Just Drive Your Car

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kiki would like I'd like you to give go ahead
with your speech about I can't wait to hear this.
But I saw that you contributed to our little shared
document of ideas for the show today, and this is
what it says. I saw this and I couldn't agree more.
This is in Kinki's words, Yes, there is no need

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for traffic if everyone would just drive.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Exactly, Yes, then I stand by it.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
That's the whole statement.

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Yes, because when you when I'm sitting in traffic and
I really start to think, okay, if the person at
front would just go and mind your best to stop
looking around, just drive, then there would be no traffic
because the road doesn't end and we're all going somewhere.
Just everybody was on the same page, Just get on

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the same wavelength, just drive, then we would not be
in traffic.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Corret well, I mean, sometimes traffic is a result of
construction or an accident. But I will say oftentimes it'll
slow down and you'll be like, oh, there must be
something going on, and then it starts to speed up
and you realize at that point there was nothing going
on exactly. There was actually nothing happening. It's just for
whatever reason, everybody right there decided to slow down exactly.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
So keep your eyes on the road, stay focused on
where you're going, and then all of us can just
get to where we're going. We will not be in traffic.
It is like, it's really a simple concept. I don't
understand why we can't seem to grasp that.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Just drive, Yes, you feel I.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Want to piggyback off this because we've had this discussion before,
people driving too slow in the left lane.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
My issue?

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Now we drive on the highway lot. Jason, you drive
on the highway lot. Yes, you might have to call
your girl and with the right friend. Because these truck
drivers I don't know what they all be in the
left lane now, Like, yes, they're all in the left
lane like they're signed to say, trucks use the two
right lane, slower traffic, keep right. These trucks be in
the two left lanes doing under the speed limit. You

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think there's a big delay in front of them, you
get around them, there's like twenty feet before for him
in the next car. I'm like, why are you guys
in the left lane? I don't understand it. Well, wow,
I'm talking like semi trucks work trucks, dumb trucks, box trucks,
all kinds of trucks.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Talking about some more trucks are moving trucks, delivery construction trucks.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
I'm like, I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (02:17):
You're just sitting in the left lane doing under the
speed limit and you have no clue of why to
move over.

Speaker 6 (02:24):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (02:25):
Yeah, I'm sick of this and it needs to change.
We need to just folk. You know, I'm a multitasker.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I think are you the problem?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
I feel like you're the one going slowly because you're
making a TikTok video.

Speaker 6 (02:38):
Or you're live, you're busy because you're like doing other things.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Even sure, you're not the problem, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:45):
And there's somebody who drives around with five percent gas.
I don't have time to be sitting in traffic like
that's a very anxious spot to be and you your
gas is on five percent, nobody's moving.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Everybody needs to pay attention, not survive that.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Wow kiki yeah he kiky key.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You have to fix this. Jason doesn't go below half
a tank.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Yeah yeah, I have.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
To go on the expression, Oh god, how is.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
He wasting money not going below half of it? We're
not going to do this exercise again.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
I like, what is the argument he's filling up too often?
You know what I'm saying, Like he doesn't.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
I mean, if he spends fifty dollars to fillip warrants
and then and then he only uses half a tank,
that he's got to spend another twenty five the same week.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
Then if I don't, then I have to spend like
one hundred. This is the part of that argument. I
don't understand. Okay, if I'm just gonna make this round numbers.
If a tank costs you one hundred dollars to fill
and you and you use half of it, so you
got to put fifty in to make it one hundred
again if you okay, so it costs you fifty. But

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if I drive longer and it's empty, that I pay
one hundred. The amount of gas in the tank doesn't
change the capacity, and you know from from the all
to empty it doesn't. I don't understand why people make
this argument that you save money by it. You're not
saving anything, really, he.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
Is, because if you think about it, well, I mean,
you're not.

Speaker 6 (04:11):
Saying amount like a full test the same amount whether
I pay fifty hour or.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
One hundred later. It doesn't matter what it costs. What
it costs.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
But okay, so the fifty that so you put the
fifth the.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Why are we doing?

Speaker 4 (04:27):
Mats you because you take you drive out half and
you get to half right now. The other half that's
left in there, doesn't that like evaporate over time?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Like you're not you saying that's twenty.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
It would take a very very very long time.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
But you're looking it over time because you're never getting
under the half.

Speaker 2 (04:43):
So that half would take a gases from six months ago.
It's just all those together mix it.

Speaker 6 (04:50):
It's like like it.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Doesn't look solid. What do you think is going in
your tankkik are you just high? What are you putting
in your take? If you think it just it just
mix it with the other guest is at the bottom.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, in my mind, it's like you have a two
liter pop right and then you.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Drink only half that bottom half is now flat and
you just adding more good gas.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
It doesn't really work.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
I mean the guest has to be in there for
a long time to be bad gas.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Okay a long time.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
And just think the amount that you're changing lanes, especially
you moving around there. It's mixing real.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well, okay, but this whole I mean, this is a
debate on inside the NBA with Shack and it doesn't
it doesn't work.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
You don't say it.

Speaker 1 (05:36):
You might feel like you're spending less along the way.
I mean, it would be like pre paying versus paying.
I don't know. I'm trying to think of an example.
If you let's say you I don't know, you have
a cleaning person and they charge you fifty bucks a
week to come, or you pay two hundred dollars a month. Well,

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the two hundred dollars is more of to write at
one time, but then you don't pay for four weeks
versus it's cheaper to pay twenty dollars twenty five dollars
or fifty dollars a week or whatever. But in the end,
it's the same amount of money. You don't you know,
it's not actually cheaper. You're just spending less money. As
you go.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
I need some coffee for that theory.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
Well think about it, Bill, Yeah, it makes me feel
better that I'm only spending twenty five dollars a week
versus like waiting two weeks and spending one hundred to
fill up my gas.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Right, But like, okay, the same amount of money. What
if you paid your mortgage every day.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
Let's say it was fifty dollars or one hundred dollars
every day I need it edible, yes, versus.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Three thousand dollars a month. It's okay, it feels better, right,
but it's no different.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Right you earn two hundred dollars every day or three
thousand dollars and then you don't pay for thirty days.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I'm making this up this number.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
But if I'm paying it every day, I may get
a process charge for paying every day. So they, in
my mind, Jason is wasting more gas going back and
forth to the gas so frequently.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
That might be a valid argument. Now, depending how far
you are from the gas station. If you just drive
past one and you pull in, that's fine. But if
you're if you're like having to drive several miles out
of the way every time to fill up, Now, now
I would argue you're wasting money. But if you have it,
if there's a gas station right next to your house
and you just pulling there on your way home because

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you would drive by it anyway, well then you're not
wasting any gas.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
Well, what you're stopping. You're turning your car on and
off more that's.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
More gas, so it doesn't turn it off. You're trying
to risk your life.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
That's true.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
He's a cigarette and in the time spent watching the
videos and the commercials, Maria, we're tight out.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
Of your life.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
You give it a lot of time.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
You just never you never live. You don't live unless
you know.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Unless you're you're not experiencing life. Unless you get to
zero per.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
Secont your car can go on e You have to
know this.

Speaker 6 (08:00):
But I'm wanna be like he Key's stuck in traffic,
no moving on these best the way home with two percent, Dan,
she knows.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
How far she can get though. Hold on, guys, Hold
on Danny, Yes, Danny, good morning.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Hello.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yeah, I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Okay, I agree with you, Kiki, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Guys.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
I go through this with my dad non stop because
he's he throws his take up at half like no Dower.

Speaker 8 (08:25):
But you have a better chance of waiting it.

Speaker 9 (08:29):
Out to get the gas prices to drop than just
throwing it up at half.

Speaker 8 (08:34):
And I mean I'm a believer in that. Instead of I'm.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
Gonna be honest, Danny, I've just accepted the gas is expensive,
and it is what it is when I need it,
I honestly don't have enough time or energy to like
save ten cents on it, you know, to drive further
to go get it or you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
You don't, Oh I don't. I don't.

Speaker 7 (08:55):
I don't do gas like that anymore. But like you don't,
oh yeah, because you have a test last that was
the gas. Honestly, I fill up so rarely could I
drive so rarely? So, so it's just I just get
the When I need the gas, I get the gas
because honestly, if I drive around in circle trying to
find the cheapest gas, or if I go well out
of my way to find the cheapest gas, that I'm

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probably spending more on gas to get to guess right,
Thank you, Danny, have a good day man.

Speaker 8 (09:21):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (09:22):
Yeah, My like weird ocd is I wait till thirty
two miles left and that's when I fill up.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Every time I have like a weird rule thirty two.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
I think the I think the light comes on at
thirty yeah, and I like to go two miles past
that and then you know, I don't like.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
To fill up in the city though, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
No, no, that'll get you. No, man, I'll get you.
But look at this. It's always these brainless topics that
have like the text is going crazy, like honestly, like you,
we'll think no, I mean, we'll think of stuff for
like weeks and then do it and then people are like, eh, whatever,
and then I'll go like, hey, what's your favorite flavor
of ice cream?

Speaker 3 (09:54):
And we debated for like.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
Three hours, and the phone's ring off the hook and
everyone's got something to say, yes.

Speaker 5 (09:59):
Rufio about you know, like someone's have Yeah, I know,
someones have longer weeks, so you're feeling, oh gee, you know,
an extra week sometimes longer.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
There's five days in a week. I drive.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah, but someone's have more weeks than others, you know it.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
They don't. Some months have more weeks. Yes, there are four.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
Weeks on average in every month. You might get part
of another week in another month, but no.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
That's an extra fifty month, twenty five dollars.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's not like one month has five weeks and the
rest have four, Like I mean, unless it's like leafy
or something.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Act I'm on a beach right now.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
Honestly, good god.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
I just say do it for the three real you know,
let that thing lived. You know, you got to see
if your controls in your car work, you know, if it's.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Going to lurch you.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
Well, they don't. And also what about me and my aura?
It tells you that we should do that.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Hey, Gracie, Hi, Gracie, Yes, good morning? Why Hey, Hi?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Go ahead?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
So I want to kike right now. Actually, so I'm
currently dalking to work and I'm on thirty miles till empty.

Speaker 9 (11:07):
But in one mile it's gonna tell me that I'm.

Speaker 8 (11:09):
Out of gas.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
Girl, I'm one of those.

Speaker 9 (11:12):
People that risk it to the last minute.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Yes, right on the edge.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
Why Gracie, Why why? Like you're going to pass the
gas station?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Just pull in? Why do this to yourself?

Speaker 4 (11:27):
I will as soon as I get to a gas station,
I'll pull on.

Speaker 9 (11:30):
But I know how long I can go without having
to fill it up.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Yes, you know your car?

Speaker 2 (11:36):
Ye to get to know each other.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Yes, I'm good. Friends get scared, but I know you know.
Thank you, Grazie. Have a good day. Love you. You
took like I don't.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Live like there's not a gas station near my home.
So I will let it go because I actually have
to go out of my way to get guessed. So
I'll let it go real low because it's like unless
or I'll like think, okay, on this day, I'm going
out of the city, so I'm going to pass it.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
So and so I'll let it get down there. But
that's not outed.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
If there were a gas station right here, I'd always
have gas in the car. It would always be full. Yeah,
you know, because it would be right there. The only
the only excuse I can think of now, this woman
over here, Kiki, drives forty miles to and front work
every day. You probably passed thirty gas stations, yes, and
you probably stopped in two fast food restaurants.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Excuse me, but you can't stop in a.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Gas right And what if there was a gas No,
I'm not judging, I no, I mean, I just you
stop it the thing, I have it delivered.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
There's no difference. You and I are the same, Kiki.
It's fine. Hey, Ryan, Hey, I'm gonna say.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
The only reason to have to take a gas before
filling up is in case of disasters in the gas
station doesn't have any more.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Gas because they sold it out. People, you ot your
money or something.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well at that point.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
Compared to one gallon in your stress.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
That did happen in my life. I can't remember. It
was like the mid two thousands. I don't remember why,
but I wasn't living. I was living in Charlotte at
the time, and there was a run on gas and
like the city was out of gas and I was
on it. I remember this, and that was a very
nerve wracking time because I was driving further and further
away from home to find gas and realizing that I

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would be further and further away when I ran out.
I don't remember what happened, but for some reason it
was like weather or something. There was no gas in
the city for like three days. It was a big deal. Ryan,
Thank you have a good day.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
That's a good point.

Speaker 5 (13:31):
But someone that knows the car could turn one gallon
into the ten gallons real easily.

Speaker 7 (13:36):
Telling you differently, not kidding me, thrills.

Speaker 1 (13:43):
I'm sexually active sometimes. Hey Elizabeth, Hi, you doing Elizabeth?
Good morning. I cannot believe the response to this. We've
been talking about this for twenty two minutes a little bit.

Speaker 9 (13:56):
I'm like, hear you on my phone.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
There we go, Okay, what do you want to say?

Speaker 8 (13:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Go. We can hear you. Go ahead.

Speaker 9 (14:01):
First of all, I love you guys. I wouldn't get
to a dude without hearing you in the morning.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
Well I'm thank you, thank you.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
I'm surprised based on what we've done for the last
thirty minutes.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
But anyway, go ahead.

Speaker 9 (14:12):
Yes, Well maybe you got to start saying you got fourteen.
I used to work in the convenience store gas industry,
and I was an auditor, so I was all about
the gas prices, okay, And I just have to tell people,
first of all, convenience stores don't make their money off
of the gas price. So when you see prices go up,

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they're not making more money.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Okay.

Speaker 9 (14:35):
We made anywhere from like three to eight cents of gallon.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
Okay, no offense. But I'm not worried about the profit
margin of the gas station. I'm worried about what's selling
up my tank or not.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
But I thank you for that to know.

Speaker 9 (14:49):
Yeah, just an interesting tendent. But I am one that
I will see, Like right now, I'm going past my
station and it's at almost four buncks of gallon, and
I'm like got to get come down because I remember
it'll come down fast. So I'll put ten dollars in
and it will get me a good door dash or
it will get me to work. And literally I use

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it all by the end of the day, and then
I'll go and do ten dollars the next day because
I refuse to pay more when I know that it
should be less. Okay, because I used to see the
price per barrel, the price at the pump, and I
am so curious at the taxes on the.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Gas I see.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
So you want to try and find the best price,
so you fill up when you see a good price,
and then okay again, I think you're probably I think
you're burning more gas than you need to though, because
you know you're having to an amba.

Speaker 9 (15:45):
Yeah, I don't waste driving around looking for a good price.
I like I said, I just want to pass my
gas station. I will stop it in the morning, but
I will do ten dollars, Okay, times maybe fifteen. If
I know I'm going to drive or down to Chicago
or something, then maybe I'll do a little more.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
All right, Elizabeth, thank you for I.

Speaker 8 (16:06):
Love you.

Speaker 9 (16:08):
And the way that I know.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
I know they're going to come down.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Elizabeth, thank you so much. Have a great day. Appreciate
you listening. Okay, now we got an expert. Hobby is
a mechanic. Hobby, Hobby, what do we got to know
about this gas debate?

Speaker 8 (16:22):
Yeah, so yeah, I've been listening for the you know,
the topic for a while now. And so I've been
a mechanic for like over ten years. Yeah, and I've
noticed that the people that waits to the very very
end to pump gas, they run a risk of damaging
their fuel pump. Because it's true what they say, Oh
you know you're running on fumes. Well, now your fuel

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pump is you know, trying harder to pump fuel into
the vehicle, and you can run a risk of damaging.

Speaker 1 (16:51):
Because you don't want to run that thing dry for
very long. It is exactly well that's true.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Yeah. Mechanic Commy is like, kn't he running all.

Speaker 4 (17:04):
All way?

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
My man got you, man, he gots you all right,
thank you having have a good day, no problem. Yeah,
Hobby's coming to my come to the mechanics show.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Have a mechanics Yeah, Mechanic Mike probably tells you to
fill it halfway because he don't want.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
To fix you. Yeah, I'll put more money into it.
I'm a non paying customer. He's gonna say, you're like
the son of it.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
You're like the kid of a doctor, Like the kids
and doctors get the worst medical care because it's like
they come a home like you're fine, your car is
barely running, and you're married to a mechanic. He doesn't
want anything to do with it. Trending story I believe
it or not. Amending this now we could go another hour,
but yeah, and this started. It started with just drive

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so there's no traffic, you're more on it.