July 8, 2025 • 23 mins
🎙️ Episode Title: First Cars & Kinda-For-Sale Dreams
In this very special episode of Miller Morning Madhouse, Jerry Pancake finally spills the (motor) oil on true stories he’s never shared before—his legendary first cars. Buckle up for tales of a wobbly Karmann Ghia and a 1977 Cutlass Supreme so massive it needed its own zip code. These are the rides that started it all—and yes, we’re talking about the IROC-Z too. It’s still around. It’s still loud. And it’s kinda for sale (if you’re cool).
🎭 Also in this episode: a shoutout to the Madwomen’s Late Night Cabaret, the latest production from Miller Community Theatre, running this weekend and next at the Marshall J. Gardner Center for the Arts in beautiful downtown Gary. 👉 millercommunitytheatre.com
🚗 Bonus nostalgia bomb: We’re rerunning the very first commercial ever made for the SoCool Podcast—a 2019 throwback ad for Betten Chevrolet in South Haven, Michigan, recorded by Jerry Pancake and Christopher Robin in the middle of a fever dream and a snowstorm. It’s as chaotic and brilliant as you'd expect.
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- (00:09) - WSBR Super Beach Radio
- (00:44) - Memory Lane: First Rides
- (15:44) - Car Troubles and Solutions
- (16:51) - The Cutlass Chronicles
- (20:17) - Closing Thoughts and Thanks
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SoCool Danelilla (00:04):
All you guys do is just sit up
there and talk about how fuckingcool you are.
Josh Scramble (00:09):
WSBR Super Beecher Radio, the best station
between Rush and Ripley. Littlemoan, madhouse. Talking all that
crazy energize. Pancake and thescramble.
Jerry Pancake (00:45):
Hey, everybody. It's your boy, Jerry Pancake,
and welcome back to the MillerMorning Madhouse. It's been a
bit. Today, I'm popping the hoodon memory lane and taking you
all back to my very first rides.A Carmen Gia, and a '77 Cutlass,
that was basically a mobilecouch with an ashtray.
(01:10):
We'll also check into thecurrent state of my iRock. Yeah.
The the iRock. Is it for sale?Kinda.
Maybe. Depends how cool you areand how much cash you have in
your glove box. But before weroll too far, mark your
calendars. The next wild nightfrom the folks at Miller
(01:33):
Community Theater is hitting thestage this weekend and next at
the Marshall j Gardner Center.It's called mad woman's late
night cabaret, and let me tellyou, it's got more drama, more
laughs, and more sequins than adivorce court on drag night.
Get your tickets, support thearts, and wear something sassy.
(01:57):
And, of course, this episode isproudly sponsored by
socoolshirts.com, the only placeto get shirts that scream, I
peaked in 87, and I'm fine withit. Free shipping over $25, and
they'll even pretend your iRockis still fast. Let's do this.
(02:19):
Welcome back to Miller MorningMan House.
I am Jerry Pancake here with mybrother Josh Scramble. And my
lovely wife
Jen Pancake (02:29):
Jenny Pancake.
Jerry Pancake (02:31):
And I don't know what we're gonna talk about now.
SoCool Danelilla (02:33):
Oh, I've got stuff. Trust me. I've
Jen Pancake (02:36):
got stuff.
Jerry Pancake (02:37):
We've got stuff. What? Oh. We've got Bush. That's
a revenge of the nerd line forall of you.
Never seen that movie. Watch it.There's a lot of nudity in it if
you're a kid. And you wanna seenudity and sex in a movie and
you can't do porno. Well, youprobably can't porno just on
(02:57):
your phone and stuff.
So maybe we should we
christopher robin (03:00):
should announce to the listening
audience, it is the end of anera here at the pan the
International House of Pancake.The IROC is soon to be no longer
Jerry Pancake (03:11):
Well, you know, we're aggressively marketing the
car, you know. It's it's aneighties icon.
Josh Scramble (03:21):
Much like you. Yeah.
Jerry Pancake (03:24):
But we so it's it's sad and it's not getting
any interest. Really?
Josh Scramble (03:29):
By the way. Need that COVID car market back?
Jerry Pancake (03:32):
Apparently, times are tough, and this is one thing
that I did not really know, JoshScrammel. Most people, like,
have to finance cars these daysbecause they don't have
christopher robin (03:46):
Any money.
Jerry Pancake (03:47):
Thousands of dollars to just pay for So
that's there's a couple issuesthere.
You're not asking anunreasonable amount for that
car.
No. It's actually less than whatit is currently worth according
to the insurance company. But ifwe don't get any interest, we
will just keep it.
Jen Pancake (04:08):
I mean
Josh Scramble (04:08):
The one last summer.
Jen Pancake (04:10):
It was it was Corvette summer.
Jerry Pancake (04:13):
The time That's where Jen's favorite favorite
place.
Jen Pancake (04:17):
Before it the transmission went out.
Jerry Pancake (04:20):
Yeah. But it does have a new transmission, and
that was all fixed.
Jen Pancake (04:24):
No. It it's
Jerry Pancake (04:25):
So if you're listening
Jen Pancake (04:26):
and interested stronger than ever.
Jerry Pancake (04:28):
Yeah. It's very strong.
Jen Pancake (04:31):
However, now, less of a hurry to sell it now that
it actually works again.
Josh Scramble (04:37):
Yeah. It doesn't shift badly.
Jerry Pancake (04:39):
Right. Tried to sell it to the transmission
shop, but the guy said, oh, man,Jerry, like, I'm sure one of
these guys would love it, butthey all have, like, five or six
cars that they're trying to fixup, you know, because they're,
like, serially by like, he'slike, they just buy a car.
Josh Scramble (05:00):
It was too good of a deal.
Jerry Pancake (05:01):
Yeah. Oh, well, the transmission's out. I'll fix
it in my spare time, and thennone of them have spare time. So
they all have, like, five or sixcars. He's like, see all these
Jeeps that are parked here?
And they're
Josh Scramble (05:13):
like, yep.
Jerry Pancake (05:14):
And he's like, four of those are one of my
mechanics. He keeps buying themand they're all broke.
Jen Pancake (05:22):
They scramble.
Jerry Pancake (05:23):
It's the whatever they what do they call it? The
shoemaker has no shoes orwhatever that
Josh Scramble (05:31):
saying I always call it the painter always has
the shittiest looking housesbecause she's always painting
everybody else's.
Jen Pancake (05:36):
Everyone else's. So what and I don't think we've
ever talked about that before,but what was your what was the
first car that you ever had?
Josh Scramble (05:46):
The 1996 Pontiac Grand Am four door in black. It
was my mom's old company car,and that thing I called it
Knight Rider, and it lastedforever. But then ironically,
transmission went out.
Jen Pancake (06:00):
As they do.
Jerry Pancake (06:01):
That was a cool car to have.
Jen Pancake (06:02):
But it only had Is that '96?
Josh Scramble (06:04):
It was a '96 Pontiac Grand.
Jerry Pancake (06:06):
Four cylinder, probably.
Josh Scramble (06:07):
Four cylinder. That's pretty sweet. But ran
like a champ until thetransmission went out, but it
only had a 167
Jen Pancake (06:14):
pounds. Catch on fire.
Jerry Pancake (06:16):
I was selling those at $19.96. Do you believe
that? That's how weird. Like,that's his first car, and I was
old enough to sell them brandnew.
Josh Scramble (06:25):
It was yeah. It was my mom's company car.
Jen Pancake (06:27):
I can't even picture it because I don't know
Josh Scramble (06:29):
about great care of it. It was black with tan
interior.
Jen Pancake (06:33):
It was a Pontiac what?
Josh Scramble (06:35):
Grand Am.
Jerry Pancake (06:36):
It's like it's was boxy.
That was the model after theboxy years.
Oh, it was the roundy. It wasthe roundy one. Yeah. An old
Zechiva, which was which which Iactually sold two. Those were
roundy.
Yeah.
Josh Scramble (06:51):
I actually love I love this car so much. I bought
two more after it because Well,the one went out, and then I
bought a '97, which didn't lastlong because and then I bought a
red one that I drove for quite awhile, and then a tree fell on
it the day that the Hawks wonthe Stanley Cup the second time?
(07:13):
It was game six.
Jen Pancake (07:14):
Wow. That seems I
Josh Scramble (07:16):
it was my dad's sixtieth birthday weekend, and I
remember, like
Jen Pancake (07:20):
like Perfect storm.
Josh Scramble (07:21):
Well, ironically, it was a storm that killed it
because a storm came through,fell on it, and tore the bumper
off, but I drove it another sixmonths because I'm like, fuck
it. I don't need a bumper.
Jen Pancake (07:30):
Who does?
Josh Scramble (07:32):
It was kind of
Jerry Pancake (07:33):
a I mean, you don't need one until you've
Until you need it. Rammed into.
Josh Scramble (07:36):
It was kind of a hoop dee there for a minute. I
won't lie.
Jen Pancake (07:39):
Well, I mean, we've all had them.
Jerry Pancake (07:41):
We've all had some hoop dees.
Jen Pancake (07:44):
Pancake. Yeah. And your first car well,
Jerry Pancake (07:47):
my
Jen Pancake (07:47):
assorted past of cars.
Jerry Pancake (07:49):
I mean, we had a lot of first cars. The first car
that I actually bought was a1971 Carmen Gia. Oh,
Josh Scramble (08:01):
Deep coat. Volkswagen. Those are,
Jerry Pancake (08:03):
you know,
Josh Scramble (08:03):
those are worth some giant money now. There's a
big Carmen Right.
Jerry Pancake (08:07):
It's it's but it's so I bought it for
Christopher Robin of the So Coolpodcast, who was going to use it
to run away from his home.
Josh Scramble (08:20):
So it was a little at 16. Literally an
escape vehicle.
Jerry Pancake (08:23):
And I we I was 15 years old. I did not have a
driver's license. My best friendAngelo had one, and we drove to
Hegwish to buy this car, and itwas rusted to shit, but it ran,
you know, fairly well. But itwas a it was a manual
transmission.
Josh Scramble (08:43):
Now, that sounds like an equalizer in
Jerry Pancake (08:45):
the Back in the back in the olden times, we had
drivers that at school, but wehad it with, you know, automatic
transmission cars. And, butAngelo and I had gone to the
library and researched how todrive a manual transmission car.
Josh Scramble (09:05):
I love that you looked up rental library.
Jerry Pancake (09:07):
I mean, that's what you that's just what you
did.
Jen Pancake (09:09):
No Internets, kids.
Jerry Pancake (09:10):
And no one's just
christopher robin (09:11):
shocked that, like, no one's dead. Like,
here's how you do it.
Jen Pancake (09:14):
He was didn't
Jerry Pancake (09:16):
have dads. We didn't have dads at home at
Josh Scramble (09:18):
the Did anybody have a tractor or a full camper?
Jerry Pancake (09:21):
No. So Angelo was fairly confident that he could
drive the car, and then we'd getit back to the neighborhood, and
then all of us would learn howto drive stick on it.
Josh Scramble (09:30):
Then all of you got one lash from the And then
Christopher
Jen Pancake (09:32):
Robin would run successfully run away.
Jerry Pancake (09:34):
And then Christopher Robin, who also did
not know how to drive a manualtransmission, would somehow get
the car and then run away andhis life would be happy. But I
think he wanted to go to SaintLouis. Don't ask me why. That's
a whole other Judy
Jen Pancake (09:49):
Garland a chick. There was chick.
Jerry Pancake (09:51):
Yeah. Maybe a chick, but he liked the the Big
Arch thing, whatever that thingis. The Saint Louis Arch? Yeah.
He liked that.
Seemed like that was the thing.And, anyway, so we bought the
car, and then we drove the wrongway because back then, you just
had a map. You're going thewrong way. It got dark, and we
(10:14):
ended up in Altgelt Gardens. Idon't know if anybody has ever
heard of that.
Jen Pancake (10:17):
Never.
Jerry Pancake (10:18):
Barack Obama, that was his first when he was a
public His first public office?No. He he was like an activist
or whatever, and he hevolunteered in Altgeld Gardens.
It's a housing project projectthat is near Hegwish, but it's a
(10:40):
it's a bad, like, neighborhood.So we end up there in this
Carmen Gia, and In the me ofcheapest cars.
My 13 year old brother, and myfriend Angelo, and and Angelo's
sister is following us becausesomeone had to drive us to buy
the car. Right? And so Angelo,we realized I'm like, we're
(11:03):
going the wrong way. You gottaturn around, pull into this
barbecue pit place. It wascalled Saul's barbecue, and he
stalled the car out.
He stalled the car out in Saul'sbarbecue parking lot. It was
probably ten at night by thattime, And we're sitting there,
and we're trying to figure out,like, oh, we could try and push
(11:24):
start it or jump it, and thecops were
Jen Pancake (11:27):
have keys?
Jerry Pancake (11:29):
He stalled the car out, and it wouldn't restart
because it Okay. Needed like analternator turns out or
alternator Oh, no. Or whatever.And so the battery was dead. And
the cops come Looking at fourwhite kids.
And they're like, get out ofhere.
SoCool Danelilla (11:50):
Just leave the car, man.
Jerry Pancake (11:52):
And, we're like, no, this we bought this car for
our friend. We gotta get ithome. And they're like, you need
to get out of here right nowbecause this is a bad place, you
know, and there's all thesepeople, like, was very it was a
barbecue place, but it was likeeveryone's hanging out there
type of place.
Josh Scramble (12:09):
Barbecue and some weed.
Jerry Pancake (12:10):
Yeah. Well, I don't know what they were doing,
but so Barbecue in a fuck shack.
Josh Scramble (12:15):
So
Jerry Pancake (12:15):
the cops are like, you need to get out of
here, and then come back duringthe day, and we're like, well,
what what's gonna happen to thecar? And they're like, no one in
this neighborhood is gonna touchthat fucking car. It's a
Volkswagen car car.
Jen Pancake (12:31):
They're not really in
Jerry Pancake (12:34):
And we had paid $375 for the car total.
Josh Scramble (12:38):
Well, accounting for inflation, that does matter.
Jerry Pancake (12:41):
So that's the story. So anyway, we steal my
mom's car the next night. Wepush it out of the garage. We
open the garage like one inch ata time, then we push it out to
the street, start to steal thecar. And again, as we get there,
you know, because it's night, wehad to wait till my mom went to
(13:02):
sleep.
So we're there and we're we'rejumping the car. Oh, this was a
Carmen
Josh Scramble (13:07):
this was a Carmen Gia rescue mission?
Jerry Pancake (13:09):
Yeah. And the cops come again, and they're
like corner. They're like, wejust saw you guys last night. We
told you to come back during theday. And they're like, alright.
We'll stay here. Get this carout of here and drive that way
to your to your to yourFrankfurt or wherever you live.
And so yeah. And then whathappened after that, I know this
(13:32):
is a long story. We drove thataround.
Like, I parked it at one of myfriend's houses. She was a girl.
Jen Pancake (13:41):
Wouldn't know that you had.
Jerry Pancake (13:54):
And, you know, he didn't. Pussy. And so we just
drove the car around, and we
Jen Pancake (14:01):
Made amends.
Jerry Pancake (14:02):
Lived in a three flat. So we had, a tenant below
us.
Jen Pancake (14:05):
Why did he wanna run away?
Jerry Pancake (14:07):
I don't know.
Jen Pancake (14:09):
I know it's irrelevant, I guess, but
Jerry Pancake (14:11):
Her name was Mary Cardi. I shouldn't use last
names, but she's probably
Josh Scramble (14:16):
edit that out.
Jerry Pancake (14:16):
She's not alive probably anymore. But as me and
my brother me and my brotherbrother are having a great time
alive. Me and my brother arehaving a great time driving this
thing around. We're going allover the place, going to parties
and stuff. And the one day, youknow, this is a very, very
unusual car at that time.
Mean, it's unusual. Very few ofthem. So this one of our tenants
(14:43):
is pulling out of the road thatwe lived on onto Route 30, and
she just locked eyes with me inthat car. Like, she knew exactly
who it was. She told my mom.
My mom had the cops come, ofcourse, because she would just
call the cops on us all the timebecause she's a bad mom. And
(15:03):
they and then they just towedthe car, and then Christopher
Robin was just out out hismoney. He's still mad at me
today probably for that, sowe'll have to talk to him about
it.
Jen Pancake (15:15):
Where, where he just had that money?
Josh Scramble (15:19):
Yeah. He was rich. Oh, he
Jerry Pancake (15:20):
was rich. He was a rich kid. Like, they went to
the movies on Sundays. A richkid.
Jen Pancake (15:26):
I was asking why Why
you wanna
Josh Scramble (15:28):
come and get out. Yeah.
Jen Pancake (15:29):
Why do
you wanna run away if you'rerich?
Jerry Pancake (15:32):
He was in a horrible Baptist school. Like,
they hit they hit him with thepaddle or whatever. Do they
Josh Scramble (15:38):
hit him with
Jen Pancake (15:38):
the hind? At this price point.
Jerry Pancake (15:39):
They can't hit at that Baptist school.
Josh Scramble (15:42):
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SoCool Danelilla (15:55):
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(16:16):
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christopher robin (16:17):
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Jen Pancake (16:31):
Oh. You can
Jerry Pancake (16:32):
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(16:52):
But that my first real car myfirst car when I was legally
able to drive was a Cutlass thatwas given to me by my dad
because he lost his driver'slicense because he had too many
alcohol related Infractions.Infractions. So you became the
chauffeur. And there's a storybehind that. He gave the car to
(17:15):
me, and we didn't really Ididn't retitle it or anything.
I have the same exact name.Yeah. Gerald Pancake Junior.
And, so I did you know, it wasunnecessary for yeah. You know
me.
It was unnecessary for me to getnew license plates. I was like,
oh, this is very convenient.He's just gonna,
christopher robin (17:34):
you know We show you heavy age restriction
on your device. Give me thiscutlass.
Jerry Pancake (17:39):
It was a black 1977 Cutlass. Wow. Fairly nice
car, actually. Yeah. So I gotpulled over because when they
run the plane, know, it's likethis guy's license is suspended,
you know.
christopher robin (17:55):
Did they have schemaads? They had the
schemaads.
Jerry Pancake (17:58):
And I get pulled over in Tinley Park, and they
they're like like, they come upwith the the guy comes up with,
like, his gun out. Oh, shit. AndI'm like, oh, man. I don't know
what my dad's been into.
christopher robin (18:09):
There's a dead hooker.
Jerry Pancake (18:10):
And and he's and so I give him my license and
he's like, oh, well, you know,this car is still registered to
your dad and his license isrevoked. So that's why we pulled
you over. Is it okay if I lookthrough the car? And I'm like,
yeah, I I'm not doing anythingor whatever. How old were you?
(18:33):
16.
christopher robin (18:35):
So at that point, you kinda really don't
have much of a choice.
Jerry Pancake (18:38):
No. I I mean, I I didn't wanna get a ticket for
sure. I knew that.
christopher robin (18:42):
Well, if you say no
Jerry Pancake (18:43):
And I didn't have, like, I didn't have drugs
or booze in there for once.
christopher robin (18:48):
Not in the car, but maybe in your system.
Jen Pancake (18:50):
Or a margarita blender.
Jerry Pancake (18:52):
Yeah. Or a margarita blender, which we did
have one time. But so he's like,okay, can you open the trunk? So
I go to the back and open thetrunk. And as soon as I open the
trunk, I'm like, I made a hugemistake.
My dad had left like a shotgunin the trunk.
Jen Pancake (19:11):
Of course, he did.
Jerry Pancake (19:12):
And I'm like, swear I told the cop. I am like,
I swear to God that's my dad'sgun. And he just forgot that it
was in there. And the cop tookthe gun, and he's like, I know
your dad, and I will get it backto him. And that's all that
happened.
It was kind of a but I wasterrified. Like, I I wasn't
(19:36):
around guns. Well, this my dadhad
christopher robin (19:37):
them, This is still kind of the era like if,
you know, you were drunk drivingand the cop knew you, they would
they would follow you
Jerry Pancake (19:44):
home. Yeah. Yeah. The mid eighties, mid to late
eighties.
christopher robin (19:50):
The end of that era.
Jerry Pancake (19:51):
Yeah. The mid to I mean, Christopher Robin had
some episodes during that time,and and I as well where yeah. It
was like that. If you caught acop when you were drinking and
driving back then, and theywere, like, within, let's say, I
don't know, thirty minutes or anhour before their shift was
(20:13):
gonna end Yeah. They are notfucking with you.
Don't wanna fill out thepaperwork. They don't care
because they're gonna paperwork.They're like, oh, man. I'm I
need to get to the bar. You
christopher robin (20:25):
know? Because the cops I don't know if anybody
knows this about cops,
Jerry Pancake (20:28):
but, like, cops have problems too with alcohol
and drugs. Like, it's not justnormal people.
Jen Pancake (20:34):
It's universal.
Jerry Pancake (20:35):
Yeah. Universal because they're actually people.
So Have you ever wanted to fucka car?
christopher robin (20:41):
Isn't your father's old mobile.
Jerry Pancake (21:00):
Alright, folks. That's it for today's episode of
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Beach the place to be. Thanksfor hanging out with us, Miller
Beach.
We will be back next Sunday,hopefully, with a brand new
episode. That is if we are nottoo hungover. No promises. But
stay cool, stay crazy, and keepsupporting the madhouse. Catch
you next time.
SoCool Danelilla (22:26):
All you guys do is just sit up
there and talk about how fuckingcool you are.
christopher robin (22:34):
Bam's a bam. What's a bam? Well, you wouldn't
even know.
All you guys do is just sit up
there and talk about how fuckingcool you are.
Josh Scramble (00:09):
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Jerry Pancake (00:45):
Hey, everybody. It's your boy, Jerry Pancake,
and welcome back to the MillerMorning Madhouse. It's been a
bit. Today, I'm popping the hoodon memory lane and taking you
all back to my very first rides.A Carmen Gia, and a '77 Cutlass,
that was basically a mobilecouch with an ashtray.
(01:10):
We'll also check into thecurrent state of my iRock. Yeah.
The the iRock. Is it for sale?Kinda.
Maybe. Depends how cool you areand how much cash you have in
your glove box. But before weroll too far, mark your
calendars. The next wild nightfrom the folks at Miller
(01:33):
Community Theater is hitting thestage this weekend and next at
the Marshall j Gardner Center.It's called mad woman's late
night cabaret, and let me tellyou, it's got more drama, more
laughs, and more sequins than adivorce court on drag night.
Get your tickets, support thearts, and wear something sassy.
(01:57):
And, of course, this episode isproudly sponsored by
socoolshirts.com, the only placeto get shirts that scream, I
peaked in 87, and I'm fine withit. Free shipping over $25, and
they'll even pretend your iRockis still fast. Let's do this.
(02:19):
Welcome back to Miller MorningMan House.
I am Jerry Pancake here with mybrother Josh Scramble. And my
lovely wife
Jen Pancake (02:29):
Jenny Pancake.
Jerry Pancake (02:31):
And I don't know what we're gonna talk about now.
SoCool Danelilla (02:33):
Oh, I've got stuff. Trust me. I've
Jen Pancake (02:36):
got stuff.
Jerry Pancake (02:37):
We've got stuff. What? Oh. We've got Bush. That's
a revenge of the nerd line forall of you.
Never seen that movie. Watch it.There's a lot of nudity in it if
you're a kid. And you wanna seenudity and sex in a movie and
you can't do porno. Well, youprobably can't porno just on
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your phone and stuff.
So maybe we should we
christopher robin (03:00):
should announce to the listening
audience, it is the end of anera here at the pan the
International House of Pancake.The IROC is soon to be no longer
Jerry Pancake (03:11):
Well, you know, we're aggressively marketing the
car, you know. It's it's aneighties icon.
Josh Scramble (03:21):
Much like you. Yeah.
Jerry Pancake (03:24):
But we so it's it's sad and it's not getting
any interest. Really?
Josh Scramble (03:29):
By the way. Need that COVID car market back?
Jerry Pancake (03:32):
Apparently, times are tough, and this is one thing
that I did not really know, JoshScrammel. Most people, like,
have to finance cars these daysbecause they don't have
christopher robin (03:46):
Any money.
Jerry Pancake (03:47):
Thousands of dollars to just pay for So
that's there's a couple issuesthere.
You're not asking anunreasonable amount for that
car.
No. It's actually less than whatit is currently worth according
to the insurance company. But ifwe don't get any interest, we
will just keep it.
Jen Pancake (04:08):
I mean
Josh Scramble (04:08):
The one last summer.
Jen Pancake (04:10):
It was it was Corvette summer.
Jerry Pancake (04:13):
The time That's where Jen's favorite favorite
place.
Jen Pancake (04:17):
Before it the transmission went out.
Jerry Pancake (04:20):
Yeah. But it does have a new transmission, and
that was all fixed.
Jen Pancake (04:24):
No. It it's
Jerry Pancake (04:25):
So if you're listening
Jen Pancake (04:26):
and interested stronger than ever.
Jerry Pancake (04:28):
Yeah. It's very strong.
Jen Pancake (04:31):
However, now, less of a hurry to sell it now that
it actually works again.
Josh Scramble (04:37):
Yeah. It doesn't shift badly.
Jerry Pancake (04:39):
Right. Tried to sell it to the transmission
shop, but the guy said, oh, man,Jerry, like, I'm sure one of
these guys would love it, butthey all have, like, five or six
cars that they're trying to fixup, you know, because they're,
like, serially by like, he'slike, they just buy a car.
Josh Scramble (05:00):
It was too good of a deal.
Jerry Pancake (05:01):
Yeah. Oh, well, the transmission's out. I'll fix
it in my spare time, and thennone of them have spare time. So
they all have, like, five or sixcars. He's like, see all these
Jeeps that are parked here?
And they're
Josh Scramble (05:13):
like, yep.
Jerry Pancake (05:14):
And he's like, four of those are one of my
mechanics. He keeps buying themand they're all broke.
Jen Pancake (05:22):
They scramble.
Jerry Pancake (05:23):
It's the whatever they what do they call it? The
shoemaker has no shoes orwhatever that
Josh Scramble (05:31):
saying I always call it the painter always has
the shittiest looking housesbecause she's always painting
everybody else's.
Jen Pancake (05:36):
Everyone else's. So what and I don't think we've
ever talked about that before,but what was your what was the
first car that you ever had?
Josh Scramble (05:46):
The 1996 Pontiac Grand Am four door in black. It
was my mom's old company car,and that thing I called it
Knight Rider, and it lastedforever. But then ironically,
transmission went out.
Jen Pancake (06:00):
As they do.
Jerry Pancake (06:01):
That was a cool car to have.
Jen Pancake (06:02):
But it only had Is that '96?
Josh Scramble (06:04):
It was a '96 Pontiac Grand.
Jerry Pancake (06:06):
Four cylinder, probably.
Josh Scramble (06:07):
Four cylinder. That's pretty sweet. But ran
like a champ until thetransmission went out, but it
only had a 167
Jen Pancake (06:14):
pounds. Catch on fire.
Jerry Pancake (06:16):
I was selling those at $19.96. Do you believe
that? That's how weird. Like,that's his first car, and I was
old enough to sell them brandnew.
Josh Scramble (06:25):
It was yeah. It was my mom's company car.
Jen Pancake (06:27):
I can't even picture it because I don't know
Josh Scramble (06:29):
about great care of it. It was black with tan
interior.
Jen Pancake (06:33):
It was a Pontiac what?
Josh Scramble (06:35):
Grand Am.
Jerry Pancake (06:36):
It's like it's was boxy.
That was the model after theboxy years.
Oh, it was the roundy. It wasthe roundy one. Yeah. An old
Zechiva, which was which which Iactually sold two. Those were
roundy.
Yeah.
Josh Scramble (06:51):
I actually love I love this car so much. I bought
two more after it because Well,the one went out, and then I
bought a '97, which didn't lastlong because and then I bought a
red one that I drove for quite awhile, and then a tree fell on
it the day that the Hawks wonthe Stanley Cup the second time?
(07:13):
It was game six.
Jen Pancake (07:14):
Wow. That seems I
Josh Scramble (07:16):
it was my dad's sixtieth birthday weekend, and I
remember, like
Jen Pancake (07:20):
like Perfect storm.
Josh Scramble (07:21):
Well, ironically, it was a storm that killed it
because a storm came through,fell on it, and tore the bumper
off, but I drove it another sixmonths because I'm like, fuck
it. I don't need a bumper.
Jen Pancake (07:30):
Who does?
Josh Scramble (07:32):
It was kind of
Jerry Pancake (07:33):
a I mean, you don't need one until you've
Until you need it. Rammed into.
Josh Scramble (07:36):
It was kind of a hoop dee there for a minute. I
won't lie.
Jen Pancake (07:39):
Well, I mean, we've all had them.
Jerry Pancake (07:41):
We've all had some hoop dees.
Jen Pancake (07:44):
Pancake. Yeah. And your first car well,
Jerry Pancake (07:47):
my
Jen Pancake (07:47):
assorted past of cars.
Jerry Pancake (07:49):
I mean, we had a lot of first cars. The first car
that I actually bought was a1971 Carmen Gia. Oh,
Josh Scramble (08:01):
Deep coat. Volkswagen. Those are,
Jerry Pancake (08:03):
you know,
Josh Scramble (08:03):
those are worth some giant money now. There's a
big Carmen Right.
Jerry Pancake (08:07):
It's it's but it's so I bought it for
Christopher Robin of the So Coolpodcast, who was going to use it
to run away from his home.
Josh Scramble (08:20):
So it was a little at 16. Literally an
escape vehicle.
Jerry Pancake (08:23):
And I we I was 15 years old. I did not have a
driver's license. My best friendAngelo had one, and we drove to
Hegwish to buy this car, and itwas rusted to shit, but it ran,
you know, fairly well. But itwas a it was a manual
transmission.
Josh Scramble (08:43):
Now, that sounds like an equalizer in
Jerry Pancake (08:45):
the Back in the back in the olden times, we had
drivers that at school, but wehad it with, you know, automatic
transmission cars. And, butAngelo and I had gone to the
library and researched how todrive a manual transmission car.
Josh Scramble (09:05):
I love that you looked up rental library.
Jerry Pancake (09:07):
I mean, that's what you that's just what you
did.
Jen Pancake (09:09):
No Internets, kids.
Jerry Pancake (09:10):
And no one's just
christopher robin (09:11):
shocked that, like, no one's dead. Like,
here's how you do it.
Jen Pancake (09:14):
He was didn't
Jerry Pancake (09:16):
have dads. We didn't have dads at home at
Josh Scramble (09:18):
the Did anybody have a tractor or a full camper?
Jerry Pancake (09:21):
No. So Angelo was fairly confident that he could
drive the car, and then we'd getit back to the neighborhood, and
then all of us would learn howto drive stick on it.
Josh Scramble (09:30):
Then all of you got one lash from the And then
Christopher
Jen Pancake (09:32):
Robin would run successfully run away.
Jerry Pancake (09:34):
And then Christopher Robin, who also did
not know how to drive a manualtransmission, would somehow get
the car and then run away andhis life would be happy. But I
think he wanted to go to SaintLouis. Don't ask me why. That's
a whole other Judy
Jen Pancake (09:49):
Garland a chick. There was chick.
Jerry Pancake (09:51):
Yeah. Maybe a chick, but he liked the the Big
Arch thing, whatever that thingis. The Saint Louis Arch? Yeah.
He liked that.
Seemed like that was the thing.And, anyway, so we bought the
car, and then we drove the wrongway because back then, you just
had a map. You're going thewrong way. It got dark, and we
(10:14):
ended up in Altgelt Gardens. Idon't know if anybody has ever
heard of that.
Jen Pancake (10:17):
Never.
Jerry Pancake (10:18):
Barack Obama, that was his first when he was a
public His first public office?No. He he was like an activist
or whatever, and he hevolunteered in Altgeld Gardens.
It's a housing project projectthat is near Hegwish, but it's a
(10:40):
it's a bad, like, neighborhood.So we end up there in this
Carmen Gia, and In the me ofcheapest cars.
My 13 year old brother, and myfriend Angelo, and and Angelo's
sister is following us becausesomeone had to drive us to buy
the car. Right? And so Angelo,we realized I'm like, we're
(11:03):
going the wrong way. You gottaturn around, pull into this
barbecue pit place. It wascalled Saul's barbecue, and he
stalled the car out.
He stalled the car out in Saul'sbarbecue parking lot. It was
probably ten at night by thattime, And we're sitting there,
and we're trying to figure out,like, oh, we could try and push
(11:24):
start it or jump it, and thecops were
Jen Pancake (11:27):
have keys?
Jerry Pancake (11:29):
He stalled the car out, and it wouldn't restart
because it Okay. Needed like analternator turns out or
alternator Oh, no. Or whatever.And so the battery was dead. And
the cops come Looking at fourwhite kids.
And they're like, get out ofhere.
SoCool Danelilla (11:50):
Just leave the car, man.
Jerry Pancake (11:52):
And, we're like, no, this we bought this car for
our friend. We gotta get ithome. And they're like, you need
to get out of here right nowbecause this is a bad place, you
know, and there's all thesepeople, like, was very it was a
barbecue place, but it was likeeveryone's hanging out there
type of place.
Josh Scramble (12:09):
Barbecue and some weed.
Jerry Pancake (12:10):
Yeah. Well, I don't know what they were doing,
but so Barbecue in a fuck shack.
Josh Scramble (12:15):
So
Jerry Pancake (12:15):
the cops are like, you need to get out of
here, and then come back duringthe day, and we're like, well,
what what's gonna happen to thecar? And they're like, no one in
this neighborhood is gonna touchthat fucking car. It's a
Volkswagen car car.
Jen Pancake (12:31):
They're not really in
Jerry Pancake (12:34):
And we had paid $375 for the car total.
Josh Scramble (12:38):
Well, accounting for inflation, that does matter.
Jerry Pancake (12:41):
So that's the story. So anyway, we steal my
mom's car the next night. Wepush it out of the garage. We
open the garage like one inch ata time, then we push it out to
the street, start to steal thecar. And again, as we get there,
you know, because it's night, wehad to wait till my mom went to
(13:02):
sleep.
So we're there and we're we'rejumping the car. Oh, this was a
Carmen
Josh Scramble (13:07):
this was a Carmen Gia rescue mission?
Jerry Pancake (13:09):
Yeah. And the cops come again, and they're
like corner. They're like, wejust saw you guys last night. We
told you to come back during theday. And they're like, alright.
We'll stay here. Get this carout of here and drive that way
to your to your to yourFrankfurt or wherever you live.
And so yeah. And then whathappened after that, I know this
(13:32):
is a long story. We drove thataround.
Like, I parked it at one of myfriend's houses. She was a girl.
Jen Pancake (13:41):
Wouldn't know that you had.
Jerry Pancake (13:54):
And, you know, he didn't. Pussy. And so we just
drove the car around, and we
Jen Pancake (14:01):
Made amends.
Jerry Pancake (14:02):
Lived in a three flat. So we had, a tenant below
us.
Jen Pancake (14:05):
Why did he wanna run away?
Jerry Pancake (14:07):
I don't know.
Jen Pancake (14:09):
I know it's irrelevant, I guess, but
Jerry Pancake (14:11):
Her name was Mary Cardi. I shouldn't use last
names, but she's probably
Josh Scramble (14:16):
edit that out.
Jerry Pancake (14:16):
She's not alive probably anymore. But as me and
my brother me and my brotherbrother are having a great time
alive. Me and my brother arehaving a great time driving this
thing around. We're going allover the place, going to parties
and stuff. And the one day, youknow, this is a very, very
unusual car at that time.
Mean, it's unusual. Very few ofthem. So this one of our tenants
(14:43):
is pulling out of the road thatwe lived on onto Route 30, and
she just locked eyes with me inthat car. Like, she knew exactly
who it was. She told my mom.
My mom had the cops come, ofcourse, because she would just
call the cops on us all the timebecause she's a bad mom. And
(15:03):
they and then they just towedthe car, and then Christopher
Robin was just out out hismoney. He's still mad at me
today probably for that, sowe'll have to talk to him about
it.
Jen Pancake (15:15):
Where, where he just had that money?
Josh Scramble (15:19):
Yeah. He was rich. Oh, he
Jerry Pancake (15:20):
was rich. He was a rich kid. Like, they went to
the movies on Sundays. A richkid.
Jen Pancake (15:26):
I was asking why Why
you wanna
Josh Scramble (15:28):
come and get out. Yeah.
Jen Pancake (15:29):
Why do
you wanna run away if you'rerich?
Jerry Pancake (15:32):
He was in a horrible Baptist school. Like,
they hit they hit him with thepaddle or whatever. Do they
Josh Scramble (15:38):
hit him with
Jen Pancake (15:38):
the hind? At this price point.
Jerry Pancake (15:39):
They can't hit at that Baptist school.
Josh Scramble (15:42):
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SoCool Danelilla (15:55):
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Chevrolet. We've all been therewhen your car starts going.
That's when the smart peoplehead up to South Haven, Michigan
to meet up with the wizard atBenton Chevrolet. Bypass the
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christopher robin (16:17):
get you done.
Pass our classic '76 Corvetteand watch out for our fleet of
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manager Sam Cloud and ask theman to immediately see the
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Jen Pancake (16:31):
Oh. You can
Jerry Pancake (16:32):
test drive with no obligation. Getting lunch or
laid in the car will get you animport discount with our general
manager, the slasher. When youneed a new ride, don't hesitate
to roll in Dibet and Chevrolet,where the wizard tip your ass
into a Geo Metro or comparableride.
(16:52):
But that my first real car myfirst car when I was legally
able to drive was a Cutlass thatwas given to me by my dad
because he lost his driver'slicense because he had too many
alcohol related Infractions.Infractions. So you became the
chauffeur. And there's a storybehind that. He gave the car to
(17:15):
me, and we didn't really Ididn't retitle it or anything.
I have the same exact name.Yeah. Gerald Pancake Junior.
And, so I did you know, it wasunnecessary for yeah. You know
me.
It was unnecessary for me to getnew license plates. I was like,
oh, this is very convenient.He's just gonna,
christopher robin (17:34):
you know We show you heavy age restriction
on your device. Give me thiscutlass.
Jerry Pancake (17:39):
It was a black 1977 Cutlass. Wow. Fairly nice
car, actually. Yeah. So I gotpulled over because when they
run the plane, know, it's likethis guy's license is suspended,
you know.
christopher robin (17:55):
Did they have schemaads? They had the
schemaads.
Jerry Pancake (17:58):
And I get pulled over in Tinley Park, and they
they're like like, they come upwith the the guy comes up with,
like, his gun out. Oh, shit. AndI'm like, oh, man. I don't know
what my dad's been into.
christopher robin (18:09):
There's a dead hooker.
Jerry Pancake (18:10):
And and he's and so I give him my license and
he's like, oh, well, you know,this car is still registered to
your dad and his license isrevoked. So that's why we pulled
you over. Is it okay if I lookthrough the car? And I'm like,
yeah, I I'm not doing anythingor whatever. How old were you?
(18:33):
16.
christopher robin (18:35):
So at that point, you kinda really don't
have much of a choice.
Jerry Pancake (18:38):
No. I I mean, I I didn't wanna get a ticket for
sure. I knew that.
christopher robin (18:42):
Well, if you say no
Jerry Pancake (18:43):
And I didn't have, like, I didn't have drugs
or booze in there for once.
christopher robin (18:48):
Not in the car, but maybe in your system.
Jen Pancake (18:50):
Or a margarita blender.
Jerry Pancake (18:52):
Yeah. Or a margarita blender, which we did
have one time. But so he's like,okay, can you open the trunk? So
I go to the back and open thetrunk. And as soon as I open the
trunk, I'm like, I made a hugemistake.
My dad had left like a shotgunin the trunk.
Jen Pancake (19:11):
Of course, he did.
Jerry Pancake (19:12):
And I'm like, swear I told the cop. I am like,
I swear to God that's my dad'sgun. And he just forgot that it
was in there. And the cop tookthe gun, and he's like, I know
your dad, and I will get it backto him. And that's all that
happened.
It was kind of a but I wasterrified. Like, I I wasn't
(19:36):
around guns. Well, this my dadhad
christopher robin (19:37):
them, This is still kind of the era like if,
you know, you were drunk drivingand the cop knew you, they would
they would follow you
Jerry Pancake (19:44):
home. Yeah. Yeah. The mid eighties, mid to late
eighties.
christopher robin (19:50):
The end of that era.
Jerry Pancake (19:51):
Yeah. The mid to I mean, Christopher Robin had
some episodes during that time,and and I as well where yeah. It
was like that. If you caught acop when you were drinking and
driving back then, and theywere, like, within, let's say, I
don't know, thirty minutes or anhour before their shift was
(20:13):
gonna end Yeah. They are notfucking with you.
Don't wanna fill out thepaperwork. They don't care
because they're gonna paperwork.They're like, oh, man. I'm I
need to get to the bar. You
christopher robin (20:25):
know? Because the cops I don't know if anybody
knows this about cops,
Jerry Pancake (20:28):
but, like, cops have problems too with alcohol
and drugs. Like, it's not justnormal people.
Jen Pancake (20:34):
It's universal.
Jerry Pancake (20:35):
Yeah. Universal because they're actually people.
So Have you ever wanted to fucka car?
christopher robin (20:41):
Isn't your father's old mobile.
Jerry Pancake (21:00):
Alright, folks. That's it for today's episode of
the Miller morning madhouse. Bigthanks to our sponsors, So Cool
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It's the only trivia night wherethe questions are just as
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Gardner Center, where the localstars shine bright. Big thanks
to the MBACD for hosting theseawesome events and making Miller
(21:43):
Beach the place to be. Thanksfor hanging out with us, Miller
Beach.
We will be back next Sunday,hopefully, with a brand new
episode. That is if we are nottoo hungover. No promises. But
stay cool, stay crazy, and keepsupporting the madhouse. Catch
you next time.
SoCool Danelilla (22:26):
All you guys do is just sit up
there and talk about how fuckingcool you are.
christopher robin (22:34):
Bam's a bam. What's a bam? Well, you wouldn't
even know.
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