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Welcome to Switchcast Season 6.
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I always say welcome back, but this may be your first time listening, and if so, fantastic.
03:03
Go back and binge all our old episodes.
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I'm your host, Doug Tabott, here with my co-host, Tyler Sanders.
03:09
We are the automotive news and entertainment show that's not just for car people.
03:13
I was on a Zoom or a phone call interview with the CEO of Cars & Bids this week.
03:20
In preparation for our first main topic, and he was asking about our podcast.
03:24
He was like, never heard of you.
03:28
Well, we're not quite as popular as their podcast, because they have the other Doug on
03:32
theirs, but I said that we try to honestly steer away from the deep automotive nerd talk
03:40
and we're trying to be more of a, like a news and entertainment show that's talking
03:46
about current events and the business of cars and stuff that kind of anybody can find
03:51
interesting and relate to, even if they're not into cars.
03:57
Also, I'm not smart enough.
03:58
I'm not Dan Doucet.
03:59
I can't be a full on car nerd and talk about canute and valve pressure all night.
04:11
Ethan Huffnagle is behind the scenes occasionally on Mike, never on camera
04:16
unless he's fixing a problem.
04:17
He is the executive regional producer, international executive producer.
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You've been upgraded.
04:25
Because we do have listeners in multiple countries.
04:28
We skipped national and went straight to international.
04:32
Hope you enjoy your promotion, Ethan.
04:34
So is intranational the same thing as national?
04:36
I would assume so, right?
04:40
No, it seems to make sense.
04:42
Based on my limited knowledge of the English language.
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Switchcast is a podcast where we know what we're talking about despite
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evidence to the contrary.
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We have exclusive topics on our Patreon this week.
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It is the question come up with by our producer.
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What car made you fall in love with cars?
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Which is not an easy answer.
05:22
I don't have just like something.
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Oh, well, I guess if I had just a simple answer, we wouldn't be talking about it.
05:27
But yeah, it's the other ones are more difficult.
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Ethan, what topics do we have coming up?
05:32
Coming up on Patreon exclusively.
05:37
We have some doozies coming up, including the top three cars
05:41
that should have never been made, right?
05:44
Yep. That's a good one. Giggling over there.
05:48
I'm laughing at your expert vamping.
05:50
Yeah, I was just going through my phone trying to find the topics.
05:54
Professional, you know how we do it.
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And after that, we'll cover the best and worst car names.
06:06
Is this like car names that someone like Hank would name his Corvette?
06:11
Like the ones you see on Boomer boards at car shows
06:13
where they have a theme and they've named their car
06:15
or is it like actual manufacturer names?
06:18
Well, I was I was going by are there any good versions of those names?
06:24
I think my car names are good.
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Do you want to do you want to give us a taste of what we're working?
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Gretchen is my Corvette.
06:31
Maroon six, that's not really a name.
06:33
Maroon six is that's cool.
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The the nine eleven.
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Oh, these are these are car models.
06:41
Manufacturer names have a few in mind already.
06:45
How awkward would it be if I rocked in with manufacturer name
06:48
and Doug is over here like Susan?
06:51
I was at this car show and the guy had the crying baby
06:54
and on his Boomer board and said his card name was Doreen.
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Listen, I am that Boomer.
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I have a story, a long story of why
07:07
my Corvette's name is Gretchen.
07:08
It's not just Gretchen one, it's Gretchen two.
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But it's a tribute to one of my good clients who passed away.
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And it was like he was an amazing, amazing man.
07:19
And he had a Mercedes that was Gretchen one.
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And then he replaced her with a newer model and she became Gretchen two.
07:27
And then there was this girl I had a crush on
07:31
when I was in gymnastics class, very, very young.
07:36
And before I got insecure about being a boy in gymnastics class
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and this older girl, I had a crush on her name was Gretchen.
07:49
So I was like telling this story something I don't know.
07:56
Right. So somehow that story morphed into
08:01
that was how my first Corvette got named that.
08:06
There's there's more into that.
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But anyway, it's coincidence.
08:12
What's fueling this podcast other than hopes and dreams and delusion?
08:18
So I've got something different.
08:19
I'm not actually drinking whiskey tonight.
08:21
I'm drinking our Jelenac, I think is how you pronounce it, Furnette.
08:25
It's like a bitter Amaro business that tastes like you have an Amaro
08:29
and some port wine together.
08:32
And it's I don't know.
08:33
I assume it's just some roots and stuff that somebody over in Europe
08:35
put in a barrel and decided we're going to we're going to distill this
08:38
and it's fantastic.
08:40
I am drinking a pre-made margarita, but I've mixed it with habanero
08:45
infused tequila, which Aaron made with some fresh habaneros we had.
08:51
But the mix was so strong that I had to dilute it like four different times.
08:58
I made one margarita with it.
08:59
I was like flames coming out my ears.
09:02
So I cut it in half and made two margaritas.
09:04
And I still had flames coming out the top of my head.
09:07
So I mix it with like a whole pre-made thing.
09:10
And now it's actually has a nice spice.
09:13
She just did such a good job.
09:14
She did. It's actually very good.
09:18
We also our drinks are sitting on these cool wooden
09:23
hand burnt coasters from Ed Krakoyak, one of our big fans.
09:29
But he sent us some new ones.
09:31
And this one I have has a Corvette C4
09:34
on the front and on the bank back.
09:36
It says Hank, one of one on one.
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Heck yeah. Yes. Oh, that's so good.
09:41
Yes. All are two kind.
09:42
Had the and we call this our warm up lap and car people will get that.
09:48
I had the pleasure of running around
09:50
mid Ohio sports car course this week, courtesy of a regular guest on here,
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John Sabo. And I was reminded how important a warm up warm up
10:01
lap is on our compound tires.
10:04
Well, chilly. Yeah.
10:05
I goose did a bit in a twin turbo rear wheel drive car
10:10
over the rise going into Thunder Valley.
10:13
You driven mid Ohio.
10:14
There's a lot of skid marks that go to the right straight into the wall.
10:18
My car started that way and I counter steered and corrected it.
10:23
But I got a little bit sideways on my warm up lap.
10:26
And it's that is not a good place to be sideways.
10:30
Yeah, a little little puckered, but all good.
10:32
Thankfully, my reactions are still decent.
10:38
And then next weekend, I'll be down at the National Corvette Museum
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I guess it's NCM Motorsports Park because they're technically not
10:50
affiliated just across the street from each other, but I'll be racing.
10:56
Running our BMW E30.
10:59
Hank will definitely be there.
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We get some points if we show up in Corvette attire.
11:06
You were made for this duck.
11:07
I was you've been waiting your whole life for this.
11:10
Going to be a bunch of posers trying to be like Hank, but there's only one Hank.
11:15
We're going to have some fun.
11:16
I guess I got to shave down to the mustache for next week.
11:19
I think so. Yeah, I'll have a mustache experiment.
11:26
So good. That's a deep reference for those of you who have been listening for a while.
11:32
Tyler's getting popular enough that he gets some shade.
11:35
Yeah, some mean tweets on our videos.
11:38
And some of the shade is funny.
11:39
Some of the shade is funny, but then he's also not popular enough.
11:43
We got a good one this week.
11:45
Tyler likes his LTT gear and it always gets noticed by the people watching on YouTube.
11:51
And so somebody called it out like, Oh, man, it's cool to see this.
11:57
I was like, man, you haven't been around very long.
11:59
This is Tyler's standard outfit.
12:00
It is. I have like five shirts.
12:01
I wear them all the time on the podcast.
12:04
So then the commenter replied, who's Tyler?
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Some madness still in the auction world and it's Ferraris again.
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The latest hot thing has gone up in apparently 360 challenge.
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Stradales are going absolutely bananas.
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We're one with like 5,000 miles or some crazy low 4,000 miles.
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Oh, God, crazy, crazy low silver factory striped car.
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when did they get here today?
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Today they got here, God.
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Today, I learned that a Stradale is out of my budget now.
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And like last year, I was going to buy a cheap one, cheap, quote unquote,
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And it's just like that dream is dead for me.
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Yeah, it died today.
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Who knew that a 360 challenge Stradale would be sitting in the same
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place in your mind as an F 50 just poof gone.
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One thing though, so right after you texted me this, I was on social media
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and I follow some car accounts and I had a dealership
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post about some car and they're like, this is one of the best driving
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These are so special or they'll say things like, we're never selling this.
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And then they sell it six months later.
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It's so disingenuous.
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It makes me want to vomit because everything is so expensive.
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And it feels like they're just like parroting this crap to all
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It's because like you can talk about a car and like it.
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But it's the some dealers do it all the time and it feels like
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So yeah, my rent for sale is the best marketing ever on a car.
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Oh, you know what's not for sale?
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We got a tip on a cars and bids auction scam, quote
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And we've heard this story before.
16:13
People have issues with bring a trailer, cars and bids.
16:15
Mannheim, Meekum, the the scams are rampant in these auction
16:19
scenarios, one of which went pretty viral a couple of weeks
16:25
ago, which was the guy at Meekum who was on video
16:28
bidding on a car and the auctioneer hammered, sold and then
16:33
took another bid in the same breath.
16:35
It was very strange because I didn't hear him do the
16:38
like, you know, going once going twice.
16:40
It's like he just had a brain fart for a second went sold.
16:44
And it was like, actually, nope, it was a very bizarre video.
16:47
Yes. And we'll come back to that actually.
16:49
I think that plays into this discussion, but the one that
16:52
we got sent was an auction on cars and bids 2015 Dodge
16:56
Challenger SRT 392 in a bright green color sublime.
17:04
So Doug, that's a play on words, you know, because
17:06
it's limes are green.
17:08
And most of the buyers are subprime like sublime.
17:12
Oh, yeah. Coming to a street.
17:15
Take it over near you, Challenger SRT 392.
17:20
I did. This is going off topic here. Sorry.
17:25
We just started a dealer Facebook group I'm on.
17:30
There was a video posted of this Dodge charger that had gone
17:34
off the road at triple digit speeds and crashed through a dealer lot.
17:39
And he had flipped like two cars in the lot and landed upside down.
17:44
And people were like, oh, my gosh, is anybody alive in that?
17:47
And the back door was open as if somebody had gotten out.
17:52
You know, five fellas escaped unharmed from the charger wrecked.
17:56
I'm like, typical charger activities.
17:58
So yeah, it's it's it's become its own meme.
18:03
Anyway, this actually looks like a really nice car.
18:06
And it's not to collect people that actually that like these
18:10
and pay for them as opposed to stealing them.
18:12
There's plenty of car people who own these in love.
18:15
We're just having fun here.
18:16
So anyway, a dealership was bidding on this car
18:22
and per their post on Instagram, which has been removed
18:26
and of their own choice. No, no shady crap there.
18:30
But anyway, they were bidding on the car.
18:33
The next bid was twenty six thousand five hundred one dollars
18:39
in terms of the bid increments.
18:40
They did a fat finger and typed thirty six thousand five one,
18:45
which was well above the reserve and probably above market price
18:52
because essentially all the other bidders said, good job, you win.
18:56
Everybody's like, we're out.
18:57
He immediately commented, this was a mistake.
19:00
I meant to bid twenty six thousand five one.
19:03
He did not tag cars and bids in his comments,
19:07
but they do monitor auctions during the course of the auction
19:11
and at the last minute.
19:12
But the problem there was the bid was placed
19:16
within the final minute of the auction.
19:20
And for those of you who don't know how online auctions work,
19:25
there's no sniping like there was in the old days of eBay.
19:28
The clock resets to two minutes every time you place a bid.
19:33
So there's no advantage to waiting until the last minute.
19:36
But of course, you only have two minutes
19:39
if you're bidding at the last minute.
19:41
So he stated it was a mistake.
19:45
He tried to, you know, essentially he called the seller of the car
19:50
and said this was a mistake.
19:53
He offered to make him whole for his seller fee,
19:56
but cars and bids does not charge seller fees.
19:58
So there's nothing to do there.
19:59
And he contacted cars and bids.
20:02
Cars and bids response was too bad, so sad.
20:06
You read the bidder agreement and key thing to note here as well.
20:11
When you bid, not only do you have to type in the number,
20:14
but it comes up with a confirmation screen.
20:17
And at the top it says here's your bid amount.
20:19
Here's the service fee.
20:21
There are five percent, four and a half percent, I think it is.
20:24
And then at the bottom, you click the button bid this amount.
20:28
So he did see the number three times before he confirmed.
20:34
So and again, I've made same mistakes.
20:38
I'm not crapping on anyone here.
20:40
It's just that there's a reason they have these confirmation screens.
20:43
Bring a trailer, P car market.
20:45
They all do the same thing.
20:46
They want to make sure that nobody accidentally does this,
20:50
which I do want to put out there because my it maybe some of my
20:53
comments later might make it seem like I don't believe this.
20:56
This was an honest mistake.
20:58
We all make mistakes.
20:59
The two and the three are really close together on your keyboard.
21:01
Last minutes of the auction, you might be feeling a little stressed.
21:04
So like it is an honest mistake, but he saw the number like three times.
21:13
Read your screen, bro. OK.
21:15
Anyway, continue to.
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I bid 240 grand on a car instead of 140 this week.
21:20
Well, that's what I'm saying. It happens.
21:22
Did you win? No, that's the crazy thing.
21:25
That's the crazy thing.
21:26
And it was via text.
21:27
I bid 240 on a car that had previously sold for 190.
21:32
And I thought it was to 90.
21:33
And I literally just in my brain saw to 90.
21:36
I had bid 140 on it before.
21:39
And so I bid 240 thinking it was 140 or whatever.
21:43
And they came back to 75.
21:45
So even though I bid 100 grand more than I wanted to,
21:48
that still didn't get it done because the seller wanted so much money.
21:52
And so I went back and I was like, I'll go to 250.
21:54
And then I was immediately like, wait, wait, wait, no, no, no.
21:57
I meant 150, 140, like going back to the auction.
22:01
That's what I had bid previously.
22:03
The car is not worth 80 grand more than it had already sold for.
22:07
Now. I they were not happy with me, but no.
22:13
Nothing was agreed to.
22:14
If I will say this hand on the Bible, if they had come back and said.
22:23
We got our deal done because this was another dealer
22:25
trying to take the car in on trade.
22:26
So they're trying to make their deal based on my bid.
22:29
If they had said you own the car for 240, we'll bill you out.
22:34
I would have said, I'm an idiot.
22:38
Here's your 240 grand.
22:40
I will have to learn this lesson.
22:41
I would have done that, but no deal was made.
22:44
So I like it's not binding until it's binding.
22:47
However, on cars and bids.
22:51
Well, I do appreciate that this the dealer reached out
22:54
and to the seller and said, hey, I'll cover your fees.
22:57
Like they were pretty stand up about it.
22:59
They're like, look, I made a mistake.
23:00
You do got to own for own that.
23:01
And it seems like for the most part at this point
23:04
at the end of the auction, they've owned it.
23:07
But they still didn't want to come through with the bid.
23:12
Yeah, they only like 50 percent.
23:14
That's a tough thing.
23:15
And we talked about this at our dealer
23:17
because we see this all the time.
23:18
We talked about Craig and Landrith, the the dealer
23:21
who didn't want to honor their deal
23:23
because it was a number they didn't like.
23:25
We had something happen today
23:29
where somebody signed contracts, gave us a deposit,
23:31
and then went, I think I paid too much for the car.
23:34
I really don't want it now.
23:35
And it's like, but they signed a contract.
23:37
Did you keep the deposit?
23:40
I wanted to, but we refunded it.
23:42
I really that's probably the right thing to do.
23:44
Anyway, well, speaking of the right thing to do.
23:46
OK, so back to the cars and bids thing.
23:48
Now, the accidental buyer in this case did post some
23:54
reasonably inflammatory things about cars and bids
23:59
right off the cuff in their defense.
24:01
They then removed them from their page because they said,
24:04
listen, yeah, we screwed up.
24:08
We don't think cars and bids handle this the right way.
24:12
But we don't want to be defined by this type of reaction.
24:16
And I give them credit for that.
24:18
That's a mature thing to do.
24:19
We all kind of react really strongly.
24:22
But I can see their perspective on it because they're going.
24:28
We've bought a lot of cars on different auction platforms,
24:30
cars and bids, bring a trailer, et cetera.
24:33
And we didn't so much as get a phone call to try to work this out
24:38
from a relational perspective.
24:41
It's an obvious mistake, but you guys are going to keep our
24:46
$1,800 fee because we made a mistake.
24:51
And so the bidder was not really happy about that.
24:54
And and I get that you people want their deposits back.
24:59
So I talked to the had a good call with the CEO of cars and bids.
25:06
And we got some poll here now.
25:08
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right.
25:10
And, you know, he's that's he's going to defend his his side of things.
25:16
And he did admit the one the one thing he did say and we've learned
25:22
this lesson too is exactly what the bidder said is they essentially
25:28
have a weekly meeting where they go through, Hey, what happened this week?
25:33
What issues do we need to deal with?
25:35
What can we learn from whatever happened?
25:38
Because the car business and the auction landscape is constantly changing.
25:43
And in hindsight, he said, and the key takeaway was I wouldn't have
25:48
changed my decision or the outcome, but we should have dealt with it quicker
25:54
in terms of that customer relation part of things.
25:57
But the long and short of it was cars and bids kept the deposit
26:00
or kept the buyer fee initially and banned the bidder from the site
26:08
because of nonperformance.
26:10
And that's standard across the board, bring a trailer, P car market.
26:14
Anyone who bids on a car wins it and does not come through is banned
26:18
from the site. Same thing with sellers.
26:20
If they don't uphold their part of the deal, banned from the site.
26:25
I get that. I get that.
26:27
The other thing that the CEO said was this was somewhat
26:32
of a perfect storm of a situation.
26:36
If the accidental bid had come in an hour before the end,
26:40
OK, we have time to deal with it and go, let's review it.
26:44
Yes, that's definitely a typo.
26:45
We can see how that tracks.
26:48
Let's just reverse the bid and the auction isn't messed up.
26:52
This one came in so late that they didn't have time to do anything.
26:56
The reserve was met.
26:57
The auction closed and it negated anybody else's bid.
27:02
So it essentially ruined this auction for the seller.
27:06
And the seller was the one who had the most to lose in all of this.
27:11
Not cars and bids, not the bidder.
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And according to the CEO of cars and bids,
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they did attempt to come to a mutually agreeable middle ground
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between the buyer and the seller of, OK, we know you didn't mean to bid 36K.
27:30
And that's probably overmarket.
27:32
So where can we come to term somewhere in between?
27:35
And whether it was the seller or the buyer that
27:39
didn't make the deal happen, a deal did not end up happening.
27:43
So it goes back to their standard procedure of you didn't own.
27:50
You didn't complete the deal.
27:53
So your band and we keep your fee.
27:58
They did decide after this meeting to refund the seller.
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They thought that was the right thing to do in this scenario
28:06
because it wasn't accidental bid about the same time
28:09
because that wasn't communicated quickly enough to the bidder.
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The bidder had filed a charge back,
28:18
opened a fraud case with their credit card company
28:22
in order to get the money back anyway.
28:25
And that does happen.
28:26
I talked to P car market about that when we had a
28:30
non performing bidder on our car.
28:33
And I said, well, you guys don't have any damages here.
28:37
You guys collected five thousand dollars and I'm out a car sale.
28:42
And now I have to start from scratch.
28:43
And every non completed auction, as we've talked about in the past,
28:48
is damaging to my next attempt to sell it.
28:52
So I said, well, why can't I get some of that money?
28:55
And they said, well, we don't always get to keep it.
28:57
Some people file charge backs.
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We have to fight that, et cetera, et cetera.
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And I'm sure there's also another danger of if you start doing that,
29:04
then people play the game of like winning their own auctions,
29:07
shield bidding and then going, oh, I'll just get my credit card fee back
29:11
because they'll give it to the seller.
29:14
So I understand why they don't do that.
29:17
But I think there's definitely room for improvement in these auction
29:24
Hold both the bidders and the sellers more accountable.
29:28
But the one thing that the CEO said that I agreed with
29:38
their goal was to uphold the integrity of the auction platform.
29:43
And while the specific outcome may not have been
29:48
pleasing to the bidder and probably rightly so,
29:52
I can definitely see where they're coming from.
29:54
They have to present to everybody on the site
30:01
that bids are binding and that sellers are real
30:06
because if people like the elections, right,
30:08
if people start to believe that bids aren't real,
30:11
whether they're shield bids or whatever they are,
30:15
then sellers will not want to participate
30:17
and other bidders will also not want to participate.
30:20
So by this quote unquote heavy handed policy,
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they are protecting the integrity of the overall auction
30:30
platform for everybody so that people know when a bid comes in,
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it's a real bid and this transaction is supposed to happen.
30:39
And the auctions work when people trust that this
30:44
that everything that's happening is real.
30:46
Well, and it's like if you go to any of these in person auctions,
30:49
if you sneeze and cover your nose and it counts as a bid,
30:51
you've bought the car and that's like a very good point.
30:55
You know, I want to like I said before,
30:57
eventually I was going to make some comments
30:58
and made it seem like I didn't like
31:00
understand the plight of the bidder,
31:02
but it's like you you had chances to look at your number.
31:06
You had two minutes to make the decision.
31:09
There was well, but even that it's like you knew.
31:12
I see what you there was a total of two minutes since the previous bid.
31:16
You made a mistake and that sucks.
31:18
I think you should be thankful that you only made it out
31:21
by initially losing that transaction fee or whatever that percent is
31:25
that cars and bids takes.
31:27
Take that as a lesson and move on if
31:29
because you're not going to actually purchase the car.
31:31
Like the seller is a real person.
31:33
They this auction was entirely screwed up.
31:35
And as of recording of this episode,
31:37
the car is still for sale on AutoTrader and they still haven't sold it.
31:40
It's like everybody is real people here.
31:43
Yes. The buyer is a real person, probably of good integrity.
31:48
They had good intentions to buy the car.
31:50
They made an honest mistake.
31:52
Abs 100 bids has to protect their auction platform
31:56
at the expense of sometimes the favor of individual customers,
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even regular customers.
32:03
I've been in that same scenario myself
32:05
and I've made the right decision sometimes and the wrong decision sometimes.
32:09
Yeah, but you're right.
32:11
You go to a wholesale auction like Mannheim, you sneeze,
32:14
you make eye contact with the auctioneer.
32:19
And if you don't like it,
32:21
they will just say, OK, buy the car or your band.
32:24
And like this has happened to people I know where they did not even make the bid.
32:29
They didn't intend to make the bid.
32:30
There is no mistake.
32:31
The auctioneer just pointed to them.
32:35
And they bought a car and they're like, what do you mean I bought the car?
32:39
Well, pay for it or you never come back.
32:42
Well, that would be ridiculous.
32:44
If you weren't moving, if you weren't doing anything
32:46
and for some reason the auctioneer got confused and you've got no recourse,
32:50
that's ridiculous. House rules.
32:52
House rules. So as much as I think we can
32:59
take sides with the bidder here as the victim
33:03
and kind of pile on cars and bids and I can in one
33:09
in one scenario, I can totally get behind them and go, that's crap.
33:12
Like from a relationship perspective, just frigging rerun the auction,
33:16
give the guy's money back, whatever.
33:18
But from the other side of things, that scenario is so much more transparent
33:24
than the in person wholesale auctions that it's still
33:27
whatever cars and bids bring a trailer, peak our market and the rest of them
33:30
are doing whatever scams, quote unquote, they're accused of whatever
33:34
issues they have with their auction platform.
33:36
It is so much better than the in person auctions.
33:45
It's not perfect, but yeah.
33:49
So I don't know, are we like Judge Judy here, right?
33:53
Who are you going to put the gavel down?
33:56
Oh, remember who are we deciding in favor of?
34:01
I think that from the relationship perspective, cars and bids did the right
34:05
thing to refund the fee for the accidental bid.
34:09
I think that they had every right to keep that amount of money on principle
34:12
to uphold the integrity of the auction site.
34:15
And it would have sucked and it would have felt really unfair for the bidder.
34:19
But I think that would have made sense.
34:22
I think it was an honest mistake, still a mistake.
34:26
Yeah. And I asked the CEO, I said.
34:32
What would have happened if instead of bidding 36501 when he meant
34:37
to bid 26501, he bid 265001?
34:42
Like some number that's so crazy that nobody could rationally take that
34:50
He said, well, that's a hypothetical situation.
34:52
I'm like, I know that, but I know I like extremes.
34:56
But that my wife, who is our quote unquote in-house legal counsel,
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she went to a year of law school.
35:02
She said there actually is a principle that applies there
35:05
in terms of errors where like if you send somebody a contract
35:10
that's $5,000 off on a $100,000 car, that can't be necessarily seen
35:15
as a number that's so out of the realm of reality that it's an obvious mistake.
35:23
So that could be potentially upheld in court.
35:26
Like, well, you made the mistake, but it's the guy could have negotiated
35:29
5% off, whereas if you miss by 50%, even if you sign a contract,
35:37
it's not enforceable because you can show that like this is an obvious mistake.
35:43
And no rational, reasonable person could say that this was a real
35:48
transaction or intended to be a real transaction.
35:51
So I don't know what the name of that legal principle is, but
35:56
I think that could apply here into that question.
35:59
To your extreme question or the 36K?
36:03
To the extreme question because 36K was more than market value,
36:08
but not out of the realm for somebody who might really want the car
36:13
and just put down a put in a shut, let's shut this down.
36:16
Yeah, like I'm willing to pay this.
36:17
I want the car because people do that all the time.
36:19
They pay 5, 10 grand more or let's put in percentages, right?
36:23
5 to 10% more than quote unquote market value in order to shut it down.
36:28
So it's it's possible that they could have said, well,
36:32
that's high, but within the realm of reason and they didn't to their credit.
36:37
They said, no, that was a mistake.
36:39
We believe it was a mistake.
36:40
And that's why they decided to refund the guy the money.
36:43
So everybody made mistakes here.
36:47
Everybody actually, everybody owned up to it.
36:50
Yeah, the bidder did cars and bids did not everything was a perfect outcome.
36:55
If anything, I think the seller just got kind of screwed.
36:58
And that's exactly what cars and bids said as well in the bidder.
37:01
They all kind of agreed the seller got screwed.
37:03
So maybe they should have donated half of them.
37:06
Yeah, but if you're looking for a 2015 Dodge Challenger right now,
37:11
it's still an auto trader at a Cincinnati, Ohio.
37:13
Speaking of out of the realm of reality, right?
37:16
Do you think this was an accident?
37:18
This wasn't an accident.
37:19
What's your opinion?
37:20
OK, so on cars and bids, another green car 2014 Porsche Cayenne.
37:27
Nothing following that, no GTS, no S, no turbo, Cayenne, but it's a manual.
37:32
Six speed manual, make green, great.
37:34
Again, it's green metallic, 64,000 miles.
37:39
It had previously sold on bring a trailer in 2021 for $51,000.
37:45
Cayenne's have gone down in value since then.
37:48
I would say that this car sold for one hundred twenty five thousand five
37:53
hundred dollars for a eleven year old base.
37:57
Cayenne, Doug, what's your take?
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I mean, if anyone wanted to say this bid is outside of the realm of reality,
38:04
you could say that is it.
38:06
But there's two bidders battling till the end.
38:09
It I have no proof.
38:11
Something smells fishy.
38:13
This is so outside of the realm of possibility.
38:15
And yes, this is blown up on the Internet.
38:18
It could just be a couple of rich guys that don't care about 50
38:21
or $200,000 and they're like, I just want this thing.
38:24
It just feels weird, feels real weird.
38:27
Listen, Switchcast drinking game here for every time I've said CEO tonight.
38:32
But on my call with the CEO of cars and beds, he said, quote,
38:36
it is the wildest auction result I've seen in 11 years of being
38:41
into the car business on any platform.
38:44
But they maintain that this is a real which I feel like so.
38:48
And this is I if I was in cars and bids position.
38:54
The only way that I would say it is not is if there was unavoidable
38:59
evidence that something was off.
39:02
Like they can't really say, well, it's a little weird, but whatever.
39:04
Like maybe they've been in contact with the buyer and the seller
39:07
and they know for a fact, but like it's all just feels weird.
39:12
It's it's crazy, but so is $600,000 on a 360 challenge.
39:17
Should all I am bringing trailers who call back to the warm-up
39:21
OK, well, it's all insane.
39:26
New sub segment here, we're going to try it out.
39:29
We'll need your submissions because we know you all hang out at car shows,
39:33
but I heard something at a car show recently.
39:36
And it is one of my favorite things to do is eavesdrop on people
39:39
who have no clue, but they're trying to impress their friends about
39:42
how much they know, kind of like what we're doing on the podcast.
39:46
You don't know that we're wrong unless you know better.
39:50
We don't know we're wrong unless we know better too.
39:51
Right. So things overheard at car shows.
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My new favorite sub segment was at Canton cars and coffee a few weeks ago
39:59
and there's a second gen Dodge Viper there.
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And some guy was talking to maybe his dad, a friend, I don't know,
40:07
but he said effectively the original Viper is basically a Dodge truck.
40:13
They just reused a lot of truck parts they had laying around
40:15
in order to save money.
40:19
I feel like I've heard this before, actually, it's like, oh, God.
40:24
Tell me you don't know how things work without telling me
40:27
you don't know how things work.
40:28
Holy moly. I also wondered, like, when people say they just
40:32
reused a lot of blank that they had laying around, do they think
40:35
they just have warehouses full of like window switches and crap
40:37
that they just like cobble together and somehow get crash tested?
40:41
I mean, Ferrari's done that.
40:44
But there's no truck parts on a Dodge Viper.
40:48
Isn't the engine or no, they put the engine in a truck.
40:51
Well, that's I think that's where yeah, where that comes from.
40:55
But it is not a truck engine.
40:57
It shares architecture with it and the engine was designed
41:01
or engineered by Lamborghini or with help from Lamborghini.
41:06
Now, but it came from a truck, Doug.
41:08
This is a little red truck engine.
41:09
It's the whole thing's a dodge.
41:11
It was building a shed in Michigan.
41:14
I'm not at the Viper plan on Connor Avenue.
41:17
Anyway, if you hear crazy things at car shows, obviously,
41:20
we can't police this.
41:21
You could just make something up and send it to us.
41:23
But if it's good enough and it sounds good, then we'll talk about it.
41:26
We'll talk about it.
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Is the grappler the new police solution for car chases?
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They've been using spike strips for a long, long, long time.
42:09
Do those spike strips used to get me a need for speed all the time.
42:13
Yikes. Got to learn where the cops normally place them.
42:15
And they ain't going to skirt around.
42:17
Yeah, they are far more effective in video games than in real life.
42:20
Yes. When all that happens is my car stays the same level
42:23
because they didn't model the car falling with its wheels gone.
42:27
So it just continues straight with a bunch of sparks.
42:30
We've had pit maneuvers, which a lot of departments
42:32
are not allowed to do anymore because of liability and lack of training,
42:38
which I got to say, I'm personally a fan of pit maneuvers.
42:42
When done successfully, they are satisfying to watch and very fun to perform.
42:49
But quite dangerous.
42:50
I've watched, I don't know, hundreds of videos
42:54
where they have gone wrong because they were done wrong,
42:58
not because of the pit maneuver itself.
43:00
But the grappler is a device that is it's basically a net
43:06
that is stored in the front of a police car, one specially equipped
43:12
and it's stored in like the ram bar up front.
43:15
Yeah. And they deploy it, it shoots out and grabs the rear axle,
43:18
rear wheel, whatever it can get its grapples on and
43:24
just drags the vehicle.
43:27
And so the cop car comes to a stop.
43:30
And I guess if the cop car is sufficiently bigger enough,
43:34
it can go where it apples.
43:38
It ends the chase just like that.
43:40
So they all they have to do is get up close to the rear bumper,
43:43
which in most police chases, they can do.
43:45
It's much harder to actually get in position to do a pit maneuver
43:49
because seasoned criminals will know, oh, just dodge right, dodge left.
43:54
And then sometimes can't execute a pit maneuver.
43:57
But you could do this in traffic.
44:00
There's so many more places you can do this that you can't do pit
44:03
maneuvers or spike strips.
44:05
Well, I think you'd want to be like with a pit maneuver.
44:07
You could send a car careening into traffic or pedestrians.
44:10
This isn't a Mustang or cars and coffee.
44:14
Brings to a meaning to the words dragnet.
44:16
Oh, yes. Just thought of that.
44:20
So there's a few different stories out there.
44:23
We found one on YouTube from, I think last year,
44:25
where Tempe police accidentally grappled the wrong car.
44:30
But we've seen people cops pit maneuver the wrong car.
44:34
There was one where they pit maneuvered an unmarked police officer
44:37
that was like on his way to a call. Nice.
44:41
And they pit maneuvered him and he flipped on his lights
44:44
as he was like facing the cop that pitted him.
44:46
He's like, what's the deal, man?
44:49
So that's not an argument against the grappler
44:53
because people can spike the wrong cars.
44:56
They can pit the wrong cars.
44:57
Heck, cops frigging spike the wrong cars all the time.
45:01
Well, they still use spike strips.
45:02
They absolutely do.
45:03
Oh, I thought they were like outlawed or something.
45:06
No, heck, half the ones I use,
45:08
they accidentally spike the police officers
45:11
that are chasing the perp.
45:12
The perp drives around them
45:13
and then two cop cars get spiked
45:15
because they don't communicate well enough.
45:17
Anyway, lots of uncoordinated police chases.
45:20
The ones I watch on YouTube, I swear.
45:22
It's like seven year olds playing peewee soccer
45:25
where it's just swarmed the ball.
45:29
But man, these spike strips look scary.
45:31
Yeah. From Fox nine, the grappler was safely deployed
45:35
for the first time in Minnesota during
45:39
it stopped a fleeing vehicle during a police pursuit.
45:42
Egan police successfully used the new tool to end a pursuit
45:45
after a driver refused to stop for red light on Friday, August 30th.
45:49
The female driver was apprehended after a brief foot chase
45:52
and faces multiple charges, including fleeing police.
45:56
Note on this one, too, that it was a pickup truck
46:00
hauling a U-Haul trailer, which if any of you have ever
46:04
been stuck behind people in U-Haul rentals or U-Haul trailers,
46:10
I am convinced that it's like
46:14
white trash people winning the lottery.
46:17
You get a bad driver with a U-Haul trailer
46:20
and it just magnifies how terrible people are at driving.
46:24
Oh, well, because they're not used to driving with a trailer.
46:26
That's a tiny trailer.
46:28
It's still something else you got.
46:29
Even the rental trucks.
46:31
Ethan, our producer, added the small U-Haul rental truck this week.
46:35
And I'm like, I'm staying half a mile away from you.
46:38
But did you see me back it up into the driveway?
46:45
Was it like a little bit of money or a lot of money?
46:47
No, I mean, outside of the tree that Doug had to stand
46:50
on top of the U-Haul to move a branch out of the way for.
46:53
There's nothing I could do to prevent that.
46:55
Oh, anyway, so, OK, but the one that is raising ire
47:01
from a lot of people is a Detroit, Michigan police chase.
47:05
And this is courtesy of Fox to Detroit police
47:08
for tracking a stolen car and Michigan's
47:12
or sorry, Livonia police who have the new grappler responded
47:17
and deployed the grappler on the freeway near Levan, Michigan.
47:22
And it looks like a Chevy Malibu and they
47:25
successfully grappled the car, but then the car tried to drive away.
47:29
And it's a front wheel drive car.
47:31
So they still had power to the drive wheels
47:34
because they were not caught up in the net.
47:36
And they grappled so hard that the rear axle
47:40
just came right off of the car.
47:43
Who? Oh, oh, so this was a win for cops.
47:50
And they caught a thief.
47:52
But the comments, the comments on this are hilarious.
47:58
Quote, this seems really dangerous to everyone in the highway.
48:02
Would love to know the budget blown on indulging cops, Batman fantasies.
48:07
It is kind of like a James Bond or a Batman thing.
48:10
We'll get go, go gadget.
48:12
Quote, it's not really fair to the owner of the car
48:14
that the police destroyed it.
48:16
Possibly the car could have been recovered
48:18
or the police could have chased until the car ran out of gas.
48:22
So I got to be honest, I'm watching the video right now.
48:26
And they are like it didn't.
48:30
They didn't grapple the rear axle and the rear wheel
48:33
and it just pulled the axle off.
48:34
They right now the cops are just sitting in the middle of the road
48:38
while the person up there goes while the person who stole the car
48:41
tries to pull like yank right away from the the grappler device.
48:47
So they keep backing up and flooring it and going forward.
48:49
And after like the third or fourth time, the rear axle pops off.
48:52
Yes. So it's not like there's a problem here
48:58
in that people are blaming the police for criminals activity.
49:03
It is a stolen car stolen by the criminals.
49:06
They have likely already damaged it.
49:08
Probably run into and ram the police already.
49:11
And then they're saying, oh, well, the police damaged the car.
49:14
Just wait for the criminal to run out of gas.
49:16
Have you ever watched any police chases?
49:19
Now, I will say we're going to talk about grappler versus spike strip versus pit maneuver.
49:24
I am not going to cite any studies because I don't need to.
49:28
I have watched hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of high speed
49:33
police chases and compiled my own data.
49:36
Yeah, Doug, this is what I do.
49:42
spike strips do not work.
49:44
And they're so cool.
49:45
One out of 10 is successful in the hundreds of videos I've watched.
49:50
Two out of in getting the perp's car, two out of 10,
49:54
at least are successful in spiking the police cars directly behind the perp.
50:00
Three out of 10 are successful.
50:02
This is certified stamped data here.
50:06
Three out of 10 are successful in the police officer who is throwing the spikes
50:10
at a moving car that's going a high rate of speed with the death wish.
50:16
At putting the officer in harm's way.
50:20
And often the car drives directly at the officer.
50:23
Spike strips are terrible.
50:25
I think they should be completely outlawed because they're just they're not effective.
50:29
The risk-reward ratio is not there at all.
50:34
It's way better when you're parked on the side of the road,
50:36
just waiting for that street racer to come up and you press a button on your
50:39
keyboard and one just pops up in the middle of the road.
50:41
That's what I'm talking about.
50:42
We need that technology.
50:44
Oh, my gosh. Another comment, quote, I see the vision.
50:47
But like, does this come out of the police department's wallet
50:50
or the person who stole the car?
50:51
Because I don't think I'd like to get my car back, but have no back wheels.
50:56
Bro, you've never had a car stall and have you?
50:59
Isn't there some level I don't if my car was stolen
51:04
and like really kind of abused, I'm not sure if I'd necessarily want it back.
51:08
You don't want it back.
51:09
It would feel you don't know what they've done.
51:11
You don't know what you will uncover a month or a year from now.
51:15
But also somebody has like violated your thing.
51:18
People only want their stolen cars back from a sense of being made whole.
51:23
You are never made whole. It is never right.
51:26
They are always damaged and it costs more to get them back.
51:30
Personal experience, then do not get them back.
51:33
However, like stop blaming the cops.
51:38
Would you like them to just let the perp go?
51:42
Just take the stolen car.
51:44
Well, anyway, another quote, so dangerous and so much damage
51:49
just to catch someone and provide literally no justice
51:52
while endangering everyone around them.
51:55
Honey, have you watched police chases like I have?
51:59
Those are dangerous.
52:01
You think let's go to pit maneuvers honey.
52:04
I've seen so many terrible accidents as a result of pit maneuvers.
52:10
Not the pit maneuvers are to blame, but cops aren't trained in these.
52:13
They're doing them too far forward.
52:15
So they're catching the rear wheel and flipping the cop car.
52:18
They're doing them into oncoming traffic over and over again.
52:22
They're doing them when traffic is around causing accidents, crazy rollovers.
52:28
And, you know, we could say, well, we don't care about the perps,
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but human life is human life.
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And maybe there's innocent victims in the car
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who didn't want to be in the car for these police chases.
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That happens often.
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There's children in the car sometimes.
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Guy goes crazy and is with his baby mama and is,
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you know, another dude's baby.
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I'm stereotyping here, but like this is the safest way to end a pursuit.
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And the quickest, like, to say this is endangering everyone,
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like these people, these commenters don't live.
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They live in an alternate reality.
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What's the point of doing this to a stolen car that belongs to someone else?
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There's literally no reason to destroy a car that you're trying to recover.
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I got to admit, I was supremely skeptical about this
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because it seems really dangerous and like something could go wrong.
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But the axle popped off after like three or four tries.
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Like, OK, no, that's kind of the fault of the the perp in that scenario.
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This might actually be all right.
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I was going to try to tell you this sucks, but like.
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I think it might actually be better
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than just letting the perp go and continue driving like a maniac
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and potentially harm somebody else.
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I the dealers, the dealerships, the and departments are so concerned
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about their CYA and rightly so.
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That I've seen where a car was driving on to an on ramp
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for oncoming traffic on the highway and the cop had an opportunity to pit
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them, but he had not gotten authorization to do so yet.
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At that point, I'm thinking if I'm the cop, I don't care.
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This is about to escalate to an insane level driving into oncoming traffic
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on a highway. I don't care if I lose my job.
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I'm putting this guy into the ditch.
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It doesn't matter how I do it or if I wreck out doing it.
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So to me, this grappler thing is.
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It's technology that's been around for a while, and I don't know why
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it has not become ubiquitous.
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It it seems to be so easy to use, so incredibly safe on a relative scale.
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When I think that's the relative is important, because there's still a
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chance that something could go sideways.
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Somebody in oncoming traffic could not notice what's happening
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and swerve and do something stupid.
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But still in the realm of all of the potential ways to deescalate
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a pursuit, this seems to be purely for deescalation instead of an
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escalation for the purposes of.
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I was slowing people down.
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If you spike them, my studies show that they don't slow down.
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They keep driving at the same speeds with less traction, which is more dangerous.
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Cops in general aren't trained very well at driving and especially
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not in high speed pursuits.
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So the longer high speed pursuit goes, the more dangerous it is to civilians,
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not just because of the perp and their desperation to get away,
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but also the cops adrenaline and often they're on, they're in explorers
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with snow tires like they're not properly equipped performance vehicles.
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They do not have the right equipment to be doing this stuff.
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So if you can just bring something to a stop, you hit the nail on the head.
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I think every friggin department should have this.
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I think this is throw your spike strips out, not into the road.
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Like, chuck them into the trash, leave them for speed.
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Don't have to worry about the liability in the training with pit maneuvers.
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They're still cool, but honestly, I think spike strips are still cool.
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They're dangerous as all heck, but boy, are they sweet.
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It's a strip of spikes dug to pop the tires.
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That got my Porsche 911 turbo so much in need for speed.
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So I'm I'm all about this.
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I wanted to fight you, but this is legit.
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Let's go to plate to sample our most popular game ever.
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Sign up here for those of you watching.
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And this is brought to you literally and financially by Solan Spine.
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It's not what you think it's not Sol and Spine.
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It is Sol and Ohio.
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They will get you straightened out if you are not straight crooked.
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Whatever is going on in your back shoulders, et cetera.
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So let's do plate to sample.
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This is the game where we will name a vanity plate.
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Ohio has renamed them special plates because, you know, people don't want to be accused of being vain.
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But let's be honest.
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They are their vanity plates.
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And instead of trying to guess what it means because that's usually patently obvious.
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We will try to guess the vehicle that it is on.
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How well can we identify stereotypes?
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I will say last time I think I had an improvement a couple weeks ago.
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I was a little rough.
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It was embarrassing.
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I had to apologize after the podcast.
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It almost got fired.
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It was a whole thing.
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Well, Tyler, fire away with your first one.
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For you, Doug, this comes from John Z.
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Because they have SpaceX.
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This one, I apologize, people watching.
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We always have photos of the plates.
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I did not get photos of these because I was driving, but they were too good.
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So these are all lies.
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I will pull them up on car.
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Carfax is kicking me out.
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I do two factor authentication.
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So I will pull it up to prove that they are real and that they correspond to the vehicle.
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I can't spell them.
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The first one is PRVJET from Ohio.
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This is an AMGS class.
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Well, technically, yes.
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That is what it comes up on Carfax.
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Pack it away, boys.
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But it was on a Porsche Panamera.
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Carfax 2023 Mercedes-Benz S-Class S500.
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Not an AMG, but it might have had the AMG package.
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I got some dusty shoulders over here.
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This is kind of weird.
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I got to be honest, Doug.
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This next one, I'm going to need you to explain it to me when we're done here because
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I don't get it, but I feel like you might have seen this plate at this point.
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Thank you for sending this in.
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MS-8, like MS-Space-8.
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It might not have an actual meaning, but the car it's on makes me feel like you might know.
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JBL MS-8 digital sound processor?
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It is black with a red interior.
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Fisker designed it, so MS-8.
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It might literally mean nothing, but this was on a Z-8.
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I was like, Doug might have actually seen this in your sleuthing for one.
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It's black, so not your preferred color.
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Must mean nothing then.
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Next one for you, which I saw.
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I will pull up the car effects to verify.
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I don't even think I need to do any more of these today.
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The number two, TH-D-R-L-A.
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Oh, so he's a dentist or a G.
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This is going to be a Lexus.
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That's what a dentist drive.
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Wrong manufacturer.
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It is a BMW 8 Series M850i.
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Those are pretty sweet.
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I'm not a modern BMW fan, but BMW has knocked it out of the park with the new 8 Series.
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Gloria and Coop, whatever.
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It's the only one that doesn't have massive kidneys.
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Like overly massive.
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Like they're big, but it's a big car.
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Next up for you, Doug, coming from Chris S.
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Crowds with a little heart on it.
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Sorry, he sent that one to me too.
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I was like, I got to use this at some point.
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But I would have got it anyway.
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I didn't know that in Texas you could get a heart like a symbol on your plate.
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You can in California too, because I saw an old Alfa Romeo.
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Old Alfa Romeo at a car show that had I Heart AAA.
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Oh, that's amazing.
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Another Ohio plate.
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This was a submission.
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It's like an EcoBoost.
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I see what you did there.
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It's not the 5-liter.
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Or a Chevy Caprice.
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Or a Dodge Charger.
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Or a Ford Police Interceptor.
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Oh, the Taurus one.
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No, the Explorer Interceptor.
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That's a good plate.
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That is a good plate.
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John A brings you the next one.
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This has a pink bedazzled plate frame as well.
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Because they're very bougie.
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I don't think they're actually bougie.
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I really don't know.
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I think pink bedazzled.
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It is a Mercedes entry-level compact SUV.
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Oh, you pulled the me.
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Doug will never guess.
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This one comes to you from Chase McIntosh v.
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This is a good one.
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Massachusetts plate.
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Oh, is this on like a Subaru Sambar or the Honda Acti?
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What are the K-Truck options are there?
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Is it on a Maverick?
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Are they trying to make a joke?
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Well, yes, they are trying to make a joke,
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but it's on a Ford Bronco.
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Oh, the full-size one.
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The fenders on this thing are bigger than an actual K-Truck.
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All right, Doug, this last one, I need you to prepare yourself.
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So what kind of person would drive?
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Is that a Chrysler K car?
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No, but that would be good.
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That would be, it's not that.
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It's much more modern.
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Do you know why I guess that?
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Isn't that George Costanza's thing?
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Oh, I don't actually remember.
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He had a Lebaron that was owned by John Voight.
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I'm making connections I shouldn't make here,
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but okay, I having the faintest idea.
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It's a Volkswagen Passat.
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What does that have to do with sucking toes?
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No, I guess that's just the vehicle of choice
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for a potential tow sucker.
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No, no, it's rectangles and squares here.
04:42
Just because you drive a Passat doesn't mean
04:44
you want to suck toes, but if you want to suck toes,
04:46
probably drive a Passat.
04:49
This one comes from Robert on Instagram,
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P-R-E-R-N-R pre-runner.
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So the first thing that comes to mind is something like
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a Plymouth that came out before the road runner.
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Am I entirely off like it's a pre-road runner,
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pre-run, I don't, I'm entirely off base.
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I'm taking your car guy card away.
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It's a 93 Ford F-150 that's built like a pre-runner.
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You don't know what a pre-runner is?
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Oh my gosh, internet please tell Tyler who I've now
05:25
confirmed that I'm keeping his car guy card
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I don't, so it's a Baja truck?
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I mean these things look amazing.
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I did not know they were called pre-runners though.
05:39
Ooh, this one from Motortrad with a Ranger looks dope.
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This looks like a lot of fun.
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Is that five or is that four?
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Oh man, but I have one more good one.
05:49
I have one more good one.
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Somebody bet a t-shirt on this on what you would guess.
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Well they said Ethan.
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They bet a, what Ethan would guess?
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Well I think they might, who's Tyler?
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This one is from Brian Kidd.
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Ethan, I'll send you the screenshot to put up when he says that.
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I don't want to lose this one because I'd have to send a t-shirt to England.
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This is a British plate.
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Ethan, what's your guess?
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Ethan, what's your guess?
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I'm asking you, Tyler.
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Oh, oh, he doesn't have a mic.
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Is that on, hmm, and it's, you said it's a UK plate?
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Is it on a, uh, like a twingo?
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A twink, like a Renault twingo or whatever?
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A Mercedes-C250 Blu-Tec wagon.
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Brian, bet me a t-shirt that you would guess a Tesla.
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But Tesla in, see in the US Tesla drivers don't have that reputation.
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That's what, and I think that's what screwed me up is I'm like, what is considered that
07:19
type of vehicle in the UK?
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I don't actually know.
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That is a great question.
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Maybe they're left-hand drive cars.
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Well, that was a, that was a fun game.
07:30
I don't know what the score was, but it doesn't matter anyway.
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