Fabricated stories to hide your trust fund is wild.

Totally want to see video of the car!

Sometimes when I’m home alone I like to coat myself in glue and Magic 30th anniversary black lotus proxies and slide around on the kitchen floor pretending I’m Rudy from Alpha Investments

RUDY CAR RUDY CAR!!! Also toools. Yes yes yes feed the trolls om nom.

As a former Diesel Technician myself i would love a high school car and tools video. I think more people would relate to that content than you think.

As a "technician" this is spot on. Warranty pay with flat rate is one of the biggest scams on earth in USA

Yes, let's see the car and tools!

This was honestly one of my favorite videos. Pretty awesome of you to share some seriously personal shit. Real life.

Fuck the Alpha Icy Manipulators. Show us the whip.

My Brother is a Mechanic and he is kind enough to let me keep booster boxes in his gun safes. God Bless Rudy and America!!🎉

I am a technician in Canada and its handled so much different for new techs. For a new tech to become a "automotive technician" You have to go through apprenticeship. That means you have to work at some shop/dealer for 7200 hours and 4 levels of schooling to EVEN get a chance to be a real tech! Schooling is "free" and your getting paid at your work AND when you go to school during this whole process. Now once you have done all this, you know of all the BS and junk you will happen to you IF you choose to be a tech. In Canada its called getting your "Red Seal" making you a full blown automotive technician. Now that being said, if your a smart cookie you stayed at a dealer and learnt the product well so you can make money on piece work. Thats exactly what i did. I have played the Automotive Technician game too long. I have trained soo many apprentices i have lost count. Am i mythic god tier status...yes. BUT! I am just waiting for some one to please....PLEASE Doom Blade my Platinum Angel. I would like the game to end while im on top but if no one will do the job, ill Doom Blade myself and end the game.

Let's see Rudy's highschool car!!!! Let's go!!!!!

Rudy I subscribe for your personality, stories & perspective. I encourage you to make more of these

Of all people to be spewing technician gospel , Rudy ? Wow ,as a tech myself, new level of respect unlocked !

Rudy. As a magic/car guy I’d love to see your car and tool collection. I drive a 1991 Honda civic. Yours can’t be that embarrassing. Love the channel.

It's called Record of Agarest War-The Really Naughty Version limited edition. You knew what that was Rudy.

#RudysTools #RudysCar As a car guy, who still wastes his time on the DSM Projects, I need these Videos from you lol.

What a story. Please do more of these Rudy! Gives me hope.

as a mechanic of the last 7-8 years and someone who has been playing magic the gathering since they were 9, I would love to see rudys tools and cars!!

Rudy! Appreciate the Harbor Freight shoutout! Been a long time listener and worked at Harbor Freight for 13 years! You just provided me the hobby and work crossover I didn’t know I needed! ❤

One of my favorite KZfaq videos is an logger/contractor in the pacific northwest going through all his different tools in his workshop. You should do something similar.

I just came off an anxiety shitstorm myself. This was a fun video. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for sharing! Anxiety is no joke.

Many go through similar times without the confidence to tell - thanks for sharing!

So glad for videos like these Rudy you are a special person in the KZfaq mtg space and I appreciate you more than you know

Thanks for sharing Rudy

Ive watched nearly every video since 2018 but this was my favorite. Thank you for sharing Rudy.

Thanks for sharing. We are all humans at the end of the day, trying to live our lives the best we can. I really enjoyed this as much as MTG

This was a great video. It’s very nice to get insight in what helped form who your are now.

Thanks for talking to us from a new perspective.

I can relate heavily to the closing part of the video myself a couple of years ago. Thanks for sharing Rudy

As someone that currently works on the service side of a Chrysler dealership, this video made me smile. Would love to see your tool collection.

Thanks for sharing Rudy. Your Awesome!

Really need to see the car and tool collection now. I'm imagining an Acura NSX but it's probably actually a Civic SI.

as being someone who is an automotive technician, I'd be happy to see your old car and tools, but I have never been broke as a mechanic, but I have all the ASE certs. Also, that's the bad part of working at a dealership, you tend to make a lot less money versus someone who works for like midas and places of that such.

Really enjoying this series Rudy, can't wait for the next one.

Been waiting on this episode!

Love it when you share about your past. I actually had the same tale, barely scraped high school because of motivation. Got into cars, mainly because I read initial D, but the first 3 F&F movies really made it for me too. Every F&F movie after that was complete trash. I got my technician grade as well and got into that life deep, leaving cards behind for a while but then realized I only enjoyed driving my car or working on my own car and not fixing other’s people cars. Very similar stories.

My guess is an Eclipse! (But agreed, the first 3-4 F&F movies shaped our love for tuner cars! Now I drive a Silverado lol

What a long shot though that shelf today. Now you got us appetizers for tools and that fancy car back from Rudy the car guy!

That dread feeling is real. I had a cooperate America cubical job and it started affecting physically. I had to get out. I worked the job I hated and started my own business and worked that. That was enough motivation to do this for over a year. I quit the job and now full time at my own business. Never been happier even tho I don’t make as much money. The cooperate money isn’t worth it.

I would like to see tools and car please Rudy!!!! Thanks for sharing a story man , Ive had a similar feeling in 2019 , left my job after almost 11years and started to work in agriculture, planting trees ( mostly in UK and Scotland ) . Greetings from Iceland folks !

I totally understand. I went to Motorcycle Mechanics Institute in like 2008. STRUGGLED my skinny white a$$ off for a decade, then switched careers. Being a mechanic isn't worth it in most scenarios...Unless you're just doing it on the side, Run your own gig, or fall into a specialty field.

My favorite content on this channel.

What astounds me is dealership and diagnostic fee heavy shops gets repeat business. I think if you went down a different path and opened up your own shop, it would have been a solid business. Thank you for sharing. Money and hopelessness anxiety is a common thing. Amazing that people with trust funds can’t just keep it together with that leg up in life.

I know I’m late, but this is a cool vid. I’d love to hear a continuation, how you got to the point of starting a business around mtg

As a car enthusiast and card collector, I appreciated this video. 💜

I feel that anxiety, I had that after some major life events and could not function during those times. Would love to see the tool collection and car!!

I've been watching since 2016. Love Rudy, but never knew he had a thing for cars back in the day. I'd love to see the car

There is some interesting automotive interest overlap. I bet you might be surprised how many people would like to see your car and tools. I would for sure.

Show the ride! I know exactly what kind of guy you were in that era. Kids today don't even own cars anymore but they idolize the 90s-00s era

I feel you Rudy i know the dread from a bad job,it is important to share these video it is good for you and us,thank you, i hope for more if you want

Crazy how I had the same exact experience when I was fresh out of high school and being an auto tech. Experience burned me so hard that I honestly don't like cars anymore.

I’m approaching 40 & I spent most of my life working retail for the same grocery company making peanuts it seems. I moved back home when I was 30-31 and I don’t know where those years went. Sometimes I feel like giving up. I have a record now and physical/mental health issues. Good to hear a success story Rudy ❤

Looking forward to hearing the next days couple years after

Would love to see the car +tools. Loved the video

Let’s see the Rudy-mobile!!!!

rudy im going through that now. Ive only lasted 1 month at a VW dealer here. I was doing 3 or 4 PODS seat recalls a day for a week. Took 3 to 4 hours to do, warranty paid 1hour. Also get this i had to do a multipoint inspection, record a video to send to customer, wait on parts to give me said part and had to return old part and get paper stamped. Had to go find this car in the parking lot and test drive it. Also make sure i logged the recall in the website and actually do the recall itself.

Rudy lookin like he was born with that Strong Jaw ability.

Dude im so ready to see RUDYS EVO 7!

So he’s describing warranty pay versus customer pay. It varies by manufacturer but some pay well, some pay terrible. Typically, domestic brands demolish times for the techs. It’s a very effed up system because the dealership doesn’t have any recourse to fight the OEM. A good warranty administrator helps Though. So when you bring your brand new car in with a thousand miles on it and a laundry list of bullcrap complaints that scream “my payment is too high and I’m trying to get it bought back”… remember, you’re hurting a real hard working tech. Love ya Rudy. Good for you getting out. Still plotting my way out… but I worked all the way up to an executive level in a dealer group so… really not terrible. But I still want financial freedom. I don’t want to report to anyone. Great work man.

Rudy show us the goods! We need to see the car and the tools! The thumbnail is awesome btw

We’ve all been there brother. But you have something many do not. Fortitude. Drive. You’re the man. Don’t sweat it. Look at you now!

My first deck was the Barrage Planescape deck. Invasion through Fifth Dawn was totally my jam! LOVED those sets, even though most of them were terrible Played a lot around Ravnica and Time Spiral, too

Would totally love seeing Rudy as a card mechanic There is no typo there, that's how I heard it first time

Was a tech for a family owned auto shop for about 2 years. No ase certs but I did have state certifications for brakes,front ends etc… I can totally relate to getting paid so little but you have to put a lot into it. Especially with having cars as a passion is terrible, (my first car I got when I was 13 was a 1985 foxbody mustang😎) absolutely killed my love for the game and now I do construction and still have my foxbody😂👍

Bruhhh, that Record of Agarest War collector's edition is wild XD. It comes with an Oppai mouse pad.

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL VIDEO!

Man I love these stories about how you got to where you are.

Really cool to hear your stories. SHOW US THE WHIP

Yes please do the tool tour

Rudy you are an inspiration

Show us the car!! Enjoy going back to the future with Rudy. Stories of how you got to where you are is the best content

Is there going to be a part 2? I want to hear how you climbed out of this hole of anxiety and despair

I'd love to see the car. I love all kinds of cars, no matter how wild or much of a sleeper it is. 9 second volvo station wagons are my favorite.

Shout out to being open to talk about mental health. Sometimes the world gets you down and you have to make a change, scary as it may be. Good for you. Also, show us the car!

My old man is a diesel tech. He raked in money from 80-2010s. Only issue was working Mon-Sat 12 hour days. And the broken body.

Damn. Rudy probably used that immaculate jawline to slice through car parts

Yes! Would love to Rudy’s tools

I love Legions. It was around the time I started playing. I wish I had some sealed of it now.

I want him to do a flash back episode to his generator, and show him feeding the foils he pocketed in mass box openings to it for fuel.

I worked for a big car parts store chain for 10 years, and got my ASE Certification as a Parts Specialist lol. It's about to save me $900 in charges from a mechanic on my current vehicle that's just hit 100k miles, just because I know what I'm doing. I had an '88 Accord I wanted to get running, but the 100 miles of vacuum tubing all dry rotting under the hood was too much for me to handle. Now I sell cards

thanks for sharing

Thumbnail pic is incredible

I'd love to see the tool collection AND the car!

Id love to see the highschool car. I had a 2009 Chevy Cobalt that i would take to autocross. It was a good handling car for what it was.

Heck yeah I wanna see the alphamobile!

You better show us the whip, Rude Diesel!!!

Along the wide spectrum of technician jobs that exist out there, that is a place you do not want to be in. I'm a maintenance technician at an industrial manufacturing facility and working in automation is not so bad. Decent pay, don't have to buy my own tools (company provided), shift work has its ups and downs, but it provides a stable living. While i'm not exactly jumping for joy about my situation, I'm still thankful for what I have because it could be a lot worse. The video might not get tons of views, but i'd be interested in the tool collection and car video. Remember folks, just cause you are struggling and on the grind right now doesn't mean you can't become massively successful like Rudy if the opportunity presents itself to you and you have the vision and drive to make things happen.

I'm always shocked to hear the stories about automotive techs in the US. I'm a BMW Tech myself here in Germany for almost 20 years now. I started my apprenticeship back in 2001 but in Germany the dealer pays for school and you also get a fixed payment. Also the tools are owned by the shop and you use their stuff. Payment is normally fixed per hour and some dealers pay bonuses if you are faster then the times given by the manufacturer. Definitely would love to see your car :)

Though you may be unaware, the days of pneumatic tools are long past. Everything is cordless and electric now

Yep, I was a "technician" for the first 3 years of my job career.. Good ole Midas.

Good lessons in this video. You definitely gotta show off your car bro or at least the tool collection.

Off topic but- sometimes the light hits Rudy's thinning hair just right, and you can actually enjoy the pleasure of seeing just how big and round his head really is. Can't help but wonder when you'll finally let that beautiful bastard shine & be free Rudy! I'll be looking forward to that day!

I need to see #Rudy’sTools

From a mechanic from the same era, I’d love to see your tools and your first car.

Listen I remember you talking about your b18. Can't hide anything from me honda boy!

More stories like this please!! Also show us the civic

Hell ya, show us your Snap-on setup!

Ruby! We wanna see your tricked out Honda Civic!