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#174 - Karl Returns from Japan · After-Hours with Faction! Motorsports

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Welcome back everybody to another episode of the After
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Hours podcast with Faction Motorsports.
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On today's episode, Carl is back.
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We are recapping his Japan trip and all I can say is he had
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pretty much a dream trip out there.
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So we get to dive into all the tracks he went to and pretty
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much everything he got into. He did get into some other
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stuff, some extra curricular activities during the night time
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over in Osaka. And if you want to hear about
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OK. Well, welcome everybody to the
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It's been kind of rough. Dude I've heard from multiple
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people like yo this shit is not the same.
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Bro what are? You guys even talking about?
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Anything. But we had no guests and we were
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just like, all right, I guess we're just hanging Jesus.
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Christ, you're letting the sink. You're letting the ship sink.
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We went on a 30 minute conversation about gang bangs.
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You would have had fun. Maybe with that conversation.
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Maybe you would have. Dude, it was tough.
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Speaking of gang bang, I'm back from Japan.
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No, I'm just kidding. Wait, what?
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Dude, Japan was such a trip, bro.
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First and foremost, I want to say if you're going to Japan so
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that you could be better than everybody, you're fucking dumb.
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Don't do that. Like Japan was such a sick,
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wholesome vibe. Like everybody there was so
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nice. Even as like a tourist, you
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would think that they're, I mean, some sometimes you would
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feel like, oh, they're not from here.
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So it's like you, you get a little weird, like
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ostracization, I guess, but. They do treat you like that,
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right? Everybody was so welcoming,
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maybe, maybe not me because I'm just silent the whole time
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anyway. I heard that, I don't know if I
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experienced that but. It it definitely exists and like
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the people that I were with were like Diego, Brad, Kate, his wife
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Katie or soon to be wife Katie Bryson, his lady Sadie and I
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feel like it was our group. If you have a good group, I
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think the tip #1 tip is if you have a good group of friends to
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go to Japan with, it's. Fun as fuck.
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Now, were you guys all staying together?
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Yeah, well, the first day we, me and Brad landed, he flew in from
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Texas, I flew in from here, and like we landed within half of an
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hour of each other. And if he wasn't there, I
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would've been fucked. I would've been fucked.
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I got so overwhelmed immediately with the fact that everything is
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in another language, but all you have to do is just take a
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breath. There's somebody there that will
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help you, or would or will at least try to help you.
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So it's 2025, we got Google Maps like.
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Yeah, but then sometimes your phone doesn't.
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Have service? Oh it didn't have Google Maps
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like. If you didn't have service, it's
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fucked. No translate, no nothing.
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It was really hard. And and you got to figure out
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the train situation. Dude.
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So did you take the bullet train?
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The Shinkansen dude. So shit dude, I showed up there.
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I didn't sleep the whole train or whole flight.
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I get there immediately, pass out on the bullet train.
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It's like an air, it's like an airplane.
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Dude, the first thing I noticed was like, it would hit bumps.
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You know how when you're on the subway and you hit a bump,
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that's just. Yeah.
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There it was literally like maybe.
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And it's going like 200 miles an hour.
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It looks like an airplane inside, but.
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It was night time. It was like night, so I couldn't
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really see. Oh yeah, yeah.
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And like we took the Shinkansen to like, like another transfer
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station. And then we took like a local
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train to go to Osaka. You flew into Tokyo?
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Yeah, flew into and then you took trains to get.
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Yeah, OK. Yeah.
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We had like a jumper plane or something from Tokyo to.
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What is that called? They make you jump out.
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No, yeah, cuz we, yeah, the main plane landed and then we
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transferred over like a small plane, Yeah.
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And then we landed, I guess, in Osaka.
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Oh you're lucky I want to just I was trying to see cuz the
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shinkans then is like literally. Like but that's.
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Cool. You got to go to Tokyo though.
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We didn't. We were we landed at the airport
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and then just. I guess I'm in Tokyo for like
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negative time, Like it was land in Tokyo, find Brad because Brad
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had been there before and he was able to like help me out.
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And yeah, I painted Brad's car a week prior.
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So that helped me out. Pay for like some of the things.
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It's nice. To go with someone who already
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been there, dude. Yeah, I again want to say thank
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you to my friends that were there to help me and just guide
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me throughout this entire trip. I met so many fucking people
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too, aside from them, like, and it was just like amazing time.
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But we flew into Tokyo, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I was trying to see if there was a plane I could catch to Osaka
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because of my standby thing. It would have been cheaper, like
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50-40 bucks to go to Osaka via plane versus the Shinkansen,
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which was like 75 bucks, kind of expensive.
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Yeah, that was another thing too.
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It's very far away though. It was very far.
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It's like an 8 hour drive. How?
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How long was it in the train? Two hours.
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Holy shit it was nuts it. Was so crazy.
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It was nuts, dude. And like immediately I look in
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the train, there's a power outlet.
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Like we've showed up at night, so it wasn't very packed.
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And then like it was just nuts. You could, you could already
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sense the efficiency of what was going on because the train's
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never late. You have to hurry, hurry, hurry.
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Like once that beep goes off, you got to get up.
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The train's still moving. You got to get up and go by the
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door so that when it opens, you're out.
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Like they want you out so they could close the doors.
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That trainer is not waiting for you.
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When we got off the airport, everyone's like, yo, we got, we
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got to, we got to get cash, we got to get cash.
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And then like you don't need cash for anything, I think.
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He takes card, yeah, like there was only sometimes like I took
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out I would take out like 10,020 thousand at a time, which is
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like. Oh, he got mine. 70 bucks 70
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bucks for 10,000 was always kind of roughly what it was and then
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like obviously we'd get 20,000 we.
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Have a change 140. No, I was walking around
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sounding like a maraca everywhere.
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Dude, it was crazy. Is annoying, bro.
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Yeah, I'm like damn, there's a lot.
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I feel like a pirate, like I need a little fucking bag.
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Dude, it was so bad. But once we got to Osaka, I
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spent one night in Osaka with Brad because we were waiting for
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our other friends who were flying in from Georgia.
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That's like Bryson and Diego flying in from Georgia and they
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were coming in the next day. So we spent a night in Osaka.
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That was like, my first, like, calm, like, walk around of like,
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holy shit, this is all looking really weird and clean.
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Yeah. For what it was because we
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weren't in like downtown Osaka yet, but we were in Osaka.
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Everything just looks so different.
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It was so wild. I FaceTime Frankie from our
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first hotel. So Brad picks a random hotel.
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Apparently he finds a hotel off of no recommendation from
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anybody because we were there to meet up with like Toshi from
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Alpha Projects and we got picked up from somebody named Bodie,
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who's my new best friend, greatest guy ever.
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It was like, it was like Big Nick mixed with Tom mixed with
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Josh Roloffs and like everybody of our like, fun, goofy friends.
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Yeah, everybody mixed. Like mixed together and we get
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this hotel We get into the hotel bro it's a smoking room 12.
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The beds are very small, like the room was like half the size
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of this but. Carl's just chain smoking.
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There were two. Beds dude immediately JDM Boggs
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right away JDM cigarettes no joke, because I accidentally
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bought a pack that was like like they they have them by milligram
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there. It's not like it's not like
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light and red. It's literally you can have a
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light, but you can have a light with next to no nicotine, which
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is like .1 milligrams or you can have 681012.
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I saw one that was 20 and I was like holy crap, no.
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I think the only ones I have right now are like Lucky Strikes
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which are 88's. A good number six is great if
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you're drinking, but aid's good because like other than that, I
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feel like you're not really smoking a cigarette smoking a
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candy sig, but just smoking culture there in general.
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That's. Where you're gonna start
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smoking. Milk was so wild, dude.
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I might. You would love it.
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You would it's. Not going to count in Japan.
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Dude, they had, they had, they had like the, the things that
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you like to smoke, the the bullshit ass blunts.
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Like they got them all over. They not bullshit dude.
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Dude, they got a bunch of them, like different kinds.
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Yeah, like I should. I should have brought this
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gorilla but honestly like I was, by the time I thought to buy
13:31
souvenirs it was like family Mark quick and out.
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How many cigarettes did you bring back with you?
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One pack. Oh wow, cuz I don't.
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Can I open this call? Yeah, I brought Frankie a bunch
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of like random chocolate items and the pancakes.
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Oh, the pancakes. Dude, the pancakes are
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apparently gas. What are these?
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Those are all chocolate. Different kinds of chocolate,
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like the light 1 is like light chocolate.
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This. They're so good.
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The chocolate is so real. They're there for two weeks,
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right? What does this say?
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Giant Jabo Deska, that's the only thing.
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That's the only thing that I learned how to say, which means
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is it all good? And then and then you respond
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with Die Joe Boo like it's all good.
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That's the only thing I learned, and it was you learned.
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More than me, I didn't know. Shit shout out to Jay Toshi's
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mechanic who taught us that like 4 days in he's.
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Like he's like this is all you need to know.
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This is this country runs on Die Joe Boo.
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So I was like, all right, Die Joe Booty's nuts, like Die Joe
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Booty hoe. But like when we landed, we had
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a smoking room, but it had a window.
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You know, hotels here, I showed you this, right, Hotels here.
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You can't open the window. Like all the way, dude.
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They were on the roof. This shit opened fully and then
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we're just smoking bogs on the on the roof, like D1 geekin dude
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on the roof. And then I watched a guy across
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the way. He's like getting out to do his
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laundry. No pants.
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I'm like. Whoa.
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Just Dick out everything. Dude, no pants.
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I don't think he had underwear on, but I was not there to
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check. Like I just looked away.
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Like what the fuck, dude? He's like, yeah, people here are
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like super friendly and very open and shit and.
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You want to. Nah I'm good that's for you bro.
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I ate mad food all. Right, we're going to try some
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chocolate. Right now, yeah, try some
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chocolate, but. All this one has a pirate ship
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on it. One thing I noticed immediately.
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Oh, and it has a cookie on the back.
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Looks so good. Yeah, I know you would love
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them, it says. Bourbon on it?
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No, it's the brand. No, it's not alcohol in there.
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It's so good. How rich is that chocolate, bro?
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Yo fire. Right?
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I should have brought you more, damn it.
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Oh my God, no. That shit, that shit, it's
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smoking crack, dude, isn't it so good?
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We got to go back. I know dude, I got to go back.
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I want to go back just because of the, the like the people and
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stuff and like the how much money brings you around there.
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It's not like you're like working to live.
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People there are just living. Dude, I knew once you found out
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how cheap everything is, you were going to be like it was
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going to be hard to get you back here.
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I almost did not come. Back.
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Dude, it feels like you're going to have been rich.
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I found a wife real quick. I met so many people there that
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it made it so much less daunting to be there.
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So like Toshi for example, like he speaks English and Japanese
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so he's able to like when we're out, he's able to talk to people
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then tell us we're back. I met another guy there, Hayden
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Hayden, Dick Finney on Instagram.
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Amazing guy. Dick Finney.
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Super scary at first 'cause he's covered, covered in tats and
16:21
he's 6-8 or whatever, super tall, but the nicest guy
16:25
possible. Like just shared it.
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All of his stories and his experiences with us.
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Amazing. And but if you have like people
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over there, it makes it much less daunting to be there 'cause
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it was. Imagine just going there and not
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knowing anything. I would not.
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I'd be so scared. People do that.
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They do like Brendan and fucking first.
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Of all, I got a bone to pick with Brendan.
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He hits me up. He's in Osaka, he's staying half
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a mile from me. Half a mile.
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I tell him I was seeing both their stories.
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They're right. There, tell him I'm hitting him
16:52
up. He first of all leaves me on
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unread. Dick, Damn, just.
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Click this and send it to him because I message him.
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I'm like, dude, I'll bring you to this bar, the bar where I got
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a little. Bit got a.
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Little bit naughty at this bar but like you.
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Got to get the Patreon. Dude, sign up for the Patreon
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because we're going to do 1 after this where I talk about
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all the bad shit that I did. But I told him like dude come
17:14
out with us I will show you a good time.
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I've was here a couple days before he's.
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Also with his new wife. He was on his honeymoon just.
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To let you know. The girls we were with would
17:22
have gone more crazy than yeah. They they probably should have
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went like for one night night. It's not like Brendan's going to
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cheat on his brand new wife where they're right there.
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They're. A brand new wife they're.
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Going to get like a stripper together.
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Just got him. Like.
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Fucking Anyway, I hit him up. I'm like, dude, come meet me up,
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blah blah blah blah blah. Call me when you're ready.
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Doesn't ever hit me. Up.
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Anyway, that's Brendan, even though he asked me like, yo,
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Carl's here, like where's he at? I'm like, yeah, help me
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honestly, because he hit me up. He was like, yo, I want to do
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some car shit. I'm like, that's all.
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I just go find Carl. Well, for the first couple of
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days it was no car stuff because none of the cars were done yet.
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They were still working on them. You still ended up working in a
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garage on a car, right? Yeah, I did floor, I did a water
17:59
pump, I did arms, I did a caliper, I did a drive shaft,
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put trans mount in for Brad. Like all this crazy shit that I
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would never do here. Yeah, but I was there and I was
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like, fuck it. Like they all work like me dude.
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Did you stop for a minute and go, wow, I'm in a fucking garage
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in Japan working on a drift? Corner dude, me and Brad would
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tell that all. We would say that to each other
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all the time just to keep what we do.
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Like what is going on? I feel like you're in a
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different. Dimension, there's no impacts,
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there's no power tools, there's no.
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Nothing. I'm in a workbench.
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They had a workbench. Oh nice, it was a bit a nice
18:28
shot. Toy's Garage Toy's Garage is set
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up pretty nice if you're ever in that.
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Area of vice, Yeah, Wow. And Miki Fiogo or whatever,
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however you say it, make sure to visit Alpha Project Imports.
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That's where he's at. But the shop like Brad brought
18:43
in a 3/8 impact and Bryson brought 1/2 inch impact.
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They had some of those things there.
18:49
But like, it ain't a it ain't a fucking Milwaukee that can bust
18:54
down like a nut, like quick like bust.
18:56
Down. A nut like that's what I was
18:59
doing but like. Patreon only.
19:01
But like, it was, it was nuts, dude.
19:04
No lift, everything is on the ground.
19:07
OK, so he had no lifts. No lift, but he had a lift
19:09
waiting to go in. It's so funny how like like if
19:12
you combined his shot with. Just missed the I had the lift
19:15
ready for next week. Sorry guys.
19:17
'Cause when we were there, there was no vice.
19:21
There was no, there were vices. They're on the ground.
19:23
You had to go find one. And then you're like, why is
19:26
this not? And there's no workbenches and
19:27
we're like, what is going on? Well, Jay, the mechanic at
19:30
Toshi's is a very good mechanic. Like, he's like our Chris.
19:34
He's a very meticulous guy. He had his things vary in order.
19:37
Like you could tell where Jay's station was and where Jay's
19:40
tools were 'cause they were all like very nice together.
19:44
Also, Jay was just so extremely nice.
19:46
Thank God. He was like taking us around
19:49
when we got ramen. He was able to order and like do
19:52
that for us. But so it's not as good as the
19:58
first one. What is that one?
20:01
This one had butter. Yeah, I don't like that.
20:03
What the fuck I? Kind of like it.
20:07
Really. I'm good off that.
20:09
I actually probably would not like that either.
20:10
I like it. Well, good thing you have
20:11
another one of the good ones. Yeah, but we, we like after the
20:16
whole Osaka thing, the first thing I noticed at the hotel, at
20:19
the roof of this hotel, we're looking at all of Osaka dead
20:24
silent. It was quiet as fuck past 11.
20:26
There was no fucking. I'm not supposed to beep beep
20:29
beep beep man Fuck you like it was quiet.
20:32
That's the shit I don't like, but it's cool.
20:34
It was quiet and walking around. Not for nothing I could beat
20:39
some fucking Japanese ass bro. I'm I'm a lot larger than some
20:42
of those people there like mass wise.
20:45
And I was like, if somebody tries to jump me, it's not like
20:48
they're going to have a gun. Do people really get jumped that
20:50
much? They don't they don't they don't
20:53
get jumped like just be respectful and mind your own
20:56
business and don't litter or or or be disrespectful and shit
21:00
country in any way like. You you can't just.
21:02
Don't be a shit. Bag.
21:02
You can't be loud on the train. You can't be loud if you're
21:05
living in your river. You can't do like.
21:07
If you know these few things, then just don't be a.
21:10
Shit bag and like be respectful just.
21:12
Don't be American if somebody. Tells you not to do something,
21:15
don't do it, and then don't act out because they told you not to
21:17
do it. Yeah, like Brad was telling me
21:19
we're going for a walk. I light up a cigarette.
21:21
He's he's like just so you know, it's like weird to customarily
21:26
for for like the people to see people walk in while smoking.
21:29
When you smoke a cigarette, you just like sit or you stand and
21:32
you have a cigarette right by the little.
21:34
Whole disposal thing. That's why they have like a lot
21:36
of smoking areas which. Are not supposed to just be
21:38
dragging smoke through the whole.
21:39
Thing, yeah, which are in in restaurants too.
21:41
They have smoking rooms. It's sick.
21:43
Ethan was definitely doing that, actually.
21:44
Weird. I loved it and I was also giving
21:47
a fuck. I was, I was like walking around
21:48
smoking a cigarette, but I'd like cover it, put it in my pan,
21:50
like walk. Yeah.
21:52
So after that we got picked up by Bodhi, the one who I told you
21:55
is like, he's like, he's such an autistic ass kid.
21:58
Like fucking he's like what the fuck on?
22:01
Like fucking like just fuck. Like oh, he's got fresh eyes.
22:04
He's never been here before. Oh fuck.
22:06
Like. Do I know this guy?
22:07
You might have been him. He's so funny.
22:08
Yeah, he's Australian. Was that pretty good?
22:10
He's pretty good, yeah. Dude, my Australian accent is so
22:12
fucking. We were.
22:13
Wondering what kind of accent you were going to come back
22:14
with. It's so good.
22:15
My Australian accent is so good mate.
22:17
You just rock up, have fun with your mates, drive your car.
22:21
Fuck it dude. Pretty good, right?
22:22
Yeah, pretty good, you fucking bloke.
22:25
But like so he picks us up and he brings us to now Toshi's
22:29
where we now have to get a high ace.
22:32
That was what we were using to pick up Diego Bryson, his lady
22:36
and Diego's soon to be wife Katie.
22:39
So we we pick them up packed into this fucking high ace
22:43
'cause they got luggage. There's like 5 people now and
22:47
now we had to take our first hotel as a group.
22:51
We were staying on an island called Owaji like.
22:54
An island. Yeah, off of Osaka, if you, if
22:58
you look at Japan, there's like a bridge connecting like
23:02
whatever that is the the island to Owaji.
23:05
So we would have to drive to Owaji.
23:07
The one thing that I that we all spent a shit load of money on
23:11
and why you need to have cash if you're driving is tolls.
23:15
The ETC tolls are rape price. How much for each?
23:21
They don't want you to be driving.
23:22
Dude, they don't want you to take like.
23:24
Take the public train. Yeah, they want you to.
23:25
They really encourage public transportation.
23:27
And if you are driving, there's obviously different costs for
23:30
each car, like AK car is like ¥890.00 standard vehicle 1590.
23:35
So what is that like break it down for me.
23:38
Like how far did you go? Like.
23:40
We went from from the airport from Haneda.
23:46
Oh no, Put it into like New Jersey terms.
23:47
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like. It's like, it's like you driving
23:52
into the city. 23 bucks. So it's like, yeah.
23:56
So it's like one way. Same amount of time.
23:58
Same amount of time. It's like.
23:59
Paying the bridge toll anytime you go anywhere.
24:01
It like took us a few hours to like get to a Waji because and
24:04
the reason why we were staying in a Waji is because a Waji was
24:07
only like 45 minutes away from Toshi shop.
24:11
So we obviously had to make a lot of back and forth trips
24:15
through the past few days. It is huge.
24:17
But there were some parts of Osaka, like when I got on the
24:19
bridge, I was like, oh, we're on the BQE that literally looks
24:21
like fucking I'm looking at Queens.
24:26
So we were just, I was just taking everything in and you
24:30
know, all the rest of them, they're just like tired.
24:31
They just want to get to the hotel.
24:33
Whereas me, I'm literally like, oh, look at that.
24:35
Oh, look at. That they all been there before.
24:36
Yeah, they all have cars there like Nah Nah Nah Nah.
24:39
They did. They did the whole 9 before.
24:41
So we get to Awaji bro the the the beachfront Marriott.
24:46
I saw that post that was like. What was so pretty, dude?
24:49
Like I think I saw it. Yeah, I saw.
24:51
Him I saw him on like a beach. I was like where the.
24:54
Fuck, this is the back of our hotel.
24:56
Oh, I think I did see you put a story up or something.
24:59
You see the you see the Gucci slides, Yeah.
25:01
Wasn't even Baller there to have Gucci slides bro.
25:04
No, they got they got quotes. Motherfuckers are.
25:05
Walking around wearing Montclair and fucking Balenciaga.
25:09
This and I just. Assume everything's fake every
25:11
time I see that shit now so I don't even know.
25:13
We go there and now I get to explore because obviously we
25:16
have our hotel room. Dude, funny story.
25:18
We're on the back. Our nightly routine would be we
25:21
would go to Toshi's, do this, do this, whatever, get dinner when
25:24
we get back or eat there at a Lawson or a Family Mart or
25:27
whatever. I did all of that, obviously.
25:29
Where's my chicken? You didn't bring the chicken
25:31
back. Dude I ate at least 20 fucking
25:34
fam chickies dude. How good are they?
25:36
So good, Yeah, because it bites like an actual piece of.
25:39
Chicken, I know. It juices so yeah dude.
25:42
Oh my God, so good. I can imagine.
25:45
Anyway, somebody was telling me to fucking take the pancakes and
25:49
put the fan chicken in between that, that I didn't get to do
25:51
that. That's to me.
25:52
Is is that illegal? I didn't.
25:54
Want to be big back and do that. Why is that?
25:55
Elite. No, to bring it back here.
25:57
No, I don't know you. Can't bring all this shit.
25:59
Yeah, but you can't bring like a piece of chicken.
26:00
No, it's the. Same shit as that.
26:02
Really. Put it in your check in.
26:04
Maybe put? It in your prison pocket.
26:08
OK. Malcolm, I don't know you would
26:10
love it in downtown Osaka, you freaky ass motherfucker.
26:14
But. Yeah, we had a customer today
26:15
that just came by gave Malcolm porno Max he's.
26:19
Like I went to Japan in February and I I had these saved and I
26:22
figured I'd give them to you and he and.
26:24
Malcolm's like, am I just the freaky dude now?
26:26
Here there's a video of Brad where we came home late as fuck
26:29
and he just happens to be perusing through that section
26:31
and we're just I'm recording a video of him because he started
26:33
like Oh my. God, wow, what?
26:37
Meanwhile we're all drunk as fuck outside.
26:39
Like just fucking like eating food.
26:41
I think the first thing I had there was was a piece of
26:44
chicken. Like I literally wanted to try
26:45
it right away. How good was the beer over
26:47
there? So good I could have mad beers
26:49
and like not die or get that like weird like.
26:52
Yeah, we gotta try to go next year and when we get off the
26:55
plane, the first thing I'm doing is going to the 711 or Lost.
26:58
I'm buying all the chicken they have there and I'm eating all of
27:01
it and that's it. That's step one.
27:02
So my go to everything. Else is whatever you guys want.
27:05
To do my go to was once I found this item I was like OK this is
27:08
what I'm going to eat every time.
27:10
Yeah, it's a little it. Was me too it's a little rice
27:12
ball that's. What you do when you're like in
27:13
somewhere you don't. Well no, I still tried other
27:15
shit, it's just when I. Know, but you're hungry and you
27:18
don't know to find. Your safe place.
27:19
Yeah, it was 1 salted rice ball that has no no filling.
27:24
Eat on it. Oh no.
27:25
See. No filling, no nothing.
27:26
Because I can't eat it so good so.
27:29
I'd have that and I would grab one fam chicky and I'm pretty
27:31
sure I have like a picture of it.
27:33
I just have them like back-to-back and just.
27:36
Go eat a piece of the chicken. Eat a piece of the rice.
27:38
Eat a piece of chicken, Eat a piece of the rice.
27:40
Guess what? The whole time we're moving dual
27:42
wheels. I could.
27:42
I could just move while fucking eating this shit.
27:45
So good, yeah. But like while we were in a
27:47
waji, that was like. Doesn't that make our 711 look
27:50
so ridiculous? So bullshit.
27:51
Yeah, so bullshit. I'll hit the convini any day
27:54
over there and then fucking go to 711 here and it's like
27:57
fucked. Yeah, you're like, what it What
27:59
are we doing, dude? 7 elevens are bad now man.
28:02
I I like. They're going to ruin you.
28:04
My taste of of Japan was so nice.
28:07
It was such a perfect intro because Huaji was like slowed
28:10
down Japan. Like we're in the country.
28:12
It was a beach town. Yeah.
28:14
It was like a straight beach town.
28:16
Like everything there was catered to the fact that there
28:20
was water there. So there's like when you wake up
28:22
in the morning, there's people on the beach, there's this,
28:24
there's that. Like at night we would come
28:27
home, drink on the back patio and like sit in the back of the
28:31
hotel. Like you'd hear waves, like
28:33
coming by and like fucking, I'm looking at this guy.
28:36
I'm trying to find a fucking Asian UFO.
28:38
None. They don't have.
28:40
What I did find was like one night we were out on the back
28:42
patio, like a little further out, so you can see all the
28:44
windows of the hotel top right. There's like somebody looking
28:48
out the window and then immediately like they're moving
28:50
like this. And I'm like, Oh no, they're.
28:52
Getting. Fucked right now for sure.
28:54
Yeah, and blown out and. Then like you see the rhythm
28:56
changing. We're sitting there.
28:57
I'm like damn man, little fucking going forever.
29:01
I'm like no way. Then a then a couple, there was
29:04
two guys come downstairs and they smoke cigarettes and they
29:08
just lovey dovey and I'm like, oh, that was.
29:13
That was. That had to be them, that was.
29:16
That's right. It was, it was hilarious cause
29:19
Diego's fucking trading on his laptop.
29:21
Then all of a sudden that's going on.
29:22
I'm like, this shit is not real, bro.
29:24
Like this is not real. Also, no garbage.
29:26
I didn't leave a single cigarette bud on the ground.
29:29
Fact Check me everybody out there.
29:31
Don't litter when you're there. Let's try you.
29:33
Gotta like put all your garbage in your pockets until you find
29:35
the garbage my. Little Fanny pack also tip #2
29:38
now is buy a fucking Fanny pack. I don't care how gay or retarded
29:43
you look put put the Fanny pack on.
29:45
What is it? So you just eat this like a
29:48
sandwich? Wait, I think it's just singular
29:50
pancakes. No 'cause there's something in
29:52
between. There's butter and syrup in
29:53
between. Oh no.
29:54
Oh. That look gutter.
29:56
You might want to put that in the microwave.
29:58
Oh well, 5 seconds, can you? Read that.
30:00
What does this say? Yeah, let me read it, Frankie.
30:04
Go ahead and try putting it on the microwave is what it says.
30:06
It's using the. Google thing.
30:09
But second tip is get a Fanny pack because.
30:12
Hell no. You're getting a bunch of coins.
30:15
First of all, you have a photo which you would have Fanny pack
30:18
on on the Internet. Shit.
30:19
Yeah. Damon's house.
30:21
Fuck. Get a Fanny pack.
30:22
That way you could carry your passport, your wallet, your
30:24
money, your phone, your camera, your cigarettes, your lighter,
30:27
everything. All of those items that I just
30:29
listed were in my Fanny pack or. A backpack.
30:31
That's all you had to worry about.
30:32
It was lovely. I have my Fanny pack now, it's
30:34
in the car. Yep, and that was like a last
30:37
minute purchase for me too. Like it was like I stopped at a
30:40
Walmart and was like OK let me get a Fanny pack.
30:42
That seems like a good thing to have.
30:44
Literally life saving. When I go out at night, I would
30:48
just carry my wallet, that's it. So you don't have to.
30:50
Worry about the Fanny pack and I lose my passport and then I
30:52
actually can't go home. So while we were staying in
30:56
Owaji, we stayed at or we ate at like different places, different
31:00
restaurants. Like we went to a grocery store
31:02
because Diego had to get some like nausea medicine thing for
31:04
his neck. It was crazy, dude.
31:06
It was like, it was like, it was so weird, bro.
31:09
They were like these little magnetic things and like you put
31:12
it on the back of your. Neck their fucking medicine and
31:14
shit over there is like a whole nother.
31:17
And it like and it like pulls this like pulls slightly on the
31:20
back of your neck so that it pulls the pressure I guess.
31:23
I don't know. I didn't use it 'cause I was
31:24
scared. Just eat it, I think.
31:29
A cold butter. They should probably guess kind.
31:33
Of good, good. Dude I would assume so.
31:36
Those shits were sold out every fucking morning.
31:38
You would just see people grab them.
31:39
Would they just eat them cold? Yeah, I mean, it's on the shelf.
31:42
You could probably ask them to heat it up, which is like one of
31:44
the first questions they ask you if you buy food.
31:46
But Awaji, since it was the country, dude, it was like
31:50
slowed down. You can like experience things
31:52
like slowly and it was like very upscale, like really clean and
31:58
like we got to go. We went to go thrifting.
32:03
I went thrifting. I bought a really nice fucking
32:05
jacket. I'll show you a picture of it
32:06
you'll probably hate. It how?
32:08
Much like 30 bucks or 25 bucks. The thrift store was amazing
32:12
dude. It was stacked up.
32:13
It was called 2nd street. They have a bunch of them.
32:15
It's a chain but second St. the one I went to was like filtered
32:18
out to already have really nice things like it was Jordan's
32:23
everywhere. Fucking like every dunk.
32:25
Like I'm. Good.
32:27
So good and like that the selection was amazing, but after
32:32
that I was like, holy shit. Like it makes sense why
32:35
everybody here is like, so stylish like.
32:38
Awaji. In Awaji and it was a bit.
32:41
Of a small town. Super small.
32:42
Is that is that the town that kind of looks like an American,
32:48
Like a it was like an American city, almost it.
32:52
Did not look American whatsoever.
32:53
No, OK, I'm thinking we. Even got hold over dude, you
32:57
know, watching it was scary as fuck because I wasn't driving
32:59
and I felt like a Dick because we were driving on the way.
33:04
We're just driving down the island, down the coastline just
33:06
to see it and I mistakenly didn't have my belt on.
33:12
Oh, he sniped you from? And we're driving.
33:14
There's one police officer. We drive by him at like 2 miles
33:17
an hour. He goes like, radio's in.
33:20
There's another police officer hops out.
33:22
Turns out that was a police station.
33:24
The guy's like, like this way, this way, this way.
33:28
I'm like, oh, shit. And then he comes up.
33:31
He's yelling about the belt. Then we're like, we don't know.
33:35
We don't know. He's asking for the papers.
33:37
Then he says to his buddy, something, something Kaijin or
33:38
whatever. I'm like, oh, fuck.
33:42
So then Brad gets out of the car, goes into the police
33:44
station, gets questioned. They question him about
33:47
everything. They're like, why are you here?
33:48
What are you doing here? He tells them we're here to
33:50
drift. He should.
33:51
He's like, oh, are you guys professional?
33:52
Brad says yes. I'm like, shows him a bunch of
33:55
videos. And then he comes back out.
33:57
And then he's like, they just gave us a warning.
33:59
And I was like, thank God. Yeah.
34:01
I was so scared that he was going to get.
34:03
Gave us a ticket, it's $4. Yeah, right.
34:06
They gave us a ticket. I would have been like whatever.
34:08
Let you pay it right there, right?
34:09
Now I'm like. Then after that we went
34:12
thrifting, we went eat, we went back home.
34:14
I. And that was day one.
34:15
That was like day three or 4. OK.
34:19
Because like, at this time, like a lot of what I was experiencing
34:23
was like helping the cars get put together because we can't
34:25
drive them without that. They can't.
34:27
We can't get plates anymore because that's apparently a big.
34:29
But you guys went to a lot of. Big red thing, dude, I went to,
34:31
I went to Mahon, I went to Bhoku and I went to TKO so.
34:35
How do you like the Bhoku area? That's my favorite place, right?
34:38
That's where I'd love to buy a house.
34:40
Yeah. Like Bhoku so.
34:41
Cool. Yeah, it's like the country.
34:42
But that wasn't until like the second week.
34:44
The first week was really just like being immersive in Japan
34:48
and I loved it. Dude I'm trying to find photos
34:50
because like I don't remember a lot of it because I was drunk as
34:53
fuck for most of it. That's not good.
34:57
I'm not drunk. Not.
34:57
Drunk as fuck, but like it'd be, it was just so easy to drink.
35:02
Like you just go to the fucking Lawson.
35:04
You go to the Lawson, pick up a couple 196's, all of a sudden,
35:07
whoa, I'm hammered. Dude, water's so cheap too, it's
35:11
like. Water is so cheap ¥100 gets you
35:14
a bottle this big. Yeah, and it's also really easy
35:16
to tell who's like, a tourist because they're carrying fucking
35:19
gigantic water bottles. No one else there drinks water
35:21
like that. You go to a restaurant, they
35:23
give you a little cup. They just drink when they eat,
35:25
right? Just.
35:25
Drink when you eat and that's it.
35:26
Probably because we need to digest all the shit food that we
35:29
eat. Here, yeah.
35:29
I don't know what I think about that all the time, though.
35:31
I'm like Americans drink a lot of water, especially the last 10
35:35
to 20 years and I don't I'm like people lived for the last 100
35:40
years in America not drinking water.
35:42
My dad doesn't even know what water.
35:43
He didn't know what you drank water.
35:44
Like I'm like, Dad, you ever drink water?
35:46
He's like water and coffee. There's water and soda.
35:50
That's. What all our dads do, Yeah, I'm
35:52
like, my dad didn't drink water. Fuck.
35:54
That's probably why they have. Migraines.
35:55
And now we do. And like, I mean, I can't be
35:58
bad. I think it's got to be like the
36:01
health consciousness of the US right now.
36:03
We're super health focused. Yeah, and like seems to be.
36:06
We now know that oxygen is in water, so it's like, oh, let's
36:09
drink water. And whoever is making these
36:11
things, Hydro Flask, they really got us.
36:13
You have your cold. Water wherever you go, yeah.
36:15
But then after after we did that and we like worked around on the
36:18
cars and shit, it was finally like time to like drive cars and
36:23
like experience that and do this that.
36:25
And the third, first of all I had yakiniku there which is like
36:27
unlimited K BBQ the first night Yakini.
36:31
Or. Is that the?
36:32
That the first night. It's the Japanese 1 though,
36:33
right? Yeah, so it was like Kobe be
36:36
fucking like, Oh my God, just. The shit I didn't get to do
36:38
just. Marbled as fuck like it was melt
36:42
in your mouth. Good.
36:43
Oh my God, that was also when I got to meet for the first time.
36:48
The the guy I mentioned earlier, Hayden and our dude, one of my
36:52
favorite dudes there, Kane. Kane.
36:54
He's Scottish, but the way that I met Kane, was he like, we're
36:58
sitting at the table, he comes up and just sits down at the
37:01
table and I and he sits down next to Brad, who's white, and
37:04
he's also white. And I'm like, no way.
37:06
This guy just sat down with us just 'cause he was white.
37:09
And then he introduced us, was calling him Ken for the first
37:12
like half his name's actually Kane.
37:14
And I'm like, why didn't you say anything?
37:15
It's Kane. And he has, like he has an S15
37:19
and an S14. What's his name?
37:23
Rich Whiteman described him to me.
37:24
He loves calling him Kane the Destroyer.
37:28
OK, does he destroy cars? No, I mean, and maybe to his
37:32
demise, but like very good driver.
37:35
Everybody there just drives like fuck, dude, like just drives so
37:39
good, like very aggressive driving style and like not for
37:43
nothing like Kane's car is in like fucking super high up
37:46
either. But Kane was could whip just
37:48
like everybody else. Amazing guy on Instagram.
37:50
His name's high chance, like high chance of crashing.
37:54
I put a sticker right on my windshield.
37:55
I was driving a day and I was, I could just see the high chance
37:57
sticker and I'm like, damn, I miss Kane.
38:00
But so we met him. We had all of that.
38:02
Unfortunately, I was feeling nauseous a little bit from
38:06
riding in the high A's 'cause if you don't know, a high A's has
38:09
the motor mounted in the middle just absolutely cooks the
38:13
passengers. The fumes, you mean?
38:17
Or just the just getting? Car sick because that and like
38:19
Brad was like whipping the fucking car and like it was just
38:23
sickening. Even Diego got sick and and like
38:26
damn, I did still eat my fucking face off.
38:29
So I was scared if I threw up I would be very full.
38:32
It was going to be a lot of throw up.
38:34
I'm like it's bad. So while we're there, dude, like
38:39
a movie, bro, there's there's a highway you just hear and the
38:45
bozo bozo could just ride by on bikes and I'm like, no fucking
38:50
way, dude, This is not a real place.
38:52
So that now from there we which was in Kobe, we had to drive.
38:58
Back. Oh, you went to Kobe?
38:59
Yeah. And that's where you had the.
39:01
Yeah. Oh my God, That was probably so.
39:03
Good dude, it was amazing. You guys went all the way there.
39:07
What else were you doing down there?
39:08
Because that's pretty far away. It was it.
39:10
It was like in order of like like.
39:14
To make stops. How to make stops and like what
39:16
was close to Toshi shop where we could go does that OK and then
39:20
like his mechanic now had like a fucking awesome like conjo built
39:24
civic like B16 with 18 Pistons and I was like what the fuck.
39:28
Like damn, what the hell the. Only thing I was telling him was
39:31
Segoi. I was like segoi, Segoi, Segoi.
39:35
I'm like cool. So then after that, we go back
39:38
to the B&B, drink some more. It was like literally like our
39:42
routine. We'd come home to the B&B, we
39:44
could talk about everything like that.
39:45
We did that day right on the back patio, the B&B in front of
39:49
the beach. Was this your best vacation
39:51
ever? Yes.
39:51
I literally said it so many times.
39:52
I literally cried like a day before we were leaving.
39:54
I'm like, I have to go back to America.
39:56
I was like, I don't want to leave.
39:57
I have to go back to America where I'm poor.
39:59
I have to work my ass off and still not be rich and not be
40:03
happy. Yeah, Like.
40:04
And there I was like. So what do you say to what do
40:07
you say to people that say money can't bring you happiness?
40:11
Cuz you seem pretty lit for the last two weeks.
40:14
It was just that the money there was able to buy me.
40:17
The things that I needed, I didn't buy like expensive
40:19
things. I was able to just, yeah, it was
40:21
just. Fun because you didn't need to
40:22
stress out or I. Was able to eat the meals that I
40:25
wanted to eat. I was able to pay for the things
40:27
that I wanted to get. I didn't even buy anything
40:28
extravagant. I wasn't buying fucking like
40:31
this, that this, that. It was just buying food, buying
40:34
cigarettes, buying beers, buying this, but.
40:35
It's nice cuz you probably got, you were probably stressing it a
40:38
little bit and then you got there and you realized, oh shit,
40:40
there's going to be no issue. Well, dude, my bank statement
40:42
was just telling me like $4.53 dollar, $54.50.
40:45
I was like, Oh my God, like this is like, this is lit.
40:48
So then after we were staying there, we, it was like time for
40:52
us to go to our Osaka Airbnb, which was two blocks from Do Tom
40:57
Bori. It was like right in the heart
40:59
of Osaka. It made it.
41:01
That's where ours was. It made it so easy to get
41:05
around, like it was just walking everywhere until we needed to
41:07
go. You literally just wake up and
41:08
go wherever you want. Until we needed to go to the
41:10
shop or anything, we really didn't drive.
41:12
It was like, oh, how far is it OK?
41:13
And the trains are so good there, we didn't even use
41:16
trains. Get everywhere.
41:17
Yeah. You guys had a car, right?
41:18
Yeah, we had AK car. Thankfully Toshi lent us his K
41:21
car, which I got to drive a little bit and like, it was
41:25
still even thus. So like, parking overnight was
41:28
¥2500. So that's what, like 220 bucks?
41:35
15, like 15 bucks, yeah, 15 bucks.
41:39
And like, dude, we were parking it overnight and it was around
41:42
the corner from the Airbnb. Yeah, we'll pay.
41:46
The first night we got fucked the night that I got drunk as
41:50
hell. Like I didn't get that drunk the
41:52
entire rest of the trip. That night we went to it.
41:56
Was the night we got a video from it or no?
41:58
Yeah. OK.
41:59
I think that's the night you called.
42:00
No, that was a different night. Oh, God damn.
42:02
You remember calling me? No.
42:03
They calling you? Yeah.
42:05
You're like, yo-yo, Malcolm, they're playing your song.
42:11
I was like, what? I can't hear it.
42:12
You're like. And then you hang up.
42:14
You're like, all right, bye. Then you hung up.
42:17
Then you called me again, Hey, I'm going pee.
42:20
They're playing your other song. They're like, yo, you make any
42:23
friends? You're like, no, I fucking hate
42:25
everybody here. And then what did you say?
42:28
You're like, all right, you're using all my data or something
42:30
by and then just hung up. Damn dude like 1.
42:34
I don't remember that two. Like it was Toshi's birthday and
42:40
so he brought us to a rave. I don't really fuck with raves.
42:44
I think you know that. Japanese.
42:45
You know that as well. Yeah.
42:46
Yeah, Like but. I would.
42:47
I would think you do fuck with that.
42:49
I would do anything when I'm there.
42:51
I'll do. That's why I was there.
42:52
Watch it. Not that shit.
42:54
It gets weird over there. No, I, I I was there enjoying
42:57
it. Yeah, I.
42:58
Would definitely go out of my comfort zone if I went to Japan.
43:00
So you'd get, you'd get pegged. That's discomfort zone.
43:07
Depends. Dude, like it was, it was it was
43:12
a rave. We get there, the line's mad
43:13
long. We get in, I'll say this one.
43:17
This one's kind of teetering on the line of what maybe we
43:19
shouldn't say, but obviously we're drinking, having a good
43:22
time. We meet these guys from Israel
43:24
and they're Israeli. Brad goes, Oh my God, you guys
43:27
are running our fucking country right now.
43:28
I'm like, I'm like Brad and. They're probably like what?
43:33
Stop. And they're like no, no, please,
43:36
please. Like we don't.
43:37
I'm like Oh my God, I need to leave this conversation.
43:40
And then also on the we also met these other guys from Spain.
43:45
If you're have any idea or if any tap into the Spanish fucking
43:49
drift scene. This dude has 200,000 followers.
43:51
Nicest guy to talk to. He's the one who gave me the
43:54
advice to stiffen up the front, soften up the rear, a bunch of
43:57
other little things that I'm going to try that I'm going to
43:58
keep under wraps until I know it works.
44:00
Do I drift down Spain? Dude shapoyo bueno aji.
44:04
That's his Instagram you should go check it out.
44:06
He's a really nice dude. Give him follow even if you
44:08
can't understand him. Very professional guy, very
44:11
intelligent guy. He was there with his like three
44:13
other, I'm going to call him his team mates and friends.
44:17
His name, the the main guy's name was Chavi.
44:19
And then you had Ivan and you had Joe and Christian and they
44:23
were all fucking hilarious, bro, like super fucking funny dudes.
44:28
And like we can't talk to each other except for literally about
44:31
cars. So once we had like the car
44:33
thing, it was like we're all friends.
44:36
This is sick. Like this is awesome.
44:38
Dude, they. Probably have that shit now
44:39
where you can just like talk and it like translates.
44:41
It like the new Airpods have that.
44:43
No way. Yeah.
44:45
For real. Yeah.
44:46
Damn, so you just wear them? Yeah, and then it just
44:48
translates everything. Shut The fuck?
44:49
It's like a two second delay, but it or like one second delay.
44:52
But yeah, they have that now. It's crazy.
44:54
Dude, Chabi was speaking English very well and like Joe was able
44:58
to speak to me pretty well but like even thus so I was like
45:04
this is fucking crazy. That chavy guy is the best
45:08
Wheeler I've ever seen. They're extremely consistent.
45:12
When he wants to do something and change something, it makes
45:15
sense for him to change it and you can see it happen.
45:19
Crazy. Where's the first track he went
45:21
to? Mahon E.
45:25
What is that? I thought I heard someone.
45:26
Did you hear someone? I heard some Creek out there.
45:28
Yeah, me too. Yeah go check it scary stuff I'm
45:32
eating this one yeah I could give you half if you want No no,
45:36
no, but Mahon E course so like. So that was the first track you
45:40
went to? That's crazy.
45:42
Oh my God, that's so fucking good.
45:44
So what'd you? So what'd you think about seeing
45:46
that in real life? I never went there.
45:47
So after all the cars were done, first of all, you don't like
45:50
drive the car to the track, you don't trailer it.
45:52
Nobody's got trailers or anything like that.
45:54
If they do have a trailer, it's a single axle sketch.
45:59
And when he went to Mahan, I was like, Oh my God, this is small
46:04
as fuck. Wall here, wall there, wall
46:08
there, wall here. I was like, if you go off, yeah,
46:12
you are dead. Car smashed.
46:15
And also now this is my first time seeing like it was for a
46:18
shirts tucked in day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:20
So I I got to meet Casey from shirts tucked in.
46:23
I got to meet the guy who drags the wing, Fujio, Aki Fujio.
46:29
Is he was he on burst or no? I don't know.
46:32
I don't know, but he would go so dripped out.
46:34
I was like, no way. This guy's cool as fuck and he
46:37
wasn't driving that day, but he was just.
46:39
There. OK.
46:40
And I was like, whoa, like this guy is the guy that does the
46:44
thing that we watch on the Internet.
46:47
What happened buddy? What?
46:49
The fuck was that? Did you just trip on yourself?
46:51
No. And then Matt?
46:53
Oh I was so confused. Hi life baby.
46:58
Oh, American beer. Fuck, I don't know if I got
47:00
them. I'm.
47:01
Sorry, we got, that's all we got man.
47:04
We didn't import anything for you.
47:06
Fucking I meet, I like, you know, walking, passing by.
47:11
I'm like, oh, hi, hitting the bow, John.
47:13
I'm everywhere I go. I'm.
47:14
Just yeah, you bow. Everywhere you got it.
47:17
I just don't know what to do. I don't know how to say hi.
47:19
Yeah. Like I'm bowing everywhere.
47:22
Then I watched everybody drive. OK, this is my first time seeing
47:28
everybody wheel for real. It's like everything is hard,
47:32
aggressive, bow backwards. I'm like Jesus Christ, what is
47:37
this? Like did it make me like Kansai
47:41
style like the shit? No, it made me want to figure
47:46
out how to make my car do more of that or at least battle
47:49
around with those cars because dude, they're using the throttle
47:54
not to not spin out. They're using the throttle to
47:57
push instead of like, oh, I'm going to spin out.
48:00
Let me like it's it's totally different.
48:04
Then thankfully I got in Kane's car, which that's the one you.
48:06
Went for a ride along at Mayon. It was so scary.
48:09
It was mayon course EI. Would shit myself.
48:11
It was mayon E course. Oh, it was not the main.
48:13
Not the main one. OK, but I got to ride with Kane
48:18
and then it was even scarier for me because I was on the left.
48:23
And so now I'm just like. You're like I should be dry
48:26
this. Doesn't feel like.
48:27
POV I'm like, Oh my God, because like, and Kane doesn't even
48:33
consider himself like an amazing driver.
48:35
And I was like, you're retarded. You're an amazing driver.
48:38
He's like, if you look, I don't even really tandem.
48:40
And like. You're crazy because like coming
48:43
down the Main Street immediately, it's like right in
48:47
a second I'm like, oh, OK. Like maybe he's just throwing
48:50
his car so much he doesn't want a tandem with people, you know,
48:53
it does that what it is. Dude Chavi and Casey were
48:57
throwing. There's a video of Shirt Tuxin
48:59
Shirt Tuxin's fucking blue car. The one that's fully blue.
49:05
Him and Chavi are both backwards like this.
49:07
That does not matter. Like they will drive with you no
49:11
matter what. But those guys drive together or
49:13
no? No, that was Chubby, the Spanish
49:15
guy that came there with around our time.
49:18
That's so crazy. I was like what the fuck dude?
49:23
And like, it changed my, it changed my perception of what
49:28
the bare minimum is for a car because half of that shit was
49:34
hacked the fuck up together. Like Diego's cars got mismatched
49:38
arms. Like the coil over's bent as
49:40
fuck. Like it's literally like bent
49:41
like this. And I'm like, dude, what the
49:43
fuck? So he does a coil over change.
49:46
We did it in 20 minutes, both fronts.
49:48
I was like, wow, I would not be able to do this at home because
49:52
I just don't want to. But so we're doing that.
49:55
Everybody's ripping bomb in the straight.
49:57
Then it rains and I'm like oh fuck, because now it's going to
50:00
be crazy. You're like, I don't know what's
50:02
going to happen. Is it or there's going to be
50:03
less grip? Nope, like still crazy.
50:09
And and dude, I am so sick of the sound of SR20.
50:15
It fucking pisses me the fuck off.
50:17
They sound great. It's fun and all, but when you
50:19
hear like 50 of them, like I'm like, God damn it.
50:24
Then he had Bryson's straight pipe Z Oh my.
50:27
Oh no, who let him do? That loud bro.
50:30
Yeah, we'll let him do that. One, then Diego gets to drive
50:33
and now it's different, like when you get to see Bryson or
50:35
Diego or Brad got to drive Bryson's car for a little bit.
50:38
Drive because now these are your friends.
50:41
You're like holy crap. Did you say they drove their
50:43
cars to the track? No, you can't.
50:46
You can't. It's like with the, with the
50:49
help of like Hayden and Toshi combined, we were able to bring
50:52
cars around. So if you need to bring a car
50:55
around, hit up Hayden or Toshi, whoever you want to use, fucking
50:59
get your car around. Because the way they do it is
51:02
they'll bring it up, they'll show up, it's fueled up, You
51:04
know, you unload it for you, they'll load it back up.
51:06
You know if a non Japanese citizen can buy a house there,
51:09
you can. Yeah, because that's what I'm
51:11
going to do next. Yeah, I was going to say.
51:14
I I can't buy a house here. Can't afford a house here.
51:17
I'm buying one over there. He's out.
51:18
I'm gone. See you later.
51:22
You really can buy a. House and it's out of pocket so
51:24
you can only buy the house and it's done like you're not making
51:26
payments on it. You pay taxes once a year.
51:29
You pay your utilities once a year.
51:31
Oh wow, once a year. Or maybe that's once once a
51:33
month. I don't remember what Hayden
51:34
told us, but. It's pretty cool.
51:37
Yeah, that's what I'm going to do.
51:38
Or I'm going to try to do that in the next like few years of my
51:41
life. Yeah, before makes, before they
51:43
make it too hard. Yeah.
51:45
But when we were there at E course that was like my first
51:47
time when I was like, holy fuck, like this is nuts.
51:52
Like this is not like drifting gear.
51:54
Not to interrupt, you can't put the fucking Hershey bar in the
51:57
fucking fridge. Just attempt me look, I'm
51:59
looking right at it over his shoulder.
52:01
He did that on purpose, did he? Do that on fridge.
52:03
Yeah, Oh, this tastes like piss. And it's really bad.
52:06
This tastes like piss. Oh, piss.
52:08
All right. Basically Japan.
52:09
All right, all. Right.
52:09
No, it it it. No, it's just not good.
52:11
It's just bad beer. Yeah, I don't really like this.
52:14
Who got that? Date Bob.
52:17
Oh, really? I'm gonna eat this fucking piece
52:18
of Charlotte to remind me of how good it was.
52:21
Just take him back, close your eyes.
52:24
Oh my God. All right.
52:26
Wow, they were really good. All right, so Mahon, well, I'll
52:30
ask you at the end. I want to know what your
52:31
favorite track was. I'll tell you what my favorite
52:34
track was. Oh well, you kind of said it
52:35
before I guess. Mihoku.
52:36
Yeah. Is that the next one you went
52:39
to? That was the next one.
52:40
So like we drove that and then following that shortly what
52:48
happened after that? I'm just going off these photos.
52:51
I can't remember the whole trip. Brad's car finally gets put
52:55
together, which is a 21 Tomei stroker or whatever the fuck it
52:57
is. Oh wow, ballistic sounding on a
53:01
on AF con like HKSF con dude. The limiter is like I'm like
53:07
what the fuck is that? That's cool.
53:10
And I got to visit this guy's shop, Diversion racing.
53:14
It's like super long standing chop.
53:17
The guy, the tuner there, Satoshi is very like he's like
53:23
quick by the book, like does this, does that.
53:25
Everybody goes to him. Meoki, the N style cars go to
53:28
him. All of that dude.
53:29
While I was there Brad's cars finishing getting tuned made
53:31
like 400 and what turbo? Was it?
53:36
Do you know? TDO 6.
53:37
OK, that's what I thought. Yep, everybody.
53:39
TDO 6. Oh my God, bro fucking TDO 6
53:43
fucking as we're Wheeling Brad's car out fucking and like Naoki's
53:49
son's car is like next to get tuned.
53:52
I was like bro this shit is not real.
53:56
Like what is happening. And then I get Jay the mechanic.
54:00
Thankfully he has a good relationship with Satoshi.
54:03
Like I'm we're walking around in the shop.
54:05
That shop is a lot more of a shop.
54:07
Had three lifts, 3 bays. Like they use it to make money
54:11
shop. It's just like a performance
54:14
shop, like they have the dyno there, but then I'm looking in
54:18
the garage, there's like a S15 with a VVL and then like a JZX
54:23
and like whatever, damn it, VVL all the way to the right.
54:27
The car that they're working on is an Altezza.
54:29
And I was like, yeah, I was like, I.
54:32
Need to look at that one I. Need to look at that and the
54:33
mechanic is working on it and I look underneath and he has a
54:35
tape measure out and I'm like he's got to be trying to put a
54:39
JZ in there. He has to be because it comes
54:42
with the beams. That's what he's looking at.
54:43
So then I, I look at it and I and I go up to him.
54:45
I'm like, I'm like motor desk. Like what?
54:50
What? And then I can get Jay.
54:51
I'm like, dude, tell him, ask him what motor is going in here.
54:54
And he goes, oh, no, no, no, no, no one Jay-Z.
54:57
And I'm like my boy, look at this photo.
55:01
So then I show him the picture of the Bay.
55:03
I'm like me Alteza 1 Jay-Z. He's like, oh, and I'm like
55:08
motor mount OEM factory. Oh wow.
55:11
And then it was like huh? And I'm like, yeah 'cause it
55:15
factory motor mount just move and then JZX 90 motor mount
55:19
move. And then he was like what?
55:22
And then he asked me about the fans and I was like, I use like
55:24
the Altezza fans. It fits OEM stock, no mods.
55:27
And he was like Oh my God. And then now it's.
55:30
Easier here probably. Now he's looking at it and I'm
55:32
like, dude, I just put this Japanese guy on, bro.
55:36
Like, I hope that he was able to do it now.
55:38
Yeah, I. Would have asked him like what
55:39
do you guys do to the beams motors?
55:41
Like did they turbo them? So my buddy bought a turbo beam.
55:44
I got to look at it a little bit.
55:47
That is still on my mind to do. Yeah, yeah, just because it
55:52
brings. All the weight.
55:54
In the weight back compared to being super forward and it's
55:58
like you could just there was an Altezza beams at TKL and I was
56:02
like looking at it move even when I see it move I'm like
56:06
damn, that moves way faster, way lighter on its feet even NA
56:11
yeah. But Jay-Z are just heavy.
56:14
Shout out Will to Will, Nathan, Jake out of Altamonte.
56:18
They're from Georgia too. I met them out there.
56:20
Will has an IS here, so he naturally brought in Altezza
56:22
there. Sadly, the Altezza was broken
56:24
his fock. But it had the turbo beam.
56:26
Yeah, the turbo beams, it was overheating a little bit.
56:28
Turns out you needed to turn on the fan with like the hazard
56:30
button or something. Did you go for a ride in that?
56:32
No we couldn't drive, the clutch was smoked and had open diff.
56:35
So then. But then our other friend Nathan
56:37
bought AS 14 which looked brilliant.
56:40
Dude. Zenki origin stylish I think
56:43
whatever. It's like the OEM looking one.
56:45
I thought it was a vertex kit. So.
56:48
Yeah, and then Jake has the S15 Jasper on Instagram.
56:51
So shout out to all those guys. I loved seeing you guys and that
56:54
made me happy and more comfortable.
56:56
Like Will's like a fashion guy. So I was like, dude, you're
57:00
going to love it. Like here.
57:01
Yeah, they're still there. I think.
57:03
So whatever we we do all of that and we leave Satoshi's in
57:08
diversion racing and I find I could go to a lawsuit again, I
57:11
think. What did I have that time?
57:13
I had like, no, I think you had the chicken.
57:15
No, no, no. I had a like a like a Hamburg
57:18
steak or whatever, like a Salisbury steak, just like a
57:21
hamburger Patty with like a sauce on it.
57:23
So they're transporting all these cars to all these
57:25
different tracks. This shit is crazy, dude.
57:28
Yeah, it's like they're not. The tracks aren't close to each
57:30
other, no. Satoshi's is only 30 minutes
57:32
away from Toshi's or 40 minutes away from Toshi's, so that's not
57:35
bad. And they're paying for every
57:36
tow? Or is it like favors?
57:37
You got to pay, you got to pay for the tows.
57:39
It's not free. You got to support everybody's
57:40
business. But think about him survive.
57:43
Just to put it out there, you, you basically when we talked
57:45
about before you basically paid about 900 bucks for two weeks of
57:49
living there other than, other than.
57:51
Without living accommodations and without airfare I spent like
57:54
9900 bucks per. Grand.
57:55
So now you can imagine what they're paying.
57:57
Let's say they already have the car, but they got to work on it,
58:00
they got to transport it a few $1000.
58:03
Like I'm sure they're paying like 5 around 5 grand.
58:06
I would never buy a car there. I'll put that out there right
58:08
now. I would never buy a car there.
58:09
Why? They're smoked or they're just
58:11
not. It's just like not useful.
58:12
I know, I know, I can build 1 here.
58:16
And then just. And then I I got to meet Jason
58:18
from Animal Style. Yeah, I saw he was there.
58:20
I got to talk to him and he imported his car there, which
58:23
was a 240, and he drove it at Goonsai and drove it at Bihoku
58:26
and shit and like Diego got to drive with him.
58:29
Then I also met Aaron and I was like, yo fun Frankie, what's up?
58:32
Oh my God. He was there.
58:34
Too. He was like, what?
58:35
Like I'm like, yeah, you're like Frankie, except like.
58:37
I think I said that to him when I met him.
58:38
I was like, apparently I'm you. I don't know.
58:40
He's like, what? I was like, Nah, it's just
58:42
because you have both have long hair.
58:43
Yeah. But I got to meet him.
58:45
I feel like he felt maybe felt a little awkward that I called him
58:47
that. So I was like, all right, let me
58:48
just back up. And then I met.
58:51
I felt the same way when I said that.
58:53
I met Tweed like Giordo and I think Jordan.
58:57
I don't think I met him. So I I met him and I was mind
59:00
you, where I'd be Hoku when I met him.
59:02
And I was like, hey, I'm Carl, blah, blah, blah.
59:04
And he's like, oh, I'm Jordan and I'm like, are you are you
59:08
tweet like what the fuck? And he's like, yeah, like and he
59:11
goes, do you have a podcast? And I'm like, yeah, he's like,
59:16
yeah, I've heard a few episodes of him.
59:17
Like what the? Fuck.
59:18
Oh wow, that's crazy it. Was so cool.
59:20
But like prior to be Hoku too, There was Oh no, maybe this was
59:26
after. Yeah, we went to Bhoku like
59:28
after or maybe prior to Satoshi's.
59:31
But when you go to Bhoku, it's like it's like the most
59:36
picturesque town, very Japanese country town.
59:41
Like everything there moves slow.
59:45
Like for that town, that's it. There's no bars there.
59:49
There's no bars there that you go to.
59:50
You don't stay there as like a, as a foreigner.
59:52
Like it's, it's still very Japanese.
59:55
But then to go to Bhoku, it's like this beautiful ass mountain
59:58
Rd. There's like a hairpin and then
1:00:00
like another hairpin. And like in the car, I'm
1:00:03
literally like, like, but then you go to Bhoku and it looks
1:00:08
like a track. Versus.
1:00:11
Versus did you go to Mahan Versus when you go to Mahan,
1:00:14
it's like track track fiberglass factory that I think makes
1:00:19
bathtubs a motocross track, but it's a really long motocross
1:00:23
track. Like it's very technical.
1:00:25
Dude, I want to. I missed the Koya so badly.
1:00:28
I would have loved to just whip it through there.
1:00:30
But then it's like E course back there.
1:00:32
It was so crazy. But Bihoku, the size of the
1:00:34
track was like a fucking track. Yeah, it was.
1:00:38
Pretty sick big like big track. It looks just like in the video
1:00:41
game dude. I I went up to where they the D1
1:00:43
people sit like sit one, it was shady there Two, I was like no
1:00:48
way. Like I'm literally sitting here
1:00:50
like this. It looks exactly like the
1:00:52
fucking show. Like the, like the.
1:00:54
That's the best spot. That's the best spot, and
1:00:56
there's power outlets there like I.
1:00:57
Was just thinking about all the cars you're getting launched up
1:00:59
the fucking you. Know, dude, now if you do that,
1:01:02
you're paying ¥100,000 right out of the pocket.
1:01:04
How much is that? Oh, Rack. 100 bucks 900.
1:01:07
Bucks 800 bucks. I only know because Nathan on
1:01:11
they went there a second time crashed the wall and that's how
1:01:14
that you get have to pay. You have to pay for the wall
1:01:17
when you hit it. Because they got tired of that.
1:01:19
Yeah, he's like, once you hit it ¥100,000, no question, B
1:01:25
whatever. So I got to the when we went,
1:01:27
not when they went. It was like, you can one,
1:01:31
there's a place for you to have lunch.
1:01:32
There's like a little building, there's toilets, there's
1:01:35
bathrooms, like there's a water there, there's vending machines
1:01:39
everywhere. So it's like very accommodating
1:01:43
to be there. And this the, the person who
1:01:45
owns it was very, very nice and very funny.
1:01:48
So we got to drive the front course and the back course.
1:01:50
Dude, the back course. Did you, did you see that one?
1:01:53
Yeah, did you have to sweep it sick?
1:01:55
Sick. Yeah.
1:01:56
At the end, yeah we were like, but we in the video game that
1:02:01
does not at that course does not translate at all.
1:02:04
There's like elevation dude, Diego's going around S14 stock
1:02:09
Sr. I think we just cranked the
1:02:11
boost controller a bunch, but we're coming around and then
1:02:14
there's like a hill into a hairpin dude going over the
1:02:17
hairpin, you just hear the car like like we caught air.
1:02:23
I was like bro what the? Fuck, did they link the tracks
1:02:27
together or were they separate? OK.
1:02:29
So I guess, I guess for like that thrash day, they combined.
1:02:31
I think they did right, yeah. Not this one.
1:02:32
This one was separate so you could go to either.
1:02:34
Yeah. And then the front one was sick,
1:02:36
like fucking just hucking it, just like the fucking show, the
1:02:40
videos. Like I'm like Oh my fucking God,
1:02:43
this is so fucking cool. There was a pro car there, so it
1:02:46
was like you saw a fast car go. How about all the tow rigs you
1:02:50
see like crazy tow rigs and shit.
1:02:51
No, just just the car haulers and.
1:02:55
Yeah, those I guess the. One guy, I told you there's he
1:02:58
had a trailer for the S13, but it was a single axle and he was
1:03:01
towing it with a High Ace. I wanted to be like, what the
1:03:05
what the fuck is that gross vehicle waiting on that man
1:03:07
'cause that that is not when we loaded up the high Ace, the High
1:03:11
Ace was struggling, let alone a car.
1:03:14
So we did all that and then now Brad's car gets tuned and it
1:03:20
gets put together 'cause Brad wasn't with us.
1:03:22
Furby Hoku. He like spent the day alone to
1:03:24
go do other stuff, understandably.
1:03:28
Then finally, when it gets tuned that night, we took it to the
1:03:31
Tolgay or whatever and that was fucking ballistic.
1:03:34
Dude, yeah, that's crazy. No faces, no names, no case,
1:03:37
nothing. Like we had fun on the mountain.
1:03:39
That's it. You won't hear from me like it
1:03:43
was sick, dude. Groundskeeper comes by at 5:00
1:03:45
AM on spoken bond. You pack up, leave, clean your
1:03:47
shit. The one.
1:03:49
So they're it's kind of like someone knows someone and.
1:03:52
No, it's just respect the place. We didn't leave any garbage any
1:03:58
like Chavi blew up a wheel by hitting Kane's wheel and I went
1:04:03
down and I cleaned up the remnants of the wheel just cause
1:04:06
like in my mind, that's what gets us in trouble here.
1:04:11
He's like when you leave trash or you start to you start to
1:04:13
disgrace the area. Now what was really good is now
1:04:17
ruined because you couldn't act responsibly.
1:04:21
So everyone acted responsibly that night.
1:04:23
I actually picked up Skyler, Benji and their other friend.
1:04:26
I forgot his name from here, like in the from the US they
1:04:30
were they landed or whatever. And I was like, meet me at this
1:04:33
Lawson and I'll pick you up and I'll bring you to the mountain.
1:04:36
So they met me at the Lawson. I picked them up.
1:04:38
We drive up the mountain. I get an inner clip on one of
1:04:41
the corners. I get a flat.
1:04:43
Oh, no. And then and then like I put the
1:04:45
the spare on and now it's like we can go somewhere and like
1:04:49
park the K and I can watch it from like a corner.
1:04:53
Did I? Did you see that video?
1:04:55
I don't think I saw that one. I saw one.
1:04:56
I'll show you the video here. I'm not going to put it on the
1:04:58
big screen or whatever, but it was like, dude, it was such a
1:05:01
fucking experience, bro. Like like it was what you
1:05:05
thought it. Would that's what I want to see.
1:05:07
It's what you thought it would be.
1:05:11
Hold on. Fucking volume.
1:05:13
It's exactly everything you would think that it would be.
1:05:16
Like. It was so fucking awesome, dude.
1:05:27
It's just sick. No plates, no faces.
1:05:29
Was it wet out? It was wet, Yeah, yeah, but they
1:05:31
were still moving fast as fuck. Did you see it?
1:05:35
They were still moving fast as fuck.
1:05:37
And that's what was so scary to me.
1:05:40
One, Brad is a madman. I already know Brad Kinwheel,
1:05:44
let alone like a car that was just tuned.
1:05:47
Now for the first time, he has power, like really big power.
1:05:50
I'm like, dude, we're we're going to die.
1:05:53
We're going to die. I rode his car one time.
1:05:56
Are these cars street legal or no?
1:05:59
So that was another thing like to get the cars there obviously
1:06:02
like. Yeah.
1:06:04
Yeah, like unspokenly, you just got to get the car there.
1:06:07
And I'm not saying like you need to run away from the police or
1:06:10
whatever, but be mindful of the fact that your car is not
1:06:14
supposed to be on the road. So none of those cars are really
1:06:17
supposed to. No wow, we drove at like
1:06:19
midnight. Is it hard for is it hard to
1:06:22
like get a car street legal? Yes it is.
1:06:29
It is because of the street legal to get the car shotgun
1:06:32
which is like inspected inspected.
1:06:36
Damn. And it's, it's just like really.
1:06:39
Does it cost a bit for them too? It's cost them it.
1:06:43
Cost them a lot of money to get. Inspected.
1:06:45
Yeah. Oh yeah, dude, it's very, very
1:06:47
expensive. It's like you got to do it
1:06:48
pretty often. It's not just like.
1:06:49
AI think that if you imported a car like my car, Goldie goes to
1:06:54
fucking JDM, it's up. Like because my car's insured
1:06:57
registered here, now it's just like a different kind of
1:07:00
paperwork to get it legal there because it's roadworthy here.
1:07:03
So there's no way it wouldn't be roadworthy there.
1:07:05
Import a Japanese car, title it here, then send it back.
1:07:10
Yeah, nice and cheap. Build it here.
1:07:12
Let's send it back. I mean, it's a hack, dude.
1:07:14
That's a hack. What sucks about doing that
1:07:19
thing? You know how like when you break
1:07:20
something at the track, you find an advanced auto parts, you find
1:07:23
an AutoZone something, O'reilly's, whatever you're
1:07:25
from, and you could get a part there, tie rod, axle, whatever
1:07:30
they are that does not exist. They have D Max.
1:07:34
That's it. D Max carries axles, D Max
1:07:37
carries subframes. D Max, That's no soccer, right?
1:07:40
Or like. I don't know.
1:07:41
I don't know where it is. I never had to go.
1:07:43
D Max tie rods. You get it from there.
1:07:44
Everything. D Max, D Max, D Max.
1:07:46
Which is sick, Yeah. And it's cheap.
1:07:49
Yeah, to A to an extent. But dude, we were to get the
1:07:52
cars. They were so fucking we'll talk
1:07:55
about that one on the Patreon because we we did a lot of bad
1:07:57
stuff to get the cars there. But I don't want to out anything
1:08:02
or out anybody. But we had so much fucking fun
1:08:04
that night. And then it all of a sudden it's
1:08:07
5:00 in the morning, the gate to the the place that that the guy
1:08:11
who's at opens the gate doesn't look at us, doesn't acknowledge.
1:08:15
Us is this like a closed place? It's it's just like a place and
1:08:19
like. But there's a gate.
1:08:21
But the but the place that it's on opens at a certain time.
1:08:26
So like he opens the gate, doesn't acknowledge us, doesn't
1:08:30
talk to us, and then we pack up and leave.
1:08:33
That's it. Wow, it was crazy.
1:08:36
And then I had to drop Benji and Skylar and his other friend off
1:08:39
back at the Lawson. So I went before everybody and I
1:08:42
was like, don't post anything until the day after, like until
1:08:45
we're all home. Like if there's a plate, blur
1:08:49
it. I'm surprised they even let you
1:08:50
post anything you know. Yeah, it's still cool.
1:08:53
People will still like to see it.
1:08:55
Like just don't blow it up. Like don't ruin what?
1:08:58
What's good so? And how long have you been there
1:09:01
at that point? A week and some change I think
1:09:05
maybe. And you still had more drifting.
1:09:07
Yeah. So after that it was TKL.
1:09:14
OK, I don't even know this track really.
1:09:16
Tokushima, Cartland. It's so good, dude.
1:09:19
So we go there and, you know, in between all of this, like it's
1:09:23
still like, it's what you think that I would be experiencing.
1:09:27
Like I go out to eat. I go out to drink.
1:09:30
Yeah. What kind of food you be eating?
1:09:31
Dude I had ramen twice. Different kinds of ramen.
1:09:34
So you had like the the really creamy looking ramen like miso
1:09:39
base or. Whatever.
1:09:40
Yeah, Miso base. I like that.
1:09:41
Ramen. Love it but then there's like a
1:09:43
salty one soy base. Like.
1:09:45
We had miso based by the shop a few times, like a couple times
1:09:49
and like we visited this this home center store a lot.
1:09:54
It's I. Feel like I've been to one of
1:09:55
those it's. Literally the the logo's like a
1:09:56
rooster. OK.
1:09:57
That's where you have like worm clamps and like hardware.
1:10:01
No, I've never been. There, dude, we I picked up
1:10:04
three cans of spray paint from the home center just 'cause I
1:10:07
was I called Diego. I'm like, dude, your kit is
1:10:10
unpainted and the car already looks like dog shit.
1:10:12
Let's do something about this. We're painters.
1:10:16
And then he's like, all right, pick me up 3 cans or pick me up,
1:10:19
pick me up four or five. Cans.
1:10:21
So this is like the equivalent of Lowe's.
1:10:23
Yeah, yeah, kind of. This is as good as you.
1:10:25
Can on a small scale, yeah. I picked up three cans because
1:10:28
that's all they had. I think each can was like 6
1:10:31
bucks or so, 5 bucks. And then we go to Toshi's like
1:10:36
like larger lot where it's like more open.
1:10:39
So it's not by any other cars. Diego's like dragging.
1:10:42
He's like, yo, I'm going to put the bumper right now dragging
1:10:45
the bumper like straight up on the ground.
1:10:47
Like just I'm like dude, what the fuck?
1:10:52
Then we paint it turns out pretty fucking good.
1:10:55
Like it came out really good. Like paint match was like couple
1:10:59
shades lighter. I bet if we painted it black
1:11:01
first, then painted it red would have came out grey.
1:11:03
But dude literally slapped it right on and the can said fast
1:11:08
drying. We put the bumper 10 minutes,
1:11:11
maybe a cigarette at the top lot into the high Ace got Satoshi's
1:11:16
unloaded the bumper dry. You could like rub it like this
1:11:18
and it was dry. I was like what the fuck?
1:11:21
Got that good paint? There wasn't any nibs, there
1:11:23
wasn't any runs. It died back the next day.
1:11:25
Obviously die back is like when it fades a little bit, but dude,
1:11:29
I was like, fuck yeah, like now you have a red car.
1:11:32
Sick. So we did all of that crap and
1:11:36
then it was just eating ramen and Bento boxes.
1:11:40
A lot of a lot of katsu. I love the Curry bro.
1:11:43
Curry, that's what I want to go. There, dude, the second yakiniku
1:11:46
spot we went to or whatever Japanese BBQ spot we went to.
1:11:49
Dude, you, I you got to see the picture of this meat.
1:11:52
I'll show you a picture. Show me your meat.
1:11:53
Yeah, I'm going to show you the picture of my meat.
1:11:55
Here's the ramen I fucking had. It was so fucking good.
1:11:57
We should get that tonight. Oh, wait, we're not in Japan,
1:12:00
Riff. We're going to spend $40 to do
1:12:02
that here. Literally.
1:12:04
Not $40. But yeah, $40.
1:12:06
For ramen. A bowl of ramen here is like 20
1:12:09
bucks. Or less, yeah. 18 to 20, I would
1:12:12
say 14 to $20. Dude it was like so unreal to be
1:12:17
there though. I'm going to find this picture
1:12:18
of this food, but first apparently have to delete 4. $5.
1:12:22
It was it was kind of pricey for so that's what I want to say too
1:12:27
is like weirdly like the money and the currency like doesn't
1:12:34
like why are tolls $30.00? But then I could go to the store
1:12:36
and get like a bunch of food for full.
1:12:38
Because they don't want you driving.
1:12:39
Then OK, then why is summer? I mean, we were also in Osaka,
1:12:45
so maybe they were just. Like why is certain food more
1:12:47
than? Yeah, like eating at a
1:12:48
restaurant cost you an arm and a leg and then.
1:12:51
The service I guess, right? Maybe, but we're not tipping
1:12:53
nothing, Yeah. You're not really supposed to.
1:12:55
Tip. You're not supposed to tip.
1:12:56
It's like so. It's kind of built into the
1:12:57
price, yeah. But then if you go and you eat
1:13:01
alone like it somewhere where you're not really being served,
1:13:04
it's probably. Look at that piece of meat
1:13:06
that's on the grill. Just zoomed in on a piece of
1:13:09
meat. Look at the marbling.
1:13:11
Look at that. Shit.
1:13:12
Yeah. Have you seen that?
1:13:13
That's pretty crazy. Yeah, that look, I just from
1:13:17
that picture, that looks good. As fuck.
1:13:18
And then they would give us like this whole plate at this place.
1:13:22
It was me and Brad on one table, then Katie, Diego, Bryson,
1:13:27
Sadie, and our Russian friend Dan.
1:13:30
I miss Dan already. Dude that guy is so funny but.
1:13:34
That was like United Nations out there.
1:13:36
It was, dude, oh God. Like there was one night we were
1:13:38
sitting at the shop and I think one of us would like, look at
1:13:43
how weird this is. Like, we have Americans, we have
1:13:47
Spanish people, we have a Scottish dude, we have
1:13:50
Australian people. And then in the subset of
1:13:52
Americans, you have me, Diego from Georgia and Brad from
1:13:55
Texas. What?
1:13:57
That's weird. It's so crazy.
1:13:59
And then we're all just united because of the drifting.
1:14:01
Japan brings everyone together. But that little plate, me and
1:14:04
Brad, I think after at this point, we're so famished, like
1:14:09
we dogged this whole plate at the rate that they also got that
1:14:15
same plate. And then at the spot, Malcolm,
1:14:18
unlimited rice. And then to the right of the
1:14:20
rice, unlimited Curry. Yeah, dude.
1:14:24
And then behind you got unlimited kimchi, bean sprouts,
1:14:27
all that shit. I was trying to put Katie like
1:14:30
was Diego's soon to be wife is like afraid of some of the food,
1:14:34
not afraid of some. Of the There's a word for that,
1:14:36
Carla. It's just not some of the
1:14:37
fucking fiance, not the taste you.
1:14:40
Keep saying soon to be wifey. You just say fiance.
1:14:42
Fianchi. Fianchi.
1:14:44
So, so Katie Diego's fianchi didn't want to try kimchi at
1:14:51
first because she had like, she doesn't really like kimchi here.
1:14:53
She had kimchi there, loved her. Oh.
1:14:55
Then bro, the bean sprouts were so fucking good dude.
1:15:01
I was because I I rarely got to have vegetables like you know
1:15:05
what I mean? My body was yearning for
1:15:08
probiotics and vitamins like. Water.
1:15:11
I was just shoveling this shit. The person, like on the other
1:15:14
side of the divider was definitely judging me and Brad.
1:15:17
We were not talking like it was minimally like, do you want that
1:15:20
piece? OK, yeah, we're gonna eat it.
1:15:22
Fucking they're. Probably.
1:15:23
Shoveling food in. They're refugees.
1:15:26
Yeah, they must be. Refugee crazy dude and the
1:15:28
unlimited fucking Curry was just just a little bit on top that I
1:15:32
wanted. To all you can eat, please.
1:15:33
Yeah. How much was it per?
1:15:34
Person ¥4000 per person. So like. 30 bucks. 36 dollars.
1:15:40
That's normal. It was $40.00 for some of us
1:15:43
because they had unlimited all you could drink beer.
1:15:48
For 40? Yeah, for 36 bucks.
1:15:51
Yeah. Oh for 36 bucks you have
1:15:52
unlimited like soft drinks. Oh, oh, for. 40 you can drink
1:15:56
unlimited whatever. Slit.
1:15:57
Bro, you do that here, they'll be like all right, 36 for all
1:16:00
you can eat, all you can do drinks at 110, that's alright.
1:16:04
But you can't. Do unlimited drinks here.
1:16:06
Ever. What's funny is this.
1:16:08
Bryson walks into the restaurant, I guess because
1:16:10
Bryson recommended it to us, and Bryson walks in and the owner of
1:16:15
the spot goes, hey, I'm like, Oh my God, how drunk did you get in
1:16:20
here the other night? Like.
1:16:22
What did you do? Yeah.
1:16:23
So we went in there, had a great fucking time.
1:16:26
Oh my God, like that was our first.
1:16:28
Like now where was this? Really big hot meal.
1:16:30
That was in Osaka. Now, a lot of what what I did
1:16:32
was just in Osaka. Did you go to any of like the
1:16:35
alleyway bars or the tiny spots? There's so many, dude.
1:16:39
The bar that I went to, that was the bar that.
1:16:42
Oh, the Patreon bar. Yeah.
1:16:44
Oh, all right. Your dad.
1:16:45
We'll talk about that later. I missed that spot.
1:16:49
I mean, I think you missed. That spot you missed?
1:16:51
I think I think that was called Gala.
1:16:54
That was the name of the bar. Gala Yeah, you.
1:16:56
Could play Jenga darts and pool in there.
1:16:58
I'll, I'll go. And there was like a lot of
1:17:00
like, American people in there. Oh, dude, you would love it.
1:17:03
They put it right on your mustache.
1:17:04
Yeah. OK, wait a second.
1:17:06
I'll talk about that later. Like dude, it was just Oh my
1:17:12
God, tell. Me about this last track.
1:17:14
We went to TKL and to get there the road was fucking.
1:17:22
Tiny. Tiny bro like like I don't I
1:17:26
almost to the point where I was like there's no way they're
1:17:27
driving the tow truck through here.
1:17:29
No shot. I think I wish I had a video of.
1:17:32
A lot of roads are so small there stick.
1:17:33
Your head out the window and make sure your wheels are still
1:17:35
on the. Road, to be honest, it's pretty
1:17:36
much everywhere but America that's like that.
1:17:38
I don't know what we did here. Dude, it was so scary to drive
1:17:45
into that track and I I wish I had like a video of the road.
1:17:50
Also, this is only 250 years old this country, so cars were
1:17:53
around for a hundred of those years, so that's probably what
1:17:56
it is. That's why American roads are so
1:17:59
big. I guess but, and I mean, dude,
1:18:02
this town, nobody was travelling to this town.
1:18:04
The track is literally carved into a mountain.
1:18:07
Like it's, it's carved into a mountain. 1-2.
1:18:11
They're playing like, they're playing like the Eagles
1:18:16
constantly, like on repeat, really.
1:18:18
And like Phil Collins on repeat. You were loving it.
1:18:22
I was loving it, dude. And like the the inside the
1:18:26
little, like the. Eagle.
1:18:29
The little eating. Area Hotel California.
1:18:30
Was like, like I tried to get a video but he had so much like
1:18:34
memorabilia in there. I was just like poking around
1:18:37
and you could buy ramen there for ¥200.
1:18:39
Like I'm just poking around. There's so much history, like on
1:18:43
the walls and shit. And like I bought like a couple
1:18:47
stickers from there. Usually I have a thing about
1:18:49
like buying stickers if I didn't drive the track.
1:18:51
Oh really? Yeah, If I.
1:18:52
Didn't drive it. I don't buy a sticker or put a
1:18:54
car. Put a sticker on my car.
1:18:55
Not to put it on the car. But I bought it because the guy
1:18:57
who owns it and runs it was literally the guy who was
1:18:59
serving us food. You could smoke in this
1:19:02
building. You see the golden, you see the
1:19:04
glass ashtray. You could smoke inside.
1:19:07
Amazing. Can we can we smoke in here?
1:19:10
No. No you can't bullshit.
1:19:13
And guess what? It didn't even smell like cigs
1:19:15
in there. I don't know what kind of fan
1:19:16
they got in there, but it was. Working you could you could do
1:19:18
it. It was working crazy.
1:19:20
Smoke a cigarette. And like fuck dude you, you
1:19:24
would love the cigs out there. I'd I'd get addicted.
1:19:27
But it was just so fun, even clubbing, you know, not that you
1:19:30
go clubbing often, but like when you go clubbing here, sometimes
1:19:32
you just fucking like just shoved in there like this, bro,
1:19:35
my arms are out. I'm fucking jiving around
1:19:38
fucking. I met our other friend now now
1:19:40
our new friend Mirza, his name on Instagram.
1:19:42
It's like peanut Butter Falcon or some shit.
1:19:44
What the fuck? Sick painter.
1:19:46
Amazing. Painter, right?
1:19:48
Amazing painter, but he was there and he was just cracking
1:19:50
me up. Bro, we're just having a good
1:19:51
time. No one's judging you because
1:19:53
what the fuck? Are you going to see these
1:19:54
people again? It don't matter.
1:19:56
Everybody's there having a good time.
1:19:57
Getting your freak on. Yeah, until there's a smelly ass
1:20:00
like. What?
1:20:02
Like an Indian dude. Oh.
1:20:04
Just reeking a BEO. Why?
1:20:07
There's a lot of them there in Osaka.
1:20:08
OK. Honestly, I don't really know
1:20:11
how I feel about that. Like I'll put that openly right
1:20:15
now. It's like.
1:20:16
Get out of my country. It's like.
1:20:18
It's like, yeah, Carl, it's like JDMR.
1:20:20
Followed me here like fuck dude, it just smelled so bad like if
1:20:24
you're going to if you're going to be a part of somebody else's
1:20:25
culture, fucking take a shower that's.
1:20:27
Probably their it's their food dude.
1:20:29
They're eating Chinese food now. What?
1:20:35
Fucking take your Bo somewhere like over there.
1:20:37
That's crazy fucking. Fight out so bad we'll.
1:20:40
Talk more about that on Picture. It smells so bad dude, but like
1:20:44
it would everybody there. I know what you mean.
1:20:46
If someone smells, they smell. Immigrant or not, like everybody
1:20:50
spoke Japanese even even like like there is like a large
1:20:54
Indian population in Japan because of some sort of like, I
1:20:58
don't really know the reason was, but they work like the
1:21:01
Family Marts and everything like that.
1:21:02
So you, you notice everything as well.
1:21:04
It's a little different. But then like when they work in
1:21:06
the Family Mart, they speak Japanese fluently.
1:21:08
The lady that I spoke to who was Indian, who was at McDonald's, I
1:21:11
got to talk to her like, oh, how long have you been here?
1:21:14
Like the have you? Did you learn Japanese prior?
1:21:15
And she was like, yeah, I love Japan.
1:21:17
I wanted to be here all the time.
1:21:18
And I'm like, OK, cool. How do you like McDonald's?
1:21:22
It was pretty good. It was like a lot more tasteful,
1:21:26
I guess like like a Big Mac rips dude and like the fries.
1:21:32
Do you? Prefer Japanese McDonald's.
1:21:34
No. In terms.
1:21:35
Of like, dude, this I had like a burger that had an egg on it
1:21:39
like after we went clubbing and. Yeah, I think I had that too.
1:21:42
After we did this that in the third I just wanted to try shit
1:21:45
like the person that like I went home with them from the club
1:21:47
fucking bought me McDonald's. So then the the egg thing that
1:21:51
was on the burger tasted like fucking garbage and like I was
1:21:57
happy that even she said that too.
1:21:58
So I was like OK cool, like let's just eat these fries.
1:22:02
But the fries, even the fries got soggy really fast.
1:22:05
Yeah, dude, McDonald's here is. So like our McDonald's is
1:22:08
fucked. Straight poison.
1:22:10
Straight poison, but it's better.
1:22:13
But what are you gonna do? Like, yeah.
1:22:15
You felt better when you would eat that McDonald's.
1:22:17
Dude, when I was there, my poops were solid as fuck.
1:22:20
Like they were normal bowel movements.
1:22:22
Yeah, I come here. I had there's only a Taco Bell
1:22:25
or a Burger King in my town. Taco Bell or Burger King in my
1:22:28
town. I was like, OK, Taco Bell's a
1:22:29
lot healthier than Burger King. And when I got there, the Burger
1:22:32
King was closed. OK, Taco Bell it is.
1:22:34
Had Taco Bell woke up this morning absolutely obliterated
1:22:37
myself. Like I was like what the fuck?
1:22:40
Taco Bell first meal after you get back is crazy.
1:22:43
That's I only I also got it because Diego said he got it
1:22:45
too. There's no shot in fuck that.
1:22:48
My body was digesting Taco Bell horribly before, but when I had
1:22:51
good Japanese food and then I came back.
1:22:55
How to clear you out? So fucked.
1:22:58
Like it was horrible, but. I loved it.
1:23:04
I loved it out there, dude. It was so fucking fun.
1:23:07
I just miss everybody. All my friends I got to meet
1:23:09
there 'cause there was, it was the sense of like, oh, I'm not
1:23:12
the only fucking retard around, like all of these guys.
1:23:16
Are all retarded. Fucking all retarded too.
1:23:19
Wait, so you didn't? I want to drive yourself.
1:23:22
I wanted to drive, but I have a thing where I don't like driving
1:23:25
other people's cars, especially when we're across the world and
1:23:28
I can, and the goal of our sport is to get close to the wall.
1:23:31
Yeah, and you're going to run away.
1:23:32
Shit, I'm going. To wreck this shit.
1:23:34
Like, yeah, so Bryson was trying to throw me his keys.
1:23:37
Also right hand drive. And right hand drive.
1:23:39
That that's annoying like. Did anybody have a left hand
1:23:41
drive car out there Drifting Jason?
1:23:44
Drifting Jason did. Yeah, that's probably the reason
1:23:46
why and. Some of the cars that were
1:23:47
sitting at Toshi shop where his buddies from Hawaii's cars like
1:23:53
like Ryan, that's the only one I got to meet, but they their
1:23:56
drift team is called after hours.
1:23:59
That's a good name. That's a that's actually a
1:24:01
really good. Yeah, that's a good name, Yeah.
1:24:03
But he had bring them on. I was looking at it and I was
1:24:05
like, wait, it's left hand drive.
1:24:08
And he's like, yeah, that's my car from Hawaii or some shit.
1:24:11
And I'm like. What a Bono.
1:24:14
Dude the Aussie accent is the best.
1:24:16
Dude use rock up fucking. You just fucking swing it, man.
1:24:22
Dude, it was so fucking awesome, dude.
1:24:25
And then we had to do so many things that were just, I feel
1:24:28
like the average Japan tourist wouldn't have done.
1:24:32
Yeah, definitely not. Like we're, yeah, we're eating
1:24:35
at places that. Change in tires like mountain
1:24:37
roads. They were like, they were like,
1:24:39
we've never seen a foreigner. Like I'm like, look at these
1:24:43
guys, like fucking there's there's a Brad calls a healthy
1:24:48
spot, but it was called Bureka. It looked like I was in
1:24:51
Williamsburg, like like the aesthetic of it.
1:24:55
It was like, you know, fucking like wooden milk crates for shit
1:24:58
and like but it was farm to table and like I had fucking
1:25:05
ABLTI think. But.
1:25:07
The definition of BLT was not what I thought.
1:25:11
Like the lettuce was picked outside, the egg was fucking,
1:25:14
there's chickens running around and shit.
1:25:16
It was just like very holistic, tasty.
1:25:19
And then dude, the the burger I had in Hawaji.
1:25:22
So back to the first week, the burger I had there was the
1:25:27
greatest burger I've ever. Had.
1:25:29
That's crazy. It was top notch them the the.
1:25:34
But you had Fuddruckers. The Patty itself was fucking
1:25:38
phenomenal and the the the. Beef there is just good the.
1:25:41
Beef was so good and just the fact that everything on top of
1:25:44
the beef was harvested there. I guess Owaji's known for onions
1:25:48
so I I made sure I made sure to get shit with onions on it.
1:25:51
The onions were fucking fire. The onions were.
1:25:55
Raw or like caramelized? Mine were like crisped up and
1:25:59
then Brad had Brad and Diego or or Katie had one where it was
1:26:05
like like sauteed. But then I bought like I bought
1:26:08
like chips from there that were like it was like Owaji shoe
1:26:12
onion thing. Fucking amazing chips.
1:26:16
Like absolutely annihilate your breath.
1:26:18
But really good chips. And you can't trust.
1:26:20
Onions and then that building, like we were talking and we go
1:26:23
to the register and Brad translates like on his phone.
1:26:26
He's like, this was the best burger I've ever had.
1:26:29
Then they're like, oh so. Nice.
1:26:30
And we're from America. And then then she tells us about
1:26:33
the building, like, you know, it's somewhat broken, but it's
1:26:36
still translated like the building was there since the the
1:26:41
town was founded. It was an old soy sauce factory.
1:26:43
It's where they used to make the soy sauce.
1:26:45
So the building was very old. But then within the building
1:26:48
there was like another structure.
1:26:50
So they didn't touch the building.
1:26:52
I was like, this is so weird but cool.
1:26:55
Like really cool. I I think I understand what
1:26:58
you're saying. That is really weird.
1:26:59
No, they it was so that they could preserve the building
1:27:01
itself. But they made a whole new
1:27:03
structure. Yeah, why would they make it?
1:27:04
But it was like it was, it was like a little bit of scaffolding
1:27:06
and like the tables are in there and.
1:27:09
Just to preserve the just. To preserve the building,
1:27:11
because the building was there when the town was founded.
1:27:12
But what I'm saying is, why don't you just use the building?
1:27:15
Because then you'd probably have to like.
1:27:16
I don't. Think it's like savable, you
1:27:19
know, they just got to protect themselves from it, but leave it
1:27:23
there. The restaurant that was called
1:27:24
Greenarium. Greenarium.
1:27:27
Yeah, it was like it was green greenarium.
1:27:30
And then they showed us like she like was like, oh, the the
1:27:33
stuff's harvested back there so you could literally see all the
1:27:35
fucking like that's crazy. It was amazing, bro.
1:27:39
Like and. You don't see shit like that
1:27:41
here really. No.
1:27:42
And when they when you do, you're probably going to have to
1:27:43
pay like 98 bucks to walk in through the door.
1:27:45
Yeah. It's or you're going to be in
1:27:47
the middle of the Midwest because we don't harvest shit
1:27:51
over here like. No.
1:27:52
And everything we harvest here is GMOs and shit.
1:27:55
Yeah. Like it was just like, it really
1:27:58
saddened me when the trip was like coming to a close and I was
1:28:02
like, damn. Like the friends that I have
1:28:05
here, like even even leaving Brad and Diego and dude, because
1:28:10
this, this trip, Brad was with my boyfriend.
1:28:12
Like we were we were like up here.
1:28:14
You hooked up because like Katie and Diego.
1:28:17
Saw the two guys on. Yeah, he said.
1:28:20
Hey, Brad. Dude, Katie and Diego were one.
1:28:22
Bryson was with his lady and like, it was me and Brad.
1:28:26
So everywhere we went, it was like, OK, I'm I'm with Brad,
1:28:29
like I'm going with Brad. Anywhere we go, getting it
1:28:31
tuned, whatever. I had to wake up early, get
1:28:33
tuned Bella, whatever. Fucking He's the one who took
1:28:37
the video. Oh.
1:28:38
Yeah, so. Like he got jealous.
1:28:41
No, he can't. He's got a girlfriend he got.
1:28:43
He's a good boy. He did not do anything weird.
1:28:46
Absolutely not weird Like when. You got jealous because you were
1:28:49
cheating on him. That's what I'm saying.
1:28:50
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:28:52
But that was just such a surreal ass trip, dude.
1:28:56
I'm buying fucking yakitori on the fucking side, dude.
1:29:01
Wagyu yakitori ¥800. I I got that shit too.
1:29:05
You were, you were walking. I was.
1:29:07
Walking and I was like. I got the same shit you did I.
1:29:09
Was like, obviously I'm drunk. I'm like, can I have one of
1:29:13
those? He's like, yeah, what kind of
1:29:15
sauce you. Want fucking give me two of.
1:29:16
Them give me yakiniko sauce. Fucking thank you.
1:29:19
Bye. Keep walking.
1:29:20
Yep, and then you go to the next.
1:29:21
And then now you have fucking A5 Wagyu on a stick while you're
1:29:27
walking in the streets of Japan. Just vibe it.
1:29:31
Just adventuring. Like Chinese strawberries?
1:29:33
Yeah. Dude, Oh my God, I had a Creme
1:29:36
brulee. There was this one girl, she's
1:29:39
like blasting music. It's like on the way home, I
1:29:42
honestly don't know how far it was from our house, but on the
1:29:45
way home from the bar I was with Katie and Diego.
1:29:48
I had a sweet tooth for some fucking reason, and I don't
1:29:50
really eat sweets like but this girl was making Creme brulee on
1:29:54
the side of the fucking road. One girl blasting a JBL speaker
1:29:59
at maximum volume, like, yeah, it was already, yeah, that's
1:30:02
what it sounded like. And I was like, yo, that's the
1:30:04
girl I want to support right now ¥500 got me this little Creme
1:30:07
brulee with the strawberries on top.
1:30:10
That shit, that shit was fucking delicious, bro.
1:30:14
Like you would you like cracked it?
1:30:17
Cracked the top dude. It was perfect.
1:30:19
I never had creme brulee. And I'm not a sweets person
1:30:21
dude, I'm telling you, but God damn.
1:30:23
It. I know you got to crack it.
1:30:25
I've seen like videos and stuff. Yeah, you, you're a sweets
1:30:28
person bro, chill out. Me, yeah.
1:30:31
No. Yes, you are.
1:30:33
He's not. He's not.
1:30:34
Trust me. Dude, it was, it was just so
1:30:36
fucking wild. And the B&B we stayed at was
1:30:39
like, it was pretty much a container home.
1:30:42
I feel like if I. Feel that's a lot of the washer.
1:30:44
And dryer in there. Yes.
1:30:46
That's the clutch. That is rare apparently to have
1:30:49
a dryer but it was like a one unit dryer like.
1:30:51
Usually there's like, yeah, the washing machine has the dryer in
1:30:54
it's like A1. Imagine that, just doing
1:30:57
everything in one fucking they. Have that here.
1:30:59
They definitely have that here. They're probably $10,000.
1:31:01
I never see that shit here, yeah.
1:31:02
Fucking dude, I took a picture. Of the store look at the logo K
1:31:05
speech that's. Cool.
1:31:07
So you feel like all the logos over there and everything.
1:31:10
They're fire. They're so cool, like seeing the
1:31:13
trucks, they have Scanias there, which is the the truck that the
1:31:16
motors that Daryl assembles. I was like, if Daryl they got
1:31:19
Scanias here, he was like, no shot.
1:31:22
I'm like, yeah, look, there's a lot of them just fucking around.
1:31:26
Oh, here's the Creme Brulee. It was beautiful.
1:31:29
So what do you crack on this? I, well like underneath it.
1:31:32
Is like crusty. Underneath it, it's like a crust
1:31:35
and then you just like hit it. I would play a caramelized sugar
1:31:38
on top. It's hard.
1:31:39
It was so fucking good then. Then I went to like thankfully,
1:31:43
Thankfully Katie recommended like a non car thing.
1:31:46
We went to the Osaka Castle, Himeji Castle or whatever.
1:31:49
I miss that shit. It was so cool.
1:31:52
Yeah, actual castle. Yeah, yeah, dude, I took a photo
1:31:55
there. Look at this like Diego got me
1:31:57
and taken a photo of a photo, right?
1:31:59
But if you look, it's literally like the video game that I was
1:32:02
talking about the one time. Yeah.
1:32:05
What video game? It's called a road trip.
1:32:07
It was made by it was, it was a very Japanese game and I had no
1:32:11
idea. And I've been playing it.
1:32:12
I played it when I was a kid. But in that game there was Fuji
1:32:15
City. And then we walk up to this
1:32:17
castle and I was like. No way.
1:32:19
Holy crap, I've been here before.
1:32:20
No, this is. Literally the thing that is in
1:32:23
the game, like look at it, they got to look it up, show Diego
1:32:25
and he's like, dude, take it. That's so crazy.
1:32:26
Put it up like this, take a picture.
1:32:28
So we got to walk in there. Random question, how do you how
1:32:30
do you get signal out there? What do you?
1:32:32
What do you? Do I was roaming the whole time
1:32:34
I had they gave me 15 gigs of data.
1:32:36
Depends on? Yeah.
1:32:37
Depends on your service. T-Mobile was was rocking out
1:32:41
there, dude, so. Yeah, that's what I have.
1:32:42
Yeah, you had to pay for it beforehand, No.
1:32:45
T-Mobile, I think they let you, right?
1:32:46
Yeah. 15 gigs up to 15 gigs high speed.
1:32:49
After that they slow it down. But dude I was running wondering
1:32:53
when it was going to run out. I walk into Haneda airport when
1:32:56
I was going to leave and literally a text comes in your
1:32:59
15 gigs of data are and I was like.
1:33:03
Fuck. Fuck damn it.
1:33:06
Apparently like Jason was leaving that day too.
1:33:08
Diego was like on some the same flight and then Jake and his
1:33:12
lady were on my flight too like from Altamont Drift.
1:33:16
So Georgia was like, I'm sitting at the gate.
1:33:19
A lot of people over there. Jake walks off and I'm like,
1:33:21
dude, he was like a a row behind me and I don't know.
1:33:25
They're all there for that thrash thing, I guess.
1:33:27
No, we were all going at the same time just to drive.
1:33:29
There was no thrash event. The other the other event, the.
1:33:33
I ran into use of a couple of times.
1:33:34
Oh really? Yeah.
1:33:35
Like I'd be Hoku. He like doesn't say hi to me.
1:33:38
I don't know why that's use of, but like he was at the thrash
1:33:41
event. I don't think he was.
1:33:42
There must have been something wrong with his car because he
1:33:44
was just spinning out the whole time.
1:33:46
And I was like, what is happening?
1:33:47
Like you're use of like you should.
1:33:49
Be able to drift. Yeah, I feel like that's his
1:33:51
favorite. Track, but I think there was got
1:33:52
to be something wrong with his car because it was just not I.
1:33:55
I barely saw the car on track. Was what event was going on
1:33:59
there. Can't tell you all stores.
1:34:01
So that was like the cherry on top for me like because we went
1:34:06
to all this, that and the third, then Sunday obviously we're
1:34:09
leaving Tuesday, Sunday we go to Mahon again just now Mahon C
1:34:15
course instead of E course. And now it's loaded up with
1:34:20
people. Is that the course?
1:34:21
That's the course, that's the one.
1:34:24
So just watching it in person and I'm like damn, like this is
1:34:28
fucking nuts. Like you're watching the cars go
1:34:31
and then you can't just help but think in your head you're like,
1:34:34
damn, I feel like I could do this if I tried hard enough.
1:34:36
Then you see another guy go and you're like, Nope, I can't.
1:34:39
Like it was fucking insane, like.
1:34:42
Did you get the? Ride along for that.
1:34:44
Or no, no, no, I was not going to bother anybody there for
1:34:46
that. Like Casey for I'm sure sucked
1:34:48
in was ripping. I think he plays second overall
1:34:50
and then like. Oh, because it was a
1:34:52
competition. It's a competition.
1:34:53
At the end of the day, they take they take everybody who's good
1:34:58
from each prefecture, and then they drive them right there.
1:35:01
Kansai. That's why it's All Star.
1:35:03
Yeah. So like, like Toshi, for
1:35:06
example, was wearing a shirt that said yogo, and like,
1:35:08
there's a bunch of other people with yogo.
1:35:10
Then there's like Nara Prefecture fucking team.
1:35:12
They had the best shirts. And they have, like, teams,
1:35:15
yeah. OK, yeah.
1:35:16
Then you had like Osaka, like and then a bunch of them so.
1:35:19
It's not just like 1 driver from those areas.
1:35:22
It's no. It's like a few and then like,
1:35:24
you know, you get eliminated. You can get eliminated.
1:35:26
I was thinking about it and I was trying to compare it to
1:35:28
final bout because like that's kind of.
1:35:31
But this is more like they just took drivers and then made their
1:35:33
own team for their area. With their drivers.
1:35:35
That's kind of cool. But like even thus sometimes.
1:35:37
Like the Olympics? Yeah.
1:35:39
Kind of yeah, but even thus so it like I know final bout
1:35:45
definitely has to be taken some inspiration from there.
1:35:47
Oh yeah. But man it don't it don't hit
1:35:50
the same. You're saying final bout hits?
1:35:52
It's it's different because final bout comes in stages,
1:35:57
right? You have special stage, then you
1:35:59
have the summit and then between that there's like a lot of time
1:36:04
at All Stars. You watched it fucking dwindle
1:36:07
down into who was the best right away.
1:36:10
And dude, there was one time where I was standing there, that
1:36:12
Aki Fujio, dude, I'm standing there at the wall.
1:36:15
Like I I happen to walk up to the wall.
1:36:17
Fujio comes by wing. That's crazy.
1:36:20
Sparks up. I'm, I'm like holy shit.
1:36:23
Carl it a cigarette off. No, because you couldn't stand
1:36:26
at the wall. There's another wall.
1:36:27
OK. I'm watching it, the wing drags
1:36:30
by. I know I seen it spark.
1:36:32
I turn around and look at Diego and them we're on the wall and
1:36:34
they're like holy fuck. I'm like what the fuck?
1:36:37
That's so sick. It was awesome.
1:36:39
I wanted to buy a lot more stuff there, but like at the same time
1:36:43
I was again like if I didn't drive it, I don't buy the stuff.
1:36:47
Yeah, but I would still buy it. Nah, I just.
1:36:49
Wouldn't put it on my car. Yeah, just leave it in a little.
1:36:52
Yeah, it's a memory thing. Leave it in a folder or
1:36:54
something. We'll we'll be there again and
1:36:56
then I'll drive for the field. Go prefecture.
1:36:58
That'll be sick, dude. It was just, it was just nuts,
1:37:03
dude. Doors and there now you're
1:37:05
really talking. It was a mixing pot.
1:37:07
Like people from fucking everywhere.
1:37:09
We ran into our friends from Texas over there and I forget
1:37:12
all the other guys names except for Nando.
1:37:14
What about Jed Davis? Dude, Nando 13B, that's his
1:37:17
Instagram. I saw this guy's FC at knuckle
1:37:20
up a week prior to leaving for Japan and I, it was the nicest
1:37:24
FC I've ever seen in my life. But it was like Hawking it.
1:37:26
Drifting, yeah. I got to see this.
1:37:28
Maybe I've seen this one before. Nando 13B is his Instagram, and
1:37:31
when I first met up with him, he bought me a beer and he was
1:37:34
like, dude, I'm the one with the FC.
1:37:35
I'm like, what the fuck? Like we're in Japan now.
1:37:38
Yeah, this is nuts. Then like their other teammate,
1:37:41
I guess their team oblivion. OK, I guess, I guess, I guess.
1:37:44
Koru works was talking shit about him like on a podcast.
1:37:47
Or maybe you were. Maybe.
1:37:49
I don't know, I talk shit a lot. But that's what I said.
1:37:51
He walked up to me and was like, yo, we don't fuck with this guy.
1:37:53
You talk shit about our team. I wanted to be like, OK.
1:37:57
Oblivion. Like, I don't know, I heard
1:37:59
that. Name that.
1:37:59
Name talk more shit like. Nonetheless, I didn't talk any
1:38:03
shit, and if I did? Does not ring a bell.
1:38:05
No it doesn't. It does.
1:38:06
That's Jed Davis's thing. They're very stylish cars.
1:38:09
That's why I was like. Oh, that's Jed Davis's team.
1:38:11
I don't. Remember talking shit about
1:38:13
oblivion but nonetheless, like if you want to press me about it
1:38:16
in the middle of Japan, knock yourself out man.
1:38:18
I'll knock you to oblivion. Shit was funny to me.
1:38:21
And he was like, no, no, no, it was Corey.
1:38:23
It was Corey. And I'm like, oh, really?
1:38:24
OK. Like we sell a lot of origins.
1:38:26
So yeah, if I'm talking shit about origins, kind of shoot
1:38:30
myself in the foot. Yeah.
1:38:32
And then like I had to tell him, like, I don't even work for
1:38:34
Faction, dude, relax. Like he's like, but you do.
1:38:36
I'm like, yeah, I do the podcast.
1:38:37
That's it. Yeah, that's not like we're just
1:38:39
hanging out. It was so fucking fun dude.
1:38:41
Nonetheless, those guys are a riot.
1:38:44
But but Nando's really the one that I got.
1:38:45
He wanted to come to TKL. Sadly we had only AK car so we
1:38:48
can't really fit and Nando's a pretty tall guy.
1:38:51
So I was like, bro, we're kind of full, sadly.
1:38:54
Yo anyone that saw Carl out there if you ever want to do a
1:38:56
podcast let us know. You have so many friends out
1:38:59
there. Who?
1:39:00
All these people you're naming, I'm like, imagine we'd get some
1:39:03
of these people on the podcast. It's literally the ones that I
1:39:05
hung out with the most were Diego Brad.
1:39:08
I would love to have Brad Diego on the podcast.
1:39:10
I would too, and I know Diego's watching this shit either in the
1:39:13
shop or on your sofa in your living room, so fucking make
1:39:15
your way over here. Yeah, he really should just come
1:39:18
hang out with Carl, stay at his. Place I miss all the all the
1:39:20
homies out there. Literally the group was Dan
1:39:24
Diego, Brad Bryson, Hayden, Dick Finney who was really fucking
1:39:28
sick and he paints out there so he made it like.
1:39:31
I wanted to ask you if you saw any of the Japanese paint jobs.
1:39:33
They're horrible. Not the ones I saw.
1:39:35
They're shit, they're nice. Yeah, like.
1:39:38
Any car real? Nice and like it was, it blew my
1:39:42
mind the shit that I don't know who was painting these cars or
1:39:45
whatever, but it was like done fast and really nice and I'm
1:39:50
like, what? The ones without the flake.
1:39:54
Yeah, maybe. Our fire every time, yeah,
1:39:57
probably because the paint products, I think they shoot
1:39:59
water, I'm not sure, but the way you have to dry water, it's like
1:40:03
such a process I don't like doing that I just shoot lacquer
1:40:05
but. I thought lacquer was better but
1:40:09
water is more. Water like.
1:40:11
Environmental. Smoother.
1:40:12
Yeah, it's more environmentally friendly, but then.
1:40:14
Probably is what they use. But then I, I go to Hayden's
1:40:17
house and his or his workshop and he has a booth at his house
1:40:20
just like I have or want to have, and he paints out of his
1:40:23
garage and he's just sanding doing this, doing that painting.
1:40:27
I believe he had Jesse's car there streeter.
1:40:29
And like I got to talk to him about painting and he's like,
1:40:32
dude, it's fun here. Like people here come to like
1:40:36
what? They want to get something
1:40:37
painted. They get it painted and they
1:40:39
don't, they don't like there's other people there.
1:40:41
It's just such a good environment to be in like.
1:40:45
But I will say if the car has flake it's painted like shit.
1:40:49
Why is that? It's they don't take the time to
1:40:52
they shoot the flake in the clear one.
1:40:54
They they don't use an intercoat.
1:40:56
Oh. Yeah, I have seen that.
1:40:57
And when you do that, it comes out very pixelated and texturey.
1:41:02
So if you walk up to Naoki's car, it's like fucking dusty.
1:41:05
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like sandpaper whereas the
1:41:08
other paint jobs like Brad's paint job he just got it redone
1:41:10
or whatever on the bumpers and like other panels it's wet as
1:41:15
fuck. The metallics are perfect like
1:41:17
but as soon as you paint something with the end style
1:41:19
flake or whatever it just pebbly.
1:41:22
Maybe they want it like that? Maybe I don't know, but it don't
1:41:25
matter because it's a drift car. Then you understand that that's
1:41:27
also that no one there is going to go up to your car and be
1:41:30
like, this is shit. See that?
1:41:32
That's what I'm talking about. Whoever was painting the cars
1:41:34
for Josh and all them, the paint was fucking good.
1:41:39
And I'm like, do they know what they were paying these cars for?
1:41:41
Like I, I was like, how much was this paint?
1:41:43
And they're like, oh, I don't know, someone just we just bring
1:41:45
it somewhere and they just spray it.
1:41:46
I'm like, this is like pretty like in America, this is a
1:41:49
pretty good fucking paint job. I feel like it's the tertiaries
1:41:52
of paint because like. I feel like it's fucking
1:41:55
Japanese people in general. That too.
1:41:57
You know they don't. Want to put shitty?
1:41:58
Shit out there, yeah, they don't.
1:41:59
They don't, yeah. Everything you notice,
1:42:00
everything they do over there is.
1:42:02
Like, discipline as fuck. Yeah.
1:42:03
And they make the greatest paint guns on earth.
1:42:05
I want a LPH 400. Yeah, yeah, that's what I shoot.
1:42:09
And I was like, dude, imagine if I brought my paint gun here.
1:42:11
Like fucking. I told Hayden.
1:42:14
Because Hayden's planning on making moves and making a bigger
1:42:16
shop where he's actually going to have like a paint section,
1:42:21
mechanical that. And I was like, hey, the next
1:42:25
time I'm here and you need anything, need a help, need a
1:42:28
hand or whatever, let me know. Give me a place to stay that
1:42:33
gives me a reason to go. Now my trip is like.
1:42:36
You could make that a real thing, like.
1:42:38
Dude, I want some of my work. And he was like, that's great.
1:42:40
I'm like, yeah, let's do it. If you had like a line lineup of
1:42:44
cars that needed to be done and you were like, Oh yeah, I'll
1:42:45
come out like this time. Yeah, you was.
1:42:47
Three months just rock UPS. Chill out there for three
1:42:50
months, yeah? Dude, I would fucking love it
1:42:53
dude, but but the goal for me would really want to be a house.
1:42:56
A month is good. So that I could so that I could
1:42:59
go there. I could go there.
1:43:01
I know there's a place for my car to because I want Goldie
1:43:04
there. If I if I ship the gold one out
1:43:09
there, like it would just be. I was just, every time we're on
1:43:14
a highway, I'm like. I think you need a right hand
1:43:17
drive car out. There no.
1:43:18
No. Left hand drive it would make no
1:43:21
difference if it was right hand drive or not.
1:43:24
Well, it would be nicer to drive, but you're probably not
1:43:26
driving it on the street. I am driving it on the street.
1:43:28
I am driving it everywhere. You know why?
1:43:30
Because the gas over there will make the car run really good.
1:43:33
It would run fucking phenomenally.
1:43:34
And then before I leave here, I'm just going to throw a bunch
1:43:36
of the spares in the back, take apart the motorcycle, the chop,
1:43:39
put it into the back seat, and then ship the whole thing as
1:43:42
one. I want to buy an S15 over there.
1:43:43
I got one for you. 8K spec R spec RII really do.
1:43:49
I could pull up a photo of it right now.
1:43:50
What color is it? Why wait and just leave it out
1:43:55
there? Why are they so?
1:43:55
Dude, Tim is selling it. Yeah, but I'll worry about that
1:43:57
next year. Dude, Tim is selling this car.
1:44:00
You need to buy it then it's 8K. Very good car.
1:44:05
It has a Ding in the front. But I got to find out how to
1:44:08
like register it and like drive it.
1:44:10
I want to be able to drive it. Somebody will do all that shit
1:44:12
for you bro. Yeah, I don't.
1:44:13
I don't want to be like relying on people to drive it to the
1:44:15
track. It was this is so funny that
1:44:19
we're talking about this because now I'm going to pull this.
1:44:22
It's better. It's better to have a 180
1:44:23
because you can actually fit shit in the back.
1:44:27
Yeah, true. It's a spec R.
1:44:30
Yeah. It was hit right here.
1:44:33
I don't matter. Total AK?
1:44:35
Yeah, Total AK. How much would that car go if it
1:44:37
wasn't hit? I don't fucking know, it's 8K
1:44:40
right now probably. 8K still. Yeah, I was going to say it
1:44:43
seems 8K seems like a normal price.
1:44:45
Dude 8K for a spec R. That's a good price hack the.
1:44:48
Fuck up and it's Tim, bro. He's a podcast listener.
1:44:53
Tim, message this guy. Chill.
1:44:54
Out, chill out, chill out. Again, he messages me and I'm
1:44:57
like, dude, I got a lot of And then ironically that day Chavi
1:45:01
with the S15 beefs it. Dude, you got to listen to this.
1:45:04
We were at TKL. It's one of the only tracks
1:45:07
there that allow night time drifting, which was ballistic.
1:45:11
I was like night time drifting but you could still barely see
1:45:16
any of the tracks. It must be on the middle.
1:45:17
There's like. It is very fun, but as I
1:45:21
mentioned before, Chavia's consistent 1 calculated 2, and
1:45:25
very like, if he wants to throw a backy here, he's going to
1:45:28
throw a backy there, or if he wants to hit drag this wall,
1:45:30
he's going to drag this wall. Dude two hours left to the track
1:45:34
closing and S15 rolls up on the back of a hauler.
1:45:38
It's an older guy, like a shorter older guy.
1:45:41
He starts driving it. It's pissing rain.
1:45:44
But the moment I seen it like kick out and transition once I
1:45:48
was like that shit's quick watch out like that that guy, that car
1:45:52
is fast, no one really pays attention.
1:45:54
Then him and Chubby start to drive and now the S15 is doring
1:46:00
the fuck out of this out of Chubby's S15.
1:46:04
But the tires are bald on his car.
1:46:07
I think he told Toshi and Toshi told us that he has S13 motor in
1:46:11
it so it's not a 15 motor. So it's slower and like doring
1:46:17
him like really close and TKL is very narrow.
1:46:22
It's very hard to like get a good line where you're chasing
1:46:24
somebody. But this guy's been probably
1:46:26
driving for forever and then pushing it.
1:46:29
They switch, drive, switch, drive, switch, drive switch
1:46:32
until shabby is coming up. You know that the TKL is a track
1:46:36
that Josh drive where you go up and then it's like a, it's like
1:46:41
AU and then you're standing right here, right at the top of
1:46:44
EU. If you type in TKL it'll come up
1:46:46
or car track or whatever, but then they drive again.
1:46:52
Chavi is leading, the 15 is behind them and the 15 pins it
1:46:57
smashes into the the the pads right there and the barrier
1:47:02
like. Josh drove this shit.
1:47:03
Yeah, with his car and or or it might have been P JS car, I
1:47:07
don't know, but I'm watching it. The S15 comes hauling up there
1:47:11
smashes into the wall the 15 car the the the the follow car is
1:47:16
fine and then when they come back in I got hit with a bunch
1:47:20
of shrapnel dude. Like I was sitting there with my
1:47:22
camera. I deleted the video because
1:47:24
that's bad media. OK, I think I know the track.
1:47:26
Yeah. Boom, tail light, fucking paint.
1:47:29
Just I'm like aw what the fuck? I turn around the 15 guys
1:47:34
walking over. I was scared because obviously
1:47:36
we're foreigners and this guy's probably a local.
1:47:39
And then everybody's in good spirits, everybody's laughing,
1:47:42
having a good time. The guy hits only one of these.
1:47:44
And I'm like, I'm like, no fucking way, bro.
1:47:47
He just got fucking flexed on, super crazy.
1:47:49
And then he tells Toshi, like tell him he's he can door me,
1:47:54
it's OK. Like I don't mind if you door
1:47:56
me. Just try to door me.
1:47:58
Then Chavi was like, fuck it, let's go again right now, Right
1:48:01
now, let's go. I'm like oh shit like they go
1:48:04
back out again. Can't door him even if he tried.
1:48:09
He can't catch. Him No, it was crazy bro.
1:48:12
And Chavi. The thing about him was he was
1:48:14
like, I don't like raindrift in in Spain.
1:48:17
I guess it don't rain that often enough to drift, but I was like,
1:48:20
dude, we all learned because you drift in the rain like it's it's
1:48:24
it's slow, it's easy. You know when to, you know, your
1:48:27
inputs. We went out to the mountain.
1:48:30
It rained on the mountain. And then he loved it.
1:48:32
Oh, really? Then TKL was like his second
1:48:34
time rain driven thing and he just couldn't, couldn't door
1:48:38
him. Yeah.
1:48:39
So when it was time for us to say our goodbyes, I was like,
1:48:43
you got smoked by a Japanese guy with ball tires.
1:48:46
That's cool in the rain. That's cool though.
1:48:48
Like, that's a good story. Shut up man, Shut up.
1:48:50
I'm like fuck you. It was so fucking fun.
1:48:53
I had two bowls of ramen that day because I was cold as fuck.
1:48:57
Full of soup. I lost full of soup.
1:48:59
I lost my yellow fever hoodie. No.
1:49:02
Yep. Well, that yellow fever hoodie?
1:49:03
Somebody in Japan has it, and that's hilarious.
1:49:06
And they're like, this thing's kind of derogatory.
1:49:09
No. Yeah.
1:49:09
It's. Probably that chick you went
1:49:11
home with. It's probably at her house.
1:49:12
No, no, no, no, I didn't have a hoodie on that day.
1:49:15
Just just just the black polo that makes me look like a snack.
1:49:18
Bro I was looking great. Can we jump to the Patreon?
1:49:21
Yeah, All right, guys. Well, thank you so much for
1:49:23
tuning in. If you didn't sign up for the
1:49:25
Patreon, sucks for you. You should have.
1:49:27
And now we're doing what we're trying.
1:49:29
What we're trying to do now is live stream on the Patreon.
1:49:32
Yeah, so we're live streaming now, also on the Patreon, which
1:49:34
is sick. Japan's a riot.
1:49:37
If you haven't gone, go. And if you want to go, go for
1:49:41
the right reasons. Don't think that you're going to
1:49:42
be better than anybody by going. And just if you go, get a good
1:49:47
group of friends and be open to what you want to try.
1:49:49
That doesn't mean Malcolm freaky shit.
1:49:52
Just like the food's, the food's a little different, the
1:49:55
culture's a little different. Make sure you respect everybody
1:49:58
and and just don't act like an asshole so that we could keep
1:50:02
going back there. Yeah.
1:50:04
That was so fucking sick. I miss it so much.
1:50:07
I miss my whole friend group. Dan Kolya, fucking Bryson, Brad
1:50:11
Diego, Katie, Sadie, Hayden, Toshi, now Toshi's other
1:50:17
mechanic, and Jay Jizz. Well, I'm jizz, yeah.
1:50:23
'Cause we called, 'cause we call Brad Briz and Diego's dizz and
1:50:27
I'm kizz. That's jizz.
1:50:30
Oh wow, who's come? That's you, motherfucker.
1:50:35
Dude, I miss Bodie. Too.
1:50:36
Yeah, yeah, I literally have come in my name, Bodie.
1:50:38
Was so fucking funny. Who else do I miss out there?
1:50:43
Honestly, just everybody that I got to run into was a pleasure.
1:50:46
Jake, Nathan. Thanks for coming back, Carl.
1:50:48
Yeah, I'm really it was the year, but happy.
1:50:51
Tough two weeks. Sad but happy I.
1:50:53
Like the one the one we did without him, the the other one
1:50:56
was bad when we had all the faction guys that one not.
1:50:59
Bad. Yeah, that's not even.
1:51:01
They were both just asleep. It was just me and Malcolm
1:51:04
hanging out. And then the next one we did,
1:51:05
just me and Malcolm. That one was.
1:51:06
I thought that one was fun. That's the one that's that's
1:51:09
called. Please come back, Carl.
1:51:10
Yeah. Shit.
1:51:10
Yeah, Diego said he was listening to that today.
1:51:12
Yeah, I was like, what the fuck? I I thought that was OK.
1:51:15
We obviously didn't talk about drifting that much, but it was
1:51:19
it was fun. Dude, it was such a fucking
1:51:20
trip. Like I, I absorbed so much
1:51:23
information. Yeah.
1:51:25
And like, that's why right away when I came home, I wrenched
1:51:28
like I got. Got off the.
1:51:30
Plane drove, got off the plane at 5:30, got off the plane at
1:51:33
5:30, got home by 6:15-ish. I told Darryl, you know, I
1:51:38
talked to Darryl, shot the shit a little bit, went right into
1:51:41
the garage, seen my car, turned it on, idle it, and I was like,
1:51:44
fuck yeah, this is it. Jacked it up, pulled the springs
1:51:48
out of my luggage, fucking take the coil over apart, put it on,
1:51:51
set it to what I wanted to, all within an hour.
1:51:54
Finished up by 10 cleaned up everything went inside played a
1:51:58
set O next day I was like got to try it today went to E town.
1:52:04
What? What track did you do in a?
1:52:05
SIM like oh man, like just driving a SIM was like I was
1:52:09
like this is I'm so garbage right now I can't drive this.
1:52:13
So then then I really wanted to drive and then Paulie had a
1:52:18
private day. So I was like, all right, I'll
1:52:20
pull up, do a couple laps, do like one lap.
1:52:23
And then Cody on Instagram, his name is Co Diesel has AZ on a
1:52:28
265. We were tandeming and I was
1:52:32
fucking like, I was like, yeah bro.
1:52:35
So you got Yeah, so. You like even just going like
1:52:38
this. As soon as I started coming down
1:52:39
the car track straight and I felt it like going like this and
1:52:42
the car is not. Rolling like a motherfucker.
1:52:45
And it's going like this. I was like, Oh my God, it's
1:52:49
working. And those are the only part of
1:52:51
Garage I bought. Everything else I know up Garage
1:52:53
was kind of scalloped. Like everything's on
1:52:55
upgarage.com or Yeah gets sold on Yeah auctions or whatever.
1:52:59
I heard it's not the same. Anymore it's not, but I happened
1:53:01
to go there and there was literally 20 K springs on the
1:53:04
shelf for ¥5000. I was like huh, I'm buying those
1:53:10
like those are coming home with me.
1:53:12
I don't know if these are allowed in my carry on, but
1:53:14
sure. You fit them.
1:53:15
They went in there, they didn't really take up much space
1:53:18
because I just put. Like put stuff inside of it,
1:53:20
yeah. And they worked fucking perfect.
1:53:23
They didn't tax you for those when you got.
1:53:24
Back. I don't think so.
1:53:25
You're right. Like what is that?
1:53:27
I don't know. They were like, do you have
1:53:28
10,000 cash or more? And I was like, I wish the guy
1:53:31
was like, go ahead. I'm like, OK, well, fuck you.
1:53:37
All right, all right, well, thank you guys so much for
1:53:39
tuning in. This has been another episode of
1:53:40
Faction After hours. I'm glad to be home.
1:53:42
Thanks for the snacks. It's not boring.
1:53:45
And yeah, tune into the Patreon so we can talk about all the
1:53:47
other bad shit that I did on in Japan.
1:53:49
Come get freaky peace out. Later.
1:53:51
Later. All right, well, Carl's a
1:54:09
freako, that's all I know. Welcome home, Carl.
1:54:12
Welcome home, freako. Yeah, we got, we just got done
1:54:16
with the Patreon episode. That shit was crazy.
1:54:18
So if you guys want to hear some extra stuff, check out our
1:54:20
Patreon. We're actually doing some
1:54:24
different stuff on the Patreon. What are we doing?
1:54:26
We're doing Ed, you're going to have to chime in.
1:54:31
You did a what was it, a $10 tier now does something else
1:54:34
right? Nope.
1:54:36
Here comes Eddie. Yes, the $10 tier.
1:54:38
You now get ad free video. The YouTube videos are ad free.
1:54:43
OK OK, so all YouTube videos are also uploaded on the Patreon and
1:54:47
they'll obviously be ad free. Yeah, so if you're paying, if
1:54:50
you're in the middle tier now, the middle tier used to be
1:54:52
nothing, right? It was just like, oh, if you
1:54:55
guys want to donate us some more money.
1:54:57
Actually, fuck it Eddie. No ads and uncensored, right?
1:55:03
Isn't that what they use? No, he would just have to make a
1:55:06
different copy, another a duplicate with no censors on it.
1:55:09
We censor our podcast. No, no YouTube video.
1:55:13
Oh, I see what you're saying. OK, cool.
1:55:15
Yeah, so unedited, uncensored raw content.
1:55:23
The faction weeklies were uncensored.
1:55:26
OK. That's what I had, yeah.
1:55:27
But yeah, so that's one thing going on on Patreon.
1:55:30
The second thing going on on our Patreon is we are now going to
1:55:33
be doing live podcasts for Patreon users only.
1:55:38
Right. Oh yeah.
1:55:39
So we're so we're streaming. I know some people like when we
1:55:42
stream them them live, we it's kind of a pain in the ass
1:55:45
because then you got the chat going and you guys know how Carl
1:55:47
is. So you know, he gets distracted.
1:55:49
So it's kind of it's kind of hard dealing with chat on
1:55:52
YouTube. So if but we know some of you
1:55:56
like it. So if you want to go on Patreon,
1:55:58
if you want to subscribe to that, then you will be able to
1:56:00
enjoy the live version of our podcast.
1:56:04
And also last night it was, there's a lot of people in
1:56:07
there, right? Yeah, we had 36 concurrent
1:56:10
viewers, which is nice. Yeah, so if you guys, you know,
1:56:13
enjoy the chat, the chat aspect of our old live podcast, then
1:56:17
you you definitely want to check out our Patreon.
1:56:20
In other news, we got a raffle going on right now on the
1:56:23
website. Every $5 spent is 1 entry to win
1:56:26
an Origin labo hood of your choosing for any vehicle you so
1:56:30
desire. You only got about a week left
1:56:32
to put an order in to be entered so.
1:56:34
Yeah. So just a week left.
1:56:36
We have a lot of hoods in stock. So if there's a good chance you
1:56:38
won't even have to wait for it, you just get it shipped out
1:56:40
right when you win. And yeah, we also have a new
1:56:43
product I want to talk about that, a gauge pod for the 240.
1:56:46
Yes, if you want some visual there is a newly uploaded video
1:56:52
on the YouTube. OK, yeah, so we got a video up
1:56:55
there. It just goes in the glove box
1:56:57
guys. It's a, we call it the stealth
1:56:58
pod. It's pretty stealthy.
1:57:00
If your glove box is closed, you'll never know it's there.
1:57:02
But if you got to check something like your AFRS or even
1:57:05
a boost gauge, if you want to put it in there, you just open
1:57:09
the glove box up and it's aimed right at you and you still got
1:57:12
room to use your glove box, so. Nice.
1:57:15
It's not like that. Old HKS, yeah.
1:57:17
Yeah, The thing is massive. It's too big.
1:57:20
I mean, it, it's nice if you only want to look at gauges, but
1:57:23
we wanted to keep the use of the glove box, so check that out.
1:57:28
That's a new product we got. Our YouTube is going crazy right
1:57:32
now. People like Snap On videos,
1:57:35
apparently. Speaking of which, the Snap On
1:57:38
truck is outside right now, so we're going to be filming
1:57:39
another one. So yeah, we're doing weekly Snap
1:57:43
On videos now on top of the other videos that Eddie's doing,
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so check those out. What else?
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You know what else? What else we got?
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We got some Arrow in stock, Origin Arrow.
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We got a whole bunch of hoods in stock still, and we have some
1:58:04
somebody kits, some Fenders. We also have some Vertex body
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kits, 350Z body kits, Vertex Zenki S14 body kit and AS 13
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Sylvia body kit. Oh yeah, Vertex.
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don't know all the polecat, everyone polecat probably run in
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There's videos on our YouTube as well.
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wheel's going to fit that you haven't bought yet, that's a
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great tool to have in your arsenal.
2:00:01
And don't forget if you're trying to drift.
2:00:04
And you live in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New
2:00:06
York. Tri-state area.
2:00:08
The Coast. Raceway Park is the place to be.
2:00:11
East Coast Drift School. They're on Instagram.
2:00:14
I know for a minute his Instagram wasn't working.
2:00:17
That was pretty bad. But I think now he's got access
2:00:21
to it again. So if you guys need to set up a
2:00:23
date or anything like that, just send him a message on their East
2:00:25
Coast Drift School. Kristen Apple gets you set up.
2:00:29
He is part of the Raceway Park family, so that is definitely
2:00:32
the person to talk to and that pretty much covers that.
2:00:36
Hope you guys enjoyed this one. Carl's back.
2:00:38
We don't know how long he'll stay here because I think he's
2:00:39
going to move to Japan now, though.
2:00:41
He had some crazy plans, guys. Yeah, so I don't.
2:00:43
Think Carl's going to be Japanese in the next five years?
2:00:49
Yeah, he's definitely turning Japanese, as they say.
2:00:53
Yeah. All right, guys.
2:00:54
See you in the next one. See ya.