Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, Welcome back to another episode of Car Stories.
Speaker 2: With Sun Kay and Amelia Hartford.
Speaker 1: This is our Thanksgiving episode. We appreciate you guys listening,
Speaker 1: but we talk about things we're also grateful for. Not
Speaker 1: to be cheesy, but I'm really grateful for you coming
Speaker 1: into my life this year. Oh that's my that's my thankfulness.
Speaker 2: Thanks Ameriya.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yours doesn't have to be about mine, No about me, Well,
Speaker 1: that'd be awkward.
Speaker 3: Then you have actually us us reconnecting this year actually
Speaker 3: has been great because I think it's saved well, I
Speaker 3: don't think I know that it saved this podcast because
Speaker 3: I was not going to continue to do it. Really
Speaker 3: I wanted to kind of fold it, to be honest
Speaker 3: with you, because I don't know if you guys knew
Speaker 3: that where.
Speaker 1: It's like every one of this room is nodding their head.
Speaker 3: Yes, it wasn't working. It was like I was like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, how are we going to move forward?
Speaker 3: And you came in as a guest, and I was like,
Speaker 3: this is the future of this podcast. I think if
Speaker 3: we connect and we do this together, we can actually
Speaker 3: create something amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, Sung and I have an episode coming out soon.
Speaker 1: About our history together and how we know one another.
Speaker 2: So thank you. All right, well let's catch up. Have
Speaker 2: you been I've been good.
Speaker 1: Have you been?
Speaker 2: I've been great. So you went to F one.
Speaker 1: I was at F one over the weekend in Vegas.
Speaker 1: It was a great time. Won the race Max firstappen,
Speaker 1: no surprise, he's been kind of dominating the season. But
Speaker 1: it was the first race in Vegas since eighty.
Speaker 2: Two that a F one race in Vegas.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to my understanding, it was in like the Caesars
Speaker 1: Parking Lot and they did in eighty one and eighty two,
Speaker 1: and so this was kind of a monumental thing to
Speaker 1: bring it back. And they used the strip, which was cool.
Speaker 1: The one thing that I felt was very different about
Speaker 1: this race versus others was you couldn't walk around the track.
Speaker 1: You're almost very grid luck to wherever your seats were.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like every hotel or establishment owned
Speaker 1: some part of the trap to view from, and if
Speaker 1: you didn't have ticket, they kind of blocked everything off.
Speaker 2: Is this going to be a thing now every year?
Speaker 2: I think?
Speaker 1: So they signed a contract for next year already. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: what have you been up to? Can you say what
Speaker 1: you've been up to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been traveling the world.
Speaker 3: I've been in England. I've been in Poland, which I
Speaker 3: don't know if you've ever been to Poland. Poland is
Speaker 3: now one of my favorite.
Speaker 2: Places really world.
Speaker 1: Oh that's so cool they are.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know anything about Poland me.
Speaker 2: I didn't either.
Speaker 3: I thought it was like, you know, communist country, like
Speaker 3: Iron current type of thing. But no, they are such
Speaker 3: a wonderful people. The food is I would say, some
Speaker 3: of the best food I've ever had.
Speaker 2: In my life.
Speaker 1: What's the cuisine.
Speaker 3: A lot of fermented vegetables, so it's very similar to
Speaker 3: Korean food, right, So cabbage is like a big thing,
Speaker 3: so they ferment the cabbage and so it's very healthy
Speaker 3: for you. Right. So the food, you think it's going
Speaker 3: to be like like Ushian food in a way, like
Speaker 3: sausages and beet soup.
Speaker 2: I guess right. I mean, I haven't had a lot
Speaker 2: of Russian foods. I can't compare.
Speaker 3: But I thought it was going to be very like
Speaker 3: European or British style food.
Speaker 2: But it's not.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know, a lot of like Italian like
Speaker 3: like beef tartars and carpaccios nice.
Speaker 1: A lot of like fresh.
Speaker 3: Fresh fresh, Like the produce is amazing because a lot
Speaker 3: of the produce comes from small, independently owned farms. So
Speaker 3: you could drive around Poland and there are these like
Speaker 3: food like vegetable carts like on the side of the
Speaker 3: road with nobody attending them, and then you can just
Speaker 3: go and like pick out some fruit and vegetables and
Speaker 3: you leave your money and so.
Speaker 2: Like safe it is.
Speaker 1: That's cool.
Speaker 2: I love that people are so so cool.
Speaker 1: There is there a big car scene out there.
Speaker 3: Biggest drift event in the world took place there a
Speaker 3: couple of months ago. Oh really fifty six I think
Speaker 3: fifty six fifty seven thousand people showed up.
Speaker 1: What's the name of the event?
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, busy Poland.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's cool something huge. But anyway, and then they're builds.
Speaker 3: The amazing thing is like because they came from the
Speaker 3: communist era. When they build something right, they build it
Speaker 3: to lass. Like you go in the bathrooms and the tiling,
Speaker 3: like I noticed tiling because anytime I had to like
Speaker 3: you know, redo the bathroom. We had a restaurant that
Speaker 3: you know, we had to constantly redo and so the
Speaker 3: workmanship that goes into tiling, like I really pay attention
Speaker 3: to right, the crowd and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And it's impeccable.
Speaker 3: And that's why there's a lot of Polish like construction
Speaker 3: and like craftsmen in England that actually like build the
Speaker 3: houses there, right, So so I.
Speaker 1: Imagine they build cars in a so more fashion. Attention
Speaker 1: to detail, yeah.
Speaker 3: To last because you know they because you know during
Speaker 3: the comments there and everything was ration so you got
Speaker 3: it once right. And then their love affair for cars
Speaker 3: because they only had a few cars, like the Fiat
Speaker 3: Poleski was like a Polish made car. It looks like
Speaker 3: a five ten, like a dots In five ten in sedan,
Speaker 3: and you know it's a beloved car. It wasn't the
Speaker 3: most powerful thing. But now that they have money and
Speaker 3: now they have access to know different cars, whatever they
Speaker 3: get they appreciate. And so the enthusiasm is very new.
Speaker 3: It's not like love we have we've seen it already.
Speaker 3: It's like so just it's just amazing.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you'll you love it. You'll you'll love it.
Speaker 3: And the people are so kind and something I learned, right,
Speaker 3: it's like you know, we have coffee in the morning
Speaker 3: and then our our crew, you know, everyone's kind of
Speaker 3: like just waking up and they're a little grumpy because
Speaker 3: it's like five in the morning, right, And I was like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, compared to England, you know, Polish people are
Speaker 3: not like the smileiest people, right, And this is the
Speaker 3: best answer. They're like, well, we're very direct, we're very honest.
Speaker 3: And I was like, what do you mean by that.
Speaker 3: It's like, we're fucking tired. Why would I say good morning?
Speaker 3: And like why would I have a fake smile? Like
Speaker 3: we're fucking tired. Sure, so you're going to get like
Speaker 3: an honest answer.
Speaker 1: I respect that, right, Yeah. Yeah, I'd almost prefer that
Speaker 1: honesty in conversations.
Speaker 2: So you're ready for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: I am.
Speaker 2: Are you staying in La?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I'm doing a friends giving this year?
Speaker 2: Ooh nice?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Turkey, Yeah, yeah, the whole shebang.
Speaker 2: Can you cook?
Speaker 1: I can? I don't like it.
Speaker 2: What do you mean you don't like it?
Speaker 1: I don't can?
Speaker 2: I can cook, but you don't cook with love.
Speaker 1: I just don't enjoy cooking. No, not really, I don't
Speaker 1: enjoy cleaning either.
Speaker 2: Food on'tly taste good if you put love into themelia.
Speaker 2: You have to cook with passion, just like the cars.
Speaker 1: I feel like cooking takes so much time. I'm generation
Speaker 1: I was everything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you could probably post me it's a turkey.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you can.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, all right, I understand it can be.
Speaker 1: There will be some cook I'm not postmating Thanksgiving. We're
Speaker 1: doing like a potlug, so we're all going to kind
Speaker 1: of chip in for.
Speaker 2: Something that's good. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: What are you guys doing?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: My wife and I used to have a tradition of
Speaker 3: going to Jerry's famous Deli to go eat Thanksgiving dinner there,
Speaker 3: but they're no longer.
Speaker 2: Really, I think they're all gone.
Speaker 3: So we we have a tradition of going to this
Speaker 3: place by our house in the valley.
Speaker 2: They have like a.
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving brunch that's fun, right, So we have a four
Speaker 3: o'clock like reservation to go there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have a big family in La, so it's
Speaker 3: just usually my wife and I or my sister once
Speaker 3: in a while, but I think she's out of town.
Speaker 1: So so you don't like to cook either, then I
Speaker 1: like to cook.
Speaker 2: I cook every day, Melia.
Speaker 1: Really, Yeah, why are you guys cooking Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3: Well, I cook the same thing every day. What do
Speaker 3: you cook every day before I die?
Speaker 2: I'm trying to master the egg.
Speaker 1: That's a real thing. I laugh, But that's a real
Speaker 1: That's like what chefs can devote so much of their
Speaker 1: life to perfecting is the egg I cook? Is this
Speaker 1: a poached egg, a boil egg? Is it all servings
Speaker 1: of an egg?
Speaker 3: This is a poached egg for breakfast, but then for
Speaker 3: lunch it's a Japanese omelet. So it's like up on
Speaker 3: my TikTok. Yeah right, so like you know, and you
Speaker 3: cut over, just chocolate melts over.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to perfect like the poach egg in
Speaker 2: the morning.
Speaker 1: You eat us every day every day.
Speaker 3: So that's what I eat every single morning. It's like
Speaker 3: I'll cook two or three eggs. My wife doesn't want
Speaker 3: the eggs anymore. She's like over eggs, right, But I'll
Speaker 3: eat it seven days a week.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: So I look forward to actually cooking that because I
Speaker 3: want to get to a point where whoever I feed
Speaker 3: this egg to these words come out of their mouth.
Speaker 2: This is the best dameg I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 2: So I had to have.
Speaker 3: So I've watched a lot of videos, right, and I've
Speaker 3: tried to like emulate other people's eggs, but kind of
Speaker 3: come up with my own recipe.
Speaker 1: Now, do you get farm fresh eggs?
Speaker 2: I do good.
Speaker 3: Because it's all about the ingredients, right, so the organic
Speaker 3: farm fresh.
Speaker 1: The yolk is actually orange and all like this weird
Speaker 1: yellow color.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the shell is like I try to get the
Speaker 3: brown shells. I don't know if that makes a difference,
Speaker 3: but it feels healthier.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: And then butter, I cook with butter, okay, right, butter,
Speaker 3: but I put so it's poached, so you cook it
Speaker 3: in the water. So I put the butter in the water.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you ever saw that. It's changed
Speaker 3: the game. And the butter is key like Irish butter. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, anyway, let's move on. Let me talk about
Speaker 3: eggs cooking with songs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So happy Thanksgiving everybody.
Speaker 1: Happy Thanksgiving everybody, And don't count calories. They don't count today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just eat whatever you Yeah. I eat a
Speaker 2: lot of pie, all.
Speaker 1: The pie with the ice creamy and the cool whip.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I went to Costco yesterday, Yeah, to go buy pumpkin pie, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I don't know, there's something about Costco pumpkin pie
Speaker 3: that I love.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, it's first, it's huge, it's delicious, and it's
Speaker 2: five ninety nine for one pie.
Speaker 3: But yesterday was crazy how many people it took me
Speaker 3: about the thing. It was like twenty three minutes to
Speaker 3: find parking.
Speaker 1: Really, I was going to get one of those pies
Speaker 1: for the friends giving, but I was like, are they
Speaker 1: going to be out? Is it going to be just
Speaker 1: a nightmare to go buy a pie? Should I just
Speaker 1: cook a pie?
Speaker 3: You guys are there's a lady there that's just stacking pie. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like because the pies were like flying those pumpkin.
Speaker 1: Pie off the shelf.
Speaker 2: I mean five ninety nine. Well can you buy for
Speaker 2: five ninety nine?
Speaker 1: You can't even get a gallon of gas from what Donald's.
Speaker 2: You can't even get why.
Speaker 3: I don't understand how Costco sells their pumpkin pies for
Speaker 3: five ninety nine. Yeah, right, and it's delicious or also,
Speaker 3: are you going to get a delicious pie like that?
Speaker 2: Marie calendars, you know.
Speaker 1: More expensive than five ninety nine.
Speaker 2: I think they're gone anyway.
Speaker 1: They still have the frozen ones because I like their
Speaker 1: banana cream pies.
Speaker 2: Oh you can where do you buy that?
Speaker 1: Ralphs in the frozen section.
Speaker 3: But there used to be a Marine Calendar restaurant on
Speaker 3: wilsh You're at the sack building, Oh, by the tar pits. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and so you could go in actually buy the pies
Speaker 3: fresh there.
Speaker 1: Oh that's cool, but that's gone sad.
Speaker 2: Like I don't know where you guys get your pie, but.
Speaker 1: Tag us in your pie photos. We want to see them.
Speaker 3: But for five ninety nine, that's like the pre price right.
Speaker 3: Also I have no association with but I do love Costco,
Speaker 3: even the optometry at Costco. So the Costco on subpulvida
Speaker 3: and and I I say supulvida and like victory O.
Speaker 1: That's like the busiest one, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But there's a doctor's a optomistress there that he is
Speaker 3: the only doctor to this day that can figure out
Speaker 3: the right prescription for my context, really to this day.
Speaker 3: And I've been going to him probably since like the
Speaker 3: late nineties, right, And I tried many many doctors, right,
Speaker 3: and he's the only one.
Speaker 2: And you can't beat Costco pricing pricing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I sound super like cheap, don't I butay, Costco
Speaker 3: is great.
Speaker 2: Crazy, it's where.
Speaker 3: Costco is the best. I mean it's it's as I
Speaker 3: get older. This is something that I like to do
Speaker 3: on my day off is just go to the.
Speaker 1: Guys Checked and grab pumpkin pie.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they even sell Hearing ads. They're not that
Speaker 3: they need the Harry ads, but they sell it all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they have great stuff. I bought shampoo at Costco. It's
Speaker 3: probably some of the best shampoo I've ever bought because
Speaker 3: they have these seasonal items there.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this, Simel, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm learning, But because they have like these like super unique,
Speaker 3: high level brands that they're not and they don't stock them.
Speaker 3: The thing about Costcos you can't ever really like get
Speaker 3: it addicted to one thing one like a brand there.
Speaker 2: Because I think they stretch them out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I recently bought this like coconut infused shampoo.
Speaker 3: It was like eight ninety nine for like you know
Speaker 3: the family size, right, It's like the best shampoo I've
Speaker 3: ever used in my life. What's the funny you can't find.
Speaker 1: I just love the passion, the energy.
Speaker 3: So cheap, but it's like it's like what you would
Speaker 3: have to go to like you know, naming Marcus or
Speaker 3: like some type of beauty salon to go find this
Speaker 3: exquisite like silky beautiful shampoo.
Speaker 1: I hope someone's in Costco right now as they're listening
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 3: I look, I pay my annual membership of like I
Speaker 3: think it's fifty.
Speaker 1: Five dollars now they raise the pars.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving and go to Costco get that
Speaker 3: pumpkin pie