January 26, 2011
This week, OCC was hired to make a bike for Headrush, a Mixed Martial Arts company. They came in with some of their fighters and fan favorite Jason Pohl sparred with him. (I call him a fan favorite because, to judge from the feedback I get, he is the fan’s favorite choice to get pushed off a cliff.) Most of us watching at home were hoping for the fighter to snap and take Jason’s head off but unfortunately he kept his cool and Jason survived.
As far as the bike goes, Jason designed it and no one questioned him. Why he has total design control is beyond me, especially as this bike has three razor-sharp blades running along its gas tank. As Rick pointed out when he got on the bike, the handlebars are so low that you have to lean dangerously close to the blades just to ride it, and making any turn brings the blades within just a few inches of the driver’s chest. Rick pointed out that a bump could kill a man. But Senior thinks it looks cool (like he thinks the 1980’s cliché skull headlight looks cool too) so he lets Jason design bikes that are unsafe to ride.
On Paulie’s side, he continued work on the Faro Technologies bike. The guys assembling the bike were impressed with the paint job and all agreed that it was the bike’s best feature. We should point out that the paint job was entirely done by Nub and neither Paulie nor Paul Junior Designs had anything to do with it.
The big deal hyped by Discovery this week was the return of Lee, someone most people don’t even remember. Lee used to work for OCC and then briefly for PJD. He worked for a day or two and left, supposedly without any warning. Lee claimed on his Facebook page that he left after a fight with Paulie in which Paulie said he owned Lee. He also went on to say that the working conditions at PJD are a joke and no one knows what they are doing.
It is important to note that while Vinnie and Mikey were discussing the accusations, Mikey was juggling and Vinnie was riding a unicycle. (I am not making that up.) Call me crazy but perhaps the accusations of unprofessional conduct were not unfounded.
Lee then went to see Paul Sr. and called him a father figure. So his own sons don’t see him as a father figure but Lee and Jason Pohl do. Mull that over and ask yourself what is wrong with those guys.
Since he had nothing but bad things to say about Paulie, Senior was happy to sit down with Lee in his office and badmouth his sons, as well as talk about what a great guy Lee is. What makes Lee a great guy? He was willing to work for free. Senior got him to help fix his fence while they talked about business (and badmouthed Paulie some more.) A modern-day Tom Sawyer, that Paul Senior.
How does Lee compare Senior and Junior? “If you (Senior) saw a bike broken down on the side of the road you’d stop and know how to fix it. If Paulie saw a bike broken down he’d have no idea how to fix it.”
The other big deal of the episode was another lawsuit against Paulie by OCC. This time Senior seems to have a point. It all hinges on how Faro became a PJD customer. His lawyers seem to think that one of Paulie’s employees, Joe, who was formerly OCC management, violated the no-compete and intellectual property clauses in his OCC contract and got Pauline the Faro job. Frankly, I think they may be right. On the other hand, I’m not sure they are actually such a crack legal team since they got the name of Paulie’s company wrong in the lawsuit (“Paul Junior Choppers.”)
Paul Senior's fearsome legal team.
The commercial for next week’s show seem to indicate that OCC can’t make some payments and may in be financial danger. Don’t believe it for a second. Just like the arbitrator found OCC’s value to be zero, the OCC money is moved around and hidden in various other fronts. Like I said before, Paul Senior seems to be working very hard for a guy whose company has no value.
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