August 11, 2025 • 46 mins
Ep288..
Monterey Car Week is here! We give some highlights of Exotics on Broadway and some new changes this year. Show resident Corvette expert Drew Bunkley stops by the studio in his Tesla Plaid to discuss the ZR1X vs Mustang GTD. Jhae and Drew both use Grok AI as personal information assistants. What could go wrong?
Referenced in this episode:
Americans Most Stolen Vehicle is a muscle-car favorite
https://www.motor1.com/news/768332/camaro-zl1-stolen-most-often-says-iihs/
Corvette ZR1X Quail Silver Limited Edition
https://www.caranddriver.com/photos/g65614776/2026-chevy-corvette-zr1x-quail-sliver-edition-gallery/
Fully Loaded ZR1 $240,000
https://www.motor1.com/news/750492/chevrolet-corvette-zr1-configurator-fully-loaded-price/
Mustang GTD starts at $327,960 before options
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65034149/2025-ford-mustang-gtd-official-price/
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Yeah, the Z-01 Corvette's definitely making.
Weights. Nope.
It's a brand new one at least. At least my AI can say Ford
F-150. This is Hard Park and brought to
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you by right Honda and right Toyota out of Scottsdale, AZ.
It is Monterey Car Week. What that means is coming up on
this show, I talked to Matt the moderator, D'andrea.
He's been a while since he's been on the show.
Great conversation, 30 minute preview of everything that he's
going to be doing at Monterey Car Week, what races he's going
to with Adam Corolla, all the famous people he's going to get
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to interview again because he's on a certain level.
In fact, I would say the highlight of my podcast career
so far is being a guest on Carcast, which Matt the
moderator, D'andrea Co host withGoldberg.
Yes, that Goldberg the wrestler or former wrestler he sometimes
still wrestles Goldberg and Alistair Weaver of Edmunds.
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Also, I caught U with Johnny Valencia, as we do every year to
review exotics on Broadway Excet.
The problem with all of that is the audio did not record,
fortunately. Drew Bunkley stop by the Studio
this Saturday and we had a greatconversation about the Corvette
ZR1 AI and maybe what to expect at Monterey Car Week for
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Chevrolet. One of the things I do remember
from talking to Johnny Exotics on Broadway is ours have
changed. So if you're listening to this
or watching this and you're going to Monterey Car Week, it
is now 11 to 4. So it's been moved up.
I think the last few years it's been from 1:00 to 6:00.
The area is also slightly expanded, so Fremont used to be
a couple blocks. Now it's at least six blocks,
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maybe all of Fremont Street. And they're also doing the
Fremont Experience, which is something you could pay to 10 is
$30.00. But it gets you away from all
the crowds or most, most of the crowds because let's face it,
Exotics on Broadway is the single largest free crazy event
or Monterey Car Week, which means you're going to have 10s
of thousands of people around you at any given time.
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And you can't really move because it's such a great event.
But this Fremont experience allows you to buy a ticket ahead
of time online. So you can go to Exotics on
Broadway's website, which I think is Exotics on
broadway.com, or you can follow them on Instagram and you can
prepurchase. That ticket is $30 up to the
night before Exotics on BroadwaySaturday.
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Otherwise, a day of whether it'sonline or in person, you're
going to pay $40 and you want toget there early because it is
kind of first come, first serve.Think about it as a nightclub or
a bar. You get to the bar, you get
there early, you're inside. If you get there late, you're
standing in line waiting for other people to leave before you
can get in. So everything that's going to be
out at Exotics on Broadway is going to be also in the Fremont
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Experience. Horatio Pagani is going to be
out there, I believe. Christian von Konis egg.
There's a lot of stuff going on,so make sure you get out there
and check it out. Exotics on Broadway Saturday,
this Saturday coming up at Monterey Car week.
Let's see, what did Matt D'andrea say?
I forgot what Matt said. I'm I'm sorry.
I just, you know, it kind of sucks when that happens.
But coming up after this word from Marcus Foundry, Drew
Buckley is in studio and we talkabout all things Corvette and
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the Mustang GTD. Which one should you want?
Which one is better? Which one is more rare?
Which one is more expensive? Actually, we can't tell you.
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Drew Buckley, welcome back. Thank you for making the trek
from the other side of Phoenix. You brought came over here in
your Tesla. We're going to talk about that
today and some of the new technologies that you're into.
But you are the official Corvette correspondent of Hard
Parking, so is there any? While you're wearing a Tesla
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hat, what sort of new knowledge do you want to drop on us today?
Jay, there's a lot of things going on.
Yeah, obviously in the Corvette world, everyone's looking at
things happening with the ZR1, the ZR1X, so.
Are you are you upset they didn't actually call it to Zora?
I'm I still, I'm still hopeful that they're still playing Zora.
I think it's going to probably going to be closer to more
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electric, but who knows. There are things in the future
for Corvette. They think about a new grand
sport coming back out with that because right now they're
producing the majority of wide body cars.
So there's a lot of different things that's going on.
I think we're just keeping that Zora name out there.
You know, it's something that ishopeful.
If they do drop something, Corvette is obviously doing a
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lot of marketing, so. You told me that.
So you you posted the video of the Nuremberg ring lap times.
And then of course, I know you're the Corvette guy and
Corvette people just like NSX people.
Yeah, any car people. Those people follow the same
accounts. And so I went in there because
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when they posted that we made a faster time than the GTDI go.
Hey, personally, I would rather have a GTDI think it's a cool
looking car. Not that the Corvette isn't a
cool looking car, but my part ofthat gripe is that there's just
so many Corvettes out there. Your average person couldn't
tell the difference. Really only a Corvette person or
a car person be like, oh, well, that's that's an E ray.
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And even E rays can be confusingtoo, you know, versus a regular,
you know, run-of-the-mill Stingray, which isn't a bad
thing, but with 25,000 made a year, right?
And then the GTDI think nothing looks like a GTD but a GTD.
And you know, some of the guys, they were actually nicer than I
thought they would be. And I think when I didn't argue
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with them, I was like, well, yeah, but.
And I agree with you, you know? You know, and I agree with you
100%, the Corvette is a mass produced vehicle.
The Stingray, you know, it's General Motors.
It's like a Ford Mustang to me. I mean, it's a mass produced
car. The Mustang, obviously the GTD,
in order for them to use that vehicle for racing in the GT
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series, they have to have a marketable, A sellable car.
So that's the reason why they developed that and brought this
vehicle to market limited numbers.
And the same thing with Corvette, they race in the same
series. So the ZR1, you know those type
of vehicles, really what they'redoing is bringing their race car
to the to the average person that can basically afford to
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purchase one. But those cars are designed for
strictly tracks. So for me, for Ford, for Chevy
to offer that car, I think for the market is it says something
that most manufacturers are doing.
You know, it's bringing into a price point whether it's the
Ford or the Corvette. But yeah, the Corvette's a mass
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produced car, and that's ZR1, the ZR1X, you know, it's just a
limited number of car that's going to be produced.
And you know, I totally agree with you on the concept though.
You see them everywhere. You can find a Corvette in any
parking lot when you go around town, especially out here in
Arizona. Yeah, and I mean I think people
realize I wasn't knocking the Corvettes at all.
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And when you, when you were talking about the having the
road going version to, in order to be eligible moving forward,
it kind of reminds me of like the C7 Rs.
Remember the race car C7 arrivesand they, they, I think the road
going version wasn't necessarilythe same, but that's what I
thought of. And I remember back when I was
watching FIAGT back in the late 90s or 2000s, some of the
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biggest dream cars is like a Mercedes-Benz CLKGTR, which is a
road car, but it's, everybody knows it's a race car And it's
in order for them to have it on the racetrack, they had to at
least make one Rd. going car that they could sell for the GT1
class. Same thing with the Porsche GT1.
You've probably never seen one. And if you're so, you've
probably never seen one in person because there's so few of
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them that is legit a freaking race car for the street.
And it looks almost like, in fact, actually really
unscripted. I weirdly have a, a Porsche like
a second generation GT1 car right here.
And so they actually make a street version of this car,
right? Maybe two people own one in the
entire world, but you know, thiscar exists.
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So that's kind of what made me think about the when you're
talking about the reason why theGTD even exists to begin with,
because I've heard people say, you know, it's just really a
race car. And in order for them to do
that, well, still says it still says this Ford, Ford GTD, Ford
Mustang GTD. Right.
And I think the big really for me being a Corvette enthusiast,
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the big take away from it is that the Corvette ZR1ZR1X, it
comes straight off the Corvette assembly line in Bowling Green,
KY, which matters exactly because the Ford has to go out
and to be modified to be able to, you know, obviously be able
to be manufactured for that particular car.
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So it's a big difference when you've got a car coming right
off assembly line, plug and play, hit the start button,
you're there versus a car that'sgot to be modified.
Right. And I get that.
I mean, it's all in house at that point, which there's
something to be said about that,you know, and I, I think I'd
commented, you know, I don't want to see a 01 at every corner
and I don't, I, I think it's rare that I ever see AC-70 when
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you see C sixes, but still not as often as you would think.
And then I know this one's even more limited.
I think they said they're making4 to 500 of this sound correct?
So they only made 64 for 2025, right around 64.
The other orders that were put in had to be dumped over to 2026
models. So they redesigned the interior.
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Oh, I saw that right. So there was a kind of a cut
off, you know, because they weretrying to get to the new designs
that's coming out. So all the orders that were for
2025, I guess there was a littleover 100 that were accepted by
General Motors by. For the ZR ones, For the ZR
ones, I'm not going to question you because I did that last time
and I was dead wrong. But I thought I googled or
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grokked or whatever. How many ZR ones are they
producing for the CA platform? I thought, I thought I said like
400 or 500 maybe that's through the entirety well.
Let's look it up. Yeah, because I know that's what
we got AI here for, right? Yeah.
Tell me the production numbers for the 2025 ZR one and what was
rolled over to 2026 so. It looks like there were
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initially 310 orders for the 2025 ZR one.
However, due to some production delays, only 108 were actually
completed. That means a little over 100
orders got pushed to the 2026 model year.
How many do they plan on producing?
How many do they plan on producing?
It's tricky to say the exact number they plan to produce.
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Overall, they had those initial 310 orders for 2025, but with
the delays it's unclear how thatwill affect the total for 2026.
Do you want to know more about the delay or the 20?
So basically from my information.
Why did you pick that voice? Well, she's smart and sassy.
It's a lot of I'd rather listen to a female talk back to me
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versus a male, unfortunately. That mean I don't want to hear a
female talk back to me. Just kidding.
That was don't get cancelled. That was a joke.
So yeah, have a nice conversation.
We all wanted Jarvis though. We did.
We do. We do.
My car's Jarvis. You know, it's funny that on her
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phone for her, I think Google Maps or Apple Maps, whatever,
she has a guy with kind of a British Y accent too.
Yeah. Turn left at the corner.
I'm like, what? What is this?
Some voices can be annoying. They give you a lot of choices,
so you know that's a good thing.But really getting back to that
so they what I am from what I understand, 64 of them got
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produced for 2025. The rest of those are turned
over to 2026. Those are the only orders that
they have in the bank. They've pretty much have not
accepted any more orders yet on the ZR1.
So technically right now 100 andso odd units are what they plan
to produce until they get production of BLOB is with
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parts. Carbon fiber, sure, because a
lot of that stuff that they usedon the ZO6 they had to put
restraints on in order to get the ZR ones built.
Yeah. And going back to the original
point that they're producing fewer and they plan to produce
fewer of those than than the GT DS, I think I had found that
they're supposed to be doing somewhere close to like 1000 of
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those. So even though when you look at
it, nothing really looks like it, and one would argue it's
just a Mustang with a body kit, I'm like, yeah, but most.
Impressive. It's impressive.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool because they produce another
Mustang that almost, you know, almost has the same power and
stats and everything, but it's not as fat or as wide as a GTD.
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But yeah, there's at the end of the day, they're still producing
more of those than the ZR1. But when you add the ZR1 with
the ZO6 and then the regular Stingray and the E Ray, you
know, and then you're up to a lot.
And then to your point, you see them everywhere.
Not quite as often as those Tesla on top of your Have you
done the Tesla challenge, the one that I mentioned on the
podcast before where how many traffic lights can you go to
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consecutively without seeing a Tesla?
No, because I see them everywhere.
It's hard to make it to two, yeah, depending on where you are
in the city. The other day I was sitting
there on my little Mini, my little Z just getting coffee.
And I had one not directly in front of me, but to the next
lane over in front, two lanes over 2 of my rear view and then
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two facing me the other way at the same traffic light like
right here off the on the Higley.
And I'm like, well, people did everything they did politically
and they're still everywhere andthey will continue to to be
everywhere moving forward. So it's it's kind of interesting
not to sidestep too much from the Corvette conversation, but
every time I look up, I see thatT on your hat and it makes me
think about it. Yeah.
I mean, I'm driving the Plaid. I mean, it's a fun car.
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It's a daily car. The Corvettes are just more in
line with that. You know when you're driving a
performance car, the feel, it's a difference yes, feeling a car,
being connected with a car and just the joy of hearing that
engine rumble, there's nothing like it.
So no matter what people talk about comparing the Tesla Plaid,
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yeah, they're super fast in a straight line, but it's not a
car, fortunately that. It's not a passion car.
Yeah, it is. It's not.
And it gets old real quick. Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I was excited when I gotthe vehicle.
I'm like, OK, got the top Tesla.You know, this is exactly what I
was looking for. Everyone can, no one can tell me
anymore that, oh, the toast was faster than the Corvette.
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No kidding. I know I got 1, you know what I
mean? So it's not about that.
It's about, you know, the love of the car.
Can you tell when you're out there?
And maybe you can, because your your car, you've been into cars
your whole life, and not just into cars, like you've been
literally into the business. Of cars your whole life.
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But if I were to go outside and just look at your car, I
wouldn't have known that it's a Plaid.
But maybe because I don't know the visual differences.
Are there any visual differencesbetween a Plaid and a non Plaid
other than a badge? No.
So the visual difference is whenyou get a Tesla Plaid that comes
with a carbon fiber spoiler badging on the rear.
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That's it. The interior.
So minor styling. That's it.
You get those two different badging and rear spoiler 'cause
you can get the optional wheels on either model platform,
they're available. But the interior, you get full
carbon fiber for your interior versus the wood trim.
So that's really the kind of a subtle difference.
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If you get into a Tesla, if you see all the trim is carbon,
you're either in a Plaid or someone's overlaid it.
But that's. Basically the fact.
Is it carbon or is it like? Hydro dipped or fake carbon?
Yeah, no, it's not real carbon. I just thought I would.
Ask. I mean, it's a carbon fiber.
Look, the spoiler might be a real carbon fiber.
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That's about it. Yeah, I just thought I'd ask.
And then they've got the new track package, so you can see if
you've got one of the track package, you'll see the
difference in the calipers. 2023, I think they went to red
calipers on the Tesla Plaid versus 2020 through 2020 twos.
They were just identical to the regular Tesla Model S.
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If you miss a detail, that's fine because you're the Corvette
guy. Exactly.
I'm not the expert here on him. I don't take this car to the
drag strip. I drive it back and forth to
work. So you have a Plaid.
It's arguably the fastest vehicle at any given time,
quickest a vehicle at any given time on the road.
But it looks just like every other one.
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Yeah. So, yeah, that's where it is
because you because you could drive like a 1980s hundred and I
don't know, 45155 mile horsepower small car that's a 6
speed manual and have the time of your life.
Maybe not out here where the roads are incredibly long.
Yeah, it's straight, but just whipping around.
And so I get it. The, you know, that visceral
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field just isn't there. But it's still cool to have a
Plaid. It's still cool to have a fast
ass car. Yeah.
And it's not. It's more than that to me too.
The technology in the car Yep, is really why I love the Tesla
Plaid or the Tesla period. Just the updates, the thing
that's given to us, the new Crocfeatures, you know, I hop in the
car, I literally don't have to do anything.
I can just tap a button. The car will pull out my
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driveway. It'll drive me right to work.
You know what I mean? There's just so much involved
and those are little things thatthe car keeps on giving to you.
You know there's updates so. It's.
Like it's not like years ago where you had to always buy a
car. Even today with any
manufacturer, you got to buy a car every three or four years.
If you want to get the latest tech, the new Corvette, you want
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to get the latest tech, you got to get a 2026 not so you know
what manufacturers can do that and develop vehicles that can
give you because technology, we're in our cars, you know, we
spend a lot of time in our vehicles.
So it's nice to have conveniencethat that you enjoy.
You know, each person is different, obviously.
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So those are things I like. Yeah, I think Tesla and some of
these other EV companies, which unfortunately a lot of them are,
aren't as successful yet, if they even survive.
But the the biggest thing to remember is that most people, a
very large majority of people just want the convenience.
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That's why smartphones are so damn popular.
You know, when the iPhone first came out, I go, that's dumb.
Who, who would want to do that? I just give me a phone that
doesn't even make any sense, youknow, And I've had nothing but
iPhones for the past, I don't know, 15 years.
Went from flip phones. Yeah, Yep, Yep, Yep.
And so I get it. And most people are, they don't
care. They just want to get from point
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A to point B with as much tech and comfort.
There's Tesla's a transportationcompany.
They're not a car company. I saw a video someone sent me
about why, you know, Elon Musk doesn't, you know, like he lets
all this stuff just, you know, roll off his back.
He doesn't really care too much about what people say.
And when you think about everything he's invented, and
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this isn't necessarily a shadow corner, conspiracy corner thing,
but when you lay it out, my God,his mission.
Have you seen this video about his his drive to get to Mars?
Yeah. Yeah.
Everything he's made is sustainable on Mars.
Everything he's coming out with is sustainable on Mars.
Everything from the shape of thecyber truck to these these
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rockets that cost 110th of any other rockets that can get
caught to these robots, these Tesla robots that are coming
out, they are all designed to work in, you know, 0 atmosphere.
They don't need food, they don'tneed water.
They need the sun for the solar power, and they can build these.
All these robots can be flown toMars.
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That's why they have this thing that can catch them and they can
build shit so that it's ready bythe time we get there.
And it's like when you think about that, it's like, wow,
that's some crazy shit when you really think about what Tesla's
doing. Definitely innovation
technology, you know, Space XI mean it's definitely a look to
the future, but I got questions like why do we need to leave?
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I mean, in my lifetime, yeah. I mean, in my lifetime, we
don't, you know, but that that'sjust that vision because we know
that the the life cycle of a of a planet and the sun and the
moon. But I mean, this is a long ways
away. It is.
But if that time comes, we need to have a plan.
But everybody here is going to be long gone.
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Yeah, I think we're doing what we've done before, finding a new
place to live. I think we came here.
Yeah. So I mean, maybe you're a future
shadow corner guest, you know, Imean, there's, there's so many
things out there that just if you open, I would say open your
eyes. But if you open your mind, yeah,
there's questions that have beenyou can't answer.
No one can answer. You just have to wonder, right.
(21:53):
But you, you touched on the Grokand the innovation or the
integration with the Teslas and the technology.
And I know you've been really big into AI lately for
productive future businesses purposes, not just the consumer.
Like I consume it, I try to use it to help with the show notes
or to generate things for me images.
But that's so fundamental of a usage case.
(22:16):
Then what you and some of my other former guests are trying
to do with it. Are you at freedom to kind of
talk about not only your fascination with where you think
it's going, but maybe what, without too many details, what
it is you're trying to do for your future with AI?
Always trying to evolve, you know, I'm a little bit older so
the workforce isn't always therefor people when you get to a
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certain age. So if you're not an
entrepreneur, to be able to haveincome streaming in for to be
able to live, you know, you haveto do different things.
So I've got a couple people thatwere looking at some advanced AI
technology as far as integratinginto people's websites, apps and
those sort of things. So we've got a few things we're
developing. I'll be launching here within
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the next few weeks. So really I'm looking at trying
to learn as much as I can because being a little bit
older, a lot of times we get to the point where we can be
stagnant. You know, we see technology and
if you don't keep up with technology, you get left behind.
And So what I'm trying to do is educate myself, make sure that I
can stay forward thinking, you know, I can look at what's
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happening. And when I look back at it, a
lot of people don't realize thatour generation, we started this,
you know, I was building computers when I was 16,
motherboards and you know, I mean, first PC.
So we know what technology lookslike, how it advances.
And I, as a person that's been involved in this kind of stuff
my whole life, I just want to make sure that I'm focused and
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can, you know, take pretty much tap into what's happening right
now because it's a right now thetech world, AI world is taking
off and we got to be careful. But there's things that's going
on in the world today that it can definitely help in the right
hands. Yeah, I agree.
And there's so many different AItechnologies out there.
I think people get stuck with Cyberdyne, you know, and and
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that's Skynet, you know, those are, I wouldn't say they're,
they're unrealistic, far fetchedfears.
I think everybody who's into thetechnology can kind of see how
things could be misused. But I think overall the
utilization of AI and what what is AI?
It's, it's, it's just a series of sometimes autonomous
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instructions that just keeps reinventing itself over and over
and over and over and over. You know, one of the examples
that I've given people before isyou could send me a 10 page.
Hell, I had a, a guest that sentme a book, you know, that's
actually coming up next week. And you know, I got the full
transcript of the book and I wanted to be prepared for this
(24:50):
interview. And so I asked, I think Google
Gemini, which is just a plug in I have for Gmail, said scan this
attachment and come up with fivequestions I wouldn't want to ask
this author for a future interview.
And it wasn't an hour later, right?
1520 seconds later, they had this big long layout of not only
questions I want to ask, but whyI want to ask them.
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And then it broken down by different categories in the
book, you know, and that's AI, right?
AI is doing that for me, you know, so as a personal
assistant, you know, a, a productivity thing or just to
make people's lives better. So I think, you know, I'm all
for AI. Of course there's some crazy
shit out there for entertainmentpurposes, There's going to be
some crazy abuses of it. But the good stuff, not even
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what I use it for, but the stuffthat you're doing, the stuff
that other people are doing, thegood stuff you have to pay for
because they're powerful tools. And even with you paying for
those and helping, you know thatusing that to help build your
future business, that's also a learning platform for the AI
developers. Most of the stuff is open
source, right? Yeah, a lot of things that
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happens today is a lot of small business owners, you know,
that's kind of the niche that I've always been in trying to
help them develop. You know, websites are easy to
throw up, but now they have these smart websites.
Basically they can take your leads, send everything to you as
far as answer phone calls. And a lot of times people don't
have the time to or they don't know how to develop and get
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those leads correct. You know, I mean, and so with
this type of technology, it can help bringing in leads for a
client that has a detailed business, you know, mobile
detailing or that has a car accessories, they whatever the
case might be, sure small thingscan help them generate leads.
And that's what it's all about, trying to help people develop
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and grow their business and be able to enjoy life.
Because, you know, I think with the technology, people are
trying to get AI to help them bemore self sustained.
And with anything in life, that's what it's about for me,
you know, trying to do. We have to work all day, you
know, I want to enjoy life. You don't want to be the greeter
at Walmart unless you're bored and you want to be the greeter.
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At Walmart. Right.
I mean, seriously, as as we age up, right, because our brains, I
mean, not, I'm not saying you'reslow, but our brains slow down
and we we're adult learners. And so some of these concepts, I
mean, my niece and nephew are downstairs and they probably can
do some of this modern shit 10 times faster than I could.
It would take me to even figure out, right?
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I just, it's just, it's just so different.
I use with some of the AI tools out there right now for this
podcast. I mean, you look around the
studio and you have all these homemade, you know, sound
suppression panels that I built.There's software out there.
You don't need this. We could be in almost a
completely hollow room and make it sound almost as good, if not
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better than what this final product is going to sound like.
Drew, that shit didn't exist twoyears ago, right?
Yeah. You know, in version one of that
existed a year and a half ago. Version 2 came out about 8
months ago. Now when I do a podcast
interview with somebody on Zoom or Teams or whatever before, I'd
be like, hey, where are you at? Where are you in the house?
You must be in an empty room, aren't you?
Are you on Airpods? You are.
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Can you take them off, please? Can you hold the phone?
Yeah, because it sound the the quality is so bad.
I know that it's going to take me forever to clean it up just
to make it halfway presentable to use.
Now I just upload it to Adobe podcast AI and 90% of the time
it cleans it up and I can control how much of the noise in
the background I want to use. I can control how much
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processing it, it'll spit it outand I just plug it in right.
You know that shit didn't exist.There's one, I, I think it's
built off a Chat GPTS architecture because people
don't realize ChatGPT is a product of open AI and open AI
produces dozens because everything is open source.
Although I think they're trying to go to closed source, but it's
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called descript or decrypt descript, descript and what it
does. No, no, that's different.
There's one called speaker split.
So it was before when you and I are recording, it's going to
record on 2 separate lines and I'm going to edit those
independently. But by using the other thing, if
I need it, I probably won't needit for Adobe Podcast AI because
the studio is the way it is. But if I only had it on one
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line, I could run it to speaker split and within a minute it'll
split our conversation with 90% accuracy between speaker A and
speaker B, right? Yeah, that's AI.
That shit didn't exist before. Yeah, I've been doing script
writing and I've got a program that actually has duplicated my
voice. So for my reels and for my
videos, I just put the script and now I don't have to edit
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over and over and over, you know, right out of scripts in
here and I'm trying to make sureit sounds properly.
I just put in ChatGPT the scriptI want, maybe throw in something
that knows exactly what my description is and it pops out
the prompt. I put it into my other program
and it generates it in my voice.It's kind of scary though, too,
right? Because that's one of those
those things where it can be abused.
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Even before this AI shake got super popular a couple years
ago, an old high school buddy ofmine that I've talked to every
once in a while on social media,he sent me Adm and told me about
investing in crypto. And it was so weird.
He's like, hey, you know, there there was that big scam going on
a couple years ago and people were like, Hey, if you, I can
get you 10,000 in Bitcoin if yougive me 100 or whatever the
(30:17):
case. That was like a big thing on
social media. And it was his voice.
It was 100% his voice, but he swears his hand to God.
It was 100% not him. And I got suspicious because
this is weird for this guy. He knows I don't, you know, I've
dabbled in in in the crypto since then, but he knows I'm not
like a crypto trader. So it was super weird for me to
(30:37):
get that voicemail from him, voice message from him about
crypto. So I hate him.
I text him on my real phone and say, Hey, was that you?
He's like, no, I've been trying to get my ID back and someone's
using my voice and doing all this shit and it's sort of like
me. It's like, dude, that's fucking
nuts. Yeah, it's scary.
I mean, we'll copyright into with the artist, you know,
music. So I think they're making a a
lot of adjustments as far as thelaw goes.
(30:58):
But yeah, it can definitely go the wrong way.
Monterey Car Week's coming up. I think you've, have you not
been to Monterey or it's been a while?
And I think we have this conversation every year.
Yeah, another year. Not for me as well.
Maybe next year if Acura has something they want to show.
Do you know if Chevy goes out there at all?
(31:18):
I mean, I've been there, but I don't know why I'm asking, but
because they have they, you know, they have these products.
So I know they're introducing, Idon't know what the quail thing
is coming up. I mean that's something type of
a car event that's going to be in.
California. That is one of the premier car
events during Monterey Car Week.OK.
So they are just unveiled their new ZR1X quail edition.
There's going to be a special edition.
So that's going to be there'll be unquailed at that show.
(31:41):
So obviously, yeah, they'll be there this year.
Yeah. So they'll be they'll be at the
Quail and they'll probably be atPebble as well.
What won't the ZR1 XB I mean. In my garage because I can't
afford it and it's not availableyet it.
Won't be in mine either. What do you think is going to
happen to the price of those? Because one of the one of the
comments on your thread was, youknow, you can buy this, the
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Corvette for half the price of aGTD or 1/3 name, say half the
price. I think they said like a third
of the price or the quarter of their price.
I'm like nobody's getting this shit for sticker.
I wouldn't think. Now all the posts that I've been
seeing lately, people are just paying right now for the ZR1
just because of the limit ability 65 built people are
dropping 450 like that. They're it's just 'cause they
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have it. They've got it.
People that are buying that car are the ones that have the money
and just have to have it. So they spend whatever when
production comes in. I mean dealers are pretty much
around 201 fifty on that car over.
So yeah, you're looking at 300 to 3:50 to pick up one.
If you're going to even go to most of the dealers, they all
(32:46):
have markup on them. Yeah, and I think the GGD was
supposed to be about 350. I don't know what the markup is.
I know someone who has one. I guess I could just text him
and he would tell me, but he's had his for a few weeks now.
He had it up at Rd. America.
OK, nice. Yeah, it's got a white one.
I think if if you get it, you got to get like the gold wheels
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so that not the gold gold, but kind of the bronzy matte gold
because it make it look more like the the race car.
Not that it really needs to, butI just think it's cool.
Look. Yeah, but I don't I don't know
if people are paying out the wazoo extra for it.
In fact, why don't we ask our assistant here if people are
paying more? And then I want to talk to you
about the the top ten stolen cars.
(33:31):
Crock, Are you listening? I'm sorry I haven't changed your
voice yet. I have a podcast guest here that
prefers women that talk back. No worries at all, I can switch
to a female voice for your podcast guest.
Just let me know how I can assist.
For the the the Ford Mustang GTDwhat are people paying overstock
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for it or sticker? The Ford Mustang GTD has a base
price of around $318,760.00 witha starting MSRP of $327,960
after delivery and gas guzzler tax.
Some buyers are paying over sticker due to high demand and
limited production, with markupspushing prices to $400,000 or
(34:12):
more for well optioned models, though exact over sticker
amounts vary by dealer and configuration.
OK, Thank you. That'll be it.
Yeah. I don't like that voice.
Yeah. You know, and it's I think
people will make such a huge deal about it because of the
mass production where you can get a Corvette for, you know,
70,000 brand new C8 look at Ferrari, look at Lamborghini
(34:37):
these these manufacturers, thesethey do the exact same thing
when they have those limited. Porsche all day.
Porsche, they make you buy othervehicles to get on a list yeah
to even be able to source, you know, 9/11 GT3 Rs.
So it's not like this is something that's unique yeah.
You know you've got manufacturers and and some of
(34:59):
these dealers out here that whenthey require you to buy 2 of
their vehicles that they got on there over age units to even put
you into the category to be ableto purchase their top tier
vehicle. You know, people don't talk
about that as much as they do a huge markup on a car.
Yeah, I forgot the vehicle, but Jordan, my buddy Jordan, no ball
(35:21):
or TTR when when we had him on, I don't know, three or four
months ago, he had mentioned that one of the vehicles he'd
bought or was going to buy from the from the dealer.
They're like, yeah, if you buy these other two cars, then we'll
we'll let you get this one for this amount.
He's like, get the fuck out of here with that shit.
I think they were trying to pusha Mini like a minivan on him and
something else. Yeah, it's crazy.
It's it's you got. Two other vehicles if you want
(35:43):
this one here. I mean, so for a person to be
able to go and pay 200 grand andjust go great, what they want,
you know, hey, that's what that's what, that's what they
gather money for. So the other thing that you have
to realize too is that some of these manufacturers, you know,
with the limited number of cars that they've got out there,
(36:04):
you're not going to see that vehicle anymore.
You know, and a lot of these cars are going into collectors.
So they're going to be in someone's garage, they're going
to sit and they're looking at resale value.
Yeah. And in most cases, you're not
going to get that money back if you pay upfront.
You know a lot of the NSX guys when the the NC One platform
that came out in 2017 to 22, they paid 200,000 or more over
(36:26):
not over sticker but just for the car.
And then they turn around and try to sell them in 2000, 2020,
122 for, you know, there's a guyright now selling the 2019
thermal orange one and he wants 200 and like $25,000 for it.
Trying to recoup his money, yeah.
And I'm looking at him like, dude, it only has 500 miles.
(36:47):
You're never going to sell this car.
Never, you know, not being negative, but no one's ever
going to pay you this amount of money for this car in this
market because it's way above market, right?
And I think everybody looking atthat is kind of laughing.
And then you get the people who paid even they were trying to
sell, sell their 20 seventeens for 190,000 like dude, no one's
going to buy it. It could have no miles on it.
(37:07):
No one's going to buy it for that, right?
Because you can turn around and get a a 2020 or a 21 or not a 22
with a Type S, but you can turn around and get those for A160170
all day with low miles. Like you lost your ass because
you couldn't wait. Yeah.
So I think this is going to samesame deal with the rest of these
other cars too. Yeah.
Definitely. So the top ten, there was an
(37:28):
article that came out and it said that the Camaro ZO1 was the
number one stolen vehicle and I was amazed.
That's crazy to think. Yeah, 'cause I mean, we're used
to it being OK, maybe a Honda Accord and a Honda Civic.
I was thinking the dodge. Durango's were stolen a lot.
My Someone tried to steal Jaylene.
(37:48):
My daughter's. They're taking Hellcats and.
Yeah, Hellcats challengers all day.
And so let's can you cue that up?
Let's see what yours. I don't.
I don't want to hear my assistant anymore.
Today I'm going to go in there and change the grok voice.
Hey, can you tell us what are the top stolen vehicles in the
United States right now? OK, here's the deal.
(38:11):
Those sports cars are definitelyhot targets, but trucks and
SUV's are also pretty high up there.
Think about the GMC Sierra. Not what?
He asked. So what happens when they talk
back to you all? Right, so let's start fresh and
new. I want you to give me a list of
the top vehicles that are stolenin the United States.
OK, here's the deal. The most stolen vehicles in the
(38:33):
US are usually pickup trucks like the Ford F-150 and Chevy
Silverado. But there's a new trend with
Kia's and Hyundai's being stolena lot, too.
Andy know. About a specific type of
vehicle. What are the top 10 most stolen
vehicles in the US? 10 most stolen vehicles There
should be a list. Can you give me that?
Oh, you're getting mad at her, all right.
(38:56):
Here are the the top 10 most stolen vehicles in the US
IN20231 Hyundai Elantra 2 Hyundai Sonata 23 three Kia
Optima 4 Chevrolet Silverado. Why don't you try?
She said 2023. No one's asking about 2023.
All right, Grok, we're back up. Can you tell me the top 10 most
(39:19):
stolen vehicles in the United States according to 2025?
Based on recent reports, the top10 most stolen vehicles in the
United States for 2025 are Hyundai Elantra with around
31,712 thefts 2. Hyundai Sonata about 26,720
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Thefts 3. Chevrolet Silverado 1500 roughly
21,666 Thefts 4. Honda Accord approximately
18,539 thefts 5. Kia Optima around 17,493 thefts
6. Honda Civic about 15,727 thefts
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7. Kia Sol roughly 13,562 thefts 8.
Ford F-150 Series approximately 12,952 thefts 9.
Toyota Camry about 12,296 thefts10.
Dodge Charger around 11,452 thefts.
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These numbers reflect data from 2024 as it's the most recent
comprehensive set available showing Hyundai and Kia models
dominate due to security vulnerabilities in older models.
Always lock your doors and consider anti theft devices to
protect your ride. Is it?
Is it one LZ or ZL1? ZL1 would be there.
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How often is the Camaro ZL1 stolen?
The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has a whole vehicle theft rate that's
39 times higher than the averagefor all vehicles, based on data
for model years 2022 to 2024. Specifically, it's all about
18.3 theft claims per 1000 insured vehicle years in March
(41:07):
2024, compared to just 1.3 for older Camaros from 2010 to 2015.
This spike started in 2023, largely due to a technical
glitch. All right, so I'm, I'm, I'm done
listening to that. But what those statistics?
So where's, where are people getting their statistics?
(41:29):
Because we don't know, right? Because the Hyundai Elantra
leads one list according to two voices.
But we just confirmed earlier that it was AZL one or 1L1L
ZAZL. ZL1 yeah.
'Cause one's the, one's the Corvette.
So yeah, off camera we we first did it, it said it brought
reference to the Camaro ZL1. Right.
So I don't know. I mean, when I asked
(41:49):
specifically about it, we didn'task specifically about her
earlier when we were playing around, but we asked
specifically about it this time.Why don't we try this here?
Let's see what she remembers. Yeah, ask her.
Ask her what that was about. So you can't trust AI.
All right. Can you give me a recap when you
told me about the ZL1 being on the list?
Is that something new and who reported that information?
(42:10):
Yeah, the Z-01 Corvette's definitely making.
Waves. Nope, it's a.
Brand new one at least. At least my AI can say Ford
F-150. OK, I need you to give me a
recap on the information you gave me about the top stolen
vehicles and you mentioned the Camaro ZL1.
Can you give me a recap on that information and where did you
get it specifically? OK, here's the deal on the
(42:34):
Camaro 1 Zlati. It's a high performance sports
car, and apparently. It's all right, we're done here.
The. Thieves.
The Insurance Institute for Hwy.Safety or IIHS did a study and
found that the ZL1 has the highest DEF rate out of all
vehicles. They think thieves go for it
because it's powerful and expensive.
Is there anything else you'd like to know about the Camaro 1
(42:55):
Zlati? I guess that's how you're
calling it. So no, I'm good.
Thank you. The Carol.
So is that The thing is it? Is it the Zalotti?
I think it's giving some slang because it mentioned ZL1 but it
kind of reference it to. I can go somewhere with the
voice you've chosen. Is that what we're?
Getting So tell me, why are you calling it the Zodi?
Is that a Zodi given Zolotti? She hung up on you.
(43:19):
Are we done? I think, but here's the deal,
theft rate versus stolen. So theft rate, maybe someone
reported someone tried to steal it versus someone physically
actually stealing it. Like, I don't know, I just
thought about that when she was explaining it.
Yeah, can tell you, Jay. Right.
But I mean, it's just maybe that's it.
Maybe it's the, it's, it's the, it's the verbiage that's
(43:42):
different. Who knows?
Who knows? It's the thing about AII mean
it's it can give you good information.
I even in the car coming over here today, I'm asking the
vehicle about conversations we had that one couldn't remember
it. So I'm, you know, a lot of
things in testing, we're in development, they're using as
Guinea pigs is basically the whole story, you know?
Yep, that's what I was saying earlier.
(44:02):
That's why it's open source. It's collecting data.
Right, exactly. So it's going to get better,
obviously, yeah. And we're just using it and
giving it information to basically improve and get better
and to learn. Mr. Buckley, I'll let you go, go
go out and take a look at your Tesla.
Taking for a ride man. That way you can at least say
you've driven 1. Driven or ridden?
(44:25):
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Yeah, the Z-01 Corvette's definitely making.
Weights. Nope.
It's a brand new one at least. At least my AI can say Ford
F-150. This is Hard Park and brought to
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It is Monterey Car Week. What that means is coming up on
this show, I talked to Matt the moderator, D'andrea.
He's been a while since he's been on the show.
Great conversation, 30 minute preview of everything that he's
going to be doing at Monterey Car Week, what races he's going
to with Adam Corolla, all the famous people he's going to get
(00:46):
to interview again because he's on a certain level.
In fact, I would say the highlight of my podcast career
so far is being a guest on Carcast, which Matt the
moderator, D'andrea Co host withGoldberg.
Yes, that Goldberg the wrestler or former wrestler he sometimes
still wrestles Goldberg and Alistair Weaver of Edmunds.
(01:07):
Also, I caught U with Johnny Valencia, as we do every year to
review exotics on Broadway Excet.
The problem with all of that is the audio did not record,
fortunately. Drew Bunkley stop by the Studio
this Saturday and we had a greatconversation about the Corvette
ZR1 AI and maybe what to expect at Monterey Car Week for
(01:30):
Chevrolet. One of the things I do remember
from talking to Johnny Exotics on Broadway is ours have
changed. So if you're listening to this
or watching this and you're going to Monterey Car Week, it
is now 11 to 4. So it's been moved up.
I think the last few years it's been from 1:00 to 6:00.
The area is also slightly expanded, so Fremont used to be
a couple blocks. Now it's at least six blocks,
(01:53):
maybe all of Fremont Street. And they're also doing the
Fremont Experience, which is something you could pay to 10 is
$30.00. But it gets you away from all
the crowds or most, most of the crowds because let's face it,
Exotics on Broadway is the single largest free crazy event
or Monterey Car Week, which means you're going to have 10s
of thousands of people around you at any given time.
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And you can't really move because it's such a great event.
But this Fremont experience allows you to buy a ticket ahead
of time online. So you can go to Exotics on
Broadway's website, which I think is Exotics on
broadway.com, or you can follow them on Instagram and you can
prepurchase. That ticket is $30 up to the
night before Exotics on BroadwaySaturday.
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Otherwise, a day of whether it'sonline or in person, you're
going to pay $40 and you want toget there early because it is
kind of first come, first serve.Think about it as a nightclub or
a bar. You get to the bar, you get
there early, you're inside. If you get there late, you're
standing in line waiting for other people to leave before you
can get in. So everything that's going to be
out at Exotics on Broadway is going to be also in the Fremont
(02:57):
Experience. Horatio Pagani is going to be
out there, I believe. Christian von Konis egg.
There's a lot of stuff going on,so make sure you get out there
and check it out. Exotics on Broadway Saturday,
this Saturday coming up at Monterey Car week.
Let's see, what did Matt D'andrea say?
I forgot what Matt said. I'm I'm sorry.
I just, you know, it kind of sucks when that happens.
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Drew Buckley, welcome back. Thank you for making the trek
from the other side of Phoenix. You brought came over here in
your Tesla. We're going to talk about that
today and some of the new technologies that you're into.
But you are the official Corvette correspondent of Hard
Parking, so is there any? While you're wearing a Tesla
(04:26):
hat, what sort of new knowledge do you want to drop on us today?
Jay, there's a lot of things going on.
Yeah, obviously in the Corvette world, everyone's looking at
things happening with the ZR1, the ZR1X, so.
Are you are you upset they didn't actually call it to Zora?
I'm I still, I'm still hopeful that they're still playing Zora.
I think it's going to probably going to be closer to more
(04:48):
electric, but who knows. There are things in the future
for Corvette. They think about a new grand
sport coming back out with that because right now they're
producing the majority of wide body cars.
So there's a lot of different things that's going on.
I think we're just keeping that Zora name out there.
You know, it's something that ishopeful.
If they do drop something, Corvette is obviously doing a
(05:11):
lot of marketing, so. You told me that.
So you you posted the video of the Nuremberg ring lap times.
And then of course, I know you're the Corvette guy and
Corvette people just like NSX people.
Yeah, any car people. Those people follow the same
accounts. And so I went in there because
(05:32):
when they posted that we made a faster time than the GTDI go.
Hey, personally, I would rather have a GTDI think it's a cool
looking car. Not that the Corvette isn't a
cool looking car, but my part ofthat gripe is that there's just
so many Corvettes out there. Your average person couldn't
tell the difference. Really only a Corvette person or
a car person be like, oh, well, that's that's an E ray.
(05:54):
And even E rays can be confusingtoo, you know, versus a regular,
you know, run-of-the-mill Stingray, which isn't a bad
thing, but with 25,000 made a year, right?
And then the GTDI think nothing looks like a GTD but a GTD.
And you know, some of the guys, they were actually nicer than I
thought they would be. And I think when I didn't argue
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with them, I was like, well, yeah, but.
And I agree with you, you know? You know, and I agree with you
100%, the Corvette is a mass produced vehicle.
The Stingray, you know, it's General Motors.
It's like a Ford Mustang to me. I mean, it's a mass produced
car. The Mustang, obviously the GTD,
in order for them to use that vehicle for racing in the GT
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series, they have to have a marketable, A sellable car.
So that's the reason why they developed that and brought this
vehicle to market limited numbers.
And the same thing with Corvette, they race in the same
series. So the ZR1, you know those type
of vehicles, really what they'redoing is bringing their race car
to the to the average person that can basically afford to
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purchase one. But those cars are designed for
strictly tracks. So for me, for Ford, for Chevy
to offer that car, I think for the market is it says something
that most manufacturers are doing.
You know, it's bringing into a price point whether it's the
Ford or the Corvette. But yeah, the Corvette's a mass
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produced car, and that's ZR1, the ZR1X, you know, it's just a
limited number of car that's going to be produced.
And you know, I totally agree with you on the concept though.
You see them everywhere. You can find a Corvette in any
parking lot when you go around town, especially out here in
Arizona. Yeah, and I mean I think people
realize I wasn't knocking the Corvettes at all.
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And when you, when you were talking about the having the
road going version to, in order to be eligible moving forward,
it kind of reminds me of like the C7 Rs.
Remember the race car C7 arrivesand they, they, I think the road
going version wasn't necessarilythe same, but that's what I
thought of. And I remember back when I was
watching FIAGT back in the late 90s or 2000s, some of the
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biggest dream cars is like a Mercedes-Benz CLKGTR, which is a
road car, but it's, everybody knows it's a race car And it's
in order for them to have it on the racetrack, they had to at
least make one Rd. going car that they could sell for the GT1
class. Same thing with the Porsche GT1.
You've probably never seen one. And if you're so, you've
probably never seen one in person because there's so few of
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them that is legit a freaking race car for the street.
And it looks almost like, in fact, actually really
unscripted. I weirdly have a, a Porsche like
a second generation GT1 car right here.
And so they actually make a street version of this car,
right? Maybe two people own one in the
entire world, but you know, thiscar exists.
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So that's kind of what made me think about the when you're
talking about the reason why theGTD even exists to begin with,
because I've heard people say, you know, it's just really a
race car. And in order for them to do
that, well, still says it still says this Ford, Ford GTD, Ford
Mustang GTD. Right.
And I think the big really for me being a Corvette enthusiast,
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the big take away from it is that the Corvette ZR1ZR1X, it
comes straight off the Corvette assembly line in Bowling Green,
KY, which matters exactly because the Ford has to go out
and to be modified to be able to, you know, obviously be able
to be manufactured for that particular car.
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So it's a big difference when you've got a car coming right
off assembly line, plug and play, hit the start button,
you're there versus a car that'sgot to be modified.
Right. And I get that.
I mean, it's all in house at that point, which there's
something to be said about that,you know, and I, I think I'd
commented, you know, I don't want to see a 01 at every corner
and I don't, I, I think it's rare that I ever see AC-70 when
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you see C sixes, but still not as often as you would think.
And then I know this one's even more limited.
I think they said they're making4 to 500 of this sound correct?
So they only made 64 for 2025, right around 64.
The other orders that were put in had to be dumped over to 2026
models. So they redesigned the interior.
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Oh, I saw that right. So there was a kind of a cut
off, you know, because they weretrying to get to the new designs
that's coming out. So all the orders that were for
2025, I guess there was a littleover 100 that were accepted by
General Motors by. For the ZR ones, For the ZR
ones, I'm not going to question you because I did that last time
and I was dead wrong. But I thought I googled or
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grokked or whatever. How many ZR ones are they
producing for the CA platform? I thought, I thought I said like
400 or 500 maybe that's through the entirety well.
Let's look it up. Yeah, because I know that's what
we got AI here for, right? Yeah.
Tell me the production numbers for the 2025 ZR one and what was
rolled over to 2026 so. It looks like there were
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initially 310 orders for the 2025 ZR one.
However, due to some production delays, only 108 were actually
completed. That means a little over 100
orders got pushed to the 2026 model year.
How many do they plan on producing?
How many do they plan on producing?
It's tricky to say the exact number they plan to produce.
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Overall, they had those initial 310 orders for 2025, but with
the delays it's unclear how thatwill affect the total for 2026.
Do you want to know more about the delay or the 20?
So basically from my information.
Why did you pick that voice? Well, she's smart and sassy.
It's a lot of I'd rather listen to a female talk back to me
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versus a male, unfortunately. That mean I don't want to hear a
female talk back to me. Just kidding.
That was don't get cancelled. That was a joke.
So yeah, have a nice conversation.
We all wanted Jarvis though. We did.
We do. We do.
My car's Jarvis. You know, it's funny that on her
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phone for her, I think Google Maps or Apple Maps, whatever,
she has a guy with kind of a British Y accent too.
Yeah. Turn left at the corner.
I'm like, what? What is this?
Some voices can be annoying. They give you a lot of choices,
so you know that's a good thing.But really getting back to that
so they what I am from what I understand, 64 of them got
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produced for 2025. The rest of those are turned
over to 2026. Those are the only orders that
they have in the bank. They've pretty much have not
accepted any more orders yet on the ZR1.
So technically right now 100 andso odd units are what they plan
to produce until they get production of BLOB is with
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parts. Carbon fiber, sure, because a
lot of that stuff that they usedon the ZO6 they had to put
restraints on in order to get the ZR ones built.
Yeah. And going back to the original
point that they're producing fewer and they plan to produce
fewer of those than than the GT DS, I think I had found that
they're supposed to be doing somewhere close to like 1000 of
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those. So even though when you look at
it, nothing really looks like it, and one would argue it's
just a Mustang with a body kit, I'm like, yeah, but most.
Impressive. It's impressive.
Yeah, it looks pretty cool because they produce another
Mustang that almost, you know, almost has the same power and
stats and everything, but it's not as fat or as wide as a GTD.
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But yeah, there's at the end of the day, they're still producing
more of those than the ZR1. But when you add the ZR1 with
the ZO6 and then the regular Stingray and the E Ray, you
know, and then you're up to a lot.
And then to your point, you see them everywhere.
Not quite as often as those Tesla on top of your Have you
done the Tesla challenge, the one that I mentioned on the
podcast before where how many traffic lights can you go to
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consecutively without seeing a Tesla?
No, because I see them everywhere.
It's hard to make it to two, yeah, depending on where you are
in the city. The other day I was sitting
there on my little Mini, my little Z just getting coffee.
And I had one not directly in front of me, but to the next
lane over in front, two lanes over 2 of my rear view and then
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two facing me the other way at the same traffic light like
right here off the on the Higley.
And I'm like, well, people did everything they did politically
and they're still everywhere andthey will continue to to be
everywhere moving forward. So it's it's kind of interesting
not to sidestep too much from the Corvette conversation, but
every time I look up, I see thatT on your hat and it makes me
think about it. Yeah.
I mean, I'm driving the Plaid. I mean, it's a fun car.
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It's a daily car. The Corvettes are just more in
line with that. You know when you're driving a
performance car, the feel, it's a difference yes, feeling a car,
being connected with a car and just the joy of hearing that
engine rumble, there's nothing like it.
So no matter what people talk about comparing the Tesla Plaid,
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yeah, they're super fast in a straight line, but it's not a
car, fortunately that. It's not a passion car.
Yeah, it is. It's not.
And it gets old real quick. Yeah, definitely.
I mean, I was excited when I gotthe vehicle.
I'm like, OK, got the top Tesla.You know, this is exactly what I
was looking for. Everyone can, no one can tell me
anymore that, oh, the toast was faster than the Corvette.
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No kidding. I know I got 1, you know what I
mean? So it's not about that.
It's about, you know, the love of the car.
Can you tell when you're out there?
And maybe you can, because your your car, you've been into cars
your whole life, and not just into cars, like you've been
literally into the business. Of cars your whole life.
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But if I were to go outside and just look at your car, I
wouldn't have known that it's a Plaid.
But maybe because I don't know the visual differences.
Are there any visual differencesbetween a Plaid and a non Plaid
other than a badge? No.
So the visual difference is whenyou get a Tesla Plaid that comes
with a carbon fiber spoiler badging on the rear.
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That's it. The interior.
So minor styling. That's it.
You get those two different badging and rear spoiler 'cause
you can get the optional wheels on either model platform,
they're available. But the interior, you get full
carbon fiber for your interior versus the wood trim.
So that's really the kind of a subtle difference.
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If you get into a Tesla, if you see all the trim is carbon,
you're either in a Plaid or someone's overlaid it.
But that's. Basically the fact.
Is it carbon or is it like? Hydro dipped or fake carbon?
Yeah, no, it's not real carbon. I just thought I would.
Ask. I mean, it's a carbon fiber.
Look, the spoiler might be a real carbon fiber.
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That's about it. Yeah, I just thought I'd ask.
And then they've got the new track package, so you can see if
you've got one of the track package, you'll see the
difference in the calipers. 2023, I think they went to red
calipers on the Tesla Plaid versus 2020 through 2020 twos.
They were just identical to the regular Tesla Model S.
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If you miss a detail, that's fine because you're the Corvette
guy. Exactly.
I'm not the expert here on him. I don't take this car to the
drag strip. I drive it back and forth to
work. So you have a Plaid.
It's arguably the fastest vehicle at any given time,
quickest a vehicle at any given time on the road.
But it looks just like every other one.
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Yeah. So, yeah, that's where it is
because you because you could drive like a 1980s hundred and I
don't know, 45155 mile horsepower small car that's a 6
speed manual and have the time of your life.
Maybe not out here where the roads are incredibly long.
Yeah, it's straight, but just whipping around.
And so I get it. The, you know, that visceral
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field just isn't there. But it's still cool to have a
Plaid. It's still cool to have a fast
ass car. Yeah.
And it's not. It's more than that to me too.
The technology in the car Yep, is really why I love the Tesla
Plaid or the Tesla period. Just the updates, the thing
that's given to us, the new Crocfeatures, you know, I hop in the
car, I literally don't have to do anything.
I can just tap a button. The car will pull out my
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driveway. It'll drive me right to work.
You know what I mean? There's just so much involved
and those are little things thatthe car keeps on giving to you.
You know there's updates so. It's.
Like it's not like years ago where you had to always buy a
car. Even today with any
manufacturer, you got to buy a car every three or four years.
If you want to get the latest tech, the new Corvette, you want
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to get the latest tech, you got to get a 2026 not so you know
what manufacturers can do that and develop vehicles that can
give you because technology, we're in our cars, you know, we
spend a lot of time in our vehicles.
So it's nice to have conveniencethat that you enjoy.
You know, each person is different, obviously.
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So those are things I like. Yeah, I think Tesla and some of
these other EV companies, which unfortunately a lot of them are,
aren't as successful yet, if they even survive.
But the the biggest thing to remember is that most people, a
very large majority of people just want the convenience.
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That's why smartphones are so damn popular.
You know, when the iPhone first came out, I go, that's dumb.
Who, who would want to do that? I just give me a phone that
doesn't even make any sense, youknow, And I've had nothing but
iPhones for the past, I don't know, 15 years.
Went from flip phones. Yeah, Yep, Yep, Yep.
And so I get it. And most people are, they don't
care. They just want to get from point
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A to point B with as much tech and comfort.
There's Tesla's a transportationcompany.
They're not a car company. I saw a video someone sent me
about why, you know, Elon Musk doesn't, you know, like he lets
all this stuff just, you know, roll off his back.
He doesn't really care too much about what people say.
And when you think about everything he's invented, and
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this isn't necessarily a shadow corner, conspiracy corner thing,
but when you lay it out, my God,his mission.
Have you seen this video about his his drive to get to Mars?
Yeah. Yeah.
Everything he's made is sustainable on Mars.
Everything he's coming out with is sustainable on Mars.
Everything from the shape of thecyber truck to these these
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rockets that cost 110th of any other rockets that can get
caught to these robots, these Tesla robots that are coming
out, they are all designed to work in, you know, 0 atmosphere.
They don't need food, they don'tneed water.
They need the sun for the solar power, and they can build these.
All these robots can be flown toMars.
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That's why they have this thing that can catch them and they can
build shit so that it's ready bythe time we get there.
And it's like when you think about that, it's like, wow,
that's some crazy shit when you really think about what Tesla's
doing. Definitely innovation
technology, you know, Space XI mean it's definitely a look to
the future, but I got questions like why do we need to leave?
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I mean, in my lifetime, yeah. I mean, in my lifetime, we
don't, you know, but that that'sjust that vision because we know
that the the life cycle of a of a planet and the sun and the
moon. But I mean, this is a long ways
away. It is.
But if that time comes, we need to have a plan.
But everybody here is going to be long gone.
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Yeah, I think we're doing what we've done before, finding a new
place to live. I think we came here.
Yeah. So I mean, maybe you're a future
shadow corner guest, you know, Imean, there's, there's so many
things out there that just if you open, I would say open your
eyes. But if you open your mind, yeah,
there's questions that have beenyou can't answer.
No one can answer. You just have to wonder, right.
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But you, you touched on the Grokand the innovation or the
integration with the Teslas and the technology.
And I know you've been really big into AI lately for
productive future businesses purposes, not just the consumer.
Like I consume it, I try to use it to help with the show notes
or to generate things for me images.
But that's so fundamental of a usage case.
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Then what you and some of my other former guests are trying
to do with it. Are you at freedom to kind of
talk about not only your fascination with where you think
it's going, but maybe what, without too many details, what
it is you're trying to do for your future with AI?
Always trying to evolve, you know, I'm a little bit older so
the workforce isn't always therefor people when you get to a
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certain age. So if you're not an
entrepreneur, to be able to haveincome streaming in for to be
able to live, you know, you haveto do different things.
So I've got a couple people thatwere looking at some advanced AI
technology as far as integratinginto people's websites, apps and
those sort of things. So we've got a few things we're
developing. I'll be launching here within
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the next few weeks. So really I'm looking at trying
to learn as much as I can because being a little bit
older, a lot of times we get to the point where we can be
stagnant. You know, we see technology and
if you don't keep up with technology, you get left behind.
And So what I'm trying to do is educate myself, make sure that I
can stay forward thinking, you know, I can look at what's
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happening. And when I look back at it, a
lot of people don't realize thatour generation, we started this,
you know, I was building computers when I was 16,
motherboards and you know, I mean, first PC.
So we know what technology lookslike, how it advances.
And I, as a person that's been involved in this kind of stuff
my whole life, I just want to make sure that I'm focused and
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can, you know, take pretty much tap into what's happening right
now because it's a right now thetech world, AI world is taking
off and we got to be careful. But there's things that's going
on in the world today that it can definitely help in the right
hands. Yeah, I agree.
And there's so many different AItechnologies out there.
I think people get stuck with Cyberdyne, you know, and and
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that's Skynet, you know, those are, I wouldn't say they're,
they're unrealistic, far fetchedfears.
I think everybody who's into thetechnology can kind of see how
things could be misused. But I think overall the
utilization of AI and what what is AI?
It's, it's, it's just a series of sometimes autonomous
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instructions that just keeps reinventing itself over and over
and over and over and over. You know, one of the examples
that I've given people before isyou could send me a 10 page.
Hell, I had a, a guest that sentme a book, you know, that's
actually coming up next week. And you know, I got the full
transcript of the book and I wanted to be prepared for this
(24:50):
interview. And so I asked, I think Google
Gemini, which is just a plug in I have for Gmail, said scan this
attachment and come up with fivequestions I wouldn't want to ask
this author for a future interview.
And it wasn't an hour later, right?
1520 seconds later, they had this big long layout of not only
questions I want to ask, but whyI want to ask them.
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And then it broken down by different categories in the
book, you know, and that's AI, right?
AI is doing that for me, you know, so as a personal
assistant, you know, a, a productivity thing or just to
make people's lives better. So I think, you know, I'm all
for AI. Of course there's some crazy
shit out there for entertainmentpurposes, There's going to be
some crazy abuses of it. But the good stuff, not even
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what I use it for, but the stuffthat you're doing, the stuff
that other people are doing, thegood stuff you have to pay for
because they're powerful tools. And even with you paying for
those and helping, you know thatusing that to help build your
future business, that's also a learning platform for the AI
developers. Most of the stuff is open
source, right? Yeah, a lot of things that
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happens today is a lot of small business owners, you know,
that's kind of the niche that I've always been in trying to
help them develop. You know, websites are easy to
throw up, but now they have these smart websites.
Basically they can take your leads, send everything to you as
far as answer phone calls. And a lot of times people don't
have the time to or they don't know how to develop and get
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those leads correct. You know, I mean, and so with
this type of technology, it can help bringing in leads for a
client that has a detailed business, you know, mobile
detailing or that has a car accessories, they whatever the
case might be, sure small thingscan help them generate leads.
And that's what it's all about, trying to help people develop
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and grow their business and be able to enjoy life.
Because, you know, I think with the technology, people are
trying to get AI to help them bemore self sustained.
And with anything in life, that's what it's about for me,
you know, trying to do. We have to work all day, you
know, I want to enjoy life. You don't want to be the greeter
at Walmart unless you're bored and you want to be the greeter.
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At Walmart. Right.
I mean, seriously, as as we age up, right, because our brains, I
mean, not, I'm not saying you'reslow, but our brains slow down
and we we're adult learners. And so some of these concepts, I
mean, my niece and nephew are downstairs and they probably can
do some of this modern shit 10 times faster than I could.
It would take me to even figure out, right?
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I just, it's just, it's just so different.
I use with some of the AI tools out there right now for this
podcast. I mean, you look around the
studio and you have all these homemade, you know, sound
suppression panels that I built.There's software out there.
You don't need this. We could be in almost a
completely hollow room and make it sound almost as good, if not
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better than what this final product is going to sound like.
Drew, that shit didn't exist twoyears ago, right?
Yeah. You know, in version one of that
existed a year and a half ago. Version 2 came out about 8
months ago. Now when I do a podcast
interview with somebody on Zoom or Teams or whatever before, I'd
be like, hey, where are you at? Where are you in the house?
You must be in an empty room, aren't you?
Are you on Airpods? You are.
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Can you take them off, please? Can you hold the phone?
Yeah, because it sound the the quality is so bad.
I know that it's going to take me forever to clean it up just
to make it halfway presentable to use.
Now I just upload it to Adobe podcast AI and 90% of the time
it cleans it up and I can control how much of the noise in
the background I want to use. I can control how much
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processing it, it'll spit it outand I just plug it in right.
You know that shit didn't exist.There's one, I, I think it's
built off a Chat GPTS architecture because people
don't realize ChatGPT is a product of open AI and open AI
produces dozens because everything is open source.
Although I think they're trying to go to closed source, but it's
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called descript or decrypt descript, descript and what it
does. No, no, that's different.
There's one called speaker split.
So it was before when you and I are recording, it's going to
record on 2 separate lines and I'm going to edit those
independently. But by using the other thing, if
I need it, I probably won't needit for Adobe Podcast AI because
the studio is the way it is. But if I only had it on one
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line, I could run it to speaker split and within a minute it'll
split our conversation with 90% accuracy between speaker A and
speaker B, right? Yeah, that's AI.
That shit didn't exist before. Yeah, I've been doing script
writing and I've got a program that actually has duplicated my
voice. So for my reels and for my
videos, I just put the script and now I don't have to edit
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over and over and over, you know, right out of scripts in
here and I'm trying to make sureit sounds properly.
I just put in ChatGPT the scriptI want, maybe throw in something
that knows exactly what my description is and it pops out
the prompt. I put it into my other program
and it generates it in my voice.It's kind of scary though, too,
right? Because that's one of those
those things where it can be abused.
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Even before this AI shake got super popular a couple years
ago, an old high school buddy ofmine that I've talked to every
once in a while on social media,he sent me Adm and told me about
investing in crypto. And it was so weird.
He's like, hey, you know, there there was that big scam going on
a couple years ago and people were like, Hey, if you, I can
get you 10,000 in Bitcoin if yougive me 100 or whatever the
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case. That was like a big thing on
social media. And it was his voice.
It was 100% his voice, but he swears his hand to God.
It was 100% not him. And I got suspicious because
this is weird for this guy. He knows I don't, you know, I've
dabbled in in in the crypto since then, but he knows I'm not
like a crypto trader. So it was super weird for me to
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get that voicemail from him, voice message from him about
crypto. So I hate him.
I text him on my real phone and say, Hey, was that you?
He's like, no, I've been trying to get my ID back and someone's
using my voice and doing all this shit and it's sort of like
me. It's like, dude, that's fucking
nuts. Yeah, it's scary.
I mean, we'll copyright into with the artist, you know,
music. So I think they're making a a
lot of adjustments as far as thelaw goes.
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But yeah, it can definitely go the wrong way.
Monterey Car Week's coming up. I think you've, have you not
been to Monterey or it's been a while?
And I think we have this conversation every year.
Yeah, another year. Not for me as well.
Maybe next year if Acura has something they want to show.
Do you know if Chevy goes out there at all?
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I mean, I've been there, but I don't know why I'm asking, but
because they have they, you know, they have these products.
So I know they're introducing, Idon't know what the quail thing
is coming up. I mean that's something type of
a car event that's going to be in.
California. That is one of the premier car
events during Monterey Car Week.OK.
So they are just unveiled their new ZR1X quail edition.
There's going to be a special edition.
So that's going to be there'll be unquailed at that show.
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So obviously, yeah, they'll be there this year.
Yeah. So they'll be they'll be at the
Quail and they'll probably be atPebble as well.
What won't the ZR1 XB I mean. In my garage because I can't
afford it and it's not availableyet it.
Won't be in mine either. What do you think is going to
happen to the price of those? Because one of the one of the
comments on your thread was, youknow, you can buy this, the
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Corvette for half the price of aGTD or 1/3 name, say half the
price. I think they said like a third
of the price or the quarter of their price.
I'm like nobody's getting this shit for sticker.
I wouldn't think. Now all the posts that I've been
seeing lately, people are just paying right now for the ZR1
just because of the limit ability 65 built people are
dropping 450 like that. They're it's just 'cause they
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have it. They've got it.
People that are buying that car are the ones that have the money
and just have to have it. So they spend whatever when
production comes in. I mean dealers are pretty much
around 201 fifty on that car over.
So yeah, you're looking at 300 to 3:50 to pick up one.
If you're going to even go to most of the dealers, they all
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have markup on them. Yeah, and I think the GGD was
supposed to be about 350. I don't know what the markup is.
I know someone who has one. I guess I could just text him
and he would tell me, but he's had his for a few weeks now.
He had it up at Rd. America.
OK, nice. Yeah, it's got a white one.
I think if if you get it, you got to get like the gold wheels
(33:07):
so that not the gold gold, but kind of the bronzy matte gold
because it make it look more like the the race car.
Not that it really needs to, butI just think it's cool.
Look. Yeah, but I don't I don't know
if people are paying out the wazoo extra for it.
In fact, why don't we ask our assistant here if people are
paying more? And then I want to talk to you
about the the top ten stolen cars.
(33:31):
Crock, Are you listening? I'm sorry I haven't changed your
voice yet. I have a podcast guest here that
prefers women that talk back. No worries at all, I can switch
to a female voice for your podcast guest.
Just let me know how I can assist.
For the the the Ford Mustang GTDwhat are people paying overstock
(33:51):
for it or sticker? The Ford Mustang GTD has a base
price of around $318,760.00 witha starting MSRP of $327,960
after delivery and gas guzzler tax.
Some buyers are paying over sticker due to high demand and
limited production, with markupspushing prices to $400,000 or
(34:12):
more for well optioned models, though exact over sticker
amounts vary by dealer and configuration.
OK, Thank you. That'll be it.
Yeah. I don't like that voice.
Yeah. You know, and it's I think
people will make such a huge deal about it because of the
mass production where you can get a Corvette for, you know,
70,000 brand new C8 look at Ferrari, look at Lamborghini
(34:37):
these these manufacturers, thesethey do the exact same thing
when they have those limited. Porsche all day.
Porsche, they make you buy othervehicles to get on a list yeah
to even be able to source, you know, 9/11 GT3 Rs.
So it's not like this is something that's unique yeah.
You know you've got manufacturers and and some of
(34:59):
these dealers out here that whenthey require you to buy 2 of
their vehicles that they got on there over age units to even put
you into the category to be ableto purchase their top tier
vehicle. You know, people don't talk
about that as much as they do a huge markup on a car.
Yeah, I forgot the vehicle, but Jordan, my buddy Jordan, no ball
(35:21):
or TTR when when we had him on, I don't know, three or four
months ago, he had mentioned that one of the vehicles he'd
bought or was going to buy from the from the dealer.
They're like, yeah, if you buy these other two cars, then we'll
we'll let you get this one for this amount.
He's like, get the fuck out of here with that shit.
I think they were trying to pusha Mini like a minivan on him and
something else. Yeah, it's crazy.
It's it's you got. Two other vehicles if you want
(35:43):
this one here. I mean, so for a person to be
able to go and pay 200 grand andjust go great, what they want,
you know, hey, that's what that's what, that's what they
gather money for. So the other thing that you have
to realize too is that some of these manufacturers, you know,
with the limited number of cars that they've got out there,
(36:04):
you're not going to see that vehicle anymore.
You know, and a lot of these cars are going into collectors.
So they're going to be in someone's garage, they're going
to sit and they're looking at resale value.
Yeah. And in most cases, you're not
going to get that money back if you pay upfront.
You know a lot of the NSX guys when the the NC One platform
that came out in 2017 to 22, they paid 200,000 or more over
(36:26):
not over sticker but just for the car.
And then they turn around and try to sell them in 2000, 2020,
122 for, you know, there's a guyright now selling the 2019
thermal orange one and he wants 200 and like $25,000 for it.
Trying to recoup his money, yeah.
And I'm looking at him like, dude, it only has 500 miles.
(36:47):
You're never going to sell this car.
Never, you know, not being negative, but no one's ever
going to pay you this amount of money for this car in this
market because it's way above market, right?
And I think everybody looking atthat is kind of laughing.
And then you get the people who paid even they were trying to
sell, sell their 20 seventeens for 190,000 like dude, no one's
going to buy it. It could have no miles on it.
(37:07):
No one's going to buy it for that, right?
Because you can turn around and get a a 2020 or a 21 or not a 22
with a Type S, but you can turn around and get those for A160170
all day with low miles. Like you lost your ass because
you couldn't wait. Yeah.
So I think this is going to samesame deal with the rest of these
other cars too. Yeah.
Definitely. So the top ten, there was an
(37:28):
article that came out and it said that the Camaro ZO1 was the
number one stolen vehicle and I was amazed.
That's crazy to think. Yeah, 'cause I mean, we're used
to it being OK, maybe a Honda Accord and a Honda Civic.
I was thinking the dodge. Durango's were stolen a lot.
My Someone tried to steal Jaylene.
(37:48):
My daughter's. They're taking Hellcats and.
Yeah, Hellcats challengers all day.
And so let's can you cue that up?
Let's see what yours. I don't.
I don't want to hear my assistant anymore.
Today I'm going to go in there and change the grok voice.
Hey, can you tell us what are the top stolen vehicles in the
United States right now? OK, here's the deal.
(38:11):
Those sports cars are definitelyhot targets, but trucks and
SUV's are also pretty high up there.
Think about the GMC Sierra. Not what?
He asked. So what happens when they talk
back to you all? Right, so let's start fresh and
new. I want you to give me a list of
the top vehicles that are stolenin the United States.
OK, here's the deal. The most stolen vehicles in the
(38:33):
US are usually pickup trucks like the Ford F-150 and Chevy
Silverado. But there's a new trend with
Kia's and Hyundai's being stolena lot, too.
Andy know. About a specific type of
vehicle. What are the top 10 most stolen
vehicles in the US? 10 most stolen vehicles There
should be a list. Can you give me that?
Oh, you're getting mad at her, all right.
(38:56):
Here are the the top 10 most stolen vehicles in the US
IN20231 Hyundai Elantra 2 Hyundai Sonata 23 three Kia
Optima 4 Chevrolet Silverado. Why don't you try?
She said 2023. No one's asking about 2023.
All right, Grok, we're back up. Can you tell me the top 10 most
(39:19):
stolen vehicles in the United States according to 2025?
Based on recent reports, the top10 most stolen vehicles in the
United States for 2025 are Hyundai Elantra with around
31,712 thefts 2. Hyundai Sonata about 26,720
(39:39):
Thefts 3. Chevrolet Silverado 1500 roughly
21,666 Thefts 4. Honda Accord approximately
18,539 thefts 5. Kia Optima around 17,493 thefts
6. Honda Civic about 15,727 thefts
(40:03):
7. Kia Sol roughly 13,562 thefts 8.
Ford F-150 Series approximately 12,952 thefts 9.
Toyota Camry about 12,296 thefts10.
Dodge Charger around 11,452 thefts.
(40:24):
These numbers reflect data from 2024 as it's the most recent
comprehensive set available showing Hyundai and Kia models
dominate due to security vulnerabilities in older models.
Always lock your doors and consider anti theft devices to
protect your ride. Is it?
Is it one LZ or ZL1? ZL1 would be there.
(40:44):
How often is the Camaro ZL1 stolen?
The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has a whole vehicle theft rate that's
39 times higher than the averagefor all vehicles, based on data
for model years 2022 to 2024. Specifically, it's all about
18.3 theft claims per 1000 insured vehicle years in March
(41:07):
2024, compared to just 1.3 for older Camaros from 2010 to 2015.
This spike started in 2023, largely due to a technical
glitch. All right, so I'm, I'm, I'm done
listening to that. But what those statistics?
So where's, where are people getting their statistics?
(41:29):
Because we don't know, right? Because the Hyundai Elantra
leads one list according to two voices.
But we just confirmed earlier that it was AZL one or 1L1L
ZAZL. ZL1 yeah.
'Cause one's the, one's the Corvette.
So yeah, off camera we we first did it, it said it brought
reference to the Camaro ZL1. Right.
So I don't know. I mean, when I asked
(41:49):
specifically about it, we didn'task specifically about her
earlier when we were playing around, but we asked
specifically about it this time.Why don't we try this here?
Let's see what she remembers. Yeah, ask her.
Ask her what that was about. So you can't trust AI.
All right. Can you give me a recap when you
told me about the ZL1 being on the list?
Is that something new and who reported that information?
(42:10):
Yeah, the Z-01 Corvette's definitely making.
Waves. Nope, it's a.
Brand new one at least. At least my AI can say Ford
F-150. OK, I need you to give me a
recap on the information you gave me about the top stolen
vehicles and you mentioned the Camaro ZL1.
Can you give me a recap on that information and where did you
get it specifically? OK, here's the deal on the
(42:34):
Camaro 1 Zlati. It's a high performance sports
car, and apparently. It's all right, we're done here.
The. Thieves.
The Insurance Institute for Hwy.Safety or IIHS did a study and
found that the ZL1 has the highest DEF rate out of all
vehicles. They think thieves go for it
because it's powerful and expensive.
Is there anything else you'd like to know about the Camaro 1
(42:55):
Zlati? I guess that's how you're
calling it. So no, I'm good.
Thank you. The Carol.
So is that The thing is it? Is it the Zalotti?
I think it's giving some slang because it mentioned ZL1 but it
kind of reference it to. I can go somewhere with the
voice you've chosen. Is that what we're?
Getting So tell me, why are you calling it the Zodi?
Is that a Zodi given Zolotti? She hung up on you.
(43:19):
Are we done? I think, but here's the deal,
theft rate versus stolen. So theft rate, maybe someone
reported someone tried to steal it versus someone physically
actually stealing it. Like, I don't know, I just
thought about that when she was explaining it.
Yeah, can tell you, Jay. Right.
But I mean, it's just maybe that's it.
Maybe it's the, it's, it's the, it's the verbiage that's
(43:42):
different. Who knows?
Who knows? It's the thing about AII mean
it's it can give you good information.
I even in the car coming over here today, I'm asking the
vehicle about conversations we had that one couldn't remember
it. So I'm, you know, a lot of
things in testing, we're in development, they're using as
Guinea pigs is basically the whole story, you know?
Yep, that's what I was saying earlier.
(44:02):
That's why it's open source. It's collecting data.
Right, exactly. So it's going to get better,
obviously, yeah. And we're just using it and
giving it information to basically improve and get better
and to learn. Mr. Buckley, I'll let you go, go
go out and take a look at your Tesla.
Taking for a ride man. That way you can at least say
you've driven 1. Driven or ridden?
(44:25):
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