on the Apple podcast, on let's see on Spotify.

Speaker 2:

Those are my and on Amazon, all the major platforms.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, if you like it, please share. Doug is incessantly wonderfully posting on our social media. He visited a garage and got some footage and that's moving into post-production. Now we're looking at starting a TikTok account maybe, and possibly a YouTube show. Tiktok account maybe, and possibly a YouTube show. So that's in the offing not to tease, but we're trying to get there as we move things forward. So that's about it. On the calls to action, what do you think, doug?

Speaker 2:

Am I missing anything before you introduce this week's guest? No, I think you've covered it all. I think this week's guest is going to be pretty cool because we have, and probably without further ado, almost. We have a guy who worked with his dad to build the front end or the clip or the bumper of his first car, just to do something different. We have a guy whose life involves, his career involves cars, and he's also an inventor, inventing a well-needed accessory for cars.

Speaker 1:

And but the best part about this guy, he's coming to you live. Well, he's coming to us live. He's coming to you on a delay from Hawaii, so, with no further ado, it's a little late for that. Jeremy, how are you doing today? I'm doing good. It's good to be with you, Doug and Christian. Good to have you. What is the weather in?

Speaker 3:

Hawaii. You know everybody asks me that and this is the challenge with that question the weather in.

Speaker 1:

Hawaii is pretty much perfect all the time. It's like 80, whether it's night or day.

Speaker 3:

And everybody says the exact same thing that you just said. Christian, they say I hate you for that right.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah. As humidity, heat, hurricanes, storms and all sorts of awful things barrel out of the Gulf of Mexico, I just I'm a little jealous, but thank you for sharing that.

Speaker 2:

Well, and to be fair, Jeremy, if I may, jeremy grew up in South Dakota, so I think he's earned some nice money.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I, didn't know that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I didn't know that.

Speaker 1:

Oh, this guy's earned.

Speaker 3:

That's where that. That's where that my first car was built in South Dakota built, born and bred right.

Speaker 1:

I take it back. You've earned every sunny day, buddy. I'm just going to be quiet and let Doug take it from here.

Speaker 2:

No, no. So you mentioned that first car and I think we've had a few Mustangs. Mustangs are not uncommon on this episode, but you had a custom Mustang that you built with your dad. Tell us about it. I have here. It's a 1974 Mustang II which, if memory serves, was based on the Pinto, or vice versa. It was.

Speaker 3:

That's the way it is right, I mean we had.

Speaker 3:

It was the 70s right, I mean, it was the 70s. I was, I was I was actually 12 and a half 13 years old when my took me out and I would call it junking. Let's just be honest with it. Right like we're out in the middle of a field, in a tree, right like a grove of trees. There's a car back there and my dad finds this mustang, right, the 74 mustang. And I'm just a wide-eyed kid and the reason you say, well, why is he so young? Well, that's the beautiful thing about living in South Dakota. Like, you get your driver's license at 14. You know, insurance companies don't know what to do with me.

Speaker 1:

They say when did you?

Speaker 3:

get your license. I said I was 14 years old. I can't even tell you how many times. Well, our system won't even accept that. I'm like well, that's when I got my license. I don't know what else to tell you, but I'm this wide-eyed kid. My dad gets this Mustang and I'm like what a dream. Like it's a Mustang, and he had an idea. He said let's change kind of the again we've. You know, we had kind of a little bit of discussion about what that's called, I don't know, but it's the front of the car, right like he's like, let's round it. You know, mustangs are notorious for being kind of boxy in the front, that.

Speaker 1:

And he's like let's round that yeah, even even as you're saying that, you read my mind because I've called up pictures and I'm looking at them and I said what this car definitely needs is a little bit of some sort of more aggressive nose cone or something. I mean it looks very well, like Doug was saying, it looks very boxy. That's probably what led you guys to say, led your pop to say, hey, we got to fix this, let's do this.

Speaker 3:

I would love to say that I had any brainpower in that. Again, I was just that like kid right, excited to have your. You know, I mean my son just got his license at 16 and I and I've been reminded recently in the last couple of weeks, of just the freedom of that. That. That thing, right, your car, your license and the freedom that that brings is just such a thrill and that's what it was for me Like. In the middle of this I'm like Dad, let's just finish this thing. I want it to be done. You know, that was the car that I did my first power slide in with the e-brake. It's the first donut, like everything that you think of youth and freedom and all that stuff. That was the car that began everything. Yeah, my daughter got her license recently the car that began everything.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, my, uh. My daughter got her license recently and, uh, yeah, she just reminded me of when I was her age. Any excuse I needed to go out in the car. Oh, you need me to go get some eggs. Oh, you need me to get five eggs.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

You need some water, dad. Um, dad, I think you need a new newspaper, this one's kind of ripped.

Speaker 1:

Off to the store. Off to the store, I go Let me get out of the house.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, for sure, 30 minutes, even though it only took five to get there.

Speaker 3:

Absolutely, it's the drive right, it's the journey of everything, and so you know, that's the beauty.

Speaker 3:

Now I can say as a kid and I'm sure some people who listen to your podcast will understand this like you know, the beautiful thing was my dad was creating something that I'll never forget, right, like, cause it was unique, it was custom, and it built me into kind of a mode of wanting custom things, like I didn't want just the normal, like I.

Speaker 3:

I still I would say I still have some of that element in me, like I like if I get a hat, I still I would say I still have some of that element in me, like I like if I get a hat, I take the knob off the top, like because I want it to be just a little bit different than what the next guy has, right and so, but and the same token, that that's beautiful. It was also challenging because it's like, okay, we got to fix this car. Well, that's month in the shop, that's that's, you know, forming it, that's taking the fiberglass and rounding it and painstakingly sanding. And as a kid, you're just like I just want my car, I just wanted to run.

Speaker 2:

But when?

Speaker 3:

it was done right, exactly, painted it as, custom painted. The whole thing was just. It was just, it was memorable and I think that's the thing I I have enjoyed about your shows and different things like that. I mean, you know, as I go back, one of the things I've loved about your podcast is it brings back memories of. It brings back memories of I've owned a lot of cars over the years. I've had a chevy cavalier like tom was on an episode with Jim right, I had a Honda.

Speaker 3:

We can talk about that, danielle talked about it. I had a buddy who had a Prelude, and so, like, there's all these shows like, and so as I'm listening and that's probably one of the things I would say hats off to you guys about that has been really, really fun, as I've kind of discovered this podcast and began to listen and it's it's been a flood of memories of all the different things, all the times that I've been with friends and doing things that maybe we shouldn't have been doing or we should have been doing. It was just a lot of fun, right, and so it brings back a flood of memories, and so for that I'd say great job on coming up with an idea and creating something that brings back this cool memories.

Speaker 1:

Thank you, and creating something that that brings back this cool memory. That's such a warm and kind thing to say and that is what it's amazing, what the brain locks up back there in the small, in the in the attic of your mind. Man, there's a trunk stuck in the corner and in the smallest thing that unlocks it and brings out and just puts a smile on your face smallest thing that unlocks it and brings out and just puts a smile on your face, Gosh you're talking about. I just mentioned the GTI and hearing you talk was something I forgot about. I just remember one night nothing spectacular about it of just having all my buds in the car driving around, listening to music, laughing, having a good time and just the freedom, you know, rolling down the windows, opening up the sunroom so that sunroof um, it's funny.

Speaker 3:

You say that I had a rabbit, convertible, cabaret thing, a duct tape. It was a convertible that I had a hailstorm ripped through the roof. I had duct tape that had taped up the holes. That's the car that I was driving when I met my wife, like like you know. So it's memories right, like it's memories of of going to pick her up on dates, laughing about duct tape. Maybe it wasn't as funny to her as it was to me.

Speaker 2:

You know all of those things right, right, right, yep, maybe it was the song on the radio. And there's so many intersections with cars right, we've talked about it a little bit in passing Cars and books, cars and music, cars and music videos so many different things. So at 14, you had this Mustang. You were the envy. You have this customized Mustang. You were the envy of all the other 14 year olds. And how long do you have the car for?

Speaker 3:

You know, I think at the end of that I probably had it, for I think I was about 16. And I don't that's a good one for first car. I really have memory Like I would love to be like, oh, this is what happened, or this transpired, but I think in the reality of it is. I just was a young kid who wanted to see what the next thing was Right, what the next thing was Right. And so I would say and how many people and how many times have you heard somebody say man, I wish I would have held onto that car, I wish I had done that. Can I go back and fix it? No, but I was this young kid and I was onto the next exploration, and so we were at an auction.

Speaker 3:

My dad, you know, we found it in a grove of trees. We're at an auction and I and I see this, this Honda, you know hatchback, you know ugly, brown, as ugly as you're going to get Right. And I and I'm just again wide eyed, hey dad, can we get this? And so we start bidding and I watch him and his hands going up and you know the auctioneer is doing is, you know all this stuff?

Speaker 2:

And the next thing, you know, we it. I was like what the heck just happened? I didn't even know.

Speaker 3:

And then I had to get rid of my car right.

Speaker 2:

Oh, wow, wow, that's the whole process.

Speaker 3:

That's the whole process. You can't have two cars.

Speaker 2:

Well, you can, but I couldn't at that age yep, yep, but you, uh, you got a car out of the field and then you bought a car at auction with your dad and then you sold a car right and then we sold a car and I saw that car drive for years after that.

Speaker 1:

So the one thing I was appreciative of is.

Speaker 3:

it was cool to know that that car was still out there on the road, still going, like it didn't just, you know, end up in a salvage yard or something like that. Somebody else took it and appreciated it, right, yep.

Speaker 2:

And you know it's funny you say that. So right, you recognize that car because of what you did on the front end. I had not quite the same thing. I had a post high school uh 89 Nissan 240 SX great car. Sold it to get my first convertible, but I would see that car for years around around town and I totally recognized it because I had done something unique about the letters or the numbers and so I could pick it out out of the crowd. Sometimes it would just drive right by me, so it was really awesome. I wonder where that car is now, but that's for another episode it's in car heaven.

Speaker 1:

Car heaven Right saw all the cars we've lost before.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I, I sold the, the rabbit gti to a guy, was I felt like it was on, it was on its last lay, and I sold it to some fella who said, man, I need this car, I'm going to cross country to california, and said, oh boy, do I have the car for you. You know, if you just want to make it two States, but this was in Louisiana, so he had where I grew up, so he had to go a long ways, so sold it to him. You know, go about my life. About a year later I'm in a record store and you know, you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1:

If you're of a certain age, and if you're, if you're younger, you know, you see, to get music you used to have to go to a store and get it. Now I don't know what the, what the record store was, but I see this guy on the other end of the store walking up to me and I thought, oh man, this guy is either going to punch me in the face or shake my hand. And and it was a ladder he came up, he shook my hand. He said man, I just want to thank you. That car got me there and back california. No sweat, no problem. So I never saw the car again, but it took care of this guy I was.

Speaker 3:

I was slightly amazed I have a very similar story. So we were driving, I took my cabaret rabbit with a buddy. Uh, we were on a summer road trip and we took it from arizona to palm springs across the desert to vegas up over the mountain.

Speaker 3:

This is a whole journey ended up in south dakota doug, you were talking about music. My dad installed a stereo. We didn't have any music. I got some crazy stories on that trip. I could tell you guys about another day.

Speaker 3:

But I was driving home and we were in new mexico and I popped the off the hood to test, or to. You know, we're checking the oil and doing normal things Right, and I realized that the bracket so the way that that rabbit had the alternator on there is, you know, a bolt to the bottom and there's a bracket that kept it twisted up to keep the tension on the belt. Well, the bracket had broken and it slipped down, so just pure miracle that we'd opened it. At that time I had not no way to fix it, so I took some. I had some zip ties in the trunk and I was able to zip tie that thing back tight. When I drove it all the way home like that and I sold it like that, the guy never fixed it and he drove it for another 50, 60 000 miles like it was the craziest thing man, this is something else.

Speaker 1:

I think we doug. I think we need to contact vw about some sort of sponsorship. We're spreading some love. I think we're on. I think we're on to something.

Speaker 2:

You know there's the hail right. There's the GTIs that just won't die. The cabriolets, that zip ties keep them going. You know they used to say the Volkswagen Bugs had hamsters going in them to keep them going. I think we're on to something.

Speaker 1:

Between duct tape and zip ties. I think we got it covered, but I want to move on, if we can, to uh something Jeremy's into here, and Doug alluded to it at the top of the show. Uh, he has a product in the works and can you, can you tell us about that, jeremy?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I'd love to. So. About probably eight years ago I had this idea because I at the time I didn't own a Jeep, I was renting it and it drove me crazy. It was a hard top and on the four-door hard tops, the top two panels which most people don't even know this, but they're called freedom tops and the panels would come off but we'd have our luggage, I'd have groceries or whatever it is that I was doing, we'd be at a store or something.

Speaker 3:

And I'm like the whole point of these things is to have freedom to take the top off, to experience like that you know that convertible, like feeling, but no one ever does. Like you drive around and you see Jeeps I see Jeeps all the time and I never see those tops off of there. And I realized, like there's nowhere to store them. I'm not gonna leave them in my garage because what if I'm out and weather's out or whatever? There has to be a way to store these things. And so I came up with this idea and we talked about it, christian, but like I literally I mean it wasn't napkin and pen, but it was my ipad and I thought I'm just gonna sketch this thing. So I sketched this thing out, just saw it on like a note, like an Apple note with an Apple pencil, like it was super random. You know I'm not an immaculate drawer, but I still have all the images from that initial drawing and it was this idea and I thought, oh, somebody's going to build it, somebody's going to build it, right. I just kept thinking, okay, they'll take care of it. Somebody's going to have this Doesn't come, it doesn't come, it doesn't come. And finally, one day I was sitting around and I was like this is ridiculous, I just need to make this thing and I can't say that it tied back. But what I've loved about even this process with you guys and finding your podcast and getting connected to you guys has been the memories, right.

Speaker 3:

So my dad and brother I brought them in on this G products. We call it Freedom Top Vault. So we've done it. We built it together. We, you know, from the initial idea we're down to production. We're about to go into prototype mode. We'll run our first 10 to test the heck out of it before we start selling these things, and I'm really excited about it.

Speaker 3:

The heck out of it before we start selling these things, and I'm really excited about it. But it'll allow you to have an entire trunk full of stuff, whether it's gear or luggage or whatever. It'll hold over 350 pounds and literally you can pop those tops off and it's a place right in the back. The storms they don't get scratched, they're all separated. I got the patent submitted, everything is good. So we're rolling in all that way, um, and then, if you need to get them back out, take you less than five minutes to throw those tops back on, and and it gives you a place to always have them with you and and allows that. But it. It ties me back to that first story, right to that first mustang and my dad having the creative idea changing the nose, giving, giving me that and and um. I'm really excited to be doing this with those guys as we kind of build this new product Building something new together.

Speaker 1:

I love the callback. So how long did it take you, did it take this idea to sort of germinate or gestate? Was this sorry if you? You said it before, but are we talking two years ago, five years ago, and did it kind of hit you all in a flash? You seem like a creative guy from a creative family, so could you talk a little bit about the process or the iterations to this is the challenge with that Christian.

Speaker 3:

Yes, I think there is a lot of creativity in there, but, just like anything, you think, okay, is this really a good idea? Will people really use this, right? And so when I have that idea, if I'm honest, I probably sat on it for way too long. I probably sat on it for eight years just thinking, yeah, Thinking somebody's going to come out with this, Should I do this, Should I do that? Somebody's going to come out with this. Should I do this? Should I do that? I'm literally literally iPad sketch to like where I'm like, okay, now it's time to move. Like what have I been doing? Like why am I sitting on my hands? Like let's take this thing. You know, I don't know what your guys' journey in the podcast was like from the time you you guys are probably faster than me.

Speaker 1:

You probably like we had this idea, idea.

Speaker 3:

It wasn't eight years, jeremy. No, I know that's horrible, but well, we're pulling for you, pal, in that, it's, it's, it's. You know the? I think the the beautiful thing about sometimes having some I some time to sit on that idea is, I would say, it's gone through multiple revisions, even in my head, right, yes, yes, and I can't say that I was the fastest to creating something or do something, but I can tell you this it's been well thought through, like the idea where it is, what it's going to be is well thought through, and for that I'm excited because I think it solves okay, right?

Speaker 3:

Here's the thing Freedom Tops are created to provide freedom. Well, you're not free from the tops. The whole point of this product is to give you freedom from those tops so you can engage them, use them whatever you want to do with them, right? And it's going to work on Broncos, it's going to work on Gladiators. Literally, the whole thing is covered for all those. The pack covers all of it and we've got the designs and the work for all of that stuff. But we're going to release it for this you know this most recent series of Jeeps because we're excited to see I'm excited to see people driving with their freedom tops off Right, like I want to see people out enjoying them.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, okay, before we get to, where can people get it? Rookie question how do you submit? Okay, so you sketched it. How do you get to the patent pending part? Do you email it to the patent office? Are there a ton of forms you fill out? Did you make a call? Did you visit DC?

Speaker 3:

Awesome question and that is part of the journey for me was to understand that process right.

Speaker 3:

And in the end I had to find. There's a great book called who, not how, and in it it talks about finding the people who know how to do the things that you need. It's probably the same way as like a car person, right? Like, like, if I'm rebuilding a car and I don't know how to do it, where do I go? I go to YouTube, I go to somebody who, a mechanic, who knows what they're doing, so that I can find the answers that I need so I can accomplish this.

Speaker 3:

I didn't know how to, how to get a patent. If I'm honest person, I had no idea what to do, and so I had to find a guy who knew and it was actually through a friend of a friend, as crazy as that is and this guy was able to help me through that process. And now I've learned a new skill on my tool belt, right Like. I've learned how to handle that, and so everything's submitted. We had to take some drawings and create better drawings, obviously, so there was an engineer that was involved in that and a bunch of different steps. Anybody who's been through this process understands it, but I think that was a fun thing and another tie back to what I love about your guys's show is cars often push us to try things that we've never, never done right, like doug you.

Speaker 3:

You said you modified that car. Right, you modified the letters and the numbering and stuff like that I would say you've had that same thing. I, yep, I I can't tell you how many variations and things that we've done on cars and modifications and changes and all that stuff, and so I would say, even in that there's steps that I learned from cars that have helped me at this point, absolutely. What was the book? Again, who, not? How is the name of that book? Okay?

Speaker 2:

Who, not how. I love it Yep.

Speaker 1:

And okay, you said the patent was pending. Is that like a two-month process, a two-year process, or you don't know yet. I'm still learning.

Speaker 3:

I think it's going to be a year to 18 months, but we're into this process like, oh, right now, and so at this point, once it's submitted, um, everything that I've been told is then the date is locked right, like so we submitted it, it's locked in. You know, if somebody was to try and take our idea and create it at this point, like they're, as soon as I get the patent, they're going to done, and so we got it kind of locked down, which is cool.

Speaker 1:

I dig that. Now, where are people going to be able to buy it, or is that premature?

Speaker 3:

They are going to know. Well, it's coming quick. We'll have the first 200 probably in the next three months. So I don't know, I don't know release schedules and stuff like that, but but we're going to. It's going to be on freedomtopvaultcom and that's where we're going to start, and there's going to be some distributors, because I've shown that once we got the patent submitted, we took a very, very preliminary prototype into a cheap dealer. And you know, I have no idea. I just wanted to see, like, like you know, what do people think about this? What do you think about the idea?

Speaker 2:

right, like where does this great?

Speaker 3:

idea and, um, those guys were so excited. They were like, please bring it back when you have it created. It's going to go into every jeep that we sell, and so I have no idea where this thing is going, but I think they realize that this is something that the need that people will will benefit from right I love it, man.

Speaker 1:

What do you think about that now, doug? Okay, I have not thought about this in years, but what you got? I got a picture of you. Doug is owned, I think, 40 cars in his short life probably under 30, probably more than 40, but one of those. I have a picture of you in this hilarious in in one of our kayak adventure afternoons together.

Speaker 1:

There's, you're in a jeep with the american flag on the side and it's got a kayak tied to the top and, um, hey, I think you should go find, I think you should buy that jeep back, just so that you would give jeremy customer number one, or something yeah, you know, that was a limited edition for the 1994 olympics oh 96 I think 96 olympics, or 94 I think it was a 94 job, so I'm gonna go now.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I was gonna say you better look that up.

Speaker 3:

I don't know, I don't remember that.

Speaker 2:

Doing it right now. I'm pretty sure it was a 94. But yeah, that was one of my presents for moving back from New Jersey after two years, just moved up there for work. It was fine, but I wanted to buy myself a little gift. It was not my first Jeep and I don't know if it was my last one I guess we'll have to see. But yeah, it was a lot of fun. I actually had somebody, some young kid, come up to me at a gas station and say, excuse me, were you in the Olympics? No joke, I was quite honored. I was quite honored Yep, and I think I had that Jeep post 9-11, and it got a lot of thumbs up because of the kind of waving American flag.

Speaker 1:

We'll have to put that picture up online, okay so let's, yeah, just a little fact-checking, which I know is not huge in American society.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you said you weren't going to fact-check me.

Speaker 1:

I only fact-check you when I'm right and you're wrong. Seldom happens. 1994, winter Olympics no-transcript. So probably yeah. So Lillehammer was the 1994 Winter Olympics. The 1996 Olympic Olympics were held in Atlanta. So there you go. Sorry, we were both right. No, I think I was right and you were wrong. But as we wind down our discussion with Jeremy, okay, freedomtopvaultcom, freedomtopvaultcom, that is his, that's his nascent company in this project that's going to take over the world. Did you have? As we decelerate the show, I like to say, jeremy, are there any causes that you would like to espouse? Anything you want to talk about?

Speaker 3:

You know, this is the thing I've realized about causes. There's so many. I have a ton of friends who are overseas doing missions and different things like that I've known over the years. Um, I think the thing about missions is and causes, it's just finding something that you care about, right At the end of the day something that means something to you becomes the cause, and so for.

Speaker 3:

For right now, most of our, most of our support goes to to friends that are doing cool things around the world helping people, serving people, doing awesome things. So most of my causes are around me, but there's amazing causes with cars, there's amazing causes with other things. So you know, as you're going out and one of the things I like that you guys care about causes I've just encouraged people who listen to this find something that matters to you, and that's a great cause.

Speaker 1:

And you're inspiring me, as I'm sure you will our audience and listener land to don't sit on a great idea. I see you as this invention of somebody who had an idea and then, finally, this is going to be life-changing for you. This is going to be huge. This is going to change the game and it's just inspiring to have this idea in your head, to see it through, send it to the patent office, start visiting dealerships and make a difference. I just think that's the neatest story, man.

Speaker 3:

I appreciate it. It's been, it's been. I wish I could say it was faster in the journey, but it's been a really fun journey nonetheless.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and doing it with your family. Like who better your dad and your brother. So awesome. Going back to that's what makes it.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, that's what makes it special, right, I mean, it's just like you guys doing it as friends, like doing the podcast as friends, the fact that I get to do this with my dad and brother I couldn't ask for anything more Hopefully inspiring our kids, right, my nieces and nephews and my kids, the goal is, hopefully, that we're inspiring them to not I hope I can inspire them not to wait, right, that's, it Would be the thing, like if you got an idea, go for it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, the idea of immediacy. Well, look, mark us down as among your biggest fans FreedomTopVaultcom, freedomtopvaultcom. Go ask your Jeep dealership about it.

Speaker 1:

Go in there hey you know, if you're in the market for a Jeep, go to the dealership and, uh, you know, write it down and say, hey guys, freedom, top Vault, do you guys carry this? You guys carry this. I need this for my car. So we're going to watch you, jeremy, and hey, if you need anything, we're going to promote your product. Uh, I'd like to have him back. I'd like to have him back once season, just see where he is in his journey. What do you think?

Speaker 2:

about that. I love it. I love it, and we'll link to your page, jeremy, as well.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, you know what? I will link to your guys' podcast. How does that sound? We'll be mutually beneficial, yep.

Speaker 2:

I love it. I love it, thank you.

Speaker 3:

Pollinate.

Speaker 1:

Love it. Yeah Well, Jeremy, it was great to meet you. Thank you for your time, your stories, your enthusiasm and your inspiration, man, it was a blast.

Speaker 3:

It was great to meet you guys. Thanks, Doug and Christian, for making a cool podcast and letting me be a part of it for an episode.

Speaker 2:

Thank, you.

Speaker 1:

It was an honor that was to all the cars I've loved before. This week is in the books and we will see you next time coming to a podcast streaming platform of choice. See you next time, y'all, Take care.

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