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Durango Diaries: Road Tripping with 710 Horsepower · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:00
  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 11 am, central.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show coming up.
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  Speaker 1: We'll hope to talk to.
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  Speaker 1: Author, noted automotive journalist, wayward traveler and talk show host from the left coast.
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: That rhymed, didn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Jack Nereid.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Hopefully Later Jeff has what your car's color says about you, and Mars has different hurricane evacuation destinations.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike, out of this World Mars.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: We always need more Jeff Zekin, chief Engineer David Ainsley, who's with us this morning, and I am, don Armstrong, so glad that you could join us and we thank you very much for that.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: If you wonder what Mars is doing down there, he's trying to get the Zoom to work and apparently it's not working.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: So Jack is going to be delayed just a little bit.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Well, hopefully he, on the phone with David Ainsley, will be able to bring it all together and we're going to do the deed.
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: Yep, yep, is that okay, I guess, if I say that, do the deed, do the deed Because it has many connotations.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: Well, dirty deeds are done, dirt cheap.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Listen to you.
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you ever play that song?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we did a long time ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, old rock and roll days.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: So, while we wait for the connection to Jack Nerad, then we are going to do a little thing that I've been saving forever and ever.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: We're going to move the studio in the next couple of weeks and in the meantime I am cleaning out things like what am I doing with that?
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: I thought I threw that out years ago.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: You're a guy.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: I am a guy and so there's been a lot of expulsion here at the homestead Exfoliation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, mr Morris, we don't need that.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: We heard that.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a thing that I've been hanging on to Sweating the details Six steps to deep clean your car's carpet.
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Have you ever done that have?
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  Speaker 2: you ever cleaned without taking it out?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, I've never deep cleaned it.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: I've never gotten it that dirty to deep clean.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I haven't either.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: I'm very fastidious about my carpet.
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: And even these new cars that I drive all the time they'll have like 3,000, 4,000 miles on them.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: And you cars that I drive all the time, they'll have like 3,000, 4,000 miles on them and you get them and it smells like dirt.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can't handle that.
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  Speaker 2: It's like going into your house.
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  Speaker 1: Because, the way I look at it, your car is a direct reflection of you and your cleanliness at your house.
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  Speaker 1: That's my take on it.
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  Speaker 1: Others are going, it is not Okay.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Well, that's just my take.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, if it smells bad, your house probably smells bad.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: Don't eat it if it smells bad.
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  Speaker 1: Ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and stop biting your fingernails.
• 2:48
  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: So the first thing you need paintbrush.
• 2:51
  Speaker 3: Talk, talk, talk.
• 2:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, I can hear Jack Jack's there.
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  Speaker 1: What did you do, Mars?
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  Speaker 1: Who did Jack?
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  Speaker 2: did Jack, did Jack Good Jack, oh Jack, good Jack.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God, jack, you're with us.
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: Can he hear us?
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  Speaker 2: Can Jack hear us?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so, I don't think he can hear us Morris, Well he's.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: No, he can't hear us.
• 3:11
  Speaker 1: It was all just a figment of our imagination.
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  Speaker 2: It was a ruse, so never mind, so to continue on.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: You need a paintbrush.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: Any old paintbrush will do, as long as and actually I prefer those that are shorter bristles, not too long of bristles, yeah, okay, and if you have one, if you're like, dabbing.
• 3:31
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but the stiffer ones get the dust and stuff out of there.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: Many great shop vacuums.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: You're going to need a shop vac and I've got one that I've had for quite some time.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: It is a wet-dry vac.
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  Speaker 1: I think that one is from Lowe's.
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  Speaker 1: You can buy them fairly cheap if you get a Home Depot model or whatever, and they're fine yeah.
• 3:51
  Speaker 1: And they're fine.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be a blower.
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  Speaker 1: It's lightweight, strong on wheels, costs about $100, and does the job better than much pricier vacuums.
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  Speaker 1: Car accessory kit Soft bristle hose attachment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, It'll be your favorite tool getting the dust off your dash and console.
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  Speaker 1: Vacuum attachment kit like that doesn't cost much.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't come with the vacuum.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever the time that you'll pay for the $25 or so that you'll spend on Amazon, well worth it.
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  Speaker 1: Small brush, large brush, shampoo poo Got to have some shampoo poo.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: What kind?
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Strawberry Many options available, Strawberry.
• 4:34
  Speaker 1: You should always keep a quality interior cleaner handy and I've got one over there and I can never remember the name of it.
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: It's over there in that box, Jeff, if you want to go dig around it, no, that's quite all right.
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, I can dig around it.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to do this?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting my hand in that box.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Tough Stuff.
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Okay there.
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  Speaker 1: It is Tough Stuff and you can buy it everywhere.
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: It's A long time ago when I was working at Richardson Chevrolet.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: We used it over there to do spot cleaning on new cars' carpet and it works great.
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  Speaker 1: You also use it on upholstery as well.
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  Speaker 1: All-purpose concentrate from McGuire is one of them as well.
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  Speaker 1: Concentrates are great because you can decide how strong you'd like each bottle to be.
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  Speaker 1: I always keep a couple of bottles already mixed at different strengths plus concentrates, cheaper than individual bottles, though a gallon of the stronger stuff may last you 100 years.
• 5:30
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, a couple of other interior cleaners that this person likes Meguiar, citrus Power Cleaning Plus Stoner Power Clean.
• 5:39
  Speaker 1: That would be for me, stoner.
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  Speaker 1: The second is just for plastics, but it's great because it adds uv protection and satin finish.
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: You don't have to go overboard, don't overthink it, you just don't have to do that well, you asked me.
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  Speaker 2: I've been thinking, I think what I've done in the past you, you hang up the floor mat and you take a power washer and just, oh gosh, floor mats.
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  Speaker 1: That's a whole nother story.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I do.
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  Speaker 1: Floor mats they easy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you just get some regular laundry detergent, get a hose, hang them up as you say, and get the nozzle on the hose and just blast it on the fence, take it off the fence, put it down on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Take you just a regular broom, whatever you got in the house, and get you a little laundry detergent, sprinkle it on there and get you a good suds going.
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, get you a little laundry detergent, sprinkle it on there and it gets you a good suds going.
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  Speaker 1: Hang it back up on the fence and rinse it off and let it dry on the fence.
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  Speaker 2: I would just rinse it and let it drip, yep.
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  Speaker 1: Because you don't really need to.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't that dirty to deep clean scrub.
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  Speaker 2: But so far as the carpet, I've never actually deep cleaned the actual carpet carpet.
• 6:39
  Speaker 1: So you're also going to need some old towels.
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  Speaker 1: Do not need to be microfiber, because, remember, we're working on the carpet right now.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Remove everything out of the car and if you're worried about getting anything wet, put a plastic bag over it Sorry.
• 6:57
  Speaker 3: Talk, talk, talk, talk talk.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Jack, can you?
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: hear.
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: We can hear Jack, but he can't hear us.
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: No, I can hear you guys now.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Mars, I hear you.
• 7:07
  Speaker 1: Is Ainsley still on the phone with you?
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, we love you, david, thank you.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: Why don't you come up here and take Mars' place?
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: It'd be a whole lot easier.
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: You talking to Jack.
• 7:16
  Speaker 2: Jack, come on up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I hear you guys now Well we can hear you too, and it's good to be with you.
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to have you with us.
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: Can you hear us Now?
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: He can't hear us, uh-oh, because Mars is over there fiddling with something and messed it all up.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever the case may be, so back to the.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get the picture back.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so back to the cleaning of the car.
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: Remove everything, actually cover up stuff that you don't want to get wet.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to stir up a lot of dirt and a lot of dust, but you've got to get the vacuum out and vacuum up all the dirt.
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  Speaker 1: First, vacuum, number one.
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  Speaker 1: Then you're going to do the shampoo on the carpet.
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  Speaker 1: You don't need a big machine to shampoo your carpet.
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  Speaker 1: Good cleaner brush and towels.
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  Speaker 1: The Hoover Spotless Portable Carpet Cleaner, repulsory Spot Cleaner that's one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Bissell makes a bunch of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You can also go and rent one over at Home Depot.
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  Speaker 4: Or a grocery store, whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: The small handheld cleaners are decent, but don't expect them to do all the work.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the time still end up needing to use some effort and the towels.
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  Speaker 1: Then, once you get finished, make sure that you rinse all of the soap suds that you've put on there out of it.
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  Speaker 1: And then you're going to rinse it nice, vacuum it Dry vac and then open the doors and get the fan going, unless you've got a better idea.
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we did at the dealership as a matter of fact I'll never forget when we had floods we had floods back then too the dealership.
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: They'd bring cars in, take the seats out, take all of the carpets out, including the jute underneath the carpets, and hang them up.
• 9:03
  Speaker 1: It looked like a bad laundry day at the Armstrong house a bad laundry day at the Armstrong house, and that's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: mention the jute, because if you get that jute soaked, it will rot over a period of time.
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And you can buy jute, but it's expensive and all it is is ground-up rags glued together, basically.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, but if you leave the moisture in there, it's going to rot right on through.
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: Can you hear us, Jack?
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: I can.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: Oh God, Mars, don't touch it.
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: Get your hands off of it.
• 9:33
  Speaker 1: Keep them in the air.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: the entire interview with Jack For the entire show.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: Jack, I'm sorry, wait, wait, wait.
• 9:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was you guys.
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: It was probably as much me, if not all me here, so I apologize, okay, well.
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: Now we're going to blame it all on mars.
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: We always do so.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we going to change now?
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Jack, it's good to see you and glad to talk to you, uh, for every limited time that we've gotten, and we apologize for the technical my pleasure, so we understand that you've made some sort of trip across america for 2025?
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  Speaker 3: it was crazy.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, we did the made in america tour through the upper midwest, uh, starting in chicago, milwaukee, um upper peninsula, michigan, through detroit, cleveland, pittsburgh and then back to chicago oh my god we went to ballparks and national parks along the way in a dodge durango srt hellcat.
• 10:29
  Speaker 4: It was crazy it was nuts who went with you.
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: You got there quickly.
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  Speaker 3: My lovely wife went with me.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: She did the great planning for it.
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  Speaker 1: She was your navigator.
• 10:38
  Speaker 3: She was a great navigator.
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: She is the greatest travel agent of all time.
• 10:43
  Speaker 3: She really sets up things beautifully and we, as I said, went to all these ballparks and saw all kinds of baseball games.
• 10:50
  Speaker 3: Of course I'm a huge baseball fan and um visited a lot of interesting things rock and roll hall of fame, the pro football hall of fame, greenfield village in in detroit, yeah uh, so very, very cool did you, uh, did you manage to make any personal appearances at great big venues?
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: jack nerad is in the audience.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen throwing out the first pitch somewhere hardly, hardly uh we could have arranged that for you, as everyone else was, so it was fun though.
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: Well, and so tell me about the the trip with the dodge durango srt hellcat well, you might think that's crazy.
• 11:27
  Speaker 3: Right At 710 horsepower, you think that would be a very temperamental vehicle, but it wasn't at all, it was just terrific.
• 11:34
  Speaker 3: I mean, this is a three-row, six-passenger SUV that just happens to have 710 horsepower and goes zero to 60 in three and a half seconds.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 3: all-wheel drive.
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: It has so many electronic aids to launch and all kinds of track stuff that it's just crazy.
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, the vehicle is so much smarter than I am I just can't describe it and yet it was a very docile vehicle, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously we cruised at, you know, 70 or 80, depending on, uh, what the speed limits were in the various places, had a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, when you have 710 horsepower, it's great on those two lanes when you need to do a pass real quick.
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: No, doubt you can do a pass really quick.
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, when you have that kind of horse.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Two questions did you like the tires at any time?
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: and the second not, and I think with all-wheel drive and the launch control you're unlikely to do that, unless you really try to do that.
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: Unless you turn the launch control off.
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: Now I got to ask you what about the gas mileage?
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: A lot of people ask me about that and I think we got something like 16 miles per gallon Really, which I think is pretty darn good yeah for 710 horsepower.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and I assume that it's probably at 70, 80 miles an hour.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: It's cruising at about I don't know 1800 RPM.
• 12:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not turning a lot when you're going that fast because there's a lot left there.
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: I think it has like a 180 or 200-mile-an-hour speedometer.
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: I think the top speed is something over 150 miles an hour or something like that.
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: I didn't come close to that.
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: I was going to say you can validate that then, right.
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not personally.
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  Speaker 4: Not this time around.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Well, so the purpose of this trip with that vehicle, I mean, did you write some big long article about it?
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: What we did was we did reports every day.
• 13:32
  Speaker 3: There are YouTube shorts each day of the trip.
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: So I mean, if you want to recount our trip, you can go to our YouTube channel, the America on the Road YouTube channel, and see that.
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: And I'm in the process of putting together kind of a lengthy compilation of all the video that we collected over the course.
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: This took us about two weeks.
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: We were kind of at the mercy of the baseball schedule because we wanted to see baseball games in each of those Major League Baseball games in each of those towns.
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: So it took us a while, but I think our longest days were about 500 miles each and it was so easy.
• 14:10
  Speaker 3: It was just such an easy cruise in that vehicle.
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: And you'd think that a race car like that, it would be really stiff.
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: But my recollection is no, it's not.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: It's not.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: It's real comfortable.
• 14:20
  Speaker 3: My wife did not like the rumble so much.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: I kind of like just the overall comfort.
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: It's not really noise but the sound that the vehicle makes, because it is that kind of vehicle.
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: But that's the only possible complaint.
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: Great seats inside.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: It has really supportive seats.
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: Like I say, we did a couple 500-mile days with just falling off a log.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: It was so easy.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Six hundred, no sorry, no sorry.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Six speed automatic transmission I think, if I have memory serves, it's a 10 speed, but I could be wrong on that.
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: I was thinking eight I thought it might be an eight speed it might be an eight speed, it's not a six speed.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: I know that yeah, I think it's the same one.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: They put in all the hellcats or the bigger.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it would be the same one that they put in all the hellcats which that's probably an.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: It would be the same one that they put in all the Hellcats which that's probably an 8-speed, you're right.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, I read somewhere that one of the first bring it back moves is to update the Durango and they are going to really push that thing.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: We came back to news that all Durangos going forward in 2026 are going to be V8s.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: They have dropped the V6, which I think is not a bad idea.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, hooray, hooray.
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: You're not the only one who's clapping for that, and I think it's just a great thing.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: I think this is such a cool vehicle.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's got kind of old bones, right.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: It's not the newest vehicle out there.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: But it is just so darn good and with this v8 power and you can get very now various levels of v8 power, uh, for not very much money, I think you can get easily get into a v8 powered version of the durango for, you know, forty, two thousand dollars or something like that, um, which in these days is not bad.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: I think it's a great option for a lot of people these days.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: And you know you never hear about Durangos being recalled.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Just had to say that, but it's true and with all the recalls that we have, rarely I don't even recall a recall for the Dodge Durango.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: I just think it's a solid vehicle.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: You know, there's so many people, jack and I think you'll agree with me that say, oh, we need to update it.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: We need to update it.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe you can, you know, reform some body panels to make it change a little bit on the looks part.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: But if the bones are good, go for it, man.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I agree.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: I mean big manufacturers, right?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Mercedes-benz changes its vehicles every eight or nine years, right, Because changes its vehicles every eight or nine years, right?
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Because those have pretty good bones.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: So why not kind of stick with something that works well, that the factories know how to build, that the workers know how to build, and has tried and true power plants, has tried and true engines?
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: I think it's a terrific thing.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: And Jack if I Go ahead.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: No, you go ahead.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I was just going to say if I were to buy one, I'm not sure that I would buy the SRT Hellcat, but in some ways it's such a bargain I mean you can get into this thing for around $80,000 just kind of all in with that kind of horsepower and with the tech that's in this thing, I mean, and this is a vehicle you can have fun with in so many ways for so many years.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: I just think it's a terrific bargain all the way around.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: And then you go and compare that to a Ford Expedition or a Suburban.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the GMC.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: The.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: GMC, the big boys there, the value, like you say that you're getting for the cost.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I mean those guys are going to run you up totally loaded, like that.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: They're going to be up over $100,000 easy.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I saw one getting into the Cadillacs Yesterday for $90.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Exactly In the dealership.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: I think that to me it's a little bit smaller than that big Suburban and stuff.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: It makes it a lot easier to drive around town.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Well, jack, one of the things that I did want to mention to you you and I both drive new cars every week as test vehicles, and there's so many of them.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: I'm driving one right now.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: That'll go unnamed for this moment, anyway.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: It's a four-cylinder and it's underpowered, and the whole idea behind this I'm positive, although I haven't read that is the fact that they want gas mileage.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, that's fine.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: So what happens is you got a four-cylinder, it's turbocharged okay, so you get 250 horsepower, but it's not enough for a great big SUV, and so they try to save more fuel by having it shift too early, and it goes from first to third and you're wanting the thing to move forward, but now you've got to put more throttle into it, then it starts downshifting and it's just an absolute nightmare to me.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: I run into that absolutely and you know a lot of these vehicles are built to the regulations and built to the fuel economy test, more so than they are built to serve the consumer who's going to drive them for the next five years, right, and I think we see that all the time.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: And I'm really concerned about all these turbocharged engines that we see out there.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: I think you know that's a problem waiting to happen in several years, because I just don't believe those engines are going to be easy to service in the same way that a conventional engine would be over time.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: And I think you guys know about me.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, I keep a vehicle for a long, long time and I like that and I want to be able to do that, and I have some concerns about these.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Well, and you noted me clapping when you said the V8 is back.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And I will tell you and I know that I'm old, I get that, but there is nothing like V8 power Now.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Nothing like V8 power Now.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: The one that you drove is supercharged, I get that, but a regular V8 engine, you can't go wrong with it.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: It's proven technology.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: You never hear it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Well, I can't say never.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Gm has had some problems with some of their V8s, but I will say that you never hear of any engine problems with a standard Hemi that is naturally aspirated and fuel injected, gets decent gas mileage for a V8.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You got power when you need it, right there at your right foot.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Right, and I think you guys know that I have a 2000 Chevy Tahoe.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: We just had to move my daughter from one place to another 200 miles away and that's what we took A 25-year-old V8 power, 5.3 liter V8, ran like a top just terrific 25 years later, and I think that exactly proves what you're talking about, Don.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Jack, it's great to talk to you, as always.
• 20:45
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  Speaker 1: We invite you to delve into Jack's world and it's great to talk to you, jack.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much for being patient with us this morning.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I think it was me and thanks for being patient with me and I look forward to talking to you guys again.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Take care, jack Nerad, ladies and gentlemen, we're kind of running behind, so I think that what we're going to do is take a break here and we're going to see if we can squeeze in Jeff's car culture.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, that's coming up next and also we're going to have I think we're going to try to get in Mars Hurricane Destinations.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: If I'll shut up, we're going to go to the break and I think we're going to get to this in a minute.
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• 22:58
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• 23:03
  Speaker 1: I love lists, especially when you can hear them.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Okay, time now for Jeff's Car Culture.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: What your car's color says about you, you betcha, and here we go.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: So this first one, even though it's just a hold shot there, Mike copper, If you've got a copper vehicle, you're not afraid of getting your hands dirty.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Hard work and character.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Leave that alone.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Next one is red.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Passionate adventure Drivers who are drawn to red cars have fiery passion and won't hesitate to fight for what they believe in.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: They get personally invested in things, but they crave most is adventure.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Fast rides, pulse-pounding experiences and exciting encounters are what makes life worth living when you have a red car.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Next one is black Don, Mysterious and sophisticated.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: That's me, baby.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Black car drivers like to keep to themselves and don't reveal too much.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: They like to retain some mystique.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: These drivers are perfectionists and won't leave a job unfinished, unless it's a margarita glass, if they leave it at all.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Their elegance is sophisticated and can capture a room.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Next one we have a practical planner would be the white vehicle, just like their favorite color.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: White car lovers keep things neat and tidy.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: That'd be Kathy Yep, maybe to extremes.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: You're happy when things are simple and your practicality means that when it comes to group outings, everyone looks to you for the best plan.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Absolutely Okay.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Then we got a blue one.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Blue is calm and collected.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Mike, like the blue ocean, you're too serene and cool on the surface.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: You generally like to take life as it comes, but underneath that surface are unexpected currents.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Really like to take life as it comes, but underneath that surface are unexpected currents.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: You're probably a far deep thinker and you let it on and you to let on and you can't resist the challenge of a good competition.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And then we got green.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Green is the environmental protector oh god, that's a good shot of that little car.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I'd drive that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you would, I would.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: What else would a green car driver be but more passionate about the environment?
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: Yep, everybody knows that You're always doing your best to make sure that you're being sustainable, and you probably love the great outdoors too.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: The next one we have, if you get one of these, you're a yellow, a beam of sunshine.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Your car?
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Yellow car drivers are as bright as their vehicles.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Happy, optimistic when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, you're socially active and the life of every party.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Michael, just like you.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Bobby Sparkman, there you go.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: It's to be expected, though, because you love to make people laugh and you share in their sunshine.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: And then we've got one purple for those that are purple people the artistic expression.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Purple lovers have a real bearing on what they draw attention to, and, having to seek it out, they're just so good at expressing themselves.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: They have impeccable taste, whether it's in friendship, music or art, so you'll never have a hard time finding subjects to discuss.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I painted the front door of my old house with a purple door.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Brown salt of the earth.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I like this car.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Look at that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Brown's your favorite color.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: You're down to earth.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: You treat everyone the same way regardless of social and professional standings and it works for you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: People love your honesty, thank you.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Would you buy and drive that?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I'd drive the car.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Kathy had a brown car, she did.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: You're a dependable person who enjoys the quiet evenings instead of loud parties.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: You're the last one to take off from the stop sign.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I'd drive that car, I would, I would there you go?
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you would.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Perfect, no, I'm sorry.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: No, there you go.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would Perfect.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: No, I'm sorry, brown and green no.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Chevrolet made a lot of trucks and Tahos and Suburbans that color and it was like that brown.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like why my Cutlass was brown?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: It was chestnut brown, it was a Cadillac color.
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, GM was real big into that brown for a while it was really sweet.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Flat ugly brown Dirt brown.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: It was like a root beer.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: What?
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Did you call it Dirt brown, oh dirt brown.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I thought you said duck brown.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, that was the duck yellow, that was the yellow, depending on what end of the duck you're looking at.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: It's jerky there you go your car color tells a lot about you.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know my dad bought a beige Chevrolet.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Celebrity.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: My sister had a beige Camaro.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I had a Champagne is what?
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: it was called.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: A Champagne Cadillac, coupe de Ville, coupe de Ville.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: There you go With a matching vinyl top on it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Man, it was bad to the bone.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I got a tear in my eye with that one.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: I bet you did.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, are we doing Michaels?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: No, we're not.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: He's going to have to wait.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I'll make a note to try to get him in.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: After all of his shenanigans earlier today, that has put us in heart failure.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Don't say that he gets your blood going he gets your blood circulating.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Don't say that Okay, all right.
• 28:06
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