LIVESTREAM: FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024 9am PDT
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A May 2024 Friday morning session. Van answers questions and talks through current projects with the Patreon community. The format by this point is settled and comfortable.
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all right let's see if that did doesn't look like it's working I have someone
coming test test test test test I'm not getting working on it Sound Works does it sound good though all right I'm only getting one
bar of sound on my little audio meter here on the all right well let's
see let's see how this uh unfolds all right I'm skipping the weather okay the weather report I'm wearing a wool shirt
I had the heat on for two hours this morning and on my run I was perfectly comfortable in shorts and a thin Marino
shirt all right so how this works is that I make an announcement on
Thursdays that I'm doing a live stream and then people write questions in the comment section of the announcement and
then I read those comments in uh first come first serve so reverse
chronological order chronological IAL order okay so
e uh hi van what do you try to REM remove from your life is that a weird question no it's a very good question
and um oh it's hard to it's it's a little hard to answer there's a whole bunch of things this isn't what you're asking but
I've as I've grown up I've just tried to remove all the [ __ ] all the things that are not necessary um like I mean if you're
talking physical objects like it's one of everything in the kitchen there's no I don't have multiple potato peelers I
don't I have like one I have a cast iron skillet and then we have a copper Bo pot to boil water in and then a big like L
cruset Pot we don't have multiple of stuff except like coffee cups for guests and things like that that's not what
you're asking but I've removed certain I've removed and I did this when I was broke and it's not a money thing and
it's not like a privilege thing it's like I've removed certain like hyper inconveniences like I think I stopped
taking public Greyhound longdistance buses like buses that aren't city buses I think I've stopped taking those with
obvious exceptions if you're in Europe or something I think I stopped taking those like at the age of
30 stopped riding a skateboard at the age of 40 just if I was a pro This Is My Philosophy if you're a pro meaning you
made money and you able to live off of the money you made not you were like got your picture taken you were in a magazine and so pow Peralta sent you
some skateboards but if you're a pro skateboarder ever in your life then you can skateboard for your entire life and it's not
tacky um uh I'm friends with Eric Tuma Brittain not close friends with him but I know him
he's a professional skateboarder and he is I I think he's around my age he's a little younger I think but he has little gray hair he is absolutely beautiful on
a skateboard he can ride a skateboard but what have I removed um like cheap stuff things that broke I
was talking to Braxton yesterday about uh um oh that we were going to that we were
I had to load a bunch of bikes into a car and I was like we could put them inside the car but I'm not I don't want to do it College I don't want to do it
I'm good I don't want to do it College standard so I'm gonna th can I throw you out I know you just got here I'm
sorry um I don't want to do like because when you're in college you have unlimited energy and no resources so you just kind of get it done but it's real
bad and real sloppy like I hire movers if I need things moved or I hire laborers if I need labor done so I guess I'm
removing things like annoying tasks from my life things that I can delegate so I don't know that's not a
very satisfying answer but okay arj asks how long was the actual pre-
interview uh and he's talking about uh my interview with uh Spencer niosi so the pre- interiew was like I don't know
13 years long because I've known him that long and um you know I just put the GoPro on a tripod and put on those you
know wireless mics and we just started talking because that's what I wanted to do for that little talk last week
um Zach congratulations on your Canon ae1 um venicius all right uh venicius um uh thought of a question for you van at
times you've spoken about your thoughts on higher education for art and it seems you uh believe more in the idea of going out into the world and doing art rather
than going to school for it my question is if your thoughts vary when it comes to an education in design either graphic
or spatial I see a lot of my peers going to school for such things and often wonder if the do-it-yourself mentality
would also work for that well my uh domestic partner and the mother of my children is a professional designer and
worked as a professional designer up until like a year ago um and she's successful and she's very good and she
went to school and all the people she works with went to school so it might be one of those things where you kind of need to go to school but I don't think
you need a license for that I don't think you need a license to be a designer so if you can get good enough without a license you can probably get
work ceiling's very low on that and um the ceiling is very low on that career meaning those PE the very very very top
of that industry of like graphic designer unless you own a company which is a different thing that doesn't you're not a designer if you own a design
company you are an entrepreneur and a business owner that is a different thing but the very very
top uh you know I believe they probably make less than I do doing YouTube videos and I don't that great um uh that was
one of the pro the fundamental problems with that job another fundamental problem with that specific job of design
is that is AI and another job is that a lot of it gets outsourced to India
because there's really great um I mean The Taste doesn't get because taste is so specific to region so if you're
talking about sort of taste like the Ralph Lauren taste of how they want their stores designed they don't they won't
Outsource that to India but sort of the the work work of it the you know 3D Studio Max or whatever a lot of that
gets outsourced to India or wherever that people that work for less but have the technical you know virtuosity of
American workers but aren't as much of a pain in the neck as American workers and as expensive so I don't know I don't think
I don't know so I see a lot of my uh I see a lot of my peers going to school for such things and often wonder if the do-it-yourself mentality would also work
for that yeah and it will put you way ahead and it will put you in an entrepreneurial stance and if you skip College you have a fouryear four of your
best not best but four of your most energetic explosive you can work 25 hour
you can work 17 hour days years um and you're making money when your friends are in digging themselves in debt so
that's just my opinion of it like a pretty due to recent obvious events I have pretty high level of disgust and contempt for the
American you know uh especially the elite American academic institutions and they've been a scam starting probably
with the Millennials because y'all were such a gigantic um cohort there was so much money being made and your parents
your Boomer parents for their generation going to college was such a huge leg up that they taught your they they taught
your generation that that would be a leg up and unfortunately too many of you went to school too many of the Millennials went to school and you drown
the market so now you know when I went to uh when I went to visit icon Motors and you know
they make the $350,000 restoration of of of of Land Cruisers and I talked to Jonathan Ward
who owned it and started that company from scratch he said that he has he said you know I have plumbers and
carpenters and electricians who buy these cars he didn't say I have designers and blah blah blah and blah blah blah who buy these cars he said
plumbers and electricians buying $350,000 restoration cars just saying and I know that I know
what we pay and I know how you have to sort of you have to hoard technical workers like electricians and plumbers and stuff you have to like not tell your
friends about them because they're so highly in demand in these wealthy neighborhoods because no one knows how to do anything it's not like the 50s
where if you owned a home you probably knew how to fix stuff so it's just you can um you can kind of
write your own ticket and then you know my mentor Tom Sachs yes he went to art school I think he went to Art School to kill time and make connections you can
make connections with the internet through your work now it's not it's not it's not the way it used to be it's completely different and that's why I
went to college is I I don't know I I had no access to anybody I had no access to people who read books so now it's
different and you know sax was learned how to weld an art school he could have learned it in you know public high school but he learned how to weld an art
school and that's how he made his money to you know start a studio he was welding so that he could pay assistance
to make his artwork and then you know this is in 1993 or whatever okay so that was a little long
I have two literary based questions what book do you find as the Great American novel GH that is such a difficult question but the one that came I've
already read these questions the one that came to mind immediately was Blood Meridian by uh Cormac McCarthy that's
the one that a a friend of mine who's pretty literate who would never admit to being literate and but he like reads Sam
Samuel Becket and everything he said like he was like cormax the man and that's the book and so I read it and I
was like holy oh my God it's insanely great it's so great um no quotation marks I don't
think and I'm pretty sure no commas um what is your relationship to poetry any favorite poems or poets I like poetry
that is not mysterious and I hate poetry that is mysterious and so I have this collection
of poetry called The Outlaw Bible of American poetry and it's got poetry by all these strange people and there's
just like ones that are written about poems that are written about people poems that are written about car very straightforward but they have a real
they have verse to them and they have you know a meter to them and they have like a beauty and an impact to them I
love that kind of stuff um there's a great if I was teaching a poetry class the one that I might get these names
wrong um but I there's a poem called I'm pretty sure it's called I remember and it's like hundred and
something pages long and if I was teaching what poetry is it's by a poet I think his name is Joe Brainard I can't
remember both of those or either of them might it might be Brian Brainard or Joe Brian or something but I pretty sure it's Joe Brainard it's called I
remember it's just the simplest structure for a poem and he's just he's just basically it's like a 100 pages of
all the stuff he remembers and it's so great it's so great and so simple and
um yeah so that's that's what I think about it poetry and I love like all of Bob Dylan's songs they're all good and
if they're not and I was having a conversation with braxon yesterday they're all good and if they're not good
you just don't get it yet even the Christmas album okay Josiah asks and that question was from John Josiah asks
do you believe there will ever be a large scale cultural rejection of Technology okay great question I was
just listening to Theo Von's most recent podcast I love theovon he had Robert Green on and Robert Green wrote the 48
Laws of Power and Robert Green I just just on my run I was just listening to this he said that he forced sees in a
generation or two a generation of youngsters who are just going to reject it and find it all tacky and I think
genz younger gen Z people are starting to find all the like computer-based careers to be a bit tacky and to be just
a bit lame I've always found computer [ __ ] just tacky and lame um but I'm the old guy you know uh because they
were you know they were when these things were coming out they were just pick a piece of technology that you find
annoying that you don't want to learn like it's probably AI for y'all and it just every step of the of the way it was that for us every step of the way was
some new damn boring thing you're lucky you've had the iPad iPhone and IM Mac
for you know if you're if you guys are gen Z you've had them for your whole lives God it this the evolution and
having to adapt so we just rejected them whole cloth and then the macintoshes came out and they could do cool stuff so a lot of people started getting but I
think you know if you watch that movie uh Physical Graffiti I'm sorry no American Graffiti which is George
Lucas's first movie um it's about kids in the in the valley over here uh in like
1963 I think is when it takes place and their hot rods and the cars that they're driving are from the 30s like a lot of
them are they're driving like de coups which I think is a 1932 um Ford Model A coupe and they call
it a dece coupe a 32 Coupe I think I think I could be wrong about that but um you know so we all a lot of us like to
look back and there's stuff we want to save from the old way and I also heard on this podcast that there is no
tool in all of all of the tools that have been invented in human history there is no not a single one that isn't
used to this day which I'm like I've tried to figure out oh no wait they don't use such and such anymore but like yeah okay they don't use such and such
anymore in Kansas but they do in you know in the so so yeah I think we're gonna there's
going to be kids that are just like it's so in it's G to be so integ one of the things about technology that like if you're young you don't really realize is
how like just seamless and integrated it gets into everything like there's all kinds of computers and stuff when you turn the knob in your house there's all
kinds of computers linked to that knob out and some remote thing and also like all the stuff that you take for granted like you just do the face thing you open
it up you go to the internet you can upload any video in any format that you want um to YouTube and it'll just
work you when you're first uploading to the to the to the internet you had to make sure you had the exact right codec
and you had to make sure that whoever was hosting had the like whatever to play back that right codec it had to be all these certain numbers things didn't
talk to each other like if you wanted to get into the internet there was all this setup that you had to do with your computer and typing in code and little
numbers off of cards and stuff like that for like every application and then it just got more and more and more just
turn it on and it works but so probably it will regress into
you know technology will regress and it'll still be in the background but things will be less like techy and touch I can't wait for the touchcreen to like
bye-bye touchscreen is like for me DVD was that when the DVD format I just couldn't wait for it to be obsolete
because it was so lame and it was much worse than the than the thing that was before it which was VHS I was like I just can't and then all
of a sudden not all of a sudden like over the course of 10 years just disappeared it's just gone and the streaming because you know the the Technologies and fiber optic cable and
all of that got fast enough to [ __ ] you DVD and so I think the touchcreen will go that way I love that these new the iMacs just aren't aren't
touchscreen um okay so there's that what are your thoughts of the Midwest will I see you in Minnesota anytime soon I
don't have any plans to go to Minnesota anytime soon I don't really know much about the Midwest I've been there a little little tiny bit Tom saaks did a
show at the uh Iowa the Iowa de Mo Art Center I think and we drove out there and that was really fun but my brother Dean who's an Air Force pilot he said that the
Midwest is where America keeps her honor and he said uh he said all the Medal of Honor winners not all of but
like a great majority of the medal Medal of Honor winners are just quiet Midwestern
men so I've always taken that it's where all our food it's where all of our food comes from and um it's interesting it's probably
like the probably really good spot to be in right now because the coasts are going insane uh with ideas I guess
uh Andy asks that was from Jonas Andy asks can you tell us the story of Finding Your Land
Cruiser um Okay so well Isabelle was pregnant uh Isabelle's
car was a I don't think I had a car did I have a car I think I had just
motorcycles Isabelle's car was a uh we were living in Silver Lake Los Angeles Isabelle's car was a A6 Audi convertible
that her mom gave her piece of garbage piece of garbage every time anything broke and everything broke on it and it
was kind of new it was probably like a 20 2009 and this was 200
17 um every time something broke it was like either one1 or $2,000 and um oh such a piece of [ __ ]
anyhow that was her car and she got pregnant we needed like a family car and we were looking to buy like just
a new like Ford ex you know uh whatever explore or something like that but the problem is like the
what we C I just couldn't get past was like how much money you have to put into it that you're never getting back like the down payment and then the monthly
Finance payments or whatever if you're buying new blah blah so we were watching narcos one night and she saw there was a Land Cruiser in one of the episodes she
was like what is that I was like oh that's a Toyota Land Cruiser but I don't think that's within our price range because I was thinking that they were the same price as like G wagons I was
thinking they were like 60 70 50,000 but they were actually like 10 20,000 back then and so we found one
Isabelle found um so that's why the lights went out um yeah she got a
diesel so there was a diesel one and I was like oh let's get that because I had had a diesel Ford pickup and it was just
so great and then uh we started taking big trips on it and it just sucked in the mountains there it goes it just sucked in the
mountains so that inspired me to look for new engines and I'm glad we bought the diesel because you it's so old that
you can pop a new diesel engine in it and you still have the old car and you can and it's and you don't do the state
of California legally you don't have to go through all the emission stuff and everything you know you don't have to do smog if it's before 1996 or whatever the
year is um uh so that's how that happened and I just saved a bunch of money and the did the did the did the
engine swap which was insanely expensive but I don't care I'm gonna try to save the car forever
um what oh Colin asks me what are you reading these days okay so I'm
reading let me see if my headphones I'm reading uh
this let me see if I can I'm on a kind of a mammoth Mammoth kick I was introduced to him in Santa I mean just this is Dave hi Dave how hi
Dave nice to meet you that was it uh in Santa Monica and um and
uh I've always loved his stuff and know I put him in the thing in the last video I think and um so I read that and I read
everywhere in oink oink which is about like the gross and funny side of Hollywood and this is just a collection of essays that I'm pretty sure he wrote
during the pandemic and I love Mammoth because he said
um what did he say he said artists create because they are
annoyed and that is so so true he also said my greatest fear in life is that the audience will beat me to the
punchline uh anyway so I'm reading those and um I have a book called Everest Inc
about the uh industry of Mount Everest people climbing Mount Everest that uh a local guy here um wrote his name's will
I can't remember his last name his our kids go to school together that's uh on deck and then uh this book called second
class I don't know the author's name but it's a strange name uh that's also on deck and then there's a new Victor Davis
Hansen book about um the called the end of everything about the uh collapse of
Carthage Constantinople two more two more I can't remember oh oh oh oh the Aztec and then the fourth one I'll never remember some cre or something I don't know
um uh and I'm might read that but I have a feeling it's going to be a little bit too hard for me to keep track of all the different names in my head that kind of
book I just can't do it if I have to my anyway so that's what I'm reading uh so
JC writes kind of a heartbreaking one any advice for a working artist who's struggling and facing potentially
quitting after a decade of relative success as an artist yeah you're probably not going to be able to quit
you'll try but uh it's you're probably not gonna be able to it's just gonna suck you in or like like Colin and Samir you know I like to talk about these guys
they're doing so well and they are the um they're essentially the the Meet the Press of YouTube and so they've had all
of the major YouTube um other platforms too but mainly YouTube they've had all the major YouTube like influencers or
YouTubers or whoever I've been on their show Casey's been on their show Jack kti the guy who created this platform who created that who created patreon he's
been on the show Mr Beast has been on the show a bunch of times all you know they're just they're the Meet the Press
of YouTube they and they they're very their knowledge is so so so deep and
uh they originally T started something called La I don't know the exact history but the long and short of it is they had
a a YouTube channel that failed and then they quit and decided to go back and just do whatever and then like that day
they got a call from Samsung and Samsung was like hey let's we'll sponsor your channel for a year and we'll float all your expenses for a year um if you if
you you know and you can just keep doing what you're doing and they had quit they were like so sorry guys we're shutting down after all these we're shutting down
we're gonna blah blah blah blah blah blah and it just boom so there's that and then you're semi-successful that
means I'm going to assume Maybe I'm wrong but my experience with the art world is that the marketplace for
artists for successful artists is rich people that's what that's who buys successful artist work is rich people
and so talk to them they're good with money they're good at money they're good at you know I was gonna do I when the when
when the sky Mike he was a he's a uh he was a uh he worked at Gold Sachs which
is like the [ __ ] har you know that's like the Harvard of uh of uh Investment Banking
and you know he's retired he has his own his hobby that he does is not a money-making thing but he has he does 90s like supercars he has like a 90s
Supercar dealership so like Lamborghini kash's Ferrari 90s and 80s and back you know Ferrari tester roas all the cars
that I dreamed of when I was a little kid he has like a warehouse of them and he sells them he doesn't make any money on it it's just for fun and he's a rich guy and he's retired at like whatever
40 and I when I was doing my past up like my peps with the like the I did
that big uh Kurt vaget where I typed out Breakfast of Champions and then cut out all the type and put it on one sheet of
paper and I think I did an episode about it although or maybe Tom Sachs told him about or something and he called me and
he told me about nfts like this was like right at the Dawn right at the Dawn and if I had and it was like right when I was starting there was too much going on
I was right when I was starting the channel there's just too much going on I was having too much success with like the kickstarter and so forth and so I
didn't do it I'm glad in hindsight I didn't do it but had I done do it had I done had I listened to Mike at then and
like gone fast and like and just concentrated on that I think I probably would have made a lot of money I think I would have made
enough money to keep doing this stuff I mean I'm glad I didn't but for instance that guy's an art collector but he's
also got his finger on he knows things he knows little strategy so find your people like that in your in your
collector's Network and maybe I don't know maybe just quit for a while you know who knows maybe it'll come back to
you like I keep trying to quit running and it just can't get I hate it but I just can't not do it it's weird um but
hang in there this is also a very weird time so who knows okay Vincent
um would you ever consider moving to another country parttime or full-time in the future I've been thinking about it a lot lately and just not out of because
of the education it's really hard to figure out the education thing for kids um it's hard to protect them from morons
like California is the seventh richest country in the world this state we have the highest
taxes and in California ranks 37th for public schools in the country for public
schools 37th out of 50 and ours is no ours sucks and it's like why does it suck it's all educated interesting
parents that do very well why does this school suck why does my kid have to use Porta Poes in this like I don't I can't
talk about how expensive things are it's astonishingly expensive expensive here in California especially in Los Angeles especially like in Tanga Malibu
Palisades like when I go to New York City it feels cheap the restaurants feel cheap it feels cheap to get a hotel Everything feels like really inexpensive
because it's a astonishingly expensive here it's crazy it's like Scandinavia here and the school suck
so Europe I just we have European relatives and it's just a chill place I
love it and um I don't know so I think about it I do think about it it's like when is but when's the right time for the kids because you got to pull them
out of school and all of this and I know but we are I do think about it so I don't know I do definitely consider it
um and he recommend and Vincent recommends The Nomad cap Nomad capitalist on
YouTube um Richard writes a lot of your work revolves around fatherhood and the importance of good father s these days
especially for Sons you said that you spent more time with your child in the first five years of his life than your dad did your entire life how do you
think young men can grow evolve and be conscious good men in the world who have not been blessed with the father figure
to do it on their own is it possible as a young person no you need to find a mentor you need to find a some older a
person that's older a man that's older that has what you want and then just people love to give advice
people love you know people I mean you can't pick anyone you want you can't call George Clooney and be like be my father figure but somebody will come to
you in The Ether and uh you know you can be honest with people and uh yeah there was a little
stretch there from like age zero to five or something where I didn't have a father which is super important and um
uh uh yeah so I have I can kind of understand a little bit um but yeah just find somebody
that's old and successful in some way that you like that in some manner of success that you respect and take their
advice uh Brian writes I watched a Q&A where your brother was asked what's the meaning of life he said existentialism is a very dangerous thing
ignore it get back to work made me laugh as an artist do you ever get lost in existential thought I used to when I I think that's a young man's thing I used
to when I was a kid when I was you know 20s and reading all those camoo and all that but no Casey's right just get back
to work and you know if you want to know what the meaning of life is it's to ease the suffering of your fellow human beings that's why you're here is to help
it is to help out and make it a little bit better for everybody else uh um uh
alakan row alakin haven't missed a Tom saxs Bodega
245 popup since his return can we expect a spirited man popup anytime soon I'm not a fan of popups I don't really understand what the point is really
nobody makes money on them and uh I don't get it what's the you know it's usually for something that already
exists in another thing so I don't know but no I'm don't think I mean I do the repair station thing that's kind of a
popup so I don't know I'm I'm not sure um Conrad asks I'm struggling between
working as a film editor cinematographer and director editing gets me money but doesn't ignite the Fire Within shooting is great because I love to learn new
things and love the technical aspect of it but I'd love to be a director and that was what got me started in the first place I feel like Market doesn't
like Jack trades it requires you to specialize so that people know exactly what they can
need you for however I've always been an allrounder what do you think also engine
in my Jeep XJ died recently uh swap the engine for a used one or renovate the broken one I would say just buy a new
Jeep another Jeep XJ because they're not that expensive and an engine swap is really expensive whether you're putting in a new one or an old one but if you're
going to do it yourself which you're probably not but if you are and you can get an old you can get a Chevy like a fuel injected Chevy 350 to
fo fit in there put it in there because those are like bombproof engines and everybody knows how to work on them and they're really cheap
parts uh but as far as your first question man I don't know like I don't get that whole economy I get the you
YouTube economy but I just don't get that whole economy also like editor director of what like what do you want like TV commercial
TV shows um feature films my opinion and and I'm backed up
by a I'm backed up by a mammoth who's a who's a who's a vet like a a 10 times
decorated veteran of Hollywood and film making and stuff and it's just like don't go to school to be a director go
to if you have to go to if you are going into the film industry and you're doing a technical job
and new editor and cinematographer those are technical jobs don't go to school to be a
director he says or writer an actor whatever but the technical ones you need an education probably helps because
they're so complicated but um I don't know I have no I'm not a
director I don't really know my friends who are directors are were always directors but they started out writing their own stuff and then had hits with
it and then that's like but to me it's a totally closed I'm just thinking Hollywood like I hear director and I hear these different
titles like a different world I'm a skateboarder and you're asking me questions about Formula 1 you know what I mean like YouTube is skateboarding
there's one dude or maybe two and you kind of go out there and do all this cool stuff yourself film making like
cinematographer director first ad second all that that's Formula One there's a thousand people involved
in making whatever the damn thing is the video I mean the movie or whatever and I don't I have almost no experience with that so I'm not really
the guy to ask but I don't know that thing that thing about the fire is extremely overrated and it goes
away so I don't know if that's a way to you know if you're making money at editing
um I don't know i' would stay with that that's the best one I hate
directing uh Hugo asks I'm so split in my personality at one half that is chaos in in a manic state of creating and
fixing stuff the second half is strict serious logical exact perfect for school I go back and forth with them and can't
commit more than two eight two to eight weeks before switching had to say an
exact qu hard to say an exact question but any thoughts how to use it well yeah it's called a discipline and your
whatever your discipline you have to pick a discipline not 60 disciplines not I'm a writer director filmmaker I I'm a
painter and a singer and I restore cars and pick one thing I make the
best uh Sho lasts in the world and that's a discipline and your discipline will marry those two hemispheres of your
brain we all have that we all have we all have these two hemispheres of our brain one is the right Hemisphere and
that's the fun one that's the artist one that's the one that uh is sensitive to Art and makes
art and then you have the left hemisphere which is the orderly one that I mean I'm obviously this is totally
simplistic and just like whatever bro science and you know and
uh you got to make them talk to each other and you can help them both out by the discipline if you're naturally
creative the discipline is the hardest part but it's essential okay here's a good one oh do
you know any famous people with it I guess meaning this Duality I think all famous well famous is pretty lame like
what is what do you mean famous is almost meaningless like famous sure yeah there's probably tons
of famous people with it um SA or SEO says uh what do you think are the keys
to preparing for a great future and then he says to watch the Seinfeld Duke University speech and
um and uh three before reading this to I think to three patrons today in direct
messages I recommended that speech you have to see that that the uh and watch the one from like
the Duke University channel the uh Jerry Seinfeld's because he just Nails it all he just says it all the whole thing
about no one ever says on their deathbed I wish I had spent more time at the office there are plenty of people who say that on their deathbed there are
plenty of people who say I didn't work hard enough I wish I had done more work I wish I had done better probably most people and he says that in the spee
so um the key to the future is I mean you got to be disciplined and focus and find your focus and also and I go over
this and I'm told not to go over this and it's such annoy it's so so so [ __ ] annoying but um you have to keep
your eyes on the money you have to prioritize the money the money is everything unless you're born okay if you're born rich I am never talking to
you that is not the person I'm if you're a born rich person you never have to worry about money you're not my audience you're not the person I'm ever talking
to because I have no connect well I have connection to that experience but I have not personally uh had experience what that
is even remotely like so I'm talking about the rest of us the other 99.9% of us who have to in order to do
anything we have to generate the resources to do that thing and I don't know why it is I think it's
being hip or being cool or something but people like I think it's a combination of that it's so insanely difficult to do
to make money and a combination of like there are hip like people who it came real fast to and they say dude I never
thought about money man like like sorry Kirk oain thought about money as cool as you think he is you don't get to be in
that realm you don't sell 50 million copies or whatever if you don't think about money sorry um and then there's this also
thing this like oh uh if you just concentrate on your work the money will follow no it will not no it will not you
have to do both so that's one thing keep your you know I would say have a focus
and work on Focus what is your focus what is your thing that you're going to do and then
um keep an eye on the money and the best thing to do okay all right here you go I have a very very successful friend here
in La his name is mikee I think I mentioned him in the last video and uh he has a few successful companies he's
done documentary films uh that have made money that have made him you know he got paid to make uh and he has like a
skateboard company that he makes money from and he has a house and blah blah blah and I said oh I was listening to
this podcast with Scott Galloway and he said If instead of buying each new new
iPhone instead of buying taking the okay so the new the iPhone one was
like a th000 bucks or however much it was If instead of buying that phone you bought Apple stock
instead for all 15 Generations just buying one phone when do they come out once a year or whatever You' just taken
that money and put it in Apple stock today you would have $3 million right so I'm telling Mike that and he's like I have one million you'd have $3
million in stock in Apple stock and he's like I have $1 million an Apple stock and I was like what and he was like yeah
because in 2008 I bought everybody was using them all everybody you know everybody I knew was using these Apple computers I was like oh this company's
gonna be gigantic High School Dropout and he said like I think he told me like his you
know he's just he figured it out you know that thing that kind of technical simple stuff invest in index funds when
you're young that kind of stuff because you're gonna need the money nobody is immune to money and I was a little bit immune to money because of when I came
up because there was so much money washing around in the early in the early 2000s and late 90s and people wanted to
invest in all of these they wanted to there were patrons who wanted to pay you to make cool stuff and then there were investors who wanted to invest in the next razor fish and you don't even know
what that is do you um so you know it's all I think it's the
technical boring stuff that you got to worry about and then you know in you're 20s you should probably waste a lot of
time on adventures and don't play video games I mean I never played video game I mean not never ever ever I mean I
probably played 20 hours of video games in my 50 years of life but um don't
don't do it don't do video games that's GNA your life's going to go right down the you're gonna piss your whole 20s
away so yeah in your 20s go on crazy adventures and uh be Reckless uh but should always be
focusing focusing focusing what am I gonna do what am I gon to do and then by your 30s you should be dug in and if not
just get whatever job you hate atte least that pays the best and has the best future that's what I would say um
okay Rodrigo I have three questions in he writes this really long thing here's the thing you're screwing over the
people below you that's that's when you want to do like three- part qu three questions each with two parts it's not me I'm answering all this stuff no
matter what but then the people below you I mean I guess you beat them through the gates so screw them but the people
below you you're taking their questions away so there's you're stealing two questions from the next you know what
I'm saying so don't be greedy is what I'm saying okay so here's here goes Rodrigo when
when was the first time that you were able to call yourself an artist as opposed to a filmmaker movie like I've only ever called it out of like
convenience like I'm in the middle of making a huge point and I have to put a label on the thing that I'm talking about and I have to say artists and I
don't know that was it was after people called it me me it called me an artist but I really believe in
that there's that Robert uh Bobby newworth who is like Bob Dylan's best friend Bobby newworth said referring to
one you know artist is a title that one must earn referring to oneself as an artist is like referring to oneself as a
genius so I stay I try to stay away from it unless it's just for a technical reason like I'm saying I'm not like a
technician I am an artist meaning you know not I'm above a technician it was just like my job is totally different
from a technician something like that so uh oh man I can't there's just there's there's no there's that's one question two questions three questions four
questions five questions there's too many uh uh and then the
the rule of thumb for buying something new and buying something secondhand uh if if you're buying
something of very high quality then you can buy it secondhand if you're buying a Land Cruiser um if you're someone who re-ups
all the time then you got to buy brand new like if you're buying a Range Rover
because don't buy a Range Rover ever uh and uh cheapest available if it's the only thing available sometimes or if it's an emergency or
sometimes the cheapest available is the best which is fun that's the best when that happens
um but yeah and then Rodrigo laments on spending has like mixed feelings about spending a thousand bucks on a camera
but like no just spend it spend it on the camera and then you better use it make yourself use it just don't be a
hoarder and don't and the big thing the big mistake that people make is that they think that the de the device is the
Deliverance is like well if I have the you know if I have the Leica then I'll be that's why that then that then
I'm going to get work and it's like now it's incidental doesn't matter
so um I don't know I lately My Philosophy has been if it's a lifetime
if it'll last the rest of my lifetime I'll pay whatever just figure it out um oh here's speaking of Leica my uh
from Corey my partner is diving into professional photojournalism she's already published looking to simplify her setup she's debating between the
like a q system and the digital like a m system and then and then Corey says tell her why the Q is bet the better approach
and I don't agree that the Q is the better approach the M system is at least twice
as expensive as the Q system and the you know those M cameras are $10,000 I think for the body with no
lens but you can swap the lenses out you can do all the different lenses with the the M system and if you're going to I didn't like the old film like a m
systems because it was two pieces so you can lose a like a piece and then to get to load the film sucked with like the m6
like and like turning a little knob like that you know Pros could get really fast at it but it's like not wasn't for me
but like a digital M yeah get that I think if you can swing it I mean I love my CU but I use it as a video
camera uh and I like just like the menus and the ergonomics and the logic of it
all they're for artists not technicians they're for idiots not smart people um and I'm sure that's the same with the m
the m is like their that's that they built the company on um do you have any update about the Pentel pencil project
you mentioned before I don't sorry I should but I don't um oh this is a good question Augustine Charles and Ray eem
versus deer Rams which do you prefer e em American they're down here in they're
California Venice down here they were and they were filmmakers they made films I don't think deer Rams made films
really um yeah and I like I love their color palette I mean deer Rams is damn
great but deer Rams designed the uh the niso superade camera that I have
which was what the iPhone one was modeled the aesthetic of the iPhone one was modeled on it they look very they
look like brother and sister um Spencer asks thoughts uh thoughts I think he
might meant to say on thoughts one child education pedagogy I don't know what that word means do you think your
children would be served well by the public private schools near you or is homeschooling desirable uh the what we've figured out is um
I don't think you gain by private school I mean I know lots of Isabelle went to private school I know lots of people who went to private school my brother sends
his children to private school and I get it I understand the connections blah blah blah blah blah but as far as the raw education is
concerned we do public school and then private tutor which is way way cheaper than private school so subjects he's
doing struggling with he has the tutor to help him and then strugg and then the subjects he excels with the teacher the
private tutor helps him Excel um if you can have any Adventure
motorcycle which one and why so I think it's just there's only one and you know what it is it's the big
gmw BMW GS the uh I think it's a 1350 now might be A3
1300 the r300 GS Adventure that's the one come on you can get it without a
computer I used to be able to I don't know if you can anymore used to be able to get like a kind of semi analog one for use in third world
countries uh this is a complicated one from Sophia that last question was from Drew Drew flan slip was from Drew um
Sophia asks hi van what morals do you live by you know Ten Commandments and uh I
believe you got to be on time for things and you gotta keep your word and
um which the obvious like judeo-christian uh morality really I
mean never lie it's so fun life gets so interesting and weird if you never lie sometimes you tell lies unintentionally
that that does not count and also like it's not a lie if it's something you're a prediction you're making or and
I don't think going back on your word is a lie like if you say okay I'll be there at 8 and then you're not there which sucks it means you didn't keep your word
and you were late but it doesn't mean you're a [ __ ] liar that drives me crazy when people try lying lying is like worse than that lying is willfully
I know this to be the truth but I'm G to say say this and if you do that
eventually you can't tell the difference between the truth and what is your fabrication you start
to believe and then your life just [ __ ] is it falls apart um Josh asks how does your design
build aesthetic translate to your home do you build custom shells yeah it's pretty much the
same um do you have favorite brands for furniture I don't really care about the home Isabelle has great taste she's a
designer I don't really care uh Sachs Tom Sachs his
home because the home is you know just to be a little bit I guess this they call this sexist these days but like the
home is sort of the woman's domain domain like which is another way to say is like women are just better at it I you know like women are better at the
home stuff I think so I think maybe probably the case is the same with Tom is like it's probably a lot his wife but
his house is like nothing like the rest of his life his home I've never actually been to his new place but his last place
there was like he had like two sculptures in the place of his own that were like practical things like there was like a coffee table and maybe a
serving table but everything else was just beautiful you wouldn't connect it artist
to the to the house uh I like the idea of that but I just don't really care I just don't like
clutter I cannot I it drives me crazy okay so color with a K photography
asks oh I'm a filmer for Icon 4x4 so this is the person who shot all the awesome uh icon 4x4 the TLC the Jonathan
Ward Land Cruiser content um YouTube video go for the
Jonathan Ward and it's owned by a different person now uh TLC uh which is Toyota Land Cruiser they
they're the best restorers of Land Cruisers and um God your videos are so great and they she I don't know if this
is a man or a woman actually uh actually stole some your footage
mentioned here fj62 footage um how do you balance filming and quality time with son and your partner [Music]
um would you like to see more of footage any critics from a fellow filmmaker no your videos are [ __ ]
perfect I'm not I'm not giving you any notes they're so good and Jonathan Ward is so good because he's a former actor so he has all the actor skills and he
can just just rattle off he's like oh we got a KN we got a we got a locking front differentials and rear blah blah blah
and this is the thing we had CNC and 3D printed and it's the light bar and this and this and this and this and every and just like and then color photography
whoever you are goes and does the close-up punch it cutaways to all of these things that he mentions and gets every single one that's just per they're
just perfect but the balancing the thing you know what I found is like you month old you're just [ __ ] for the next year
you're screwed just don't die don't kill anyone and don't and don't quit your job make sure you have an income um so the next year just going to
suck and it'll get the year gets a little and little little better uh and then one thing that we've
done that I think is very successful is that on Saturdays is it's different now with two kids but with Saturdays
Isabelle would have the boy and would have all day to myself and then Sundays I would have the boy all day to myself
and I would have the boy and she would have all day to herself and I think that that's really good I think that's a really good way to
do it but like you know Tony Robbins always talks about it's not like a work life balance it's a work life integration and I think
that's how you have to just make it work like the My Boy comes in every morning before school hi Dad and he has his backpack on Just for five five minutes
or something just a little send off and then sometimes if I can I pick him up from
school uh William asks as you have gained knowledge and experience in years how have you come to terms with the
thought of dying and death itself how do you think this perspective has affected your work and relationships you know I took a lot of lucens when I was back
using and I smoked a lot of uh cannabis and had a lot of crazy experiences
near-death a couple near-death experiences and I'm you know I'm ready at any time I feel like Biggy Smalls I
don't I'm I'm not afraid of it I think it'll be a tremendous relief I think uh death is you know it's just a natural
order of things it's like puberty it's just something you know I'm interest I'm Cur I'm curious as hell to understand
I'm not I think it's so lame these like Peter AA types that are these really people that like their thing is to
figure out how to live forever maybe Peter Peter a is a bad example I think he's his thing is how to live how to not
deteriorate for a really really long time and then just drop dead that's what like my grandmother did she was a she was a professional dancer her whole life
and she was dancing like about two days before she died in her sleep she was dancing and it just kept her alive and
then she just dropped you know the thing just breaks after a while you know you know throw a rod or whatever
um how do you think this perspective has affected your work and relationships I don't know I think it makes me a little bit braver I think it just makes me like
[ __ ] it we're gonna die anyway who gives a [ __ ] um the next one is not a question it's just a a thank you uh
Neil uh how is the oh how is the Land Cruiser since the heart surgery okay
this is a great question and uh preent so I've driven all over the place what Mexico back no problems blah blah blah
only problems I've ever had were self-inflicted like um I stuffed a bunch of um in the where your feet are when you
drive the truck when it's cold there's like a little draft so I've like tried to figure out how I still haven't sused it out yet um that has nothing to do
with the engine swap uh and so I'm trying to like do that and so I stuffed a bunch of [ __ ] up into the up against the firewall in the interior and I like
mushed some wires together and it like shorted some weird system and my headlights were blinking on and off uh
but as soon as I pulled all the insulation out it was fine I mean that was you know I don't know 8,000 miles
ago or something and nothing but uh so last week it just like I was driving and it just totally cut out and
lost power and I like barely limped home I made it home but I was coming up these really steep really twisty mountain passes and I had to like pull over once
and turn the car off and on and then when I got to the top of the hill I had to popart it a couple of times and then so I called the guy who installed
it and uh he was like I was like man the air I was like the air filter was black and
full of like Mouse hair and I couldn't clean it was one of these cleanable air filters so I put a new one
in he like when was the last time you changed the fuel filter and I was like I've never changed the fuel filter and I
have about it's hours oh no no he no no he has my original the the gauge on my
end G gauging my cars tells you how many hours are on the engine it doesn't tell you how many miles are on the engine but he had the odometer reading from when I
dropped it off and I have the odometer reading from now and I was like I've I've put 20,000 miles on the
engine and I had never you're supposed to change the damn fuel filter every 10,000 miles so I swapped
toolfree I just swapped I happen to have because Jack the guy who called me just now bought two fuel filters because he
thought they were oil filters and so we kept them and I happened to have them and I just switched it and the fault
code went away and uh and it worked fine and then I was driving up the same steep
pass and it cut out again same at the same spots I think it stalled once but then it started right
back up and then I turn and then when I got home I looked it up on the internet and it said to turn off the engine for
one minute turn it back on and the fault code the fault code will go away and so that's where I am right now so I don't
know I think it's fine it's probably just a computer thing and then when I put the new fuel filter in the fuel filter has a little thing that you plug in like a little data thing that you
plug in that goes to the ECM uh so I'm thinking it's probably just adjusting to the new but we'll see
I don't know other than that it's been perfectly perfect it's like when you rent a car and it just is a perfect working new rental
car um but yeah those things okay Neil Sawridge uh Neil many thanks for your beautifully crafted inspirational videos
I wonder how it was going with the Land Cruiser since the heart surgery oh I just answered that uh oh would you recommend the particular model that you
own yes I would um and then he's in Sweden he's in Stockholm and he says I pay about
$640 us per gallon that's about what we pay here in La too um I think he's talking about a gas engine I don't have
any experience with the gas engine they get really horrible gas mileage the gas engine ones um but they're really reliable that's
kind of the trade-off you're getting and my old diesel was really reliable it's just [ __ ] old and it just like there
was I just they're very underpowered let's put it that way so they're not like you gotta really do a swap I think you got to do a swap if you want to do
real adventures with them you can't go with the if it's just you're getting around town car probably the stock engine is just fine but it will it'll
get terrible gas mileage I get 25 miles to the gallon with my diesel but the old diesel got about 16
miles per gallon 18 and then the gas they get from between eight and 13 miles to the gallon because they're just
really inefficient the new gas engines are very fuele efficient because of all the computers and stuff and those old
ones just weren't okay if you had enough money and oh this is from Pavo if you had enough money and didn't need to make
YouTube videos for income would you still do it as a hobby I mean your age with a very successful business and the means to buy any film making equipment I
would love to try it but I fear I might lose interest because there's nothing pushing me to make movies for a living does a person need a spirital in fire to
be an artist even if it's not necessary for their livelihood yes yeah but having a hobby
is so fun because I could have a for the having a hobby is so fun you don't have to be disciplined with it it's just
curiosity and fun so if you want to do it for fun it's fun and the equipment's never been easier to use you just like
you don't need I mean you could just use your phone and then get an iMac or whatever and buy Final Cut and just you can if
you have the new phone you can just airdrop the footage to the damn computer you don't even have to plug anything in or do any cards or anything and then
editing is where it gets really fun and addictive putting music on cutting out shots doing closeups little you know
that's when you start getting addicted is when you start editing so I would recommend that to my I would recommend that to anybody just try it because it's super fun and you feel really satisfied
you can like make this thing so I would do that there's no heavy investment there you probably already have a computer like if you have an iMac or
Macintosh probably have a you know you can run finy cut on it this is a cool one a acid Kawasaki who has the best
name of all the patrons acid Kawasaki ask what is a favorite cut of steak and the best place to eat one in and
around La I don't really know I love all steak I'm like same with coffee like I'll eat
any quality and I like it so I appreciate it all um I don't have a favorite cut I kind of like them all I
guess I like the I like the filet minan it's really great because it's got like no fat on it and uh I don't know I like
the New York strip Porter House I think I [ __ ] like them all I gotta say and um
La Place doesn't come to mind but in Austin you know Texas has the best steak in the world that whole thing about Argentina and all that it's just is
horeshit and maybe maybe Japan I've had the wagu beef in Tokyo maybe fine but that's like a special delicacy thing doesn't kind of count it's not everyday
stake Texas has the best stake maybe om maybe Nebraska Texas Nebraska that region where all the cattle are and
there was this place um in Austin it's called salt and something I want to say it's called salt and time but not
the th H yme which is so lame when the people do that when they're trying to do like a pun it's like salt and time tiim
I think that's what it's called and I went there and I ordered rare I had I went there for
dinner and I had the steak and it was everything about it was perfect and it was cooked perfectly and I went the next
meal breakfast I went back and I got the steak and eggs and I was just like just I ordered the steak rare again I was just like please tell whoever cooked
this that they cooked it absolutely perfectly whatever the this technique was it was absolutely perfect and that's
pardon the pun but that's rare like you don't find that usually if you order it rare it comes medium medium rare because
it sits in the Heat or it sits on the rail at the restaurant but this was oh my God it just stood out anyway I think it's called salt in time but Texas come
on you're getting great Stakes anywhere greetings from Argentina oh sorry too oh no wait that's there's two more sorry to
insult you um but first from George Harrison is that your real name hey van I would absolutely love to know more
about what you were up to after the HBO show but before the spirited man that was like my lost decade that was just me trying to do my
own trying to be my own I did a lot of work with Tom Sachs Tom Sachs was like my day job because he always had cool projects and he could get us big budgets
from whoever so we did all these cool projects all over the world together and then I was just trying to H I was just
trying to float from this thing to that thing and try to figure out what I wanted to do and then
um I don't know and then I just I decided I think yeah I just got Brave and said you know what do a
YouTube channel the thing about that keeps PE that deters people from the YouTube channel is that it's no guarantee and it's like Merit based and
it's performance-based you know as far as your pay so it's really scary because you the alternative you think in your
mind is oh I'll just put together this really good treatment and blah blah blah and then I'll get a budget and at least I will have a paycheck while I'm working
on this other thing for a TV network or whatever but that didn't work out for me and
um and yeah yeah so the YouTube thing how's the BMW is it back with you yes I have it back I put a lot of money into
it but I I had done a lot of really crappy electrical work myself and so this guy had to just untangle a whole
Rat's Nest of electrical problems so it's perfect now again it's is so cool having it perfect if you were to get a new motorbike at this point what would
you get you know what I think I would get I think oh with love from UK I think I would get a um husk Varna
like 400 Super Moto uh or if they have I want to say they have a 500 which sounds weird or
the 650 or seven I think they have a 700 I think I would get that as long as it's fuel injected but like a pure Super Moto
and husk Varna my favorite bike at the um at the handbuilt show was a husk
Varna Super Moto that was just built to absolute perfection just perfection street legal had slick tires had a
headlight blinkers no cluster that I could see maybe it had some weird hidden LED thing it was just perfect I'd get
that but it's probably hundred grand but I would get that um okay greetings from Argentina sorry
to have insulted your steak Argentina uh Julian but um here we go maybe a question maybe a suggestion for a video
but what about wrist watches yeah I just started wearing a wristatch uh my brother gave me a IMX Iron Man and it
was nice having the time especially motorcycle just to look down uh and then I decided I want analog because I like
the it's just conceptual I mean the thing about there's a whole watch Channels there's watch and like I don't know enough about them I have a very cursory I have this
Marathon watch which has radioactive tubes in it that light up no matter what you don't need to charge it with a light it's just always lit and I'm up you know
in the morning hours it's always dark when I wake up and then when I wake up in the middle of the night how much more time do I have before I have to wake up and this thing is always the same
brightness it's not like a Rolex where you have to hold it up to the light and then throughout the night it gets dimmer and dimmer now this has it even has like the radioactive warning label [ __ ] on
the face of the watch because I think that's required by law but it's got these hydrogen Isotopes in these little glass tubes it's called a marathon I heard about it from Joe Rogan on his
show he's talking about it anyway I like I'm going to stick with this one um yeah it's a tenth the price of a
Rolex so and the Rolex doesn't have the radioactive light up hands so I don't want it
um but I love analog watches it's just awesome I just they were like typewriters and writing notes and pencil
I love them um [Music] I'm sorry I shouldn't be reading out loud I should be reading aloud I think these are new from these are new from when I have read before I'm just going to go through all of them today there's
like five or six more um uh I'm glad you posted that last video a couple of days ago I almost got in touch it you did get
in touch it explains why your output has sucked for a couple of months take that opinion on the chin and it comes from a
good place explains why your output has sucked for for a couple months oh I admire you for being personal and an
explanation of your current circumstances that takes balls you'll get your mojo back it's like a musician wanting to write the next hit the songs
will come to you don't fret the words and ideas will be along at some point
I'm I'm uh I'm 49 and from London and recently discovered you a few months back Casey has a brother whoa into the
deep end I went yes I'm that late to the party I have now devoured pretty much every video on this channel check in with yourself nothing is ever that bad
it might see no I'm just yeah I mean there's no problem but just you do this work as best you can
and then no matter what the circumstances are sometimes the circumstances [ __ ] you up um and just
having a baby is insanely stressful um and time consuming okay what are the dimensions of your studio I'm looking to
convert a shed in my home into an a air conditioned workspace I have it written down on a post note Post-It note
somewhere the exact dimensions I did that on purpose is
it I have it written down oh [ __ ] I can't remember it's like oh
Studio interior 9 4 in by 13t 4 in 9' 4 in by 13 feet 4 in that's
how big the studio is uh whatever 20 something square
feet [Music] uh okay sorry Hunter ask why do you become how do you become a better writer sorry you know the answer to that you
got to sit down and write the damn words down that's how and you got to read as many books as you can uh how are the
wife and kids they're great uh Hey van selling those work shirts anytime soon I think we're gonna try to do it for the
holiday season I think so but we want to do it with an American 100% American supply chain and
it's it's extremely difficult it's very difficult um Sam back Sam asks Samuel asks what
what's your opinion on doing creative work and smoking pot advantages disadvantages Etc uh I found it very helpful but what happens is if you do it
too much uh and it's for everybody it's different like I'd say Joe Rogan is an example of how it works he has it
perfectly integrated and you know the greates have it perfectly integrated like uh Snoop Dog and um Willie Nelson
and you know probably Bob Dylan probably still smokes a poot um but they're at a level where there's no
conse they're very protected from consequences uh eventually your brain for me what
happened was it just like my ideas trumped reality and uh you
just get too lost in the fun of your idea mind for me that's what we did for me and like you can't the exuberance
that these ideas have when you're stoned don't translate into the work that you're making it just kind of becomes
stupid but uh yeah I had to quit that stuff because it just took over thoughts of on Jack of all trades master of none
still better than ma than a master of one no not better I don't think so I don't think
it's better I think you want to be I think it's it's probably better to be the master of one thing I
mean uh but I'm not I maybe I'm a master at like making film short films little
videos uh but I don't know I think it's nice to be a jack of all trades and then a
master of one uh I think that's a good way to live no sound on the live stream that must
have been that's a late one uh okay and so here's the last here's the last one absolutely loved your last video and
actually really enjoyed the more free flowing less heavily scripted nature of it on a complete other issue I've recently bought an airline food service
trolley to use as a tool cart this is the second one of these I've gotten I think what color would you wait a minute recommend painting I've heard this one
before recommend painting the panels keeping the trim as exposed polished aluminum Consulting your phenomenal s
saxs Colors video led me towards OD green but I don't feel it suits the British environment well Tiffany blue is tempting but a little too extravagant
for tools and Air Force gray feels a little too blue for my lik and currently Le towards Spitfire Green Well Spitfire
green and OD Green aren't that much different are they really uh I don't know I would just say uh I don't know
I'd have to see the thing but and I don't know what the panels are aren't they just giant stickers on the side why don't you just peel those off
with a heat gun and then keep it aluminum I don't know why you got to paint it at
all uh I don't know but I'd have to see it so I don't know uh yeah go with Spitfire Green Man
that'd be cool that would look really cool little yellow letters all right guys sorry about the the the hangup the hiccups with the
audio thing I still don't know why that didn't happen and there's no way to test it which is gross um so next time I'll
just immediately restart and get us going again if that happens but uh thank you and have a great weekend so long
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Canon AE-1 mentions — Spencer's camera discussed
- Toyota Land Cruiser essential — Van's vehicle
- Audi A6 mentions — car discussed
- Icon 4x4 TLC recommends — Jonathan Ward's outfit
- Cummins diesel essential — Land Cruiser engine
- Husqvarna 400/500/700 Super Moto recommends — motorcycle discussed ('husk varna' type misspelling possible)
- BMW motorcycle (GS 1350/R1300 GS Adventure) recommends — motorcycle discussed
- Marathon watch recommends — has radioactive tritium tubes
- Leica Q recommends — camera discussed
- Leica M recommends — camera discussed
- Pentel pencil essential — Van's everyday pencil
- Nizo Super 8 camera mentions — classic film camera
- iPhone 1 mentions — design reference
- Samsung mentions — compared to Apple
- Apple stock mentions — investment discussion
- Ford Model A / deuce coupe mentions — American Graffiti connection
People Referenced
Spencer Niosi, Tom Sachs, Jonathan Ward, Joe Rogan, Charles Eames, Ray Eames, Dieter Rams, George Lucas, Colin and Samir, Scott Galloway, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Dylan
Books Mentioned
- book discussed (by Cormac McCarthy)
- poetry anthology discussed (by — poetry anthology discussed)
- book discussed (by Joe Brainard)
- book discussed (by Robert Greene)
Films & Media Referenced
- George Lucas film, Ford deuce coupe
- TV show discussed
- comedian/podcaster mentioned