Inspiration from Observation and the Duty to Teach

that was cool and he's like yeah you could put a couple put a couple 88s on that 502. it'd make 1500 real easy and at the time i thought 700 horsepower was like freaking god and i'm thinking 1500 like geez what am i going to do with that i remember this we're standing in their shop looking at some car and i was like 1500 like i don't need that i don't do this for a living and we were like walking out of the shop with like a camshaft or something i think for this george guy's truck and just in passing he you know we're walking out and i was like yeah i don't do this for a living and he just said he does and pointed at his dad's pro mod in the corner and i don't know why that memory is as vivid as vivid can be in my head because i looked at that car and the light bulb went off and i thought you're right he does huh nothing nothing was the same after that it wasn't at that specific moment that i decided that's what i wanted to pursue for a living but it just it made me look at things differently way differently it's really significant all of that because i learned so much that they probably don't even realize that i learned just by watching them like sometimes they would be talking to me and i wouldn't even notice i'd be like off in space or something and i'd be like staring at a car or like yo you there and i'm oh what i was like staring at this car just kind of piecing it together in my head thinking about what i've seen them do and how this car is and trying to picture how they did it for example you know a piece of pipe let's say oh that piece of pipe looks like this i think they probably cut it like that and then did this to it because i saw him do that once like that's the kind of stuff that i think about when i'm walking around in there look at all these cars but something that comes to mind why it was important for me to be around that and to see it and how impactful that was there's a specific song a lyric that comes to mind that i actually heard for the first time when i went to tow those cars to texas with jeff jr and he probably doesn't remember this either but you know when you're someone else is playing music and you hear a good song you pull out your shazam thing figure out what it is and download it well this is what happened to this we're pulling on the on-ramp to get on i-79 south and all night long by machine gun kelly comes on from his phone and i don't i don't really listen to the lyrics that closely but i heard it for a few seconds and…