Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: I'm not being cheap. I'm being logical.
[00:00:01] Speaker B: I do like that word. I'm being frugal. Frugal makes me sound professional.
[00:00:05] Speaker A: Frugal.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:05] Speaker A: That's what it is. That's what it is.
[00:00:08] Speaker B: I'm educated, Chief. I'm not just cheap. Yes, I'm educated, chief.
[00:00:13] Speaker A: No, you educated. The Hawaiian Comedian presents. I've been doing comedy for over 20, 23 years. And I've been on the road. I've been in different cities. I've been different. Things like that.
[00:00:23] Speaker B: We're here to talk about everything, man. The topics you talk about with your friends, your family. Questions you got for us. Twinning in the city.
[00:00:29] Speaker A: Aloha.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Welcome or welcome back. It depends. If you're hitting that next button, this is the next episode. If you're just tuning in, welcome to Twitty in the City. I'm the Twitty. That's the thc. If you're new to this, it stands for the Hawaiian Comedian. But I'm not saying that because that's too long. So we call him THC for short. Welcome back. Hit the, like. Hit the subscribe button. Because we appreciate you. We appreciate the likes. And thank you for the results of the last episode on letting me decide on which barber to go with. If you didn't watch that episode, you can go back and watch it if this is your first time.
[00:01:07] Speaker A: So, man, hold up, hold up, hold up. Before you even start.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: I should have known.
[00:01:18] Speaker A: Tweety, if you don't know, our. Our stuff releases on Wednesday. This past. This past Monday was my man's birthday. I should have. I've been kind of excited. I've been shot into the world. I even told him. I said, I can't even wait till we get back in the studio again so that we can record this so that we can tell the people. And my man is big. What is it? Three? Three?
[00:01:36] Speaker B: It is 92.
[00:01:38] Speaker A: What? Man, you so young, dude. I'm half a century.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: I know, but I know you weren't.
[00:01:42] Speaker A: Going to say nothing. I know you was going to try to step over it. And it was like, no, we got to let everybody know. Yes, this past Monday was Mr. Twitty's birthday. And I just want to say happy birthday. And I want everybody out there to know that it was your birthday.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: This is the pros, cons. Depending on who you are. Pro being THC con me. Cause he didn't. He just said happy birthday on Monday. And I appreciate it. But it wasn't just walked right by him. It wasn't like him though. And I should have fricking known something was gonna happen.
[00:02:10] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Cause you, I was like, no singing. No. Just a simple like, hey, happy birthday. Twitter. I was like, that's cool. Thank you. I should have fricking known you was gonna let this.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Be a comedian. Do you know how hard it is to keep my mouth shut?
[00:02:22] Speaker B: That's why I was, it was, I.
[00:02:25] Speaker A: Was like, happy birthday, Twitty. And just right by, he was like, hm. Nope. I was waiting.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: I was cool with it though. I was. Cuz the last three years, you made it big.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Happy birthday to you.
[00:02:36] Speaker B: Yeah, I'mma start calling in sick for my birthday weeks for the birthday, you.
[00:02:40] Speaker A: Know, And I think that birthday song should be the only birthday song that anybody sings. The other birthday song is so depressing.
It's so depressing. Happy birthday to. I don't like that. I like the Stevie Wonder. I like the Happy birthday to you.
[00:02:57] Speaker B: The other one is very slow. Makes you, it makes you start regretting how old you are.
[00:03:01] Speaker A: Everybody else is like, happy birthday. And then you're gonna blow out a candle, make everything dark. Like, wow, this is.
[00:03:07] Speaker B: Mm m. Well, I appreciate you, appreciate you doing the upbeat in one and not reminding me that I'm 33.
[00:03:14] Speaker A: Yeah, you know what? And, and enjoy this, enjoy your 30s. Like my 30s, messed up. I hated my 30s. My 30s, I hated my 30s. I had to pay for everything stupid I did in my 20s.
[00:03:24] Speaker B: See, I, I was so broke that I couldn't afford much. So I tell my wife, I tell my wife this all the time. My 20s, I survived. My 30s, I thrive. And thus far I'm thriving. I mean, I will tell you this since you've known me, since I've moved.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: To Idaho, I get it.
[00:03:40] Speaker B: But I've gone on way more trips in one year that I went in the entire 20s.
[00:03:44] Speaker A: But you only three years into that 30, I am so there, there's going to be some, I'm telling you right now, there's going to be some stuff from your 20s. It's going to creep up on you. You're going to be like, damn, that's still around.
That don't get cleared out. I'm telling you, I, I, everything I did in my 20s I had to pay for in my 30s. Once I paid for it in my 30s, my 40s, I made more money. I love my 40s. My 40s were so much.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, you ain't got, I love my 40s. You ain't got to remind me there's stuff that I still am paying me and my wife.
[00:04:10] Speaker A: You got seven more years until you get to have playtime. Playtime is in the 40s.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: Well, I'm having play time in my 30s also. Speaking of aging and being in 30s, and to me, I'm older. You're saying I'm still young.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: You are still young.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: I am. But this, I ain't acting it.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: I mean, if you used to cut your age in half, you pretty much. That's when you got your driver's license.
[00:04:34] Speaker B: Yeah, that is true, but I'm just not happy.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: And if you cut my age in half and I didn't have a driver's license at that point, I'm just. Something's wrong.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: Yeah, that is true.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: Yeah, that's, that's, that's bad.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: But. All right, you ready for this? Okay, so I don't know if I'm just in my old man era or if I'm just being cheap or if I am just too much of an independent man.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Depend. Cheap, though. Is cheap being frugal or is cheap just being cheap? Cheap.
Like cheap to me is like recycling and reusing napkins.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: No, cheap as in trying to save a dollar.
[00:05:11] Speaker A: So you're frugal?
[00:05:12] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:13] Speaker A: Frugal?
[00:05:14] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:05:14] Speaker A: I like frugal better than the word cheap.
[00:05:16] Speaker B: Okay, I'm selfish, frugal, or just an independent man.
But I don't even know how to start this man.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: No, just start it.
[00:05:26] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Just throw it out. Boom.
[00:05:28] Speaker B: Went and got an oil change.
Got called up. Cause you gotta approve everything. Okay. Guy was like, hey, you know, we gotta look the hood. Everything looks good. But, you know, you're gonna need a new air filter and you're gonna need a new.
The other filter I had need on my diesel truck. Anybody that is a diesel truck or mechanic knows what I'm probably trying to say. And I can' there's two filters. There's one for your engine and there's one for my actual oil that combines it with the diesel fuel. Okay, forgot what it's called. And I was like, okay, what's that going to run me? He was like, well, you know, with that, with the parts and then the labor, you're looking at another 350.
[00:06:04] Speaker A: And I was like, okay, now are we talking. Are we talking like an oil place that changes oil or are we talking.
[00:06:10] Speaker B: Like a dealership place that changes oil? Okay, so.
And the younger me would have just been like, ah, it's a hassle. Go ahead. But ever since I got a fricking House with a garage and I got a 300 piece tool set. I said let me call you back and I lied. So the dealership's watching. I lied. I'mma gotta go to a meeting. I wasn't in no meeting. THC. I went in YouTube and googled how much it cost, how easy it was. Both of them fricking things combined, dawg.
175 and was a 30 minute job together.
[00:06:49] Speaker A: 175.
Yeah.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Because the filter, a regular air filter before your car is like.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:56] Speaker B: Bucks. 30, 40 bucks maybe, maybe cheaper.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Depends on what kind of filter you buy.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: Like it was 30 because I have a diesel and I got the in between one. There was a 20, there was a 40, there was a 60.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: So just to change those two filters, they're talking 175.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: No.
For me to buy it myself is going to be once 120 something.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: So for them to do it, what was it going to.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: It was going to charge me additional 250.
[00:07:20] Speaker A: Yeah. No, that's not. You being frugal.
[00:07:23] Speaker B: Yeah. And that is that, is that wrong of me?
[00:07:25] Speaker A: No. That's your old side too.
[00:07:26] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:07:27] Speaker A: No.
[00:07:27] Speaker B: 100% pissed me off.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: Don't, don't. No, embrace it. Embrace it. Don't be mad. Don't be mad. I'm telling you, that's how you're gonna make more money. Right on.
[00:07:36] Speaker B: So it just, it just irked me because I was like, I get there is a labor fee, but I wasn't asking you to change my brakes or my rotors. This is a thc. This fricking filter in the engine.
You don't even. You didn't even need a power tool. You could have handled this with a Phillips screwdriver.
[00:07:55] Speaker A: Let me ask you this. When he was explaining what he had to do, how much of that was you retaining and telling yourself you can do it yourself?
How much of that was you going, I think I could do that. I think I could do that myself.
[00:08:07] Speaker B: None of it. Until I heard the price. Then I backtracked.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: So it took the price for you to Google whether or not or for you to look up whether or not you could do it yourself.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: I again, this is why I'm on my old man.
I remember back in the day.
Rest in peace. This is another story for another day. My envoy taking that to the shop. Oil change filter. And even because that the envoy required five quarts.
[00:08:33] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:08:33] Speaker B: Of oil.
[00:08:34] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:08:34] Speaker B: But to do that filters all that was like 75.
And so I'm doing math, I'm like, okay, diesel, it takes six quarts. That's going to put me at about eighty, ninety. I know that because it's two extra quartz in your standard four.
[00:08:52] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: So I'm like eighty bucks.
Then you go this fricking filter forty. That's one hundred and twenty.
Then you go the other filter, which was eighty, and then I'm like past two hundred already. But then even still, I'm like, even if you go 125 on labor, that still puts me under 500.
What? They were charging me with all of that, and those was going to put me at 800 bucks.
[00:09:20] Speaker A: No, you see now?
[00:09:21] Speaker B: And I was like, that's a $300 swing from my estimate.
[00:09:24] Speaker A: And you just.
[00:09:25] Speaker B: Before I even looked up once I. Once I found out how much the parts cost, that's what got me.
[00:09:30] Speaker A: You. You a lot nicer than me. You actually told him you had to go to a meeting. That's what you said, right? You said you had to go. Yeah, I had to go to a meeting. Get off the phone. Yeah, I'd have just. They would have heard me on the other side right before I hung up. Oh, hell no. Boom. They would have heard. That's. And that's my old man in me already. That's. That's my 50 year old, right?
[00:09:47] Speaker B: But I'm not even 50 yet, bro.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: No, I'm already there.
20s. You just like. Yeah, just do it. Just do it. Just do it. It's something I ain't got to do. I ain't got to worry about. Boom.
[00:09:56] Speaker B: But it's. Ever since I got a freaking garage, dog.
[00:09:58] Speaker A: I feel like I can. Because it makes. It makes sense now. Now you're starting to stack what you had when you was in your 20s. It was just freelance. Let's go. Let's move. Let's do this.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: I ain't have all the.
[00:10:08] Speaker A: Now you getting all your stuff in. Everything's starting to collect. Yeah.
[00:10:11] Speaker B: Anybody out there that ducks my truck, dog, you better come correct.
[00:10:15] Speaker A: Yep, 100%, bro. I.
Oh, you're gonna learn that when you get older, you're gonna actually do that the way that you did that whole. You know, I. I heard the price and then I went and did my research. When you get older, that's gonna go backwards.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: I'm gonna.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: You're gonna start with what you can do and how you can do it and how much it's gonna cost you, and then you're gonna take. And this is. And this is what it's gonna be. And. And I. And actually, it's the best way to. Because you can have an outlook in the back of your mind.
[00:10:47] Speaker B: Right.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: So when you go there, you can be like, no, okay, this dude, he's really getting me now.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:52] Speaker A: He's gonna charge me like, 150 for a filter that I know I can pick up for 20 bucks.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: But I.
When did that.
[00:10:59] Speaker A: Ha.
[00:11:00] Speaker B: That's the part I don't get.
[00:11:02] Speaker A: When you. When it happens a lot. Like, even up to your 30s, right. You've been dealing with these folks all the way up to your 30s.
[00:11:08] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:08] Speaker A: So the whole time it was going, you didn't know that it was festering inside of you to try to get this done yourself and to try to be more. And the first time you got. And it probably started from the first bill. When you got the first bill, the first thing in your head was, how can I get this cheaper next time?
[00:11:24] Speaker B: Right.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: So that's when it started, but it didn't kick.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: My thing is nobody ever.
[00:11:29] Speaker A: Nobody ever realizes it until they actually see a number that makes them pause.
[00:11:34] Speaker B: Yes. That's what I'm trying to figure out. The wind. When did the price change that dramatically? Because I've been.
[00:11:40] Speaker A: It depends on who you go to, though. See that you're talking about automotive. So that's why I love my dude. My dude Rich that works on my truck. Like, I have. I have one mechanic. I don't want nobody else touching my truck. Nobody else. If it's not me, I would rather have Rich touch my truck. Nobody else.
[00:11:53] Speaker B: And that's where I'm at right now. I go to one, but I'm really tempted to start fishing around.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Because it's like, I can't keep doing this. But granted, I will happily. I will happily take my truck. I was ready for you. I was ready to call you if. It would have been some serious intense stuff.
It would have been like. If you got into a fight with me and you were like, I don't know who we punching? I would have been like, thc. I'm pulling up to the crib. I need this, this, and this. I'm changing this.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: Done.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: And I'd be like, all I need is that.
[00:12:23] Speaker A: I got jack. I got jacks. I got jack stands. Come on. And that's go.
[00:12:26] Speaker B: That's what I thought it was gonna be. Where I was like, okay, I can. I can. I can fish around the hundred and something, but once I found out I ain't got to get on my back. It don't require. Well, I had to get on my back. But it didn't require jack. I was like, see?
[00:12:37] Speaker A: And that's. And that's where sometimes the old man.
Well, actually I. Have a seat. Is that when you look at that and you look at it, you'll compare the prices. Now if the price is dramatic, like dramatic like if it's like a 6, 7, 800 difference in between, you doing it yourself. But then if it's like a. It's like. Let me ask you, what, what is the price? For me, it's like, see, it depends on the project. 50 to 60 difference. I won't even blink.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Oh, based on if I what?
[00:13:06] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:13:08] Speaker B: If it's 50 to 60 bucks.
[00:13:10] Speaker A: If I do it, it's going to cost me 200. If they do it, it's going to cost me 240. It's gonna cost me 240. And they doing it.
[00:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah, they'll do it.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: That's my. That's the other part of being old is that you still don't want to be underneath that truck. You still don't want to be trying.
[00:13:24] Speaker B: And that's why I'm going to them. But also.
[00:13:26] Speaker A: But like what? Okay, so then what is your.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: Your max?
[00:13:29] Speaker A: What's your max? My max is like $70.
If it costs more than $70, I.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Would say 70, but that, that fluctuates. So on your project. Yes. Because, you know this my happening on the Envoy and I freaking told you about it. The water?
[00:13:54] Speaker A: The radiator?
[00:13:55] Speaker B: No.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: The coolant?
[00:13:57] Speaker B: Nope. Underneath. Driver side. Between driver and driver. Back.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: Man, there's a lot of things.
[00:14:03] Speaker B: I know. I feel like it's a water something.
[00:14:06] Speaker A: There's a water pump.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Water pump. Thank you. Freaking. I thought it was something more complex.
[00:14:10] Speaker A: No, no, it's just water pump.
[00:14:11] Speaker B: Water pump went out.
[00:14:12] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:14:14] Speaker B: It's kind of a complex job, but really it's not if you got the right tools. Yeah. And see that price was right. At a hundred dollar difference.
[00:14:27] Speaker A: And I was like, yeah, but that's a pain though. But I.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: To me, it was worth it though.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: I don't know. No, I'm saying it's a pain to do it yourself on that because you gotta. You gotta make sure your water pump reseals. You got to make sure everything lines up. When you're trying to take like some water pumps are actually connected to the fan. And when you try to get the pump off, you got to take the fan like it sometimes stuff like that. Like. Yes. Can I do it at my house? Sure. But is that going to take me two days? Probably, yeah. Will it take a mechanic a couple of hours? Sure.
[00:14:58] Speaker B: It took me four hours. I got a little frustrated.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:15:01] Speaker B: But I saved myself 100 bucks, and to me, it was worth it because of the fact how accessible it was. If it would have been in the middle of that envoy, Yeah. I would have been like, no. All it required was either check, check. All it required was to jack up front or back tire just a hair, I could get under there, and I can do what I needed to do.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: And I'll be honest, too. Is that also getting older? You're not gonna wanna do it no more?
I realize you're not gonna wanna do it no more.
[00:15:32] Speaker B: See, here's my math right now.
This is some stupid guy math. If I can. If I can save myself now while I want to, it'll make me feel better that I know I can do it, But I'm just at that age where I shouldn't be doing it.
[00:15:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where I'm at. You're not at that age yet. I'm at that age.
[00:15:50] Speaker B: I' age, though, where it's like, when I get to your age, I want to be able to look back and say, you know what I mean?
[00:15:55] Speaker A: Because it's probably a lot of due.
[00:15:56] Speaker B: Diligence and taking care of stuff that I could on my own.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: And there's probably a lot of guys out there that are sitting there saying it right now. They're like, yeah, man. When I got older, I was like, now let them do it. I don't. I don't want to do that no more. Which is completely. Because even when I was in my 20s and my 30s, like, my 20s, I was like, no, I can do it. I can do it myself.
[00:16:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:12] Speaker A: But then I've learned growing up, I've been working on cars for a while, since I was in my teens, so, like, I would just do it myself. But it got to the point where I was just like, man, okay, this is. This is too much. Nah, I don't want. I don't want to do this. I don't want to have grease under my fingers for the next two weeks.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: That's why you got to get the super rubber vapor spider laundry soap black, like surgeon gloves. I started using those, man.
[00:16:38] Speaker A: You know what? Every time I started, you know how many of those I've ripped? Because my hands are so big. Like, I got big hands that those rubber gloves don't really. They fit tight. Tight. And the minute I come across, like, a bolt or a screw that catches.
[00:16:49] Speaker B: It, you gotta it depends on the job you're doing.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: But I'm saying like my hand is like already stretching the glove. So the minute it gets one little tear.
[00:16:57] Speaker B: Oh yeah.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: It's like the stress relief of the whole glove and then the whole glove just wants to rip off.
[00:17:01] Speaker B: It's a good thing to think about that you started trying. But. But no, for me it was.
It didn't sound as a terrible price. And Also in my 20s, I was in apartment, so I didn't have nowhere to store all that equipment.
Whereas now my garage, whole left side every you seen, I showed you pictures, got a full, full rack that's got my impact, two wrenches, two everything, all the batteries, the levels, the 300 piece sockets, man.
[00:17:29] Speaker A: That's what I'm saying. Between you, your garage and my garage, we shouldn't be having to go anywhere.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: And that's where I'm also at too. Cause see, growing up, I didn't have most of my friends was like me. So it was like, we can do it. It's like, we gotta go rent this stuff stuff, bro.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Whereas now, yeah, I got you, I got a brother in law. I got a. I got.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: Got Josh, I got.
[00:17:49] Speaker B: I'm got a. I got two.
Sorry, almost lied. Sorry. I got three brother in laws here. I got you, I got two friends, one of them used to freaking drag race. We got Josh at. I got too many bodies now if the eight of us ain't got it. Oh, this mechanic needs to be working on it.
[00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah.
[00:18:09] Speaker B: So. But I just, I had to throw that out there because hit a nerve in me where I really don't use.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: Don't use the word cheap. Don't use the word cheap on yourself like frugal, Frugal, frugal and logical. That sounds so you look and it's logical. It's logically. You shouldn't have to be like, okay, yeah, I'm not being cheap, I'm being logical.
[00:18:29] Speaker B: I do like that word. I'm being frugal. Frugal Makes me sound professional.
[00:18:33] Speaker A: Frugal. Yeah, that's what it is. That's what it means.
[00:18:36] Speaker B: I'm educated, Chief. I'm not just cheap. Yes, I'm educated, chief.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: Yes, you educated.
[00:18:44] Speaker B: Sean, you're in the back. We gotta use this as a pre dog. I am educated, chief. I don't know how you can tell you and Johnny to work some magic dog.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: When somebody asks what educated cheat means, we just say frugal. Frugal, Frugal. F R U G A L. Frugal.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: Oh, that's how we gotta end it, dawg. Okay.
Be frugal out there. Be frugal, be educated, cheap, whatever one you want to use. But if you were like me and you thinking you're just being frugal, be least expensive.
[00:19:14] Speaker A: Logical.
Logically, least expensive.
[00:19:17] Speaker B: So, on that note, thank you for joining Twitty in the city. Until next time, I am the Twitty. That is the thc. You have a marvelous morning, afternoon or evening, whenever you're watching. Until then, it.
