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#205 - Mike & Zach of Fat Cats · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  I go on a dating app or something, these girls that are
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  3334 and they're like first time homeowner.
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  I love to travel the world and I'm like, I have this car that
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  doesn't look very good right now, but I had a ton of fun over
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  the past 10 years. And they're like, what is that?
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  They're like, I don't care those people like your.
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  Friends at those parties that have great jobs, this and that
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  family stuff, they have different stresses.
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  That is like, what am I doing in my life?
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  I'm bored. They probably think about that.
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  They're probably, sometimes they're probably like, like, is
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  this what I wanted to do? Like everything.
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  Like while they're holding the kid, yeah.
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  I feel like, I feel like that's when like like people start
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  cheating and start getting. Some devious whoa you.
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  Know like that 'cause they're bored, like what the do they do?
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  Yeah, I've always hey, it's real bro.
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  Like proceed. If they're role models on
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  anything, it's it's I look at them and I think, damn old and
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  why am I doing? And then I look at proceed and
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  I'm like, wow, they're really old.
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  Crazy howdy, partner. Welcome back to another episode
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  of the After Hours podcast. This is episode #5 of our Texas
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  series. This is the final episode as
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  well. So don't worry.
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  I'm not going to tell you to go to our Patreon and subscribe,
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  but you should check it out anyway.
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  All right. That being said, this episode
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  was with Mike and Zach of Fat Cats, Teen Fat Cats of Houston,
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  TX. This was probably one of the
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  funnest episodes we've had just because we basically had a live
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  audience towards the end of this thing and it was like we had our
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  own laugh tracks as well. Pretty awesome.
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  Pretty awesome experience, but this was recorded at Mike's
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  shop. EMG.
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  I wish I could tell you the exact location but I really
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  don't know. I it's almost, I feel like it's
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  in the heart of Houston though. We were really close to the only
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  massive buildings in the area so had to be close, but they work
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  on mostly BMWs there. I'm sure they could work on
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  anything German. Pretty much the opposite of what
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  we do at our shop and he's got an awesome facility there.
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  We this is not only one of the funnest podcast, but probably
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  the most comfortable because we were actually sitting on couches
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  for once. So thank you to Mike for letting
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  us use his facility. And Mike is also one of the
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  originators of Fat Cats, so it was great to sit down with him.
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  And Zach. Zach, you might have seen Zach
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  on Instagram. He's got the SC300 or sorer with
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  the, the green one with the, I don't know what you call Eddie.
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  What are you calling that low rider stuff?
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  The stuff in the trunk. He's got the neon lights in the
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  trunk and everything. We do talk about it here, but I
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  can't remember what it's called the style.
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  But yeah, awesome car, 2 awesome guys.
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  They were at one of the early final bouts with us.
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  I don't think we met them during that event, but we we talk about
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  some funny times from that final bout trip.
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  And yeah, just just a good a good time with these guys.
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  It's, it's interesting the podcast where there's two people
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  are sometimes more fun because they're bouncing stories off of
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  each other versus me and Carl just interviewing one person.
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  So it was definitely interesting to see the stories and, and all
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  that. We also cover Zack's dating
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  life. We cover his spending habits.
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  We cover his story about the hurricane during a final bout
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  when they were trying to go up to final bout.
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  There was a hurricane apparently.
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  And I'm pretty sure the entire lower level of where he lived
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  was completely underwater and he had to basically swim to escape.
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  So definitely some cool stories on this one.
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  I hope you guys enjoy. We definitely have to make
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  another trip out to Texas. I don't know when, but Houston
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  seems to be the spot to be if you're into drifting.
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  Oh yeah, they do Fat fatcats.co it looks like looking at it
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  right now. Yeah.
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  After Hours podcast. We're to bring you another
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  episode, another one of the Texas series.
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  We literally finished recording Collins podcast before.
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  If you missed that one, tune back into that one.
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  But now we are at EMG European Motor Group and this is Fat Cat
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  Mike's shop. If you guys don't know Fat Cat
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  Mike, he started Fat Help, was one of the ones who started Fat
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  Cats, if not was the one that started Fat Cats.
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  And we also have Zach Triggs who is another member of Fat Cats.
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  So thank you for joining us. Yeah, man.
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  Are you 2 the originators or did I fuck that up?
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  Did you both? He would be the originator.
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  Yeah, 'cause I knew the cars literally as fat cats.
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  Yeah, like low fat cats. Yes, A.
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  Little loud and wide as dude. Yeah.
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  Oh yeah, everybody. Grew up though so all their cars
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  are kind of high now. How long ago has it been?
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  Because it's been a pretty long standing group.
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  Fat cats. 2009. Nine, yeah.
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  Is official. Yeah.
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  OK, so Colin was like 7. Yeah, literally.
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  Colin was a twinkle in his dad's eye.
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  Yeah. Barely like how?
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  How old are we all here? Don't feel weird.
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  No, no, no. Don't.
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  Don't. Don't feel weird, Mike.
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  Don't. Feel weird you?
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  Can see, You can see how old I am right here.
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  Like coming in bro, that's coming.
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  In that could be 29. No, it's fucking not.
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  I'm 35. I'm 35.
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  Yeah. You're you're 3435.
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  I'm 35. OK.
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  I'm 33. Oh yeah, 30.
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  I'm about to be 30. We're all.
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  On this is safe. Zone we're on.
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  Yeah, yeah, Eddie, we're just. Stay over there.
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  Yeah, yeah, Eddie. Eddie's like 28930.
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  You're 30. You're 30.
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  OK, whatever. Eddie, he's in the group.
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  Caught him. But no, it's there's kind of a
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  weird thing there. Where you doing you you guys
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  have been doing this for a long time.
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  Too fucking long. Does it feel like that or are
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  you still enjoying yourselves? I know that sounds so cliche,
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  but. I think.
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  We had fun. Yeah, I think we enjoy it when
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  we're at the track. I think everybody's tired of the
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  everything between the track. Like barking on it.
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  Dealing with our bullshit, working on the cars fucking.
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  We've been around cars long enough at this point where like
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  the bullshit that comes from not knowing how to work on your cars
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  isn't really part of it anymore. So for the most part everybody's
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  cars are pretty sorted, so it's a show of drive.
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  It's it's like hard because of what?
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  So how many members are in fat cats total?
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  Is there a lot? There's a lot.
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  That's a loaded question. Yeah.
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  So if you're talking about drivers 5 or 6, yeah, you're
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  talking about just like the group, like 20 something people.
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  That sounds like a fuck. It's kind of.
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  Mirror. But actually.
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  I'm going to make one statement. So the first time we ever kind
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  of interacted with Front St. was found about 3 at the Chief Keef
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  House. This keeps getting broad.
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  We. Gotta keep.
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  But that was wild. And I remember it was just me
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  and him that went that year. And because we didn't really
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  know anybody yet and we pulled up and y'all were like 20
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  fucking deep. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And it was like, damn, that's how we used to roll up to house
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  parties here. OK, but y'all did it to final
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  bout. So we were like, damn, that's
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  that's pretty fucking cool. Yeah, we kept hearing it that
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  weekend. They're like do the faction in
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  Front St. guys, they come here, they're all dressed in black.
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  There's like 30 of them or like one guys.
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  Yeah, it was, it was, it was cool.
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  I really appreciate that. That was that Mark.
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  Probably 1 of like my core drifting memories.
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  Like even though it wasn't drifting, it was just.
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  That was. That was a cool night.
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  It was almost like a go too. So y'all, we're all good, but we
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  were dealing with a hurricane, so yeah.
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  Yeah, we, yeah. Just casually a natural disaster
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  that we got to walk through to get to fucking this drooped
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  event. Yeah.
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  That story on its own, that's pretty good too.
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  It's. It's pretty fucked.
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  Like to go to final bout 3? Yeah, So final bout 3, like me
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  and him, we're just kind of getting into the whole, you
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  know, group, like knowing everybody.
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  But we knew Jimmy from living here, obviously.
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  And Jimmy knows, knows everybody.
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  So yeah, Hurricane Harvey, which is one of the worst floods we've
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  had in a long time. That happens.
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  I think your living quarters wasn't super bad, right?
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  No, I was. I was kind of just like I was
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  stuck in a specific area, but it wasn't as bad as you were.
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  Yeah, my, I, I was in an apartment and like it was all
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  good. Like while I was raining like so
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  basically the storm sat on top of us for like 4 days and just
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  rained rained rained for like 4 days straight.
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  How's the infrastructure here for that?
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  Like was it you? Think it'd be good?
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  I don't know what, I don't know what like.
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  Actually, I was fine, like my power was on, everything was
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  great. And then there's a Big Lake like
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  north of Houston called Lake Conroe and I guess the dam
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  overflowed or broke or something, I don't remember.
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  I don't know what happened, but all that water came out and went
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  down the Creek that went right next to my apartment and flooded
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  the whole first floor like 567 foot deep.
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  But I was on the 2nd floor so I was just chilling.
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  I never lost power. But then it was like time to
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  leave to go to Shawno, but I couldn't get out.
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  So I had a like a girl was at my house right before the storm.
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  She got trapped all of our cars. All the cars were underwater, so
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  me, her and my dog had to literally wade water up to my
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  waist for like 2 miles to get to where Jimmy could.
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  That was the closest he could get to my house. 2 miles.
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  Yeah. And just.
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  And like all the water was fucking disgusting because all
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  the fuel and oils. Yeah, it was walking with like a
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  spare wheels like down the water when.
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  Oh my God man I like I get I when I get in the truck I know
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  we smelt fucking horrible my dogs with me.
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  Oh, you carry the dog and I. Mean I had to yeah because we're
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  about to leave you know, for like 3 or 4 days and we all had
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  to change our flights from Houston to Dallas.
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  So we all Rd. tripped I like we dropped home girl off then we
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  drove to Dallas and flew out. Oh.
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  My God. Dude, it was a wild and then
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  when we came back, it was just like nothing happened.
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  Yeah, it was just normal days. But time travel to like an OK
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  party, you're like, by the time we get back, hopefully this is
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  all gone. Literally the night before there
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  were boats going around my apartment complex like, hey, do
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  you do you need to leave? And I was like, no, I'm just
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  hanging out RV. Was.
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  I don't remember it did we have? Anything.
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  I don't think so, no. We.
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  Didn't have really have any. It was just like for Sandy,
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  Yeah. Oh, no, we've had hurricanes,
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  but right, right. Like I meant like, I didn't know
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  that one. But yeah, Hurricane Sandy was
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  probably the last war. Yeah, that was, there was that
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  other one right when we went to find about the one, the one that
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  we went to. Oh, 2021 maybe?
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  Yeah, but dude, if people were like using kayaks and shit like
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  it, like what else are are New Jersey people going to do?
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  They don't know how to. Yeah.
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  Like that's what I I thought maybe more in Texas, they're
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  like that, that you guys are just prepared for everything
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  here. Everybody here is like grinding
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  on something. I don't know what it is in the
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  water here. Those Zarka water is good bro.
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  It is. I've been trying to tell Frank
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  she. Doesn't get it.
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  Yeah, it takes. Like water?
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  What are you drinking then? I'm one of those people that's
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  like, someone hands me a Dasani and I'm like, yeah, that's fine.
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  Dude. I'm not going to not drink it,
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  but like, I'm not going to be excited about it, yeah.
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  I got to be thirsty as hell though.
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  Like if I just wanted some water and somebody handed me a Dasani,
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  I'm like, I'm not that thirsty. Like I'll be drinking out of the
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  tap. I don't give a fuck.
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  Like I'm just. The garden hose thing.
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  Literally no way. No way.
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  Mouth all over the garden. Hose dude with the water.
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  I don't know what it is, but it tastes.
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  Good. I mean, it doesn't taste bad at
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  all, but. Then we had rice box last night
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  because it was pretty much the only thing that was open.
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  And open, yeah. What was your?
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  I don't know. I don't know how crazy I want to
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  get on this. I don't know who.
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  I don't know who knows the owner I.
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  Don't know who. I do but like.
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  What do you order from there, just out of curiosity?
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  I go super basic. I just get orange chicken.
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  Like that's what you got right in.
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  Yeah, I will. Here's.
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  The problem is it the grease. Yes, a lot of people say the
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  grease a little bit. Yeah, I was like, this is a a
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  bit much. The rice was good.
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  A good Yeah, the rice was fire. The chicken was good.
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  It was all good. It was just, you know what it
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  was? It was me because I was like,
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  I'm going to Texas. I'm getting fucking BBQ.
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  Yeah, I didn't get BBQ. So the Chinese food didn't
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  really hit for. Me so that's it's.
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  Probably on me. It's a Houston staple, though.
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  It's. Like they had Initial D playing
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  like on the TV. So, yeah, John P, the guy that
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  owns it, like he started off with the Mady Garage.
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  Mady Garage. That's what we heard.
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  Yeah, it's a big like, like media collective from like
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  honestly 2010. 20 to 15, mid 2000s.
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  I remember. That and they really pushed the
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  Houston scene, like if it was a Mayday event, everyone was
• 15:40
  trying to get this shit together like oh fuck, you know, got to
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  got to go. That's like a moon tower.
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  You'll probably seen like our pre meets for final bout.
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  They kind of started like that space and we kind of latched on
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  to that. So the first final bout here in
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  Houston, they had the pre meet they like did.
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  They've been kind of in the shadows I guess background now.
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  They did like a big meet for that one and that meet was crazy
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  dude. And where is it located at rice
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  box? No.
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  So they don't really do stuff there because all their parking
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  lots have like 4 parking spots. I don't know what the thought of
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  process is there, but yeah. We went to by the way, we went
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  to the smaller one. We didn't go to.
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  The IT was pretty. Small We didn't know what we
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  were doing. And the heights one probably is
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  there like. Houses around the Heights one,
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  yeah. That's the first one.
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  OK, like the ones? Aside from that, like the the
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  businesses that were there, yeah.
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  Dude he's going crazy with his newest like the two and the one
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  I've seen it's it's pretty. Nice.
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  Yeah. And I'm like that thing.
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  It looks. Crazy.
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  Like, he puts a lot of time and effort into planning.
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  And like, I remember like, one day I was eating there and he
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  came up to talk to us and he's like, yeah, man, I spent like,
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  weeks building this fan with the lights to make it look like.
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  And I was just like. Yeah, they're creative.
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  They're creative, I mean. Like he put so much time and
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  effort into it. Even like Patel.
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  Yeah. Even if it was his menu, it was
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  like, yeah, I went to Japan to learn this so we could do this
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  on the menu. Like he's.
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  He's deep. Yeah, deep in it.
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  I enjoyed the hell out of it. I was sitting there watching the
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  Epstein files. All the different.
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  The. Different chicken fried rice.
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  That was my shit. I'm not gonna lie.
• 17:06
  The first couple bites I was like, Frankie, this is honestly
• 17:09
  pretty good. I don't know what you're talking
• 17:11
  about. And then a few more bites and
• 17:12
  I'm like, I'm gonna eat this whole thing.
• 17:15
  Frankie and he was, he was full, by the way, like he wasn't even
• 17:18
  hungry. And he started eating it and he
• 17:19
  was like, oh, I mean this whole thing.
• 17:20
  Yeah, I did. I got sesame chicken fried rice
• 17:24
  and lo Mein. I tend to over order because I'm
• 17:27
  just. They give a lot there too.
• 17:28
  Yeah, I realized which. Is thankfully, because it's
• 17:30
  fucking expensive. It's.
• 17:32
  So expensive so. Much.
• 17:33
  Food, dude, yeah, I was like all right, well, I fucked up like
• 17:36
  carrying. They gave me the bag and I was
• 17:38
  like, yeah, I fucked up, yeah. I mean, drop down, yeah.
• 17:42
  But I was, you know, I was so. Happy.
• 17:44
  Healthy portions. And I love Asian food so I was
• 17:47
  like, we're going there. Like if I can't get BBQ we're
• 17:50
  going there for sure. So y'all.
• 17:51
  Didn't get any BBQ this weekend. Not yet, and probably not
• 17:54
  happening because. You're not going to get good BBQ
• 17:56
  this time of day. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's a
• 17:58
  lunch type thing. Yeah.
• 18:00
  It's like a sell out, you know, or lunch.
• 18:02
  And it's not, then it's like. I mean, you can go to Rudy's and
• 18:05
  get barbecue and it's not bad. I'm not gonna lie, dude.
• 18:08
  That's not I'm. Not gonna lie dude, I'm OK with
• 18:10
  Rudy's I'm OK with especially. When you're not from here, yeah,
• 18:13
  it's BBQ. It will be good, yeah.
• 18:14
  But you will like you. You've had.
• 18:16
  Rudy's I've had. Rudy's OK, Yeah, but you don't
• 18:18
  come to Texas for Rudy's. You don't come here for it, but
• 18:20
  at 8:00 tonight before you leave, yeah, I'm fine with that.
• 18:23
  It's kind of like. Blood Brothers is down the
• 18:25
  street. It's a pretty good one.
• 18:26
  OK, what is it called? Blood Brothers BBQ.
• 18:28
  I thought you said Blunt Brothers and I was like, no way.
• 18:31
  I am going to say, all the names of restaurants around here are
• 18:33
  fucking awesome. They're funny.
• 18:34
  Sick. Like.
• 18:35
  Yeah, and there's a billboard on the highway that says what is
• 18:39
  it? Like I heart Dick.
• 18:40
  Yeah, yeah. Or like, yeah.
• 18:42
  Or like. Give Dick a try.
• 18:44
  That's the. One, give Dick a try.
• 18:45
  He's got some good. Ones I was like I will not I
• 18:48
  will not give Dick a try yeah fuck you.
• 18:50
  It's. Just all lawyers like.
• 18:52
  Yeah, but then you push, we win. There's.
• 18:54
  Something all right back, weirdly back to cars, the the
• 18:59
  fat cats cars. I remember them being all
• 19:01
  bright, right? Is that like, is that because
• 19:04
  that's the style around here? Because like where, where does
• 19:08
  the inspo from 4 fat cats come from?
• 19:12
  Because there's a lot of car scenes here.
• 19:14
  I've come to find out from talking to everybody at at
• 19:16
  Chris's. And I was like, I thought it was
• 19:19
  all like, we're pretty close to Mexico.
• 19:22
  So maybe like low rider S scene type of stuff.
• 19:26
  But it's actually like a lot, and I think it's interesting.
• 19:30
  Yeah, Houston's fucking huge, man.
• 19:31
  Yeah, like really huge. It's weird, though, because it's
• 19:33
  like when we were talking, we were like, we would have drove
• 19:37
  through like 20 towns in New Jersey, the distance we go here,
• 19:40
  but it's like it's all Houston and there's so many drivers here
• 19:44
  to talk to. It's awesome.
• 19:46
  Yeah. Where do you pull it from or
• 19:47
  where are you feeling it? From I mean, I think I can speak
• 19:50
  for both of us on this. We like, you know, 10 years ago,
• 19:53
  we all had really dark colored cars like his was San Marino
• 19:56
  blue. There's all that.
• 19:57
  We had three cars that were San Marino blue.
• 20:00
  We got a stranger here. We got a stranger.
• 20:01
  He. Can't even see us that's on the
• 20:03
  window tint. Hello.
• 20:05
  What's up? Hello.
• 20:07
  Hello. Yeah.
• 20:10
  But yeah, we all had kind of like, I mean, my car was black
• 20:13
  since I was 16 years old. It might like I got my car when
• 20:15
  I was 16, so it was black up until a couple years ago.
• 20:18
  And then the car though yours. Yeah, my original SC.
• 20:20
  It's on YouTube too. Yeah, it's all, it's all around.
• 20:23
  But yeah, my car was black forever.
• 20:25
  His car was dark blue. And I can save the name.
• 20:29
  I guess Bursty Mike had come down.
• 20:34
  We just we just got flagged is. That a boy?
• 20:35
  No, just. Kidding, he had come down to I
• 20:38
  think the special safe South or New Year's one year and it it
• 20:41
  was in the R32 like it was bright pink.
• 20:43
  And I remember just like looking off across grid and it was just
• 20:46
  all like dark colored cars. And then you just see his or
• 20:49
  he's in the background of every picture because it's just
• 20:51
  bright. And I was like, I want a bright
• 20:53
  colored car like that makes sense.
• 20:54
  I want to pop. And then I think around this.
• 20:56
  You did orange before me right before.
• 20:59
  I can't mind greens. Maybe.
• 21:00
  Or maybe it's around the same time for final, about 6, I
• 21:05
  think. I don't know.
• 21:06
  But yeah, I think everybody just wanted to change it.
• 21:08
  It's probably a blur now at this point because like that look
• 21:13
  when they're all bright. Yeah, dude.
• 21:16
  It's like a pack of Skittles out there.
• 21:17
  That's what we wanted. I think we wanted that because
• 21:19
  we we kind of tried to do the team color thing.
• 21:22
  I was just too poor to paint mine the same color as them.
• 21:24
  But we had like 3 or 4 cars that are all the same color really.
• 21:27
  We were going to do blue at first, but SMB Sammarina Blue.
• 21:31
  It's really expensive if you want it to look like.
• 21:35
  Like Sammarina Blue? Yeah.
• 21:36
  Yeah, otherwise it looks. Yeah, then it's just like
• 21:39
  another blue candy car and just looks like a candy car.
• 21:43
  Doesn't look like San Marino. Yeah.
• 21:45
  Huh. I'm trying to picture the whole
• 21:46
  group in San Marino blue and I don't know if I would like it as
• 21:49
  much as it is. I don't.
• 21:49
  Think I think the individual colors is so bad so much.
• 21:52
  Better it was just it was a long time ago this like that was
• 21:55
  whenever they all painted their cars.
• 21:56
  I think that was. 20/17/2016. Yeah.
• 22:00
  So like that was like kind of that was honestly pre maybe like
• 22:03
  final about two era then we didn't even really know.
• 22:05
  A lot of teams were doing that. Everybody was doing that.
• 22:07
  That's what it was kind of like, yeah.
• 22:08
  Honestly I feel like it's kind of coming back lately because I
• 22:11
  see a couple teams now will paint the cars the same color.
• 22:14
  I can't even get my friends to agree on a fucking restaurant to
• 22:16
  go to. That's so accurate, do you
• 22:18
  think? That I'll be able to be like,
• 22:20
  dude, red, all of us. Like no I think.
• 22:24
  It's cooler whenever every car is like a different make and
• 22:26
  model, like like some of the guys that came down for New
• 22:29
  Year's, I think team Chrome, right, But like they had like
• 22:32
  all like an S2000 and an IS and like every car was very
• 22:35
  different. But then they were all black,
• 22:37
  whatever, that's cool. But I feel like when it's 5S
• 22:39
  thirteens and they're all blue, it's like.
• 22:41
  I never thought about that. That's.
• 22:42
  How do you really stand out from your friends?
• 22:44
  Like other than having different wheels I guess.
• 22:46
  And at that point, so like we have a team up north in PA
• 22:51
  called like Hayes Drifting. Yeah, yeah, I can't identify a
• 22:57
  single one of them. And.
• 22:58
  I feel like a piece of shit for. Saying that from a can of paint,
• 23:00
  nothing. Like a piece of.
• 23:01
  Shit, but we tell I would feel like a piece of shit if it
• 23:04
  wasn't true. Yeah, like, because you just see
• 23:07
  Purple in your life. I will say that to Matt Craig's
• 23:10
  face. And then there is like a
• 23:13
  difference in like what the target is like since they all
• 23:17
  look the same. Now, if they all drive the same,
• 23:21
  it's like a different hit. You're like, oh, that looks wild
• 23:25
  because it's like watching a stop motion film.
• 23:28
  And like now I kind of appreciate the different cars.
• 23:32
  I was like, dude, we've been seeing the same things.
• 23:34
  And I think all of our cars are so different too.
• 23:36
  With Casey Evan you need 36 and me having a sore or whatever now
• 23:40
  now in S14. That's one of every.
• 23:43
  Yeah, like every corner of the market, you.
• 23:46
  Need to have an American car? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 23:48
  Like a Camaro or something. But do we need it I.
• 23:50
  I don't think we. Need it.
• 23:51
  I need to add I don't. Think we can click that because
• 23:53
  the look on Zach's face was. Do we actually though?
• 23:57
  I need to, I need to ask Mike. So this is, this is your shop
• 24:00
  we're in right now. Yeah.
• 24:01
  And it's all German cars. You have an S14.
• 24:05
  You obviously are into Japanese cars.
• 24:07
  He knows where to make money, that's the thing.
• 24:09
  OK, if that's the reason I get it, but I think you'd like
• 24:11
  German cars. I do I, I really like German
• 24:14
  cars. I'm biased towards BMW
• 24:16
  obviously, but I don't know man. So pixel cars, if anybody,
• 24:22
  anybody remembers those things from back in the day.
• 24:25
  Give me give me more are. You.
• 24:25
  Are you an Internet nerd at all? Not really, yeah.
• 24:28
  Pixel cars were big to me in like the late 2000s, early
• 24:33
  2000s. What does that mean?
• 24:35
  Pixel Cars. It was just Ms. Paint.
• 24:37
  You draw a car, OK, You draw the front of it, the side and the
• 24:42
  back of it. Oh, OK, so when I was young,
• 24:45
  like a little kid. Yeah, Like, you probably saw the
• 24:47
  Monzilvia back in the day in people's little, like, banners
• 24:50
  in their signature. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 24:51
  And like, yeah. I had no idea that's what that
• 24:54
  was called. I mean, I didn't know it was a
• 24:56
  thing. Yeah, Pixel Cars.
• 24:57
  There was a couple forums back in the day.
• 24:59
  That's actually how fat cats became a thing.
• 25:02
  So before we were like a teen team, I did Pixel Cars.
• 25:08
  I wanted me and like a couple of friends to do something.
• 25:12
  So the seal, the fat cat seal is actually designed by a late
• 25:15
  friend from Australia in like 2006.
• 25:19
  The the blocky font, is it that one?
• 25:22
  Our big, like circles, circle the the crack.
• 25:25
  It's the one we all have on our back windows.
• 25:26
  Yeah. Like we don't really like.
• 25:28
  Nope. We've never sold that logo on a
• 25:30
  shirt. We only have that for us.
• 25:31
  Yeah, that's cool. But then we kind of made this
• 25:33
  logo to sell. Yeah.
• 25:35
  That's a nice like way to pay. Respect.
• 25:38
  We all have that tattooed as well.
• 25:40
  Wow, like our original logo? Yeah, mine's right here.
• 25:43
  Mine's on my back. That's real ass.
• 25:46
  I was trying to tell Frankie that I would do that, but he
• 25:48
  told me not to. I.
• 25:49
  Would say don't do that. Because he told me that it's
• 25:52
  What did you tell? I don't no, not that it for me.
• 25:54
  I don't really care about that, but like.
• 25:56
  I don't know what I said. I mean, we have one friend.
• 25:57
  I have one friend that got a faction tattoo.
• 26:00
  Well, I feel like at this point, like I have a lot, so it's not
• 26:02
  that big. Yeah, yeah, like I got, I got
• 26:03
  the newer cat as well, but. And that doesn't mean they lose
• 26:07
  meaning either. No, like it just adds to.
• 26:09
  Also, you're talking to someone who doesn't have tattoos, so
• 26:11
  like, I don't even get it. You know, I got to me.
• 26:13
  It's like, it's like, no, it's going to be on you forever.
• 26:15
  Like, so I can't relate. Straight.
• 26:17
  Yeah. Dude so.
• 26:18
  Straight as an edge rayer. We set our We set our age at the
• 26:21
  beginning. So I got this tattoo when I was
• 26:25
  19. He got his tattoo probably
• 26:28
  around the same time. Yeah.
• 26:30
  So we we all went together. Well, I guess you weren't there,
• 26:32
  I don't think for that as well in Florida.
• 26:34
  That was still in Florida. Yeah.
• 26:35
  And yeah, like one night I think we were all just hanging out at
• 26:39
  the house bore like there was at one point, like so he had moved
• 26:41
  to Florida to go to basically BMW school was for like a year.
• 26:45
  And that year, while him, like while he was gone, was probably
• 26:48
  the wildest year of our. It was early, it was early 20s.
• 26:53
  Everybody was crazy. So, yeah, so Mike starts this in
• 26:55
  high school, right? You can kind of finish that
• 26:57
  part. Yeah, that honestly, there's no
• 27:00
  correlation between me like in Japanese cars and me like in
• 27:03
  driven cars. Maybe you just like cars.
• 27:07
  I like, I, I would consider myself an enthusiast.
• 27:10
  Yeah. And if I'm being honest, it's
• 27:12
  job security. Yeah, it's like 1 portion of it.
• 27:15
  But I'm, yeah, I do, you know, I'm looking at AG87M2 right now.
• 27:19
  I don't know if I'm going to get it this quarter, but.
• 27:22
  Dude, we just saw one just drove by us earlier and I was like,
• 27:25
  those are they're nice cars and I they.
• 27:27
  Drive even better, yeah. I heard that they're really,
• 27:29
  really fun I. Think it's one of the best
• 27:31
  modern sports cars right now in my opinion.
• 27:34
  And it doesn't look dude, some of the cars nowadays I can't
• 27:39
  getting. A little crazy.
• 27:40
  I can't get behind it. I'm like.
• 27:42
  The look. It's, but you try to think like
• 27:45
  the OEMs, right, You're like, oh, they made this so that
• 27:48
  people it would make people's lives better and like this Kia
• 27:52
  we have is such a. Piece of you for bringing that
• 27:54
  up. Thank you.
• 27:55
  I appreciate it because. Dude, you should have seen it,
• 27:56
  yo. When we were leaving Chris's, it
• 27:58
  was crank, no starting. Dude, how about when we pulled
• 28:01
  into the lot and I'm like, oh, let me back over here.
• 28:04
  I'm like, I can, I can go right here.
• 28:05
  Let me back up. Throw in a reverse boom, ABS
• 28:08
  kicks on, brakes, lock up. I'm like looking behind me.
• 28:10
  I'm like nothing's here. How many miles are at it?
• 28:12
  60. 1000 dude, that's a. Hard 60,000 though yeah that's a
• 28:16
  lot I. Might as well be 300,000 on that
• 28:18
  rental car. I know I saw sixty.
• 28:21
  I was like. The total red.
• 28:23
  Yeah, but it but it looks everything looks fine, but I'm
• 28:25
  just like it's got to be fucked. It's 60,000 miles but.
• 28:27
  Probably had like 10 pairs of front tires at.
• 28:29
  Least, but everything I own is like pre 2005.
• 28:32
  So it's like when I get into something like this, like I'm on
• 28:34
  the highway fucking it's it's like stopping me from going to
• 28:38
  the other lanes. I'm like what's going on right
• 28:39
  now? And then and then Carl's like,
• 28:41
  yo, put it on cruise control. I'm like, all right, I can put
• 28:43
  on cruise control. I'm sitting there like like
• 28:45
  this, I'm just like, all right, and it's literally driving
• 28:49
  everything. And I was like, I bet this thing
• 28:51
  will stop too. And then we, we were in traffic
• 28:53
  and I was like, I'm not going to hit the brakes and like we're
• 28:55
  going like 5 miles an hour and I'm just going, going, going.
• 28:57
  And Eddie's like no, no, no. And it just slams on the.
• 28:59
  Brakes, I hate that shit, like my ex used to do that she would
• 29:02
  always use her adaptive cruise and that she just fucking slams
• 29:05
  on the brakes. Without touching pedals.
• 29:07
  Yeah at all. I hate it bro.
• 29:09
  I it terrifies. I fucking.
• 29:11
  Drive that on the way back. No, I'm not, because it's so
• 29:13
  insane to me. I like it in the backseat until
• 29:16
  you hit a speed bump at 40 and then he's wondering why the
• 29:18
  car's a piece of shit. Because that's been done about
• 29:21
  100 times before, like by. Every single.
• 29:24
  Person. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not.
• 29:26
  I don't know new cars that that shit pisses me off, but I don't
• 29:30
  really drive them often. So but job security though with
• 29:32
  the new cars that. Makes sense?
• 29:33
  Yeah, the new cars are still have.
• 29:35
  Problems. They have more problems than the
• 29:36
  old ones. That's.
• 29:37
  Yeah, and would you rather work solutions new or old then?
• 29:40
  Personally new so even now I have a bit of a cut off.
• 29:45
  Nothing older than 2005. At the moment, literally the
• 29:48
  opposite of me. I'm like, I'm like, yeah, that's
• 29:50
  my end, yeah. But OK, so here we go, two sides
• 29:53
  of spectrum. When it's a day where it's new
• 29:56
  cars, what's a what's like a tip?
• 29:58
  Like what is a week or what kind of repair is like a new car
• 30:02
  getting tires and like weird electrical problem maybe?
• 30:07
  Everything's plastic now so cooling leaks, the oil leaks.
• 30:10
  Majority like BMW, if you want to go down this tangent, all the
• 30:15
  all of the N series cars, like N series engines had oil leak
• 30:20
  issues. Coolant leaks.
• 30:21
  Yeah. Or coolant problems.
• 30:22
  That's one thing. B series engines very rarely
• 30:25
  have oil leaks, but all coolant leaks 60,000 miles.
• 30:31
  Yeah. You're doing oil filter housing
• 30:32
  or #1 the water neck. Yeah.
• 30:36
  Full refreshes at like 80,000. Wow.
• 30:38
  How intensive do you have to get in there to take all of the
• 30:42
  things off? If you do it a few times, it's
• 30:44
  really not that bad. OK, first time I can see how it
• 30:47
  would be a little like. Daunting.
• 30:49
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But once you get enough under
• 30:51
  your belt, it's it's just that's in bolts at the end of the.
• 30:53
  Day I like those engines the B like that's that means B like
• 30:57
  the B 58 or whatever yeah those sound sick with a single turbo I
• 31:02
  heard one and I was like what is that and then they open the hood
• 31:06
  and there's a fucking like huge turbo in it like whoa.
• 31:09
  I mean, I like, I like BMW the most out of all the German cars
• 31:13
  for sure. Like that's.
• 31:14
  Not at that. That would be the one that could
• 31:15
  agree, yeah. I've never heard you say that,
• 31:17
  ever. Oh yeah.
• 31:18
  Ever since I was young, I was like, I'm OK with BMW, but like
• 31:21
  Mercedes, I'm fucking good. I don't want to know anything
• 31:23
  about them. I don't want to look at them.
• 31:24
  I don't want to. Have any?
• 31:25
  Well, they work on those here too.
• 31:26
  I don't even. I don't.
• 31:27
  Like it's just crazy to me. Volkswagen pisses me off to no
• 31:30
  end. Audi, but BMW honestly never
• 31:34
  really had a really bad situation as long as you have to
• 31:37
  deal with them. Yeah.
• 31:38
  Well, if you deal with them every day, that's going to be
• 31:39
  different, yeah. When you said you wanted pre
• 31:42
  2005, are you saying that is like Frankie at homework on his
• 31:45
  own cars or Frankie at faction? If you're saying like business
• 31:48
  wise, I actually kind of agree with Mike on that because it's
• 31:53
  just like parts getting parts for older cars this and that.
• 31:56
  It's more of a pain in the. Ass Daddy.
• 31:57
  You look at them when they fall apart.
• 31:58
  Yeah, and now it's your fault. Yeah, newer cars you can get
• 32:00
  parts easy. Like usually people with driving
• 32:03
  newer cars have money, a lot of different things, you know what
• 32:06
  I mean? And there's less of an
• 32:07
  expectation of like it could be a complete junker like when it
• 32:12
  shows up. Oh yeah, you have to.
• 32:13
  Like I have to, I'm sure Mike knows, but I like before someone
• 32:17
  brings a car in and it's usually it's I don't, I'm not lucky.
• 32:19
  I don't get like brake jobs that often.
• 32:21
  I get like, hey, I got to finish this swap.
• 32:23
  I need to like do a background check on this person, these
• 32:25
  people before they bring the car in.
• 32:26
  Because I'm like, I need photos of everything.
• 32:29
  I need this like I need references, like, you know what
• 32:31
  I mean? Like it's like they're coming
• 32:32
  for a job interview because I'm not having no piece of shit
• 32:35
  coming here. And then we're stuck doing this
• 32:37
  for months. You know what I mean?
• 32:38
  That and you're you're not working on people's dailies so.
• 32:41
  Usually not. I wish I was here as much.
• 32:43
  Like, oh, I can sit there for six months.
• 32:45
  Yep, I don't need it. Yep, that's another problem.
• 32:47
  Too, but at the same time you don't necessarily want.
• 32:49
  It there do not. Want it?
• 32:50
  That's what I'm saying. Yeah, you don't want it there,
• 32:51
  but they don't care. You can't get into a situation
• 32:53
  where you're like, well, I don't really care that much because
• 32:55
  it's pissing me off. He doesn't care because he's not
• 32:57
  paying any money. And now we're stuck here.
• 32:59
  And I, you know what I mean? Like, you can get into those
• 33:01
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  Noticed that's like his big old struggle here is like he doesn't
• 35:12
  have a ton of real estate. Yeah.
• 35:14
  It's like, I mean, you saw the cars inside.
• 35:15
  They're they're packed. Just like, just like the shop,
• 35:18
  we just went to the shop or whatever.
• 35:20
  In Houston, the same deal. There's tons of cars inside.
• 35:22
  Dude, the lots full, yeah, insides full, Yeah, Mike's
• 35:26
  wallet full if the shop I was. Gonna say if the shop is doing
• 35:30
  well. That's how it looks, yeah.
• 35:32
  Yeah, that's nice, dude. I love seeing like when you meet
• 35:35
  somebody or a friend that's a shop owner, it's like.
• 35:38
  Good. Yeah, cuz has it been a smooth
• 35:40
  Rd. It's been a man, it's it's been
• 35:42
  a bumpy Rd. but. Things it's going, things are
• 35:44
  getting. Still have.
• 35:45
  Everything's looking up. Yeah.
• 35:46
  He's on the highways now. Still there?
• 35:48
  Yeah. Yeah, we cruising.
• 35:49
  How long you been doing this or how long have you been here?
• 35:51
  Eight years, OK, eight years. In November did 10 years, almost
• 35:55
  10 years at BMW. I had a feeling.
• 35:57
  Yeah. Damn, you opened the shop
• 35:59
  whenever I started that job. Yeah.
• 36:00
  I worked exactly 8 years. Crazy it was.
• 36:03
  It was November. Too, We opened the shop because
• 36:05
  when it was fun, about 3. That was 2017.
• 36:09
  Something like that. Yeah.
• 36:10
  So I think it was like right before final about 3:00 and.
• 36:13
  You've been in the same spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could
• 36:17
  definitely use an upgrade, but. So dude, it brings brings in the
• 36:20
  money. Yeah, it must have been.
• 36:22
  It must have been a big move for you, though, because this shop's
• 36:24
  pretty big and it's like you're, you know, you're jumping into it
• 36:26
  out of nowhere, right? Because you weren't working
• 36:28
  somewhere else. You're working at BMW, but
• 36:30
  that's it. So that's a pretty big jump.
• 36:32
  It was, it was scary, dude. Yeah.
• 36:34
  Because if, I mean, if it wasn't, if it was easy,
• 36:36
  everybody would do it, right? Yeah.
• 36:38
  Everybody would have their own shops.
• 36:40
  There'd be a lot, lot more shops out there.
• 36:43
  And I think the biggest thing is people are just kind of afraid
• 36:45
  to to take that jump. Yeah.
• 36:47
  You're comfortable, you're making money at your current
• 36:49
  job. Things are easy.
• 36:52
  Like, why change that, Right. Yeah.
• 36:54
  Yeah. Because it was, I mean, dude, it
• 36:55
  was. It's definitely a pay cut
• 36:57
  leaving, you know what I mean? Yeah.
• 36:58
  Definitely, and we don't for. A while the hobby we have isn't
• 37:01
  exactly cheap, Yeah, like you ever get into a little depressed
• 37:05
  hole where you're like. I'm there right now, bud.
• 37:07
  Yeah. Oh dude.
• 37:09
  And guess what? You just started it again.
• 37:12
  I know I hit the reset like an idiot.
• 37:15
  What the fuck? Like it looks like you.
• 37:17
  Time travel. Yeah, what happened to your car
• 37:21
  anyway? Like nothing happened at all.
• 37:23
  If I guess if we're jumping into that No, I just Adolfo, one of
• 37:29
  our friends from San Antonio, he just sent me an Instagram post
• 37:32
  one day and a guy from San Antonio was he had had this sore
• 37:36
  shell and he posted up on Instagram for four grand as full
• 37:40
  IKEA formula front and rear suspension, no engine obviously.
• 37:45
  I think it had coil over Yeah, had brand new BCS and you have 4
• 37:49
  grand. I mean the IKEA alone is
• 37:51
  probably 6 or 7. And I had just I'm pretty good
• 37:56
  with money. I'm like super smart with money
• 37:57
  with money. I had just taken out a four O 1K
• 37:59
  loan to pay off some debt and that like the cash had actually
• 38:02
  just hit my bank account. And then Adolfo sends me this
• 38:06
  post and I was like oh. No, not the crossroads.
• 38:08
  Dude, pay off debt or get more into debt.
• 38:12
  I was like, well, I can probably sell all my suspension and like
• 38:15
  some little things and I'll probably make it all back.
• 38:17
  And so yeah, I bought the car the next day and yeah, and it
• 38:22
  makes because I kind of, I never really wanted a store.
• 38:24
  I never had that like oh I just need to ride and drive car.
• 38:27
  I'm the same way but I was like well. 4 grand and and my my the
• 38:32
  biggest selling point when I'm going to stand on is that this
• 38:34
  car had all the AC components and I've never had AC in my.
• 38:37
  Now you're. Now you're talking.
• 38:39
  Right. Yeah, so and like we live in
• 38:40
  Texas, like the summers are just 80% of the year is miserable.
• 38:44
  I know you guys don't believe this because it's cold outside
• 38:46
  right now, but. No, I believe you, because
• 38:48
  apparently this is kind of rarely.
• 38:50
  Good dude walking in right now. Good.
• 38:52
  Good dude walking in. This is dead.
• 38:54
  What's up? Man, yeah, we'll talk later, I
• 38:58
  guess, but I got to talk to him about that.
• 39:00
  Thing Malcolm. Yeah.
• 39:02
  It's yeah, so it had all AC. It's a sore obviously just kind
• 39:06
  of cool factor or whatever. So so yeah, I bought it and kind
• 39:10
  of hit the reset on the car build and but.
• 39:12
  It's worth it. You're trying to do the same
• 39:14
  thing again? Or are you going to?
• 39:14
  Change that. No, it's sitting at paint right
• 39:16
  now. I'm doing a new color.
• 39:18
  Oh, wow. I kind of, I feel like I'm gonna
• 39:22
  take a little bit of credit, I guess, with the thrash seats,
• 39:26
  the green ones that are coming out.
• 39:27
  Okay. I've been bothering Yusuf for
• 39:29
  three or four years. Like say, hey man, you gonna do
• 39:31
  green seats, green seats? Then he finally did it.
• 39:33
  So I felt obligated. Changed the color.
• 39:36
  So I bought the seats literally driving home from final about
• 39:39
  last year and my car was still green so everything made sense.
• 39:43
  And then a month later I get this new car and so like I've
• 39:46
  been trying to figure out paint options for the past couple
• 39:48
  weeks and I'm like I can't do anything because my fucking
• 39:51
  seats are green but did. You, but you have decided.
• 39:54
  Yeah, I, I, I'm, it's not like a secret.
• 39:55
  I'm doing Java black off a Subaru.
• 39:57
  So it's like black with like some brown to it or whatever.
• 40:00
  Yeah. So it's essentially it at night,
• 40:03
  like it'll be black. That's the best color.
• 40:05
  And the sun. It'll, I hope.
• 40:07
  I hope it'll see it when it actually turns out.
• 40:09
  Because now that's a metallic. All the cars before, they're all
• 40:13
  kind of solid red. Yeah, You guys have a.
• 40:16
  Lot of solid colors here on cars I realized.
• 40:19
  Because it's the cheapest. It hits so hard though.
• 40:22
  And it matches. Yeah.
• 40:23
  So you got to respray a blown up bumper, all right.
• 40:25
  Well, just no metallic in it. Solid.
• 40:28
  That's true. You buy a gallon and a half of
• 40:30
  paint when you paint your car, and then you use that same
• 40:32
  gallon and a half to repaint everything.
• 40:34
  For like like a couple little oopsies down the line.
• 40:37
  It's like set. My bumper comes off at the side
• 40:40
  kind of a pedal of grass. Like literally my rear bumpers.
• 40:43
  Fucking injectives. Yeah.
• 40:45
  And obviously he knows the same. He's in the same situation.
• 40:48
  Your car is your car is kind of iconic across the country.
• 40:50
  I will say that because if if I know about it, I don't fucking
• 40:52
  look at shit. So I saw your car everywhere
• 40:55
  when when you guys were blown up and.
• 40:57
  Like back when I when I had the pop truck and shit when it's
• 40:59
  black, like, yeah, that would that was a big deal.
• 41:01
  Yeah, with the neon, yeah, that was yeah.
• 41:04
  That was about four yesterday. Too, I don't know, I don't know.
• 41:08
  Car shows Zach either with the teal battles.
• 41:10
  Yeah, I don't like, like before the drift shit like like 2010 to
• 41:15
  like 2015. Like it was just like black.
• 41:17
  It was like that was like the hell of flesh era, if you will.
• 41:19
  And it was like black on like teal battles, you know, super
• 41:22
  low. And then I had a ruckus that I
• 41:23
  had powder coated all my wheels teal.
• 41:26
  And then I got a trailer and I put battles on a trailer and I
• 41:29
  powder coated. So like everything was matching.
• 41:31
  And yeah, that was like the little car show era.
• 41:34
  Nobody knows. The tent is new, so nobody's
• 41:37
  used to not being able to see in the window.
• 41:39
  More people just coming in, looking in the window.
• 41:41
  Can someone I don't want to yell into this.
• 41:44
  Mic I don't want to be obnoxious.
• 41:47
  That's. Funny, I'm curious to see how
• 41:48
  it's going to look dude. Yeah, we'll see.
• 41:50
  I don't know. That's cool.
• 41:52
  I think it'd be cool. Hi, Mike.
• 41:55
  Yeah, boy, making all that noise.
• 41:57
  What's going on? Howdy, how's Michael's high?
• 42:00
  Hello one of our drivers. No, but the the metallic color
• 42:05
  change up, I'm sure it's going to be.
• 42:07
  We'll see. Yeah, Go back I.
• 42:08
  Hope you like it. I think I'm getting to that age
• 42:10
  right where like this might be like the final.
• 42:14
  Yeah, because like 5 years from now he's gone so.
• 42:16
  Yeah, he'll probably be dead. What are you?
• 42:19
  No, I'm just kidding. I don't.
• 42:20
  Yeah, but like, I don't know, like I feel like at 30, are we
• 42:23
  sick? No, like at 33, like I don't
• 42:25
  know how much longer I'm going to be like going full invest
• 42:29
  into like, oh, I got to refresh this year, like kind of get into
• 42:32
  that. Point.
• 42:32
  That's why my car looks the way looks right now.
• 42:34
  I kind of feel that. You just want to not stop but.
• 42:39
  Still want to drive I just don't want to like get so deep into
• 42:42
  like the build anymore. I need AI don't have a house
• 42:45
  man. I got I need to level up in life
• 42:47
  man. Carl field you.
• 42:48
  Yeah, you're thinking the same. Way don't fucking talk too loud,
• 42:50
  Zach. Like dude, all my friends like
• 42:56
  this is so fucking sad actually. But like you watch life kind of,
• 43:01
  it feels like you just watch life pass you by.
• 43:04
  Yeah. But we just did different stuff.
• 43:07
  It's, it's fucking drifting, it's final belts, I don't know
• 43:10
  what. It's all there, really.
• 43:11
  Is. I don't know what to say about
• 43:12
  that because then I feel retarded for being doing that.
• 43:16
  I think I don't feel retarded until like I go on a dating app
• 43:19
  or something and I'm like, you know, I'm like all these other
• 43:22
  people, these these girls that are 3334 and they're like first
• 43:25
  time home owner. I left to travel the world and
• 43:28
  I'm like, I have this car that doesn't look very good right
• 43:32
  now, but I had a ton of fun over the past 10 years.
• 43:34
  And they're like, what is that? And.
• 43:35
  They're like, I don't care that dude.
• 43:37
  But that like, it's rare, I say this so much lately, but it's
• 43:41
  rare that people have a hobby that they love, right?
• 43:43
  True. And like love enough.
• 43:45
  We love this. Thousands more than I'd like to
• 43:48
  admit. Thousands of dollars going.
• 43:52
  I think I I kind of love watching people's houses.
• 43:54
  Right now, yeah. Beautiful down payment on
• 43:57
  literally anything you want. But those people, they didn't
• 44:01
  have that. So then they did other things
• 44:03
  like travelling, dude, you go to a vacay, dude, that's going to
• 44:06
  final bout. Yeah.
• 44:07
  Yeah, but all they did was go and eat and drink.
• 44:10
  They had like 3 pictures and they're like.
• 44:12
  Yeah, I don't get that. But to some people, that's the
• 44:14
  hobby that we have. You know what I mean?
• 44:15
  They get the enjoyment just like we do.
• 44:17
  But then what's sad is now we want that thing, and then now
• 44:20
  we're just doubling this shit. Yeah, trying to do all of it
• 44:23
  that's. Pretty hard.
• 44:24
  So you're going to get the crib dude, hopefully.
• 44:26
  Well, yeah, I mean, he's the only drifter ever, ever heard
• 44:29
  say I'm really good with money. So you're gonna get.
• 44:31
  No I'm fucking lying bro I'm retarded as fuck.
• 44:33
  Like no I'm terrible. I've been ever since.
• 44:36
  No, that was completely heard. I heard some of them laughing.
• 44:39
  But I was like, damn, that's. Fucked up.
• 44:40
  They're laughing at him. No, I say.
• 44:42
  It's so it's the opposite, you're actually wait.
• 44:44
  You. You're really bad.
• 44:45
  Oh, no, I'm, I'm, I mean, I don't want to say I've never
• 44:47
  like not paid my bills. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:49
  But I have absolutely racked up debt like.
• 44:52
  So you got this bullshit about the four O 1K thing?
• 44:53
  No, I took a loan from myself. That's not a good thing.
• 44:56
  You. Don't want to do that?
• 44:57
  Yeah. That's not good.
• 44:58
  That's why I was like I was. Like why do you take money from
• 44:59
  the four O 1K but you I. Was like is that honestly like
• 45:03
  all the shit just stacking up? But like I think I got a credit
• 45:05
  card it like I don't know when I got it like 24, but that was how
• 45:09
  I bought my courages that I still have today.
• 45:12
  I did this ever since then, I've never been out of debt.
• 45:14
  I'm still right now. Actually this is the first time
• 45:16
  I've. Ever bought out of debt my first
• 45:17
  credit card? My first credit card was for
• 45:19
  VSXXS. Yeah, There you go.
• 45:21
  Really. And then I watched Tom Nazaro do
• 45:23
  the same thing. I've ruined his life.
• 45:24
  And then. Yeah, someone the other day that
• 45:27
  said the same thing with credit card debt and everything.
• 45:29
  Same same story. Shit hurts so fucking bad to
• 45:32
  think about but dude, mad fun. I don't regret anything.
• 45:36
  Like. I got some good trips.
• 45:38
  I got kind of lucky. I just I got laid off from a job
• 45:40
  I had for eight years and I got a fat ass severance.
• 45:42
  So I just hit a financial reset. That's good.
• 45:45
  So if I can not be retarded right now.
• 45:48
  Dude, you're. Living.
• 45:49
  Yeah, laid off like not fired. So you're, you're great.
• 45:53
  I got like 25 K from it. I paid everything off.
• 45:55
  I bought a single turbo. Wow, dude, it worked out.
• 45:58
  Yeah, right to plan. This was all the plan.
• 46:00
  By my car. You're rich.
• 46:01
  That's it. Yeah, it's all gone.
• 46:03
  But like I was doing super good for like 3.
• 46:05
  Months, but but you're good. You're good.
• 46:07
  Now I'm chilling. We're right up to date.
• 46:09
  Hopefully that hits me too sometime.
• 46:11
  Some sort of good blessing I guess.
• 46:14
  Dude, I had an office. I don't know.
• 46:15
  What line of work are you in? So I do.
• 46:17
  Why? I was doing automotive service
• 46:20
  contracts, extended warranties, like doing claims.
• 46:22
  I hate you. Yeah, I'm that guy.
• 46:24
  I'm that guy. We got to cut the spot gun.
• 46:29
  Is your extended warranty? Is your car warranty still good?
• 46:32
  You're that guy. I'm not the one calling you're.
• 46:34
  Telling me to buy Google gift I'm.
• 46:35
  The one that he hates more because I'm denying the claims
• 46:38
  whenever he calls them in. Yeah.
• 46:39
  Like he's trying his hardest to deny the claims when people.
• 46:43
  Like the company I was with for so long, They they weren't that
• 46:46
  company. I think you can even kind of
• 46:48
  they were, they were pretty good.
• 46:49
  It was actually a good company. And then I got laid off and I
• 46:52
  went to go work for this other company the same thing and they
• 46:55
  were that company. Like I, I literally was just
• 46:58
  miserable every I worked there for two months.
• 47:00
  I just quit 2 days ago and I was like we were denying everything
• 47:04
  like taking forever to do any and I was like I'm out bro.
• 47:06
  This is. It's like literally it's fucked
• 47:09
  up to work there. You probably felt like you were
• 47:12
  like. Just knowing what it could be,
• 47:14
  you know, like I've worked in a pretty well old machine is the
• 47:17
  way I took it. And then going there it was
• 47:19
  like, bro these these mother fuckers are retarded.
• 47:21
  Yeah, having a shop working on German cars, there are really
• 47:25
  good companies out there. And I don't mean to turn this
• 47:27
  into like a no like a advertisement or anything like
• 47:30
  that for extended warranty, right.
• 47:31
  But there are pretty decent extended warranty companies out
• 47:34
  there. The first one that he worked at
• 47:36
  was actually pretty good. Actually talked to him on the
• 47:38
  phone a couple of times. We got lucky a few times.
• 47:40
  He called in because it's like 20 or 30 of us to answer the
• 47:42
  phone and like I would occasionally get him.
• 47:44
  I got quite a few people that I knew, which is cool.
• 47:46
  Because make sure you pretend you don't know me.
• 47:47
  Right. Yeah, Yeah.
• 47:48
  Please don't like make it. Weird.
• 47:50
  Are these like local ones to this area or are they the?
• 47:52
  Original I was at. He was, yeah.
• 47:55
  Yeah. But most of these companies are
• 47:56
  nationwide, so. OK.
• 47:58
  Yeah, I think there's only two companies here, one that you
• 48:00
  worked at. But they're gone, so RIP.
• 48:02
  There's like, there's one other one, but but yeah, like I've
• 48:05
  work remote the past like 6 years.
• 48:07
  So like ever since COVID. Oh wow.
• 48:09
  And which has been sick. I was going to say super fucking
• 48:11
  cool. Used to love it dude.
• 48:13
  It's cool until until you like slip up one time and you try to
• 48:18
  exercise your freedom a little too much and then the next day
• 48:20
  you do it again. And the next day after that you
• 48:22
  do it again. And then the next day you bring
• 48:23
  your laptop everywhere and then you're.
• 48:26
  Like I'm always on the phone, like talking, so I couldn't do
• 48:28
  that. You couldn't do that.
• 48:29
  Like no. So you had to be like locked in
• 48:30
  for a certain amount of time, but yeah.
• 48:32
  I had a cool year where like I became a trainer and I had like
• 48:36
  4 classes my whole year so like the class was only three weeks.
• 48:40
  So the other 80% of the job I was literally playing video
• 48:43
  games for 8 hours a day. That was pretty badass making
• 48:45
  money. But then I got laid off because
• 48:47
  they didn't need me clearly. So that wasn't that badass, but
• 48:52
  but that was probably the coolest year of my life on.
• 48:55
  That great high. And then it was like, well,
• 48:57
  actually. I generally thought I was
• 48:59
  coasting for a good because I was like making the most money I
• 49:01
  ever made, doing the least amount of work I've ever.
• 49:04
  Done. That is such an.
• 49:05
  Interesting, interesting business model.
• 49:06
  So you just work for what, 3 weeks?
• 49:08
  4 * a year or something? Well, like, so it's all remote,
• 49:11
  obviously, right? And I, I was essentially a new
• 49:13
  hire trainer or like up skill. So if we got a, a batch of new
• 49:16
  hires, I'd have like 10 people in my class and it's a
• 49:19
  three-week class. And then if I don't, if we're
• 49:21
  not hiring anyone, then I'm just like developing new material.
• 49:25
  And you're on salary, they're just paying you.
• 49:26
  Yeah, yeah. So.
• 49:28
  Companies usually hire like once 1/4 and then you're kind.
• 49:31
  Of we're kind of all over the place, like people quit, you
• 49:34
  know, we, we gain new clients or, you know, it was, it was
• 49:37
  just kind of hit or miss And but it was just a weird year.
• 49:39
  I think. I think they, they thought a lot
• 49:41
  was going to happen, but then we developed all this AI stuff.
• 49:44
  Yeah, that made the adjusters work faster.
• 49:46
  So they're like, oh wait, we don't need as many AI is.
• 49:48
  Fucking everything up. I'm actually one of the.
• 49:50
  Victims like my job. Actually, I think Carl is too.
• 49:52
  Yeah, a bunch of other friends. It sucks.
• 49:54
  It is what it is. I was making also the most
• 49:57
  amount, most amount of money I ever made.
• 49:59
  And then I was like, I want more.
• 50:02
  So then they were telling me they were going to give me more
• 50:05
  eventually, you know, that she goes and then eventually I was
• 50:08
  like, wait, if I just show up to work earlier, I work through
• 50:11
  lunch, I'm out by 3:30, I'm home by I live really close three
• 50:17
  like 35 and then I'm home that rest of the day where
• 50:22
  unfortunately they were like tracking your like clicks and
• 50:25
  shit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 50:25
  And like activity. My work's done.
• 50:27
  It just they wanted me to, I guess, do more be.
• 50:29
  On there, yeah. And then, yeah, that's crazy.
• 50:31
  Like at that time I picked up bodywork and painting and stuff
• 50:33
  like that. So then at that time it was like
• 50:36
  4 to 10. Four to 9 would be like when I'm
• 50:39
  printing money and it was summer.
• 50:42
  Then November came around and all the projects that I was
• 50:44
  working on, which was like, I was an operations analyst, so
• 50:48
  making SO PS that make it better, easier to onboard,
• 50:51
  figuring out the new software and all that crap.
• 50:54
  Documented everything. Pretty much just set it up to
• 50:57
  wipe me out and then it got wiped out and then I went home.
• 51:01
  My boss felt really bad for me and was checking in on me and I
• 51:04
  was like, fuck you guys. Like I'm literally just going to
• 51:06
  do this. And then now I'm here doing
• 51:08
  fucking podcasts. Well, you made you.
• 51:12
  I mean, the story continues. You did a lot of body work.
• 51:15
  Yeah, I wanted to like, learn and shit.
• 51:17
  You got a job working at a Body Shop at a Body Shop something
• 51:19
  but. It was like dealer work.
• 51:21
  So like kind of more the Butch method shit now I know the low
• 51:24
  end then you. Pick up another job while you
• 51:25
  were doing body work. You.
• 51:26
  Know what I mean? Like it was pretty fucked, but
• 51:28
  dude, so you did. But you did like a like a 180.
• 51:32
  Years of careers, so oh. Dude, when I see my friends with
• 51:35
  the group of friends like that, that their lives are twins.
• 51:39
  Postcards at Christmas. That's crazy.
• 51:42
  That's. You know what I mean?
• 51:42
  Pajamas. Those are the lives that they
• 51:44
  live. When I talk to them, they're
• 51:47
  like, you're outside doing what? Like, damn, dude, I feel bad.
• 51:52
  That must be so bad. And then meanwhile I'm there
• 51:54
  like in my garage smoking cigarettes.
• 51:56
  It's just. Two different types of.
• 51:58
  Lighting and dancing and shit. No one's around like, oh, this
• 52:01
  is great, It's like 2. Different types of lifestyles,
• 52:03
  though. Like, I remember when you would,
• 52:04
  you went to a party once with a bunch of your friends that were
• 52:08
  not from drifting. Yeah.
• 52:09
  And you're, like, trying to explain how you felt about it.
• 52:12
  You're like, yeah, it's weird. It's like, like they all have
• 52:14
  their lives together, this and that, but at the same time,
• 52:16
  you're like, this seems kind of boring.
• 52:18
  Yeah. I mean, you were like kind of
• 52:20
  stuck between. Vanilla, how he felt.
• 52:22
  About it Almost. Yeah.
• 52:23
  And I think the word that is the word.
• 52:25
  This group like like a fat cats I guess us like no one's really
• 52:29
  like. Casey's the only one with the
• 52:31
  kid, and even then Casey still does more stuff than all of us
• 52:35
  combined. Probably I.
• 52:36
  Mean Josh has two kids too. He was probably the first one to
• 52:38
  get into that side of things too.
• 52:40
  And he's the most disconnected, so it makes sense.
• 52:44
  He only has two spawn that he has to take care of.
• 52:47
  It's it's pretty. But it's like I feel like you
• 52:49
  trade different types of stress too, depending on the lifestyle.
• 52:52
  Like for example with Carl, like he's he's painting, he's doing
• 52:57
  this, he's doing that, but he's got a lot of freedom right now.
• 53:00
  He might not feel good financially, but life is
• 53:04
  probably a lot less stressful in certain ways.
• 53:06
  Those people are your friends at those parties that have great
• 53:08
  jobs, this and that family stuff.
• 53:11
  They have different stresses. That is like fuck what am I
• 53:14
  doing in my life? I'm bored.
• 53:15
  They probably. Think about that.
• 53:16
  Yeah, they're. Probably.
• 53:16
  Sometimes they're probably like fuck it.
• 53:18
  Like is this what I wanted to do?
• 53:20
  Like you did everything. Like while they're holding the
• 53:22
  kid. Yeah, it's like I feel like.
• 53:24
  I feel like that's when, like, like, people start cheating and
• 53:26
  start getting some devious whoa, whoa, whoa, because they're
• 53:29
  bored. Like, what the fuck else do they
• 53:31
  do? Yeah, I've always, hey, it's
• 53:33
  real, bro. Like that's real.
• 53:36
  Fuck it is you guys friend. I'm not talking about my friend,
• 53:40
  I'm talking to the people in that scenario like your.
• 53:42
  Friends. Yeah, what?
• 53:44
  I feel like that's why people in our circle, I feel like I'll
• 53:49
  meet girls that are not in the Drift community and they're
• 53:52
  like, so what's the drama? I'm like there's not because
• 53:55
  we're all fucking so retarded and invested in these cars.
• 53:58
  Like we don't have time to get bored and want to go do some
• 54:02
  devious ass shit because. We're.
• 54:04
  Pretty locked in. You're right, it is.
• 54:05
  There is a lot of dedication that has to like.
• 54:07
  In the Drift community, there's never any.
• 54:09
  Like whenever there is drama, it fucking blows up because
• 54:13
  everybody's like holy fuck, something's happening,
• 54:15
  something's happening. Because like, the one person
• 54:17
  called the other person's car ugly.
• 54:19
  Oh no. Boo, Boo, what are we doing?
• 54:23
  It's not, it's not like actual racing where like, you know,
• 54:26
  people are stressed out trying to kill each other and shit.
• 54:29
  Drifting is like we're all we're all.
• 54:30
  Friends, actually Fernando's mom was telling us that that the
• 54:33
  last drift event because his daddy's in a drag racing, OK.
• 54:36
  And she was like, I love. They come around.
• 54:39
  Everything here, everybody's so nice and everyone helps each
• 54:41
  other and it's like, yeah, I mean, I've never been in a drag
• 54:44
  racing like that, so I don't really know what it's.
• 54:45
  Dude, I've heard, I've heard shit like like people get killed
• 54:48
  over certain things, like crazy stuff.
• 54:50
  Well, cuz there's I feel like. There's money where?
• 54:52
  There's a lot of money. Wherever there's a lot of money,
• 54:55
  there's a lot of risk and a lot of potential violence.
• 54:58
  Potential for violence, not even just violence, but just overall
• 55:03
  conflict. Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 55:04
  Like there are other Motorsports like drifting that are similar.
• 55:07
  Like I've heard people talk about motocross and stuff and
• 55:09
  they're like actually like it's competition, but they still try
• 55:13
  to help each other and stuff like it's weird there's.
• 55:15
  Certain other ones, I get scared sometimes when I think about
• 55:17
  final. Like final bout is one of those
• 55:19
  things where since people work hard or we were talking about it
• 55:21
  earlier, people work really hard sometimes years, year, months of
• 55:25
  whatever, how long it takes them to be there.
• 55:26
  Yeah, if if somebody gets shorted, like they feel like
• 55:31
  they got shorted or let's say there was a crash or there was,
• 55:34
  like it's so easy for that to turn into a crazy argument.
• 55:39
  And I feel like over the years, the fact that this can still
• 55:41
  continue with people having a good expectation.
• 55:45
  Yeah, right. Pretty moderately.
• 55:46
  OK. It's kind of a phenomenon
• 55:50
  because there's hundreds of people there, you know what I
• 55:53
  mean? I feel like no one even wants to
• 55:54
  fight. I feel like anybody that shows
• 55:56
  up and gets mad about judging doesn't understand why they're
• 55:59
  there. And I feel like they get they.
• 56:00
  That's a pretty good. Way they leave pretty quickly.
• 56:02
  Like dude, we're we're literally doing the figure skating of the
• 56:05
  Motorsports world. Dude, I've been hearing about
• 56:08
  that. Shit sometimes, like someone
• 56:09
  will spin or something and someone crashes and then it's
• 56:12
  like, oh, that dude's really mad and it's like, well, he won't be
• 56:14
  here for long then. Yeah, because if he doesn't
• 56:16
  understand how this goes. Or the teams that show up and
• 56:18
  like they don't do good in the car show portion, they're like
• 56:20
  start getting upset. Why?
• 56:22
  Like why? Yeah, but then their.
• 56:23
  Car looks bad so why are like but?
• 56:25
  It doesn't look bad to them. Oh, that's true.
• 56:27
  And like, but they don't understand why they're there in
• 56:28
  the 1st place. Yeah, and.
• 56:31
  Why do you guys like to be there at final bout?
• 56:35
  I mean, it's a good question. We've all known each other for a
• 56:38
  very long time and we all have our own things going on now, you
• 56:41
  know what I mean? So early 20s, mid 20s, we were
• 56:45
  seeing each other like. Every day, yeah.
• 56:46
  Every day. Every weekend, yeah.
• 56:48
  So it's it's nice to have like that one day a month or every
• 56:53
  couple of months where we all kind of get together for one
• 56:55
  thing. Yeah, because we all have things
• 56:57
  going on. So yeah, that's probably it.
• 57:00
  He's definitely the most busy probably out of all of us,
• 57:02
  obviously with trying to run this whole.
• 57:05
  Show me and Casey, probably still equally busy, I would say
• 57:08
  and. He runs multiple things as well,
• 57:09
  like he's a business owner. Yep.
• 57:11
  He's got three skate shops he's also working for like a proper
• 57:14
  like wow, like a new home builder type of company and
• 57:17
  like. He has a kid.
• 57:18
  Yeah. Cannot imagine.
• 57:21
  Plays golf, skates luckily. Enough.
• 57:22
  He doesn't work on his own car, though.
• 57:24
  Yeah, well. He has a friend.
• 57:26
  He has a friend who has a BMW shop.
• 57:28
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know where you can bring it
• 57:30
  like. Too many things we're adding.
• 57:32
  I was like, there's a lot of stuff oh, he doesn't work on.
• 57:34
  His own car. Oh OK, Do everything.
• 57:35
  Else he has enough time. Yeah, 'cause you think about
• 57:38
  like somebody who's new to drifting, who wants to get into
• 57:40
  drifting, what's like the first thing that they really need to
• 57:44
  figure out and learn after like an event or two.
• 57:47
  How to maintain an oil change. Oh yeah, people, people.
• 57:50
  Who don't work on their own cars that like, screwed.
• 57:52
  They're like, yeah, I'm going to get into drifting.
• 57:53
  I was like. Good.
• 57:54
  Luck I I don't know how you're going to do that, but.
• 57:58
  I never realized like I think after travelling a little bit,
• 58:01
  especially like in Chicago, and now I'm learning a little bit
• 58:03
  more like California, like there's a lot of people out
• 58:05
  there who don't work on their car, period.
• 58:07
  It's wild. I didn't know that was a thing.
• 58:09
  Like there's no one in Houston asides from like now, Rudy.
• 58:11
  I guess that might work on a drift car that there's really no
• 58:14
  shop. There's like maybe 2 here, 2,
• 58:16
  and no one really uses them to be honest, besides the select
• 58:19
  few. Everyone works their own car.
• 58:21
  So like when I went to Chicago and like, Simba's taking his car
• 58:24
  to TF or like, I'm like, really like people do that for OK,
• 58:28
  that's cool, all right. And those are people that know
• 58:31
  how to work on their own car too.
• 58:32
  So yeah, I mean, it gets to a point where like, you got more
• 58:34
  shit going on, so it's not even worth it.
• 58:36
  I think it's we're all getting older.
• 58:37
  If like you're successful and you can afford to do that, fuck
• 58:40
  yeah, good for you. I wish I could.
• 58:41
  I was going to say it. Probably makes it a little bit
• 58:43
  more fun too, yeah? Yeah.
• 58:44
  You can enjoy it a little. Better, but I feel like you got
• 58:46
  to know how to fix your car tomorrow, man, because you're at
• 58:48
  the track bare minimum and The thing is there are people that
• 58:51
  don't know how to do that stuff that are getting into this and
• 58:54
  it's like. I'm not going to say I know how
• 58:56
  to do it. If he wasn't at the track every
• 58:58
  time I'm there, like always, that problem wouldn't work out.
• 59:01
  Emergency we could do it. We we could do it because look,
• 59:03
  this is you know, you know what's funny?
• 59:05
  This is my mic right here, which is funny to me because if I was
• 59:08
  in trouble and I didn't know what to do I would be like at
• 59:11
  the track. This hasn't happened yet because
• 59:13
  Frankie doesn't drive anymore. But like I would have to ask
• 59:17
  Frankie or probably Chris, like without that guidance.
• 59:23
  You guys have done that before. That doesn't mean you can't do
• 59:25
  it anymore. You know what I mean?
• 59:26
  We just don't want to do it anymore.
• 59:28
  I just get too strung out at events.
• 59:30
  I just want to be on track the whole time.
• 59:32
  So that that's you. Yeah, yeah.
• 59:34
  So the days that he has issues and I don't go to an event, I'm
• 59:37
  not driving. The minute he has a problem,
• 59:39
  hey, my ear is not working. What are they doing?
• 59:42
  Yeah, I don't even look at anything.
• 59:43
  I just immediately pick up the phone.
• 59:45
  Panicking on the. I like before the helmet could
• 59:48
  even come off. It's your phone call Mike Helmet
• 59:50
  Strat. Pull it off.
• 59:52
  Hey. I just pull my E brake and it's
• 59:54
  not working. What do you think?
• 59:55
  I gotta take the rear brakes off.
• 59:56
  Look at the what? Do you think I need to do Damn
• 59:59
  it dude? I know you're busy right now
• 1:00:01
  every. Group, every group is similar in
• 1:00:03
  that aspect with drifting. Like we're all, there's always
• 1:00:05
  that one guy that definitely better at working on cars, you
• 1:00:08
  know? Dude, it's just the support
• 1:00:09
  system. Jimmy credited a lot of his
• 1:00:12
  support system to his like, his wife, his family.
• 1:00:15
  Like having friends that you drift with is pretty important
• 1:00:19
  too, because then you just like, yell at each other about what
• 1:00:23
  you're going through. I know that sounds fucking dumb.
• 1:00:25
  Just someone to relate. Like, yeah, it's it's it's your
• 1:00:28
  safe space. Like your friend group is a is
• 1:00:31
  your friend group. That's why since you guys have
• 1:00:32
  been friends for so long, that the team fat cats is cool to me.
• 1:00:36
  It's not just a team that like formulated itself overnight.
• 1:00:39
  It's like a team that you remember seeing for a while and
• 1:00:41
  it's still here. So I hope you guys fucking yeah.
• 1:00:44
  We kind of, we kind of get lucky in like we've formed way before,
• 1:00:47
  honestly before drifting. Yeah, because there was a lot
• 1:00:50
  going on here. Lone Star was a thing, but it
• 1:00:52
  wasn't what it. I mean, it's not what we were
• 1:00:54
  into, so. I don't know if you all know
• 1:00:56
  what Lone Star. Yeah, yeah, we've heard like
• 1:00:58
  over the last over the. It's like a pro am type of vibe.
• 1:01:01
  I guess you'd say that but that was the only drift events to go
• 1:01:03
  to. Like whenever we first like.
• 1:01:05
  Bigger power and which I don't really get the vibe from that
• 1:01:09
  from you guys cars like anyway, so then where would you guys
• 1:01:12
  have gone like well, you know, but it looked like.
• 1:01:14
  That I mean that, that that's an origin story.
• 1:01:17
  Like so like I think I don't know what year that was when
• 1:01:20
  everybody painted their cars, but we went to Lone Star.
• 1:01:22
  It's like 2015 or something. And like all of our cars.
• 1:01:25
  Yeah. His car, like everybody's car
• 1:01:27
  was fresh. It was the first time we'd ever
• 1:01:29
  all shown it up to a drift together.
• 1:01:30
  I think it was all six of us at the time.
• 1:01:32
  And it was like a Lone Star event.
• 1:01:34
  And like, I just remember we pulled up and every car is
• 1:01:36
  fucking pro amped out. And like, we were just the odd.
• 1:01:38
  I remember even Lozi, like came up to us and was like, wow,
• 1:01:41
  these cars are too nice to be drifting out here.
• 1:01:44
  And it's like a parking lot that we're driving in.
• 1:01:46
  Like of course he like made his little.
• 1:01:47
  Comments for us. And actually an origin story to
• 1:01:50
  Colin, who you guys just did one.
• 1:01:52
  With Yeah, yeah, yeah, Colin. Was a child there?
• 1:01:54
  Colin was like probably 12 or 13, and that's when he's in his
• 1:01:56
  little E36 with his booster seat and shit.
• 1:01:59
  Yeah. And you know Colin didn't get an
• 1:02:01
  intro to drifting other than his dad putting him in a car.
• 1:02:04
  Dude, we heard. Right.
• 1:02:05
  So I mean, he could obviously tell it better than this.
• 1:02:07
  Is a perfect timing because we just we're talking.
• 1:02:09
  And Colin showed up and it was the first time he'd ever seen,
• 1:02:12
  like, low cars and like, you know, dude.
• 1:02:14
  I literally. Oh, did he?
• 1:02:16
  Did he tell this story? OK, I hope I'm repeating it
• 1:02:18
  correctly. That lot, his life.
• 1:02:20
  Oh, it changed. It changed the direction.
• 1:02:21
  We said that too, like Kim seeing you guys is like, imagine
• 1:02:24
  you guys chose to. Go to that day.
• 1:02:26
  Yeah, and he was there. He'd have been a prom drive
• 1:02:28
  right now, yeah. You're doing Formula D You're
• 1:02:30
  probably being real successful. That's exactly.
• 1:02:35
  We ruined his life, so we. Just had that conversation with
• 1:02:38
  him, right? And he's going through the story
• 1:02:40
  and all this and I don't, we didn't know him, but we knew he
• 1:02:42
  was 14 when he started, right? So he's telling us all this and
• 1:02:44
  he's sitting there and I'm like, like, holy shit.
• 1:02:47
  And then he's like, yeah, but fuck all that.
• 1:02:49
  Like I would have been in debt. And this, he didn't say it like
• 1:02:51
  that, but he's basically saying like, I would have went down a
• 1:02:52
  different road. And in my mind I said I was
• 1:02:54
  like, or you would have been Vaughn getting Junior.
• 1:02:56
  Yeah. Yeah, you did say that shit was
• 1:02:58
  kind of funny. You don't really know, but.
• 1:03:00
  He didn't. He didn't like respond.
• 1:03:02
  The chances are you wouldn't have been, but.
• 1:03:04
  He's like a child star man. Like I feel like he like
• 1:03:07
  resented it because he was kind of pushed into it, even though
• 1:03:09
  he's super good and like he could have.
• 1:03:11
  Won it. It was early days.
• 1:03:12
  So like now everybody has a SIM right?
• 1:03:15
  Like it's cheap enough. Cost of entry is pretty low for
• 1:03:18
  simulators, yeah. Yeah, he talked.
• 1:03:19
  About that, yeah. But that's cool.
• 1:03:21
  You guys have so many different people at the at that event,
• 1:03:24
  like the Lone Star events. It's from what he said too.
• 1:03:27
  It's like you had different different groups.
• 1:03:29
  Because this was the only place to go there.
• 1:03:30
  There wasn't like a split in the community yet.
• 1:03:32
  Not not in Texas, at least. Yeah, but.
• 1:03:35
  Would you say there is though now?
• 1:03:37
  Oh, absolutely, yeah. And that, that's good.
• 1:03:39
  Everybody kind of has their home.
• 1:03:40
  Yeah, it was worse at first. Like which is a bad, yeah, let's
• 1:03:43
  that it's not a bad thing because I feel like people are
• 1:03:46
  going to hear that and be like, oh, they're starting some shit.
• 1:03:49
  No, no, that's not. That's not what you we already
• 1:03:51
  went through that whole. Phase.
• 1:03:52
  That's not what they they mean. It's just it.
• 1:03:55
  Not every group has to jive and that's OK.
• 1:03:57
  Yeah, everybody got their own plan.
• 1:03:59
  Like let's all be happy the motorsport is big enough to
• 1:04:01
  where we can do that and and and different groups can be
• 1:04:04
  successful. Oh hell yeah.
• 1:04:05
  Like you're saying what it was worse at first or something but
• 1:04:08
  like. Yeah, so the first final bout in
• 1:04:11
  Houston, there was a lot of like judgement, but granted, driving
• 1:04:15
  was not good. First final bout, it was
• 1:04:17
  actually pretty bad. It was pretty bad.
• 1:04:19
  That's how it usually tracks. I wonder why?
• 1:04:21
  Well, OK, so I mean, there's a lot of us have never driven
• 1:04:23
  like, oh, we need to drive as a team now.
• 1:04:25
  Like we've we need to go on track together, like we've all
• 1:04:27
  driven together, but and find the track space, speed sports
• 1:04:31
  like that was one of the first times 90.
• 1:04:32
  Percent I was ever. Driven it.
• 1:04:34
  It rained in the morning, it was patchy, just everything was just
• 1:04:37
  not really set up to be like that.
• 1:04:40
  Great. Yeah, it is what it is.
• 1:04:42
  I love that place. It's good.
• 1:04:45
  Speed sports is nice man. A facility we're.
• 1:04:47
  Lucky. Like it is.
• 1:04:49
  I hope we have it for as long as we can have it.
• 1:04:51
  We don't know how much longer we got.
• 1:04:52
  I'm sure Jimmy probably dropped from now.
• 1:04:54
  Yeah, we talked to Jimmy about POD, but he he seems very.
• 1:04:57
  Optimistic. Yeah, it's good.
• 1:04:58
  That's all I can do is. Like, I mean, he's pretty
• 1:05:00
  optimistic about everything. So he's.
• 1:05:02
  Good at that. He's good at that.
• 1:05:03
  He is good at that, but that that since it was so early on
• 1:05:08
  like that, I don't know that that it wasn't.
• 1:05:11
  How what what else could you have expected?
• 1:05:13
  You know what I mean? So like it, only it only gets
• 1:05:15
  better from there. And it looks like it has.
• 1:05:17
  And like now it's pretty sick. Yeah.
• 1:05:21
  Like if you think about the driving from that event to
• 1:05:24
  today, like everybody's. Especially from the locals.
• 1:05:28
  It's like that first, our first special stage, like brake shift.
• 1:05:31
  The Florida team came and like, they won.
• 1:05:33
  They won. Holy crap.
• 1:05:34
  Because like, they knew how to drive together.
• 1:05:35
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. But like now like our local
• 1:05:37
  teams can or like are on that level, which I would, I would
• 1:05:40
  love to say we are, but there's other teams that are definitely
• 1:05:42
  better and and doing it better. So that's cool.
• 1:05:45
  Very cool. Yeah, dude.
• 1:05:46
  Houston has turned into one of the most prominent.
• 1:05:50
  Like. Areas of the country for the
• 1:05:52
  kind of style that we're into. Which is so weird, yeah.
• 1:05:55
  I'm sure it is weird for you guys, yeah.
• 1:05:57
  He's been saying it a lot this whole trip.
• 1:05:58
  Yeah, 'cause like, this is the style.
• 1:06:00
  This is where all the styles are at.
• 1:06:01
  Yeah, it's, it's crazy, like it was Chicago.
• 1:06:04
  And still is. It still always will be, I
• 1:06:06
  think, in this country. But now to me it's Houston is
• 1:06:09
  second, like 100% because there's just so many.
• 1:06:12
  Cool J style old style cars, you know, I mean that we that we're
• 1:06:15
  into do. You guys ever have this?
• 1:06:17
  Like I've kind of created this thought in my head where like I
• 1:06:20
  think drifting goes through generations very quickly.
• 1:06:23
  Like I would consider like fat cats in essence.
• 1:06:26
  Maybe like first Gin Houston like in in our group and then
• 1:06:30
  like the oblivion groups and like things like that.
• 1:06:32
  They're kind of second Gen. and now we have a whole third Gen.
• 1:06:35
  wave that I don't even really like ice style guys and stuff
• 1:06:37
  like that. Like, I don't even really know
• 1:06:38
  everybody yet. I call them like waves and I
• 1:06:41
  usually, I usually said like I would be in your era.
• 1:06:44
  I usually viewed that as a second because of club losing
• 1:06:46
  how long they've been doing it, you know what I mean?
• 1:06:48
  But yeah, it's like just kind of like 5 years spans, kind of five
• 1:06:54
  to like 10 years, but usually 5. And then, yeah, it's like
• 1:06:57
  everything, not everything changes, but you see so many new
• 1:07:00
  groups. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:07:02
  Like someone who got like now it's not like us inspiring
• 1:07:04
  people. It's it's oblivion inspiring a
• 1:07:06
  group and now C style is probably going to inspire some
• 1:07:08
  of the kids that they know or like it just keeps going.
• 1:07:11
  It's cool as fuck and it's. Not.
• 1:07:12
  Like I feel like Chicago's on like Gen. 9 or some shit.
• 1:07:16
  We're on like Gen. 3. Like you have to support the new
• 1:07:20
  guys, right? So the minute you gatekeep and
• 1:07:23
  you don't support the new generation, like it just dies
• 1:07:26
  like because then they don't know what to do.
• 1:07:28
  Like they don't know where to go.
• 1:07:29
  They don't know. Half the reason why, like we
• 1:07:33
  have a little team, but it's we don't, it's a friend group.
• 1:07:37
  That's what I think of as a team.
• 1:07:39
  It's what it should be. It's what it should be.
• 1:07:41
  Here to win anything like it's a friend group 1st and like it's a
• 1:07:45
  it's a club right? It sounds kind of corny, but.
• 1:07:47
  Yeah, yeah, I'd say the same. Thing it's a it's.
• 1:07:50
  A little corny to say it's a club.
• 1:07:52
  Same team, it's a. Club, I never say team like
• 1:07:55
  that. I don't know what else to say.
• 1:07:57
  It's a club. It's a.
• 1:07:58
  Club crew, Like none of the words are very good.
• 1:08:01
  It's a car club or it's a drift club or whatever you call, but
• 1:08:03
  it's usually a club like you know what I mean?
• 1:08:05
  I'm. I think I'm I'm lucky with my
• 1:08:08
  group that I can say it's like my family.
• 1:08:10
  Yeah, we've been friends for 15 less.
• 1:08:12
  Years. I think you could.
• 1:08:13
  Definitely say that I'm closer to these guys than I am my own
• 1:08:16
  family at this point. Oh yeah, I've been here longer
• 1:08:18
  than I was back home. So but yeah, like trying to say
• 1:08:21
  team or crew like to A to a normal person, I'm just like.
• 1:08:25
  But that that seeing the first Gen. oldies drive like and be a
• 1:08:31
  group and then kind of pass down the values.
• 1:08:33
  Thank God Frankie is around to do that.
• 1:08:36
  For the rest of us in our area that we're closer to Frankie,
• 1:08:39
  then we don't really have anybody else and like, well,
• 1:08:42
  frustrated. And all them I guess.
• 1:08:44
  But I they're across the bridge and across the water, I'm not
• 1:08:47
  going all the way over there. It's 45 minutes.
• 1:08:50
  It's just fucking $30. Yeah, it's not really.
• 1:08:53
  Not about the time. It's $30, yeah.
• 1:08:55
  I'm not giving the. State 30.
• 1:08:56
  Dollars and it is about 30 minutes. $30 in gas you could
• 1:09:01
  go. Football.
• 1:09:02
  Yeah, no, but that's no gas. That's just a toll, but and then
• 1:09:05
  if you run a red light, you get a free ticket.
• 1:09:06
  It's six. But the message that Frankie and
• 1:09:10
  all of the you guys groups translated is like just 'cause
• 1:09:13
  you drift together and you want to go do something.
• 1:09:15
  It doesn't have to be like a team right away.
• 1:09:17
  We we didn't even want to do all that, but we just wanted to coin
• 1:09:21
  the name first. So now I have drift.
• 1:09:23
  That's the hardest part of. Creating anything is the name
• 1:09:25
  yellow? Fever.
• 1:09:26
  Yellow fever. At least you can get away with
• 1:09:32
  that. Dude, none of us are.
• 1:09:33
  It's like me and two, but Brad has an Asian girlfriend.
• 1:09:37
  Like yellow fever there. You go.
• 1:09:41
  There. You go, boy.
• 1:09:43
  I mean, that is a good. That is a good.
• 1:09:44
  Name. It was also a disease long ago.
• 1:09:47
  Yeah, forgot about that. Yeah.
• 1:09:49
  Didn't know that. Yeah.
• 1:09:49
  It's a disease. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:51
  So that that that was what we named.
• 1:09:52
  So you're going to get sued initially, that's what you're
• 1:09:54
  saying? Maybe we might have to change it
• 1:09:55
  eventually, but it's fine. It's more of the fun.
• 1:09:58
  Just just do fever. Yeah.
• 1:09:59
  Just shorten it to fever. There you go.
• 1:10:01
  Yeah. Put a little Y all the way
• 1:10:03
  little bottom left small. What do you guys got?
• 1:10:08
  Because obviously you kind of ran through pretty much what
• 1:10:11
  every group can do. You run through problems, you go
• 1:10:15
  accomplish something, you get the final value.
• 1:10:17
  You run the events. Do this.
• 1:10:18
  Do that. Survive the Tesla time.
• 1:10:20
  Where do you where do you go? Oh, the Tesla time.
• 1:10:22
  Where do you go now? GT3's yeah, we all buy Porsche.
• 1:10:28
  That's the plan. GT3RS.
• 1:10:29
  Is damn that's good tech. That'd be cool.
• 1:10:31
  I don't get tech. I think Mike's probably gonna be
• 1:10:32
  the only one that actually gets one.
• 1:10:34
  But like, Nah, I'm gonna pretend.
• 1:10:35
  I'm gonna pretend. Yeah, we're uplifting.
• 1:10:37
  Yeah. Zach Internet money Internet
• 1:10:39
  money. We need the Internet money.
• 1:10:41
  We're gonna click the part where you said you were really good
• 1:10:43
  with money, and we're just gonna make it look like you.
• 1:10:44
  I'm gonna really borrow. Yeah.
• 1:10:46
  Invest in Internet money. We need to get Internet money.
• 1:10:48
  I miss the YouTube wave bro I feel like I could have done that
• 1:10:51
  years ago. Just too fucking you.
• 1:10:52
  Seem like a good YouTube? I think if I wasn't a lazy piece
• 1:10:55
  of shit that like playing video games all the time.
• 1:10:57
  That's the hard part, yeah. Could have capitalized.
• 1:11:01
  Yeah. I feel like Houston still
• 1:11:02
  doesn't really have one. Yep.
• 1:11:04
  And I feel like that spot is open.
• 1:11:06
  It's just. And everybody looks at me and
• 1:11:08
  they're like, dude, it's time. It's just.
• 1:11:10
  But I, I, I get caught in that like like I'll watch a Jimmy
• 1:11:13
  Yokes video or something and I'm like, he's always doing
• 1:11:15
  something that's very interesting.
• 1:11:16
  Like whether whatever I fucking like put some RGBS on my car or
• 1:11:21
  something. And like I don't ever do
• 1:11:22
  anything in my car anymore. Like it's already, it was
• 1:11:25
  already built. I just had this awesome
• 1:11:26
  opportunity with the car. You have to build your way
• 1:11:28
  there. That's yeah.
• 1:11:30
  This would have been the. It would have been like I got
• 1:11:32
  whole build. Series After I got laid off, I
• 1:11:35
  had three months of paid leave. So I was like, oh, I'm gonna get
• 1:11:38
  I'm gonna get paid to build my car.
• 1:11:40
  And then I kind of got into this like little stressful thing
• 1:11:42
  like, oh shit, I only got 3 months.
• 1:11:43
  I need to like put this whole car together so I wasn't
• 1:11:45
  thinking about trying to fucking film.
• 1:11:46
  Everything, dude, I'm horrible at filming.
• 1:11:48
  It's hard. That shit's hard.
• 1:11:49
  Like I, it's extremely hard. Everyone loves to say, oh,
• 1:11:52
  YouTube show. No.
• 1:11:53
  Hell no. But I like.
• 1:11:54
  Hell no. I like the editing part and I
• 1:11:56
  like seeing it when it's done, so then I'll just suffer through
• 1:11:58
  recording or whatever. Like, like people always say
• 1:12:01
  that shit about Youtubers. Like they'll talk shit about
• 1:12:02
  Adam LZ and shit like that. Like that.
• 1:12:04
  Even I didn't even know Jimmy at a time and it people would talk
• 1:12:07
  shit like, oh, he got YouTube money this and that and I'm
• 1:12:10
  like, and then we would hang out with him and I'm like, yeah,
• 1:12:13
  that's not how it is, bro. It's not fucking fun.
• 1:12:15
  Like, I know it's not fun. Like, I don't know.
• 1:12:16
  I know when he gets to go to the track, he's probably having a
• 1:12:18
  great time, but like, yeah. Well, Jimmy's an odd one because
• 1:12:21
  he is always having a good time. You can see it and it's very
• 1:12:25
  he's very passionate about everything so that you almost
• 1:12:28
  never see him stressing out ever.
• 1:12:30
  But yeah. You know, he is internally, but
• 1:12:32
  he oh 100% on a good show, which is awesome.
• 1:12:34
  Yeah. So I wouldn't be able to do it
• 1:12:36
  pressurized that shit. Jimmy is is a performer, right?
• 1:12:41
  That guy's an intelligent guy. Yeah.
• 1:12:43
  And I'm sure MLC was similar. The way his brain works and
• 1:12:45
  stuff, it's nice, but it is when he goes to the track.
• 1:12:49
  You ever see him at a private? Well, you wouldn't know.
• 1:12:51
  You don't drive anymore, but you had a private day.
• 1:12:53
  Jimmy, no camera. It's like not important for him
• 1:12:58
  to film all the time. And he sometimes he's just it
• 1:13:01
  out there enjoying the hell of what his labour has given him,
• 1:13:05
  right, The purple car. And he's always so generous.
• 1:13:08
  He does shit like get in there and drive it bro.
• 1:13:10
  It's a fucking expensive ass car.
• 1:13:12
  I'm not, you know. Which I, I have noticed like in
• 1:13:16
  like his final bout coverage because, you know, like I'll
• 1:13:18
  definitely go back and watch those where he'll be like, yeah,
• 1:13:20
  I don't really film a lot of this weekend.
• 1:13:21
  And like, I appreciate that for himself that he'll take that
• 1:13:25
  weekend of all weekends. You know, that's the one event
• 1:13:27
  he'll kind of really take in and enjoy.
• 1:13:29
  He won't get, he's not a he's like the most least selfish
• 1:13:33
  person that you would think like that person has everything, you
• 1:13:37
  know what I mean? And if there's a problem, he'll
• 1:13:38
  help right in any way that he can.
• 1:13:40
  Mike, you know, like how people always say like, oh, you, you
• 1:13:42
  work on cars or you're a shop owner, like so you're going to
• 1:13:45
  get burnt out eventually and you're not going to want to do
• 1:13:46
  any of this shit anymore. I think people like Jimmy or
• 1:13:50
  Youtubers like that have it even worse because they're filming
• 1:13:53
  even the fun stuff that you mean, they're constantly having
• 1:13:57
  to do that, you know what I mean?
• 1:13:58
  So it's even more of a risk. It's that's why I view it.
• 1:14:00
  It's like crazy, but it's props to them 'cause I can't do that
• 1:14:04
  shit, dude. And especially the ones that are
• 1:14:06
  just starting out and they don't have anyone helping them.
• 1:14:08
  So you're filming the whole fucking thing.
• 1:14:10
  Yeah, you're going home editing it.
• 1:14:11
  I would just get self-conscious as fuck that I recorded
• 1:14:14
  something that I shouldn't have and then it's in the video and I
• 1:14:18
  actually needed that clip so then I put it in there anyway.
• 1:14:20
  Like those are the little nuances 'cause you ever see
• 1:14:24
  Jimmy do a retake? He never does.
• 1:14:27
  Fuck that. Yeah.
• 1:14:28
  Never, ever does, yeah. 'Cause then you gotta.
• 1:14:30
  And then and then like a robot, he's in the truck.
• 1:14:35
  Edit it right away. People don't notice that, but he
• 1:14:38
  does still a lot of his own work in that aspect.
• 1:14:42
  Yeah. And like, I don't know, I can't
• 1:14:43
  that that dude wears so. Not to scare you away from doing
• 1:14:45
  it, yeah. You can.
• 1:14:47
  Do that. I had Peter's brother.
• 1:14:48
  At it. Peter's brother is like a media
• 1:14:50
  guy. Like I was talking to him a
• 1:14:51
  couple weeks ago. I was like, come on, man, let's
• 1:14:52
  let's do it. You know, like I'll come up.
• 1:14:54
  But of course Major's like I want to get paid.
• 1:14:56
  And I was like, bitch, you don't just immediately get to start
• 1:14:58
  making money off that shit like. Yeah, you got to find something
• 1:15:00
  that'll help you out. Damn any of the media guy is
• 1:15:03
  like cracking his ass off right? Yeah, bro, you ain't going to
• 1:15:06
  get paid for a minute. Yeah too.
• 1:15:08
  Like. We've got you in about 3 years.
• 1:15:09
  Don't worry, I need. You to believe in me for at
• 1:15:11
  least two to three years, yeah. I like the, but let's say you
• 1:15:16
  did started a while ago. The best thing about the videos,
• 1:15:19
  the crappy videos that I made, is that you get to watch them.
• 1:15:23
  Yeah. And nobody's fucking watching
• 1:15:25
  them anymore. Like they're just pretty much
• 1:15:27
  for you. I go back and like, like the
• 1:15:29
  first time they helped me do A1J swap like fucking 12 years ago,
• 1:15:34
  like, like somebody took a video of me like driving down the
• 1:15:36
  street for the first time. I go back and look at it all the
• 1:15:38
  time just because there's like, damn, that was good.
• 1:15:41
  That image stabilization's like still pretty horrible.
• 1:15:44
  So it's like fucking like moving around those videos is what I
• 1:15:48
  try to do now. Like I'll, I bought like one of
• 1:15:51
  those like little cameras that looks like a little stick with a
• 1:15:53
  gimbal on it and I'll pull that out really fast and just record
• 1:15:58
  something because I'm I'm terrible at it.
• 1:16:00
  I want to enjoy just like how I told you guys earlier when we go
• 1:16:04
  to final bout I want to hang out.
• 1:16:06
  Then what ends up happening is I forget about every other
• 1:16:10
  responsibility ever, like recording videos or clips.
• 1:16:13
  For the one, you start talking to people and like the one.
• 1:16:15
  Faction video. We had to straight up cut it.
• 1:16:18
  There was, it was like we were all hanging out pre meet and
• 1:16:22
  then cut and then we're in the van going.
• 1:16:24
  On the way home and we're like, yeah.
• 1:16:25
  So that was fun. So that was great.
• 1:16:27
  That was really sick. Sorry, I pretty much forgot to
• 1:16:30
  record anything. Everything.
• 1:16:32
  It was a good one. And that was.
• 1:16:34
  Even putting a group, I think you just got a GoPro, right, I
• 1:16:36
  think. Everybody goes through the same
• 1:16:37
  thing. They'll make a mental note after
• 1:16:40
  an event like, oh, I'm going to take more pictures, I'm going to
• 1:16:42
  take more video. And then you you get to the
• 1:16:44
  event and then you just drive usually.
• 1:16:46
  It's like one thing goes wrong and everything, like nothing
• 1:16:49
  bad. I just drive.
• 1:16:51
  I learned that. Shit so early because people
• 1:16:53
  will be like, yo, you got to use a GoPro and film, you're driving
• 1:16:56
  and this and that. I was like, OK, cool, I'll do
• 1:16:57
  that. I did it one day and I was like,
• 1:16:59
  I'm never fucking doing that shit.
• 1:17:01
  Fuck that. Like I got to go.
• 1:17:02
  I'm not doing all this shit like I just want to drive.
• 1:17:04
  I think the best I've ever like situation I've come up with is I
• 1:17:07
  got the little like wireless remote for the GoPro and like I
• 1:17:10
  like kind of mounted it somewhere where I could easily
• 1:17:12
  press it. So I did get good at filming my
• 1:17:14
  like in car for a while yeah, which I and I still go back and
• 1:17:19
  watch those a lot just to like kind of see like how did I do
• 1:17:22
  that entry? But like I don't post it
• 1:17:23
  anywhere but. Yeah, that's good.
• 1:17:26
  I got rid of my fucking harness bar in my car so now I don't
• 1:17:29
  know where to mount a GoPro inside my.
• 1:17:30
  Car my GoPro anymore, dude, there's I.
• 1:17:32
  Don't know what the fuck to. Do there's a little arm that
• 1:17:35
  Ricardo uses? It's a clip and he clips it
• 1:17:38
  like. Behind the seat.
• 1:17:40
  Right here on the seat. Well I have a 30 year old thrash
• 1:17:42
  seat that's falling apart so I just fucking.
• 1:17:46
  Soros Sunroof. The sunroof car.
• 1:17:48
  No, not sunroof, I put. Awesome.
• 1:17:50
  Best part about it? Honestly awesome.
• 1:17:52
  In my opinion. Slick tops.
• 1:17:53
  Slick tops. I honestly kind of miss it
• 1:17:54
  though and the roof is kind of short.
• 1:17:56
  So it looks awesome. No sunroof.
• 1:17:58
  No slick tops missing. My sunroof.
• 1:18:00
  OK, let me. Look, I'm a sunroof guy too.
• 1:18:03
  I love pop. You got to get like a suction
• 1:18:05
  cup from this back quarter wind. Yeah, I need one of the, there's
• 1:18:07
  like 3 suction cup things and it can, but then it's like that
• 1:18:10
  doesn't look cool. No, like it's doesn't like
• 1:18:12
  nerdy. Staring at the inside of your
• 1:18:14
  car while. You're I hope everyone is
• 1:18:16
  whenever I get my green fucking seats.
• 1:18:18
  You get those VOP videos? Did you see the camera set up?
• 1:18:21
  Crazy. It's the passenger.
• 1:18:23
  Seat. Is like like batteries and like
• 1:18:28
  it was nuts. I think we could have a little
• 1:18:30
  boom inside. You know what I mean?
• 1:18:32
  That's see me in this thing, right?
• 1:18:34
  I don't know this. Stuff like I didn't know what
• 1:18:36
  that was, 3 rods. Going through my interior.
• 1:18:39
  In those videos I always wondered what that was.
• 1:18:41
  I thought it was like for telemetry or whatever the
• 1:18:43
  recording data. Hell no, that was just the
• 1:18:45
  recording. Video.
• 1:18:46
  A camera. I always think about that VHS
• 1:18:48
  yeah, VHS and quarters this fucking big I.
• 1:18:50
  Always think about it with the outside views.
• 1:18:52
  You see like the outside view and it's like in the 90s and
• 1:18:54
  you're like, what kind of fucking cameras hanging off this
• 1:18:56
  bumper right now? But we went to the moon though.
• 1:18:57
  Yeah, of. Course.
• 1:18:59
  Yeah, yeah, that's been the conversation all weekend.
• 1:19:02
  Oh, you are well, you are in. Houston Exactly.
• 1:19:04
  That's why I keep asking everyone like but we didn't go
• 1:19:06
  to the moon come. Down and go to the Space Center.
• 1:19:08
  I did. We don't have they have any.
• 1:19:09
  Time they didn't even get BBQ. How?
• 1:19:11
  Far was that from here. Hold on, how far was that from
• 1:19:13
  here? Everything is 45 minutes away.
• 1:19:15
  We could have made that. So you want to go block down the
• 1:19:16
  street? That's 45 minutes.
• 1:19:18
  Away. God damn.
• 1:19:18
  It if we left Jimmy's last night and didn't hang out with him, we
• 1:19:20
  could have did that, yeah. Dude, that was rare.
• 1:19:23
  We don't. Even know if I've ever been
• 1:19:24
  there. I've been here for like 15.
• 1:19:25
  Years we sat down together as just a group of friends and
• 1:19:29
  weren't it was kind. Of you were supposed to do a
• 1:19:31
  podcast. For it was kind of really nice.
• 1:19:33
  It didn't work out. Oh OK, so yeah, I I heard that
• 1:19:35
  y'all were supposed to make. That yeah, it was kind of my, it
• 1:19:37
  was my fault and his fault. But yeah, it was like we didn't
• 1:19:40
  stay on top of it. And then so now, now we're like
• 1:19:42
  at a spot where it's like, OK, I guess we're going to hang out
• 1:19:43
  now. And Jimmy's like, is that OK,
• 1:19:45
  Frankie, you can hang out. You're not going to be doing it.
• 1:19:47
  You're not working. Is that OK?
• 1:19:49
  And then, like Damon and Jimmy got me on the couch just sitting
• 1:19:52
  there with the kids all around me.
• 1:19:53
  And I'm just like, I'm like, Oh my God, watching super
• 1:19:56
  motocross. Dude, it was it was a nice
• 1:19:59
  decompress and I know it was just cooking Frankie.
• 1:20:02
  I'm just like, I need to be some productive, you know what I
• 1:20:06
  mean? It's.
• 1:20:07
  Saturday night I have to be working.
• 1:20:08
  Yeah, literally. Like.
• 1:20:09
  Meanwhile, Zach is out there fucking.
• 1:20:13
  Yeah, Zach's like, yo, I don't think I can do the morning.
• 1:20:15
  I'm like, I wonder why? Dating's not working for me,
• 1:20:18
  fuck. Man.
• 1:20:19
  I'm at the right place to meet women.
• 1:20:21
  Look, look, this is 3, all right?
• 1:20:24
  We're lonely people out here, bro.
• 1:20:25
  Speak for yourself. Yeah, I'm chill.
• 1:20:27
  I'm not lonely. I went chasing.
• 1:20:29
  I go date around for a little bit and I get tired of dating
• 1:20:31
  because I start to run out of money and then I'm like.
• 1:20:33
  Yeah, dating is expensive. Dude, fuck that.
• 1:20:35
  I'm good. Yeah, and.
• 1:20:36
  Like even even right now, like I actually kind of cautioned
• 1:20:39
  myself, oh God, we're about to get in February.
• 1:20:42
  Like, Oh no, no, I'm not trying to start anything new right now.
• 1:20:44
  So it's gonna pump the break post.
• 1:20:47
  Any holiday. Yeah.
• 1:20:48
  This man back on the market February 15th, yeah.
• 1:20:51
  Open for business. There we go.
• 1:20:54
  Do you turn in the light off? No way.
• 1:20:58
  Yeah. You got to think about that,
• 1:20:59
  Yeah. Don't be smart.
• 1:21:01
  Yeah, I've had friends that do that, literally do that.
• 1:21:03
  They're like, oh, Christmas is coming up.
• 1:21:04
  I can't. I can't start this.
• 1:21:05
  Yeah, we'll talk to you anyway. Yeah, we'll get.
• 1:21:07
  Sometimes when I'm working on the car, that's what that's when
• 1:21:09
  I get pissed about my dating life the most.
• 1:21:11
  It's not when I'm like sitting there like fucking alone.
• 1:21:14
  It's literally like why am I working on this?
• 1:21:16
  And this is probably the reason why women don't want to talk to
• 1:21:18
  me. It is, yeah.
• 1:21:20
  They they don't know it until they meet you, of course.
• 1:21:22
  I don't understand bro like the old in the 80s cars got the
• 1:21:26
  women what it? Doesn't happen when they were
• 1:21:28
  new, yeah. What, like the automobiles were
• 1:21:31
  new or the. Whoa, take it easy.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. You had a 95.
• 1:21:39
  You were in 1995 driving A1995240A sex like and I got
• 1:21:43
  fucked. Maybe not a 240, but yeah,
• 1:21:44
  maybe. Maybe a 300, yeah. 300ZX they
• 1:21:47
  got. Yeah, they probably did it.
• 1:21:49
  Dude I don't like it. It must be a deterrent dude.
• 1:21:52
  But then some of my friends have great supportive partners and
• 1:21:58
  then they can enjoy. Look at you.
• 1:22:00
  Yup shot Eric. I wassup.
• 1:22:02
  I wanted to. Say that earlier.
• 1:22:03
  There we go. Proceed If they're role models
• 1:22:06
  on anything, it's it's I look at them and I think, damn, I'm
• 1:22:09
  fucking old. Why am I doing?
• 1:22:11
  And then I look at proceed and I'm like, wow, they're really
• 1:22:13
  old. Fucking crazy.
• 1:22:16
  But they're still doing this, and they're all very.
• 1:22:17
  Sorry, Josh. I I say that with respect, yeah.
• 1:22:21
  And I know they know that. Hey, they still look the same.
• 1:22:23
  Though they still look the same, they're still having as much
• 1:22:25
  fun. But they all have nice houses,
• 1:22:26
  they have families, they have kids.
• 1:22:28
  And I'm like, OK, so you can do this.
• 1:22:30
  Yeah, they had it is possible and ate it right as well.
• 1:22:33
  Right. And so like that, that gives me
• 1:22:34
  a lot of drive to not feel as retarded.
• 1:22:37
  I hate to be the half glass, half empty guy, but when you
• 1:22:41
  start a relationship early with women like that, like it'll, I
• 1:22:45
  mean, you know they're in a relationship for a long time,
• 1:22:47
  right? And they saw the progression of
• 1:22:49
  everything. That's one way.
• 1:22:53
  Then it's like, we're 30 plus and it's like we're fucking with
• 1:22:57
  cars and we're trying to find women.
• 1:22:59
  They already been through possible relationships with guys
• 1:23:03
  with cars, and now they know better.
• 1:23:05
  They're like wait a minute, clear, wait a minute.
• 1:23:07
  That's why, like I always say, like, whoa, teach me about your
• 1:23:09
  passion. Yeah.
• 1:23:10
  And I'm like. Is.
• 1:23:11
  That Oh my gosh. No, no, no, no, no.
• 1:23:14
  Is that the line? That's what I was like.
• 1:23:17
  No, like girls like say that I love like a passionate guy.
• 1:23:20
  OK, wait till you find out my passion.
• 1:23:21
  Come to wait. Wait till you find out what one
• 1:23:24
  will last. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:23:25
  Oh my God. Friday night we're we're.
• 1:23:27
  Already. I'm at the shop.
• 1:23:29
  What do you mean you're at the shop?
• 1:23:30
  It's 10:00. Well, we have an event tomorrow.
• 1:23:32
  I'm not at the shop. I thought we were going to get
• 1:23:34
  dinner. We're fucking not.
• 1:23:35
  It's just we're fucking not doing this.
• 1:23:37
  And like like. And that's how it is.
• 1:23:39
  And then I have friends who just like find women really easy.
• 1:23:44
  Like somehow like they just don't try.
• 1:23:46
  Like it's just the buddy's dating profile.
• 1:23:48
  It literally said about me, this guy dead ass had cheese on the
• 1:23:54
  like. It just said cheese on the
• 1:23:56
  profile. Bro, he's getting crazy matches.
• 1:23:58
  I'm writing like I like long walks on the beach.
• 1:24:00
  I'm pretty easy going. Just don't treat me like shit
• 1:24:03
  and I'm probably going to be loyal to you for the rest of my
• 1:24:05
  life. And then grad shit and it's up.
• 1:24:09
  Was he a white boy, though? How tall is he?
• 1:24:12
  I'm telling you bro, we were. No.
• 1:24:13
  How tall is he? Is he tall?
• 1:24:15
  He is. He is a six foot plus white boy.
• 1:24:17
  How tall are you? Crazy or something?
• 1:24:19
  58 I'm not the right guy you. Don't beam that off the profile.
• 1:24:22
  Tall, tall, white tattoos. That's a triple threat, but.
• 1:24:26
  I only got 2 of them. I know 2.
• 1:24:28
  Out of threes and I'm like recent to this.
• 1:24:30
  You're like bro. It's 5858IS.
• 1:24:31
  Final about 3 We were it was, it was it was it was one of four
• 1:24:36
  Hispanic people. It was me, Angel, Amir, and we
• 1:24:40
  were on Zach's Tinder profile just swiping and this boat too
• 1:24:45
  snogged. This boat was getting crazy.
• 1:24:48
  Latinas on this shit go away in Chicago crazy.
• 1:24:53
  And I. Just had.
• 1:24:54
  That's why I had to ask that question.
• 1:24:55
  That's the only reason why. Gold Star Angel was just
• 1:24:58
  replying to all of them in Spanish and they were.
• 1:25:00
  They were eating. They were eating.
• 1:25:01
  And I had no idea what was happening.
• 1:25:02
  Dude, they probably thought you were like Bad Bunny or
• 1:25:04
  something. Bunny wasn't your thing yet,
• 1:25:07
  bro? I was like, yeah.
• 1:25:08
  Daddy Yankee. My bad.
• 1:25:09
  Yeah. Probably Pitbull or something
• 1:25:11
  that like this is so fun. I was at the party at the Chief
• 1:25:17
  House when I was here right away.
• 1:25:19
  Everybody was 40 beers in. Bro, this Chief Keef House, why
• 1:25:22
  have I why is this the. First time I'm.
• 1:25:25
  Hearing that. I went four, final about four.
• 1:25:28
  By final about three, I was still just like fly on the I'm
• 1:25:31
  just watching it still. I mean, we were kind of two, to
• 1:25:34
  be honest. Jimmy just put us on 16.
• 1:25:36
  I think it's Jimmy's the yeah, there was a lot of Texas guys
• 1:25:39
  there too. It was like you all you guys,
• 1:25:41
  Jimmy and like. It was just five of us.
• 1:25:42
  None of us drunk, really. It's just five of us.
• 1:25:44
  It's so weird how we hear this story like 3 times this true.
• 1:25:47
  Everybody has their own perspective on it, yeah.
• 1:25:48
  That no, but that Chief Keef. House, I feel like probably
• 1:25:51
  everyone's first final bout is like the best one if that ever
• 1:25:55
  happened. But Pinnacle, yeah, in my
• 1:25:56
  opinion, final bout 3 was the best one.
• 1:25:58
  Was kind of one of the better ones I would say.
• 1:26:01
  I feel like it was still low key enough to or it wasn't like
• 1:26:03
  super crazy. Yeah, it wasn't, but there,
• 1:26:05
  everyone was there. There was there was more teams
• 1:26:08
  involved from the country. I feel like the earlier ones, it
• 1:26:11
  was more isolated. Not everyone was on board yet.
• 1:26:15
  That's kind of how I feel about it.
• 1:26:16
  What do you think the next hurdle is going to be?
• 1:26:19
  Because like, now I feel like there's too many people, you
• 1:26:24
  know what I mean? Like, did you see the crowds and
• 1:26:27
  like like the amount of spectators on like the early
• 1:26:31
  videos? Yeah, I'm OK with that.
• 1:26:34
  I I love that part of it. I love that it's getting there.
• 1:26:38
  I don't, I mean, I, I had a long chat with Simba at the Last
• 1:26:41
  South and he was saying it's like, honestly, like we're kind
• 1:26:44
  of a part part of it too. I mean, we've driven every S but
• 1:26:47
  like a lot of the older teams that like find about 3, find
• 1:26:49
  about four are all kind of probably in the same situation
• 1:26:52
  as us. They're 35 trying to get their
• 1:26:54
  lives together. And so they can't make it.
• 1:26:56
  And then a lot of the newer teams are coming in.
• 1:26:58
  So like, people don't, oh, it's not the same anymore.
• 1:27:00
  You know, all the other teams are not driving.
• 1:27:02
  And so like, people get this weird, like jaded kind of view
• 1:27:06
  of final ballot. All these new cars, they're not
• 1:27:08
  as cool as it used to be. It's like, well, if we're not
• 1:27:10
  showing up, if you're not showing up, Yeah.
• 1:27:13
  It's. Your fault too dude.
• 1:27:15
  We had the same thing happen for knuckle up like all the the cars
• 1:27:18
  that were driving the first like 2 years.
• 1:27:20
  Now we're like refreshing or you know, not every car is there at
• 1:27:23
  every event. So even like the local guys with
• 1:27:26
  the cool cars, like, OK, you isn't what it used to be.
• 1:27:28
  There's always shitty cars there.
• 1:27:29
  Now that's like, well, you don't fucking show up, so someone has
• 1:27:32
  to take your place. Yeah, that's the same thing to
• 1:27:34
  find about like if you know, if if animal style doesn't show up
• 1:27:37
  one year, people are like, oh, this isn't even final bout bro.
• 1:27:40
  Animals Child's not here early. That did happen for a bit.
• 1:27:43
  Yeah, and and like people get upset about it.
• 1:27:45
  Yeah, I remember when they were not driving that much and at
• 1:27:47
  first people were like bummed about it.
• 1:27:49
  Yeah, I mean, but you can't make it every especially them.
• 1:27:51
  They're driving like 48 hours on the road like it's it's gold.
• 1:27:54
  Star too dude. That was one of the fucking.
• 1:27:56
  That was one of the best teams bro.
• 1:27:58
  Yeah, Gold Star Max. That's my boy.
• 1:28:00
  I've known him since like 2006. Oh, for real?
• 1:28:02
  It's like our best like drift team friend or like first drift
• 1:28:05
  team friend I guess. You would say Max is the only
• 1:28:07
  non fat cats like driver that had a seal.
• 1:28:12
  He had a seal on his 350Z back in the day when he lived this
• 1:28:14
  extra. Shit, I did not know that.
• 1:28:16
  Way back in the day. Yeah, dude, he's a good guy.
• 1:28:19
  Fucking Dom, right? Dom Angel, like, yeah, we we've
• 1:28:22
  all just been friends Way like from honestly, like the car show
• 1:28:25
  era, like whenever they were slam burglars.
• 1:28:28
  Oh yeah, that's like we kind of met.
• 1:28:30
  Them that's a great. Name I met them in like 2014
• 1:28:34
  remember about about one Yeah about the time that's when I
• 1:28:37
  that. Z being all the pain, I mean,
• 1:28:40
  what's fucking nuts on that? Z Dom's inspired that.
• 1:28:44
  That's inspired a lot of people to get into like.
• 1:28:46
  Trying to. Figure out how to make the car
• 1:28:49
  look that ballistic. That Z was amazing.
• 1:28:52
  Dom and his brother went crazy on that car, dude.
• 1:28:54
  A lot of time that's like, that's what we talk about, like
• 1:28:57
  sleepless nights working on your car to prep it for final out.
• 1:29:01
  Yeah, My favorite picture of Dom's car is that one at a park.
• 1:29:04
  I think it is. Or what's the what's the
• 1:29:06
  tracking in Northeast? Yeah, definitely the fuck there.
• 1:29:10
  Definitely, definitely. That one.
• 1:29:12
  But that one is gone now, right? Or something.
• 1:29:14
  The one in Oregon or something? Oregon.
• 1:29:17
  We're kind of far from Oregon. But my favorite picture of DOMS.
• 1:29:21
  Car northwest right right away over.
• 1:29:23
  There somewhere there's a picture of Doms car when he's
• 1:29:26
  like full lock E brake locked up and he's right by that big tree
• 1:29:29
  that everybody took pictures. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:29:31
  I think I know the photo you're. Talking about Yeah, dude, that's
• 1:29:33
  an iconic fucking picture. I would say you.
• 1:29:35
  Don't really see Z's like that, just like you don't how you
• 1:29:38
  don't really see as as well sore SE whatever 30.
• 1:29:41
  Z's They're coming in a lot more popular than they were five
• 1:29:44
  years ago. I think people were Googling
• 1:29:46
  right rear wheel drive cars and then just.
• 1:29:49
  Like well, nobody wants to buy the car I have, so they're like
• 1:29:51
  not as expensive and they have a 1J in them, so like, why not,
• 1:29:55
  right? That's a quality.
• 1:29:57
  That's for a sore, though. You got there.
• 1:29:58
  Like there's not a lot of people lining up to buy SC3 Hundreds,
• 1:30:01
  no. I want an SC430.
• 1:30:03
  But it's not the. Problem where I'm trying.
• 1:30:05
  To you go. There's a lot on.
• 1:30:06
  It no one wants to buy on my shoes.
• 1:30:09
  That wasn't a a hell yeah, that was a Nah.
• 1:30:12
  It was it's. Gross.
• 1:30:13
  I fuck with 430. 4:30 It looks like a upside down.
• 1:30:16
  But I would want a manual that's why.
• 1:30:19
  And then since it's ugly and stuff, die.
• 1:30:23
  Daigo had one. Yeah.
• 1:30:24
  Daigo had one. This is, Yeah.
• 1:30:25
  Something about one uzs like I just.
• 1:30:27
  I think it has like 3 Uzs. I think it has a three.
• 1:30:29
  UZ Something about the Uzs? But they're they're, they're
• 1:30:31
  trash. They're not good for
• 1:30:32
  performance. It would just be so I could putt
• 1:30:34
  putt around town and yeah. I think sores are a good, you
• 1:30:37
  know, that's like a really good looking.
• 1:30:40
  It's a good looking. Interesting.
• 1:30:41
  Yeah, it's a great looking car. This is the problem as a super
• 1:30:43
  suspension. OK.
• 1:30:45
  I was like, there's got to be something.
• 1:30:46
  OK, that makes sense. It's only a problem because it's
• 1:30:49
  so expensive. That's what I mean.
• 1:30:50
  But but like, it's getting better.
• 1:30:51
  There's a lot more companies that are coming into the market
• 1:30:53
  and it's kind of OK. It used to be Battle Version or
• 1:30:56
  IKEA. Yeah, Yeah.
• 1:30:58
  And then Battle Version is gone, by the way.
• 1:31:00
  Like battle version is gone. Cool.
• 1:31:01
  Options. Well, everything was super
• 1:31:03
  expensive. It's like the coolest.
• 1:31:05
  Upper control arms 1000. Lower control arms 1500.
• 1:31:08
  Like and. Then like Serial 9 made shit too
• 1:31:10
  but it's like. There's hard to get.
• 1:31:12
  Well, it's not even hard. It's just so expensive.
• 1:31:14
  Like it's hard to. It's hard to get because it's.
• 1:31:17
  Good. Yeah.
• 1:31:17
  And. And like, I'm not knocking, I'm
• 1:31:19
  broke is his name. Can't afford that shit.
• 1:31:21
  Cool dude. That's, I mean now I guess
• 1:31:24
  that's why it's like a little, I don't really, it doesn't faze me
• 1:31:27
  per SE because dealing with BMW stuff, it's like a full SPL
• 1:31:31
  catalog is like 1500 bucks on some cars or sometimes more than
• 1:31:36
  that on some. And it's and you know it works.
• 1:31:38
  It's, it's already there. It's been done the the like
• 1:31:42
  poking around isn't as hard to find it.
• 1:31:44
  I feel like GK tech just made everyone's as chassis live so I
• 1:31:48
  don't really know much about it but I just know it's it's
• 1:31:50
  affordable and it doesn't seem to suck.
• 1:31:52
  It doesn't suck. So like, I, I, I've wanted to
• 1:31:55
  message them and be like, can you guys please just support
• 1:31:57
  like fucking chassis? They will.
• 1:31:59
  Everything is, so there's no way they don't know about it.
• 1:32:01
  Yeah, but they, they probably just wait.
• 1:32:02
  They just start. There's a certain amount of
• 1:32:04
  people. They're doing BMW stuff now too,
• 1:32:05
  aren't they? They just made Altesa or IS
• 1:32:07
  stuff too. So I think they're getting Ross.
• 1:32:09
  They're. Now that I have everything like
• 1:32:12
  I don't need parts anymore but of.
• 1:32:13
  Course. OK, then what?
• 1:32:14
  The fuck are we completing about?
• 1:32:16
  It'll help get other people drunk.
• 1:32:17
  I've. Got everything but if I had to
• 1:32:18
  buy it again, I wouldn't buy it. That's what.
• 1:32:20
  I'm saying like if I ever break IKEA or I'm, I'd much rather.
• 1:32:23
  It's not going to happen than just the beauty in it.
• 1:32:24
  Yeah, it's like a buy once, cry once.
• 1:32:26
  Is. Buy once, cry once is.
• 1:32:28
  Old at We're in Japan on that car Keynes, that IKEA formula
• 1:32:34
  tie rod. It looked like it came out the
• 1:32:36
  Titanic and it's still only bent like E Mac something pretty
• 1:32:41
  hard. Yeah.
• 1:32:42
  And it like bent ever so slightly.
• 1:32:43
  And I was like, God damn. Dude I have a pair of IKEA
• 1:32:47
  formula tie rods on my car that I bought from Michael tie like
• 1:32:50
  7-8 years ago and they were bent from the very beginning and
• 1:32:53
  they've been bent since then and it's still on my car It's.
• 1:32:57
  Not right. That's why I'm saying it.
• 1:33:01
  This guy scanned me for some vent arms once.
• 1:33:04
  They're still on my car. Asshole.
• 1:33:07
  That's why, yeah, that's why Kia Formula is the brand, bro.
• 1:33:10
  Dude the GK tech stuff too. It's like they sell them in a
• 1:33:14
  batch. You could not make it easier.
• 1:33:18
  They're like here's every arm for the rear end and you can
• 1:33:21
  also pay me in 4 increments. Credit Karma or Shadow?
• 1:33:27
  Affirm this for four months for $50.
• 1:33:31
  Yeah, yeah. Kind of trust what I need, yeah.
• 1:33:33
  I love that I've. Never been easier to go into the
• 1:33:36
  fucking bankruptcy or get fucking credit up.
• 1:33:38
  It's never been easier. It's kind.
• 1:33:39
  Of nuts and now at least all the arms and the like.
• 1:33:42
  I don't like when the arms are different colors.
• 1:33:44
  I don't know why. Yeah.
• 1:33:45
  But it looks. Cooler when you look under the
• 1:33:47
  subframe and it like. Matches.
• 1:33:48
  Yeah, I literally cannot complain about GK tech on
• 1:33:51
  anything because it's just like the the color, like you said,
• 1:33:54
  the colors, everything, everything looks good.
• 1:33:56
  Yeah, everything looks good on on anything.
• 1:33:58
  Yeah, like it all works. We rarely have any problems with
• 1:34:00
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• 1:34:03
  Yeah, it's kind of fucked up. They don't support us or so
• 1:34:06
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  Yeah, we got questions. I, I probably have a bunch, so
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  If there's anything that starts with zunk, just don't read.
• 1:36:34
  The rest of yeah, just don't, don't read.
• 1:36:36
  The. Read the read the Zunk one for
• 1:36:38
  that. I have a feeling there's going
• 1:36:40
  to be some junks in there and I I just don't need to deal with
• 1:36:42
  it. Dude, OK, wait, so the Runescape
• 1:36:44
  thing really quick because this we're just going to hide this in
• 1:36:46
  here, but like, OK, my roommate or my old neighbor used to
• 1:36:50
  bought a car. He bought like a new car.
• 1:36:53
  Yeah, farming Runescape accounts and selling them.
• 1:36:55
  Really. Yeah.
• 1:36:55
  It's, it's real, right. Runescape has a whole real world
• 1:36:58
  economy. It actually has been supporting
• 1:37:00
  the Venezuelan economy pretty heavily.
• 1:37:01
  What Stop. There's a lot of people like
• 1:37:04
  because it was apparently it was So, you know, it was so hard to
• 1:37:06
  make money as a Venezuelan as with a real job they would have
• 1:37:10
  like grandma's playing Runescape, farming gold and then
• 1:37:12
  selling it. And they can make a better
• 1:37:14
  living off doing that. So you.
• 1:37:15
  Really. You really hate Trump now he's
• 1:37:17
  making a game. They, they, they, they fucked up
• 1:37:21
  the economy the whole game. So it's like a whole big thing.
• 1:37:24
  I've been playing Runescape since I was fucking 10 years old
• 1:37:26
  so. They got Runescape ice, That's
• 1:37:28
  kind of. Crazy dude, it's real.
• 1:37:30
  Is that a thing for real? I don't know.
• 1:37:31
  Well, I mean they get banned for being I'm.
• 1:37:32
  Not playing the game anymore. I don't want to.
• 1:37:34
  I don't want to go now anymore. Yeah, you're one of the few
• 1:37:39
  people that still play it. Plays it.
• 1:37:42
  Yeah, yeah, I, I don't play it like every day for the past 15
• 1:37:45
  years, but it's kind of those things like you get bored and
• 1:37:47
  you're like, well, anything I go back to, it's going to be there
• 1:37:50
  in 10 years from now. So like, just go fuck around.
• 1:37:53
  Don't jinx yourself now. Don't.
• 1:37:54
  Don't. That shit's not going nowhere.
• 1:37:56
  It's it's, it's the biggest it's ever been.
• 1:37:58
  You're gonna be 45 years old and still.
• 1:38:00
  Still log in real quick and. See where I'm?
• 1:38:03
  At so we posted two of these questionnaires because we did
• 1:38:05
  Zach's and then we I don't think we had your Instagram, so we
• 1:38:07
  just didn't have one. OK, that's why.
• 1:38:09
  So then we just did the regular fat cats one.
• 1:38:11
  But it's good. We got a mix of questions and
• 1:38:13
  comments, but first one is when will Mike lower his car again?
• 1:38:19
  Is it is. It not.
• 1:38:22
  That is it not like that. It's just Bobby Low this is.
• 1:38:25
  He has a cheat code on. Yeah, but that fucking car looks
• 1:38:28
  good. Looks good.
• 1:38:29
  That's how it is. Like who said that?
• 1:38:32
  Yeah, we can't. We can't doubt anyone.
• 1:38:34
  Yes, we'll. Find it out.
• 1:38:37
  So again, steely tooth. That's right.
• 1:38:45
  Yes. I was gonna say it's probably
• 1:38:49
  because he hasn't had Arrow in a long time.
• 1:38:50
  He hasn't driven in like 2 years too so I'm saying he's gonna I.
• 1:38:53
  Kind of got scared he sold the Hellcat.
• 1:38:55
  I was trying to like the 14 because like he took some
• 1:38:59
  ominous. Folks.
• 1:39:00
  Oh no, it did look like he sold it.
• 1:39:02
  Yeah. He was like a picture of the
• 1:39:04
  garage it. Was a picture of the garage and
• 1:39:05
  then a picture of the car. And I was upset and.
• 1:39:07
  Then a rose or something and I was like, sad face, he said.
• 1:39:11
  Yes. I don't know.
• 1:39:13
  I don't believe it. I don't believe it.
• 1:39:15
  Stevie's a funny guy. He picked up a really cheap 326
• 1:39:18
  kit recently and that's I think that's why he wants me to lower
• 1:39:21
  my car again. But honestly dude, I'm 35 years
• 1:39:23
  old and when I the the quarterly drive with my car I wanted to be
• 1:39:29
  as enjoyable as it possibly can so.
• 1:39:31
  Quarterly it's we got a. You know.
• 1:39:36
  A little bit. It's sunny here a lot of the
• 1:39:38
  time. You delete this, you delete
• 1:39:41
  that, and then this is all scratched up on one side.
• 1:39:44
  Let's pass this phone. You don't really want to drive
• 1:39:46
  it. You don't really want to drive
• 1:39:47
  it. The car looks like ass.
• 1:39:50
  Mike has a really sad story. We went to go.
• 1:39:53
  Yeah, this. Yeah, this car looks like ass.
• 1:39:54
  This looks amazing. That's not what it looks like.
• 1:39:56
  That's not. Fenders look great, like I
• 1:39:58
  repeat. Those damn.
• 1:40:00
  Yeah, I went into the barriers on cold tires.
• 1:40:02
  Damn it. Yeah. 2 discriminants have been
• 1:40:04
  fixed like 5 or 6 times. I like that they're the flat
• 1:40:08
  faced TS. They're.
• 1:40:10
  They're not, though. Are they not 17?
• 1:40:11
  90 Thank God 18109. They're actually really rare and
• 1:40:15
  cracked like 17 times. Oh, OK, that's T Yeah.
• 1:40:18
  My guess is I want white ones like that but a white car.
• 1:40:22
  Why don't? Why the time?
• 1:40:23
  It looks like a time attack kind of car.
• 1:40:26
  This is exactly. How I would build the S14
• 1:40:28
  literally burrtex right? I got you're on the way.
• 1:40:31
  Shut up. Jeff Davis Sports.
• 1:40:32
  Yeah. That's beats.
• 1:40:33
  Sorry, but yeah, LED. Sports dude, no way out.
• 1:40:37
  I'll buy shit from Jet. Jetson Yeah, you had Jet owner
• 1:40:40
  already. Yeah, you'll have right dude I.
• 1:40:42
  Feel so bad he wanted to pull up the other night and.
• 1:40:45
  He could have now looking back on it.
• 1:40:48
  But don't say that. We didn't know.
• 1:40:50
  But like, he was like, Yo, I don't know if I'll make it.
• 1:40:53
  I I wish I told him like yo just just start driving right now,
• 1:40:55
  right? Yeah, he's not that far.
• 1:40:56
  He's like 3 hours away. That's that's far as fuck.
• 1:40:59
  What are you talking about? Well, he lives in the middle of
• 1:41:02
  nowhere right now. That's just driving through
• 1:41:05
  three times, I felt. That's far as amazing.
• 1:41:07
  The problem is that he was talking to me like I thought he
• 1:41:10
  was near because he was like. Well, there's nothing near Jet,
• 1:41:14
  so like, this is the only place he gets to go to.
• 1:41:16
  So this is normal to him? Yeah, I.
• 1:41:17
  I didn't. I should have understood that a
• 1:41:19
  little bit more. What's the first thing you think
• 1:41:21
  about when you think about Corpus Christi?
• 1:41:23
  Or somebody brings it. Up oil.
• 1:41:24
  Naval they say the right thing. I said oil.
• 1:41:26
  I don't know if that's. Even you probably said I've
• 1:41:28
  never heard of it. I don't know anything.
• 1:41:31
  That's OK. Chris Christie is.
• 1:41:33
  I think of Jed Davis. Selena Yeah, there you go.
• 1:41:35
  Like, well, Jed Davis and then Selena.
• 1:41:36
  Oh. Really.
• 1:41:37
  Yeah, I didn't, Selena. What the fuck?
• 1:41:40
  Let's see. Well, Frankie, you know, yeah.
• 1:41:44
  Exactly like I'm going to miss him.
• 1:41:47
  Yeah, I. Don't know.
• 1:41:51
  Can't remember Bronze Damon's in here, he said.
• 1:41:54
  He misses you guys. He's a big fat cat guy, so.
• 1:41:57
  And so big that he didn't even hit us up when he was like.
• 1:41:59
  That's fucking crazy. Yeah.
• 1:42:03
  I think it was a secret dad's weekend, dude.
• 1:42:05
  They were really just there eating pizza and drinking beer.
• 1:42:08
  That sounds horrible, I would have hated that.
• 1:42:10
  God, I'm so I just think. Yeah.
• 1:42:13
  Jesus. God.
• 1:42:15
  It really loved that though it. Was awesome oh y'all y'all
• 1:42:17
  hanging out all right cool and we all just sit down inside and.
• 1:42:21
  Watch supercross and I'm like. OK, this is actually chill like
• 1:42:25
  whatever. Pricey's anxiety was flying.
• 1:42:27
  Through the roof. Where are we going right now?
• 1:42:28
  We're going to take him to a bar.
• 1:42:30
  Yeah, maybe we might run into some people at.
• 1:42:32
  The talk. Yeah, my.
• 1:42:34
  Biggest friend. I got all the talking out of my
• 1:42:36
  sister. Yeah, no more.
• 1:42:39
  And then big rice guy says how do you all come up with some of
• 1:42:42
  the sickest merch ideas and I agree thank.
• 1:42:44
  God, dude, I literally just said that earlier.
• 1:42:47
  Yeah. Shut up, Casey.
• 1:42:48
  Yeah. So Casey, who's not here with us
• 1:42:51
  at the moment. So Casey has like 3 skate shops.
• 1:42:55
  That's one of his one of his businesses.
• 1:42:57
  And I think the story is he just kind of sat down in Photoshop
• 1:43:00
  and started like fucking around because he needed to make logos
• 1:43:03
  and stuff for his skate shop and sell merge through that.
• 1:43:05
  And then obviously we need merge 2.
• 1:43:08
  And he would do like, you know, drops for them and fat cats and
• 1:43:12
  get them all made at the same time.
• 1:43:13
  And, you know, do the skate shop stuff, do ours at the same time.
• 1:43:16
  And he just got good at it. He's got a good creative mind
• 1:43:19
  too, so it works out. So that's in house, all of it.
• 1:43:23
  Yeah, there's, there's a couple of subways.
• 1:43:25
  Oh yeah, like like like nothing. Crazy.
• 1:43:27
  But assistance from like. Mart like.
• 1:43:29
  Yeah, Martino made our cat like logo a long time ago.
• 1:43:32
  And then obviously we ran with that for a while, dude, but.
• 1:43:34
  Still, I can't come up with an idea that sticks.
• 1:43:37
  Ever. Yeah, I don't, I don't know how
• 1:43:39
  it And I think honestly, he just sat down and started trying.
• 1:43:42
  And I think that's probably what a lot of us don't do.
• 1:43:44
  I know I'm, you know I I'm at fault for that.
• 1:43:47
  All the time, like you're doing something, but you're like, I'm
• 1:43:50
  not really doing this to the full of my.
• 1:43:52
  Ability right now, but I'm just doing it.
• 1:43:54
  Do like at the gym? And you're like, I think Casey
• 1:43:58
  hasn't driven his car in a year. So I don't think we've had new
• 1:44:00
  merch in a year. It hasn't been that long.
• 1:44:03
  I'll finish it. It's about it'll be done next.
• 1:44:05
  Lost the mic anyway. Yeah.
• 1:44:07
  Oh, we're back. We're back.
• 1:44:09
  Oh, you want to? You want to.
• 1:44:10
  We're. Running out of space?
• 1:44:11
  OK, give us a shit and take a look.
• 1:44:14
  Yeah, Sorry for the technical difficulties everybody.
• 1:44:16
  Are we back again? So after a piss cigarette BBQ
• 1:44:20
  break. I wish.
• 1:44:22
  Now Frank, he's been in the same spot.
• 1:44:23
  He's kind of tight about that, but I guess we cut off.
• 1:44:26
  Yeah, we got cut off. We were talking about Fat Cat's
• 1:44:28
  merch, so just to go back and recap, but these guys have some
• 1:44:31
  of the best merch in the drifting scene.
• 1:44:33
  Honestly, I would say so. I think it's one of the most
• 1:44:36
  surreal things to especially to go to like a different state and
• 1:44:39
  see our merch. Dude in Japan.
• 1:44:41
  Like a porn convention too. Yeah, we got that the other day,
• 1:44:45
  huh? Yeah.
• 1:44:46
  Somebody was at, like, one of our boys.
• 1:44:48
  He was at, like, this Vegas like, porn convention.
• 1:44:50
  And he had, like, a fat cat's hoodie on.
• 1:44:51
  And I was like, fuck yeah. The thing is this, like you, I
• 1:44:55
  think that's the problem with most drift merch is like, you
• 1:44:57
  know, yeah, you want to wear it, but do you want to wear it just
• 1:45:02
  in public? I guess I'm.
• 1:45:03
  Just doing. Random things.
• 1:45:04
  That's what I said. I was like that shirt that I had
• 1:45:07
  that bait. It was like a tan shirt, orange
• 1:45:09
  lettering at the cat on it. And I would wear that shirt out
• 1:45:14
  and then I got super tight because of one day.
• 1:45:16
  It was like 1 movement, like I picked something up and it
• 1:45:20
  touched the shirt and it's the only Drift team shirt that I
• 1:45:23
  have that isn't black. So I was like fuck, like I don't
• 1:45:27
  know. It's some of my favorite merch
• 1:45:29
  and obviously some of others too.
• 1:45:31
  But in Japan you guys were on the wall I think.
• 1:45:34
  And I didn't, I don't know if we met yet or I couldn't pick you
• 1:45:37
  out. Right, Right, right.
• 1:45:38
  But I did see a fat cat shirt and I was really like, you guys
• 1:45:40
  were on the wall and it just says fat cats on the back.
• 1:45:43
  And I was like, yeah. That's cool.
• 1:45:45
  That's. Cool, we're so far from there.
• 1:45:49
  I I think one of like the craziest stories I heard
• 1:45:51
  recently was like somebody found one of our shirts at a thrift
• 1:45:54
  store, like on the rack, no. I don't.
• 1:45:58
  Remember who it was? The bean bone.
• 1:46:00
  Was it bean bone? It's Christian.
• 1:46:01
  Christian. Christian Yeah, OK.
• 1:46:03
  It's just like, yeah, that's how is that even?
• 1:46:05
  That's how you know your merch made it.
• 1:46:07
  Yeah, like it's getting reso. Yeah.
• 1:46:08
  So it's. It's cycled through multiple
• 1:46:11
  transactions. Yeah, somebody's mom was like,
• 1:46:14
  get this out of my this my kids closet.
• 1:46:16
  This is we're done with this. Mijo went to college.
• 1:46:19
  I gotta I gotta clear up this room real quick.
• 1:46:21
  There was a hat. Oh, there, there it is.
• 1:46:23
  Nando's wearing it. That hat was.
• 1:46:24
  That hat too. Best hat?
• 1:46:26
  Oh, yeah, dude, there was like, it was like, it was like 2021 or
• 1:46:28
  whatever, one of those final belt years that I went to.
• 1:46:30
  I, I, I, my head is in my ass. I don't know, shit going on in
• 1:46:33
  the community. It's terrible.
• 1:46:34
  That's why I got Carl. And then I went to that event
• 1:46:36
  and I was like, yo, who's making this merch?
• 1:46:38
  Like this fat cat's merch? This.
• 1:46:40
  Shit is sick. I'm like, this is like really
• 1:46:42
  awesome stuff. And like, that's how that's
• 1:46:44
  literally how I was like introduced to your team.
• 1:46:47
  I feel like it was crazy. Take it.
• 1:46:48
  Yeah. And I was like, all right, I got
• 1:46:49
  to. That's all Casey.
• 1:46:50
  It's like literally it's all Casey we have put.
• 1:46:52
  A couple a couple green lights from my end, but like yeah,
• 1:46:55
  otherwise all case. Yeah, I would say probably about
• 1:46:58
  95. Percent.
• 1:46:59
  We were involved. Yeah, he's.
• 1:47:00
  Like are you OK? With this, what do you think
• 1:47:01
  about this? Yeah, it's cool.
• 1:47:03
  I'll wear that. I'll wear it.
• 1:47:04
  Put my name on it. Put my name on it.
• 1:47:06
  We got a, we got a bunch of questions for Zach, so go
• 1:47:09
  through some of these real quick.
• 1:47:11
  You said to avoid the ones that say Zunk.
• 1:47:13
  Here we go. Someone said.
• 1:47:16
  Ask him where his nickname Zunk came from.
• 1:47:18
  Of course. I mean, I'm old, apparently.
• 1:47:22
  You know, there's a lot of yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:47:24
  Don't start, don't start it like that.
• 1:47:26
  Now. Don't just the children, you
• 1:47:29
  know, oblivion. They are children.
• 1:47:31
  With Zunk, yeah, that's true. What they don't know is that
• 1:47:33
  you're big, bro. You're actually not Zunk.
• 1:47:35
  Zunk is 40. I mean, I guess I'm what is
• 1:47:38
  this? Because.
• 1:47:40
  It's yeah, yeah, it took me a while.
• 1:47:42
  I'll take it was like it. Could be worse.
• 1:47:44
  It could be worse, yeah. Yeah, grandpa status or
• 1:47:47
  something I. Mean when you're dealing with 20
• 1:47:48
  year olds. Yeah, just wait.
• 1:47:50
  Just. Watch, watch, watch 'cause it
• 1:47:51
  happened over here. I used to make a lot of jokes
• 1:47:54
  about Frankie being old. And now you're old.
• 1:47:56
  You got old, then the years came and you cut up and that gap like
• 1:47:59
  got small and Frankie. Didn't move smaller, but Frankie
• 1:48:03
  never. He was 30.
• 1:48:04
  And it was. Over.
• 1:48:05
  Frankie's age didn't move. I was 28.
• 1:48:07
  Frankie was 33. Damn, you're old as fuck.
• 1:48:10
  Yeah, I'm 32, Frankie. 'S 3520. 934 Oh dude, yeah,
• 1:48:15
  you're a little older than me. That's cool, 3035.
• 1:48:18
  We're the same fucking age, God damn it.
• 1:48:21
  Dude everybody here though taking good care of themselves.
• 1:48:23
  Look how healthy we all are, right?
• 1:48:25
  Now. Let's go smoke a cigarette Real.
• 1:48:27
  Quick, dude, we're good. They got data on it.
• 1:48:29
  Like you said, they got data on. It here's a here's a weird may
• 1:48:32
  sound odd, but how many miles did the SC have once you
• 1:48:35
  transferred to the store? The SC has not had a working
• 1:48:40
  cluster since I did a manual swap 15 years ago so but at that
• 1:48:45
  time it had 226,000 on it so that's the reason why.
• 1:48:48
  We reached. Years ago.
• 1:48:49
  Yeah. It's a lot of miles, yeah, but
• 1:48:51
  we're in Texas, so nothing rust. Yeah, nothing rust.
• 1:48:54
  That's the reason why. We re shell is like 226 is too
• 1:48:56
  much. I don't mean data sore.
• 1:48:58
  This sore doesn't have the fucking manual shit hooked up
• 1:49:01
  either so it doesn't calculate miles.
• 1:49:02
  So yeah, I'll. Never fuck you got the mileage
• 1:49:04
  blockers, you know, 200 and. 20,000 miles on a shell and by
• 1:49:07
  us is fuck that you can't see it anymore.
• 1:49:09
  It's part of the Earth. Like it, like we said, it's 45
• 1:49:12
  minutes to get anywhere. So like, yeah, Miles rack up
• 1:49:15
  fucking crazy here, Yeah. Yeah, Yeah, that's true.
• 1:49:17
  And fuck you, my shell has had. What does it have?
• 1:49:20
  What does that? It has a lot of mile.
• 1:49:21
  What does it have? And now it's got like 260.
• 1:49:25
  Oh shit, yeah. I just dude on the Toyota you
• 1:49:28
  can like hit the button one time and it doesn't show the actual
• 1:49:30
  mileage shows like the trip, the trip.
• 1:49:32
  I just have it to that and have had it to that.
• 1:49:35
  You don't. Want to know?
• 1:49:37
  I don't want to know. It used to be my daily.
• 1:49:39
  I bought it with like 190,000 miles and like that's nothing
• 1:49:42
  and like it just racked up more and more and more and more and
• 1:49:45
  more and I don't. Know I'm proud of it I'm.
• 1:49:48
  Proud of it like like 10,000 of those miles was a one J like
• 1:49:52
  before that it was like another motor another and like, oh,
• 1:49:55
  that's fun. Someone said they don't get it,
• 1:49:57
  Zach, because our car's our car's last shit.
• 1:49:59
  Our car's last shit. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:50:01
  Someone said why the reshell, but I think we kind of covered
• 1:50:03
  that a little bit. I don't.
• 1:50:04
  Think we talked about it exactly yeah.
• 1:50:06
  So like I essentially, if we didn't already, I just got a
• 1:50:09
  crazy deal 4 grand full IKEA for me.
• 1:50:11
  Suspension has all the AC shit there and it's a sore, yeah.
• 1:50:16
  But you weren't like yearning. I was not yearning to be right.
• 1:50:18
  Pretty OK. I was totally fine where I was.
• 1:50:20
  My show wasn't even bad. I crushed it, but it wasn't even
• 1:50:23
  bad. What?
• 1:50:25
  It's gone. What fully?
• 1:50:26
  Yeah, yeah. Picked up trash.
• 1:50:28
  The trailer, you watched it like it was pretty sick.
• 1:50:31
  Did you do that on purpose? I mean, it's like we talked
• 1:50:34
  about earlier. Nobody buys S ES.
• 1:50:36
  You can't even sell a running one for three grand.
• 1:50:38
  What the fuck am I gonna get for a shell?
• 1:50:40
  Yeah. There's a guy who collects them,
• 1:50:42
  like didn't you give one shell to somebody and it's just still.
• 1:50:44
  Sitting there so yeah, like there's no point.
• 1:50:47
  It was way easier to go get 60 bucks for it than it was to try
• 1:50:50
  to put it on Facebook marketplace and deal with 17
• 1:50:52
  people saying is this a running car?
• 1:50:54
  Am I the only one that thinks that this might be a good
• 1:50:57
  replacement for S chassis right now because they're so
• 1:50:59
  expensive? Or is this?
• 1:51:00
  S CS Yeah, yeah. Not a S chassis.
• 1:51:03
  But it's have you ever ridden in one?
• 1:51:04
  It's another car. No, you should.
• 1:51:06
  They're boats. You you would.
• 1:51:07
  Probably. I know that I like see it and
• 1:51:09
  just when I open the door and I see the door hinge I'm like what
• 1:51:11
  the fuck is that? And like people freaking fuck
• 1:51:14
  out. Like my first car meet I ever
• 1:51:15
  went to, I was 16. There's all these old ass dudes
• 1:51:17
  there, like 40. They're like see, broke open the
• 1:51:20
  door. And really, what is like?
• 1:51:22
  What are you all doing I? Know why Frankie likes it,
• 1:51:25
  though? Why?
• 1:51:26
  It's because the the door. You know you got frameless
• 1:51:30
  doors. Frame.
• 1:51:31
  This one has a frame, but it's like, curved in to almost hide
• 1:51:35
  the fact that that's a door frame.
• 1:51:36
  I mean, so it looks like a frameless door, which Frankie
• 1:51:39
  jerks off to. Yeah, but.
• 1:51:41
  I like the car because it looks like a proper drift car to me.
• 1:51:44
  Like it looks like you can make a cool drift.
• 1:51:46
  Car, but I know deep inside it's the frame of the Windows 1000
• 1:51:50
  you've. Already just like open the door
• 1:51:51
  and I go I'll never fucking own this car because it has a
• 1:51:54
  fucking door frame, a window frame, but yeah, yeah, the.
• 1:51:57
  Doors are fucking £600. Out of the yeah dude but like
• 1:52:00
  with my car there's literally 3 body kit options.
• 1:52:02
  Either you get vertex yeah or origin and origin of vertex look
• 1:52:06
  the same basically. Or just discontinued them too?
• 1:52:09
  Oh well, good, good cuz no one bothered anyways.
• 1:52:11
  Yeah, no one bothered anyways, so.
• 1:52:13
  Given the bad news, like just. Yeah, they did some weird shit
• 1:52:15
  with the front bumper that just didn't look good, so.
• 1:52:17
  Yeah, so now it's vertex and. Yeah, NBN.
• 1:52:20
  What sucks about the doors too is like that car would look so
• 1:52:23
  fire with Lambeau doors. I'd be terrified.
• 1:52:26
  I don't know how the shock spell.
• 1:52:29
  I don't know what you would do your leg.
• 1:52:30
  Yeah, I've seen. It like there's been plenty of
• 1:52:32
  like donks that had it back in the day, but I'm just.
• 1:52:34
  I've been terrified. Oh gosh.
• 1:52:35
  That's the next, I think that's the next move too, is turn the
• 1:52:38
  turn the turn the sore into a donk.
• 1:52:41
  Oh yeah, and get the wheels with the what?
• 1:52:42
  What was it going to swing? Swing swings, Yeah.
• 1:52:44
  The pokies. I wanted to back in the day when
• 1:52:47
  I had the pop trunk, I was really hoping somebody would hit
• 1:52:49
  me up and be like, yo, do you want to put mine on for a day?
• 1:52:52
  But it never. Happened dude just for the
• 1:52:54
  couple photos with the trunk. Great there's like 1 like stance
• 1:52:58
  car here that did it. He's got like candy paint on
• 1:53:00
  like a G37 with like big elbows on it and like he goes to every
• 1:53:04
  car show and shit that's. Called.
• 1:53:05
  Fucking well, there's some people.
• 1:53:06
  I mean, there's a lot of different names, Elbows, swirler
• 1:53:09
  pokes or griller pokes. It depends on the size.
• 1:53:11
  Like there's different sizes that get different names do.
• 1:53:13
  You know any, do you guys know people that are in the dunk
• 1:53:15
  community here? Dogs, not really dunks.
• 1:53:17
  Yeah, we don't have dogs. We have slabs, OK.
• 1:53:20
  I don't know if we really know anyone.
• 1:53:22
  Big rich. Big rich like we've we've had a
• 1:53:24
  few friends that have had some at times, OK.
• 1:53:27
  Just. To but like just.
• 1:53:28
  To get into. I wouldn't say we know anyone
• 1:53:30
  genuinely in the community. OK, if you ever find someone,
• 1:53:32
  let me know. We'll be back.
• 1:53:34
  We gotta, just gotta. Go.
• 1:53:35
  He just wants to. I know who I could ask if that
• 1:53:38
  would get us there. But I wanted to learn about
• 1:53:40
  those cars, man, That's just. Kind of cool.
• 1:53:42
  Yeah, that's the whole culture too, like.
• 1:53:44
  Candy paint. Pop trunk.
• 1:53:46
  Wire trunk. It's crazy.
• 1:53:48
  Like fifth wheels? Yeah, yeah, it's.
• 1:53:51
  Different. Oh, that little thingy in the
• 1:53:52
  back. It was.
• 1:53:53
  Kind of cool. It's like it's a big thing, I
• 1:53:55
  know, like we're getting low on time, but it's a big thing here.
• 1:53:57
  Like I think it's, it goes kind of based off territory like
• 1:54:00
  where you're from, but like what color your car's going to be.
• 1:54:02
  So they have like green line, purple line, orange line.
• 1:54:05
  Like so they all have, I kind of have, like I wouldn't call it a
• 1:54:07
  team, but they'll all be the same candy paint color and they
• 1:54:11
  all roll together. Yeah, that's what I mean.
• 1:54:12
  There's like. A It's like they have their own
• 1:54:14
  shit. It's hard, really.
• 1:54:15
  Deep, like it's a different club, so it's like you get a
• 1:54:18
  peak and you're like. What?
• 1:54:21
  Yeah, I'm really into that. It'd be.
• 1:54:22
  Cool. And the pop trunks are all
• 1:54:23
  different too, so everybody's got their own neon.
• 1:54:25
  You know, like neon. You can't have the same saying
• 1:54:27
  as someone else. Yeah.
• 1:54:28
  That's why you're missing. Yeah, there's a lot of.
• 1:54:31
  Really. What?
• 1:54:32
  Oh, like the little thing in the.
• 1:54:33
  Window like when you're on the trunk.
• 1:54:35
  Got the trunk and. It's up.
• 1:54:36
  Yeah, so when the trunk. Pops, there's everybody's
• 1:54:39
  different. Or neon, actually.
• 1:54:41
  Oh. Yeah, it used to be neon.
• 1:54:43
  Like actual neon. Most people into RGB.
• 1:54:44
  That should. Be.
• 1:54:45
  So cool dude. I Remember Me and.
• 1:54:47
  I mean I did mine with RGB back in the day because I couldn't
• 1:54:49
  afford to do neon. That's just funking expensive,
• 1:54:51
  yeah. Malcolm and I were walking the
• 1:54:52
  pits. That was the clip in the video
• 1:54:54
  that we saw that Malcolm made that we had no idea.
• 1:54:57
  He made a video for Final Bout 4.
• 1:54:59
  We watched it for the first time.
• 1:55:01
  Yeah, Kevin and Jimmy were like, yo, that clip in that video you
• 1:55:03
  guys made, I was like, what? And then they just pulled.
• 1:55:06
  Up there was a clip where it was your car was black.
• 1:55:08
  The trunk was popped, Malcolm like hit the craziest little.
• 1:55:12
  It looked like a Elator wannabe and I was like, no way, this is
• 1:55:15
  sick, Malcolm. And then the trunks up that as
• 1:55:19
  somebody who did not know what the scene is down here, I just
• 1:55:22
  thought that that was sick like part of the culture here.
• 1:55:26
  So it's cool, little like. Yeah, that really did like for
• 1:55:29
  us back back there, like seeing that car.
• 1:55:32
  Yeah. It was like, oh, cool.
• 1:55:33
  So it's like Houston? I got kind of lucky because like
• 1:55:35
  I think I was kind of the first one down here to do that in like
• 1:55:39
  an import and like kind of try to bring it over.
• 1:55:42
  And there's there's a ton of them here now.
• 1:55:43
  If you go to like car shows and stuff, there's a lot of guys
• 1:55:45
  that have it now, but like, I think I can say that.
• 1:55:49
  I was the. First one to like, kind of try
• 1:55:51
  to steal it. Yeah, I did.
• 1:55:53
  Absolutely. Fucking what is it, Culture
• 1:55:54
  Vulture? I fucking stole that shit really
• 1:55:56
  hard. But I don't think I made anyone
• 1:55:58
  too mad. I hope.
• 1:55:59
  Yeah, no. Dude, it drifted.
• 1:56:00
  Do you have Drift? Yeah.
• 1:56:01
  Do you have plans for the new trunk?
• 1:56:02
  Like, are you going to do more stuff like that?
• 1:56:04
  I don't know. I don't want to say yes because
• 1:56:06
  people are going to expect it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:56:08
  But as my teammate Eddie says, he doesn't want me to do any
• 1:56:11
  Mickey Mouse shit with. That's exactly.
• 1:56:12
  The next question I was going to ask, he said When will you stop
• 1:56:14
  doing the Mickey Mouse shit? That is pretty.
• 1:56:16
  Good. That is crazy.
• 1:56:19
  It don't stop. So is he more like the
• 1:56:23
  functional car person in the? Group Eddie Nah.
• 1:56:25
  No stupidest shit to his cartoon, but it's usually.
• 1:56:29
  It's stupid, but it makes sense, Eddie.
• 1:56:31
  Can turn into his own worst enemy because it'll like make
• 1:56:34
  he'll do he'll spend like 5 hours doing this really nice
• 1:56:37
  wiring set up in the trunk and then overseas he'll do like 3 or
• 1:56:40
  4 laps and then something happens and I was like who's a
• 1:56:44
  fucking idiot who did all this dumb shit in the trunk?
• 1:56:46
  He's like, oh. That's me.
• 1:56:51
  I'll try hard at the dumbest shit and then one thing will go
• 1:56:55
  wrong and then everything else is just going to be garbage.
• 1:56:59
  Yeah, Eddie will get mad at me because my trunk looks like ass,
• 1:57:02
  but I've never had any issue wiring, never had any problems.
• 1:57:06
  I have a problem with door cards because of the first thing you
• 1:57:08
  put something like if you have stuff in your pockets, you just
• 1:57:11
  put them in the door card and forget that it's there ever.
• 1:57:13
  Or you have a tool and you're like, I got to put this away
• 1:57:14
  really quick. Door card.
• 1:57:16
  Jimmy Oakes opened my car once and he's like, why do you have
• 1:57:18
  so much? Shit in your car?
• 1:57:20
  I'm going to need that eventually.
• 1:57:21
  I was like. You never know.
• 1:57:21
  Stop. Stop.
• 1:57:22
  Keep your volume low. Like, relax.
• 1:57:26
  Just a spare fuse box. Another question is sword
• 1:57:29
  knuckles, you got any suggestions?
• 1:57:31
  Just just cut knuckles bro like don't overcome this shit.
• 1:57:34
  Is the. Question there was this big
• 1:57:35
  fucking Facebook. There's like we have like a
• 1:57:37
  Facebook thing for SC people that drift or whatever and
• 1:57:39
  there's some guy in there like, oh bro, my wife's fat, but I
• 1:57:42
  can't get any fenders that fit and like the like he's just
• 1:57:45
  getting flamed the whole thread like just mod, just mod of
• 1:57:47
  knuckles. You don't.
• 1:57:48
  You need to. Go crazy, they go wise fab right
• 1:57:50
  away. Like, well, that's I feel like
• 1:57:51
  it's drifting nowadays that like that are not in our little like
• 1:57:54
  realm or whatever. It's like first thing wise fab,
• 1:57:57
  I need this to drift. That must be the first Google
• 1:57:59
  search result like it. Has to be angle.
• 1:58:02
  Yeah, this. Watch Angle, watch.
• 1:58:04
  Watch Formula D OK, these guys run damn wise fab.
• 1:58:06
  I need that, yeah. And.
• 1:58:08
  Then that's why we need a good St. version of Formula D like a
• 1:58:12
  good. One, I mean like I mean kind of
• 1:58:14
  final, final thoughts about the. Closest we're gonna get.
• 1:58:16
  Yeah, it is. Yeah.
• 1:58:16
  Yeah, right now. Yeah, but like AD1SL.
• 1:58:19
  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. But you know, I mean, you guys
• 1:58:22
  probably know people try to start those.
• 1:58:23
  We know people that try to start those like they never work.
• 1:58:26
  It's. Competition, everybody.
• 1:58:27
  Why did they not work? Because there's always someone.
• 1:58:30
  Trying to get an advantage. Yeah, or, or like dude, my car
• 1:58:34
  is not registered. Why does that have to be 1 of
• 1:58:36
  the rules? Yeah, motherfucker, it's because
• 1:58:38
  it is like, but, but they'll let, they'll let it go.
• 1:58:41
  And then you, you give them an inch, they take a fucking mile
• 1:58:43
  before you know what? People are on fucking 260 fives
• 1:58:45
  and it's over. That's so it's drag racing.
• 1:58:47
  It is racing. That's just how but.
• 1:58:48
  That's how it goes. It's the nature of the sport in
• 1:58:50
  20. 25. I should do it honestly, me and
• 1:58:52
  Jimmy, because we'd be like, Nah, dude, like fuck that.
• 1:58:55
  You're not doing like a car's gonna be registered.
• 1:58:57
  It's like, yeah, but I got into the no, fuck you.
• 1:58:59
  Well, it starts like when when there's a competition and then
• 1:59:01
  there's probably prize money involved.
• 1:59:04
  Everything just goes out the window.
• 1:59:05
  Yeah. You know, it's no longer there.
• 1:59:07
  People just having fun. Like we even like, Jimmy tried
• 1:59:08
  to do that. Like we did this like summer
• 1:59:10
  saga. Yeah, we heard about that.
• 1:59:11
  It was a competition. And like, it was, there was no,
• 1:59:13
  like, I think it was like 300 bucks was first place.
• 1:59:16
  Like, not a lot of money. He just wanted to, he really
• 1:59:18
  just wanted to print a big check.
• 1:59:20
  That's what he. Said I had both of mine hanging
• 1:59:22
  in my room. Like I will have those for the
• 1:59:23
  rest of my life. Yeah.
• 1:59:24
  Like I'm so happy by that third place because I have this big
• 1:59:27
  ass check. This is because he did them in
• 1:59:29
  yen too. So it looks really crazy.
• 1:59:31
  Like I have one ton of money. Like I've had multiple people
• 1:59:33
  come. Oh, right.
• 1:59:34
  Damn, you really won that. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:59:38
  $30,000 in my pocket. It's nothing, you know?
• 1:59:40
  Damn right. Another weekend to me.
• 1:59:41
  The dates see that it's up. It's up.
• 1:59:43
  Oh my God, I got I'm with Steve Jobs.
• 1:59:46
  Right now it's just one weekend, you know?
• 1:59:50
  He's got it over his headboard. Actually, I put it on the roof,
• 1:59:53
  so like when we're laying in bed, they're just yeah.
• 1:59:55
  That's the first. Thing I want to say praying like
• 1:59:57
  that. You know, and they're laying on
• 1:59:58
  their backs early because of. Flight so that's so gay bro.
• 2:00:01
  Dude you only got to be there 10 minutes tops before the flights.
• 2:00:05
  Yeah, and. You'll be all right.
• 2:00:06
  OK, You're 1. Of those, you play the crazy.
• 2:00:07
  I'm usually that person too. I just don't know what the
• 2:00:09
  airport situation is. You.
• 2:00:10
  Know I can imagine on a random Sunday.
• 2:00:12
  In Houston that like it's going to be the flights look pretty
• 2:00:15
  open so. We say that and then you miss
• 2:00:17
  your and then we miss the flight.
• 2:00:18
  But OK first. Before we close this off.
• 2:00:20
  I want to say thank you. I just want to make.
• 2:00:23
  Sure. I say thank you to everybody
• 2:00:24
  when we're in Texas because this has been, again, such a
• 2:00:27
  hospitable experience. Yeah.
• 2:00:29
  Like, I got to see so many of friends and people meet you
• 2:00:32
  guys. Like, this has been freaking
• 2:00:34
  awesome. And we're definitely coming
• 2:00:35
  back, too. Yeah.
• 2:00:36
  Yeah. We're not very good at being
• 2:00:38
  social on the Internet. I mean, he doesn't have a
• 2:00:40
  fucking. Instagram.
• 2:00:41
  Right now I was about to say I didn't like it sucks like.
• 2:00:45
  I don't really put myself. Out there to meet people anymore
• 2:00:47
  until like situations like this happen like like I've known who
• 2:00:51
  you guys are, but I don't I don't go out and follow people
• 2:00:54
  until like I meet them. I want it to mean something like
• 2:00:57
  for the most part, So like it's good to have these conversations
• 2:01:00
  with people. It gives like a lot of people
• 2:01:03
  out there who man, you know how people went into.
• 2:01:06
  That guy, man, he was mean to me one time at the event.
• 2:01:09
  There's more. There's more to people than
• 2:01:11
  that. You know what I mean?
• 2:01:12
  So hopefully it gives everyone else a chance to meet you guys
• 2:01:15
  as well like I got to do. And frankly, yeah.
• 2:01:18
  So thank you guys so much. Is there anything else that you
• 2:01:21
  wanted to end on spread put out into the world or whatever?
• 2:01:24
  My team will definitely be at final bout this year.
• 2:01:27
  We're totally driving. We'll see you guys.
• 2:01:29
  In Shawna, everybody like we're going to be there.
• 2:01:32
  My whole team. We're all going to be there.
• 2:01:35
  Yeah. Fuck, yeah.
• 2:01:37
  See, I said it out loud. So we have to go.
• 2:01:39
  Yep. And it's on the Internet.
• 2:01:40
  All right, guys, if you want to see Fat Cats final bout, they'll
• 2:01:43
  be there. Thank you.
• 2:01:44
  Guys, all the bills, all our. Cars it's shot all on down Zach
• 2:01:48
  he's. Flying us out better put out.
• 2:01:50
  What a generous. Individual.
• 2:01:51
  It's so. Wild I'm.
• 2:01:52
  So happy to have him. As a teammate, thank you guys so
• 2:01:54
  much for. Listening This has been another
• 2:01:55
  episode of Fashion After Hours for the Texas series.
• 2:01:58
  We got a flight to catch. Yeah.
• 2:01:59
  Good night. See you later.
• 2:02:02
  OK, that was awesome. The live audience there was the
• 2:02:07
  one there was the. 1. Joke.
• 2:02:09
  There was the one. Joke.
• 2:02:10
  Y'all laugh? about them fat cats?
• 2:02:44
  That was a good one, the whole crew.
• 2:02:46
  Showed up. About what?
• 2:02:48
  Like 75% of the way done. Whole crew showed up.
• 2:02:50
  Yeah, we had an audience. Yeah, they were laughing,
• 2:02:53
  clapping, had a full. Real audience for this This is
• 2:02:57
  our first real live studio audience.
• 2:03:00
  It was a really good time thanks to Mike and Zach of Fat Cats.
• 2:03:04
  This is going to conclude our Texas series of podcasts.
• 2:03:07
  We do have a couple more trips planned this year.
• 2:03:12
  Hopefully it works out. We've been kind of slacking with
• 2:03:14
  podcasts lately, although I don't think you guys feel like
• 2:03:18
  we are, so that's a good thing. But we have not had any guests
• 2:03:21
  on, so we wanted to drop this one and let you guys get the
• 2:03:26
  last episode from the Texas series.
• 2:03:27
  This was one of the I would say this is probably the best trip
• 2:03:31
  we've done yet as far as podcast go.
• 2:03:33
  It was really fun time. Everyone was very welcoming and
• 2:03:37
  just had great stories like Zach's Hurricane Harvey.
• 2:03:41
  Story. Through the troubles of getting
• 2:03:45
  out of his apartment to get to final ballot, he said the first
• 2:03:48
  floor is basically flooded and he was on the 2nd floor just
• 2:03:51
  watching. The water ride, that's, that's
• 2:03:54
  some crazy shit. We've only had that happen like
• 2:03:56
  once or twice here in my lifetime.
• 2:03:58
  That seems like a pretty common thing down there.
• 2:04:02
  Yeah. So stay tuned.
• 2:04:04
  We definitely got some more ideas come in for the podcast,
• 2:04:07
  even though Carl says he's moving to Georgia, so we'll see
• 2:04:09
  what happens with that. But yeah, so hope you guys
• 2:04:13
  enjoyed this one. Don't forget we do have a raffle
• 2:04:15
  going on right now for a $800 suspension bundle.
• 2:04:19
  So every $5 spent on the website gets you entered to win
• 2:04:22
  basically any suspension components you want that are
• 2:04:24
  valued up to $800. Brand of the month this month is
• 2:04:29
  also GK Tech, so any GK Tech parts that you purchase are
• 2:04:34
  triple entries towards the giveaway and as usual faction
• 2:04:39
  Motorsports products are double entries no matter what month it
• 2:04:41
  is. But we give away products every
• 2:04:43
  month at factionmotorsports.com. So check it out Details are on
• 2:04:47
  our website. We do have an origin container
• 2:04:51
  arriving and I want to say 1 potentially one month.
• 2:04:55
  So if you guys want to pre-order anything right now, offenders
• 2:04:57
  that are out of stock or body kits that are out of stock, I
• 2:04:59
  would jump on that immediately because we don't have a lot of
• 2:05:03
  stuff coming this time. So I I've even seen as low as 1
• 2:05:07
  body kit per like for some origin lab lines.
• 2:05:12
  So I would definitely do that. Just leave a order note when you
• 2:05:16
  place the order and if you can't afford the parts, don't worry,
• 2:05:18
  we got. A firm on the website as.
• 2:05:19
  Well so they can finance the parts you need so you could so
• 2:05:22
  you can get the order in now and not get screwed waiting for
• 2:05:25
  another origin container. What's up Eddie, how you doing
• 2:05:28
  with YouTube lately? It's going the.
• 2:05:31
  Snap on videos are. Always as as usual.
• 2:05:34
  Doing very well. Yeah.
• 2:05:36
  I guess we must have some good Snap On content.
• 2:05:38
  I don't know. You know what I think?
• 2:05:40
  It is, I think it's, it's a, it's a group of us.
• 2:05:43
  And I feel like most snap on videos, it's one person going on
• 2:05:47
  the truck. So maybe people like the group
• 2:05:50
  aspect 'cause there's more opinions and.
• 2:05:52
  Conversations. People want different things.
• 2:05:55
  So yeah, different insights, yeah.
• 2:05:57
  And people love talking shit on those.
• 2:05:58
  Comments too, so if you guys want to talk shit check out our
• 2:06:01
  YouTube. Videos, I mean our snap on
• 2:06:03
  videos on YouTube, there's a lot of wallet watchers.
• 2:06:05
  What do they call that? Like why are you spending so
• 2:06:08
  much money my. Favorite comment was I love your
• 2:06:11
  snap on videos. They are the best ones, but.
• 2:06:13
  You guys are stupid don't go on that truck and buy anything.
• 2:06:16
  I was like, you understand if the videos will stop then like
• 2:06:20
  didn't really make any sense. But thanks guys keep talking
• 2:06:23
  shit. We appreciate it and helps our
• 2:06:25
  algorithm move up and down. We do have more 350Z content
• 2:06:30
  coming as well, so if you're into that stuff, make sure you
• 2:06:35
  check those videos out as well. Also, if you haven't subscribed
• 2:06:37
  yet to our YouTube, please subscribe that.
• 2:06:39
  That is one of the things we're trying to, we're trying to
• 2:06:42
  increase this year at Faction Motorsports.
• 2:06:44
  We're trying to get more subscribers on our YouTube.
• 2:06:46
  But also if you like a video, just hit the like button it it
• 2:06:50
  also helps out the algorithm helps move us up in YouTube's.
• 2:06:54
  What do you even call that? I don't know, helps move us up
• 2:06:57
  in the feed feed. You know what's funny?
• 2:07:03
  I I have been getting a snap on video suggested to.
• 2:07:06
  My personal YouTube, our videos yeah because I watched some snap
• 2:07:10
  on stuff so now all those. Videos are.
• 2:07:12
  Suggested to me. That's awesome.
• 2:07:13
  Yeah, so I guess it it does work when people watch the videos and
• 2:07:18
  comment on them. Guys, we have Patreon as well.
• 2:07:21
  Don't forget there's three tiers on there, so you can pick
• 2:07:23
  whichever one fits your budget. The third tier is our bundle
• 2:07:28
  tier where we send out merch bundles when we come out with
• 2:07:30
  new products. To those of you waiting in our
• 2:07:33
  Patreon, we are basically we had to place another merch order, so
• 2:07:38
  we have one pending right now. It's already paid for, it's
• 2:07:40
  done, it's in, it's in the queue right now.
• 2:07:43
  So once we get those shirts, those bundles are going out.
• 2:07:45
  Some of you might get your bundles early if we have the
• 2:07:47
  sizes and yeah, there's a $5 tier on there as well that
• 2:07:51
  basically gets you everything, so except merch bundles.
• 2:07:54
  So definitely check those out. Check out our Patreon if you
• 2:07:57
  want more exclusive content. We are going to be doing some
• 2:07:59
  behind the scenes videos as well where Eddie's just going to
• 2:08:02
  basically just film whatever is going on in the shop.
• 2:08:04
  You know, music playing in the background doesn't matter on
• 2:08:06
  Patreon. So we're going to throw those
• 2:08:08
  videos. Those are going to be a little
• 2:08:09
  bit more real because when we film YouTube content, we have to
• 2:08:13
  shut the music down. We have to change the whole vibe
• 2:08:14
  of the entire shop. We have to, you know, prepare
• 2:08:17
  what we're saying because we don't want to sound too
• 2:08:19
  retarded. So yeah, it's the Patreon is
• 2:08:22
  where the real good shit is. And last but not least, thank
• 2:08:25
  you to our sponsors, East Coast Drift School.
• 2:08:27
  If you want to get your seat time in over it at Raceway Park
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  New Jersey. Why I did it again, we've
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  realized I've done this for the last how many?
• 2:08:34
  Probably like 100 podcasts. Like he's saying, Raceway Park,
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  New Jersey. It's Raceway Park located in
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  earth. Chris Knapp will hook you up.
• 2:08:45
  He's part of the Knapp family that runs Raceway Park and he is
• 2:08:48
  the one that is running East Coast Drift School.
• 2:08:49
  So if you want some privacy time, you want some, you know,
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  just like a hangout session with your friends, hit him up on
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  Instagram, East Coast Drift School and they will get you set
• 2:08:57
  up. What else we got?
• 2:09:01
  I don't even have that. Next I'm throwing.
• 2:09:05
  Eddie under the bus, he's. Doing.
• 2:09:06
  He's doing some. AD reads.
• 2:09:07
  This time, Chase. Base OH for some high end
• 2:09:11
  motorsport products. Products designed.
• 2:09:13
  To increase performance. And aesthetic while saving
• 2:09:16
  weight in space. That is one of my favorite parts
• 2:09:18
  of Chase Bay's products. They look the part, they look
• 2:09:20
  great. They they're not.
• 2:09:22
  You know, eye catchy. It's not like you open the
• 2:09:24
  engine Bay and it's just some purple shit.
• 2:09:26
  It's not like that. It's it looks OEM.
• 2:09:28
  It's factory, especially the all the AN fittings and all the that
• 2:09:34
  gets all black. It's all either stainless or
• 2:09:36
  black and it just looks really good.
• 2:09:39
  So. And stress tested by Front St.
• 2:09:41
  Yeah, yeah. Torture tested.
• 2:09:43
  Stress tested by Front St. Drift Club.
• 2:09:45
  So definitely check out their products you're going.
• 2:09:46
  To have to go to their website directly.
• 2:09:48
  We're not doing wholesale anymore.
• 2:09:49
  Chase Bays, you know, they're dealing with all the problems
• 2:09:52
  going on in the world right now. So they can't do, they can't
• 2:09:54
  have dealers anymore. So you got to go directly to
• 2:09:56
  their website, chasebays.com to check their stuff out.
• 2:10:00
  Also, we sell a wheel fitment tool.
• 2:10:02
  Ramstead MFG makes a tool that we sell on our website.
• 2:10:06
  It's the easiest way to see if the wheels you are looking at
• 2:10:10
  are actually going to fit your car before you buy them.
• 2:10:12
  So check that tool out. It's about $100.
• 2:10:14
  It's, it's a no brainer. Everyone should have one of
• 2:10:16
  these in the garage. Limitless, limitless auto fab.
• 2:10:21
  As Malcolm says, stay protected. They're in Moline, IL They got
• 2:10:26
  bash bars for your drift car for E36E46350Z Miata S13.
• 2:10:32
  We have one. Oh wow, we have one on our Z,
• 2:10:34
  right? Yeah, we have both of them on
• 2:10:35
  the Z. There's a video on it too, so if
• 2:10:37
  you want to check the details out on that.
• 2:10:39
  I am loving the rear bash bar on the Z because it goes right
• 2:10:42
  under the origin body kit and it's you just put the Jack right
• 2:10:46
  under there and it fits perfectly.
• 2:10:48
  So you don't even have to think about jacking up the rear end
• 2:10:50
  cause I mean the the rear end is a little easier to Jack up.
• 2:10:54
  The front end is terrible too, but they actually make a jacking
• 2:10:57
  point bash bar for the front end too.
• 2:10:59
  I believe so yes, yeah. Or they make a 11 and you can
• 2:11:03
  just Jack it up from the bottom. So we messed up.
• 2:11:06
  We got the single. We probably should have got the
• 2:11:07
  double, but we'll have to make that decision later on down the
• 2:11:10
  road. But yeah, they make it really
• 2:11:12
  easy to Jack up the car. That's probably one of the most
• 2:11:14
  important parts, but also they protect your car and everyone
• 2:11:17
  knows what happens when you drift.
• 2:11:18
  So check them out. Limitless Auto Fab.
• 2:11:21
  We have them on our website as well.
• 2:11:22
  We are trying to stock more here and I believe they're coming out
• 2:11:26
  with bash bars for more vehicles.
• 2:11:29
  Why don't you bother them about that?
• 2:11:30
  Just leave, leave a message or leave a comment on their
• 2:11:32
  Instagram. Somewhere and be like hey.
• 2:11:33
  What about my car? They those guys are really nice,
• 2:11:37
  so they'll probably make it just from seeing that and.
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• 2:11:52
  Why does it sound like you're reading something, Eddie?
• 2:11:54
  Oh, you know, one serving. Supports whole food.
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  Whole body health every day. OK, All right.
• 2:12:01
  Well, let me tell you something about AG One.
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• 2:12:09
  physically, it helps my mental. Yes it does help.
• 2:12:14
  It does support brain and nerve. Function oh does it?
• 2:12:17
  Yes. 'Cause I, I didn't even know
• 2:12:18
  that and it I can feel it, so that makes sense.
• 2:12:22
  But guys, if you got insane bowel movements, if you have, if
• 2:12:29
  you don't take multivitamins, if your life is just falling apart
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• 2:12:41
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  and then you know, you know what the next step is.
• 2:12:45
  You better get in the gym, you better start running, you better
• 2:12:47
  start doing something. But that's, that's the second
• 2:12:49
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• 2:12:50
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  thing in the morning and then you're all to a good start.
• 2:13:03
  So you knock one thing off your list already.
• 2:13:05
  It's a double whammy. You support us while supporting
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  your health. Oh, that's true, team.
• 2:13:10
  Thing about that, I know WAGS is on that AG one path.
• 2:13:12
  Oh yeah. So if you guys.
• 2:13:14
  Want to get on the path? AG One is the way to go.
• 2:13:16
  Don't forget about Wreck Magazine as well.
• 2:13:18
  Wreck Magazine is a quarterly magazine that is put out in the
• 2:13:22
  United States of America to cover the drifting subculture.
• 2:13:25
  We actually sell their magazines here.
• 2:13:27
  They have awesome articles, beautiful photos in these
• 2:13:30
  things. Same dudes that are running
• 2:13:33
  Drift Appalachia are also the ones doing Wreck magazine.
• 2:13:35
  The behind the scenes info for you.
• 2:13:38
  But yeah, we sell these magazines on our website.
• 2:13:40
  We sell them in store. And if you want to
• 2:13:42
  subscribesavesomemoneyyoucansubscribe@wreckedmagazine.com. That's all I got.
• 2:13:50
  See you. That's it, I.
• 2:13:52
  Guess. See, you see.
• 2:13:53
  You see you in the next. See you the next trip we go to.
• 2:13:55
  I don't. Know where we're going.
• 2:13:55
  Next, but yeah, this has been the Texas series.
• 2:13:58
  This is the Texas series. So I hope you guys enjoyed.
• 2:14:00
  Leave a comment. If you enjoy the Texas series
• 2:14:02
  and let us know which one was your favorite.
• 2:14:04
  Have a good one. Bye.