The Mercedes-Benz C-Class is a popular Mercedes luxury car. Here it’s mentioned as an example of how some buyers are drawn to the car’s screens and flashy interior features.
The Lexus GX460 is a luxury SUV that feels more like a traditional truck. The host is saying it can still be annoying with alerts and vibrations, even though it’s a great vehicle.
The Lexus LX is a big luxury SUV with a more traditional, rugged foundation. In this part of the show, it’s referenced as one of the vehicles the host is using while talking about modern car features.
The F-150 is a large pickup truck. It’s popular because it can be used for work and everyday tasks. The podcast mentions it while comparing it to other vehicles.
This is Mercedes-Benz’s big luxury sedan. They’re saying that even if the sticker price looks low, an older high-mileage one can cost a lot more after repairs.
Depreciation means the car’s value goes down as it gets older. They’re saying that even if the price drops, fixing an older car can still be expensive.
The Volkswagen Rabbit is a smaller car made by Volkswagen. In the episode, it’s mentioned as part of a phrase about getting pulled into a topic. It’s not being discussed as a specific performance or tech feature there.
GTI usually means a Volkswagen Golf GTI, a sporty hatchback. They’re just using it as an example of a fun, everyday car.
Car
Ford Raptor
The Ford Raptor is a special version of Ford’s pickup truck made for off-road driving. Here, the host mentions it because the “half door” makes it awkward for getting in and out.
The Honda Civic is a very common, practical car model. The host is saying they were considering a Civic (with a manual) because it’s more practical than the bigger, more expensive options.
Sponsored links are ads that look like regular search results. The host is saying the site was showing paid listings tailored to their interests, not just the best or cheapest options.
The Corvette is a sports car made by Chevrolet. It’s built to feel fast and fun to drive, and people often talk about it because it can be pricey. In the episode, it’s used as a reference point when comparing other cars.
The Camaro is Chevrolet’s famous sporty muscle-car. The host is talking about online arguments over whether a certain sedan should be tied to the Camaro brand.
This is a BMW M3 from the E90 generation, and “manual” means it has a stick shift. The host is saying these cars can be a better deal than people expect, especially when they’re low-mileage and properly optioned.
The host is talking about a type of car that people don’t pay much attention to, even if it’s a good one. When everyone focuses on the “popular” options, the less-talked-about ones can stay cheaper for a while.
“Analog-ish” refers to cars that feel more mechanical and less computer-driven—think simpler controls and fewer modern infotainment features. In this segment, the host contrasts that preference with the fact that the car still has infotainment, but it’s “very dated,” which can make the experience feel less modern and more old-school.
This is basically a buying-market idea: if lots of people start wanting the same niche car, it gets more competitive and prices tend to rise. The host is saying that’s why timing and awareness matter.
This is a BMW 3 Series wagon from the E46 generation. Wagons like this are rarer than the sedans, so good ones can be tough to find. The host is saying that some modification choices can ruin the overall look.
“Clapped out” is slang for a car that’s in rough shape—worn out and not taken care of. The host is saying the wagons they can find are usually like that.
“Mods” are changes people make to a car after buying it—often to change how it looks or drives. In this episode, they’re talking about things like wheels and lowering springs.
Wheels are the rims and tires setup on the car. Changing them can be mostly for looks, but the size and fitment matter for how the car looks and drives.
Lowering springs are parts that make the car sit lower to the ground. People do it for looks, but it can also change how the car rides and how well everything fits together.
This is basically saying they stop modifying one car and switch to a different kind of car. It’s like changing to a whole new “base” instead of just adding upgrades to the same one.
This is a Jaguar XF wagon from 2018. It’s the kind of car that gives you more space than a normal sedan, and the hosts are saying it’s a good used buy if you can find one at the right price.
“Failing forward” is a saying that means you keep trying new things even when things aren’t going well. Here, the host is basically saying Jaguar kept making good-looking cars even while the company was struggling.
The Jaguar XF Sportbrake is a Jaguar wagon. It’s basically the XF but with extra cargo space, and people buy it for a mix of style and everyday usability.
“Range” means how far the car can go before it needs more power. They’re saying 300 miles doesn’t feel like enough for what they think the car will cost.
The TX is a Lexus SUV that’s described as having three rows of seats. The podcast also mentions a range of about 300 miles, which is how far it can go before needing more power. It’s included because it’s a new or upcoming option people want to understand.
They bring up Range Rover because they think Lexus is taking design cues from it. The point is that SUV styling trends often spread from one brand to another.
A V10 is a type of engine with ten cylinders. People often love the way a V10 sounds, and the hosts are saying the sound they’re expecting already bothers them.
Alcantara is a soft, suede-like fabric used inside cars to make things feel more upscale. The hosts say it can look dirty or wear out, especially where people touch it a lot.
Brand
NEOS
They’re talking about NEOS as a company selling vehicles to fleets (like businesses or organizations). They think NEOS’s US sales have been hurt by price and import-related costs, but fleet demand is rising.
Fleet sales means selling lots of cars or trucks to organizations that use them for work. Instead of one person buying a car, a company buys many at once.
They’re bringing up the Dodge Durango as an example of a vehicle that got more attention after it was marketed in a simpler way. They also mention the V8, implying buyers responded to that straightforward setup.
Porsche is one of the brands mentioned while the hosts talk about cars moving away from gas engines. It’s part of the bigger shift toward newer powertrains.
They mention the Porsche Macan while talking about the end of gas engines. Since the Macan is a popular Porsche model, it’s a big deal when its powertrain direction changes.
Internal combustion engines are the traditional gas or diesel engines that burn fuel to make power. The hosts are talking about moving away from them, which points toward electric or hybrid cars.
The Porsche Cayenne is a luxury SUV. It’s built to drive more like a performance vehicle than a typical family SUV. The podcast mentions it because it can cost around the $200,000 range depending on the version.
The used market is where you buy cars that have already been owned. The host is saying fleet companies often replace vehicles on a schedule, so those cars can show up for sale later.
A pre-purchase inspection is when a trusted mechanic checks a used car before you buy it. The goal is to find problems you might not notice, especially on cars that may have been used hard.
The Nissan Rogue is a popular crossover SUV. It’s also the kind of car you’ll often see as a rental or fleet vehicle, so buyers may want extra checks before purchasing.
A transmission is what helps the car change gears. “Transmission issues” means the car may shift poorly or not shift correctly, which can be expensive to fix.
The Rivian R2 is an upcoming electric SUV from Rivian. They’re talking about Rivian possibly adding more versions, including a pickup, which would expand what kinds of EVs the brand offers.
The Ford F-150 is a large pickup truck. People choose it for hauling, towing, and general everyday use. The episode mentions it because it’s a very common truck model.
The Tesla Model Y is an electric SUV. It runs on electricity instead of gas, and it’s made for regular daily driving. The podcast mentions it as part of a comparison between Tesla models.
The Plymouth Fury is an older American muscle car. It’s the kind of car people talk about when they’re discussing classic performance vehicles. In the episode, it’s brought up as part of a group of notable cars.
The BMW i3 is an electric car made by BMW. It’s meant for everyday driving, especially in city settings. The podcast mentions it when talking about BMW’s electric vehicles.
Repossession is when the bank takes the car back because the payments stopped. Those cars can then get sold again, which adds more used cars to the market.
The host is basically saying used-car prices aren’t just about supply and demand—they’re also affected by what banks do with delinquent loans. If banks aren’t taking cars back, fewer cars end up available, which can keep prices up.
“Finance arms” refers to a car company’s or lender’s captive financing division that provides auto loans and leases. In the segment, the host contrasts these lenders with dealers, claiming the financing side’s behavior (not repossessing) is what enables dealer pricing and inventory dynamics.
This means the bank tries to change the loan terms so you owe less or pay differently, instead of taking the car back. The host is saying that kind of offer is surprising in this situation.
“Repo” means the car gets taken back because payments weren’t made. The hosts are saying that, at that time, repossessed cars were causing a lot of chaos or excitement.
A trademark is legal protection for a company’s brand name or logo. If a company files one, it usually means they plan to use that logo in the near future.
The Roadster is Tesla’s electric sports-car name. They’re talking about Tesla possibly updating the Roadster branding and hinting at something new, based on the logo trademark.
“EV space” just means the world of electric cars—who makes them and how they’re positioned. The host is using it to talk about whether a company is truly EV-focused.
LIVE
Well, rookie mistake. I didn't open my can before the podcast. I guess I'll go ahead and do that now.
He yikes. Um, no, so one of those guys, Tommy Tech with cans over here. I got a star by saying
you won't believe the amount of people that have sent me videos of these e-bike sidewalk
incidences. And you, as a matter of fact, sent me one as well. And now that I come to think of it,
um, I not deaths. Am I mistaken? Were there any deaths? Because there's lots of
an 80 year old, uh, X Marine, he ended up losing his life dog.
Are you have a magic eight ball like a crystal ball or what the fuck?
You know, when you're the leader in the common sense community, you know what I'm saying? When
you're the leader in the common sense community, captain insane over here, it can seem like you
see the future. Sure. Uh, but there is a large percentage of people that we see online on in
the world driving around wherever you are interacting that just don't open their eyes and go,
eh, this doesn't seem right. This And I just start with when you are driving
something motorized or you are riding something on the roads. If the rules of the road are
licensed, insured, registered, it seems logical when that's not happening across the board that
we're going to run into some issues. Um, and I saw a unique one by one individual that was
sent to me where he starts off by saying how dangerous they are, you know, how, and it's not
a laughing matter by any means, but how dangerous they are. And you know that we need some attention
to this kind of stuff. And then he goes, but I gotta admit, they are awesome on themselves,
right? And then also aren't we glad the kids are outside and it turned into this like they're not
inside, they're outside. I'm like, all right, that's like a really hard left turn. Cause I see
what you're saying here. Yes, but there's, they're also, I think they're great. Yeah. It's like,
hey, technology's gotten to a point. Let's let's embrace it. Let's also say that we've been here
before. You might be driving one to work soon. You know, you never know. Yeah. You never know.
I mean, gas is expensive, dog. Six, 25, I think. Six, 25 with seven vehicles on the road with
V8 engines on a weekly basis. That is expensive. That is extreme. Some might say. Yes. So I just
kind of, I think it's like anything we, this technology's gone on. It's, it's, we've advanced
it. I think we're all in favor of it. I don't, I don't have any problem with them existing. I
think they're cool. There's cool shit to do on them. I'm all good. I'm all for it. It's okay to
say we got to step in here. We got to think about it. Don't got to walk into the room and say,
hang on a minute. But I think that's what's the strangest thing to me is like, for some reason,
if you go, Hey, this thing's cool. It's getting out of control. We maybe need to have a talk about
it. And then you'll have people be like, well, you know, I'm allowed to do it. It's like, I never,
I just think it's time to talk about it. That's all I said. It's time to have a discussion.
Well, since it's been said on the show, I feel like the conversation will only, you know,
exacerbate itself because it seems like when you talk about something on the show,
it's not more than a week later, the next show, the next episode, or whatever that
permeates. Common sense, just, common sense, just sell.
It starts rippling out there. It's common sense sells. I wish common sense sold. I don't think
it does. I think you're wrong on that one. Well, I had a guy, we put a video out. So for all of you
people that are probably like us that are saying, Hey, the screens and the tech in the car, it's
getting out of control. Guy leaves a content comment and I have to applaud him for this.
He's like, yeah, that's exactly what I want.
To my point, to everybody, that all of us that are saying,
I don't really like it. This guy's admitting that his taste is he wants all that stuff. He
wants the big flashy screens. He wants all the lights on the interior. So there's no way that
Mercedes and BMW and Ford and GM, I've been telling you guys since the beginning of this podcast,
they know that they are going to get that guy. If they have the best infotainment that looks
insane, because he doesn't care about the quality of materials. He doesn't care about the seating
position. He doesn't care about any of that. He cares about the wow factor that that sells him.
When I say we do no prep for the show before the show, Nick and I, like we literally just
gas up throughout the week. And then on Fridays, we kind of dump it here for you guys. Today was
even shorter. It was like on your record, go. I have it on my list. You're talking about the
C-Class video, right? Yes. That was all I noticed because of the amount of people that were like,
honestly, that's why I would buy it. Honestly, I like that. Let's agree to, but they were like,
they were fine about it. Like that's a disadvantage. No, for sure it was positive. But that's what
kind of blew my mind because I think both of us are starting to see more and more of this.
And all of the different topics that we talk about of people honestly being like, you know what,
maybe I am guilty of why cars are this way, but I gotta admit, I like it and I'm going to keep
buying this stuff, which yeah, they want the lights on the head, on the headliner. They want
the big, you know, they get in the car and a screen makes them feel they're in a special place.
Yeah. From side to side. What I think frustrates a lot of people that probably follow us is
that isn't why we buy a car. And so we see the price of cars going up. We see all this tech being
integrated and we go, well, these car companies are disconnected. They aren't. You just are in
a minority and you don't want to admit it. You know, I've been driving the GX460 around
a little bit more than usual this week. It's a great vehicle. The vibrating, the dinging,
I couldn't wait to get my Alex today. You know what I mean? And I have to admit,
just like all of you out there, you can be highly frustrated with all of this new stuff.
They are doing it because of the comments we saw that there's a very large percentage
that are buying for the specific reasons that you're angry. Yeah. I mean, specifically, like
the things they would buy that C class for would offend a lot of you listening to us,
but it's not the majority. The majority are like, Oh, look at all this tech. Look at the
shiny lights. Look at that's how the car companies are seeing. This is what people want.
Now, I want to stick on this topic in the pocket because I want to talk about your LX,
my Raptor, but also since we're talking Mercedes, I don't know why, dude. I started opening up a tab
for slightly older S classes that are only $20,000. They're like $20,000. That's an easy
rabbit hole you can defend. Easy rabbit hole. Well, please talk me out of even continuing or
talking me into it. I don't care. I'm going to talk you into it. Okay. Perfect. Why not? I mean,
under 100,000 miles, like 70,000 miles. Oh, yeah. There's nothing. There's nothing like
a depreciated S class big body. I mean, that's seven series. I mean, the list goes on big body
outies. You're not going to get me to get you off that. I mean, I'm going to send you right down
that rabbit hole. You're going to have a Raptor and an S class and that VW is gone.
I'm already looking at it like, what am I going to do with you? As soon as I saw it was like
74,000 miles and like $22,000. I was like, wait a minute. Here's the problem. It's 22,000 that's
going to turn into 40. Okay. So you got to look at it properly. So it's going to be 22,000 directly
to the shop. Can you please tell me all the things wrong with it? And you're going to hope
that it falls under 40 grand all in. Okay. So over under, what would be like, let's find another one
and what would be like, hmm, worth it when you do the math from the purchase actual MSRP to what
you actually bought? I think you have to really with those, you know, S class, you got to get
down to the lowest mileage you can. Yeah. Because everything starts to tick up into a bad situation.
You know, every 10,000 miles on one of those older big bodies, you're sort of getting a
different bill. So if you're at 74,000 miles, I would say I'm going to try to find sub 50,
not necessarily 10,000 miles, but like, you know, 40,000, that 34,000 is a big deal,
where if you look at, you know, buying a Honda with 40 or 74, and it's not that big a deal,
you're going to want to get that mileage under 50. Okay. I know you've been down these rabbit holes
recently. Oh, yeah. As a matter of fact, last week, we were just talking about, what was it last
week that you were on? Dammit. Nissan Leafs, $2,000. That's right. Nissan Leafs. And there was
something else. You didn't start on the Leaf, obviously. I was just looking at electric vehicles,
the whole Cadillac. That's right. You can get a lot. That's what we were talking about.
So the big body, it's not even big body, I ended up the big body because I like sedans,
we've talked about this in the wagons. Like the GTI is kind of the kid, you know, Wrangler,
because a Raptor with the half door is really hard for pickup lines and stuff like that to just
get them in and we got to go. So I rarely take the Raptor. So then I started looking at wagons,
four doors and you can get an SI Honda Civic. Let's just start there. I was like, let's think
practical, Rob. Let's think practical. Sure you will. Manual, four door Honda Civic. I like the
Civics, you know, they look fine and I'm like, but they're still like $40,000. Exactly. So then
I went down in year, I went up an engine and I'm like, well now there's, I got M8 options,
I got seven series, I got S-classes. And dude, CarGurus saw you coming. I just started putting
all these links up like, hey, look at this sponsored link. Exactly. When it didn't filter by price,
I was like, wait a minute. And then I was like, oh, they're all sponsored. It's just giving me
what it knows I want to see. It's heading you right down the road. Bro. And then what's crazy
too, the Chevy SS's, which are great cars, I think I've driven them four doors, basically a Corvette
with four doors. They're also still very expensive. Very. I mean, those are still for a good one,
what, 40, 45, 50. Yeah. So no, that's, that's a tough, that's, that's, that's a vehicle I would
like to own for everybody out there. I think it's awesome. I'm, I guess, you know, what people
have been saying in our comments is that you kind of hope they do like a Chevy SS under the new
Camaro. Absolutely. You know, I don't know if they're going to do that. And people got so defensive
like, well, Ford or Camaro, you know, it's like that, you know, that's exactly what I feel like
they sound like when they're typing in the comments to it. Oh, the Camaro name. It's like the one
that's been canceled multiple times. What a name. You know, people are like, Bumblebee,
wouldn't like this. People was cracking me up. They're like, we should call it a bell air. It's
like, huh? I mean, honestly, I wouldn't be mad at that personally. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't
work. But I mean, this barely works. It's been canceled four times. I agree. So I like the SS.
But if you're looking for a guy to talk you out of a big body sedan that you're the wrong guy,
huh? Just a wrong guy. Yeah. Okay. Everyone listening. Now you know, there was a one owner.
This is how far I stay down the big body, the big body sedan. I have an alert that comes up into
my email and there was a 99,000 mile one owner Lexus LS 400 that went, I think it's the auction
still going on right now. It takes everything in my power not to just enter the auction.
Just for fun. What's going to happen here? Let me just throw a bit in and hope it works out.
You know, like throw a bit in on day one, like you're going to win the thing.
Right, right. Just to feel the juices flowing. And speaking of auction this week,
I've been telling all of you and I know we have some listeners that text me
E 90 M three manual 43,000 miles exact year. My exact car went to auction finished at 43 grand.
I've been telling all of you guys this is the platform that's forgotten.
And I would, I would start to think about these because they're gonna
everybody can't go to the 92 with the with the prices it's gone to 43,000 mile. I'm up on that
car. And let me tell you, I was thinking, man, should I just go ahead and send this in and just
run a second auction form with the same $43,000 car? Dude, I mean, not a bad idea. So I don't know
how this ended up because, you know, went the rabbit hole, obviously got deeper and wider.
Entrees came up and I forgot which one it was, but it was around your year.
It only had like eight or nine single digit thousand miles, eight or nine something like that
$99,000. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's a dealer thinking that they're going to that'll end up on BAT or
cars and bids and that they're they're going to be sitting on that for a while. Is it a $99,000
experience? No, but I will say you're going to see people who are looking for analog ish,
right? Because you do have infotainment in that now it's very dated and all that kind of stuff,
but you got to realize people are looking for these manual transmissions and everybody follows
a lot of YouTubers are like, I love the 92. So those go bonkers. Well, the E 90 platform was
sitting there the whole time at half the price. And so now you're going to see people go into
that platform, which is kind of what I've been telling people for 24, 36 months privately,
and even on this podcast, that you got to realize that once a space gets crowded,
you know, it's going to be tough to be in that space. So a big, you know, for me internally,
I'm like, I think we could see a run up here of an extra 10 grand or something like that.
So then when I, you know, you go to the S class, big body, big engine, I'm like, all right,
let me work my way back down. And then I ended up on an O five. What is it E 46 wagon? Nice,
right? I'm like, man, those are really cool. But there's you can't find those at all. Like you
have to know somebody selling one of those or it's on an auction. There might be six in the
country and they're all super clapped out. Yeah, clapped out is the right word. We have one that
I see driving to work every now and then kind of on a similar schedule to me. And I'm like, man,
you ruined that thing. Oh, that's about you ruined it. Like it's just has all the wrong,
all the wrong things, all the mods are assaulting your eyes every time. Yeah, it's just like,
I see what you were trying to do. Do you know, we're trying to see what I don't think you do
because if you think it's bad, you have no idea where he was going with it.
See, I think people believe that about me, but let me tell you what I mean.
Oh, okay. Let's, let's, let's enlighten everybody, Mr. Aristocrat. I think every, yeah,
I hear you. Only one of us is on the Corvette. That's true. It's true. You know, so
see two all the way. So I would say
what often happens. And I experienced this talking to people that come to me after their
build doesn't go the way that they want it to. The reason I could say I could see where this
guy was trying to go is he didn't necessarily make the wrong decisions of modification.
He just didn't want to pay the money to go to the level he probably wanted to go. He priced it
out and he goes, I'll get these wheels. I'll do these lowering springs. I'll do the, and you go,
just all kind of didn't work because it was never going to work, right? Because the
shit costs what it costs for a reason. So I don't want to say he didn't do it in bad taste.
He just, I think, selected a lot of the wrong parts.
You're probably right. And once he started, you know, putting the list together, you always say
to yourself, well, I'll start with this and eventually I'll be able to get to the next thing.
And it just, you don't get there. It just doesn't happen. You sell it, you get bored,
which happens a lot. I think that's the main reason why, you know, anybody modifies their car
and says what you just said, I'll get this now. And then as I save some money or I get a promotion
or whatever, I'll do this next. The next thing never happens. Because when you get that promotion,
you go, why just rather have this other car? It just get rid of it all together.
100% because you go, you know, I'm not going to, to take the wheels back off.
I'm not for a minute. You're like, you are for a minute. You're like, can I juggle two?
I mean, I want that third thing. I can juggle two, maybe three.
Then you start thinking about your garage space and you start thinking, well,
do I really like it? And then you just, you just upgrade and you go to a different platform.
I mean, I'm saying that from my own experience. This isn't even judging everybody else.
These are literally conversations. Nick's just actually saying out loud that he hasn't said
all day long, but it hits us all. You know, so like, but I will say he drives the thing spirited.
Oh, that's good. You know, and I'm going, Hey, you know, do your thing.
And that's the whole thing about it, right? It keeps the same dynamic of like an M3,
but you got the whole wagon thing back there. You got all that cake back there.
And I always forget these guys' names. A guy that's obsessed with BMW wagons,
they have a pair of Canadian guys that have a channel. It's like Speed Academy or something
like that. Okay. He's always doing something. I think he's done like two or three BMW wagons
where he takes like a base wagon and he's like, well, then we're going to do this tune.
Then I'm going to rip the interior out and I go, I feel you. I love it. I feel you.
He's always got the kid seats in the back. Oh, that's even better.
He's really using it to its fullest potential. Yeah. Yeah. That's why that's why I like watching
stuff when that stuff pops up. So I'm actually going to pull up the next one.
So after that happened, I was like, Oh, what else have I forgotten about?
Dude, I don't even think we've talked about this one time. The 2018 Jaguar XF Sport Break.
Bud. I love these things. You know what? Sometimes your searches, I don't know what happened.
This I understand. Yeah. Yes. Okay. That makes me excited. Yes. And again, go ahead and add
10 grand to the purchase price going right to the shop. All right. Do you know what these are
going for right now? 2018 with about 40, 50,000 miles? 50 30 to 40. Whoa. Yeah. If you can find
one for 30, you got to pull really damn it. The VW is gone. I love these things so
much. And it's the same year. The 2018, 19 is a lot of people are making really cool stuff.
And I can't believe I've never brought this one up to you just to get your thoughts on it.
Yeah. That's a no brainer right there. That's a no brainer. I love that thing.
Yeah. That thing's fucking sweet. One thing you could say about Jaguar is,
as they were failing, all the shit looked good. They failed forward. They're a prime example
of failing forward. While they were failing, you're like, I like how that SUV looks. Oh,
I like how that looks. I mean, look at that. That's almost like Audi.
Basically like Aston Martin of brands that failed. I mean, it's just, I don't know about you guys,
but it makes for pants height in the front. Yeah. That is so good. Maybe a lot of information
for a Monday morning. Sorry. Sorry. Oh yeah. It's Friday for us. Monday for the listeners.
My bad. Yeah. We're going into the weekend. He's had a long week. Oh boy. End of school,
end of baseball. You guys are finishing school already? Yeah. Like 10 more days,
I think, or seven more days, something like that. Yeah. I mean, you know,
all the testing is going down. Let's let out early. Yeah. Well, true. That's all it is. Like
today is, you know, we volunteered for the pizza party. Like, here you go. You kids,
we'll have it delivered. So when you go pizza party, what pizza are you buying?
All the kids love pizza hut, which I love too. I'm like, okay. Wow. That's real tech stuff.
Dude, stuff, crust, pizza hut. That is extremely Texas. You're right. I got print. The New York
company print street pizza. We got one right by my house. Yeah. I'm not doing pizza hut.
That's crazy. Okay. Well, let's just say you were going back in time and you were a kid and you
had to choose from the big three, which are going to be people might hate this. I think Papa
Johns. Oh, well, that's true. When Papa, when Papa that was there before they got rid of Papa,
it was actually Papa was throwing and had an algebra brook thrown at him. Yeah. Yeah. You
know, and fell off his bike. Yeah. Papa John. Yes. Yeah. I would, I would vote for Papa Johns,
but I can't stand Domino's. Okay, good. People like it. You mean, Domino's isn't for me.
Yeah, I just don't, I don't like it. Pizza Hut's okay. What would be the big three?
That's what I would have called a big three. Pizza, Domino's and Papa John's.
Yeah. So Papa John's for me. That makes sense. Again, you get the pepper, garlic
butter or whatever. Yeah. You know what? I could have guessed. I shouldn't have even asked. I knew
he was going to say Papa John's just like he's going to say Jersey Mike's over like just about
anything else Jersey Mike's is I mean, come on. All right. If you had to pick from the two,
I'm getting a sub Jersey Mike's or I'm getting pizza. Those are the two choices.
Oh, sub all day. All right. Good old sub all day. You are from the East Coast, aren't you?
You're really from the East Coast. You know, look, I do have an Italian family. So,
you know, I like a good cold cut hero. Good. Is it hero? Is it supposed to be hero?
I don't know. People, people call it everything. I was a submarine sandwich.
Is that a special type of sandwich? No, no, that's just called a submarine sandwich, a sub.
Oh, see the classy people say call it. Let me get a
aristocrat. I mean, I'm trying to raise you up. You're right. You're looking at
Jags over here. Yeah, you're looking at Jags. If I get you in a Jag,
I just want everybody to understand who becomes the aristocrat because it's not me.
Dude, you already have the BMW. Buddy, you're driving a British car.
That's like a aristocrat central in British racing green. One of those.
I would do everything. I'd podcast from the car. I would eat in the
car. I would do everything from in there. That's what I had. The kids would find you just seat
back sleeping. You guys want to hang out? I'll put the seats down. You can hang out the back.
It's got plenty of stuff. Now you need, and then you'll have to upgrade the tech so you can
watch Netflix in there. Well, I don't know if that's allowed. Is that permitted in a car like that?
No, no, exactly. No, you can upgrade to Apple CarPlay. So I ended up, I would,
and I'm going to in the Raptor, but I ended up on this and then the Volvo, which I forgot. I think
it's the V 60 or 50. Yeah, those are great too. But it's just something about the sport brake
that just know the level of course. Like I said, just put 10 grand aside, get it right to a shop.
Let's go ahead and go through every oil leak, every, every, you know,
Jaguar every electrical component, every possible breaking point of this car. I need you to go
through. Yes. So if you're listening to Toyota, make a part that we could replace.
That'd be fantastic. If you're listening and you're as, as jazzed up about something like an
XF sport brake as I am, and obviously Nick is, let us know if you decide to start searching for
those. And if you find one, let us know in the discord, because if you don't buy it, somebody
might, because 30 grand for that. I thought that was a hell of a deal. Hell yes. How many miles?
I think it was 34. Wow. That's unbelievable. 41, 41. 41,000 miles for 31,000 miles will matter.
31. You said it so seriously too. Like, listen to me, they will matter.
31.5 for it though. I mean, you think you can get it for 29? I mean, you know,
he's talking to your dog. You know, you're talking to your dog. Dude, I'll get it tomorrow for 25.
Hey, I'll walk in there with a bag of 25 grand right now. I'll get, I mean, do you take coins?
I got a lot of rolls of coins. I collect a lot of coins. I'm a big silver coin guy. You take
coins? I have a big silver coin. I already know. When you said you had a pocket constitution,
we all knew you were a coin guy. Oh, those of you that understand that episode,
you've been here. You're a real one, as they say. You're a real one.
Lone Star beer and coins. Hey, people, hey, they vibed with that too. Like, hey,
the garage with some naddies and Lone Stars. Yeah. Now we're cooking. We're cooking with gas.
Well, since we talked about Lexus at the top, there was a big announcement with Lexus. Do you
remember the name of this new Lexus EV while I try to pull up the actual video for it?
You're asking the wrong guy. No, come on. I remember. You're driving the new Lexus around.
I know you heard the news of the EV Lexus, which by the way, what do you do with yours?
Do you just park it or is it having service? Is that why you weren't in it?
I just had some, I had some reasons to drive the other one, you know, family in town and all that
kind of stuff. So, you know, people don't love the jump seats in the back. It's unfortunate,
right? Everyone's too good for stuff like that. Yeah. Well, and they're wrong. And they're wrong.
You're not too good for it. As you say that though, you're wrong. I'm going to take the new one,
but you're still wrong. Because the seats have a button that go up instead of we have to do a
little work to get the jump seats. You just got to say you didn't listen to last week's episode.
You won't get stuck in these the way you're going to get stuck in some of the new ones.
Well, as you know, and for everybody that's never been in the content game, there's nobody
harder to get to listen to your content than your family. They're like, what are you doing?
It's like, don't worry about it, man. Where do you guys want to eat?
Are you really getting that many views? Are you just making it up? Like,
exactly. I'd really have to explain this to you. Yeah. Yeah. I don't even go down that road.
I have to tell you the millions of people I fight with every day about stuff that I believe whole
heartedly. Like, what are you doing? I'm like, look, I'm, you know, Johnny, 1236
seven. This is Nick at dinner right here. Like, going to town. Actually, at dinner last night,
I was watching the NBA score. And then did you happen to see the home plate fiasco in the Reds
game? I didn't. But I saw highlights of it. What happened? Yeah. Third baseman touches third base
for a force out guys going home throws it to the home plate, the catcher touch touches home plate
doesn't tag the guy. That was Mets, right? That was against the Mets. I think yeah, dude, that was
don't get me started on that. I'm we're tag somebody. Yeah, like, we're seeing there's some
old school MLB players who you would probably know. And I can't remember them going on radio shows,
podcasts talking about we're losing fundamentals from base running to hitting like what's going on
here. Kids are soft. I just think it's a lot of millions of dollars to not tag somebody. Yeah.
Like, I probably give me the league minimum and I'll tag the guy hit the swipe. Dude, just saying
just saying. I mean, give me the league minimum. Can we crowdfund this to happen crowdfund the
league minimum for Nick to go play a game with the Reds? Yeah, I will tag the guy. I'm not I'm not
above that. You know what? I might actually punch him. I'm going to hit him so hard. I'll make sure
that he gets tagged. I'm getting the league minimum. I'm good. Um, damn. What was I going to say?
You were just talking about the Lexus. Oh, it'll come back to me. All right. I haven't pulled up
here. So the 20 27 Lexus TZ touts three rows. There you go. 300 mile range and v 10 sounds was
the best part there. Oh, come on. We can't escape it. these things. But I mean,
at least I noticed they didn't write it fake sounds. No, they didn't fake v 10 sounds. It's not
what should have been put in the title. It's not fake. It's remember if you believe it, it's not a
lie. Oh, I got a shirt to send you. Oh, that they got sent to me. Nice. It says no soup for you.
Dude, we have a sign in our kitchen. We have the soup not the other in our kitchen at all times.
Um, I mean, they're taking cues from Mercedes here with a lot of the extra door lights and such.
Yeah, look, the screen's not offensive. I mean, it's not integrated into the dash,
but it's low enough. But Yeah, it's not, you know, all the way across the whole
car. Look, man, they got to do it. We're and so they went and copied the Range Rover back in as
well. The Kia Range Rover, they all kind of got together and said, All right, what's subtle
going to the same? Yeah, what subtleties can we all take from without being exact? I don't know,
man. There's just no way any of you listening are excited about this. No 300 miles range is not
that much. This is going to have a steep price to it. The range doesn't add up. You know, you need
to be more, I think, moving towards 400, 450 for the price they're going to be asking for this.
Also, the logo, they've waited a long time. They've waited a long time to get into this,
and they still kind of did it in a way. I think we're all going, Okay, this isn't this isn't the
V10 sounds are offensive right off the get without even hearing them. Just saying that that's
that's going to have. Yeah, I'm just going to tell you, and then it offends me right now.
The Lexus and the steering wheel, again, they're going to that font. A lot of people we talked
about Honda like last year starting in, I think Mazda is doing it. Now Lexus, the Lexus icon is
an icon for a reason. Yes, it works. You don't have to fool with it. Yeah, it's a bummer. You
don't have to fool with it. Also, the fact that looks like Alcantara is around your center console
stack here. Oh, that's going to look so dirty. And I mean, there's Alcantara everywhere. I mean,
and it's just in horrible places that make no sense because they're just it just wears out.
Pour one out for Lexus for the next couple of months while they have to take the swing and miss.
But does anybody understand? I mean, they have to do it. But then they do it in a way,
sort of like what Honda did with the whole Sony Fila. You just go, Did you have to do this?
They almost do it as if they know that they have to which we've talked about. And then they do it
in a way where it's not it won't allow itself to continue like we're going to get it's going to
peter out and we've done it on purpose so it peters out. But we think that's the conversation
and the executive board. They're like, Hey, we're going to put this out and it nobody's going to
buy into it. Hey, hand to space dad. I really do believe that it's just that's got to be a wild
cocktail hour. Well, if they're text messages or anything like rabels, you know, text messages,
Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. We don't we take rabel shots on this podcast. Well,
it's a compliment if you're into that kind of thing, I guess. I didn't see them. Were they wild?
Well, I only went by hearsay. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, yeah, sounds right.
See, always trying to keep us down. Always trying to hear say instead of get the man,
the brand man, the brown man's trying to keep you down. I'm just letting you know,
you know, the the the extremely large white man making millions of dollars,
you're trying to keep them down. Hey, let's we can all blame Roussini for that.
Where do we go from here? There's so many random things as this week, like from okay,
I got the best one. Well, actually, this is what I can say earlier. How did you not or have you
considered the NEOS as a fleet vehicle for your fleet? Well, I we brought this up. I said that
NEOS saw huge spike like 20% I think you said and that and they're they're really, you know,
going after fleet sales. Yeah, I think is is interesting. I have not seen them in a fleet.
But evidently, they are really attacking some of these fleets. Yeah, and I went down the
rabbit hole a little bit after hearing you say that after last week's show. And it's definitely
huge fleets don't know where exactly or who there wasn't broken down in segments. Military
was second. And then they rounded out the top three reasons by saying there are that there is
that much of a demand for the no nonsense approach to NEOS design, which I think absolutely that
NEOS has been really hurt in in the US market because of the price to get it in here, right?
And they they kind of took the brands like that took a very heavy hit with this whole tariff
situation. Yeah, right. And I still believe if they get in, you know, as things clear up and they
get better and they get better at manufacturing and they get better at importing and maybe some of
these these things settle down, they get into the right price point, which I think is probably
somewhere 10,000 or less to get into a base one. I think they could be a player if and when that
happens is the whole question. Yeah. And if and when they want to do that, you know, they may not
want to do that, they may be okay. But dude, they have seen a huge spike. But you know, we talked
about Durango seeing big big spikes, because they kind of went back to a no nonsense. Here's some
buttons. Here's the V8. Here's the basics. We could be seeing Tide's turn. But you also have to
remember, it seems that the only people doing this are the brands sort of in trouble. Right. The one
struggling is what I was going to say, you're correct. And but then when you talk about Lexus
Porsche, there's another article about the Macan and no more, you know, internal combustion engines.
Do you think people would trickle? I don't want to say down because that's kind of disrespectful,
but you know what I mean? Like if you're out at Porsche, maybe even high in Lexus,
and they're all electrifying or they're not making things that you want, do you trickle down to
NEO? Well, yeah, I think that I would say not the Macan buyer. I think you're going to see somebody
in the Cayenne, you know, you're talking about a $200,000 SUV now. If you don't like everything
about that, and you don't want to spend it even if you have the money. Yeah, I think NEO's could
pick those those men and women up for sure. It's a lot more of them out there. Yeah. And NEO's,
you know, once we got the dealership here, I see them a lot more often. There's no question.
Any any good or bad stories like horror stories or wonderful stories of people that people people
hated hate the steering, right? Like it's really catered towards off road. You know, it doesn't
have re centering and all that kind of stuff. So as they mature, they're going to start offering
some things you would think that you're going to see a smaller version.
At some point, they may never do that. I understand that. But you would if the business is viable,
you're going to see them making some things that are just a little bit priced lower,
whether that's a whole new platform that's just smaller or whatever. But here when we got the
dealership, we do see them more. So they could also be somebody that's that's that's in this
position that they're looking at it and going, you know, we can't throw up and get sell a whole
bunch of deal dealer franchises everywhere. But the places we can, we need to get in there quickly,
and we need to sell a franchise to somebody that's got a big name in the area, which is what they
did here, and get the vehicles on those lots. And maybe we can capture some market share. But
if they're going after fleets this aggressively, that's definitely their their least their next
12, 24, 36 month plan. I mean, that could be cool for enthusiasts. If you start seeing more of them,
you might be inclined to actually start well, and there's also something that
comes from fleet sales is, you know, a lot of fleets now go, hey, we're going to keep them 36
months and get rid of them. And so if you start seeing those come out, you know, on the used
market that because some fleets, and this is I want everybody to understand, there's two ways to
look at fleets. There are certain fleets that they're maniacal about maintaining the vehicles they
have, because they they'd rather just pay that cost than pay the damage cost. There's the other
side of it that they'd barely do an oil change. So that'll all have to shake itself out. But
they definitely have a plan and seems to be working gangbusters that they know the kind of
fleets that they can get into. Yeah, I'll be interested when they get broken down and how
they achieved a 20% spike this year to be like, Oh, maybe people can learn from this. Speaking
of fleets and even rentals, when you go search through your car gurus or whatever search engine,
do you filter out any of those? Or do you say I'm just going to I filter out? I do too. But
the way we talk about PPIs and inspections and all that, wouldn't we like cover our bases? But
I always check it. Like, don't show it to me. I don't want to see fleets or rentals.
Yeah, I think it's also the kind of cars we're looking at. Yeah, I guess I'm not, you know,
if I was looking at I mean, what's a big fleet vehicle like, you know, a Nissan rogue, or yeah,
a rogue or like, let's just say back in the day and escape, you know, or something like that.
You know, if I was looking in that, I'd probably be like, Okay, I'll keep some fleet in here and
I'll just have a PPI done. Maybe it saves me 18000 You know what I mean?
Yeah, there you go. Yes. Yes, exactly.
Doug, I've gotten a Jeep comes is it literally had half the seat missing equinox,
terrains or whatever the other GMC version of it. God, this is so bad. Sorry guys, but it's just
true. Yeah, I'm sorry if you have one. Yeah. And everyone that I know that has had one transmission
issues always, always never fails. They've had 100%. Yeah, God, it's terrible. All right, Rivians R2
SUV could spawn more variants, including a surprise pickup truck. How does that make you feel?
Seems kind of logical.
Are you still following the Rivian world? Yeah.
Yeah, I like, I like Rivian, man. I think they I like Rivian for the reasons I don't like other
brands that don't just stay in their lane. Rivians staying in its lane, right, came out with a truck,
did a big SUV, then they're now doing a smaller SUV. I didn't really like how they released the
smaller SUV with the highest trim package and none of the lower stuff. The question would be,
what's what's the small pickup truck price? What's it look like? I think you got to be sub 50
for it to be exciting. But I mean, dude, they do interior as well. Yeah, they do. They do their
thing. You know, Rivian is distinctly Rivian, which you can't say about every brand, you know,
they seem to like we just saw with the Lexus, they just copied the back end of a Range Rover again.
So yeah, I'm cool with it. Let's do it. If you were to buy one, would you go if you had
to just the choice like the truck version or the SUV SUV version of the original truck?
Yeah, I think that's but those even used are still they're a coin.
I haven't looked. I'm not even familiar. What's the price?
There's one that's for sale at a dealership around here that I and it stayed for sale for a reason
because they obviously paid too much on the trade end. But yeah, they're still pricey.
They can still be pricey and I'd rather just buy the new one at that point.
Yeah, right? Especially for an EV.
Yeah, no question.
There's a curveball here. There's an article from Motor Trend, best selling cars by state.
You want to take a guess what Nevada's best selling cars are?
We'll just go one or 21 and two.
F-150.
No, that's Texas, bro. Come on. What are you talking about?
You guys don't roll like that.
Yeah, dude. Nailed it.
We have a lot of Teslas.
You want to you want to guess which model like specifically?
Model three.
That was second. Model Y is actually one.
Yeah, makes sense.
Crazy. I never would have guessed. I had no idea.
I'd try to tell everybody we had.
Because you always have these stories about Teslas around you.
Now it makes sense.
You got to see the charging bank Tesla built by, you know, in a, it's not a,
it's just a shopping mall type place.
They construct it. I think there's like 60 Tesla chargers in this place now.
It's nuts.
Like it's, there is a lot of coming out of California into Las Vegas,
coming out of California into Salt Lake, you know, all of that was real.
So for all those people that probably look at Tesla's numbers and say,
I don't see a lot of Teslas in my area,
the further you kind of got east out of California,
that's the people that saw Diminish, right?
They didn't see it as, hit as hard here, man.
They're, I mean, I could walk my business park right here.
And I bet you there's 10 of them.
Yeah. You're basically like LA light right out there.
Yeah, exactly. You know, I mean, without, without the fires.
Without the fires and without the fuel, ironically,
you know, without, without a reality star, you know, trying to be our mayor.
Oh dude. Hey, what's his name? What's his name?
Spencer Pratt.
Dude, he's, he's wrecking shop out there.
Running his mouth like he's back on reality TV shows.
I'm like, this is great TV.
This ain't the Hills.
I'll take it.
Today's world. It's so funny.
I didn't realize he was living in an airstream. Did you?
Oh, I didn't know that either.
Yeah. I think so. I think that's what they're called.
He's really the man of the people we pissed off if I got it wrong.
You're right. But hey, let's be real. Come on.
Yeah.
You're better than that. Are you though?
Sorry, man. I'm not in the RV world.
No. Remember when there was a big trend?
And it still is. I shouldn't say it was a trend.
People that want to just like live in RVs down by
lakes down by the river.
Yeah. Literally.
It's, it's, we live in a very RV heavy city.
Like we, you know, here, Phoenix, these like sunny places.
Boy, RVs are everywhere.
And speaking of RV problems, they got to know which lane to be in on a freeway.
Nobody knows what lane to be in, dude.
But I got to bring it up.
Okay.
You know, for all the truck drivers out there, they got heat.
I got to tell them you got a, you got a second passenger in the Clueless van,
which is a lot of RV drivers, whether that's a fifth wheel or a big pre-vost.
You got to understand your lane, man. Your lane is not the left lane.
It's never been the left lane.
No.
It won't ever be the left lane.
You're absolutely right. We have a shirt dedicated to this.
Yeah.
Know, know your place.
Know your place in the world.
And your lane, both would be great.
But I will take the lane if you don't know your place in the world.
That's how I got a broken wheelchair windshield on the Raptor.
But also, and this is just me, every time there's a truck, it's always one of my people.
I'll say it because I'm one of those people coming from a trucking business,
from a trucking business family.
And every time I go, but they finally move over, I'm like,
God damn, pretty more like, you don't know how to just like get out of it.
Like you're not supposed to be in this lane.
Like there's no excuse for this.
I don't care.
None.
There's none.
None, no excuse.
Really fires me up.
It's so annoying.
Hey, you ever, you ever seen this guy on social media,
I think his username is something Peter built,
where he just eats lunch with people?
No, that sounds amazing.
He's in his truck and he just eats the most.
But you can tell he's eating this his whole life.
He's an old guy.
He's like, all right, guys, lunchtime.
Oh, wait, not the guy that mixes all kinds of stuff together?
Oh my God, I have seen one of those.
Hey, he's great.
He's hilarious.
Whoever that guy is, hey, he's got like a salami rollup.
And then he's got, you know, broccoli that he eats raw with not dipping in anything.
And then he's like drinking pickle juice.
And then I'm going, hey, bud, then he's like pouring beans out.
I'm going, this is wild.
Salute to you, sir.
Exactly, hey, and he's always on the road.
And, you know, for anybody that understands what trucking does and gets things placed,
there's a guy that puts a lot of things on trucks for our business.
I'm appreciative.
But boy, you have some wild taste.
We're real American here right there, that guy.
Oh dude, he is and he is as country as they come, which I enjoy.
Absolutely.
Speaking of food, I was getting Kalachi's for the kids the other day.
Are you a at all for one Kalachi guy?
And if you're getting like, or a, or a pig in a blanket, some aristocrats might call it,
you know, I was like, what the f-
Okay, see, I know how is, how is your word not more aristocrat than pigs in a blanket?
I don't know.
That's just what they're called.
Everyone like, there's a Kalachi factories around here, basically, like restaurants.
So you, are you a sausage guy?
Are you a ham guy?
Or are you just like a cheer or even a budan kind of guy?
I would say I'm a all of it.
Oh, okay, great.
I really thought you'd be picky about this.
No, no, I'm all, I'm all of it.
Yeah, you can't mess them up.
So what's that?
I'm good.
Okay, you put meat and cheese inside the whatever little bagel baguette thing you're
told you.
Yeah, we, we, uh, last night we, we went to, uh, probably the best Italian restaurant I've been to
in a very long time.
Hey, we don't get shout outs, but I would love to know what this is.
Yeah, it's, it's a locally owned spot here.
Boy, was it top tier.
Yeah.
And you don't get to say that a lot these days.
Well, especially Nick, we all know what we're saying.
You know, yeah, I mean,
High standards.
I borrow, I'm just taking, I'm just getting shots here.
You're over here making up words for pigs in a blanket and acting like I'm the aristocrat.
You know what I'm saying?
As soon as I said it, I'm like, fuck, I know that's not going to go over well.
Yeah.
So I just have this, uh, it's very hard to find really, really good Italian and it was
unbelievable.
It was it a family thing?
Just kind of taking out everybody for a special night.
No, it was, was fantastic, man.
It was, uh, you know, my 44th birthday yesterday.
Hey, Nick hates birthdays.
He hates being told happy birthday.
Hey, you ever see that guy that goes, hey, three things men shouldn't do.
You ever seen that guy?
Nope.
One of them he goes, celebrate birthdays.
I'm inherently that way too, to be honest with you.
Yeah, we all, we all are.
Yeah.
Well, not everybody.
No, no, no, not everybody.
We've got that friend.
Oh, first you don't have one single friend.
Oh yeah.
I guess you're right.
I do have, you know, if I hear a guy say birthday month, that's the guy's
getting taken off my phone.
All right.
That's that we got it.
We got a, hey man, it's been a good run.
We've had a good run.
We had some fun times.
If you're into the birthday month as a man, I think you got to, you got to really start
questioning that.
Yeah.
I may have lost like a good acquaintance a long time ago, maybe 15 years ago,
because I missed his birthday and he's never forgot it and we just drove it apart.
I'm like, wow, that's fucking weird, dude.
Hey, it's all for the best.
Yeah, right.
It's like what they say when somebody says like, you know, he owes me 20 bucks and
he never gave it back to me.
And somebody's like, that's the, what is it?
That's the cheapest way to get rid of that person out of your life.
Yeah.
Dude, that's a really good point of looking at.
Yeah.
No.
So I shout out to, it's called Il Chianti and they did an awesome job, man.
It was top tier.
Well, since we're on the subject and I was going to ask you a second ago, I keep getting
these videos and like almost like mini docs about your area specifically.
Is it propaganda?
Is Vegas really on the decline?
Is it neutral or is it on the up?
No, there's a big effort, by the way, to push this propaganda on America.
Yeah.
People have, well, I mean, Houston's own is trying to buy nine properties on the strip right now.
Well, that's a different affair.
It's a family affair.
Maybe it's a whole business thing, but just like people going to a city,
it seems like they're trying to say that people aren't going to Vegas anymore.
They just had, I think they released the Q1 numbers and they won some ungodly amount on gambling.
I mean, this city's hard to understand for people that don't live here, but I will put it simply.
It's sort of like Hawaii.
You know, a lot of people hear about Waikiki and they don't realize that that's not Hawaii.
It's just like, it's just a strip in Hawaii, basically.
The Las Vegas strip gets a lot of conversation.
But what people don't understand is the city has attracted so much out of California
that the strip is largely irrelevant in somebody's day-to-day life here in Vegas.
Like it's just now like any other, it's like driving around Houston.
You know, I mean, you just have all kinds of businesses.
They all do different things.
You have all kinds of tech here.
You know, a lot of people don't realize Zappos is here.
You know, an Amazon bought Zappos.
So Amazon has a huge footprint.
You got two of the biggest Amazon distribution centers on the west coast at the top and the bottom of the city.
It's just not, you know, you say the word propaganda and I would say that's the right word
because what people don't understand is the strip is the strip.
The rest of the city doesn't really operate on the strip unless you have a job.
And where that used to be more important, that used to be the driving force of jobs.
I mean, with the mass, you know, influx of population, it's just, it's way more diverse now.
Oh, okay.
I mean, I had to ask the expert because I've probably seen half a dozen of these like
series of people like documentary.
I mean, you gotta realize we had like one of the, we got,
one of the suburbs here got voted the safest suburb in the country.
You know, I think last year or this year, it's just, it's really diverse.
I mean, that's a propaganda right there for being on.
The quote that, yeah, I mean, they just didn't report the crime.
So like, hey, safe as long.
But it's, it's, it's a great city to live in because it's one of the few cities you can do
anything you want.
Like I was telling my family that was visiting.
We had Morgan Wallen at Allegiant Stadium, which is the Raider Stadium.
Let's go ahead.
We had a, we had a Vegas Knights playoff game, which is literally right across the freeway
that you can see both stadiums.
Then you had like 50 comedians in town.
You don't know any of it's happening.
Wow.
But if you had that in Houston, if you had that, I mean, just think about Houston
when there's an Astros game.
Oh yeah.
Traffic goes bonkers.
Like here, it's just like a normal day.
Really?
It just gobbles up events, dude.
Like, and when the baseball stadium, you won't even know the baseball teams here.
Oh yeah.
Who's going to be there?
A's, I think, moving right to Vegas.
Yeah.
Shout out to them.
They really need a home.
They're doing well.
They're number one ALS.
It's crazy.
For anybody listening to Oakland, Rob didn't mean that.
You did get your team taken away from you.
Look at Rob.
That's not the people's fault.
You just got it with an Astros hat.
But they're losing their team.
That's true.
They can't go to a game.
Well, you can go to Sacramento right now for a little bit.
All right, go to Sacramento.
Enjoy it.
And the AAA team.
Watch these guys just hit bombs on a little league field.
That's pretty sweet.
It makes you feel like you're back in the 90s.
Is that Margaret Guire hitting?
Is that how they can say go?
Hitting bombs over these little fences.
Just hitting tanks.
They would love it.
That guy's still out there talking shit too.
Jose Canseco.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
He plays in like men's leagues in Vegas.
Oh, yeah.
Any opportunity he can to put it to somebody
on a baseball, on a bat, on a field, he's there.
Yeah.
He's still massive.
I wonder what his sauce bill a week is.
I won't even go there.
Too many jokes.
He'll hear this and he'll come after us.
Hey, big fight this weekend.
I was just going to say, who do we got in the main event?
Well, I think any red blooded American
is going one way on this.
100%.
I think that's a tall ask.
What Chael Sonnen said is, I told the UFC
to not let these guys in for a reason.
Yeah.
I thought you were going to say it's a toss up.
And I was on the toss up, which-
Really?
I really, I do.
I mean, you just go back to what he did to Izzy.
You go back to, I don't think Duplicey really took it to him
like that, even though he did win the fight.
I don't know, man.
He's a strong, he's a strong contender.
Here's the thing, I root for foolishness
and that dude is a fool on the mic.
So I hope he wins so we get more time on-
Number 100%.
He's number one.
And the comments were like, finally, old school UFC is back.
Anytime he's in a fight, people are just chopping at the bit.
And for anybody that's kind of a recent fan,
you don't know what old school UFC microphones were like
because they were attacking countries, attacking individuals,
attacking friends and family, going after the whole bit.
So I hope he wins just so we get more craziness.
Hell yeah.
And I got a shout out, Joshua Van.
I grew up watching him in the circuit in Houston,
Cage Combat, Fury, all those, LFA.
So shout out to him.
Hopefully he pulls it off, keeps the belt.
But I'm sure he'll fight Pantosia again
because that was a freak accident, obviously.
Falling back, anytime you get taken down like that,
even probably you yourself, you're like,
man, if I post up, is my arm going to just blow?
You're like, I'm just going to take the fall on my shoulder.
I don't care.
But like anytime you try to post up,
like my elbow is just going to explode.
I had the second time I had my shoulder operated on,
it was freak like that.
Oh, really?
Just a fall?
It's just a freak thing.
Remember Drew Brees kind of had that freak thing in San Diego
when his shoulder got all busted up.
It was like a freak fall.
Yeah, dude, the freak stuff's the one that pisses you off the most
because you're just like, come on, man.
I mean, I wish a guy just twisted my arm off like it.
That would have made more sense of why I'm in surgery.
I'm in surgery just because I fell
and it just kind of just had something happen.
In its common sense, you probably think right for athletes,
like the constant pounding from when you're little all the way
to the pros, sometimes freak accidents are going to happen.
It's just all the wear.
Carlos Correa was taking batting practice
and literally blew his ankle and he needs surgery.
Like season ending surgery at batting practice before the game.
You're like, there's no way.
Well, the dude for the Cubs was playing with his kids.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah, I forget the dude's name.
He was playing with his kids.
He's been out for like a month.
Oh my God.
It's so dumb.
That stuff like that, you're like, who put a curse on my team?
People are like, all right, how do you who put a curse on us?
I got to say before, I mean, we're going to land the plane soon-ish.
When I got the Raptor, so I put 3,000 miles on it now,
did the first oil change, got a little bit to come in.
There was something in the back driver's seat, like a little pocket,
that must have been like an oxidized tool or just something.
It was, you could tell it was used for a lot of stuff
because that like rusty stuff back there and it smelled not the best.
The truck itself smelled fine,
but once you like smelled inside the pocket, wasn't fresh.
The only thing that took care of it was using the carpet system.
So I got to tell people because I used it once
and maybe I didn't use enough of it, didn't really use it to its fullest,
didn't let it dwell enough.
I don't know what it was.
Maybe you can guide me some more because I've done it twice now
and it is almost completely gone.
Yeah. So if you use our enzyme product, the HyperClean,
that, you know, it's sort of attacking bacteria, right?
That's what an enzyme does.
It's attacking whatever was causing that smell.
And sometimes if it's been in there long enough
or it's been on your carpet long enough or whatever,
you may have to hit it with a little bit more
to let that enzyme kind of eat whatever's in that carpet or in that seat.
And so that's all you found.
And I'm glad it worked out because like you said,
that's like finding an old pita butter and jelly sandwich down there
that was there for too long or a tuna fish sandwich.
And you're like, what the, what is going on here?
That's why Nick doesn't love food in his cars.
Exactly right.
You can't have it.
You can't have it.
Do you almost fell out of his seat?
Hey, hey, Peril, can't have it.
You can't have it.
Can't have it.
You've never ever had an accident?
Go ahead though.
Go ahead. You do it.
You ever had an accident with something being left in a car?
Oh dude, let me tell you the one that, that's the worst.
When mice die in an engine, that's the worst smell in a car.
And for people that are uneducated,
they'll call you and say, there's a smell in my car.
As soon as you know what that smell is,
you turn the car on and it starts blowing.
You go, oh, yep, there's a mouse somewhere dead in this engine.
They're like, what?
I don't have mice.
And then you look around and you go, here it is.
That's disgusting.
It's the worst.
It's the worst.
That's worse than any food, any maybe milk, spoiled milk
that somebody leaves in their carpet that can get pretty funky.
But that dead mouse smell that starts coming through the vents
of the AC or the heating system, brutal.
I will give you maybe one better if it's,
that's a way to phrase it.
Somebody in my household, not myself, left fishing bait in the back.
Oh, yeah, yeah, I remember that.
This was like two years ago.
That was unbelievable.
And I will say, this was actually when the carpet system was released
probably about two years ago.
It helped tremendously.
Nothing else, nothing else helped.
I don't care about your stupid vinegar this and baking soda that.
None of it helped.
Enzyme complete.
Enzyme complete for about three days straight.
And it really did a lot.
I forgot about that.
Yeah, you might have taken the cake on that one.
That'd be like, I bought fish from the fishmonger
and I left it in the back.
Yeah.
You know that?
It's gonna be bad.
Exactly. Oh my God, it was brutal.
So yeah, again, shout out to HyperClean for that.
Obviously, juice was released last week.
There's a lot you can do with juice, but big shout out this week
for the carpet system because, God damn, it actually worked so well.
I don't want to say actually because I know it works,
but when you smell something, you're like,
man, I'm screwed.
There's nothing to get in this out.
And they're like, oh, I just got to use it a few times.
And I always use both.
Is that the right way to use it?
Yes, use Enzyme first and then complete.
Okay.
All right, see, I learned.
I learned what I want to listen and I retain stuff.
Here's a really weird one.
California will soon begin ticketing driverless cars
for traffic violations.
I think we knew this was coming, but I had no idea it was here.
I thought they really couldn't break the rules.
I thought the whole thing was they were operating the whole thing.
Oh, look at that thing.
To hold the companies accountable.
So I don't know what's...
This began to tell me that something's happening
that we're not aware of quite yet that...
Well, it could be the fact that they're getting stuck in crosswalks
That's definitely one.
Three days.
Yep.
Yep.
You know, it all makes total sense.
But we all get back to this point of,
I thought this was all figured out and not in beta.
Like we've made the argument from the beginning.
The reason I have issues with full self-driving is
we were the basically the beta test in real time.
Which was one of the...
And this proves it even more.
Which was one of the biggest issues we've always had from the top.
Like we didn't sign up to be the beta testers.
Yeah, we didn't sign up for the beta test.
Yeah.
Like you guys need to go rent a city
and do the beta test with no cars on the road.
Which they never did, obviously.
And so now this proves that this...
Like you said, this has become some type of massive issue
to get on the radar like this.
It's not like anybody that believes government agencies
are on top of things.
So this had to be something...
Something has repeatedly continued to happen.
This is going to rear its ugly head guys.
We need to assemble and get ahead of it now, essentially.
Not with e-bikes.
Not with e-bikes, but we did it.
So speeding, illegal turns, rolling through stop signs.
It's some of the things that infractions...
Boy, they don't roll through stop signs in my neighborhood.
I mean, that's where we need them to roll through the sign.
You say that now and then eventually they're just going to stop stopping.
They're just going to be like gauging it from like a mile away.
Like, I'll just go.
Let it roll.
Now that's kind of wild to think about though.
I know.
So then as you've said before,
every time that conversation comes up,
what happens to insurance?
Are you more likely to get these tickets now?
Are they going to be pointing out, essentially,
these EVs or rather these driverless cars to give them tickets?
So you follow this stuff more than me.
Where are we at with the whole traffic cameras and legalities?
And where is that stand?
There's a lot of issues across the state.
And mostly because of that flock system that I mentioned,
I think last week or two weeks ago,
essentially it shouldn't be allowed.
Your cities or your municipalities should not be letting these people in
to just take free reign of cameras and then issue citations for them.
It shouldn't be allowed.
It's not.
So people are fighting it.
So what happens if you don't pay one?
Allegedly nothing.
But I haven't seen anybody come out and say I didn't
and then I got reprimanded in some way.
So it seems like if you don't address it, nothing happens.
You already know they're going to find some loophole
and these people that didn't pay the 53 tickets
are going to have interest put on the top.
Interest.
Your car is going to be impounded.
Something's going to happen.
Yeah, I've been to a lot.
I mean, you're like me.
I've traveled enough.
There are cities that absolutely have them
and they've had them for quite some time.
This isn't like it's 2026.
I mean, I remembered going back to probably, I mean, 2015 probably.
There were certain cities that had traffic cameras
and they issued citations and maybe even earlier than that
for some of you that live in those cities.
So I don't know why this has kind of gotten crazy now
because I thought they were found legal.
So is it just state by state who fights it?
Probably and it should be, I guess, if we're being honest.
So if you have this issue in your state
and maybe you're getting caught by these cameras,
maybe it's your sign to go start, you know,
causing a little bit of a camp.
What are they called?
Yeah, in your free time that nobody has.
Did nobody has, you mean?
Yeah, it's a free time.
Tell a data too.
Hey, can you start raising all kinds of stink?
Did you see your boy from Shark Tank almost got assaulted
over at the Salt Lake City?
Bro, what is the data center?
The biggest one in the world or something like that?
Yeah, and he's always bragging like,
hey, I'm investing in all these data centers.
I don't think he loved that investment that night.
No, it was a big crowd of people too.
Hey, and the kind of people that you only need a couple crazies
and this thing could have got real...
Yeah, do you really want like two or three
Sean Strickland's coming after you?
That same state that brought you like the most recent assassination.
Let's think about it.
It's not a joke.
He believes in news, you know.
That looked real wild.
Yeah, and it seemed to have passed.
So he still got his way.
So he was simply like, whatever.
That guy gave one of these private jet speeches
when he told his pilots, we're never landing here again.
Don't try to refuel in Utah.
Don't try to be a part of Utah.
I will never be back here
and I'll just collect my data center check.
We will refilm the last episode of Seinfeld
if we fall here again.
All right, we cannot have that.
God, that's unfortunate.
But you know, you got to keep talking about it.
I guess if you're out there and you're...
Because you have so many of these data centers out there.
Are people usually...
Yes, it's getting...
Because you already don't have water as it is.
Well, here's the crazy thing about water in Vegas.
You actually listen to the people that work in the water system.
We used more water in 2002.
Really?
So Vegas and Southern Nevada is basically like the beacon
of water conservation.
We have all these systems of reuse systems
and all that kind of stuff.
So we actually used more footage of water in 2002
than adding basically a million people over that time.
We use less water today.
But yeah, it's still a huge issue, man.
There's a lot of California stuff that nobody wants to talk about.
There's a lot of stuff that goes down down in Arizona
with public interest of using water.
It's going to get to a breaking point.
I don't know when that breaking point is,
but it feels like it's coming.
It feels like we're probably at it there.
Boy, I tell you what.
This is the problem with being on the internet for 20 years.
As soon as I hear stuff like this, my Sam Tripoli antennas go up
and I'm just like, are you serious about this?
Are you really?
I don't know.
I'll believe you.
I'd take your word for it.
You're a resident of the area.
Hey, give me one good story, car story to end on.
One good car story?
Yeah.
I mean, that you got on your computer.
Oh, man.
I mean, none of them are actually good.
They're actually bad as in not good news for manufacturers.
I mean, we can go with GN's recall on brake fluid.
We can go on, you know, like it's stuff like that.
Unfortunately, but let me scroll through them real quick
before we land the plane officially.
Dude, I mean, yeah, BMW, you got more EVs.
You know, the BMW i3.
That's all.
Tell me the GM problem.
How widespread is it?
Well, of course, now that you asked me first.
Oh, there we go.
40,000 bottles of brake fluid that could affect stopping power.
A lot of these stories honestly were just like not catastrophes,
but like not good things that have happened in the last week.
I think we're in an interesting sort of fork in the road moment.
Right.
And I think this is kind of an interesting thing to talk about
because I think most people are feeling this, you know,
and it won't be out of left field.
You know, one story I haven't talked about is there's roughly
somewhere between 3000000 and three and a half million
repos that are kind of being not repowed.
And you're getting into this situation where it could be a regional bank.
It could be a big bank like JP Morgan.
It could be everybody in between a finance arm of a company doesn't matter.
So basically what they're doing is, and this is a legitimate statistic
that people have is there's somewhere around three to three and a half million
repos that should be underway.
Like we should be recovering those vehicles, putting them back into the system.
The interesting part is people are saying my car is up for repossession.
The bank is calling me after six months and saying,
what can you give me to settle this loan?
Really?
Now you want to talk about the antennas going up.
And so let me walk people through the common sense of why they're doing this.
Because if they repo all those cars, they're going to drive the market down.
They're going to put even more loans in bad situations.
They're going to flood the market with used cars.
They're going to drive the price down.
It won't drive the price down as significantly as people think,
but their balance sheet is going to look worse.
And so now when people talk about the used car market and they go,
we have this lack of inventory, there has to be this healthy combination of
repossessions are not healthy for the person obviously having their car repossessed,
but they're healthy to put inventory back on the market.
Then you look at leasing over the last six years.
It was basically at a very, very low rate because car companies didn't need to offer lease deals.
So you don't have lease trade ends at a high level.
And you look at all of this and you have all these people
that give you all these bullshit theories of why the used car market is where it's at.
It's because the things that drive used cars into the market,
the two biggest would be like repos, trade ends, lease deals.
They're just not happening.
And I've said this since we got on this podcast.
Repos should have been elevated at the end of 2024.
Magically, they are elevated.
The cars aren't being repoed.
People have stories where they actually have shared their documents and go,
I have not made a payment in seven months.
The cans that are being kicked down the road, man.
And they're being kicked down the road in these places that people can't see.
So this is why I always tell people,
if you want to blame dealers, you have to blame manufacturers along with them.
If you want to be overly simple about it,
then you're never going to know the full story.
So you're looking at what dealers are doing on used cars, not realizing,
they're only empowered to do those things and have those prices because the banks
and the finance arms aren't repo in the cars.
And so who's taken the hit on all this is the dealer.
But if you know how the system works, you go,
they wouldn't be able to do any of this if there was inventory.
They wouldn't be able to do this if the bank was doing their job.
And right now, 3000000 cars should be lined up for full repo.
That repo should take, let's say, a week in some cities,
some cities that are larger population, maybe a month, maybe six weeks.
This shit's not happening for months.
There was a guy that shared, he goes, I haven't made a car payment in a year.
A brother, help a brother out.
And they're like, well, did you hide your car?
Like in the old days, he goes, I drive it to work every day.
That's great.
He's like, I'm ready for it to be repoed.
He goes, but I'm getting these letters.
I'm getting these unsolicited phone calls from the bank saying, hey, what could you pay?
Not what could you pay towards the loan?
But like, hey, let's renegotiate what you owe on the car.
This is unheard of.
Yeah, I got to go down this rabbit hole.
This is crazy.
But in 2024, when we first started this podcast, I was telling people,
cars up for repo were nuts then.
Yeah, it's true.
Yeah, go back to a young Nick in 2024 talking about this.
He looks the exact same.
It really does.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm going to put this on my notes to go down the rabbit hole because that's really interesting.
60 seconds, just to give you this, this is the last, this is a really good story.
So Tesla finally, or they filed a trademark for the new Roadster logo,
maybe meaning a new reveal being around here.
That's pretty cool, right?
Yes.
I would definitely have a Roadster if they came up with one.
So I mean, that's just, that's the story.
Bravo.
I guess you feel the same sentiment.
We say hopefully soon.
Yeah, because it kind of launched the company.
You know, that'd be more the reason I'd be into it.
This kind of launched them.
I think the original Roadster, which I've driven quite a bit, a hell of a lot of fun.
This one's going to be only better.
And they're an electric car company.
You know, they're not a car company that's built a hundred years of engines.
You know, that's why when people ask me, why do you seem to be okay with Rivian?
Well, Rivian never tried to be something that wasn't.
You know, Tesla, to me, hey man, you're in the EV space.
You're a complete EV company.
Makes all the sense in the world.
You know, that Lexus EV doesn't make a lot of sense.
I will say Marvel might have an issue with this Ironman logo going on the Roadster.
Well, considering he's got a lot more money, I'll vote that he'll get what he wants.
How dare you?
How dare you?
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About this episode
Roadster talk kicks things off with a Tesla trademark for a new Roadster logo, which the hosts read as a possible reveal. The conversation then widens: e-bike sidewalk incidents, rising fuel costs, and why automakers chase “wow factor” screens and lighting. Used-car “rabbit holes” get real with S-Class math, PPI advice, and fleet/repo dynamics shaping inventory and prices. Later, the hosts speculate on Lexus TZ EV claims, debate Alcantara and branding, and discuss California ticketing driverless cars.
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