S2E22 - Small Towns, Mustangs, and Maintenance Therapy

In S2E22, we bring on our old Misawa coworker and friend, Josh, to catch up after years of not talking. We get into Josh’s retirement life, small-town Arizona living, the opportunity to take over a machine shop, and how machining heads and building engines scratches that old maintenance itch without all the military bullshit from above. From there, we talk about missing the satisfaction of turning wrenches, old crew chief days, small-town life, retirement routines, car projects, Ian’s future GTR plans, Josh’s ’65 and ’66 Mustangs, Robby’s family truck, painted nails, Whatnot streams, LEGO selling, and the weird balance between hobbies, side hustles, and actual work. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What's going on everybody? It's Ian. And this is Robbie, and we're two assholes in a mic.

SPEAKER_01 0:06

Today we got on a good friend of ours, Josh. He was a co-worker of ours when we were out in Missawa. Been a long time since we talked to him, so we're just trying to catch up. Josh, welcome. This is this is what Robbie and I do. Every night we just kind of call and talk, and it's just bullshit. There's no agenda. There's you know whatever we feel like talking about, come whatever comes up comes up.

SPEAKER_00 0:27

Yeah, yep. I usually got my notepad with me, but I forgot that too. I was doing a show earlier, so I got all out of whack because I did a show streamed earlier. Oh well. What have you been up to?

SPEAKER_03 0:42

Keeping busy. Yeah. Yeah. Um retired a few years ago. Uh initially I got out and tried to join the workforce, but you know, I I picked a small town, and small town life comes with small town work, which is almost non existent.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:00

So so I uh you know I keep busy, help friends work on some cars lately, and then recently uh opportunity fell in my lap. Uh one of my buddies said, who owns a machine shop, said he's ready to retire. Hey, you want to take this. So what? Uh yeah. So since he's my buddy, he's like, come down and uh work with me for a couple months and tell me if you wanna you want to buy the shop.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

So Hell yeah. It's awesome. Spend my afternoons uh machining heads and building engines. So it's nice.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

That's what you've been doing?

SPEAKER_02 1:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

Damn. See, that's cool. That's kind of in line with what we did in the past, but not not really, but not really you know, machining and all that stuff was out of our wheelhouse as crew chiefs, but yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

It's still on the same road. Yeah, way more patience and crew chiefing requires.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Yeah. See, that's I don't have patience for like micrometers and doing machining and all that stuff. I don't have the patience for that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

No, I know nobody got time for that.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

It's been fun learning something new, and you know, I've noticed it was everything about our job that I loved. I'm really getting there, and everything I hate about it, it's gone, you know.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

So I see, yeah, I I miss doing the maintenance, turning actual wrenches and stuff, and I miss the camaraderie that we all had and stuff. It was always the BS from up top that always just rained down garbage that always just sucked. You know, and even being a part of that, you know, as like leadership and stuff sucked too. We're like, man, I gotta be that guy. Yeah, remember that.

SPEAKER_03 2:46

And I remember one day my senior pulled me aside. He was like three weeks from retirement, and he says, Listen, I ain't gonna say anything to anybody. What's your plan? Do you really want to make senior? Do you really want to make chief? And I looked him in the eyes. I said, I look at what you do, and that's everything I hate. I have no interest in going beyond where I'm at right now. He's like, I I didn't even want to make tech. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Like, if I could have stayed 20 years staff and make like decent money, you know what I mean, still get raises and you know, over time and stuff, like that was the best work for me. It was doing engine runs and you know, jumping tubes and doing maintenance, swapping engines, ISAs, whatever, you know. I miss all that.

SPEAKER_03 3:34

I accidentally lucked out because I didn't make uh tech, man. I think I made tech about my 14 year mark, and then I made uh master my uh 17 year mark. And then once I made master and started looking ahead, I realized that the work I loved was behind me. I ended up being a staff sergeant for almost a decade, and I retired the same pay as everybody else who made master after, you know. Yep. So I the one regret I had is I did not enjoy being staffed that long at the time.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Looking back, I loved it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. I I did enjoy it at the time, and I and I realized it. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Sorry, no, my phone's doing that reconnecting shit again.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

You stupid motherfucker in your smiley. Stupid English fucking phone.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

I don't understand it, dude. I got three bars. Fudgy, and it's just uh it's probably it sounded like a reconnect. What I was gonna say is it was the best work, but we also fucking hated it the most. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

No, I hated doing I didn't hate doing maintenance the most. I loved doing maintenance the most. No, I was just talking about I was talking about getting shit on. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

Everything coming from above ahead of you, you know.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

Everybody fucking shotgun and fucking parts and shit all the time. That's what always got me. It's like, let's not follow the FI, let's just fucking shotgun parts.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

You ain't got time for that.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

So and Ian, we were actually in Korea for a short time together. It was oh, I was so upset. I think it was um oh, who was it? Peters, I think Peters comes in the day after you left and was like, Hey, did you go say hi to Ian? What do you mean? He's like, Yeah, he's been here for three weeks teaching. I'm like, why didn't anybody tell me?

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Yeah, you think oh, you're talking about Peter Weapons, Peters. Yeah. Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_00 5:35

I don't know who that was.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Yeah, I knew that's actually uh an hour an hour up uh north of me right now. Oh no, Tucson.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

So okay. So what are you just south of Tucson or what?

SPEAKER_03 5:48

Yeah, uh southeast about uh hour, hour and a half drive, depending on how aggressive I am.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

Uh I'm trying to think like what uh is it near I well I guess is it closer to to I-10 where you can kind of hip hop on down to um like Hall in Al Pascal.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

You know where Tombstone is?

SPEAKER_03 6:09

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm 15 minutes from Tombstone.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

Oh, okay. Hell yeah, dude. How long have you been out there?

SPEAKER_03 6:16

Uh about four years now. Nice. So um I joined the military out of Tucson, met Lauren there uh when it came time to retire. Um, well, exactly two months before I could have denied orders, they said you're going to Korea, which kind of sucked. And she we were in uh Holoman at that point.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:37

Uh she said I don't want to stay in Holliman for a year by myself. So we started looking over here. Uh we found Fort Wachuca is right here in town. Yep. Uh so you get all the benefits of being close to a military base. Her family is about an hour away, so anytime she needed support, she can just call them up. So it worked out.

SPEAKER_01 6:57

It's a nice area. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, we've been down to Fort Wachuca quite a few times from DM. We had a bunch a bunch of MRTs and we did a bunch of exercises at Fort Wachuca, so yeah, we were down there quite often.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

Oh wow, that's cool. So yeah, we see the uh the 16ths flying go for at least twice a week, and I always wonder if I've worked on them.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Yeah. Right? Right? I wonder if I watched when I see an F-35 fly, I wonder if I watched that thing get built built in the uh in the plant, because I was working at the plant my last tour was working at the production plant out here. That's awesome. So uh I always wonder if there's an F-35 flying over that I watched get built, you know, from scratch, from the fucking cockpit on, you know, or from the framing of the cockpit to everything. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

So what um so you said you you're buying this, did you already buy it, or are you in the process of buying, or in the process of just kind of filling it out? I'm still filling it out.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Um you said the work part is great. The the business aspect, I'm I need to know for sure that this thing could be profitable before I buy it.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 8:07

Uh so I've been you know going to work and you know five five hours machining heads, then I come home, open their books, and start going through it and doing the business part, and I'm really discovering that's not the part I like so much. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:25

You just got some dry heaving a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

Yeah. That's kind of how I feel. If if I can find a way to hire somebody to manage the business and just let me do the work, it'd be great.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

But I don't see that happening, so yeah, not anytime soon at least, anyways, right? Like you'd have to be probably quite successful to be able to afford that, I would imagine, you know. You gotta start paying employees, you've got to have you know some decent money coming in.

SPEAKER_03 8:55

Yeah, you've gotta be solid.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

So but yeah, other uh free time. I work on cars when I can. Um projects around the house. I I picked up a short stint doing um like handyman work with a friend for a while, and quickly found out I do not have the patience for that. No. Yeah, that's that's one of those things. You come to work and you know, three steps back, one step forward, and then go home like I didn't do anything.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

And give you all the job satisfaction, right? That's what always sucked, that's what I think sucked the most about not doing maintenance, not being turning wrenches, was that job satisfaction. You miss that. Yeah, you don't get it if you're not I'm not saying you don't get it in other jobs, I'm sure there's people that get it in other ways, but I get a lot of job satisfaction out of like finishing something, fixing something, you know, completing something, you know, like at the bar, you know, I work at a bar now, so like I get a lot of job satisfaction, and I can talking to people, I get that conversation out, you know, I'm getting a social aspect as well, too, of life, you know.

SPEAKER_03 10:08

Oh, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Yeah, yeah. It's only two, three days a week, you know. I'd like to be bar backing more days a week, but I also like my free time.

SPEAKER_03 10:17

That's the other struggle I'm getting. I'm going from I have full control over my waking hours every day. Now I'm sitting here going, do I really want to tie myself to being in a building, you know, nine to five?

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Five days a week at least, you know.

SPEAKER_03 10:34

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I'm the owner, so that's that 40 hours of or what is it? I saw a joke the other day about that. Is I want to own my own business so I have the freedom to work my 120 hours a week.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

It's ridiculous, dude. My Eric is at work all the time, too. He's at work, so he works seven days a week most of the time. He's the owner of the bar.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

He loves that. He loves it.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

He does. He does, but you know, he's in his 50s, you know, it's not easy work. Yeah, you know, work especially and he does just about everything. He's doing all the cooking and you know, the business side and everything, you know. His wife does the business side, a lot most of the business side, but you know, they're they're they do it together, so every they're doing everything together, you know.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

So like the key. You you've got to love what you do. If you don't love it, then it's just gonna become a burden.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Yeah, and he does too. He does love doing it. He loves like serving people and and giving people, you know, feeding people and stuff, you know. He just he just loves that. Plus, I'm sure it's good money as well, too, now at this point. So I'm sure he likes that.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

So that that's always a bonus.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

Yeah, yeah, for sure. I only work there so that I can drink there. It's the only reason I work there so I can drink there. You know, the money I make usually goes to the back to the bar.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

What were you saying, Ian? Uh I was gonna ask if you liked the small town living.

SPEAKER_03 12:15

Oh, I love the small town living. That's I I grew more antisocial the older I got. I think we all have brothers. Now I live in a place. Yeah, now I live in a place that I don't I only have to see people when I choose to step out.

SPEAKER_02 12:30

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

So I think that is a uh the more I think about it, like the more people I see, the older we get, my parents, my family, my family's friends. Everyone seems to like the older you get, like I just want to be by myself. I want to just kind of hang out, I don't want to go out and deal with me alone. Stupid stuff, yeah. Let me let me be do it myself. Yeah. And uh so I think that's just one of those facts of life.

SPEAKER_03 12:56

Oh yeah. And I noticed, like, Lauren went and got a job, which was great. Um that's one of the things about the this small town is women have a much easier time getting a job here than men do. But she'd go to work, I'd go out to the garage, I'd start turning wrenches by myself, and you know, I'll spend 40 hours of my week not talking to anybody. Uh and I made that comment to somebody like, don't you get lonely? No, I get stuff done.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Facts. I don't do shit. I'm too lazy. Like, I'm so fucking lazy, dude. Like, ah, it's ridiculous. You know, I've had to complete this fucking thing right here. It's a box so that I can all my packages can get because I fenced off my whole property, right? So like so packages get dropped off outside the property most of the time. So I got this box. I've had to put hinges on it for fucking six months, dude. That's all I've had to do is put the hinges on it. I'm just so lazy. Tell me, tell them about this. That's been sitting there for how long now? A little over a year. Yeah. Wow. We cut down the scrap, we cut that shit down, and it took Ian everything to get me to cut it down. He had to like bug me every day to cut it down to get shit done. He was all like, this is the time to get shit done. I'm all like, we're supposed to be doing nothing and smoking all the time.

SPEAKER_04 14:27

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 14:28

Yeah, that that bugs the crap out of Lauren. I I can't be lazy. Like, I wish she'll go in there to watch TV. I'm like, I want to hang out with you. I sit down ten minutes later. I can't do this. I'm gonna go do something.

SPEAKER_00 14:43

Yeah. Yeah, I can get up, like I can sit down and watch, but I've got to be quite elevated to be chill enough to be able to sit down. Because like the only place I can really sit and chill and literally do nothing is right here where I'm sitting right now. This is literally like my I'm sitting in the garage, I can see like grass and trees, and I can always hear the birds, you know, and the dogs are out here chilling with me and stuff. Like, I usually got Slinky in my lap and stuff, you know. And I just sit out here and literally do nothing.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

And I get it. It's cool, but you know, at some time I'm all like, I wish I just had some motivation. Like, you know, I got something to do over there. I I got a couple of things I could do over there in the shop. And I should get them done, but I'm not gonna. You know, and it sucks.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

I get that. I I do have a couple projects like that. Like uh, I built myself a shop out back. I parked one of my cars there.

SPEAKER_00 15:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:42

Uh I ended up getting so many spare parts that I don't have room to work on the car. So I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go put another concrete pad out there. I went and dug the hole, and then it came time to get all the materials, and I'm like, I'm not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Ah, that's how I am with uh just about everything. That's how I am with just about everything. Aaron even said something. She just went out to go do some things, and uh she's all like, you know, you could finish that up. I was like, I could, but I don't want to. But I'm like gonna, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:21

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

She works too now. She works 40 plus, yeah, exactly. It definitely was just stay right there. Because it's a useful table, too. I got all my little tools and stuff on here I use for cleaning my fucking tobacco pipe out and stuff, you know? Fucking, I I don't know. And then I'm so it's like a nice little table, and I've become lazy because it's useful for me as well at the same time, sitting right here. I did get a soaked package the other day though that had me thinking I should fucking I should fucking finish this up. Yeah, I should finish this up. I've got all the parts just sitting right here and stuff too. Maybe tomorrow on my birthday. Probably not.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

That's exactly what I want to do on my birthday. So Ian.

SPEAKER_03 17:09

So you used to be into what, the R34s, the Skyline, Supros, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

Yeah. How's uh how's Britain affecting that hobby? It's not. They're I mean they're they're here. They they have they have European versions. That's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um I had thought about I had thought about getting an Audi uh an R8 for a long time. Because they're cheaper here, they're they're cheaper here than they are in the States. Um so I figured, you know, get me get myself a nice a nice uh retirement gift. I like cars, I like fast, so you know, get use that as my show car, and then I would just continue to drive my S4 as a you know as a daily driver. Daily, daily, okay. And and uh but after a while it's like too impractical. If I want to be able to bring the kids somewhere or go on a longer drive, it just seems like it'd be more practical to get a uh GTR, not no new Skyline GTR. Um go with that R35. Yep. So now I'm just gonna get a house.

SPEAKER_03 18:11

So that's what I did. I retired. I retired and I started looking for uh a 60s Mustang, and I found a guy out in California selling a fastback, everything but the powertrain, um just fully disassembled. I think $8,000. Oh shit. So I went and get got my trailer, drove out to um California. I'm trying to remember where where it was. Uh there's a clothing name, clothing brand named after the area. But anyways, I drive out there, grab it, and drive it back, and um so I got my 66 fastback sitting out there.

SPEAKER_00 18:52

Is it really?

SPEAKER_03 18:54

No. And this is the funny story, is I saw a guy uh on the other side of Tucson. He was selling a 65 coupe. I'm like, parts car. So I drive up there and I pick that up for like 1500 bucks and bring it back and I start looking at it. And yeah, it's a 200 inline six, nothing special, but it's manual transmission, it's a bench seat. They only made like 1,500 bench seats for those things.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Yeah, because they're all the double seats, because I have a 66.

SPEAKER_03 19:24

Yeah. And I I start looking at this, I'm like, sure, it's not a race car, but this thing's too cool to be a parts car. So that was closer to driving than my fastback, and I put that back together, and that's my daily driver now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:37

Really?

SPEAKER_03 19:38

And yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:38

With the Mine6, the 200, it's a 200, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

200, 200 M96.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

I I ended up pulling a uh a five-speed T5 from a four-cylinder Mustang, like an 80s Mustang.

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:52

And I hooked hooked that up to that uh little 200CI. Um I pulled the 8-inch out of the fastback because I don't know what that rear end was on it, but I went and looked. It looked like a uh Dana 38, which is really, really small uh pumpkin. But then the um the the carrier, the splines didn't line up. It had a front differential spline pattern. Yeah, like somebody Frankenstein this thing together. I was like, get get rid of that. I'll go pull the eight inch out of the fastback, I'll buy the fastback a nine but a nine inch here in the future.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:33

And so I've converted this thing to a five lug, still six cylinder, five-speed transmission. It's got so much low-wind torque that I have a hard time not breaking the tires out at a stoplight. Really? But then you just like drive down the road at 25 miles an hour because it's got no horse speed.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

That's funny, dude.

SPEAKER_03 21:00

So, but yeah, that's that's uh been my project lately is working on that and trying to get things to the point where I can get back on the fastback, because that's gonna be the race car. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

What um what uh what's the your rear end like uh as far as the gear ratio?

SPEAKER_03 21:20

I never actually cracked it open to check. Um I have a feeling it's the the 373, that's the the most common for the the time frame.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I guess mine are running like two fifty-two's or something like that. Okay. So because it's got a super low, like I got like no torque, but then I can be cruising at like eighty, you know, like easily.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

Yeah. So I uh years ago I had a sixty eight that was kind of like that. Like no torque off the line. But if you're going thirty and you stomp on the gas, then all of a sudden you feel all the power. Like the power range was thirty to fifty miles an hour.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

Yeah. Yeah, it had like a little power band basically.

SPEAKER_03 22:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

Yeah. Yeah, that's kind of what this is like, and it's got the cruiser-matic, the three-speed cruisermatic in it, the C4.

SPEAKER_04 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

So I don't really care for it. I don't like the Cruisermatic, you know. I'd rather I like the C6 that I had in my 71, but that's a huge transmission compared to the C4, you know what I mean? But my brother has my 71 now. I don't know if you ever knew about that truck or anything. I've had it since before I was even in Masala. So I don't know if I ever talked to you guys about it or anything. I've had it since 04, 03, 03 or 04. But I gave it to my brother last year. You know, I didn't. It was one of those things. I just didn't feel like working on it anymore. I didn't feel like taking care of it. It's been in the family since my grandfather bought it brand new. So I just gave it to my brother, and I told him the reason why I was giving it to him was because his daughter is to go on the uh the title so that it goes to her next. He can't just sell it or whatever else, you know. That was the stipulation to giving it to him.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Yeah, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

So his daughter's actually on the title now, too.

SPEAKER_03 23:08

So that's cool.

unknown 23:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:10

Is she old enough to drive it?

SPEAKER_00 23:12

She's not. She she'll be 15 next year, so that's when she can get her permit and start driving it stuff. I mean, I would let her drive like around like the property and stuff like that if I was him, and I think he may do that. I don't know if he's gonna let her drive the truck because it's non-power steering. You know, it's a non-power steering truck, you know, it's no power windows, no the only thing it came with power was power brakes. That's it. Wow. Yeah, so the steering on it, you gotta be you gotta be a little art hard strength, I like to call myself to be able to drive it sometimes, you know what I mean? Yeah. So, and my brother, uh, when we got it uh up in, I was in Oregon. I drove through your area, actually. I didn't it'd have been kind of cool to hang out, but anyways, um uh I was in Oregon last month and uh we were working on the truck and stuff, and we got it back together, and he was trying to drive it. He I could see him making wide ass turns trying to get it back together, you know. I used to wonder that stuff, but I got so good at it, you know, or I got so strong driving it because it was my daily driver at Vegas for years. You know, and then I drove it a lot. Yeah, I drove it kind of often when I was at Edwards, and then I stopped driving it here. That's when it kind of just stopped. It was running, but it wasn't running very well.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

Yeah. Anyways, that was a long side story. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

It's all right. I just want a house, that's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

You went in the house?

SPEAKER_01 24:42

I said I just want a house.

SPEAKER_00 24:45

Oh, I thought you went in. I thought you said you went to the house. I was all like, damn, I didn't even I was talking so much, I didn't even notice that motherfucking leave. Shit. Yeah. I mean, you're getting that house. You're gonna get it. Yeah. This is the one. It's happening. It's just we're just it's happening.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

We're just waiting, waiting to hear back.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Final, final weeks.

SPEAKER_01 25:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:06

It's kind of like me with my gapped nails, dude. Uh damn. It's just six more days. Six more days. That's all I gotta wait. Six more days that I can go get them done. It's so bad. I hate showing them off because everybody's like, oh my, you know, people want to see a man with their freaking nails painted, dude. They're they either want to see him or they're disgusted by it. You know, one of it's one of the two things. So, anyways, uh people all like, especially women, are like, ooh, let me see your nails. I'm like, no. And they're like, what? I'm like, they're gapped, they're gapped, they're so bad right now. And they're like, let me see them. They don't even notice that they're gapped because they're looking at the designs and shit like that. You know what I mean? But they are and then I tell them, like, look at the gapping. They're like, yeah, they're gapped, but they're still pretty. I'm like, yeah, I know that, but still, they're gapped. It's been weeks and weeks. I usually we usually go once every once a month. The wife and I go. It's like a date night type thing. We go and hang out with uh our nail tech and stuff, and it's all hand painted. She hand paints everything, it's crazy stuff. It's insanely good.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

Yeah, that's awesome. But then you had to wait longer this time.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Yeah, well, because I went to Oregon and it screwed up the time frame that we normally and Aaron slept in on the day that we normally schedule our appointment, because it's to the minute. Like, she goes to the minute, like she schedules three weeks out, and she's usually booked, so you have to like get up and schedule your appointment, you know, with her, and then wait the hour and a half and then schedule my appointment so that we can go back to back with each other, you know what I mean? And we couldn't make that happen because I went to Oregon and I drove to Oregon, then I drove back, you know what I mean? So just I was gone for like two and a half weeks, some shit like that. And we just screwed up the schedule, and now I'm like two and a half weeks behind on nail day. And I'm sure both of you are just absolutely enamored with that.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

No, I was gonna what I was gonna say was, what are you gay?

SPEAKER_00 27:05

That one dude uh come into my stream and he goes, Are you a hippie or are you gay? And he spoke. Gay. G-E-Y. G-E-Y. I was like, no, I'm not, and then I told him the story and I made them all feel bad. One person tipped me like fucking three or four bucks or whatever after I told them the Y I fucking paid my nails. And then I got a tip. I was like, hell yeah, thank you. Thanks. Sucker.

SPEAKER_03 27:34

Tell me about your stream. I didn't realize you were streaming.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

So I only stream on an app called WhatNot. I don't stream on like Twitch or anything like that. I it's a selling app, kind of like eBay, where you live stream and I sell Lego. You can sell anything on there. But I sell minifigs, Lego, and all that shit.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

I looked it up not too long ago and I read the description, and I was like, yep, that's not for me.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Whatnot?

SPEAKER_03 28:01

I don't care for the the high-pace auction sort of stuff. Like if I'm putting my money down, I just want to receive what I put my money down on. I don't want to guess.

SPEAKER_00 28:09

What do you mean, guess?

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Well, it's like the old school eBay where you go in and you bid and then somebody outbids you, right?

SPEAKER_00 28:16

Yeah. That's what it made it made it sound like it's you know a bidding site, and that's it is, but yeah, the way I sell, but like the way I personally sell, I sell at like 20% off of retail. So like people usually don't bid on top of people uh in my type of streams. You know, I don't buy into the whole dollar start where people bid it up and then you end up paying more. I just give you a fair price based on what I've paid it. You know, that's how I sell. Yeah, you know, so I don't sell as often as most people because I don't do the whole dollar starts, I don't have enough people in my streams, and my stream that I did earlier, all I did was do a I did a Harry Potter Lego build. So I built a Lego Potter, a Harry Potter Lego set, and then I fucking then I ended the stream. I didn't sell anything. You know, I had my stuff up for sale so that whatnot can't yell at me, but all I wanted to do was build, and I just built and then I get a couple people come in, they chit-chat with me, you know, I'm hanging out kind of like we're doing, you know. They're chatting, I'm building, you know, it's just take it's time, you know, it's busy time, busy work or whatever, you know. Takes up my time and I'm bored all the time. So I usually make like anywhere from like 200 to like 800 bucks a month selling Lego or whatnot.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Okay, that's cool.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

It just depends on how aggressive I am with with it, you know. If I like when I was trying to make money to go to Oregon to have extra cash to spend, I was I was aggressively selling, you know, and I made 800 bucks. I wasn't aggressive, but like for me, aggressive. You know, you know, I'm I'm I'm sitting in there chilling, people are just hanging out, and I'm just like, you could buy or not, I I don't care. I'm just chilling with you guys. And that's basically it. That's that's it, it yeah. So I if you wanted to just come and chill and hang out, you ain't gotta buy nothing. You could just come in there and fucking chill. Yeah. Like you're bored or whatever, and I'm streaming. I don't stream for a long time, I stream for like an hour at most, maybe two hours at most. Like if I'm building, I'll stream longer. But yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

Yeah, I'll have to download the app and uh watch for you. But I have a friend, um, I worked with um my last two assignments, uh, Puerto Rican guy, he expatted down to Colombia, but he streams on Twitch all the time. Yeah. And he's he's constantly sending me messages like, hey, you're never in my stream. You you you know, you follow me, but you never actually got one. You're streaming at times that I'm doing things. Yeah, yeah. I get home and it's like you missed a stream.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

I mean, so what do you want me to do? Like you got a life, you know. You still got a he's still got a life, you know, or you still have a life.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Yeah. All right, guys, we've just had about our time. Um it was good having you on, Josh. Oh, thank you. Appreciate it. Yeah, stay seated. I'll uh I'll end the call and then we'll um we'll just pick back up here in just a second. All right, guys, thanks for listening. Take care, stay safe.

SPEAKER_00 31:11

Be safe, make good choices.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Bye bye.