Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, you're listening to the All Talk, come podcast episode 3. How's not sick this week? How are you going? Excellent.
And Ross is back. Fantastic. Today. How are you?
We're good. We've got our guest this week, Chris Paulos, the owner of Canalacks of Sydney. Hi, Chris. Very well, Peter.
Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You guys. After we had our first guest last week, Harry Christian, and he brought us a gift last week, which I didn't think I'd know till afterwards.
And thank you Harry for your gift, but Chris is not one better. What did you bring us, mate? We're enjoying Havana's greatest thanks for your fact. Beautiful cigars from Cuba.
Cubans. There are mines we have the sign for the episode where we are crime-a-port, some Cubans, and actually the people that made the cigars. That's great. The Cubans are totally huge themselves.
I've had something Pete and Chris are smoking them with how like... I'll say we're doing well. ..so making them as well. ..for the other side.
We're actually having more. What's the cigar? That's 200 cigarettes in a cigar. No, that was the...
That's a bit of a... The hubby-belly. That's a proper Cubans. So, welcome to the podcast, Chris.
Thanks, Pete. The topic is sweet and cars. How did you bring that industry for a number of years? How did you get into it?
Well, interestingly, I loved the Cadillac and imported one from the US. And I thought, what else can I do with this car besides driving around and smoking cigars? That brainwave of... It could be a winning car as well.
So, it'll pay for repairs, maintenance, etc. Good answer. Great, thanks, thanks. Thank you very much, Ross, for pointing that out.
That was a good way to give up yesterday's Sundays as well. I enjoyed it. I was winning for the talk over for a year, for 20 years. Wow.
To Australian Awards and actual facts. Then I thought, well, I don't want to be in the industry anymore, but I want to be on the pilot industry. Great. So, have you noticed any time long, how many years have you been driving the Cadillac?
About 10 years now. Sorry, just having my cigar blowing into the microphone. And have you noticed the industry... I mean, traditionally there's all Rolls Royces and Jaguars, if you look at...
Very traditional winning photos that you must have taken in the 80s and 90s. Correct. And then the Cadillacs come about? Yeah, the Cadillacs were another bit of spice to the...
The industry's changed dramatically now. They all look very high-end cars, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Portia's, as the... The Leaker. Is that the husband or the wife?
Well, it's typically the husband that wants that. And of course, bikes. And we begin high-end Rolls Royces now, the $1,000 plus cars. The Cadillacs are a particular flavour.
It's not for everyone's taste, but it's more the old-school type of people that want that classic look. And when does the stretch hammer fit in all this? Not even close. I think it's for something.
It's for four. That's exactly what they should think. That's interesting, Chris, because I was looking at something on Facebook yesterday about winning. And I was leading the groom's house.
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Nowadays there are leases, they can take a look on. People have prepared to pay huge dollars for winning services. And do you think it's also the Instagram and now generation look at me, wow, I'm in a Rolls Royce? Peter, that's probably exactly right because most of these people just take shots all day long, even without the leaves on the ground.
I'll put the sales and their posting immediately. Where I've been when I got married all those years ago, we've got the winning album that no one's open. Correct, correct. The gloves are red gloves.
The gloves are red gloves. Nowadays you receive your winning album as a file, a link, the website, the website. And I'll tend for the price. Exactly.
Yeah, the gloves are not the gloves. I'm not going to try them on. I did that. They've got my winning album.
But the car was parked, as I'm going to say, back in 15 years ago it was about the husband and wife against the car. Now it's not just getting into the church and... Well, they want a parade. We all know that a young man from the Albany City Council, he's a parade.
That was quite a topic and I'm sure that that person's probably not with us in society at the moment. We can edit it. Chop, chop, chop. But you can see there was a parade of cars, you know, motorbikes, cars, burnouts, something that people want.
That's even weekend. Correct. That's every weekend. Okay, that wedding was like every other weekend.
It's not on the news. But if you're on social media and you follow a few of these providers of these high-end cars. I'm not even waiting for the wedding. You will see that.
You will see that it happens every weekend. It does, yeah. It's gone ballistic now in terms of... I saw an eventador tearing up the highway on the way here today.
And funny, not the same eventador that was in the Facebook post earlier this morning, tearing up the wheel. Well, I mean... Sports car typically happens because they're two city cars. They will take the groom and the groom to the church separately individually.
You know, so that's the spend and the folly that they want to have on that wedding day. I'm a traditionalist. I like the stretch. The pink car right now.
So with the Cadillac's... Did you like to use the hazard? You got a boss-funk finish? I do have some horns on one of my Cadillac's.
If that person chooses to have that particular option. I think it's on your Facebook page. I think the one car is on the front. Correct.
That's correct. So, uh... Horns on a Cadillac is it? If Bob Cannon decides to get married again.
Right? Yeah, he does. Yeah, he does. Yeah, he does.
There are two types of Cadillac's actually. There's the classic from 67 onwards, which is no steel and no wood inside. It's all plastic and pimp. The classic, you know...
With the things on that? No fins. No fins. The pre-66 wood and steel inside.
Therefore, they've got romantic nature about them. They typically want those. The fifties are the big ones. Very expensive cars nowadays.
100 plus thousand dollars for a 50 Cadillac. Oh, do you get requests for things like horns? Do you get requests for cans on the back? No, no, never.
Never. That's always the... We're leaving the reception cans. Yeah, okay.
That's a good idea. We think we should do that. Thank you very much. What about rides dealers?
Have you had any? Many. Many. At this car is old?
I had to... How many? How many? There seems to be a stressful event for the day.
These rides do tend to get all modded up. One did rip her dress on my car once. That was a repair job. And unfortunately, you know, she rubbed in.
It didn't take note. It was just the exuberance of the whole thing, you know, so... Yes. Just a half-tier.
Half-tier. Half-tier. Goodly. Yeah, goodly.
And do you often take them back to the honeymoon suite? I have. Many times. Any couples that were too keen.
There was a bit of emeralds behavior in the back of the six. I do take a peek occasionally. And yes, there is... And you have those AP cans for age.
Sure, it's perfect. They are only for true. Just in case. Waiting for one.com.
Okay. Side-sponsored bike race. Any other disasters, but not at fault of the bride. Is that actually available?
He's a disaster bit on... Okay, like... I have a lot of cards. And invariably something will go wrong.
Not just a flat tyre. Not just a flat tyre. I was being popped. Really?
All sorts of things. Okay. Yeah, but they're very simple cards, so you can actually get in and do some quick repairs. You need to have a spare car around.
Then I do have one. Or all together. So... Yes.
There's a very good phone call. The cameras in the spare car. And there's always the network of guys that have these cars in your corner. And often now people make themselves available for waiting, because they want to actually keep the cost down on any kind of car.
Well, to an extent, you can probably say that the exposure in social media had a lot to do with what people use. And for their waiting. You're spot up, because everyone's following and then copying. Yeah, I mean you've got guys that you've got cameras and there's people who like that type of stuff.
There's people like an old Jans and old rollers. Direct the other one on Instagram post, there was the JDM guys. They're leasing out there. Right, so...
And that's right. Yeah. Ross, to breakpoint. They're in our social subcultures.
Yeah. There's the Japanese crowds. There's the Australian Muscle. I mean, you might remember this.
Your brother and I have a muscle car, because it's... We have the Falcons. We did indeed, and it was quite successful in actual fact. But different people that have got different interests, right?
And all, especially social media, all it did was, it made all these little niche type of cars available. Be ready. Great. Was the brothers...
No, no, no, no. No, no, no. Now there are... Oh, the four-twenty-S-C-O.
I wish. With the bimmering on the value. Because I like paint car. I like violence.
I also do a lot of weddings in basketball as well. Is that comedy, right? Comedy. There's the other...
I've got the Beatle convertible, the triple white. So there's a lot of people that want that sort of thing. Very relaxed, waiting, they're more chilled out. It's not the show.
Right. Correct. Yeah, for those who can listen to the background noise, we're taking a collector cafe again today. So thank you to...
It's not the collector of the rubbish. It's the collector of the rubbish. And some of the cars, we spoke about it in the first episode, but we're here again. And why not?
There's a box I can call it, is that the California convertible? No, it's the California convertible. That's your one. Correct.
You've used that for pageboys. I mean, one wedding. Correct. It was a pageboy.
Yeah, it's typical sort of a pageboy. Yeah, it is. That's a lot of fun. Obviously they call you thinking to get a Cadillac and ask you for something.
Okay, well, I also have a mother of Pearl, Mazarote. And... It's a Statesman. Correct.
It's a complicated Statesman. It's called every ever sign any Statesman. That's been a very popular choice. Yeah.
Absolutely. If you're singing Italian Manare, that's a Ferrari. Okay. That's a lot of cars.
We'll be fishing anywhere else here. Let's go back to the cigars. If you've been a good one. Eight times.
Actually, I have a little business called the Bucket List Tool Company. I take 20 to 30 people to the World Cigar Festival at the end of February. at the end of February. Wow, that sounds good.
Yeah, come along guys, come along. Classic Cuba tours. Is that a website? It is a website, isn't it one?
No. Not the website? Not the website. No, not the website.
And basically Cuba has a strong car culture too. I mean, you've said it. I mean, you've said it to Dr. Mayor, but first hand, have you been?
It's just that you asked me to, I actually studied the Cuban car culture. And of course, we all know that there's a show specifically made as to how they actually maintain these cars. As you know in 61, the Americans shut the doors. They had a lot of, you know, American cars there, so they couldn't get spare parts.
So the Cubans, as resourceful as they are, they're watching machine parts out of anything they can get their hands on to make these things run. A lot of arrangements. Correct. But the other parts of the period, I'm going to have to say that.
So they're doing the farm, obviously. They're doing the market parts. Yeah, and I'm making parts out of the period. So what you get in Cuba is four flavors of cars.
The first flavor is pre-60s, old, very old American cars. They are the taxis for the Cuban people. You pay less than 20 cents, it'll take you anywhere in the bottom. Wow.
Yeah, yeah, you've got holes on the floor. You've got all sorts of dangers you gain. But they're fine. So they are shitboxes.
Very much. They are. Then you've got the 65 to 60, 61, of course, there's no other cars that are only tourist cars. They are the ones that are painted well, they maintain well, and they take tourists around to us.
They're much more expensive. No, they're pretty good. They're pretty good. So they're owned by people that are going to earn up to $100 a day, which is a lot of money in Cuba.
The average salary in Cuba is $50 a month. 50 a month? US. US.
Wow. They've got great social systems there. They've got all their education there. They've got their housing.
They've got their health. They've got their food. They've got education. So all that's left is falling.
So they do a little bit of extra work. They actually rent their houses out to people as well. These are little everything, these are actual factors. They're fantastic.
It's a really experienced, even lifestyle. What do you say? Airbnb. Is Airbnb?
There is actually Airbnb. Yes, you can actually. It's all about going out. You can get a Cuban place with Airbnb.
Wow. So it's slightly opening up. It is, yes. Russell's grabbing his hand.
I don't know. He's looking at the hub. He's looking at the hub. He's looking at the hub.
Apparently we're all going to the Cuba and Cuba. And magnificent experience you're actually stepping back in time. Can you let me just let me let more water out before she hears the podcast? That would be a couple of times.
That would be a couple of times. There'll be a couple of episodes in that Cuba. You're stepping back in physical time, but you're also stepping back in cultural time. It's a wonderful experience.
Warm culture. They're always giving foods magnificent. Drink is rum and is rum after that as well. It's just a wonderful experience with people.
That's safe. Extremely safe. I mean, I'm not getting it so safe. You just would, I'm three o'clock in the morning, you'd wander around?
No, but a big monofilic. Yes. Yes. Racing.
That does that. Of course, with the resources they have, right? So I talked about the early American cars. I talked about the later 50s cars.
Then enter the Russian Empire. And you've got the ladders. They are the biggest shitboxes on the planet. They will not go.
My great uncle had a larder in Greece. It was a station wagon. And the only way a larder. The Russian...
They used to use old early fates, 60s fates as a... Do we get the new strap? Yeah. The Rockler.
Actually modified the flatter. What are you guys talking about? That's the Rockler. That was the last time with Harry.
Yeah. This was around that time where he thought little crystals under the bonnet magic haggadep. The larder's a mare. So what happened was with my great uncle, the hatch one stayed up.
So he used that broken golf club in half. And that was his holder, Abra. The bootle. Right now, it was part of the haggadics.
The buckle. He's buckled. He's buckled. So the larders are there.
And now the fourth generation is the green cars. You've got the undies. They're expensive. They're quite expensive to own a car and keep it.
You know, it could be up to 40 grand for a small home. And what's the price of fuel? Is there service stations there? There's service stations there.
It was like Thailand. You pull over the side of the road and it's all pumping some fuel from it. No, no. They're actually service stations.
They're just popping in. They're just popping in. So there's a real mixture of cars in Cuba. It's a wonderful experience.
You know, they drive all the back door. That's great. I was also going to involve with cigars. We'd love cigars.
And I met a Czech or Rene Riften. Yeah, I heard that. He was a famous rock-broker in the A&S pass away. I was like, okay.
And I actually identified one of these cigars. And we were smoking any other cigars. And I said, I bring in a few cigars from Cuba. Of course, he then said, I want to buy your business.
And I said, I have a business. He goes a bit of a boat next week. And then he gave me half of my car. And you're buying a Cuba by cigars.
And you're still doing that now? No. Do you know that? I used to steal your own personal.
That was, yeah. Now I don't do it. I mean, cigars, I don't. They're expensive cigars.
Like, I used to steal your cigarettes a year ago. They're expensive cigars, obviously. I was like, what's a cigar made out of? It's only raw material.
So it's the Cuban leaf. It's the actual tobacco plant which lets three elements to a cigar. A binder, a wrapper, and a filler. It says the middle bit.
The filler, then that binds that middle bit, and the wrapper is the outside, which is a inflatable. Right. That is all done from a plant. There's no chemicals involved.
It's curing. Well, you don't actually draw down a cigar. There's nothing. You can see, there's nothing entirely in the world.
But you can. Oh no. It just works out with the lactobecos. Where are we now chopping borders?
We're going to be brave. We'll talk about theshirts. It's quite an art form. There's two types of cigars on the planet, there's Cubans and non-Cubans.
The Cubans run the roost because they've got this perfect microclimate that allows them to grow the leaf that has the best oils in it. When the oil ferments and softens, it is a magical quality. And if you ever go to Bielnadial Rio, which is where they grow the leaf, it's actually a magical hand. It looks like it's out of the Jurassic Park in the era.
And they hold it very high. The soil is amazing. It just has this micro-colle of soil and plant. And it's just magical.
And it's the company? Companies or it's a community? It is government only? Government only?
Everyone works for governments. My name is Christo Ramion-Juliet. They are separate brands or styles. They are separate brands.
The branding is simply for export recognition. It's all made of one factory. There's probably two or three factories that have their house and many brands within one factory. And what's the difference with a short-foot one and a big one?
It's all about cigars. Yeah. It's a serious thing. It's a big one.
I went back to the wedding cards. It's a great segue. Is it the way it's made? Is it a star?
Is it more smoke in the fat ones? They're called white eyes when you go burnout. So the star was called the Bielnad. They come in many shatters as Peter, you know.
We were in different shatters. Some of the Bielnad. So there's long smokes. There's tightly rolled smokes for the golf course.
There's all different variations. Of course there's different flavors as well. Hard, very potent flavour, soft mild, depends on how you age. People have a panache for antique types of gaz.
Because it really, really softens the cigar. Do they go off? If you keep a cigar in a humidor environment that is 70% humidity, it'll last forever. So those chews that they come in?
That's a marketing. That's a Cuban government. You need to call their other companies and send them chews to the whole big. People take this cigar as much as you do.
And you're talking about a Cuban cigar as well between 40 and $100. First stick, the taxes here are huge. Whereas that same cigar is between $5 and $15. And when you bring them in from Cuba, is it like the two packets when you go to duty free?
There are only two sticks allowed in Australia. Two sticks? It's actually a gram weight. It's equivalent to two sticks.
So you obviously apply to duty or how do you bring them in? That's going to be a little bit easier. We're going to go on the two on Friday. Correct, please.
I'm going to be a very good person. And Chris provides a group jacket with secret pockets. And you guys got a first. You guys got a first.
Don't move. Just tell them it's because I'm going to go. Do they do body body? The Cuban side.
Excuse me, I'm only coming on that. Well, she just got to give it. It's a bit like how it's done. I want to say what you're going to find.
Actually, Fidel Castro, who was a famous cigar swagger, told him later in his life he couldn't smoke anymore. He was scared during the missile crisis that someone was going to put an exploding device in his cigar. So it was the Coheba factory that did that. So he took five rollers, had a factory and created a new brand called the Trinidad.
That trend is the diplomatic cigar of Cuba. We did that as gifts. As Susie Moroni actually had a box of that. And I was actually trying to buy it off of it.
Yeah, they actually became good friends. They really hit it off. At the time when she did swim from Florida. Florida to Cuba.
Florida to Cuba. But it's Florida. Yeah, you've got to get out of it. It's like Cuba to do.
It's gone. I'm going to drop out of the rankings, aren't we? Don't forget to tick-fly stars. I can't be eye-chants.
Question about cigar. Yeah, sure. There's specific white people. We use one of these contraptions or do we have to use a map?
There is a procedure in large procedure. A procedure is this. You need to cut the big light of your surface. Absolutely not because it's got the chemical in it which colours the flavour of the cigar.
The big light of it does. Yes, right. These butane light is a much more cleaner and they don't cover the flavour of the cigar. You need to cut the ends of it because they wrap at the end so they won't unfurl the wrapper.
Right. So both ends? No, on end, only. You put your mouth over?
Yes, so first thing you do. I don't know if you have a cigar. You cut it and you put it in your mouth and you blow out of it. Just to get anything that's clogged up in there.
It's not cigar. It's not cigar. Cuba might be stuck in there. You don't even know if you have a cigar.
It's a Cuban market. And then you will prime a cigar with the light and create the start. But you're not like a cigarette right away. No, so you're actually doing your hand with it, you bring your mouth.
You put the front end of the cigar and get a start to it. And you put your mouth into the light and start drawing which gets it done faster. And then you'll get. It's just like a blowtorch.
It's like a little lighter. Correct. Well you can use matches as well. They're specific cigar matches and typically what they do is they do the traditionalists.
They have Spanish seeders. And they have a light Spanish seeders because that's got no flavouring at all. And they'll light the cigar with Spanish seeds. What about zipart?
Do you look all if you flick a zipart? You do but it's not good now. And because they're quite a lot of light you typically have these blowtorch type blighters to keep you going. And when you smoke it, it's not like a cigarette.
You don't draw it's a no-no. It's no-no. There'll be a series for percussion if you start drawing down cigars. Yeah, why is that?
It's raw tobacco. There is- It's raw tobacco. Well, it's raw tobacco. It's pure swag.
Unfiltered. Oh my God, look at the sky. It's not nice to get one on this. It's a tension next week.
I'd have to bring that to your parents if you want to come back on. That would be the horse. I don't have places to go. You don't have places to get one on this.
It's the next one. That would be the horse. I don't have places to go. I don't have places to go.
I don't have places to go. Speaking of horses anyone ever asked your horse and carriage back in the inside. No, no, no. That is a dead thing.
Chris is the king queen of England other than that. Chris is not 130 years old. Or am I sure? I don't like it at all.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But I have to scribe that mic. So that's just where it comes in.
But you can get me out of cancer if you spoke four or five a day. Freud actually died of now cancer. From south of France. Correct.
Well, it's not that. It's a lot of... I would do two or three day in Cuba. But they take it.
It's not a five minute thing. No, it's actually a very cultural thing. It's sitting in an old sofa, slow right down. It's like driving an old Mercedes.
You can't really accelerate hard, isn't it? It's a very relaxed. Your mind goes down the car. Sometimes it goes down the car.
It does. And you'll keep lying. You do. Like mine.
Yeah. And poor Ross and a little smokers in there. We are now. One of the things I've affected from secondhand, smoke, cigars.
Worse. In metal. Yeah. And just for those who are listening, we're typing outside of the click the cafe.
With the camera. So you're a car guy's walker. I mean you're a car guy's walker. I mean obviously if you're in a Cadillac's and winning cars in the light, you can have a patch of that car.
When did that start for you? Well I think it was the deficiency of growing up without a car. My parents in the cars, so long form. You are a hundred thirty years old.
You should get a horse. It's a mighty horse. So we ate it. It was poor times guys.
You had to do whatever you could do. We had no pets. We ran with you. Chris ran out of glue.
This was a sinus. This was a boss wagon. It was a type three station. It was a type three station.
It went called the Squareback. It was just amazing. I actually bought one recently. But as I invested in the car business I had to sell it.
What was that? It was a last year for the Squareback. Was that before? Was that before?
Was that a set store? Was that before? A set came after that. It was the wagon.
It was three flavours in the type three. Wagon, fastback. A Porsche type shape. And a notch back.
More of a car. When I was a kid my cousin had one of the wagons in the type three. It was in the ultimate surf vehicle too. It was in the ultimate surf vehicle too.
Come at the Frog. The wagon. I remember he was making the days when the DMR was known in the 70s used sandbags when I was making immediate strips. And he was made because the engine was at the back and he couldn't steer it.
He would go straight. They stopped one night with little kids like a mar. They got up the front. Yes.
Allegedly. That's a good thing. They put in three sandbags. I had bought in bricks.
I thought in bricks. I thought in bricks. The wheels just went through. So I was the boss.
I got in the Beatles a little bit after that. And then my first decent car was a BMW 323 I Bauer Cabriolet. A classic. I wish I could have that car.
I do have a BMW 2.2. I have a cabriolet. 49 right hand drives in the world. I actually had one of those.
Just parking back on the old days. I wanted to have one of those. And then my first sports car was a Porsche 944 S2 Cabriolet. No.