Let’s Talk Dubs

By Bill Tsagrinos

What's Let’s Talk Dubs about?

The ultimate VW air-cooled podcast. From history to drag racing, Vintage to rarest of the rare. We hit them all. if you love air-cooled classic Volkswagens then this podcast is for you.

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Let’s Talk Dubs episodes:

04.13.2024
Ep 263 Rick Mortensen Phoenix Bug or Rama Founder
Rick Mortensen has been a VW enthusiast for over 50 years. His love started in northern California in the late 60s. Building his first cow look car in the early 70s. He has a love for all things early style...
04.05.2024
Ep 262 Roundtable!Clubs, shows, Find Bill’s Bug.
Roundtable! On this podcast, Bill and George discuss YouTube channels, Instagram followers, upcoming events and much much more. Also, Bill finds his Vin number for his original 1963 ragtop beetle that he would like to buy back any help...
03.29.2024
Ep 261 Thump Thump's Jay Townsend
1990's UK VW Scene. Thump thump is a name synonymous with wild custom out of the park builds from the 90s. Jay Townsend's on this weeks podcast. His eye for style and creativity was exuded in the cars that were...
03.22.2024
Ep 260 Pat Downs Performance
Pat Downs Has been building perfromance motors for the last 35 years. He was the main engine builde rat CB Performance for 30 years. On this episode we discuss what was the reason he left his last emolyer. What life...
03.15.2024
Ep 259 Oldspeed's Russell Ludwig
Russel Ludwig is the owner operator of Oldspeed out of Paramount California. His shop has been in business since the late 80s. Starting as a source of income to get through college it turned into a business that filled a...
03.08.2024
EP 258 T2D Paul Medhurst
If you've read any issues of Volks World over the past 20 years I'm certain you know the name Paul Medhurst from his early days with the square back they gave him the nickname "Puppy". Setting off early in his...
03.01.2024
Ep 257 Alex Boughen UK Young Gun Home built Show winner
It doesn't always take tons of money to make a showstopper. Alex Boughen and his father are proof of this. Alex having a desire for an air cooled beetle picks up at 1975 1200. The seller says it needs just...
02.23.2024
Ep 256 Texas Vs the World Promoter Clint Cox
02.16.2024
Ep 255 Paul Morton VW Trends Contributing photographer & Editor for Auto sound & Security
The name Paul Morton should ring a bell. Paul is a contributing writer and photographer to the new Vw trends magazine. Paul was also editor of autosound security magazine as well as import racer magazine and co-editor of drifting magazine....
02.09.2024
Ep 254 Mark Akullian Hot VWs 2024 Cal-look Cover car
Is this the ultimate Cal-look tribute car. The California look with something that started in the late 60s early 70s in Southern California. For the past few decades, there have been lots of tribute cars and some have gone over...
01.26.2024
Ep 253 BBB 2024 Trip & some 80's game
Buses By The bridge 2024 is a wrap and we talk about the weekend. Bill drove ther & back in a day. George talks about how his bus did with the new IRS conversion. Bob Daniels from the Facebook page...
01.19.2024
EP 252 Boyz in tha Hood. William Noguera & Robert VW Kidd
On this episode we discuss the early days in La Puente California. Buggs Buddies founding member William Noguera comes on the podcast with Robert Vw Kidd and they discuss the late 70s early 80s VW seen in Southern California. With...
01.12.2024
EP 251 Mid-west VW guys & Sick Summer Drag & Drive with Chuck Fryer & Prescott Phillips
With recent podcast being about Drag & Drive events some of the original guys have been doing drag & Drive events in the Midwest have reached out to me. Prescott Phillips and Chuck Fryer respectively the beer Panzer and the...
01.05.2024
Ep 250 Eric Lussier one of the original EMPI Collectors
Ever wonder who's the guy on www.Thesamba.com with the super expensive original or NOS EMPI stuff. Wonder no more on today's podcast we've got Eric Lussier former VW collector, now owner of 2nd Avenue scooters in Phoenix Arizona. Eric is...
12.29.2023
Ep 249 Karmann Konnection Ritchie King (El Ritchie)
12.22.2023
Ep 248 VW on the Power Tour and more
Bill discusses his Power Tour experience. What you should do if you decide to do the power tour and the good and bad of it. George and Bill discuss a letter that we received critiquing the one crazy weekend. It...
12.15.2023
Ep 247 Jeff Lain with Kaddie Shack
More power on a budget? Kadron carburetors (The Brazillian Solex) have always been known for being the bottom level carburetor. Jeff Lane wirh Kaddie Shack will change your mind about that he's put down plenty of quarter mile passes that...
12.08.2023
Ep 246 Icon Pistons Trevor Cleveland
On this podcast we discussed piston technology and manufacturing. Trevor Cleveland with iKON brand pistons (manufactured by United Engine and Machine one of America's largest piston manufactures) Gives us the lowdown on pistons. We discussed the anatomy of a piston...
12.01.2023
Ep 245 2 Guys 1 race Death week
Driving your Volkswagen is the most fun. One of the greatest experiences I've ever had was driving my Volkswagen in competition against other cars. This weeks episode is about the only Volkswagen that was in 2023's sick the magazine death...
11.24.2023
Ep 244 Jeff Patterson Type 4 Revolution
Jeff Patterson is with Type 4 Revoulution. Hes your east coast type 4 guy. WIth a back ground in the military being trained in helicopeter manitinance. His love for working on VWs comes from a need to fix his own...
11.17.2023
EP 243 T3HQ Mario Steinhauser
Type 3's are a special VW, and the people committed to them area just as unique. Mario Steinhauser has had type 3HQ since 1991. An avid type three enthusiast he found a love for these cars at a young age....
11.10.2023
Ep 242 UK Drag Racing Legend john Brewster
Drag racing in the United Kingdom with Volkswagens started in the late 70s early 80s. A lot of guys from the day are still around and we were able to track down one of them for today's podcast. John Brewster...
11.03.2023
Ep 241 UK's Chris Godding 1973 Ghia
Chris Goddin is from Wales England the wet part of the country. Chris and his son Zach are podcast listeners we started talking & he showed me his car. His 1973 Karmann Ghia is spectacualr. The imprssive part of this...
10.27.2023
Ep 240 Rob O'Rourke's Amazing type 34
When you see a Type 34 Ghia they are a work of art. When this Italian designed car meets an interior to match, You get the Ghia we have here. Rob "Rourky" O'rourke is a man with an eye for...
10.20.2023
Ep 239 Game Changer 1952 Split window Randy Gates
There are cars that inspire other peoples cars to be built, with out the people that build those cars that wouldnt happen. Randy Gates is the man behind several cars that have infulenced the VW scene. First his 1957 23...
10.13.2023
Ep 238 One crazy Weekend Wrap up show
This episode is a round table about the One Crazy Weekend. The people on this podcast are Andy Finch UK (Spikes Restoration) Russell Ritchie Scottland (Gasser Garage) Johnny Osmondson US Worlds fasetest street bug, George Tsagrinos US (the Wagen). If...
10.06.2023
Ep 237 Air Mighty's Niels Timmerman
Niels Timmerman is the man behind Air Mighty Megascene. The ultiamte VW Magazine. This is a great story about how one guy's passion for photography turns into a website which eventually turns into taking a huge risk and starting a...
09.29.2023
Ep 236 Paul Irving of Irv's VW restoration
Paul Irving is a guy with passion you can sense just from talking to him about how much he loves Volkswagens. His commitment to do a high-quality restoration shows in the work they produce. Starting in his early days working...
09.22.2023
Ep 235 Round Table Pre Show & Bill Goes world wide Air-Might
It Showtime!! Bill & George talk about OCW (One Crazy Weekend) Show details. Also Bill tells the story of his trip to Hawaii for the VW Club of Hawaii's Shaka VW show. The trip to Maui on the saturday for...
09.15.2023
Ep 234 Hawaiian Builder Allan Yee Owner of "Tickled Pink"
Hawaiian Builder Allan Yee has been into Classic Air-Cooled VWs since the early days. In the late 80's he built a well known car. A car refered to by its name. Tickled pink. That car went through a absolute unbelivable...
09.09.2023
Ep 233 Lets talk Dubs goes to Hawaii
This week let's talk dubs heads out to Hawaii. The first interview that I have is with Jody Madeiros from the valley Isle Vee Dubz club. Jody gives us the insite as to what's going on in Maui wit some...
08.25.2023
Ep 232 Squeeg’s Kustoms Doug Jergers
Squeege's Kustoms is one of Arizona's peimere hot rod shop. They've built dozens of top notch hot rods over the years. Doug Jereger who took over for his Dad Squeege. some time ago started Just out of high School he...
08.18.2023
Ep 231 Electric VW Guy Jehu Garcia
Jehu Garcia is a DIYer like no other. With a passion for tinkering he started getting into trying to make his bus powered by electricity. Through the long process That you can follow on his YouTube channel he was successful...
08.11.2023
Ep 230 Dave Kindig an OG VW guy!
We've all seen the TV show Bitchin rides on MotorTrend TV. Dave Kindig from Kindig it designs out of Salt Lake City and his crew build some of the highest level custom cars on the market today. Dave Kindig started...
08.04.2023
Ep 229 Eric Meyer Designer VW enthusiasts and founder of Simple Shoes
Eric Meyer has been involved with Volkswagens for over 45 years. Starting with his first bus that he picked up when he was around 13 years old all through high school even into part-time jobs working on them. Loving the...
07.28.2023
Ep 228 What Happened to pookies dream the ultimate sqaure back
Pookie's dream was one of the coolest square backs in the 90s fully detailed. Gunmetal gray paint Nissan pulsar seats it toward the show circuit for several years always a top contender. Tony Moyer and his wife built this things...
07.21.2023
Ep 227 Sam Kutz NuVintage VW
Sam Kutz is the owner of new vintage VW repair shop. They're based just outside of Denver in Arvada Colorado. Sam has been wrenching on VW's for over 25 years. He's also been listening to podcasts for a couple years...
07.14.2023
Ep 226 Drag Racer John Shuerger
John Schuerger is a staple in the VW drag racing scene you can find him in any of the drag races on the West Coast. This episode we sit down with him at The Volks Group inaugural summer showdown one...
07.07.2023
Ep 225 Bill Goes racing with Johnny Osmondson Medford Showdown 1 Report
Bill, Brandon and Johnny head to Medford Oregon for The Volks Group summer showdown 1. This is the first event put on by The Volks group and man what an event this was. Of course it was what the Medford...
06.30.2023
Ep 224 Let's race! & Empi Product update
Oh week Bill heads to Medford Oregon with Johnny and the gray bug. Heading up there to go drag race. Will have full updates from the vox group with respect to the racing this weekend possibly some extra Contant over...
06.23.2023
Ep 223 Georg Otto Automotive journalist & DFL founding member
George auto is an automotive journalist publisher and author. He's also involved in the founding of the DFL Vw club in Germany. George's passion started one night at a party when he saw a rare vehicle that grabbed his interest...
06.16.2023
Ep 222 Lyndon Creamer
The Ultimate Home built Show stopper!! FUBAR if you don't know what that stands for Google it. But that's the story and the name behind Lyndon Creamers 1964 bug. He's owned this bug twice in the first time it was...
06.09.2023
Ep 221 Bill & George Talk Id Buzz & Octo weekend
ROUNDTABLE!!! We discuss the ID Buzz debut, OCTO weekend & the ISP west. Some of the cool cars we saw plus the barndoor gathering. Type 3's visiters from Belgium Future Shock. Whos going to Medford????? https://vwtrendsmagazine.com/ https://vegasvolks.podbean.com/
06.02.2023
Ep 220 Lind Bjornsen Schulwagen debut
Call Lind Bjornsen is our resident bus expert on this episode we start talking about Logoed buses as well as rare accessories. What makes different Loged buses more desirable than others. Also what accessory's add to the value or are...
05.26.2023
Ep 219 Life After Cal-look Greg Aronson
The name Greg Aronson is a familiar name in the VW world. Most people know his name for the famous Aronson/Holmes 63 Cal-Look car. Gregs story is so much more. From the humble beginings of buiding his model A as...
05.19.2023
Ep 218 DKP History, Auto Haus with John Lazenby
John Lazenby is one of those people that has been around the scene since the early 60s. His love and passion for Volkswagens still continues to this day. As one of the founding members of Der Kliner Panzers Volkswagen club,...
05.12.2023
Ep 217 The race shop's own Dave Andrews
The 1972 EMPI was sold to filter dynamics. Just before that happened Darrell Vittone started the race shop which was a separate entity from the VW dealership. One day some kid from the East Coast is peering through the window...
05.05.2023
Ep 216 Early type 3 details with Lee Hedges
The type three Variant & Sedan (Squareback & Notchback) was the car that was debuted at the 1961 Frankfurt auto show in order to develop a new upgrade level vehicle for people that wanted to upgrade from the Beetle. In...
04.28.2023
Ep 215 Cross Country Road trip with Bryce & Kathy
Bryce Allemann and Kathy Hicks are a road tripping power couple that first hit the road in 2017. The first journey across the United States northern half consisted of 8,754 miles. That article can be seen in August 2018 Hot...
04.21.2023
Ep 214 Round table
we discuss who would be the top builders non-Volkswagen that we would like to see build a VW platform vehicle. Bill takes a trip to Volksworld show 2023 we talk about some of those details. We also discussed some of...

What's Let’s Talk Dubs about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Let’s Talk Dubs episodes:

Ep 263 Rick Mortensen Phoenix Bug or Rama Founder

Ep 262 Roundtable!Clubs, shows, Find Bill’s Bug.

Ep 261 Thump Thump's Jay Townsend

Ep 260 Pat Downs Performance

Ep 259 Oldspeed's Russell Ludwig

EP 258 T2D Paul Medhurst

Ep 257 Alex Boughen UK Young Gun Home built Show winner

Ep 256 Texas Vs the World Promoter Clint Cox

Ep 255 Paul Morton VW Trends Contributing photographer & Editor for Auto sound & Security

Ep 254 Mark Akullian Hot VWs 2024 Cal-look Cover car

Ep 253 BBB 2024 Trip & some 80's game

EP 252 Boyz in tha Hood. William Noguera & Robert VW Kidd

EP 251 Mid-west VW guys & Sick Summer Drag & Drive with Chuck Fryer & Prescott Phillips

Ep 250 Eric Lussier one of the original EMPI Collectors

Ep 249 Karmann Konnection Ritchie King (El Ritchie)

Ep 248 VW on the Power Tour and more

Ep 247 Jeff Lain with Kaddie Shack

Ep 246 Icon Pistons Trevor Cleveland

Ep 245 2 Guys 1 race Death week

Ep 244 Jeff Patterson Type 4 Revolution

EP 243 T3HQ Mario Steinhauser

Ep 242 UK Drag Racing Legend john Brewster

Ep 241 UK's Chris Godding 1973 Ghia

Ep 240 Rob O'Rourke's Amazing type 34

Ep 239 Game Changer 1952 Split window Randy Gates

Ep 238 One crazy Weekend Wrap up show

Ep 237 Air Mighty's Niels Timmerman

Ep 236 Paul Irving of Irv's VW restoration

Ep 235 Round Table Pre Show & Bill Goes world wide Air-Might

Ep 234 Hawaiian Builder Allan Yee Owner of "Tickled Pink"

Ep 233 Lets talk Dubs goes to Hawaii

Ep 232 Squeeg’s Kustoms Doug Jergers

Ep 231 Electric VW Guy Jehu Garcia

Ep 230 Dave Kindig an OG VW guy!

Ep 229 Eric Meyer Designer VW enthusiasts and founder of Simple Shoes

Ep 228 What Happened to pookies dream the ultimate sqaure back

Ep 227 Sam Kutz NuVintage VW

Ep 226 Drag Racer John Shuerger

Ep 225 Bill Goes racing with Johnny Osmondson Medford Showdown 1 Report

Ep 224 Let's race! & Empi Product update

Ep 223 Georg Otto Automotive journalist & DFL founding member

Ep 222 Lyndon Creamer

Ep 221 Bill & George Talk Id Buzz & Octo weekend

Ep 220 Lind Bjornsen Schulwagen debut

Ep 219 Life After Cal-look Greg Aronson

Ep 218 DKP History, Auto Haus with John Lazenby

Ep 217 The race shop's own Dave Andrews

Ep 216 Early type 3 details with Lee Hedges

Ep 215 Cross Country Road trip with Bryce & Kathy

Ep 214 Round table