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What's up, everyone, and welcome back to the Fast Life Podcast.
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On today's episode, I'm sitting down with Jacob and Brittany Canard at their home down in Wembley,
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And we're talking about building bikes, choppers to be more specific, and the fact that Brittany
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Let's get into this podcast.
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You ready to let the dogs out?
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So the only thing scary about doing it like this is I think everything's working.
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Like I have no actual like thing going on.
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Like even in the middle of this podcast, I'm like, let me just stand up and go check.
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Just like the OCD kicks in.
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Like if you left your house and you want to make sure your oven was off or some
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You know what you need?
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You need a little mirror behind it so you can see it.
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I have a screen that I can turn and like watch it.
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Like right now that I'm running off the battery.
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So I've been, you know, when I came into the podcast last summer or right before the
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summer, that was with my kit that I was trying to put together to go on the road.
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And so that was pretty refined.
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I had that camera and I had a small little recorder that we set on the welding table.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Well now, like I said, with these new microphones, I'm hoping that I can get the audio
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quality that I'm after with just the camera and these microphones and I can do up
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And then bam, that's my whole podcast.
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Is that the max these have?
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Like on one channel it's four?
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It's not bad though.
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So I bought the kit that comes with two and then you had to buy two extra.
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So it was still like 600 bucks for all these, but it's still like for the amount of, especially
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going to a chopper now, like I have less space to travel, you know.
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That's, I traded camping equipment for camera equipment on my.
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It's not that bad of a trade though.
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I don't like camping.
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I don't like camping.
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I fantasize about it, but like if I did do it, but I don't like it, I like shower.
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Once or twice a year you fantasize about it and it's like usually like the coldest
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I didn't want like 40 degree weather.
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Perfect camping weather is like nights in the fifties, days in the seventies.
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Like the day you can, you're in, you can BT shirt or sweatshirt if you really
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But for sure, sweatshirt and a beanie at night.
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You know, actually my reasoning for it too is just the fact that I either want to be able
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to shower or I want it to be cold enough where I don't have to shower.
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Because like when we go back to like when we've gone to Wisconsin to visit my mom or
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like go up north or somewhere it's cold, you can go all day because like you don't
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sweat or smell weird at all.
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Yeah, that's probably what it is.
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But yeah, if I sweat and I'm hot and I wake up in a nylon cave, fuck that.
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I mean, traditionally you don't really camp in the summertime if you live south.
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See that's what fucked me up because living down here, that's the only time we would
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go camping when I was a kid would be like summer and it sucked.
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We go to the river or like, you know, one of the river parks or South Texas or something
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and like, it was like the most miserable times of year now that I think about it.
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It was never prime season.
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Well, it is what it is.
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Child trauma camping.
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Dude, I didn't the first time I ever camped as an adult was Giddyup.
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And that was on a moto camp thing.
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And it was like Giddyup was perfect weather because it was late March in Texas.
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And so it's cool outside still at night.
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You can have a campfire.
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That's always a good testament.
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It's like if you can have a campfire and you actually want to sit around it, then
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it's good camping weather.
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Like I'm kind of agreed.
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I'm still always bummed.
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I miss like the prime Giddyup days.
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Like I was just barely had a motorcycle getting into it in the last years.
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Like the first one I really went to with any sort of knowledge of anything.
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And then it was like kind of a shit show.
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And then it was gone.
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This is kind of like not to spend too much time on this.
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We have a lot to talk about in our short time.
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We have to do it, but it's really hard.
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Like you really have to be aware.
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You're not aware, but you just have to be a tuned in to.
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We never know what we're doing right now.
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That is technically the good times.
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You know what I mean?
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It's always in hindsight.
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Always in hindsight.
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You don't know you're in it until you're out of it.
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But if you think about it, whatever you're doing and you're stoked about doing
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and you're excited to go to maybe it's party at the pin or born free or a
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build, then that lets you know that it's like it's that thing for you.
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The same way Giddyup was for us.
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First coming up in all this.
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Cause there's a lot of times that like even at party at the pin, I was like,
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dude, I'm just grateful to be here.
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It's just, it's nice to just filing once you have a plan set and you finally
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get there and you're like, this is amazing.
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You're like, I'm having a great time.
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I don't care if we're getting a coffee right now or if we're talking about
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I'm jealous of her enthusiasm sometimes for like real simple things like
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Like I still, I mean, I'm always excited, but she has like a
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type of it where like everything's new right now and kind of still.
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And it's like, she gets off the bike.
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She, when she, if she hits neutral rolling up to the house and able to
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just stop without having to get it back like into neutral, like if she hits
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it rolling and into the driveway, perfect.
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She gets off the bike and like dances and shit.
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Like just that simple thing.
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Well, in a sense that's kind of what I think of like after you've had
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time working in a shop and then you get an apprentice and they're
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You know, something, it's their enthusiasm that kind of makes you
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think about what you're doing and you get excited about what you're
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She, like her enthusiasm for it got me wanting to like ride more
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because I was bad about taking time to ride because I'd always be
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like, no, I have to like make this or build this, you know,
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whatever, something else.
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I feel like I'm wasting time if I'm not doing it.
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And then she was like, no, I want to ride.
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And I was like, okay, sick.
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I'm setting my time for to be at Lindahl 445.
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That's a, I mean, so we picked up last time we were here or I was
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We, we sat down the garage and then you came on and did the
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back half of the podcast, which we had on Patreon, which I
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And you were just starting to kind of, I mean, I wouldn't
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say just starting, but you had already started dabbling in
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little welding here and there.
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You know what I mean?
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Like doing some little projects here and there with them.
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So, and we're about a year and a half removed from that now.
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What do you think is like your, well, first off, I think a
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better thing to do is let's talk about how this build came
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This new, I mean, people's chant build.
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How did, like, where did this thing come from?
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Where did this thing come from?
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So, the weird thing is when you get sober, there is a, one of
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the thought processes or things that you come to is you want
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You want to create things with your hands.
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I've been wanting to create for a while, but I didn't have
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I didn't have the knowledge.
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I didn't have the experience.
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So once I started writing, going to more and more
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shows, asking better questions, learning a lot of things
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Just watching him come in, like just yesterday, we had two
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friends swing by Ryan and Graham.
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And like we got to put a front end together.
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I was like, well, why does that bearing bigger than this
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So like you're learning a lot of things that are on the
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And it's, it's not like you can go take a course that's
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like an 18 chapter course on choppers.
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Like you can't do that.
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Even though Pangea's book is quite well.
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It helps you kind of get there.
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But yeah, I started to create and I looked at Jake and I was
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like, I want to try.
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And it just started as an itch.
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And then all of a sudden this itch kind of became like a
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little mini obsession.
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You started on Facebook marketplace.
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Then you slowly start to, you slowly start to get more
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and more towards the goal and the idea of like, okay, I'm
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going to create something myself.
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And then as soon as I bought the motor, I was like,
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Like I was so excited.
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Even though his bike was on the lift at the time for
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Born Free, I think really what came out of this was just
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like watching a lot of the chopper shows, different
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bikes that I liked.
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And my style was a lot different than his style was
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like in a lot of different, a lot of different ways where
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I was like, yeah, I want like a quality running bike,
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but I kind of want to look a little bit old and
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crusty every time I even get off the sporty.
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He's like, can you clean it every once in a while?
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I was like, I don't know.
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Like don't disrespect my baby.
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But I think the idea just really came from the spark
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wanting to put my hands on something.
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I was having a really good time with it and I really
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And then now I was like, cool, what kind of bike
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I started playing around with like silly themes.
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I remember him making fun of me for it.
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She's like a full girl theme type shit like horror movie
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this or something else.
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I was like straight OCC stuff.
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Just like, I just went out like the scream queen,
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And I still have that as like a little baby theme
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that's on my spreadsheet.
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But it's like a custom license plate idea.
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But I really was drawn towards like more of like
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the seventies styles.
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We have a lot of the easy writer mags that were here
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that were from 71 to 79.
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I liked the lower seventies like anything below 75.
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But you can clearly see a shift in colors and shapes
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and sizes of things as you go along in the year.
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So it's like you have your like mid seventies and below
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like early seventies is like, you know, beige carpet
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and funky stuff, you know.
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And then you have your mid seventies where it's kind of
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coming out of that.
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It's a little bit more modern, but then you have like
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78, 79 is like Prince colors and just purples
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and sequence dresses.
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And then you start to see things that are not
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necessarily on the bike, but the things that
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change with the bike with the times.
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So really, honestly, I just I said, I like the idea.
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I'm going to go for it.
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And I'm just having a really fun time just learning
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And also, like it kind of we never had like a
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overlapping hobby really like it was always
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doing bikes and all that shit was kind of like my way.
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That was like my hobby and like my getaway.
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Like I was like, no, that's mine.
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Everyone stay the fuck away from it.
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And then kind of like slowly creeping in with
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the riding that I actually kind of, I mean, it
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worked out for the better.
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Like it made our like the relationship better
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made hanging out like gave us something to do,
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you know, like kind of got on like a better
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page just from that, which was sick.
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And then yeah, it's cool.
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Like getting to like, even though I'm not the
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best question answer, like, you know, it's
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still fun being on like, oh, yeah, like
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here's how to do this or, you know, but I
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think it's just it was like talking about
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the other day, like I'm also like self
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taught with the majority of stuff and I
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had to learn the hard way a lot of
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So I don't really know the way to teach
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people how to do things.
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I can teach you how I do it.
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But like, yeah, it's probably not
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the best way to go about it, you know,
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because like, yeah, I just I got in there
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I didn't have someone be like, oh, do this,
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Like I always seek out information.
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Like if I like unrelated but related,
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like say if I if I need to make this
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in graphic design, this cover for this
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DICE magazine, then I'll I'll seek out
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the tool like the OK, let me see how
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to make this in Photoshop or
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Through like YouTube and, you know,
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just it for Google.
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So that's kind of like how I I've always
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taught myself things.
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But, you know, granted, that's, you know,
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I started doing some of the things I
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So there was that aspect of, you know,
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working in the shop and asking people.
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And I think that's where sometimes it
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gets difficult because we're so far
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past that like not a lot of people
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have like apprentices or people
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coming to shop to just want to be
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around it, you know, so I think
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we don't like I had a kid that
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started coming to my shop.
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I met him at the bar.
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He's a bartender during the night.
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But three days of the week, he doesn't
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work so he can come and work.
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And he was really wanting to work.
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Every day was another fucking problem.
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It was another this, it was another that.
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And then, but for me, it was like,
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I have to be at the shop between
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this time and this time on these
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three days in case he shows up,
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you know, because I want to stand up
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like I'm making myself available for him,
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but he couldn't do it for me.
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So I was like, dude, it ain't gonna work out.
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No, you have to be committed.
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I think that was one of the biggest things
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is once I was like, cool,
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if I'm going to dive into this,
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I'm the full two feet in,
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like we've got to do this and like
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there are going to be times that like
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I'm not going to work the way that
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Jake wants and then vice versa.
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But the cool thing is, is like
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again, back in hindsight
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that we were talking about the good old times.
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The quality time that I get with him in the garage,
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I can't get anywhere else.
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Like he just watching someone who's really good
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at something and they love doing
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just seeing them thrive and being able to
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teach you or tell you about something.
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Even though I may not ask the right question,
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it's really cool to see him light up.
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And then I get all that quality time.
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So it's really nice.
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I mean, I know we've talked like
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we've had lots of really drunk conversations
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So maybe we won't have that as much.
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ecosphere of y'all's like relationship
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coming together through like your
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coming into his world
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because I remember when this all was taking place
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like two years ago.
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You know what I mean?
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And you like you were saying earlier
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finding like a love for riding and finding
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your own friends group within the
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space of motorcycling.
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Like how do you think that is in like
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what would you say to couples out there
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kind of looking for that kind of
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pull for each other in this space?
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Does that make sense?
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I don't know what kind of question I'm asking here.
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I'm looking for relationship advice.
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I'm also going to check this while you aren't
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I would say advice.
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I think one of the biggest things,
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I don't come from this world.
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Like I have no idea.
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I think on the last time we were talking
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about it, I was like,
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I thought this was his thing.
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I would let him do his thing in the garage
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and then things like that.
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And I didn't realize
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all I needed was an invite.
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And I think a lot of the dudes
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a person to be interested
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in what they're into.
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And I think that's,
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you should come check this out,
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even just walking into the kitchen,
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drinking a glass of wine or something.
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Come check this out,
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bring her more into the conversation.
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It's easier that way because
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it's uncomfortable for us because we don't
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exactly always know what's going on.
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But to like feel included
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or invited into something.
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Invited into something.
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And then all of a sudden you're like,
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Oh, that's how that works.
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That's kind of cool.
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And just being open and interested,
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there were times where
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Jake and I had gotten an argument,
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but I would just walk out to the garage and then,
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I'd be nervous and scared,
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what's the worst that can happen?
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Like he's going to get mad at me
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and tell me to leave the garage.
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And I would just sit out there with him.
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And he wouldn't talk to me necessarily
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And he just come and kiss me on the talk before
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thank you for just sitting here.
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But it all kind of happened at like a,
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Cause like we were together so long
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and just kind of came to like this weird,
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but like we just kind of realized we,
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we're kind of like not doing great
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with each other in a weird way.
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Like you get so comfortable
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like we're kind of doing our own thing.
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She's working that I'm doing this stuff
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and I'm getting more into motorcycles.
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And we just kind of saw our path like go like this.
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And we didn't realize it right away.
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And like by the time we realized it,
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it was like worse than we wish it was,
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like we're just kind of getting by,
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but realize like, fuck it.
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Like, like unfortunately it was like,
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God, we're almost just kind of roommates.
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And it was like, this sucks.
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We got to fix this.
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And it was either like,
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okay, do something about it
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or do something about it.
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Like it was, you know, like,
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but it kind of like,
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kind of airing out all our shit.
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Like talking about all our grievances.
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It was same time shit happened.
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She stopped drinking and that helped a bunch.
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Cause one of my biggest things was like that part,
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it was like a bothering or a pain in the ass thing to me,
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but just through history,
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just instances, you know what I mean?
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Like not as a whole.
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but it just kind of worked out that way.
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And then like with the riding and then we're like,
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okay, fine, common ground,
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working on our own shit,
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like personally and together and being
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super open about it.
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Like just super uncomfortable conversations
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about all scenarios, anything, you know,
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well, we were right together,
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13 years at that point or something.
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It had been a while, you know.
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And it's always the rule of seven,
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but you just don't realize like you're like,
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you just get so complacent and like comfortable with someone
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and like, you're just going by, you know.
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I was in the middle of a job.
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I wasn't fucking happy yet.
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like it just kind of
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was sold to be something else and wasn't it sucked.
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And I was kind of miserable.
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And yeah, just like,
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it just kind of everything came to a head at that point.
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I feel like you coming out on your own,
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like you did at the time, probably,
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you would have a lot more confidence in it,
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especially having the relationship that you guys have now,
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where it's like helping, right?
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That's kind of the direction I've,
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me and my wife have been going.
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And I took a lot of that from
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you guys hanging out with you guys last summer.
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And then when I'm on the road all summer,
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just in my head alone,
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just overthinking in my life, you know.
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I found a way to kind of pull my wife into this.
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Like, let's start this separate thing
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of our business that's ours together.
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That way you can do vintage clothes
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and we can, like, whatever we sell
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is going through this channel.
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That works out great.
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You know, what, and then you're the barber still
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and then I'm still the fast-life garage
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and whatever the fuck, right?
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But when we go to Born Free
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or Mama Tried or Texas Hills,
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like that booth is ours.
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You know what I mean?
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So it's same for you guys.
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I enjoy going to these places with my wife now.
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It makes me feel like,
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like if I put a pop-up up,
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I want to be hanging out with my wife in there.
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Not like, I don't want to take it to Born Free
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by myself, you know what I'm saying?
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Yeah, it's now that it has worked out the way it has,
22:54
it is a lot of fun.
22:56
if I douche up somewhere,
22:57
people ask where she is.
23:00
and now that she's into it,
23:01
people are excited to ask questions about her being into it to me
23:04
and then when they see her and I'm like,
23:06
yeah, this is cool.
23:09
Yeah, just do enough of it now
23:11
and like, I don't know.
23:13
But yeah, it's great now.
23:16
I mean, also like you getting into the fabrication
23:19
and building your own bike,
23:21
I've been saying this for a long time.
23:22
A lot of people think I hate women.
23:27
I just haven't found the best way
23:29
to articulate what I'm trying to get at
23:31
and I think that every time I bring it up,
23:34
I'm going to try one more time.
23:37
I think that like the path that you're taking
23:40
to learn this stuff is the path
23:42
that most of us have to take.
23:44
Yes, you even said it in your post,
23:46
I do have the luxury of having Jacob as my husband, right?
23:51
But that's neither here nor there
23:54
of you sitting in that garage
23:56
and doing the work, right?
23:58
There's millions of shops out there.
23:59
There's millions of people
24:00
that would probably teach
24:02
it's a weird barrier
24:03
that I get for a woman to walk into a shop.
24:06
But I think that after you've gone through this process,
24:09
I think you'll be able to help a lot of women
24:11
who maybe want to go that direction
24:13
and learn the hands-on to a deeper degree of,
24:16
you know, of stuff.
24:19
all I've ever been trying to say, articulate
24:21
is that this shit takes time to learn
24:24
and you have to respect the time
24:25
that it takes to do it.
24:27
you'll be respected by everybody.
24:30
Nobody wants to see somebody
24:31
get something handed to them.
24:33
You know what I'm saying?
24:35
And that's kind of the only thing
24:36
that I think that most people bitch about
24:37
in the bike industry
24:38
or any of the male trades
24:40
that women have come into.
24:42
That's the only thing that people complain about.
24:43
They just want to see equal effort.
24:48
Not just bolt a gas tank on
24:49
and then hit a thought pose real quick
24:51
and then that's your pose.
24:52
Like that's the amount.
24:53
It's like that's not,
24:54
okay, like there's a...
24:55
Also can we talk about
24:56
how terrible I am at a thought pose?
24:58
It is pretty funny.
25:00
I am socially awkward with cameras sometimes.
25:05
I just need you to...
25:11
she'll be like taking,
25:12
like I'll take a photo of her like behind her bike
25:13
and she was working on it
25:14
and rolled out from like,
25:16
And like the way she does
25:17
is like comically tough.
25:21
because she would just like,
25:23
like big dumb smile
25:26
yeah, it was so funny.
25:30
I like the pictures that I,
25:31
that people take of me
25:33
I prefer those when it is me
25:35
just with a big smile
25:37
Instead of this like,
25:38
is this the right angle of the head?
25:41
If I do the serious straight face,
25:42
it's like purely ironic
25:44
because I'm immediately laughing
25:46
or doing something stupid
25:48
And like, I know it.
25:49
So like those little serious photos
25:50
are just kind of like a funny,
25:51
like I look at them
25:52
and I kind of laugh
25:53
because I just know it's not
25:58
I just tell people I'm just like,
26:03
what's your thoughts on like the
26:04
whole people's champ,
26:06
like vein into this world?
26:08
Like you've gone through it.
26:10
And I know that you respect
26:11
the process quite a bit.
26:12
So what do you think about that
26:14
makes it like a great opportunity
26:20
it like just pushed me to do a lot
26:22
more than I was granted.
26:26
that year you did it.
26:27
Was that the twin cam one?
26:29
It was the first year actually.
26:32
I didn't even make it past noting
26:35
the show was canceled due to COVID,
26:36
but I didn't make it past the
26:37
first round of voting because
26:42
people hated sports.
26:43
There's more back then than you
26:45
they've gotten to be a little bit
26:49
it really did not go well.
26:51
so it just didn't make it past
26:52
the first round of voting.
26:53
I was stoked to make it in,
26:54
but then I still finished the
26:58
I was doing it like very normal,
27:00
like when it was just for myself,
27:01
it was like more bought parts
27:04
and I was making what I could.
27:05
And then when I got in People's
27:09
I'll just go like all in
27:10
and do all this shit,
27:12
like go super far with it.
27:15
open up doors and like life
27:17
and like my brain of like,
27:19
oh, I want to do this now.
27:20
So I did People's Jam the
27:27
met a lot of people from it
27:28
and just also showed me
27:30
oh, I really love this shit too,
27:33
yeah, I don't know.
27:34
Yeah, I think it just kind of
27:36
because like the bike
27:37
I entered People's Jam
27:38
with isn't the one I finished
27:40
Like it is essentially,
27:44
like I'm on this stage kind
27:51
just naturally push you further.
27:53
And then like hone your skills
27:54
more, you know, like,
27:55
it's like, all right,
27:56
I see these people doing this,
28:04
in the process of stuff
28:05
that you've been learning?
28:07
What's been the hardest thing
28:08
for you to pick up,
28:14
The hardware scared me
28:16
but I have a bolt gauge
28:17
chart for that now.
28:19
Oh, it's so funny to be
28:22
is it just because it's
28:23
overwhelming because there's
28:25
I think it was overwhelming
28:26
because it was so much
28:27
and sizing and sizing.
28:29
And if it's course or fine
28:31
or how long the bolt's at,
28:33
I had straight up asked
28:35
how do you know these things?
28:36
When you take it apart,
28:37
you'll figure it out.
28:40
that I'd be putting on a part
28:42
you probably don't want a bolt
28:44
You should write it down
28:47
I don't know what to write
28:49
Both that goes middle
28:50
of bike above transmission.
28:51
I think the biggest,
28:52
the scariest part was
28:58
and it still is like,
29:00
when I put this together,
29:02
does this bike run?
29:06
That's not the hardest thing
29:08
Like what's like the,
29:09
like a tool that eludes you
29:13
or a technique or something so far.
29:15
The hardest tool for me
29:17
that's been new is the grinder.
29:20
No matter what discs you have on.
29:22
Like the die grinder
29:24
like the big like quarter.
29:25
Like the little one
29:26
you were using yesterday.
29:29
Like a hand grinder.
29:30
Like a two inch roll-up
29:32
I think one of the biggest
29:33
things is once I got done
29:35
I went over to the grinder
29:36
and he was having to teach me
29:38
and he'd have to do,
29:39
he'd pull a ghost on me.
29:40
So he'd sit behind me
29:42
now you see how the feel
29:43
of this or whatever.
29:44
But there would be sometimes
29:45
that my hand naturally bevels.
29:50
no, then you're cutting.
29:54
And it was very difficult
29:56
while I was doing the frame.
29:59
So when I had to pick up,
30:00
back it up yesterday
30:05
hey, you got to use the grinder.
30:07
and I just had my own
30:13
But there's something
30:14
that clicked yesterday
30:18
Small, smooth, slow.
30:19
It's not like this jittery thing.
30:21
Like you're just...
30:22
I just thought I had to get it done
30:24
It's like a watercolor brush.
30:26
oh, oh, oh, I can take my time.
30:28
No one's behind me.
30:29
No one's expecting this.
30:30
I think people forget
30:32
that you have all the time
30:38
Keep your hands steady
30:39
and don't forget pressure.
30:46
like, I don't know,
30:52
we were talking about earlier,
30:53
even using like the...
30:55
it's not a lathe or a mill all day.
30:58
getting kind of thick
31:04
it was funny though.
31:05
That was probably the hardest.
31:06
She hard-tailed her own frame
31:07
before knowing how to use
31:10
She's a phenomenal wielder
31:13
that didn't go through my head
31:15
It went through my mind that, like,
31:17
she didn't know how to use
31:19
the majority of hand tools,
31:20
which was like a hilarious thought.
31:24
I think also because, like,
31:25
if I just see something,
31:27
oh yeah, I can figure how to use that.
31:29
Like, I kind of get it.
31:32
because I forget that
31:33
she's not from that world at all.
31:36
looking at a spreadsheet.
31:37
That's her looking at a pair of pliers.
31:40
I don't understand the difference.
31:41
And there's five of them.
31:42
Like, what is this?
31:44
she used to use a ratchet
31:45
when she just already hard-tailed
31:46
and metal-finished her frame.
31:48
I taught you the wrong way.
31:51
We should have started
31:52
with an Ikea furniture set.
31:55
Well, because I actually
31:56
gave him a butter knife
31:57
and a flathead screwdriver
31:58
or something like that.
32:00
I knew what an Allen was.
32:01
And then he was like,
32:02
okay, you got to figure out
32:03
what size the Allen.
32:08
how do you know that already?
32:10
there's a lot of people
32:12
They work with tools every day
32:13
and you can't get the difference
32:14
between Imperial and fucking,
32:18
I think it's right.
32:24
my little brother used to
32:28
there's three different sizes
32:29
of Phillips heads, right?
32:30
Just at least three.
32:32
And then you're like,
32:33
that fat one does not work
32:35
That little one does not work
32:37
That's why this is stripping.
32:38
You know what I mean?
32:39
It's just frustrating when,
32:41
so much like when you
32:42
get on a bike or whatever you
32:44
so much of your problems is
32:45
because you're too lazy to go
32:46
back to get the right tool.
32:50
I'm going to go ahead and
32:51
try to get off with this.
32:52
And then it strips.
32:53
And then it strips.
32:54
So you use a 14 millimeter
32:56
instead of nine sixteenths.
32:59
Then it strips it out.
33:00
And then it strips.
33:02
But then it's funny because
33:05
there's award winning
33:08
hard to out of frame.
33:14
That whole builder,
33:21
I think we all have our,
33:22
it's kind of like God, right?
33:23
We all have our own version
33:24
of whatever this is
33:25
and whatever category,
33:27
whatever attributes fill up
33:30
that category in our heads,
33:33
I've no people that aren't
33:34
necessary fabricators,
33:35
but their vision of how they,
33:38
almost like the conductor for
33:40
they bring everything together
33:42
that's a beautiful bike.
33:43
The angles work out so well
33:46
this is a good vision.
33:47
The reason why I see that side
33:53
some kind of credit as a builder
33:55
some of the most talented
33:56
fabricators in the world
33:59
how to hone their skills
34:00
to make one cohesive
34:02
They'll make like one part,
34:05
all this effort into it
34:06
and then they'll make
34:08
and then they don't make
34:09
a fucking sense on the bike.
34:11
you have so much skill
34:12
you just don't have,
34:13
you don't understand
34:14
anything about portions
34:16
design aesthetics or any,
34:19
yeah, I see that quite a bit
34:20
and it's always kind of like,
34:22
oh, I wish you just,
34:23
you should have stopped.
34:28
this idea that you're
34:31
you might be a better
34:32
fabricator right now
34:36
more mechanically inclined,
34:38
how to communicate.
34:39
Well, those two things
34:41
to build a bike, right?
34:42
But there's also aesthetics
34:45
and all these other things
34:46
that come into play
34:47
that you can also acquire
34:50
and I think that's the goal
34:51
is that we're trying
34:52
to add more to our box.
34:53
That way we can look
34:56
and know that's a canard bike
34:59
Joey Cano down there
35:02
people will have a style.
35:03
I know a lot of mechanics
35:04
that people call builders
35:06
that dude couldn't fucking
35:08
to look right on a bike,
35:09
you know what I mean?
35:10
He could build that motor
35:11
and balance a crank
35:12
but that's about as far as it goes.
35:15
the place for everyone.
35:18
like the way she's going
35:19
about it too just has to do
35:22
where I just kind of like
35:25
make all this stuff
35:26
to even get to the motor
35:28
So fabrication is always
35:34
end of a fabricator.
35:40
like figure how to say this right.
35:41
I wouldn't say extreme
35:42
end of a fabricator
35:43
but I guess because
35:44
like what I'm thinking of
35:45
is a lot of motorcycle
35:46
building these days
35:47
is taking an existing frame
35:49
and modifying things
35:50
versus you're in there
35:51
just bending your own tube
36:03
I started a new frame today.
36:06
And there'd be sometimes
36:08
I made a coffee table today
36:09
and you're just like,
36:11
But there's things,
36:13
that stuff makes sense to me.
36:14
It's not even like,
36:16
Like when I'm doing that
36:17
shit, like it's not,
36:19
It's like dumb work.
36:20
Like I'm not thinking about it.
36:22
it's like a flow state maybe.
36:25
digging a ditch to someone
36:26
where you don't have to
36:28
because you just know
36:29
you're shoveling, right?
36:35
but I'm also doing it
36:36
in a garage I set up
36:38
to some people it might seem
36:39
like some things are a little
36:41
but to me and the way I work,
36:44
and everything's in like
36:45
the spot where I'm like
36:46
the most functional,
36:51
but I just love it.
36:54
stress relief though too.
36:56
on your born free bike last
37:00
you were using a normal
37:05
that bike obviously wasn't
37:09
it wasn't going to be.
37:10
It was going to just be a
37:11
bike that you had wanted to do.
37:14
that was her fault too.
37:15
Cause we just flew out
37:16
to born free last year
37:17
just to like go to the show
37:18
since I didn't have a
37:20
It is kind of my fault.
37:24
I was thinking about it
37:26
I already had FOMO,
37:28
Grant came up to us and was
37:31
so you're ready to do it
37:38
of course I'll do it.
37:40
I didn't like super have an
37:42
but I had already kind of
37:43
like started dicking with
37:44
that bike just cause I
37:45
wanted like a swing arm bike,
37:48
fun to ride around.
37:51
so when I committed to
37:54
I felt dumb using the
37:56
It looked perfectly fine.
37:58
but I just was like,
37:59
it was that I know,
38:03
just doing it that way,
38:05
or maybe just to me.
38:07
no, I can do more with this.
38:10
made all stainless swing arm,
38:11
single down to swing arm frame
38:12
and all new stainless,
38:13
like nest style swing arm
38:14
and then that just snowballed
38:16
into fucking everything else.
38:20
I'm so happy without it
38:23
cause I'm more happy with it.
38:25
It's like you exuded
38:27
some ideas that you had
38:30
how that might play
38:31
into the next bike you build,
38:36
that you brought together.
38:38
I was just kind of like,
38:39
like playing to my strengths
38:42
like the shit I do a lot,
38:43
like I weld a lot of stainless,
38:44
like whether it's bars
38:45
or all the parts I make
38:46
and shit like that.
38:48
I can polish stainless
38:51
and do all this texture.
38:52
And so it's just like,
38:54
might as well do that.
38:56
I know I can do it well
38:58
So a lot of it's just,
39:05
it's when people talk
39:08
I feel like it's really easy
39:10
Like when people are like,
39:11
oh, you always think you're right.
39:15
talk about shit you don't know
39:16
and it's pretty easy
39:19
You know what I mean?
39:21
don't talk out of your ass,
39:22
don't talk about shit you don't know
39:23
and I just make things
39:26
and like as I learn
39:28
I do that and do that
39:30
this bike has more sheet metal
39:31
work on it than I've done
39:32
personally on another one.
39:34
I've taken a gas tank shell,
39:36
modified little things here
39:39
this one definitely has more
39:40
extensive shit than that,
39:41
especially with like,
39:44
nest fender that's on the back
39:46
or like nest style fender,
39:48
and it's all actually
39:50
not shitty molding,
39:51
like it was actually all done
39:53
You made the headlight
39:55
Like you modified that.
39:57
the headlight brow,
39:59
that visor is from Tom Fork
40:02
but that's kind of what started
40:05
with the stock frame
40:06
and everything else,
40:07
I had like the stock
40:09
fiberglass nest fender
40:11
and I had that brow
40:12
and those were like
40:13
the two main pieces
40:14
and everything else
40:15
in between was kind of like,
40:17
like it was just going
40:24
because I was like,
40:27
because I love the way
40:28
like a dash looks from the side
40:30
and stuff like that,
40:31
but I didn't want a dash.
40:34
cut and manipulate the tank
40:36
and do all this shit,
40:38
and make it practical
40:39
so I also get more fuel.
40:42
because it's starting off
40:43
like two and a half.
40:46
some dimension to the tank.
40:48
Now, when you have like
40:49
a sporty Frisco style,
40:51
it could be okay without it.
40:53
because it's very so high.
40:55
At the same time, man,
40:56
like if you could find
40:57
the right way to do it,
40:58
maybe a rib down the center
41:00
that kind of like ribs
41:01
widens up into like
41:02
a gas cap or something.
41:05
if you look like the top
41:07
to where like the top
41:09
the tank would have just
41:15
just find the tangent
41:16
and have it come out
41:20
And then that's where
41:21
it like scoops down.
41:30
that started on that bike,
41:31
like everything got built,
41:32
it was like through two frames,
41:38
Only one oil tank though.
41:41
Yeah, it did have a lot.
41:42
Oh, no, no, no, no,
41:46
Yeah, three gas tanks
41:48
that was on the original frame,
41:50
wasn't happy with it.
41:51
So I remade the one
41:52
that's on there now.
41:53
Whenever he's unhappy with the part,
41:55
he'll like sleep on it,
41:57
And I definitely remember
41:58
the shower conversation.
42:03
okay, walk me through it.
42:10
you just spent like 12 hours on it.
42:12
I could only imagine
42:13
how that feels like
42:18
I need to start over.
42:21
Once I fucking lock on
42:22
what I don't like about it,
42:23
you know, it's crazy.
42:26
that conversation happens a lot.
42:29
I get a lot of people
42:31
They want me to paint their bike.
42:34
I get wrapped up into confirming
42:39
they decided to buy for their bike.
42:41
people need like a validation
42:42
of acknowledgement.
42:46
certain directions on their bike.
42:49
they'll get all this gold parts
42:50
and they got these gold parts
42:51
and they don't match.
42:54
you should probably
42:55
recode those or go a different direction.
42:57
I already spent the money on them.
43:04
if it isn't working,
43:07
sell it, figure it out,
43:08
like recode it, do something,
43:10
But I did notice that
43:12
there's plenty of times
43:13
in certain aspects that,
43:15
you just got to start over.
43:21
but I can kind of piece together
43:24
I was piecing together
43:32
I'm bored, too, buddy.
43:34
She's so asleep under there.
43:36
So I was bringing this,
43:40
front pipe to come around
43:41
and it was that too much
43:43
And I kept seeing it
43:44
and I kept seeing it.
43:47
I'm gonna keep going.
43:49
hour and it was almost
43:50
ready to go to the collector.
43:54
But it's like in my head,
43:56
if I get a sleep on it,
44:01
me hoping something
44:03
that's completely mystical.
44:07
to this whole thing.
44:10
I'll spot something
44:13
it was just a rough day
44:14
or things were like,
44:15
really fighting me.
44:17
So I know I'll have
44:18
I'm gonna remake you tomorrow
44:19
and then I'll walk out
44:22
okay, I was just hitting it.
44:23
I had a weird shadow on it.
44:26
Or it's the other way
44:27
and I walk out and I'm like,
44:28
nope, still fucked.
44:30
I'm cutting you in half right now
44:37
you're either gonna dwell on it
44:38
and it's gonna bug you
44:40
or you're not gonna be happy
44:42
I did that with the salmon bike.
44:46
I fucking regretted it
44:47
so I was just learned like,
44:52
Like it's only metal
44:54
materials aren't that expensive
44:57
like most of the time
45:01
it's a lot different when
45:09
I'm gonna have to live with
45:10
this in some sort of way.
45:12
there's that aspect.
45:13
I'm kind of worried
45:14
that there might be some
45:15
things that I'm gonna have
45:16
just for time aspects.
45:18
We got literally like,
45:21
It's not that long.
45:23
they're for sure will be,
45:26
I've had to do that.
45:28
and you're further long
45:39
When I'm committed to
45:41
he knows not to give me
45:44
whenever we're like
45:47
it's an idea right now,
45:49
we're gonna talk about the idea
45:51
action-based person.
45:53
So once I'm committed
45:56
I had my sheet made.
46:03
And then all of a sudden
46:08
And so I had a stack
46:10
So once we came home
46:12
and the lift was free,
46:20
spare room full of parts.
46:24
tires mounted already,
46:25
like up against the wall.
46:27
it's just front end,
46:28
like everything laid out
46:41
get all the key things
46:44
or fill in the gaps,
46:47
and kind of work around that.
46:48
And if something was
46:49
a really kooky idea,
46:51
maybe hold off on that.
46:54
you're going to change
46:55
your mind for sure.
46:56
And she's already encountered
47:00
ah, fuck it, right?
47:01
We went through three
47:07
that is going to look so
47:15
the seat is the thing.
47:17
you go to put on the fender
47:18
and then the fender you bought
47:20
gives too much flair,
47:25
and the wrong direction
47:26
that you just don't see.
47:27
You can't really describe it.
47:29
it's not going to work.
47:32
And so we pulled it off.
47:33
We ordered two more
47:34
for throttle addiction,
47:35
two trailer styles.
47:43
once you put it on,
47:44
it was like Cinderella shoe.
47:50
that's exactly what I wanted.
47:51
And then the second one,
47:52
we were going to shift it back,
47:55
Can I keep it first
47:57
I think you're going to
47:59
I'm using for an oil tank.
48:00
It's like a ray radius
48:01
with rounded edges,
48:05
it'll be a good oil tank
48:08
you're going to become
48:12
Like I really enjoy
48:14
because it's always
48:17
I feel like there's
48:18
like a little bit of
48:19
like advancement in it
48:23
would it be a bad thing
48:24
to be the old tank guy
48:25
or the handlebar guy
48:31
shit I need for him.
48:35
like I've already made
48:39
do them really efficiently
48:40
and then I have a positioner.
48:41
So I just chuck it in
48:44
and just down at the move
48:49
all you got to do is dial
48:53
shit comes out so nice.
48:57
That's all I've been
49:00
but it's the modern shit
49:06
all that sort of stuff
49:07
even the way the lines
49:08
come out of the oil tank,
49:10
it goes like supply,
49:14
if you run the lines
49:15
right under your transmission
49:17
they feed into an oil pump
49:18
and they never have to
49:20
So they all run parallel
49:21
so it's like very nice
49:25
side under the filter
49:26
so when your bike's
49:27
leaned over you can just
49:31
like it just kind of
49:32
it's thoughtful I guess
49:33
or at least like in my
49:34
head it's thoughtful
49:39
I see so many people
49:40
with aluminum and oil tanks
49:41
that fucking rattle loose
49:45
shit doesn't have to be
49:46
made shitty like that.
49:59
ride height options
50:00
for you to choose from
50:01
the RS2 rear suspension
50:04
front cartridge system
50:07
of compression on the rear
50:08
and 8 clicks on the front
50:10
allowing for a silky
50:12
all the way to a nice
50:16
comes with a lifetime warranty.
50:18
I've had the opportunity
50:24
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50:26
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50:30
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50:32
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50:38
wherever you're listening
50:40
Also you can type in
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50:58
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51:01
and provides a place
51:03
for the motorcycle community
51:08
every weekend of the month.
51:09
On the first Saturday
51:12
style meet and hang.
51:13
Then on the second Saturday
51:16
a local artist show
51:23
their work and art.
51:26
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offering a 500-hour
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51:33
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www.cowboyharleyaustin.com
51:39
and give them a follow
51:44
You know the exhaust
51:45
you made for your last bike
51:47
and then the one you just did
51:48
for the Raining Man.
51:49
That kind of reverse cone
51:51
looks so good on there
51:53
Thunderheader style.
51:54
The JC Thunderheader.
51:55
My boot like Thunderheader.
51:57
You probably get it faster
51:58
and you get it from
52:00
It'll probably last longer.
52:01
That's one of the things
52:02
I'm banking on is that
52:03
my shit won't break.
52:04
It looks good though.
52:05
But also at the time
52:07
making a stainless one
52:09
it was funny like right
52:10
as I like finished it
52:11
I remember put out a post
52:13
stainless available now
52:16
But then I was like
52:17
nah I kind of like this
52:20
it sounds fucking good.
52:21
Yeah it sounds good.
52:22
The reason I wanted to
52:23
hear it because I think
52:27
to what I've been doing
52:31
I haven't really ever heard
52:32
a shovel head with a muffler
52:34
It's always straight pipes.
52:37
I love the way it sounds.
52:50
I don't know what it
52:54
I made those myself
52:56
like a cone pattern
53:03
I need to get like a cone.
53:06
I usually go to cone
53:11
that I've been running
53:15
it's like a four inch
53:21
like one of the big
53:27
like it's just a cone
53:28
it's like over 20 inches
53:31
So I want one that's
53:33
or three and a half
53:36
or like two inches as well
53:40
something like that.
53:42
I have a couple in the
54:02
I'm kind of broke right now
54:03
if I put all this money in it.
54:05
I've since rebuilt it all
54:09
I took off my old bike
54:10
I had and I set it up
54:14
I might be onto something
54:20
I bought another one
54:22
that I might have to
54:24
and reweld the perfect
54:31
no it wasn't a dina
54:35
didn't get here in time
54:36
we had an insurance one
54:47
from him that night
54:52
I found the tube on Amazon
54:58
like it's gonna be here
55:07
like being at a shop
55:10
probably pretty good
55:17
it would have got us by
55:19
would have to change it
55:21
That's what's hard about
55:22
like the whole Amazon
55:24
there's a big brand on there
55:25
that you can kind of like
55:28
the evil empire stuff
55:31
is that stuff any good
55:33
and should I use all that
55:36
evil energy or whatever
55:38
a cost effective thing
55:42
a lot of shit from like
55:49
something like that
55:52
but what I ran into
55:53
it's like they would have
55:54
a couple of these fittings
56:00
like for whatever reason
56:04
every option of bend
56:06
if it took all the options
56:07
all the other companies had
56:09
and then it was also
56:11
within like a couple days
56:13
so being on time crunch
56:18
there's a couple of
56:24
I'm probably the only person
56:26
I did a running a lot
56:27
of their brake line
56:30
because the different stuff
56:32
has been out of stock
56:35
yeah I noticed that too
56:36
that's why I used their
56:38
I used the stainless braided
56:43
like black AN3 fittings
56:44
but everything I used
56:46
I used for the brake lines
56:47
because it's all the same shit
56:52
and it's it because you just
56:53
make it all the exact size
56:57
I wish it was black
56:58
and I bought black line
57:00
maybe just due to like
57:02
the cheaper nature of it
57:03
like the black line doesn't
57:04
work with the AN fittings
57:09
yeah it's like a 316
57:11
it's something different
57:18
like if I need like
57:19
weld bones for my oil
57:21
like 12 packs of them
57:25
they're the exact same
57:29
very weird bumper sticker
57:30
I saw when I was really young
57:32
I know this sounds really funny
57:33
this is really weird
57:34
but the bumper sticker said
57:36
don't buy a group on
57:42
and I use that rule
57:50
things that are going to be
57:51
how much is my life worth
57:53
my life is worth $450
57:56
yeah I can make that
57:57
I can make that expenditure
58:03
don't buy a group on for it
58:04
like back in the day
58:11
that's kind of the rule
58:13
when it comes to like
58:15
or any other cheap purchases
58:20
we saw bumper stickers
58:21
that change our lives
58:25
it'll cause you problems
58:33
yeah that's a good one
58:34
that's a good bumper sticker
58:41
it works in like the
58:42
the industry of like
58:46
with a lot of suppliers
58:47
like China or whatever
58:49
I'm not going to say who
58:53
yeah like the companies here
58:54
but the products are made in China
58:55
which is a lot of stuff right
58:57
telling me how the tariff thing
59:01
like certain companies
59:09
the amount of money
59:10
that's being applied to like
59:12
say this product costs
59:16
like for $60 a piece
59:19
they're trying to sell you
59:20
and they got to raise the prices
59:23
they're raising 10%
59:27
that they're spending to get it in
59:30
on their end that they're paying
59:31
but they're making more
59:33
a lot of that shit going on too
59:36
I wouldn't say in the motorcycle
59:38
I'm saying more over a
59:42
products and stuff like that
59:43
that was like the shit
59:44
they even tried like
59:47
it's harder to get prices went up
59:48
and then they just never
59:49
went down on certain parts
59:53
I wish things were more like
59:55
how like sometimes it's like
59:57
can't do this too much longer
59:58
then you get that 250
00:00
head around Labor Day
00:02
because they expect the road trips
00:05
we're going to give you
00:06
special pricing for Labor Day
00:08
driving from here to California
00:15
you stop at the last gas stop
00:16
and there's in the first town
00:18
at the at the last town
00:21
so you stop at the beginning
00:22
of you but not the last one
00:28
yeah like even like
00:39
I've kind of sworn off
00:40
they have some just
00:42
stuff went up and just
00:43
This is suspicious like that doesn't make sense. They're purely just banking on people's like ignorance and convenience
00:49
Yeah supply shit. There is a convenience factor to it. Yeah, but this is like really gougie. It's gross
00:56
So yeah, it's fine new places to go. That is true
00:58
I noticed it like because you know buying the stainless tubing and I would get my merge collectors from one company my
01:06
Tube from another company and then cones from one company. Yeah, because
01:10
First off some of them were so archaic in the way you got to order that you got to like call and have
01:18
Yeah, I call them just yep, just call I'm getting a rapport with the dudes on my AJ's here
01:22
I need another cone set up. He pulls me up. Yeah, has it
01:26
But I noticed it like the merge collectors that I would I started using were like 35 bucks
01:33
They're 90 something dollars now in the course of two years. Yeah. Yeah, so that was I was like that's a lot dude
01:39
Yeah, and but like yeah, and then of course, it's just pure supply and demand if you're the only person that's located in Texas
01:46
Doing this if you're the only person located in California doing that like I've understood the supply and demand
01:53
functionality around chroming in different states
01:56
Like we can't chrome any anything here without your first born child going to the Cromer
02:02
If you would like, you know your whole bike done or lots of parts on your bike done
02:05
Yeah, where California's like it would be cheaper for me to fly to California to get like my lowers done
02:13
If I wanted them get them chromed and fly back than it is for me to do it here locally
02:17
Well, or like there's a process. It's outlawed here. So you don't get better chroming in California
02:24
So that's why there's like a few places in America. They can do that the triple the big triple chrome
02:29
Yeah, the triple chrome stuff that looks like medical copper. Yeah, so there's a chemical that's banned here
02:35
They they're trying to ban it everywhere and a lot of California chrome nowadays is actually in water Tijuana Tijuana
02:41
Okay, yeah, even the shops that are in town. They'll just drive the tea
02:44
So they kind of have a fixer that'll go across but the problem is sometimes you never you're not guaranteed if it goes across
02:52
There is Cromer's there though, but I mean there's Cromer's around town
02:56
I mean like I said, you gotta you gotta think there's some places that are grandfathered in
02:59
Yeah, but a lot of these places that do chrome they do production for like
03:03
The the faucets and the fucking, you know, those other things in the world that are really available not like
03:10
One set of lowers, right, right and I'm very new to this
03:13
So there's like a lot of stuff that like I'll take in through conversations or like over over here
03:18
And then I love having conversations like this where you're like, well, it's actually because of this you're like, oh
03:22
Yeah, I was like, okay, my mind's been changed
03:25
So if you're making like if you're a company like a wheel company
03:29
Then you send 10 sets of wheels to get chrome that way you're not paying $500 a wheel because you yeah
03:34
That's that's a big cost to pass on to the customer. Yeah, I mean
03:38
Because if let's just say we're buying wheels from Lindal and they're to grant a will and then if you want chrome
03:45
They what's an extra thousand dollars for chrome. That's yeah, that's not gonna be sold. You know, I mean
03:49
Yeah, yeah, it's always like higher quantity lower cost
03:54
Powder coating and I don't think it really works that way of paint because it's just more work. It's just more material
04:00
It's different. It's like it's not the setup. It's just like if you machine a part
04:03
Yeah, one parts three hundred dollars, but if you want 30 of those, they're $10, you know, I mean like it's okay
04:09
So they're like hardware the more hardware you buy. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah unless it's ARP then it's expensive all the time
04:15
Going up. Yeah, that's how that's it's just I mean
04:19
I always feel like whatever Harley's putting out is what the opposite is in the aftermarket
04:24
So when Harley everything was coming chrome, we all went powder coat
04:27
Yeah, and now there are things kind of blacked out like everybody wants chrome and then the success is that eventually
04:33
there's way more powder coders out there than our chrome shops as we all know and
04:38
Because there's like I think most of us has had a bike done before in our heads
04:42
We kind of know a range in which we're gonna pay to get some wheels powder coated and then chrome wheels is like
04:48
I don't even fucking know if we're gonna be in the same tax bracket. No
04:53
Maybe it's five hundred dollars. Maybe it's five thousand dollars. I had no idea. There's no real gauge to go off of here, you know, yeah
05:03
Don't know. I'm just not like a giant fan of chrome. I know you're not like stainless
05:09
I'd rather polish it and suffer
05:11
Well, see I feel like the polishing for especially like the chopper thing
05:16
It's like it'll kind of tarnish a little faster
05:18
It'll kind of patina a little faster and then it'll give you like a nice
05:22
Comfortable look and feel for me that like I don't I can't physically
05:27
Like I'm not into like making things look like fake. Yes, Tina. Yeah, but if it happens
05:32
But if it happens, you know, I'd rather leave it like that
05:35
Yeah, like if a if a nice stainless pipe like burns in all nice and gold and tapers out
05:41
You're like hell. Yeah. Yeah, I want to be that dude. Like I can't ride anymore. I gotta fix that
05:45
Yeah, yeah people that obsess about polishing their pipe. It's like it didn't look that good to be in with them
05:50
I can worry about it. Yeah, I I was very set on
05:55
My bike being a very rideable bike like I want to ride my bike and so for that
06:01
I also if it's too shiny if it's too nice sometimes I have a hard time taking it out of the plastic and
06:07
I know that about myself. So I'm like, okay
06:09
I need a little dirty a little off like there's something to it where I
06:15
Feel more comfortable going out for a ride like the sporty sometimes
06:19
I like a little little more dirty because I'm like, I'll just jump on the ride and go and then all of a sudden
06:23
He'll like wash it randomly one day and he's like, okay
06:26
Don't screw anything up and then like I get to the gas station and put a microfiber cloth
06:32
I on an exhaust. It had had a different exhaust on it for a little bit
06:37
Pogco sent like this like two into one like old like Dick Allen style one and it was sick and like sent one to try it out
06:43
And run it for a while. It was like it was awesome. Super grateful for that, but I
06:48
It always felt a little
06:50
It's like it sounded great and everything but like I made that other pipe so specific for it
06:55
So I always knew it go back on at some point
06:57
So when I was doing the I put new wheels on I like put those Lindahl rocker wheels on with new tires
07:02
kind of like sprucing it up to go to
07:04
party at the pen and
07:05
Then I was like, I'm gonna put that other pipe back on it, but I cleaned it up
07:08
I'd like you know took some like mothers polished to it and just got off like some oil stains
07:14
And you know a little bullshit like you would do had it all nice and not clean but like it was nice
07:19
It was nice put it back on she goes and rides it around stops to get gas the same with an hours of me finishing it and
07:28
Spaces out tries to like wipe gas off like the pipe or something
07:33
With a microfiber and just melted it to the front pipe and I was like I
07:40
Enraged because I had just spent all his time doing it and it was so nice and that bike in my head
07:45
I always tell her all it's yours right now, but it's still my baby like that bike will always come back home
07:51
Like it's still my favorite. It's why he's so for me to first bike. Yeah, I always give a shit
07:55
I'm like, yeah, I finish your bikes. I can have my sports. They're back
07:58
But even though it's just it's like the community bike leave a friend comes into town
08:03
That's all it'll be for something like that, you know, but it's old faithful
08:06
But just that was so funny and I was like, but it also like was like a lesson to not take anything like I
08:13
obsess about shit. I like
08:15
Take try to take care of things the best I can then be clean or you know until and even if like
08:21
It starts looking shitty. It doesn't have to it doesn't have to like look shitty or be shitty, you know
08:26
I just take care of things take care of things
08:28
But that was like it took me back down a peg. It was like, you know what you need to not take this
08:33
Well, I've noticed and I have a close friend. He's probably listening. I'm not gonna say his name, but like
08:39
Sometimes I feel like he's so anal about things that
08:43
He doesn't get a chance to enjoy it because he's so anal about the minute things that aren't really gonna affect
08:50
But it's gonna affect him in his head. So that's why I know that I know
08:53
That's why he's yeah gonna go and do it all right, but I don't know like to me
08:57
It's like there's got to be a level of like fuck it, you know it to ride bikes
09:00
Yeah, you're gonna build it to build it to show it to you know the art artistry in it
09:05
Then I get it but to me
09:07
There's a level between it being really badass and me being able to enjoy it. Yeah. Yeah, I've I've had to find
09:13
I feel like I've actively tried to find a balance and like it's gotten better
09:17
Like even like even the brand new bike it has a tiny oil leak. I've tried to fix it
09:21
I don't know where the fuck it's coming from like I know the area. It's coming from
09:25
Don't understand. Yeah. So, you know what it kind of just is what it is
09:30
Like it's I'm just not even I'm getting better about it
09:34
I was way more like anal that type of shit before where like one little thing was wrong
09:38
I know I have to fix this right now. Yeah, and I'm getting I'm getting a little better
09:42
I mean, I I'm not saying that like you should be like nonchalant like not care
09:48
Because then you'd be like every other chopper guy, right?
09:50
Yeah, but you know like some level of
09:54
Some level of like, you know what the point of the saying is to enjoy it and have experiences on it
10:00
You know if that's gonna blow this motor then yeah, I don't need to ride it
10:03
Yeah, but if it's just gonna leak a little oil or
10:06
Whatever fucking send it also if it is something like that like for me because it's that motor
10:11
And I had so many issues with it to begin with the fact I smoothed it all out
10:16
It's running like you saw it actually starts like
10:21
I'll take it. I'll take that little oil leak because at least it's that
10:25
But I also didn't I didn't have it down to the cases and responsible for every aspect of it
10:30
So I have to realize I don't have all the control. I would have like if an oil tank
10:35
I made had a leak, you know, that'd be different then I would obsess about that like hard on myself, but
10:40
Yeah, that like yeah, whatever it's kind of I'll take it
10:47
Yeah, it's the first one that leaks out of like everything. So it's yeah, we'll be fine after the pain in the ass
10:53
It was like fine and like I
10:56
Am such a sucker. I I'm a terrible liar horrible liar
11:00
Like I I just don't I don't like it weighing anywhere on my consciousness
11:05
I like being able to be very genuine and transparent even if the conversation is hard because I knew it
11:11
He was like, don't you ever touch this to a hot surface as like cool
11:15
Shit and then I just texted him and I said just rip it off. You got to get it done now
11:20
Like she totally ratted herself out though
11:23
She didn't have to that day because she was still going riding after it
11:26
It was like right when she left the house like the gas station like five minutes down the road
11:30
And it would have burned off by the time it ever got back and I never I never even
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I barely noticed when she got back
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But it was just fine. She felt so bad and ratted on herself and like I did but it was yeah
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But like I said, it actually was like alright. I need to not stress this shit so much
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Or like not worry about it like kind of there is something in your place
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He was mad I could tell because like as soon as I got the text back
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He was like are you kidding me?
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And then I got silent and I was like I knew that he was like restricting himself from being mad at me
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And I was like it's okay. I was like shit happens. I make mistakes. That's how we learn and
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I just went back on the road. I like didn't come home all sad or anything. No, I just took it out for a ride
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I was like we're gonna ride this off and yeah, I was just grateful did my little baby loop just testing out the new wheels
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Getting to feel for him because it's a little bit more. I would say like
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Easier to maneuver like the tires a little bit different
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Compared to the there was a nine spoke on it or nine
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Well, it wasn't that the tire you just have like avons on it and like they're soft and kind of have their own little
12:38
They've tracked different bad like in a road. So all the events that you've done so far with him like which one
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What's the event that you love the most so far?
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Yeah, I'm trying I'm trying to take all the events into like it's hard to compare them all because y'all
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But which one which one speaks to you though?
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Mama tried has probably got to be the favorite and the reason why the venue is great
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They do a great job like
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propping up a lot of the builders and things like this
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It's still a lot of fun. It's loose. There's not this
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Pressure this deadline that a lot of these builders have to get to it's usually all the builders bikes that are already put together
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And it doesn't necessarily like you have to build the bike for competition
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It's I made this bike because I wanted to I was screwing around in the garage. It took me four years to make, you know, I
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Really enjoy that show for a lot of different reasons, but it just showcases
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The variety of riders is the best way to explain that it does have the better variety
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Yeah, all in one place because they pick only like a hundred bikes each year
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I think or something like that because that's what they can fit and it is a very wide range like
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It's just like a bike that gets
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Year that we were in it. Yeah. Yeah, there was just yeah, there's crazy bikes sometimes like it's cool
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I like that about it like they yeah, they do it right and also the fact
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There's not the pressure of like you don't have to stick around there all day
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Yeah, like they set it up like this cool little gallery to where people can just come in and walk around like you don't you're
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Not pressured to like sit there and have to talk about what scares me about that event
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Is it how busy it is now? It's like I worry that they're gonna like it's gonna get too packed for
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Enjoyment because I'll be honest with you like I like getting there the day like setting up
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It's seeing not everybody and seeing the bikes and seeing the vendors and it's kind of like when the show's on
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I don't want to be there. It doesn't get busy. It does get really busy
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We go up in the balcony and like it's sick to watch just like everyone move around and like what they look at and shit
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But it's cool. I also I'm a big sucker for when events not just a variety of writers
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There are a lot of people that drink and don't drink
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Yeah, and mama tried did it really well where I had a full lanyard a drinks and I got liquid desk sponsored it
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So it was like I could have eight liquid desks all weekend and I tried every single variety
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So it was like still allowing me to like kind of be part of the action
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No way, but not drink. It was just really great. They just do a good job. Even though like the flat-out Friday thing
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It's like so sick like they you know like the whole little sweet
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They set up for everyone like in the show and like the food and shit like you're just I think that's one thing that I
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It's just cool me like I have some ideas for events
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But being a part of like mama tried and then like even one weren't you were you a part of the thing in Galveston with
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Yeah, yeah when when they put us up in the hotel
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That like I've never felt like so like to me like those little small nuanced things is what like really makes you feel like
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Appreciated. Yeah, you know, it's not so much that you have a grab bag full of like goodies
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It's just like the dinner or
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Access to this or whatever like those kind of things mean a lot in my yeah, and there's there's definitely
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I mean, there's very few shows have been a part of that. I'm like I'm just kind of like
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They're like, oh bring this bike and
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That's it. Here's like a shirt cool
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And like but like their whole thing is like charging ticket like heavy-priced or tickets and all this shit we're like
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Like you're basing a whole show around bikes and shit people are bringing but like you do nothing for the people that build it
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You know, it's kind of like just so I don't have anything to do with
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Those type of shows anymore, but yeah, just I and it's not about like not about getting free shit. It's just like that's not
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You're kind of focused on the wrong thing like you're just doing it till I make money
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You're that or you're trying to prop up like your own shop that is responsible for putting it on. Yeah, yeah, and
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It's a I mean, it's not a fucking secret. I tell anyone I'm just talking about hand-built show
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Like I I do not like that show and I was a part of it one year and just not it's not great experience
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It's just it's revival kind of like jerking themselves off about like a bike
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They might do that somewhere BMW never be able to ride
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Well, I feel like they can have someone paint it at the show and then all the rest of the bikes are just kind of like
17:23
So far away from hand-built then you're bringing in like Porsches and Ferraris that just rich dudes can fucking own and who gives a fuck
17:29
So the show's gone so far away from any sort of like respectable thing that it used to be like when I first got in
17:36
Sick, I want to have a bike and hand-built then it turned into like I
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Never doing this again. Like they even just the simp the one simple thing that broke it for me was the year I did it I
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Couldn't they wouldn't give me a ticket for her for whatever reason and she was about to buy a ticket and luckily someone at the ticket booth
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Just like nice who she was and knew me and gave her one for free
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But she was gonna have to buy a ticket. I was are you fucking shitting me like yeah
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Like 20-something dollars to get in there, but just the fact of like you walk around my wife
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Yeah, I take it and my bikes here for four days or however
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I'm like the whole thing set around people walking around this and you charge it all this and then like I don't know
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It just it's not about perks
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But there is like a certain aspect of that and I was just like so it's gross
18:24
What's more of an experience to be a part of it when that's kind of like their whole world
18:29
And then like the way they're doing in LA and weird shit like that they're just kind of like
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I don't know it's whatever, but like it just feels like they're kind of like praying on people that are
18:37
Dumb enough to bring their shit to it for free. I don't know. I think there's enough events right now, you know personally I think that
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We don't need more. There's better examples for sure. Yeah, like I mean I've just been like
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Mama tried venue alone fucking incredible, but then there's like little shows like burnouts. Yeah burnouts
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It's so amazing. I love that show. Yeah, even Joey show at the Lonesome Rose. That shit's cool
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That's like I like all this stuff like having you know, you're your little ones that are kind of like more regional based
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But man like you can you can find yourself really easily
19:16
Seeing yourself as the only thing you do on motorcycles is trailer to this event to this event in this event in this event
19:22
You never ride anywhere. You never get to go. I mean
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Not that that's a bad thing, but I get it like if you
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You go to Idaho and you ride fucking Lolo and all that stuff. I get it like you're still doing it
19:35
I'm still you gotta say I'm still come to terms with throwing my bike in a trailer
19:40
Totally understandable. I I know that I'm not gonna hard tail across Texas to get me nine hours outside of El Paso
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And be like cool. I got another like
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You know tend to go to just reach Cali. I know that about myself
19:54
On the low rider. Yeah be a piece of cake. Would it be fun? I don't know because it rides like a Cadillac
20:00
So it's like it's a different. It's a different feeling. Yeah. Well, I feel like it's now
20:05
I'm gonna experience that so point of this bike right is yeah, I think it's I think that you just can't ride
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The old bike like you would ride the low rider right and then you ride it at a pace
20:15
You just got to have more time
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So instead of me being like, okay, I'm gonna be in LA to you know
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I'm gonna leave now and then what is it to Monday?
20:24
So Wednesday morning. I'm eating breakfast in Venice Beach. That's not a thing on a chopper
20:28
Yeah, on my roguelite or a low rider steerer my FXR chopper. Yeah, I can just blast out there and be done with it
20:34
But so this one I have to go about it in a different way and to me. That's that's the challenge in it
20:39
Imagine of like finding a way to do something hard
20:43
But still do what I love the most about motorcycling is which is traveling on it
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And if I I got two trips planned one
20:51
The big one doesn't work then the local one's gonna happen and either one will be pretty cool
20:55
But it was cool because also like it might make you slow down and like enjoy it. That's the point
20:59
That's what I want like maybe instead of going from here to fucking Tucson or something in a day
21:05
You're like stopping in smaller cooler little spots. They're like, oh, yeah, like shit
21:09
You just normally like blast pass. I want to do a Northeast trip really bad around fall. That's like my
21:16
That's mine nor star, right? Like you're like, I want to get to a point where I
21:21
Take my chopper I get up there and I hit like there's three particular
21:27
I would say stops. Yeah, there's sleepy Hollow, New York. That does a big haunted hay ride
21:32
Yeah, Salem Massachusetts 30 minutes outside of Boston. Yes. Yeah, love it. I've been there so many times
21:38
I flew I flew in and then there's
21:45
Then there's the city's up for these flowers that these go up. Yeah. Oh, no
21:50
This was the weekend we got back from party party the pen
21:54
I was like cool things are coming out, but the third stop Laconia, New Hampshire. They have the biggest jack-o'-lantern carving contest
22:01
But there's these beautiful
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That you should take yeah, but those worlds you're gonna have to take guess what you're gonna have to take them on the
22:08
Weekday so like I want to take like a two week off
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Where you would do those on the weekdays. Yeah, and so you don't run into the tourist
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Transactions and things because I've done the touristy Salem on Halloween. We went one year. Oh, yeah, I've missed it
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It's like Marty girl is 2 a.m
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Sixth Street at 2 p.m. In the afternoon on Halloween. I'm everybody's dressed up. I mean, it's a it's a blast
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Don't get me wrong. It's just something that's just like you experience it one. You're like, that's enough
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Yeah, what uh, I have a photographer buddy that goes up there and like
22:43
Basically, September because right now all colors are starting to kick off
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They're starting and in like Vermont and you know Maine and all that and then he'll he'll follow it down
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Back to Texas and he you know cuz he photographs like what a dream everything
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And I've always thought that'd be so sick to be able to do a ride like that
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Because they have a fort they have like a apps or you can look on the website
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It'll show you where peak is at what time like the trees like yeah, you can track
23:10
They were farmers all my even well even in Tennessee like we hit some spots that like they get a little more up in the hills
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Yeah, and like a little bit more color like yeah
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Just going down a road like leaves or like somewhere starting to fall other leaves are changing
23:23
You're like, but then you get down back in the valley and like it's back to green
23:27
You know what sucks is like when I see those fall colors and you see like that one tree
23:31
That's just a bright yellowish orange. You're like fuck man. It's sick. I'm like, I should wait
23:36
I can't paint a bike fucking orange yellow
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It's like it's just with this one color that like as I get older. I'm drawn to like I'll show it
23:44
Just did the yellow bike and you send me a picture of it and it's awesome because his daughter did the painting on it
23:49
I don't know if you know that buzzer so sick
23:51
It's in a skull or stone or something like that. I'm like, dude that yellow is like fucking fire, dude
23:56
I would how what is the difference between that yellow and gold?
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I mean we get to that point. It's like you start to turn it a little bit more and more like the yellow that I love
24:06
I have it saved off an old car. Okay. It's a 1969 Plymouth Roadrunner
24:11
Oh, it's called Bahama yellow and it's just the right amount of mustard
24:16
But not too much like it's just oh, it's so hard to not banana yellow, but it's like so if you there's there's
24:24
I might be just talking to you know
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You already know this
24:28
You have two directions. You have green and you have orange like a red and green. Yeah, so red is like the chrome yellow
24:37
That's gonna be more of your
24:40
Like almost like going towards the orange spectrum and then green obviously is gonna be your lime
24:46
So you're gonna be more bright sun sun
24:48
Okay, like a like a banana. Yeah is more green like lime yellow and then orange is more that direction
24:56
That's where I like merry-golds on the orange side. Oh, yes
25:00
I'm a big sucker for warmer colors. Yeah, so like burnt. Yeah, like your burnt oranges
25:05
You're but of course born in October. I like warmer colors. My favorite season's fall
25:10
Like I'm just naturally drawn towards these like warmer
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Color assets. Yeah, the orange orange everywhere. There's orange everywhere
25:18
She wonder what do you what do you think people experience more? I think we gotta wrap it up after this one
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Yeah, what do you think people experience like are they if you're live here? We've had these we have these not all these summers
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Are you more stoked for fall or spring?
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You'd be more for fall
25:39
You know what you're gonna say that like like say I like to follow it and cools off like when it starts to cool
25:43
I'm like fuck finally
25:45
But there's also that transition like I don't mind it
25:48
But I hate it that those days where you can't you have to have a jacket
25:53
You can't wear it all day, but you need it with it. It's a look cute
25:57
I have to wear a jacket sort of problem. We're just like well
26:01
I have to bundle up because it's gonna be freezing, but by the afternoon. It's like 85 and you're just like I'm sweating
26:08
Yeah, it's I like wearing long sleeves
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Yeah, it's my favorite time of year. I I think I love fall like when summer hits around here
26:19
There's something in my body that just becomes seasonally depressed where it's so incredibly hot you're like if I want to go ride
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It's just okay. I have to do it really early in the morning or very late at night. Yeah
26:29
We got lucky this year with the yeah, we got mild this year. Yeah, it wasn't too bad. So
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All right, so how could you like as far as the people's champ?
26:40
They don't vote till when February February so just basically gotta follow you that way they can see what's up
26:45
And then they vote through the the people's champ website or website website website website
26:51
They follow along through the through Instagram
26:54
That's like we're all like everything all the postings and shit's gonna be but then yeah
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They'll post on their website. Okay, and then follow at the beacon. Yep. Yeah, yep. Yep at the beacon
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Looks like bacon, but just take out the yay
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That is funny. I never thought of that
27:09
I always thought it was a bacon to be honest with you because I'm dyslexic. I just put it in there
27:13
It's not there. I just put it. Yeah, it's good bacon. Yeah, do that. It'll be calling. Yeah, it'll be cool to
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To watch yeah, and fun. I'm trying to record as much as I can I literally just put the camera up
27:26
I put it on a time-lapse
27:29
And just try to take pictures. I'm trying to find this new
27:33
Obviously, this is all new where I'm so excited to get started on the bike
27:36
But then I'm like fuck I gotta record myself and yeah, the balance of the balance of it
27:40
I haven't worked it out just yet, but like yesterday
27:43
I just put it on their time-lapse and I just let it go and we had a blast for like an hour
27:48
But at least it's something because I feel like it's also the proof to fight that like
27:53
That I'm not helping build her bike too. It's like even a fucking time-lapse that doesn't show any detail
27:58
But it shows that like she's doing almost all of it
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Like I poke in just to make sure she's not losing the digit and I'm like yo
28:05
What is it nine and a half fingers? Yeah, nine and a half fingers in a bike that runs
28:09
Don't have to be all ten just nine and a half. I'm good. You'll give you some character if you lose half a finger. It's fine
28:15
Yeah, so just follow us at the at the the beacon and then vote
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Submissions like our updates our big updates are due like what does the bike look like as a whole right now?
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Yeah, and then February 13th through the 16th voting
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I'd also say just follow them in general and like see if it's something
28:36
You think you ever want to be a part of like
28:38
Enter any time submissions are open like if you think you got it enter you never know like they might just like your idea
28:45
Or they might like you or what you might bring to it
28:48
And like it's not always about being like the craziest builder or like just be honest talent sometimes just yeah
28:54
It's like the passion for it even like it's kind of nicely. Yeah, see where it leads you
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Yeah, I'm like, oh no, it's a good. I think it's a good stepping stone or something to try out
29:05
I'm excited for when I saw you entered I was like hell, yeah
29:08
I knew you've been working and learning the craft and things like that had to check with a godfather first
29:13
But I typed up the submission. I was ready to hit submit and I go let me check and I walked outside
29:19
I like shown my submission and I was like look I'm not asking for permission. I'm just I need I would love to have
29:27
Support if you're in and he was like fuck. Yes. He was like, I'm so in I was like, but if you do it like you better
29:34
I hold it in too high of a guard to like let you fuck around with it
29:38
So you have to understand like what you're getting into
29:40
From what it personally means to me and that like you're doing this if you're doing it. So
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I'm excited. Yeah. Well, thanks guys. I had a good time
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Thank you. Thanks for coming in. We need to need to do it more, but you know, yeah
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I'm also coming. We'll see you at born free with your life born. Yeah, maybe
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You'll be done ready might not but you'll be done
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Want to thank Jacob and Brittany for hanging out with me during the day
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I really had a great time kicking it with them having this podcast and
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Lunch and all the good stuff. Thank you guys. Also, hopefully you enjoyed that and
30:16
Just to give you guys a little heads up of what's been going on
30:19
I've been sick. Yeah, that's it's been kind of tough
30:24
Doing podcast and getting all this stuff out to you guys in an orderly manner
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Yeah, the weather's changing here and there we got this build for born free that has been absolutely
30:36
Just taking everything out of me to be honest with you in a good way not bad way good way, but
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That's what's been going on
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More details on that probably in a podcast coming up soon
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Don't forget born free is happening
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I think we're about just under three weeks away the pre-party for born free is going down in
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Legendary Stokers Dallas. We are hosting it. We have hosted it since day one and
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It's gonna be a good time
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Wednesday the 15th of October come out. We got giveaways from thrashing built well lindall
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Kabuto helmets a lot of other cool stuff LFG Dustin's gonna be in the house emcee in the vent
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We're gonna have a little mini riding bike show a couple trophies and awards for that
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It's gonna be a great time. So
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We'll see you there and we'll see you on the next episode. Peace