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Right Place, Right Time: How a Chance Meeting Changed Everything | Collin Strack E28
Colin’s story is a testament to how a single right-place, right-time moment can change the trajectory of a life. What began as a chance introduction to Paradyme’s founder and chairman, Ryan Garland, at one event opened doors that allowed him to pursue his childhood dreams. That encounter sparked a chain of opportunities that took Colin from modest roots to the center of offshore racing’s elite.
Colin shares his remarkable journey from a Midwestern kid on pontoon boats to crew chief of a championship offshore racing team, revealing how chance encounters and relentless hard work created life-changing opportunities:
• Growing up on Fox River in Chicago with modest pontoon boats while dreaming of speedboats
• Moving to Lake Havasu after selling his house during the pandemic housing boom
• Building a successful boat detailing and concierge business for wealthy clients
• Meeting Ryan Garland, which led to introductions that changed the course of his life
• Connecting with racing team owner JR at an event in Miami through that chance chain of introductions
• Transitioning from occasional helper to full-time crew chief of Motlik Racing (#40)
• Managing the logistics of professional offshore racing with costs exceeding $50,000 per event
• Setting a world record for outboard catamaran speed (later broken) with White Boy Rick's sponsorship
• Working alongside notable figures from boating history including Gus Falcone from Cocaine Cowboys
• Balancing race team responsibilities with maintaining relationships with original clients
• Finding fulfillment in living his childhood dream while continuing to push for excellence
Hey everybody, ryan Garland here, founder and chairman of Paradigm. Welcome to the Paradigm Shift. I am honored today to have Colin, one of my closest buddies. He's got a very unique story. We're going to talk about where he came from and how he got into the boat racing world. A lot of people, as of yesterday when I was posting about me having you on our podcast, they were pumped man. They wanted to hear kind of like about the boating world because my man Cave brand has been really kind of catered around my boating life because that's my passion and I grew up coming out here and boating with my family and so on and so forth. So really we built our brand around boating and that's the, the man you want, the man, the myth. We want to talk about the money that's in this game and kind of just add some value to our audience to show you how people live their lives. Really, you know what some of these people that have money want to do and people that don't have money also do and want to do.
Speaker 2:Colin, thanks for joining me, buddy. The truth is you don't got to have money to do it. I'm point proven right there. I'm very lucky and blessed to do what I do.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Well, dude, it's an honor. Thank you for being here today, hey dude, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2:Thank you very that Everybody knows that what you've got going on is phenomenal stuff like that. So just be welcomed on this Phenomenal.
Speaker 1:Even from the beginning.
Speaker 2:You know that.
Speaker 1:Thank you, man. That means a lot and you know what I think that really today I want to be able to share with our audience a little bit about who really allowed you to kind of expand your horizon 100%. And even before we were starting this recording, just hearing more about your story was intriguing and I think I want to kind of let people hear who you are 100%.
Speaker 1:So let's talk a little bit about what you do right now and then we'll go to kind of how you were raised. But what do you do at the moment? What's your position with Doug Wright Racing Crew?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I am the crew chief of Motlik Racing, number 40. We are an APBA class, factory class boat racing team, so we're a professional boat racing team. We're sponsored by Motlik Injury Attorneys out of Atlanta, georgia. So we're very blessed to have an awesome sponsor, a big sponsor, to back us. Because, like you were talking about the money the money in the sport it's a very costly sport. Everybody knows boating is expensive, just to go out for a day well it's, it's a nascar formula one.
Speaker 2:This is just boating 100 and we are, we're, we run at the. You know not quite the caliber of nascar, because you know their teams have like 60 and 70 people and stuff like that. But I mean we have semi-truck haulers, we have show haulers, we have rvs, we have merch. You know their teams have like 60 and 70 people and stuff like that. But I mean we have semi-truck haulers, we have show haulers, we have RVs, we have merch. You know we come with a, with a group, you know so it's definitely an operation, you know it's.
Speaker 2:We're definitely one of the biggest teams in the sport, you know, when it comes to equipment and auxiliary stuff and stuff like that. We are definitely becoming one of the biggest ones because we have a great sponsor. When it comes to it, it's the money, you know. I mean propellers, fuel, hotels, everything to get us to the races. You know, like I think our cheapest race might be $50,000.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if we don't break anything you know like, and that's, how rare is that? And that's very rare, especially in the sport that we do.
Speaker 2:It's offshore racing, so it's definitely crazy, and I mean it's intense competition is wild, is crazy, especially this year. There's some things behind the scenes going on, so it's extra crazy and extra wild but you're trying to say it's political.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, anything that much money's not political, exactly, and that's what it got that's what it comes down to is the whole money situation and stuff like that, which sucks because at the end of the day, the athletes, the people on the teams and stuff like that we just want to come and race, but at the end of the day, the money is what fuels it all and stuff like that Sponsorships, promoters and everything like that. Certain race teams that are sponsored by certain people don't want promoters bringing in certain sponsors because it steps on their feet, but at the end of the day, they're just looking for the funds to make this sport greater and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:And build awareness and continue to buy the best of the best, and that's what we're trying to do is just get it back out there.
Speaker 2:Back in the 80s and 90s, boat racing was a huge thing. It was on ESPN every single weekend. It was huge exposure and stuff like that and it kind of fell off the map and so we have a couple teams and produce producers coming in to try to bring it back to light you know to try to bring it back in.
Speaker 2:It's not as big as nascar, because the thing with offshore racing is we're racing off, yeah, so viewership is hard because you usually only get a mile and a half to watch us. You know, on the back stretch we're gone yeah, you know so that's, that's one of the hardest part.
Speaker 2:But now with technology, these days live streams are phenomenal. You know like in the last two years alone, you know, live streams have come leaps and bounds. You know so, having the being able to get people in chicago to watch a race that's in the west, you know, to keep them involved and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:You know technology and stuff like that is definitely helping leaps and bounds, absolutely, man, yeah, and we'll talk a little bit more about kind of like that whole world, but let's really the idea is to kind of go back to where you were before. Let's talk a little bit how you you know where you from, you know how old are you where you from and how did you kind of get to have us here.
Speaker 2:Let's do it that way, I grew up in the midwest of chicago, uh, on Fox River, which is connected to the Chain of Lakes, which is a decent-sized lake for the Midwest, and we grew up on pontoon boats with like 35-horsepower motors Nothing crazy, you know. I'd see a speedboat pass and just dream, you know, like it was. Just it wasn't. I wasn't deprived, we weren't poor or anything like that, it was just a different lifestyle.
Speaker 2:You know, money, money. At the end of the day, with four kids, we had a big family. You know stuff like that. So we were within our means. My aunt had an awesome pontoon boat lake house, so that's what I grew up on. But I always had that dream, you know, of fast boats and stuff like that oh wait, a young man that wants to be things that are fast exactly exactly.
Speaker 2:So then fast forward a couple years. Um, I went camping and this guy had a scarb on twin 502 motor, you know at the time. Oh, he's come out with me, you know all that muscle super loud 10 years old. I'm going out with this stranger on his boat. I don't know what my dad was thinking.
Speaker 2:Let me do it, because he wasn't there, but it changed my life and I said, dude, I said something else. And so ever since then, I'd always been a dream, a goal, you know, to always have a big power boat, be involved in power boats, whatever, yada, yada, yada. So then you know, in my adult years.
Speaker 1:So you mean, life kicked you in the teeth and steered you in a different direction, exactly.
Speaker 2:Before you want to buy this powerboat, you need to do stuff with your life.
Speaker 1:Go have a baby, not make it, not go through a divorce All the good fun stuff, All the good fun stuff, and then you can buy a boat.
Speaker 2:So I graduated high school. I got into truck driving and equipment operating. I always knew I wanted to work with my hands. My dad was a union electrician. I'd gone to work with him since eight years Cleaning up and stuff like that. It always intrigued me. Equipment operating, motors just something in my mind.
Speaker 1:Well, not to interrupt real quick, another thing that stands out about you is it's scripture. It says for a man to work with his hands, he'll always provide for his family. And so, coming from your father in that background, yeah, that's why you're such a hands-on guy now. So, yeah, we'll keep going.
Speaker 2:Exactly 100%, but it's all full circle. And so then you know, truck driving, equipment operating, and then I just always wanted to do the biggest, do the best, try the hardest, work the hardest, go as hard as I can. You know, my dad always told me, if you're always working, you can never be broke. That's true, you know it's. It's something that I live by. I never turned on work. That's one of my biggest things. I never say no, Unfortunately. You know, my girlfriend may hate it, but it's like I never say no, and he's saying that with a smile everybody because, we talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 2:He's going to go to I was supposed to have this weekend completely off and if anybody saw my instagram story last night, they now know that that is the furthest thing from the truth. I'm about to do 6 000 miles and from flights, driving and flying and just to get to a race on time. But I like to help. I love to help, I love to be that guy, I love to be involved. I love don'ts. That's what I do, it's my passion, so it's not work.
Speaker 2:I don't think of it's. It's what I do, it's my passion, so it's not work. I don't think of it as work. It's what am I doing tomorrow, you know, and my life is crazy, you know like I travel. I'm traveling more in one weekend than most people do in a year, you know, or two years, you know. I talked to some people that still haven't left my hometown.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it's just like I live. It's nonstop, it's always on the go, but I love it. I love it. Fast forward to equipment operating. Got into the union lineman. I was a lineman.
Speaker 1:Right on.
Speaker 2:For almost 12 years I've been a union lineman, made really good money. You know great career. You know everybody strives, everybody wants to be a lineman. You know Lineman it's great Cush. You know sucks, but you know that comes with it. You know line to have the cool toys, you know. So you gotta do what you gotta do. So I did that. And then we actually ended up putting a power line through lake havasu. I had no idea what lake havasu was. I grew up a little midwest town. Somebody told me hey, there's a lake in the desert. Yeah, right, you're full of shit, but there was and it was awesome. And the first time my buddy invited me out here to go on a boat with him, he was coming out here from Colorado and I remember coming into town and going through Canyon Look, this is something else you know. And I was hooked. I went out on the boat a weekend with them. I was supposed to be there a day. I ended up being there three days. You know did the hell.
Speaker 1:I have a two hangover, you know just hung, hung, hung that's how it is. People come out, don't leave. I gotta go, I gotta get back. I'm out of money.
Speaker 2:I gotta go back to work so I, I go back to work. We're luckily we were working in palm spring so I was kind of close to have is still, you know, three hours away. Everybody's commutes from socal to havasu. So I did that for a while, you know, came out here. Out here made some friends, made some connections and stuff like that. And I was like five years I'm going to live here, I'm going to make it a five-year goal. I never did any of that shit. I live by tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and even tomorrow is going to change too, but I said to myself I was like five years.
Speaker 2:I want to live out here. You know I travel for a, you know. So it's, the airport commutes a little bit of a of a bummer, but whatever I'll get. So I told myself I want to move out here within five years. Bam, next year covid hits. Housing market goes crazy. I had a house, you know, real nice house, american dream flag pulling the front yard, sitting on almost an acre, 3 500 square feet. I called my buddy who's a realtor and I said hey, if I sold my house tomorrow, what could you get?
Speaker 1:me.
Speaker 2:It's a great school district, suburbs of Chicago. You know it's one that's sought after and stuff like that, so houses don't stay for sale. So I called him and I said if I sold my house tomorrow, what could I get? He tells me it's like almost $200,000 more than I bought it for two years ago. I'm like dude, that thing. He was like do you need to clean it up or anything? I was like no, dude, I never go there.
Speaker 2:I was like tell me when your picture guy is going to be there. I have the garage opened up. You can go in there and take pictures, blah, blah, blah he. This market right now is crazy. Because it was like right in the cold.
Speaker 2:You know everybody's freaking out, not knowing if they're gonna be able to get houses. And then my mom's like, where are you gonna live? What are you gonna do? And I was like I don't care, I'll live in a hotel. You know, like I get paid to travel. You know, I'll figure it out, I'll figure it out, I'll figure it out, like all right, so we list the house. It was like 16 offers or something in like 24 hours, one showing you know like it was crazy.
Speaker 2:You know, he's like he called me, he's like God all cash offer less than 30 days, blah, blah, blah. I said, bro, so we sold, sold the house and I was like I'm moving to Lake Havasu. Everybody, I was like I'm going to Lake Havasu.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but man when you came out here during that time I remember it took me four hours to drop at the marina and I tried to get into Windsor.
Speaker 2:And it was crazy out here during the pandemic. It was the spot.
Speaker 1:Well, the whole California shut down.
Speaker 2:Vegas is shut down. Phoenix is shut down. Everyone came here man, yep, and so this was. It was the spot, you know. So I came here and then, like I said, I knew I was going to be traveling, still for work, and yada, yada.
Speaker 2:Well that sucked, having to leave sunday when everybody's kicking it out on the boat and I gotta pack my suitcase, drive to the airport and go back to pennsylvania. I was like something's got to change. I was like something's got to change. So I was like I'm going to try to find a job and have a suit. Well, coming coming from a lineman you know union lineman, that's good wages and stuff like that You're just not going to find it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I said I got to make something of my own. You know I said, I got to figure out how to do something on my own to make my own income, support myself and stuff like that, and I all I saw was these big fancy boats, all these fancy toys and stuff like that. I come from trucking and then the side part of trucking is show trucks a really nice trucks. You know. Owners of trucks dump a lot of money into them if they have a nice driver that care of it so I was blessed to be always in a really nice truck, took care of it, presented it well.
Speaker 2:It's a good name for the company yeah, you see this truck pull up blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 2:So I'd always had a show truck thing. So keeping big objects clean wasn't new, it wasn't a task. Cleaning a semi-truck is an afternoon ordeal. After I got done working every day, it was usually washing the semi-truck every single day. So a boat is just a little more surface area. So I was like I'm I can do it, section it off, blah, blah, blah. So I came up with an idea. I was like I'm gonna start a detail business. I saw there's a market. Oh yeah, you know, it's a big deal out here.
Speaker 1:It's a huge I tell everybody, the detail world here is like it's unbelievable. I know it's unbelievable, it's crazy, it's the only place in the country.
Speaker 2:That's like I swear to god. I travel for a living. I go to every single state. I've seen it all because I try to call and I try to find detailers for, like, when we go to races and stuff like that, I try to set up and there you come, here you couldn't go to a gas station without seeing a detailer. You know like it's unbelievable well, dude the people.
Speaker 1:They want their toys clean and that's this place is all nothing but toys. Well, my yesterday, which I'm going to see here in a couple hours. Dude, he was telling me, because we're looking at building homes where you literally just pull into your driveway with all your big toys and you live in your garage. You know what I mean. But that's what people want Exactly. We're trying to build regular homes here and they're like no, build more garage, less living space.
Speaker 2:It's a different game here it's all about money. That's what I tell people all the time. I was like it doesn't matter how big your house is in Havasu. How big is your garage?
Speaker 1:Yeah, how big is your garage? Let's be honest you have more money in your garage than your house is worth 100%, sometimes by two or three times.
Speaker 2:And with the Havasu lifestyle you're going to be, on those toys that are in the garage more than you're going to be sitting on your couch.
Speaker 1:everybody's got a side-by-side yeah, you know, or a golf cart or jet ski October.
Speaker 2:October everybody goes to the sand you know, and it's crazy.
Speaker 1:Well, did you have? You mean, look how many you know, side-by-sides. You see out here on the streets, it's all there is every day, even in the middle of summertime, it's 120 degrees outside somebody, it's so true, it's true, yeah charging their battery?
Speaker 2:yeah, so then I. So I saw the detail game. You, keeping stuff clean out here was a big thing. So I bought a trailer, bought a power washer, all this stuff slow. I kind of did it on the weekends. While I'd come into town I'd have a couple people lined up, nothing big, something to get my feet wet. I knew Havis was a really small town so there was a couple key players you know, a couple big people you know, and word of mouth travels. I know you got to get one or two of those people and that's all you need. Yeah, you know that's. The problem with some of these people is they'll try to go after everybody.
Speaker 2:Like you can't keep up with everybody trust me, I've tried and I'm really good, I've tried, and it's impossible because once you get that holiday weekend and they're all here on that same weekend they're wanting you to clean all of it. Exactly it's going to be the busiest man alive. It's going to be the first weekend where you are suddenly regretting why you quit that lineman job that was making really good money and you're now detailing boats and 120 degrees at midnight because they want them clean the next day, you know.
Speaker 2:So it was a learning curve, you know, just taking something and seeing what it was and trying to make it something you know. But then, as cleaning their stuff, you know I got to. I'm a people person. I know how to read people and I see like all right, these people are only here for two days. They want to enjoy those two days as much as possible.
Speaker 2:What can I do to make that a good experience, my goal, you know like anything and everything that I could do, you know, just to make those two days more enjoyable for them, is all I need to do. Yeah, don't need to do with everybody, you know. So it was like find a couple of people that recognize your worth, you know, and we'll use you and take care of that. You were one of them, you know, and we'll get. We'll get into that a little bit more, but so I started detail business, detail business into concierge service being. You know like, you show up to town, get in your boat, go enjoy your boat, leave it there, I'll pull it out. God forbid anything happened, I'll federal service cleaning everything, put it back in your storage. Yeah, you're back in california living your life. It's great business oh yeah awesome.
Speaker 2:It's still and it's booming 100. I still have crews that I, yeah, every every holiday weekend I got guys that are doing it. Oh, it's just, it's a great business. So then it was the transport thing. You know it, it was. I saw all these boat. You know events. Poker runs around.
Speaker 1:So let's, let's go into that the reason. So once you get into the transport, it's a whole nother level of wealth 100% Because these boys have million dollar plus boats.
Speaker 2:And so then they all started hearing my background with transport and big stuff and they were like, well, that's nothing, you could do that? Move my boat to those arcs so I can have it on vacation. All right, let's do that. No, so then there's a big risk. You know, I was like I need to buy a truck, I need to have my own truck. Oh, I was like go buy a truck, big risks went, bought a truck, like literally the second day I had that truck. Or I'm thinking, what am I doing, man, what am I doing? What?
Speaker 1:am I doing.
Speaker 2:I had a truck. I just showed up, turned the key, got paid, all that shit. Here I am getting insurance, dot, all this stuff, pulling my hair out. I'm like, yeah, what am I getting myself into? Literally pull into Barrett, pull into Barrett's parking lot and I get out. I'm going inside to talk to AJ because one of my clients that I helped take care of he needed something from AJ. So I just right time, right place. You know, right place, right time, that's what I always tell people. I really that man.
Speaker 2:It was me walking up, you and Daniel talking, and then Daniel introduced me saying hey, man, just bought that truck, he's about to buy a boat, blink, yeah, and that's how it went. And then it slowly went from there and couldn't have been more blessed. And so then it was the transport thing. And then not just the transport thing, the taking care, helping, not just taking their boat, they're dropping their boat off and saying see you later, bye, and stay, you know, whatever you need, blah, blah, blah, because these boats it takes a crew man, it is, it's not easy, you can't you know you can do it by yourself, but there's going to be that one time where you wish you had a guy and you bumped the dock.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, it's definitely doable, it's definitely. You know. I I passed some times with.
Speaker 1:I made this now my job to do this by myself so it's like I know what it's like to go out there by myself and launch a 32 foot center console and get it to a dock and then get back in the truck to go park, you know.
Speaker 2:So it's a lot and stuff like that, but I managed to make it work and then just kept it rolling. And you know, I thought that was you know the end goal. You know, I thought that was you know it. Yeah, I thought that was you know the end goal. You know, I thought that was you know it. Yeah, I thought that was it. I'm taking care of these really nice boats A dream, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm staying home every night, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. I'm working hard, but it's mine. Yeah, it's all this stuff, and I had built up a great clientele, great guy, you know.
Speaker 1:Oh, I mean top tier, you know top tier of the guys with the most toys the upper echelon of the players 100% the Havasu life.
Speaker 2:you know the people that portray that Havasu life.
Speaker 2:I help take care of them and stuff like that. Yep. So it was a cool experience, awesome. And I still, like I said, I still have guys that do that, you know, still go out and wash and stuff like that. And then I do a lot of brokering. You know. I know a lot of people. You know, like I said, I'm great at talking to people, meeting people, stuff like that. So not everybody's for everybody, you know. Not everybody wants a $2,000 ceramic job this week. You know, some people just want a quick wash to get them through, to make them look good going through the channel, but in a month they are going to want that $2,000, you know. So I work with everybody in town, from the smallest guys with the smallest pickup trucks to the biggest detail companies and you know I feed them all you know like, and that's just and I don't make a dime but it keeps my people taken care of.
Speaker 2:And that's at the end of the day, that's what I'm looking to do. Those two days, those two days, I just want them to have a good time. If I did it, if somebody else did it, I don't care, it's just they. They came out here and they did their thing, yeah, so that's what? So that's led to the brokering and the, you know, meeting people and knowing people and then slowly into traveling to miami and dropping boats off in miami. Now I'm, I know people who own yachts and I'm hooking people up with. Oh, I know, this guy was a yacht. You want to go out for a yacht for a week? Here you go, I connect these people, you know.
Speaker 2:So it's just, it just monetizes exactly goes and you just never know yeah, you just really never know what something's gonna bring you. I could have asked a guy in havas who wants the boat moved. You know blah, blah, blah, blah, but what that led to you know, like it just opens up the door and it's.
Speaker 1:It's. You gotta remember, it's the because you're in the space, you're ultimately around. These people you know that are wealthy and have created, you know, own businesses and you know have a lot of responsibility and what's nice is that they always say you are who you hang out with. You're literally hanging out with a network of wealthy people and so. And then they because you've earned their trust, they're now taking you more under their wing and opening up doors for you refer to you their friend, totally, and they're gonna.
Speaker 2:You know, and, like I said, like once I started and I knew enough, had enough people, I had to disable my instagram, you know, because I didn't want to take on anymore, because then, you can't take care of those core people that have built you to what you are. So that was the thing, was all right. You got a couple guys that are, they know your schedule, they know they, they know each other. So it's like they can't fight with each other because they, you know. Hey, you referred me to this you know, so at the end, you know.
Speaker 2:So that's why I tried to keep my circle within the circle, because you know. Then you know when they come, when they're going to be there, what they need blah blah.
Speaker 1:There's realistic expectations 100, yeah, for sure, and they know what to expect.
Speaker 2:And manage and manage the expectation all right.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about kind of the changing. I would say, not cause you still have all that going on, but like how you really shifted now more into the race team.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:So I had a, we had a event. What was it? 22, february 22. Yeah, I think it was right February 22, miami 23. Was it 23? Oh, 23?. Oh yeah, man, I'm in 2025. I forgot what year it is. Okay, so yeah a couple of years ago, two years ago dude and I have kids and I tell my kids all the time like I'm like that kind of getting older dad of like hey you never know how fast time flies.
Speaker 1:I'm on that path right now, so, but uh, yeah, so two years ago. So we ended up having and hosting like a corporate event and really it was. The idea was to try to build awareness on what we're doing and using other people's social medias as the platform to build awareness.
Speaker 1:So we just kind of brought in a bunch of influencers, came in but there was a lot of the existing clients and so forth that were there. So we wanted to add value to our network, ultimately right Kind of help people grow and what have you. And so we were shipping our uh, our boat down there and I forgot how I got introduced to jr.
Speaker 2:I've heard who was it, I think I think it was because of the content that you were putting out on that it was no, uh, logan.
Speaker 1:Logan reached out to me, so yes, you guys did.
Speaker 2:You guys did a helicopter that's right some of your yep, your stuff that's right, logan.
Speaker 1:So logan is the son of the owner of jr, yeah, jr which originally owned doug right, doug right, yeah, so so, and he's, he's, actually he's, he's a driver isn't it jr's arthur, or uh?
Speaker 2:logan logan is our stearman. Yeah, in the race boat yeah.
Speaker 1:So logan reaches out to me because he saw my content with joe and goes hey man, your guys is doug right, is so badass, like all that stuff.
Speaker 2:He's a young kid, but he's photo like camera. He's always like, even when we're walking to the race boat, you know he's still like. I'm like, bro, get your helmet on, get your suit on, give ilse that camera let's go, man, but I mean, like he's got the eye, he's you know like we.
Speaker 2:I pay the videographers and photographers to come to our races and stuff like that to create content. Logan's jumping out of the boat, grabbing the camera from the guys and stuff like that to create content. Logan's jumping out of the boat, grabbing the camera from the guys and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:I'm like you need to be interviewed right now. Give him back the camera.
Speaker 2:I could just do a selfie interview of myself, but he's got that eye for content and stuff like that and he was trying to build the Doug Wright brand because Doug Wright's not as top tier as like MTI, when it comes to fit and finish. It didn't used to be right. They, they were plainer, they were, they were a race proven boat yeah, it's a race boat exactly they just got into the pleasure half within the last 10 years, right, you know? So, uh, logan was trying to blow up that to you know, bring that to something. And you guys, the content always that you guys put out is phenomenal.
Speaker 1:And so then, with it just being of the of that boat, I know why he reached out to you guys well, we, I mean, we did that, we did that whole thing from like that helicopter shots and all that, it was like a whole. In essence, it was like a, it was like a pilot and that was doug wright's instagram for like a month.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's all they posted was our stuff, yeah, because we had photos from all over the country. Yeah, traveling cool, like, kind of like you know, sports shots, you know, kind of like that extreme you know, uh, sports lifestyle kind of feel to it, you know. And so he started reaching out and that's when I was like, hey guys, we're doing this thing in miami, I'd love to have you there. And how kind of them was it that they come to the event on their?
Speaker 2:I think it was their red one at the time about their red race boat yeah, from the 2023.
Speaker 1:That was a 38, wasn't it? It was a 38 it was the.
Speaker 2:It was the hole before our new 39 came out. Yep that yep, a little bit faster oh the red one was. The red one was fast. I don't know what the hell it was, but man, that thing was so light that was fast I think we scooted, but yeah, so, um, so we have our event.
Speaker 1:And then you guys all showed up. But the right guy showed up and what happened was, is I needed to ship my boat down there. And that's when I reached out to you and said, hey, dude, can you ship my boat down there? And you're like, yeah, hey. And I said, hey, come to the event too.
Speaker 2:You don't have to pay for it. Well, it was like it was. It was, I was halfway. Maybe I'll just like stay in Miami for the weekend, cause I'm assuming he's going to want to brought back. But we didn't even talk about the return trip.
Speaker 1:We just talked about get my boat to Miami, so I was like bet.
Speaker 2:I'll get the boat to Miami. So I got the boat to Miami and I was like I was telling her, I was like I'll probably just hang out. I don't think he's going to want to keep there for the winter, and stuff like that. We still really didn't know each other that well, you know. So I didn't know how to read. I thought it was just get the boat to miami and then you end up calling like after I talked to her and it was so weird, you know, she's like. You called and you were like, hey, could I, could I get your hotel and could you hang out, you know, and blah, blah, blah, and I was like what I said I was gonna do?
Speaker 1:so yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 2:And then you were like you, you know, you were like you opened up at. You know, come over, yeah.
Speaker 1:You come to the event free, don't just come on in Just pulling up.
Speaker 2:You know, like when we had Joe there the first time, phil, my first like awesome Instagram content that I ever had. You know, it's just that first interaction. I was like this is something you know, like this is something, you know, like this is something. And then went from there, you know, drop your boat off. And then you said, you know, grab a hotel but come over later for dinner and everything and stuff like that. And I did and I met your whole team.
Speaker 2:You know, your whole family. You know, you had your nanny, your kid, everybody was there. Yep, couldn't beat it. You know we're sitting right there on biscayne bay, you know like, oh, I'm like this, is it you? I'm like this, is it? You know, I was like this, is it, you know? So it was a really cool experience, you know. And then, yeah, I folded into meeting JR with the great powerboats.
Speaker 1:Well, what happened was the day I was hosting the event, which was, I think, the next day or so we're hosting the event. And I think you're just kind of outside hanging out with them, because they were part of it, but they were just kind of there to hang out support. So it's, it's really. I gotta tell you how it happened, because I'll always remember your perspective in mind will be too different.
Speaker 2:Literally, I always remember it. I was standing inside and I forget who was talking, but the boats had pulled up and, like we had quick tied them off and I didn't, you know, quick introduce me to everybody. But then the event had started, so everybody went inside and then I ventured my way outside to smoke, like I always do, and jr comes walking outside and he had known everybody has come and do this event, as you know, either paid or invite only you know, so if you're there, you're there for the event.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you want to hear the content he came out and he saw me standing there smoking. He's like what the hell are you doing out here, you know? And I told him I was like I'm with the boat. He was like what do you mean? You're with the boat and I slowly, you know, told my story. I was like ryan paid me to come down, take care of the boat, you know, make sure being tied up, blah, blah, blah. He's like that's a really cool job. How did you? And I was like I kind of made it oh, and slowly started going from there. And he was like we got this race boat. He was like you should come to one of our races sometime. And I said I know I was like I raced with vinnie diorio and sv88 last year in key west.
Speaker 2:I was like I was planning on coming to the races this year and helping them out. He's like, well, if you got any spare time, you know, come, come, check out our operation stuff. Like all right, this was in january, you know, race doesn't start until march or anything like that. So I was still under the impression that I was going to run with vinny and sv88 that whole year. We'll come to march first week in marathon. I didn't make it to the race with vinny and he blew both of his motors. So he called me and he said I'm gonna be out two races the heads up yeah, I got two boats that are going to every race.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that I'm being paid to transport there. They're gonna be there. I was like I'm gonna hit up jr, you know so well. First I hit up logan yeah, because we had talked on instagram and stuff like that and I said, hey, man, I said you guys need any help on your race team, you know like washing the boat or anything like that.
Speaker 2:And he was like talk to romey. So I called romey, bro. I'm like yo, romey, like it's colin, remember me from paradigm and stuff like that. And he's like oh, yeah, dude, how you doing buddy? I was like I, I'm gonna be in coco beach. I was like I got nothing to do. I was like you want a hand? He's like you gotta talk to the boss about that. And I was like all right, can you send me his number? He's like yeah, so I called jr. Jr answers hey, I was like colin from paradigm. I met you in miami, you know. Oh, I remember you, buddy. I remember this guy had me saved in his phone as ryan from paradigm, forever, dude. Until I finally told him on race, I was like can you change my name in your?
Speaker 1:phone. Like I'm not ryan from paradigm.
Speaker 2:Like so, so he's like I just remembered ryan's guy, but I was like it's all good so it's funny.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, I was riding from paradise.
Speaker 2:So then, so you know, fresh order coco beach. I called him and I said hey, man, I want to be there. And he said, yeah, come on, hang out, you know he's like. So then I'm on my way to coco beach and he's he's like where are you? I was like I'm almost Cocoa Beach. He's like drive to Key Largo for me. I'm like the hell. I was like that's nine hours away, bro, and I was like I got nothing better else to do, so I did it. So I drive to Key Largo. There was a bunch of tents.
Speaker 2:We had our new Motley tents. They just got printed and we honored him for the race. So I go down there, I pick up the tents, go back to Cocoa Beach. I meet everybody there. You know the semi-truck had gotten there all that stuff. He had the most ragtag bunch of guys that he could find, you know to make it happen. Because at the end of the season. Before they had a stacker and a boat. That's all they had, and when they brought Motlik on, bam.
Speaker 2:They. That's all they had. And when they brought montlick on bam, they had an all semi truck stacker show hall. You know we had to big sponsor live the show, you know. So he's hey, can you drive, hey can you drive, hey can you drive, hey can you drive. So he got a bunch of people to drive all the equipment up there and stuff like that and set it up and he was like I forgot the boat, like what do you mean? You forgot the boat. He's like it's still at the shop in um, just out. It's, uh, just outside clearwater. And I was like god, I was like I'll go get it, go get the boat. We got the boat, come back, get it there for the parade on time. All this stuff we're in the parade, yada, yada we're doing it, yeah, so then I help him.
Speaker 2:We race horrible race horrible race fucking cut off in the first turn, washed out into guardian mode last place. Oh wow, didn't even finish, yep, so I'm thinking he's in a horrible mood, team owner and stuff like that. So I was like what can I do to make his life easier? I go back to the pits and I start cleaning everything up. You know, got the awning, garbage, can, everything. You know 12 mini bikes the works. So his other driver, david, he shows up and everybody laughed. You know they went to dinner and stuff like that. And me and David, we were like, hey, you want to start cleaning it up? Clicked right away. Me and David, right away, we start putting bam, bam, bam bam, putting everything away. Jr shows back up, everything's up. He's like who did all this? Like me and David did, he was like what do I got to do to have you at every race?
Speaker 2:And I was like um, I was like well, I was like, let me think about it. You know, I was like cause Vinny you know I was part set on racing with Vinny.
Speaker 2:He gave me my first opportunity, you know, to race on a race team and stuff like that. And so I was like what am I going to do, you know like. And so JR ended up calling me back. He's like, I really want to work with you, bro. He was like I want you to come to the next race. He was like come to Lotto. Lotto was the next race. I was like, just show up. He was like I'll have everything brought there, show up. Okay, I come, I show up, we race first place. Nice killed it. Yeah, it couldn't have been a better race one.
Speaker 1:By leaps and bounds, we started getting that rhythm yeah, you know that camaraderie yeah, the team, everybody vibing and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So he's like tell me a number. He's like I want. I was like I'm expensive, I'm rich, I was like, for sure.
Speaker 1:I was like let's make this happen.
Speaker 2:You know I was like, but before that I was like I need to talk to some clients, you know, because I have built up this business in Lake Havasu, you know, and not that people rely on me, but people were relying on me.
Speaker 1:It's very important, yeah, so.
Speaker 2:I called my main guy and I said hey man, I was like I've gotten an opportunity to go on a real professional race team. I said I've loved what we've built, what we had going. You know I was like it taught me a lot. It's taught you know it's it's brought me to where I am. I was like I was like I know we've always talked about racing. You know everybody talks about it. I want to have a race boat. I we've always talked about racing. You know everybody talks about it. I want to have a race boat, I want to have a race.
Speaker 2:Well, everybody talks about it, but do you want to do it and stuff like that? So he had talked about buying a race boat and stuff like that the next season and whatever, and that I got an opportunity to go run with a race team. He was like you got an opportunity to go run with one, learn, do it, do it, do it Like we'll work everything else out, we'll make everything else. Well, you find me, guys, to do all this stuff, right?
Speaker 1:Oh for sure, yeah, let's run it.
Speaker 2:So I called Jr and I was like I'm in. I was like I'm in. He's like all right, sounds good. He was like um, our first race where I. He was like we'll meet in ocean city, Maryland. He was like like, and then you'll kind of take over from there. He was like he didn't know I, he didn't even know I had my cdl. You know, I was just coming to run the race team. You know, like I told him, I was like I got my cdl. I was like we could save on a driver. You know, and last year it was only the race boat and the support truck, like the semi trucks, two guys, me and david, perfect. Yeah, it worked well. We vibed well. Then mid season we started bringing on mechanics, we started bringing on more people. So then we needed to bring in our re hauler and they wanted a merch trailer, this stuff. So it started evolving.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:More people, more people, more people. And then it started. Virals turned into a full-time deal. You know, like off race weekends. We were planning the next race planning, planning the season.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It started to take me away from my other business. Yeah, so, I had to make a decision, you know, like, whether I wanted to stay on the path of, you know, helping other people live their dreams, or you live yours, or try to live one of mine.
Speaker 1:Well, the very beginning of this, you said you wanted you were a young band, that was, you know, on a boat, and that was your dream exactly and, like I tell everybody, I was like I'll always take a chance, you know, like I'll always take it.
Speaker 2:You know like what's gonna happen, you know. So I, you know, I kind of went full-fledged into it. You know, I told jr you know I have to. It was I just came on as a crew member at first and then, after like three, four races, jr was like I want to name you crew chief of the race team. We value you. You do a phenomenal job. Appreciation he was there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he appreciated it.
Speaker 2:He takes care of everything. My girlfriend and my son-in-law, my daughter. They come out paid for Hotels, paid for Rental cars, paid for he's like, whatever you pay for on race weekends, he was like I want to take care of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He was like I know what you put into this and what it takes. At the end of last year we were going to do like 14 races a season, what we originally were supposed to do like 14 races a season, what we originally were supposed to do promoters clash, blah, blah blah. We end up splitting in half. But I had literally we I had our whole schedule planned for the whole season and I was going to be gone. You know like it was going to be a full-time, yeah, like the carnival well, you're traveling a lot, it's exhausting, it is.
Speaker 2:There's only so much you can do it's, and as much as you try to work and try to make it work with everybody, you know there's always going to be ups and downs, peaks and valleys and stuff like that. So him, you know, seeing that and valuing it and knowing, you know, and trying to make it easier and help, you know, the last day of coco beach, he's like take him to disneyland. He's like we're right by orlando, go to disneyland. You know, enjoy the day, don't worry about anything here that's cool so stuff like that.
Speaker 2:You know, it was like those leaps and bounds, you know, because it's like I do work so much, do work so hard, and so it's like I do sacrifice a lot of that family time. It's like that it is not a downfall, you know, but it is i'ma go, you know. And it's like when we first met, you know like, and then it wasn't until like miami, where, like, I was in my hotel and it was like two o'clock in the morning and something was like you gotta go check those bumpers, make sure, like that was your task for this weekend was take care of that boat. You know, like god forbid, a wave came, a bumper moved, and then that boat is now rubbing up. You know something, so just something that told me like yo just take a 15 minute drive, you're in fucking miami you know, just go drive.
Speaker 2:Look at the sights. Yeah, smoke. So I go and I come and walk around the back door. You and this lunatic are out on the back patio podcasting at three o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1:I'm like what the hell are these guys doing? Like what this is? I was like all right, I thought I was different.
Speaker 2:This is the whole thing and we didn't see each other like because you were podcasting I remember you there I remember you and so like the next morning I came and I was like you.
Speaker 2:I was like you go non-stop, bro, and he was like I do. He was like I got so much, but and that's when it comes, you know, like, when you talk I've listened to all your podcasts so you know it like not only the way to your life rests on your shoulders, but every single person that invests in you and trusts in you is, you know, so it's like you don't even, just not.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you have to put your stuff aside, because so many people have put their stuff aside for you know. So it's. It's a hard balance, man. And for you. You know, like I can say all the time, like a lot of people come to Havasu with big dreams and want to do big things and nothing comes to fruition. And like I told my girlfriend, I was like when I delivered Ryan's boat there was like six storage units. You know, setting off fireworks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was me and my family.
Speaker 2:There's nothing you know. And then you come here now and it's, it's, it's the north side of town. Now, this is the it's, and if it's not this year, it's going to be within the next five years.
Speaker 1:It's oh yeah, it's coming.
Speaker 2:We're going to paradigm. You know we're going to paradigm. You know, like, whether it's the gym or if it's office society, you know it's, it's, it's a daily name now yeah and have it's.
Speaker 2:It's incredible. And so for somebody that does work as hard as I do and put as much into it as I do, you know, with not knowing exactly the end goal, you know, but just wanting to go, go, go because you know, you know, like, you know, like people tell me all the time don't chase the money, don't chase the money, chase your passion, chase your dreams you know, and I was always yeah, but I like nice things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but do that, okay. So I had a boat of my own. I got into boat racing. Race boats ruined my boat, 28 foot single motor, never going to be able to compete with the race boats that I'm now getting.
Speaker 2:The opportunity to run and drive and test and tune, and I mean we put new motors on our boat. This year we went to 500s. We spent two weeks testing this boat, you know, and it was me testing, I was learning the boat, learning math, learning all these things that I never thought I would be a part of. Getting the opportunity to do it. That's sort of. This year we go to the shootout and we bring my boss's pleasure boat, you know, which is like a Ferrari on the water? You know which is like a ferrari on the water. You know, yeah, he didn't step foot in the boat the whole weekend.
Speaker 1:I drove it the whole time, the whole time he didn't get it in the boat one time so, but he wanted it there.
Speaker 2:But he wanted it there and it was like I'm lucky enough to. I may not have the bank account to have it, but I'm enjoying it.
Speaker 2:I was like I'm banging that system like it's mine like, because he told me to like. Then that's what he told me to like. I I went to over to the house on the turn the stereo on. Oh bro, I was just cruising enjoying. You know you gotta turn the stereo on, man. It makes it a whole nother level. It makes you want to drive faster. But why are you telling me this? Like, but okay, like and so. And then it was like the next day we did the make-a-wish ride.
Speaker 1:You know, that's the reason that was really cool.
Speaker 2:That's the reason why we went to the shootout this year was for the make-a-wish ride. Last year, I was blessed and fortunate enough to be sponsored by white boy rick and we ran the shootout and beat the world record. Yeah, outboard catamaran powered boat.
Speaker 1:We worked with motec and kong you were all over the place when you ran that awesome dude.
Speaker 2:It was an awesome experience to be a part of that and I mean to set those types of speeds in an outboard boat. You know to be the first part. You know to go that fast in an outboard powered boat was it's a big deal, yeah so, like I said, we worked with motak and kong and a bunch of people and we were like kong performance, kong performance yeah, I, I saw that kong greg kong one of my I call greg right now we can have a conversation.
Speaker 1:He did my, he did my. C6 zr1.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, performance, same, greg, I had a thousand five horsepower to the wheels at 105 degree heat on the dyno. That thing was my upper nines. Yeah, for sure it was same fast e85 the whole time.
Speaker 2:So Kong and Motec came at JR and they said hey, we want to develop a plug-and-play product for the 450-500 motor. So they now have a computer that's plug-and-play for the 450 and 500 computer that'll up your horsepower to 130 horsepower Above the 450. Above the 450 with a pulley.
Speaker 1:So it's a 530.
Speaker 2:530, you put aong pulley and an intake on, you get even a little bit more. Be crazy, drill a hole in your, in your engine, calling you even get a little bit more out of that. So I worked with these.
Speaker 2:We worked, don't tease me, dude, I'll get a center console over 100, no problem is unbelievable so I'm, I'm with um p owns MoTeC and we're in this capsule boat and he's used to pleasure boats and stuff like that. So we're in this confined space, he's got his laptop and stuff like that. I was like, how long did it take you to learn that computer program? Like learn it wrote it. I was like, oh, I was like you're that guy and he's like, yeah, I'm that guy. So we did tests and tunes and passes and he went and adjusted parameters and all sorts of stuff and so we developed that computer. Last year is all prototype and now this year it's now in production where it's plug and play all my tech andC and tell them They'll send you computers, you put in the ECUs, you put on the Kong pulley Up your horsepower like that baby. This year they're outboard catamaran 147.
Speaker 2:I saw that there was a couple with the built internals using boost that were up in the 150s. Phenomenal numbers, not realistic, not plug and play. You can't do that every day.
Speaker 1:Justin wagner with waves and wheels, who now owns doug right performance power boats. Okay. So my d-dub I was in, I was doing, you were in a right performance, yeah, right performance. So I ended up having that's the same hall, but it's exactly the same hall.
Speaker 2:it was when um performance boat center partnered up with doug right power boats to kind of up their fit and finish. That was their first generation of cool paint jobs, cool interiors, big stereos and stuff like that. Yeah, that was that, for Made it more of a pleasure boat.
Speaker 1:Exactly, yeah, went from straight race to pleasure.
Speaker 2:With the race bottom, yeah, with the race bottom, it's the same, exact bottom.
Speaker 1:Do full carbon layup.
Speaker 2:That thing was dude, still to this day, everybody talks about that.
Speaker 1:That was a great boat, 100%.
Speaker 2:That's probably one of the best.
Speaker 1:Doug White or White Wright performances ever.
Speaker 2:Right 100%.
Speaker 1:That thing was great.
Speaker 2:I had a lot of good memories on it.
Speaker 1:But to see the 147 range. I was impressed Because I did 124 on my way with the way it was propped.
Speaker 2:In three quarters of a mile, with having a quarter mile start and a quarter mile that you have to slow down in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, quarter mile start and a quarter mile that you have to slow down in.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're always not. It's not easy. No you can't just gas it. You have to start at 40 miles per hour, you know. So it's like right at 40 and you have to hit it right. If you don't hit it right, you spin the props got it at the wrong, you know, that's your right there, you know.
Speaker 2:And so to see those numbers being hit consistently, yeah is phenomenal, yeah, phenomenal, you know that is so cool that's what a lot of these guys in these big inboard outboard boats, ah, 150, 150 can't do 150, yeah, we can yeah, yeah, we can and you know what we can do, too, is turn key every weekend yeah for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's easy to pull out, in and out. Yeah, it's a whole different. That's what I love about those boats is that it's just from an all-around economically. You know it's better, it's not nearly as expensive. You can get those for seven, eight hundred thousand. It's where it's at, hey dude, but you got five hundreds out, you got your warranty.
Speaker 2:All this exactly easy to plug and play my raptor pulled it and change the oil.
Speaker 1:You're good to go and my raptor pulled it. Yeah, you don't need a sport chassis. It's don't Exactly, it's a whole different level of ease, man, exactly.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it was a blessing to be able to run with them last year and being able to be a part of something so big in the boating world and be able to put down a number. I had a world record for a year, yeah. I got smashed, but I couldn't be prouder.
Speaker 2:You had the gold for the year, man exactly, and it was like our passes, hope, developed his passes, yeah. So you know, it was like it was all working together. You know, we were all like we're all gonna get to the moon eventually, you know so but it was like I said, it was very, and then, coming to this year, we came.
Speaker 2:We didn't come to run the shootout, we just came to do the make-a-wish, which is cool because the sponsor that we're a part of is big about giving back. You know, I mean, even with t-shirt giveaways, t-shirts aren't cheap.
Speaker 1:They come to each race with like 200 t-shirts that I give away, like toilet paper, you know, like, but they want to see their name, about five thousand dollars for the stuff they want to see their name out there.
Speaker 2:They want to, you know, and it has grown. You know we have fans now. Yeah, you know, like we have fans, like people come, they're like they're wearing our stuff, you know, like it's cool, you know, to see, to see it, but you guys are fast you guys are champions last year, you know, and we're.
Speaker 2:We got one more race. We're going for that two-time national championship next week in st pete, you know. So hopefully that all comes to fruition. Trying to wrap up on a bunch of stuff up to try to get down to miami to do a couple test days before st pete, yeah, make sure we're good to go. So yeah, we're definitely looking for a two time and then it just brings awareness as a sport, you know, it shows that we're the fastest hole in our class you know, it's point proven hey, do you remember?
Speaker 1:so the day before my event, the actual event, I think I was like saturday, but friday remember I did a podcast with uh, with jordan belford the wolf of wall street, the real wolf of wall street took you there I know yeah do you? Remember the video that I sent when we were prepping for the webinar? So you basically managed the boat. When I jumped off, I went up to his podcast studio. Did you remember the video that me and Joe were sending of you sitting?
Speaker 2:on the boat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was awesome. You were just sitting there like you looked like the bodyguard I was just it was such a surreal experience.
Speaker 2:I mean, I was on the phone the whole time calling people.
Speaker 1:I'm on Jordanordan belford's dock right now. You won't believe where I am. Look at this. It's a cruise ship right there. That's why I was taking the video like you're just loving life man, exactly, but there was yachts everywhere. It's a great spot and it's like dude.
Speaker 2:It was like I said, like I say over and time, time and time again right place right time you know, because it was like I could have stopped at the gas station to get an energy drink. I wouldn't have seen Daniel yeah. I wouldn't have seen you and how it all fell into place. I didn't go outside to smoke that cigarette. I wouldn't have met JR.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it was like and JR, they're such nice guys, oh my.
Speaker 2:God.
Speaker 1:Were you with us when I went to the.
Speaker 2:Keys. I skipped out on the date Cause. So in Havasu, I like to give people their time. You know like I love to go out and enjoy the boat, but at the same time, if if you're fully capable of taking your boat out and enjoying it with your wife.
Speaker 1:I want you to do that.
Speaker 2:You know like as much as I love to be there and love to go fast and all that stuff. But there's, you bought that boat for a reason. Sure, you go with your wife, not this random dude you met, to take care of the boat, you know, let's, let's be honest, yeah, but yeah, no, it's it's full circle right place, right time. And then, like meeting everybody and, like you said, jared the nicest guy. They're really nice guys, so nice White. I don't know how that's going to be real quick, but yeah, we got to make it real quick. We still have a little bit of time.
Speaker 1:So when we I remember so I'd come out, I knew those guys. The guys were out there right. They're just hanging out. I know you guys were all. There was like four or five guys who were just kind of kicking back out in the back. I remember we had a little break, and so we definitely are in miami but I'm like, who is this guy?
Speaker 1:and uh, and somebody came up to me and was like and it was so crazy because they're like well, that's white boy rick. And I'm like it clicked because I just watched the documentary on netflix like a month before that and I usually fall asleep to the tv like that's what I do I fall asleep, right so I remember, remember starting that documentary and I'll take maybe three or four nights to get through it and I stayed up the whole time to watch it because I couldn't believe what happened.
Speaker 1:The whole story is insane. So, for those of you that are listening right now, if you haven't watched the documentary called White Boy Rick it's a hell of a story. So just to give you an idea, we. So how do you? How would you sum up his life? What happened?
Speaker 2:he just wrongfully accused, got stuck in yeah, so he, his, his dad, got into some stuff. It was like weapons yeah, weapons, selling weapons to the wrong people.
Speaker 1:He tried to help his dad out you know, you and I both know him. We're gonna get him on our podcast. Let's do that you need to, and he'll love it, he'll totally do it. Yeah, I talked to him all the time on.
Speaker 2:Instagram. So he was a hustler in the streets. He was a young kid, growing up in the hood, so he knew a lot of people, knew a lot of things, so he tried to help his dad got out of some stuff so he gave some information to the police.
Speaker 1:And he was a young kid. He was like 15, 16. Yeah, he started being an informant.
Speaker 2:And so it kind of snowballed into working for the feds. You know he was a paid employee by the by the feds to find out information. You know about these street gangs and stuff like that. Well, you get into it and he starts exposing the wrong people, mayors police chiefs and stuff like that, because they were in the drug game.
Speaker 2:Exactly now they're like, hey, we gotta shut this. Yeah, he knows too much. Put him in jail, you know, literally sent him on a drug buy, you know, on a drug buy, yeah, and then pretended like they didn't know him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, oh, he's been the kingpin, exactly. And they tried him at 16 or 17.
Speaker 2:17 for life. Yeah, life, the first life sentence in Detroit that was ever given out and given out, and it was all because they let this get up fast forward. 30 years 30 something years, finally the it was someone had to die exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, original da or the original judge, or something like that they needed to.
Speaker 2:Even the original judge that put him in jail his niece, who is now a judge, didn't agree with any of this yeah, I was trying.
Speaker 1:He was trying to get him out.
Speaker 2:He was lobbying to try to get him out, but that whole government man.
Speaker 1:It's a whole other political stuff. There's no joke, do what they want. It's over drug money and the money and they were all getting kicked back. So he gets out, so he gets out.
Speaker 2:And then he's smart. He teams up with this guy Weed's legal now in michigan, so he's, you know, sells his name. You know his name and his story and time teams up with his partner and they started weed brand, yeah, and took off, crazy dude just because culture, you know like just the name, the story, you know everything behind it.
Speaker 2:You know his brand, you know his, his logos. It's cool, you know it's. It's cool, it's hip. You know so he. He took off with that. You know, just slowly started successfully, like. You know so he, he took off with that, you know just slowly started successfully like that.
Speaker 1:You know and we're, but he was. He's just the nicest guy, though Like the most dude I've never been. You would never think. Oh my God, he's never know. He's so kind.
Speaker 2:He's like I live like I'm 16.
Speaker 1:He'll ball out and he'll do all those things that we did before that he got to miss out on. So now he wants he's living life. Yeah, and he is living he's out. I see his instagram blowing up and like celebrities this and doing that everyone knows him.
Speaker 2:But you know and stuff, he's just he, hopefully I, I really enjoy.
Speaker 1:I remember I just kind of do a little round circle because they, you guys all stayed like longer than everybody else. Everyone else took off. You guys stayed, guys stayed for a while. I think after, like, you guys took off at night. Yeah, we were there. We were there for a while, I think we ended up ordering a pizza. Yeah, we just hung out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, he stayed the whole time, the whole time, and I mean he, and he came back the next day the most humble the way to the race.
Speaker 1:You need a drink, what you need. Yeah, he's just a nice guy. I was like dude, I got come here, you're vip bro. Like I got you like what you need to drink. You know, you know I I there's so much controversy out there for stuff like that. You know what I do is I just judge people based on my own interaction dude, I got enough life experience.
Speaker 1:I can sniff it out right now, you know I get into rooms with millionaires, bro, I can tell you someone's personality, who. They are real quick and and I just I really enjoy he's always do this times. I'll post on social media. I'll write like a story about hey man, it's so good to see you doing well, man, I miss you bro, would love to see you soon. He's just such a nice guy.
Speaker 2:So Hank, my dog, everybody knows tank, I take him everywhere I go, so he's a good dog. So I happen to have him, uh, in my truck and white boy rick walks up and I look down and then tank goes running past my feet. I'm like yo, what, the? What are you doing? And then white boy rick comes walking up. He's like nobody's locked up around me let him out.
Speaker 1:So he's always.
Speaker 2:He's always letting tank out, he's always feeding him grilled cheese and stuff. I'm like that's so funny. Yeah, so he loves. He loves tanks so yeah.
Speaker 2:So he's always like and I mean he's awesome dude. And so then last year I meet him in st clair, which was his hometown. We did an opa race there. We didn't even race, we just went there for fun to help promote opa. Opa is a smaller organization of offshore powerboat racing but they're like 700 classes, open bow boats.
Speaker 2:You know nothing in the caliber that we we have, but we go to their events to try to bring people to the to their events, try to bring other race teams. If another race team will show up, we'll race them, you know. So we would go to these events. So I met him at st claire, which was a smaller race weekend and stuff like that, and I'm I pulled his boat in the parade because we had the white boy Rick boat. You know, for the St Clair he sponsored put his big snowman up on the boat, it was awesome. And so then we had our race boat and then so we do parades around the towns and stuff like that. So I was pulling the white boy Rick boat. Like you said, I met him in Miami and everything like that. I didn't even watch the documentary.
Speaker 2:I didn't even know I didn't even watch the documentary, I didn't even know, I didn't even know.
Speaker 2:I still just thought it was just random miami white, yeah, yeah. So like, so I'm driving the boat in the parade and this is like 30 minutes from his hometown. So this dude in this town, a hero, everybody's like. White boy rick, we love you. I'm like, who is this dude? I'm driving the boat in the parade, I google white boy rick netflix documentary. I'm like I'm I'm watching in the parade, I'm watching he's on the back of the truck in a chair and I'm watching his netflix documentary. I'm like who the hell is he? So then, like I, you know, watched the documentary. And then the next day Darren was like hey, can you take Rick out in the boat? He wants to go for a ride in the boat. I'm like hell, yeah. So the dude jumps in the boat. He's like seven years ago I was in a prison cell.
Speaker 1:Right now I'm in this race boat with you. I'm like this is pretty cool, bro, let's go.
Speaker 2:So we're racing around and shit the whole time. He's FaceTiming everybody. Look at we on a race boat, all this stuff, cool as shit. So then we clicked. Ever since then, he comes back like an hour later with like a box of merch hoodies, t-shirts, jackets, everything hats. He's like this is all for you, bro, don't give any of this stuff away. He was like this is out of my closet, so it's all new era you know like good stuff.
Speaker 1:So and he's always. He's like you're going to be at the race this weekend.
Speaker 2:I'm like so he's like I'm bringing you more year. I'm bringing you more year. And he's like tag me on Instagram. He's like when you tag me on Instagram, text me and I'll share it, because his Instagram blows up. Oh yeah, he does all the time and he'll get pissed if I tag him in something. And you don't tell him, and I don't tell him Like bro, I missed it. What the?
Speaker 1:fuck and hey, I tied you.
Speaker 2:Share my stuff. Yeah, I don't, I'm not. That's not why I'm doing it, you know. So, so he's real cool about that. So yeah, so then, like I said, he did the make a wish last year with that boat and then this year we went to Lotto to do the make a wish with JR's boat and stuff like that. So I was blessed and privileged to you know, wheel around that nice brand 39 canopy, I mean that one was beautiful dual ac units.
Speaker 2:The thing's got 36 speakers inside of it. You close this canopy and it's just like you're inside the sub yeah, it's just, it's an incredible boat handles phenomenally. We brought a stock set of props. I didn't do any tuning to it whatsoever and I just cursed 120 yeah, and we ended up doing the shootout for fun. No right on jerry was like hey, you want to take gus falcone and do the shootout? I was like no right on Jared was like hey, you want to take Gus Falcone and do the shootout.
Speaker 1:I was like sure, let's do that. That's funny. We just talked about that.
Speaker 2:So talk about who Gus is so Gus Falcone is if you've watched the Netflix documentary series, Another documentary got it. Another documentary, Another Netflix guy the cocaine cowboys. Back in the boat racing days. It was one of the boat racing teams. That's how they funded. Boat racing was smuggling cocaine.
Speaker 2:They washed their money by opening up banks and buying real estate Banks, making Miami what it is today. You know the light life, the glitz, the glamour that Miami is, that stuff that you know Petey Pablo and all those guys you know shout about now that they built that. You know like they made that lifestyle what it was. And so, uh, he came to our cocoa beet trace. I met him and right away I knew him because I've watched the documentary and you know, being in the industry, in the sport and everything like that.
Speaker 2:You hear of all these stories, the stories exactly, and so to see this guy in the flesh, you know, it's like up and you know like you don't want to glorify him for him being a drug dealer, because at the end of the day, he wasn't a drug dealer, you know, like his organization his family. Yeah, he's just an area his thing was the boat racing yeah, the passion, yeah that's, that's his passion. At the end of the day, he still wants.
Speaker 1:He wants to build a new boat he was the one he's like, the one where you listen to those documentaries, but he was like the kid of the guys that were doing all the stuff.
Speaker 2:So that was this other guy. He was the cousin of Will Falcone.
Speaker 1:He's Gus Falcone. Yeah, that's right, the cousin of him. But he knew the politics. He knew the politics.
Speaker 2:Like I said earlier, meetings with presidents and stuff like that. Oh yeah, drug organizations that are so big it makes banks look small, you know, like it wasn't, you know. So that's why I said I don't like to glorify him as in the cocaine days and stuff like that, because he's really passionate about the boats, you know, and that's what, and that's he comes in and I took him for a boat ride the other day. He taught me something that I never learned in a boat, you know so, and it's like pretty cool, you know, and like he calls us pussies and stuff like that, because of our races they're 10 laps in a circle. These guys used to do 176 miles to the Bahamas, lap the Bahamas and go back to Miami.
Speaker 2:You know, Like out in the ocean. You know, you know like endurance style, so like it's a little bit different, what it is now to what it was then, but he wants to get back involved in it now and help bring it to what it was yeah, back in the day when we had so much exposure, when it was on espn and stuff like that. It sucks that you gotta not use him, but you know like he he lived it he did it.
Speaker 1:Well, he's got a. You know, he's got a big following for giving back, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2:I think he's a Christian guy. He's huge with church and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he speaks at all these churches and so forth, yeah, and I see him on social media. He really kind of narrows down the politics of what transpired back in those days 100%. He's definitely. I mean, he was always a clean guy, but he's really critical here I can.
Speaker 2:it was told by the snitches yeah, so it's one-sided. You know like, yeah, it's cool, it's entertaining and stuff like that, but at the end of the day it was one side of the story. He's trying to get the real side out, you know to where he can explain, like, how it became the organization that it was and everything like that.
Speaker 1:So he's trying because he got help by politicians to get there 100.
Speaker 2:He can't do what you do without it I mean come, come on now. So politicians, police departments, everybody, we were sitting at breakfast one day talking about all the people that were on this payroll.
Speaker 1:You know like literally everybody that you could think of.
Speaker 2:So, it's wild and crazy, but that's the sport. You know, the sport is money-based, it's celebrity-based. We have celebrities coming in and out and stuff like that. But it's celebrity based. We have celebrities coming in and out and stuff like that. But it's cool, it's crazy, it's wild, and how it's all unfolded from you know right place, right time, you know, and then just taking it, taking the ball and running. You know like running, running, running.
Speaker 1:Well, you've done good. It sounds like you know One of them. Well you're already there.
Speaker 2:I'm like when I was in my, when I did truck driving and equipment operating, my goal was to operate and run the biggest trucks and move the biggest loads. Did it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, so it was like checkmark completion, you know, like goal achieved, you know. And so then it's like next thing not that I'm always hop, but it's like to keep this going, you know like. And then it's like I've created the relationships that I've created, like with the drilling company. I still work for them. I'm leaving here, I'm going to LAX to get on a flight to go do a move for him, and then I have 600,000 things that I have to do for my own company. And it's like the going back to the, not being able to say no because my buddy called me and he asked me for my help.
Speaker 2:It's like yeah, yeah, dude, I'm there for you whatever you need, I got you. And then, like I said, it's that parachute, that backup plan sometimes sucks to have, because then it's like, oh well, I know I can't fail because I got that, you know so totally like.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's like people are like what do you do? You got to take that jump, you got to make that full-fledged leap into it. You know and like for a while I did it, you know, and it sucked, it was scary, you know like it was like ramen noodles and shit like that, you know. So it was like all right, I'll still do this. I could still help them out and keep my health insurance active.
Speaker 1:I think maybe we can survive in this life, so that's what you're doing.
Speaker 2:And that's. That's kind of what it does. And it's like everybody asks me. They're like what are you doing tomorrow? I don't know, man, I don't know, but it's going to be something, it's going to be something cool.
Speaker 1:It's going to be something cool. Well, dude, it's really fun to watch because I mean, you're getting interviewed and you're getting on there.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, it's crazy, it's so cool.
Speaker 1:You're all over the place when it comes to this race team and I think they really rely on you a lot, and I see that camar the company and they moved into it. They just were getting getting their feet wet. So now, now you guys are literally, you know, winning, winning races. I mean, it's impressive in two years.
Speaker 2:In essence, you know so so, since I, since I've come on me and jr talked about it the other day, there's only been one race that we haven't podium finished yeah, that's pretty cool yeah well, you know, like that's a.
Speaker 1:So I tell everybody you know a lot of people you know sing our praises just because we've gotten to a certain place. I came from, you know, answering phones in a call center doing more guys to where we are in a truck shop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't bug in the guy. Hey, what are you doing? What are you going to move today? Can I come help you? I'll throw your chains, you know like, that's how I got it. You know, like a lot of guys in the in the trucking industry didn't do what the loads that I did until they were 50, 60, because it was a seniority base. But it got to the point where these guys were like just let him fucking do it already you know like, and that's how you know.
Speaker 2:So it was like, honestly like bugging people asking questions, wanting to be a part of it. The first race that I went to in Key West was because I brought a boat down there. I knew Vinny DiOrio raced and I saw him and I said, hey man, can I help you out whatever you need, if I could just hang out and wear a jersey, you know like, just to be a part of it. Then, bam, next thing you know, I'm there in the water changing props for the guy. Yeah, I'm like. This guy in 20 minutes is giving me a $20,000 prop in my hand to put on his boat you know.
Speaker 2:So it's like shit yeah, so, yeah, it's cool. It's like I said go for the best, go for the biggest, want to be the fastest, but just still keep it all there yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Well, dude, you know me, man, I'm going to be tracking you guys and obviously use you for all the stuff I can use you for, you know I always appreciate it and that's that's cool and like a lot of people don't get what I've put into the race stuff and they don't like working around it, you know. But I do still have a core group of guys that's still like hey, whenever you can get to it.
Speaker 1:Dude Rami type text me. But hey man, just thinking about you. I see Colin, all the time you know, just thinking about you. You know that type of stuff. Joe, hannah pays me. Yeah, awesome, yeah, it's great, it's really was a fruitful for you. Just going to give you an idea of what it's like to go from kind of a cradle to grave and getting into the race teams. You know, and it's so cool to to to bring you on to a podcast because it's so uncommon to have someone that's doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I want people to know together.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's part of our brand, right Family office. You know dreams and they're living their dreams and how they got there and did things.
Speaker 2:You know, like, like, with that building that you're building is going to be incredible. Like I say all the time we're going to paradise, it's going to be the spot. Yeah, it's going to be the spot.
Speaker 1:We, we, we're getting a lot of good, we're getting a lot of recognition. I think it's gonna be great. So thank you, brother, I really appreciate you being here.
Speaker 2:Appreciate you, man All.
