Music. Welcome to the hole in the head podcast. Andy's been getting ready for a big trip, and Blaine wants to make sure he's prepared to fit in in this episode, getting loose overseas. Formula One, divine justification and a Mexican challenge. Hope you enjoy,
Andy, are you going to f1 in Monica?
You know, funny you ask. I'm leaving this weekend on a little two week trip, the middle of which will be Formula One, Monaco in Monte Carlo. I should know, is it Monaco Monte Carlo? It's in nice but it's near nice in South of France. Yeah, I'll be in South France.
Well, here's what I just want to ask you. I got a couple questions. One is that I perceive you as very successful, moderately wealthy person, but you're going to Monaco. Do you think you belong there?
I want to go back one step. I appreciate that I have the perception or the suggestion of moderately well to do, but I feel as comfortable if your question was, Do I feel okay going there? Do I feel out of place? Going to be there? Yeah, I like, I realized that even if I step up and wear my best, watch my ridiculously nicest shoes, whatever, I'm still wearing some underwear that's got holes in them. You know what I mean, like, Okay,
I'm glad you brought this up, Andy, because one of my biggest questions was, what does one wear to Monaco? What do you what's the ensemble look like? Tell me. Let's get into the fashion bit. What are you gonna wear on the red carpet?
I have been going back and forth about this. Like, okay, well, I can't, well, I can't, like, look like. I'm trying. Maybe I should buy a Gucci shirt and just wear a Gucci panda bear shirt or something like but then, well, I can't, I can't show up with like, a 1985 Marlboro Ferrari crew, crew shirt that I have. Can't do that because it smells bad. It's got holes in it. Maybe I should, I don't know. That's the answer. Like, I don't know
something neutral. I'm probably going to go neutral, black tea, you know, black shorts.
Well, I think you're going to do fine. Because, I mean, you present yourself well, you've worked in other sort of, how should we say, kind of bourgeoisie careers, right? Naughty, present yourself to very wealthy people, yeah, yeah. And so you can be you can you look in a crowd, you don't stand out as non bougie. Okay, so you're going to be okay. I think you're going to be good. You're a good looking guy, and you're a sharp dresser, so
you're going to be there. I just laugh, because no matter what, I picture these two scenarios, these two scenarios, one Andy's sitting in a on a veranda overlooking the bay there. And another well to do gentleman sitting across from you, and you guys have to make eye contact, and you have a chat. And it turns out he's got his yacht down there in the bay, and he's come in for the race and wants to talk about the race and whatever. And I can see you just
mixing so well with that. And I could see him saying, Well, why don't you come by the boat later on, and you know, if you want to have some drinks or whatever, and I can just see you just slipping right in. That's scenario number one. Scenario number two is that if I went to Monaco sitting on the same veranda, make eye contact with a guy across from me. He mentions he's got his yacht in the harbor. The second thing he's going to say is, how much would you charge to whack some of the
scratches out of my deck? No matter how I present myself, I look like I should be, you know, offering services to yacht owners, that I shouldn't be on a yacht, but I think you look like you could be on a yacht on vacation. So I think you're gonna blend pretty well.
Yeah, now I'm just gonna take a step back here, and if from a with a different pair of glasses, everything you just said, sounds like I am a fuck boy, and you are not meaning you just said that I'm gonna meet, I'm gonna meet some bougie older man on a veranda in Monaco. He's gonna invite me to his boat, and he's gonna, I'm gonna slip it. One of us is gonna slip it in, I think, is what you said, and then the other, the other is, is you are sitting across from a well to do man on a veranda in
Monaco, and you wax his deck. So to be clear. That it could be a well to do cougary Italian lady. Let's, let's take that approach not, not that there's anything wrong with wax and dudes decks like you will never hear a homophobic turn of phrase on this show that that is made intentionally. But I want to think about i
i was not making an innuendo. I was actually talking about waxing his deck physical. I mean, because I'm the kind of guy that works on yachts, I'm not the kind of guy that enjoys time on yachts with other people in a social situation. So I could have said, Could you come aboard my yacht, and is it possible that you could fix the refrigerator? Because all my champagne is not key staying cold, and then I would fix the refrigerator, you know. So what I meant is that I'm a sort of I'm clearly in the
blue collar category. I'm happy there, but no matter how hard I try to present myself as in another category, like if I wore a nice, expensive black tea and I borrowed your Rolex and got the same kind of shoes, one look at me and it says, this is a guy that you know, you know, has a toolbox with him, you know, so, and I'm okay with that, but I was, I wanted to encourage you that I think you're going to be
able to be a bonafide guest. And I don't mean just a bonafide means nothing other than qualified, not as in bone your boner offering it. I got you I got, you know, hey, a rich guy. So anyway, no, I meant it in that way. But I'm glad you brought that up in case there was any, you know,
hey, whether it's Sophia Loren or I don't know, some other Italian hot guy, I'll go back and look at their yachts and or their collection of old Formula One race cars, anytime.
But I to your point, like, Yeah, I think that this trip, I like these kinds of trip, and I like, I like going to Italy to do motorcycle stuff, because I can, I can do somewhat I don't know those things that that are, this is where it gets judgy, maybe a little more refined, or at the very least, I'm doing the Italian version of the Waffle
House after a swap meet. And to me, that's I really like that, and maybe that's just with European stuff, but I love that blend of you can go get dirty and greasy, look at motorcycles at a swap meet, and then walk across the street and have the most amazing meal of your life. Like, I really like that, that dichotomy that's that's there, especially in Italian motor stuff.
Okay, hey, good answer. Andy question number two, Candace, Miss macho Fernando Alonso, or Carlos signs?
I like Carlos signs a lot because he's kind of getting bopped around, you know, like, like, cleric was the the golden boy, and then Carlos signs been ahead of him in every race since the season started. So I like that he's kind of showing him what for. But I heart Fernando Alonso. I have a secret man crush on, I don't know if it's that secret, but I have a Superman crush on Fernando Alonso, and I don't know why. He's just got that,
like, I don't give a shit. He's the fox, like he's the wily racer, like he's wise as he is old. He's just a great racer. I don't know I like him a lot, but if I understood Spanish enough, I think I would go Fernando Alonso to your question.
Okay, that is not the right answer to the question. But okay, yeah, yeah, the correct answer is Carlos science, even though we prefer Fernando Alonso's career because he's a two time world champion and he's an old guy, so guys like me should be pulling for Fernando, right? I mean, he's coming back. He was written off. I mean, he was middle back of the grid, not going to come back
and race anymore. But you know, where he won it over, for me is that he went to race in Dakar and took lessons to become a Dakar racer. He, you know, he's talked about trying to win an indie cars at some point. Who knows if you'll do it or not. But I just love the fact that he's an all around racer. And so that's kind of what won me to Fernando. However, Carlos signs wins because he was cast aside not good enough to be the number
two at Ferrari. And then since then, he has kicked everybody's ass, and he's made them regret the decision. Yeah, he's made them regret the decision. And also, Carlos signs picks up big points because he's from a racing family. His father, Carlos signs wins. Doc R every year, every year. And so this is and the fact that you know they go to see each other win. I mean, it's just a it's just the greatest family involvement strike true. Who knows, maybe they hate each other, and this
is all for TV. But nonetheless, when you see Carlos science winning in doc, are you see young Carlos signs coming to have a great moment with his dad. And when you see Carlos science winning an f1 you see old Carlos science show up and support his son. So can you imagine a life where you're both World Class racers, fathers and son, and you get along and you play tennis together, and you joke around, and you just make fucking millions together, and you're doing what you love. I
mean, who lives like that? Yeah,
that's. A pretty that's a pretty rarefied existence. You won't get any arguments about about that for me, with Carlos science like he would. There was two, there's twice he got, we're gonna go to rabbit hole. But it was Ferrari. But then prior to that, didn't he get moved off of was not racing point in favor of Perez?
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Andy, question number three, going to Monaco. I'm going to qualify this by saying this is a little bit more another class question, but I want to see how you navigate it. So usually I give away my status in life when we order stakes, and I say, Can I have my steak well done and with ketchup? Can you bring me ketchup? And, of course, yeah, that's the world's reaction, right? I mean, one, you don't get a steak well done, you don't
put ketchup on it. I do both. So I want to know when you're in Monaco and you're going to order a main dish, and you're gonna fit in and maybe even put yourself a few rungs above where you really are, especially since that guy's sitting across there, that yacht owner is just sitting across there and not, not because he's gay, looking for a hump. He's just a guy that wants to talk racing with another fellow guy, but he wants to talk to somebody in his class. Now, how do you present yourself in
the yacht owning f1 class. What do you order in a restaurant go?
Did he order first?
Let's say no. Let's say it's up to you to lead off with something impressive.
I might say, you know, hey, this or this? Should I get the steak or the fish? And yes, they're very different, but I would put it back to the waiter surprise me. I don't really have an opinion on this. This. This means nothing to me. It's going to be amazing. I trust you give me an experience. And for me, I think that's that's a little bit more than like, Well, does this is there asparagus? What are the seasonal vegetables.
Andy, I'm going to interrupt you because, again, I'm sorry to say that's the wrong answer. You're ordering here in Monaco, in a way, so that you present yourself even wealthier and more successful than you are. My question is, what do you order? You can't say to the waiter, surprise me, all right? And I'm going to follow up with what wine or beverage you're going to order? What are you going to order? To put yourself in the best possible light when you're in Monaco.
Okay? Then I the best possible light is I choose two alternatives. One is the second most expensive thing. Okay, so we'll say that's entree B, usually the steak, right? So I'll say, Hey, should I get B? B or E? You know what? I'm gonna get B and E's way, way, way cheaper, but I'm gonna go ahead and get B, because money doesn't matter to me, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna play that off like I didn't even think about the price between the two. Should I get the steak or just an
appetizer? You know what? I'm gonna go and get the steak.
Are you gonna do the same thing with the wine, or drink wine? I don't
drink wine, okay? But I know it will be on offer, right? That's a good question. I haven't thought that through. What's, what's the classy How do you, you know, deflect wine in a classy way? Is there some like, bullshit shrub, you know what I mean, like, or kombucha, like, what do you say? No, I say Perry. Well, I can Perrier,
yeah, yeah, that's probably safe, because I can tell you what. It's not Dr Pepper or Diet Coke or a beer. It's
low Diet Coke. Yeah,
you Yeah. So don't do that. So, all right, so, so far, you're kind of, you've done okay with the questions. Andy, I mean, you're not right, but at least you know when you're wrong. So that's that's been very good. So we've covered your we've covered what you're going to wear, and we've covered what you're going to eat. Now, where are you staying when you're in Monaco?
Okay, so there's, so there's a few parts to the trip. The first one I get into London, and I'm staying with my old roommate that I had when I was there. He's lives in the same apartment in the same place. I just give him a call. Said, Hey, I'm going to be here, X to Y. He's like, Yeah, come on. By what time you getting it, you know? So I have going to be so London, London
with a friend. All right, London with a friend, and then you're on to France, right? And
then I take a flight to Marseille, where my wife is going to come over from Seattle to meet me, and this is going to be arguably the fanciest part of the trip. So we have one night in Marseille, and then we take a train to nice where we are stationed to go to Monaco with some friends, but the place in Marseille is like fancy hotel that she got with points.
Okay, yeah, yeah. I don't care, okay, what I care about now is, now you're in Monaco. Where are you staying in Monaco? So when you're having this do. Experience on the veranda and the and the guy says, By the way, Andy, where are you staying? What do you Where are you staying?
So I'm actually staying in nice so Monaco is really close to these, like, a 10 minute train ride. And staying in Monaco for the race is unobtainable, you know, I mean, and they shut everything down, and if you don't live there or pay through the nose for it, you're not staying there. So we actually have race tickets, so we're going to be in nice and then just commuting into Monaco for three days for qualifying in the race. Or two days is two days. Think it's just two days, not a sprint
weekend. Yeah. So for two days, we'll just, we'll go from Nice to Monaco, you know, eight o'clock, okay, where stay there all day, you know,
I'm trying to get to this. Andy, where are you staying in nice I don't know.
I don't know it's,
let me ask you, yeah, is it? Is it a boutique hotel, or is it an Airbnb?
It's an Airbnb, of course,
don't mention that. Do not mention that. When you are in you gotta, you have to come up with a cover for where you're staying when you're in Monaco, all right. So you gotta pick that. You gotta pick the, you know, the hotel, or the, even better than the, than the common ritzy hotel would be a boutique hotel. So you gotta have to come up with one that you can kind of name drop, because it's important to complete the sort of the trifecta of who you are properly dressed, properly fed and
properly lodged. Okay? Well, I was like, I like to have to pull off and present the crowd in Monaco, and
be sort of vague about it. And you could say we have a place in Nice, and that's not a lie, but you don't know if I meant I own a Yeah, house in nice or, you know, I'm slumming on the couch. We have a place in Nice, not a big deal. Yeah,
I know you want to, yeah, it's a chateau. Our family's had it for a couple 100 years. That kind of thing, I know, but you're going to have to cover the story that's, I see that as a potential weakness, and I just want to offer you that so that I want you to be accepted in Monaco. Okay, and now here's the last question I have about going to the race, is your wife attending with you? That's not the last question. It's the second to last
question. Okay, yeah. Now, are you comfortable with being the type of race fan that I would like you to paint your chest green? And Fernando, all right, across the top Aston Martin around your belly button line, so that you can take your shirt off and shriek when he comes around, or for his qualifying time, I want you to promise our
listening audience. I want you to promise our listening audience that you will do something that a real race fan would do, even though you're in Monaco, all right, will you take your shirt off and show your team colors when your driver performs?
You know, I was thinking about that. Like, how do you, how do you show up? You know, I mean, like, how do you, I don't just wear a green shirt. I'm not gonna wear Ferrari red, you know, like, I don't, I don't own any of that. Um, McLaren has McLaren has the best clothes,
but, yeah, like, do I? But the thing is, like, given a pinch Fernando Alonso is my guy, but I love the story of Carlos signs, but Lando Norris one last you know, in in Miami, like, holy shit, come on land, like, there's, there's, I don't have a guy. I'm not rooting for a particular person as so much that I would take my shirt off or paint my body in any way. But by the way,
you owe it to the hole in the head, audience, to your roots, all right? Because, you know, there's a part of you that is understands grassroots racing and showing up on a Monday, you know, on a on a Friday night with a Pat's Blue Ribbon, wearing your jeans, cheering for your guy, and then taking your shirt off when he wins. I know you understand that, because I know you're also have, you know, you got a little
bit of Texas in you still. So I want to know, are you going to be true to yourself, when you get to Monica, will you take your shirt off? And this is not for you. This is for the hole in the head collective. We know. Are you going to be there to represent us?
You know the fact that you said homegrown racing at Formula One that has nowhere like there's no homegrown nothing about Formula One, if anything,
I would. That's why, that's why we need you to represent, I mean, or at least you gotta come across like those Italian guys that paint themselves, you know, there's one guy's the F, you know, in Ferrari, so, yeah, there's that's, that is acceptable, alright, but the fact that it's not quite right for Monaco, I want you to do it. I want you to bring it. I want to know, are you going to bring something outstanding, you know, to to Monaco to enhance the class.
Well, so, so Monica, this trip I'm looking forward to, because it's, it's an opportunity my wife and I are going to take this trip. It's something that, obviously, I have more of a awareness opinion on. And I'm going to enjoy that part of it more. But it's hard to, like, not have an experience with food, wine, architecture, whatever, whatever, that she's more interested in a trip like
this. Like, it's, you know, we're going to stop in, I don't know, buy some soap or something, but, but, like, this is a good trip I'm looking forward to, because there's going to be, like, something very equal for both of us in this. And, you know, it's going to be good, well, there's,
there's a chance for you to cement your wife's loyalty to f1 racing for the rest of her life. I know she's doing this mostly for you, but it could be for her, because I promise you, if she if there's a very expensive piece of f1 schwag, you know that you can pick up that's kind of ungodly expensive, but very, very nice. Or, you know, you can evolve. There's no one that doesn't like
the VIP experience. And so I'm saying that if you show your wife a VIP type experience, you know, you you run across a watch or a pair of gloves. You know, that's like $1,100 you just go, Yeah, I'm getting those, you know. Just do it right on the visa, yeah, just blow it up. And your wife will be forever attached, because she'll love
that gift. She'll love the thoughtfulness of it, and she'll think that man, you know, Andy's the man I always wanted to be in Monaco, maybe because in Seattle, in Seattle, he's the poor out in the garage that's greasy all the time. But in Monaco, look at him. Yeah, it
is. I am an I'll get I'll, maybe I'll make her a sign that says Fernando has my hall pass, or Fernando is my, is my hall pass, yeah. And then I'll, I'll make that for her. I made a t shirt.
There you go. There you go. Well, hey, honestly, I'm green with envy. Also, this Fernando's color for Aston. But hey, I really, I'm glad you're going, I can't wait to hear about what it's like live. You know, what do you actually see, you know, from a perch, or, you know, is it the kind of thing you should be in a sports bar, you know? Or, you know, so you can see what's going on, or get the commentary, or is the live track side experience, you know, mind blowing. So I'm curious to hear
about that. I'm hoping to report back what you see, and I hope you get a look at some equipment. At some point, I remember going to just motorcycle races and going through the pits and seeing their setups. That was just phenomenal. You know, they move this like f1 every week, right? But you'd see the tool setups and how they do things and just their vehicles. I mean, this is mind blowing, and so on a completely different level, that obviously it takes a major corporation to confront the cost
of that. But just, you know, from us guys being Privateer, if they, if there was privateer racing in Monaco, you and me would have arrived in a in a van. We would have been, you know, sleeping four towns away, hitchhiking every day, you know, with a gas can, trying to, you know, use car gas instead of race fuel to save money. We'd be take going through the tire pile of that everybody else took off their tires and threw away. We're going to mount those backwards and run them again,
you know. So anyway, I'll be curious to see what you can tell me about the we know it's sophisticated, but I'm hoping you'll give us a report on some of the equipment and some of the methodology, and especially what the if you get any sniff of what the what the pits are like, what the shops are like, I'd love to see that kind of stuff or hear about that. Yeah,
apparently, apparently, our seats. I don't even know if we have seats, but what the tickets are for is just near the pit, so I'm looking forward to it, but I know that. I mean, it's always a different experience, like, right? When you see a when you see a race televised, you have this sort of omniscient point of view. You see everything because it's camera one, camera two, camera
six, you know. So it moves around, but, but at a race, you're just sort of privy to what's on the monitor, and then suddenly what's live in front of you at 200 miles an hour. And so there's just a I'm I've never been to a race where it's that fast and that big, you know, where you have that, that, that dual experience, but, oh
yeah. So will you make, will you make an effort to make some driver contact, like, will you go to some of the press stuff for or, you know, see where they're doing the interviews? Are you going to hang out and and shop for Fernando? Oh, absolutely.
I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to, if there's an opportunity to be a fanboy at this, I will be there. Okay, and, and I have to be
very but conscious, but you, but you won't paint your body. That's, that's
what I won't, I won't pay my body. No, no, no,
I'm okay. Well, that's a real, that's a real letdown to everybody in hole in the head, because, but, but, you know, I understand, you're with your wife, you're in Monaco, you know, you're trying to present.
And we're with, we're with people that she works with. So I have to be somewhat tempered, you know. So there's, there's that
I don't know. I think they, I think they, I think actually, they might really respect it. If you were super drunk, painted yourself silver and green, you know, and just lost your shit every time Fernando came by, I think that would be quite endearing. I don't know. Okay,
so, okay, tangent, but. That a tangent, but it just made me think about it, and I just need to tell somebody. I haven't, I don't, haven't told anybody, um, Daniel Ricardo really gets on my nerves. I just, I, I just don't like him. Everyone says he's such a nice guy, and I'm sure he is, but everything he does is irritating and childish and unnecessary, and it's like he's just this brat that whatever. Sorry, wow, man, I just unloaded on Daniel, but, but I have this thing where
I don't get it. He's really obnoxious and annoying, and I don't understand.
Hey, listen, I, I can, I can tell you. Why do you want to know why you feel that way? Yeah, you're a snooty prick. You think you're better than Danny Ricardo,
no, you're better.
Yeah, you do. I can tell, I tell, by the look in your face, by the by the way you held your lips when you said his name, it just kind of had disgust on, dripping, yeah, yeah. You think you're better than him, that's fine, but you, I'm sure you're a snooty prick,
yeah. And I am very aware that my only experience with him has been through, like, you know, a TV show and some interviews, I would say, I'd say he's grown a lot. He's grown a lot this year, like, all the interviews, and I've shit that I've seen him this year, like, Oh, this is a new dude. And maybe it was that humility of getting bumped around and like,
I'm too good for Red Bull. And then the next year, Red Bull's sweeping it and has not stopped, and he can't catch a break in a McLaren in a Red Bull part two, like, he can't. He just can't. So I think that there's some humility that he's experienced that is making him a little bit more like, all right, buddy, you know, so or maybe I'm just a snooty prick. I maybe
I'm just, yeah, you're, you're a snooty prick, and you hope he experiences even more humiliation, is what you're thinking. I get it. You want to, bro, yeah, yeah, yeah. You want to cut him down a few notches. Yeah, I'm
bringing some, I'm going to bring some batteries to throw at him while I'm just kidding. That's not true. I'm not at all going to bring batteries to throw it to anyone. All right, Andy,
thank you for all the insight into f1 we can't wait to hear from more of it when you get back. Let's move now to what you have on your list. What's Next
well, so in the spirit of travel, what I'm really thinking about is, you know, how do you travel? This is a trip where, anytime I go over either Europe anyway, I'm trying to think about, what can I get in terms of parts, or, you know, how
many bags can you bring? Who can you get? China for you?
That's right. Signage, yeah. How can I So, I'm bringing a carry on bag that's more or less empty. That's not true. I'm taking Girl Scout cookies. So I'm taking a shitload of Girl Scout cookies for my my buddy, and when I leave, I hope I have a full bag, right? So I want, I'm looking for a BMW seat. You know, there's a lot of stuff that you can have shipped on ebay.it, and eBay UK, that they don't ship to the states, or if they do, it's just as expensive as the thing.
So I'm hoping to have some some some goodies when I come back. So the question is, like, what's the bare minimum that you bring for a two week excursion? I know the answer, okay, yeah,
no, here's the answer. You tell your wife right now, all right, that she can bring a change, one change of clothes, one pair, one underwear, one socks, one one of everything. All right, that's what you bring, right? And when you get there, she's going to use her fancy new credit card, and you're going to buy stuff there. And you only need to buy something every three days,
okay? Because by the second by the time you buy the second outfit, you could wash the first outfit in the hotel sink or in the Chateau or have the staff take care of it that lives on the lower floors. We have people. Yeah, yeah, you have people for that, so, yeah, the answer is to is to go with no clothes, just what you're wearing and a credit card. All right. I've only been to Europe a couple times. Made the big mistake of taking my backpack and trying to cake my jeans with
me. Stupid, stupid idea where your best looking, worst pants. All right, that are lightweight. You wear them until they're dirty, and then you just leave them in the just leave them in a trash at the airport, right? You go buy another pair at a stand, all right? And you just buy clothes as you need it, and then you save all the luggage space for parts that you're bringing home. And this is what you and
your wife do. Okay? If she loves you, she won't mind it, because it means every day she can go close shopping and legitimately buy something. Yeah, you know which is gonna be fun
for her. The beauty of this is we're we're because we're traveling separately. She's got her own thing, and she's got to go to a work thing the next week anyway. But so here's what I'm doing. I'm taking I've saved a. All my old underwear and socks that are, you know, on the edge. They've got a, you know, they've got a hole in them, or ratty or something. And I bring those, and then I don't wash them, you know, I'll wear them two or three times, maybe. And then I just start throwing them away.
Just
bring one or two. Andy, not not more than, not more than three of anything, okay, not more than three. Yeah, anything, yeah, okay, but just start, that's it should be one.
And then I started shedding. I have a couple shirts that are wool T shirts, and they don't stink, in fact, nope. This is this. I've been wearing this shirt for three days. Okay, you know what I mean, that's inside my cotton t shirt. And so anyway, I'm going with Streamlined clothing options. Okay,
so that's higher job. So that meets with my approval, although I think it should be closer to one change, one change of everything, and I guess we can go to three. Okay, what's next? What else can you tell us?
Even Okay, now, domestic trips, let's just say road trip top, three to five road trip snacks.
Okay, so there's just one, but you can mix them all together. You just basically, you don't get trail mix. Alright, that's that's a big mistake, but what you do is, you just get peanuts, raisins and chocolate chips. You throw them all in the bag. Okay, now that's enough protein and sugar to get you through it every time you eat that, believe me, you won't have to shit for a week. All right, and that's what you
want. All right? You want. You don't want to be running to the you don't, yeah, you don't want to have a place where you're getting loose overseas. All right. You want to make sure that you know you got when you when you feel it coming. You want to know you got at least 12 hours. All right, that's how you want that to unfold. So that's what you take for a snack, nothing else, okay, then buy street food everywhere that you like to eat street food. All right, eat street food. Try not
to eat in restaurants. Yeah, there you go. Yeah.
Okay, okay, well, okay, so gas station, you have core gas station snack options. What are your go tos?
If you're tired, get a Snickers and a coke. All right? If you're hung if you're hungry, get a tornado. You know the tornado is no that's a rolled up baked tortilla with ranchero cheese in it, or little steak thing. They put them on the same roller hot dog grill right at Circle. K
never, I've never seen that. Oh yeah, yeah.
So they're like taquitos,
okay?
I got you all right, yeah, I got you. Well, the rest of that shit in that store doesn't even need to be there, all the fancy waters, all the fruity drinks you want nothing, but you want soda with caffeine in it when you're tired, soda without caffeine in it when you're not tired. You want to have your your raisin peanuts and chocolate snack for energy and for sustenance. You know you won't that's enough. That's a meal. That's several
meals in the back. But if you fall prey to wanting something different to taste, you get yourself a tornado. Okay, don't get out. Don't get a gas station hot dog unless it's a Johnson's bill, and those are sold exclusively at cervical K who are not yet sponsors of the whole the head show, but should be, but that's the only way to do it.
Okay, I'm going to say Arizona iced tea, because I can't do soda. I can't do soda like that anymore. That's carbon so Arizona iced tea with the requisite caffeine combos, pizza,
yeah, I can see that. I mean, yeah,
pizza flavored combos, and if I need a sweet then a iced honey bun.
Oh, you know that those, I like them every time I eat them, and then I hate myself after about the you eat them. Yeah. Anyway, yeah, yeah. It's such a love hate. I think I'll get the honey bun, and it's like, I'm gonna hate myself the way after I get done with this,
but while you're eating it. And then, and then I usually look in the wrapper to see if any of because I like the white ice honey bun, and I look in the wrapper to see if there's any white little rafts of white frosting left in there, and I get them out of my finger or my tongue. Yeah, yeah,
I won't falter for that. Okay, okay, all right, sorted. And then that's just, I've just got traveling on the brain. Well, we do have an announcement, or at least a recognition that we can't gloss over is we have a new Patreon subscriber. Of course. I mean,
who would not be flocking to listen to our show, let alone support it, so I'm not a bit surprised, but I do love the fact that we now have a handful safety we could say we have a handful of people.
We could say a few, we have a few, I think it's yeah. So Mike, welcome, welcome. We appreciate it.
Where's Mike from? Here's my biggest, here's my here's my biggest. Hope is that when we do hear from Mike, I hope that he's a big fan of Daniel Ricardo.
Yeah, and he's like, and then he just awesome. And. There you went. No, so Mike is Mike's from Bend, Oregon. Bend, Oregon.
What a great place to be into motors and motorcycles and cars and trucks, because there's a lot of stuff, stuff behind people's homes in Bend, Oregon. Every time I look through Craig's List and I'd see some really cool old dodge Power Wagon. Where is it? Bend, Oregon. Bend, Oregon. Yeah, awesome. Yeah.
Welcome. Bye. Ben's nice. There's a couple little there's little motorcycle cafes that pop up every once in a while. There's one in Bend. Yeah, anyway, so welcome board. Mike. What else do I have? Aerials not to get too excited, no carts in front of horses or counting eggs or chickens, but we may have a line on and this continues from our last conversation about buying parts in bulk. I don't get you too excited, but we might have a line on a pile of aerial parts.
Well, now I am excited. All right, there's no way I can reel it back in. So sorry about that, but I did see you texted me some cryptic pictures, and I looked through there, and I did get excited. And my initial impression was, how much for all of it, I'm on my way. Yep, that's my you know, because that's just how it strikes you is like, come on. And then, you know, we have to talk it out a little bit and decide if that's really where we
need to be. But, you know, of course, the initial impression is, of course, we want all of it. But the reality is that, and maybe we talked about this last time, or whatever, I've done this before, you've done this before? Are you going to take the time to catalog it? Are you going to take the time to store it? 30% of it you're going to use and sell right away? The other stuff is going to be around forever, so I very difficult to know how much to
commit to it. This pile is a little bit more interesting than most, because although it's just parts, it looks like there's enough of a variety to make a couple rollers out of it. So that means we could get maybe two or three complete bikes with motors, frames and wheels and suspension. So that, that, to me, is a very interesting way to buy something, and I would be very interested in that. What what appeals to you about that pile?
You know, honestly, there's a couple key things that I'm looking for in there, but really, I just want to be presented with a giant pile of things that are all amazing, that I can look through and say I want, that I want, that I could do without that like, you know, it could be anything, really, but because they're for this, these bikes that are, you know, pretty hard to find anything that's of reasonable price, easily. Oh,
yeah, and I should, yeah, just, just, just to our new listener, Mike, if he hasn't follow us the whole time, which I which, which is his mistake, at least, now he's rectified that he's following us all the time, but he may not be aware that the aerials we have are I have a 1951 aerial square for, I believe, Andy, you have a 1954 aerial square for and we've just recently bought these, decided we're going to get into these. And so this parts pile.
This is not a it's not a super rare bike, but it's not, it's not commonplace either in terms of trying to find stuff for it and the crowd that knows about them in the world's pretty small, and they all know each other. So, so if you're curious what we're talking about, look up to aerial square for they're notable because it's a four cylinder engine, which is cool, and they're also remarkably smooth and decently powerful, which is strange for most of our experience in motorcycles, in
coming out of England. But they are typically English, and the fact that they're they're quirky put together with odd sized bolts probably leak. Need a lot, you know, they're going to take some love to keep going. So anyway, that's the synopsis. We both got these. And now, how do you explain that the universe showers us with such love that the fact that we buy these in my bike is very incomplete? Um,
yours is almost complete. How do you explain the fact, Andy, I mean, spiritually, tell me what's going on in the cosmos that we buy aerial square force and then this pile comes up to us. I mean, somehow, how would it find its way to us? Unless there wasn't some sort of supreme being that, hoping that we would rewriting aerial square force for the, you know, for the good of all the universe.
I don't believe there is an explanation. That's the that's the thing is, like, I wonder, I know that there's a what's, there's a technical term for it, like fallacy of sunk costs or whatever the relevant term is that is, we see these things because we're looking for them, or we're talking about them, whatever it is. But like, how often does a pile of parts come up for this particular
motorcycle when. And how often do two guys find two bikes for in a within a relatively narrow window of time in the same area, we have these sort of things that sort of ebb and flow in, in in circumstance, you were talking about a Marini one comes up. You get, I hate to bring that up, by the way, but we're talking about a Marine, and it comes up, and then, you know, and now we're still talking about it, but then, you know, the BMW is a little bit the same way. But I think that there is
something to it. Maybe that's that's just all right, guy, shut up. I just happened to find a pile of CB 750 parts. Well, they're on Craigslist every day. Just because you talked about it doesn't mean God's looking
well. And in this case, in this case, I mean, it's especially gratifying if we're out looking and we find it, right, but we weren't even looking, these came and found us. Yeah, so how do you explain that? Yeah,
I can't, I can't I, but I don't want to, I don't want to explain it away. Let's just keep riding it. So that's
just the mystery we have to live with. Yeah, it's a wonderful part of it, but I never know how much money to spend on it. That's why I want to know if it's my destiny or not. You know, it's like if my destiny is being wiggled out in front of me, you know, kind of thinking, Well, hey, this is what you're supposed to be doing with your life. I mean, obviously I've squandered most of it so far, and here's a chance to redeem it, you know. And you said you wanted to do
this, and here it is. Now you got to have the courage to fall to follow through. And if you don't follow through, it's like every other fucking failure that's chased you around that you cultivated yourself because you're just a big pussy. All right, that's a little bit of self talk there. Maybe we can move on from that. I'm in a bad place ever since that motor marine East prison fucked me. But when I'm not in this mood, I would look at it the other way
and say, look at that. You know, we're putting out this fleece. This is kind of everything that Oprah Winfrey taught me, right from the universe, you just put out these things, and then all of a sudden it yields to you, right? So did we buy project aerial square fours? And so that means all the parts in the in the universe, known universe now
have to yield to our will. Is there something going I wish there was something going on there, because ultimately, what I'm trying to avoid is the hardline decision of, okay, how much are we going to pay for this shit?
Yeah, all right,
I want to know that it's okay or that I have to, because otherwise I have to put the number on it, and then I have to live with passing on it and then going, Oh, that was either brilliant or that was super stupid.
Yeah, well, I think it's pretty clear that what's really happening is that we're justifying irrational, irresponsible purchases with, you know, fortune.
Well, I'm a little sensitive that Andy, because, I mean, I'm, I am the one that when I bought a bull taco Matador from you, I went and also bought a bull talk about a matador suit to wear while I'm riding it. And my wife seems to think that's stupid. I keep saying no, Andy's going to come around. He's going to do the same, which you have not, by the way, you haven't purchased a
mirror. You haven't purchased a matador suit or a mariachi suit to ride taco So, or any Spanish bike, so you're the big pussy at the moment in that regard. But nonetheless, I went ahead and did that, thinking that it was worth spending some of my 401, K on it, because it was my destiny.
But I can't, yeah. Wait, so to be clear, you have a mariachi suit. You
damn right, I do, got stripes going down the legs, got some Dingle balls on it, and lots of lots of fancy stitching. And, I mean, I just Yeah, I mean, if, if you looked at me, if you had, if you saw me on my bo taco, wearing my mariachi suit, and you had a choice between me and Fernando, you choose me.
So here's the commitment. Is, by the end of the summer, I will have a mariachi suit.
Okay, well, then, but the but the rest of this deal was that we were going to wear mariachi suits and ride our bull tacos to a bull fighting ring in Mexico. So this is the first stage in it. So I don't want you to think it ends there, because I committed, right? And it's up to you to pony up for the suit and the trip. So that's what's out
there, lying for you. Otherwise it's a denial of your destiny and you're and it's, it's what you'd be doing, would be showing absolute disrespect to the universe for honoring our wishes by providing us with bull tacos and mariachi suits. Yeah?
Radio radial head Matadors, no less, yes, yes. Alright. Well, alright, okay, so I am gonna go. I gotta go pack.
Okay. Got,
we got, I got a lot of good advice. I got a lot of things to do in preparation for my trip. And
how do you say, how do you how do you say in French, because I want you to do this, especially in France. I want you to order steak, and I want you to order it well done. How do you say well done in French language?
I don't think there are words that describe a piece of beef cooked in that manner. Is
there? What's the French word for ketchup? I
think. It's ketchup, because only bag Americans.
Yeah, I'm hoping you can, can you, can you give it when you come back, would you tell me what? What they say? You know, what is the French response to a well done steak with ketchup?
I might. I'll just bring you some ketchup. I will bring you some French ketchup. Yeah,
does that help it in any, in any way? I'm
just going to stop at the Kroger all the way to your house next time grab Yeah, I got this from France,
yeah. Or when you're in France, did you tell it? Just mention everybody how much you use French mustard. Just you know that they'll, they'll know you're one of them.
Yeah? French mustard, the yellow cup, yeah, the squeezy, yeah.
Well, I got you, I got your mustard in my fridge. In the fridge is there? You're gonna go over. You're gonna do so well in Europe. I can't wait to hear how back, how it works. It's gonna be fun. Please follow my advice. It's perfect. Yeah,
okay, okay.
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