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#116 - Eric Chob of Team Proceed · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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What's up everybody? Welcome back to another episode
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of the After Hours podcast. On today's episode, we have Eric
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Chaub of Team Proceed. I've known Eric for a while now,
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probably since honestly, I've probably known him since our
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first Final bout trip. So maybe 2015, I want to say.
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But Eric's been driving the GS300 on Team Proceed ever since
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that time. Maybe a little bit longer than
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that. I'd say maybe around 2014.
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I'm sure we talked about it in this episode.
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Yeah. So Chaub's been an awesome guy,
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just like all the rest of the proceed guys.
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They're very, very welcoming and supportive to everyone in the
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drifting community. So it was great to hear Eric's
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specific story with his life, how he got into drifting.
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You know, his he had also started in the Honda game, so he
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talks about his Hondas, stuff like that.
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And then we get into how he got the GS300 and basically the long
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journey he's had with the car and with his team.
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We also dove into his work life a little bit.
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We went down the rabbit hole of him explaining how he left his
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corporate job and basically turned to the automotive field,
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which is very weird transition, I felt.
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But you guys will. I mean, it's weird because you
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don't see it happening that often, but the way he describes
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it is kind of what a lot of people could relate to.
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They get stuck in a corporate job where they realize their
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quality of life is not as they expected to be and they try to
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find another way to make a living.
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So it was a definitely a great conversation.
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And as you guys know, Carl is living the corporate life right
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now, so he related a lot to Eric's struggles and I'm sure a
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episode. It's a new morning.
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It's a new day. What day is it?
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I don't know. It's Thursday, but we're here to
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bring you another guest. We have chop of team proceed and
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of of just a bunch of other this car.
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This is chop. This is chop.
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Hello. That's that's how I know chop.
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We usually have a laughing track or a clapping track.
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I don't have any of that. Because I don't.
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Don't. Let's see what we got.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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This is wrong. Yo, how did you do that?
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Stop that, It worked. Malcolm's been trying to fix
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that for so long. What is that?
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Hold on. Wait.
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Wait for this. Carl, say something all right.
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Well, fuck that. Now this is it me.
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Now maybe it's Chop I. See how this works?
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Nope, we're not going to find out.
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Right now you're right, but thank you.
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So much for coming on to the podcast.
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We're here at Eric's Auto Lab. Not my auto lab, just another
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Eric. Oh yeah.
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I I was trying to tell Frankie, like, what if that's his shop?
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I didn't know Chop had a shop. What?
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I'm so distracted right now. You are chop.
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Say something, put that shit. Down.
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OK, that was funny. Yeah, I like it.
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Yep, and now you don't have to listen to your own voice though.
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So this is kind of. Perfect.
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OK, I'm done. I'm done.
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Seriously. I got to meet y'all.
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I got to meet you last year briefly.
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Yes, you were like 3 beers now and.
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Yo, and now and now we're like we converse through on the
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Internet. Yes, yes, yes.
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I found out you were a Philippine.
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I'm just kidding. Dude, no.
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Isn't that weird? You know, tell me that.
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That's weird. It shouldn't.
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It shouldn't matter. It it really, no, it really
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shouldn't matter. But at the end of the day,
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there's like a bond that's there that people, yeah, have that
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bond with others. Kind of How do you cook your
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rice? I, I just told you how I, I put
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the hand in there. We were talking about he does
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the finger, I do the hand. Like, I mean.
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You have to be confused with the other finger though.
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Just rice finger. Hey, yo.
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I do get it wrong sometimes, especially when I cook Korean
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rice. Dude, nothing worse than when
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you cook the rice and it's not. When everybody's ready to eat
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and then the rice is fucked up and you're just.
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Like and it's hard or it's like. Wet.
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Yeah, I don't cook for anyone else.
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I just cook for myself that way if it's terrible.
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He's smart. There are some, there are some
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things like, you know, that show Chopped that and I've, I've
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watched that show and people come up with like solutions real
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quick, right? So they'll, they'll go like, oh
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shit, this stuff's burning. Let me go take it off, put it in
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the fridge, do this, do that, do this.
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So for for the cooked rice or the soggy rice, what I do is I
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will pull the lid off. And vent it, yes, yes and get to
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atmosphere. Get rid of Yeah.
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Vent it to atmosphere. Yep.
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Yeah. And just get the get the extra
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moisture out of the rice and let that thing.
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And then if you shit, if you're about to fry it.
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But when you undercook it, that's just fucked.
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Yeah, you're kind of. I add water and it just turns
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into soup. Yeah, that's.
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Because I've also done that and it just like looks gross and
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like thankfully it's just me. I'm feeding usually at home so.
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It's a good ass donut. It's because it's chocolate.
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You love that country Donuts. Country, not to be confused with
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county because my wife makes fun of me all the time.
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I don't. I didn't.
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We have Country Donuts in New York, but not by us, I don't
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think. Right.
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I don't know, dude. But this is like a chain, so we.
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Yes, yeah. But obviously we're here
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surrounding the final bout Buzz and it's nice to just be here to
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be able to talk to you, have a good conversation about.
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I would like to talk about the car.
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Let's do it because. Wait, let me just say thanks for
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inviting me to be on here. Oh yeah, of course.
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You know, we watched. Brad and I both watch you guys
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and. Brad, Brad was saying how he was
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listening to the pod and I was like, why are you?
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What you. Listen to that.
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That's how I feel it's. Always like such a dude.
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It's always so like weird because I'm like, I'm like.
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Yeah, I watch you. Why are you?
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In the eyes, yeah, like, and they're no but.
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It's like we're supposed to be happy that people are.
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I am because and people are coming up to me yesterday.
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I love listening to it in the shop.
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I'm like, bro, I would be in in the shop.
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That's Yeah, I could be stressing out, yelling, freaking
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out, dude, if I And then you hear me in the.
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Shop a full time, I'd have headphones on and a podcast
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going. That's what I've been.
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Doing really, has anybody ever said I love listening to you on
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the toilet or in the shower or. I don't know, I.
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Don't know are you gonna I was just.
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Wondering I have a speaker in the shower now so I could.
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You'll live it. That's life.
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I don't. I'm not a play music in the
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shower really. I need to sit there just.
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Is that is that the only time you're calm and you meditate?
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I need to hear like. Just the water, yeah, hitting
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the back. Dude, I don't know why but you
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tell you. You're telling me when the hot
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water like goes through your hair?
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Well, job. I don't have any.
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But like, you know what I'm saying?
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It hits your scalp and then you just get one of those like, oh,
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like, damn. You were in the shower for a
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little bit this morning. Yeah, I had to charge up.
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Yeah, I had to charge up. That's what was going on.
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You got to sit there. I am going to be great today
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just sitting there in the shower just.
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Does anybody else do this? I end the shower with a cold
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shower. A lot of people do that, OK.
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Yeah, there's something to do with like your pores with that.
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Yeah, I just wake up with it. Usually I notice usually female
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but a lot of people. Fucking you're the one bro.
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This is the guy who we're at the rest stop.
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He's blowing dry conditioning. He's I'm fucking dry shampooing
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my hair and he goes yo watch the overspray.
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Bro that the sun was hitting it and there's.
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This huge aerosol cloud. I just do cold showers now.
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Just straight cold. Just straight cold.
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Unless I'm on vacation like this or this is a trip, work trip,
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kind of. But yeah, I'm just like, I'll
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enjoy my time. No dude, warm.
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They went through this period of time where they were obsessed
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with just taking cold Ash, no? I haven't stopped.
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Why? Tell me you're good though.
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You you can have a normal hot shower.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But he.
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Probably understands it because he goes cold at the end, yeah.
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So. I would start.
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For eczema, I don't know. It's just it's, it's straight up
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torture, but I'm into that. You guys know the hot boys from
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Wow? Canada.
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I know. I'm just trying to remember.
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I don't know where. Yeah.
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Brad, help me out. No anyways.
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What is Brad going to do about this?
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Canada is fucking huge so. So the first time they came to
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US Air, it was for Club of Far Jam.
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They stayed at my house. We've never met before.
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We're just talking on the Internet.
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And I was like, oh, you guys can stay at my house.
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Cool. So they all thought they were
10:53
walking into serial killer's house.
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Why? Why?
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Because we didn't, you know this most of the time of the Internet
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where like you don't meet the people on the Internet.
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I was telling him I was explaining how fun about one
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was. Like it was like the Internet
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was like meeting. Converging right so they get to
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the house. My roommate, who shall remain
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unnamed, did not pay the hot water bill.
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Oh shit. It was cold water for everybody.
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So welcome, yeah, welcome to. Chicago.
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No, that's thankfully never. So it was funny because they
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thought they were coming to a drug dealer's house with like
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mansion, white walls leopard. Did they know what you looked
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like? How about?
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Yeah, yeah. OK, so and then they come in
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and. So they see.
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With no hot water or anything. And they're like.
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The total opposite, yeah. That is this.
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That is like the fifth time somebody said, yeah, they didn't
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know. We didn't know each other or
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anything and I just invited them over.
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Yeah. Actually, their parents were
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like, he might kill you. Yeah.
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Be careful, that is a thing be. Careful, be careful.
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We just did the podcast with Damon and he was, he was saying
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the same thing the Sylvia days. And he's like, yeah, when we
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first meet people, my family thought I was insane because I
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was just meeting these people that had the same car as me on
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the Internet. And they were all like, you
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can't meet people from the Internet.
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And now you look at it and it's like.
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Now it's really the Internet together all the time.
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Yeah, people are getting married off the Internet.
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Wow, for real? Yeah.
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I could be looking for bitches right now.
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That's crazy. How long have you been really
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into the whole drifting thing? Was it always drifting or were
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there cars? Before I started in the Honda
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game. Yo that's mad Filipino where you
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go because I. Mean it was the time, right?
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Yeah, it's, it's like. I grew up with my cousin.
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He had a 94 Integra LS and back then it was different, right?
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So he had 19 inch racing heart C fives. 19/19/19 and that's ADC
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bar. Too, Yeah.
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Yeah, with. The with the yeah.
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So I got into it because of him, and then I was lucky enough to
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jump into a type R as my first R.
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What? What year was this?
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Well the type R was at 2000 and I got it in 2000 and.
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You had it ITR. I did, yes. 2002 I think is when
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I got it. What the?
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Hell, it was really cool though, because yeah.
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Oh, you, you think so? Yeah, I OK, so well off enough
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that my parents bought me a car. OK, Yeah.
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And it was what I chose. And you know, do you remember?
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How much that was back then for ITR?
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We paid 16 for it. Hell yeah.
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OK, see, so that's like a normal parent buying, not well back
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normal, but like that's like a parent buying their car or
13:39
buying their kid a car. Yeah, now like a Subaru WRX or
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what have you. With the inflation of that,
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yeah, yeah. So that's like, not too
13:46
unlandish. But then I blew up the motor at
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some point. OK.
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Did a full June 3 head package, bicycle Pistons 4 seven final
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drive. Holy shit.
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So you. Knew you wanted to play with
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cars like. Yeah.
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So my dad, I grew up with my dad working on his cars.
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My chores consisted of mowing the grass, taking out the trash,
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doing oil changes and break jobs when I was growing up.
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OK so I got into it like that but the tuning side of it came
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from my cousins. And they're all into Honda or
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well, back then. His older brother, the Integra,
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he had an IROC Z and then a 300ZX.
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And then what did he go to after that STI?
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I think when they first came out, yeah.
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Damn. But then I had the ITI for a
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little bit and all these drift guys started coming around.
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Simba, Josh, I knew you for a while because he had a tie bar
14:44
also. But I met Simba and them Grip
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Gambler. They all had their two 40s.
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Eric Wartman, You guys know him? I feel like we heard.
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That name that. Is Simba's teammate.
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From Grip Gambler, yeah. I don't know if you guys
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remember the strawberry face purple hatch on C archives?
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White C archives? No, I don't.
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Think so it was. When Silva had a purple 1V on
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gold gram lights dude, I didn't. Even know grip gambler no until
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proceed like and then I went back.
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What's a grip gambler? Grip Gambler is probably the
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first drift team of the Midwest, I guess, or of Illinois,
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Chicago, I shouldn't say Midwest, but that's yeah.
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Yeah. Grip.
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Gambler so I'm. Trying that.
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Yeah, damn, that that name, the older names that come up, it's
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like you could tell the age. I don't know.
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For some reason right now when people name a drift team, I'm
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like, oh, that's a new team. I'm trying to cross my legs
15:43
here. I feel all weird.
15:44
Yeah, dude. You what?
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You might give us a little show real quick.
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So my first taste of real drifting though was RSR
15:50
Festival. They came when they did that
15:52
whole U.S. tour thing with a Rito and that was.
15:55
Probably what, mid 2000s? I want to say that was probably
15:58
2003. Oh wow.
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Yeah. So they brought the the Super
16:03
out, they brought the S14 and then brought AZ 33 out.
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So that was my first taste of and that just came.
16:08
Out back, it's like a brand. New car that's like a.
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Brand new car. What's what's funny is we have
16:14
this other, we have this friend, a friend of ours who's been in
16:16
the community for a long time, Ken Fuji, and he brought over
16:20
this tape of like a Nissan, Nissan meat, 240SX Nissan meat
16:24
or something like that. And the Z just came out, dude.
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And it's just parked like a plain silver Z.
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It looked like Chris's first car, plain silver Z.
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And I'm just cracking up 'cause I'm like, damn, did they have
16:36
any idea what this thing was in store for?
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Yeah, what? Was in store like that?
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Oh. My God, I remember.
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Getting the DVDs of the release for their marketing purposes.
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And I watched it over and over again.
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Yeah. Really.
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What? What?
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What do you remember? What the track edition?
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It was an orange Z33 track edition and it was just going
16:55
through streets of whatever city it was in.
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Dude. And now what I would.
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Have thought it would be. It's cool.
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Talking to you guys because you guys are like the generation
17:04
before me when it comes to the car.
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So how old are you? I'm 33, OK?
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Yeah, I'm 20. 9. Why are you?
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Like 35 or something I. Just turned 38.
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Getting there, getting there. You're getting there.
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Dude. You're about to hit that next
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chapter. The four chapter.
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Yeah, that's that's my wife. Next year, she's turning 40.
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Carl's about. To hit 30, yeah.
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Dude, I've been making jokes about how Frankie's like, yeah.
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The old man and then. One day I we were making jokes
17:31
about it and I had to stop because I'm like dude.
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Yeah. I'm you're there.
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I'm going to be. There, Yeah.
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What the fuck life if you start freaking out?
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I thought. 30 was old when I was younger, yeah.
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To be 40 in a couple years but I feel.
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Like how you feel? Yeah.
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I feel OK. I'm worried about that too.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 30 felt like that and then
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the second I turned it I was like, oh this ain't nothing, no.
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Was. Your journey did it jade make
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you like jaded at all now because you had the ITR you've
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seen drifting now and then drifting.
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Type R, I'm sure you did. So did Josh, right?
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Yeah. Why dude?
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Why, like Josh, will? Swear that you can drift that
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car to this day. Well, you know.
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That that EF that was on the Falcon team, I didn't even know.
18:20
About this remember that one, but.
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Josh, do you remember Josh's pod when he told us how he was
18:23
practicing drifting and with front wheel drive car just doing
18:26
entries again and again and again?
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I hope to God we were not talking about ITR.
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That's what he's doing. Yep.
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That's all. That's the only type art or
18:35
Integra that he had or front wheel drive.
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It's crazy. Yeah, it's just.
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Crazy to me because like like many others I also had Honda
18:45
first. I had an Integra also first, but
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it was not ITRI, had just a plain GSRI.
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Had ADA daily with a previous owner.
18:57
Installed a sunroof for fun so I had to be duct taped and it was
19:01
missing third. No second gear so I'd go first,
19:04
third and I had no AC Oh my. Gosh, it was probably like.
19:13
What the heck? Dude, I didn't take it was a
19:15
great car. Dude, crank windows.
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Oh no. No, I I didn't.
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That was my daily. I only have one car with crank
19:20
windows and it was my hatch. Yeah, I was going to say. 240
19:23
Yeah, my hatch. All and the coupe.
19:25
They both had crank windows. But the DC 2 was such a good car
19:29
dude, it really was. It had great cargo space.
19:31
The back seats felded down like the fucking thing hit 92 RP 9200
19:36
RPM. I slept in the.
19:37
Back of the tap bar once at AUS Air van dude with the.
19:41
Back and the Hatch was probably down.
19:43
You got a little skylight, right?
19:44
Have you guys ever. Heard about the Bonduel Inn at
19:46
Chano. The what?
19:47
The Who? So there is a old abandoned what
19:52
is that motel that's just down the street from the track.
19:56
Our first time sleeping there we didn't know where to go, so I
19:59
don't remember who found it, but Bonduel Inn is.
20:03
Is it a? Functioning hotel.
20:06
It's got, you know, your typical motel rooms on one side and then
20:10
the main area on one side. Yeah.
20:13
I slept in the car. Oh.
20:14
OK, it was that bad. Yeah, Oh.
20:16
OK. Everything was very moist.
20:20
Dude, no. So we stayed at the Miravu.
20:22
That was years ago A. Miravu, right?
20:24
A miravu. A Miravu.
20:26
Oh no. American.
20:27
No. No.
20:28
It's the. One that's next to Carl's Junior
20:31
or Hardee's, whatever. The one that's right there.
20:33
Yeah, they. Got they all got mad at me and
20:35
they were like, oh, I don't like they got mad.
20:37
At you, yeah, they're like this is.
20:38
Disgusting bro dude. It was so bad, man.
20:42
It was bad. It was.
20:43
I was. Sleeping like a baby?
20:44
I don't know that dude. I barely knew Frankie at that
20:47
point, he said. So you didn't?
20:49
Want to say anything? We're going to final.
20:50
Bow, I just wanted to go, yeah. Look at you guys now and now
20:54
look. At.
20:55
Look at you. Guys, now I look behind Carl,
20:57
there's just a van packed with a bunch of shit.
20:58
I'm like, I don't think it's much better.
21:00
It got where? Well, not where it definitely
21:02
grew because of the pod, which is great.
21:04
The good old Poddington has been bringing those places the.
21:06
Poddington, where are you guys staying?
21:08
Now. We're actually staying in Green
21:10
Bay up there. We got an Airbnb in Green Bay.
21:13
Oh cool. I would.
21:14
Like to just stay at borders every single year, but I every
21:17
time I look for the last four years, it's booked.
21:19
It's booked because I really got What the heck is Borders?
21:21
It's. The main hotel, yeah, I think
21:25
they're one of the only ones who offer any.
21:27
Kind of Yeah, that. And like that was always like
21:30
the one that you want to get. Yeah.
21:33
But now I feel like yeah, too many people know.
21:34
So Airbnb is. Actually a good choice they
21:36
have. Airbnb is close to the track
21:38
too, you just got to look a little.
21:40
Earlier, yeah, we, we got something last year that was
21:43
like, we were like, oh, this ain't that bad.
21:45
It's like 45 minutes away. And then I looked this year and
21:47
I was like, Green Bay's 30 minutes away.
21:49
What the fuck am I doing? We weren't. 45 minutes away last
21:52
year, it's like another 30 minutes too.
21:54
It's just that those dumb roads out there, you got no lights, no
21:57
features, you're not looking at anything.
21:59
So yeah. But no, yeah, Green Bay's gonna
22:02
be interesting. I mean, we, we went there last
22:04
year to do podcasts, but we didn't.
22:08
We got food, but that was it. Then what are you talking about?
22:10
That was. One of my favorite food.
22:11
Dude they had chili with spaghetti.
22:12
Dude, you got. Cheese, Yeah.
22:15
A lot of cheese, A lot of cheese are you?
22:18
Are you lactose? No, no, no.
22:19
Damn you're. Lucky.
22:20
Yeah, you're lactose. Yeah, typical, yeah.
22:23
How are you not? I'm confused now.
22:25
I thought it was all through it, you know?
22:26
People like most Filipines I I. Pushed through it.
22:28
I ate so much cheese yesterday. Oh, you did.
22:31
I'm here. I'm standing.
22:32
I'm brave as hell about it. Bathroom is right there.
22:34
Now we're going. Also he.
22:35
Keeps using the lobby bathroom instead of ours, so something's
22:38
going. He's nice though.
22:38
Yeah. Thank God there's three.
22:40
Males in there and the bathroom doesn't have a vent.
22:42
I'm going to hope to God I don't want to 'cause we got to sleep
22:45
in there and then I got to smell my own poop.
22:47
You know what we? Love Culver's you guys.
22:50
You guys don't have Culver's? No, it's also.
22:52
Just 'cause when I pick up the burger, that shit's not sopping
22:55
wet. True.
22:55
Which is beautiful, it feels. Nice, it feels good to your
22:58
hand. Cheese curds.
23:00
I'm not. A cheese curd guy, but I had.
23:02
It Oh yeah, it was so good. What else?
23:04
What else is good there? The.
23:06
Chicken tenders. Frankie had a six piece and a
23:08
double. I get chicken.
23:09
Tenders, a double burger, fries, milkshake, everything.
23:12
Yeah. Did you get a shake too?
23:14
No. I can't.
23:14
That's that's, that's probably the one.
23:16
That we'll message that's right when I.
23:17
Do have shakes because I don't not against them.
23:20
Yeah, I just wasn't feeling it that day.
23:21
We're on the road. I didn't know the bathroom
23:23
situation. I need to make sure we're good.
23:25
So Simba's lactose and he only has dairy products when he's
23:30
near home. OK.
23:31
Yeah, Simba. I've I feel you bro and and many
23:35
other people as well. Don't hide from you.
23:38
Don't hide now you're listening to this you lactose.
23:41
Fuck you. Dude, I used.
23:42
To have a lot of. White friends right?
23:43
And I never understood this. Now I have only Filipino friends
23:47
and all of them can't drink milk, eat ice cream, can't do
23:50
anything else but we do. It anyway hey, come on, let's
23:52
get. Milkshakes.
23:54
But then I'm going to be shitting.
23:55
I'm like, oh, OK. I guess I am lucky 'cause I can
23:58
have all of that, yeah. No, you're definitely lucky.
24:01
Most of my Asian friends in general are lactose.
24:05
That Miyagi is. Fucked he can't eat anything.
24:09
Oh, that's. An actual friend's name, that's.
24:11
Miyagi Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
24:12
The Erotic Kid. Guy No, no.
24:14
No, no, he, yeah, he. Wishes he was, but no 'cause I.
24:16
Earlier I was like, 'cause I brought up Miyagi, I brought up
24:19
Miyagi because just like how Frankie mentioned, his friend
24:22
group was like primarily white. I guess before what happened we
24:26
got a special. Guest, OH.
24:28
My God, dude. But yeah, just like how your
24:30
your friend group was primarily. I had to lock in really quick.
24:33
Yeah, yeah, just like how your friend group was primarily white
24:35
like Miyagi, I feel like was your intro to having a yellow
24:41
fan. He was.
24:42
So he learned. About the math, holy shit.
24:45
Josh is here. No, what the heck?
24:47
Where are you getting that? We just have Revgasm, Josh, just
24:52
pulling up on the pod. Love you guys, love you too.
24:54
Man, how we doing? We're going to see you later.
24:56
I guess we're going to see you. Later, right?
24:57
Yeah. Yeah, you're.
24:59
Getting pizza right? Yeah.
25:03
Yeah, we don't have to, Frankie said.
25:05
He hates deep dish. I mean.
25:07
If you guys want to get something else.
25:10
You don't. Have to do that I'm doing it.
25:11
For this guy, I'm just. Going bro, do you think I have a
25:15
choice of where we? Go.
25:17
What are you talking about? You like our new setup, so this.
25:22
Is what you're buying. Yeah.
25:24
This is. Look at that.
25:26
That's the current. Owner, right?
25:27
There. That's when they got yeah.
25:29
That's going on the fridge. I'm not.
25:30
This is what you bought with your money.
25:33
This is. Your car.
25:35
Speaking of, when I got rid of my Type R for the S14, it didn't
25:40
start. Yeah.
25:41
So when my dad came out, he was like, what is this shit?
25:45
Oh no. Oh, wait, so you had S14 first?
25:47
That's where we are. No, no, I had.
25:48
To type R first no but. After, oh, after.
25:50
Yeah, yeah, after you decided a 2000 year car for a 1995.
25:55
Oh so. That's all that.
25:57
Is yeah, that is, that's that and.
25:58
Then it didn't start like we it didn't start.
26:01
Josh was there. We tried to push start.
26:03
It didn't start. That's the end of the.
26:04
World I think my dad was like. You idiot.
26:10
But you got it to go. Eventually, what was the?
26:12
Problem do you remember? Dead injector and VTC cameras
26:16
causing issues. So.
26:20
Not of it. I wouldn't have even figured
26:22
that out to be honest. I was like, I would, I didn't.
26:24
Figure it out as a kid. I'm I didn't figure.
26:26
It out my friend Kyle Colucci did.
26:28
Josh and I's mutual friend, they went to high school together.
26:31
I was even figured it out. I was going to.
26:33
Ask what's your like? What's your first job like?
26:36
How do you start my first? I guess under the table job I
26:42
cleaned school buses in the summertime.
26:46
It was very short lived. It was disgusting and kids are
26:49
close. I mean I I would know I have 3
26:52
but my friend got contracted to clean buses for a few years and
26:57
I would go with him in the summertime and it was just
26:59
baking degrees. Vomit at.
27:03
That time were you already like driven by the fact that yo, I
27:07
need to get money to pay for this car stuff.
27:09
This was. Actually, before the car stuff,
27:10
I was just, you know, at at that age we're all like we need
27:13
money, right? We need, we want to go other
27:15
friends. And it was like $6.00 an hour,
27:17
yes. Yeah, I was like. 15 right.
27:20
So yeah, that. Actually doesn't even sound that
27:22
bad for $6.00 an. Hour and the inflation was
27:24
probably not. You could still buy stuff at
27:26
McDonald's with with $6. I remember Dollar Menu
27:29
Millionaire. You guys remember that?
27:31
Yeah. Yeah, they.
27:32
Were less than a dollar I used to.
27:33
Use Mcdoubles as a currency. Dude.
27:35
I'd be like, oh that shit is like $23.
27:37
That's 23 Mcdoubles. That's a week's worth of food.
27:40
Are you kidding me? I'm not spending that there was
27:43
this. One time my aunt we traveled
27:44
with her and she bought $30.00 worth of McDonald's and I
27:46
thought she was rich. I was like $30.00 and now I.
27:49
Can't leave without spending $30.
27:51
I walk outside. Of my door and spend $30.
27:53
It's kind of insane. Like if we want to go.
27:54
Crazy. For lunch, we're like, I guess
27:56
we could get McDonald's. We could spoil ourselves.
27:58
It's like, what? Why is that a thing?
28:00
Now I'm going to eat. Water for lunch.
28:02
It's just. McDonald's is like bad for you
28:04
and it costs. More than yeah, yeah.
28:06
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so.
28:07
Weird was the S. 14 That was your intro into the drifting.
28:12
Like, did you drift that one? Did you stick with that?
28:14
Yes, I drifted. That one.
28:15
But Josh's 180, right? Josh was my intro drifting or
28:20
Phil's Miata. Your his we his black one was
28:23
called Michael Jackson. I told him all that.
28:28
Well, I had it. OK, OK.
28:29
It had white you guys. Paint it white K ones.
28:31
Or it was the other one was the paint.
28:33
Peeling Buddy Club. Buddy Club P Ones White and the
28:36
car was black, so we said it's black and white.
28:39
So we're going to call it Michael Jackson, OK?
28:41
That's fine. It's a good.
28:42
Song. Yeah, it's a good song.
28:44
Well. It wasn't.
28:45
It wasn't. About the song.
28:46
That. It was about the song.
28:51
That was my I don't think he's ever.
28:53
Seen your S14 by the way? No.
28:55
I don't think I I'll. Have to show up.
28:56
I I really again like when I met Josh and I met you when I meet
29:00
anybody. He only knows me now because he
29:02
learned that I'm Filipino. It's it's.
29:03
It's literally just that, like, yo, I met Melvin last night.
29:06
It was funny as hell. Did you guys look at each
29:09
other's calves? Yo, he.
29:10
Kept looking at me. He's like.
29:11
He's like, this is him, right? I'm like, yeah, that's him.
29:14
I didn't know what he looked. Like.
29:16
We just talked on the. Internet.
29:17
So I'm just just like this, pointing at someone just like
29:21
this. Yeah.
29:23
And then? See who reacts like wait, wait,
29:25
what was? That what?
29:26
What's? That's how somebody, that's how
29:29
you know. That.
29:30
Like you haven't told. Frankie that, that's fucked up.
29:33
Oh, look at Josh like over 2. Like he was like, oh, do it that
29:37
yeah, that's like Hoyts. Oh.
29:38
OK, I'm going to start doing that to my employees.
29:42
OK. It's very low on the ground,
29:44
just like you would expect. Is it the same color?
29:48
Is that when you had? Big ass fucking wheels on me.
29:52
That was when I had the Mas on it, yo.
29:54
You're always doing burnouts dude.
29:57
I've also noticed that as well. Everyone's calm as hell and then
30:00
it's just Chops sitting on limiter.
30:02
And then I always wanted to, yeah.
30:04
And then I get in trouble. Actually, when we got back to
30:07
the shop last night to drop off, the GSI did a burnout on the
30:09
side of the building. I feel like I remembered this
30:12
video. How can you not?
30:15
I don't. Know.
30:16
Tires are expensive now. I feel like back in the few
30:19
years ago, you would do a burnout and you're like, all
30:20
right, like now. Now I got to spend $230 to go
30:24
get more tires. I'm.
30:26
Trying to figure out new tires too.
30:27
I don't know, it's weird. Right.
30:29
Like, and not because you've been in the game for a while,
30:33
but you are. That's got to be frustrating.
30:36
Well, you know, there have been so many iterations of companies
30:40
who you could work with for cheaper tires or sponsorships or
30:44
just cheap tires. Remember part of that?
30:47
Falcon Wave, Yeah. Yes, we thank you.
30:51
Thanks to Ilya. We were sponsored by Falcon.
30:54
Fuck yeah. Which was really so cool.
30:55
I was going to. Say you're talking about tire
30:57
sponsors and stuff. Yeah, we don't understand any of
30:59
that because for some reason no tire sponsors ever want to
31:02
sponsor anyone by us. There is that one right now, but
31:04
tire. Sponsors are.
31:07
It's not like how back then I thought a sponsor would be.
31:10
So now I kind of understand the world a little bit better.
31:13
Shit just isn't free. Yeah.
31:14
Carl thought everyone was getting everything.
31:16
I'm like I'm. About to go pro dude.
31:18
Just like a need for speed and then you get the deals and then
31:20
you get all the parts that. Didn't work like that.
31:24
I didn't know that money is like you just get.
31:28
Stuff for free, right? But I.
31:29
Mean he thought this. Was skateboarding there's.
31:31
There's ways that people I've noticed we'll make it work so
31:37
that it's a lot more feasible, it's a lot more attainable, it's
31:40
a lot. More realistic cause dude, well,
31:44
right now you're getting a good perspective 'cause we're
31:47
watching Front Street go through this in real time.
31:50
So. But now we're superstars.
31:52
Well, they're, they're trying their hardest to get sponsors
31:54
and try to make this easier for themselves 'cause they're,
31:56
they're at that point in their lives finally where they're
31:58
like, they work really. Hard.
32:00
You can see that too. Yeah, but they're like.
32:01
We can't be spending money like this anymore.
32:03
So and and. I'm very tired watching them do
32:07
everything, yeah. Dude it doesn't it, dude.
32:10
I props to them. I had to.
32:11
I told. Tom, last night I'm like, bro,
32:13
you got to be tired, right? I went to sleep.
32:15
For him last night. Yo, that guy's a monster and
32:20
everyone who helped him is awesome.
32:21
Yeah, Tom's. Always been that way.
32:24
Jimmy's kind of new to the group, but Jimmy is the exact
32:26
same way. That's awesome.
32:27
So. I just saw Jimmy and I was like,
32:29
so you must be also Tom. Yeah, he.
32:31
Looked worse. He looked worse than Tom.
32:33
Honestly, I. Was like I told you.
32:35
Right now that was me and that happened.
32:37
I'd be like, I'm not driving for the next 5.
32:39
Yeah, I'd. Be like I'm not driving guys.
32:41
And realistically. How long would it take for
32:43
somebody to rebuild a car like that?
32:45
Like a. Normal.
32:47
Person, Yeah. Couple of.
32:49
Years at. Least they didn't.
32:51
Do that in. Like 3 days or something.
32:53
There's a. They got it running.
32:54
In 21 days in a weekend or something?
32:57
That's crazy. They got it running in like 4
32:59
days. I just.
33:00
I'm just cracking up because it's like this is going to be
33:02
the best that that car ever has just cause of the resources that
33:06
they had about to mention. When we say they got it running
33:08
in four days, you got to watch Jimmy's video.
33:10
I'm sure they have it all in there, but.
33:11
Literally nothing like and. And Jimmy's builds are nice,
33:15
that's what I'm saying. He has like.
33:17
Everything Jimmy coated and and Raptor liner.
33:19
Everything oversight of Jimmy just being able and and yeah,
33:23
like you said, his high level. Is really good.
33:25
Yeah, yeah. Very, and I know we've said this
33:28
time and time again, but Jimmy's a pretty intelligent guy.
33:31
Like the the education he went through, the degree he went to
33:34
through, that's not just some Joe Schmo thing that you could
33:36
just pass like a business degree from Rowan University in New
33:40
Jersey. Like Rowan?
33:41
Is that one of the colleges? That's where I went to school.
33:44
It's like a farm college. I don't know.
33:46
You get a. Degree in rice cook it was.
33:48
I actually had to learn how to do that stuff there.
33:50
I was gonna say that's probably. When you're buying all those
33:52
Mcdoubles, that's when. I was like, Oh my gosh, I've
33:55
been being fed my whole life. What?
33:58
Do I do now? And I lost mad weight.
34:01
And then I gained it crazy. Really.
34:03
Yeah, I. Don't think I've seen you big.
34:06
What the fuck is that supposed to?
34:07
What? You were big.
34:09
Come on, bro. I was a little chubby before.
34:12
Really. Yeah, I'm.
34:14
Not you got fat, that's what. It was you hit the family party
34:17
and the first thing you're I heard.
34:19
About that, I heard about that Filipino culture.
34:23
You're. Looking big and they just.
34:25
Say it right to your face, right to my.
34:26
Face and I'm like, thanks Lola, how many years you got left?
34:30
Fuck yeah. That's nuts.
34:32
Dude, Princess and. Malcolm always.
34:34
Oh. Dude, Princess is probably sick
34:35
of it is Malcolm. Filipino also, yeah, he's half.
34:37
He's half. Black half Filipino but people
34:40
say. That he look Indian which is
34:41
funny to me. He also looks.
34:42
Hispanic, so I don't. Really know what Malcolm is?
34:44
Really. Yeah.
34:45
We don't really know, just a little.
34:46
Confused, I I thought Malcolm. Was black just but so.
34:49
When did, when did the GS come into play?
34:52
Cause like now you went, you made a move from Honda.
34:54
So you now you're in Nissan playing a little bit and then
34:57
you finally made your way to the top tier automotive brand,
35:00
Toyota top tier. I know your parents had to be
35:03
hyped. They're like, finally the good
35:06
T. Well, by this time they already
35:08
moved to another state. Oh, OK.
35:10
Yeah, they moved to Vegas by that time.
35:13
When did I move to that? 2012 I think.
35:17
Damn. So this has been with you for
35:18
well, that's. 14 was with you for a while, yeah.
35:20
And I sold that to Jake. You guys know Jake?
35:24
Jake. Rest in peace.
35:25
Yeah. Oh, wait.
35:26
That was your car. Yes, yes.
35:27
Oh shit. I don't know if I knew that.
35:30
That's crazy. Holy.
35:32
He hounded me for a long time to buy that car, so I was like,
35:35
hey, I'm going to sell it. I.
35:37
Have a question for you that I don't think I know the answer
35:38
to. Were you on?
35:39
Were you on Risky Devil? Yes.
35:41
OK. OK.
35:42
I probably didn't know that. So it was U2 on Risky Devil and
35:45
Ilya and. Ilya Yeah, OK, that.
35:48
S14 was in the summers. Yeah, it was, it was right.
35:52
Yeah. Then.
35:52
I think I've definitely seen it 'cause I watched that video like
35:55
last week. Real quick, dude, you you.
35:57
We told. It's.
35:58
Funny, I got you watching that video.
35:59
But we were telling. Him this shit too.
36:01
Like that? Those videos?
36:03
Those summer videos, those. Risky devil videos are what
36:08
created me as a drifter. No, straight up.
36:12
I swear to God he says it. All the fucking time, no.
36:14
It did for sure, huh, like because I would not I maybe I
36:18
would have gave up or something, but seeing you guys having fun
36:20
like that, it was like a skate video like it was.
36:22
That's what. Makes me want to make more.
36:24
That's what my videos now that I make like they're always just
36:27
like little bullshit ones because I like, not that they're
36:30
bullshit, but like it's yeah, dude, it was.
36:31
Crazy, the man was. Get that motion better like it's
36:34
like oh, which is. Really cool to hear because
36:36
Josh, correct me if I'm wrong, we used to get a lot of heat for
36:39
those videos. Probably you.
36:40
Probably did. He like, go to the track, yeah.
36:46
Oh yeah. You know that kind of thing.
36:48
I mean we. I was just.
36:49
Ignoring those people, like we have those people by us too,
36:51
obviously. Like, I mean, Matt Petty is a
36:53
big track guy now, like, you know, but he's also gone through
36:56
some shit that, yeah, pretty sad stuff with friends and stuff on
36:59
the street. So it makes sense.
37:01
But we were young and, you know, that's what we want to do.
37:04
So there's a. Wrong way and a right way.
37:06
And I feel like if you just take your precautionary measures like
37:10
if and everybody's on the same page, you're really good.
37:13
About it. Shit can.
37:14
Happen either way. We had spotters.
37:16
We went on really weird times of the day where no one's around.
37:19
Yeah. Dude, do you miss?
37:21
Those. Do you miss those?
37:22
Yeah. For sure the times.
37:23
Of when it was probably a lot more simple to live like.
37:27
No really though, like and a pair of tires.
37:30
Would last for a few months because we were just, you know,
37:34
on the street. Raindrift.
37:36
Oh yeah. Yes, yo, it's.
37:38
Drizzling yo-yo, yo-yo yo. Yeah.
37:40
Seriously, he would call me in the middle of the night and he's
37:42
like or no, during the day he's like, hey, forecast looks good
37:44
tonight, are we going out? I didn't have a car at the time.
37:47
He would just pick me up. That's.
37:49
Great, I remember the. First time, what did we do?
37:52
We did a a long extended connection from one corner to
37:55
the other, 'cause, you know, back then mangis were a thing.
37:58
And yeah, I remember when we connected at one time, we both
38:01
were like, wow. This is.
38:07
Dude, that's I miss that kind of feeling, feeling where you
38:12
didn't even really, in retrospect, you probably didn't
38:15
even really do anything too wild, but it was just the
38:17
feeling of something new like that.
38:20
And now drifting is so crazy, like everything is kind of new,
38:23
but not so it's it's, it's like a weird space right now where
38:27
stuff's just. You could see that the the.
38:30
I don't know the changes of directions that people want to
38:35
go, right? And yeah, the importance that
38:38
they have to them, which is cool to see too, right?
38:40
I mean everyone has their own Ave. and reasons for doing it,
38:44
so it's cool to see that everyone can have their own
38:46
pathway to it. That some.
38:49
Still suck, that's what. That's what when I saw your car
38:52
now, well, I saw your S14 and actually after seeing a lot of
38:56
you guys's cars from this area that we're in, I guess your
38:59
group, your like immediate friend group.
39:02
Yeah, they're all low fat, like fitted, but drifting.
39:08
And then now, like I'm looking at the GS and I'm like I said it
39:11
earlier, I was like, this thing looks like a fucking war
39:14
machine, dude. This thing looks bad already
39:16
'cause it's like a little more ocky like.
39:19
Well, it's chunky like me, right?
39:20
Well. The car I feel like has to
39:23
almost when you look at somebody's car and it's owner,
39:26
you're almost just like, oh, that's his car.
39:28
Do you feel that? Way like, yeah.
39:30
So you don't think I look at my IS and my IS and I'm like, it's
39:34
not baby girl, OK. But you're saying like the car
39:37
like matches the owner, like you can like see the owner in the
39:40
car almost? Yeah, that's.
39:42
Interesting bro look at. I.
39:44
Mean, I see it right now Yeah, this this is a good example It's
39:47
a good example, yeah. And like.
39:50
Like if you stood Frankie next to his S13 you would know that
39:53
that's his fucking car too, which is true.
39:55
Like you. Would.
39:56
Yeah, maybe Frankie's sitting there.
39:58
OK, What about Josh? To leave.
40:01
I don't know if you'd know. That's his car, Josh.
40:04
He's standing. There, just like this.
40:05
That's Josh's car. Just angry.
40:06
Hello, Tom. And his car's pink Tom.
40:09
TomTom I feel like. Matched with that car, he's.
40:11
Doing this thing. On it, like all the time.
40:13
But you know what? It is with Tom's car.
40:15
I just know the history of that car or well, I'm going to say
40:17
that car, but that's a new one. Yeah.
40:18
Yeah, but he's had a total of three now, but the the the last
40:22
two were in this last three years, so.
40:25
Yeah, but yeah, the last time he.
40:26
Rebuilt. I'm like, man, he was quick.
40:27
Yeah. This time, watch this, he said.
40:30
Wow. But yeah, Tom.
40:32
Always like I always when I see Tom's car, I'm like, yeah,
40:34
that's your car. And I just picture all the
40:37
different variations of it through the years, 'cause we,
40:40
when I met Tom, he was like 16 years old.
40:42
Like he was a kid in the world. How old is Tom?
40:44
Now. 17 How old is Tom? 2627 maybe?
40:50
Oh. My God, I think he's like. 27 I
40:52
don't know how. Old anyone is anymore.
40:54
That's yeah, sorry. I was like.
40:58
Who's 7? Years older than him.
40:59
Me, me, Josh. Are 3334 the least?
41:03
Yeah, about to be 34. We're probably out of Josh.
41:05
We're probably the oldest ones then, out of everyone.
41:07
How's Jimmy? Jimmy is.
41:09
I think our age, maybe a little younger.
41:11
He might be. He's my age, yeah.
41:12
It's like 20. 8:00 and you're. 13, right?
41:15
Yeah. Oh, wait, what He.
41:17
Said yeah. Yep.
41:19
Said yes. Immediately, like that's how
41:21
I've been living. I've been trying to say no less
41:24
like like if you'd never. Say no, Carl.
41:28
You're. You're the yes man.
41:29
You're trying to say yes. Man, that's literally what I
41:31
said. I'm trying to do I'm like doing.
41:32
That for like 5 years. But The thing is, is.
41:34
I'm at home sometimes now and I'm, I just don't want to go out
41:38
anymore. So then I'll say no.
41:39
But then for a while I was just saying no, no, no, no, no.
41:42
And then you have friends like Frankie where it's like, oh,
41:44
like you gonna go see this movie that I, I'm not gonna tell you
41:46
what movie it is, but do you want to go see this movie?
41:49
What did you take him? Go see, it was alien.
41:50
The new alien. Was it good?
41:52
I loved. It did you.
41:53
It was good. It was just like, I didn't know
41:54
where that what was going on. So he walks.
41:56
Out right in the beginning, right.
41:57
He, like, walks out to go get popcorn.
41:58
Yeah, They're setting up the whole movie.
42:01
Like, you see the Xena Moore. If you see everything, you're
42:03
like, where's Carl? And then the second they start
42:06
with that, he comes back in and I'm like, oh, he has no idea
42:09
what this modern. Popcorn did a drink.
42:11
Bro. And Frankie was sitting very far
42:13
away from me. Yeah.
42:14
And. And so now he's watching.
42:15
Now he's watching. This movie and he's like, no
42:17
idea. What's going?
42:18
No. Idea, it's like, it's like the
42:20
relationship between a robot human and another human.
42:22
He's probably like, oh, this is like nice, this is interesting.
42:25
No, I didn't it. It wasn't like that that.
42:27
The point of The thing is, is that that was an example of me
42:30
going. You know what, sure, I'm just
42:32
going to go. Why not?
42:33
Because I was wanted to go home. I'm tired.
42:35
I've been We do the. Podcast and sometimes we'll be
42:37
like, yo, we gotta go see this movie.
42:39
Yeah, it was having. We were chilling.
42:41
We were hanging out with Alicia and Brad that day.
42:44
Yeah, that was fun. They showed up and we had a
42:46
podcast with them. We were having a fun time.
42:47
He tried smelling. Salts didn't want to.
42:49
Kill the vibes dude. I what?
42:51
Was that it? Fucking.
42:52
Hurt. Don't tell me you're doing that
42:54
when you're lifting and stuff. Don't do that.
42:57
I know people who do that. Like they'll be.
43:01
Like fucking and. Both.
43:03
Of them, it was Brad and him, and both of them didn't read the
43:05
bag or anything. So I was like, yeah, when you
43:09
open the bag, you're going to smell it.
43:10
And then mind you, it's in a sealed container with a but you
43:14
still smell it in the bag. Oh man, dude.
43:15
They don't. They smell the bag.
43:16
He's like. Does.
43:18
That actually work it it. Made.
43:21
Me involuntarily, just really, I thought I was going to be hurt
43:26
on yeah they. Both I had to lock.
43:27
It in. I was I had to lock it in.
43:29
Lock it in. I put the sunglasses on.
43:32
I was like, I cannot be caught looking like a dumb ass right
43:34
now. We gotta put that on.
43:35
Instagram I put the I. Put the sunglasses on and it
43:37
felt like I was gonna bleed out of my nose.
43:40
That's how really violent that feeling was.
43:42
I've never tried it. I'm not making a good sell right
43:46
now, but yeah. And then?
43:47
The second we get in the truck, where the smelling salts do, we
43:49
have them? I'm like that's when.
43:51
That's when you would have needed them.
43:53
Bro when you go drive, when you go oh imagine on grid you just.
44:00
That would be. Crazy.
44:01
People probably think we're talking about something
44:02
different. Yeah, that's crazy Smelling
44:04
salts. Working out, Yeah, right.
44:07
Yeah, yeah, dude, I. Don't know man, that's do you
44:10
know, like, OK, Speaking of like doing something weird on grid.
44:14
With the. Different things that people are
44:16
doing now to get their car to do whatever it is that final goal
44:19
is, which is fast, aggressive, precise drifting, in my opinion,
44:24
like no one wants a sloppy, aggressive drifter, but you
44:27
don't want a mundane drifter. So you still want it to be edgy.
44:31
You think with all of that, like, I don't know, what are
44:34
some things that you had to change up like from your low
44:37
lifestyle, You know what I mean? You had to be like, oh, I got to
44:40
crank these collars up a little bit or, or change something.
44:43
You had to make changes, right? I hated the.
44:45
GS for a long time. You hated it.
44:48
Yeah, it was bad. What did you not?
44:50
Like about it? It was just so heavy.
44:53
I mean, of course I knew that, but it's agsi know, but you
44:56
can't make a. Rhino go through a hurdle or
44:58
whatever the fuck. I I guess just coming from the
45:00
S14, I was just so used to everything being easy, right?
45:05
I feel like with the US chassis, you don't really have to think.
45:07
Literally went. From the easiest drift car to
45:10
the one of the harder ones, it took many.
45:13
Years for me to enjoy it. That's why I don't understand
45:16
when new kids come into drifting and they grab AGS right away and
45:20
like this is awesome. Like yeah, I wish I had.
45:23
Your mentality, because this shit sucked.
45:25
I mean, you could ask for a seat and.
45:27
And then I wanted to throw that car away a lot of times.
45:30
Yeah, yeah. Did you want to get something
45:32
else first? Like not AGS, maybe like AIS?
45:36
OK, so I. Had a smaller 1.
45:38
I had AZ 33 first before I got the GS.
45:41
Oh yeah, I picked up a wrecked one for cheap and I was just
45:45
going to fix it and then drive it but we had titling issues so
45:49
I ended up giving it back and picking up the GS.
45:52
Why did you get rid of the S14? I don't know if we can cover
45:54
this. It was just.
45:56
Something I wanted to change this, try something different.
46:00
Yeah, not different, but well, yeah, they built the car.
46:02
Did everything and then you were kind of like, yeah, I don't.
46:05
Know I have that problem with dailies a lot, so I guess it
46:08
fell into the it's different. With dailies, though, yeah,
46:11
dailies, in my opinion, for a little while in my life were
46:14
dispensable, Not dispensable. But it's like, I feel like
46:16
trying that one for a little bit.
46:18
Like, I'll go get that. And then that's when Frankie's
46:20
like, yo, you're literally just wasting running.
46:22
Yeah, I just wanted to experience it.
46:24
Like dude, I had a Celica. It was one of the greatest cars
46:27
with the car that I had before the Sequoia and oh, that car.
46:31
Was cool that car. Was awesome.
46:33
Will I ever will I own it again? No, it was like AST 1.
46:39
I don't know. It had the four eyes.
46:41
Oh, OK, OK. It was like AGT 4.
46:43
That wasn't AGT 4. That's cool.
46:44
Dude. It was up for $1000.
46:47
I messaged a guy. He messaged only me.
46:49
He said I'm only going to respond to you.
46:51
Now I get there Filipino dude, he's like, I saw you were a
46:56
Filipino. That's what it was.
46:58
And I was like, OK, well can I buy the car or no?
47:01
And he told me there was a head gasket issue.
47:03
I go there and it's the valve cover gasket.
47:06
And I was like, Yup, I'm taking this Dito.
47:08
He's like, you sure it's leaking, leaking oil.
47:11
I'm like, no don't worry. I I know what to do.
47:13
I know what to do bro. I had the cleanest interior.
47:16
It had a very Pinoy interior. Dude, it was.
47:20
Really, really clean. What did Josh get?
47:23
Us over there, Spanish. Bread.
47:24
You might like this. Yeah, I want to try this out.
47:29
But yeah, no. So what did you have to you?
47:31
You didn't like that? It was big no.
47:33
Oh, the GS, yeah. Oh yeah, there was no angle.
47:37
Oh, OK. So also to be fair, I tried to
47:40
just start from nothing and modify as as you go, which is
47:45
like. The what you should do, yeah,
47:47
like that's what you should be doing.
47:49
But you kind of knew what you liked or not liked, but you had
47:52
S14 experience, yeah, So it's hard to do that also there.
47:55
Was no information on those things.
47:59
Parts back then were $1,000,000 for it.
48:01
Any arms what was? Oh damn.
48:03
Because this is, at the end of the day, a pretty high ticket
48:06
car, yeah. And and yeah, high, high, high
48:12
ticket Toyota companies made stuff for it like IKEA formula.
48:16
No, I don't remember. Anyways, they were a lot.
48:19
It was a lot of money for everything.
48:21
So I was like, OK, well, what do I need next?
48:25
Rear and fail sloppy. Let's try some rear GIF bushings
48:29
09. After after me and me and Brad
48:34
just got a conversation. Just got done in conversation
48:37
like damn I need more serial 9 stuff.
48:39
Serial. Lime stuff is great.
48:41
It's so expensive. Though, but that's like the top
48:43
in my opinion, brand it's really.
48:45
Good, but it's it's also like a Kevin's.
48:48
A good dude. Thing.
48:49
Like that's. Another thing and I.
48:51
Really want to switch to all their billet stuff because it's
48:54
just Oh yeah, dude, it just looks cool.
48:55
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
48:57
But yeah, with the GS, it's just, I don't know, it just it
49:01
was a difficult time. And the power plant in that, is
49:05
that a 2J? Yeah.
49:06
So I bought it with the motor in it.
49:09
It was in the area down the street and some guy just had it
49:13
with the. GTE in it.
49:14
Yeah, I. Was like oh this is really cool.
49:17
Sick. Sick and.
49:20
Upping. The power I think would have
49:22
maybe like starting out with the power high.
49:24
I I was assuming it was GE still because I do know some people
49:28
who drifted GEI mean that's what.
49:29
They're using now because GTS are too expensive.
49:32
It will never sound the same. True.
49:35
That's. And, and, and I, I've made this
49:37
point before, but a good 70% of the reason why I like being in
49:42
the car is just 'cause I generally like the sounds, the
49:46
like like little valve or the trans moving like the motor move
49:52
like going through its paces like on paper.
49:57
GE turbo is the way. Got A1J, spent double the money
50:02
literally just so I could hear it.
50:03
Yeah, because it will not sound the same.
50:05
Even your two J versus 1J or whatever, it sounds completely
50:09
different. That extra .5 is not yeah.
50:12
Yeah, yeah, .5 is a lot. How do you like?
50:15
Dredging this compared to the S14?
50:16
I'm assuming I know the answer, but.
50:19
Maybe I don't, it'd be so much easier if I was just in there.
50:22
Yeah, it's fun. Don't get me wrong, but I feel
50:26
like I have to think all the time, yeah.
50:28
Like you can't just do it. You can't just move.
50:30
Like naturally, now I can. But it took a long time.
50:34
Yeah, I kind of. Remember watching you like get
50:36
used to the. Yeah, it sucked for a long time.
50:38
I wanted to light on fire. Yeah.
50:41
Well, props to you for actually keeping it.
50:42
And yeah, I. Just thought it was so deep into
50:45
it, and at that point I was like, I just gotta keep going,
50:48
Yeah. And now it's at a place where
50:49
it's a lot of fun. Dude, it's so.
50:50
Gangster when I see this car because again you don't really
50:53
see you see GSS are a platform for it might like VIP build, but
50:58
I used to get so. Much hate in the beginning for
50:59
that I. Is the community like that in
51:01
the GS world? Oh my God, everyone said I.
51:03
Ruined it. I should be doing VIP and then I
51:06
was an idiot. That's I was like, all right,
51:09
but the running. Gear under there is all normal
51:11
stuff like it's very similar to IS sub ISJZX.
51:17
I'll get this to meet design, it's just.
51:18
A JZX like in my head it's a little.
51:21
Bigger it's a lot bigger it is. Yeah, 'cause I.
51:23
Was able to drive a JZX when I went to Japan and it's so much
51:26
easier. Yeah, yeah.
51:27
So in what way? Like the long?
51:30
I just feel like the, oh, the whole.
51:32
Rear end, I guess looks a little bit.
51:33
It's long. I mean, I'm not technical in any
51:36
sort of. Wheelbase stuff and all that
51:38
wheelbase. I want to say the way that
51:41
suspension geometry is and the. Weight the weight alone, it must
51:45
be the. Weight.
51:45
The weight doesn't. Feel too bad honestly.
51:47
Yeah, it's just the way the car drives, I've noticed.
51:51
That when I made the switch from S chassis to something Toyota
51:53
that the Toyota it doesn't steer as quickly and it doesn't snap
51:58
as quickly yes. So then that's that's where I'm
52:00
doing some thinking, yes or well, I might now the heat
52:03
maker. Stuff I want to.
52:05
Too I definitely it really changed.
52:06
The car when I did it, I'm on. A Hey man Knuckle.
52:09
OK, yeah, but it's not as snappy as it was when I had the little
52:15
adapter. Things like the drift HQ 1.
52:17
I don't know because there was in my opinion, I think it lost a
52:21
decent amount of caster and these cars love caster for
52:26
drifting in my like. I think it moves it faster.
52:30
Yeah, the self steer in these cars aren't the same as it's
52:32
horrible. Yeah, it's horrible.
52:33
You got to wheel it back. Yeah, that's why it feels.
52:36
It feels lazier, right, dude, It really does.
52:39
But that's how. It that's how the Cressida felt
52:42
too, when I Yeah, yeah. That's a Cressida.
52:44
Yeah, this feels lazy, Yeah. It's easy.
52:45
That's why when you see a video of me from in car, I just look
52:48
like I'm manhandling because that's the only way you could
52:50
get it to do that stuff. I always thought that.
52:52
Was just like the wheelbase or some shit but.
52:54
So for example, when I see somebody driving a B knuckle, I
52:56
feel like they're barely trying to throw the car and it.
52:59
Gets to lock, right? Away and it's just with me, I
53:02
have to be like, you ever see a a boat and like they're trying
53:07
to turn just a little. This is like choppy doing
53:11
entries with the. Thing the little knob.
53:14
Yeah. No.
53:15
But really, when I do throw the wheel, I really have to throw
53:17
and then feed when. We're when we get done with
53:20
this, I'm going to show you what I I've screenshotted what I look
53:22
like after the first it faint and dude, there's a a screenshot
53:27
of me where I'm. About to.
53:29
Because like I, I pull it that way, Yeah.
53:32
You know it's cool though. Spins.
53:34
When Bai came last year, he actually showed me a technique.
53:39
Oops, sorry. That changed it.
53:40
Where, You know, a lot of us, when we drive, we initiate like
53:44
this. Yeah, just what is this, 10 and
53:46
two or whatever? It is.
53:47
He would actually. Grab the wheel like this over
53:51
here and then initiate for an extra step.
53:54
So he'd be. Driving like that?
53:55
No, no, no. He would be like this, but then
53:57
instead of just going like this, he would move that step.
54:00
Oh, I was. Like I don't.
54:02
Even know what I'm doing, There's so many.
54:04
Little things, the Japanese drivers are like crazy.
54:06
They're way ahead. And you know he doesn't.
54:09
Speak English well. So when he gave me a ride, he
54:10
was just grunting and using his hands, but it made sense.
54:15
Yeah, that's so. Cool, I'm so.
54:17
I always try to. I've been trying to analyze that
54:19
a little bit more, like what I'm doing with my hands feel like.
54:22
Always you, you've always been into like analyzing.
54:25
That's to look. Good too, right?
54:26
Like that I think. You got to look cool you.
54:28
Got to look good. I don't want to.
54:29
Be in there going. I don't think.
54:31
You never want. To be like this?
54:33
Yeah, You don't. Never.
54:33
Cross because then you go hey, what's that guy doing?
54:37
I also. Switched steering wheels from a
54:38
350 deep corn to a 350 flat. I like.
54:42
Flywheels 'cause I would hit. My balls sometimes.
54:44
Oh my. God.
54:47
Jesus, imagine mid transition you just hear somebody.
54:51
You know, Bursby does those comps.
54:53
I forgot what it's called. Where does he do them?
54:55
Hyperdrift at US Air. I was doing a competition on
54:59
tandem with a friend of mine, Yvonne, and I was in front and I
55:03
spun out, He said What happened? Man, I'm like, going to be
55:06
honest, I nicked my balls and it hurt really bad.
55:11
Yeah, so I was done. Just dude.
55:14
Yeah. I was done.
55:14
I was like, I just stopped. Yeah, that's a problem.
55:17
That's a. Problem I couldn't.
55:18
Drive through it. That's a problem that has.
55:19
To be addressed, yeah. That.
55:22
Happens on the simulate like I have a settle now so that that's
55:26
that happens and I'm like it's just the.
55:28
Way I sit, I'm a little bit more elevated in the front of my leg,
55:32
yeah, I don't have big balls or anything.
55:34
It's just. No, they're huge.
55:37
That's why they're touching the steering wheel, you know, Gotta
55:40
go into. Detail, you know, that's fine.
55:41
Mine is so small it's not hitting.
55:43
Carl. Nice.
55:46
But no, that's, that's so interesting though, 'cause now
55:48
hearing somebody else with that kind of opinion on how the lazy
55:51
steering is, I didn't understand it.
55:53
And I thought that it was people making, making an excuse.
55:56
So I'm like, oh, I can drive that.
55:57
Don't get me. Wrong though, Like sometimes I
55:59
Daydream about getting a that's chassis again.
56:01
Oh. God, that was my next question.
56:03
I look. Forward to the day because.
56:05
Now, you could probably. I'm curious, when people do
56:09
something like that, they revert back.
56:10
Yeah, They they. Lapse.
56:12
Right. Your your ability now to build
56:14
that car is going to be I'm curious like what your take on
56:17
it would be. I don't think I.
56:18
Have the dedication anymore to build another car though.
56:21
Yeah I just the mindset and the had space to do it.
56:25
Yeah this is already done. It's fine.
56:26
What are you trying? To get into now like I, I know
56:29
like years are going to start flying by because you know,
56:31
you're up there. What the fuck?
56:33
I heard that when I'm going to die.
56:34
Tomorrow when I I heard. That when you get up there, the
56:37
years are flying by, they do get shorter, but the but the things
56:40
that you want to go do like you, you achieve them like quick, not
56:44
quicker, but like you're you're doing things quicker.
56:47
So like if you'd built an S14, I don't think that it would be
56:50
sitting for like a fucking. No, it's not that.
56:53
It's just I'm already have this here and it's at a point where
56:56
it's enjoyable and I can do a lot of things that I wish I
57:02
could have done in the last 14. I think I'm at that place now.
57:04
So I'm just going to leave it. It's also.
57:06
Like people are always, oh, so what's your next car going to be
57:09
or what's what's another car you would drift this?
57:11
And I was like, well, I know how to build this car, so probably
57:14
just this. Yeah, I think so, because.
57:17
Some people. I mean, some people like
57:18
learning and doing all this stuff, but like I'm just using
57:21
myself as an example. Like I know an S chassis like
57:25
the back of my hand. If I wanted to all of a sudden
57:27
do an FD Arc 7, now I'm learning all over again.
57:31
I think that's the. Other part of it, right?
57:32
I just don't want to go through all that again, yeah.
57:34
It is a lot. It's kind of why I try to pick
57:37
something that I hopefully know a little bit about and you can
57:39
like. Master it easier if you take
57:41
your time and do that for a long time.
57:42
You know what I mean? That because that's.
57:44
Kind of what you did. With this car, you're like, it's
57:46
been a. Long time.
57:47
What is it, 14 years now? That's crazy.
57:50
A long time. Holy shit.
57:51
Dude, you know what's crazy? Wow.
57:53
I know a handful of people too now that are still driving the
57:57
car that they drove 14 years ago to and they and it shows because
58:02
if you had this 14 years and you didn't care about it, it would
58:05
not look like this. Yeah, you know, it looks.
58:06
Pretty bad right now then, I don't think.
58:08
So job and people. I.
58:09
Didn't bring my car here for a reason.
58:12
People that change. Cars and chassis more often.
58:14
They usually don't ever like execute a really, really nice
58:18
build in my opinion. I know there's some outliers
58:21
that exist. Jimmy Oaks is one of them
58:23
probably, but there's like some people that they just change the
58:26
car every other three. Honestly, Carl, you were one of
58:29
them. Those people I know.
58:30
Bro, I knew it was coming. He was one of those people.
58:32
He loves using me as an example for this shit.
58:34
He's like, I'm going. To get this, but we just talked.
58:36
About it we like I wanted to experience those things like I
58:38
had S chassis. I thought I knew a lot about S
58:41
chassis. I thought, Oh my gosh, this is
58:43
the car right? I really like like this is sick
58:46
and then when I got the ISI daily drove the IS so much and I
58:50
spent so much time fixing the IS that I ended up learning more
58:53
about the IS so now I'm like why wouldn't I drift this?
58:55
This is what I need to be in so that I know this.
58:58
If it breaks here, I can do this and he was but.
59:00
Even when we first started doing the podcast and everything you
59:03
were thinking about, I was getting another car.
59:05
He was always looking. I was so.
59:07
Close to and then you. Stopped.
59:09
I was. So close and I was like.
59:10
Thank God I saw. You could tell I was.
59:13
So close to getting rid of it dude.
59:15
He's always wanted S chassis. Yeah, because I did the.
59:17
CD swap like 17 times on the ground.
59:20
Yeah, I didn't like that anymore.
59:21
You probably probably. Didn't know that I.
59:23
I could have that trans in and out in an hour and a half.
59:26
That's awesome. Down and out, it's really bad.
59:28
That's good. Though that's really.
59:29
Good you know it though now just fourteens.
59:31
Seventeens, nineteens and a bunch of those extensions and
59:34
luckily. That transmission is the most
59:35
popular transmission and drifting so that fell.
59:38
On me once and I started going to the gym again, like right
59:40
after it fell and I was the only one home.
59:44
Oh, I wanted fight or flight, baby.
59:47
That's one of those. It was, it was, it was here.
59:50
And when it came down, I couldn't get it back.
59:53
Up. Get it back.
59:54
Up pause. But I had to it was a huge wake
59:59
up call 'cause I was like, no one's home.
1:00:01
What am I going to yell at my neighbor who already hates the
1:00:04
fact that I'm doing this stuff? Like yo, I just, I just like.
1:00:10
Tossed it. Out and the cars only up in the
1:00:12
air so high like I didn't really have a lot of room.
1:00:15
Went to the gym right after that.
1:00:17
I bet you. Can bench now now.
1:00:19
I'm see. Look at those Cavs, dude.
1:00:22
No. Don't, don't, don't, don't.
1:00:24
What does Josh get? Oh dude, Josh got.
1:00:26
A fucking way. Dude, he's got the good ones.
1:00:29
He's got the good we were talking about.
1:00:30
Cavs earlier we were talking about.
1:00:31
Cavs yo-yo that's look at dude that he just flexed on us.
1:00:36
For real Miyagi's. Got the Cavs though.
1:00:38
Now I got to find Miyagi. Yeah, No, he's.
1:00:41
Really, I wish he. Was coming dude, because I feel
1:00:43
like you and him would get along really well you've met him
1:00:45
before I'm sure but yeah I think you guys because he loves big
1:00:49
body cars like that too like he has a Cressida and just
1:00:51
literally the. Same color type it really is.
1:00:53
Like. Yeah, and Miyagi has all of
1:00:55
this, Yeah. They really are similar people.
1:00:58
Yeah, this. Is actually really?
1:01:00
Yeah. So you got to show me a.
1:01:02
Picture of him later, yeah, yeah, I.
1:01:03
Don't have that's be weird. That's Do you have pictures of
1:01:06
your Do you have pictures? Of your friend's cabs.
1:01:10
Oh. There's one photo.
1:01:12
There's one. Photo of Miyagi when he was
1:01:13
still juicing crazy and he was in the video just giving a peace
1:01:18
sign. And dude, there's just he's just
1:01:22
throwing a peace sign. There's stop.
1:01:23
Behind that crazy. You know he.
1:01:25
Just masculine. And then there's also another
1:01:28
photo at the East Coast Bash Club, loose with Alex Avila from
1:01:31
Front Street. And Miyagi.
1:01:32
He's naked. They're fucking.
1:01:33
Naked Miyagi's got a fucking What do you call it?
1:01:37
For cooking. Cooking.
1:01:39
Oh, apron apron. He's got an apron on and Alex is
1:01:41
next to it. Alex is like licking the hot dog
1:01:43
and the thing and they bought dude.
1:01:44
I'm like, this is the I've never seen his.
1:01:46
Picture I've never ever heard of this picture.
1:01:48
You've never seen that photo. No.
1:01:50
I don't need to see it right now.
1:01:52
I want to go have the pizza at some point and I want to think
1:01:54
about Alex Ass. Do you want?
1:01:56
Sausage pizza? What?
1:01:58
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
1:02:01
Is that what we put in? No, we should.
1:02:03
Talk about the. Pizza.
1:02:04
I want to put chop on blast right now because we were
1:02:06
talking about the pizza since today's the pizza day where we
1:02:09
all go get pizza. Pequots Every.
1:02:11
Day, every day. Every Thursday, yeah, I always
1:02:14
been bad, Chop Chop said. I kind of like, think roast
1:02:17
pizza. Well, I.
1:02:18
Kind of I, Well, no. What?
1:02:19
Was blowing my mind is that is that's that's another staple
1:02:22
here but no one talks about that.
1:02:24
I guess all we're talking, I told.
1:02:25
You which I still. Think I would like bro because
1:02:27
when? You go to, I told you, when you
1:02:28
go to Disney World, you go to see Mickey Mouse.
1:02:30
You don't go to see Donald Duck. Yeah, not.
1:02:33
That some. People like it's having pizza or
1:02:35
anything. I'm going to use that.
1:02:36
I'm going to use that as like, that's an underdog type of
1:02:38
reference. Like I'm like, yo, don't forget
1:02:40
about the other homies. Yeah, yeah.
1:02:41
Yeah, yeah. I kind of.
1:02:42
Want to try that pizza? You know it's.
1:02:44
Just like going to see, I don't know the bean.
1:02:47
Yeah, right. Like you got to see this pie.
1:02:52
That's how I. Felt.
1:02:53
I mean, it's good. I like it.
1:02:54
I just. I really only eat it when you
1:02:55
guys are here. Yeah, Josh, I think eats it more
1:02:58
often, right? Josh likes it, Yeah.
1:03:00
Yeah. It's really good.
1:03:02
It's just man, you got to like starve yourself for a few days.
1:03:07
It's a lot. It's a lot, yeah.
1:03:10
I can maybe eat 2, maybe. Yeah.
1:03:13
But I can eat a whole fucking Jack's pizza, you know, one of
1:03:15
those frozen joints. Yeah.
1:03:16
I mean, OK. So like Domino's, when I order
1:03:19
from Domino's, on the occasion that I do, they have this one
1:03:23
where it's a pan where it's cheese all on the top.
1:03:26
He thinks, he thinks. This is the is that?
1:03:27
What would that be? What I'm getting No.
1:03:32
Shit, that's what he thinks he's.
1:03:34
Getting I'm like, dude, you can't say that, no.
1:03:36
He's never. Had it?
1:03:37
No, sorry, no. Never had it.
1:03:40
Every year we've come here, I'm like Frankie, we're going to go
1:03:42
see our friends over there, right?
1:03:43
When are you? Leaving for the track I.
1:03:46
Don't know? Well, that's.
1:03:47
Tomorrow. Tomorrow's busy as fuck.
1:03:48
No, no, no. I'm sure is it I would say.
1:03:50
Today. I will go and get you a personal
1:03:53
pan pizza at some point. What are we doing?
1:03:55
Tomorrow. That's busy as fuck.
1:03:56
Oh, you don't. Know what time are you?
1:03:58
Leaving tomorrow, Same. Deals today or early 8:00 AM.
1:04:01
Yeah. I don't.
1:04:02
Know anything? Yeah, damn.
1:04:04
So I really had. Well, we can do.
1:04:06
It on the way back too on Monday we can I really.
1:04:08
Had a poor impression on what I was going to be today, which is
1:04:10
which is. I thought it was going to be
1:04:11
like a. Pan thing we could or.
1:04:14
No they don't. No, bro.
1:04:15
No, no, no. I've had my boy breakfast
1:04:17
already. I'm I'm kind of already.
1:04:18
Yeah, this is great. OK, OK.
1:04:20
Yeah. But no, he'll he'll learn.
1:04:22
He'll learn soon. It's fun.
1:04:23
Dude, I just coming here every year.
1:04:26
I'm going to say every year because I feel like we're going
1:04:27
to go next year as well, and hopefully the year after that.
1:04:29
As long as you guys keep having these.
1:04:31
Yeah, like it's kind of nuts. Did you see what it looked like
1:04:34
yesterday? It was.
1:04:36
Freaking dude, it's nuts. More nuts every year, right?
1:04:38
And then? Josh is just standing right in
1:04:40
the middle of a dude. I was like, he's taking it.
1:04:42
In look at this. This is crazy.
1:04:45
Like that was a really. Yeah.
1:04:50
Hundreds of people. It was cool.
1:04:51
Now the. Coolest part, we came in like we
1:04:53
got here yesterday after the first pre meet started.
1:04:57
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're driving and Carl, right
1:04:59
when Carl said he's like, damn, I didn't see any cool cars or
1:05:01
anything so far. And then we like rolled in and
1:05:04
right when we're getting off the highway, fucking Derek from
1:05:06
breaking and someone else's they'd fucking drive by.
1:05:09
Imagine. Being a regular person and
1:05:11
seeing that, oh dude, that's. Crazy, right?
1:05:12
Yeah. When I when I, when we're
1:05:14
driving up, all I could think about is like, look at all these
1:05:17
people driving past and they have no idea the.
1:05:20
Amount of it? What is going on?
1:05:22
That got even better. Because then we get into our
1:05:23
hotel room and it's overlooking that highway and all you guys
1:05:27
are driving by, so the meat must have been somewhere down there.
1:05:29
And then the next dude it looked.
1:05:31
Really cool, actually. It's like, what is going on here
1:05:35
right now? Yeah, it's it's cool.
1:05:36
Man that I honestly I like that part more than the track this
1:05:40
whole. Thing right now.
1:05:41
Yeah, I'd have to agree. You know, I'm, I enjoy the
1:05:45
people part of everything, yeah. Yeah, it sounds like.
1:05:48
You guys have been enjoying that part, which is great because I
1:05:51
feel like otherwise people aren't going to like it's just
1:05:54
an event. Then if that was gone, if you
1:05:56
take the people aspect out of it, like the the like talk to
1:06:00
the car, what was that? Well, he talks to.
1:06:02
His cars, yeah. Do I talk to my car?
1:06:04
No, actually I do. You definitely do.
1:06:06
I'd definitely. Be like, come on baby, just a
1:06:09
little bit. Yeah, you're right though.
1:06:13
Like. You take away the cards and you
1:06:15
have a lot of friends to hang out.
1:06:16
Yeah, it's. It's still fun, Yeah, that's
1:06:18
why. That's why.
1:06:19
Even I never really thought about it, but that is why final
1:06:21
bout is pretty cool. Why it's the three days before.
1:06:24
Yeah, yeah. 1000%, dude, last last year, Josh, we had, we had
1:06:29
a podcast with Josh, we had podcast with Bayside, we had
1:06:32
podcast with Dave. Yeah.
1:06:34
Met a lot of people we. Met so many people and then I
1:06:37
got home from that and started working on my own shit like I
1:06:41
paint now paint. Yeah, that's awesome.
1:06:45
I. Wanted to get into it and was
1:06:47
asking people a little like people back and forth about it.
1:06:50
Never know what to do. Now I'm doing it.
1:06:52
Remind me? To send you my OK so last year
1:06:56
of college I finished all of my normal credits so I had to take
1:07:01
a bunch of electives that had nothing to do with my major
1:07:04
because I didn't have enough. Oh, this sounds.
1:07:05
Fun. This sounds fun.
1:07:06
Bowling twice. Bowling.
1:07:09
Bowling. I did.
1:07:10
I did day bowling. I did night bowling.
1:07:13
I took gym class. But the funniest and hardest one
1:07:16
was a painting class. No, this is.
1:07:17
I was like painting. I could do that.
1:07:21
Yeah. 3 credits. Whatever.
1:07:22
Easy. Hardest class of my life.
1:07:24
Oh, they're telling. You about composition and I was
1:07:26
just. Even just trying to lay the
1:07:27
paint on the paper. Yeah, I got to send you.
1:07:30
They made us do a self-portrait. OK, I need to see that I need to
1:07:35
send. It to you guys I don't know if
1:07:36
you guys remember club of far jam I wore one of those luchador
1:07:38
masks yeah yeah, I'll just send it to you but I did you probably
1:07:41
looked. Cool as hell in that thing I
1:07:43
look like. I feel like Rey Mysterio, you
1:07:45
know? But anyways, I did a painting of
1:07:47
that and I look cross eyed and just it was terrible.
1:07:53
I gotta send it to you dude. I'm.
1:07:54
Not I'm not painting art, I'd be painting cars and shit like they
1:07:58
what? The fuck are we talking lately?
1:08:00
Yeah, but it's a little. Similar.
1:08:02
I like. It's grown up arts and crafts,
1:08:04
that's why. Oh, you painted that?
1:08:05
One dudes car just before you left.
1:08:07
We were talking about that last night.
1:08:08
I'm like Carl's painting right now, aren't they?
1:08:10
I painted like 2 I. Would painted a body kit really
1:08:12
quick before we left. It was a Urus.
1:08:15
Oh, the I did a JZX. It was my second car I've ever
1:08:18
painted that's black. I was like, dude, Are you sure?
1:08:21
Yeah. Like.
1:08:22
Are you sure you mean the cool part is?
1:08:23
Everyone knows Carl started painting, so like everyone's on
1:08:26
the same page. They're all like Carl just
1:08:28
started learning. So this is going to come out a
1:08:30
certain way. That doesn't mean.
1:08:31
Nothing. That car went right into week
1:08:33
fest the day after that and you. Were and you were.
1:08:37
Fucking black. Really nice, really nice, nice
1:08:40
finish. Cut and buff Two end to end in
1:08:43
house. Cut and buff.
1:08:44
Yeah, my. Roommate was a detailer.
1:08:46
I I've managed to be like, wait, dude, you want some money?
1:08:49
I'll tie in you. I'll upsell, cut and buff if you
1:08:52
are willing to do them. Yeah, that's cool.
1:08:54
And now, yeah. Welcome to Body Town.
1:08:57
Body Town USA, I'm saying. Body Town.
1:09:01
Body Town. USA in the back of his fucking
1:09:02
house. That's funny.
1:09:03
Yeah, I. Totally thought you were talking
1:09:04
about portrait painting, no? Actually, I'm kind.
1:09:07
Of nice at that, damn it. Now I'm going to show you what
1:09:10
it looks like the hardest. Class I ever took.
1:09:11
The hardest selective I ever took was that movie class Movie.
1:09:14
Yeah, like. I thought it was going to be
1:09:16
really easy. But we watch movies.
1:09:18
Yeah, we watch movies. Cool.
1:09:20
No, they had me watch Citizen Kane.
1:09:23
The. Rosebud movie with the sled had
1:09:26
me analyze why he wanted the sled and I'd never watched
1:09:29
anything. I got into a motorcycle accident
1:09:32
leaving that class. That class gave me more hell
1:09:34
than anything else. Like it was just random.
1:09:36
You ride. Motorcycles I do Cool.
1:09:38
Do you have motorcycles? I used.
1:09:40
To I sold it. Tell me.
1:09:41
What you have, Sean, tell me what you had.
1:09:43
Oh. Well, I started out with a
1:09:46
Ducati Monster, OK, And then I got a Harley Street Bob, yo.
1:09:51
Yo and then chop on the chopping tin is.
1:09:55
And then I had a wow, I didn't even know.
1:10:00
What it was, I think just a police bike.
1:10:03
I can't even think right now what year.
1:10:05
Soft. Head the police.
1:10:06
Bike Oh, like a bigger. Oh, you had a not the street.
1:10:10
Glide or the Road Glide, but the Faring Rd.
1:10:12
King Rd. King, Yeah, at Road King, dude,
1:10:14
you probably. Look cool as hell on that.
1:10:16
I felt cool. I don't know if I look cool I.
1:10:19
Felt cool. Did you know that there's a
1:10:20
crazy Filipino community for, for Harley-Davidson?
1:10:23
That of course they, they, they, there's a group by me, Filipino,
1:10:27
they had a Laconia or no, a Sturgis ride out group for just
1:10:33
Filipinos and Harley. Yeah. 30 of them I.
1:10:36
Was like, Oh my God, I would that's looks like hell, but Carl
1:10:38
he. Had a Dyna, so you know, yeah.
1:10:40
That was my favorite bike was the Dyna.
1:10:43
I did a burnout on that thing too.
1:10:45
I have AI have a video of it I bet so we all have.
1:10:47
Bikes like Dyna's in new softails and he wants to just
1:10:49
get a chopper and be different and we're all like, can we just
1:10:52
get the same bike so we I like. I like the chopper thing because
1:10:57
I make it mine like that's part of the reason why I like my
1:11:00
back. Couldn't.
1:11:01
Take it though, yeah. I'm kind of nervous about that,
1:11:04
but my bike right now ain't exactly soft.
1:11:07
Like I have like really short shocks on it.
1:11:09
Like it's got to not be working. But I had cruise.
1:11:13
Control on the Road King. That was nice.
1:11:14
Yeah. See.
1:11:15
That, that sounds great, that sounds great, but I just need
1:11:17
the bike to cruise over 7570 'cause my excess right now is
1:11:21
not doing that. It's like cruising at 60 and
1:11:24
then on the highway where it's speed limit 65 and people are
1:11:27
doing 80. It's really sketchy, but I would
1:11:31
like a Harley. I feel like that's next on my
1:11:33
list. Mainly just cause like I didn't
1:11:35
think that that's something that I would like you.
1:11:37
Know what I did? I brought him to the Harley
1:11:39
Museum on the way up to. Last year.
1:11:41
That place ruined me. I was like, this culture is
1:11:44
sick. Like it.
1:11:45
It's all about the underdog fight right here.
1:11:46
Like they that brand for a little while was they made it so
1:11:51
that they can be worked on and now, now.
1:11:55
I don't know. No, I don't think.
1:11:56
So, but it's like a dying. Breed now, yeah.
1:11:58
All the dealerships by me are closing.
1:12:00
The one I bought my net closed. Really.
1:12:01
Yeah, yeah. I mean.
1:12:03
Everybody wants to ride. Anymore, well, at least the
1:12:05
younger generation, the bikes are.
1:12:07
Getting different they're they're changing now, which some
1:12:09
people are happy about and some people are not.
1:12:11
I'm one of the people that are definitely not.
1:12:12
I would rather be air cooled forever and slow it's.
1:12:15
Just ancient to maintain, yeah, right.
1:12:17
And. But now they're like, oh, we got
1:12:19
to water cool it. It's got to be, it's got to
1:12:21
compete with India Cruise. Control.
1:12:22
Yeah, dude, I can't. Wait to see dude with the
1:12:24
chopping tin. I'm going to have cool little
1:12:26
swag. Let me go go find.
1:12:27
Go to an antique mark market and see a freaking little bell that
1:12:30
I like and just hang it off the frame.
1:12:33
Do that with your Dyna. He's going to have a.
1:12:34
Filipino flag on his dude. It's going.
1:12:36
To have like a little one somewhere just to let people
1:12:39
know like yo this is this is a Filipino ass bike right here.
1:12:43
Why'd you get rid of the bike, kids?
1:12:44
No, no, I I wanted an M3. Oh, OK.
1:12:48
So OK, yeah. Oh, that's.
1:12:50
Right, you had the E90. Yeah.
1:12:52
Did you miss that one? Yeah, that.
1:12:54
Was fun I do but after the third kid I was like I can't make the
1:13:00
wife drive a separate car so I could drive the M3 so.
1:13:05
There it is. The.
1:13:07
Escalade. The Escalade.
1:13:08
On. On.
1:13:11
Lower, it's lowered, has a side exit.
1:13:14
Thanks, Daniel. Can't.
1:13:15
Can't. Leave anything alone it seems
1:13:17
like, unfortunately. Not that's why.
1:13:19
I like the chop. I'm telling you.
1:13:20
It's like adding your little twist on stuff.
1:13:23
You can't leave something stock. I bet no one in this room can
1:13:27
leave something. That's true.
1:13:28
Actually it'd. Probably be better though if we
1:13:30
did well him. That was the.
1:13:33
Question left the CC stock for a long time, finally bought wheels
1:13:36
for it. He was really good immediately.
1:13:39
How many years? Did you have that thing before
1:13:40
you even did anything? Nine years?
1:13:43
That's a long time. That is a long time Volks we're.
1:13:46
Talking about a Volkswagen or. Something, yeah.
1:13:50
Dude, I don't know, I like I, I, I'm not even a creative.
1:13:53
Flag or anything like that. Do you?
1:13:55
Like, I feel a lot of us right now, we we're all doing more
1:14:00
than just drifting. And that's what I like to see.
1:14:02
Yeah. Like, yeah.
1:14:03
Yeah, you just built that. Thing.
1:14:04
With their help, not just me, yeah.
1:14:07
Well, Eric, so I saw that. Going on the last like week or
1:14:09
two, you probably had no idea. Like I was you.
1:14:12
You were like, why is he doing this?
1:14:14
I was so. Confused.
1:14:15
I'm so confused. I was like doing.
1:14:16
I was like, I thought he was a a corporate guy but now I'm
1:14:19
thinking he might work at the shop and this I was like all
1:14:22
confused. But when did you start working
1:14:24
here again? Thanksgiving.
1:14:26
Of last year, yeah, it was really recent.
1:14:28
I had like a just AI don't know what do they say?
1:14:33
Just a epiphany or something. I just got really tired of the
1:14:36
corporate environment. I got let go from my job at one
1:14:41
point and I was just like, do I want to do this again?
1:14:44
You know, it was really toxic. Do I really want to push myself
1:14:46
to go into that same environment?
1:14:47
Because I know it's going to be like that.
1:14:48
You guys can. Relate a lot on this topic.
1:14:51
Because the problem with the industry that I was working, the
1:14:54
industry I was working for, we all knew each other.
1:14:55
So even if I go to a different company, we're still going to
1:14:58
have to deal with the same people.
1:15:00
So I was like, I don't know. And then he offered, he's like,
1:15:03
hey, do you want to come learn? I was like, that's the.
1:15:06
That's the word for me. I'm like, yo, I get to learn
1:15:08
some shit. But.
1:15:09
It was just hard, right? Because you know, obviously it
1:15:12
the corporate pay versus, you know, just different pay.
1:15:15
So my wife had to really step up, but step up and kind of be
1:15:20
the breadwinner and support this process, which I'm very thankful
1:15:25
for because she she's seen a change in my demeanour with not
1:15:31
having to be there. So I think it's something that I
1:15:34
want to stick to for a while. Plus, we got this guy.
1:15:39
Brad. 'S like what, what what what?
1:15:41
What do I have to do with anything?
1:15:42
Him and I. Met a long time ago because I
1:15:44
sold him car parts and we've just talked here and there kept
1:15:48
up, not really kept up with each other, but just, hey, how's it
1:15:51
going? He bought a, he bought a dirt
1:15:53
bike for me. Oh, OK, a street legal dirt bike
1:15:55
for me. It was Yamaha 125 or something
1:16:00
like that. Dirt bike Street Legal a 12:00.
1:16:03
Boy or something? No.
1:16:05
It was my dad's. Oh, OK.
1:16:08
And then eventually he was like, oh, he saw my story that I
1:16:11
worked in. He's like, oh, you guys hiring?
1:16:13
And it was a joke. And now he's here.
1:16:16
And then Saddle's here, too. I was.
1:16:17
Going to say does. He work here first, but so it
1:16:19
was the opposite almost, yeah. And I get to learn from him too,
1:16:22
which is really cool. I think as you grow older, the
1:16:25
ability to accept that you still want to learn is very important.
1:16:29
And to be like, I'm not good at this, I need somebody else to
1:16:34
teach me. I am that the smartest person on
1:16:38
this topic. I need this person in my life or
1:16:42
I don't know everything. Please help and please teach me.
1:16:45
I think that's a hard thing to do as an adult.
1:16:47
Yeah, I'm getting. I'm getting the sense.
1:16:50
That that's so. Fucking relatable baby.
1:16:53
I'm literally I know my phone just vibrated in a way where
1:16:55
it's a outlook notification too so.
1:16:58
Are you a corporate guy right now?
1:17:00
What do you do for? I do both.
1:17:01
I'm a contract analyst for finance tech company.
1:17:05
His mom is very proud for sure. Yeah.
1:17:06
That sounds serious. That's awesome.
1:17:08
No, my mom is disappointed they're still.
1:17:09
Disappointed because once he's talked about car she's.
1:17:12
She's disappointed as hell and me because she's like you work
1:17:14
at you got this nice job, like where the hell is all your
1:17:16
money? And I'm like.
1:17:19
Look at my paint booth. Wow, look at this one J.
1:17:24
But like I, I don't got to be happy too.
1:17:26
Though yeah, it's. It's the, it's that part, yeah.
1:17:29
It's like I don't want to follow the trend that I just, yeah, you
1:17:38
just like you sit in there, you sit in there till the end of
1:17:40
your life just working, working, working, working, working.
1:17:44
And then you're just like, at some point I feel like I just
1:17:48
want to have fun. Josh.
1:17:50
Josh is Josh is over here because he's a success story,
1:17:52
OK? This is a success story.
1:17:53
This is a successful guy that that managed to do both.
1:17:57
Yeah, 'cause like Josh has one of the sickest garages.
1:18:00
We all know this. Yeah.
1:18:01
But like he managed to do both and like I've I've, I'm trying
1:18:05
to do both and like I find one taking more time and attention
1:18:08
than the other. And it shouldn't be like that.
1:18:10
Like I'm at work thinking about painting and then when I'm
1:18:13
painting, I don't think about work.
1:18:15
You got to find a. Balance.
1:18:16
So clearly I'm I'm I'm favoring one than the other and when I go
1:18:20
into there I know what I need to do.
1:18:22
The work is easy as hell. I hate to be complaining about
1:18:25
the work. I'm picking up a mouse and
1:18:27
dragging it. It should not be hard, but for
1:18:30
some reason I'm sitting there brain melting, rotting, and then
1:18:33
I get out of work and my muscles are just like lethargic because
1:18:36
I've been sitting there for all day long.
1:18:38
And then I had to fake the way that I'm talking because I
1:18:41
somebody's I'm worried that somebody's going to get offended
1:18:44
because I said, why is this so slow?
1:18:46
Get this to my desk now 'cause I need to get this out.
1:18:49
Yeah, that's rude. You.
1:18:51
Are you? Are rude though.
1:18:52
That's rude. He's rude.
1:18:54
To me all the time. Hurry up.
1:18:55
Maybe your old ass shouldn't be behind a computer.
1:18:59
Seriously though, I mean as per. My last e-mail.
1:19:01
It's my favorite 11. Two and then.
1:19:05
Bam. Right off like it's.
1:19:08
Just bad. It's just.
1:19:09
Horrible. You know, Carl had a bad day
1:19:10
when he gets to the podcast at like 6 or whatever and he's, you
1:19:13
just see him. He's he's.
1:19:15
Just smoking. Cigarettes if I'm.
1:19:17
Early. The reason I left, if I'm early
1:19:18
to the podcast, that's the. Reason I had a good.
1:19:21
Day. Oh, a good day.
1:19:22
Because I'm like, I cleared out the inbox.
1:19:24
I got all this work done. Oh, cookies for Frankie, No
1:19:28
problem. And then if it's like I'm there
1:19:31
at 6:30 on the dot, I'm like, dude, I had a fucking shit day.
1:19:34
Yeah, it's. Not good.
1:19:35
It's not fun man, but it's. Nice to hear from other people
1:19:39
like like dude, you went from a non labour to I don't know
1:19:44
really what you were doing, but non just like this to now you're
1:19:48
you do different things every day.
1:19:50
But now I'm over there. Oh.
1:19:52
OK, but I. Yeah, it was bad.
1:19:55
I just. You're around.
1:19:56
Different things this is not. A lot nicer.
1:19:58
Yeah, I will take the for now pay cut you have.
1:20:03
To sometimes there's a sacrifice.
1:20:05
We're working. Towards breaking the stigma of
1:20:08
being broke because you're in this industry.
1:20:11
Yeah, dude. Bless, I think you.
1:20:14
Know Eric, he has a plan for it. And you know, you just got to
1:20:18
break the stigma. I'm trying.
1:20:20
Dude, I just don't really know where I want to be.
1:20:22
Remember people, I would. Want to fight when I was in
1:20:23
corporate job dude everyday I mean you guys know me as me and
1:20:28
you think I'm nice I'm not nice all the time dude I.
1:20:30
Said that I thought you were scary at first.
1:20:32
Don't forget but. I really.
1:20:34
Did I thought that you were as scary as hell 'cause you know
1:20:38
what I'm saying And. The my friends, I'm nice, but
1:20:41
like, I don't know how many times I would tell John I'm
1:20:44
like, man, does this guy not know that I could like RIP his
1:20:49
head off? Dude, I'm.
1:20:52
Telling you like like why do? People like disrespect you in
1:20:56
that way. Like when?
1:20:57
There's not really a need to like, what are you going to?
1:20:59
What did you say to her? One time I said to alleviate
1:21:02
stress in the work environment, you should be able to fight one
1:21:06
person per year in the office. Like a little straight, I mean.
1:21:11
Obviously you would go somewhere, you know, regulated,
1:21:14
oh, behind. The office.
1:21:15
No, no, no. Like let's go to this boxing gym
1:21:17
or something like you pick one person per year, 2 fights.
1:21:22
It. Should at least be an option,
1:21:23
yeah. Like if you want to, you call
1:21:25
them out. And they have no choice.
1:21:29
OK, that's a. Little Chopper, this is a crazy.
1:21:30
Sell and you're getting wildly excited about this so like.
1:21:34
Imagine. Really.
1:21:35
Like. Now.
1:21:37
Imagine the person not wanting to disrespect you after that.
1:21:41
Yeah, you know what he really I mean.
1:21:44
What? You're saying is pretty much the
1:21:45
Internet too right now, where people just go crazy 'cause they
1:21:48
know nothing's gonna happen, yeah.
1:21:49
Yeah, and that's how it is in the corporate world.
1:21:51
But obviously you can't do that 'cause they say.
1:21:53
Whatever they say, 'cause they know nothing's gonna happen to
1:21:54
them. I haven't.
1:21:55
I The arguments that I have right now is they're they're
1:21:59
really Big Brother Y as of like Q. 2.
1:22:03
Of last year. No.
1:22:04
Oh, OK. Like monitor to the T to this to
1:22:09
the to the what my clicks are doing, what I'm doing here, what
1:22:12
I'm doing there. So what do I do?
1:22:15
How can I get petty with that? So then clicks I monitor.
1:22:18
Your clicks so then. What I do is I will as I work
1:22:23
from home. I work from home on Fridays.
1:22:26
This is where my response was. You.
1:22:29
They hired me. Oh, meaning if.
1:22:30
You don't do enough clicks, You're not working if you're
1:22:32
what? Are you doing like, yeah,
1:22:34
keystrokes. I'm like if you hired me and you
1:22:37
hired someone else. I'm talking about the other lady
1:22:39
on my team who can't work for shit moves the the pace of a
1:22:43
snail. Yeah, OK, I'm actually, I don't
1:22:47
care, listen to this shit. But if you hired me at the same
1:22:51
both of us to do the same job and I do my job quicker than the
1:22:56
other person and and less time and we're getting paid the same
1:23:02
and we have the same amount of work, do you really think I'm
1:23:05
going to go above and beyond for this company that I can give a
1:23:08
fuck about? So what?
1:23:09
So you're I do my. Work.
1:23:11
I get it done. I do it to my best that I can.
1:23:14
Whatever is in front of me always and yet now they're
1:23:17
asking for more because my hours aren't meeting what they want.
1:23:21
And then I said, but it takes me that it takes this person that
1:23:24
amount of time to do that. I'm not going to do it.
1:23:26
So you're. Producing more work still I'm.
1:23:28
Producing more work in the less amount of time and they're just
1:23:31
mad that you would sell in. An automotive I'm not.
1:23:33
Around, I'm not around as much as they want me to be.
1:23:37
They're like, it seems like you're not really committed and
1:23:38
I want to be like, I'm really not in the.
1:23:40
Automotive World, you would be making more money because of
1:23:43
that. Mm hmm.
1:23:44
Yes, which is? The only benefit Book time.
1:23:47
Yeah. Like flat rate, that's the only
1:23:49
benefit no to learn book time. But flat.
1:23:53
Rate is fucking terrible so yeah yeah OK, but but when it's good
1:23:57
it's good, but it's usually bad but no I'm.
1:23:59
Just that was my rebuttal. I'm like, you don't think that I
1:24:02
got a life outside of here? Like you don't think I they
1:24:05
don't care about other things outside of these walls.
1:24:07
What we have together as a community, the automotive
1:24:10
community is sick because we care about something that had
1:24:14
that brings us to somewhere else.
1:24:16
If only it could. Just bring us money, yeah?
1:24:18
For real. But I think that there's always
1:24:21
a. Trade off, there's a trade off.
1:24:22
And. I mean, yeah, don't get me
1:24:24
wrong. I worked there and made a lot of
1:24:25
money and I was able to establish a a base, a family.
1:24:29
Yeah. Family.
1:24:30
And now that I'm not there, it's, we talked about this,
1:24:34
there's a flip side to it, right?
1:24:35
Like if I would have taken that Escalade to a shop to get it
1:24:38
done, it would have been $1,000,000.
1:24:39
Yeah, but we did it here together and it was less.
1:24:45
And it was a bit less. But dude, like, ah, dude, no,
1:24:50
That that that's like Carl's fart.
1:24:52
The happiness, the happiness part is yeah, yeah.
1:24:54
And I really am happy that you there's.
1:24:57
Mental health games, you took that.
1:24:58
Too, there's mental. Health games in this stuff right
1:25:00
and it's important that's. That really is, though, yeah.
1:25:04
Mental health's a big thing. I got a lot of friends right
1:25:06
now. Stigma too, man.
1:25:08
Yeah, a lot. Of friends right now that I feel
1:25:09
like are on the edge, yeah. Man, you just got out.
1:25:13
You got to admit it. Yeah.
1:25:15
Yeah, it's because of, I mean, I don't want to say it's because
1:25:16
of. It's because of drifting.
1:25:18
Like they put a lot of stress on themselves.
1:25:19
You think so? Yeah.
1:25:21
Something just what I'm thinking about, yeah, because.
1:25:23
They just put a lot of stress on.
1:25:24
Themselves and stuff and then it's like they don't see what's
1:25:26
going on. It's they need what?
1:25:27
Tom has, yeah. Exactly.
1:25:30
Brain deficiency. What do they?
1:25:33
Need that Tom got no dude, but that's that's.
1:25:36
It's gives. You purpose though, it gives you
1:25:38
drive that it's a healthy drive that you want to pursue versus
1:25:42
like you need this corporate culture in you.
1:25:46
You need to achieve the mission statement every day.
1:25:50
I would not. Last a week.
1:25:52
No did. You ever do corporate?
1:25:53
Never. I did the the only other stuff
1:25:56
was we I worked at Nissan dealerships.
1:25:58
I was parts department and technician so and I basically
1:26:04
like service industry stuff like valet driving and stuff like
1:26:06
that but. I imagine young Frankie in a
1:26:09
little valet uniform just having a.
1:26:10
Boss in general was not. Is not working.
1:26:13
Out for me, I was just always testing them.
1:26:15
I'm like, go ahead, fire me. Oh, because when?
1:26:17
I was when I got into the parts area, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:26:20
So I started as a technician and it didn't last that long.
1:26:23
I was like, I think I got fired from that job and I went back to
1:26:26
valet and then I went back to another one.
1:26:28
But when I started doing parts, I was like, I did it because I
1:26:33
was selling performance parts. So I was like, oh, this will
1:26:36
kind of help me. Like maybe I'll learn a little
1:26:38
bit and it'll be fun. So I start doing it right over
1:26:42
my boss who I, I knew, I knew him for years because he was
1:26:46
also at the other dealership I worked at in the parts
1:26:48
department. So we start working together and
1:26:51
he's like, he's like, you're really good at this because you
1:26:54
work on cars. He's like most people that are
1:26:57
in the parts department of these dealerships, they've never
1:26:59
touched a car, so they don't know anything.
1:27:02
How is that not a? Prereq.
1:27:03
Yeah, well, I. Mean look about like me, right
1:27:05
with my corporate job. I've never been in manufacturing
1:27:08
standpoint or anything like that, but I would supply the
1:27:10
parts. That's true.
1:27:13
And what were you selling again? The plastic.
1:27:16
Resin. What were the use cases raw?
1:27:20
Plastic resin. So this table that we're using.
1:27:25
So it was not a specific. Weathertech formats, Yeah, those
1:27:30
igloo coolers. Damn, that's.
1:27:32
Yetis how? The fuck did you get into that?
1:27:36
I just. Fell into it and yeah like this
1:27:39
thing right here right Selling that in the raw form huh I.
1:27:44
Don't know. Anything about that?
1:27:45
Yeah. So you don't know what that is.
1:27:46
I just sell it. So you're.
1:27:47
Selling it to companies that are amusing, that stuff.
1:27:49
Yeah, yeah, OK. See there was a.
1:27:51
Tangible thing dude I don't know how the fuck my our company
1:27:54
makes money but. But once I learned that I was
1:27:57
good at that, then I was like, OK, now everyone can.
1:27:59
Now you're like. Later exactly.
1:28:01
I was like, all right, fire me, go for it.
1:28:02
And they never would. I was at one job saying fire me
1:28:05
for over a year and they wouldn't.
1:28:06
They wouldn't do it because you're that good.
1:28:08
Yeah, and I was like, all right, cool.
1:28:09
So now I know I have a backup plan and I know a lot of
1:28:12
business owners are always like, oh, you don't.
1:28:13
You don't want to have a backup plan because then you won't.
1:28:16
You won't. Commit.
1:28:16
You won't commit. All this stuff, I was like, Nah,
1:28:18
I'm good. I I'd like to have a backup plan
1:28:19
because this is fucking retarded.
1:28:21
But yeah, so in my, in the back of my head, I was like, OK,
1:28:23
cool. So I could potentially go manage
1:28:26
a parts department somewhere. Cool.
1:28:28
So it's like, that's my back pocket.
1:28:29
I don't think about it because this is what I want to do.
1:28:32
But just knowing that that was there, I was like, OK, cool.
1:28:35
You know, it is what it is. But yeah, no, I, I, I guess
1:28:39
it's, I hate saying that like, oh, having a boss isn't for me.
1:28:42
I hate that. But that's how it feels,
1:28:44
honestly. Not that it isn't for me, it's
1:28:46
just, I know I don't want it. Yeah, yeah.
1:28:48
There's nothing wrong with that. Now you.
1:28:50
Built a Corp I. Pretty much did, yeah, dude.
1:28:53
Since since our last visit here. Just so everyone your nose last
1:28:58
visit here, Frankie was still on the fence about all this shit
1:29:01
about the new shop, whatever. Oh yeah, I'm over here, I'm over
1:29:04
here. Like, yeah, they made a little
1:29:05
paint booth. Fucking Frankie built a
1:29:08
dealership. I.
1:29:09
I. I take a lot of dealership
1:29:11
mentality 'cause I really like the organization and everything.
1:29:13
You definitely. Did you?
1:29:14
Definitely did, dude. He made bro.
1:29:17
He made a little fucking window thing for.
1:29:20
Parts. Unnecessary, unnecessary.
1:29:23
There is a little window so that you wouldn't have to the the
1:29:27
outside shop people would not have to interact with the inside
1:29:31
shop people. Yeah, 'cause it's.
1:29:32
Like a insane. It's like a.
1:29:34
Showroom area insane then the parts counters in there little
1:29:38
drive through window. Take a #2, please.
1:29:41
Yeah, yeah. Hi.
1:29:43
Oh, it's not done. Yet.
1:29:43
But I think once it's done, it's going to be cool.
1:29:45
Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
1:29:46
It's really like coming here to this shop, dude, I this shop is
1:29:50
like cooler than mine. It's going to open the.
1:29:52
Window and be like. Why?
1:29:55
Pushing over the apple pie, it's just like.
1:29:56
Just to hand them off, but this shop.
1:29:58
'S cool because it's like it's smaller than what we have right
1:30:01
now, but it's like so efficient, like the way the lifts are set
1:30:04
up and everything. Dude, yeah, you.
1:30:05
Guys got four in here, yeah. This is really this is a really
1:30:09
good setup. It all depends on how how the
1:30:10
shape of the. The building.
1:30:12
Building is and if you if you get screwed on that, you're kind
1:30:16
of you're kind of fucked. So like we have room for 1234,
1:30:21
potentially 5 lifts, but probably going to end up with
1:30:23
three or four and then the alignment rack.
1:30:25
Oh. Alignment rack.
1:30:26
Yeah, Full alignment, yeah, Like what you have now?
1:30:28
Yeah. Exactly.
1:30:29
So that, yeah, the alignment rack was a big thing too.
1:30:31
That was like a couple years ago.
1:30:32
That place is. Awesome dude, but when we go to
1:30:33
other shops like that I like. This here.
1:30:35
I love this. Yeah, and this.
1:30:37
This showroom and waiting area is like I knew.
1:30:40
I'd as soon as he walked in there, I was like, damn,
1:30:42
Frankie's probably punch in the air right now, would you?
1:30:45
Rather have. It smaller or is that a good
1:30:46
size? Oh.
1:30:48
That's pretty big. That's good for what I would
1:30:50
want. That's perfect.
1:30:51
Yeah. It would be more parts, though.
1:30:53
It would be less waiting area. I'd shove the waiting area like
1:30:55
right in the little corner and then it'd be all parts and the
1:30:58
car on the front. Just of.
1:30:59
Course, like where I would want to be like, yeah, yeah, Carl and
1:31:03
the offices are. Sick too.
1:31:04
Like, yeah, they're good. Yeah, the display case.
1:31:07
Damn we got to do a video before we leave.
1:31:10
Yeah, just. We got to do a video, Yeah.
1:31:13
Did we get. Did you post any questions or
1:31:14
anything? We actually.
1:31:15
Didn't I fucked up, you did. So, yeah, but dude, this, I
1:31:19
can't, I can't thank you enough for sharing that.
1:31:21
By the way, like the corporate thing, there's a there's a lot
1:31:24
of kids out there. Not kids.
1:31:26
We're all kids. Yeah, there's a lot of people
1:31:28
out there that are in that. Well, I mean we.
1:31:30
Grew up, we talk about. It a lot and we.
1:31:32
Grew up. Thinking that's the only way to
1:31:33
become successful, right So. Well, it it it's definitely how
1:31:38
I feel like, but there's there's like there's like a strong
1:31:42
person that can handle that and like I had to down and out.
1:31:50
I can't well from the. Outside looking in to all, I
1:31:53
don't want to say Filipino, but all you guys talking about your
1:31:56
families and everything. It.
1:31:58
Seems like they're putting fun and everything else to the side
1:32:04
and they just care about you being successful.
1:32:06
You got to work. Work is.
1:32:08
Work. Yeah, that's.
1:32:09
How they grew up, I mean, right. So it's like.
1:32:11
It's they were poor. Yeah.
1:32:13
So they're trying to have you. They're trying to make sure you
1:32:14
have a better life than them, but they don't realize that,
1:32:16
like, you kind of need to enjoy your life, too.
1:32:19
Yeah. I will say that my parents were
1:32:21
very supportive in trying to make sure that we're happy.
1:32:25
Yeah, they just. Wanted me to be or wanted my
1:32:27
siblings and I to be able to like have a life that they
1:32:31
didn't have. That's also.
1:32:32
But now I feel. Like I'm living like the modern
1:32:34
day life that they had and I'm like and they hated.
1:32:37
I'm poor. Still what my sibling?
1:32:39
Actually went to school for theatre and they do a lot in
1:32:43
that and she ended up it going into the medical field that she
1:32:47
really enjoys. So it's like my parents pushed
1:32:49
her to perceive what she wants and she ended up, you know, now
1:32:54
her theatre thing is our car thing and the medical thing is
1:32:57
her, you know? That's.
1:33:00
So it worked out. It kind of worked out worked.
1:33:02
Out and they're like. Yes, yeah, it worked.
1:33:05
That reverse psychology, Joan. And it's also like how
1:33:09
successful you are is kind of a representation of how well they
1:33:13
raised you in a way. True.
1:33:15
So that's why they fight for that.
1:33:16
Too I feel like thank. God, my brother's around.
1:33:19
Dude, I'm living. I have a younger brother and he
1:33:22
bought a house. Did.
1:33:24
This did that got the degree but is also crazy mentally like like
1:33:34
he's he's always I think he's got crazy anxiety and shit and
1:33:37
like he's a car guy. Too.
1:33:39
Oh, is he? Yeah, yeah.
1:33:40
He has a lot of cars. He bought the house because of
1:33:42
the cars. The house is.
1:33:44
Kind of the garage, it's a house.
1:33:46
It's a garage with like a little Hut.
1:33:49
Like on the. Property and like, I don't know,
1:33:52
I see the the pride that my mom has when he when he, when she
1:33:56
talks about like my brother and stuff like that in his house and
1:33:59
like his career. My son has 12 cars.
1:34:02
Yeah, I. Kenneth, Kenneth have so many
1:34:06
cars and they're all in a garage now, so it's even more
1:34:10
impressive, right? Like to to our family.
1:34:12
Before you had a bunch of cars in your property, the house
1:34:14
looks like a junkyard, but now the same cars are just happened
1:34:19
to be indoors. Now it's like a fucking no.
1:34:22
It's a. Success story?
1:34:23
Oh my gosh. Like, that's incredible.
1:34:25
Yeah. Meanwhile, they're all like, at
1:34:26
family parties. Why would you spend your money
1:34:28
on this stuff? Like.
1:34:30
And. And that's him.
1:34:30
What does he what? Does he do?
1:34:32
Dude, my shy brother that was not a talker.
1:34:36
Oh, I think he told me this. Is the.
1:34:37
Number one car or Subaru salesman on the East Coast.
1:34:41
Oh number. One number.
1:34:43
One he might be #2 wait, car. Salesman, yeah.
1:34:45
Bro oh wow. He works for.
1:34:47
Subaru OK, he has five Subarus. Non biased seller, he'll tell
1:34:53
somebody. He'll.
1:34:55
Like he told me he's like some people come in here and he's a
1:34:57
good dude, which is even more like because you think a
1:35:01
salesman you think of like, oh, I got.
1:35:03
I think of. Cocaine immediately ABC always
1:35:06
be closing always. Be closing but then.
1:35:10
He always tells us like, yeah, this this couple came in and
1:35:12
they really wanted this, but their financial situation was
1:35:15
not going to let them do that. Like and I was just trying to
1:35:17
help him out like to not make this mistake.
1:35:21
That's that's the opposite. What salesman?
1:35:22
Be doing that like, you know what I mean?
1:35:24
And I think that that benefited him in that way 'cause he stood
1:35:28
by what he was believing in. In that business, it's all about
1:35:32
reputation too, which I didn't really know, 'cause like in my
1:35:34
head I'm like, oh, if I want a car, well, maybe I work
1:35:37
different than other people. Like if I want to buy a car, I'm
1:35:39
going to know way more than the salesman knows by by the time I
1:35:42
get there. But.
1:35:43
He walks in there like Ron Swanson.
1:35:44
I know more than you. Yeah, like.
1:35:46
Way more. But normal people, they go buy a
1:35:49
car, they don't really know anything.
1:35:50
They want to learn from them. So if you're honest and
1:35:52
everything, those people will come back later, buy another
1:35:54
car. He did. 35 cars like in a month
1:35:58
once and I was like, that's A at least a day, yeah.
1:36:01
And and then you're thinking about how many salesman they got
1:36:03
on the floor and you're like, damn, it's a lot of fucking
1:36:05
cars. There must be.
1:36:06
And then? You think about how, where are
1:36:08
they? Yeah, they're around, Yeah.
1:36:10
There's going to be too. Many cars good for him there's.
1:36:12
Too many. But but yeah, that's that's like
1:36:15
that wasn't his field. That wasn't anywhere near what
1:36:18
he wanted to do. That didn't require a degree or
1:36:20
anything. And he has a comp side degree or
1:36:22
mathematics degree, which is not easy.
1:36:24
He knows how to count. The cars now, yeah.
1:36:26
I don't know man, that kid just like.
1:36:28
Good for him. Though yeah, he made a.
1:36:30
Pivot, he committed. I know it's the hours are crazy,
1:36:33
but makes way more money than me.
1:36:35
So, and that's something that my mom, like, is able to pride
1:36:38
herself on, 'cause she's like, oh, I did OK with that one.
1:36:42
With that one. One out of three daily you're.
1:36:44
Just not. You're not at the level yet,
1:36:45
Carl. You'll be there meanwhile.
1:36:46
My sister gets into a car accident while we're on the pod.
1:36:49
I'm 29, you look. Like you're doing all right to
1:36:52
me. Yeah, I think.
1:36:53
So too. The Yeah, I do look pretty young
1:36:55
still. I had somebody card me, but I
1:36:58
also. Have to have different ideas and
1:37:03
of success, right? Yeah.
1:37:04
And comparison is always the thief of joy too.
1:37:07
So just cause my timeline is not as quick and just 'cause I was
1:37:14
two years older than my brother doesn't mean that like I should
1:37:16
have been done doing my thing already.
1:37:18
Makes me feel better and it took me 10 years to get my bachelor
1:37:22
degree shut. The hell up for real?
1:37:24
Yeah, it took so long. Chop.
1:37:26
That is not long. That's like, really?
1:37:29
Long like in school for 10 years.
1:37:31
No, OK. I was like there that but you
1:37:32
went but you had an. Offseason, right?
1:37:34
And then you went back. Oh, because.
1:37:35
I made money. What I thought was making money.
1:37:37
I was like, I'll just take one class this semester.
1:37:40
Yeah, well, my mom, when I graduated, she's like, man, you
1:37:44
got your PhD in bachelor's. That's.
1:37:49
Good. Thanks.
1:37:49
Mom. Thanks, Mom.
1:37:51
Yeah, it's all right. I I.
1:37:52
Did my associates in like 4 years so I get it.
1:37:55
I was on the four year plan bro 10.
1:37:56
Years. That's a little.
1:37:58
Crazy, but yeah, But the thing. Is as you were doing stuff like
1:38:00
during those 10, I know people who took 10 years to do a
1:38:02
bachelor's and they were at home.
1:38:04
That's bad. Like I'm just like, yeah.
1:38:07
I thought I was making money. I was like, oh, this is fine,
1:38:09
Yeah. How did you?
1:38:11
Because you were. Working on cars before he moved
1:38:13
you to the other position, right?
1:38:14
No. Oh yeah.
1:38:15
Yeah. So how did you get?
1:38:16
Into that like you is it just from being a car guy he.
1:38:20
Just asked if I wanted to try it.
1:38:21
I said sure. So you kind.
1:38:22
Of were learning, sure. So you kind of were learning
1:38:25
here, yeah. And I know you had a way.
1:38:28
I know you had. Some knowledge obviously coming.
1:38:30
Into here I was like, I didn't know shit before, right?
1:38:32
Like. Wow, I thought.
1:38:35
I knew. Yeah.
1:38:35
You're. Listening to this oh God damn,
1:38:38
what the hell did I do? Hiring, you know, because.
1:38:40
I was like, bro, I don't like. But I.
1:38:42
Mean I whatever, Just yeah. You built drift cars, not.
1:38:46
Really. I mean, I watch people build
1:38:47
drift cars, yeah. RT built my car, which is OK.
1:38:50
RC on motors, Yeah. So you really?
1:38:53
Did just like, kind of. Yeah.
1:38:55
He was like, do you? Want to come and learn or
1:38:56
something that's like a? Pretty, that's pretty
1:38:58
interesting, man. Sure I don't got.
1:38:59
Anything else? Yeah.
1:39:00
That that makes this whole like change in your life actually a
1:39:04
lot more interesting because you're not only doing something
1:39:07
that you think you're going to enjoy more, you're learning a
1:39:10
completely new field. What about the?
1:39:12
Stresses. OK, we're, we're talking about
1:39:14
all all these highs, right? There's a big.
1:39:18
Shift that's going to happen, I feel like with if, if I was to
1:39:22
think of doing that, the first thing I'm thinking about is
1:39:24
like, I'm going from somewhere where I'm going to be pretty
1:39:27
lazy. So now I'm going to have to be
1:39:29
off my ass on my feet, moving 20 the whole time.
1:39:32
It was just better. It's not that it's not super
1:39:35
busy over here all the time, but I feel like being on your feet
1:39:38
more, it's just you like it more.
1:39:39
Right. Yeah.
1:39:40
Oh yeah. OK.
1:39:42
I'm going to be honest with my you know how work from home is.
1:39:46
You could find yourself doing anything but working.
1:39:50
I would take naps during the day.
1:39:52
Yeah, I have time. I finished my work and then you
1:39:56
don't gotta. In that.
1:39:58
In that. Industry Christmas time,
1:40:00
everyone's shut down. There's nothing to do, dude.
1:40:03
And. Like the day before, dude.
1:40:04
It's before Labor Day weekend, yeah.
1:40:07
Everyone's gone. Everyone's.
1:40:08
Gone. Everyone was gone on Monday and
1:40:10
then yet I'm here working. I'm the one who's like, I need
1:40:14
to make hours, I need to do this, I need to have progress.
1:40:18
I'm salary. But that that that's what I'm
1:40:20
saying is like the work. I have a set amount of work, it
1:40:24
gets done. You cannot expect more from me.
1:40:27
Ours is sale of base, so if there's no one around like what
1:40:30
am I going to do? You can't do.
1:40:31
Anything accounting's not, no one's in the way.
1:40:34
My job work is I would plan and buy for the next three to six
1:40:37
months. Sorry guys.
1:40:39
There's a garbage truck outside. He going.
1:40:42
Ham. Holy crap I wanted to try that.
1:40:44
Too, you know, like, for real. Yeah, I have a friend who does
1:40:46
that and he enjoys it. I was like, I hear they.
1:40:48
Get paid a good amount, you know the.
1:40:50
Benefits are probably nuts. Fall off a truck, you know?
1:40:54
All right. Yeah.
1:40:55
You're getting paid. Do people?
1:40:57
Still, I have seen them. I don't think my neighborhood
1:41:00
has the people on the back of it anymore.
1:41:02
It's more like a city thing. I haven't.
1:41:04
Seen it. Yeah, it's all automated now in
1:41:06
our. In our town in East Rutherford,
1:41:08
there's there's people. It's like a little.
1:41:09
Machine now just flicks it over. It's wild, yeah.
1:41:13
AI is coming, they said. You.
1:41:13
Want to complain, robot? That's crazy.
1:41:18
Yeah. I used to binge watch Netflix
1:41:20
shows. Yeah, in one day, one working
1:41:23
day at at first you're. Probably like oh this is cool I
1:41:25
can take naps now and then within like 3 months you were
1:41:27
like this is bad, this is terrible.
1:41:28
No, I think that goes back to our our yearning to learn all
1:41:31
the time, right. Yeah, Here I get to learn every
1:41:34
day, right? I can I get to be like, what?
1:41:37
What did Brad say to me the other day?
1:41:38
He's like, what did you do? Yeah, don't do it that way.
1:41:42
Yeah. OK, I will.
1:41:45
I'll do it the other. Way and you'll never do it again
1:41:47
yeah the. Shop is like, as long as there's
1:41:50
a few people in here, a shop, you will learn something new
1:41:52
every day. Yeah, basically, whether no
1:41:55
matter how small or large it is. I like that about this and you
1:42:00
know the stress is like almost non existent compared to
1:42:02
corporate world. Dude, this.
1:42:05
Is my work from home day now because after you have to my my
1:42:10
little tip for if you work from home is like 1 you have to wake
1:42:16
up and get dressed like I put these like clothes on oh to
1:42:20
make. Yourself feel like yeah.
1:42:21
So then I'm not. Just going to be like laptop on
1:42:23
my chest fucking. I would shower in the mornings,
1:42:26
yeah. You've always had, like, do
1:42:28
something. And then on Fridays, that's when
1:42:32
Body Town opens. That's like, that's my little,
1:42:34
that's my little Body Shop that I call Welcome to Body Town USA.
1:42:38
Are we talking? About something else?
1:42:40
No, that's. When I opened the the the shop
1:42:41
opens up, that's, that's when on Friday all week I'll get
1:42:45
materials and plan for Friday, Saturday, Sunday for jobs to go
1:42:50
out and then I'll come home Friday, wake up 8:30 or 9 to
1:42:55
make sure I'm logged in, run my morning meeting, get off, clear
1:42:59
out the inbox. It's 10:00 AM.
1:43:01
I'm in the shop sanding, then I'll go back.
1:43:04
I'll do that back and forth, back and forth, in and out of
1:43:07
the garage, probably at least 1000 steps doing that.
1:43:09
And then at lunch or after lunch, during lunch is when I'm
1:43:14
spraying, 'cause then I can be gone from my computer for a
1:43:16
whole hour. So then I'm spraying and then
1:43:19
after lunch after that, like I'll come back, do that back and
1:43:22
forth, back and forth. By the time I'm done, it's 5:00
1:43:24
and I'm dying. Yeah.
1:43:25
Then I'm like, OK, that was a pretty good day.
1:43:27
Yeah. I.
1:43:28
Mean that's working two jobs. At the same time, like probably.
1:43:32
During the week too, it's. During the week, it's during the
1:43:34
week it's 5 to 10 is like the hell hours 'cause now I'm going
1:43:39
to run out of daylight, I'm going to run out of temperature.
1:43:41
The temperature starts to get cold.
1:43:43
Yeah, now it's. Getting darker so now.
1:43:45
I'm hitting that time where it's going to be a lull now.
1:43:48
Now I got to analyze how fast their jobs coming in during the
1:43:52
winter. What jobs can I, what jobs
1:43:54
should I turn away because of just the environment that I'm
1:43:58
going to be able to have pain curing in?
1:44:00
Yeah. That's a lot to.
1:44:01
Learn and that's probably why I'm having so much fucking fun
1:44:05
actually even talking about this now.
1:44:06
I can't wait to go back. I got jobs that need to go out
1:44:09
next week. Yeah.
1:44:10
And it's been really great to have support like that like a
1:44:14
constant flow stay busy. Well, you're doing.
1:44:16
It the way that you should. You have a full time job, you're
1:44:20
making money and you're starting something else.
1:44:22
I think that. That's a 2024 way to do it.
1:44:25
That's the smartest way to start your own business in my eyes.
1:44:28
So you did? Yeah, A. 100% yeah, I'm trying.
1:44:31
Dude, 'cause you don't you. You won't feel the pressure of
1:44:35
and the. Obligation of yeah, like.
1:44:37
If this doesn't happen, you're not eating.
1:44:40
Yeah. Where?
1:44:40
Where? I'm not going to pay rent.
1:44:41
Like you can learn as you're at least safe.
1:44:45
Yeah. Yeah, I want to.
1:44:47
I want to do this until I have enough money to do a down
1:44:50
payment on a house and then I'll like move in with the intention
1:44:56
that I would do both. Yeah.
1:44:58
At the same time. I don't know.
1:45:00
We'll see. So what does?
1:45:01
He have you doing now here I'm. Service writing and then what?
1:45:05
Technically. The model.
1:45:07
Manager, I don't know. Hey guys, just making sure you
1:45:10
work on this. Yeah, almost like a shop forming
1:45:12
kind of maybe something like that I don't like.
1:45:14
The word term manager, It's weird, yeah.
1:45:16
He got. You.
1:45:16
Outside like, hey guys. Can you work on this next
1:45:19
please? You're a project manager?
1:45:22
We've got. Waiters, yeah.
1:45:24
You're a project. Manager I guess.
1:45:25
So you should say that on on resumes like.
1:45:28
Project Manager but. Actually, you're just managing
1:45:31
projects like. That's cool though.
1:45:34
Because I'm. Sure.
1:45:34
Eric was doing a lot of that. Yeah.
1:45:36
Like that was his job. And now he's yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:45:38
kind of doing other stuff. Yeah, it's cool, though.
1:45:42
I mean, at first I was like, well, I guess I'm back to the
1:45:45
computer and we'll see how it goes.
1:45:46
But it's fun and I get to use my customer service skills that I
1:45:49
had before, which is. Very important it is.
1:45:52
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is. Kind of isn't that kind of a
1:45:56
weird arsenal tool to have like tool to have in your arsenal?
1:45:59
Is the fact that you can answer the phone with.
1:46:01
Thank you for calling Eric's autolab.
1:46:03
Yeah, like. I'm not good at that.
1:46:04
That's exactly how I sound. Like meanwhile child's like
1:46:10
hello but I. Think it's even just talking to
1:46:13
these guys on a separate note right Speaking of one of our
1:46:18
larger customers who comes to us with his Porsche, Porsche,
1:46:21
Porsche. I don't know Josh, what's the
1:46:23
term multiply multiple Porsche, Porsche, I'm just kidding
1:46:27
Porsche Porsche owns a pizza place in Rockford and supposedly
1:46:33
it's really good not deep dish, but anyways, he's somebody that
1:46:39
I talked to right. I, I talked to him about his
1:46:41
family, I talked to him about his job, you know, his business.
1:46:44
And I think it's just important to get in to other people's
1:46:47
lives. Well, the fact.
1:46:48
That you that you're like that's your position now is you can
1:46:53
focus on that and you can focus on how not to be an asshole
1:46:55
doing that stuff Nah the. What I'm doing?
1:46:57
That's called report, bro. I cannot.
1:47:00
Every time I hang up the phone, I turn to Malcolm.
1:47:02
I'm like, you better get good fast because I'm fucking done
1:47:04
with this shit. I cannot do it anymore.
1:47:06
We did have. A interesting customer the other
1:47:08
day. Yeah, he was fun.
1:47:11
But you know how to. Handle it because your your your
1:47:14
hardest day in the office where there's shit dragging you
1:47:17
through the damn mud and you can't really do anything about
1:47:20
it so. I told you guys about the
1:47:22
downtime of Christmas. There are also customers who
1:47:25
take the time to produce during Christmas and give their
1:47:29
employees overtime for working past their normal week, right?
1:47:34
That work Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
1:47:36
There was one time, I'll never forget it because of the
1:47:39
situation, but being a middle man's heart, right?
1:47:42
You have logistics, you have the product and then you have the
1:47:45
delivery. And if things don't line up,
1:47:47
they just don't line up and there's nothing you can do.
1:47:49
It's not like you can physically go and grab the material and
1:47:51
deliver it, right? So we had this customer who
1:47:54
always, every year the week before Christmas will do
1:47:57
overtime for their employees for extra pay.
1:48:00
For some reason. The not for some reason, but
1:48:04
there was just a delay in logistics and it wasn't going to
1:48:07
get there that weekend. And I told him, I called him
1:48:10
ahead of time, hey, you're not going to have your production
1:48:13
weekend. You're going to have to change
1:48:14
it. And he was like, I cannot
1:48:17
believe you did this to me. You have ruined everyone's
1:48:22
Christmas. You have ruined.
1:48:23
Christmas for. All of my employees, like you
1:48:26
have another weekend before Christmas that you can have them
1:48:30
work. Yeah, I didn't ruin your
1:48:32
Christmas. Yeah, you.
1:48:34
Were the Grinch for him? Yeah, yeah.
1:48:36
But yeah, there are people like that who'll say I would have
1:48:37
just sat there. Like what you want me to fucking
1:48:39
do, dude? You want me to bring them to
1:48:41
you? I dealt with.
1:48:42
One of the other, that's what that's.
1:48:43
What you're thinking in your head and that unfortunately you
1:48:45
will never you don't you? You can't just say that.
1:48:48
But on the flip side, I I dealt with a customer who I ruined
1:48:50
2,000,000. Not me.
1:48:52
The trucking company ruined $2,000,000 worth of material and
1:48:56
I helped alleviate that. Now you're now you're the hero.
1:48:58
Yeah, I was the. Hero.
1:48:59
Yeah, he's like you delivered bad news, but you also saved the
1:49:03
day. Yeah.
1:49:04
So you know, you take the the bad with good, good with bad.
1:49:08
Yeah, but this? Time I get to deal with this in
1:49:10
person, yeah, here, right, Not over the phone, which is.
1:49:13
Better, I think. I think.
1:49:15
So yeah, you see my face, Yeah. In the long run, it's better.
1:49:17
Yeah, yeah, sometimes. Well, the.
1:49:19
Life, but it's. Different I think people have a
1:49:21
different demeanor when you're talking face to face Yeah,
1:49:24
right. There's no the level or the
1:49:27
inkling to disrespect is is dwindled.
1:49:29
Yeah, corporate. Shit is crazy because you will
1:49:31
never see them Yeah, so you can just go off I.
1:49:35
Dude, my favorite is when I have not clients but like my the
1:49:39
other team members from like different states.
1:49:41
The one is in Georgia, like a lot of my teammates are in
1:49:44
Georgia, and they'll pull up and they realize, oh damn, it's just
1:49:50
this one guy. But yet I.
1:49:52
Have my own inbox. It's a it, it's my whole team
1:49:55
inbox, but it's just me. And they're like, oh, and then
1:50:00
they're, it's a completely different.
1:50:02
The ones who have took the time to meet me at my desk and like
1:50:04
say hi. They're they're the ones who are
1:50:06
like, oh, OK, they, they got you doing this shit.
1:50:11
And it's like, but there's a different.
1:50:12
Level of respect there's a different.
1:50:13
Level of respect. It's like the ones who can IM me
1:50:15
and tell me, hey, like get this out when you can.
1:50:20
I know you're busy. Yeah, and will never ping me
1:50:23
back for the rest of the day. I'm do I'm getting that done for
1:50:25
you. Yeah, because you know that I'm
1:50:27
busy and I, you know that I'm going to be able to do it.
1:50:29
Somebody responded to me the other day.
1:50:31
I because I again, I'm tiptoeing around because of the hours
1:50:34
thing. And they're, they responded and
1:50:37
said like, hey, can where's this at?
1:50:40
Can you provide an update on this?
1:50:41
You never know the tone that somebody's giving you through
1:50:43
the e-mail. So I responded back with the
1:50:45
utmost respect that I can. I said, Steve, don't worry, I
1:50:49
got this. I will have this addressed by
1:50:50
the end of the day. You know, processed, you know,
1:50:53
well within XY and Z and he pinged me separately because so
1:50:59
that there's not a e-mail record.
1:51:01
He pinged. Me separately and said hey, I'm
1:51:05
not rushing you man so but but thank you so much like you know
1:51:08
you're doing amazing job. I know it's really busy.
1:51:11
I, I and I don't respond. And I, I responded to that one
1:51:14
and I said thank you for that, Steve.
1:51:17
And I got this shit done. I mean, that's why we like when
1:51:20
we, when I started like our company, I was always like just
1:51:23
make sure you're talking to the customers and updating them as
1:51:26
everything's happening before they.
1:51:28
Ask before they. Ask that's the key because it So
1:51:31
what we would do is when it was just me for 10 years, it would
1:51:35
be if someone ordered something and it wasn't there, I would
1:51:38
just immediately e-mail them and first of all offer them a
1:51:41
refund. That's the first thing and then
1:51:43
let them know the situation and most people would be like thanks
1:51:46
for reaching out. I and then they always be like I
1:51:48
ordered with so and so and all these other companies and they
1:51:51
just let me hang in for like 2 months.
1:51:53
So I remembered I ordered something.
1:51:54
And then they're like, oh, it's not here, dude, two months.
1:51:56
Is crazy. I press order on something and
1:51:58
the moment I get yeah. Because I when I see something
1:52:01
come in and we don't have it, I'm in panic mode already.
1:52:03
I was like, oh, we got to make sure we talk to this guy, make
1:52:05
sure he doesn't like Malcolm knows because I'll just go to
1:52:08
him and be like, yo, you got to make sure you talk to this guy.
1:52:10
You are so. Lucky you have, Malcolm.
1:52:12
Yeah. And yesterday he was yelling at
1:52:14
him. Oh.
1:52:15
Yeah, because he. Forgot that he bro these wires
1:52:19
right here weren't in the box. So we get the Damon's house and
1:52:23
no, I bought them. We went to.
1:52:25
Damon's. House and I'm like I I'm like so
1:52:27
I don't have microphone cables and he's like he calls me and we
1:52:30
have no service and I just hear him.
1:52:32
It's like breaking up. He's like I fucked up.
1:52:34
I just hang up. We go get him.
1:52:37
The whole time, Carl's trying to deescalate the situation.
1:52:39
I'm not even saying anything, but he just knows me.
1:52:41
I just know. Frankie is just a fucking so
1:52:43
he's like. Yo, he doesn't mess up that
1:52:44
much. I'm like, oh, you're not there
1:52:46
every day. And he's like, you can't even
1:52:47
say anything. It's just.
1:52:48
It's just. Not our problem.
1:52:49
This is his problem, I said. No Frankie, this is our problem.
1:52:52
We already teamed. No, I'm.
1:52:54
Going to fix it, but it's his problem.
1:52:56
And then we find out we don't have headphone jacks.
1:52:59
So yeah, Malcolm didn't have a good day the other day, but
1:53:02
yeah, it's all right. But it's OK.
1:53:03
I'm telling you, it happens. Yeah, it's.
1:53:06
It happens, it happens. Malcolm's A.
1:53:07
Very big important piece of yeah, my business never says.
1:53:11
Anything never says that. I always.
1:53:13
Dice. As shit I've ever.
1:53:14
Always doing a great job, I always tell Malcolm that.
1:53:18
Dude, no, that's, I guess having a good team is really that,
1:53:22
yeah. Yeah, it's more important to me
1:53:23
than. Anything else, I always tell
1:53:24
everyone I'm like, I don't give a fuck about money.
1:53:26
As long as I can pay what I need to pay and I can eat and I can
1:53:30
do whatever I want to do, which is not much, then it's fine.
1:53:34
You know, I, I personally don't give a shit.
1:53:36
I never have. I I just want to enjoy my life.
1:53:40
That's what is important to me. So.
1:53:43
That's it. Kind of comes back to what you
1:53:44
were saying before. I think you were saying that you
1:53:45
were like, you were like, we're not.
1:53:48
We're trying to get rid of the stigma of like you work in this
1:53:50
field and you're going to make no money.
1:53:52
I tell all the guys I'm like, if we make more money, you guys
1:53:55
make more money. I'm like, I'm getting paid the
1:53:57
least that everyone here, you know a lot of.
1:53:58
Shoppers don't think that way though, right?
1:54:00
I. Am learning that yeah.
1:54:02
And it's, yeah, it's. Kind of just poaching off of
1:54:05
like the employees, yeah. Or they or there's an owner that
1:54:09
thinks he's going to get rich off this.
1:54:11
Or they are. Getting rich?
1:54:12
Yeah, or. They are and the.
1:54:14
The employees don't feel and the employees.
1:54:16
Are like, struggling, Yeah. There's shops near us that I've
1:54:19
like local shops that I I see doing that and they still have a
1:54:22
pretty decent work environment, but I just see what's happening
1:54:26
and I'm like, damn, like I would never want to just, you know,
1:54:30
buy, buy a house or something. Everyone's like oh I can barely
1:54:34
afford rent but you just bought a house like or even just.
1:54:36
Another toy that's even. Worse Yeah, yeah, it's like you
1:54:40
just start buying cars and they're like, I can't even fix
1:54:43
my engine but the. One thing I would say about our
1:54:46
generation today, or not our generation, but as of today,
1:54:49
there are a lot of side hustles that you can do.
1:54:51
Like your painting. I do the towing on the side.
1:54:53
Oh yeah, yo. You'd be towing with that
1:54:55
Durango bro. That's what they.
1:54:57
Were saying in the beginning is that.
1:54:59
Like a a loud like that's like what's the GVW war on that?
1:55:05
Dude it's gotten almost 9000 towing miles on it.
1:55:09
Yeah, I got to talk to you about this, 'cause I like that whole
1:55:11
towing thing. Like it's just nice 'cause.
1:55:12
I can. It's just hard, OK?
1:55:14
It's nice, but it's hard 'cause it takes me away from the
1:55:17
family. But it's nice because it it only
1:55:20
takes me as long as it takes right?
1:55:21
Like sometimes I can calculate it to be like $100.00 an hour
1:55:26
depending on how long it takes or whatever.
1:55:28
Bro imagine. Frankie, you'd just be sending
1:55:30
me off on the road, dude. That's the.
1:55:32
Only see you later like only other thing I wanted to do but
1:55:34
you got to know how to. Do it right.
1:55:35
Yeah, we're. Doing car storage soon because
1:55:38
we the shop is like so big to the point where we need to
1:55:40
store. So part of that was I was like,
1:55:42
God damn, we should get into transportation too, because I
1:55:44
was like, I want to I want to do it because I want to be on the
1:55:47
road. I just want to be on the road
1:55:48
driving. I'm like, that's the most fun
1:55:50
for me like what we're doing right now the way home.
1:55:53
I love that shit like everyone just in the van like that's why
1:55:55
we bought this van, because we well, because we.
1:56:02
We as a just them two. I'm just here.
1:56:05
We as a. Company just.
1:56:07
Here and. Sorry, Louis.
1:56:09
Do you work for Louis? Does not but I.
1:56:12
I just wasn't. None of us.
1:56:14
Work. Wait, did we?
1:56:15
Not explain to him the like situation.
1:56:17
OK, so it's Louis's van. Oh OK I bought this.
1:56:21
OK OK, I bought this. Thing like bought this thing
1:56:23
like 3-4 three days, four days ago from you.
1:56:27
We made a deal. We finally made a deal.
1:56:28
He's had it for a year and he he's just been driving around
1:56:31
how long? Yeah, yeah.
1:56:37
But I didn't realize that these trucks go for a decent amount of
1:56:39
money. Yeah.
1:56:40
Yeah. So like, I was like, I'm not
1:56:41
paying fucking what are you talking about?
1:56:43
I'm not paying that This 04. And then he'd be like, yeah, but
1:56:45
it's got 60,000 miles. 60, Yeah. Wow, we hit a.
1:56:51
Deer in it and everything so the the.
1:56:52
First the first time, just now on the way there, no.
1:56:54
Going to a haunted house, but yeah.
1:56:56
So the first time we took it, we took it to a haunted house.
1:56:58
I was like, everyone get in there was like 10.
1:57:00
People in there and I was like. Yo, this shit's sick.
1:57:02
Like we got everyone in here. We hit a deer.
1:57:04
That was cool. Did you put it inside?
1:57:06
After you no. The deer, yeah.
1:57:08
No, we we pulled. Is that a?
1:57:10
You know you own. It right after you hit it.
1:57:12
Oh, for the most part, from most in most states, it's yours.
1:57:15
Jersey's. Weird.
1:57:16
I. I don't wasn't going to trust
1:57:18
that Jersey deer probably ain't going to even really need it.
1:57:21
Yeah, that's kind of cool, though.
1:57:22
I didn't think about that, but we hit it.
1:57:25
It's. Yours now, Louis, was.
1:57:27
Louis was driving and I was in the passenger seat and we see
1:57:29
this deer come out. I was like, and I see like he's
1:57:31
trying to figure out what to do and I'm trying to figure out I
1:57:33
was, I was like, there's nothing.
1:57:35
Left. And like right the last second
1:57:36
he just starts going to the left and the deer like stops.
1:57:39
Stops. And then we're like, oh, we're
1:57:41
going to be good. And then fucking juts out right
1:57:43
right before we hit him. Boom, punt him.
1:57:45
Malcolm's all the way in the back.
1:57:46
It's not a different state back there in the fucking 4th row.
1:57:50
That was a van. Fucking.
1:57:52
Fine, I was. Always told you ever see it?
1:57:57
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:57:59
yeah A. For the butt, yeah.
1:58:04
Yeah, he was. Victoria came back.
1:58:06
Yeah, he ran and then came back. That was.
1:58:07
Why so it was? Not good.
1:58:08
It wasn't the headlight. Was gone, right?
1:58:10
Or it was just a headlight. In a mirror, headlight didn't.
1:58:12
Fuck up part of the grill, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
1:58:14
But like, I was like, damn this. We didn't even feel it.
1:58:18
I was like, damn, that was pretty.
1:58:19
That was pretty. It was like, it was a selling
1:58:21
point. When we hit that deer, you're
1:58:22
like. I'm buying this.
1:58:23
That's that's. How I that's how I got them.
1:58:25
Just like that. Yep, did.
1:58:27
You look back or just oh. Malcolm salt flying.
1:58:30
It was like Malcolm said that. It was.
1:58:31
It was Frisbee along the side of the van like crazy.
1:58:36
Yeah, like it was a full grown deer too.
1:58:38
Like antlers? And everything I.
1:58:40
Don't think so. I was going to say at.
1:58:41
Least the antlers didn't hit. They had.
1:58:42
Yeah, that would have been. Crazy that would have been.
1:58:45
But yeah, so. That happened and I was like, I
1:58:46
don't know. I just kept saying and I kept
1:58:48
turning to Malcolm when we're working and I'm like, I think we
1:58:50
need to buy that van for no fucking reason.
1:58:53
I'm like, I think we need to buy that van and I.
1:58:54
What did you use last? Time so my.
1:58:56
I've O2 Silverado 1500 I've had it since 2017.
1:59:01
Most dependable truck I've ever even seen in my entire life.
1:59:04
I've just never done anything wrong.
1:59:05
I've gotten a cross country multiple times.
1:59:07
I've put the bikes in the back of the bed.
1:59:09
Gone down Arizona back here so many times, but Princess and
1:59:16
Malcolm are always with me now because of the booth and
1:59:19
everything. And I was like, I know they
1:59:21
don't want to be in the back of that truck.
1:59:23
And then this time it was Eddie Carl.
1:59:26
I was about to. Say like, what the fuck am I?
1:59:28
What the hell? It was.
1:59:29
All four of them in the back and I was like, that's a lot of
1:59:33
people. And I was like, because we
1:59:35
didn't do that on purpose last time, but we but it happened
1:59:38
because your truck broke. I had an.
1:59:40
RX that died so we transmission straight so everyone.
1:59:43
Already knew how that was going to be but and I could tell like
1:59:47
they were just upset about it and I was like I'm going to try
1:59:49
to buy a truck in like 2 days. So I tried that for like an hour
1:59:51
and I was like yeah no one can afford that.
1:59:54
So then I was like fuck, I'll just buy Lewis's van, maybe I'll
1:59:56
do that. Did you even know he was?
1:59:57
Going to buy it or five? And a half hours.
2:00:02
Yeah, yeah. We're trying to negotiate a deal
2:00:06
just. Fucking take it.
2:00:08
And we're both. Stubborn.
2:00:09
So we're trying to like or we could.
2:00:11
Have taken like 2. Yeah.
2:00:13
We could have taken two well now.
2:00:15
So now in my head I'm like, I'm like, OK, so now I got this.
2:00:18
I have my truck. I do have another truck that's
2:00:20
not running right now, but it's running.
2:00:22
It's just rusty and I want to eventually rebuild that.
2:00:25
Bro it's a. Dermax, we should put it in that
2:00:27
can you we could do that right? Yeah, I think you.
2:00:29
Can you worked on these though? Before we were talking about I
2:00:31
don't want. To is it bad?
2:00:32
I suck. OK.
2:00:34
Never mind, that's what I. Talked to him about, I was like,
2:00:36
dude, the engines under the fucking car, like, yeah, it's
2:00:41
actually your yeah, you're driving with the yeah, but it
2:00:43
just seems like it's going to be miserable.
2:00:45
But yeah, I thought about that, but I was like, OK, so we got
2:00:48
this and you see this. So that's all the merch in the
2:00:50
back right now. So that took up two rows, which
2:00:54
we're pretty lucky that took up two, only two rows.
2:00:56
But I was like, dude, imagine we got like a little trailer.
2:00:59
Yeah. And then we had this and then we
2:01:00
had my truck with another trailer with a car on it or, or
2:01:04
you could tow a car with this. So now you have like multiple
2:01:06
vehicles or I have. My own truck, The better truck,
2:01:09
The Toyota, The Sequoia. The one you can't fit shit in.
2:01:12
Yeah, bro. I'm tired of living in this
2:01:16
fucking utilitarian ass fucking vehicle bro so you.
2:01:20
Drive that one. Yeah, I'll drive it with my
2:01:22
seven in seven inch screen, my heated seats, my power folding
2:01:26
mirrors, my class leading 3rd row leg room class.
2:01:29
Leading. I don't know bro.
2:01:31
Don't even bro class leading. GM.
2:01:34
Always leads us. Come on, Trans.
2:01:36
Feels like shit compared to mine.
2:01:37
That's what. Damn that trans.
2:01:38
Feels good ace though. My you can't even feel the
2:01:41
shifts in my truck. Loaded.
2:01:43
Too. Anyway, so that's the.
2:01:46
Plan. We could have had two trucks.
2:01:47
I didn't know that's what your thought process was.
2:01:49
I told you to. Drive the whole time because you
2:01:50
kept talking about Sequoia but then.
2:01:52
We then you could have had your truck and we could have had my
2:01:54
truck your your bed loaded up. Look, now we're.
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Prepared for next year, yeah. But now it's the jam van.
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It's the bang. Bust it's fun.
2:02:02
Yeah, it's whoa, wait, what? No one said any of that before.
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Before you guys take it on another road trip.
2:02:10
It needs that rib eye livery though.
2:02:11
I need. Something. 1990. 5 or. 8 rib
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eyes. It was a.
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Couple at least three. And.
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My favorite thing you remember? When you posted that story, you
2:02:21
guys were going. Where were you going?
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I was coming. Home from Appalachia and me and
2:02:25
Johnny were driving and there was this van that said Rib Eyes.
2:02:29
You honk. I stop, I will stop, is what it
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says. Honk.
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And I will stop though, Johnny. Honks at once.
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The dude looks over and I'm like Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.
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No, no, no, no, no. Go, go, go, go, go, go.
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He was about to pull over. He was about to pull over.
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Well, Carl? Named it the white lightning.
2:02:43
And I was like, I was like, I kind of want to, I wanted, I
2:02:46
wanted to paint it black. But now I'm thinking maybe we'll
2:02:48
leave some white in there and like, then you can call.
2:02:50
Him. Michael Jackson.
2:02:51
Dude what? If what if it was like the eight
2:02:53
that might happen? With a little like.
2:02:56
Stripe. That orange stripe that the
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A-Team got on the red sign? Something.
2:02:59
Like that, Was it red? I'm pretty sure it's.
2:03:00
Red What if the Rs. Was white and it was lightning
2:03:02
at the end or something. I don't even I don't like any of
2:03:06
these ideas. Let's just leave it white and
2:03:08
hit it with a turbo can. Well, you can.
2:03:10
Paint. Thank God.
2:03:10
So you're going to paint the whole thing, right?
2:03:11
That's insane, actually. I kind of want to repaint the
2:03:14
Escalade. Want to do it?
2:03:17
Dude, I had. To turn.
2:03:18
Away. I had to turn away a truck the
2:03:21
other day because I can't fit it in my booth.
2:03:23
What I want small. It.
2:03:24
Was a Dodge Ram that he with like a a bigger bed too and I
2:03:30
was like pro. What is he?
2:03:32
What do you think? I'm going to do with this thing.
2:03:34
And he's like, well, you can't put like half of it in and then
2:03:36
do the other half. And I'm like, no, that is not
2:03:39
how this works. And it's like one of my close
2:03:42
friends from like years ago, too.
2:03:45
Yeah, I don't know from years. Ago, years and.
2:03:47
Years ago, So I would have loved to.
2:03:48
I'm like, dude, you know, I would love to help you out, but
2:03:51
I really I can't. Just go out some big ass.
2:03:54
I I said we could do a tent. Yeah, I was.
2:03:57
Going to say just do a tent. And then just like do it really
2:03:59
quickly lives in a neighborhood those.
2:04:01
Bayside guys or is it Bayside S14S?
2:04:05
14 I'm. Sorry, we know the Bayside.
2:04:08
Guys pretty well. So Bayside.
2:04:09
S14 ISS 13 Well. S14 the the really tall guy, not
2:04:16
Kevin. Oh my God.
2:04:18
Anyways, then he paints cars outside, outside free air.
2:04:22
I've I used to do that too. It's just the result.
2:04:26
Yeah, I know. Like.
2:04:27
I my my goal is to get that finished.
2:04:30
That's like right out of the gun type, like right out.
2:04:35
And that way your money is like, it's not should never really be
2:04:39
always about the money like, but the money is if it comes out, my
2:04:44
time is paid for already, like the job's done.
2:04:48
I don't have to worry about correcting it.
2:04:50
Like that kit that I painted before we were leaving.
2:04:53
I saw it curing, you know, I saw the the finish and I already
2:04:57
didn't like it. So now while that's going on, my
2:04:59
roommate is cut and buffing it. Like that job could have just
2:05:03
went out if I just sprayed it with maybe, maybe, maybe like
2:05:07
the environment was different or the primary in this case, it was
2:05:10
a primer. I've never used that primer
2:05:11
again. And I'm doing like checks and
2:05:13
balances shit just like you're going to do here, dude.
2:05:16
You're going to find out stuff you don't like and stuff you
2:05:17
like, and then you come up with your own system, the Chubbington
2:05:21
system. Is that a thing that you use?
2:05:23
Yeah, he keeps. Putting ink tin on everything,
2:05:26
Yeah. Are we getting?
2:05:27
Pizza Ink tin, OK. Yeah, what time it?
2:05:29
Is like, yeah, we should probably go.
2:05:30
Do you have anything else that you wanted to end with John?
2:05:32
I just. You know, I don't know what you
2:05:34
guys wanted out of this, but that was exactly.
2:05:36
What you gave us yeah, OK, yeah, I just.
2:05:38
Want we just wanted to have a conversation, just have some
2:05:40
time with the people we get to meet and yeah.
2:05:42
It's like a pre. Hang to our hangs this weekend.
2:05:44
Exactly. Yeah, dude.
2:05:45
Now, now when we're hanging now, now I'm gonna that's like this
2:05:48
was like that extra little bond that you have to make up for in
2:05:51
the friendship. So now we got we, now we.
2:05:52
I can have the real stories I have to I.
2:05:54
Always like listening to Carl talk office life too, with
2:05:57
people. Because I think it, I think it
2:05:58
helps him. I think you.
2:06:00
Need to leave that. Too.
2:06:01
A lot of people talk too bro. No, because like every day,
2:06:04
dude, my everyday Diego time to quit the day job, time to quit
2:06:09
the day job, time to quit the day job, and I'm the person
2:06:11
doesn't even have. To be the day job.
2:06:13
Just that job I'm. I'm the person though that right
2:06:16
now since it's giving me so many signs to do so.
2:06:19
Like I have a couple other friends that I've involved with
2:06:23
with my jobs where like, hey, for the day, if you help me
2:06:27
prep, like I'll pay you for the day.
2:06:28
That way you get some money. Yeah.
2:06:31
Yeah. And then now Darrell, I get to
2:06:33
loop Darrell in like, dude, we can both eat now.
2:06:36
Like we we can any job that I get, you might be able to get a
2:06:38
piece too. And then if we all manage to do
2:06:41
this and this happens, then everybody eats and everybody
2:06:46
gets out of what that feeling that that locked in feeling and
2:06:52
maybe we can actually have fun maybe for the next few years of
2:06:55
our life doing that. But job, thank you so much.
2:06:58
Thank you guys this. Has been.
2:06:59
Sick. Appreciate it.
2:07:01
My. Family members out here, dude, I
2:07:03
freaking this is this is it we got.
2:07:05
Yeah, this has been great. It's pizza time now.
2:07:08
Dude, it's. Hangout time man.
2:07:09
Look at the sun, dude. Look.
2:07:11
At. The boy wait.
2:07:12
The sun looks really weird because it's like grey out
2:07:14
there, but it's also sunny. Yeah, it's fucking.
2:07:16
Crazy. No that.
2:07:18
Looks like. It's hitting all right, time to
2:07:19
get. Back in the fucking bang, boss,
2:07:21
yeah. Thank you guys so much.
2:07:24
This has been another episode. We got a few more lined up for
2:07:26
you and. Final bout, final bout.
2:07:31
Chopping tin. OK, goodbye.
2:07:39
Well. Thanks guys for listening to
2:07:41
another episode. Thank you again to Chop for
2:07:43
having us on. I know he was, he was going
2:07:46
above and beyond for us. He, I know originally he was
2:07:49
going to make us a Filipino breakfast at his home, which was
2:07:52
crazy. That didn't work out.
2:07:54
So he had us record it at his current job over at Eric's Auto
2:07:59
Lab. So thank you again for having us
2:08:02
on job. And there's a car revving in the
2:08:05
background as I record this, which is fitting, I guess.
2:08:11
And it was a Jay-Z too, I believe that is in the
2:08:14
background. So that's cool.
2:08:16
He also brought us two breakfast options.
2:08:20
We had Donuts. And he also had McDonald's
2:08:23
catered, catered to us that that morning.
2:08:25
So we couldn't, we couldn't ask for a better, a better makeshift
2:08:31
studio, if you will. But yeah, had a great episode
2:08:35
and love seeing him all weekend. Chop made all of us feel very at
2:08:39
home here. He was messing around with all
2:08:42
my employees and playing jokes on him at the entire event.
2:08:46
It was honestly, it was he. He made this event very, very
2:08:49
fun for us. So thank you again to Eric and
2:08:52
we hope to see you again on the next one.
2:08:55
We'll probably go back out there and just record more next year
2:08:58
with him as well. So I do look forward to that.