On Our Best Behavior
On Our Best Behavior is a heartwarming podcast where Mom, Kelli and 15-year-old son, Maccoy delve into the complexities of school, life's struggles, highs and lows, and various challenges. With a blend of humor and sincerity, they navigate through these topics while sharing their own experiences and insights. Their conversations are not only relatable but also enlightening, offering listeners a fresh perspective on everyday issues. Alongside their engaging discussions, they welcome intriguing guests, adding a dynamic element to each episode. Tune in to join this duo on their journey of growth, learning, and discovery.
On Our Best Behavior
Shifting Gears with Mike Finnegan
Maybe you've pondered the deeper questions of life, like the true essence of respect and how to instill it in our kids. Join me as I also celebrate personal triumphs, like shedding 33 pounds, and set the stage for a sun-soaked Florida vacation.
Today we talk to Mike Finnegan (Roadkill and Finnegan's Garage) about how his journey into automotive journalism was anything but planned, and yet it shaped his future in ways he couldn't have dreamed. Listen as he recounts the serendipitous events that led him here, and how a simple car show encounter launched a career fueled by passion rather than paper qualifications. We dive into deep conversations about success, experience, and memory-making, values that have driven both life choices and the offbeat charm of the Roadkill show. This episode is a celebration of creativity and the allure of the open road.
But it's not all about the cars; it's about the connections they forge. You'll hear how a move from California to Georgia reshaped Finnegan's world, balancing the demands of family life with the thrill of car restoration and YouTube content creation. We'll explore the practicalities of DIY projects, the financial savvy behind a cross-country move, and the everyday hilarity that comes with parenting intertwined with car enthusiasm. Every anecdote, from road trip misadventures to drag racing dreams, is a slice of life that resonates with anyone who's ever juggled passions, family, and the occasional wrench thrown into the works. So buckle up, because this episode is all about the drive through life's highway—with a healthy dose of laughter and learning along the way.
Hey guys, welcome back to Honor Best Behavior. I'm Mack and you're here with Kelly.
Speaker 2:That was getting better.
Speaker 1:I tried. Was it good?
Speaker 2:Yes, it was good, I loved your energy, and next time I would just say all that energy and then say- Did I say too slow. No, you just need to say it like this You're listening to Honor Best Behavior and you're here with Mack and Kelly.
Speaker 1:Okay, so yeah, you just said you're here with Kelly.
Speaker 2:I guess my bad. Macky, I'm happy to see you. This week has been a single mom week. Justin's in a different state for work and it's just the two of us. I've been getting you to school by myself every day, trying to feed you by myself every day, trying to keep you alive by myself every day trying to not choke you every day. What? Just kidding, like last night when I got mad at you and I was about ready to come. Yank that cord out of the wall for your Xbox.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought you yelled for me, oh my gosh, I yelled for you and I yelled so loud. Bella was stomping her foot. Don't do that.
Speaker 1:I was wondering what that was about.
Speaker 2:You could hear her stomping.
Speaker 1:I thought you were just yelling at the dogs because I heard your stomping, so I thought that's what I thought it was. I heard you yell a little louder and I was like, okay, I'm going to go back to this. My gosh, you were on your way down the stairs and I said coming out.
Speaker 2:I was like you're lucky that you got up here, because if I got down there first I was yanking that cord out. You just can go there. I was just going. Whoop, really. Yup, that was my plan, that was hot.
Speaker 1:Uh-oh.
Speaker 2:So I will never stomp on the ground for you to come upstairs, because I have childhood trauma from my parents doing that. So, I hated when they would do that, so I refuse to stomp for you, and also I really love to sing as loud as I could in my bedroom.
Speaker 2:I thought I was just blending in with the musicians, and then they would stomp on the ground and be like Kelly, shut up, you sound like a dying cow. Because I heard like la, la, la and they heard maaaah, traumatizing. All right, so I learned a new word this week.
Speaker 1:What is that, riz Riz?
Speaker 2:And I didn't know what it was. And I came home and I'm like hey, I heard a new term today, riz, I never hear you say it. And I said what does it mean? And what was your answer?
Speaker 1:It's like you're really good at like pulling bitches.
Speaker 2:And I kind of felt like a failure as a mom. So I just want to kind of revisit that and tell you that you shouldn't call girls bitches, because we're not bitches.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2:We're nice young women who deserve respect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you do. It's just like a sexier word.
Speaker 2:Sexier.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I just want to let you know that if I ever see you or hear you call a girl, you'll bitch, hey, bitch.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not like that I would slap you. No, no, I would never do that.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, I'm just saying I just want to make sure that when you use that term you realize like that's actually not okay to say to women.
Speaker 1:Yup.
Speaker 2:Okay, you always treat women with respect and kindness.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, why is it so weird? Smell, that thing is weird.
Speaker 2:What's going on? It's oil. It's bringing the vibe.
Speaker 1:No, it smells, weird.
Speaker 2:I'm down 33 pounds, 33 pounds. We are going to Florida and I'm really excited because.
Speaker 1:How long are we going for anyways?
Speaker 2:Four nights, I think.
Speaker 1:Oh, not too much.
Speaker 2:Shut up.
Speaker 1:I'm kidding.
Speaker 2:Okay. So I'm really excited because usually when I go on a vacation I have to like buy all new clothes, but I'm just really excited that I'm going to actually fit into all my summer clothes. So, beach body, come in. Want to know some shit that happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 2:I was downstairs doing some laundry.
Speaker 1:Oh, not this. I also have something crazy to tell you as well.
Speaker 2:It's related to this. Are you going to remember? Yeah, I'll remember. You already know what I'm going to tell you yeah. Okay, I'm down there and I'm barefoot and I'm walking and all of a sudden I step down and it feels like my foot is getting like shocked or like there's like some electrocution happening and I'm like, oh, what is that? And I pick up my foot. There is a goddamn bee under my foot, it's a rattlesnake, and it's stung me.
Speaker 2:It's stung me Like do you know, if I try to like randomly step on a bee barefoot, like impossible, what are the odds of that happening? So it hurts so bad. So I'm like hobbling back upstairs. I'm like Mackie, look at my foot, Do you see the stinger in there? Because it's still hurting so bad. And you're like I don't know. I'm like go get me a fingernail clippers because, you know me, I'm just going to dig it out and so I tried to dig it out.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I got it. So then I'm going on the doctor Google like oh my gosh, what do I do? This hurts so bad. And it said that if you mix hot water and baking soda together and kind of make a paste and you paste it on the sting, it neutralizes the bee sting and it worked. Like as soon as I did that the pain went away and it hasn't hurt since. But what the fuck, that's weird.
Speaker 1:All right, you ready to hear my story? So you know that, blanket, that you're talking about that red one. You're like you can always use this one because I got it for you. It was so weird. I was taking it out and there was like a dead bee on it.
Speaker 2:What the fuck yeah, I know, I know what's going? On. So on this side of the house I've seen bees going in, so they must be getting in, and I've tried to like spray it with like wasp killer so, but I don't see him in the winter, so that must be the ones that still got in from the summertime. So in the summer we're going to have to keep our eye out for that.
Speaker 1:That's weird. They're probably living in our house.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably. But at least there's only at least we've only seen like one here or there. And better than mice, better than snakes, a couple bees.
Speaker 1:And other mice.
Speaker 2:No, they poop everywhere.
Speaker 1:A good point.
Speaker 2:And they like get in your cupboards and they poop in the food and they get in the food. No way, bees.
Speaker 1:Addy poop, we're kidding. Oh my gosh, I was joking, oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So yeah, that's all I got to say about that. I thought it would be fun, since your New Year's resolution was to get your permit, your driver's permit. I thought it would be fun to ask you a question on the podcast every week about like a practice driver's permit question.
Speaker 1:I don't have it. I don't have the class yet, bro, I know, but I'm going to prepare you so that when you get there, you're going to do it. It's really hard. I've tested every day. I already know that I already need your help on that class, Bro. It's frankly like the hardest one of the hardest classes.
Speaker 2:So I took this driver's practice test online to get the questions and I'm not going to lie, I'm going to finish it because we had to get going, because there was like 40 questions but I took some pictures of them because I'm going to ask you one every week and I think they're going to start easy and get hard. But if you're listening to this, it's surprising what you think you know and like you're wrong, because once you get your like I had to take my once I got my driver's license. I never have had to take that test again and I've never had to take my permit test again, my driver's test again. I'm sure things change or I just don't remember from when I got my license, you know 500 years ago. So it feels like all right. So first question ready Yep.
Speaker 2:A dashed white line next to your lane means that you can make left turns, you can change lanes, you can increase your speed or reduce your spree Spree.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait, wait, reduce your speed.
Speaker 2:You can make a white line on the road. What does it mean? You can do? Like a dash, like this no, like it's like dash, dash, dash, dash, like white, you know, like the normal road. So it's black top, so it's well, I guess. Usually it's yellow in the middle, but sometimes it's white, those dashes. So when they're white, what does it mean? What does it mean Make left turns, change lanes, increase your speed or reduce your speed?
Speaker 1:Change lanes.
Speaker 2:Good job. I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1:I was locked in.
Speaker 2:Bro, I have faith.
Speaker 1:I told you.
Speaker 2:I have faith, like I honestly was, like I don't know if he's gonna get that.
Speaker 1:I knew that one. That was actually really easy. Oh my gosh. I was like you can't. You can't go over a straight line. It can't be like if it's filled in you can't go over it.
Speaker 2:That means, you can't change it. Yes, good job, you can't change. How did you learn that?
Speaker 1:I learned it from how you drive.
Speaker 2:The best driver ever.
Speaker 1:You know, learn it All right.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, today we have a very special guest for you. I'm so excited. I'm really sorry if I have interviewed you, but this is my favorite interview I've done so far.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's with Finnegan.
Speaker 1:Oh great.
Speaker 2:So, anyway, I hope you enjoy this and we'll see you later. Bye, you're listening to another episode of Honor Best Behavior and today I have a very special guest for you. He is a self-taught welder, engine builder and fabricator, former Hot Rod Magazine technical staff editor, co-host of Roadkill, youtuber at Finnegan's Garage and champion drag race boat. I can't even speak. Champion drag boat racer, mike Finnegan, welcome.
Speaker 3:Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:So introductions, tell me what I missed or got wrong there.
Speaker 3:I gotta be honest, most of that I've forgotten, so it sounded way cooler than it feels, so thank you Well good.
Speaker 2:I'd like to remind people of all their accomplishments.
Speaker 3:I have the worst memory ever, so legit a lot of the things you said. I was like, oh yeah, I did that. That was really fun.
Speaker 2:So backstory for me, how I know about you is my husband is a big car guy husband his whole life, and whenever he has the remote at home and we're watching a car show always. And so you know I've seen a lot of car shows and I found myself saying, if we're gonna watch a car show, can we at least watch Roadkill, Like I feel like it's relatable, it's funny, it's always an adventure, always something sweet. And more recently I noticed him watching Finnegan's Garage, which is your YouTube channel, and I'm like hey, is that Finnegan from Roadkill? Why is he opening a bunch of packages? What is he doing?
Speaker 2:And he's like oh yeah, he does this too, so I love that.
Speaker 3:I'm so glad to hear that. Yeah, I am. For a while I had four jobs and I'm down to three now because I was just kind of burning out a little bit. But yeah, I still do Roadkill every month. It's one of the few might be the only motor trend show still that doesn't have real seasons. Like, we don't ever shut down. We work, we do a new episode every month and then I do my YouTube show and then I have the apparel company.
Speaker 2:Then I'm dad and I'm right and yeah yeah, I've gotten merch for my husband from there, so I appreciate that.
Speaker 3:Thank you. Pretty much all that goes right into the crank case of my uh Bell air, which is usually broken, but not today.
Speaker 2:Woo, you're getting there today is not broken.
Speaker 3:I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 2:So let's let's turn back time to the beginning of Mike Finnegan. You, you grow up, you go to college, you get a degree in journalism. Is that what you wanted to do? Did you wanna write for magazines or edit, or what was your, what was your View of the future?
Speaker 3:I never had one really, and I still don't like if someone says you know, what do you want to do in five years? I don't know. I don't look that far ahead at all I'm. It is probably not a great way to live your life, but I I'm usually looking three to four weeks ahead and that's about it. And so I did go to community college puppy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we have to. We were. We were in our neighborhood about twenty minutes ago singing Christmas carols and I left to come here, and so I think everyone's getting home in a minute. Now we have two dogs, two young rescues are gonna go ballistic when my kids come through the door, so I but yeah, I over here yeah, there's so great.
Speaker 3:I didn't have a plan, I just thought I graduated high school, I thought, well, you're supposed to go to college. But but I was the kid that I never saw my guidance counselor in high school, except for a few times. I got into fights and I didn't take the SATs. I didn't even know where they were. How you did that, I don't know. I just I just did what I thought I was supposed to do, which is go to community college, and I was in there for I don't know so, three or four years, you know, not earning an A, a until finally I met a guy named Courtney Hallowell who worked in a magazine called mini truck, and I met him at a car show and he's walking around with his camera and he's taking pictures. And you know what are you doing? Said why I go to car shows and I take photos of these cool trucks and I go home and I write stories about them and they put them in a magazine, and I was like that sounds incredible.
Speaker 2:That's an option.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was one of those things where it's like I didn't know there was a job for that. That's incredible. And so I asked him you know, how do you get that job? What do you, what do you gotta do? And he basically coached me through my last two semesters of college via email and told me what courses to take and I graduated.
Speaker 3:As soon as I graduated, I went and applied for a job at many truck and magazine and was really under qualified for the job Probably not a very good writer, definitely not a great photographer, but I had built this mini truck and they saw the truck and they were like well, we can teach you to write and take photos. At least you're into this. So that's the truck is what got me the job and that, looking back on it, building cars is kind of that's kind of the theme of my life like I just realized it was talking about this the other day to somebody was that I met my wife while driving a boat that I had built. I got the job at mini truck in because I had built a truck and so and then you have a wife because you built a boat.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I literally built a boat and was driving the boat and my wife was just sitting on the shore of the Colorado river with some friends whose boat had broken down, and so I gave her a boat ride, and then that was it. She fell in love with me because you know, why would you?
Speaker 2:And did you fix their boat to?
Speaker 3:I know I just left and I took the girls for a ride. Yeah, I took the three girls for a ride and left the dude to work on his boat. You're?
Speaker 2:like OK, of you three, I pick you to be my forever.
Speaker 3:She was really cool. So, yeah, I, you know, plan At any given moment I'm just like whatever's in front of me, that's, that's what I'm doing, and then Maybe a few weeks after that, you know, but not not really for.
Speaker 2:So I always ask people about their like what kind of what made them decide what path they wanted to go on? Because I do this podcast with my son and he is 14, almost 15, and that is a constant conversation in our household is what are you going to do when you grow up? What are you going to be when you grow up? And I, to this day, as a grown woman who has a job with kids, that I'm trying to like Get them to figure out what they want to do. Like I still don't know what I would want to be when I grew up if I could start all over. Right, that's, that's a challenging question and, like you said, you don't even know what half of the jobs in the world are like oh, that's an option, I didn't even know that. So I always like to kind of know how people get their start so that I can like show my kids, like see, this is how this person did it, this is how this person did it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, it's super interesting to me that that's how it all worked out for you.
Speaker 3:And I don't think it's a bad idea to you know early on, figure out the path if you can do that. But I, you know my, my parents, were Fairly successful people and you know they were on a path and they were savers and you know that generation, I think Baby boomers, I guess, is what you call them. You know they were, you know get a job, get married, have kids, you know, retire hopefully yeah and after yeah right and that, just that just didn't work for me.
Speaker 3:You know I, I did everything later. I had kids later, I got married later, I, you know I, and to be honest I'm, I'm real big on experiences Because I figure, you know, you're born, you live, you pass away in between there. Have as many memories as you can make, as many memories as you can. None of this. You know the cars and whatever. Now that stuff's coming with me, you know, and so my godfather.
Speaker 2:You always tell me it's just paper, kelly, you can't take it with you when you go.
Speaker 3:You really can't. People say that all the time, but I think a lot of people get caught up in Whatever they think success is, and I think most people are wrong about what real success is. And it has nothing to do with money. You know you need. You need enough to feed yourself and stay warm during the winter and what not everything else after that is just what kind of memories can you make and how much money do you need for those memories to happen?
Speaker 3:Because my dad is a great example of why I live this way is he saved his whole life. He works six days a week, rarely, took a vacation, and when it was time for him to retire he found out he had Parkinson's. And then he did all the things that are on paper, right, but he really didn't get to start enjoying Whatever retirement would have looked like, you know, because it was too late. And so I just look at him and I'm like I'm not waiting. You know I'm. I'll make sure my kids have a roof over their head, but beyond that, you know there's not going to be any money for that.
Speaker 2:Dad had a lot of fun, don't worry.
Speaker 3:There's really not. There might be some crappy old cars, good luck, go ahead, sell them whatever you want. Mom and dad are going to have a lot of fun while we're together and we're able, because that's the other thing is like, you know, the older you get, you know, the less physical, physically able you are to do things that you know you once enjoyed or that you could enjoy.
Speaker 2:You just don't know, right. You don't know how much time you have and you don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 3:Right, right. So I'm a big believer in talk to everybody. Don't say no to a lot of things unless they'll kill you or send you to jail. You know, go ride a jet ski. You know, go snowboard down a mountain. Just do whatever you can to make as many memories as you can. And if that involves cars, awesome cars are great, yeah. So I'm going to screw your kids life all up, if you listen.
Speaker 2:No, no, I mean I would agree with all that. I think that's very good advice, you know, but I also I also like maybe I'm a little bit like your parents where I'm like, okay, well, it's good to live life like that, but also have like a backup plan maybe is okay.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm not saying don't be a productive member of the household. You know, here's the thing it's like. College isn't for everybody. You know, I'm going to teach my kids, if they want to, how to weld, and then, no matter where you are in the world or what's going on in your life, you have something that can earn you money, and pretty good money, and and so you know, even if you don't know what you want to be when you grow up, if you can learn some sort of trade, some sort of skill, you'll be fine. Your whole life you'll be fine. You'll have a waiter and money so that you can go make those memories, yeah.
Speaker 2:Alright, so hot rod magazine all the car guys that I know Dream job to work at hot rod magazine. How did you land that gig?
Speaker 3:Wow, that's another. Don't say no, thing, I had a unless kids say no to drugs.
Speaker 2:But everything else can be.
Speaker 3:Yeah, again there's. There's steps to this. You know if it'll kill you or land you in jail. Yes, right, like you said you know, just say no to that it still fits that yeah right.
Speaker 3:But hot rod came about because I had gotten the job at mini truck and magazine and then I worked there, I think, for two years, learned everything I thought I could. And then I moved to off road magazine and started learning about off road trucks, had a lot of fun there. And then I moved to hot boat magazine, learned what I could there and I just kept moving around and it really none of it was really financially motivated. It was just what can I learn? You know what? What can? What can keep this exciting?
Speaker 2:You said that. So at the one you start moving around not to interrupt you. But is that because? Because they had said when you they hired you at your mini truck job that you didn't necessarily have all the requirements but they like to you were and that you were into it. So then did you start to build on experience?
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, you know what happens is. You know you start working for a truck and the recipe to build a mini truck is pretty standard. You know you lower it, put wheels on it, you paint it, you do a big stereo and after you write enough articles about trucks that are built that way, you realize they're pretty similar and you don't want to write another article about a truck that just might be a different color, you know, might be the only thing that separated from the last one. And so Then I went off road magazine and learn about long travel suspensions in different ways to fabricate things, and that was exciting. And then, you know, after that was like, okay, let's, I just kept Moving every few years, just so I could learn more, because the stuff just fascinates me. It's what keeps me up at night. You know I'll wake up from a dead sleep and go. I want to learn this. I know how to try this. I just figured out how to fix that thing on my car and that's for. My passion is this problem solving and learning skills on cars. And so Eventually I landed at sport truck magazine as the editor which was pretty cool and really good staff of that magazine and I was there three or four years and then the company that owned the magazine shut the magazine down, laid off the entire staff which is weird because we were profitable at the time.
Speaker 3:But they just shut us down and so we all got laid off and for about I don't know four hours I was pretty bummed out about it and then I was like, well, I'm just going to go get another job, go do something else. And I got a call from somebody that knew David Fryberger, who was the editor at Hot Rod Magazine, and they told me Fryberger was looking for a staff editor. And I was like I'm, that's me, I'm there. You know, like I knew I could learn from David Fryberger. I knew that. You know, hot Rod magazine was cool because you could Hot Rod anything.
Speaker 3:You know, while I was there I wrote about rototiller racing. I wrote, yeah, in Arkansas they raised rototillers. It's ridiculous. I wrote an article about I think it was Belt Sander racing, like literal construction tools. Like you know, you can literally write about anything in that magazine. It was fantastic. And I stayed there for oh man, I don't know how long I was there. Basically, I stayed there through the first two years of roadkill and then roadkill had me so busy that finally I just I had to quit Hot Rod and just do roadkill, because roadkill was super fun. And then it took over my life, so how did the concept of roadkill transpire?
Speaker 2:What role did you have in its birth?
Speaker 3:My role was pretty minimal in it, to be honest with you. I worked for David Fryberger. We took a road trip and a couple of the guys that worked for the company the company had a video department and it was these guys were literally working in a closet, like that's how big the video department was. And we took two road trips. One guy went on one, one guy went on the other. They filmed it, edited it and it got put on the Hot Rod magazine YouTube channel and at the same time YouTube paid, I think, 20 channel partners to create big channels with original content on it, because YouTube wanted to go head to head with cable and convince people to cut the cord. So they wanted original programming. And a guy named Angus at our company saw what we were doing, said figure out a name, keep doing it. We're going to put that content on the Motor Trend channel on YouTube.
Speaker 3:And that was how roadkill was born. We were still editors at Hot Rod magazine Monday through Friday and on the weekends we just went and filmed videos. And there was no plan. We didn't even know. We didn't know what the show was, we didn't know what to do. We just were going to film the things we would be doing, regardless of whether or not it was our jobs. And so we just suddenly we had a little bit of money to buy cars and fix them up and road trip, and it was just freedom. It was like, well, no one's no one's telling us what this is supposed to be about, so we're just going to go do what we think is cool, and that's how roadkill was born. I was literally in the right place right time. That's all it was.
Speaker 2:So were they giving you like a budget to spend on the show?
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I don't know what it was, because I wasn't in charge.
Speaker 2:But I mean, that's a pretty fun part like show up and have fun.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of freedom there To this day, like I most of the time, unless it's my idea for the episode, or they ask me to figure out the car where we're going, or whatever it is a lot of the times I just show up, like the last episode. I picked where we were going and then Fryriger picked the car. So I just showed up not knowing what we're going to do and Fryriger bought a boat car and we road tripped it through the dead of winter in Missouri and froze our nuts off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say, sometimes it doesn't always look fun, but you like, at least you guys do laugh a lot, you know.
Speaker 3:Oh, even the ones that you know, there are people that are like that couldn't have been fun. I'm like no dude, I enjoyed it. It was just the torture. You get so cold and the torture gets so bad that you can't do anything but laugh Like the last one. It was a Nissan Versa just piece of crap, compact car that somebody stuck a late 50s boat body on top of, so it had no windows and no roof and I had five layers of clothes on and just couldn't stay warm. There was nothing I could do. I was not going to stay warm, and so you're just driving on the highway laughing because there's nothing else you can do about it.
Speaker 2:You know you have to get there. Getting that isn't going to change the change, the situation.
Speaker 3:No, no, no, Laughter is a good coping mechanism. So, but yeah, a lot of times that's just how it goes, you know.
Speaker 2:I think that is. Yeah, I just really love the concept of roadkill and, as somebody who is, you know, I'm not personally into cars, but it has kind of consumed my life with the people that I've chose to be in it and, yeah, it's very, it's very fascinating. And I think that what I like about roadkill is somebody who that's really not my thing, but I still enjoy watching that show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think. I don't think you have to be a car person at all to watch the show In fact a lot of people.
Speaker 3:that's been the coolest compliment is, I've had so many people tell me because in the beginning, when it was on just on YouTube, it was kids watching it, like five year old kids, and they would. I'd meet these parents in real life and they would tell me I didn't think I was a car guy, but my kid got me watching this and now I just went out and bought an old Chevelle and we're, we're putting a carburetor on it this weekend. And you know, you guys made me realize that I can do this too and I said, yeah, you can. I'm not professionally trained in any of this stuff and I screw stuff up all the time, you know. And but we're not building rockets here, we're not curing cancer. You know, like if you do it wrong, in most cases you're probably not going to die.
Speaker 2:So yeah, pick up a wrench yeah yeah.
Speaker 3:So pick up a wrench, get some friends learn something new, have fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I think that's awesome, like the guys with the kids and the kids are watching the show and then they're like hey dad, we want to do this, and then that's giving them a bonding experience or something to learn together, even.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's the best If. If roadkill has any kind of legacy that's what I hope it is is that it got kids and parents to hang out again and maybe think cars are cool.
Speaker 2:And I want to say I've seen in episodes where you guys will like call out like hey, we're in this area, we're stuck, we need this part or we need help with this or whatever, whatever, and people will come and help. And I think that's cool, that you have just kind of got the public involved with what you're doing as well and making them feel part of something special.
Speaker 3:Oh, dude, that's you know. A lot of people, especially now, criticize the internet and social media and and to a large degree they're right about most of what they're saying, but there's still really fantastic connections with people that happen as a result of that. You know, you can. You don't even have to be somebody on television you know, thanks to the internet.
Speaker 3:If you're broke down somewhere and you need an oddball part, you just find the right Facebook group and somebody's going to help you. You know, somebody's been in your situation, knows what you're going through, knows what you're feeling right now, and they're going to help you. So I love the internet for that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree with that. I always think I'm older, so when I was in high school, there was no internet or even cell phones. So yeah, I think there can be a lot of negative with the internet, but there also can be a lot of positive if people use it in the right light, right?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, totally. I mean, when I was in high school you know I probably close the same page you basically, if you want a road trip, you, you were like a pirate, you know you'd print out like three pages on that quest and hit the road with a treasure map and hope the hell you got there. Like you know, every now and again I've told Fryberg of this. I'm like I want to do an episode where we don't have smartphones.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You know we have a Thomas guide and some tools and nothing else, because it it, you know it's. It's very cool to have all that knowledge and power in the palm of your hand, but it's also made as soft and I mean everybody, including the guys that do road kill Like it's too easy now to get yourself out of a jam with a smartphone. And you know I'm a big believer that at some point the world needs to know how to make the things, not just play with the things. You know, someone needs to be able to fix the hardware to go with all the software we're enjoying right now, and so hopefully, people, hopefully people learn a lot of skills.
Speaker 2:I know, I was just talking to my friend last night actually about this and I'm like do you remember when back in the day, when you'd have to like print off your instructions off of the internet, like on Yahoo maps or whatever, and then you're trying to read like the directions in the dark, then you can't even see the street signs, you have no idea where you are. If you got lost, like you had to try to locate a pay phone hope that you had some quarters and hope that you were in an okay part of the neighborhood.
Speaker 2:Kids never have to worry about that anymore.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, we've got tracking ships and kids now and I mean like the idea that you know people still get lost now just blows my mind. You know, like people get lost all the time and they come down my street because my street at one point was a highway a long time ago and now it's not a highway. But occasionally the GPS will send people down my dead end street and they're just I don't know where do I go, what do I do?
Speaker 2:How am I in a neighborhood?
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, well, you turn around.
Speaker 2:There's a dead end. Where do I go?
Speaker 3:Yeah, like there's that. I don't know if you ever watched the Office, but there's an episode where Michael literally drives his P2 Cruiser into a lake because the GPS sent him that way. I'm like dude, that happens a lot. I guarantee that happens a lot in real life.
Speaker 2:Oh gosh, yeah. The other thing that I think is funny is my kids, even my coworkers, will be like I wonder, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, guess what? You don't have to wonder anymore. They have this thing called Google and we can just find out the answer. Yeah, oh yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, you don't even have to leave. You don't have to leave your house, you don't have to go to school. You pretty much still have to know anything anymore. You know, unless the power goes out, and then everyone is screwed.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes, right.
Speaker 2:All right, circling back. Roadkill favorites. Favorite roadkill episode.
Speaker 1:Hmm.
Speaker 3:It's probably the one where we went to hot rod drag week because it's one of the few times we had real success on roadkill, but yeah, but there's a lot of just really good ones, like the first time Freiburg and I ever went to dirt fish With his general mayhem car. That was probably the most fun I've ever had driving. Anything in my life was there and I'm super nostalgic for when he and I went to Alaska and we made it. That was Just an epic trip that will probably never be able to repeat, just because nowadays we don't get as many days to make an episode. Those are probably my top three.
Speaker 2:So just say, episode and memory kind of go hand in hand. Is there any like off-camera memory that you have with roadkill?
Speaker 3:I have such a horrible memory.
Speaker 2:You did mention that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's one time it's I think it might be in the credits of the episode, but there is one where it's early on in roadkill and we had bought this Jeep rod that somebody built and and our plan was to drive to this bar that I used to hang out at in Parker, arizona, and it's a milled desert. The whole bar is just man-made, runoff, generators milling nowhere. You can only get to it on a dirt road, and our plan was to go there, run up a huge bar tab and Then give the Jeep to whoever paid the bar tab.
Speaker 2:Oh sweet.
Speaker 3:Yeah. So when we got there I was on a mission I was like we're we're not giving this thing away cheap, you know? Yeah, we're going on this. So he and I sat there and we bought some hoodies and shirts for the crew. So there's, there was probably I Know it's probably 150 bucks worth of apparel in this tab, but we ran up a $400 bar tab Between the two of us. So that means together he and I sat there and drank 200 plus dollars worth of alcohol. We were faded, absolutely. I was just retarded drunk and and when it was over, the owner of the bar was a weirdo and he wouldn't let us film there, wouldn't even let us film in the parking lot. So the guy that paid the tab, you know we needed to do the exchange. Here's our resort Jeep. You know you pay the back up?
Speaker 2:How do you get someone? Are you telling them, if you pay the tab, you get the cheap? Or how are you tricking? I'm into this.
Speaker 3:Oh, we put it on the internet Well we got there, okay, you show up there pair of our tab, you can have our Jeep got it and this is the early days of roadkill, so it wasn't like 3000 people showed up.
Speaker 3:You know, I think 15 people showed up and this one guy Follows us to a Location like a mile down the road. We didn't drive the Jeep because we were drunk, but I ended up getting a ride to the location in the back of this Ford super duty which is driven by this dude's wife or girlfriend, I forget what, and there's like a newborn baby in the backseat next to me and Some guy riding shotgun up front. And as we're driving down this dirt road, the guy riding shotguns just firing a pistol into the air, into the canyon wall, since desert, there's this baby riding in the back. Who's, you know, kind of crying, crying on. I'm trying to Trying to chill the baby out, so the baby's grabbing my dirty finger. You know, hold on to my finger. There's guns going off. I'm drunk, like it's happening.
Speaker 2:Is this real? Am I dreaming?
Speaker 3:No, this is real, it's really happened. And then so we get there, we make the exchange, we film the end of the episode and then the video crew has to, you know, pack up all their gear. And now we don't have our Jeep anymore, so we're gonna ride home with them and their man there's only two of them and there's there's plenty of room for private or not but as we're sitting there, we're gonna are watching them pack and we're kind of sitting up on a bluff overlooking this minivan Down below and we're watching the sunset. We're drunk and I don't know what happens. But, like when guys just sit around and report, they start throwing rocks.
Speaker 3:And because we were drunk, we decided to throw rocks to see who could land the rocks on top of the minivan. But the problem with that was, you know, the guys were there trying to load your gear into the minivan. So we're basically throwing rocks at these guys, which is not cool and nobody gets hurt, but we upset them. You know, right, right, these assholes are drunk, they're throwing rocks at our rented minivan and and so by the time it's time to go, they're upset with us. So we pile in the van and on the way out of this dirt road it blows a tire. Well, they're so mad they're like you idiots are gonna. You're changing this tire, we're not changing it.
Speaker 2:But that was smart.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah. So the problem is it's a import minivan. I've never worked on it, nobody knows where the spare tire is, even at. We're in a parking lot of a gas station, fryberger's puking out the window and I'm trying to change a minivan tire drunk, and none of this is in the episode. But we fixed it and we made it up. It was great.
Speaker 2:How was the next morning? I Remember well, that's good. I think it was fun.
Speaker 3:I think it was fun.
Speaker 2:Favorite roadkill car.
Speaker 3:Hmm, oh, that's hard. Probably there it'll be a tie I'm gonna punk out here. It'll be the Rotzen, which is a 1971 Datsun 240 z. It will be stubby Bob, which is a 1954 to f6 dump truck, and Blast for me my. It'll be one of those three. Like all. I wish I could have all of those. Not even cuz I want to personally own them. I just don't ever want them to disappear, like right now the. The company's selling a lot of cars. They're downsizing because the fleet Over the years has just grown to the point where they can't really store everything.
Speaker 2:You just have like a big warehouse full of all these roadkill cars.
Speaker 3:I haven't been to it, but I've heard there's from all the shows like roadkill and all the other motor trend shows. They've just been holding on to all these cars and they're out of space and moving and so they've been selling a bunch of stuff recently and I've been told I don't really know, but I've been told the the really memorable ones like stubby Bob and the Rotzen, aren't going anywhere. And I hope not, cuz I really like those cars a lot.
Speaker 2:You're like talk to me before you do anything with those.
Speaker 3:I've told them that and I, you know, I don't know if they'll sell them the mirror not, but I just hope they don't disappear. I don't have to own them, I just don't want them to go anywhere. They're still fun. I want to have with those things, especially the Rotzen, like we've never really made that car Fast for a very long period of time, so I'd like to work on it again.
Speaker 2:So you do roadkill. Now you start up Finnegan's garage. What triggers you to to do more, and how has that channel evolved from the start to where it is now?
Speaker 3:well that one. I. I moved to Georgia after living in California my whole life and, and when I moved to Georgia at the time I was doing roadkill and a show called hot rod garage, and Hot Rod garage is filmed in El Segundo, california, in a in a studio, and so when I moved, I said I can't do that. I'm I can't keep traveling as much as I'm traveling, so I'm gonna quit hot rod garage. And once I did that, I in Georgia, I had time on my hands and, and right about that time, the company had migrated all their shows away from YouTube and put them on a streaming service, and I was worried when they did that. I didn't didn't necessarily think that was the best thing they could be doing, and so I started a YouTube channel as a fallback plan, you know, so that I could Start a business for myself that I was in control of, and and I didn't have any really lofty aspirations, for it was just I'm just gonna try this because it looks fun. I didn't even know at the time that you could really make money at it, and this was 2016, I think I. So I got into YouTube pretty early and and it was just me goofing around in my garage and I've just consistently done it ever since then.
Speaker 3:Because the thing about the thing about the industry I'm in, when you do one of these shows and it was calm television shows, for lack of a better term you don't really have any job security. You know, at the end of every season, whoever owns it looks at the numbers and decides whether they want to continue it. It's, it's not up to me whether we do another season of roadkill and so every year I operate as if it's going to end, because it could and it hasn't yet, thankfully, and I really enjoy doing it, but it's, it's not up to me whether it ends. So there's no job security there. So the YouTube thing has been overwhelming to try to make it good and keep it going, while being a husband and a dad and do roadkill. And For a while I did another show called fast with Finnegan, and I was doing all of this stuff because I was paranoid about being out of a job, basically.
Speaker 2:And now you have a family. Right now you have a family, now you have kids. Right did you have your kids when you started roadkill or did that come later?
Speaker 3:No, that came later yeah.
Speaker 2:Once you start building your family then you know you kind of have to refigure your Priorities oh yeah, it all changes, like you know.
Speaker 3:It changes in ways you never even imagined it would change, like the moment I'll never forget it the moment my first son was born. And they do, you know, they do that thing called skin to skin, where they just put the baby right on the mom. You know.
Speaker 3:They do they do it with the dad. They started doing that when I had my son and I didn't know anything about it. So I, you know my son's born, my wife's holding them and they, I cut the cord and then, I don't know, 20 or 30 minutes goes by and all of a sudden they're like alright, dad, sit in this chair and take your shirt off. I'm like, I'm married, what are you doing? Chill out, you're gonna hold your son. I was like, oh cool, you know. So I sit in the chair and I take my shirt off and the moment that kid touched me it was like an electric charge went through me, was wild. I just started falling and I never thought I'd love anything more than my wife and should probably say the same thing. But those kids are just wow, turned my world upside down.
Speaker 2:And now you always appreciate your parents a little bit more once you have your own kids.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, it turns out everything they said was mostly right, yeah, and so yeah, now I'm, everything I do is motivated by you know how much time can I be at home, you know? Or how much time is this gonna take away from me being home? And so I say no to a lot of experiences now. That probably would be great career-wise, but they take me away from my kids and my wife and my kids are old enough now where they notice you know, they're eight, they're nine and twelve.
Speaker 3:They notice so, and so, yeah, things are different now, but they're good.
Speaker 2:They're way good. That's good. Yeah, that's good. How do you balance the fun aspects of your job and the work involved in your job?
Speaker 1:Because, I always be fun.
Speaker 2:I mean you make it look always fun and you do laugh through the trauma.
Speaker 3:But I Figure it out. It's here's how you stay employed. You, you make sure you're passionate about what you're going to be doing, you know. You, you cannot fake it. People will see right through it, and and it's the flip side of that is it's like, well, if you just do things that you find fun, you don't have to fake anything, and so I really can't think of times where I was like this truly sucks and I don't want to be here. I don't think it's ever really happened.
Speaker 3:So I think that's why the show is last, as long as it has Somebody's in the door. Um, yeah, I think. I think that's the reason the show is still going is because it's still really fun. I still wake up the middle of night going I Want to make a car float across the lake you know how do we do that, you know. Or I want to drive underwater, just whatever it is. You know, like, as long as you keep striving for stuff you haven't done before and that just makes you laugh when you just think about it like dude, we're gonna be fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah. Cars are a large and expensive hobby. Now you throw boats into the mix. When and how did you start Like financially? Like you know, everything is super expensive. Everything takes up a ton of space to store. You know how it is you start one project and now you have ten more. How did you financially float prior to a little bit more like comfortable lifestyle?
Speaker 3:I moved to Georgia.
Speaker 2:That was a big okay, I suppose California is expensive yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, it's ridiculous when I Know my whole family ended up in Georgia before I ever got there. So you're the last one to the party.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I was and I didn't. As usual, we didn't have a plan to move. But when my dad got sick, that was when we were like, okay, let's, let's go, and so that we moved shortly after we found out. But People ask that all the time, like how do you do what you do? And the truth is, you know, for a long time I had four jobs, down to three now, but it's just cheaper to live here. The house that I live in, the mortgage on that house, cost the same as the rent on my apartment in California. I Was in California three weeks ago and and 87 octane gas was almost six dollars a gallon. I paid 265 last week for gas yeah.
Speaker 2:It's just that's like Bogo. Right by a gallon, get a gallon free.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it's just. It's wildly different here. The cost of living, and then I do a lot of this stuff myself and and that's really how you know, in the beginning of roadkill and when I lived in California, I had one truck and I had a boat. Those are the only projects I had, and when I wanted to do another one I sold something you know. So I sold my boat and now you know I've worked hard enough and stuff has come across, projects that you know were fairly inexpensive, that now I have a lot of junk cars here that don't run and and then I have some nice stuff now, but I don't think you're ever gonna see me go out and buy Ferrari or you know, a super car, or that's just not me. I, I usually, I usually don't even buy new things I've. I had to use trailer for a while before I ever bought a new one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just got a new trailer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, and that was. You know that? That was weird. You know to buy something brand new and and as soon as I got home and tried to register it, I I realized why I don't usually buy new things. I got taxed for it.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I usually see, buy you stuff and, like you said, just take your time and work on it and Learn a lot of stuff on your own.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that was the big thing for me was I couldn't. You know, when I was younger I couldn't afford to pay anyone to do anything, so I just bought books and learned. You know, youtube wasn't really around so I wasn't watching how to videos on how to build engines. I learned from other people and you know, I built my own engines and blew them up and learned the hard way how to do a lot of this stuff, and that's, that's how I funded going racing and drag boats and stuff like that. Yeah, I was the guy. I was the guy that when I got to the racetrack I was flat broke and I wasn't buying anybody beers at the bar my friends still give me crap for that, you know and I didn't have any money to party. All I could do was make, make the boat run. So now when I, when I see them all, I try to buy as many drinks as I can because I'm making up for all the time I didn't like.
Speaker 2:see, I don't forget, I remember.
Speaker 3:Yes.
Speaker 2:Yes, I was gonna say something about that. Yeah, like my mind just kind of it leaves and it never comes back.
Speaker 1:But no, that's right.
Speaker 2:Tell me about blasphemy, because that's your pride and joy, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's the one that I think, out of all the cars, that's the one that will stay in the thing, finnegan family, you know, or at least you know my kids will get it. What they do with it, I have no idea. I probably be around for it, but but yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:You just got that thing like a run-in to go fast and you're happy. You're excited about it, right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to be honest, I was most happy to Pick my kid up from school in it. That was really fun. It's currently not fast and, you know, for a number of reasons it. It's been to the drag strip, I Think, twice in the last month and it's ran. When I say it's not fast, it's ran pretty good. It's run 877 in the quarter mile, which is which is fast.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 3:It's not how fast I want it to be, which is why I say it's not fast, but you know there's a lot of potential there. I just need time to like iron out some problems that the cars got with, mostly with suspension and, and I broke the trans in half at one point, which was fun.
Speaker 2:My husband wanted me to ask you how is the Cadillac coming along? Hmm.
Speaker 3:I Worked on it today. Actually I am currently building the headers for it. I built the turbos are mounted and I built on the driver's side of the motor. Today I built primary tube, number seven and number five, and I was working on number three when it was time to go Christmas Caroling. So with any luck, not this Sunday but next Sunday, I'll have a video about building the headers and hopefully one of those headers will be totally done.
Speaker 3:So yeah yeah, I'm excited, like I'm really trying to only work on that car until it's run and try not to work on anything else. But the other things like blasted me. If that car would just work and it was good, then I wouldn't even touch it, but I keep trying to make it work a little better. So when I'm not working on the Cadillac it's because I've been distracted by stuff like blasts.
Speaker 2:What is your daily driver? Oh, it's.
Speaker 3:You know, I love this question because no one ever asks and the great thing about it is like if I take a picture of my Driveway, let's just say, blast me's the drive-in. I take a picture of it. Most people will notice, well, there's a 55 Chevy there. But then other people will go. I see the tail light of a Toyota Tundra over there and then they start fighting in the comments like that's not his, there's no way you'd ever drive a Toyota Tundra. And, god be honest, that's. That's my daily. I've had, I've had two of those. I had one for ten years and and it in ten years it needed brakes once, tires three times and Nothing else. It's a. It's a great commuter truck. So my daily is a 2021 Tundra. I bought the last last year, the 5, 7 v8 before they switched to a turbo 6 and, knock on wood, it's been good.
Speaker 2:I am also a Toyota owner, so I hear ya, I.
Speaker 3:Like them. I mean they, they're comfortable, they run good and they just don't break because, like all of my other, stuff is old and it breaks and you have to have something. That one is your turn to pick the kids up from school.
Speaker 2:You have to know it's gonna start yeah, and get your kids to be wondering where his dad.
Speaker 3:Right or oh?
Speaker 2:dad's down again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, they know that they just they don't want to be involved in it when it happens. Yeah, they hear all the time.
Speaker 2:Dad broke down on roadkill again you know, I Know that was my thing too is I'm like you, you do you with my husband. But one time I had to push and I was like, why? Like this is why I don't want to ride with you, because now I'm pushing your car.
Speaker 3:My wife at least once a month. I'll call her every like hey, maybe I need you downstairs and she's like you need me to put your car down. Yeah, I'm like, yes, I do, yes, I do.
Speaker 2:And I'm always like I know I'm so strong and you need my big muscles. Here I come exactly exactly. Do your kids think you're cool.
Speaker 3:I think so. I don't usually ask them, but my youngest loves blasphemy and he will ask for rides to school and blasphemy loves it. And my oldest is already called dibs on my Toyota Mini-Truck and he is aware of what dad does for a living and he likes it. I think he likes the attention. We don't go to a lot of car shows but when we go to our local car crews, captain and Octane and he's aware of what's going to happen if we go there.
Speaker 2:We're going to come up to you yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think he likes that. But as far as how long that's going to last for them? They're about to be teenagers. I might not be cool anymore.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you never know right.
Speaker 3:I keep waiting for them to just be like oh dad, don't bring that loud, crappy, stinky car to my school again. Right now, my youngest is at an age where the steering wheel comes off. Blasphemy, and he thinks that's cool.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:His classmates. I let them sit in the car. They like to take steering wheel on and off.
Speaker 2:We used to have an old El Camino and my husband would go pick up my kid from school, our kid from school, and then any of the kids would be like who else wants to ride home? Jump in the back, and they would love that.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And we'd be like are you embarrassed? You know, does it embarrass you when you get picked up in the El Camino? And we're like, just get in the back end. And he's like no, it's cool and all my friends love it.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh, all right, Finnegan, is there anything else you want to share?
Speaker 3:Um, I don't know any pants on. No, I'm kidding.
Speaker 2:I was like, I thought about that, but I'm like, just in case I have to get up. I don't want to be in that situation.
Speaker 3:I'm kidding, fully closed. No, no, I'm cool, I'm cool.
Speaker 2:And then I know you said you only live day by day. But what's next for you? Anything you're looking forward to?
Speaker 3:I am looking forward to doing a little bit of drag racing next year. I am looking forward to going to a drag and drive event in blasphemy. I don't know when either of those things are going to happen, so so you just keep looking forward to them. Yeah, just keep my head down, keep working on both of those things. At some point, hopefully I get to drive them and other than that, make more memories.
Speaker 2:I love it. Thank you so much for your time and coming on the podcast and talking with me. This was a great opportunity and my family is going to be jealous that I'm the only one who got to meet you. Oh, thank you, I appreciate it, my husband is coaching basketball right now and I'm like, well you know, I'll show you the video.
Speaker 3:Oh man Well, thank you very much for having me. I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2:Totally. Thank you so much. You have a great night, merry Christmas.
Speaker 3:Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2:Wasn't that so great? He's like the nicest down earth guy ever. And now maybe I'm a car guy.
Speaker 1:Really.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe. So I feel like I really want you to like be like when we watch Roadkill or Finnegan's Garage, like that should be giving you inspiration to be like. Yeah, let's go work on that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I don't know nothing. I feel like it's really it's difficult, that's how you learn.
Speaker 2:You have to learn. I'm always like that too, like I just want to know how to do everything. I don't want to take the time to learn it, but anyway, all right, it's not even like it's hard to learn.
Speaker 1:It's just that I'm not super interested in it.
Speaker 2:Okay, what are you interested in? Pretty obvious. What's the second thing you're interested in? You really hey, when I said you have to kiss that microphone, you really don't have to have your lips on it.
Speaker 1:I always have my lips on it. You do yes, oh.
Speaker 2:I never noticed that.
Speaker 1:I'm going to. I'm going to, I'm interested, or my next favorite hobby is RC cars.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, but mine it's broken, or else I use it. Are you practicing kissing your girlfriend?
Speaker 1:No, no, I'm just really close. Why are you, why are you on me right now? You're glazing. I'm not, I'm not, that's not what it means Glazing, means like sucking up, and I'm definitely not sucking up to you.
Speaker 2:I'm making fun of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know you mean the opposite of a glazer. Right now Cringe yeah, negative glazer.
Speaker 2:All right, do you have a? Would you rather for me when I?
Speaker 1:think of the word glazing and anything like that. Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Speaking of when we go to Florida, Shipley's and Crispy Crew.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:All day, don't? It's all day.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:All right, do you have your? Would you rather? Yeah you ready for it? I'm ready, bring it on, bring it on.
Speaker 1:Drum roll, drum roll. All right, kiss a frog. Would you rather kiss a frog or hug a snake? You know I ain't doing nothing with a snake.
Speaker 2:I hate them.
Speaker 1:Hate them Kissing a frog. I'm hugging a snake.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:They're both gross. At least one of my lips on a fucking slimy ass and a thingy frog.
Speaker 2:How big is the snake? Because gardener snakes. How do you even hug a gardener snake Like you? Can't even get your arms around it.
Speaker 1:Is it like a big boa?
Speaker 2:constrictor, like one of those big sticky.
Speaker 1:How do you hug a person?
Speaker 2:You hug it like I know what I'm saying. Do you understand what I'm saying? Like a gardener snake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what about?
Speaker 2:it how you hug it. It's too thin. It's like the size of your pinkie. Like how do you hug a pinky? They're not very wide.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Okay, so I didn't say it was going to be a gardener snake.
Speaker 2:That's why I'm asking what kind of snake it is.
Speaker 1:A bigger snake, Obviously something that you want to attack you.
Speaker 2:Well, big snakes can strangle you. Yeah, so it's going to be around your neck. All right, my joke is in honor of having Finnegan on the podcast. And it's a funny one, but it's a you'll see. You'll see.
Speaker 1:All right, are you all here?
Speaker 2:It's a. Are you ready?
Speaker 1:Are you ready? I'm not ready. Why are you not ready?
Speaker 2:Because I have to find it here. It is Okay, ready. How do boobs get around? I don't know. Motorboat Do you know what a motorboat is?
Speaker 1:No, I don't even know what to say for that one. That one's a little.
Speaker 2:I have some motorboat stories for you that I'm not going to share, but maybe when you get older, Okay. All right. Thanks for stopping by and listening to another episode of honor and best behavior. We'll see you soon. We have some really great guests coming up. We have Eric Scoogquist coming up and we have Eric. Cartman, heidi, minnesota, fun Mom. So stay tuned for that coming up soon.
Speaker 1:Bye.
