Determined Society with Shawn French | Adversity & Mindset - Lamborghini Life, Luxury, and the Psychology of Supercars with Floyd Raglin

Episode Date: August 1, 2025

Floyd Raglin isn’t just selling cars. He’s selling status, speed, and the dream. As one of the top luxury auto consultants in the country, Floyd has built a reputation at the highest level — working with Lamborghini, Ferrari, McLaren, and clients who don't blink at six-figure price tags. But behind every big sale is a deeper game. In this episode of The Determined Society, Floyd and Shawn French dive into what most people don’t understand about the luxury world — the trust it takes, the grind behind the gloss, and the unshakable self-awareness required to thrive in it. In This Episode: -Why most people in sales will never sell a Lamborghini — and Floyd’s first time doing it -What it takes to build real trust with seven and eight-figure buyers -The difference between car people and client people -Inside the psychology of luxury sales — what these clients are actually buying -Why consistency, character, and reputation win the long game -How Floyd stays grounded in an industry built on image Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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We're here to serve the world. And in this world we're in right now, man. Wow. Underserved, man. What happened to morals and values and, I mean, just values and respect. It's like, I mean, what happened? How are you doing? Yes, ma'am, no man.

Hold your door before a lady. You know what I mean? It's completely out the window, man. It's out the window. Like nowadays, you say, I do a female in the gym, you open a door. They think it's in advance. Oh, yeah. It's jaded.

man, everybody's trying to come up. Everybody's trying to do something big. I mean, hell, I'll admit, I've built this show. But it's been done on the back of integrity and serving the community. Because if it were for me, Floyd, I mean, I would acquit this shit a long-ass time ago. Beautiful day on a Saturday in Southwest Florida. We're here at the Revs Institute. You know, you guys did a fun run from Lamborghini in Broward all the way to Lamborghini in Naples.

And now we're here for Supercarst Saturday, man. It's an amazing event. Talk to us about that. So, phone story, short, vow, on Ricky Williams, signed with the Dolphins. Ricky wanted to do a car deal. And so I said, well, Val called me up. She said, I could put you in touch with Warren Henriado, Warren's Rangeover. I did the deal with Ricky Williams.

I said, I'll do the market because Ricky's my guy. Year later, Duane Way, then Duane Way signs with Miami Heat. Wayne Way wants a car deal. Vow. I want to get a car deal for Duane Wade. with the one here we did a deal for, Dwayne Wade. End up doing his marketing.

We ended up buying Lamborghini Palm Beach. Warren goes, how are we going to get people to Palm Beach? We're a day-county store. Well, we can get some celebrities up there and do like a cars and coffee. Long story short. Warren's like, sold it out, whatever. Lamborghini came to and said, you want a broad county point.

Went up in a Lamborghini Broad. Warren goes, how are we going to get people in a Lamborghini Broad? I said we could do like we did in Lamborghini Palm Beach but really not a car and call for more supercars. And that's how supercar Saturday became. It's amazing, man, because

like, and it's so funny, like, let's go back a little bit. You're talking about Val, right? Because she, dude, that girl starts more shit than in a good way. Like, she told me that you told her, because she asked you like,

how did you get into cars? And she said, you vow? Yeah. That's how it started, right? Yeah. It's like, and she's like, I don't know. When did making plans get this complicated?

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Learn more at WhatsApp.com. I don't think that's it. Yeah. I did the deal with Ricky Williams. That's so cool, man. Did they deal with Ricky Williams? Then we did Duane Wade. But Fahill was doing the marketing for Warren Henriado,

and she's the one to hook me up with him. Long story short. 2002 when Ricky was with the Dolphins, I'm still with Warren Henry, you know, and we've known 30 dealerships. We're on Lamborghini Broad and we're on Lamborghini Naples. That's why I'm going to come from Broad to Naples, because those are both our stores.

It's so cool. Cool event, man. Like, I wasn't sure what I was going to expect because, you know, you're like, hey, meet me here at this time and we'll drive over together in my car. I'm like, all right, cool. Well, I thought I was getting there right. Like maybe before all the shit was going down, I'd go up and I'm like, what the hell, man? I took like the last parking spot. You know what I mean? It was wild, man. People out there. A lot of people with amazing cameras,

families, kids had a simulator in there. Man, it just, what a really cool event to not just be about cars. I mean, that's part of it, but from what I saw, man, brought families together and just giving them something fun and clean to do on a Saturday morning. And go back to me again. Like I said, I play professional football for a living. I love the cars, but you see my guys, this little kid might not be able to afford that car. No matter, you know, let them sit in your car.

Let them touch your car. Let them be in, you know, this makes these people date. It sure does. So for us, you know, if you can't, you got to, you're making these people days. So, you know, let them enjoy it, you know. And the group, that's our group. A great group of guys.

You know what I'm saying? This is fun for us. We wanted to be fun for everybody else. And you met a lot of the guys. I did, man. I made a partner, John. Yeah, John. Yeah.

Everybody's just so down the earth, man. You know what I mean? But we do this because, of course, driving these cars, you know, you don't want to be just like, I'm the guy in Lamborghini driving down the street. It's more fun we're in a group and doing it together, you know. So that's why we do all these different fun things together, you know. So we hear Naples, man, you know, Naples takeover. Come on, dude. Seriously, it's what it was.

going down 41, there's a line of freaking cars behind us. Everybody pulling over. You got people coming out of their businesses, dude, with their phones. Like, what's going on? Like, you got people coming on out of their business. I'm like, people coming out of their business, man. She's got scrubs on. She's probably got patients and shit.

I'm like, you need to get back in there. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. We're going to pull that teeth in a second. That tooth in a second. We got to go out there. A bunch of lambos and exotic cars driving down the road.

I just think it's super's cool like that, man, because, you know, again, cars bring people together. And it's much more than just about the vehicle, man. And so when you talk about your old school values, right? And I'd have to say, like, you know, you hinted at about, you know, a kid that may not be able to afford that car. Let them sit in your car. Let them go for a spin or let him do whatever, right? But dude, man, but to me, like, that's about hope too.

Yeah. Because when they can touch something and they can sit down on it and be in there and just understand that something like this can be attainable for them, it could change their life. And it changed a lot of the kids. Like, we just did a drive Friday through this kid who had terminal cancer. They did a rally. All the kid wanted before whatever was to have a group of cars drive by his window in the hospital. That's all he wanted. And these guys did it on Friday.

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Learn more at finra.org slash trade smart. And that's what this whole thing is, you know. You can have a car cool. But it's what can you do to change people, to change lives, to do something better. Like you said, the better people, to give them hope. I could do this. I can have this, you know. And that's what it's all about.

you know yeah man and again it just brings happiness because you know i walk in here to the rev institute you see all these amazing cars pretty bad and my buddy Kyle gets excited hey hey I got to go show you this McLaren says F1 McLaren it's like the only one it's like it's crazy I'm like yeah well go look yeah it's white clefts whitecliffe white cliff is it his white cliff no way I have that car in the United States yeah freaking whitecliff and that's my dude that's my guy dude's dope man yeah he's a good dude he's a car guy oh really car guy he comes he actually did a song and I'm going to find it about Supercross Saturdays, Florida. Dude, that's got to be your theme song.

Yeah, no, we've got to find it. I got to find it. I'm going to have Elo Sins over two, but yeah, he did. I want that. I want that. I want that. We'll work it in, man. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty bad ass song.

A white cliff, my guy. Cliffs are good dude. You know, it's so funny because the more I, I'm connected, you know, through to people like you and in public figures, and you know what I, you don't have noticed, man, and these are some good-ass people, man. And I just feel like Joe Public always looks at them as kind of like, hey, they pigeonholing, like, you're an actor, you're a musician, you're an other than, no, no, no, that's something that they do, right? How has it been for you and, you know, all these people that you know to disconnect from what you actually do to who you are and how you're accepted in the community and treated? You know, with me, anybody that knows me, of course, you know, I work with the NFL.

I keep my NFL life here. I keep my car life here. I keep my public life here. You know, I try not to dabble in both, you know what I mean? Because my professional athlete guys, they are a certain way. You got to have them a certain way. Yeah. My car guys are a certain way.

You got to have a certain way. Me as my public life, man, I'm born, man. I mean, compared to what I used to be, I'm Netflix. That's what I'm so funny. When your mother says, be hungry for the lights, come on. That's how I live these days, you know what I mean? I mean, most I do is riding around with these guys. I train every day and that's it, you know?

But again, the order you get more easier you want life, you know what I mean? Life, because I've done it all, seen it all, been there with it all. And you just take every little bit of part of your life and you just make yourself a better person. but it still goes about how you were raised, you know what I mean? Sure does, man. You know, I think there's also choices too, right? Like, you were raised really well. You had a mom that, you know, dropping the hammer on Dennis Robin when he walks in the house,

drop them in a half bomb. Oh, yeah. Cussing, right? But then you also have the other side of it that there's a lot of people out there that have made it in this world that didn't have that upbringing. And there was a choice, right? Do I want to be a good person? Do I want to give good in the world? Oh, yeah.

Or do you want to be bad or give bad, right? And so it's always nice to see people that are out there doing things that are positive. But I just think the overall theme, man, is like, you know, this would not be successful what you're doing right now if it were for you. It's for people. We're here to serve, man. Can we just talk about that real quick? Like, I don't care what people's viewpoints or what God they, they represent or, you know, believe in. But, man, we're here to serve people.

We're here to serve the world. Man, and it is what we're in right now, man. Wow. Underserved, man. Wow. You know, is what happened to morals and values and just, I mean, just values and respect is like, I mean, what happened? Mm-hmm. You know what I mean?

You know what I mean? And that's another reason why I stand this day to myself because it's this world. We're in this crazy, man. Like, just respect, you man. Like, just, hi, how you doing? Yes, man. No, man. Hold the door before a lady.

You know what I mean? If I can help somebody else, that's out the window. It's completely out the window, man. Like nowadays, you say hi to someone. You say hi to a female in the gym. You open a door. They think it's in advance. Oh, yeah.

Like, no. Like, I'm high because I'm a nice person, right? So, like, I just think that when we look at this world, it's jaded, man. Everybody's trying to come up. Everybody's trying to do something big. I mean, hell, I'll admit, I'm built a brand. I built this show. But it's been done.

on the back of integrity. Yeah. Right? And authenticity. We talked about that a little bit and serving the community because if it were for me, Floyd, I mean, I would acquit this shit

a long-ass time ago. Remember what I told you when Powell first asked me to do this show? I said, Bob. You know what I told you? I said, I said a podcast. I said, I think a podcast

as people selling their souls just get ratings. You know what I mean? It's like this. What happened to what you do and take it to the grave? Yep. Like I've been friends of mine who pass and celebrities and people say you need to write a book or you need to do it.

I said, no, man. Why? You know, my girl says it best. He goes, why is there the time you see your athlete or celebrity fans, you just start laughing? Because we got memories, man. That's cool. You know what I mean? Probably people now they don't have memories.

It could be a year later, I'll see you, and we're going to laugh about today. Yeah, of course. You know, we're not going to end. We're going to laugh about it. When I see my athlete, friend, celebrity friends, celebrity, friends, it could be years later, we just laugh. You know, it's so funny because my best friend, Quinn Stewart and Ryan Patterson, two guys that are super close to me, we played baseball together at LSU.

You went to LSU? Yeah, man, I played baseball. I went to Southern. You went to Southern. Come on, bro. Come on, man, yeah. Too, like connection. Is Val like in the background?

Be like, okay, connect these two because of this. They don't know about this. They'll discover it. That's hot. Baton Rouge, man. Baton Rouge, man. That's hot, man. It's that bad and Rouge.

I was there. When Laman White, Dalton Hilliard. Wow. The Giants, what's his name? He played with the Giants, Big Laman. He was there. But yeah, we still go back. That's wild, bro.

Yeah, man. Stop and Gras. Bad Rooz, man. Come on, man. Are you from? No, I'm from Illinois, originally, yeah. You're from Illinois. Yeah, but I went to school down the southern.

I love Baton Rouge, man. It's the best, brother. You know, man, it's the best. It's the best. Everything there. The people. Yeah, the people. So cool, man.

So funny. My story shot, I went to you on LV my freshman year. To about 79, man. And so I remember the first week in school, they got all the athletes together in the room. He said, don't worry about going to class.

I'm going to point you a booster. Whatever you do, don't fuck over your booster. Never been, my guy that's a big Johnny on this hotel. In Florida, we should have been on the game. Give me your tickets. I said, I'm watching this shit on this. TV, right? What am I doing? Yeah, I'm like, Dad, I don't think I'm alone here, you know?

But it's funny because, like, going back to it, like, I'll link up with Q, like, he'll fly in, he'll hang out with me and my wife and my kids, or we went to Texas a couple, Texas a couple times, and our buddy Ryan Patterson, just got married in March. And we just see each other and we just and laugh. That's what I'm saying, bro. Man, we go to some of the shit, some of the shit. Like, thank God there wasn't social media back then. I say that all the time. I say that all the time. Me and Dennis said, bro, we'd have been done a long time ago for social media.

Done. Me and L.T. were done a long time ago, social media, me and all my guys, a long time. But you know, we got this memories. So when we see, I'll run it to somebody. My girl, I said, well, you guys always laugh when you. I said, bro, if you only knew. Yeah.

But we know. And you don't even have to say anything. No, no. It's a look. Just a look. It's a look. It's a look. And you just start laughing. I know.

And all this stuff, you start turning through your head. You just wish. You know what I'm saying? But at least you know you had those moments. Do you remember the clip that Kevin Hart did about when you become my best friend, you've already bought into my bullshit? My bullshit is your bullshit. We don't talk about our bullshit.

All I got to do is look at you. Like, and you know. And you know. And not to say anything. And you know. You already signed up for this. And you know. That's a good friendship, right?

How many of those friendships? have you been able to not just bring into the car world, but also make new ones in this, in this. I, a sports world is a different world. I mean, different folks, man. Yeah, of course. I've dealt with special guys. I got some great guys in this car world, but it's different.

You know what I mean? Yeah. It's nothing like when you're in the trenches and you're going through it together. That's what you play sports. Well, you learn about their soul in that. Yeah, bro. You can't replace that. You can't, no.

And I tell people, the biggest thing, I've played for Miami, I've done this. And you, when you walk through that state, if you went to the LSU, it was that when you retire, that's what you're, that you would never be able to replace that feeling. No, you can't. You can't. When you're in that locker room, you'll never be replaced. That's what you miss. Mm-hmm. Now I miss the practice.

It's just a camaraderie that you miss. I don't miss a problem. You know, there's a camera. Now nobody misses that. Yeah, it's that. You know what I mean? And so it's different, man. But you take that and I, my girl is like, why you don't ever get decided?

I said, baby, it's hard to get decided about things when you've done so much. Dude, that's a good point because I battle with this with my wife. She says, how can, and I've talked about this multiple times and the audience is probably tired of listening to it, but it keeps coming up. So there's a reason, right? And what I'm finding is the more I'm connected to the high level folks like, Like you, like, we're the same. We all go through the same.

It's not that I'm not ever grateful for where I'm at. It's that there's another climb. And it never stops. You're never to get that climb again. You never, it never stopped. No. It ain't the views. No.

It's the grind that you went through to get here. Mm-hmm. You can't replace it. No. Because once you got here, yeah. You can't replace it. Except people are people going to say about, oh, that conversation with Floyd. I'm like, yeah, that conversation with Floyd was dope.

But it was about everything before. It was the meeting, right? The conversation. Then it was like, we couldn't get it to work virtually. Then we met at Lamborghini. And then you didn't even know who I was at first. You thought I was something like, hey, you go to Rocco's tacos because you got that wristband. I'm like, what are you talking about lunch?

I'm like, fuck, bro. I'm like, what the fuck he's talking about? Like, what do you mean? A wristband. I'm like, when are we filming? We're supposed to film at 1230. And then this guy's face completely contorted and changed. because he realized I was who I was

and it was just like, oh, then we're family. Yeah, exactly. But it's just funny because, like, it's, the conversation's cool. Yeah. This is cool. Yeah. But it's the lead up, man.

It's like the process and everybody gets so focused on, on this right here. Yeah. But that ain't it. That ain't it. That ain't, it's cool. But everything going up to, like,

vow was freaking, oh, this is not going to work. It's a vow. It's what we can make it work. Yeah. Yeah. But, you know, she goes,

well, do you want me to conference a I'm like yeah conference a man we'll talk and she goes and then she goes well I don't want to be in the middle girl you're the one that die hold you don't want to die but no it's um but it's all good but those things like those certain pressure points right those those misunderstandings and in the preparation just like with with athletics and then podcast or even events here at rev institute with supercar Saturday like bro the event it ain't that ain't it like it ain't that ain't it like you You look back, like, why can't you, why can't you be excited about what you've accomplished? And like, well, because what I accomplished is because of all this shit.

Yeah. That's what I'm excited about. Yeah. Right? Yeah. I like to see everybody else having a good time. People always ask for why you do this. It's fun to me.

It keeps me occupied. It gives me a challenge to put this together, get all this together. But that's what I do. I mean, it's like, people like, you should be making this. It's not about that with me, man. You know what I mean? I hear that shit all the time, Floyd. Oh, bro.

Like, bro. How many DMs do I get or somebody say like, I'm kind of blown away that you're not making $150K a month? I'm like, but but like, but how? Like, not even how, but it's like, wait a second. The way we're doing this is different. We're doing it out of authenticity. My goal isn't to make that. My goal is to make an impact and the money follows it follows.

Money follows. Come on. That's what it's all about, man. Look. Swindling on Instagram. I had a buddy in mind. He goes, why you don't have this car?

Why you don't do this? Why you don't make this? I said, man, look. Now that this makes my life. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I train like a motherfucker every day. I'm 64 years old.

You're 64? I'm 64. Go to fuck out of here, dog. And one that took my whole car group to Brandon Marshall's gym. Okay. This man, bump the cars. I like you guys at friends. So how the fuck you ride around and a half of a million-a-car and you're pulling up to a McDonald's,

but you put premium gas in your car, but you eat like shit. So me, you take better care of the car than you do yourself. That doesn't make sense to me. You know what I mean? So come on, let me show you how to blood work, how to eat right, nutrition. I took them all of Brandon Marshall's gym. That's sick, dude. I said, I do this because I care about you.

Fuck the car. I care about you guys. Yeah. Now, if you want to take it in, that's on you. But this is what I care about. I want you around to be able to drive that car. But it don't make any sense to me that you put the treatment, PRP treatment on the car, put the new tires and rims,

you put premium gas, you don't put regular gas in your car, but you put regular food and bullshit food in your body. Come on, man. So do you take care of better care of a car than you do yourself? It's not connected with me. You know, it's so funny because, like, I've been there, right? I've been there. And in December I made that switch for myself.

And, you know, a lot of times I think people try to make that shift out of shame. and hatred towards themselves. And this time for me, I made it out of love. I'm like, hey, man, I deserve more. Like, you deserve to feed your body better. You deserve to look better. Because that didn't. You only got one, bro.

But again, here's the thing. The other thing is, like, the food is mentioned in the Bible. How many times? Thousands. Yeah. It's mentioned one of the, the majorly discussed things in the Bible is the food. Yeah. It's filling the Holy Spirit with food that is put on the source for you to eat, not processed

food. Right. But so, like, but then when I look at it, is like, Once I did that, my mind started working differently. Then my show got better. Everything got better. But most importantly, I ain't worried about getting sick and not being able to take care of my family. Right.

You play sports. Part of sports is your diet. Yeah. But because you're transits in life. You got to go back to what you know. Me, I trained every day. Me, when I relax on the weekends, I go hit the track and go, I'm on a football field, three days a week.

I'm on the track one day a week. They're like, why are you out there? And I go out there 12 noon. What? Because that's the only person. I go with no cell phone. I'm going to be the only one out there. But that's what I know.

That's relaxes me. Yeah. Yep. You know what I like to beat myself up. That's what I know. Yep. You know what I mean? Everybody goes, it's hot.

Okay, good. Yeah. You know what I believe. And that's what, like, man, look, me, I, that's my relaxation. When I go to, not going to the gym because I'm not going to gym and people like to talk

I hate to the gym got to those headphones in man Oh but yeah people talk and it's chit-chat and I'm like that drives my eyes broke because I'm a old scott I'm listening to my body

you know and I'll go to the field I'm not anyone out there my girl goes out there funny story my girl I've been with her 19 years when we first start going out

I said let me tell you how this relationship is going to work I work out like a motherfucker every day we're going to work you got to work out like a motherfucker every day

that's awesome 19 years we still together. You know what she does? She works out like a motherfucker every day. She gets me up some days. Rinse takes your laundry and hand delivers it to your door, expertly cleaned and folded. So you could take the time once spent folding and sorting and waiting

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So update on Dave. It's up to you. We'll take the laundry. Rince, it's time to be great. But it keeps you connected to you, right? You got to have something in common. You can't, she can't be eating the steak and eggs and all this. And you try to eat healthy.

How do you think that's going to work? Yeah. It's not. Well, you don't eat shaking eggs? No, fuck no. I don't need red meat. Oh, okay. So let's see.

See, I eat the shit out of red meat, too. Oh, bro. You have had a calonic? No. How old are you? I'm 46. We'll get a calonic. We get a colline.

When you, so I base everything on a car, a radiator, I mean a radiator, it's like this. Do all the years, all that gunk builds up on it. You know, all you flush your radiance and get all that gunk. Yeah. Your colon is the same way. All the years that stuff build up on your walls, you can get a colonic, it gets to flush your walls to get all that gunk up. Your walls like this. Through the years, just like this.

They're just closing up. When that bitch closed? You get too late. It's too late. So what do you eat? chicken? Chicken? Chicken fish. Um, chicken fish. I mean, salad. It's born. It's born. Yeah. But, I mean, I see steak when I play ball. I'm not trying to do all that. When I see what comes out of you, once you see what comes out of you, because you can see it, I'm never eating again.

You know what I mean? And I just don't like that blow the feeling. Yeah. You know, like, I just, I never feel that. I typically I stick with more of like a modified carnivore. Like the only carb I eat would be a vegetable or a fruit. Yeah. Instead once in a while I'll have, you know, kind of a refeed meal. But for the most part, I eat pretty lean, right? But I never looked at the whole red meat versus chicken.

You know, it's about digest. Red meat is hard to digest, man. Okay. You know, it's, and that's why I do it. You know, I eat fish, a lot of fish. And my girl used like that too now. You know what kind of fish? Salmon.

That's my go-toes salmon. You know, salmon. You want to hear a funny story about salmon? What? He says, dude, this guy that led me way back in the day. His name was Jamie Lee. And I was out when I owned home in California. He's my roommate, right?

We were younger. I'm from the East Bay. They conquered Walton Creek area. So I'll coach football at a Monterey Junior College. Get out of here. Boree's beautiful, dude. Yeah, I close two years up there football. He's beautiful.

But so he's like, hey, him and his dad went fishing. And he's like, I got all these salmon. sakes. I'm like, cool. So he brings them home. We grill them up. And I love that. It tastes so good until I found all these damn rib bones in it. Like they weren't, he didn't take out the bones. Oh, it's so like, so now I have an aversion to it. I won't even touch it. Yeah, he's scared. It's going to get caught in your throat. I won't even touch it. Yeah, it's going to get you out. I'm not touching it. Yeah, it's like the best, right? But, um, but man, so what's going to go on here the rest of the day here here at the revs? So today

we're here, we live here. We go to Rockos, tacos for lunch. We live here. One of my buddies, you'll meeting my introduction to him. He has a crazy car collection. Then we'll check in one of the hotels on Fifth Avenue. Then we go to dinner. That's nice. You're going to stay the night. Then you go back tomorrow. Then we get up and drive back in the morning. Very cool. And up downtown Brickle for another car show. And that's our weekend. You're doing it again. My wife lived in Brickle when I met her, man. Man. Man, Brickle's crazy, bro. Is it crazy now? You haven't been there lately? Not lately. Man, it looks like Little Manhattan now. No shit. It's so bad.

I know the Brickle City Center. I mean, that just got built. That was kind of cool. Casatua. Casatua. Yeah, there's a cool little talk to the last. Is that what the one you're talking about? No, Casatoua is downstairs.

Casasatouis is bad. What is it? It's, uh, what I want to say? Italian, but it's pretty good. You got to call me next time you come to Miami. We'll have to go hang out. I mean, if I go to Miami, it's probably just going to see you anyway. Yeah, yeah, we got to come hang out.

Yeah. I got to get you to a game, man. You ever go to a Dolphins game? I mean, I've been. Yeah, we've got to go to a game. Let's go to a game. It's just coming up, dude. Yeah.

I know we got our NFL PA convention in two weeks. We've got the whole diplomat resort. That's cool. Yeah, so we're doing that in two weeks. So I have all the guys that come out here for the weekend. We do a bunch of seminars and fitness stuff. And, yeah, so it's been. I got a buddy that plays in the NFL.

It lives five doors down for me, man. Really? Yeah, Benjamin St. Juist. He was with the, he was with the commanders. Okay. And now he just got a deal. He's going to, he's out with the Chargers now. Nice.

So it's funny story about him. He's, you know, started in Canada. He's Canadian. Yeah. And then he's from there. And then he went to a Michigan football camp and Harbaugh got him a scholarship. Oh, shit. Yeah.

So, dude, they ended up going. He went to Minnesota after that and the NFL. But now he's back with Harbaugh. It's wild, huh? It'd be pretty good this year. It might be, man. Yeah. He might be.

He's supposed to be a team this year. Yeah. It's his daughter's birthday. today too. Happy one year's birthday to her, man. Yeah, come to dinner. What are you doing tonight? Tonight? I don't know what I got going tonight.

Yeah, come here. I'll let you know we're going to do dinner. Yeah, shoot me a text. Yeah. So now I've got to get back for some stuff. Yeah. My wife's got to go buy clothes. We're going on vacation this week. Yeah.

I'm nervous, dude. So wife, he looks at me. So we started talking about cars. I'm talking about all that. See, that's, I told you my show was good. See, I told you. So you're excited. She said to me last night.

I don't think you're excited about going to I'm like, I'm excited. She goes, I said, baby, you told me so many war stories about your country about people getting kidnapped and shit, about how hard it is to drive there, people driving off mountains. Like, I'm, I have the fear of God in me to go to your country right now. And that's your fault. I'm like, that's your fault. So she's got to do some shopping and stuff, but I'm not being able to come out for dinner.

So my girl is from Russia. Oh. And she's there vacation with her family. She always said, you want to go over? hell no what you think I'm going to go Russia I don't think

brothers hang out too much in Russia he's seen Rocky Ford I'm not going to Russia I'm good with Russia oh my God so I get what you mean

going to the front country which girls are like I'm good right here but it's going to be all right you know

you know we wouldn't put the kids in that situation if we were bad but no man so the point is if I can get out there yeah man

I'll let you know just let me know just let me know where you're going to be so dinner everything like that you go back tomorrow it was just so nice

to have you on the show, man. And I knew he was going to connect. I knew he had some. First time I spoke to him on the phone, I was like, man, this guy's all right. Because I was like, I told him, I said, I don't know about those podcasts. I called Dennis up. I said, Dennis, I'm going to do it.

Why the fuck you doing that? Because he need to do it now. We do one together, the three of us. Bro, Dennis. Fucking Dennis would do it, man. It would be fun. Dennis is, I don't. You know, Dennis is like, you know, T.

We old school, man. But this is easy. Because, like, a lot of people, they just want to get shit out of you. that we don't want to talk about. Nope. You know what I mean? That's a click-based shit, man. Leave that Alexander Cooper.

Fuck that. Yeah, and what they do, whatever you say, they're going to twist it a thousand ways before it gets aired. You know what I mean? We don't do that here, ma'am. You know?

We don't do that. And that's what I was scared when Vow had asked me. I was like, man, I don't know, Val finds out, Dennis finally a dick to be pissed the fuck off of me.

You know what I mean? And I'm like, oh, bro, you know? No, man, no, we do it right here. It's funny. So, like, I grew up, I was a big Bulls fan. So, I mean, I haven't watched basketball since, you know.

That was the best. I lived in Chicago with Dennis. Are you? Did you really? Bro. Dude. So I tell people, I lived a different life, bro. I live with Dennis the whole time with Chicago when he played for the Bulls.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Scary. Bro, what that was that TV series they did with the Chicago Bulls? Oh, the Last Dance. That was so cool, man. I was there. No way.

Yeah. I've watched that thing three times. I introduced him to Carmen a lecture. Did you really? Yeah, I was at the wedding. You knew Carmen. I don't know. Carmen's my girl.

She's cool. Yeah, she's my girl. That's awesome. But yeah, so that, that was a, that's a story and another story. Yeah, yeah. That's off the air, folks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We can't tell you.

That's somebody's business. You have to be there type of story. You know what I mean? But yeah, no. He's my brother. That's awesome. That's awesome. The guy father for my kids.

Like, he's my brother. Is he local or where's he living at nowadays? So man, Dennis and every way to get him in California together. We moved out to Florida together. And I said, I'm like, Dennis, I can't hang out on the streets no more. Man, they start getting mad at me because we don't want to go. I said, Dennis, I came, bro. I just don't want to be out there.

So you got a girlfriend. He moved to Houston. So we're living in Houston now. Cool, cool. Yeah, I might sit flying out next week to go see him. I'm going to be in Austin in beginning of August. I love Austin. I speak at an event.

I think that's Houston and Austin. Austin are a good, what? That's a good. That's a nice ride. That's a nice ride. Yeah, we won't even be close. Yeah, but, uh, because you got to go Houston, Austin, Dallas, and then Houston. Oh, it's way up there. Yeah, it's way up there. But, yeah. Last time I was in Austin, I was with Ricky. Okay. Bro. I went to Austin with Ricky.

I said, Rick, you took a pay cut going to the NFL compared to the University of Texas. Pay for it. How old cars is? So Ricky goes, you want to see the campus? So, yes, 10 o'clock at night. Ricky got a key to swipe every building at the UT. Still. We walk around the campus 10 o'clock at night, and swatping, we're going to every building.

I wonder if you have been to the training facilities there, have you? No, no, no, no, no. Their wave room, I can't even describe what this thing looks like. It looks like he could eat off the floor on there. And one of the statement, they got a Ricky Williams trophy, I mean, a statue. Then they got an Earl Campbell statue. Come on.

They have a Ricky Williams wing in there. They have an Earl Campbell wing. He got his own room. That's just wild, man. And then you go to the film room. It's an Ipaq movie theater. I said, Ricky, what the fuck, man? You took a pay-up going through the interfaity.

He said, I really did. Oh, shit, right? Yeah, no. Go see it. Go, go check out the facilities. We'll make you take me. They're going to let an LSU tiger in there, bro. Yeah, that is.

That's true. Don't say you from LSU. over there, yeah. That would go over to me. My stripes show. Yeah, that wouldn't go over too big. That wouldn't go bad. They would go badly, bro.

Matha McConaghanet removed me from the facility. Yeah, he's a diehard. Oh, he's a diehard. Die hard. I know. But yeah, no, but check it out, is, I mean, is. So you know they have the largest collegiate budget and it's going to United States.

Yeah. Makes sense. So you go there's a statue of this little guy in the middle of the stadium. He goes, he's the biggest donor in college football. Got his own statue outside the stadium. Come on, man. I don't know what his name is, but he had his own statue up there. That's how much money he donates through the school.

That's hysterical. But, you know, Dale, Dell, computers. Yeah. Yeah. He's a big donor up there. That's wild, man. Yeah, so, yeah, that's wild. That's a great program, man.

That's a great program. Can't lie on that. What do you think about NIL? Oh, God. I think in theory, it's great. I think it needs to be regulated because it's creating It went too big, too quick. Way too big, too quick, man.

Doing all the fine print. Yeah, because now you have free agency in college football, right? I mean, look what happened. I mean, even to, you know, the LSU commit. Oh, yeah, the quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I mean, like, we had them. And then they, I mean, if we have more money here.

Yeah, we did lose. We did lose to A&M. Don't lose to A&M. You don't have a problem or whoever we lost to. We have stupid losses, right? And then Michigan comes, and I think that was a Oracle guy. that gave all that, Bryce Underwood. That's, yeah.

But Oracle, you know, big corporations. Yeah, of course. You can't win. You can't win, man. You can't win. It's crazy to me how Baton Rouge, how LSU doesn't have something like that. It's, it's LSU, you know. It's a good program, but they don't have the boosters.

No. Like Ohio State, Michigan, Texas. Now USC is coming up because, you know what I mean? Yeah, man. Because of the boosters. Yeah. I just think they need to regulate it. I think it's, I think it's good.

I think they're starting to implement some things. Problem is too far gone. It's, it's too far gone. It's whacked out. It's whacked out. It's whacked out. So we do this thing with, at our dealership, we do it like a Heisman trophy of the top athlete, broader kind of day counter. So we talked to these kids.

The receiver from Ohio State, we gave award to last year. Okay. Smith. Jeremy Smith. Yep, yep. And so you talk to this kid, said, you know what? You play sports. Loves high school.

love college, pros is your business. It's not fun. It's a business. Now your high school is getting in IL. The college is getting in I.O. It's not fun anymore. It's all business. It's all business.

So now you've got to get agents. You've got to get financial advice. You've got to get lawyers. You got to worry about your family. You're your friends. But here's my question to you. This is a good question, okay? Because the thing that I loved about college sports is that there's so much hunger level, man.

Yeah. You're hungry. Hungry. You're starving. You're, you're, you're, nobody's hungry anymore. So how does that work, man? It takes that out of it.

It takes that out of it. And the biggest problem is, you forget you hungry, but it's only one percent of you. I'm going to make two to the lead. Yep. So when you think you're comfortable making this cup of middle over here, you might not be good enough to make to the NFL.

You better save that money or have a good financial advisor because that might be the most money you ever making your life. Might be. You know what you're not good. And you still have it if you have an injury. Yeah. I mean, injuries happen.

There's no guarantee. No guarantee. Look what happened to Eki Johnson, bro. I mean, look at a basketball player that's a commentator now. I went to Connecticut. I mean, he ranked on a motorcycle. You know what I mean? Yeah.

There's no guarantee. Done. You know what I mean? So now you're making all this NIO money. You didn't go to class you to do this, but. It's going to make the league. It's so real, man. Well, let's wrap this up, man, because we could go on a road in style.

I can talk to you for fucking four hours straight and not give a shit. Yeah. You see water. You know. So what do you have coming up, man? I know you have, you know, Supercar Saturdays. Are those kicking up as the summer winds down? So we, right now we're doing it called a summer series.

We do different rallies and drive through the summer because it's too hot to be out on the show. We're back at Supercross Saturday, September 13th. We're back at the Seminoleau-Rocasino. Love it. In my NFL world, we're at NFL PA convention coming up at the end of this month. August, we do another rally like this, but to a friend of mine's Mane Cave. we got our NFL. So what happened with the NFL here,

we have to do so many different events per the NFL, the pensions, medical, we got to give our advice so we have that event coming up. But as far as the car,

we do a big event called Exotics at the Colony, which is in November. Okay. But you got to come out for that, which is a huge event. I'm there. Yeah, so,

but yeah, so that's what we have coming up. But man, look, I know we got to go. Yeah, you do, man. You got to go to Rocco's tacos. You have Rocco's tacos, man.

But thank you, man. This has been fun. Thank you, bro. Hey, man. Much appreciated. New friend, bro. Come on. New friend.

What's up? New friend. Always talk to people. You don't know who you're going to meet. Never know. You never know. You never know. Like, there's a lot more things that we can do together that I have no idea that we could do together.

And we are. Locking eyes and shaking hands and get in the damn room with people. And we are. I appreciate you, dude. So for the audience, share this episode with somebody that loves cars that wants to hear more about how they can be involved with even coming to the Rev Center here in Naples, Supercar Saturday at the Hard Rock Cafe at Seminole and on the East Coast of Florida. And check out my boy Floyd, you know, he's the guy, man.

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