Nigel the Cat: From Barn to Supercars

Have you ever wondered what happens when you combine an adorable orange cat with the world of exotic supercars? Meet Nigel, the barn-born feline who accidentally became an internet sensation after being photographed sitting in a Ferrari intake at just 10 weeks old.

In this fascinating conversation with Nigel's owner Mun (@mundanewaifu), we explore how a casual decision to bring her kitten to a car event snowballed into viral fame overnight. Mun shares the thoughtful desensitization training that allows Nigel to remain calm amid the roaring engines at Formula Drift events and exotic car meets. Far from being stressed by these environments, Nigel has developed distinct preferences – particularly for cars with wings like the McLaren Senna GTR, where he notoriously falls asleep regardless of surrounding noise.

What makes Nigel's story particularly compelling is how his presence has opened doors in the automotive world. Despite only being interested in cars for about three years, Mun has formed connections with renowned figures in car culture, experienced rides in rare supercars, and built a dedicated following where fans sometimes scream Nigel's name upon spotting him at events. Yet beyond the glitz of exotic automobiles, some of their favorite moments involve simpler pleasures – Nigel watching rain from the porch, being buried in sand at the beach, or enjoying chicken at his favorite ramen restaurant.

For anyone interested in content creation with pets, Mun offers valuable wisdom: always prioritize your pet's comfort, ignore skeptics, and pursue content that genuinely excites you rather than following trends. The authenticity of their journey resonates throughout every story shared, revealing how sometimes the most unexpected combinations create the most compelling content.

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Transcript

Meet Nigel the Car Cat

Speaker 1 0:01

Welcome to the Fresh Patch Podcast, where we talk about everything from dog training to potty talk. It's time to save your rugs and get real. This episode is brought to you by Fresh Patch, featured on Shark Tank, oprah and the Today Show. And here are your hosts, drew and.

Speaker 2 0:18

Gabe, welcome everybody to episode 15. Is it 15? I'm pretty sure it's 15. Last one was 14. I know it's crazy we're flying around here, but this is the Potty Talk podcast hosted by myself, drew, and my name's Gabe, and we got a very, very lovely host today. And dipping into the cat space, if you'd love to introduce yourself.

Speaker 3 0:42

I am Mun, and this is Nigel Nigel. Nigel boy, You're getting Nigel's backside.

Speaker 4 0:47

right now it's a beautiful view, don't turn around.

Speaker 2 0:51

But cool, before we really dive into things too, wanted to give everyone a chance to hit that subscribe button like comment here on the Potty Talk podcast if you're listening on YouTube or on Spotify, apple Podcasts. Follow Fresh Patch as well on all social media.

Speaker 3 1:10

And then, if you want to give your handle a little shout out real quick. My Instagram is mundanewaifu.

Speaker 2 1:13

There we go, so we'll have that up on the screen for you to follow. But yeah, thank you for joining. We really appreciate it. We're going to have some good conversation this episode.

Speaker 4 1:22

Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 1:23

Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 1:24

Your account is very, very interactive, engaging. If you don't know, not familiar, but she's a huge car person. Nigel's a huge car person as well, yes, car cat.

Speaker 3 1:35

Car cat, or, as the internet calls him, car car. There you go there we go Cool.

Speaker 2 1:40

So, yeah, thanks for joining. We're just going to dive into some questions for you get to know you and Nigel and you know have a fun time here on the pod. So, gabe, if you want to start us off with, the first question, absolutely.

Speaker 4 1:52

I bet everyone's curious and wants to learn more.

Accidental Internet Fame

Speaker 3 2:01

So tell us a little bit about you and Nigel and like how you got into content creation. Oh my gosh, it was totally by accident. I thought. So that that's. I got him around the time that the cats on cars trend started. I got him on vacation. I wasn't even supposed to get a cat, it just he was there and I wanted him and I was like, oh, it would be cute to take him to like car stuff with me, because I go to car stuff all the time, and I was like, well, if he enjoys it, I'll take him with me. So the first thing I ever took him to was Hot Pit Drift Fest. It's like a mini version of Formula Drift, and I put like little earplugs in his ears and he was like 10 weeks old, so he was tiny, he was like a 15th of the size he is now.

Speaker 3 2:38

And I took him to that and he was like really really chill about it and, um, I was friends with some of the people there, so they let them sit on their cars and all I did was really take pictures. That day I didn't even take videos. And then I had another friend message me asking if I wanted to go to an exotic meet like a day or two later and they have a lamborghini. And I was like only if I can bring my cat. And he's like you want to bring your cat in my car? And I was like yeah, yes, yeah. And then we like sat there and debated it for like three hours and he's like fine, you can come, so I take him with me. And we're like heading down the freeway I have this like a little tiny cat. He was literally sitting on my shoulder.

Speaker 3 3:16

He was so small and we're like cruising down the freeway in this loud car, like shooting flames right and he's just like unb, like doesn't care at all, like couldn't, like.

Speaker 3 3:27

He was just like having a great time and we get to the meet and I was like, okay, now can I put my cat on your car? And he's like, yeah, and he was like, let her put the cat on your car, on your car. And that was the meet where there was a Ferrari and Ferrari and we put him in the intake of it. That it was literally like the first ever meet we went to is the clip of him in the Ferrari and it went viral overnight, like I think I had like. So one of the bigger accounts reposted it got 10 million views in one night.

Speaker 3 3:54

So he literally is like overnight fame, and he just held on to it holy cow, nigel, you're a legit celebrity dude, yeah it was and it's. Yeah, it was just funny to me. That's that's how it started.

Speaker 4 4:05

It was just funny that's so funny that's so cool honestly, like it's so rare, for I mean so many pets out there are very like noise sensitive and like like stimuli sensitive and there's big crowds and stuff. So that's you're pretty neat guy.

Speaker 3 4:19

I did a lot of desensitization work with him mainly, mainly just because I wanted him to be good for like vets and if other people came over and I don't want a cat that was always like running away yeah and then I was also like, oh, it'd be cool if I had like one of those like on the road cats, because I like taking vacations and it a lot of.

Speaker 3 4:35

It was just getting him used to everything and he's pretty good. He has weird noises that I have to be careful about, but most of the time he's very clear when he doesn't like and like something.

Speaker 4 4:43

So that's awesome and you have a little bit of like a training background.

Speaker 3 4:47

I know you like work with horses and yeah so I've just always been an animal person, so it just came a lot of that. With horses you have to desensitize them a lot and get them used to everything because they're prey animals. So and cats are not prey animals, but they're cautious yeah so have.

Speaker 3 5:03

It's like a lot of the same fundamentals. I was like, oh, let me get him used to this. So he thinks it's not a big deal. And then it transitioned into this Like he's. We put so much intensive training into him in the first three months I have him and then it's been just like refreshers after that. But that's how it started. It was a lot of it's a lot of work at first, and then they're really good yeah, yeah, you were.

Speaker 4 5:26

You were mentioning that you, kind of like, trained him to yeah look at you when you're holding the camera.

Speaker 3 5:30

Yeah, that's so funny and then he does, he'll like sit on command, he knows how to stay, wow stuff like that, like he knows tricks like a dog. He used to do high fives. He doesn't do it anymore but he used to do high fives oh, man, and yeah.

Training an Adventure Cat

Speaker 3 5:42

So he has a lot. There's a lot of training that's gone into this cat. A lot of people are always like, uh, how do I get my cat to do? How did you get used to it? And it was like taking him out every single day for like three months and like just getting him used to everything. And you have to. You can't push them, because if you push them then they get scared you have to go at at their pace, and he's a very trusting cat too, which also helps a lot.

Speaker 4 6:07

So that's cool. He's good with, like, new people and all that. Oh yeah, he's great with new people.

Speaker 3 6:10

He goes, he'll let anyone pet him. Everybody always like wants to know if he wants to sniff their hand and he like doesn't care.

Speaker 3 6:15

Let anyone pet him anyone can hold him like. I've never met someone he wouldn't let like touch. He was like he's just always been super chill, but I always when he was a kitten I wouldn't let anyone handle him rough. If you picked him up, you had to set him down with all four feet on the ground. Like you, I wouldn't even let someone like slightly drop him down. So it was a lot of like very strict rules until he got used to everything well, that makes sense why he's so trusting now yeah yeah, exactly, he had a good childhood he, he did, he was raised right.

Speaker 3 6:44

Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 2 6:46

Awesome, well, cool. And then you know I feel like you answered this a little bit but what inspired you to start bringing Nigel to these exotic car meets? I mean, I feel like it was just that first initial one that it was successful, so right.

Speaker 3 6:59

Just fun, like I've never really done it to be famous. I've never really done it to be famous, I've done it because I thought it was funny and because he likes it. Like, if he's not feeling it that day we usually don't go out like it's very, like a fine he does call a lot of the shots because I don't want him to dislike it.

Speaker 3 7:16

Like a couple last few car meets we went to were like not that great too loud and stuff and I tried to get him to stay a little bit and he didn't want to stay. So now we don't really go to car meets as much anymore. We do like private shoots or like friend gatherings or stuff like that, like stuff that's like at more control out of house or something he likes formula drift.

Speaker 3 7:34

I don't know how but he doesn't like if it's a car meet and the cars are like doing like rev offs, he's like tapped out. But if we go to formula drift and the car is literally going right past us, he's like yeah, whatever, I'm like okay we're behind the wall, we're fine Like, yeah, I'm like okay, if you're fine with that, you're fine with that. So he he calls a lot of the shots. I'm not ever going to make him go somewhere he doesn't want to go. Yeah for sure.

Speaker 4 7:59

So you kind of like like again, like answer this a little bit, but how do you kind of go about choosing which cars to bring him to, and does Nigel have a favorite? I know you shared a little story about him kind of driving earlier. So he.

Speaker 3 8:13

car-wise, we kind of choose whatever. If I have a good idea in my head, I'll try it. I'll search for a car, I'll message. I have a couple people I can message and be like hey, do you know anyone that has this type of car, I want to make a video with it. Or we shoot with a lot of the same people over and over again. Just because I like them, nigel likes them, we're all chill, so that makes it easier. He drove a go-kart at K1. That was really fun.

Exotic Cars and Cat Favorites

Speaker 3 8:41

The clip of that is coming out really soon. Stay tuned. And then, as far as favorite cars go, he has a couple the mclaren senna gtr. Oh gosh I know bringing out a one to 75 the wing on that. For some reason the wing is like made for cats like he always that's the only car I put him on. He goes to sleep every single time like it doesn't matter where we are it doesn't matter how loud the noises are, he will fall asleep on the wing.

Speaker 3 9:13

It somehow holds him in just the right spot, trying to think of what other?

Speaker 2 9:17

good job, mclaren. Yeah, seriously something you didn't know when you designed your wing.

Speaker 3 9:22

He also really is a big fan of uh gt3 rs's and it's also because the wing cats like wings.

Speaker 2 9:29

Yeah, he's a wing guy. He's a wing guy. Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 9:32

And then like, oh, that's awesome he really likes tanks like like military, like yeah, wow, yeah, we like uh whistling diesel.

Speaker 3 9:41

And then I also went to a military base and got to put him on a couple tanks and the only thing I have to be careful about is like he, they're jungle gems to him. Thing I have to be careful about is, like he, there are jungle gems to him, so I have to be able to get up to get him. Yeah don't want him to like once he starts climbing on top of everything because he likes to do like king of the castle and get on the very top of stuff.

Speaker 4 9:58

Don't want him to accidentally like shoot a missile or something. Yeah, he's going to start World War 3, this cat.

Speaker 3 10:03

Orange cat, orange and chaotic. Oh yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 2 10:08

You should definitely come out. We did an event this year with the SWAT canines of San. Bernardino. And it's with Lamborghini Club of America.

Speaker 1 10:15

Oh, that's nice so they brought us out.

Speaker 2 10:17

We gave a good donation to the SWAT canine unit but they let us climb all over their stuff all the big.

Speaker 3 10:23

SWAT vehicles and everything. That would have been great. Nigel would have loved that. I was going to say that's like Nigel's dream. Yeah, exactly we caravaned in Lamborghinis to there.

Speaker 1 10:30

Oh my gosh, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 10:31

And then got on all their equipment. So maybe next year you guys can pop off.

Speaker 3 10:33

Yeah, Nigel would have loved that.

Speaker 4 10:35

That's just a day in the life for Nigel.

Speaker 3 10:43

No, straight up. I've been there with him and I still am in disbelief. I'm like this cat has lived the most random life ever. I got him out of a barn and now he's doing all this stuff. I'm like you're weird.

Speaker 2 10:56

That goes with the page. You know, Barn Find, Barn Find. Yeah, exactly, it's like Forza.

Speaker 3 11:00

It was like dusting off an old car and suddenly I have a multi-million dollar car. That's crazy. Look at that.

Speaker 2 11:08

Yeah, found an old you know an old Ferrari down in the barn or something that no one's seen in 60 years.

Speaker 3 11:14

Yeah, pull it out and everyone's amazed.

Speaker 4 11:16

Fix it up. That's so cool.

Speaker 3 11:18

Yeah, that's really how it felt finding him.

Speaker 4 11:20

That's so funny.

Speaker 2 11:21

Cool, so back to the car meet things.

Speaker 3 11:30

Taking a cat to a car meet, do you?

Speaker 2 11:31

have a lot of prep. There is a lot of prep. You know, do you kind of just get up and go um, how does that? I know you kind of said yeah, he calls the shots but like is there a lot more prep? There's a.

Speaker 3 11:37

It's actually funny. There's a lot more prep now than when he was a kitten.

Speaker 3 11:41

When he was a kitten it was just like put earplugs in, go yeah totally fine now it's like I feel like I have to pep talk him and be like we're gonna go to a car meet, you're gonna sit on some cars. I don't really. I think it's because I don't really go to meets as much at all anymore, not just like him, I've just been so busy that I haven't really gone to meet. So I think he's kind of fallen out of the pattern. And when you fall out of the pattern with cats, that's when it starts to become a big deal. But our new routine that's the prep is we take him to the car meet and then he gets to go out to eat afterwards because that's his favorite thing, is eating with us at a restaurant. So we take him out to eat afterwards and it just like positively reinforces the car meet.

Speaker 3 12:21

But yeah it's just a lot of like. I don't wash him, clip his nails, all that kind of stuff, but he's pretty. I mean, he's a pretty easy cat. He's used to just going random places with me.

Speaker 4 12:33

So you have to wine and dine him a little bit sometimes.

Speaker 3 12:35

Yes, Because we have our restaurants that we go to and he gets his own little food when we go there. Yeah, he's a cool dude.

Speaker 4 12:45

Yeah, you are a cool dude, aren't you, nigel? He said who are you talking?

Speaker 2 12:48

to me.

Speaker 3 12:50

He's like dinner and a date please.

Speaker 2 12:52

Like to be winding dimes you know, Dang right.

Speaker 3 12:55

Yeah.

Speaker 4 12:57

Cool.

Speaker 3 13:02

So what has?

Speaker 4 13:02

been like the standout moment for you, like in your journey of like content creation with Nigel.

Speaker 3 13:05

We've had a couple Back when, so he not anymore. But Whistling Diesel started following a bunch of random people at a time and I was literally on my lunch break at work and I'm just checking my account and I scroll through and I see that Whistling Diesel followed me and it was like the craziest moment for me ever Cause, like I remember watching he's a little bit older than me and I remember watching him when I was like a kid, and me ever, because, like I remember watch he's a little bit older than me and I remember watching him when I was like a kid and I was like there's no, like I wasn't even in the cars.

Speaker 3 13:33

Back then I was just like curious, you know, and I was like never in my life did I think I would get to a point where, like that person would be following yeah you know, I was like that's weird. And then just there's like been a whole bunch of random like standout moments, like we collabed with the air force at one point when he was little that's so crazy, it's so funny.

Speaker 4 13:53

Oh okay, oh yeah, he's gonna go hide, he's retreating, he wants to hang out with the boy under the chair. Yeah, that's fine, plenty of room for you down there, but um, that was pretty cool.

Speaker 3 14:04

it's just been like a lot of cool little funny moments. He did a shoot with some rally car drivers for Subaru. Oh, that's cool Because Subaru really likes cats. They've been very cool. Subaru has been doing a lot of stuff with Nigel since he was itty bitty.

Speaker 2 14:20

No way, that's so awesome. Travis Pastrana or no?

Speaker 3 14:23

No, we were supposed to shoot with him and I had to reschedule.

Speaker 2 14:26

I know Chewie did, so I was wondering.

Speaker 3 14:30

Because I went to a rally that he was at and I ran out of time, but he Scott Speed the driver of Project Midnight. Nigel's done stuff with him, done stuff with Bucky. She's like we're in a tree.

Speaker 4 14:45

It's so cool that doing this thing with Nigel has like opened doors for you and like allowed you to meet people that, like you know, you're just a fan of.

Speaker 3 14:53

Yeah, I'm like this is just cool, which is funny because I don't feel like I don't really like fangirl a lot in my life, but it's like it's like a weird moment. You're like these are like they may not be household names to everyone, but they're household names to me, so it's weird that I'd be at a point where I get to like meet them.

Speaker 4 15:09

Yeah.

Speaker 3 15:10

And I'm like this is just, it's like a unreal, like it doesn't feel real.

Content Creation and Fan Reactions

Speaker 4 15:13

Yeah yeah, it's like.

Speaker 3 15:14

I'm like whoa, I'm just here with my cat, I'm here because of my cat.

Speaker 4 15:23

And that's more random than anything else.

Speaker 2 15:25

I was like she won't do it. Oh she will, oh, she will. Have you ever had someone react in a very funny way when they saw Nigel oh?

Speaker 3 15:34

my gosh. Yes, there's this one girl. If she watches this, she will know exactly who she is. We were at Formula Drift the last one they had at Irwindale right before it got knocked down and I was running out to my car. I think I knocked down and I was running out to my car. I think I was trying to either like I needed something for him or I was like trying to let him use the litter box, something like that.

Speaker 3 15:52

And as I'm like trying to leave, this girl is on the other side, coming in, you know, and she goes nigel, nigel, oh my god, it's nigel like just freaking out and it's so funny we found her later and let her take a picture with him, because I was like that is the funniest reaction I think I've ever had to a cat ever.

Speaker 2 16:14

That's like a Taylor Swift reaction.

Speaker 3 16:15

Yeah, no Formula.

Speaker 2 16:17

Justin Bieber type.

Speaker 3 16:19

He has such a diehard Formula Drift fan base because he had a couple Formula Drift videos go really viral and so a lot of people there know him. And then you know, usually if I'm there, if I'm not busy and he's in a good mood, I'll let people take pictures with him and pet him and stuff. So he has the most like diehard Formula Drift fan base. So usually when we're there, we get a couple people that are like oh my God, it's Nigel.

Speaker 4 16:48

And like some people will say stuff won't. It's like really funny they're like oh, I'm nervous like I want to say hi, nigel, I hope I'm not bothering you.

Speaker 3 16:52

Yeah, oh my gosh, because me and nigel both have very serious faces out in public, so I feel like we don't look very approachable. And then sometimes also I'm just like he's too hot or something. I'm trying to get him cooled down, so I'm like not right now yeah, but he yeah, he has a crazy fan base there and usually that's if we're going to get any funny reactions. That's usually where it's at. At car meets it's just the normal, like what is the cat doing?

Speaker 4 17:12

here. That's so funny.

Speaker 3 17:14

Yeah, it's just really funny.

Speaker 2 17:16

That's great. And then do people like I know I think you've mentioned this too, but when you actually put him on cars and stuff, do people like they usually tend to love it but some people are a little skeptical, like they usually tend to love it, but some people are a little skeptical.

Speaker 3 17:31

Some people get a little freaked out but then they see like it's usually. It's funny because it's usually people that don't own the cars that get really freaked out.

Speaker 2 17:34

I've noticed that too.

Speaker 3 17:35

Yeah, it's usually people that don't own the cars that get freaked out. You know what you're doing, yeah. They're like do you have permission to do that?

Speaker 4 17:49

And I'm like camera, like yeah, that's like just the internet thing in general is people like get uh, like they have second hand, sort of like I.

Speaker 3 17:55

I do respect it though, yeah, if it was like some random person that didn't have permission.

Speaker 3 17:59

I'd like would hope that they would say something yeah, of course, but I think a lot of people don't realize that we always get permission beforehand. Yeah so, and it usually draws in a crowd, like if we go to like we went to Car Week in Monterey and he sat on Stradman's car and we literally had like 15 people taking pictures of him all at once. That's crazy. It was so funny, oh my gosh. Like in the video you could see like I posted a couple clips of it, but you could see like the crowd like around and we're in a random parking lot. He was like getting Starbucks or something and there's like a random crowd behind. And then you'll see like car people run out like pass through the video because they're going car spotting.

Speaker 2 18:37

And.

Speaker 3 18:37

Nigel's just there. He's like what's going on?

Speaker 4 18:40

We've got to get him like sunglasses or something. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 18:44

I don't know if I posted a couple videos on. There's a video of him on whistling diesels. Take with sunglasses and a chain.

Speaker 2 18:55

Did you wear hats?

Speaker 3 18:56

he does. I have one. I forgot to bring this little face. When he has any hats or helmets on, he goes.

Speaker 4 19:07

We have to get him. We have a. I think we did get him. Oh, did we?

Speaker 2 19:10

Yeah, oh, we did, we did, we did With the chin strap and everything yeah.

Speaker 3 19:14

He has a little hat and you guys give him a little bandana too. Yeah, the bandana.

Speaker 4 19:21

He's a big fan of bandanas with, like the melon. Yeah, yeah, you ever try that with him could you imagine I? Don't think he'd let me.

Speaker 3 19:29

I think I think that's where he would draw the line with me.

Speaker 4 19:32

Yeah gotcha yeah no fruits no fruits, that's funny, so yeah cool. So it's pretty cool, like, obviously, like you're pretty passionate about cars and like probably if you didn't have nigel you'd be doing a lot of this stuff, you know. But I would.

Speaker 3 19:46

I don't think it would have escalated as fast because I'm actually a lot of people think I've been into cars for forever, but this is like a relatively new hobby to me and he definitely helped get me to the level I am now obviously with the people I know and stuff, but I've only been into cars for like I think this November will be like three years.

Speaker 1 20:04

I got into cars a year before I got them.

Speaker 3 20:06

Holy cow and I was like it started by just going to car meets and then I was like eh, and then I went to the drift track and that's really what got me.

Speaker 4 20:14

Yeah, you used to like making friends.

Speaker 3 20:16

Yeah, and then I made friends and I was at the drift track every weekend and I got into the exotic car scene because I crashed my car and I was at a car shop and my car used to have a really crazy wrap on it and I was at a car shop and there was a dude with a Lamborghini there. The one who took us to the first exotic thing, oh no way yeah.

Speaker 3 20:40

And he was like this car is crazy, tell me about it. And a lot of the exotic car people have been like that car is nuts Like they want to know more.

Speaker 4 20:48

So it's all about the story of it.

Speaker 3 20:50

It's like, yeah, I've just gotten into the car scene and, like the most random ways possible, like it's just, it doesn't make any sense, and it's been pretty cool so and I've got to experience a lot of cool cars, to ride in cool cars. It's been yeah.

Speaker 4 21:05

I don't know if the camera can see you right now, but really cool cars.

Speaker 2 21:08

He's still underneath here, yeah.

Speaker 1 21:10

He's just chilling yeah.

Speaker 4 21:11

Yeah, getting some shade. Um so do you have any advice for people who are looking to like do content creation with their pet but maybe like make some of their own passions and like kind of like you with like cars and stuff like that?

Beyond Cars: Nigel's Adventures

Speaker 3 21:25

I would say always put your pet first. Yes, that's the number one. Like if Nigel does not want to do something, I usually will leave within like 15 minutes. Yeah, there's only been like one or two times where I've been, like can we stay? But always like, make sure your pet is comfortable and then, as far as that, just go for what you want to do, like I do. Like people thought I was crazy at first.

Speaker 3 21:47

I cannot tell you how many people thought, like who brings a cat to a car meet, who puts their cat on, like crazy cars like that. How are like, how are you even comfortable doing that? And then like posting like funny little things that I think are funny. Yeah, like not everyone might think it's funny. I'm like, just do do what you feel like doing you know, yeah you know, it'll, if you know, if it's meant to be it'll, it'll turn out good like if you're really passionate about if you're really passionate.

Speaker 3 22:10

But I feel like people can usually see the passion through stuff and that's that's usually what does well, you don't. If you're just trying to do like cookie cutter, copy and paste content, it's not gonna do well, like do what makes you happy, and then people usually will see that yeah, that's greatore the haters. Oh my gosh, especially, let the haters fight in your comments. Start fights with the haters in your content, in your comments.

Speaker 3 22:33

All press is good press it promotes your video so well on the algorithm. Back when Nigel had like 11,000 followers, people would fight in his comments. So bad. He had some diehard fans and then he had some fans that were like or not fans, but like haters. That were like, oh my gosh, he's going to scratch the car. He's like, oh, how could you do that. He's going to mess up the car and his diehard fans would like fight them in the comments and that video would do so much better. That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 22:58

Hands up in the comments.

Speaker 4 23:00

Always let people fight in the comments yes, yes let them fight and watch the views come in algorithm it fuels the algorithm honestly sometimes I'll fight with people in my comments if I'm bored. I'm bored, I'm gonna go say something you said something mean about Nigel yeah it makes it do better.

Speaker 3 23:23

I don't do it very often, but like I'll just come in and say something random and then everybody will be like yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 23:29

So it does really well.

Speaker 2 23:31

That's cool yeah.

Speaker 3 23:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2 23:33

Awesome, cool. So one final question, too, that we always ask is you've kind of touched, but there may be another one what's your best memory with Nigel? Oh my gosh, not car scene I have a couple of really good memories with him.

Speaker 3 23:49

We took him to the beach during car week. This cat loves the beach. He's scared of the waves, but he loves the beach because of the sand. And we found out he likes to be buried in the sand and that was so funny to me. So we'll take him to the beach and bury him often.

Speaker 2 24:06

Just head sticking out.

Speaker 3 24:10

Probably warm. He's like this is cozy. And then, um, oh my gosh, what are the other good moments? I got a ride in the senna gtr on the track because of him. Wow, that was crazy. And that was like on almost like my one year date of getting in the cars, which I thought was crazy. Nigel was only see it was in november, so he had to have only been five months old, like he wasn't even very old.

Speaker 3 24:32

That was really crazy. And then is there anything else that was I'm like trying to think of, like what the other things are, I don't know, I just enjoy hanging out with nigel, it's like, I like the car moments, but honestly, my favorite thing to do is to take him out to eat with us when we get ramen. Yeah, the staff loves him.

Speaker 4 24:48

They're all our friends.

Speaker 3 24:49

Nigel loves doing it. That's where he's happiest is eating ramen at the ramen place. That's awesome, they give him a little chicken piece on a plate usually and he'll eat that. And then he likes to play with the chopsticks Classic. So we'll have like friend hangouts and we'll all go get ramen with Nigel. That pet with you at a restaurant and people walk by and they'll be like why is there a cat?

Speaker 4 25:14

here.

Speaker 3 25:14

Don't worry about it, or they'll be like whispering, like look, there's a cat. It's like so funny to me. But yeah, no, he's just a cool cat to hang out with. I took a road trip with him back to Washington. He's just. I took him on a hike with me, Like we do a lot of stuff. That's not just car stuff. My other cats like to chill at home, but he likes to go places, so he gets to come with me whenever he feels like it.

Speaker 2 25:37

That's cool. Adventure cat.

Speaker 3 25:38

Yeah, he also really likes the rain, so when it's raining we have to go sit outside for a little bit so he can watch the rain.

Speaker 1 25:44

He doesn't want to be in it but we sit on the porch and we watch it.

Speaker 2 25:50

And that like makes his day.

Speaker 3 25:53

It's so weird. He just like wants to sit there and just watch it. But it's not good enough from inside and it's not good enough with the windows open inside. He wants to sit outside and watch the rain. For like five minutes and he sits there perfectly content. I don't know what it is for him. He doesn't try and play with it, he just hangs out in the rain, and it's always he'll like sit and hit the door until I take him outside. Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:14

He's just one with nature.

Speaker 3 26:16

Yeah, he just loves it, that's cool. He's a very well-rounded cat.

Speaker 4 26:19

He is a very well-rounded cat.

Speaker 3 26:21

Yeah, I literally could. I don't think I could ask for a better cat. He does everything.

Speaker 2 26:27

I want to do and more. I'm very jealous that you got to ride in Masena. Yeah, that was a crazy experience.

Speaker 4 26:34

I looked over you and you were saying like, oh yeah, I was only in for cars for a year and I could tell exactly what you were thinking. I've been in the cars my whole life. I've never done anything like that.

Speaker 3 26:43

Yeah, so like it's also been cool because I feel like I've gotten to talk to and learn a lot from people that's been very like special to me. Like I feel like a lot, like I don't know a lot of people probably think I take it for granted, but this is like cool.

Speaker 1 26:58

Like this is like every day.

Speaker 3 27:00

I'm like like stoked, I've got to sit in a lot of really cool cars and ride in a lot of really cool cars. My current bucket list is to check off every big exotic brand, because I think that would be.

Speaker 4 27:19

I do a a lot of stuff just because I think it's funny and that would be funny to me and I'm I think I have like I need to ride in an r8 and a ferrari so if you have either of those, hit me up, hit her up, I'll tag along too, just for fun and you know what's funny is.

Speaker 3 27:28

I didn't even really like exotic cars at first.

Speaker 2 27:31

I tell a lot of people that yeah, yeah, you're back to the drift cars.

Speaker 3 27:33

I didn't like exotic cars because I thought people babied them too much. But then I met people who actually race them and do stuff with them and I was like, oh, this is cool, Because where I grew up people only garage kept them and drove them out for 15 minutes and back and I was like what is the point of having that?

Speaker 3 27:50

They've got to be under 1,000 miles people don't even hit 500 miles on it. Yeah, I'm like, what's the point of having that? So I'm I'm still like there's like a one or two cool cars that I would want, but I'm more. I'm still more of like a like I want a drift car, like my next year that's gonna be my thing is to get a drift car, I think, because I'm like I am hard on my cars, like I have an sti and it's like been off-roading.

Speaker 1 28:10

It shouldn't be off-roading but, but that's what they're advertising.

Speaker 3 28:14

That car has been airborne so many times Unintentionally intentionally. I'm very hard on my car so I don't know if I would ever own an exotic, but I really want a drift car and then see where it goes from there. I think, at one point I would like to own an exotic, but I definitely wouldn't be able to baby it, so I don't know how that would go. I'd have to drive it how it's meant to be driven.

Speaker 4 28:36

Has nigel ever been in like the car with you, like drifting and stuff like that, not drifting, I think that would scare him.

Speaker 3 28:41

He's been in the senna, not on the track, but he rode in the senna with me, nice, when they were parking. I thought that was pretty cool. And then he's the lamborghini. We were going really fast in that one. It was a huracan, and then the go-kart, the go-kart, yeah and then I feel like there was another car that he's been in. That was kind of crazy. I'm blanking. Oh, we had to fly out to Tennessee to go shoot and go on vacation, because that's where Whistling Diesel is but we were on there for vacation and I was like, hey, do you want to shoot?

Speaker 3 29:08

and he was like sure, like it was very like lucky and, um, my boyfriend can't drive my car car because it's stick and I haven't taught him yet, but he has. He has a gt3rs and he took us to lax in that car. That's sick, which I thought was hilarious. So nigel rode in that car to la and I was like imagine getting dropped off just like another like weird moment, because I grew up in the middle of nowhere, really broke like our family did not have a lot of money to be like where I'm at today around this kind of stuff. Yeah, it's just like another like weird moment because I grew up in the middle of nowhere, really broke Like our family did not have a lot of money to be like where I'm at today around this kind of stuff is like actually insane to me, like I never would have thought ever because I wasn't a car person growing up either, so I never, would have thought ever that this would be my life now.

Speaker 4 29:48

Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 3 29:49

It's been a very, very cool experience, yeah cool experience. It literally never gets old.

Speaker 4 29:53

Yeah, it's always new stuff. It's always new stuff.

Speaker 3 29:57

Always new cars to sit on, new cars to be around.

Speaker 2 30:00

Always new adventures, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 30:02

Cool.

Speaker 2 30:03

Well, thank you very much. That definitely. I think that wraps up all our questions, but really appreciate you sharing?

Speaker 1 30:10

all that we love.

Memorable Moments with Nigel

Speaker 2 30:12

Nigel, we love hearing about the cars, obviously, and all that. We love, Nigel. We love hearing about the cars, obviously, Of course me I love hearing about Always here for the car talk and we love providing Nigel with grass too.

Speaker 4 30:20

Yes, it seems like he loves it, nigel loves, loves his grass.

Speaker 3 30:24

That's not even me overhyping it. This cat loves his grass. Our grass patch is on the end of its life at home and he came in and immediately tried to eat grass when he came in here and they like, he likes to sit and like sunbathe in it and they turn it in.

Speaker 4 30:43

The cats turn it into a wwe wrestling match only on the grass for some reason, like sick.

Speaker 3 30:45

Yeah, so nigel loves his grass. He's a good he's, he's that's awesome.

Speaker 4 30:49

Hey, it's no lamborghini but, oh well it's close?

Speaker 3 30:52

yeah, it's the lamborghini of the grass there you go that's true. Yes, there we go.

Speaker 2 30:57

Luxury grass yeah, everybody listen and check it out. If you do have an indoor cat, fresh patch is a great alternative for enrichment. Um, some cats do use it for later.

Speaker 3 31:08

I don't think nigel does but none of my cats use it for later. I've never had an issue with it.

Speaker 2 31:12

There you go but wwe matches wrestling, they'll get crazy on you. Yeah, so check it out freshpatchcom if you are interested to get real grass for your cats. And once again, thank you very much for joining. We really appreciate you. I'll give you another chance to shout out your social media again.

Speaker 3 31:29

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Speaker 2 31:32

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Speaker 1 31:59

Yeah, content we're gonna be pushing out and oh yeah, once again, thank you. Yeah, really appreciate it. Thank you so much cool, and see you guys on the next episode. Thanks for listening to the potty time podcast brought to you by fresh patch. We hope you enjoyed the show. Give us a like or a follow.