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Red Jeep Found After 1 Year Missing + California Tire Ban · Jeep Talk Show

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Well hey Jeepers, welcome back to another
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episode of the Jeep
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talk show and boy, we've
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got a jam packed chock full episode for
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you today of all kinds
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of stuff. Now this, I'm
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going to start things off with a little
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bit of a somber note this
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time around. This actually
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takes back to a story that probably got
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news coverage last year
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as something popped up
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here in my local area in my, my stomping
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grounds where I typically
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go out and wheel and whatnot
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where some Jeep was found and the
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registration to the Jeep who actually
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harks back to a missing
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persons report from about a year ago,
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September in 2025 in the
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Beaverton area, two men were
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reported missing after heading out to
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ostensibly a wheeling trip and never
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returned. Fast forward
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to just about a couple days ago and there
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was some work being done by some, I think
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some ODF or in department of forestry
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personnel off of highway
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six, which travels from the
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Portland Metro area west out over the
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mountain range out to the
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coast. And they had discovered
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a Jeep that had a careened off the, off
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the roadway above and down
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into a very steep embankment
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and had been there for quite some time.
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They referred to what
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they had seen at the site
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as skeletal remains. Oh no, they have not
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identified. Obviously
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they're going to have
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to go back to seeing what, as far as
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personal effects may still be
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there that can be identified.
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And if there's anything that there that
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can point them in the
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right direction, they'll
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probably end there. Otherwise we're
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looking at, you know,
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dental records at this point.
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But it is believed by the, by the
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authorities who responded
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to this, that these are two
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men who were, who reported missing. Their
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names are Eddie Hare and Scott Smith. And
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they are no longer with us. But it is, is
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interesting that this
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is a Jeep. This, this
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was a 2005 Jeep Wrangler that they were
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in. I don't know the
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level of modification to
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it. I do know that both men are in their
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late, there were in
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their late sixties, whether
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that had anything to do with it, whether
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there was alcohol
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involved, none of that is
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known. Um, whether or not there was
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weather conditions that
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forced them off the road,
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whether it was wildlife, we actually have
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no idea and likely
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never will. Uh, I don't
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know how deep this investigation is going
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to go. Um, I imagine
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they're going to look
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for initial signs of foul play. Uh, but
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since the remains of
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both individuals are still
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in the vehicle, I'm going to assume that
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they're probably just
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going to leave things
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as are, as this was a tragic accident.
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Now, one thing that I
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noted, um, in this, and this
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is sort of traveling down a bit of a
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rabbit hole and putting a
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bit of a, a humorous spin
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on things. If you will, Tony, I noticed
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this was a red Jeep. And
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since 2020 we're harking
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back to the days of the, uh, Jeep that
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cleaned off a black bear
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pass, which was also a red
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Jeep. Now this tallies into, um, well out
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of all of the fatal accidents involving a
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Jeep that we've reported on since 2020
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over the last six years,
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the majority of them have
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been red Jeeps. So I'm going to say it
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might be time to sell the
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red Jeep and go to something
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that a color that is less dangerous.
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Let's put it that way. So
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let me ask you this. You're,
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you're reporting this like these are the
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two men that died in
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this, this, this role, this
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tragic accident, but you don't, but you
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don't know yet, right?
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Because they haven't done
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the dental records. They haven't
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officially identified.
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These are the two people that
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are missing and they've been missing
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about this time. So it's
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likely that it is them.
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But right now, it's officially it's, it's
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unknown. The vehicle
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is registered back to
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one of these individuals. And one of
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these individuals was
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part of the missing person's
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report from September of 2025. So all
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signs, all signs are
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pointing towards that this,
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unless these gentlemen stole the vehicle
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and that person is
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still missing. Uh, I mean,
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I said, no, no, I agree with you. I just
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want to make sure we
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didn't, we're leaving
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it open or assuming that this is the
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people, especially since
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we gave the names. So, uh,
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how long, how long ago did
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this, this crash happened?
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Did you September of 2025 is when the
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missing person's report
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was filed. So what you're
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saying is it was a black Jeep, but it
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could have rusted by now
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and lowly looks red. So
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yeah, Tony, I mean, I suppose sure. It
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could have been rusty red,
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but no, I'm, I'm, everything
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is to believe that this is the 2005 red
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Jeep Wrangler that was
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involved with the person's
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report and that these two individuals
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that know the remains of
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two individuals that were
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found in there.
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Now, this is all a movie. This is old
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movie, but do you
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remember rebel without a cause?
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Oh vaguely. Yeah. Timely
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reference there, Tony. Holy crap.
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But I'm just saying that, uh, I forget
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the actor's name, uh,
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but, uh, he, he made a big
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splash in Hollywood and he died in a big
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crash. And, uh,
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unfortunately I don't remember
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his name, but I mean, there's a reason
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why red Jeeps are, are
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really cool because you're
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always going to be remembered. Not like
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if you have a white
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vehicle or, you know, I'm
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just saying there's the color of James
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Dean's car. No, yeah,
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nobody does. There we go. James
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Dean. That's exactly what
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I was trying to think of.
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Oh, good. So don't pick a fight if you
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can't hang tragic
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accident, but nonetheless, I'm
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trying to, I'm trying to put a humorous
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spin on it with the, uh,
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with the whole red Jeep
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for those who are new to the show. Tony
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has a, uh, a bit of a
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bias to three red Jeeps,
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three red Jeeps, three of them actually.
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So yeah. One might
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consider that a problem,
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but mine runs. Yeah. Well, I'm not in
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danger of creating a cliff
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in mine. Don't start another
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and you can't, you can't handle. Well,
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speaking of handling and
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starting things, California
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is starting some stuff, Tony, that, uh, I
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think it's going to a
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lot of people off. And
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I know we've got a ton of listeners in
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California. And if you are
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a California resident, you
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want to listen to this because this is
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definitely going to affect
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you over the next several
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years. So California in their infinite
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wisdom, um, you know,
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they, this is the state that
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thinks everything is going to give you
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cancer, um, is actually
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going to start banning certain
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kinds and types and brands of tire. I
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heard about this. I
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couldn't believe this. This
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is getting national news. So chances are
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you or somebody, you
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know, has already heard about
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this to a certain extent, I'm going to go
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ahead and peel the,
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uh, the band-aid off of
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this thing and really kind of show you
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what it's all about. So
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I think ultimately this
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is what this is going to cause is about
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70% of the available
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tire market being illegal
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in the state of California. What the,
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what I know, seriously,
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what they're trying to
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do is they're, they're trying to protect
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the environment, right?
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That's what it's all about
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is all about the environment that the
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greenie weenies are added
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again. And they think that
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the, the, the, the tires that come on the
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vehicle are the optimal tires as, as, um,
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engineered by the tire manual by, by the,
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uh, the auto
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manufacturer, they choose the,
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the, the tire with the least rolling
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resistance that has the highest
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efficiency that is going
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to be that vehicle, the highest EP or the
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highest, uh, MPGs, uh,
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possible. Uh, so it's,
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it's all about rolling resistance and,
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and there, there, this
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gets deep into the weeds
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and gets into some pretty, uh, pretty
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sciency geeky type of
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stuff. Basically after, um,
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after 2029 or I'm sorry, starting in
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2029. So that's just in,
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in less than three years,
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about two and a half years from now, um,
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they're going to put a
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limit on tire sales and any
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of the tire sold in the state of
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California is going to have
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to have a rolling resistance
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level of 9.1 newtons per kilo newton or
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less. Now I don't know
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exactly what that means in
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scientific terms. It's basically just a
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drag coefficient
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measurement. How much resistance
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does the tire put on that contact patch
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as it's rolling down
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the road? How much newtons
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of force is it take to roll that tire?
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Essentially, um, there's
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going to be a couple of phases
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of all of this. Now phase one starts in,
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like I said, 2029
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phase two is going to start
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in 2020 and I'm in 2033. Sorry. And, and
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that's when they're going
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to drop things down even
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further. Uh, and the maximum rolling
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resistance is going to be
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7.2 newtons per kilo newton.
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Now what that means essentially is that
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it has to have a much
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less rolling resistance
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than previously than what you'd
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previously have bought.
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Now there are a ton of tires
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that are going to be on the chopping
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block. And what this is
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going to mean is that essentially
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if you are a California state resident,
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uh, you are not going
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to be able to buy these
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tires in the state of California. Uh,
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from what I understand
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so far, uh, if you do have
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a set of these tires either on your rig
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already, or you go out of
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state and buy them and live
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in the state of California and have these
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quote unquote illegal
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tires, uh, on your Jeep,
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you're not going to be fined. There's not
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going to be any punitive measures. And if
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your vehicle has to go through, so
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they're screwing the tire
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companies, the tire shops
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in California. Yes. So, so essentially
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now what this is going
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to do is it's going to
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increase the, I mean, cause look how, how
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much of a, um, how much
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of the, uh, of the GDP
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do you think comes out of California? How
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much buying power, how
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much commerce happens
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in California, California California and
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New York are the largest
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States in the, in the nation.
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They have the highest level of
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population, the largest population
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density. And, uh, because
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of that, their markets pretty much run
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everything else. And of course
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course, California tries to, uh, try to
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run the standard for
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everybody else. Everybody needs
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to follow the California standards. Well,
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not on my watch if you
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ask me, but that being said,
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um, what this is going to do is it's
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going to make, um, uh, tire
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manufacturers, Jack their
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prices up because their biggest customer
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base now is not going
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to be able to buy their
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tires, at least not in state. So that
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means you're going to
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have to go out of state to
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go buy those tires. That means on tire
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rack or Amazon or
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wherever else you might buy tires
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online. You're not going to be able to
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have those tires shipped
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into the state of California
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either. They're going to have to be
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shipped to a tire shop
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outside of California over
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there in Oregon or over in Arizona or
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Texas, you know,
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wherever. And, and you're going
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to have to go over there to go get those
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tires. And I'm not even
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sure what the compliance
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is going to be as far as the tire shops
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go, whether or not
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they're going to mount and
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balance these tires either. So, um,
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again, phase one starting
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in 2029, uh, face starts
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in 2033. And at that point, um, it's
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going to be nearly
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impossible to find a certain
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tire. Now, what kind of tire is going to
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be on the chopping block? Well, obviously
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it's going to be a tire with a lot of
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rolling resistance on it.
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Now, there are some exceptions.
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Now, thankfully California does have at
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least a couple of brain
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cells to rub together and
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they realize that they are a huge
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motorsport, um, uh, state
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in the nation. And they, they
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had, there's a ton of racing that goes on
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in California, both on road and off road.
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And that is a massive amount. I mean,
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millions, if not billions
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of dollars of industry that
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is happening within the state in both on
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road and off road
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racing, obviously they can't
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make those tires illegal because they
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are, would essentially
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make off road and on road
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racing in California illegal or not
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possible or completely
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changing the rules, which would
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actually up the whole sport completely.
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Um, and so when you're
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talking about lap times
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and things like that, uh, and what it
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costs for the, the, the,
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the, the race teams to equip
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their race cars and whatnot. So obviously
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there's going to be some
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exceptions. Thankfully,
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deep tread mud terrain tires are part of
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the exception. However,
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that's amazing. However,
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well, here's the catch. Here's where
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things are going to get really
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tricky and get kind of nasty.
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So we've seen over the last five or 10
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years or so, an increase in what we're
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calling hybrid tires.
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They're not really a mud train. They're
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not really an all terrain.
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There's something kind of
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in between. And a lot of people are
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really, really digging these tires
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because they give you the best
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of both worlds. They give you a little
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bit less rolling resistance.
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You don't have quite the drag
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coefficient on the tire that you would
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with a massive mud train.
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It's a little bit more road
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friendly. It has a little bit better
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mileage on it. You're going to get a
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couple more miles to the
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gallon probably. And it's a little bit
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more easy, easier on the wear
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and tear of, of, of the tire
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itself and the vehicle itself. So
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obviously these things are
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gaining a lot of traction,
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pun intended. And so this is one of these
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things where all of those
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tires are going to be on the
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chopping block, all those hybrid tires
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that fall somewhere in between an all
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terrain and somewhere
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in between a mud train are absolutely
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going to be on the chopping
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block. You are not going to be
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able to buy them. You're not going to be
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able to equip them. You're
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not going to be able to run
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them in California. So this is, this is
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a, what is that going to do
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to the tire market in general?
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When you take out one of the largest
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markets and buying power for
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these, for this specific brand
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of, of aftermarket good suddenly you
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don't have as much, the tire manufacturer
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doesn't have as many
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customers. Well, if they're not selling
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as many tires, this is all,
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you know, what's, what's the,
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what's the term where people buy things
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it's selling and buying
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and it's not bait and switch.
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What the hell is the term I'm brain
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farting on this anyways,
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essentially how things are priced
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out by the number of sales that has
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happened. If you have less sales, you're
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going to jack up the
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price. Absolutely. It's going to increase
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price because you don't
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have the same demand. Right.
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And so there is going to be a supply and
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demand. That was the term I
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was looking for. So this is
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definitely going to affect everybody as
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far as tire prices go. So
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if you're even thinking that
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you might need tires between now and
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2029, I would think now would be the good
14:38
time to start stocking
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up on tires. Honestly. So let me, let me
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ask you this. Obviously this
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is going to affect, especially
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the mom and pop tire dealerships. Oh, big
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time. Yeah. It was
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definitely hurt the national chains
14:52
well, but I think less so because they
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have the other 49 states or
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48 states to sell in. But,
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you know, I thought about our, our, our
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friend Tony at a Jen,
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right? So why would you build a
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Jeep in California? If you can't buy the
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tires that you need for it.
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Well, no. So here's the thing.
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So mud terrains are an exception. You can
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still run. You can still
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buy the mud terrains. Now that
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means that the mud terrains are going to
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cost the same in 2029 or 2030
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as they did in 2028 or 2027.
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I think as this starts to roll out, we're
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going to see a massive
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spike in tire prices and it's
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going to go across the nation. It's not
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going to be just for
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California. It's not going to be just
15:37
for the West coast. It's going to happen
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across the nation. And
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like you said, all the tire
15:42
manufacturers, this is going to affect
15:44
everybody across the board. But it's
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because California is
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a big market and has such a large
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motorsport following in
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the state that it is going to
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absolutely drive a lot of the prices sky
15:58
high. Now this is, this
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is going to affect not only
16:02
the consumer, but also the tire
16:03
manufacturer as well, because they're not
16:05
going to be able to sell
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these tires in one of their largest
16:08
markets. So this may end up
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being one of these things where
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this is the beginning of the end. We
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might see the end of tires as
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we know it. That doesn't mean
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we're going to be going all on into,
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into, you know, moon unit tires or
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something like that.
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This isn't going to be anything where
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we're all going to be running street
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tires now from now on.
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You can still buy the mud trains. They
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are exempt. It's just some of the all
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trains and some of the
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hybrid tires are going to be on the
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chopping block. Yeah, but
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they're exempt for how long?
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And I can't believe that California has
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the key. I can't believe
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that California hasn't jumped on
16:45
a taxing plan. So yeah, you can have your
16:48
big tires, but you gotta
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have to pay to have them
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because it's, you're tearing up the
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environment. We need to
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let extra, so we can pay for
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supporting all these people that are here
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illegally. Look at the
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history of the income tax.
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The income tax, when it first started,
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really was only on the
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highest of income earners. Well,
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as the, we all know the government is
17:10
days long. No. And so the tax of course
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went down to everybody
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else eventually. And now we're all income
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tax and it was always
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planned that way. They knew that
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there wasn't enough millionaires,
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billionaires, et cetera. This is no
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different. I believe this
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is going to be the same thing. This,
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there's going to be a phase
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three, even though they're only
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listing two phases, there's going to be a
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phase three and phase three
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is going to be, you are all
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going to rock the street tires, the
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highway tires, no more mud trains because
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they have too much rolling
17:40
resistance, or it's going to be off road
17:43
use only, right? Which means
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your daily driver now has to
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have street tires. You can still have the
17:50
mud trains. They got to be
17:51
on a separate set of rims
17:52
because God forbid you're caught on I
17:54
five with a set or a four or
17:55
five with a set of mud terrains
17:57
on state patrol is going to nail you to
17:59
the wall. A lot of jokes
18:02
about the never skipped leg day.
18:03
I predict.
18:05
So it's, it's, it's one of these things.
18:07
This is going to have a
18:08
massive effect on the industry as
18:11
a whole off-roading, jeeping, the
18:13
building of off-road vehicles in general
18:16
and how we customize them.
18:18
I believe that California and this, this
18:20
may end up getting
18:21
fought. Don't know right now.
18:24
Is full of Democrats.
18:28
Exactly. I think it's going to require a
18:30
lot of the tire
18:31
manufacturers getting together to do some
18:34
sort of a class action suit or something
18:36
like that. They're going to
18:36
have to the state of California
18:38
to put a stop to this. So I'm thinking of
18:40
something else. I'm
18:41
thinking of something else, Josh,
18:43
part of Canada wants to be the 51st
18:45
state. I say we make a trade.
18:52
Yeah, no doubt. Yeah. We'll, we'll give
18:53
you California, but we need Quebec.
18:56
No, we don't want those
19:00
people. They're crazy. Yeah.
19:04
So yeah, look out for this. This is on
19:08
the radar. It is going to happen. I,
19:11
believe that this is going to get rolled
19:13
out before it has a chance of getting
19:15
fought in the courts. Right now, there
19:17
doesn't seem to be any
19:19
legal standing against this.
19:21
They seem to have all the power of the
19:23
courts against, or I mean with them.
19:26
And everything seems to be lining up to
19:28
where this is going to be
19:30
rolling out in 2029. This is
19:32
going to affect everybody regardless.
19:34
This is what they're
19:35
doing. California has decided
19:37
that they are going to bite off their
19:38
nose despite their face.
19:39
Oh yeah.
19:39
They're doing it with the oil
19:41
manufacturer. I mean, with
19:42
the, with the oil refineries,
19:43
they're doing it with the, with the
19:44
natural gas ban. They're now they're
19:46
doing it with the tires
19:47
and pretty soon it's going to be, well,
19:49
you have to, I mean, they
19:50
tried doing this with the, with
19:52
the semi trucks saying that if you're
19:54
going to trans transport,
19:55
any, any goods within the state
19:57
of California coming in or going out
20:00
within the state border, it
20:01
has to be done by an electric
20:02
truck. That doesn't work. It doesn't
20:06
work. You know, going over
20:07
the mountains, they can't haul
20:08
the same kind of, same amount of cargo.
20:10
They don't have the same kind of range.
20:12
It was an absolutely idea because the
20:14
greenie weenies are just
20:15
trying to virtue signal saying,
20:17
look at how environmentally conscious we
20:19
are. Aren't we grand?
20:21
Yeah. And I've made, I mentioned this in
20:23
the past, the plan for
20:25
California by Californians
20:27
is to get rid of all those nasty, ugly
20:30
people. They don't want
20:31
people in there. And I think
20:33
the United States should just make it a
20:35
park. You can visit
20:37
California, but you can't live there. I
20:39
mean, you can camp extended. Oh, I'm
20:41
sorry. They already have
20:42
extended camping in San Francisco.
20:45
Don't they? Yeah, pretty well. It's all
20:48
pretty much the West coast
20:49
because it's, it's, it's,
20:50
it's so stupid. It's just entirely,
20:55
entirely. I mean, it's, I
20:56
mean, why, I mean, I understand
20:59
why because California is so liberal.
21:02
It's not even funny. They, I
21:03
mean, it's, it's, it's beyond
21:05
a joke at this point of how liberal
21:07
things have gotten. I mean, there's a
21:08
couple of other states
21:09
that are, are cities that are, are
21:11
getting really close. But nonetheless,
21:14
California has taken a hat
21:16
on this one. And this is not the end. I'm
21:19
like, I said, I'm sure
21:19
there's going to be a phase three.
21:20
I'm sure that there's going to be other
21:22
things that are going to
21:23
kind of fall in suit with this
21:25
saying that you need to have a, a, a, a
21:27
certain aerodynamic value to your
21:30
vehicle. And so we're
21:31
going to see manufacturers, you know,
21:33
making nose cones for
21:34
Wranglers or something. I mean,
21:36
it's going to get stupid because it
21:38
already is so that California
21:41
is pulling this sort of stuff.
21:43
You have the largest amount of oil
21:46
refinery in the nation compared to Texas,
21:48
and you're going to shut
21:49
down your refineries. You pretty much
21:51
supply the entire West coast with
21:53
gasoline, which runs the
21:56
entire commerce of the nation, if not the
21:58
world, and you want to
22:00
eliminate it from your state.
22:02
How do you have to be? It just like your,
22:07
I don't know. There's
22:08
no analogy that can make
22:10
sense, make this make sense. So I think
22:12
sometimes what they do is
22:13
they're only interested in the
22:15
next election. So what can I do to
22:19
impress my constituents to
22:21
vote for me? I can't even
22:22
pronounce the word, the vote for me so I
22:24
can stay in power. What
22:26
happens in 20 or 10, 15, 20 years?
22:28
I don't care. I will have already been in
22:30
office. I will have already
22:32
made my money and I will move
22:34
to Texas, Florida, or Tennessee so that I
22:36
don't have to pay these
22:37
absorbent taxes and deal with
22:39
this, this that I got put in place. I
22:42
seriously think, cause it
22:43
can't be any other explanation,
22:45
because it is just nonsensical. It's not
22:48
logical. It's feelings and
22:50
it's not, and feelings shouldn't
22:52
be greater than facts and logic. So I'm
22:55
going to, I'm going to kind
22:56
of step back from the whole
22:58
Jeep aspect of this for a second and, and
23:01
really talk to literally
23:02
everybody else out there within
23:04
the sound sound of my voice. So if you've
23:06
got a sports car, you've got a daily
23:08
driver, it's a sedan,
23:10
whatever, you've got the family vehicle.
23:12
Obviously Obviously, you want the safest,
23:15
most the best tires you can put on your
23:17
family vehicle to keep the family
23:19
safe to make sure that that vehicle can
23:21
stop on a dime, make sure it can maintain
23:24
its lane and make sure that it can handle
23:26
a corner in just
23:27
about any sort of weather,
23:28
including inclement weather. So you want
23:31
a tire that is nice and sticky. You want
23:34
a tire that has great tread compound.
23:37
That might mean, especially with sports
23:39
cars, that you don't get quite the
23:40
mileage out of that tire that you
23:42
ordinarily would. It's not
23:44
going to be a 60,000 mile tire.
23:45
It's going to be a 20 or 30,000 mile tire
23:47
at best, but you're getting the
23:49
performance out of that tire.
23:51
You're paying that little bit of extra
23:53
for that sticky compound, for that tire
23:55
that's going to grip, for that tire that
23:57
is going to be safe.
23:58
It can stop you a little bit sooner. And
24:00
now all of those tires are no longer
24:03
going to be available to you,
24:06
because they don't have the rolling
24:09
resistance value that
24:10
California is looking for.
24:11
So isn't there some great places to drive
24:15
like S type things and steep curves and
24:18
there's supposed to be some really cool
24:20
driving in California.
24:21
Think about the PCH, the Pacific Coast
24:25
Highway. Yeah, exactly.
24:27
Yeah, I mean that right there. We've seen
24:30
it in movies for decades.
24:32
I think Tony Stark was driving on it in
24:34
one of the Marvel movies.
24:36
It is one of the most iconic roadways in
24:39
the nation. And yes, you are going to
24:43
have an issue with this because now your
24:45
tires are going to have to be parked.
24:47
Slipping into the ocean. Yes.
24:49
Yes, especially during wet conditions.
24:53
And I don't think that they really
24:54
realize what they're doing here.
24:57
Well, these people don't understand this.
24:59
They don't understand
24:59
science. They don't care.
25:01
You're right. They don't understand
25:02
science. They understand virtue
25:04
signaling. They understand that,
25:05
well, we need to make cars because CO2 is
25:08
bad. It's not plant food.
25:10
It's not what all of the
25:12
plants on the entire planet are required
25:14
to need to breathe in order to produce
25:17
oxygen so that we can breathe.
25:19
No, it's all about, well, gasoline is
25:23
bad. Carbon is bad. Anything that
25:25
produces any kind of
25:26
anything is bad. It's not broccoli.
25:29
Cal's and Cal flights.
25:30
Yeah. We're going to be driving bicycles.
25:35
I mean, the state of California is going
25:36
to require electric bicycles from now on.
25:38
Well, you know, this whole tire thing
25:40
reminded me of my my swim 10-speed
25:43
bicycle that had these tiny little skinny
25:46
tires on it so that the rolling
25:48
resistance was very low.
25:49
So you could go very fast on the
25:51
10-speed. And I think that if I remember
25:54
right, the air pressure was 80 or 90 PSI.
25:58
Those were rocks that I was driving on.
26:01
So I thought of the bicycle thing as soon
26:05
as you started talking about this stuff.
26:07
Yeah. So one of the biggest tire
26:11
manufacturers that come to mind is
26:12
obviously BF Goodrich.
26:14
And they have probably one of the most
26:16
iconic tires around the BF Goodrich
26:19
all-terrain tire. It has been an industry
26:21
standard on Jeeps and light trucks as
26:23
long as I can remember.
26:25
The tread pattern hasn't changed really
26:27
in decades. And this has been one of the
26:30
most iconic tires on the planet in phase
26:34
two, starting in 2033.
26:36
Those tires will be banned.
26:41
Yes. So you're not going to be able to
26:44
you're not going to be able to buy them
26:45
in the state of California, not going to
26:46
be able to equip them.
26:47
You know, you can own them. They can be
26:49
on your vehicle. You just can't buy them
26:51
in the state of California.
26:53
So, yeah, it's pretty much like the
26:56
cheaper that you want it, the farther
26:58
away from California
26:59
you're going to have to go.
27:00
I'm so glad I live in Texas.
27:03
Now I got to get off the West Coast. This
27:05
is getting insane,
27:06
man. I just this liberal
27:09
of this kind of eco-nut BS is getting out
27:14
of hand. And I know
27:15
there's people out there like,
27:16
"Well, this is all to protect the
27:18
environment, you stupid son of a
27:19
****.
27:19
I don't know what's good for you.
27:22
We're going to do what we need to do to
27:24
protect you from yourself."
27:26
Yeah.
27:27
Yeah, I was just thinking, because we're
27:31
getting very political on here. And I
27:34
decided, I think exactly that.
27:36
****
27:36
you. Go listen to
27:38
another podcast that sucks your
27:39
****.
27:40
We're not going to do it.
27:41
Yeah. So I know that there's going to be
27:44
a fair amount of people that are in our
27:46
listener base that are going to be like,
27:48
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I'm
27:49
for all that." And then there's going to
27:50
be a lot of people that are like me that
27:52
are going to be a little
27:53
****
27:53
off even though they
27:54
don't live in California.
27:55
And then there's going to be all those
27:56
California listeners that
27:57
are going to be like, "What the
27:58
****?"
28:01
Yeah. Oh, geez. All right. So honestly,
28:06
if you're in the state of California, I
28:08
want to hear your thoughts on this.
28:10
What are you thinking this is going to,
28:11
how this is going to affect you? I want
28:14
you to call the show.
28:16
I want you to use the voicemail, the
28:18
video voicemail, and chime in on this.
28:20
Because I think the more discussion that
28:23
we have on this, the more we hear
28:26
people's opinions on this, the more light
28:29
is shed on this, and the more that we can
28:31
point out the stupidity of it all, I
28:34
think the better chance we have of
28:37
putting this to rest and putting a stop
28:39
to this, hopefully
28:41
before it can get rolled out.
28:42
I'm going to get put to rest until you
28:44
start voting for
28:45
conservatives in California.
28:47
I know. I know. We're on the West Coast
28:49
entirely, I mean, in general. But you're
28:51
right. You're right, Tony.
28:52
It doesn't matter how much the red
28:54
states, how much better the red states
28:56
are doing, and how many people are moving
28:58
to the red states. It's like, that's
29:00
fine. We don't need them
29:01
here. You will eventually.
29:04
I mean, for example, you've heard about,
29:07
maybe you haven't, all the stuff that
29:09
SpaceX and Tesla are building in Texas,
29:12
the largest building in the world is
29:15
going to be built in, not Brookshire.
29:18
That's the other big building they're
29:19
building here for solar panels and stuff.
29:23
By any right, this stuff should have been
29:25
built in California. But Newsom, or
29:28
Newscom, f***ed a musk off, and he got
29:33
the f*** out of there. And now he's
29:35
building stuff in Texas. And I guarantee
29:37
you, we like it. We appreciate it.
29:39
You're sure? There's been a mass exodus
29:42
of companies leaving Oregon, Washington,
29:45
and California because of a lot of these
29:48
kinds of policies that are coming out.
29:50
And we can go down a whole deep rabbit
29:53
hole of political discussion about this
29:56
whole thing, and West Coast politics, and
29:59
red versus blue, and left versus right,
30:01
and all that sort of stuff.
30:02
But ultimately, a lot of this comes down
30:04
to common sense. And common sense seems
30:07
to be less and less common more and more
30:10
as we go on. And this is
30:12
just one shining example.
30:14
I've said it before, I'll say it again.
30:16
It's the difference between playing
30:17
tic-tac-toe or even just checkers. Not
30:21
even chess. Because it's like raising the
30:26
minimum wage to $20 an hour or whatever
30:29
they would like there would be.
30:30
You don't think that's going to increase
30:31
cost on things? You,
30:34
sir, can't play tic-tac-toe.
30:36
Yeah, seriously, they're talking just on
30:40
phase one, there being a substantial
30:42
increase. But if this goes all the way to
30:44
phase two, tire manufacturers are going
30:47
to have no choice but to both adapt and
30:52
to do some correction,
30:54
some market correction.
30:55
And what that's going to mean is jacking
30:57
up prices to compensate. And that's going
31:00
to be across the board. Whether it be for
31:02
the tires that you're going to put on
31:04
your Geo Metro or whether the tires are
31:06
going on your Chevy 35.
31:08
Yeah, everybody's going to pay.
31:10
It's across the board.
31:12
So, Josh, we've had a lot of fun with
31:13
this, Jacob. I'm sure the fair amount of
31:15
the audience off. There was two things
31:18
you wanted to cover.
31:18
What was the other one?
31:20
Well, the first one was the jeepers who
31:23
were found here at Oregon who had been
31:26
missing for about a year. And then this
31:28
was the second one. There is one more
31:30
thing that we need to get to, which is
31:31
something we haven't done in a couple of
31:32
weeks, which is a f*** you, you f***.
31:35
Excellent. All right.
31:39
So, that's me, D.R., out here in Utah.
32:06
And I just got through listening to that.
32:06
That episode about that new Jeep
32:06
Scrambler. Yeah, I.F.S. I don't know.
32:06
Good thing or bad thing or bad thing..
32:07
But anyways, I thought I'd try out this
32:07
video theme. See how it works. I haven't
32:07
talked to "anybody" for quite a while.
32:07
I've got all kinds of things.
32:07
All kinds of issues going on at home. My
32:10
wife's gone through cancer twice now,
32:12
still. Still recovering from the second
32:14
one. Anyways, I tried that Patreon app, I
32:19
know I paid it and I never could get
32:23
anything to work on it. I'm
32:25
going to try it again, I guess.
32:27
It's good to hear Josh back, too. Love
32:30
the show. Love talking to you guys.
32:33
Hey, this is Nicky G. And did you know
32:35
that lizards can detach their tail when
32:39
they feel threatened?
32:41
Yeah, don't worry. They get them back.
32:44
Where do they get them
32:44
from? A retail store.
32:50
Didn't like that one. Try this one. What
32:52
do you call an indecisive
32:54
potato? Yeah, a hesitator.
32:58
I didn't like that one either. But you
33:03
know, it is what it is. All right, boys
33:06
and girls, I'll chat at you later and
33:07
have a good one. Bye.
33:10
Hey, this is Nicky G. And did you know I
33:12
started keeping a guitar
33:14
in the back of my Jeep?
33:16
Yeah, it comes in great if I ever want a
33:18
traffic jam. That was horrible.
33:23
Did you know I was going
33:24
to get a brain transplant?
33:27
I decided not to, but
33:28
then I changed my mind.
33:32
This one ain't working out too good
33:34
either. I want to grow a little
33:35
chatulator and have a good one. Bye.
33:41
All right, people, we're here tonight
33:43
doing a bit of a
33:43
roundtable. And this is going to be
33:46
something that does me off. And I don't
33:49
know if it you offer not so chime in. If
33:52
you think it's silly,
33:53
that's fine. But this off, it has nothing
33:56
to do with Jeeps. I mean,
33:57
the Jeep is kind of involved
33:59
because it's a parking lot. But it's a
34:01
paid parking lot. It's about baskets.
34:04
When the did it become
34:07
acceptable for companies to put us to
34:10
work? You know, I'm of an older
34:14
generation. And when you
34:15
put the grocery store and you use the
34:17
basket to roll your groceries back out
34:20
there to your station
34:21
wagon, or I guess mine was 72 Nova with
34:25
the 327 in it, I didn't
34:28
have a place to put the basket.
34:30
I moved it out of the way, hopefully out
34:32
of everybody else's
34:33
way. Hopefully not anything
34:35
that I would bump against it when I was
34:36
leaving. But they had somebody there, a
34:39
high school student,
34:41
that would come out, collect the baskets,
34:43
push them in and make
34:45
them available for the next
34:47
a customer that came up. Now we need to
34:49
go and make sure that we
34:51
put the basket in its little
34:54
area that it's taken up a parking spot.
34:58
And I think I've even
34:59
seen the videos, YouTube and
35:02
on social media, where they put stickers
35:04
on people's cars when
35:05
they don't put their baskets
35:06
back. They're shaming them for not
35:08
putting their baskets back. And some
35:10
people are saying that it
35:11
shows the nature of your being by being
35:18
so selfish as not to take the
35:21
basket and put it back. Well,
35:23
fuck you. I'm going to put the basket
35:25
wherever the fuck I want
35:26
to. If I park next to one of
35:27
those little receptacles that you put the
35:29
baskets, the basket corral,
35:33
fine, I'll put it in there.
35:34
But if I have to walk aways, I'm not
35:37
doing it. And I'm also not fronting the
35:40
shelves in the store,
35:41
and I'm not mopping the floors. I'm not
35:44
doing any of the other jobs
35:45
in there. And I'm not using
35:46
that self-check it, check out either.
35:47
Fuck you. Right. Not
35:50
unless I get employee discount.
35:52
Where's my 1099? Exactly. Want me to do
35:57
all the free labor for you. Yeah. I mean,
35:59
I can appreciate they don't have to pay
36:02
people to do these things
36:03
and maybe the prices are lower,
36:05
but it wasn't any kind of agreement that
36:07
I made. And if you want me
36:10
to do it, that's fine. But
36:13
everybody else don't shame me because I
36:16
mean, shame me, I'm going to do it worse.
36:18
I may zip tie it to your car door. If
36:22
it's a Jeep, I'll let you go.
36:39
Yeah. I don't care what you call it. I
36:40
want to know, do you
36:41
put it up and be honest?
36:45
I'm like you. If I park next to the
36:48
little corral thing, yeah,
36:49
but I'm not going to walk
36:50
halfway across the parking lot. I didn't
36:53
sign up to work there.
36:55
How about you, Glenn? Are you rude? Do
36:57
you not put your basket
36:58
back when you're done with it?
37:01
Well, I remember I'm in South Louisiana,
37:03
so the quicker I get
37:04
into the AC, the better. So
37:06
the cart. I really thought I was going to
37:09
get some pushback on
37:10
this. How about you, John Lee?
37:16
John, John, are you muted?
37:20
All right. I think I know Bob. I said,
37:22
Oh, go ahead. I said, I put it back.
37:28
I don't know. It's always been my, my
37:31
model. I don't know. I
37:33
guess the main thing is I never
37:35
thought twice about it. I'm just down
37:38
here. They're pretty good. I
37:39
rarely do I ever have to walk
37:40
very far to put a cart back, but you
37:42
know, it's just, it never
37:45
really rose to the part of,
37:47
you know, staging a full blown protest
37:49
about that would be a big seller.
37:54
John, that's the military in you.
37:56
I guess I'm just, to me, I mean, you
37:59
know, like they've got guys
38:00
out there. Here's the thing.
38:02
They've got high school kids out there
38:03
running. Part of this is
38:04
the fact that you get minimum
38:05
wage is what like, or not the actual
38:08
legal minimum wage, but
38:09
what they're paying everybody
38:10
now is like 20 bucks an hour. And a lot
38:12
of these grocery stores, and
38:14
if they have enough people to
38:15
go out and collect all those carts and do
38:16
all that stuff, then
38:18
you're paying twice as much
38:19
for your groceries or whatever. So to me,
38:22
it's not, it's not that big
38:23
a deal. I just find a spot
38:24
and put it up. Yeah. Now let me ask you,
38:26
this is a critical
38:27
question. Were you this way before
38:31
after you got married? Before, after
38:35
what? Before or after you
38:36
got married? Did you start
38:38
putting the basket back because your wife
38:40
told you to is what I'm getting at.
38:41
I put the basket back because if I
38:43
didn't, my dad would
38:44
have put my being an ass.
38:46
I was at a very young age when I, when
38:50
that was part of your job
38:51
as a kid, right? When you put
38:52
the groceries in the car with your
38:53
parents, kids run the basket back and
38:55
throw it in the, in the
38:57
holder or whatever, put it on the island.
38:58
There's no holders out there, but
39:01
yeah, that was a kid that
39:03
was like always a requirement.
39:05
Okay. Rick, you're in
39:06
Arkansas. Do you guys use baskets?
39:10
Yeah. Everyone has got that one wheel
39:13
that does like this though.
39:16
There's not one good basket in
39:17
all of Arkansas. And I was, I was
39:19
actually kind of nervous. Actually, when
39:21
you first was talking
39:22
about baskets, I thought he was going to
39:24
have us talk about our
39:25
shopping cart basket online and
39:28
what's, what's in there or something. I
39:29
was like, Oh, I don't want to
39:31
be putting, I don't want to be
39:33
putting that information out here on a
39:35
recorded thing, you know, but
39:38
I put them back. If the thing
39:40
is, is, you know, my, my main commuter
39:43
car is a, is a, is a 24 Honda Accord.
39:49
It's black and it's a
39:50
pretty car. And the thing is, is I've
39:53
seen those parts come, become flying
39:56
across the, you know,
39:57
when the winds up and, and those things
39:59
are smashed into a car and,
40:01
you know, when I, you know,
40:02
the Jeep, you ain't going to hurt
40:03
anything on that Jeep
40:04
with a shopping cart. I mean,
40:05
there's nowhere for that shopping cart to
40:06
hit that's going to do
40:08
anything. But in my, in my
40:10
car, you know, I mean, I, I kind of have
40:13
enough, you know, it's the
40:13
old kind of show respect to
40:15
other people's stuff. And, and so, and,
40:19
you know, so I'm, I'm kind of
40:21
sowing that good seed out there
40:22
so that, that hopefully it comes back on
40:25
me and, and, you know, I'm
40:27
not getting a shopping cart in
40:28
the side of the door and my black Honda
40:31
that's going to shine like
40:33
the new day sun. So, you know,
40:36
the, the grocery store is ultimately
40:38
responsible if that buggy
40:39
hits your car, right? Well, yeah,
40:42
there's signs up there where it says it
40:44
or not. I mean, I mean, you
40:46
know, small claims court and
40:47
all the problems you'd have to go through
40:49
and take off tight. I'd spend more time.
40:52
It would cost me more
40:53
taking time off work to deal deal with
40:54
that that. And especially taking my, my,
40:57
my pay time off that I
40:58
could be willing to go just
41:01
fight some idiot in court, you know, over
41:03
now, I just, I just put the
41:05
cards up and, and generally
41:07
just say, you know, I mean, it's not that
41:10
big of a deal. And, you know, in that
41:12
way, some little old
41:13
ladies not having to move a card out of
41:15
the, you know, get out of her
41:16
car, move the card out of the
41:18
way so she can pull into the thing. You
41:20
know, I mean, I'm just, I'm just being
41:22
nice, you know, to me,
41:24
it's a respect thing.
41:25
So has anybody considered your, you pull
41:28
up the basket to your, your Jeep or
41:30
whatever vehicle you got?
41:32
It's probably got that remote thing. So
41:34
you can unlock the doors.
41:36
So all the doors are unlocked so you can
41:39
get the groceries in.
41:41
Do you remember to lock the doors before
41:43
you walk to take the basket
41:45
back because somebody could
41:47
jump in in your vehicle, mess around, do
41:51
really anything? I mean,
41:53
even potentially take off in it.
41:57
Well, my, my Honda's got a proximity
42:00
lock, so it does it automatically.
42:02
And my Jeep, you know, it's depends on
42:05
what time of the year.
42:06
They got to figure out how to drive it.
42:08
Right now it's why I don't right now
42:10
they'd have a hard
42:10
time getting in it because
42:12
the thing's so tall, but, but yeah, you
42:20
know, to me, it's not that big of a deal.
42:23
I just put it up as it's more of a
42:24
respect thing than anything.
42:27
Right. Do you think people are or beneath
42:30
you because they don't
42:31
put the baskets back?
42:35
Everybody's beneath me.
42:38
I knew that was coming.
42:41
What about you, Bob? Are
42:43
you, do you put the basket back?
42:46
I do.
42:48
I did not expect that.
42:52
I have owned some very nice cars and it
42:56
would come out and find some left that
43:01
cart blown in the wind to
43:02
run into the side of my car.
43:09
Very good. Very good. Honest, honest
43:11
answers here. How about you, Travis?
43:15
I'll put them up and I'll even rearrange
43:17
them from the small
43:18
basket and large basket.
43:20
Put them up.
43:23
I just ate it.
43:25
It doesn't drive me insane, but it's just
43:26
like, is it killing
43:28
me to help out or yeah,
43:30
do their job. I'm doing somebody's job,
43:33
but I put them up sometimes a kid.
43:37
And I think that goes back to, you know,
43:39
John just your child was raised.
43:41
Does it hurt me? Does it
43:43
bother me to do it now?
43:44
Not a bit. It's three minutes. I mean, if
43:47
I got cold ice cream, I'm not, you know,
43:50
do it rearrange in the whole line of
43:54
large and small baskets.
43:57
But yeah, I put them up.
43:59
What if a rain shower comes while you're,
44:03
while you're putting the basket,
44:05
you know, you're done with your basket.
44:06
Do you take the time to wheel it over
44:08
there and get wet even
44:09
wetter than what you are?
44:11
Or just leave it up there
44:12
by the nose of the vehicle.
44:14
I put it up. Doesn't matter. I'm not
44:16
going shopping with a train.
44:17
I mean, I know most people don't, but you
44:19
know, especially during the summertime,
44:21
you can have these pop-up showers.
44:24
Yeah. I'll keep shopping
44:26
until I hear it's over.
44:28
Like I'm almost taking out
44:29
the store. I buy more food.
44:32
My grocery list just went from, you know,
44:34
a hundred dollar trip to $300 trip.
44:37
I guess I want this too.
44:40
All right. Let me, let me
44:41
paint a picture for you guys.
44:43
You know how I am about the, the
44:45
self-driving cars and
44:46
the robots and stuff.
44:47
They're coming. They're,
44:48
they're here to take care of us.
44:50
I suspect that in a very short period of
44:53
time, we are going to
44:55
be followed by a robot
44:59
out to our vehicles. They may
45:00
be pushing the basket for us,
45:03
but they're going to, we're
45:04
going to be followed up there.
45:04
They're going to stand there
45:05
patiently until we're done,
45:08
empty in the basket. And then it's going
45:09
to take that basket and put
45:12
it in the stall or more than
45:13
likely take it back in and put it where
45:15
the, the customers get it. So are you,
45:18
would that make you nervous Travis to
45:20
have a robot standing
45:22
there waiting for you?
45:23
No, but I don't, I don't, I think, I
45:25
think you're going the wrong direction.
45:27
I think it's going to be us with the
45:28
robot unloading or stuff
45:30
and putting the basket back
45:31
and then getting in the passenger seat
45:33
and riding home with us.
45:34
Yeah. You want to do that too. Yeah.
45:36
I just, I think that's going to be more
45:38
the direction of your personal assistant
45:41
taking care of everything. I think your
45:44
businesses will have them,
45:46
but they're going to be stocking shelves
45:49
and doing different
45:49
things. They may be there and
45:51
it is what it is. You know, I've jumped
45:55
on the AI game. I'm learning
45:57
it every day because I don't
45:59
want to get left behind and be shocked
46:01
when the next things happen.
46:04
But yeah, no, I will have one
46:05
thing in my house doing my laundry and
46:09
vacuuming my floors.
46:11
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. I'm just kind of
46:13
wondering, I'm just kind
46:14
of wondering while y'all,
46:16
all you peons are even going to the store
46:18
anymore. I got my groceries
46:20
delivered to my front door and
46:21
then I don't have to even deal with it.
46:25
I made a comment the other day on a
46:27
YouTube video where the,
46:28
what's going to happen is,
46:30
you're going to call your order in a robo
46:36
taxi or a cyber cab is
46:38
going to arrive at your house
46:39
with your groceries and a optimist robot
46:42
is going to step out,
46:44
grab the basket with all the,
46:45
or multiple times, depending how much
46:47
groceries you get, it's
46:49
going to walk up to your house.
46:51
The, the, the cyber lock door lock will
46:55
unlock the door. So let the cyber bot in.
46:58
And when it walks in, especially here in
47:00
Texas, it's going to
47:01
say, optimist food delivery,
47:04
don't shoot. And then it's going to take
47:07
your, your, your food into
47:08
the kitchen and put it there
47:10
and lay it all out and put proper,
47:12
probably, probably the
47:13
optimist robot in your house
47:14
is going to take over and start fixing
47:17
the food, putting away
47:18
and fixing the food for you.
47:19
So yeah, I'm really looking forward to
47:21
that. But anyway, yeah,
47:23
robots will be putting the
47:24
baskets back and we will go full circle
47:26
from high school students,
47:28
junior high school students
47:30
doing it to the robots doing it for us.
47:36
Walmart now will deliver
47:38
inside your house and put cold
47:40
stuff in the fridge or freezer. Really? I
47:42
did not know this. 100%.
47:45
I've not had it done, but I had
47:48
different renters here and they asked for
47:50
permission for that to be done. And like
47:53
Amazon opens my garage, puts everything
47:55
inside it. But yeah, Walmart
47:58
will deliver to your house,
48:00
put dry things on your counter and cold
48:03
stuff in your fridge and freezer.
48:05
Wow. I just, I just had a problem of a
48:08
person doing it. I think
48:11
you could trust a robot a lot
48:12
better than a person. I agree. I've never
48:16
had an issue, but I've got
48:17
cameras. I'm going to see
48:19
anything go on, but they're, I don't know
48:21
if they're vetted. I
48:22
don't know the background, but
48:25
I would imagine Walmart's not a vet, the
48:27
people that do that. I
48:30
would think I would hope
48:31
anybody can sign up to be one of those
48:35
drivers to deliver. Now I
48:37
don't know if they go through
48:38
background stuff, but I looked at doing
48:40
that just for fun for a little bit.
48:44
So, uh, to, to bring this around to the
48:48
jeeping world where I, I
48:50
kind of like to see this turn
48:52
into, you know, when we was out on the
48:53
Rubicon, they had these
48:54
guys coming out on these, uh,
48:56
electric motorcycles and they had a
48:58
backpacks on and they were
49:00
running parts. And like if people,
49:02
somebody had broke down on the trail,
49:04
they had the mechanics out
49:06
there. And I guess mechanics
49:08
would call them on the radio and have
49:09
them, I guess they had a,
49:11
uh, well, my understanding
49:13
is, is people donate parts. They've got
49:16
a, like a, uh, somewhere, I
49:17
guess they've got a parts bin
49:19
or storage and people donate parts. And
49:22
so they have several, it's
49:25
the Rubicon trail foundation
49:26
that runs that. Okay. And they bring the
49:29
parts out to you. So, you
49:32
know, you got a robot that
49:33
not only brings your part out to you, but
49:36
crawls on your Jeep, jacks
49:37
it up, welds, uh, welds the
49:40
new part on, you know, the whole thing,
49:42
you know, I mean, I could
49:43
see where that might be handy.
49:44
That'd be like one of those things.
49:45
Where's the beer? You were
49:46
supposed to bring beer with you
49:47
while I watch you work on my Jeep. Yeah.
49:52
I just goes without
49:53
saying. Yep. All right. Well,
49:55
fun conversation. Uh, this will be used
49:57
on our flagship episodes.
49:58
So you guys tune in and watch
50:00
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50:02
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50:03
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50:05
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50:11
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50:15
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50:17
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50:19
here guys. And, uh, thank you
50:21
for letting us know how your
50:22
basket pushing habits, uh, how you do
50:25
them. If you're, you're a good guy or
50:27
you're an a** like me.
50:29
So this, uh, this installment of goes to
50:33
all those people out there who don't
50:35
really know how to turn
50:36
their steering wheel that well, or who
50:38
are afraid to, or who are
50:39
afraid to use both the steering
50:41
wheel and the gas pedal simultaneously.
50:43
And what I'm talking
50:44
about are those people who
50:46
have to come to a nearly full stop, turn
50:48
into a driveway. I'm not
50:50
talking about the driveway,
50:52
you know, your, your, your double bump
50:53
driveway, you know, that goes
50:55
into your, you know, for your
50:56
home and you got to slow down, but you
50:57
don't make sure you go
50:58
into, into the garage. No,
51:00
I'm talking about you're turning into the
51:03
strip mall. You're turning
51:05
into the Burger King parking
51:06
lot, whatever it may be. You don't have
51:08
to slow down to two and a
51:09
half miles per hour to make
51:11
that corner. There's so many people that
51:13
are driving around like
51:14
they've got a wedding cake
51:15
in the trunk or a tear of champagne
51:18
glasses, you know, toggling on
51:20
their back on their back seat.
51:22
And God forbid they go around a corner
51:24
faster than two and a
51:25
half miles per hour because
51:26
something might fall. Look, there's so
51:29
many people out there who are absolutely
51:31
just scared to drive.
51:32
They're out there white knuckled.
51:34
Everything around them is just scary,
51:36
fast moving vehicles.
51:37
And they don't know what to do. How about
51:40
get the off the road?
51:41
Because what you're doing is you're
51:43
causing an accident where everybody else
51:45
can turn into that parking
51:46
lot at speed. You for some
51:48
reason need to slow down to two and a
51:50
half miles per hour to make that corner.
51:52
And this is the same
51:53
kind of person that has to make a seven
51:54
point turn to get out of
51:55
their parking space because
51:57
they don't know where the corners of
51:58
their vehicle are. And they're scared to
52:00
turn the steering wheel.
52:01
These are the same people. They're scared
52:03
to use the steering wheel.
52:04
They're scared to use the gas
52:05
pedal. They're in the way all the time.
52:07
These are people that cause accidents.
52:08
Look, I have to swerve
52:09
out of the way because I thought you were
52:11
turning into this place. No, you're
52:13
parked right there. Oh,
52:14
you're not parking. You're just coming to
52:15
a near complete stop
52:17
before you turn into a business.
52:18
What the is wrong with you? Okay. I'm
52:22
getting a little, a
52:23
little worked up today.
52:24
So should we give them a pass if they've
52:26
got 500 perfectly stacked
52:28
ducks on their dash? Is that a
52:30
good reason to turn slowly? We needed to
52:32
do is give them a pit
52:34
maneuvers. What we need to do,
52:35
we need to seriously, I need to get one
52:38
of them like cow guards on
52:39
the front of my vehicle so I
52:40
can just take, Oh, come on. You have to
52:43
do the ending. So you, you
52:47
not being able to use your
52:48
steering wheel and your gas pedal at the
52:50
same time. I'm just sick of this. What
52:54
about people with no
52:55
arms or they're steering with their legs?
52:57
That would be a good
52:57
reason all the time. I drive
52:59
halfway to work with my knees. You're
53:01
talking about, I got a coffee in one
53:02
hand. I got my breakfast
53:03
sandwich in the other. I'm eating
53:04
breakfast. I'm steering. I'm I can make
53:07
it to work. No problem.
53:10
All right, Josh, bring it, bring it home.
53:13
All right. Well, if you
53:15
hear anything on the show
53:16
that you have a response to, we
53:18
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53:21
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53:22
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53:23
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53:24
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53:26
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53:28
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53:30
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53:31
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53:33
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53:34
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53:35
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53:38
these people that I just
53:39
called you a. So you might be
53:42
one of these people who I'm screaming at
53:44
who turned two and a half
53:44
miles per hour. You might have a
53:46
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53:48
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53:49
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54:02
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54:04
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54:06
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54:08
and minds and things like that. You're
54:09
driving with your feet while you're
54:11
driving with your feet.
54:12
Yes. No, don't do that. But absolutely
54:15
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54:16
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54:18
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54:19
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54:21
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54:31
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54:33
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54:34
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54:37
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54:37
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54:40
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54:41
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54:42
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54:43
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54:44
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54:45
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54:55
You guys have a great day.
54:59
You're my friend. You're my new friend.
55:02
Let tubes warm up and
55:03
all that good nonsense.
55:06
You have equipment with tubes, don't you?
55:08
I do. I, uh, my, I have a preamp for the
55:11
microphone and it's a, it's
55:13
actually a tube, a preamp. Uh,
55:15
and that's, that's what gives me the
55:17
golden tone to my, my voice. So the,
55:19
since radio shack's not
55:20
there with their massive two ton, uh,
55:24
combo tube storage and
55:26
tester, what do you, what do you do
55:27
for tubes? Now? I guess you got to order
55:29
it from Amazon or something.
55:30
Yeah, it would be that, yeah, I'd have
55:32
to, I have to, you know, pull out the
55:34
magnifying glass and,
55:35
and all that and figure out the numbers
55:37
that are on the, on the
55:37
thing and, and, and order them.
55:39
I forgot there's actually a tube inside
55:41
the microphone as well.
55:42
This has, um, what is called
55:44
I think it's the Neumann mod to it or
55:46
something like that. Um,
55:48
and, uh, uh, something, there's
55:51
been a tube that's been added to the, to
55:53
the circuit board that's
55:54
inside of this. And so that
55:56
combined with the two preamp and this,
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this really is a, uh, a
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nice microphone combination.
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All right. So, uh, we can
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get started. We are rolling.
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All right.