WEBVTT 00:00:03.449 --> 00:00:06.610 All right, this is gonna be a really short intro 00:00:06.610 --> 00:00:10.949 because I got a lot of shit to do today But if 00:00:10.949 --> 00:00:13.929 you're in or around Cincinnati, we're having 00:00:13.929 --> 00:00:19.309 an opening event or reopening event on the 12th 00:00:19.309 --> 00:00:22.350 this Saturday We'll be open all day at our new 00:00:22.350 --> 00:00:25.230 location at 525 Main Street, Covington, Kentucky 00:00:25.230 --> 00:00:29.010 But at 5 o 'clock we're gonna be doing stuff 00:00:29.010 --> 00:00:32.539 we got Jay Scaggs playing. We're doing our bike 00:00:32.539 --> 00:00:36.719 giveaway drawing. There's some free shit. There's 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:40.920 a Green Door, which is a Kratom and Kava place. 00:00:41.259 --> 00:00:44.640 It's gonna have drinks. So, you know, come out 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.100 for that. Or if you're in the area at any point, 00:00:48.159 --> 00:00:50.619 come to our new store. It's a way better place. 00:00:51.439 --> 00:00:55.679 But this episode is with Kenny Ham. Full disclosure, 00:00:55.859 --> 00:01:01.490 I've known Kenny before this. But he has an event 00:01:01.490 --> 00:01:05.829 called Germantown hoedown that is coming up first 00:01:05.829 --> 00:01:09.010 weekend in October This is the second year that 00:01:09.010 --> 00:01:12.030 he's doing it It's it's a good time. It's it's 00:01:12.030 --> 00:01:16.689 a much more Old -school vibe than a lot of the 00:01:16.689 --> 00:01:20.569 bike events around I would recommend checking 00:01:20.569 --> 00:01:23.829 it out. It's it's 20 bucks for the whole weekend, 00:01:24.189 --> 00:01:27.060 which is there's like three days that's very 00:01:27.060 --> 00:01:31.040 cheap but there's drag races there's you know 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:34.959 people like us selling stuff but we talk about 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:37.939 in this episode I'm not gonna rehash all of it 00:01:37.939 --> 00:01:41.200 you know why would I we're gonna get into it 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:44.739 but this this is an episode with Kenny about 00:01:44.739 --> 00:01:47.400 how he got in the motorcycles about his life 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:51.239 about how the hoedown came together and why he's 00:01:51.239 --> 00:01:54.180 doing it with with his family so it was a good 00:01:54.180 --> 00:02:07.379 time for me Enjoy the episode You plug it in 00:02:07.379 --> 00:02:10.719 right You get a like a bass tune that they send 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.300 you depending on what you have You hit that like 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:17.439 button and it tunes to your bike and then you 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.000 like start a session where you go ride and try 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:22.919 and get a variety of types of poles right so 00:02:22.919 --> 00:02:27.460 like every gear, fast, slow, whatever, it takes 00:02:27.460 --> 00:02:30.120 note of what it does inside the bike and corrects 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:33.199 it. And then you apply that and you do that like 00:02:33.199 --> 00:02:36.539 four or five times and it is way fucking better. 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:40.039 It's crazy. Yeah, I wish some older bikes had 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.719 that kind of stuff. It doesn't. Have you talked 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:44.979 to Chicken about it? No, I haven't talked to 00:02:44.979 --> 00:02:49.939 Chicken about that. I don't. Trying to get him 00:02:49.939 --> 00:02:52.680 off of that subject and onto the older shit. 00:02:52.990 --> 00:02:55.770 Well, he wants that one that you're raffling 00:02:55.770 --> 00:02:59.270 real bad. Well, he can come get it, man. I had 00:02:59.270 --> 00:03:04.789 it for sale. Nobody sent me an offer. The market's 00:03:04.789 --> 00:03:07.729 kind of screwed right now, and I don't know what 00:03:07.729 --> 00:03:10.870 the fuck's really going on. But it was a fair 00:03:10.870 --> 00:03:15.949 offer. I would have probably took it. It just 00:03:15.949 --> 00:03:20.819 sucks nobody said anything. I mean, you... and 00:03:20.819 --> 00:03:23.139 a couple other people recently have posted some 00:03:23.139 --> 00:03:28.699 stuff that is it's pissing me off because I want 00:03:28.699 --> 00:03:32.520 it but I can't justify it in any capacity because 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:35.840 we just moved our store and I spent you know 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:41.000 ten thousand dollars on that but dude that bike 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.580 I've looked at that bike in your garage every 00:03:44.580 --> 00:03:48.069 time I've been there That shovel heads actually 00:03:48.069 --> 00:03:50.949 got some really really cool shit on it really 00:03:50.949 --> 00:03:54.310 cool pieces man that the original tombstone light 00:03:54.310 --> 00:03:57.689 the frame was completely molded around the vent 00:03:57.689 --> 00:04:00.129 on the neck and it matches obviously the motor 00:04:00.129 --> 00:04:04.509 the the leftover ginning case from the Factory 00:04:04.509 --> 00:04:07.669 where they put them on FX is like it's it's got 00:04:07.669 --> 00:04:10.090 some really cool pieces. I mean, it's not you 00:04:10.090 --> 00:04:12.849 know somebody's got to be into that style of 00:04:12.849 --> 00:04:15.530 survivor crusty type stuff to really dig it even 00:04:15.530 --> 00:04:18.649 though it's a swinger it's i mean the parts alone 00:04:18.649 --> 00:04:22.329 on it i mean i think that's why i was all about 00:04:22.329 --> 00:04:24.250 it when i seen i was like oh yeah here's a bike 00:04:24.250 --> 00:04:26.709 i can get caley she'll be down you know she likes 00:04:26.709 --> 00:04:30.269 crusty stuff like and then she gets on it and 00:04:30.269 --> 00:04:34.800 it's like i don't know You know some people just 00:04:34.800 --> 00:04:37.399 don't have that that passion for that stuff like 00:04:37.399 --> 00:04:40.180 I do and you know they want that shiny new stuff 00:04:40.180 --> 00:04:45.480 and that's You know, that's not me where Because 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:48.839 I know you before this obviously I'll put that 00:04:48.839 --> 00:04:54.860 in the intro but I don't know That much about 00:04:54.860 --> 00:04:58.720 how you got in to motorcycles or your childhood 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:01.930 or any of that how this How'd this come to be 00:05:01.930 --> 00:05:07.129 what you do? Man, I can, you know, the big thing 00:05:07.129 --> 00:05:10.829 for me was, you know, I kind of grew up pretty, 00:05:10.889 --> 00:05:12.769 I mean, you could pretty much say it was inner 00:05:12.769 --> 00:05:15.889 city. I mean, I lived in Latonia. It was, uh, 00:05:16.370 --> 00:05:20.750 you know, at the time it was, uh, I don't know. 00:05:20.750 --> 00:05:24.519 You could say that the kids in Covington, And 00:05:24.519 --> 00:05:26.800 then you would say Latonia and they would say, 00:05:27.139 --> 00:05:29.680 oh, you live in Latonia. Must be nice. But in 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:32.819 the same sense, it's like we're part of the same 00:05:32.819 --> 00:05:35.180 deal. It's just, you know, it's kind of it's 00:05:35.180 --> 00:05:37.319 kind of separated. I mean, I've been to Latonia. 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:42.480 It's not that nice. No, not now. And even, you 00:05:42.480 --> 00:05:45.959 know, even growing up, you know, it was it was 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:49.160 cool growing up that growing up there because, 00:05:49.160 --> 00:05:52.310 you know, I got to walk to school and. you know 00:05:52.310 --> 00:05:55.089 we got we had a five and dime store right there 00:05:55.089 --> 00:05:58.129 and if you took if you had a dollar there you 00:05:58.129 --> 00:06:01.689 could get a paper bag full of candy as soon as 00:06:01.689 --> 00:06:03.649 as soon as you got out of school man if you had 00:06:03.649 --> 00:06:06.769 an extra dollar you found a quarter you found 00:06:06.769 --> 00:06:09.230 a dime on the ground walking home you were rich 00:06:09.230 --> 00:06:12.790 because you know tootsie rolls were a penny and 00:06:13.459 --> 00:06:17.139 Swedish fish were a penny. They had all that 00:06:17.139 --> 00:06:19.680 good stuff, lemon heads, grape heads, all that 00:06:19.680 --> 00:06:22.699 stuff, and we'd all go in there and have a big 00:06:22.699 --> 00:06:27.360 line of us buying stuff from this guy, Bob, and 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.120 he, dude, at that time, I don't even know how 00:06:29.120 --> 00:06:32.939 that dude was alive, man. He looked to be 90 00:06:32.939 --> 00:06:35.939 years old, and when I moved out of Latonia, he 00:06:35.939 --> 00:06:38.339 was still there. See, you're not that much older 00:06:38.339 --> 00:06:41.350 than me. I think through four or five years, 00:06:41.350 --> 00:06:45.110 somewhere in there. But you're describing your 00:06:45.110 --> 00:06:50.310 childhood like it's 1956. I mean, in a sense, 00:06:50.350 --> 00:06:53.910 it was it was a lot like it wasn't so much that 00:06:53.910 --> 00:06:57.389 it was like a fast lifestyle. It was more or 00:06:57.389 --> 00:07:00.470 less that, you know, the kids went out and played. 00:07:00.670 --> 00:07:03.129 They came home at the when the street lights 00:07:03.129 --> 00:07:05.870 came on. You know, we had a five and dime store. 00:07:06.029 --> 00:07:09.769 You know, we did do, you know, just you know 00:07:09.769 --> 00:07:12.709 basic kid stuff man there wasn't there wasn't 00:07:12.709 --> 00:07:15.329 a lot of violence down there i think i remember 00:07:15.329 --> 00:07:19.050 one time they locked the elementary school down 00:07:19.050 --> 00:07:22.509 because some dude was chasing a kid on the way 00:07:22.509 --> 00:07:25.649 to school walking with a baseball bat but that 00:07:25.649 --> 00:07:29.730 was like the only time that i remember that you 00:07:29.730 --> 00:07:33.670 know it was it was that bad you know to where 00:07:33.670 --> 00:07:38.100 you know people would Have us not walk first 00:07:38.100 --> 00:07:41.379 to school. Yeah Or was your dad in the bikes? 00:07:41.779 --> 00:07:45.339 Yeah, my dad was my dad was in the bikes. Um, 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:47.959 see I didn't I didn't know my dad growing up, 00:07:47.959 --> 00:07:54.220 you know When You know the first time I met my 00:07:54.220 --> 00:07:57.740 dad that I that I remember was was in prison 00:07:57.740 --> 00:08:01.300 You know, and I I'm in a different, you know 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:04.160 group outside of this You know, maybe we'll get 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:07.199 into that. Maybe not. But, you know, I share 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.439 this stuff with people. You know, the first memory 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:12.459 that I got of my dad, you know, is driving in 00:08:12.459 --> 00:08:16.480 this little two door Ford Mustang my mom had. 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:21.319 And we drive down 71 and, you know, I met my 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:24.680 dad in La Grange. You know, long haired dude, 00:08:25.459 --> 00:08:29.180 tattoos all over him. Man, I can probably name 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:31.439 every tattoo on his arm. I can still see him 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:37.860 today. You know, my dad was wild. But, you know, 00:08:38.360 --> 00:08:41.159 he was into motorcycles and, you know, that's 00:08:41.159 --> 00:08:44.360 kind of like, you know, that missing link that 00:08:44.360 --> 00:08:47.879 I had in my life. You know, I guess I kind of 00:08:47.879 --> 00:08:51.000 put two and two together that, you know, he liked 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:54.820 them. So I guess I kind of liked them. But was 00:08:54.820 --> 00:08:58.240 he not like around to teach you how to do the 00:08:58.240 --> 00:09:02.440 stuff? No, no, absolutely not. We can. You know 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.919 what what jumped it off man is we had see my 00:09:05.919 --> 00:09:09.620 dad when they bought that house in in Latonia 00:09:09.620 --> 00:09:11.779 because my mom actually lived in Ludlow with 00:09:11.779 --> 00:09:16.159 him before then and they moved to Latonia and 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:18.320 the reason they bought that house is because 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:21.179 of the garage that it had so the shop that was 00:09:21.179 --> 00:09:26.519 that was there I mean it was you know a 30 by 00:09:26.519 --> 00:09:30.299 40 shop garage up there and i just remember walking 00:09:30.299 --> 00:09:34.500 in there like my earliest memories of that garage 00:09:34.500 --> 00:09:38.799 was i remember seeing two motorcycle seats hanging 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:43.220 on the wall some harley davidson memorabilia 00:09:43.220 --> 00:09:47.779 a gas tank and a sissy bar that was sitting up 00:09:47.779 --> 00:09:50.620 there it wasn't any extravagant sissy bars one 00:09:50.620 --> 00:09:55.190 of those you know harley stock swingard Sissy 00:09:55.190 --> 00:09:57.850 bars nothing nothing crazy cool, but nonetheless 00:09:57.850 --> 00:10:02.250 like I seen that stuff there. Yeah Yeah, but 00:10:02.250 --> 00:10:06.370 Okay, so Did you start riding? I don't know any 00:10:06.370 --> 00:10:09.169 of this I know a couple people that knew you 00:10:09.169 --> 00:10:12.769 like ten plus years ago But it's still kind of 00:10:12.769 --> 00:10:17.029 an enigma to me Did you start riding as a teenager? 00:10:17.669 --> 00:10:22.090 No, what were you doing then? There there's two 00:10:22.090 --> 00:10:26.720 versions of Kenny there was the There was the 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.019 the kid that my mom wanted me to be that played 00:10:29.019 --> 00:10:32.460 baseball Did decent in school and then by the 00:10:32.460 --> 00:10:35.279 weekends? I'm back down in Covington running. 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:37.559 So there's two there's two versions of Kenny 00:10:37.559 --> 00:10:41.340 You know that that kind of you know that kind 00:10:41.340 --> 00:10:45.039 of you know defined me at that age And then there 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.500 were some things that happened before then to 00:10:48.500 --> 00:10:52.899 that that got me into bikes 120 hours of Bondo 00:10:52.899 --> 00:10:55.700 and yeah to mold in these bikes like they work 00:10:55.700 --> 00:10:57.799 as the bike that I have is completely molded 00:10:57.799 --> 00:11:03.500 I mean you I haven't seen More than maybe two 00:11:03.500 --> 00:11:07.820 or three molded new bikes like ever Everything 00:11:07.820 --> 00:11:09.899 I see is someone found something that was already 00:11:09.899 --> 00:11:14.019 done 50 years ago And I mean, you know, like 00:11:14.019 --> 00:11:16.080 obviously you see a lot of people now that are 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.179 really good at painting, right? A lot of people 00:11:18.179 --> 00:11:21.419 that are really good at fabricating that but 00:11:21.419 --> 00:11:23.500 I never thought about the fact that the molding 00:11:23.500 --> 00:11:26.700 aspect kind of disappeared from bike building 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:30.620 Yeah, I mean there can be there's a lot to it. 00:11:30.620 --> 00:11:34.240 I mean, I guess it's really I guess your your 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:36.200 your vibe with it You know what? I mean, but 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.080 you know I've molded one I've got one molded 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:41.220 frame that I've been working on for just like 00:11:41.220 --> 00:11:44.139 anything else that I personally owned for For 00:11:44.139 --> 00:11:47.039 three years and you know, I've just molded the 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:50.600 joints the tank just minimal I couldn't even 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:53.000 imagine somebody's you know what I mean sitting 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.840 there doing that yeah all the time just like 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:57.919 chromers you know what I mean that's also kind 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:00.940 of disappeared yeah well I mean yeah yeah it 00:12:00.940 --> 00:12:03.600 has and you know I'd say there's some of them 00:12:03.600 --> 00:12:06.100 guys out there still but yeah for the most part 00:12:06.100 --> 00:12:08.580 you know Browning Brown's plate and all that 00:12:08.580 --> 00:12:12.559 stuff was all around and you know all them all 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:16.940 them chromers are gone now and I mean like there's 00:12:16.940 --> 00:12:20.389 the spray chrome shit yeah but that is not the 00:12:20.389 --> 00:12:25.009 same but going back so you're your child when 00:12:25.009 --> 00:12:30.980 you see this van yeah and something in you Picked 00:12:30.980 --> 00:12:33.980 up on whatever that was you're like I'm about 00:12:33.980 --> 00:12:37.139 that. Yeah Like when I saw smoking the band that 00:12:37.139 --> 00:12:39.399 I went whatever that is. Yeah, that's what I 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.120 mean on that Like I always say this company wouldn't 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:45.179 exist if my dad didn't show me smoking the band 00:12:45.179 --> 00:12:48.840 that when I was 12 years old Yeah, you know That 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:51.940 means the prototypical like counterculture outlaw, 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.179 whatever word you want to put on its story, you 00:12:54.179 --> 00:12:59.340 know But you saw that We and what you were working 00:12:59.340 --> 00:13:03.259 in his garage Yeah, I mean for the most part. 00:13:03.279 --> 00:13:06.659 Yeah working so I did I did all my summers and 00:13:06.659 --> 00:13:08.659 stuff there You know I got kicked out of it any 00:13:08.659 --> 00:13:10.960 summer school that I was in like if there was 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:12.879 something to do a school or the YMCA They're 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.980 like he showed up for a month, and you know he's 00:13:15.980 --> 00:13:18.720 just kind of trouble. Let's uh Let's send him 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:20.659 down the road, or he's not allowed back next 00:13:20.659 --> 00:13:24.639 year, so I went to my uncle's and from an early 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:27.769 age you know The same time my mom went to work, 00:13:28.070 --> 00:13:30.190 you know, I went to work as well. And, you know, 00:13:30.190 --> 00:13:33.110 she dropped me off and I would go there, whether 00:13:33.110 --> 00:13:36.009 it was sweeping the floors, cleaning the glass, 00:13:36.690 --> 00:13:41.049 weed eating, you know, blocking cars, sanding 00:13:41.049 --> 00:13:44.190 them, prepping them, just doing small basic stuff 00:13:44.190 --> 00:13:46.610 like that. My uncle never let me use anything 00:13:46.610 --> 00:13:49.889 other than hand wrenches or screwdrivers. There 00:13:49.889 --> 00:13:52.629 was no sort of like impact allowed use for me. 00:13:52.750 --> 00:13:55.559 Nothing air, nothing back, nothing. it was but 00:13:55.559 --> 00:13:58.259 that's when you started learning how to work 00:13:58.259 --> 00:14:02.299 on like machinery like the basic of it uh yeah 00:14:02.299 --> 00:14:05.059 you could say that i i mean at that point i wasn't 00:14:05.059 --> 00:14:09.759 really infatuated with it but i was i was more 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:14.120 or less you know happy to be you know doing something 00:14:14.120 --> 00:14:17.220 with with another male role model that was part 00:14:17.220 --> 00:14:20.659 of my family. I'd say that intrigued me more 00:14:20.659 --> 00:14:23.200 than them being able to just say, but yeah, for 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:25.840 the most part, I mean, dude, me and my uncle, 00:14:25.860 --> 00:14:28.720 I mean, we threw down a couple of trucks, man, 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:36.299 couple 65, 66, C10s, a couple of El Caminos that 00:14:36.299 --> 00:14:41.139 me and him personally did and worked on. He's 00:14:41.139 --> 00:14:44.220 done. tons and tons of other cars but personally 00:14:44.220 --> 00:14:47.320 that and you know it's it's really cool because 00:14:47.320 --> 00:14:49.960 and this this is going to tell you kind of determine 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:52.440 like hey you know this dude there's something 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:55.620 wrong with him because when my uncle passed away 00:14:55.620 --> 00:14:59.259 you know my cousin's called me and uh he's like 00:14:59.259 --> 00:15:01.539 hey man we're you know we're selling the shop 00:15:01.539 --> 00:15:04.039 we're selling the farm we're selling you know 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.779 everything and and he kind of got teary -eyed 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:08.620 with me a little bit and he said you're you're 00:15:08.620 --> 00:15:11.600 gonna get you're gonna get butchies 39. which 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:14.559 is his pickup truck. I haven't went out there 00:15:14.559 --> 00:15:18.700 and got it. Still? No. How long ago was that? 00:15:19.220 --> 00:15:21.759 A while ago. It was, you know, me and my buddy 00:15:21.759 --> 00:15:24.399 Willie went out there, you know, when they were, 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:27.279 when we were going through certain, you know, 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:29.519 seeing what was left out there and what, what 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.440 my cousin wanted to sell and so on and so forth. 00:15:32.539 --> 00:15:34.940 I mean, yeah, the body and stuff solid on it 00:15:34.940 --> 00:15:37.279 needs a drive train and stuff. But I mean, to 00:15:37.279 --> 00:15:39.899 somebody, you know, They would be like, oh, I 00:15:39.899 --> 00:15:41.940 got to get out there and do it to me. It's like, 00:15:42.639 --> 00:15:46.720 it's cool. But I know what that entails. Yeah, 00:15:47.080 --> 00:15:51.620 it's not. It's like when someone gives you a 00:15:51.620 --> 00:15:54.440 gift and then you go, cool, now I have work. 00:15:54.759 --> 00:15:57.940 You've gifted me work. Yeah. It wasn't like, 00:15:58.039 --> 00:16:03.100 hey, dude, this thing's ready to roll. It's like, 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:06.559 now I got to do the same thing I'm doing with 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:11.940 bikes. That takes up one truck is like five bikes 00:16:11.940 --> 00:16:14.320 in your shop. Yeah, you know, so it's a whole 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.279 different It's a whole different thing and it's 00:16:16.279 --> 00:16:24.679 hard to pick up and move around in shit Were 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:31.820 you ever like a like a skateboarder, okay, I'm 00:16:31.820 --> 00:16:33.700 just curious cuz a lot of the people that end 00:16:33.700 --> 00:16:38.019 up building now Used to be in the skating and 00:16:38.019 --> 00:16:42.580 hardcore and shit Yeah, and I've struggled with 00:16:42.580 --> 00:16:48.179 that you know because if you you know I had to 00:16:48.179 --> 00:16:52.600 I had to be I Talked about it so much to this 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.120 one particular dude who's been in the scene For 00:16:56.120 --> 00:17:00.539 a long time about it, and I could not grasp the 00:17:00.539 --> 00:17:05.240 whole fact of why dudes who were skating were 00:17:05.240 --> 00:17:09.619 into motorcycles or Anything and you know, I 00:17:09.619 --> 00:17:12.799 had to let it be when Ivan told me he said look 00:17:12.799 --> 00:17:17.759 man these cats have Beaten their bodies up their 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:22.779 whole entire life Doing something that gave them 00:17:22.779 --> 00:17:29.579 an adrenaline rush And a lot of these dudes like 00:17:29.579 --> 00:17:34.460 see choppers is like the next Closest thing to 00:17:34.460 --> 00:17:37.559 the adrenaline rush without killing their bodies 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:44.160 out completely but you know I I struggled I I 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:46.039 struggled with it for a long time man because 00:17:46.039 --> 00:17:47.819 when you think of bikers do I think the Licking 00:17:47.819 --> 00:17:50.859 River cafe down in Covington on Eastern I think 00:17:50.859 --> 00:17:54.099 a silver leaf cafe that I walked by every single 00:17:54.099 --> 00:17:59.460 morning that smelled like an empty beer can yeah 00:17:59.460 --> 00:18:02.519 if you rubbed The garbage bag on the way into 00:18:02.519 --> 00:18:04.259 school like you were about to smell like that 00:18:04.259 --> 00:18:06.039 for the rest of the fucking day there wasn't 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:10.539 like oh Yeah No, it's like that's what I thought 00:18:10.539 --> 00:18:14.039 of I thought a dude's like what I thought of 00:18:14.039 --> 00:18:18.500 like my dad or I thought about a Club that's 00:18:18.500 --> 00:18:21.619 relative to us that would you know frequent down 00:18:21.619 --> 00:18:24.160 there to Lincoln River Cafe and just like take 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.880 off Like mad out of there. Yeah, you know, I 00:18:27.880 --> 00:18:31.559 don't Don't see that with them in it and I've 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:34.359 always kind of thought that Skateboarders were 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.579 more or less like more into like they were fashion 00:18:37.579 --> 00:18:40.980 Since there's like, you know what? I mean, I 00:18:40.980 --> 00:18:43.960 mean you can look at like I grew up in DC and 00:18:43.960 --> 00:18:48.160 there's no motorcycles in DC At all like the 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:51.220 only bikes that exist in DC and I think they 00:18:51.220 --> 00:18:53.880 stopped doing it come for Rolling Thunder, right? 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:56.740 Everything else like I saw the first patch I've 00:18:56.740 --> 00:18:58.880 ever seen in my life that said Washington DC 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:01.099 on the back of it And I had to ask someone who 00:19:01.099 --> 00:19:06.200 the fuck is that? I've never seen this I Have 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.240 arguments as for why that culture doesn't exist 00:19:08.240 --> 00:19:10.579 there it does in Maryland, Virginia. Just not 00:19:10.579 --> 00:19:16.900 in DC proper, right? So like my family out in 00:19:16.900 --> 00:19:20.000 in Hamilton people were into it, you know, but 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:23.670 no In DC. I didn't grow up around it You can 00:19:23.670 --> 00:19:30.289 only skate there. And there is somehow, I think 00:19:30.289 --> 00:19:35.369 certain people have a thing in their brain where 00:19:35.369 --> 00:19:38.089 they need to do something that might kill them. 00:19:38.089 --> 00:19:43.549 You know what I mean? And for me, I was more 00:19:43.549 --> 00:19:46.549 into longboarding and the races down hills that 00:19:46.549 --> 00:19:49.690 can kill you than I was into skateboarding, just 00:19:49.690 --> 00:19:53.569 because I'm bad at jumping. So, like, there was 00:19:53.569 --> 00:19:56.829 that, there was MMA fighting, there's motorcy 00:19:56.829 --> 00:19:59.710 - there's just - if I'm not doing something that 00:19:59.710 --> 00:20:03.829 is dangerous to my well -being, I'm not as happy 00:20:03.829 --> 00:20:06.710 in my life. I don't know what that is, but I 00:20:06.710 --> 00:20:08.890 think people that have it often find themselves 00:20:08.890 --> 00:20:13.950 going to motorcycles, because it's very... time 00:20:13.950 --> 00:20:16.910 -consuming, but also, you can get somewhere, 00:20:17.009 --> 00:20:19.210 it looks awesome, people love that, but if you 00:20:19.210 --> 00:20:21.920 learn how to work on them, it's a great way to 00:20:21.920 --> 00:20:24.279 spend your fucking time yeah and that's kind 00:20:24.279 --> 00:20:26.980 of you know the same thing that that that that 00:20:26.980 --> 00:20:29.180 i've been pretty told pretty much told me was 00:20:29.180 --> 00:20:31.480 like it it's kind of like you got to look at 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:33.200 it like they're building their own shit you know 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:34.880 they're building their own skateboard or whatever 00:20:34.880 --> 00:20:38.339 they do and you know they they get to they get 00:20:38.339 --> 00:20:40.720 to hand pick what goes on their bike and it's 00:20:40.720 --> 00:21:04.720 just like yeah and so does The most fights I 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:08.059 have ever seen in my life are at skate punk shows 00:21:08.059 --> 00:21:12.019 like there's something in those people that They 00:21:12.019 --> 00:21:14.630 like the fight Like I've seen way more fights 00:21:14.630 --> 00:21:17.150 at those shows and I've seen it rallies of any 00:21:17.150 --> 00:21:20.809 variety Partially because that rallies people 00:21:20.809 --> 00:21:44.759 know how to behave themselves to and these dudes 00:21:44.759 --> 00:21:47.339 are these dudes are buddies of mine you know 00:21:47.339 --> 00:21:49.559 what i mean they're like but they're like oh 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:52.259 man your your pan head's leaking uh some prime 00:21:52.259 --> 00:21:55.440 it's like yeah it's a 59 motor and i got the 00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.539 wrong crankcase breather and the wrong primary 00:21:58.539 --> 00:22:01.119 it's all early and yeah it's not gonna blow into 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:05.359 the primary because it's like i go way more in 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.440 depth in this than what i want to explain to 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:17.240 somebody I'm not that big scene dude, man. We'll 00:22:17.240 --> 00:22:21.539 get back to that in a minute. How did you get 00:22:21.539 --> 00:22:25.180 into actual motorcycles? What kicked that off? 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:33.519 We'll get this out of the way. I'm sober. I've 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:37.039 spent quite a few nights in jail. Spent quite 00:22:37.039 --> 00:22:39.680 a few days in front of judges. I've met quite 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.940 a few goods Good buddies of mine that I still 00:22:42.940 --> 00:22:49.660 talk to this day you know and You know I met 00:22:49.660 --> 00:22:52.680 this dude that was helping me get sober because 00:22:52.680 --> 00:22:56.160 I was never Dude, if you had a shirt and tie 00:22:56.160 --> 00:22:59.859 or you were dressed real nice or whatever wherever 00:22:59.859 --> 00:23:01.799 you're at dude Like I don't feel comfortable 00:23:01.799 --> 00:23:03.319 coming up and talking to you. I want to talk 00:23:03.319 --> 00:23:05.920 to somebody that's got grease smeared all over 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:09.099 their pants dudes that fingernails are fucking 00:23:09.099 --> 00:23:12.220 dirty and dude when i see people work on picking 00:23:12.220 --> 00:23:15.480 up clean parts with blue fucking latex gloves 00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:17.460 on and taking pictures of them for sale dude 00:23:17.460 --> 00:23:21.420 it just makes me laugh it's like i don't understand 00:23:21.420 --> 00:23:27.779 that shit that's not me and but i got in with 00:23:27.779 --> 00:23:30.259 this cat man and he was an old one percenter 00:23:30.259 --> 00:23:32.799 out of new york that that was retired and his 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.769 name's mickey And I kept talking to him like, 00:23:36.829 --> 00:23:39.349 dude, I want I want a bike man, like because 00:23:39.349 --> 00:23:43.369 from the time I was 17, we'll just say 18 from 00:23:43.369 --> 00:23:45.910 22, man, I was incarcerated almost three years 00:23:45.910 --> 00:23:50.789 of my life. OK, so. I never got that opportunity, 00:23:50.809 --> 00:23:54.089 not having a dad, my dad passing away at the 00:23:54.089 --> 00:23:57.650 age of 11. I was stuck, you know, trying to figure 00:23:57.650 --> 00:23:59.950 out how to be a man on my own. But I've always 00:23:59.950 --> 00:24:02.789 known that I wanted a bike. So when I got sober. 00:24:03.450 --> 00:24:07.470 and he kind of like guided me in the right direction 00:24:07.470 --> 00:24:12.430 on what I need to do to get into that. That's 00:24:12.430 --> 00:24:16.029 where I started back in 2014 when I finally got 00:24:16.029 --> 00:24:19.650 my head on right. I jumped in and got a bike 00:24:19.650 --> 00:24:22.710 finally. What was your first bike? My first bike 00:24:22.710 --> 00:24:28.200 was a 77 Ironhead and I bought it. at a local 00:24:28.200 --> 00:24:30.799 shop, it was called Shorty's out there in 25 00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:36.619 in Florence. They're off 25 in Weber. That's 00:24:36.619 --> 00:24:38.880 who actually rebuilt the motor that's in my Dyna. 00:24:39.099 --> 00:24:43.079 Oh sweet, hell yeah. Which is good. That's the 00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:44.960 only part of that bike that wasn't weird when 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:48.730 I bought it. Dude, it was sweet walking in there 00:24:48.730 --> 00:24:50.789 because it wasn't like you were walking into 00:24:50.789 --> 00:24:53.450 Harley Davidson and, you know, dudes are, you 00:24:53.450 --> 00:24:56.630 know, running up to you and high fiving you and 00:24:56.630 --> 00:25:00.069 ask, just asking dumb ass questions. It was like, 00:25:00.549 --> 00:25:02.910 they didn't even acknowledge you. They didn't 00:25:02.910 --> 00:25:05.150 give a fuck that you were in there. And it's 00:25:05.150 --> 00:25:08.089 not still around. No, it's gone. That's a bummer. 00:25:08.309 --> 00:25:10.630 That'd be helpful for me. Yeah, there's dudes, 00:25:10.849 --> 00:25:13.769 a lot of these. you know smaller shops man these 00:25:13.769 --> 00:25:16.170 guys are getting older people are selling out 00:25:16.170 --> 00:25:20.490 you know and people i wouldn't i don't look at 00:25:20.490 --> 00:25:21.970 it like people aren't messing with the older 00:25:21.970 --> 00:25:24.630 stuff anymore because to me it's like that's 00:25:24.630 --> 00:25:26.910 who i mess with is the people who mess with it 00:25:26.910 --> 00:25:30.190 so i don't see it yeah i was talking to a guy 00:25:30.190 --> 00:25:33.069 that came in here earlier he's from alanta and 00:25:33.069 --> 00:25:35.049 he was asking me he's like are there any good 00:25:35.049 --> 00:25:39.420 bike shops around and i was like no Around here. 00:25:39.420 --> 00:25:43.740 Yeah like here. Yeah here. I was like no But 00:25:43.740 --> 00:25:46.859 it's really just all people like cuz he wanted 00:25:46.859 --> 00:25:49.660 to go look at like parts or some shit I was like 00:25:49.660 --> 00:25:51.940 no you just have to know a guy like there's a 00:25:51.940 --> 00:25:55.599 lot of shit around here, but Like if I'm looking 00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:58.319 for something like I'll call you right like I 00:25:58.319 --> 00:26:00.180 know you have a lot of stuff But I know you don't 00:26:00.180 --> 00:26:01.720 have sports their stuff, so I won't call you 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:04.640 about that You know like they really texted me 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:07.480 about a sports their tank uh because you know 00:26:07.480 --> 00:26:11.240 he assumed i might have had one uh but it's just 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:14.000 there's not like a place i don't think around 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:15.819 here that you can go and i've seen them in other 00:26:15.819 --> 00:26:19.299 towns where there are cool old bike shops but 00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:25.029 for some reason this area doesn't have it It 00:26:25.029 --> 00:26:27.349 just seemed yeah, I mean you're right man a lot 00:26:27.349 --> 00:26:31.190 of a lot of the bike shop shut shut down Or they're 00:26:31.190 --> 00:26:36.190 not good. Yeah, I wasn't particularly into it 00:26:36.190 --> 00:26:40.029 back in the mid 2000s and any of that stuff so 00:26:40.029 --> 00:26:43.130 I mean I just it's more hearsay of me of who 00:26:43.130 --> 00:26:46.549 was around and who was good and you know, I've 00:26:46.549 --> 00:26:49.789 ran into and built relationships with guys who 00:26:49.789 --> 00:26:55.440 had ran shops, you know throughout their lifetime 00:26:55.440 --> 00:26:59.799 around this area. And once people start to know 00:26:59.799 --> 00:27:03.640 you and trust you and meet you, the hardest thing, 00:27:03.640 --> 00:27:09.059 I guess, for some of them older cats is to open 00:27:09.059 --> 00:27:11.599 their mouth and talk to somebody. You don't know 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:16.039 how many times I've walked in somewhere and just 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:20.960 talked and then be like, dude. It's good to see 00:27:20.960 --> 00:27:23.519 somebody like you and not one of these young 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:26.259 punks who think they fucking know everything 00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:30.680 and they think that they they just think that 00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:33.019 Everything that they've learned in their their 00:27:33.019 --> 00:27:36.019 mental and in their in their life, you know outweighs 00:27:36.019 --> 00:27:38.279 whatever they're saying Yeah, you know and I've 00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:41.099 always been like that because you know, my uncle 00:27:41.099 --> 00:27:43.240 told me little little boys are to be seen and 00:27:43.240 --> 00:27:46.480 not heard You know, and that was the whole ordeal. 00:27:46.519 --> 00:27:48.680 Like when I walk into somebody else's room, I'm 00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:51.440 not gonna sit there and tell them how to do certain 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:54.980 stuff. You know what I mean? I'm gonna be working 00:27:54.980 --> 00:27:57.539 at their pace and answering their questions, 00:27:57.539 --> 00:28:02.859 you know, and just being respectful. Did that 00:28:02.859 --> 00:28:05.779 ironhead teach you how to work on motorcycles? 00:28:06.099 --> 00:28:09.819 Oh yeah, yeah man. Yeah, so. Yeah, but I rode 00:28:09.819 --> 00:28:12.039 that thing man. So this is the cool thing about 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:15.619 that bike. So I bought this thing I got it pretty 00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:21.279 cheap, but I Think I got it for like 1700 bucks, 00:28:21.279 --> 00:28:25.099 but it had a starter on it Dash was you know, 00:28:25.099 --> 00:28:27.660 the speed on attack was still on there had a 00:28:27.660 --> 00:28:31.859 super cool superglide Tank on a red flame paint 00:28:31.859 --> 00:28:35.319 job old -school lacquer paint. I rode that thing 00:28:35.319 --> 00:28:40.609 for almost for about a year Yeah, probably about 00:28:40.609 --> 00:28:43.609 a year solid, you know with the exhaust pipes 00:28:43.609 --> 00:28:47.289 flying off on the expressway You know just shit 00:28:47.289 --> 00:28:49.690 falling off of it, but I fucking loved it and 00:28:49.690 --> 00:28:52.450 dude I'd get people's like dude. I seen you on 00:28:52.450 --> 00:28:54.849 that fucking old ass bike, bro. That thing's 00:28:54.849 --> 00:28:59.029 sweet. It's like yeah, I love it, but Cool thing 00:28:59.029 --> 00:29:01.849 is is the first bike. I got is the first bike 00:29:01.849 --> 00:29:04.630 I chopped Yeah, and I wouldn't necessarily say 00:29:04.630 --> 00:29:07.630 I chopped it because I really didn't you know 00:29:07.630 --> 00:29:10.599 do a bunch of you know framework to it or anything 00:29:10.599 --> 00:29:13.220 like that but dude like i always knew in the 00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:18.500 back of my mind like that long chopper yeah i 00:29:18.500 --> 00:29:21.599 mean obviously i've seen a lot of bikes that 00:29:21.599 --> 00:29:25.900 you've built and they all as with a lot of people 00:29:25.900 --> 00:29:28.859 you know like druid evolution cycles who i see 00:29:28.859 --> 00:29:31.039 a bike and i don't know that he built it but 00:29:31.039 --> 00:29:34.119 he built it yeah i know he built it you know 00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:38.470 what i mean uh and i think a lot of Builders 00:29:38.470 --> 00:29:41.009 that I like or appreciate, it is that, where 00:29:41.009 --> 00:29:43.630 it's a very individual style. You can look at 00:29:43.630 --> 00:29:46.069 a thing and go, well, that's that person's, without 00:29:46.069 --> 00:29:48.049 having to have a piece of paper that says it's 00:29:48.049 --> 00:29:50.950 that person's bike. And I think that's where 00:29:50.950 --> 00:29:53.789 the artistry of motorcycles comes in, because 00:29:53.789 --> 00:29:56.190 it's coming from that person, like your brain. 00:29:56.450 --> 00:30:00.210 You can see a thing that looks nothing like the 00:30:00.210 --> 00:30:04.170 end product, right? Like some big, bulky, whatever, 00:30:04.410 --> 00:30:07.210 like that shovelhead for the giveaway. That doesn't... 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:09.380 Those that don't look like the same bike. It's 00:30:09.380 --> 00:30:12.759 the same bike. Yeah, right But you can look at 00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:14.359 and be like I know what this is gonna be at the 00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:18.420 end. Yeah, you know and like the the one the 00:30:18.420 --> 00:30:21.779 the panhead you're getting rid of The the one 00:30:21.779 --> 00:30:24.160 you just built. Yeah. Yeah kind of you know, 00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:26.579 I'm on the fence about that It's a whole, you 00:30:26.579 --> 00:30:30.220 know You know, you kind of got away like your 00:30:30.220 --> 00:30:34.299 future version it comes again. Yeah I mean well 00:30:34.299 --> 00:30:36.140 if anyone's listening to this and wants a panhead 00:30:36.650 --> 00:30:40.049 and has a good offer yeah i mean it definitely 00:30:40.049 --> 00:30:42.250 hit me up i mean this thing ain't good to disappoint 00:30:42.250 --> 00:30:45.250 you i mean it can sit for an entire week man 00:30:45.250 --> 00:30:47.970 and you know i can hit that hit that throttle 00:30:47.970 --> 00:30:52.970 twice man throw some gas and uh down it and dude 00:30:52.970 --> 00:30:55.490 kick that thing over twice and it's gonna fire 00:30:55.490 --> 00:30:56.990 up man that motherfucker's gonna get you where 00:30:56.990 --> 00:30:59.730 you need to go like there it's a good fucking 00:30:59.730 --> 00:31:03.849 motorcycle yeah well when you because you had 00:31:03.849 --> 00:31:06.259 an idea of the type of bikes you liked right 00:31:06.259 --> 00:31:11.440 so when you were going about learning how to 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:14.480 put them put them together build them make everything 00:31:14.480 --> 00:31:22.359 that way how'd you learn it well I guess so there's 00:31:22.359 --> 00:31:24.880 so I got that iron head and it was like that 00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:30.619 typical you know back in 2015 whatever that whole 00:31:30.619 --> 00:31:35.930 you know short bobber style fucking short Duck 00:31:35.930 --> 00:31:41.230 bill Fender rear fender, you know Kind of goofy 00:31:41.230 --> 00:31:43.470 looking scheme like I kind of didn't want that 00:31:43.470 --> 00:31:46.750 but I didn't have the money at the time because 00:31:46.750 --> 00:31:50.309 I was making like I Don't know 13 bucks an hour 00:31:50.309 --> 00:31:52.769 to go buy crazy stuff. You know what I mean? 00:31:52.869 --> 00:31:56.970 So it's like I've made this thing fit me with 00:31:56.970 --> 00:31:59.450 the longer springer cuz dude I'm six three and 00:31:59.450 --> 00:32:06.950 it sit on a We're at the opposite end of a spectrum 00:32:06.950 --> 00:32:11.970 for For the size of a bike really yeah You know 00:32:11.970 --> 00:32:14.089 so I had to have something that was a little 00:32:14.089 --> 00:32:16.269 bit bigger But you know at the same in the same 00:32:16.269 --> 00:32:19.849 sense. It's like I did that all you know with 00:32:19.849 --> 00:32:23.990 the help of Mickey and the help of you know You 00:32:23.990 --> 00:32:26.589 know his knowledge and letting me sit in his 00:32:26.589 --> 00:32:30.470 shop and learn the way that you know how how 00:32:30.470 --> 00:32:32.490 patient you have to be on bikes and you know 00:32:32.490 --> 00:32:34.670 one of the biggest things that stuck with me 00:32:34.670 --> 00:32:38.390 and i still say this you know to people who buy 00:32:38.390 --> 00:32:41.970 a bike from me or people that have me work on 00:32:41.970 --> 00:32:45.390 them or whatever like dude if you respect a bike 00:32:45.390 --> 00:32:50.190 it will respect you yeah if you can't respect 00:32:50.190 --> 00:32:53.690 it and take care of it and you're just out there 00:32:53.690 --> 00:32:55.769 beating the ever -living shit out of it dude 00:32:55.769 --> 00:32:59.869 that fucking bike ain't gonna dude It doesn't 00:32:59.869 --> 00:33:02.710 matter how old it is, it's eventually gonna fail. 00:33:03.390 --> 00:33:08.349 Yeah, I mean, the older it gets, the more, well, 00:33:08.369 --> 00:33:10.289 there's a word I'm looking for, but the harder, 00:33:10.710 --> 00:33:13.930 like the balance of it staying running is tougher, 00:33:14.130 --> 00:33:15.509 you know what I'm saying? Yeah, the tolerance 00:33:15.509 --> 00:33:17.829 of everything, the internals of it, you know 00:33:17.829 --> 00:33:21.609 what I mean? Like, when you get further back, 00:33:21.690 --> 00:33:25.559 those bikes become more... I'm forgetting the 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:27.259 word I'm looking for, but they're tougher to 00:33:27.259 --> 00:33:29.460 keep going and keep maintaining and all that. 00:33:30.180 --> 00:33:33.660 Like, with the street bob I got, I gotta like, 00:33:33.660 --> 00:33:36.039 at this point, change the fluids, you know what 00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:39.980 I mean? And like, that's most of it. And then 00:33:39.980 --> 00:33:42.519 it'll have to do the motor mounts and base, but 00:33:42.519 --> 00:33:46.079 it's not like, oh hey, I have to constantly look 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:48.700 at stuff, you know? Things might be falling off. 00:33:50.660 --> 00:33:53.000 Once I got it bolted, it's bolted pretty good. 00:33:54.380 --> 00:33:58.500 But I mean, you've told me stuff outside of this 00:33:58.500 --> 00:34:03.319 where it's things I've never thought about for 00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:06.700 a motorcycle, like how, you know, you're talking 00:34:06.700 --> 00:34:08.659 about that panhead at one point where you made 00:34:08.659 --> 00:34:11.019 it so it works better. I think it was highway 00:34:11.019 --> 00:34:14.360 speed than lower speed. Yeah. So it's a little 00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:16.800 shit like that. Yeah. Yeah. Cause I've got like, 00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:21.099 I've got this 51 man and you know, it's geared 00:34:21.099 --> 00:34:26.070 stock. you know harley davidson you know a bike 00:34:26.070 --> 00:34:30.630 74 cubic inch old bike i mean you're pushing 00:34:30.630 --> 00:34:33.110 the guts out of it 70 miles an hour yeah you 00:34:33.110 --> 00:34:35.329 know what i mean so i've always heard that oh 00:34:35.329 --> 00:34:37.170 yeah man get geared a little bit taller you'll 00:34:37.170 --> 00:34:39.889 get you'll get it a little bit you know you'll 00:34:39.889 --> 00:34:41.670 get more out of it you'll get more out of it 00:34:41.670 --> 00:34:43.570 and i've always been that dude like dude at that 00:34:43.570 --> 00:34:45.630 lower end just keeps pushing and pushing you 00:34:45.630 --> 00:34:47.269 know what i mean like you're eventually just 00:34:47.269 --> 00:34:50.269 going to wear the wear the internals out But 00:34:50.269 --> 00:34:52.690 it's like it at the same time. It's like, you 00:34:52.690 --> 00:34:54.969 know, I'm gonna give that thing You know a shot 00:34:54.969 --> 00:34:57.110 and you know when I'm riding that thing I'm riding 00:34:57.110 --> 00:34:59.889 75 mile an hour comfortably, you know, it's dog 00:34:59.889 --> 00:35:01.909 shit going on backwards I mean you're in second 00:35:01.909 --> 00:35:03.789 gear trying, you know what I mean? Just trying 00:35:03.789 --> 00:35:06.369 to just trying to make it but like keep it on. 00:35:06.510 --> 00:35:10.329 Yeah But you know as far as like if you want 00:35:10.329 --> 00:35:12.670 to if you want a rider man and you want to be 00:35:12.670 --> 00:35:15.480 that dude like some of these cats going across 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:18.119 the country and shit and riding riding their 00:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.619 pans or knuckles or use or whatever i mean dude 00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:23.679 that's a solid fucking bike to do it on but like 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:29.619 the knowledge to know how to do that you know 00:35:29.619 --> 00:35:31.739 like that's hard to come across i think someone 00:35:31.739 --> 00:35:35.280 has to tell you it yeah i mean dude it's kind 00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.400 of And plus, it's like super easy now, man. You 00:35:38.400 --> 00:35:41.159 got Pacific Mike on there on YouTube, dude. Like, 00:35:41.260 --> 00:35:43.260 I've sat and listened to that, dude. I have no 00:35:43.260 --> 00:35:46.079 fucking shame in that. YouTube helps a lot. Yeah, 00:35:46.139 --> 00:35:50.079 YouTube helps a lot. You know what I mean? Like, 00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:52.639 I have no shame in that stuff, and I got no shame 00:35:52.639 --> 00:35:55.380 to ever say that I asked for help, dude. Like, 00:35:55.920 --> 00:35:58.400 I got two of the most solid cats that I could 00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:01.420 call right now, my buddy Fish and my buddy Jacob. 00:36:02.179 --> 00:36:06.400 Like, if I got a question about that shit. They're 00:36:06.400 --> 00:36:08.539 gonna give me they're gonna shoot me right, right? 00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:10.699 You know what? I mean like and I've wore them 00:36:10.699 --> 00:36:12.920 motherfuckers out before with questions like 00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:14.739 dude to the point where they're probably dude 00:36:14.739 --> 00:36:17.519 You got to stop calling me man You know, but 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:19.699 that you know, that's how you learn you learn 00:36:19.699 --> 00:36:23.059 from the people who have done it, right? I mean, 00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:27.360 there's something that I like in motorcycle culture 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:31.460 in general where it seems like one of the last 00:36:31.460 --> 00:36:36.360 refuges of of like almost the old world, you 00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:38.579 know what I mean? Like, cause we're old enough 00:36:38.579 --> 00:36:41.880 where we were alive, but like we had dial up 00:36:41.880 --> 00:36:44.840 internet and not cell phones that are computers 00:36:44.840 --> 00:36:49.039 and all that shit, right? And if you go to the 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:51.500 right events or you're around the right people, 00:36:52.340 --> 00:36:54.739 motorcycles are still a refuge of that world 00:36:54.739 --> 00:36:59.559 that exists. You know, and cause a lot of it 00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.639 too is it is that technology that's being worked 00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:06.440 on. You know like you're working on shit. That's 00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:12.860 70 years old. Yes 70 years old and you know I'm 00:37:12.860 --> 00:37:16.000 not here to say like I'm just like some I'm by 00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.000 no means You know some insane fucking motorbuilder. 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.500 I'm not here to say that I you know, whatever 00:37:22.500 --> 00:37:25.099 I mean I can do bait, you know the bit the basic 00:37:25.099 --> 00:37:27.539 top in stuff like that You know that that's not 00:37:27.539 --> 00:37:31.659 my end goal you know in my in life with me you 00:37:31.659 --> 00:37:33.920 know i've i've kind of i've got to the point 00:37:33.920 --> 00:37:36.000 where i can start welding on the cast aluminum 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:38.960 i've got the stuff that i need to complete top 00:37:38.960 --> 00:37:41.559 ends you know i haven't mastered that that bottom 00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:43.980 end part you know and i'm eventually going to 00:37:43.980 --> 00:37:47.260 get that i just with the lifestyle that i have 00:37:47.260 --> 00:37:50.820 right now you know i just i have to you know 00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:53.500 i got to take baby steps i'm not i'm not that 00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:57.280 dude to quit my day job yet to to do that i mean 00:37:58.329 --> 00:38:02.510 I mean, but you have... I think the thing that 00:38:02.510 --> 00:38:04.889 stops a lot of people from doing full builds 00:38:04.889 --> 00:38:09.869 is two things. One is wiring, and two is welding, 00:38:10.070 --> 00:38:15.739 more than wiring. because Hey, I get the wire 00:38:15.739 --> 00:38:18.599 the wiring shit, dude. That's that's gravy train, 00:38:18.619 --> 00:38:21.320 man Like I'm not the dude who wants to wire their 00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:24.260 shit through the frame. I'm not dude I'm not 00:38:24.260 --> 00:38:27.519 doing all that shit. My shit fucking is written 00:38:27.519 --> 00:38:33.300 and if I Need to fucking replace a wire on the 00:38:33.300 --> 00:38:35.280 road dude, cuz when I fucking roll out dude And 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:37.699 I really do like a like a ride ride or something 00:38:37.699 --> 00:38:41.429 like dude, my shit's not packed with like I I've 00:38:41.429 --> 00:38:43.929 got more tools and shit to fix my bike than I 00:38:43.929 --> 00:38:46.869 do clothes. Yeah. It's like I'll keep the same 00:38:46.869 --> 00:38:48.650 pair of jeans on for four days. I don't give 00:38:48.650 --> 00:38:50.530 a fuck, you know, about that. You know, I love 00:38:50.530 --> 00:38:54.329 that shit. But, you know, the wiring aspect, 00:38:54.650 --> 00:38:58.670 I mean, yeah, I can see it to a certain extent 00:38:58.670 --> 00:39:00.610 if you got one of the new bikes. But when it 00:39:00.610 --> 00:39:03.110 comes to, you know, choppers and shit, dude, 00:39:03.190 --> 00:39:05.769 they got them basic diagram. The first time I 00:39:05.769 --> 00:39:09.989 saw an actual diagram for like, quote, chopper 00:39:09.989 --> 00:39:12.840 wiring. Because this is after looking at like 00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.019 the back of the manuals on like Sportsters and 00:39:15.019 --> 00:39:16.619 shit and being like that's a hundred and fifty 00:39:16.619 --> 00:39:19.099 fucking wires And then I see the diagram of a 00:39:19.099 --> 00:39:20.980 chopper. It's eight. I'm like, okay. Well that 00:39:20.980 --> 00:39:25.460 makes sense You know and then understanding the 00:39:25.460 --> 00:39:26.940 biggest thing for me was understand that it's 00:39:26.940 --> 00:39:29.940 a circle You know that as long as you keep like 00:39:29.940 --> 00:39:32.360 the frame is part of the circle, too You know, 00:39:32.420 --> 00:39:34.920 like that's an aspect of the electricity that 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.239 runs through the motorcycle But those two things 00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:43.289 were a breakthrough on on wiring Welding is a 00:39:43.289 --> 00:39:46.250 thing that I think is is a bigger barrier for 00:39:46.250 --> 00:39:51.510 a lot of people Yeah, I think it is too and you 00:39:51.510 --> 00:39:56.289 know I am NOT hating on anybody who wants to 00:39:56.289 --> 00:40:03.110 pick up a welder and learn but man like And there's 00:40:03.110 --> 00:40:05.329 been some prime examples with some cats have 00:40:05.329 --> 00:40:08.969 gotten away with with welding like well -known 00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:12.579 In quotation builders. Yeah, and then you know, 00:40:12.659 --> 00:40:15.400 they they lay these fucking squirt gun welds 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:18.340 out man that fucking that absolutely or dog shit 00:40:18.340 --> 00:40:21.539 and they fucking they break dude, like, you know, 00:40:21.619 --> 00:40:28.480 a lot of people are like See that see now you 00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:30.780 got my attention because wells are one thing 00:40:30.780 --> 00:40:32.880 that I look at I'm an iron worker by trade so 00:40:32.880 --> 00:40:36.340 welding welding is in the realm of my life just 00:40:36.340 --> 00:40:38.840 like as an electrician people are gonna look 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:42.639 at how cool your fucking wires look but to me 00:40:42.639 --> 00:40:46.019 dude like come on bro like i know a really well 00:40:46.019 --> 00:40:49.400 known dude around here that supposedly does some 00:40:49.400 --> 00:40:53.539 really nice shit really good frame like you know 00:40:53.539 --> 00:40:56.639 and i got a frame some dude brought me a frame 00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:59.360 by him and i took pictures of this and i'm just 00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:03.739 like there's no fucking way i could i would let 00:41:03.739 --> 00:41:07.599 that leave yeah and say that It's not going to 00:41:07.599 --> 00:41:10.480 fall apart. Well, I did. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 00:41:10.840 --> 00:41:15.460 Like, I mean, that's where the Internet also 00:41:15.460 --> 00:41:19.079 gets complicated, because if you're taking a 00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:20.960 picture or something and putting it on Instagram. 00:41:21.739 --> 00:41:23.960 People covers up a lot and you can't look as 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:26.139 close. Yeah, even if you're zooming in it's hard 00:41:26.139 --> 00:41:30.500 to see you know Covers up a lot bondo covers 00:41:30.500 --> 00:41:33.360 up a lot just go there a pair pair of boots or 00:41:33.360 --> 00:41:35.099 a hammer and just kick that motherfucker and 00:41:35.099 --> 00:41:42.500 watch it fall off I Mean it's see I got a I Got 00:41:42.500 --> 00:41:45.579 to figure out how to weld that's my next thing 00:41:46.679 --> 00:41:48.820 The biggest barrier for that is I gotta upgrade 00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:50.659 the electricity in my garage because the welder 00:41:50.659 --> 00:41:53.880 won't take it right now. More than the actual 00:41:53.880 --> 00:41:59.280 welding itself. But I mean that's the next thing 00:41:59.280 --> 00:42:04.500 that I gotta do because I feel confident enough 00:42:04.500 --> 00:42:08.360 with all the other aspects aside from like intense 00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:11.719 motor work. But putting the bike together makes 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.159 sense to me now right i've worked on enough of 00:42:14.159 --> 00:42:16.079 my own shit and all the different parts of it 00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:18.960 where i'm like okay i think i think i can do 00:42:18.960 --> 00:42:24.380 that you know attaching metal to metal is a different 00:42:24.380 --> 00:42:29.739 ball game and the thing is and i hear this so 00:42:29.739 --> 00:42:32.280 much i was just down at that that movie premiere 00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.239 for uh down in Nashville with my buddy Nick and 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.019 I ran we ran into some young kids there man, 00:42:40.019 --> 00:42:43.519 and you know this kid was like Like for one when 00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.800 I showed up there. I look just like I look right 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:49.480 now Yeah, you were telling me this the other 00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:56.159 day and like these cats literally have like Two 00:42:56.159 --> 00:43:00.159 sizes too small of a t -shirt like these platform 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:05.480 fucking boots Harley Davidson belt buckle a hoodie 00:43:05.480 --> 00:43:09.840 tied around their neck and he's fucking Montra 00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:12.980 like dude like this I don't even know what kind 00:43:12.980 --> 00:43:15.559 of pants these are like these things that look 00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.760 like They just like somebody just stuck an air 00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.539 gun and just blew him up. Like it was like we're 00:43:22.539 --> 00:43:25.670 you know, but listening like Like I'm not going 00:43:25.670 --> 00:43:28.610 to be a complete fucking dick, dude. And you 00:43:28.610 --> 00:43:30.130 know what I mean? I'm not going to be a complete 00:43:30.130 --> 00:43:32.989 dick. If you got the balls to walk up to me in 00:43:32.989 --> 00:43:36.849 an event like that where I'm obviously like the 00:43:36.849 --> 00:43:40.130 outcast of it and start talking to me about bikes, 00:43:40.210 --> 00:43:42.650 I'll listen to you. I'm not going to pass judgment. 00:43:42.829 --> 00:43:46.190 It just it caught me off guard. Like what was 00:43:46.190 --> 00:43:49.409 going on down there? And shout out to Matt South 00:43:49.409 --> 00:43:53.130 and you know, the guys that Do it because that 00:43:53.130 --> 00:43:55.090 dude does it like he's the real motherfucking 00:43:55.090 --> 00:43:57.130 deal and that was about him Yeah, he's the dude 00:43:57.130 --> 00:43:59.530 that rode across Afghanistan for anyone. That's 00:43:59.530 --> 00:44:02.090 like who's Matt South. Yeah Shout out to that 00:44:02.090 --> 00:44:04.670 dude. He's a solid dude Like I walked in there 00:44:04.670 --> 00:44:07.050 and I do came in with open arms like oh, yeah 00:44:07.050 --> 00:44:09.570 Yeah, if you're ever down here, whatever you 00:44:09.570 --> 00:44:12.730 need man holler at me like really really solid 00:44:12.730 --> 00:44:15.349 motherfucker But open invite to this thing and 00:44:15.349 --> 00:44:19.070 these kids are walking up to me 22 23 years old 00:44:19.420 --> 00:44:21.400 And I look at him and I say, dude, the hardest 00:44:21.400 --> 00:44:27.039 thing about building a bike is getting over the 00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.659 fear of building a fucking bike. Yeah. Your first 00:44:30.659 --> 00:44:33.360 bike is and that's what I explained to him. And 00:44:33.360 --> 00:44:36.119 there's another cat there, too, that was like 00:44:36.119 --> 00:44:37.619 talking to me about it. And you can tell he's 00:44:37.619 --> 00:44:40.340 been around that, you know, the scene for for 00:44:40.340 --> 00:44:42.239 a while. And he was like, yeah, you know, I'm 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:45.179 just I'm not that, you know, it's like, listen, 00:44:45.280 --> 00:44:49.039 bro, if you're telling me. That the first bike 00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:53.960 you built You know made the front cover whatever 00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:56.159 popular chopper magazine there is out there. 00:44:56.159 --> 00:44:58.219 You're full of fucking shit, dude I've seen some 00:44:58.219 --> 00:45:00.619 of these cats bikes, you know from years ago, 00:45:00.619 --> 00:45:03.039 man Like they put together look just like anybody 00:45:03.039 --> 00:45:04.960 else's fucking bike with the first bike that 00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:07.199 they started with Yeah, it's how far you're gonna 00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:11.760 go to get better at it. Yeah, I mean I don't 00:45:11.760 --> 00:45:16.239 have luckily part of my personality is not really 00:45:16.239 --> 00:45:19.860 having fear about committing to something. I 00:45:19.860 --> 00:45:22.119 generally assume things are going to work out. 00:45:23.860 --> 00:45:28.079 You know, so like I got all the, I got a sports 00:45:28.079 --> 00:45:32.360 store in a box right now, you know, and that 00:45:32.360 --> 00:45:34.559 that's going to be, that's going to be the project 00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:36.840 where I don't know how it's going to pan out. 00:45:36.840 --> 00:45:41.699 I just want it to stay together, you know. But 00:45:41.699 --> 00:45:44.539 as part of that, I do got to get over the welding 00:45:44.539 --> 00:45:49.210 because it's going to come up. Yeah, I mean the 00:45:49.210 --> 00:45:52.469 biggest thing Dude holler at me holler at anybody 00:45:52.469 --> 00:45:55.909 that you know that thought and you know for for 00:45:55.909 --> 00:45:58.929 a long time man like You know people want to 00:45:58.929 --> 00:46:01.429 talk about TIG welding is hard all cast aluminum 00:46:01.429 --> 00:46:03.690 is hard You know the hardest thing about that 00:46:03.690 --> 00:46:05.989 shit is listening to somebody that doesn't know 00:46:05.989 --> 00:46:08.929 how to do it Tell you how hard it is because 00:46:08.929 --> 00:46:12.210 it's dude like you could sit down and learn you 00:46:12.210 --> 00:46:15.329 know if you can understand you know that whole 00:46:15.329 --> 00:46:20.389 I'm not I'm not a I'm not into the whole scientific 00:46:20.389 --> 00:46:22.690 shit but if you can see two pieces of metal melting 00:46:22.690 --> 00:46:24.789 into one I mean dude you're doing pretty good 00:46:24.789 --> 00:46:26.750 yeah you know what I mean if it looks like it's 00:46:26.750 --> 00:46:29.630 tied together it's you know it's it's probably 00:46:29.630 --> 00:46:34.590 good yeah because I mean a lot of the stuff once 00:46:34.590 --> 00:46:37.590 you understand what's happening it makes the 00:46:37.590 --> 00:46:42.079 actual Job easier, yeah That's that's a fact 00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:44.639 and then like going back to you just wanted to 00:46:44.639 --> 00:46:48.599 work type deal. Listen, man My buddy Opie and 00:46:48.599 --> 00:46:53.059 me we both had ironheads We both started but 00:46:53.059 --> 00:46:55.880 we both had a fucking iron it and when we were 00:46:55.880 --> 00:46:58.900 done with them We were lucky enough that his 00:46:58.900 --> 00:47:01.639 his dad lived two miles away from my old place 00:47:01.639 --> 00:47:04.340 because if we made it two miles from the house 00:47:04.340 --> 00:47:07.550 We were doing something you know what i mean 00:47:07.550 --> 00:47:10.869 yeah so it's like as soon as we would call marvin 00:47:10.869 --> 00:47:14.269 he'd be like which one is it come get it you 00:47:14.269 --> 00:47:17.710 know what i mean like we we weren't like you 00:47:17.710 --> 00:47:20.369 don't this is all about how much do you love 00:47:20.369 --> 00:47:23.090 this shit yeah how bad do you want it as grossman 00:47:23.090 --> 00:47:30.789 says like you gotta want it yeah and i mean at 00:47:30.789 --> 00:47:33.449 the end of the day it's fun too yeah it's fun 00:47:33.449 --> 00:47:36.909 like it's not Even something that sucks like 00:47:36.909 --> 00:47:39.050 you know that's that's the thing like going through 00:47:39.050 --> 00:47:41.530 something that sucks that you want like there's 00:47:41.530 --> 00:47:46.130 parts of working on shit that sucks like if If 00:47:46.130 --> 00:47:49.010 you're you could ask my wife what I sound like 00:47:49.010 --> 00:47:52.150 working in the garage sometimes Like I was changing 00:47:52.150 --> 00:47:55.670 an oil filter, and it was a Harley oil filter 00:47:55.869 --> 00:47:58.230 with that fucking piece that they have for the 00:47:58.230 --> 00:48:01.170 socket and it was kept slipping and i fucking 00:48:01.170 --> 00:48:02.590 just threw it across the garage and i was like 00:48:02.590 --> 00:48:06.369 you make both the goddamn things you know shit 00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:08.730 like that uh because it's like okay well this 00:48:08.730 --> 00:48:13.389 is both you why is this slipping everywhere yeah 00:48:13.389 --> 00:48:18.269 it was driving me fucking insane uh but like 00:48:18.269 --> 00:48:21.090 you know at the end of the day it still is fun 00:48:21.340 --> 00:48:23.940 Even if it doesn't sound like along the way it 00:48:23.940 --> 00:48:26.500 is and I got some dickhead friends man, like 00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:30.980 You know cuz I there is some there's some there's 00:48:30.980 --> 00:48:33.599 there's crews of dudes man that for real do it 00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:36.659 together You know what? I mean, you know, I mean 00:48:36.659 --> 00:48:40.219 not You know all my homies are all my buddies 00:48:40.219 --> 00:48:42.559 now that I that I ride with their own friends 00:48:42.559 --> 00:48:45.619 aren't into this You know that whole idea that 00:48:45.619 --> 00:48:48.340 I have of what a cool bike looks like where you 00:48:48.340 --> 00:48:51.250 see these different crews from you know all over 00:48:51.250 --> 00:48:54.150 the northeast down south out west you know there's 00:48:54.150 --> 00:48:57.070 some killer ass crews of dudes that fucking build 00:48:57.070 --> 00:48:59.429 bikes and they're all homies and they all get 00:48:59.429 --> 00:49:02.150 together and i you know i kind of envy that to 00:49:02.150 --> 00:49:05.210 a certain point it's like man like Shit's rad 00:49:05.210 --> 00:49:07.690 like and I first like lived that shit hanging 00:49:07.690 --> 00:49:10.650 out them Louisville dudes down there and Those 00:49:10.650 --> 00:49:13.530 guys are a tight -knit group of dudes man And 00:49:13.530 --> 00:49:16.369 you know no matter how much shit they they talk 00:49:16.369 --> 00:49:19.550 about you know one another Fucking off they do 00:49:19.550 --> 00:49:23.230 it's like it's all love down there. Yeah, I mean 00:49:23.230 --> 00:49:28.469 It's kind of like Like mixed mixed martial arts 00:49:28.469 --> 00:49:32.869 is a solo sport. Yeah But it's not like there's 00:49:32.869 --> 00:49:36.960 a team there You know what I mean? And motorcycles 00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:38.699 are similar in a way of like, at the end of the 00:49:38.699 --> 00:49:41.420 day, it's you on one. Like it is you alone on 00:49:41.420 --> 00:49:45.780 a bike. But there's a lot of people that you 00:49:45.780 --> 00:49:48.900 get to know or work with or go to on that process 00:49:48.900 --> 00:49:51.300 to get to that bike to where you're alone on 00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:55.119 that bike. You know, it doesn't exist in a vacuum. 00:49:55.480 --> 00:49:59.960 And it can't. It's not fun, A, but B, like you 00:49:59.960 --> 00:50:04.789 can't do as good of a job. Without any input 00:50:04.789 --> 00:50:08.989 from other people. Yeah, and I mean it's like 00:50:08.989 --> 00:50:12.650 You it's always good to take that picture and 00:50:12.650 --> 00:50:15.230 like send it to your to your to your homies and 00:50:15.230 --> 00:50:17.730 they're like man That that's killer. Fuck. Yeah, 00:50:17.789 --> 00:50:20.269 dude, like you killed it, you know and that gives 00:50:20.269 --> 00:50:22.949 you that sense of accomplishment and you know, 00:50:22.969 --> 00:50:26.230 cuz you could sit there and and and guess like 00:50:26.230 --> 00:50:28.889 oh man do like this looks like shit or I love 00:50:28.889 --> 00:50:30.550 it and then you send it somebody's like dude, 00:50:30.690 --> 00:50:34.000 that's fucking lame or Yeah, that's fucking killer 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.940 and you know any and you know, that's the whole 00:50:37.940 --> 00:50:41.000 thing about it You know it it's your own ordinary 00:50:41.000 --> 00:50:44.320 in your own in your own form But at the same 00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:47.500 time it's like it's cool to be like your homie 00:50:47.500 --> 00:50:49.860 be like all dude. That's that's that's yeah, 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.280 that's cool or even The aspects of like getting 00:50:53.280 --> 00:50:56.500 apart from someone and now that part that they 00:50:56.500 --> 00:51:00.150 had is now part of your shit And you can look 00:51:00.150 --> 00:51:02.010 at what you have and be like, that came from 00:51:02.010 --> 00:51:04.250 this, dude. I remember the process of doing this, 00:51:04.250 --> 00:51:07.789 how this came to be. And even if someone gave 00:51:07.789 --> 00:51:10.110 you the wheels, there's still an aspect of that 00:51:10.110 --> 00:51:13.110 bike. Yeah, and to get it to work on your bike 00:51:13.110 --> 00:51:15.710 too, man, that's the challenge of it. And the 00:51:15.710 --> 00:51:18.550 whole catalog bike deal thing, I'm not down for 00:51:18.550 --> 00:51:23.750 that shit, bro. I am not down. Anybody can do 00:51:23.750 --> 00:51:28.170 the plug and play deal. What's the phrase? Drew 00:51:28.170 --> 00:51:30.909 said it when we had him on the podcast. Building 00:51:30.909 --> 00:51:33.010 versus assembling, I think. Yeah, yeah, assembling. 00:51:33.429 --> 00:51:35.010 Yeah, there we go. That's what it is. You're 00:51:35.010 --> 00:51:38.349 assembling stuff just like Harley Davidson. There 00:51:38.349 --> 00:51:40.070 are mechanics in there, you know what I mean? 00:51:40.130 --> 00:51:45.269 Oh, you want just super thunder, bread, or exalt. 00:51:45.369 --> 00:51:48.309 You know what I mean? It's like, bro, like you're, 00:51:48.510 --> 00:51:52.389 you know, it's, to me, it's like, dude, when 00:51:52.389 --> 00:51:56.840 I get, we'll just make it real basic. You know, 00:51:57.360 --> 00:52:00.280 I get a pair, I get a set of jenny shovel pipes. 00:52:02.179 --> 00:52:04.940 You know, yeah it says they're for a generator 00:52:04.940 --> 00:52:07.699 shovel, but you know what the chances of them 00:52:07.699 --> 00:52:10.679 fitting are correctly? So I'll hit my buddy, 00:52:10.980 --> 00:52:13.059 buddy up, you know, somewhere I was like, hey 00:52:13.059 --> 00:52:14.880 bro, you know, you got a set of generator pipes. 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:16.820 Yeah, yeah, yeah, send you a picture of them. 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:19.719 I was like, yeah, send them up here. You know, 00:52:19.760 --> 00:52:23.039 old crusty fucking rusted fucking pipes. And 00:52:23.039 --> 00:52:24.880 then you get them and it's like, god, fuck dude, 00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:30.000 the whole. whole flange of it is You know not 00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.760 it's not where it's supposed to be so yeah being 00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:36.320 and you know cutting the flange and You know 00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:39.260 reweld and everything on there to get it to work. 00:52:39.380 --> 00:52:41.239 I'm gonna keep talking. I'm gonna pay your parking 00:52:41.239 --> 00:52:48.019 real quick Because if I don't do that you might 00:52:48.019 --> 00:52:52.179 get fucked oh You might anyway, it's not updating. 00:52:52.239 --> 00:52:56.230 That's cool We'll deal with that maybe later 00:52:56.230 --> 00:53:01.050 because this makes for good radio Okay, so now 00:53:01.050 --> 00:53:05.969 we got to get to the hoedown No, we're still 00:53:05.969 --> 00:53:08.070 talking about bikes, this is still about bikes 00:53:08.070 --> 00:53:11.889 But I want to talk about the hoedown because 00:53:11.889 --> 00:53:14.389 I mean it's it's everything you've been talking 00:53:14.389 --> 00:53:23.150 about in an event. Yeah. Yeah, so When when I 00:53:23.150 --> 00:53:27.320 started You know probably I'd say you know, I 00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:32.380 wasn't I've been on the road so my wife You know, 00:53:32.420 --> 00:53:36.440 she's a saint, you know, she's stuck with me 00:53:36.440 --> 00:53:41.119 2018 I'd early 2018 I hit the road like I was 00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:46.500 I was working I Laid down a lot of hours. I was 00:53:46.500 --> 00:53:51.369 in different cities. I was every week and come 00:53:51.369 --> 00:53:53.989 home for a day or two and then roll on home. 00:53:54.730 --> 00:54:00.210 So we've got four kids and now we do, but back 00:54:00.210 --> 00:54:03.789 then it was a little bit simpler. But I didn't 00:54:03.789 --> 00:54:08.909 get to do all that crazy cool stuff that everybody 00:54:08.909 --> 00:54:13.550 gets to go to. I always wanted to put something 00:54:13.550 --> 00:54:17.980 on around here that I deemed that I thought was 00:54:17.980 --> 00:54:21.460 cool, man, because really all you got's like, 00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:25.880 you got Wal -Nex that's up in Springfield, you 00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:33.300 got down in Wal -Nex down there, just south of 00:54:33.300 --> 00:54:37.380 Louisville, and there's not many. We don't have 00:54:37.380 --> 00:54:41.579 a lot of bike shows. We do have a lot of bike 00:54:41.579 --> 00:54:46.789 shows, I guess. Yeah. not a certain type of bike 00:54:46.789 --> 00:54:49.389 shows yeah there's not really that certain type 00:54:49.389 --> 00:54:52.550 of bike show but that's not me either man like 00:54:52.550 --> 00:54:57.150 you know going down so there's this cat man that 00:54:57.150 --> 00:55:00.769 that does he's a fabricator nobody's gonna know 00:55:00.769 --> 00:55:04.230 who he is you know he's an old stoner yeah and 00:55:04.230 --> 00:55:07.750 he's a buddy of mine and when you talk about 00:55:07.750 --> 00:55:11.929 like field meets he's pulling out pictures from 00:55:11.929 --> 00:55:16.869 the late 60s early 70s of these dudes in field 00:55:16.869 --> 00:55:22.289 meets and you could just tell like it's it's 00:55:22.289 --> 00:55:26.309 not what it is today yeah you know it's not a 00:55:26.309 --> 00:55:28.949 it's not a this guy's here so everybody else 00:55:28.949 --> 00:55:32.389 has got a following type deal it's not like that 00:55:32.389 --> 00:55:39.409 so going back to your bike show yeah there's 00:55:39.409 --> 00:55:45.320 not yeah like well you know california has endless 00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:50.460 bike shows but have you seen those videos from 00:55:50.460 --> 00:55:56.639 like Paradise Road Show for example where that 00:55:56.639 --> 00:55:59.579 guy that you described in Nashville it's everyone 00:55:59.579 --> 00:56:07.079 it's um yeah but and it's basically the videos 00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:11.300 of those shows seem to be like a fashion show 00:56:11.449 --> 00:56:14.110 You know what I mean? Like I sent one to Hannah 00:56:14.110 --> 00:56:17.730 and she fucking text me back and she was like, 00:56:17.730 --> 00:56:21.369 where's like the dirty people? And she specifically 00:56:21.369 --> 00:56:23.190 mentioned you was like, every time I've seen 00:56:23.190 --> 00:56:26.230 Kenny, he's been covered in dirt and there's 00:56:26.230 --> 00:56:29.710 nobody there that looks like that. And that's 00:56:29.710 --> 00:56:32.130 the whole idea of the whole skateboard scene 00:56:32.130 --> 00:56:34.630 too, man. It's like, I'm not going to go dress 00:56:34.630 --> 00:56:37.329 up in some fucking decked out fucking flannel 00:56:37.329 --> 00:56:41.579 with, you know, these Dude, it just ain't me. 00:56:41.800 --> 00:56:43.940 Like, I'm not doing that shit, dude. And I just 00:56:43.940 --> 00:56:46.340 feel like a lot of them cats go to them fucking 00:56:46.340 --> 00:56:50.559 shows. And they're, dude, it's just like, to 00:56:50.559 --> 00:56:53.780 me, it's fake. It's the event of the week. And 00:56:53.780 --> 00:56:55.820 then next weekend, they'll be at a different 00:56:55.820 --> 00:56:58.800 thing, dressed a different way. Yeah. You know, 00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:01.760 I'm not and don't you know, I'm not knocking 00:57:01.760 --> 00:57:04.500 every every skateboarder that's ever done it 00:57:04.500 --> 00:57:07.019 man But dude when I think of the dudes that skateboarded 00:57:07.019 --> 00:57:10.159 where I went to when I went to school was like 00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:13.199 Didn't it's just like I there's one dude that 00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:15.320 fucking I think made it out of there and was 00:57:15.320 --> 00:57:18.059 something I mean, dude, I just I don't get it, 00:57:18.059 --> 00:57:21.550 man You know, I don't get the whole fashion design 00:57:21.550 --> 00:57:24.969 when it comes to motorcycles. I just don't. I 00:57:24.969 --> 00:57:27.650 don't get it. Well, I mean, as a guy that owns 00:57:27.650 --> 00:57:31.210 an apparel company, I get it. Yeah, but a lot 00:57:31.210 --> 00:57:35.369 of your shits, you know, it's not like you're, 00:57:35.369 --> 00:57:39.809 you know, you're a business. You know what I 00:57:39.809 --> 00:57:41.190 mean? You're a business. You're here to make 00:57:41.190 --> 00:57:43.309 money. That's why I've always respected you as 00:57:43.309 --> 00:57:45.570 a person. And I've never listened to what anybody 00:57:45.570 --> 00:57:49.980 has to say. The worst thing to do. Certain. individuals. 00:57:49.980 --> 00:57:52.460 It's just anybody in general, dude. Like, cause 00:57:52.460 --> 00:57:54.340 I'm gonna tell you right now, I probably like 00:57:54.340 --> 00:57:56.760 the most hated motherfuckers, you know what I 00:57:56.760 --> 00:57:59.500 mean? That are in this whole ordeal, you know? 00:58:00.619 --> 00:58:03.260 I'm just not that dude. Like, I'm not the look 00:58:03.260 --> 00:58:05.760 at me, I'm trying to fit in type guy. That's 00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:11.739 not me. But that can be, cause with this, with 00:58:11.739 --> 00:58:15.360 the hoedown, you do have to kind of be like, 00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:17.710 look at me. or at least look because like I find 00:58:17.710 --> 00:58:19.869 it easier with this company because it's not 00:58:19.869 --> 00:58:22.070 look at me as a person it's look at this company 00:58:22.070 --> 00:58:24.610 that I run yeah and the hoedown is similar where 00:58:24.610 --> 00:58:27.590 it's not look at me it's look at this thing that 00:58:27.590 --> 00:58:30.429 I put on yeah look at what we're trying to do 00:58:30.429 --> 00:58:33.650 but in the same thing it's like you know we'll 00:58:33.650 --> 00:58:37.980 just get into it man uh so I For the past eight 00:58:37.980 --> 00:58:40.039 years, man, I've wanted to put on a show around 00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:43.280 here. I've been looking at properties for five, 00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.860 six, seven years, man, that just got like five 00:58:45.860 --> 00:58:48.539 acres, a house, something I could throw on a 00:58:48.539 --> 00:58:50.880 little show or a little swap meet or do some 00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:52.920 goofy ass stuff, man, because the stuff that's 00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:58.480 around here, man, like, either it's not for everybody. 00:58:58.739 --> 00:59:01.079 You know, you've got certain club events that... 00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:03.239 that civilian people aren't going to go to. You've 00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:07.280 got certain bike shows, you know, Harley whatever 00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:09.619 bike night, which is a different type of person. 00:59:10.059 --> 00:59:13.880 It's like, you know, you're not, you're not, 00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:18.119 it's not welcoming to everybody. Yeah. I mean, 00:59:18.179 --> 00:59:25.139 you know, it's cause I'm trying to figure out 00:59:25.139 --> 00:59:31.469 the nice way to say this. There's Couple events 00:59:31.469 --> 00:59:37.610 around here That to me are aiming a little hard 00:59:37.610 --> 00:59:45.510 at being like a California style event But at 00:59:45.510 --> 00:59:49.050 the same time like if if you're just a guy like 00:59:49.050 --> 00:59:51.030 let's say you're 55 years old you've been doing 00:59:51.030 --> 00:59:54.619 this forever That's not gonna be a place that 00:59:54.619 --> 00:59:57.059 you are gonna like really fit in or want to go 00:59:57.059 --> 00:59:59.940 to I mean to a certain point I mean to teach 00:59:59.940 --> 01:00:03.679 their own man like you You know, that's not what 01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:07.699 I envision my you know What I envision the hoedown 01:00:07.699 --> 01:00:12.340 as no, yeah, but You know more or less. It's 01:00:12.340 --> 01:00:15.440 like, you know the dudes that that was like you 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:19.360 I mean you got several I Mean you look at the 01:00:19.360 --> 01:00:22.170 Ryan guys deal Yeah, that was that was one of 01:00:22.170 --> 01:00:25.750 them. Yeah Like there ain't no fucking way in 01:00:25.750 --> 01:00:28.769 hell I'm gonna go in there and put on a fake 01:00:28.769 --> 01:00:32.590 fucking face in front of a bunch of motherfuckers 01:00:32.590 --> 01:00:37.309 That are just not me. Yeah, I'm just not I'm 01:00:37.309 --> 01:00:41.170 not gonna do it. I mean the same thing with the 01:00:41.170 --> 01:00:43.929 The cavalcade shit, you know what? I mean, it's 01:00:43.929 --> 01:00:48.840 like why yeah and Do want to clarify I'm not 01:00:48.840 --> 01:00:50.800 talking shit about party at the pen. I do like 01:00:50.800 --> 01:00:53.860 that one That's not that's not the one I'm talking 01:00:53.860 --> 01:00:57.780 about. I'm talking about other ones But I mean, 01:00:58.099 --> 01:01:01.420 so this is the second year of the hoedown and 01:01:01.420 --> 01:01:04.960 it is at the Germantown fairground. Yeah, which 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.780 is Super old fairground and it's by Maysville, 01:01:08.780 --> 01:01:11.480 Kentucky from this the closest real town, right? 01:01:13.199 --> 01:01:17.380 Which is right on the river And essentially, 01:01:18.179 --> 01:01:23.260 the whole weekend is at this fairground, there's 01:01:23.260 --> 01:01:26.460 dirt drags, which is cool. It's a thing to do. 01:01:27.880 --> 01:01:30.980 There's also that other area, I think was used 01:01:30.980 --> 01:01:33.800 for horses. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. They got 01:01:33.800 --> 01:01:36.519 a horse arena there. Where other stuff goes on. 01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:39.940 But it's like a weekend where, like, if you've 01:01:39.940 --> 01:01:41.480 looked at... Not loose, man. Yeah, if you've 01:01:41.480 --> 01:01:44.320 looked at old Easy Rider... magazines like the 01:01:44.320 --> 01:01:47.840 in the wind ones. Yeah. And you see people at 01:01:47.840 --> 01:01:52.639 events. This looks the most like that. Yeah, 01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:55.480 very grassroots, you know, or it's people in 01:01:55.480 --> 01:01:58.519 a field. I do appreciate that there is not a 01:01:58.519 --> 01:02:02.099 sign locations. And you know what I mean? Where 01:02:02.099 --> 01:02:03.840 you show up and you're here and you have to be 01:02:03.840 --> 01:02:10.960 right here. And like it really is you and your 01:02:10.960 --> 01:02:14.369 wife putting it on. yeah i mean we got some help 01:02:14.369 --> 01:02:16.949 from some other people but dude we're tough me 01:02:16.949 --> 01:02:19.150 and my wife are probably the hardest working 01:02:19.150 --> 01:02:21.630 motherfuckers that i know you know we got four 01:02:21.630 --> 01:02:27.090 kids we're avid hunters yeah i saw that the other 01:02:27.090 --> 01:02:33.230 day we're avid you know motorcycle enthusiasts 01:02:33.230 --> 01:02:38.550 and we put just as much effort into our personal 01:02:38.550 --> 01:02:41.989 job you know is anything else man and i'm you 01:02:41.989 --> 01:02:44.469 know and i'm sure you know i just look at it 01:02:44.469 --> 01:02:47.530 like that like you know because we don't do it 01:02:47.530 --> 01:02:51.329 all i mean if it wasn't for opium dakota last 01:02:51.329 --> 01:02:53.949 year you know and a lot of that stuff too man 01:02:53.949 --> 01:02:58.210 you know our buddy my buddy willy you know putting 01:02:58.210 --> 01:03:02.469 out all the you know the the Facebook spam that 01:03:02.469 --> 01:03:04.570 me and him did, it's like, dude, we had so many 01:03:04.570 --> 01:03:06.349 people, it's like, that's the most ingenious 01:03:06.349 --> 01:03:08.670 idea I ever heard, you fucking putting that on 01:03:08.670 --> 01:03:10.989 Marketplace and then putting your fucking flyer 01:03:10.989 --> 01:03:13.289 in with it. It's like, you know, if I didn't 01:03:13.289 --> 01:03:16.210 have a good group, you know, solid group of friends 01:03:16.210 --> 01:03:18.789 around me to push us to keep reminding us that 01:03:18.789 --> 01:03:21.489 it's going on, we'd have never, you know what 01:03:21.489 --> 01:03:23.909 I mean? You know how often I click on shit on 01:03:23.909 --> 01:03:26.369 Marketplace and then I scroll down and I go, 01:03:26.409 --> 01:03:30.650 oh, okay, that's Kenny. It's it's like once a 01:03:30.650 --> 01:03:32.889 day well try doing this shit without sponsors 01:03:32.889 --> 01:03:39.469 man, and that's a bit and I'm gonna I do not 01:03:39.469 --> 01:03:47.909 want to feel obligated To put on a show to put 01:03:47.909 --> 01:03:52.550 a name out there and me fake who the fuck I am 01:03:52.550 --> 01:03:57.090 To get people to come there because the way that 01:03:57.090 --> 01:04:03.230 I am is me and my wife have spent countless hours 01:04:03.230 --> 01:04:07.949 in the van listening to kids countless money 01:04:07.949 --> 01:04:12.030 traveling going to shows going to amca meets 01:04:12.030 --> 01:04:18.090 going to swap meets to become friends with some 01:04:18.090 --> 01:04:20.010 of the coolest motherfuckers that you're ever 01:04:20.010 --> 01:04:22.750 going to meet that are in the bikes yeah and 01:04:22.750 --> 01:04:26.809 once they respect you and they like you and see 01:04:26.809 --> 01:04:32.389 that like This dude's all right. They're gonna 01:04:32.389 --> 01:04:36.730 reciprocate that by showing up. That, more than 01:04:36.730 --> 01:04:43.889 any other, I guess, culture, I think that's pivotal 01:04:43.889 --> 01:04:48.869 to bite culture, is people, A, seeing your face, 01:04:49.030 --> 01:04:52.469 and B, knowing that you don't suck. Like those 01:04:52.469 --> 01:04:56.269 are the two things, you know? And it's honestly, 01:04:56.679 --> 01:05:00.960 It's not like that hard Because people are very 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:03.360 accepting but you can't start fucking people 01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:08.900 you can't start doing a bunch of shit But if 01:05:08.900 --> 01:05:12.599 people buy into what who you are Then you go 01:05:12.599 --> 01:05:15.119 and do a thing like the hoedown and they'll they'll 01:05:15.119 --> 01:05:19.539 show up for it Yeah, that's that's a true fact 01:05:19.539 --> 01:05:23.719 and I mean You know the hoedown you know cuz 01:05:23.719 --> 01:05:28.239 I you know, I've been I've been to some really 01:05:28.239 --> 01:05:30.800 rad shows. I've been to some really cool swap 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.539 meets. Me and Willie have driven through the 01:05:35.539 --> 01:05:39.239 middle of the night all over the place. We finally 01:05:39.239 --> 01:05:41.480 got Opie on board to start chasing this stuff 01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:46.840 with us. I've rode around with Nick from Wassey 01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:51.619 on to New York to hit different... I've went 01:05:51.619 --> 01:05:56.300 all over, man, but nothing compares. to the fact 01:05:56.300 --> 01:05:58.719 when nothing compares when you can jump in the 01:05:58.719 --> 01:06:01.659 van no matter if it's a 19 hour ride or not with 01:06:01.659 --> 01:06:06.179 your wife and your kids go down to texas and 01:06:06.179 --> 01:06:11.039 you walk in to to fandango and you feel like 01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:14.440 you're kind of home like yeah it's like they 01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:16.440 got the swap meet they got the chopper drags 01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:19.639 they got the tattoos they got the they it it 01:06:19.639 --> 01:06:23.300 it's fucking badass like the whole outside of 01:06:23.300 --> 01:06:26.599 that place in the middle at night. It's a fucking 01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:29.159 party. Yeah. And you meet the coolest people 01:06:29.159 --> 01:06:31.139 down there, man, because a lot of these dudes 01:06:31.139 --> 01:06:34.380 that you see, you know, either on Instagram or 01:06:34.380 --> 01:06:37.199 wherever your whatever your social media is like, 01:06:37.219 --> 01:06:39.079 that's a small enough event like you're going 01:06:39.079 --> 01:06:41.219 to run into them. You know what I mean? You're 01:06:41.219 --> 01:06:43.139 able to talk to them and build a relationship 01:06:43.139 --> 01:06:47.900 with them. Yeah, I mean, it is. It is cool, like 01:06:47.900 --> 01:06:53.840 even that party at the pen. Because the weird 01:06:53.840 --> 01:06:55.920 thing now is you know way more people, but you 01:06:55.920 --> 01:06:57.219 don't really know them because you know them 01:06:57.219 --> 01:07:01.980 on the internet Yeah, I don't know a lot of people's 01:07:01.980 --> 01:07:04.599 names many times man somebody be like dudes finally 01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:08.440 good to make a you know put a put a face with 01:07:08.440 --> 01:07:12.179 a name instead of Yeah, use it calling you by 01:07:12.179 --> 01:07:17.599 your handle on IG There's a lot of people whose 01:07:17.599 --> 01:07:19.619 names I don't actually know but I've known them 01:07:19.619 --> 01:07:22.460 for multiple years, yeah and met them in person. 01:07:24.920 --> 01:07:31.059 But it is very nice to go to an event like that 01:07:31.059 --> 01:07:33.820 and walk around and then there's just people 01:07:33.820 --> 01:07:36.260 that you know, people doing cool shit, people 01:07:36.260 --> 01:07:39.559 that last time you seen them didn't have a bike 01:07:39.559 --> 01:07:42.539 that they built and now there's this new bike 01:07:42.539 --> 01:07:44.199 they built and it's at this show and you get 01:07:44.199 --> 01:07:47.920 to look at it. And then you get to see them fucking 01:07:47.920 --> 01:07:54.239 ride it. Maybe race and maybe drop it That's 01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:56.860 the cool thing about it's like it's not just 01:07:56.860 --> 01:08:00.639 kind of like a Like an Instagram thing. It's 01:08:00.639 --> 01:08:03.039 like, you know that that bikes real it's right 01:08:03.039 --> 01:08:05.820 there, you know, yeah without without these events 01:08:05.820 --> 01:08:16.840 none of it exists and you know, I kudos to party 01:08:16.840 --> 01:08:20.539 at the pin because I mean I couldn't imagine 01:08:20.539 --> 01:08:23.659 putting something on like that and then there'd 01:08:23.659 --> 01:08:25.659 be a handful of dudes running that and all those 01:08:25.659 --> 01:08:28.060 people there and it's not so much the amount 01:08:28.060 --> 01:08:31.159 of people it's like where it's at you know because 01:08:31.159 --> 01:08:37.359 not only do you got a you know you know watch 01:08:37.359 --> 01:08:40.060 what's going on outside you got a bunch of fuckheads 01:08:40.060 --> 01:08:43.720 that are into bikes like yeah in a museum Yeah, 01:08:43.800 --> 01:08:45.600 you know what I mean? At least that museum's 01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:47.319 in old prison and kind of already looks like 01:08:47.319 --> 01:08:50.380 shit. Yeah, but it's like, dude, if it's, you 01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:53.659 know, kudos, man, because them cats, like, dude, 01:08:53.779 --> 01:08:57.060 that's a lot, man. Them dudes probably, they 01:08:57.060 --> 01:08:59.659 do that shit for the love of it, you know, and 01:08:59.659 --> 01:09:03.560 they do that. And I couldn't imagine how hard 01:09:03.560 --> 01:09:05.619 it would be to put something on like that. But. 01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:09.399 You know, and then I think about what me and 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:12.180 my wife do to put on for this, you know We start 01:09:12.180 --> 01:09:14.539 in May. Yeah, this stuff's harder than what people 01:09:14.539 --> 01:09:17.159 think it just don't come together Oh, you know, 01:09:17.239 --> 01:09:19.819 I mean, it's all the little stuff. It's it's 01:09:19.819 --> 01:09:26.159 all the little stuff getting insurance You know 01:09:26.159 --> 01:09:29.640 insurance is it I mean that's serious shit man 01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:31.819 when you're when you're running drag races and 01:09:31.819 --> 01:09:33.539 stuff and I you know, I don't know what other 01:09:33.539 --> 01:09:37.869 shows do you know, but What we're doing here 01:09:37.869 --> 01:09:42.369 is if you're going to sign up to Drag Race, you're 01:09:42.369 --> 01:09:45.369 going to sign the waiver and we have insurance 01:09:45.369 --> 01:09:48.449 liability for the people that are by standing. 01:09:48.750 --> 01:09:51.109 And just to be able to get insurance, dude, it 01:09:51.109 --> 01:09:53.819 took us months to get that. People don't. the 01:09:53.819 --> 01:09:56.359 endless phone calls the endless emails the endless 01:09:56.359 --> 01:10:00.159 bullshit you'll fucking ensure a demolition derby 01:10:00.159 --> 01:10:03.600 or a three ring circus people juggling fucking 01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:05.819 buildings but you're not gonna fucking ensure 01:10:05.819 --> 01:10:09.380 yeah uh two up two motorcycles racing next to 01:10:09.380 --> 01:10:11.859 each other yeah not trying to hit each other 01:10:11.859 --> 01:10:16.119 yeah it's wild man have you thought about motorcycle 01:10:16.119 --> 01:10:19.310 jousting I've seen it. I just thought of that. 01:10:19.310 --> 01:10:22.850 Yeah, I've seen some cats People do that motorcycle 01:10:22.850 --> 01:10:27.909 jousting. I Mean I yeah person it'd be it'd be 01:10:27.909 --> 01:10:31.270 cool man but like when it comes to like a business 01:10:31.270 --> 01:10:34.470 part of it and then it comes to like the The 01:10:34.470 --> 01:10:37.250 whole ordeal like, you know, you there's always 01:10:37.250 --> 01:10:39.590 just one of them fucks that one You know what? 01:10:39.590 --> 01:10:41.890 I mean that that would get a piece of dirt in 01:10:41.890 --> 01:10:45.390 her eye man. Yeah, try to fucking you be a bitch 01:10:45.390 --> 01:10:47.729 about it and you know that's why we got to cover 01:10:47.729 --> 01:10:50.949 our ass with that shit because you know they 01:10:50.949 --> 01:10:54.890 they that shit you know they're everywhere yeah 01:10:54.890 --> 01:10:58.569 the hoedown I just want to go and you know into 01:10:58.569 --> 01:11:00.630 a little detail about that man when you're talking 01:11:00.630 --> 01:11:03.430 about getting help man like you know when we 01:11:03.430 --> 01:11:06.229 when we first initiated this whole ordeal for 01:11:06.229 --> 01:11:08.270 one it took us three months sitting in front 01:11:08.270 --> 01:11:11.909 of 80 year old people to let us even Attempt 01:11:11.909 --> 01:11:14.210 to put this show on at this fairground. I mean 01:11:14.210 --> 01:11:17.750 dude. I live in a very small county There's no 01:11:17.750 --> 01:11:21.930 fucking stoplights only stop signs and to sit 01:11:21.930 --> 01:11:25.130 there and talk to people who put on Obviously 01:11:25.130 --> 01:11:31.289 our county fair and some other baked good You 01:11:31.289 --> 01:11:34.670 know what I mean like very small stuff and for 01:11:34.670 --> 01:11:37.409 them to be like Yeah, we're about to have all 01:11:37.409 --> 01:11:39.729 these bikes come in and drag. You know what? 01:11:39.729 --> 01:11:42.470 I mean like Dude, their eyeballs got huge. Yeah. 01:11:43.609 --> 01:11:47.430 And, you know, we we went about it and we finally 01:11:47.430 --> 01:11:50.750 got it cleared, man. And, you know, we just I 01:11:50.750 --> 01:11:53.109 wanted to bring something that they do down there 01:11:53.109 --> 01:11:55.329 in Texas up here, man, because I just don't I 01:11:55.329 --> 01:11:58.569 don't see, you know, it's it's fun. And the cool 01:11:58.569 --> 01:12:03.250 thing about us doing this is like. You know, 01:12:03.310 --> 01:12:06.270 without all the all the frontlining people and 01:12:06.270 --> 01:12:10.250 stuff out there, man, it's like. People get to 01:12:10.250 --> 01:12:12.869 be who they are. Yeah, when it comes to that 01:12:12.869 --> 01:12:17.529 bike show It's your bike put the motherfucker 01:12:17.529 --> 01:12:23.470 in You built that Or you ride it put it in there 01:12:23.470 --> 01:12:27.310 There is no list of people who are allowed to 01:12:27.310 --> 01:12:30.670 come in because and this is this is no hate towards 01:12:30.670 --> 01:12:34.569 the guys Who who travel and put these bike shows 01:12:34.569 --> 01:12:39.850 on from A B C to D? But let me tell you something 01:12:39.850 --> 01:12:42.250 man. Sometimes it gets old looking at the same 01:12:42.250 --> 01:12:46.069 bikes Yeah, it does. It gets old. That's why 01:12:46.069 --> 01:12:49.569 I stopped going to a lot of Just Cincinnati bike 01:12:49.569 --> 01:12:52.569 shows. Yeah, cuz it it's like the same for your 01:12:52.569 --> 01:12:54.850 bikes But then you can't blame the dude for doing 01:12:54.850 --> 01:12:57.090 it because the people putting on the show probably 01:12:57.090 --> 01:12:59.170 don't know that there's hey There's more people 01:12:59.170 --> 01:13:01.729 out here that are really into that shit. Yeah, 01:13:01.729 --> 01:13:05.970 you know, but they just know X Y and Z because 01:13:05.970 --> 01:13:09.500 From the last one. Yeah But these bigger shows, 01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:12.079 man, like I'm not, dude, I'm not a follower. 01:13:12.619 --> 01:13:15.640 I'm not. I don't give three flying fucks how 01:13:15.640 --> 01:13:18.159 many bikes you build. I don't give a flying fuck 01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:21.840 who sponsors you. I don't give a fuck how your 01:13:21.840 --> 01:13:24.319 mom, dad, your uncle, and everybody left you 01:13:24.319 --> 01:13:26.659 a million dollars. I don't give three fucks about 01:13:26.659 --> 01:13:30.819 that. I am not here to please anybody. I am not 01:13:30.819 --> 01:13:33.939 here to do anything. I'm here to let people, 01:13:34.399 --> 01:13:38.409 the degenerates, and everybody put their shit 01:13:38.409 --> 01:13:40.010 in there. Do you know how many people come up 01:13:40.010 --> 01:13:41.670 and shook my hand and said, man, that was the 01:13:41.670 --> 01:13:44.329 most bikes I ever seen in a bike show. And that 01:13:44.329 --> 01:13:46.210 was the coolest shit ever that you let all these 01:13:46.210 --> 01:13:49.649 motherfuckers in like that. I had old timers 01:13:49.649 --> 01:13:51.329 walk up to me and said, we've been waiting for 01:13:51.329 --> 01:13:54.409 this shit for 50 fucking years. Yeah, because 01:13:54.409 --> 01:13:58.329 it disappeared. Then you got tattooers that are 01:13:58.329 --> 01:14:01.909 flying out of state, a state away, whatever, 01:14:02.050 --> 01:14:04.579 man. Jason Morgan kills it every year. I get 01:14:04.579 --> 01:14:10.319 a local dude. I don't get a big name. You don't 01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:18.859 have a certain mustache toothpick guy. You know 01:14:18.859 --> 01:14:20.720 what I mean? I don't owe that motherfucker nothing. 01:14:22.800 --> 01:14:26.380 He's walked around and tried to nitpick me on 01:14:26.380 --> 01:14:28.939 $100. I don't know you shit, homie. You know 01:14:28.939 --> 01:14:30.720 what I mean? And after that, that motherfucker 01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:33.359 ain't never said another word to me. I've been 01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:38.319 there for four years. Well, this year at the 01:14:38.319 --> 01:14:41.600 hoedown, you got, like we talk about drag races, 01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:47.819 tattoos, bike shows, other various bike games, 01:14:48.039 --> 01:14:53.899 so to speak. What am I missing? Calendar. I got 01:14:53.899 --> 01:14:58.199 some dudes, man, that like me for who I am now. 01:14:58.279 --> 01:15:02.180 I mean, not everybody that's... Oh, people selling 01:15:02.180 --> 01:15:05.140 stuff. Yeah, you got swap meet. We'll be there. 01:15:05.420 --> 01:15:07.600 Yeah, your swap meet will be there. You got merchandise 01:15:07.600 --> 01:15:09.960 vendors. But like the big thing this year that 01:15:09.960 --> 01:15:12.060 we added to it that we didn't have last year 01:15:12.060 --> 01:15:15.439 was like a little, is a little like, hey, look, 01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:17.520 you know, like, cause last year was kind of like 01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:20.899 the bike, the bike show came in and there was 01:15:20.899 --> 01:15:23.180 80 bikes that pulled into that arena. And then 01:15:23.180 --> 01:15:25.340 they pulled right back out. We got a ride. The 01:15:25.340 --> 01:15:27.779 film was cool and everything, but people didn't 01:15:27.779 --> 01:15:31.680 get to really like. walk around I think and look 01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:35.100 at some of that stuff and now I've got some guys 01:15:35.100 --> 01:15:38.079 man that I've met throughout the years and have 01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:42.060 seen and like like their style of building and 01:15:42.060 --> 01:15:45.279 I like who they are and that you don't see it 01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:47.340 every show that are bringing their shit up here 01:15:47.340 --> 01:15:51.920 and we're gonna put it on display man and we're 01:15:51.920 --> 01:15:53.760 gonna get pictures of these people we're gonna 01:15:53.760 --> 01:15:58.069 come out the hoedown calendar specifically Give 01:15:58.069 --> 01:16:00.489 to these people to say hey look we'd like what 01:16:00.489 --> 01:16:02.710 the fuck you did. Are you gonna be selling the 01:16:02.710 --> 01:16:06.029 calendar? We're not yeah, I mean if you want 01:16:06.029 --> 01:16:08.550 to get one or something like that, you know afterwards 01:16:08.550 --> 01:16:11.210 by all means Yeah, we'll print one off where 01:16:11.210 --> 01:16:13.630 we're not you know, we're not to that point to 01:16:13.630 --> 01:16:16.829 where we can just Pull the trigger on order and 01:16:16.829 --> 01:16:19.579 tons of them and just You know remind me to tell 01:16:19.579 --> 01:16:22.279 you after this where to get good calendars. Yeah 01:16:22.279 --> 01:16:26.220 That's another thing we got to look at and you 01:16:26.220 --> 01:16:28.859 know, we've also been doing some really cool 01:16:28.859 --> 01:16:31.479 like free giveaways Yeah, you know what? I mean 01:16:31.479 --> 01:16:35.319 like You don't have to pay you. You're not having 01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:37.500 to pay anything. Just hey, look give us a share 01:16:37.500 --> 01:16:39.819 Give us a like give us a shout out. We'll write 01:16:39.819 --> 01:16:43.800 your name down every month Dude $50 towards the 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:48.239 tattoo. Yeah $50 towards your gas for driving 01:16:48.239 --> 01:16:51.340 here. We appreciate you all coming. We'll get 01:16:51.340 --> 01:16:54.619 you a case of a beer or something when you hang 01:16:54.619 --> 01:16:58.399 out. This is happening first weekend in October. 01:16:59.460 --> 01:17:03.180 So it's 2, 3, 4, October 2nd, 3rd, 4th. There 01:17:03.180 --> 01:17:05.520 are no advance tickets. No advance tickets. That 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:10.000 way nobody can say I paid you, I paid Opie, I 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:13.399 paid the guy that said he was helping with you. 01:17:13.859 --> 01:17:18.319 Yeah. How much is it for the weekend? 20 bucks 01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:22.039 for the weekend 50 bucks for the vending spots 01:17:22.039 --> 01:17:24.899 Whatever so if you're just going is 20 bucks 01:17:24.899 --> 01:17:27.579 Yeah, if you want to walk in for 20 bucks and 01:17:27.579 --> 01:17:29.760 say the whole weekend and camp and have a blast 01:17:29.760 --> 01:17:32.399 And you see some badass shit like that's cheaper 01:17:32.399 --> 01:17:39.899 than I thought it was. Oh, yeah, okay Ride your 01:17:39.899 --> 01:17:42.880 bike in till it fills up Yeah, you know what 01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:45.180 I mean, and if it fills up guess what there's 01:17:45.180 --> 01:17:47.220 there's 120 acres there. They're around the fence 01:17:47.220 --> 01:17:50.640 I hey if you don't like people pull your camper 01:17:50.640 --> 01:17:53.479 down there go park way in the back go Wherever 01:17:53.479 --> 01:17:55.739 you want to be whatever makes you feel comfortable 01:17:55.739 --> 01:17:59.039 man. Just show up and have a good fucking time 01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:01.579 Yeah, man. I'm excited about it. I'm stoked. 01:18:01.760 --> 01:18:03.539 I'm gonna tell you right now when we did that 01:18:03.539 --> 01:18:06.140 that that shoot Earlier this year and that's 01:18:06.140 --> 01:18:07.680 another thing you got people that are donating 01:18:07.680 --> 01:18:09.619 their time to come out and help us I got my ho 01:18:09.619 --> 01:18:13.880 my buddies out Lexington man Ryan Tristan Taylor 01:18:13.880 --> 01:18:16.619 Jackson, they wrote some seriously cool bikes 01:18:16.619 --> 01:18:20.579 Chris Brode up fucking we got to shoot some stuff 01:18:20.579 --> 01:18:24.119 to normal people we had some we had some you 01:18:24.119 --> 01:18:26.680 know, my wife doing these you know, and I'll 01:18:26.680 --> 01:18:29.380 get to that in a second, but We got to shoot 01:18:29.380 --> 01:18:31.619 this film, man. And when I was riding up there, 01:18:31.739 --> 01:18:33.399 everybody was waiting on me. My buddy Troy's 01:18:33.399 --> 01:18:35.520 knucklehead broke down on double A and I just, 01:18:35.520 --> 01:18:40.920 he just said leaving. So I did, but I got goosebumps 01:18:40.920 --> 01:18:44.039 pulling in there because I had so much fucking 01:18:44.039 --> 01:18:47.399 fun and seeing, I had more fun knowing other 01:18:47.399 --> 01:18:49.779 people liked it, you know, and just being able 01:18:49.779 --> 01:18:54.260 to do that again. That, you know, I got goosebumps 01:18:54.260 --> 01:18:57.220 over it and my wife. You know, we didn't just 01:18:57.220 --> 01:19:00.260 say, oh hey, look, we just made, because we didn't 01:19:00.260 --> 01:19:02.439 really make shit last year on that. But guess 01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:04.560 what we did invest it in? We invested it, she 01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:06.779 invested it on a camera for herself. That way, 01:19:07.100 --> 01:19:09.399 we're not gonna miss the pictures this year that 01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:13.460 people didn't get to do. My wife gets to do something 01:19:13.460 --> 01:19:17.439 that she enjoys to do, and take pictures, and 01:19:17.439 --> 01:19:21.279 watching my son. My son laying everywhere I go. 01:19:21.680 --> 01:19:25.979 Doesn't matter if it's in Texas. Michigan, Ohio, 01:19:26.539 --> 01:19:28.899 South Carolina, North Carolina, wherever I go, 01:19:29.699 --> 01:19:32.539 they don't even care about me. Where's your boy 01:19:32.539 --> 01:19:36.859 at? Yeah. And to see him rip around on that drag 01:19:36.859 --> 01:19:39.279 strip and rip around with everybody and everybody 01:19:39.279 --> 01:19:43.279 loving him, I get more out of that. I mean, it's 01:19:43.279 --> 01:19:48.340 real cool to create something that didn't exist. 01:19:48.340 --> 01:19:51.039 Yeah. And then have other people. Well, it existed 01:19:51.039 --> 01:19:54.239 and then went away to a commercialized shit but 01:19:54.239 --> 01:19:56.479 this didn't exist yeah this is your event and 01:19:56.479 --> 01:19:58.300 it's not you're not bringing something it's a 01:19:58.300 --> 01:20:03.060 it's a new old event yeah man it's grass ridden 01:20:03.060 --> 01:20:05.460 dude i got some like i said man i got killer 01:20:05.460 --> 01:20:08.380 i got killer friends that helped me man and in 01:20:08.380 --> 01:20:11.720 it people think like you know in the grand scheme 01:20:11.720 --> 01:20:14.979 it's like you just sharing that stuff is helping 01:20:14.979 --> 01:20:17.840 me out yeah you know i'm not you don't have to 01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:20.140 donate your i know what life's about my life 01:20:20.140 --> 01:20:22.680 is hard i know your life's hard You know what 01:20:22.680 --> 01:20:25.079 I mean? I'm not gonna ask you to take away from 01:20:25.079 --> 01:20:28.279 your life to help me unless your name's Shawn 01:20:28.279 --> 01:20:31.539 and you got a, you know what I mean, and you 01:20:31.539 --> 01:20:34.779 just got a nice big truck and no kids. I mean, 01:20:34.920 --> 01:20:39.560 yeah, your ass is gonna help out. But, you know, 01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:43.720 it's... It's killer, man. I got some really good 01:20:43.720 --> 01:20:46.699 friends, and I got some really good friends that 01:20:46.699 --> 01:20:49.060 don't even live by me. I get to talk to these 01:20:49.060 --> 01:20:51.000 cats, and they encourage the fuck out of me. 01:20:51.060 --> 01:20:53.359 Even my buddies out in California, they're like, 01:20:53.380 --> 01:20:57.119 dude, you're killing it on making that hoedown 01:20:57.119 --> 01:21:00.979 a big name. You're doing it. And I mean, this 01:21:00.979 --> 01:21:02.960 is year two? Yeah, year two. It's going to be 01:21:02.960 --> 01:21:08.020 double? You know, last year, I was nervous. I'm 01:21:08.020 --> 01:21:10.260 not going to lie. Of course you were. Like I 01:21:10.260 --> 01:21:12.439 was nervous because I got up there Thursday, 01:21:12.659 --> 01:21:15.520 and I was a nervous fucking wreck You know I 01:21:15.520 --> 01:21:17.739 talked to another dude out here that put on a 01:21:17.739 --> 01:21:19.720 show man, and he's you know it's the same shit 01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:21.960 It's like you don't you don't know how many people 01:21:21.960 --> 01:21:24.060 are gonna show up and support your shit. You 01:21:24.060 --> 01:21:27.199 know and Everybody's like oh, bro. You're gonna 01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:30.979 get You're gonna get X this amount this like 01:21:30.979 --> 01:21:34.659 dude. No we ain't We're not there yet. I said 01:21:34.659 --> 01:21:38.170 dude. I'd be cool with 200 people show up I wouldn't 01:21:38.170 --> 01:21:42.590 care if it was the circle of friends I had, and 01:21:42.590 --> 01:21:46.250 we sat there and just fucking cut up. I wouldn't 01:21:46.250 --> 01:21:51.470 give a fuck. But, dude, we sold almost 500 tickets, 01:21:52.170 --> 01:21:56.710 had, you know, you all show up and then y 'all 01:21:56.710 --> 01:21:58.489 were one of the first people to come out there 01:21:58.489 --> 01:22:01.850 and set up merch. Dude, we had almost... 30 -something 01:22:01.850 --> 01:22:04.630 swap meet vendors and merch vendors three tattooers 01:22:04.630 --> 01:22:06.770 that all made fucking money that said that they 01:22:06.770 --> 01:22:11.970 made good money so it's like There was nothing 01:22:11.970 --> 01:22:14.350 to be worried about but dude I was dude I was 01:22:14.350 --> 01:22:19.029 like the dog shit razor blades and I got I got 01:22:19.029 --> 01:22:21.890 I think I got like four or five hours of sleep 01:22:21.890 --> 01:22:25.229 that in from Thursday to from Thursday to Sunday 01:22:25.229 --> 01:22:29.869 and it's And I'll do it again. As long as my 01:22:29.869 --> 01:22:32.949 wife wants to do it, I'll do it. You know? Well, 01:22:32.989 --> 01:22:35.029 it's at least happening this year. Yeah, it's 01:22:35.029 --> 01:22:37.989 definitely happening this year, man. You don't 01:22:37.989 --> 01:22:40.270 have a choice now. Yeah, we don't have a choice. 01:22:41.210 --> 01:22:44.949 But just in this year, I'd say, man, we've already 01:22:44.949 --> 01:22:47.449 doubled probably our vending spots. Dude, I've 01:22:47.449 --> 01:22:50.819 had people call me. you know, wanting to know 01:22:50.819 --> 01:22:53.020 the information about it. They're ready to set 01:22:53.020 --> 01:22:55.140 up. Hell, I had some dude up at Wassey on come 01:22:55.140 --> 01:22:57.140 tap my shoulders like, Hey man, what's going 01:22:57.140 --> 01:22:59.920 on? Like, who the fuck are you? He's like, I 01:22:59.920 --> 01:23:02.960 was, I was like, damn dude, dude drove all the 01:23:02.960 --> 01:23:05.439 way from, you know, central Michigan to set up 01:23:05.439 --> 01:23:08.039 at the hoedown. Like, you know, and he was there 01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:10.220 at Wassey. I'm talking about talking about how 01:23:10.220 --> 01:23:13.239 cool that was and how he can't wait to come back 01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:17.710 and stuff. So, you know, after all them years 01:23:17.710 --> 01:23:20.189 of being on the road working and watching this 01:23:20.189 --> 01:23:22.609 shit go on man I finally got to do something 01:23:22.609 --> 01:23:25.350 that I was wanting to do and you know my wife 01:23:25.350 --> 01:23:29.069 has supported me no matter what I I dude we've 01:23:29.069 --> 01:23:33.250 gotten up and just flown places to buy parts 01:23:33.250 --> 01:23:35.609 and came back to set you know the next day she 01:23:35.609 --> 01:23:38.750 has never told me no like she's never talked 01:23:38.750 --> 01:23:41.210 down to me about that all she cares about man 01:23:41.210 --> 01:23:44.300 is me just being able to spend time with the 01:23:44.300 --> 01:23:47.899 kids sometimes and being there as a father, because 01:23:47.899 --> 01:23:50.119 at the end of the day, I'm a father, but I do 01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:55.180 love this whole ordeal. Oh, man. I'm excited 01:23:55.180 --> 01:23:59.020 about it. I think it's going to be a good event 01:23:59.020 --> 01:24:01.939 this year. If people are listening to this, they 01:24:01.939 --> 01:24:04.039 should go to it. Yeah, I mean, definitely. If 01:24:04.039 --> 01:24:06.659 you're listening to it, man. This is a long -form 01:24:06.659 --> 01:24:11.300 ad, basically. Yeah, man. Thank you for doing 01:24:11.300 --> 01:24:14.100 this. Yeah, I keep talking, man, if you want. 01:24:14.300 --> 01:24:16.939 Oh, I know you can. I love this shit. I absolutely 01:24:16.939 --> 01:24:18.699 love this shit. I know you can. I appreciate 01:24:18.699 --> 01:24:21.039 you asking me to come out here, you know, because 01:24:21.039 --> 01:24:25.319 I, you know, I've never been able to do anything 01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:27.539 like that and just being able to talk and, you 01:24:27.539 --> 01:24:30.579 know, cut up with, you know, somebody who supports 01:24:30.579 --> 01:24:34.279 me and I support them. Well, that's one of the 01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:37.510 nice things about having a platform is and also 01:24:37.510 --> 01:24:42.189 being in charge is that I can decide who we talk 01:24:42.189 --> 01:24:47.710 to. Yeah, that's the best thing about it. You 01:24:47.710 --> 01:24:50.510 know, I appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Thank 01:24:50.510 --> 01:24:50.750 you.