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Drive Thru News #49 - Someone issue *that man* a Citation! · BREAK/FIX the Motorsports & Vehicle Enthusiast Variety Show

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  Uh, yes, I am as ready as I always am.
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  Wait, how's my hair?
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  But anyway, okay, welcome to drive through episode number 49, our monthly recap where
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  we put together a menu of automotive, motorsport, and random car adjacent news.
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  Now let's pull up to window number one.
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  For some automotive news.
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  Did you notice that Tanya already has her popcorn?
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  She is ready for tonight.
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  Is this the Florida Man episode?
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  No, this is better.
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  Tonight, we are bonded in the love of storytelling.
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  Because tonight, tonight, tonight.
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  Whoa, that old Genesis song was the Genesis or Phil Collins.
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  I can't remember.
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  Is there really a difference?
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  Yeah.
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  It's the same lead singer.
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  It's not that different.
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  It's like, is there a difference between Bon Jovi and John Bon Jovi?
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  No, not really.
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  It's the same shit.
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  Yeah.
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  No, I've got a bone to pick with this intro though, because we only pull
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  up to window number one, but I guess it's kind of like when you go through
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  a drive through nowadays, they've got two windows, you really just go
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  to the first one or the second one and that's it, it's just one window.
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  Window number one.
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  Here we go.
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  What are we doing today?
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  Only a few times in the 49 drive throughs that we've had over the
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  last few seasons have we really taken a step into the personal.
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  Again, sharing the love of storytelling.
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  And this month it was almost, and I hate this word, serendipitous that certain
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  articles lended themselves to events that had been going on in my life.
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  It's going to be a little bit of a personal showcase this time.
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  We're going to talk about Buford T.
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  Justice, Roscoe Picotrain, and maybe Judge Dredd in there.
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  You know, I am the law.
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  Judge Jerry Executioner.
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  But I got to back up a little bit because I got to set the stage for our listeners.
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  Now, some of our listeners, May know just before back to school.
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  So somewhere in between the last drive through in this one, my wife broke her
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  ankle pretty bad in three places, surgery.
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  We're talking deck screws and metal plates and weeks and weeks and weeks
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  of recovery and stuff like that.
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  And how did she do it again?
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  She was wrestling a bear, right?
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  She was hiking and got literally stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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  That being said.
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  I am on the road more now every day of every week than
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  I have been in probably years.
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  And you guys already know how I feel about being in traffic.
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  It's a Herculean effort.
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  I'm doing a lot of stuff, running around, all these kinds of things.
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  In the early part of this, I'm trying to get some stuff just done around the house.
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  And I was like, you know what?
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  I'm going to run to Home Depot because I've been driving the minivan for so long.
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  I was like, you know what?
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  My station wagon has been sitting.
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  I'm going to take it into town just to drive it, to get
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  it out of its parking spot.
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  And hopefully the tires aren't square.
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  So I head off into town.
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  It's not like super early in the morning, like contractor early, you
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  know, got to be at Home Depot to pick up my Tesla replacement parts
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  at six in the morning type of deal.
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  It was after 8am.
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  I go there.
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  I get what I need.
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  I'm coming back and there's a major intersection traffic light.
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  There's a wawa there and it's three lanes that can turn left
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  and one that can turn right.
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  So it's actually a really, really wide intersection and I'm the
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  first car in the middle lane and there's a bunch of cars behind me.
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  Beautiful day, absolutely gorgeous weather, had the windows down.
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  I didn't even have the radio on.
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  I was just enjoying that Saturday morning.
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  In my old car, right, the light turns green and I just
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  proceed to take off like normal.
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  I'm not doing anything stupid.
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  I've lived in this town for what feels like forever now.
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  And I had noticed in the two weeks prior that the town was just crawling with cops,
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  you know, in their normal hiding places.
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  And then they're in the bushes and then they're in camouflage
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  and all this kind of thing.
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  And I'm like, you know what?
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  I'm not here to burn the carbon out of the intake.
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  I just, you know, Want to drive the car, drive a manual transmission car and just
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  enjoy this beautiful Saturday morning.
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  So I'm coming home from the home depot, a little short shift for a second gear.
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  I'm going below the speed limit and through traffic.
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  I see behind me, this gray Ford Explorer come.
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  Flying up on just like what the hell so my eyes got a little big and I'm
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  like, okay and All the lights go off.
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  I'm like, what did I do?
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  Am I going too slow?
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  Did something fall off you can imagine what happened
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  next license and registration?
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  I've been through this not my first rodeo I'm, like, excuse me officer.
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  Is there a problem?
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  Is there something I can help you with?
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  He didn't already like that.
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  You know, they start their speech.
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  Please understand that you're under recording and blah, blah, blah.
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  Everything you say and do and blah, blah, blah.
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  Like, okay, great.
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  Yeah, I get it.
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  Your camera's like in my nostril at this point.
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  And he proceeds to tell me that my car was Unnecessarily loud and frightening.
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  Which car was this?
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  This is the Wookiee wagon.
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  My VR6 station wagon.
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  I had to bite my tongue.
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  So I responded and I said, Really?
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  Do you happen to have a decibel meter on your truck?
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  Can you tell me how loud it is?
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  And he looked at me like I was a Cerberus from hell with three heads.
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  I didn't know if he didn't know what I was talking about, but I was flat out like,
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  how can you tell me if my car is too loud?
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  Meanwhile, my blood is like starting to boil.
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  Cause I'm like, this is stupid.
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  What did you pull me over for?
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  Cause I wasn't speeding.
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  I wasn't doing anything dumb.
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  I was in the right lane.
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  No, I didn't do a burnout at the traffic light.
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  I'm minding my own business coming home from Home Depot.
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  Like, what do you want from me?
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  We joke about this all the time because you're a very well bearded man.
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  But how much of this do you think could be profiling because you don't look like
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  the normal demographic in that area?
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  That's what I said.
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  I thought about that.
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  I remember when we were coming home from Texas from CODA and you got
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  stopped, you know, the random check.
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  Checkpoint, I've got a photo evidence to prove it.
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  They frisked you and went all up and down your crotch.
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  Meanwhile, you could have been carrying anything and everything.
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  And you walked through like it was nothing.
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  I look like, you know, the good old boy.
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  I mean, it was beginning of September when this happened to you.
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  And September is a particular month in this country.
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  Now, not saying anything.
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  You look at the old profile pictures and the headshots, My hair is much shorter.
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  I've let my hair grow out.
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  Your beard has grown out a lot.
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  But I have a lot of white in my beard too.
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  So when he came around the corner, I think he was like, Oh, this is older guy.
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  And this little hot rod is scared.
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  And but yes, I did think about that.
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  Being of olive skin.
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  It's like, you know, how much of that does play in, you know, he
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  was blonde haired and blue eyed.
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  I don't know what to say about that.
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  Again, I don't think about things that way.
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  People are people and people do people things and that's that.
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  Move on with life.
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  That's not how the world works.
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  I know, I know, I live in a bubble.
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  I wonder if he's gonna pull over Santa Claus.
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  Oh yeah, Tanya brought that up.
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  She's like, there's another guy with a VR6 GTI running around and it makes noise too.
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  Apparently he looks like Santa Claus.
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  He looks straight up like Santa Claus.
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  Is Santa Claus driving a Mark 4 VR6?
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  Delivering audible treats to all the little boys and girls.
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  Okay, first of all, can you argue as a VR6 owner that the VR6 sounds bad?
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  I mean, it sounds fucking amazing.
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  Thank you.
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  It's one of the best sounding engines of all time.
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  Other than V8s, and then a select few like straight sixes and stuff
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  like that, the VR6 is one of the best sounding motors ever produced.
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  But even at full song, the VR6 is quieter than the Nissan VQ, because those,
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  those, those Three fifties are allowed the infinities and all those, the GTRs
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  and a straight six BMW is really shrill.
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  Like if you want to talk about a startling engine, the VR six is not it.
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  It sounds like a freaking Wookiee, but anyway, I digress.
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  I don't know why he was expecting to get any money out of you.
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  You were driving a 22 year old Volkswagen.
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  It's blood out of a turn up.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  Thank you.
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  Well, what I think he wanted was to get me for something, because I
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  got a loud car, and I got a lowered car, and it's a station wagon.
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  It's not like I'm running around in a Camaro with a roots blower on it, right?
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  It's just a freaking 20 year old Volkswagen, who cares?
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  So then he proceeds to tell me, well, you know, you have a taillight out.
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  Oh, the old taillight trick, right?
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  Did he smash it with a nightstick before he came up?
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  Man, if he had done that, that would have hurt.
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  Cause I got European taillights, but Tanya had actually told me and
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  I forgot like a week or two prior.
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  She's like, you're right rear taillights out.
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  Yeah, I got to change that.
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  But in the midst of everything that's been happening at home,
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  I totally forgot about it.
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  Okay.
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  I need a brake light.
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  Thank you, officer.
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  I didn't know.
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  You know, I never get to see the back of my car.
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  So I'm trying to be nice because he's already pissed me
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  off with this exhaust thing.
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  Right?
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  So license registration goes back to the car.
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  He's back there for a while.
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  I'm like, ah, God damn it.
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  What kind of ticket is he gonna hit me with?
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  Again, I didn't do anything and he didn't say I was speeding because I wasn't.
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  I was actually under the speed limit.
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  Like I said, I knew they had been crawling and they were all kind of in the area.
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  He didn't have a gun on you anyway.
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  There's no way he He comes back and he's like, I have two pieces of paper for you.
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  I'm like, oh, geez, Louise, what the hell is this?
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  He's like, well, the first one's a repair order for your taillight.
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  You need to take it somewhere and have it fixed.
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  I'm like, I can fucking fix it at home.
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  And I sort of said that, but not in that way.
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  I said, okay, I'm going to go home.
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  It's going to take me five minutes.
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  We really have to go through this process.
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  He's like, yep.
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  I was like, okay, that's how he's going to get under my skin.
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  because he can't give me a speeding ticket because again, I wasn't speeding.
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  Then he gives me another warning on top of that.
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  And this is what really just irked me and pissed me off.
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  He starts off by saying, you know, I, I know Volkswagen because you know, this and
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  that, and it shouldn't be unnecessarily loud like this and blah, blah, blah.
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  And he goes, you know, your muffler cut off.
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  And I'm like, no, no, no, no.
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  So you can look under my car.
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  I have a catalytic converter.
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  a resonator and a full exhaust.
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  I, I don't understand what you're talking about.
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  And he's like, well, I'm not looking, I'm not looking under your car.
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  I'm like, I'm telling you, it's all there.
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  Well, that's not the exhaust that this car came with.
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  And I said, okay, well the original one rotted off the car and this
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  is what I put on to replace it.
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  And what's funny is I went back afterwards because I kind of started doubting myself.
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  I bought my exhaust from Tectonics.
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  It's DOT approved as a replacement exhaust.
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  So in my head, I'm like, again, running these scenarios and I said to him, where
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  am I supposed to get a replacement exhaust for an almost 22 year old Volkswagen?
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  And he's like, well, that's not my problem.
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  Okay, well now you're just an asshole, right?
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  And I'm like, fine, I'll just live with that.
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  And mind you, when I was pulled over, I let it sit in idle and it just sits there
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  and it's not like it lopes like a V8.
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  It's pretty subdued at idle.
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  Like you got to kind of go, Oh, is it running?
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  You mean you can have a conversation with a police officer at idle?
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  A hundred percent.
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  But what really got under my skin, you know, after he's
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  like, you know, have a nice day.
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  And I was like, you know, thanks again for letting me know about the brake light.
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  So I sit there and I read this warning and I'm going to read it to
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  you exactly the way it's written.
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  Motor vehicle not equipped with exhaust muffler system.
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  Unlawful use of muffler cutoff.
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  Which he didn't check to see if that's even accurate.
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  You told him to look under the car, he refused to.
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  And if this was a TRO, or repair order, first of all I'd get a
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  lawyer involved, because there's a bunch of things on there.
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  On this particular warning that are incorrect that first
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  would get this thrown out.
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  But second of all, the first mechanic that puts the car in the air goes,
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  what the hell are you talking about?
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  There's a cat, there's a resonator, and there's a muffler with a tip.
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  There's no cutoff.
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  There's no bypass.
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  This is a DOT approved replacement exhaust for my car.
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  It's what I could afford to buy.
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  And it's what I put on there.
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  It's not my problem if it's louder and you can't tell me
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  what the definition of loud is.
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  How about the fact that it passes emissions every two years, every year.
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  And that's the other thing I thought was.
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  grace.
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  I got together wit called one of our club me cop and I told him the sto man, that
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  guy was fishing know, he was a young cop, academy, you know, all th and he goes,
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  you're lucky with the repair order for the fact that he's got yo these things,
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  he's like, hold up and it'd be a nuis For everybody, because I'd fight this, this is
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  ridiculous, and I'm not running straight pipes, I'm not running a side pipe with
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  no mufflers or anything ridiculous.
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  His badge number and name is on the paper?
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  Oh yeah, it's all here.
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  I would call, and I would talk to his superior, and I would
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  file a complaint for harassment.
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  I'm not that type of person, but it pisses me off, but the story continues.
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  Me and my big dooly went, ah!
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  Yeah, and the Mustang guy coming from the cars and coffee went by
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  at 70 mile an hour with his open pipe, so that wasn't a problem.
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  I'm in the little German car.
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  Fur and car don't belong around here.
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  You know, I'm, I'm like one of two in the area.
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  Yeah, I have the other one.
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  So I go over to the inspection place, which was interesting to
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  even find a place that would do a safety equipment repair order.
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  Right.
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  So that was the whole thing.
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  So I get over there and it was recommended by one of our sponsors, you know,
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  Hey, this is where we take our cars.
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  Don't bother with the local Firestone or with the whatever, this and that.
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  So I go over there early on a Monday morning and I walk in the door and
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  this lady looks at me and I look at her and she's like, what do you want?
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  And it's that voice, like the caseworker in Beetlejuice.
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  She's been smoking a pack a day for the last 30 years.
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  What's your problem?
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  Why are you here?
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  We just get to chit chatting a little bit and I said, look, I got this repair order.
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  That's for the taillight.
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  I hate to bother you guys with this, but it's a bother to me as well.
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  And she's like, yeah, these cops, you know, blah, blah, blah.
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  They've been on the war path the last two weeks.
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  You know, they've been putting up blockades throughout the county,
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  pulling people over, looking at their license plates and
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  registrations and this and that.
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  And I was like, wow, I didn't know that, but I knew something was up.
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  We get to talking a little bit more.
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  And I said, You know, it could have been worse.
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  And she goes, well, what do you mean?
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  And I said, you know, he gave me a warning for my exhaust.
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  She goes, I didn't even hear you come in.
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  What kind of car do you have?
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  I'm like, okay.
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  And she goes, you're telling me he was scared?
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  He was scared of your car?
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  I need to see this thing.
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  And I'm like, okay.
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  So we walk outside.
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  She immediately starts laughing.
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  And she's not laughing because she is laughing at my car.
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  Laughing at the situation.
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  Because now she recognizes the situation, right?
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  She's like, you gotta be kidding me.
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  So she looks at my car and she's like, you know, this is really nice.
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  You should take it to shows and like blah, blah, blah.
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  And I said, you know, it's just my Sunday grocery getter.
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  Like literally, I just like driving it around town and on the B roads and,
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  you know, minding my own business.
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  Another guy from the shop shows up and, you know, we chit chat
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  and talking about the car and this and that and got the hood open.
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  And she's looking at all the things I've done to it.
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  You know, she's a car gal.
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  And she starts telling me about.
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  I can't believe you'd get pulled over in this and blah, blah.
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  It's the way she worded it.
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  She was going off about her Mustang that she built.
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  She's apparently got a Camaro as well.
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  Some pro street car.
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  She's like, God forbid they find me.
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  My car's a bright red and super loud.
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  And she's like, I'm going to jail.
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  Right?
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  So we're just BS in a little bit.
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  And then she's like, all right, I need to hear how scary your car is.
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  I fired up.
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  She's got this big grin on her face.
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  Was that it?
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  Blip the throttle to like 2, 500 and then she goes, Yeah, that sounds good!
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  I'm like, oh my god.
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  Real country girl, right?
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  And I mean, I was eating it up.
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  And she's like, I'll be happy to sign your paper.
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  Get on out of here and have yourself a blessed day.
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  You have made my day.
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  And she just started laughing.
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  She's like, this is unreal, right?
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  Needless to say, we got all that taken care of.
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  But I was just like, come on, man.
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  Seriously?
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  And I've only had this happen to me one other time.
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  And this was in my old drape five Audi coupe.
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  And I had a full exhaust on that too, but it would reverberate off the
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  buildings in like downtown Baltimore.
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  And I went to go pick up my wife and I got pulled over like within a block.
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  Cause they were like, why are you street racing?
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  And it was another one of these, I was like.
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  Dude, I'm like a block from power plant live.
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  Like, where am I going to go?
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  The streets are as wide as a Fiat 500.
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  Like, are you kidding me?
• 15:44
  That time they tried to get me on a front license plate for that car,
• 15:48
  but I literally had the plate on the passenger floor with a broken bracket.
• 15:52
  I'm like, it broke off the car earlier today.
• 15:54
  Like I need to order the part.
• 15:56
  So they sort of like, let me go, but it was all like, you know,
• 15:58
  lights and sirens and we're good.
• 16:01
  You know, I'm like, come on, man, I'm not trying to be a public nuisance here.
• 16:05
  I'm really not.
• 16:06
  I'm too old for this stuff.
• 16:08
  But Tanya, you know, as we were talking about this and discussing this and kind of
• 16:11
  peeling it apart, you discovered something new and it's in the news now about some
• 16:15
  changes that are happening in our fair state with respect to the sound of cars.
• 16:20
  Yeah, I'm in trouble because the MoCo is trying to get bill passed that
• 16:23
  they're going to put noise cameras up.
• 16:25
  throughout good old MoCo, Maryland.
• 16:27
  Can you believe that?
• 16:27
  Basically a speed camera, but sound.
• 16:30
  Yeah.
• 16:30
  With a decibel meter on it.
• 16:31
  They're going to catch you at the speed of sound.
• 16:33
  Take your phone.
• 16:33
  Your decibels are too high.
• 16:36
  So what's going to happen is we're all going to rev and then
• 16:40
  drop it in neutral when we all know where the sound cameras are.
• 16:43
  And we're going to coast by and then we're going to downshift and floor it.
• 16:46
  All your experience at Lime Rock has paid off.
• 16:50
  That is so true because people actually do that where the sound meters are.
• 16:53
  And I've heard they do that at Summit Point and some other places as well.
• 16:56
  So, I mean, as racers, we kind of know those games or get the dryer vent, more
• 17:00
  Home Depot parts and turn it away so that the sound is, you know, pushing
• 17:04
  the other with a Doppler effect.
• 17:06
  I literally did this in town coming back yesterday through the car in neutral.
• 17:09
  Cause I was like, Passing a cop with his window open and I like threw the
• 17:12
  car in neutral and like ghosted by him.
• 17:15
  Because of all of this, your experience hearing the Montgomery County thing,
• 17:19
  like all flashed in my head and I was like, crap, not that I was doing
• 17:23
  anything because I could have just gone by at the speed I was going.
• 17:26
  It was, it wouldn't have been anything, but I was like, I'm not taking a chance.
• 17:28
  Yeah.
• 17:29
  Yeah.
• 17:30
  Not right now.
• 17:31
  Maryland is just a great place to live.
• 17:32
  It's going the way of California.
• 17:34
  I go back to that article from May where we talked about, you know, how loud
• 17:39
  exhausts are attractive to people with criminal minds and psychopaths and this
• 17:44
  and that, but it really got in my head.
• 17:45
  I haven't driven the car since, and I shouldn't feel guilty to drive my own car.
• 17:50
  I have regular plates on it.
• 17:52
  I have a legal DOT approved exhaust.
• 17:54
  Make a copy of your paperwork and put it in the car.
• 17:57
  You know what I do keep in the car now is a spare taillight bulb.
• 17:59
  I was gonna say, the other lesson learned here is have a spare
• 18:02
  taillight bulb in your car.
• 18:03
  You also might want to get a decibel meter.
• 18:05
  I do actually want to get one, which you actually can download.
• 18:08
  There's some apps you can just download on your phone.
• 18:09
  Yeah, I would, I would do that.
• 18:11
  And I'm curious.
• 18:12
  I would almost look up the ones that the cops Allegedly use I
• 18:15
  don't I would have the same model.
• 18:17
  I just have it sit in the car.
• 18:18
  Well look officer This says it was at 95.
• 18:21
  What's the legal limit 102?
• 18:23
  Oh, you'd be in violation at 95 guarantee Is it posted anywhere?
• 18:27
  I mean i'm guaranteeing every state is different But what scares me is normally
• 18:31
  stuff like this comes from california first and it's weird that it's happening
• 18:35
  here on the east coast Oh, no, it's not.
• 18:37
  It's montgomery county.
• 18:37
  This is normal Well, what i'm saying is if other states buy into this Now
• 18:41
  suddenly it's like Switzerland where the cars have to be whisper quiet.
• 18:45
  So there's been a noise camera in Laurel for, I don't know, decades now.
• 18:49
  And how many times have you blown by it at wide open throttle?
• 18:52
  Never, because I know it's there, but there's also speed
• 18:54
  cameras on that same road.
• 18:55
  But it's on a road that's Directly with like apartments on either side.
• 19:00
  I understand in that area there was probably some dipshit that kept doing
• 19:04
  burnouts, waking everybody up at all hours of the night and they did that.
• 19:08
  So if they want to put noise cameras in a very tight residential area, I
• 19:12
  don't like it but I'd understand it.
• 19:14
  If it's on like an open road that you're not bothering anybody, that's BS.
• 19:19
  Instead of catching the criminals, they just punish everybody else.
• 19:22
  Well, that's the problem.
• 19:23
  And there it is.
• 19:24
  And that's something I noticed being in traffic.
• 19:26
  And it's something that I thought is super illegal.
• 19:30
  And maybe I'm wrong, but please correct me.
• 19:32
  I'm seeing a lot more tinted windshields.
• 19:36
  Yes.
• 19:36
  And I'm not talking just like, oh, we put like a foot and a half of black.
• 19:41
  across the top.
• 19:42
  I've seen two tone where it's super dark limo tint on the first half
• 19:45
  and then it's dark on the bottom.
• 19:47
  And then I've seen like all black where you can't see the
• 19:49
  driver and it's super obvious.
• 19:52
  If I can't see you, not that I really want to see you in your car, but if I
• 19:56
  can't see you, your glass is tinted.
• 19:57
  Some of them are reflective on top of that, like polarizing, which is really
• 20:01
  distracting in your rear view mirror.
• 20:03
  And I'm like, that's illegal everywhere in the United It's like, how are
• 20:07
  those folks not getting pulled over?
• 20:10
  But you're worried about me in my Volkswagen, which at cruise
• 20:14
  altitude doing 50 miles an hour, the car gets really quiet.
• 20:18
  So I'm going to say low hanging fruit.
• 20:21
  You are the lower chance of causing a headache in that guy's day.
• 20:25
  The person with willing to do the tenant windows is probably.
• 20:28
  Doing some other nefarious things and you're just JoBlo citizen
• 20:32
  just trying to putt around.
• 20:33
  I think you're, you were low hanging fruit.
• 20:35
  Why waste the time to pull me over?
• 20:36
  Especially if I wasn't speeding.
• 20:38
  Come on.
• 20:38
  Like what's the point?
• 20:39
  He saw that brake light after you pulled over.
• 20:41
  That's true too.
• 20:42
  Well, if you were in a light though, he may have saw it at the light.
• 20:45
  So that's the thing about that traffic light.
• 20:47
  I couldn't see him because I'm always kind of Scanning and looking around,
• 20:50
  make sure, you know, some dump truck isn't coming without breaks.
• 20:53
  But he was so far back in the line that I didn't see him.
• 20:57
  He was grasping at straws the whole time.
• 20:59
  Right.
• 20:59
  And he heard me because I was the first in line of the three cars as we're
• 21:04
  turning and I stuck out like a sore thumb.
• 21:06
  'cause it's like, oh, look at that car.
• 21:08
  That goodness.
• 21:09
  But he probably thought I was gonna do a smoky burnout and run
• 21:12
  down at a hundred miles an hour.
• 21:13
  But you know, what else is funny is not even a half mile down from that
• 21:17
  intersection is the police barracks.
• 21:19
  I'm not an idiot.
• 21:20
  I'm not going to go blow and buy there at a hundred miles an hour.
• 21:23
  Like that's literally the dumbest thing you could do.
• 21:25
  I would have gone straight there.
• 21:27
  I'd have pulled right in there with my little notice and said, I want to file
• 21:30
  a complaint against officer Buford here.
• 21:32
  Well, and that's what our friend said.
• 21:34
  The former cop, he's like, go change your bulb and drive right
• 21:37
  over to the barracks right now and get them to sign the paperwork.
• 21:39
  And I was like, you know what?
• 21:40
  I'm not going to tempt fate.
• 21:41
  that this guy is gonna be there.
• 21:44
  I just don't want to do it.
• 21:45
  What would he have gotten you on?
• 21:46
  He can get you on a lot on that car, technically.
• 21:49
  Lowered suspension, blah, blah, blah.
• 21:52
  Oh, all these stupid marijuana laws that I don't have to deal with.
• 21:54
  That's right.
• 21:55
  Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:55
  Just wait.
• 21:56
  It'll come to you too.
• 21:57
  On rural Virginia.
• 21:59
  But let's face it.
• 22:00
  It could be worse.
• 22:01
  Have you heard about all the tunes and the tuners and all the shops?
• 22:06
  That are closing.
• 22:07
  Cobb just got charged that they owe like 2.9 million, almost 3
• 22:11
  million or something like that.
• 22:12
  3 million for selling.
• 22:13
  Basically what the EPA is qualifying as emissions defeat devices.
• 22:18
  Are they wrong?
• 22:19
  No.
• 22:20
  No.
• 22:21
  The way tunes are designed today, I would say there's more of that going on
• 22:25
  because like Brad's car and my car, or even your car, Tanya, you get a chip.
• 22:29
  It's not really designed to change emissions.
• 22:32
  It's designed to remap, let's say the VE table, the volumetric efficiency table
• 22:36
  or the timing table or whatever it is.
• 22:38
  Give you a little bit more fuel, a little bit more rev or whatever it is,
• 22:41
  but they weren't going in there and systematically turning off functions
• 22:45
  of the engine to bypass, let's say particulate filters or exhaust gas
• 22:48
  recirculation or things like that.
• 22:50
  So I understand where does this end?
• 22:52
  I'm sure there's a cutoff where they'll retroactively say, okay, well if you got a
• 22:56
  tune on a 20 year old car, we don't care.
• 22:58
  This is clinching down on the aftermarket.
• 23:00
  If you pass emissions with a tune today on a modern car, let's say it's a Subaru
• 23:06
  or a Volkswagen or a Mazda or whatever.
• 23:08
  If you pass, does it matter?
• 23:10
  Like how are the drivers and the owners going to suffer from
• 23:14
  what Cobb is going through?
• 23:15
  Like what's the butterfly effect of this?
• 23:17
  I'm just dumbfounded.
• 23:18
  I don't even know what to say about this.
• 23:20
  If that wasn't bad enough and you were talking about, you know,
• 23:23
  we're all here in the DMV together suffering equally in some ways.
• 23:26
  There are worse states.
• 23:27
  No doubt.
• 23:28
  Ours don't even make the list of the worst states to be a car owner in.
• 23:32
  Well, I know number one is California.
• 23:34
  Oh, 100 percent.
• 23:35
  My guess is Colorado is another.
• 23:37
  Oh, it sucks to be in Washington D.
• 23:39
  C.
• 23:39
  owning a car.
• 23:40
  D.
• 23:41
  C.
• 23:41
  didn't make the list either.
• 23:42
  We won't do the whole Letterman thing.
• 23:44
  Check this out.
• 23:45
  Here's the surprise ones to me.
• 23:47
  New Mexico and Arkansas.
• 23:49
  Alaska, that's sort of obvious.
• 23:51
  Brad, you're 100 percent right.
• 23:52
  Colorado's on that list.
• 23:53
  Oregon's on that list too.
• 23:55
  California's on that list.
• 23:57
  You've got Georgia, Nevada, and tied for third, Florida.
• 24:02
  I disagree.
• 24:02
  Florida is surprising to me.
• 24:04
  But the things that they include like fuel costs and car insurance,
• 24:07
  I was thinking, you know, pivoting from our last discussion, I was
• 24:10
  thinking it'd be more on like the, like the EPA and the restrictions.
• 24:14
  This isn't just registration fees, right?
• 24:16
  This is the most expensive states in the country to own a car today.
• 24:20
  Okay.
• 24:20
  Cause I was going to call BS because Texas should not like Maryland can't
• 24:24
  not be on this list of Texas is there.
• 24:26
  I know how much registration was, but.
• 24:28
  Per year in Texas and Maryland has now exceeded that.
• 24:31
  Well, I'm glad you brought that up because I had to renew
• 24:34
  the registration on the Jeep.
• 24:36
  I got to tell you, it is, it was probably 70%.
• 24:40
  It is a 58 percent increase over two years ago.
• 24:44
  5, 000 pound vehicles in this state, 187 for two years.
• 24:48
  And a lot of people are going, Oh, compared to my state, that's cheap.
• 24:51
  California, man, like thousand dollars.
• 24:53
  I've heard stories and stuff.
• 24:55
  And there's other places that are super cheap where it's like Ohio.
• 24:57
  And it's like 40 bucks to register your car kind of deal.
• 24:59
  But when you go from 187, which was already a price increase
• 25:03
  from when it was one foot.
• 25:04
  49 and before that it was like 127 and whatever, it's jumped through
• 25:09
  COVID and now 323 for two years.
• 25:13
  It was really hilarious as I got the letter in the mail from the DMV, I walk
• 25:17
  in and I'm talking to my wife and I said, this is the most expensive sticker
• 25:20
  I've ever put on anything in my life.
• 25:22
  Cause that's all you get.
• 25:23
  No, you get a little three by three part.
• 25:25
  That piece of paper is worth it.
• 25:27
  You get a sticker that says, Oh, you'll get pulled over for something else.
• 25:33
  And I sort of wondered to myself like why all this stuff isn't
• 25:35
  digital, why it even matters.
• 25:37
  There should be almost a barcode on your tag that they could
• 25:41
  just scan and look up and see if your registration is up to date.
• 25:44
  You know, it's almost like they can pull your plates.
• 25:47
  It's almost like they can just read your tag and look up information
• 25:50
  about you in the DMV system.
• 25:52
  No.
• 25:53
  They can't do that now?
• 25:54
  This is Star Trek, dude.
• 25:55
  technology you're talking about.
• 25:57
  Oh my god, beam me up Scotty.
• 25:58
  Although I do kind of like being a look at people and being like, look at this hasn't
• 26:02
  renewed his tags in like five years.
• 26:04
  But again, that guy's not getting pulled over.
• 26:06
  No getting pulled over for having a one out of your two
• 26:09
  license plate lights burned out.
• 26:11
  because they were 20 years old.
• 26:12
  That happened to me another time too.
• 26:14
  Luckily, I didn't get a repair order for that one, but I was like,
• 26:16
  again, thank you for telling me.
• 26:18
  Okay.
• 26:19
  Is it really that important?
• 26:20
  No.
• 26:21
  Okay.
• 26:21
  Meanwhile, what about that guy who just drove by?
• 26:23
  His muffler's dragging on the ground.
• 26:25
  Hold on.
• 26:25
  Hold on.
• 26:25
  Wait, wait, wait.
• 26:26
  I heard a Mustang.
• 26:27
  Are there sirens?
• 26:28
  Oh, come on.
• 26:30
  What about every Altima on the road?
• 26:32
  Please.
• 26:32
  That's unfair.
• 26:33
  You're targeting.
• 26:34
  Not to get political, but how many of these states are liberal run states?
• 26:37
  Our fair state is questionable every other day of the week.
• 26:39
  So I don't know.
• 26:40
  But this continues.
• 26:41
  Okay.
• 26:41
  This continues.
• 26:42
  So we got more.
• 26:43
  Oh, you're, you're kidding.
• 26:45
  Oh, wait, there's more.
• 26:47
  I love this.
• 26:48
  So I told you it's personal.
• 26:50
  This whole showcases the stories of what's happened over the last month.
• 26:53
  Look at this guy.
• 26:53
  He doesn't drive anywhere.
• 26:55
  And then like he's driving somewhere for like, Two weeks
• 26:57
  and look at all these stories.
• 26:59
  All right, what's next?
• 26:59
  So I'm back in the minivan driving the kids to the city, all
• 27:02
  this kind of stuff for school.
• 27:03
  And I decided I'm going to work remote.
• 27:06
  I'm going to be closer to school because if something happens when the
• 27:08
  kids get sick, I don't want to have to drive all the way and get stuck in
• 27:11
  traffic and all this kind of thing.
• 27:12
  So I'm going to do my homework.
• 27:14
  And I did way too much like I do when I buy anything.
• 27:17
  I'm going to buy myself.
• 27:19
  an electric scooter to get around town.
• 27:21
  It's going to be super cool.
• 27:22
  So let me tell you, it's really difficult to find adult rated EV scooters that
• 27:28
  A, are the right weight requirement, balance of power, range, and then speed.
• 27:35
  So those are sort of like the four categories, right?
• 27:37
  You have to look at, and it started reminding me of like,
• 27:39
  if I was purchasing an electric vehicle, I got to look at weight.
• 27:42
  I got to look at speed.
• 27:43
  I got to look at range, anxiety is a thing on the scooter as well.
• 27:47
  Let me tell you.
• 27:48
  I ended up buying a Varla Wasp, which comes in as the lightest adult scooter.
• 27:54
  It doesn't have the highest top speed, but it has decent range,
• 27:57
  but lightest at 32 pounds.
• 28:00
  The ones that like really haul ass, like a Lime or a Spin or some of the
• 28:05
  other ones you see in the city, those things can weigh upwards of 50, 60,
• 28:10
  80, 100 pounds, because the faster you go, the more battery you need.
• 28:14
  And if you're running dual motor, which mine is not, mine's a single 350 watt
• 28:18
  motor, it can save all that weight.
• 28:20
  But the problem is it's not very fast.
• 28:23
  So again, I'm in the city.
• 28:24
  It's pretty hilly.
• 28:25
  And what I noticed right away was I either have to do the old school, like
• 28:29
  you're on a skateboard and put out one leg and give it some help going
• 28:32
  up the hills, or I have to walk it.
• 28:34
  It just doesn't have the torque to carry me in my backpack up a hill.
• 28:37
  So that gave me pause.
• 28:39
  After like the first day of riding and I said, you know, yeah,
• 28:42
  there's some bike lanes here.
• 28:43
  They're really out in traffic and the people here are a little bit crazy.
• 28:47
  And I just don't feel comfortable.
• 28:49
  And the bike path doesn't go all the way to where I'm going.
• 28:51
  I have to get up on the sidewalk.
• 28:53
  I have to get out of the way, like all these kinds of things.
• 28:55
  I figured I'll try to ride the sidewalk when I can.
• 28:57
  And if I see people, especially people with dogs, I dismount, I get off.
• 29:01
  I put the scooter on the grass and I just walk along the sidewalk,
• 29:03
  like I'm walking and I just push it.
• 29:05
  And I'm trying to be very respectful of all the pedestrians.
• 29:07
  That said, I was coming back one afternoon, I'm like by myself, and I'm
• 29:12
  just cruising down on the sidewalk, and this young girl passed me on one
• 29:16
  of the big scooters, I mean, she just blew by me, like I wasn't moving,
• 29:19
  and then when I say, this thing is slow, it's about as fast as a car.
• 29:22
  As a runner, it does like eight or nine miles an hour.
• 29:25
  If I'm going downhill pushed by a Metro bus, it could probably hit its top
• 29:30
  speed of 15 or whatever it's supposed to do, but it doesn't do that on the
• 29:33
  regular does like eight or nine mile an hour, which is faster than walking,
• 29:36
  but it's whatever, what I realized was when I tried to use the bike lane.
• 29:40
  I was too slow and the bicyclists were pissed and I was just in their way
• 29:44
  and it was just, this is ridiculous.
• 29:45
  Again, I'm coming home one afternoon, I'm by myself and then I see
• 29:49
  this little old lady and she's got her cane 50 feet from her.
• 29:52
  I dismount and I just start walking and I have the scooter in the grass and
• 29:55
  she gets in the middle of the sidewalk and she gets as big as she can and
• 29:59
  she starts shaking her finger at me.
• 30:01
  And she starts yelling at me and she was like let me tell you I've had enough.
• 30:06
  I've had enough of these scooters and da da da and the bicyclists and the
• 30:09
  bicyclists should be all be put in jail and blah blah blah and I was like yes
• 30:13
  ma'am yes ma'am I'm so sorry yes ma'am.
• 30:16
  I would have exploded her ass.
• 30:17
  Oh she went off and she went off and so I said I understand but I dismounted from
• 30:23
  the sidewalk and now I am walking and you are blocking me you're on my side.
• 30:27
  Side of the sidewalk.
• 30:28
  She said, there is no side to the sidewalk.
• 30:30
  This is my sidewalk and I'm gonna walk here.
• 30:33
  And I'm like, well damn.
• 30:34
  Okay.
• 30:34
  You own the town.
• 30:36
  Apparently she must have been the mayor or something.
• 30:37
  Right?
• 30:38
  At 97 years old, that would've infuriated me more.
• 30:41
  I don't need to get into a fight with anybody, just like, I don't want to
• 30:44
  get into an argument with the cop.
• 30:46
  It's a Danny Glover moment.
• 30:48
  You're like, I'm too old for this.
• 30:49
  And as soon as I part ways with you, I'm never going to see
• 30:52
  you again and I don't care.
• 30:53
  That's why I told her to go F herself and kept going because
• 30:56
  I've never seen her again.
• 30:57
  Then it became like this political rant and I'm like, ma'am, I have to go.
• 31:01
  I could care less.
• 31:02
  You stayed way longer than I ever would have.
• 31:04
  I don't even know if I would have said anything to her.
• 31:06
  I would have just kept going.
• 31:07
  I would have ignored her.
• 31:08
  She'd have been nothing to me.
• 31:09
  I guess.
• 31:10
  I just don't need anybody reporting me or, oh, there's a guy running
• 31:13
  around and, you know, he looks like.
• 31:16
  Newsflash, they're gonna report you anyway, you don't look like them.
• 31:19
  It's true.
• 31:20
  You know, Tanya brought up a good point.
• 31:21
  She was like, it's not always legal everywhere to ride
• 31:24
  the scooter on the sidewalk.
• 31:26
  And I noticed on the bigger ones, the rental ones, it literally says
• 31:30
  on the base plate where you stand, it says, do not ride on the sidewalk.
• 31:33
  And I'm like, I get it because those things haul ass.
• 31:35
  They do like 30 miles an hour, right?
• 31:37
  And you know who rides them on the sidewalk?
• 31:39
  Everybody that rents one safer.
• 31:42
  Exactly.
• 31:42
  It is.
• 31:43
  And the old lady did say, she's going, I understand that you
• 31:46
  don't want to get hit by a car.
• 31:47
  And I'm like, okay, let's just stop there for a moment.
• 31:50
  And that is true.
• 31:51
  I am fearful to use the bike lane, even if it's available,
• 31:54
  because again, it is too slow.
• 31:56
  And I don't want to cause a bicyclist to have an issue because they are
• 32:00
  going faster than me because they're capable of going faster than me.
• 32:03
  But I've noticed though everybody with a dog that takes the time to say good
• 32:08
  morning or hello or whatever has been like oh thank you so much for not scaring
• 32:12
  my dog because you see the dogs get all antsy they don't even like the cars in
• 32:16
  the city let alone the scooters everybody else I'll just ride along and they're
• 32:20
  like good morning hello and it's like you know this happy middle America type
• 32:24
  of neighborhood it's super weird like I'm living in this bubble that I just
• 32:28
  don't understand and it's like I don't know I just can't put up with the whole
• 32:31
  being yelled at by everybody I guess the bigger point is it's like some people
• 32:34
  respect the bicyclists and the scooters.
• 32:36
  I will say that I have seen some crazy stuff from the bike messengers
• 32:40
  because they do still exist in the city with their fixed gear
• 32:43
  bikes and they just blow through intersections and they could care less.
• 32:46
  And I'm like, wow, that's brave.
• 32:48
  That's the word I'm going to use for it.
• 32:50
  But I'm like, uh, okay.
• 32:52
  What really gave me pause about all this, and I'm still riding the scooter,
• 32:55
  I don't really care, and I ride on the sidewalk, and I tell you what,
• 32:57
  there's this one kid every day, dude, he meanders down the sidewalk, and I
• 33:00
  literally have to yell to him, Eyes up!
• 33:03
  Eyes up!
• 33:03
  He's just gonna run into me, not because I'm trying to run into
• 33:06
  him, because he's not looking, he's playing Pokemon Go or something.
• 33:09
  But I fear for him.
• 33:11
  I fear for myself, maybe some of the other people, because there's an article
• 33:14
  that came out recently from the NHTSA addressing the bigness of the vehicles,
• 33:20
  especially trucks and SUV, and they're trying to, I guess, trim the fat.
• 33:24
  But I really want to know what the definition of a quote
• 33:27
  unquote excessively SUV is.
• 33:30
  Where do we draw the line on that?
• 33:32
  Well, it's the same definition as excessively loud, right?
• 33:35
  In Brad's perspective, he doesn't think any of them are excessively tall.
• 33:39
  From my perspective, when the headlight is at the height of my head, I'm
• 33:43
  sorry, that is excessively tall.
• 33:46
  Well, yeah.
• 33:46
  If you're standing outside the vehicle, the headlights or the, or the bumper
• 33:50
  is at your head, that's too tall.
• 33:51
  Yes.
• 33:52
  I agree.
• 33:52
  You're not a Mack truck.
• 33:53
  You're not off roading in the bush.
• 33:55
  Yeah.
• 33:56
  You don't need a eight inch lift.
• 33:58
  With 42 inch tires on your F three 50, it's unnecessary.
• 34:02
  I love those trucks though.
• 34:03
  And then they have a 12 inch drop on their trailer hitch because they're
• 34:06
  too tall to actually tow anything.
• 34:09
  So they can tow their mulch trail.
• 34:10
  No, cause the guy's five foot nothing and he can't get in.
• 34:13
  Or he can't get it up either.
• 34:15
  Going back to what we were talking about with the cop.
• 34:18
  I've never seen one of these bro dozers pulled over before.
• 34:21
  I had one behind me even today.
• 34:22
  F 150 that's been lifted, what looks like a foot, and the tires are sticking
• 34:26
  out eight inches on either side.
• 34:28
  Which is also illegal in Maryland.
• 34:30
  The windshield is pitch black, and then he's blowing diesel
• 34:33
  smoke, rolling coal out stacks, and yet I got pulled over, right?
• 34:37
  And I'm not trying to play the victim here, but I'm like, really?
• 34:40
  That's okay?
• 34:41
  That's cool?
• 34:41
  And he's loud because those diesels aren't working.
• 34:44
  How many shotguns did you see in his gun rack?
• 34:46
  What's funny about all this is I never really took it seriously until I became
• 34:52
  like more of a hardcore let's say pedestrian everyday in the city and
• 34:56
  really like being involved in traffic.
• 34:58
  When you're in a car you're sort of protected you don't think about
• 35:00
  yeah there's a brodozer but when you're on a scooter doing like
• 35:03
  Eight and one goes by you and kind of like nearly knocks you over.
• 35:07
  You're just like, you have a pucker moment on both sides of your body.
• 35:11
  That is pretty incredible.
• 35:12
  But what I also noticed that I never considered is how scary EVs can be.
• 35:18
  So it goes back to what we were talking about before the cars need
• 35:21
  to make a little bit of noise.
• 35:23
  Because you could have a Prius or a Tesla just creep up on you.
• 35:27
  I had an electric BMW following me up a hill on a side street
• 35:31
  that was like only a car wide.
• 35:33
  I didn't know he was back there until I heard like the crack of
• 35:37
  the tire roll over like a twig.
• 35:39
  And I was like, Oh my God, there's something behind me.
• 35:41
  And he had been there a while.
• 35:42
  And then as soon as I realized that he was there, I got out of the way
• 35:45
  and then he just floored it and took off just like a bat out of hell.
• 35:48
  He didn't honk the horn or anything like that, which
• 35:50
  probably would have startled me.
• 35:51
  Right?
• 35:51
  Because again, I didn't hear him.
• 35:53
  What you were describing though, it reminds me of that scene in the
• 35:55
  office where Andy and Dwight are dueling in the parking lot and Andy
• 35:59
  creeps up on him in the Prius, like.
• 36:01
  Five miles an hour.
• 36:02
  So you can't hear them.
• 36:03
  Exactly.
• 36:04
  I think you need to get yourself one of those high visibility jackets,
• 36:07
  like the construction workers wear.
• 36:08
  I got a bright red backpack, man.
• 36:10
  You can see it.
• 36:11
  Those yum, yum, yellow vests and wear that as you're going down the road.
• 36:14
  I'll wear the GTM media polos from the track days.
• 36:17
  That is perfect.
• 36:19
  But there was another article, and this is again, where I
• 36:21
  think big brother is listening.
• 36:23
  And it's a bit of a de doy moment here, as Brad likes to say, but quicker
• 36:27
  EVs might lead to more accidents.
• 36:29
  Oh, you don't say.
• 36:31
  But there's one more part, Brad, and I don't know if you put it out there
• 36:34
  in the world, gave me the karma, but I'm gonna get one of those signs like
• 36:38
  they used to have in the factories.
• 36:40
  Do I still use those?
• 36:41
  That says, X number of days since incident, because guess what?
• 36:45
  The Pacifica's back in the shop.
• 36:46
  Oh my god, what happened?
• 36:48
  Well, it's been 200 days since Since it's been in the shop, so that's seven
• 36:52
  months for those of you counting at home.
• 36:54
  I was driving it into the city like I do every morning and I didn't warn the
• 36:58
  girls, but the dashboard lit up like Times Square, all sorts of lights.
• 37:02
  Then a big red wrench with a lightning bolt in the middle.
• 37:05
  And it says service hybrid system now.
• 37:08
  And I'm like, Ooh, something's about to go seriously wrong.
• 37:13
  I got them dropped off and then basically took a minute to get my thoughts together.
• 37:18
  Talk to my wife, like, Oh my God, we're going to about to be down a car.
• 37:21
  That's true.
• 37:22
  Yeah.
• 37:22
  She cannot drive for several more weeks and I drove it
• 37:27
  immediately to the dealership and I made it their problem again.
• 37:30
  And this comes on the heels of us literally talking about.
• 37:33
  The Pacifica and talking about the letter that we got from Stellantis
• 37:37
  saying how they just put an unlimited warranty on the hybrid system.
• 37:42
  So we're taking advantage of that.
• 37:45
  My question is, did you guys just get a lemon?
• 37:48
  Lemon law or is every single one of these?
• 37:51
  The dealership garage lot is just full because everyone's is doing this.
• 37:55
  I don't know and I've asked the dealer and every time I say the
• 37:58
  word lemon law, they look at me again like a Cerberus from hell.
• 38:03
  I'm like, look, I'm not trying to be any sort of way.
• 38:06
  I just want you to tell me without having to go dig through the Oracle
• 38:10
  of Google to figure out what the law is or get a lawyer involved.
• 38:13
  But yeah, it's been in the shop so many times over the last couple of years.
• 38:17
  And it's had three going on four transmission replacements, which by the
• 38:22
  way, the hybrid is in the transmission and it's a big to do, and it's usually
• 38:26
  there for three weeks plus, and they got to get a transmission from Detroit.
• 38:30
  What I'm hearing as of today is it may not be a transmission problem.
• 38:34
  It's part of the EV coolant system, which we've had a problem with before.
• 38:39
  It's not the first time with that either where sensors go bad, or
• 38:43
  there was a leak on the pump, which is inside the transmission.
• 38:46
  It's a whole thing, right?
• 38:47
  But even the lady at the dealership was like, seriously, this is unbelievable.
• 38:51
  Like she's looking at our records and she doesn't even know what to say.
• 38:54
  And I'm like, thank you very much.
• 38:55
  What are we supposed to do?
• 38:56
  My wife and I had a heart to heart about this.
• 38:58
  And like, we've talked about our previous drive thrus before.
• 39:01
  What do we do if the Pacifica finally goes belly up?
• 39:04
  Like if it goes really pear shaped.
• 39:06
  Fix it, again, trade it in at the next local Toyota dealer, and call it a day.
• 39:11
  Cuz I'm done.
• 39:12
  Unless we're gonna buy another Jeep.
• 39:14
  Because to me, buying a Jeep is like buying an Audi or a Benz.
• 39:17
  They're more of a higher end car now than they used to be.
• 39:21
  There's a lot more in them.
• 39:22
  There's a lot more quality.
• 39:23
  It's the flagship of Stellantis, at least in the United States.
• 39:26
  You look at the rest of the Chrysler fleet, it's not worth it.
• 39:29
  And if you look at the rest of the vans, cause my wife wants another van, if we
• 39:32
  were to replace it, what do you buy?
• 39:34
  We've talked about the Kias, the Honda and not buying a 62, 000 Volkswagen ID buzz.
• 39:40
  Like I'm not buying another Volkswagen.
• 39:41
  You know what I mean?
• 39:42
  It's a mess.
• 39:43
  Well, I got another minivan.
• 39:44
  The sliding doors.
• 39:45
  She's hooked on the sliding doors now.
• 39:47
  I bet.
• 39:47
  The sliding doors are pretty nice.
• 39:49
  Yeah.
• 39:49
  And the cargo space and the, yeah, I get it.
• 39:52
  Question.
• 39:53
  About the Pacifica.
• 39:54
  All these issues that you've had.
• 39:56
  I love it.
• 39:57
  It's the best car we've ever owned, except for all this.
• 39:59
  We exclude the time it bricked itself just sitting in your garage, but all
• 40:04
  the other times, what is the ratio you driving versus Jess driving?
• 40:08
  This is the first time it's happened to me.
• 40:10
  Okay, that debunks my theory because we have a theory like that about another GTM
• 40:16
  member that is really hard on vehicles and they've had transmission issues
• 40:20
  and stuff with all their vehicles, too.
• 40:22
  And I'm glad you brought that up because I was on pace to try to beat
• 40:26
  Jess's record and that's what was super impressive about the Pacific.
• 40:29
  I was like, man, this thing is torquey and blah, blah, blah.
• 40:32
  And you know, the way the hybrid works and it's all electric before
• 40:35
  it's gas and how far I could go.
• 40:36
  There were some days I could get to school and have like 30 percent left.
• 40:40
  So I'm coming back part of the way on electric, which was awesome.
• 40:43
  I was averaging everything I was doing.
• 40:45
  I hadn't put gas in it in three weeks and I was getting 48.
• 40:48
  2 miles to the gallon, cumulative average city highway, freaking unbelievable.
• 40:54
  That's better than diesel.
• 40:56
  Most of the time, didn't there used to be a saying back in the day that
• 41:00
  Cars run best right before they're going to die thousand percent.
• 41:03
  So there was a foreshadowing there.
• 41:05
  You put it in the world.
• 41:06
  That's what you did.
• 41:07
  I didn't Chrysler did.
• 41:09
  Well, Chrysler put some other stuff in the world.
• 41:11
  Did you read this thing by the CEO?
• 41:13
  No.
• 41:13
  What did this fool do?
• 41:14
  He says that the auto industry is in survival mode.
• 41:18
  That's a gross generalization.
• 41:19
  Stellantis might be in survival mode because what are you
• 41:23
  selling in the United States?
• 41:24
  States.
• 41:24
  You got rid of everything.
• 41:25
  There's no challenger.
• 41:26
  There's no charger.
• 41:27
  There's the Pacifica, the Jeeps, and that's it.
• 41:31
  What else do you sell?
• 41:32
  What else do you have?
• 41:32
  Cause there's no more alphas.
• 41:34
  There's no more Fiat's other than the ones that are left
• 41:36
  over for the next three years.
• 41:37
  And they've sold all the Dodge darts that were remaining from 2016.
• 41:40
  So what?
• 41:42
  They got nothing and they brought over the Hornet, which was a joke.
• 41:46
  Like, I don't even think they sell that anymore.
• 41:48
  They actually downsized part of the Jeep fleet.
• 41:50
  There's talk of getting rid of the manual transmission in the Gladiator,
• 41:53
  which I didn't even know was an option.
• 41:55
  What are you guys doing?
• 41:56
  And that's where I've lost faith in the brand.
• 41:59
  I joke that Volkswagen has lost their way, but Chrysler has been
• 42:02
  lost in the desert for 40 years now.
• 42:04
  Like when are they going to come home?
• 42:06
  The one thing I did take away from this article, which I thought was hilarious,
• 42:09
  is some creative rebranding and marketing.
• 42:11
  I'm always game for stuff like that.
• 42:13
  I think it's pretty cool.
• 42:14
  So according to the CEO of Stellantis, we now have electric motors and thermal
• 42:19
  motors, not internal combustion, thermal.
• 42:21
  Motors, which someone pointed out to me that steam engines
• 42:24
  are also thermal engines.
• 42:27
  So maybe they're going back to that.
• 42:28
  Is that a Tesla?
• 42:30
  Oh, we'll get to that later.
• 42:32
  I mean, I can kind of see what he's saying from like the auto industry is being
• 42:38
  squeezed from both sides from a regulatory standpoint of being forced and strongly
• 42:45
  suggested to start making vehicles.
• 42:47
  That do a certain 1 thing or another, and they're trying to balance meeting those
• 42:51
  regulations with also providing a product that customers want, which they haven't
• 42:56
  been able to do because the customers and the government don't really agree.
• 43:00
  And then they're stuck in the middle.
• 43:01
  So I can kind of understand what he means.
• 43:04
  And maybe this is, it's less like, this isn't right now,
• 43:06
  but it's like a preemptive.
• 43:08
  We're heading this way really soon kind of thing.
• 43:10
  They come to the table with something like the airflow.
• 43:13
  Remember that?
• 43:14
  It was supposed to be sort of like the Cherokee, but had the Chrysler badge.
• 43:17
  It was really cool and sleek looking.
• 43:19
  Develop that body shape, which was interesting, and everybody
• 43:22
  went, Oh, that's pretty cool.
• 43:23
  But give me an engine package option.
• 43:26
  Nobody's doing that where it's like, I can buy a golf with an electric motor,
• 43:30
  or I can buy a golf with a two liter turbo gas, and I can still have a golf.
• 43:34
  If that's what I want, or in this case for Stellantis, the airflow,
• 43:38
  if I want to buy that, Just give me an engine package to choose from.
• 43:42
  They keep developing these crazy cars for no reason that, to
• 43:46
  your point Brad, nobody wants.
• 43:48
  Stop making them weird looking, stop making them unusable, stop
• 43:51
  making them not functional.
• 43:53
  And the reason people keep gravitating towards, let's say SUVs, is because
• 43:57
  they are Functional and useful and still very drivable, but you get
• 44:02
  into some of these other cars and you're like visibility is garbage You
• 44:05
  can't even get a suitcase in them.
• 44:07
  You can't fit four people in them Like why are you building this trash and then
• 44:11
  the cars that we want you stop building?
• 44:13
  Well, it's like just put the freaking ev As an option and the cars that we
• 44:17
  do want and then they speak out of the other sides of their mouths And there's
• 44:20
  another article still antis Blames bad marketing for poor Maserati sales.
• 44:25
  I'm like, guys, wake up.
• 44:27
  How about his poor products?
• 44:28
  If Maseratis were cool, which is a stretch they haven't been for a long
• 44:32
  time, more people would buy them.
• 44:34
  But when you think about what they cost, you're going to buy a
• 44:37
  Ferrari if you can afford it, or you're going to buy something else.
• 44:40
  So it's like we said, if they restructured and maybe did the highline SUVs.
• 44:47
  As a Maserati, like, they built that one for a while there, but instead it's
• 44:51
  like, no, we have to have the Stelvio.
• 44:52
  We have to have the Maserati version.
• 44:54
  We have to have the Fiat version.
• 44:55
  It's like this proliferation of internal competition.
• 44:57
  And then suddenly they go, we can't sell anything.
• 44:59
  So we're just going to stop making them.
• 45:01
  I like how it's more people would buy Maseratis.
• 45:03
  That group of people buying Maseratis is so small, right?
• 45:07
  You make it sound like more people would buy Hondas.
• 45:10
  First of all, who cares?
• 45:11
  Why are they even mentioning Maserati?
• 45:13
  That's such a niche market and they should go investigate why the uber rich
• 45:17
  are putting their money somewhere else.
• 45:19
  Who cares?
• 45:19
  Because Maserati doesn't satisfy the uber rich.
• 45:22
  Maserati is the Buick or Oldsmobile of Italy.
• 45:25
  But tries to be a Ferrari.
• 45:27
  Well, Oldsmobile, Buick tries to be a Cadillac, but it's not.
• 45:31
  I'd rather have the lowest low end Ferrari, which right now is the 296.
• 45:35
  Then any high end Maserati, sorry.
• 45:37
  Like if I'm going to spend that kind of money, the Ferrari is a
• 45:40
  status symbol, not the Maserati.
• 45:42
  There was another automaker that went through something similar, making all
• 45:45
  these duplicate vehicles, and then basically not selling anything because
• 45:50
  where they were competing with themselves.
• 45:52
  Who was that?
• 45:53
  What was that Brad?
• 45:54
  That was General Motors.
• 45:55
  Oh, Oh, you're right.
• 45:57
  Wait, wait, or was it Ford?
• 45:59
  Oh.
• 45:59
  Or, or, or maybe it was Chrysler.
• 46:01
  I think all the American brands did that stupid stuff.
• 46:04
  And look how it worked out for them.
• 46:06
  They all needed to be bailed out.
• 46:07
  I feel like Chrysler's Stallones Stellantis It's like history
• 46:12
  is doomed to repeat itself.
• 46:13
  They've been with this struggle ever since Iacocca got there in
• 46:17
  the 80s, where it's like, we got to take the government bailout.
• 46:19
  We got to do this.
• 46:20
  We're always on the verge of bankruptcy.
• 46:22
  We got cool ideas, but we can't execute them.
• 46:24
  So we develop, instead of something awesome, the Ares K Car.
• 46:27
  You're like, come on.
• 46:28
  Like, I get it.
• 46:29
  But you know, the Ares didn't save Chrysler.
• 46:31
  The caravan did.
• 46:33
  Because it was something people wanted.
• 46:35
  It was fun.
• 46:35
  functional, it was useful, and they lasted for freaking ever.
• 46:38
  I still see some of those old bread boxes still running around, which is mind
• 46:42
  blowing, those Iacocca era Chryslers.
• 46:44
  But it's just like, have you not learned anything yet?
• 46:47
  Anything.
• 46:48
  And because I dropped the Pacific off at the dealership, would you
• 46:51
  like to know what was sitting in the parking lot to be purchased?
• 46:54
  Ram Rebels Cherokees.
• 46:57
  That's it.
• 46:57
  That's all there was.
• 46:58
  That's not a lot of choice.
• 46:59
  And if you want to buy a pickup truck, we know the best selling pickup
• 47:02
  truck in America is a FiberTruck Ford F 150, so why are you bothering?
• 47:05
  You also need 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 thousand dollars to buy one too.
• 47:09
  That sort of wraps up my showcase.
• 47:12
  And the show is over.
• 47:13
  I do want to say you've got to ditch your scooter and just get
• 47:16
  a really good set of Heelys.
• 47:18
  And you'll be golden.
• 47:19
  If you'd see the roads and the sidewalks in the city, I've gotten
• 47:22
  good at jumping the scooter, but I don't think I could do Heelys.
• 47:25
  Dude, there's a guy on Instagram that he wears Heelys and he
• 47:28
  does like Heelys parkour.
• 47:30
  It's pretty sweet.
• 47:32
  Dude, there's so many rooted sidewalks.
• 47:33
  Ugh, it's awful.
• 47:34
  Yeah, yeah.
• 47:34
  And these, again, things I don't consider.
• 47:36
  When I'm just walking or people cut your bushes back and there's
• 47:40
  not even room for a person to walk.
• 47:41
  Like, why are you sticking out three feet into the sidewalk?
• 47:44
  Where's the HOA in this instance?
• 47:46
  No, seriously.
• 47:46
  And these are things I'm like vehemently against usually.
• 47:49
  But in this case, I'm like, you know what?
• 47:51
  I understand why these rules are this way.
• 47:54
  Ah, yeah.
• 47:55
  See, and then you understand how these bills get passed for noise.
• 47:59
  Cameras because when it's in your backyard, it's a problem when it's in
• 48:03
  the guy's backyard 10 miles away It's not a problem Like that guy with the go
• 48:07
  kart track in his backyard as we wrap up here in honor of all these shenanigans
• 48:12
  We did a special mini sewed a while back.
• 48:14
  It was actually drive thru number 19 I had to go look it up to figure it out.
• 48:17
  So it's been a minute.
• 48:18
  30 drive throughs ago.
• 48:20
  There's an extra episode that was a complete rant about the shenanigans
• 48:24
  that happen in city traffic.
• 48:26
  And I tell you what, I went back and we listened to it.
• 48:28
  Nothing has changed.
• 48:29
  Zero.
• 48:30
  So we're going to re release that alongside of this episode.
• 48:33
  So you can hear me go off about people using their cell phones as
• 48:36
  sun visors and other fun things.
• 48:38
  I think we need to change it Pitstop to a PSA and we need to remarket it.
• 48:44
  You know, we got to change our poor marketing and we remarket it to this
• 48:47
  is a public service announcement.
• 48:49
  It's an outreach program really is we're trying to help you all help me help you.
• 48:54
  Well, on that, let's get back to our regularly scheduled ranting and raving.
• 48:58
  Stellantis has told us that the automotive industry is in survival mode.
• 49:03
  And that might be true at Volkswagen because reports are
• 49:07
  saying the crisis continues.
• 49:10
  Since the last time we talked about this, they might be forced
• 49:13
  to close factories in Germany.
• 49:15
  And wait, this just in, factories in China too.
• 49:18
  What's the name of the Chinese EV company?
• 49:20
  BYD.
• 49:20
  Who's going to compete against them?
• 49:22
  Because it's the EV factories that they're shutting down.
• 49:24
  Because they can't compete against Chinese EV.
• 49:26
  Because nobody wants them.
• 49:28
  Volkswagen bet the farm on EVs.
• 49:31
  No, it's not that nobody wants an EV.
• 49:33
  Nobody wants a Volkswagen's EV when they can have the Chinese
• 49:36
  BYD for 75 percent less.
• 49:39
  For 25 yen.
• 49:40
  Well, and that's just it.
• 49:41
  We talked about the ID buzz at 62, 000.
• 49:45
  How many Honda odysseys?
• 49:46
  Basically two of them.
• 49:47
  Can you buy for the price of that ID Buzz?
• 49:50
  I would just like to say that you cannot buy two Honda Odysseys
• 49:53
  for the price of one ID Buzz.
• 49:54
  The Honda Odyssey 2025 version starts at 41920 MSRP.
• 49:58
  How much are they at CarMax?
• 50:00
  I bet I can buy two at CarMax.
• 50:01
  Okay, used.
• 50:03
  Then we gotta wait to see how much a used ID Buzz is.
• 50:06
  Yeah, if you're buying used, then you can get six Honda Odysseys.
• 50:09
  Used, they're gonna cost 62, 000 because nobody's buying them.
• 50:14
  I probably can get six 2005 Honda Odysseys.
• 50:17
  That's what I mean.
• 50:18
  How low can you go?
• 50:19
  How used do you want?
• 50:21
  You can buy 25 Mazda Miatas.
• 50:23
  I'm gonna get a Dodge Caravan from the early 90s.
• 50:27
  It's insane.
• 50:28
  Nobody wants that stuff.
• 50:30
  You want to tell me it's because it's an EV?
• 50:32
  They're pushing the ceiling of what the market can bear.
• 50:35
  And for once, the market is not willing to bear the cost of these cars.
• 50:40
  And they're either not being made, they're not being sold,
• 50:42
  or they're sitting on lots.
• 50:43
  And I say, hell yeah.
• 50:45
  Vote with your wallet in this case.
• 50:47
  Don't buy these cars.
• 50:48
  They're ridiculous.
• 50:49
  And not because they're not good.
• 50:51
  Because the prices need to come down.
• 50:53
  You guys get my point's?
• 50:54
  That guy's name at the dealer?
• 50:56
  Oh yeah.
• 50:56
  You're talking about Chuck led duck?
• 50:57
  Yeah.
• 50:58
  . Chuck LED duck.
• 50:59
  Yeah.
• 50:59
  I still get emails from him.
• 51:00
  Oh shoot.
• 51:01
  There's an article here about BMW.
• 51:03
  Apparently maybe we're in for some new BM BMW stylings as they're seem to be
• 51:08
  replacing their chief people in charge.
• 51:11
  Okay.
• 51:11
  Define styling.
• 51:12
  Changing the grills back to what they were before is not changing the styling.
• 51:18
  It would be a step in the right direction.
• 51:20
  I don't disagree with that.
• 51:21
  For anyone who liked the Z4, apparently they're bringing that guy back.
• 51:25
  I do like the Z4.
• 51:26
  It's one of the few BMWs I do like.
• 51:28
  Well then maybe there will be a style change that you like,
• 51:32
  because the guy that designed that one is coming back apparently.
• 51:35
  Will they all be as ugly as the Z4?
• 51:38
  Well now you just spoke out of both sides of your mouth.
• 51:39
  No!
• 51:40
  I said I liked it.
• 51:41
  It's sort of like that scrappy junkyard pound puppy and you're like, he's so ugly.
• 51:45
  He's cute.
• 51:45
  Okay.
• 51:46
  That's the Z4.
• 51:47
  You're like, it's so ugly.
• 51:48
  It's kind of nice.
• 51:49
  I like it.
• 51:49
  Time will tell what changes we might see exterior, et cetera, on future BMWs.
• 51:55
  I'll believe it when I see it.
• 51:56
  I just like his name.
• 51:57
  Who he don't.
• 51:58
  He develops the donks over at BMW.
• 52:01
  Donks like a truck.
• 52:02
  Chuck, Chuck.
• 52:02
  Double dubs, baby.
• 52:03
  For the record, the more and more I see the BMW M models
• 52:07
  with that giant front grill.
• 52:09
  Don't tell me.
• 52:09
  The more I like it.
• 52:10
  The more you like it?
• 52:11
  The more I like it.
• 52:12
  Have you seen them at night when they light up?
• 52:15
  They're atrocious.
• 52:16
  I cannot say I've seen it at night.
• 52:18
  You need to get out more.
• 52:19
  Come at me, bro.
• 52:20
  Where am I gonna go?
• 52:20
  I go to daycare.
• 52:21
  Daycare is during the day.
• 52:23
  My wife's doctor has an M2 competition, black on triple black with the seats,
• 52:29
  with the BMW motorsport stitched leather.
• 52:32
  And it probably says M like 50, 000 places when it's an M2 competition.
• 52:36
  I mean, this thing is legit awesome.
• 52:39
  And I don't say that about a lot of BMWs, but I was like, dude,
• 52:42
  that's a really, really nice car.
• 52:44
  That is pretty cool.
• 52:45
  So good on him.
• 52:46
  But again, there's very few and far between BMWs I can say that about.
• 52:49
  Oh, it also has a normal size grill.
• 52:51
  The M2 has a normal size grill.
• 52:52
  Yeah, that's why it looks good.
• 52:54
  That's why even if all they did is go back to normal size grills, it would
• 52:57
  be a step in the right direction.
• 52:58
  More of that marketing nonsense.
• 52:59
  It's like thermal motors.
• 53:00
  Buzzwords.
• 53:01
  Synergy.
• 53:02
  We have synergy.
• 53:03
  Well, moving into domestic news, General Motors at the cutting edge of 10 years
• 53:08
  ago, the cutting edge of failure.
• 53:12
  I don't know.
• 53:12
  Is it 10 years ago?
• 53:13
  Because Tesla only very recently started opening up its charger network
• 53:18
  to non Tesla manufacturers, right?
• 53:20
  Yeah.
• 53:20
  I feel like they are first to market on this.
• 53:22
  Well, Ford's already doing it.
• 53:24
  They got access to the network.
• 53:26
  But what I don't understand is when you pull up with your Hummer EV and charge
• 53:29
  of the Tesla network, how does that work?
• 53:32
  Do you get a Tesla subscription?
• 53:34
  Like, I understand the Electrify America thing.
• 53:36
  Well, I think you pay at the quote unquote pump.
• 53:38
  I've seen that with other systems, which is super awesome at places
• 53:42
  like Ikea, where they have that you can park right up front.
• 53:45
  And it is relatively inexpensive, but it is a 225 uplift to get this adapter
• 53:51
  so you can use the Tesla chargers.
• 53:54
  Yeah, and Ford gave away their adapter for free.
• 53:56
  Beginning, I think they're gonna start charging.
• 53:58
  Why can't we just develop better charging stations and put Elon out of business?
• 54:02
  Why can't we just develop better technology for everybody to use for free?
• 54:06
  Why do you have to curse in church all the time?
• 54:09
  Uh, You want to give a mass group of people something for free for
• 54:14
  the general benefit of society.
• 54:17
  What country are you in?
• 54:19
  That was the premise of the movie The Saint.
• 54:22
  Remember that free energy?
• 54:23
  Yeah, cold fusion.
• 54:24
  Yeah.
• 54:24
  He drove a Volvo.
• 54:25
  I just want to point that out.
• 54:26
  He did.
• 54:27
  He did.
• 54:27
  I don't have a problem with it costing 225 when they're selling it to
• 54:31
  people that bought a 130, 000 Hummer.
• 54:34
  I have a problem with it costing 225 because Ford's giving it away for free.
• 54:38
  Ford gave it away.
• 54:40
  Ford is a better company.
• 54:41
  But apparently they're not free anymore.
• 54:44
  Because GM started to charge for them.
• 54:47
  It's all tit for tat.
• 54:48
  Well, no, cause if GM just started this Ford said that after June
• 54:51
  30 of this year, it would be 230.
• 54:54
  So look, GM just beat them by 5.
• 54:58
  230.
• 54:59
  I'm selling mine for 229, Bob, 229.
• 55:02
  You can take that extra 5, go to Subway.
• 55:04
  And get an 8 footlong and you're still out of pocket, but you
• 55:08
  can't charge outside the subway.
• 55:10
  That's like the people that get a coupon and they're like, look, I'm saving money.
• 55:14
  No, you spent 500.
• 55:16
  Yeah, but I would have spent seven 50.
• 55:18
  I saved 250.
• 55:20
  No, you didn't.
• 55:21
  You spent 500.
• 55:26
  Oh, look at your bank account.
• 55:27
  You know, the marketing term for that is.
• 55:29
  Spaving.
• 55:30
  Spending and saving.
• 55:31
  Spaving.
• 55:31
  All right, let's switch gears and talk about Japanese and Asian domestic news.
• 55:36
  Do we actually have news?
• 55:37
  We do!
• 55:38
  It has nothing to do with America, which makes it completely awesome, and it really
• 55:41
  has nothing to do with the car that's going to exist, either, because we've
• 55:44
  talked before about how the Supra is going away, and we're all very saddened
• 55:49
  by this weird four cylinder one that nobody's going to be brokenhearted about.
• 55:53
  The Australians, never to be outdone, say Here, hold my fosters.
• 55:58
  That's Australian for beer.
• 55:59
  They're doing V8 supercars, Supras.
• 56:03
  So first of all, I think this article is clickbait because I saw
• 56:06
  Toyota Supra gains a V8 engine.
• 56:08
  And I'm like, we'll go racing in Australia.
• 56:11
  Oh, only the supercar championship cars will have the V8.
• 56:14
  They're not going to sell any on the street.
• 56:16
  Like there's not going to be any for consumption.
• 56:19
  And what gets me about this is Supra or Lexus, R C L C, whatever
• 56:25
  the heck they are, F Sport.
• 56:27
  Those Lexus LC coupes are awesome.
• 56:29
  Right?
• 56:30
  They sound amazing.
• 56:31
  Why not just use the ones that are an IMSA that are like 100 years old?
• 56:35
  Isn't that like the same thing?
• 56:37
  Super's lighter.
• 56:38
  Sort of.
• 56:38
  Smaller is lighter.
• 56:39
  Maybe there's an issue where they can't use the car that's already in production.
• 56:42
  What it means, and it's probably already been done.
• 56:45
  LS swap all the Supras now because you know a V8 fits up there.
• 56:48
  They've been putting V8s in Furs and Burrs.
• 56:51
  There's a guy running around on Instagram with a Ferrari V8 in his Furs.
• 56:55
  Yeah, it doesn't fit right though.
• 56:56
  But this isn't the first time they did this down in Australia.
• 57:00
  Do you remember the V8 Ultima?
• 57:02
  No.
• 57:02
  And I wondered what do we call this one?
• 57:05
  You know, we have the Taltima all that.
• 57:08
  You guys got any creative names?
• 57:09
  Because I came up with one.
• 57:10
  This is the Baltima.
• 57:11
  Got balls tima.
• 57:12
  Baltima.
• 57:13
  That's awesome.
• 57:14
  But that's old news.
• 57:16
  We got to move on to some new news.
• 57:18
  Random EVs and concept cars.
• 57:19
  My wife, who has ample free time now because she can't
• 57:23
  really go anywhere, do anything.
• 57:25
  So she's been trolling and doom scrolling on Instagram and sent me this one
• 57:29
  knowing that I love some French cars.
• 57:31
  Have you guys seen this Renault rendering of the, call it Resto Mod, R17 EV?
• 57:38
  Very neat.
• 57:39
  I love this.
• 57:41
  It's very Mad Max to me.
• 57:42
  Not a fan of this brown color, but you know, that could be changed.
• 57:45
  I love the color.
• 57:47
  Brown is back.
• 57:47
  Did you look at the original one to compare it to what they did?
• 57:50
  I think they did a really good job of pulling the design
• 57:54
  language of a 1970s Ford.
• 57:56
  French coupe into the modern era.
• 57:58
  I think it looks really, really cool.
• 57:59
  It'll never get made.
• 58:00
  Of course not.
• 58:01
  Because anything awesome never gets made or it'll get made and we'll never see it.
• 58:05
  Oh, we'll never see it for sure.
• 58:07
  Throw a Nissan badge on it and call it something else.
• 58:09
  Meanwhile, we talk about the auto industry being in survival mode.
• 58:13
  There are some people that are taking themselves off of Survivor Island.
• 58:18
  This is just another manufacturer that's.
• 58:21
  Joining the bandwagon of not going full electric anymore.
• 58:25
  So Volvo is saying that they're going to ditch their previous plans
• 58:28
  to sell only electric cars by 2030.
• 58:31
  Because again, we're seeing this decrease in demand for electric
• 58:36
  battery powered vehicles.
• 58:37
  We pulled the rubber band as far as it can go.
• 58:40
  It's just coming right back to where it was.
• 58:42
  People got real optimistic.
• 58:44
  They said, you know what, let's do it.
• 58:45
  Let's run with it.
• 58:47
  And then it was like, let's see how this goes.
• 58:50
  It's not going how they forecasted, so they're popping the brakes, so to speak.
• 58:54
  So do you think they feel silly divesting Polestar?
• 58:58
  Do they feel silly not being 100 percent Swedish?
• 59:00
  Well, there's that too.
• 59:02
  Could that be part of the problem as well?
• 59:04
  Because of the huge tariffs that have been imposed upon the
• 59:07
  Chinese imports to basically keep them out of the United States.
• 59:10
  Probably not helping.
• 59:11
  That's what's happening to Lotus right now.
• 59:12
  The cost of their new EV, the Elettra, has jumped to 230, 000.
• 59:17
  Because it's another Chinese owned legacy manufacturer.
• 59:20
  Not going to help.
• 59:21
  What are we afraid of?
• 59:22
  I guess that's my bigger question.
• 59:24
  What do you mean?
• 59:24
  Why can't we allow BYD to build the cars here?
• 59:27
  Everything else we outsourced to China.
• 59:30
  That's for a different podcast.
• 59:31
  Oh, okay.
• 59:32
  All right.
• 59:33
  That's a totally different discussion.
• 59:36
  That's a battle that the lobbyists are fighting.
• 59:38
  I'll leave that where it sits.
• 59:40
  I mean, if you can tell me the difference between a Tesla three
• 59:42
  and a BYD, it's the same difference between a Sorni and a magnet box.
• 59:46
  That's Sorni.
• 59:47
  I'm not sure if there's a Home Depot in China or not.
• 59:53
  And speaking of Polestar being divested, this one made me think
• 59:56
  two if by land and one if by sea.
• 1:00:00
  Because Polestar is gonna make electric boats!
• 1:00:03
  Because we know how well water and electricity go together.
• 1:00:07
  Why is this boat flying?
• 1:00:09
  It's a hydrofoil.
• 1:00:10
  They do go together because when the batteries go off in a chain reaction
• 1:00:15
  to burn, you need an ocean of water to put them out, so it's perfect.
• 1:00:20
  Sink it.
• 1:00:20
  Done.
• 1:00:21
  I don't know that this is the first electric boat or thing of this type.
• 1:00:25
  I remember meeting the gentleman from Von Mercier and they were
• 1:00:29
  developing an EV hovercraft, and that was a couple of years ago now.
• 1:00:34
  I've heard of EV airplanes.
• 1:00:36
  Again, this was the next logical conclusion, I suppose.
• 1:00:39
  I just didn't think Polestar was going to be the one to do it, but hey, send it.
• 1:00:42
  Speaking of going for it, Brad, we need to turn to lost and found.
• 1:00:47
  I found something for you.
• 1:00:48
  I know it's one of your favorite BMWs, speaking of BMW earlier,
• 1:00:52
  this is the chassis hand built by God himself, the E39 M5.
• 1:00:57
  Yep.
• 1:00:58
  But is that 280, 000 worth of yep?
• 1:01:01
  Nope.
• 1:01:03
  Because the chassis hand built by God has a very, very close cousin in the
• 1:01:11
  Chevrolet formerly Holden SS sedan, which, when it first came out, Drew very
• 1:01:17
  similar comparisons to the E39 M5 during road tests and everything like that.
• 1:01:22
  So do I pay 280, 000 for this car or do I pay 40 or 50 for that car?
• 1:01:28
  I'm going to pay 40 or 50 for that car.
• 1:01:31
  And that LS sounds better than this BMW V8.
• 1:01:33
  And it'll cost you a lot less to run over time.
• 1:01:36
  But this one has 633 miles and it's in Dakar yellow.
• 1:01:40
  Can you get your SS in that?
• 1:01:42
  I can puke this color all over my SS if I want to.
• 1:01:45
  You know, there's Fans of this color.
• 1:01:47
  There's people that love this.
• 1:01:48
  I'm not a big fan of yellow cars.
• 1:01:50
  I mean, it's just not my thing.
• 1:01:51
  And I know here comes a joke about the Aztec, but let's let sleeping dogs lie.
• 1:01:55
  You said it to me.
• 1:01:56
  I love these M fives though.
• 1:01:58
  They are fantastic.
• 1:01:59
  I actually thought about buying one of these, not a V8, a.
• 1:02:03
  Three and a half liter six to run at the track instead of an E36
• 1:02:07
  M3 and I regret not doing that.
• 1:02:09
  I almost bought a 540i with the smaller V8.
• 1:02:13
  I had check in hand at CarMax ready to buy it and somebody in my journey
• 1:02:17
  from home to CarMax put it on dealer transfer and I didn't get it.
• 1:02:22
  They refused to sell it to me.
• 1:02:24
  And I was very distraught.
• 1:02:25
  I probably would still have that car.
• 1:02:26
  So I love the car.
• 1:02:28
  I don't love it.
• 1:02:29
  280, 000 worth though.
• 1:02:30
  Every time I look at these, it's a beautiful blend of
• 1:02:34
  E36 styling and E46 styling.
• 1:02:37
  It like sits in between and it has these cues and these certain features.
• 1:02:42
  They just still look good today.
• 1:02:44
  It's one of the few, let's say 20 plus year old BMWs Still
• 1:02:47
  looks really, really awesome.
• 1:02:49
  So God bless whoever buys this, but yeah, there's a lot of
• 1:02:53
  cars you can buy for 280 grand.
• 1:02:55
  Well, Tanya, we would be remiss if we didn't talk about the great Tesla.
• 1:03:04
  We finally have, yes.
• 1:03:07
  Possibly.
• 1:03:08
  Vindication!
• 1:03:09
  Are you happy now?
• 1:03:11
  I busted out in a small laugh towards the end of this article.
• 1:03:15
  So there's an article about how Tesla has now deleted its blog postings, any
• 1:03:20
  mention of postings where it said that their cars have self driving hardware.
• 1:03:26
  How curious.
• 1:03:28
  The better part is, that made me laugh, is they touted this whole time that
• 1:03:33
  they have fully autonomous, full self driving, duh, duh, blah, blah, except
• 1:03:39
  they have yet to prove that it's capable.
• 1:03:41
  Nobody has been able to prove that it's capable without some
• 1:03:44
  sort of adult supervision.
• 1:03:46
  This is awesome.
• 1:03:47
  Tesla is now calling the system FSD, which is the full self driving.
• 1:03:51
  FSD, FSD, FSD.
• 1:03:54
  Isn't that just called driving?
• 1:03:55
  I mean, this is like thermal motors.
• 1:03:59
  I mean, here we go again.
• 1:04:00
  It's like contradiction.
• 1:04:02
  Full self driving.
• 1:04:03
  Supervised.
• 1:04:03
  So it's not full self driving.
• 1:04:05
  But it's not supervised full self driving because if you change the
• 1:04:08
  subject predicate noun agreement, then it actually changes the
• 1:04:12
  connotation of what they're saying.
• 1:04:13
  I wonder what the legal implication of this order of the words is.
• 1:04:17
  What about full supervised self driving or full self supervised driving?
• 1:04:22
  Bullshit driving.
• 1:04:23
  This just goes along with the people can identify as whatever they want.
• 1:04:27
  I can identify as a chair.
• 1:04:28
  Eric can identify as a car with working taillights.
• 1:04:32
  Tesla's cars can identify as full self driving.
• 1:04:36
  That is the world in which we live.
• 1:04:37
  There doesn't have to be any truth behind any of it.
• 1:04:40
  Wow.
• 1:04:40
  When you say it, I identify as a czar of a remote country
• 1:04:46
  that I just don't get to visit.
• 1:04:48
  King of India, over there.
• 1:04:50
  What would your country be called?
• 1:04:51
  Portlandian.
• 1:04:52
  I think Fred Armisen might have something to say about that.
• 1:04:58
  Yes, yes.
• 1:04:59
  Oh, he's my vice czar.
• 1:05:01
  Nice shot.
• 1:05:01
  So there's still more Tesla.
• 1:05:03
  This one's even better.
• 1:05:04
  There's more Tesla news.
• 1:05:06
  It's unreal.
• 1:05:07
  It's about the Cybertruck.
• 1:05:08
  Oh, something we haven't talked about much this year at all.
• 1:05:11
  Because the Cybertruck is without fault.
• 1:05:14
  Oh, it is infallible.
• 1:05:16
  Like anything Elon touches is A turd.
• 1:05:20
  Meets the expectations.
• 1:05:22
  is totally in line with the promises.
• 1:05:25
  I'll say again, a turd.
• 1:05:26
  Works to the utmost degree, like a freaking Swiss timepiece.
• 1:05:30
  That's how well these things work.
• 1:05:32
  So recall the windows, right?
• 1:05:34
  Back however many years ago it was now.
• 1:05:37
  The baseball.
• 1:05:38
  Oh, they're, you know, armor plate glass that can withstain
• 1:05:42
  bullets, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:05:44
  I'll show you by lobbing this baseball at it with my untrained,
• 1:05:48
  unprofessional slow ball.
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  shatter.
• 1:05:52
  Oh, it was a fluke.
• 1:05:53
  It was this and the other, you know, this is still the prototype,
• 1:05:57
  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:05:58
  So then why now that we're in production with 3, 000 of these or whatever the
• 1:06:03
  production rate is, 11, 000 were recalled.
• 1:06:06
  That's right, we did say it was 11, 000, so good job, they're
• 1:06:10
  all in the parking lot somewhere.
• 1:06:11
  This is probably going to be another recall, maybe, I don't know.
• 1:06:14
  At any rate, some poor individual who spent 100, 000 on this
• 1:06:17
  car, left it parked wherever.
• 1:06:19
  And the impenetrable, unsinkable cyber truck, heard that one before.
• 1:06:23
  It's like the Titanic.
• 1:06:24
  With its shatterproof glass.
• 1:06:26
  The thief rolled up to it, tried back the window a little bit.
• 1:06:31
  Because it's frameless, I want to point it out.
• 1:06:33
  So this would happen with any car with a frameless.
• 1:06:36
  Yes, so we won't fault the frameless part.
• 1:06:38
  I'm not faulting the frameless part.
• 1:06:40
  It's a lack of notification.
• 1:06:41
  Well, I don't even fault that because honestly, if you jimmy a
• 1:06:44
  little bit, I don't think anyone's cars are that sensitive that.
• 1:06:48
  They're going to sound the alarm yet, but the shattered window, did this window
• 1:06:52
  shatter because the window peeled back
• 1:06:56
  like an onion layer.
• 1:06:59
  And so people are up in arms about how to your point, there
• 1:07:02
  was no alarm notification.
• 1:07:04
  I wasn't told my car was being robbed.
• 1:07:06
  The alarm didn't go off.
• 1:07:07
  What alarms going off this thing like rolled up like a paper towel.
• 1:07:10
  It didn't even know the window was open.
• 1:07:12
  Where's the sensor airflow.
• 1:07:14
  Suddenly the air current changed into the vehicle, but it was the door wasn't open.
• 1:07:18
  That's.
• 1:07:18
  The sensor.
• 1:07:18
  I don't know.
• 1:07:20
  Is it worth saying that the thief was in a Nissan Ultima?
• 1:07:22
  Yes.
• 1:07:23
  Oh, no.
• 1:07:24
  Are you serious?
• 1:07:25
  Yeah.
• 1:07:28
  But the picture of this peeled down window is just wild.
• 1:07:32
  Wild.
• 1:07:34
  You wouldn't be able to do that on any other.
• 1:07:36
  No.
• 1:07:37
  And I think it has to do with the fact that it's safety glass.
• 1:07:40
  So it has that coating on it.
• 1:07:41
  So it's not supposed to shatter and all that.
• 1:07:43
  But in thinking about previous Teslas that I've been in, remember, I told you
• 1:07:46
  guys that story about when I was in Tampa.
• 1:07:48
  And how that Tesla Model Y tried to choke me because the door seal ended
• 1:07:52
  up falling on my head as I was getting out and all this kind of thing.
• 1:07:55
  If the seals are that bad on a Cybertruck, and with all those
• 1:07:59
  angles, you don't need a pry bar.
• 1:08:01
  You probably could put your fingers in there and pull the window back.
• 1:08:05
  Probably would've did.
• 1:08:05
  Which is a lot harder to do on other cars, even on a frameless door car,
• 1:08:10
  which we've owned some over the years.
• 1:08:12
  It's pretty tight in there and usually the window goes up into a cavity.
• 1:08:15
  Yes.
• 1:08:16
  Where it seals.
• 1:08:17
  inside of that door seal, even though it doesn't have a frame.
• 1:08:20
  To say that the build quality is maybe not quite where it should be, and all those
• 1:08:26
  weird angles might add an extra layer of, I don't know, weakness, or entry point,
• 1:08:32
  or attack vector, we'll call it that.
• 1:08:34
  You know, I don't know!
• 1:08:36
  But I guess this guy proved the hypothesis.
• 1:08:38
  Tesla's recall fix is going to be going down to the local home depot
• 1:08:42
  and getting some rebar to build a frame for your frameless door.
• 1:08:46
  Just caulk it shut.
• 1:08:48
  Just get a couple of tubes of caulk.
• 1:08:49
  Your answer usually, I would just get some caulk.
• 1:08:51
  I was going to say caulk, but I decided to go with the rebar.
• 1:08:53
  Yeah.
• 1:08:54
  I'd like to spend a hundred thousand dollars on a vehicle
• 1:08:56
  that I can peel the glass back on.
• 1:08:58
  What the fuck?
• 1:08:58
  Ah, you know, now that my expectations are thoroughly lowered, we need to Things
• 1:09:05
  that are unfortunately unfortunate.
• 1:09:07
  Look at that.
• 1:09:08
  The first unfortunate thing.
• 1:09:10
  Right back with the Cybertruck.
• 1:09:12
  I feel like this is like serendipitous though.
• 1:09:15
  No, this is the definition of irony.
• 1:09:17
  Yeah.
• 1:09:18
  The headline alone explains it.
• 1:09:20
  Okay, Yahoo News reports.
• 1:09:21
  Tesla Cybertruck hits fire hydrant, catches on fire.
• 1:09:25
  Well, they were already there with the water.
• 1:09:27
  So their fire hydrant was on the scene.
• 1:09:29
  The fire hydrant was on the scene.
• 1:09:31
  Apparently he caused the fire, but also could not put out the fire.
• 1:09:36
  Do you know how much water a fire hydrant puts out?
• 1:09:39
  But that is needed to put out the fire.
• 1:09:41
  Oh, still not enough.
• 1:09:42
  The picture of this thing alone just cracks me up.
• 1:09:45
  How do you hit a fire hydrant?
• 1:09:46
  They're not in the middle of the road.
• 1:09:47
  Supervised full self driving.
• 1:09:51
  It was F U S D.
• 1:09:53
  Yeah.
• 1:09:53
  Oh, unsupervised.
• 1:09:55
  No, so this Cybertruck identified as a fire hose.
• 1:10:00
  God.
• 1:10:01
  There were reports this month of other EVs burning to the ground and the
• 1:10:05
  fires are just unbelievably tragic.
• 1:10:09
  Everyone wants to say,
• 1:10:12
  Gasoline, ice, thermal motors catch on fire more than Thermal means fire.
• 1:10:18
  When was the last time, though, sir, that an ice engine that hit
• 1:10:24
  a fire hydrant caught on fire?
• 1:10:26
  I believe the chances of that are one in a trillion.
• 1:10:29
  Unlike the Fast and the Furious movies, generally.
• 1:10:35
  When internal combustion engine operated vehicles strike something, they don't
• 1:10:41
  normally go up in a blaze of glory.
• 1:10:45
  Would have been amazing if that Cybertruck's dashboard lit up
• 1:10:48
  and it said danger to manifold.
• 1:10:50
  I mean, I get, yes, maybe ice do catch on fire more regularly, but it seems
• 1:10:56
  like the difficulty and the severity of some of these electric vehicle
• 1:11:00
  fires, imagine you're in some big collision and then you're out of it.
• 1:11:04
  You can't even get out of your car or you can't get out of your car
• 1:11:07
  until somebody comes rescues you and then the damn thing ignites.
• 1:11:10
  Would it be fair to say that maybe Knowing what we know, having the safety
• 1:11:15
  gear that we have available to us, that we should wear our Nomex suits.
• 1:11:18
  Every time we take a ride in a Tesla, I was just about to say that.
• 1:11:22
  Yep, exactly.
• 1:11:23
  So you can go down the Tesla cyber truck rabbit hole with this one article.
• 1:11:27
  I don't know if you looked in the middle of the page, but it says man
• 1:11:29
  almost loses a finger to a cyber truck.
• 1:11:31
  Oh, the window tried to like, no, this was the door because
• 1:11:35
  of where the door buttons are.
• 1:11:37
  So his finger got caught between the rear door and the front door.
• 1:11:41
  He almost lost the finger.
• 1:11:42
  And then the next one out of that is.
• 1:11:44
  Out of control Cybertruck crashes into a house?
• 1:11:46
  I think that's the one we talked about.
• 1:11:47
  Yeah, a while ago, yeah.
• 1:11:49
  I just, I love it.
• 1:11:50
  I saw one on the highway today, and I've never seen one in traffic.
• 1:11:54
  And the beltway, six lanes on each side type of deal.
• 1:11:56
  It is massive.
• 1:11:58
  Looks like there's lumbering.
• 1:12:00
  And I couldn't figure out where the brake lights were.
• 1:12:02
  You know how we discovered that the headlights are in that gap?
• 1:12:05
  Between the front fascia and the bumper, I think the brake lights
• 1:12:08
  are in the same place on the back.
• 1:12:10
  But every time we would stop and go in traffic, I didn't
• 1:12:12
  see that back bar light up.
• 1:12:14
  I think that back bar across the lift gate only comes on at night.
• 1:12:18
  Unless he wasn't using the brakes.
• 1:12:19
  Maybe.
• 1:12:20
  Regenerative braking that you don't have to break in those cars.
• 1:12:22
  But you still have to hit the brake pedal because we're coming to a full stop.
• 1:12:26
  Not if it's full self driving, it's fully aware.
• 1:12:29
  Oh, Identifies as a brake light.
• 1:12:32
  Or the brake lights just don't work.
• 1:12:34
  I mean, amongst a million other things that don't work on those.
• 1:12:36
  They could have shortened for all we know.
• 1:12:38
  Had brand new temp tags on it.
• 1:12:39
  I will say, I see cyber trucks all the time.
• 1:12:41
  I see at least one a day.
• 1:12:43
  They're creepy though.
• 1:12:44
  When they come up on you, you're suddenly like, whoa, what is that?
• 1:12:47
  I hate the fact that they're so popular.
• 1:12:49
  I don't know why, I just, they rub me the wrong way.
• 1:12:51
  Really upset me because you didn't get one and you are owed a T-shirt.
• 1:12:54
  That's why I didn't want one.
• 1:12:56
  Yeah, I ordered a cyber truck and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.
• 1:12:59
  Parentheses.
• 1:13:00
  Thank God . Thank Elon.
• 1:13:02
  Get it right.
• 1:13:03
  Thank you El Well, Elon is God.
• 1:13:05
  There you go.
• 1:13:05
  Soon to be he's gonna be the first trillionaire.
• 1:13:08
  Did you hear that?
• 1:13:09
  It's insane.
• 1:13:09
  Don't even get me started on how stupid people make money.
• 1:13:13
  . He's not stupid.
• 1:13:13
  He's very smart, but he's also.
• 1:13:15
  Stupid.
• 1:13:16
  He's also a horrible human being.
• 1:13:18
  Yes, horrible human beings make a lot of money.
• 1:13:20
  Well, this next one almost made Florida man, but this is really unfortunate.
• 1:13:26
  This is right down the road!
• 1:13:28
  The rich man's side!
• 1:13:30
  I don't understand what happened.
• 1:13:33
  I don't understand how this is physically possible.
• 1:13:36
  Where's the rest of the truck?
• 1:13:38
  Kept going.
• 1:13:39
  What?
• 1:13:39
  So the cab separated, but I don't understand the highway sign was that low?
• 1:13:44
  The only way I can explain this is that it went off and then rode the pole.
• 1:13:48
  No, so it says that the semi When it's raised bed.
• 1:13:51
  So he was driving like a dump lift.
• 1:13:54
  That's a big dump lift.
• 1:13:55
  That's the full length of a tractor trailer.
• 1:13:57
  I didn't think those things tilted.
• 1:13:58
  Because it says the semi was headed west when it's raised bed slammed into
• 1:14:01
  the overhead sign near mile marker 200 as it approached the 64 295 split.
• 1:14:06
  The cab continued on and then stopped, obviously, because it separated
• 1:14:11
  from the bed of the tractor trailer.
• 1:14:12
  He was adding rocks to the trailer.
• 1:14:13
  Chips to the highway troopers do not know why the bed was raised or
• 1:14:16
  how long was up before the crash.
• 1:14:17
  Oh, okay.
• 1:14:19
  That's my missing piece of information possible.
• 1:14:22
  This happened in Georgia a couple years ago and we reported on it where
• 1:14:25
  a dump truck hit a bridge, remember?
• 1:14:27
  And he didn't realize that the dump was up or something like that.
• 1:14:30
  Yeah, but that's a dump truck.
• 1:14:31
  This is a dump truck.
• 1:14:32
  This is like a dump tractor trailer.
• 1:14:34
  Apparently that bed could be lifted.
• 1:14:37
  Well, it lifted.
• 1:14:37
  Can you imagine being on the highway behind that is straight up.
• 1:14:41
  Out of.
• 1:14:43
  But nobody tried to flag this guy down or tell him, Hey, up, up, up.
• 1:14:47
  Maybe he's thinking do the horn and he's just blowing the horn at him.
• 1:14:50
  Right?
• 1:14:50
  No, you're in Virginia.
• 1:14:51
  You just get the hell out of the way.
• 1:14:53
  They're all amped out in the left lane.
• 1:14:55
  Nothing.
• 1:14:55
  Yeah.
• 1:14:55
  You just, just let it happen.
• 1:14:57
  This trailer identified as a street sign, apparently, but as Tanya
• 1:15:01
  likes to say, that's unfortunate.
• 1:15:02
  All right, guys.
• 1:15:03
  So following up from last month, gave you guys a homework assignment.
• 1:15:06
  Did anybody watch one for the road?
• 1:15:09
  Final chapter in the Top Gear Grand Tour Clarkson Hammond and Mays saga.
• 1:15:13
  No.
• 1:15:13
  Yes.
• 1:15:14
  What?
• 1:15:15
  Yes, of course.
• 1:15:16
  And what do we think?
• 1:15:17
  It was just like all the rest.
• 1:15:18
  I feel it was more for them than for the fans.
• 1:15:21
  I would agree with that.
• 1:15:22
  They didn't do anything new or earth shattering.
• 1:15:24
  It was just kind of like a greatest hits of their jokes and I don't
• 1:15:29
  know it was definitely for them.
• 1:15:30
  I wasn't sure like the beginning of it okay they got their three cars they're
• 1:15:35
  going on this road trip and I was like nothing was really happening so to speak
• 1:15:39
  like it was pretty mundane yeah the Capri kept breaking down every 20 minutes.
• 1:15:43
  But it's kind of like par for the course.
• 1:15:44
  And then they, they did the antics, I guess I'll call it.
• 1:15:47
  And it's like, let's drive down the railway.
• 1:15:49
  And I'm like, okay.
• 1:15:50
  I mean, that's been done before they even said they'd done it before.
• 1:15:53
  So I don't know if that felt forced, contrived.
• 1:15:55
  Yeah.
• 1:15:56
  Forced.
• 1:15:57
  That was nor here nor there.
• 1:15:58
  Could they have just skipped that and driven the rest of the way?
• 1:16:01
  I don't know.
• 1:16:02
  I mean, I will say I was just a little bit heartbroken that
• 1:16:06
  he destroyed the railroad.
• 1:16:07
  That Lancia.
• 1:16:10
  When that bumper ripped off, I was just like.
• 1:16:12
  I loved all the mods on the Lancia when he goes, and it's got the
• 1:16:16
  308 taillights and it's got the Delta HF grille in the headlight.
• 1:16:19
  He said it cost him 80, 000 pounds.
• 1:16:22
  I'm like, can you drive slower over the potholes?
• 1:16:25
  For Pete's sake, like, anyway, there was a couple of good potshots in there too.
• 1:16:31
  Like when Hammond was working on the Capri and they talked about
• 1:16:34
  some of his crashes and they kind of really get him on the Rimac that he
• 1:16:38
  destroyed, you know, that kind of thing.
• 1:16:39
  I thought that was funny.
• 1:16:40
  It was interesting to see James may actually get a little bit
• 1:16:43
  emotional towards the end.
• 1:16:44
  Cause he's, he's like the ice man.
• 1:16:46
  Like he's always like, Oh, he's always kind of like the curmudgeon.
• 1:16:48
  You know what I mean?
• 1:16:49
  Like, Oh, okay.
• 1:16:50
  I'm here.
• 1:16:50
  I'm doing this.
• 1:16:51
  I thought for sure Tanya would be heartbroken or like angry that
• 1:16:57
  they destroyed a Volkswagen Beetle.
• 1:16:59
  Oh, and I gotta say up until the very last second where the beetle disintegrated, I
• 1:17:07
  thought it held up pretty well given what was going on and just the tumbling down.
• 1:17:12
  I was like, wow, if Tanya's ever in an accident on track,
• 1:17:15
  I think she's going to be okay.
• 1:17:16
  And then tumble, tumble, tumble, tumble, tumble, tumble.
• 1:17:19
  Hey, the cockpit's fine.
• 1:17:20
  It's fine.
• 1:17:20
  Until it wasn't, did you see when the motor and transmission ejected itself?
• 1:17:25
  Like it went into orbit.
• 1:17:26
  Yeah, but who cares?
• 1:17:26
  I was only looking at the cockpit to make sure the driver would have been okay.
• 1:17:30
  And it was fine until like the last two seconds.
• 1:17:32
  And then all of a sudden it collapsed on itself.
• 1:17:35
  That was unnecessary.
• 1:17:37
  Yes.
• 1:17:37
  100 percent it was.
• 1:17:38
  It should have been a caravan.
• 1:17:39
  Really unnecessary.
• 1:17:41
  That car would have been the better car to have driven across those
• 1:17:46
  roads than the ones they chose.
• 1:17:47
  But at any rate, I get it.
• 1:17:49
  It was actually a pristine beetle too.
• 1:17:51
  It was in really good condition.
• 1:17:53
  I was like eating something and I literally just mid bite just
• 1:17:57
  stopped mouth agape and I didn't move the whole, I was just like.
• 1:18:01
  And you knew what was coming too.
• 1:18:03
  You're like, come on.
• 1:18:03
  Oh my God.
• 1:18:04
  They built it up so much.
• 1:18:05
  Oh my God.
• 1:18:06
  I've gotten myself into a predicament.
• 1:18:08
  Oh, I know.
• 1:18:09
  And it was just like, ah, we spent five minutes building it up.
• 1:18:14
  Really?
• 1:18:15
  Oh yeah.
• 1:18:16
  That was distasteful.
• 1:18:19
  I think it would have been better had he done it.
• 1:18:21
  Ferris Bueller style where the brick is on the pedal and then he's just kicking
• 1:18:25
  the shit out of it until it just goes off the cliff, but it should have been
• 1:18:28
  going backwards, you know what I mean?
• 1:18:29
  Kind of thing.
• 1:18:30
  Like it would have been.
• 1:18:30
  Perfect.
• 1:18:31
  I like the idea that they used a dog though.
• 1:18:34
  It was almost like an homage to top gear dog.
• 1:18:35
  Yeah, it was.
• 1:18:36
  I got top gear dog, man.
• 1:18:38
  That's been a minute too.
• 1:18:39
  And I thought the other part that was kind of cool, whether it was
• 1:18:42
  produced or not, was when they came across the original cars, except for
• 1:18:47
  Oliver, which we know is back in the UK that were on that original special.
• 1:18:51
  So his launch of beta coop and the Mercedes, I thought that was really cool.
• 1:18:55
  I think that was the moment when James sort of realized like.
• 1:18:59
  Oh, crap.
• 1:19:00
  This is the end.
• 1:19:01
  Yeah, I don't think the boys knew, but I think the producers knew.
• 1:19:05
  Like, they probably found those cars.
• 1:19:07
  Yeah, I thought that was really, really well done.
• 1:19:09
  I will say, I definitely thought they were going to drive through the minefield.
• 1:19:12
  But they've done that before too, right?
• 1:19:13
  With all the military exercise stuff they've done.
• 1:19:16
  Yeah, but it wasn't quite a minefield.
• 1:19:19
  The fact that that truck went through, I thought that was awesome.
• 1:19:22
  Yeah, that was pretty cool.
• 1:19:23
  I felt like it came full circle and it did literally and figuratively because it
• 1:19:28
  spoiler alert, it ends where it started.
• 1:19:30
  I had to wrap my head around it because I've been following top gear since let's
• 1:19:34
  say top gear version one, when it was more like motor week Clarkson was on there,
• 1:19:38
  but he was reviewing like the Renault R 17, the original one and telling you
• 1:19:43
  about how crappy the tires were and what the handling was like, just like you
• 1:19:46
  would expect from, let's say motor week.
• 1:19:48
  And then when Top Gear 2.
• 1:19:49
  0 came out, suddenly had Clarkson Hammond in May and the airport and stuff like
• 1:19:53
  that, they had their adventures, but I didn't realize that the specials, and
• 1:19:57
  what they meant by specials was these independent, long format, two hour
• 1:20:02
  deals that they would put together, started 17 years ago and started there
• 1:20:06
  in Botswana and the whole thing, and that's why I say it came full circle,
• 1:20:09
  because I kept thinking there were other specials where they would talk for
• 1:20:13
  maybe five minutes, But it fit inside of the 44 minute episode that they had
• 1:20:17
  put together with a break in a little conversation street or whatever it is.
• 1:20:20
  Yeah.
• 1:20:21
  But the reason they fit and it's cause they were edited down.
• 1:20:23
  If you were able to get when they were on Netflix or whatever, or if you had
• 1:20:27
  access to BBC, if you were able to get the unedited versions, they were our,
• 1:20:32
  our plus episodes, even the standard top gear episodes were over an hour.
• 1:20:35
  Cause I felt like the Africa special was already well into them doing so.
• 1:20:40
  specials.
• 1:20:40
  There were other things that they had done already on Top Gear that
• 1:20:43
  sort of led up to that moment.
• 1:20:44
  So I felt like, man, they've been doing this for a lot longer than 17 years.
• 1:20:47
  But 17 years is nothing to sneeze at.
• 1:20:49
  Jeremy Clarkson has been in the business well over 30 years, and Clarkson, Hammond,
• 1:20:54
  and May well over 20 years together.
• 1:20:56
  So I agree with you that it was for them, but I think as fans, If they
• 1:21:01
  had just left it where they left it, let's say with the previous special.
• 1:21:05
  Oh, it wasn't good enough.
• 1:21:07
  We needed some closure.
• 1:21:08
  Thank you.
• 1:21:08
  Exactly.
• 1:21:09
  It was a nice ending to something and like other stuff that just kind of
• 1:21:12
  like ends with and you're like looking around going, okay, that was it.
• 1:21:18
  Little kind of side notes from this when that triumph stag showed
• 1:21:21
  up I actually knew about that car and I had just paused it.
• 1:21:25
  I said, oh my god, you won't believe what a piece of crap Those motors,
• 1:21:29
  you know, and then they would take the rover sd1 engine and put it in there
• 1:21:32
  And then they led into that this like I paused as soon as the car showed
• 1:21:36
  up because she's like what is this?
• 1:21:37
  And we were talking about it Yeah We were kind of arguing a little bit about whether
• 1:21:40
  it was barney purple or not because to me it was a little bit too Magenta and
• 1:21:43
  then they they lay into it and She's like, how do you know all this stuff?
• 1:21:47
  And I'm just like, I know things I shouldn't, I guess, you know what I mean?
• 1:21:50
  But that Rover SD1, the backup car, I love those things.
• 1:21:54
  I think they're super cool.
• 1:21:56
  They sort of gave inspiration to what we got in the States,
• 1:21:59
  which was that Sterling.
• 1:22:01
  If you remember that European Accord, it kind of had a similar look to it.
• 1:22:04
  It lasted for like a hot minute in the late 80s, early 90s.
• 1:22:07
  I thought it was funny because they roasted him a little
• 1:22:09
  bit from the beginning.
• 1:22:10
  Oh my God.
• 1:22:11
  This engine's a turd.
• 1:22:13
  They all overheat.
• 1:22:14
  You never find a stag with this motor because they've all been replaced
• 1:22:17
  with the V8 and da da da da da.
• 1:22:18
  And that car never had a problem the whole time through the heat and all that.
• 1:22:24
  I'm like, well, that car doesn't overheat through that trip.
• 1:22:28
  It ain't never overheat.
• 1:22:29
  Yeah, right.
• 1:22:30
  I wouldn't be surprised if secretly he did replace the motor and
• 1:22:33
  it had a different motor in it.
• 1:22:35
  I was disappointed in the fact they took the doors off of that car, considering
• 1:22:39
  how good a condition it was in.
• 1:22:41
  I guarantee they put them back on afterward.
• 1:22:43
  It was cardboard garbage at the end though.
• 1:22:46
  But you know what's funny is, I read some Somewhere that the searches on Google
• 1:22:50
  of triumph stag were up 6, 000 percent as a result of that episode, Lord, it's
• 1:22:57
  going to be the fast and furious effect.
• 1:23:00
  Like the prices of supers went up.
• 1:23:01
  The prices of those cars are going to go up now.
• 1:23:02
  Yeah.
• 1:23:03
  And then people are going to realize how crappy they are.
• 1:23:05
  And it doesn't really matter.
• 1:23:06
  I'd rather have that Rover SD one, honestly, the gold car.
• 1:23:10
  I love the beta Monte Carlos.
• 1:23:11
  They're so awesome.
• 1:23:12
  And then the scorpion on top is even better.
• 1:23:14
  Right?
• 1:23:14
  So there was another article.
• 1:23:16
  that Hammond talked about after they shot and did production of the episode that
• 1:23:21
  apparently it's sort of like not the end.
• 1:23:24
  It's the end of the three of them together, right?
• 1:23:26
  Clarkson is doing his thing, Clarkson Farm and all that stuff, which is
• 1:23:29
  fantastic if you've never watched it.
• 1:23:31
  It's actually a lot of fun.
• 1:23:32
  But apparently him and May are going to do something of an adventure together.
• 1:23:36
  And then apparently Hammond and his brother are going to go off and redo
• 1:23:41
  some of the previous adventures that they had in the past, but with a little less.
• 1:23:46
  of a whole production team there to help them, like, fix the stuff.
• 1:23:49
  Like, they're actually gonna do some of these adventures.
• 1:23:52
  So I thought that was pretty cool, and he was talking about
• 1:23:54
  that after it was all over.
• 1:23:55
  So it's sort of not the end, and all three of them are used to being on camera.
• 1:23:59
  I mean, James May's still doing the R Man in Japan, and R Man
• 1:24:02
  here, and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:24:04
  So I don't see a finality to this, unless They're physically
• 1:24:08
  not capable of doing something.
• 1:24:10
  They're just not going to be doing it together.
• 1:24:12
  It's not the end of their careers.
• 1:24:13
  It's just the end of their, them to get, it's the end of an era, not their careers.
• 1:24:18
  And I don't think it's the end of their friendship.
• 1:24:19
  Although I really love the whole thing where may is like deleting their numbers.
• 1:24:23
  Yeah, it was so good.
• 1:24:25
  But even that ending I appreciated and Jess really liked it when Jeremy's
• 1:24:30
  talking and then suddenly he just.
• 1:24:32
  Pulls the mic and then that was it and it went quiet Yeah But I also thought with
• 1:24:36
  all those quotes that they used and not all of them were from that episode Some
• 1:24:40
  of them were pulled from other things.
• 1:24:41
  I felt it appropriate and it was a missed opportunity for jeremy's classic ending
• 1:24:47
  And on that bombshell, it's time to end.
• 1:24:50
  Boom!
• 1:24:51
  Mic drop.
• 1:24:52
  Done.
• 1:24:52
  Yeah.
• 1:24:53
  I just felt like I needed that.
• 1:24:54
  That was me.
• 1:24:55
  Hopefully I'm not alone in that feeling.
• 1:24:57
  I do think the disconnected mic thing was cool, but it is what it is.
• 1:25:00
  Because of this, my kids have started to get into Top Gear and they want
• 1:25:04
  to see more of the old special.
• 1:25:06
  So, I might actually spend some time, like, revisiting.
• 1:25:08
  Not all of them are appropriate.
• 1:25:10
  Some of their antics, to use Tanya's word, are not always appropriate.
• 1:25:13
  Kosher, but you know, there's some good ones in there.
• 1:25:15
  I mean, Bolivia, the North Pole, especially.
• 1:25:18
  I mean, there's some really, really awesome ones in the mix.
• 1:25:21
  Yeah.
• 1:25:22
  I think the Bolivia one's my favorite.
• 1:25:23
  Yeah.
• 1:25:23
  That one's definitely top three.
• 1:25:25
  And obviously the original Africa one for that matter is fantastic.
• 1:25:29
  So they did watch Scandi Flick recently though.
• 1:25:32
  And that accident, everybody reacts the same way.
• 1:25:34
  It's not great.
• 1:25:35
  Not ideal.
• 1:25:36
  We have some rich people things.
• 1:25:38
  Yay!
• 1:25:39
  Sponsored by Garage Style Magazine, because after all, what
• 1:25:42
  doesn't belong in your garage?
• 1:25:43
  Shaq said he needed another car, and what did he buy?
• 1:25:47
  Cybertruck.
• 1:25:48
  See Brad?
• 1:25:49
  He's another happy Cybertruck owner.
• 1:25:51
  This is what irritated me.
• 1:25:52
  However, it's I guess a one of a kind, because it is a carbon fiber Cybertruck.
• 1:25:58
  So, Mr.
• 1:25:59
  O'Neil is actually a little bit intelligent, because he went, uh, I
• 1:26:03
  don't want this stainless steel trash.
• 1:26:07
  I will pay quadruple for carbon fiber.
• 1:26:09
  That's a lot of carbon.
• 1:26:10
  I don't want to be out here buffing this thing.
• 1:26:12
  It still weighs 8, 000 pounds instead of 9, 000 pounds though.
• 1:26:16
  They should have made the cyber truck out of carbon fiber.
• 1:26:18
  That would have been more cyber.
• 1:26:20
  That would have been more futuristic to have a street car that wasn't a
• 1:26:23
  hyper car made out of carbon fiber.
• 1:26:25
  They could have made it out of Kevlar.
• 1:26:26
  So the whole thing was not bulletproof.
• 1:26:28
  Carbon Kevlar is not new.
• 1:26:29
  They did that in the eighties on like, Audis and Ferraris and stuff.
• 1:26:32
  Stainless steel ain't new either.
• 1:26:34
  So he wasn't going for that.
• 1:26:36
  No, we'd straight back to the eighties on that too.
• 1:26:38
  It's still ugly, but I like the red light in the front though.
• 1:26:40
  I think it looks cool.
• 1:26:41
  It's murdered out.
• 1:26:42
  It's like the rate.
• 1:26:42
  I've seen a cyber truck like this, like blacked out in my area.
• 1:26:45
  Here, the guy wrapped it.
• 1:26:47
  It's still ugly, but it looks better than the stainless.
• 1:26:49
  It's better than it was, but it's still polishing a turd.
• 1:26:53
  Did you notice that Shaq's windshield is also tinted?
• 1:26:55
  Yep.
• 1:26:55
  Illegal.
• 1:26:56
  Issue that man a citation.
• 1:26:58
  He ain't driving that thing.
• 1:26:59
  Isn't it really small inside?
• 1:27:00
  How the hell is he fitting?
• 1:27:01
  That's what I was wondering.
• 1:27:02
  Like, they're not very big inside, but it's got enough headroom for the driver.
• 1:27:05
  Maybe it's custom on the inside.
• 1:27:07
  Since it's only like seven foot something.
• 1:27:08
  There's no backseat.
• 1:27:09
  He just sits in the back.
• 1:27:10
  So it did bring up a question in my mind.
• 1:27:13
  You remember how Shaq was doing that Shaq's garage cartoon,
• 1:27:17
  sort of like the Cars movie.
• 1:27:19
  So is there going to be a Cybertruck in it now?
• 1:27:21
  Is that show even still on?
• 1:27:22
  Did it even make it to market?
• 1:27:23
  I don't know.
• 1:27:24
  We got to look that up.
• 1:27:25
  We got to find out.
• 1:27:26
  That came up during the beginning of COVID, I think.
• 1:27:28
  Oh, look at this.
• 1:27:29
  We have more rich people times.
• 1:27:31
  Make sure you put down this winter.
• 1:27:34
  If you're one to ask Santa for presents, maybe you want to ask
• 1:27:37
  for this if you're expecting a little bundle of joy in the future.
• 1:27:40
  How would you like a Lamborghini?
• 1:27:43
  for your baby.
• 1:27:44
  Wait, wait, wait.
• 1:27:44
  Are we talking like Bugatti Baby 2?
• 1:27:47
  Because that's been done before.
• 1:27:48
  No, we're talking about a limited edition baby stroller.
• 1:27:52
  No!
• 1:27:54
  Yes.
• 1:27:54
  A Lamborghini baby stroller could be yours.
• 1:27:57
  Is it named after a bull like all the other Lamborghinis are?
• 1:28:00
  There's only going to be 500 made.
• 1:28:03
  The price isn't revealed yet on it.
• 1:28:06
  But the basis of this stroller costs 1, 000.
• 1:28:09
  So expect it to cost more than 1, 000.
• 1:28:12
  Is that all?
• 1:28:13
  It's actually not terribly outlandish for a baby stroller.
• 1:28:16
  Do you know how loud Lamborghinis are?
• 1:28:18
  This would frighten the child.
• 1:28:19
  It would go down there.
• 1:28:20
  Rawr, You know, you know that V10 sound that they make?
• 1:28:28
  That trooper that pulled you over would give this person a ticket?
• 1:28:31
  100%.
• 1:28:32
  I do like the orange stitching though, that is super nice.
• 1:28:35
  I'm gonna do that to my baby stroller that I probably won't be
• 1:28:37
  using once Adam starts walking.
• 1:28:39
  Boom, done.
• 1:28:40
  Bring out some Lambo stickers, put them on.
• 1:28:42
  Yep.
• 1:28:42
  So much cheaper.
• 1:28:44
  Feel like I have a Lamborghini.
• 1:28:45
  Well, we've reached that part of the episode where it's time to go down south
• 1:28:49
  and talk about alligators and beer.
• 1:28:51
  Oh man, we're in a flirta man.
• 1:29:07
  Our first Florida man, how unfortunate for the owners.
• 1:29:10
  Right.
• 1:29:11
  But this thief decided to steal a tractor trailer full of Porsche's race car.
• 1:29:16
  Yes!
• 1:29:17
  Worth about 1.
• 1:29:19
  5 million dollars.
• 1:29:21
  And he got away with it apparently.
• 1:29:22
  This is very gone in 60 seconds.
• 1:29:24
  He's a Florida man motorsports enthusiast.
• 1:29:26
  He knew what he was doing.
• 1:29:28
  What he was going to do with them after he stole them is beyond me.
• 1:29:31
  Because race cars are pretty obvious.
• 1:29:34
  Chop them up.
• 1:29:35
  Parts.
• 1:29:36
  There's so little things on a race car that you could use back on a street car.
• 1:29:39
  It's not worth it.
• 1:29:41
  Bold move, Cotton.
• 1:29:42
  Maybe you just thought they were regular Porsches, and then like,
• 1:29:44
  once you've stolen it, and then you're like, crap, now what?
• 1:29:47
  Shit.
• 1:29:47
  But that plays into the fact that you see one 911, you've seen them all.
• 1:29:51
  They all kind of do look the same.
• 1:29:53
  Unit for a penny, unit for a pound, is that the same?
• 1:29:56
  Pass the point and overturn.
• 1:29:58
  All right, Florida, what else you got?
• 1:29:59
  There's another Florida man.
• 1:30:01
  This one is interesting.
• 1:30:02
  I mean, what would you do if you came outside to your Corvette?
• 1:30:06
  There was a person inside of it.
• 1:30:07
  You didn't know that person.
• 1:30:09
  I'd hit the panic button and call 9 1 1 and then I'd get the biggest tool or axe
• 1:30:15
  or something I could find in my garage and I would stand there and wait with
• 1:30:19
  the gentleman until the police showed up.
• 1:30:21
  I mean, that's basically what this person did aside from the
• 1:30:23
  menacing weapon, but I don't know how the guy got in the Corvette,
• 1:30:27
  but apparently he couldn't get it.
• 1:30:28
  Out of the Corvette because he got locked inside and couldn't
• 1:30:31
  figure out how to open the door.
• 1:30:33
  But apparently maybe you can't open the door of these Corvettes
• 1:30:37
  without the key present?
• 1:30:38
  It's electric.
• 1:30:39
  The new ones?
• 1:30:40
  Okay.
• 1:30:40
  The C7 is the same thing.
• 1:30:42
  I've seen it in the C8.
• 1:30:43
  It has this little kind of triangular button that you hit on the handle.
• 1:30:46
  But it's electric and it doesn't work if you're not near the cars.
• 1:30:49
  But how he got in to your point, doesn't make a lot of sense.
• 1:30:52
  Does it have frameless window?
• 1:30:54
  They do, but you know, it didn't peel back like it did on the cyber truck.
• 1:30:58
  And it didn't alert the owner either.
• 1:30:59
  So however he got in, that's a Houdini right there.
• 1:31:02
  Cause a car alarm should have been going off.
• 1:31:04
  I need to look up the definition of this word.
• 1:31:06
  I love how he is quote unquote, a suspect.
• 1:31:10
  He's not a suspect, he's a criminal.
• 1:31:12
  Right?
• 1:31:13
  It says he was charged with burglary of an unoccupied conveyance,
• 1:31:17
  according to local media.
• 1:31:18
  And I'm like, wait a minute.
• 1:31:19
  Something that conveys.
• 1:31:21
  So a vehicle would convey a person.
• 1:31:23
  It has two definitions.
• 1:31:24
  The non lawyer definition is the action or process of transporting someone or
• 1:31:29
  something from one place to another.
• 1:31:31
  Full stop.
• 1:31:32
  The legal definition of conveyance is the legal process of transferring
• 1:31:36
  property from one owner to another, neither of which apply here.
• 1:31:40
  Sometimes authors try to use big words.
• 1:31:43
  Why use a 50 word when you can use two 1 words?
• 1:31:46
  I mean, it's Florida.
• 1:31:47
  Maybe they use the word conveyance instead of vehicle.
• 1:31:50
  This does not convey properly to me.
• 1:31:53
  Alright, what else?
• 1:31:54
  This one is a little different, less on the funny side or whatever.
• 1:31:58
  And we go up north to Michigan for this, and this is Michigan Police.
• 1:32:02
  So apparently there was somebody in a, I don't know, older end of middle
• 1:32:07
  aged, was having a medical emergency.
• 1:32:09
  Which people didn't realize at the time, but they were in a medical
• 1:32:11
  emergency while they were driving whatever GMC Sierra truck they were in.
• 1:32:15
  And they were weaving on the road and like hitting the curb and
• 1:32:17
  kind of going up and coming down.
• 1:32:19
  I believe the Dodgeball movie referred to it as duck, dive, dit, duh.
• 1:32:23
  Yes, all those things.
• 1:32:25
  Because he was no longer in control of his faculties and what was going on.
• 1:32:28
  So these two officers in Ford Explorer or whatever got alerted
• 1:32:33
  or however and came onto the scene.
• 1:32:35
  From the video, it didn't look like the guy was going very fast.
• 1:32:38
  I think he was in a coasting mode, basically, because I don't
• 1:32:40
  think he was feet on the pedals or anything like that, so.
• 1:32:43
  I would have thought you would have pulled in front of the guy, let the
• 1:32:47
  bumpers hit, slow him down, safely.
• 1:32:50
  So no, instead, they decide to go fast and furious, with the cop pulling
• 1:32:54
  up next to the truck, the driver has no control of, get as close as he
• 1:32:59
  can while the other officer climbs out of the window, into the car.
• 1:33:03
  The other vehicle while they're still moving and you see in the video when
• 1:33:06
  she gets in she just hits the ignition button and like shuts the vehicle off.
• 1:33:10
  So I'm like you weren't going very fast then.
• 1:33:12
  He was going five miles an hour.
• 1:33:14
  If you were able to do that, if you were only going five miles an hour,
• 1:33:17
  why would you risk Yourself by crawling through one window to the other because
• 1:33:23
  falling in between 2 vehicles and getting run over at 5 miles an hour is the
• 1:33:26
  same as falling in between 2 vehicles and getting run over at 50 miles.
• 1:33:30
  You're still getting run over.
• 1:33:31
  It's going to not be pleasant.
• 1:33:33
  And oh, my God, such praise for the, you know, whatever thinking and heroics.
• 1:33:38
  Only because this worked out, because if she'd fallen in between the cars, or
• 1:33:42
  suddenly, like, he regained something and turned the steering wheel, and suddenly
• 1:33:46
  the gap between the cars opened, or the gap's opening, she's hanging through,
• 1:33:50
  and the other guy's like, Oh no, I need to get closer, and then, like,
• 1:33:52
  what, smashes her in between the cars?
• 1:33:54
  Like, this could have ended wrong in so many ways.
• 1:33:57
  Yeah, for sure.
• 1:33:58
  It's like, was it worth it?
• 1:33:59
  Well, they're on TV.
• 1:34:00
  We're talking about it.
• 1:34:02
  That's true.
• 1:34:02
  We are doing all of those things.
• 1:34:04
  I'm trying to talk about it as a public service announcement of stupidity.
• 1:34:09
  And it's not like it was a semi.
• 1:34:11
  It was a Silverado.
• 1:34:12
  All of this could have been avoided.
• 1:34:14
  Good for them.
• 1:34:14
  I mean, I guess it comes full circle and we can say there's happy stories too.
• 1:34:19
  Well, it is a happy story.
• 1:34:20
  They were able to stop the car.
• 1:34:22
  Nobody else got hurt.
• 1:34:23
  They were able to get the guy medical attention for whatever was his ailment.
• 1:34:26
  So it is a happy story.
• 1:34:27
  I guarantee you they issued him a citation afterwards.
• 1:34:30
  Well, no, I don't think he'd get a citation.
• 1:34:32
  You wouldn't get a citation.
• 1:34:33
  It's reckless driving.
• 1:34:35
  If you had a stroke, whose fault is that?
• 1:34:37
  That doesn't matter.
• 1:34:38
  I am the law.
• 1:34:40
  You live in America.
• 1:34:41
  It's somebody's fault.
• 1:34:42
  Exactly.
• 1:34:43
  And that driver, even if he stroked out, I guarantee you they gave him a citation.
• 1:34:48
  He may not get any criminal penalties, but he'll definitely get civil.
• 1:34:51
  He's driving on the curb.
• 1:34:52
  How many signs did he hit?
• 1:34:54
  Damages, property, all that stuff.
• 1:34:56
  Is that why they didn't want to do the stop and front technique?
• 1:34:59
  Because of insurance?
• 1:35:01
  Yeah, yeah, there's that too.
• 1:35:02
  My guess.
• 1:35:02
  It was just a snap decision and they didn't think about it at the time.
• 1:35:05
  Probably at this snap decision at this 5 mile an hour.
• 1:35:11
  You could have stopped.
• 1:35:12
  Okay, there you go.
• 1:35:13
  If it was okay, we're going to go with it was 5 miles an hour because
• 1:35:16
  we talked about speeds of scooters and walking and running earlier.
• 1:35:20
  Yes, 5 miles an hour.
• 1:35:22
  You could have stopped your cruiser, got out, and jogged up
• 1:35:26
  to the dude and opened the door.
• 1:35:28
  Let's just say in the 90s this would have been a lot easier because it
• 1:35:32
  would have got carjacked at that speed.
• 1:35:35
  I swear I thought I saw where it said five miles an hour.
• 1:35:38
  Oh man, never ceases.
• 1:35:40
  All right, well folks, it's time we go behind the hit wall and
• 1:35:44
  talk about motorsports news.
• 1:35:46
  Formula One's back.
• 1:35:47
  So much drama in the latest.
• 1:35:50
  And the greatest, Adrian Newey, I hear rumors he's going to Aston Martin.
• 1:35:55
  Not a rumor.
• 1:35:55
  They paid him Fort Knox money.
• 1:35:58
  It begged the question.
• 1:35:59
  We're going to see three time world champion Fernando Alonso.
• 1:36:03
  Thank you very much.
• 1:36:04
  Oldest Formula One driver to win a championship, right, at this point.
• 1:36:08
  Does he stand a chance or are they going to give him the pink slip?
• 1:36:11
  His contracts are renewed, not that they can't still get him out.
• 1:36:14
  I don't remember for how many years his contracts are renewed, but I would
• 1:36:17
  say at least through 2025 he's there.
• 1:36:19
  He's there.
• 1:36:19
  if they're able to make car changes for next season and if those car changes are
• 1:36:24
  miraculously at the level of what red bull used to be it's conceivable that fernando
• 1:36:30
  could be a third time world champion i suppose however the real question would
• 1:36:33
  be are there team orders that make lance stroll one time world champion daddy
• 1:36:38
  pays daddy gets what he wants Yeah, but you still have to have some talent.
• 1:36:43
  Who?
• 1:36:44
  Are you kidding me?
• 1:36:45
  This goes back to Formula One, even to the 70s.
• 1:36:48
  The best cars and the best money, and it didn't really matter the driver.
• 1:36:52
  If they wanted you to win, they would make it happen.
• 1:36:54
  Let's say they equal the previous Red Bulls.
• 1:36:58
  Verstappen and Perez were always 1 2, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2.
• 1:37:01
  It's conceivable that they could be 1 2 also, and then at that point, uh oh.
• 1:37:06
  And Alonso's paid to play blocker for Lance.
• 1:37:09
  He's the best.
• 1:37:09
  That's a retirement gig, which would just be bad.
• 1:37:12
  I don't know.
• 1:37:12
  That'd be the most pathetic world champion win ever because
• 1:37:16
  it's like, he didn't deserve it.
• 1:37:18
  Take it back to 1979, Jody Schecter and Gilles Villeneuve.
• 1:37:22
  Villeneuve was under team orders from Ferrari to basically play blocker.
• 1:37:26
  He was faster than Schecter, but they wanted Schecter to have the championship.
• 1:37:29
  And so they forced him to take a backseat for years.
• 1:37:33
  That sucks.
• 1:37:33
  And that's why I hate the team orders thing.
• 1:37:36
  I get it in the days of like, preserve the car and this and that,
• 1:37:40
  but I mean, again, there was cases with Barrichello and Schumacher.
• 1:37:43
  It was the same thing where Barrichello could have run the race,
• 1:37:45
  but he had to get out of the way to let Schumacher through, right?
• 1:37:48
  That's the part of Formula One I don't like.
• 1:37:50
  And that's where, Brad, you've said it before, it's not a driver's championship,
• 1:37:54
  it's a manufacturer's championship.
• 1:37:56
  And currently, I believe, McLaren is now winning that.
• 1:38:00
  Good on Zach Brown, who, by the way, was recently honored at the IMRRC
• 1:38:04
  Artsinger Award for Motorsports Achievement this past month.
• 1:38:08
  There's a full article on that on the IMRRC's website with pictures
• 1:38:11
  and all that kind of stuff.
• 1:38:12
  He celebrated that with Bobby Rahal, who was the MC of the event and a
• 1:38:16
  lot of other really cool people, and fortunately was supposed to be there.
• 1:38:20
  But due to life circumstances, To get to go, but you know,
• 1:38:23
  there's always next year.
• 1:38:24
  There's always another honoree good for McLaren.
• 1:38:27
  They're having their moment in the sun.
• 1:38:29
  So, and that bright orange is very, very reflective on the downslide of that.
• 1:38:33
  Brad, are you, are you getting a little blue?
• 1:38:36
  Are you, your heartthrob might be on the chopping block again?
• 1:38:39
  Not surprised.
• 1:38:40
  He hasn't been the same since he left Red Bull.
• 1:38:41
  You've made bad decisions and this is where he is and he's done.
• 1:38:45
  He left McLaren and now they're front runners.
• 1:38:48
  So is that the pattern?
• 1:38:49
  Every time Daniela Ricardo leaves a team, then they get better.
• 1:38:52
  Is that what we're seeing?
• 1:38:52
  Yeah, but it didn't happen to Renault slash Alpine.
• 1:38:55
  So is he going to be signs his teammate over Haas or
• 1:38:58
  wherever the hell he ended up?
• 1:38:59
  Oh, he's going away.
• 1:39:00
  There's too many junior guys.
• 1:39:01
  He's going to be racing with Brendan Hartley out in WEC.
• 1:39:06
  You know, and that might be a step in the right direction.
• 1:39:09
  Or no, maybe he'll just race in an Australian supercar.
• 1:39:12
  He'll drive the new Toyota.
• 1:39:13
  Oh, the super.
• 1:39:14
  Yeah, that'd be really good for him.
• 1:39:15
  I mean, again, there have been other guys that have left formula one and have had
• 1:39:19
  amazing careers and other disciplines of racing, and that's where I've made the
• 1:39:23
  argument before, what would Verstappen be like, or what would Hamilton be like if
• 1:39:27
  they left their ivory towers of formula one and tried to go race somewhere else?
• 1:39:31
  And we saw what happened with Kimi and all those.
• 1:39:34
  They just.
• 1:39:35
  They suck.
• 1:39:35
  Meanwhile, speaking of Haas, there's some drama.
• 1:39:38
  Well, I don't even know because that's old drama because they've
• 1:39:40
  already raced several races post this declaration of after the Italian GP.
• 1:39:45
  So it's like, I don't know what got seized because the cars are still on the track.
• 1:39:49
  Gene, Gene Haas called him and said the checks in the mail.
• 1:39:52
  Didn't he really?
• 1:39:53
  He literally like in an interview said, he said the checks in the
• 1:39:56
  mail, like the funds were sent.
• 1:39:57
  Get off my back.
• 1:39:58
  Leave my cars alone.
• 1:39:59
  Nice.
• 1:40:00
  He probably sent it via MoneyGram.
• 1:40:04
  Might as well use the sponsorship, get that discount.
• 1:40:06
  This is all a result of HeMightSpin or Mazispin's dad, right?
• 1:40:10
  This is all the Eurocoli and all their investment.
• 1:40:14
  Paying for everything.
• 1:40:16
  Yeah.
• 1:40:16
  Title sponsors, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:40:18
  And then with the invasion of Ukraine, Russia got kicked out of everything.
• 1:40:23
  Yeah.
• 1:40:23
  And so did they.
• 1:40:24
  And so they wanted their money back for all the endorsement and sponsorship
• 1:40:28
  and everything they paid into the cars.
• 1:40:30
  It was like 12 million or something that Jean wouldn't need to pay.
• 1:40:33
  But he didn't.
• 1:40:34
  Was it the full original amount or is it like the prorated what
• 1:40:37
  was left on the contract amount?
• 1:40:39
  I don't know.
• 1:40:40
  Cause I think it would be unfair to be like, you know, the Karen scenario
• 1:40:43
  where you're at the restaurant and you've eaten seven eighths of the meal
• 1:40:46
  and then you complained that it wasn't any good and you found a hair in it.
• 1:40:49
  Since Maz's spin crashed several of the cars, I believe.
• 1:40:52
  Yeah.
• 1:40:52
  Like I'm not paying you back.
• 1:40:55
  So other drama going on, Tanya, you brought this up on our discord.
• 1:41:00
  Sounds like the FIA is having a little moment of silence.
• 1:41:02
  censorship, which is dumb because so there's two layers to it.
• 1:41:06
  So there is rules within the FIA rulebook, blah, blah, blah, around language.
• 1:41:12
  It's particularly in regards to when they're doing the press stuff and they're
• 1:41:16
  actually in front of a whole audience.
• 1:41:17
  People should be watching their language.
• 1:41:19
  I don't disagree with that.
• 1:41:20
  Like, It's unprofessional.
• 1:41:21
  You don't need dropping f bombs when somebody's asking you how your race went.
• 1:41:24
  If you're getting a nut punch from one of the other drivers,
• 1:41:26
  you might curse a little bit.
• 1:41:28
  Okay, that's extenuating circumstances, but what actually has just literally
• 1:41:33
  happened yesterday is Verstappen actually, I think, has gotten penalized, reprimanded
• 1:41:38
  at the very least, but I think some sort of penalization because he cursed
• 1:41:42
  on a live Singapore Press conference because the next race is in Singapore.
• 1:41:46
  First of all, I wouldn't do anything remotely bad in the country of Singapore.
• 1:41:50
  I don't know if he's getting fined or something for it.
• 1:41:52
  And it's like, dude, why?
• 1:41:53
  Why do you need to do that?
• 1:41:54
  Right?
• 1:41:54
  And that is clearly in your rule book.
• 1:41:56
  No excuse, right?
• 1:41:57
  Like go cry yourself a river if you're going to complain about it now.
• 1:41:59
  But what they're trying to sounds like almost extend is the driver
• 1:42:04
  in the car when their adrenaline is to the max and their life is on
• 1:42:08
  the line and they're going 11 tens.
• 1:42:11
  If they drop an F bomb, it's like, you shouldn't be dropping F bombs.
• 1:42:14
  Get the hell out of here!
• 1:42:15
  On a closed radio system.
• 1:42:17
  Well, no.
• 1:42:18
  Because the problem is, with all like, F1 TV and all this stuff, you
• 1:42:22
  can go into individual people's feeds and actually be hearing the radio.
• 1:42:27
  And a lot of times they broadcast what some of the commentary on the radios is.
• 1:42:30
  So, one, don't broadcast it.
• 1:42:33
  Two, stop making it, you know, Publicly available, which is basically what all
• 1:42:36
  the drivers are coming and saying is like, don't let people listen to us then.
• 1:42:40
  This is crap.
• 1:42:41
  How can we control what we're saying in the heat of a moment thing?
• 1:42:44
  Every time they get hit by Ocon, I would be cursing every expletive that existed.
• 1:42:48
  I mean, if my teammate took me out for no reason on like lap two, I'd be
• 1:42:51
  like, what was this atmat for doing?
• 1:42:54
  Or a total Elon move.
• 1:42:56
  Go F yourself.
• 1:42:57
  Yes.
• 1:42:58
  Is it unsportsmanlike?
• 1:42:59
  Blah, blah, blah.
• 1:43:00
  Like, if someone is doing it in a way that's super malicious or very
• 1:43:06
  directed and pointed at someone, fine.
• 1:43:08
  There is some level of reprimanding that needs to take place.
• 1:43:11
  But if you're on your team rating and you're like, Fuck!
• 1:43:13
  Sorry, guys.
• 1:43:14
  Like, messed that up.
• 1:43:15
  Like Who cares?
• 1:43:16
  Move on with life.
• 1:43:17
  Don't broadcast it then if we're worried that somebody's sensitive and hearing it.
• 1:43:21
  I think that's silly.
• 1:43:22
  Hopefully it doesn't get put into effect.
• 1:43:24
  That's just crap.
• 1:43:25
  Well, it's also just the sport itself.
• 1:43:27
  It has the luxury of having the access to that.
• 1:43:30
  You don't have that with like football.
• 1:43:31
  Football or baseball or any of those kinds of things.
• 1:43:34
  It's part of the realism of racing.
• 1:43:37
  Like you said, these guys are under stress.
• 1:43:38
  They're under a lot of load and shit happens.
• 1:43:41
  Let's just call a spade a spade.
• 1:43:42
  And that was multiple drivers comments too.
• 1:43:45
  It's like, we're broadcasted.
• 1:43:47
  That's why you hear it.
• 1:43:48
  They're like, mic up anyone on the soccer pitch or in a basketball game.
• 1:43:53
  I guarantee you they're cursing at each other.
• 1:43:55
  You just can't hear it.
• 1:43:57
  And to that point, they actually do Mike some individual players.
• 1:44:01
  And some of those other sports, they just don't broadcast.
• 1:44:04
  They edit and filter out what the general public hears.
• 1:44:07
  But there are instances like Tanya just mentioned, where they actually do mic
• 1:44:11
  some of the players at these events.
• 1:44:13
  They could do the same thing here too, because if F1 TV feed or whatever,
• 1:44:17
  they could put a delay on it and then they could filter out the curse word.
• 1:44:23
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:44:24
  What's a, what's a two or three second delay going to do?
• 1:44:26
  You for each team.
• 1:44:28
  You got somebody sitting there to edit it.
• 1:44:29
  It used to be seven seconds.
• 1:44:30
  That gave them enough time to filter that kind of stuff out.
• 1:44:33
  And now with the AI technology and everything else we have, it
• 1:44:35
  should be an automatic bleep.
• 1:44:36
  Just bleep it.
• 1:44:37
  You don't even have to filter it out.
• 1:44:38
  Just bleep it.
• 1:44:39
  Bleep.
• 1:44:39
  Done.
• 1:44:40
  Well, you know what?
• 1:44:40
  Can't be bleeped out.
• 1:44:41
  And I couldn't believe this corporate espionage underfoot
• 1:44:46
  in the world of IndyCar.
• 1:44:47
  Wow.
• 1:44:47
  What year are we in?
• 1:44:49
  I know, right?
• 1:44:50
  This is some cloak and dagger.
• 1:44:52
  Spy versus spy stuff the way the story reads and I love the headline It sounds
• 1:44:57
  like super bad fbi agents carry out operation at ray hall headquarters
• 1:45:02
  You're like, what is this about?
• 1:45:04
  Like, what did they do?
• 1:45:05
  Who died?
• 1:45:06
  Okay, whatever apparently they hired somebody from andretti global came
• 1:45:10
  over to ray hall's team and I don't know if this person took intellectual
• 1:45:16
  property from Andretti and then here's my USB stick, plug it into the computer.
• 1:45:20
  Or if it's like tried to do a brain dump of everything he knew
• 1:45:24
  and giving them an advantage.
• 1:45:26
  You sign non competes.
• 1:45:27
  You're supposed to be good about that stuff and NDAs and
• 1:45:30
  all those kinds of things.
• 1:45:31
  But I don't know.
• 1:45:32
  I'm curious to see how this plays out, but there's really not any
• 1:45:36
  more information than exactly what's in this article from racer.
• 1:45:39
  com.
• 1:45:39
  It's just like.
• 1:45:40
  The FBI went in and took all their computers and I guess
• 1:45:43
  they'll never get 'em back.
• 1:45:44
  Who knows?
• 1:45:44
  The shadow knows.
• 1:45:45
  I also wanted to just say, I learned something today.
• 1:45:49
  Now I knew that you could watch WEC races on HBO Max or just, it's just Max
• 1:45:57
  now, which came in handy today because Adam was home sick, so I needed to.
• 1:46:03
  Watch him needed something to do.
• 1:46:05
  So I put on something palatable that a less than one year old would be able
• 1:46:08
  to watch what I did not know that I'm pleasantly surprised by is you can also
• 1:46:12
  get the full MotoGP schedule as well.
• 1:46:15
  So I was sitting there watching Mark Marquez's return to glory,
• 1:46:20
  catching some of that old stuff.
• 1:46:22
  It was quite nice.
• 1:46:23
  So if anybody's a motorcycle fan and has been looking to try and watch the MotoGP
• 1:46:28
  races, you can catch them on the max app.
• 1:46:30
  They're also on TNT sports.
• 1:46:32
  Which are sometimes broadcast on true TV.
• 1:46:34
  And then all the WEC races are out there.
• 1:46:36
  They were at CODA, I think September 1st, which was fun to watch.
• 1:46:41
  I learned something new today.
• 1:46:42
  And don't forget the IMSA season is wrapping up here
• 1:46:45
  in the early part of October.
• 1:46:47
  Oh yeah.
• 1:46:47
  They're going to Petit Le Mans.
• 1:46:49
  Are you going?
• 1:46:49
  I want to go so bad.
• 1:46:52
  But I can't because of your third child, we'll just say I'm
• 1:46:56
  grounded for a little while.
• 1:46:57
  But yes, if all had gone to plan, I was going to meet up with some friends.
• 1:47:01
  There's an ACO event going on down there.
• 1:47:03
  A bunch of other stuff that weekend would love to be a Petit Lamar.
• 1:47:05
  I absolutely adore road Atlanta.
• 1:47:07
  I think that's a.
• 1:47:08
  Fantastic event, but you know, sometimes it's not in the cards.
• 1:47:11
  There's always next year, which I am still hopeful to do a Lamont's classic.
• 1:47:15
  So looking forward to that, but we'll see.
• 1:47:16
  We'll see if I can swing France again, that would be absolutely amazing.
• 1:47:20
  But there's other cool stuff.
• 1:47:21
  Goodwood, a million other things I'd love to do.
• 1:47:24
  Goodwood is on my bucket list.
• 1:47:25
  Goodwood and the revival.
• 1:47:27
  I want to do the Isle of Man.
• 1:47:28
  I'm not a big bike guy when it comes to following motorcycle,
• 1:47:32
  like motor GP and all that stuff.
• 1:47:34
  Like my dad was, but I'm like, Isle of Man, be pretty cool.
• 1:47:38
  Yeah, well, that wraps up our motor sports news.
• 1:47:41
  Oh wait, no, it doesn't.
• 1:47:42
  We've got one more piece here and that's from the virtual world.
• 1:47:45
  So if you guys go back into this month's catalog, you'll see that we did an episode
• 1:47:48
  with Steffi Dow from Innit Esports.
• 1:47:50
  She's a world champion motocross rider.
• 1:47:54
  She's got a sim for STEM program and something else called screen to speed.
• 1:47:57
  And they have a lot of these tournaments going on throughout the season and
• 1:48:01
  they have one coming up right now.
• 1:48:02
  They were looking for people to qualify, to represent the United States.
• 1:48:07
  eSports games.
• 1:48:08
  We posted about this on our discord and a couple other places where you can
• 1:48:11
  get access to up to date information from GTM and NPN headquarters.
• 1:48:16
  But what's really cool is you can continue to follow the action
• 1:48:19
  of the global eSports games.
• 1:48:21
  You can join their discord.
• 1:48:22
  You can follow them on Twitch and the real life finale.
• 1:48:27
  Is either going to be in South America or in Abu Dhabi, look for
• 1:48:31
  that in December, but you can learn more about what's going on in the
• 1:48:35
  global esports games at initesports.
• 1:48:37
  gg.
• 1:48:39
  Go from there, there'll be a link to the global esports games qualifier
• 1:48:43
  and the link and information is also in our show notes.
• 1:48:45
  So good luck to everybody from Init Esports is going to be competing on this
• 1:48:49
  global stage in the virtual racing world.
• 1:48:52
  As a reminder, our Motorsports News is brought to us in
• 1:48:54
  partnership with the International Motor Racing Research Center.
• 1:48:57
  A couple quick teasers for the remainder of the season.
• 1:49:01
  As I mentioned before, there's a write up, there's video, and other
• 1:49:05
  coverage of the Argottsinger Awards Night honoring Zach Brown, the
• 1:49:08
  CEO of McLaren, at RacingArchives.
• 1:49:11
  org.
• 1:49:11
  We also posted a And some of it on our clubhouse website, club.
• 1:49:14
  gtmotorsports.
• 1:49:15
  org.
• 1:49:15
  And there's other racing outlets that you probably subscribe to that are covering
• 1:49:19
  the same press releases from the event.
• 1:49:21
  So check that out.
• 1:49:23
  I will say that racingarchives.
• 1:49:24
  org is the only place to get access to the YouTube video compilation that was
• 1:49:29
  made for the events of that's there.
• 1:49:30
  And don't forget at the tail end of October, starting on the 31st Halloween.
• 1:49:36
  The Real Wheel Film Festival kicks off the 8th Annual Michael R.
• 1:49:41
  Argettsinger Symposium on Motorsports History.
• 1:49:43
  If you can't come to the Glen for any of that, we will be live
• 1:49:46
  streaming it on our Twitch, twitch.
• 1:49:48
  tv forward slash GrandTouringMotorsports.
• 1:49:50
  So be sure to follow us for more details on that.
• 1:49:55
  And if you can't even catch the live stream, all that stuff will be available
• 1:49:59
  after the fact, chopped up and turned into podcast episodes and things like
• 1:50:02
  that throughout the rest of the season.
• 1:50:04
  And you might recall that the IMRRC loves to do a Corvette sweepstakes every year.
• 1:50:11
  This year is no exception and the Corvette sweepstakes is back.
• 1:50:15
  It is running through spring of next year.
• 1:50:18
  You can enter now for your chance to win a 2024 Corvette Z06 with the Z07 package.
• 1:50:23
  Details on racingarchives.
• 1:50:25
  org.
• 1:50:26
  And don't forget that if you don't want the Corvette, that's perfectly fine.
• 1:50:29
  There's always a cash option and all the proceeds go to benefit the continued
• 1:50:34
  operation of the center, which is a 501c3 not for profit organization.
• 1:50:39
  And with that, Brad.
• 1:50:40
  Take us home.
• 1:50:41
  As a reminder, you can find tons of upcoming local shows and events
• 1:50:45
  at the Ultimate Reference for Car Enthusiasts, collectorcarguide.
• 1:50:49
  net.
• 1:50:49
  You know, Brad, that reminds me, we have a special announcement.
• 1:50:52
  I want to give a quick shout out to the Unbound Wheels of Hope Car Show.
• 1:50:57
  They would like to welcome anyone to the Landmark Church 12th.
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  This event is not only to showcase incredible cars, but also a way
• 1:51:06
  to contribute to a worthy cause.
• 1:51:08
  They are encouraging enthusiasts to sign up their vehicles and contribute to the
• 1:51:12
  show and help make a memorable experience.
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  You can learn more by registering at unboundwheelsofhope.
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  com.
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  And if you have any questions or are interested in sponsorship opportunities,
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  feel free to contact them directly at info at unboundwheelsofhope.
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  com and you'll find the event listing at gtmotorsports.
• 1:51:30
  org.
• 1:51:31
  Are you still looking to fill your calendar with some track days?
• 1:51:34
  How about some hpdjunkie.
• 1:51:36
  com trackside information?
• 1:51:38
  This month we actually put out a three part time trials and HPDE
• 1:51:43
  classroom session that was taken from our time with our friends at EMRA.
• 1:51:48
  It's all about learning how to get on track, what you need to know.
• 1:51:51
  Our website follow along article includes the slides, videos, and we
• 1:51:56
  presented it as a single extended podcast episode everywhere you
• 1:52:00
  download podcasts, including this episode you're listening to right now.
• 1:52:03
  If you're looking for the article, it is an issue 29 of our magazine.
• 1:52:08
  So next month kicks off issue 31 because we had our special car week
• 1:52:12
  one in there, which was issue 30.
• 1:52:13
  So look to that for all those details.
• 1:52:16
  Again, you can check out all the local motorsports events on the
• 1:52:20
  East Coast, or at least in the DMV area, ranging from autocross track
• 1:52:23
  days, karting, et cetera, on club.
• 1:52:25
  gtmotorsports.
• 1:52:26
  org.
• 1:52:27
  And we also promote national events as part of the magazine
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