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We Tried A Polar Plunge, Then Remembered We’re Texans · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_02: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_02: This is your place for all things automotive, the award-winning In-Wheel Time car talk show.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_02: Just ahead.
• 0:12
  SPEAKER_02: Hopefully, we'll have Mercedes Lillienthal on the Dakar Rally.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_02: Later, Mars has this week in auto history.
• 0:18
  SPEAKER_02: Jeff has the racing calendar, and I'll get you caught up on the stories making automotive news headlines.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_02: Howdy, along with Live from Neederville, Texas, his elegance, his his graciousness.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_02: And his beauty.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: Mr.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_02: Mike founded this world, Mars.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_02: Well, beautiful in somebody's mind.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_02: I guess his mom's, but not ours.
• 0:41
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, he's here with us.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_02: We have uh Jeff.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_02: We always need more Jeff Zeke.
• 0:46
  SPEAKER_02: Uh David Hainsley is uh down in Friendswood, uh enjoying the fine weather and relaxing.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_02: No, I think he was gonna go somewhere.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: Didn't he say that?
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_02: He said an appointment.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_02: He had an appointment with with uh his nail person.
• 1:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, could be his nails done.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: Could be.
• 1:04
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, uh I'm Don Armstrong.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_02: Glad you could join us on this Saturday.
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_02: It's a cold one here in Houston, Texas, and uh most of Texas for that matter now.
• 1:14
  SPEAKER_02: And it's gonna continue to get colder because I understand Sunday and Monday, and maybe even into Tuesday.
• 1:20
  unknown: It's gonna be fleece.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_01: Well, when I leave the studio today, I'm going to put on some nice warm fleece clothing.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_01: You have fleece clothing?
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_01: I have fleece clothing, yeah.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Sir, you know what?
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: Why does that not surprise you?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: This is kind of a fleece that you're wearing.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's a bit of a fleece.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a cotton.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_01: You know, like old sweatpants and things, you know, all worked in, and you got the you know, you got the paint on one fire.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_01: That's on the inside of the pants.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_01: But they're really paint.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_01: I get it.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: Uh just casual clothes.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_01: As long as the power stays on, because there's talk about power going out with ice on lines and things.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_01: As long as the power stays on, I'm good.
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: By the way, I did want to, in case anybody cares or wanted to have us make some sort of comment.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, Jeff has supplied us with a view of the pool in the backyard today, and uh, we thought we'd take a dip after the show today.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna do that with a polar dip.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: They get in there, they get in their uh stream bikinis and they jump in the lake.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: Frozen lake.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_01: The Detroit River is frozen from uh Canada back, you know, across the whip is frozen.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: Right over there behind the Rouge River.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: Well, the Rouge is probably, yeah.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_01: I don't think the Rouge ever freezes because it's Rouge.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_01: It is Rouge.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: Detroit.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh Mr.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Mars, do we have uh Mercedes?
• 2:42
  SPEAKER_02: Is he talking?
• 2:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_02: Is he speaking?
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_02: We can't hear you, Mike.
• 2:46
  SPEAKER_02: Can't hear you, buddy.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, still can't hear you.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, well you just uh keep going.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_02: You just keep talking, and one of these days we'll be able to hear you because we can't hear you.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the weather's an issue, so please stay off the road.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: So, like you say, maybe ours, you know, don't be sliding, know how to drive the skids and all that stuff.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_01: We'll talk about that here a bit.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I'd be talking about it right now.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_02: Well, safety driver.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_02: I don't believe that uh we have Mercedes with us, and so um I don't think we got Mike with us.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_02: No, we don't, so he can just go away.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_02: All right, yeah.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_02: Can you change that?
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_02: I can.
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_02: I can because uh you know we we're just gonna minimize Mr.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_02: Mike because he has no microphone.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there you go.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_01: Mike, he can hear us because he just did it.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, thank you.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_01: What made the screen go?
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's good.
• 3:31
  SPEAKER_01: So, uh, what would you like to talk about?
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_01: We got things the driving conditions, check in advance where you're going.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, increase your following distance, don't tailgate, make sure that you've got enough stopping distance for you know, swerving and stuff.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_01: Clear the snow from your vehicle, don't just throw ice or throw hot water on your windshield because if you got a crack in your windshield, it's going to spread across and doing more of your windshield.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, be extra careful while driving in wintery conditions, skiing vehicles, where you have pedestrians out there crossing the street.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_01: Things to carry, flashlight, first aid kit, snow shovel, ice scraper, blankets, or sleeping bags, just in case you spend the night.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: Non-perishable food, you know, beef jerky or potato chips.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_02: I saw this disturbing thing on the forecast, the long-range forecast, which really means nothing because it's too far away.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_02: Next Saturday.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_02: Snow here.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh allegedly.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: Allegedly.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: I just thought bottled water, booster cables, extra clothing, kitty litter.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_01: In case you're taking your cat with you.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_01: No, that's for the tires for instead of using sand or uh salt.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: Kitty litter is good.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: Extra clothing.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, we did that.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_01: Uh cell phone and charger flares.
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_01: Flares are those triangle things that you put behind the vehicle.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 4:42
  SPEAKER_01: I used to have those.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, I gave them to Laura to put in her.
• 4:45
  SPEAKER_01: I thought flares were the things that look like flares.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_01: The diamond is the reflective diamond.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_01: The truckers used to put a 10-foot, 10-foot.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_01: I used to carry those.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: Why?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: I was never stranded or anything.
• 4:56
  SPEAKER_02: So be aware, be prepared.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_02: You know, today, in today's world, who gets stranded anymore?
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_02: You pick up the phone and you call triple A or you call somebody with a record.
• 5:06
  SPEAKER_02: There's help everywhere.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_01: Call call the police.
• 5:10
  SPEAKER_01: There were stories this past week of 100 car accidents on certain roads in in Michigan or the Mennonia.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_01: You get an accident in that 100 car, you're kind of stranded.
• 5:23
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it takes hours to remove everything.
• 5:25
  SPEAKER_01: So even in that case, whenever you're traveling long distance, even if it's a nice day, make sure you've got stuff in the car in case something happens.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_02: Years and years ago, I took a trip and I was trying to get a car from here to Dallas.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_02: And it was a terrible winter storm.
• 5:40
  SPEAKER_02: And kind of like now we had black ice, what they call black ice.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_02: You can't see it.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_02: Of course, I was going at night.
• 5:47
  SPEAKER_02: And you know, I learned a long, long time ago when it comes to that, chances are you can tiptoe basically with your car across black ice nice and slow.
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_02: And you can make it.
• 6:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know, there's a huge long bridge on I-45 just south of Dallas, and it's elevated for miles and miles and miles up there.
• 6:13
  SPEAKER_02: And uh, it was all frozen, and there were cars spun out all over the place because they were going too fast.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_02: And I had that thing five miles an hour over in the right-hand lane, flashers on.
• 6:25
  SPEAKER_02: Just take it easy, nice and slow.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_02: Don't expect to stop because you're not going to be able to first, yeah.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, if you're smart about it, it's funny because if you think about it, the people up north, for the most part, if you drive in this six months, five months, four months out of a year, you get used to how to drive in the snow.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: Here, no, nobody does because how many people here get snowed on, iced on?
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_01: So this morning, coming here to the studio, it was 45-mile speed limit.
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_02: There was somebody doing 25 with their hazards on in the right lane because it was well, because for sure it was the news and you think, oh my god, it's terrible outside.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_02: It was 57 degrees this morning when I got up.
• 7:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: You know what?
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_01: If I was a weather speaking of weather person, do you know that there's a weather person convention here at Houston this week?
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_01: There's gonna be like 3,000 weather people.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: Where are they gonna be?
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_01: They're downtown at the time.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: I think we need to go and boycott them.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_01: They're conventioning in Houston.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: And uh uh trying to live on that, but yeah, there's a bunch of people coming in Houston that are weather.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Are they gonna get here?
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_01: They're already here.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: They're already here, they're already here.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: You're conventioning now, right?
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_01: And if I was a weather person, I would go to somewhere like Tahiti on the beach and say, I don't see any snow.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_02: Either that or not.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_02: Let's have a convention on the beach.
• 7:43
  SPEAKER_02: On the beach.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_02: In Tahiti.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_02: In Tahiti.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: And talk about the weather.
• 7:48
  SPEAKER_01: What it would cost to get to Tahiti.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: A lot, probably.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: You need a passport, you gotta have a reason for going there.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_01: They just don't let tourists in.
• 7:54
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta have uh like in Australia or these things.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I have family that you know, I'm people that goes to Tahiti.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, they travel up worldwide, I guess.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but you need reasons to go in certain countries, they just don't let anybody in anymore.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Well, they'd never let me in.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'd let you in.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_01: I would.
• 8:11
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I'd appreciate it.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: We sneak you in the back.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I was just gonna say we could have our own little conclave in the back.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_01: We could start a uh like the uh neck toy.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: We could start our own.
• 8:22
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, what it'd be called.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: Um tap toy.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta it's an accurate, we gotta figure something out.
• 8:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we figured it out.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, I'm really disappointed that we don't have Mercedes.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_02: Or Mike.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_02: Because I was well, or Mike.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_02: Mike just disappeared off the face of the earth, so we don't know what happened to him.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_02: But uh, we managed to survive these kinds of times.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because I have you got the story?
• 8:47
  SPEAKER_02: I I've got something that I think that might interest you.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_02: Um and I've been toting this around for some things that I needed to talk about in case we have run across a deal like this.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_02: Um and that is seven songs about car crashes.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, when you're out and about today and you're worried that you're worried that you're gonna get in a crash because of the weather, uh, I've got seven songs.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_02: And I'll bet you you probably know some of them.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_02: Probably played them.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, well uh the song by Jan and Dean.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: Do you remember uh Jan and Dean?
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: It's uh yeah, um Dead Man's Curve, yeah.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_02: Well, the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve, and then I saw the jag slide into the curve.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_02: They didn't like each other.
• 9:41
  SPEAKER_01: No, they did.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't?
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_01: Jan and Dean didn't?
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: Jan and Dean were uh kind of feuded a lot, even on stage sometimes.
• 9:47
  SPEAKER_01: Ohby, I did not know that.
• 9:50
  SPEAKER_02: Uh here's one for you, and I beg you to name the artist, don't look.
• 9:54
  unknown: Okay.
• 9:56
  SPEAKER_02: The song is titled Tell Her I Lover.
• 9:59
  SPEAKER_02: Who sang that song?
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I could see him.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: I can't know.
• 10:02
  SPEAKER_02: This is all back in the 60s stuff with all the you know car crash and you know the boyfriend died, or the girlfriend died.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: Go ahead.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: The guy's name was Ray Peterson.
• 10:11
  SPEAKER_02: Never heard of him.
• 10:12
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think he had another hit.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_02: He drove his car to the racing grounds.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_02: He was the youngest driver there, and the crowd roared as they started the race round the track.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_02: They drove at a deadly pace.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_02: Play that.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_02: There'll be a test later.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_02: Here's one.
• 10:32
  SPEAKER_02: This is a Graham Parker cover by Dave Edmonds, and the name of the song is I've never heard of it.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_02: Crawling from the Wreckage.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, here's one.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_01: We never crawled out a wreckage, but we crawled out a few bars.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: We have done that in crawling.
• 10:51
  SPEAKER_01: There's no doubt about that.
• 10:54
  SPEAKER_02: And somehow we walked to a hotel.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we had help.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_02: We did.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: The ladies helped us.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_02: Here's one that with an artist that you would probably know, but I didn't know that he sang this song.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_02: Always crashing in the same car.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_02: So this is a relatively, relatively modern uh songwriter and singer.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_02: David Bowie wrote that.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_03: Really?
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Always crashing in the same car.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_02: I'll have to look that one up.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_02: Every chance, every chance that I take.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_02: I take it on the road, those kilometers in the road.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I've heard this.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: It's a it's a it's a good beat.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_02: It's a I don't know.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_02: Pierce one that everybody knows, I think.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_01: Teen Angel.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Teen Angel.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: Who does that?
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_02: Mark Dinning.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_02: Don't know.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_02: Teen Angel, Teen Angel, Teen Angel.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_02: Ooh.
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_02: That fateful night the car was stalled upon the railroad track.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_02: I pulled you out and we were safe, but you went running back.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_02: Darn it.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um here's one that the Beach Boys wrote and did.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_02: And this song was about James Dean.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_02: You know, he died in the crowd.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_02: Right, right.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_02: And the name of the song is A Young Man Is Gone.
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_02: I didn't do that.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I would imagine that all of these songs were inspired by something.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_02: Somebody.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_02: Or someone in their life.
• 12:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_02: Here's one by a group called They Might Be Giants.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: And the name of the song is Mink Car.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_02: I got hit by a mink car.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_02: Hit by a mink car, driven by a guitar.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_02: And the silver chauffeur says, That is all in your head.
• 12:45
  SPEAKER_01: They did a lot of hallucinogenics in the 60s.
• 12:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and then they wrote songs.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_02: And then they wrote songs.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: That's it.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: So I believe uh those, ladies and gentlemen, are your top 40.
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_02: Well, top 60.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_02: Seven songs about car crashes.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_02: I can't tell.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_02: Let's see if I can tell you.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um wow.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: I've held that story since 2023.
• 13:10
  SPEAKER_02: Wow.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: So for three two and a half years, anyway.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_02: I've had that story because I thought it was a cool story.
• 13:16
  SPEAKER_02: So there you go.
• 13:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:19
  SPEAKER_02: We've got a mic in the corner.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: What what do you have?
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_01: Um you're going to contribute something to that?
• 13:24
  SPEAKER_01: I do.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_01: I got uh you know, where I've gone back to the winter time, back to all the cold weather.
• 13:30
  SPEAKER_01: And changing your tires.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: Do you have winter tires and summer tires?
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_01: Well, we don't down here.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_01: We don't, I but I did, yeah.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: Down here?
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: Up no, up north.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: Uh on my Nova, I would have my five-spoke mag wheels, you know, and my in my five SS.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: No, I had I had uh ETs.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_01: You couldn't afford the cragers, so I got the ETs.
• 13:50
  SPEAKER_01: My sister worked for Bell Tire, so they were pretty inexpensive.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: But in the wintertime, around you know, March or April, when the springtime, you change off your steel wheels, the hubcaps, and you put your mag wheels on.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_01: But in order to do that, you would pull them off, take off the tires, clean them all up, take all the little rocks out of the tread blocks and everything, and I would wax them, but not take the wax off.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_01: So it would sort of be like a dull finish on it, and then I'd roll them down in the basement to cover them up.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_01: Line flat, not stacked, laying flat and uh cover them up for the winter.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_01: Not stacked, stacked up but not uh vertical.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_01: Lay it down, right?
• 14:30
  SPEAKER_01: Horizontal, right?
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_01: And that's the way I would store them.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_01: And it worked, and then you know, like I said, a spring kind of.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_02: But you know, back then we never worried about build dates of the tires.
• 14:39
  SPEAKER_02: No, that we yeah.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: We didn't care as long as it held air and didn't pat wasn't patched too many times and then cost you a lot on a new on a uh used one, you know.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_01: Basically had it blow out and go buy used tire, but uh storing them is different.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of people store them standing up, and you're not supposed to do that.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_01: Store them laying down, store them laying down.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_01: Well I had uh I had Oldsmobile wire wheel covers on my Nova because that was those were nice.
• 15:05
  SPEAKER_01: They were nice, yeah.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think they went hand in hand with the Buick wire wheel covers.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_01: And uh they were stolen one time, one stolen time off, and uh from there that's another one.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_01: Good store your tires.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: Well you know down here we really don't know that much about winter tires.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_02: Let's talk about that when we can.
• 15:27
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, there is a difference.
• 15:29
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• 15:34
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• 15:34
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• 17:37
  SPEAKER_02: Uh Jeff has the racing calendar.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know, we got coming up.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_02: Daytona.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_01: Well, what did I just do with it?
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Here we go.
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_02: Finally got Nate.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know how the only way that I can sound not off mic is to be able to eat the mic, and that's close.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_02: I've only been working a mic all of my adult life, and I think I know how to work a microphone.
• 18:00
  SPEAKER_02: According to the microphone, and if this doesn't work, then I guess we'll have to go back to the headsets.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_02: Well, for you, yeah.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_01: But you're right.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_01: There is Daytona coming up, and there's other series coming up uh later on in the year.
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_01: But you got Daytona, and it's coming up uh February 1st.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: We've got the Cup, you've got the Xfinity, and you got the Truck Boys and all that good stuff.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: And then of course the NHRA is March 5th through the 8th at the Internationals.
• 18:26
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_02: If they're gonna start down there in Florida in Gainesville, so start in March.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 18:31
  SPEAKER_01: Are they starting in March?
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, March 5th through the 8th.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, NHRA.
• 18:35
  SPEAKER_01: Now, this little NASCAR story, but uh Fox confirms its NASCAR lineup after fans made feelings known.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_01: Fox Sports is sticking with its tried and tested NASCAR lineup despite receiving heady, heavy criticism of its motorsports coverage.
• 18:52
  SPEAKER_01: Throughout the first half of 2025 NASCAR Cup series season, fans repeatedly dragged Fox over the coals due to his production choices and pundant commentary.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_01: The backlash reached an ugly head immediately following the Advent Health 400 during the Advent Health.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_01: Advent Health didn't notice a massive crash for several seconds.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: Yet it appears though the viewers' critiques were enough to convince Fox to enact changes.
• 19:20
  SPEAKER_01: The network confirmed that the broadcast team would remain in place.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: Play-by-play announcer Mike Joy is slated to return for what?
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_01: His 26th season in the boy.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_01: I do play by Mike Joy.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: Analysts Clint Boyer and Kevin Harvick, well, unquestionable, additionally coming back for their sixth and third seasons respectively.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_01: Analyst Larry McReynolds.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_01: I've got some things about that, but I'll keep them to myself.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, he used to be a crew chief.
• 19:45
  SPEAKER_01: He used to be a crew chief, he's a car owner, he's got his, I think, his son or grandson's in racing, all this other thing.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_02: Well, he's been in it too long.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_01: 26th season at Fox.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: He needs to go away.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_01: I don't like being talked down to like I'm a seven year old.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: That is my opinion.
• 19:59
  unknown: Um
• 20:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, but they're gonna keep them.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna keep them around.
• 20:02
  SPEAKER_01: And Fox says, you know what?
• 20:04
  SPEAKER_01: Keep telling us fans that we're not listening to you.
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: So uh it's gonna be it's gonna be sticky this year.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna tear them up any little bit that's going on in the broadcast.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna be able to do that.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: Where is where is Dale Jr.?
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_02: Where where is he?
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: Is he over at NBC or something?
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_01: Oh gosh, I don't know.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: He's obviously not there.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but I like to hear him.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, Dale's good.
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_02: He's got the he's got the down the good old boy.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, but I mean that's part of it.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_02: I I like it.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_02: And I like listening to him.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_02: And I like his uh car talk show too.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:34
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's more dirty or something.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: That's no, that's uh dirty year.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're thinking about Rodney Rodriguez.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: Rodney should be on there.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: Well, yeah, I agree.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Rodney, you should be on the knowledgeable and uh he's been doing it a long time.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: He has been twenty-six years, not as long as we have.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_01: You mean Larry McReynolds.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_02: Are you gonna put me in the boat with Larry McRennes?
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: No, he's got his own boat.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: There'll be a fight that'll break.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: I just don't he it just rubs me the wrong way.
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_01: He's probably a very nice man, a great guy, and all that, but I just uh skip me.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_02: So what do you do?
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: I turn the barium down?
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: No, I grin barrier.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: No, no, I'll I'll sucker through it.
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_01: Because it's the same thing every this is a this is a carburetor, and what it does, and he goes on every week.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_01: So I've said too much.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 21:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well, um I like uh Vice Grip Garage.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I like him a lot.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_02: He's got lots of uh online viewers.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_02: You have to look it up.
• 21:39
  SPEAKER_02: Vice Grip Garage.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_02: And uh great guy goes out and finds finds these wrecked cars that haven't run in 50 years and gets them to run.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_02: Everything from a Model T to whatever, yeah.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh I I enjoy his show, I enjoy his humor.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_02: I like the you know the names that he has given Spark Plug Sparkleators.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, uh-huh.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_02: Uh yeah, it it's uh it's entertaining and fun.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_02: Uh, I really like him.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_01: Follow him every chance.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: And they've changed the name of Motor Trend TV to Turbo TV.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: What is going on with the whole you know the reruns from seven years ago?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_01: I know, and I don't understand that.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_01: They've got one show with uh Lucky Mechanic and this young lady.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not a fan.
• 22:24
  SPEAKER_01: Not a fan.
• 22:25
  SPEAKER_01: No, not a fan.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I'd rather watch Larry McRamble.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I don't understand what happened to the the whole network that we had that had all of the car stuff on it.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_01: Just what do I poof well?
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_01: They made changes and they lost viewership.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: So they think, let's make another change to get the viewers back, and they did that and they lost more viewers.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_01: So they're continuing, continuing to lose viewers.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_02: You know, the the the the the car builders uh out of central Texas.
• 22:54
  SPEAKER_02: Um, you know, don't get me wrong, I like Dave Kinding, but I'm not a big fan of Kevin.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Kevin is sidekick or whatever you want to call it.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_02: I guess he's his shop manager or something.
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but that's that's nitpicking it.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, um, those cars that he builds are high-end cars.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_02: I want to see a car that you have go through the process.
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_02: You know, you spend 10 grand on it and get you a paint job on it, you drop a new motor in it, whatever, and you drive it.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_02: I want to see that, you know, something that I can relate to.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe learn something along.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I always learn something because I don't know anything.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and it's automotive related, plus you're in your genre.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: I knew that or I could do that better, or you get some ideas or share with a friend.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_02: So it's you know, one of the one of the things that I learned here, not that far back, a few years back, is forget the carburetor, go with direct injection.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_02: And they gotta they've got things that look like carburetors that go with the place of the carburetor that are injections.
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_02: And um, why not do that?
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, tune themselves the whole nine yards.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: I I'm all for that.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_02: And you don't need any sparkleators.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_02: Well, you still have to have the sparkle.
• 24:08
  SPEAKER_02: You got the quick back.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: Well, there's that.
• 24:11
  unknown: Yeah.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_02: Depends on what you call sparkle.
• 24:14
  unknown: All right.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_02: Um, Mr.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_02: Mars, if you're wondering what's happening, he's there, but apparently he hit the wrong button somewhere.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: No, and for him to be not him, and uh for him to be able to join us uh in love and passion and all the things that he brings to the table, uh, he's unable to do that without having to reboot the entire system.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_02: And if he does that, then you out there would lose us.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_02: God forbid if you did that.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_02: Um, so we're just gonna do away with Mr.
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_02: Morris.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_02: I've only got just a very short period of time here, and we're going to um take a break and we're gonna end up on today's show.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_02: Um, maybe a little short, but not that short.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, but I did want to remind everybody that next week, live from the Houston Automotive Show, the NRG Center, we are going to be broadcasting live from 9 to noon.
• 25:12
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• 25:24
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• 25:26
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• 25:28
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• 25:33
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• 25:37
  SPEAKER_02: Time now to take a quick break on the in-wheel time car talk show.
• 25:40
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