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SHOP TALK #1 - Johnny Monaco · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  I like the Super low drift car thing, yeah, but when it's in
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  Japan I feel like they just do it differently.
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  I mean, Kohl's car gives you the Japanese.
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  Yeah, it's got pretty J vibes. But it needs to be raised up
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  having. Some of those cars we saw in the
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  street in Japan looked very, very similar.
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  Yeah, they're just like random cars cruising around.
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  There was some dumped. Dumped 180.
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  They love that shit over there though.
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  I'm so mad you weren't there, Johnny.
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  Soon. Yeah, that was a good time.
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  Soon, man, soon. Johnny was the only one that
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  needed to be there that wasn't there.
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  I wouldn't have been where you guys were the whole time though.
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  Roloff, We. Were all over the place, Roloff.
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  Set me up. He's like, yo, I'm going back in
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  a month and a half. You want to go?
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  And I was like, don't. Wait.
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  Is he really? Yeah.
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  They're going back in a month. Who?
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  Is going. Tim, Theo, they're girls and I
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  don't know, they're going to Ebisu for a couple days and
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  straight tourist shit. Just him and Theo.
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  I don't know if anybody else, maybe Rich, is going.
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  Probably. If they're going to EBA suit
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  rich probably going. Must be nice I.
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  Was like just bring me back. Oh wait, just cigarettes.
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  He's probably not going. Just bring me back pancakes and
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  cigarettes. Bring me back black black gum.
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  You can get that, you know, you can get black, black at a
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  mitzvah. Yeah, someone got it.
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  It's like so. Expensive though.
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  Really. Yeah.
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  I was. Trying everything in Japan was
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  so. Cheap.
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  Trying to tell someone that last night, like how cheap it was and
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  I was like a bottle of water was like 30 cents or $0.40.
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  Everything was like all the vending machines like sub $1.00
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  like. Yeah.
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  Literally like the whole trip round flight.
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  The round trip, most expensive part round.
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  Trip flight even though you paid for.
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  I paid 2 grand. The meal and the the F1 tickets.
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  Oh yeah, yeah. But like even if I paid for
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  that, I don't think I would have spent more than 5500 bucks.
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  And we were like all over the place, training everything,
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  doing everything. You're saying with that
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  included? Yeah, it would have been like.
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  With the round trip. Yeah, it would have been like
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  all all together, like 5500. It was.
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  It was. We got Kobe beef one night like
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  at a crazy good steakhouse like. Found an ex Nissan dealer.
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  Oh, dude, yeah. He doesn't even know about it.
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  I've never. Heard about this no.
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  So we go to we go to Hiroshima and then we leave there and
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  we're like, yo, Kobe is halfway between Osaka and Hiroshima, so
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  let's stop there. We'll get off.
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  We'll get dinner at a steakhouse and get Kobe beef in Kobe,
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  Japan. Couldn't find anything, we just
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  like walked. Around.
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  Walked around, walked into this one place had like what is it
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  like maybe 10 chairs in it around like a singer bar.
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  Yeah, I saw the picture of that. Yeah, it was that.
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  It was that room. And the guys like you have
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  reservation and we're like, no. And he's like, no, it's OK, sit
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  down, sit down. We're like not dressed nice or
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  anything. And then he's like asking what
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  we're there for, and we're like, Oh yeah, drifting.
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  He's like, oh, drifting. And we're like, yeah, you know
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  that. And he's like, Oh yeah, I had a
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  S15. I crashed it on the tow gay.
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  Yeah. And we're like, what?
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  He bought that shit brand new. Damn, from Nissan when he worked
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  there. You know there was a salesman at
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  Nissan in the heyday. And we and he didn't even like
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  bring that up. We were just like, Oh yeah, we
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  drift this down like. We definitely got some
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  preferential treatment compared to the other people there.
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  Well, he wanted to talk to us. Yeah, and then we got to go
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  behind the bar and he had us take photos and stuff.
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  They were. Like holding the plaques.
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  The other people are looking at us like what's going on.
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  They didn't. Free us like this.
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  But like, it was just, I thought it was funny how like the
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  conversation, yeah, 'cause like, we were not talking about
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  drifting. We had, no, we did not want to
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  talk about that. But then he asked why we were
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  here and we told him. And he's like, oh, yeah, yeah, I
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  used to work in Nissan. They're like, oh, cool, What
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  when? And he told us like the years
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  and I was like, so you sold like Sylvia's and he's like, yeah, I
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  had 1 and I was like, oh, OK, so that's cool.
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  He's I was like, you drift and no, I don't drift.
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  He's like, I used to erase it though.
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  We're like, Oh yeah, he's like, yeah, on the toga.
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  You know what the toga is? We're like, yeah, we know what
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  the toga is. And he's like, yeah, I crashed
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  it on there. I'm like, this is insane.
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  Like how do you just have a conversation with a random dude?
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  That working at the restaurant, yeah, I crashed on the toga.
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  Yeah, I crashed my S15 that I bought brand new at a dealership
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  when I worked there on the Toga. Yeah, I'm like, we would run
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  into that guy. But now the steak was good
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  though. Yeah.
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  That was that was banger. Japan's a wild place.
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  Yeah, Formula One was a sick experience.
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  Yeah. That was cool too.
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  Love the subway system. Once you figure it out, it's
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  amazing. Yeah, public transport there is
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  like, amazing. It's dirt cheap.
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  You end up with a million coins by the time you go home though.
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  Yeah, which is just kind of cool though.
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  Yeah, I got a coin purse. Dude I was trying to tell
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  someone the other day to how I was like there's no workbench in
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  that whole garage. No, everything was floor on a
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  pile of cards. And people were like, they're
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  like laughing. I'm like, it's not funny.
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  I'm like, there's they got. Like 1 snap on box and like
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  everything's happening on top of this like snap on roll.
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  Card And then you're like, where's the vice?
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  And they're like, oh, it's over here and they pick it off the
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  ground and hand it to you. I'm like what?
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  Like why didn't you mount this anywhere?
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  I don't I. Don't get nowhere to mount it to
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  him. Yeah, like I know Josh and Tom
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  or Josh told me like Japan was like weird, they didn't have a
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  lot of tools and whatnot and this and that.
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  And I thought it was going to be worse.
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  Honestly. When we got in there, I was
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  like, I feel like there was a lot of shit in there, but there
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  was no organization, which is kind of common.
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  But the workbench thing, I don't fucking get it.
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  I don't get. It yeah, you need something I
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  need. Something to beat on and work
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  on. I think that's like a a Japanese
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  thing. They honestly, they they like to
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  be on the ground they love. Squatting.
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  Yeah, that Jay squat. They they have no problem with
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  just being on the ground I'm. Like that too, kind of at work.
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  I kind of am too at work, like there's a lot and I know Jesus
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  is there's a lot of situations where like I'm like, oh, let me
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  just get and I'm like, no, I have a bench for a reason.
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  I don't want to fuck my floor up if I didn't care about the.
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  Floor at my house in my garage. I'm always like squatted down on
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  the floor. I tell them, too, I'm like, yo,
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  if you got a problem or if you want to do something on the
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  floor, get a piece of cardboard out.
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  Yeah, don't fuck this floor, Yeah.
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  I feel like I go to the floor a lot because when I'm whacking on
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  like beating something on the workbench, it just makes too
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  much noise. It's easier, just let it get
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  absorbed into the concrete. True, you get.
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  The double bang with the fucking workbench.
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  I never thought about that, but that's I do think about it
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  occasionally, but that's a really nice thing about having
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  this shop. Like we've never gotten one
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  noise complaint or anything. Nobody would.
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  Complain it's just me, I don't want to listen to it.
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  Oh yeah, I thought you were talking about like waking up the
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  whole house or something. No, but like, dude, we do dumb
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  shit on this road and in here. Dude, I'd be.
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  Surprised because they got that new apt.
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  I know it's. Right.
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  There too. Yeah, now that I'm saying this,
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  I don't know if we've been here at like 3:00 in the morning.
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  There's definitely been sometimes where we've been here
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  really late doing shit and we still haven't got a complaint.
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  You know why? Because there's a fucking train
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  back there. So people are conditioned to
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  listen to a train blowing the horn and like rumbling by.
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  Shit is crazy. Fuck out of here.
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  We were here first, yeah. So yeah, Kohl's car is here.
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