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#190 - Logan Davenport: Building with Intention, Texas Drift Culture, and Doing It the Hard Way · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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I like to do things myself and I like to learn as much as I can
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about them, and I think that that produces a quality product
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in the end, no matter what you're doing.
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Well, I've lost about 80 lbs. Yeah.
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To do for my son, to be here longer for him, yeah.
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If I'm dealt a set of cards, I'm going to do everything I can to
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work with that set of cards because that's the cards that I
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have for now. This is not a cut and buff.
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No, Yeah, this is off the gun. What shut the up?
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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the After
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Hours podcast. On today's episode, we have
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Logan Davenport of D Realm and Body Service Ideal Logan is from
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Northeast Texas, but he made a trip down to meet us in Houston
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when we were doing our Texas series of podcasts.
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This is the first one we're releasing.
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We have another four of them waiting to be released.
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We're going to try to get these out to you as soon as we can,
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but we also filmed a lot of videos.
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So make sure to check out our YouTube and you know, keep up to
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date on those videos. We don't know when everything's
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dropping. So but yeah, we the first one
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was with Logan and it was an amazing podcast.
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He was very, very generous and kind to us to make the four hour
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trip down to Houston to meet us at the Oblivion Garage is what
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we call it. If you, if you don't know team
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Oblivion, but make sure you check them out as well.
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We did a podcast with Colin that will be coming out later, but
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Logan met us there. A bunch of cool cars, a bunch of
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awesome people. We hung out the whole night with
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those guys and and really got to, you know, break bread with
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everyone and, you know, learn about the Texas drifting
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community, which is honestly turning into one of my favorite
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drifting communities in the United States.
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So. But yeah, as far as Logan
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specifically, really cool dude, very meticulous builds,
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beautiful cars. The 180 that he brought, well,
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it's a 240, but we call it a 180.
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Of course, if you know, you know the one, the 180 he brought is
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just Immaculate. We did do a car check on that
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video as well, so that should be dropping same time as this.
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And yeah, enjoy it. Oh, by the way, we did have some
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small technical difficulties with the video side of this
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podcast, but it's really not a big deal.
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So the other ones seem to have worked pretty Florida State, but
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This is a pretty good set up considering what?
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Do you mean because you worked on it for like an hour?
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I mean, dude, I don't know, we usually have bigger tables, you
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know, and I'm sorry about the mic stands blocking us, but.
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I can see. OK.
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I was going to say. It's just going to have to be
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that way. You want to be as close as you
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kind of can, especially since it's kind of echoing in here.
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Yeah, yeah. And that's and you can move that
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mic like if you want to bring it towards you, it will move.
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Yeah. And I don't think you are good.
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Yeah. And yours, that's beautiful.
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Yeah. Yours actually is working out
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pretty good because sometimes they'll fall, but yours is like.
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Staying pretty told me that after I moved it.
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No, no, no, no, no. I mean like this, like I move it
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and then it would go like this. Logan is the greatest.
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Yeah. Dude, okay, you were, you were
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unintentionally funny at the best fucking time.
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So all night so far and it's been amazing.
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Funny story. That's kind of why he's on the
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podcast because like he's in the 180 chat we have and he kept
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saying the funniest shit and I'm like, well, you're on the
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podcast no matter what, so you. Two know each other well, first
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of all. Yeah.
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First of all, welcome everybody to the FACTION AFTER Hours
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podcast. This is the Texas series.
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Yeah, the Texas. Series so this that's pretty
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amazing. We have a round of podcasts
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here. We're in Houston and we have
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Logan from D realm. Everybody welcome Logan.
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The live audience. There we go.
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Dude, thank you so much for coming you came from. 443 hours,
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yeah. We drove about four hours.
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Yeah, you're, you have no idea how flattering that feels.
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And also the hospitality that Chris and everybody has been
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showing us here, like opening up the space to everybody.
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What the hell? They've never been here before.
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Yeah, good call on that, you said.
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That and I was confused because I thought this was like a normal
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thing. So I was like, oh.
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Well it seems pretty normal, like 40 people just walked in
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with beers so. I think that's, I don't know,
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because I'm not around here, but I think that's the, I think
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that's the norm around here. Yeah.
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They all seem pretty tight and it's pretty cool.
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That's why I want to come here, because it's yeah, these are
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yeah, this is the place I think of in Houston and stuff like
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that too, so. And you drift down here, right?
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I have yeah. I don't, I, I haven't, I don't
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have a lot of like driving time. OK so far.
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So yeah, yeah. But yeah, Houston is some.
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Photos and videos and shit. Yeah, yeah, I've, I've drove a
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little bit, you know, St. it a little bit, yeah.
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I feel like it's hard to not have one of these and not drive
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it, but would you say what what is your 180 journey was to make
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it this what you're looking at here?
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Well, like, what do you mean? Like, because you know how right
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now everybody's just obsessed with like, oh, I need a door, I
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need to drive, I need grip, I need this, I need that.
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Yeah, but it seems like here you painted a picture really of what
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you wanted. Like I look at this and
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everything is intentional. Yeah, it's a it's a beautiful
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car. Yeah, I definitely love like
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building the car. That's that's the, that's the
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best part. It's evident.
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And like now I get to look at Logan right now and like the
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whole car is behind you and it's still just such a delight to
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look at. I'm telling you, everybody line
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is perfect. Thank you.
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You're a very meticulous guy. Yeah.
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Well, yeah, I do. I take, I take pride in what I
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do. Yeah.
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For. Sure.
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Is that a body guy thing? No, not really anymore, I don't
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think. Not in like the collision world
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at least. It's definitely like a, you
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know, there, there's people out there.
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But yeah, it's it's. I feel like it goes further than
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just a yeah are are you have. You been like that your entire
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life. I, I I generally have that
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approach to things. Everything you do is.
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Top of I like to do things myself and I like to learn as
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much as I can about them, and I think that that produces a
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quality product in the end, no matter what you're doing.
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Yeah, and like. The Learning.
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Is when you drive it. Now, I don't know if this makes
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sense or maybe this might be what you're feeling, but when
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you do something and you know you did it and it's all working,
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Yeah, what a feeling. Yeah.
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Yeah, exactly. Oh my.
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Gosh. Yeah, it's actually I haven't.
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I haven't really drove this. I haven't.
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This is the first place of like taking this.
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Car. Oh, really?
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Yeah. So I had it.
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I had like originally finished building it and like 2019 I
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think it was. And it was just like a shell and
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I, I built it and then I redid it last year.
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I, I had, I had put it kind of on the back burner for about 5
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years. I bought a house and had a had a
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son with a wonderful wife and so it just wasn't really important
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to. Me, is it?
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Have I seen photos of this car where it was like completely
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stripped? Yeah, it's the same car.
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Yeah, that's that's how I got it.
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I got it in like. Bro I need to find those photos
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and show you. Yeah, like this.
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Yeah, it was a it was a show. Yeah, I don't, I don't mean to
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sound weird here, but I did go on Logan's page I have seen.
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Photos, yeah. Yeah, I also know what your
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house looks like, dude. No, no, no, no, no.
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You know what Logan has on his page?
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If you guys don't follow Logan, go follow Logan.
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He's got this highlight reel of pizza.
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Yeah, I just started making pizza.
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We're bringing up. The Oh yeah, yeah, I saw that.
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But The thing is, is he's taking photos of the pizza for the
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highlight reel. Like it's a like it's a detail
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like under side you could see the death, the pocket.
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I mean the though. He's very he.
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He's very meticulous with everything.
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I feel like a pizza. Dude.
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Yeah, I definitely enjoy the the details of things for sure.
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So I feel like. That's not only a Body Shop
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thing. I feel like it's just how you
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are as a person. Like, like, yeah, the paint's
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good, obviously, but you can see like the other, there's like
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little things with the car where it's all like super anal, you
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know, and like, done really well.
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Dude, I said. I said that, Logan, you had the
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special tism. Definitely.
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Because in the Bay, dude, I'm telling you, I'm just looking at
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it. I feel like I'm looking at a
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video game, but I'm here and I'm like, I, I don't, I don't even
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know what I'm looking at. Well, I I love like that about
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drifting that you can go like, you know, I don't know if this
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car has necessarily like earned its so do you call the drift car
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yet? But.
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This is a beautiful drift. Car, but you can go, you know,
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up to the cars. You know what other motorsport
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where is is it like that? Where in between, you know, them
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racing, you can go look as a spectator, you can go look at
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them and and notice like things that people put into it and
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like, you know, we really we we love, you know these things that
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we're building. So to me, it's like when
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someone's looking at it, you know them noticing those little
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things. I want them to like kind of feel
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that my thought process behind it, you know, everything.
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I would be so nervous if I or anyone to ever drive with
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something like that. Really.
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See, I've thought of that. Because I'm, it's maybe more of
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a fault of my own, probably because I'm, I care and I take
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into account the fact that you worked hard for it, right?
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But we're having fun. We're, we're driving, right?
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I touch a door. Yeah, yeah.
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The door is really straight. Yeah.
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Right. It's aligned really well.
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It's it closes with minimal effort and then I just ruined
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that well. I feel like it depends on like
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you probably wouldn't go as hard if you were driving with this
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car, you know I. Know, but shit happens.
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Yeah. Yeah, you know that.
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You know that. But I feel like you would dial
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it back a little bit. But when it comes to looking at
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it and seeing the things that are done to the car that make it
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like every car that's in this shop, in Chris's shop, right?
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You can look at each one and there's like variances in each.
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And to me, that's when you can see somebody's character.
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Kind of. My car is messy as fuck, but it
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has little bits of me and my friends in it 'cause that's what
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important, that's what's important to me.
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And like, you look at all of these and then you see different
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pieces of everyone in it, and it's kind of sick.
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I feel like kind of what I was talking about with like the
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details, like those things become the same things.
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And like my car, like you say, it's, it's, it's, you know,
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something you'd be nervous to drive with and stuff like that.
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And I probably will like try to just tandem with my team to
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begin with. And, you know, until I, because
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I, I got a lot of learning to do myself, but, you know, I, I
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wouldn't be bummed if stuff happened to it.
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Yeah. The first one is the one that
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hurts the most. Yeah, that's what it's for,
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yeah. It doesn't help that you're just
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also just seem like such a nice guy that you would understand if
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someone wasn't malicious to you. Yeah.
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Stuff happens but I would just be so heartbroken.
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Yeah. Well, and I mean, I guess it
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helps that, you know, I'm that guy fixing it.
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It's not like it's a, you know, outside of materials.
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It's just kind of like a time. What made you When did you get
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your house again? That was recent.
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I got my house in 2021. Yeah, 21/20/21 Yeah, like the
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last good time, The last good time to buy.
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A house. I was going to say it was
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probably a good time to buy a house.
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Holy crap, you're lucky. Well, well, kind of kind of like
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we were saying, I kind of watched everything and yeah,
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made sure that I bought a house too.
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That's cool. So, so.
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So yeah, we got a good deal on that.
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And yeah, we're. Because that's kind of how old
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are you? I'm 3231 and. 32, I don't know.
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We're all kind of, we're all kind of the same age right now.
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It's kind of crazy. Yeah.
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But because like, I'm in that realm now where I don't know.
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I always thought that buying houses was pretty fucking hard.
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It is very hard. But like, we're adults now, and
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you can do that if you want. It's a big decision.
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It's a very large decision that. Got a lot of nuances.
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A lot of people kind of underestimate and it's.
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There's a lot to it. Daunting.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. It definitely put me, it didn't.
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It definitely took priority over other things.
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And you said you had a son as well.
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Yeah, I have a. And you built this?
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Yeah. And you've recently lost a piss
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load of weight. Yes, have a wonderful wife.
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God bless her. Man.
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And what I do, yeah, yeah. Yeah, everyone in here is
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supportive. It was in here was talking about
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it because I get they probably see you all the time like it's
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the first time we're meeting you so.
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We don't, no. But they said they haven't seen
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him in a while. Yeah.
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They haven't seen me in a while. I've lost about 80 lbs.
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Yeah, that's that's a lot of weight.
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Yeah, dude, I looked at Brad and I was like, you know how many?
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That's four wheels. That's a lot of weight, dude.
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Yeah, you lost four wheels. Our buddy Chris lost about that
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much weight. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And it was like life changing. Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. To do for my son, to be here
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longer for him, you know, that's what did that comes.
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Down to and then what did you say?
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You said you did, you just ate better.
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I forgot what the. Yeah, just started moving more
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and ate less food. Dude.
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And now you start. Paying attention to what?
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I eat now you can. I I feel the bride better so.
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I was going to say there's a lot of other benefits too.
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When you start to lose a bunch of weight aside from like a lot,
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I get you, you will naturally just feel more confident in
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yourself. But also, now you can do a lot
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more things with a lot less effort.
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Like, I used to be a little bigger.
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Yeah. You sleep better.
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Like, your quality sleep is better.
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You fit in a bride better when you're moving around and working
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on the car. Dude, there was like a few years
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ago where you know you when you hit that little bit of
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sluggishness in the shop and you're just like, I'm going to
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stop. Yeah, I've been in that for four
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years. I feel like that window, that
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window was getting smaller and smaller and I then I just
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started like walking, exercising regularly, then it got better.
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Yeah, yeah. But you, you know, actors, you
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can just do it. And it's not hard.
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You can stick to it, you know, and.
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Is that all you've been doing? That's the only.
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And dieting. Exercise, Yeah.
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That's pretty fucking impressive.
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Yeah, I do want to go to a gym. I'm waiting for like all the
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like. I kind of have a little bit of
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like social anxiety. So going to like a gym with
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like, a lot of like New Year's resolution people kind of freaks
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me out. It's horrible.
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I want to get into a gym and yeah, work on that a little bit
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this year. That's so weird you say you have
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social anxiety. I don't feel that way with him
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at all. I really don't know.
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Well, I get I'm. I have a problem where I get
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anxious when I'm in a social setting, but I get fucking this
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shit starts running in my brain and then I'm like OK, high up,
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yeah, and I'm just. Like is different than like here
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with people that I'm like, yeah, not that I know, but I know like
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have a shared interest with me and yeah.
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Dude, the one thing I hate about the gym is that I don't want to
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run into a bunch of kids who might judge me.
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Fuck. That.
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Yeah, like a bunch of teenagers who are like, look at this.
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Old guy I. Don't want to run into a bunch
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of kids period. Like broccoli heads at the gym.
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Oh good. I don't really.
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Frankie went as far as going up and down the stairs in his
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apartment. So yeah, that works.
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I'll do anything to avoid fucking works going to.
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Move. Yeah, you have to be crazy.
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Yeah. It's got to be what, like,
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sustainable and yeah, yeah, you know.
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Something that you can do. I mean, I like to do things that
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I can, like, do every day because I know if I stop, I'll
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fucking just stop. It's and it can't get in the way
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of something else that's important to you, like work or
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your hobby. It has to be something that you
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can fit. Like that's why I did it during
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my lunch break. I was saying I would just walk
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like a couple miles down the road and back.
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I work on an old country Rd. on a, in a Body Shop out in the
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middle of nowhere. So I can just walk down the road
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and walk back. And, you know, that's a little
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exercise. Everything you do makes so much
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sense. I wish it felt that way to me.
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It's kind of nuts, dude. Really.
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Yeah. Because, like, why would you go
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to a gym when you can walk the miles down the country?
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Rd. Obviously.
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You seem to have enjoyed that. Like to do it.
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Yeah. Every day or whatever.
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Yeah, dude. Like doing it every day is the
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and you know. Like you were saying, you get
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into a, a slump at work, you know, sometimes a little bit of
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exercise and just like reset you, you know, you kind of clear
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your mind a little bit. Dude, sometimes I hit a little
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jumping Jack, little jumping Jack session to get the blood.
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No, dude. Jumping jacks are good.
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You're talking this guy is the one who's pulling over at final
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bout and like like on the way home, just like we gotta try to
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say we gotta wake up. We gotta wake up.
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Meanwhile whole truck full of people circulation have no idea
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Frankie is exhausted. Wakes up to pass out.
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Yeah. Just risking the life of
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everybody. I actually remember being like,
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like I was priming something. It was flash times working on.
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I think it was like these doors and I was doing jumping jacks in
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a paint booth, just like waiting for the primer to flash so I
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could put another. Yeah.
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'Cause you're yeah, yeah. Or well, I, so I, I, I, I'll
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spray in like a, like, I have a down draft booth, access to a
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down draft and a cross draft booth.
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So most of the time after I spray something the overspray is
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gone. And I mean I can take my mask
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off dude. I used.
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To wow. Pretty quickly it's.
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Such a delight to spray and tell him how.
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Tell him how you paint. Yeah, I don't want.
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No, I've, I've seen. Yeah, yeah, it's bad.
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You paint, but you're at your house now and.
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Yeah, I have AI work in the garage and I just, I'm somebody
18:11
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18:16
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19:26
So I have a garage So what did I do?
19:28
Like it, it's winter. It's literally 2°.
19:31
It's. Horrible.
19:32
Insulated the roof, you know, walled it off from the other
19:36
side. I just bag everything in the
19:38
garage before I do anything. I have a ventilator fan.
19:40
I run the heater. It's like a radiant 1 so I don't
19:43
die. OK.
19:45
And just like wet the floor. All the little you have to do so
19:49
many little nuances for each different setup and like tips
19:51
and tricks that people tell you over the years.
19:54
But like, really, the thing that I change the most is I I've
19:57
learned to cut and buff a little bit better.
20:00
OK, I've never done any of it. I've never.
20:02
This is not a cut and buff. No, Yeah, this is off the gun.
20:04
What the shut the fuck up? No, yeah, I mean, you can see
20:08
there's there's trash. No.
20:11
Well, what as you guys are talking, as you guys are talking
20:14
about this, I'm thinking to myself, So like the stuff, the
20:17
way that you have to paint, it's just going to, you know, you
20:22
have to take extra steps to try to get a good final project
20:25
product before the cut and buff. He has, you know, a down draft
20:29
booth, whatever. It's just making it easier so
20:32
that the final product before the cut and buff.
20:34
Well, yeah, you can. You can get a really good the,
20:39
the, the, the, the, the gloss and the, the, the quality of
20:43
your finish is, is really just your, you know, your gun
20:47
settings and, and your, your, your spray distance, your
20:51
overlap, you know, your, your speed.
20:54
Those are all those things are those are the main things that
20:57
are a lot of times people are a little like too far away, like
21:00
when they're spraying, you know, they're kind of scared to run
21:02
the painters. Close sometimes and I'm like.
21:04
Yeah, scared to runs. You need to be close.
21:06
You need to be moving pretty quick.
21:08
Yeah, obviously different products are, you know, you, you
21:13
have to approach them in different ways.
21:14
But generally if you get a finish that's not real glossy,
21:18
you know, it's, it's, it's because you're, you know, kind
21:21
of too far away usually. I mean, there's other factors,
21:24
but you know, I'm talking about like that people DIY in their
21:28
cars, you know? That was the first thing that I
21:31
noticed could that I wanted, you know, like sometimes or you
21:35
paint something when you're a kid with a rattle can, right.
21:38
That's what I feel like. That's what I feel like
21:40
everybody's experiences when it comes to the mentality of like,
21:43
oh, do you mind painting this for me?
21:44
Like I've painted something before.
21:46
Like, it's not that bad. Go do it.
21:48
But when you want something that looks like that and you want to
21:52
pay like pretty cheap, it's actually kind of hard.
21:54
Yeah. But it's it's not impossible,
21:56
but it is a little more difficult.
21:59
Right, Well, there's there's only a couple ways you can make
22:02
a a paint job like cheaper, right, And it's to use a less
22:07
expensive like product or to take stuff off, you know, take
22:12
less stuff off, take more stuff off, you know, spend less time
22:16
on it. Yeah, I guess you could do less
22:19
prep work, but that would. Bite that bites.
22:23
You but but the The thing is is I can't make a paint job cheaper
22:28
for someone by like making it look crappier.
22:30
I, I have my, the spray technique that I use and that is
22:35
going to be consistent with every job.
22:38
It's the only way you can make that any cheaper is to do less
22:41
stuff or to use a cheaper product.
22:45
And because there's not a dial that I can turn to, oh, this
22:47
guy's only paying me this much money.
22:49
Let me spray his car. Let me do a worse job.
22:52
It's just not how. How it works?
22:53
Too. And you know, it takes a long
22:55
time to make that car look good. It's amazing when you have the
22:58
pride in your work because dude, it shows.
23:01
Like I just shit's off the gun, dude.
23:05
Yeah, that's crazy. Nothing's been buffed on this
23:07
car, right? So and the the.
23:12
What are you going to point out? What?
23:14
The the side stirs are actually, these are actually single stage.
23:18
Oh wow. And the rear valence is single
23:20
stage because they're just going to get.
23:21
Trashed. That's why you did that.
23:23
So I was going to say why, why why did you go with that method?
23:25
But well, actually the car is it all was sprayed with single
23:30
stage and then flow coated with clear.
23:32
So I sprayed it and then I sanded it again and then sprayed
23:39
it with clear. The single stage.
23:41
Yeah, and I don't do that. Anybody OK, if there's no point
23:45
other than the way my brain works.
23:48
So I sprayed the engine Bay in the car and I didn't want the
23:54
and I did that and then a couple years later decided, OK, I'm
23:56
going to fix the car again. And I didn't want the I didn't
24:00
want I use a single stage in the engine Bay.
24:02
And I didn't want the car to end up a different like a way
24:05
different colour because I would have noticed that nobody else,
24:07
but probably, but I didn't want that to happen.
24:11
So I just use that single stage product and had it mixed at the
24:14
same spot and everything over the whole car.
24:16
But I wouldn't recommend that or do it again are.
24:18
You a sealer? Yeah, so, well, so you all saw,
24:24
you said you looked at my Instagram, you saw I had the
24:26
shell and then I fixed it and it was green.
24:29
Well, so this whole car I've actually like stripped back down
24:32
to metal, all that bodywork, everything I did, I took it all
24:35
back off and I did it again, took the glass back out.
24:41
So I was having like so the last time I did my car, I, I OK,
24:48
well, I got in, I guess there go back to I got into pain and body
24:51
because of this car. So I, I was building it.
24:56
Actually I went up to final about in 2017.
25:00
I think you were driving that. Probably was.
25:03
Yeah, I think, I think and but I need to start to build this car
25:10
after that and it needed a bunch of paint and body and I was
25:13
working at like a tire shop and I was like, well, I'm not going
25:16
to make less money than I am at a tire shop if I go be an
25:19
apprentice for a body man and I need to do a lot of body works
25:22
in this car. So I, I started doing that
25:25
actually made a little bit more whenever, whenever that and then
25:27
I would work on this car, you know, after hours and there and
25:34
I did some things that just I didn't like.
25:36
Now that I've learned more and I did all the prep work, but I
25:40
didn't actually spray at that time.
25:42
The painter there just had too much anxiety about it.
25:44
I was like I spent months working on this.
25:46
Oh gosh, yeah. So I I had him spray it and it
25:49
looked good, but I don't know what happened.
25:52
But after then it sat in the sun for years, you know, while I
25:56
the. House.
25:57
Yeah, all that stuff. And I don't know if like the top
26:01
layer of clear came off because I used PPG Omni excellent clear
26:05
all of. It and shot Brad's car.
26:08
Yeah, MC 161's. Oh wait no I I think we used PPG
26:13
JC630 or something. OK.
26:14
Shop line, yeah, Yeah, cheaper one.
26:16
Yeah. Well, yeah.
26:18
So I think that might just be like amid solids or something
26:20
like that. The I used like the high solids
26:23
MC 161. So it's like the cheaper line.
26:26
It's not like the Dell. I think it's called Deltron if
26:27
they're top ones. I can try.
26:29
That. That's great.
26:30
Yeah, it's great. Yeah, it's all.
26:31
Game Yeah, I. Think I could give the gun to
26:34
anybody and they could lay glass with that stuff.
26:36
Definitely try it out. Yeah.
26:37
And it's cheap. I think it's like I'll send you
26:38
a link to where I get it from online.
26:39
It's like think 280 with a with a partner, yeah or something
26:43
like that for a gallon. So it's.
26:45
Cheaper. It's good for D cars because
26:46
it's that's that's the clearness on this.
26:48
So it's dude. But but anyway, so I don't know,
26:51
something happened in one of the coats that he put on and then he
26:55
like buried it with a heavier coat.
26:57
But it was like almost like the whole car was like soft and
26:59
popped. That's like and he buried it.
27:01
Instead of they just kept laying nails on.
27:04
Yeah, and then he probably put like a couple more.
27:06
I don't know because I'm not real, but there was little holes
27:09
everywhere. So I was like, screw this, I'll
27:11
just RIP it all off because I'm a psycho I guess.
27:14
When also what sucks is them holes are really.
27:17
Yeah, you don't know. And I didn't want to spend a
27:19
bunch of time and then put on my finish on top of that.
27:22
So like now everything. So this car has been stripped
27:24
down to metal and then. Epoxy prime.
27:27
This is what I'm talking about. Like in that chat, like I see, I
27:30
see him working on something. I'm like, oh, that's crazy.
27:32
Like over the years and then like over the last month, I've
27:35
seen this and I'm like. This guy.
27:38
This guy did a full rest though, and your shit is still on a
27:42
rotisserie, you motherfucker. Why a rotisserie is crazy.
27:47
Because that's awesome. This.
27:48
Frankie. Yeah, it's sick.
27:50
I mean, yeah, this, but, you know, access to, you know.
27:56
Dude, it's just resources. Man.
27:57
Yeah, even just this short conversation we've just had,
28:00
man. Yeah, you're a meticulous.
28:03
Worker, right? This is amazing.
28:05
Stripped it down to metal. Stripped it down to metal.
28:07
Yeah, stripped it down to metal with you.
28:09
Well, you know, I wanted it. I wanted like, I really like
28:13
like. I like the idea of like looking
28:15
at my car and being like. I know exactly.
28:17
I did all of this. What's going on?
28:18
You know, I did all of this. Yeah, everything.
28:20
And it's like tuning it we were talking about earlier.
28:22
I really want to learn how to tune it.
28:24
Like even if I blow it up, I'll learn how to build a motor.
28:26
That's literally just another example of like your character
28:29
cuz you, as you said, you literally taught yourself how or
28:32
well you took the precautionary steps to learn how to paint
28:36
right. Yeah.
28:37
To paint. That's it.
28:40
Yeah. And now you have a full on
28:41
career. Yeah, that's the craziest part,
28:43
right? You started a career because of
28:45
this car. Yeah, no, yeah, this car is
28:47
isn't that crazy? Solely responsible for Yeah,
28:49
it's, it's, I think about it a lot.
28:51
I'm, I'm thankful for this car for that, you know?
28:53
Did you not know exactly what you wanted to do back then?
28:55
Or it's just because you needed to paint this car literally.
28:57
I would say that I didn't have direction before.
29:01
That's so crazy. As far as a career goes, Yeah.
29:03
I mean, you know, it's. Kind of interesting that when
29:05
you apply yourself to that one thing, just shit starts to kind
29:08
of happen. That's like why we're here.
29:10
This is the most like long standing Internet thing we've
29:13
ever tried. This is the most long standing
29:15
relationship I ever had. Yeah, it's kind of nuts.
29:17
Fuck you. We're breaking up, but like, you
29:20
know what I mean? Like, well, no, that's just so
29:23
freaking inspirational to me. Or at least hopefully some of
29:26
the listeners as well who are working on something and they're
29:29
in a rut. And it just, yeah, how many ruts
29:31
were you in with this? You know what I mean?
29:33
Like. Yeah, it's.
29:35
Like, I mean, yeah, you got to, you got to learn and collect
29:38
information where you can and, you know, build.
29:41
Relationships. Do you do anything to to keep
29:44
going? To like, tell yourself to keep
29:47
going, man. I just like really love 186.
29:54
That's perfect. Yeah, yeah.
29:56
Eddie, you can remember. Can you clip that right there?
29:58
That is. Like as far as the car is
30:01
concerned, that's, that's what it is, man.
30:03
It's for for building the car. I just really love these cars.
30:06
I. Was going to ask you about that
30:07
too. Like, how did you get into these
30:08
cars? Like 180's, yeah.
30:12
Yeah, I guess drifting, but yeah, 180's.
30:14
How I got into, I mean definitely like derail my team
30:19
is who got me into like the type of car I'm into.
30:23
Yeah, Yeah, I was, I was working at like Office Depot.
30:28
I think that's like 17 or 18 and.
30:32
Carl just had to light a cigarette up.
30:33
With a match. Wow.
30:35
OK. That's cool.
30:36
Why is everybody tripping about the?
30:38
Matches. I don't know.
30:39
That's cool. First, they give you free
30:41
matches at the store if you're a cigarette smoker and you didn't
30:44
know that you're new. Yeah.
30:45
So you just ask for them give. Me some matches and you can't.
30:48
I have lighters on the plane. Yeah.
30:50
And also Chris, I need to smoke cigarettes.
30:52
And when you do it and it's a conversation.
30:54
Now I can have a cigarette. Yeah.
30:55
Can we smoke in here? Yeah.
30:56
Chris said we could. Yeah, I think so.
30:58
You can definitely smoke in here.
31:01
OK, well, it's. Funny.
31:02
All right, Yeah. So you've.
31:03
You're 20IN sex. Oh yeah, so.
31:05
So yeah, I was working at Office Office Depot and I had an
31:08
Integra. OK, Yeah, I had like ADC 2 and
31:11
it was a Kuai. Yeah, that was my first car.
31:15
Oh dude, I love you. Man I had AI, had ADC 2 as well.
31:19
Yeah, that car taught me so much.
31:21
Yeah, they're great. Yeah, I definitely, I don't know
31:22
if I I had a lot of fun with my friends with that car.
31:25
Until I found out it doesn't drift.
31:27
Yeah, well, that's yeah. So anyways, I pulled out of
31:31
Office Depot and there was like these blue lights.
31:34
I never even, like, I don't even think I'd even heard turbo
31:36
noises before. And like my my good friend,
31:40
teammate now, Josh Buckley, he like flew around me.
31:44
And then we pulled up to the light and I was like, that car
31:47
is so sick. You know, it's a 240 with Sr.
31:50
and everything. And I think a couple days later,
31:53
like the next week or something, we are, we met back up, you
31:57
know, and Anthony, you all met Anthony earlier.
32:02
He's also a dear Elm guy. He he was with him and I got in
32:08
Josh's car. I think Anthony just like stayed
32:09
at the gas station or something with my buddy that I was with
32:12
and Josh took me on like a a RIP just like a little U-turn.
32:16
I never like been in a car drifting and stuff, but I was
32:19
like watching like the like extended cut, like risky devil
32:22
stuff as well as well as into then.
32:24
So I knew about it, but I had then I like felt it and I think
32:28
I think it was actually it wasn't a couple days.
32:31
It was like the next week I traded my Integra for a 240SX
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Into me too, yeah. I traded it for like a stock one
34:47
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35:00
And he was like, I want my car. Back.
35:02
I knew that's what you're going. To say this thing like it got
35:06
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35:08
Fucked. So I was like, yeah, but.
35:10
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa.
35:12
Hey, hey, hey, hey. He sold that.
35:13
He bought it. He bought it.
35:14
Yeah, that's what we told him. I mean, like he looked at the
35:16
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35:17
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35:18
Was it bone stock? You said it was bone stock when
35:20
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35:24
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35:29
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35:33
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35:37
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35:42
was like a turbo Integra and it was fast.
35:44
It was way too fast for kids. But then I something happened,
35:48
we took the turbo off and then it was naturally aspirated
35:50
really slow so. Yeah, V 16 is not very exciting.
35:53
Sounds cool. Yeah.
35:54
No, dude, it wasn't. Yeah.
35:56
I don't it's funny when you hear where the originations of like
36:00
everybody's car is because for some reason when they come to
36:05
like from Honda, it's like the craziest upscale because when
36:11
you when you get out of the Honda, you get into something
36:13
that can that can get around like like EU turn.
36:17
That was the same thing for me, except it was in the snow.
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I had my ex was sitting and my Chris the tech at faction now
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had AZ that was like his first car and we're in the snow and we
36:28
had to turn around and he was in front of me and he just like
36:32
dumps the clutch and turns it and I was like.
36:34
Whoa. And then the realization for me
36:38
was I went to go turn around and I was like, I'm going to do the
36:41
same thing. And I pulled the handbrake and
36:43
it just went like that a little bit.
36:45
And I was like, I don't like this anymore at all.
36:49
Yeah, Chris looked so cool doing that.
36:51
Because it's like, what are you going to do?
36:52
I mean, especially like somewhere I live, it's like,
36:54
what are you going to do with a Honda?
36:56
You're going to. Just race other Hondas, that's
36:57
it. What are?
36:58
You going to go? Yeah.
36:58
Stand around in a parking. Lot like you don't have like a
37:00
curvy, like country roads for some reason.
37:02
I'm thinking like it goes up, yeah.
37:03
But I'm not trying to die either, you know, I'm not trying
37:06
to like because you got to hit a tree or.
37:08
Something like pretty high speeds.
37:10
I mean, I would I would if I I have a I still have a Honda
37:14
person. I have a I have a Ek hatch
37:17
that's all just daily, right. I mean now.
37:20
Well, yeah, I bet it looks, but there's no point.
37:23
No, it's, I know there's three different colors.
37:26
It's it's it's it's the most notoriously like reliable car
37:30
I've ever had, though. It's just stock.
37:31
Yeah, it's stock height. It's got steel wheels on it.
37:33
Oh. That's gonna run forever.
37:35
Yeah, it's got 230,000 miles. I don't want to drive it till
37:38
it's got like 700,000 miles and you're gonna or something like.
37:41
That so check back. In.
37:42
The shit restaurant here? No, right?
37:44
No, yeah. No, not even not even at all.
37:48
But they have started using this like.
37:50
No, not the liquid. Well, it's like lines on the
37:53
road. Yeah, they've started doing
37:55
that. Is that bad?
37:55
Is that bad? OK, that's Brine.
37:57
But here's the thing. So whereas y'all need to do that
38:01
for months, yeah, we have to do that like a day.
38:05
Yeah. And then?
38:05
You just don't drive that day. Yeah, that's.
38:07
Cool. Yeah, it's all over my IS300
38:09
right now. Is that bad?
38:11
Yeah, I would just. Get it off as soon as possible
38:13
and when they spray that shit, I would just wait and wait and
38:15
wait till it like rains and then be like OK now we're good.
38:18
That's what we do. Like when they salt the roads
38:19
and everything. We don't drive like nice cars
38:21
until it really rains and then we're like, OK, I guess it's OK
38:24
now, OK. My 300 is not nice, so yeah.
38:28
It looks good. Well, you did buy the XL.
38:30
Version you haven't seen. It the XL the spore cross I have
38:34
such a gripe with. That that's the wagon, you know,
38:35
like. I don't know what, mainly
38:36
because when I think of a station wagon, right, it's got a
38:39
boot. Like my dad car.
38:40
It's like, yeah, And then it increases the storage, the IS or
38:45
the sport cross. If you look at the body line,
38:47
it's like not that much extra storage, right?
38:50
It kind of just comes right back.
38:51
Down and I'm like. What was the purpose of that?
38:53
Wait, do the seats go down? The seats do go down.
38:56
So you have, yeah, the back seats go down.
38:57
So you get a lot of space. And then I don't know.
39:00
I don't know. I've told people who like
39:01
recently got like my friend Rye recently got a sport cross and
39:07
the front seat like the OEM front seat folds down flat into
39:11
a table so you can sit in the back seat I guess.
39:13
Yes, food. It's the weirdest thing the.
39:15
Front seat, but you but with that with the back seats down
39:19
and that seat down, I put like 8 foot 2 by fours in that thing.
39:22
Before it's great, you're just. Like a truck.
39:24
You are changing my mind on that.
39:26
Yeah, no, it's a good like because.
39:28
I was like why did they why did they do that?
39:30
Because when I first got my ISI bought the IS because when I was
39:34
a kid, you saw the tails and you're like damn, what the fuck
39:38
is that? And then when I finally got out
39:39
of the 240 stuff and like thought I wanted to be an adult.
39:44
I don't know why I did that, but like.
39:48
I got to ask 300 to be an adult. No, no, I had like an Accord.
39:52
It was a bone stock Honda Accord.
39:54
I was like, this is the furthest thing away from anything that I
39:56
like. This is the answer.
39:57
I will not be able to relapse because to me I thought it was a
40:01
problem. OK.
40:03
And like the people around, like the.
40:05
Like having the 240SX was a problem.
40:07
No, just having. Modding cars.
40:09
Modding cars and things. Like that?
40:11
Like your family? Yeah, like the hobby, my family,
40:13
my friends were like, dude, you're still doing that.
40:15
That's kind of cool, I guess. But then you kind of learn later
40:19
on that it's kind of rare for people to love something so much
40:22
to like to go through the the trials and tribulations you just
40:25
went through with this green car.
40:26
I'd say those people are probably a little jealous that.
40:28
They don't. They're bored.
40:28
They're bored. They live a boring, not they had
40:32
they find enjoyment in other things.
40:34
I I keep telling sometimes it's so easy to be like they're
40:36
boring, but sometimes like their life, it's more family oriented.
40:40
They they, they care about just the growth of their family and
40:42
that's it cool. They support them.
40:45
And so like it was weird. And then I finally was like, you
40:48
know what, I am not a master of one thing.
40:50
I'd I'd like to just love one thing.
40:53
So now I'm here. I bought the ISI was like, this
40:55
is going to be a good daily. Yeah.
40:56
And you love that car now. So it's, it's just because like,
41:00
I don't know, it's I'm tired of relearning.
41:04
I'd rather just stick and learn it through.
41:06
Was your 240 was it? It was a hatch I had, I had
41:10
coops and then I had hatches. But then I ended with the Hatch
41:13
because. Totally different car by the
41:15
way. Hatch.
41:16
Yeah, 1000% one. When you open up the trunk of
41:19
the Hatch, it just looks cooler with the trunk open for some
41:22
reason. You open up the coop, it's just
41:23
like whatever. Well, and you know, when are
41:25
they going to make a car like this?
41:26
No. Yeah.
41:28
Gone. Never.
41:29
Never again. The small pillars like the all
41:31
the glass like it's crazy. Dude when the when the 180?
41:35
The like the silhouette. All the way around the glass.
41:38
I don't know why, but as a painter too, if you get a 180 or
41:41
like a hatch, the tape is all the bag is all the way around
41:46
1:00 if you can get it on one. If you want paper it around,
41:49
fuck it. And like, I don't know, I just
41:52
when I got the Hatch that was I took the Sr. from my coop, put
41:57
it in there and just drove it around.
41:58
I commuted it to college like 2 hours every other weekend and it
42:02
was just a good car. And then I missed that feeling,
42:05
missed my friends, and then I had to get back into it again.
42:09
And then you have to. I like to admit when I'm wrong
42:12
sadly. And like it's like weird coming
42:15
back where? Growth happens.
42:17
Your tail between your legs, you're like, yo, what's up guys?
42:19
Like I got another car again, like I'm back.
42:22
So I don't know. It's it's nice that it brings
42:24
people together like that. It's kind of nuts.
42:26
Yeah, like, well, so sometimes getting rid of a car and then
42:30
like getting another car, it it like I used to get a bunch of
42:35
cars, like I would get a new car and I wish I would have just
42:37
like stuck with a car because getting another car feels like
42:42
like progress for some reason. Because like your friends are
42:44
stoked about it sometimes, you know, sometimes but and then you
42:48
know, but but really you're just kind of like hitting the reset
42:51
button. But if you were stick with like
42:53
a car. It hurts so fucking bad.
42:55
I mean upset you. No, no.
42:57
It's, I mean, I've done the same thing.
42:58
Dude, ask Frankie well this. Is he's, he's been doing pretty
43:01
good with this car because it's been like fucking four years.
43:04
I just don't have any money to get into anything.
43:06
You know what? Yeah, but he he has been almost
43:08
relapsing a couple times. You're thinking about getting
43:10
another, a different car. He'll.
43:11
Bring it up. I I I'd like to build another
43:15
one with a different. Intention.
43:17
So that I can just like, 'cause I, I want too much out of the
43:20
one, you know what I mean? You try to make a car that wants
43:23
to do everything and all of a sudden it can't do anything good
43:28
in one. Like one thing he.
43:30
Wants a streetcar that actually is nice to drive around in.
43:32
Like look at this. JCX who's who's?
43:34
I forgot who's this is. I think that's I forget it was
43:39
the brother of the one. It was the brother of the one
43:41
guy and I'm really terrible with names.
43:43
I'm so, so sorry and everybody's so nice.
43:45
He. Was talking to me earlier.
43:47
Fuck. OK, well, nonetheless, you look
43:49
at this dude like that is what a JZX should look like, you know
43:53
what I mean? And that's what it that's like
43:55
what you picture. Is that what you want?
43:57
A JZ. X No, I want, I want.
43:59
Go on, I'll say it. If it's.
44:03
Secret Intel. You know, I want the, I want the
44:05
IS to move with these cars. He wants a fucking S chassis is
44:09
what he. Wants in an IS like I'm I'm
44:12
determined. Do you know who front St.
44:14
Josh is? I talked, I talked to him about
44:16
this a lot and he will tell me to go kick rocks and to just get
44:20
into an S chassis because he'll never but well, I think they're.
44:23
Different cars. I know, but there's they're.
44:25
Going to drive different. They will drive different, but
44:29
it's just like with anything, there's a, there's got to be an
44:31
answer just to make it that much better.
44:33
And I think it, I think I have it a little bit.
44:35
I'm not the best driver out there, but I just for the first
44:38
time, I wanted more out of the car.
44:41
Like I, I'm always fine with just what I get.
44:43
I don't really like try to grab more, but I should reach for
44:47
more. I got to do a little bit more of
44:49
that. Like when I see stuff like this,
44:51
if you stayed content, this shit wouldn't look like this.
44:54
So like that, that see, talking to people like you is what gets
44:57
it. Yeah, every time we, every time
44:59
we go on these podcast trips, Carl takes a lot.
45:02
He gets a, you get a lot of information.
45:04
Bro I'm about to use the cleared.
45:06
It it sounds like you're talking to a bunch of a bunch of cool
45:10
people. Dude, you're one of them.
45:12
Dude. I appreciate it.
45:13
Like, literally. But like the the people you all
45:15
were talking about and you're going to come down and see
45:16
there's a bunch of bunch of really, really good guys in
45:19
there and they've got a bunch of really good takes on cars and I
45:22
think live and stuff like that. So.
45:24
I planned ahead too, because I'm sure you're thinking ahead as
45:27
well. Oh yeah, this.
45:30
I mean I guess, I guess with just 180 like with.
45:32
A with my car, yeah. I I want to drive this car, you
45:36
know? That's yeah, I got to tune it,
45:41
you know? Dude, thank God you, it sounds
45:44
like you're right at the end now.
45:45
Yeah, I mean like. You're right about to, I mean.
45:47
What is that, though? You know, like, yeah, so.
45:49
But yeah, I mean, just learning the next thing is cool.
45:54
So like that's going to be like tuning it.
45:56
And dude, I wish you the you have power of CI.
45:59
Do want to make some like I do want to like the interior.
46:03
I kind of like threw it together so it it didn't have any
46:06
interior in it like the beginning of this week.
46:09
You did not. Yeah.
46:10
Don't say you threw it together fast.
46:12
Yeah, I threw this all together. You're such a Oh my God, you're
46:15
so great. Well.
46:16
I mean, it's not. Don't look in there and you can
46:19
keep that opinion. Dude like.
46:21
Yeah, well, I mean, obviously like I had the parts leftover
46:24
and stuff, but the car used to have, the car used to have red
46:28
interior and now it's got black and the Sebring upholstered and
46:31
all that. I kind of wanted to tame down
46:33
the interior a little bit because the outside of the car
46:35
is so loud so. It's like very grown.
46:38
Like it's very since it's so classy and like minimalist.
46:42
It's like timeless. Well, I like to with with my
46:45
car, I'm I've tried to like ride the edge of like, you know, it's
46:51
got like the like race inspired stuff, like the like the stitch
46:54
welding and the gutted rear. But like it like also like like
46:57
somehow get like the like race inspired stuff, but like, also
47:02
like the, the, the like street. Yeah, you know, look and feel.
47:05
But without a bit of functionality too.
47:07
You know what I mean? You know the stitch welding is
47:09
sick, but it also works. Yeah, well, cars kind of wadded
47:14
up back there. I know you show.
47:16
So I kind. Of he shows me like 1 little
47:17
pocket in the back left corner, yeah, there's like a little bit
47:20
of a wrinkle and all I could think about is how bad our cars
47:23
look. Yeah.
47:25
Well, this, yeah, No, this car's got it.
47:27
It's definitely got some shims and washers and halls reamed and
47:31
stuff like. Every every 240 does, honestly.
47:34
But what about future like your life?
47:36
Oh, that's a deep my. Was not was not expected.
47:39
Personally, yeah. Dude, what are?
47:40
You gonna do cuz we're 30 now dude.
47:42
Yeah, well, you. Know well you got your family
47:44
and. Stuff that's definitely wanna
47:46
keep supporting my my my son and watching him grow and spending
47:50
as much time as I can with him. Said 2 1/2 years.
47:52
Old. Yeah, he's 2 1/2.
47:53
His name's Rowan. He's awesome.
47:54
He's getting up and stuff. Oh, dude, yeah, he doesn't sit
47:58
down. Yeah, he's all over.
48:00
This is exhausting for sure. Dude being dad's probably crazy.
48:03
Yeah, it's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me for
48:05
sure. Thank you.
48:06
To your wife again for letting me come out here.
48:08
And I know dude, just thought about it.
48:09
Oh my goodness. Gracious.
48:10
It's a very big support system. My family's awesome.
48:13
Yeah, I'm like thinking about this little kid running around
48:15
now at home. Yeah.
48:16
I know I'm like, he needs his dad right now.
48:18
Yeah, he forced. Yeah, they're probably all
48:20
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48:22
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50:33
pizza on Sunday. Dude, yo the.
50:36
Pizza. Thing is, is, is actually pretty
50:38
like a little bit of a yo, who is this guy?
50:41
Well, you got to have can't just can't just be all about.
50:43
Cars, you know, No, you got to I mean, you can, but.
50:46
It's. Yeah, you just won't like them.
50:49
It's crazy. I'll get.
50:49
To that, I'll get to that point if I'm like like I, I consume
50:53
myself with like my interests like pretty heavily.
50:57
So if I don't like divert that, I'll just burn myself out on it
50:59
and I won't care about it anymore.
51:00
What else? What else you got?
51:01
What else you into nowadays? Pizza making.
51:05
Pizza, pizza, dude, you ever you ever come up?
51:10
No. You gotta come by us.
51:11
Where's the pizza inspiration coming?
51:13
I went to my friend. Jeremies House in Pennsylvania.
51:16
Okay, yeah, you're getting to see to see a band.
51:18
Play. What band spray nude?
51:22
Yeah. Oh, that does sound familiar.
51:24
Yeah, I think Iron Chic. And.
51:26
Get bent. Get was bent.
51:28
Yeah, that was sounds really I I.
51:30
Like a lot of. Philly bands.
51:31
Philly has some really good music.
51:33
Yeah, I'm not that far from Philly.
51:34
Yeah. The place to stay.
51:35
You let me know. Yeah, it was great.
51:36
I love like old buildings I live.
51:38
In a really old house, so Philly was really cool with that.
51:40
But yeah, I went up there and I had some pizza there and it was
51:44
pretty good. And that was it.
51:46
That set it off. No, OK, I just like pizza.
51:49
I was like I want. To start making pizza.
51:51
You know, so we we like have a rule where we don't really eat
51:54
pizza anytime. We leave our area, OK, Yeah,
51:57
that's don't eat it down here. Yeah.
51:58
It's not great. Yeah, it's not.
52:01
Well, well. Yeah, there's.
52:03
No, it's it's like, I'm sure there's good spots, but I.
52:06
Live. Where there's like you can eat
52:08
at Pizza Hut or Domino's, you know, that's like what we have,
52:10
dude. The thing is, is like when pizza
52:12
make, when people make. Pizza at home, it doesn't look
52:14
like it doesn't look like the pizza that we eat, but then the
52:18
pizza that you made looks like the pizza that we eat.
52:21
And I was like, yeah, how do you do that?
52:23
Yeah, Nice, nice. Charred.
52:25
Crust. Well done, you know, kind of
52:26
thin. I like, you know, do you make
52:29
the dough yourself? I think I saw that on the on
52:31
the. Highlighted dough fermented or
52:33
you're going to get your own breed ovens.
52:35
No, I'm using my. Home oven I can use like a
52:37
little. Steel plate that makes it like a
52:38
pizza oven. So yeah, it's cool.
52:40
It's fun, yeah. But that is amazing.
52:44
Yeah. So I definitely.
52:46
Want to make more pizza I fucking hate.
52:47
Cooking, bro. Really.
52:48
Yeah, I like. Cooking.
52:50
I think I finally learned that about myself.
52:51
I really don't enjoy it at all, but I do it.
52:55
But I don't want to. Like, I'll, I'll leave work and
52:58
it's like, I took a steak out or whatever and it's in the fridge
53:02
and I'm like, OK, I gotta go home and eat.
53:03
And in the back of my mind, I'm like, I just want to go get
53:05
fucking halal food and like, I just go home and eat and go to
53:08
sleep. Yeah, it's like, I gotta go.
53:10
And steak is the easiest thing to cook, too.
53:12
Yeah, it really is. Yeah.
53:13
It's still like one of those things where.
53:15
It's like a chore to me. I don't know, it is a chore.
53:17
What's a meal prep item that you're making?
53:19
Steak is for you. I know you have.
53:20
Steak and broccoli or chicken and broccoli.
53:22
I do chicken on Sundays for meal prep.
53:24
But yeah, that I don't really, that I don't really.
53:26
Mind that much you know meal prep you just cook I'm.
53:28
More of a like. Eat this, I'm gonna run by the.
53:31
Store on the way home to have a guy grab it and that's what they
53:34
do in the movies. The dad's coming home with, like
53:38
a grocery bag with, like, bread and for, like, a loaf of bread
53:41
and whatever it is just to make the sandwich for the night.
53:43
Yeah, No. Yeah, it's.
53:45
Yeah, we don't. We have.
53:47
Just works out better for us that way.
53:48
You just figured out the day of. Yeah, I mean, sometimes.
53:51
You know you'll have leftovers. Or something you eat the next
53:53
day or something. You know, we always have, like,
53:55
leftover pizza sometimes. But yeah, you know, I don't.
53:58
I've tried to like meal prep just like get to like day three
54:02
of them. Like fuck that chicken.
54:05
Yeah, that's the other thing. You.
54:06
Have to be using different. Sauces like, man, I can't do
54:09
this. I'm a.
54:09
Creature of habit. Dude, you can give me the same
54:11
meal every. Single day for lunch I wouldn't
54:13
even say anything. I feel like if I did that I
54:15
would be the same but. I don't know, I feel like.
54:19
My wife would be like I don't want.
54:21
To eat this anymore or something like that.
54:22
Or I would say that, you know, not necessarily.
54:24
And I only do it for lunch because I'm like I could.
54:27
Lock in like that if I really wanted to.
54:29
Yeah, and I still leave myself one day I'm like.
54:31
I'm leaving Friday, yeah. Yeah, I can enjoy my life at
54:35
least for one day. I get scared that you know when
54:37
you meal prep something. Yeah, you get sick of it now
54:40
that one day that you don't eat that, that food is probably
54:44
going to get waste. It's not going to get eaten
54:46
again. Like I'm not going to eat that
54:47
the rest of the week if I had a taste of something else.
54:50
You know what I mean? In your brain, you you satiated
54:53
that request and now it's ruined.
54:55
Wait, what do you mean? Like you you bake it for?
54:57
Like you skipped. The meal and got something else
54:59
now you're. Paying double for your meals?
55:01
Oh yeah, that's that's why I like that method.
55:03
The on your way home. I would like to make this.
55:06
Maybe I'll get this for tomorrow.
55:07
That's it. Yeah.
55:08
I don't shop for like the full week.
55:10
Yeah, unless it's like a frozen thing.
55:11
I could throw it in the freezer. Yeah.
55:12
Yeah. No, Yeah, you can definitely.
55:14
Plan ahead with some frozen stuff.
55:16
But yeah, you know, 'cause sometimes, you know, you get
55:18
like, OK, I'm gonna have like, you know, some steak this day or
55:21
like some chicken or fish or something, and you're like, you
55:24
get to that day and you're like, that doesn't sound good at all.
55:25
Yes, yeah, that's my fucking problem, dude.
55:28
That's what it. Is this morning and then I will
55:29
waste it so it's like. It makes more.
55:31
Sense to me and then I don't know if that's even like the
55:33
cheaper way and then I have another problem where I can't
55:35
waste anything ever. Or like it's the end of the you
55:37
like beat yourself up about it if you do so you're just going
55:39
to eat 3. Meal prep days and one like I'll
55:41
eat. Like if I didn't eat my lunch or
55:43
something. I'll eat it Saturday like and I
55:45
already got. I'll just eat more food just to
55:48
not waste it. Like it makes sense.
55:49
I wonder what that's doing. Your body's like it doesn't
55:51
happen. Often because I'm very like
55:53
meticulous with. Planning, but it does happen
55:57
sometimes and I'm like, like, I've only thrown out, dude.
56:01
I've only thrown out like a steak or something that I left
56:04
in the fridge too long. Maybe one time fucking ever.
56:06
Wow, literally, like I will make sure.
56:10
Yeah, like it's it's getting. I'm not wasting any.
56:13
You're crazy. That's that's I'm cheap.
56:15
That's what it is. Honestly, I throw away
56:16
leftovers. Yeah, like I really do.
56:18
Because I'll chunk that. Steak in the trash.
56:20
Yeah, especially if it's like you don't.
56:23
Want it like? I.
56:25
Don't know if you guys were the same growing up, but my parents
56:27
were like, you better not waste that food, even if you didn't
56:30
like it. So then unfortunately, OK, Well,
56:34
dude, listen, it's a little like it was such a weird mentality.
56:37
You didn't like something, but you sat through and you ate it.
56:40
Yeah, When I got older, I remember there was like a few
56:43
times where I'd be eating something.
56:45
I'm like, I don't really like this.
56:47
And then I'm sitting there and I'm like, why am I eating this?
56:49
I'm, I'm, I'm, I live on my own. I'm talking this out.
56:51
I'm a full grown ass. I'm going to get something else.
56:53
Yeah. And I don't know.
56:55
See, I don't do that. I'm like, I'm like, no, we've
56:57
committed. To this, but I also like like.
57:02
We we talked about this at 1:00. Other time, but I was like, I
57:04
was like am IA masochist, but I'm I'm not but yes, I like to
57:08
be I like to be very disciplined with stuff too.
57:11
So it's like if we committed to this, we're just doing it and
57:14
yeah, it is what it is. I think that's there's, yeah.
57:16
Nothing's black and white, so there's.
57:18
Probably some good and bad to that mentality, yeah, you know,
57:20
but but then if someone gives me a pack of Oreos, I mean the
57:22
whole fucking thing. So oh man, is that a weakness
57:25
I'm. Not a sugar it used to be, but I
57:28
oh, you're good now. Stopped eating Oreos and then I
57:30
went back. And ate some Oreos and was like.
57:32
That's dude, I'd rather just have like a chocolate chip.
57:35
Cookie. I love a chocolate.
57:37
Now you guys were talking. Oh my God.
57:39
I mean. That's kind of like like if.
57:42
It's like. Kind of like.
57:43
Crispy like, also soft like got a good amount of chew, you know
57:48
what I'm saying? That's Malcolm's fiance made
57:50
cookies the other day. Holy shit, you ate some Eddie.
57:54
I know you did. So they why do you put bringing
57:56
Eddie in? Yeah, I broke the 4th.
57:58
Wall, sorry, but. Dude, fucking amazing.
58:01
And those are like from scratch. But I made a new rule as of like
58:06
a year ago, I think it was a year ago, where when I go to the
58:08
grocery store, I don't buy Oreos, chocolate, I don't buy
58:12
any junk food no matter what. So now every time I go in there,
58:15
I'm like, you know, you got to stick to the perimeter of the
58:18
fucking grocery store. But if you go in the middle,
58:21
you're fucked. Like but if you you.
58:22
Know you say you don't like cooking, but.
58:24
If you made. A cookie and stuff like that.
58:26
I mean, you, I'd put the time into that.
58:28
Yeah, that'd be different. Yeah.
58:29
That's not junk food. That's that's.
58:30
Something you put. The effort into, you know, dude,
58:33
just a little bit of a hit, just just I know.
58:35
I know dude, I'll be in there. I like text my buddies or I'll
58:39
be like. Yo.
58:40
This is the peak of me, like being disciplined is when I go
58:45
to the grocery store. That's the peak because it is so
58:48
fucking hard for me to walk through there and not get ring
58:51
Dings or something. Like it is so hard dude.
58:54
I feel like you avoid that food for a little bit, like I don't.
58:56
Know if you felt this too? But when, when you get into
58:59
those, like binges where you're eating that bad stuff, dude,
59:02
your body raised it like it's literally drugs.
59:05
Yeah, that's why when you get off of it and then you're like.
59:08
I'm already. In this.
59:09
Fuck it, I can just keep going further in this and you're just
59:13
like making it worse for yourself instead of just like
59:15
stopping in that minute. Yeah, it's weird to.
59:18
Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, discipline is definitely
59:22
something that you have to like, constantly, like, think about.
59:24
Oh yeah, it's. Yeah, it's a good thing to
59:26
exercise and it makes me feel good when I when I do something
59:30
when. You get out of there.
59:30
Yeah. And you didn't buy the Oreos.
59:32
You're. Probably like, all right, yeah.
59:34
I'm like, wow, OK, I'm not A and that translates.
59:36
Over to other things for sure. For sure.
59:38
Dude, that one, that's like when you make up and you make.
59:41
Your bed in the morning and it sets a tone.
59:42
That's what I do every day too. It's like one brain scratch and
59:45
then you're like. Oh fuck it.
59:46
Well, they. Say you have to.
59:48
Get small wins basically throughout the day.
59:50
So like that would be the first one.
59:52
Who is they? I heard like two or three people
59:54
say that in the last two weeks on podcasts usually.
59:58
Fucking like military motherfuckers are saying that
1:00:01
kind of shit, honestly, which is probably what's like.
1:00:03
Put into their fucking brain in boot camp.
1:00:06
Well, that's discipline. Like you.
1:00:07
You mentioned the word. Discipline.
1:00:08
Well, when you're when like when you're saying when, when you're.
1:00:11
You know a child and your your your parents were like, you have
1:00:14
to eat all of that. You know that discipline is like
1:00:17
put upon you, but when you're an adult, you are the person who
1:00:21
decides what it is you're doing with your day-to-day life and
1:00:25
choices. So when you can exercise, you
1:00:28
know, the things that you decide are important, cleaning your
1:00:31
plate or not buying, you know, junk food, yeah, cookies and
1:00:34
stuff. You know, you're you're you're
1:00:38
you're applying that discipline to you.
1:00:40
And that's that's like where growth happens and you get where
1:00:43
you want to go. I think at least yeah, I think
1:00:45
it carries out over into everything it.
1:00:47
Spills over in everything you do, you know, some of it.
1:00:50
Yeah. Another person that brought that
1:00:52
up, I don't know his name, but it was on a business podcast and
1:00:55
it was some business owner and he was saying the same thing.
1:00:57
Sounded exactly like the other guy.
1:00:59
He's like, yeah, like, just try to get small wins.
1:01:01
Like he was like, you know, waking up and just brushing your
1:01:03
teeth, like, literally that. He's like, oh, it's a small.
1:01:06
Like he thinks of it as a win or some shit like that.
1:01:09
And I was like, OK. I mean, like tricks himself into
1:01:12
thinking succeeding. Yeah.
1:01:13
So. It's like, OK, I did that,
1:01:14
that's good. And then like I guess.
1:01:15
Exercise, stuff like that, whatever, whatever you're doing,
1:01:18
you know, and just kind of collecting wins as the day goes
1:01:21
on. I don't know, it's just little
1:01:24
things like that that help mentally.
1:01:28
No, I think those things are great.
1:01:29
Yeah, they definitely. You know, push you towards a
1:01:33
greater, you know, end goal. You know, yeah, I think at
1:01:37
least. Because if I didn't have that
1:01:38
shit, dude, I don't know what I'd.
1:01:40
I'd. Be needing to go to the doctor.
1:01:42
Like ASAP because my heart would be failing right now.
1:01:44
We've been on food for a little bit.
1:01:46
Should we? Do we need to?
1:01:47
Veer back. Where do you want to go?
1:01:49
Well, how long? How long?
1:01:50
Did you want to make this one? Well, we got to.
1:01:52
We're going to be here for a bit.
1:01:53
All right, Cool, cool. Because we got to do car check
1:01:55
too and I want to definitely. Make sure we cover that.
1:01:57
Yeah, because we need visual of this.
1:01:59
Not a lot of people. Did you know, not a lot of
1:02:01
people watch the video? Like you probably have a sick
1:02:04
backdrop right now. And like, not a lot of people
1:02:06
watch it on Spotify. Yeah.
1:02:07
Oh, yeah. I like, yeah, I'll watch.
1:02:09
I'll. I'll listen.
1:02:10
To the I want to make sure it's this video if y'all like talk
1:02:12
about something. I'll like, oh, I need to see
1:02:14
that. And pull it up.
1:02:14
Yeah. But yeah, you know, podcasts are
1:02:17
great for. Just like when you're working
1:02:18
and I kind of want to like little bit of noise, you know,
1:02:22
dude, sometimes when you're alone like that, that's all I
1:02:24
want. You know what I mean?
1:02:25
Just somebody like, say some shit.
1:02:26
Yeah, it kind of scratches that. Like human desire.
1:02:29
For like communication, it's nuts to me that there's a lot of
1:02:32
people just like you. That listen to the podcast and
1:02:34
they're sometimes when I'm in the shop, that's some of the
1:02:37
most frustrating time I could be going through.
1:02:42
And then you have this on. Yeah, nuts.
1:02:45
Yeah. And we probably are talking
1:02:46
about some of the same shit that they're going through.
1:02:48
Yeah, you're probably sitting there, feet under your car.
1:02:50
Crossed like staring up and then here we are bullshit staring up.
1:02:57
I like that like you're. Standing and then you just.
1:02:59
Stop and you're like. This is something like.
1:03:04
Why? Why am I here?
1:03:05
It's it's 1:30 in the morning, I'm sanding a 240SX for the
1:03:10
second time, but then you're done and.
1:03:13
I think that's what I like. About the body we're on is like
1:03:16
you're done and you have something there to look at, even
1:03:21
if it was like the first stages of a of a.
1:03:23
Repair like. These arches, we can talk about
1:03:25
these arches because the early stages where you pulled them and
1:03:30
use the wiggle wire. Dude, do you even know what
1:03:32
wiggle wires? Yeah, Uh huh.
1:03:33
Yeah. There's.
1:03:34
You're about to learn me something, dude.
1:03:36
Yeah. It's nuts.
1:03:37
It's actually insane. But but you, you go through all
1:03:39
of that, even at that first phase where you showed me where
1:03:42
it's all raw, I would be geeking.
1:03:43
I'd be like fuck yeah, that shit looks awesome.
1:03:46
Yeah, next day you go. Or you prime it, whatever.
1:03:48
Next day you come in, it's all fucking smooth.
1:03:50
Yeah. You know, it's ready for the
1:03:51
next step. And it's, yeah, you're quicker
1:03:53
than me. It's there.
1:03:55
No, no. This.
1:03:56
Is all you know really easy to say, right?
1:03:58
Right. Right.
1:03:59
But you know what I mean. Like.
1:04:00
It's there. It's.
1:04:00
Very. Rewarding.
1:04:02
Oh gosh, what is the? Deal with these quarter panels.
1:04:06
So. I'd say they're like Ito
1:04:12
inspired. So you know, like the brake Ito
1:04:15
car he had the pumped up, he cut his to pull him out, I think.
1:04:20
Yeah, Cole. Yeah, Cole was talking about
1:04:21
that kind of talk to you all. About that I wanted kind.
1:04:24
Of the same look, I kind of went about it my own way so I rolled
1:04:28
them first. I didn't use like a roller.
1:04:31
I use like hammer and Dolly. Yeah, that's usually the best
1:04:34
way to get that lip flat. I feel like.
1:04:36
Well. Yeah, I just didn't want.
1:04:39
To I wanted to like kind of focus the areas I was moving
1:04:42
out, but a roller would have got like a flatter pull to begin
1:04:46
with. But the way I was finishing the
1:04:47
body work, it wasn't really that big of a deal.
1:04:49
But yeah, so I made the, you know, the typical like, flare
1:04:52
pull, and I pulled them about 1517mm.
1:04:57
I remember that. It's just about as pulled as the
1:05:00
pink 180 in there. How do you measure it?
1:05:02
Did you put a ruler right at the body line?
1:05:04
And. Then I have AI have like a
1:05:06
factory. Shell like a like a OEM quarter
1:05:10
shell. So based from that, I just added
1:05:15
that and kind of measured on my car where that lands and stuff.
1:05:18
So yeah, pulled them 17 mil, I think it was like 1515 or 17 or
1:05:23
something like that. And then so then you have the
1:05:26
flare, you know, you're like a little rolled look and it's got
1:05:29
like the the low spot. And then I use I have like a
1:05:33
multiple pull welder. So it's like a welder with like
1:05:36
a probe and then you can have like a slide hammer on that.
1:05:40
And then there's an attachment for it.
1:05:42
The wiggle wire like he was talking about, it's just like a
1:05:45
like wiggly piece of copper. It looks like a swirl and then
1:05:49
you Weld in between those pieces and you can have like a claw
1:05:52
that pulls it out Even so these body lines they're not like you
1:05:57
look at a OEM body 240 they're they're flat.
1:05:59
These are kind of like they kind of like hips now it's like kind
1:06:04
of like an over Fender shape but on the OEM metal and then so I
1:06:08
pulled those lines out and then the flare area that low spot.
1:06:12
I then pulled all that out flat and then finished it all with
1:06:15
filler. So kind of the same same style
1:06:18
with no cutting yeah. So it sounds a lot better to be
1:06:20
honest with you, because the. Cutting thing.
1:06:22
I'm like, damn. Well, the the cutting thing is
1:06:24
definitely. Faster.
1:06:26
Well, I'd say old. School and.
1:06:28
Very Japanese. Yeah.
1:06:31
It's very barbaric, yeah. So I have.
1:06:35
You know. New Age.
1:06:37
Tools and processes to accomplish the same look, I
1:06:41
think I got close. It's kind of like my own thing.
1:06:44
It's I wouldn't say it's spot on the way it has looked and but
1:06:47
you know, it's. You know, kind of accomplish.
1:06:52
The same thing with a different process, a little bit less
1:06:54
invasive too. How do you feel when you found
1:06:56
out about that? Like the how he did.
1:06:58
His because I was fucking like, what?
1:07:00
I wasn't really that surprised. I mean, yeah, I.
1:07:02
Mean I would think about like, because if I thought, OK, this
1:07:05
is how I want this to look, that would be one of the like things
1:07:08
that I would consider. I'm like one of those people
1:07:10
that I go back and look at those cars.
1:07:12
And I'm just like, oh, they just rolled the quarter panel.
1:07:15
It just looks like that, you know, and then you find out it's
1:07:18
like, Nah, he fucking spent months on.
1:07:20
I think I was probably impressed because it's probably like.
1:07:22
DIY and I love that like Japan seems like they they take on a
1:07:27
lot more like at their house then the general like American
1:07:32
build here. You know, they really, really
1:07:35
DIYA lot of stuff down to like their paint, some of them and
1:07:38
just and the quality is just like, yeah, it's amazing, yeah.
1:07:41
They're very like, but when I went over there for the first.
1:07:44
Time and I saw everything. Like how they exist.
1:07:47
I'm like, these people are just like this.
1:07:49
Yeah, in everything. It's a yeah, the culture, I
1:07:52
guess. Yeah, I've never been.
1:07:53
So it's a 100 and percent and 100.
1:07:56
Percent at everything, yeah, that you can do your full
1:07:59
effort, which is so nice with what you have, with what you
1:08:02
have. So like a lot of people, like, I
1:08:05
don't know the the word butcher is like like a shortcutter, like
1:08:09
it's, it's like hodgepodge together.
1:08:12
But if when you do go, because I know you're you're going to end
1:08:15
up over there at some point, I feel like maybe yeah, at one
1:08:18
day. Yeah.
1:08:18
You really don't have a lot of. Desire to go?
1:08:20
There, I said the same thing. I said the same thing, but then
1:08:22
you'll find. Yourself there and you're going
1:08:23
to be like, yeah, like maybe, just maybe just for like a
1:08:25
family. Trip one day, chairs will be
1:08:28
really small. I mean eating.
1:08:31
At restaurants kind of seems like it would.
1:08:33
Stress me. Go for two weeks and you'll
1:08:34
actually you know. What I'm saying?
1:08:36
No, no. Yeah, no.
1:08:37
Honestly, now talking to Logan for a little bit, I could see
1:08:39
how, dude, it would be extremely daunting.
1:08:42
Be comfortable. Yeah.
1:08:43
But the best part about it, at least when I was there, because
1:08:46
sometimes I some people will tell me, I don't get that from
1:08:51
you like. You get anxious.
1:08:53
Like in random places where you feel really small and there's
1:08:57
way too many people around, there's so many noises, you
1:08:59
don't really know where to be, where to fit, what to say.
1:09:02
In Japan, for some reason, no one's paying attention to you.
1:09:06
There's too many people. So then you kind of have your
1:09:09
own little world and you can experience it in your own way.
1:09:11
Well, yeah, I guess here's the other thing.
1:09:14
Is that like so? Obviously it costs a lot of
1:09:16
money. Oh shit load to go to another
1:09:19
country. Right, to be honest.
1:09:21
I really don't agree with that in Japan.
1:09:23
Really. Yeah.
1:09:24
OK, so, well, there's a. There's a time investment, you
1:09:27
know, I'd have to take off time for work and and so I would be
1:09:31
going and doing that and my thought process is if I'm doing
1:09:34
that, like I'm going to take my family, yes, and I think I have
1:09:36
my drift interest, right and car interest, and that would be
1:09:40
great for me to do that. But is that something that's
1:09:43
like like serving my like, I mean, I don't know you.
1:09:46
My wife has no. Interest.
1:09:48
Exactly. So I was.
1:09:49
Going to say I don't know what you like, why don't we go?
1:09:51
To like, we would probably both like to go to like Ireland.
1:09:53
Or something like that. So maybe, like, I mean, I heard
1:09:55
Ireland's awesome too. Yeah, so some.
1:09:57
Like I feel like there's some like.
1:09:59
Maybe Japan someday if it worked out for just me.
1:10:01
But like, I don't know, if I were to think about something
1:10:04
like in the immediate, somewhat immediate future, it'd be like
1:10:07
it just Japan wouldn't be on the top of the line, dude.
1:10:09
I kind of like hearing that though, because because always.
1:10:11
When you talk to somebody, yeah, doesn't serve my.
1:10:14
When you talk to somebody lately, it's like.
1:10:16
Oh, like. I would love to go to Japan too.
1:10:19
Like that would have been so. Easy for me to expect that
1:10:21
answer from you. And then I I got that one and
1:10:23
it's like, you know what? Like sometimes I like it here, I
1:10:28
love it here. I love it here you're talking
1:10:31
and. We have the things.
1:10:32
That we like here. And you, you have your drift
1:10:34
stuff here. Yeah.
1:10:35
So I guess it was kind of weird for me to assume that you would
1:10:37
have wanted to go to Japan too. Yeah.
1:10:38
No, I mean I would. I mean, I would go, yeah, but it
1:10:43
just wouldn't. I don't know if it's going to
1:10:44
happen because it's like, it's not, Yeah.
1:10:46
Like if I think about that, I think, well, I want to do that.
1:10:49
I don't go, like to go, you know?
1:10:51
Yeah, I think you'd have to go with DO in Japan.
1:10:53
Friends then, and you'd have to do.
1:10:55
It be at the right. Time and right yeah you have a
1:10:57
lot going on the. Which is kind of what happened
1:10:59
to me, honestly. It was someone was like we're.
1:11:01
Going you got forced your your hand got forced to go.
1:11:04
Josh is smart. He.
1:11:06
He. Involved business.
1:11:07
So he was like, Frankie will come if I involved it.
1:11:09
And he was right and he got me. So yeah, so I went and I got to
1:11:13
experience everything else and do business stuff too.
1:11:16
So it was like, you know, it was worth it for me.
1:11:18
It was, it was fun. But yeah, I was the same way.
1:11:20
I was like, I don't really need to go there.
1:11:22
Like, and everyone's like, yeah, you do.
1:11:24
And I'm like, like, I don't know.
1:11:27
I mean, yeah, it's going to be yeah, it would be cool.
1:11:29
But I thought the same. I'm like, it's going to be
1:11:30
expensive. Like I got to go away for a
1:11:32
while, like I don't know. But then you get there and you
1:11:34
experience it and I'm like, yeah, it's pretty fucking.
1:11:38
Amazing here. So I I think I get it like once
1:11:40
you go, you get it a little bit more, but you have a lot of shit
1:11:43
going on. So I get it with the family and
1:11:45
whatnot. But back to the cards being the
1:11:46
cards that you're dealt thing like.
1:11:48
The cars that when, let's say when they take the cars apart
1:11:51
like those. An example is a Kay at super
1:11:54
life. He has some speed wagon thing,
1:11:57
had some speed wagon thing that's so cool and like the
1:12:00
pillars. And everything like.
1:12:02
That the car was in a magazine, it looked cool.
1:12:05
It's now fantastically correct and done with metal and whatever
1:12:09
it is that Kay does with his special hands and talent.
1:12:13
But when it got there, it had all this foam and all this gross
1:12:16
shit and it's oh, it's so bad. But dude, after being there and
1:12:20
seeing like the access to materials and dude, imagine
1:12:23
trying to, I couldn't even imagine trying to get a gallon
1:12:27
of bondo or like, yeah, dude, they don't have shit or like a
1:12:30
bondo. Board or spread?
1:12:32
Restrictions or something. It's just like nowhere to get.
1:12:35
It bro. When I go there, it's like
1:12:37
you're. Stepping back into another era
1:12:40
in time. It makes no sense.
1:12:42
But then, but then you'll go somewhere to a city and you're
1:12:44
like, this place is so crazy. It's like futuristic.
1:12:46
And then you go to a shop and they got no workbenches and
1:12:49
you're like, what are we doing? And like you're using a fucking
1:12:52
vice on the on the ground and you're like, why are we doing it
1:12:54
like this? Like why don't we?
1:12:56
And there's no power tools. Like it's weird, dude.
1:12:58
It's I, I mean, I know one thing is they don't really have, like
1:13:02
they don't have like Lowe's and Home Depot there.
1:13:04
There might be a similar thing somewhere over there.
1:13:06
By far. Yeah.
1:13:06
It's like not like that, though. Yeah.
1:13:08
It's not like pop. It's so crazy.
1:13:09
Dude, yeah. Like I, that's why I love it
1:13:12
here for that. Yeah.
1:13:14
Like, I feel like we're set up where we actually have access to
1:13:17
a lot of things that keep these cars going.
1:13:20
Yeah, like in terms of parts or even access to where you can get
1:13:24
the parts or. And we have a lot of materials
1:13:26
to fix it. We have a lot more freedom with
1:13:28
stuff too, and the laws and everything.
1:13:30
Like they, I'm pretty sure they like tax the shit out of you and
1:13:33
with registration and whatnot. If the car's older than five
1:13:35
years and all that, they don't make it easy to be a car
1:13:38
enthusiast. I feel like over there.
1:13:40
So it's like that's another real big benefit of of here.
1:13:43
I feel like I don't greatest country on planet or I.
1:13:47
Don't know how much. Like well.
1:13:49
I'm sure there's some I'm just not thinking about, but I don't
1:13:51
really know how much like inspiration I pull, like from
1:13:54
like modern day Japan. None.
1:13:59
Yeah, looking at this. No, yeah, this is.
1:14:02
So that's another thing it's like I'm going over.
1:14:04
There like, yeah, there will be cars and stuff, but I mean, and
1:14:07
I'm saying like, I'm sure there's stuff I'm just blanking
1:14:10
on like there's good cars or not.
1:14:12
Oh yeah. But you know, that's just not
1:14:14
really. I pull a lot more inspiration
1:14:16
for like stuff. Well, yeah.
1:14:18
And stuff that people are doing like here too.
1:14:20
Yeah. You know this, this is a very if
1:14:24
you let's say I. Saw this car in Japan?
1:14:26
That's a very. This is a very a rare thing to
1:14:28
see, dude. This.
1:14:29
Yeah, this would be like, it's not like I feel like it's 20.
1:14:31
Years ago, yeah, like this is. Yeah.
1:14:33
It's. It's the sport it's kind of
1:14:35
like. Evolving, you know, like it's
1:14:37
evolving there, Yeah. And like, to me, it's a
1:14:40
different game. To me, it's kind of like they
1:14:42
had cars like this. At least from what we saw.
1:14:45
We never saw them in real life. I mean, they could have been
1:14:47
piles of shit, but they had cars like this styled the way we
1:14:50
like. And then it's like drifting
1:14:52
started getting big in America. And then all of a sudden they
1:14:54
started building cars like they did here.
1:14:56
And it's like, no, no, stop, wait, no.
1:14:58
And then now it's like, that's how it looks to me.
1:15:01
I'm like, and now we're building like way cooler cars like this
1:15:05
in the style that they used to do.
1:15:07
Some would say they're progressing, yeah.
1:15:10
Or we're like going the opposite way, you know?
1:15:12
But at the end of the day, it's like everyone's got their own
1:15:14
style. So I just think that stuff like
1:15:16
this is timeless because it. Happened and we're reveling and
1:15:19
it's still you know what I mean it didn't go away right it's
1:15:24
fucking here and here to stay it's like it's.
1:15:28
Like if you saw. This car years down the line in
1:15:30
a museum or something. I don't know if that's where
1:15:33
we're headed, but like that car, like I'm looking at it and like,
1:15:38
this is S13. Like this is a beautiful S13.
1:15:42
Timeless. It's not like, oh, God damn,
1:15:44
that's way too over the top for this.
1:15:46
It was too over the top for that.
1:15:47
It has its own character. And that's what makes it nice.
1:15:50
Yeah. And timeless because, dude, I
1:15:52
feel like a lot of this stuff right now is it's it's really
1:15:55
easy to get lost in the mess. Yeah.
1:15:57
Yeah, I agree. You know, Origin.
1:15:59
This origin that. Yeah.
1:16:03
Top, top distributor origin, by the way.
1:16:05
Yeah, did. You get like a That's your
1:16:06
fault. You get like.
1:16:07
A free one. Or something.
1:16:08
Right now I don't think you want an origin.
1:16:10
Body kit I don't think origin. Will touch.
1:16:13
OK, So what is the? Front again, Easy OSM, easy OSM.
1:16:18
It's, yeah, it's it's. Like I think it's.
1:16:20
Basically like A Cole mentioned. That lip, once on his pod did.
1:16:23
Yeah, it's OK. Yeah, I know that.
1:16:26
It's kind of like a like, I guess it's kind of like hot.
1:16:28
It's like a more aggressive like Cokie lip.
1:16:31
Yeah. So like hot Rd.
1:16:33
I don't know if it's actually the shape of hot Rd. but then it
1:16:36
has like a molded like little splitter on it.
1:16:39
Yeah, dude, it's kind of like fucking cool.
1:16:41
And what's the rest of it? It's.
1:16:43
Also easy. ISM OK but.
1:16:45
It's, you know, the reproduction of like G grow.
1:16:49
OK, yeah. So the old is it supposed to?
1:16:53
Is the lip supposed? To be part of this kit or no the
1:16:55
front bumper's. Cokie with the front bumper is
1:16:59
kind of. Crazy.
1:17:00
That matches this kit. A lot of people don't like it.
1:17:03
It's got a big I think I think you all talked about it on Yeah,
1:17:08
we did. We did.
1:17:08
It's got a really big. It's someone it's oh, wait, did
1:17:13
I say I liked it? Yeah.
1:17:14
I think you liked it. And I was like, yeah, all right.
1:17:16
Frankie because I'd rock 1. But you'd have to do.
1:17:19
Like, like if you're going to pull that style off, you have to
1:17:22
like do because like the GT510 cars, I don't know if I'm
1:17:26
referring to them as right things, but like they had work
1:17:30
metal buffs, C archives as well. And I looked at those cars a lot
1:17:34
and that's kind of the reason why I have these wheels and
1:17:35
they're my favorite wheels ever. These wheels are perfect and Oh
1:17:39
yeah. And.
1:17:41
But they had like the full arrow and you have to kind of have the
1:17:43
wing too and the wings kind of crazy.
1:17:45
And then you have to have the custom quarters like they did
1:17:49
it's and then the front fenders. And it's just like none of that
1:17:52
fits in with my car style. So I love when you can have a
1:17:57
Cokie front. And then put a lip on, you know,
1:18:01
just run the lip, but then have a body kit side and rear.
1:18:04
Yeah, like that's. Oh, it's kind of like a lip kit.
1:18:07
Yeah. Because this is a lip as.
1:18:08
Well. Oh, so the rear is a lip Yeah,
1:18:10
so and I like how like if you're you know, if your lip comes off,
1:18:13
you don't kind of look like a drift dork without a bumper.
1:18:16
You know what I mean dude, Because the rear bumper on the
1:18:18
S13 does not if you. Got the OEM one.
1:18:21
It will not come off. Yeah, yeah, they're, I've never
1:18:24
had one come off. And.
1:18:25
If you crack if. Dude, I've gotten rear-ended
1:18:27
from a buddy. We were at a stop sign, the
1:18:30
stock bar with the everything stock in there still dude,
1:18:34
solid. Yeah, they're it's solid.
1:18:37
Yeah, they're they're like 5 miles an hour or.
1:18:40
Less but like still. It ate the hell out of it and it
1:18:43
was like a new Gallant or whatever fucking 248 it yeah, I
1:18:47
would just leave the rear the rear bash bar.
1:18:49
Like the when I had AS 13 I did something similar.
1:18:53
Without even knowing, I guess. But I bought a Duraflex kit.
1:18:56
I was like a fucking kid. And the top of the bumper for
1:19:00
the Hatch, The mold was so terrible that Chris had an idea
1:19:06
to cut it in half right at the body line.
1:19:09
You know how they have that dent right there?
1:19:11
We cut it right. There like a lip, trimmed it up,
1:19:13
made. Our own lip.
1:19:14
And it worked. In my.
1:19:15
Opinion better because now all we had to worry about was
1:19:18
fitting a lip instead of fitting the full because that line where
1:19:22
the corner is out to that round bit on a on a bad arrow kit
1:19:27
looks really bad. It looks really bad and you
1:19:30
can't flatten it to do anything because now you're going to end
1:19:33
up putting a hole in it. You have to rebuild the yeah,
1:19:35
it's just going to on top. Of the top of it, yeah.
1:19:38
Yeah, I definitely wanted to like.
1:19:40
I definitely. Wanted to minimize the amount of
1:19:42
fiberglass on my car too, being a body guy like the waviness
1:19:45
kind of, I don't know why that and I don't want to spend a lot
1:19:49
of time like straightening out stuff that I was going to break
1:19:52
either. So like that's why I kind of
1:19:53
still have like the OEM hood. Oh yeah.
1:19:57
And I. Do have like a little addition?
1:20:00
To the Vanquish hood spoiler and then deleted the windshield
1:20:05
washers nozzles. Yeah, so that kind of pulls.
1:20:07
It off a little better, so it kind of.
1:20:08
It was like a aftermarket hood vibe but such little nuances in
1:20:12
there. I wouldn't.
1:20:13
Have even noticed. Yeah, yeah.
1:20:15
So yeah, the hood spoiler is. Fucking I call it the wiper.
1:20:18
Wing Fuck no. I need to.
1:20:19
I need to. I need to.
1:20:21
Flatten my stuff a lot better. I need to get more and sometimes
1:20:24
the kid doesn't want to. I have.
1:20:27
So if. It's like depending on what I'm
1:20:30
working on, I just have like dura blocks, but depending on
1:20:32
how Ken, Ken Fuji has a block that's like hard, it's like made
1:20:39
out of like polycarbonate. Yeah, yeah, that's what I use a
1:20:42
lot now. I love cut fast, fast, really
1:20:46
fast. I was going to say, if you're
1:20:47
not, I'll use I'll use a durablock to kind of knock down
1:20:50
like wipe lines from killer. And then once you get, you know,
1:20:54
past like you know your 80 grit level when you're about to, you
1:20:57
know, you're wanting to start making stuff straight, I'll swap
1:20:59
over to a rigid block. Oh, it's so good.
1:21:01
I honestly won't go back. To a durablock after.
1:21:04
That unless it's like a curved surface and I need to kind of
1:21:07
have the block form to it a little bit dude, that thing I
1:21:09
was like holy crap because. I don't know, I I'm still like,
1:21:15
I'll use guide code and stuff like that to fly and stuff.
1:21:16
But at the same time, like always, when you're done with
1:21:19
the guide code, I'm still over here for there's guide code on
1:21:22
it and I'm still like touching it.
1:21:24
Well, a lot of so like I don't know if it's just.
1:21:27
In the collision industry, but a lot of guys are like, oh, I
1:21:29
don't need guide code, I don't need training wheels.
1:21:31
But like, so if you're fixing a dent and then like the feather
1:21:36
edge and you know you've like D8 outside of it, you're going to
1:21:38
block and you're going to get scratches out there.
1:21:41
And then how are you going to know that that scratch is out
1:21:44
there unless you're using guide code?
1:21:45
You got to extend that guide code on your feather edge, you
1:21:48
know, before you prime, because then you prime.
1:21:49
You could think you got all the sand scratches out and you put
1:21:52
primer on it. Do you like the spray one or do
1:21:54
you like the rub one? Well, if I'm doing metal work.
1:21:58
I'll use spray guide coat and then DA it to help find Lowe's,
1:22:02
give myself a visual aid. If I'm working body filler, I'll
1:22:06
use the powder. Yeah, so they have different
1:22:08
uses, but I use them both. Yeah, I'll keep that in mind
1:22:13
because like I'm not really going.
1:22:14
Down to metal a lot of times nowadays because like it's
1:22:18
usually just like a kit like a 5 year old kid and like.
1:22:22
A repair. So it's kind of cool because
1:22:26
then, you know, obviously it's just going to get more and more.
1:22:29
Somebody's going to have me at get something down the metal
1:22:31
eventually and then at least now I'll know.
1:22:33
Sorry, sorry to interrupt. I can't bring refreshments.
1:22:39
Oh well, thank. You kit.
1:22:40
Oh my. Goodness.
1:22:41
Here we go, we have Kit from oblivion.
1:22:43
He hates us all. I'm.
1:22:44
Just kidding. We're here.
1:22:46
Thank you dude. Thank you, actually, Damn.
1:22:49
Dude, Oh my gosh, you're that. Can sounded empty as.
1:22:52
Hell too. Ohh my gosh, since they were
1:22:54
watching us on that little camera, are they actually that?
1:22:56
Camera actually fucking work. I don't.
1:22:58
Know. That'd be kind of cool.
1:23:00
No fucking way. Does that thing work?
1:23:02
Dude, This is dude. The the the Texas hospitality.
1:23:05
Is this shit man I'm so far this is great.
1:23:07
This is like a garage and a garage.
1:23:08
And a garage. Yeah, this place is really cool.
1:23:11
Yeah, again. Didn't know that this was not a
1:23:13
normal. Thing, no, yeah, when you were
1:23:16
like, did you do you have anywhere?
1:23:17
To do a podcast. I was like, this was the first
1:23:19
place that came to mind, just because I've seen pictures of.
1:23:21
I've never been here. Yeah.
1:23:23
I was like, yeah, I want to go see that place.
1:23:25
He just said yeah, yeah, they're cool, yeah.
1:23:28
This is cool, yeah. Yeah.
1:23:30
Yeah, they're, I mean, obviously you can see they're.
1:23:32
All really interested in this and so they all keep their cars
1:23:35
here too. Like, I guess so, yeah, 'cause
1:23:38
that's like, yeah, yeah, they were telling me.
1:23:40
Someone was telling me that they were like.
1:23:41
Oh, they all live in the same place.
1:23:42
I was like, what? I believe that's like the dream.
1:23:45
That's like the. Fast and Furious Dream.
1:23:46
Yeah, like. That that is like I don't want
1:23:48
to put too. I don't want.
1:23:49
To put their business out there. So I don't want to be like
1:23:51
saying, well, you're going to talk to yeah, yeah, we'll, we'll
1:23:53
talk to a couple of. Them or something, right?
1:23:55
Oh, we. Definitely talked to Colin.
1:23:56
Yeah, so. Yeah, yeah, he'll be able.
1:23:57
To give you some, we'll get the info from one insight to but
1:23:59
yeah, it's. Just a the insurance.
1:24:01
And outs of their it was. It's pretty overwhelming being
1:24:04
in here. Because of how nice everybody
1:24:05
has been. So I definitely want to make
1:24:06
sure that I say that at least. Yeah, like that that's it's
1:24:11
always weird. You don't ever want to be like,
1:24:12
this is a lot of expensive shit, dude, like and it's just we met
1:24:18
each other and now we're here like what?
1:24:21
It's always so amazing to me when.
1:24:22
That kind of thing happens. And the fact that we just
1:24:24
thought about doing this three weeks ago.
1:24:26
No, you told me about this on Wednesday.
1:24:29
No, I know that, but I mean like he.
1:24:31
Told me before he told me. Yeah, like you.
1:24:35
Know. What?
1:24:36
The fuck it. Must have been.
1:24:37
It was Wednesday and I was like, I should probably.
1:24:39
Tell Carl what we're doing and you're just this Wednesday.
1:24:42
That's cool. Well, this well.
1:24:43
Basically I was like. And I was.
1:24:45
Like, Carl, are you down for this weekend?
1:24:47
Because I told him like a week or two ago, but we didn't follow
1:24:50
up on it. And then he's like, wait, like,
1:24:52
like this Friday? And I'm like, yeah.
1:24:55
And he's like, I don't know, man.
1:24:57
I don't know. And I remember I.
1:24:58
Texted you I was like yo. I don't think it's going to.
1:25:00
And then I was like, I think you have to wait a week.
1:25:01
And then he's like, no, fuck it, fuck it, we'll do it this week.
1:25:04
And I was an hour later. It was.
1:25:06
It was all. Thanks to the fact.
1:25:07
That because I was, I'm babysitting a puppy and I didn't
1:25:12
want to leave the puppy with my housemates because it's to me
1:25:17
that's like. Such a cop out.
1:25:18
It's, it's to me like, oh, it's oh, they're there so they can do
1:25:21
it. So I found another friend of
1:25:23
mine. Thankfully Ken is watching the
1:25:26
puppy that was my one. He loves dogs, so he does.
1:25:30
I also just love animals and. Anything so like, I just want to
1:25:34
make sure that was taken care of.
1:25:35
That was my only concern. Yeah, other than that, I was
1:25:38
like, all right, I'll probably find a way down there.
1:25:40
I get to see Brad. I got I freaking Brad's the one
1:25:43
I went to Japan with and spent like a lot of time with.
1:25:45
I'm like, I don't know, it's just fun.
1:25:47
We get to hang out. Dude, I had Mad Tex.
1:25:49
We had Tex Mex earlier and oh, really?
1:25:52
We just what did I have? I had.
1:25:54
Like steak, chicken, fajitas and beans and rice and just fucking
1:26:00
died. You said that.
1:26:02
You said there's like. Taco carts around here and
1:26:06
stuff? I think so.
1:26:08
Do you know where we are? Definitely.
1:26:09
Some good talk. I'd get some tacos.
1:26:11
What? You're doing.
1:26:11
I'm wondering how late they're open.
1:26:12
That's the only thing I'm wondering.
1:26:13
I'm. Sure.
1:26:14
Yeah, pretty late. Yeah, OK, I'm.
1:26:16
Sure. Do we get questions for this?
1:26:17
I can't give you any kind of like.
1:26:19
Recommendation. Yeah, because I'm, I'm from
1:26:21
here, dude. We.
1:26:22
Would have taken anything. We would have listened to Loki.
1:26:24
I don't have any. So you're from like what?
1:26:27
I'm. About 3 hours like north.
1:26:30
Yeah, Texas is too big, man. Yeah.
1:26:32
Yeah, it is big, Yeah, so. We're I don't even know what the
1:26:36
fuck we are right now. We're in Houston.
1:26:38
I know we're in Houston but I'm trying to picture.
1:26:40
It on a map. Because Dallas is above Houston,
1:26:43
right? Yeah, East.
1:26:46
So you or what? Closer to them or no?
1:26:49
Closer to Dallas area. Dallas is like 2.
1:26:52
Hours West of me. OK.
1:26:54
So yeah, yeah. So you're almost like that and
1:26:58
like Louisiana, like East Texas. OK yeah, yeah, y'all get some
1:27:02
crazy ass weather out there. Sometimes I feel like I.
1:27:04
Drove some through some crazy storm once the lightning was
1:27:08
insane. Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of.
1:27:12
Crazy weather, I guess. I mean, I don't know it.
1:27:14
Doesn't seem crazy to me because.
1:27:15
Yeah, yeah. But yeah, there's, I think it's
1:27:17
because it's just so open out here, you know?
1:27:19
What I mean, like, there's not really a lot of mountains and
1:27:21
stuff like that. Yeah, Yeah, I guess that's true
1:27:24
because. When we think about where we
1:27:25
live, you don't, You don't think about.
1:27:27
Mountains. But we are literally on a
1:27:29
mountain. Literally.
1:27:30
It's like, yeah, up and down. But is this?
1:27:32
Our dude, our estate is so. Tiny and fucked like and when I
1:27:36
come to think about it when and we get to come here, there's
1:27:40
room for stuff and people there's traffic at 4:00 which I
1:27:45
noticed was horrible here. Yeah, that was kind of weird.
1:27:48
All of us, I think, like. Really bad, but.
1:27:51
Aside from that, like. The state is massive, dude.
1:27:56
Everything's bigger in Texas. Yeah, dude, nothing's.
1:27:58
Walkable. No, no that.
1:28:00
Sucks. Kind of that's kind.
1:28:01
Of crazy because you could. Walk everywhere.
1:28:04
Not everywhere in New Jersey, but you could walk somewhere
1:28:06
where you could get food. Yeah, like when I was in.
1:28:10
Philly, it was, Oh yeah. It was like, they're like I
1:28:12
we'll just, we'll just park a couple blocks.
1:28:14
And I was like, what's a block? You know, like we're going to go
1:28:18
here. Like we're going to go, but we
1:28:20
need to park over here and we'll just walk to this place.
1:28:22
And it's just very, like, very different than here.
1:28:27
Yeah. Because here you got to drive
1:28:30
anywhere, you know. Very.
1:28:33
Car dependent. Even in our big cities they're
1:28:35
not not not drivable. At least you get to drive this.
1:28:40
Like I needed. A better.
1:28:41
Grocery. Mobile and where's like?
1:28:45
I mean, Carl, you probably know this, but where?
1:28:46
Where do people drift here? Like.
1:28:47
How far is it from here? Like where's the knuckle up
1:28:49
place? Like I think they said it was an
1:28:51
hour, it's an hour. Like north of here?
1:28:54
Oh, OK. So it's kind of yeah.
1:28:56
So it's like 3. Hours.
1:28:57
From my house to, you know, where they do knuckle up?
1:29:01
Speed sports. Speed sports.
1:29:02
Yeah. I like that track, dude.
1:29:04
I like that. Yeah, I like that there's a.
1:29:05
Taco Bell very nearby. I like that there is a gas
1:29:09
station right outside. Of the gate.
1:29:11
Dude, it's honestly so set up to be an easy place to have a track
1:29:17
day. Yeah, they do a really good job,
1:29:19
Jimmy. Knuckle yeah, they really wrote
1:29:21
them good and a bunch of really cool people there.
1:29:25
Dude, I don't know, someone was saying in there.
1:29:27
Before we were talking about cars and I was like, yeah, all
1:29:30
the cool cars are in Texas now. Someone said who Did someone say
1:29:33
they were like so and so has a lot to do with that or
1:29:36
something? Jimmy, Probably Jimmy.
1:29:37
Did they did he say Jimmy? He might have said Jimmy.
1:29:39
Yeah. I mean, he's, he's done a lot
1:29:40
for supporting giving. People, you know, a place to,
1:29:43
yeah, you know, I think create friendships and stuff.
1:29:46
Dude, do you ever look at Jimmy sometimes when he's smiling
1:29:48
like? He's a robot like you're.
1:29:49
Maybe you are the Terminator? He's he's an.
1:29:51
Impressive, dude. Yeah, I love how to dude he's.
1:29:54
He's can accomplish some stuff. Done a lot and.
1:29:57
Also like. I don't know that.
1:29:59
I don't know why, but that's like your bracket.
1:30:01
That was the BN era was like the R32 he had.
1:30:05
He loved that car, Anthony and him.
1:30:07
And. Andrew, another Texas guy with
1:30:11
IS300. They drove up to final bout 2.
1:30:17
So OK, that's Anthony. Yeah, he.
1:30:20
He had a J. ZX90 and he's had a J ZX90 since
1:30:23
I think 2012. So he's like, he had him before
1:30:27
everybody had him, you know? Yeah, wait a minute.
1:30:31
Yeah, 2012. Think about that for a second.
1:30:33
Yeah. Sorry, yeah, I think that line,
1:30:35
I was like, wow, yeah, that's crazy.
1:30:37
It's weird when you have to bring up a time frame from that
1:30:39
far. Away because I feel like it's
1:30:41
2018. I'm like, oh, that was like 5
1:30:42
years. No, that was yeah, it's a while
1:30:45
ago, but 14. Years ago, Jimmy.
1:30:47
And Andrew drove He. Drove his BNR 32, Yeah.
1:30:52
What color was it? That red I think.
1:30:54
Black it was. Oh, yeah.
1:30:55
OK, I remember. Yeah. 2.
1:30:57
Like Wisconsin? Yeah.
1:31:00
For me, I remember that. Yeah, yeah.
1:31:02
What kind of drive is that? That's that's over 20.
1:31:05
It's got to be like we're far. It's got to be well.
1:31:07
Because when I drove. Up from.
1:31:09
Tyler, it was 19. OK, Yeah.
1:31:12
So it's got to be. 20 that's. Why he has no hair now 1000%?
1:31:18
That was one of the jokes I was going to make when I was when.
1:31:20
We see them I'm. Like, So what did you do that
1:31:22
made your hair go away? Yeah, Yeah, yeah, That's great.
1:31:24
Yeah. So and that.
1:31:25
Was like, like I said, final about two.
1:31:27
So that's quite a while ago now. Yeah.
1:31:30
So yeah. So was everyone just like like I
1:31:33
don't get how. I don't get how areas just all
1:31:36
of a sudden have all these sick cars.
1:31:40
It must be like some events like Knuckle Up I think like.
1:31:43
People meeting other people who are interested in that and them
1:31:49
doing things to their cars and getting inspired by each other.
1:31:51
I think that has a lot to do with it 'cause you know, it's
1:31:54
the like, that's where people congregate.
1:31:56
Like I'm sure a lot of like the events in y'all's area, like
1:31:59
people are building like similar style cars and stuff like that.
1:32:03
Yeah. Missile cars.
1:32:04
Well, yeah, it it. Starts.
1:32:06
In. Like.
1:32:07
As one, one person starts one thing and they find out it works
1:32:12
and then they all gravitate to the one thing.
1:32:15
Versus here, I feel like even earlier when we were talking
1:32:18
with some of the other Oblivion guys, the the car meet that we
1:32:21
were talking about, I forgot what it was of something by a
1:32:24
pizza place. It's a low rider meet, kind of
1:32:27
low rider swingers, like a bunch of different builds, like really
1:32:31
different. But you can rock up in like this
1:32:34
like a like a drift car or something low and just cause
1:32:39
it's different, it's kind of the same.
1:32:41
It's still the same mentality. A lot of work went into that,
1:32:44
just like a lot of work went into that.
1:32:46
And different taste, Yeah, but still the same mold, you know
1:32:50
what I mean? Well, I mean, there's other.
1:32:52
The cloth is the same. There's other.
1:32:53
Like, you know, types of drifting here in Texas, you
1:32:58
know, there's a lot of like the pro am drifting people are into
1:33:01
that and stuff and you know, but I I I really like what's going
1:33:06
on in Houston. I have for a long time.
1:33:08
I think there's a lot of a lot of great cars here.
1:33:10
I think they all look really cool and people driving pretty
1:33:14
well and stuff. Yeah, dude, the Houston the
1:33:16
knuckle of shit was sick. Dude, when the shit, when that
1:33:19
started happening, I was like, wait, what's going on in Texas,
1:33:21
man? All these cars are fucking
1:33:23
coming out of nowhere, but you went to sleep.
1:33:25
Well, yeah, yeah. But I was.
1:33:27
Talking to Anthony about that on the way.
1:33:28
How long? Has.
1:33:29
It been you've been my car. Yeah, working on your car now 2.
1:33:33
2. 1000, The end of 2000. 19 is when.
1:33:36
The motor blew up. So that's kind of when it was
1:33:38
really like 2020 is when I just kind of gave up.
1:33:41
Gave up. Yeah, well, actually the engine.
1:33:45
Was. We the engine was.
1:33:47
Done by like 2021. OK, maybe.
1:33:51
So the engine is like done, it's just the car.
1:33:53
And then so you're working on Yeah, I just snowballed.
1:33:56
Like I was like, oh, I'll just. Do this while it's out.
1:33:58
And then I was like, oh, I might as well paint the whole interior
1:34:00
too, while I'm painting the engine Bay because that makes
1:34:02
sense. Logan I came to the shop one
1:34:04
week. And there was a fucking
1:34:06
rotisserie outside that's really cool.
1:34:08
I was like. What is this?
1:34:11
40SX. Is it?
1:34:12
OK. To keep one of those on a road,
1:34:15
we're gonna find him right here 'cause when I Jack.
1:34:17
The front of my car up. Yeah, I.
1:34:19
Know just it's. Like, yeah, you know, so it's
1:34:21
like, so. We put it.
1:34:22
OK, to are you gonna have like a U-shaped?
1:34:24
I might 2:40 So we put a. Being there for so long.
1:34:29
It's not even ours. Mine's not even mounted right
1:34:32
either. Like it's uneven.
1:34:33
So like, you can't flip it easily.
1:34:35
Like, you know, when you see a car on a rotisserie, you can
1:34:37
just like, fucking flip it with one hand somehow.
1:34:40
Yeah. Ours is like, like chaos.
1:34:42
If you do, they're like uneven. So when you go to rotate it,
1:34:44
it's kind of fighting itself a little bit.
1:34:46
So you kind of got to swing on it.
1:34:47
What, what makes you want to put it up?
1:34:49
You are you doing are. You literally under.
1:34:51
I literally got the rotisserie for a deal and I didn't think
1:34:54
they were. Going to ship it to me.
1:34:55
That's the that that, that, That is the part I was waiting.
1:34:57
T mood or rotisserie? No, no.
1:35:00
Eastwood had a sale. And this motherfucker couldn't
1:35:02
help. I'll tell you exactly what it
1:35:04
was I I got an Eastwood. Wholesale account and I was
1:35:07
like, oh, cool. And then I was like like on
1:35:10
there and I type, I was like rotisserie.
1:35:12
I was like, they're going to ship this shit for free.
1:35:14
I was like no way. And so they gave me a discount
1:35:17
and it said free shipping or something.
1:35:18
And I was like, that ain't going to work by now.
1:35:20
And then like in two days she shows up and I'm like, fuck, I
1:35:24
really got for a deal. No sales tax, nothing.
1:35:26
I remember, I don't remember the price, but it's really fairly
1:35:29
priced. And I was like, I don't know, I
1:35:31
could probably see myself using that one day.
1:35:32
And then it showed up and I was like, all right, well, I mean,
1:35:36
it's here. And then I why did we do that?
1:35:38
I guess, Oh, just because it was annoying just to fucking go
1:35:41
underneath, have it on Jack stands.
1:35:42
And because I couldn't, I couldn't put it on a lift.
1:35:44
So let's put it on a rotisserie bro.
1:35:46
Like what? I can't say.
1:35:48
Are you lifts at the shop? Are you doing like?
1:35:50
Are you like spraying the? Underside of it, like with like
1:35:54
yeah, coating or something. I'm probably doing Raptor liner.
1:35:58
OK, so this stuff's tenable. That's really cool.
1:36:01
Yeah, I. Know.
1:36:02
I have a plan for the inside. I don't know if I'm gonna do it
1:36:04
or not cuz I Are you gonna do on the inside?
1:36:08
I wanted to. Do pretty much like yours is on
1:36:10
the inside that. Was the original plan, except
1:36:12
now I'm like, I could Raptor line and tint the pan, you know
1:36:16
what I mean? In the back that way it's a
1:36:17
little bit still usable. Yeah, but.
1:36:19
But I'm also like on the fence because I'd rather it be, you
1:36:22
know, the old school way. But I'm like, I don't know that
1:36:26
that I'm not locked down for yet.
1:36:29
But yeah, I don't know, it's just a lot of, it's a lot of
1:36:31
shit. I don't even enjoy working on
1:36:35
it. I'm always doing shit for my
1:36:38
business, so I'm not. My priorities are not on my car.
1:36:41
And then it's just snowballed, snowballed, snowballed.
1:36:43
And now, now you have a 350Z. Now I have a 350Z.
1:36:46
Before you know it, you got AV two.
1:36:48
Damn. We really care that was.
1:36:50
Perfect. God damn.
1:36:53
And and you know what's crazy? I saw him fitting an Origin kit
1:36:55
the other day and I was like, he's going to hate it, he's
1:36:58
going to hate it and guess what, not going.
1:37:00
To want to do it it. Didn't fit right.
1:37:02
He had to call David Bob, allegedly.
1:37:04
He got it, He got it good. Yeah, it's almost like David
1:37:07
Bob. Has done that a lot.
1:37:08
It's almost like he made his own body.
1:37:12
David Bob does a. Futago.
1:37:13
Line for the. ZN 6, it's like a it was before
1:37:17
the body kits came out for that car.
1:37:19
Yeah, yeah, He was like the first one, honestly.
1:37:23
That's such an awesome. Story because he made that's one
1:37:26
of those things where you saw it happening and you're like, did
1:37:29
he just make a body kit and then it started being produced and
1:37:32
you saw your buddy really. Yeah, get in there and you're
1:37:36
like, holy. Crap, now you have friends who
1:37:37
are. Running his body kit and it's
1:37:39
just like another cool little little segue, like how do you
1:37:43
feel about those cars? ZN 6.
1:37:46
I feel like I'm going to be working on a lot.
1:37:47
Of them, hopefully. Oh my gosh, yeah.
1:37:49
Because I mean. You know I'm trying to.
1:37:52
Start up the body, work on the side and.
1:37:55
Stuff like that start. Doing other people's cars now.
1:37:57
Mine's kind of wrapped up, but that's been a lot of the.
1:38:02
A lot of the people who've been. Interested in having work done,
1:38:04
have those cars, you know, so I've, you know, they're not like
1:38:11
I would. I don't want, I don't want, I
1:38:14
don't want one. But.
1:38:16
I think they're like one of the better options for like a newer
1:38:20
car, yeah, in terms of styling. I also I think they look.
1:38:24
All right, yes, but this is maybe a weird reason to like
1:38:27
them. But when you do work on them for
1:38:28
paint, I can bust one down pretty fast.
1:38:31
Yeah, they're very nice to work on.
1:38:33
They're really easy to work on. Take the bumper off, fenders
1:38:36
off, headlights off, the tail lights come out, the door
1:38:39
handles come out, the mirrors come out real nice.
1:38:42
Now you have the whole door. Nice, simple car.
1:38:45
Very simple car. And it's.
1:38:46
Weird to think that that's a brand.
1:38:47
New car, 'cause when I'm working on it, you go to take off S13
1:38:51
door card, right? You do the little screw by the
1:38:54
inside of the door handle. There's like the one for the
1:38:56
actual door handle, the fucking handle for the window.
1:38:59
And then the underneath pops out and you slide it up like I'm
1:39:03
forgetting some things, like the other screw inside of the door,
1:39:05
like closer to the dash. But that's literally all it
1:39:08
took. I was ready to 'cause that was
1:39:11
the newest car I've ever had to take it apart.
1:39:13
I have to take apart. And I was like, God, this is
1:39:15
going to be horrible. Wait a minute.
1:39:17
It was pretty easy, Yeah, great car for that, even working on.
1:39:20
The ZA Little. Bit with the outside I'm.
1:39:22
Like I, I kind of fucking hate it 'cause it's like all the
1:39:25
plastic clips like and all that and then ZN six kind of same
1:39:28
with the bump bumpers and stuff, right?
1:39:30
With like no dude, I can get that OEM bumper off.
1:39:33
And like but like the way they mount like they weird.
1:39:37
Oh, those weird things that connect to the.
1:39:38
Fenders if you. Had a yellow snap on body clip.
1:39:41
Popper, you'd be mint. Yeah, honestly, Frankie gave me
1:39:44
one for Christmas 'cause my. Car's yellow.
1:39:46
Oh, OK. It literally looks like a.
1:39:48
Switchblade, dude, I'm talking. About like the bumper retainers?
1:39:50
Yeah, they like. The tabs on the bumper like snap
1:39:53
inside. Oh yeah, that one.
1:39:54
Yeah, like that sucks and. What else?
1:39:58
I mean stuff on the Z whereas like these cars are like bolted,
1:40:01
yeah. Yeah, it's just like, so dude,
1:40:03
there's a weird touch with it. I know you know.
1:40:05
What I'm talking about to pop them off.
1:40:07
Oh yeah, it's a 1 Swift. Yeah, you have.
1:40:09
To have some. Confidence.
1:40:11
Yeah, yeah. Dude, it's it's you have to
1:40:13
pull. On it, yeah.
1:40:15
Because the idea is you want to break that.
1:40:17
Retainer and not tear the bumper or the tabs.
1:40:20
Yeah, so you spray some like glass cleaner in there and help
1:40:24
Lube it up a little bit. Yeah, I just don't like the clip
1:40:27
thing bro. Yeah.
1:40:29
Like even the bat dude, the battery.
1:40:31
Tray area. It's like, oh, you just got to
1:40:33
take off these 10 clips and then take off the other 12 and then
1:40:37
you can get the battery out. And it's like, bro, how about we
1:40:39
just put the battery somewhere where I can get it out?
1:40:42
Like what? It's just little.
1:40:44
Things like that where I'm like. These old cars are so nice to
1:40:47
work on. Yeah, they are different for
1:40:48
sure. Yeah, I mean I.
1:40:50
Pretty much only work on modern vehicles day-to-day.
1:40:53
You know, working in a collision repair, I mean when you I guess
1:40:57
when you're like doing OEM replacement.
1:40:59
Stuff the newer cars are fine because yeah well, and if you
1:41:03
break that stuff, insurance company.
1:41:05
Pays for it, Yeah. And it's like you are one of
1:41:08
the. Smartest people too.
1:41:10
You know, you get to practice. No, I mean, that's the thing.
1:41:12
It's I got to go practice. What I wanted to do for the cars
1:41:15
I like on cars that I didn't really like.
1:41:22
On someone elses. Time, but you had to do it
1:41:25
because, you know, learning. Like body work and.
1:41:27
Learning paint, it's expensive to even learn how to do it.
1:41:31
You make a mistake and you're paying for Yeah.
1:41:33
And material and if you're paying a car.
1:41:36
For your buddy or something like that, you kind of feel bad
1:41:38
having to asking to buy more stuff or even, you know, pay you
1:41:43
more or something like that. So if you're learning that in a
1:41:46
environment where, you know, an insurance company who likes
1:41:49
those, you know, is paying for it, Yeah, it's like it, it, it,
1:41:53
it takes away some of that, you know, hindrance, I guess.
1:41:58
Yeah. So and you said you're starting?
1:42:01
Side. Work Body Shop Ideal or body?
1:42:04
What was it? Body service ideal, Yeah.
1:42:07
That's I like the name. Thanks.
1:42:09
Yeah, we. Just me and.
1:42:12
One of my my partner from D Roam, his name is Garrett.
1:42:16
He he works for the same company.
1:42:17
I do 9 to 5 doing body work. He's going to be working on cars
1:42:20
with me. He's pretty good too.
1:42:23
That's huge, just having another person that you can trust their
1:42:27
quality of. Work as well.
1:42:28
Oh my God, yeah, he's he's good. And we rented a.
1:42:32
Or we're releasing a like a 3000 square foot shop now.
1:42:36
We're going, yeah, we're going to eventually build a booth in
1:42:38
there. But we want to work on, we want
1:42:40
to work on D cars, you know? Yeah.
1:42:43
And. Do paint jobs and, you know, do
1:42:47
stuff like I want to do what you do, you know, that's what I'm
1:42:50
trying to get to dude on the side, you know, I mean, I do.
1:42:53
A dirty Dick. You're you're in the.
1:42:54
Once you have the space, that's. Like, the biggest hurdle for us,
1:42:57
there's not really room. Yeah.
1:42:59
And then they come here. Dude, I know you've been passing
1:43:02
garages and shit. Like no.
1:43:03
No, no, it's not garages. Go, go next time.
1:43:06
Next time we're we're driving somewhere.
1:43:08
Go count the amount of collusion shops you pass.
1:43:10
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, at least in this area.
1:43:12
I don't even why, why is this many year there's a lot of cars,
1:43:16
people are not walking places and drive a lot people.
1:43:18
Are wrecking their cars. You see the traffic?
1:43:20
People mess up their cars here, man.
1:43:22
Dude, Yeah, wow. Because there's a collision
1:43:24
shop. Everywhere and then back home,
1:43:26
it's like you've got to dig to find them.
1:43:30
Yeah, yeah, New Jersey's a like that's.
1:43:33
A dying trade and I'm really oh it.
1:43:35
Is I'm I'm so. So so.
1:43:38
Grateful for the people who have managed to give me a customer
1:43:41
base and give me your, those people are essentially like
1:43:45
making me live or, or letting me live well.
1:43:47
And there's a, you know, going to a body.
1:43:50
Shop or something like that. There's a lot of there.
1:43:52
It's difficult still, like when you have a drift car.
1:43:56
And like, let's say you. Want to have this weird nerdy
1:43:59
stuff done to your quarter panel?
1:44:01
How do you explain that to some kind of you know, I know coal is
1:44:04
having. Issues with that?
1:44:06
Too trying to find it. And then, you know, there's also
1:44:08
like the the quality thing, you know, like, yeah, I want this to
1:44:11
look like nice. But you know, it's also it's a
1:44:13
drift car. So, you know, you all know that
1:44:15
drift cars like the the paint and body is a is a consumable
1:44:19
item. So, so the, the, the time and
1:44:24
effort and money put into that, you know, like it's hard to
1:44:28
explain that to someone who's just working in a Body Shop.
1:44:31
And the second you say, oh, it's a drift car, it's going to get
1:44:33
beat up. Those are your famous last
1:44:35
words. They'll typically which I think,
1:44:37
I think. Cole was getting some pretty
1:44:38
ridiculous like quotes. Yeah, it's hard to find.
1:44:42
Yeah, they want them out the door.
1:44:44
And I'm going to get it. If you're fixing a, if you're
1:44:47
fixing a, a bumper for a insurance company and you're
1:44:50
making, you know, 3434 grand off, replacing that bumper on
1:44:55
that customer's car, why would you want to bring a car in that
1:44:59
you got to take everything off. It's going to take up a bunch of
1:45:01
space and not to mention the customer might be very.
1:45:04
Anal about it. You got to deal with that too,
1:45:06
Yeah. It's not a money maker.
1:45:08
So having a place. Like that is it's hard.
1:45:12
It's hard to you know, D specific.
1:45:14
I guess body shops are are, it's a there's a good vein for that.
1:45:20
I think the guy that Cole went to is.
1:45:23
Another good friend of ours, but it's the Jake and Dylan.
1:45:25
They own their family owns a Mako and a fun thing that I
1:45:31
didn't know about Mako is that they're all family owned.
1:45:33
So you could go to 1 Mako and it's not the same level of
1:45:35
quality as you go to another Mako.
1:45:36
Makos are always the place to go.
1:45:38
I feel like as long as you. Know the people like and I know
1:45:42
and you got to be, you know. Yeah, like.
1:45:45
You got to be, you got to, if you're, you're paying less for
1:45:47
something, you got to, you know, as long as they're transparent
1:45:49
about like why you're paying less, you know, you got to be
1:45:52
happy with that kind of stuff. We're not taking this off.
1:45:54
We're going to tape this, you know, but I'm really glad that.
1:45:58
Jake did that because I I know it looks fantastic.
1:46:01
This car looks great even if. It's a.
1:46:03
Mako, which I'm not even going to really.
1:46:06
Yeah, I don't think it. I'm not even going to really
1:46:08
group it at this point because. I know.
1:46:10
The level of work that Jake likes to do, or Dylan, I don't
1:46:13
know who painted it, which one of them, but I know the level.
1:46:16
And there's not a doubt in my mind that that car was going to
1:46:19
turn out great. The color match looks great and,
1:46:21
like, it looks awesome. Like it came out awesome.
1:46:23
It looks like a fucking fake car.
1:46:26
Yeah, it does. It's like a toy.
1:46:27
Yeah, it looks good. So I was like.
1:46:28
God damn kind of looks like this.
1:46:30
One honestly. Those two cars together would be
1:46:33
fucking. Sick it'd be.
1:46:34
Awesome. Oh my gosh, that's cool I think.
1:46:36
Didn't Cole post a? Picture and was like.
1:46:38
Me. And what it might have been this
1:46:41
and another green car or something like that.
1:46:42
He was like maybe us in the future or something.
1:46:44
Wasn't that like a doppelgang or two of his car or some shit that
1:46:46
we saw. I.
1:46:47
Think it was in the chat. What of Cole's car?
1:46:50
There was like another one. That looked.
1:46:51
Exactly. The same and it was just done or
1:46:53
something they were saying like what did they say?
1:46:54
Like the the Cole. Man in 180.
1:46:58
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Because like, it's weird that
1:47:00
they gave it a it's. Like, yo, this looks like the
1:47:04
Cole man in 180. Yeah.
1:47:07
Like what? So are you, you're going to plan
1:47:09
on doing this part time or you you're trying to do this full
1:47:12
time? Well, what we really want to do
1:47:14
like I needed. A space for my car, my friend
1:47:17
needed a space for his car. My other friend needed a space
1:47:19
for his car. So we wanted a space for our
1:47:21
cars. But we want to do, I mean, at
1:47:24
least enough work to like cover the rent there.
1:47:26
That's what we're shooting for. But also, you know, I, I do want
1:47:32
to, like, work on cars like this, you know?
1:47:37
Yeah, Yeah. So when, you know, wherever that
1:47:39
went would be fine. But I do have a limited amount
1:47:42
of, like, you know, free time with my 9:00 to 5:00.
1:47:44
And then, you know, being with my family is really important.
1:47:47
Yeah. I mean, we did the same shit
1:47:49
with the shop, though. We had three.
1:47:50
People splitting it and then it became what it is.
1:47:53
You know what I mean? So yeah, my house, the garage is
1:47:56
really small. It's about half of this, I'd
1:48:00
say, probably a little shorter too.
1:48:01
So it's not really somewhere to work on a car.
1:48:03
So I need somewhere to like store my car.
1:48:05
And then my friend Garrett, who's my partner in the, he
1:48:10
also, he doesn't have a garage and he's about to finish
1:48:14
painting his car another 180. And so he's going to need
1:48:20
somewhere to put it. So it and we both have been
1:48:22
talking about doing body work. So it kind of all was like, OK,
1:48:25
let's do this now. And then found a space.
1:48:27
And and then also Anthony needs a he has he has a JZX.
1:48:34
Yeah, yeah, he has like a lot of them.
1:48:36
I don't really. Know.
1:48:38
He's got a lot of. I got to ask thinking about
1:48:40
changing or. Something I don't know, he's.
1:48:43
Yeah, but he's got, you know, JZX, so he's gonna have a he's
1:48:47
been working outside on those things, you know, since I met
1:48:50
him. So he's gonna have a space to
1:48:52
work inside on stuff. Now.
1:48:53
This is gonna work. Yeah, I hope so.
1:48:55
This is gonna work. Yeah, I hope so.
1:48:56
It's gonna. Be awesome.
1:48:57
We were gonna paint the. Floors Green I.
1:48:59
Was just gonna. Bring this stuff, but we to make
1:49:02
it look like the garage just in Japan.
1:49:04
Yeah, but. We got to bring some customers.
1:49:06
In So we're going to have to wait until we're we're going to
1:49:08
hope we're hoping we can like move everything out and do that
1:49:11
when we put the booth in. But yeah, it's such a fucking
1:49:14
hassle, people. You're going to take photos of
1:49:16
this car in that. Shop and people are going to no
1:49:19
idea where that is right there yeah it's going to be like what
1:49:22
is it the. Invisible Boatmobile from
1:49:25
SpongeBob. I'm going to lose it or I'm
1:49:27
going to get in it and just disappear.
1:49:29
Yeah, dude. Is there anything else that you?
1:49:33
Wanted to share. Put out there in the world.
1:49:35
Before I'm I'm going to say we yeah, hang out.
1:49:38
We got. Some more, we got some shit.
1:49:40
To film, anyway. Yeah.
1:49:41
Yeah. Anything.
1:49:42
Else you wanted to put out there.
1:49:43
Yeah, body service. Ideal dude.
1:49:46
Yeah, yeah. Let me.
1:49:48
Look out for that if. There's one thing that anybody's
1:49:50
listening to this and. You're pretty much ready to take
1:49:52
work on like. ASAP or your Yeah I'm open to
1:49:56
scheduling. Some stuff out.
1:49:57
OK, definitely. I mean, like I said, there's two
1:49:59
of us and we're, you know, well, we didn't, you know, bringing
1:50:03
stuff in as soon as we were next week we're having people come in
1:50:05
and we'll have the compressor there.
1:50:07
And OK, right now when we don't have the booth, we'll probably
1:50:10
be taking stuff up to the shops we work at and spraying them in
1:50:12
the booths there if we need stuff.
1:50:14
But we should be good for body work soon.
1:50:16
So yeah, we're how would how would people reach out to you if
1:50:19
they were? They can.
1:50:21
They can. They can just talk to me on
1:50:24
Instagram or we do have an Instagram for the shop.
1:50:30
But yeah, either one of those, yeah, we'll put that in the in
1:50:33
the details and everything. Like that Dude, that's a hard
1:50:35
acronym too. I took it to.
1:50:37
BSI like because, you know, yeah, you're very.
1:50:41
Professional to the to the normals.
1:50:43
You get an easy bumper job one day you can't be like, I don't
1:50:46
want to fucking do that shit. Might keep the lights on.
1:50:50
You know what? I.
1:50:51
Mean, right, right, right. But dude.
1:50:52
Thank you so much for spending some time.
1:50:53
With us, of course, yeah. Thank you.
1:50:54
I hope we get to spend a little bit more hang.
1:50:56
Out with everybody. Else, which is great, but dude
1:50:59
Logan, you're a fucking yeah nice meeting you, man dude Yeah,
1:51:02
like it's been a. Pleasure.
1:51:03
To talk. Yeah, I've been in a group chat
1:51:05
for like 5 years so. I guess it's about time.
1:51:07
Yeah, I didn't. I was like because.
1:51:11
The name got tossed around and. I was like, wait, I think this
1:51:13
guy. Follows me.
1:51:14
I want to talk to him so that I followed you back.
1:51:16
We start talking about IS300 pedals and then he goes.
1:51:20
I think we're doing a podcast. Yeah.
1:51:21
The first one's going to be Logan.
1:51:23
Yeah. I was like, wait, dude, I was.
1:51:24
Just talking to this guy so. Dude, thank you so much it's
1:51:27
been a pleasure. This has been another episode of
1:51:30
Faction After Hours. First one of the series from
1:51:32
Texas. The Texas series.
1:51:35
Yeah, I can't believe we're here.
1:51:36
And I can't believe we got to do this.
1:51:38
This is fucking awesome, thank you so much.
1:51:40
See ya peace. That was fun.
1:51:53
What happened to the camera there, Eddie?
1:51:55
Oh. Yeah, it cut.
1:51:57
Out around like 14 minutes. Well, yeah, we're going to have
1:52:00
to fix that. I don't know.
1:52:01
I don't know if we can. Fix that, because I'm beginning
1:52:03
to think it might be these cameras.
1:52:05
What do you think? I think.
1:52:08
It's something to do with it. Recording so.
1:52:10
Maybe, yeah. I don't know if we.
1:52:13
Update our fucking recording. Situation maybe?
1:52:15
Yeah, yeah, some, just some like backup.
1:52:18
Yeah, we got some. We got some more stuff in the.
1:52:21
Works. So hopefully our recording
1:52:23
situation gets a little bit better for the next round of
1:52:26
podcast. But what do you think about
1:52:28
Logan? Really cool dude, real chill He.
1:52:31
Is real chill, yeah, and very meticulous.
1:52:33
What? Is, yeah, yeah.
1:52:35
He's super meticulous and he's. He's kind of a talker.
1:52:37
He made it seem like he wasn't going to have anything to say,
1:52:40
but he carried the conversation on extremely well.
1:52:42
So yeah, I don't, I couldn't say more good things about him.
1:52:46
I I thought that whole thing was.
1:52:47
And he drove 4 hours away. Yeah.
1:52:50
Like they made it seem like it was nothing.
1:52:52
Yeah. Which maybe it's not in Texas.
1:52:56
Yeah, he's just bigger there. Everything is so.
1:52:58
Far if you. Look, did you look?
1:53:00
At the map when we were there, I looked at the map once.
1:53:02
I was like, whoa, yeah. Like, first of all, I didn't
1:53:04
know Houston was that close. To the fucking.
1:53:06
Ocean. The Gulf of America, as it's
1:53:08
called. I didn't know we were right.
1:53:11
There but. Yeah, it's pretty.
1:53:12
Cool. So make sure to check out Logan
1:53:16
on Instagram. So what we got, we got.
1:53:18
Three things here we got. Logan Davenport we got at D
1:53:22
under score realm. That's his drift team.
1:53:24
Awesome cars, beautiful cars. They don't do too much drifting,
1:53:28
he said. But they I mean, he's about to
1:53:31
because you can't build that whole car and not drift.
1:53:33
So that's going to get crazy. And then at body service ideal,
1:53:39
not too many subscribers, not too many followers on this
1:53:41
Instagram yet. He literally just made it.
1:53:43
But they've been in the works, the planning this shop reveal.
1:53:48
So make sure to follow them. If you're in the Texas area,
1:53:51
especially eastern northeastern Texas, you definitely want to
1:53:56
write that down. Or, you know, remember body,
1:53:59
body service ideal because I feel like that's going to be the
1:54:02
place to bring your drift car, you know what I mean?
1:54:04
I mean, from everything he said. So yeah.
1:54:09
That's that. Guys, don't forget we're doing a
1:54:12
raffle every month on our website.
1:54:15
You can call it a raffle, you can call it a giveaway.
1:54:16
I like to call it a giveaway, but I think technically it's a
1:54:18
raffle. Sweepstakes.
1:54:20
It is Sweepstakes. Yeah.
1:54:21
It's. It's one or the other, but.
1:54:23
We call it a raffle or a giveaway.
1:54:25
So what we're doing this month is we are giving away a pair of
1:54:31
front and rear bash bars from Limitless Auto Fab.
1:54:34
Now the Limitless Auto Fab is basically the new they're,
1:54:38
they're like leading the charge when it comes to bash bars for
1:54:40
our cars right now. So check them out, check them
1:54:43
out on our website. Every $5 spent gets you an
1:54:45
entry. Factory Motorsports merch and
1:54:47
products gets you double entries.
1:54:49
So this will be going for the whole month of February.
1:54:52
And yeah, also I should mention if people actually know their
1:54:57
products, the dash bars will be powder coated as well.
1:55:00
So you're getting like you're pretty much getting everything
1:55:03
and if there's options on there, you're going to be given the
1:55:06
option of you know what you want.
1:55:07
So what are they? I know you're looking at some of
1:55:10
them right now. They got like BMW bash bars,
1:55:12
they got S chassis stuff, 350Z bash bars and a Miata and a
1:55:18
Miata too. Yeah, so.
1:55:19
They got some cars already. I was speaking to them recently.
1:55:23
They are going to be releasing some new products soon.
1:55:25
I don't think I can talk about any right now, but hopefully we
1:55:29
get the OK to talk about them during this month.
1:55:31
And yeah, all I can say is stay tuned to that.
1:55:37
What else we got going on? We got some new parts in the
1:55:40
shop and the. On the site, yeah, yeah, it's
1:55:43
yeah, We got new parts on a. Site every week now.
1:55:46
Ken's been adding a lot. And Malcolm.
1:55:48
Yeah. A lot of GK Tech stuff, right?
1:55:50
It looks like yeah, GK Tech just released a bunch of products.
1:55:53
So we're trying to keep up to date on those.
1:55:55
I believe there was a lot of IS300 stuff.
1:55:58
So I, I didn't tell Carl yet, but I think he recently was just
1:56:02
talking about how they didn't have too much for that car.
1:56:04
So I think Ken told him. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:56:06
So he's going to be happy. To hear that.
1:56:08
But we also added limitless auto fat bash bars, the ones for the
1:56:12
E36, we added those to the site as well.
1:56:15
Cusco rear subframe brace for random Forester random.
1:56:21
We're trying to add more Subaru parts, honestly.
1:56:23
So if you guys have Subarus and you want us to add some stuff,
1:56:26
shoot us an e-mail and we'll we'll try to get to that.
1:56:29
And of course we got words and stuff here as well.
1:56:30
We're placing the order for the container or it already was
1:56:33
placed, but it's it's happening today or early next week that we
1:56:37
get confirmation. So yeah, if you want to
1:56:39
pre-order anything, now would be the time for origin as well.
1:56:42
And if you can't afford your parts right now, a firm's got
1:56:44
your back. Don't forget that during
1:56:46
checkout, a firm will get you covered if you don't have the
1:56:50
finances to afford what you need now.
1:56:54
YouTube Eddie. I heard you got a YouTube going
1:56:56
on. Yeah.
1:56:57
We've been I've. Been slacking a little because
1:57:01
last week or this week we're. Kind of.
1:57:03
Hectic with the scheduling. Yeah, things are getting kind of
1:57:06
crazy over. Here we're kind of.
1:57:08
Turning, I don't know if you've noticed this.
1:57:09
We're kind of turning into a production company and less of a
1:57:11
shop and I don't know if that's good.
1:57:15
Or bad I? Would rather do both but there's
1:57:18
only so much time in the day. What kind of videos you got or
1:57:22
what kind of? What's the last video you put
1:57:23
up? Last few we did was the. 350Z
1:57:28
OK, making some progress on that car.
1:57:31
So I think we just on the end of that video, we just put the new
1:57:34
RAD support or OK in the front. I heard you got a Part 2 of
1:57:37
that. Video though, yes yeah, that
1:57:39
video was a long video, I believe. 9 hours of footage.
1:57:44
Yeah I had to cut. Down yeah, that was multiple
1:57:46
days of editing so if you guys. Could go check out that video,
1:57:49
That would be great. That was our last 350Z video,
1:57:52
but we'll have more coming. We'll have a lot of videos from
1:57:55
this trip coming as well, so make sure to check those out and
1:57:58
snap, we have some snap on videos coming out of.
1:58:00
Course, there's one dropping tonight.
1:58:01
Yeah, so. Snap on.
1:58:03
Videos try to get. Those out almost every other
1:58:05
week. If you guys are into tools,
1:58:08
anything like that. If you guys are mechanics
1:58:09
yourself, make sure to check out our YouTube.
1:58:11
We're always on the Snap on truck filming.
1:58:15
Yeah. And last but not least, as far
1:58:18
as our stuff goes, we have a Patreon.
1:58:20
So if you guys are looking for a way to support us or this
1:58:23
podcast so that we can keep travelling around the country
1:58:25
getting you new, new episodes. So what if we go internationally
1:58:28
one day? That's in saying Tokyo or Japan.
1:58:32
Japan, we're going to have to get someone to translate.
1:58:34
Oh God, you know it's possible though when you think about it.
1:58:38
Like someone to translate. We have Yousef.
1:58:40
You can. You know what?
1:58:42
I mean like it is possible so. But yeah, if you guys want to
1:58:45
see us go internationally, that's only going to happen with
1:58:48
your support. So check out our Patreon.
1:58:49
We got 3 tiers there, $5.10 dollar, $15 tier.
1:58:54
The honestly the $5 tier gets you pretty much everything.
1:58:57
So yeah, it's really only $5. It's the $15 tier will get you
1:59:02
merch bundles when we release merch.
1:59:04
So that's the benefit there. The $10 tier, do you know what
1:59:08
that does it add anything yet? Yeah, you get the basically the
1:59:11
YouTube videos. Ad free and uncensored.
1:59:14
OK, so the $10 the middle tier gets you YouTube.
1:59:17
Content uncensored with no ads uncensored is worth it,
1:59:20
honestly. Yeah.
1:59:22
Yeah, that. That's going to be unhinged.
1:59:25
So yeah, if you want to check out our YouTube content, but you
1:59:27
don't want to hear all the censors and the ads and all that
1:59:29
bullshit, you're definitely going to want to check out our
1:59:32
Patreon. And yeah, that's pretty much it,
1:59:36
guys. We have a bunch of sponsors
1:59:38
helping us out with this podcast, so we just want to talk
1:59:40
about them real quick, real quick.
1:59:42
But East Coast Drift School Man is our longest sponsor and the
1:59:47
one that we probably benefit the most because of driving.
1:59:51
Yeah, yeah. So.
1:59:54
East Coast Drift School Raceway. Park Chris Knapp is the guy
1:59:57
you're going to want to talk to. You can find him on Instagram at
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East Coast Drift School. But all your drifting needs
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pretty much if you need seat time, if you're, if you're a pro
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know what I mean, if you're any anything, anything to do with
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drifting, hit him up. He'll get you in there.
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He'll get you the seat time you need.
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He'll show you the ropes. And he'll make it very, very
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easy. And not to mention it's pretty
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fucking affordable considering, you know, the prices of
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everything these days. They could give you like
2:00:24
different layouts of the track too, right?
2:00:27
I don't know. I mean, you might it probably.
2:00:29
Not your first time out. Let's put it out.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. You ain't going out there for
2:00:32
yay. Chris, we're going to we're.
2:00:34
Going to do XDC layout on the road course, He's going to be
2:00:37
like you're going into a parking lot and you're doing Donuts.
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Yeah. So probably not that, but yeah,
2:00:41
if you're if you're a pro am guy and you're trying to like, you
2:00:44
know, get some serious practice time in and you're not too far
2:00:47
from Raceway Park, he's the guy to talk to.
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He'll he'll probably make something happen for you.
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Chase Bays one of the best, best fluid transfer production
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companies I know of. No, but Chase Base makes a lot
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So anything you need is going to be on there.
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And I've seen a lot of cool stuff lately, man.
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Chase Base is always innovating and coming up with new stuff
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that kind of, I don't want to say it, but it's kind of
2:01:50
grassroots. It's kind of aimed at the
2:01:53
grassroots a little bit. I feel like Roots oriented,
2:01:55
yeah. They make a lot of stuff that
2:01:56
like we could benefit from not being pro guys and it's all
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fairly priced, so. But they always have some more
2:02:06
serious shit too, like their brake booster delete kit, stuff
2:02:10
like that. Like that's more track stuff.
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So they cover both ends of the spectrum.
2:02:15
I just know Chases, you know, he's a grassroots drifter
2:02:17
himself, so, you know, it makes sense.
2:02:21
Another one of our sponsors is Ramstead MFG.
2:02:23
They make the the wheel fitment tool that we've been using in
2:02:26
the shop. I'm actually going to be using
2:02:27
it for the Z soon to see what we can fit on there.
2:02:30
But yeah, we sell those, one of our top selling products right
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now, honestly on the website. So if you need one of those, you
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want to check it out, make sure to grab one off our website
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before you order wheels because you know, the last thing you
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want to do is order wheels that don't fit.
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Auto fab of. Course is a sponsor of this of
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is all you need to make sure you got all your multivitamins, your
2:03:24
probiotics, prebiotics, all that stuff is good to go and you're
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covered. You, you took that too, right?
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And you tried it out? I tried like a couple days.
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Yeah, we're. Yeah.
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So we got to. We got to.
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Get you hooked up on that, you know, and then we got to we got
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to get Carl back on AG one because he ever since he's been
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off that shit, he's been a little when he was on it, it was
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a. Little bit better when he's off
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I. Don't know, I don't know if I
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like him when he's off AG 1. So but yeah, check out AG1 if
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you want to get your your health in order.
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That's the first step to take honestly, and it's the easiest.
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So check out AG one. And last but not least, Wrecked
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Magazine, guys, Wrecked Magazine is a magazine focused completely
2:04:04
on drifting. All right, so they've been
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Wrecked Magazine as a company has been around since I started
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drifting, possibly before that, I believe, so around 2010,
2:04:13
somewhere like that. And they've been covering
2:04:16
drifting and everything about it since then.
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Shops pro am drivers, pro drivers grass roots events, you
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know, I've even seen them do stuff like TMZ drops.
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All right, they'll be it'll be like, oh, did you hear about
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like, you know, so and so and so check them out on Facebook and
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all that. Of course, Instagram as well.
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But most importantly, go to their website,
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wreckmagazine.com. That's where you can subscribe
2:04:43
to this magazine. We actually have the second
2:04:45
issue in the shop and it is a not only is it a great magazine,
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but the cover is beautiful. It's it it, it looks the part.
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Let's just say that I always view Wrecked magazine as like
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the thrasher of drifting. So that's good.
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Yeah. It gives me the same vibes, you
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know, So check them out. I'm really, really stoked to be
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representing that company. I have high hopes for them.
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I hope they can bring back physical media at least in our
2:05:18
scene. It might not be happening
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worldwide right now in 2026, but you know, in our scene, I think
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we can bring it back since we all we all miss JDM tuner
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magazines. So this is this is the best that
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we can get right now and it and it's very informative a lot of
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the stuff in there. So check it out, Wreck
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magazine.com and. Yeah, Eddie, we got more we.
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Got more Texas episodes coming so can't wait.
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Yeah, if we got. A lot and if you.
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If you don't feel like waiting, make sure to check out our
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Patreon. We also have all of the Texas
2:05:50
episodes up there already. So yeah, we'll see you on the
2:05:54
next one. See you.