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#124 - Dennis Franklin a.k.a. Dennis The Menace · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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What's going on, guys? Welcome back to another episode
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of the After Hours podcast with Faction Motorsports.
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On today's episode, we're bringing you another one from
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our Final Bout trip. We have Dennis Franklin, also
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known as Dennis the Menace on Instagram.
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Dennis the Menace is the final bout hype man.
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really good one because we had a fun car ride here.
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We're here with Dennis the Menace, the hype man of the
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Drift community. Literally.
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What's up with John I, I. Took that quote right from you
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because earlier we got in the car and.
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He said, he said. I'm the high man of the drift
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community, man. Nice to meet you.
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Yeah, I forgot who he was talking to, but I was like, yo,
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it's nice to meet you, man. Finally.
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Yeah. Finally.
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Really. I mean, I think we seen, we saw
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you last time, I think, but we didn't really.
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Really. Y'all did.
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Yeah, we didn't really like talk or anything so.
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Oh yeah, I wore, I think I wore like that one.
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Yeah, because last year's final belt 6 I wore, Yeah, I basically
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wore Simba's hood. Yeah, more like that Japanese
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wave. Yeah, the wave, yeah.
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Literally. Yeah, that's.
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Super identical. It was pretty hard to miss,
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dude, I'm not even gonna lie. Yeah, I don't know why I knew
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that too. Like I knew what you were
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wearing. I don't even know what I wore
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last week. So that's that's kind of
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impressive, man. You, you.
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You really do. Make your mark like in the
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community bro. Which is nuts man.
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For real, for real. Like I never thought that
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somebody would be so recognized for doing this.
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That's the most Dennis esque move I know on grid.
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And then it's always like. Yeah, but dude.
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It's not right. Sounds right.
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We didn't even the drift community didn't know we even
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needed that. And then and then we saw you.
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I saw you at one event and I was like holy shit he needs to be at
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every fucking drift event. What made you start doing that?
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Oh man, that's that's definitely an amazing story that I just
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love to tell over and over. Well, good 'cause I want to hear
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here for it. Oh yeah, you guys are running
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for it. Doji on this one man.
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What the? Hell, man.
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Yeah, basically, you know, I've been to like so many events.
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Like sometimes it's hard to like keep track Cos it's like, damn,
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I've been to so many, it'd be hard to keep track of.
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Wait, I was at this one or wait, I remembered it.
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But yeah, basically, yeah, ever since I actually, well, when I
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was like 17, maybe 18 years old by would go to like one of my
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local circle tracks. Yeah, some certain drift events
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like once a month. One of my homies who used to, I
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wouldn't say you still does to this day, actually runs a slight
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Society D-Day events at Jefferson Speedway.
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Yeah, which is like 30 minutes away from where I live.
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Where are you from, by the way? Yeah, I'm from a lot of people
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will always, you know, ask me like, wait, I thought you were
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from Chicago because, you know, I always hang out with like
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Simba and like all like the Chicago OG dudes a lot at USA,
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which I mean, I understand. Like I get that with Yale.
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I'm always with them a lot actually.
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My family is actually, yeah, like my dad, my mom, like
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they're actually based out of Chicago, believe it or not, but
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ever since they moved out of there, they met and had me.
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Yeah, They actually, yeah. I'm actually from Madison, WI.
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Yeah, so. I'm, I was about to say, like,
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so it is true. Therefore, you're from Chicago.
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Madison, WI. Yeah, literally.
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Yeah, a Madison boy for sure. Yeah, lived there, Yeah, pretty
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much my whole life actually, which is crazy to think about.
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S Jefferson is by. There, Yeah, it's like
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literally, yeah, 3035 minutes away from me.
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So my yeah, we'll go there, hang out with my friend Mark, who had
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a Toyota Corolla, a 86 yeah, he would drift that thing or bring
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into like local car meets in Madison.
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Yeah, literally, he was just chopping it up with him at him.
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And yeah, pretty much just hung out with him a lot at like drift
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events there. And.
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But this is actually where it actually gets good.
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Coming around like 20, like late 2018, mate.
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Yeah, I want to say late 2018 when I actually worked at a
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Toyota dealership with the one of my heroes, actually, who I
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look up to so much and who means a lot to me.
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His name is Brian Peters. Yeah.
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Shout out to you, Brian, You every, every time.
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I always hang out with him and he just be seeing me like how
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I've been driving so much and going like all these events.
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He just be so stoked for me. Like, yeah, I I got to shout him
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out because he's the reason why I do what I do today is it's
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like, yeah, Brian, you're listening to this.
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It's all your fault bro. You've ruined Dennis's life
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single handedly. No dude, isn't it cool that you
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can like, pinpoint? Not pinpoint, but to identify
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somebody who kind of had that impact in your life.
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Like without this Brian Peters character, would you be doing
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like this stuff still, you think?
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I mean, I feel like I would in a way, yeah.
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I mean, I've always like, loved drifting ever since I was like,
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I want to say six or seven. Whoa.
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Although this is like hella cliche, but growing up playing
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Midnight Club, Need for Speed and you know, yeah, watching
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Fast and the Furious, specifically Tokyo Drift.
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Because yeah, Tokyo Drift is definitely the best Fast and
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Furious film. That is not cliche bro.
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Yeah, that's. Literally all of us, dude.
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That is our all of ours. Not pretty common story.
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A majority of our stories are kind of like that and like,
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yeah. Yeah.
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Give me a quote from Tokyo Drift right now.
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There's a guy in there with a Paul that owes me some money.
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A call. Go give me my money, gay.
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Yeah, it's always. Good when you ask for quotes for
13:30
those movies because like. We know them.
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Yeah, Frankie. Frankie, the random one that no
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one. Shocked the fuck out of.
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Me and that one I would have never.
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Thought of. I would have never thought of
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that one. Mine.
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Mine. What I'd done.
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I don't care if you're in bed with Beyoncé.
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I call you Show. Yeah, that's.
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That's. My friend Dustin's favorite
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line, he always says. Goaded.
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Dude, I remember watching that movie.
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I'm like, damn, man, how kind of serious, kind of serious like
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that. But dude, that that's what's
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nice is that since we all have that story, it is kind of, it is
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kind of cliched and cheesy if you think about it, because like
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now, now we chased our dreams, right?
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God forbid. Yeah, right.
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But like, since we have that commonality, it's kind of we can
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do shit like that. Like you say, give me a quote
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real quick. Like smash my freak.
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Like like. And you did.
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Yeah. So so you started watching all
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all all the normal, I'm sure you watch initial Dean and you had a
14:25
you had a drifting called Wander and I know you played Tokyo
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Extreme Racer. You had to have, I mean, OK, you
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guys are probably going to roast my ass for.
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This we're not. Roasting you.
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For sure, Dennis. I know of it for sure, but I'm
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gonna be dead ass with y'all I never played that game for.
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Real you. Had no idea what I was saying.
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I mean, I knew what you were saying.
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It's just like I never really found a copy of that game like
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ever growing up. I didn't play it until I was 28
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that. Was last year.
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I didn't hear about it either, so it's about way later.
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That wander name though, and it really was a pretty early game
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to have a bunch of customization in it and oh you because I had
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it on my P like I found AP at my old PSP and like.
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That was on there I. Missed No, I there was yes, but
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it was I didn't know that it was like the full, full ass game
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like I thought it was like a PSP version.
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You remember when PSP came out? Hell yeah.
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Did you have API? Used to have a PSPI played with
15:18
that club on that play? Oh wow, need for speed.
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Dude that was a crazy piece of technology.
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Yeah, I was thinking the same thing as.
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You talk about. Yeah.
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Need for Speed was my game. That thing had WI.
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Fi on it and everybody. Yeah, yeah.
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And you could play with people on the Internet.
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Yeah, yeah. Yeah, on the go, on the go, go.
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And then cell phones came out. And Yep, and but no, that that
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game like it, it was all just about gapping people.
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You had to like build highways, you had to build the gap long
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far enough and then you would win.
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And there's a team on there called Wanderer.
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So as soon as you said Wanderer and and that the name of the
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team Wanderer where or that that specific team was like the, the
16:04
bad boy team, it was like it was like, Oh, you got to beat the
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wanderer here. And it's like, and it's like
16:09
some ultra fast dude, you know? And like I saw that name and I
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was like this guy. So what?
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So what? Did you guys just call you just
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like the name Wanderer? That's even cooler.
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I. Think pretty much how that came
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to be. Well, I really got to it kind of
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goes back to like 20-11. This is like way before I
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actually like knew my closest friends back at home.
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They like one of them used to have a Mark 3 Toyota Supra and
16:39
one of them also used to have a Mazda RX8 that they used to
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drift around a lot at another. So yeah, circle track that was
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like quite some distance away from them.
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But that track no longer exists though, unfortunately.
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Lot of circle tracks. Bro yeah, I mean, that's like
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literally the only thing that was close by us Yeah, they would
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always hit that a lot. My homie Mark, who runs a slight
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society events at Jefferson Speedway I mentioned earlier
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yeah, shout out to you Mark. Yeah, he would host those events
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and yeah, they obviously, if I can remember the timeline
17:14
correctly, Yeah, they were the ones that used to like drift a
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lot. But then when I was like, yeah,
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I was 18 years old, like a fresh out of high school student, I
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worked at a Honda dealership actually.
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And that's how I, yeah, met my best friend Vince and my other
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best friend Foodie. Yeah, pretty much.
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Yeah. Literally just one random day,
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or actually not one random night because I was working the late
17:39
shift at Honda for sure as a lot Porter.
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Yeah, they lot, Porter. Lot Porter.
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Like the guy Porter cars around them, Yeah.
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Pretty much, yeah, I did that. And yeah, they pretty much like
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played like like some old YouTube videos when they used to
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like drift back in like 2011, 2012, 13 ish.
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And I was just like, holy shit, like this.
18:02
Is I'm like what? Like this this like all I used
18:05
to do. And.
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Shit and. I'm just like, super intrigued
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and yeah, next thing you know, like we all like started hanging
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out so much. And man, yeah, those guys, they
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really, really made a huge impact in my life too, where
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it's like they had like a bunch of sick cars.
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And I'm also trying to think if I could remember the time I am.
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I kind of have really bad memory but.
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Dude, no. You're given years.
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You're given years and that. Yeah.
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That. Frankie loves you.
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I'm sitting over here like Dennis.
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How old are you? How?
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About to say I actually just turned 25 like.
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Two weeks ago. That helps.
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That helps me figure out things a lot too, with the timelines,
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'cause I'm like, OK, so. And you said you were into cars
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when you were like 6. Yeah, a lot of people think I'm
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like much, much. Older.
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I was thinking you were around my age, like 33 or something.
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Damn. Yeah, 33.
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I just yo-yo yo. Whoa, the highest I've done like
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age wise I was 35 believe it or. Not yeah, I'm not trying to
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insult you. I'm just saying because you
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know, Simba and everything. So I was like, oh, maybe he's
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somewhere. And again, like I feel like
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everywhere I look, dude, you're just there.
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So I'm assuming like he's you've been doing this.
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That's. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
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Too So I'm just like damn, he just be tapped in with
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everywhere like he's just traveling around.
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Yeah, like you're only 25 and you've been like, Oh yeah,
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that's almost. How many tracks would you say
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have you ever counted before you've been to?
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Actually, wait, Jefferson, US Air Jesus.
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Christ, you mentioned Medford too.
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Oh yeah, and that ain't exactly around the corner.
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Yeah, yeah. Speed sports in Texas, OSW, some
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other track in Florida, I want to say.
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E town yet? No, no, don't you worry.
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Don't you worry. Go.
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To town for the longest time. Don't you worry.
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Oh. My God yeah bro I want to visit
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E town so bad because I love my East Coast homies so much dad.
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And also growing up watching Haggard Garage and yeah, Bryson
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Miata like back in good old days.
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Dude, tell me how awesome that was.
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Like the the early Haggard videos and I get to see Rudnick
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sometimes like randomly in passing and and I still am like.
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Dude, like that's Rudnick. And I know Malcolm watches
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Rudnick still. Like dude.
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Yeah, there. You go.
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But knows what's up. Yeah, like that really gave, I'm
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going to say hour 'cause I'm not 30.
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Damn. No, yeah, you're hour, you're
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29, but you're literally in the middle.
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But like our our Gen. Of like car people that those
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videos were one of the first videos where I was like bro.
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We can do that right? Literally.
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I I just remember calling Chris. Do you remember the video where
20:51
they turboed that Mazda Protege? That video is everything bro me
20:57
my best friend, like literally in high school I swear to God we
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would literally not do no class work, no homework.
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Goddammit. No, none.
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All we do is just boot up hacker garage, go boot up Ken Block J
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condom videos. Yeah, make Ken Block rest in
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peace. But yeah, that's all.
21:14
We would literally just watch Wash His Hagger Garage and yeah
21:17
Ken Buck videos. They they turboed that car and
21:20
it told me you can kind of do whatever you want if you want to
21:24
just try a little bit. I mean it may not work the best,
21:27
but I mean you can do the damn thing.
21:29
I called Chris like the one or one of the main tech sat faction
21:32
yeah, my best friend fucking calls me or I called him at the
21:36
time and said yo watch this video really quick Google type
21:40
this in type this in 'cause I'm I'm not texting him a link like
21:43
I didn't know. I don't think YouTube, yeah, had
21:46
that capability maybe yet. But I texted him and I'm like,
21:50
dude, we can do this. I I remember it to this day.
21:54
I'm like, bro, this is all we do everyday.
21:56
We need to start doing it. I feel like that probably
21:58
created who you are, Carl, 'cause you're a very like we
22:01
could do this, like you you. Know I think I just, I wanted to
22:05
do something like that and I saw them do it and it gave me the
22:08
like they were my outlet, like I would watch their videos.
22:12
What's his name? Cam.
22:15
Oh yeah, Cam the. One guy and and Orion, but Cam
22:19
specifically, I don't know why, but he had like the S13 and the
22:24
E36 and I was like, dude, those are kind of really nice cars and
22:29
like how are they doing this? Like probably like hauling mad
22:34
hours and just fucking getting stuff together just so they can
22:37
do stuff. Literally.
22:38
What a good. Dude, I'm thinking about that.
22:40
What a good time to be alive that was.
22:41
Oh, it was the glory days, man. Like 20/14/2015.
22:47
Yeah. I was doing.
22:49
Just like a freshman or a sophomore in high school at the
22:52
time, Yeah, I was watching them and man, I ain't a lot.
22:56
There was a time where I really, really wanted to be like those
22:58
guys. Yeah, dude.
23:00
But I mean, would you think that years ago that you would be
23:03
doing what you're doing now? Man, and if you would have told
23:07
me years ago that I'd be the hype man of the drift community,
23:11
travelling all over the place, yeah, I probably would have just
23:14
looked at you crazy. I didn't even go lie.
23:18
Dude, like because again, you're, you're right at the
23:21
front line bro, like you're kind of seeing what the hell is going
23:24
on every single time, right? So it was only a matter of time
23:27
till you start. When did you when did you start
23:29
drifting? When did that come into play?
23:30
Because. So pretty much when I I would
23:34
say actually if we go back to, I want to say late 2019, yeah,
23:42
when I used to have my red 8th Gen.
23:46
Honda Civic SI, which I used to not going to lie, that we did
23:50
use a kind of street race back in them yesteryears.
23:54
But I would also like all across it and even take it to the drag
23:57
strip. That is a that is like a Honda
23:59
Civic City. Dude, everything you just named
24:01
there is what? Honda Civic activity?
24:03
Yeah, pretty. Much I need.
24:04
Some Honda activities for sure. He.
24:07
Definitely like shifting like. How was that guy?
24:13
I mean I still do be that guy sometimes in my EP3 that I daily
24:17
drive your. Daily is an EP3.
24:19
You mentioned you had a civic again still Oh.
24:21
So I have a 2003 Honda Civic SI that I daily drive.
24:25
Is it silver? It is.
24:27
What? My brother has a silver one too.
24:28
Every EP3 owner has a silver one.
24:31
It's either. Silver or blue?
24:32
Yeah, it's always those two colors for sure.
24:34
The blue is nice. The.
24:36
Blue. Is kind of.
24:38
Fun. I don't know shit about Hondas,
24:40
but that blue isn't it. Yo, but.
24:42
But but so the civic. So the civic, you had the civic,
24:44
So yeah. I had the Civic.
24:46
This is like right around the time when, Yeah, my hero Brian,
24:49
he told me to go to find about Gallery 2019 when sexy nights
24:54
came. Yeah, like he talked it up then,
24:58
actually, Yeah, what really caught me in the going 'cause he
25:01
bought in one of his friend's drift cars to work and I was
25:06
like fangirling over it. It was ALS swapped RX8 and I was
25:10
like holy shit this thing is sick.
25:14
Yeah, ask him questions. About it and next thing you know
25:17
he tells me that yeah, we knew the same group of people in our
25:21
area he used to do like Formula D and I'm just like what used to
25:27
do Formula D but you're over here as a lead tech at a Toyota
25:30
dealership like what are you doing guy is.
25:33
This Brian Peters still, Yeah, still Brian Peters.
25:36
Brian Peters is is is is the plug right now.
25:38
Yeah, for real. Like.
25:41
I feel like I know that guy. Dude, I don't know.
25:43
Brian Peters is such a familiar name.
25:45
Like what did he do in Formula D?
25:47
How about to say he the car that I remember he used a driver line
25:51
even in final belt in the early days.
25:53
Like final belt 1 he had a blue FC RX7 that was 2 J swapped
26:00
actually. OK, yeah, I think I remember
26:02
that. Yeah, yeah.
26:03
That was a car. I'm not.
26:04
Sure. What team was he on then?
26:06
I want to say his team at the time, sorry Brian if I butchered
26:10
this, but I think it was Dollar Whisker.
26:13
I want to say how about? What in the fuck name?
26:17
What is it Dollar? Whisker.
26:19
I just remember seeing the sticker.
26:21
Yeah, yeah, it was dollar whiskers something.
26:25
Something like that. Yeah, OK.
26:27
I kind of remember. That's just what I vividly
26:29
remember just from seeing that sticker.
26:30
Yeah. Envy Miata that he drifts here
26:34
and there from time to time. Wow.
26:36
Damn, hold on. Wait.
26:37
Actually, I take back the fact that it's Dollar Whisker,
26:39
because now that it's Dollar Whisker, I'm never forgetting
26:43
what that is. Yeah, he's like, oh dude, I
26:45
know. That name?
26:46
Brian Peters, my boy. That car sounds familiar too.
26:51
Oh. Yeah, and.
26:53
For Frankie, though, he was at final bout 1.
26:56
I was at final bout 1 but I wasn't driving but I was there.
26:58
That's why I'm like, I'm trying to see if it's gonna like.
27:01
Trigger core memory the name something the name doesn't but.
27:04
Just like hit one of these real quick where it's like, yeah, I
27:11
know, but it it didn't, I guess A2J swap FC how many years ago?
27:16
That sounds like it would stick. Out that sticks.
27:19
Out you yeah you said that thing for I'm not sure if he has it
27:22
now but the motor pretty much the whole drivetrain my our good
27:26
friend Alex actually who hosts a daily drift competitions at US
27:32
air he actually has that whole driver training it is a wide
27:35
body IS300 now so I guess it kind of still lives on but the
27:40
chassis itself yeah I don't know what the hell he's done with it
27:43
either got rid of it or it's just in the shop just abandoned
27:48
collecting dust yeah I'm not really too sure but it still
27:51
lives on though. But then, so that was your
27:54
gateway there. Pretty much, yeah.
27:56
And then you were hooked. Ever since yeah, I literally
27:59
just said screw it, I'm just going to hop my 8th Gen.
28:02
Honda Civic SI. Drove 2 hours up north of
28:05
Shawno. Yeah, it was there.
28:07
Bought a ticket at the gate and next thing you know I literally
28:12
see. Yeah, like I see shit Dynasty.
28:15
I see. Yeah, garage moon power.
28:19
Yeah, animal style. Which event was this?
28:22
Which one? Oh, this was fine about Gallery
28:24
2019. 19, Yeah, yeah. First time I like ever went to
28:27
US air in general like. Just that was a sick event.
28:31
Yeah, it was. I saw sexy nights and all their
28:34
cars and I'm just like damn, I got to be risky devil because
28:38
they were definitely like me and my best friends back at home.
28:41
Like we've always looked up to them a lot like the junk house
28:45
days and all that stuff. I learned.
28:47
About that stuff so late, I feel like if I watched it like when
28:51
when I was really like getting into it, it would have like
28:55
accelerated. Yeah, definitely.
28:57
Cause again, like, I don't know why I can't even really think,
29:01
but like I don't even know if we were watching a lot of drift
29:04
videos back then. You know, I used to watch a lot
29:07
when I got into drifting. This guy, I don't know if he's
29:10
still doing anything drifting related, but it was name was
29:13
Offbeat Garage. His name was Adele.
29:17
He's from California, had a 240SX build.
29:22
One thing that about his channel that I liked was like 1 low key,
29:26
pretty funny guy. Oh yeah.
29:27
He made an intro and it hits, it hits so hard because he, he
29:30
would just like turn around at the camera like this, like, and,
29:35
and he would, he would just, it was a younger guy that was doing
29:39
stuff that seemed a little bit more feasible, like he was
29:42
showing us that it was feasible. Why does that name ring a?
29:45
Bell. Yeah.
29:45
Offbeat garage. Yeah, I swear it.
29:48
He aired up, he aired up his rear tire.
29:50
So he went, he took that car to Horse Thief Mile.
29:52
I remember we're going to go drifting for one of the first
29:54
times, me and Chris, he took it to Horse Thief Mile.
29:57
Big track, dual Cam KA on fifteens on Crown Victoria
30:01
wheels. This is this hatch, what, 15
30:04
inch Crown Victoria wheels. And he was like, yeah, I was
30:06
having trouble sliding. So I aired up the tires, the
30:10
60PSI. And me and Chris, that was mind
30:13
blown. That was the first time you
30:15
heard about here like. 60PSI. The decide ball says 40, what
30:19
are we doing? Like, and and then yeah, that he
30:23
just kept doing mods and stuff. And I remember last all I I
30:27
checked on his page, I think like years ago and he was doing
30:30
like Miata off road stuff. So I was like, oh, damn, I don't
30:32
know if he's drifting anymore, but really intelligent guy.
30:35
He worked on cars really well, built the cage, built this,
30:38
built that. I was like, damn, bro, like this
30:40
guy's really doing it. I hope that I don't know if this
30:43
would ever travel to him, but oh, he's doing good.
30:46
Like he had this other friend who is kind of still prevalent
30:50
in the drifting community. His name is like Nikita.
30:53
Nikita. What kind of car?
30:55
Hatch tail lights at send nudes vert I don't know at 13.
31:01
The third The thing is I I didn't watch YouTube till like
31:04
fucking four years ago I feel like.
31:06
I know you just made one of the most iconic drifting videos and
31:08
then like left YouTube. No, I just never like, I never
31:11
watched it, but I learned. I learned about all these guys
31:13
from Carl and Malcolm and other people.
31:15
And I'm like hearing Carl talk about I'm like.
31:18
That. The way he talks about it, I'm
31:20
like, these people inspired you. Like, wow.
31:23
Pretty. We didn't really have any
31:24
guidance. Yeah.
31:26
What am I gonna ask my mom or dad like?
31:28
Right. It's just like, it's it's crazy
31:30
how like influential, I guess YouTube is.
31:35
Yeah, it's a big deal. It's a pretty I don't know if
31:38
you guys would agree to this but it like shortcuts.
31:41
The part where I have to go meet you and and and like figure out
31:46
and talk to you about it, it's a shortcut.
31:49
It's because you're providing information in the video that
31:51
I'm assuming is not click bait. Definitely.
31:53
And then there you are, like, like Jimmy's videos.
31:58
Jimmy is so. You're so good.
32:00
The faction videos are good too. People use the faction videos?
32:04
OK, the thrash racing sizing. That video was a good one, I
32:07
will admit that. See, so like that kind of shit
32:10
is stuff that people will look at later on.
32:15
Years go by and people might not even know about that video and
32:18
then I'll just come up one day. You know what?
32:20
It was, it was like when I was when I was watching YouTube and
32:22
learning about cars, it was always like a just a random dude
32:26
in his garage. You only see his face and he
32:29
just turned in a wrench on something and you're like, oh,
32:30
that's how you do that. And then the video ends and it's
32:33
like 10 seconds and like, that's what we had to go off of.
32:36
Or forums. But I like that.
32:38
Yeah, because now. But now it's like they make a
32:41
whole brand for themselves, so you get to know the person and
32:44
everything, which is which is fine, it's cool.
32:46
Definitely. It's just different.
32:48
It is different, but those videos that you're talking about
32:50
are funny to me because it's exactly that.
32:53
Yeah, it's some dude, and he's like.
32:57
Let me just get to boy he is there.
32:59
No, he. Literally.
33:04
And then he drops the light on his face.
33:05
Yeah. Yeah.
33:10
And then and and those those how to videos tell me tell me if I'm
33:13
wrong too, but they the instructions were a lot more
33:16
vague. Oh yeah, dude.
33:18
So like and and I used to hate that, but the older I get, I'm
33:21
like, thank God, I'll go figure this out.
33:23
Thank you so much. Like it's like, all right, we're
33:25
going to take off the some basic, we're going to take off
33:28
the caliber here. All right, the caliper's off.
33:32
Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.
33:34
Now we're going to take the caliper off and we'll catch
33:36
catch back with you guys later, bro.
33:37
Now it's now it's all right guys, we're going to take the
33:40
caliper off. You're going to need a 10 mil,
33:41
12 mil, 14 mil, and you're going to take off this bolt, this
33:44
bolt, this bolt and this bolt off, which is great.
33:46
Oh yeah. That's great.
33:47
Amazing, but when I got to sit through a 16 minute intro.
33:50
Yeah, Anybody got to have an issue?
33:55
Everyone, you always see the videos that are real short.
33:57
People be like, thank you for making this clear.
33:59
And short literally like those are always the first comments.
34:02
Yeah. How did, how, how are you
34:05
learning how to like work on your cars now?
34:07
Because yeah, you, we, we, we've followed all the way to
34:11
Jefferson. You've now made it to your first
34:13
final bout for real with the, with the K20Z3 LSD trans 2008
34:17
Honda Civic SI that what I'm going to guess was orange.
34:21
Was it the orange, the dark burnt orange?
34:24
It's like a not a bright orange. It's like a red almost.
34:27
Yeah, pretty much. Is it that color?
34:29
It's like a brightish red. Yeah, it was red.
34:32
Had like a Honda factory performance body kit on it.
34:35
And I had TV 30 sevens on it too.
34:37
Oh shit. Yeah, my fall.
34:39
Down. Holy.
34:41
Shit, I was definitely peek Dennis right there in the in the
34:44
car seat until yeah, dumbass 20 year old Dennis decided to trade
34:50
it in for a clapped out Nissan 350Z.
34:53
Damn it was like dark purple and it was gutted, had a cage.
34:59
It was slammed on some Fortunatos stock wheels.
35:02
Oh no, somebody walked away with somebody wanted to get out of
35:06
the drift. Game, Yeah.
35:07
And and and they got a good daily.
35:11
Yeah, only from yeah, the dude who I traded in, he like flips
35:17
cars for a living. And yeah, I'll never forget.
35:20
Me and my best friend went there to like some fucking airport
35:24
hangar in Kenosha. Oh shit.
35:27
Yeah, I only know Kenosha because it's seven, that 70 show
35:29
just. I only know that Kenosha.
35:31
Because of airport stuff I. Know I know that's in Wisconsin
35:35
like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we passed it.
35:37
Kenosha, WI Yeah, that's where Eric Foreman lives.
35:40
Yeah, definitely. Yeah.
35:41
We went there and, you know, literally just I mean, I knew it
35:46
was kind of AZ, but you know, ever since I went to final belt
35:51
and I started going to like club Fr events at US Air a lot now
35:55
I'm just like, yeah, I really want to commit to this now
35:57
because I got so bored and just sick and tired of just like
36:01
front wheel drive, like just, you know, dealing with my local
36:05
Madison car scene. It was just like, yeah, I'm
36:09
tired of this shit, Grandpa. That's how I was feeling.
36:12
So you were. You were just going to these
36:14
events to spectate and meeting people and.
36:16
Pretty much exactly. Yeah, I did that.
36:19
And yeah, got the, got the Z Yeah, St. drove it home, which
36:25
was I'll never forget. It was far.
36:27
How far? From Kenosha to Madison, it was
36:31
like an hour, 30 some minutes. OK, this is a good test drive
36:37
length. Like shit can go bad.
36:39
In that time, yeah, definitely. OK.
36:40
And so how? Interstate driving the whole
36:42
time. But you made it.
36:45
Yeah. OK.
36:45
All right. Thank God.
36:46
But it was. But it was memorable.
36:48
Very memorable, but also I'm. Just like flashbacks in your
36:52
eyes right now, yeah. The real flashbacks was I
36:57
haven't really had the chance to because this is like, I want to
37:00
say, yeah, this is October or November 2019.
37:06
Yeah, literally pre COVID. Yeah.
37:08
Then yeah, it got cold. Never had the chance to like
37:11
take it to the track or drift there.
37:13
I basically just stored it in my mom's garage.
37:15
And yeah, she was real pissed at me for yeah, getting rid of my
37:20
Honda Civic for a clapped out as 350Z.
37:23
Yeah, stored it there most of the time.
37:26
And literally as spring came, yeah, during COVID, because, you
37:30
know, the whole world was just out of control at the time.
37:33
And I was going to eventually take it to US Air for a drift
37:36
day. But yeah, at the time, you know,
37:39
who knew? Yeah, what driftments were going
37:41
to be like. And it was also at the time I
37:44
got laid off from the Toyota dealership that I used to work
37:47
at. Damn you Toyota God.
37:49
Yeah, I'm like, oh, well, whatever.
37:51
I mean, I wasn't really that much of an essential worker, so
37:55
I was like, whatever. Yeah.
37:57
So I sold the 350 ZI actually. Oh God.
38:02
What? What?
38:02
No. Well, no.
38:03
This sounds good. This sounds good.
38:05
What happened? So yeah, after I got laid off
38:09
from Toyota. And yeah, this is also around
38:13
the time when the government was giving out them good old
38:14
sticking his checks. Collected, yeah.
38:16
What a great time. Yeah, collected, Dad.
38:20
This is around like Mother's Day, actually.
38:22
I, Yeah, asked my mom if she could follow me to Chicago, IL
38:28
because the dude who wanted to buy my car so bad.
38:31
Literally. Yeah.
38:32
I think you lived in like Michigan, I want to say.
38:34
So we met halfway in Chicago. Yeah.
38:36
St. drove that thing all the way from Madison to Chicago, which
38:39
is like a two hour and 30 minute drive.
38:42
Very, very sketchy. Just slam.
38:45
Just. Bouncing.
38:47
I'll yeah, bouncing the whole time.
38:49
I'll never. Forget you were not on the
38:51
silvers coilovers back then. No, I was on them good old
38:54
Fortunato's. Oh yeah, yeah.
38:56
Which actually are not bad, usually not bad I.
38:59
Enjoyed it, although my car was clapped as hell.
39:01
But still like I. Really enjoyed them.
39:03
Coilovers. Yeah, the amount of times I will
39:06
hit up my local business park and yeah, we'll go St.
39:09
Drifting. Oh, so you did get to mess
39:11
around. Yeah, a little, but me sucking
39:14
ass and didn't really know much. Yeah.
39:17
I was worried that you bought it and then COVID hit and you got
39:21
rid of it and didn't even get to drift.
39:22
I mean, kind of, yeah, kind of, but still, I sucked.
39:26
I literally would just go to like some spot and yeah, I would
39:29
just suck ass head doing Donuts and figures.
39:31
I was basically just being like, yeah, on some old slideshow
39:34
takeover shit. But like, you're by yourself, so
39:37
it's like, or maybe with some friends, but like, you weren't.
39:41
Oh yeah, target locked. Yeah, I would literally if I had
39:46
the chance, although it was cold, like I was just like, hi,
39:49
I guess I'll take the car for a drive, like hit up this spot,
39:53
you know, just 'cause it was cold as hell and yeah, I really,
39:58
yeah, couldn't drive it anywhere.
40:00
So yeah, I literally just driving around the blocker.
40:02
So then it's like, hi, I've had my fun time to put this shit up.
40:06
It's too cold. So I do that and.
40:10
So you went to go sell it. You drove it down there.
40:12
Yeah, drove it to Chicago. Yeah, me and a dude, Yeah.
40:16
Went on a test drive and yeah, he enjoyed it.
40:20
Like, I mean, he knew it was kind of a missile drift car, but
40:24
I swear to God, I'll still never forget to this day, too.
40:27
Like literally after I yeah, sold a car to him, went back to
40:30
Madison and he was in Michigan. He literally hits me out
40:34
literally like a few hours later is like dude this is the best
40:37
drift car in the. World.
40:39
He sends me a video of him like drifting at like some junkyard
40:42
or some compound. I'm like, like in my head I'm
40:46
just like, what the fuck? Would you send me this?
40:48
I mean, this is your car. I mean, you signed the title,
40:51
OK, whatever. But it's like bro why don't you
40:54
send me this like. Yeah, it's kind of weird.
40:56
Like, I don't give a damn. There's like.
41:01
Dude I know if I just sold the car and the kid texted me back,
41:05
I thought that was going to go so different because when people
41:09
hit you up after you sell them something, by the time it's a
41:13
bad thing, sounds like he got happy so.
41:17
Yeah. So then you move from that to
41:20
where the IS right away. Oh, no.
41:22
So yes, you mentioned. G35 earlier, so that's why I'm
41:25
like, did you have other cars? So spring 2020, yeah, I sold the
41:30
ZI was what the hell was I driving at the time?
41:34
Oh yeah, I had my my amazing Honda Accord that I daily drove
41:38
that I missed so much with a good old slipping trans and I
41:41
drove I drove that mofo everywhere for drift events.
41:44
I drove into Minneapolis. I drove into Chicago, drove all
41:49
over Wisconsin. I think I drove it to Michigan.
41:51
Maybe, maybe not. With the slipping trends, the.
41:54
Whole time, Yeah. I even drove it to Iowa for a
41:57
drift event. It lasts me like I want to say
42:00
two years. You just name like 7 States and
42:05
two years is kind of a short period of time.
42:07
Driving like 19 hours around that is this.
42:11
I feel like shit's about to take off in the story, Like, Oh yeah,
42:14
like. So your Honda accorded up now
42:17
like and you pretty much how many miles would that you named
42:20
like 7? That's got to be like at least
42:22
10,000 miles. Oh yeah, worth of driving.
42:25
Sounds, yeah. Just trips.
42:27
Just trips. Yeah, not even just like you
42:29
going every day, just randomly driving.
42:31
Oh yeah, pretty much What? A trooper Honda Accord.
42:33
What a vehicle. I ain't gonna lie, that's
42:35
definitely one of the beater cars I miss so much.
42:37
I had one too, but I feel like they really made that car for
42:40
tall people for real. Like it was, it was fitted for
42:43
like a little bit taller people. Yeah, I mean, no one say I'm not
42:46
that tall. I'm only like 511 or so.
42:48
Yeah, not even. Six, brother.
42:50
No, don't. Don't, don't, don't.
42:53
Only only say that just 'cause I.
42:54
Said I'm not even that. Tall.
42:56
Bro even I'm over here like 5-11 is tall.
42:59
As tall as hell. That's 62 in the winter when you
43:02
got the Timberonis on, dude. Yeah, what the heck?
43:06
You got the Butters on? You're gonna be 6.
43:08
Two. I only say that just 'cause I
43:09
have 6263. Shit, one of my other good
43:12
friends is like 660. Wow yeah I have so many tall
43:15
friends. That's why I'm just like, yeah
43:16
I'm sure it is. Hell, I forget.
43:18
Sometimes it's just wild, like I don't realize I'm short as hell
43:21
until we take a picture together and I'm like, I look.
43:24
Dumb. I used to be short then now all
43:26
my friends are Filipino and I'm like oh I guess I'm tall now.
43:28
Oh yeah, like it's so a. Lot of my homies are mong
43:31
Cambodian and they're just like yeah 59 by 8, maybe shorter than
43:37
that. I was like, oh OK, I feel good
43:39
5. 11 is a good height. You know what's sick, you know
43:42
what's sick earlier or or maybe when we were at at extreme
43:45
graphics for the pre meet, we Martina walks up to me and
43:51
someone else. It might have been Austin
43:55
Jimmy's. Yeah, yeah.
43:56
Yeah, you. Yeah, Austin.
43:57
I guess like team. Yeah, yeah, he's a videographer.
44:00
Pretty much. Videographer, friend.
44:01
Yeah, family, but we're all standing there and Mike just
44:05
walks up and goes this right here this is good height this is
44:09
good height right here and I look at him and I'm like, yo,
44:11
you know what? I actually kind of do feel way
44:14
taller now. Like this feels really weird
44:18
but. I.
44:19
Never realized that shit like that kind of thing.
44:22
But OK, Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck Honda.
44:24
Accord is is for tall people, that's the only reason why.
44:26
We I never. Thought about that.
44:27
Yeah, I know. I do know that the transmissions
44:29
slip all the time though. Yeah.
44:31
Yeah, those transmissions, I mean, I, I knew that when I
44:34
bought it from a good homie of mine at the time, but hey, I
44:38
really needed a beater car at the time because yeah, literally
44:41
bought it two days after I got my 350Z, believe it or not.
44:45
Oh, so you knew you needed a daily?
44:48
You probably picked up the Z and you were like, yeah, this ain't
44:50
going to work. Definitely.
44:53
That's probably what. It was.
44:54
I was like, because the red Civic at the time, yeah, it was
44:57
my only car, Yeah. And I still yeah, St. drove it
45:00
everywhere, took it to work. But that's different though,
45:03
bro, You're not. You're not throwing this thing
45:05
at the direction of a curb hoping not to hit it.
45:08
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, true.
45:09
I have fucked up front wheel drive cars with curbs.
45:13
Oh yeah, you told me. About that, yeah, dude, bad
45:18
dude. It's just 'cause I thought, I
45:20
thought there was an in between period that when you had the
45:23
front wheel like the civic, Oh yeah, that bro, you meet your
45:26
friends that drift, all of a sudden you, you drop everyone
45:29
off and now you're like, damn, I just want to.
45:32
Yeah. And then the.
45:33
Front wheel drive car does that and then you try to go get on
45:36
the gas again and then you're like.
45:38
Yeah. And you're like, oh damn it,
45:39
this is wack. I need to get out of this.
45:42
And the amount of times I have snowdrift in my front wheel
45:45
drive cars like my neon. Neon.
45:49
Yep, 2001 Dodge. Neon.
45:52
Oh my, that was. My first car when I was 16,
45:56
yeah. Dude, the neon.
45:58
The Neon. Talking about you talking about
46:00
news for speed I. That the only other person who
46:03
has been on this podcast that has mentioned the word neon is
46:06
Halcyon photo because he has. Yeah, that's right.
46:10
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I also love watching his videos
46:14
growing up a lot because I also like went to car shows a lot.
46:17
Yeah, Tuner revolution. Yeah, first time I went, I was
46:21
like a 18 year old kid at the time too.
46:24
Yeah, went to Tuner Revolution Chicago 2017 and yeah, I
46:29
remember mean the Yeah, one of my favorite Instagram models who
46:32
I love so much. Oh my word to this day.
46:34
Instead of Oh my word. Monroe.
46:37
Oh, wait. Thick ass blonde Shorty.
46:41
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I might, I might know.
46:45
I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't dabble on.
46:47
That. You know what I'm saying?
46:49
Just. Happened to Malcolm's laughing
46:50
down there. Just just happened to notice
46:52
Malcolm might know her too, to be honest.
46:56
Yeah, you do, bro. Yeah, you do.
46:58
I'm going to. I'll pull up a photo.
47:00
You're going. You're going to know.
47:03
So you got to meet her there? Yeah, that's cool.
47:05
Actually went to that car show with my mom, actually, Yeah.
47:10
So I pretty much took my mom to her first car show and she
47:12
enjoyed herself and understood, like, why?
47:14
I really love going to those things.
47:16
That's cool. Oh.
47:17
Yeah, it was. I think I.
47:19
Might have went to a tuner evo and met.
47:26
I don't know if she's still around, but there was this
47:27
Instagram model named Tiana G. Bro OK.
47:30
Tiana G. Are you going through the
47:34
archive right now? Not a lot of say.
47:35
Yeah, I'm going through the archive.
47:37
Tiana, Gee, I don't know if she's still around, but dude,
47:40
she had some yams on her. Oh gosh.
47:45
No way you. You got to, you've had to have
47:47
known and like, I'm not a big Instagram model person, but I, I
47:51
remember going to that car show and.
47:54
Like. I was just like, whoa, like God
47:58
damn. Like and yeah, again, definitely
48:02
remember that one. Like it was tuner Evo.
48:04
It might have been weak fest, Tuner Evo and like no, it was it
48:07
was Wackfest or weak fest, whatever you want to call it.
48:09
We still don't know the name Yeah, for.
48:11
Real. No, but I definitely remember
48:13
that I'd. Go with both, yeah?
48:14
But OK, so you, you, you 18? You mean you meet faith?
48:19
Yeah. And now your mom knows why
48:21
you're going to car shows. Yep.
48:23
Pretty much back when I had my Integra GSR sedan when I was 18
48:28
and. Wait, you had mad cool?
48:30
Cars with the man. Dude.
48:32
I had AI had agsr 2 but mine was 2 door.
48:36
Oh man, mine was a four door. It was a white 4 door Integra
48:40
GSR sedan. It had grey leather interior.
48:44
I lowered it on some rotor slipstream wheels.
48:49
Right. It was one of those cars that I
48:50
missed so much. Yeah, it was like my second car,
48:53
like I had the Neon and the Integra.
48:55
Yeah, I bought it like spring 2018.
49:00
I want to say. Yeah, I bought it then.
49:03
But then six months later down the line, yeah, unfortunately I
49:08
got T boned in a car accident and I almost died.
49:11
Oh fuck yeah. They said if I would have hit
49:13
the light pole or like yeah if I would have hit the light pole I
49:18
could have died in airbags. Didn't go off.
49:20
Literally just got T boned by a 2018 Cadillac Escalade.
49:24
Shit, wow. I'm devastated.
49:27
Did that, did that affect how you viewed cars and all or like
49:30
driving? I know a lot of people get in
49:33
like accidents and then like. I mean, for a while we did, but
49:37
since this was like many, many, many, many motherfucking moons
49:40
ago, it's like, yeah, I'm, I'm over that shit.
49:42
So it's like, yeah, but still, it was just like, it was one of
49:47
those cars that I really missed so much.
49:49
And even in my local like car scene in Madison, when all the
49:53
folks would bring their Hondas, I was definitely the talk of the
49:56
town. Oh, that's that guy.
49:58
Even someone, yeah, even some of the dudes were like built
50:01
Hondas. They would always, you know,
50:03
were curious and they just love my car.
50:05
I'm just like, man, I'm going to be just like this 18 year old
50:07
kid with the clean Airs Integra GSR sedan, you know?
50:10
What? Wait, wait, how the how did the
50:12
quarters look? Is this why?
50:13
How did the quarters look? The back right where the bumper
50:17
bumper meets. Rest free.
50:19
That's why you're going to have OG Honda people looking at their
50:24
I always walk up and if the if I'm cool with the owner first,
50:28
but like I walk up and I'll put my hand right in the rear
50:31
quarter section and just. Give it a feel.
50:33
Give it a little. Feel just give it a little slap
50:34
and tickle just to make sure it's not all bondo.
50:37
And then like if you see one too that at least my Integra came
50:42
with them. But there's these like rubber
50:43
strips that come inside the wheel well.
50:46
Mine had that and the first thing I did when I picked it up
50:48
was RIP them all off. Because it traps water.
50:51
Yeah, like it will hold the water, the salt, everything.
50:54
And then when I bought my GSR, it was a California car that was
50:58
in Connecticut. Oh wow.
51:00
So. Yeah, that car was probably one
51:02
of the nicer cars I've ever owned.
51:03
Probably, yeah. Matching Vins, matching motor,
51:07
matching trans. Every panel had the VIN, I just
51:11
didn't want one that has stolen shit on it 'cause I didn't want
51:13
like I didn't know what the repercussions were for them back
51:16
then. Like I was a kid.
51:17
I'm like, if I have something stolen, they might arrest me.
51:20
Like for real? But dude, damn, that sucks about
51:22
the integrity. One, glad you're OK.
51:23
Oh yeah. Two, what did the Integra, like,
51:27
open you up to? Like, 'cause now you had to get
51:30
another car? Oh yeah.
51:31
Or did it go to the Civic right away?
51:33
Pretty much, yeah. After my accident with the
51:35
Integra, this was like, I want to say fall time 29.
51:44
No, fall 2018 is when it happened, pretty much, yeah.
51:48
Got cashed out by my insurance. Yeah, save that along with them,
51:53
yeah, just saving up paychecks throughout the winter.
51:56
But then when spring 2019 came, that's when I pretty much bought
51:58
the red 8th Gen. Civic SI and yeah, that's when I
52:02
started to pop back out again in the car seat making plays, yo,
52:06
pretty much. Dude yo from Integra to SI that
52:10
was probably. Oh, it was a big ever since I
52:14
had that 8th Gen. I was like, yo, I'm definitely
52:17
going to be that Kay is the way guy.
52:18
Oh my, it's like I understood the hype.
52:21
There's but and and those since they have the good trans like
52:24
you could you could launch it and it would do the because I
52:28
had a open diff in my GSR. I didn't I didn't know anything
52:30
about LSD or whatever the fuck I wanted to do ITR trans on it.
52:34
Dude. Back then you could have bought
52:35
an Integra type R trans for 600 bucks.
52:37
Yes, dude. I wish I knew more about Hondas.
52:39
This shit sounds sick. Dude it was fun, but then I.
52:42
Still love my Hondas to this day.
52:43
What ended up happening was is you do this launch and you don't
52:46
get the what like with an open diff, If it's just yeah and then
52:55
it'll like catch, it'll catch, it'll catch.
52:56
And then an eighth Gen. went by once and did it like 'cause
53:01
there's a factory 2 step, it's not technically 2 step, but if
53:04
you have it in neutral or first and to clutch in it'll like only
53:08
Rev to 50 you which happened to. Be you perfect.
53:13
Like. Let it.
53:15
Go Yeah, dude. That.
53:18
That that those cars were sick and like as donor cars, like
53:21
they were perfect. Wait, So what year did you have
53:25
2000 the red 1? Oh what year that I bought the?
53:29
What year was the car? Oh, it will.
53:31
Oh, the year of the car. It was the 2008. 2008 which was
53:35
the. Newest car that I've ever owned.
53:37
So is that engine the same one that's in like an RSX or
53:39
something? They had like little
53:42
differences. Yeah, little slight differences,
53:45
but relatively the same. That was the car I wanted on.
53:49
Remember that? Me too.
53:50
Yeah, the RSX. RSX I had an RSX the RSX E.
53:54
RSX. Dude, it was, it was called the
53:57
RSX E dude, because I didn't have the one you probably
54:01
wanted. Type S.
54:02
Yeah, yeah, I had a base purple like blueberry looking thing and
54:12
I got it from a pastor. Oh it.
54:14
Had it? Had it had Tanabe springs?
54:18
Wait, what stock? Struts.
54:20
He did all this. Yeah, no way, bastard.
54:23
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was an auto and it had
54:28
a Tanabe medallion exhaust. That's that's a good.
54:31
Exhaust. Yeah, it is it.
54:33
Is Tanabe medallion exhaust everything else bone stock?
54:36
Damn the radio, everything. And then I use it to commute an
54:40
hour every day. I know where all those, where
54:42
all those church donations were going now.
54:43
Yeah, yeah. But I bought it for really
54:45
cheap. The the the Hatch had this huge
54:49
like gall. I don't even know how.
54:50
So you ever look at a dent and you're like, how the fuck does
54:52
that happen? I have no idea how this
54:54
happened. It was the most strange shape
54:56
and it was like in the. Weirdest spot, probably hit it
54:58
with a cross. Maybe, yeah.
54:59
Maybe some weird shit. But dude, I just remember we
55:02
call it the RSXE because it was actually the slowest thing I've
55:05
ever had. Like like we would be, we would
55:08
be able to have a difference. Between a type S and that.
55:10
The the the base came with AK 28 the.
55:17
So it's still AK? 20 I wanna leave yeah, it's.
55:19
Still AK 20, there's AK 20, but it's like the K20 that comes in
55:22
like a base accord. Do you?
55:23
Know the difference between them?
55:25
Yeah, the K28 or the K20Z3, whatever the that one that comes
55:32
in his in in dead specific. Yeah, that's the one where you
55:37
got more power pretty much. That used to use a little bit
55:39
different. The intake manifold was a little
55:41
different. Definitely the trans, that was
55:44
the big one. It had LSD, that was the big
55:46
one. So interesting because they're
55:49
like they're 4 cylinder NA motors.
55:51
So I'm like what could? Be what could be so.
55:53
Different. Dude, no, it you fucking know
55:57
dude. And there's a video, I have it
55:58
somewhere where we're from, a dig like it's a highway where
56:02
you have to stop and then it's like go.
56:05
So obviously I'm gonna fucking and it's just like.
56:08
All right, let's go. And we're going to Atlantic
56:10
City, I think. So I'm fired up and I'm like,
56:13
yo, let's go. We're gonna fucking verb zero to
56:15
60. Real quick and.
56:16
I'm already, I'm already flooring it and I'm just still
56:19
yelling at the camera like ohh sure this thing is flying.
56:22
Camera. No way. 45 miles an hour.
56:26
Were you joking or were you like no this?
56:28
No, it's, it was really slow and then.
56:30
But The thing is, it sounded so perfect.
56:33
Did it sound like it was going fast as.
56:35
Fuck yes that's why. That's why Tyler was yelling and
56:38
zoomed into the cluster. Shit, said 40 something miles an
56:41
hour. That was that was the arc state
56:43
with Miyagi. It just sounded like it was
56:45
ripping and it was just going so painfully slow, like crazy.
56:53
Bro I mean yo like just because it's slow like that car brought
56:56
me around for at least two months until it died.
56:59
I still want. To I want to get a Honda one
57:01
day. Man, that sounds fun.
57:03
When you guys talk about it, it sounds fun.
57:05
It's a nice car, but it is. I can't get over the fact that
57:09
if there's a rainy day and I want to do something dumb really
57:12
quick, I can't. Yeah, it's a totally different
57:15
type of. I can't get that.
57:17
I can't get away from it now. Like for real, I need to be able
57:21
to. I don't even want to have to
57:22
drift it, but if I get in the car and I feel like doing
57:25
something dumb it needs to be. Able to drift.
57:27
Yeah, that's agreed. It's my favorite dumb thing to
57:29
do like. Damn right.
57:31
Is that why is that? Is that why?
57:33
OK, I need to know how this is. Yeah, I need to know how oh did
57:37
you sold the Z and then what happened?
57:39
He got AG, he got the G. Alright, so I sold the 350Z like
57:44
around Mother's Day 2020, got laid off from Toyota.
57:48
Collect the stimulus checks. Yeah, we could.
57:51
We could. We could play me.
57:52
Got that? Sam.
57:53
That was City, Man. What a great time, right
57:56
Malcolm? Time to be alive.
58:00
Man, Malcolm was living in those days.
58:01
Bro, we were all living. I was at Malcolm and Princess's
58:04
very nice apartment. Yeah, let's.
58:08
Go OK. Bro dude, like it was a fun time
58:11
and now we're here. Y'all were living.
58:13
I was panicking. Yeah, meanwhile Frankie's
58:16
worried about losing everything he's ever worked for.
58:19
Me and Malcolm are fucking going to Wawa and drinking 818 tequila
58:23
on a Tuesday. No, it was a good time.
58:24
So it was a good time it. Was just.
58:26
Bad like we we was not leaving. Nice to be doing shit.
58:30
Same with me too, especially when I turned 21 during the
58:32
pandemic. Oh yeah.
58:33
Oh yeah, wow, it. Was great times.
58:37
Great times. Great times.
58:39
Good time to go St. drifting now.
58:40
Oh dude 1000% that was just. Yeah, that we did a little bit
58:46
of this. So Fast forward to fall 2020.
58:51
Yeah, that's when I'm pretty, Yeah.
58:53
Around like October 2020. That's when I bought the G
58:55
sedan. Yeah.
58:56
Bought it from an old friend out in Chicago, IL, actually.
59:00
Yeah. Took it for a test drive.
59:02
Went to like some business park late at night.
59:05
Yeah. Did some St. drifting.
59:07
I was like, yeah, this is a good car.
59:09
Wait. The test drive or after you
59:11
bought it? The test drive.
59:12
That's the test. Drive literally swear to God
59:14
shit's. Different in Chicago.
59:15
Yeah, if I was on a test drive and the dude was like, hold on,
59:18
let me turn right here. I'm like, I would.
59:21
Yeah, I mean, it's yours. I mean, he asked.
59:23
And you know, one of I was just like, sure, like I'm down to.
59:26
What he offers, oh, he's awesome.
59:28
That's different. That's different.
59:29
So yeah, he offered Which. He knew how to sell a car.
59:31
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, literally bought it that night.
59:35
Oh yeah, it was late as hell. I want to say.
59:37
It was like it was almost like past midnight or so.
59:40
Me and dude. This sounds like a bad that's
59:43
that that you could have gotten I'm.
59:46
Gay or I'm. Late at night going through the
59:48
South Side of Chicago. Holy shit.
59:50
Oh yeah. Robot a car in O block?
59:52
That's crazy. I mean my family from the South
59:55
side of Chicago. So I was high.
59:57
Yeah. My homie though, I was like,
59:59
yeah, bro, just stick with me. You'll be high.
1:00:06
Oh my God. That's me.
1:00:09
I'm friend and I'm sitting there going, hey, Dennis, late.
1:00:12
Yeah. We go.
1:00:12
Yeah, where are we going? You start seeing signs like,
1:00:15
wait, it's late. So you get this G and things are
1:00:20
Cobra setting. You can take the car home
1:00:22
obviously. Did you take the car home right?
1:00:23
Yeah, which I don't know how, but yeah, it was also around
1:00:27
like fall time when it was starting to get cold and yeah,
1:00:30
you know, how was Midwest winters salt the roads and all
1:00:34
that shit starts snowing. So I pretty much had to store it
1:00:37
again. But on some random moments when
1:00:40
I had time, like I'll take it out, I'll go St. drifting again.
1:00:44
And yeah, Fast forward to yeah, this is springtime 2021 now it
1:00:50
was the season opener club Fr at US Air.
1:00:54
I've decided to, Yeah, actually purchase a Yeah, I bought a
1:00:59
ticket to drive that Saturday. Yeah, I remember.
1:01:03
Yeah, I pulled up. Yeah.
1:01:05
I got tech inspectives hanging out with some of my friends at
1:01:08
Jefferson Speedway that I mentioned.
1:01:10
Yeah, in the early days, pitted with them.
1:01:13
And yeah, it was my first time, like drifting US air.
1:01:16
So I definitely went to the skid pad to show Simba burst speed
1:01:21
mic and all the Ogs. How much of A shitty driver I
1:01:25
was? Hell of you asking.
1:01:27
They can. They can tell you it was like
1:01:29
the build. Up was so great for.
1:01:32
Because usually how it is that like every club Fr van like if
1:01:35
you're a new driver or like you know, you haven't drifted in so
1:01:39
long or just want to like test and tune your shit real quick
1:01:42
before you go out on a track yeah, you you instantly get sent
1:01:45
to the skid pad right away. We're just.
1:01:48
That place where we're all. Yeah, where is the?
1:01:49
Skid pad. So where the booth?
1:01:51
Is. I don't know.
1:01:52
Yeah, pretty much where the skid pad is, like at the main
1:01:56
entrance by the registration building.
1:01:58
So if you were to go through like the forest, kind of like
1:02:02
the woods, like where the little water hose is at towards that
1:02:05
area, yeah, if you pretty much go through there, yeah, that's
1:02:07
where the skid pad is at. They like have two cones where
1:02:10
you can do doughnuts and figure A's.
1:02:12
And if you can show the Ogs that you pretty much have good
1:02:15
control of your car, then it's like, yeah, they pretty much
1:02:17
just get on. That's cool.
1:02:20
That's sick as. Soon as I got those doughnuts
1:02:22
and figure A's down. Learning tips from Simba Bear
1:02:25
Speed Mike, my homie Mark who ran Slight Society at Jefferson
1:02:29
Speedway yeah and my homie Core 2 also had AG 35 sitting in at
1:02:34
the time. Yeah, he taught me some shit
1:02:36
too. So once I pretty much got those
1:02:38
down, that's when I pretty much went to intermediate.
1:02:41
Swear to God I've only did like 3 laps and literally on my third
1:02:47
lap as I was sucking ass so bad. I even have a GoPro clip of this
1:02:51
too, which. Oh no, no, bro, what's about to
1:02:53
happen right now? Literally after the sweeper, I
1:02:58
winning. Yeah, I, I want to say I like
1:03:01
went into where it's like a dirt drop so bad I broke my power
1:03:05
steering rack. Right off the yeah.
1:03:08
Pretty much right off the rim. Broke my power steering rack.
1:03:10
Like. My drift day was cut short.
1:03:13
How'd you break it? He yanked out the car.
1:03:15
Or like, you know what? Maybe you dreaded and.
1:03:17
Pulled it or pretty much I don't, I don't know.
1:03:19
It's just so weird how that happened.
1:03:21
Like I just remember like I was sucking this and I was like,
1:03:26
yeah, I went in and I was almost like going towards the grass and
1:03:30
just boom. I just remember my steering
1:03:32
wheel just like going towards more this way.
1:03:34
And I wasn't even going towards the left.
1:03:36
I was Oh my fucking God, I was, I was heated.
1:03:41
So I pretty much just parked it for the rest of.
1:03:43
The day and you drove there, obviously.
1:03:44
Yeah, I St. drove it too, but I also St. drove it back, which
1:03:48
was. Hold on a minute.
1:03:51
Yeah. With it, yo with it fucked up.
1:03:54
I do know that that's possible 'cause I I told the story where
1:03:56
I hit the curb and I did drive it home as well, but I also was
1:03:59
like 20 minutes from my. House So the rack, the rack was
1:04:02
fucked up or was it like a tie rod?
1:04:04
There was. I think the rack was fucked up
1:04:06
and I had the street driver two hours back to Madison and it
1:04:09
was, I mean, luckily my my homies were behind me in case
1:04:12
anything bad were to happen. Yeah, which it didn't, but
1:04:14
still, I would never forget that.
1:04:18
So that was 2021. Yeah, it was pretty much spring.
1:04:22
Yeah, April 2021. So now are you?
1:04:24
Are you working with them yet or no?
1:04:27
Not I mean I want to. Know where this this thing, this
1:04:30
connection this. Is where we're starting to like
1:04:31
get in so. Just escalating pretty quickly
1:04:35
because now Dennis is at his track day and already broke
1:04:38
something. Yeah.
1:04:39
So you're a drifter now? Yeah, yeah, pretty much a drift
1:04:41
guy. Yeah, actually, it all started
1:04:43
since 20. Yeah, late 2020 before I even
1:04:47
got the oh it. Did OK, that's why I was asking.
1:04:50
Like I kind of asked or actually, yeah, literally I want
1:04:54
to say the next day, or like during that time when I had the
1:04:59
GM broke my shit, I asked if I could be able to, like, staff
1:05:01
their events because they will always see me pop up.
1:05:03
Like 2019 when I first went there, 2020 shit during the
1:05:08
whole pandemic when it was a fucked up time, but we still did
1:05:10
drifting. Yeah, yeah, went there.
1:05:12
Yeah. As if I could staff.
1:05:14
Next thing you know, although John Kim is a shy dude, but hey,
1:05:17
shout out to you. I think he was the one that put
1:05:20
me on starting grid. On intermediate.
1:05:22
Yeah, Did starting grid, yeah. Basically had the flag.
1:05:26
I had control of the drivers and everything.
1:05:28
Next thing you know, I was just having way too much fun just
1:05:31
surviving out of my own little world.
1:05:33
Once I had control of it and like the flow and everything,
1:05:37
then yeah, that's where. It you locked in for real?
1:05:40
I started to get locked into this shit and I was just like,
1:05:43
yeah, I got to keep doing this. This is fun.
1:05:47
That's cool, man. It's also like when you're
1:05:50
getting sent off grid like that, you're the last person I see.
1:05:53
So like if your energy's up, then my energy is going to be
1:05:56
pretty high. I do like to keep my energy
1:05:58
pretty high in the car because I have music blasting like I
1:06:03
always have it. Blasting.
1:06:04
It has to be. I can barely hear it too.
1:06:07
Like I, I, I literally I, I just, it's just so that when I'm
1:06:10
getting off grid, it's playing in my brain and then we go and
1:06:13
I'm that that lap is to that song.
1:06:15
Yeah, that's my favorite. Literally came.
1:06:17
In here. Like but like beginning like
1:06:20
right when you go. Out and actually it depends on
1:06:22
the the turn on the turn and the track, because like sometimes I
1:06:27
can hear it and like then I'm I'm that means I'm in there
1:06:30
going ha ha ha, like fucking like singing, like fucking like
1:06:35
there's, there's a clip of me on my fucking Instagram where I'm
1:06:37
literally just coming off the bank and just going yeah, boom,
1:06:41
fucking just like throwing it. I definitely do the same shot.
1:06:47
Dude I want to drift now so badly.
1:06:49
I know, right? So, OK, so but that car you got
1:06:53
there, Frankie does not. Frankie and Malcolm were right
1:06:56
in the back. They do not say the cars are
1:06:58
nice that often. Yeah.
1:07:01
And we really. Was riding smooth.
1:07:03
Smooth as fuck. That's crazy.
1:07:04
Wow. Yeah.
1:07:06
Dude, that's like such a, that's such a left field car for some
1:07:09
people to get into drifting. Definitely underneath that.
1:07:13
What's the suspension like? Is it easy to work on or is it
1:07:15
hard to? Is it hard because?
1:07:16
It's a newer car I. Mean when I was doing like some
1:07:19
small maintenance on him, it's relatively easy.
1:07:23
It's not too bad. Yeah, it's like.
1:07:25
And it's a welded bin there in the back, yeah.
1:07:27
Oh no, it's a 410 LSD from GT86 BRZ.
1:07:32
It's AY 38 diff see boom, that's an IS that's AIS subframe that I
1:07:38
know it. I know it for a fact that car
1:07:40
when my car breaks, my car has a salvage title or a rebuilt title
1:07:44
and it where it's welded in half.
1:07:46
I'm almost positive it's going to break like.
1:07:49
That's not the case, yeah. That's crazy.
1:07:52
It'll it'll have the rear end just gonna be driving past and
1:07:55
I'm gonna be like damn, God, Jesus.
1:08:02
But but that car quick, that car.
1:08:04
I love that, yes, because it was, it's still kind of an older
1:08:09
car. Oh yeah.
1:08:10
But like a little newer, but not a lot too new definitely.
1:08:13
It feels way different than your car.
1:08:14
Yeah, inside. Like, you know why?
1:08:16
Because they don't have the Rolex.
1:08:17
Yeah, in the dash that that is the best.
1:08:20
Part about my car it. Is the best part.
1:08:22
I didn't even go dude, that's the.
1:08:24
Out of that chassis, I just that's one of the most and the
1:08:26
tails they got the tails that are started.
1:08:29
All. Alteza tail like movement, but
1:08:34
dude, that's a that's a real out of a ordinary car because a lot
1:08:38
of people don't even know that that came manual.
1:08:40
Where the hell did you find that?
1:08:41
Yeah, a lot of times. Oh man, I'll never forget the
1:08:44
first time I actually encountered that car.
1:08:46
One of my buddies who, yeah, still does from time to time,
1:08:49
drift the US air events. This was season opener 2023 when
1:08:54
I pretty much made a comeback. Yeah, after I took a break from
1:08:57
travelling and going to drift events and shit after 2022.
1:09:02
Yeah, I literally yeah. I just remember seeing that car.
1:09:04
I'm just like what the hell, Highest 250.
1:09:07
I was just, you know, oh, in the eye and just looking at him.
1:09:11
Yeah, met my boy Isaiah, who had it before me.
1:09:14
I was like, dude, this thing is sick.
1:09:16
Like I just remember seeing him just hot lapping.
1:09:19
Like never saw him, you know, fuck up or never saw a break or
1:09:24
anything. Like he was literally just hot
1:09:26
lapping for days and I was just like, yo, that's that guy.
1:09:31
That's the car. Yeah, that's the one.
1:09:33
The next thing you know. Yeah.
1:09:36
Fast forward to 20. Yeah.
1:09:38
Find about special stage NW actually.
1:09:41
Like I just remember he posted it up for his sale.
1:09:43
And yeah, like I commented was just like, bro, what are you
1:09:47
doing? Don't get rid of this thing.
1:09:49
Like it's an amazing car. Literally as I was.
1:09:52
Yeah. During final bell, like he hits
1:09:54
me up and says, I mean, you know what?
1:09:58
Screwing I I guess I can say the price, you know, I don't even
1:10:02
care. He literally said like, dude, 6
1:10:05
grand, you can have it. And I'm just like, let me see if
1:10:08
I can take out a personal loan from my bank.
1:10:11
Next thing you know, they I don't know how, but they
1:10:14
approved my ass, which, oh, I guess I do have good credit.
1:10:18
So yeah, literally the second as I flew back home from fun about
1:10:23
special stage Northwest from Portland, Yeah, literally just
1:10:27
with the Janesville, which is like 45 minutes away.
1:10:30
Yeah, bought it the next day. Nice.
1:10:32
And now this, yeah. And that's what replaced the G.
1:10:35
Pretty much, yeah. After three years of not driving
1:10:39
because I sold the car, like, yeah, springtime, yeah.
1:10:43
So the G sedan, Yeah. Spring of 2021.
1:10:46
Wow. Yeah.
1:10:47
So you had it for not a long time?
1:10:49
Pretty much, yeah. I don't know how, but all my
1:10:51
cool cars, yeah, they never last long.
1:10:54
Well. The thing about your story too
1:10:56
is like you're doing grid, you're doing all that stuff.
1:10:58
So it's like if you're doing grid, then how are you drifting
1:11:01
these events? You know what I mean?
1:11:02
Like you'd have to drift certain events and then work other ones
1:11:05
and definitely go back and forth.
1:11:07
So there's a good minute with no drift car I guess.
1:11:10
Yeah, pretty much. Like throughout that time too,
1:11:12
especially 2022 actually was really when I started playing
1:11:20
Aceto a lot and got my own SIM ring being planned.
1:11:24
I knew it bro. I fucking knew it.
1:11:26
I didn't even know that. It gets better, though.
1:11:28
It's not just the SIM ever since I drove my homies well at the
1:11:34
time it was my best friend's dad's car.
1:11:37
He let me drive his 16 valve, a 86 Corolla AUS or a six event
1:11:44
yeah, drove that thing, although it was it was definitely
1:11:50
interesting work. But ever since I learned how to
1:11:53
drive that thing and even shit, even like last winter actually,
1:11:59
when I was in Texas for a six event with me and Hiroshi
1:12:03
Takahashi. Yeah, shout out to you, Kaicho
1:12:05
San. We yeah, we shared a right hand
1:12:09
driver 16 valve 886 Corolla. Yeah, drove that thing and my
1:12:15
homie Tyson. Yeah, shout out to you too, bro.
1:12:18
Bro we yeah, we had a A6 event down in Houston.
1:12:24
Yeah, Houston, TX at the Houston Police Academy.
1:12:27
Yeah, I drove his Levin Hash which was S2000 swapped.
1:12:31
Yeah, I have 20 Swedes in that bitch, probably flying it.
1:12:34
Was raw, snappy and aggressive and dude oh man I yo I loved it.
1:12:44
Dude, that's I haven't driven. We talked about this in the car
1:12:47
briefly, but I didn't, I didn't, never really had to, never had
1:12:51
the opportunity to drive one. But, but I'm not even going to
1:12:54
hold you. I'm not even going to hold you.
1:12:56
And I don't know if this might not upset people, but I don't
1:13:00
really care for it anymore because of one reason and it is
1:13:03
not a mechanical reason. I love the way they sound.
1:13:06
I love watching them drift. Definitely.
1:13:07
But now I don't want one because when I walked up to one there
1:13:10
was 1F action. A beautiful one, dude.
1:13:13
It was a hatch. It was silver GTS.
1:13:15
Everything was whole. So it was like the perfect one
1:13:18
for me to like see up close and just look at it.
1:13:22
But when I walked up to the door and I opened it, the door was so
1:13:27
long I just closed it back up and I just didn't even.
1:13:31
Bother. Looking.
1:13:31
I didn't even get that. It was so long and in the photos
1:13:36
and and from far away, you would never think that.
1:13:40
And and from somebody like me. And I'm going to quote Josh
1:13:42
Rebgasm because when you're in his car, he's like, I'm a really
1:13:45
sensory person. And that was that.
1:13:48
That immediately was like so off putting to me that like I was
1:13:50
like, I actually don't even really like.
1:13:52
This and the big ass window frames and.
1:13:54
Every dude, it's so weird in there.
1:13:55
I feel like I wouldn't look cool in there.
1:13:57
It's. Weird.
1:13:58
Toyota does do that sometimes. Certain cars, they make the
1:14:01
doors like that, like. Not, not the IS.
1:14:03
Yeah, IS. Doors are pretty short.
1:14:05
Even in this one, the proportions of things are still
1:14:08
pretty. And.
1:14:10
The back doors although these ones are bigger but my car the
1:14:14
back doors are like that long small.
1:14:15
These are small too. It's.
1:14:17
Barely a door like I'm like for real sick like, but dude, the is
1:14:22
that 250? I think it's going to serve you
1:14:24
pretty fucking well. It's drive.
1:14:26
Smooth as hell, dude, ever since I started driving that thing
1:14:29
this year when I bought it, like it's literally, if not once,
1:14:34
usually twice a month, I'm always at US Air just doing like
1:14:37
some staff labs or not just have a day where it's like I'm
1:14:41
literally just driving all day. And dude, it hasn't skipped AB
1:14:45
like it, it's honestly the best car that I've ever bought.
1:14:48
Like I'm literally just yeah, like I drove my local circle
1:14:52
track at Jefferson, only bought one pair of tires lasting me all
1:14:56
day. Had so much fun, drifted in the
1:14:59
rain. Oh dude, in the rain that car is
1:15:03
probably fun as. Fuck.
1:15:06
What? Man, yeah, dude, for sure, man.
1:15:08
I have a. Car in the rain.
1:15:09
Oh my goodness, do. You know who has this car too?
1:15:13
No. Willy Will Ortega.
1:15:15
Yeah. That's right, Will, Yeah.
1:15:16
He's got a six. Speed 1.
1:15:18
He was height as hell when you found out that I got there.
1:15:20
Because not a lot of people have.
1:15:22
It not for real. Not a lot.
1:15:24
Like, I know my homie Chris out in the Pacific Northwest, he has
1:15:28
one 'cause I know I was hanging out with him for a little bit.
1:15:31
Yeah, for the panic Grand Prix. And yeah, he had his car out and
1:15:35
he took me for a ride along and it was.
1:15:39
Yeah, like, it's my boy. Like, sorry, Chris, but I ain't
1:15:43
gonna lie, bro, when you took me for a ride, it was rough.
1:15:46
So I feel like you was really, really fighting the car more.
1:15:50
I mean, grip driving it, Yeah, you was kicking ass, but
1:15:52
drifting? Yeah.
1:15:53
I'm sorry, bro. You need to get yourself some
1:15:55
easy knuckles telling you it'll change your life, that you can
1:15:58
really, really hook that hoe. Is that what's?
1:16:01
In there right now, that's a easy knuckle.
1:16:03
Yeah. All that's done to my IS250 is
1:16:06
silvers, coilovers, 22K in the front, 18K in the rear.
1:16:10
Yeah easy knuckles and Y 38 LSV. Other than that, that's it.
1:16:15
Bone stock, nothing else done. Interesting.
1:16:18
Yeah. Damn, I was.
1:16:20
It's. Like AZ, it's like one of those
1:16:22
cars, you just buy it and you. Drive it.
1:16:23
Literally. Yeah, I.
1:16:25
Can't believe that Easy Knuckle has something for that car.
1:16:28
Yeah, you meanwhile I can't find a body kit that I like.
1:16:33
Yeah, and, and and Easy Knuckle is making something for a car
1:16:36
that not a lot of people are putting time.
1:16:37
Right. I'm curious if it shares.
1:16:39
It probably does. It it has.
1:16:41
I need I don't know What Car I would share with. 06 is what?
1:16:44
That's 110 territory. Feel like all those Toyotas are
1:16:47
the same in the phone. The suspension I.
1:16:50
Don't know. But they're very similar.
1:16:52
It's kind of hard because I know what the your eye is for sure.
1:16:55
And like JZX is, they're very, very compatible for sure.
1:16:59
Very so very much so. Like I, I found out that that's
1:17:03
the only way that I can get JDM's or well, JDM stuff like
1:17:07
suspension wise, like I would need to get 110 coil overs if I
1:17:10
wanted to get like Aragasta ones, whatever.
1:17:14
But that's, that's the only way that I could do it.
1:17:16
Is, is cross referencing shit. Oh yeah, yeah, I think it's, I,
1:17:20
I do think it's nuts and not nuts, but I think that it's nice
1:17:24
and good that people get to see you on grid, but they will also
1:17:29
see you driving. So it's not just like you're,
1:17:31
it's not just like you're there just right causing a ruckus, of
1:17:35
course, which sometimes happens on grid.
1:17:37
Yeah. Like that, that's that's.
1:17:41
Amazing dude. Hopefully you're do this for as
1:17:45
long as your knees will allow bro.
1:17:46
Exactly. Because there's no way you're
1:17:48
not getting sore. The day after that is the goal.
1:17:51
I'm gonna keep doing this shit till my legs give out which is
1:17:56
yeah no time soon 'cause I'll go different.
1:17:59
Yeah, where'd you get all your dance moves from?
1:18:01
Oh man, that's also another coolest story I love to tell.
1:18:05
I've always, I've always been into dancing and like break
1:18:09
dancing and yo, even sometimes when I'd be going out to
1:18:13
nightclubs. Or, you know, like be twerking
1:18:15
and. Relieves.
1:18:17
Damn, I'll literally just be showing off my hype man moves
1:18:20
and boy oh boy do I be the center of attention.
1:18:24
Dude, there's nothing. Wrong with you.
1:18:26
You are at these events. Too, Like, yeah, half the time,
1:18:29
dude. Like, you know how you, you, you
1:18:31
run into that one friend in the club that'd be doing hitting
1:18:33
one? Of these oh.
1:18:36
Yep. No, I don't.
1:18:37
That's that's you. You know who that's not either?
1:18:41
Malcolm. Malcolm.
1:18:43
Malcolm is a set. Of attention too.
1:18:45
Yeah, that's cool. Yeah.
1:18:48
You know what's good, You know what's up?
1:18:50
Yeah, you guys are going to be dancing at some point.
1:18:52
Yeah. But I'm like, I'm like, you got
1:18:59
all these moves. Like it has to be some kind of
1:19:01
like history with it. Honestly, with yeah, with my
1:19:06
dance moves, a lot of it be improvised, just, you know,
1:19:10
random shit I can think of in my head.
1:19:12
But ever since I started watching good old Step It Up
1:19:17
movies, You got served stomped the yard.
1:19:20
Yeah. All those dancing movies that
1:19:22
came out like in the 2000s, it's like, yeah, yeah.
1:19:25
They also had a huge impact in my life too.
1:19:28
I've always been so jealous of break dancers.
1:19:30
I think that shit is sick. I.
1:19:32
Love, I'm not even gonna hold you if I I was lying if I.
1:19:34
Tried I dude. Yeah, you definitely.
1:19:37
Tried. I was out there sick Googling
1:19:40
how to windmill on YouTube. Just like Justin Francisco,
1:19:43
right? Dude, I this is about as far as
1:19:46
I could go. Was like that little like step
1:19:49
that people do. I want to.
1:19:50
See it before we leave here. I'll do it right now.
1:19:52
OK, you can do on the table, why don't you do on the table?
1:19:56
Oh man, I wish everyone could see this shit.
1:19:58
Oh shit, Carl. Oh.
1:20:00
Talk your shit, talk your shit. And then in the YouTube video,
1:20:04
in the YouTube video, the dude's just like, what you're going to
1:20:06
want to do is you're going to want to kick your leg up high in
1:20:08
the air and then pick up the other one and start spinning
1:20:12
around. Now I'm like it's like the
1:20:15
windmill, like what it's like 1 foot and then it's shoulder goes
1:20:19
down and you roll on your back. And you're supposed to.
1:20:21
You're supposed to be staying widespread.
1:20:23
And like, as a kid, I was like, I'm going to look weird doing
1:20:26
this. And then what do you mean you
1:20:28
got to? Do I swear the the windmill and
1:20:33
all the layers? Yeah, the windmill and even just
1:20:36
doing like backflips, those are the one things I cannot do or
1:20:39
have the confidence. In can't do that stuff because.
1:20:41
It's like if I knew how to do those like you'll you'll bin bin
1:20:45
see Myers do this shit on grid. Yeah, but it's like fucking
1:20:48
backflips on grid for. Real, he said.
1:20:51
If I was able to do that, you fucking.
1:20:53
Know. Exactly.
1:20:55
That's why I'm just like, yeah. Dude, I couldn't get in.
1:20:59
I couldn't do it. It takes a pretty decent amount
1:21:01
of like awareness of your body and I don't have that.
1:21:04
For real. Have you ever thought about
1:21:06
doing like having less, taking lessons or doing anything like
1:21:10
that, or is it just kind of like a side?
1:21:12
Thing I have been taking lessons actually really ever since I
1:21:16
hung out with my amazing friend Chokesy back at home who, yeah
1:21:21
my best friend Vince is like really close with 'cause they
1:21:23
would always go to like EDM shows and raves and yeah they
1:21:28
pretty much taught me how to like shuffle and do all that
1:21:30
stuff yeah ever since I started to get pretty decent at that
1:21:34
yeah every time I'll always hear just like EDM music and you know
1:21:40
all that stuff like I'm always just shuffling a lot just
1:21:43
hitting it like you definitely shuffle it's like I'll shuffle
1:21:46
but then I'll just improvise with some of my own like dance
1:21:49
moves and yeah that's pretty much like how I would just like
1:21:54
yeah just go crazy with. It Well, whatever you're doing
1:21:56
is working. Oh yeah.
1:21:57
The first time I saw you at US Air, I was like, like I said
1:22:00
before, I was like, I didn't know we needed to someone like
1:22:03
this, but. Holy shit do we need.
1:22:05
Someone like this because this is the best fucking event ever
1:22:08
so oh. Yeah.
1:22:10
We got that. That kind of goes into this.
1:22:12
We, we, you know, we, we asked the questions and shit, yeah,
1:22:14
we, we have F&B asking what your favorite dance move is.
1:22:18
Oh my favorite dance move. Oh man, I got so many.
1:22:22
Oh jeez. Damn, you see, I'm pretty good
1:22:27
at like giving in names and like what it is.
1:22:30
Because I was going to. I'm trying to think in my head
1:22:32
if somebody asked me this question.
1:22:34
Because I'm dancing bro, I'm blacked.
1:22:37
Out. I can't remember anything that
1:22:39
what dance moves that I'm doing or moving or just.
1:22:42
I actually, I actually do have a good dance move.
1:22:45
It's one of my like, I guess kind of a signature dance move
1:22:49
is actually a based off of a old video game I used to play.
1:22:52
I don't know if you guys are familiar with or heard of Def
1:22:55
Jam Fight for New York. Oh dude.
1:22:58
Yeah. Malcolm's over here.
1:22:59
Yeah. Hell yeah.
1:23:00
Oh. Yes, you know, there was this
1:23:02
one character called Crazy Legs. Every time you activate his
1:23:08
blazing move, which is like one of his signature fighting moves,
1:23:12
like he'll literally just start like punching you do a spinning
1:23:16
kick Dick and he'll like break dance and he'll like have his
1:23:20
legs up in the air doing like a twirling hand spin.
1:23:23
And, you know, he'll literally just like, kind of do like a
1:23:25
little front flip. And yeah, I call it or in the
1:23:30
game it's called Rock Steady. So it's like, yeah, I call it
1:23:35
the Rock Steady. As goofy as a sound on this.
1:23:40
Yeah. I'll pay homage to Crazy Legs
1:23:42
because. I do have crazy, you are crazy
1:23:44
legs. I was, I was scared you're gonna
1:23:48
be like Tekken, that that was a game of like where I think of
1:23:53
somebody would dance with fighting.
1:23:55
Yeah, the dance moves. And I think of Eddie right away
1:23:58
and doing the Eddie. Eddie in that game does that
1:24:01
little thing that I was doing. Oh, OK.
1:24:02
He's just always doing it. Yeah.
1:24:04
And then when he kicks bro, he like gets mad low and just like
1:24:08
like it was it was such a. Cool.
1:24:10
It was such a cool character. Bro did you play Tekken?
1:24:12
I would say. I played with a little bit with
1:24:14
my uncle when I was. It's literally just a button
1:24:16
type of Yep, definitely. But yeah, no, that that's the
1:24:20
only I thought you were going to say that at 1st and I was like,
1:24:22
oh hell. Yeah, for someone who's young as
1:24:25
hell, I have such an old soul, Like playing like all those old
1:24:30
games or even just listen to the old music and whatnot.
1:24:33
That's really just where I get it from.
1:24:35
So much 'cause yeah, listening to just like old school music
1:24:39
from my grandparents, like some Motown stuff, 'cause they grew
1:24:42
up in the 60s and 70s because I was raised by them at a very
1:24:46
young age. Like I'd always listen to the
1:24:49
Temptations 4 tops the Al Green really just like that.
1:24:55
Old. That's like a faction.
1:24:57
Playlist. Yeah, that's.
1:24:58
Cool, it's all Christmas playlist.
1:25:00
Listening or even watching Soul Train, I'm just like, yeah,
1:25:04
that's really Robbie. Just getting the good vibes
1:25:06
from. Yo the old school dance moves on
1:25:08
Soul Train when there there's a clip in my mind specifically of
1:25:12
my man's in the orange. Shirt I do exactly.
1:25:15
He was going with. That.
1:25:18
You and and his eyes are straight.
1:25:21
You fucking beaming hard. I gotta beaming hard.
1:25:24
Like really? Oh yeah, yeah, you know, he on.
1:25:27
Homie was on that booger sugar. Yeah, he, he, he did.
1:25:30
He did some nose beers. Crazy.
1:25:33
Damn. But like, he's just going off.
1:25:36
And my favorite thing is that all the comments are just like
1:25:39
man's in the orange shirt getting it.
1:25:43
Yeah. That that's definitely me in the
1:25:45
nutshell, minus the book of sugar.
1:25:48
Dope, Yeah. Yeah, being on Soul Train
1:25:50
probably would have was fun as fuck.
1:25:52
Oh hell. Because I.
1:25:53
Love to be on that. What did you say that that was
1:25:56
kind of, dude, that's kind of early.
1:25:58
What do you call that? Like would you call that like
1:26:02
social media? But not really.
1:26:04
It's just social. It was an early social.
1:26:06
Yeah. Early social, but it was.
1:26:08
Broadcasted, and that's why I'm calling it like media, like a
1:26:11
media social event. But like, they, they casted
1:26:16
those dancers. Yeah, like, they're all people.
1:26:18
Pretty much. They want to go on, they want to
1:26:20
be on Soul Train. Why'd they get rid of that?
1:26:22
Why'd they get rid of it? They got Instagram and onlyfans
1:26:24
now with like with. White ass, yeah.
1:26:27
Like. For real, I should bring their
1:26:30
bag. I ain't gonna lie.
1:26:31
I mean, you could only. Bring that only bag.
1:26:35
Whoa, that. Shit's on Reddit for free, I
1:26:37
guarantee you. That every day, dude, I try to
1:26:48
not try, but I wait for the day that an idea happens when we all
1:26:53
can unite the people that we have run into.
1:26:56
Like it would be you on grid or or we have a dance party and
1:27:00
like I would like to incorporate something like that.
1:27:03
Nick and his crazy, crazy marketing schemes.
1:27:05
Incorporate Nick. If he hasn't met Nick yet, he's
1:27:08
going to love Nick. Yeah, you definitely.
1:27:10
Yeah, Nick of Auto Win 456, he's a Front Street guy, big guy.
1:27:15
I would say maybe I met. Him, yeah.
1:27:16
You'll probably meet him tomorrow at some. .0 word you
1:27:19
would. Yeah, you would know.
1:27:20
Like fucking yeah, like. Word.
1:27:23
Very, very New Yorker. Yeah, somebody.
1:27:25
I can't believe somebody asked him to say the word coffee.
1:27:28
That's like. She's she.
1:27:32
Said can you say coffee and I just picture a Dick in his
1:27:34
serious ass voice. Coffee like.
1:27:40
Yeah, you're going to love that guy.
1:27:42
I love. It I think he can match your
1:27:44
freak. You know what I mean, dude.
1:27:46
Oh dude. Why?
1:27:47
Why is Ang Ang Dean 135 saying ask him to say hamburger buns?
1:27:54
Hamburger buns? Why?
1:27:56
Why is that? Do you know this person?
1:27:58
Why wait? Can I?
1:28:00
Can I see? Yeah, show him.
1:28:01
Mange, Dean, 135. Oh yeah, freaking uggs.
1:28:10
Oh, I Angela. Yeah, hamburger buns.
1:28:14
Shit. Yeah, that's, that's my homie's
1:28:19
wife. Yeah, my homie.
1:28:21
I think he's like, in Texas for work or something.
1:28:23
So he couldn't make it here, unfortunately, which I'm sad
1:28:26
about, but it's OK. Hey Trey, if you're listening to
1:28:29
this, I'm gonna dance my ass off just for you bro, bro.
1:28:33
Will out in Oregon asks yo how was the shit box G35 at Affinity
1:28:39
a few weeks ago? Did you drive the G?
1:28:42
The communal G over there. I did and yeah will, I'm sorry
1:28:48
bro, I'm I'm struggling. I was fighting it.
1:28:52
It's yo still not the move. What?
1:28:58
What didn't you like about it? What did it need?
1:28:59
A little, Just an extra 10%. It was just a just a missile
1:29:03
car, like one of their rental cars, like the arms were bad.
1:29:06
And it's been through some shit in life because I remember
1:29:11
driving it last year for the first time.
1:29:13
I, yeah, drove in, had my fun. I mean, I was shredding a
1:29:17
little, like I linked a few terms, but then I remember
1:29:20
posting it because the rear end was kind of smashed and
1:29:23
everybody thought that I fucking wrecked it and I'm just like,
1:29:26
guys, no, I promise I didn't. I I didn't.
1:29:29
It wasn't me. It wasn't me.
1:29:30
I promise. Like, I ain't the best, like the
1:29:33
fighting about guys, but I promise you I'm not shit either.
1:29:37
So it's like, yeah, I had to. I had to point that out.
1:29:40
Like, no, I did not wreck it, but yeah.
1:29:44
Where he shop for clothes at? Man's always fresh to death bro.
1:29:49
You see the pants. You see the pants.
1:29:51
Yeah, I'm about to say Yep, Yep, I.
1:29:53
Got the Bucky I got. On them, I mean, it's night
1:29:56
time, so it's like I had to bust out the the boosies.
1:30:02
I love boosies bro. Dude.
1:30:04
Well, brisket on the board right now would be so.
1:30:06
Hard. Don't don't get me started.
1:30:08
Don't get me started, bro. I swear dude.
1:30:12
But yeah, really? Oh man, I'll never forget during
1:30:16
the pandemic I would the doobie spend so much of my unemployment
1:30:19
money on the shirts tucked in merch.
1:30:22
Oh my God. Yeah, I would buy like.
1:30:24
Their track suits. Bought some gloves like got so
1:30:28
many of their bomber jackets. Got this shirt tucked in, hat on
1:30:32
right now. I do love what's what's his
1:30:36
name? So Casey.
1:30:38
Casey. Yeah, he does have a good eye,
1:30:41
First off. Yeah.
1:30:42
And he drives like. Fucking drives like a mad name.
1:30:44
Yeah, what the hell? Yeah, he got the juice.
1:30:47
He got he definitely got the juice most.
1:30:51
This is a great question because I definitely wanted to ask this.
1:30:54
What's the most memorable drift event?
1:30:56
I know we talked a lot about D days, we talked a lot about
1:30:59
final belt, but do you have anyone in specific that you
1:31:02
could like pinpoint? Oh man.
1:31:05
Where you were like, I don't know sometimes, right?
1:31:07
Recently I've I've had these moments where it's like, I want
1:31:10
to remember this and make sure I try to remember this.
1:31:13
Jeez, I've been to like so many events where it's just that's
1:31:16
why. And I travel all over the place,
1:31:19
man, honestly. I mean, I know I said that fun
1:31:22
about Gallery changed my life forever because I was just like
1:31:25
a young 19 year old kid. Yeah.
1:31:28
Who? Yeah, some dude used to do
1:31:31
Formula D Yeah. Peer pressure me to go up there.
1:31:34
I feel like Yeah, find about four really only because after I
1:31:41
did find about gallery in California back in the summer of
1:31:45
2021, and I also did find about gallery also summer 2021 at US
1:31:51
Air. Yeah, started to get big in the
1:31:53
West Coast, got big in the Midwest for sure.
1:31:56
Met all my Midwest homies. Yeah fine.
1:31:59
About four when I wore my shirt. Stucked in jumpsuit.
1:32:02
Jumpsuit. I remember that that was my
1:32:04
first final bout. Yeah, that was it.
1:32:06
Yeah, and I definitely remember seeing you in the denim suit.
1:32:11
Yeah, that was. When I really made my big debut.
1:32:14
Yeah, that might have been when I first.
1:32:15
It was fucking drizzling. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like
1:32:20
drizzling 'cause you know every fucking fight about it always
1:32:23
raining. But it was.
1:32:25
Gloomy. It was definitely gloomy out,
1:32:27
like it wasn't. I don't remember.
1:32:28
Yeah. Yeah, dude, what the fuck?
1:32:31
Yeah. So yeah.
1:32:32
Tomorrow's gonna be insane. For real, my God, just thinking
1:32:36
about it and I'm just like. That gallery event gets
1:32:41
mentioned so many times, like, but no, no, no, not, not just
1:32:47
'cause it's it was really good. But the people that I've been
1:32:50
meeting here, they're like, who was the one guy who said when
1:32:54
was the last time you were here? And he said gallery.
1:32:57
Damn. I can't remember, but that that
1:32:59
was three or four people that I've spoken to.
1:33:03
Was it Damon? It might have been Damon on on
1:33:05
Camryon Bronze, yeah. Oh wow.
1:33:08
But like, that was the last time he was here and I've spoken to
1:33:10
other people and the last time that they were here was also
1:33:12
gallery. That guy at at Lee's house
1:33:16
walked up to you and said the last time that I was at final
1:33:19
bout was at gallery as well. Like this one this year 7.
1:33:25
This is a big. One is just like attracted every
1:33:28
single demographic and person from all over the place and it's
1:33:33
kind of nuts. For real.
1:33:35
It's really nuts. Like and everywhere we go it's
1:33:38
just mad. Like I'm just like, God damn.
1:33:41
I think this is, I mean, I said it before we left, I was like, I
1:33:44
feel like this final bout is going to be a.
1:33:45
Oh yeah. One for the books for.
1:33:47
Sure, it's Debbie. Go be a doozy.
1:33:49
For real. Can't wait to see you out there
1:33:51
too. Dude.
1:33:51
I can't. Wait to show you all my special
1:33:52
costumes. Oh shit, how to say the one I'll
1:33:55
be wearing for tomorrow on Saturday.
1:33:58
It'll be definitely something that you all will remember
1:34:01
forever. I've worn it before.
1:34:04
I just decided to bring you back from the dead because it's my
1:34:06
price possession and I've always kept getting meme for this for
1:34:09
the longest time ever since I war.
1:34:12
So yeah. I can't wait.
1:34:14
I'm I'm bringing that bag just goes screwing because why not
1:34:17
and I'll probably get meme for it again.
1:34:19
So. Yeah, yeah, fuck that.
1:34:22
But Sunday, because usually every final belt, I'm always
1:34:25
wearing some flashy and wild and interesting, like on the
1:34:29
Saturday, but Sunday I'm just wearing just normal clothes.
1:34:32
But Sunday, it was definitely a last minute improv where it's
1:34:37
like, yeah, I'm bringing my other costume.
1:34:39
OK, I mean. I'm going to consider it a
1:34:40
costume, but it's like. Yeah, so we got outfit changes
1:34:43
and everything, OK, so yeah. Sunday it's like it's another
1:34:46
one that y'all probably will remember too, but Saturday's one
1:34:50
that was like, yeah, it'll be the one.
1:34:52
Yeah, that's. Amazing dude.
1:34:55
Just 'cause. I love that shit.
1:34:57
Dude, we those are all the questions because we've been, I
1:35:02
kind of like that we've been posting them kind of quick.
1:35:04
Right. Well, yeah, it's also like, I
1:35:06
mean, I don't know when people are listening to this, but we're
1:35:08
recording this shit at 11 at night, night before final bout
1:35:12
in the conference room of the Borders and.
1:35:15
This is kind of sick. I'm not going.
1:35:17
To this is the hotel that all of us club Fr staff members yeah
1:35:19
yeah for like like for fat ass minute dude we now I'm thinking
1:35:24
about it. First time I came here was 10
1:35:26
years ago which is fucking crazy.
1:35:27
Damn. Did you use the conference room
1:35:29
for a podcast? No, but we definitely looked at
1:35:30
it and we were like, that's a creepy ass room it.
1:35:32
Did look creepy with the lights off before we got in here.
1:35:36
Like it looked like a really dystopian looking it's.
1:35:38
Just crazy back rooms or like, yeah, yeah.
1:35:42
Yeah. Like that?
1:35:42
Go to the back. Rooms right there.
1:35:44
Yo you, you want to tell me about that shit?
1:35:46
The back. Rooms or whatever, dude, that
1:35:48
shit's scary as fuck. Like the Disney backrooms.
1:35:50
I don't want to, dude, that's weird.
1:35:51
I want to go to Yeah, you're getting kidnapped.
1:35:53
That's. Great.
1:35:54
I want to like, get in. I want to look into that shit
1:35:56
because that shit was weird. Did you ever?
1:35:58
When was the last time you were at a mall?
1:36:01
I was at a mall, Yeah, I want to say.
1:36:06
A long time ago. Like not not.
1:36:07
Actually last week just to go to like yesterday, I was like just
1:36:11
to get some get some Asian food from my favorite.
1:36:14
Spy at the mall. Panda Express.
1:36:16
No, it's so I got to shout them out too.
1:36:19
It's called a Cato's Cajun. Literally.
1:36:22
Yeah, it's a family owned business.
1:36:24
Oh yeah. Super nice folks.
1:36:25
Damn. I'm so hungry, right?
1:36:27
Yeah, I used. Chicken.
1:36:28
They bourbon chicken and they shrimp fried rice.
1:36:30
Oh, you got to start. Bread the main.
1:36:32
Bread, the main. That's nothing to do with what?
1:36:34
I was about to say. But fuck I.
1:36:36
Said better give me peas. Don't make me big me peas.
1:36:45
That has nothing to do with what I was about to bring up, but
1:36:48
yeah. I.
1:36:49
Agree. But the backroom shit, is that
1:36:53
in the mall? That's where I think of it
1:36:55
because I worked at a mall for a little bit and when and when you
1:36:59
work in a store, you have to like do shit like take the trash
1:37:02
out and you no one's walking through the mall with.
1:37:05
The trash bags all back hallway. So the back hallway system of a
1:37:09
mall when it's late at night. Like I was closing up the
1:37:12
fucking store and it's like, all right, well, we got to walk out
1:37:16
the back and one of my first days they opened up that fucking
1:37:20
back door and they were like, all right, see ya.
1:37:22
And everyone split. Damn.
1:37:25
And I, my, my car's in the parking garage.
1:37:27
Like I don't know how to get to the parking garage now.
1:37:30
And I can't walk in the back into the store because now it's
1:37:33
all locked up. I was like, I was literally in
1:37:35
Garden State Plaza doing this. Dude, when I I saw I didn't know
1:37:37
that existed. I never worked at a mall when I
1:37:38
when we were fucking around a mall as kids and we opened that
1:37:41
door and we found that hallway, we probably.
1:37:43
Fucked you were like what the? Fuck is this Like this is a
1:37:46
whole nother realm. And none of it is finished.
1:37:50
Like it's not like hallways, it's like fucking really
1:37:52
industrial looking area. It's like a horror movie.
1:37:54
That was the scariest shit ever, dude.
1:37:55
Like 10:45 10/30 at night. I was on probationary license.
1:37:59
I took my boss out. Dude, my boss was hot as hell
1:38:02
back then. Whoa.
1:38:03
I know her name still. I think first name was Danielle.
1:38:07
Danielle. I hope she listens to this and
1:38:10
goes damn, yeah, you right. I was fine, but Oh my God, the
1:38:14
back room is back there. I I, I sat there and, and like,
1:38:19
yeah, everyone split and I just, all I can remember is like, OK,
1:38:23
I'm stuck here now forever. It's like until the.
1:38:26
Morning map to get out of there. Yeah, dude, that was crazy.
1:38:29
Hey, we, I'll take that back. Do you have anything else you
1:38:33
want to share, Dennis? No, that's a damn good question.
1:38:38
I thought I could really think of.
1:38:42
Yeah, I don't know. Usually I'll always have some,
1:38:46
but. All right, then I I have
1:38:48
something you being around in the community right now is
1:38:51
something that again, Frankie has mentioned something that we
1:38:54
all need because it kind of lightens it up.
1:38:57
So thank you for what you. Yeah, definitely.
1:38:59
Thank you. Don't fucking change a damn.
1:39:03
Yeah. I hope that we get to have a
1:39:04
conversation again in the near future and you tell me some
1:39:07
other crazy shit that you've been.
1:39:09
Up to I would love to. Because your brains gotta just
1:39:12
be always cooking the whole time, dude.
1:39:14
My head is all over the place. It's that tism, it's that ADHD
1:39:18
hell, you name it, hell, you got it.
1:39:19
But. Dennis, thank you so much.
1:39:22
Man, thank you guys. Yeah, thank you guys are the
1:39:24
ones that be bringing me to hype.
1:39:26
Like all the cars, all the homies.
1:39:28
It's like, yeah, all the reasons.
1:39:30
Well, I be always hyped up 24/7. It's kind.
1:39:34
Of weird that you guys are like, not these aren't our heroes, but
1:39:36
like you kind of get to interact with the people that influence
1:39:40
you a little bit. Yeah.
1:39:41
And I don't really know a lot of other hobbies where you could
1:39:45
kind of just do that, like, I'm not snowboarding and shaking
1:39:49
Shaun White's hand. Yeah, yeah.
1:39:50
Yeah, like what? You know, not playing basketball
1:39:53
against Michael Jordan. Yeah, that's like the best part
1:39:56
of final bout is like everyone's together and everyone's on the
1:39:59
same level. Yeah.
1:40:00
Literally. But like, I hope one day we all
1:40:02
get to experience it. Like just driving.
1:40:05
Yeah, you get the, get the IS up.
1:40:07
Oh yeah. I get my IS up, finished,
1:40:10
Frankie finishes his shit, now we're all driving and the next
1:40:12
thing you know, Oh yeah fucking would I be shot?
1:40:16
I I turn around and if this is the second time I would mention
1:40:18
him on this pod. I turn around.
1:40:20
Rev Gasm. Dude, I'll know.
1:40:23
I'll know. I made it when I'm on track and
1:40:24
he's flagging and I'm like, OK, everything, everything makes
1:40:27
sense now, all right? Cool shit, Yeah.
1:40:31
I got lemonade by Gucci Mane bumping in my shit.
1:40:34
You you already know what about? Dude.
1:40:39
Well. I guess that's it, right?
1:40:42
It's late. We gotta get out of here.
1:40:43
It is late. We are going to get some shut
1:40:45
eye. I told Eddie a little while ago
1:40:47
that we were. Did you go?
1:40:49
And Dennis, dude, thank you again, man.
1:40:52
Yeah. Thank you.
1:40:53
You. Took time out of your weekend,
1:40:55
Your vacation. This is not just our trip, it is
1:40:57
your trip as well. And.
1:40:59
Although I'm two hours away but. Yeah, and.
1:41:01
We're a little bit more. It's not that crazy.
1:41:03
All the one as it is and shit. All my the woods, yeah.
1:41:06
Dude, but still man, it's it's always weird to coordinate with
1:41:10
people sometimes and Frankie does this stuff for the group
1:41:13
and better the team and. Oh you, dude.
1:41:15
I've been trying to do this with Dennis for like a year.
1:41:18
For like a fat ass minute now, yeah.
1:41:20
Literally. And I was thinking about like,
1:41:21
Oh yeah. It's been a while and we always
1:41:23
try to link up and then we're like, Nah, it's not gonna work,
1:41:26
this ain't gonna worry. And we're like, alright, I was
1:41:27
like, let's just figure it out at final bout.
1:41:29
Oh. Yeah, 'cause that's.
1:41:30
Now that, yeah, that's the event that matters too.
1:41:33
God damn perfect. Yeah, this is.
1:41:34
I'm like, yeah, it's gotta be done.
1:41:37
I'm like, and look, it all fell into place like when you let it
1:41:39
right now. Like, yeah, fucking conference
1:41:41
room. Conference room.
1:41:43
Yes. We want a final bow tomorrow
1:41:46
bro. Final bow seven baby, 10 year
1:41:49
anniversary. Literally.
1:41:50
Oh. Yeah, man.
1:41:52
All right. One height, man.
1:41:53
Versus 100 and a lot of drivers. 100 and some drivers.
1:41:57
Yeah. She getting the giddy up could.
1:42:01
Lock in, but thank you guys so much for listening, Dennis.
1:42:06
This has been a fun one and good night.
1:42:09
Make sure to check out Dennis the Menace.
1:42:11
What is that the numbers after? It's Dennis the Menace, the
1:42:14
number two. Yeah.
1:42:15
So Dennis the Menace 2, Society 666.
1:42:19
Ooh, I like, Yeah. It's.
1:42:20
It's a closer for I'm sorry. Yeah, it's OK.
1:42:23
But thank you so much. If you've enjoyed these round of
1:42:27
podcasts, make sure to drop a like, I know you guys have
1:42:30
definitely been doing that because I looked at the number
1:42:32
the other day and it shocked the shit out of me.
1:42:34
Yeah. The reviews on Spotify.
1:42:35
Yeah, I didn't look for a while and and.
1:42:38
Then it was at 300 and we're like whoa.
1:42:40
I'm giving out thank yous right now because we, it is night time
1:42:44
and we went on a run of podcast the past couple of days.
1:42:47
Yeah, these podcasts, yes, they're troopers.
1:42:49
We, we do them. We do them strictly 'cause we
1:42:51
have fun doing them and, and, and for the love of everyone
1:42:55
else, the love that we receive from everyone else doing them.
1:42:57
So thank you guys so much for listening.
1:42:59
It really keeps us going. It keeps the lights on.
1:43:03
It keeps Malcolm fed. Yeah, there he is.
1:43:07
He's on the ground. He's Malcolm's in just so
1:43:09
everyone knows, Malcolm's in laying on the floor in here
1:43:12
because the wires are not long enough.
1:43:13
Now I'm. Gonna take a picture of it and
1:43:15
put on my story real quick. You are a badass, my boy.
1:43:19
Dude, Malcolm is the guy. You a badass motherfucker.
1:43:22
Thank you all so much. You guys are great.
1:43:25
Thank you and good night. Thank you and good night, Sir.
1:43:27
Yeah, can we get a photo or something?
1:43:35
All right, guys, I hope you enjoyed that one.
1:43:37
That was that was great for me and Carl, man, that was that was
1:43:40
our so that was our last podcast we recorded on this trip and it
1:43:44
was such a fun one. Dennis is of amazing person.
1:43:48
He's so interesting. He's got a crazy, he's had a
1:43:52
crazy life already and he's not even, I don't know how old he
1:43:55
was, but I remember he was pretty young.
1:43:57
So yeah, I hope you guys enjoy that one.
1:44:00
I don't know what else to say about Dennis, man.
1:44:02
He's just, he's, he's just good vibes.
1:44:04
Very, very awesome guy. And I, I was on his we're
1:44:07
Facebook. We're we are Facebook friends.
1:44:09
And I, I went on there because I was looking for his last name
1:44:12
and he had 5000 Facebook friends, which makes total sense
1:44:17
because everyone loves this guy. So yeah, if you haven't followed
1:44:21
him already, check him out Dennis the Menace on Instagram.
1:44:24
You'll you'll see him on there. Yeah.
1:44:26
I just, I hope he keeps doing what he's doing.
1:44:28
He's travelled all over the country already and I hope he
1:44:30
keeps doing it. Thanks, Dennis.