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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Listener land.
You have found the podcastthat's balanced and rotated, but
never aligned.
It's leaking a little from theoil pan, yet still overflowing.
The podcast whose timing beltneeds a few more notches, but
the extended warranty willalways get you to the next mile
post, where sheep metal getsmetaphysical, where horsepower
(00:23):
takes a backseat to horseplay.
The podcast that sits at thecorner of Memory Lane and
Nostalgia Avenue.
You're about to take apermanent detour.
We have no intention of fixing.
You have found to all the carsI've loved before, your podcast
where every car tells a story,every machine has a soul and
every car has a culture.
What do you think?
(00:45):
Pretty good, right, does thatwork?
All those marketing people?
Yeah, okay, phenomenal Onward,oh, and we have that new domain.
Should we talk about that?
domain, or should we getstraight into today's theme.
Let's get straight in Today'stheme.
Are you Okay?
So Jeep has this kind of sayingif you look around, the Jeep
(01:08):
experience, right.
So I thought you know kind ofthe Jimi Hendrix, I'm a big
classic rock guy Are youexperienced, right, the Jimi
Hendrix?
So are you Jeep experienced iswhat I want to know and we're
going to dive into that a littlebit later.
So any thoughts on, maybe,where the Jeep name came from?
Everybody who's on the podcasttoday is on a Jeep.
(01:29):
What do you think Can we rollwith?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
it.
I do have a joke about a Jeepand it involves rental cars.
Okay, I did not come up withthis, but I heard about it.
What's the difference between aJeep and a rental car?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I know this one.
There are places you wouldn'ttake a rental car, is that it?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
No, there are places.
You won't take a Jeep.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think I had the inverse of the punchline.
That's how my mind works,lovely.
We have jokes on the podcast.
It implies the Jeep can goanywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But if it's your Jeep , you're probably not going to
take it some places.
But if you want to have fun,actually rent a Jeep and then
you can go anywhere.
Oh, you have the best of bothworlds.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You could just you could, selma and Louise it, it
into the Pacific Ocean and itreally doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Just pay for the extra.
Extra insurance Right on, righton.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, so what about future guests?
Any any word on?
I know we have a backlog ofpeople We've.
Let's take a step back here intime.
If you would listener land,let's go into the Wayback
Machine.
When we started this podcast,lo, these six or seven months
ago, we said to people hey, doyou want to be on a podcast?
People would say, no, you're anidiot.
(02:53):
The podcast could be terrible,but now we're still idiots.
But we have a list of peoplewe're trying to get on the show.
Do we want to talk at all aboutsome of the some of the people
in the queue right now, doug, orshould we stick to how easy it
is to be on the show?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, let's see.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I put them on.
I love putting them on the spot.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I love the look of confusion.
We had your son on.
He is a trip.
That boy's a trip.
We did a little sneak previewof him talking about his time
doing National Guard andlearning to drive a Hummer.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
No, no, no, Actually I got to correct you.
Sorry, I meant to correct you,I didn't.
It's not National Guard, it'sArmy Reserves, army Reserves.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
A lot of people make that mistake.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Army Reserves, army Reserves.
A lot of people make thatmistake.
Army reserves, that's okay.
Yeah, army reserves Sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We had Michael Myers on, who has written several
children's books about nineCoolest guy Great website.
Tisforturbocom.
A is for Apple, t is for Turbo.
You get it Genius.
We've, of course, had aGuinevere from Frescia brothers.
Um, can't say enough greatthings about her.
(04:07):
I just spoke to Dave from thesmall car company, which is not
a car company anymore, but uh,he was a referral from uh
Guinevere.
Looking forward to talking tohim.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
She's the best.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And uh, yeah, we've.
We've got some great onesrecorded and hoping to talk to
Dave in the future.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And this is how the show happens.
It's all about family.
Today's guest we're going tocue her in in a minute.
Has we get this a lot?
But it didn't dawn on me todaywhere the parents got a car.
She's one of several, several,several siblings and the car was
just kind of a hand-me-down andworked its way down.
(04:51):
That that's the way I got my myuh rabbit gti one of my
favorite cars there, but Ididn't think of that car as a
hand-me-down.
Right, you ever gethand-me-downs from siblings or
friends.
They're're a little bit olderor bigger than you are Clothes
shoes, the toys, whatever comesto you.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mean, we had one gentleman on, rob, the part-time
car photographer right.
His car was used to helpfriends two or three friends
pass the driver's test right.
That was unique and maybe ourguest, maybe our guest today, um
, her car might have been in asimilar boat, except with family
(05:31):
that's such a great callback.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Rob was hilarious.
The car just.
I don't know if it was easy todrive or everybody wanted to
drive it, or the car just hadgood luck, I think it was small
was the key.
It was easy to park yeah, yeah,yeah, very good, yeah, yeah, and
the way the show works is soguinevere.
Uh, fricia was on the show andshe had a great time.
(05:56):
We're trying trying to get herdad on.
They own a garage inconnecticut, so all about family
.
Like it says, it's all aboutfamily.
Okay, let's get into calls toaction and all we really have
here.
I just want to say a couple ofthings because we've got to move
along kind of quickly here.
EverycarhasaculturecomEverycarhasaculturecom we're
taking over the internet onedomain at a time and so we got
(06:20):
that one Also, we wanted to sayso.
Doug is always out in thecommunity.
Ok, to all the cars I lovebefore.
Very often, doug I'm in, I'm inFlorida, a thousand miles away,
but he's very often at theAnnapolis City Dock at the Cars
and Coffee.
So if you see his car verydistinctive, distinctive,
delorean just walk up to him andjust say hey, man, like your
(06:44):
podcast, hate your co-host.
It's fun.
Just let them know what youreally think.
So how often do they have themup there?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh, every every Sunday.
It's going to stop soon, um,but but I'm trying to go to
other ones.
Um, annapolis town center, um,there is one inia called katie's
cars and coffee, whichapparently goes year-round um,
and they'll have like 400 carsthere.
Problem is I have to leave atabout 5 30 am to get there to
(07:15):
get a spot.
So I, I, I.
That's too early but I'm hopingto get there all right, I I also
have a um, just you know, inways of making people smile with
the DeLorean.
I have a upcoming birthdayparty that I'm bringing the car
to for a bunch of six year oldsthat the son loves back to the
(07:35):
future.
So his parents thought it wouldbe a nice surprise for to have
just a DeLorean show up for alittle bit.
So looking forward to thatlooking forward to the
excitement up for a little bit.
So looking forward to that,looking forward to the
excitement, um, you know, somany people our age love the car
.
But to find somebody, um, sixyears old, that really is all
about back to the future andwants to see the car, I can't
(07:56):
wait.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Right, right, I hear you Lovely.
All right, we'll walk up to himand introduce yourself at the
Annapolis cars and coffee.
All right, so, as we kind ofhim, and introduce yourself at
the Annapolis Cars and Coffee.
All right, so, as we kind ofteased at the top, let's get
into Jeeps.
Are you?
Jeep experience is the questionof the day.
And before I hand this off toDoug, tell us about a little bit
about his Jeep experience andwe pull Megan into the
(08:17):
conversation.
Just can tell you a little bitof mine.
I didn't really come from aJeep culture background but one
kind of uh got my hands on one.
Let's see, this was just a fewyears ago.
I'm gonna say, golly, maybeeight, eight years ago, seven or
eight years ago at this time atthis, and I live in florida,
(08:40):
okay, so you just yank off thetop, you yank everything out of
it, you take off the doors andstick it in the garage.
So it is basically denuded.
You know, 10, 11 months out ofthe year, and it's just so fun.
It is just so fun to get yourson, get your fresh air, get
your tunes, you get out, you'removing from one place to the
(09:03):
other.
But I was surprised by how muchfun I I had in that car and it
was a completely differentexperience.
Doors on top up than not, andit's great that it can go
anywhere and crawl up a 45degree angle.
But, boy, just cruising thebeach and that thing was a trip
so doug.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I remember yours which one Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
the first one I had, I do when we first met in
college.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The beater.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It was held together.
I think Doug got the duct tapeoption package on that one and
that was holding together thedoors and possibly even the
engine block.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
It was a CJ-7.
That's right, that's right but.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I remember the one with the American flag on the
side.
The olympic version, yep 1994.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, that was a.
That was a fun vehicle.
There there's.
Uh, yeah, that was a great car.
Um, I want to say I owned itpost 9-11 and I got more waves
post 9-11.
Is the flag because of the flag?
Yeah, that's really neat.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's really.
I have a picture somewhere ofthat.
I was looking for it the otherday.
I was going through pictures,the picture with the.
It's the picture with thekayaks on top right it is our
ill-fated yeah, our ill-fatedadventure where, amazingly we
didn't die.
But I gotta ask you questionhow did our guest today make
income into our lives?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, you know the gift that keeps giving.
We've had some, we've had somegreat guests on and I've been
fortunate enough to reconnectwith old high school friends as
some of these guests.
But James McRae, great guy, hashis own specialty car shop in
(10:46):
Easton, maryland, mcraeEnterprises, and he's a true
friend of the show, like so manyothers, and he just keeps
telling us about great people.
And that brings us to today'sguest who had her car, in which
we'll get to into his shop forrepairs because it was too old
(11:10):
to be repaired by your normalshop, because they're worried
about if something breaks theycan't find the part.
I totally get it, owning twoold cars myself.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
What a great car.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So, or maybe, what a great car.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, maybe the.
The next generation ofmechanics is so used to getting
certified on computers and inhigh tech that that's what I
think is a lot of these shopsdon't want to touch something.
That would take them time tolearn.
It's kind of out of the wheel.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Sorry, go ahead.
You've got both right.
And then just availability ofparts right.
Maybe you've got to find a usedpart, maybe the part is $800
because there's only a few left.
Maybe you have to rebuild it.
There's so many reasons why,but fortunately we have James
keeping the dream alive and wehave Megan.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And we have Megan.
Most importantly, today we haveMegan.
Megan, how are you today?
I'm doing well, thanks forhaving me there.
She is, and she's walkingthrough the doors of the very
large Cars Love One Cars LovePlaza studio into the very big
overstuffed couches Think of theTonight Show.
(12:24):
That's what we have here.
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So you're not in Buffalo, but you're a Buffalo
Bills fan.
But let's step in the way backmachine.
Let's go way back and talkabout your dad's Jeep.
Do you remember that?
Did you have fun with that?
Did that lay any groundwork forsomething to come to the future
?
Let's, let's get your your takeon jeeps yeah, so, um.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
so before I could drive, my dad had a jeep, a cj7,
and this was before either mybrothers could drive.
And, uh, so my dad bought itfor himself just to plow snow I,
because I grew up in so plowingsnow, pulling stumps, doing
those kinds of things.
And my oldest brother then gotto drive that car once he turned
16.
And by the time I came along at16, we had a Jeep Wrangler.
(13:14):
The CJ7 had been sold, but thenwe had a Jeep Wrangler, so that
became my car and my otherbrother, so the two of us had to
use that car and I loved itbecause that's how I learned to
drive.
On that car I learned to drivestick shift, which, um, was the
reason why I wanted stick shifts, car stiff, stick shift cars in
the future.
Um, but Jeeps are ton of fun.
(13:37):
We would take the top off inthe summer and the doors and it
would just stay off fall summer.
We would throw a tarp over itovernight if it was going to
rain, and we just had a lot ofstories with those jeeps.
Good times for sure yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm shaking my head because yep, had that.
Um, it's amazing how great thetops are now versus way back
when, and I know you had a hardtop, so it was either it was on
or it was off.
There was no in between withthose.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah and and yeah, great story.
So that that Jeep that your dad, so you learned to drive, stick
shift on that Jeep.
And then your dad bought a Jeepfor the children, right?
You and your two brothers,right?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, tell us about the next experience in the Jeep
family.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Well then I had, so then I drove the Wrangler in
high school and then, I guess,part of college, and then we've
had various Jeeps in the family.
My mom then had a Cherokee.
Both my brothers in there asadults have purchased Wranglers.
I had a Grand Cherokee recently.
So there's been a lot of Jeepsin the family, which has been
(14:49):
kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, there are all these great slogans and I'm
surprised Christian didn't getthis one.
But it's a Jeep thing, rightthat's such a great one.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Sorry, christian, no, you got it.
I'm glad you called it back.
It's a jeep thing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
So, yeah, um, gotta love jeeps, right, it's, it's
the american thing, right, andit goes.
You know, speaking of conrad,right, um, going way back to the
military, right, the, the Jeep.
The original Jeep, yes, was amilitary vehicle, right, and it
(15:30):
spawned what became the Jeepthat we know and love today.
Right, but it spawned since, Idon't know, let's see that 40s
maybe, and jeeps were made byactually multiple companies ford
, uh, I think, chrysler maybe, Ithink willies, um, maybe, came
(15:53):
up with the successful uh design.
But during, during uh wartime,uh production, you had everybody
and their brother buildingwhatever was needed.
In fact, they could ship a jeepin a box, basically, and it
could be assembled overseas, andthey did that quite often just
to get it, just the quickest wayto get them out the door and
(16:16):
make them fit in, you know, onthe boat, on the aircraft
carrier.
Would it drop it off the plane?
Right, boat on the aircraftcarrier would drop it off the
plane right.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Willie's overland.
Yes, willie's overland.
Thank you very much, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So where did jeep come from, dowe I?
I was doing a little.
You know, we have hundreds ofresearchers on staff here at one
cars love plaza and they werelooking into slightly dozens,
and they were looking into wherejeep comes from and this is one
of my favorite ones that theycame up with and who knows if
(16:50):
this is real or apocryphal orwhat jeep stands for.
Just enough essential partswhich I like.
I've not heard that before.
Oh, I haven't heard that the forgp where jeep it would be.
This be the sounding out of theletters GP.
Did GP stand for generalpurpose at all or was there
(17:14):
another reason for it?
Another theory I read is thatJeep is after Eugene, the Jeep,
the dog-cat hybrid pet from.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Popeye Yep, yeah, it was a cartoon character.
Yeah, no clue about that.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Popeye Yep, yeah, it was a cartoon character.
Yeah, no clue about that.
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I've heard that one too.
And last one for you before wemove on here In as early as
World War I, jeep was used as aslang term for new soldiers or
untested vehicles.
So who knows where that camefrom.
That could have been a ruralphrase from someplace in the
middle of nowhere.
Now it's, it's, it's becomewhat we all know.
But okay, enough trivia.
(17:50):
Back to you, partner, take itaway.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, so, um, so, so we had this family, family of
Jeeps, right?
Um, I believe, megan, in in uh,high school, your older brother
used to take you to school inthe jeep yeah, then it became
your car and your turn to dothat for your younger brother at
one point right no, no, I neverhad a younger brother, I just
(18:14):
had two older brothers oh, justtwo older brothers four and two.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
One four years older, one two years older, right one
brother four years older, onebrother two years older, so yeah
, she was the end of the line.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Gotcha, gotcha, they gave up.
They said we got a perfect, nomore.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, exactly, Exactly so that that Jeep was
used by all three siblings.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yep and uh who.
What ended up happening to thatJeep?
Who got it?
Where did it go?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It was.
It was sold, I think by thetime I went to college.
I had it actually at collegefor part of my freshman year and
then, I think after that, mydad sold it and that was the end
of the Jeep.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, what a great college vehicle.
Yes, it was, yeah, my bestfriend when he was going to
college.
His roommate had a Jeep and,man, we had so much fun with it,
which inspired me to buy a Jeep, which I then learned was not
great for commuting every day,and so I went back to a
different car.
But you know still love Jeeps.
(19:20):
When Christian had his Jeep, Iwas thinking about buying
another one.
It's just not great for aneveryday car, but some people
make it work.
Some people make it work.
In fact, we interviewedsomebody somewhat recently,
jeremy, who has an inventionthat we're going to talk about
in a future episode for theFreedom Tops and securing them
(19:43):
in the new Jeep.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh, yes, yes, Yep about in a future episode for
the freedom tops and securingthem in the new oh yes, yeah,
yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So yeah there's, you know it's, it's a jeep thing,
right very true thing, yeah,very true, so, um, when you were
so post-college um you're stillinto four wheel drive vehicles
(20:07):
you bought a I bought a Chevyblazer.
Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And I was headed out West and so I needed a, wanted a
four wheel drive truck.
So I bought a Chevy blazer tohead out to Colorado and, um,
and that was good and um, thenthat I pretty much drove that
thing until it died and wasunsafe to drive and after that I
wanted to get, wanted to getback to a standard vehicle.
(20:35):
So then I ended up buying a, um, a, oh my gosh, I'm forgetting
uh.
Ford um Explorer, and that was.
That was standard.
So I wanted I'm forgetting AFord Explorer.
That was standard.
So I wanted a standard caragain, but I had to buy the
absolute base model in order toget standard.
But that was what I wanted.
I enjoy driving more thanautomatic.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, no, I love stick shift cars, having broken
my left ankle about 20 years agoYep, 20 years ago, 20 plus
years ago.
It's not something I can doevery day, but it's like a treat
, if you will.
So, yeah, my everyday car iscertainly automatic, but I do
(21:20):
have two older uh stick shiftcars, including the uh delorean
that everybody's probably tiredof hearing about can.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Can I pop in here real quick.
You know, these three, you knowis she, she?
She buys cars.
That also are kind of verbs,right.
So the chevy blazer, she'sblazing a trail out west, you
know, not unlike a covered wagon, then she's exploring in the
ford and then she's going to gocruising in her next automobile.
(21:49):
So it's very, this is very.
Yeah, it's like you're kind oflike you're magellan or
something.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Anyway, sorry, go ahead right, yeah, so, uh, yeah,
so you, you went to an explorerand, uh, I think there were
obviously cars in between.
But, um, what are your dailydrivers?
And save the best for last,which is actually the older,
oldest car yeah, so um so wellwith the explorer.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I drove that thing until it was pretty much dead
and my dream car at that pointwas an old Land Cruiser FJ60.
My time in Colorado is when Iwas introduced to them for the
first time.
I kind of fell in love withthose old trucks and I had some
friends who drove them and I hadan experience where I actually
(22:41):
depended on one to get me safelyto where I needed to go and I
realized how awesome thosetrucks were.
So I ended up buying one, a1985 Land Cruiser, 12 years ago,
and I bought it on eBay, whichwas oh wow, no way Side of the
scene, huh.
Yes, yes, but the guy who wasselling it had lots of pictures,
(23:04):
lots of great descriptions so Ifelt like he was pretty fair
about things.
So I bought that and I've beendriving that for a long time.
It was my daily driver for alittle bit, so that was kind of
maxed out.
But you know, driving aroundhere in Easton, you know I'm not
(23:26):
really on the highway much.
I'm, you know, five minutesfrom work so I didn't have to
drive on the highway too much.
But I wanted to get it was anabsolute necessity that it was
going to be six shift Again.
I had to have, I had to havestandard, just more interesting,
more fun to drive.
So I've had that for years andit's had the engine rebuilt and
then it's had some more workdone recently where I had it
(23:49):
with James and he got everythingall tuned up, ready to go and
it drives so well.
And I do have another car rightnow.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Toyota Highlander, but that's been in the shop, so
I've been driving the LandCruiser for the past week.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, old reliable.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yes yes, what color is the Land Cruiser?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It is red.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I was going to say it's got to be red.
Yeah it's red.
That's the theme here.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, I know right, you know that's funny because I
never really thought about that.
I guess my Explorer was silver,but yeah, the other ones were
all like some.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, that's what you are.
You're kind of this bright,exploring big truck land yacht
person.
That's what you are.
You're a throwback to those,the ancient explorers.
They would just get in a ship.
You know the way that you wantto go.
(24:41):
You know you get in your LandCruiser and go marauding Right
Like these.
They, they would just get in aship and all around the year
they, they wouldn't care, theywould just let's go, let's go to
new worlds.
You know it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's so fun.
It just makes me happy to driveit.
You know, I've consideredselling it over the years and I
can't quite do it.
It just it makes me smile whenI'm in it.
It's fun just driving aroundtown.
People give me a thumbs up, I'mparking a lot.
Somebody will comment on thetruck.
So it's really fun to drive.
But yeah, I can't get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Highlanding could also be a verb.
What are you doing this weekend?
I'm going highlanding,highlanding.
Sorry, go ahead, doug.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well-chosen words, Highland.
Sorry, go ahead, Doug.
Well-chosen words.
In fact, the 1980, the FJ60Toyota Land Cruiser was called
the Samurai.
I believe in Japan, ReallyAutomotive knowledge I dig that,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Samurai okay.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And so that car, just curious if you uh, it has a
four liter inline six, is thatcorrect?
If you know megan?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
my um?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't know okay, that's all right.
Does it take diesel?
No or regular?
Regular okay, so it's probablya four liter inline six.
Yeah, really, really, reallyharkens back.
What a great vehicle.
There's some somebody in myneighborhood has one.
I just got to find them whenthey're outside and see if they
(26:14):
want to be on the show as well.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But I just want to talk to them about their car.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So dream cars.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Are we about ready to start talking about dream cars,
or yeah?
Yeah, I mean, I think she hasone of her dream cars right for
sure.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yes, that was, that was it.
You know, people are like what,but yeah, that was my dream car
well, I heard that it changed,though you have a new dream car.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We're dreaming of something new, and it has
nothing to do with the landcruising, highlanding, blazing
jeeping or marauding.
What, what, what?
What is our new?
What do you want next?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
so I've always really liked maseratis, for whatever
reason.
I mean I say always, but justin the past, I don't know, 12
years or so, I've kind ofnoticed them they're.
You know, they're not all thatcommon, um, but they kind of
have a cool look to them.
So that's just something thatI'm maserati, maserati but I do,
(27:19):
I do like them.
They've got a pretty, a prettyunique look and, yeah, they're
not as popular as, like you know, some of the other brands you
see around town.
So we'll see.
I don't know if I'll ever getto that.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Boy, those Italians can really do styling, can't
they?
Shoes, suits, churches, okay,cars, goodness, yeah, beautiful.
It's funny.
You mentioned that becausethere was one for sale at not an
insane price not far from meand I thought it was just
(27:50):
beautiful.
It was gray, it was the Ghibliand I wanted to go drive it.
And I thought, no, if you godrive it, you're going to buy it
and it's a terrible ideabecause I want to make it a
daily driver.
And then, you know, the oxygensensor is probably $3,000 to
switch out on this stupid thing.
(28:11):
So I was able to disengage.
You know, as you, as you gothrough life, you know how you
have these fatal flaws.
They're kind of embedded deepin your DNA and you're just like
, yeah, we can't mess with thatbecause it's this kryptonite,
right?
So you got to just kind of stayaway from these behaviors that
are going to get you in trouble.
But I was on my bicycle todayand I saw, boy, I saw a white
(28:36):
one going, turning, and boy,just look at the swoops and the
curves of the car.
It's just so attractive to theeye and distinctive and
different.
And I do think that the littletrident you know the little
trident, what do they call it?
The little symbol on the car isso distinctive and different.
(28:59):
It makes me want seafood,frankly.
What do you think, doug?
Are we on to something or no?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I could go for some oysters right now.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
For listener land.
If we have anybody with aMaserati obsession, maserati
background, love to talk to youor if you have a referral you
know it's good.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Maserati is kind of a weird long word that begins
with M, my last name.
I won't say it, but it's also aweird long word that begins
with M, and I thought that wasalways a little bit of an
interesting point there.
So let's move on.
Hey, are we okay to move oncauses here, partner, because
she has a great one, and when weokay?
(29:48):
So for listener land, if youcome on the show, you fill out a
little bit of a form and itsends us some some of your the
information, like what were yourcars, you know, and any causes
that you have.
And megan wrote somethingreally beautiful and if it's
okay with you, megan and Doug, Iwould just can I just read it
verbatim?
We've actually never had thishappen before.
(30:09):
Is that okay, megan?
Sure, yeah, and so this isabout hospice and I will let her
talk about the organizationthat she's involved with and
actually they're doing somethingreally neat at the end of
November and when you hear thisepisode, we're going to drop it
ahead of time so that you can goto this if you'd like.
So, about hospice and aboutsenior citizens in this country.
(30:35):
Megan wrote, not really a cause,but I do wish more people,
especially young people, wouldgive elderly people more time,
respect and patience.
Most of us will be theresomeday and it's a whole
different world after all thoseyears.
I feel like they are so oftenbrushed aside so easily, as if
they have nothing to offer.
We should help them when theyneed help navigating a more
(30:58):
modern world.
Listening to their sayings andtheir stories, knowing the joy
they have in telling them, theywill probably give us a lesson
or a glimpse of what life waslike way back when, and I think
that is just beautiful.
And, if I can say something here, you only get to be old if
you're lucky.
A lot of people don't even makeit there.
(31:21):
I am actually just we were.
I won't tell you my age, but ahigh school classmate of mine
passed away.
Lived on the West Coast, passedaway recently.
Shock right, you only get toget old if you're lucky, and I
think what you wrote was justbeautiful.
So please tell us a little bitabout where you were, what they
(31:43):
do and how this came into yourlife please.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh, okay, well, thank you.
So I work at Talbot Hospice, soit's a hospice over on the
Eastern shore of Maryland and Iam the volunteer coordinator
there and I've been there forfive years and prior to that I
had been at another nonprofit intown managing an elder law
project where we were trying toget older people their wills and
powers of attorney, and Ireally just enjoyed the time
(32:11):
that I got to spend with olderpeople, just hearing their
stories, hearing their oneliners, so much about what life
was like.
And you know, you realize theimportance and the lives that
they have lived and if you canjust take the time to listen to
them and you're gonna getsomething back, you're gonna get
a good laugh, they're gonnateach you something and you're
gonna be better off for it.
(32:32):
And I really enjoy my job atTalbot Hospice.
As I said, I'm the volunteercoordinator, so I work with the
volunteers, but I meet a lot ofthe patients and the families
and just amazing people and Iabsolutely love being there, and
for a long time.
I like old things, I like oldpeople and it's a good place for
me to be.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
And I think that is truly.
That is just God's work, thatis the work of angels.
What people in hospice do andyou know it takes a team.
So everything y'all do to liftthat up and make that work to me
is just so beautiful.
And a couple of years ago myfather's long-term girlfriend
(33:15):
passed away.
It was a sudden thing, cancerbut the hospice people that were
there he was telling me justfrom another world I mean real
life heroes.
So you were mentioning to usearlier that there was a special
event going on here.
And as we sort of guide thepodcast show here gently to the
(33:37):
off ramp, I wanted to have youtell us a little bit about
what's happening at the end ofNovember with your organization.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Sure, so every year there's the Festival of Trees
here in Easton and it's put onby the Friends of Hospice and
they're actually a separatenonprofit organization and they
do the Festival of Trees, buteverything that they all the
money that they raise goesdirectly to Talbot Hospice.
So it's beautiful, it's held atthe Tidewater here in Easton
(34:06):
and local people can buy treesand decorate them and then
they've got the show for theweekend right after Thanksgiving
.
So starting that Saturday, the30th Tuesday, and you can go to
the Tidewater and see this roomthat looks like an absolute
winter wonderland with all ofthe trees.
It's absolutely beautiful, andFriends of Hospice has been
(34:31):
doing this for, I think, 30 to40 years and raised a lot of
money for Talbot Hospice, whichis wonderful.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I love that.
Thank you for that, and if youwant to learn more, we can
probably.
Yeah, we could.
Okay.
So Talbot Hospice that'sT-A-L-B-O-T Hospice dot org and
I'm sure they will have moreinformation.
We're going to put this, theselinks and this information, to
show notes.
So if you're, if you'rechecking this out on what we'll
(34:58):
have, all this there that youcan, that you can link to.
So, megan, it was wonderful tomeet you.
Thank you for taking time totalk to us, and I have to tell
you that I'm slightly annoyedthat the Bills are doing so well
and my New Orleans Saints justfired their head coach today.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
But you know what?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You're a wonderful and delightful person.
And I can't hold it against youthat you were successful.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Well, you know, Bills fans have been through a lot
over the years.
I've been a diehard Bills fan.
I had a rough go, you know, inthe early 90s.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Well, I'm proud of you.
I'm always proud of somebodyfor sticking with their team.
That's kind of the way I'vebeen from Louisiana originally
with my Saints.
So, hey, I want to wish you allgood things, have a great rest
of the season and you arewelcome on our show anytime.
Thank you, thank you so much,guys.
(35:52):
All right, well, you have justheard the high revving, low
mileage, late model goes to 11.
Heard around the world.
Authoritative podcast onautomotive nostalgia.
He is Doug at cars lovecom.
I am Christian.
At cars lovecom.
She was, most importantly,megan.
And hey, please, if you likewhat you hear, please follow and
tell a friend.
We only get to grow and keepdoing this if we widen the tent.
(36:13):
Okay, so check out our link treeat linktree slash CarsLove.
I'll give that to you againlinktree slash CarsLovecom.
You can see all of our onlinepresences and, hey, I'm sure
we'll see you at the next localcar show we go to.
Doug wanted to sneak somethingin here.
What was it?
Partner it was?
(36:34):
Oh, info at carslovecom foranything you want to know, or
just hit us up.
Hit us up separately at eitherDoug at carslove lovecom,
christian at cars lovecom.
Thank you for listening.
Keep the rubber side down andwe will see you next week or two
weeks, whichever.
(36:54):
Are we still recording?
Listener land.
You have found the podcastthat's balanced and rotated, but
never aligned.
It's leaking a little from theoil pan, yet still overflowing.
The podcast whose timing beltneeds a few more notches, but
the extended warranty willalways get you to the next mile
post, where sheep metal getsmetaphysical, where horsepower
(00:23):
takes a backseat to horseplay.
The podcast that sits at thecorner of Memory Lane and
Nostalgia Avenue.
You're about to take apermanent detour.
We have no intention of fixing.
You have found to all the carsI've loved before, your podcast
where every car tells a story,every machine has a soul and
every car has a culture.
What do you think?
(00:45):
Pretty good, right, does thatwork?
All those marketing people?
Yeah, okay, phenomenal Onward,oh, and we have that new domain.
Should we talk about that?
domain, or should we getstraight into today's theme.
Let's get straight in Today'stheme.
Are you Okay?
So Jeep has this kind of sayingif you look around, the Jeep
(01:08):
experience, right.
So I thought you know kind ofthe Jimi Hendrix, I'm a big
classic rock guy Are youexperienced, right, the Jimi
Hendrix?
So are you Jeep experienced iswhat I want to know and we're
going to dive into that a littlebit later.
So any thoughts on, maybe,where the Jeep name came from?
Everybody who's on the podcasttoday is on a Jeep.
(01:29):
What do you think Can we rollwith?
Speaker 2 (01:31):
it.
I do have a joke about a Jeepand it involves rental cars.
Okay, I did not come up withthis, but I heard about it.
What's the difference between aJeep and a rental car?
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I know this one.
There are places you wouldn'ttake a rental car, is that it?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
No, there are places.
You won't take a Jeep.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I think I had the inverse of the punchline.
That's how my mind works,lovely.
We have jokes on the podcast.
It implies the Jeep can goanywhere.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But if it's your Jeep , you're probably not going to
take it some places.
But if you want to have fun,actually rent a Jeep and then
you can go anywhere.
Oh, you have the best of bothworlds.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
You could just you could, selma and Louise it, it
into the Pacific Ocean and itreally doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Just pay for the extra.
Extra insurance Right on, righton.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Hey, so what about future guests?
Any any word on?
I know we have a backlog ofpeople We've.
Let's take a step back here intime.
If you would listener land,let's go into the Wayback
Machine.
When we started this podcast,lo, these six or seven months
ago, we said to people hey, doyou want to be on a podcast?
People would say, no, you're anidiot.
(02:53):
The podcast could be terrible,but now we're still idiots.
But we have a list of peoplewe're trying to get on the show.
Do we want to talk at all aboutsome of the some of the people
in the queue right now, doug, orshould we stick to how easy it
is to be on the show?
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, let's see.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I put them on.
I love putting them on the spot.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
I love the look of confusion.
We had your son on.
He is a trip.
That boy's a trip.
We did a little sneak previewof him talking about his time
doing National Guard andlearning to drive a Hummer.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
No, no, no, Actually I got to correct you.
Sorry, I meant to correct you,I didn't.
It's not National Guard, it'sArmy Reserves, army Reserves.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
A lot of people make that mistake.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Army Reserves, army Reserves.
A lot of people make thatmistake.
Army reserves, that's okay.
Yeah, army reserves Sorry.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
We had Michael Myers on, who has written several
children's books about nineCoolest guy Great website.
Tisforturbocom.
A is for Apple, t is for Turbo.
You get it Genius.
We've, of course, had aGuinevere from Frescia brothers.
Um, can't say enough greatthings about her.
(04:07):
I just spoke to Dave from thesmall car company, which is not
a car company anymore, but uh,he was a referral from uh
Guinevere.
Looking forward to talking tohim.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
She's the best.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
And uh, yeah, we've.
We've got some great onesrecorded and hoping to talk to
Dave in the future.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And this is how the show happens.
It's all about family.
Today's guest we're going tocue her in in a minute.
Has we get this a lot?
But it didn't dawn on me todaywhere the parents got a car.
She's one of several, several,several siblings and the car was
just kind of a hand-me-down andworked its way down.
(04:51):
That that's the way I got my myuh rabbit gti one of my
favorite cars there, but Ididn't think of that car as a
hand-me-down.
Right, you ever gethand-me-downs from siblings or
friends.
They're're a little bit olderor bigger than you are Clothes
shoes, the toys, whatever comesto you.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I mean, we had one gentleman on, rob, the part-time
car photographer right.
His car was used to helpfriends two or three friends
pass the driver's test right.
That was unique and maybe ourguest, maybe our guest today, um
, her car might have been in asimilar boat, except with family
(05:31):
that's such a great callback.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Rob was hilarious.
The car just.
I don't know if it was easy todrive or everybody wanted to
drive it, or the car just hadgood luck, I think it was small
was the key.
It was easy to park yeah, yeah,yeah, very good, yeah, yeah, and
the way the show works is soguinevere.
Uh, fricia was on the show andshe had a great time.
(05:56):
We're trying trying to get herdad on.
They own a garage inconnecticut, so all about family
.
Like it says, it's all aboutfamily.
Okay, let's get into calls toaction and all we really have
here.
I just want to say a couple ofthings because we've got to move
along kind of quickly here.
EverycarhasaculturecomEverycarhasaculturecom we're
taking over the internet onedomain at a time and so we got
(06:20):
that one Also, we wanted to sayso.
Doug is always out in thecommunity.
Ok, to all the cars I lovebefore.
Very often, doug I'm in, I'm inFlorida, a thousand miles away,
but he's very often at theAnnapolis City Dock at the Cars
and Coffee.
So if you see his car verydistinctive, distinctive,
delorean just walk up to him andjust say hey, man, like your
(06:44):
podcast, hate your co-host.
It's fun.
Just let them know what youreally think.
So how often do they have themup there?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Uh, every every Sunday.
It's going to stop soon, um,but but I'm trying to go to
other ones.
Um, annapolis town center, um,there is one inia called katie's
cars and coffee, whichapparently goes year-round um,
and they'll have like 400 carsthere.
Problem is I have to leave atabout 5 30 am to get there to
(07:15):
get a spot.
So I, I, I.
That's too early but I'm hopingto get there all right, I I also
have a um, just you know, inways of making people smile with
the DeLorean.
I have a upcoming birthdayparty that I'm bringing the car
to for a bunch of six year oldsthat the son loves back to the
(07:35):
future.
So his parents thought it wouldbe a nice surprise for to have
just a DeLorean show up for alittle bit.
So looking forward to thatlooking forward to the
excitement up for a little bit.
So looking forward to that,looking forward to the
excitement, um, you know, somany people our age love the car
.
But to find somebody, um, sixyears old, that really is all
about back to the future andwants to see the car, I can't
(07:56):
wait.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Right, right, I hear you Lovely.
All right, we'll walk up to himand introduce yourself at the
Annapolis cars and coffee.
All right, so, as we kind ofhim, and introduce yourself at
the Annapolis Cars and Coffee.
All right, so, as we kind ofteased at the top, let's get
into Jeeps.
Are you?
Jeep experience is the questionof the day.
And before I hand this off toDoug, tell us about a little bit
about his Jeep experience andwe pull Megan into the
(08:17):
conversation.
Just can tell you a little bitof mine.
I didn't really come from aJeep culture background but one
kind of uh got my hands on one.
Let's see, this was just a fewyears ago.
I'm gonna say, golly, maybeeight, eight years ago, seven or
eight years ago at this time atthis, and I live in florida,
(08:40):
okay, so you just yank off thetop, you yank everything out of
it, you take off the doors andstick it in the garage.
So it is basically denuded.
You know, 10, 11 months out ofthe year, and it's just so fun.
It is just so fun to get yourson, get your fresh air, get
your tunes, you get out, you'removing from one place to the
(09:03):
other.
But I was surprised by how muchfun I I had in that car and it
was a completely differentexperience.
Doors on top up than not, andit's great that it can go
anywhere and crawl up a 45degree angle.
But, boy, just cruising thebeach and that thing was a trip
so doug.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
I remember yours which one Do you remember?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
the first one I had, I do when we first met in
college.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
The beater.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
It was held together.
I think Doug got the duct tapeoption package on that one and
that was holding together thedoors and possibly even the
engine block.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
It was a CJ-7.
That's right, that's right but.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I remember the one with the American flag on the
side.
The olympic version, yep 1994.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, that was a.
That was a fun vehicle.
There there's.
Uh, yeah, that was a great car.
Um, I want to say I owned itpost 9-11 and I got more waves
post 9-11.
Is the flag because of the flag?
Yeah, that's really neat.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
That's really.
I have a picture somewhere ofthat.
I was looking for it the otherday.
I was going through pictures,the picture with the.
It's the picture with thekayaks on top right it is our
ill-fated yeah, our ill-fatedadventure where, amazingly we
didn't die.
But I gotta ask you questionhow did our guest today make
income into our lives?
Speaker 2 (10:26):
Well, you know the gift that keeps giving.
We've had some, we've had somegreat guests on and I've been
fortunate enough to reconnectwith old high school friends as
some of these guests.
But James McRae, great guy, hashis own specialty car shop in
(10:46):
Easton, maryland, mcraeEnterprises, and he's a true
friend of the show, like so manyothers, and he just keeps
telling us about great people.
And that brings us to today'sguest who had her car, in which
we'll get to into his shop forrepairs because it was too old
(11:10):
to be repaired by your normalshop, because they're worried
about if something breaks theycan't find the part.
I totally get it, owning twoold cars myself.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
What a great car.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
So, or maybe, what a great car.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yeah, maybe the.
The next generation ofmechanics is so used to getting
certified on computers and inhigh tech that that's what I
think is a lot of these shopsdon't want to touch something.
That would take them time tolearn.
It's kind of out of the wheel.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Sorry, go ahead.
You've got both right.
And then just availability ofparts right.
Maybe you've got to find a usedpart, maybe the part is $800
because there's only a few left.
Maybe you have to rebuild it.
There's so many reasons why,but fortunately we have James
keeping the dream alive and wehave Megan.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
And we have Megan.
Most importantly, today we haveMegan.
Megan, how are you today?
I'm doing well, thanks forhaving me there.
She is, and she's walkingthrough the doors of the very
large Cars Love One Cars LovePlaza studio into the very big
overstuffed couches Think of theTonight Show.
(12:24):
That's what we have here.
How are you doing?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I'm doing well.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
So you're not in Buffalo, but you're a Buffalo
Bills fan.
But let's step in the way backmachine.
Let's go way back and talkabout your dad's Jeep.
Do you remember that?
Did you have fun with that?
Did that lay any groundwork forsomething to come to the future
?
Let's, let's get your your takeon jeeps yeah, so, um.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
so before I could drive, my dad had a jeep, a cj7,
and this was before either mybrothers could drive.
And, uh, so my dad bought itfor himself just to plow snow I,
because I grew up in so plowingsnow, pulling stumps, doing
those kinds of things.
And my oldest brother then gotto drive that car once he turned
16.
And by the time I came along at16, we had a Jeep Wrangler.
(13:14):
The CJ7 had been sold, but thenwe had a Jeep Wrangler, so that
became my car and my otherbrother, so the two of us had to
use that car and I loved itbecause that's how I learned to
drive.
On that car I learned to drivestick shift, which, um, was the
reason why I wanted stick shifts, car stiff, stick shift cars in
the future.
Um, but Jeeps are ton of fun.
(13:37):
We would take the top off inthe summer and the doors and it
would just stay off fall summer.
We would throw a tarp over itovernight if it was going to
rain, and we just had a lot ofstories with those jeeps.
Good times for sure yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
I'm shaking my head because yep, had that.
Um, it's amazing how great thetops are now versus way back
when, and I know you had a hardtop, so it was either it was on
or it was off.
There was no in between withthose.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, yeah and and yeah, great story.
So that that Jeep that your dad, so you learned to drive, stick
shift on that Jeep.
And then your dad bought a Jeepfor the children, right?
You and your two brothers,right?
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yeah, tell us about the next experience in the Jeep
family.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Well then I had, so then I drove the Wrangler in
high school and then, I guess,part of college, and then we've
had various Jeeps in the family.
My mom then had a Cherokee.
Both my brothers in there asadults have purchased Wranglers.
I had a Grand Cherokee recently.
So there's been a lot of Jeepsin the family, which has been
(14:49):
kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, there are all these great slogans and I'm
surprised Christian didn't getthis one.
But it's a Jeep thing, rightthat's such a great one.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Sorry, christian, no, you got it.
I'm glad you called it back.
It's a jeep thing.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
So, yeah, um, gotta love jeeps, right, it's, it's
the american thing, right, andit goes.
You know, speaking of conrad,right, um, going way back to the
military, right, the, the Jeep.
The original Jeep, yes, was amilitary vehicle, right, and it
(15:30):
spawned what became the Jeepthat we know and love today.
Right, but it spawned since, Idon't know, let's see that 40s
maybe, and jeeps were made byactually multiple companies ford
, uh, I think, chrysler maybe, Ithink willies, um, maybe, came
(15:53):
up with the successful uh design.
But during, during uh wartime,uh production, you had everybody
and their brother buildingwhatever was needed.
In fact, they could ship a jeepin a box, basically, and it
could be assembled overseas, andthey did that quite often just
to get it, just the quickest wayto get them out the door and
(16:16):
make them fit in, you know, onthe boat, on the aircraft
carrier.
Would it drop it off the plane?
Right, boat on the aircraftcarrier would drop it off the
plane right.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Willie's overland.
Yes, willie's overland.
Thank you very much, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So where did jeep come from, dowe I?
I was doing a little.
You know, we have hundreds ofresearchers on staff here at one
cars love plaza and they werelooking into slightly dozens,
and they were looking into wherejeep comes from and this is one
of my favorite ones that theycame up with and who knows if
(16:50):
this is real or apocryphal orwhat jeep stands for.
Just enough essential partswhich I like.
I've not heard that before.
Oh, I haven't heard that the forgp where jeep it would be.
This be the sounding out of theletters GP.
Did GP stand for generalpurpose at all or was there
(17:14):
another reason for it?
Another theory I read is thatJeep is after Eugene, the Jeep,
the dog-cat hybrid pet from.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Popeye Yep, yeah, it was a cartoon character.
Yeah, no clue about that.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Something like that.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Popeye Yep, yeah, it was a cartoon character.
Yeah, no clue about that.
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
I've heard that one too.
And last one for you before wemove on here In as early as
World War I, jeep was used as aslang term for new soldiers or
untested vehicles.
So who knows where that camefrom.
That could have been a ruralphrase from someplace in the
middle of nowhere.
Now it's, it's, it's becomewhat we all know.
But okay, enough trivia.
(17:50):
Back to you, partner, take itaway.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Yeah, so, um, so, so we had this family, family of
Jeeps, right?
Um, I believe, megan, in in uh,high school, your older brother
used to take you to school inthe jeep yeah, then it became
your car and your turn to dothat for your younger brother at
one point right no, no, I neverhad a younger brother, I just
(18:14):
had two older brothers oh, justtwo older brothers four and two.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
One four years older, one two years older, right one
brother four years older, onebrother two years older, so yeah
, she was the end of the line.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Gotcha, gotcha, they gave up.
They said we got a perfect, nomore.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, exactly, Exactly so that that Jeep was
used by all three siblings.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yep and uh who.
What ended up happening to thatJeep?
Who got it?
Where did it go?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
It was.
It was sold, I think by thetime I went to college.
I had it actually at collegefor part of my freshman year and
then, I think after that, mydad sold it and that was the end
of the Jeep.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, what a great college vehicle.
Yes, it was, yeah, my bestfriend when he was going to
college.
His roommate had a Jeep and,man, we had so much fun with it,
which inspired me to buy a Jeep, which I then learned was not
great for commuting every day,and so I went back to a
different car.
But you know still love Jeeps.
(19:20):
When Christian had his Jeep, Iwas thinking about buying
another one.
It's just not great for aneveryday car, but some people
make it work.
Some people make it work.
In fact, we interviewedsomebody somewhat recently,
jeremy, who has an inventionthat we're going to talk about
in a future episode for theFreedom Tops and securing them
(19:43):
in the new Jeep.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Oh, yes, yes, Yep about in a future episode for
the freedom tops and securingthem in the new oh yes, yeah,
yeah, yep.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
So yeah there's, you know it's, it's a jeep thing,
right very true thing, yeah,very true, so, um, when you were
so post-college um you're stillinto four wheel drive vehicles
(20:07):
you bought a I bought a Chevyblazer.
Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
And I was headed out West and so I needed a, wanted a
four wheel drive truck.
So I bought a Chevy blazer tohead out to Colorado and, um,
and that was good and um, thenthat I pretty much drove that
thing until it died and wasunsafe to drive and after that I
wanted to get, wanted to getback to a standard vehicle.
(20:35):
So then I ended up buying a, um, a, oh my gosh, I'm forgetting
uh.
Ford um Explorer, and that was.
That was standard.
So I wanted I'm forgetting AFord Explorer.
That was standard.
So I wanted a standard caragain, but I had to buy the
absolute base model in order toget standard.
But that was what I wanted.
I enjoy driving more thanautomatic.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, no, I love stick shift cars, having broken
my left ankle about 20 years agoYep, 20 years ago, 20 plus
years ago.
It's not something I can doevery day, but it's like a treat
, if you will.
So, yeah, my everyday car iscertainly automatic, but I do
(21:20):
have two older uh stick shiftcars, including the uh delorean
that everybody's probably tiredof hearing about can.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Can I pop in here real quick.
You know, these three, you knowis she, she?
She buys cars.
That also are kind of verbs,right.
So the chevy blazer, she'sblazing a trail out west, you
know, not unlike a covered wagon, then she's exploring in the
ford and then she's going to gocruising in her next automobile.
(21:49):
So it's very, this is very.
Yeah, it's like you're kind oflike you're magellan or
something.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Anyway, sorry, go ahead right, yeah, so, uh, yeah,
so you, you went to an explorerand, uh, I think there were
obviously cars in between.
But, um, what are your dailydrivers?
And save the best for last,which is actually the older,
oldest car yeah, so um so wellwith the explorer.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I drove that thing until it was pretty much dead
and my dream car at that pointwas an old Land Cruiser FJ60.
My time in Colorado is when Iwas introduced to them for the
first time.
I kind of fell in love withthose old trucks and I had some
friends who drove them and I hadan experience where I actually
(22:41):
depended on one to get me safelyto where I needed to go and I
realized how awesome thosetrucks were.
So I ended up buying one, a1985 Land Cruiser, 12 years ago,
and I bought it on eBay, whichwas oh wow, no way Side of the
scene, huh.
Yes, yes, but the guy who wasselling it had lots of pictures,
(23:04):
lots of great descriptions so Ifelt like he was pretty fair
about things.
So I bought that and I've beendriving that for a long time.
It was my daily driver for alittle bit, so that was kind of
maxed out.
But you know, driving aroundhere in Easton, you know I'm not
(23:26):
really on the highway much.
I'm, you know, five minutesfrom work so I didn't have to
drive on the highway too much.
But I wanted to get it was anabsolute necessity that it was
going to be six shift Again.
I had to have, I had to havestandard, just more interesting,
more fun to drive.
So I've had that for years andit's had the engine rebuilt and
then it's had some more workdone recently where I had it
(23:49):
with James and he got everythingall tuned up, ready to go and
it drives so well.
And I do have another car rightnow.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
I do.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Toyota Highlander, but that's been in the shop, so
I've been driving the LandCruiser for the past week.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Yeah, old reliable.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Yes yes, what color is the Land Cruiser?
Speaker 3 (24:08):
It is red.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I was going to say it's got to be red.
Yeah it's red.
That's the theme here.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Yeah, I know right, you know that's funny because I
never really thought about that.
I guess my Explorer was silver,but yeah, the other ones were
all like some.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Yeah, that's what you are.
You're kind of this bright,exploring big truck land yacht
person.
That's what you are.
You're a throwback to those,the ancient explorers.
They would just get in a ship.
You know the way that you wantto go.
(24:41):
You know you get in your LandCruiser and go marauding Right
Like these.
They, they would just get in aship and all around the year
they, they wouldn't care, theywould just let's go, let's go to
new worlds.
You know it's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
It's so fun.
It just makes me happy to driveit.
You know, I've consideredselling it over the years and I
can't quite do it.
It just it makes me smile whenI'm in it.
It's fun just driving aroundtown.
People give me a thumbs up, I'mparking a lot.
Somebody will comment on thetruck.
So it's really fun to drive.
But yeah, I can't get rid of it.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Highlanding could also be a verb.
What are you doing this weekend?
I'm going highlanding,highlanding.
Sorry, go ahead, doug.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Well-chosen words, Highland.
Sorry, go ahead, Doug.
Well-chosen words.
In fact, the 1980, the FJ60Toyota Land Cruiser was called
the Samurai.
I believe in Japan, ReallyAutomotive knowledge I dig that,
if you will.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Samurai okay.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
And so that car, just curious if you uh, it has a
four liter inline six, is thatcorrect?
If you know megan?
Speaker 3 (25:51):
my um?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
I don't know okay, that's all right.
Does it take diesel?
No or regular?
Regular okay, so it's probablya four liter inline six.
Yeah, really, really, reallyharkens back.
What a great vehicle.
There's some somebody in myneighborhood has one.
I just got to find them whenthey're outside and see if they
(26:14):
want to be on the show as well.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But I just want to talk to them about their car.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
So dream cars.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
Are we about ready to start talking about dream cars,
or yeah?
Yeah, I mean, I think she hasone of her dream cars right for
sure.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Yes, that was, that was it.
You know, people are like what,but yeah, that was my dream car
well, I heard that it changed,though you have a new dream car.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
We're dreaming of something new, and it has
nothing to do with the landcruising, highlanding, blazing
jeeping or marauding.
What, what, what?
What is our new?
What do you want next?
Speaker 3 (26:54):
so I've always really liked maseratis, for whatever
reason.
I mean I say always, but justin the past, I don't know, 12
years or so, I've kind ofnoticed them they're.
You know, they're not all thatcommon, um, but they kind of
have a cool look to them.
So that's just something thatI'm maserati, maserati but I do,
(27:19):
I do like them.
They've got a pretty, a prettyunique look and, yeah, they're
not as popular as, like you know, some of the other brands you
see around town.
So we'll see.
I don't know if I'll ever getto that.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Boy, those Italians can really do styling, can't
they?
Shoes, suits, churches, okay,cars, goodness, yeah, beautiful.
It's funny.
You mentioned that becausethere was one for sale at not an
insane price not far from meand I thought it was just
(27:50):
beautiful.
It was gray, it was the Ghibliand I wanted to go drive it.
And I thought, no, if you godrive it, you're going to buy it
and it's a terrible ideabecause I want to make it a
daily driver.
And then, you know, the oxygensensor is probably $3,000 to
switch out on this stupid thing.
(28:11):
So I was able to disengage.
You know, as you, as you gothrough life, you know how you
have these fatal flaws.
They're kind of embedded deepin your DNA and you're just like
, yeah, we can't mess with thatbecause it's this kryptonite,
right?
So you got to just kind of stayaway from these behaviors that
are going to get you in trouble.
But I was on my bicycle todayand I saw, boy, I saw a white
(28:36):
one going, turning, and boy,just look at the swoops and the
curves of the car.
It's just so attractive to theeye and distinctive and
different.
And I do think that the littletrident you know the little
trident, what do they call it?
The little symbol on the car isso distinctive and different.
(28:59):
It makes me want seafood,frankly.
What do you think, doug?
Are we on to something or no?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
I could go for some oysters right now.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
For listener land.
If we have anybody with aMaserati obsession, maserati
background, love to talk to youor if you have a referral you
know it's good.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Maserati is kind of a weird long word that begins
with M, my last name.
I won't say it, but it's also aweird long word that begins
with M, and I thought that wasalways a little bit of an
interesting point there.
So let's move on.
Hey, are we okay to move oncauses here, partner, because
she has a great one, and when weokay?
(29:48):
So for listener land, if youcome on the show, you fill out a
little bit of a form and itsends us some some of your the
information, like what were yourcars, you know, and any causes
that you have.
And megan wrote somethingreally beautiful and if it's
okay with you, megan and Doug, Iwould just can I just read it
verbatim?
We've actually never had thishappen before.
(30:09):
Is that okay, megan?
Sure, yeah, and so this isabout hospice and I will let her
talk about the organizationthat she's involved with and
actually they're doing somethingreally neat at the end of
November and when you hear thisepisode, we're going to drop it
ahead of time so that you can goto this if you'd like.
So, about hospice and aboutsenior citizens in this country.
(30:35):
Megan wrote, not really a cause,but I do wish more people,
especially young people, wouldgive elderly people more time,
respect and patience.
Most of us will be theresomeday and it's a whole
different world after all thoseyears.
I feel like they are so oftenbrushed aside so easily, as if
they have nothing to offer.
We should help them when theyneed help navigating a more
(30:58):
modern world.
Listening to their sayings andtheir stories, knowing the joy
they have in telling them, theywill probably give us a lesson
or a glimpse of what life waslike way back when, and I think
that is just beautiful.
And, if I can say something here, you only get to be old if
you're lucky.
A lot of people don't even makeit there.
(31:21):
I am actually just we were.
I won't tell you my age, but ahigh school classmate of mine
passed away.
Lived on the West Coast, passedaway recently.
Shock right, you only get toget old if you're lucky, and I
think what you wrote was justbeautiful.
So please tell us a little bitabout where you were, what they
(31:43):
do and how this came into yourlife please.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Oh, okay, well, thank you.
So I work at Talbot Hospice, soit's a hospice over on the
Eastern shore of Maryland and Iam the volunteer coordinator
there and I've been there forfive years and prior to that I
had been at another nonprofit intown managing an elder law
project where we were trying toget older people their wills and
powers of attorney, and Ireally just enjoyed the time
(32:11):
that I got to spend with olderpeople, just hearing their
stories, hearing their oneliners, so much about what life
was like.
And you know, you realize theimportance and the lives that
they have lived and if you canjust take the time to listen to
them and you're gonna getsomething back, you're gonna get
a good laugh, they're gonnateach you something and you're
gonna be better off for it.
(32:32):
And I really enjoy my job atTalbot Hospice.
As I said, I'm the volunteercoordinator, so I work with the
volunteers, but I meet a lot ofthe patients and the families
and just amazing people and Iabsolutely love being there, and
for a long time.
I like old things, I like oldpeople and it's a good place for
me to be.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
And I think that is truly.
That is just God's work, thatis the work of angels.
What people in hospice do andyou know it takes a team.
So everything y'all do to liftthat up and make that work to me
is just so beautiful.
And a couple of years ago myfather's long-term girlfriend
(33:15):
passed away.
It was a sudden thing, cancerbut the hospice people that were
there he was telling me justfrom another world I mean real
life heroes.
So you were mentioning to usearlier that there was a special
event going on here.
And as we sort of guide thepodcast show here gently to the
(33:37):
off ramp, I wanted to have youtell us a little bit about
what's happening at the end ofNovember with your organization.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
Sure, so every year there's the Festival of Trees
here in Easton and it's put onby the Friends of Hospice and
they're actually a separatenonprofit organization and they
do the Festival of Trees, buteverything that they all the
money that they raise goesdirectly to Talbot Hospice.
So it's beautiful, it's held atthe Tidewater here in Easton
(34:06):
and local people can buy treesand decorate them and then
they've got the show for theweekend right after Thanksgiving
.
So starting that Saturday, the30th Tuesday, and you can go to
the Tidewater and see this roomthat looks like an absolute
winter wonderland with all ofthe trees.
It's absolutely beautiful, andFriends of Hospice has been
(34:31):
doing this for, I think, 30 to40 years and raised a lot of
money for Talbot Hospice, whichis wonderful.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
I love that.
Thank you for that, and if youwant to learn more, we can
probably.
Yeah, we could.
Okay.
So Talbot Hospice that'sT-A-L-B-O-T Hospice dot org and
I'm sure they will have moreinformation.
We're going to put this, theselinks and this information, to
show notes.
So if you're, if you'rechecking this out on what we'll
(34:58):
have, all this there that youcan, that you can link to.
So, megan, it was wonderful tomeet you.
Thank you for taking time totalk to us, and I have to tell
you that I'm slightly annoyedthat the Bills are doing so well
and my New Orleans Saints justfired their head coach today.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
But you know what?
Speaker 1 (35:17):
You're a wonderful and delightful person.
And I can't hold it against youthat you were successful.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Well, you know, Bills fans have been through a lot
over the years.
I've been a diehard Bills fan.
I had a rough go, you know, inthe early 90s.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Well, I'm proud of you.
I'm always proud of somebodyfor sticking with their team.
That's kind of the way I'vebeen from Louisiana originally
with my Saints.
So, hey, I want to wish you allgood things, have a great rest
of the season and you arewelcome on our show anytime.
Thank you, thank you so much,guys.
(35:52):
All right, well, you have justheard the high revving, low
mileage, late model goes to 11.
Heard around the world.
Authoritative podcast onautomotive nostalgia.
He is Doug at cars lovecom.
I am Christian.
At cars lovecom.
She was, most importantly,megan.
And hey, please, if you likewhat you hear, please follow and
tell a friend.
We only get to grow and keepdoing this if we widen the tent.
(36:13):
Okay, so check out our link treeat linktree slash CarsLove.
I'll give that to you againlinktree slash CarsLovecom.
You can see all of our onlinepresences and, hey, I'm sure
we'll see you at the next localcar show we go to.
Doug wanted to sneak somethingin here.
What was it?
Partner it was?
(36:34):
Oh, info at carslovecom foranything you want to know, or
just hit us up.
Hit us up separately at eitherDoug at carslove lovecom,
christian at cars lovecom.
Thank you for listening.
Keep the rubber side down andwe will see you next week or two
weeks, whichever.
(36:54):
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