Clean Cars & Dirty Truths

This week we kick things off with car washes, just how clean are they really? Then we shift gears into the world of video games, talking about the good, the bad, and the lack of great new car titles. All that and more on this weeks episode!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Happy Saturday, America. You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio on
w KQA Freedom Radio. I'm your host, Big davp hangout
with Camrachaos and AVB. Hey. As I always tell you, guys,
it is a great day for a radio show. Hopefully
it's a great day for a car show where you're
at your weather's holding out like normal. Uh, we've had
some mixed weathers around here lately, as normal as if
you guys live in hamm Rose area, all you have

(01:08):
to do is just blink and the weather will change,
for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
But it is there's nothing normal about it.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
It has been hot and then we've had rain, and
then it's been hot.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
And we had hail.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, so I know I text you, He's like, hey,
move your car because of the hail. I was like,
I literally I when they told me it was hailing
where they were at, I was like, I go outside
and put everything in the mega garage and I looked
outside and I went, I think it's gonna go on. Bias, Well,
we got the rain. I didn't get the hail, so
but uh yeah I didn't. I didn't have to have

(01:37):
the hail. Apparently they got the hail. So Nathaniel was
worried about the mustand because he's like, we'll get hailed on.
But uh so with the weather, this is funny how
this comes around, right, So, uh one of the topics
of the show literally comes because of weather this week.
So every time it rains, I'm one of those guys
that once I think the rain is gone that I

(01:59):
want to take my bi go and get my vehicle washed.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I mean, I'm like, okay, and I told you guys,
I like wash my own vehicle, but you know, I'll
run it. So while I'm getting my vehicle cleaned up,
I am for whatever reason, I'm on my phone reading
some of the news articles. I told you guys, we
get a lot of stuff sent to us through email
for the radio show. And then I kind of picked
through stories. Well, somebody has sent me a story and
it was about having your car washed, car washed, And

(02:28):
this one takes a little weird twist to a certain
degree because I would have never I don't know why
I would have never thought about this, but it was like,
do you know how bad it can be for you
to take your car or car wash? Now most of you,
all Nathaniels, are shaking. It said, okay, Nathan, before I
get into this, hold on, so you you you're a
mile guin me, pig, why do you believe it's bad

(02:50):
to take your car to the car wash?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
Well, car wash? There's multiple car washespot free car wash,
you tell me. So, Like I don't personally like taking
mind to the car wash. I get like the spotless
you know, right, non talking on, but still I don't
like taking to a car wash in general, because when
do you ever think they really start cleaning those car washes?

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
So the car after a while, so it gets dirty,
like you know, me and Karen, We've taken Camera's card
to a car wash a couple of times, and you know,
you always feel like your car isn't getting clean enough
because the brushes whatever the brushes or you know, like
the soap, I don't know what you call those, the
bos box and stuff. I mean you can you know
they hit the windshield well, getting stuck in the stuff exactly,

(03:32):
and then not washing it. I mean a many times
you go in through the car wash and you can
see just the dirt just dripping off the seen I've
seen it, rightly, and like you said, the gravel, you
don't really know what's kind of like tangling up and there.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Little yeah, because you.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
Know all that stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, so I just you know, personally, I prefer hand
washing it, even if I can't get to it, you know. Unfortunate, yeah,
the touchless, but even the touchles I feel like don
doesn't do a great job as well as you know
what kind of kim you know, you never know, really
know what kind of Kimbo are putting into it, right.
I mean it's not cheap either.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
It works.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Car washes are not cheap anymore. I mean you're paying
twenty sometimes forty dollars just to get your car.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I saw a specials wash. I saw a special two
or three days ago. I was driving it. Seven dollars
for the ultimate car wash. But it's like if you
signed up for like a two month membership or something
like that, but.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Then you got to ask yourself, how is how good
is it really for seven dollars? Like I think, I
think right, I mean, come on, like back in the day,
I remember like pulling up to the car wash, people
taking pride and washing people's car, shining, buffing tire, you know, tires, shine,
armorole everything.

Speaker 2 (04:36):
That's because you missed triple Yeah great.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
But so was Audibell did great when they first came
to the area. But as time goes on, people, you know,
employees change, right as I say, employees change people.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I've gone at I've gone to autible. We're throwing names
out there. I wasn't going to, but he did it.
I've gone to auto belt and I've had a very
good experience for what it is. I understand what is right. Yeah,
had good experiences and I usually try to tip the
guys well when they take care of the vehicle. But
I'm not taking like it's it's that's my daily driver,
my truck, you know, I mean, you actually know I
love my truck. But I'll i will take it there
and let them wash it. I'm not too worried about,

(05:11):
like you know about it. It's not like I'm taking
the bad am there. I'm definitely not going to take
white noise there. I'm not taking you know, I don't
even take the camera there, to be honest with you,
because I just don't you know, I.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Mean, you just don't know what you're getting, right.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
I wish so I've taken my car. I'm the type
of person I'll take my car to a car washing.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
Was you just put some you can't see it's fine, scratches,
it's not look if they scratch it.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Before scratches what you don't really know?

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah, that's what. But I'm my car is a daily driver.

Speaker 5 (05:45):
It just goes a B C. You know sometimes sometimes,
but I'll take it to it like a car wash.
And sometimes even though how heavy those brushes are going
against your car, sometimes it rolls right out the door
and I'm like, can we run that back.

Speaker 4 (05:59):
Through it again? You know, I'm like, there's still bird
crap on the window.

Speaker 5 (06:06):
I just pay two dollars for this car wash for
for that to still be there?

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Can I I wish they sold like I package for that. Yes,
I would purpose.

Speaker 5 (06:18):
I purposely would pay another like two three dollars just
to be like, set it through again, you know right right,
it's a double wash, you know, like because now and
I'm on the side taking the spray spray in the
window tapping.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
Promotion special? What's the bird crab special, sir?

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Where I can run this through two different times because
apparently it's gonna take two times to clean that bird
crap off the window?

Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't like, right, So I try to park my
cars away from you know a lot of things, right,
But for somehow I end up getting some type of
it's either plant sap or tree sap.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
I'm like, I'm four seen.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
I'm like, where did this come from? White's?

Speaker 2 (07:00):
And it will go through the car wash and it's
still there, and then they're handing me back my car
and I'm like, you didn't seem like a car wash, right,
They're like, well, then you know the car wash doesn't
take care of that.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
Okay, I understand special.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Special, it wouldn't work, But I'm like, I still see
like and I can go to my like up to
the car my finger.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
It should be called it shouldn't be called a car wash.
It should be called like the car rents because it
rents it.

Speaker 4 (07:27):
That's probably a better it might be.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Or the touch up, you know, just car touch up.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
Okay, right, so here I'm gonna mess you all up.
I got you guys all loaded up on car washes.
This is the whole reason why I have This wasn't
even what the conversation really was about. It was about
car washes, but not for the reasons you guys.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
I don't like the packages, you know, I wish it
was just one fee you get everything. Why is it
seven dollars for a basic wash? And then it's like
twenty dollars for half of the features. And then it's
like when I put into a car wash and I
see all those lights light up stuff, right, So then
I start so then I started thinking this, right, so

(08:10):
you know how they have three different lines and everybody's
picking a different package and everything. I'm like, but but
but how can you tell that that that's my package?

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Getting the package?

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I got one for you. I got one for you
missed the fight. I went and ran I won't see
where I went. But I ran my car through a
car wash. So I go there and I'm like, he's like,
can I help you, sir, I'm like sure. I was like,
I just I want to wash. I want the inside
wipe down. And I said, I kind of, I said,
I told you guys a lot of times. I'll go
to the car rents. I'm like, and I'm not gonna
re call a car wash against and uh, I'll let

(08:44):
them go ahead and just kind of do it. And
then I bring it back the house and I do
the and they've seen me do without, and I do
like with the real washes on, like I'll go and
hit all the touch up, and if there's the tree
sap on, I have tree sap remover and I'll touch
it and let it sit and I wipe it and
it comes off. And I go in the interior and
I really do the interior the way that I want
it done. But so I go to this place and

(09:04):
he gives me the whole spiel where there's like seventeen
different things to choose from.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Do you want the mean you know?

Speaker 6 (09:10):
You know?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
And I want to say, I just need the inside
wipe down. Hit a little arm or whatever, you know,
whatever you' all going to do, just wash it outside,
hit it with the wax. And he's like, okay, sir,
what seventy nine dollars? And I was like, I know for.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Me that okay is like what I mean. I didn't
even think about it.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Didn't be honest with you. It didn't even register what
he said. I was just like afterwards, it did. So
I just handed my card.

Speaker 4 (09:35):
I was kind of right diletating.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Wait did he just say?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
I was like, so, I just handed my card. And
then I was sitting there as they're doing the car,
and I got to thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I'm like, what am I really for seventy What was
seventy nine dollars?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I don't think I've ever spent seventy nine.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Dollars a fresh.

Speaker 4 (09:55):
No, the car, here's the thing I got.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
No, I got it, got done. I got in the car,
I tipped him. I'm driving on the road, and I
really got to thinking about it.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Dollars no.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
No.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
I was thinking, right, you're right with what you knew
me well, which I tip well, and I just realized
what they're doing isn't is I don't think it's the
easiest job they do. But I'm driving like, I don't
what was seventy nine dollars? I'm like, I don't know,
who's the breakdown. Well, then I realized and remembered that
the receipt was on the window, and I pulled it
off and it was it was laying in this set

(10:27):
and I he ala card me on everything like normal package,
so like I paid for the package, which then comes
with that all this like stuff, and then he ala
card me additional calls for other like the things that
already would have been in the package. I was like,
and that's how because I didn't mess up, because I
went back like into my head and I went back

(10:49):
like two weeks later. I just wanted to we had
a rainstorm. I wanted to run the trust the theory,
and I did. I asked the same thing and it
was like thirty nine dollars. I was like, yeah, I got,
I got. So I have I have a friend whose
son works at one of the car washes. He's in
high school and he goes there and that's his his
after school job. And he told me something. So I'm

(11:10):
gonna tell you guys, take a look at this.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Just see if it.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Happens to you, so they'll ring through.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Like I'm not saying everybody does it, and I'm not saying.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Who it is or whatever. You guys can figure it,
figure out who you go to whatever. There's a bunch
of our area, but it could be anybody. It could
be a personal one. I'm just putting.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Out amission forever.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
No, they don't, but they can go back and take
off things and then but they already have the money
and then it's wrung up as a tip.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
I was like, get out of here. I was like,
there's but this is not the first time we've seen
this done this in this industry. This first time.

Speaker 4 (11:50):
Because I go to multiple car I go to multiple.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Car wash companies one either searching for the deals, the
app deals and stuff, you know. And but that would
make sense because I have gone before. And then they
hand you like that little tip card and then you're like,
but I didn't put a tip on, so how did
you How did you give me a tip card?

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I was like, I was like, I didn't think about that,
But I guess if you go, if you if you
have manager access or whatever access you need, and you
go in and you rewring it and then you just
and you can put it through as the tip. Then
nobody's going to ever write. Absolutely So, while I was
sitting there having the car washed, and I'll get back

(12:33):
to it in the stories. The reason why I brought
up about cars and being washed and how your guys
has thought about it is there's one thing that you
guys that probably you have never thought about. Do you
know just how dirty a car wash really is?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Yeah, I can't put a number on it, but I
can guarantee it's pretty dirty.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
In the way you think. I'm not talking about what
you were talking about with the dirt pouring offs of things.
The hodes that they used to vacuum cars has been
somebody sent me the story. Do you know that one
of the number one things that they find on the
end of that hose when they test it, what fecal matter?
Really and they keep using it in your car that

(13:14):
may be a clean car, and they're using that hose
and they hit it the car wash your you would
turn over and over again.

Speaker 5 (13:22):
You think you would think that the sant like you know,
like how restaurants have a sanitation company a sanitation bucket,
You would think that they would have to dip that
hose into a sanitation.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Tested car wash places and did swabs them. And because
people are dirty and they have animals, are they are,
then themselves are dirty and they're rubbing it across it
and vacuum it up, and then it spreads equal eye
and all kinds of like diseases and stuff into your
car that you made cleaner before it was.

Speaker 3 (13:50):
Am I look clean?

Speaker 7 (13:51):
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Speaker 4 (13:52):
No?

Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wait, now, let me boggle the mind even further. I'm
not even get you even further. So equal eye thing
that right right? What do you think if you had
to think about how even this discuss it is? Because
you guys, I don't do well with like at all.

(14:13):
But all the body fluids that they are vacuum out
of cars and it's on that hose and they keep
on going. You can't tell me that hose gets wiped
down after every car.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Put it.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Something something that kills it something, but they don't. How
does that affect you think about it? Other than the
fact that this your car has now been contamidated. This
one's going to blow your mind. What is the number
one thing cars are used for nowadays? I'll hold that thought,

(14:45):
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Speaker 1 (17:57):
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Speaker 2 (18:08):
Hey, guys, welcome back. So before I went to commercial break,
I was asking what was the one thing with going
to the car wash that no one can talk about.
They talked there was a whole article about how dirty
that the vacuums are and stuff at car washes, and
just how you may be putting stuff in your car
that was never in your car in the first place.
And I said, the one thing that cars are now

(18:30):
used to that people don't think about, and how this
is crazy when you put it all together.

Speaker 4 (18:34):
I'm thinking groceries. So that's what I said on there.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I think the grocer is a pretty good guest, honestly.
I mean, if I'm thinking maybe eels may like people
like sleeping in them time to time.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
You're you're close, you were you were on the right track. Okay,
so think about it. You were going to the car
wash and having your car wash because you wanted to
look all nice and right exacum right, and they when
they back the vacuum and stuff. But your part time job,
I was, oh.

Speaker 5 (19:02):
Uber eating, You're bringing it into other people's homes, not
just your own.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, like that could be any any and it could
be not just not to say it's just too reads,
I mean any food and it could be any of them.
But like it's that's crazy when you start thinking about
you're like, oh man, I'm putting like my food. Like
you go to the grocertoy, you just go grocery shop
or whatever, and you have groceries. Are you know in
your car your groceries you put you're putting them where

(19:29):
somebody may have now put something in your car, like
like the people go and something I was talking about
people like, well people have their dogs in their car
and they scooch their butt on the seat and then
they go get grocery. I'm like, yeah, that's that's that's
pretty gross too, like like it still falls to the
grocer range, and like you didn't make it better, and
I have like, like I told you I don't do

(19:51):
body flu stuff like that. You guys are We told
the people I see pick their nose in their car,
and I wonder what they're gonna do with it. Like
I have a problem with like bodily things, so it
grosses me out way over the top. Now I'm just
like h And then I got to talk about car
ride share programs, all the different ones. I'm not gonna say
all the names. We just named them all. But you're
getting in these cars and you're like, oh, I'm getting

(20:12):
in a car. It's nice and clean here, But what
what rag did you use to clean your car with?
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Like that's a good point. It's something you never really
think about.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
I would have never I would have never thought of it.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
But then again, it's like, you know, it comes down
to like decency. It's like people are using like other
people's stuff to clean, you know, like and you're not
like having the respect to like you know, may pick
up your own dog crap instead of using like the
general hose that everybody's using the vacuum right right. I mean,
it's just like it has a decency thing, dude.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm telling you, Like I was grossed up, and I
was like, I never thought about it, But now I'm
like just overly then slightly grossed down my house. I
got the steamer all.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
But you know sometimes you stop and.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Think about it.

Speaker 5 (20:55):
I'm like, well, think about like how many times people
just dropped to drink in their car and they just
go to like the car cleaner and then they use
that hose to suck out there.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
We were talking about back when I was in the
car industry and stuff, we had loaner cars, and we
got to talking about this week about all the loaner
cars that we used to loan out to people and stuff,
and how they came back, and you got a really
good look at how people live in life and how
much they just don't care about anything. Right when you
got your loaner car back. Now you loaned them a car,

(21:26):
you didn't run it to them. I can't imagine what
rental car companies go through. It's got to be horrible.
But these were loaner cars that we loan to. People
didn't charge anything to let to take cars, and we
would get them back and they would be just disgusting.
See I mean, just just burn it down, just set
it on fire. I ontly want to back. Just set
that car and fire. We don't want that car back disgusting.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
I mean the neytime I've.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Gotten a rental car from my insurance company, I've been
the type of person to take a rag and go
clean everything and stuff.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Cars is the car wash.

Speaker 3 (21:57):
And we had the whole conversation about, you know, rental
cars just start having products and the trunk.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Right, we should have like a a cleaning pass where
you're able to, like let's say you do have a
rental car for a week, they should have a clean pass.

Speaker 4 (22:14):
Might not at least for people like.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
No one's gonna use it, because if you're so disgusting
that you leave the car that nasty, you're not taking
the time and run it through a car.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
If you're if your car then you just dropped off,
looks really bad and you bring it back decimated, Why
do I think you're gonna actually clean?

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Hold On, we were talking. We got a loaner car
back and it smelled like baby throw up in It's so.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Bad, and I don't think that's what it was.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
We all came to the determination. We're pretty sure that
it was milk, like like people spill maybe that kids,
and the milk spilt in the car, and then it
sat in the hot sun for like the whole two
weeks they had the car. I wanted to burn that
car to the ground. It was so bad.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
You're like, I wondered why she brought it back so early.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
We took a pressure washer to that vehicle. Look to
the interior of the car. I know you see weird
videos of that, but we literally put soap on it
and took a pressure washer to the interior of the
car to get the smell. Nothing would cut the smell
in the car. We finally got it out, but that's
what it took. It took putting soap in it and
pressure washing the seats with a pressure washer in the
carpeterals to get the smell out of it. It was
so bad, and I know everybody's gonna go, well, then

(23:15):
water went down into the jew Now, if you get
an extractor out and you suck it out and stuff
like that, then it is, but you couldn't like nothing.
I tried the steamer on it, and steamed it. I
tried my commercial carpet cleaner on it. Didn't take it out.
The only thing that took it out was hosing that
car down with a pressure washer and with a lot
of soap over and over again and watching it to
the point where the soap was foamy and took the

(23:37):
seats out and pressure washed the seats. I mean, like
the only way we get the smell out of that car.
And it was a loner, like it's not even.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yours, you have to return it. That.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
I always knew we were in trouble when people like
just set the key on the counter to the Lorner
car and never like hey, thanks for letting us use
the car or anything like that. When they just set
the key on it and got there and they dashed
real quick, I'm like, I got a take a look
at this thing. This is gonna be bad. This is
gonna be it's gonna be really bad. And sure enough,
I'm gonna say probably eight out of ten times it
was if they set the key down, just slid the

(24:09):
key in your direction, filled out their paperwork, and took
their car back in the day. I'm like, this is
gonna be disgusting. I'll guarantee it's gonna be gross. I
mean fast food that they ate. They just sat in
the car in the bag the whole time they.

Speaker 5 (24:23):
Have I can only imagine, for like the rental car companies,
how worse it is because you don't even have to
face anybody.

Speaker 4 (24:29):
You just put it in the you know.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Something might tell me, is there if you rent a
car and you leave it that discussing? Is there a
that's that's to say how much I take care of
a runner car.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
I've never been charged a feed like that.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
I don't know there is. There's so many fees that
come with the round cars, you know, not having the
gas and left it, you know, if you leave it
destroyed as a cleaning.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Fee, destroyed feed. But I'm talking like because I was
just a dirt bag and left. Yeah, no, there is
there is a I'm an I can't say the word,
but am I an asked, do you know what fee?

Speaker 4 (25:00):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (25:01):
Like, that's what surprises me when people actually leave their
car destroyed. It's like, do you just not care about
having to pay that fee?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Or are you you don't even realize you're that disgusting.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
Right, They probably don't care about paying the fee because
as much as it would cost them to clear out
of the car walls.

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I like you I'm doing I'm doubly charged.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
What if you made the fee like crazy? Right?

Speaker 5 (25:22):
I think it is like two hundred and fifty bucks
in the car. I think it's two fifty pultiple, we
had to make the feed, like make the feed like
something just astronomically cristy.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Every every piece of garbage we picked, we charge you
twenty dollars story piece of garbage I got to pick
up out of the car like, then you put maybe
we wouldn't do it, Like I said, these were things
I don't know. Like I said, I get weird conversations
with people. It turns into this show. But it was
like the start off with the car washing, and there
was a conversation and I start remembering how people brought
our cars back to us and I was just like, oh, yeah,

(25:54):
I guess. And then you start thinking about what did
they use your car nowadays? Like I would be worried,
like the car business loaning cars because things have changed,
and I'd be like, well, what did they use the
car for. I mean, think about like people they do
all the ride sharing services and stuff. I'm like, did
our car get used for that? And think how many
people were in and out of it?

Speaker 3 (26:15):
In the trash and oh, and like I'm not put
on it.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
Look, if you're a driver in a service and you've
got some create set them into me. I'm just curious
the things you guys had to go through and the
things you have to do with Like I heard, like
I have friends who have kids who did ubering and
stuff like that, like you know, and they were telling
me about people getting sick in their car and stuff
like that, and that already was like, Nope, the time.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
That happens, that was it.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
That was that'd be the end of it. The first
time I picked somebody up and they threw up in
my car, I'd had to burn my car. Like I
already told you guys, like I have some rules, like
if you do some weird things, I want a new car.
I just don't even want the car anymore. I mean,
call me strange, but if you do some nasty stuff
my truck, I'm not gonna want to drive it. I'm like, no,
I don't want that I'm good, I'm gonna sell, I'm
get me something new. I'm I'm not owning that vehicle.

(26:57):
I mean, it's bad enough. You guys heard me say,
like you're laughing, but you know it's true, you last.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, it's definitely true.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
It ranges, so they don't really so they say that
they don't have a cleaning fee, but if it's more
than like the where what they claim as where and
tear of what a regular rental car should go through,
it can range anywhere from like thirty dollars all the
way up to five hundred dollars. One of the things
that they do point out though, is pet here. So

(27:26):
if you have pet here in the car, they're gonna
charge a clean fee for that. So you know, I'll
name some of the companies because it is what it is.
But Budget will charge you four hundred and fifty dollars
for a cleaning car here, just cleaning the car just
if there's like it needs it bad, like very very bad.
You know, Enterprise will charge a detail fee.

Speaker 2 (27:50):
Insurance, So if you insureance, does it cover all that
you got that additional insurance? Like you know that you
buy from them. Yeah, you're saying the car was destroyed.

Speaker 5 (27:58):
Technically, you can light the car on five air left
the car in shurts.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
You used to ye used to be able to think
things that changed.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
By the way, why boys fixed that.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
We're not looking to a rental car for seema. We
do have car insurance. I'm seeing that message hair now
for cars, right.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's it's this rag and I've seen it and you
wipe it and pulls the pet hair up off the seats.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
And there's a sticky brush one like that company as
a rag or something.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
I saw it and I was curious. I don't have
that problem, so I never really needed but I like
to buy it just to see if it works. I've
seen it advertised. You know, why do you make the face?
You know I own so many weird things. I understand
car because I just want to see if it works.

Speaker 4 (28:41):
He wants to try. Where is going to get a dog?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Because Yeah'm gonna be the weird guy. Excuse me, sir,
your dog for a second. You let him roll around
the cars. Here's the weird one now standing on the sidewalk. No, no,
it's not what you think.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Really, I just you don't want to take a ride
in my car.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Hey, sir, could you mind if I take your dog
for a quicker ride?

Speaker 4 (29:03):
I got.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
You become the weird guy. No, I'm not gonna be
that guy. I'm just saying I was curious. It works
like that, and the sand thing works. If you've seen
the thing where they take I use my my orbit sander.
If you take the sandy disc off it.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Yeah, y'all vibrate.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Yeah, the sand does come up somehow better with the vacuum.
I've done it. It works. And now somebody told me
they have actually have a vibrator that that for that
that you drop down. It librates and it makes it. No,
I didn't know. I didn't know that. Like somebody told
me about it. I was like really, I was like
I've always just I saw it and I used it
and put it on there, and I don't know. Before
this goes kind of you crazier, let me take a

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Speaker 2 (33:28):
Welcome back, man. I tell you what these fools they
try to get you in trouble. Why are you on
their wasn't having you all know where it was going?
So I was I was being good. H I gotta
spin in a whole different direction. Right. We will all
agree or agree to disagree, maybe that video games are
pretty off the hook when it comes to car chases

(33:48):
and stuff we talked about on the show. Like I
feel like some of the games.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Like I don't know, I here kids for Like do
you feel you's like games have kind of like cut
back a little bit? Like you don't think so all?
I think I just like general, like you know, like
we haven't had like something like crazy in a while,
like you know, like and like I say, like two
ten made like twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, like you know,

(34:11):
we had.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
A I mean mass of like Hot Pursuit was one
of the games.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Right like he wasn't really coming out anymore or like
you know, GTA, you know the new ones better come out,
but it was you know, it's been fifteen years since
they came out to the new one. So I feel
like you feel like they've kind of like cut back
on some of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
So I would agree with you, But I don't have
kids of a certain age anymore. Okay that I that
that's really thought. But I okay, I got I told you,
I get weird conversations. I got in a conversation weeks
ago and I was talking with somebody, uh that as
a friend of mine who has kids of like eight
to ten, and I didn't think about it at that time,
but I thought about it after the conversation and we

(34:50):
were talking about video games and how because we used
to play video games together online. So that's how the
conversation came up. And he was like, well, you know,
my son, he doesn't really play the game. He doesn't
play the missions. And I was like, oh, really, he's like, man,
he just drives around, just jacket people and stealing their
cars and stuff. That's he spends I'm like, oh, all right.
And I didn't think about it and I went and

(35:11):
it was after the conversation I was like, that's what
we were talking about on the radio show. I'm like,
that's that's so it is the problem. I'm like, so, basically,
you're saying your son spends like.

Speaker 10 (35:21):
Four hours playing the video game, never doing the missions,
never doing anything at all that has to do with
what the game is based for. He just goes and
drives around and robs people at gunpoints, steals their car.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
And goes drive around crash into people for hours on end.
I'm like, yep, that's how we have some of the
problems these stories we see that we talked about it
and taking it on, you know, on the air.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
I'm like, this, that's how this comes around.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
That's all Cameron does.

Speaker 4 (35:46):
Yeah, exactly. Sometimes I won't do some of the missions,
but it is fun just.

Speaker 5 (35:51):
You know, drinking a car, pouring them out of the
he's taking their car back to the shop.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
He's like that son does like he goes, so he
goes into the office world and he goes. He just
spends his day message hormation. People like, oh, so, then
I there's that right, And you're like, okay, I I
kind of see how that's fun. But I start to
understand how like people are growing up and they're like
stealing guards because the.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
Doing that too long.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
I'm not saying that's what his sone's doing, but I
but I get it.

Speaker 5 (36:20):
And then hold on, well, I do just kind of
see where Nate's coming from though, because you got to
remember some of the games back then you go try
to steal a car and be like all right, now,
let me show you how to pick this luck. You know,
the rake and like we were just talking about Hot Pursuit.
Hot Pursuit, you had to hit into the police to
be able to you had to get out away from them.

(36:42):
We haven't seen a game like that come out for
ten years or so.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
What I want you to do is, when you have
some time, this is a story you got sent to me,
go onto Amazon and look up. I think it's underneath
uh Cops and Robbers, or maybe it's under Hot Pursuit.
There is the Power Wheels.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
I don't even know what you call it.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
I guess you're calling the Cops and Robber edition. That's
not what I would call it. Where they're selling the
police car version of the power wheel and then the
getaway car version, and they sell their something like a
set somebody something.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
That it's such a father and son thing.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
That was awesome. Das like, that's not an awesome thing.
They were teaching on kids the wrong, you know.

Speaker 5 (37:26):
I'm like, dude, I would I would be the adult
in the police car with the megazone going.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Rather a power wheel, right, your kids already a menace
behind the wheels.

Speaker 4 (37:39):
You you right, the.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
Battery, you as your parent is you know you're the cop.
You can pull them over, you know, give them you
know the talk.

Speaker 6 (37:46):
Can you know? You know, you guys are crashing into
each other. There ain't no talk going on. Somebody sell
me story and I'm like, there's no way. And then
I look and I'm like, it's it's a real thing.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
And as I guess as I was kind to be
maybe judgmental just a little bit, then I remembered and
I told them. I was like, well, you know what,
I did have the Chips edition big wheel that had
the siren and had the megaphone on it where you're like,
pull over, and I had it, and I spent time
chasing my friends and their big wheels because we didn't
have power wheels. Guys. That's oll the generation I can
we had big wheels and so then. But I think

(38:22):
times have changed from then to like now, Like you
didn't hear about people stealing cars like left and right,
and you didn't hear about kids like stealing cars like
the kids.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
I feel like that was still a thing. Is you
didn't really care about it.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
It could be you could.

Speaker 5 (38:37):
They didn't have news back then. It just it just
came in the morning and you had knock on.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
The door morning.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
You didn't get a knock on the door.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
You're right, yeah, the newspaper.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
I probably never told this story. So I delivered newspapers
for a very short period of time when I was
a kid. Is that chased and no, I realized. So
they kept trying to get you take on more table,
more and more and more. And as a kid, I'm thinking, okay,
with more money. By the way, it didn't pay very much.
It was horrible, Like my paycheck for delivering papers was

(39:13):
awful back then. I'll keep in mind I was in
sixth grade. I was doing it in sixth grade.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
I made way more money selling candy box.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
I did way more money. And if I never told you,
I saw candy door to door for a company called
United Teens. I think they're still around. I don't look
it up. And I made a lot of money doing that,
but newspapers, no. And then I got smart and I
was like, okay. I had a go cart and I
was like, I this will make it quicker. No, do
you know how hard it is, like try to like

(39:39):
slide your like go cart up in someone's front. You're
to get close enough to be able to like from
a go cart throw the pape. It was more work
than it was. It wasn't a job that lasted in
my mind. It was so much cooler.

Speaker 5 (39:53):
Because you know, when I was a teenager, so I
thought I was like, you know, I could go build
a hand cannon and just have somebody drive.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Around, just like we had to.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Like we had to take the newspaper and roll it
up and put the rubber band on like they got
delivered to us. They were not. We had to roll
our own and put them all together. We had to
put the inserts inside of them and all that kind
of stuff before we rolled them. And if it was
rained and you had a bag them and stuff in
this ring, it was Look, it was more work, literally
than what I thought was gonna be all I in
my mind, I picture racing around on my go cart,
you know, just whipping papers. You know, I'm like.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
Nothing to it now. It's the first job you never quit.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
I think that was the first job I ever quit.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
You gotta get them at six in the morning, bag
these bad boys up, and then go.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
To your tour four forty five so you could rat.
I had a lot of papers. There's a lot of
people in my route. We had a pretty big route.
We had a big neighborhood so and and then you
had and then on top of it, which I didn't realize,
you were responsible for collecting the money. Like if you
didn't get the money collected, you didn't get paid. Like
that's how you got paid, like because you paid for
your papers up front, like you got to pay, so
you paid a fee for your papers, and then they
paid you, and then you deducted the money. And you

(40:56):
guys know, if you ever don't know how to go,
look it up. But like in my mind it was
hot rod dreams. In my mind, I'm like, I'm just
gonna race around on my go cart and do all
the kind of stuff. But now you've.

Speaker 4 (41:05):
Got power wheels being sold to kids.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
It's a great idea. The promotion could be the son
and dad duo.

Speaker 10 (41:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
If I don't think you can buy them in the store.
I think you had to buy I think somebody has
done together like they like did it and they're just
selling them like their own set or something maybe like that.
I don't know. I don't I still think.

Speaker 5 (41:23):
It would be cool too, because I would be like
the father that's pigging the other vehicle.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Like there's no doubt, like you can't take us and
put us on go carts without us like tearing go
karts up. So I can only make like I can't
wait to be a grandpa and my grandchildren and just
show them all the stuff that's gonna annoy my kids,
like that has that's automotive related, like have to have
life insurance on my own kids. Telling you, I can't
wait to get to that point. But I don't know,

(41:50):
you guys, the jury's out. You tell me, like I said,
I saw it. I didn't have the reaction I think
most people did. I went, oh, I don't know if
that's a good idea. And maybe because I'm just I
I get all these news stories that you guys don't
know see, and you.

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Said, dude, this is amazing.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
You know. Maybe maybe because like he said, he doesn't
have kids of that age anymore. But maybe back in
the day he'd be like, oh, I'm donally getting these.

Speaker 4 (42:12):
No, maybe I.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Think I'm not getting to vehicle get so many stories
sent to us through through through the radio, shooting through
a different eye, like all the kids like stealing cars
and then being you know, and then they ran out
chased by the police and they gotta get right ouf
the road, and I think maybe I'm thinking about in
that light and I'm thinking the wrong way. So I
just kind of go maybe when I was twenty five,
I'm like, that's awesome. I'm getting I'm the guy who

(42:35):
was twenty five years old that bought them remote control
fire trucks when they were babies and thought that was
a great idea of why because.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
I'm a car guy.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
And I was like, and then and then I bought
them each one hundred hot wheels and they were at
one years old.

Speaker 4 (42:47):
And I held on that fire truck for a while. Okay,
we talked about it, and we talked about.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
It, so I'm not going to say I've always had
the best ideas when you were a young dad, because
I they had so many radio control cars they couldn't
play with them. I think I really bought it for me, uh,
and then I just said that was for them. I
think that's probably what happened. I think most car guys
probably do that now. If I could do that in
the adult world now, where I could just keep buying
muscle cars and just tell them, like, you know, they're

(43:12):
for everybody else, they're not for me. But they're really
for me. That was really great. If you want to
buy me a Corvette, I'm all about it. I don't know,
like you guys tell me, is this a good idea?
Is it a bad idea? I mean, I understand we
all play Cops and Robbers like I get it, like
I played it. I'm sure you guys played. Everybody played it.
I just in concept. Sure, I think it's a great idea.

(43:35):
I'm just worried about the actor, Like, you know, what
does that transition into. I don't know, maybe maybe I'm
were too worried about you guys are look at You're like, no,
this is awesome. I'm sure it probably is. I'm probably
looking at totally in the wrong, like it probably is
supposed to be, Like, let's go buy the row. His
mind is like, can we can we get a set
like now I can just start playing with them? Or
can we build go carts? Make them Cop and Robber

(43:56):
go carts? Like I see the wheels spin it in
your head. He's like, we already talking.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
About you know, I want to get a race car.
You know, we can have a cop racecar like we
did back in the day, and then we can have
a robber cop car.

Speaker 5 (44:06):
I mean we'll race car because let's go let's go
buy I mean, hey, wait a minute, let's go buy
five hundred dollars cars and create bashup cars.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
I mean that would be fun.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
For that.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
There's some crashing them about in the back of the
on the back field.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
That might be something.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I don't know. You guys don't know what you think
good idea about idea. I'm curious what you guys think.
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Speaker 2 (48:08):
Yay's welcome back. So here's an interesting one for I
told I got a bunch of stuff sent to me
and some stories and stuff, and the listeners send me
things and things come to the news I had. It's
a news story that was by somebody else that got
sent to me. So and sorry if I it's your story. Hey,
it was a good story. I read it and it
brought me a reason to talk about it. We've talked

(48:31):
on this show many different times about technology and cars
and how I believe some of it's good, some of
it's bad, ideas and stuff. One of the things that
I didn't realize until I read this story this week
was the safety young cars and how behind we are
as American cars and cars that come to the US

(48:52):
and stuff like that. That there's a lot more safety
that could be out there in cars that we have
either we have a technology have instituted in cars. Uh
in the and then he goes, well, why not, I
did not understand that your highway traffic I can never
get it. The Highway Traffic Control Board administrate, I didn't know.

(49:13):
They're kind of independent and the federal government and those
two work independently from each other, and they're the ones
that make independent decisions of what they believe is best
to go into cars. And we're way behind the times
what we believe because technology has advanced so quickly, but
we haven't advanced the technology into cars as quick as
technology has advanced. Does that make sense? Like integrated headlights,

(49:35):
all the different stuff, all the different things they could
be doing with cars to make them safer, it is
wrapped up in red tape. It's wrapped up in the laws,
and a.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Lot of European cars have it, where cars like you're
talking about the headlights, you know, the headlights were integrate
a way.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
You know, for a while hearing in the United States
still full integrated headlights that make a bunch of decisions
based on UH. The car itself makes a decision for
you how the headlights rather, how bright to make them,
how dim to make them, all that kind of stuff,
and everybody goes, well, I have an auto dimmer. It's
not the same thing I'm talking about. It's smart headlights,
Like they can do a lot of things we don't.

Speaker 3 (50:09):
Like being w like being w headlights, and they when
someone's driving towards you, their headlights actually move away so
it's not blinding the other driver.

Speaker 4 (50:17):
Right.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
So the technology that's out there just in that. So
we talked about smart wintrows before that technology. I think
the reason why that hasn't moved forward. I keep on
talking about, like, look, I saw it live and in person,
the way it works, and it has so much safety
stuff in it. I'm being told now the reason why
I keep questioning it and it comes up on the
show a lot because I thought was a great thing.
And the reason why we haven't seen installed cars is

(50:39):
it's literally government red tape between one independent company that
tells the government what they believe is the safest thing,
and the government has to have laws and regulations that
institute that stuff, and nobody's writing new policy on that. Therefore,
we can't move forward with technology in the cars in
safety because because they want to govern it right away
somewhere so as to be governed through And that's the
reason why we can have safer cars. And I'm like, really,

(51:02):
like is it which is iestally that's simple being the reason.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
It can be a good thing and a bad thing.
Like you said, it's a good thing because you know,
you want anything to work the way it should work.
You don't want any you know, I think any bad
things that happen. At the same time, it does slow
down progression.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Which is wasteful. We are so behind the times in
progression on and I'm just talking safety guys, like we're
not talking about Like I told you, Level five H
technology for autonomous vehicles exists, it's been around for a while.
We're not using it because there's no law that regulates it.
Level four. We're not really using level four in any
car at this point in time because there's no law
and no regulation for it. I think BMW is the highest.

(51:39):
Maybe Miss Mercedes, I think that's using level three. They
use level three autonomous. But when you get to four
and five, that's when you start losing pedals and steering
wheels and all that kind of stuff. You don't need
any of that. You are literally just in a box
in a box that.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
There's a car out there that does use Level four,
but it's only in certain guidelines, like it's restricted right now,
we're talking about like it has to be like you know,
certain highways or certain speeds.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
We have all this power, right like, we have all
this technology, and we have all these there's good lawmakers
to lawmakers, but we have all these people that are
in government to make laws. Like you would think we
would have progressed this, but for the fact that a
lot of stuff weighs on independent to tell us what
they believe, and they're don't have their act together quick
enough to advance it. And I told you I fell

(52:22):
into this. I already know it, so I probably shouldn't
be surprised because I told you about when I got
the ticket, and it fell into the reason why I
got that ticket because there's no law governing self driving
features and cars yet, and that's how I end up
getting my ticket first ticket twenty five years So I
guess I should have, but I didn't think. I was
more upset about the whole self driving feature and that

(52:43):
not being recognized. I never even thought about the fact
that we are paused to a certain degree on safety
because of rule and regularly to you how bad that
that is.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Do you think that it's paused or red tape because
we're trying to find a the best way to govern it?
Or do you think it's because.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
I think it's older much red tape?

Speaker 4 (53:00):
Okay, I say.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Or do you think it's because you know a lot
of technologies made by you know, younger people or you know,
middle aged So I know you don't know you, I
know you go there, so we know some people are
just kind of stuck in their way.

Speaker 2 (53:14):
This is our conversation that you and I. Camera doesn't
weigh in on this too much, but Nathaniel and I
bounce back and forth on this a lot. There's a
lot of topics that him and I, uh we come
to a medium on because and I agree with them
on some things.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
I do.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
I believe a lot of things that we have problems
with between my generation and his generation is stuck in
our ways. Uh, old technology, that's just the way it's
always been, that's the answer. Well, that's because that's the
way we always done it, right. I hate that term,
but I also get that's the reason why their generation
has issues with our generation on certain things, because instead
of sometimes opening in our eyes and seeing a new way,

(53:51):
we're just settled in our old ways and we just
accept that to be what it is. And I agree
with him on a lot of things, certain things he
throws in the mix with me that I that that
doesn't apply to and then him and I argue back
and forth on I'm like, now, I don't think that
one applies here. He's like, ah, Dad, I think it does.

Speaker 5 (54:05):
The phrase that they keep using is well, if it
ain't broke, don't fix it.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Some things need fixing, all right. You see, I don't
use that one.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
I don't use that one because I believe that I
as a person, I'm open minded enough to hear, here's
the thing. So my philosophy is a little different on things.
And this goes in the car world, but it doesn't when
I'm working on cars, and they know, when I'm working
on a car there may be a better or quicker
way to do what I'm trying to do right that
second that they may know or they have come up
with the worst time to tell me that is in

(54:36):
the heat of things, when I'm frustrated, like it's the
word I just know that about my personality.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Is the worst time.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
To tell me about a better way of doing things
is when I'm frustrated and already like fighting something. You
probably I am not gonna get the best response out of me.
It probably any guy really or a girl that works
on cars. It is probably the worst time. My philosophy
in life is I'm okay with there being a better way,
and I'm up for learning a better way to do something.

(55:02):
But to me, there's a time and place to bring
that up, and it's usually probably not in the heat
of the battle. I'm being frustrated right that second, at
that current. Whatever it is, it's cars, life, whatever it is,
I can be taught new tricks. I don't want to
be taught the new trick in the heat of the
battle of doing the trick that isn't working right this second.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
For me, the best things are forged in the fire.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
Though.

Speaker 5 (55:21):
Yeah, yeah, some some battles are ended by treaties.

Speaker 4 (55:27):
You know. Sometimes all the time.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Is you don't need to win the battle, you need
to win the war. At this point in time, it's
a battle. I can't set down my weapon to hear
the reason why you want me to uh discuss the
battle with you during wartime.

Speaker 4 (55:47):
That some of our weapons are grenades. I'm just so
much about fire while you're having the worst day ever.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Yeah, they're good at that, and I've I've gotten better
over the years. But I am look like I said,
I can hear anybody out on anything. I will listen.
I have a hard time listening when I am already
frustrated and I'm in the middle of that is not
the time to tell me when to how to reinvent
the wheel. I don't want to know how to reinvent
the wheel right that second. I'm just trying to get

(56:17):
the wheel stay on the cart. I don't want to
know about the new way of putting it on. You
can tell me about it later and I'll go, you
know what the next time. Yeah, I probably would be
a better way battles not a time.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Those guys, though, they're like, well, should have told me,
You're like.

Speaker 4 (56:34):
I probably am that guy sometimes too.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
I look, one thing I'll tell you about I'll own
my bs like a thousand times over. I know what
I am. I realize I can be frustrated, just like
any human can be but if I'm frustrated and you
end up being in the line of fire, I know
how to go a man, I'm sorry, and and own
my own bs like I know how to own up

(56:57):
to him and be like, yeah, I probab couldn't that Differently,
A lot of people can't do that. But it has
taken me a long time to grow into that. I
can tell you that when I was younger and the
kids were younger, I probably I was capable of doing that,
but not as quickly and as easy as I am now.
Cars are frustrated. I have I have the flag that's
hanging in my garage. It says cars are pain and

(57:18):
that one percent they are. I have never worked on
a car that hasn't frustrated me, and I'm getting ready
to be frustrated all over again because we now have
two projects in there we are trying to get finished up,
and I just know the frustration that's going to come
with those. By the way, yeah I know I heard it.
I saw it. Yeah, white noise, right, we have Look,
I am trying to push that through to get that done.

(57:38):
I got to find somebody that wants to do the
things I need to be done. That I do not
have time tooling to do, and that's I want to
tove that vehicle, and I just and the way that
you want, the way that I want it done, and
then the timeframe I want it done to. I don't
want the car sitting around some places somebody's shop just
waiting to be the next car to get to it
four months from now. I just I bought it so
we can enjoy it now. It's just it's a thrown

(57:59):
on my side right this secon because it's just the
next car that I feel it's just gonna sit waiting,
and I hate that feeling.

Speaker 4 (58:04):
You're sending me on a quest. It does doesn't exist, right.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
I'll let you guys know how that works out. I
still have been talking to people trying to get it
in so we can get it going and get that
finished up, because there's there's still stuff that needs to
be done to the car, and it just I don't
I'm not doing that portion. There's all the other stuff
I can do, like I'll rip the interior out and
I can send that be fixed and stuff like, I
got no problem. But some of the stuff that needs
to be done, something's gonna have to do it. I
just I'm not equipped to do that, so hopefully that
works out. But I don't know technology. You guys, tell

(58:31):
me what you think are we Are we lacking technology?
And what can we do to progress that forward? And
you know, if I can find a button I could
push to let somebody go ahead and tub the rear
of this car in technology, it'd be great. But how
you're gonna happen? And no, guys, it's the end of
the show. Hope you guys enjoyed the show. It has
gone by quick. Literally, we were talking to our commercial break,
We're like, is this the fourth segment already?

Speaker 4 (58:53):
Wow?

Speaker 2 (58:53):
It went by really quick, but it is. I hope
you guys enjoyed it. Enjoy your guys. Weekend It is Saturday.
Sunday is right around the corner. As I always tell you, guys,
make sure you unplug, spend some time with your kids,
hide their cell phones, spire with a barbecue, playboard game
with them. I don't care what you do. Just make memories.
Take into a car show. They'll love it. There's always plenty,
And if you can't find one in your area, you're
not looking hard enough. Because like every weekend, there's five

(59:15):
in our area. You can go too, So yeah, spend
some time with your kids. They will make memories with
you and you will love it. And that note, we're
gonnae and get out of here and enjoy guys' weekend. Guys,
got anything before we get.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
Out of here?

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Joey weekend?

Speaker 4 (59:25):
Nice?

Speaker 2 (59:25):
All right, we're out here and we'll talk to you
soon