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A conversation about cars, trucks, tugs and other machines of transport that flows like an ADHD fever dream, hosted by Hoonigan co-founder and 321 Action Action director Brian Scotto. Enjoy, it’s gonna be a bizarre ride.
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[00:00:00] Speaker: What's up everybody? I hope you guys are all enjoying your holiday. And here is a little extra bonus. I say bonus. 'cause this week between Christmas and New Year's is kind of the no man's land for content. That's why a lot of people take off. But we're a new channel and you know, it's like the giving season.
So I figured I give you guys an extra episode, but this one's gonna be different. It's just gonna be me. This is actually the kind of content that I typically make for Patreon, which is one more reason that maybe you should become a Patreon member. This is also season one, a very vehicular. And for season one, I saw it as.
Eight episodes and we're halfway through. So this gives us sort of like a mile marker to stop, kind of enjoy it and run through the first like, almost thousand comments. Actually, I think it's more than a thousand comments, uh, that you guys have left on these first couple of videos and try to answer some of them.
So anyway, let's get into it. It's just, uh, me and you. I'm gonna run through as many of these comments I clipped as possible.
All right, here we go. And tonight's guest is all of you who were nice enough to leave comments. And I, and I wanna start, before I get into this, I was overwhelmed by just the amount of. Really just positive comments that were just general, like you guys were stoked to have this podcast for me to be back making YouTube content.
Um, I know a lot of people are really stoked to just see a lot of the OG Hogan guys back together and, and hanging out. Um, that was really the majority was just like overwhelming support for what we're doing. And I'll tell you, it's great to see that it's kind of the thing that makes me want to get up and keep doing it.
Um, definitely motivates me to see all that. And as you guys probably know. I have always been in the comments. Vinny used to call me the chief comment officer instead of the chief Creative Officer at Hoonigan. 'cause I was the one 98% of the time replying as Hoonigan when we were there. I think it's important to be in community and deal with all of that.
Um, and it's also great 'cause I get a little bit of feedback from what's working, what's not working, um, and sometimes spawn some good ideas from it. So anyway, uh, here is just. A bunch of random comments that we pulled. Some of 'em are questions, some of them are suggestions, different things. And I'll start with this first one 'cause I have heard a lot of this ever since buying, uh, a farm.
So very quickly, if you don't know, I live in Long Beach, California, and I still live in Long Beach, California. Um, I love it here. It's the closest thing I could get to Queens, New York. In la Uh, so yeah, it works for me, but I also have always wanted to have land and be far away from things and have some quiet, and I bought an avocado farm about almost three years ago now, uh, with my wife, and it has been awesome.
Uh, one of the main reasons I bought it to begin with was because I need a place to store all my cars. Um, but I also just wanted like something to get away. Grew up in New York City and I spent the last, whatever, 15, so odd, some odd years of my life here in Los Angeles. So I've only lived in major cities.
Uh, we found this really cool place. Uh, it's about two hours away from, from where we live or really not even. And, uh, we get out there as much as we can. Um, a lot of people thought I retired, um, which I get it, like was put out to pasture. Um, but it was. It was just a place that I was spending a lot of time and, uh, most of, if you were seeing any content or anything from me on Instagram, it was probably me driving my Kubota tractors on the farm 'cause it's a fun place.
So this question is Scott's farm show when, first off, uh, I'm not Jeremy Clarkson. I wish I was, but he's just way funnier than me and just way more clever and a way better presenter. And I absolutely love his farm show. And so many of my friends are like, you should make the same show. And I think there's two reasons why I'm not gonna do that.
One. I like don't wanna just follow and do the same thing that he did. Again, you'll notice that's not really my style. Um, I don't think I could do it better than he can. So why try? Um, and by the way, if you don't watch the Clarkson Farm Show on Amazon, it's fantastic. You definitely should. The other one is, is like the farm for me is therapy and it's my getaway.
And it's something that just kind of. Joy by myself. That's not saying I won't make an occasional episode here and there about stuff that I do on the farm, especially some stuff like, I'm very excited, I've learned how to do with tractors and I wanna show that off. But, uh, I don't think like an actual show's coming, but yeah, maybe an episode or two.
The next one is Rotary K Truck doesn't count. Question mark. Look, I get this. So this was. On every one of the episodes that I've brought in in a former Hoonigan, I asked them what their top three, uh, you know, cars were that we ever built as a company at, at Hoonigan. And that means not like personal projects like my Audi or Twerk Stallion or, or Boom Hauser, but projects we built as a group and everyone was throwing around, you know, all these different cars.
In the end, you know, the winning combination was like, was dunk. Rolls and shit cars, which I, I think works like that Really makes sense. There's a lot of cars that got left out, um, and some not even mentioned, and one of them was the Rotary K truck, and this is probably one of the coolest looking cars we ever built, right?
We worked at Chimera, built a kit, like put this really sick rotary in it that Vargas had built and uh, it was super cool. Except it never really drove right? It was kind of a pain in the ass. It didn't, like, it didn't steer well. Um, it was hard to drift. Um, it was so loud that even just moving it around the shop was so obnoxious, like no one ever wanted to start it.
Um, so I think if we kind of built this thing that felt a little bit like, uh. Like a trophy, like it looked really cool on the shelf. It was really rad to roll out to different events. It also didn't help that the transmission was put in backwards. It was like opposite from the way that you would normally drive a sequential that made it difficult for people to drive.
I don't know, it just, it was one of those things that just looked better on YouTube than it, than it did in real life. That being said, I'd build another one. I just don't think I would put in the sequential or maybe as crazy of an engine, like I think something that. Just kind of did the job and wasn't so obnoxious, would've been better.
But hey, like you know, as Vinny, and I always say like it was a YouTube build. It worked really well for YouTube. Next up, will this be on Spotify as well? Love this podcast, but I listen way more than watch. Yeah. This is literally just me allowing this person to do some, uh. Some housekeeping. Uh, yes if you are watching this and thinking, I also wanna listen to it.
It is available on Spotify, apple Podcasts as well as pretty much any other RSS feed. 'cause it is an RSS feed, so you should be able to find it anywhere. I listen to it, um, on Overcast. That's right. I listen to my own podcast. Not really, but next up Scotto is my A DHD spirit animal when it comes to projects.
Yeah. Um, I don't know if that's a good thing. Um, I, I've got like a whole show that I want to do, uh, that I'm just gonna title Does it Run? And it's basically about how my A DHD led to me owning 26 cars and how I have to change that. But hey, you know. Whatever you need to tell yourself. Next one is, I reckon there should be a YouTube for over forties.
I love the old forum day type builds where you see the slow progression, the bulk build content style is definitely more for the younger fellas. This is, I think, in response to. Vinny and I talking about how YouTube really sort of changed the way like we all build cars. The why we build cars and the content that works.
And, uh, I, I, I fully agree. Um, I, I dream of this idea of like, imagine building a car where I. Every week you just make a small progress. Like it's like a slight bracket, you know, you got this built and I mean, imagine like the Binky project, but it actually came out more than once a year. Like that would be a really cool build show to follow.
I don't know if it would do well, I don't think like the algo supports that, but man, like I would certainly watch that because I do agree that the current build shows, like there's just too much happening and you don't learn enough. Um, that being said, there's other guys who do really great build stuff, but, uh, I just, the reason I clipped this.
Comment was more the like, YouTube over 40. 'cause there's definitely, I, I'm realizing that as I get older there's like this different way I wanna consume content than maybe what's working today. Um, so I don't know. Maybe we can build that. Maybe we can just make, um, forum build spec or like, you know, uh, build threads.
Remember that. Remember like build remember build threads.com. That was great. Um, doing kind of build thread style. Uh, builds. The thing is it just takes forever to make 'em. It's like it'll take you like two years to get to get through that all and get it all done. Um, next up, but the real question, can we get a rail car update?
This was probably the most common comment across all four videos I uploaded. Uh, other than just general, like, Hey, it's cool to see you back on YouTube, uh, which I love because this is like an inside joke, right? Uh, if you don't get this, maybe you need to watch more old Hogan stuff. But the joke was always at the end, just as we were cutting off the camera, I would jump in front of camera and say, wait, wait, but first I, I wanna talk about rail car.
I wanna just. I realize that there's probably an entire audience that has no idea what rail car is so quickly. Rail car is a drag car that I was working on that was a pre-war car, built on a model, a chassis with a Cadillac engine, and I was building it a Cadillac Flathead, uh, and like all the parts in it are pre 19.
Really like 1945, I was building it to go race in the race of gentlemen, which is an event that happens in Wildwood, New Jersey. And this was probably one of the things I got hazed the most about with everybody at Hoonigan 'cause no one else understood it. I loved it. It was something I really super geeked out about.
Uh, and just a quick update is that I still own. All of the parts to build Railcar. Um, some of them are next to a shed. Some of them are in boxes, but I do plan on finishing it. I just don't know if it'll still be Railcar or if I'm just gonna build like a cooled, traditional hot rod or speedster out of it.
Um, just 'cause I, I don't know if I'm ever gonna go race it anymore, but. It was, I I, it's definitely something I want to finish, but I don't think anyone really cares to see it finished. I think it's just a good joke. But anyway, I appreciate all of you who brought it up 'cause it's certainly a insider nod.
Next question is, man watching the Vinny and Ron video A. Now this one, which was the Hurt episode, um, really makes me want to pursue these brand ideas. I have. Um, I, I literally clipped this just to be like, do it. Do it. Like I get most inspired when I read about other people's stories of making stuff and being successful.
Um, I'm in, like, currently right now, reading a bunch of books from directors and screenwriters and movie producers about, you know, them making their first movies or making the movies that they never thought they were gonna be able to make, or that they, you know, they never thought were gonna happen. And then they did happen and they became these huge successes.
Um. Like, yeah. If, if this is that moment that you get inspired to go do it, like go do it. Go do it. 'cause this is an amazing time to be able to launch a brand. 'cause it was a lot harder to do something like that 25 years ago. There's so many problems we have with social media and um, you know, content and just in general that I can talk about.
But the one great thing is, is it removed a gatekeeper and it made it very easy for you to. Go build something and get it out there. Maybe not very easy, but a lot easier than it used to be. At least you don't have to learn like Quark or something like that to make a magazine. Next up, need a YouTube series called Scott's Dream Factory, where Brian actually has people help him finish his projects.
I think this is a bigger concept that's gonna roll into the, uh, does it run series, which is me figuring out. My 26 cars and, uh, 25, I don't even remember anymore, which is part of the problem. Um, and, and, and what to do with them all. Um, 'cause there's a reality that I'm not completing. Even if I completed one every year, I would be like in my sixties.
Ugh, just thinking about that by the time I finish them all. So, um, I think there's a need to sell some, I think there is also a need to get other people to help me. I think one of the problems most of my cars don't run is 'cause I try to do everything myself. Um, I need to get over that hurdle. So that's all coming in an upcoming show, um, which will probably be one of the few non podcast things, uh, that I do on the channel, uh, which is sort of an ongoing series trying to figure out what to do with, with all 26 cars.
Speaking of that, the next question is, uh, really wanna see that eight six again. So a lot of people have asked me about the eight six, especially after I did the drifter film with Sun Kang. So the drifter film with Sun Kang, the main hero car is called Lola, which is an eight six. That transforms to kind of two different variations in the movie.
And a bunch of people are like, you know, hey, that's cool, you just made a movie and did a bunch of action with a Corolla eight, six, but what are you gonna do with yours? Um, for those who don't know, I bought in. Eight, six. And for the last few months I was working at Hoonigan and I started to swap a VR six, uh, 3.2, uh, VR six into that.
So 3.2 24 valve vr running on itbs. The itbs, uh, are actually behind me. These are the itbs right here. And uh, obviously they're not on the car, so the car's not running yet, but I am working on getting that done. The goal is to have that finished by the time the Drifter movie comes out in theaters so I can actually drive my eight six to watch the movie I worked on in the theater.
Like that's a good goal. It's a good deadline for me to go do it. I don't know if it's still gonna be at Jim Kana car. Hoonigan is still doing the Jim Kana grid series, so maybe I'll go do that, but. I don't know. I, I need to finish that car. I did, I lost interest in it, but like, engine is built on it. It needs wiring.
It needs me to finish up a few, uh, fabrication pieces. But like, it's actually, I don't wanna say it's not that far away, but it's closer than, than maybe it, no, it's, it's pretty far away. Anyway, I'm try to get that one done by summer. Don't hold me to it. So next up. Oh, this, so this was actually, this is one of many people who brought this up.
I think a lot of. People were a little taken back. Uh, when I said that there was like, there was an era when like cars weren't cool and a lot of people don't seem to remember that. This one basically said, was there really a period when being into cars wasn't considered cool? Ouch. I'm a bigger nerd than I even knew.
Yeah. For me. Look, cars, I think go in and out. There's always like these peak moments, 1950s peak moment, right? Hot roding greasers. Like cars are super cool. The drive-in movie theater, they may be the most peak moment we ever had in automotive culture. I think we're in a new peak right now. I've said that on multiple pods.
Um, it just, everything from the love of Formula One to seeing it in fashion to, um. You know, seeing it in music videos, like it's, it's kind of everywhere. And the last peak I remember was the hip hop era, um, pit, my Ride, you know, overhauling, right? Like this was just massive. And basically Discovery Channel gave up discovering anything and just was talking about cars, right?
And that's like how crazy it was. Barrett Jackson, all of that was really going through the roof. But then there's that period in between because when I talk about Pimp My Ride and all those shows, you're talking 2004, by like 2008, especially when the recession hit, everything slowed down really hard and was that way until maybe around 20 14, 20 15, like when we launched Tune again, there were people asking us why we would launch a car brand because it felt like kids didn't care about cars anymore, and there were stats to back that up because young.
Adults, uh, you know, ages 17 to 20 were no longer getting their driver's license by like a massive decline. I forget what the percentage was, but it was, you know, it was like 30% less than, you know, we had seen five years earlier. Like the kids just didn't think it was worth getting. Growing up and getting a car and driving a car, it just wasn't a thing.
Um, obviously I still thought that the culture was there, but it just, we still started a brand and during those, those moments, but, and we saw, you know, and I'll say it too, we saw an audience in video games. We saw an audience like starting to watch YouTube. Obviously like the early gym Kanas, like we knew there was an audience there, but I think they were no longer.
Um, something that the previous automotive culture could reach. They weren't watching. The Discovery Channel shows. They weren't showing up to the Barrett Jackson auctions. Um, they weren't walking into a dealership and buying new cars, but like they were still somewhat there, but in general just didn't seem as cool.
The Prius was the most driven car out of cool people in California. It was kind of a gross time. Like I remember friends who were selling their sports cars who like weren't really car guys. They were like car adjacent because they were driving Priuses and like putting flat blacking Priuses and putting them on wheels like it was not.
It was not a peak moment. Um, and it felt like everything was sort of going that way and then it turned around all, 'cause we started honi again. No, I just, I joke, but there definitely was this like, massive shift, um, that we started to see, I think around like 2014 to 2016. And then it really just kind of, I think, ramped back up and like it was back in.
But that's like, I think standard ebb and flow as stuff kind of goes in and out. And I, and I'll tell you the number one way to see that is you could just look at. People spending money in automotive who aren't like endemic automotive brands. Like you watch that money just disappear for a while and then all of a sudden it comes back.
Like whenever clothing companies are doing stuff in automotive or beverage companies are doing stuff in automotive. Like what? Whatever it might be like when that starts to dry up, it's because it's sort of out of cool for the moment. So, I don't know. A bunch of people debated me on this. I lived it on the business end.
And the business end is where you feel it the most. 'cause that's when magazines die. It's when people lose their jobs. It's when the industry has a lull. Um, when. Products aren't selling. Um, you know, you can see the financial impact of like, when it's not as cool and then when it's super cool there, you know, the whole thing explodes and gets, it gets bigger.
The next question we have here is, uh, I do like the Mitsubishi Evo X fight. Me, you know, I kind of felt bad for this. I. We were talking in the first episode with Vinny and Ron about how like the EVO eight and the Evo nine, where this was like this fantastic car and then it kind of ended and then the Evo X came out.
And I, I, this was actually said because I was talking about buying a crashed Evo X to make into a camera car. 'cause I thought it would be the perfect camera car. I think a lot of people took, uh, I don't know, a grievance with this one. Um. And what we were saying was the Evo eight and the eight and the nine were such fantastic cars and the Evo.
X or the EVO 10 was a step down from that. Uh, I stand by that. Like the EVO nine is a better car than the 10 as a driver's car. You know, I think the EVO 10 is a great car if you need it to be more than a fantastic car to wheel. Otherwise, the eight and the nine are the winner. Like it's just so much more raw.
They, it just works better. Yeah. But that being said, like I actually don't agree with VIN and Ron. Like, I think for them the X is, is like, or the 10, whatever you wanna call it. Out of consideration. I, I, I'd still own one. I I still think they're great. Um, I, it's, I would actually argue that it's the end of the driver's error cars, but, you know, hey, it's Vinny's brand, so I guess, you know, he gets to make up the rules, but whatever.
Okay. Next one is Monster Jam is like the automotive equivalent of WWE. I don't know if that's like, I dunno if you're saying a bad thing there, man. I remember watching like Monday Night Raw. I, I wouldn't ever say I was a big wrestling fan, but like, man, it was really enjoyable. Um, as I said, which I think should be a quote from me is like, Motorsports has an entertainment problem.
I'm happy to own that quote. Uh, WWE e does not like they literally have entertainment in the name. They're very good at that. I think Monster Jam is really good at entertainment, obviously. Their enter entertainment is really aimed at probably an eight or 10-year-old kid. Um, having brought my child to Monster Jam, like that's who they're going after.
But I, but if you watch Supercross, which is another Feld property, like they're really good at entertaining. Like they have the fireworks, the light show, like just really cool setup and, you know, it's all just done very well. I, I think the rest of Motorsports needs more. Of an entertainment lens when it comes to telling stories and just thinking about it that way.
I, I, I will always say this, but like, man motorsports, like you take yourself way too seriously. It's the reason we started the Jim Kana film. If you go and listen to any early interview with Ken, he will straight up tell you, we made Jim Kana because motorsports was boring. That like motorsports just seemed way too dry and it wasn't about having fun.
And uh, I think there's a lot of series out there that are still doing that. I think there are new series out there that are. Still striving to be accepted by the Old Hat traditional thing that isn't working. So even though they have the opportunity to be new and cool, like they're too worried about like being old and traditional, um, I don't think Monster Jam cares about what anyone in Motorsports thinks about 'em.
And that's kind of what makes it entertaining. Is the actual like race events in Monster Jam Real? No, they're completely scripted and I don't think that really matters. I think like that's the missing the point piece, but I think we could learn a lot from. Looking at that and saying, how can we make this more entertaining?
How can we make more entry points for like normal people? So, yeah. I don't know if you meant that as a dis, if you meant that as like, yeah, monster Jams is the WWE E. 'cause wwe e's sick and people love wrestling. Then yeah, I agree with you. If not, like, I don't know. Tell me what Motorsport doing it right, right now, and I will blow holes in it.
Next favorite build is easily. Lord frightening. You know, I love this build. I'm so happy we got to make it. For those who don't remember this, we built, um, like a fast and furious homage. This is the kind of a build that came out of me being on marketplace at night. I had found a short. Um, short bed flare side F-150, similar to the, was it the Racer's Edge Delivery parts truck in Fast and Furious?
One, the Paul Walker drives, but the question was, was like, what would their character build. At the end of the movie, right? So like you're now he's gotten to experience A two J. Like, what would that be? So that was the whole idea, like, let's put a Toyota straight six in it. Um, I actually don't remember if it was a one J or a two J.
I think in the end it might have actually been a one J or maybe a 1.5 j. But that doesn't matter. It was like, let's make this no longer Ford powered. Um, let's not actually start with a real lightning. And we didn't wanna call it a lightning 'cause it wasn't, um, so it got the name Lord Frightening, which like to me is actually one of my favorite names.
So we've ever named a car. Like I say, there's shit car in Shark Cart. And I loved Rolls Royce 'cause it was, um, sleigh, Poupon Sleigh. Poupon was a fantastic name. Um, but Lord Frightening was a great name. And you know, I, I think the only reason that this vehicle didn't make it into anyone's list is while we built a really cool engine for it, we never sorted out the suspension.
So the suspension couldn't actually hold the power. So there's like a ton of like. Axle wrap whenever you tried to get on it. So it was fun to drive in a straight line, but it really wasn't that much fun to throw around. But it, it's actually, it's, well, it may not be in my top three, like it's definitely in a top.
Eight. I think top ten's like too broad and probably not top five. So, but yeah, Lord frightening was, was fantastic. I, I wish that was, that's one of the vehicles I wish we had finished through and, and built better. But it was still badass looking. It looked really good for, we had it on tes too. Uh, it was a good one.
Next question. Hoonigan inspired top gear adventures. Where the fuck do I pay? Look, we always wanted to make this style adventure show. I think we touched on it with some things. Car cocaine abroad had elements of it. Uh, scum. The misadventures of Scum Bug were there, but. It's become very clear to me in the past couple of weeks since we released the first episode that there is a real want to see everybody back together and to go do something.
So I've definitely started working on some sort of plan, like what it is I'm not really sure about when we can make it all happen, but I have spoken to all the boys. Everybody's down to kind of go do a reunion, show where it lives, how we put it together. I don't know. You actually bring up an interesting thing of like, where do I pay for it?
I don't know if it's something that like lives on YouTube, or maybe it's something that we could put like on a simple. Like streaming, that's like easy for everyone to go get to, not where you have to go download something. Maybe you could just like buy it for a buck or something. Um, I don't know. We, we have to figure that out.
'cause obviously these things don't come free. Someone's gotta pay for it and, and it's gotta be worth everybody's time. Um, it used to be a lot easier when everyone was on salary to go do this versus saying, Hey, we all have to give up a week to, to get this done. But everybody I think, wants to do it.
Timing feels right. It's definitely gonna be a road trip. It's definitely gonna involve ship boxes and it's definitely gonna be something that midway through everyone's gonna wish they didn't agree to. So, uh, yeah, keep an eye out for it. My guess is we'll probably try to do it in the summer. We'll probably talk a lot about it as it comes together, um, especially on Patreon and things like that.
So. Let's see. Uh, this one says, I remember the first video of the Hoonigan channel I watched was when you guys got Shit Car and I started binge watching for like five weeks and never missed an episode. Yeah. Like, you know, I I, I actually cut this one out because you know, it's interesting, we talked about Shit car the other day and I was thinking like, I don't know if we actually think about how, like we rarely talked as a group of like how important shit car was.
Not just because of the car, it was, but it was this thing that like brought us all together and like taught us how to make content around dumb shit. And I think this is something that like we all began to miss and if you listen to the previous episodes, I think you're gonna get a kernel of of this from everybody.
But there was like something really special about Shakar and we were never able to recreate it because we all had our own cars after that and we all got our own stuff to build. And you know, I've mentioned that before, but. You know, this was this moment where all of us got to sort of have fun working on something, ripping around, shredding something.
There was like no care in it. We didn't care if you crashed it. Right. Um, which was this super rad sort of element to it. And. When it was happening, I knew we needed a project car. Like that was something in my head was like, we need, if we're gonna make this channel work, we need to get like a really cheap and approachable project car.
And we got that. And um, I don't think any of us knew how successful it was going to be and how much people were gonna connect with it and how much of like a brand identity it created until it was happening. But then I don't think it was until much later, until it was over and you know, that. We're like, man, this thing was so important to something we built, but was also this like weird memory of a time that like didn't exist anymore.
And it was without question this thing that like we just realized was unreadable. Like we could, we couldn't go do it again. Like we tried to do other low buck. Build and like that thing just held a certain space. So like, I get it man. It's uh, it may be the thing that brought you to Hoonigan, but it also was a thing that I think made Hoonigan for us, like work like it was, it was really exciting times with that car, which is weird 'cause whoever thought a $350 car.
Would be that thing. This question, where is the quantum synchro wagon content? Uh, I just wanna call that out. 'cause people like Vinny don't believe that people wanna see quantum synchro wagon stuff, so there's at least one person. That's it. It'll be coming soon. Maybe not, but maybe this was an interesting one.
Uh, I have a great idea. Go get something old as fuck and weird. And build a vintage race car and come to the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix. The PVGP is one of the only, if not the only publicly interval race on city streets in the country. I raced in a hill climb they did last year in my Miata and have been going most years for the past 20.
It's a fucking great event. So the reason I called this out is because. I looked into this when I was at zero to 60 and put it on a list of things we had to do, and then I completely forgot about it, and it made me think, you know what, I think this would actually be a great event to go to. So like, yeah, I, I, I would love to do this.
I forgot that this even existed. I forgot that I had wanted to race it previously. That's a great idea. I may actually, I may actually do that. This. Or next year. Scotto, please, for the love of God, do an F six hun. Build on your channel. I've been waiting for that thing since you first opted in a video. No bullshit.
Also, where's the Mexican f? Well, it's actually a one 50. That thing was just cool. Yeah. So, uh, good news and bad news. The good news is I do plan on building the F 600. The bad news is, is I think I have to sell the B one 50 to fund it. You know, can't have everything in life. But, uh, I do really wanna build the F 600, so it should be coming the next Gymkhana.
Surely it's gotta be Leah Block in the Huna unicorn. I agree with you. I definitely think it would be cool to see Leah block in the next Gymkhana. That being said, I don't think it'll be in the Huna unicorn. Um, I have talked to her about this and I think she would, she wants to do something different. I think it's super important for her to pave her own path and kind of do it her way.
Which means probably doing it in a new vehicle or something of like her own imagination instead of doing something that, you know, has already been done before. Um, that being said, man, it would be really cool at some point to see the Huna corn rip like that again. I got to watch her tear it up at the SEMA Fest.
Uh, that was done in 23. And, uh, man, she ripped like I was really impressed by her driving, considering she had never really wheeled that thing in that type of. Manner. Sure. She drove it straight and smoked a ton of people, but, you know, sliding it the way she did, I mean actually she was out there with Travis Pastrana and I think she showed up Travis at that event.
Um, so it would be really cool to see it in the Huna corner, but I don't think you'll be seeing that next, I think, I think if you see something from Leah in a Jim Khanna fashion, it will be something of her, of her own design. Next question or next comment. We need John Chase. I totally agree. I'm gonna try to put John in for the next season.
John is super fun, super great to dig into. Um, I think John is one of those shows where I, I have to really do my homework and get a bunch of really good questions going with John 'cause otherwise John and I will just ramble about. Absolute nuance. Uh, but I, I love John Chase. He actually came to my house during the summer and I hadn't seen him in almost two years.
And we had just like the best night hanging out. It was just me and him and it was, it was like one of those, like, it was like soul food. It just was really, really nice to have John back in my life. So 100% bring John Chase out wouldn't be great. 'cause John and I can actually talk about stuff that never made it onto YouTube, which is like the power tour days.
Which is stuff that we never made content about. Um, I have a bunch of footage from it, but we never actually made anything about it. Okay. Next, just want to add circle jerks with some of the best couple videos. I would've taken 20 less of this or that episodes for a couple more. Circle jerks and circle jerk.
Rule book episodes. I only bring this up because, uh, circle Jerks was the lowest performing thing we ever did. I think it's because whenever we typed the word circle jerk into a title or description, we immediately got flagged by the algorithm for obvious reasons, and it just never delivered. But there's actually a bigger story behind Circle Jerks, which is there was a song.
That circle jerks, the punk band, uh, made, um, called Wild In the Streets. And we used it for so much stuff in the early Hoonigan days that we actually discussed. Like maybe we should just buy a license from them to be able to use it whenever. Like if there was, like, if we had ever done a TV show, um, like a, like a jackass show like that I think would've been our theme song.
Like that was just like, we love that song and I, I'm. Old punk rock kid, like absolutely loves circle jerks. So when we were making, when we came up with this idea of like, Hey, we wanna make YouTube content. We saw it very different than what we ended up making later on. At first, we saw it as like this re actually, when we first set out to make YouTube content, we were kind of actually making what you would now call shorts or reels.
We were making this like quick, short form, under three minute type of stuff, and the first concept that we ever had was circle jerks, which if you never saw it, it's definitely worth going back and watch. But Will Rogie was in the first one, I think. I forget who he competed against. Yeah, I don't know. It was either gorilla, I, I forget now.
But anyway, um, it was either Chris. Yeah, maybe, whatever. It doesn't matter. But the whole idea of the game was that you had to basically drift in a circle and you had to hit a bunch of, like proximity, like. Points, right? Like there was just cones and you had to knock each one of them down and you got like a arbitrary number of points.
Like the game didn't really matter. It was just kind of fun. And we just, I think, enjoyed making a show called Circle Jerks. Yeah, that was like a great fun early no rules era of Hoonigan that like, I, I really miss. That was, that was a good time. And it's that, that name. That band just has so much history for me in a way I think a lot of other people don't even realize for, for Hoonigan.
Next one. Maybe if Scotto was doing the Fast and Furious films, they could get back to when they were good. Yeah, sure. That sounds great. Go, uh, go tell the boys. Um, I'd love to jump in. I'll be very honest. I think I can make a really, really great Fast and Furious with a really, really great action series. I don't know if it would be as successful as the current movies, like the current movies.
They've jumped the shark, but like, man, did they pull in a, a mainstream blockbuster, uh, audience. So I, I would love to get this option in my opinion. I think the Fast and Furious films are sort of like beyond the pale at this moment. I think instead it's like, Hey, what's the next set of Fast and Furious?
Like, what's the new Fast and Furious film that's not called Fast and Furious? Like I would really hope that, uh, my name gets attached to that someday. So, but anyway, thanks for the, uh, the support on that one. That would be great. Next one. Mr. Scotto. Can I make a suggestion? Can we get a series of published maps, or at least Google custom maps of all the locations of filming?
I'm a big Google Earth nerd, and I'd love to visit those places in a 3D map environment, but also for the public, just to see how wild the world tour since Jim Kana one has been. This is a great idea. Um, we actually talked about this idea of like Jim Kana tourism. I did a piece for Hoonigan shortly after Ken passed where I went.
Up to San Francisco and sort of ReWalk all these locations. Uh, you know, and just sort of, kind of had this like, trip down memory lane. I'll admit, man. It was, it was kind of tough to do at the time, but we walked through it all and you know, and talked about how we put it all together. Uh, it was actually quite, it was, it was quite enjoyable to do all.
Maybe being tough at the same time. That's actually a cool idea. Unfortunately, that's not like really my call anymore. Something maybe, maybe Hoonigan could do. Um, it would take a lot of work to put all of that together, but like that could certainly be like a rad thing. I, I, I think that there's like. A real, I don't wanna say business 'cause it's not about a money thing, but I think there could be like a really fun thing in doing Gymkhana tours.
Um, like to go and walk it. Like I, I've jokingly have said like, oh, we should just get a shuttle bus and just offer it like, you know, once a year. Like you could do it on like four, three day and it's like, hey, four, three day we're doing a tour of Shamrock Texas. Like, come meet us and we'll bring you through all the spots and all the people who were involved, who you know, are available can, can talk you through all the pieces.
I think that would actually be a lot of fun. But for you, Google Earth nerds, um, which by the way is like such a weird, interesting world. Um, Google Earth is something that. Didn't really come about until we were already making, or at least on the level it's at making gym kanas. And in the early days, it wasn't something I used at all.
And now I do like 90% of my prec scout is Google Earth. Every location, almost every location in Australia I saw on Google Earth before I saw it in person. Like that's how I kind of, that's really how I build out, like my request list of like what we're gonna go see. So, and it, it's great how, how good it is now.
So. Getting to see all of Scott's French cleats in the background from the COVID Home Build series, uh, is the ultimate bracket Brian Build, and honestly, one of the best improvements I have made in my home workshop. I love the French cleats. I kind of wanna do something behind me here. This was during a period of time where I definitely enjoyed working on my garage more than I enjoyed working on my cars.
Unfortunately, as you'll see, like my cars, I never really finished it, but. They work pretty great. Yeah. French cleats. I think I may still have a French cleat highlight reel on my Instagram. You can go watch, but uh, I, French cleats are the best. I, yeah, I need to get back to work on those. Anyway, I really just clipped this one because man, I kind of forgot about COVID Home builds.
I forgot that a lot of you are already familiar with this garage because of, what was it? Home Wrenchers, what was the name of the show that we did? 'cause we had no other choice. Uh, bring back a beer with man. You know, that show was a lot of work to make. I didn't realize then, like, it was actually quite successful.
'cause I didn't realize at that time that like long form talk shows didn't do the same kind of numbers that, that, you know, other shows did. But man, that show took a ton. Um, I don't really drink that much anymore, but I would certainly, uh, I would certainly break that edge to, uh, you know. Do a, do a case of beer with some people on a pod in the future.
I think that could be fun. Tony Angelo actually said to me at one point, he's like, I don't really like a beer with, because it sucks to drink alone. Because if you remember that show, it was interview, but you only saw the person who was being interviewed speak, and they were always by themselves. You never saw the people off camera.
And when I did the one with Tony, Tony's like, if I'm gonna drink, you're gonna drink. And I was like, oh, that's like a different show. And we joked that making a show called Crank Case. Right, and the idea is, is that every episode we would all crank through a case of beer. So like three people sit around a table, you put a case of beer out and you don't, the podcast or the show doesn't end until you finish the case of beer.
So like that could be a good one. Again, I'm in like my mid forties. I don't do well with hangovers anymore, but maybe we could do like one special of that, that, that also sounds like a Patreon special. So if I'm gonna have a hangover for three days, like someone's gotta pay for it. Okay. Next, uh, hold up.
Where can we get the merch? The 3 2, 1 Action Action Merch. You know, I made a bunch of that just to give out to people who work on the Jim Kana films. Uh, for me, I don't even really know what 3, 2, 1 Action Action is yet. Um, I say that 'cause like I needed a company 'cause I needed a company to do everything under.
I have a lot of other brand ideas and a lot of other things I'm gonna create that are gonna live way more in the merch space and. That kind of product space, but I don't know if enough people want 3, 2, 1 action action stuff say below. I'll get a bunch of stuff made and we, we can put it out there. I, I had a limited number of stuff, like, I think like 15 items that I released and sold to people on the Patreon.
Again, another reason to be a member, but I wasn't really sure if I was gonna do another run of it or if I was just gonna keep it stuff for like staff and crew, uh, that work on, on film sets. Yeah, I don't know. Like I said, I'm still kind of figuring out exactly what 3, 2, 1 is. I needed a business to run my business under.
That seemed like a great name. Obviously, if, if you don't know the reference, it's because I would always call 3 2, 1 Action Action for all the Jim Kana films, and it kind of became this thing that got connected to me very heavily because of the Amazon. Jim Kana file series. Yeah. And everyone's history to one action.
I just add an extra action and it has to do with timing and the ability for Ken to hear it in the car. So it was more of a confirmation thing and it just kind of stuck. Um, my buddy Jeremy Robinson says it, so it was just, I don't know, it became this thing and at the time when I was like, I need a name for a company.
That was it originally, and it may still be 3 2 1 Action. Action was going to be the book that I had planned to write about my time with Ken Block, and this was. While he was still alive. And it was supposed to be, it was gonna, the full name was gonna be 3 2 1 Action Action. My Life and Times on the Ken Block Show, because it very much felt like we were living in Ken's movie.
Right. So that was especially the, the Jim Kana stuff and the early team stuff. So that's where the name originally came from and it came then. So anyway, yeah, maybe I'll make merch again if you want some comment below. All right. And this one, which is the. Yeah, this is the last, uh, the last comment we've got clipped, um, which is perfect timing.
'cause I will originally told myself this thing should be about 45 minutes. It says, one of my favorite things about this gym Kana was the in-car shots. Travis looked terrified the entire time. Uh, yeah. Um. I don't know. It's something that I never thought about in the previous films. Ken had this very sort of stoic race car, race, car driver face in the films.
And in the first film we did with Travis, he looked, uh, terrified, right? I, I always, one of my favorite comments was he entered the car as a driver and left as a passenger. You know, he looked terrified and I, we enjoyed it and we thought it was funny, so we included it and. I was really amazed how many of the comments and the feedback was like whole, like there was so much about Travis's response and I think at first it was because it was so different from what people had expected from Ken.
And then in the second film we did with Travis in Florida, he didn't actually have as much facial emotion and I think it's 'cause he felt more confident in the car. He, everything was a little more under control. And this last one, I think it was actually a mix of like terrified and also just looking really happy and, uh.
Yeah, I, I, I, I kinda love it. And it was something that we really leaned into, um, in the edit, meaning like we sh anytime that Travis was really naturally excited, like we didn't tell him, we didn't script for him to act that way. We didn't realize he was actually doing a lot of what he was doing, you know, including shouting and like throwing his hands up in his, in the air, doing no handed, you know, jumps and all that.
Like, we didn't know any of that was happening until we watched the footage afterwards. I, I, it just brought this like whole different. Personal. Like I, I don't know, I, I, it's hard for me to explain, but like, it brought like an emotion to something that normally doesn't have an emotion. And, uh, I, I, I think it's great.
I like, for me, I think it'd be really weird to like film another gym Kana and have someone not make facial expressions, like it really added to it. So anyway, guys. Again, this was that added bonus. And don't forget, next Wednesday at 7:00 AM which is our scheduled time, we have another episode with a very special guest.
It's gonna be good. And then we've got four more episodes, uh, to wrap out this season. And then we go right into another season. There's not even like a week down. We make seasons because I like calling things by seasons. Doesn't really even matter to you guys. It's just an easy way for us to organize stuff.
And again, thanks as always for you guys supporting this, sharing it, all of that stuff. Big special thanks to our partners, Viper Industrial Toyota Tires heatwave, and of course FCP Euro, who helps keep all my cars running. Thanks again guys, for having faith in us, for making a cool show. So for next season, we have a couple new ideas coming that I'm really excited to share.
Unfortunately, I can never just do one thing. I always have to do multiple things and complicate it. I hope you don't mind 'cause this isn't gonna stop. It's just the way I am for you guys asking about what else is coming on the channel. I'm actually working on a nice succinct, I don't know, 10 minute episode to explain all the things I'm gonna do, but I'll give it to you real quickly.
It's mostly gonna be podcasts, but I'm also gonna do some content on my builds, and then I'm also gonna do some more. In-depth storytelling about things that I really care about and then I'm just gonna like, enjoy making films and, and all of that. I don't think there's gonna be any standard here other than podcasts like that you can always depend on.
And if you're just listening to this on audio, all that other stuff you'll have to tune into YouTube for. So anyway, guys, thanks again. Check out the Patreon if you want more shows like this 'cause this is the kind of stuff you get there weekly. Thank you very much and see you later.
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