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Auto Dealerships Not Down for BEV Expectations · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day
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and you're listening to the West Carroll Morning Show. Wednesday morning, twenty ninth
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day of November. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me. Weeks actually moving
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by very quickly, very rapidly. This week is moving by. It's just
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happening so fast. I don't really know how that's happening. I think it's
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just we're getting into we're knocking on the door of December and the whole holiday
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thing. Once you get past Thanksgiving, I think it starts to feel like
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things are going to happen a lot more quickly. And that's just kind of
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the tone of things. You start running out of time, you start feeling
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like time's almost up. My good friend Scott Miller, my old radio partner,
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and I used to talk about we have a countdown clock that is part
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of our Christmas decorations in the Carroll household, and it really just rolls down
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the the days until hours and minutes until Christmas, and Scott always hated it.
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I would always take a pic. I haven't sent him a picture of
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it this year. Once we set it up, but Scott always hated any
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reference to it. He's like, man, I could not live with that
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being just around. I don't need to see that. I don't need that
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constant reminder that it is all coming up very very quickly. And that's just
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kind of the reality of it. A couple things. And I've talked about
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the Nutcracker of the Columbus Ballet dot Org the website to get your Nutcracker tickets.
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I'm back in the role of Mother Ginger. I'll also be hosting the
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Mother Ginger Tea Party event that's taking place so the Nutcracker. We have a
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special show that's just for schools on Friday, the fifteenth of December, and
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then the sixteenth we have the evening show. Seventeenth is the matinee show.
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Those are the Nutcracker performances. On Saturday and around lunchtime, we're hosting the
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Mother Ginger Tea Party. I say we I I'm sorry, Mother Ginger.
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One of my alterary a role that I'll be playing in this show will come
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to life in a whole new way in the Mother Ginger Tea Party. I'm
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going to speak as Mother Ginger. That's something that's going to happen there.
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On Saturday, the fifteenth. I'm sorry. The sixteenth fifteenth is a school
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show. So you can get your tickets for the Mother Ginger Tea event.
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Go to Thecolumbus Ballet dot org follow the links through if you'd like. It's
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forty bucks for a child and a parent. If you'd like to add more,
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it's just an extra fifteen dollars if you want another parent, if you
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want a grandparent, if you want more children. But the forty dollars covers
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because you have to have an adult there with the kid. You're not just
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dumping the kids off on meat to babysit them. As Mother Ginger, that's
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what we're saying, but we'd like you to be a part of it as
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well, so we're that's what's happening on Saturday at about twelve thirty, and
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then on Saturday evening is the Nutcracker performance. So if you get your tickets
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for the Mother Ginger Tea party, you get a ten percent discount on your
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Nutcracker tickets, whether you come on Saturday or you come on Sunday, and
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make sure you get your tickets actually through the River Center's website, don't go
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through one of those third party brokers. We don't need that. We don't
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need anything to do with that at all. They jack the prices up there,
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insane a couple of you. For the past several years since I've been
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doing the role, I have people say I want to come see it,
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but it's two hundred and fifty dollars for a ticket, and it's like,
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no, it's not. Somebody is trying to rip you off, and you
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do not want to be ripped off. So make sure to get the tickets.
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Just start at the Columbus Ballet dot org, follow all the links,
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and that's where you get all your tickets. Another event, I want to
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quickly mention buddy of mine. You may know him as Jerry from The Walking
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Dead Cooper Andrews. Good dude, just a good dude. I've known him
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for a few years. He was part of the dragon Con pregame show.
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I interviewed him, I guess the first time he was officially a guest at
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dragon Con, and Hey, we won an award at the Gabby's together as
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part of that interview and he hung out with him. He was back at
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dragon Con again this year. We hung out for a bit and while we
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were there, he was telling me, Hey, we're going to put together
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this event that is going to help out the basically the crew behind the scenes
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on TV shows and movies that were affected by the strikes that were taking place,
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the writers strike as well as the actors strikes. So because you know
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those people that were striking, you know, they're they're kind of in the
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heat of it, right, they know what they're striking for. And I
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think the guilds that that worked, you know, on the crews and things,
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they knew what they were what was going on, but it was directly
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affecting them in a very different way. So part of this is going to
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be a way to raise money for them. So it's Cooper Andrews and Dan
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Fogler, who also was on The Walking Dead. He played Luke on The
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Walking Dead and and he's also in Harry Potter, right, So there you
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go, those two guys organizing this event, and it's going to be called
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Kingdom Fest and it's taking place at the Chateau ey Lawn Winery and Resort.
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It's about fifty miles northeast of Atlanta, and it's going to be next weekend,
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so December eighth, ninth, and tenth for the event, and it's
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supporting the Georgia film community. So there you go. And this is something
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that they we talked about at dragon Con. I didn't talk with Fogeler.
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I have seen him at dragon Con, I don't know him very well.
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I hope to remedy that over that weekend eighth, ninth, and tenth.
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But Cooper and I had a conversation about this and he's like, we're gonna
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need help to promote this. So that's what I'm doing. This is just
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me trying to support an event that's trying to support the crew and getting them
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paid, getting them some assistance as they're going to be getting back to work
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here soon with things that have moved on as far as the actual work involved,
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but trying to get them caught up. And I've got friends that are
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crew on different shows and things that haven't been able to work, so this
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will hopefully help them as well. So Yeah, December eighth, ninth,
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and tenth, Chateau Elon, Atlanta, Georgia Kingdom Fest is the name of
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the event, and I'm gonna probably Typically the dragon Con pregame show is solely
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for interviews relating to that podcast relating to dragon Con, but in this case,
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I think it would be awesome to have a Coop and maybe a Fogler
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on to talk about this event. So I may do sort of a special
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you know, it's not really dragon Pregame Show, but it's related to it
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because you know, I was talking with him specifically at dragon Con about this
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event. So looking forward to catching up with him again. We've been texting
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about the event. But we're just want to be able to try to support
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something that's going to support a community that's greatly been impacted and affected. So
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all right, if you want to hear my other interview with Cooper Andrews,
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part of the award winning interview with Cooper Andrews, just go to the Dragon
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Con Pregame Show podcast. Wherever you hear this podcast, you can hear that
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podcast as well. Okay, let's talk a little bit about the environmental I'm
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sorry, the electric vehicles, for the environmental impact that the Biden administration says
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that they are trying to have on the world, on the planet. And
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now there's car dealerships that have basically said car dealers around the country, probably
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around the world, are saying this very ambitious goal that you guys have concerning
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electric vehicles is over ambitious and this is not something that is realistic with their
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electric vehicle mandate that they want to move forward with thirty eight hundred and eighty
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car dealerships in all fifty states, basically said, and this is the quote.
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Your administration has proposed regulations that would essentially mandate a dramatic shift to battery
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electric vehicles, increasing year after year until twenty thirty two, when two out
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of every three vehicles sold America would have to be electric. The reality,
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however, is that the electric vehicle demand today is not keeping up with a
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large influx of beeves arriving at our dealerships prompted by the current regulations. So
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I guess the question as they use terms like it's unrealistic based on current and
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forecasted customer demand, that they consumers aren't ready. Simply not ready is the
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term that they used. And that's the reality that is this disaster of a
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dramatic shift in our countries as we push towards green agendas, as we push
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all of this, when people just simply weren't ready. The demand wasn't there,
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the country wasn't ready, The world is not ready for this and you
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start talking about the fact that how expensive these batteries are to make, what
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the environmental impact is on these batteries being made, the parts of the world
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that are impacted positively and negatively, which could cause a net negative gain.
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And we've talked about this on the show off and on as you they start
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depending on parts from countries you don't want to depend on for parts for these
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batteries. Also in the letter from the auto Dealers, today's current technology is
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not adequate to support the needs of the majority of our consumers. Many of
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these challenges can and will be addressed by our manufacturers, but many of these
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challenges are outside of their control. Reliable charging networks, electric grid stabilities,
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sourcing of materials, and many other issues need time to resolve. And finally,
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many people just want to make their own choice about what vehicle is right
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for them. So yes, I say, most of all, allow time
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for the American consumer to get comfortable with the technology and make the choice to
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buy an electric vehicle. So a few things to process here. And I've
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heard stories, first of all about even the cars that have the hybrid feature,
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and I've heard some positive things about the you know you drive on the
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back and then when the battery runs out, it switches over to gas.
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I've heard some positives on that that's fine. Again, this goes back to
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this choice, this option that people want to be able to make. You
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got many people who still drive older vehicles. We're a family that drives older
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vehicles. We're not rush out and buy a brand new car right away.
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We feel that for the sake of long term budgetary reasons, you drive a
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vehicle for now. When you start having maintenance issues, yeah, you get
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into a point where you've got to make a decision about what to do about
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a vehicle. But and we have this conversation often in our household. Hey,
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we go several months without any car payments. When we have a vehicle
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that needs some sort of maintenance and some sort of an investment into it for
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repairs or upgrades or whatever it is, you factor it out based on the
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fact of how many months have we not had a car payment of any kind.
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And that's something that not every family does. I understand that I've got
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friends that buy a vehicle every couple of years. They just sort of roll
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through them. That's another way to do it. And they talk about the
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economic positives that come with that. There are extremes that go with it.
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But I can tell you right now I own a nineteen ninety six f one
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fifty. I love my truck. It's not my everyday truck. It does
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use a lot of gas. When we have a vehicle that maybe goes down
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and needs repair, I'll drive it every day for that reason. Jill has
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driven my ninety six f one fifty before. She's more than capable of driving
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it. And I don't know that it's her favorite car to drive, but
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she's certainly more than capable of driving it. And it is a stick shift.
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That's strange for an Australian driving a stick shift in America because you know,
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even though she's been here long enough to know which side of the road
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to be on, she's just when she's driven a stick back home, you
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know, typically you're shifting with the other hand, So that's something that's different.
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But she's yeah, more than capable driving it and has driven it,
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and it's a you know, it's part of our fleet, if you will.
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We're a three vehicle home and they're all older vehicles. We're not ready
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to switch over. I could see the positives in one of those hybrid things,
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I could see being it. But the other question I have, and
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I've heard some horror stories from people about even the cars that when you stop
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at the red light and the car shuts off and it's runs on battery and
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then when it starts back up again, and I've heard some horror stories,
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one about the batteries and two about your actual starter, because your vehicle is
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starting each time, and those starters and those types of electric vehicles are not
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cheap, so I've heard some horror stories about that. Now I'm, you
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know, just being blunt. We do what we do with our vehicles because
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it works for us. It doesn't work for everybody. But we're not in
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the market to go out and purchase three brand new vehicles to replace all of
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those. That's not what we're interested in doing. And I think a lot
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of Americans or they're attached to, especially if they've got older vehicles. I
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mean, my truck is considered a classic. It's an antique at this point
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because of its age. And honestly, my day to day car that I
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drive is getting pretty close. I've got an older Onto Civic that I drive,
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and again it's got plenty of miles left in it. It's not a
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vehicle I'm looking to replace anytime soon. Probably could have or should have done
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it. There was a window at one point to do that, but that's
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not really where we are with it. All of this fits with what these
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auto dealers are saying, and you can't force consumers to want to go out
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and purchase something, no matter how hard you try. And I think maybe
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in the auto industry there have been times where you say, Hey, this
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is the sleek new car, this is the new car. There's a lot
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of Tesla's around Columbus. I have seen a lot of Teslas, and I
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think there's a certain amount of oh wow, an opportunity to get this electric
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vehicle, this Tesla. I know that there's varying degrees of Tesla's. There's
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a low end and there's a high end. I see a lot of the
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low end ones. I don't see many of the I've seen a few of
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the high end ones around town. They're all certainly more expensive than any of
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the vehicles that we own here in our but I stress we don't have a
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car payment. We've had car payments. We've paid our most recent vehicle purchase
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has been paid for for about five years. We're happy with that. That
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works for us right now. I say we're happy with that. I know
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Jill's probably ready to upgrade at least one of them, and we will.
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But I don't know that we're going to go out and purchase a brand new
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vehicle that is one of these BEV vehicles. I just I don't know when
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we're going to be at that point where we're interested in that. There's some
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aspects of newer vehicles that I like. The idea of the self driving car.
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I like that. That sounds nice. If I can nap. If
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I can't nap, I don't that's the whole benefit, right, But they
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don't want you to nap. You have to touch the wheel every now on
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that or whatever, and that's just obnoxious. So here they are car dealerships
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around the country making it loud and clear, we're not going to be able
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to take care of this in the amount of time that you think that you're
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going to be able to do it. It's over ambitious, it's unrealistic,
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and you think that we're going to be there. But of course, the
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pressure from the loud minority, the loud small groups that want to dictate what
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everybody's supposed to do, or try to tell everybody you're supposed to be greener,
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you're supposed to all these cars, this evil fuel issue that we have
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because you know, we were energy independent under Trump. We were completely energy
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independent. We were actually net gain on our energy. So the fact that
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we just let that go away, the fact that we didn't take care of
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that, we didn't. We ran as far away from it as possible,
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and we started buying fuel from places that we're going to use the money from
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to I don't know, invade Ukraine and a number of other problems. So
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as this small group of people who feel like they need to tell everybody how
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we're supposed to live, it comes back to this core thing that I think
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Americans need to be remembered. They like to make their own choice. It's
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right, and the car dealers know it, and most of all allow time
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for the American consumer to get comfortable with the technology and make the choice to
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buy an electric vehicle. That's it. Many people just want to make their
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own choice about what vehicle is right for them. That's what we all want
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with everything, is this opportunity to make a choice about what's best for us.
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com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. Are you addicted to
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your job well? A new study says that workaholics who are addicted to their
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jobs with elevated stress levels each day can lead to burnout and heart problems.
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Researchers found it doesn't matter if the workaholics are doing something that they're passionate about,
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like a dream job, it's still a problem. Researchers when it's for
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us as to suggest that companies should intervene to discourage behaviors that contribute to workaholism,
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and that way the workaholic doesn't get a chance to have a negative impact
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on coworkers, which could harm the organization. NASA has been developing a quiet
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version of their supersonic jet called the X fifty nine that will fly almost twice
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as fast as the concord and not create that sonic boom once it reaches the
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speed of sound. Instead, engineers are developing it to merely have a sonic
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thump. The X fifty nine is getting closer to completion, currently in a
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hangar in California getting a red, white and blue paint job. If it
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works, the X fifty nine could fly from New York to London in ninety
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minutes. Speaking of other kind of nerdy stuff, Popular Science Magazine, after
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one hundred and fifty one years, will no longer have a magazine like many
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magazines before it. Popular Science shifted to an all digital format a few years
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ago, and now even that's gone as Popular Science continuing to offer articles on
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its website, but for the first time since eighteen seventy two, no more
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journalism and news. They're out of that now. And yeah, so pops.
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I don't know if it's popside dot com or that's kind of the hip
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new name for it. Miriam Webster has announced their annual word of the Year
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for twenty twenty three, and that word is authentic. Seems there was a
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substantial increase in searches for the word in twenty twenty three, with a Dictionary
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publisher saying it was driven by stories and conversations about AI, celebrity, culture,
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identity, and social media. They believe people are searching for the word
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because it has a number of different meanings, which of course includes not false
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or imitation, as well as true to one's own personality, spirit, or
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character. Are you in a dinner rut? A lot of people seem to
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get stuck on repeat when it comes to dinner. In fact, a new
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survey found sixty percent of people eat the same dinner up to four times a
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forty one percent said that the meals are quick and easy to make.
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Thirty eight percent said that it's become a habit. We often will cook something.
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This is especially when we have a lot going on, when we're in
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a sports season, whether it's tennis or soccer, we'll make something that we
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can eat multiple nights a week because that's just quick and easy. It's already
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made and you're ready to go. You know, you don't have to worry
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about cooking it again, and it's a little bit less on the clean up
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part of things as well. And finally, a new survey found more than
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forty percent of respondents said that they've had a partner who's cheated on them,
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and how do they find out about the cheating through spying? Fourteen percent of
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those who had been cheated on said they found out about the cheating by spying
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on their partner. That includes tracking their location, checking their social media,
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checking bank accounts, following them. That's the old school one, right,
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you just follow them around. I think the word for that is stalking.
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Hiring a private investigator. That's serious stuff right there. Seems that spying on
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your partner, especially to see if they're cheating, is more prevalent in some
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states than others. People in Alaska snooped on their partners the most, followed
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by Vermont, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Hawaii. That'll do it
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