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Can You Build A Killer Ride On A Tight Budget? · In Wheel Time Podcast

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SPEAKER_04: Welcome.
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Don Armstrong: From the Dual City Studios in Texas, USA, it's the award-winning in-wheel time car talk show.
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Don Armstrong: Just ahead, Jennifer Jordan on the hot rod build-off.
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Jeff will have the cruise in an events calendar.
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Don Armstrong: Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars is going to get to his hiking in Houston driving destinations segment.
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Don Armstrong: And I'll bring you stories making automotive news this week.
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Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike Out of This World Mars, we always need more Jeff Zeke, master studio, and transmitter engineer David Ainsley.
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Don Armstrong: I'm Don Armstrong.
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Don Armstrong: So glad that you could join us on this Saturday.
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Don Armstrong: If you're listening on a podcast, thank you very much.
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Don Armstrong: We appreciate that as well.
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Don Armstrong: All right, let's get to our first guest, and that is Jennifer Jordan, partner in the Mother Cluckers store in Victoria, and troublemaker with the Hellions Car Club.
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Don Armstrong: Jennifer, I mean, the list goes on and on.
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Don Armstrong: You're you've got your fingers in the pie and lots of stuff here.
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Don Armstrong: It's a bad girl.
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SPEAKER_04: That's right, that's right.
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Don Armstrong: Well, it's it's great to have you uh with us this morning.
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Don Armstrong: And uh so let's talk about your background and uh car club, uh Hellion's hot rod riot and and the this hot rod build-off that you've got going on.
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Don Armstrong: Uh let's talk about that.
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Don Armstrong: That's coming up in November, but um I understand that June 1st is when the build-off starts.
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Don Armstrong: Am I correct?
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Mike Marrs: Yes, you are correct.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, and and and who and who is that who is that hairy man sitting next to you?
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SPEAKER_04: Victoria.
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Don Armstrong: Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars, we're we're losing.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, but we have a problem receiving your signal off of your cell phone, so you guys are gonna need to go outside or something.
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Don Armstrong: So, Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars, we'll let you handle that uh while uh uh while we uh uh move on with this and and actually uh tell you a little bit about Jennifer.
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Don Armstrong: She's a mother of four, uh two girls, two boys, also a grandmother to four wonderful kiddos, uh originally from Victoria, Texas.
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Don Armstrong: Trey and uh she uh own Jordan Speed Shop, where they say that they'll do anything from minor repairs to frame off restorations.
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Don Armstrong: That's always a scary thing that they'll do anything.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, I like it.
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Don Armstrong: Frame off.
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Don Armstrong: Uh Bestie uh uh and uh her bestie owns a retail store in downtown Victoria that she's uh cloned as mother cluckers downtown.
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Don Armstrong: I like the name.
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Don Armstrong: So uh very busy woman.
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Don Armstrong: Um she's also the Victoria chapter president of the Hellions, which is a car club.
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Don Armstrong: Um, and uh I'm not exactly sure.
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Don Armstrong: And when we get her back online here, we'll talk to her about this.
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Don Armstrong: Jimmy and his wife Marcel own affordable towing out of Victoria, Texas.
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Don Armstrong: They're huge supporters of the local car club scene down there.
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Don Armstrong: So uh interesting uh to have her on there with us.
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Don Armstrong: Um so a little bit about this build-off that they've got uh in the 2026 riot uh show that they're gonna have.
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Don Armstrong: It's uh five months to build this thing with a$4,000 limit.
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Don Armstrong: Yep.
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Don Armstrong: I can't even imagine that.
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Don Armstrong: Um do you have what it takes?
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Don Armstrong: Think you can build the baddest ride on a budget?
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Don Armstrong: Uh now's your chance to prove it according to the flyer that they sent us here.
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Don Armstrong: And uh so five months to build, four thousand dollar total budget, no excuses, no shortcuts, uh just raw creativity.
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Don Armstrong: And um the all I can think of is there's a guy that's on the uh hot rod tour, uh, which we weren't there this year.
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Don Armstrong: This past year, right?
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, but uh the smoking yeah, they're uh their diesel club.
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Jeff Dziekan: Diesel club out on the rolling smoke or rolling coal or something, black black smoke babies, something like that.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, and uh so they took an old pickup truck uh with an old body, put it on a decent frame that could handle all the torque of a diesel engine, and then they just kept working on it and working massaging it, yeah, and all that sort of stuff.
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Don Armstrong: And it looks like hell.
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Don Armstrong: But I don't know how else to put it.
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Jeff Dziekan: You know, but that's part of the look.
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Jeff Dziekan: Five months to do it.
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Jeff Dziekan: Now, five that's a good time.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's a good time frame.
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Jeff Dziekan: Four grand hours is that four thousand dollars that you're putting into an existing vehicle?
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Jeff Dziekan: That's your limit, or that's the total with the car and the build.
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Jeff Dziekan: We'll find out.
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Jeff Dziekan: They're back on.
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Jeff Dziekan: Here we go.
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Don Armstrong: All right, Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars.
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Don Armstrong: Uh let's questions.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, we we hope hopefully got you got better signaled now.
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Don Armstrong: So there you go.
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Don Armstrong: We we've read through the entire flyer that you sent us, and we appreciate that.
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Don Armstrong: And we gave everybody a rundown about who you are, Jennifer.
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Don Armstrong: So um you're in trouble now.
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unknown: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Still having problems with that.
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Don Armstrong: Um anyway, so continue on with what you were saying.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, yeah, because if it's just the money that you're allowed to put into it, so you got an existing car.
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Jeff Dziekan: There's a Corvette in the garage back here.
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Jeff Dziekan: Corvette in that thing.
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Jeff Dziekan: No, put a diesel in that, tub it out.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, no.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: But I'm thinking, you know, some uh weak need old Corvette that the engine's been blown up.
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Don Armstrong: There's one in the garage.
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Don Armstrong: There's that.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, there's that as well.
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Don Armstrong: So um I I don't know.
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Don Armstrong: I I just think that uh it'd be a lot of fun, especially if you got a car club of your own and have a car club actual job to do.
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Don Armstrong: This would be the job.
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Don Armstrong: And somebody's gonna have to give up the garage uh four or five months, and uh the guys come over on the weekend, you know, work uh eight hours on a Saturday and maybe a couple hours on Sunday, and whenever you can get to it.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's where you need to know somebody with like a pull apart or a junkyard area that you can salvage an intake or maybe get a set of shocks or a uh rear axle or something like that.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yes.
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Jeff Dziekan: That that would be the buddy up system there.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: It uh make your four grand go a long way.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Well, we'll just let them uh there they are.
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Don Armstrong: There they are.
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Jeff Dziekan: We lost Mike, but we got them.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's that's a good trade.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, Jennifer.
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Don Armstrong: So we're gonna try this one more time.
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Don Armstrong: Third time, and you're out now if you did if this doesn't work.
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Mike Marrs: Hello.
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unknown: No, nothing.
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unknown: Great.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Well, at any rate, um, we're gonna have to bypass that, uh, unfortunately.
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Don Armstrong: But I think that I gave you the the the whole idea behind this thing.
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Don Armstrong: Um I'm not exactly sure of the website because they don't so we got this on Facebook.
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Don Armstrong: Uh Facebook.com slash South Texas Performance, I think will get you uh into where you need to go if you're interested in something like that.
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Jeff Dziekan: See more on that page.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, absolutely.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, so um anyway, judged by the public at the hot rod riot.
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Don Armstrong: Uh the hot rod riot is going to be November 6th and 7th at Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas.
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Jeff Dziekan: I'm sure they got food and all kinds of things.
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Don Armstrong: I'll bet you who's gonna be there.
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Don Armstrong: Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: Sparkman in his entourage.
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SPEAKER_03: His entourage, yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_03: He kind of heads up all of the hot rod stuff down there at Victoria.
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SPEAKER_03: World leader of Victoria.
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Jeff Dziekan: He's Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: Victoria.
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Jeff Dziekan: Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: Vic, Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: V.
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Jeff Dziekan: We'll call him Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: V.
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Jeff Dziekan: Mr.
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Jeff Dziekan: V Sparksman.
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Jeff Dziekan: Exactly.
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Jeff Dziekan: Sparkman.
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Don Armstrong: So anyway, um, that that looks like a fun time.
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Don Armstrong: Sorry we couldn't get them on the air.
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Don Armstrong: Don't know what the problem was, but we may have seen them at one of the tours, too.
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Jeff Dziekan: They're involved in that.
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Jeff Dziekan: I'm sure that they are from Victoria.
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Don Armstrong: So you know the funny thing about Victoria is, and I've mentioned this before, it's not that far from Houston.
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Jeff Dziekan: Oh no.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's a neat little drive.
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Jeff Dziekan: The construction sucks, but that's gonna be over with in another 20 years.
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Don Armstrong: Well, I don't know which way you went, but I didn't run into too much construction.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Just yeah, just uh uh skipping the sections that were think that it was a half hour and twenty minutes or something.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, something like that.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, if you stop at Bucky's, then you're looking at an hour two hours, because you gotta stop at Bucky's.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: So you have to.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's you can't travel to Texas without stopping at Buckey's.
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Don Armstrong: In fact, I posted something on my personal Facebook page.
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Don Armstrong: Oh, yeah, I saw that.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Um and uh if you who passes by a Bucky's nobody.
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Don Armstrong: Uh everybody stops at Bucky's, whether you need gas or not.
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Don Armstrong: Gas is just an excuse because uh that's a whole shopping spree in itself.
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Don Armstrong: Exactly.
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Don Armstrong: Um we have some I have uh my cousins that live in Wisconsin.
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Jeff Dziekan: They don't have a Bucky's up in the whole outfit from shoes to your your foundation or your delegates, and then you can buy you know a nice bucky shirt.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: Belt, bucky belt.
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SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Hey, um I uh had a uh epiphany.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh you're gonna say seizure.
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Don Armstrong: Well that goes without saying um there is a story that I really wanted to uh bring to your attention.
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Don Armstrong: And that is um a I gotta I gotta dig through here.
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Don Armstrong: Oh I think I found it.
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Jeff Dziekan: We got Mike back.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, hello Mike.
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Jeff Dziekan: Michael, are we good?
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Jeff Dziekan: There he is.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: He and he has it has no microphone either, apparently.
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Don Armstrong: So he can't speak.
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Mike Marrs: He just uh forgot to unmute his mute.
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unknown: Okay.
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Don Armstrong: Uh one of America's most popular cars is going electric.
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Don Armstrong: No.
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Don Armstrong: Uh sparking preschoolers' imaginations from the horror of a$5 a gallon gasoline.
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Don Armstrong: Little Tykes.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Remember Little Tykes?
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Little Tykes has introduced the cozy e-charging station, a$33 accessory that converts its timeless cozy coupe toy to run on theoretical battery power.
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Don Armstrong: Now you know what I'm talking about, that little plastic thing that you bought all the grandkids.
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Mike Marrs: I know that it was red with a yellow top on it.
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Don Armstrong: That's it's the same one.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: The charger has lights and sounds, and it plugs seamlessly uh into the car's existing fuel door.
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Don Armstrong: Now I did not realize that the thing had a fuel door, but maybe they've uh newer models.
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Don Armstrong: Newer models have the fuel door.
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Don Armstrong: No adapter or re-engineering required, though it does need three AAA batteries, which aren't included.
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Don Armstrong: Um according to the Little Tykes website, whether they're running errands around the playroom or cruising through the backyard, this charging station makes every trip more memorable.
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Don Armstrong: Children, ages 18 months to five years.
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Don Armstrong: In practice, of course, the plastic-bodied single-seater continues to run solely on the power of its driver's own feet, Fred Flintstone style.
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Don Armstrong: Uh Little Tykes has long offered a cozy pumper for make-believe trips to the gas station.
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Don Armstrong: Cozy Coop has been ruling toy-strewn driveways and suburban sidewalks for nearly half a century now.
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Don Armstrong: Logging sales of up to 500,000 of them a year in the 1990s.
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Don Armstrong: Its$65 suggested retail price easily makes it the cheapest EV around, though ill-suited for trips outside the neighborhood.
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Don Armstrong: I think we bought both both of our girls.
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Mike Marrs: Oh, yeah, I think everybody had one.
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Mike Marrs: All of us bought it for our kids.
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Jeff Dziekan: Little Tyques is owned by a company, AllPlay, and I actually am the account rep for AllPlay for shirts.
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Don Armstrong: Seriously.
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Don Armstrong: Yep.
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Don Armstrong: Well, you know what?
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Don Armstrong: We ought to get them to send us uh uh the toy, uh the little the little electric charging station along with the thing.
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Don Armstrong: And what we'll do, what we'll do is we'll donate it to the Toys for Tots when it comes time uh in at Christmas.
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Don Armstrong: I think they are tailpipes and talking toys for tots wrapped up.
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Jeff Dziekan: But I'll find out.
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Jeff Dziekan: But yeah, I do the shirts for him.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: We'll do John Cole.
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Jeff Dziekan: John Cole is the All right, John.
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Don Armstrong: If you're listening to the show.
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Jeff Dziekan: He does a lot of traveling.
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Jeff Dziekan: That guy's hard to get a hold of, but we'll find out.
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Jeff Dziekan: I can see it now.
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Don Armstrong: In a in a tiny tyke.
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Don Armstrong: Electric one.
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Don Armstrong: Electric one.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, I can see it now, 20 years from now.
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Mike Marrs: All these little kids that have grown up and they're going to be going to the therapist and they're gonna be saying, What's the earliest memory you have?
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Mike Marrs: Oh, I had a little tiny tyke and I was on the driveway and hit a puddle.
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Don Armstrong: And I got electrocutor uh with those batteries that are not included in the set.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's three AAA's.
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Don Armstrong: Well, there's something for you, so there you go.
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Don Armstrong: I'm sure you can order the thing online.
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Don Armstrong: And if you've already got one and you need an electric charging station or a gas station as well, apparently battery station.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, you you can order it and uh get one delivered to your front door within moments.
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Don Armstrong: Um, there's a big news story this week.
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Don Armstrong: I think it's big news.
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Don Armstrong: They're all big news.
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Don Armstrong: Big, big Toyota, North America, may build a two billion dollar assembly plant adjacent to its current Texas truck plant with construct construction starting as early as this year, according to documents filed with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts.
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Don Armstrong: Um, if the project is approved, it would become the automaker's sixth U.S.
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Don Armstrong: assembly plant when output begins in 2030.
13:18
Don Armstrong: Wow.
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Don Armstrong: Now they haven't said what they're gonna build there, but knowing Toyota, it's not going to be a singular place, a singular output assembly plan.
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Mike Marrs: But what's in the first paragraph?
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Jeff Dziekan: First line.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, one of the stories I read is that it was gonna be the Tacoma.
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Don Armstrong: Well, the Tacoma is currently running off the tundra plan.
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Don Armstrong: Well, the whatever line.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, but it says maybe high-end tundra.
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Don Armstrong: Well, I know it says maybe because nobody's willing to show their hands.
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Don Armstrong: Commit, yeah.
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Don Armstrong: But I can tell you that this is gonna happen with confidence.
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Don Armstrong: But don't ask me why I got the confidence, but what else can turn on?
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Don Armstrong: Listen, they wouldn't they wouldn't be touting this news.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, it's called Project Orca.
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Jeff Dziekan: Oh um submarines, they could be building submarines.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, in San Antonio, yeah.
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Mike Marrs: Perfect.
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Jeff Dziekan: And launch them in the Riverwalk.
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Jeff Dziekan: I doubt that.
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Jeff Dziekan: And when they had that big rain, you we just had the big rain coming through there, evidently.
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Jeff Dziekan: Was it you telling me that all those restaurants got flooded on the Riverwalk or most of them?
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: Amazing.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Um with the big rain that went through there.
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Don Armstrong: Texas weather is weird, especially in the spring.
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Don Armstrong: We you know you never know.
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Don Armstrong: In the fall, it's usually hurricanes, but uh in the spring, it's these monstrous weather systems that roll through and stay stagnant over the area and dump feet of rain.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: We're familiar with that here.
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Jeff Dziekan: I want to tell you that this this season the you get a little bit of rain, you get a little bit of heat off you know every few days, which is perfect.
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Jeff Dziekan: My my yard, the flowers, the veggies, everything is awesome.
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Jeff Dziekan: So keep that cycle going.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
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Don Armstrong: Okay.
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Jeff Dziekan: If you're out there listening.
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Don Armstrong: Um I don't know whether you saw the news, but I saw it actually this morning, uh, the story.
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Don Armstrong: And I've seen it online as well.
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Don Armstrong: Waymo recalling thousands of robo taxis to fix a software issue that could cause the autonomous vehicles to drive on flooded roads, speaking of flooding.
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Don Armstrong: The recall effects, thirty seven hundred and ninety-one vehicles equipped with the company's fifth and sixth generation automated driving system, like we would know what that is.
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Don Armstrong: That's according to documents posted on NITS's website.
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Don Armstrong: The robotaxi business is working on a final remedy to address the problem, according to the agency.
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Don Armstrong: The decision stems from an April 20th incident in San Antonio, where an occupied Waymo robotaxi encountered an untraversable.
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Don Armstrong: I didn't even know that that was a word, an untersable flooded section of a roadway, according to the documents.
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Don Armstrong: Rather than avoid the potentially dangerous street, the vehicle proceeded into the floodwater at a reduced speed.
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Don Armstrong: Waymo temporarily suspended robotaxi operations in the city after the incident.
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Don Armstrong: The company said it has resumed autonomous operations there, but has not yet restarted rides for customers.
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Don Armstrong: The story that I saw was that apparently there were many Waymo's roaming this particular one neighborhood.
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Jeff Dziekan: Calde sac.
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Jeff Dziekan: In the cul-de-sac, I think.
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Don Armstrong: They all got caught up in there.
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Jeff Dziekan: Anyway, did that say it had a passenger in it trying to not untraverse it or not traverse?
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Don Armstrong: I I didn't say.
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Don Armstrong: Although no one was injured and the recall is relatively small, the incident highlights the challenges for driverless vehicles to adapt to unpredictable weather and other unexpected roadway conditions without a human driver's judgment.
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Don Armstrong: Waymo's been rolling out its robotaxi service in cities across the U.S.
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Don Armstrong: in a growing competition with the likes of Tesla.
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Don Armstrong: NHSA has two separate investigations into Waymo self-driving vehicles.
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Don Armstrong: One is probing an incident in which a robotaxi struck a child near a school in Santa Monica, California in January, while the other was opened after the company's cars repeatedly failed to fully slow or stop for school buses last year.
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Mike Marrs: So so the taxi knew enough to slow down before trying to traverse the untraversable water.
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Don Armstrong: Apparently so.
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Mike Marrs: But it didn't know enough to stop and don't go through.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, exactly.
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Mike Marrs: Exactly.
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Don Armstrong: So they're working on that.
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Don Armstrong: We've heard those stories before that.
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Mike Marrs: Well, but out there in San Antonio, when we lived out there, you could have a flash flood in two hours and and you'd have more flooded streets and there would be signs up, there'd be barricades up, all kinds of things.
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Mike Marrs: But if the car can't read the dang sign, then it ain't going to stop.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, those are the Conestoga days back then.
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Don Armstrong: That's right, Mars.
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Don Armstrong: The Conestoga days.
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Don Armstrong: I think you were putting cell phones with long cords in cars back then, weren't you?
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, we that's when we developed the the the corded the circular one, the spring action so it could stretch a little bit.
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unknown: There you go.
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Don Armstrong: You were probably at the beginning of that.
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Don Armstrong: Hey, we need to get his segment in.
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Jeff Dziekan: We need to get his stuff done.
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Don Armstrong: Well, uh, you know, let's let's do it coming up, shall we?
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Don Armstrong: All right.
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Don Armstrong: Uh we're gonna have the crews in and events calendars and driving destinations with Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars.
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Don Armstrong: Stay with us.
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Don Armstrong: You shouldn't miss it.
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Don Armstrong: Let's do the uh driving destinations with Mr.
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Don Armstrong: Mars, shall we?
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Mike Marrs: Yes, sir.
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Mike Marrs: I think we should.
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Mike Marrs: So we're where is it?
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Mike Marrs: It's two down.
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Mike Marrs: Go ahead.
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Don Armstrong: Go ahead and go out.
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Mike Marrs: One of the things that you know, if if you want to go out hiking, if you're an outdoors person, sometimes you want to go out hiking just to get out into nature.
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Mike Marrs: A lot of people go to the Grand Canyon things, but if you can't go that far and you want to look for a place around Houston, you could go to the usual Buffalo Bayou or Memorial Park Loop that you all mentioned earlier.
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Mike Marrs: But there are other places that might be of more interest.
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Mike Marrs: For example, Terry Hershey Park.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is when you go there, you're gonna see the main paved hike and bike trails along Buffalo Bio.
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Mike Marrs: But what you want to do is get away from that and get into the informal dirt spurs that kind of go along the waterline, especially west of Beltway 8.
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Mike Marrs: Now, the side paths kind of dip down into narrow tree tunnels.
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Mike Marrs: There's root-covered banks that you've got to be a little careful on when you're walking on them.
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Mike Marrs: There's a lot of bends that slow down to the almost swamp-like pools that you're gonna see that you won't see from the regular uh Buffalo Bile tracks and trails that you're going on.
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Mike Marrs: Now, you can also, after it rains though, you gotta watch out because parts of it's gonna feel more like East Texas than Houston.
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Mike Marrs: And in the mornings, if you go in the early mornings, you're gonna see some herons and turtles.
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Mike Marrs: You might even see some deer tracks along some of the muddy edges that actually track up.
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Mike Marrs: Again, you gotta be careful.
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Mike Marrs: Don't want to slip and fall out in the middle of nowhere.
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Mike Marrs: Now, the second place you might look at is the Edith L.
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Mike Marrs: Moore Nature Sanctuary.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is kind of hidden in the city of West.
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Mike Marrs: It's a morrow on the west side of Houston.
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Mike Marrs: It's not real big, but it's got a lot of trees that make it feel much larger when you're walking on foot.
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Mike Marrs: It's got boardwalk sections that kind of go through the shaded creek corridors.
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Mike Marrs: You get a little bit of sunlight coming through, it kind of gives you a real remote feeling to it.
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Mike Marrs: It's very quiet.
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Mike Marrs: For Houston in particular, you don't hear the traffic.
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Mike Marrs: You can hear the birds, and you can actually hear the winds through the pine and oak trees.
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Mike Marrs: The loop is kind of short, so it's not something that's going to take you all day, but you can be a nice, take you a nice slow.
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Mike Marrs: Wander on a hike and uh go through it, particularly a light rain, you're gonna get some ground smells that actually will make you think you're in a forest someplace besides in Houston.
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Don Armstrong: Ground smells, ground smells.
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Mike Marrs: It's better than your cat smells out of your checkbox.
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Mike Marrs: Anyway, so the third place you might want to look at is the Willow Waterhole Green Space.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is a larger place.
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Mike Marrs: It's in uh southwest Houston, and it's really got its own, it's big enough to have its own ecosystem.
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Mike Marrs: And it's go on the trails, they wind through the retention ponds.
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Mike Marrs: There's several of them.
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Mike Marrs: You got a lot of tall grasses, open water edges that reflect the sky at the sunset.
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Mike Marrs: You can get some really nice colors in there.
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Mike Marrs: But unlike most manicured parks, it's intentionally not manicured.
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Mike Marrs: It's very unfussy.
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Mike Marrs: It's got curved paths and branches without any sort of feeling.
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Mike Marrs: You're kind of more wandering through, literally.
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Mike Marrs: Got a lot of bird activity, and on windy days, the tall grasses, you can actually see it wave like you see uh like in the Midwest, out in the middle of nowhere.
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Mike Marrs: Number four would be Spring Creek Greenway.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is Houston's uh almost wilderness corridor that you might call it.
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Mike Marrs: It's the closest thing to a continuous nature walking corridor in Houston proper.
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Mike Marrs: Now that stretches for miles along Spring Creek.
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Mike Marrs: You've got some nice sandy soil underfoot, thick hardwood forest, and you got long stretches that where you're not interrupted with any sort of buildings or anything.
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Mike Marrs: It's not like a city park, because this one has real distance.
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Mike Marrs: You can actually get a few hours deep.
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Mike Marrs: And I'm talking hours walking without looping back quickly.
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Mike Marrs: The forest changes as you move through it from this dense oaks to pine pockets.
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Mike Marrs: You also have some low wetland sections that you can find, and you get to where you want to go to a scale of nature that really feels really out there.
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Mike Marrs: You can see some great focks, and and to be honest, this thing is listed supposedly as the longest trailing uh hiking area in the nation.
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Mike Marrs: It's 40 miles actually long that you can walk out through this thing.
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Mike Marrs: So if you get lost out there, don't do it.
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Mike Marrs: Uh the fifth one that I would bring up is Buffalo Bayou, of course, lost lost banks and side cut trails.
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Mike Marrs: Now, this is an underrated loop iter walk, as they call it.
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Mike Marrs: Now, most people stick to the Buffalo Bio trails near downtown, but you get out away from that to the side banks and the feeder paths between downtown and Shepherd.
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Mike Marrs: There are some connections that drop you closer to the water.
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Mike Marrs: You get underneath the bridges.
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Mike Marrs: You can also get into some sun-shaded concrete and forest corridors where the city feels layered on top of itself.
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Mike Marrs: You know you're in the city, but you're not feeling like you're in the city.
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Mike Marrs: They got drainage channels, of course, there's a few graffiti walls.
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Mike Marrs: There's a few places you can actually go fishing and uh find some openings in the skyline that let the sunshine in to where you do again feel like you're out in nature.
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Mike Marrs: So it's more of a pure nature hike, but it's really not out of town that far.
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Mike Marrs: So that's just a few of the huge, few hidden places in Houston that I was not aware of.
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Mike Marrs: If you're a hiker, that you can go hiking.
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Mike Marrs: Uh, a couple of them are around town, you're gonna have to drive to get to them, but they're there.
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Don Armstrong: Uh very nice.
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Don Armstrong: I like that.
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Don Armstrong: Yeah, that was a very informative.
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Don Armstrong: I I didn't know about all of that.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, the second one that you had when you with the had the uh the bridge with the trees around it.
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Jeff Dziekan: Do you hear any like I don't know where it's at, but I'm just imagining there's probably traffic, car traffic, maybe highway traffic around that that you could probably see.
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Mike Marrs: The second one was the Edith L.
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Mike Marrs: Moore nature thing.
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Mike Marrs: And supposedly they say, which I haven't been there, but they say that you're far enough out that you do not hear all that traffic.
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Jeff Dziekan: Okay, that's sort of my concern was.
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Don Armstrong: Okay, cool.
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Don Armstrong: Thank you very much, sir.
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Don Armstrong: Now on the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show, it's time for cruise in and events calendars.
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Jeff Dziekan: Alrighty, here we go.
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Jeff Dziekan: So this is next Saturday, May 23rd.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's the Masonic Lodge District 78 car show.
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Jeff Dziekan: Excuse me, it said 210 Avenger Field Road in Sweetwater, Texas.
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Jeff Dziekan: It is at the Wasp Museum.
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Don Armstrong: Wasp Museum.
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Jeff Dziekan: Wasp Museum.
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Jeff Dziekan: Wasp Museum?
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Jeff Dziekan: The Wasp Museum.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's the Wasp Museum in Sweetwater.
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Don Armstrong: I got one there out there in the back patio.
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Don Armstrong: They're swarming around that thing right now.
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Jeff Dziekan: Big old thorax.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh we'll be given the best in show, best interior, best paint, best engine in the top 25.
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Jeff Dziekan: And then we've got, again, on the 23rd, Don's gonna like this.
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Jeff Dziekan: My car is hotter than yours, car show.
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Jeff Dziekan: This is uh actually in McLean.
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SPEAKER_03: My car is red hot.
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SPEAKER_03: Your car ain't doodly squat.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's at the cactus inn in McLean, Texas, 101 North Pine Street.
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Jeff Dziekan: If you don't know where McLean, Texas is, it's east of Amarillo.
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Jeff Dziekan: So it's a it's a boogie drive out there.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's a way.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's a way to be able to do it.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, that's a cruise.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's a cruise.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's an hour and 54 minutes by airplane.
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Mike Marrs: Yeah, but 15 hours to the Amarillo.
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Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's in the it's in the Cactus Inn in downtown McLean.
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Jeff Dziekan: This two-day event will feature live music, food, vendors, spectator entry is free.
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Jeff Dziekan: Well, if you want to enter your car, it's a$10 donation for that.
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Jeff Dziekan: And then we've got uh the 24th, which is the Sunday.
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Jeff Dziekan: We've got the Memorial Weekend Bash.
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Jeff Dziekan: It's at the Riverside Park in Victoria, Texas, another Victoria staple, 407 Memorial Drive.
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Jeff Dziekan: Participants can't compete in hydraulic competition featuring multiple categories.
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Jeff Dziekan: The event includes a$5,000 in payouts, over 100 awards will be distributed.
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Jeff Dziekan: So go check that out.
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Jeff Dziekan: It goes from noon to 5 30 in Victoria at the Riverside Park.
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Jeff Dziekan: And then uh Sunday, next Sunday, it's at the Autism Car Awareness Show.
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Jeff Dziekan: It uh goes from 3 p.m.
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Jeff Dziekan: goes starts at 3 p.m.
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Jeff Dziekan: It is at 2509 Hendrick Street in Gladewater, Texas, which is in East Texas, Mike.
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Jeff Dziekan: You know that area.
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SPEAKER_04: Yes, sir.
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Jeff Dziekan: Alrighty.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh$25.
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Jeff Dziekan: You have to say that with a little accent.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's OR and East Texas.
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Jeff Dziekan: That's over there in East Texas anymore.
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Jeff Dziekan: Over there.
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Jeff Dziekan: Martha?
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh begins at 3 p.m.
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Jeff Dziekan: and includes a$25 registration fee that covers a free meal.
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Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
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Jeff Dziekan: You can get those in prison too.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh attendees can't participate in a 50-50 drawing.
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Jeff Dziekan: People's choice awards voting will close at 5 p.m.
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Jeff Dziekan: You got live music provided by DJ Scolo, DTV.
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Jeff Dziekan: I don't have any of his albums.
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Jeff Dziekan: Uh at the 2509 Hendrix Street Gladewater.
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Jeff Dziekan: Be there, check it out.
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Don Armstrong: Oh my god.
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Don Armstrong: Well ran across this interesting story.
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Don Armstrong: Former General Motors Vice Chairman Harry Pierce had such a keen interest in astronomy that he had a seven-foot fiberglass observatory built upon uh his home in Detroit's northern suburbs, fully automated astro haven clamshell dome, and Pierce's collection of astronomy grade telescopes are among the hundreds of items up for grabs during a three-day estate sale that starts uh today.
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Don Armstrong: The sale is May 15th through the 17th.
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Don Armstrong: Wait, this is the 16th, so this is day two.
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Don Armstrong: The Pierce's 10,000 square foot home in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Don Armstrong: The observatory is to be removed after the sale, according to Antiques on Maine, which is handling the event.
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Don Armstrong: Pierce, who retired from GM in 2001, died in October at the age of eighty-three, perhaps best remembered for exposing the NBC's dateline program, falsely rigged pickups, to warn of their fire safety risk, if you remember that story.
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Don Armstrong: His blockbuster two-hour rebuke on live TV prompted NBC to issue an extraordinary on-air apology and to pay all the costs GM had incurred in probing the false broadcast.
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Don Armstrong: It earned Pierce, then GM's general counsel, a promotion to vice chairman in 1996.
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Don Armstrong: 2025, an estate sale for another former Detroit 3 executive, Donald Peterson, who ran Ford Motor Company from 85 to 90, drew so many people that its final day was postponed because traffic overwhelmed the neighborhood.
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Jeff Dziekan: So you take a whistleblower.
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Don Armstrong: Yes.
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Jeff Dziekan: The first whistleblower.
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unknown: That guy.
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Don Armstrong: Hey, we'd love to hear from you.
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Don Armstrong: We're back right after this quick break.
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