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A Tire Sensor Can Track You And A V8 Can Spoil You · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  Don Armstrong: Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast.
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  Don Armstrong: Welcome to the In-Wheel Time Car Talk Show, coming to you today from the Tailpipes and Tacos Cruise Inn at the Lubitortilla Tex Mex in Beaumont, Texas.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: Just ahead.
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  Don Armstrong: We got more guests.
• 0:20
  Don Armstrong: You're from this area.
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  Don Armstrong: We're going to talk to you about that.
• 0:24
  Don Armstrong: Louisiana's right down the road.
• 0:25
  Don Armstrong: Ai.
• 0:26
  Don Armstrong: I want to find out how you met Stan and everything.
• 0:28
  Don Armstrong: Uh-oh.
• 0:32
  Don Armstrong: Sorry.
• 0:33
  Don Armstrong: Can you hear me?
• 0:33
  Don Armstrong: I can hear you loud and clear.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_04: We talk about that every time.
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  Don Armstrong: I know that.
• 0:37
  Don Armstrong: It's so good.
• 0:39
  Don Armstrong: But you have to understand it's not the same listeners every time, Sheila May.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_03: Just make up stuff.
• 0:48
  Don Armstrong: Just make up stuff.
• 0:50
  Don Armstrong: You've learned it from the expert.
• 0:52
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there's that.
• 0:54
  Don Armstrong: More guests from the Golden Triangle Confab here at Loopy's.
• 0:58
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has his motor minute, and uh I'll review the 2026 Ram 1500.
• 1:03
  Don Armstrong: Oh my gosh, what a nice pickup truck that is.
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  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, here on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 1:08
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike Out of this World Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeken, chief engineer and bottle washer.
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  Don Armstrong: David Ainsley is with us today.
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  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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  Don Armstrong: Glad you could join us in the remote broadcast booth here at the Loopy Tortilla, right along I-10, the Beaumont Highway.
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  Don Armstrong: Sheila May Holt.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  Don Armstrong: Used to be Sheila May Murray.
• 1:32
  Don Armstrong: Well, I guess it's still Sheila May Murray Holt.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_04: That's it.
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  Don Armstrong: Is that the way it is on the marriage certificate?
• 1:38
  Don Armstrong: No.
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  SPEAKER_04: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_04: I hadn't looked at it before.
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  Don Armstrong: You don't need no stinking marriage certificates.
• 1:45
  Don Armstrong: You don't need any of that stinking stuff.
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  Don Armstrong: And not only that, there's no revving of engines.
• 1:48
  Don Armstrong: There's no revving of engines.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_04: What?
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_04: You can rev your engine.
• 1:52
  Don Armstrong: Of course.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Jeff had some stupid story about going stupid.
• 1:56
  Don Armstrong: Go somewhere, but you can't rev your engine.
• 1:58
  Jeff Dziekan: There's rules, and they were one of the rules.
• 2:01
  Don Armstrong: Well, they're not car people, clear.
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  Don Armstrong: Because if you can't rev your engine, then you ain't a car person.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
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  Don Armstrong: And it doesn't make any difference whether it's got some muffled up LLS engine underneath the hood or not.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: Rules are made to be broken.
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  SPEAKER_04: Always.
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  Don Armstrong: And we've been breaking them all our lives.
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  Don Armstrong: So uh you're from this area.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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  Don Armstrong: Orange?
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  SPEAKER_04: From Orange, Texas.
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  Don Armstrong: That's where my Were you born and raised over there?
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_04: No, Talladega, Alabama.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm a Bama girl.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yep, Talladega, Alabama.
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  SPEAKER_04: But I grew up most of my life in Orange, and that's where my mom, Martha, and my sister Samantha, who are here with us today.
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, Martha Margarita, she's here.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_04: She just celebrated her 87th birthday.
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  SPEAKER_04: She's here.
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  SPEAKER_04: She's been saying hi to all the guys.
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  SPEAKER_04: If any single guys are out there and y'all have a hot rod, just come on up.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm gonna introduce you to my mama.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 3:00
  Don Armstrong: What about you?
• 3:01
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you sir.
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  Don Armstrong: Are you married, sir?
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  Don Armstrong: You are now.
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  Don Armstrong: Okay, right.
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  Don Armstrong: You you got you got any single friends?
• 3:08
  Don Armstrong: Some widowers?
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  Don Armstrong: Soon to be a very good friend.
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  Don Armstrong: I mean, why not?
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  Don Armstrong: I mean, she she's looking for a man.
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  SPEAKER_04: So uh yeah, Mama Martha's out here looking for a man.
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  Don Armstrong: Yep.
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  Don Armstrong: So you know this is this is a bonus cruise-in that we're having here today.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah, well, soon to be, that's right.
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  SPEAKER_04: Um well anyway, from from Orange, and um, like I said, that's where my mom and my sister they still live.
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  SPEAKER_04: A lot of friends um I came out today to to see me um that I haven't seen in a while.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_04: Our our UPS guy that used to deliver to us.
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  SPEAKER_04: He's here.
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  SPEAKER_04: I like him.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, I hadn't seen him in forever, and uh got one of my girlfriends, she's coming out.
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  SPEAKER_04: Then we have some uh drag racing friends that drove all the way from New Orleans.
• 3:54
  Don Armstrong: And I noticed that there is a nice what is what is this, a comp?
• 3:57
  Don Armstrong: What kind of car is this?
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  Don Armstrong: It's a super comp dragster is here.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yes, so Cody Reed, he lives in Beaumont.
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  SPEAKER_04: I mean he lives in Bridge City, and he's the one who owns that car now.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_04: That was Chase's, and he sold it to Coco.
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  SPEAKER_04: We call him Coco, and uh Coco follows the circuit with us, and we all have a drag race starting Wednesday next week in Belrose, Louisiana.
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  SPEAKER_04: So we'll all go to that.
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  SPEAKER_04: But Cody does fly the Lupi Tortillas um stickers on the side of the car and part of our team.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_04: So nice, yeah.
• 4:31
  Don Armstrong: Well, um, yes.
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  Don Armstrong: As a matter of fact, uh your son was instrumental in you getting into drag racing.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_04: Well, actually, in matter of fact, Walter, uh Chase is dead.
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  SPEAKER_04: Is Walter here?
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  SPEAKER_04: Walter's here.
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  SPEAKER_04: He's he's over there by the uh dragster.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: Uh Walter's here.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's hiding.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: He's he's hiding.
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  SPEAKER_04: He's very shy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_04: But um, yeah, so when Chase was six years old, uh, Walter and I found a uh junior dragster um at an old swap meet.
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  Don Armstrong: Did you know anything about drag racing before then?
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  SPEAKER_04: No.
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  Don Armstrong: Nothing.
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  SPEAKER_04: Nothing.
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  Don Armstrong: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: Nothing.
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  SPEAKER_04: And uh Walter loved drag ra never drove a drag dragster dragster or a race car, but always loved cars.
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  SPEAKER_04: He and his dad um used to work on cars together.
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  SPEAKER_04: His dad actually, Walter's dad, who's now deceased, um, he built a nineteen twenty-four model tee and it had a wooden frame.
• 5:30
  Don Armstrong: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_04: A wooden frame.
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  Don Armstrong: And raced it.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_04: No, never raced it.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_04: No, just had it for car shows.
• 5:36
  Don Armstrong: Gotcha.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, and they actually took that car, the 24 Model T to a car show in Orange at the Wiener Schnitchel.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_04: You know Wiener Schnitchel?
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  SPEAKER_04: So Chase's grandparents are the ones who started that car show in Wiener Schnitchell in Orange long time ago.
• 5:54
  SPEAKER_01: And we would go over there from Mid County on Saturday night.
• 5:59
  SPEAKER_01: That was that was the place to go over there instead of coming over there.
• 6:01
  SPEAKER_01: Oh my god, so you've you've known the family all these men that didn't know them, but I we we ran, we were really close running into the same thing.
• 6:10
  Jeff Dziekan: You go to Wienersnitzel.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: So that we've always been around cars, and then when uh Walter and I found that junior dragster when Chase was six, we kind of like took him to the Sears parking lot in Orange and like let him drive it around, and then when he got turned eight, then we took him to uh Navasota, and that's where he ran his first junior drag race.
• 6:34
  Don Armstrong: And back did that did they have actual race engines for that category of uh the junior dragsters?
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: They did, they had race engines.
• 6:42
  Don Armstrong: Were they Briggs and Stratton?
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  Don Armstrong: Briggs and Stratton, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, sure did.
• 6:47
  Don Armstrong: Have you ever seen have you ever seen them run, David?
• 6:49
  Don Armstrong: They're they're the uh actually today it's become a whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh yeah, and they even have electric junior dragsters.
• 6:57
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I've seen that.
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  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, what?
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, which are very competitive, and I think the uh last year's world champion, um oh wow, sorry, I got distracted by the hopping cars.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_04: Hopping cars, hopping cars.
• 7:11
  Don Armstrong: So um so the whole you know, it's so funny because um the whole drag racing thing has been a thing all of my well since really high school because I hung out with the drag guys and we went down to Houston International Raceway on I-45 down in Dickinson.
• 7:30
  Don Armstrong: And that's where uh I got indoctrinated and uh it's never stopped.
• 7:38
  Don Armstrong: And uh matter of fact, that's I met Stan on the NHR8 tour in Las Vegas of all places.
• 7:46
  Don Armstrong: Yes, and uh and it's it's been a whirlwind since 2006.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_04: It has.
• 7:53
  Don Armstrong: You know, I'm only about 35 years old, but I look like I'm 90.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_04: Ditto.
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  Don Armstrong: And it's all because of tragic.
• 8:01
  Don Armstrong: Wait a minute.
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  SPEAKER_04: I think it's there's a common denominator.
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  SPEAKER_04: It's Stan.
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  SPEAKER_04: I think Stan is aging us.
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  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you think?
• 8:07
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, uh huh.
• 8:08
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I believe it.
• 8:10
  Don Armstrong: Uh I worked for Stan and Sheila for well, Stan uh for a couple of years.
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  Don Armstrong: This is before they married, and uh it that in itself was quite a whirlwind.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, yes, yes, that was fun.
• 8:22
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I and matter of fact, I started working for them after I left uh David Powers Racing and the top fuel team.
• 8:30
  Don Armstrong: And uh so I just kind of continued on, and really I've continued on in a different vein now with doing the broadcasting thing.
• 8:38
  Don Armstrong: So it's um still cars, it's never ending.
• 8:41
  Don Armstrong: And you know, I really got back into the car thing back when I was working for an undisclosed uh NBC affiliate television station.
• 8:50
  Don Armstrong: And um and I don't even want to mention the name, it's just like ooh, I can't believe that company is just absolutely horrible.
• 8:56
  Don Armstrong: I watched a new let me just go off the off the track here.
• 8:59
  Don Armstrong: I watched a news cast last weekend.
• 9:02
  Don Armstrong: They read now, this is a major market, okay?
• 9:05
  Don Armstrong: They read a news story that was incomplete.
• 9:08
  Don Armstrong: You know, the basic things broadcasting, who, what, when, where, why?
• 9:12
  Don Armstrong: That we don't we don't gotta go all that way.
• 9:15
  Don Armstrong: Now, let's not do that.
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  Don Armstrong: We're gonna tell that story.
• 9:17
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
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  Don Armstrong: We don't want to tell half the story.
• 9:19
  SPEAKER_03: Too much work.
• 9:19
  Don Armstrong: And then then you got an anchor on there with some sort of a uh looked like a mobster suit with a 1980s blue shirt with a white collar.
• 9:28
  Jeff Dziekan: I think I know what you're talking about.
• 9:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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  Jeff Dziekan: He's on there quite a bit.
• 9:32
  unknown: What?
• 9:33
  Don Armstrong: He's a market in charge of this place over there.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, look at the look who's riding with that guy.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_04: Trump.
• 9:39
  SPEAKER_04: It's Trump.
• 9:42
  Don Armstrong: That's very clever.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_04: That's great.
• 9:44
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I think we need those on our cars, don't you?
• 9:46
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I think so.
• 9:48
  Don Armstrong: Well, it's it's been a whirlwind, it continues to be.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 9:52
  Don Armstrong: And um, there's this one common denominator for me.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it's Stan.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_04: Stan.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 9:57
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: Um it it's yeah, it's been that.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_04: So that's that's what I was gonna say.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: So I never mentioned his name three times and he shouted.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_04: There he is.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, my current husband.
• 10:12
  Don Armstrong: The current husband.
• 10:13
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you'll have to switch the camera so we can see that.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: He's not in the shot yet.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's coming around.
• 10:19
  Don Armstrong: If he stands there long enough, then uh yeah, you just have to follow that follow that camera around.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: Uh-huh.
• 10:25
  Don Armstrong: But uh at any rate, uh you know, this is an entertaining car talk show.
• 10:29
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 10:30
  Don Armstrong: And we talk about everything and anything, uh, including I mean we've actually gone off the track and talked about underwear on this show before.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_04: No, no, let's not do that.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_04: We can talk about grandbabies.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_04: Mine's here today.
• 10:41
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_04: My grandson's here today.
• 10:43
  Don Armstrong: And I'm hoping that uh my daughter is going to bring my grandson to the Easter tailpipes and tacos in Katie.
• 10:49
  Don Armstrong: You bought it.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of the weeks, you did?
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_04: Yay! We bought him a car.
• 10:54
  Don Armstrong: I did, I bought him a car.
• 10:55
  Don Armstrong: Um he's he now has a little uh electric car that actually has a radio in it that plays all sorts of different tunes, forward, backward, and it's also got you can drive it yourself or dad can drive it with the remote control.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_04: I'm excited about the kids' car show, and I'm hoping that the Beaumont car show does really well and we can include a kids' one at in the future.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_04: Sure.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_04: Um, because I was so excited about the Christmas car show we had for the kids in in Houston, and I'm really excited about the Easter one, and I've been trying to encourage all the parents, especially the grandpa, to get out there and decorate their grandkids.
• 11:35
  Don Armstrong: What are you talking about?
• 11:36
  SPEAKER_04: Decorate your grandchild's pedal car, a rope remote control car.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_04: Speaking of, I have a a new bad habit.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_04: It's um tracking little pedal cars.
• 11:48
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_04: Uh-huh.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_04: So I was online, a live auction the other day, I think it's called Invaluable, like that.
• 11:55
  SPEAKER_04: And so I'm watching it and I was after this little Woody Wagon pedal car because I wanted Tie Ty to have a matching pedal car like puppy.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_04: And so sure enough, I'm like, yes, yes, yes, and I got it.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_04: I've got the pedal card, Woody Wagon, it's gorgeous.
• 12:14
  Don Armstrong: Have you got it at home now?
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, it got delivered the other day.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_04: But as I'm sitting here, Stan goes, What are you doing?
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_04: I said, mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_04: This is my this is my deal.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_04: You are not allowed you're not allowed to get involved in rural cars.
• 12:26
  Jeff Dziekan: You're gonna drop an LS in it.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_04: Because I said, I needed a the Woody Wagon, and then we are getting ready to have another grandchild in June.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_04: So um, I was looking for another another pedal car for that baby.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_04: Well, Stan started looking, and next thing I know, he starts bidding under my number, and we had uh five pedal cars delivered the other day.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_04: I said Where are we gonna put them?
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_04: So the deal was Is he drinking wine again?
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_04: No, mimosas.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_04: That was in the morning.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_04: So the deal was he started collecting pedal cars and we put his grandkids' names on them.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_04: So when uh Ty Tai was born, I was like, Well, he needs one.
• 13:08
  SPEAKER_04: So then we found out Chase and Mariah were pregnant again.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_04: I'm like, well, this baby's gonna need more.
• 13:12
  Jeff Dziekan: You have more pedal cars than grandbabies?
• 13:14
  Jeff Dziekan: So you need more grandbabies.
• 13:15
  SPEAKER_04: I think Chase and Mariah need to have about, I don't know, five more kids.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I don't think he's listening.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: Well, good luck on them.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_04: Five more kids, Chase and Mariah.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_04: Poppy ordered five pedal cars.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_01: Gotta have drivers.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_04: We might have to adopt some grandchildren.
• 13:36
  Jeff Dziekan: You got a whole team, you got a whole race team going on there.
• 13:39
  Don Armstrong: Exactly.
• 13:39
  Don Armstrong: Can you see?
• 13:40
  Don Armstrong: Tai.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_04: Tai Tai, come see Shiji.
• 13:42
  Don Armstrong: Oh Lord.
• 13:44
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh, it's always good to have you on the show.
• 13:47
  Don Armstrong: Uh, and it's always it's kind of an extension of Stan because the conversation goes here and then it goes over here, and then we go down.
• 13:55
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_04: That's because of you.
• 13:58
  Don Armstrong: True.
• 13:59
  Don Armstrong: You got it.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_04: Y'all here's the most precious grandbaby in the entire world.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_04: This is Ty Ty Murray.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_04: And I'm sorry he did not get to bring his little um remote control Corvette this time because his father was in no party zone.
• 14:13
  Don Armstrong: And uh and how old is he now?
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_04: He's one and a half.
• 14:16
  Don Armstrong: One and a half.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_04: Say hi.
• 14:18
  Don Armstrong: Get a little closer.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_04: Tell everybody hi.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Move over here a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Got a shirt and everything.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: Right there.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_01: You're good.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: Right here?
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 14:24
  SPEAKER_04: Tai Tai, wave to the crowd.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_04: We're handing out autographs soon.
• 14:29
  Don Armstrong: Well, Sheila, thank you very much.
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_04: This is the future of drag racing right here.
• 14:33
  Don Armstrong: There you go.
• 14:33
  Don Armstrong: When we're in our wheelchairs.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_04: So just real quick, tell me when we're doing the countdown.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_04: But he already has his mom's junior dragster.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_04: His uh Mariah's dad bought the junior dragster back.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_04: So he's already ready and his mom's junior dragster.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_04: And then Walter, Chase's dad, bought his junior dragster back.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_04: So Ty and baby number two are gonna have their junior dragster, their parents' junior dragster.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_01: Heritage racing.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there you go.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, isn't that great?
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_01: It's great.
• 15:05
  Don Armstrong: I can't keep it all straight, but it's great.
• 15:08
  Jeff Dziekan: He's saying I need another nap.
• 15:12
  Don Armstrong: Sheila, thank you.
• 15:13
  Don Armstrong: Thank you all.
• 15:13
  Don Armstrong: Thank you.
• 15:14
  Don Armstrong: And by the way, I know that somebody here is in charge of judging the cars for our three chili pepper trophies.
• 15:20
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 15:21
  Don Armstrong: So uh we'll need that person here with the names of the people that are going to.
• 15:26
  Don Armstrong: That's going to happen at 1030.
• 15:29
  Don Armstrong: 1030.
• 15:30
  Don Armstrong: 10:30.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, I'll make sure.
• 15:32
  Don Armstrong: Will you, will you?
• 15:33
  Don Armstrong: Because I know that if I tell anybody else, it won't happen.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_04: So you're saying uh I can get the job done?
• 15:39
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I know that.
• 15:40
  Don Armstrong: I know that.
• 15:42
  Don Armstrong: Put the baby down, step away from the baby.
• 15:44
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 15:45
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Jeff's motor minute and a review of the new Ram 1500 Longhorn Limo.
• 15:50
  Don Armstrong: Woo-hoo.
• 15:51
  Don Armstrong: Uh, when the in-wheel time car talk show continues from Beaumont, Texas, right after this works.
• 15:59
  Don Armstrong: The tailpipes and tacos renowned cruising expands to Beaumont.
• 16:03
  Don Armstrong: Golden Triangle Cruisers will one-up experienced tailpipes and tacos at the Loopy Tortilla, High Tent South in Beaumont, near Washington Boulevard.
• 16:11
  Don Armstrong: Grab free Loopy Breakfast Tacos with any donation to Shirley's kids.
• 16:15
  Don Armstrong: Enjoy a coffee or an adult beverage.
• 16:17
  Don Armstrong: Every cruising vehicle is automatically entered to win one of the beautiful chili pepper trophies for Best Hot Rod, Classic, and Modern Classic.
• 16:24
  Don Armstrong: Tellpipes and Tacos Baumont happens Saturday morning, March 21st, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 16:29
  Don Armstrong: If you're a car cake like we are, this is the event you'll want to attend.
• 16:33
  Don Armstrong: The Intel Time Cover Talk Show will be online live, and you may be interviewed about your ride.
• 16:38
  Don Armstrong: Talepipes and Tacos Baumont edition Saturday, March 21st, 8 to 11am, at the Loopy Tortilla 2050 I10 South in Baumont.
• 16:46
  Don Armstrong: The Katie Tailpipes and Tacos happens Easter Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11.
• 16:50
  Don Armstrong: The free Tailpipes and Tacos Cruising is a production of Loopy Tortilla Tex Mex, Baumont and Katie.
• 16:56
  Don Armstrong: It's pretty good.
• 16:58
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• 17:03
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• 17:09
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• 17:19
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• 17:24
  Don Armstrong: Mm-hmm.
• 17:25
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• 17:30
  Don Armstrong: Hey, welcome back to the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 17:33
  Don Armstrong: Tell Paps and Tacos Cruise In, Beaumont Edition, and we invite you to join us for our live In Wheel Time Car Talk Show every Saturday, 10 to noon Central Time on Inwheel Time.com, YouTube, and Facebook.
• 17:44
  Don Armstrong: And don't forget 30-minute podcasts of our shows can be found at your favorite podcast store.
• 17:49
  Don Armstrong: Time now for Jeff's Motor Minute, Jeffrey.
• 17:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, here we go.
• 17:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Do you know that your uh tire sensing units, the TPMS units, are sending out signals and they can be tracked on that?
• 17:59
  Jeff Dziekan: This is a story from Leroy uh Marion uh about a week ago.
• 18:03
  Jeff Dziekan: A new cybersecurity study has uncovered a deeply unsettling reality.
• 18:07
  Jeff Dziekan: One of your car's most basic safety features may already be broadcasting your movements to anyone willing to listen.
• 18:14
  Jeff Dziekan: Tire pressure monitoring systems or the TPMS systems, now standard equipment in modern vehicles worldwide, were designed to purely prevent accidents caused by underinflated tires.
• 18:24
  Jeff Dziekan: Over a ten-week field study, researchers deployed low-cost radio receivers near roads and parking areas capturing more than six million TPMS transmissions over 20,000 vehicles.
• 18:37
  Jeff Dziekan: Each tire sensor continuously emits wireless signals containing a fixed unique identification number, and critically these signals are transmitted unencrypted.
• 18:48
  Jeff Dziekan: So what what is happening is that they're uh they're sending out signals to your car, but it's also being interrupted or are uh being picked up by other things in the area, and people can monitor where you're going, when you stop, where you're at.
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: So that could be uh that could be kind of kind of detrimental.
• 19:04
  Jeff Dziekan: You could be in in trouble for something like that.
• 19:06
  Jeff Dziekan: So uh be careful.
• 19:08
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh I don't know how it's a fix or anything or what they're gonna do about it, but that's it's out there right now.
• 19:13
  Don Armstrong: I'm in trouble all the time.
• 19:14
  Don Armstrong: It doesn't make any difference if it was TMS.
• 19:16
  Don Armstrong: You know, I had to replace the TPMS tailpipe monitoring system.
• 19:21
  Don Armstrong: Tire pressure monitoring system.
• 19:23
  Don Armstrong: I had to replace those in the Corvette.
• 19:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I remember that.
• 19:26
  Don Armstrong: Uh and what a pain.
• 19:27
  Don Armstrong: That was it.
• 19:28
  Jeff Dziekan: You had new tires.
• 19:29
  Don Armstrong: Didn't you get new tires and I got new tires, but I didn't replace them at the same time that I got.
• 19:32
  Don Armstrong: And that was a couple years ago, and then ding, one goes out.
• 19:35
  Don Armstrong: And I thought, okay, replace that one.
• 19:38
  Don Armstrong: Well, if one went out and the car is at the time twenty-three years old, it's probably time to get them all replaced.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, because they they were installed at the same time with batteries, so with the life on them.
• 19:50
  Don Armstrong: So I I got them uh, you know, new ones installed, and they work great.
• 19:54
  Don Armstrong: And getting them hooked up, synced up to the car was as easy as pie.
• 19:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 19:59
  Jeff Dziekan: They do that when I had my tire replaced at uh discount, they have a little uh box of some sort and it goes and beeps and they set it to the car and all that.
• 20:07
  Don Armstrong: Mine, you have to reset it with a magnet.
• 20:10
  Don Armstrong: Oh, that's right.
• 20:11
  Don Armstrong: You got the the the the earth magnet when you did that.
• 20:13
  Don Armstrong: Yes, I had to spend I spent more on the damned earth magnet than I did on anything else.
• 20:18
  Don Armstrong: And you hold it up to the the nozzle on the on the tire.
• 20:22
  Don Armstrong: It's Dowstem, yeah.
• 20:23
  Don Armstrong: Right.
• 20:23
  Don Armstrong: And then you go in and you drill down the menu and it goes, oh, you're over there on uh the left front.
• 20:29
  Don Armstrong: Yes.
• 20:30
  Don Armstrong: Hit the button, ding! Yeah, there you go.
• 20:32
  Don Armstrong: So it's one of those kind of things.
• 20:33
  Don Armstrong: All right, time now for this hour's car review.
• 20:36
  Don Armstrong: I had a chance to drive the 2026 Ram 1500.
• 20:40
  Don Armstrong: Available trim levels include the Tradesman, Express, Bighorn, Lone Star, Warlock, Laramie, Rebel, Limited, Longhorn, RHO, and Tungsten.
• 20:56
  Don Armstrong: All of that.
• 20:57
  Don Armstrong: I had the Longhorn Crew 4x4.
• 21:00
  Don Armstrong: This is a standard or full-size body-on-frame pickup truck.
• 21:04
  Don Armstrong: Seats five people.
• 21:06
  Don Armstrong: Uh, complete redesign happened in 2019.
• 21:09
  Don Armstrong: You're thinking, well, this is 2026, isn't it?
• 21:11
  Don Armstrong: Time?
• 21:12
  Don Armstrong: Listen, they wouldn't be able to compete if they didn't update that thing every couple of years.
• 21:16
  Don Armstrong: So the complete redesign happened in 2019.
• 21:20
  Don Armstrong: The updates happened all the time.
• 21:23
  Don Armstrong: Exterior features, best looking exterior on the market, grill styles varying depending on trend.
• 21:31
  Don Armstrong: Distinctive rear lighting with dual exhaust trip tips back there, multi-function, optional tailgate is a head up competitor to Ford's.
• 21:43
  Don Armstrong: Engine size badging is on the hood, and it is big.
• 21:47
  Don Armstrong: You'll know just by looking at the hood what's under the hood.
• 21:51
  Don Armstrong: What I like, sheet metal appeals to me.
• 21:55
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 21:56
  Don Armstrong: The side mirrors.
• 21:57
  Don Armstrong: Side view mirrors are so big.
• 22:00
  Don Armstrong: It obscures the view around them.
• 22:03
  Don Armstrong: There's got to be a you know what Ford did was they did some lowering of the actual side window glass and moved the mirrors down.
• 22:13
  Don Armstrong: And uh I think that's what Ram needs to look at.
• 22:16
  Don Armstrong: Anyway, interior highlights, it's got a three-screen dashboard.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: It's awesome.
• 22:21
  Don Armstrong: Uh instrument cluster, infotainment, and the shotgun person sitting over there in the passenger seat, they've got their own screen right there in the dashboard.
• 22:31
  Don Armstrong: It's very cool.
• 22:33
  Don Armstrong: You can't see it as a driver.
• 22:34
  Don Armstrong: They've got it somehow shaded that you can't see what's going on over there.
• 22:38
  Don Armstrong: So you can pull up, I guess, porn if you want to watch that over there.
• 22:42
  Don Armstrong: Um by the way, that one has its own controls.
• 22:46
  Don Armstrong: Um infotainment, excellent, easy to use.
• 22:51
  Don Armstrong: Uh sliding shelf inside the center console uh is uh really handy.
• 22:59
  Don Armstrong: And you slide that shelf back, you know, you've got your remote control, your phone, whatever is you want in there.
• 23:05
  Don Armstrong: You slide that back, and then you've got a race car that's just fired up back behind us here.
• 23:12
  Don Armstrong: That's the Super Comp dragster.
• 23:14
  Don Armstrong: Uh comfortable seating, uh all the adjustments on the thing.
• 23:21
  Don Armstrong: Uh it's a truck with multi-function bed, tie-downs, lighting, everything back there, and this particular model, what I liked.
• 23:29
  Don Armstrong: Uh Ram thought of everything on this.
• 23:31
  Don Armstrong: I don't think are they gonna make a loop through the parking lot?
• 23:34
  Don Armstrong: Maybe that's what they should do.
• 23:35
  Don Armstrong: What could use improvement?
• 23:37
  Don Armstrong: Upper trims are expensive.
• 23:39
  Don Armstrong: But I mean, you know, if you're gonna do that, then buy a trim level as opposed to one offing it.
• 23:49
  Don Armstrong: Engine, it's the return of the 5.7-liter Chemi V8 with a mild hybrid now.
• 23:56
  Don Armstrong: Turns out 395 horsepower, 410 pound feet of torque, through an eight-speed automatic transmission that's smooth as glass.
• 24:05
  Don Armstrong: Tower rating, 9,240 pounds.
• 24:08
  Don Armstrong: It'll haul 1,330 pounds.
• 24:10
  Don Armstrong: Get 16 miles per gallon in the city, 20 on the highway for a combined of 18.
• 24:15
  Don Armstrong: It was a time not that long ago that it only got 13 miles per gallon.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 24:20
  Don Armstrong: So this new setup really works.
• 24:21
  Don Armstrong: I got 16.2 miles per gallon over 379 miles.
• 24:25
  Don Armstrong: What I liked about it, that smooth V8 power with the mild hybrid.
• 24:31
  Don Armstrong: You cannot beat it.
• 24:33
  Don Armstrong: I'm telling you, those V8 engines rock.
• 24:36
  Don Armstrong: And I I drive all of the four cylinders, it doesn't make any difference what it is, turbocharged, I don't care.
• 24:42
  Don Armstrong: That V8, it rocks in that pickup truck.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_01: It's just that low-end torque from that V8.
• 24:48
  Don Armstrong: It's also got available an optional Hurricane 6 high output engine, straight six in it, 540 horsepower on that straight six.
• 25:02
  Don Armstrong: I love the coil suspension, it acts like a Luxo limo.
• 25:06
  Don Armstrong: Wow, like it used improvement in the ride and handling nothing.
• 25:10
  Don Armstrong: This thing is just absolutely awesome.
• 25:12
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price, base trim price on this.
• 25:16
  Don Armstrong: Remember what that I what I was driving, and that was the Longhorn Crew Cab 4x4.
• 25:26
  Don Armstrong: Base trim price$75,405.
• 25:30
  Don Armstrong: Price is tested with some options,$86,205.
• 25:34
  Don Armstrong: Oh man.
• 25:36
  Don Armstrong: The base model price of this is$44,775.
• 25:43
  Don Armstrong: But here are the the other, they're all right there with it.
• 25:46
  Don Armstrong: Ford F-150,$43,935.
• 25:51
  Don Armstrong: That's the starting price.
• 25:53
  Don Armstrong: Starting price for the Chevy Silverado,$42,600.
• 25:57
  Don Armstrong: And the Toyota Tundra starts at$41,260.
• 26:02
  Don Armstrong: For a pickup truck.
• 26:05
  Don Armstrong: Yep, yep.
• 26:05
  Don Armstrong: You kidding me?
• 26:07
  Don Armstrong: It's a pickup truck.
• 26:08
  Don Armstrong: I go back to the days of what a pickup truck was just that.
• 26:12
  Don Armstrong: Bare bones pickup truck.
• 26:14
  Don Armstrong: You bought it to work with.
• 26:15
  Don Armstrong: Rubber, rubber floor mats.
• 26:17
  Don Armstrong: All that.
• 26:18
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 26:21
  Don Armstrong: We're just we're just gonna open the microphones and listen to this for a while.
• 26:26
  Don Armstrong: So it's a race car that's right behind us there.
• 26:31
  Don Armstrong: That RAM doesn't sound that loud, but it sounds that good, though.
• 26:34
  Don Armstrong: They have quite that noise.
• 26:35
  Don Armstrong: It's got more creature comforts in it.
• 26:37
  Don Armstrong: Next week I'm gonna review the Chevy Equinox EV.
• 26:41
  Don Armstrong: And I know you'll want to tune in for that.
• 26:43
  Don Armstrong: Okay.
• 26:44
  Don Armstrong: You know how I am about EVs.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_01: Not a hybrid, but a full EV.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: A full EV.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeehaw.
• 26:48
  Don Armstrong: Well, if you're going to buy a if you're gonna buy it, this is a nice one.
• 26:54
  Don Armstrong: Go for it.
• 26:55
  Don Armstrong: I was I was quite taken aback by the whole thing, but you still gotta plug it in all the time.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 27:03
  Don Armstrong: Hey, if you'd like to get in touch with us, we invite you to shoot us an email.
• 27:08
  Don Armstrong: The address here is info at inwheeltime.com.
• 27:11
  Don Armstrong: By the way, we have a bonus hour today.
• 27:14
  Don Armstrong: Uh the third hour is going to be our 10 o'clock hour.
• 27:18
  Don Armstrong: Normally we go on the air at 10 o'clock, but since this is a uh very special event over here, the big cruise in, tailpipes and tacos, uh, we're going to go an extra hour and take it up to 11 o'clock.
• 27:32
  Don Armstrong: If you'd like to get in touch with us, again, info at inwheeltime.com.com.
• 27:37
  Don Armstrong: We're back on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show right after this quick break.
• 27:40
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 27:40
  Don Armstrong: Morris.
• 27:44
  Don Armstrong: The Easter Bunny's coming.
• 27:46
  Don Armstrong: To the tailpipes and tacos cruise in at the Loopy Tortilla Tex Max in Katie, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 27:52
  Don Armstrong: And you're invited to.
• 27:54
  Don Armstrong: Bring the kids and grandkids.
• 27:55
  Don Armstrong: It's a cruise in like you've never attended before.
• 27:58
  Don Armstrong: With the donation to Shirley's Kids, you will get a free Loopy Tortilla breakfast taco.
• 28:02
  Don Armstrong: There'll be coffee and adult beverages, plus chili pepper trophies for the best hot rod, best modern classic, and best classic.
• 28:08
  Don Armstrong: There's no entry fee and no registration.
• 28:10
  Don Armstrong: Just bring your ride and the kids.
• 28:12
  Don Armstrong: Best bunnies aren't allowed, but the Easter bunny will be there, and he'll be full of joy to help make this tailpipes and tacos a very special one.
• 28:19
  Don Armstrong: Photo opportunities abound.
• 28:20
  Don Armstrong: The NBL Time Car Talk Show will be streaming around the globe, and you can be selected to tell your car story to a global audience.
• 28:26
  Don Armstrong: It's the Tail Pipes and Tacos Cruise and Easter edition, Saturday, April 4th, 8 to 11 a.m.
• 28:31
  Don Armstrong: at the Loopy Torchica Tex Max in Katy, located on 99, the Grand Parkway, just south of I10, the Katy Freeway in Katie.
• 28:38
  Don Armstrong: Make plans now.
• 28:39
  Don Armstrong: Loopy Tortica is pretty good.
• 28:43
  Don Armstrong: You own a car you love.
• 28:44
  Don Armstrong: Why not let Gulf Coast Auto Shield protect it?
• 28:47
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• 28:53
  Don Armstrong: We promise you'll be impressed.
• 28:55
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• 29:10
  Don Armstrong: Curbed your wheels?
• 29:11
  Don Armstrong: Instead of buying new, why not have them repaired?
• 29:13
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• 29:16
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• 29:18
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• 29:24
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• 29:31
  Don Armstrong: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your place to go for all things exterior.
• 29:35
  Don Armstrong: Call them today, 832-930-5655 or gcautoshield.com.
• 29:43
  Don Armstrong: That's it for this podcast episode of the In Wheel Time Car Show.
• 29:46
  Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong, inviting you to join us for our live show every Saturday morning on Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, and our InWheeltime.com website.
• 29:56
  Don Armstrong: Podcasts are available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, iHeartPodcast, Podcast Addict, TuneIn, Pandora, and Amazon Music.
• 30:05
  Don Armstrong: Keep listening, and we'll see you soon.