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The Texas Trooper's Tale: From Traffic Regulations to Cop Cars · In Wheel Time Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am, central For more info.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Howdy, and welcome to the In Wheel Time car talk show.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: What did you say, mars?
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  Speaker 2: He's just come in.
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  Speaker 2: He just showed up Alright.
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  Speaker 1: Well, from the Palatial Sugar Shack Studios, it's the In Wheel Time car talk show.
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  Speaker 1: That was good.
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  Speaker 1: Did you like that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you wrote that I did.
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  Speaker 1: Can you spell it Palatial, p-a-l-a-c-i-a-l.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Better than me?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, coming up, steven Woodard, and we're going to have a spelling contest with him.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: He's with the Texas Department of Public Safety, also known as State Trooper, so uh.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: Super.
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  Speaker 1: Trooper, he's super.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: There's a song about that.
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  Speaker 1: Conrad's going to have the In Wheel Time car clinic.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: We'll also have this week's automotive news Howdy, along with Mike out of this World, mars King Conrad along.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: We always need more.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Seekin, I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us.
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: We had a little ball of confusion there for just a moment because we had heard that he wasn't going to be able to join us in the, but apparently he has gotten himself out of the staff meeting and now joining us.
• 1:16
  Speaker 1: Is he there or not?
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  Speaker 3: No, he's not here yet.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to get in here.
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  Speaker 1: I see, okay, so we're just going to pause for just a second and we'll wait for him.
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  Speaker 1: He may, or there he is.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, look at that.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, sergeant Steve, state Trooper, texas, department of Public Safety.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: Hi, steven, hey, how you doing?
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing great.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: I'm?
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  Speaker 4: doing real good.
• 1:39
  Speaker 4: I have to tell you.
• 1:41
  Speaker 4: I want to start off the program by saying how much you love us.
• 1:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do, and I'm thankful for you guys.
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: And let me tell you why.
• 1:50
  Speaker 4: So done, and this is not a cheesy Thanksgiving poem, I'm being serious here, okay.
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: So you reached out to me, man, some time ago I want to say, looking back on my records, about five years ago, maybe longer and you asked if I would come in studio and just kind of share a little safety message.
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: And this was after an incident, me and you, of course both were involved in me, law enforcement side, you the news media side.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I've been a part of your family, y'all's family, ever since.
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  Speaker 5: You are.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Thank y'all for letting me share our little message, and I think you guys are a huge part in helping keeping Texas safe.
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  Speaker 4: All right, enough of the cheesy stuff.
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  Speaker 4: I'm done now.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so I'm glad you're here.
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: You talked about records and I think a couple of these guys have one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, not that I'm aware of yet.
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Well, we have in real time.
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  Speaker 2: Love you, blue.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, did you guys know that?
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  Speaker 4: So, so AAA and we know AAA is an insurance entity, but did you know that these guys are literally tasked to track traveling records?
• 3:10
  Speaker 4: And AAA is telling us, not only for Texas but across the nation, that, for some odd reason, this Thanksgiving is going to be the busiest travel day ever in a decade.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, how do they get to that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that they're guessing.
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of a lot of pit up.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Everybody's been trapped for the last two years from COVID, or that they want to get out and do some four years.
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, get in your car and get on the highway and go visit Aunt Mary wherever she may be.
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know the other thing back in my day, way back when we had we had Thursday, friday off for Thanksgiving.
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we didn't have a whole week.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: All the kids have the whole week off now, so it leads to an opportunity for everybody to get on the road today or tomorrow and go to Aunt Mary's Travel 500 miles, you can get there in a day, and that's true.
• 4:04
  Speaker 1: And I remember trips kind of like that.
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  Speaker 1: Matter of fact, a couple of them in particular going from Wisconsin down to Alabama to visit my Aunt Virginia and my mother's side of the family, and we had a great time.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: It was good times and the weather wasn't too bad once we got out of Illinois and Wisconsin Well, obviously Wisconsin, but but it was good and you know plenty of breaks along the way and you know snacks and good times.
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So you guys are aware we just finished.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're there in a.
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  Speaker 4: They're in another session now, so some more new laws may be coming on the books, but after the first session of thousands of laws were submitted and about 300 plus affected traffic, so we had we had a lot of new laws on the books.
• 4:57
  Speaker 4: One thing that I will say well, let me get started.
• 4:59
  Speaker 4: What do y'all think about the whole Jimbo deal?
• 5:01
  Speaker 4: I know this in the sports show, but I'm glad I'm not sure of paying.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's making out like a king because they're still going to pay him $76 million and he's fired.
• 5:12
  Speaker 2: Oh oh, fire me for $76 million.
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  Speaker 1: Only a contract that Texas A&M would put out there 75 million.
• 5:20
  Speaker 1: You know where $75 million could go to help poor people to buy us cars.
• 5:27
  Speaker 5: Sponsor the show he's not getting an alarm sum, he's getting $7.25 million till the year 2031.
• 5:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, that sucks, so it's not all that big one lump sum and I agree with y'all.
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Are you his agent?
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: Well, no, well, I'll tell you.
• 5:44
  Speaker 4: You know, jimbo, nice man, uh he he.
• 5:49
  Speaker 4: You know, we've been dealing with Jimbo since my son was in the eighth grade.
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: Uh-huh, Nice guy.
• 5:55
  Speaker 4: But I think he made out on that one but, and there was a payout.
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: But I'm going to tell you something else.
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  Speaker 4: That's a payout the electric vehicle.
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you why so?
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  Speaker 4: state law just ended into effect and I had to go back and look at something real quick and I want to make sure I had the number right a $400 additional fee for the initial two year registration.
• 6:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we knew about that.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if you want to register your EV, well, that's because there's no gas tax.
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: There's no gas tax.
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Bunny off of an electric vehicle.
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  Speaker 4: All right, so let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: So, so, so $200 additionally for good Greek man, $200 each year.
• 6:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, I will tell you.
• 6:40
  Speaker 4: So let's, let's talk about that.
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: What is the gas tax designed for?
• 6:45
  Speaker 1: Well, it's supposed to be designed for the road, road improvement, but that's not where it goes.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: No, they've got everybody's got their hand in the pie on that one.
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, uh, man.
• 6:55
  Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, they're still going to get their their crop.
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: On that I will.
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: I will say this Um, I am not an electric vehicle fan yet, but I will tell you, um, we're starting to see some extremely safe features pertaining to those electric vehicles.
• 7:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know where we're going with that, but, um, I can see you driving Traffic.
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: I can, I can see you driving a trooper car, an electric trooper car.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Dude, nobody would be.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: Nobody would be able to beat you.
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: Have you ever driven one?
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: Have you ever been in one?
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: I have, uh, and it was.
• 7:37
  Speaker 4: It was quite interesting yeah.
• 7:39
  Speaker 5: I was saying.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying to you look, look, listen to me, and Mr Mars knows where I'm going.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: There are no.
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  Speaker 4: The traffic stops on an electric vehicle are almost none of this.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's because of the safety feature, I don't know what it is.
• 7:55
  Speaker 4: I don't know because the guy's letting the vehicle drive and he's just sitting back.
• 7:59
  Speaker 4: But, um, it's going to be interesting to see here in a couple of years.
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: What I will tell you is the law book has changed several paragraphs up under the, you know, automated motor vehicle, so we'll see what that leaves us.
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: Um, one thing that I am happy about Text Dot.
• 8:16
  Speaker 4: Now state law says the text dot is now allowed to change speed limits, uh, at their leisure pertaining to weather, construction, et cetera.
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: So this came about.
• 8:29
  Speaker 4: You remember that unfortunate crash in Dallas?
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  Speaker 4: All those people were piled up doing the, doing the actual ice storm.
• 8:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the 635 elevated or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: So that's when that came in effect.
• 8:39
  Speaker 4: So basically, uh, state legislators said we're going to allow Text Dot to change signs by way of the electronic sign, so that electronic sign will take over for the black and white sign and they can reduce the speed automatically on the dime, which I think that will help.
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: Uh, help as well.
• 8:59
  Speaker 4: Another thing that is on the books hey guys, we're getting rid of these paper plates, thank God, Hallelujah, yeah, getting rid of.
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: And I'm going to tell you something, crew, um and I'm not being mean or anything you got.
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: I mean, we've been together for a long time, five years plus, and I try to shoot it straight Most of the crimes that are happening in our community from coast to coast or from individuals with paper plates.
• 9:24
  Speaker 4: Now we changed the feature on the paper plate.
• 9:27
  Speaker 4: We put a QR code on there, so you have a trooper, police officer, deputy, walks into a vehicle.
• 9:33
  Speaker 4: They can actually scan the QR code and it'll tell us if the paper plate is in fact true.
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: But you know what state those legislators says.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: You know what?
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  Speaker 4: We're done with them.
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: We're done with the paper plates.
• 9:44
  Speaker 4: We're going to do metal temp tags.
• 9:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, you may you may have a connection.
• 9:49
  Speaker 4: I don't know how that's going to work.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to come into effect to early 2025.
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: But they're trying to.
• 9:54
  Speaker 4: They're in the process of printing, but I don't know how that, how that expiration period, is going to handle.
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  Speaker 4: What are you going to do with that metal plate?
• 10:02
  Speaker 4: So, uh, what are your thoughts on the metal plate?
• 10:05
  Speaker 4: Is it a big deal or is it not?
• 10:06
  Speaker 4: Well, if you get a metal plate from the deal for us, if you get a metal plate from the dealer.
• 10:11
  Speaker 5: I think when your plates come in you should have to turn that plate, go back.
• 10:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what makes sense.
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that won't happen.
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: I just want to get Conrad.
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: Conrad.
• 10:20
  Speaker 4: You're right, conrad, they put this along the book just for you.
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: No, look, you could not lay, look, so laying splitting.
• 10:30
  Speaker 4: What is laying splitting?
• 10:32
  Speaker 5: Driving on the white to have driving on the white line driving in both lanes yeah.
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 10:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah.
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: Particularly for our, for our motorcycle operator.
• 10:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah so we never theoretically had anything on the books for that.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, we would just stop a guy for failing to maintain in a single lane.
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: But now the state law is updated and they man, this program is so bad, don's leaving yeah.
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: So, they updated.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: They updated the actual law book and put laying splitting on the book.
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: So it's most definitely on the books and it's a violation of the law.
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: But here's the deal as a trooper and I've been doing this for a while If a guy laying splits, how in the world I'm going to catch him?
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, true.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: True.
• 11:18
  Speaker 4: So it just all boils down to if a crash ensues, who's a lot of a lot of laws implemented for our motorcycle operator.
• 11:28
  Speaker 4: State law says this For a motorcycle rider, they can have ground effect lighting.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: The ground effect lighting can only be Amber, a white, non flashing.
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: But it doesn't say anything about a passenger regular vehicle ground effect lighting.
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: So right now we're still allowed to kind of, you know, diddy up our cars and make them look good with ground effect lighting, but the only individuals that fall upon an umbrella, of course, are motorcycles Amber or white, non flashing.
• 12:02
  Speaker 4: What are your thoughts on that?
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: I've never been a fan of the ground effect lighting.
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: I think in some instances, a lot of people that do it are these people that have these huge lifted trucks and they're driving down the highway to show off what is under their truck and all the money they spent on the lift kits.
• 12:20
  Speaker 3: Or whatever color.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: I think it interferes with the drivers around you because all of a sudden you get this light that you know you're trying to figure out what that is because it's unusual, so you know it can distract you because you're going to turn your head and look at it.
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: That's interesting because that was the topic yesterday on my little radio program in Brinum the distraction to the, to the newer drivers.
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: So we'll see what we go with that.
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: As a state.
• 12:47
  Speaker 4: I will say I do lean on triple A's advice and their stats and obviously this is good.
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: I'm going to be out tomorrow and then of course I'll be out the day before Thanksgiving.
• 13:02
  Speaker 4: I just kind of monitoring etc.
• 13:03
  Speaker 4: But I want folks to be careful.
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: You know this is one of this.
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: I think this is going to be a really, really good holiday season there.
• 13:12
  Speaker 4: There are plans implemented in place, especially for the Houston Harris County area, to make it a safe shopping season, if you can, if you can, especially for people that are shopping in a single formation.
• 13:25
  Speaker 4: It's always best to shop in numbers, but when you're parking your car, try to park in well in areas, try to shop in numbers and, if you can, park as close to the door as possible and pay attention to your surroundings.
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: Pay attention for all of the gifts that you're going to buy me.
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: Put them in the truck and look, make sure.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: Here's the deal.
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: And we, we I've never mentioned this on this program, but I'm going to today.
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: No, remind your wives, your daughters, your sons, have them remember where they park.
• 13:57
  Speaker 4: If you have to take a picture of the pole and the number, do it, because we want you to get to and from not only the store in your car safely, but back from the store and home safely.
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: No, what I will say is people are a lot of folks are taking off this week.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: Please enjoy the holiday season responsibly and if you go to the several holiday parties that are going to be offered out to all of us, please make sure you have a designated driver.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: And if you are going to drink, please be mindful and watch out for that.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: You know, you should know, you know what you're able to do, but overall, don't drink and drive.
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: Amen, you're hosting a party.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: We're asking folks have have more of an option to just alcoholic beverages.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: If you can have soda pop or if you can have water or juice on hand, have something else as an option for the drinker and the non drinker and man.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: I think we all speak together collectively.
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: Let's have a safe holiday season because we need it.
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: We really need it.
• 14:59
  Speaker 5: I want to back up.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: You talked about the electric cars.
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: There is a feature on my boss as a Tesla and I've written with them.
• 15:04
  Speaker 5: There's a feature in the Tesla that when you're in a traffic light and it's red and people get on their phones and they text and all that stuff, but when the light turns green, the car dings, it goes ding.
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: That means the lights green and you look up and you go.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: That should be a feature on every car truck, everything.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: I got one, it's called the horn button it's.
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: It's a very cool feature.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I heard the state legislator passed a law for electric car drivers.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: They have to have a current license.
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, ok, all right, george Sorry.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: So, so let me ask you yes, how many times a day do you?
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: So?
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: You're in a large SUV, right, whenever you're well you know what?
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: They put me in a.
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: I'm sneaking around now.
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: Now I'm in an unmarked vehicle where I can kind of do some deal sneaky nowadays.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: So I'm in a.
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: I'm in a regular passenger vehicle and it's on mark.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: And no and.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now you wouldn't, you wouldn't be able to know, you would think it's grandma driving.
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: But when these rain blues come on, then you'll know yeah.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, are the red and blues behind the windshield.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're at the top of the top of the windshield and then in the back glass.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: But here's the deal, guys.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: It's a, it's a six cylinder.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: I ain't catching you.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I was just wondering more less beige how much gas you use today.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: But yes, and then kind of relate that to an EV, because sooner or later somebody's goes dump an EV on you.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Hey, you never know.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: You know all of our fleet as troopers, all four thousand troops across the state.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Typically they're all driving around in tie holes.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: There are a few dodge, the rain goes out there.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: That's typically for your troops up north, for the four wheel drive capabilities.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: But, man, you know, they get some good gas mileage.
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: So that's why we, that's why we have them.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Hey Steve, I want to ask you a question that's not related to any of that stuff.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: You ever thought about becoming a Texas Ranger?
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: You know, interestingly, people have asked me that I'm going to tell you, don I really, I really love what I do.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: You know the Ranger, the Rangers again, they're a huge part of Texas history and law enforcement history.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: They handle all of our you know, white collar crimes, any corrupt politicians.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: For your small towns like Sealy, or you go to a little small town out West, they don't have a homicide detective.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: Well, the Ranger helps them out with that and it seemed extremely interesting.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: But I just really love being with the community, getting down and dirty with the community.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Well, let's just face the fact, steve you're damn too old now.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: All right, you got me.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're going to do a Ranger thing, you would have done that a few years back.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: If Jeter can do it, you can do it.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, the Texas range is also involved.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: If there's a police shooting somewhere and they don't have, you know, internal affairs and more sophisticated personnel in the police department than the Texas Rangers step in.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I know I've seen them on many, many homicide and that sort of thing.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: But I just thought I'd ask because you know the step clearly is you become a DPS officer and then you move on to become a Texas Ranger.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: There's a process and it's not easy.
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: I can tell you that, or an in wheel time bodyguard.
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's that.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Hey, there you go.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: So are you working on all week next week?
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a little.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: My son, he has his little playoff game today here in a few minutes.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: My oldest son, he's playing at Colise Station.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: So my wife, she's up there doing that and I'm down here with a little one.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: So, hey, man, once, once I'm done with this, I'm going to get to work with the family and just try to enjoy the weekend.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: So what's your son's opinion of the Jimbo deal?
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: You know again, he liked Jimbo, he loved Jimbo.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: But you know he understands it's not his choice.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Truly business, and that's just how it.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Is Well let me.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Let me just say this it's all about recruiting, oh yeah, and you look at what Nick Saban has done.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: He couldn't do it for the recruiting guys and they go out, they get these guys and have built that thing up to unbelievable power and it's all about machine, because it keeps rolling, because the recruiting it does.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: But I mean, obviously, being the head coach.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: He's kind of in charge of all that stuff.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: So there you go.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Just a tip for the next coach up there at Texas A&M and stupid contract money, oh my God.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, we didn't want him to go to LSU.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: What go to LSU.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: I want to predict something I'm going to think is going to be coach Woodard.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Coach Woodard.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: That's it, hey, that's like, uh, hey, don't, that's just like that coach over there LSU.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: And he said hey, man, your job's done.
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Um, we're going to pay you this amount of money.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: He said which door do you want to walk out?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: of.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: They said that that was the first 10 year contract through a college for a coach.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: No school it's going to ever do that again.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Steve, it's great to talk to you.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: My friend, Thanks so much for joining us today.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: We love you.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Stay safe and have a great holiday.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: If we don't talk to you before then.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: God bless you, and I love y'all too.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Man, I'm thankful for you.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Happy Thanksgiving and fellas.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: I'll see you on the next one.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: All right, Thank you sir.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: All right Time now for Conrad's car clinic.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Before we get to that, I want to remind you we'd love to hear from you.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Shoot us an email anytime.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Our address here is info at in wheel timecom Conrad's car clinic.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: What are we doing today?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Police cars kind of interesting segue here.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Yep, you know and talk about, um, you know what kind of police cars there are.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: You know there's the cruiser, the interceptor, the black and white patrol car, uh, area cars, prowl cars, squad cars, um, uh, and they're all vehicles that start as a regular production car and evolve into a, into a police car.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Um, those you know, ones that people look at, that are quite famous as the crown Victoria police interceptor, which is actually a variant of the Ford crown Victoria.
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: But if you've ever really looked at one um, you'll notice that the rear doors are longer on the on the police one, because they use the chassis used to be yeah, well, yeah, it used to be because they use the chassis of a Lincoln continental and put the crown Vic body on top of it and it gave them more room to uh, for they don't accommodate prisoners in the back anymore.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: No, you get in there and you're all balled up on those plastic seats, hard plastic seats, with I wouldn't know that cuffs behind you.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I've seen the code.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: I've never been there, actually have been in the word Hard plastic, yeah, but now, these are hard plastic seats.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: And the seat bottom comes out real easy.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: So if you're dropping something down there, you shouldn't know it does not.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: There's nothing to come out.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: The Ford started with police cars back in the in the thirties when they came out with the flathead VA, first mass marketed car.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: A low price mass marketed Ford became very popular with police establishments around the country because the car was fast, faster than most everybody else that was out there.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: And starting in the forties, most major automated automobile manufacturers began to manufacture specialized police cars.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: If you remember, it wasn't too long ago, gm had the PPV, which actually ended up becoming the SS and Pala.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: So some unique things about those vehicles.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Um, uh, stephen Woodard was just talking about the Durango.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Uh, stalantas had the charger pursuit, which is still a popular car.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: A lot of upgrades to those vehicles were very common.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: They generally always had an updated cooling system and updated and upgraded um charging system on them, always had the heavy duty suspensions, usually had the high performance engines that were available at the time.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: So lots of those components that made a police car were available to the public.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: We just had to know the option codes to order to get that same car.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: But if you go way back into the seventies and stuff, the police package itself had a lot of extra bracing and stuff under the, if you open the hood had a lot of extra bracing in it, just because if it was involved in an impact they wanna make sure they were protecting the driver of the vehicle.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: So the police interceptor utility now has become quite popular, which is a version of the Ford Explorer, and if you ever drive behind one it looks like a Ford Explorer, but the name on the back of it says Interceptor.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: So they're marketing the police cars as well.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And if you want one that's easy to buy, just buy a used one out of the police or the city auctions.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: But we have that guy on from the auction.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I know somebody that actually has got one.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: He drives it every day.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: It's a black and white, nothing on the doors, it's just black and white Of course everybody flinch.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everybody flinch.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: But it's got the beefed up engine suspension, all the stuff in it, cool.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: You know they always have upgraded tires, upgraded transmissions.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: One of the other things that the police departments can order is one key.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: One key works in every police car of that brand.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So if you're driving everybody's driving Tahoe's and I was gonna ask Sergeant Woodard this his key will work in any Tahoe, most likely, and that's just for speed of access for any of the officers.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: But there are other cars that are out there.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: There's the unmarked car which Woodard said he was in.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: There's the ghost car, dog, police, d-car cars, surveillance cars.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Here in Houston, one of those what I'll call ghost cars is that white Camaro and it actually has police ghosted into the side of it and that's just to kind of draw little attention but still have the police car effect with the lights behind the windshield and behind the rear glass.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, we're gonna do a little bit more on police cars over the next couple weeks.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I think we should.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I got a couple of things here for Jeff at our news stories this week.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: All right, Cadillac said Friday it will reveal the optic, a new entry-level electric nameplate, next year.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: The brand confirmed the optic compact crossover will slot below the mid-sized Lyric, its first electric vehicle, and serve as the gateway to Cadillac's upcoming all-electric portfolio in North America.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Gm luxury brand released images of the optic on Friday and said it would share more details, including features and pricing, when it's formally revealed next year.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: And if the upcoming $340,000 Cadillac Celesteak feels too pedestrian, neiman Marcus is offering one for nearly triple that amount.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: The one of one Cadillac Carmen Celesteak is priced at $975,000.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Christmas is coming.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: It's the most expensive.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of eight fantasy gifts in the 2023 edition of the department store's annual holiday catalog, the buyer and a guest will receive a two day trip to watch the car being hand built at Cadillac's Artisan Center in suburban Detroit.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: This includes a meeting with brand designers, a tour of Cadillac House on the campus of GM Global Technical Center, private tour of a notable Detroit landmark institution probably Ford with a dosing or historian, a multi course dinner from a renowned Detroit chef and a stay at a luxury boutique hotel.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: We'll offer $900,000.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: $975,000.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Cadillac also will donate $25,000 of the purchase price to the Detroit Opera House.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: The Neiman Marcus fantasy gifts include a $510,000 Disney animation experience, a formative $85,000 yachting treasure hunt through Indonesia and a $210,000 trip to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: So send your Neiman Marcus gift cards to info at inwiltimecom.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Quick break now You're on the InWheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Houston's finest cars are invited to another Gulf Coast Auto Shield car social Saturday, december 2, and you're invited to show off your personal pride and joy or just stop in to see the likes of Lucid Lamborghini, porsche, ferrari and more.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Gulf Coast Auto Shield is your one stop shop for paint, detailing, coatings, window tint, clear bras and wheel repair.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: The car social is your opportunity to get a tour of this state of the art facility, located at 11275 South Sam Houston Parkway, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: It all takes place Saturday, december 2, 9 to noon.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: This is the perfect opportunity to connect with other car enthusiasts, from BMWs to mentally, corvette's to McLaren's.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The car social is a different kind of show Talk to the owners.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: See Gulf Coast Auto Shield's facility.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You'll be amazed.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Put it on your calendar now the Gulf Coast Auto Shield car social Saturday, december 2, 9 to noon at 11275 South Sam Houston Parkway, just south of the Southwest Freeway.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: The InWheel Time Car Talk Show will be there too.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: We'll see you then Houston.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: America's Greatest Hot Rod Tradition is back Thanksgiving weekend, the O'Reilly Auto Parts, Auto Rama at the George R Brown Convention.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Center for Action Packed Days of.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Hot Rods, customs Classics Trucks and Performance Cars.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: The Ultimate Low.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: Rider Showcase Sponsored by Shorties Hydraulics.
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: See Lone Star Throwdowns, texas-sized Truck Spread.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Don't miss the traditional rod custom section.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: Friday, saturday and Sunday see wild, high flying freestyle motor crossed stunt shows, the Swat Meat and Women's World all weekend on the celebrity stage Presented by Nick's auto repair and classic car restoration.
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: Friday meet AEW Tag Team Superstars.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: The Lucha Bros.
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Saturday it's Noel G Hector from the Fast and Furious.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Sunday it's Lou Ferrigno, the original, incredible Hulk.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: The O'Reilly Auto Parts Auto-Rama November 23rd through 26th at the George R Brown Convention Center.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: Discount tickets at O'Reilly Auto Parts, part of the Summer Racing Equipment Show Car Series.
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: See AutoRamacom for more info.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And the in-will time car talk show will be there too.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: The original group of loopy tortilla restaurants will have you telling your family and friends just what the original recipes mean when it comes to the best fajitas in southeast Texas.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Founder Stan Holt invites you to visit the original loopy tortilla near I-10 and Highway 6.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Here's the original house that inspired the design of all the rest and the original charm that helped make loopy tortilla the go-to destination for Houston Tex-Mex.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Speaking of original, nothing can compete with the original lime pepper marinade.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: That everyone will agree makes loopy tortilla award-winning beef fajitas the best anywhere.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: Loopy Tortilla Katie is another location that gives you the same quality and service Houstonians have come to expect at loopies.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's located just off I-10 of the Grand Parkway.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: At Kingsland Boulevard in Katie, find yourself an Aggie Land.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Head to the loopy tortilla and college station.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Located just around the corner from Kyle Field, it's a great place to enjoy those famous frozen margaritas before or after the game.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Head to the east, to Louisiana.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Stop in at the loopy tortilla in Beaumont.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It twos on I-10, you can't miss it.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: The original group of loopy tortilla restaurants invites you in for the best Tex-Mex anywhere.