Plates, Hitchhikers & Haunted Highways

This week on Let’s Talk Cars Radio, we’re talking about custom license plates; are they really worth it? We also talk about dave's stories of hitchhikers, haunted highways, and much more. Buckle up for a ride you won’t forget!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Happy Saturday, America.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
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I'm your host, Big DAVP hanging out, CAMKAOS and AVB.
It is a great day for radio show. That is
the reason why you have tuned in right right right
right there you go. It has been a rainy week,
thank goodness. For the most part, the rain is gone.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
It depends on where you're at.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I guess, let me say for now, where you're at
for now depends where it might be raining where you're
at hopefully not.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
But if it's not rain, it means it's a great day.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
For a car show for you guys, like always say,
I spent the week enjoying myself. I jumped on a
lot of different forms online, had conversations with a lot
of our listeners, and.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It was interesting some of the topics that came up.
So I thought we would.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Spend today just jumping into some most funny topics because
they were amusing. I've told a lot of different stories
throughout the years, thirteen years of having this show, and
we've talked about a lot of different things in different capacities,
and some of these topics we've kind of brushed on
kind of here and there, but we never really, like
I look back, I'm like, we never really kind of
jumped into them. So the first topic, you guys ready, ready,

(01:47):
here we go. Personalized license plates? Okay, is it a must?
Like do you feel for your own personal reference? Is
a personal license plate a must on a car?

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yes? Da, Let's go first, ends, I mean, in my
personal opinion, it depends. I mean for me to find
you the car, is it my car? Didn't it have
a personal license? Preate on it for for a long time,
a long time, and then I just finally yeah, I
just find finally put one on there because I thought
it was funny and I was tired of some of
the drivers driving with me, and I just kind of

(02:19):
wanted to give a message without giving a message. Your plate,
I think, Hilario, his plate is mine's bleep it. So,
I mean it kind of rise with the radio show
almost and then kind of but it it fits you personality.
It's funny, like it fits you.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
Like when I see your plate when I'm driving behind
you were going someplace as.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
You play, I like, I still laugh. But I've seen
it a thousand times.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
But I see people behind me all the time.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
You see them you're reading it, and they're like, oh yeah,
you see it. The kicks in, They're like, got it.
Personalized license plate important? Not important?

Speaker 4 (02:51):
I mean, I'm down for it. I think you know
one right right. I think you gotta find.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
One that fits you on your car. No, I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
I used to have one on the Civic. I have
really found that really coincides with what I want.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I think it's great.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
The only thing I have issue with personalized license plate
is that I feel like, as a consumer, you shouldn't
really have to pay the extra fee to get.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
What you want. I'm okay with paying the fee?

Speaker 4 (03:13):
He ye, I mean, look, you can be all right
with it, but do you agree with having to pay
for it?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Okay, Look, I feel like I do agree with Nate
just a little bit. If I'm paying that fee, I
should be able to fully customize the plate, not just
the letters. I should be able to change the color
of the plate a little bit. I can do you already.
You already have to stamp the plate my custom letters.
Why don't you just go grab a different plate?

Speaker 5 (03:39):
Well you can, you can.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
There is different places that you can use letters on
extra fee as well. You can. You can change the
color to those plates, like Antike plate. You can't go
get a customer and take plate. And that's like, let
me tell you.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
So there is a company that now specializes in that,
and I'm going to give it a shot and see
if I get pulled over. So I am going to
put a custom plate on white noise. I already planned it.
And here's the thing, I'm not telling you what it is.
I made the mistake one time on this show of
saying a really cool plate idea and then and I
didn't want to and Larry, if you'll remember when when

(04:15):
Larry was part of the show. Larry convinced me to
say the name of the plate, and I said it,
and then someone took it. Now everybody goes, oh, that's coincidence,
and I go, not coincidence. I used to check regularly
and no one ever had that plate.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
He convinced me.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
And I didn't think much about it. You know, it's
not like I got a twisted my arm or he
held a gun. I said it knowing that I probably shouldn't,
and I didn't want it. I even sat on the
air if you go back and listen, I was like,
I don't really want to say it because I know
someone's going to take it. And I said it, and
within a week someone took that plate.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I told you, and I was upset.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
You should have put a hold on that license plate,
because I know you can. You can't put a hold
on what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm waiting for it to run out, waiting for somebody
go ahead and get ready to run out, because I
really want that.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
I've wanted that plate for a long time. I have
one for white Noise. I'm not going to say it,
but it's I think fit with the theme of the car.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
That we're gonna do it.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
But what I'm gonna do is there's a company that
wraps your license plate.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
They'll wrap it.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
So I want because white noise is black and white car,
I want the license plate to be personalized.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
But I want the license plate to be black and
white to fit with the theme of the car. So
I'm gonna have the license plate wrapped in black and
had the letters put white, and I'm gonna put my
stickers on it, you know, I mean, like you know,
for you know, my registration stickers on it, and just
see if it rolls. Now. I know certain states. I
guess there's certain states that don't care. I don't know
if we're one of them or not. I haven't looked
into it. But to be honest with you, don't really
care either. I'm gonna go ahead and do it anyway,

(05:33):
and I ask for forgiveness, not for permission, and see
what happens.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
To be really honest with you, I mean I like
personalized plates. I think personal life plates define your personality
the vehicle, whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Now it's funny because as I was having.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
This conversation throughout the week of people people chimed in
and sending their messages because it was an open conversation,
and then people just sent me if they went back
and read the conversation, they were sending me stuff later
on and they're like, yeah, but what about the guys
that have like personalized places. They none of us can
figure out because it's so niche to them that there's you,

(06:07):
it's that car you pull behind, and it's like it's
their hobby, right, so in their hobby, you're like, you're
reading it and it makes perfect sense to them, but
you don't know them.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
You don't know what their hobby.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
So as you sit there and look at the license plate,
you have no idea what I.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
See.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That would be the type of person that would actually
be like creating random license plates just to confuse you
when you're paying me. I would be putting just random letters,
like I'd be like you are and then just random letters.

Speaker 5 (06:40):
The guy you look.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Constantly look but you do is put a camera on
the back of your car that records everybody's reactions as
you watch them, Like, because I can look in the
mirror and watch people's mouth move as they're trying to
figure out what the license plate says as they're reading it.
They're like, and you know that's what they're doing. Right,
you start laughing yourself, like, go.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
On, you can figure. You're almost like to yourself, go
You're almost there.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
I see it.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yet you almost got it, you know what I mean? Like,
that's how I when people are reading my license plate,
I'm just like literally see it, and they're just like yeah.
So they just shake their head every time. I'm like,
do you understand?

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
So, as we were having the conversation and talking about
the license plate on different forms I was on and stuff,
it was the things that annoy people like about license plates, right,
it was you know what one of the biggest things,
number one thing was that annoys people. Now, keep in mind,
I'm in a car for them, so that should be
kind of a maybe a little bit said way into
what might be the one thing that.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
When you say, like what type of car, it is.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Like, no, no, you're you're kind of you're in the
right realm with it.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
Though, If anybody think I could think of a bunch
of things that annoy me with license plates when they
double put the sticker on and the.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Personal plate personal plate, what would be an annoyance to
somebody of a personal plate on a car.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Don't I'll get you. I'll get you in the realm
of it.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
The number one annoyance was something reverencing a fast car
on a slow car. The O is something saying, you know,
saying the.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Car is fast, but it's from a movie or something
like that. You're like, and they were like, I hate
what people put like something about their car being fast
and it's on a slow car.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
I was just like, I don't. I haven't seen a
whole lot of those, but I have seen someones that.
Once I started kind of get into it and having
the conversation, I started understand what people are saying. Number two,
what do you think of another weird one that people do.
I don't think they think about I think they think
they're being clever, but I don't think they realize it.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Think about this. This is this is pretty good saying
like hello on the plate or something No, no, Lathaniel.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Maybe like just putting like a regular name on the
license plates, like just like a John.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I think I ever want to put my name on
a lice spedal right, But you know, you drive through
part of everybody's like Dave, you know you turning around,
you know what I mean, constantly. So No. The number
two thing that's common that is they do is they
put a reference.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
About being rich on a mid level car, like some
of the ways like about like having money, like being
rich and having money. They something they reference, they space
it out. They spell something about having money on their plate.
But the car is on is like a a mid
grade sedan.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know what I mean. Fraud has their license plate.
They're driving around a Toyota Corolla.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
Right right, right right.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
So here's another one.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Right, it's this one I kind of understood because I
don't I don't see it being.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
An issue, but I understand where people coming from. Where
your license plate becomes like the advertisement for.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
What you do for.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
Yeah yeah, so in some business you work at and
you've made it like the business title for the license plate.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
And they were laughing because they were like, poor kids
got to ride around that van. Everybody knows your dad's
like the plumber, you know what I mean, Like Dad,
you couldn't just keep that, you know, like why do
you have to put on license plate? Like why does
our personal minivan have plumber license plate?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Like, so I thought that was kind of funny. I
was like, I was like, oh, you know, it was
like every in there's and.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
So there's a whole bunch of people are like typing.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
Like other occupations what you mean, like when they're occupation
on the license plate.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
But absolutely and they're like, okay, so now everybody knows
what I mean. Not look, plumbers make really good money.
They don't be a shame to be a plumber. But
the fact that kids.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Are just like, why does our personal car have to
have like what we do for a living? You know,
everybody news my mom's real estate agent or something, you
know what I mean, Like, okay, congratulations.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know so I thought that was the last one.
Was if it's like incomprehensive, which is what Zach, what
you said, which is a lot of times incomprehensive is
the inside joke, the inside joke that like we could
think of something the three of us to do a
license plate. They would be funny to us, right, but
it's our inside joke. Anybody behind us is like, I

(10:47):
don't get it, like you know what I mean, Like
and people do that. We'll say a lot of those places.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Especially don't get it, especially when they do only like
one letter for a word, but usually, like you know,
you're usually doing like two or three to kind of
like make up the word.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Is there some place when I was having this converse,
people are spelling things out with eight letters. Those are
some states that have eight letters?

Speaker 5 (11:03):
Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 (11:04):
There's one plate that allows.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
What state has? What state has eight?

Speaker 2 (11:08):
Eight? There's one plate here? But can you do personalized
plate with eight?

Speaker 3 (11:13):
Well, because a lot of people are giving examples and
they were eight, and I was thinking, well, here we
only have we're only seven.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I'm like, so where are people.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
So Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Oklahoma, and Virginia allow
eight letter licensed?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
We don't we have seven here? There's one plate one personalized, right,
you can do it personalized, but it's one of the
plate designs allow you. So you know, like how you
go do those plate designs. One of the plate designs
that nobody wants is like eight characters.

Speaker 4 (11:43):
Oh okay, my bad, I misspoke. It's only California and
North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Okay, all right, I'm do eight characters plates before.

Speaker 4 (11:52):
Man, and I do know what you're talking about. There
are some licenselates that do cut letters off, like, right.

Speaker 5 (11:58):
So, well there's what you got.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
We got a virgin and play only at you're six.
It's got the graphic on so you're going to get
six letters. I've seen that one, but I've never seen it.
But people are giving people are giving me examples in
the forum. They're typing like funny plays eight letters, and I.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Was like, where's where's there eight letter plate? At I
was like, I don't have you know, but now I know? Okay,
so it makes sense, all right if you have an
incomprehensive plate, good idea, bad idea, like like Camra. I
now I get it now that you've said I would
laugh if I knew the meaning behind it, that you
purposely did something that made me sit there and go.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
I think of everybody, it's never it like that's that's funny.
But I think the plate should either identify the car
or identify a little bit about the person's personality.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
I don't really think like what you do for a
living whatever, I mean like stuff like that. I think
it's you guys know I've talked about I'm into naming cars.
I think it's important to name your car. Maybe you don't,
but every car I've had, has been had a name.
I've named every car I've had, so you got do
you guys remember what the Jimmy was? Anybody ding ding ming?

Speaker 3 (13:02):
We had a GMC Jimmy. I loved my GMC Jimmy.
I told I think I've told you guys story about it.
I had it for a long time. Everybody joked me
because it was the next current year.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Of what the year was.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Because for the time I bought it, every time something
made a noise, it got a new part. That thing
had everything new on it for the longest time because
I enjoyed driving it, and it did. I put two
hundred and seventy eight thousand s.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
No, it did not start with it. S did start
with an L. It didn't start with an L. Lfless
were starting to start with a B. Beverly, No, it
wasn't Beverly.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Was a guy's name.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
Bra No, you probably won't remember fourteen beyond eleven because
I mean I named Jimmy Brutus, and I don't know
where I came up with Brutus. I liked the name
Brutus the time. Yeah, it was called Brutus. I had.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
I had a little thing Brutus. Yeah, I did because
it was a work. Was like, I put that thing
through so much and did so many things. I towed
so many things, with all kinds of stuff. I probably shu,
you're like over there with your buddies. You're like, man,
I brutus took me through the last night.

Speaker 5 (14:12):
That's cool.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I can really brutal with this truck.

Speaker 3 (14:17):
That's That's kind of how it came up with maybe
and then might be a little bit of hidden.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
One of his friends looked at it and was like,
that's a great idea. No, it was a good name
for it. That's probably subconsciously how I came up with
the name, because I had it for a little while
before I actually gave it its name, which I've done
with every vehicle. I so, what's your name? Huh? What's
the Chevy's truck's name? Huh? Snow White say it's going
to be like, well, we know a little blue. What's

(14:44):
the cameras? I haven't named the camera. It's not mine.
I named it. It's not my vehicle. That's Don's vehicle.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
Hey, if you guys think naming a vehicle or having
a personal plate on it is a good idea, bad idea?
Give us a shout out, send us a text. So
what would you guys think? On that note, I gotta
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Now back to your host, Dave Polach.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
So, before we went to the commercial break, we were
talking about personal license plates. So I got one last
question for you guys about license plates. What states do
you think has the biggest percentage of personalized lates license plates?

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Biggest state? Yep? Florida No, No, we're not even on
the radar. No or Kansas? No? Why Kansas?

Speaker 4 (18:39):
No, I'd say probably like California, or I thought so too,
Maybe like no Data, No, Colorado, Nope, no.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
New York?

Speaker 5 (18:51):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Thought you guys would have hit it right off the bat.
It's Virginia?

Speaker 5 (18:54):
Is it really?

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Sixteen point one percent? Okay, that's what we're guessing. The
other state.

Speaker 3 (19:02):
Something like sixteen point one nine percent in the state
of Virginia.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Really, second state? Anybody, did I say r nof Dakota.
I don't think so. I don't think I heard you. Guys,
where are you pulling these guesses from? Like Westuh?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Camra was close on one of his guests, but it's
not the second second one is New Hampshire. Okay, thirteen
point nine nine percent. Uh one, you guys did say.
The third one is Illinois? Illinois thirteen point four percent.
Nevada is one you guys gave Nevada's twelve point seven
three percent.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Uh Montana, you said Montana nine point eight Really Montana?

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Maine, Believe it or not, Maine is nine point seven
nine percent.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Main? Oh, Main, Yeah, he said.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Now you said South Dakota. North Dakota's on the list too, Okay,
So North Dakota has like six point like per Now
keep in mind, it's been a while since they'd like
put the numbers out, put the numbers out, but it
was last time the numbers were done.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
These were the numbers. Do you know what the lowest
state is? And this blew my mind?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
That has the most personal that has the least amount
of personalized places in New York, Idaho.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Nope, this really blew my mind.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I really thought this would be the state that would
have a bunch of them. And there must be a
reason for it. I haven't researched final the reason yet.
Maybe it's hard to get one.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
I don't know. Utah, No, ready, Florida, Texas.

Speaker 3 (20:19):
Texas has the least amount of plates with zero point
five percent.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
They ain't worried about no custom poates over there. They
they were just right on side of their vehicle.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
Have no points over there.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
I mean they're too busy running horses. No, I mean courses.
I mean I thought Texas would have had a bunch.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
So anyway, moving on now, you guys know, I got
a question, like I said, question about plates, Send me
the information.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Here's your next story. Ready, but you get hitchhikers. So
another conversation I got into this week was about hitchhikers.
You ever picked up hitchhiker? No? Nope, no, don't plan
on it. And you know I've thought about it too,
and I'm like, this the day I don't want to die.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
This is the day I'm good.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
All right.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
So I told you guys stories back in the day
when it was safer, I did pick up hitchhikers, and
not because I really wanted to, because some of the
stretch of roads that I traveled was far distance.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
Was it really? Was it really safer?

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Though?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
You had a choice, not that you didn't want to. You, Yeah,
I didn't have a choice. Yeah, Okay, I had a choice. Okay,
I had a choice. Okay, I take it back. I
had a choice.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
But I knew the distance from where civilization was, and
I told you guys, this.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Was far, and I mean far.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
I once stopped and picked up two hitchhikers that were
not together in one trip. I was driving and I
came across the guy and he's walking and I know
he's I think. I told you guys, he was like
twenty five thirty miles from the nearest anything carrying a
gas can. So I stopped and I picked him up.
And then I was driving ten miles down the road.

(22:01):
It was walking over the gas can, and.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
Then they stopped and I picked him up. He was
not telling us the only reason why I picked up
the second hitchhikers because it started getting afraid of the
first phone. I'm like, this is really awkward.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
In here. It's like getting a cat, right, You're like,
I got a cat, you know what? My cat?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
So I was about to say that, right, So was
it really safer or.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
Did you just feel bad for the people that were
traveling so far because you, like you said you knew.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
How farceilization is.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Because I feel like nowadays, right like first thought, people
were like, well they got a cell phone, they can't
call a friend.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
You couldn't do that back in the day, you know,
like there's a pay phone. I'm gonna tell you something.
If you see a guy walking down the side of
the street, most likely he don't got a cell phone. Okay,
you don't get or it probably dead and.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
He has because he don't gotta sell guys.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
If he's walking down the road, he why didn't just call?

Speaker 4 (23:00):
That's what we're saying. We're saying back in the day,
like it's not like they could call. So like did
you pick them up because of sympathy? You know, cause
like it was, it wasn't necessarily like safer back in
the day because you think about like you can't call
for help, so like, you know, if you did get
in a you know, in some type of incident, and
then you're kind of stuck with them, right, you know, you.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Got to kind of know where you're going. Okay, I
told you guys the story. I think we talked about
this on ear ones. I told you guys the story
where I picked up the hitchhikers in the middle of nowhere.
There was two of them walking, two guys walking at
like three o'clock.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
In the morning.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I swear I told that story on the air. I
can't remember how a year, many years ago whatever, I
was on a stretch of highway. It was the mill
of the night, Like I don't know, one, two, three
o'clock in the morning. Whatever, escase me. It'll come back
to me. Whatever time the night it was, but it's
not important for the story. But there was two guys
and they were walking, and they were easily I think
it was thirty three miles to that I knew to

(23:49):
the nearest gas station, okay, like like it was far,
but I couldn't remember if that gas station was open
or not. So I and they were going the opposite
direct I know we talked about the story going the
opposite direction. I want to say they were still like
fifteen twenty miles ago in the opposite direction to you know,
to a gas stage, which, by the way, couldn't remember
if it would be open or not, right because they
were in the middle of nowhere, and a lot of

(24:09):
these gas stations aren't twenty four seven. Weren't twenty four
to seven in the middle of nowhere. So to a
certain degree, yeah, I didn't want.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
To pick them up, but it almost felt obligated because
I'm like, these guys have no idea how long they're
gonna walk. And it's not like I was on the
highway and I saw any other cars. Like we're talking
about driving, and you can look as far as the
eye can see, and there's no headlights behind you, and
there's no tail lights in front of you. I'm probably
the only car driving that stretch of road gonna be
for a while, and the chances is anybody's gonna stop

(24:38):
and pick these guys up, even there was, it's probably
something to none. Well, I picked these guys up, and
I put them in the vehicle, and I think if
I didn't tell you guys the story or if I'm
telling you it again, your schedul listen to it. Were
they nice? They were nice, but in the creepy way.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Okay, it was already creepy. It's in the middle of
the night and I picked these guys up. There's a
part of the story I didn't tell. If I told
you guys it that makes this significant holds the creepy part.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
There were you picking them up, or you pulling up
next to him and going hey, no, no, I stopped.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
What was bad about it was it was the middle
of the night, and it was something to this story
that makes it even worse enough to I don't want
to blow it, but I'll tell you what I didn't
like was is I got two of them and they
got to sit behind you, one had to sit with
me and one had to sit behind me. And it
made me outrageously nervous. Now, I worked for the government
at the time, and I did have a weapon on me,

(25:26):
and I was.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Pretty clear by taking the gun and making it insight
that it was that I had one on me.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
That still didn't make me feel any safer. See, because
you're not going to get to it by the time
he closelines you.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Or something, right, I think if if if I said,
if I didn't tell you guys the story.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
What ended up happened was the guy in the back
moved around a lot.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
He just he was fidgety.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
He couldn't sit.

Speaker 3 (25:49):
Still, and I had to literally stop the car and
have a conversation with you know, yeah, and I did.
I was like, hey, man, nothing for nothing, and I'm
not trying to be short. You're gonna have to stop
moving around back there or I'm gonna have to put
you guys out. Is that I mean, I was, and
I wasn't trying to be like a jerk, but like,
I just picked up two people I don't know in
the middle of the night on a stretcher road that
there's nothing on this stretch of road for miles and

(26:11):
to you. And this guy is moving around and he
just you could hear it him moving.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
He and I think it was I don't know, if
he was just trying to get comfortable in the seat whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:20):
It was a cabin's chair. I was driving a van,
I had a surveillance fan. I worked for the government,
so there was a chair sitting So that.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
Chair there should be no reason to be moving around.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
It's in that seat, but he was, and it was
making me really on edge. Now here's the part of
the story that I've never told, I think ever on air,
or I don't think i'd share with you guys.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Now, there's a couple people know it.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
Something happened to me earlier that night on that stretch
of road, and I think you and I've talked about this,
maybe about the stretcher Orizon was known to be very haunted, okay,
and I had just had a really weird experience on
that road, maybe twenty to thirty minutes before picking these
two guys up.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Was that the girl in the mirror, Yes, the girl
with me?

Speaker 3 (27:01):
I know you we had this conversation. I saw a ghost.
You guys aren't gonna convince me any I've seen a
lot on that stretch of road. I don't care what
your beliefs are. But I saw a ghost and it
was creepy, and it.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
Flipped me out.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
And then I picked these guys up. I don't know
if I picked the guys up because I was scared
out of my You know what, did you at least
touch them to make sure they were real? No, I
didn't know. I did not that'd been even were creeper.
Let me kind of touch you. I'm just saying.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
Like, you know, you just saw a ghosts. You know,
I'm gonna make sure he's real. But I mean, imagine
like turn around and he's not there no more.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
How are you explaining that to the person. Hey, I
got to touch you real quick because I just saw
a ghosts about two miles back. You need to make
sure you're.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Anything to those guys about what just happened to me.
But it had just had me and I knew I
just saw a ghost And now I got these guys.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
So I'm already like paranoid on edge heightened, and now
I had these two strangers in my vehicle. The guy
behind me won't sit still, and I am just you
know what I mean, like you idiot, why'd you stop?
You know? In my head, I am if I remember,
I think he said that he was driving down the road.
The way that the story goes is he was driving

(28:10):
down the road and there was a lady that you could.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
See was a guy.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
It was a lady, was a guy on the side,
and he just drove right past him. And as he
looked up in the mirror. He was totally gone, Okay, no,
what happened? Something serious? So he was on the side
of the road when I passed him.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
I told you, I think I told you guys, like
I said, if I told you a story, I know
Cameron I talked about because I've seen a lot of
ghosts on that stretch of road.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
I said, don't care what you belavese are. You don't
have to believe me. I just know what I've seen.
This very unexplainable. Take a drive.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
I just take a drive down the road in.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
The middle of the night, down that road, and you're
gonna see some things you can't explain. The one I
passed was the one where I saw the reflection of
my vehicle in its eyes as I yeah, I looked
I was, and I feel like it was. It felt
like it was very much slow motion. No, I've had
this conversation somewhere.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I swear it was up there.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
The h E double hockey sticks out of me and
then I decided to pick up two hitchhikers and put
them in a vehicle with me.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
That one can't sit still. I've had some weird experiences
with picking up pitch hikers. Here's the thing if you
lost if he turned to the side, they weren't there
a lot. I probably would have wrecked my vehicle if
that would have happened, because okay, and I got some
stories to tell.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
But they're in the vehicle with me, and they were
very I got into where they need to go. I
didn't have any problems. I dropped them off, and the
one gas station that we headed to was open, which
was great. Right, So, but I had a drive for
like another four hours.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
Through the night.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
In the dark, knowing what had just happened, and just
be trying to process that, which is, by the way,
not the first time this has happened.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
To me, probably won't be the last time.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
I still do drive that stretch of road and it
always scares me or time I gotta be on that road,
especially at night.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Hold tight, I'll get back into this. I gotta take
a commercial break.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
I'll be right back.

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Speaker 5 (33:39):
Hey, guys, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
So if you were with us for the last segment,
we were talking about hitchhikers in highways.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
So if you didn't know, and you don't live out
in the East Coast, how Way fifty eight is called?
It had. It has an aim to it, which is
maybe explain some things.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
It's called the suicide Strip, and the reason why they
called it that was there was a lot of head
on collisions before that road was expanded and made wider
back before the nineties, tons and tons of accidents. And
that's the reason why they say that there's so many
phenomenons on that road, and people spot a lot of
different things.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
I had an experience on that Relax. I've had a
lot of experience on that road. I had one.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
I can't remember how many years ago it was, but
go back to I want to say that was ninety
probably ninety eight, ninety.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Nine, somewhere right in there, and mid the night again.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
And if everybody wonders, while I was always traveling the
road in the middle of the night, is because I
would move. When I was working for I moved from
case to case, usually at night. So if I need
to go from one city another or one state to another,
I would venture and drive at night. Because there wasn't
a lot of traffic. It was easier to kind of
get places and I could move a lot quicker, especially driving,
and you get pulled over because you know, meeting right

(34:57):
a little right. Absolutely, so I'll on that road a
lot I came.

Speaker 4 (35:02):
Did you ever get before you start that story, did
you ever get like a pass because you worked for
the government for speeding?

Speaker 2 (35:08):
Yeah, more than once, a bunch of times. Yes, yes.
Can you just say that you were on a case,
I pursuing someone.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
I was a quick.

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Detour on this story.

Speaker 3 (35:18):
I was on a case, if I remember correctly, I
was in Detroit, and I was following a subject almost
like exactly like you'd see in the movies, and I
was trying to He drove for so long. I was
behind him for too long, and I realized I was
behind him too. My eye am behind this guy too long.
It got the point where traffic started to dissipate a

(35:39):
little bit, and now it was going to be just
kind of him and I. And if you take a
left and I got to take a left, then you
take a right and I got to take a right.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
You eventually eventually you stand out. So I detoured and
he made a left on a major road, and I
saw because I had enough distance between us.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
When he made the left, there was an alley way
that I came to, and I looked and the alleyway
basically followed the path.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Of the road he turned on. So I turned down the.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Alleyway just like you'd see in the movies.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
I am cooking it down the alleyway and I am
hopping in between every little cross alley road.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
It dipped down and go up, and I am hitting.
I didn't hit any trash cans, but I could feel a.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
Van lift up and get that little you hear the.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Tires screech as I and I'm going. I would come
to a side street and I stopped.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
I wait for to pass, and then I would keep
on going and I'd wait for him to pass. And
I kept doing that, and then after I got back
behind him, about four cars behind, because now there was
some traffic and I was to ease back in. I
got pulled over because and lost my subject because the police.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Officer had watched me going down this back alley like
like a bat out of hell, and he pulled me up.
But as soon as I gave my credentials and showed
him explain, he was.

Speaker 2 (36:50):
Like, gotcha, and I got But I there was probably
thirty violations. They probably could have got me going down
that back alley. So but yeah, there was another one
where I was following a subject who just drove like
a maniac.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
I mean, just the guy and you guys have seen
it movie.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
Some people just they don't even realize you.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
The problem with being an investigator is is when you're
tailing somebody, you always think they've made you, and most
of the.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Time they haven't. They just drive like idiots.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Like you start to think, because the guy drives so
much like an idiot, that you've been made right, You're like, God,
this guy knows I'm behind me.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Nope, just drives like an idiot.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
And that happens a lot where you start questioning yourself,
like should you break off and stop following him?

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Did they make you? Whatever?

Speaker 4 (37:30):
Now they did make you, did you have to let
someone else take over the case, or did you just
back off for a while?

Speaker 2 (37:36):
No men, continue your It was.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
I instantly, as soon as I thought I was made,
I went directly to the rental car place that we
had accounts with, and I ditched my van. I jumped
into a rental car. I would outfit my rental car
with my equipment so I could still do things. And
when you say outfit, just like I said, we totally
derailed from we were on this.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
But uh, if you.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
Understand what backlighting is, backlighting was really important when you
were filming out of a vehicle, So I could sit
right on top of you and you probably never know
I was there filming you as long as I had
the right uh backlighting right.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
So what I would do is I.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Carry material in my band, blacked out material, and I
would hang it up inside around a car with pins.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
I just take pincushions and pin it, you know, pin
it into the.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
Headliner, and put a black backdrop behind me, a black
backdrop between me and the back window. So now when
I lean my seat all the way back against the
black you don't see that I'm literally sitting there watching you,
and that I also have now propped a camera up
on a tripod in between that I'm shooting.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
That's in the back seat, right, and it's on the tripod,
so I can reach in the seat and I can
hit it. Like nobody in the car. It looks like
there's no man in the car.

Speaker 3 (38:44):
When you're standing of the car, it looks like it
has a black tennant window on the back, and it doesn't,
and you can't see that I'm in there leaning against
it okay. Now, obviously I don't wear bright colors, but
if you wear dark colors, you blend right in. And
then somebody looks at the car from across the street,
it looks like there's no pay.

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Did you ever outfit your car for like scenarios like
you know, you see some of the movies where like
you know, now you're a plumber or.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
I had signs, So.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
I had the van that I had, I had a
bunch of different signs, and I had a bunch of
different credentials.

Speaker 5 (39:14):
Did you make a move?

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Where did they make.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
Today?

Speaker 2 (39:20):
On the plumber tomorrow? I'm the cable.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Guy, you laugh, But that's exactly what I had. So
I had plumber, I had a cable company. I had
a package delivery company for private package delivery for like stuff,
and I had credentials for.

Speaker 5 (39:37):
All those to back it up.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
So if somebody did walk up with the car like, hey,
what are you doing out here, I'm like, oh, I'm
just looking for this address. I'm such a you know
stuff like that, and you're a real company, right, And
we had magnetic signs we throw on the side, So yeah,
one hundercent like which a lot of things you see
on TV is exactly how we did it. But once again,
I'll go back. I'll tell that story another day. I'll
talk about it because I got some funny stories of
tailing people.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
But I you to go down that road that was
haunted all the time. Fifty eight four sixty is the
name of the road.

Speaker 5 (40:05):
And I pulled up.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I was coming down the road and I used to guys,
i'd go a clip like I would haul, but like
because I knew I could and I needed to get
to our I was like going Statesway, like I leave
Virginia and like go to Kentucky. And I'm like, okay,
I'll be to the Kentucky by morning, you know what
I mean. Like, I'm you know, I just go straight
or start working a case. So I would haul butt down.
When I came and there was a guy on the
side of the road and he had his hand up

(40:27):
and he was like waving traffic by, and I'm like, oh,
and I didn't see anything. And then I realized there
was nothing to see now. Then I started to question
myself and I was like, am I tired? Am I tired?

Speaker 2 (40:43):
Did I was it? You know? You start looking? Was
that like a branch there was like like a tree
hanging over there was and I thought it was a
guy or something like that. No, I clearly saw.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
A guy like like like moving traffic, almost like it
was an accident or something like that.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
But then he wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Like and I'm like, I slowed down looking for like,
was it bushes hanging over the road and that's what
I saw waving around or something like that.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
I just think it was was I mean, because like
I said, this is a night. I know what I saw.
That's where you mess up in the horror movie. You
started to slow down, I would have been punched.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
Question another time I was on that stretch of road
in the middle of the night that a lady And
when I told you about the lady that crossed in
front of me, but she had she was holding a
kid by the hand, and she walked across the street
with kid in the hand. And we're you're in the
middle of nowhere. There's nobody out at two, three, four
o'clock in the morning. Guys, Okay, just so you know, uh,
walking their child. Shouldn't be walking their child across the

(41:35):
street in the middle of nowhere. But I know what
I saw, And of course when you get right outside,
there's nothing. It's always every time I have stretch of road,
like when you get right to where you see it
and you know, you slow down.

Speaker 5 (41:44):
Like a little bit of fog coming in.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
There's always fog in that road, by the way, at
a certain time of the years, which makes even worse
slungs like out here, how we get the flog it
rolls across, so it makes it even more eerier, like
it just always always always eerie. And somebody told me,
like I've talked many people about this stretched road, and
it always happened. They can say it always happens within
certain certain hours, like they're like, you know, I never
seen anything at nine o'clock. I've never seen anything ten o'clock,

(42:07):
cause I got to get past midnights when things start
to be really strange on that road. And I agree,
if you don't believe me, I invite you to.

Speaker 2 (42:13):
Come out to those roads.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
Now.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Another one I used to travel all the time. I
saw things that I couldn't explain. I think you used
to be called I thought it was called Devil's Highway.
I think you and I looked it up before it
and the reason why it was called that is the
actual numbers were the sign of the devil was the
number of the highway, and they changed it so and
they say they changed it because people kept on stealing

(42:37):
the street signs that had that number on it, because
stuff's kept happening on that And I told you it's
also the road that has all the crosses on it.
It's everywhere, and it's US ninety three. I think we
looked up once for the road and it's between the
bat and Arizona. And I traveled that road a bunch
and saw a lot of things I just couldn't explain.
That was the road that I think I told you
guys about where I got passed by a car.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Then that just disappeared.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
Now I truly believe I got passed by a car
and either the car passed me and then just turned
off its lights and just drove into the darkness without
its lights on, or maybe I didn't get passed.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
By a car in the term of a car.

Speaker 5 (43:15):
A car passed me.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
I know a car passed me.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
What I can tell you was because it went past me,
it moved in front of me, and then it just
wasn't there that the tail lights disappeared and you couldn't
have drove away from me that fast, So I don't
know if they turned the tail lights off and just
drove in the dark.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
You must have saw Percy Jackson's Taxi. Here's a movie.

Speaker 4 (43:37):
First, Jackson gets in a taxi to travel and it's
a ghost Jackson book. Right, it's a movie too, Okay,
all right, but yeah, but it's in a taxi and
it's a ghost taxi and it has like three ladies
in it, and they all they're kind of.

Speaker 2 (43:48):
Like, I mean, you should want to turn their heads
at the same time. I know, I haven't seen it,
but you know, they you know, they say Elbow Road
is haunted, really because I see a lot of actions
the road over here, and I probably believe that. They say,
like one person that used to live on the road,

(44:10):
they call her miss something, and then there's also like
a crying a crying girl on the road, and there's
a bunch of stories.

Speaker 5 (44:19):
I believe.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
Well, they say that for sixty is also haunted because
it runs through all the battle battle grounds and battlefield
areas from like the Civil War and stuff like that.
So in people report seeing soldiers, like groups of soldiers
crossing over the road a lot. I see that as
a big, huge thing. It's been reported tons and tons
of times.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
So if you.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Want an adventure, try one of those roads if you're
on the East coast. If not, if you're on the
West coast. I guess tried ninety three and see what
happens to you.

Speaker 2 (44:43):
I've seen some crazy things I can't explain. You don't
have to believe me, but it happened. I'm telling you
it just I know what I saw. And that note.
Let me take quick march of break and we will
finish the show out with one more segment. I'll be
right back.

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Speaker 5 (48:31):
Hey, guys, welcome back.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Hey, like I said, you want it, you want an adventure.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Hey, Halloween's right around the corner. So if you want
a haunted adventure headed one of those highways, maybe that's
what it's a good idea.

Speaker 3 (48:41):
Yeah, all right, I got the last one for you, guys.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
Rady this topic, it was another top we talked about
on the computer informs and stuff like that this week.
So radio etiquette, radio etique, radio etiquette?

Speaker 5 (48:53):
Is it okay?

Speaker 2 (48:56):
And it is mixed reviews.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Is it okay to touch somebody's radio in their car
when you're when you're the passenger? Depends on what depends.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
So if you're a new person entering the car, don't
touch my radio. Don't touch me? Do you mean if
you're a new person, like they don't know that, Like
they don't say you're inn in my car for the
first time.

Speaker 3 (49:17):
You've never been in your car before. It means it's
like a new friend, right.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Yeah, like a new friend. Like and then let's say
like let's say like you're a friend, but you don't
have the AC control privileges yet they don't control yet, Like,
what are you gonna do to get AC privileged controls?
Don't even know that was even options. Maybe I guess

(49:41):
I'm a little bit different. But like some people are
allowed to touch the controls in my car. Some people are
ever getting OX in my car.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
So I mean, here's how I feel. AC and radio
are two different things. A c Look, most car systems
have dual AC systems.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
Now, if you're oblivious to the fact that it's burning
hot in your car, I'm gonna change You're on my side.
I'm not going to touch it.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
On my side.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
I'm going to change it so I'm comfortable. I got
to ride with you. You're right, I'm going to touch it.
But this man over here, anytime he's trying to turning
on my you see you always like he's like always
clicking around. It's like you can't find the button.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
He's got a big screen TV in his car that he's.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
Got to play fair.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Camera screen doesn't work, so you don't really know what's
going on. So you are putting a couple of hundred buttons.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
He really has a dual button that lights up. Is
it sink because your system?

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I like the sink system to
a certain degree.

Speaker 3 (50:34):
I don't like it because most of the time the
people I'm riding with I need to have different temperature
than them.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Mine's sink. But you can click a button to turn
off sink mode.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
All right, Well, you don't have a sink on a radio,
so you're okay with people touching your radio.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
It depends, I mean, it depends if I'm playing my
music or not.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
I don't I'm gonna park.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
You over here for a Secondaniel, He's he's got to
think about how he feels about it.

Speaker 4 (51:01):
I guess for me, i'd say I don't really have
an issue with it, but if you're but it has
to be like someone we both like, right, Like I
don't think that you should turn on some like I'm
not a big like classical guy, right.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
But like, I think we all have to agree on
what to play.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
I might not touch it if you Twitter in classes
just because I'd be so like weirded out that you
put classical ones right right, but like you.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Know, done that in his car.

Speaker 4 (51:26):
But I think, I think, yeah, I mean Tenley, you're
the driver. The passenger usually you know has radio control. Now,
like I say, like camera, Shane.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Know why the driver has radio control? Do you know
why that became a thing?

Speaker 5 (51:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (51:39):
No, it didn't really.

Speaker 3 (51:41):
So they say that you shouldn't touch the radio in
someone's car because it's distracting to them. If you touch
the radio why they're driving. It's just literally, rather they
realized it or not, it is distracting. Their mind are
already set into the volume level it's on the radio
station they're listening to, so their mind has clicked into that.
As soon as you disrupt that, it becomes distracted driving.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
But couldn't one person argue that is distracting for them
to touch the radio and.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Nate, Nate could tell you I've told him about his car,
this about his car the whole time. As many screens
as they're adding, why not, like you know, like the
rail that comes across and stuff like on the passenger
you're looking at the like the glove departments that rail shiny.
I'm like, why not just turn that into a touch
screen where like you can just touch it and turn

(52:29):
up audio.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
From thee that in cars, I think that that's like
the best place to put like a sound barking.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
I'm with you on that. I'm like, what a great
place for a sound bar. Then nobody does it.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
But every time I see that strip like that laid
out in a car like that, I'm like, center channel
soundbar right there would be great in a car. Would
give cars such a for somebody who really enjoys looking music.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
You can do that and.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Put a screen there. I mean, I guess you kind
of could. You can make it half a half danger
Like I told him, I said, you know, you could
put it on the door. You put it on the
door where you can control the audio from the door
sound bar. Yeah, but I don't. I don't want a
bunch of touch screens in my car.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
Like I I will say, I do. Like now they
answer your question before I get off topic. Mercedes does
do that. They do make the trim piece on the
passenger side and it makes touch controls. Yes, now I
can understand where that becomes beneficial. Like I said, I'm
not a big touch screen kind of guy. I do
like my two screens and stuff because they're more centered
for the whole car so everybody can see it access it.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
When I showed you that design of what last year
where they were showing doing like the whole dash as
like there's stuff on the side for the passenger to touch,
and they're stide.

Speaker 4 (53:35):
And that's what I like about my car because camera
can easily reach the touch screen and that's in the middle. Now,
what I will say is I don't like where and
the Mustang they give you two options. You can have
now both versions. You have a GT version, you have
the basic. Both come with two touch screens. The only
difference is that they merge both of them into one.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Right.

Speaker 4 (53:53):
But what I don't like is that I wish they
would have took advantage of where it comes together. It's
just a blank basically glass peace peace.

Speaker 2 (54:01):
Brings them together.

Speaker 4 (54:02):
I wish they would have done something with that where
it's more functional.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
That makes sense.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
I am different than you, guys. I am a one
oun percent. Don't touch my radio while you're in my car.
Oh yeah, I don't. I don't like people touching it.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
I don't.

Speaker 5 (54:16):
Exception no you guys to the difference with.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
It is is the only reason why I think you
guys get away with it more or anything like that,
because we've done normally normally.

Speaker 2 (54:26):
Because you're turning it up. You're trying the volume up.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
As soon as a good song comes on, You're turning
the volume up on it as a good song. And
that doesn't bother me. What I really hate is when
somebody turns my radio down. Yeah, well, I'm listening to
it and somebody turns it down jam and I'm jamming
and they turn it down.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
It's annoying to me. And you know, annoys me when
people skip through the song. You're halfway through this song
and they skip this song. Karen does that song so much.
I am hold on one, I am jamming out the song.
I'm like, man, I really like this song in my head.
I'm not talking out loud. I'm like, man, I'm really
vibing on this song. And then also somebody goes and
changes it. I'm like, well, what you do that for.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
That's the reason why I had the rule don't touch
my radio, because I because of those reasons, maybe people
didn't do that to me.

Speaker 2 (55:06):
I probably wouldn't have that rule probably wouldn't bother me
so much.

Speaker 3 (55:09):
My wife, by the way, loves to turn the radio
down in the middle of like the coolest song. I
am jamming out, listen to a great song, and she's playing.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
On her phone. She's not even doing anything. Just look
at it, and she just reaches over and turns it
down and goes right back to look at her phone.
I'm like, what'd you do that for? Oh, it was
too loud for who you're a passenger. I didn't make
you ride in the bed of the truck, although I could,
or when they wait a ton of cell phone up
to be louder than your radio.

Speaker 5 (55:35):
Right right? You know who does that?

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Your younger brother.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
So your does that? Your younger brother one percent are
my youngest. I'll be jamming out to a song.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
And he'll click his He'll click his phone up, and
I'll sit there for a second. I'm like, I know
this mug did not just turn his phone up. So
I'll click the radio up a little, a little louder,
and literally I'll hear his phone up a little little lotdterer,
I've out of I mean, every shot went and knock
the phone out of his end on for ext I'm like, hey,
he's like what, I'm like, right, exactly what are you doing?

Speaker 5 (56:08):
Are you touching the radio?

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Why are you No?

Speaker 5 (56:10):
I'll say.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
Another thing that does kind of annoying me while we're
on this conversation is when someone turns your radio up,
Like from my car, there's a perfect setting. I keep
my radiar. I don't turn it too loud even on anything.
Let's just say, just like anything that plays music, there
is a certain.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Because nobody gets in his car.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
So let's well honestly, not just car general, but like stereo,
stereo in general, right and stuff, there's a certain level.
I think a radio performs well at and I think
there's a little spot where it just it can.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
Right, it can go It sounds right.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
Exactly, So I keep mind Like my radio I think
only goes up to thirty. Okay, Now I don't know
why that as a new thing, Like nobody does one
hundred anymore. They only do like thirty for the max.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Because why right? Because why, I mean, it doesn't you
can make it go to ten.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
Right, right?

Speaker 2 (56:55):
You know who cares? No, I kind of do like thirty.

Speaker 4 (56:56):
But anyways, I got off of that, and so I
usually keep it around like twenty ish. When did you
get to more than twenty It kind of annoys me
that you're like purposely trying to blow my speakers out.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Hey, will you turn my stuff down? It's not yours?
Right right? You don't know what this? No, I get it.

Speaker 5 (57:10):
I'm safe.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Like there is a peak in the truck where it
sounds great, and there's a where you're at the tip
of where you probably shouldn't have it. And I most
people probab probably wouln't annoy them, but I can hear it.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
I'm like, eh, you know, it doesn't need to be
that loud. Like now, if I had a system in
the truck and I would move it up high er,
I'm guarantee I would, But I don't.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
I haven't put one in. I thought i'd put one
in for years. I just haven't done it. I don't
know why, because.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
You're waiting for the stock ones to go. Maybe the
mess is Maybe that's what it could be very well be,
but I don't know. Etiquette says if you look and go,
it says that you're not supposed touch somebody's radio. And
there's a lot of reasons. Like I said, the distractedness.
It's also people's hearing preference. The driver is only hearing
preference that has any meaning.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
By the way, as far as etiquette is concerned, if
you look it up, it's what he feels comfortable driving. Now,
now you're the passenger.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Job is to fit his car. Passenger, do your job,
and passenger, you sit there.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
That's your job. Just sit there and ride. You ride along.
Not to touch anything inside the vehicle. You just sit there.
You're so glad I brought my car today.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
My car.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
I'm so glad it is. I don't know, Like I said,
there's a yeah, simple things, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
I looked it up because we got the conversation and
I start looking at an etiquette said, you really probably.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Shouldn't touch somebody's radio. It's theirs. Your Your job is
to be the passenger. Yeah, I can look out behind
that one thing. Nothing annoys when people are ride in
the vehicle, have no idea where they are. And I'm like,
how do you not know what it? Because you don't
spend time ever looking out the window. If you get
in a car, put your cell phone down. We didn't
used to have them come down look out the window.
Get some familiar with the surroundings.

Speaker 4 (58:44):
To be fair, though, I will say, when you're driving,
you are kind of oblivious of what you're passing because
you're so focused on driving. Sometimes when you're a passenger,
you might not notice some of the things in the
same way.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
How many times time I heard me go, hey, help
me out.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
We're getting ready to get close to where we need
to be at right, Because I'm focused on the car
in front of me, things I can't keep looking out
the window to see is this where I turn at right?

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Like? I can't do that. I don't like. I don't
like I can do you don't like doing that? I
think that's very distracted.

Speaker 3 (59:12):
I got an accident that way, and ever since that
happened to me get an accent way, I refuse to
do it because I was trying to see. I was
trying to look to see if that's where I was
supposed to go, and the guy breaked in front of
me short. He shouldn't have he should have been gone,
but he wasn't. I mean, it's my fault I hit him,
but he shouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
You know, hit on the brake short, so that'd be
the case, and we weren't right through this show. It's gone.

Speaker 5 (59:35):
Hope you guys enjoyed the show. We're gonna get out
of here.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
If you've got a cool topic somebody wants to talk about,
send it over to me. Remember, as always, today is Saturday.
Enjoy your Saturday. Sunday is right around the corner, and
make sure you unplug. Spend some time with your kids,
fire at the barbecue while you still can hide their
cell phones from a playboard game.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (59:50):
They're gonna remember it, they're gonna enjoy it. You're gonna
be very glad that you did it. And that note,
we're out of here. You guys, say goodbye bye.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
It is

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