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#80 | Justin (Drift Corpus), Adam (Professional Photographer), Frank (Hero Garage) Corpus Christi Car Culture · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on, y'all?
• 0:01
  SPEAKER_04: Corpus Christi Regionals back at it again.
• 0:03
  SPEAKER_04: Today we're gonna be talking about Corpus Christi car culture.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_04: We got some emojis in the building.
• 0:07
  SPEAKER_04: Uh go ahead and introduce yourself.
• 0:10
  SPEAKER_02: Justin Flores, uh the president of the Drift Corpus Carl.
• 0:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm Adam Delio, I'm the photographer.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: I do a lot of automotive stuff with uh Adam Delio photography.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_07: Uh Brian Corpus, I'm the owner operator of Hero Garage in Corpus Christi.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_07: And also one of the uh admins for the uh uh Corpus Christie Cars and Coffee.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, Cars and Coffee, nice.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_07: I think you got nervous.
• 0:42
  SPEAKER_04: So what what is that?
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_07: I mean y'all go to the different coffee spots or so no, uh we try to maintain just like one spot that has a lot big enough for everyone to come in and it's a chill, real chill and uh type of you know spot.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_04: Chill, talk about cars and all that.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, drink a coffee, meet, meet and mingle, you know.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_07: Uh we try to do it early in the morning because uh like a lot of the um uh more chill people are out there and it's not the rift raft coming in, you know.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_07: No, right on we'll we'll get to that later.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_04: Right on uh what's going on everybody on the the live chat.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_04: We got Facebook and YouTube in here.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_04: We got Matt Lucio already.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, man.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_04: And uh so you're you said uh president of Drift Corpus?
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, sir.
• 1:23
  SPEAKER_04: Drift corpus.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, so drift drift, what what is that?
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_04: Like when I when I heard that first, I was like, Drift.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_04: So and I know you're you're in the car, so I was like, what is this?
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_02: You know, uh, so first thing though I tell everybody is uh Tokyo Drift.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_02: So everybody's teaming past in the Furious.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_02: If there's no other way to say it nowadays, I'm not gonna say, oh, the car, you know, you kick out the car, you hold it sideways.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you seen Tokyo Drift?
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that there it is right there.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_02: Pass the Furious three.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: So that's the easiest way to do it.
• 1:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's the easiest way.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody's seen that movie, everybody's seen that, so that's the best way to do it.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_02: But uh basically it's the uh fastest growing automotive sport right now, as well.
• 2:05
  SPEAKER_02: Too, so that's kind of a cool thing, yeah.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_04: And I was looking it up like the definition and and watching videos, and I was like, okay, so basically you throw your car uh at a different at a trippy angle and then you control it.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, right?
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_02: Basically basically that, yeah, that's it.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_02: Uh huck it in and pray to God.
• 2:22
  unknown: Right.
• 2:22
  SPEAKER_02: Not what everybody thinks we do.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and then just talking of, I mean, uh so you reached out and I was thinking about it too.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_04: And of course, everybody in corpus, what's up, Joey Garcia?
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_04: And then uh so we were thinking about uh the the accidents that have been happening, like the lady that fell out of the car.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, and like that's at the forefront, has been at the forefront of everybody's mind kind of lately.
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_04: It's kind of dying down, but for you guys, it's everyday thing, right?
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so yeah, and like you said, that kind of it sucks to say, but that brings a thing on all of us, you know, in the car culture general, like we were talking about earlier.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_02: It it reflects one bad apple, is all it takes, and look what happens.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_02: We can't enjoy a cruise downtown, you know, no more, you know, without having to look over our shoulder with somebody uh doing something stupid, or somebody uh there was a BMW that was doing donuts in the middle and hit a bike and took off.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like, yeah, man, if my car was there, oh man.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_07: To bring that up, uh this past uh Thanksgiving.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_07: I was told I was talking to Justin, my my uncle, he's like, Oh, I heard what drifting was, that uh what you do.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's that what they're doing downtown with the all the accidents, and I'm like, no, no, like they automatically associate.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_07: And that's that's the the stigma, you know, the the bad that we want to kind of like we're not associated with.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_07: Steer away, yeah.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's not about that, you know.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_04: Like wow.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_04: So I mean, what's going on, Basson Roberts and YouTube?
• 3:47
  SPEAKER_04: Oh dang.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_04: Uh I mean uh so like how do you what were we gonna say?
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_04: No, go ahead, go ahead.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_04: How do you like uh how do you I guess separate yourselves from you from that?
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_04: To get you know what I'm saying?
• 4:00
  SPEAKER_04: Like how do you go about doing that?
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: Probably promoting like you know, uh healthy meets by healthy I mean like responsible uh get togethers and stuff like that, you know, promoting the right message and stuff like that.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, linking up downtown, the water.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: I mean the water, the seawall, the fish pot, those are beautiful spots to hang out, meet up with people you see maybe once a week, maybe twice a week a month, and um catch up.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: But you know, you got people doing this stuff and it kind of sets us back quite a bit, you know what I mean, for the responsible you know, automotive industry.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_02: For stuff we just want to enjoy the scenery and have Adam take pictures of our cars.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's a time and place to get well and like downtown and busy traffic or people walking around, that's not that's not it.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_07: Like public, like public, you know, like I and uh as an admin for the Cars and Coffee Group, uh I see it like in the in some of the chats.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_07: Like there's and then I don't know if they're like dumb, they don't realize like hey, there's police in here too.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_07: Right, right.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_07: You know, like just because they're cops doesn't mean they're not in the cars.
• 5:01
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and they everyone can see what they're putting, and it's like, hey, let's meet up here.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_07: No, no one's here, let's do some burnouts.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_07: No, wants to get sideways at midnight.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_07: And I'm like, like, bro, like you realize, like, yeah, everyone can see this.
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_07: It's not a private chat, like it's not private, it's public.
• 5:17
  SPEAKER_07: Like, yeah, anyone and everyone can see it.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_07: And I try to police it to where like, hey, like, cut that out, or just delete the comment.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, if they keep at it, it's kick them out, you know what I mean?
• 5:26
  SPEAKER_04: Right on, right on.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_07: But I out of the out of that chat, I can't control, you know.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, and there's they don't understand is is cops.
• 5:35
  SPEAKER_02: Cops are cool too, they're in the cars too.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_02: They they do that and and uh they try to keep up and and keep with the lingo too and everything else.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, one of my uh a good friend of mine, he's a Portland cop, and I've known him for 15 plus years, you know, and it's cool because he was in the cars, he would always talk, he would come to meets when we would hang out there in Portland and come and check it out and talk with us about cars, and we're like, okay, we got a cool cop.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he would talk and chat with us, and by any means, then I never look at him as a narc or as something bad or down on him because he was a friendly dude.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_02: This dude would talk with me, hey dude, y'all be careful because this, this, and this, this and this.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, wow, y'all be careful, you know.
• 6:16
  SPEAKER_02: And he would kind of give us a guide out, but you know, we were all young at one time, we were all stupid at one time.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_02: There was there were those points that we had, and and luckily we had people people to help guide us to be like, hey man, like this is what's going on.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_02: Y'all chill out, y'all do this, y'all do this, and direct us.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_02: And now it's funny that you know, that guy's been a cop 20 plus years now, and his son comes out to our events and shoots for us.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_02: And now his son's a growing automotive uh guy too.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: And now it's like this is cool, like see how everything evolves, and and like yeah, just knowing that the cops are out there to not be the bad guys, but to guide us and keep us out of trouble, and like, hey, you know, right, right.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_02: You're not only risking yourself, but as we've seen on videos and stuff happening lately, you're putting other people in danger too.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I was gonna and we were talking before Aaron, you mentioned uh Adam, you mentioned about social media, how people do those street, what do you call them?
• 7:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh those takeovers, yeah, takeovers, yeah.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's it's a different era, a different time that we're in.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, us growing up, social media was just starting booming, I guess you can say.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and now I mean you open up Instagram and some of my you know feed videos are street takeover stuff.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm not even into that stuff, but it's still showing, so it's like I can only imagine what someone you know younger is like sees that, like, you know, I'm gonna attend this next week or the next one, and then people filming, posting that, you know, hyping, kind of clouting it, and it's like giving the wrong message.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_02: And it's crazy, like the likes that you see on that too is like, yeah, how many like thousands of likes and views, and they're like, dude, this dude's getting run over and chopped up, like yeah, like still lots of pants.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_04: Like, oh my god, how do you get up from that?
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: How are they cool with that?
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, exactly.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that one dude he got hit by the tail of a car and he fell down and he got up.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, dude, how do you get up from yeah?
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_04: And that that girl, obviously, that at at the bay front was she got up.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_02: Oh no, she was just like there.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, Yeah, laid out, yeah.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I think it took some people.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm I'm glad some people finally had to chill them out because the car kept going and it was kept going, dude.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and it's like, how do you how are you okay with that?
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_07: Like, that's that's the thing, man.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_07: Like, I think it's just these younger kids that they don't know this is what they see on the internet, and it's like, oh, let's go do that.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and a front wheel drive cameraman of all things, you know, like right, right.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_07: Front wheel drive cameraman.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_04: I noticed that too, because look at that rear wheel, right?
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's like, oh, you gotta have a railroad for that one.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_07: That's crazy, bro.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_07: And it's like someone gets hurt and they're like, Oh, yeah, that's supposed to happen.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_07: Like, no, bro.
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_07: The idea is you're not supposed to hurt anyone, like, yeah, wow.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_04: Maybe they're just not thinking.
• 8:52
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, they could be under the influence too, you know what I mean.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_04: That girl was 19 years old, the driver.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, wow.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_04: 19 years old.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, she was she came out on the news uh wanted or something like that, 19 year old.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_04: Oh forgot her name.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: But dang.
• 9:05
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, like earlier this year we had those implemented sound ordinances too.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's what you know, we love to modify our cars and stuff.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: So Ocean Drive, like I was mentioning, is very beautiful to cruise with the you know your friends or even by yourself.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_00: So you bring that type of attention to already to something with those ordinances, makes it even worse for us where we can't chill, hang out, or you're kind of risking it, you know, you're risking it to just enjoy your Saturday, Sunday type of thing.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_04: So, what is so what do you do?
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_04: What do y'all do?
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, what do y'all do to keep that going for yourselves?
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, of course.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_04: It's kind of hard because there's other people that they really don't care.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_04: So it's like, what do we do?
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_02: We have to set uh put yourself away from stuff like that because you know there's those there's the old grandpa from the hot rods and everything else, too.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like, yeah, there's this guy's just trying to enjoy his hot rod and go for a cruise.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_02: And I know those things don't have mufflers on them, and I know they sound really good.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, it's just like man, it ruins everything, and and you have to look over your shoulder now because you don't know who's doing something, or you'll have a car trying to race you like crazy, and you're just like, dude, I'm just trying to chill.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_02: Just cruising ocean, dude.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_02: Just that stock hammering that's ripping you up.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_04: So on that, you own a garage, uh, car garage, hero.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, hero garage.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so how long you've been in business?
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_07: You've been in business for a while?
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_07: Uh we, I mean, I started it in 2014.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_07: Uh but we it never really got serious uh until maybe like 2018 when uh I linked up with some other guys.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_07: Uh shout out to Tony for pushing it.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_07: So uh we started doing like merch, the hats, the shirts, the hoodies, and stickers and stuff.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_07: There's Tony right there.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on?
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on, Tony on Facebook?
• 11:00
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, uh gossip nails.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he said he said uh sorry about yeah, well, I'll go back to that one.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_04: So you were saying 2014 and then Tony got you got you into it.
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, more like uh 2018 is when we uh started doing like pushing more of the merch and the stickers and stuff and doing more you know, just bigger stuff, more events.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_07: I remember like uh one of the first events we did was uh Al Team Bash.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_07: I don't know if you're familiar with Al Team Bash.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_07: Uh yeah, so they he goes all around um Colorado or all over Texas Arkansas.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's just the influence.
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_07: He's an influencer, like on yeah, he's on Facebook, Instagram, um uh chemo.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, chemo, yeah.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_07: Um but yeah, he goes all over the place.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_07: It's uh it's just the event where it's like tailgating, you know, you just get all everyone together, you barbecue, hang out, mingle, you know, it's just a good event.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_07: They have like uh they call them drag races, uh, where you get your a car and your team and you you you push, you push drag race another car just by pushing it.
• 12:04
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, by pushing it.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah, because yeah, it's just uh you know, just to get everyone together, they do like the tug of war thing, like it's just a good uh it's a really good event.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: It brings all aspects of the automotive community together.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't matter if low riders team or your group of people have like the top tier builds in the city, it could be a group of people projects that are projects or just starting out.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's an event where all people come together, hang out, tailgate, have a good time, little mini games, and get a real idea of what the community can be like.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_04: Right on.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_04: If you're a photographer, it's interesting that that uh Justin invited you on the show.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_04: So how how much of an importance does he have in y'all's cult in the car culture?
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_02: And a lot because uh one, he makes my junk look good, right?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and but he helps us out because it puts a scene on a lot of places because Corpus is known for Selena.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: I'll tell everybody where you where you from, Selena.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: Oh dang, it's a movie, dude.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_02: But I mean, everything it he helps us big time because his audience being that he does magazines and everything else, he has a larger audience and it puts us out there.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_02: And he got my car in a magazine and everything else, and he gets a lot of locals in magazines, so it's kind of cool that he spots light he he spotlights us as uh our own personality because it puts us out there on a map.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, I can't tell you I well, I don't know, but my car's in a bunch of people's houses right now, on calendars, it it made uh uh a chassis calendar and all this stuff.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_02: So it's like, man, knowing that this man right here went out of his way and did what he had to do to help us out like that, and it's putting us on the map, not only as uh Corbis or myself, but as a as a group, because it's I didn't work on my car by myself.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_02: I did a lot of stuff, but he's shouting out a lot of my friends and a lot of others of a lot of other people that I've gotten to work with and uh our events and everything now.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_02: So he's kind of helped bringing us out to to branch us out because we're looking, you know, for sponsors and everything else.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's not just uh yeah, it's out of my pocket a lot of it.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_02: But when a sponsor sees my car in a magazine, oh dude, that thing's boom, it's posted up.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_02: They want to see it, they want to see more, they want to do stuff, and I get to work with people like that.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_02: And uh it's easier when I have somebody like that on my team that's helping me, hey, let's do what we got to do and and get ourselves out there because it's it's a business, like I told you, man.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's a this is a cra it's a crazy thing to to outreach people and to see people from man, we had a guy from Kansas come to one of our events one time, and I was like, What?
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_02: He had a blast, and I was like, Oh, Kansas or Kentucky, one of the caves, but yeah, I was like, All right, and he's like, dude, I enjoyed this event.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_02: This is cool in the scenery and everything else, and we're gonna go down and take some pictures of the car and blah blah blah.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, hell yeah, it's cool.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_02: It was cool getting uh you know, get out there and do that.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_04: Frank Corpus, uh Miguel Perez, Jimmy Conway, what's going on, y'all?
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, yeah, it's my dad.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, Frank's right here.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's good to know you're a junior.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, just talking to y'all and researching your stuff, man.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_04: It's y'all are like actually serious about what y'all are doing.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_04: You try to be, yeah.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: It's I don't think people understand that, and that's why we take what's going on downtown so serious.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: Because like I was telling you earlier, this is a uh yeah, people like their cars as a hobby, and like you said, is it a hobby?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I I really can't say it's a hobby, it's like a lifestyle, man.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's always, you know, I'm always trying to do something drifting, trying to, you know, do this, look at the next car part, look at this, look at events, trying to better my driving, trying to do this, trying to help the guys out, trying to go from uh one car to another car, trying to build everything else and try to put stuff out there.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_02: And like I was telling you, social media is a job now, man.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and you know that doing what you got to do with the merch and everything else, and and it's a whole it's a lifestyle completely.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_02: And and I don't like considering Drift Corpus as a job because I love doing it.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_02: Like I love hosting events, I love getting the crowd together, I love getting people together, like I love showboating and showing what these drivers are doing because at the end of the day, like you're out there ripping, and the best feeling in the world is people cheering you on and they don't even know you.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like, so it's like that's why we take everything going on seriously because this is a huge thing in our life.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, that's cool.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_02: That's how I met everybody here, and I've known Frank a long time, you know, when he was doing car shows and I was in a drag racing imports, you know what I mean, and doing everything else, yeah.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, a domestic bob, you know, and doing everything else like that, just it it it takes it consumes so much of you, you know.
• 16:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't know.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_04: I don't want to keep doing it, yeah.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_04: What's up?
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_04: What up, fam?
• 16:46
  SPEAKER_04: Says Hector Delgari.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, Hector, yeah, yeah, you guys got a lot of uh a huge crowd, man.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_04: Just just post putting a post on Instagram of y'all that y'all are gonna be on here.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_04: Like I got like so many, like 10 followers or something.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_02: No, not much, but like that's a lot to us.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's exactly bro.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_02: I I see my followers on the drift corpus, and I'm like, dang, like my follower account's like going down.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_02: Nice, man.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's it's trying to put corpus on the map, man.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_02: Slowly but surely, just trying to branch out.
• 17:16
  SPEAKER_04: So, how how did you cut how did you come to get it the the old racetrack, Greyhound racetrack?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_04: So y'all were somewhere else before, weren't y'all?
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_02: No, so that was the original place that we were at, was at the at the Greyhound uh in 2012.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_02: And uh so the there's uh another drift series, it's uh Lone Star Drift series, and that's what we that was the only drifting in in Texas like, but you had to go to Houston, uh, there was an event in Dallas, Mineral Wells.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_02: We had a drive out, so they had it at an old Greyhound uh place uh there in Lamarque.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_02: And uh me and some of the guys that were down here were like, dude, what if we go ask them?
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: And man, we here we go, we got dressed up all spiffy, we made a slideshow presentation.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: Like we did all this stuff and took it out, and we're like, all right, guys, this is what we're gonna do.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: And dude, I was however old I was, I wasn't ready mentally prepared for that.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, dude, it's just we're taking it one by one, doing what we got to do, and we're like, okay, guys, we got all this, and we go up and hey man, uh, so we we got a hold of him and we walk up, hey sir, yeah, so we this is what we want to do.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, y'all got this?
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, we made you a presentation.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_02: Ah, y'all good, go for it.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_02: Can we finish the presentation for anybody?
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_02: And a buddy of mine, man, he he uh he made us a cool little deal.
• 18:38
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we went through the safety, the precautions we take, and he's like, Ah, I'll watch it, show me.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_02: And he's like, Oh, you are legit.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_02: We're like low-key, like, no, but please.
• 18:49
  SPEAKER_02: So trying to do that and trying to to to get everything going.
• 18:53
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, like once once he said okay, it was like boom, and it took off for us.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_02: And the first event we had, we had 25 plus drivers, we got hooters to sponsor us, some of the local shops to sponsor us, like we had an after party somewhere.
• 19:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so it was like a big thing that everybody came to, and uh like we had a uh I don't know if you know what a dyno is, but a dyno measures a car's horsepower.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: So we had some local dudes that were trying to get some stuff together, and we said, Hey, set up your dyno in the parking lot and come out and like dyno some cars.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_02: So man, and we had a car show at the Frank and M help with the car show, and like everybody helped out, and it was like, man, so it was huge.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_02: I we couldn't believe it.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_02: Me and the guys that we first did it, we were like, nice, holy shit, yeah.
• 19:37
  SPEAKER_02: There's a market, yeah.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: There's a market, like this is cool.
• 19:40
  SPEAKER_04: So upon your market upon your audience, uh, Reckless DC5, Cami Flores.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_04: It's my smoking hot wife.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out, Joshua Green set, damn, Justin Flores looking off sick.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out to the official Pappy uh got me a haircut.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, sir.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Nice.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_04: So so what do you think?
• 19:59
  SPEAKER_04: How do you think the car culture in Corpus has changed over the years?
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_04: And where do you see it heading?
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_02: So, man, it's uh I'd say there's a separation kind of, but not really, because there's the hot rod gift crowd, you know, and they have a hot rod uh deal in Portland, they have one in Corpus, and they have their own thing, like they do their own thing, and they have a Snapkiss deal here, and that's every last Friday of the month, and they are religious about that stuff, and that's all the hot rod guys and everything.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, you know, the import scene uh it's slowly growing.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we used to have Wayne out here host some car shows and get some stuff going, and it's kind of hard for us because it's like like I told you, driftings the skateboarding and imports, you know, you try to present something like that, people what I mean.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_02: They give that thing and like the oddball cousin, yeah, yeah.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_02: But now slowly, now it's like growing and growing, and like you said, with all team bash, you know, they've been hosting at uh Waterburger Field.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_02: So they had been hosting at Waterburger Field, and that was always a good turnout.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_02: And uh now uh that we've been two years back here, I've talked with Kemo and I said, Hey dude, let's team up.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: And he's like, Really?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Yeah, because I know he he he pays a pretty penny out there, and I'm like, bro, let me hook you up, let me save you the cost, let me do something for the guys, and let me do let me help you out, grow your stuff out.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_07: So and it was a good turnout, and it was a huge turnout.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_02: So so for that turnout, we got to do a demo where we actually got to do ride-alongs.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: So um, a handful of the drivers, uh, I picked him out and I said, Hey, look, y'all guys have been kicking butt this year, y'all have been doing it, y'all have been consistent, y'all have been doing what you gotta do.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, Tony, I didn't pick you.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't pick.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_06: I'm sorry, Tony.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_06: He's in the D League.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, we picked some guys that that we knew can link the track and can keep a good consistency and that can put on a show for us and that have been supporting us because you know, you have your drivers that come out and do what they gotta do.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_02: But these dudes have hardcore, they're the first ones to sign up, they're always the first ones at driver meeting.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: Always making sure themselves plus everybody else is ready for that stuff.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_02: So I said, hey guys, let's let me help you out and let's put on a show for the crowd and make some money.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_02: So they were there charging$20,$30 a ride along.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_02: And dude, people were making five, six hundred bucks.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_02: Like people were banking.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_07: So they had people lined up at their cars, like waiting to get away both cars out.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_02: So I made a deal with my streetcar and I made a deal with my race car.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_02: So my race car, I it I had it turned down a little bit to 600 horsepower for the day.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_02: Saved me some tires, and then the streetcar is one set of tires.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_02: So it was I was going back and forth from car to car, and I made it like a little bit uh more affordable in the streetcar and then a little bit more expensive on the race car.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: But man, I was back and forth, and I haven't driven that long a long time.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_02: I'm surprised my car took it.
• 22:46
  SPEAKER_04: Right on.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on, everybody?
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_04: Tony uh Tony Lamb in the in the chat.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_04: Tony, sorry, Tony.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_04: John Valdez, OMT Drift.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_04: What's going on?
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, he's passed my bed.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, Twenty.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 23:01
  SPEAKER_04: Right on.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_04: Crash once and see what he does.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but now it's growing more.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: And and that's what, like we said earlier, when that happens right here, it just pops us back down now.
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_02: You know, as you say, with everything going on, I can't just if you know, when I have to look for another venue or we want to look for another venue, I can't just walk up to somebody and say, hey man, I want to drift in your parking lot.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right, right, right.
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_02: I can't just say that because knowing with what happened and what's going on downtown or what's going on everywhere else, they're like, nah, I don't want another part of that.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: So I have to have everything, you know, trying to talk to people, trying to present myself as a business owner and as an event host to say, hey, what can I do?
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_02: This, what can how can we work on something?
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: How can I gotten the phone hung up on me?
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_02: I've gotten a direct no, I've gotten hell no's, I've gotten a lot of turndows, and people don't see that.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, man, dude, like, and and all it takes is these bad apples to hit a little bit, and then boom, it just trickles down.
• 23:57
  SPEAKER_02: And we've already had to kind of tone us on our events down because I had to uh well, it's 2024, like I tell all the drivers, uh, sound ordinance is a huge thing, so that's what's shutting down.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, there's a track in Houston, the old NHRA drag strip got shut down, the San Antonio drag strip got shut down.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, they're building all these houses near, so nobody understands about the sound ordinance that hey, this can shut us down.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and I have uh no boundaries for I tell her, look, if you don't have it, you're not driving.
• 24:27
  SPEAKER_02: Like I'm I'm a jerk about it, I'm straightforward about it.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_02: But you know what?
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_02: It covers me and it covers our events because we got shut down one time and I had, like I told you, I had to pay the dues, I had to pay the time.
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I had to do what I had to do.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_02: Luckily, the drivers, you know, at the time pitched in and helped us out, but at the same time, it was just like all it takes is that one guy all it took is that one guy, and that one guy.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I went and shut it, you know, and and and I had to go talk to the judge, and I saw the cop camera talking to the person complaining about a sound ordinance, and back then we didn't think of that, you know, nobody cared about that.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_02: There's a refinery right across the street from our deal.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so on a highway, yeah, and there's you know, the the the 12 o'clock every day.
• 25:07
  SPEAKER_02: I know that alarm goes off because I'm right there next to it, is where I work.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_02: So hearing all that and the noise and everything like that, I didn't think of nothing at it.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: And now I implement the muffler rule, and I'm like, if you don't have them up, you're not driving.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_02: I hate to do it.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I love a loud car too, and I I I like hearing it all and and you know, showboating and doing what you gotta do, but there's a time and place for that, and it's not here.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_02: Like everybody has to understand, hey guys, we have rules, and that's kind of what I do here is you got to set a boundary for drivers to come in, and like, yeah, you can have your guys come in and just you know be reckless and do whatever, but if you don't set that boundary, yeah, that like they say, that one bad apple can ruin everything.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, it's a trickle effect for sure.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_04: They could not like the rule, I'm gonna go do my own thing or whatever or something like that.
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah, and that's that's because we've had I've had to kick people out of the parking lot for doing donuts in the other parking lot, and I'm like, bro, there's a spot right there.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_02: Pay me the entry fee and you can go do it.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's oh no, they got all mad that they popped the tire and I kicked them out, and we were getting the cops on them.
• 26:09
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, dude, if you would have paid me the money, you could have gone and did that right there, and I would have let you do your thing, bro.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_04: Did we talk about we were talking about the police officers like before era, right?
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_04: Like how how some of them are they kind of like like yeah, like how how how do y'all deal with that?
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_02: Like, so because there are some that so now that the Greyhound is uh a no trespassing, I don't know what the exact law is at for there.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_02: We have a cop that stays there 24-7.
• 26:35
  SPEAKER_02: He stands by, he watches it because that's not only uh our lot, but there's some pipelines that run through there, and it's a private property.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like I said, I don't know the name for it, but that guy is super cool.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_02: I provide his bathrooms, so I keep my bathrooms out there 24-7 so that way he can use them, you know.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_02: And he tells me, hey, they need to get service.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I got you, fool.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_02: Don't worry.
• 26:56
  SPEAKER_02: But he's cool, like with all this stuff happening.
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he shot me.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_02: They like Frank said, they don't know who's in the chats, but he shot me a picture of the flyer and said, What do you know about this?
• 27:05
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Oh wow.
• 27:06
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, You do what you gotta do with that, that's not me.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_02: And he's like, No, he goes, I know.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_02: He goes, but he goes, Man, dude, these people don't understand.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, no, man.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, do they not know about y'all?
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, yeah, they sadly do.
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and people, like I was telling you earlier, people ask to do that, but it's just like, I would love to provide a playground for everybody to do that.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_02: But as you see, that one bad apple was set us down, and uh they don't understand that doing a standstill burnout peels up asphalt, and that's not cheap to go fix out.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, we're drifting, but we're also moving while we're drifting.
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, and I tell the guys in the driver, hey, don't do standstill burnouts, you know, you could chunk up the rocks, you can do a lot, and uh you're wasting tire.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_02: You're wasting tire at that point.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_04: It's like, yeah, but you know, there's a how do y'all get used to that anyway?
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_04: Like, because I see all the smoke coming up from the tires.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, dude, you're paying.
• 27:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm on track and it's like quick.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_01: I got a special toilet paper where I blew all the black out of me.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_04: So, right, yeah.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_04: So, as far as that goes, like your car and stuff.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_04: Uh so that you it you it's a rear wheel car.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so I'll I'll stop you there.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_02: Drifting is rear-wheel drive.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_04: Rear wheel drive.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, continue on.
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah, no, that's what I was saying.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_04: I was like rear-wheel drive.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so obviously you gotta keep the tires spinning whenever you're drifting and turning at the same time.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because there's those front wheel guys that they do that.
• 28:28
  SPEAKER_02: There's videos of them doing that in Japan and and oh no kidding?
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so they do the front wheel drive.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_02: They'll put the they lock up the back and they put so everybody we all used to do this in high school.
• 28:37
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody used to put the trays under the back tires and go let the car slide and do that.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_04: So that's so that's basically oh, sorry, no, you're good.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_04: Listen to people here.
• 28:46
  SPEAKER_04: Uh who's that?
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_04: Alas, Mohammed, Justin Stands.
• 28:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's cool.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, Nikali, my boy.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you serving Nikali OMT Drift.
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, nice.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_04: George Salinas from Pure Precision.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, we need autocross and drift corpus now.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_04: What's autocross?
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_04: Is that a different type of driving?
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_07: So yeah, it's a different type of different type of type of driving.
• 29:07
  SPEAKER_07: Um so autocross.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_07: I used to do autocross from like 2020 to 2022.
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_07: Um basically you're in a parking lot with uh cones set out and you have to navigate.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_07: You know, it's a timed event.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_07: And um it's a two-day event.
• 29:23
  SPEAKER_07: Uh you normally get about six runs each day, and your average is basically like your your score and your certain classes, uh, depending on your mods and what kind of vehicle and power you have.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_04: It's a drift event, like an event.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_04: It's a grip event.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_02: So basically you're you're it's a grip.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_02: That's what we call grip.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_07: So you're not, I mean, I guess you can get break it loose, but I mean that's not the that's not the idea.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it can be a front wheel drive, all wheel drive, real wheel drive, you know, anyway.
• 29:51
  SPEAKER_04: So so what the it's being able to maneuver that obstacle course.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_04: It's not like you can.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_07: It's a time of time, yes.
• 29:58
  SPEAKER_07: So if you if you hit a cone, uh it's like uh like a second added, it's like you, you know, you get like penalties.
• 30:03
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, right, right, right, right.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, so it's more like uh it's more like I guess you could say like real racing kind of thing, uh but you're racing the clock and in a smaller uh not an actual course because we the corpus doesn't have like a road course, you know.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_04: So you're you're into like uh so you do you work on the cars, like the actual engines and stuff like that?
• 30:23
  SPEAKER_07: Uh yeah, yeah, we do kind of yeah, mostly just for our stuff, yeah, because it's like it can be time consuming.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, yeah.
• 30:30
  SPEAKER_02: Tony's meme, don't let us work on stuff.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_07: So like yeah, it it got uh we started doing like small suspension work and like stuff that we can get in and out because I don't like having a customer's car overnight.
• 30:43
  SPEAKER_07: Uh right, you know, just because liability reasons and and uh the bigger the job, the more it's gonna cost, the more people are gonna be like, hey, is my car ready?
• 30:50
  SPEAKER_07: Is my car ready?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_07: Is my car ready?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_07: It's like guy, we're waiting on parts.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_06: Don't be like, like, yeah.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_07: So we we kind of got away from that, and now that we're more into drifting, the shop is basically just we're maintaining our drift for an event, someone's hitting a curb, shout out Tony.
• 31:09
  SPEAKER_07: Or uh you know neighbor, don't forget neighbors.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_07: Neighbors break in something every every event.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_07: Uh so yeah, like the cars are just make one event, break down back in the shop, wait to get fixed.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, well, and so what so what's mostly the mainness like the truck or whatever you got?
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, um what's most of the maintenance that you see going through there?
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_07: Just like uh, I mean, if you hit stuff, you're gonna be replacing control arms and wheels or you know, uh yeah, don't forget the bolt checks, Frank.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_07: Bolt checks, bolt checks, yeah.
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_07: Always bolt check your vehicle before you head out to the track because my stuff was loose as hell.
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh um, but yeah, uh, if you're looking for a sponsor, we're right here.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Nicholas Keith, I love Drift Corpus and my friendship is uh I've grown with so many people.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Justin.
• 31:56
  SPEAKER_04: I've progressed so much and have an outlet to express myself and show out in a safe and awesome place.
• 32:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_04: My boy Nick, Nick, Nick can drive you.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he can drive on a budget, bro.
• 32:09
  SPEAKER_02: Now you get it right.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_02: Nick, I love you, but you do it on a budget and you're shit ready.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like it's crazy, man.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_02: Like we tell you, everybody sees, I need this fast car, I need this, I need this, and it's like, no, you don't.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_02: Like, you can do what you gotta do and and learn it and keep it to where you can maintain it because you know, like Frank and them tell you, the that it's maintaining your car.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_02: So if you build something at a caliber that you're barely learning and you're not ready, you wreck it, you do stuff, like it's gonna happen.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_02: I can't tell you how many wrecks I've been in, how many curves I've hopped, how many people I've hit, how many times I've spun out, like not people as standing people.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_02: Let me get that right.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_02: Like cars and everything else running into somebody and doing stuff like that.
• 32:50
  SPEAKER_02: It's a whole ball game.
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_02: And I tell people, like, look, buy a stock cart, learn what you gotta do.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_02: Like, don't overkill it because you're gonna hate it, you're gonna just walk away from it and just want to watch it.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like, do something that's affordable, that you can keep, that you can maintain.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_02: Because, like Ren told you earlier, it is not cheap.
• 33:07
  SPEAKER_02: I just bought 20 tires and they're not gonna last me but a couple months.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like, man, people don't understand that.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yeah, who is it?
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_04: Who who mentioned it?
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Nick, he brought up uh safety, right?
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_04: Like, how how important is that to you guys?
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_04: Because I noticed y'all some of y'all have helmets and those uh oh yeah, harnesses and everything.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_02: We have a standard set, uh driftcorpus.com.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, you can find the rules and regulation, yeah, on our stuff.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_02: And uh man, we're strict about that.
• 33:32
  SPEAKER_02: I got three guys on everybody's tail, like at on the day, just hey, boom, boom, boom.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_02: And shout out to my staff for helping me uh do everything because I rely on them to make sure everything's right, to make sure people have their helmets on, to make sure people have their chin strapped.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_04: Fire extinguisher.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_02: Fire extinguisher, everything.
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_01: I tell people, you know, that I I mention at every driver meeting and I hate it because these guys have a bet on me on what I tell you because I'm very because I'm very consistent on what I have to say, but it it's a point that I have to prove to be chintraps.
• 34:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, chin straps.
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_02: I tell people I tell everybody, dude, there's nothing more that I hate is watching a video and seeing the dude's trend strap just flop around everywhere and do stuff because God forbid something happened.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and what's gonna happen?
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's the same.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_02: Uh man, and we're in a contact sport.
• 34:23
  SPEAKER_02: You're in the dude, the dudes hit a light pole out there, you hit a curve, you can hit stuff, and what's gonna happen?
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_02: You're gonna get whiplash.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_02: People have roll cages, the steering wheel, everything out, yeah.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_02: So so uh roll cages aren't so much mandatory in uh what what we are, other than for like a convertible, just because of the fact that if they flip over and that's just straight glass, yeah.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_02: So so we make sure that all the convertibles are uh have the roll cage and everything like that.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_02: But a lot of the you know, the fastest, other than like some of my friends that come with some higher builds and stuff like that, we try to go a lot faster.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_02: But the average guy that's out there, you're staying in second gear.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I was wondering which gear do you stay in mostly when you're drips?
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so like you can do some people have third, uh stay in third, but that's like I said, the higher horsepower cars, unless they have the car geared out.
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_02: But man, average out there, we're like doing 40 miles an hour, 45 so you won't even yeah, and you really don't have to worry about that.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_02: And plus a lot of the cars nowadays they come with the the solid steel door bar in there.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_02: So that's one thing is that we make sure that a lot of the cars that uh and it's that's a drift spec without a lot of event hosts, is they know we all know which cars have what and what will allow to pass through and everything out.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_07: So uh we make sure that to explain better, because I don't know if he Oh yeah, it's so like uh intrusion bars.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_07: So like if you're drifting in tandem, you're you're side by side with another guy.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_07: Okay, if something goes wrong, you could end up in his door.
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_07: You know what I mean?
• 35:48
  SPEAKER_07: And if you don't have that bar, oh nice, like it'll keep it straight instead of like it's gonna take it or whatever.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_02: So like the Z.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_07: You gotta have that that bar, some type of protection to keep the other car from crunching into your passenger.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_02: And you'll see it.
• 36:02
  SPEAKER_02: Like if you see somebody get hit, you see that bar pop up and be like, oh damn, they were going like they weren't uh they weren't, and it happens, like people spin out in the front and somebody hits them, yeah.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_02: And some train and yeah, it's a lot of people get mad, some people know, but it's just like uh like everybody, yeah.
• 36:19
  SPEAKER_04: It's just it's interesting because you mentioned that that second car, and it's not like you you're not racing the car in front of you.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_04: You're trying well that are you or no?
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_07: That's where like where Justin said it's about like it's like skateboarding or BMXing, it's about that style.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_07: That that it's I don't see drifting as like a competitive sport.
• 36:36
  SPEAKER_07: It can be.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_07: You can you can't be judged on points and style or whatever, or or how you know angle and speed.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_07: But for me, it's just like a jam session with the boys, you know?
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_07: You're just going out there having fun.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_07: Uh you know, driving with your buddies, you know, getting sideways, and it's it's it's a lot of fun.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_02: Like it and there's a lot of different styles.
• 36:56
  SPEAKER_02: There's a lot of different events with a lot of different there's some guys that are doing like it's a car show on wheels, and you know, these guys come with thousands of dollars.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, these guys, their wheels cost more than my car.
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_02: But but basically in a competition, the straight up thing is uh follow the leader.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_02: Like that's the that's that's exactly what can you do with I can you do with that?
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_02: It's like up in the game of so basically you're matching that car following.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, can you do that?
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_02: In the competitive mode, competitive, yeah.
• 37:24
  SPEAKER_02: But when you're jamming, it's like you're trying to, you know, you're competing with your friend, oh right, you're competing with yourself as well.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 37:30
  SPEAKER_04: So that's awesome, man.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Rudy Martinez, appreciate you.
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_04: Rusty Moore, what's going on?
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_04: It's people in cars dancing, talking about who's going to be so Rusty's one of the guys that comes out to the events, man.
• 37:44
  SPEAKER_02: And Rusty is super cool.
• 37:46
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm gonna be straight up, you'd look at Rusty and you wouldn't think Rusty looks like he's going fishing in the afternoon.
• 37:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_02: Uh late 40s, mid 40s, Rusty.
• 37:56
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, I don't know how old you are.
• 37:58
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but he looks like he's out to go fishing.
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_02: He comes out in a sweatshirt and he's ready to jam.
• 38:03
  SPEAKER_02: And this dude puts on a deal.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_02: He's in a four-door car with a new charger.
• 38:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it looks good, and this dude can jam, and you're like, oh, we saw this at ATB.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_07: Rusty would go out and it was just like smoke show.
• 38:18
  SPEAKER_07: And then Neighbor would go out and he'd be like smoking.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_07: And then Rusty got out again, and he's like, Oh, he's really putting on between each other, yeah.
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_02: And it's crazy the amounts, and and that's what like all my best friends.
• 38:30
  SPEAKER_02: I know everybody uh drifting.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's where I've met all my family, and you would never think, like, oh man, this dude can drive, and it's like, oh, this guy could drive, like, oh, it's that like you you got some guys that that that jammed straight up and you can't believe it.
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_04: Uh who was somebody down, go go up, Maya, real quick.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_04: I think it was Joey John Valideras or something.
• 38:53
  SPEAKER_04: Uh he was mentioning something about where's it at?
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_04: Right here.
• 38:57
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Joey Valderas.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_04: He said, uh can't wait for the December uh, I guess the thing you're just gonna do.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh December 21st.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, December 21st.
• 39:04
  SPEAKER_02: We got an open uh bash style event.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_02: Uh drift must bash.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no competition, no nothing.
• 39:11
  SPEAKER_02: Just come out and jam and and enjoy the year and celebrate, you know, how long we've been doing this and uh the year because it's been a crazy up and down year for us, uh, car wise.
• 39:21
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody's been breaking, everybody's been doing new mods, everybody's been getting better.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_02: And uh plug the toy drive.
• 39:27
  SPEAKER_07: Oh yeah, the toy drive.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the toy drive.
• 39:28
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, so uh these guys here, they've been hosting it for years now, huh?
• 39:34
  SPEAKER_07: Fourth or fifth year doing it for children's hospital.
• 39:38
  SPEAKER_07: Uh we we get together with the community, uh, everyone donate a toy for a boy or girl.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and uh then after the event, we'll go drop it off to the Driscoll Children's Hospital.
• 39:47
  SPEAKER_07: Where do we donate?
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_07: Uh it's gonna be at the event.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, okay, okay.
• 39:51
  SPEAKER_07: Uh we'll have a booth out there and just uh are y'all doing a raffle this year too.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_02: I think he's I don't know.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_07: I'm gonna try to get some stickers out so we can at least hand out some stickers.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so last year they did a raffle, and like some of the guys got some swag and some other cool stuff.
• 40:04
  SPEAKER_04: And and uh yeah, these guys and uh drift.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_04: So who does the stickers?
• 40:10
  SPEAKER_04: Uh right here, Drift Corpus, bro.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, bone net, brick comeback, please.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_01: Come back.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_04: We miss you, we miss you, Bowton, and then we got drift corpus.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_01: Don't sue me for the sticker either.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yo, bring that three uh three shrimp, three fish back, baby.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_01: I was I was a four and four guy.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, but I was four extra rolls, extra five.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_04: And then we got he gave uh drift corpus hook me up with a t-shirt, also.
• 40:37
  SPEAKER_04: He got the four X, bro.
• 40:38
  SPEAKER_04: He gave he showed up, he showed up.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_04: My man said, I'm four X.
• 40:41
  SPEAKER_04: I said, Don't worry, bro.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_04: I got you, I got you, and of course the koozie, and then you guys got stickers and stuff like that too, right?
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_04: So we gave you some stickers, Hero Garage, and then this hat right here, he blessed me with already.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_04: I don't even have a hat.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_04: I don't know, Frank.
• 40:54
  SPEAKER_04: No, you guys know I wear hats on every episode.
• 40:56
  SPEAKER_04: So maybe for Christmas, though.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Marcel Hernandez, Andrew Vaughn, uh England.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_04: Appreciate y'all being in the chat, Luis Velasquez.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_04: Frank about ask Frank about uh Frank Grizzly Nation.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_04: What's up with that?
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_02: Glizzy nation, Frank Nation.
• 41:11
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, sorry, Glizzy Nation.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_07: Uh so uh like pretty much everyone in Hero kind of like really likes hot dogs.
• 41:19
  SPEAKER_07: Chili dogs, every every year we do uh uh glizzy fests.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_07: Um I know that there's other Glizzy Fests like in Austin and stuff, but this is our Glizzy Fest, our version of Hero Garage.
• 41:31
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, the Hero Garage Glizzy Fest.
• 41:33
  SPEAKER_07: So uh actually this year we teamed up with Drift Corpus and we had uh a little jam session at the two years, right?
• 41:39
  SPEAKER_07: Was it two years?
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_07: I'm getting old, so I'm forgetting that uh I almost forgot too.
• 41:44
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, so yeah, so we hopefully next year we'll do it again.
• 41:47
  SPEAKER_07: We'll have a barbecue, uh, all you can eat, bottomless glizzies, nice, and drive.
• 41:52
  SPEAKER_07: Like I invited a bunch of people, but not everyone showed up because it does get hot.
• 41:56
  SPEAKER_07: Right.
• 41:57
  SPEAKER_07: Summertime is brutal, man.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: Like that's why I told you I built that car with AC.
• 42:02
  SPEAKER_04: Well, no wonder you got the this the December event.
• 42:05
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, oh man, and see, and that's what so we we took off this summer, and that was probably the smartest thing, one of the smartest things in my life I've ever done.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_02: I thank you for that.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so last year we did a summer event, and then some bright idea, I don't know whose it was, it was probably mine, said, Let's do a two-day summer event.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god, man, on Sunday, I was dead, bro.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, and I wasn't even driving as much.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_02: I was you know, hosting and doing what I had to do, and we had a competition the next day, and just doing that in general was like oh never again.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_02: So, so we set it out of schedule at the beginning of the year.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we'll post it everywhere that we can, and uh we took off the summer, and everybody was like, Oh, thank God, you know, I got a lot of productivity out of it.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody was like, Oh, and you know, we're getting to that age.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_02: Me and one of my best friends, uh, we talk about it and we're like, okay, bro, we're not doing summer events.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, hey, bro, that's why we bought a sim.
• 43:00
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not mad.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like we'll sim, we'll we can go to the track one day and and do a lap or two, and then we'll go home.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_04: Did you used to do it like more often, like earlier?
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_02: So uh when I first when when we first started doing, we would do it like every three months, every other month and stuff like that, because we were renting the lot just for that day.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_02: So it was kind of like if somebody else had something going on, and the Greyhound track was still active at the time too, so we would kind of have to plan it out.
• 43:27
  SPEAKER_02: And now that um once it kind of died down and they closed the doors and it was only the semicast on the on there, it was we were able to do a little bit more and more.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_02: So uh being that we have to deal with the sound and that we have to do with everything, I try to keep it once a month and try to spread out the days because I'm a shift worker, so people don't understand is my one weekend off, that's when I host the events.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm working when I'm not supposed to be working, so doing that.
• 43:54
  SPEAKER_02: So we just try to separate it as much as we can and try to do it to where we can allow the locals and I think this year, man, was probably the most improved I've seen drivers go because we had a an event uh the first three months we took off uh and then it's every month, or we took off the three months for uh summer and then we had it, and we were hosting private days uh during the summer and let people like, hey, because I still had to pay rent.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: So I tell people, hey, look, if y'all want to do a private day, a private session, like we can book y'all and do stuff, and some dudes had bachelor parties, they had cluesiefests, they had everything else.
• 44:31
  SPEAKER_02: So I would book those days in between to kind of help us, you know, pay our dues and stuff like that.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_02: And uh we would just continue with that.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_02: But being like I said, with the sound ordinance and everything else, it's like, man, then you gotta deal with the people, oh, they're doing it every weekend, and it's like, man, you gotta deal with that, and then it's like, okay, like look, I don't want to, you know, put them too close together.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_02: I need to do that.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_02: That's what I was gonna say.
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_04: Like, the the is there more of a turnout the less you do it throughout the year?
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so yeah, so kind of it just depends because the locals, man, uh not a lot of people can afford to drive, and that's like not on them, or but man, we gotta go to Houston now.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_02: That's you know, three and a half, and well, other it's four hours now because they're on the back side of Houston.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_05: Oh wow.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_02: So then going to San Antonio, you know, San Antonio's had their um their events, they've been looking for a couple venues, they've been in and out of some like that, and that's the closest.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_02: There's nothing in the valley.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_02: And when you got to drive that way, you know, some of these kids out here and some of these people they they don't have the money to buy a truck, a trailer to do stuff.
• 45:25
  SPEAKER_02: So it's cool to have an outlet here for people to afford and and do that.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_02: So uh, and that's where I was going with the people improving, man.
• 45:33
  SPEAKER_02: These dudes, I haven't seen this much drivers come out of Corpus that have been improving and improving and improving, and it's like like you can ask Adam the pictures and the quality that's coming out.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_00: Like we were talking earlier, yeah.
• 45:45
  SPEAKER_00: Uh when you started in 2012 is when I was starting doing photos and stuff, and I've seen it start out and we're very good, slowly dip down, and then now it's like coming straight forward back tenfold, and it's it's awesome to see, man.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: And it's awesome to see the drivers come out and just being able to support them, you know, like like yeah, taking photos of them and getting their happiness out of you know, recapping their day, and it's it's cool to see, dude.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_04: Who does the drone footage?
• 46:09
  SPEAKER_04: Does it somebody so uh there's Bert.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: There's yeah, uh so Bert's drone view.
• 46:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh he comes from the valley, man.
• 46:15
  SPEAKER_02: So he was into biking and all that other stuff too.
• 46:18
  SPEAKER_02: And uh he is actually the Camaro on the cover of the flyer that I sent you.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's his car.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: So he got the itch, and now he's like now.
• 46:27
  SPEAKER_02: So I could kind of wiggle him all like, hey bro, because I know footage ain't cheap.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, hey bro, what do I gotta trade you for?
• 46:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like, what do we gotta do?
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_02: So now he's jamming too.
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_02: There's a Hiroki he comes out too, and these dudes, uh man, they're set up, bro.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_02: Like they come and they usually sit by my tent, but now we have a little another area for them that they go sit by.
• 46:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and these dudes have their goggles on, they're like in the zone, and yeah, and you're sitting there, and like we there's a couple videos of us messing with Bert, and he's like, dude some stuff, and we're like messing with him in his face.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_02: It's kind of cool, like doing that.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_02: But I mean, dude, these the the drone footage and everything else is like that's a whole other ball game.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like, yeah, for sure.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I was watching a drone on YouTube of Drift Corpus, and I went to another video where it was just like flat video.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_04: I was like, dude, that drone footage makes a big difference.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh-huh, and it comes out like it's uh the yeah, I can't even like imagine.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_02: And you see them and and you're drifting, and and it's crazy because you're focused on the guy in front of you, so you're right there, and then you just see a at this last event we went into San Antonio and Bert was hanging out in my trailer, and he was like that, and I saw him hanging out right here because I know his drone, he's like the green drone is mine.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, all right, cool.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_02: And I see his his drone dip in the front of my car, and I don't see him pop back up, and I was like, Oh, I hope I didn't.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, and he showed the footage and you see him dip down and go up, and is like, man, and somebody's probably rich too because Hiroki had the last uh it was like three months ago, one of his drones lost connection and blew towards 37.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude, we were just we spent hours looking for my wife went out there the next day looking, and yeah, refineries or something.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and he was we were all looking, and I asked the owners of the Greyhound, like, if y'all see this, and they're like, Oh man, was it expensive?
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_02: I was like$1,500.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, oh my god, I was like, dang, yeah.
• 48:22
  SPEAKER_02: So it was crazy, man, that that they take that equipment out there and they are getting sketched with that, but they get the best footage.
• 48:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's funny how like that that's important for your like what you do, yeah, and your business and like social media and what you're talking, what we were talking about earlier.
• 48:40
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's why, like I said, I I I like bringing Adam to the table because he that's a huge help.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's uh these small pictures, these I mean, somebody else can be like, oh, that's a picture of your car, but other people don't understand.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_02: Is we work off of that in general, like you're trying to post it up there and you're trying to do what you gotta do, and it's like, man, this thing can go a long way just for that small tenth of a second of a photo can can help us out big time.
• 49:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, for sure.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot.
• 49:03
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot, everybody in the chat.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, Josh Irocu, Nicholas Keith, Josh Josh uh Jenna Jenna Garza, J N A Garza.
• 49:11
  SPEAKER_04: Carson takes the best pictures now.
• 49:13
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, is that is that a shot?
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_04: Is that a shot right there?
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_04: Is that a shot?
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna remember that at the Carson Bulb.
• 49:22
  SPEAKER_01: We'll remember that at the Carson Bulba Jamie.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 49:28
  SPEAKER_04: So I sometimes I talk about AI and stuff like that.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_04: And like uh, I guess thinking about that, I'm thinking about electric cars.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_04: Would that ever get in the game?
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_04: What do y'all think?
• 49:37
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think they could survive.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna do the electric slide.
• 49:41
  SPEAKER_02: Nah, man.
• 49:42
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, so like I was telling you, man, my buddy that started his one of his first events was at Drift Corpus.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_02: He went to become a pro driver.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, Randall Waters, man, appreciate you.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, now he owns his own shop in Houston and he does this and he does his own drifting events, IAS Drift in Houston.
• 49:58
  SPEAKER_02: He does his own things and uh yeah, shout out to him, man.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, we've always backed up off each other and ideas for our events, making sure they don't overlap, making sure we get everything going.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_02: But Randall's one of his first competitions.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, his first competition was here, and now he became a pro driver.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_02: And and it's it's crazy that he worked with some guys that built a Camaro that was electric in the pro thing.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so they built, yeah, in the pro.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_02: So it was the first electric one.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_02: They were getting everything going and uh they had their issues with it.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_02: They had a um, he no longer drives now, but I mean he stays active in the community hosting his events, and he goes and does uh professional driving at a lot of like Toyota places, and he he does his stuff and he's hooked in with the right people where it keeps him busy.
• 50:40
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, they built a uh Camaro and uh another guy drove it the next one, but just with the battery and the weight and everything.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_02: And imagine, you know, when you're drifting, you're following a car and you're hearing what that car does, and yeah, you're looking at the brake lights, but when you don't hear nothing but tires burning, you're like, I can only imagine at a pro level, you know, driving thousand horsepower cars and this electronic car in front of you is not making a noise.
• 51:01
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, and it's like, yeah, so they're gonna be always yeah, yeah.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_02: So so they've had their issues with it and stuff like that.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_02: And I think, uh, don't quote me on this, but I saw the car get sold to like somebody, it was a lot of money in Dubai or something like that, like it's in a museum, or I don't think it's actively drifting no more, but you're seeing people that are coming out with manufacture sponsors doing a lot of electronic stuff, and now it's like, okay, it's getting there, but it's not like your car, you know what I mean?
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I don't think the everything will go over.
• 51:33
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think it'll go over that way.
• 51:35
  SPEAKER_04: You think maybe like maybe sometime later?
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, just uh laws, man, like California, all these laws that they have and everything.
• 51:43
  SPEAKER_02: That the the the house of drift is what they call the track just shut down.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_02: Oh in California, and now that California is doing all this stuff, it's like, man, how long is that gonna last?
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_02: A lot of those guys are moving to Florida because Florida's allowing a lot more than the regulations and the law and stuff like that.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, a lot of the famous YouTubers and the car followers that we follow are all moving out of there now because you can't do a thing over there now.
• 52:05
  SPEAKER_04: No, so so I guess with the new presidency or whatever, did you will that have an effect on what y'all are doing now?
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_04: Or I mean does it affect y'all?
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_07: I mean, I think for the industries that we work in, I mean we're we should be cool.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so he's an you know, he works in the oil field.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_02: I work in the I'm a tank farm, so that keeps us busy.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, for sure, man.
• 52:27
  SPEAKER_04: Especially I'm in uh LP, so oh nice.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_04: Well it's all in that stuff.
• 52:31
  SPEAKER_04: Uh we got Derek Etheridge.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_04: He says y'all are doing great things for the car community.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to Adam and the countless shoots he does he has done for my wife and I.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_04: Y'all are doing the uh the Lord's work, keeping the community alive.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_04: Corpus Christie Originals, Adam, uh Adam, how do you say that?
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_04: Delgadio.
• 52:46
  SPEAKER_06: There you go.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_04: React reaction motor sports, bro.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_04: Dude, that's awesome, man.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_04: And you so you take uh, so I guess he's talking about wedding photos or something like that.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_04: Uh you do other stuff too?
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yeah, I do a little bit of everything.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_00: I started off with um doing like beauty, beauty work and automotive stuff.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh still do automotive to this day, but um, but yeah, now I've done stuff for him and his wife, and he has a Dotson and uh take photos of that too.
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that's nice pretty cool to you.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_00: Right on.
• 53:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm still waiting on mine, and my wife shoots uh Cammy.
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_02: Send him an email.
• 53:19
  SPEAKER_02: Right, answer him, please.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_04: Straight line performance and YouTube.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot.
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to the brother.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, right on.
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 53:27
  SPEAKER_04: Dude, I gotta get that brother love, bro.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, in fact, shout out to Maya back there, the producer, it's my little brother back there.
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_04: Killing it.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_04: Josh Roku can drive.
• 53:37
  SPEAKER_02: One of the OGs here, too.
• 53:38
  SPEAKER_02: He's the guy that commented on your deal.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_02: He's like, he can't ask the questions, but Josh is an OG, and Josh.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_02: If Josh was still here, he'd probably I'd ask you to like let him come in too and make him because he was one of the OGs.
• 53:50
  SPEAKER_07: Josh was an inspiration for me.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_07: Like 20 years ago when I was getting into it, like he was with Voodoo racing and stuff.
• 53:57
  SPEAKER_07: And those guys were like, those are the top guys.
• 53:59
  SPEAKER_07: So that's that's what I wanted here to be.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_07: You know, those guys, voodoo was like, okay, like wow, you don't mess with him, like they're respect to the OG OG guys.
• 54:07
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, that's cool.
• 54:08
  SPEAKER_07: It's weird that you know we're like oh, we're OG guys now.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, I don't feel it.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_02: I know what's that feel for your feeling about, dude.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's crazy.
• 54:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's a different deal that we've gone through and everything.
• 54:19
  SPEAKER_02: Like, and Josh, thank you, Josh, for making me spend thousands of dollars because Josh, his car is super cool.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_02: And uh we did a little drag race, and and uh Josh kind of walked away from me and I said, All right, well, looks like we gotta spend some money now, Josh.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_02: Move back home.
• 54:36
  SPEAKER_02: And and Josh had to move away, Josh.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna say that's why you moved.
• 54:41
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, we would go to San Antonio with these dudes, we would go to the drag strips, like, man, those guys set a bar, and and yeah, I I don't want to say we've surpassed it, but I feel like, dude, like it it it was an inspiration to us to get to the point that we're at now because these dudes set a tone.
• 54:57
  SPEAKER_04: Do you all do y'all feel do you feel like you're in their shoes now as far as influencing the the younger?
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_07: Uh somewhat because I mean I think the times are different.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_07: That's the thing.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_07: Like like Adam had said earlier, social media kind of changed a lot of things.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_07: So like it's not as um like back in the day, you had to go out, you had to go out to the meets, you have to talk to people, like physically be out there, and now you're just scrolling.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_07: You can never leave your house and be famous as hell.
• 55:24
  SPEAKER_07: Like that's crazy.
• 55:26
  SPEAKER_07: And and that's where I think a lot of things are going wrong because these kids are seeing oh, they're burning out downtown, oh, they're doing donuts downtown.
• 55:33
  SPEAKER_07: Oh, we can do that.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_07: And it's hard to get the word out, like, hey, if you want to do this in a safe environment, like Drift Corpus, hit up hit up Justin.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_07: You know, you can do it for a small fee, safety inspection, go crazy, but you don't have to do it in the streets.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_07: But with social media, it's just that's all they see, you know?
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's it's like there where's a safe venue?
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_07: It's out there, but it's kind of hard to get the word out.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_00: Common place, yeah.
• 55:59
  SPEAKER_00: And follow the right people that can get that word out.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_03: So you have a respect, there's a certain level of respect that you have to have.
• 56:08
  SPEAKER_02: And like Josh just said, don't forget Road Atlanta.
• 56:11
  SPEAKER_02: Like, we went, Josh was one of the few, like, yeah, I was drifting and doing stuff and going out of town, like uh, whenever we first started drifting, like I was telling you earlier.
• 56:19
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, how I got into it, my best friend was building a car that took forever, and he finally took me for a ride.
• 56:24
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, that was in 2008.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 56:26
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, oh my god.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, that's right.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, and I was, you know, dude, I had a second gen Camaro with a big block.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_02: And you couldn't, I was like, dude, that's burning out with style.
• 56:35
  SPEAKER_02: And he took me for a ride.
• 56:36
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, yeah.
• 56:38
  SPEAKER_02: So uh my best friend Raymond, man, he hooked me up and he got me into going that.
• 56:43
  SPEAKER_02: And and then now, like, like I say that because when Josh says don't forget Rhode Atlanta, it's like, man, that was a huge step for me because I'm helping this dude that I looked up to that would mess with nothing but pure greatness in cars.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like he had magazines, he was one of the first out of corpus, I feel like, that would come out and do magazines and that would do stuff that I know of to set the bar to everything.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_02: And then Josh invited me to go help him set up his car because he has an old school 86 Corolla that's beautiful.
• 57:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, he's got two of them.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_02: So that one that he had, you know, came out in magazines, came out in everywhere, and we were in Atlanta and we're and we're there, and it was for a drifting thing, but they did a road race time attack uh before that.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_02: And uh me and a couple of the guys from the Voodoo racing team were out there helping Josh out, and I'm like, I could not believe that I was here on this stage helping Josh out, like doing he entrusted me to do stuff, and to me, I was like, Oh my god, Josh, like dang, but but just helping him and seeing him do what he had to do and drive his tail off and get where he got.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_02: People were coming over there and talking with us, and uh man, I met so many people just in that one small thing, and uh, and you know, people came up thinking we're famous.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, bro, we're from Corpus thought like we're from Corpus Christi, man.
• 57:59
  SPEAKER_02: Like you don't know, yeah, you don't even know where that's at.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, what's up?
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Lewis Velasquez.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh he wants an opinion on what's happening in dot time.
• 58:07
  SPEAKER_04: We had we talked about that a little bit early on the podcast.
• 58:09
  SPEAKER_04: You might want to flip back on that.
• 58:11
  SPEAKER_04: But uh, like so basically, like like one app one bad apple kind of spoils a bunch for you guys, and it sucks.
• 58:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
• 58:19
  SPEAKER_00: Also, too, around that same time that happened, they were trying someone was trying to do like an unsanctioned event, uh, doing like burnouts and stuff.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_02: They had a behind burnout with drops without approval downtown at the American Bank Center.
• 58:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah, like you know, it's it's about doing it the right way, getting the right permits, the right approval, the right venues, and like I said, there's there's time and place to do it, you know.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_04: Um and that's why you don't have to do it illegally, but exactly.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_00: Like pen the money to do it right, and you can make it happen.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like and on that point, like like I said, I always tell people, look, yeah, there's a time and place for stuff, yeah, there's whatever, but you're gonna learn more in 30 minutes on the track than you are two to three hours on the street because you're there and you're focused on what you're having to do, what you're having to go.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_02: And like I said, I know everybody's done their path, everybody's has it, everybody does this, there's this, there's this, there's this, and that's not to bash on nobody or not to put it out.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_02: But when we're doing at the track and we're trying to set a standard, it's like, hey man, like like this is what we're trying to do.
• 59:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like, come out, come jam, come do what you gotta do, put on the support and help these other guys go.
• 59:29
  SPEAKER_02: Because, like I told you, I don't have to travel to go do what I love doing.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_02: I do it right here in my backyard.
• 59:34
  SPEAKER_02: It takes me 17 minutes to get from my house to the track.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_02: I know that because I've ran late a million times.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_02: So I'm I'm right there.
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_02: So, you know, my wife gets mad at me because I drive slow and I'm like, man, I take out all my stuff on the track.
• 59:47
  SPEAKER_02: I don't gotta, you know what I mean?
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_02: It's like maybe we're going 55, it's 65.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, I don't care.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot, you guys, for being in the uh chat.
• 59:54
  SPEAKER_04: We got YouTube and Facebook uh firing up, and I got a notification on my restream account saying a hundred messages today with the restream chat.
• 1:00:02
  SPEAKER_04: Appreciate you guys.
• 1:00:04
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Cami Flores, Nicholas Keith, thanks a lot, you guys.
• 1:00:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, my wife's slightly.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_02: We can't go nowhere without me being recognized, and I love it, but I hate it.
• 1:00:12
  SPEAKER_02: But I love it because yeah, we try to get people out, man.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_02: I you know, some guy at AutoZone, I was buying a party, he's like, Your name looks familiar, you're the drifter.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_02: And I'm like, hell yeah.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, dude, we got an event tomorrow.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_02: Come out.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_02: And I saw him at the event, and I was like, bro, it's like so.
• 1:00:24
  SPEAKER_02: Just knowing that that we can get people out there, like, I'm not trying to make a million dollars off of this, I'm not trying to like become the best guy out there to drift.
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just trying to go jam with my friends.
• 1:00:34
  SPEAKER_02: Like, that's the main thing, and do it in a safe place where we could put on a show for everybody.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_04: What are some things y'all that y'all would say, like, I guess, to the community that that had like, I guess, since the recent stuff that's been happening, what's something that you would like for them to know or that would help you guys out?
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_04: You know what I mean?
• 1:00:51
  SPEAKER_00: Something that's in in y'all's thoughts or in y'all's mind that you would like for from an outside uh inside perspective, I would say come attend one of our events or one of his events.
• 1:01:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you know, there's not many like events in corpus for automotive, you know, uh things that happen.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you got Drift Corpus, uh, maybe one or two car shows throughout the year, but um for someone that doesn't know or has a negative thought to it already, I would say come on out, the events are free, you know, check them out.
• 1:01:22
  SPEAKER_00: And it's very family oriented, you know.
• 1:01:25
  SPEAKER_02: Like you get an idea of what goes on for for the drift scene here, and it's yeah, and there's like there's uh so we don't pay for spectators or nothing.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_02: I let people go out there and just watch it for free, just trying to get people and like the amounts of people that are get drawn into it because of that is a huge thing on me.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_02: And like Adam said, there's there's very few events that happen here and there.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_02: There's the SECA guys as well.
• 1:01:46
  SPEAKER_02: You know, if you're not into drifting, we understand.
• 1:01:48
  SPEAKER_02: We're not gonna shove this down your throat and tell you, hey, come come drift, come do this.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_02: Because James over with the SECA, they have their own program thing, they do what they got to do there.
• 1:01:55
  SPEAKER_02: He has his own class, like Frank was saying.
• 1:01:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, he's the autocross guy, so they do it out in Ropstown at the fairgrounds.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_02: So while that's not being used, they're out there renting that out and they're doing and uh they also have events out in Bivo as well, too.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_02: But it's uh drifting's not for everybody, like I said, it's a skateboarding.
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_02: Get your skateboarders, you got your BMX guys, and then you got the rollerbladers.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_02: So, but yeah, you know, there's there's plenty to do, and there's plenty of people out there to outreach.
• 1:02:24
  SPEAKER_02: And like I tell everybody for the they have a burnout pit that in uh the valley at Edinburgh Motorsports Park.
• 1:02:30
  SPEAKER_02: That that's all they do.
• 1:02:32
  SPEAKER_02: That's if you want to go do burnouts and you want to go do something to where you don't have to look over your shoulder, you want to show off to everybody and you want to do it, you gotta go over there.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_02: They do what they have to do and they do it in a safe environment.
• 1:02:43
  SPEAKER_04: They, you know, or start one here and but do it legal, do it the right way.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's the thing too, is like we've had people come up to us, hey, what do we got to do to start these events and these events and these events?
• 1:02:53
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like the next thing you know uh that you have to do is like, okay, now we got to find somewhere for this to happen because you can't just go and do this.
• 1:03:00
  SPEAKER_02: Like I said, you can't go and do this here and finding land and property, and and like we talked about earlier with all the tracks closing and everything else now, like Corpus, we have the real estate, but it's the money that's the you know the issue, and we're already putting all of our money in a car, so we can't really just trying to reach out to there and do stuff like that is uh is a big thing, and people don't understand.
• 1:03:23
  SPEAKER_02: You put a lot of people together, you can make something happen.
• 1:03:25
  SPEAKER_02: And that's how we did what we're doing today, you know.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_02: I I I talk to these guys every day, and uh we just bounce ideas off of each other.
• 1:03:32
  SPEAKER_02: Me and a couple of my best friends.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I have you know, my best friend Ben in uh San Antonio.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_02: I call him, we talk for 45 minutes on the day uh all the time, just bouncing ideas off of each other to do and like what do we gotta do to be better?
• 1:03:44
  SPEAKER_02: What do we gotta do?
• 1:03:45
  SPEAKER_02: Where do we have to go?
• 1:03:46
  SPEAKER_02: What do we, you know, what do what are the people like?
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_02: Where where can we go next?
• 1:03:50
  SPEAKER_04: How and yeah, they always had that type of mindset to where like we we gotta do it, we gotta do it like this, you know what I mean?
• 1:03:56
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no, because like I said, drifting's an outlook or an open uh what do you want to call it?
• 1:04:01
  SPEAKER_02: Like an open outlook for yourself.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_02: Like you can just go and be you and you got your guys that come over, shout out to Darry, and he comes out with his car, you know, looking janky, but that dude drives and does what he has to do and gets it done, you know.
• 1:04:14
  SPEAKER_02: And then you got other guys like Nick, he does it on a budget, but he puts his car together and makes it look well, and he has to do what he has to do.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 1:04:20
  SPEAKER_02: You got your guys like me.
• 1:04:21
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna put a lot of money into my motor and do what I gotta do and come jam and do what I have to do.
• 1:04:26
  SPEAKER_07: Two cars out there, yeah.
• 1:04:27
  SPEAKER_02: Two cars out there, and then you know, you got the other guys that come out with style, they got the the the wheels, they got everything else, hot boy wheels, they got everything else, they're they're making their car look, and at the end of the day, we're all driving together.
• 1:04:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you're not gonna it's it's a way to express yourself, but doing it together and in a safe environment, like what you want to do.
• 1:04:45
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and it's not just the imports, there's Camaros out there, Mustangs.
• 1:04:48
  SPEAKER_07: It's yeah, oh man.
• 1:04:50
  SPEAKER_07: The the guy with the um the GTO, that thing is cool.
• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, dude.
• 1:04:54
  SPEAKER_07: That thing was cool to be.
• 1:04:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, there's like like he's saying, there's it's an open outlook.
• 1:04:58
  SPEAKER_02: We're not gonna say, oh, this guy has this car, like like dude, yeah, you you freak out seeing what comes out there, and you're like, like I told you, you know, this and you're gonna just like okay, like do what you gotta do, man.
• 1:05:11
  SPEAKER_02: And and and just like, and then you were talking about uh Ken's car earlier, that uh the car police car, yeah.
• 1:05:17
  SPEAKER_02: Police car, man, he puts this thing and and everybody looks at that car, and I'm like, man, is it still in on that car because Ken's the crazy driver and he does not care at all, and you will put it in your door and leave it there.
• 1:05:33
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, and it's just like it's it's no it's a way to express yourself that I don't want to police that.
• 1:05:38
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna the only thing I'm gonna police is safety and be like, hey, look, you gotta have this, you gotta have this, you gotta you're cool.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, do what you gotta do.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_02: Some guys, uh man, I'm gonna do this and this.
• 1:05:46
  SPEAKER_02: Hey, bro, that's not gonna work, but do what you gotta do.
• 1:05:49
  SPEAKER_02: Like, hey, try it.
• 1:05:50
  SPEAKER_02: See what you there's a guy that comes out and he's been coming out and he has a crown Vic and he's had it automatic for years.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_02: And like, I want to tell him, Hey, bro, make it standard and do it.
• 1:05:59
  SPEAKER_02: And he Like, nah, it's having fun.
• 1:06:01
  SPEAKER_02: And he does it.
• 1:06:02
  SPEAKER_02: And now he finally converted it to do what he's got to do.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_02: But it's a it's a way, uh a budget way that he found to express itself.
• 1:06:09
  SPEAKER_02: And it's like, dude, hell yeah, kick some ass, dude.
• 1:06:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, do what you gotta do, man.
• 1:06:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna judge you.
• 1:06:13
  SPEAKER_02: Like, drive.
• 1:06:14
  SPEAKER_04: Like that's awesome, Bob.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, bro.
• 1:06:16
  SPEAKER_04: Uh let me see.
• 1:06:17
  SPEAKER_04: So so you do you got you have like a promo ready, like that you you would say to the camera for drift uh drift must drift must bash four.
• 1:06:26
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, hold on.
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_04: Look into that camera and say it so we can reclip it.
• 1:06:29
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, hell yeah.
• 1:06:30
  SPEAKER_02: All right, so make sure to come and find us 5302 Leopard.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_02: Uh December 21st, Drift Must Bash.
• 1:06:37
  SPEAKER_02: Gates open at nine o'clock.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_02: Driving starts at 11, or if I feel like it, a little bit earlier.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_02: But come out, it's free to spectate.
• 1:06:45
  SPEAKER_02: Come drive, come watch, come get a ride along, come enjoy the town with us and uh see what we got to do.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_00: Toy drive.
• 1:06:52
  SPEAKER_00: Toy drive, yeah.
• 1:06:53
  SPEAKER_02: And co drive.
• 1:06:54
  SPEAKER_02: Could drive too.
• 1:06:55
  SPEAKER_02: Tell your friends to drive.
• 1:06:58
  SPEAKER_02: Tell your friends too to come drive at the toy drive too.
• 1:07:00
  SPEAKER_02: So come out, bring a toy, make sure you find neighbor, Tony, Miggy, Adam, who else is there?
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_02: Zach, Jason, Joey, all them at the tent.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_02: Go check them out.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_02: John and whoever else I forgot, I'm sorry.
• 1:07:14
  SPEAKER_02: Uh I only know your nicknames, but yeah, come out, find them there.
• 1:07:17
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, give a toy, get a donation, and we appreciate that big time.
• 1:07:21
  SPEAKER_02: It's not only true to our hearts, but it's true to everybody else's and to the kids.
• 1:07:24
  SPEAKER_04: Word.
• 1:07:25
  SPEAKER_04: Uh Nick uh Night Kid One, uh drifting is a release to escape daily stress and our responsibilities for a good time with the boys and to be kids again and to cut loose.
• 1:07:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, bang right on.
• 1:07:35
  SPEAKER_04: You guys, is there anything else you guys would like to share before we take off?
• 1:07:40
  SPEAKER_04: Oh if you want to keep having a conversation.
• 1:07:46
  SPEAKER_07: I do want to say thank you for having us here, man.
• 1:07:48
  SPEAKER_07: I appreciate you, man.
• 1:07:49
  SPEAKER_07: Letting this talk, and it's pretty cool, man.
• 1:07:51
  SPEAKER_07: Like, I didn't even know this was uh, you know, the thing.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_04: And I'll say the same thing about like drifting in Corpus, dude.
• 1:07:58
  SPEAKER_04: I had no idea.
• 1:07:59
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I I'm not really into cars, I drive a car 30 fucked.
• 1:08:04
  SPEAKER_06: You're halfway there.
• 1:08:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, and that's it's cool.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I appreciate it big time, man, because it's like I'm always telling people, everybody when they think of drifting, they think of me from Corpus because I've been hosting this for like 12 years, and it's kind of cool to put that out.
• 1:08:19
  SPEAKER_02: And and I I want to start outreaching now that we're more uh it was a fun thing, it is still a fun thing, it's still good, but now that I have the venue locked in and doing what we have to do until we can uh survive all this stuff that's going on, you know.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_02: I want to outreach the people, I want to bring people out.
• 1:08:35
  SPEAKER_02: I don't man, and I'll tell you like, I don't charge people to come out and vend to be bent.
• 1:08:39
  SPEAKER_02: I don't charge you have vendors actually.
• 1:08:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so so I have Odyssey Toys, he comes out for all the Hot Wheels and stuff like that.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_02: Cool.
• 1:08:44
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, one of my best friends that I grew up with, Martin, with his uh Southern Go Barbecue, he comes out and he serves up all day.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_02: Um, JA, they come out and they just started coming out, they got their little business together with some tea, some milk tea, and man, that tea is good.
• 1:08:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't know.
• 1:09:02
  SPEAKER_02: But yeah, just trying to get everybody here just out there.
• 1:09:05
  SPEAKER_02: Like, I don't want to charge and make money off of them.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like, if they want to donate to me, that's cool.
• 1:09:08
  SPEAKER_02: But just getting the community out here to to get together and have a good time and and get the kids out there.
• 1:09:15
  SPEAKER_02: That's why it's cool having the guy with the Hot Wheels out there because he sells all the Hot Wheels and everything else.
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, my son goes crazy over those.
• 1:09:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, dude, this dude has a whole freaking 10 by 20 tent set up and like he's ready to go and he's got cars for days.
• 1:09:28
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, talking with y'all and stuff like that.
• 1:09:30
  SPEAKER_02: I know y'all have the produce shop and everything down here, and y'all have y'all's own little deal.
• 1:09:33
  SPEAKER_02: You know, I just got my hair cut up here uh from the official.
• 1:09:37
  SPEAKER_02: So my friend Pappy, I've known him forever, you know.
• 1:09:40
  SPEAKER_02: Well, since I met my wife because that's one of her best friends, but you know, he was like, dude, you need to come in and get with these guys and showcase what y'all got, man, because it's all self-expression out here and doing what you gotta do to like get the business out and and get Corpus out, you know, with all the stuff downtown too, with the art walk and everything else, man.
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_02: Like we're growing, yeah.
• 1:09:58
  SPEAKER_02: Like Corpus is growing, and I feel like that's what I that's what I love about you, dude.
• 1:10:02
  SPEAKER_00: Is it's not about what you do, it's about doing it for others, getting new people, new faces to join in on the sport.
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_00: And from my outside's perspective, that's why I love being out there supporting your events and all the drivers that come out to attend.
• 1:10:18
  SPEAKER_00: It's like it's really cool, it's really fun, and like you have to go out there and see it.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and to uh to add to that, uh like I came from like uh show cars and stuff, you know, making cars look nice, sit nice.
• 1:10:30
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, and then once COVID hit, like the shows kind of stopped because you know, couldn't do any more indoor stuff.
• 1:10:36
  SPEAKER_07: Did the autocross thing, it's it's fun, but it really wasn't for me.
• 1:10:40
  SPEAKER_07: And then Justin kind of like like, hey, yeah, come out here.
• 1:10:44
  SPEAKER_07: You know, this is when they were doing the Beeville thing.
• 1:10:46
  SPEAKER_07: And uh you know, just I like I said, I came from show cars.
• 1:10:50
  SPEAKER_07: Don't be scared to get your car out there.
• 1:10:52
  SPEAKER_07: You don't have to chase another guy or bee chase, you can just get on the track by yourself, yeah, learn the vehicle, you know, learn learn learn control, auto control, clutch input, you know, you know, all type of transitioning.
• 1:11:05
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it's you can show up there in a stock car, show car, you know, just learn it.
• 1:11:09
  SPEAKER_07: Just learn how to do it.
• 1:11:11
  SPEAKER_07: You don't need 500 horsepower, you know.
• 1:11:13
  SPEAKER_07: I was doing it in uh 150 horsepower FRS, you know.
• 1:11:18
  SPEAKER_07: Like you, it's it's it's harder, you know, because you don't have the power, but you know, you learn the car, and that's what it's about learning how to how to maneuver that car, how to control it, you know.
• 1:11:27
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, right.
• 1:11:28
  SPEAKER_07: So all the kids doing it downtown in the streets, just hit up Justin, Drift Corpus, like it's super easy.
• 1:11:35
  SPEAKER_07: Get a helmet, that's pretty much all you need, safety-wise, you know, and you can show up in a stock car.
• 1:11:41
  SPEAKER_04: And don't do it under the influence, man.
• 1:11:43
  SPEAKER_04: Like, yeah, oh yeah, no, especially, yeah.
• 1:11:46
  SPEAKER_04: Be careful, man.
• 1:11:46
  SPEAKER_04: That's uh that's a machine you're operating.
• 1:11:49
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 1:11:50
  SPEAKER_02: No, people don't get everybody wants to get up close to the cars.
• 1:11:52
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, bro, chill.
• 1:11:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'll step back next.
• 1:11:56
  SPEAKER_02: It's like the media people like they can sign a waiver for you, dude.
• 1:12:02
  SPEAKER_07: Hey, one of your first events, I uh I almost got run over.
• 1:12:07
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 1:12:08
  SPEAKER_07: Because remember, I want to be out there before.
• 1:12:10
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, I was out there and uh I don't remember, I don't even know who it was.
• 1:12:12
  SPEAKER_07: It was a G35 just came at me and just like 180 and reversed into me, like, oh my god.
• 1:12:18
  SPEAKER_02: I know some of these photographers are out there, and I'm like, bro, you do not know them.
• 1:12:22
  SPEAKER_02: Like, go back, yeah.
• 1:12:24
  SPEAKER_01: Like, I want to tell you who's good and who's not good, but it's just like bro, like, hey, go back.
• 1:12:29
  SPEAKER_01: Like, it's it's good.
• 1:12:30
  SPEAKER_07: Wow, yeah.
• 1:12:31
  SPEAKER_07: Good thing I had my best.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_04: Has anybody like got has anybody like gotten hurt at any of you mentioned?
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_02: Oh man, so so like the worst uh accident that's ever happened out there, uh, it was a freak accident.
• 1:12:41
  SPEAKER_02: The car understeered and uh it was overpowered and it it went, it hit a light pole.
• 1:12:46
  SPEAKER_02: Oh wow, and uh like he got bumps and bruises and stuff like that, but it happens, you know what I mean?
• 1:12:51
  SPEAKER_02: And and that's why I tell people like the stricter we are on safety, the less I have to worry about.
• 1:12:57
  SPEAKER_02: Like I I love my events and I love doing what I love to do because I don't have to baby these dudes.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_02: I set a standard, like I said, I set a standard for people to come in, obey the rules, do what you gotta do, so that way I'm not there babysitting everybody all day.
• 1:13:10
  SPEAKER_02: Because that's that's a whole nother job.
• 1:13:11
  SPEAKER_02: If if I can sit there and enjoy the event and hype up people and like every once in a while, hey dude, like do this.
• 1:13:16
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, cool.
• 1:13:17
  SPEAKER_02: Hey man, make sure, oh okay, yeah, sorry.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_02: At least like that, that's fine.
• 1:13:21
  SPEAKER_02: But when you have to constantly, hey dog, a dog, a dog, hey dude, hey, stop, hey, well, you know, that's a whole nother thing.
• 1:13:28
  SPEAKER_02: But just staying on top of people like that and being on their safety is like a whole people run over the curve, they've done stuff like that, they've got a couple bumps and bruises, but doing it in a small area like that and having the outlet to to make sure when we set up the tracks to make it more like I know Frank was saying, it's a big uh turn, and it's like, yeah, it's a big turn in your eyes, but to me, there's plenty of room for that guy to mess up.
• 1:13:52
  SPEAKER_02: So there's a there's plenty of there's an escape route.
• 1:13:55
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's an escape route to where, yeah, if we were at a track, it'd be a lot different.
• 1:13:58
  SPEAKER_02: If you're doing stuff on a narrow road, but you make those the tracks a little bit more.
• 1:14:02
  SPEAKER_02: That guy can play with the car and go, oh, that's what it's gonna do.
• 1:14:05
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I'm gonna do this the next time.
• 1:14:06
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that's what it's gonna do.
• 1:14:07
  SPEAKER_02: Right.
• 1:14:08
  SPEAKER_02: Because like I said, you're gonna learn more in 30 minutes on the track than you will on the street because you have that runoff room to like, oh yeah, I'm gonna, you know, I can do the like, I guess so having the cones out there instead of having the cones and the lines and everything else.
• 1:14:21
  SPEAKER_02: So just doing just having that extra room and making sure that you're placing photographers in in certain spots because the photographers come out and I make sure to like go, hey, go talk to the guy running the car, because we call that the grid guy.
• 1:14:34
  SPEAKER_02: Shout out to the grid guy, Aaron.
• 1:14:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh but just we make sure, hey, go talk with him.
• 1:14:40
  SPEAKER_02: We have zones out there for y'all.
• 1:14:42
  SPEAKER_02: Make sure, and like we know Adam's gonna go get crazy with some cool stuff.
• 1:14:46
  SPEAKER_02: So we allow people like Adam to go, hey, but then we know the guys that are new that have their small little camera that are learning.
• 1:14:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's like, hey, bro, you're gonna be right here, right?
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_02: There's plenty of good shots you can get right here.
• 1:14:56
  SPEAKER_02: Plenty start, get comfortable, let us know you, let us get comfortable with who you are, and then that's what we do.
• 1:15:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's what I always tell people that first time getting on the track taking photos or anything to support the event is like watch the drivers, get a feel how they drive, and then make your decisions for placement to get your photos.
• 1:15:13
  SPEAKER_00: Because me, there's uh more than a handful of drivers I've seen over the years where like, okay, I'm gonna be like three feet, maybe less in front of you when you're sliding to get that photo.
• 1:15:21
  SPEAKER_00: No, but then there's other drivers where I'm like, I'm gonna stand back maybe about six, seven feet just in case you know what I mean.
• 1:15:26
  SPEAKER_04: Because they're kind of still learning or whatever.
• 1:15:28
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, so my Francesca, thanks for joining for joining the YouTube chat, my daughter, mama.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, thank you, mama.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to the great guy.
• 1:15:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like like we said, uh there's photographers like Anthony, he's our new uh upcoming photographer, he's been helping us out too.
• 1:15:46
  SPEAKER_00: And uh awesome videos, by the way, you've been doing for them.
• 1:15:48
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so he's coming out, he's learning and stuff like that.
• 1:15:51
  SPEAKER_02: Because that like I said, this is Adam's business.
• 1:15:53
  SPEAKER_02: So when he does his thing and he does his thing, we have our guys that come out like, hey, can you hook us up, give us some photos, do stuff?
• 1:16:00
  SPEAKER_02: Because one of my other guys, Josh, he was out there and you'd see Adam close and you would see Josh hanging upside down from the tree or something.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Josh, what are you doing, dude?
• 1:16:09
  SPEAKER_01: Like, Josh, what are you doing?
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_01: And he's like, Hey, I got this, guys.
• 1:16:12
  SPEAKER_01: I got this.
• 1:16:13
  SPEAKER_01: Got a good shot here.
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_01: He would get his shots and he would do what he'd have to do.
• 1:16:16
  SPEAKER_02: And I was like, Josh, and Adam's over there being careful, and Josh just Martin Puentes on Facebook.
• 1:16:26
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for joining.
• 1:16:27
  SPEAKER_04: He says, uh, that's my dog Jake Slow.
• 1:16:30
  SPEAKER_04: A shock barbecue.
• 1:16:32
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 1:16:32
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, that's a barbecue?
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:16:33
  SPEAKER_02: Right on coming out feeding everybody.
• 1:16:35
  SPEAKER_02: He sells out almost all the time.
• 1:16:36
  SPEAKER_02: Put your business on there, uh uh Martin.
• 1:16:39
  SPEAKER_02: Tag your business on there so people can check it out.
• 1:16:41
  SPEAKER_02: Every time I come out and say, Hey, uh, can you make us man?
• 1:16:44
  SPEAKER_02: I already ran out of brisket.
• 1:16:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna need to put some aside, though.
• 1:16:50
  SPEAKER_02: Triple cheese, man.
• 1:16:52
  SPEAKER_04: What's your favorite car-related movie or video game?
• 1:16:55
  SPEAKER_07: Oh uh, video game for me would have to be uh Tokyo Extreme Racer.
• 1:17:02
  SPEAKER_07: Like, I don't know if y'all remember that.
• 1:17:03
  SPEAKER_07: That's like old school PS2.
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_02: We just bought that.
• 1:17:06
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 1:17:07
  SPEAKER_07: I I got I got uh Tokyo Extreme Racer one and two for Dreamcast.
• 1:17:11
  SPEAKER_07: So I'm like old, yeah.
• 1:17:13
  SPEAKER_07: Dreamcast, that's the old yeah, the the the old school Sega.
• 1:17:17
  SPEAKER_07: Dang, yeah.
• 1:17:18
  SPEAKER_07: I got a PS5 though.
• 1:17:22
  SPEAKER_06: Well, you know, we're still we're still playing the old game.
• 1:17:28
  SPEAKER_01: Oh shit.
• 1:17:29
  SPEAKER_01: Y'all see the new Dreamcast update?
• 1:17:34
  SPEAKER_01: This fool's still on Dream.
• 1:17:39
  SPEAKER_00: Oh man.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_00: I if I have to say that uh the initial D arcade game, that's that's a very fun one.
• 1:17:45
  SPEAKER_00: That's a good one.
• 1:17:46
  SPEAKER_07: Uh I kicked his ass.
• 1:17:48
  SPEAKER_07: Wow, quasars.
• 1:17:49
  SPEAKER_07: Uh yeah, quasars.
• 1:17:50
  SPEAKER_00: Quasars.
• 1:17:51
  SPEAKER_00: I was uh I was actually over there a few months ago with a couple of buddies, and we spent maybe almost six hours just playing that game straight.
• 1:17:59
  SPEAKER_00: And then this dude, we're gonna call him the ghost of Aquina, because he shows up out of nowhere and he spinks us and then he leaves.
• 1:18:07
  SPEAKER_00: Doesn't say words, just oh we're just like bike drop.
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_00: Wow, we're like wow, okay.
• 1:18:13
  SPEAKER_00: But uh other than that, movie the original Fast and Furious.
• 1:18:16
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's classic, it's perfect.
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_02: This guy and no Corpus doesn't look like that when they do this thing.
• 1:18:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's not like that.
• 1:18:30
  SPEAKER_02: That's not like that.
• 1:18:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh mine, I'm really not a gamer because like I said, I suck at it, but the one game that I've always owned is Forza, and that's just what I've done, and that's on Xbox, and that's only because I not bought an Xbox for that game.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, that was my game, and now I do a set of corsa, which is on the simulator.
• 1:18:50
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, my favorite movie, man, is American Graffiti.
• 1:18:53
  SPEAKER_02: Oh you know that one?
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's so so that's an uh the slogan of the movie was Where Were You in 62, and that's an old hot rod movie.
• 1:19:01
  SPEAKER_02: And uh yeah, it's a bunch of college kids getting ready to go off to college and stuff like that, and a big race.
• 1:19:06
  SPEAKER_02: I grew up as a hot rod guy, so that movie right there is is my heart right there because I that's the one thing I always did with my parents and my dad.
• 1:19:14
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he always the 55 Chevy at the very end of the day.
• 1:19:18
  SPEAKER_04: Do y'all have favorite like muscle cars?
• 1:19:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, so I have a dream car and it's from that movie.
• 1:19:22
  SPEAKER_02: It's a 32 Ford Coupe, and I will get one one day.
• 1:19:26
  SPEAKER_02: I will sell both my drift cards for that car.
• 1:19:28
  SPEAKER_02: I've gotten everybody to question me.
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Would you sell them?
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah!
• 1:19:32
  SPEAKER_00: In a heartbeat for that, both ever later.
• 1:19:36
  SPEAKER_02: And we went to uh we went to Universal, and at Universal they have the Mel's Diner, and that's where all the hot rods are sitting at.
• 1:19:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I got to show my boy, like, dude, this is dad's dream car, and he was all over it.
• 1:19:47
  SPEAKER_02: I made sure to implant that because if that dude ever wins a lottery, I'm getting that car.
• 1:19:52
  SPEAKER_02: So there will be some.
• 1:19:53
  SPEAKER_02: He knows it, yeah.
• 1:19:54
  SPEAKER_02: So he knows it.
• 1:19:54
  SPEAKER_02: And he was, you know, telling my wife, take a picture of me and my dad's dream car, this and this.
• 1:19:58
  SPEAKER_02: And like, we love and we sat by those cars for an hour, and my wife was like, Can we go?
• 1:20:02
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, Can I embarrass this childhood moment?
• 1:20:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like I know we're here for our child, but this is me.
• 1:20:08
  SPEAKER_02: Like, uh, I sent a million photos to my parents because that movie was the best.
• 1:20:11
  SPEAKER_04: Southern Go Barbecue by Martin Flo to check it out, y'all.
• 1:20:15
  SPEAKER_04: On Facebook, he says, uh, he got he got y'all for the next event for sure.
• 1:20:20
  SPEAKER_04: Best movie.
• 1:20:21
  SPEAKER_04: Uh uh, Andrew Von England on YouTube says best movie, super fast, best uh best game need for speed 2015 and car X Drift.
• 1:20:30
  SPEAKER_04: Uh yeah, Grand Teresa.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_04: I remember that one.
• 1:20:32
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah.
• 1:20:33
  SPEAKER_02: Grand Turismo.
• 1:20:34
  SPEAKER_02: Now they just made a movie off of that too.
• 1:20:35
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, I had no idea.
• 1:20:37
  SPEAKER_00: I had no idea that was a real thing that actually happened.
• 1:20:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, no, it was based off I watched it, I was like, no way the real car accident, too.
• 1:20:42
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like that really.
• 1:20:44
  SPEAKER_02: There's a there's history behind that?
• 1:20:45
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 1:20:46
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, what it came out on Netflix.
• 1:20:48
  SPEAKER_02: Did you see that movie?
• 1:20:49
  SPEAKER_02: You haven't seen that movie yet?
• 1:20:50
  SPEAKER_02: So, like I was telling you, the simulator thing, yeah, like that's a real thing.
• 1:20:53
  SPEAKER_02: Like, that is legit, and they now did that.
• 1:20:56
  SPEAKER_02: So it's he's playing the game, and they have a simulator for that style game, too.
• 1:21:00
  SPEAKER_02: Wow, and he got up and now he was a pro driver.
• 1:21:03
  SPEAKER_04: Who so so that that's the guy that's in part of the history?
• 1:21:06
  SPEAKER_02: It's not the guy who who made it uh the game.
• 1:21:09
  SPEAKER_02: So there's a game owner, but that guy they call it Grand Turismo of the movie because he did it was a Grand Turismo uh competition.
• 1:21:15
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it was a lot of the colours.
• 1:21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was actual gamers after a contest for a chance to get a uh contract to drive to become a professional driver.
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah, it goes off like your lap time for a certain track.
• 1:21:27
  SPEAKER_07: If you can you know get the best lap time, you move on to the to eventually become a professional driver.
• 1:21:34
  SPEAKER_04: Professional driver on the so they they do it on a simulator, yeah, and then eventually wow, yeah.
• 1:21:38
  SPEAKER_02: So that's how they got they did like a time thing, and all the fastest kids got to like go in, like they they recorded their time on whatever, and uh yeah, so that's how we got it.
• 1:21:47
  SPEAKER_02: And it was and I tell people all the time, like I was never a believer of the simulator, but now it's expensive at the start, but it's cheap at the end because now you can just drive and man, there's nothing better than driving in my underwear with my hands off, and I'm just driving by myself, doing what I gotta do.
• 1:22:03
  SPEAKER_02: Everybody's like, What are you doing?
• 1:22:04
  SPEAKER_02: I was like, I'm thirty, so it's like and it's like I'm over there, and all my best friends do, we're all older dudes.
• 1:22:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, dude, there's nothing better than doing that.
• 1:22:12
  SPEAKER_07: Like, so when you go to Justin's house, don't sleep.
• 1:22:19
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, well, yeah, it's amazing because you're doing it in the AC, you're not sweating, you're there, and you're not wasting fuel, you're not wasting tires.
• 1:22:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, do prove you're actually wasting electricity, electricity expensive, yeah.
• 1:22:31
  SPEAKER_04: Right on, thanks a lot, you guys in the chat.
• 1:22:33
  SPEAKER_04: Giovanni Hernandez, Eric Garcia, Miguel Perez.
• 1:22:36
  SPEAKER_04: The real driver for GT was the stunt driver for the movie.
• 1:22:39
  SPEAKER_04: For the movie, I know also.
• 1:22:40
  SPEAKER_02: Miggy, Miggie with the facts.
• 1:22:42
  SPEAKER_02: I know, right?
• 1:22:44
  SPEAKER_02: Put those facts into your car, Miggie.
• 1:22:48
  SPEAKER_02: All right.
• 1:22:49
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for coming on the show, you guys.
• 1:22:50
  SPEAKER_04: Anything else y'all want to share?
• 1:22:52
  SPEAKER_06: Oh man.
• 1:22:54
  SPEAKER_04: Hopefully, we all come say hi at the next event.
• 1:22:56
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:22:58
  SPEAKER_04: Come find us.
• 1:22:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, sorry.
• 1:23:00
  SPEAKER_04: Sorry, December 20th, December 21st.
• 1:23:02
  SPEAKER_04: 21st, yes, sir.
• 1:23:02
  SPEAKER_04: Right, and 12th year celebrating your 12th uh what anniversary or something?
• 1:23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, 12th anniversary, yep.
• 1:23:08
  SPEAKER_02: Finish our good season.
• 1:23:09
  SPEAKER_02: Uh follow us on Instagram at Drift Corpus, Facebook at Drift Corpus.
• 1:23:13
  SPEAKER_02: We don't have Twitter yet.
• 1:23:14
  SPEAKER_02: We don't do that.
• 1:23:15
  SPEAKER_02: Do you have a YouTube channel?
• 1:23:16
  SPEAKER_02: Uh no, I don't have a YouTube channel.
• 1:23:17
  SPEAKER_04: But nah, but if you if you search uh Drift Corpus on YouTube, you'll find you'll find many videos.
• 1:23:22
  SPEAKER_04: You'll find them old videos stuff.
• 1:23:24
  SPEAKER_04: Uh that's where I found that drone footage of you guys on.
• 1:23:26
  SPEAKER_02: Ignore the Harlem Shake video, please.
• 1:23:29
  SPEAKER_02: Harlem Shake.
• 1:23:30
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna specifically go next time.
• 1:23:31
  SPEAKER_06: It would go it's there.
• 1:23:34
  SPEAKER_02: There's a guy in his underwear, so fair sweet.
• 1:23:38
  SPEAKER_06: So I'm gonna tell you now.
• 1:23:40
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:23:41
  SPEAKER_04: Get you on a ride along next event.
• 1:23:43
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot, you guys.
• 1:23:44
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, so do we check out your stuff?
• 1:23:46
  SPEAKER_04: How do we find you guys?
• 1:23:47
  SPEAKER_04: Do you all want to plug your information?
• 1:23:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you can find me on Facebook uh under Adam Delegadio Photography.
• 1:23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you can see all the automotive stuff I do along with all the other type of work I do.
• 1:23:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um mainly active on that platform.
• 1:23:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh you can see you know the features I do and stuff like that for the magazines and the local auto community scene as well.
• 1:24:05
  SPEAKER_04: Damn, what uh so which magazines are you getting?
• 1:24:07
  SPEAKER_04: Are you are you on are you still on them or is it just no, I I still do.
• 1:24:09
  SPEAKER_00: I accidentally shoot for uh Stance Auto magazine, but they're based out in the UK.
• 1:24:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh so we do pretty much anything everywhere.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and then also Paz Mag Performance Auto Sound magazine.
• 1:24:21
  SPEAKER_00: Uh they're based out in Ontario.
• 1:24:23
  SPEAKER_00: So try to try to do what I can and give any local person in the automotive community uh the opportunity to showcase their hard work and their builds, whether it be drift builds, uh car uh car show builds, drag builds, classics, anything you name it, you know, and he'll feature it all.
• 1:24:41
  SPEAKER_02: So and he will feature it all because he told me, hey, I'm gonna do this car, and I'm like, You sure enough?
• 1:24:48
  SPEAKER_02: Let me show you.
• 1:24:49
  SPEAKER_04: So is it like he can make a bad car look good with his photos?
• 1:24:51
  SPEAKER_02: 100%.
• 1:24:52
  SPEAKER_02: He made mine look good.
• 1:24:55
  SPEAKER_04: And then and you want to plug your garage or you want to plug anything?
• 1:24:58
  SPEAKER_07: Uh yeah, I mean you could follow us on like Instagram.
• 1:25:00
  SPEAKER_07: We're uh hero underscore garage.
• 1:25:03
  SPEAKER_07: Um, we post some stuff but we're working on and uh the drift events and a lot of the other guys that that drive out there and stuff.
• 1:25:10
  SPEAKER_07: Uh any events that we do.
• 1:25:12
  SPEAKER_07: Um yeah.
• 1:25:14
  SPEAKER_04: Whatever.
• 1:25:14
  SPEAKER_04: Well, if nothing else, you guys, thanks for coming on the show.
• 1:25:17
  SPEAKER_04: Appreciate that you're having up for it.
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you so much.
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_04: Uh, I got put in the work to Avago to get you guys on that way.
• 1:25:24
  SPEAKER_02: Appreciate that.
• 1:25:25
  SPEAKER_04: Everybody else, uh, stay tuned.
• 1:25:27
  SPEAKER_04: Next episode, next week, I'm gonna have Ana Ramidas comedian, Ronnie Martinez from the CC Horror Club, and also uh another comedian out here for next week.
• 1:25:36
  SPEAKER_04: So stay tuned for that, you guys.
• 1:25:38
  SPEAKER_04: And then week after that, Almighty Public Zoo.
• 1:25:40
  SPEAKER_04: They're gonna be talking about the rap scene in Corpus, the hip hop scene, and all that stuff.
• 1:25:44
  SPEAKER_04: So thanks a lot, you guys, for watching.
• 1:25:46
  SPEAKER_04: Stay tuned.
• 1:25:46
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• 1:25:50
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks a lot, you guys.
• 1:25:51
  SPEAKER_04: Shout out to the to the producer Maya back there, my brother Maya, here produced produce sound studios downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
• 1:25:58
  SPEAKER_04: Appreciate you guys.
• 1:25:59
  SPEAKER_04: Bye.
• 1:26:00
  SPEAKER_06: There we go.