VIP Lounge

You know you are having a good time when time flies. Such a cliche saying, I know. For Episode 34, we brought in our good friend Nax from Fortune Minds / Liberty VIP. This man is the truth. He says it exactly how it is and holds his loyalty close. I’ve always said, I wanted […]

It’s official SEMA week! Then its off to VIP Festival in San Diego hosted by our friends at Autofashion USA. It’s crazy since this is probably the first time in at least 4 years that I have been home for Halloween. Just didn’t work out for me to get to SEMA this year. So much […]

It’s Tuesday and I got a bit behind on getting the podcast uploaded today. Crazy to think that its the week before SEMA already. It came way too fast to be completely honest. Usually, once we get to October we start to feel that SEMA crunch that seems to find us right before the event. […]

Episode 31 is upon us. This week we missed having Rene and Dennis since they were traveling.  James just got back from Georgia as well. These guys are always traveling, I can’t believe we still figure out a way to get together every week to record this podcast. These guys are all super busy plus […]

We made it to Episode 30. I’m still a bit geeked out on the fact that the Star Wars Last Jedi tickets finally went on sale and the trailer finally dropped. I was sort of scheduling my day around the fact that the trailer was scheduled to drop during halftime of Monday Night Football last […]

Finally got to finish the edit of the podcast. Can’t believe we are sitting on Episode 29. We may have missed a few days but we never missed a week to record the podcast. I know it’s not some crazy milestone but it’s something that I am extremely proud of now. We have become some […]

I honestly was a bit sentimental this morning as I prepared the podcast for uploading. Honestly, James and I first started talking about doing a podcast years ago. I was really reluctant to do one. In the end, I feel I was just giving myself excuses not to do it. We’ve now hit 28 weeks […]

Good morning! Back on track with the podcast and had to bring on one of the OG VIP guys out there. I was thrilled when Max DeMasters from Liberty VIP accepted the idea of being a guest on our podcast. Running with a non-traditional platform as well. It’s great to hear his story and his […]

You gotta hear this one. It was one for the ages. We brought on a special guest that I knew would bring some topics forward that we may never discuss. While it’s not really in the VIP car realm, it’s something that I always believed in. We brought in a good friend from the Domestic […]

Episode 25 is here. We appreciate that we are even here at episode 25 doing something that we didn’t know we would enjoy. I think it gives us a chance to catch up to people and also get a chance to showcase some of these folks in our community. We asked Sharad Khan from SK […]

With episode 24, we decided to move our podcast over to a chat / voice software named Discord. Discord is popular as “team speak” for gamers and after using it to coordinate some gaming opportunities, I thought that this might work for us. What I wanted to accomplish was to allow people to listen to […]

Made it to episode 23. I apologize for the podcast being late a few days. With all the traveling we had planned plus I literally wanted to take a short nap before our scheduled recording and that backfired. When you decide, I’ll take just a quick 30 min nap… 5 hours later… pic.twitter.com/A7s7rMG4cF — John […]

Episode 22. Usually podcasts before and on the weekend of an event where we have to travel out of state from is tough. So much going on with prep and the actual event itself that I tend to either get really distracted or I just feel anxious. However, it does bring a different energy to […]

I got really behind on getting this podcast out to you guys. My apologies. We recently released a new shirt so a lot of my attention has been focused to that over the past week and this morning I jumped into working on the shirts that I forgot to finish this podcast! Still working out […]

I say this everytime, but I can’t believe that we hit episode (insert number here). We started recording the podcast because of the gems I would hear when I would just have a conversation with close friends. I always wanted to save it forever so we talked about the podcast and it took us a […]

The most awkward podcast we have ever recorded but that is not a bad thing. Usually when we record the podcast, the four of us are sitting in our respective offices / rooms in different parts of the country. I’m usually staring at my computer screen to make sure that everything is recording properly. This […]

Today we decided to go off the beaten path for us and discuss photography. I’ve been really into it in the past but it dropped off a bit. I even decided to change environments from Canon to Sony to change things up. I’m fortunate to be around some amazing photographers from time to time like […]

Just recently got back from Wekfest Seattle and I couldn’t believe just how tired I was. It honestly shows on this podcast with my voice plus some glaring mistakes I decided not to edit out. I had a great time in Seattle though. Everyone was extremely gracious to us. I actually got some photo coverage […]

Episode 16 was one for the memory banks. Today we brought on a very special guest, Agim Jones from Luxury Abstract. We were excited to bring him on and I decided to give the podcast to you in its rawest form. I just added the music and let it go. Didn’t edit out any background […]

Crazy how I had no voice just a few hours before we were slated to record this week’s episode. Just kinda kept it low key with some tea until it was time to record. This week’s episode we just went over the weekend we had at Wekfest San Jose. Big thank you to everyone who […]

Episode 14 is now live. We invited our good friend Thomas Pinai to join us on this week’s podcast. Thomas hit us up with a topic in regards to addressing what we look for when we judge cars at a car show. Instead of answering the question for Thomas, we invited him on to discuss […]

Unlucky number 13! We waited until the NBA Finals were over to record so I personally was siting on a high that I got when watching the Finals with my boys. Chris however, as one of the few true Lebron fans I know, was feeling the loss. Sorry bud! I love the Bay Area and […]

So we hit the 12 week mark for the podcast. Been such an amazing journey. Our guest this week is Sam Hagen from Central Pine USA / T-Demand USA. He is currently in transition and moving to a new location for his shop so I appreciate that he took some time out of his busy […]

Here is Episode 11. We welcome back Mr. Worldwide James Church back after his galavanting in Europe. Sitting now on Episode 11, we are almost at our 12 week mark. It’s been such a journey already at such an infant stage. We appreciate everyone’s feedback and questions we get on a daily basis. I can’t […]

Here is Episode 10 of our VIP Lounge Podcast. I would be lying to you if I said I wasn’t feeling a bit of stress this past week.  Being in full swing on the Wekfest tour plus trying to startup a new venture, my mind can be a bit erratic. Thankfully there is this Podcast […]

Usually I just listen to a podcast just once after I finalize it and then post it up. This episode I actually found myself listening to this a couple times before I realized I needed to get it posted. My bad! This week we had the honor of having Joey Lee from The Chronicles as […]

Still missing Mr. Worldwide James Church so we want to thank Rene Garcia for stepping in. This week we answer a question from our good friend Jason Cantorna and we briefly go over my origin with VIP Cars / VIP Style Cars. Next week we will begin to bring on guests again. Thank you again […]

Sorry for the delay in getting this out to you. James and I decided to have conflicting traveling schedules so we weren’t able to link up to complete episode 7 in time. Thankfully, Rene Garcia stepped in while James is getting hitched and on his honeymoon. We go over a question that was presented to […]

Here is episode 6 of the VIP Lounge podcast. I can’t stress how enjoyable it has been doing this podcast. This week we didn’t have any special guests and we pretty much took a huge part of the episode on a post that James did on Facebook For some context, here is that post… I […]

I can’t say this enough whenever I post each episode but this podcast was extremely fun to record. I decided to leave it as raw as possible, left in everything that I can. We invited our good friend Rene Garcia to join James, Chris, and I this week. We go over what got Rene started with […]

This week our podcast will be based on Mr. VIPDOUT himself, James Church. We thought it would be good to get to know one of our regulars on our podcast. We get to hear from him in regards to what got him started in the VIP Car / VIP Style genre. We also ask him, […]

This is only our third podcast but we haven’t had this much enjoyment on a project in a long time. This week we asked 2 of our good friends to join myself, James, and Chris. I wanted to go over the general health of the US VIP Car / VIP Style scene. I invited both […]

Episode 2 is here! We decided to drop it a few days early. Next week we will go back to Tuesday drops. This week we have our first special guest, Ernesto “Junior” Sarmiento from Wekfest. We go over a few things; Wekfest’s origins, Upcoming Tour stops, Junior’s health and new blessings, Lexus Live RC F […]

Finally got James Church from VIPDOUT, Chris Abstein from Suspension Spot, and myself together to record our podcast. Simply named VIP Lounge, we plan on touching subjects within the VIP community as well as many others outside. We don’t plan on being VIP Car centric at all. Please check out our podcast and subscribe on […]