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Youthful Energy Meets Automotive Obsession - Woodlands High School Auto Club with Mr. Rogers! · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:03
  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.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: It's the In Wheel Time car talk show coming up Andrew Rogers and the Woodlands High School Auto Enthusiast Club Later.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: Look at the automotive headlines this week Howdy, along with Mike out of this world, mars King, conrad DeLong.
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: We always need Jeff Zekin.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: I'm, don Armstrong, so glad that you could join us on this Saturday.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: We had a little bit of rain overnight what None here, but a lot of it on the east side of town, and we're just praying that some of that makes its way over here later on this afternoon.
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: I like the way you did that.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on, come on, baby, back it up.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: We're bringing the whole thing in.
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: Andrew Rogers is with the Woodlands High School Auto Enthusiast Club and they got a big coffee and cars event coming up, andrew, good morning to you, sir.
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 1:07
  Speaker 4: How are y'all doing?
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: today.
• 1:07
  Speaker 1: Well, we're doing just great.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so, andrew, tell me about the Woodlands High School Auto Enthusiasts Club.
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: We just like the name.
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate that I can't take credit for the name that goes to my students.
• 1:23
  Speaker 4: So I'm a teacher here at the Woodlands High School and a couple years ago a couple of my students that were in one of my classes came up to me and said that we want to form a car club at the school.
• 1:34
  Speaker 4: To my knowledge, no other school had ever done really anything like that.
• 1:37
  Speaker 4: We're not in my classroom right now, but in my classroom I've got car stuff everywhere memorabilia and models and things and stuff and so they know what I'm about and they wanted to form a car club and I said that sounds awesome, it sounds like a great idea.
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: And so we formed this club to kind of educate students and teenagers on cars and car culture and trucks and motorcycles of course too, and we host events and stuff.
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: We do cars and coffee types of things every now and then.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: We support our community as well and, to be honest, the kids make my job real easy.
• 2:20
  Speaker 4: I've got Braden here next to us.
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: He's our club vice president and yeah, it's a great time.
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: It's a great way for the kids to learn how sometimes to work on cars but also just kind of learn about what they like and just the culture in general.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: Well, let's go back just a minute.
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: So Woodlands High School isn't that in the Conroe district?
• 2:41
  Speaker 4: It is, yeah, we're in Conroe ISD in the Woodlands north of Spring.
• 2:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not know that Conroe had an automotive program.
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do, they've got.
• 2:52
  Speaker 4: There's a couple of different ones.
• 2:53
  Speaker 4: There's sort of one that's a little bit more on the mechanical side, and then there's a body shop and paint body program as well, operating, I think, mostly out of Conroe High School, and students from other high schools in the district can bus over to that.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: So is it kind of like you know the football game on Friday night the Woodlands High School playing Conroe High School.
• 3:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, sometimes, yeah.
• 3:17
  Speaker 1: I had to go there because we're on football season.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know there's a little competitiveness, but it's all under one umbrella with the Conroe.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm proud that Conroe has got an automotive program.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, you know there's so many.
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: I wanted one so bad at Westbury High School, yeah, nothing, nothing for me, and I would assume that they still don't have an automotive program.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: Then there aren't too many automotive programs that I'm aware of in Houston ISD, and I think that there should be, because you know there are us guys that we're all into cars.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: So you have to give me the name of your guest that's sitting with you.
• 3:59
  Speaker 5: Braden Braden Smith.
• 4:00
  Speaker 5: I'm the vice president of the automotive enthusiast club here.
• 4:07
  Speaker 1: So, braden, let me ask you, what are the high school guys and gals into these days?
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: You guys into the big light Camaros, no, or I was going to say Asian cars.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, what is it that really gets y'all's going here?
• 4:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 4:25
  Speaker 5: So we have a really wide range of, I guess, enthusiasts.
• 4:30
  Speaker 5: We have a lot of the big V8 type muscle car guys, and then we have import guys, and actually the president of our club here drives a Japanese car.
• 4:45
  Speaker 5: He drives a Mazda Miata.
• 4:47
  Speaker 5: Oh, and he loves that.
• 4:50
  Speaker 5: We have a former member that drove a Miata and I drive a Fiat one to four spiders.
• 4:59
  Speaker 5: So yeah.
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: Did you buy that one to four spider yourself or did you get a little help from mom and dad?
• 5:06
  Speaker 1: I got a little bit help.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just going to say, because that's a pretty, pretty nice little car there, fun little car, yeah, exactly One of those that you can kind of throw around.
• 5:16
  Speaker 2: I love the logo of the pistons and wrenches.
• 5:18
  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool, you should get a hold of Richard Tomlin.
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: He's all into the Mazdas.
• 5:22
  Speaker 3: He could probably go on a hill climb with him, mexico.
• 5:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the only problem is with Richard.
• 5:27
  Speaker 2: Actually his Miata.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: The Miata has got a big V8.
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: It's got an LS7 with twin turbos in it.
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so there is that.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: So what do you guys at the Woodlands High School Auto Enthusiast Club I mean?
• 5:41
  Speaker 1: Is it mainly cosmetic stuff?
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Is it engine stuff?
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: What are you guys into these days?
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: How are you hopping up your cars?
• 5:50
  Speaker 4: A little bit of anything that we are able to do.
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: So as far as just like the club is concerned, it's more of a student interest club than anything.
• 5:59
  Speaker 4: You know we don't have a shop here at the school or anything.
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: It's more of kind of a place for enthusiasts and students who are into cars to kind of come together and bond and, you know, make friends and stuff like that.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like the school chess club.
• 6:10
  Speaker 4: That's what I was thinking.
• 6:11
  Speaker 3: The chess club.
• 6:12
  Speaker 6: Chess club on wheels.
• 6:14
  Speaker 1: How many members in the club.
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: How many members in the club?
• 6:18
  Speaker 4: Uh, 35 or so, oh my gosh.
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: And do y'all help each other out.
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: If somebody needs a break job or, uh, you know, a fender dent taken out, y'all get together so you don't have a classroom there at the school, you all just get together and do your thing at everybody else's garages.
• 6:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we meet in my classroom after school some, you know, on Mondays and stuff to kind of talk and hang out for a little bit.
• 6:43
  Speaker 4: And then on the weekends and things, some of the members get together.
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: And I know uh, last last year before the summer I had a member uh throw a 660 cam at his uh LT 1 Camaro and uh came to the, came to the meeting the next day and made some, made some noise in the parking lot, yeah.
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that they have to call the police or what.
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: No, we're on, we're on.
• 7:06
  Speaker 4: Uh, we're on good terms with the CISD police.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad to hear that.
• 7:12
  Speaker 2: Well, the good thing is is you guys get a chance to funnel that enthusiasm for cars in a bit of a controlled environment Positive way, you know, because you know.
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: You know, when I was a kid my enthusiasm for cars really was was very positive and I didn't have a good relationship though I had a constant relationship with the police.
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: It wasn't a good one.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: And ours, our version of a car club, was see who could do the burnout without getting caught in the parking lot.
• 7:38
  Speaker 4: Right, that was our version.
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that's a big positive for the club too, I think, because it's, you know, I've for.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: You know, without giving too much away, I you know it was into some aspects of the community as a teenager as well that maybe weren't so positive.
• 7:53
  Speaker 6: What a diplomatic way of putting it.
• 7:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a school teachers version right here.
• 7:58
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, and this is, it's a really cool thing for to be able to provide this sort of outlet for young enthusiasts, you know, in a more positive way, you know, doing cars and coffee types of events instead of doing takeovers.
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: So tell us about the event you have coming up.
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: So next weekend, on Saturday September 16, right here at the Woodlands High School, we're going to host our first cars and coffee of the year.
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: Wonderful Of the school year that is that's going to be at the Woodlands High School.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: Correct.
• 8:27
  Speaker 4: This one is at the Woodlands High School.
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: It'll be in the 1000s park and a lot will have signs up and everything.
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: Are you getting any support from the dealerships in your area?
• 8:36
  Speaker 4: So for our school events we don't usually we've reached out to a couple of speciality dealerships that bring a little bit of their stock.
• 8:44
  Speaker 4: Last April was that April Last, the big maybe?
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, april of last year we had a district wide event, a huge event that we hosted at the Woodlands Bank Football Stadium, and then we've got this same sort of event coming up on October 21st.
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: Gullo brings out some of their stuff.
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: Gullo Ford brings out some of their stock.
• 9:04
  Speaker 4: We post oak motors, which is like an exotic car dealership.
• 9:09
  Speaker 4: They're going to bring out some of their stock as well.
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: So we do get some support from the community and from people in the industry around here.
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: So what was I was going to say for Braden?
• 9:18
  Speaker 3: What's your plan to get into the automotive industry?
• 9:20
  Speaker 3: What are your goals in this?
• 9:23
  Speaker 5: I mean, as of now, really just have fun.
• 9:26
  Speaker 5: You know it's.
• 9:27
  Speaker 5: It was hard trying to find like-minded people.
• 9:32
  Speaker 5: I'm new to the Texas area.
• 9:34
  Speaker 5: I was a freshman out of two years ago now and I was really.
• 9:41
  Speaker 5: I was new and I didn't know many people that were, you know, into the car I guess seen.
• 9:49
  Speaker 5: So joining the club was really just to meet like-minded people that I could hang out with in the out of school.
• 9:54
  Speaker 5: And you know, for the future I would say I'm not quite sure yet but I'd say I do want to go into something, maybe in the automotive engineering field.
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: I like taking stuff apart and putting it back together, seeing how things work.
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: I think all car guys do.
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: I think that would be my dream to be able to design or just something, anything really in the automotive field.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: You're a junior.
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: You've got a whole big door open in front of you, so I'm sure you'll do fine.
• 10:33
  Speaker 6: Regardless of which way you go you could be a dentist and still be a car guy.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: Just to give you a little insight.
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: I went through the same thing in high school with a big interest in cars.
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: I ended up 25 years as a field engineer with General Motors, ten years of that assigned to the Bowling Green Assembly Plant.
• 10:52
  Speaker 2: So working on Corvettes was a lot of fun.
• 10:55
  Speaker 3: It was either that or going into law enforcement.
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: Well, law enforcement placing me someplace.
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: I'm really excited about this and I'm excited about having a connection with you guys.
• 11:10
  Speaker 1: We're happy Because we can follow you and we can be.
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: You know, if we can't be there at the event, at least we can be there in spirit.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Absolutely we can do that.
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: And the other thing is I think would be really cool is for any videos that you guys shoot, be sure and get them to us so we can post them on the Inwheel Time car talk show site.
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: That'd be great.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'd be absolutely more than happy to.
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: I have to ask you, Andrew, did they call you Mr Rogers?
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: They do, and at the beginning of the school year I will.
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: I don't say it so much anymore, but I used to always say and, in case you're wondering, it is a beautiful day in my neighborhood.
• 11:50
  Speaker 4: So few of the kids get that reference anymore.
• 11:55
  Speaker 4: I kind of let it falter.
• 11:57
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like we have a guest later on and when I was talking to him I said you know it's the new car season.
• 12:02
  Speaker 6: He knew what I was talking about.
• 12:04
  Speaker 6: He's our age, but a bunch of people are going to know what the new car season is because it just there is no new car season anymore.
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: It's old school because it's used to September, october, and all the dealerships would bring out all their brand new iron and everybody would go.
• 12:20
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, Big reveals in the showroom and all that good stuff.
• 12:23
  Speaker 3: So listen, Braden, are you going to be running for president?
• 12:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so our president is a senior this year, so next year he's going to be going off to college and I think I got a pretty good shot to be president next year.
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: So that was one thing I was wondering about.
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: So you graduate, so this is a high school group and it you graduate, you're out.
• 12:48
  Speaker 3: Well, you're like the chess club.
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so.
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: And I use the chat and I just use it as an example.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: But I mean there are all sorts of clubs within the school.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: I assume that there still are.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: They still are.
• 13:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a chess club too.
• 13:03
  Speaker 6: I'd like to think we're cooler than chess club, but I think you are yes, you have a cooler logo than what the chess club has, that's for sure.
• 13:10
  Speaker 4: I agree so.
• 13:14
  Speaker 3: Oh trophy, Look at that.
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: So this time, if you guys can quite see it, but our president made this last year out of some wrenches and some pistons that came out of his meada, you know in the shape of the W for the woodlands, and then we kind of made that.
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: As for our shirt logo as well, but this is he's real proud of this and the yeah, we take it to our car shows and everything and it's a pretty cool bit of kit.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: Well see, not only do you have the cars, but you've got the talents to do the welding and the design and the oh yeah work of that.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: And it's a dual wrench kit because it does both metric and.
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: English.
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: Fully adjustable.
• 13:52
  Speaker 6: So your event is coming up, your coffee and cars coming up next weekend.
• 13:55
  Speaker 6: How, how got an idea how many cars you might show up?
• 13:59
  Speaker 4: with our events at the school.
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, right around 100 or so cars will tip the show.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: Is it open to the public?
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, can I bring the Corvette up there?
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: We would love that.
• 14:08
  Speaker 4: We'll put a special spot up for you, if you want.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Oh no, do you have a?
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: Do you have it posted anywhere?
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: We've got it posted on our Instagram page, which is at AE underscore TWHS.
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: We have the Automotive Enthusiast Club of the Woodlands High School page on Facebook as well.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Those are primary outlets for social media where we kind of get the word out and stuff.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: But yeah, it is fully open, free event, open to everybody in the community, anybody who wants to show up to bring a car.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: We have free coffee and donuts for as long as they last.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Who's supplying the coffee and donuts?
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: So part of our club members got to pay dues and stuff so we can be able to host these events, and then I'll go out to get some Chick-fil-A coffee and some H-E-B donuts.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Very good.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: This is good stuff because he's helping mold and form the future technicians and designers of the automobiles.
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: Yeah, because for the rest of their life they can go to cruise-ins just about every place or some sort of cruise-in.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: You can come to some of ours that we host in a part of Okay so here's the next question Could you ever get together and bring a bus load of the members and visit another cruise-in or car show or something?
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: I think we could organize something out like that.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that sounds great.
• 15:27
  Speaker 4: The kids have been actually bugging me about wanting to do some sort of field trip type situation.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: Well, we have a couple in mind.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: One is tailpipes and tacos we're still waiting on a date from Stan on that and the other one that comes to mind is getting the special treatment for Houston Autorama that's coming up Thanksgiving.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: And if we can't pull that off, I'll bet we could pull off the new car show in January.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: Or the new car show in January.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: See, carl was last week.
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: You had no clue what you were getting yourself into with us.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Now all we need to do is call whoever the president of the Conroe Independent School District is and say these kids need to have a bus over there At such and such a time.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: We're going to have a field trip, so you guys have to get the release forms and all that Permission slips.
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you so.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: The superintendent for Conroe IC, dr Curtis Knowle, is really closely involved with the club.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Actually, he's a car guy himself.
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: He's got a Foxbody Mustang it's a bit of a track car and then he's got a fully restored 65 Mustang as well.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: We'll let him sit in the front seat.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, yeah Well, all of the cool kids want to sit the back of the bus.
• 16:37
  Speaker 6: That's why you put the boss up in the front.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I wasn't allowed in the bus.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Well, this sounds like tons of fun.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: I'll try and get your meat posted on a couple other social media sites here that are in Houston that get a lot of action.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: There's a huge community in the Conroe area of people that are very active, whether it's coffee and cars for a cause or some of the other stuff that happens.
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, conroe cruisers are constantly in this stuff, we'll chase.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Randy Weldon on that.
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: It's not too far from where you live, though, is it no?
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: Okay, there you go.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: We've got some good members that come in some regulars.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: The Conroe cruisers are actually a pretty good supporter of us.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: They show up in force for a handful of our meets.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: In fact, one of their members actually works as a coworker of mine, works at school and she dailies a 68 GTO.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: Wow, Wow.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I'm liking it.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: We got the car connection up in the Woodlands.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: It's a beautiful thing.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Well, andrew and Braden, it's great to have you guys on the air with us today, and we wish you the best of luck, and we hope that you'll check in with us and let us know how things are going next Saturday and, be sure, and supply us with some video too.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, and now Braden is a celebrity in school.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now he's a big hit in school and everybody knows him.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: He's kind of like the lead in the school play.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: But I'll give one piece of advice Don't charge your friends for autographs.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: Just go ahead and sign it and smile and go on.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: That's it.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Kiss babies and shake hands.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: Well, Mr Rogers.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for joining us today.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Braden Smith, it's great to have you guys on, and best of luck next week and again, stay in touch with us and let us know what's happening.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: And we hope you have a beautiful day in the neighborhood there you go Perfect.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll say yeah, thank you.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: That was a good close, that's good.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: All right, I have news.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: You do, I knew, yes, I do.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: We're going to start this segment of the news with recalls.
• 18:32
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• 18:39
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• 18:39
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• 18:46
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• 18:52
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• 18:59
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• 19:01
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• 19:10
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• 19:19
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• 19:28
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• 19:31
  Speaker 3: That's a big truck.
• 19:33
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• 19:37
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• 19:39
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• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Hey, turn that thing down.
• 19:42
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• 19:50
  Speaker 2: That's not good.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: No Pop.
• 19:53
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• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, there goes all the oil, pop goes the turbo, that's it.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Okay, some stories making news headlines.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Now Ram's high performance 1500 TRX will go out of production at the end of this year.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: It features the 702 horsepower, 650 pound feet of torque and zero to 60 time Record of 4.5 seconds for a truck.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: The truck cost 100 and 19,620 dollars with shipping.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Come on down, I Guess they sold everyone that they made, no doubt.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Wow I.
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: Don't know what them youtubers are gonna do, you know, if they don't have that to tear up.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: The nation's top auto safety regulator on Tuesday said it is determined 52 million airbag inflators made by a company called a RC automotive and Delphi I think they're a former general motor.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: GM, former GM company, are defective and should be recalled.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: They haven't recalled them yet.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: The agency's initial decision affects about 41 million driver and passenger Inflators made by ARC from 2000 to January 2018 and about 11 million driver inflators made by auto.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Live acquired Delphi under a licensing agreement with a RC.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: The inflators are installed in vehicles manufactured by 12 automakers, including Ford, gm, stalantis, hyundai, tesla and Toyota can.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: I say something on that.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Can't you got a letter from Ford Asking for volunteers to bring the cars in so they could look at their airbags and replace them for future R&D?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: Another words, you got a defective airbag.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, but it loaded it, so where it's a voluntary, and you know what was bad Delphi said here hold my beer, watch this.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: There's a little bit of I don't know deceptions, sneakeries, but but, but.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: But again, there is a reason for them to try and take.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: You know, you said Kathy's car is ten years old, right?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: So there's a reason for them to try and collect a sample of those older vehicles so they can analyze them To see what's going on.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: And I understand that legit.
• 22:16
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Why do it in such a format?
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: We're saying, well, you know, it's like Soft pedaling it to say they want they just they don't, they don't the liability.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: That's lawyer talk.
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: They don't want to sit there and say you got a bad airbag.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: I sure would hate to be the technician that has to do that job.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: Oh here stand back.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Last, when I was with Auto Nation running the service department, we had a technician that set one off.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: He was underneath the dash and it blew and it was like a bomb went off and he, you know, was starly.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: We've seen the videos online about these guys that play with them.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I fired them off.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: But they have a board on top of it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Boom shoots them right up the break their neck and all that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I fired them off because back in the back in the day is, you were not allowed when you replaced them under warranty.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Gm would ask for them back, but you weren't allowed to send them back hot, you had to deploy them to send them, disable them.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'd set the pop them with a nine-volt battery, two wires and a nine-volt back Boop, you know.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: But you always wanted to make sure the bag was up and not down, because if the bag was down it shoot a hundred feet in the air.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I popped them quite a few times.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Save them all for Fourth of July and set them off.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: There you go, actually, I did some for the Fire Department heavy rescue training that goes on out in Katie and Early on.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: When airbags first came out, I gathered a few of them up from the area and went out there and and blew them off indoors.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: But I knew I was okay because I had the fire chief was there in the in the room with us and they wanted to see what to expect of an airbag because they they were worried about.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: You know, when you start cutting a car up, could we deploy one?
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: I said, oh, absolutely, you could.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Said first thing you need to do is cut the battery cables out and then wait about 15 seconds.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: All of the capacitors were discharged and so, you know, we popped a couple of them indoors for them.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Pretty interesting, pretty interesting.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: It's not hard to do.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: But you know a Global shortage of technicians and independent repair shops qualified to fix EVs threatens to increase repair and warranty costs for drivers, potentially Undermining upcoming deadlines to cut vehicle curb and evade emissions.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: From Melonda, melbourne, to Malibu, technician training Organizations, warranty providers and repairers say that independent repair shops will be vital for making EVs affordable Because they are far cheaper than Franchise dealers.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: In the US, the world's number two auto market after China, ev sales grown.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: A growth has trailed Europe's, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts around 80,000 electrician jobs will be needed annually through 2031, including technicians to fix EVs or installed EV Chargers.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna save, I'm gonna save the UAW talk.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Not I'm gonna, I'm gonna do that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Another segment, because it's gonna be huge and the deadline draws near.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: In September, the 12th is it, and it looks like, at least right now, that the big three in Detroit are gonna go on strike, Yep and it's.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be bad if that happens.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: So buy your new car now, because there may not wait, be one later because then the Biden administration says we're gonna keep our Hands off of this, at least for now.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: You guys work it out.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: That's what they say.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: That's what I heard on the radio yesterday.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: So that's all.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: That's all I have that is all.
• 25:58
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