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How To Handle Holiday Traffic And Aging Drivers · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:05
  Don Armstrong: It's the Unwheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:07
  Don Armstrong: Just ahead, State Trooper Sergeant Steve Woodard from the Department of Public Safety, Texas, USA.
• 0:14
  Don Armstrong: July 4th, things to watch out for on your trip to Aunt Mary's.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: Uh-oh.
• 0:18
  Don Armstrong: Jeff has the cruise in and events calendars, plus this week's top auto news stories.
• 0:23
  Don Armstrong: Howdy, along with Mike Out of this world Mars, right over there.
• 0:29
  Don Armstrong: Jeff Zeke right here.
• 0:32
  Don Armstrong: Don Armstrong right here.
• 0:34
  Don Armstrong: David Ainsley in the bed in the back, just like Barney Fox.
• 0:39
  Mike Marrs: He's texting plenty.
• 0:40
  Don Armstrong: And right here behind us, who do we have behind us?
• 0:43
  Don Armstrong: Right here behind us, we have uh Katie and Marco and the famous van that Marco bought for their big road trip that they took, uh actually in the dead of winter, believe it or not, from Denver all the way to Toronto.
• 0:58
  Don Armstrong: And uh it made it, and there were no problems with it whatsoever.
• 1:02
  Don Armstrong: What'd you say, Mars?
• 1:03
  Mike Marrs: It's all in the timing.
• 1:05
  Don Armstrong: It's all in the timing.
• 1:06
  Don Armstrong: Uh you know, it's amazing.
• 1:07
  Don Armstrong: The thing's got like 200,000 miles on it, and it's painted up like you know a 1970s van, which it is.
• 1:14
  Don Armstrong: And uh they went up there and he'd never finished the inside.
• 1:18
  Don Armstrong: It's it's close, just like every other guy that has a van.
• 1:22
  Don Armstrong: A project.
• 1:23
  Don Armstrong: Uh I'm gonna finish it.
• 1:24
  Don Armstrong: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna finish it.
• 1:26
  Don Armstrong: So it's got some really nice, um, I don't know, quarter inch, maybe half-inch thick plywood in it.
• 1:33
  Jeff Dziekan: I've never seen it.
• 1:34
  Don Armstrong: So we could hang hang the lamps or whatever back there.
• 1:36
  Don Armstrong: But anyway, they had a great time and didn't have any uh problems with it.
• 1:40
  Don Armstrong: Is Steve with us?
• 1:42
  Mike Marrs: Well, he was.
• 1:43
  Mike Marrs: I think we lost him all of a sudden.
• 1:44
  Mike Marrs: He was there in all his uniform glory.
• 1:48
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 1:49
  Mike Marrs: Let me uh say let me let me work on that.
• 1:52
  Mike Marrs: I'll be right back.
• 1:53
  Don Armstrong: Okay, well, yeah, you work on that.
• 1:55
  Don Armstrong: Uh I don't know how you work on that because uh I think he calls it.
• 1:58
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, is that what it is?
• 2:00
  Don Armstrong: Okay, yeah.
• 2:01
  Don Armstrong: Um, you got plans for the 4th of July?
• 2:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh we'll probably do something.
• 2:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah.
• 2:07
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, uh no real at the house.
• 2:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, well, no real.
• 2:10
  Jeff Dziekan: We don't do fireworks or anything.
• 2:11
  Jeff Dziekan: We'll go probably watch them if if they're in the area, but we don't light anything off.
• 2:15
  Jeff Dziekan: We'll probably grill something, you know, the usual stuff.
• 2:17
  Don Armstrong: I I'm at a point in my life where I don't I don't seek out fireworks anymore.
• 2:22
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I mean you can see them in the neighborhood.
• 2:24
  Jeff Dziekan: If somebody's in the park down the road or they're not gonna be like, Well, remember I covered those uh in the helicopter for many, many years.
• 2:30
  Don Armstrong: Thank goodness I don't have to do that this year.
• 2:32
  Jeff Dziekan: We used to do it as a kid.
• 2:33
  Jeff Dziekan: We'd all go down, the parents would take you to go watch the fireworks.
• 2:37
  Don Armstrong: Well, I take that back.
• 2:38
  Don Armstrong: My sister always used to take me to the fireworks, and the first one was in Waukeshaw, Wisconsin, because on this side of the Fox River we had the carnival, and on the other side of the Fox River is where they blew off the fireworks.
• 2:51
  Don Armstrong: Gotcha, gotcha.
• 2:52
  Don Armstrong: Safety first.
• 2:53
  Jeff Dziekan: Speaking of safety first, did he pop back in?
• 2:56
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I don't see it.
• 2:56
  Jeff Dziekan: I thought he did.
• 2:58
  Don Armstrong: I think that you're I think that you're dreaming.
• 2:59
  Don Armstrong: I'm here, I think.
• 3:01
  Don Armstrong: So my god.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm here.
• 3:05
  SPEAKER_00: Sergeant.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: Is it some fellas?
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's Sergeant Monte.
• 3:10
  Don Armstrong: He's on location.
• 3:11
  Don Armstrong: On location, where are you?
• 3:12
  Don Armstrong: You got the radar gun out?
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_00: I boys, I am in.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I mean, if you look around, I am in God's country.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you come on over this area.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in between Mona, I'm right in between Monaville, and Hempstead.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: And man, it is uh this I got two comers getting ready to pass.
• 3:34
  SPEAKER_00: These are the first comers I've seen in the past two minutes.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm in God's country.
• 3:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, maybe the spray out there.
• 3:44
  Jeff Dziekan: I'll tell you what, I'm I'm glad you're on because we've been trying to contact you about your new car warranty.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um Steve, Steve, you know what?
• 4:10
  Don Armstrong: Here's the problem where where you are.
• 4:12
  Don Armstrong: There is no cell service there.
• 4:15
  Don Armstrong: So Steve, Steve, yeah.
• 4:20
  Don Armstrong: You want to call us back and maybe reconnect with something called ATT or something, as opposed to the string and cup uh, you know, uh company that handles your internet.
• 4:31
  Mike Marrs: I think he's moving so much as a lot of things.
• 4:32
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, he's very, very quick on his feet.
• 4:35
  Don Armstrong: No, that's not it.
• 4:37
  Mike Marrs: All right, I mean, he even I I could hear the mosquitoes going.
• 4:43
  Mike Marrs: All right.
• 4:44
  Mike Marrs: Let's try it again, please, sir.
• 4:47
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, I want to let you handle that.
• 4:49
  Don Armstrong: So, anyway, uh I was gonna tell you.
• 4:52
  Don Armstrong: So, that was that was my first adventure with with fireworks in in Wisconsin when I was a kid.
• 4:58
  Don Armstrong: Well, uh that transferred here, and back in the day, there weren't as many fireworks displays around town.
• 5:07
  Don Armstrong: But back in the day, Sharpstown Center, which was relatively new, was fantastic.
• 5:13
  Don Armstrong: And the traffic was terrible because they had this huge parking lot and everybody got in it and they blew the fireworks off, and then trying to get out of there was an absolute night.
• 5:23
  Don Armstrong: And then, of course, along comes Astro World, and they had fireworks every night, like Disneyland does.
• 5:28
  Don Armstrong: So, fireworks are not really that hard to find anymore.
• 5:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, the baseball team, the the uh Space Cowboys is uh you know a couple miles away from the house, and they have Friday night fireworks.
• 5:39
  Mike Marrs: If you're using the iPhone, make sure we hear that.
• 5:42
  Jeff Dziekan: We can see on the backyard, you can see some of this, yeah.
• 5:44
  Don Armstrong: But uh yeah, I think that the most fun I had was with bottle rockets.
• 5:48
  Don Armstrong: Oh, no, we never they were cheap, and uh everybody had a Coke bottle, and we found out that you didn't actually have to use the Coke bottle.
• 5:57
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you you'd light it, yep, and then throw it, and it went danger.
• 6:02
  Don Armstrong: And then there's a there's a there's a video that I'm sure that everybody has seen that's online where the guy and his wife, he's they're always playing pranks on one another.
• 6:13
  Don Armstrong: And she goes into the ladies' room and he lights a bottle rocket and goes right underneath the bathroom door, and you can see it pow! And she screams and comes out and you know, beats him with the with the bedroom slipper or whatever.
• 6:26
  Don Armstrong: It's absolutely hysterical.
• 6:28
  Don Armstrong: I I I I still watch it and laugh at it.
• 6:30
  Don Armstrong: It's fun.
• 6:31
  Don Armstrong: But uh fireworks, of course, you know, back in the day, they weren't necessarily illegal in the city of Houston, and houses would burn down because back in that day we had wood shingle roofs.
• 6:44
  Don Armstrong: Do you remember the wood shingle roofs, Mr.
• 6:46
  Don Armstrong: Morris?
• 6:48
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, there's a few of them still around.
• 6:50
  Don Armstrong: Well, I'm sure I don't know how they've survived this, but uh they're out there with Woodard where there's nothing around and nobody probably that's that's probably it.
• 6:57
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, the barns are uh uh covered up with that.
• 7:00
  Don Armstrong: But uh at any rate, so they outlawed the wood shingles roof, so now you can't fire or shoot fireworks in the city.
• 7:06
  Don Armstrong: Well, good luck with that.
• 7:08
  Don Armstrong: But um I I remember when we first got real, honest to goodness, huge stands, and you go in there and you wait in line, and you go, I'll take that one, that one, that one, that one.
• 7:20
  Don Armstrong: All you had was like five, ten bucks at the most.
• 7:22
  Don Armstrong: So you didn't get a lot, but uh never did that.
• 7:25
  Don Armstrong: You never did that?
• 7:26
  Jeff Dziekan: Never did that.
• 7:26
  Jeff Dziekan: No, I didn't.
• 7:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Did you did you have them up in Michigan?
• 7:29
  Jeff Dziekan: No.
• 7:29
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, they they I'm sure they did.
• 7:30
  Jeff Dziekan: We just never did that.
• 7:32
  Jeff Dziekan: It was part of what we did.
• 7:34
  Jeff Dziekan: Interesting.
• 7:35
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 7:36
  Don Armstrong: Well, we did bottle rockets, that was my thing.
• 7:39
  Don Armstrong: Go bottle rockets.
• 7:43
  Don Armstrong: Basically, they were firecrackers that had one end opened up and a little propulsion on it.
• 7:49
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, exactly.
• 7:50
  Don Armstrong: So tons of fun.
• 7:51
  Don Armstrong: Well, so uh well, that was an adventure with uh Steve Woodard out in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, and he's got a brand new truck, unmarked truck.
• 8:01
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, pretty nice.
• 8:02
  Don Armstrong: Oh, we saw it.
• 8:03
  Don Armstrong: So we've got the skinny on that.
• 8:04
  Don Armstrong: But the giveaway for riding it.
• 8:06
  Don Armstrong: I know in the back.
• 8:08
  Don Armstrong: Uh the giveaway on that is the front bumper.
• 8:10
  Don Armstrong: It's got that big push bumper on the front.
• 8:12
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, the little cattle guard bush thing.
• 8:16
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 8:17
  Don Armstrong: But uh it looks pretty cool.
• 8:18
  Don Armstrong: It doesn't have any markings on it whatsoever.
• 8:20
  Don Armstrong: But I bet it's got some hidden lights on it.
• 8:22
  Jeff Dziekan: But he did kind of give you a uh uh GPS on where he's at.
• 8:26
  Jeff Dziekan: You know, he said he's up in Hempstead.
• 8:28
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:28
  Don Armstrong: And he said, Oh, here come the first two cars that I've seen all morning.
• 8:31
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, but be careful.
• 8:32
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, there's that.
• 8:34
  Don Armstrong: See guy pulled over with his black truck on the side of the road.
• 8:37
  Don Armstrong: You're going, is that St.
• 8:39
  Don Armstrong: Trooper?
• 8:40
  Don Armstrong: No, it's not.
• 8:43
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 8:45
  Don Armstrong: Well Mike's back.
• 8:48
  Don Armstrong: Mike's back.
• 8:49
  Don Armstrong: I don't think he's not talking to us.
• 8:51
  Don Armstrong: Um I I had some something that I thought I'd throw out there.
• 8:58
  Don Armstrong: Because I don't want to blow all of the stories that I've got, okay?
• 9:04
  Don Armstrong: Um I see that.
• 9:07
  Don Armstrong: But he's not talking.
• 9:08
  Don Armstrong: There he is.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_00: I'm here, I'm here, boys.
• 9:10
  SPEAKER_00: I'm just uh I'm just captivated on the beauty out here.
• 9:15
  SPEAKER_00: How's it going, Mike?
• 9:19
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 9:19
  Don Armstrong: Mars?
• 9:20
  Don Armstrong: It's doing well.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: Very good, very good.
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's let's let's get let's get professional, guys.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: Let's get back on track and get serious.
• 9:28
  Don Armstrong: Um please.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Fourth of July, Steve.
• 9:33
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, 4th of July.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you, uh, we're in full gear.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_00: Uh right now, obviously, FIFA.
• 9:40
  SPEAKER_00: Have you got heard of have you heard of FIFA?
• 9:43
  Don Armstrong: Uh yeah, the timer too.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so we have a hundred-plus troopers that are helping out doing all the FIFA uh festivities, which will bleed over to our fourth to July uh enforcement period.
• 9:57
  SPEAKER_00: We just want folks to drive safe, and we just want to minimize the fatalities and crashes right here in the state of Texas.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: You wouldn't believe this, but there are more people visiting the state of Texas by with survey than probably any other state here within the United States.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's obviously because of FIFA festivities and everything that we have here within the state for folks to do.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: And it's our responsibility to make sure that that is done not only uh swiftly and quickly, but we do it with a saturation of troopers from all over uh all over the points of our region.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um this morning I had the opportunity of speaking to a group up in Prairie View, and one of the questions was, what do I do?
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: No offense to you, um no offense to you, Brother Mars, but what do I do when I feel that I'm reaching an age to where I'm too old to drive?
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think my answer was?
• 11:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Don't drive.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, yeah.
• 11:08
  SPEAKER_00: Don't drive.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: But a lot of times it's easier said than done.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: I will tell you, if you want to fight on your hands, try to take away mama's license.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to fight on your hands, try to take away your dad's license who has alzheimers.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Look, these are these are gonna have to be conversations that we have to have not only with our parents or our community, but I bring uh that question came up because of a recent fatality in the community.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: But I did some some digging.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: You uh you guys would be extremely surprised how many individuals that reach that golden age, uh, when we're talking about near their 80s or whatever, they're still driving, but those cognitive skills are not there anymore.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_00: The next thing you know, we have a fatality of a major crash on our hand.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: So let's kind of uh we get in the mode of checking ourselves, making sure that we check on our family members.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: And hey, if somebody is probably in that window to where they shouldn't be driving, we probably need to have that conversation to take that license.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I will tell you the temperature right now, looking at the temperature gauge in the beautiful county of Wallach County, it's already peaked uh at 89 degrees and climbing.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: Boys, we need to hydrate.
• 12:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um, the major problem that we're having in FIFA, if you cover people, is that the people can hydrate.
• 12:30
  Mike Marrs: We're losing him again.
• 12:36
  Mike Marrs: Hey, Steven.
• 12:39
  Mike Marrs: Steve.
• 12:41
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, we've we're your cell signals dropping out again.
• 12:44
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, we yeah, sorry.
• 12:47
  Don Armstrong: I think we need to reconnect.
• 12:48
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, you need to stay safe out there and be careful out there, and you need to rehydrate and make sure you drink plenty of water.
• 12:54
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, we love you, man.
• 12:56
  Don Armstrong: Be safe, God bless, and uh you take care out there, be safe.
• 12:59
  Don Armstrong: Next time, take Don for a ride in your new truck.
• 13:01
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, absolutely.
• 13:02
  Don Armstrong: I want that new truck ride.
• 13:04
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 13:06
  Mike Marrs: Well, that's a shame.
• 13:07
  Mike Marrs: That's a shame.
• 13:07
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, he was on the roll.
• 13:09
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 13:10
  Don Armstrong: Uh speaking of which, and you're talking about uh old people, you know.
• 13:13
  Don Armstrong: Um, of course, both my parents have been gone for quite some time, but uh what ended it with my dad was um I usually called him, especially on a Sunday night, Dad, how are you?
• 13:23
  Don Armstrong: And he wouldn't answer the phone.
• 13:25
  Don Armstrong: So I'm panicking.
• 13:26
  Don Armstrong: So I get on the road, go over to the house, and he's in there.
• 13:32
  Don Armstrong: And uh I said, Dad, what's going on?
• 13:34
  Don Armstrong: Well, um, just getting ready to go bowling.
• 13:37
  Don Armstrong: I said, Dad, you can't go bowling.
• 13:39
  Don Armstrong: How are you gonna get there?
• 13:40
  Don Armstrong: Um, car?
• 13:41
  Don Armstrong: I said, You don't have a car anymore.
• 13:43
  Don Armstrong: And the reason being he didn't have a car, because he did the same thing a couple months earlier, and uh this was around midnight or so.
• 13:51
  Don Armstrong: He gets out in the car, headed to the bowling alley in a rainstorm and hits a tree head on.
• 13:56
  Don Armstrong: I went and sailed the car after this wreck, and it really messed up his face with the airbags and everything.
• 14:02
  Don Armstrong: And uh it was it was terrible.
• 14:04
  Don Armstrong: The the front end of the car, it was a Malibu.
• 14:08
  Don Armstrong: Front end of the car was all the way up to the dashboard of the car.
• 14:12
  Don Armstrong: And uh how he survived, I guess just the seat belt and the airbag saved him.
• 14:16
  Don Armstrong: But uh, at any rate, so there comes a time.
• 14:19
  Don Armstrong: So he kind of took the keys away from himself, and he didn't ask for another car, and he knew that, and so I wound up, you know, doing the grocery store runs, taking him to the doctor, taking him the hot, whatever he needed.
• 14:31
  Don Armstrong: But um, it's a commitment.
• 14:32
  Don Armstrong: Mr.
• 14:33
  Don Armstrong: Mars knows all about it with his mom.
• 14:34
  Don Armstrong: How old is your mom now, Mike?
• 14:36
  Mike Marrs: 97.
• 14:37
  Don Armstrong: She's 97.
• 14:38
  Mike Marrs: But I had that same conversation with my father when he was 90, but he had uh a physical issue came up.
• 14:44
  Mike Marrs: We made him uh get some hand controls for the van.
• 14:47
  Mike Marrs: You know, either give us the keys or we put the hand controls in.
• 14:50
  Mike Marrs: And we put the hand controls in, and he drove another year or two with that, and then it was finally, okay, that that you're done.
• 14:57
  Mike Marrs: Sorry.
• 14:58
  Mike Marrs: You know, it was a tough call, just like what it talked about.
• 15:01
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 15:02
  Don Armstrong: So uh it's a good point to be made.
• 15:04
  Don Armstrong: And uh I know that we've got viewers that uh have elderly parents, and you go, at what point do you even begin to talk to them about that?
• 15:14
  Don Armstrong: Because for you, me, for all of us, we're all car lovers, and I enjoy driving, and I don't like uh I don't like uh steering wheel that tries to drive for me, it drives me insane.
• 15:25
  Don Armstrong: So I usually turn that feature off if the car has one.
• 15:28
  Don Armstrong: Um, but I enjoy driving and I've been very fortunate in that I've never had a major accident, and I'm pretty good when it comes to avoiding tickets.
• 15:37
  Don Armstrong: So whatever.
• 15:38
  Mike Marrs: Not only do we enjoy driving, but I mean there's also that sense of freedom as you get older, and the less you can get out and about and go do things, you start losing your your ability to go across town to a friend's house.
• 15:51
  Mike Marrs: Makes it even worse.
• 15:52
  Mike Marrs: You just feel more restricted.
• 15:54
  Mike Marrs: So it's one of those things.
• 15:57
  Don Armstrong: Yes, it is.
• 15:57
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• 18:02
  SPEAKER_04: Figure that out.
• 18:04
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 18:04
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, my mind just went there for a minute.
• 18:07
  Don Armstrong: Which is unusual.
• 18:08
  Don Armstrong: It doesn't really go anywhere anymore.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_04: You've got to write that down.
• 18:11
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:12
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• 18:15
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• 18:30
  Don Armstrong: Time now for the cruise in and events calendars.
• 18:32
  Don Armstrong: And Jeffrey does that.
• 18:33
  Jeff Dziekan: Alrighty.
• 18:33
  Jeff Dziekan: These are for next weekend, 4th of July.
• 18:35
  Jeff Dziekan: Now, anything we're talking about, if a rain delay, I'm sure that's you know could be possible.
• 18:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Some of these things just rain in the area, but it's all based on weather.
• 18:42
  Jeff Dziekan: So you've got the Northampton Fourth of July golf cart parade and car show.
• 18:46
  Jeff Dziekan: This is at the North Creston Glen Glen Hill.
• 18:49
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a car and motorcycle lineup.
• 18:51
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in Houston.
• 18:52
  Jeff Dziekan: And what it is, it's uh bicycles, tricycles, it's for the kids, wagons, golf carts, uh, alongside some of the they got motorcycle static shows and things like that.
• 19:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, so get on out there and enjoy it.
• 19:04
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, again, it's for the Northampton residents and call it the residence day.
• 19:08
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got the Las Las Hacienda Cars and Coffee.
• 19:11
  Jeff Dziekan: This is at 2951 Marina Bay Drive in League City.
• 19:16
  Jeff Dziekan: It goes from 8 a.m.
• 19:17
  Jeff Dziekan: to 11 a.m., right in the sweet spot.
• 19:19
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, it's for cars and coffee.
• 19:21
  Jeff Dziekan: The event is every first Saturday of the month, and there's uh 5% off your bill if you attend the show.
• 19:27
  Jeff Dziekan: So it's free to attend.
• 19:28
  Jeff Dziekan: You get 5% off your coffee bill.
• 19:30
  Jeff Dziekan: That's pretty good.
• 19:31
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh, then we got Crossroads Cruisers Car Club, Cars and Coffee.
• 19:35
  Jeff Dziekan: That's like the three said that's like the five six C's.
• 19:39
  Jeff Dziekan: Six C's.
• 19:40
  unknown: Never mind.
• 19:41
  Don Armstrong: Wait a minute.
• 19:42
  Don Armstrong: Crossroads cruisers, car club, cars and coffee.
• 19:46
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, six six C's.
• 19:48
  Jeff Dziekan: Jeez.
• 19:49
  Jeff Dziekan: That's at Frida's Cafe.
• 19:50
  Jeff Dziekan: Figured that out.
• 19:51
  Jeff Dziekan: Plus down in Victoria.
• 19:52
  Jeff Dziekan: Victoria.
• 19:53
  Jeff Dziekan: You would get it.
• 19:54
  Jeff Dziekan: I'm sure that Mayor Bobby, Mayor Bobby down there.
• 19:57
  Jeff Dziekan: He's all part of that.
• 19:57
  Jeff Dziekan: It takes place every Saturday for 11 a.m.
• 19:59
  Jeff Dziekan: It's on Navarro Street, North Navarro Street.
• 20:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, that's the the street, the Street and Victoria.
• 20:05
  Jeff Dziekan: Then you got the Woodlands Cars and Coffee for Cruise Charity Car Display.
• 20:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Say that fast.
• 20:10
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in spring.
• 20:11
  Jeff Dziekan: It's at 9595 6 Pines Drive.
• 20:14
  Jeff Dziekan: It goes from 6 a.m.
• 20:15
  Jeff Dziekan: to 10 a.m.
• 20:16
  Jeff Dziekan: It is in the woodlands and it's uh sponsored by the in the spring and the woodlands.
• 20:21
  Jeff Dziekan: It says spring.
• 20:21
  Jeff Dziekan: So they're a big event.
• 20:22
  Jeff Dziekan: They actually move around.
• 20:23
  Jeff Dziekan: They have it in the woodlands and then they do it in the spring too.
• 20:25
  Jeff Dziekan: Okay.
• 20:26
  Jeff Dziekan: So this is their event.
• 20:27
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh it's a 501c3 nonprofit supporting families uh for affected things of uh loss of parents, suicide, and stuff like that.
• 20:36
  Jeff Dziekan: So get out there and and and support them if you could.
• 20:39
  Jeff Dziekan: And then you got uh July 5th, the Sunday.
• 20:41
  Jeff Dziekan: It's a boat and car show.
• 20:43
  Jeff Dziekan: Check this out.
• 20:43
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in Atascasita, it's uh Atascasita Road, I should say, 10614.
• 20:48
  Jeff Dziekan: It's in Huffman, Texas, and uh it takes place Lake Houston Brewery in Huffman, which is northeast of the room.
• 20:55
  Jeff Dziekan: I didn't know that.
• 20:56
  Jeff Dziekan: Lake Houston had a brewery.
• 20:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, well it's northeast.
• 20:58
  Jeff Dziekan: They got plenty of water, yeah.
• 20:59
  Jeff Dziekan: They do.
• 20:59
  Jeff Dziekan: That's where they get to make the brew from the water.
• 21:01
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh the event not really.
• 21:03
  Jeff Dziekan: The event features classic cars, modern bills, custom boats, along with live music, food, and cold beer, Mike.
• 21:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Cool.
• 21:09
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh trophies will be re uh awarded, and it's a$20 entry fee, and you get a raffle ticket uh to win a tow tube.
• 21:16
  Jeff Dziekan: That'd be great.
• 21:17
  Don Armstrong: What uh what was the name of that beer that they had in New Orleans?
• 21:21
  Don Armstrong: It's it doesn't exist anymore, and they made it from the muddy Mississippi, and it tasted awful, tasted like mud, yeah.
• 21:29
  Don Armstrong: Pretty much tasted like schlitz.
• 21:31
  Don Armstrong: Matter of fact, I think that there's a shopping mall or something in the old brewery there.
• 21:36
  Don Armstrong: They don't make schlitz anymore.
• 21:37
  Jeff Dziekan: No, no, I think what happened, they left the window and the schlitz hit the fan, is what it was.
• 21:43
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, you know, it's funny because when I was living in Wisconsin, Schlitz was like the beer.
• 21:49
  Don Armstrong: It's like the it wasn't Miller, it was Schlitz.
• 21:52
  Jeff Dziekan: It's like uh what's the one uh RGB?
• 21:57
  Jeff Dziekan: Oh, um uh blue ribbon.
• 21:59
  Jeff Dziekan: Blue ribbon, Paps Blue Ribbon.
• 22:00
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, P P R G P B R P R P R like that.
• 22:04
  Mike Marrs: You're getting there.
• 22:05
  Jeff Dziekan: I know.
• 22:06
  Mike Marrs: There's a couple more letters in the alphabet you haven't got.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_04: XYZ, M-O-U-S E, all of that.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_04: It is a BMF.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_04: That's a bicycle, isn't it?
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it is.
• 22:18
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 22:19
  Don Armstrong: How about some news headlines?
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 22:20
  Don Armstrong: You guys ready?
• 22:21
  Don Armstrong: All right.
• 22:22
  Don Armstrong: Tesla again has the most American-made vehicle.
• 22:26
  Don Armstrong: Let me say that again.
• 22:27
  Don Armstrong: Tesla is the most American-made vehicle.
• 22:32
  Don Armstrong: The sixth straight year, the electric vehicle manufacturer has topped the annual Cars.com rankings.
• 22:37
  Don Armstrong: The Model 3 Sedan and Model Y crossover held the top two spots in the 2026 Cars.com American-Made Index, buoyed by Tesla's higher percentage of domestic parts content and U.S.
• 22:52
  Don Armstrong: assembly employment, researchers said.
• 22:54
  Don Armstrong: Yet, even as Tesla continues its dominance, one of its vehicles has led the index every year since 2021.
• 23:02
  Don Armstrong: The presence of EVs generally is shrinking, though.
• 23:05
  Don Armstrong: The number of EVs that made the 2026 list fell by more than half to five from 11.
• 23:13
  Don Armstrong: The number of hybrids on this year's list, however, is just one fewer than a year ago, even though car sales overall are down.
• 23:21
  Don Armstrong: A year ago, six of the top 10 were EVs.
• 23:25
  Don Armstrong: Consumers often assume American brands will top American-made lists, according to the spokesperson, but most now are international brands.
• 23:34
  Don Armstrong: Japan's Toyota and Honda had the most vehicles on the 2026 index at 14 and 13, respectively.
• 23:54
  Don Armstrong: Uh huh this week, July 1st, unless the state delays vehicle technology rules that aim to prevent perpetrators of domestic violence from tracking survivors.
• 24:08
  Don Armstrong: What how convoluted.
• 24:11
  Don Armstrong: I get it, but really?
• 24:13
  Don Armstrong: The Alliance for Automotive Innovation, which represents GM, Toyota, Hyundai, and most other automakers, said unless a legislative proposal is signed into law by July 1st, there is substantial risk that auto sales in California will be suspended.
• 24:29
  Don Armstrong: Jack Nierad, what are you gonna do?
• 24:31
  Don Armstrong: I don't know.
• 24:32
  Don Armstrong: The group said automakers are implementing the domestic violence victim protections required under the 2024 law, but compliance with some elements of the law is impossible this year.
• 25:05
  Don Armstrong: Because you know, your car, all these new cars that I drive, they know where the car is all the time because it's connected.
• 25:13
  Don Armstrong: And you can see it under the hood, it's a little green light.
• 25:15
  Jeff Dziekan: Yeah, yeah.
• 25:16
  Jeff Dziekan: Uh my preview this is.
• 25:18
  Mike Marrs: That's part of the GPS system that that helps the the guidance systems that are built into the car.
• 25:23
  Mike Marrs: You know, where are you at, where you're going, and all that.
• 25:25
  Don Armstrong: Yeah, your GPS.
• 25:26
  Don Armstrong: Yes, exactly.
• 25:27
  Mike Marrs: And and if you start turning off stuff, you you're gonna turn off more stuff than what you want, at least my understanding.
• 25:35
  Jeff Dziekan: And you'll you found that out through AVG, and you'll feel you'll you start turning off stuff, it's going to affect the performance of the vehicle, too, because uh I was told that don't mess with it, uh you know, through the dealer, of course, because they want to track that and they want to know all this other stuff, speed and it's I don't like it.
• 25:54
  Jeff Dziekan: Well, big brothers watch it necessary, but I don't like it.
• 25:56
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, but I don't know how you can you can go in and say this one car out of the millions of cars that are on the road, we're gonna turn this off.
• 26:04
  Mike Marrs: So one person, this this physical violence person that you've got a court order against can't track you.
• 26:12
  Mike Marrs: Well, my question would be how can you track them to begin with?
• 26:14
  Don Armstrong: Well, they're cutting off ankle miners.
• 26:16
  Don Armstrong: Well, you can go you can go to uh any auto parts store and guy get a tracker and stick it underneath somebody's car and track them all over the world.
• 26:24
  Mike Marrs: Yeah, but then you how are you going to turn their phone off that also has trackers in it?
• 26:28
  Don Armstrong: Well, I was I was just gonna say because now there is an app that you can buy that on your phone, you can track, I can track where you are, Mars, just by your phone number.
• 26:39
  Don Armstrong: If you got your phone on you, I can I know where you are.
• 26:41
  Don Armstrong: That's the 360 thing.
• 26:42
  Don Armstrong: They have that for kids too.
• 26:44
  Mike Marrs: Well, but there's one you kind of put it in there, but I didn't realize that, like Don't say, he could take that app and put my phone number in it, and he could watch where I'm going.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_04: I know where you are.
• 26:56
  Don Armstrong: Well, there's an there's another wrinkle to that, and uh it's like wow.
• 27:00
  Don Armstrong: And just before you sit down, there's a on the door.
• 27:02
  Don Armstrong: Yeah.
• 27:03
  Don Armstrong: Hey man, stick them up.
• 27:04
  Don Armstrong: I saw you just went to the bank.
• 27:06
  Mike Marrs: Got it.
• 27:07
  Mike Marrs: Yeah.
• 27:08
  Mike Marrs: I just saw that you left your house, so now I know the house is empty.
• 27:11
  Mike Marrs: Oh, that's true.
• 27:12
  Mike Marrs: True, yeah.
• 27:14
  Don Armstrong: Hey, uh, another story as the artificial intelligence boom continues, auto industry companies are competing with tech giants for access to memory chips, a shift that is driving up costs and triggering structural changes to the supply chain.
• 27:27
  Don Armstrong: Just as automakers lean into the software-defined vehicle transition, spot prices for a type of in-demand memory called DRAM skyrocketed about 450% from September of last year to January of this year.
• 27:43
  Don Armstrong: September.
• 27:44
  Don Armstrong: October, November, December, January.
• 27:46
  Don Armstrong: Four months.
• 27:47
  Don Armstrong: According to a May report from the consulting firm Kearney, DRAM is uh key to enabling over-the-year updates, advanced driver assistance systems, uh, autonomy infotainment, and other functions for advanced vehicles that consumers increasingly expect.
• 28:03
  Don Armstrong: Automakers have already reported millions of dollars in losses tied to the shortage of these important pieces of hardware.
• 28:10
  Don Armstrong: Stay tuned.
• 28:11
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• 28:13
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• 28:13
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• 28:16
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• 29:53
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• 30:03
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