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Now, here is the host of Let's Talk Cars Radio, Dave Palash.
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Happy Saturday America! You're listening to Let's Talk Cars Radio on WKQA Freedom Radio.
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I'm your host, Big Davey P, hanging out at Cameron Chaos and 8VB. Hey guys, it is an awesome,
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awesome holiday weekend. Hope you guys have enjoyed your Thanksgiving and you guys are
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enjoying a little downtime. It is great to be back in the studio. As you guys know, we have been
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just back from SEMA and just been busy, busy, busy as soon as we got back. So, still hitting car
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shows. Yeah, that's right. Even in our area, maybe not yours, but our area, there's still a
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couple car shows are still out there floating around that we were trying to get out to and
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show a little presence. You guys know this is the time of year for us that it is our big,
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huge charity event that we work on every single year. We are now in our 12th year of doing our
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Christmas event, which is awesome. It's a huge accomplishment for us. If you guys have never
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followed along and don't know what we do for the last 11 years, now this is our 12th year,
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we adopt eight families throughout our area and we provide them with all of their Christmas
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meal, all their kids clothes and all their kids toys and a wish list. There's a complete vetting
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system that goes through. We work hand-in-hand with the schools and everything. It's a great system.
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It took me a long time to develop this and figure out it's time to go on and get better and better.
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If you guys have fallen us through the years, you know, we've given away car repairs. We've
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bought cars for people. We've done it all and it is a really big, big deal to me because it's
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something that I made myself a promise way back in life. Then I got to the point where I could
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do something for people. I wanted to do it. When I finally got to that point, I followed through
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and it has been awesome. So, it's all thanks to our sponsors. It is. It is. It is. It's a great
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job. So, I'd like to thank all of our sponsors that contributed to that. First of all, Napa Autoparts,
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Napa BDG Group, Liberty Transmission and all the other big sponsors get involved. There's a lot.
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I can go through them, but those are the biggest ones. I know they get involved with us every
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single year in our local area and then I have ones, smaller ones and then some outside the area
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that get involved. Some of your donations that is given to us every single year through people who
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want to help out is very, very much appreciated. This year has been interesting. We're putting
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everything together. I have our families early. I have a huge family this year. I have a family
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that has 13 kids in the family. It's a huge family. That's going to be fun now. It has its equal
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challenges, but it's going to be fun. It's going to be great. I know Christmas is just barreling
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down on us very, very quick. It's funny because this is usually our wind down season for all the
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car stuff. This year has been really active. I think it's still active because the weather's
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been holding out. We've had 73-degree days for us since we were back from SEMA and normally we'd
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be like in the lower 50s, sometimes dipping into the 30s at night. We haven't seen a whole lot of
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that yet, so I think that's the reason why we're still seeing a lot of traction. One good thing
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that I am seeing in the car community, which is a great, great thing. A lot of car communities out
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there nationwide that we are involved in, that we show up and do things with, are involved in
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charity programs this year, so a lot of them have adopted that. I've talked to a lot of people over
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the last two years or so about how to take some of that and turn it into programs for their car
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community, for their car club and stuff, and get a little bit more involved in how we went about
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doing it. I've seen people actually instituting it, so it's been really cool to see and follow along.
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A lot of food drives and stuff, which is great. I did see here locally a big shout out to the
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local Hell's Angels group. I was just pointing that out. You took the words out of my mouth. How
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cool is that? So in our local area, the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club got involved and just,
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they showed up with a presence in the area, tons and tons of food and stuff. Very, very cool,
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so a big shout out to them. And that was with, in sponsorship to FM99 and 106.9. The Fox,
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they actually donated, the Hell's Angels donated $12,172.35.
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Very cool. It was a lot. I saw tons of turkeys. I was like, you know,
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so can I tell you guys about how we did, and I know it's a car show, but I'm telling you guys
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about cool stuff that is in your community of your car show. So it started off for me,
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like I said, this is our 12th year. So the 11th year, we did a small
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collections for a family, but I loaded up a pickup truck with turkeys. As much turkeys,
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I could put them back for a pickup truck. And that's how it started for me. And I went and
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donated all these turkeys. And then it just, from there, I was like, the, the feeling I got for
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helping and being involved and stuff like that, just really, really was awesome. Like I said,
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it was a promise. I made myself in a darker time in my life when I was a young man that I wanted
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to do something I've ever got the opportunity to. And it was just something I was really important
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me to follow through on. But yeah, we, you guys remember the, we had old blue and it was full
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of all the turkeys in the back. I remember. And we now own old blue back. So if you guys,
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if you guys have been following old blue was my daily driver truck that I raised my kids in,
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we sold it and we got it back and we're going to restore that truck. So we have it sitting outside
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of the mega garage. And it is one of the ones to go in as soon as we're done with the other one.
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Well, for you guys, I know you guys are going to hit me as soon as I mentioned it to give you an
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update on some of the cars. So bad am is back on its wheels. It's down the ground. It is ready to
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go out and have a little bit of firewall work done on it. And then it's time to drop the motor in
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it. So we made some progress on that. It is off the lift folks. It is off the lift. It's been a
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while. I know you guys, man, that car's been on the lift for like a year. It had not because of
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us because of parts delay, but we finally got everything. It is all back together on the ground.
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I just got to put the motor and then put the whole, all the sheet metal back on it. So we're
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moving forward with that. I talked to a guy this last week about finally fixing the firewall and
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everybody's that I was talking to online was like, why aren't you fixing your own firewall?
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I could. I don't paint. I'm not a painter. Told you guys 1000 times. I just don't paint. I painted
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a couple cars in my life. I don't think I have the patience for it and it's not really my thing.
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So yeah, we could. I mean, well, he first, okay, we took out the subframe.
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You're lying to me up. I get asked all the time when I'm on forums. I told you guys I belong to
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a lot of different clubs, forums, stuff online. That's how we get a lot of the material for the
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show. And I get people like, you know, Dave, why don't you do this? And why don't you do that? And
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you know, if you guys are building cars, why don't you just do this yourself? Okay. So there's,
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there's a couple of reasons for it. Number one, I'll address the bad am first. So with the bad
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am, there's some things that I am not doing myself. I'm not equipped to do so. And everybody's
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like, you got a huge garage. How are you not equipped? I don't have many, many bending metal
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materials and stuff like that. I don't have metal brakes. I don't have all that. I don't own that
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stuff. I told you guys, I could, I technically have the room for it. I don't want to store it. I
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don't use it enough. I can't justify buying, but like even just down to an English wheel, like,
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I don't really want to store it. And everybody's like, oh, you got the big garage. I'm like,
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and at the same time, I mean, let's be honest, we're, what, I'm 25. So we're at least 28 years
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into this project. I mean, so we're 28 years in this project. We could learn how to bend metal,
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but why not just have a professional do it? Right? It just, it doesn't make sense.
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Absolutely makes no sense to me. Now, Nathaniel has like, he has the creative side of wanting to
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know a lot of that stuff. And that just, that's always been him. But as I try to explain him,
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like, look, man, I don't want to buy that piece of machinery. We could definitely, we could definitely
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do this. I know the materials we can do and stuff, you know, we could probably budget it. I know
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people that's done it. And so we could definitely knock it out. Now to the perfection that you're
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looking for, maybe not, you know, you, it could be a one hit wonder. You never know. But I'm sure
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if we had Nathaniel on hands, we'll get it done. All right. I mean, he's the only person I know
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that has taken a coffee mug that's broken and trying to put it back together. I mean,
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he's the only person. So I feel like we could get it done. But at the same time, in my ass,
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like my, my mind is it probably be just a little bit easier, more, wait, we probably, it probably
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take us six months to a year. That's drastic. Yeah, that's really drastic. You can do it as
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a procrastinator, maybe. I'm a procrastinator. So I'm already adding my time schedule on to it.
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Six months when it could probably take what you think, if we drop it off the fire, the
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firebird, it probably take about two months. You do too much. So I contact somebody I knew,
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I got a telephone number because I need to, if you guys don't want, I want the firewall,
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paint it. And I, then I wasn't going to do it. And I took care of the firewall originally myself.
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And it did come out nice. I cleaned everything up. Looks nice. I said, it looks good. It's sitting
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in primer right this second. And I was just going to spray it out in a flat black, which I,
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I could easily do that. Now, besides metalwork, there's some plates I want to put on it. And I
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have welder and stuff we can weld the plates in, but I don't, I don't own all the stuff to do all
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the metalwork. So I had to buy the pieces for everything I want to do. Prop number one for me.
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It's not a problem for anybody else, but for me, because I got to buy number two, I don't paint.
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It's not like I said, I have painted before I'm not the best painter, but I have, I have bought
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some cars and flipped them and painted them over the years. And they came out all right. I mean,
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they're, they're 20 footers. I don't know. At least you're honest. I mean, they're 21st. I mean,
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once I sanded them, most of anything that would just stood out pretty much blended in. All right.
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But like I said, I know I don't have the patience for it. I was just, I mean, I would do like
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front bumper, deck lid, maybe a fix offender or whatever. Stuff you can't really see. Right,
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right, right. Just scuffing it in, fixing little problems, stuff like that. I would do that.
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But I don't own, I don't have the paint guns anymore. To be honest with you guys, I don't have
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the real, the right filters on my air compressor and stuff like that to be painting. I could go buy
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all the stuff. Yeah, it's not a matter of buying. I could buy it. But am I going to buy all that
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stuff for something I might do every couple of years? Maybe no, man. I rather just send down
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the guy that already owns that stuff, pay the money, let him take care of it and be done with it
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and know he's going to do a lot better job than I am. So that answers the question on metal and
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paint. That's the reason why I don't like the mechanical stuff. Sure. But even then, some of
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this stuff is like, it's, it's time for me. You know, the boys and I, you know, we get in the
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garage and we love building stuff. We like building these cars. We're like working on them. I mean,
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I enjoy it. I, I enjoy the time I spend with my kids. I told you guys you should do it too.
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Go buy a project car and build with your kids. I don't care if you ever finish it. I really don't.
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Just build it with them because the times you spend with them, it's time you cannot get back.
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You may never finish that car. But the memories like I have good and bad memories with them
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of building this car. Like there's times where they'll tell you, I am mad. I am screaming.
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I don't throw tools anymore. I used to when I was a young man. I don't because tools are too
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expensive. So I don't throw them anymore. Well, I was about to say, you're going to make a really,
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really great friend with your snap on guys. I mean, hey, you know, you're going to lose a lot
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of 10 millimeter and 13 millimeter sockets. Just be prepared. Just be prepared. So if I could figure
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out where the 10, the 12 and the 15 walks off to and I,
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literally do everything I can to make sure I don't lose them. But I third team would disappear
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after after working on the car for like three days, of course, a weekend. And I'm really good
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about putting my tools back and everything. I have everything laid out nice and neat.
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Somehow one of those always and I'm like, where did it go? I took it off. I popped
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it off the ratchet. I put it and then it just, I don't know. And then here's the funny thing. So
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I have like, I don't know, right? The second in my possession, realistically, like 10,
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10 snap on 10 millimeters, like four, 13s, like three, 15s and everybody's like,
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why do you have so many? I'm like, well, because I lost it or I thought I did. And then it magically
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showed back up and I had it and I lost them, both of them. And then magically, they both show back
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up but I can't go along without them. So I'm probably a snap on guys best friend because
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I'm just like, Hey man, I don't know where it is. Just, just I grab one off the truck and I carry
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it home with me. Sometimes you go buy a kit. No, I don't. I mean, I buy them separately,
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but you're talking some of my specialty stuff. Yeah. There's been a couple of
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specialty stuff I could not get. I had a box. Sometimes you just go on the truck,
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you see something that you know you're not supposed to buy and you're like,
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all right, so we're going to hide it underneath the truck seat for about a year.
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Look, if you buy a really expensive something you should not and you don't want your wife to know,
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as Cameron is a late two, thanks for telling me because she listens to the show.
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Just buy it and hide it underneath the seat for about a year and pretend like you don't own it.
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Let's be honest. We went to go buy a replacement ratchet and they didn't have the ratchet anymore
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because they, they switched things up all the time like batteries. I bought a blue point set,
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a large blue point set, not, I mean, bigger one that I keep in the truck. Why? As the boys tell
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you, I can take a whole vehicle apart with one. They've seen me do it on the side of the road,
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not the side of the road. So I've always kept one in the truck and I have a tool bag that when I
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travel, I told you guys that I throw my electric impact in with a fresh battery and an extra
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battery. It goes in there and I put some of my, my deeper sockets in that bag. So with those two
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kits, I could pretty much take anything apart for the most part. I mean, with reason because I know
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you, I love your keyboard warriors who are like, you can't do this. I'm like, okay,
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so for the most part, I can take most stuff apart and I have on the side of the road,
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the boys would tell you, I know I told you guys a story where I hitchhiked into town
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and we got, remember when we got the part and we came back and fixed the truck on the side of the
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road. I think we're on our way to Dover for that trip. I think it's where we're going and we fixed
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the truck on the side of the road. Was that red? Yeah, it was red. Yep. So a water pump went out,
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the front pulley just, I don't, for whatever reason, that truck was very well-maintenance.
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It just decided to go out and we ended up working on the truck and fix it. So with that kit,
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I could do everything. They made a bigger kit and I was like, oh, well, it has just a couple other
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things in it that I'd like to have. I wouldn't have to throw in the bag. It all comes in the kit
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maybe by blue point. I put it in the truck. I had it and the reason why I ended up with
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the bigger kit as Cameron's trying to tell me is because the smaller kids, someone took the ratchet
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out of it for whatever reason. I have no idea who did and it just walked away and I couldn't get the
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exact ratchet that would pop back in that kit because you know how they have the plastic
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kit guys and everything pops in. I couldn't get the right ratchet that popped back in the right
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for the case to close right and it was driving me nuts. So my result was I took that kit out
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and it's now sitting in the bottom of the toolbox drawer in the mega garage and I bought the bigger
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kit and slid underneath. But I paid, you know, not a whole lot of money, but decent money for the
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bigger kit and I just bought like, I don't know, $1,400 or $1,500 and tools right for that. So I,
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we had to hide it from Don for like a year. We didn't hide it. We didn't hide it. We just didn't
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show it. We didn't hide it. We didn't hide it. It just magically showed up like the ratchet,
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like the 10 millimeters or the 13 millimeters. I mean, I have a bunch of extra ones in my toolbox
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of like, say, 10s. How many bills? It's 12s. I think there's like 13s and 15s, whatever it is.
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They're in there and everybody jokes because they're like, why do you have these extra ones?
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I'm like, because they keep showing up. You know, it is going to show up commercials unless
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I go to one. Let me take quick commercial break. When I come back, I got some more for you guys
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Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist. Now back to your host,
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Hey guys, welcome back. So before we went to commercial break, we were talking about
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why we're not doing some of the work on our two projects. So to round that out,
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let me give you the update on white noise because I keep on getting tagged. People are
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sending me messages and they're like, what's going on? And I think I talk about it enough.
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Apparently I don't. If you don't know, white noise is our 69 SS Nova that we are building,
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that we've done a lot of work to. And it has been great. It was a great purchase for us. But
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what started off as a very simple build for us because of me and the way I am has piled into
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a lot more than we wanted to do. And we're enjoying it. But I sent the car out to have metal work
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done on it. And it has been out of our possession for a little while. I did talk with him this last
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past week. Apparently everything is cut out and ready to go back in. There is a delay on parts,
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which when is there not a delay on parts guys, but they are supposed to rectify that and have
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the parts in this by this weekend. So I'm assuming that work will proceed after the holiday. And
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hopefully we're supposed to have that car back in our possession before Christmas. I'm kind of hoping
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that does happen. But we'll see. And then it's a matter of putting the interior back in. We need
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to make some modifications on that. Some things we came across why Nathaniel and I worked on it
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without Cameron because he was busy that day. We pulled it all apart. So we need to make a
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collaborate decision as far as putting it back together. But we've got some interior parts
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we're going to be ordering for it. I need I want to do something different with the dash. So
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I'm trying to find somebody. I haven't found somebody to do anything with what I want with the
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dash. I want a stitched in dash. I don't think I want it just padded, but I want it stitched in.
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That'd be cool. And it'll look a lot better in that car. So and I contacted a guy about building
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a custom console for it. And everybody goes, Why don't you build your own custom console? I can.
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Now that's stuff I do have. I'll be the first one to tell you, I do have everything to build
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custom consoles. I used to build speaker boxes. I own a lot of saws. I'm very, very apt and woodworking.
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So I could build a console. I could build a wood one. I could use that as a guide and then wrap
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it and make it out of carbon fiber or whatever. I could do all kinds of stuff. But why would I?
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So I went ahead and did the cost for me to do it. I'm only within like $300 difference,
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just letting this guy who does it all the time. But you're invested in the future.
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And realistically, we also got so much stuff coming up, especially after the holidays. We
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already know cars are going to start kicking right up and everything. I will say, I can see it's
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using like a 3D printer to help us like print a couple of different things. Like a center console,
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I could see being, you know, you could probably use a 3D printer to kind of help you out with
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different sections. So here's the problem with 3D printer. So I thought about getting one
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for the mega garage. I really did. I want a bigger one though. I want one of the,
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I want one rocket. If I'm going to get one, I'm going to get one bigger.
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Well, that's the problem, right? It's like every time you want to invest in something,
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you always want the biggest, coolest toy. That's me though. You know me. That's
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it. It's my personality. If you guys have not figured me out, my buddy Kurt jokes me all the
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time. He's like, man, every time you go look at something, you're like, why is it you always have
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like, you buy like the biggest and the best, everything? I was like, it's not because I believe
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and haven't had the most expensive thing. I do my research and my research usually concludes
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back around that I better spend the money now instead of wishing I spent it. You know what I mean?
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So that's how it comes about. But if I was to get a 3d printer, I want one of the bigger ones.
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I've looked at it. I would have some money invested in it. And I just, if I'm going to do one a,
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the space in the mega garage is going to take up as number one, which I kind of do have the space.
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I have a corner space for it. I have a corner that I'm not using that I could set up for that.
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Right this second, it has all the sheet metal from the bad AM sitting in the corner, the fenders
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and all that kind of stuff. Once that goes back on the car, that corner is completely empty.
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But I like having that corner for projects because we have a really expensive paint job on the bad
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AM. And it has given me the opportunity to put that metal in a corner where nobody needs to go
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to that corner. Like there's no reason to really be in that corner messing around. And I like having
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that. And the only thing about building that out and making a space of any type of workstation in
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that, in that corner, I lose that. And then I had to figure out, okay, why don't we do now? I did
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take some project transmissions that we had in the garage that I haven't done anything with. And I
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finally decided to part ways with them. It was a little hard. I have a hard time getting rid of
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hot rod stuff because I just feel like you're going to eventually need hot rod stuff. And if you
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already have it, you don't have to pay for it. But I came to conclusion, I had said for a couple
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years, I haven't touched it. I'm like, I'm going to let it go. I also have a second hood to white
23:03
noise that if anybody's looking for a 69 Nova hood, I'm going to go ahead. I think I'm going to scuff
23:08
it and primer it and just put it up for sale and let it go because it's just, it's taking up room.
23:12
I have it. I don't need it. We already have a different hood on it. I got to start letting go
23:16
some of this stuff that I have that I've saved all the years of hot rod stuff. Like I got heads to
23:20
stuff. Everybody's like, just keep that stuff. And you know, I have expensive Pontiac heads,
23:24
the ones you can't find anymore. I have a complete set of those and I have them sitting in one of
23:29
the tubs. And everybody's like, why are you still hanging on? Like, could you can't find them? I
23:32
have them. I have a couple intakes. You can't really get your hands any more than some of the old
23:35
nostalgic stuff. I own things like that that I have a hard time parting with. And I'm sure you guys
23:39
as car guys have the same thing because I know they're getting harder to find. And I'm not keeping
23:44
them for the money value really. I'm keeping them for the what the what if. I think if I need it.
23:49
Right. But I think as I'm getting older, my what if is smaller? If that makes sense. Like,
23:53
what if we buy another chance? See,
23:57
I'm not the best. Okay. So Nathaniel Cameron disagree on this. Cameron follows along with me
24:03
a little bit more on this of I have no problem owning two of the same type of car as long as
24:09
there's differences to them. Okay. Nathaniel goes, why have 20 or 30 grand wrapped up in a car that's
24:14
identical to something you already own? Why not use that 30 grand own something completely different
24:18
so you have right more of a selection in your in your collection. You can even do like you can
24:22
even do like a different gin, you know, like, see, and he should, he should want to do this
24:27
same model different gin. So it would kind of be like cool if you had the same exact car.
24:32
And then we were riding around in the same exact car, but differences just a little bit and like
24:37
the models. And there's like a twin set. So let me burst your bubble a little bit, right? Okay.
24:42
I almost without letting you guys know, right before we went to SEMA bought another 77
24:48
Trans Am. It wasn't our color, but it's close. It's gray and ours is not ours is a special color,
24:54
but it was close enough. And I was like, how cool would that be to have two of them? And I couldn't
24:59
the price was right. I couldn't pull the trigger on it. That's different. And the reason why I
25:04
personally would say that's different is because the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am we have in our possession
25:10
is a family car that was passed down in the family week, you know, from what that would be my great
25:15
grandpa. So it's like that that's kind of cool. It is, you know, but think about getting two
25:24
Corvettes, right? And then building them both as two vehicles. Where's the Corvette come from?
25:29
Because we've talked about because we talked about Corvettes and I don't remember the retro,
25:33
the retro vet. I have a desire to build a retro vet. It is the money wise guys really
25:40
realistically is the money is on point to do it. Like for as far as like how I calculate car math,
25:45
it's my problem with it is, is when you have two projects that are boat torn apart right
25:50
the second that you're trying to put back together, I have a hard time keeping from dragging something
25:55
else home. I'll burst another bubble. So I'll give you another one. I almost bought. Hold on, I'll give you
26:01
it. I hate that you all don't see. I don't share anything with them because sometimes they, they,
26:05
they feed my desire to buy things I probably should. That's what we're supposed to do.
26:10
So I can't tell them. I almost bought you your Ford 500. I came across one that's very cool.
26:17
Oh, is GT 500? Oh, what year? Huh? The, the, the, the, the big body Ford 500s that you like
26:23
with the headlights and stuff. Not, not, not a GT 500. That would, that would be insane. I'm
26:30
almost, but I, but I almost bought you the Ford 500 that you like that was already had
26:36
a lot of stuff done to it. The price is right. And I up until just this week, I had to talk
26:43
myself out of making that purchase. I couldn't easily spend the money that it's going to need to
26:48
have it. And it'd be cool. It was done up an old stock car style. That's what I really liked about
26:53
it. It had an old stock car vintage paint job on it. Had the number on the door and had some of
26:57
the old writing for the advertising. Pretty cool. I was like, oh, that's pretty neat. That would be
27:01
really cool to have. Just had a new motor put into it. I just, once again, I have two torn apart
27:08
already. I know myself. I'll pull that in the garage. We'll walk around it. We'll find 19 things
27:13
we want to change on the car. And before I know it, I'm buying $20,000 in parts for another car.
27:18
Well, I still have two apart. And by the way, we still have old blue sitting out in front waiting
27:23
to be pushed in. But we're about to have two project cars finish. We're getting close. Yes.
27:29
And then we're going to put blue into the bay to be able to start working on that. So we can
27:34
start getting ready for work. Guys, we're not going to have another project car to start working on,
27:39
or at least look at, or at least look at. Look, we need, we need to disagree with you. We need a
27:43
project car that's at least sitting in the driveway so we can look at it and know that we're getting
27:49
to. Okay. I mean, I hear you, y'all, the hope. I hear you, but I almost feel like one or two
27:55
things are going to happen. We're going to finish these two projects and start enjoying them. And
27:59
instantly it's going to be the, it'll probably end up, maybe not something else changed, but
28:04
something's going to, these two are going to talk me into buying two vets, because we talked about
28:07
doing two vets and doing like a, if you guys remember, if you guys go back six years ago,
28:12
a little bit longer than that now, when we had frickin frack. And if you guys don't remember us,
28:16
we talked about frickin frack and they were turbo cars. Those were supposed to be so cool.
28:20
And we're going to do, we're going to do EVO turbo cars because we have muscle cars and we were
28:25
like, okay, let's do something different that we can take out the car show for a different
28:29
type of crowd. Okay. And it didn't pan out for a lot of reasons. I'm not going to get into the
28:33
reason why it had less to do with us than it had to do with being partnered up with people for it.
28:40
But we ended up, I finally ended up selling those cars off after extensive abuse to them,
28:46
why they should never had abuse. They just were sitting, but that's like, not going to get it.
28:49
You can tell I'm frustrated. I'm not getting into it. But now we talk about maybe flipping
28:52
the frickin frack idea into a retro vet situation, which is make two vets that look similar,
28:57
but you do flip flop colors on them. So they represent each other, but they're still kind
29:01
of cool something along that line. Rather than you do one that's black and you do one's white,
29:03
you do a throwback paint scheme on them, you know, for striping or something like that,
29:08
but they're a frickin frack. And they, if you put them side by side, they look like they belong
29:11
in the room together. That's kind of my idea. And I really want to pursue that, whether I do it or
29:15
not. I really want to go further down the rabbit hole that I have already on it. Nathaniel and I
29:21
are in a little bit of a difference, but we're getting closer of what year to do it on, on Corvette.
29:27
See, and I'm a little bit going a little bit older because if I wanted to be a retro vet, so I
29:31
would have one. You know me, I like the newer ones. You like, like, you like the,
29:37
what, the early 90s? Early 90s. So we will get together on it, but I have a feeling
29:44
that that may come to fruition quicker than anything else does because the price is right for
29:49
me to build two of them. I can buy two of them at the right price, build both of them at the right
29:52
price. And all the modifications I want to do will fall within about $50,000, which is about
29:56
right for both cars. And you know, so that's, that's about right. So we still got to find
30:00
another nickel. Oh yeah, we do. We will figure it out. It's coming. What's also coming in the
30:07
course is commercials again. So you guys hold tight. We'll be right back. We're going to talk
30:13
about Seema. I'm telling you, I'm going to get to it. I just got so much stuff. I haven't talked
30:16
to you guys in a while. It's been a long couple of weeks of being on the road. So yeah, hold tight.
30:20
We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist. Now back to your host, Dave
34:01
Palach. Hey guys, welcome back. Hey, so before I jump into some of these other topics that we need
34:09
to get onto and stuff, I want to tell you guys about something cool that came my way that was
34:12
sent to me very neat. So December 7th, the Chronicle of Speed is going to actually be the event,
34:20
I guess. It is a private showing by imitation to buy tickets to the Shelby Family Collection.
34:28
It's in Texas. So basically what they're going to do is they're going to do a
34:33
like a private show and there's more information out there. I just want to make sure I have it
34:36
all out. But of Shelby's collection, I guess there's going to be two of the cars from Ford versus
34:43
Ferrari. That's a bunch of different Shelby's. They're going to be there. It's going to be appetizers
34:48
and open bar and all kinds of stuff. You buy tickets to it, but I think it's Shelby's son or grandson,
34:54
if I'm not correct, somebody will correct me on it, but it's the one that's actually going to be
34:58
hosting it, doing the VAC's speaker at the event, but they're going to take you through
35:02
the life of the history of Shelby at a private, like I said, it's private that you had to do by.
35:08
So it is actually, I'm going to give you the information so I'm going to mess this all up.
35:11
I will spell it to you. Write this down. It is C-H-A-B-A-D-P-L-A-N-O dot org slash Shelby
35:21
is where you can find the information and find the tickets. The tickets are actually, I was
35:26
pretty impressed. There are $180 for the event. That's not bad to go to it. It is going to be,
35:31
I guess this is going to be out in Dallas, Texas. But if you go to that, once again,
35:35
I want to say it's chabadplano.org is what it is, but I'll probably say it wrong. So once again,
35:41
that's C-H-A-B-A-D-P-L-A-N-O dot org slash Shelby. Like I said, it's Shelby's family collection,
35:52
a journey through Shelby's racing history, the Chronicle of Speed, December 7th. That's a Sunday
35:57
and you can buy tickets to that invitation event and go to it. I have a feeling that's going to be
36:05
very centered event where there's like just a lot of coolness to it. That was pretty neat.
36:11
You don't get a lot of insight. If you guys remember, years ago, we teamed up with Shelby
36:16
of America and got the first look at the Hertz edition, the re-edition of the Hertz edition
36:22
Mustang. We did a bunch of stuff on it. It was very, very cool, very accommodating. I think this
36:27
is neat. We went and saw the car when it was in Vegas because that's where it was going to be
36:30
doing its debut for being rented out and it was cool. So this is in Texas, but it should be very,
36:36
very cool event. Put it on your calendar. I mean, if it was me and I already have some
36:41
lot of stuff going on, unfortunately, I can't else I would definitely be interested in flying out
36:46
and taking the team out and go see this, but we are committed to the Christmas charity stuff.
36:50
But I mean, what a great cool weekend. Fly in, get a hotel, go to the event, make a pretty cool
36:56
weekend out of it in the area. It would be really neat. But you don't get opportunities like this
37:02
a lot for that close up kind of intimate setting on something like this. So definitely go over
37:09
there to the website. Like I said, it's $180. I just think for what you're getting in the experience
37:14
and to be able to talk about it for $180 for a ticket is pretty cheap. So I mean, obviously,
37:18
paper is like, well, if I fly in, yeah, yeah, well, I don't know. We fly in for baseball games
37:23
and it costs us more than that to go to flying for baseball game stay and fly back out. So
37:26
I mean, kind of same thing. Put it on your guys account. Like I said, December 7th,
37:30
go to the website, get all the information. I am very happy to see things like this kind of
37:36
popping up. I told you guys about when we were in Hawaii about the private collection, we were
37:41
searching for the Labricating Kuntosh. And if you guys never follow that story, we went to Hawaii
37:45
to go chase down the rumor of a Labricating Kuntosh that was there and it did exist.
37:51
But it was in a private collection that had been turned. The gentleman who owned it had turned
37:56
it over to somebody and we couldn't. I can understand the hesitation. You know, you have
38:02
people who have a radio show who all of a sudden, you know, you don't know anywhere.
38:05
You don't want to see your private collection. So there was some, we were promised that if we ever
38:09
set it back up, we could probably get out and get access to private collection. We just haven't
38:12
been. But it was kind of, you know, it was cool. It was very, very cool to have that experience.
38:15
So I think this kind of falls in line with something like that. Like I said, who would
38:19
ever think that, you know, on the island, there's a car that hadn't been seen. And I think it was
38:22
like 25 years before I was seeing the light of day to somebody that's put in a barn. So
38:27
very, very cool. I think it was neat. But like I said, something like this kind of has that feeling
38:31
to it. And I remember how I felt being involved with trying to track down. And the cool thing about
38:35
when we were in Hawaii, we saw so many other cars that while we were trying to track the story,
38:39
found so many other cars that were stashed in people's garages and stuff in Hawaii that
38:43
just made a really neat experience for us. So definitely check that out. Like I said,
38:46
go to the website, check it out and get all the information. Tell me if you guys go. I think it
38:51
would be a really, really cool experience. Like I said, I wish that we didn't have so much stuff
38:54
already on our plate because I'd be kind of interested in checking that out. That'd be
38:58
kind of neat. So with that being said, moving on, you guys know, let me get you, you know,
39:05
we have talked about, I got one of these conversations, you know how I do online,
39:11
car music for road trips, blah, blah, blah. We've covered it in a million different ways,
39:16
right? You all would agree about that. Yep. So somebody sent me something. It was a hate,
39:21
hey, Dave, haven't had a day. That's the best failure for you, my man. You know what I'm talking
39:25
about. So hey, Dave. And it talked about, you guys never talked about, you know, you got,
39:30
they went back and listened to our shows through the seasons. I don't know. And we don't talk about
39:35
Christmas music. I'm like, okay, I understand it's the season. I get it. I feel like I'm
39:41
being baited into this one. They're like, do you have a playlist for road trips during Christmas
39:47
time or during the holidays? I was like, no, no, I do not. I do not. I'm not a big fan. I don't.
39:52
Was I supposed to? Like I find it kind of weird. Was I supposed to have a playlist for this? I'm
39:56
like, I don't. So then I always know when it's Christmas time. So then I go, hold on, I go and
40:01
I'm like, let me look this up. And I look it up and I get this Christmas list. It is not a Christmas
40:07
song. It is all the songs that normally hit our top 50 lists that we do every year we use to kind
40:13
of cover a show, talk about the new songs come out. It's all those songs. There was no Christmas
40:16
songs in the catalog. They didn't even mention Christmas. No, I was like, well, that's not,
40:22
that's not a Christmas playlist for like road trips. I'm like, it's just, it was like Free Bird.
40:27
And it was like, I was like, that's, how is that? How is that? How's that holiday?
40:31
Don't be wrong. Great songs. I mean, you know, a lot of ACDC stuff and you know,
40:35
whatever, like there was stuff, but I was like, okay, so I went, I wrote down like, what about like,
40:42
like driving home for Christmas? Last Christmas. All the like traditional, why do,
40:47
why do those not on a playlist? Now, I told you guys, I used to drive a lot. I did a lot of road
40:53
trips and during the holidays, I can't say, I didn't like pop holiday music. It was whatever
40:59
play on the radio. And I kid you not, I hit a station between like Ohio and Indiana somewhere
41:05
that was just, it had to be like a Backwoods radio station that was just, and it wasn't,
41:11
that's, they just kept on playing the same Christmas songs over and over again. Why drove
41:14
that area? I just, I, grandma ran over reindeer like three times in that road trip and that stretch
41:22
going through there. I mean, like, I was like, okay, maybe because there's not enough Christmas
41:28
songs. I will say, I'm not the biggest fan of Christmas songs or music, like just in general,
41:35
like just, you know, out of random, I prefer Christmas songs. Like when I'm watching a movie,
41:39
okay, I think maybe that's how I prefer Christmas movies to have, you know,
41:43
maybe it's like, I'm not the only person. I'm just not the person I'm like, yeah,
41:50
let me go grab my Christmas playlist and pop it in, you know, like,
41:54
he's like, I got a burnt CD just for this. I just hope everybody's ready for them to turn on their
42:00
radio or come Monday morning. And all you're going to hear is I've got news for you. It already
42:08
started this week already. I was like, come on, can we just get through things? Give me
42:12
free start. I was listening to a once again, non, it shouldn't be playing those songs, but
42:19
for some reason that's just what they're playlist. And it was Christmas song after Christmas song.
42:23
And I literally, I don't listen to the radio a whole lot. I listened to, you know, music off my
42:27
phone as soon as a truck connects. I just listened to it. I listened to the radio, but here's the
42:31
problem. So what I'll notice is, is I find myself listening to like the same 30 songs. Like I have
42:37
hundreds in my phone, but it ends, I think it ends up becoming the same 30 songs I played
42:42
because like I have a song. I'm like, nah, nah, nah. Oh yeah, I like this one.
42:48
Yeah, right. I got that. No, no, no, I just don't want to listen to it. I like that.
42:51
And then before I realize it, it's every day, it's the same 30 songs every day that you drive.
42:56
And you know what I mean? I'm like, ah, so maybe I understand how like Christmas comes around.
43:01
I'm the worst. And they'll tell you guys they, I, okay, so I have a very interesting neck
43:06
that probably is very annoying to people. I can change words to a song on the fly,
43:10
on the fly as it's playing on the radio. And it, and it doesn't sound bad, but they're usually
43:16
really bad songs. I don't know why my mind just goes that they go dark. Like I'll take something
43:21
like the most cheery song and make it a dark song. You know, like,
43:25
That's not even bad. You're just trying to enjoy the song.
43:27
He said you're trying to, he's like Dave's messing it up.
43:31
You'll be singing along. And all of a sudden he'll be singing along,
43:35
but it's not the same words. I mean, it's definitely not.
43:38
So cute, Molly forward, Christmas. I mean, what? Holy Christmas.
43:44
I've done it my whole life. I know it. Sure, I'm sure it's very annoying,
43:48
but I don't know why I changed the words to go along. I will, a lot of times I do it with my
43:52
wife in the car when I'm driving. I would do it and just to see if she was paying attention.
43:57
And she's not paying attention to me. She's over there staring at her phone or doing something.
44:00
And I'm completely changing every single word of the song, just waiting like for the reaction.
44:05
And you work so hard for the reaction and you don't get it. So no, to answer your question,
44:10
I don't have a playlist of Christmas songs. I was nice enough for you guys to write down some,
44:18
if you guys want them. Like I said, I tell them I had to remind myself even how they went.
44:23
And I'm like, man, I heard that song. Like I said, driving home for Christmas was Chris Ray,
44:28
Last Christmas Wham. Santa Claus is coming to town. Jackson 5 is always a classic.
44:32
All I Want for Christmas by Mariah Carey. If you've never listened to that version,
44:35
it's a good version. And it's the most wonderful time of the year is another one.
44:41
I can't remember. Is that Williams? Did you say that? If nobody's ever listened to that version?
44:45
That version has been forced to all of us. It's been forced to us. Maybe it has been.
44:52
But yeah, so if you're looking for some Christmas songs, go find them. I don't,
44:56
I couldn't drive. I told you guys, I used to drive like nine and a half,
44:59
10 hours regularly on road trips during the holidays. And I don't think I could do
45:03
10 hours of straight Christmas songs. So no, I don't have a playlist. Go make your own.
45:07
Stop asking me on that note. Let me take a quick first break. We're going to finish it up.
45:11
And I am going to talk about Seema. So I'll be right back.
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Guys, welcome back. So, as promised, I told you we talked about SEMA. So,
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if you guys didn't watch all the SEMA coverage, it was awesome. Vegas was great. We had a really
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good time. There was a lot to see. So, SEMA was a little different this year for sure. I would say
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I saw a lot more and we were just talking about this before we came on the air today. I think I
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saw more trucks than I saw anything else this year. A lot of trucks this year, which I think I've
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told you guys, there's been a big push in the truck market. It's just been huge. So, I agree.
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Maybe that's the reason why there were so many. A lot of cool cars were there. One of the 100%
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coolest things we probably saw was Rockford Fosgate's ice cream truck. That thing was
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pretty wicked. It was neat. Was it me or were they, was it less vendors or did it feel more
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spread out? Which I kind of liked. It felt, to me, it felt like it was more spread out this year.
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It seemed like some of the people took up bigger space. Right. They didn't feel like
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they were on top of everybody. Fosgate was popular. You came around the corner and they were
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busy. They were. They were very, very busy. And they weren't just busy like when we were there.
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They were busy like every time we walked by it. Because of the way the layout does,
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especially for interviews and stuff like you had to walk by certain booths,
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quite a few different times as you're moving around throughout the event. And they were
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always busy, which is great. You guys know I have a fond affection for it. I've talked about it in
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the past. I had them in my cars, believe in the product. There was a couple of different ones.
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I've told you guys Fosgate. I had a following in Orion products there for a while when I was a
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kid, stuff like that. But Rockford Fosgate, it was always a good product. So it was cool to kind of
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sit with them and see some of the new stuff they have. Like I said, that display vehicle was insane.
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It was really cool. A lot of the stuff that was out there. And we saw it all. And we compacted
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it and unpacked everything and look at all the different pictures and stuff.
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Wrenches had a really big setup. They did. So one thing I liked about them was
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Woy Wrenches, they had the big, huge jacked up tow truck. And it did what it needed to do for
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their booth. Even though they were towards the back of one of the halls, you saw the truck from
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far away, which brought you to it because it towered over everything. So that was pretty clever
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on their part. I'm more confused about wheels than I probably was before I went. I told you guys,
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if you guys saw the interview that we did, I'm not a wheel guy. There was so many different
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wheels and so many different styles and things to do. Puzzled me even more. I don't think I'll
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ever be the perfect wheel guy. Now, I think we found one. Daniel was great. And he kind of
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walked us through it. Go check out a lot of the interviews. So most of the interviews are up,
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I think. I don't think you have any, maybe you have another one or two. So we did that.
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We did, if you guys saw last week, the weeks before last week's show, that's where we took
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all of our interviews and put it all together. We will start slowly rolling out each individual
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interview together. And you may see us team up with some of this. Another one of the booth that
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was just packed with people was Vintage Air. You guys, there's an interview for that. Go check it
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out. Some great information. And I like the fact that Vintage Air, I didn't know until I was in
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their booth. Now I have a Vintage Air set up for the transient and I told you guys about it. Now
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I need some, a couple of pieces I don't have, but it wasn't important to get to that yet,
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but I already bought the initial package. So we have the compressor and stuff like that to go
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into it. And it will be a cool set up for the car. But talking with them, I learned some things I
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didn't know. I didn't know that it's going to be a lot easier than what we've got. Yeah, yeah,
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absolutely. So very cool. Like I said, go check out that interview. It was, like I said, it was
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an interesting experience this year. The burn pit was 100% cool. I mean, just that was literally
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fire is what it was. And it was great. A lot of the drift stuff, a great action. I like the layout
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this year a little bit easier of how they have things set up. And maybe just for us, for what we
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were doing, it was a lot easier for us to move around. I like they had bleachers for the people
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to actually get up and actually see the event. Everybody's crowded all one height. Yeah, yeah,
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it was cool. So it's a great event. Now we already got tagged already. Are we going next year? I think
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we are. I'll let you guys know as it comes around. It just depends on for us is always how
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events plan out and stuff. We did get invited to go to Formula One the very next
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following weekend after we left. But we need to get back. We have so many commitments already
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other places I would love to stay for one. And by the way, it had been free for us to be there
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because Vegas was a great trip. So they would have covered everything. Very big, huge shout out to
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MGM, particularly MGM Grand. They took very well care of us. So we had a great experience teaming
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up with them this year. Nancy Hover at there as well. Hey, if you need a down day like we did
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for all the walking and everything we do poolside, great. Go poolside and just come on. Sit your
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cabana for the day and have somebody just serve you food and drinks all day. It was definitely
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worth it. And thanks to MGM for taking care of that for us. That was great. Like I said,
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they were great hosts this year. We very much appreciated staying on the property
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and having all the enemies at our fingers to anything we wanted. They took care of it. It was
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very, very cool. So if you guys ever go to Vegas or you want to go to SEMA, check out MGM properties.
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Like I said, we've done it many years in a row and they've always been great to us. So it's been
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good. One of the things about SEMA that I did see this year was the flip. So I saw a couple
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electric conversions, but not as much as we saw what two years ago, they were everywhere.
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One of the things I see that is really big at SEMA and I think it's going to start moving into our
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car culture that we were literally just talking about is the throwback. People are doing a lot
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of throwback vehicles. I saw a lot of older vehicles that people restored, gave some new
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technology, but kept that old school vibe to them. There was a lot of those there and it was cool.
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And it gets your wheels spinning. One thing about SEMA for sure that I like about it is
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walking and seeing everybody's different collaborate efforts to build cars really opens
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my mind up of what we could do out of our own garage. I mean, now granted, these cars are
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built are just way over the top, but you guys remember, so the bad end, we got a lot of money
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tied up in the bad end. I mean, as much as easily as the display cars that were out there, I mean,
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but you're making it yours, right? So you don't really think about the money side. I do
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every once in a while. I try not to think about the money side of things on that car.
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But it's hard not to. Right. But it's hard not to.
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I was thinking two different things. One, Tesla Loop, they were really, really good.
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That helped us a lot this year. Yeah, they were really good.
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If you don't know what that is, they got.
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The Tesla Loop is basically an underground loop system that's connected to multiple halls and
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multiple buildings like hotels that have partnered with them. They're always adding more stuff stops
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to it. I think what they said, they're coming out with three, three more stops. So it's basically
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go underground. You get into a subway train using Tesla cars. But that that was good. But another
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thing I thought of was they could do tours. Like think about like, you know, like where you hop
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on a bus and like you go and see all the actors and stuff. But think about like a mini bus going
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through all the cars and stuff and them driving around with like a tour.
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Okay, so I don't. Okay, I don't doubt that. Right. I can see how they.
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The crowd size that SEMA brings in hard to run a bus through one of their main roads. Even if you
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line it up, it'd be very, very hard to run, bring a bus through there because people are everywhere.
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I can tell you right now, we when we're moving around throughout and we're carrying camera
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equipment and we have everything and stuff like that. And I, I won't say I get annoyed, but I get
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slightly agitated because sometimes people just aren't paying attention and the equipment that
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we're moving around with is very expensive. And we are trying to be very courteous to everybody
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around us. I just, I wish sometimes the courteousness went the same way towards the people who are
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carrying all the cameras and doing all the work because people are bumping into your equipment
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and like say, you bump into something and you knock it over and you just drop a $20,000 camera.
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And it does happen. Trust me, if we've had things knocked into and we've had to catch
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things, if you guys go and look at some of our old stuff, you can see where people bumped into
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why we're doing live if bumped into our cameras because they're just, they're such all of the
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moment. And it is a great show that they're just pleasantly not paying attention to their surroundings.
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I guess that's the best way to put it. So I guess that bus would be kind of hard.
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We did purposely upgrade certain things this year for Seaman.
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Yeah, we did. Insulate ourselves a little better from damage.
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Yeah, knowing that it was, it was coming. I mean, but even, even so this year, we got,
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we got hit one time where we had to cut the interview short and then thankfully that,
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you know, people are just looking at all the cool stuff to see and they're just,
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they're walking while they're turning their heads everywhere.
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There's a camera, bam, and bang, right. And we've had it happen.
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Bang right into the camera. I'm like, first of all, how'd you get, because we use
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deflectors, people that stand on the outside to keep the crowds from pushing into the scenes
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and stuff like that. But even like, how'd you get past them? And then how did you not realize that
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as soon as like, that there was a big open area that also there was nobody in that you were walking
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across, which now puts you right in the line of the camera. And then you walked right into the
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camera and stopped and then stopped like, and then that's it. We're cutting and we got to start.
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So, you know, if we're doing a 15 minute interview, that's it. It's to a certain degree,
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it's trash. You got to basically try to start all over again, try to find a place you can cut it
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and save it, which is the miracle of, you know, TV. But a lot of times it's not, you know, I mean,
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and especially when like, when you're doing something live, it's very, very hard because
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you can see off the corner of your eye. Like when I'm interviewing somebody, I see the courts
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going off in the corners and I know somebody's getting ready to make a bad decision and I can't
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react. And I'm hoping that somebody that's that's cruise with us is catching it beforehand. And
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I feel it in my head and I don't know how it comes off on camera. I'm like, Oh,
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this is going to be tragic. This person is literally going to knock our car. And so, you know,
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you go, there's a lot of that. But like I said, other than that,
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awesome. I love the fact. I know that SEMA had new contact people for us this year and stuff like
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that seemed to work out pretty well. Didn't have a whole lot of issues. So yeah, I would say we'll
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see you next year if we end up there. It just depends on how the timing works out, how the
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different interview schedules and stuff like that go. So we'll keep you posted. We do have a very
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busy schedule that's going to be rolling around for the next following season, which will come
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like that. Usually we hit our first thing by March. So we'll have a little downtime. We'll
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enjoy a Christmas charity. We'll give gifts out to all the kids and stuff. If you guys have anything
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you guys want to donate, don't feel not, you know, obligated, but if you want to donate something,
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definitely contact us. Tell us where you can pick it up. I can give you a drop off location,
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whatever it is, looking for toys for kids. And remote control cars are big this year. I don't
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mean because we're a car show. I don't know. But yeah, if you want to drop something off,
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just let me know. And then no guys, we got to go ahead and get out here. This show flew by.
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Hope you guys are enjoying your holiday weekend. Soak it up. Got a couple more days before it's
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time to start it all over again until Christmas, but it's going to fly by quick. You guys got
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anything before we get out of here? Enjoy your weekend. Have a good one. Alright guys,
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make sure you unplug, spend some time with your kids. They'll love you for it. It is a Saturday,
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Sunday's right around the corner. Place the board games with them. Fire up the grill,
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whatever you got to do. Enjoy those turkey leftovers. And we're going to get out of here
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and we'll talk to you soon.