WEBVTT - Ep17 Magnus Walker 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.959 Welcome to another episode of Car Stories with Someunky and 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:13.319 Amelia Hartford. Today we had Magnus Walker, who is a 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.160 legend in the car space and. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.959 A real personal inspiration for myself, someone who inspired me 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.319 to have the courage to jump into the community and 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.120 not worry about whether people are thinking. 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.240 You know, yeah, a spiritual person but also a hard 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:30.400 worker and hey, you know, nothing's going to get handed 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:31.760 to you. You have to work for what you want 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.160 in life and give it your all, which I respect. 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:36.440 Yeah, and I think you guys are going to hear 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.559 a side to Magnus that you never knew. This is 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:43.320 a multi dimensional person with many layers and many, many 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.880 wise things to share, which today I know I'll walk 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:50.400 away with a lot of great, great tools in my box. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:53.320 Now, absolutely, And I hope people listening have that same takeaway. 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:54.200 Yeah, I'm sure they will. 0:00:54.280 --> 0:01:00.440 Yeah, I believe it. How do you two know each other? 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.320 I met you through Fraser at E Garage when we 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.080 shot a video called Furious Outlaws where we swapped cars. Yeah, 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.800 Sung drove two seven seven and I drove the Faguzi 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.520 for Gauz. You remember I couldn't pronounce it for. 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:12.880 Good blow His engine by the way. 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.000 Oh really, yes, we never actually talked about that. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:22.600 Happen, that that actually did matter drive a Porsche especially 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.360 actually happened. And he was so like calm about it. 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:29.600 I was like, uh, he's gonna get freaking pissed, right, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.720 and Magus was so zen. You know, hey, I did 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.640 blow his engine. Yeah, well, thankfully we finished the shoot 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:36.520 and it was. 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.800 On the way down the hill and I remember like 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.520 it went and I just remember pulling into the bottom 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:45.240 pull in where we pushed it into the spot for 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.040 the ending scene and then towed it home. So that 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.200 was how we met. And I think that was actually 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:52.240 twenty I should have looked it up, but I think 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:53.120 it was twenty sixteen. 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.200 I was thinking about it this morning. I was really, 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:59.320 you know, looking forward to seeing you again, and I 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.720 was like, so, what does Magnus mean to me? And 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.840 I don't think I think I told you this, but 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.720 I always tell people this is that Magnus is the 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.359 reason I'm here sitting here right now with you, Amelia, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.640 because Magnus is ted talk. I don't know if you 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.840 had the privilege of listening to this, but I think 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:19.200 it's like nine years old, nine twenty. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.600 Fourteen, it's actually coming up on ten year aniverse years. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:26.720 It moved me so much, right and yeah, and like 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.160 it gave me the courage to go, just go and 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.640 do it. Go go get into the car commutey because 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.240 I was like, hey man, you're just this actor from 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:38.000 the Fast movies. You can't do that. You can't pursue passion. Like, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:39.959 you know, I always had interesting cars, but I'm not 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.200 a mechanic. I'm not a race car driver. But I'm like, 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.280 I have this imposter syndrome, things like I don't want 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.919 to be a poser. But you know, after I listened 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.080 to Magnus, it was the first person within the car 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:55.880 community that actually I could understand and his message resonated. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.960 It wasn't about you know, I was a racer and 0:02:57.960 --> 0:02:59.679 I'm you got to be a racer, you gotta be 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.600 a go to mechanics school. It's like it came from 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.280 a place of like, just be passionate about what you're doing, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.520 be open minded. These doors open and you never know 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:11.959 what opportunities, what kind of people are you going to meet? 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:15.360 You know, And it's one of the most important TED talks, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.120 I think, at least for me in my life. And 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.480 then for people in the car community, it's like a 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:21.200 must listen. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.560 Well, thank you for sharing that. The ironic thing about 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.040 the TED talk is I'd never even heard of TED 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:29.400 talks when they approached me to do one. Wow and 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.000 I got approached and they'd seen the Open Outlaw short 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.760 documentary film that came out late October twenty twelve and 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:38.480 early twenty fourteen. They approached me to do a TED talk, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.080 and I'm like, what's a TED Talk. I didn't even 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:42.640 know what one was. I didn't even watched it. And 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.720 long story short, you know, I told my story a 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.720 few times, so I was pretty comfortable telling my story, 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:52.960 but it was in an environment where people edited my story. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.160 So doing a TED talk, you have eighteen minutes and 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.560 it's live. So for me, it was out of my 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:02.080 comfort zone school at fifteen, with not a lot of education. 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.320 I did my TED talk at UCLA on a big 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.760 stage in front of a thousand people, and I had 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.040 to sit through probably a dozen TED talks before I 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.480 went up, and I was pretty intimidated because these people 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.680 were talking about what I thought was important, stuff that 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.400 I didn't actually understand, and I'm just going up there 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.159 talking about go with your gout and do what feels right. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:22.479 And so you know, I was pretty nervous, but the 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.120 Ted Talk taught me how to get to the point 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.039 quicker and actually how to be a more comfortable in 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.840 a public environment where you can't say, okay, stop, let 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.200 me redo that again. It was live, so I sort 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.440 of benefited from that. And the ironic thing with the 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.440 Ted Talk is it's the most viewed thing I've done. 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.200 Got over almost ten million views last time I looked. Oh, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.720 I was aware of it, and I would say ninety 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.720 five percent of the people that have watched it had 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.880 no idea who and are not car people. But the message, 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:55.560 which you so eloquently put transcends the car generation or 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.080 the car community of just do what you love to do. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:01.239 And I've got more feedback I can email from people 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:04.120 that watched the Ted Talk that said it inspired them 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.400 and motivated them to go do something that they were 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.040 pretty much intimidated by. And a lot of people had 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.719 gone down this path of going down a career that 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.480 they thought they had to do because their parents did it, doctor, lawyer, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.880 something like that, but they weren't really happy in that 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.240 environment and really what they wanted to do was be 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.080 a skater or a surfer, or carguy or make candles 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.520 or whatever it was. And somehow there was a spark 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.680 of motivation through the Ted talk that I did. That 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:29.679 It was kind of like, oh, I should follow my passion, 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.080 follow my gun, and just do what I love to do, 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:34.480 and that's always sort of being my thing. And I 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.680 think you summed it up really well of you know, 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.760 you sort of don't necessarily have to worry about what 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.000 other people think a lot of the time and just 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.479 do what makes you happy, what drives you on, what 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.000 motivates you. So that was the story behind the Ted talk, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:49.400 So thanks for sharing that. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:51.640 I mean, your story will parallel a lot with it. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:54.719 You know, I think you know the generation or the 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:58.119 fan base that you inspire, you know, is gravitating towards 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.880 you because probably very similar things of what Magnus represents 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:03.560 for old people like me. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.960 I've heard people tell similar stories. You know, you grew 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.520 up as a kid. Everything starts at a young age 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.680 with a toy model, right whatever your car of choice 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.240 may be, Mine just happen to be Porsche. But I've 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.919 heard similar stories about people had their poster on the 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:23.200 wall followed their passion, you know, built their first car, 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.520 which might have been handed down from a family member 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.240 or some emotional connection. It's always an emotional connection I 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.800 feel to the car, which brings back what I call 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.240 memorable moments you first drive with your dud, or the 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.360 first car you learned to drive in, or the first 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.480 drive with your girlfriend, or whatever it may be. So 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.560 that's kind of a common bond that I think people 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.000 can relate to because it's like, oh, yeah, that was me. 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.680 I had a poster on the wall. So I think 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.599 that's sort of what attracts people to that Ted talk 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.440 wance a hear and they go back to it is 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.080 you know, it's they relate to. It's a relatable story. 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.600 Yeah, this is something I always wanted to ask you, 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.680 and I think probably people in the car community would 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.320 never guess this right. And you used to be a 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:04.640 cross country runner? 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:05.599 Yeah I did. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.040 I mean, that's no joke to be a competitive cross 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:09.040 country running gil. 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.040 Yeah. I mean for me, I always describe myself as 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.720 a lone wolf in the sense of cross country running 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.120 as an individual sport. I was a middle distance run 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.280 across country runner, and ironically it started at a very 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.200 young age and it was back to passion. It was 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.600 something I enjoyed doing, and it was something I was 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.760 actually good at doing, and it was an activity that 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.320 didn't you don't need any any You don't need anything, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.840 just a pair of running shoes and shorts and you 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.480 go do it. You don't have to rely on someone 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.440 else in the sense of a team. So I started 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.080 running at an early age and I talked about this 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.360 pivotal point for me that happened when I was eleven 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:46.480 years old. This was nineteen seventy eight and I'd been 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:49.200 running competitively and doing pretty well and ended up being 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.760 North England schoolboy champion and it was something I was 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.680 passionate about and motivated me. And at the time one 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.200 of my heroes was this athlete called Sebastian Co who 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.360 actually ran for this club that I ran for, called 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.280 the hallm Shah Harris. He was probably five six years 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.800 older and he wrote this, I got a CERTIFICATET, I 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.520 finished third and norlyput was well done, zep Co And 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.320 I still have this thing because he was an idol 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.960 of mine that I looked up to. I'd posted him 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.600 on the wall and it just goes to show one 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.720 word of encouragement, well two words, well done. I'm still 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.560 talking about it forty odd years later. Forty five years later, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.760 and Sebastian Coe went on to be an Olympic champion 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.560 in the eight hundred and fifteen hundred meter discipline and 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:33.840 went on to be a world record holder in nineteen 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:37.000 eighty nineteen eighty four, the la Olympic Games in nineteen 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.760 eighty four. So it was a significant thing for me 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:43.160 that became what I call a teachable element where a 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:47.640 little bit of confidence building doesn't really take a lot 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.400 of effort. When when people come up to me and say, 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.120 you know, they've watched my story, watch the film being 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.960 motivated by me, I always take time to sort of 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.079 give back because I always revert myself back to Sebastian 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:04.320 go signing the certificate, saying well done. So it's one 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.280 of those teachable elements that came through being a middle 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.640 distance runner, across country runner and looking back on my 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.560 life going back forty five years, I realized now which 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.320 I didn't realize at the time, that that discipline of 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.920 running twice a day, five days a week, setting goals, 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.439 being motivated to achieve those goals, having a little bit 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:28.040 of success at an early age sort of set me 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.240 up for later on in life, you know, to actually 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.800 set a goal, be disciplined, motivated, work towards that, but 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.840 put the effort in. You know, you don't necessarily need 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.240 the experience or the talent that sort of helps, but 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.960 that develops and matures over time. You know, whatever it 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.080 is you want to do in life, I believe if 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.760 you put the energy in and put the effort in, 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.360 and be dedicated and don't give up, a lot of 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.560 people have great ideas, but they probably don't execute him 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.120 because they've run it by a friend. Thinking about doing 0:09:57.120 --> 0:09:59.000 this thing, what do you think? The friend may be 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.560 negative and say I don't. I think that's a good 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:03.040 idea that'll never work type of scenario. So a lot 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.720 of people don't cross the start line. It's like you, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.760 you know what the story you just told? You know, 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.120 so a lot of people sort of back away from, oh, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.920 the fear of failure. So I think for me having 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.319 that discipline as a young kid and then as a 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:17.199 nineteen year old, I worked on a summer camp with 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.720 inner city underprivileged kids north of Detroit and took a 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:24.000 Trailways bus from Detroit to La and arrived in LA. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.640 This part of the story is pretty funny because I 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.600 came with this dream. I grew up watching a lot 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:33.960 of American TV, listening to American music. I was influenced 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.240 by American culture, so arriving in Hollywood it was weirdly 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.000 anti climatic because the Hollywood I had seen on TV 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.960 in the eighties. When I arrived at Union Station on 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.520 a Tuesday morning at four am in the morning, I'm like, 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.640 we're all the movie stars, We're all the rock stars, 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.840 you know. Then I arrived to Hollywood and that was 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:55.080 a really sort of wake up call on Hollywood Boulevard 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.400 in the mid eighties. But I clicked with it and 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.920 resonated with it, and every time I go past that YMCA, 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.240 it's kind of a grounding thing for me because that 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.160 was ground based zero when I arrived here, not knowing anyone. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.520 And I'm still here whatever it is thirty eight years later, 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.000 and La is home to me. And I spent nineteen 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.000 years in Sheffield, England, but all my adult life has 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.000 been LA. Like I never had a driver's licen in England, 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.520 never owned a car in England, never had my own apartment, 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.640 never had a real job. I was just sort of 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.319 bumming around and so La was the land of opportunity. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.160 It was everything I was into at the time. It 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:32.440 still is. It's still an inspiring place for me. La. 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:37.760 I get inspiration just walking around Hollywood. So ironically, Hannah 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.440 and I bought a house up the road less than 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.240 a mile up the road from here, in near the 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.480 Hollywood Bowl. It's one hundred year old Spanish house that 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.199 we're restoring. You know, I never lived in Hollywood. I'd 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.680 lived in Venice and downtown for thirty years, but i'd 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.679 go to Hollywood. But now living here, I'm walking around 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.719 all these places that bring back these memories of when 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.160 I first arrived, and it's kind of an inspiring thing. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:01.440 Wow, you still have your offed in downtown. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.720 Yeah, the way I talk about that, you're not getting 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:04.240 rid of it, are you? 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:05.840 Institution though? 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.680 Yeah, this will be the twenty fourth year I've owned 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.920 that building. I've been downtown in the Arts District since 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.080 nineteen ninety four. So in two thousand, I bought a 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.960 twenty six thousand square foot building that was constructed in 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.720 nineteen oh two. So that was where I ran my 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.800 clothing company. I lived in the loft. I accidentally fell 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:29.120 into the film location business twenty years ago by renting 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:33.320 that space out for everything like commercial filming, TV shows, 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.800 music videos, reality shows and along the way sort of, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.360 how's my Porsche collection? 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:40.920 Yeah, my dream is a warehouse similar to what you 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:42.880 have a high level goal one day. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:44.320 Well, you're going to make the dream come true? You know, 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:46.000 baby steps and take that leap of. 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.440 Face, I said, keep working out it. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:48.960 Yeah, you got to keep doing that. 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.160 Have you always been a very motivated person? 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:51.960 Yeah? 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.240 I think so. You know. I described myself as street 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.840 smart and I left school with two old levels at fifteen, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.240 went on the doll But yeah, I think when I 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.880 arrived in la I had to be motivated because I 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.559 didn't know anyone and I didn't want to go back home. 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.720 For me, failure would be returning to Sheffield, the city 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.319 I came from. Not that it's a bad place, but 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.640 everything sort of i'd grown up aspiring to be around 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.680 was literally here in la I have no education, and 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.720 essentially the clothing, property development and messing around with cars 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.320 wasn't like I went to school to learn any of that, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.720 but I had an interest in it and a passion 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:30.719 and La is one of those places where opportunity just 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.000 sort of comes weirdly. You know. People say, you know, oh, 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.560 you get lucky. I say, you make your own luck 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.320 by being put yourself in the right place at the 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.040 right time. But when someone offers you that opportunity that 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.640 may be scary to host a podcast, for example, Right, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.440 sure do it? How bad can it be? Right? 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.080 I was asking myself like, and that's so I went 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:54.600 into this rabbit hole of like, why is Magnus magnus? Yeah? 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.560 I used this phrase like the light behind his eyes, 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.559 like the headlights are always on high beam where you know, 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.040 I catch myself the lights start to dim after a 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.760 while for whatever factors, right, And I catch myself like, hey, hey, 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.400 it'll be careful. You better go get a jolt, you know, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.400 get a jump somewhere. And I use running in my 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:20.080 daily life when things are really down and I feel 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.560 like unmotivated or I feel like, you know, I feel 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.760 like I'm making myself a victim to life, and like, 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:29.480 you know, especially in our business of Hollywood, it's it's 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.360 a business of no's, Like you're never good enough, right, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.040 so it's ninety nine point nine percent no, and you're 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.760 waiting for that point one thing. And so I started 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.000 adopting running because. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:40.560 You like running. 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.000 I like it now as I'm older, because before because 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.800 I was so competitive because I was younger, I was like, 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.160 I'm gonna run a marathon, and then I lose. I'm 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.880 not gonna win, right, and all these people are passing 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.120 men finishing. 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:53.160 Yeah. 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.200 And then now I now, I like, I have these 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.560 four hills that I run daily, like as soon as 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.480 I wake up up, like I go. I appreciate at 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:06.080 age fifty one that first of all, that I'm still 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.280 able to do it. Yeah, And I get up there 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.960 and I've learned, you know, gratitude which I never had, right, 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.600 and the I then the concept of even prayer. Right 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.160 Like in my travels, I've gotten to meet very spiritual people. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.800 And I was in Kyoto, Japan, which is like one 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:26.160 of the most spiritual places in Asia and especially Japan. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:31.040 And this car guy Mirasan, who you know is Rocket Bunny. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:32.800 I don't know if you know Rocket Bunny. They make 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.520 body kids everytime I go to visit him. We never 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.000 do anything car related. He takes me straight to the 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:41.760 temples and he's like, and I feel like I have 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:43.400 to take you here. And I'm like to do what 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.560 It's like, it's a place where I give things that 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.720 I'm healthy enough to like come here that I get 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.880 to pursue this beautiful life of like making cars, I 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:58.160 get to meet friends like you, I get to have kids, 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.040 I have a wonderful wife and the full sun. So 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.320 I just give thanks and this is where I come 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.800 and I do this every day. And he's like, song, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.080 do you have a place back in LA And I 0:16:08.120 --> 0:16:11.520 go no. He goes, well, maybe you need to find Yeah, 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:14.600 So on this run, like I found this place which 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.520 there's a little bench somebody made, and I just go 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.520 there and I pray and I go thank you for 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.880 my wife, my life, thank you for this beautiful dog 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:26.880 and the other dog, thank you for this health. And 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:28.440 then I go thank you for today I get to 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.040 do a podcast with a couple of friends, and then 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.440 I go on my way. Second stage is harder, long, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.160 long journey right up this mountain. Third stage is even 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:43.240 lonelier and colder. But then the fourth stage is back 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:47.000 down the mountain going home. And I'm like, wow, it's 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:50.960 not so bad, right, And I use that as like 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.800 a daily, like you know, kind of discipline to go Hey, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:59.960 keep that keep that light behind your eyes, like positive. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.080 And when I found out that you were a you know, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.720 distance runner or a mid distance runner, I was like, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:11.240 that's the foundation of how you're able to keep the 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.440 headlights right in life, right, you know? 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.679 Yeah? I think, So how many miles a day do 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:16.080 you run? 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:18.360 I think it's like a five mile cour I used 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.560 to track everything and then that would get in the way. Yeah, 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:23.480 like I go, I didn't do twelve today, right, I 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.840 didn't do eighteen today. There was a time where I 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.359 was running like twenty two miles. Wow, I called the 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:29.159 forest gumping. 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:34.320 Yep, running. I no longer run. I haven't run in 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.680 a long time. But I think once you get to 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.080 some point in life, priorities shift, things change, Things that 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.280 were important before are not quite as important at some point, 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.760 you know. And he starts sort of thinking along the 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.040 lines of what you were talking about, you know, things 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.080 to keep me grounded but also motivated, keeping the light on, 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.760 the passion burning bright. You know my thing, you know, 0:17:57.080 --> 0:17:59.800 it's twenty twenty four eyes, so these New Year's resolution, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.320 and you know my thing is to continue doing what 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:06.080 I call cool shit with cool people, but collaborate and 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.040 create more with other people as opposed to being this 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.000 sort of lone wolf where you know, I'm a one 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.399 man of army doing stuff on myself because it is 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.399 hard to say motivated and actually, you know, continue to 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.159 create things that you're proud of all the time. You know, 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:21.159 I think life goes in this circle of highs and 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.640 lows and you know, peaks and plateaus, and you reach 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.399 a certain level and then sidestep, maybe take a different 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:28.960 turn and see where that road goes. 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.240 Are you one hundred percent committed to drag racing? 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.760 Whenever I do something, I'm doing giving it one hundred 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.600 and ten percent. I really don't have ass things that 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:57.080 I do. That's why I never went or I haven't 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:01.879 gone into a competitive racing series because of I cannot 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:05.200 take on responsibility of racing and then book a role 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:06.960 and know that I have to let down sponsors or 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.480 I can't or all lose points because I can't race 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:11.679 because then I'm not giving up one hundred and ten percent. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.520 I feel like everything I do, I have to give everything. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.320 Yeah, I can relate that completely. Kind of like I 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:18.840 used to do a lot of track days from two 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.320 thousand and two to two thousand and eight, and I 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.240 went through the program where you turn up with a 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.640