Model Car Mania Podcast
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Model Car Mania Podcast
Episode 10 - Yes! It's OK to Have Other Hobbies!
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Episode 10 - Yes! It's OK to Have Other Hobbies!
In episode 10. The guys share their favorite hobbies aside from model car building and prove to BG that his mantra of "One hobby at a time" isn't necessarily a good thing! The guys also have 3 times as many emails to answer and some great model car kits on the way to retailers we can all drool over!
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Jason Hanscom Blue ox model shop
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Mike Janas Scale model outlaw
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BG
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Jodi Doyle
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Justin Ryan
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Mikey, say it's on the phone.
SPEAKER_09Mikey, say it's on. I'm here. I'm here. I can hear you. Okay, good. You know what it is, is Justin doesn't have his glasses on, so I can't hear you.
SPEAKER_02Welcome to Model Car Mania, a modeling and sanity productions podcast dedicated to everything automotive and car modeling. Here are the hosts of the Model Car Mania Podcast. BG, Jason Hanscomb, Justin Ryan, Mike Outlaw, and Jody Doyle.
SPEAKER_09Hello and welcome to the Model Car Mania Podcast, a podcast for Model Car Maniacs by Model Car Maniacs. Hey, this is your friend Mr. BG, along with some great guys that have more ambition than free time. Let's say hello to our panel. First off, we have Jody the Doyle.
SPEAKER_05Welcome back, everybody.
SPEAKER_09And next up, we have Mr. Jason Hanscock. Hi, thanks for coming back. And next we have Mr. Justin Ryan.
SPEAKER_06Hi.
SPEAKER_09And last but not least, uh, let's see. We'll go on to the intro. Oh, I'm sorry. Hi, Mike.
SPEAKER_04What is happening, everybody? Which episode is this? Have we made it past eight episodes? Episode 10.
SPEAKER_05This is episode 10, everybody.
SPEAKER_04Yes. Episode 10. Have been told that if you make it past eight episodes, that you're an actual bona fide podcast. So I guess we're a bona fide podcast.
SPEAKER_06Well, there's definitely boners involved. Time out.
SPEAKER_09I'm throwing a yellow flag here. Do we all have to be on all eight podcasts? Huh?
SPEAKER_08No. Or does it average out over time? I'm not gonna let Mikey's shortcomings ruin my umbrella.
SPEAKER_06What the hell is with the subtext tonight? Boner fides and Mikey's shortcomings and Mikey's shortcomings, not Monkey's shortcomings.
SPEAKER_09That's even worse.
SPEAKER_04Same thing. Yeah, I think.
SPEAKER_09Am I on the right podcast? All right. Anyway, let's move on to what's on your bench. We'll start with Mikey.
SPEAKER_04I am still working on that 76 pacer. Got uh as you can saw on the Sunday show, I got the uh first actual color coat down, but I'm still I've had to sand it down. I've had to sand that color coat off a few times, and uh still got some minor blemishes. Really working on it. And if you guys don't know, this is the Hell Pacer, or if you've been following my channel, it is the uh Acme or bus car that I'm building for the ACME 2026 show that we're it's coming up in October.
SPEAKER_05Nice making good progress on that, Mikey. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, I've got little blemishes in the uh those okay. Let me I maybe should explain a little better. Those of you that haven't been following the videos and the uh Facebook stuff. I took the uh 77 or 76 pacer rally car and turned it into uh you know I block I blocked out the windows and put in uh I put flares off of a Shelby car. So I've I've hacked and whacked and chopped and been doing a lot of body work on it, and I think I finally got it smooth enough now to where it can it can take some color.
SPEAKER_09Nice, but you said you have little blemishes. So what was going on there? Are you getting some uh some dust in it or uh little bits of grease or something or what?
SPEAKER_04No, the um the the blemishes were for just imperfections in the body work with the bondo and the putty and that sort of thing. Um the the primer I hit it with the primer to get my uh you know to get a look at it, right? Because you can when you hit it with primer, you can see what's going on. You can really check out your bodywork. And uh, I thought I had it smooth, but uh even in Justin can relate to this. I actually hit it with the silver metal flake, and silver highlighted anything that the primer might have missed. So for 95% of it was fine, but I had some small stuff that I had to uh get squared away, and uh, I think I got it squared away now. I'm gonna hit it with just a little more primer because I did sand down to the bodywork itself. So I'm gonna hit it, tape it off kind of like I do a little spot repair, tape it off, hit it with a little primer, you know, get a little scuff, and put that silver back on and make sure that it's um smooth, looks good, doesn't have anything going on. And of course, the silver is still a base coat. I've got that outlaw orange that my good friend uh Tim Casper made for me. And um, I'm gonna that's gonna be so the silver is a base coat, and then the orange goes over top of that.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, so the um the silver act kind of rats you out like a little sister, then doesn't it? Yeah, it does, yeah. Yeah, it does, yeah. Makes sense. I didn't know the silver did that.
SPEAKER_06I always always expected uh primer to do that, but black primer especially, but well, sometimes that black primer can make it look good, and then you go to put your silver down, you're like, whoa, that metal plate will show you everything.
SPEAKER_09Everything, gotcha. Okay, well, there's a tip top tip, folks. If you want your cars to look good, don't paint them silver.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, perfect.
SPEAKER_09All right, awesome. Thank you, Mikey. It sounds like you're you're you're going to town on that thing. Is you're actually you're standing on it right now as we're talking, aren't you?
SPEAKER_04No, literally, because that's all I've done to this thing has been sanding on it. I probably got a hundred hours sanding on this stupid thing. 100 hours. The good news is that like the chassis and the motor that I got from our good sponsor Matthew over at MCV products. Uh, I've already done some mock-up there, so all that stuff's going to go together relatively good. And um, but getting all the body work done on this thing is is really where all the time is at. So when I finally get it done and start actually assembling, I it'll go together really, really quick. It's just getting this body right to make sure I it's what I want.
SPEAKER_09Gotcha. Cool, man. Well, I wish I could see that in person when you when you display it at the show in October. October. October. Okay, cool. Uh, let's go on with Jody. Jody, what you got going in there, buddy?
SPEAKER_05Oh, um hopefully this weekend, fingers crossed, I'll be done the uh Tamiya Nissan Skyline 2000 GTR. That's the uh full detail kit. It's got photo etch, it's got the uh carburetor, the aluminum carburetor horns, and uh it's turned out really well. You know, I've really tried to slow down, focus on that, and not get distracted by other things. And other than a couple very minor blemishes in the paint, the thing has just turned out amazing. So hopefully this weekend I'll have it uh buttoned up. Already missed the deadline of the short track group build. Now I gotta get started on the uh Blue Model Shop.
SPEAKER_04You're doing that for next year. No, okay, no, you you have until July 1st, right? Yes, yeah, July 1st.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, do you have to anyways? I'm gonna miss that deadline too, but I'd like to get back on I'd like to get back on that. Uh I'd like to get uh, you know, the fall show season when it comes back around. I always try to bring new stuff to those shows. So if I can get the uh short track car done, I'll have this Nissan done, I'll have Jason's uh Blue Ox Model Shop group build, street machine group build car done, and then anything else if I can fit it in between now, and that'll be good. But it's pretty much it. Just poking away at it, you know. Right on uh house house projects and there's other things that just are taking my time right now, and um, you know, I can't just sit at the bench all the time, unfortunately.
SPEAKER_09So once the weather warms up, you got stuff to do.
SPEAKER_05It's a very short season up here. Pull the lawn furniture out, clean it, uh, have a couple bonfires, yeah. Mow the lawn a few times, and it's time to stop putting it all away.
SPEAKER_09So yeah, that's our winter here. Take the take the long pants out of the mothballs, clean them, put them back into the mothballs. Yeah, that skyline's looking amazing, dude. You've been sharing some pictures with the with the with the crew here, and I'm that's that's stunning. The paint job line is stunning.
SPEAKER_05So thanks. It's turned out really good. I'm really, really happy with it.
SPEAKER_09So well, you should be. You should be. And you know, if you ever want to gift that to anybody, uh you got my address.
SPEAKER_05Sounds good. Yeah, maybe I'll send it to you.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah. I'll be I'll be I'm gonna go out and wait right for right now. All right, go away by the mailbox. All right, cool. Justin, what have you got going on, sir? Oh, here comes the glasses. So goodbye, contacts.
SPEAKER_06No, no, no. These this is just fidgeting. Oh, okay. Reading glasses that have been sitting on my desk for a while. I'm like, hey, you know what? These could probably use a little cleaning and get the overspray off of them from the collection. Um, yeah, as alluded to, uh, I just switched back to contacts after a couple years. It's amazing how much I can actually see now. You know, you guys won't see me on the Sunday show doubling up on my reading glasses so I can see what the hell I'm doing.
SPEAKER_09Um Justin, Justin, Justin. I'm over here, buddy. You're over here. Look here.
SPEAKER_06I'm making faces like the listeners can see them. Um so I am uh kind of the same place I was this during the Sunday show. I got the uh Iceman Collections Ford truck going. Uh repainted the body for the Jason Blue Ox Anscomb Street Rod build words thing. Yep, uh, my words are not escaping me right now, they're all stuck.
SPEAKER_09Uh like a game of connections.
SPEAKER_06No, look, it's it's it's been a week. It's been a freaking week.
SPEAKER_04I believe they call that constipation of the brain. I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure dehydration, I think.
SPEAKER_06I think that's what it is.
SPEAKER_04It's better, which is better than diarrhea of the mouth.
SPEAKER_06Word. Way better. Um, no, just little little odds and ends here and there, basically. Um, did the paint work over the weekend for those two um blue hawk street street rod build, street machine build. I'll get it right. Stammer it out of there.
SPEAKER_09It's starting to hurt. Justin thinks he's in four different uh group builds, but it's actually one. He just gives him this.
SPEAKER_06I just I give them new names each time. Worked on the meng Apache a little bit last weekend, you know, just little odds and ends there. You know, I'm finding bench time, like I'm not really driven to do it right now. You know, it's uh I get home from work and I'm like, eh. So yeah, I I I assume I'll find my way back, you know what I mean? But I've I've seen in the in the groups lots of a lot of people posting that they're having uh hard time finding themselves at the bench. So I don't feel worried because a lot of people are out there going, I don't feel like doing anything.
SPEAKER_09It does feel like there's something kind of going around in the modeling community right now, some sort of um malaise Mikey, yeah, malaise, yeah, brain malaise, building malaise, yeah, which I like plenty of on my sandwiches, by the way. But uh no, I I hear you, dude. Um, last the last week and a half has just been coming home from work and then trying to stay cool because the house is like 80 degrees, you know. So yeah, yeah, I get you. It's not fun to hobby when you're sweating through your shirt.
SPEAKER_06I hobby in my brain when I'm not here, when I'm at work, I'm like, oh, I could do this, I could do that. And then I get home, I'm like, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, exactly. I already built that. I don't need to do it now. I built it in my head. Exactly.
SPEAKER_05I think it's just changing of the seasons, you know. Summers here, people are trying to get out, you know, getting again, you know, depending on where you are, we've got a really short season up here, you know. So it's like you get out and do and do it. And again, it's tough to prioritize. Do I want to be selfish and sit at the bench and do the thing that I want to do, or do I want to go outside or go spend time with the family or whatever the case may be, you know? So it can be difficult. It can be difficult.
SPEAKER_06I personally don't have those options right now.
SPEAKER_05Uh you don't, but that's that's that's okay.
SPEAKER_06I took myself out to dinner last weekend, and that was weird.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, because as soon as you got home, the lights went out and you're all over yourself, right?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I just took advantage of myself from that one eight ounce old fashioned that I bought.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's sliding in the second base right now. That's hilarious.
SPEAKER_04Oh my god. Just for the record, Justin, I love an old-fashioned that smoky old-fashioned with the chair.
SPEAKER_06And that's what it was. It was $18, but then when I think about it, it was like half a bottle of bourbon. So yeah, like it was it was a giant cup. I'm like, this is like usually it's it's like an ounce and a half, two ounces of bourbon. This was a four fingers of bourbon. I was like, all right, I can take that. There you go. I can take that.
SPEAKER_04I can take that. I can take that all day. I've I've been known to pay $22 in Orlando for one four-ounce bourbon or uh old fashioned only because it's has he they actually do it right with the smoke that comes off of it and they bring it out, pull the lid off.
SPEAKER_06That's how this one was, yeah.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, yeah. And it's a four-ounce glass, and I pay twenty-two dollars for it.
SPEAKER_06Your twenty-two dollars is because the ice has ears, right? Yeah, that's a Disney old-fashioned, and that's why they they jack they double the price because your ice looks like Mickey Mouse, even if it doesn't, they're still charging the double.
SPEAKER_04You're right about it.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, it was good.
SPEAKER_09They charge $22 out here for it because nobody knows what the hell ice is. Yeah, right. By the time it gets out to it, it's gone. You have ice out there. We we used to, but then it but then the summer came around, and then we don't have it anymore.
SPEAKER_05They just mix your beverage, they just mix the beverage, take it over, and water it down with tap water.
SPEAKER_09Right there it is. If I want hot water, I can get it from both sides of the faucet right now.
SPEAKER_06One side is tea, the other side is bath.
SPEAKER_09Oh, that's awful. Tea and bath. Oh my. Okay, where'd we leave off? Jason. Yes, what are you working on right now?
SPEAKER_08Right this second, I'm working on the the rally cool rally car group build. Build. I forgot about that. Because I haven't had a chance to get in here very much this week at all and do anything, so uh, but it's close. I mean, really close. Just little fit fiddly bits need to be put onto it. And uh had a problem with the rear suspension the last time. I think I told you about guys about this. When I went to put things together, the rear suspension just snapped in multiple places. Married the body to the chassis this evening and it broke again. Oh so I'm currently making skid plates to hide the fact that how janky the rear suspension is on this.
SPEAKER_09Um they make it out of pasta.
SPEAKER_08I don't know. This is I'm very discouraged by this, but it's okay. Uh I've also got the MCB products mud truck 3D printed kit that I started last night. Um that's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm changing the motor in that and putting some paddle tires on it. Um and this would be a good time for me to say if you guys listening to this podcast want to actually see what we're talking about, jump into the Sunday live. Yeah, please join us on that.
SPEAKER_09You'll get to see what we're talking about and uh see what Justin looks like without glasses on.
SPEAKER_08Which is which is actually pretty dang nice, actually. It's uh it's an improvement. You guys need a moment?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, sliding into second base already, Jason. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, exactly. Listen, I'm just trying to make clear bit, all right. I know I know you I know you need that little extra, you know, encouragement.
SPEAKER_05A little extra hitch and you're giddy up.
SPEAKER_07All right, yeah, we're done.
SPEAKER_04Sorry. Before we move on and not talking about Justin stuff, I want to talk about that MCV products mud truck. Did you guys see the one that um oh I'm drawing a blink now? Who did it? Somebody did it and put slicks on it.
SPEAKER_08That was posted on Matt Hickeys. Matt Hickey, yep, yes, that was Matt.
SPEAKER_04I knew I knew who I knew I knew who it was, but I couldn't that the name escaped me. What an amazing transformation with that thing. He took a you know thing that had mudbogging tires on it, put slicks on it. I thought that was really cool. But I saw Matthew at the uh oh Tampa show, and I I kept I kept leaning on the thing. I'm like, I would really like one of these. He's like, Yep, yep, we got a bunch of them. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09We got all kinds of right here right here. Help you so now you know what Superman feels like when he has a uh kryptonite enema.
SPEAKER_02Yep, exactly right. Wow, wow, that's beautiful, all right.
SPEAKER_09So, what's on my bench? I hear you silently asking. Well, I'll tell you a lot, a lot of crap, as a matter of fact. I got the GTO Mai sitting here, I gotta do the window frames for that, and then I can start doing the final assembly on that guy there. So I'm really, really close to finishing that. When I had to go out of town, since last time we all talked, I had to go to California for uh we had a family tragedy, and I was able to fly out, but Mrs. BG couldn't. She had a huge licensing test she had to take for the state of uh Texas or something like that. I don't know, I wasn't listening. But um I decided to take a Gundam kit because our buddy Justin here was talking about taking stuff to the hotel with you so you can have something to tinker with or whatever. And uh I thought I'll take the kit with some sanding sticks and some nippers and stuff, and if I don't get to doing anything, no harm, no foul. Well, after all the daily events of the funeral and being with family and stuff like that, I get back to my hotel room, like you know, I just can't bring myself to watch really badly synced up uh house hunters or nine hours of golden girls. So I decided to sit down, I started working on my Gundam kit, and next thing you know, I had that thing all put together, everything was sanded and polished very, really nicely, and I was able to when I got home, I took it all back apart again. And then here's the key I saved the instructions because I I don't know what the hell I'm doing, and uh save the instructions, and then I went I painted everything, the color schemes I had dreamed up of while while working on this thing, and then I put it all back together again using the instructions, and it looks awesome. So I feel really good about having taken something like that with me. I don't think I take a car kit because it's just a little too much going on with car kits, but uh, and plus having to take the glue and all that jazz. But it was really nice to just sit in the evening uh after having dinner and then just look out the window, and well, it's also an area where I could have the window open and wasn't gonna burst into flames. Uh what look out the window, watch life pass by, and just uh whittle on a kit. So that felt really, really good. And I'm I'm kind of stoked about keeping up with that type of thing going on. But I've got so many other projects sitting here. Um, because I want to do the um uh glory days of drag racing, want to get back on that gremlin kit, and I gotta get started on the um the rally cool build. Uh still sitting over here staring at me, and I've been working on the one that I didn't finish last year, so I'm still working on that one. But yeah, I got a lot going on. But uh things at the store getting super super busy because we just announced another sale, Father's Day sale, time of recording. So um not really overtime, but just you know, coming in extra hours and stuff like that to help out with packing and shipping and all that jazz. So if you order from Andy's and you get a uh uh uh a receipt that has the BG initials on it, that was me. And if the order was packed well, if the order was packed well and you liked what you got, that was me. If it wasn't, somebody's uh forging my initials.
SPEAKER_07Somebody else.
SPEAKER_09All right, cool. You guys, our topic today is our other hobbies. So who would like to start the ball rolling about talking about other hobbies? Jason, how about you? I knew it.
SPEAKER_08I thought I looked up, I knew you were gonna get me first. Um boy. Uh this when it comes to other hobbies, I have okay. I I don't know if the listeners remember. Uh I know we do, but I don't know if the listeners remember Mr. Frank Stephens. Oh he used to say that he collected hobbies, and I think I've got him beat, actually. I think I've got him beat because I got a lot going on. Recently started figure painting thanks to Justin and my wife, and I've really started getting into that. Like I've got for Father's Day, the cats got me a nice new wet palette, an actual wet palette, and nice. I started col collecting like wait, wait, what time out? The cats got you a wet palette for Father's Day. Well, it's okay.
SPEAKER_09No, no, for real. A wet palette from a cat might not but be what you want. It's not that kind of wet palette. Smells funny. Yeah.
SPEAKER_08Uh no, so Heather got me a wet palette for Father's Day, and she gifted it to me from the cats because I am I am I am a cat dad. Watching YouTube videos on from the different figure painters. Holy cow, this is gonna be a hobby I think is gonna take off and it's gonna kind of give the model building a run for its money.
SPEAKER_06It's all part of the hobby, Jason.
SPEAKER_08It is all part of the hobby, but it's a separate hobby because it's nothing to it's like completely different from what I do with building models. So I've got the figure painting. Um, I just did a video. On my YouTube channel about my RC rock crawler, all you know, couple hundred people that watch that I saw it can attest to how much fun that can be and addicting that can be. So I I was moving my room around, kind of cleaning up and tidying up, and I was like, you know, I gotta charge this battery up. So I did, and I was like, uh, I should bring it out and use it, and I did, and I was like, Oh, I should make a video, and that turned into like a nine and a half hour day of me outside with this rock crawler.
SPEAKER_09So that's nine and a half hours, yeah.
SPEAKER_08I was outside all day. I came in when it got dark and buggy. Oh nice. That's the time to come in. Yeah, well, part of that is because my my RC rock crawler actually has lights. So I wanted to see like how you know, like using it in the dark, and it was I'm not that I haven't done it before, but it's just a lot of fun. I had I had fun with it. And then there's the DD thing, uh, which is for those of you that might be listening and don't know, DD is Dungeons and Dragons. We were actually uh in the in the throes of a campaign, and that kind of it had to fall to the wayside a little bit. So the people we were playing with got really busy and scheduling was tough, and it just wasn't working out. So we put that on hole, but that doesn't mean I haven't like been digging into new things that my character can do, and it's again it's so much fun that you could easily let it take over your life, really. I mean, Heather has. Oh, the BMX bike has been a big one for me the past few months. Uh laugh, but I've been outriding it. I'm not laughing at it, I'm just laughing in general. Having a good time. Um, as a matter of fact, there's a there's a there's a place here in New Hampshire that's called the the BMX barn, and I've volunteered my entire Saturday to go there and help. They're having a big event in July, and I've volunteered my time to go there and help spruce the place up, clean things up a little bit, and and get ready for that. And that's been a lot of fun. That's been a lot of fun. So I mean, if you're our age, you must remember the 80s BMX stuff. I mean, I know Jody does. I know Jody does.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah. That'll that's that'll that'll lead you to your next hobby, which is uh traction. Yeah, emergency revisitation.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_05I learned how to do Sudoka with emergency room one-handed exactly. Exactly. You you using your teeth to do it, yeah. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_08That's funny. I've been so I've been teaching myself how to do an endo again. I used to when I was a kid, I used to do all those flatland like style tricks and stuff, and uh, I've been teaching myself how to do an endo, and it's been fun. I haven't fallen yet, believe it or not. But I mean that's obvious. If I had fallen, I probably wouldn't be here right now.
SPEAKER_09So it's like the good news is the bear broke my fall. The bad news is there was a bear. Right.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I mean it's been it's it's uh I maybe have too many hobbies. I don't know. I don't think so because it's I've always got something to to do. Um you know, I never come home and I'm bored, if that makes any sense.
SPEAKER_09I feel like if you're not sacrificing family time to do this, these these things, then you're fine.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, you know, I might I might be sacrificing a little bit of family time tomorrow by taking off all day, but it's Sunday. There's always Sunday, yeah. There's always Sunday. Of course, we're recording this on a Friday, so yeah. I mean, I'm always open to new things, unless it's dancing or cooking, you know.
SPEAKER_09Cooking. I I love to cook. Yeah, cooking.
SPEAKER_08No.
SPEAKER_09Have you tried have you tried doing either of those on the BMX? No, it might be a thing. Dale whipped mashed potatoes.
SPEAKER_08Dale whipped mashed potatoes. No, also this actually is funny. I think it was the Sunday, was it the Sunday show that we were talking about this? And I said there's a dance scene in the movie Rad where they're dancing at a school dance on BMX bikes, and so many people were like, I don't know how could that even be?
SPEAKER_09Uh shocked that that many people haven't seen the movie Rad, but oh dude, it's the perfect opportunity to start your own show, be mixing with the stars, you know. Oh right, yeah, yeah. George Clooney out there, just yeah, exactly. Finally, yeah. Oh, you ain't pretty no more. Whoops. That's too funny. Oh man, so so get another one.
SPEAKER_05Bunny hop stew. Bunny hop stew.
SPEAKER_07I like it.
SPEAKER_09Okay, I'm done. Okay, thank god. The great British bike off.
SPEAKER_08Oh my goodness. I watched that.
SPEAKER_09It's funny.
SPEAKER_08You guys you guys laugh about me being in traction and all that stuff, and it's one of the things that we're doing to prepare for this event is they've found a 12-foot-tall vert ramp that was built and used by a gentleman that went to the Olympics and was a gold medalist, and but he's passed away. He had it wasn't on the ramp, was it? No, it wasn't. He like just he tragically passed away like suddenly, and he was from New Hampshire. They ended up buying this, they got this ramp and they're rebuilding it. And uh, my buddy Sean says, uh, we're gonna rebuild this ramp, it'll be sweet to ride. I'm like, Yeah, I'm only gonna need the bottom two feet, but okay, whatever you say.
SPEAKER_06Take it off any sweet jumps.
SPEAKER_09I remember the uh BMX bike wars between mongoose and um mongoose and diamondback, right? Yeah, and I wanted a mongoose so bad because all the other guys had diamondbacks. I wanted the mongoose so bad, and my birthday came around, they're like, Oh, yeah, I got a bike, yeah. So Huffy, uh man, and and it weighed six, it weighed 65 pounds. I don't there wasn't nothing that thing was jumping. Like a fork, that was really hot that bitch.
SPEAKER_06In the bike wars, that was like the Huffy of the Huffy was the French of the American Revolution.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, well, it's it's funny during that time period. I got into I got into BMX bikes and stuff, and uh how I started was I told my parents that I wanted a BMX bike for my birthday, and they got me one, and it was a Murray. Oh Jesus I I rode it to school and and literally got laughed at.
SPEAKER_06Literally got laughed at it got stolen, mom and dad.
SPEAKER_08Um, I you know one thing, one thing I can tell you say about my parents is I all I had to tell them was the truth, and I went home and I went back home and I told them that I literally got laughed at because of this bicycle. They made me suffer with it for a couple of months, but then my dad woke me up on it. He says, We're not going to school today. You and I are going to do something special. We went to a bike shop, and he's like, any bike you want, pick it out. And uh I was like, Oh, wow, holy cow! I bought a Kuahara. It was a Kuohara, uh it was the top of the line race bike, and it was like at the time, it was like six hundred dollars, and I couldn't believe he was buying it for me. I thought I was being pranked.
SPEAKER_09Yes, yeah. Oh my god, so six hundred dollars and then money is like I don't know, what thousand twelve hundred dollars today? Yes. Because now it's like, which one of us hasn't dropped six hundred dollars on models at a show?
SPEAKER_08You know, oh yeah, yeah, exactly. Right, so good good times, anyways. Those are those are my extra those are my most important extra hobbies. I could talk about G.I. Joe, I could talk about comic books, I could talk about all kinds of stuff, but those are the main ones that I uh just let's just keep it to the cool stuff, you know. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, D D. So wow D thing though, we we were must be G and I were part of uh Jason and Heather's campaign, and unfortunately, I think we're the ones that spoiled it because everybody we know keeps dying, so we have to keep you know doing stuff, and there's there's there's no potions to bring those back. But I did not realize, you know, you're gonna get the books, you're gonna get the you know, you're gonna get all this extra memorabilia stuff for the for the for D D. I did not realize that dice was just gonna start appearing all over the house. Oh yeah, shows up from the river and like, oh, look at this cool dice I got and like she got these tiny little dice you can't even see. I'm like, don't leave those on the floor, huh?
SPEAKER_08Exactly, exactly. And to chime to chime in on that, that no, you guys were not responsible for that. It was a group effort. Um basically everybody, yeah, it was like Dan, Dan and Jess and our other our other friend Mary Kate, like everybody was was canceling, and it was it's you know, it's we're coming into summer and family stuff, we get it. So um right. Don't give up hope, don't throw away those dice, and uh don't kill off that character just yet. Uh once we all get through this, we'll get back into it.
SPEAKER_06If you want to if you want to keep those flames burning, find yourself the episode, I believe it was season three, of Community, where they all play D uh to basically to save the life of a character in the show that became called Fat Neil. Uh, he was getting suicidal, and they decided the whole episode was going to be about Dungeons and Dragons. Now it's gonna be tough to find because uh N Chang, who's played by Ken Jung, decided to be a dark elf and came in completely blacked out. So they said he came in in blackface, and Netflix dropped the episode from all the seasons and all that jazz. But um, you know, it's it's a fantastic episode. Makes me almost want to play Dungeons and Dragons. No kidding.
SPEAKER_09Almost, almost I haven't I haven't had props. I I got myself a really cool looking pipe to to use whenever my character was speaking. Anyway, Jason, those are some awesome hobbies, dude. And I'm a little envious that you still are able to ride a BMX bike because I have I outgrew mine by junior high, so that was in the past. Yeah, second time, second time in my life I cried was I had to get my BMX bike. The first time was when I had to give up my B my big wheel. Yeah, I hear you. Cool would like to uh volunteer to go next.
SPEAKER_06I'll go.
SPEAKER_09All right, Justin. Thank you for saving us.
SPEAKER_06I don't know how long, you know, how how we can stretch this out like a caramello, if you remember that commercial. Uh yes, caramellos stretching it out, those are caramello.
SPEAKER_09Uh anyhow, uh Justin's Justin's hobby is talking about old commercials for the 1990s.
SPEAKER_06No, that's that's just uh, you know, you people pejoratively say they have touches of the Tism. That's my flavor. Uh is is randomly bringing up these memories of old commercials, and which is ironic because I absolutely hate advertising. Um, you know, but anyhow, uh both eye scale model trees is I'll say my biggest second hobby. Scale model trees. Yeah, that's kind of what they are. Scale model trees, you know. You're uh you're making little trees look like old trees, so you're you're scale model treeing. I've been uh I've been posting one on my personal page that I started from seed back in 22. Uh I started this from seed when I was out sick on uh with COVID. I had several months that I just uh all I could do was sit on my couch on oxygen. And one of the things that you were on O2? I was on oxygen, yeah. Wow, yeah, uh because apparently uh I either depending on which doctor you talk to, I either almost died in quotes, or I had some pneumonia. I don't know how you quantify, you know what I mean. So, like the ER doc said, yeah, you got some some some pneumonia, but my pneumologist or breathing doctor, what is he called? Pulmonologist, pneumologist, pulmonologist, dude. You almost died. So I don't know. I I was somewhere between I had a little pneumonia and I almost died.
SPEAKER_09So I don't think I don't think a doctor of any caliber should start sending us with dude.
SPEAKER_06No, he actually did. He said, Dude, you almost died. Um, when he uh he wanted me to get the vaccine. He's like, dude, you almost died, you need to get this vaccine. Anyhow, one of the things that I did to try to to push myself to get off of the oxygen was going to stores, walking around, stuff like that. And uh, we took a trip to Hobby Lobby, and uh they did not have 40% off-scale model trees that week, but they did have bonsai seed kits, and I was like, eh, why not? What could it hurt? You know, like it's I got time, you know. I I don't know how much because I almost died, but um so I bought a uh bonsai tree seed kit, and uh I've like I said, I've been posting its progress in parallel to my own progress, I guess, in life with the divorce and all that jazz and starting new. Uh, but it's a Brazilian rain tree, it's a uh tropical tree. It's it's my work bonsai. I took that one to work uh just to have something at the desk because you know, but body shop offices get pretty boring.
SPEAKER_09Time out, time out Brazilian. That's bringing up all kinds of connotations. Uh yeah.
SPEAKER_06Well, I have not yet trimmed it.
SPEAKER_09So is it a landing strap or is it more of a triangle?
SPEAKER_06It's like the little Hitler. Um, okay.
SPEAKER_04Uh this is me doing my best to be quiet. Doing all right, yeah. You're doing all right.
SPEAKER_06This time, no, it's uh that thing is is coming right along. It's it's actually been really happy at work because it's it's going in insane. Um, but I got a couple that I dug up.
SPEAKER_08Happy at work?
SPEAKER_06That's all too because it's a tree.
SPEAKER_08No, well, yeah, I was gonna say I've never heard such a thing. Yeah, trees don't really have a good work-life balance.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, yeah. That's that when is that when it's gotta be it? Is that when you started 22, or do you have interest before that?
SPEAKER_06No, that's I kind of really I mean, who didn't like bonesai trees from watching karate kid back in the day, but yeah, um, I used to love looking at the bonsai trees in the mall for sale, dude.
SPEAKER_08That was so you get the little center cart with the weird guy standing there, and it's just a bunch of bonsai trees.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it actually started with some random Canadian guy, Nigel Saunders, by the way, just appearing in my YouTube feed, and I started watching his videos, and I was like, Yeah, this is something that doesn't take a lot of oxygen. Uh, in fact, it actually gives oxygen because they're trees. Um so so I started watching his videos, and that's kind of where I started was when when I was in on oxygen in 22. You know, for those that are kind of like, hey, that that kind of sounds cool. The best way to start would be trying to create a tree from a tree that's local to you, uh so it's already good in your climate. Um, I don't know though, BG, if you can bone cycti. Uh uh, but junipers, there there are lots of junip and stuff like that out in the in the desert and whatnot. So those those could potentially work for you.
SPEAKER_09I'm apparently allergic to junipers. Well then no, you don't want to eat it. I'm allergic to everything.
SPEAKER_08Holy cow, dude. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_05You may you may want to pass on the juniper tree then. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_09Maybe a Joshua tree. Maybe I'll just get a redwood. Yeah, there you go.
SPEAKER_05Oh, there you go. So the cactus isn't looking so bad now. I mean, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER_06Um, I have a maple and an oak that I actually dug up from the front garden at the house before I left. Or a couple years I kept trimming back to let the trunk really grow and get like really old looking and whatnot. And you know, so now I got those on my back on my balcony here. Still, still in the training phase. I don't have any that you could say, hey, this is definitely you know a boneside tree. Everything I have is pretty much in training. So I do have from that seed pack, I do have uh Rocky Mountain Pine that I started. They're uh they're doing well too. So and it's you know, it's it's definitely something that will teach you patience because the move you make now will take uh weeks, months, years to translate.
SPEAKER_09Oh, so it's kind of like raising kids. Yeah, I get it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, it is. It's actually like raising kids that they only take your CO2 and leave you oxygen instead.
SPEAKER_05What would it take to uh what would it take to bonsai Mikey? Too late, already been done.
SPEAKER_04And I am I am the final product, I see.
SPEAKER_09All right, fair enough. That's not the thing that they do after you're born, dude.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, how come how come when I got circumcised, it didn't get any bigger and and uh old and gnarly and different branching?
SPEAKER_04You go through your training, that's why all I can tell you is you spend a lifetime getting throttled on top of the head by your parents, you will become a bonsai.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, smaller version of the robot, it's just sort of compacted, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Exactly. It's uh a lot of people think bonsai is a specific type of tree, and it's not bonsai basically means small pot. So anything, any kind of plant that lignifies, which means turns woody, can become a bonsai.
SPEAKER_09The subtext in this conversation is awesome.
SPEAKER_05Gotta bonsai my shorts right now.
SPEAKER_06Now you're all lignified tonight, huh? I know. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_09Oh goodness. Three secret words, three secret words is contact lenses.
SPEAKER_06Another one of my uh, I guess you could say has become a hobby is uh fitness getting back to the gym. Oh I still hate doing it, but I like how it feels when I get done. You know, I started the bottling insanity group body buddy build, and there's been a lot of lot of response to that. A lot of guys have have started doing posting their quote unquote fitness journeys and what they're doing to stay active. And uh so far I've actually lost 20 pounds since my last doctor's visit.
SPEAKER_08So well, I was gonna say sitting here, sitting here, you look slimmer.
SPEAKER_06My tits aren't as big, look, and I can actually move them again.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, exactly. That's awesome. Um I just I just hate, so stop that. I'm gonna throw up. Um what's what's the what's the absolute minimum you have to do in order to join the the uh the body slam thing?
SPEAKER_07Body slam?
SPEAKER_06The body slam thing.
SPEAKER_07That's what I've been doing.
SPEAKER_06You can just walk, yeah. Yeah, it's I actually I came up with it because there was actually a wave of a lot of modelers pee posting that their friends from their clubs are dying. Um, I mean, granted, you know, we are a lot of old people, and we have a very sedentary hobby, so I was like, Well, you know what? I could use the the exercise.
SPEAKER_09This is the worst hobby for persons with blood sugar issues, yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, absolutely, because you just sit there and snack while sanding and snack while this then you're like, where'd my sanding stick go?
SPEAKER_09Oh shit.
SPEAKER_06Under my rolls.
SPEAKER_07Under my rolls.
SPEAKER_06Hold on, let me look. You guys want a grill cheese? But it's um it's got quite quite a good response, you know. It's you know, try to try to let's try to live long enough to to build all of our models and our stash, you know, which we know is is a battle we're never gonna win, but you know what I mean? Why not battle it and try to try to build what you you know live long enough to build what you got.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, don't go quietly into that night. Is that how that poem goes?
SPEAKER_06Something like that, yeah. I mean look, uh we don't we don't want you to die, but you know, if that's uh if that's your journey, it's your journey. I'm not gonna make you stay. You know what I mean? But but we definitely don't want you to just go, you know what I mean? So let's let's get fit together.
SPEAKER_09I could tell you a story about my cousin uh that passed away recently. Yeah, 43 years old. Just did not know. So yeah. Anyway, yeah, that's enough morose stuff. Yeah, let's bring these out to a lower level, Mike.
SPEAKER_06Shit.
SPEAKER_04I was pretty sure you guys were gonna skip over me on this because they're like, this guy has no other hobbies besides running a bulldozer for work and coming back here and hanging out with y'all.
SPEAKER_06Well, you drink bourbon.
SPEAKER_04I do drink bourbon, but I actually have uh those of you that really know me, uh maybe Jason, uh I am an actual American history buff. I love American history. But I am I'm just saying I'm not like a tooch. A tooch is an educated, somebody that's been educated. I've learned some things. He's been educated, I've learned some things. The Civil War era stuff. I don't choose sides. I mean, we know what the war was about and all that. I'm just saying, uh, living in the southeast, uh, traveling around, going to these different battlefields, and seeing uh what you see, and you learn about different things. Like I've learned about the Hunley, uh, I've learned about you know these different battlefields and what happened, and and and and it's really, really cool to understand American history. Now, I'm no I understand you know Red War a little bit, you know, the Revolutionary War. I I I kind of know a little bit about that, but I spend 10-12 hours a day sitting in a bulldozer, right? So after a while, you gotta have music on, you gotta have something going on in there. And unfortunately, the new the new equipment actually you can link to your phone and that sort of thing. Um, if you have any demons in the world and you're sitting in a a four by four box by yourself, and you don't have something to distract you, those demons will come a callin', right? So they're gonna find you, they're gonna and they're gonna find you that quick, right? That's smaller than solitary confinement cells, yeah, it really is, and you spend 12 hours a day in there, you know, 12 to 13 hours. Just happen to know that.
SPEAKER_08God, I hope that's part of your hobbies.
SPEAKER_04So I try to educate myself, I try to learn things, and um, there's so much going on in YouTube that you can uh and again, I don't know how factual it is, but at least it gives you a foundation. But things I've learned about Ravel, Johan, uh American history, as far as you know, the Civil War and Revolutionary War, but anything that I can listen to that will uh educate me and entertain me at the same time, that's that's one of my favorite hobbies, and again, especially the uh Civil War, being able to travel to Tennessee, Virginia, uh, North Carolina, and I've lived in a couple of those states, and to be able to go to those battlefields, you know, and I've been to Gettysburg, uh, and and to be able to sit there and look around, you know, and of course it's changed so much since then to now, but to get that feeling and and understand what happened there, right? I mean, yeah, you you everybody has everybody knows what what was happening and what was going on, but the lives lost, the people that died there, and and and you go to Antietam, a little stupid piece of trivia, and I can't call the guy's name now, but the first battle ever fought was Manassas or Bull Run in Virginia, right? So people were coming down out of uh Washington, they were sitting up on the hills and they're watching, they thought it was gonna be a one battle, and you know, the they're gonna win, and this is you know, it's gonna be like they had picnic baskets with them, right? I mean, they literally that's the way they thought it was gonna be. And uh the first battle of Manassas or Bull Run because I'm from the South, but they run they run the Yankees back to DC, right? They were running over those poor people that were eating their picnic baskets, right? So, but now I I told you that story to tell you that uh, and again, I won't get into this too deep, but there was a guy that owned a farm, and his farm got his house got shot up, and um, you know, just he's like, the heck with this. So he moved southwest and he gets the heck out of there, right? And I'm not dealing with this. So he moves southwest, and um, so the first battle, his house gets shot up at the end of the which basically what ended up being the end of the war, is Robert E. Lee is sitting with General Grant and that guy's house. When he moved to the southwest, yeah. I heard about this guy, yeah. He was like the the bookend. He was the bookend, he really was the bookend. Yeah, so for me that the the irony uh the irony of that sort of stuff is really, really cool, and uh you know, just where we came from, you know, how far we've come from where we were to where we are, and how we have to keep our eyes open to end so we don't end up back, you know, back there. Um but my second hobby, and I will give Justin a little bit of credit for this, and I've just started it. Um it's like brand new to me. I'm starting well, two parts. I'm wanting to be a better person, right? So I'm trying to educate myself, I'm trying to be a better person and learn things and do things and get outside of my bubble, right? I spent 55 years being a southern white guy and going doing whatever and having fun and and doing that sort of thing. So I've stepped outside of that and I'm trying to learn new things. So I went to a dance class and I had a great time the dance class, and I've learned I you know, I learned like two steps of some Latin dances, I learned two steps of this dance, that dance, or whatever. Uh the next day, my hips were hurting so bad and that I don't think I would ever do another dance class again. But um, no, the real truth is the real truth is they weren't my hips were hurting, but uh the cost of that is just is outside of my limits. It's like twelve hundred dollars a month to go to these classes, right? It's it's it's a lot.
SPEAKER_09That doesn't include all the advil and tyle and all afterwards, right?
SPEAKER_04Right, it doesn't include any of that. Yeah, but there's socials, there's a whole kind of stuff going on there. So I think I'm gonna go to the gym and uh well, not think. I know I'm gonna go to the gym. There's a little gym that's right around the corner from my house. I'm gonna get involved there. I have horrible respiratory, right? I've been a smoker, I've been uh the vape guy and midnight toker. Right, midnight toker. I don't do drugs, but at the same time, the cigarettes back in the day and uh the vape pen. So I want to get on like do the bike thing and try to get my respiratory back and just you know be better, get healthy. At my when I was 25, when I was 25, I never thought I'd live to be 40. Well I'm 55 now, it's time to figure it out.
SPEAKER_07That's right.
SPEAKER_06And Mike, I do have to say that uh the biggest part of me going to the gym, I I push to do a mile on the elliptical. Walking isn't the best for me because I was never kind to my knees as a kid. I was always squatting heavy and all that stuff. So now my knees are like, dude, you're a dick. So so walking is is you know, just general walking, like treadmill. I can't treadmill, I can't walk, I can't run like that, but I can go on the elliptical, you know, and haul ass. Uh my kids have actually they've they've commented on how I can trot, I guess, up my steps. Because I, you know, living in a third floor apartment, you know, when I go down to let them in, and then we all walk up, you know, they they they have commented on how well I take the steps now. You know, when I first moved in, my son was like, get out of the way, dad. I'll I'll carry all your shit upstairs because you're taking too long. And you know, now I can I can do the flights of stairs and you know it's not it, it doesn't it doesn't kill me. So you'd be surprised how how much doing just a little cardio um one mile three times a week will will improve your your cardiovascular breathing systems.
SPEAKER_05If you can elliptical, you can run a BMX bike.
SPEAKER_04Well, what I was what I was thinking is that pentaton, when I went and checked out the gym, I saw I I'm probably gonna say it wrong because I use my southern English, but the pentaton bike or Peloton. Uh the Peloton, yeah. Yeah, Peloton bike. That looked to me because it's giving me something. That's why I like dance classes, right? Because it's giving me something to learn. Yeah, and if they were more affordable, I would absolutely consider doing that. Because by the time we we danced for 45 minutes, and I learned basically three three steps for three different dances, and it took 15 minutes per so for 45 minutes. When I left there, I had sweat rolling off of me, right? And I thought this would be this is what I need, but then they sent me the bill for twelve hundred dollars a month, and I'm like, eh, I can't do that, you know, I can't afford that. So I went to the gym and I looked at the the gym, and that that's low impact because, like you were saying, I used to ride bulls, I've broken my neck twice, I've broke my back in four different places. I've snapped, I I compound fractured both of my legs, and not at the same time, but at different times, like bones sticking out, you know, and bulls hook me, beat me, and you know. So I've been I treated my body like a honky tonk. A lot of people, a lot of people treat their bodies like a temple. I treated it like a honky tonk, right? Because I never thought I was gonna live that far. So now that I'm 55, I'm like, it's time to tighten up, man. It's time to get right, and and then uh I just want to breathe again. I want to be able to go and do stuff. I see a lot of people doing things, and I try to do them, and I just I'm running out of breath, and I just I'm tired of that. So yeah, that's my new thing, and I and I appreciate you, Justin, for the inspiration, man. I really honest to God. I mean, I knew I wanted to make some changes, and and and when I saw that, I'm like, I'm gonna get involved with that. And even if I'm only riding the bike twice a week, three times a week, at least I'm doing something. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Oh, you know what? And as you do it more, the uh put the cigarette down, Mike. I don't know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_04I don't know what you're talking about.
SPEAKER_06Haven't gotten there yet. I'm not I start again tomorrow. Um no, but the the more the more you do it, the better you'll get at it. Like, you know, just the other day, I just missed a 20-minute mile on the elliptical, you know, like it's just just I almost hit it. You know, I started off, it was like a 25-30 minute mile, you know. And uh, you know, you'll you'll be able to push yourself. And I biking is not one that I can do because my prostate falls asleep. Um and that is a really bizarre feeling is having your prostate fall asleep on you, you know what I mean? Like it's it's really weird, trust me.
SPEAKER_05It's bet better than opening up for a conversation, I guess.
SPEAKER_06But but um yeah, like I said, I've always I've always had uh great success on the elliptical. So um that's that's my weapon of choice. And you know, throw some throw some kettlebell exercises in there for the high impact, high intensity impact training. Is that what they call that? Something like that, you know, where you're using muscle but cardio as well. Once you once you get your your breathing squared away a little bit, just start throwing in some uh some kettlebell moves, and you'll be amazed at how much, first of all, that they kick your ass, and then second of all, how much it actually will increase what you can do once you actually start.
SPEAKER_04Well, I remember being in high school, played football, and I was the guy that they handed the ball to. I was never you know a college worthy or anything like that. Don't don't get me wrong, I was never gonna be a pro or anything like that, but but I was like boom, man. I just was a smash into things and I didn't care, right? And never ran out of breath. Always felt like I could just flip over a car if I wanted to, and now like if there was a poor woman trapped underneath the car, I'd be like, Y'all need to call somebody.
SPEAKER_09Right, you'd be holding your phone out, right? Hey, yeah, I dialed I dialed 9-1, and then I had to take a break. There you go. I had to take a knee, title 9-101.
SPEAKER_05Somebody tag in.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, just remember, Mikey, you can't do a tail whip on a Peloton bike.
SPEAKER_04That's true. Oh, that's true.
SPEAKER_05Well, that sounds like a challenge.
SPEAKER_04Come on, you do it long enough, you get strong enough, you can.
SPEAKER_09I uh you can have a game of catchpall banging on the uh on the ellipticals. Yeah, you can.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, and just for the record, uh you told your story about your awesome bike that your dad got you. I got a Huffy one year for Christmas because I wanted a BMX bike back in the 80s and uh jumped it off of the wall. We had a four-foot wall at the at the side of our house that basically was slate. The hill came down. Uh it's a hard to explain, but basically it was a four-foot wall that I jumped off my grass onto the paved road. Did it twice and snapped the neck off of the damn thing. Told my dad, it's like, listen, I broke my bike, and he was like, I got it in December and it was February. And he's like, I don't know what to tell you.
SPEAKER_05You shouldn't have broken your bike.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, basically. I took it over to Dickie Ferguson's house and his dad welded it up for me, and I broke it again. So I started so I started riding my sister's bike. And it was a straight girl's bike, but I didn't care. But that's my hobby. That and like I said, just listen to a lot of YouTube stuff and um to to help with the uh getting your mind right and and and just you know keep moving in the right direction. Try to be a better person for the world, try to be a better person at work, try to be a better person for your friends, and um you know just be there and and be strong and and be a good person.
SPEAKER_09Oh, appreciate you doing that, Mike. Why don't you stick around as long as possible? At least until your contract expires. Right? Exactly. Exactly. So awesome, good. Uh dude, we're all pulling for you. We want uh want to make sure you get healthy and uh can stick around and keep up with us when we're at shows together. Because you have like two strides to every one of my one. So uh Jody, what about you, sir? Any uh extracurricular activities?
SPEAKER_05Oh no, no, this is it.
SPEAKER_09No, I'm just it this is it.
SPEAKER_06Like Huey Lewis in the news over here.
SPEAKER_05Pretty much.
SPEAKER_09He breathes lava lamps.
SPEAKER_06That was supposed to be a segue there for you, Jody.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so surely uh the modeling hobby is a big one. I've spent many years, like Jason and a lot of us out there that build models, you know, spent a long time building the one-to-one stuff, and have had a lot of really cool cars over the years. And um, I've got this old Jetta that I've had for geez, 25, no, longer than that. Probably creeping up on 30 years, actually. And that was a car my dad and I built together and redid a few times. And uh it's getting a little long in the tooth, but it uh I still have it, and I'd like to breathe some new life into that. And then uh when my dad passed last year, I inherited his uh Chevy Malibu station wagon, it's got a built 355 in it, and we put that car together. So, and all the cars and projects and things that I have and have had, uh those two are ones that we did together. So I'm inclined to want to hold on to those things. It's just finding the time to work on them because anybody that does a car hobby, you know that it's a huge time bandit. Once you start on that, that just takes all your time. So uh someday, you know, I'd like to uh I got one project in the garage. I need to kind of move along, and then when I do that, I can get the wagon and the jet inside, and then you know, maybe over those long winter months I can focus on maybe trying to get some stuff done to those. So, you know, I've had cars and magazines and I've built stuff for people that have been in magazines and a lot in the VW community for a long time, and it'd be fun to rekindle that at some point, but again, it's just a time commitment, you know. It's just you know, when you're young, you think you got all the time in the world. Um, there was guys that I knew growing up that had really cool muscle cars that were in their garage, and you know, they just never got anything done, and they had garage space, and it always perplexed me how you could have this nice thing and just not do anything with it. Well, I hate to tell you, but here we are. Uh life just kind of sneaks up, you know, and it's like, well, I got a garage, it's a nice space to work, I've got cool stuff, but there they sit. So that's one hobby, surely, that still is in my I'm always building in my brain, you know, it's just time. And then another hobby that I've had for a very long time, um, is uh, you know, I grew up hitting pots and pans, you know, uh, like a lot of kids did, and that led to uh band in high school, learning how to play drums the go basically the wrong way. Had some friends that were drummers and kind of picked that up when I was a you know young teenager. And I really wish in retrospect now that when I started kind of getting into cars and girls and motorcycles and the drums took a back burner. I really wish I was hooked up with a good instructor to put more effort into it today. But just the same, I've got uh I've been in a band with uh some buddies of mine. It's been 20 years, actually. I think it's been a little bit longer than that. Playing uh vintage metal music, primarily Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, a little bit of Iron Maiden. We do some kind of oddball things in there, and that project has stayed fairly consistent. I did step away for a while because I had other stuff going on, and my buddy that sings and plays guitar in the band, his son is just an absolute phenomenal musician at uh, and he's 20, but really proficient on the drums, really proficient on the guitar, he can play bass, he can play uh keyboard a little bit. You know, I think some people are just naturally gifted and talented, and he's one of them. So we have oddly enough, before recording tonight, you know, I was over having band practice because coming up July 11th, um, it's a Saturday. There's a big venue up here, big quote unquote, called Higher Ground that brings a lot of good shows in, and that's kind of the pinnacle to play there. And there's a band local called uh Maiden Iron, who's an Iron Maiden tribute band, and I just love those guys. They're made up of very talented musicians, people I consider good friends. And the first one of the first shows that we ever played as a band was actually sharing the stage with those guys at Higher Ground, and that was uh probably 16, 17 years ago. Those guys have kind of rekindled that project, and uh they asked us to play with them again at higher ground. So coming up July 11th, um, we will be playing. So you know I'm uh I'm 51, I'll be 52 in the fall. The guys in the band are all a bit older than I am, my buddy Robin that sings, plays guitar. He just turned 60. His brother is 65, he just retired, and one of the other guys in the band's probably right in the middle of those guys, 62, maybe 63. So I'm the young guy in the band. Well, the young guy in the band's actually Robin's son, because he's in there playing with us too on some tunes. As we've kind of gotten older and we got guys retiring now, moving to Florida. Um, this is kind of a last to raw with this project. Um, my good friend Jason Hanscom and his beautiful wife are supposed to be coming up and spending uh spending some time to come check it out. I'm hoping that a lot of my local friends and family are gonna make it out. And it's uh it's a great hobby, you know. I I've always felt that I mean I'm just hacking at it back there, you know. I mean, I got lots of drums and cymbals, you flail your arms, you're gonna hit something, you know, baffle them with uh bullshit, not brilliance. So I I try my best back there, you know. I uh I'm not I'm not terrible, I'm not good, I'm just mediocre at best, you know. I've I've always said with hobbies, I've never wanted to be great at any one thing, you know. I want to just be good at lots of things, and I think the modeling hobby has come a long way for me. It's got better. I can build a pretty good car still, it's been a while. And you know, with the guys that I'm with, because we've had such a long run together, we got good chemistry, um, it just feels right, you know. I've I've had a couple little other side projects here and there, and it's not to say that I won't come back around, but surely I'm kind of looking forward to the show and just kind of wrapping this thing up as we kind of go our separate ways. And um, it's uh it's good. Music's fun. You know, I've I've always said I I enjoy taking in a good live show just as much as I enjoy playing a live show. And I've been to lots of concerts, I mean thousands of concerts and local shows, and I mean my my hearing has suffered the the damage from all that, but um, I'm looking forward to this show. So that really, you know, the model building primary hobby, the car building really is kind of secondary. I hope to kind of rekindle that. Music is right in there as well. But like all of us, I just love building stuff. You know, I've got a small woodworking shop, quote unquote, but I like to build wood projects and just kind of keep keep the hands busy, you know. I I think it's uh I think it's a good thing. So I don't like to just park in front of the TV, you know.
SPEAKER_06So it's not good for any of us, but how do I feel targeted with that last statement?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, well, that's we we all we all relax differently, you know. It's not to say that trust me, I find myself in front of the YouTube a lot, you know, and I watch a lot of very inspiring stuff on YouTube, the modeling hobby, and you know, I really like Bice Grip Garage and some of these guys that just are really good stewards of the things that I enjoy, you know. And you go out and you find good drum videos, and uh some of these young kids that are you know six, seven years old that just blow me out of the water, you know. It's like hey, I don't even know why I'm doing this, you know. So wherever wherever you find inspiration, right? Yeah, but uh but but but it's good. I'm I'm glad we're uh you know we're trying to figure out what to do on this show, and we all kind of agreed this would be a good thing to cover, you know, because I think people know us for the main hobby, the the modeling, but we all have diverse things, you know. The whole bonsai thing really uh is kind of a cool thing, you know. And I watched Jason's video on that damn rock crawler, you know, and I was I literally that night looking around to buy one of those things, you know. I'm like, I really don't need another rabbit hole, but um You just got two.
SPEAKER_06I know, I know.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, but but those are uh really good hobbies.
SPEAKER_06So the good thing about the bone side thing is you go in, you make a couple snips, and then you can kind of just water it. That's all you need to do. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like it's not something that constantly takes, like you don't have to every hour check on something, or you know what I mean? Yeah, you know, weekly water it daily and and weekly check on it and monthly make some small manipulations.
SPEAKER_09So what it what if you guys combine the RC crawler thing and the bonesai thing where you do the bonesai trees for the R for the RC crawler corpse?
SPEAKER_06Well, they do have a style of bonesai that's called root over rock, where you grow your bone size so that the roots are long and extended into a rock, you know, like you would see on the mountain. That's kind of cool, yeah.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, there you go. And you can kill it with the RC truck. Yeah, right. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_05One of my co-workers is into bonsai trees, too. I haven't seen any of his stuff, but yeah, up here, the the the fair, big fair, to kind of close out the summer, the Champlain Valley Fair, they it's it started out as an agricultural thing, right? So there's still tractor pulling, and um, there's a big contingent of arts and crafts and vegetables and kind of the things that a proper fair should be. And every year there's always a big display of bonsai. So if I remember, I'll try to grab some pictures or take a quick video, send that along to you. I mean, I've I'm intrigued by it for sure, you know. Yeah, I'm intrigued by that rock crawler uh RC too.
SPEAKER_08So well, so here's the thing you can get one 24th scale rock crawlers. Oh, there you go. And build a little rock crawling thing on your desk, and you can, you know, that that's a cheaper way out of it. I would love to do bonsai, but Jonesy would eat it.
SPEAKER_09Uh, yes, that's true.
SPEAKER_06Well, you gotta remember they are trees, so they do belong outside. I can't keep my bonsai inside. If you want to do an on inside-on tree, you would want to do something like a jade, you know, something purely tropical, but for the most part, trees are outdoor plants, so you'd want to make sure that they spend a majority of their time outside.
SPEAKER_09You're you're losing me. I gotta write this down. Trees are outdoor. Right, exactly. Okay, I'm gonna underline that part there.
SPEAKER_06Okay, bonsai.
SPEAKER_08What my Christmas tree would beg to differ.
SPEAKER_06Your your Christmas tree is also cut and it's already dead before you get it. No plastic.
SPEAKER_05Bonsai, bonsai cacti.
SPEAKER_09Oh, bonsai cacti. Mrs. BG has a bonsai Lego kit, she actually put together.
SPEAKER_06I have one sitting over on my my mail table over there. Yeah, that's cool. And then my female table has something else. Okay, that's gonna happen. Beach too, BG. I knew where you were going.
SPEAKER_09Oh, speaking of which, I had to pick a model out of the warehouse thing that was like uh uh World War I tank, and it's like male slash female. I'm like, mm-hmm. It's a hermaphrodank.
SPEAKER_06They actually so yeah, that's the British tanks, they were male or female, depending on the guns that they had. And then they had a hermaphrodite tank, which had both the guns of the male tank and the female tank. So that's actually it was actually a thing.
SPEAKER_09Wait a ruin of joke. Okay, moving on. Don't ruin a good story with facts, okay?
SPEAKER_06Oh, I was just I was I was cementing that story. That's all I was doing.
SPEAKER_09Thank you for slathering that as in concrete. Okay, so Joni, was there anything else you would like to add on that?
SPEAKER_05No, no, that's that that no, that's it. Um, we find new things to consume our time and money every day, pretty much, right?
SPEAKER_09So right, right.
SPEAKER_05BG, what about your hobbies other than this uh bonsai cacti thing that's gonna take off?
SPEAKER_09Thank you for asking. Um, I was just gonna check in with Jason. It's been a little while since we talked to him, see if he picked up another hobby in the meantime. No, okay, we're good.
SPEAKER_08Well, I have until I found out I couldn't keep a bonsai inside.
SPEAKER_05He's gonna go start hacking shit off his plastic Christmas tree.
SPEAKER_09Right. Yeah. It's just the treetopers sitting in the back of the room. Just a stump. We have a rule here at the Casa de BG, and that rule is one hobby at a time. Of course, that's a self-inflicted rule because I want to make sure I don't spend too much money on the things, but I do sneak in, you know, purchasing the odd G.I. Joe guy here and there. And I do have rules I've created for myself in order to make sure I don't go crazy with buying that stuff. So my parents both had the uh collect it all gene and of course it passed it on down to me. And I went crazy with model with buying model cars and and kits. But I like to collect G.I. Joe's. I had rebuilt my collection of the the smaller ones from the 1980s because those were left at home, and then there was a something bad happened, and all that stuff was lost to history. So when I I only had like a couple of figures when I moved in with Linda and got married, and she thought they were pretty cool. She thought they were kind of cool showing herself online about some of the stuff I had had in the past, and that actually became a thing for us to do every time we went to a new city. We would hunt down a uh a vintage toy store and see if we could help rebuild the collection. And over the years we actually did. And it got so it got so fun to watch her negotiate because in the in the in the beginning I'd be doing doing negotiating and you know, talking to the guy behind the counter, and then it got to she would just push me out of the way and be like, I'll give you fifty bucks for that right now. And the guy's like, Well, it's actually like nope, nope, cash money right now. And the guy's like, Well, I don't know. She's like, You want to you want to make a sale? You wanna make a sale? You don't want to make a sale? I'm walking on the door, and I'm like, Oh, who is this person? She stands in the back and just go, Yep, yeah, yeah, right. And then we get up to the car, I'm like, that was actually worth 30, but okay, you know, whatever. I thought it was an option. But uh uh when that collection got completed, uh, I moved on to other things. Uh, I've gotten back into collecting comic books again, and then um I'm only collecting a couple of titles, I'm not doing all everything that's out there because there's just so much going on. But working at the store, uh it it's it's really eye-opening to see how much money one can spend on on the modeling hobby because you're not just buying the kit, you're getting the paint, you're getting the accessories, and sometimes you might not notice how much money you're putting down on this stuff. But as the person who's taking your money, it's easy to see how much can get involved in this type of thing. And I look at the stacks of stuff behind me and I kind of cringe a little bit. I'm like, man, I feel a little guilty, you know. So I actually might uh do a sell-off pretty soon here for uh when we have our model meeting next month. I do a little bit of a sell-off to kind of cut back on things a little bit. Yeah, as far as hobbies go, uh, we were really enjoying the the DD stuff. That was a lot of fun. Of course, uh dice just started falling out of the sky, so that was uh a little bit of a problem. But I tell you, the one thing that has been around since before I had started collecting G.I. Joe's and stuff was Lego.
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_09And I I really wish I still had my old Lego stuff from back when I was a kid in the 1970s. Because all that stuff is very, very basic compared to what it comes out now, but it was classic. They only had like the the the few colors and uh the the the little people figures they had were more or less like the signs on the men's and women's rooms, you know, they weren't uh the little cool little minifigures they have now.
SPEAKER_06It's back when it took imagination with your Lego. Thank you. Right. You were building shit because yeah, this looks just like an airplane.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, right, but the square wings. Yeah, also a lot of the red dye 40 back then probably helped out with that imagination boost. Yeah. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_07There you go, yeah.
SPEAKER_09Wasn't everything then? Yeah, uh Mr. BG and I were we're actually big fans of Lego, and she's got nearly all the flower collections, and I've got so many of those little car kits that are like $25 or whatever. And the car kits are really fun to build, and you can knock one of those out in an afternoon really easily. I like to challenge myself by taking my glasses off and then trying to build them. And then that's it helps it helps helps it helps the process draw out longer. But when my brother-in-law and his family come to visit us once a year down from Alaska, we pick out a kit, a large kit, and uh it started when when they were down visiting, and I had just gotten the Saturn V rocket kit, and we it was really cool because there was four of us, and there was four different sections. At least he had his own four separate instruction manuals. So we all sat down at the dinner table, put on Star Wars or something, and then like Phantom Menace and got all the way up into like I don't know, Return of the Jedi or something. And we just sat there and just built this Lego kit and just was just having a great time. We each built our own sections and we had to stick them all together and stuff, and I still have that on display here in the house. So every year when they come to visit, we talk about getting another kit, and then we all take turns doing a section. Uh, you open up your bag of stuff, you you do your knolling where you get it all laid out into different shapes and sizes and colors and stuff, and then you start building the section. When you get done, you pass the instruction booklet to the next person, they sit down, they they build their section. My niece usually follows me in the rotation, and she absolutely detests it because I usually mess up something somewhere, and it's just a bunch of oh the few go put this together. I'm like, Who do you think put it together? So uh, but yeah, um I I really enjoy I we actually this last time they were visiting, uh we put together the Mars rover, which was a lot of fun. That's a cool nice yeah, not to scale, though. I was kind of hoping to be scale, but it's uh it turns out that thing's the size of a minivan. So I was like, Oh, okay, I don't really have the table space for that, but okay, right.
SPEAKER_06I actually I have that uh that Saturn V. That's in my my model display case. Oh, nice. Did you run it? Did you catch how many pieces were in that kit before you started? I didn't know 1969. Well, that's perfect. They designed that so that it had the exact number of pieces of the year we first went to the moon. That's awesome.
SPEAKER_09I love the fact that it had the little the little um capsule and then the um yeah, yeah, because it actually had some large pieces. The things that landed on the moon parts, yeah. Yeah. I hope I was hoping it had the the rover, but that uh that's a different that was a different time. Yeah. So yeah, that's basically that's it for me. I mean, I have so many different facets of the model building hobby as a hobby in its own self, collecting paint because I don't use it.
SPEAKER_04Um somebody gave you all theirs because they didn't want to.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah. I have a museum over here for Mike stuff in the corner. But you know, but with my model collections, I don't, you know, I can call it a stash if I want to, but it's more of a collection now because I go through and I curate it and I rearrange it to make sure everything's you know collected together and stuff and everything's in good shape. And so I do some curation with that stuff. That's one of my hobbies is just making sure everything's displayed nicely on the shelf because Lord knows I'm not gonna build it, and then um just keeping after it or looking up stuff about the models themselves, a little bit of history about the kit, that kind of thing. So um, yeah, just just another facet of the hobby for me.
SPEAKER_05So that's me. Nice, love the Legos. I also have a big collection of those. Those nice those damn speed champions I buy. I bought them. I I bought those more for an invest, I have to say, for investment than anything, because I haven't built all of them. I got a pile of freaking Legos I bought over the last five years that I haven't put together.
SPEAKER_09So okay, so my my boss Andy is a huge Lego fan, right? And sometimes he'll come around and hang around out front of the store. I'm like, something going on, Andy. He's like, Oh no, just hanging out. I'm like, okay, cool. He goes, expecting a delivery. I'm like, oh, okay, cool. He's like, Yep, got my new Lego kit coming today. Oh, right for the delivery guy. But he was he was telling me that Lego right now is holding his value better than gold. Yeah, is that ahead or what?
SPEAKER_05They they said a while ago that that's the next big thing that's coming up, you know. You had kind of our generation, I guess, but the next generation, you know, and as the Lego brand has expanded in all these things now, they say, you know, those things are gonna be worth some money, you know. So I bought a bunch of it just to put away. I mean, um Speed Champions, I love those things, and the little lady's not much into model building, but it took me a while to get her to build Legos, and she she quite enjoys it, so we work on them together. And I bought a bunch of the flowers and the trees and all that stuff. So about the tuxedo cat. They've got a they've got a uh orange cat Lego kit that's out now. Yep, yeah, which we're gonna have which we're gonna have to buy. Yep.
SPEAKER_09We did the all uh the tuxedo cat, uh not this last time, but the time before my brother-in-law came out, and then Linda had to travel for work a lot, so she was out of the out of the house for for several days. So when she'd come back into town and I'd have to be at work because I wasn't able to pick her up. So I would move the cat around the house and I would get a text. I could tell when she got home because I get a text, god damn it, that cat. So now I need to figure out how to light up the eyes, but uh yeah, we named the cat Zazzles after the cat from uh uh Big Bang Theory.
SPEAKER_06My uh my kids, obviously, kids, they're into Lego. My son had just graduated high school, he wants to become a firefighter. He's been interning with the Horsham EMTs. So I actually I picked up a just as a just a random gift, uh, an ambulance. It's not Lego, but it's Lego compatible because all of the Lego ambulance are all European. Uh this is this is one that's Lego compatible, but it looks like the the box truck ambulances that we have here in the States. He told me for his birthday he's several things that he's into that he wants is either uh what he said Lego, he said cash, uh there was something else, and then he goes, maybe a tattoo. So and I'm not against that either, but I I want to get him another Lego compatible fire truck that looks like an American pumper. And uh so I'll probably that's only 40 bucks. I'll probably grab that for him, and then when we go to get a tattoo, you know, throw a hundred bucks at it towards it.
SPEAKER_04So there you go. Never get a hundred dollar tattoo, never get a hundred tattooed.
SPEAKER_06But it'll be hundred dollars towards whatever he wants to get as a tattoo because I I'm getting his his sister for her birthday. I got her a women's lacrosse Notre Dame lacrosse jersey.
SPEAKER_08So okay, that sounds a hundred dollar tattoo right there.
SPEAKER_04You don't want another you don't want to know what tattoos a big neck bonsai cacti. There you go, right?
SPEAKER_06Yes, you get the you get the the the bonsai on your back, like Mr. Miyagi's gi and or Daniel LaRusso's gi and karate kid.
SPEAKER_07There you go.
SPEAKER_06There you go. He's uh he threw me a whole bunch of images of stuff he's thinking about. So I I told him that uh I reached out to my tattoo artist and a kid I actually I grew up with him, so I I reached out to him, and uh we're gonna go sometime in August on a Saturday to to to talk about what what he wants, how where he wants it, how he wants it, and what kind of cost, and then set up an appointment for to for the two of us to go up and uh get some ink together.
SPEAKER_09There you go, that'll be cool. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's a good way to bond.
SPEAKER_06Yep, yep. Yeah, before my dad passed, that was actually something that I got to do. I was getting this one done. It's not done yet, but I gotta get it finished. But uh, and he went up and got he never wore a wedding ring, he couldn't stand wearing jewelry, but he got a wedding band tattooed on his on his ring finger. We got to we got to get tatted together.
SPEAKER_04Me and my mom went and got a tattoo when uh I was 18. She got a tattoo of uh Tweety Bird on her boob, right right above her boob. And I got a tattoo. I asked her about it the other day. Uh Tweety Bird is now Big Bird.
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SPEAKER_09Oh, okay. Thanks for sticking around, folks. Uh, always good to hear from MCV Model Car Parts. Uh, next up, we're going to talk about new kit releases with the Jody.
SPEAKER_05Okay, so I got a few on here. Uh, stuff's still coming, you know, it's great. I see a couple releases coming from Revell. Uh, one of them is the Venerable Ravel 1971 Plymouth GTX. It's street machine 124th. The new release has got some new parts that you know, I couldn't really find exactly what that is, but some new new parts for this release. And that kit's been around basically forever. You know, it's been reboxed a bunch, it's had a bunch of different colors, yellow car on the cover, green on the cover. They do have a so they've got the 71 Plymouth kit coming out, but they're reboxing it and three different versions, if you will, or basically two. So you've got the street machine, which is yellow on the cover of the box, and then they've got the DOMS GTX, which is the 25-year anniversary of Fast and Furious, which I find hard to believe.
SPEAKER_06Shut your filthy mouth. 25 years.
SPEAKER_05Where the hell did time go?
SPEAKER_09That was half my life. Half my life was wrapped up in that crap. All right. Yeah. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_05So they had released that kit quite a few years ago. It's the black 71 GTX with the stripes. It was the boxes Fast and Furious. So they're re-releasing that. You've got the 71 GTX street machine with new parts, and then you've got the DOMS GTX, is just kind of in a new box. So they're offering both of those similar kit, one new parts, one basically just a new box for the 25th anniversary. And then they've got another set that they're going to put out. That's the DOMS GTX, but it's a complete set with paint and glue. So maybe targeting a younger audience to get into the uh Fast and Furious franchise 25 years later.
SPEAKER_09Younger than 25, I suspect.
SPEAKER_05Just insane. It's been that long. Yeah, it is. Uh Revell also has the uh 1987 Chevy Monte Carlo SS coming back out. That's uh 124th. And uh both of those Revell kits are slotted for July of uh 26th here, so they'll be out relatively soon. Uh, I did see they're bringing back the MPC 1978 Ford Pinto cruising wagon. Um, I built that kit a number of years ago as just a regular station wagon. It's got the side windows that you can put the pieces in to make it a panel wagon. That's a 125th. That kit has been released a number of times over the years. The original tooling goes all the way back to 1976 for that. So when that car came out, basically MPC tooled it, put it out as a model kit, and it's come and gone kind of over the years, and not a great kit. I built that and I built the little pinto as well, the the hatchback pinto. Uh, very basic kits, not a lot of great detail, but still kind of a cool kit, you know, if that's your that's your thing. That's also a July 26th uh release, so that's coming up. And then the last things I got on here there's a bunch of uh JR Salvinos kits coming out. One of them is the Rainier Racing 1978 Oldsmobile 442, it's a 124 scale. Now I don't know, I didn't really research too much to know who the actual driver of that car was. Back in 78, if anybody knows, Rainier Racing. So that's a July 26th. And following along with what Salvinos has continued to do, you know, they they've got some new stuff they're putting out, but they keep releasing these kind of vintage NASCAR kits, and they're just really cool, you know. The chassis suck a little bit because it's the old MPC chassis, I think, where you could you could lengthen or shorten it, you know, it's got to be pinned properly, very similar to the um the petty cars that I built, um, the the charger kits. But uh, so that's coming, that's releasing here in July 26th, and then they also have a bunch of um next gen NASCAR cars, they're all 124 scale again. July 26th is a release, uh, as follows they've got the Chase Elliott number nine, it's a Camaro. Kit. They've got the Brad Keslowski number six Castro Kit. Josh Barry. This one's for you, Jason. Number 21. It's a Wood Brothers Mustang kit. So it's it looks like one of the old Wood Brothers kits with the gold emblem or the gold uh lettering.
SPEAKER_09With a modern Mustang body?
SPEAKER_05Yeah, with a modern Mustang body. And then Joey Logano number 22 Penz oil. So the Kozlowski, the Barry, and the Logano car are all Mustangs. But look up the uh Brad Kozlowski and the Josh Barry kits both, the Castor and the Wood Brothers. They look really cool. The Kozlowski kit is presented really well. It's a casserole kit, so it's green and white. It's got really nice um you know detailing for decals. And then same with the the Josh Berry kit. It looks it looks like the uh Vega kit that you built, Jason, with the uh with the Wood Brother decals on it. So again, you know, Salvinos, they put out some really cool kits. You know, if you've never built one of those, go pick one up. The the chassis on some of those earlier kits can be a little bit finicky, but I believe the really highly detailed one that Clay Kemp built, that was a uh he started with one of the next gen um Salvino kits to build that.
SPEAKER_09So yeah, I think he did.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, first of all, Clay Kemp's amazing anyway, but oh yeah, yeah, definitely a Salvino scar. But Jody getting back to the Rainier, yeah. Yeah, I thought I was right. It was uh Rainier Lunday, and it was Lenny Pond. Now kidding. Yeah, I won't get into uh Lenny Pond was very controversial, very he was a peacock back then. If you guys are interested in NASCAR at all, go check out Lenny Pond, Google it, it'll pull him up. He he drove the yellow car before that, but yeah, it was Lenny Pond that drove that car, the Rainier Lundy, because it was Rainier Lundy. Rainier was getting out, lundy was coming in, and they were kind of like doing partner things, and then Rainier got all the way out. But uh, long story short, it it was Lenny Pond that drove that car. Cool.
SPEAKER_08Actually, it is. It says I've I've looked it up, and you are 100% right. Lenny Pond, that's a cool looking car.
SPEAKER_05Now, if you don't know that's it's a it's a cool-looking model kit, actually. I if if you're like the old nostalgia, you know, the old NASCAR. I mean, those those guys put out some really cool kits. The Salvinos, those, you know, that captures what's the the gray ghost, the buddy baker car. I still want to get that. I still want to get that.
SPEAKER_04Oh, you've got that kit, yeah. We need to get together because I've got four of them. I've been I've been a club member of Salvinos for years, and uh they also have come out, they are either contemplating or have come out with Junior Dale Jr. has had the 40 car that he the Camaro that he did come out with for the Daytona 500 two years ago. Well, what they've come out with is or may have come out with it. I'm I'm like I said, I'm a little confused on that as far as what they're doing, but it's an old school Monte Carlo, which if you guys know uh Dale Tenior drove the number two yellow Wrangler car that was a old school Monte Carlo, yeah. So they basically kind of did a what if yeah and they took that that body style, that old school big body Monte Carlo, and put the number 40 in in the basically had the 40 the the recent Daytona 500 Dale Jr. livery on an old school Monte Carlo and it did I did I did I did I did see some images of that, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I don't know if they're doing it as a kit or if it's just just an idea or a what if or whatever, but yeah I did uh in looking at new kits, I did kind of look around a little bit to see what you know the kind of overseas market is doing, you know, Aoshima and some of those, and I didn't really find too too much. You know, if you guys do see anything, you know, we can bring it up on the next one, but they seem to pop those things out pretty regularly to reboxings and things, so pretty good stuff. I really think I'm gonna end up grabbing. I really like that Brad Kozlowski uh castrel number six Mustang, and that Josh Berry car is really cool, too.
SPEAKER_09I was just looking at it. That's really cool.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, it's nice.
SPEAKER_09You guys think you can post some of those photos over on the uh the webpage of the uh Facebook page? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I've always loved the castrel livery because it's just you know, like on the on the rally cars and stuff, it's just such a cool look and what they do with that. And to see that on a Mustang would just be really sweet. Because I need to get a Mustang model kit, you know.
SPEAKER_05I'll do it tomorrow. I'll post, I'll grab some pictures and post.
SPEAKER_09Perfect, perfect.
SPEAKER_05I think I'm gonna grab those two next gen kits. Like I need two more. Right.
SPEAKER_08Well, I was gonna say, I might if I'm gonna grab anything, it's gonna be that Lenny Pond Oldsmobile. Yeah, yeah. And and that Mustang, yeah, the Wood Brothers Mustang.
SPEAKER_04Have y'all seen? I know we're chasing rabbits here a little bit, but have y'all seen the uh uh Josh Barry 21 Old School Ford, that the Wood Brothers 21 Old School Ford, the green one, that's actually a um throwback to the uh car that they did because Wood Brothers in 1968 were the mechanics uh pit crew for an indie car. That 21 that the indie car, the green that that I can't call who it is now. Uh we all know people uh Salvinos is redoing that indie car Jim from and from JR Jim, the the J from JR Salvinos Jim casted a bunch of stuff, but it's an old I think it's a Dan Gurney, don't hold me to that, or an Eagle. But they did that that green car, that old 68 indie car. Josh Barry here recently in the new cars came out with the uh same color scheme on a new Ford. I have three of those too. Those are that's an amazing looking for no other reason. Three of these things.
SPEAKER_08Is that what they send you?
SPEAKER_04No, if you're a club member and it was the kit of the month, yeah, and uh what it was was I just added two more to it, so I paid for it, but I just wanted to pay for shipping, and that's how I ended up with the two. I got I've got Tim Richmond, I've got the 200 and what is it, the the uh Bill Elliott 200 something mile an hour car at Teladega. I got three of those. Um I had three of the Tim Richmond's cars, but uh I gave one to my good friend uh Fred over at uh West Georgia Rod and Customs. But I gave him one of those, but if it listen, I we're not sponsored by them or whatever, but if you guys are in a NASCAR, definitely check out uh being a member of the club, member of the month club. It's you know, you don't get to pick your kits or whatever, but you're in the NASCAR, so it doesn't matter. Right. Well, it is and it isn't, but I'm telling you, I got some I got some kits here. I've got if you guys don't know, uh Kyle just died. You know, just out of the blue just died, right? I've got two of his kits, and they will never be unwrapped. And I wasn't even a Kyle fan. I wasn't, you know, the MM's car, I wasn't a fan, but he was still, you know, they called him rowdy for a reason, right? They called him rowdy from uh the Days of Thunder movie. He was rowdy, right? He was couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag, but at the same time he wouldn't mind sticking his finger in your face, you know. So I appreciate it.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I'm not I I have a couple of Salvinos kits and I've been working on one for a little while because I I go away and come back to it and stuff. But I'll tell you what's getting my money right now is we just got our order in from uh round two at the store and uh a full case of the BRE Dots and pickup trucks, 75 ones. Yeah, I mean I was checking them in, they're like, why is there only five on the shelf? I'm like, Well, because just about every other thing here is behind the counter for me right now. So that and that monster worked for free today. Yep, yep. I haven't taken a paycheck home yet. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I just worked for free today.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that and the mon the monza with the wide body kit on it. That they're just gonna.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, I bought a I've got a couple of those.
SPEAKER_04That is cool. That is cool.
SPEAKER_08Yeah, I need I need to get my hands on that D D van. Yeah, right.
SPEAKER_05That's all I got. So, you know, again, again, we we're there we're still popping them out, you know, which is uh which is a good thing. Just just when you just when you think you don't need any more, right? Here we are. I'm buying I'm buying at least two more, maybe three.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yep. Model car related, but I brought home another model kit today. It's the Vincent model kit from the Black Hole movie from 1979.
SPEAKER_07Oh, right.
SPEAKER_09Me and a couple of my coworkers were just freaking geeking out over the thing. We're like, this is so cool. And it was funny is on the box art, it actually says hasn't been released for 45 years. And I'm like, I remember this came out. God damn them old.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, exactly. I have to admit though, when you said the Vincent model kit, uh, you know, for any of you guys, yeah, I mean, you're all Facebook uh friends of mine, so you see every day I post a uh Van Gogh of the day. I actually got a little excited thinking that maybe they did some kind of release for some kind of Vincent Van Gogh thing.
SPEAKER_09I was like, right, oh they made a starry night. I oh, I can't believe they did a model kit of the of the scream.
SPEAKER_06I've actually seen well, that's Edward Munch. So um, sorry. But I have seen uh book nooks uh done up of Van Gogh's Starry Night type thing. So, you know that that was that's kind of cool, dude.
SPEAKER_09Those booknook things are so popular these days, they are, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Vincent Kitt 45 years, fast and furious 25 years. What the hell is going on around here?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, this white in my beard is actually telling us something, right? Yeah, I don't like it.
SPEAKER_09Had to find out how old uh Justin was, so they cut his beard off to count the rings. Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER_06Look how well it's coming back in. Rob is is much more comfortable now. Yeah, good.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I'm I'm glad he's not itchy anymore. Uh okay, so all right, let's do another quick break and we'll be right back after this.
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SPEAKER_09And we're back, folks. Thanks for sticking around through uh another one of our vendor spots for the Iceman Collections. Thank you very much uh to Joel. And next we have Justin with the emails.
SPEAKER_05Emails, it's emails. Love it.
SPEAKER_06Emails. All right, so we got three of them this with this month, this week. This episode. First one we're going with. I'm gonna go longest to shortest. This one comes in from a mic's mods and customs. Thanks again, guys, for another great episode. And again, thanks for the shout-out. On that note, I'd like to just pass along a word to all of the listeners, especially those that, for whatever reason, have not attended a local show. Get yourself out there. Don't hesitate to reach out to any model builder asking any questions. You will be amazed at how much knowledge is floating around a model show venue. My Corvette project would have been trashed had I not reached out to this guy, Jody Doyle. I will say prior to the Corvette, I only knew of Jody through Jason's channel and his knowledge with scratch building. I reached out to Jody via Instagram with a message for help. We planned to meet up at Granite Con. A friendship had been made. And the Corvette has come to completion. Thank you to Jody and Jason. If you want to better yourself in modeling, you need to enter yourself into the community. That's all for now. Until next time, go build something. Thanks, guys. Mike.
SPEAKER_04That's amazing. The last email I got about Jody was tell him to stop touching me in those places. I don't like him like that. Jesus. Wow. Wow.
SPEAKER_06But no, he's he's absolutely right. Um, you know, even if you don't go to quote unquote compete, get out there. Just go go check out a show, you know. Right, you don't need to drive more than two hours to get the one, but you'd be amazed at what these car, these models that we see on the Facebooks, it's amazing what they actually look like in real life. It's you know, they look great here, they look even better in person.
SPEAKER_09I I will tell you that uh my buddy Chuck who's been working on a shop truck and I've been watching his videos, and he's been sending me pictures. Finally got a chance to see it in person Saturday night at one of our meetings. And oh my god, that thing is freaking stunning. You see him walking in the door, just leave.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, right. Just take your stuff and put it back in your car.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah, just walk right over, just walk right over the awards counter, pick it up, and head out the door, you know. But uh, yeah, I mean you're you're you're totally right, dude. The the photos and and Facebook does not do these things justice.
SPEAKER_06And on a further note on that is the social factor, you know. We we we are solitary creatures as modelers, and it kind of goes back a little bit to that modeling insanity group body build challenge thing. But get out there and and talk to people, you know, like we're all we're as as introverted as you may be, we're all doing the same shit, you know what I mean? It's all playing with little plastic cars, tanks, airplanes, boats, whatever. You know, no one's gonna think you're weird or a nerd or anything like that any more than they self-loathe themselves for the same exact thing. So, you know, you you'd be amazed at the friendships you can make just by just by going to a show. Yep. Agreed.
SPEAKER_09I'm never quite sure to feel proud of myself after Justin gets done talking about the hobby or not.
SPEAKER_06I will browbeat you until you understand it.
SPEAKER_09That is right. The beatings will continue until morale increases. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER_06All right. So the next email comes from somewhat my neck of the woods, Scott Huber in State College, Pennsylvania. I mean, it's still two hours away, but it's my neck of the woods compared to you know where y'all are.
SPEAKER_09So anyway, he says the town, the town is called State College, it's called State College, yeah.
SPEAKER_06That's that's actually the uh the hometown of Penn State University, Penn State City.
SPEAKER_09I was gonna say if they didn't have a college there, that would be really sad.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, right. Like, oh, so it's not just a clever name then. Yeah, Scott says, great episode. I guess he's talking about our last episode. Uh he did not uh the Billy Strange interview episode. So yeah, great episode. I have car models I built over 30 years ago and cannot find the sauce anymore to get a model car paint job. I am satisfied with. It is not like I don't build, I have never had a gap in building, but mostly planes and armor for the last 30 years. I have a stack of car models to build. Even on an airplane, when I point my airbrush at a BF 109, I get a nice smooth finish. If I take aim at a Porsche, it looks like the surface of the moon. I think I picked up a couple ideas here to get me moving. Scott.
SPEAKER_09Hey, that's good. Glad to hear that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's again it all goes back down to thinning your paint, you know. And if you're if it's drying too fast using a using a retarder, and I don't mean Mikey. Um, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding, Mike.
SPEAKER_08See how quick he snapped his head around.
SPEAKER_06I'll just tease. I'm just teasing.
SPEAKER_04Oh I'm on guard. Rob Riv was on before we started recording. Sound like I'm guarding.
SPEAKER_06He's touchy.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06He's touchy tonight. Um, no, it's yeah, seriously, you know, and and and that goes back to the other one. Don't hesitate to ask. Get to a show, ask questions. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05Um ask ask questions. The forums are good. There's some good YouTube channels to give you guidance. I mean, I there's I have no problems answering questions if people reach out to me on Facebook or Instagram, you know, and send me a private message, I always take time to answer questions for people.
SPEAKER_06So, yeah, 100% every time. All right, and our final one is kind of more of a show uh shout out, and it is way far out there, but I did want to mention it only because since this is a car modeling podcast, if anybody wanted to get involved in this, this gives them time to find a kit and build it. But Keith McGregor says, Hi guys, I'd appreciate it if you could announce an upcoming October show. Please include the mention of our B-17 special category. Nice work.
SPEAKER_09Oh my god, no, I'm going to pick a fight.
SPEAKER_06But seriously, he's uh the Samcon show. Uh, it's an IPMS region 5 show, and they do have the special category for the B-17 Flying Fortress, which is one of my all-time favorite aircraft uh ever since the movie Memphis Bell, way back in the day. And I was a wee tyke. So yeah, I mean, check if you're in that in that region, I'm not exactly sure where IPMS region 5 is. I think that's uh somewhere like the Midwestish area. Grab a B-17 kit. There's a a whole bunch of them out there, you know, 70 second scale, 40, 144 scale, 48 scale. You know, grab one, build one, take it to that show.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, that's there's a 30 second scale.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, yeah, but I don't know as a as a car guy, uh going out to the car guys. I don't know if I'd recommend they start there.
SPEAKER_09No, no, yeah. I love it when somebody comes up to the counter with a 30 second scale B17 molecule and a bottle of paint. I'm like, oh, you're gonna need more.
SPEAKER_05What are you doing? Just one of the wings with this, yeah. What are you doing with that?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, yeah, yeah. You might you might you might want to rethink that. Okay, cool. That's all I got, guys. Nice. Thank you, Justin. All right, I'll tell you what, we are going to take another quick break and we'll be back with uh shows.
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SPEAKER_09Thanks for sticking around again, folks. Really appreciate that. Always good to hear from VCG Residents by Reese, even though it is rev. So, next up we have show spots. Jason, what have you got for us, my friend?
SPEAKER_08Uh, this is gonna be quick. There's only two shows coming up that I could find for July. Uh, July 11th, the Ohio Valley Regional Model Car Show in SWATMET, hosted by the Derby City Model Car Builders. It's gonna be held at the Holy Family Gym, 3938 Poplar Level Road, Louisville, Kentucky. And then on July 18th, we have a Region 12 show, which I can tell you is the Carolinas, because I have the address. Um Americana R12 Regional Con, hosted by the Eastern Carolina Plastic Modelers. This one's held at the Havelock Tourist and Event Center, 201 Tourist Center Drive, Havelock, North Carolina. And the theme for this show is iconic American developments, such as the Ford Model T or the USS Nautilus.
SPEAKER_09Oh, cool. That's a really cool topic.
SPEAKER_06Fun fact, Havelock, North Carolina is also Marine Naval Air Station, Marine Station. Cherry Point's kind of like quote unquote hometown.
SPEAKER_04It's Cherry Point is the aviation version of the Marine Corps.
SPEAKER_06Correct. And that's yeah, that's their their air base, and Havlock is kind of like the hometown of that base. We actually moved my uncle, who was a uh he was a Marine in the aviation units back in V. Vietnam, we moved him from there back to PA some years back.
SPEAKER_04And just for the record, there's absolutely nothing in Havelock, North Carolina, except for the Cherry Point base. Yeah, there's nothing there.
SPEAKER_08Well, that's not true. There's a there's a uh model center drive.
SPEAKER_04That's right. Yeah, it is. Well, I I I didn't know that because I've been several been there several times. My nephew was stationed there when he was in the Marine Corps, and I went there several times. Had I known there was a model thing going on there, and I actually went up to do some storm cleanup in that same town when I was doing storm cleanup for the a company out of Gainesville, but and my nephew was based out of there, and I never knew there was a model show there. Had I known, I probably would have a different opinion of that place. But I'm here to tell you, it's oof, oh my god, that place.
SPEAKER_08Let's just say to the wonderful folks of Havelock, North Carolina that might be listening, let's just say it's slow, slow paced. How's that?
SPEAKER_09And and if you are from Havlock and you have a problem with what Mikey is saying, please write us.
SPEAKER_06Yes, and no, no, no. Please email me. Mikey at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_05The thoughts and views of Mikey uh expressed by Mike, and not the thoughts and views shared with the fellow podcast members.
SPEAKER_04I spent two months up there.
SPEAKER_05You can email Mike at chunkymanate lover at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_07Oh it's been changed.
SPEAKER_04Jody, it's been changed, but that was one of the hobbies I didn't talk about. Loving animals.
SPEAKER_08Thank goodness.
SPEAKER_04Thank goodness.
SPEAKER_08That's all we have for shows. Can we move on to the next segment, please?
SPEAKER_09Yes, please before it gets worse. All right. Well, it's gonna get worse because next up is Mikey's thumbs up.
SPEAKER_04Oh, it's it's not gonna get worse, I promise. You know, when I first started this thing, I want to do uh the thumbs up thing. I wanted to give big shout outs to people that were doing great things in the community as far as maybe bringing a show or you know, this whatever. But I was thinking about it over the last month, and um, you know, sometimes we neglect the guys that are out there on YouTube that are really good guys in the hobby, and they just they they don't have a lot of followers and they don't have this and that, they don't have all the production value and all that stuff. So I thought I'd give a a shout out to my good friend Chris at Chris's House of Plastic. He's a great guy, he he doesn't get the opportunity to travel that much, he does a lot of Florida shows, and I get to run into him a bunch. But the nicest guy you could ever want to meet, he supports the hobby, he's in the hobby, he does stuff, he he he does his videos, and his and his videos are great, don't get me wrong, but you know, he doesn't have all the high production value, he doesn't get to go to a lot of the shows that are outside of Florida, and I just want to take a second to cast the light on my good friend Chris from Chris's house of plastic. Chris, you get my big old thumbs up this month, buddy.
SPEAKER_08Thank you, Chris Chris's house of plastic.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, great guy, great, absolutely great guy.
SPEAKER_08Looking that up right now and subscribing right now.
SPEAKER_04Do that, do that, guys. Do that, guys, and uh and let him know that you heard about it here on the podcast.
SPEAKER_05I'd like to give a shout out to our friend Ken Malaysia, building in retirement. He just finished this Menace Falcon. It's a uh Falcon project. Yeah, yeah, that thing is cool. Yeah, it turned out really, really nice, you know. Ken, you know, when he started the channel and retired, you know, he's been slowly kind of building a little bit more and more outside his comfort zone. And this one he did a bunch of scratch building on it and uh put a really nice paint job, did really nice interior detail, and went so far as to really focus the time that I, in my opinion, you need to focus is all the outlying areas. You know, he made the made a flip nose out of this thing, but then went through and like rebuilt the firewall and added detail for like the the door hinges, added the wiring harness for the doors, just a lot of like little things that get overlooked. He uh he did a really nice job on that. And um, I don't know if you you guys follow his YouTube channel. I mean go go go give him a like, you know. He um he does a really good job, kind of walks you through the process and the steps, and um has a lot of fun with the green screen over there, and uh he's uh he's good. He's he's good people.
SPEAKER_08He's good people, and I'll tell you what, he's his popularity has taken off like it has a Saturn V rocket strapped to the ass of it. I mean, his like his Facebook page is he's is growing leaps and bounds, so is his YouTube page, and it's for good reason. He's he he does good things over there, so yeah.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, nice, nice job, Ken. Keep up the good work over there.
SPEAKER_08Yep, amen.
SPEAKER_04Um I mean, I don't know if he listens to this, but I mean what's this he definitely listens to the Sunday show, so we we've advertised this on a Sunday show, so hopefully he's making the transition. Yeah, but he he comes in on the Sunday show too and hangs out with us. He does love that guy.
SPEAKER_05We'll chirp him on Sunday and say, listen to our listen to our podcast, you old prick. I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_06There you go. You're retired, you got plenty of time.
SPEAKER_09Stop making excuses, damn it. Uh let me write down that time slot there. Okay. Takes it right out. Awesome. Okay, well, yeah, I'm not an editor, I'm more like tied taking the stains out of the post.
SPEAKER_08When this thing releases, it's gonna say, yeah, listen to us, you old, really nice gentleman. Yeah, you old really nice guy.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, completely patched in, yeah. Completely patched in voice. It's BG's voice. Oh man, I tell you what, this has been a lot of fun, but it's time to say goodbye. Justin, lead us in the closing, please.
SPEAKER_06All right, the name of the father and of the son, and of I'm just kidding. You did the last so that's the six years of trauma. I mean, Catholic school that I went to. Um let me write, let me write that time code down too.
SPEAKER_09Okay, go there.
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SPEAKER_09Since you're so vocal, how about you lead us in the goodbyes?
SPEAKER_04I will tell everybody, like I always do, be kind to each other, be safe, and as always, keep on modeling. Thank you, sir.
SPEAKER_05Jody, yeah, thanks for uh coming, everybody. Um, the challenge for everybody is um when you hear this, hopefully we've got some good listeners and followers. Go over to our model car mania Facebook page, post a picture of uh one of your alternate hobbies. I think it'd be fun to see that. I will go in tomorrow and um I'll go post a couple pictures of uh these Salvino kits and stuff that we're talking about tonight. So uh that's that that's pretty much it. Go buy some glue and build something, right, fellas?
SPEAKER_09Exactly.
SPEAKER_05Yes, take care, everybody.
SPEAKER_09Jason, see ya okay, Justin.
SPEAKER_06Uh yes, as as Jody is saying, make sure you guys post up on our page with some of your alternate hobbies, and only if they're family friendly, please. Uh, nothing that we'd find on the uh only pans pages and all that other jazz. But I want to do want to see what some of your hollow hobbies are. I'll post some pictures. I'll have to take them tomorrow when the sun comes up because my trees are all sleeping right now. But good night, everyone. Thank you, Justin.
SPEAKER_09And this is Mr. BG saying thank you for listening. Thank you for following along, thank you for posting on Facebook and sending the emails. We truly appreciate that very, very much. And we want to say thank you to Iceman Collections, VCG Resonance by Reese, MCV Model Car Parts, Auto Modeler Magazine. And a final thoughts, parting is such sweet sorrow. That's why I use nippers. All right, we'll talk to you in the next one. Bye, everybody.
SPEAKER_06Bye bye.
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SPEAKER_09What kind of music do you play?
SPEAKER_05Uh, it's all vintage metal. Black Sabbath, Judas Priest.
SPEAKER_09Oh, right on.
SPEAKER_05A little bit Iron Maiden.
SPEAKER_09So MTV era.
SPEAKER_05Uh, older than that.
SPEAKER_09Oh, okay, good.
SPEAKER_05We've got uh Quiet Riot song that we're gonna play.
SPEAKER_08Heck yeah. I love Quiet Riot.
SPEAKER_05Yeah. It's gonna be good.
SPEAKER_09I want to see 10,000 Maniacs Smashing Pumpkins. That's gonna be a hell of a mess.
SPEAKER_05Emails is emails.
SPEAKER_09Um I could just if this was a play, I could see Jody walking across the stage with the bell. Emails, emails, emails, Mikey's busting a move.
SPEAKER_05Emails.
SPEAKER_06Oh, those new dance moves.
SPEAKER_04I'm holding up the sign in the ring. We're doing emails, we're doing emails.
SPEAKER_06Put it away, Mikey. Put it away.
SPEAKER_04Put your shirt, put put your shirt back on.
SPEAKER_06That bikini doesn't look nearly as good as you think it does.
SPEAKER_09How about this song? You need to white balance your camera before you lift your shirt up, dude. Oh my god. I know it was white balance.
SPEAKER_05Looks like you had a white t-shirt on under Christ's sake.
SPEAKER_09I do a white a white t-shirt that'd been under a cat all day long. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_06On the floor of a barber shop. Anyways.
SPEAKER_09And thanks for sticking around again, folks. It's always good to hear from VCG Resonance Byrs, even though that's not really who's doing the the uh the uh buck.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, web pot.
SPEAKER_09Oh my god, it's a long roast and long for the first time Justin's ever blown it. I mixed it up a little bit.
SPEAKER_08Oh went the consortium pot roast.
SPEAKER_02Yes, pot roast.
SPEAKER_04It's not the first it's not the first time Jason's ever blown it according to the websites that I've been on.
SPEAKER_07Wait, how did I get jerked?
SPEAKER_06Jason's like, what do I do?
SPEAKER_05Jesus, I get pulled into this thing.
SPEAKER_09Why did you have to why did you have to make the whole show this time, Mikey? All right. I can leave anytime you like. Oh crap, how do I stop this thing? I forgot how to do that. This is this is the perfect final outtake. Yeah.
SPEAKER_07Someone make it stop.
SPEAKER_08Just jump.
SPEAKER_05Just jump.
SPEAKER_06Owl recording.
SPEAKER_05Spinning motion's making me the final frontier.
SPEAKER_08It just keeps going.