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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Happy Saturday, America. You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio on
WKQA Freedom Radio. I'm your host, of course, Big DAVP, Hangout, Camra,
Chaos and AVB. Hey, it is a great day for
a radio show. Hopefully it's a good day where you're
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Speaker 3 (01:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
So anyway, it's kind of funny. So I kind of
wanted to jump into something. And if I tell you, guys,
all the time, things come to life at this table
a lot of times in between commercial breaks and stuff,
and then it happens to do something that we're getting
ready to talk about. So I'm curious how many of
you all sing along in the car all the time

(01:58):
all the time, like to yourself for out loud, out loud,
I mean the car is different out loud.

Speaker 4 (02:03):
I'm hoping that the driver next to me understands what
I'm singing and starts singing.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Along with I unfortunately know the answer for Cameron because
I've literally watched Cameron start singing out loud in the
car and then I watch Cameron turn in the window
just so weirdly and start singing to the people next
to them through his window right like like they're gonna
start singing, like starts to start. Has anybody ever started

(02:29):
singing along with you all the time? Yes?

Speaker 4 (02:31):
Really, because sometimes that you'll be singing the song and
they'll be listening to the same song in the car
because they're on the same.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Looks on the same station. Yeah, of course. Of course.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
I'm a type of person that has fun, you know,
so I'm always trying to.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Live the party. But your idea of fun is like
sometimes you're having a blast, but the person that's next
to you, it's very awkward. For it's just awkward.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I'm not singing, and I'm in the passion. See I'm
usually when we're flying by people, I'm usually making faces
at them, like just random faces at people.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Do you sing along in the car?

Speaker 5 (03:07):
I mean yeah, in the car, I do yeah, like
out loud, or you say yeah something yeah, kind of
out loud.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Yeah, in the car when you're or with other people
in the car.

Speaker 5 (03:14):
Okay, with people too, well, we're talking about during commercial
break though. Is basically about like just singing in random
times and random places. But I mean car is a
little different. I mean, you know, you listen to radio wise.
I mean, that's just kind of normal.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
That I have a jipbox.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
I was just telling you guys, I have a jipbox
that praise in my head twenty four to seven. If
I don't like the song, I just change it. I
put in my little quarter, I pray.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
My number, little chord. Change a song, I mean, one
of the worst. Because if you guys, I like music
a lot, it's one of the things I enjoy. Keeps
you kom. I have over five thousand songs saved in
my playlist, which I think is quite a bit, and
it keeps on growing all the time. I can. I
think right this second, it said I have like four

(03:56):
hundred and fifty hours or something like that of continuous playtime,
which that's quite a bit. That's quite a bit. Not
that I think I could ever get to the po playlist.
I mean, you know, in one city, that's never gonna happen.
But you know, I mean, it's it's nice to have
that many songs. I never realized. And here's a weird thing,
like do you ever realize that you know the worst

(04:17):
almost every song? Like when I'm gonna say what you
believe are the words.

Speaker 4 (04:21):
Of this, And I think, I'm like, I can't even
remember what I had for breakfast yesterday, but I can remember.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
The full song I haven't listened to in years. I mean,
I find I find like this the ten that played
in a row. I'm on a drive. I know the
words all those, like I said, or I believe I
know the words, like I may alter a word here
and there. But it's funny because you ultrasongs enjoy alterrain songs.
I told you guys before. When you come into traffic
and you're sitting like in traffic and I just I

(04:48):
don't know. I think everybody does it. You look over
at other people with their car just to and I
see something straight. There was a guy that was playing
the air drums and singing along like he was a
one man band, like nobody could see him inside his
to see you.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Yeah, you know when you feel in the song you're
just playing your air drums or you know you got
a good guitar solo gup coming.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
No, just man, you don't do that.

Speaker 4 (05:09):
Come on, man, I'm on the air like this. I'm like,
so I get into a song when it plays and stuff,
But you would. I mean, this guy had he as
far as he's concerned. He had real drums in front
of him, he had his air guitar, he had it all.
He was a one man band. While we were sitting
in traffic, and I wanted to record him, but I
didn't want it to be weird. Yeah, I was like

(05:31):
because no, I was like, no one's gonna believe this guy.
I mean, And and he didn't look like the type.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Of guy that would be doing that. That would be doing that.
I mean, he looked like the type of guy you
find sitting at a desk, like behind a computer, entering
like data in.

Speaker 5 (05:44):
That's a solitude. Right there, driving to work, that's a solitude.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
That's a solitude.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
I'm like the type of person that would like turn
the music up just a little bit so the person
next to me ken hear it. Just you know, I
think that they're enjoying the song so much, just like me.
I'm like, sure, I'll turn.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
It up just a little So I probably i've dim
dimmed down. I probably have come off of that little
bit when I was younger, they know, because I had
a lot of stereo equipment in my vehicles and I
like to listen to music at very loud rates. In fact,
you know, I wanted everybody to hear me around, which
I'm not saying it's a great thing. I still like
loud music. You know. One of the coolest things I

(06:21):
just got is for the Mega Garage. It's a plaque
and it says my neighbors listen to great music, whether
they like it or not. And I think it's a
great plaque, not that I want to annoy my neighbors.
And then we live far enough apart, but you everything
echoes out here, So if the radio is on out
in the Mega Garage, there's probably a pretty good chance
that four or five properties away, you probably came up
likely said that you have a good playlist. No, no,

(06:44):
I've never had.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
No.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
I know that my neighbors are there's, like I said,
everything echoes. So it's not like we're on top of
each other because we're on big pieces of land, but
everything echoes, so you can hear. And I have a
pretty nice stereo setup inside the Megarage that I haven't
expanded on, but I have the pieces to expand. Nuns
maybe would make it even louder, but I jam out
and like when I'm out there working on a car
and stuff like that. I really enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
One of the things I do do is when it
starts to get late, I won't really mess with anybody
too much with my stereo. Do ten turned down or
I'll put I have your pieces and I'll put my
ear pieces and listen to No we can hear, right,
because I'm so respectful. But if it's during the daylight
or hours, Yeah, if you're somewhere close to the mega garage,
there's a good chance you're listening to good music and
you just didn't know you had.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
You still has a great sound system. They haven't put
it in for two years.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, No, that guy right there. Yeah, I have Cameron,
So I wonder if we I wonder we all pitched
in for two years in a row. Actually, I think
and bought Cameron stuff for his car to upgrade his
stereo system. And he has speakers, he's got an amp,
he's got some a couple different things, and he's yet
to install it. In fact, by the time he gets

(07:51):
right to installed, you'll probably be in the next car
he euns right.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
That's kind of like right, So that's kind of They
probably all filled out now is probably because I've held
out for too long now. So it's like, do I
just go buy a project car and then put a
really nice surround system in the project car?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
You know us a bunch of work and then stereo
in it.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
Like I told you before, the speakers designed a different
a certain size for each car, so you like the
odds that you get in the same size speakers are
probably a very.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
Slam project car that unless you get the same cars,
and I mean, or buy a bracket or take it
over to sound Rave and have them do some magic
for me.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I mean, you do remember I told you one of
the I know, I think we talked about this on
the ready before. One of the coolest stereos that like
I had in a car was something that I pieced
together by a bunch of pieces that I had, and
two of it was very large intercom horns. And I
I want to say, I'm pretty sure I think when
I told you got a story too, and that's the

(08:45):
same way. I'm pretty sure that the two horns I
had were from some type of PA system or something
like that. They were, they were large. Why built them
all into a box? I built the horns into the box,
and then I had eight six's that I put in
the and then I had two tens as well that
I put and I built, and it was just a
long box that went in the trunk of my car.

(09:06):
It's quite a bit. It was very, very obnoxiously loud,
but in a good way. Like the only thing that
I think probably now being older and realizing that, you know,
it's not always about just how the PA horns were
something really intense. In fact, I had to put those.
If you guys remember, if you guys go back in
the eighties, we used to have dials where we could
dial up and down. I had the PA speakers on

(09:29):
a dial so I could dial them up, down and
down because certain songs were more pitchy than others.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
And but I think there's supposed to be a really
good balance between the vocal and just you know, bass
and tremble.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
No, No, I don't like when not good enough voice.
You know what I liked about what I built that
was is you could vocally, you could hear everything very
very clearly. Now, the horns, like I said, they were
not they were not car horns, and they were given
to me and they were metal, so which made me
believe that they probably are right. They're school, they came

(10:04):
from something like they came from some time, but they
but they worked and they did with it. I mean
you could hear it and it was clear they were
hooked to an amp. Maybe that made the difference. But
if I turned the bass down and turn those up,
you could hear the vocal vocals very clearly from really
far away, like almost like if you're out of a
ball field and somebody was like talking on a pa
across the ball field, you can hear it well.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
I've seen that one video where it was like the
car driving underneath the tunnel and then right when the
back of the car passes, you can hear the song
just clear as day. And he had speakers all in
the back of his I think it was a Chevy
Barawazer or something like that.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I have. I have two friends that are into stereos,
still heavily into it, and they have speakers mounted on
the outside underneath the car so they can play sound
outside the car and it's very clear. Now I've seen
ones people try to do it and it sounds really horrible.
That's what they have a nice setup and you can
actually hear it. It's all about the it's balanced, and

(11:01):
they have them built into like I want to say,
like a custom box they built that goes up ndneath
the car, but the speaker is on the outside and
it plays clear and it's it sounds very good. And
then I went to Mark some five seven events. I
went to his winter that's the Yeah Winterfest car show,
and there was two or three cars that were set

(11:23):
up where they had speakers that you could hear everything.
I mean, like across the whole parking lot. You could
hear the sound like like like it was a rock
concert going on. But then when I got to the
car realized our speakers are amounted for that purpose. I
was like, well, that's kind of cool. I was like,
cause I I at first to tell you how clear
it was, guys. So I was sitting next to a
real DJ who was DJing the Big Gooch car show

(11:45):
and had his speakers set up, and I thought the
music I was hearing was coming out of his speakers,
but he had turned his down because the people across
the parking lot were so loud and so clear. But
I thought those were coming out of the speakers that
I was sitting next to because they were DJing. So yeah,
that was pretty crazy. Yeah, so it was. It was clear,
and I remember I told you guys, I was heavily
and you know, I went all the way up to

(12:06):
doing four fifteen's in a vehicle. I had three thousand watts,
which probably not a lot nowadays, but back then, three
thousand watts in a car was quite a bit, and
it was extremely obnoxious to.

Speaker 6 (12:15):
The point where he has like one amp nowadays, ye know,
well mine was, Yeah, mine was one three one thousand
Wilde amps separately PPI amps, if you guys remember PPI.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
And I can get back to the back of the days.
But my neighbors several times called the police on me
for rallying everything on their walls in their house. So
because it was really to learn well, yeah right, I
wasn't trying to I liked music. I wasn't trying to
be annoying. It wasn't like I was going out of
my way to like aggravate my neighbors. I would just

(12:48):
be tuning. I was adding speakers to it all the
time because I was so album in my driveway, working
on my car, listening to my stereo AD and speakers
dialing things in and not really keeping in the fact
that you know, not everybody wanted to listen to my music.
Probably know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
How boring it would be without music and driving. Okay, dude,
it would be you would never want to drive, so
you never want to d So I have a rule.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
I like you. I've told you guys. I love road trips,
love to drive long businesses. I have no problem. I'll
drive cross country. Wouldn't bother me. I love it. But
one of my rules for cross country trips or any
long trip that's four or five, six, seven hours whatever
is uh. I had to be able to listen to
my music at whatever volume I want to listen to
that without anybody complaining. Now it's not I don't. I

(13:32):
don't go crazy loud anymore. My wife would disagree with you,
disagree with me, but it's not crazy loud. But I
have to have good music. I have to have that
long playlist of all kinds so it just and it's
not all the same music. By the way, it goes
to different it goes you name, it goes everything. And
I had to have the right amount of snacks. I
had to have plenty of coffee, in the vehicle and
plenty of like juices and or and I always pack,

(13:55):
like if you guys wonder how I do it, I
pack a cooler I keep behind the seat, and it's
got SODA's and it's got waters, and it's got juice
and it hasn't helped him a bit. And then I
keep coffee and thermosis so it stays warm the whole
time for my trip. That way, I don't have to
really go look for anything. And I do that kind
of on purpose. It's kind of your easiest way for me.
And as long as I can do that, I'll drive forever.
It doesn't bother me to drive. But if you remove

(14:16):
one of those items away from me driving, I tend
to be a little bit of cranky.

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Then if you're driving with him, don't ask to use
the restroom. You'll get to the restroom. Bathroom one hundred
and fifty. Okay, no, we're almost to the restaurant. Later.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
If it's an eight hour trip, it's an eight hour drive,
you may be good to get a bathroom break out
of me. It depends on how much I need gas.
So usually if I stop for gas, that's your time
to go to the bathroom. I don't like to stop
unless it's purposeful to stop for another reason. I don't
like just bombo.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
If he does stop for gas, you have till the
gas pump clicks to be back into the car.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Right the rules, man, The things I've learned.

Speaker 5 (14:53):
So, the first car radio came out in nineteen thirty.
It cost one hundred and thirty dollars and it was
about twenty five percent of the car loss of a car.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Wow, that's crazy. How thanks music, if you really love
the music? How things have changed? Well, radio hasn't changed.
Music hasn't changed. And well we we proved that we
got a radio show. So let me take quick course
of break. When I come back, I got bore for you, guys.
Hold tight, I'm right back.

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Speaker 1 (18:21):
Welcome back to let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist.
Now back to your host, Dave polach.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Hey as welcome back. So here was a little something
that with some stories that started popping up, I saw
people start talking about in the forum. I told you guys,
I love going on in the forums because it generates
conversation for the show with which people are talking about
and what's going on and some things I find really interesting,
some things I don't. I weigh in on some things
we talk about on the show, some things we don't.
But one of the biggest things that's going on right

(18:54):
this second in conversation is is auto theft. People keep
on talking about auto theft and the right as an
auto theft, and they're hearing more and more. And I
guess this is my thought process in it. I can't
truly believe that there's an increase in auto theft. I
know people say, what but there is. I wonder if

(19:14):
it's the same auto theft. But because technology keeps us
more connected and more informed as groups, maybe we learn right.
I think we hear about it more. I think maybe
same same amount, But now it's in our day life
with like you know, next door neighbor pages and stuff
like that where people talk about it and you get
to hear about so Facebook group. Here's the one thing

(19:36):
that always mystifies me. Now I understand that the normal
like rifling through cars kind of thing, I don't. I mean,
that's been going on since I was a kid, I don't.
But now they're breaking windows. Okay, I got I got
you on that. But we invite some of that to ourselves.
I know you guys do want to hear. But how many cars, Well,
you guys don't like when I was in the car
business business on the regular, So people leave changed in

(20:00):
the open where you can see it in their car, right,
They leave things of value right out in the open
where you can see it.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
And they're parked on the side of the house, right,
you know what I mean, like on the corner of
the house.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Right.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Stuff that just invites people to come rifle through your car.
And then on top of that, most people don't even
lock their car. They just they don't lock their door.
And they're like, so they get in their car and
they're like, someone's been in my car. I'm like, did
you lock it? Oh? No, I don't know if I
did or not. Okay, Well, right, and you've probably had.
I don't know what seems like insignificant to you, which
is like five dollars in change laying there, But that's

(20:29):
not insignificant to somebody who just rifled through seven or
eight cars, right, didn't find nothing. Right, They're like, I'm
taking that five dollars. You know. People and I used
to get off the camera all the time. He was
one of the worst about it, leaving in his computer
for school, in his in his car, and I'm like,
I'm like, how many times stuff like you want people
to say? How many times did I now I've gotten better?
But how many times did I go I don't know

(20:50):
where my keys are, I don't know where my Oh
they're in the ignition, right. And then I was like, oh,
and my laptop's laying on the passage your floor, and
I'm like, yeah, right, that's what that still happens. That
that hasn't stopped happening. So I think, like I said,
I don't think behavior has changed a whole lot. I
believe that connectivity with people talking on these neighborhood pages

(21:13):
and stuff like that, people are like, oh, yeah, me too,
or did it you know what I mean? I think
it was already going on when you get into larger
car theft Okay, do I believe that that has changed
one because technology has changed and people have had to
keep up with it. Like uh, I think we've talked
about some of the videos that are out there circle
around where people have the car decoders and they can

(21:33):
go into code and get the car to start and
they drive away with your car. Well, and the tools
are more just versatile.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
They get you can get a lot of them on
eBay or Amazon that you know, help you pick a
lox or you know, they get that.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
You know that electronic toggler now too, which basically gets
the code for it and it will start the car.
If you know what you're doing. You have to have
a little knowledge. But ifrom I understand there's not a
whole lot of knowledge to make something like that work,
you don't have to be a brain.

Speaker 5 (21:56):
It just makes it a little bit easier for people
that want to do it to actually take a native
on it.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Well, we also got these videos on TikTok where it's like,
I guess it's not really showing them how to do it,
but it is, you know, it's like how to right
there on that it's just like a normal tech person,
you know, trying to show how they're doing their job,
you know, But thieves are watching that and going, oh,

(22:20):
this is easy.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
There is some stuff out there. It's basically like a
how to. Well there is. I told you, guys, if
you never saw the the original gone in sixty seconds.
If you didn't know, I've talked about this before. There's
there's two that was the original, and then there's one
you guys. I'm gonna say you guys know you guys
know that movie you do of people. We know that

(22:46):
there's a there was one before that, Yeah, and that
was how To before how To right, it is the
how to if you haven't seen it, it is kind
of the how I mean. It shows the little box
he made that started the ignition back of the day,
and I had one of those. I made one and
it works like it was very simple to make for
his personal car, okay, right, so I could steal cars.

(23:09):
But it did work. I mean I basically I saw
that movie, saw what they had did and was like,
well that seems pretty simple, and then it did work.
So with very little things I needed to purchase from
back then with radio shack, but it did work.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Well, like we know, right, anybody that really wants to
are going to find a way. It is more preventive measures.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, I told you about the girl who I met
at a college party and took my keys because she
thought it was funny. And I need to be at
work in the morning. I think I believe I told
the story in there, maybe have it. And I had
to cut all the ignition wires to my car because
I needed to be at work. I needed my job,
I had bills I had to pay, and I finally

(23:46):
had to make a decision after like two and a
half hours looking for my keys and it was time
to go to work. I had to go to my
what was fairly new car to me at that point
in time. I had to pull the plastic off and
cut the ignition and I think I told you guys,
it's like thirteen wires and made that car start. Well,
I used that little box that I had made that
would start that car. Right, Okay, Now that wasn't I

(24:09):
told you I had to go back and sold all
those wires. You get one of the girl goes hah,
I took your keys, ha ha ha. Yeah, it wasn't
all that funny because I just just storyed, like my
brand new car and so I get to start it. Yeah,
he CAUs that is how huh. The bus wasn't an option, No,
not where we were No, no a bike. I was
aut of college and where I worked at was like
an hour and a half drive away from there. That

(24:30):
we weren't taking a bus, you know, which was happening.
So yeah, and I wasn't riding a bike etherre no,
So yeah, I had to make a decision. I did it.
But I learned very quickly that hot wiring not maybe
see my car, but other cars was fairly simple to do.
Like I said, I didn't realize mine had to have
all thirteen wires connected to make everything work on on.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
But you know what I would have learned from that,
Maybe I need to get a second key from my car.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
I had one, do you Yeah, it was at home.
Obviously it was at home and you know now and
a half and then you know, in the other direction.
So they didn't do me any good. I mean it's
I mean, how many everybody goes what do you don't?
This is funny. I gotta laugh because most people, well
don't you have a spare key? Right, because I left
the house with the key that's locked in the car
and the spare one in my pocket because everybody leaves
with both of their keys all the time, or as

(25:17):
I've been told, they're like, where's your spare key at now?
And I'm like, in the console of my truck? No
good there. So I finally went and got it out
of my truck and put it someplace safe.

Speaker 7 (25:31):
But.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
For like two years. I don't even know how. I
think what happened is I loan camera in my truck
and then you parked it and I came and got
it later with my spare key, and then I just
dropped the key in the console and sat in there
for like two years, which it didn't mean no good
if I ever got locked out of my where's my
spare key a truck? And why? Because I've had to
use it. But it makes sense for me to have
it because you've actually called me and I drove over
and used it, So I don't have a spare one

(25:54):
of yours yet it's just sitting there. He's probably afraid
they'll drive off with it. I'm not scared about that,
but uh, and I have I have well, I have
a spare key to my wife's car, has spare key
to my mom's car, like I have the spirit that way,
if somebody gets locked out, someone has a key and
has a way to get to you. But the stealing
of cars is based on the spare key theory, right.

(26:17):
They're basically on the computer they're making. It's nice.

Speaker 5 (26:21):
The new cars allow you to unlock and lock your
car from an app. So it does, but you always
have your spare key on you. You can't start the car,
but I mean, if you need to get into it,
used it in years.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
But the Chevy truck has that. I have the app somewhere.
I think I've actually buried the app, and I might
even delete the app. But I can lock and unlock
and start my truck from my cell phone. I think
I've only used it like twice, maybe three times. I've
used that that hops, but it's there if need be.
If need be, I mean, I probably reinstall the app
and then remember what my password was and all the

(26:52):
stuff that would make me mad, and I'd probably just
be like, I'm not doing this and just but because
I know how I am. But the technology goes into
the big thing.

Speaker 7 (27:04):
Right.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
The second is and I've already ran into it. Uh,
when I was still steadily in the car in the
car field was swapping events. So oh yeah, we we.
It came about it's smart, I get it. And so
I had the police out of at our shop one
time and I had a VIN number on the dash.
The VIN number on the door was different and then

(27:25):
didn't in the VIN number it was inside the hood
was different. So and it was like, oh, well it's
a it's a it's a rebuild And no it was.
It was stolen. It wasn't. It wasn't rebuild.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
It was.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
It was definitely stolen. But here's the thing. A lot
of times people and I when I was in the
repul business was a big thing to do. People would
get go get another win VIN plate and they would
just glue the VN plate on top of the other
VIND plate. Really, that's what they would do. Yeah, you know,
I've had the one when they come to look at
the car, it's not the car they're looking for because
you can't take it at visits the right then.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
Right, I've had the one to a million chants happened to
me where I was at Pembroke Mall and I went
to go hit my clicker and it worked for my
car and the car right next to me. Really, yep,
I've had it happen to me.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Some weird things when it comes to cars. I mean,
you know that goes and sits in the wrong car.
Hey that I don't know how that happened. I told
you that was not my fault. I've told you if
I told you the store there was scared bluff. So
joke Cameron for years, four years, I have joke Cameron
about him getting in the wrong car, sitting down in

(28:28):
the wrong car at the mall. The worst part is
someone was there, right, there was someone in the car.
Happened when he sat down in the car.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I've got in the cars and cars hold there and
I can't joke Cameron anymore. I cannot joke him. Did
you do the same thing? I borrowed a car from
a friend, Okay, it was not the car that I'm
used to using, and I went to go get some groceries.
I went to the grocery store and got the groceries.
I came out, I put all the groceries away in

(28:59):
the carr hold on, I hit the clicker. I didn't
like look at the car. I just hit the clicker,
I grabbed the back door. I loaded all my groceries
on the grocery car into the car. I sat down
in the car. I just got ready to put the
key in the ignition and I looked and there was
groceries on the passenger seat. And I looked over and
I went and I'm thinking, I was like, I don't.
I don't remember coming over to the passenger side and

(29:21):
put it in the groceries on the passenger side. And
I'm sitting there questioning myself. I'm like, dude, looking around,
come to the passenger side and put still in the car.
I was in the car, I was sitting in the
driver's seat, and I'm like, I don't. And then I
looked at it and realized it was nothing that I
would have bought. And I went this seam and I
got out of the car. I stepped back and I

(29:42):
looked at the car and it's the car I was driving.
It's the same colors, the same car, same year. And
I'm like, on the world, get back in. And then
I turned to my left and I realized, one row
over on the very end parking spot is the car
that I drove, which is the exact same car. I went,
there is no way, and I hit the clicker and
that car's lights flash. That was across the way. I

(30:04):
was like, but it was in the very end parking spot,
just one row over. And I was like, oh my goodness.
So I'm I bring the I had to go get
the grocery cart. I bring the grocery cart back over.
I load all my groceries back over and put it
back in the grocery bag. And just as I'm rolling away,
this lady, who's very nice by the way, comes out
and she's like, what are you doing. I was like,

(30:25):
I was like, I was asking myself the same thing.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
She goes, You know, I sat and I watched you
open the back door of my car, and I watched
you start putting groceries, and I went, what's this crazy
white boy doing.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
She was so funny.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
I was just like, I assure you, I'm not trying
to see it. She goes, no, dear, I watched you,
and I was laughing to death. She goes, I realized
when I looked out and saw both the same cars,
I knew that you had the wrong car. She goes,
but it was funny to watch when I I can
never joke you again.

Speaker 4 (30:56):
When I clicked the beeper for that one car and
flights went off, I ain't gonna lie, I thought, popped
in my head. Well should I go try the key
to see if it works? Because it was one of
those wireless keys, you know. I was like, would I
know it unlocks the car? Would it start the car?

Speaker 2 (31:13):
I'll tell you don't do it. Here's the thing. After
that happened to me, I sat down in the right
car to got all the groceries, and I sat and
I went, man, I can never joke camera to get
because I would have never had a million years ever
thought that happened to me. But once again, it wasn't
a car differens your cameras. It was his own car.
This is a car I wasn't used to driving.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Nate came to pick me up and I and I
went into somebody else's car.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
Anyway, guys, let me take another cuick, of course, or break.
When we come back. We got some more for you. Guys.

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Speaker 2 (35:19):
Hey, guys, welcome back. So I got a letter you
guys know that hey days save and it was covering
something that's you know, I think we've talked about a
little bit. It was talking about the increase in all right,
so I'm not political, so I'll just have to work
my way around this. I was talking about tariffs. So
it's like, so terrorists, and how's that going to affect

(35:42):
us people who work on cars or people who are
buying cars? And is that really is it really going
to be as bad as they say? Yeah, yes, and
yes and no. So the short answer basically this was
car repair. They're like, how's that gonna affect car repair?
It's gonna affect some car repair. And the reason, I mean,
you got to kind of expect it. So we're already

(36:03):
seeing an increase in parts. We have for a couple
of years we didn't have tariffs. Yeah you know what
I mean, we weren't in messing with that. We saw
the increase in car park prices going up. So now
with tariff's going on, and if any of those parts
that you need come from any other countries, which a
lot of them do, believe it or not, we get
a lot of car parts. And everybody's like, oh that China, China,
No it's not. We get a lot of car parts

(36:25):
actually from Canada. And Mexico. That's where a lot of
our car parts are made from. A lot of people
are like, oh, they come from all these other countries.
I'm like, closer than you think. A lot of them
come from places you're not even thinking about. They're thinking,
you know, every time people thinks tariffs, they're thinking Japan, China,
Vietnam and all the different things. Like No, I'm like
a lot of these car parts we get from Mexico, right.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
But they're all it's all encompassed in different ways. So
like it might be manufactured you know in say Canada
or Mexico, but some parts might come from China, Japan.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Very well, I'm just saying the big picture of it
all as well.

Speaker 5 (36:58):
Right Well, I mean that's where you're like, you know,
I look at the small pictures sometimes because those is
what kind of increased. Like I just saw I was
stopping online for a part instead. And now some of
the websites that sell parts are going to implement a
tear off packs, so basically, like you know, the tear
is going to be basically.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Put onto the consumer. Wise, that's basically what that says is,
I'm gonna go ahead make up my prices as they
go along and make you pray. That's what that's said.
I mean, you might as well just call it what
it is, right, But yeah, you're gonna you're gonna see it.
So one of the things that nobody has really thought
about is how this plays out. And I'm talking about
you know, car us, car guys that look at all
this stuff. I'm sure we think about it, but I'm

(37:34):
talking about the general public. Uh, it isn't messing around
with cars and right, they're not trying to build cars
or whatever. They don't think about that, but it is
there is. There's trickle a trickle down. Okay. Do I
think eventually it will level itself out, Sure, one hundred percent.
I believe it will. But there's gonna be some growing
pains on that. Like I said, we already saw car
parts jump almost forty three percent in the last three years.

(37:55):
That's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (37:56):
It is.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
Everybody's like, oh, no, it hasn't. Yeah, it is. I
do breaks regularly. I'm on my cars, and I can
tell you this is what I paid for brake pads
and rotors three years ago in the same vehicle, for
breake pads. Roaders is why I paid now and it's
about forty three percent different. So it's a real thing
that's really happening. But here's where people aren't really thinking

(38:17):
about how the trickle down effect really works. So your
car insurance is going to go up. They're like, well,
how does.

Speaker 5 (38:23):
Tear wig I think, which I think is a load
of bs.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
But you know, okay, tell me why.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
Well, because at the end of the day, right thing,
I mean, I get, I get things an get more expensive.
But and my point of view is that the same
amount of car crashes are probably going to occur or
get less, and they're still going to regardless of what's
going on in the world. They're always looking for a
way to increase your insurance.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
But okay, I don't disagree with you all know I
hate surance. Oh God, we go on forever talking about
car insurance.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
I hate.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
It's a very good it's a very good it's a
very good thing to hide behind. I'd say that, okay,
if you need a reason, it's a really good reasoning
to increase.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
But it makes sense. Here's the reason why. So him
and I we agree on a lot of stuff. With
some things, he doesn't see the full pitchure. I think
on things. If car parts go up, right, then the
repair crash car costs more, it says, the risk is
more to the insurance company because it costs more to
repair the car. Therefore the car insurance price has to go.

Speaker 5 (39:23):
Now with that said, though, you know, let's go back
five years when you know things were all nice inject
dangerous right exactly so, and everything nice right, and everything
was just nice and dandy, and you know it's always
you know, you're always looking for a reason the Jacob
prices there.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Is so, I mean, like it's very good. And we
looked it up and car insurance had went up like
by just a terrible amount in like ten years. Like
the increase was like stupid amount crazy, And I now,
has it personally hit me all that much? No, it hasn't.
Maybe because I'm not running around with a bunch of tickets.

(40:01):
Maybe because well I don't know, we got quite a
few cars that are insured and then they're not cheap cars.
But my insurance hasn't really gone off the rails too much.
But I know people whose insurance has gone completely sideways.

Speaker 5 (40:12):
Even with the tickets though, right, like say you got
like speeding tickets or you know, a bad you know,
laning fracture, and you know you raise rate fracture, infraction, fracture,
it's a fraction, you know, you know I'm talking about.
But you know, even then they still raise your rates
if you didn't even get into a car accident.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
It's just if you did well. I said, this guy
proves that he is not a responsible driver, so we're
gonna go ahead and hit him with some more money.

Speaker 5 (40:37):
Right, And there's no real like you know, good bases
or claws that you know, tells you how much or
why it raised so much.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
There was a breakdown on car insurance. I think we
covered it years ago. We went through kind of a
breakdown a car assurances. I mean, it's a little bit
of a crack on a lot of the way that
they figure out the pricing on a lot of things.
There's a whole lot of people making money versus covering
you know, the cover rights. Like there's just it's a
money grab. And that's once again, that's the thing where
I think we talked about and we just talked about

(41:08):
this last week. I was like, I'm not very much
for government overreach, but somebody there should be like an
FM department Department of Insurance or something like that regulates
some of the costs because I feel like we do
get gouge and there's you you have to have car insurance,
so you just stuck getting, you know, molled through the cold.

Speaker 4 (41:26):
From twenty fifteen to twenty twenty five, there was a
ninety three percent increase of insurance. What used to cost
five hundred dollars now cost nine hundred and two dollars
and seventy nine cents. And twenty twenty four now look
at report er point seventy nine percent annual inflation rate
now since last year to twenty twenty four or yeah,

(41:51):
you know last year of twenty yeah current yeah, six
percent increase of car premiums.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Okay, But why was the purpose? What was there reasoning
for it? Because everybody wants money?

Speaker 5 (42:03):
I mean, look up, look up car crashes, because I
think the numbers have wind down when.

Speaker 2 (42:12):
The years has increased over the course of ten years,
like you know, was in say twenty fourteen, how many
annual car crashes was there across the across La America?
And then how many is there now in twenty twenty four?
Like you agree with you know, pay to you know,
play played up? What is it?

Speaker 5 (42:29):
What they call it to play? Pay to play? You
agree with that? Right and stuff? Now I understand the
concept behind it. And some people are like, well, you know,
everybody pays for insurance and race shall go down, but
they don't.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
They don't.

Speaker 5 (42:41):
It's just a it's a very good what if thought?

Speaker 2 (42:44):
He said, what if it's a it's a it's a
it's a made up.

Speaker 5 (42:48):
It's basically a way, at least how I feel.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
It's just a way.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
It's a way for right, it's a way to get
everybody on board.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
And then you know, they still can jack rate up.
Like I said, I don't like okay, so I don't
like anything.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
Yeah, So car crashes themselves have increased, Okay, how many
cars from twenty thirteen to twenty twenty three, because that's
the only only data that we have right now, you know,
because they do it like every couple of years. It
was a twenty five percent increase over the decades, so
only twenty five percent car three percent.

Speaker 2 (43:21):
Yeah, so twenty five percent increase in car crashes, but
a ninety percent increase ninety increase in fees. Yep. And
then it's almost like food prices going up. That don't
make sense.

Speaker 4 (43:33):
If you take the statistics from twenty twenty two to
twenty twenty four, there was a two percent decrease in
twenty twenty two of car depths and then a three
point six percent decrease in twenty twenty three and a
four point four decrease so about eleven percent decrease within

(43:54):
the last three years of car depths. So that's a
good thing, all right.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
So cars I believe are getting safer. I've told you guys, right,
cars were little more fender benders, right, right, more fender benders.
But I still don't like the increase of cost of
insurance over the increase of accidents, Like the numbers don't
even line up, which then doesn't make sense, which tells
you exactly what we are. In course.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
I mean, you're you're really forced to go get insurance
because then you either have to pay a big fee
every year to not have it and then cover your
own car.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
So they do it almost like they do houses though,
because they're like, okay, so your house taxes and stuff
go up every year because the value the house goes up.
So if the value the house goes up, then your
your homeowners insurance goes up because the house is worth more.

Speaker 5 (44:34):
You know, it's like a fictitious thing, right because it's
like going off to your point of you know, all
your you know, you know, you about this house for cheaper.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Now it's more expensive.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
But guess what, Proberty taxes are more expensive too, So
now I'm paying more out of pocket on property taxes.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Right. Well, so it's like, did I really win? That's
what happens as seniors. Unfortunately, they get to the point
where the house is paid off, but they end up
paying more in taxes than they would have on the
mortgage originally, so it didn't work out in their best interests.
They're like, Okay, I'm paying more taxes on the house now,
were all these years I've owned it than I was
paying on the original mortgage? So did I win or
I lose? I Actually I thought I was going to

(45:08):
pay the house off and be clean and clear, but
I actually pay out more now than that I was making,
and it never lines up. I got friends that are older.
They tell me about it all the time. Not say
I'm getting old yet, but my friends that are getting
up there constantly remind me that it cost some way
too much to live in their house. I think the
lower people welcome to life. It's amazing, isn't that. I

(45:30):
had a conversation over the weekend and I said, look,
I think you should get to a certain age. I
don't care what state you live in, but I believe
you should get to a certain age where you stop
paying taxes on something at a certain age because you've
already paid all the taxes. I think you should pay
to own something, to pay taxes to own it. Again,
I already own it. I pay taxes when I bought it.
Now I got to take pay taxes on it to
have it. I think at a certain age you should

(45:51):
get it. And now with people don't have to pay
car tax, I want to pay to that at a
certain age. I just think that's what we should move
by seniors. You can disagree with me. I could be wrong.
I don't know. Send me an email tell me how
wrong you think or how right you think I am.
On that note, guys, I gotta take another quick commercial break.
When we come back, I got some more for you.
Ho tight, I'll be right back.

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back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive specialist. Now
back to your host, Dave Polach, Hey.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Guys, welcome back. So I like I'm begetting a lot
of Hey Daves that are kind of representative of what
we're going to talk about. One of this is it
goes back to I think we were talking about it
last week and somebody asked me how the uh, the
cleaning of the headliner and all that kind of stuff
worked out. So, uh, just so you know that it
did work. It has not come back. And I did
use as I told you guys. I used the chemical

(50:11):
guys uh fast stained remover and it took the line up.
That's good. So I told you I've used it before
and I was pretty sure that it was going to
keep it out. I sprayed, tried a little bit, I
did the whole thing and it took everything out. Any
update on that. The brake like I came in good, Yeah,
quicker than was supposed to. Remember, I told you guys
it was gonna be a little while, but it did
come in. So now I just got to pop it
in there. But before it rains again. Well here's the thing.

(50:36):
I haven't seen it rain the other day. I got
stuck in the rain the other day and I put
my hand up there and I didn't feel any wetness,
you know what I mean. Like after I clean out
put in my hand, I was like, oh man, it's
rain and I got stuck in the rain in the truck.
So I put my hand up there and it wasn't wet.
So I'm just wondering if if it has to be
heavy rain has to only catch it from like a
certain angle, right. I don't know, but if you guys
didn't follow along, or maybe it just had a soaked

(50:57):
into the padding, No, because I'll be I put my hand,
I'll be able to feel it instantly, because, like I said,
the holes right there, like when you take that out,
you're looking right at the like kind of like the
juke foaming in inside there, right, So it's right there.
So yeah, should we will feel it instantly. If you
guys didn't follow along with the show, we'd go the
my Chevy truck start to get a leak in it,
and it's coming for the third break light, and it
was like national backo order for him, and they were

(51:19):
gonna be waiting a long time. I was thirty four
that were ordered at my local dealership there waiting to
come in. But I got it. So I just gotta
pop it in there, gotta take two seconds. It really
be pretty easy. Yeah, Yeah, it just pops right out.
It just came with a new gasket in the light
and everything comes as a whole kit, so it is
an update. Did it come with adhesive? You by that
yourself was no adhesive in the thing, So I got
something in the roadge. I'm not really worried about it.
But another update for you guys. Somebody something message asked

(51:41):
me what was going on? Just put some group on
white noise. I think I told you, guys. So it
is in paint. It's not fully paint, but it's some
of us been painted h and it's starting to look good.
So hopefully you guys will I'll give Cameron if somebody's like, man,
he said, you're gonna post pictures of it. You guys
still have to post pictures of it. Well, because I
went to the body shop a couple of different times,
guys for you to go take a look at it,
and I took some pictures. But I realized that, like

(52:03):
I wanted to have a good representation, and when when
they got the car and a million pieces and there's
you know, sandy disc laying all around all over it
like this, that it is not a really good and
I know they're working on it. I don't care, Like,
don't say it that way. It's just not a good
representation of the hoods upside down right right of things
like that. But I do have some of the picture.
I'll give camera the pictures and have post the pictures
so you guys see what's going on. I'm hoping we're

(52:24):
supposed to have the car ready for this weekend. I don't.

Speaker 5 (52:26):
That's not I'm now are they doing the decal as
well too?

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Or to get the decal has to be done too,
But it's got to go someplace how the decal put
on it, so tow it over to the windows back
in and then the trim, the trim around the windows
got to be put on right and stuff. So it's
not it's not going to make it. We thought it
was going to make it this show, but it's it's not.
And I think, be honest with you guys, since it
doesn't make it to this show, I think I'm gonna
go ahead and push forward and just take care of

(52:50):
all the little things I wanted to before we put
it out for the first show, because something we can
do right here in the Mega Garage. We can puts
it there when it's done, and we can clip the
last bit of trim and produce some things. I did
find a original very cool SS front badging for it.
I cold you the one in the fronts a little faded.
I didn't like it. I did found a original one
that goes on it. It is like brand new was
still in the GM bag. It's old new stock. I

(53:13):
still have not found the back trim panel in metal.
I found another one that was not too far from me.
It's probably about three hour drive. Send the guy message.
He had to apply back yet, so maybe he won't.
But so right, it's pretty usual for Marketplace or any
of those things. People postings for sale and they never answer.
You guys know how it works. So we're starting to
get things round up on it and everything I thought

(53:33):
I had the break problem for the bad am solved.
We are now two weeks into it and I have
not seen the parts come. So I guess that's going
to take another conference call to sit and find out
what is going on with that, because it's just all
these delays. So for the people keep on sending me
messages and if they asked, hey, what's going on with this,
what's going on with that? Working progress? It's all work
in progress. Somebody did say a message and said, what's

(53:56):
going on with Blue? If you guys don't know, Blues
are Chevy truck project. We hadn't started on Blues. We
thought we were going to be on it already this
time of year. We hadn't started on it yet because
we weren't planning on buying the Nova, and the Nova
just kind of fell in our lap the right deal
and Blue was going to get started. So trans amis
was be done like four months ago. Part so trans out.
Everything's just gonna want to take something else apart. I

(54:17):
was like, okay, I don't want to take something else apart,
and I have two cars blown apart and a million
pieces right the second. I didn't want to have a
third one, and to be honest with you, I would
like to stay married, so I'm not trying to And
like I said, we got the magroageul reason has. It
doesn't affect the property, the house or anything like that.
Everything stays in there away from the house. But there
was a rule put in place. Yeah, there was a

(54:40):
rule though we weren't allowed to have so many taken
apart at a time. Even though it doesn't affect anything,
and they all can go to the garage, you'll never
see it. It was just a deal I made and
I wasn't like. Hence the reason why Nathaniel and I
kind of have like a side project that's going on
that we don't own yet, but we keep on looking
and talking about it. A couple of them. There's a
couple of cars we know we want to build, and
two have come available that were the right price, the

(55:02):
right package, the right deal. And I didn't pull the
trigger on them because I couldn't justify bringing another car home.
And I knew instantly that I would go, Okay, it
needs this, this, this, and this, and I would probably
send it to the places that could do that, to
the stuff that I don't and then we'd have another
car in pieces.

Speaker 5 (55:19):
A decent Corvette Chevelle, a two forty. If there's a
couple of yeah, there's a couple of projects that you
know we're looking.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
We want to build. We like to build a couple
of retro vets. We will get into that sometime this
year and I'll kind of walk you guys through how
that works. I do believe that maybe by the end
of the year we may have one in the stable. Nathaniel,
I talked about it for a while. When I talk
about building these things, these are going to be one
hundred percent beat on driver cars. I mean, they're gonna
look nice for they saying, but they're gonna be meant

(55:48):
to be driven, driven hard. You know some of the
stuff we have. Yes, we have big horsepower and some
of the cars that we're building, but we got a
lot of my time in the car, so it's not
we're going to beat on them like those are a toy, right.
We bought the Nova, the Noble kind of get played
with a little bit, but not nearly as much what
we plan on doing for the retro bets. We want
a cool retro look to them, but we're definitely going
to build them to be able to drive and have

(56:09):
probably extend intended steering. Extended steering systems kind of put
me and put like a drift steering system in them
so you can really get on it and the car
has good handling. That's the plan. With him and I
keep looking we're talking back and forth off the era
obviously other you guys. I'm just kind of letting you
guys know what we got planned. I believe that's going
to happen. I think we got some color combos because
I think we want to own two of them. We
want to do flip flop colors to them.

Speaker 5 (56:29):
Fifteen car garage and we fill on filling it out right.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
We've fly on putting all the cars and the megarad.
We built big for a reason to hold a lot
of cars. But this is something Nathaniel and I've talked
about for years, and I think we're probably going to
pull the trigger at some point on it. I just
we just need to get some of our stuff back
together so we can justify taking on something else. So
hopefully that clarifies it for you guys. Like I said,
you guys keep on sending me letters. I keep on
trying to answer some of this stuff and get back

(56:53):
to you guys. Some things I don't answer on the air,
don't take it personally. A lot of times I'll send
you guys a personal message to answer, or you'll see
me in one of our forums. You guys see us
on our page or something like that, and I'll answer it.
It's just something just their easy answers versus dragging him
into the show. That pretty much said, guys, that's going
to rout out the show. This show went pretty quick
for this week. I told you, guys, do not forget.

(57:14):
If you're listening to the show right now, you still
have plenty of time to get out to a Lancetown
and hang out there for the dust off. A lot
of good charity work going on out there. There's a
lot of shows that are planned throughout the course of
the year. Like I told you guys, we have been
putting our calendar together. I know May tenth we are
going to be with Rolling with the Knights. We just
signed on to be a trophy sponsor for that, so

(57:36):
go look that up if you're the hamp Roads area
as well. We will be out there doing some presenting,
some trophies and stuff. We went out there a couple
of years, a great event they throw out there. It's
another great thing for charity. So we are signed to
that one. So put that on a calendar. May tenth,
Rolling with the Knights Ramon puts on a really great
show out there with all his friends and staff and everything.
Out there is a good, good event, something a little

(57:56):
different out the Beaten Path that had a great turnout
last couple of years. So definitely get that you guys. Calendar.
And like I said, if you guys missed it last week,
you had a Mustang Club of Tidewater. They did their show.
I heard they had a pretty decent try. I know
it was kind of cold, and not any people came
out as that were planning to come out, but they
had a pretty good turnout. Unfortunately, we guys we could

(58:17):
make it out there because we were booked for something else.
I tried everything I could. I just could not make everything.
So I do apologize for not making out there. If
you guys made out there to get a chance to
see us, just wasn't in the cards for us. So,
like I said, keep watching your calendar. I keep on
telling me the stuff that we're going to be do
you not forget once again, we guys for the everybody's
lists all the way across the country and across the world.
We will be out SEMA. We're already signed up to
go ahead and do SEAM this year, so we'll be

(58:37):
in Vegas. You guys meet up with us out there.
We've had some people done in the past. It's been
a good time, good time to go out and party
and have a good time. Vegas is a great place
for entertaining. So on that note, you guys have anything
I'm forgetting, No, I think you covered everything. Think you
covered everything. Have a great weekend. Yeah, have a great
day and come to the show and see us. All right, guys,
that is gonna run out the show. It is Saturday, Someday,

(58:58):
as I always tell you, guys, is right on the corner.
Make sure that you guys unplug, turn off the TV
unless maybe watching NASCAR race. Maybe you don't. It's gonna
be Easter weekend, so you're gonna spend some time with
you your kids far up the grill. Put something on it,
hide their cell phones, play some board games with them,
all that good stuff. Anything you can do you make memories.
They'll love you for it. On that No, guys, we're
gonnahead and get out of here. We will talk to
you guys next week and we'll see you soon.