So I was just telling you, this is that weird time of the year every year.

It's Monterey Car Week. It's call it Car Week, call it Monterey, Pebble Beach, whatever you want to call it. This is that time three weeks into August every year where I feel like the entire nation of car people looks to the West Coast, to the very nice area of Carmel, all these cars. cars and it may be the only time every year that I feel any kind of phomo, any kind of, are we missing something? Should we be there? And then I remember the times we've gone, and it is madness. You see all the pretty pictures, the cool cars, and they are very cool, and the weird cars, and the stratosphericly expensive cars. Oh, yeah. And one of the struggles I have with it every year, and you and I've talked about this, is I feel like it's just an opportunity for non-rich car people to stand around and applaud those that are rich. It just feels really weird every year. It feels really weird. It's so funny. I mean, there are things you can do that are inexpensive, but most things that you've

heard about, like the quail and Motilux that happened and going to the actual Hill Beach

show are wildly expensive to get into, prohibitively expensive to get into.

There's people.

By design.

Of course, there's people everywhere.

Cars you've only ever heard of.

It's sitting right there.

I'm going to attempt to recreate influencer guides to Monterey.

Oh, wow.

Okay, good.

Everybody does a guide to Monterey, and here's what you should see,

and they end up invariably saying the same thing.

Of course, yeah.

Here's what you do.

Show up. Wow, thing. Of course. Yeah. Here's what you do. Show up. Wow. Deep. Yeah. You will see cars. You don't even have to go to all these expensive shows. No. The auction, actually to go into the auction, just observe, they, well, it used to be 40 bucks. I don't know what it is now, but still, you can go in for relatively inexpensively. There's restaurants, there's more wine than you can possibly imagine. There's cars driving everywhere. You will get sick of Ferraris. You will think, why don't I have a Ferrari? But if I had a Ferrari, I'd just be like everybody else. So I don't want a Ferrari. It is absurd. You have to have crazy things. This is my guide. Here's how to do Carmel Week, Monterey Car Week. Go. Just show up. Any event that's happening, the parking lot is the best cars and coffee of exotics you've ever seen. The parking lot. Which is usually another golf course. Of course it is. Or another fairway to go to the other fairway where the actual show is. So you park on one fairway and then walk over to the other fairway. Exactly. And that's how you do it. And the other thing is we've also seen this when we've been there. The only way to throw down at Monterey to have an entrance that people notice are the people that chopper in.

Because the car is in the parking lot. This is true.

I mean, it's like just an exotic Skiddle showcase.

And then you walk in and I want to talk about someone.

This is one of the only times every year that we will actually talk about weird concepts

at length.

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