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It's Presley? So what is Presley? I keep forgetting the type of animal she is.
Nuisance? That's the type.
It's a new breed, actually. It's from South America, and it's disgusting.
They have no control over their bowels at all.
She kind of looks like a deer or a cow?
She's a deer from Asia, and they're aquatic, and they're freaking gigantic.
She's bottle-fed, so she thinks she's a dog.
We have another one on the property that is not bottle-fed, so she's quite the opposite.
But, man, you kind of just watched everything. I can't leave a door open.
She'd come in and take a crap everywhere. It's beautiful.
You sit in the podcast studio at your garage, and she just comes up to the window and looks at you in the window.
She's like, open the door. Let me in.
Hey, man, my voice is comforting. I don't know.
She's just chilling. What it is, she strategically places herself around the garage where the shade is.
It's hot in Texas even right now, but she's a nuisance.
But she has given me a new good idea.
I'm quite the entrepreneur, and this doesn't have anything to do with cars,
but it has a lot to do with being a responsible human being in today's society.
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It's Presley's little pellets that she dropped.
Barrett was behind her the other day, and as literally, I can almost guarantee you that before a couple of them hit the ground,
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That's so gross.
But once you look at one of these things, if you really didn't know what it was,
I'm not going to say it looks like a big giant chocolate-covered almond,
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It's free, and you don't have to kiss your dog.
I don't know.
I just think that I need to share it with the world until something came up.
So you're going to follow Presley around with like a bag?
I don't need to follow her around anywhere.
I told you guys 15 million.
She leaves it all over the floor.
Marca is walk around the garage, and every single corner strategically placed are piles of these little pellet things
that now the dog uses treats.
So that's my conscientious effort to save the planet at least like me.
All right.
What's going on in the car world?
What's going on in your garage?
What are you guys doing over there?
Well, I threw some race fuel in the Cobra two days ago.
It did not like it.
Really?
At all.
Okay.
Interesting.
So it's tuned at 93, right?
So is it that sensitive or is the race fuel shitty because it's been sitting here for four years?
But it's race fuel.
So you would think that race fuel and I checked its consistency.
There wasn't anything abnormal.
There wasn't crap in it.
There wasn't anything.
It smells exactly like race fuel.
When it was detonated, it smelled like race fuel coming out of the out of the carpet.
Man, it did not like it at all.
It might not be that good.
I'm not the professional.
We need to talk to somebody like Lake Speed Jr.
who does all the oil and fuel stuff.
But the race fuel might not have all of the like detergents and properties and stuff that also give it longevity.
Also the difference.
I mean, is the difference in octane just a difference in octane?
So if it wasn't good, maybe it pushed it down from 114 to 100 and it would have been more palatable for the 93 tuned motor.
But I don't know any of that.
For that car, that engine, I don't think octane is the issue.
Like you can take any production car, Corvette, Camaro, Challenger, whatever.
And you can do your track day and put some of the race fuel in it depending on the fuel.
But you can put a higher octane fuel in it.
And oftentimes that is a little bit better, especially when you're really beating on the car and the engine's getting hot.
That could cause detonation.
Like me going out the other day, yes.
That was what I thought.
Yeah, it's probably, I'm going to guess.
And again, I'm not the expert on fuel.
But my guess is the fuel was just too old.
Wasn't that good?
Yeah.
Is it still in the car?
How much did you burn through?
I burnt a lot of it out.
I only put five gallons of it in.
Yeah.
But I'm going to take it upon myself to burn the rest of it out.
To burn the rest of it out?
To burn proximity to my house.
Yeah.
This is kind of a, I don't know if this is on topic or off topic.
It's a little bit interesting.
So I saw the clip of Alan Richardson.
The guy who plays Reacher.
Yeah.
And he was riding his motorcycle through the neighborhood.
And his kids and his two kids were had like little motorcycles behind them.
They had the gear on, they had the helmet on.
And a neighbor was irritated and saying, you know, the bikes are too loud.
You're making too much noise.
You're zipping up and down the street.
So typical TMZ Hollywood world, right, is they get in this confrontation.
And somebody like a neighbor across the street is filming with a phone out of their window.
Obviously they sent this into TMZ.
And it's, you see the clip and the clip is Alan's bike is on the ground and he's tussling with this guy.
And he hits him, throws him on the ground, throws a couple of punches, tells him to stay down and that's it.
So the internet blows up and says, says, you know, he was already down.
You can't hit him twice.
This is out of control.
Like what are you doing?
And, and then the other half in the comment section is, I don't know the whole story.
I don't know the whole story.
Like what was anything that you see on television.
There's no nobody knows the true backstory because whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, someone places their frickin spin on it.
Yes.
So you can't go on face value anything that you see because the guy could have been a complete douchebag before that happened.
But then again, he might not have been.
And this was a conversation that I had with a buddy of mine last night.
And I said, you know what, the Goldberg that everybody knows completely died when I had kids because I had to approach situations as a as a father and a husband and not just frickin a single Goldberg that didn't have much to lose.
Other than his own, you know, what, what was attached to me.
So, man, you can't pass judgment on anything.
I'm not going to do it because I don't know what the backstory is, but I can tell you one thing.
If that guy deserved it, then he's lucky that he didn't get left in a pool of blood.
You know, right.
Okay.
And I agree completely.
So, so the guy does this interview with TMZ and he's a little bruised up.
He's got a little shiner and and he he tried defusing it a little bit.
He was like, he's like, I, I kind of came out him and I was upset that he was riding the bikes out there and and, you know, whatever.
So he was kind of trying to defuse it.
He's like, no ill will toward him.
This just didn't go down the way.
So what's interesting is is when you see the the, you know, the neighbor shooting video, he's on his bike helmet gear.
He's got this little vest on thing.
And then the two kids were both sitting on their little bikes and with their gear on and they sat there the whole time.
I'm sure they were like a little scared and tell me like, what's happening?
What's dad doing?
So the vest that Alan was wearing was a body cam.
So he didn't say anything.
He didn't put anything on social media and cops said they were going to investigate it.
I'm sure he just like, here's my camera.
See for yourself.
So now the body cam footage is out there.
And what you see is this guy, this neighbor runs down his driveway and runs and in front of the motorcycle.
And he's like, won't let and Alan immediately like moves and crashes because there's a guy standing in front of him.
And he's like, are you kidding me, bro?
Like what are you doing?
You can't just run in front of a motorcycle.
And the guy starts yelling at him and yelling at him and he's back on his bike.
The guy pushes him twice while he's on his bike.
I would have killed him.
So then he gets punched, right?
He gets punched a couple of times.
And here's the part in the video that only some people in the comments have pointed out was the guy kept going, you're blasting through the neighborhood.
That body cam footage leading up to that incident, he's going 22 miles an hour.
He's not blasting through the neighborhood.
His two little kids are on little motorcycles behind him.
He's going 22 miles an hour.
Or that is, you know, all this.
And he's like, I didn't know who he was and whatever.
I was like, okay, but you're a lunatic.
And you're going to make a difference.
You don't do that.
If I'm driving up in this ridiculous, right, you could look at the motorcycles are coming down your neighborhood.
One, do the smarter thing and get out of the way.
Don't run in front of a motorcycle.
And if you don't like it, you could go on the side of the road or something on listen, you know, maybe bring it down a little bit.
You go a little fast or whatever.
Like it's a neighborhood and or, you know, call your HOA or call the cops or whatever.
But the problem is that when people are born today, they don't necessarily immediately get logic placed in their brains.
And that's what's the wrong with the world that we live in.
People do things for the most illogical reasons and they think that they can get away with it.
It's absolutely in a microcosm.
What we deal with all the time.
I mean, in that little situation, you see how it was blown out of proportion.
It's only the guy's side of it was shown, you know, because it's more in vogue to see a big Hollywood guy beating another guy up.
Right. That's 100 percent. And that's what it was.
And honestly, even when you hear him, he was pretty calm during the whole thing.
Again, because he's got his two kids with him, he doesn't want to turn this into a thing.
And like we all know there are cameras everywhere, no matter what.
Like you can ride through your neighborhood and there's ring door cameras that are all shooting stuff.
I think they were in wherever he lives, Tennessee or something, Nashville or something like that.
So more rights than the victim.
Who knows how much of the neighbor that shot the iPhone video that clearly wanted it on TMZ.
Who knows how much of the video was was sent to TMZ.
The day decided to edit it to TMZ.
Right. You're right. It talked about clickbait.
You know, they they needed this thing blew up so quickly.
Reachers beating the guy on the street.
And then when you hear when you see the rest of it, by the way, the rest of it came out quickly two days later.
Because I'm sure the cops are like, what's going on?
And he's like, here's my here's my body cameras, my vest camera.
See for yourself. I was going 21 miles an hour.
21, 22 miles an hour.
This guy physically put hands on him first, knocked his motorcycle down.
And I mean, in the real world, if even if that wasn't who it was, I mean, that's that's ludicrous behavior.
So there needs to be repercussions for it.
And when you hold people accountable, they cry like little babies and then they post it and then they're they're the they're the hero and you're the victim.
Yeah, well, I'm going to guess that this whole thing is not going to go any further.
It's done, you know, I would hope not.
Like, I think the cops are done with it and they're going to go, is anybody want to press charges and everyone's going to go. No, we're done.
Lesson learned here.
But, you know, it was just kind of an interesting story.
And by the way, those little bikes that the kids were on those things were cool.
I was looking at those things.
And he was riding in front and the kids were following and honestly, like, I don't can't say, like, in the weeks prior, were they zipping up and down the street?
I don't know.
You know, how many times have you seen kids popping wheelies, hauling ass in dirt bikes up and down the road?
He wasn't doing anything.
It wasn't doing any of that.
He wasn't doing that.
The opposite.
He was responsible.
He was wearing helmets.
I mean, nine times out of 10 in the back of a neighborhood, you know, you got people ripping around, you know, doing their thing.
They're not going to be as responsible as he showed that he was.
And then he gets crucified for it.
Guy jumps out in the middle of the road.
Yeah.
I would have dropped him right there.
I mean, listen, if if you were riding your motorcycle 20 miles an hour, 22 miles an hour down the street and someone you see someone run down their driveway and jump into the middle of the street and put their hands up by you.
You're like, someone's trying to steal my motorcycle or hurt me or whatever.
It doesn't matter.
Even if you don't feel threatened, it's the ignorance of another human being to run in front of a motorized vehicle going.
It doesn't have to do with any, anything other than just the logic of you don't do that.
And if you do that, then understand that the person whose life you put in jeopardy is deserves a reaction.
And what do you think that reaction is going to be?
Oh, would you please move out of the way?
No, I mean, this, you know, come on.
Yeah.
Now, that aside, I will say that the, the creator of Reacher, that show runner is, is a friend.
And I think he does a great job on that show.
And all he's ever said is, is Alan is cool as shit, great to work with, super nice guy and deserve success in Hollywood.
I don't know how he is on a motorcycle, but looking at his body cam, he seems cool, calm, collected.
And I wouldn't want to be punched by him.
So after that went down.
You're not going to have to jump in front of a motorcycle.
No.
I was an hour when the guys drive it down the street responsibly with his kids.
Yeah.
You know, there's a guy over here in our, down the street from us and I know people are already giving him dirty looks.
So he's got a 69 Camaro.
Now I see him go down the street and he's not speeding, but because the car is loud, people assume he's going fast.
But I look a few times.
I'm like, all right, the cars, the cars loud, right?
It's a little obnoxious.
And I get it though, but it's a cool car, but he's not doing 60 down the road.
I can tell he's doing 25 down the road, but he's doing it in a low gear.
This is making a lot of noise.
You know, I'm just like, okay.
By the way, I don't exactly run out in front of him and go, hey, dude, your car is too loud.
First of all, who cares?
And second of all, it's like, why would I run to jump in front of a car to tell somebody that their car is loud?
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I got a call from Mike Kidd from Tremac.
I mentioned to him and to you a while ago, remember the 99 Ram that I put the 392 in?
Yeah.
I want to upgrade the brakes.
I had already spoken to Kidd about converting it to a manual four speed.
He's all over it with American Overdrive, I guess it is.
American Power Train, I think.
Mario is coming up from Florida and when he does come up, I'm going to see how difficult it would be to place the blower on the 392 crate motor.
Have a little bit more fun with that truck.
Yeah.
I'm sure Mario can figure that part out.
That seems like things.
It's funny you mentioned Mike Kidd and Tremac.
Tremac was just kind of in the news recently.
What happened is GM just did an event and they're saying we're going to release a new model of the Corvette, the Grand Sport.
It's always been a nice, it's kind of like the Porsche GTS.
It always fits in between the 911 S and the GT cars.
It's always been optioned out well.
So the Corvette C8, there's a new version of the eight cylinder that they presumably will put in it.
I think it's probably going to replace the E-Ray.
It might have some sort of hybrid technology.
So V8 in the back with electric motors in the front.
But you know, well equipped with all of the, you know, maybe a little bit wider, maybe not full as wide.
You know, they might take zero six fenders or something and put them on the, on the Grand Sport.
So they debuted it with a bunch of the previous Grand Sport Corvettes, the blue with the stripes on it and stuff.
But Tremac brought a C8 to SEMA last year with a manual transmission.
And they said, we're doing our transaxle for the aftermarket, right?
We did that.
I did that interview with them with my kid at, and he said, we're doing a transaxle manual six speed transaxle.
And we're going to do the DCT transmission if we get the tuning calibrated for the right engines and all that stuff.
So, and they had one of each of those there.
So, and so they brought a C8 Corvette out with the manual transmission and Tremac said, this has the same bolt pattern as the DCT and the C8.
So if you wanted a manual transmission, it certainly is possible to do.
So, so GM, they've launched this Grand Sport and, you know, at a press event and the media is like, this is going to have manual transmission.
It has a manual transmission.
That's all they want.
It was a manual transmission, right?
You've got the crazy fast cars.
You get the C8, Z06, e-rays.
You got GR1, Z01X, you know, and you want that to be the fastest thing out there.
So it's got to have the great DCT and all that stuff.
But they're going, hey, Grand Sport is more of the enthusiast car.
Maybe you can do a manual transmission.
It's not about being the fastest thing out there.
And GM was like, no, stop asking.
It's not a manual transmission.
It's like, that's not a real thing.
And then everyone's like, what, what about at SEMA?
What about at SEMA?
And Tremac said, we have a manual transmission that will basically bolt in.
They say bolt in, but obviously you got to figure out the shifter and the linkage and how it goes through the dash and, you know, like, and I'm starting the console, center console, all of that stuff.
But physically, the hardware bolts in.
And so GM was like hard pass for not doing a manual transmission.
And then there was some kind of statement that were like, GM was like, we kind of wish Tremac didn't go to SEMA with a manual transmission C8 because they're ruining it for everybody.
But Tremac's ruining it for everybody.
They're giving everybody options, which is all you can ask for as an enthusiast.
Yeah.
And all right, so GM doesn't want to put a manual transmission in from the factory, but you can go to Tremac and go, I do want to put a manual transmission in.
They're going to go, Christ, we've done it.
It sounds like shoving EVs down people's throat and throwing the Hemi out.
Yeah.
You got to give the enthusiasts what they want or ultimately they're going to get soured on your product, no matter how much they love it.
If you turn your back on the people who made you who you are, then you deserve, you deserve it.
Right.
So man, that's crazy.
Yeah.
So I think GM's thought process behind it was, well, one, they're like, well, when we did the C7 Corvette, we did all these variations.
And over the years, you know, we got to look at the numbers and nobody was buying a manual transmission anymore.
It was, you know, 4% or 7% of the audience.
So it wasn't, okay, I get it.
That part I get.
But on the new one, the Grand Sport, and they said, by the way, this is a car for the masses.
We're not really going to limit production.
Anybody wants to order a Grand Sport and get a Grand Sport.
But by the way, dealers take note when you get crazy with your stupid markups, just know that anybody can get a Grand Sport.
So don't come to us and go, oh, we're only going to make a thousand of these.
No, you're not.
GM's going to make as many as they want.
If it's the hybrid setup with the EV motors, well, that's one reason why there's no manual transmission, right?
Because it's not, it's complicated to make that work if it can work at all.
So, but if they said, look, if you want a Grand Sport or you want a rear-wheel drive Corvette with a manual transmission, it can be done.
My guess is go to somebody like Lingenfelter and say, I want to, I want to naturally aspirated, you know, all on the motor Corvette with a manual transmission.
And I'm sure those guys can put one together for you.
They'll figure it out.
You know, right?
GM's off on the manual transmission.
Tremac is on with the manual transmission.
And it's funny because Nissan came out too with the, you know, they had this, the new Z, the 400Z or whatever we're calling it, the Z.
And they did the Nismo version.
I went to the launch of the Nismo version like a year or so ago, like one of the press events in LA.
And you can get the Z with a manual, but you couldn't get the Nismo with a manual.
And now Nissan's like, sorry, we screwed up.
We fixed the glitch.
Here you go, manual transmission.
What do they think they're building it for?
I mean, I get it, but there has to be a choice because the people who made that car what it is wanted a manual transmission.
Now granted, yes, things are going to advance and technology is going to be such that you can have a faster setup.
But there's nothing like rolling through the gears in any car.
It's just, it's not.
And you can't get that feeling of the guys like us who really enjoy it.
I can see GM going, oh, well, the Grand Sport needs to fit in the C8 lineup and it needs to reach these performance numbers.
And the way to do that is with a DCT or an automatic or whatever.
But Nissan was going, we don't, doesn't really care like if it, where it fits in the lineup.
Like you get the Z, you can get it with a manual and automatic.
You get the Nismo.
It's a little bit different.
You know, it's got a little more power, better brakes, whatever.
But it's not meant to be like this all out performance beating, you know, race car.
It's meant to be the fun, enthusiast car.
So they were smart enough to go, our bad, dude.
You want a manual, I'll get a manual.
Whatever we got to do to sell cars.
I mean, I'm greatly appreciative that these, these companies are getting it.
But who makes the decision to annex them in the first place?
Accounting, bean counters.
Like there's a lot of, they just look at the numbers and go with the sales.
Honestly, I think it would be great for, for, for Chevy to go, let's do a C8 Corvette with a manual transmission and just make it, you know, the niche enthusiast car.
If we can do it and there's not a huge cost difference in developing it, especially now the Tremacus said we've got one that bolts right in.
And, you know, obviously it's going to take some calibration on the engine tuning and things like that to make it work.
But it's not a complete reinvention of, of, of the wheel there with that, with that car.
So you're adapting it to it.
You're not reinventing it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So the other thing that popped up is because we've been talking about this for a while is Dodge, right?
Are they in eight cylinders?
They're not in the eight cylinders.
They're back onto eight cylinders.
And then also things like Dodge Durango, it's like Dodge Durango has been around for a while now.
It's a little long in the tooth, but they're still keeping it alive.
So Dodge has come back with the Dodge Durango RT 392.
And they've had an RT before that was like, I don't know, was it like 300 and something horsepower, 380 or something like that, or 360?
But now they're going, all right, we got a Dodge Durango RT 392.
It's, we're not necessarily calling it an SRT Durango, but we are putting in the 475 horsepower, 470 pound feet of torque, the 6.4 liter in it.
So, and you're going to get adaptive suspension, six piston Brembo's in the front, four piston in the rear, electronic limited slip, the performance exhaust.
You're getting a 295 series tires, you know, with Pirelli's all the way around.
And compared to the previous gen, I don't know, the Durango 392 was like 0 to 60 in six and a half seconds.
So this new version, which is not technically an SRT is 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds.
So if you want, if you still want like a badass, you know, family hauler, the Durango is there.
I mean, granted, it'll probably get 16 miles of the gallon, but that's not really why you're buying that thing.
So the Durango is still alive with a big V8 engine, and you can have some fun with it.
And by the way, it's not, it's not 100 grand.
It's, it's going to be 60,000, I think.
Yeah, I think it starts at about 52,000 and gets up to about 60,000.
You know?
Yeah, yeah.
We'll see what they, if they do anything back with Jeep.
I like the Grand Cherokee SRT.
I like the cool concept for sure.
Yeah.
All right.
So the super sedan, the super SUV, it's not your thing.
Not really.
Not really.
It's a novelty, but it's a waste.
I might as well drive my truck.
It's the same thing.
You know, but I can haul more.
Yeah.
Different way.
Just more utilitarian for me.
Family, if I had, you know, that might be different.
If I'm not taking little goats and sheep around and I don't have the need for
that.
All right.
I guess something that maybe you need.
Here we go.
I definitely don't need that.
Definitely don't need it.
So what we're looking at is, is up on cars and bids.
There is an 84 El Camino with a grand national conversion on it.
And now it's a little funky, but somebody did a pretty good job doing this.
Like the body work, the interior, it's got the right engine.
It's got the grand national engine in it.
Like somebody did the right amount of work on it and it's for sale.
I think by the time you listen to the podcast, it'll just be ending.
Maybe there's a few hours left.
It ends on, this airs on a Thursday morning at like midnight and it ends at like 10 30
in the morning.
It's at 65 grand right now.
But it looks like it's, it's a grand national El Camino.
It's a GNX El Camino.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Maybe, maybe not the best holler on the ranch there, but.
Well, I mean, yeah, more power to a man.
It's, it's wet.
It looks like it's constructed.
It's well constructed.
I mean, it's a, it's an interesting combination.
I'm, I'm going to say that it's very tastefully done, but I don't man.
That looks like one of the most uncomfortable seats in the world.
Yeah.
And it's, I guess it's just a lot of the stock interior.
That's just like for the grand national interior.
Cause that's what's where the seats were.
Maybe it was a little bit different shape.
Hey man, I mean, you know, bravo.
And it's not my taste, but I mean, somebody needed to do it.
And I liked how they chose to present it.
I liked that they did, they went with the engine though.
They did the, they did the right engine.
They got the grand national engine.
Cause it could have been easily just could have been an LS swap or something in this thing,
but they're like, no, no, no, that's not the theme of this build.
The theme of this build is GNX and we've got to have the right engine.
Got to have the right look.
They got it tuned up for a little extra horsepower.
I think it's about 470 horsepower.
That's cool.
You know, it's a cool build.
It's a cool build for sure.
This is the kind of like out of the box thinking that gets attention, you know,
at things like the SEMA show and stuff.
It's pretty, it's pretty clean underneath.
It looks, it looks good.
I'm wondering what it's going to go to.
I, I, listen, I didn't think it would go for 65,000 where the current bid is,
but all of a sudden this thing got so much press.
And it's a pretty nice build that now someone's going to get,
someone's going to get good money for it.
Yeah.
You've got dino sheets, build sheets.
It's got all this good stuff on it.
Gran Camino.
It's a great car.
Good luck to it.
All right, guys, we're going to, we're going to wrap things up.
Thanks so much for listening.
We'll see you next week until then.
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Garage talk turns into hot-button debate as the hosts discuss Alan Ritchson’s Reacher motorcycle altercation, then pivot to performance-car news. Fuel quality comes up after a Cobra dislikes old race gas, followed by a long argument about judging viral clips without full context—especially once body-cam footage shows the neighbor entering the rider’s path. The rest of the show covers manual-transmission drama (Tremac’s C8 option, Nissan Z NISMO finally offering a stick) and new V8 hardware: Dodge’s 2026 Durango R/T 392. They also spotlight a GNX El Camino on Cars & Bids.
