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#80 - P.J. Prendergast of Bosstown Car Club · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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  What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode
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  of Faction Motorsports After Hour podcast.
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  On today's episode, we have PJ Prendergast here from Boss, Town
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  Car Club, Drift Club. I'm pretty sure they say Car
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  Club, but also a Drift Club from the Massachusetts area,
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  basically New England area. PJ is actually from New York
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  State, but he was down here. We're grabbing some wheels from
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  a friend of ours. So we decided, hey, why not do a
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  podcast? You know, since you're coming
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  from 2 1/2 hours away? I can't believe people come this
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  far for this podcast. I appreciate everyone, but yeah,
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  it was awesome. We had a great conversation with
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  PJ. That was probably the most I've
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  ever talked to PJ in my entire life.
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  Which is funny because I've known him for probably over 10
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  years or possibly 10 years and it was great.
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  We learned a lot about his adventures in Japan, his
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  basically how he got started drifting and we also talked
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  Far as fuck Utica. It's like Midwestern New York,
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  yeah. I know a girl that went to
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  there and fuck her. Out the box for.
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  Me. Hey.
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  anything out. Welcome, everybody, to the
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  Fashion After Hours podcast. Today we have another guest.
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  It's a rainy funkin past couple of days here in New Jersey.
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  Let me tell you. It's making me sad.
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  But today we have PJ Prendergast.
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  Did I say that correctly? You did.
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  Prendergast. Thank you, everybody.
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  You're welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome,
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  welcome. Oh, we got the audience.
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  Yeah, yeah. They got the live.
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  Studio thank you thank. You can't see.
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  The. Studio I'm.
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  Fresh off of Formula One, I was out there doing something so now
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  I'm I'm. Just young Michael over there.
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  Young, Michael. Where did you get this from?
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  I've had this jacket for like 17 years.
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  It still. Fits, isn't that?
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  Horrible. No, it's, I mean, no, that's.
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  Good. The arms are a little short.
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  Like, you know. I still have mad clothes from
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  high school that fit me like random jeans and T-shirts and
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  things. I got motivated to literally
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  just go through my closet and and just pull everything that I
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  don't use because I'm like, why do I have no room?
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  Yeah, I shouldn't have that many clothes.
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  I was going to do that recently too.
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  Frankie. What fucking clothes?
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  OK, well, here's the here's the problem.
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  I have a lot of clothes. I have a lot of T-shirts in my
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  dresser and I only wear plain black T-shirts.
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  So why are these in here? You have other colored shirts.
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  Yeah, I only started wearing black, like just black in 2016,
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  1516, OK, yeah. Dude your your closet must look.
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  So so I have my one drawer that's three different types of
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  black shirts. Different types with.
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  Nothing on them. Only.
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  Blanks, yeah. You're.
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  That's nice though, 'cause if you fuck up a a shirt that you
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  like, actually really like, well, usually pretty.
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  Bomb. That was the original thought
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  process I was working on my friend Dustin's 350Z and.
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  You used an angle grinder or something?
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  No. And I think Jeff Marlowe was
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  there. It was Jeff Marlowe that did it,
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  of course. Ruined something else in my
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  life, Jeff. It was Jeff was trying to pull
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  something. I don't know what we were doing.
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  We were doing something. I was like, fuck, I fucked this
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  shirt up again. And then Jeff just grabs me and
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  puts axle grease all over the shirt and I was like.
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  It's a black shirt, though. Cool dude.
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  No, it was white. It was white.
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  That was the last time I wore a white shirt.
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  It was that day. Wow.
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  And that was, that was a long time ago.
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  Being around drift stuff. If you're wearing white, like,
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  just know it's going to get fucked up.
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  Even if you're just like going out to dinner, like, you're
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  probably going to fuck it up. So I I was like, you know what?
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  I I also, I also was like, why am I fucking just promoting all
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  these random fucking companies? I don't know.
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  So I was like, I'm just gonna buy black shirts and that's
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  gonna be it. You don't.
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  You can't just wear a logo. If I If I like them, I will.
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  But. I love getting, like, all the
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  podcast shirts we've gotten is sick.
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  Like, Togate Factory sent us shirts.
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  Those are cool, but yeah, yeah. Why?
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  Why do you think? And I'm gonna ask PJ, 'cause I
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  know what Frankie's gonna say. I think Why do you think
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  everybody in the drift community has to wear black?
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  'Cause they're trying to be like me.
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  Everyone's trying to be like Frankie.
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  No, I think it's I. Hate that you just said that.
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  That's not what I was going to say.
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  I was going to say like, 'cause it's cooler, but.
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  Like do they do? That I think it, it might be
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  maybe like a form of conforming with like the general consensus
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  of what people think is cool. You know, you're badass.
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  You know you well, you know you're going to fit in too.
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  Or it kind of. Or you subconsciously start
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  associating. Or black with like, Oh yeah,
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  cool. All the cool people I know on
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  drifting wear black. Yeah, hardcore.
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  Or it's 'cause they're all mechanics and they don't want to
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  fuck their shirts up. That is probably the number.
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  One that's a more logical explanation.
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  Yeah, I mean, that's why. Yeah, that was the.
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  Main reason to psychological with it.
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  I mean, like, I I try to buy not black shirts, Like, I do the
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  opposite of what Frankie does. Like I try to.
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  He does get some sort of variety.
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  OK, this guy eats the same thing.
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  I mean, I'm just kidding, but this shirt for?
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  Example like this shirt that I'm wearing this.
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  Is a fat cat shirt. Love this shirt and like it's
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  AI. Have a couple fat cat shirts.
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  Dude, they have the coolest merch, like.
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  I have the green one, but it's just like it's just a blank
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  shirt, but it's got a pocket and it's got like the Super tiny,
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  like I think it has like the little cat on like A tag on the
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  pocket. I think that was the first time
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  I saw like some some other drift related merch where I was like,
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  so that shit's actually kind of sick.
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  Yeah. Yeah, 'cause I never think that,
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  but I saw their shit and I was like, damn.
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  Dude, I I love. I don't.
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  I don't know anybody on that team personally or anything.
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  So that's just me, literally, from a vague macro standpoint.
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  I like their merch. Yeah, they make cool stuff.
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  I have a sticker. I have a fat cat sticker on the
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  car. Like I I liked all their stuff
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  when I. Saw that?
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  Finally, yeah. But Toyota factory has had some
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  cool shit too, yeah? PJ You've been you've been
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  around drifting for a while, I would say.
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  I feel like I've heard your name a gajillion times, mainly from
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  Derek. Do you know Derek on the
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  bicycle? Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah. Are you familiar with?
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  You. I love how you got a like, you
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  know, Derek on the bicycle. Oh, yes.
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  Because. He's the guy I feel like I've
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  heard bicycle. Yeah, I he.
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  Would be like you've never seen PJ prendergas car.
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  And then I would see the car and I'm like, oh, I think I may
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  have, but that's who showed me like your page which is sick.
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  I don't know how long or What Car he was showing me of yours,
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  but I do know you have. Is that temoyas?
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  Yeah, the the Blue FC. Yes, yeah.
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  Yeah, What's? What's the story with this?
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  Should we get into this? Yeah, I wanna know.
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  I wanna know I mean. Aside from Damn, I kind of
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  wanted to ask how PJ got into cars, but.
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  You could. We could come back to it, OK?
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  Yeah, we could circle back. So the Temoya thing, we went to
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  Japan in 2017 for final bout and we were there.
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  That was my first time in Japan. We were there for like, I think
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  like 26 or 27 days. A month?
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  Fuck. I'm there for a month.
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  Yeah, I was there for like a month.
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  What are? You trying to get your
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  citizenship? I was in between jobs at the
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  company that I'm at. Like I went from a contractor
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  position to like an actual position at the company, and it
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  just worked out that I could kind of schedule that trip in
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  between that. So I didn't get paid when I was
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  over there, but I was like 23 or 24 because living at home didn't
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  give a fuck. That sounds.
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  Fun Who'd you? Who'd you go with?
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  I went with my teammates Kevin and Ryan and we pretty much went
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  for final bout and that was literally the only plan we had
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  on that trip because Kevin really wanted to just kind of
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  wing it and go with the flow and like literally the first we got
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  there like the first weekend was final bout and I booked a rental
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  car and like 2 hotels and that was it.
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  We had nothing else reserved for the entire trip.
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  And you? How did you burn 27 days?
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  What did you do? I think what did you do?
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  We we kind of floated around a little bit.
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  We went to Kyoto after final bout and then we went back.
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  They have a friend in in the outskirts of Tokyo that we
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  stayed with for a little bit. But yeah, we ended up following
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  proceed up to. They did a track day after final
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  bout with with the sexy nights and I saw that.
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  Where was. That it was it.
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  Niko. Niko.
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  And that's kind of where that happened.
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  I saw I ended up meeting Tomoya's friend and one of my
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  close friends now Animoto, and it was like a it was a primer
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  colored FC but it looked super cool and I took a little bit of
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  Japanese in college. So I was trying to spit what few
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  phrases I knew and I was trying to ask him for a ride along and
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  he pretty much was like Oh no, I have a friend come and you can
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  ride with him and like 20 minutes later it was Tomoya.
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  So I got thrown in his car. We did the sampatsu which is.
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  In a rotor and was it in this car now?
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  This it was primer car you said? No, this was in Tomoya showed up
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  in his FC. Oh, so the.
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  Blue car was already blue. Yeah, I think that's that was
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  the car that now lives in California that they, that final
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  bout eventually shipped over. Oh.
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  The crazy looking, yeah. The light blue, almost huge
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  wing, yeah. The Fr Legends card, that's how.
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  That's what I know it as. Yeah, because it looks like an
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  Fr Legends card, dude. I think it was in Fr Legends.
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  I think they put it in, yeah, like it's it's a poster, was a
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  poster. For, is that still a thing by?
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  The way Fr legends. Yeah, tons of people play Fr
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  legends. Dude, is that still a phone
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  game? Yes, OK, that's that.
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  Those are the people who play it like it's like people who maybe
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  don't I. Think you're thinking of what's?
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  That carx. Yeah.
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  No, Yeah, Carx is the. One that one developed into more
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  of a game that a bunch of us actually play together like in
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  our Discord. But yeah, no.
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  So you hit this on Potsu. What did that sound like?
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  It probably sounded glorious. It was crazy.
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  And I tried filming. I had my Nikon with me and I was
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  trying to like get a really good video of it and I was too
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  focused on just like enjoying the ride along.
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  So the video I have is just like mostly of the dash.
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  You hear the sounds, but you can like almost see out the
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  windshield. But, but yeah, and the other
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  funny thing about when we went to Nico was we didn't have a
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  rental car when we were up there.
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  Nico, it's like out in the countryside.
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  It's out in the sticks. We took a taxi to the track.
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  I was trying to get the guy to come back and pick us up at the
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  end of the day. That was not communicated. 4:00
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  when the event ends at Niko, they just like everyone's
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  packing up at sweeping the track, like they have a little
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  St. sweeper that goes out. And we didn't have a ride home.
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  We were kind of fucked where was.
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  Even your home at this point. Where are you staying?
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  We had an Airbnb like 20 to 30 minutes away from the track.
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  Walkable. I actually ended up being in I
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  found out. I actually only found out this
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  year that we stayed in Airbnb, right near where Tomoya's
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  parents live. OK.
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  But. I just found out how.
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  Big or small, Japan is. Yeah.
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  Cuz that map, that map someone put like next to the East Coast.
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  Yeah. No, it's basically my crude
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  explanation of it is that it's like the size of California.
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  Yeah, it with the. Main Island Pretty nasty.
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  Roughly. The.
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  I mean, California's huge. Yeah, so.
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  Yeah, they they put it next to the East Coast and it was like
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  kind of almost the size of the East Coast.
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  I was like, OK, this thing stretches pretty far.
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  How small did you think it was? You thought it was Hawaii.
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  I thought it was like California or smaller.
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  That's what I was thinking. But I don't think it is.
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  I think it's, I think it's a little bit bigger than
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  California. I don't not not actual space,
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  but like the length of how far it stretches.
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  Well, like PJ, when you guys were in Japan, like how many
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  hours and hours are you guys commuting to like these places?
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  We'll come to you to be traveling to these places.
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  The bullet train helps a lot. That's that's usually my go to
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  like you can get from Tokyo to Osaka in like 2:00-ish hours
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  maybe. That's crazy.
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  It takes me two hours to go to Secaucus on an on an NJ TRANSIT
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  train. To who?
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  Secaucus? It's this other.
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  It's a town down the street. The train system is very slow
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  and it also makes me very sick. So like, it's not great.
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  Yeah the oh. The bullet train is the
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  smoothest thing. Ever.
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  It's so. Sick and it goes 200 miles an
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  hour. I think so.
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  It's like just under 200. I think it's in like the 180
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  range or something like that. That's sick.
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  That's not. When are you going to Japan?
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  We over there might be going there with.
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  The with the thrash event. Yeah, we'll see you there.
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  Maybe that'll be where I see. You again?
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  Yeah, probably. Wait, so how did it?
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  I'm sorry, I need to put a lid on this.
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  How did you how did it get coordinated?
• 17:14
  And they're like, hey, can I buy this thing or what?
• 17:16
  Like. Oh, my FC.
• 17:18
  Yeah, sorry, I I get very sidetracked.
• 17:20
  That's all right. We all do.
• 17:21
  Straight here, everyone here does.
• 17:23
  Look, a fly and I'm just kidding.
• 17:27
  That's the gullible side. I mean, I actually looked like,
• 17:31
  damn, there's a final, but, but yeah, so we didn't have a ride
• 17:35
  home from the track. I ended up asking Animoto if he
• 17:37
  knew of a taxi that, like, we could call.
• 17:40
  And out of the kindness of his heart, they brought their cars
• 17:42
  back. And they came back to the track
• 17:44
  and picked us up and brought us to, like, the train station near
• 17:46
  where our Airbnb was. And then like a week later, we
• 17:50
  ended up meeting up with them for dinner.
• 17:53
  And we just kind of stayed in touch.
• 17:55
  My friend on that trip to my teammate Ryan bought a Sylvia.
• 18:00
  He bought an S14 that we ended up drifting at Nico with the
• 18:03
  help of Tomoya as well. And a year later, like that,
• 18:08
  following January, I was asking, I was like, hey, so Ryan has a
• 18:12
  car over here and I want to get one too.
• 18:13
  I was really looking for AC 33. I wanted AC 33.
• 18:17
  Yeah, what I wanted AC 33 with an Sr. for some reason.
• 18:21
  And I mean, I still love them. They come with RBS, right?
• 18:24
  Yeah, but the the pipe dream I had in my head at the time was
• 18:28
  that I wanted A4 door car so I could sleep in the back of it
• 18:30
  and just like drive around Japan.
• 18:32
  Yeah, yeah, You're trying to be. A totally unfeasible, by the
• 18:35
  way, if you're thinking about that.
• 18:36
  Right A a drifter in both. Some of the highway drifter
• 18:40
  bumps in Japan aren't so nice. Like they they have like really
• 18:44
  nice showers and stuff and like it would have been like fairly,
• 18:47
  but like I would have been fine, you know, still in my mid 20s.
• 18:49
  So I was like, whatever, yeah, but.
• 18:52
  And Tomoya offered me two FCS and one was the one that I ended
• 18:57
  up buying and the other one was the one that they repurposed as
• 19:00
  a Rio's car for final belt gallery.
• 19:03
  OK. And yeah, I I like, I asked my
• 19:06
  teammates, I'm like, I should probably buy this, right?
• 19:08
  And they're like, you have to buy this car.
• 19:10
  That's sick. So you were able to drive it
• 19:12
  there too, right? Yeah, I drove.
• 19:15
  I drove Nikko circuit three times in it and then I drove MO
• 19:18
  Bar as well. So the first weekend I had never
• 19:21
  I had only ever ridden in an FC once and that was in Tomoy as
• 19:25
  the year before, like I had never driven a car.
• 19:27
  You've never owned no rotaries, not meanwhile, I'm getting
• 19:30
  nervous. I I would get nervous buying a
• 19:32
  bone stock NA1 here. Yeah, Well, I mean, it's kind of
• 19:37
  like with any car that's simpler, you keep it, the more
• 19:39
  reliable it's probably going to be and.
• 19:42
  What's done to it? It's it's pretty stock, yeah.
• 19:45
  I have a Power FC and a Night Sports Turbo.
• 19:48
  A what? Night Sports.
• 19:50
  That sounds sick. I don't even know what that is.
• 19:52
  Some old shit. Very old shit.
• 19:53
  But he's got a Power FC. Yahoo special, Yeah.
• 19:57
  Wait, so what's it like? What are the track days like
• 20:00
  over there, 'cause I, I've, I'm, I'm familiar with the tracks
• 20:03
  that you just mentioned, but like actually showing up to the
• 20:07
  track as somebody who doesn't? Is clearly maybe not from there.
• 20:13
  Like if me and Frankie went there.
• 20:15
  Actually, maybe Frankie would stick out a little more than me.
• 20:17
  What do you mean? But, like, I don't know.
• 20:21
  I I feel like I would feel. So was that a white joke?
• 20:24
  New again? Yeah, it was a white joke, OK.
• 20:26
  I would feel like new. And it would make me
• 20:29
  uncomfortable, which I like, 'cause then I have to, like,
• 20:32
  figure it out. Yeah.
• 20:34
  So I don't know. What?
• 20:35
  What was that like? For the most part, from what
• 20:38
  I've seen, they all run really smooth.
• 20:40
  The only one that it's just like anything goes kind of whatever
• 20:43
  is happening was when I was in Japan just recently in October
• 20:46
  going to Obisu. It's just kind of like a skate
• 20:48
  park, like you just pull up to a track and go out and but.
• 20:53
  It's so. Fun, but at Nikko, those are
• 20:55
  like the best run events I've ever driven.
• 20:57
  Everything is so smooth. They break, they break up the
• 20:59
  drivers and do a ton of different groups.
• 21:01
  And then for the Nikko events, they usually you kind of just
• 21:06
  have like a hot lap session. Like you go out for like 12 or
• 21:08
  13 minutes straight and you get like maybe like four or five
• 21:11
  sessions in the day. Which might not sound like a
• 21:14
  lot, but when you're just constant, like it's not a huge
• 21:16
  track, you get around it pretty quick, like you can you can do a
• 21:19
  lot. If your car is working and it's
• 21:20
  not overheating like you can, yeah, you can hot lap the shit
• 21:23
  out. Had to put that one in there.
• 21:24
  How much does it cost? Do you know like a drift day?
• 21:27
  I know at Abisu it's pretty cheap.
• 21:29
  I want to say it's like maybe like ¥5000 or something.
• 21:33
  OK, what is 5 to 6? What is that?
• 21:35
  I could be raised, Malcolm. That's like 40 something bucks
• 21:39
  or something, right, 30. Like $40?
• 21:41
  40 something bucks, I don't know.
• 21:42
  Look at everyone. I think the Nico events are
• 21:44
  around maybe like trying to think about here maybe like
• 21:49
  10,000, like 8 to ¥10,000. OK.
• 21:52
  It's $35. 30. 5 bucks? Oh dude, the exchange rate is so
• 21:56
  far right now if you're if you're trying to buy some parts
• 21:58
  or like a car over there. Yeah, the.
• 22:00
  Time. Wait a minute.
• 22:01
  I need it. And I just stocked.
• 22:02
  That I don't know how that. Works like people just buy cars
• 22:05
  and then just leaving places. That's the.
• 22:07
  It seems like people are just way too nice.
• 22:08
  Over there, I feel like I I don't know if I would trust.
• 22:10
  I'm like. People are very nice, but it's a
• 22:13
  whole different culture. Yeah, it's.
• 22:17
  I'd sometimes have a hard time reading the room a little, just
• 22:20
  like generally speaking, that's. More like.
• 22:23
  Literally over there too. I mean, there's a lot of
• 22:25
  different cultural I don't know yet.
• 22:27
  There's a lot of cultural differences to to pick up on,
• 22:30
  but do you have an? Example of one, like anytime you
• 22:34
  felt uncomfortable, like maybe you like shook somebody's hand
• 22:36
  the wrong way or like well. You're not even supposed to
• 22:38
  shake hands, right? What?
• 22:39
  Isn't it A fucking and? No one, really.
• 22:41
  I mean, they will. Oh, you hit one of these.
• 22:43
  Yeah, it's a bow thing. Yeah, 'cause.
• 22:45
  It's usually why you touch me. For me it was.
• 22:49
  It was like the different phrases that you use to just
• 22:52
  like. Oh.
• 22:54
  Just like different levels of formality, essentially, like how
• 22:58
  casual you can be with someone like oh.
• 23:01
  God, that would be horrible. I'm sorry, I'm victory strike.
• 23:05
  You can speak Japanese. The.
• 23:06
  Konnichiwa. Ajimu mamache, see.
• 23:10
  Yeah. Full conversation.
• 23:12
  Arigato. OK, well, like that's 'cause you
• 23:14
  you mentioned you mentioned you learned, tried to learn some
• 23:18
  Japanese in college. Yeah.
• 23:20
  Is it? Can you tell Carl to go fuck
• 23:22
  himself in Japanese? Can you?
• 23:25
  You could. I I don't know that one offhand.
• 23:27
  But the fair enough. But in in when you're learning a
• 23:30
  language in a in a classroom, right?
• 23:33
  Spanish for example. That's what I took in college.
• 23:35
  Or no one. Or was it French?
• 23:37
  I don't remember. You don't remember, so you
• 23:40
  didn't learn either one. I was in Spanish 5 honors in
• 23:43
  high school and I didn't want to take any more languages and pay
• 23:46
  for language classes. Like what the fuck?
• 23:47
  I'm going to go take something fun, like drawing one.
• 23:49
  Can you speak to me dirty in French I?
• 23:53
  In college, my brain wasn't in my head.
• 23:55
  It was on the street. All right, fine.
• 23:57
  Tapping in. I think I can tell you to shut.
• 23:59
  Your mouth in French. Try it.
• 24:01
  But is it formay La Bouche or something like that?
• 24:03
  That might be that. Sounds right.
• 24:05
  Did you know? OK, I remember something like
• 24:06
  that I think. To say the word.
• 24:09
  Seal like or or that fucking animal seal.
• 24:12
  Yeah, it's Les Foch. That's the only.
• 24:15
  Fucking thing you got out of this class.
• 24:17
  Yeah, Les Fucking. Yeah, dude.
• 24:20
  For that reason alone. Yeah, that's pretty good.
• 24:22
  Dude, drop them off. In Toronto or Quebec or
• 24:25
  something, No, the business. Is true.
• 24:28
  Somebody smoked there you. No.
• 24:29
  But what I was saying was in those classes you, it's always
• 24:34
  like in that class there's a formal way to say something and
• 24:36
  casual. And I feel like they really
• 24:38
  emphasize like, oh, when you're really comfortable with
• 24:42
  somebody, you can use this phrasing.
• 24:44
  So maybe, I don't know. And that.
• 24:46
  I can be really casual with Tomoya and he's not gonna take
• 24:48
  any offense to it, 'cause he knows like we're we're on the
• 24:50
  same page with that. But if I try to use like the the
• 24:54
  casual way of just saying later to someone and it's like his
• 24:57
  senpai, that's that's rude bro. I think I've just.
• 25:00
  Been saying the words, not that I bothered.
• 25:02
  Anyone with it. But the guy was like, don't you
• 25:04
  just say that? So wait, so.
• 25:08
  There's nothing like that in America, right?
• 25:11
  There's a you know. There's a lot of structure with
• 25:13
  the whole like senpai kohai thing.
• 25:15
  Kohai is a person. That which is an Asian is the.
• 25:17
  Person that looks. Up to the senpai.
• 25:19
  Oh, I didn't even. And the senpai is just like
• 25:21
  someone you admire. It's not this whole like, is it?
• 25:25
  Is it over here? I feel like I turned.
• 25:27
  Into some weird like hentai of shit.
• 25:28
  OK, see I was. Just about to say that I was
• 25:30
  just someone you. Admire or like look up to, I've
• 25:33
  heard. That could be a lady that you.
• 25:35
  Really admire. Or it could be someone that you
• 25:37
  really look up to and driving. So that's kind of what it.
• 25:40
  That's kind of what I thought it was.
• 25:42
  It's not like, 'cause I know in in Korean they have like ways of
• 25:46
  talking to people who are older than you.
• 25:49
  There's a ways to do that in. Tagalog too in In my life in
• 25:51
  Filipino, there's a way like you have to say but.
• 25:54
  In America, there's nothing like that, right?
• 25:56
  Am I wrong? I don't think we structure
• 25:58
  things. There's nothing, yeah.
• 25:59
  It's a different. I feel like the the way it's
• 26:02
  categorized in the way that it's or in English.
• 26:04
  Differentiated. Is.
• 26:06
  Is. If I'm talking to my boss and
• 26:08
  I'm talking to us right now, I'm talking.
• 26:11
  I'm speaking differently, OK? Earlier.
• 26:13
  I was on the phone. I was hanging out in the little
• 26:16
  office that I have at home, and Daryl is sitting on the couch
• 26:18
  with our other friend, Gooch. Gooch.
• 26:21
  Yeah, his name's Gooch. I never it.
• 26:23
  Never ceased to amaze me in the names of his friends, 'cause
• 26:26
  it's always some crazy shit, but you're just mad.
• 26:29
  You don't. Have a nickname Gooch and then.
• 26:31
  What was the other one? Daryl.
• 26:32
  No, the other good name. Tits.
• 26:34
  Tits. Both.
• 26:37
  Both. Both great people by the way.
• 26:39
  But anyway, we're hanging out and I'm talking to them.
• 26:41
  We're having a normal conversation and this is like my
• 26:43
  friends. I'm talking like I'm we're
• 26:45
  talking about one J's like I'm fucking and then you're blind
• 26:49
  and then I get a phone call and you're like, oh a work call.
• 26:51
  Hello Sir. And.
• 26:52
  And then I'm like. Put the blunt down.
• 26:57
  Put the blunt down. Hey, how are you?
• 27:00
  Like, like, hey yo, hey Mark, How you doing now?
• 27:02
  How can I help you? Oh, yeah.
• 27:04
  I'll get that out for you. Thank you, 4:00.
• 27:06
  Yeah, sure. I got you.
• 27:08
  All right. Talk to you soon.
• 27:09
  Hang up and then you. No, I definitely.
• 27:14
  Put on a a different. Language set.
• 27:19
  I'll say, for terrible lack of a better phrase, when I'm at work,
• 27:23
  what do you do for? Work I work at a.
• 27:25
  Pharmaceutical company that's sick.
• 27:27
  I don't, for the record. That's why I don't have a boss.
• 27:30
  Which is sick, yeah. 'Cause I would probably.
• 27:32
  Just say some dumb shit and then they would fire me if they had
• 27:34
  an HR. Department in here my HR.
• 27:37
  Department my last job fucking hated me.
• 27:40
  Hated. Why 'cause?
• 27:41
  Anything. She wanted me.
• 27:42
  To do. I would not do it.
• 27:43
  She was like, why do you have to?
• 27:44
  You have to use your. I think it was a fingerprint or
• 27:47
  an eye? No, an eye scanner.
• 27:49
  We're using an eye scanner now to clock in to.
• 27:51
  I was like, you ain't scanning none of my fucking body parts.
• 27:53
  And she's like, well, then you're going to have.
• 27:55
  I was like, fucking fire me. Do it.
• 27:57
  Give me a badge and a. Badge reader Like what the fuck
• 28:00
  they wanted to scan? Your First of all, it's a car
• 28:02
  dealership. What are we doing?
• 28:03
  And then I was like, I was just like on the cars you selling.
• 28:06
  Bro Fucking shitty. Nissans and I was like, no.
• 28:09
  He worked at Tesla. No, I didn't.
• 28:11
  I know you would think this would be Tesla.
• 28:13
  No, it sounds like it. Would be a Tesla and I was just
• 28:15
  like. No.
• 28:16
  And then they would just like every, every, like once a month
• 28:19
  or so, they'd be like, oh, you have to register your eye.
• 28:22
  I was like, what's a month your? Eye.
• 28:26
  What am I going to change to do it?
• 28:27
  How much does your? Eye change in a month, it does.
• 28:30
  No, I just never. Did it.
• 28:31
  So they kept trying to get me to, like, do it.
• 28:33
  And I was like, I'm not doing that ever.
• 28:36
  So get over it or fire me and what are we doing?
• 28:40
  What are we doing? And they just got.
• 28:41
  Over it. And I never clocked in with my
• 28:43
  eye. I don't know, but like shit like
• 28:46
  that. So yeah, I get what you're
• 28:47
  saying though. Like some people change how they
• 28:50
  talk. So the whole corporate.
• 28:51
  Structure is a yeah, it's hell of a drug.
• 28:53
  Yeah, yeah. So I I get what you're saying
• 28:55
  that kind of that kind of makes sense that it's similar to what
• 28:59
  he's saying about Japanese in a way.
• 29:01
  No I to. Me.
• 29:02
  It doesn't sound unfamiliar again, because I'm Asian.
• 29:06
  Yeah, we have something like that that I was already.
• 29:09
  It seems like an Asian. Thing A lot of things when.
• 29:12
  I when I I don't know if this is weird, but like when I moved
• 29:14
  from Jersey City, which is at that time, the neighborhood that
• 29:17
  I was in, it was like all primarily Filipino people.
• 29:20
  And then I moved to Ramsey, which is more like a suburb,
• 29:22
  which is a lot of like white people who I've never really had
• 29:25
  any white friends. Everyone was Filipino.
• 29:27
  No, I'm kidding. But like a lot of stuff shocked
• 29:31
  me. Like when I went and hung out
• 29:33
  with people for the first time and I went to their house and
• 29:34
  I'm like, you guys aren't eating rice.
• 29:36
  Like that was a culture shock that happened.
• 29:38
  I was like, you guys eat stuff aside from rice every night.
• 29:41
  Like what is this? What potatoes?
• 29:42
  What is this? What?
• 29:44
  Is this pudding? Or it was lit, bro.
• 29:46
  I I completely remember, dude, I had chicken parm and shit.
• 29:48
  Like, I I love it, dude. I was like America's Sick when I
• 29:53
  went to Miyagi. 'S house and like, I started
• 29:54
  hanging out with him. I was like, you guys eat rice
• 29:56
  with everything. Isn't it great?
• 29:58
  Yeah, I was like, where do I get a rice cooker?
• 30:00
  This is amazing. Why is?
• 30:02
  Why is that the? 1st.
• 30:03
  Thing my my friends who would come over and saw the rice
• 30:05
  cooker, they're like you have a rice cooker and.
• 30:08
  Now. They sell them at Coles.
• 30:10
  Yeah, dude, Rice. Cooker was the first appliance I
• 30:12
  needed in my apartment. I was like, I need a rice cooker
• 30:14
  'cause you do have one. I just want.
• 30:15
  And you have a nice one. Yeah, a Zojiroshi.
• 30:19
  Come on, you know. That's nice.
• 30:20
  I don't. Think I really.
• 30:21
  Had a great deal of culture growing up until, like, I got to
• 30:25
  college, 'cause I I grew up in the middle of nowhere.
• 30:27
  I was like from there and a. Cornfield.
• 30:29
  Adjacent to an apple orchard, so P JS Cornfield adjacent.
• 30:34
  He makes his. Own E85 and apple cider vinegar.
• 30:38
  So a lot of just white honkeys up there.
• 30:40
  So Yep, pretty. Much as wags would.
• 30:43
  Say and some of the. Some of the folks that would
• 30:46
  work on the farms, yeah, we we had a we had a handful of
• 30:49
  Mexicans in my high school. OK, so.
• 30:52
  You had this, the Hispanic vibe, white.
• 30:54
  White and Hispanic. Mostly white.
• 30:56
  Little Hispanic. Yeah.
• 30:58
  And then you were. Like, Oh my God, an Asian.
• 31:00
  What is this? What is it?
• 31:01
  What? Is it?
• 31:02
  Yeah, it. Isn't that bad?
• 31:03
  And then now, yeah. But now you're.
• 31:05
  That I think it's crazy that you're from all the way out
• 31:07
  there and and like the for here you walk down the road and
• 31:12
  you're exposed to 15 different things in 10 1/2 seconds and
• 31:16
  like to be from kind of in the middle of your your it was they
• 31:20
  were your words not mine but in the middle of nowhere and then
• 31:24
  you get to you you kind of did a bunch of stuff in Japan and I'm
• 31:27
  assuming you've traveled elsewhere.
• 31:29
  Have you traveled elsewhere aside from Japan?
• 31:31
  Yeah. I.
• 31:33
  In college, I studied abroad in Ireland for a semester.
• 31:36
  That's. I was in Dublin.
• 31:38
  For like 4 1/2 months, that's cool. 4 1/2 months in.
• 31:41
  Dublin, that was, I mean. Aside of my freshman year of
• 31:43
  college, I was at the University of New Haven in Connecticut and
• 31:46
  then I transferred to a New York State school.
• 31:47
  After that 'cause it was way too expensive and I changed my major
• 31:50
  lot of crap. West.
• 31:52
  Haven is also pretty rough. Yeah, not for nothing, but so
• 31:56
  that was I didn't know anything shot.
• 31:57
  Connecticut, Yeah, that was probably a culture.
• 32:00
  Shock. Oh my God.
• 32:01
  Yeah, yeah. Like having a friend.
• 32:04
  My friend's literally 6 foot nine, and he got mugged just
• 32:07
  like on a side street, 'cause he, like, witnessed the tail end
• 32:09
  of a carjacking. He was just, like, going to,
• 32:11
  like, leave campus and smoke a bowl on his bike or something.
• 32:14
  And like, and he's seven. They literally back.
• 32:16
  Yeah, he's Yeah. Who's mugging a?
• 32:18
  6 foot nine guy, he's got someone with a gun.
• 32:20
  Yeah, that's the only. Way Malcolm with Hang Matters.
• 32:24
  I don't. Think height matters when.
• 32:26
  He's like, I'm short like I. Am I'm not robbing anybody.
• 32:28
  I don't have the balls for that. I would, I would be like, give
• 32:31
  me your money. Like.
• 32:34
  Only if you. Only if you got any.
• 32:36
  What a rush. Though, right, Robin?
• 32:37
  Someone at gunpoint. I've never done it.
• 32:39
  It's. Got to be a.
• 32:41
  Rush, right? No Fucking.
• 32:43
  Shit. What you don't?
• 32:44
  Think so, Malcolm. Cam.
• 32:45
  Malcolm, Cam. Adrenaline Rush.
• 32:47
  Yeah, like, don't you think it? Would probably be, and then once
• 32:49
  you do it once, you're probably addicted to it.
• 32:51
  Probably. Dude.
• 32:52
  He must. Be cool.
• 32:54
  No, but really. You don't think?
• 32:56
  No, I'm. Ferry is that cool Dude.
• 32:59
  Seriously. Seriously.
• 33:00
  I think there's people. I think it starts out.
• 33:01
  I think it starts out small with like being a little kid, and
• 33:04
  it's like you stole a pack of Juicy Fruit at the Walmart, like
• 33:07
  checking out. I've totally done that, but
• 33:09
  yeah. Juicy.
• 33:10
  Fruit is hella. Specific but I never.
• 33:12
  Stole the Juicy Fruit. Once.
• 33:13
  But did anyone ever? 'Cause I hadn't.
• 33:15
  Put the gun out at the. Cashew.
• 33:17
  Give me the juicy. Fruit and a pack of.
• 33:20
  Bubblicious. There's a scene like that in Bad
• 33:22
  Boys. Oh, really bad boys.
• 33:25
  One or two where it's been a while.
• 33:28
  They somebody. 'S like there's issues in like
• 33:31
  the liquor store or something. And he says give me all your
• 33:34
  money or something. And a pack of Skittles.
• 33:37
  Oh, I kind of remember. That Yeah, yeah.
• 33:39
  But like, if you rob someone at gunpoint, it's that adrenaline
• 33:41
  rush. It's going to be crazy.
• 33:43
  And then you're going to be like, well, it's also 'cause.
• 33:45
  Like, you don't know if they yeah, you might have a gun.
• 33:48
  Yeah, they might be one of those dudes that practices like
• 33:50
  tactical reloads and Oh yeah, that's half the people.
• 33:53
  That work here, so that's Chris. A few other of our friends I
• 33:56
  didn't know Chris is some of the drift factions.
• 33:58
  He likes that stuff. Oh.
• 33:59
  Yeah. Yeah, well, they probably are
• 34:00
  all into guns up there. Well, one of them I.
• 34:02
  Don't know if you remember Derek.
• 34:03
  Yeah. That green.
• 34:04
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:04
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:05
  He works at Smith in Blossom. Yeah, I did see that.
• 34:07
  What? Yeah.
• 34:08
  That's they're in scrap field. So he's been there forever.
• 34:11
  So I like Derek. Derek.
• 34:12
  'S cool which one is David? He's seen him forever.
• 34:14
  He's got a long ass. Beard.
• 34:15
  Does he still have a beard? He.
• 34:17
  Trimmed it. He still has like, a beard, but
• 34:19
  it used to be ridiculous. It's not like a stout.
• 34:21
  Beard like it used to be, Yeah. He like car is.
• 34:24
  Is a. Cokie S14 It's like a he's he's
• 34:27
  not really like. A social media type, the only
• 34:31
  one from. Drift faction that I really kind
• 34:33
  of remember, 'cause I I think I might still follow him, is he
• 34:36
  had a a red hatch. Yours probably or might.
• 34:40
  Have switched to a red hatch. Oh, Jesse, he's.
• 34:43
  Probably, I don't know. But he.
• 34:44
  Skateboarded as well and still skateboarding.
• 34:46
  He used to post videos and doing like flip tricks in his basement
• 34:49
  and like, yeah, that's Jesse. Jesse, that's for sure.
• 34:51
  Jesse, he's a man. I watched his videos.
• 34:53
  For a while, I don't even think I know him.
• 34:55
  This is Dave's brother. I know Dave, Kyle, Derek and
• 35:01
  Matt. Jay, Jay.
• 35:02
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know the Matt and then
• 35:04
  Jay and then. Jesse is Dave's brother, OK?
• 35:08
  So there's like 2 I never met. Yeah, that would be a funny
• 35:11
  fucking podcast one day. We should do that.
• 35:13
  Oh man, I'm telling you, we could man.
• 35:15
  Drift faction. Faction, yeah.
• 35:17
  That would be crazy and when weird, but I would enjoy it.
• 35:21
  Why would it be weird? Because of that whole.
• 35:23
  Story with the Well, I'm going to make you two fight.
• 35:25
  It doesn't involve me. No, no one's going.
• 35:28
  To fight? No, we're gonna make.
• 35:29
  It fight. No, it's a podcast.
• 35:31
  Friendly story or yeah, we've had.
• 35:33
  We talked about it once, probably.
• 35:34
  The oh, the faction. And Drift faction, exactly.
• 35:37
  Yeah. Yeah, that may.
• 35:39
  I don't. Wow.
• 35:40
  It was a long time. Well, it was final bout 2 when I
• 35:44
  I just remember Derek coming over and complimenting us on our
• 35:47
  driving and everything and I was like, Oh well, I guess that beef
• 35:50
  is gone, right? That was pretty much it.
• 35:52
  Or is it one of those things like?
• 35:53
  I'm pretty good at just, like, overthinking the shit out of
• 35:56
  everything in my In my head, there's like beef.
• 35:59
  Yeah, there's like. Totally not at all.
• 36:00
  Yeah, I mean that. Was that was there too?
• 36:02
  For sure. A little bit, yeah.
• 36:04
  It was just one of those things where it's like we knew someone
• 36:06
  felt, we knew, they felt some kind of way and we totally
• 36:09
  understood why. And then it kind of kind of just
• 36:13
  phased fizzled out because like Kyle.
• 36:16
  Would buy. Parts from me, Kyle and Jay
• 36:18
  would, I think either ask me for parts or this and that.
• 36:21
  And I was like, oh, so they obviously don't really care.
• 36:23
  And then, you know, it was just one of those things that it
• 36:25
  never really you never. Slept, but I I.
• 36:29
  Hated. I hated it though, 'cause I felt
• 36:31
  so bad. But it's one of those things
• 36:33
  where like when it's it's like when you start something, you're
• 36:36
  always like, oh, it's too late to change it, you know what I
• 36:39
  mean? And I was like, it definitely
• 36:40
  was not too late to change it back.
• 36:42
  Now it. Now it might be a little now it
• 36:45
  feel now. Now it would be stupid, but
• 36:47
  yeah, it was just one of those things.
• 36:49
  But yeah, not like cool one day. They they're the O GS, man.
• 36:52
  Yeah, they're the coolest cars on the East Coast for sure.
• 36:55
  They were running the drift. Events at Lebanon Valley when I
• 36:58
  was in high school, so that's who I saw.
• 37:00
  I think my first ride along was either with.
• 37:02
  I always forget it was either with JCR or Ben Ray.
• 37:05
  I don't know if you know Ben, he has AE36 now.
• 37:08
  It's like 1.5 JBMW probably. Don't know, but he's.
• 37:12
  He's the South Coast, he's a really good driver, but he,
• 37:15
  yeah, I remember seeing them at, yeah, at an event when I was
• 37:19
  like 17 or something and. No at.
• 37:22
  Lebanon, Lebanon, yeah. Yeah, OK, I remember this.
• 37:25
  I got a ride in. Jay's Coupe when it was like it
• 37:28
  was like flat purple on like RPF ones, this is.
• 37:31
  A while. Ago, this was probably like 2009
• 37:34
  maybe. Oh my God.
• 37:35
  OK, two. 1010. How old are you?
• 37:38
  I'm. 30. Turning 31 and 33 drift.
• 37:41
  Events. Oh, no, you're talking about
• 37:42
  like the I was, I was still. In high school, yeah.
• 37:45
  Yeah, I didn't know. I didn't.
• 37:46
  Even know that was like when I was. 16 or 17 When did you find
• 37:49
  out? When you were what what drifting
• 37:50
  was like, when did you? I think, When did the bug bite
• 37:53
  you? I think when I was. 15 I got a
• 37:56
  3000GT V R4. Nice.
• 37:58
  It's like, I guess kind of. I guess it's actually my second
• 38:00
  car, but at 15. Oh, right.
• 38:03
  Sorry, non New Jersey things. Wait, what?
• 38:05
  'Cause I'm like a. 15 year. Old with a.
• 38:07
  Car I saw a 15 year old. I mean, you can't have.
• 38:09
  A license at 15, but my dad and I or my dad got it for me for
• 38:12
  like my 15th birthday as like a father son project to restore a
• 38:16
  car that's sick. When I started looking at like,
• 38:20
  I discovered car forms and blogs and stuff and immediately
• 38:24
  stumbled on like that and like, yeah, yeah.
• 38:26
  Kind of a dye photo and. Yeah, I ended up finding out
• 38:31
  about local events at Lebanon, made it down there and got a
• 38:34
  ride and was instantly like, I need to do this.
• 38:36
  Yeah, and just kind of. Figured my shit.
• 38:40
  Out after a couple years. Got a 240 when I was 19, yeah, a
• 38:44
  couple years, a couple. Years when you had the VR4 that
• 38:46
  whole time where you switched. I ended up selling the VR4 at
• 38:49
  some point in college. I forget what year it was.
• 38:51
  Did you like that car? It was a good.
• 38:53
  Car it was very really, yeah. Very good.
• 38:56
  Class, it was great. I mean I don't know I was 16
• 38:59
  driving or we didn't really finish it till 17 but very
• 39:03
  complex car. But it's a twin turbo all-wheel
• 39:05
  drive car that makes like 300 horsepower with a transverse V.
• 39:08
  Six in the front too. I know, it's like a nightmare.
• 39:10
  Dude, that thing is so packed and well, that was.
• 39:12
  The reason why that car never really stacked up very well
• 39:15
  against like the R32? Because the the drivetrain was
• 39:18
  too weak. They're trying, they're stuffing
• 39:20
  like 60% of the power to the rear wheels.
• 39:22
  Yeah, Mitsubishi. Never learned case.
• 39:24
  They never learned. And then?
• 39:25
  Added like 200 vacuum lines. Yeah, it was.
• 39:28
  It was a complex car, but there was a lot of cool.
• 39:31
  It was great. It had the four.
• 39:32
  Wheel steering? Yep, active.
• 39:34
  Arrow like the window fold. Up what it all of that?
• 39:36
  Shit had an air duct in the. Front like an air dam that would
• 39:39
  fold down on the front. Dude, that's cool.
• 39:41
  That was. I was literally about to say
• 39:43
  that car had a lot of technological advances for
• 39:46
  Mitsubishi because they of those things.
• 39:49
  How? How did the?
• 39:50
  Active arrow work, How did there's a button right?
• 39:52
  Yeah, there's a switch. In the car so.
• 39:54
  You and you could. You could put it.
• 39:55
  On like like an auto kind of setting.
• 39:58
  Essentially, I think if you went over like 40 miles an hour or
• 40:00
  something, or like a certain speed or whatever, it was like
• 40:03
  shit, Amy. Like.
• 40:03
  That is Inc that is so cool the memory might.
• 40:06
  Not be served and what? Was the what was the air dam in
• 40:08
  the front? Do you remember what it was for
• 40:10
  air? Not?
• 40:11
  Really. I mean, I was AI was a kid.
• 40:13
  Yeah, I gotta look this. Up 'cause I'm interested in
• 40:15
  downforce print what? Yeah, just looks like a.
• 40:17
  Giant plastic like under tray on like went up to like the front
• 40:20
  of the bumper and it would like a lip.
• 40:22
  A lip looking thing comes down. I've seen a video of it, dude.
• 40:25
  It's like when. You're like slowing.
• 40:27
  Down. It's pretty stupid, but yeah,
• 40:29
  I'm glad. I'm glad they're throwing all
• 40:30
  the tech. They could at it, Yeah.
• 40:32
  So cool. Because it was the way the wing
• 40:35
  is cool. Yeah, I always wanted to.
• 40:37
  And if there's any youtubers out there looking for content, I
• 40:40
  always wanted to put A1J in AVR 4 and make it a drift car.
• 40:44
  That sounds like a nightmare. I know that was like my.
• 40:46
  Teenage Dream, though, 'cause there was a really a.
• 40:48
  Picture of the firewall. Just being straight down to the
• 40:51
  ground and pretty. No tunnel.
• 40:52
  There's that and the cross. Member Yeah, you'd have to like.
• 40:54
  Redesign the whole front suspension.
• 40:56
  But now there's people like Jimmy Oaks put and yeah he could
• 40:59
  do it. Yeah.
• 40:59
  Him and Brian. Jimmy get on that shit.
• 41:01
  I'm. Pretty sure.
• 41:03
  I follow somebody. His name's MM Stansko.
• 41:06
  Yeah, he drifts. A3000GT he does.
• 41:09
  Yeah, Mike, Yeah. Defusco, Defuco.
• 41:12
  He's so nice. I.
• 41:13
  Get I get to talk to him. He hit us on Instagram, he hit
• 41:15
  us up, he said. He heard, I think it was Sarah's
• 41:17
  podcast with us and then he's like he's like oh, if you ever
• 41:20
  want me to come by so we could talk to him about the 3000GT,
• 41:23
  you know what else he got? I.
• 41:24
  Don't know how many transfers he's gone through, yeah.
• 41:26
  That's. Not even a dig.
• 41:28
  It's just that, like, it's not a great design by Mitsubishi,
• 41:31
  yeah. What the power plant?
• 41:33
  Is. I never really looked into it.
• 41:35
  Me personally on his, his is like.
• 41:37
  An actual it's like the 6G72 and it's like the power plant like.
• 41:42
  Of. For that car.
• 41:42
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:43
  Wow. It's a 3.
• 41:44
  It's a 3 liter V6 and then some people do like some newer heads,
• 41:49
  or you can do like 3.5 liter 3.7 liter stroker stuff and like
• 41:53
  newer heads and shit, there's a yeah, there's a whole rabbit
• 41:56
  hole for those. Make it into AGQ.
• 41:58
  Fans out there, I saw. One the other day I.
• 41:59
  Feel like a lot of people have these cars.
• 42:01
  They just don't really like. We don't.
• 42:02
  We just don't know about it. Like there's a whole scene I
• 42:05
  might be blowing up the. Spot.
• 42:07
  But I I kind of want one again someday.
• 42:09
  Just knowing what I know now, I feel like I could actually make
• 42:11
  it pretty cool. Also there's if you want to go
• 42:13
  down that rabbit hole too real quick, there's a pit.
• 42:15
  Rd. M is a place in Japan.
• 42:18
  They're like, they specialize in over there is the GTO.
• 42:22
  But yeah dude, they made the coolest wide body kits that had
• 42:25
  like 7-8 hundred horsepower GTO. I was doing time.
• 42:27
  Attack stuff like they had really cool.
• 42:30
  Well, that's the poise. That that I get That or that's
• 42:32
  the immediate appeal to me for that car.
• 42:35
  Because personally, I hate to say it, but I wasn't a fan of
• 42:39
  the of the 3000GT when I learned more and more and more about it,
• 42:42
  'cause I liked it in Gran Turismo.
• 42:45
  The curb appeal is nuts. Like it's a rather large car.
• 42:49
  It's a pretty big car, like the framework of it.
• 42:51
  It's a big car. It's a heavy car.
• 42:52
  To me it's just a three. 100ZX but the engine's facing the
• 42:55
  wrong way and it's all-wheel drive.
• 42:56
  Yeah, yeah, I don't. That's what it is to me and the
• 42:59
  shape of it. Looks a lot more different than
• 43:01
  a 300ZX. A 300ZX was like a door wedge
• 43:03
  sometimes, so I had one of like the.
• 43:05
  Earlier Generation 1, so I still had flip up headlights.
• 43:07
  Oh, I didn't have that. Like the 1999 VR fours came with
• 43:11
  like a very similar to like an STI wing.
• 43:13
  It's huge, yeah. Combat Wing.
• 43:15
  Gigantic only. On 90. 9.
• 43:17
  And they had headlights kind of similar to like it was a dodge.
• 43:20
  Stealth, yeah. Stealth is the same.
• 43:22
  Car. Yeah, but I mean the.
• 43:23
  The, the, the, the, the Dodge Stealth that I see it more in
• 43:26
  abundance of. Has those big Oval headlights.
• 43:28
  Yeah, it almost looks. Like BLOB eyes, it's like a
• 43:30
  cokie. That's a cokie one, yeah.
• 43:32
  Technically, yeah. That'd be Cokie.
• 43:34
  Yeah. Yeah, I like the.
• 43:35
  Cokie, one with all that extra tidbit stuff because because the
• 43:39
  body is so big that wing, I'm like, God damn it's big as hell.
• 43:44
  And then you see that like three quarter view of it and I'm like.
• 43:48
  Yeah, that's I'll take a 300Z. Bucks over that shit, but.
• 43:51
  I I'll take it. Well, I got that car and we
• 43:53
  started going into it and I was like, just nerding out more and
• 43:57
  more and more about drifting stuff and eventually ended up
• 44:00
  selling the car to just dump all that money into my 2:40.
• 44:03
  Yeah. Well, so I got a pretty.
• 44:05
  Good penny for it at the time, and you still have your two. 40
• 44:08
  So yeah. Yeah.
• 44:09
  So it sounds. Like you build cars.
• 44:10
  Pretty particularly like you're pretty.
• 44:14
  Thorough type. Like I you're you're describing
• 44:16
  this restoration, I'm gonna call it a restoration.
• 44:18
  I'm assuming it was because you said it was like 2 years or
• 44:20
  something like that. Yeah, before it was done, so.
• 44:24
  How do you? How did you translate that into
• 44:26
  drifting? Because if when you go to a
• 44:27
  drift event, everything's already the sport itself is
• 44:30
  like. You're beating shit up.
• 44:33
  Like every day, right? But I.
• 44:34
  Think I think I knew a little bit about driving subconsciously
• 44:39
  because like, I got my first car when I was 6/6.
• 44:43
  All right, so we. We had we lived in a field and
• 44:46
  my dad bought my sister and I. It was a 1981 Pontiac T1000
• 44:51
  T1000 that sounds like. A Terminator?
• 44:53
  No. Frankie.
• 44:54
  Relax. That's AT-1000.
• 44:55
  They're coming for me, No. No, no, no, no, no.
• 44:58
  No, it's an. Ugly car.
• 44:59
  Oh God, it's an ugly one. 1000 It's the same thing as like a.
• 45:04
  Like a Chevette or something. It's like a it was a weird Ford.
• 45:06
  Frankie has. No idea what.
• 45:08
  That shit is never heard of her. I like.
• 45:11
  Maybe not the Chevette, but but a Corvair is cool and I heard
• 45:15
  that people didn't even really like those ones.
• 45:16
  Is a Chevette. Like a Corvette's sister.
• 45:20
  Step system now I'm. Question.
• 45:21
  Now I'm second. Guessing myself, so I don't
• 45:23
  know, Malcolm, could you mind? I got that picture, yeah.
• 45:25
  Why doesn't Malcolm know? Any of those?
• 45:26
  Come on. I thought you would know this
• 45:27
  shit, Pontiac. T1000 dude AT1.
• 45:30
  Thousand. That sounds like a Terminator.
• 45:32
  I don't. Yeah.
• 45:33
  T1000, Troyed T1000. Coming at, yeah, I was trained
• 45:37
  to. Run away from that.
• 45:37
  Oh God. Wait.
• 45:39
  I've. Seen one of.
• 45:40
  These. Really.
• 45:41
  Dude, there's one in my. Town.
• 45:42
  I swear to God I never knew What Car this was.
• 45:46
  Early 80s. OK, so is rear wheel drive.
• 45:48
  It's a 4 cylinder. It just looks like it's a power
• 45:50
  steering car. But I learned how to like slide
• 45:53
  in the mud. My dad showed me how to do like
• 45:54
  reverse one on rainy days. So you go out and slide around.
• 45:57
  You've been driving around. Since you were six.
• 46:00
  Trying to Yeah, that's wild. That's crazy, I learned.
• 46:02
  How to drive stick and it was it was a Thunderbird.
• 46:07
  It was a mid 80s like turbo Thunderbird that my dad bought
• 46:09
  for the engine cuz he he turbo swapped his.
• 46:12
  He has a Ford Pinto. Yeah, that, yeah.
• 46:14
  Aren't those just the? Those are not.
• 46:16
  Bombs on wheels, yeah. It was only.
• 46:18
  The certain years except for. And Robin big when they made
• 46:22
  that bitch run on used grease, they murdered it out.
• 46:24
  I forget what it was. It was.
• 46:26
  Yeah, they did 22. God, I love that.
• 46:28
  Did you know more Teslas? Have caught on fire than Ford
• 46:31
  Pintos. Good, because I ain't.
• 46:33
  Nobody talking. About them talking about that.
• 46:35
  But the Ford Pinto? We all know it when you when you
• 46:37
  talk about a. A Pinto to a boomer.
• 46:39
  They're just like, oh, it's a car that caught on fire.
• 46:42
  Yeah. And it's like, yeah, you're, I
• 46:43
  think, my mom. Burning right now.
• 46:45
  Actually, I think my mom flipped.
• 46:46
  Like three of those tests. Pinto.
• 46:47
  Those pintos. Yeah, she fucked a lot of those
• 46:49
  cars up. Jesus.
• 46:51
  Yeah. They're, they're just.
• 46:51
  Like a cheap economy car. Did they have that?
• 46:54
  No, no. Maybe this was past their
• 46:57
  there's a whole. Racing series for Pintos too, by
• 46:59
  the It's literally called Pony stock.
• 47:00
  I hope I never see pony. Stock.
• 47:02
  I've seen him. Sick.
• 47:04
  It's real. Dude, we need a we.
• 47:06
  Need a We need a cool name. Once we get the name Dude, I'm.
• 47:08
  I'm seeing. I could see them.
• 47:09
  I could. See it if you like.
• 47:10
  Styled it like a early 80s like Japanese car.
• 47:14
  Just like slammed on little wheels, Watts.
• 47:16
  Immediately just some sort of 4 cylinder.
• 47:18
  It came with four-cylinder it. Wouldn't be out of.
• 47:20
  Place that's crazy. Your dad.
• 47:22
  Your dad sounds like he was a real car guy.
• 47:25
  Yeah, he just. Yeah, yeah, he definitely is.
• 47:27
  He he really likes his older Cadillacs, but he went through a
• 47:31
  ton of pintos, like when he, and he's like he was just like
• 47:34
  working on cars for fun and like flipping them through college
• 47:37
  and stuff like that. And so it's always just been
• 47:39
  like a hobby. It kind of was a means to an end
• 47:42
  when he was younger, just 'cause he was like making more money.
• 47:44
  Just like he'd buy some piece of shit for like $50 and go give it
• 47:49
  some shitty paint job and OK. But like you said, he was going
• 47:54
  to like he. Like turboed something or yeah,
• 47:57
  he turbo. Swapped a Pinto.
• 47:58
  That's it. Makes like 300 foot pounds of
• 48:00
  torque is way too much. 300 foot.
• 48:02
  Pounds, yeah. The.
• 48:04
  Front. End is going to run away from
• 48:05
  the back. That's crazy.
• 48:08
  That's. Kind of cool.
• 48:09
  There's no way. That chassis.
• 48:10
  Can handle that the suspension. Can't keep up with how much
• 48:13
  power it makes currently, that's for sure.
• 48:14
  Is it stocks? Like the rest of it?
• 48:17
  Pretty much, yeah. It's.
• 48:17
  It's totally a sleeper. Aside of the fact he put like,
• 48:20
  he put like, wait, wait, he's like Mustang wheels on it.
• 48:22
  He still has his car. Yeah.
• 48:24
  Oh, this was a car that he did when I was like a kid, and he
• 48:27
  still has it now. Yeah.
• 48:29
  That's you. Pops.
• 48:30
  Yeah, you're right. That's.
• 48:31
  Literally. That's PJ Two.
• 48:32
  He doesn't sell his shit either, yeah.
• 48:34
  I I did sell. I I've sold 2S chassis in the
• 48:38
  past year. OK, but you didn't?
• 48:40
  Build them, did you? They were just cars.
• 48:42
  You. Got and then the KA car we.
• 48:43
  Sort of kind of built my friend a a few friends helped me.
• 48:47
  We just did like a bunch of suspension stuff, new clutch.
• 48:50
  Because when I was thinking. About was you seem.
• 48:52
  Like. You're like me where you just
• 48:54
  get something and you're like, Yep, that's what I'm gonna have
• 48:56
  forever. No, no.
• 48:57
  No, that's what I prefer. To do.
• 48:59
  I sold the KA car and I parted out another car specifically
• 49:03
  because I wanted an S15 and that was kind of the only becoming a
• 49:07
  homeowner. That was kind of, I had to make
• 49:09
  a sacrifice. But you know, the KA car for a
• 49:11
  spec car is like not a terrible trade off.
• 49:14
  No, that's good. So you have S15.
• 49:15
  Right now it's. Well, it's still in Japan, but
• 49:18
  yeah, OK. So you have the RX.
• 49:21
  Seven the S13 and then an S15 in Japan and.
• 49:26
  I have Ollie's old E36, OK. BMW Well, so you know dude.
• 49:34
  PJ is responsible, dude. Here's why responsible No.
• 49:37
  No. NO3S13 No no.
• 49:40
  No, no. No.
• 49:42
  I have 5. At one point, well, no, no, no.
• 49:44
  Here's how I know PJ is responsible because a few weeks
• 49:48
  ago when you were looking for the wheels, I full frontal said
• 49:53
  to PJ. Look man, Full disclosure, I'm
• 49:57
  not great with money. This conversation we're having,
• 50:00
  me giving you recommendations. Please feel free to not take any
• 50:02
  of this advice, not from me at least.
• 50:05
  Well, what was the situation? Like he had to get.
• 50:06
  I forgot we were talking about we.
• 50:07
  Were talking about credit. Cards just we're comparing.
• 50:10
  Credit cards or something? And travel.
• 50:13
  Points and like, yeah, we had a brief conversation about that.
• 50:16
  Yeah, I was talking. About that on my story, I was
• 50:18
  trying to get to the bottom of like, what's the best way to
• 50:21
  like travel in terms of like, reward?
• 50:23
  Yeah. What's the best like?
• 50:24
  Reward. That's what Smart.
• 50:25
  People talk about, yeah. Do you see what I'm saying?
• 50:28
  I'm getting too old to. Just be like, oh fuck it, we'll
• 50:31
  go on Google and buy a flight a month before we leave.
• 50:34
  All credit cards are. Very, very competitive with each
• 50:36
  other. Like, I mean there's some
• 50:38
  terrible interest rates. Yeah, they're all going to be
• 50:40
  horrible. Interest rates, but like as far
• 50:42
  as 4% or something? 2020. 2024 me.
• 50:48
  Me and Malcolm were talking. About this credit card thing the
• 50:50
  other day with the the error, the mileage like for I was like
• 50:54
  dude, just give me fucking cash back.
• 50:57
  I don't know how many miles get me where I don't but my mom.
• 51:01
  My mom has. My mom had so many of those and
• 51:06
  would pay for other trips, literally.
• 51:08
  Like rolling them over. Yeah, well be because family at
• 51:11
  5:00 we're going to the Philippines back and forth,
• 51:13
  we're going here going there like and there's some cards.
• 51:16
  That have like membership fees that like you pay or that credit
• 51:19
  card but if you're if you're actually but then it comes with
• 51:21
  perks where it's like, oh we'll give, we'll give you Netflix and
• 51:25
  like some other stupid shit. But then the points.
• 51:27
  Are actually like kind of decent.
• 51:28
  It's a lounge access. To this flight or something so.
• 51:30
  Lounge access is. Sick.
• 51:31
  You just want that lounge? At the airport, bro.
• 51:33
  You never. Bro, I've never felt more bougie
• 51:35
  in my life. OK, one time.
• 51:37
  That and TSA. Pre-check.
• 51:39
  That's the one I really had. To do, I've been slacking on it,
• 51:41
  so. Hard.
• 51:42
  Like anytime we've been to like final bout and I see her and
• 51:44
  like some of those dudes just like through that that has.
• 51:48
  That's, that's some Rich, I've never experienced that.
• 51:50
  Yeah, trying to. Feel a little fancy?
• 51:52
  Yeah. There's nothing wrong with but
• 51:53
  my sky lounge. Experience.
• 51:55
  I was. They're not going to let me.
• 51:57
  Do PSA check. They're going to look at me and
• 51:58
  be like, no, you got to go through the full thing.
• 52:01
  No, they're just going to. Think you're fucking?
• 52:03
  No. Just go to lead singer Mayday
• 52:04
  Parade and. Then going to be like let him.
• 52:07
  Through. Let him through.
• 52:07
  Let him through. He's got a show.
• 52:09
  Yeah, he's. Got a show, dude some?
• 52:11
  Some Ray Bans on Frankie. Mess up the hair a little bit.
• 52:15
  Look like you got off a Bender. You're a rock star.
• 52:17
  Yeah, you're right. I could.
• 52:18
  Do that anyway, I went to the. Airport.
• 52:19
  And those lounges are sick because they give you unlimited
• 52:22
  food. Don't tell me that shit 'cause
• 52:24
  I'm going to fight somebody in there if you get in front of me.
• 52:27
  I was trying to get home too. I fly on standby.
• 52:30
  I used to fly on standby a lot more and then I got stuck in
• 52:33
  Vegas. It was the Vegas airport.
• 52:35
  They have a Delta lounge there. I had so much fucking food I
• 52:39
  passed out there. Fly on standby.
• 52:42
  Flying on. Standby is like, let's say the
• 52:44
  plane doesn't sell all the seats, then you like are on the
• 52:47
  list. Oh, at like the last.
• 52:48
  Minute. Oh, I think that's what the D
• 52:50
  Magic or Mike used to do. His dad was like a pilot or
• 52:53
  something. Yeah, my dad works.
• 52:54
  For United and is an employee, so then I get that perk.
• 52:57
  So do you get free? Or free flights through him.
• 52:59
  Or yeah, like I pay. Like the tax on it.
• 53:02
  So it's usually like less than 20 bucks or something like that.
• 53:05
  Here's your flight to Japan. No, I it doesn't.
• 53:07
  That would be. So well though.
• 53:10
  That would be a nightmare because you'd have layovers in
• 53:11
  different countries. No, no, no.
• 53:13
  It's. Not that it's just like some of
• 53:15
  the experiences I've had. Like I've for example, trying to
• 53:19
  No, no, no, I've I've only successfully had one person.
• 53:24
  Any. Anytime you want to fly more
• 53:25
  than two, good fucking luck. You better be flying to
• 53:29
  somewhere, like in the middle of, I don't know, one of the
• 53:31
  Dakotas. But when me and.
• 53:33
  Carl had to. Go to California or something.
• 53:36
  We we were going to do that. And then Carl was like you
• 53:37
  should just go yourself and I'll try to make my way there and
• 53:41
  that that's the best we just met up.
• 53:43
  It was so cowboy. It was crazy.
• 53:46
  Like I flew. I was on the, I was at the gate
• 53:49
  to go to California. That plane filled up like I was
• 53:52
  the next fucking name. And it filled up and and and
• 53:57
  right there. Not to wish bad on anybody else,
• 54:00
  but you're hoping somebody doesn't show up, right?
• 54:03
  And that someone's going. To miss their flight and then
• 54:04
  and then. The worst is when you see
• 54:06
  somebody running down and they're they're about to call
• 54:09
  you and you're like, just. Have you ever had any like?
• 54:12
  First class upgrades or anything tons.
• 54:15
  Wait, what? You get first class, that's what
• 54:17
  I'm that's. What I'm trying to do trying.
• 54:18
  To get loyal to like an airline or yes, that's what you have.
• 54:21
  To do wait how does? That work?
• 54:22
  Carl, like they just like how do you get the upgrade this is what
• 54:26
  this. Is the best one I've gotten so
• 54:28
  far. You you're supposed to check it
• 54:30
  off that like you would like. If it's available to be
• 54:34
  upgraded, it's a. It's like a a option in the
• 54:37
  United app, at least for me, but even.
• 54:39
  Like even though you don't have a ticket and you're and you're
• 54:42
  yeah and you still because how many first.
• 54:45
  Class tickets, are they selling and not everybody is going to
• 54:48
  take it, or what do you think they would?
• 54:50
  Offer it to someone who paid for a fucking plane ticket 1st
• 54:52
  instead of like I don't know, this is how.
• 54:55
  This is how I got it. We were going to a bachelor
• 54:57
  party. I didn't pay for the ticket.
• 54:58
  I got invited to the bachelor party last minute.
• 55:00
  We're going to, Oh no, we're going to Puerto Rico.
• 55:02
  We're going to Puerto Rico. This guy gets around.
• 55:05
  I get on. I get on the.
• 55:06
  Plane or or we're going to get on the plane and then I last
• 55:10
  minute get a upgrade like it says like you've been upgraded.
• 55:13
  I'm on row like two of the plane I can I'm.
• 55:18
  Dabbing up. The pilot I'm like yo Tapping
• 55:21
  and Vlad his plane. Nice boy like and then I I.
• 55:24
  Sit. Down and and for some reason I
• 55:27
  feel like they knew I've never flown first class before.
• 55:30
  Probably because I had one of those ones where there was a the
• 55:35
  foot rest and it was angled and. It's they give.
• 55:38
  You like capsule inch? Monitor and it's huge.
• 55:40
  It's huge. And then and then, you know the
• 55:43
  rest of our bachelor party like, passes their I'm, I'm yelling
• 55:47
  on, yeah, get to the back. Man.
• 55:49
  Yeah, go over there to coach, man.
• 55:51
  Go over to the coach walking by me.
• 55:53
  Right now, I don't wave to the poor.
• 55:54
  'S man, I'm sorry too when you get on the.
• 55:56
  Plane you got to pass all the rich people they were so.
• 55:58
  I I was, I was cracking up because I'm like, I'm like,
• 56:01
  dude, I don't know how really this happened.
• 56:03
  And the whole time, before we're ever taken off the lady, the
• 56:07
  stewardess comes over, would you like a mimosa?
• 56:10
  Blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, I can have mimosas
• 56:12
  right now. The plane hasn't even taken off
• 56:14
  the ground. How long is that flight?
• 56:16
  Like what? Like couple hours maybe.
• 56:17
  I have no. Idea because I I said.
• 56:20
  I said. Can I have it so?
• 56:23
  That when you see this glass, don't even ask me, Just fill it
• 56:26
  up, Fill it up, she said. Absolutely everyone else in
• 56:30
  first class was a noodle. They were not having fun.
• 56:33
  I was having fun and then she came over eventually when we're
• 56:36
  in the air and she was like, what would you like to eat?
• 56:37
  And I was like, I get food and she's like, absolutely.
• 56:40
  I'm like this is great all the other first class.
• 56:42
  People are probably on like Ambien or something.
• 56:44
  Yeah, they were all like. Probably wake me up tired, yeah.
• 56:48
  But The thing is, is they gave me like a great fucking
• 56:50
  Southwest, like griddle thing, like platter.
• 56:53
  Nice. I ate that with.
• 56:55
  Like 8 mimosas in about 45 minutes and then I passed out.
• 57:00
  Like I found out you can recline the chair and then I I was like,
• 57:03
  can I get a blanket? And guess what the answer was?
• 57:06
  You got a blanket? Absolutely I got the blanket.
• 57:09
  Well, they. Give you like the little like,
• 57:10
  no, dude. This thing was no, this wasn't
• 57:12
  the poor blanket. This was.
• 57:13
  This was a good. Blanket quilt, Yeah.
• 57:16
  Here's a handmade. Quilt but I had the blanket and
• 57:19
  then obviously still drinking mimosas, watching TV bro.
• 57:23
  When I woke up the plane was descending and then like I look
• 57:28
  and like the the mimosa glasses are all clean, you know the
• 57:32
  light that I had was like now dimmed, like she dimmed the
• 57:36
  light so that when I woke up it wouldn't be bright.
• 57:39
  Fucking fantastic. What kind of fucking?
• 57:41
  Stewardess, did you have? The shitty part?
• 57:42
  Is is that. When we landed, the rest of the
• 57:45
  group was. Pissed.
• 57:47
  Because they got no alcohol and they got no food.
• 57:51
  And their ass hurt. Yeah.
• 57:53
  They. Were shoulder to shoulder.
• 57:55
  I was like, yo, what'd you guys get to eat?
• 57:57
  And then they some stoppy, Joe. It.
• 58:03
  Was great flying first class. I will never pay for that, no.
• 58:07
  How much do you think it was that that trip, if I know?
• 58:10
  Probably like a few grand. Or something I'd imagine people
• 58:12
  know you're. Not flying and paid for it.
• 58:14
  You're considered non Rev because the the flight makes no
• 58:17
  money off of you right there. I try to look it up.
• 58:19
  Sometimes if I'm going somewhere like let me see what first class
• 58:22
  looks like and I'm like OK, never doing that I'm trying to
• 58:25
  get my. Work to send me to Japan because
• 58:27
  we actually, well, it would be it would be business class at
• 58:30
  least, which is still better. So it's first.
• 58:32
  Business and then poor, yeah, yes.
• 58:34
  Yeah, it's not. Actually called.
• 58:35
  Poor, poor seat, yeah. Wait, so business?
• 58:38
  It's P class. For P class, for poor, but
• 58:40
  that's. Only.
• 58:40
  On like. Internet that's only on like
• 58:42
  international flights because I think domestic I've only seen
• 58:45
  1st and I want to say it depends.
• 58:47
  Upon the airline, OK. Yeah.
• 58:50
  Like spirit business, I'm not always on spirit.
• 58:53
  Carl Chopin airline might be like.
• 58:55
  That actually, they might, they might just be like first class
• 58:58
  and poor. Yeah, but I love how that's.
• 59:00
  Now the What's the best? Airline What's your airline?
• 59:03
  A choice, I want to know. You don't have to say United,
• 59:06
  even though mine is United. You like united?
• 59:08
  I just that was. The one You're like a JetBlue
• 59:10
  guy. I'm not.
• 59:12
  But I almost was, I think for a minute, probably.
• 59:15
  Probably United or Delta. Yeah.
• 59:17
  I have a friend that flies. Delta.
• 59:18
  I know I pretty. Sure, Evan.
• 59:21
  Turk is like, he's like pretty situated with Delta and like has
• 59:26
  like gets, you know, rewards calls and like free upgrades and
• 59:30
  shit like that. But he was saying it's like
• 59:31
  changing in like 2025 or something.
• 59:34
  So he's going to try pivoting to another airline.
• 59:36
  Because there's that was what came up when like that sparked
• 59:39
  the whole credit card debate. How long is the flight to?
• 59:42
  Japan. From JFK it was like just under
• 59:46
  14 for like a direct flow. Now do you have?
• 59:49
  To come all the way down. Here for a fucking airport to go
• 59:51
  to Japan. Oh my God, I tried one year.
• 59:53
  Flying from the Albany airport and it was it was terrible
• 59:58
  because like basically I flew from Albany to New York to
• 1:00:01
  'cause we tried doing Air Canada, 'cause it was like a
• 1:00:03
  little bit cheaper and not worth it.
• 1:00:05
  But we I flew from Albany to, I think JFK to Toronto and then
• 1:00:12
  over. So it was like just so much that
• 1:00:14
  sounds like. Hell, so you take like.
• 1:00:16
  It was all because I. Wanted to be like 20 minutes
• 1:00:18
  from the airport and it was so not worth it.
• 1:00:20
  Just had so many layovers and on a flight off.
• 1:00:22
  So do you have someone? Longer you have someone drive
• 1:00:24
  you down here. Is that how that works?
• 1:00:25
  Usually train. Can you?
• 1:00:27
  Get together a train. Oh, I took.
• 1:00:29
  Oh, I. Took the train home.
• 1:00:30
  This time. I my parents brought me to the
• 1:00:33
  airport when I went in October. And then I I took a train home
• 1:00:39
  this time around because I I'm like walking distance from
• 1:00:41
  Amtrak and Rensselaer. So like, I literally just walked
• 1:00:44
  up the hill. I never realized.
• 1:00:45
  I never. Realized how spoiled we were to
• 1:00:46
  have three airports with. I know, right?
• 1:00:48
  20 minutes it was. Terrible.
• 1:00:50
  Just because, like, dude, an Uber from JFK to Penn Station
• 1:00:54
  was like almost $90.00. Yeah, it was fucking terrible,
• 1:00:57
  but it costs. One thing my sister does is she
• 1:00:59
  will go to Albany airport, rent a car and just drive it and
• 1:01:03
  return it. And then when she comes back,
• 1:01:05
  she'll rent another car and just drive it to Albany Airport and
• 1:01:07
  return it because that is cheaper that.
• 1:01:09
  Is cheaper. Than leaving a car in long term
• 1:01:12
  parking at like JFK or some airport like it's literally.
• 1:01:15
  Cheaper to. Rent two cars.
• 1:01:16
  Another reason. To leave your own there.
• 1:01:19
  Another. Reason I did United was because
• 1:01:20
  it seemed like they had a lot of flights that flew out of Newark.
• 1:01:23
  And I I always just try to fly out of Newark because I really
• 1:01:26
  don't want to go through the city to get because that just.
• 1:01:29
  I mean, you're. Right here, so I know it would
• 1:01:30
  do that too. Saying that to.
• 1:01:31
  You is ridiculous. But, like, if we're here and we
• 1:01:34
  have Newark there, it's like, well, what's the point of trying
• 1:01:37
  to get someone to drive me through fucking New York City
• 1:01:39
  if, I mean, if I could? Catch a flight out of Albany to
• 1:01:41
  Japan. I would not be fucking coming
• 1:01:43
  down here like almost three hours, you know?
• 1:01:45
  So dude. Three hours.
• 1:01:47
  Is crazy for an airplane, I know, But what I was going to
• 1:01:50
  say is, have you ever spent that amount of time on a plane?
• 1:01:53
  Frankie, How much? That 14 hour flight that you're
• 1:01:56
  going to? Definitely not.
• 1:01:57
  It's terrible. It's nuts.
• 1:01:59
  It's pretty terrible. It's nuts.
• 1:02:00
  Because when I was, and I think about this all the time, I used
• 1:02:03
  to spend summers in the Philippines when I was younger,
• 1:02:06
  which sucked because you would never make friends over the
• 1:02:07
  summer and all the cool shit happens in the summer.
• 1:02:09
  So I would go to the Philippines, but back then you
• 1:02:12
  had no phone, no whatever. What are you playing now?
• 1:02:16
  Angry Birds? No, but I've never played angry.
• 1:02:21
  Birds for the rest, I don't think that you.
• 1:02:23
  Ever would have, but but I'm saying like those flights were
• 1:02:26
  so long. So now for me, I'm like,
• 1:02:29
  whatever, I know what to do here.
• 1:02:31
  How? What are you going?
• 1:02:32
  To do though. My ass up and.
• 1:02:34
  Walk around you could. Stand up.
• 1:02:36
  You should stand up. Otherwise, if you don't stand
• 1:02:38
  up, well, you gotta. Pee.
• 1:02:40
  Imagine us standing up for. 12 hours, bro.
• 1:02:43
  You gotta go stand up and hit the ground or like I think my
• 1:02:46
  first time. Going to Japan, we actually, and
• 1:02:48
  they're not supposed to let you do this, but we literally, like,
• 1:02:50
  we're just standing in the back of the airplane for like 45
• 1:02:53
  minutes. We're just standing talking.
• 1:02:54
  Yeah, 'cause we're. Just sitting for like 14 hours.
• 1:02:56
  It's terrible. Oh my God, we're.
• 1:02:58
  Trying to like. Hitting on the.
• 1:02:59
  Stewardess. Now I'm thinking first.
• 1:03:02
  Chat around activity well. That's why, yeah.
• 1:03:04
  That's why, yeah, I was trying to figure out like, can I
• 1:03:08
  somehow fly the plane? You're right.
• 1:03:11
  Oh. OK.
• 1:03:13
  Get into first class. We could lay down.
• 1:03:14
  Yeah. Hey.
• 1:03:16
  You mind if I like get on the yolks I want to I?
• 1:03:18
  Want to get into a plane that has two levels.
• 1:03:21
  I haven't. Done one of those.
• 1:03:23
  Yet, yeah, those things are. Where are they hiding?
• 1:03:26
  Those things like a president has them.
• 1:03:28
  Like how do you get in? One of those you got to go to
• 1:03:30
  like fucking, I don't know Russia like president owned his.
• 1:03:33
  Own. I'm pretty sure Trump had his
• 1:03:35
  own entire like 747 or 787 or whatever.
• 1:03:39
  Yeah, but fuck that. Guy my.
• 1:03:40
  Grandfather flew once from an airline.
• 1:03:43
  He, my grandpa did a lot of like overseas worker placement.
• 1:03:48
  It was it's AI, don't know. I forget what the fuck it was
• 1:03:51
  called OFW something Foreign Workers Association.
• 1:03:56
  But he would fly a lot using Etihad.
• 1:03:58
  Etihad. ETI.
• 1:04:01
  HAD OK. Because he would go to Saudi.
• 1:04:04
  Arabia all the time. Oh, there's a place.
• 1:04:06
  OK, so maybe you gotta go to the Middle East in order to take one
• 1:04:08
  of those planes, dude, I was told.
• 1:04:10
  There's like a black market for like first class flights and
• 1:04:13
  stuff. He was.
• 1:04:13
  He was like. A Gray market?
• 1:04:15
  There's we we know a name that I'll tell you later.
• 1:04:18
  I'm not gonna years. Ago.
• 1:04:19
  Years ago. I haven't looked into it yet.
• 1:04:21
  Because it's technically illegal, but like, I don't know,
• 1:04:24
  it's some weird like no worries. But well.
• 1:04:26
  I'm not trying to get bopped in a country like Japan.
• 1:04:28
  Yeah, we're gonna. I know what's.
• 1:04:29
  Gonna happen where you're gonna get stranded in China if you got
• 1:04:32
  arrested in. Japan, like you're You're gonna
• 1:04:34
  just live in that jail cell Pretty much.
• 1:04:35
  So I don't. Know if I want to go anymore.
• 1:04:39
  You don't do anything. Bad.
• 1:04:41
  Just don't. Bring any.
• 1:04:41
  Drugs and let you. I was.
• 1:04:43
  I was going to. Say, like, imagine the people
• 1:04:45
  that smoke every day and fucking like rely on that shit like, oh,
• 1:04:49
  you wouldn't make. It no, I would.
• 1:04:51
  You. Have no.
• 1:04:52
  Idea. I can get by all right, I would
• 1:04:54
  do anything else? January.
• 1:04:56
  We'll see. That's like, well, I'd be.
• 1:04:58
  Wrong every day. Well.
• 1:05:00
  There's open container laws in Japan, so I crack a beer on the
• 1:05:02
  strong zeros. All day long.
• 1:05:04
  Oh God, those will. Fuck you up, dude.
• 1:05:06
  They're like 9%. That's fine couple.
• 1:05:08
  Couple nine couple Niners our Australian.
• 1:05:11
  Friend used to try and play a game of how close can you get to
• 1:05:14
  100%, so with just adding up 9 each time, Oh my God nine.
• 1:05:20
  Yeah. That's horrible.
• 1:05:21
  They're, yeah, they're strong actually.
• 1:05:23
  Brought one back for my friend. I did hear I.
• 1:05:25
  Heard a lot about they're just random people just passed down
• 1:05:29
  on the ground, like in the cities, the whole like.
• 1:05:32
  Shibuya meltdown. Have you ever seen that
• 1:05:34
  Instagram account? No.
• 1:05:35
  But it's all just salary, man. Just fuck it.
• 1:05:37
  Okay, Homie yacked on himself and like, no train.
• 1:05:41
  And shit like that. It's so they say they say they.
• 1:05:44
  Work a lot over there, right? Yeah.
• 1:05:45
  I think we work a lot over here too, though, so I want to.
• 1:05:48
  That's the. Misconception.
• 1:05:49
  Yeah, we we work hard too, because we're America.
• 1:05:52
  I just don't. Believe actually, but I mean,
• 1:05:55
  I'm sure they, I'm sure they overwork.
• 1:05:56
  Like I wonder what the average work time is per week for Japan.
• 1:06:02
  'Cause I went when I was in Japan in October.
• 1:06:05
  I went to my company, like just opened an office in Tokyo this
• 1:06:09
  year. So, like, I made it a point to,
• 1:06:10
  like, go out of my way, use my own time and money and whatever
• 1:06:13
  to go to the office to just kind of like, shake some hands and
• 1:06:16
  like, you guys need a new one or whatever.
• 1:06:18
  But did you just light a? Black and mile No do.
• 1:06:22
  You want one? I opened the beer for him.
• 1:06:24
  Oh, I thought. I heard a.
• 1:06:25
  Lighter. I was like, what the fuck are we
• 1:06:27
  doing? No.
• 1:06:27
  We're like, no. Malcolm lit a black and mile.
• 1:06:30
  He's smoking right now in the office.
• 1:06:32
  If you were tapped. Into the video portion of this
• 1:06:34
  you would have known he's not we're we're.
• 1:06:36
  Sparking blunts in here. Oh my God.
• 1:06:39
  Frank. Frankie's chugging.
• 1:06:40
  A beer, right? Now, dude, he's crazy.
• 1:06:42
  He's got the funnel. Out.
• 1:06:43
  That's crazy. That's the fun.
• 1:06:46
  So you you went. To the the new work, oh, the
• 1:06:49
  office. Yeah, and they they do not get
• 1:06:53
  like, hardly any PTO compared to like we do in the US like over
• 1:06:57
  there. I think maybe.
• 1:06:59
  What the fuck? What did they say?
• 1:07:00
  I think they said they got like maybe 10 days or something.
• 1:07:03
  Oh my God. And.
• 1:07:05
  Malcolm's like what's? PTO I just like.
• 1:07:07
  Passed over 8. That's almost a few years.
• 1:07:10
  No, I'm in like a you guys are corporate.
• 1:07:12
  You guys can. Talk this one out.
• 1:07:13
  Yeah, Yeah. We're.
• 1:07:14
  Blue collar. We don't think.
• 1:07:16
  I'm about to. That's insane.
• 1:07:18
  Well, I thought I was doing pretty good because I have like,
• 1:07:20
  well now I have because I've been in my company long enough.
• 1:07:23
  They after like a five year mark, they give you a few extra
• 1:07:25
  days and they just added some other kind of like Flex, PTO or
• 1:07:28
  whatever it's supposed to be for like appointments or whatever.
• 1:07:31
  Some bullshit mental health days.
• 1:07:32
  Yeah, yeah, they give you three of those and I have 20-3 days,
• 1:07:35
  so I guess in total I have like 20-6 days a year.
• 1:07:38
  Malcolm. Do you need a mental health day?
• 1:07:43
  Yes, how? Many.
• 1:07:44
  Do you need? Yes, you'll see me.
• 1:07:46
  January 14th. Well, that's part of why I'm.
• 1:07:50
  Down here right now is because are you on a PTO?
• 1:07:52
  Right now, well, my company. Shuts down.
• 1:07:54
  They stopped manufacturing between Christmas and New Year's
• 1:07:56
  because I'm technically a non essential employee so I just get
• 1:07:59
  like a free paid week off every year.
• 1:08:02
  Between Christmas and New Year, you're on Essential you're.
• 1:08:04
  Non essential, so we're going to pay you for this week.
• 1:08:06
  This week I work like. Sick I'll take.
• 1:08:08
  A I'll take a week off. I worked.
• 1:08:10
  I had some weird like like floating holiday hours because I
• 1:08:14
  was on. I was out on disability during
• 1:08:17
  the 4th of July because I had a kidney stone surgery and it's
• 1:08:20
  horrible. It's terrible.
• 1:08:22
  And Oh my God, I yeah, I had like some weird PTO.
• 1:08:26
  So I just like tacked that on to the week.
• 1:08:28
  So I've been off since like last Thursday.
• 1:08:31
  Yeah, which is go fuck yourself. That was Carl.
• 1:08:34
  No, actually, I mean last because it's the.
• 1:08:36
  Man, that's about to get. Unlimited PTO last but the.
• 1:08:39
  Thing is OK you can take like. Two months off, but they'll
• 1:08:43
  probably be pretty pissed off and like, try to, they'll fire
• 1:08:45
  you 2. Months, I'm saying for.
• 1:08:47
  His like, unlimited situations. You could try to milk it, but
• 1:08:50
  they'll. Like they say, it's unlimited.
• 1:08:51
  It's called it's like. It's some corporate.
• 1:08:53
  It's called unlimited. But as an example, right now for
• 1:08:56
  two weeks my. Job has.
• 1:08:58
  Been a lot more lenient with me working from home when I need to
• 1:09:02
  and like and when you don't need to go into the office 'cause
• 1:09:05
  everybody's off, then I'm not gonna go into the office.
• 1:09:08
  The point of going to the office is that you can collaborate,
• 1:09:10
  sorry, is that you can collaborate with your teammates
• 1:09:13
  easier. You don't have to walk around,
• 1:09:14
  you don't have to call, like it's it's faster.
• 1:09:17
  So that's why they like you in the office.
• 1:09:21
  When they tell you you have unlimited PTO, that means you
• 1:09:24
  could be out of the office. So technically, let's say you
• 1:09:27
  weren't supposed to be working from home.
• 1:09:28
  You call a PTO, you're at home, you're doing your work.
• 1:09:31
  Or let's say you call a PTO and then you take five more PTOS and
• 1:09:34
  your work is not getting done. That's a red flag, you.
• 1:09:39
  Shouldn't be taking PTOS. It's a double edged sword.
• 1:09:41
  It's a responsibility that you should know to work from home.
• 1:09:45
  I just tell. Him.
• 1:09:45
  I don't. I was gonna.
• 1:09:46
  Say I tell him. I I usually when I'm working
• 1:09:48
  from home, there's a reason like I I can't make it in the office
• 1:09:51
  or something like that. Or maybe I'm sick, or I have a
• 1:09:52
  cough and I don't wanna contribute to the germ fest
• 1:09:55
  that's that is a corporate office sometimes or you gotta
• 1:09:58
  put a Jay-Z. Together.
• 1:09:59
  Well, yeah, especially. Post COVID kind of corporate
• 1:10:02
  culture, but also I work in a building where we actually
• 1:10:05
  manufacture medicine. So it is kind of important for
• 1:10:07
  me to like if I potentially might not be feeling well, like,
• 1:10:11
  yeah, I probably shouldn't because you have to be sanitary.
• 1:10:13
  There could be potential impact. To product or patient, you could
• 1:10:15
  start COVID. 19 right there, right start on COVID. 20 COVID
• 1:10:19
  20. That's that's ground.
• 1:10:21
  Zero right there this year I. Had 3030 something days of PTO
• 1:10:30
  'cause I rolled over 5 from the year prior.
• 1:10:33
  You can roll over days and stuff like that for.
• 1:10:35
  A month too. That's corporate.
• 1:10:36
  Malcolm was an hour late. Today I fucking shat on him all
• 1:10:39
  day 'cause how, first of all. Malcolm was out late last night
• 1:10:42
  because we were having a great time at dinner.
• 1:10:44
  First of all, Carl. You're not.
• 1:10:46
  You're not going for dinner later?
• 1:10:47
  By the way, that we are HR. Probably.
• 1:10:49
  This is not live, so we're good. Probably juicy platters.
• 1:10:52
  Halal guy. Wait, you don't want to get?
• 1:10:53
  Like, oh wait, what do you want to do?
• 1:10:56
  Oh, I'm down for. Whatever.
• 1:10:56
  PJ. What PJ?
• 1:10:57
  Recommended ramen and like, I don't know, nothing's going to
• 1:11:00
  be. Open a side of.
• 1:11:02
  Like if we go into the city in the city that would be
• 1:11:04
  different. Yeah, but I'm always down have.
• 1:11:06
  You ever been to eat Pudo? There's.
• 1:11:09
  Like 3 of them. In the city I have not Frankie.
• 1:11:11
  Is not. That that is a caliber of food
• 1:11:14
  that maybe Frankie and I don't know, we have juicy platters
• 1:11:16
  every time after this podcast we get it's right there.
• 1:11:18
  And what is a juicy platter? What is it?
• 1:11:20
  It's a platter. That's.
• 1:11:21
  Juicy. PJ It's just it's just halal.
• 1:11:23
  Food. Like.
• 1:11:25
  Yeah, it's like a it's like what you would.
• 1:11:27
  Get out at A streetcar, Kind of, but it's like a.
• 1:11:29
  Franchise. So they have different
• 1:11:31
  restaurants, but it's it's not anything crazy.
• 1:11:34
  It's good as fuck though. Now I feel like I I.
• 1:11:36
  Disappointed PJ 'cause I was like, I mean I'm down.
• 1:11:39
  And then no, not I'm down. For like whatever, like I like
• 1:11:41
  going to like a friend's like town and just like I'm
• 1:11:45
  experiencing that is the. That is a podcast experience.
• 1:11:47
  It really is. Unfortunately it is.
• 1:11:49
  And I feel like we haven't had one person who's been like, I
• 1:11:53
  mean, it was all right. Andrew Fable, ate.
• 1:11:55
  That shit and was going to knock out like, right on the table.
• 1:11:58
  He was like, it was pretty good. I look at his bowl clean, yeah.
• 1:12:03
  I'm like. Damn, the city is I.
• 1:12:05
  Mean it's a. Andrew's It's a nice.
• 1:12:06
  I love. Andrew, so much I don't know.
• 1:12:08
  Don't ask about. Bostown.
• 1:12:09
  Without me back here. I'm going to go to.
• 1:12:12
  The restroom. But don't ask about Bostown yet,
• 1:12:14
  OK all. Right.
• 1:12:14
  So we're going to talk about Boston.
• 1:12:15
  I'm. Just kidding.
• 1:12:19
  Carl's leaving. Me.
• 1:12:19
  So now you got to run the. Ship.
• 1:12:22
  We'll see how this goes. How it?
• 1:12:24
  Goes right. So.
• 1:12:25
  PTO. Right.
• 1:12:27
  Hell of a drug, Carl. Just.
• 1:12:29
  Laughs in the back. Yeah, Carl, just be building 1
• 1:12:33
  JS and shit like. On the clock.
• 1:12:37
  Yeah, me and Malcolm just. Sitting here all day, me and.
• 1:12:39
  Malcolm. He just calls us all day.
• 1:12:41
  We're like, what does he like? Does he work?
• 1:12:43
  Are you doing anything? He's never working.
• 1:12:45
  Well, it's different I I. I guess if you're at home, yeah,
• 1:12:49
  it's a lot easier to get away with.
• 1:12:50
  I was like, oh, Carl had the. Week off.
• 1:12:52
  I just found out now he didn't, so I don't.
• 1:12:54
  Know how that but? He's just been working at home.
• 1:12:56
  Or something. I think he just like types one.
• 1:12:57
  Sentence a day and then he's like, yeah, I worked well, I.
• 1:13:00
  Got to a point with my job where it was like I needed to be in
• 1:13:04
  office because I was basically just like issuing like
• 1:13:05
  manufacturing paperwork and stuff.
• 1:13:07
  But now I'm like, I'm a lead, so I'm like on the management team.
• 1:13:12
  So technically I do the stuff that like everyone else does,
• 1:13:16
  but I'm also on the management team.
• 1:13:17
  So I have like 5 people reporting to me and sounds like,
• 1:13:20
  sounds like. Carl getting pretty good at.
• 1:13:22
  Delegating stuff so he's in kind of a.
• 1:13:25
  Lead role a little bit No I. Don't think so.
• 1:13:29
  I thought he was, which is like it.
• 1:13:31
  That's a weird position to get. I mean, you you own your own
• 1:13:34
  company. It's weird.
• 1:13:35
  It's weird at first, like just delegating where it felt weird
• 1:13:38
  for me at least to like start asking people to like, hey, you
• 1:13:42
  need, can you just. Do that and.
• 1:13:45
  Like, I've I've gotten better at it, for sure, because I've been
• 1:13:48
  in this position for like, no, I know what you're saying.
• 1:13:51
  Like a year and a half. Or so now.
• 1:13:52
  But yeah, I. Mean.
• 1:13:54
  Especially when you're you're working for someone else and
• 1:13:57
  then you're delegating work to other people.
• 1:13:59
  So I'm trying to get. Shit off my plate so I can take
• 1:14:01
  the stuff that the director's actually going to be stoked on
• 1:14:04
  and like. Get myself a.
• 1:14:06
  Promotion or something, I mean really at the end.
• 1:14:08
  Of the day. Delegating work is so that you
• 1:14:10
  can do the stuff that they can't do and you know, do it to the
• 1:14:15
  best of your ability without being, you know, bothered by
• 1:14:18
  other stuff. So, but there's a there's like a
• 1:14:21
  line there that you can't cross where you start giving them all
• 1:14:24
  the work. I was just listening.
• 1:14:25
  To a podcast where they said something like.
• 1:14:29
  What was it? There's something about like
• 1:14:31
  delegating work that it's it's like the kind of work that you
• 1:14:36
  delegate where you would like delegate like a simple task and
• 1:14:38
  you take and you take a task for yourself that requires more
• 1:14:43
  knowledge instead of just like just doing something.
• 1:14:45
  Yeah, exactly. Or something that.
• 1:14:47
  Only you can heard this, but something only you can do you're
• 1:14:50
  talking about. Delegating work.
• 1:14:52
  Yeah. Like are you?
• 1:14:53
  Do you? Have some sort of management
• 1:14:55
  position in your kind of. I have two.
• 1:14:57
  There, there I have 2 reports and then like I got you beep.
• 1:15:00
  You know, five. Damn, it's terrible, but it's
• 1:15:03
  not. Yeah, but I just feel like I
• 1:15:04
  would meet in the street. PJ Well, some team will beat.
• 1:15:07
  Your five up easy. Probably.
• 1:15:09
  I mean I have all. Chicks reporting to me so
• 1:15:11
  normally murder. He's a sweet guy.
• 1:15:14
  Man, I love my team. I love my team so much.
• 1:15:16
  They're they're like the most supportive today.
• 1:15:18
  It's end of it's end of year. So I mentioned that work in
• 1:15:21
  finance end of year, it's a very busy time because people need to
• 1:15:24
  spend money. People need to, you know, right
• 1:15:26
  off. Yeah, they're, yeah.
• 1:15:28
  And and whatever. Else that entails go buy a new.
• 1:15:30
  Car. Yeah.
• 1:15:31
  It's a it's a company vehicle. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:15:33
  But like. You know, that's it's just what
• 1:15:36
  you would expect. Like it, it's a busy time of the
• 1:15:38
  year for finance. And like my team reached out to
• 1:15:41
  me, like I have a lot of work and I needed to delegate some of
• 1:15:44
  it. And they reached out to me and
• 1:15:45
  they were like, you know, are you good?
• 1:15:47
  You need us to take some? And I was like, thank you so
• 1:15:49
  much. Oh, that's nice.
• 1:15:50
  Takes a. Good team to do that.
• 1:15:52
  Me. I would have been like, damn,
• 1:15:56
  you're. Asking me to do all that.
• 1:15:57
  Sorry. I guess I'm trying to leave it
• 1:15:59
  for. It like, yeah, there is
• 1:16:01
  sometimes where. It's a little bit frustrating
• 1:16:02
  disrespect. But for the most part.
• 1:16:05
  My. Company's very.
• 1:16:06
  Respectful that you could have a life outside of work, and that's
• 1:16:08
  why I'm very grateful for it. Carl's just in there, like.
• 1:16:10
  I need you guys replace the water pump on the one J.
• 1:16:13
  Yeah, here's yeah, I'm on a meeting.
• 1:16:15
  I'm on a all hands meeting thinking about.
• 1:16:18
  Thinking about. There's that same corporate.
• 1:16:20
  Lingo everywhere touch base. All hands.
• 1:16:23
  Touch base. Weekly touch point week.
• 1:16:26
  Do you have huddles? Huddles.
• 1:16:27
  Daily huddles. What's Huddle Room?
• 1:16:29
  Meeting. It's just like a meet.
• 1:16:30
  Get all the employees in here and talk about what we got going
• 1:16:32
  on today, what we're doing right now.
• 1:16:34
  I say meetings. Oh, they.
• 1:16:35
  Kind of, yeah, they're. So I say meeting.
• 1:16:37
  Well, there's SO. Many in my company there's so
• 1:16:39
  many meetings that like your meeting title has to like be
• 1:16:43
  what the topic is about. You know?
• 1:16:44
  Like if you just said meeting, it's like most people probably
• 1:16:47
  aren't going to call it because it's like, what the fuck is
• 1:16:48
  this? They're wasting my time.
• 1:16:49
  Like it's like a all. Hands.
• 1:16:51
  All hands is like the a big one, Yeah, yeah or you.
• 1:16:55
  Get like a whole. Like you have all of QA or yeah,
• 1:16:57
  yeah, something. Like you got you got like a
• 1:16:59
  bunch. Of hundred couple 100 people
• 1:17:01
  listening to some super high up dude tell you so meeting is more
• 1:17:03
  we're. Doing too and then you and then.
• 1:17:05
  You have like a huddle is like probably just like your
• 1:17:07
  immediate team. Yeah, making sure they're doing
• 1:17:09
  their job for the day and they're not missing shit or and
• 1:17:12
  then like you have. Like webinars and like lunch and
• 1:17:19
  learns. The lunch and learns.
• 1:17:22
  So they ruin your lunch. Nah.
• 1:17:24
  No, they give. You food, They give you food.
• 1:17:25
  And you you. And you have to like like 20.
• 1:17:28
  They bribe you. With food.
• 1:17:31
  They bribe you to work through your lunch by giving you a meal.
• 1:17:33
  Yeah, it's wild to work through your lunch.
• 1:17:35
  At least they're they're buying you.
• 1:17:36
  Hey, they're giving you a fucking.
• 1:17:37
  Unlimited PTO or whatever. So it's again.
• 1:17:40
  Double edged sword. It doesn't sound like it's a
• 1:17:42
  double standard. Really.
• 1:17:43
  Like, because my my company really promotes work life
• 1:17:46
  balance as well. But it's like they want you
• 1:17:49
  there all the time. You know, they would have wanted
• 1:17:50
  to volunteer to work through all the Christmas, you know, if you
• 1:17:54
  could. Like they wanted people to work
• 1:17:56
  through Thanksgiving, I think, right?
• 1:17:58
  Now I like. That people are kind of for
• 1:18:00
  focusing more on how hopefully how happy the employee is
• 1:18:03
  because then not me saying that like this week has been hell for
• 1:18:08
  me. But I'm.
• 1:18:10
  Probably still going to wake up tomorrow and log on anyway.
• 1:18:13
  Instead of quit. Because they were there for me,
• 1:18:17
  so. That's why.
• 1:18:19
  There's like, AI. Don't expect Frankie or anybody
• 1:18:22
  else who was in a corporate environment to like I have those
• 1:18:25
  mornings. Too today.
• 1:18:26
  This is the fucking day I. Had it and then you put your.
• 1:18:30
  Pants on, You get your ID, you get your wallet, your phone,
• 1:18:33
  your keys, your backpack, and then you're like, I've had so
• 1:18:36
  much. Anxiety this year, literally,
• 1:18:37
  just like getting out of bed has become so difficult with some
• 1:18:41
  days with just like how stressful is.
• 1:18:43
  That really how life is, dude. I just like this can't be
• 1:18:46
  really, man. I can't like just like.
• 1:18:48
  Yeah, some days. I think I had a lot of anxiety
• 1:18:52
  this year from actually it was like 1 when I broke my wrist
• 1:18:55
  over last winter. I was like that last year.
• 1:18:58
  I fell snowboarding, I knew you were gonna say.
• 1:18:59
  That, yeah, it's. Always snowboarding.
• 1:19:01
  Yeah, it's. Always all my.
• 1:19:03
  Most of my injuries are from snowboarding, which is why I'm
• 1:19:05
  kind of sort of semi retiring ish, but are you gonna switch
• 1:19:10
  to? Skis No.
• 1:19:12
  Oh my. God no.
• 1:19:13
  No. Could never.
• 1:19:16
  I invited Malcolm and. Frank, I'll break my other
• 1:19:18
  wrist. Before I start skiing, Jesus.
• 1:19:21
  Where do you go? Where?
• 1:19:22
  Do you like going snow? Where do you like to snowboard
• 1:19:24
  on the East Coast? I live.
• 1:19:26
  Really close to Gemini Peak, which is in, it's in
• 1:19:29
  Massachusetts. I live really close, so where I
• 1:19:32
  live in New York, it's like I'm like in Albany.
• 1:19:36
  Yeah, for. Rensselaer.
• 1:19:37
  Technically, but I'm very close to the Vermont and Massachusetts
• 1:19:42
  border. Yeah, you're probably so like,
• 1:19:43
  I'm only like all the good spots.
• 1:19:45
  I'm Jiminy is right near Pittsfield, which is like very
• 1:19:49
  close to, like the New York border in Massachusetts.
• 1:19:51
  I'm like 43 minutes from like a It's a nice mountain.
• 1:19:54
  It's very small, but it's pretty nice.
• 1:19:56
  Yeah, it's now. That I know that.
• 1:19:58
  Now I'm like, OK, now I guess it would be called Bostown because
• 1:20:03
  it's called Boston. Is that why?
• 1:20:06
  Yeah, and this whole. Time you said you.
• 1:20:08
  Were living in New York, so I'm like, how does this fit?
• 1:20:10
  In Yeah, right. I mean, that's a yeah.
• 1:20:13
  So we now you like that. One they imported.
• 1:20:16
  They imported him. They imported him.
• 1:20:18
  I'm an important. Yeah, no, we, I don't know.
• 1:20:21
  We just started like I guess we just kind of started driving
• 1:20:26
  together. We we had similar driving style,
• 1:20:29
  similar like you know when I when I first really got into
• 1:20:32
  drifting, I was very style based I guess you could say.
• 1:20:35
  And yeah, I don't know it it just made sense, I mean.
• 1:20:39
  Boss Town was a thing. PJ joined it a little after its
• 1:20:43
  inception. Yeah, so, so.
• 1:20:45
  Boss Town started in 2009 as a car club actually.
• 1:20:48
  And like our original, like our one logo still says, you know,
• 1:20:52
  it's like New England Car Club because it started as a car club
• 1:20:55
  and Kevin and Chain just kind of like started drifting under that
• 1:20:59
  alias essentially. And and one final bout came
• 1:21:03
  around. Actually, it's funny.
• 1:21:05
  For final bout, 1, George who owns a select speed shop, yeah,
• 1:21:09
  was supposed to drive with the team.
• 1:21:12
  He couldn't make it. So that's where Roy stepped in.
• 1:21:16
  Yeah, yeah. OK.
• 1:21:18
  And. Yeah, it was like right around
• 1:21:21
  final bout one. I had kind of like driven with
• 1:21:23
  them a little bit and we went to spectate final bout 2 and would
• 1:21:28
  they like really want to drive final bout 3?
• 1:21:30
  And I had been kind of driving with them for a little bit at
• 1:21:32
  that point and that's when it kind of made sense for, I guess
• 1:21:35
  them to ask me to be on the team.
• 1:21:37
  Yeah. So that's kind of how that
• 1:21:38
  happened, maybe like 20? Maybe that was like 20. 15 2014
• 1:21:44
  or 2015 but the but the name thing.
• 1:21:46
  Is is right? I don't know anything.
• 1:21:47
  About Bostown, except for that that it was, it sounds like
• 1:21:49
  Boston it's in like they they live.
• 1:21:51
  In the general area of Boston, right, They're within like an.
• 1:21:54
  Hour of Boston. Shane's not anymore.
• 1:21:56
  He's in New Hampshire. But so now it is new.
• 1:21:59
  Hampton. Yeah, new.
• 1:22:01
  Hampton New. Hampton No, I don't know.
• 1:22:03
  But. That doesn't work that well.
• 1:22:04
  I don't know I I. Thought.
• 1:22:06
  Again, I didn't. It was a little before my time
• 1:22:09
  things where it was. Like some drift team names.
• 1:22:12
  I feel like is just like someone said something that was just
• 1:22:15
  kind of funny. I like it.
• 1:22:16
  It's. It's.
• 1:22:17
  Expire. And it also it.
• 1:22:19
  Kind of like it kind of dates itself, but not necessarily in a
• 1:22:23
  bad way either. Like, you can kind of tell like
• 1:22:25
  for that being like some sort of like Internet joke from like the
• 1:22:28
  late 2000s sort of thing. You know, like it.
• 1:22:32
  There's Shane's car on your screen.
• 1:22:33
  Yeah, such a good photo. Yeah, it was, but.
• 1:22:36
  Who took that photo? I don't.
• 1:22:37
  Even know we'll. Probably never know.
• 1:22:40
  I'm not sure, yeah. The team name but.
• 1:22:42
  I feel like dates itself. We meet.
• 1:22:45
  We were talking about this yesterday because, yeah, no, not
• 1:22:47
  in a bad way at all. I mean, like, there's only so
• 1:22:50
  many names you could fucking call something.
• 1:22:52
  I think that's a great name. Personally, yeah, boss.
• 1:22:54
  Town, yeah. It's not like you can't say any
• 1:22:58
  of them. But there's a lot of them, yeah.
• 1:23:00
  Yeah, yeah. What some of the not?
• 1:23:02
  Great ones. You mean the teams that were
• 1:23:04
  just? Invented the day?
• 1:23:05
  The night before final bout? Yeah, Well, no, it's not even
• 1:23:07
  there's. A couple pop.
• 1:23:08
  Ups here and there. It's just like I'm like.
• 1:23:10
  Damn like you could have. Thought of a better name.
• 1:23:13
  Than that, yeah. But when you're on a time
• 1:23:14
  crunch, I. Have some friends who are on
• 1:23:18
  like team Bald Head and Frankie doesn't get it because I
• 1:23:21
  remember. They're not bald.
• 1:23:23
  None of them are bald. Are we judging the?
• 1:23:25
  Same. It wasn't the one up here.
• 1:23:27
  Oh, that's right, you guys have. Judged stuff together, Yeah,
• 1:23:29
  remember. We were down.
• 1:23:30
  Oh my God. And.
• 1:23:32
  What a. Terrible day that was.
• 1:23:34
  It was. Yeah it was.
• 1:23:36
  And only because like the the car show judging was fine
• 1:23:39
  because we were like under like a patio sort of thing, but it
• 1:23:42
  was down pouring even very windy and we couldn't sit in the truck
• 1:23:46
  trying to hold bridge. Bro.
• 1:23:47
  The tent was about to like take flight the whole time.
• 1:23:49
  We're trying to judge comp like the paper that we're writing on
• 1:23:52
  is soaked. Like I can barely write down
• 1:23:54
  scores cause the papers just drag.
• 1:23:56
  It was not the best, it was it was a good experience.
• 1:23:59
  We can laugh at it now. Team In the time it was like
• 1:24:01
  team bald head rolled up. And I was like, all right, who's
• 1:24:04
  got the bald head right? And they're like, no one who
• 1:24:07
  knows is that Alicia? I was like.
• 1:24:10
  No one's bald. They're like, no, I'm like, are
• 1:24:12
  you fucking pretty? Sure, -10.
• 1:24:14
  Isn't like one of their logos. Jada.
• 1:24:16
  Or like one of their, I don't know, pretty.
• 1:24:17
  Sure, that would be funny. I'm like I.
• 1:24:19
  Don't know, but pretty. Confident that.
• 1:24:20
  It's wild but. Yeah, like one of their posts
• 1:24:23
  are funny. On there, dude.
• 1:24:24
  One of the funniest dudes I've ever met.
• 1:24:26
  Yeah, they were really nice. Guys, but yeah, they all are.
• 1:24:29
  Yeah, they're the ones that I've met, right.
• 1:24:30
  I don't think I've met all of them.
• 1:24:32
  Do you remember the? Name.
• 1:24:33
  I'm just gonna start saying fucking dumb names.
• 1:24:35
  Do you remember the name Team Club Sandwich?
• 1:24:40
  Was that that was from. Final about one was it
• 1:24:41
  something? Yeah, one or.
• 1:24:42
  Two, yeah, yeah. And I was like, what the fuck
• 1:24:45
  are we? Doing I love sandwich.
• 1:24:47
  Yeah, but like, it's. Funny though, Club Sandwich.
• 1:24:50
  I was like, OK, that's kind of funny.
• 1:24:52
  It's a It's a good. Pun, if you're into puns, that's
• 1:24:54
  a pretty good one. Yeah, I can't knock that.
• 1:24:57
  I really can't. I mean what is the other one?
• 1:24:59
  That I like. There's a lot of fucking.
• 1:25:01
  Random things, the funny ones. They get.
• 1:25:04
  Worse and worse. Well, I was like.
• 1:25:05
  I I feel like so. I feel like American teams tried
• 1:25:08
  to like, emulate. Yeah, they tried to.
• 1:25:11
  Thank you, Emulate the broken English.
• 1:25:13
  The Broken English. And you know, like you think
• 1:25:17
  about the team Low Brain. Do you know why they're called
• 1:25:19
  Low Brain? That's a cool name though.
• 1:25:22
  You know what it's? It's it's pretty funny why it's
• 1:25:26
  low brain. They're trying to basically say
• 1:25:27
  that they're like low IQ. Like they're not very smart like
• 1:25:30
  their brain. Low brain is low like low
• 1:25:32
  functioning. Oh it's just like it translates
• 1:25:34
  they translated it to like low brain like their brain is.
• 1:25:37
  I don't know, but it sounds. Like they got low cars or
• 1:25:40
  something. There's Low Brain, you know
• 1:25:42
  whose name getting some. Brain on it like an.
• 1:25:43
  Example that I like is. Is breaking.
• 1:25:47
  Breaking is the best. Fucking name breaking is a yeah,
• 1:25:50
  sick. Name Dude.
• 1:25:51
  Good name sick people. Man, would that be an adverb?
• 1:25:54
  Don't ask me this stuff. Adjective.
• 1:25:56
  Would it be enough? Because.
• 1:25:57
  Something is breaking right or no adverb is correct.
• 1:26:01
  The grammar police. Here we go, Malcolm.
• 1:26:02
  No, it's an adverb. No, no.
• 1:26:03
  No, no, PJ was right, Malcolm, Do you actually know?
• 1:26:06
  I just know it's not. An adjective.
• 1:26:07
  An adjective. That's why I describe something.
• 1:26:09
  Yeah, like you, pussy. Boys like.
• 1:26:13
  Something adjective for Malcolm? Jeez.
• 1:26:16
  Well, my brain thinks. Adverb.
• 1:26:17
  Because a verb is like something you can do.
• 1:26:19
  Yes you can. You can break.
• 1:26:21
  Something. So do you know what?
• 1:26:22
  A homophone. Is.
• 1:26:24
  A homophone. Yeah, what's?
• 1:26:26
  That it's a homophone. Homo or?
• 1:26:28
  Homo I don't give a. Fuck how you say it.
• 1:26:31
  Homophone. A homophone is when the two
• 1:26:34
  words sound the same, like there and there and there.
• 1:26:37
  Those are homophone I. Love the theirs.
• 1:26:39
  That's my favorite thing in the English language.
• 1:26:41
  You probably are that like. Master Jet that.
• 1:26:42
  That, that. That's the reason.
• 1:26:45
  I'm not. I'm like.
• 1:26:46
  Correcting people on. Their there versus there, but.
• 1:26:49
  People definitely corrected me before, so I would do it all the
• 1:26:52
  time. If Yeah, but but Frankie.
• 1:26:53
  Frankie's pretty good with his text.
• 1:26:55
  Sometimes I type my phone with my nose, like I just bring up
• 1:26:58
  the keyboard and just hit it like this.
• 1:26:59
  Yeah, that's what Alex. Avila does.
• 1:27:02
  I've definitely done. That Alex uses.
• 1:27:04
  A different appendage maybe to type on his phone maybe?
• 1:27:09
  That's why the. Messages come out like that.
• 1:27:11
  Yeah, just typing. With his Dick, maybe.
• 1:27:14
  Would you be surprised no one beats Tom?
• 1:27:16
  Nazaro, you won't. Why?
• 1:27:17
  Why? Why?
• 1:27:18
  Why why? Why are we bringing up Tom, bro?
• 1:27:20
  We going to fight. I love Tom.
• 1:27:21
  He's oh. Yeah, he doesn't.
• 1:27:22
  Like you, right? No, he hates me.
• 1:27:23
  Bro. Yeah, you guys have you guys.
• 1:27:25
  Have beef? Dude, dude, we got beef.
• 1:27:26
  How do? You have beef with like.
• 1:27:27
  The nicest person in the world. He's nice to.
• 1:27:29
  Everybody but me, bro. I swear to God.
• 1:27:32
  Yeah, it's weird. Nah, it's weird.
• 1:27:34
  They got something going. On I don't know, dude, I don't
• 1:27:35
  know what's going. To happen.
• 1:27:36
  You guys should hug. It out.
• 1:27:37
  I think they should fight, to be honest.
• 1:27:39
  Dude, Tom would. Beat go.
• 1:27:40
  But you're you're you're you're you're mistaken if you don't
• 1:27:43
  think I'm fucking going down something.
• 1:27:45
  Happened something. Happened in the.
• 1:27:48
  Background. Maybe I love Tom.
• 1:27:50
  But we will fight, right? We will fight, yeah.
• 1:27:53
  But he. Throw down in the.
• 1:27:55
  Pit with him, dude, he got mad. I sold.
• 1:27:56
  My ass Chassie, dude. He got mad.
• 1:27:58
  I sold my ass, Chassie. He was like, after you sold your
• 1:28:00
  ass, Chassie, I couldn't talk to you anymore.
• 1:28:01
  One time, Carl walked. In here and Tom was in here and
• 1:28:04
  and I I straight. Up.
• 1:28:05
  Asked him. I straight up.
• 1:28:07
  I mean, I. Was like, why do you hate me?
• 1:28:10
  Tom was just sitting. There, like ignoring him.
• 1:28:12
  And then Tom's talking to everyone else and he's ignoring
• 1:28:14
  Carl and I was like, shit. It's cuz you sold.
• 1:28:18
  Your S chassis. I mean, I'm very.
• 1:28:22
  I'm pretty content right now. I like my IS.
• 1:28:26
  They're good cars. It's good.
• 1:28:27
  The door sound sounds nice when you close it the second time.
• 1:28:31
  I was in Japan. Our friends that Ryan bought his
• 1:28:35
  Sylvia from, they just like pulled an Alteza out of like
• 1:28:38
  some spare yard that they hadn't let us like drive it for like a
• 1:28:41
  few weeks. It's like that was like cars.
• 1:28:42
  And everything. Yeah, that was 6 speeds.
• 1:28:43
  Of the Beams. It was so cool.
• 1:28:45
  And then our Australian friend ended up buying it.
• 1:28:47
  Oh yeah, like later. Because he he like always wanted
• 1:28:49
  one in high school and he didn't know like his local shop.
• 1:28:52
  It's actually Mercury. There's like 3 different like
• 1:28:55
  Mercury Rs like Ken Sato, we went, we were at a different
• 1:28:57
  one. But yeah, this dude just like
• 1:29:00
  pulls out our friends like high school dream car from like one
• 1:29:04
  of the a lot of Japanese people also have like random just like
• 1:29:07
  hidden lots or secret lots that they don't.
• 1:29:09
  They don't really tell this is what I'm talking.
• 1:29:11
  About Can you just buy a car and leave it there?
• 1:29:13
  Somewhere. And then you just come by and
• 1:29:14
  you just grab it from the bushes and you're like, all right and
• 1:29:17
  then a YouTube. Restores it, yeah.
• 1:29:20
  Yeah, like. Is that not?
• 1:29:23
  Is. That not a well 'cause I I don't
• 1:29:25
  think it, it depends upon the. Person but I watch these videos.
• 1:29:28
  Where they do that, but it's a Japanese guy that's pulling it
• 1:29:31
  out and there's no words. Like anything that I don't know
• 1:29:37
  any of the friendships that I've made through drifting.
• 1:29:39
  Just generally speaking, over the course of my history with
• 1:29:42
  drifting, I just like it was like, I don't know, becoming
• 1:29:46
  friends with animal style when I was young is just like I thought
• 1:29:48
  they were the coolest and I I just wanted to like be friends
• 1:29:53
  with them, you know, Like I didn't like that was I admired
• 1:29:57
  what they did and I didn't really think anything more of
• 1:30:00
  like, Oh yeah, I wanna like hang out with these dudes and like
• 1:30:03
  when it works, it works and when it doesn't and you move on.
• 1:30:07
  But yeah, I. Don't know where.
• 1:30:10
  I was going with. That something, Something with
• 1:30:11
  Japan. And how people are to think
• 1:30:13
  I'll. Tezzy But yeah, go over there
• 1:30:15
  and make some friends. Yeah, and then?
• 1:30:17
  Hopefully if someone will let me leave a car in their bushes
• 1:30:20
  behind the shop download, I would.
• 1:30:22
  Duolingo. And try to, yeah, get some
• 1:30:25
  phrases going, you know, I don't know.
• 1:30:27
  If I I. Don't know.
• 1:30:28
  We'll have to see after I go. Speaking's a lot.
• 1:30:30
  Easier than like reading and writing, obviously, but that was
• 1:30:34
  interesting this time around too.
• 1:30:36
  This is like my fourth time in Japan now.
• 1:30:39
  And I was kind of picking up a little bit more on conversations
• 1:30:43
  where I didn't necessarily know the exact words they were
• 1:30:47
  saying, like, I could, but I would like a a essentially just
• 1:30:50
  like hear, like keywords here and there.
• 1:30:52
  And I can be like, oh, that's kind of what they're talking
• 1:30:54
  about. Yeah.
• 1:30:54
  And that's what you're about to learn.
• 1:30:55
  And I could like kind of interject a little bit and.
• 1:30:58
  I was like, oh, this is how you this is really how you learn a
• 1:31:00
  language? Yeah.
• 1:31:01
  Like that was one thing. I was trying to communicate with
• 1:31:02
  Timoya this time around, too. It's like in Japan, it's easier
• 1:31:07
  for him to, like, learn English because there's plenty of people
• 1:31:10
  over there that speak English. Whereas, like me in Albany, NY,
• 1:31:13
  there isn't a bunch of people just walking around speaking
• 1:31:15
  Japanese. I was about to be like English.
• 1:31:17
  Did not know people walking the world speaking English in Utica.
• 1:31:22
  Utica's pretty far away. Utica's like a couple hours for
• 1:31:24
  me. We're we were drinking little
• 1:31:27
  Utica Club. Yeah, this was the the box that
• 1:31:30
  I got these in. Said this was the first beer
• 1:31:32
  brewed after Prohibition. Cap No.
• 1:31:35
  I believe it tasted good. I.
• 1:31:37
  Enjoyed it and I'm not a I'm not a logger guy.
• 1:31:39
  I. Would like to know.
• 1:31:40
  Actually, Malcolm would have liked it.
• 1:31:41
  It's just a. Oh.
• 1:31:44
  Malcolm has one pretty. Good.
• 1:31:47
  I should. Have brought more beer?
• 1:31:48
  No, I wasn't sure how to. We do not.
• 1:31:50
  No, you're fine. I need food.
• 1:31:51
  That's what I need. I don't think I've eaten today.
• 1:31:53
  Yeah, but I haven't. Eaten much?
• 1:31:55
  But I. Wanted to add I could use more
• 1:31:56
  beer. Do you have a?
• 1:31:57
  Do you have a? Favorite.
• 1:32:00
  Track. That you'd got to drift out in
• 1:32:02
  Japan. Is.
• 1:32:04
  It hard it's going. To be probably hard to yeah.
• 1:32:07
  I mean, like I've drifted Nikko the most.
• 1:32:09
  It just flows so fucking well. I got a better question.
• 1:32:12
  Is your favorite track in the in Japan or here?
• 1:32:15
  Cool. Yeah.
• 1:32:16
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:32:17
  I. Wanna know that?
• 1:32:18
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:32:18
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:32:19
  That's such a hard. One to answer, because it
• 1:32:22
  depends. Upon I drove English town.
• 1:32:26
  Once. Once.
• 1:32:27
  Really. Only once it was for.
• 1:32:28
  Jeff's private day in like 20-18 maybe or something there.
• 1:32:32
  Yeah, yeah, I think so. OK, Pretty sure Adam was there.
• 1:32:35
  And yeah, Adam, Adam was in boss town.
• 1:32:37
  Yeah, that was the first time. I met Adam.
• 1:32:39
  I didn't know who the hell he was.
• 1:32:40
  And then Brendan drifted that way.
• 1:32:43
  I remember my first time. That was the 1st.
• 1:32:44
  Time figuring out who like Adam and Haggard garage were was that
• 1:32:49
  was at Canaan in New Hampshire. I remember there was just like
• 1:32:52
  there's a but we're in the middle of nowhere New Hampshire
• 1:32:54
  there's just a ton of spectators and like I heard people like oh
• 1:32:57
  Adam Elsie's here. Haggard's here whatever.
• 1:33:00
  I didn't know who either of them where I was.
• 1:33:02
  I'm one of those people that. Like I didn't know any YouTube
• 1:33:04
  things. I like.
• 1:33:05
  I like. Haggard.
• 1:33:06
  Neither did I. I was completely clueless.
• 1:33:09
  I mean, I still kind of AM. I suppose I've educated myself a
• 1:33:12
  little bit more in recent years just to try and be up to speed
• 1:33:16
  with things a little bit. Keep up with the youths.
• 1:33:19
  Yeah, you had that. Private day keep up with the.
• 1:33:21
  Youths. Was.
• 1:33:22
  Legendary though. We had some really cool.
• 1:33:23
  Layouts. There was just a lot of.
• 1:33:25
  People like that don't like Brendan drifted his car there.
• 1:33:29
  Jesse drifted Brendan's car there.
• 1:33:31
  I don't feel like it was 2017. Where?
• 1:33:33
  Where? Where?
• 1:33:34
  At club 18. That can happen.
• 1:33:36
  Again, brother, none of those people.
• 1:33:38
  Are drifting again. But yeah, I hope it can happen.
• 1:33:41
  Again, just and Brendan. I want to throw an event.
• 1:33:44
  Like a nice event like this was just like.
• 1:33:46
  A Like, maybe that's where I met Brendan.
• 1:33:48
  Because, see, Brendan was on last night.
• 1:33:49
  Yeah, right. Yeah.
• 1:33:50
  So because I I proved his face and I was like, I definitely
• 1:33:53
  recognize this dude. I'm pretty sure I met him
• 1:33:55
  somewhere. It was probably that.
• 1:33:56
  It was probably that I fucking. Love when?
• 1:33:57
  Brendan tells a story. Dude, Yeah.
• 1:34:00
  It's like the most. Fucking.
• 1:34:02
  He's got to have his own I'm. Tired of your bullshit?
• 1:34:04
  Yeah, story ever. He seems like a pretty.
• 1:34:08
  Like, a matter of fact kind of guy, yeah.
• 1:34:10
  Yeah. Why do I feel like I could hear
• 1:34:12
  Brendan? Say matter of fact.
• 1:34:14
  Oh my God. Why are you so good at imitating
• 1:34:16
  people? What the fuck?
• 1:34:18
  Is. I'm practicing his accents.
• 1:34:20
  You're good, man, he was. That good one?
• 1:34:21
  Yeah. And that was your first.
• 1:34:22
  Time. Yeah.
• 1:34:23
  I've never made that noise. Before What the fuck?
• 1:34:26
  God damn, yeah, that one was. Kind of weird, huh?
• 1:34:29
  That was that was good. Though but your voice.
• 1:34:32
  Has to have some sort of notable like I can hear Brendan talking
• 1:34:35
  like right now you do Johnny Monaco.
• 1:34:37
  Better than anyone, yo-yo. That's another.
• 1:34:42
  Name that I. Recognize, but I can't picture
• 1:34:44
  the face the 180SX. God, him and James are like.
• 1:34:47
  Best friends James from Front St.
• 1:34:49
  Oh OK. They're always fucking together
• 1:34:50
  at at like final doubt and whatnot.
• 1:34:52
  I've definitely. Met him then, but I'm.
• 1:34:55
  I'll remember a face more than I'll remember a name.
• 1:34:58
  Yeah. You.
• 1:35:00
  Would remember Johnny. I think if you met him.
• 1:35:02
  He's into marmots, not wombats. Oh, he's not into Marmot?
• 1:35:06
  No, he has to be because his Instagram was Marmot.
• 1:35:09
  Fanatic. Now it's Mr. Wine which is a
• 1:35:11
  wombat I think, which are all Japanese.
• 1:35:13
  Like Mr. Wine is a. Japanese.
• 1:35:16
  Was he on the podcast? He was on the podcast.
• 1:35:18
  A few times. But like, he had one episode
• 1:35:21
  that was his, I think I. Know who this is and then sorry.
• 1:35:23
  To this person. But yeah, and.
• 1:35:24
  Then he would probably like. It if he was anonymous to be, Oh
• 1:35:27
  yeah, he loves that. He would love that.
• 1:35:29
  He doesn't want anyone to know. Who he is, Yeah, Johnny.
• 1:35:31
  Johnny really doesn't need anybody to have a good time, I
• 1:35:35
  feel like. He has an Evo.
• 1:35:37
  He does some. Toga racing up in the mountains
• 1:35:39
  and stuff, so he's like very like, but a respectful.
• 1:35:42
  Toga Racer the best. He's trying to be like.
• 1:35:45
  Streeter, You know, like, no face.
• 1:35:46
  No face. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:35:48
  So I remember, Johnny. Is had the spirit of Streeter.
• 1:35:51
  I feel like here he had the spirit of.
• 1:35:53
  Yeah, he does. I mean, we used to drift with
• 1:35:56
  him all the time and then he crashed his car on an off ramp
• 1:35:59
  in front of me. Yeah, in front of.
• 1:36:00
  Carl, you'll get that. Yeah, time to time.
• 1:36:03
  Yeah, that's terrifying, but. I mean, like, it was like the oh
• 1:36:07
  like. The rear quarter like, yeah, it
• 1:36:10
  the rest wasn't. Drove it home, Yeah, I mean, it
• 1:36:12
  was pretty. Bad, but it wasn't totaled well
• 1:36:14
  for that. It literally was totaled, yes,
• 1:36:16
  but for us it wasn't from a technical.
• 1:36:18
  Term or from a technical standpoint, it was total.
• 1:36:21
  It was like, it was like, oh, I knew.
• 1:36:22
  Just pull. That shit out come along in a
• 1:36:25
  tree and which we did do but. You would have had to do.
• 1:36:29
  With some crazy bodywork to make it look right.
• 1:36:30
  But and then James. Bought it Other James, other
• 1:36:33
  James overs or something. Got it.
• 1:36:36
  I wouldn't say I bought it. And then is that the?
• 1:36:38
  Blue one that James has different James, we're talking.
• 1:36:40
  About, but yeah, no, it's not that car.
• 1:36:43
  That car is not that bad from what I remember.
• 1:36:46
  Yeah, Johnny's car. Johnny's car's dead now, I
• 1:36:48
  think. I don't know if someone bought
• 1:36:49
  it or Johnny has a. Different car I still have.
• 1:36:52
  Those quarter cuts, by the way, do you remember this?
• 1:36:55
  Yeah, how the? Fuck, do you still have that?
• 1:36:57
  You should have. Seen I just.
• 1:36:58
  I. Wish to listen Who saw Frankie's
• 1:37:00
  face just then? Your face, Just like was I
• 1:37:02
  trying to buy them? From you?
• 1:37:03
  Or were you at one point? You.
• 1:37:04
  I think you wanted to reuse them.
• 1:37:06
  So I bought quarter cuts from like somewhere in Connecticut
• 1:37:09
  years ago for like 250 bucks. It goes all the way to like the
• 1:37:12
  frame rail strut tower has the quarter glass everything.
• 1:37:15
  It was a car that Frankie used to own.
• 1:37:18
  That. It got like, totaled and someone
• 1:37:21
  parted it out. And was it a white car that was?
• 1:37:23
  Painted black. Yeah.
• 1:37:24
  OK. Yeah, I I remember you were.
• 1:37:26
  Like, bro, let me get that. And I was like, that was my.
• 1:37:29
  Friend's. His name's Mike.
• 1:37:31
  I don't know some Porter. Last name?
• 1:37:33
  Yeah. Oh, so you bought?
• 1:37:35
  So you bought them from me? Or no, no, I bought them from.
• 1:37:38
  Some dude, no, I bought the quarter cuts.
• 1:37:40
  Some dude in Connecticut just like posted the quarter cuts on
• 1:37:43
  like a Wednesday for like 250 bucks.
• 1:37:46
  And I was like, you're never going to see this again.
• 1:37:48
  So I like, messaged my friend Luke that you actually met when
• 1:37:51
  we went Streeting down here. Oh, years ago.
• 1:37:53
  Oh yeah, that was a while. Ago, yeah.
• 1:37:54
  And I was like, yeah, we're we're taking a road trip
• 1:37:58
  tonight. That's funny because I.
• 1:38:00
  Had there was a. There was a.
• 1:38:01
  Moment where I had three 240 hatches 'cause I was trying.
• 1:38:06
  To. This is when I got my car,
• 1:38:08
  'cause I was trying to, I was trying to find a car that wasn't
• 1:38:10
  a piece of shit and. It was not.
• 1:38:12
  Easy. And this was 10 years ago.
• 1:38:14
  Like I I was like, that's why I was.
• 1:38:16
  Like I was. That vert you guys have out
• 1:38:18
  there, it is clean I. Think it's pretty.
• 1:38:20
  Fucking clean. It is a but it's a vert.
• 1:38:22
  I feel like verts are. I don't know why.
• 1:38:24
  Someone. Hasn't made like a good hard top
• 1:38:26
  for verts. Yeah, there was a SIL.
• 1:38:28
  A Sylvia thread with your voice. Oh.
• 1:38:30
  I know some people have, like, made them, but I mean, like
• 1:38:32
  actually produced like a cool hard top because then that
• 1:38:35
  that's like a whole other untapped resource, yeah.
• 1:38:39
  You would have to, I mean. It doesn't really sound that.
• 1:38:45
  Outlandish. You would have to take a mold of
• 1:38:47
  a roof of a 240 coupe. Yeah, someone.
• 1:38:49
  Or like, make a hard top and make a mold of it.
• 1:38:52
  Yeah, because that's what that is.
• 1:38:53
  They the the convertibles were verts all right.
• 1:38:56
  Convertibles were coupes that were leftover that were shipped
• 1:39:00
  to California where they chopped the roof off and turned into a
• 1:39:01
  vert like it was not engineered to be a vert from the factory
• 1:39:06
  right off the rip. I'm starting not to hate.
• 1:39:07
  Verts that much? I fuck with verts, dude.
• 1:39:10
  That is a Sylvia front, Jesse. From from Drift faction had like
• 1:39:13
  the coolest. It was a white, yeah it was
• 1:39:15
  white. It had, it was like a sexy
• 1:39:17
  style, kind of mash up 18 inch grenades.
• 1:39:19
  This thing was on the ground, like you could maybe fit like a
• 1:39:23
  couple credit cards under the front bumper kind of shit like
• 1:39:25
  it was fucking pop up front though.
• 1:39:28
  Yes. Yeah, that's rare.
• 1:39:29
  I feel like. I don't know if I would like
• 1:39:30
  that with a. Pop up.
• 1:39:31
  This is how I would say, and I only know that this.
• 1:39:34
  I only know how it would look, 'cause somebody already did it
• 1:39:36
  and now I'm like, you know, whatever.
• 1:39:37
  But yeah, it would keep the pop up front, but as a streetcar I
• 1:39:41
  just want type X everything the the the front bumper, the lip,
• 1:39:46
  the skirts, the rear valence and then.
• 1:39:49
  AR 32. GTR wing or a Cokie S14 wing.
• 1:39:52
  Just to balance out though. Slabness of A.
• 1:39:54
  Convertible like, that's exactly, yeah, I think a.
• 1:39:57
  Ciliary front just looks a little bit better because it's
• 1:40:00
  it's a coupe, it's supposed to be a ciliary front, but it it's
• 1:40:03
  just. I don't know.
• 1:40:04
  Right without the. Roof too.
• 1:40:05
  Like, I feel like it needs that boxy.
• 1:40:07
  That's the other interesting. Part about like, going to Japan
• 1:40:10
  is that like, you know, we're nerding all over like the oh, we
• 1:40:12
  need like the the JDM shit, they want the USDM shit, yeah.
• 1:40:17
  Yeah, it's. Kind of weird, like.
• 1:40:17
  A6 DS want like the USDM bumpers and all that kind of shit.
• 1:40:21
  Well, one V is. Look good, but it's just a
• 1:40:24
  convertible thing where I'm like, I don't know if I had,
• 1:40:26
  yeah. Yeah, Did you know?
• 1:40:28
  It's a convertible. So what can we do to, like,
• 1:40:30
  bring it up a little bit more? Yeah, I didn't.
• 1:40:32
  Know that it was 1 via When I first got into S chassis, I was
• 1:40:35
  like, oh Nevia. What the fuck is that?
• 1:40:39
  Like never heard of her. 'Cause there was a.
• 1:40:41
  There was the odivia, yeah. That thing's stupid, or the odd
• 1:40:45
  via or. Whatever.
• 1:40:45
  You know who likes that A lot? Scott.
• 1:40:48
  Scott loves that shit. Unlike Scott.
• 1:40:51
  What? Do you?
• 1:40:52
  Do what's your thought on? Still, ladies, Yeah, it's a
• 1:40:55
  good. Question.
• 1:40:56
  I don't know. Are you gonna say you hate?
• 1:40:59
  Em because Ricardo is tired of this is fucking.
• 1:41:01
  Sick still, ladies. For me, are either total hit or
• 1:41:05
  complete mess. Yeah, that's.
• 1:41:07
  There's not really any middle ground.
• 1:41:08
  Either you nailed it or I've I've only.
• 1:41:11
  Got my cup of two. Of them I.
• 1:41:13
  Feel like ever So. And they're heavily modified,
• 1:41:16
  right? Yeah, I don't really like.
• 1:41:20
  It doesn't work. I mean, it's not supposed to be
• 1:41:22
  like that, but it's weird because A1 via, when I see a 1
• 1:41:25
  via, I'm like, that's not OK that's not that bad.
• 1:41:28
  You know why they? Did that like, way back in the
• 1:41:31
  day, right? I don't.
• 1:41:32
  I don't. I would assume it'd be some.
• 1:41:34
  Legal reasons with the bricks or the front?
• 1:41:36
  The front No if a. Car got in a wreck at a point in
• 1:41:39
  time I believe in oh your Internet will current yeah yeah
• 1:41:42
  yeah yeah yeah yeah oh. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:41:43
  I thought you meant. Why did they do it in?
• 1:41:45
  Like, why did they do that? No, yeah.
• 1:41:46
  In Japan, obviously, it was. Oh, at one point in time, bricks
• 1:41:49
  were, or Sylvia headlights were cheaper than flip UPS.
• 1:41:52
  Yeah, so. If you wrecked the front.
• 1:41:55
  Of your hatch. They would just put a Sylvia
• 1:41:57
  front on it cuz it was cheaper or whatever they found.
• 1:42:00
  I mean cuz then they would do 1 Via's too so flip up front on a
• 1:42:05
  Sylvia so I had a Silvia so. I guess A1.
• 1:42:08
  VO used to be more of a flex in Japan.
• 1:42:11
  Maybe. Maybe because it's.
• 1:42:12
  Something, yeah, it would be would have been different.
• 1:42:15
  It was the more expensive front end.
• 1:42:17
  Yeah, it's a. Financial.
• 1:42:18
  Flex but then a SIL 80. Was actually I actually traded
• 1:42:21
  a. Pop up front for a Silvia front
• 1:42:24
  once years ago, but it's a trade.
• 1:42:27
  Metal. Hood and.
• 1:42:28
  Everything. They actually made sillies,
• 1:42:29
  right? Someone made them, yeah.
• 1:42:32
  You're there was a shop. Yes, there was a shop that made
• 1:42:35
  some Too many shop. Made they took like brand.
• 1:42:36
  New 180's and then they they did the front end chap to made them
• 1:42:43
  or whatever and then they sold them as new cars.
• 1:42:45
  I think that's the how it goes totally different.
• 1:42:48
  Question, what year did you guys start drifting?
• 1:42:51
  I feel like we started around a very similar.
• 1:42:53
  Time you said you I started in 09.
• 1:42:55
  So. Yeah, I would.
• 1:42:57
  I started actually driving. In like 2012 though, I was going
• 1:43:00
  to say P JS been. Drifting since he was six, dude,
• 1:43:02
  I would. Say I started.
• 1:43:03
  Drifting in 2010 or two So 19. 99 is when I started.
• 1:43:06
  I was. Drifting as a young man, 10 or
• 1:43:10
  11. For me, OK, Carl, two weeks ago
• 1:43:12
  15, yesterday 16. 20/15/16, yeah.
• 1:43:16
  And. It was a vert.
• 1:43:17
  How old were you? I'm 28.
• 1:43:19
  So I didn't really get into drifting until, like, I have my
• 1:43:22
  license for a few years. It's a late bloomer.
• 1:43:24
  It's OK. It's OK.
• 1:43:25
  I wish I did. Because I feel like they've
• 1:43:27
  been. Drifting forever.
• 1:43:28
  Him and Chris. I feel like they've been
• 1:43:29
  drifting forever, cuz I remember them being around, but I guess
• 1:43:33
  they just started. We just watched and then we went
• 1:43:35
  to. Maybe like an event or two A
• 1:43:37
  year. It wasn't.
• 1:43:38
  I wouldn't. Will it really call that?
• 1:43:39
  Like you don't realize how fast. The years are going when you
• 1:43:41
  when you're doing it, so it's interesting, just like.
• 1:43:43
  Looking back at the the progression of kind of like who
• 1:43:48
  you are as a person within drifting, where it's like you
• 1:43:50
  first start drifting and everything's new and exciting
• 1:43:54
  and everything's super cool and then a couple, a couple of years
• 1:43:58
  in feel like, oh, I'm friends with a couple drivers.
• 1:44:00
  Some of the media dudes Remember Me.
• 1:44:02
  I I feel cool as fuck. And then eventually like a
• 1:44:06
  decade passes and the reality set.
• 1:44:09
  Now you just talk about drifting on A.
• 1:44:10
  Podcast now we just. Talk about I don't know, No.
• 1:44:12
  One knows who the fuck I. Am I?
• 1:44:14
  I don't know when I'll ever get. Tired of it?
• 1:44:16
  Probably because honestly I was scared that the pod was going to
• 1:44:18
  do that to me since like, no, since since this is full
• 1:44:22
  exposure all the time, I was like if I so you actually you.
• 1:44:27
  Actually think about this, I do a lot of self.
• 1:44:30
  Analysis. You think there's nothing going
• 1:44:32
  on in here, but but you like? Literally thought like it's all
• 1:44:35
  finance I. Thought it was good this.
• 1:44:37
  Might. This might touch base make me.
• 1:44:39
  Not like, not like drifting. Yeah.
• 1:44:41
  That's crazy. Yeah.
• 1:44:42
  For. Me, 'cause I didn't really like
• 1:44:44
  in my hometown, I didn't have a huge amount of friends that were
• 1:44:47
  like really into cars. I kind of had to go scatter
• 1:44:50
  around the Capital Region. Like I have friends in my area
• 1:44:53
  that are into drifting. But I like, I don't see them all
• 1:44:56
  the time. I or whatever, you know, like
• 1:44:59
  compared to like my teammates, how like a bunch of them went to
• 1:45:01
  high school together and there's like a whole car scene and like,
• 1:45:04
  yeah, again, I'm from the middle of nowhere.
• 1:45:06
  It's not like a thriving scene. Well, I kind of wanted to ask
• 1:45:10
  you. Because I've been feeling a
• 1:45:12
  certain type of way lately, but how do you go off?
• 1:45:16
  Yeah, what go off? What are you about to possibly
• 1:45:20
  say right now? So.
• 1:45:22
  How do you feel like drifting is right now in in over the past 10
• 1:45:27
  years of you being in it? Like, how do you feel about
• 1:45:30
  drifting in general? I think right now specifically
• 1:45:36
  the level of progression is so quick, yeah.
• 1:45:40
  Just with. Like access to resources and the
• 1:45:44
  Internet and things like that. It's so different from, yeah, us
• 1:45:48
  where I I don't know, like we had we had to do a lot more
• 1:45:51
  diving for knowledge and but it was fun.
• 1:45:54
  Yeah, yeah. It was like the people that were
• 1:45:56
  into drifting back then were really, really passionate about
• 1:46:00
  it. Yeah.
• 1:46:01
  And that's why actually, Yeah. So that that kind of segues into
• 1:46:04
  like how I feel and this is just me.
• 1:46:10
  But seeing drivers at final bout taking some of the competition
• 1:46:14
  so seriously and this is not directed at thank God, anyone
• 1:46:18
  but and it was just more or less like hearsay or people
• 1:46:22
  overhearing people talking about it and it was just like the
• 1:46:26
  whole point of final bout initially was to just bring like
• 1:46:30
  minded individuals together. It was like us who used to surf
• 1:46:33
  the forums and just nerd the fuck out over pretty much just
• 1:46:36
  it was a meeting of the minds. It was Sylvia meeting up.
• 1:46:38
  Yeah. That's what it felt like.
• 1:46:39
  And that was the. Point of it, The competition was
• 1:46:42
  like kind of a joke. Kind of a joke, yeah.
• 1:46:44
  It was kind of a joke. It was completely a joke,
• 1:46:45
  really. And I mean, it's cool to see
• 1:46:48
  that it's like, progressed and you know, maybe it takes off in
• 1:46:51
  a direction that is still cool. I mean, it still is cool.
• 1:46:54
  I'm not saying that's not cool, but like, it is crazy.
• 1:46:57
  You said that. Fucking the final.
• 1:46:58
  Bout that's How I Met so many people in drifting, but it is
• 1:47:01
  crazy. Because like, thinking back on
• 1:47:03
  it, it was it was a joke. But I can't sit here and say
• 1:47:07
  that because final bout two people.
• 1:47:10
  Wanted to do. People wanted to fucking win.
• 1:47:12
  And by people I mean Justin and the East Coast guy.
• 1:47:15
  They wanted us to win like bad and I I was like, I don't really
• 1:47:19
  give a fuck at all, which is how I still feel like for our.
• 1:47:23
  Team It's like we want to have a good.
• 1:47:24
  Time. But like for final bout three,
• 1:47:26
  it was like, this is a bummer because like my team we were, we
• 1:47:30
  were doing very fucking well in practice.
• 1:47:32
  We were laying down really, really good runs and like
• 1:47:35
  someone approached us and told us that it was like you guys are
• 1:47:37
  like one of the best looking teams out there right now and we
• 1:47:39
  like totally fucked up our comp runs.
• 1:47:41
  So it's like, you know, we totally biffed it.
• 1:47:43
  We were the opposite. Our practice runs looked like
• 1:47:46
  there was no shot, anything was happening and then we just
• 1:47:49
  pulled a miracle out of nowhere and got third place or
• 1:47:52
  something. Which we we have to correct
• 1:47:53
  people because apparently people keep saying we got second place
• 1:47:55
  and I think we got third place at final about two.
• 1:47:58
  But yeah, we just pulled that out of our ass, Scott.
• 1:48:00
  Literally. Basically never.
• 1:48:03
  Tandem with anyone before that. So it makes no sense, like it
• 1:48:07
  was a miracle. But I mean, it felt good when we
• 1:48:10
  won. I mean when we came in third
• 1:48:11
  because we were on, we we placed and everyone back home was
• 1:48:15
  really happy, which felt cool. But like, yeah, like you're
• 1:48:19
  saying. It's like the competition thing
• 1:48:20
  was just the whole point I found about for me was like, I get to
• 1:48:23
  go to the Midwest and see all these sick fucking cars and hang
• 1:48:28
  out with. These dudes and hang out with
• 1:48:30
  these. Dudes, that cool track, that's.
• 1:48:31
  The point it was like I was like my I encouraged one of the teams
• 1:48:35
  the this year because I got to I judge special stage E again and
• 1:48:39
  one of the teams that got 6th place there was like as I told
• 1:48:43
  them it's like there's a chance for you guys to like you know
• 1:48:46
  you if some teams can't make it or whatever you might be able to
• 1:48:49
  go out to the main event and you know one of the teammates on
• 1:48:52
  that team was like oh we didn't make the call.
• 1:48:56
  You know it doesn't count. I'm not going to go all this
• 1:48:58
  stuff. And I was like the whole point.
• 1:48:59
  The whole point is to just get there.
• 1:49:01
  It will now be with the whole special stage thing.
• 1:49:03
  It's like if you make it there like.
• 1:49:06
  That's that's. Like all it was ever really
• 1:49:09
  about do you feel? You don't have to answer.
• 1:49:11
  Anything you don't want to, but do you feel like Final Bout is
• 1:49:15
  taking this in the correct direction?
• 1:49:17
  Do you think there's anything they should do differently?
• 1:49:19
  And when I say this, I'm kind of thinking of like, 'cause they
• 1:49:23
  have a lot on their plate now, 'cause you got all these teams,
• 1:49:26
  you know, coming out of nowhere, and now it's like, well, now we
• 1:49:29
  can't really fit everyone. So right?
• 1:49:32
  It's like, how do they pick and choose?
• 1:49:33
  I'm curious to know. What the the 10 year reunion's
• 1:49:36
  going to be like next year like I know our team's trying to
• 1:49:40
  drive we're we're hoping to drive everyone seems like
• 1:49:43
  they're pretty on board going to have toe rigs going to that's
• 1:49:46
  good going to be able to to make it happen which I'm very stoked
• 1:49:50
  for but far I'll. Just miss the drive.
• 1:49:53
  Final bout so dude, I didn't want.
• 1:49:55
  To drive it so bad, it's yeah. I don't know.
• 1:49:58
  I don't. Know what?
• 1:50:01
  Like that. Application process would look
• 1:50:03
  like now with how many teams are have emerged since final bout
• 1:50:09
  and then the whole like comparison with like when vibes
• 1:50:13
  first became a thing, how that was, yeah.
• 1:50:16
  I didn't. Really know too much about
• 1:50:18
  vibes. I just.
• 1:50:19
  I hear people all the time. The only thing I hear about
• 1:50:21
  vibes when people were going was like, hey, are you going to
• 1:50:24
  vibes? It's gonna be a fun time.
• 1:50:26
  It's gonna be a vibe. And I liked it.
• 1:50:29
  Like a lot of my friends went over there and I was like, it
• 1:50:31
  looks looks like a good time. I didn't really know the way
• 1:50:34
  Damien explained. Vibes to me made me really enjoy
• 1:50:37
  why they were hosting it, and it was just kind of like a yeah,
• 1:50:40
  Damien's good. At making anything sound
• 1:50:41
  amazing, 'cause he's a great person.
• 1:50:43
  Yeah, he's yeah, he's amazing, dude.
• 1:50:44
  Mind is an. Endless Vault, man.
• 1:50:47
  Like my I don't know about. His mind that's like a meme.
• 1:50:49
  I think he his brain is just dude.
• 1:50:51
  I think there's just. Got to be so much info, yeah,
• 1:50:53
  there's so. Much shit.
• 1:50:54
  Going on and then. Cut to Damien's brain, where I'm
• 1:50:57
  pretty sure I watched. The entire podcast you guys did
• 1:51:00
  with him? Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:51:02
  I was pretty crazy too. Oh, the one here?
• 1:51:04
  Yeah, yeah, that was. The whole like.
• 1:51:06
  Alien shit. He was talking about crazy
• 1:51:08
  thing. Running next to Yeah freaked me
• 1:51:10
  out. Yo, that was freaked me out
• 1:51:11
  honestly. Damien came in here and those
• 1:51:13
  North face slipper looking shoes?
• 1:51:15
  Yeah bro, bought them. A week and a half later I was
• 1:51:19
  like are. They the ones that are, they the
• 1:51:21
  ones that like, look, they look like a puffy coat, but it's like
• 1:51:23
  a slipper it looks. Like a puffer, but it's
• 1:51:26
  incredible. I remember I had to have
• 1:51:29
  sentiment and been like, yo, I saw yours had to get me songs.
• 1:51:33
  And Darrell must. That's bad funny.
• 1:51:35
  Like I just. I'm not a Crocs person, so like,
• 1:51:37
  I was like I need comfy shoes. I wasn't a Crocs.
• 1:51:39
  Person until I actually wore them when I was in Japan.
• 1:51:42
  It was when I was in Japan, everybody that guy.
• 1:51:44
  But it was like I wasn't a Crocs person until I wore them and I
• 1:51:47
  was like, I get it. They're comfy.
• 1:51:49
  It's easy. I'm a lazy person.
• 1:51:51
  Slip ONS are great. I got slip ONS when I broke my
• 1:51:54
  wrist and I couldn't tie my shoes.
• 1:51:57
  That was I had to buy slip ONS. Never tied a shoe since.
• 1:51:59
  Valid shoes? Reason to have slip ONS.
• 1:52:01
  That's a fair reason to have. Slip ONS because.
• 1:52:03
  I'm lazy. That's that makes me.
• 1:52:06
  Not I had actual reason, I. Don't want to be lazy?
• 1:52:08
  Yeah, but just break your. Wrist.
• 1:52:09
  Yeah, it'd be tough. Dude, it'd be a bit just break
• 1:52:11
  your arm. Just fucking snap.
• 1:52:13
  Both of your bones got a titanium plate in there.
• 1:52:16
  Oh, you have a plate. Yeah, I got a plate.
• 1:52:18
  Oh God. Damn, Yeah.
• 1:52:19
  I broke it, I feel. Like, I kind of got talked.
• 1:52:21
  I feel like. I kind of got talked into it by
• 1:52:24
  like a young surgeon. And like I was by myself.
• 1:52:26
  Didn't really know. Oh no, It was basically like,
• 1:52:30
  who's weighing out the pros and cons of like we could not do
• 1:52:32
  surgery and you'll be in a plaster cast for like 2 months.
• 1:52:35
  There's a chance that it could grow back a little bit weird and
• 1:52:37
  then we have to do surgery anyways.
• 1:52:39
  We gotta break it. Or we could just do it now and I
• 1:52:42
  was kind of just like fuck it, let's do it now.
• 1:52:44
  The recovery time is gonna be quicker and I kind of regret
• 1:52:47
  that 'cause I was always like very anti surgery, like growing
• 1:52:50
  up with like any of the other injuries that I've, I've broken
• 1:52:52
  bones and like separated my shoulder.
• 1:52:54
  Oh my God. What the?
• 1:52:56
  Fuck are you doing? Jesus.
• 1:52:59
  It doesn't like. That because I was like what
• 1:53:00
  the? Fuck, I don't know what kind of
• 1:53:01
  bone. What the collar called, but it's
• 1:53:04
  like a, well, it's a part of your collarbone, it's a kind of
• 1:53:06
  bone that goes up this way and it's like in a socket bone.
• 1:53:08
  Is that Malcolm? It's basically.
• 1:53:11
  Partier. Maybe.
• 1:53:12
  But it's like, it's like partially dislocated, but
• 1:53:14
  forever now, essentially because I fell snowboarding.
• 1:53:17
  So, Frank, you ever bought a coat?
• 1:53:19
  I've never broken a bone. Dude, I don't think you would.
• 1:53:21
  Like it at all. I don't think I've sprained.
• 1:53:23
  Anything either that's I think having.
• 1:53:25
  I really don't think I have. You had to have.
• 1:53:27
  You never had any. Did you do any sports?
• 1:53:29
  Did you play any sports growing up?
• 1:53:30
  Sports. Not really.
• 1:53:31
  I mean, you like skateboarded. And stuff.
• 1:53:33
  Not crazy. Though, OK, just rolled around.
• 1:53:37
  You know what I mean? Not crazy shit.
• 1:53:39
  I I could have. Sworn you said you could have
• 1:53:41
  kick flipped. I think I did.
• 1:53:43
  One kick. Flip once, but it's not like I
• 1:53:45
  couldn't just do that on a on a on a whim, you know?
• 1:53:48
  I think that's the thing that I've.
• 1:53:49
  Decided as I've gotten older with like snowboarding
• 1:53:51
  particularly is that I have no self-control with like wanting
• 1:53:55
  to try and I'm not like some crazy fucking park dude that's
• 1:54:00
  going to go do like a cork 7 off.
• 1:54:02
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Box.
• 1:54:03
  Or something. Fucking stupid, but like, I
• 1:54:06
  don't want to say you do that. Well, both side hits.
• 1:54:10
  I broke. I broke my wrist on a side hit
• 1:54:12
  because like, I, well, I fucked up my shoulder in a park, like
• 1:54:15
  right when I graduated college and was like super depressed
• 1:54:17
  about it and was like, I'm scaling it back.
• 1:54:19
  We're not doing park shit anymore.
• 1:54:20
  We're just going to have fun on the trails and stuff.
• 1:54:22
  And then I fucking crushed my wrist.
• 1:54:26
  Are you scared now of doing it or?
• 1:54:27
  Are you still gonna do do that? Shit definitely was scared for a
• 1:54:31
  while. I think, honestly, it was
• 1:54:36
  deciding if I should talk about this or not.
• 1:54:38
  I had a about it. No, it was more or less an
• 1:54:41
  experience I had in the ambulance, which I had never
• 1:54:45
  been in an ambulance before until I broke my wrist and they
• 1:54:49
  basically tried to give me fentanyl and I like, freaked the
• 1:54:52
  fuck out on them. I was like, keep that shit away
• 1:54:53
  from me. Wait, how can they give?
• 1:54:55
  You I'm so confused on this fit and.
• 1:54:57
  So, like I I like pretty much all in the kick rocks.
• 1:55:00
  I got like very upset. I was like keep that shit away
• 1:55:02
  from me. So they gave me ketamine and.
• 1:55:07
  That was a little different, they.
• 1:55:09
  Yeah, they put me in a very serious K hole, and I had a lot
• 1:55:12
  of anxiety from that. Pretty much Long story short,
• 1:55:15
  throughout this year. Yeah, So I was kind of dealing
• 1:55:18
  with that. What other options?
• 1:55:20
  Were they going to give you I? Kind of.
• 1:55:21
  Remember those being the only two options?
• 1:55:24
  OK, so which is? Which are very, very extreme
• 1:55:27
  options. That's terrifying.
• 1:55:28
  I didn't know. You could just be like, no, I'll
• 1:55:31
  have a French onion soup, you get the ambulance.
• 1:55:34
  You want the ketamine or the fentanyl?
• 1:55:35
  What do you want, you fucking drug addict?
• 1:55:37
  Like what, bro? What the?
• 1:55:38
  Fuck, I'll take a slick. Fries.
• 1:55:40
  I just want to go home. A car would be like the.
• 1:55:42
  Weed. Give it a weed.
• 1:55:44
  Dude, give it a weed. You could cut my own spliff.
• 1:55:46
  Real quick. Wait, so.
• 1:55:48
  From my understanding, fentanyl is an epidemic.
• 1:55:51
  You can fucking die from like a crumb of it, but they give it to
• 1:55:55
  you. That's also.
• 1:55:56
  Why I freaked it 'cause I didn't trust some fucking ambulance EMT
• 1:55:59
  in the middle. God damn nowhere to just like,
• 1:56:01
  but but they use. That as a as a actual.
• 1:56:03
  Like. Medicine also opiates.
• 1:56:05
  Scare me though like I have always know I've had family
• 1:56:09
  members with like, no, no, it's on the wall, it's on the wall.
• 1:56:12
  Yeah, he got. It that was the.
• 1:56:13
  First mosquito we've seen in a long time, dude.
• 1:56:16
  Frankie. Just slapped a family with his
• 1:56:17
  hand I. Was going to eat and then.
• 1:56:20
  He ate it. Protein, dude.
• 1:56:21
  Then he ate it. It's protein.
• 1:56:23
  Baby, that's fucking wild. Yeah.
• 1:56:26
  And I didn't know that. Like, I I still don't know if
• 1:56:29
  you can give fentanyl. I didn't know that was a thing,
• 1:56:32
  dude. I thought it was.
• 1:56:34
  Just they're. Also just like.
• 1:56:35
  Obviously like crazy addictive and all that stuff and like,
• 1:56:38
  that's gonna be scared. Of I'm pretty.
• 1:56:39
  Like one hit and you dead so you need so I I.
• 1:56:43
  Just I'm just a so you organic kind of guy.
• 1:56:45
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:56:45
  You were in crazy. Pain though, I'm assuming like
• 1:56:48
  I. I like, I've had enough injuries
• 1:56:51
  to like the second I fell, I knew that.
• 1:56:53
  I broke my wrist. I got up, rode down the
• 1:56:55
  mountain. I called my friend, who was,
• 1:56:57
  like, waiting for me in line. He's like, hey man, can you come
• 1:57:00
  down to the lodge? I think I broke my wrist.
• 1:57:01
  I need help getting my jacket off.
• 1:57:03
  And it didn't really start settling in until I was, like,
• 1:57:06
  sitting in like, the EMT area or whatever, waiting for the
• 1:57:10
  ambulance. And it kind of started throbbing
• 1:57:12
  and, like, pulsating. I was like, yeah.
• 1:57:14
  This kind of sucks. But honestly, kidney stone hurts
• 1:57:17
  so much fucking more. Oh God, that was the pain of it.
• 1:57:19
  I had a 9mm stone in my kidney and just the pain of it exiting
• 1:57:24
  my kidney into like that little track that goes to your bladder.
• 1:57:28
  I was like out of breath, like just like hobbling around the
• 1:57:32
  house, like on the phone with this nurse from my urologist's
• 1:57:35
  office. And she's like, you should
• 1:57:36
  probably go to the hospital. How do I avoid?
• 1:57:38
  How do I avoid getting that? That's how.
• 1:57:39
  That's what I always. Ask right what kidney stones?
• 1:57:41
  How? Often do I need to change it?
• 1:57:43
  For me it's. For me, it was genetic.
• 1:57:45
  It's also definitely just like my diet growing up in my 20s,
• 1:57:50
  you know, just not being a healthy person, I was like, Oh
• 1:57:52
  well, I'm not fat. So this is I didn't really care
• 1:57:56
  too much about like, don't say this.
• 1:57:58
  Shit. Less sodium.
• 1:57:59
  Say that's what he. Does that's I know.
• 1:58:00
  I have a terrible diet, 2 1/2 liters of.
• 1:58:03
  Water a day for me. Did you say less sodium?
• 1:58:06
  Yeah, less sodium. But you also drink.
• 1:58:08
  Because your your. Sodium.
• 1:58:10
  Your sodium intake dictates how much calcium your body produces.
• 1:58:17
  My God. And so much.
• 1:58:18
  Calcium, my sweat is. Pretty white.
• 1:58:20
  When I get real sweaty. Yeah, I know.
• 1:58:22
  Dude, mine too, dude, you could spice up your.
• 1:58:25
  Liquid deaths with a little bit of lemon.
• 1:58:28
  Any sort of citrate? Lemon, lime or oranges?
• 1:58:31
  Yeah, I eat 2000. Milligrams of vitamin CA Day.
• 1:58:35
  You also that's better not. I probably should.
• 1:58:37
  Probably talk to your doctor. About that, it's not.
• 1:58:39
  There's this jar of gummy. Vitamins.
• 1:58:41
  It sits in my kitchen counter doctor's.
• 1:58:42
  A kind of a fucking sham, too, though.
• 1:58:44
  Like my My current primary care physician is just like, Damn,
• 1:58:47
  you got to. Find when you trust What the
• 1:58:49
  fuck? Are you like?
• 1:58:50
  I don't know. He's yeah.
• 1:58:51
  Anyways, you don't have a doctor.
• 1:58:52
  Yet the worst is when I go to. The doctor's office and they
• 1:58:55
  tell me some shit I I already knew.
• 1:58:57
  And they just. Confirmed it and I'm like, wow,
• 1:59:00
  well, well, that'll be cool. When you wait.
• 1:59:01
  Forever. And it's just like, yeah, they
• 1:59:04
  or they just like immediately bounce you to someone who's
• 1:59:07
  like, oh, I don't know, you should go see this person.
• 1:59:08
  It's like, why did I just like take time off of work and out?
• 1:59:12
  Of my day. To come here for you to just be
• 1:59:14
  like, yeah, dude, I don't know shit, like you should go to this
• 1:59:16
  guy. But I mean sometimes.
• 1:59:17
  It's a consult like I know for me.
• 1:59:20
  I have to get my wisdom teeth out soon.
• 1:59:22
  You still have them. Damn, I only have.
• 1:59:24
  Two. OK.
• 1:59:25
  Oh, your. Other two didn't like grow.
• 1:59:27
  Yeah, I got all mine. And then but.
• 1:59:29
  The two that I have are impacting and it hurts.
• 1:59:32
  This is slightly. Impacting.
• 1:59:34
  Not crazy, but mine are like that.
• 1:59:36
  My upper 2 grew in. Normal.
• 1:59:38
  The problem is when only like 2 of the four grow in the ones
• 1:59:42
  that have grown in, they're looking for something to kind of
• 1:59:44
  like stop against. Yeah, they're just gonna keep
• 1:59:47
  growing. It's hurting.
• 1:59:48
  That's how I was told anyways. And then my lower two were like,
• 1:59:51
  insanely impacted. They told me I needed to take.
• 1:59:53
  Him out. I was like, that's a conspiracy.
• 1:59:55
  How much do I owe you? Sometimes I'll.
• 1:59:56
  Tie a string to a dorm literally.
• 1:59:58
  I never got him out. And then they tell me every time
• 2:00:00
  I go and I'm like. You'll know when it's.
• 2:00:03
  Time. Yeah, but they're like, oh.
• 2:00:05
  You better get it out early and I'm like, fuck, they hurt.
• 2:00:08
  Sometimes it's more or less when they.
• 2:00:09
  When if you have any that are impacted, technically mine is.
• 2:00:12
  Impacting. But it's like, so it's like such
• 2:00:15
  a slight angle where I'm like, does this, is this even going to
• 2:00:18
  get worse? They're just like, oh, you got
• 2:00:20
  to make sure you clean back there.
• 2:00:21
  And I'm like crazy with brushing my teeth and flossing now
• 2:00:25
  because of that and everything. So now I'm like, even less
• 2:00:28
  concerned. I'm just like, right?
• 2:00:30
  Yeah. And I go to the dentist, I think
• 2:00:33
  3 * a year. Yeah, I I.
• 2:00:36
  I'll just try to stay on top of it.
• 2:00:38
  It's like, not good for you, dude.
• 2:00:40
  As long as you're like, flossing, yeah, I think that's
• 2:00:43
  like the important part. Really.
• 2:00:44
  It's flossing every night. Now I I.
• 2:00:46
  Used to not do that since I got. Invisalignes I I'm not wearing
• 2:00:50
  them right now, but yeah, that upped my dental hygiene.
• 2:00:53
  I was very lucky growing up, like when I got my adult teeth,
• 2:00:56
  I've never had like cavities or anything since.
• 2:00:58
  And my teeth are great. And then I got in visual lines
• 2:01:01
  and like, you can't, you can't just like pop in visual lines in
• 2:01:03
  unless you brush, floss and rinse.
• 2:01:06
  So I kind of upped that. And then also I thought about it
• 2:01:10
  and I was like, oh, this is actually just a really good
• 2:01:12
  thing I would love to keep. Talking to you about shit that
• 2:01:14
  has nothing to do with drifting, but let's just bring it back
• 2:01:16
  because I don't want Yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
• 2:01:18
  Know I was going to. Bring it to the questions
• 2:01:20
  because like I love not. Keeping here, but I feel like
• 2:01:24
  I'm here. I'm here for.
• 2:01:25
  It dude, we're just chilling. Yeah, I love them too.
• 2:01:27
  And. I feel like to the longest segue
• 2:01:29
  we had during this whole time, and I'm sure the listener is
• 2:01:31
  going to be like, what the fuck I want to learn more about.
• 2:01:33
  And we just learned about airlines.
• 2:01:35
  Yeah, airlines. And I just wanted to know.
• 2:01:37
  Dental. What was the ending?
• 2:01:39
  Of you getting the car in Japan, like how did you get it here?
• 2:01:42
  What was the process? Like.
• 2:01:45
  I just. Wanted to know.
• 2:01:46
  We're just, we're just. Brushing that off to the side.
• 2:01:49
  Yeah, yeah, I mean. We all got.
• 2:01:50
  We all got good teeth so. You know, we all have teeth.
• 2:01:53
  Hopefully. But yeah, tooth.
• 2:01:55
  Barely. Mine.
• 2:01:56
  So my FCI shipped home through. Actually, Ilia put me in contact
• 2:02:03
  with this dude up in Washington. He's the same guy that actually
• 2:02:06
  shipped the cars over for Final Bout gallery.
• 2:02:10
  He doesn't have business per SE, but he's like a military dude.
• 2:02:15
  He lived in Japan for like 15 years or so, and it's really in
• 2:02:18
  cars and just kind of knew the means of making something like
• 2:02:22
  that happen. And then you got it all the.
• 2:02:23
  Way over here and then decided, well, I.
• 2:02:25
  Guess you made the. First, you made the decision
• 2:02:27
  actually bring it to to purchase it, I put.
• 2:02:29
  Money into it before it came home and then I yeah, and then
• 2:02:32
  shipped it home. You didn't want to.
• 2:02:34
  Try to leave it there as a car to use.
• 2:02:38
  I wasn't really thinking about that at the time because I don't
• 2:02:40
  think I really knew. I mean, I was.
• 2:02:41
  I was 25 when I bought that car. I wasn't.
• 2:02:45
  Now I'm thinking about trying to get and I have an opportunity to
• 2:02:49
  get a car and like leave it over there, which maybe someday.
• 2:02:53
  It's not happening right now because excuse.
• 2:02:57
  Me. I got the S15 because I wanted
• 2:03:00
  to get an S15 before they became totally unobtainium.
• 2:03:05
  I want, I wanted to get one like ahead of the mark, you know,
• 2:03:07
  before they come to the US and cost fucking 3540 grand, which
• 2:03:12
  I'm sure a clean spec car will go for that someday.
• 2:03:15
  Over here. Yeah, it's definitely.
• 2:03:16
  Gonna get. Bad with S15 is for sure.
• 2:03:19
  Another thing you brought up earlier off the podcast was you
• 2:03:22
  said we were talking about high cars, low cars, this and that,
• 2:03:26
  and you said you were trying to, like, have the best of
• 2:03:29
  everything. Yeah.
• 2:03:30
  It'll just like have cars that are kind of set up for different
• 2:03:33
  purposes, like still stick to my roots with the whole Chakratan
• 2:03:38
  style with S13. Yeah, but.
• 2:03:41
  Then also have another S13 that's maybe a little bit more
• 2:03:45
  set up, like modern simple cars where Josh's.
• 2:03:49
  Yeah, sorry dude, Josh's. 180 was the best, like the easiest
• 2:03:55
  car to drift in Japan, yeah. Oh my.
• 2:03:58
  God, that car just drove so fucking well.
• 2:04:00
  I mean, like, I obviously had never driven it before.
• 2:04:02
  I had never driven TKL, and I just like, hopped in and started
• 2:04:05
  doing it. It's funny.
• 2:04:06
  Guys look fucking easy. It's funny because.
• 2:04:08
  He has an. S13 but it's just not that high.
• 2:04:11
  Yeah, right. So.
• 2:04:11
  It's like it's literally. The same car you just.
• 2:04:14
  Put it to the stock height. Yeah, right.
• 2:04:17
  You. You just put it to the light.
• 2:04:18
  Yeah, it's true though, right? With actual suspension travel.
• 2:04:21
  And then you're Oh my God, it drives amazing.
• 2:04:23
  Who would have thought? Yeah, but then.
• 2:04:25
  Did you ever 'cause when I was? Well, I mean.
• 2:04:30
  We both had really low cars. And then I started raising mine
• 2:04:33
  up. But when I say raising it up, I
• 2:04:34
  mean like, you know, 1/4 of an inch, right?
• 2:04:36
  You know, like every year. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:04:38
  And like you keep raising it up. And every every time you raise
• 2:04:40
  it like a little bit, you're like this car drives so great.
• 2:04:44
  Do you have a similar experience?
• 2:04:45
  That's one of my white car. Right now.
• 2:04:47
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 2:04:47
  OK. I.
• 2:04:48
  Just wanted to see it's like you raise it like alright, let me
• 2:04:51
  raise it like 3. It feels like a tire that for.
• 2:04:53
  Me, the tire, the work. Fit more.
• 2:04:55
  Tire under. There, yeah.
• 2:04:57
  For me it was. The IT was the arrow thing.
• 2:04:59
  Like, I'd raise the front like 1/4 of an inch and I'd be like,
• 2:05:02
  I don't know, yeah, but it's like you literally barely even
• 2:05:06
  lifted it and now you think you could just drive anywhere you
• 2:05:09
  you want. But it feels that way, like,
• 2:05:12
  right? Yeah.
• 2:05:13
  I got I landed at the height I did with my FC, mainly because
• 2:05:16
  my rear coil overs like were maxed out and I didn't feel like
• 2:05:19
  pulling collars and doing all that shit.
• 2:05:21
  But like if I lowered it as low and as that car was when it was
• 2:05:25
  in Japan, yeah, I probably would have bluetoothed the BN by now.
• 2:05:28
  Bluetooth. Yeah, 'cause that car.
• 2:05:31
  Does sit a little higher. It's a little higher.
• 2:05:33
  But I have AI run a 235 up front but a drive it feels 235.
• 2:05:38
  The car feels really good on track and it like it squats down
• 2:05:43
  enough for like mid drift. It looks it looks respectable
• 2:05:48
  but it also the drivability on the street.
• 2:05:51
  I'm not like, yeah, I'm not as concerned.
• 2:05:54
  Well, we had. Eric Ryan on here.
• 2:05:56
  I don't know if you saw that podcast, he's a media guy, but
• 2:05:59
  there was a photo of your car that he took.
• 2:06:02
  Malcolm, do you have access to that photo?
• 2:06:05
  Maybe in the e-mail. I'll try to find it in.
• 2:06:07
  That oh, yeah. Oh.
• 2:06:08
  You saw it OK Yeah, 'cause it was on Instagram.
• 2:06:12
  Yeah. I was looking at that photo of
• 2:06:14
  your car, and I think that's when I was like, oh, OK, so his
• 2:06:16
  car is not, this car is not slaying.
• 2:06:19
  My white car was like you couldn't put a shoe under the
• 2:06:22
  front bumper for a while. That's as.
• 2:06:25
  That was the the that was. On the.
• 2:06:27
  Ground. That was how I would.
• 2:06:28
  Measure it. I would like to be able to fit
• 2:06:30
  the bottom of my shoe under it. And then I was like, OK, it's,
• 2:06:32
  it's, it's the right height, right 'cause any lower than
• 2:06:35
  that. In Japan, it was like a.
• 2:06:36
  Pack of seven stars, these cigarettes that all the drivers,
• 2:06:39
  all that Bunta smokes, I have a. Pack of seven stars at home.
• 2:06:44
  Oh yeah, yeah, I got them in. Got that?
• 2:06:46
  Import. Why did I?
• 2:06:47
  Yeah, this is. The photo right here our friend
• 2:06:48
  Kevin gave it to. Me.
• 2:06:49
  Oh yeah. I was a dude, so yeah.
• 2:06:52
  Frankie, you're showing me a photo from a special stage East
• 2:06:55
  in 2021. In that event, I drove a final
• 2:07:00
  bout event without a team there and I did not tandem once.
• 2:07:05
  I literally was just giving passenger I gave like 25 kids
• 2:07:08
  ride alongs. Really.
• 2:07:09
  It was great. It was it was so much fun.
• 2:07:11
  I had so. Much fun.
• 2:07:13
  Yeah, it was. It was awesome.
• 2:07:14
  I don't know. We were just the the weather was
• 2:07:16
  a little Apache through the day and I was credit.
• 2:07:19
  So I was doing my own thing because of that.
• 2:07:20
  And I was just like, fuck it, I'm having fun.
• 2:07:22
  What? All the teams were doing their
• 2:07:23
  own things anyways and what rear?
• 2:07:25
  Wing is that. I'm not an ARC Seven guy.
• 2:07:28
  I. Might butcher the word ray.
• 2:07:30
  Amamia. Oh yeah, Amamia.
• 2:07:31
  OK. However you want to pronounce
• 2:07:33
  it. Yeah.
• 2:07:33
  Mamma Mia. Yeah, not.
• 2:07:35
  Mamma Mia auriemia. That's.
• 2:07:37
  What I heard before, I thought it was Aurie Amia.
• 2:07:40
  I amia amia. Who knows?
• 2:07:42
  I thought. Yeah.
• 2:07:44
  I should know, I don't. Something like that.
• 2:07:46
  That's OK, but that is my. Favorite wing on RX7 FC for
• 2:07:50
  sure. Oh yeah, that's.
• 2:07:51
  The only actually that's. The only wing I would, Yeah,
• 2:07:54
  that whole. Car was just like happenstance
• 2:07:56
  with like being in the right place at the right time and was
• 2:07:58
  making the right. Friend.
• 2:07:59
  Yeah, for sure. For RX Sevens, what size rear
• 2:08:03
  tire? Do you run on this?
• 2:08:05
  In that photo, that might have been like a two 3540, OK.
• 2:08:09
  For some reason it looks so tall, but it's it's weird.
• 2:08:11
  I don't know that car's. I think the.
• 2:08:12
  Car's unloading. In this photo or something too.
• 2:08:15
  Like I can like I have such a massive spacer in the back and
• 2:08:19
  it's still like 9 1/2 + 12. How does this car?
• 2:08:23
  Drive compared to the S13. Pretty different I.
• 2:08:26
  Would say it's very light, it's fair.
• 2:08:30
  That's just different. Yeah, it's hard to say.
• 2:08:33
  I mean from, from a technical standpoint, the RX7 was sold as
• 2:08:38
  a sports car versus our cars, yeah.
• 2:08:41
  Or for versus. Our but when I see the rear.
• 2:08:44
  Suspension. On FC, it's just a trailing arm.
• 2:08:47
  Suspensions. Yeah.
• 2:08:48
  It's got like a it's. Kind of like similar to E36 is
• 2:08:50
  where it's got that whole anti squat thing going on and like it
• 2:08:53
  just it makes it makes a shit ton of a mechanical grip.
• 2:08:58
  It does. That car is so gripped up.
• 2:09:00
  Yeah, even on like a 235. So it's.
• 2:09:04
  Not like an S. 13 Where it fucking Like Toes Out when It
• 2:09:07
  Squats Probably does. The opposite, Yeah.
• 2:09:09
  It no, that car hooks up really well.
• 2:09:12
  It either feels totally planted or when you do kick it sideways,
• 2:09:16
  it feels like it might do a 360. So it's, yeah, it's all over the
• 2:09:20
  place, yeah, it seems. Like terms of that people.
• 2:09:23
  RX7 say. It's.
• 2:09:26
  It's also because that car doesn't make like a super.
• 2:09:29
  I mean, it's still a turbocharged car.
• 2:09:30
  I'm not drifting like 90 horsepower, I make 250 in that
• 2:09:33
  car. But it's still like you still
• 2:09:37
  have to work for it and it feels so rewarding when you like
• 2:09:40
  actually lay down a good run and like my lazy non mechanic avenas
• 2:09:46
  just like, oh the handbrake kind of works only if you're like
• 2:09:49
  really pitched at the right angle and drag the foot brake
• 2:09:51
  and stuff so. Drifting.
• 2:09:52
  I drive. I drive.
• 2:09:54
  That car with like, not a lot of handbrake.
• 2:09:56
  And I like, I like no handbrake driving in that car and it feels
• 2:10:01
  fucking sick when you actually make it work.
• 2:10:03
  So I'm hoping that in the past like 5-6 years that I've had
• 2:10:06
  that car now that a lot of that will translate back into the
• 2:10:10
  2:40. It's like I think driving the FC
• 2:10:14
  and then just like in recent years, being able to drive other
• 2:10:16
  people's cars, every time I'd hop in someone else's car, I'm
• 2:10:19
  like, Oh my God, this feels amazing.
• 2:10:21
  This car's so easy to drive. This is that, whatever.
• 2:10:23
  And for me, it was like with my 2-40 how slammed it was and me
• 2:10:26
  just never having a real alignment or a really good setup
• 2:10:30
  drifting on a VLSD for like five years or whatever.
• 2:10:32
  You know, like I've really drove cars or my car was just never
• 2:10:37
  very well set up and so you're you're thinking you're gonna.
• 2:10:40
  Be a lot, I've. Learned to adapt as a driver
• 2:10:44
  around the car which I've been told is a it it.
• 2:10:48
  It's a good thing, you know instead of like going and just
• 2:10:51
  like oh I I kept fucking up at this event.
• 2:10:55
  I need this part or that part or I need to change this or do
• 2:10:57
  that. It's like the the first thing
• 2:10:59
  you should do is try to adapt as a driver and then that's really
• 2:11:04
  and then go from there. I'm convinced I could.
• 2:11:06
  Drift anything? Oh God.
• 2:11:09
  Let's get the Prius. Out baby I.
• 2:11:12
  I fucking. Swing the coils.
• 2:11:14
  Best drift car ever. No, I don't.
• 2:11:15
  Disagree with that. It probably is.
• 2:11:17
  It feels so. Good to drifting a silent.
• 2:11:19
  Thing. It's my my daily driver's a
• 2:11:22
  Honda Accord. It's like 2005 Accord.
• 2:11:24
  I had that same. One that.
• 2:11:25
  Was my first front wheel drive car ever in like my early 20s
• 2:11:30
  and. It took me so.
• 2:11:33
  Many years to figure out how to drift that thing in the snow.
• 2:11:37
  I was always so mad, dude. And like here.
• 2:11:39
  But like my teammates were like, what dude?
• 2:11:41
  Oh, just front wheel drive cars are hilarious, you know?
• 2:11:43
  But my friend's girlfriend had a I had a Mini Cooper that we used
• 2:11:47
  to slay everywhere or whatever, but it was like, I could not
• 2:11:49
  figure that shit out for so long.
• 2:11:51
  Is it just handbrake? I first got a handbrake and you
• 2:11:54
  and. Then you drop it back down.
• 2:11:55
  I think for me it was just. Natural instincts when I was I
• 2:11:58
  had a rear wheel drive car when I was 6.
• 2:11:59
  That's literally all I knew. Well, yeah, my.
• 2:12:01
  Friend Jesse. I saw Jesse drift a front wheel
• 2:12:05
  drive car better than I've ever seen anyone do it in the snow.
• 2:12:08
  And maybe that's what you're talking about.
• 2:12:09
  Because I. We would just pull the.
• 2:12:12
  Handbrake and fuck around like you weren't actually drifting.
• 2:12:14
  But when I saw him do it, I was like, he actually looks like
• 2:12:17
  he's drifting, right. It's.
• 2:12:19
  Really weird. He was like.
• 2:12:19
  Practicing some sick entries, right?
• 2:12:21
  Yeah, and. It was like a third Gen.
• 2:12:23
  eclipse. I was like, what the fuck?
• 2:12:25
  How's he doing this shit I had? The with the Integra, the second
• 2:12:28
  one, 'cause I already knew what drifting was, I got another
• 2:12:32
  Integra, I don't know, I I spiraled through cars a lot.
• 2:12:35
  PJ that was like a that was like a trend for me.
• 2:12:37
  But anyway, for the Integra I was, I would pitch it into
• 2:12:41
  corners and then get off the gas or or no, I would pitch it into
• 2:12:47
  corners and like lightly dab the left foot brake OK, which would
• 2:12:52
  yeah, pitching it in like this and you left foot brake.
• 2:12:55
  The back would just ever so slightly like come out like in
• 2:13:00
  the rain. And then what would you do?
• 2:13:01
  Once. Once you did that, you get the
• 2:13:04
  moment you. Do.
• 2:13:04
  That and unlike drifting, where when you counter and then
• 2:13:08
  throttle, the slide is gonna go longer, the moment you hit the
• 2:13:11
  throttle encounter, the car's just going to go straight that
• 2:13:14
  way. OK, so like.
• 2:13:15
  When that happens, like I might have, I don't know.
• 2:13:18
  I just try not to die like I'm like, OK, I got it to do it.
• 2:13:22
  Like that made me think about at a drift event at Thompson.
• 2:13:25
  Once we it was like a shared track.
• 2:13:28
  We weren't driving on the road course.
• 2:13:29
  I think it was just a skid pat day and there was a BMW club was
• 2:13:32
  out or something. These like pretty not sober
• 2:13:37
  driving instructors from that day.
• 2:13:39
  Like came and rode with a couple of us drifting.
• 2:13:42
  And the one dude was like so impressed that he like he like
• 2:13:45
  gave me his number and let me drive his Civic at Palmer once.
• 2:13:49
  And like, I thought he was just like, OK, this dude's just
• 2:13:51
  drunk. He's not actually going to let
• 2:13:52
  me drive his Civic. That's great.
• 2:13:53
  And I texted him and he did and he set up a day and I shared
• 2:13:56
  this like early 90s. I don't know my Honda's very
• 2:13:59
  well. Older than that bubble.
• 2:14:01
  EF maybe EF? I don't know neither.
• 2:14:04
  I have pictures of it, but it it's like 90 horsepower car kind
• 2:14:08
  of raining conditions kind of on and off.
• 2:14:10
  But there is one corner where the back of the car would get so
• 2:14:14
  light coming up this hill that like I the car would like twitch
• 2:14:17
  out and it's like I didn't like, you know still trying to figure
• 2:14:20
  out what to do with front wheel drive.
• 2:14:21
  Yeah. So it's a weird.
• 2:14:23
  Yeah, that would. Be a good.
• 2:14:24
  Thing you just. Trying to know.
• 2:14:25
  If there's like the, I think I know with left or with left foot
• 2:14:30
  braking with with front wheel drive cars, when you want to
• 2:14:32
  keep the back end planted mid corner, I think you're supposed
• 2:14:35
  to kind of like drag the brakes a little bit with your left
• 2:14:37
  foot. It kind of helps keep the back
• 2:14:39
  of the car planted. Maybe it hires things.
• 2:14:42
  Something. Like that who have no idea
• 2:14:43
  because I never took a front wheel drive car on a track.
• 2:14:45
  I feel like it was a learning. Experience.
• 2:14:47
  It was that car was so fucking fun that I had people in like
• 2:14:51
  pretty way faster, nicer cars waving me by because like
• 2:14:55
  Palmer, that there's not, there's one really big straight
• 2:14:58
  and the rest of it's just corners.
• 2:14:59
  So I was just like dogging a dude in like Azo 6 and like
• 2:15:02
  some. It's pretty like whatever it
• 2:15:03
  was, it was fucking hilarious. There's my dad has a video,
• 2:15:06
  'cause he went with me that day. He he's just laughing his ass
• 2:15:10
  off, 'cause I was just like, dogging the back of this
• 2:15:11
  Corvette forever, and the dude finally had to wave me by I'm
• 2:15:15
  foot to the floor in like a 90 horsepower car, like barely
• 2:15:19
  inching by this dude on the street.
• 2:15:20
  So he had to let me by what? You were doing.
• 2:15:22
  Enough. My my my.
• 2:15:24
  Instructor is like, it was funny.
• 2:15:25
  There was a couple of times where he was getting pissed
• 2:15:27
  because people were like either not paying attention or can't
• 2:15:30
  swallow their pride and let a civic drive by him.
• 2:15:33
  He was like, he was like, fuck it, just get on their bumper,
• 2:15:35
  so. Until they give you a point.
• 2:15:38
  All right, Carl, I'm. Done.
• 2:15:39
  I'm done dragging this on. Ask your questions.
• 2:15:42
  We I could keep going. We have a bunch of questions.
• 2:15:44
  But I did want to say Part 2 someday.
• 2:15:45
  Oh. Yeah, for sure.
• 2:15:46
  I did. I did.
• 2:15:47
  Wanna What the hell was I going to say?
• 2:15:49
  Was there questions? From Instagram too.
• 2:15:50
  That's what we're gonna do. OK, OK.
• 2:15:52
  And the reason why I. Like to get into these before we
• 2:15:54
  sit here for forever and then we never eat.
• 2:15:57
  Yeah, ever again. And then I'll drop my freestyle.
• 2:15:59
  Yeah. Is because some of them are are
• 2:16:01
  pretty good. We answered a lot of these, so
• 2:16:04
  if they're answered, sorry, I'm gonna skip you FC or white hatch
• 2:16:09
  and Y. It's like picking between kids.
• 2:16:14
  That's why it's kind of a vague. Question.
• 2:16:16
  Yeah, they both serve their own purposes in my opinion.
• 2:16:18
  The Nope. Nope.
• 2:16:19
  You gotta pick one. Pick one white.
• 2:16:21
  Hatch or FC? I know what you're gonna.
• 2:16:23
  Pick. So just say it, All right.
• 2:16:24
  No, no, no, no, no. No, I know you don't know.
• 2:16:26
  You don't know. You do.
• 2:16:27
  Do. You know, yeah, I do think I
• 2:16:29
  know. Well, I'm probably.
• 2:16:30
  Gonna. I'm probably gonna pick the
• 2:16:32
  white hatch. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:16:34
  All right, dude, driving that car around just well, and you
• 2:16:37
  got sent to them. By value with it too that that's
• 2:16:40
  really the. Main part honestly the the turbo
• 2:16:43
  Rotary RX7 is a different but it you're comparing apples to
• 2:16:47
  oranges in my opinion, but an orange.
• 2:16:50
  Tree that you've been growing for a while is the white hatch
• 2:16:53
  and then like an apple that you just bought from the stores.
• 2:16:57
  Which is a good apple? Definitely a cool store.
• 2:16:59
  Too definitely. A.
• 2:17:00
  Cool last. Store.
• 2:17:02
  Yeah, we we saved the bag that it came in.
• 2:17:04
  Yeah, all that stuff. The.
• 2:17:05
  The. Produce manager was amazing.
• 2:17:08
  You're right. Tamoya that.
• 2:17:10
  Would make sense though. Thank you dear that.
• 2:17:12
  Was Emperor Uno? This is Pat Lynch.
• 2:17:15
  What is something correlated you'd like to change coming into
• 2:17:18
  the new year? Something car.
• 2:17:21
  Related, I would like to change what do you I guess he maybe a.
• 2:17:24
  Change that you're that you would like to make.
• 2:17:26
  Yeah, probably your own. Cars.
• 2:17:27
  Oh. I really want to put a two way
• 2:17:30
  in the white hatch. What's in it now?
• 2:17:33
  It's a. Welded.
• 2:17:33
  It's like a plated welded diff. My F CS had a two way and any
• 2:17:37
  other car. I've also driven with two ways.
• 2:17:39
  They just drive better, feel superior.
• 2:17:41
  What's the difference? That you feel.
• 2:17:44
  Well, I know from a technical standpoint that a two way is
• 2:17:46
  going to be faster than a welded differential because when you
• 2:17:49
  let. Off it will do stuff to help
• 2:17:52
  you. Yeah, it.
• 2:17:53
  Has to do with one of the wheels not locking quite as much as the
• 2:17:57
  other. So you're like with a welded
• 2:18:00
  differential, you're kind of really dragging like one of your
• 2:18:03
  wheels through a corner essentially and things like
• 2:18:06
  that. I don't know.
• 2:18:07
  They just, yeah, I mean, I. I've.
• 2:18:09
  Heard the same stuff. So we.
• 2:18:10
  I mean, that was one of the things I wanted to do too before
• 2:18:12
  I finished my car. I wanted to put it and AJ wanted
• 2:18:15
  to do it too. So. 2 Two ways just feel better.
• 2:18:19
  I feel like 2024. Is going to be the two way year
• 2:18:21
  for a lot of people. Well did, hopefully.
• 2:18:23
  So. I like welded.
• 2:18:24
  Is bad. I like the.
• 2:18:26
  Welded because it's so predictable for me.
• 2:18:29
  I'm like, OK, I know both of these Jones are spinning right
• 2:18:32
  now. Josh is screaming.
• 2:18:34
  Right now listening to you. Why he loves two ways, Josh.
• 2:18:38
  Told me not to touch the One J at all.
• 2:18:41
  Yeah, he's right about. That leave.
• 2:18:42
  Leave the 1J stock, but have you driven on A2 way before?
• 2:18:47
  I might have. I've driven like a couple
• 2:18:49
  friends's cars. I wouldn't be surprised if some
• 2:18:51
  of them had a two way. I can't remember.
• 2:18:55
  I can't pinpoint if I have, but I feel like I would have noticed
• 2:18:58
  it if it was a two way right. I would feel a difference you
• 2:19:02
  might not have. I would say potentially, yeah.
• 2:19:05
  Respectfully, never felt one. Never heard of her.
• 2:19:09
  I never seen. Her.
• 2:19:11
  I don't know if I've driven. One either really so I just.
• 2:19:15
  I just I think our first two way experience.
• 2:19:17
  Was driving my teammate Silvia in Japan and it just felt so
• 2:19:21
  good. It's just the short answer.
• 2:19:25
  Did it feel more? Predictable than a well to do.
• 2:19:29
  I don't know if that's the. Adjective.
• 2:19:30
  I would use yeah 'cause I feel like that's.
• 2:19:32
  What Carl's saying Maybe, yeah, 'cause I can.
• 2:19:34
  I can. With my.
• 2:19:37
  Setup right now I'm I can run the same line 50 times in a row.
• 2:19:43
  I don't care. Are kind of.
• 2:19:44
  Clunky, but like, maybe it felt, like less clunky.
• 2:19:48
  Or like I'm scared it would. Give it an opportunity to fail
• 2:19:52
  for that component, I don't think.
• 2:19:54
  I don't think like maybe that would.
• 2:19:56
  Open up, I don't know the 265, but I don't think.
• 2:19:59
  It's, you know. Yeah, I.
• 2:20:01
  Think you're gonna? Like it?
• 2:20:01
  I think it would be faster. Because of the the whole wheel
• 2:20:04
  dragging thing and then I know there's crazy.
• 2:20:06
  Shit you can do with like if you have a certain clutch, you know
• 2:20:09
  you can manipulate your your clutch work to make the
• 2:20:11
  differential lock differently and like and then some real
• 2:20:14
  technical shit with it too. So yeah, which is.
• 2:20:17
  Definitely crazy. Yeah.
• 2:20:19
  Trying to. Trying to evolve when when
• 2:20:21
  people say stuff like. That I start thinking like Carl,
• 2:20:24
  it's like maybe we'll stick with the welding well now, now.
• 2:20:27
  It sounds like you're adding a lot of.
• 2:20:29
  Shit that I don't want to even know how to do, but yeah, that's
• 2:20:33
  that's the Josh realm right there.
• 2:20:36
  This one's from Austin Phil Beck.
• 2:20:39
  Biggest inspiration? Big question for two.
• 2:20:42
  Words that is a big. Question right there.
• 2:20:44
  That's a large question. Who has inspired?
• 2:20:45
  You this whole time, it's like, awesome.
• 2:20:49
  'Cause. You've been in this for a while.
• 2:20:52
  It has to be some. Sort of inspiration you've
• 2:20:54
  you've sort of taken I got 2 answers so sort of direction
• 2:20:57
  what I'll I'll. I'll say him after he goes.
• 2:21:01
  Well, I think, I think one of my first inspirations was probably
• 2:21:06
  seeing Drift Faction in person. That was the first one, because
• 2:21:10
  not only did they have cool cars, but they drove, they drove
• 2:21:13
  fast and aggressive. They drove lines at Englishtown
• 2:21:16
  that not many people were driving like their their line.
• 2:21:19
  Their line along the wall. Yeah, the bank.
• 2:21:20
  Yeah, that's the like the the one day I got to drive there I
• 2:21:24
  was, I was chasing that shit. I was like, I need to stay high
• 2:21:26
  and as close to this fucking wall as I can, because that's.
• 2:21:30
  I don't know well it also. Just feels like you're driving
• 2:21:32
  more of like a race line too, instead of doing this big.
• 2:21:34
  As the race line Fucking. Shit down the I, the Manji shit
• 2:21:38
  I. Get it?
• 2:21:39
  But like, I hate it too. Wait.
• 2:21:40
  Which one? Which part of SO You Come Around
• 2:21:42
  The hairpin? And you usually what people do
• 2:21:45
  is they throw a big manji right there and then they go into the
• 2:21:47
  bank so they can get high on the wall.
• 2:21:50
  The Drift faction, Well, it's really Kyle and Dave, right?
• 2:21:53
  Yeah. What?
• 2:21:54
  No. Manji.
• 2:21:55
  Kind of come out of the come. Out of the hairpin, you still
• 2:21:57
  come on Wall drive? Yeah, kind of straight.
• 2:21:59
  A little bit. Chuck it at the apex.
• 2:22:01
  Yeah, yeah, pretty. Much that's.
• 2:22:02
  What I did? Yeah, I have a couple good clips
• 2:22:04
  where I was like, I'm scaring myself a little bit.
• 2:22:06
  You know, you hit the apex of the hairpin.
• 2:22:09
  You bring it out really close to the wall and like, you can
• 2:22:12
  still. I'd do like a really light Monji
• 2:22:14
  where I'd like kind of just like transition along the wall and
• 2:22:17
  then like flick off the wall sort of thing at the apex.
• 2:22:20
  Yeah, and that shit feels fucking sick.
• 2:22:22
  I think the way he just. Described it is a pretty good
• 2:22:25
  example, but I mean it feels so cool.
• 2:22:28
  There. Yeah, that.
• 2:22:29
  Line specifically is is. Dude, I hate.
• 2:22:32
  The Monji shit too. Like, I know how you feel.
• 2:22:34
  That's like and especially. After driving.
• 2:22:36
  E Town for so fucking long and doing the same shit.
• 2:22:39
  It's like you definitely have a say.
• 2:22:40
  In this, it's more so than me. So you're so.
• 2:22:43
  Over it, I'm a. Spectator You know.
• 2:22:45
  You know what I. Do too in the middle section
• 2:22:47
  where they that big mangie is before the Do you stay really?
• 2:22:51
  Close to like the grass, like in the middle or how you can like
• 2:22:54
  come out of that. Out.
• 2:22:55
  Or you can. Stay in like that.
• 2:22:56
  Really bumpy shit in the middle. Yeah, I mean, it's bumpy.
• 2:22:58
  No matter what. But I come out of the second
• 2:23:00
  turn and then I try. If I'm if I'm behind someone, I
• 2:23:05
  try to just fucking straighten out right there and barely do a
• 2:23:09
  mangie and just kind of straighten out and dive at them
• 2:23:12
  to set up that next turn. Because that turns my favorite
• 2:23:14
  turn. Oh really?
• 2:23:15
  Before you're like. Looking at the crowd like a
• 2:23:18
  yeah. Turn right before because this
• 2:23:19
  is you have a. Lot of runoff room and you can
• 2:23:21
  throw angle and which I don't even really care about, but it
• 2:23:25
  in that moment it feels really, really good because that
• 2:23:27
  person's like and then that's where you really stack up right
• 2:23:30
  before the hair. I felt like you could.
• 2:23:32
  Really avoid that really big bump in the middle too by
• 2:23:35
  talking. About.
• 2:23:36
  If and it it felt exciting to do as well where like you'd bring
• 2:23:39
  it like as close to the grass line as you can and then like
• 2:23:42
  literally just like kind of like the on the wall, you're like
• 2:23:45
  kind of transitioning on the that line a little bit and then
• 2:23:48
  'cause that like went back in that bump is right where you.
• 2:23:51
  Monji right in the middle, Yeah, And it just like.
• 2:23:53
  Yeah, throws you. Back of a car which is.
• 2:23:56
  Actually, you could kind of avoid.
• 2:23:57
  It a little bit, it's kind of stick.
• 2:23:59
  Know how to If you're driving that over and over and over
• 2:24:00
  again, that bump is kind of awesome.
• 2:24:02
  Oh yeah, you can kind of figure. Out how to like, yeah, you shit
• 2:24:04
  over it, you hit it right. And then, but it can get sketchy
• 2:24:07
  if you, you know, like me right now where I haven't been
• 2:24:09
  drifting a lot, and then I get in a car and I go to do that and
• 2:24:12
  I'm like, oh fuck, I forgot. And then you feel the bump and
• 2:24:15
  you're like, I hope 2020. Four, we're not borrowing
• 2:24:17
  people's cars anymore. We're driving our home.
• 2:24:19
  Yeah. Thank you PJ.
• 2:24:21
  Fuck. Yeah, but dude, that.
• 2:24:22
  Section right there. Just going as straight as you
• 2:24:25
  can. Just feel so good for some
• 2:24:27
  reason when someone's in front of you, obviously.
• 2:24:29
  But yeah, when you're leading it's kind of, I don't know, you
• 2:24:32
  kind of got a Monji, that middle section.
• 2:24:34
  But going back to the drip faction line on the on the wall,
• 2:24:38
  I'd kind of try to do the same thing there too.
• 2:24:39
  Like, mostly because the Monji just feels so whack.
• 2:24:43
  It. Looks whack, too.
• 2:24:45
  You're following someone and you're like, what the fuck are
• 2:24:47
  you doing? I get like, if you're if I ever
• 2:24:49
  get to compete in a gambler, you know, and that's the line.
• 2:24:52
  Like I'll conform and do the line, but it's like it doesn't
• 2:24:55
  feel great. It doesn't feel like.
• 2:24:57
  To how I? Feel as a driver anyways.
• 2:24:59
  Yeah, I know. I.
• 2:25:00
  Know exactly what you're saying, dude, because literally you come
• 2:25:02
  out of that hairpin and the the hairpin can be one of the best
• 2:25:05
  turns. Yeah, it's just like you're
• 2:25:07
  right on them. You're stacking.
• 2:25:09
  And then I'm always thinking about this as a the tandem car,
• 2:25:14
  not the lead car for some reason, but like, you're right
• 2:25:16
  on someone and then they go to Monji and you just kind of stay
• 2:25:20
  a little straighter and just set it up so that you can get right
• 2:25:23
  on them, you know what I mean? But going to the actual wall
• 2:25:26
  part, I don't know how I feel about that.
• 2:25:29
  That race line, I don't know. I don't like.
• 2:25:33
  Because I because. You're entry, you're gonna have
• 2:25:35
  to enter there and if you clutch kick facing like this, I'm like
• 2:25:39
  oh OK, I'm pushing forward into that wall, but it's it's cool.
• 2:25:43
  Why are you clutch kick? I'm thinking, so you're exiting.
• 2:25:45
  You're saying you're exiting the hairpin?
• 2:25:47
  Forward, forward, forward, forward.
• 2:25:48
  I'm hugging the wall and then I'm gonna straighten I'm
• 2:25:51
  straight and then I would Chuck it right at the apex.
• 2:25:55
  And when I do that, right, when I do that, I'm literally
• 2:25:57
  thinking in my head the car is either going to spin down onto
• 2:26:01
  the floor or it's going to go push off the ramp.
• 2:26:04
  You really got to just try. If you're not committed.
• 2:26:07
  It's, it's banked. So obviously, yeah, if you're
• 2:26:09
  not, if you're if you lift, you're going to snap the other
• 2:26:12
  way into the wall, depending upon how your weight's loaded up
• 2:26:15
  and all that. That's the thing.
• 2:26:16
  And that was when my car was still pretty slammed too.
• 2:26:18
  So it did not like hitting that line.
• 2:26:20
  Oh dude, everything in my wheel was or fucking.
• 2:26:23
  Oh yeah. I've spun.
• 2:26:26
  I've spun. Because of that, I think like, I
• 2:26:29
  like the wheel will grab and it'll just fuck you up.
• 2:26:32
  And I remember I was shallow already and I think maybe that
• 2:26:34
  was why I spun right there. Answer the.
• 2:26:36
  Previous question about other improvements I want to make to
• 2:26:39
  my car. I want to add adjustable bump
• 2:26:41
  stops to the white car this year so I can actually like really
• 2:26:43
  dial it so I'm not worried about like rubbing on sway bars or
• 2:26:46
  wheel well bullshit or whatever. I want to really problem.
• 2:26:49
  With your car, so I can actually.
• 2:26:50
  Like I want to feel like I actually throw the car all the
• 2:26:53
  way to lock. And what kind of outer tie?
• 2:26:55
  Rods, do you have on it? Are you talking about the FC?
• 2:26:58
  I'm talking about two. 40 I have no idea what outer tire rods are
• 2:27:00
  on it, honestly 'cause I never had that.
• 2:27:02
  Problem because we put adjustable outers on my car,
• 2:27:04
  which I don't know if I actually like them.
• 2:27:06
  I I think I might actually prefer something more OEM.
• 2:27:09
  But the adjustable outer would lower and we would put like we
• 2:27:13
  would just put a piece of metal on the lower control arm to act
• 2:27:16
  as a bump stop like basically just reinforced piece of the
• 2:27:20
  control I've heard. Of Yeah, yeah.
• 2:27:21
  And then so that thing. Just gets hit, you know, But it
• 2:27:24
  it works as a great bump stop. But you know, if you're running
• 2:27:27
  like regular Outers and a regular style knuckle, right,
• 2:27:31
  then I could see your tie rod like getting stuck above the
• 2:27:33
  control arm, which I've seen. So that that makes sense too.
• 2:27:37
  But yeah, the the wall thing at E Town, like for me it's like I
• 2:27:41
  like the rate like just if you see someone do that, that's
• 2:27:44
  cool. But like seeing someone like
• 2:27:46
  Jeff Stoneback ride the Highline.
• 2:27:49
  I don't know, man, that might be cooler because the bumper just
• 2:27:52
  on the wall the whole time right next to it.
• 2:27:56
  You're just like that is fucking crazy for me too, like.
• 2:27:59
  Also, when you're really, which I still keep calling it the
• 2:28:02
  Drift faction line, 'cause it's pretty much, they kind of coined
• 2:28:05
  it, Yeah, I've never heard of. Anybody taking it straight
• 2:28:07
  through, but like, yeah, it's very.
• 2:28:09
  Quick also the. Feeling of like, yeah, so you're
• 2:28:10
  exiting the hairpin. You're like your back's on the
• 2:28:13
  wall and then like your nose is almost on the wall too.
• 2:28:17
  Like, that's such a crazy feeling.
• 2:28:19
  Like you're kind of, Oh yeah, when you're drifting a while,
• 2:28:21
  you're saying when you just go. Straight, yeah, yeah.
• 2:28:23
  No, when you're. Like because I would do like a
• 2:28:25
  really light like I'm kind of straightening out, but I'm kind
• 2:28:28
  of pointed at the wall a little bit for like just a maybe just a
• 2:28:31
  second or two. So you're still?
• 2:28:33
  Launching but very, very, very, very shall.
• 2:28:35
  I could even tell. Yeah, yeah.
• 2:28:37
  It's like a tiny. Shit, when there's just the.
• 2:28:39
  Tiniest like that video of Hara Gucci in his FC where he just
• 2:28:43
  like, does that really light little flick at the wall and
• 2:28:45
  then goes back out. That shit.
• 2:28:47
  When you're when you do that and the nose of your car is also on
• 2:28:50
  the wall too, like that feels dangerous and terrifying.
• 2:28:53
  And like if you're not scaring yourself behind the wheel a
• 2:28:55
  little bit, then you're not drifting, right?
• 2:28:57
  Yeah. That's why I'm trying.
• 2:28:58
  That's why I want, like, the best of both worlds to yeah,
• 2:29:02
  have a car. Or that I maybe care a little
• 2:29:04
  bit less about aesthetically, but also can push the envelope
• 2:29:07
  with, like, how much I'm actually scaring myself behind
• 2:29:10
  the wheel. And I think that's kind of the
• 2:29:11
  only way I can continue to keep it exciting.
• 2:29:13
  Yeah, I I gotta. I gotta do something.
• 2:29:16
  I mean. That that big manji though,
• 2:29:19
  Right before that wall. Is that also one of the scariest
• 2:29:22
  parts of that track? Because I've seen plenty of
• 2:29:24
  people lock it up right there and hit that wall, so.
• 2:29:27
  What a terrible. Way to go down, Dustin Dustin's.
• 2:29:29
  Car died like that too. Once.
• 2:29:31
  That's. Like a?
• 2:29:32
  That's like a not. Committed thing too, though it
• 2:29:35
  can be. But it can also be you through
• 2:29:36
  too much angle or you dropped a tire or like, there's so many
• 2:29:40
  things that can go wrong right there.
• 2:29:41
  But mostly, yeah, it's one of those like you're not coming.
• 2:29:45
  I'm scared you hit. The brake or yeah.
• 2:29:48
  Especially XDC. Holy.
• 2:29:50
  Shit, dude, I didn't get to. I should have.
• 2:29:52
  Drove that late, I'm I got to come back to English town.
• 2:29:54
  Yeah, XTC is. Perfection.
• 2:29:56
  Can we do a? Can we do a private?
• 2:29:57
  Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
• 2:29:59
  Yes, yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, please, please.
• 2:30:01
  Please, please. I'm begging Frank.
• 2:30:02
  I don't know if I want to do. XTC but yeah.
• 2:30:04
  Dude, and I think the only. Time.
• 2:30:06
  I'm very scared. Behind the wheel is when they're
• 2:30:09
  doing XTC like to the point where I'm like, I don't know if
• 2:30:12
  I'm having fun anymore. I don't think that I.
• 2:30:14
  Would enjoy that because I would be so fierce, struck by fear
• 2:30:17
  because of yeah, it's not the entry, it's the second turn.
• 2:30:23
  It's the Manji. It's.
• 2:30:23
  Into the bank. It's this gigantic manji that
• 2:30:27
  you're going to do from Turn 1 to the bank.
• 2:30:29
  Yeah, it's huge, dude. We'd enter in. 3rd gear and that
• 2:30:34
  entry is like it's it's kind of whatever you you get used to it
• 2:30:38
  and it's not that big of a deal. But that fucking manji into
• 2:30:41
  Yeah, you're that big St. It's that top St.
• 2:30:43
  I'm. Oblivious as fuck.
• 2:30:45
  There's a track right there. Yeah.
• 2:30:47
  I'm like, imagining all of this in my mind.
• 2:30:49
  I can just look at the track. Yeah, so my.
• 2:30:51
  Stock rear end car like a third gear enter and you're just
• 2:30:54
  screaming at the and then you got a Monji, but then I would
• 2:30:57
  fucking Monji and then it's kind of you kind of end up in the
• 2:31:00
  same spot where you would be with the airpin.
• 2:31:02
  Yep. And then you got to throw it
• 2:31:03
  back and you're going way faster.
• 2:31:05
  So now you're going way faster and you're pointing towards that
• 2:31:07
  wall. Yeah, Then when I would go back,
• 2:31:09
  I knew I had to downshift. Like, I mean I I've heard people
• 2:31:13
  do it in 3rd gear stock, rear end.
• 2:31:14
  So I I want to try that kind of, but I'm probably going.
• 2:31:17
  To fucking I was sham on that thing.
• 2:31:19
  Yeah, so I'm going. Like this?
• 2:31:21
  And I'm like, oh fuck, I need to downshift.
• 2:31:23
  So I think I would. I would do it, I'd transition, I
• 2:31:26
  would hit the E brake just to give me some consistency on the
• 2:31:28
  bank. And then I would downshift to
• 2:31:30
  2nd and dump the clutch right on the bank.
• 2:31:33
  Yeah, you should. To push away from the wall,
• 2:31:37
  right? But dude, it when you.
• 2:31:38
  Hit it. When you nail it, it felt good,
• 2:31:40
  but right before that you were like, oh fuck, that sounds sick.
• 2:31:45
  I'm trying, yeah. That's your first turn.
• 2:31:47
  Right here, towards the right. Yeah.
• 2:31:48
  Yeah. And then you see that little one
• 2:31:50
  right there. That's the first term, regular
• 2:31:51
  track. There's a track map.
• 2:31:52
  On the wall that's like a 90°. Turn is of the Faction Office.
• 2:31:56
  That's right. OK.
• 2:31:56
  So I'm remembering the Yeah, Yeah.
• 2:31:58
  So you're you're kind of hauling ass at that bank.
• 2:32:01
  I know what you mean now. Yeah, that's you're hauling ass
• 2:32:03
  at. That bank.
• 2:32:04
  That's the best way to say it, dude.
• 2:32:05
  You're going. That's that layout is hard and
• 2:32:07
  like all of. It's like kind of sideways and
• 2:32:09
  there's like only walls in a banked corner that you're
• 2:32:12
  approaching. So yeah, flying and.
• 2:32:14
  You're like, oh, I got a mongee now the mongee's on the foot,
• 2:32:17
  Brake a. Little bit, yeah.
• 2:32:18
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, doing.
• 2:32:18
  Everything that's a little different.
• 2:32:20
  That's more like a yeah there's. Really no cool line to take in
• 2:32:23
  that situation. I almost wanted to call.
• 2:32:25
  It like Sanpatsu 'cause it's kind of like 3 motion.
• 2:32:27
  But Oh yeah, I don't know if anyone wants to.
• 2:32:31
  My favorite quarter. Oh, if I were to do XDC is that
• 2:32:35
  long straight away to the. Not that.
• 2:32:39
  The hairpin after that? Oh, to to backtrack.
• 2:32:42
  Yes, because. Realistically, I'm not gonna own
• 2:32:45
  something that's gonna be able to drift that whole.
• 2:32:47
  I have seen people. Do that in not crazy cars, but
• 2:32:50
  they they I would straighten out.
• 2:32:51
  I would. Straighten out and just and they
• 2:32:53
  haul all. Ass and that back turn dude is
• 2:32:57
  one of my. I'm very scared of that turn
• 2:33:00
  because it kind of banks off in the worst ways in the right,
• 2:33:04
  yeah. Yeah, so like you're.
• 2:33:06
  Flying off like, yeah. Kind of shit, yeah.
• 2:33:08
  Like off of like you're. Flying into that part and you
• 2:33:10
  have to fucking drift through it and all you you've seen people
• 2:33:14
  flew flying off that dude I someone.
• 2:33:17
  Recent. I think Chris Kachesi lost his
• 2:33:19
  shit off there. Like he just repainted his whole
• 2:33:21
  car. Everything he did, XDR, the kit.
• 2:33:23
  Yeah, dude, Fucking. Launched his shit off there like
• 2:33:26
  he wants another good. Corner too on on backtrack, if
• 2:33:28
  you're hitting it from XDC is the loop and then up above like
• 2:33:34
  you go above. I did that for the first time at
• 2:33:38
  BMI, like the first time ever somebody actually got a picture
• 2:33:42
  of it and I know it was the only it was from the first lab
• 2:33:44
  because all the body kit was there.
• 2:33:46
  You're talking about by the hairpin?
• 2:33:47
  Normal course, yeah. Like that Oh, oh, oh.
• 2:33:51
  Oh, backtrack. Backtrack.
• 2:33:53
  Yeah, OK. But when you go up there, it's.
• 2:33:54
  Completely blind and you kind of have to Chuck it pretty hard,
• 2:33:57
  'cause then you go back down like that.
• 2:33:59
  It's so fun now that I'm thinking about it English.
• 2:34:01
  Town is frightening and it's kind of awesome.
• 2:34:03
  It's sick. I need to.
• 2:34:04
  I need to come down there in 2024 and scare myself a little
• 2:34:07
  bit more. Yeah 'cause I need to humble
• 2:34:09
  myself. Again, dude, that track is that
• 2:34:11
  track's one. Of the best tracks for sure,
• 2:34:13
  they call it the greatest place. On earth for a reason.
• 2:34:15
  For. For.
• 2:34:16
  I respect it. Yeah, it it's so.
• 2:34:17
  Much fun, dude. And the imperfections kind of
• 2:34:20
  make it more fun to me. Like that bump you were talking
• 2:34:23
  about in the middle section. Some people love the.
• 2:34:25
  Bump at Lebanon Valley. Similarly, yeah, I need a drift.
• 2:34:28
  That I this is a parking lot, but.
• 2:34:30
  It's worth, yeah, for for me, it's like 20 minutes from home.
• 2:34:32
  And like, I used to watch Ryan Turk driving with Drift Faction
• 2:34:35
  there when I was in high school. So like, that's cool.
• 2:34:37
  Yeah, I get that to go. Back to the question.
• 2:34:40
  And was the sources of inspiration the biggest
• 2:34:43
  inspiration? Yeah.
• 2:34:44
  Yeah, so drift. Faction was.
• 2:34:45
  One I I do have to say, Tomoya is definitely a big source of
• 2:34:49
  inspiration just because of how long he's been in it and how.
• 2:34:54
  Long he's been. Able to keep himself interested
• 2:34:57
  all the highs and lows, he had a professional career aspect of it
• 2:35:01
  too. Got to work with crazy
• 2:35:02
  companies. He just made friends with so
• 2:35:05
  many people and all that stuff. Mainly though.
• 2:35:10
  Mainly, well. He actually helped me get the
• 2:35:12
  S15 as well. OK, that was cool.
• 2:35:15
  That's cool. But yeah, just surf Yahoo
• 2:35:17
  Auctions and you'll find something.
• 2:35:18
  But I gotta feel out, Japan. In April and see if.
• 2:35:23
  You don't. Really.
• 2:35:24
  You're he's not that guy. I'm really not he like, you know
• 2:35:27
  how, but we we. Troll Yaj I.
• 2:35:29
  Don't know if you you're probably on it.
• 2:35:31
  At least hopefully once a day. Oh, I mean, I used to do that
• 2:35:34
  shit. But I haven't been looking.
• 2:35:35
  For parts for the S15, 'cause I was trying to put a bunch of
• 2:35:38
  Arrow shit on the car before it ships home, 'cause it's leaving
• 2:35:40
  Japan, hopefully at some point in the next few weeks.
• 2:35:43
  Oh, that's cool. So yeah I was like trying to
• 2:35:45
  like if I want to do like all different bumpers and shit, like
• 2:35:49
  it only makes sense to just do it while the cars there.
• 2:35:51
  But but yet Tomoya has like, I don't know he just is always he
• 2:35:58
  always seems inspired to continue to drift and for how
• 2:36:02
  long. Yeah, again how long he's been
• 2:36:04
  in it. I can only hope that like he's I
• 2:36:07
  think he's turning 50 in like a couple days like right at the
• 2:36:11
  beginning of January. So, like, I hope that when I'm
• 2:36:13
  turning 50, I'm still like, excited about drifting, trying
• 2:36:17
  to do new shit, trying to take a chassis that I've driven my
• 2:36:20
  whole life and do something new and different with it or
• 2:36:23
  something, you know? And like, still, like, I hope I
• 2:36:26
  still have that dog in me when I'm 50, you know?
• 2:36:29
  Yeah, you know, for real, though, that's what's.
• 2:36:32
  Up. Like that's yeah, that's a
• 2:36:35
  that's a pretty good one. I'll I can probably think of
• 2:36:37
  some others for sure. Just like my my second.
• 2:36:39
  One that I was thinking was gonna be your dad.
• 2:36:41
  Oh, right. 'Cause he's a car guy, kind of.
• 2:36:45
  I yeah. Right.
• 2:36:47
  Yeah, No. Yeah, it's like my brain was
• 2:36:49
  just going strictly to like drifting, like driving style
• 2:36:52
  kind of stuff. Yeah, My, my first.
• 2:36:54
  Thing was drift action 'cause I knew that was gonna be suonaga.
• 2:36:57
  His hand work, Taniguchi his hand work.
• 2:37:01
  I don't know enough about this. The video Nori Yarra was a
• 2:37:03
  really good video. Suonaga on higashi at Abisu on
• 2:37:08
  like the if you like look on YouTube.
• 2:37:10
  It's like violent high speed drifting or something.
• 2:37:14
  His I have. I've shown that video to so many
• 2:37:17
  people and I still study it pretty frequently because this
• 2:37:21
  dude's hand work. He is a fucking robot behind the
• 2:37:25
  wheel and he's in a stock ass 180 like just bombing like 4th
• 2:37:29
  gear. Sanpatsu on like dude, I think
• 2:37:33
  you have to show us. Later at dinner.
• 2:37:34
  It's I know the video. So.
• 2:37:36
  That's what I tried to. Do at cart track, do you
• 2:37:38
  remember that day? What one that violent?
• 2:37:43
  Driving style is like what I like.
• 2:37:45
  That's what I drive. Try to be.
• 2:37:47
  It's probably what I like to do. It's just like.
• 2:37:48
  Very calculated hand. It's very, very calculated
• 2:37:51
  handwork. He is always following the wheel
• 2:37:54
  around. His shifting is so fucking
• 2:37:56
  precise, like it's it's truly something to Yeah, that.
• 2:38:00
  To try. And that is.
• 2:38:02
  That video like that at car track, that's what I try to do
• 2:38:05
  every time but my hand work. I'm not I don't like.
• 2:38:08
  I don't know if when you're going like this, you're
• 2:38:11
  describing him, like tracing the wheel as it's rotating, but my
• 2:38:14
  hand work, my goal is that it's barely leaving right here.
• 2:38:18
  Yeah, yeah, everything is boom. And then I'm right back to right
• 2:38:22
  here and then I'm going back over here.
• 2:38:24
  I'm right back here until I see how sloppy my hands are.
• 2:38:28
  And I'm like, I'm atrocious at drifting.
• 2:38:30
  Because what ends up happening is for me to counter.
• 2:38:33
  My whole body is going like this and I'm like, yeah.
• 2:38:39
  I was gonna say I don't. I don't like.
• 2:38:42
  I never like cared about how I so.
• 2:38:45
  Bad. Looked or.
• 2:38:46
  Felt in the car, but I know I look like a maniac.
• 2:38:49
  There's. A screenshot.
• 2:38:50
  Of it too. Like, I'm not joking.
• 2:38:52
  My arm is literally like this. Yeah.
• 2:38:54
  And it's because I think I it was like the the, the clutch
• 2:38:57
  kick in like this And then my. Like there's a screenshot.
• 2:39:01
  It's horrible. I used to be, really.
• 2:39:02
  Obsessed with watching myself drive?
• 2:39:05
  It's like self infatuated that sounds, but like it helps with
• 2:39:10
  studying like driving technique and then figure out what you did
• 2:39:13
  wrong. It was like mainly for that it
• 2:39:16
  just like I just like absolutely hyper analyze the shit out of
• 2:39:20
  even. It was just like at a fucking
• 2:39:21
  skid pad event. I'm just like watching one lap
• 2:39:23
  like over and over again. It's like oh like kind of I
• 2:39:25
  could have done that little section slightly better, like
• 2:39:28
  whatever. I have a problem using.
• 2:39:30
  Both hands when I when I when I finally got a video of myself
• 2:39:34
  driving, it might have been like maybe my third event ever.
• 2:39:36
  I had like a friend with a GoPro and like I can see.
• 2:39:40
  I have both my. Hands near the you do on the God
• 2:39:42
  arm. Shift or like your hand's on the
• 2:39:43
  shifter. No, no, no, I'm it's doing this.
• 2:39:46
  Like, I'm this hand's just here. I feel like I do the same show.
• 2:39:49
  I know what. You're saying?
• 2:39:49
  Yeah. And then I watched it.
• 2:39:51
  Took me one second in that video to be like why am I not using my
• 2:39:54
  second hand And now in videos I I'm happy because like when I'm
• 2:39:58
  driving you're one hand's. Light and ready to, like, either
• 2:40:00
  shift or grab the handbrake, which driving the FC has taught
• 2:40:04
  me, yeah, 'cause that handbrake sucks.
• 2:40:06
  And because it's a. Slower car somewhat.
• 2:40:09
  You know, on certain tracks, like at Lime Rock, I was not
• 2:40:12
  touching the handbrake in that car one bit.
• 2:40:14
  Yeah, I need my second. Hand now for counter steering in
• 2:40:17
  case I want to push that hard flick like to the I can't flick
• 2:40:21
  the car like crazy like. I don't know like.
• 2:40:26
  Like that versus if I were to pull it, like instead of push
• 2:40:29
  it, I don't know, it's dumb. I think that the both hands made
• 2:40:32
  it better though, 'cause now I'm focusing on.
• 2:40:37
  Less. Rotation.
• 2:40:38
  My hands are like this the whole time, dude.
• 2:40:40
  Koguchi. Explained it so fucking well and
• 2:40:43
  I wish I say that. And I also say that I wish I
• 2:40:47
  could have understood a little bit better, but he was like I
• 2:40:50
  got, so Tomoya brought me to Koguchi Power.
• 2:40:53
  He showed Tomoya, showed him a video of my driving and he was
• 2:40:56
  like complimenting my hand work that I was like following the
• 2:40:58
  wheel around, like with my hand that must have.
• 2:41:01
  Been a real experience? I asked him.
• 2:41:02
  Like. Four times after he left his,
• 2:41:04
  like, he wasn't just like gassing me up for.
• 2:41:06
  No, like he was like serious, right?
• 2:41:08
  Like he was so. But the the way he was, like
• 2:41:11
  he's using his hand is like how when you follow the wheel back
• 2:41:15
  around, it kind of changes how the front of your car is like
• 2:41:18
  planted sort of thing. And like where you're grabbing
• 2:41:21
  from on the wheel. And like, there's a lot of,
• 2:41:23
  there's a lot of, there's a lot of variables to it.
• 2:41:25
  They're like perspectives that we wouldn't necessarily
• 2:41:27
  consider. Yeah, 'cause they've been doing
• 2:41:28
  that for. 20 years or more than we have or some shit.
• 2:41:30
  Yeah, exactly. Same with like chunky bi like
• 2:41:32
  seeing him if Final Bow is super cool.
• 2:41:35
  He was driving. Yeah.
• 2:41:36
  He's it seems really like where you're actually like grabbing
• 2:41:38
  the wheel from when you're like I don't there's I so wish we
• 2:41:41
  could get these and the fact that he like has a like.
• 2:41:46
  The. The rear brakes and chunky buys
• 2:41:48
  cars were like a little bit stronger than like normal.
• 2:41:51
  So there's like the the foot braking is like kind of changing
• 2:41:53
  how the car's like pivoting and stuff and it's like, I don't
• 2:41:56
  there's there's a whole other world out there drifting that
• 2:42:01
  you could you too can discover if you come to Japan in April.
• 2:42:04
  Shit is crazy. All right.
• 2:42:06
  And what's another? 1.
• 2:42:09
  Dat. Mobino, can you tell us about
• 2:42:11
  the drift events that used to happen in Canon?
• 2:42:14
  Canon in New Hampshire, yeah, it says NH.
• 2:42:19
  Yeah, lock. City Drift was there for a
• 2:42:21
  little bit. That track looks kind of.
• 2:42:24
  Sick. I think it was.
• 2:42:26
  Very sick. It was super cool.
• 2:42:27
  It is like it. Was like a.
• 2:42:29
  One point, Oh my God, there's a clip of us like on we weren't
• 2:42:32
  tandeming, but we're like on track.
• 2:42:34
  I was. I was chasing Drift faction,
• 2:42:35
  actually, and you guys were like right behind us in the one
• 2:42:38
  sweeper kind of before the main straight Kanan.
• 2:42:43
  Such a sick track. Yeah, I think we could
• 2:42:45
  technically maybe go back for like a private day or something,
• 2:42:48
  but we're well behaved. Well behaved Frankie, Frankie,
• 2:42:51
  Frankie. Keep it all right.
• 2:42:52
  It's dude, it's that. And like, I know there was like
• 2:42:56
  noise complaints about the town and stuff.
• 2:42:58
  Yeah, and don't go off track. Cuz you're gonna have a bad
• 2:43:00
  time. Yeah, but rally.
• 2:43:01
  Racing is OK there somehow they they they do like weird, like
• 2:43:05
  the rally Dirt cross. Yeah, where?
• 2:43:08
  Like, it's like partially dirt and then they just go back on
• 2:43:10
  track. But we if we drop off track,
• 2:43:12
  we're fucked. It's like wait wait wait wait.
• 2:43:15
  There's a lot of double. Standards.
• 2:43:16
  You know the. Fuck I, I.
• 2:43:18
  Don't know dude 'cause Frankie told me a.
• 2:43:19
  Story where somebody had to you you clean it up you know they
• 2:43:22
  they you. Oh yeah dude.
• 2:43:23
  I. Spent like the few times that I
• 2:43:25
  went off track super hard at Kanan, like, excuse me, at the
• 2:43:29
  end of the day, I was definitely out there sweeping up.
• 2:43:31
  I was like, I lived. I lived.
• 2:43:33
  I was like one of the people that was coming from like for
• 2:43:35
  the regular events. Anyways, from like the furthest
• 2:43:37
  away, you know, it's like a four hour drive for me.
• 2:43:38
  Oh my God. So like and also you don't
• 2:43:40
  really. Strike me, and I'm sure I don't.
• 2:43:42
  Don't they do that in Japan anyway, too.
• 2:43:44
  Everyone helps clean up like I. There's certain tracks.
• 2:43:47
  Yeah, at least I saw a video. Of it, I think maybe, yeah, some
• 2:43:50
  people will grab. Broom and go out there and yeah,
• 2:43:52
  I feel like. If if you go, that was so.
• 2:43:55
  Cool. They have like, many actual St.
• 2:43:57
  sweepers that'll go out, and that's cool.
• 2:43:58
  Zam The track. Guy.
• 2:43:59
  Exactly. Exactly.
• 2:44:01
  I would cheer on. Whoever's rock I.
• 2:44:03
  Didn't realize how late it was. We're really good at getting in
• 2:44:05
  tangents. We're gonna have to do another
• 2:44:06
  one of these, no? Yeah, so far, yeah.
• 2:44:08
  We're just gonna have to do another one.
• 2:44:09
  I mean that's that's. Dude, you have to wait till you
• 2:44:11
  experience the dinner talks. Well, what other is what?
• 2:44:14
  Other questions can we try to I'm I'm looking through.
• 2:44:16
  These to see through for any crazy one.
• 2:44:18
  This is this. Is one that I'm.
• 2:44:19
  I'll try to answer as many. As I can, I'll be fine with it
• 2:44:21
  to hot. Body shootout Oh, hot boy.
• 2:44:24
  Shootout Yeah, that's that's oh. That's hot boy shootout.
• 2:44:27
  Hot Boy Shootout. Was a private event that Bostown
• 2:44:30
  and Drift faction used to put on it.
• 2:44:32
  It was just a chill day, but we like named it and started like,
• 2:44:36
  I don't know, it was hot. It was literally just the IT was
• 2:44:38
  just like all the mass shootout, body shootout.
• 2:44:40
  Though I'm assuming. One of these.
• 2:44:43
  Yeah, I'm. Assuming he meant Hot Boy
• 2:44:46
  Shootout, which was an event we used to have, and it was, I
• 2:44:50
  think we got up to like four of them or something.
• 2:44:52
  It was just like our friends. We got a private skid pad day
• 2:44:55
  and that makes sense. It sounds.
• 2:44:58
  Like it was all the Northeast. Homies, it sounds like, invite
• 2:45:00
  in the area. Yeah, Frankie, we got to do.
• 2:45:01
  Something a day for us and we. Gave it a name and Carl, we do
• 2:45:04
  that. I tried making an.
• 2:45:05
  Edit or two of it or no. I want to invite.
• 2:45:07
  Our other friends like PJ and everyone else where we can all
• 2:45:10
  have one where it's like a the. Cars in the parking lot all.
• 2:45:13
  Look good? Yeah.
• 2:45:15
  I would. Come down to that parking lot
• 2:45:16
  that you guys have for each track.
• 2:45:19
  I'm not. I'm only, I'm a pilsner.
• 2:45:21
  I would not come. Down for that parking lot.
• 2:45:23
  I like the parking. Lot, but I would not drive.
• 2:45:25
  Three hours for you, you would. If all your.
• 2:45:28
  Homies. Were there, We'll talk to Chris,
• 2:45:29
  we'll. Get the track and the parking
• 2:45:31
  lot. Yeah, that's how is that.
• 2:45:33
  Gonna work, You're gonna drift down making a weekend out of.
• 2:45:36
  It probably. Just split the day up or
• 2:45:37
  something. I'm sure we can split them.
• 2:45:40
  I don't think that's ever been. Done it it.
• 2:45:43
  Definitely has where you move from.
• 2:45:44
  Road course to car track. I don't think that's ever.
• 2:45:46
  What do you think this is, New Jersey Abisu?
• 2:45:48
  Because it kind of is. Honestly, this got three.
• 2:45:51
  They got the space. All right.
• 2:45:52
  Next question. Yeah.
• 2:45:53
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 2:45:53
  Yeah. There you go.
• 2:45:53
  Let's get it. Why are all of the?
• 2:45:56
  Towns you live in or near pronounced so weird.
• 2:45:59
  PJ also from the same person. This is Bilbo Swaggins.
• 2:46:04
  Just a sick name, that's way. He's a dude.
• 2:46:06
  He he's the homie that I sold my K car to.
• 2:46:09
  Actually, young dude that, yeah, he's the homie, but that is a
• 2:46:15
  good point. There's a lot of videos on the
• 2:46:17
  Internet of, yeah, people trying to pronounce like, upstate New
• 2:46:20
  York town names. They're like, what the fuck?
• 2:46:22
  What's Okeechobee? Is that New York as well?
• 2:46:26
  Okeechobee. Chobee.
• 2:46:28
  I never heard a name like that so all.
• 2:46:30
  Of our town names are like, well, I would say Indians, but
• 2:46:34
  Native American. You know what?
• 2:46:36
  I'm real. Proud of you, brother.
• 2:46:37
  Yeah. The thing is, they are Indians.
• 2:46:39
  But yeah, that's that's what they go by.
• 2:46:41
  If you thought that you. Landed in India in fucking 1640.
• 2:46:45
  Something or no whatever. Whenever you.
• 2:46:47
  Drive Mayflower. Cake If you drive through
• 2:46:48
  Christopher Kyle, if you drive through Arizona tomorrow and you
• 2:46:52
  see signs for Indians everywhere, because that's the
• 2:46:54
  signs they put up, Don't. Know why?
• 2:46:56
  But like like. Because.
• 2:46:59
  They know that white people will be like, oh, Indian jewelry.
• 2:47:02
  That's where we need to go. New New Jersey.
• 2:47:04
  Or I just remember by Ramses, they're not.
• 2:47:06
  They haven't been. Gentrified by Ma.
• 2:47:09
  Something like that, yeah. Ramapo.
• 2:47:11
  Yeah, like all our names. Are like Indian tribe names?
• 2:47:14
  Yes. What are the hell are those
• 2:47:15
  names up there? Same, there's a couple.
• 2:47:18
  There's a couple weird ones for sure.
• 2:47:20
  I don't know how to explain it. Like the one town that I grew up
• 2:47:22
  near is Valacia. How do you, how do you think
• 2:47:25
  that's spelled Valacia. European that.
• 2:47:27
  Sounds awesome. How do you think that's spelled?
• 2:47:29
  Valacia I think Malcolm could. Answer this, but I really feel
• 2:47:33
  like you would. I have no idea.
• 2:47:35
  Valatia and it's. And it's a trick question.
• 2:47:37
  Yeah, it. Definitely is a trick, but it's
• 2:47:39
  so fucking stupid I have no idea.
• 2:47:41
  So it's Las. IA There's no V.
• 2:47:43
  It is there is AV. It's VALAT i.e., So people
• 2:47:48
  either say valatie or velatie, and it's pronounced people.
• 2:47:53
  It's pronounced valatia. I don't know.
• 2:47:56
  It's like Shawna, Wisconsin. It's Shawano.
• 2:47:59
  Yeah, it's not Shawano, yeah. Or down.
• 2:48:01
  In South Jersey there's there's Gloucester but it's Gloucester.
• 2:48:06
  If you read it, it would be Gloucester, OK.
• 2:48:09
  Or like Worcester. Worcester, Worcester, Mass.
• 2:48:12
  Yeah, it looks like Warchester with AC or something, but it's
• 2:48:16
  Worcester. That's a Massachusetts one.
• 2:48:18
  But yeah, no, we got a couple of them.
• 2:48:20
  We got Rensselaer. Fun one in Cooksaki.
• 2:48:25
  Huh. Cooksaki.
• 2:48:26
  I think I see. I thought it was Coxsackie.
• 2:48:29
  It's. Cooksaki but.
• 2:48:31
  Malcolm, you've. Seen that?
• 2:48:33
  You've seen that sign. I've actually seen that before.
• 2:48:35
  Just Co. X.
• 2:48:36
  SAS. It looks like koimans, but it's.
• 2:48:39
  Pronounced Queenans, which I didn't know until maybe, maybe
• 2:48:42
  some of those. That one's a little too out
• 2:48:43
  there for me, but maybe some of those up there are.
• 2:48:45
  French puff kipsi a. Lot of like I.
• 2:48:47
  Know the Well, the town that I grew up in, Kinderhook is.
• 2:48:50
  I think it's Dutch. Dutch, OK.
• 2:48:52
  That sounds. Dutch though.
• 2:48:54
  Kinderhook Interesting, I don't know.
• 2:48:56
  Interesting, I got more research.
• 2:48:58
  This one's from. I'm gonna ask two more from FRS,
• 2:49:00
  Zack. And yeah, the rest.
• 2:49:05
  Of them, like Tyler. Say what?
• 2:49:06
  How'd that one J feel? Carl, bro, That shit is still on
• 2:49:09
  the stand. Brother feels great.
• 2:49:11
  But FRS. Zack.
• 2:49:13
  Fuck. Marry.
• 2:49:14
  Kill any three of Front St. Drift.
• 2:49:17
  Sorry, I gotta put a funny one in here.
• 2:49:19
  Yeah, Fuck marry. Kill anyone and he has a three.
• 2:49:21
  So you have. Options here, and there's a lot.
• 2:49:25
  Of options of. Them.
• 2:49:26
  And one of them better be Alex Avila.
• 2:49:28
  Oh. I'm just kidding.
• 2:49:30
  Actually, well. I don't know.
• 2:49:36
  I thought of an answer. Surprisingly quick and that may
• 2:49:39
  or may not. Be clear, I love.
• 2:49:41
  Yaks, but he was not in there. That's fine.
• 2:49:43
  That's fine. I'm gonna marry Jeff.
• 2:49:45
  OK. OK.
• 2:49:47
  That's safe. That's a.
• 2:49:49
  Safe bet now. Fuck now.
• 2:49:51
  Now I'm second guessing my answer.
• 2:49:52
  You probably should have fucked Jeff.
• 2:49:54
  No. No, I'm trying.
• 2:49:56
  To No, I don't know. I'm probably.
• 2:49:57
  Going to this might be safer no all.
• 2:49:59
  Right. He's got the family.
• 2:50:00
  Thing down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:50:02
  He's got as far as. Financial stability you know,
• 2:50:05
  all the all the great things definitely and.
• 2:50:07
  You're going to fuck Tom. You're sick fuck.
• 2:50:09
  You're going to fuck Tom. I knew it.
• 2:50:12
  I. Fucking knew it.
• 2:50:14
  That's wild. You in a Tri.
• 2:50:17
  State area bro. What the fuck I.
• 2:50:20
  I was going to fuck Josh and kill Tom because you find
• 2:50:22
  something you love and let it, you know, Sort of thing.
• 2:50:26
  That perspective. Damn.
• 2:50:28
  What a what? A harsh question to answer that
• 2:50:31
  is hilarious, dude. I'm fucking.
• 2:50:33
  Alex Avila. That's my only answer.
• 2:50:36
  Click that. Somebody.
• 2:50:37
  Click that. I get that.
• 2:50:38
  I get. That somebody click that.
• 2:50:39
  Hey, he's. Freaky then FRS.
• 2:50:41
  Zack also asks what that mouth do.
• 2:50:43
  You don't have to answer that. Yeah, what?
• 2:50:45
  What? Did he we bout to find now?
• 2:50:46
  What it Now? I'm just kidding.
• 2:50:47
  Now what that mouth do. What that mouth do?
• 2:50:50
  These are the questions we get, yeah.
• 2:50:51
  I like to end them. With this, because, I don't
• 2:50:53
  know, we had some more. We had a that was kind of.
• 2:50:55
  Can I read some of these? That was kind of it.
• 2:50:57
  Yeah, yeah, you can. Read them, I've read.
• 2:50:59
  A good chunk of them, but. Some people submit a few of them
• 2:51:01
  and I'm like. They're.
• 2:51:04
  They repeat, which is great because it seems that you're
• 2:51:06
  known for the Hatch and the FC. So as a car, I think that would
• 2:51:11
  make me feel good and question a lot.
• 2:51:12
  Probably all the fucking. Time, right?
• 2:51:15
  But doesn't that feel kinda cool?
• 2:51:18
  Like people know you as a that's a staple that they have for you.
• 2:51:22
  Like as an FC in the Hatch? Yeah, I think.
• 2:51:25
  In recent years, more people know me for the FC.
• 2:51:27
  Yeah, I wanna, I wanna, I want my S13 to be known and like,
• 2:51:37
  'cause, I mean, that's where I kind of started with.
• 2:51:39
  But like, I want that car to have a presence that people
• 2:51:44
  like, feel you want it to. Have a voice.
• 2:51:47
  Or or what's that thing that's presence really?
• 2:51:49
  Or aura. Aura.
• 2:51:50
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:51:53
  Yeah. I think that's I.
• 2:51:54
  Think that's car and driver combination.
• 2:51:56
  I don't think it's just one or the other combination it.
• 2:51:58
  Can be if the. Driver the driver's really sick
• 2:52:01
  and like, you see how they're driving.
• 2:52:03
  Like you can you can kind of feel that.
• 2:52:05
  It's just it's just like a feeling I guess.
• 2:52:07
  But I I want the, I want the Hatch to have that as well.
• 2:52:12
  I don't know if it ever really did.
• 2:52:13
  I think it did. It's a pretty cool.
• 2:52:15
  Car. It's car.
• 2:52:17
  Driver The way you pull up, the way you park.
• 2:52:19
  The way you open the door. Unique the body.
• 2:52:21
  Kit and everything. Yeah 'cause no one.
• 2:52:23
  Really. I always wanted Hot Road and I
• 2:52:24
  pretty much landed on either. I could spend a shit ton of
• 2:52:27
  money on Hot Rd. or I can get something cheaper and then also
• 2:52:30
  put money into the engine. So I want that route.
• 2:52:32
  And I found G Corp because it's like no one really runs.
• 2:52:34
  No one really has that front. End kind of looks.
• 2:52:36
  Like it's got some Type X vibes, which I liked and I went for it
• 2:52:39
  and it was kind of cool. Yeah, I think it it.
• 2:52:41
  It works pretty well in that car for sure.
• 2:52:44
  Yev. Anything else that you'd wanna
• 2:52:46
  plug, like a message for yourself in the future?
• 2:52:51
  The PJ pull out, the pull out, The pull out the clothes from
• 2:52:54
  the dryer, you said. Future me, looking at the
• 2:52:56
  camera, Future me is probably going to cringe.
• 2:52:59
  Is that? Like 2 days.
• 2:53:01
  From now probably is that snow and.
• 2:53:03
  This shit. Comes out.
• 2:53:03
  No, it's not. I don't.
• 2:53:04
  I don't think it is. No, but it could it definitely.
• 2:53:07
  Isn't bugs. Sometimes a camera does that
• 2:53:10
  well. That right there, that's.
• 2:53:11
  A That's a Sequoia. And that's my car.
• 2:53:14
  Being stolen, dude. Wait, is that AV61 you got dude?
• 2:53:19
  That thing calls. That's the fastest car at this
• 2:53:21
  shop. It's a 6 speed, yeah.
• 2:53:24
  Oh dude, this. Guy's this guy's fucking.
• 2:53:30
  It used to be, really. Nice.
• 2:53:31
  I've had it for almost 10 years and it's lived in the Northeast
• 2:53:34
  and mostly outside. Dude, you are like you are the
• 2:53:37
  most. Loyal owner I'm the most lazy.
• 2:53:40
  Owner. All your cars you've had for
• 2:53:43
  over 10 years or almost 10 years, but.
• 2:53:46
  I want to say I don't. Think I even got to say thank
• 2:53:48
  you more than once, which I tend to usually do, but I want to say
• 2:53:50
  thank you for taking the time to stop.
• 2:53:52
  And he and PJ set this up himself.
• 2:53:56
  Like. If it wasn't for VJ, we would
• 2:53:57
  have no bot, no guests right now.
• 2:53:59
  So thank God. For PJ.
• 2:54:01
  Like he was like we. Were just gonna be in Carl.
• 2:54:03
  I don't know. If well, first you posted the.
• 2:54:05
  I feel embarrassed by that a little.
• 2:54:06
  Bit why? Well, you as you.
• 2:54:08
  Should bro, I think. The get what?
• 2:54:10
  You want? Well, it was convenient.
• 2:54:11
  I was. Happy you.
• 2:54:12
  Asked and I. It totally worked out.
• 2:54:14
  I always wanted to be a part of it, but I think there was a part
• 2:54:17
  of me that wanted to feel like I was invited.
• 2:54:19
  Well, you were probably on. My list anyway, so it doesn't
• 2:54:21
  really matter, Josh said. When I talked to him about this
• 2:54:23
  in Japan, he's like, oh, you're probably on his list anyways, he
• 2:54:26
  said the same exact words. You're the same person.
• 2:54:29
  It's just one of them has way more hair than the other one one
• 2:54:31
  of. One of them has a tall car and
• 2:54:33
  one of them doesn't really want to raise the car.
• 2:54:35
  That's pretty much it. One of them is going to be.
• 2:54:37
  Vastly. Maybe that's why you're on the
• 2:54:39
  track. Definitely.
• 2:54:40
  Well, that's. Why you get?
• 2:54:41
  Another car so you can raise that and then you still have a
• 2:54:44
  cool one. He will never have I.
• 2:54:45
  Don't think I. Care about that.
• 2:54:48
  For. Me.
• 2:54:49
  It was more or less just like the performance thing.
• 2:54:51
  I'm not trying to like, hop on some fucking bandwagon or be
• 2:54:54
  whoever I would rather raise. My car a little bit and find
• 2:54:57
  that happy middle ground where I'm which I actually think I
• 2:55:00
  already did personally. That's what I was trying to do
• 2:55:02
  with. The white car.
• 2:55:02
  Then it broke so. Just like that thing.
• 2:55:04
  Was again like I couldn't put a shoe under the front bumper at
• 2:55:08
  one point. It looked sick as fuck, but it
• 2:55:10
  was the same shit. Everything rubbed the.
• 2:55:12
  Alignment was terrible, you know, it drove like shit.
• 2:55:15
  So there's a middle ground you can.
• 2:55:16
  Make a car low and look cool and still be OK at driving.
• 2:55:21
  Yeah, there there is a middle ground.
• 2:55:23
  It's not gonna be slammed, but I don't think that shit really
• 2:55:26
  looks good. Anyway.
• 2:55:27
  White car is gonna be that. Middle ground that Jake's old
• 2:55:30
  car is gonna be more performance oriented.
• 2:55:32
  That makes sense. Yeah, if you got the if you got
• 2:55:34
  the funds and tires and all. That shit, yeah.
• 2:55:36
  I mean, it's definitely it's. Just taking time.
• 2:55:38
  I've I've grown to be more patient with, like, I put way
• 2:55:41
  too much on my own plate, and I always try to bite off more and
• 2:55:45
  I can chew all that sort of stuff.
• 2:55:46
  But time is valuable. It's just time.
• 2:55:49
  Time is the most. Expensive thing that we have to
• 2:55:51
  offer as most precious commodity.
• 2:55:53
  Yeah, like I can't. Put a value on.
• 2:55:55
  That's where it is. And the fact we're spending it
• 2:55:58
  the corporations. Spend when they're paying you at
• 2:55:59
  the end of the day, though. But I said the corporations can
• 2:56:03
  put a value on your time. At the end of the day, Yeah,
• 2:56:05
  they can. 1750. I'm just kidding.
• 2:56:08
  Hopefully not. Ever.
• 2:56:09
  For the rest of my life anymore. But you have anything else,
• 2:56:13
  Frankie? No.
• 2:56:14
  I'm hungry. I know, dude.
• 2:56:16
  I didn't realize. How late it was.
• 2:56:17
  We've been going for a bit. This is how it goes.
• 2:56:20
  Dude, you got a good. Radio you, you're, you're.
• 2:56:22
  This is believe it or not, although we got a 60%, would you
• 2:56:26
  say 65%? What do you mean talking about
• 2:56:28
  cars and drifting today? Oh, yes.
• 2:56:30
  Over 50 / 50%. Worth of drifting like that was
• 2:56:34
  a good pod 6070 Good pod. How are we doing the pod review
• 2:56:37
  with While we're on the pod? Can you show me some of the
• 2:56:39
  questions? Super.
• 2:56:40
  Quick yeah. Oh, we're, we're.
• 2:56:42
  You were. You were about to just yeah
• 2:56:44
  we're gonna. We'll.
• 2:56:45
  Cut it out right now. And yeah, we'll cut it off.
• 2:56:47
  We're gonna cut. It off right here and talk shit
• 2:56:49
  about everybody. I'm just kidding.
• 2:56:50
  I'm gonna talk shit about. All these other questions now,
• 2:56:52
  exactly, he's gonna say. That he actually, personally,
• 2:56:55
  he. Actually wouldn't.
• 2:56:56
  Fuck Tom. But thank you guys so much for
• 2:56:59
  listening. This has been Fashion After
• 2:57:01
  Hours episode #80. Starting the new year.
• 2:57:04
  Off with 80. Yeah, that's kind of crazy.
• 2:57:07
  That's a good number. Thank you.
• 2:57:08
  Guys, for having me, Yeah. Thank you and.
• 2:57:10
  Welcome 2024. Hopefully you have a good year.
• 2:57:13
  Yes, stay safe out. There.
• 2:57:15
  Yeah. See you.
• 2:57:16
  Bye. All right.
• 2:57:24
  Well, happy New Year, yeah. Yeah, that was a great.
• 2:57:28
  Podcast Happy new year. I told you.
• 2:57:32
  Before PJ came, I said. This is gonna be a very easy one
• 2:57:34
  because he's guy's a natural, he's a natural.
• 2:57:37
  He's been in the drift community for a long time.
• 2:57:38
  He's got a lot to talk about. He's been in Japan like four
• 2:57:41
  times. A lot of experience he's he's a.
• 2:57:44
  Veteran at a young age, he pretty much is a.
• 2:57:46
  Veteran Yeah. So, yeah, and I got a little
• 2:57:50
  into it there for a bit. When you talk about the truck,
• 2:57:52
  yeah, you always talk about. How I hate drifting.
• 2:57:54
  And as soon as you talk about it, you're like, oh dude, like I
• 2:57:58
  was pretty. Excited for a minute.
• 2:57:59
  Yeah, yeah, I was like, damn that because he brought up some
• 2:58:02
  cool shit that it you don't really think about and then you
• 2:58:05
  realize you love. Drifting again, Yeah, because I
• 2:58:07
  think about. Cool shit, which is very rare
• 2:58:09
  these days, which is what we are going to get into.
• 2:58:12
  But then we stopped. Remember when he was like, yeah,
• 2:58:15
  I was about to go off, but then I was like, OK, hopefully I can
• 2:58:19
  dial this back, but yeah, dude, drifting.
• 2:58:22
  Is just, not. It's not what it was seven years
• 2:58:26
  ago. It's just like, I don't know.
• 2:58:28
  Yeah, I don't know how to explain it.
• 2:58:30
  It's very hard to explain. That's what happens when.
• 2:58:32
  Anything becomes mainstream, it gets a little weird, yeah.
• 2:58:36
  It just gets. Lame.
• 2:58:38
  Like, I don't. It's just like everything that
• 2:58:40
  was bad seven years ago is just accepted.
• 2:58:43
  Now accepted and. Like flaunted like crazy.
• 2:58:48
  Like we were talking about Monji's.
• 2:58:49
  Yeah, yeah, that was never cool. But now it's like people think
• 2:58:54
  it's cool, 'cause they got hella.
• 2:58:55
  Angles exactly. Wow.
• 2:58:56
  So you're getting good at this, I know, man.
• 2:58:59
  That's exactly I've been in the. Game.
• 2:59:00
  Yeah, yeah. They just want to fling the car
• 2:59:02
  around side to side, like in a straight line.
• 2:59:05
  I mean, it can be cool, like before an entry, but this could
• 2:59:10
  be a whole separate podcast. So anyway, great conversation
• 2:59:13
  with PJ. Thanks for coming all the way
• 2:59:15
  down here. I know you're picking up wheels,
• 2:59:16
  but you know, yeah. Still, you made it worthwhile,
• 2:59:20
  yeah. So this is the New Year now.
• 2:59:23
  So happy New Year, happy New Year.
• 2:59:27
  It's going to be a great year. I would say that's that's.
• 2:59:32
  What we're seeing, like what we're projecting, it ought to be
• 2:59:34
  a good year. Yeah, we're going to be.
• 2:59:36
  Very busy. We have a bunch of Origin body
• 2:59:39
  kits and arrow that just arrived, so hit us up.
• 2:59:43
  If you're looking for something, especially if you're local,
• 2:59:45
  we'll be able to probably have you pick it up.
• 2:59:48
  We have, I think we have a body kit for every S chassis,
• 2:59:52
  basically. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 2:59:55
  You have that. You have that list somewhere.
• 2:59:57
  That you made this beautiful list you made on excel or
• 3:00:00
  whatever. We have Driftline.
• 3:00:02
  This is for S13. Sylvia Driftline Stylish line.
• 3:00:06
  Those two kits are available S14 Zenki We have aggressive line.
• 3:00:10
  We have stylish line. Cokie We have aggressive and
• 3:00:14
  Stylish Again S15. We have the is it Ragin Ragin
• 3:00:19
  Ragin Full kit for S15. We even have 50mm rear over
• 3:00:24
  fenders for a J ZX100 and is that I guess that does matter if
• 3:00:30
  it's chaser or not because the tail light shape yes.
• 3:00:32
  So that's for a chaser J ZX100 chaser.
• 3:00:35
  We got roof wings for that car. We have roof wings for S
• 3:00:39
  fourteens. We have trunk wings for S
• 3:00:41
  fourteens, roof wings for BRZ drift line, side skirts if
• 3:00:48
  you're looking for those for BRZ.
• 3:00:49
  We have 25mm front fenders for BRZ as well.
• 3:00:53
  So just a handful of things. Damn, we got a bunch of fenders
• 3:00:56
  for 180SX. Yeah, yeah, almost one.
• 3:00:59
  Of each, Yeah, we almost have. One of every Fender origin makes
• 3:01:02
  for 180SX and almost the same for a Sylvia so.
• 3:01:08
  Yeah, hit us up. If any of that interests you,
• 3:01:11
  there's another origin container arriving.
• 3:01:14
  There's technically 2 arriving, maybe one in February and one in
• 3:01:18
  I would say May, April, May. So yeah, we're trying to stock
• 3:01:23
  more stuff here, so tell your friends and what else?
• 3:01:28
  I mean, that's the. One of the bigger things that's
• 3:01:30
  happening this year, Yeah, we're going.
• 3:01:32
  To be stocking. Arrow Got anything else?
• 3:01:36
  I don't know. I mean.
• 3:01:38
  There's a lot of shit happening behind the scenes, but I don't
• 3:01:41
  want to say anything. We can't discuss that.
• 3:01:42
  Right now, yeah. We don't want to talk about.
• 3:01:44
  Anything until it's 100%. That's how I always am.
• 3:01:46
  So yeah, you hopefully in the next probably in the next like
• 3:01:51
  30 days we'll be making some announcements.
• 3:01:53
  If we don't, then nothing worked the way we thought it was going
• 3:01:55
  to work and. Don't worry about it, yeah.
• 3:01:58
  Don't worry about. It none of your business, but
• 3:02:01
  we'll. See.
• 3:02:02
  And I got to work on my car and finish it.
• 3:02:03
  I know, I'm well aware. If you're on the website you
• 3:02:07
  will see we have Cusco sway bars front and rear for S13.
• 3:02:12
  Is the rear one an S? 14 Did I Mess Up?
• 3:02:15
  Say That Again. You have it listed.
• 3:02:17
  As an S14 for the rear 10, I don't know I.
• 3:02:19
  Don't know, I think I. Think I ordered them for S13,
• 3:02:22
  but we'll see. We'll double check and then we
• 3:02:24
  got AZ 32 rear brake hardware that I've always wanted to just
• 3:02:28
  put on the website. Anyway, all this stuff is in
• 3:02:31
  stock here and yeah, I guess that's it.
• 3:02:34
  Make sure you check out our sponsors, Automotive, Specialty
• 3:02:37
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• 3:02:40
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• 3:02:41
  winter drifting needs because there's no club loose right now
• 3:02:45
  so if you want to drift, hit up Chris.
• 3:02:48
  He should be able to accommodate you and Happy New.
• 3:02:53
  Year. I hope you all reach your goals
• 3:02:54
  that you have set for 2024. Yes, Sir.
• 3:02:58
  Awesome bye. Bye.