Three, two, two one. Boom, and we're live. What's happening? How are you?

Oh man, I am just stoked to be here. I'm stoked to have you here, man. It's a pleasure to meet you. I love your show. Thank you. It's fun. It's a fun fucking car show. It really is man. I tell people I might be the smartest guy in the world and I figured out how to drink beer and play with cars and get paid for you.

Yeah, but it's like it's a fun show.

It's like you're not taking yourself too seriously,

you're having a good time, you know,

you're buying and selling awesome cars.

Oh yeah, for sure. It's a dream of mind to get it done it took

eight years to get it sold but here we are now. Did it really? Yeah it started

to I started pitching the show in 2004 we didn't start till 2008 or 2012.

What were you doing before that? Before television or before Gas Monkey?

Yeah. I kind of had two stages in life. I was a firefighter police officer, a medic before I was old enough to drink. I mean, I'm talking 19 years old carrying a gun.

Probably one of the smartest things for them to let me do. And then, you have a room when you were 19 I had a badge I was a cop

Literally I was a police officer and so by the time I was 20 I was also a firefighter and so I did that for a while and then moved into

printing and advertising and then sold that and got into this.

So was it just like something you just always into cars and that's what led you to the show?

You know, how would I tell the story diplomatically?

Realistically, I was watching the shows that were on TV at the time.

I'm always been a car nut and a motorcycle guy and what have you.

And I realized one night that my kids are never in the room watching it.

And my wife's not in the room watching it you know and the shows that

were on we're a little bit too much bravado and and I'm a tough guy and you know so I

I dug it and all my buddies dug it but the wives and stuff and I was like

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