S&YE210 - XTrek Alice

Hey, Subi family, this is Carter, and you can find me on Instagram at Xtrek underscore Alice.

You are listening to episode 210 of the Subi and you podcast.

Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Subi and you podcast.

As you just heard, I have Carter on this episode to talk about his Subaru, which is what we're

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Alright, so this Friday, stay tuned because it's going to be another, it's going

to be a podcast week because I'm releasing the episode from Overland Expo in Loveland,

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there, made some great contacts, had some great conversations and it was just such

a fun event and I'm really excited to be going to Virginia as well.

But then I'm going to be sad because then the Overland Expo tour is over, but

if you're going to be in Virginia at Overland Expo and you're listening to this, please

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I love meeting people out there in the community as you know and that's just, that's like

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Also happy first day of September.

We're getting closer to the end of 2025, which is crazy.

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I really, that was such a great event.

That was my first Subifest Boxer Fest experience and I, it was, that was also

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And now that all of that is done, let's get into

this episode with Carter and hear all about his Subaru and his

Subaru journey.

Hey, welcome to the podcast.

We know we've been talking for a while, so it's good to have you on, man.

I'm so excited to be here.

Thank you for having me.

You're welcome.

As you probably know, I'm sure you've been listening to the episodes, but

you know, the most important question I have to start off with, and that is

whether you prefer waffles or pancakes.

I, you know, I'm a big pancake person.

I think waffles, I think waffles and I like waffles, but there's a time

and a place I have a feeling because they're just a little too dry.

They have little pockets though for syrup, but it's still, I think

it's a little too dry.

I, I'm a pancake guy.

Yeah, I get that.

I, I like the, the fluffiness and how pancakes can be moist and soak up all

the syrup and everything.

And, and I mean, I mean, I do like the crunch of a waffle, but pancakes

just does it for me.

Yes, I get that.

So I guess one of the really important things to start off with, because

I think this is going to have a lot of meaning behind it.

And it'll be really good for you to share.

But on your profile, it says dedicated to Frida Alice Kess, is it cast on?

Uh, cast in, cast in.

Okay.

So what is the story behind that?

And what is, what does that mean to you?

So the story behind that is, um, uh, Frida Alice Kasten is my great-grandmother.

Um, she passed in early 2021, not because of COVID.

Um, and I had the pleasure of knowing her for 21 years, which is a lot for

yeah, having a great, you know, grandparent.

And we were super close.

Um, she always bragged to the family that I was her favorite.

And we were really close friends.

That's great.

And, um, when she passed it, it really, really hurt.

I was in a bad place for a really long time.

Um, and so to cope with that, when I bought my car, um,

I did, I wanted to dedicate the build to her so that way I could always have her

with me wherever I go and take her to see new places that she can't because

she's no longer here.

That's awesome.

When, so when did you buy your car?

I bought Alice in 20, late 2021, I want to say.

Okay, brand new.

Yeah.

Um, pre-owned.

Okay.

So what year is it?

It's a 2018 Cross-Trick premium.

Okay.

Yeah.

So you got the first year of the second gen.

Nice.

I did.

Yes.

I loved the body style.

I saw it and I was like that.

Something about it.

Now, did you like, was the new or the, sorry, the first gen Cross-Trick,

was it ever on your radar?

Like, did you see the first gen Cross-Trick and think like, oh man,

that car is super cool.

Or did you only take notice when the second gen came out?

I only really noticed like Subaru Cross-Trick in general when the second gen came out.

And I know, I, I remember the commercial and the exact day when I saw the car for

the first time, it was the, um, that one Subaru Cross-Trick commercial where

they're all in the dog park, playing around and driving.

Yeah.

I was like, that is a hot car.

And then I started seeing them everywhere.

And that's what I noticed the second gen.

I didn't really notice the first gen.

Okay.

Um, the second gen, I was just like tunnel vision.

Yeah.

I like it.

Now, did you know much about Subaru before that?

I actually did not.

Um, the most I knew was STIs and WRX.

That is, that is the car to have if it's a Subaru.

Yeah.

Um, I didn't know much about the rest of the line because I was young at the time.

Okay.

So yeah, cause like for me, I saw the first gen of Cross-Trick and I knew about

Subaru, but same thing.

Like I had, I'd always seen like the WRX hatch, which I, and the STI hatch,

which I was like, man, I didn't really know anything about them.

I just saw them and thought, man, those are like really, really, really nice.

And I remember like watching a few YouTube videos and seeing how you can

change to like the gear ratios and stuff when you were shifting.

And I'm like, man, that's awesome.

You could do that.

But yeah, same thing.

I just, I really knew about the WRX and the STI and that was about it.

But, uh, yeah, the, the first gen came out and then the second gen came out

and I was kind of disappointed cause it changed the body style, but now I

absolutely love the second gen.

Yeah.

So that was definitely the biggest thing for me was the body style.

I, I kind of am okay with the body style of the first gen, but it's

something about the front end that I'm just like, mm, it doesn't, I

think it's the headlights really.

Yeah, I get that.

I, and like for me, the, on the first gen, it was the tail lights.

So I was like, I don't know, something about it just looks super cool.

The way that the hatch was rounded and just the way that it looked from

the back, like all different angles.

And then like I said, when they came out with the second gen, I was

kind of disappointed, but the thing that I really, really like, and I've

said this before is that the first gen, the second gen and the third

gen, they, they all still look like a cross-track and that's really important.

So Subaru, don't go crazy and change the body styling of the cross-track.

When you come out with the fourth gen, please.

Please do not change it.

Keep it looking like a cross-track because I think the cross-track is,

it just has such a unique body style overall for Subaru and just

of any other car out there.

For sure.

Also on your profile, it says SCCA Rallycar number 35 and then fellow

member of the San Diego, Subi squad.

So what's the deal behind both of those?

So the SCCA Rallycar 935, I don't remember exactly what it stands for all

of a sudden, but when I did that first, my first Rallycross event up in Ridgecrest,

I had to register my car number through the SCCA and I chose 935 because

that was the address number of my great grandmother's house.

And I was like, I was like, oh, I love it.

That's, that is it.

So that's why it says on there.

And then the San Diego Subi squad, I just joined recently because I was a part

of North County Subis, but I feel like the club has mostly dissolved

because we don't really do a whole lot.

Okay.

So I wanted to join the club that meets up a little bit often and we could go on

cruises and stuff like that.

Okay.

SCCA is at Sports Car Club of America.

That is it.

Thank you.

I looked it up.

I'm glad you looked it up.

Yeah.

So what have you done so far with the San Diego Subi squad?

Do y'all have meetups?

Do y'all have trail runs?

What do y'all do with that group?

We definitely do a little bit of everything.

The most recent thing that I participated with was a barbecue

down in San Diego.

That was a lot of fun.

Just on the beach, just having a barbecue with all these beautiful

cars and wonderful people.

Nice.

Yeah.

And San Diego is such a nice place too.

I miss it.

You know, the high was 75 that day and it was sunny.

I was like, all right, I'm not going to complain.

Yeah.

Sounds horrible, man.

It's so bad.

Yeah.

When my brother lived there, I used to go out there a couple of

times a year at least and go visit him and it was so nice.

So I also saw something that says Rodknock Racing.

Is that like a part of the SCCA or is that separate from that?

What's the deal with that?

So Rodknock Racing is actually a rally school that was hosting

that Ridgecrest event.

And I not only did the event, but I did this like they had a

whole class the day before.

And then we, so Saturday was the class and they would, you

know, teach you how to drive and what to do and what not to do,

what cones you shouldn't hit, which is all of them.

You shouldn't hit any cones, but like teaching all these things

and they're all like professional rally drivers that

we're teaching you.

So it was a really cool experience.

So they, they are affiliated with the SCCA, but they're

not like a part of it, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

Okay.

That's cool.

So like how many, I guess how many events have you

participated in?

Was it just that one for the rally cross or have you done multiples?

Um, so far, it's just the one.

Um, it is every rally event that I've discovered so far is far away.

And it's hard to get time off work and, um, drive out there.

And so I definitely more to come.

Definitely not the last one, but I definitely want to do more in

2026 for sure.

And did you end up meeting a lot of people when you were out

there for that one event?

Oh yeah.

There was so many people, there were so many cars that I was

like not expecting to be there and they, they kicked some

serious, but that was just like, whoa.

Yeah.

Wow.

So what was your driving experience like doing that?

Cause obviously you said you went to the class, so I'm

sure that helped.

But then once you got out on the track for your own actual

like race, what was that experience like?

It was at first, I was like, I don't know if I can do this or

if I'm just going to embarrass myself really badly.

But when I did the first lap, I was like, oh, that's not so bad.

This is actually really, really fun.

And I had a lot of faith in my car and I had a lot of

faith in my driving and to go on a side story, I apologize.

Um, in all the videos that I have on my Instagram page of

that day, you'll see that I'm wearing a splint on my pointer

finger and that's because I cut the top off of my knuckle,

installing a catback exhaust on my best friend Golf R a couple

of days prior and I'm like, man, I have this race coming up.

This is going to be, so you'll see me, that was the scariest

part.

I was just like, I'm going to make this worse and I'm just

staring with one finger pointed in the air.

It was so good.

Yeah.

So I guess you were kind of worried about your grip while

driving then, right?

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

It sounds like you did pretty good.

So that's awesome.

I, yeah, I was, I didn't, I wasn't looking at the scores and she

came up to me and she's like, you started with like the high 80s,

like 80 seconds.

And she's like, and you finished like at 62 seconds.

Like that was your best lap.

I was like, whoa, I was, I didn't realize.

And how many laps did you do?

Um, six total.

Oh, nice.

That's really good.

Yeah.

That's nice that you can go out there and do that many laps.

Yeah.

It was the whole day event.

Um, beautiful weather.

Um, the crew was very like, you know, if you haven't done this

before, so okay.

I, I was really proud in the end because I didn't hit a

single cone and I was just like, I was avoiding those cones.

That was your, that was your mission, huh?

Yeah.

I was like, ooh.

So, so going back to your cross trick, did you have, when

you started looking at it, did you have a specific color in

mind or a specific trim level, or were you just kind of seeing

what was available when you were going to get one?

Um, it was definitely a little bit of both.

I really fell in love with the khaki gray, which is

like that light blue.

Um, and I wanted a limited trim because of course it has

all the, the fancy features and the leather, but the, the

problem with that was when I was buying my car, it was at

like the, the peak of used car sales.

So everything was twice as much.

And the car, it was a, um, a 2019 cross trick limited in the

khaki blue and it was for $35,000 and it was in Florida and

they wanted five grand to ship it over.

And it was the only one I could find in the States at the

time.

And I was just like, you know, I'll look local and just

kind of settle.

And I settled on Alice, um, just a lit, a premium with just

the dark gray metallic.

And I, I like the dark gray metallic.

It gets commonly mistaken for black.

So yeah, I, I mean, it, it kind of looks black.

And I mean, I, I call it black, but I, I, I didn't want the

dark color because I like the contrast of the black, uh, man,

I can't talk tonight.

I can't think.

I like the contrast of the cladding against, you know, a

lighter color, but every one that I ever see of that color, it

looks so good.

So it's, uh, I, I just, I'm, and I'm not saying that like, if

I had one, I would be unhappy with it because like, they all

look good, but I just, and I like, for me, I didn't really

have a specific color in mind.

It's just white was available because I was looking for a

manual and I'm glad I ended up with white because it

does, I really like the black and white contrast.

And that's like the theme that I've gone for is like every,

every accessory and decal and everything on my car is either

white or black.

Yeah, I love that.

They make a super makes a really good white.

It's like sparkly and yeah.

Yeah.

So when you first bought your cross-track, were you

thinking of doing mods?

Like was that on the radar?

Did you know much about it or were you just like, I love

this cross-track.

This is going to, this is going to be my next card.

Cool.

This is it.

At first it was like, my brain was set to, this is just

a commuter car.

It's going to get you from work to home, work from

home.

And, um, and then I did a quick Google search of like

lifted cross-tricks because I saw one and I was

like, that's actually pretty cool.

And I have never told them this and I probably

should, but OC turbo Joe on Instagram, that was the

car that has influenced my build because I saw it

and I was like, oh, that is sick.

Like you can do that.

Yeah.

I was like, oh my, oh, love it.

Um, so, and then it became like, okay, how do I

modify it?

And then the first, the first mod was actually

the rally armor mud flaps.

Okay.

That was the, that's a pretty common, yeah,

that's a pretty common first mod.

Yeah, it was easy too.

I just did it in the driveway with my dad.

So it was like, okay.

Yep.

And then so after that, obviously you, you saw the

lifted cross-track, you saw his and you saw what

you can do with it.

Did you start formulating like a list in your head

of things that you wanted to do?

Or were you like looking around at what you can

do and like finding like all these different

ones and be like, okay, I want to do that

from that one, that from that one, that from

that one, like how did that formulate in your

head over time?

It was, it was definitely kind of sporadic.

And looking back on it, I would rebuild the

car differently than how I did.

Um, I, I was like, okay, the first thing is

going to be the suspension, like it, you, you

have to lift it to make it look like that.

And I did a spacer lift and I had the

fill stains on it.

And I just went through, I think like three sets

of bill stains before I was like, okay, I'm

going to have to do like an actual, like real

lift.

So then I did the lift and then I focused on

the lighting instead of the skid plates.

And it was just, it was like, it was definitely

a piecemeal project, but there was definitely

no set course.

Yeah.

So with all the mods that you have on there,

have you done most of them yourself?

The majority, yes.

Um, a lot of the suspension work I've done,

maybe a quarter of it.

Um, I take it to my local shop or used to be

a local shop, I've now moved in Fawbrook

called Scrappy's Tyranotto and they never

did a lift kit on a cross track before.

So they were like, okay, challenge accepted.

And they helped me dial it all in and it's

been, it's been amazing.

It's so a lot of the suspension work scares me.

I'm just like, oh, that's for the professionals.

Yeah, that's, I think it would, it would

intimidate me too.

I had gotten some spacer lifts and I never

ended up putting them on because I wasn't

really sure how to do it.

I know it's not that hard, but also know that

it's because I think it was like, I think

it was like whatever, like two inches in the

back or front, or whichever direction it is.

It was like two inches and then one and a

half.

But also know that it's best to get like a

subframe kit to, you know, drop your subframe.

And I didn't even, I didn't know what that meant.

And I knew that that was going to be like added

costs.

And I'm like, I just, I didn't really feel

like spending the money and I didn't want to do it.

So I just, I never ended up doing it.

So sometimes it's, you know, sometimes

that's okay.

Yeah.

And to this day, I still don't have a lift,

but I also don't really need one out here.

There's not really, there's not really

any places where I have the need for a lift.

So if I were to ever do one, it would be just

for pure aesthetics because it looks

so good when they're lifted.

They do.

When I first saw one, I was like, that kind of

looks silly.

And then I saw the big chunky mud tires.

I'm like, okay, okay.

Yeah, you have to get the right sized

tires for it or it looks silly.

But yeah, they, man, they look so good

when you do it right.

I agree.

So what other like, I guess, bigger mods

have you done to your car?

You talked about lighting, lift, and then

I'm guessing now you have skid plates.

I still do not have skid plates.

What?

You know, it is one of those, it's one of those

things that I keep telling myself I probably

should do.

And the most recent trail run I did

a couple of months ago, where were we?

The San Bernardino Mountains.

And we were coming up with a couple of

skid plates.

Where were we?

The San Bernardino Mountains.

And we were coming up and I slammed

the car just straight into a rock and

dented right underneath the driver door

and it broke the plastic cladding.

I was like, eh.

Oops.

Oops, that could have been your oil pan.

Yeah.

You know, lesson learned.

Yeah, it's, I know, I've had mine

drop a few times on certain things

and hit the skid plate.

I was just like, oh man, that sounded bad,

but I'm glad I have a skid plate.

For sure.

I think it will probably be a someday thing.

I built the car with the intention of

off-roading it and overlanding.

And then I realized that the suspension

I currently have is just too stiff for that.

So I give it a shot rally driving.

And I think I enjoy rally driving a lot

more than I do overlanding.

Hey.

Purely for my back.

Yeah, I mean, you got to find what you enjoy

doing with your car too, you know.

Yeah.

So that's good.

What would you say has been,

which mod has been like the most transformative

in the way that your car looks?

Ooh.

Probably the latest mod that I did.

I put in, I did the swap,

the cross-track limited headlight swap

with the LEDs and the blowering.

Nice.

And that just makes my car look more angry.

Yeah, those headlights are so nice.

I would love to get those one of these days,

but it's too high price of an item right now

and it's not a necessity,

but yeah, those definitely look super cool.

I love those.

Yeah, I would definitely recommend

stocking Facebook Marketplace.

I found this listing for just one

and it was the driver's side

and it didn't have a price and I'm like,

hey, you wouldn't happen to have the passenger side.

And he's like, oh no, sorry.

I was like, okay.

And he texted me like 15 minutes later,

he's like, actually I have them both.

And I'm like, no way.

How much do you want from him?

He's like 500 bucks.

I'm like freaking out because 500 for both

is insane because they start at 500 a piece.

So I was like, okay, where can I meet you?

When can I meet you?

He's like, oh, I'm actually up in your area tomorrow.

We have some time while you're at work

and I'm like, I'll make all the time you want.

Yeah, let's make it happen.

So that was, I don't care if they're used.

I was just like, that's a score.

Yeah.

And they worked.

So I was even better.

Absolutely, yeah.

No, that's a great deal.

Which mod would you say is your favorite?

Oh, that's hands down is the billet works shifter that I have.

Oh, there's a picture on my Instagram,

but it has my grandmother's name,

birth year and death year engraved in it on the top.

Oh, that's nice.

That's a nice tribute.

Yeah, I loved it.

It was hard trying to find someone that could engrave it

like so beautifully.

They did a really fantastic job.

Yeah.

And especially in addition to the fact that you have dedicated

this car, that's like a really great thing,

like a great addition to it.

Good job.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

Which mod would you say has proved to be the most useful?

Most useful.

Lou, that's a good question.

I feel like I'm going to get so much hate for this,

but it's definitely the pedal commander.

Oh, why would you hate for that, man?

That's cool.

A lot of people really poo poo on the pedal commander,

but I dig it.

I think it's, I mean, basically all it does is it just

changes the throttle response that you give it

and tells the car, you know, like, hey,

he's actually giving it this, which I, you know,

it's not going to make the car faster,

but it makes it feel quicker and I have more throttle control

when I'm going over an obstacle.

I feel like like a little bit more gas than what the car

was giving me before.

I have to say that one's probably the most like useful.

Yeah.

I have, well, I know a guy that has one on a manual

and he said he loves it.

And I've thought about getting one.

It's just one of those things where I just,

I forget about it and I just haven't done it,

but that's definitely, it's been on my mental list.

Like I don't have a written list anywhere,

but that's something that I still want to consider.

But so as far as, you know, mods go,

a lot of times people aren't done, you know,

they still want to do more mods.

But if money was like no issue,

what would be like the mod you would want to get the most?

I would definitely swap out the drivetrain for the 3.6

drivetrain with a manual swap.

That would make that car way too funny.

I know.

That's like, I would love to do that so much with mine.

That would be so fun.

It would be, I would just laugh out loud.

It'd just be like, oh my gosh.

Yeah.

My son has a 2010 Outback 3.6R and that thing is,

yeah, it'll move.

It's very nice.

So one of these days, maybe when I've been off,

yeah, I mean, there's a guy that,

I can't remember his Instagram page,

but he has a first-gen cross-track

and he did a full STI swap on it.

And man, that would be nice.

Oh, I know, you're talking about,

I think it's silver with the STI hood.

I think his is the khaki, like the sand khaki color.

And it's like, his account is like mama something,

like it's M-A-U-M something.

I can't remember exactly.

I always forget what it is.

But yeah, that thing looks,

I'm sure it took him some time

and I'm sure that cost quite a bit,

but it was definitely worth it.

Oh yeah.

So like, what sort of trails and places do you have

to go off road near you?

Or do you have any near you?

There's a couple.

Near me, there's the Nate Harrison Graved,

which I call it a beginner trail,

because I've seen a slammed M3 go up it,

which I was just like, that's not appropriate.

But you do you.

There's the San Bernardino Trail,

which is a little bit farther.

It's a couple hours from where I'm at.

I'm in near San Diego.

So it's a little bit of a drive, but worth it.

There's the Black Truck Trail.

And there's another one.

There's a couple around here.

There's a couple dozen, for sure.

Okay.

Yeah.

I mean, it sounds like it's definitely worth it

and good to be able to get out to.

It's nice when you have trails

that are convenient and close by.

Yeah, especially like if you are coming off of work

and you want to go blows and steam

and you just go hit a trail and then come back.

Yeah.

Actually, I think it rained out here today.

So after this, I might go behind the high school

where my daughter went to school.

And it's like nothing super exciting.

There's like some ruts out there that get muddy.

But just to go bounce around a little bit

and throw a little bit of mud,

that's really all I have out here.

But it's still fun.

Yeah.

It's pretty slow going.

But I rather crawl through stuff than like,

especially if there's like a big mud puddle,

I'd rather drive through it slowly

and feel the car really working

and just going through the mud with all-wheel drive

rather than drive through it really fast.

Yeah.

There's a lot less potential to break things too

if you're going a little bit slower.

Very much.

Yeah.

So do you take any road trips

or have you taken any road trips?

And if so, what's the longest distance

you've taken for a mileage and time-wise?

I am a big road tripper.

Since I bought the car in 2021,

I bought it with 34,000 miles on it.

And we just crossed 102,000 miles.

Oh, nice.

The longest road trip would have to be up to Solvang.

And I think that was like a four or five-hour drive there.

Where is that?

It's, oh, I'm going to, you know what?

I'm going to have to look it up on the map.

I apologize.

I haven't heard of it, so that's why I was asking.

It's the cutest little town.

It is right, it's like right up above Santa Barbara.

Okay.

And it is the, it's like a little Danish town.

I want to say it's a Danish town.

Yeah, the Danish capital of America.

Very nice.

And it is, it's the cutest little place.

Gorgeous waterfalls, the buildings are gorgeous.

It's just like, it's just a little slice of just cute.

Yeah.

I love small towns and like me and my son and my daughter

and her husband too, like we'll go and, you know,

when we're going on a little road trip,

go through small towns.

And it's always fun to just see what they have, you know.

One stoplight or a few stoplights.

What kind of shops they have, what their kind of little town

center looks like, what their like city hall looks like.

You know, sometimes they have really cool building

in a small little town.

See that every once in a while.

Yeah.

What would you say is your favorite small town experience?

Oh, that's tough.

I really, so I really like Denton up here in Texas.

Denton is north of, it's like northwest of Dallas.

Okay.

And it just like, it kind of has like an Austin vibe to it

a little bit.

And there's like a pretty good vegan presence there,

which I really like.

And there's also, it's a college town.

So there's a lot, I've seen a lot of Subaru's there.

And I love it.

Yeah.

The little like town square is really cool.

There's a lot of shops and restaurants and bars and stuff.

I don't know.

It just, it looks really, really cool.

Okay.

Check that out.

Now, however, I do really like Manitou Springs.

Manitou Springs is a really cool town.

It's near Pikes Peak and I think it's, I don't know,

like maybe, I don't know which direction.

So I'm not even going to try, but it's not too,

it's pretty close to where Colorado Springs is.

And there was this really cool cafe called Adams Mountain

Cafe there.

And just like the vibe there, the ambiance in it

is really cool.

And then there's like a little stream that runs

like right behind it that's obviously,

I'm sure coming off the mountain somewhere.

And then it has mountain views all around.

And it's just, so Manitou Springs is a really cool

little town too.

I'm actually going to Colorado in December.

So I'm going to have to make it a point

to go check that out.

Yeah.

So whenever you go, if you forget,

send me a message.

I'll let you know.

I will.

Thank you.

Super cool.

You're welcome.

I'm going to go grab my water bottle real quick.

I meant to get it before we started recording.

So I'll be right back.

No worries.

Yes.

Welcome to my podcast studio,

AKA my closet.

I love it.

Yeah.

It's got a good vibe to it.

Yeah.

When I moved into this apartment,

I looked at this closet and I was like,

this is really nice.

It's a pretty big closet for a one bedroom apartment.

And as it turns out,

it's perfect for putting together a little podcast studio.

It works.

They should have sold it as this is a podcast studio.

That's right.

Exactly.

That's why I've made it.

I love it.

Yeah.

So you went to this little town,

the little Danish town,

which was really cool obviously.

Do you have a bucket list spot

that you would like to get out to and explore,

whether it's like a town or off-roading or anything?

Not off the top of my head.

If there's one place that I've always wanted to take my

Cross Trek to is probably Noam, Alaska.

Oh, nice.

I think that would be a gorgeous road trip.

I mean a long road trip,

a gorgeous road trip.

Yeah.

There's a woman that her name is Asha Slaw.

And she, I had her,

I don't remember which episode she was on.

She's actually from Europe and somewhere.

I can't remember that either.

But her one of her lifelong dreams was to come over here

and drive across the U.S.

from the East Coast to Alaska.

And she's done that twice.

And now she liked it so much,

she actually moved to Alaska.

That is so cool.

I love that.

And she has a very rare Subaru,

what is it?

Forester.

And her forester,

I think she said there was like maybe

only like 220 of them made.

And she just, yeah,

she just happened to come across it

and found a guy that was selling it

and bought it and fitted it out

so that she could sleep in it

and travel in it.

Yeah.

She traveled by herself with it across the U.S.

like two or three times.

That's cool.

That is a goal.

That is a good goal.

Yeah.

And whatever it is she does for a living,

she obviously has the means to work on the road.

And that's really cool too.

Like that's a huge blessing

to be able to do something like that.

Oh, for sure.

Yeah.

So out there where you are,

when you're hitting trails

meeting up with people,

whatever it may be,

who are some of the people you get out with the most?

I try to invite family and friends.

I would definitely say that I'm probably the biggest

off-road influence in the family.

Not a lot of people wake up and are like,

man, I think I could go and hit some dirt

in my car and have some fun.

So I try to encourage my family and friends

to come with,

mostly just other big,

small, medium-sized groups

of just other super enthusiasts.

Okay.

And do you get together,

do y'all have any other people that go out with you

from other car brands?

Sometimes.

The last run we did,

we had Tacomas, Wranglers,

everything.

Okay.

That's cool.

Yeah, it's nice when you can get together

with other people

and actually all get along well together.

That's important.

Yeah, for sure.

Have you had any really challenging off-road experiences

or places that you went to?

The San Bernardino trip that I did

was probably the most challenging.

Only in that one spot, though,

where I slammed the car down.

Yeah.

But I wish I could remember his account name right now.

But I had a couple local other cross-track owners.

KT Trek was there.

And they were just like,

oh, you could do it.

Your cross-track could totally do it.

It's going to crawl this thing.

And I'm like, I don't know.

I was pretty nervous.

And I went up it and I just slammed down.

And I was like,

well, I give it a valiant effort.

Now I'm going to back down

and go the long way.

Yeah.

Sometimes, you know,

you've got to take the loss

and go the best route.

But yeah, I remember,

because, see, when I was in Colorado,

I had Java Wagon previously,

known as Java Wagon,

and Shadow Roo, Chris.

So it was Juan and Chris.

And we had been,

we were at,

oh, what is it?

I'm trying to remember the name of the park,

Garden of the Gods.

And they took us on a trail that goes like up above

and behind Garden of the Gods.

And it goes like way up

and beautiful views and everything.

And we got to this spot that was very uneven

and it was just like small little hills

that you had to navigate

to get to this other spot.

And they were trying to help me get through it.

And I went over this one little hump

and my front bumper was like hitting the other side,

not like the bottom of it,

but pretty much straight on.

And I'm like, there's just no way I'm getting over this.

And of course, they both had lifted outbacks

and Juan had a steel bumper.

So when he went over it,

he just hit and kept going.

Chris went over it and hit his bumper

and it flexed and he just doesn't care.

He kept going too.

But like, I,

but I mean, that was my very,

very first off-road experience ever,

especially in my car.

So looking back now,

I'm like, I can almost maybe not guarantee,

but I'm pretty sure I could have found a way through that

because I know a lot more now.

I know my car more.

And, you know, it's like something that I would,

it'd be kind of fun to go back there

and try to tackle it again,

although the terrain's probably changed

in the past three years.

But yeah, that was probably the most challenging thing

that I've ever hit

because I couldn't even get through.

But it's fun, you know,

it's fun trying to challenge yourself

and find out what your car is capable of.

And as many people know,

these cars are way more capable

than they get credit for sometimes,

especially from other brands.

For sure.

I feel like,

I feel like Subaru is definitely slept on

in a certain degree.

It's definitely more capable than a lot of people think.

Yeah.

Other than your car slamming down,

do you have any other like stories,

funny stories with other people

that, you know, something has happened?

Oh, there have been,

there's so many good stories

I could tell you about that car.

I'm trying to think of a,

oh yes, the same San Bernardino trail.

This was actually the first time

that my boyfriend blew out to California

and I took him on that trail.

I was like, oh, that'd be kind of a fun date idea.

And we were coming back down the hill.

We got separated.

We ended up taking a route

that took us just down the mountain.

So we weren't upset because we were kind of tired.

Yeah.

And I was like, you know,

I think it'd be really, really fun

if we hit this dirt road going like 50

and he's like, okay, sure.

And so, you know, I'm gunning it

and we start creeping up to like the 60 range.

And all of a sudden,

it's like way too late.

It's probably like less than 100 feet in front of me.

It's this giant,

like just, you know, kind of like ramp looking.

Oh yeah.

And I hit, I'm like brace yourself.

And I hit it and we must have jumped

at least like two to three feet in the air

and just slammed the car down.

And I just kept going

and he just looked over at me and he's like,

you really are crazy.

I like it.

Oh, that's awesome.

I, the closest I've ever come

to actually jumping a car

with Milton Silver Bullet XV.

Yes.

And it was actually out there

before Subifest, California

and we were going down this trail

and he was doing like 60 miles an hour

and it was pretty smooth for the most part

but there was this one little spot where

he slowed down before he got to it

but I think we got a little bit of air.

But that was fun.

I love that.

It's definitely an experience.

Like when you're, there's the feeling

of I'm going to die

and then when you land it's like,

I want to do that again.

Yeah, like, okay, that wasn't so bad.

That was a lot of fun.

Yeah, where can I go do that again?

Yes.

Have you ever gotten stuck?

I have.

I have a couple of times.

One of my favorite times

and I probably shouldn't admit this

so if the property owner is listening,

I apologize.

It was, we went up to Julian,

me and my best friend

and it was snowing

and I was like, okay, you know,

I have a lift.

I have off-road tires.

The suspension is pretty well dialed in.

I bet you anything.

I could just go out there and come back

and she's like, I don't know about that one.

I'm like, okay, we'll see.

So it's just like a big field of snow?

Yeah, it was just like this big field

and there's like a couple of fence posts

but I didn't see any fencing.

Gotcha.

So I just drove between the fence posts

and I just drove out there

and all of a sudden we just weren't moving

and I was like, okay, well,

I'm going to put a reverse.

So I put a reverse.

We're still not moving

and I'm like, well,

and she looks at me and she goes,

ah.

I told you.

I'm like, I know.

And I don't think the property owner ever knew

because we ended up just pushing out.

It was totally fine.

But I was like, yeah, sorry.

I hope there's nothing underneath this now.

You can build me.

It's okay.

Yeah, yeah.

So and I'm guessing you've driven through mud too.

Oh, yes.

So much mud.

The first, the first thing I did when I bought that car was actually

I took it off-roading

and I drove through this

and I think it's on my Instagram too.

I drove through this gigantic

because it just had like rained buckets

and I drove through this gigantic puddle

and it was just,

it was so, so much fun.

And then at the rally race too,

we got a lot of mud because they wet the track.

Oh, nice.

Nice.

So it was definitely a muddy day.

Do you prefer mud over snow?

Yeah.

I, I, yeah.

I do.

Yeah.

I mean, I,

I love driving through mud

but I haven't driven through snow that much.

So I can't really say that like,

I love one more than the other.

I have driven through snow

but I haven't

driven through snow like,

I haven't driven through proper snow in my car

and,

but I've done it in others cars

and it's, it's so much fun.

But I also haven't

experienced driving through snow

to the extent that other people

talk about on the podcast

of places that they've been,

although I have gone through some pretty legit snow

because when we, when me and my son

went to Lake Tahoe and we met up with

Colby who goes by a subi runner,

he had,

he still had his first gen cross track

and he let me and my son drive

and this was during my son's spring break

so it was in March.

So there's still, and they had had a pretty decent snow storm

before we went out there.

So there was a, there was a decent amount

of snow around places that we went

and that was, it was so much fun

and I wanted to do that again so bad.

I would,

that would be a lot of fun.

The snow, snow is definitely a hidden miss

for me at least.

I've had more near death experiences

in snow than mud.

Yeah, no, mud is definitely fun.

It's just not, I mean the nice thing

about snow is if it gets packed up

in your wheel wells it can melt out.

The mud sticks there forever

and it's so hard to get out.

And you have to break out the power washer

and it's, yeah.

The best way to get it out

is if it gets rained and there's like puddles

on the road, that works wonders for it.

Puddle splashing is definitely

one of my favorite things.

Yeah, it's definitely a,

by the way I saw the picture

that you sent me with the engraved

shifter knob. That was really nice.

They did a great job with that.

Thank you. You're welcome.

Yeah, that's my favorite mod.

By far.

Yeah.

So I know that you've been to

how many times have you been

and like what has your

experience been like at each one?

I've been to three now.

I went to my first

Subifest in 2022.

That's when I was there.

I think you are right.

I think it was 2022, not 2023.

And I really enjoyed it.

The culture was just like,

it was like, oh there's other

people that are just like me.

Like we're going to have so much fun.

This is going to be great.

And I loved it every moment of it.

So I went back in 2023

and I actually put my car in the show.

Oh, cool.

And I have pictures on my Instagram too.

I have so many pictures.

It's like such an experience.

It's like, oh, I'm going to go back in 2024.

I did not go back in

2024.

My dad had passed away on Martin Luther King day.

Oh, I'm sorry.

It was too much for me.

And I was just like, I'd rather

spend time with the family

than drive to Arcadia

and go to Subifest.

Which, you know,

it was an experience.

And then we went back this year

and I was in the show again.

And it's

also a fun experience. The nighttime

aspect of it, I think was

definitely better.

Except the mosquitoes.

Yeah.

Yeah, I don't think I've talked to anybody

since they did that in the evening.

I'm guessing

that it was probably cooler

though for that.

It was

still hot.

Yeah, it was still hot.

But when the sun went down around like 7.30,

it got pretty cold. It was pretty nice.

Okay, that's good.

So what was your experience like

being in the show, having your car

go versus just being a spectator?

I feel like being a spectator,

you have more

freedom to kind of like roam around

and like leave when you want.

When you're in the show, you are

like stuck there because you can't move your car

out of the show.

So I

we came up with

me, my boyfriend and my best friend

that I would go by

annually to participate in the car show

and then we could go annually

to actually just go.

Yeah.

Definitely two different experiences

because when you're in the show,

it's kind of hard to roam around

when people come up and want to talk

to you about your car.

So it's like, yeah, there's definitely

I mean, I like it either way,

regardless, but there's definitely

two very different sides to it.

Yeah, when I was out there

at the show, it was

I don't think

I very rarely went out of my

booth because

I went out early, I tried to get everything

set up and then I went and walked around

and talked to people, met people that I

hadn't met in person yet

and I did a lot of that before the show

started, but once it started

I was in my booth for pretty much the whole day

and it was hard to

get out, but it was

a great experience for me too.

Yeah.

That's where I met you.

Yeah, and although now,

with the not having to take

all of my equipment, being at events

is just such a game changer

having the road wireless pro because

I'm not stuck in one spot

and I wish I would have had

something like that there, but

at the same time, it is

kind of nice to be in one spot

where people can come to you

but

there's pros and cons to it

but it was nice.

I enjoyed it.

Yeah, for sure.

So what would you

or how would you say that your cross-track

best matches your personality?

I definitely say

our attitudes match quite

swimmingly.

Because when I'm in a mood

I can tell about the cars in a mood

because when I want

to go fast, it knows I want to go fast.

And when I'm

I think definitely our attitude

is in sync

which is funny to say about a car

because it's inanimate object

but it's more than a car.

It definitely is more than a car.

Yeah, I mean

for people that are like

that I don't know

we just we get connected to our cars

and

it becomes more than

just a car becomes more than just

something on wheels

you know you've got people that

buy a car because it's like

they like the car.

They want this to be their next car

and not to say that other people

don't connect with their cars the way that we do

but I think there's just

a little more to it

and it's a lot more

kind of a lot more

meaningful relationship

if you want to call it that.

Yeah, for sure.

There's definitely a little bit more

to the

relationship of the car when you are

like this is my car

and I'm gonna you name it too

what you name it that's game over.

Well and then you know

adding mods and doing

stuff to the car

I've never done anything to a car

except for change out like the radio

and the speakers but I've never done

anything to kind of

change it's personality

other than this car

and it's fun.

Yeah, it is

it's like it's limited list to how

you design it

and how you create it.

Yeah and then you can change it too

you can completely do something different

and start all over again

and do different colors

and whatever you know you can just

there's so many different ways that you can take it

and you know I mean there's people that

cars specifically for Halloween

and then they do something specifically for Christmas

so you know you have different

themes that you can do with it

and that's fun as well.

Yeah.

So if you could describe your cross trick

in one word what would it be?

Ooh.

It's a tough question.

That is a tough question

in one word

I have two I'm trying to decide which one

I should pick. Use them both.

I would have to say

courageous

and limitless

and

the reason I have to pick those

is because no matter the situation

that I've been in in that car

whether I was stuck

whether I got pulled over

whether I was taken a friend home

like I felt

the best form of who I am

in that moment

like getting in that car

I just feel like

just

calm

I don't know how to explain it.

You get connected with it too.

Yeah.

And then just limitless

I've done some really stupid things

and I've done some really scary things in that car

and it's never let me down

it's never broken down

knock on wood

it's

one of the quick side story

we're spinning off

in

2024 there was this fire

I used to live in Faubric and Faubric is famous for fires

and there was this fire that came

right up to our property line

and there was two ways out

there's only two ways out because I lived on the top of a mountain

one way was blocked off for over a year

because there was a sinkhole and the road flooded out

so they blocked it off

and the other way out was

literally through a wall of fire

I'm not even kidding when I say just a wall of fire

and you know the officers are telling us

like hey you need to evacuate

I'm like sir

this way is blocked this way is fire

he's like oh I don't know what to tell you

I'm like okay we'll give it a whirl

so I got in my car

and I had all my

like personal effects that I want to save

and I just gunned it through

my neighbor's field

just through this wall of flames

and I had my eyes closed for at least two seconds

and I opened it and there's just like

you know flames come over the windshield

and just straight on through

and I just went on the road and drove off

and there was not a single scar on the car

and I was just like wow

wow

yeah that's pretty crazy

yeah

and I was just you know I got my mom out of there too

so it was just

it was great I

limitless and courageous

definitely the two words I would describe

that was a very good

thank you

you're welcome

if you were able to drive somebody else's Subaru

for a day who's would it be and why

oh

also a good question

I would definitely have to say

OC Turbo Joe's

because that is a beautiful car

and I mad respect

how he's built it

and I would love to

take a spin in it

because I modeled my car after his

yeah

that would be

yeah I think it would be fun to

drive it through

crazy terrain just to see how capable

that thing is and what it can do

and how it handles it

I think that would be a lot of fun

oh yeah good answer

thank you

you're welcome

how has owning your Subaru changed your life

oh it's

because I hear this so often

I would say

pretty drastically

when I bought the car

I knew I was going to buy something reliable

and I was going to buy something safe

because Subaru has been rated

very reliable very safe over the last couple years

and

when I bought it I didn't think I would meet

all these people

beyond podcasts

like I have kids

be like oh that's such a cool car

I want to do that to my car someday

it's opened up this whole new view

of

just how

one small thing

with the Subaru Crosstrek for example

can change so many people's lives

and really just open you up to a bunch of new friendships

and family pretty much

yeah because if you think about

if you hadn't

bought that car

so many of the people that you've met

have never met

that have like

enhanced your life

it's kind of

scary to think

what if you didn't buy this car

what would you be doing

but we're thankful we're here

I am very thankful

Subaru is actually how I met my

boyfriend

we met on Facebook dating

and I had a picture of my Crosstrek on their

Alice and he said I drive a Subaru

I love your car

and that was the first thing we said to each other

and

now he's moving in next year

so Subaru is definitely

good it's

always going to be a family

it's always going to be in the family

and that was my last question

is do you think you'll always own a Subaru

and it sounds like yes

yep

so now we can get into this last segment

to get to know you a little bit more

who is Carter as in describe yourself

how would I describe myself

well I'm tall I'm 6 foot 5

oh wow

yes

I'm short

only 5 foot 7

so I would look very very short

next to you

it's okay you know

it happens

I get called

tall all the time and all these nicknames

so it happens

for a second being that tall

you fit in the Crosstrek very well

headroom

not at first

now I bought the

Desert does it

billet seat jackers

that raised the front of the seat up

and I took the two bolts out of the rear seat

and I moved them back a couple inches

on the tracks

and it's very very comfortable

oh nice

yeah

I was just when you said

6 foot 5 I'm like oh wait a minute

the Crosstrek isn't a big car

but it sounds like you figured it out that's good

yeah a little modification

you know

of course

okay sorry continue

very good

I don't really know how to describe myself

yeah just tall

I am very friendly

way too outgoing

yeah

I don't really know how to describe myself

with that one

what is the favorite memory from your childhood

I have so many

my favorite childhood

memory

probably when I was a very little kid

now I don't remember the exact age but

my first

and

this is

the first key moments in my life where I got into cars

was my parents

I think it was a birthday gift gave me one of those pullback

yellow Volkswagen Beetles

nice

and it was at that moment I knew I was like

oh man cars there's something about them

oh yeah

and if you ask my mom

she will say that my first word was truck

okay

and you know my name is Carter

so something

something went somewhere

definitely one of my favorite childhood memories

I still have that car

I would love to own

like an older

Beetle they're so cool

they're like one of the coolest cars ever

they look so good

oh yeah

when I was in high school there was a guy that lived in my neighborhood

and I didn't have a car

and so I rode with him

to high school

for a while

I don't remember like why I stopped but

I think it was like a baby blue Beetle

and

it was just beautiful color

yeah it was just so cool like

hearing the engine you know and the shifting

and everything like that's one of the other reasons

like that car

seeing like knowing that you have to shift gears

in that car and just

I don't know because I've always had a fascination

with manual cars

and that's part of it

was from that car and it just I

just really thought about that

yeah that was my first car

was a 74 Super Beetle

really

yeah very nice

it was two tone it was purple and cream

that is super cool

man

where is it at now

I don't know

what happened

well so

it was a gift from my mom

and then she took it back when I moved out

so I don't know if she still has it

but it was a pretty rough shape when I last

okay gotcha

yeah all right

what is it that you do for a living

so I actually

work in the live events industry

and I manage and set up

all the lighting sound

and video for like concerts such as like

Post Malone

what's another one

at Montana under the big sky

so we do all the rigging

all the lighting all the staging

and for big concerts and corporate

events that's really cool how'd you get

into that

I was actually a theater kid

yeah and I did all

the lighting for all our productions

in high school and middle school

and I was like this is pretty nifty

I wonder if I could do this in real life

and I ended up

figuring out that you can in live events

so I got back into it out of high school

very nice that's really cool

would you say that

is your dream job

or do you have a dream

job beyond that

I would definitely say it's not my dream

job I've been doing it

for almost 13

14 years now

so it's kind of like

I'm like ready to move on

my absolute dream job

when I was growing up was to be a mechanic

and I

went to school for it and I got my degree in

automotive engineering and technology

and I was like

this is gonna be so fun and after the 15th

oil change and like 30th tire rotation

I was like you know I'm gonna get burnt out

working on my own cars

so definitely

what I would like to do next is

work in Hollywood and do

lighting on like film sets

for like television that would be cool

I mean you have experience

so

I guess it's one of those things

where you just do everything you can to find a way

to make it happen

this is true I just got moved to LA

but that is

future problems

yeah work on today

for now

what is something that

really scares you

something that really scares me

has a good question

newspaper

as far as

headlines

the feeling of newspaper

and just

I'm getting chills just thinking about it

something about it

it makes

it's like a sensory thing I think

it just absolutely

I'm getting chills just thinking about it

I knew somebody

that was the same way with just

like paper like paper that you

put into a printer

okay yeah so

I get that

what is something that really excites you

also a good question

something that really excites me

tomorrow

because tomorrow is always a new day

and there's always something new that I want to try

and something that I want to do

very good

I always give every day 110%

which is kind of bad

and kind of good because I wake up at

5 30 and I go to sleep around

10 30 to 11

how much can I fit in one day

yeah I get that

I have trouble

going to sleep

it's hard for me to get to sleep sometimes

because there's always so much on my mind

it's definitely hard

for me to stay asleep which really sucks

but also a lot of times

I don't want to go to sleep because

I want to keep doing stuff

like I know I need sleep

but I don't want to sleep

I like being awake I like doing things

you know there's so much more to do

yeah there's not enough time in the day

no

okay what is something that makes

you want to get out of bed every day

that was a good question

I have a few of them

I would say driving

I love driving

yeah that's a very good answer

I do too that's why I have 132,000 miles

on the car that I haven't even had

for four years

four and a half years

I'm catching up to you pretty quickly

yeah I

absolutely love driving

but what is something that makes you want

to stay in bed

work

yeah

100% I get that

it's a necessity but yeah

work

what would be your best bit of device

to give to someone about anything

about anything

never say no

but also don't

jump to saying yes

it's because a lot of the times

if you say no to something

you'll miss out on a much

bigger

thing that you might be really good at

and enjoy but if you say yes

and you suck at it then you know like hey

I won't do it again because there's been

several instances where I've said no

and I'm like man that could have been

so much more

and there's been several instances where I've said yes

and it's been like

just delightful

yeah that's good

I like that

was there anything else you welcome

is there anything else you want to share before we

get out of here

no I think we covered it

good about okay I can't think of anything that

would

yeah no I think we covered

a good amount okay yeah well thank you

so much for your time and

hope you had a good time and

looking forward to putting this episode

out and for people to hear

I'm so excited thank you so much

for having me I really appreciate it

you're welcome and

we'll keep in touch and

get some pictures and stuff from you to

put on your episode real

but I hope you have a good night

you as well alright thank you

thank you you're welcome

and there you have it

another episode down episode 210

that seems kind of crazy

that we're in the 200s now

and I still have I have guests

lined up I have guests lined up

through I think

through 14 maybe

and those are just ones that I've actually

communicated with and said hey let's

put something together but

I still have a list of guests that I need

to get to so if you're

listening to this and you know that we've

talked that you talked about you being

on the podcast I haven't forgotten about

you I'm just working my way through

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a list so

please please stick around

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it really means a lot

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well that's his website but his

Instagram account is Lifted Subarus

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S&YE210 - XTrek Alice

Subaru WRX

Jeep Commander

BMW M3

Jeep Wrangler

Subaru Crosstrek

Volkswagen Beetle

Type Super Beetle

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