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Drive Time Debates
About this episode
Drive Time Debates dives into the complexities of car show seasons, the challenges of bus safety, and the nuances of automotive security systems. The hosts share personal anecdotes about car shows being canceled due to weather and the frustrations of overlapping events. They also discuss the importance of bus driver training and the dangers of reckless driving around school buses. Additionally, the episode touches on the effectiveness of car security systems and the ongoing debate about their reliability. The conversation is lively, filled with humor and relatable stories from the automotive world.
Topics:
car shows
bus safety
automotive security
driver training
weather impact
personal anecdotes
car transport issues
community events
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America. You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio on
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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, hope.
Speaker 2: You're enjoying your Saturday. Hopefully where you guys are at
the weather is great. I know a lot of people
have been. You know, once again got a lot of
rain and storms. The beginning car shows canceled and it's
just this month. You're right, it's been a little better,
but it happens. There's nothing you can do, you know,
I've seen I follow out of things, so people give me tons and tons of car show information. They're like, oh,
we're having a car show here, Da da da da, you know, and I think it's great, and then I see, oh, it got canceled. We've had a lot of rain dates
ourselves this year for stuff that we knew we were supposed to be out to, you know, shicking hands and kissing babies, but we couldn't get out there because of the weather canceled it. So one thing about it is
is I guess car show season is like the craziest if you guys haven't seen it. It's a kind of
a pet peeve to mine and not huge, but it's there.
There's so many car shows that they're just stacked on top of each other and it is hard to get to everything. And I have probably talked myself blind on
this that it's just I wish that people would space about little bit further. And I think that's what's coming
down to, because you know, I said, we got a lot of shows, and we talk with a lot of people with a lot of different car shows, and it's get the point they're like, well, you know, I didn't go to that one because I just know I can I can hit the next one, it's gonna be next weekend, or there's another one next or there's one tomorrow, you know what I mean. Like because like in our area,
there's sometimes there Friday, their Saturday, their Sunday. Sometimes there's
a pop up like on a Wednesday and or Thursday, and you name it.
Speaker 3: I mean you love the cars, Yeah, we love it, We love them. You just can't.
Speaker 2: You can't possibly be at everything, and especially when you want to like support like a lot of the different shows are going on. It's hard, like when you have
two big shows going on at the same time, same day, and it's like, okay, so how you can't be both both places. But like I said, this season's been a
little bit different. It's been like I said, weather's really
affected everything. Like I've seen so many cancelations and it's
really hard to get them all in. And you guys
know that I love going to car shows. I love
to support all the different charities and stuff like that.
But to be honest with you, a little reprieved from it not being every single weekends. It has allowed us to,
you know, do a little bit more stuff for the show this year, you know, I mean to kind of get get involved in stuff, which is great. As you
guys know, we are getting ready to roll in. I've
been telling you guys in pre warning you, so right this second, you got Halloween right around the corner. It's coming.
And then so we have our big, huge Halloween show.
So if you're in the Hanton Roads area and you guys want to come out to that show, it's at Lancetown Common. It is the biggest show that happens in
the Hanton Roads area and I'll having over five thousand people at that show, which is big for a local car show. Every year it has been really really big.
And then of course, like I said, we go into our Christmas charity, as you guys know, Let's Talk Cars Radio.
Along with our partners and NAP a BDG group and NAPA being our sponsor, we go ahead and adopt eight families every single year and we provide a complete Christmas forum, so we give them Christmas dinner, we buy all the clothes for the kids, and then we buy all their toys for them too. It takes a lot to get
that set up. We are just starting the beginning of that,
like we do right at the end of the summer, every single year is when it starts and takes us right up to Christmas to do it. So we watch
for information on that and we may do something big.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's some rumors going on out there right this second that we may have something big going on with that and it develops. I will let you guys know, but
I'm not gonna let the cat out of the back that note. Guess what time of year it is? Everybody
know it should be an easy one.
Speaker 3: Time for a new show.
Speaker 2: Time for a new show, a new show. And he guesses, bueler,
bueler anybody, No, Nope, I.
Speaker 3: Have so time back to school.
Speaker 4: Once I left school, you know, I stopped thinking, stop, what's two plus two?
Speaker 3: Don't ask me?
Speaker 2: So would it be in school time? You guys know
that uh buses are back out on the road, right, so there's the paying attention all the buses throughout there.
Like in my area there's tons and tons of buses like I actually, in the morning, I think there's like six buses that go by the house for six different routes.
I don't know why it works out that way. We're
in the rural area, but it's just the way it works.
And I see them all the time. And of course
if you need to go any place and you can need you up in the morning and go to doctor's point whatever it is. Uh, you were better gauge by
where you think the bus will be. I know exactly
what time the bus is hit and I know that I got to try to get off my street.
Speaker 3: If not.
Speaker 2: When you live in the country, it's only two lane. Guys,
you're not going around the bus. You're just stuck behind
it for like five miles. And now every stop and
everybody's driveway.
Speaker 4: There now, thankfully, the bus stations what was that two years ago they started incorporating the cameras on the side of them.
Speaker 2: They are up if you go around and everything. So
technology has changed big time when it comes to school buses, and we've talked about it for a while. Now you
have the camera systems and if you get caught, you know, going past buses and stuff. Depends on what state you
live in, put you in jail for it. I mean,
it's huge. Finds everything go along with it now. So
you know, we talked about.
Speaker 3: It's kind of fun. They just mail you a ticket.
Speaker 2: We talked about drone technology. A couple of weeks ago, right,
So now there's a big, huge talk about using some of that technology when it comes to buses and all that kind of stuff, and I'm like, I don't think it ever stops. The technology that goes into things is crazy.
I just wish, like, Okay, I watched a lot. I
watch a lot of people's maybe because it's south this way, but I see I see people go blowing by buses all the time when the signs out, and it is the biggest annoyance to me. First of all, it's just
crazy dangerous. I mean, just the kids are walking, like
I don't even know why people even think about.
Speaker 3: But they do it.
Speaker 2: They get impatient, and I start thinking to myself, why I watch it happen. I'm like, okay, well, you know,
if you take that route every day and you know there's a bus right there, like, why don't you leave early enough that you don't have to worry about being, you know, an idiot out on the road and putting other people's lives in danger. I say the same thing
just for people like this speed regularly. Like I said,
I live on the country roads. We tend to go
a little faster than normal speed limit. But then you
have these people that like go blind, like buy me like one hundred miles an hour on a two lane road because what did you leave for Workley? They see
the same vehicle all the time doing it.
Speaker 4: There's already one where there's a bus crash under investigation already yep for this year, yep, already one to saw it on Facebook where a car I guess pulled in front of the bus, hit the bus. Bus caught on
fire with the kids in it. So yeah, bus was
on fire with the kids in it. So they said
there was minor injuries. They're still trying to investigate on
how the car hit the bus. But I mean just
in the first the first week of everything, I made the.
Speaker 2: Mistake and I opened up this conversation in a forum about buses and whatnot right, and some of the feedback I got was was a little a little bit different.
First of all, I'll start starting with the first one that goes to it, So buses and the bus drivers.
Everybody knows that there's the shortest bus drivers I think crossed like every single state, So sorry, hard to find bus drivers to drive. The craziness that goes along with
being a bus driver. I mean, I'm going to give
them all the props in the world when it comes to I mean, I don't think I could do it.
I just I couldn't. But the dr So just because
it's a bus doesn't mean that everything that does is right, I guess. And this is probably going to ruffle some
people's feathers. But I have like watched bad driving habits
from bus drivers where I'm like, you know, and then it puts me in the position where now I have to do something maybe I don't want to do. But
it's not because I'm a bad guy. It's because that
bus driver just can't drive. Like I'm like, okay, I
gotta get around you, like I need to get away from you whatever it is, or you know, or once again, I live on country roads. It's fifty five dolls an
hour zone out here on some of these country roads, and the bus is going down the road at like thirty miles an hour. Now, if you're lost or whatever
it is, I get it. You shouldn't be. You probably
should have practiced your route way before you ever need to pick people up. But maybe you're some two bus
driver whatever, But you now put me in a bad position where you're not going to speed limit and I'm stuck behind you, and now fifty cars are stuck behind you.
Speaker 3: What do you do at that.
Speaker 2: Point in time? Like wait, wait, wait, I wait behind
it or wait which.
Speaker 3: One you wait?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: See, I disagree. I think if you don't, if you
cannot handle the vehicle that you are driving, let the vehicles go around you so you can continue on if you're lost.
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
Speaker 4: I agree with you on that you know, and like, alright, so with a bus, and I agree with you on a lot of that things because bus drivers they do take tests and everything they do go through it, and the amount of the like there's a whole training program, there's a whole training program. But at the same time,
I do believe it might be just a little bit more that they need, like a like more CDL drivers they have to go.
Speaker 2: Through cl class Lise I think bus.
Speaker 4: That's my point for point about it is like I just feel like they could do just a little bit more on safety.
Speaker 3: Look, because they just they on the.
Speaker 2: Other side of the coin, I have been like, watch some buses that are just haul and I'm like, wow, that buss is going fast. Once again, I live in
the middle of nowhere, so you can wave with a whole lot.
But I know that they.
Speaker 6: They drive it like it's theirs they drive, which I know, normal Monday.
Speaker 2: Speed the speed limit a I'm not a limitar, but it tracks their speed. I know, there's like yeah, so
they know how fast they're going. Which if you guys
saw this weird talking about it before we came on the air. There is the whole bus situation right this second,
where there's a bus driver being sued or the city's being sued for the bus driver because the bus was driving too slow on a dirt road and it was hot outside and they weren't allowed to put the windows down.
If you guys haven't seen this, go watch the video and tell me what you think. We're in a little
bit of different opinions here at this table, just a little bit. First of all, if I was a bus
driver and kids were cursing at me, using curse words that I mean, I mean, I'm just gonna let you know, that's probably a reason why I can't be a bus driver.
I mean, there's no way like understandable, stress stressful. There's
a good chance I might take us all right off a Cliff, I don't know. I'm just saying it could happen. Yeah,
I mean it just I don't know how these people and I'm being silly about it, but I'm being sarcastic, right, It's just one of those things like I don't know how they deal with that. Like I'm listen. The video
was supposed to if you go watch the video, the video is supposed to put I guess, the kids in a better light, but it wasn't. If you listen to
these kids and the way they're talking to an adult, which is driving a fifteen thousand pounds bus full of kids and stuff like I we would never in a million years think about talking to teacher, bus drive or anything.
Speaker 3: Like that adult.
Speaker 2: But yet you're you're her arass me as I'm taking a vehicle down the road. Now, the difference and opinion.
Speaker 3: At our cad.
Speaker 2: Don't get me started on that one. We'll be here
for days. The difference was like so I had said,
when I was on a bus, I rode the bus as a kid, we weren't allowed to put the windows down.
If we put the windows down, the next stop that the bus driver came to, stopped the bus and said put the window back up and wouldn't move the bus from that bus stop where they're dropping those next people off intil the window went back up because people would hang out the window and put their hands off the window, put their hand whatever. So the winners weren't allowed to
come down. Now, I will say that our bus probably
had ac it did not work for you well, and I lived in Vegas, so think about how hot it is.
But so it was hot in the bus. I remember
it being hot. It was always hot. You're just like
you should want to get off the bus. Skits were going.
But so I kind of get it. So there's a
back and forth on that. Their point of view on
the other side.
Speaker 3: Of this is what bus drivers you guys, it's my window.
I have put it out of the I don't know.
Speaker 4: What bus drivers you guys had. I had Miss deb
and she was perfect. She let us put the windows.
I remember she would let us play music. She even
got Hurts her bus outfit.
Speaker 2: And there was some power trip bus drivers.
Speaker 6: But at the same time, there was you know, people that understood that, you know, like there are just windows like that's so that's kind of where my argument was, is like, you know, why couldn't you put the window down?
Speaker 2: Right? It's it's one of those things where it I
get it. I do, I do get I'm on both
sides of this fence. I understand that there's bus safety
and stuff like that. But if it's, first of all,
if it's a district rule, which I know a lot of people are, you know, they want the kids hanging out, So of course there's his way to keep you as doing your job safe is just don't put the windows down, period.
So that way you don't have to worry about it buty hanging out. Because to me, I'm not going to
say it's never happened, but this is what they always always say. You don't put your hand out because other
busses get come, comebined. It can rip your arm off.
So maybe that happened, or maybe that's just something they told us. I mean, I hate you think I don't
think about that.
Speaker 3: It is the same reason.
Speaker 4: Like one thing I never understood about buses, why don't they have seat belts? Why don't they have By the way.
Speaker 2: There is I don't think they make anywhere. I mean,
there are certain buses, the.
Speaker 3: Search ones, but the longer bushes they don't.
Speaker 4: Have seat belts. I mean, I've always wondered that. I'm like,
you want to protect the kids, but you don't have seat belts.
Speaker 2: That conversation comes up all the time. Safety, it does,
It really comes up. I just think it's like I said,
the buses are on the road. Like I said, I
don't think everybody's always in the right. You can go
look at some of these bus videos and you can find you can punch holes like every single story. Like
I said, the fact that they were trying to play that video and they like show the kids, you know, Like like I said, if I had a kid that was cursed at me and dropping the F bomb and all kinds of stuff along that line, like and I'm the bus driver, I probably would have had enough to And they say that the bus driver was going down the dirt road really slow to punish the kids for being bad, and it was hot in the bus. That's
what the lawsuit is about. But I ain't gonna lie.
Speaker 6: That's probably something I'm not even dolling it though.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, because that's like, oh you want to be a little dirty. Look, we can go down this
road at like two miles an hour, five miles. You're hot,
I'll make sure you're real hot. But at the same point,
I don't know. They say there was no negligence. You guys,
go watch the video. You tell me what you guys think.
You guys, tell me what you think. You got it.
So I lived in Vegas real quick, I got commercial break.
When I lived in Vegas. The bus up that I
had to take because I used to live out going out to my buddy's house all the time. Uh, we
had to go down a bunch of dirt roads, and that bus went slow down dirt roads. It just did.
It seemed like it took forever. If you guys ever
in Vegas, Low Mountain Road a paved roads. They're all
paved roads now. But when I was a kid, like
Low Mountain Road, all those roads out that was all dirt roads, and the bus picked us all up. You
had to get up at five o'clock in the morning, get picked out to be at school by like what eight o'clock because it took foreverord to go down all those dirt roads and they drove slow. But that's my
bus story. And I know, guys, I gotta take a
quick commercial break when it come back. We got some
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist.
Now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So if you guys were with
us for the first segment, we were talking about Braddy kids and school buses. I mean, you take what you
guys want out of it. Like I said, I mean,
it's kind of funny. We continue to talk about it
off the air, but it's just I don't know. It
takes a special kind of someone to drive a bus.
That's all I want to say. So I got out
the topic for you guys, right. So, you guys, I
know we talked in pass I don't have a whole lot of knowledge. I can just tell you my personal
experience when it comes to things and we're talking about a security system. So I get asked all the time
about security systems on cars. They're like, well, well, how
would do secure your car? What would you do? And
my answer, I believe or not usually as simple, and I'm like, I probably wouldn't do anything other than maybe some like cheap things like some hidden kill switches like that, because I believe that security systems truly just keep the honest, honest, right, I think that's really all it does. I mean, we
have seen over and over again, like really hyped up security systems, and somehow the cars still get stolen.
Speaker 6: I think the kill switch is probably the best solution because a lot of times, a lot of people don't do the kill switch. They'll get like, you know, the
fancy alarm that you know pings their phone or their keychain.
But I think the kill switch is the better alternative because if they don't know about it, it's the last thing they're kind of thinking about, right.
Speaker 3: I have an Aftermarkus security alarm system, and I know.
Speaker 2: You have a really fancy white In a lot of ways.
Speaker 4: It does, but I don't think I've ever told you, guys this there there's a problem with it where if you go.
Speaker 3: And remote start the car.
Speaker 4: You told me this, Yes, if you go and remote start the car, right, it will send the signal to lock the car doors. It will start the car, but
after it starts the car, it will unlock the car doors for about fifteen seconds and then re lock them.
I don't know why, but it just unlocks the car.
It goes unlocks the car doors. You can say.
Speaker 2: Before yeah, that's just weird, weird rolling code or something.
Speaker 4: I can get into the car. I can close the
doors and like I was trying to do, and then and then it will lock the doors. And like, yes,
if you open up the doors, it will set off the alarm. But now I'm in a running car that
already thinks that the key is inside the ignition.
Speaker 2: But you're going to go so far right if the key's not, doesn't yours have Like if you go so far, it kills the engines.
Speaker 3: I haven't set up that way.
Speaker 4: If it doesn't detect one of my keyfobs, like my secondary key fob, yes, it will kill the car. But
you can set it up where it doesn't. Mine is
a nice system where I can tell it yes, registering the key.
Speaker 2: Yeah, bought it.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, I bought that one. No, I bought
that one.
Speaker 4: Thought I bought that one because it was which is probably coming up Sam Waves sales apocalypse is when.
Speaker 3: I bought it.
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, it's still a regular security alarm. It's just really fancy that makes alarms
and it pings your phone. It doesn't really prevent, you know,
it is what a regular alarm system does. It's not
a faulty switch.
Speaker 2: I think I told you guys, I was. I remember,
like as far as I'm concerned, Like my generation, I remember when alarms like what we thought was like really cool.
Speaker 3: Well, your generation had the Viper, the Viper alarm.
Speaker 2: I remember the first time I saw I think I told you I remember the first time I saw the Viper, and it was just I'm sorry. I thought it was
just the coolest thing, because you know, night rider was popular during that time, and you know, it auto opened the doors and all kinds of stuff. And the guy
who had his d had it. It rolled down the windows,
it started the car. He could pop the door lock
and pop the door open. It had a lot of features,
and I mean to be honest with you, guys, we never saw anything like anything you saw like that was on TV. So for somebody you knew, who, by the way,
was a kid who had it and he had on a two eightsist so one of the car read too eight easy. I mean that was like it was pretty cool.
I was just like wow, and it talked, you know what I mean. So I remember like the age of
things starting to talk to you, which you guys will never get to experience that, but for us at my age, and I'm not really all that old, but that was like I had. I think I told you I had
a stereo deck that when he turned it on, would talk to you. I said, good morning, I leave, good afternoon.
I don't know if it' said good evening, but I know good morning, good afternoon was two of the things that said, and it said some other things. I only
had it programmed basically just to acknowledge. When the car
came on, I thought, but that was like new technology and it was cool. And I remember everybody got in
my car, so you sat in my car and my car started talking. You know, people always thought that was
the neatest thing. You guys don't remember the cars talking
and used to tell you door a jar and all that kind of stuff. So it's kind of like that
technology was you know, I think it was. Some cars
will tell you about the seat belt. Someone tell you
the door was a jar, which means the door open some other things. So that technology was like new. But
remember you're thinking you're talking about like nineteen eighty six, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like you said, like even with the newer technology, and as technology has advanced throughout the days, security systems are just there to keep the honest man honest.
Speaker 3: You can like I was.
Speaker 2: There, but I, like I said, I'm old schools like I.
Speaker 3: Was talking about in the beginning of the show.
Speaker 4: You know, with social media coming across a lot more, you're seeing a lot of these security systems pop up on social media on how to deactivate them and s.
Speaker 2: So like old school and comes to security systems like I have just on certain cars just put a kills with hidden kill switch in it. Cars not starting unless
that switches flick. Now, when it comes to cars like
on our cars nowadays, I believe the security system comes with a car and not say that's really the s curio system. You've open the door that it honks, whatever,
lights blink. That all comes on pretty standard on most cars.
I just feel that's plenty enough for me. I don't
really because if you want my car, you're gonna take it anyway.
Speaker 4: I've always said, though you've heard me say this before too, I've always asked if there was a way that the manufacturers could just put in a security system through the radio.
You know, your radio is already connect the cars, Like why get into this?
Speaker 3: So okay?
Speaker 4: But once you turn the key, you know, like how most people are complaining about it, Like.
Speaker 2: Why don't you just take a year ago about it being punched into.
Speaker 4: The type in a pin code in the radio that allows the car to start, you know, like I think that would that would solve a lot of security.
Speaker 6: They find a software they can just upload to the system.
Speaker 2: And so if you guys watched any of the videos when you talk about social media, so if you watch any videos are online, I mean there we're saying about social media as far as I'm concerned, when it comes into the car businesses a teaching people how to fix cars the wrong way, they get bad information or that there's always the guys like I'm gonna show you how to fix this today?
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: And now here we are and he's halfway through it and you're like.
Speaker 3: Wait, what happened?
Speaker 2: Like there it is they'll be talking about before it was like there's like nineteen other bolts that came out that you didn't show me how to come out, Like now you got me with this thing halfway apart.
Speaker 4: The favorite video that's been going around lately that I like is the one we're like, all right, so here we have an F one fifty, this is the ignition plug and then they pull it out and they're like.
Speaker 3: Do not pull this ignition plug out?
Speaker 4: And they're like they quickly plug it back in and they're like, if you pull it out, do not plug it back in Like that. Yeah, they unplug and they're like,
and if you do plug it back in, do this.
Speaker 2: I think social media just like kills it. Like literally,
they're okay, I thought I'm gonna date myself a little bit fast and if not fast and furious, gone in sixty seconds, gone sixty seconds. The original is If you
guys have never seen the original, if you didn't know, if you didn't know what it was, remake, it's remake.
Go look for the First Gone in sixty seconds. Watching
that as a kid, I think it was filmed in the seventies or maybe at least in the early eighties.
I'm not sure. That was like the intruction book on
how to steal a car, like from step one to like the final I mean, I just kind of felt like it was I was watching like a documentary on how to steal a car and get away with it.
I know it was a movie, but they like really kind of went through some things and like I mean, they showed you like messing around with the vins, all kinds of stuff, and so that was a movie. Now
you move forward to social media and you have all this social media stuff.
Speaker 3: When it was nineteen seventy four, soy four, that was cool.
Speaker 2: I thought it was in seventy I watched it when I was a kid, But there was a lot of stuff that went through it. Like I said, now you
have social media and there's people literally walk you through all kinds of how to steal cars and like this is where you find the wire and all kinds of stuff.
Like I said, I can go back into a lot of cars I had where I went way out of my way to make sure you couldn't take my car and I didn't have a big fancy alarm system, so I was just putting kill switches in it.
Speaker 4: Well, I told you about that one video where that guy is he took a plastic fork and a plastic knife and was He was just like and like, I understand the caption said for educational purposes only, but at the.
Speaker 3: Same time people are gonna be watching that, you know social He took the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how they are like why would you ever show them?
Speaker 4: They're showing so, uh, thank you for saying that. So
there was another person that posted a machine and he was like, uh, he was like, this is how you program program the key. He's like, now it's gonna come
up with this message and say you need the key, but guess what, we don't have the key, So this is.
Speaker 3: How you do it.
Speaker 4: And I'm to be hearing like in my mind, I'm like, cool you. If I needed that on YouTube perfect, I
would have thanked you for seeing that video. But at
the same time, you just showed somebody how to program a key.
Speaker 6: Tour are you smoking them all out seeing capture them all together? Maybe we're trying to get rid of the
problem before it becomes a you know, epidemic, like.
Speaker 2: This is gonna sound. But I remember the first car
I hot wired, and it's not what you think. I
remember the first time I truly have a hot wire or a car, like I'm not talking about playing around with something or anything that it was my car and I had to go to work and I went to a party.
Speaker 3: I had to work.
Speaker 2: I went to a party and slept at where the party.
Speaker 3: Was at Green and Yellow.
Speaker 2: I got up, No, it was really worse than that.
So I got up early in the morning to go to work because I know I had I think I had about a forty minute drive to get before I was at back to where work was gonna be at.
And I couldn't find my keys to my car anywhere.
And I'm like, and I couldn't figure. I just couldn't
forget where they went. And I finally got frustrated because
I couldn't afford to lose the job. I was young
and I had bills to pay, so I had to make the decision at that point in time to hot wire my own car. Now here's the thing. I know
it's bad, and the thing was shaking us out of me.
I had only seen on TV people hot wiring cars.
I had played around with cars before, mess around, but I never truly tried to like hot wire car, make it say, running all that kind of stuff. So I
you're pouring wires out that exactly.
Speaker 6: But it was easier though, because it wasn't like there's a ton of wires.
Speaker 2: How many wires?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly what I thought, buddy, my car sixteen wires for the car to start to stay started, for everything to work on it.
Speaker 3: So I pulled you have some really good security back there.
Speaker 2: So I got the dish, I'm like, okay, I'm you know, and they see the red and the black wire hood right underneath the dish because that's it was all in things.
I pulled out, and there's sixteen wires that go into a electronic like cylinder.
Speaker 6: You didn't have a diagram.
Speaker 2: You're on your little poppy college in Illinois and in the winter.
Speaker 6: I'm talking about you know, yeah, you know some cars the feud boxes have the diagram.
Speaker 2: Because I know what you're talking about, right, you have a diagram?
Speaker 3: No, because anyone looking box.
Speaker 2: I literally I literally took the plastic off around the steering column and dug the wire horns and then had to make the decision and took my pocket knife that I had in my center console and had to cut that thing loose because it was.
Speaker 3: Now the key is working now if you find the key.
Speaker 2: The key so and then had and then of course I do what I You know, red blok, you just.
Speaker 6: Followed the wire right to always starter and what the condition was?
Speaker 2: Literally I sit there and play with the wires.
Speaker 3: You're gonna have you just cut them all?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well I started off with just the ones I
thought would start the car. Then it worked before I knew.
Speaker 4: What I had.
Speaker 2: I had to have all. You couldn't get the gage
cluster work touched. I couldn't get the headlighted work unless
this one touch, like it all had to be. I
was so furious.
Speaker 4: And then you just chopped your car started very new, so he cut the car started to probably cut off.
Speaker 2: There was yeah, there was. There was a series of
evolutions on this.
Speaker 6: This just really like you stole at that point.
Speaker 2: And then I was mad because I was like, man, I am driving my car around and it looks like I have stolen this car. I don't have the key,
but I had to get to work. And then my
buddy calls me and he's.
Speaker 3: Like, hey, I got your key on your key.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what do you find He's like, oh, remember that girl you were talking into last night. She thought
it'd be funny to take your key and hide your keys, so she took it back to her dorm room with her.
Speaker 3: I was like, ha ha ha, I just.
Speaker 2: Did like five hundred dollars car ha ha. Like I
still if you can't tell still this date, I can't remember your name, but you owe me some money.
Speaker 3: What dorm room you were in? What dormom room?
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say, you owe me some money. I'm
just and it still burns me. I just made Matt mccarpark.
Speaker 3: I've never done that. I've never I've never Yeah now yeah.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, so it's funny to Thana asked me a question why we're a commercial break. He's like, well, didn't
you just like follow the wiring harness And if you guys don't wan to talk about we're talking about having a hot wire car, and he was like, didn't you just I was like, I did, so I thought I could keep in mind, guys, I was young, right, So I mean I already knew a lot about cars at that point in time, but not nearly as much knowledge as I've gained over all the years. So I followed
the wirehearse the wire and harness came out of ignition and it went into the computer, which I think at that time I was telling us I believe it went into the PCM. It was either PCM or BCM, one
of the two, or maybe that car had one. I
don't and I just don't remember. It could have had
all in one. But I know that the wires came
out the other side. They were different colors, so you
could it's like you're chasing the room and everything comes out.
Speaker 6: But at any point when you got it together, did you notice any like correlation to like what got to run?
Or were you just you know?
Speaker 2: I knew I knew out of the sixteen wires that I ended up cutting off of it, I knew that seven of them had to be twisted together for the car to stay running. That's what I do know, it
was like there was seven wires or on that and I had to take this is what was just I was so furious about. I had to take them, strip
them back so I could take all the wire and then it's just twisted together and one big twisted not for the hard to stay running, and it just and then I had to go find the light to make the headlights work, and that was the headlights and I had to go find that wire and then touch that wire into those way. I was furious. Now if you
asked me, I had to fix it, and I I didn't have a whole lot of money back then. I
was young, you know, I was a young kid. So
I had to I literally had to go and butt connect those wires like two different like at a wire than butt connected to make the link. Because what happened when.
Speaker 3: I cut it.
Speaker 2: Now, when I got my key the cylinder that went on there, I couldn't get it and get the wires to it. So then I had to butt connect a
wire to the wire by the way, I couldn't get all the right colored wires, So then I had to remember what wire was what as I butt connected it, and then I had to run it another butt connector to the other side. And then of course that was
trial and error because it was so many wires and you're pooling on of things and something's not making the right connection and you're cripping more down on the butt connector.
Speaker 6: Did you ever get to you know, original state or was there still leftover problems?
Speaker 2: No, I got it back to where it worked fine.
I did finally get it back. Now, it took me
a little time messing with it and get everything, but I finally got it back and I was able to put the plastic back on. But I knew inside that
steering column was a bunch of butt connectors holding wires together like it drove me nuts and the car state I had, what I think at that point, I think I looked. I want to say, that wire and harness
that I cut into and stuff like that was a little over one thousand dollars just for that wire and harness, you know what I mean. So at that point time
I wasn't. I wasn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to go grab some wire, some wire, most too.
Speaker 2: It's funny, so give you a whole on other story, I had a Dodge pickup truck. I think I told
the story once before that somebody had messed up the wire and I the wire and harnish for that truck.
That Dodge pickup truck was the Dodge D fifty was lowered.
That was many trucks time, if you guys remember, it was just like the Mighty Maxis and I had it all tricked out and lowered. But I sold that truck
to a friend of mine who burnt tried to burn it to the ground. I don't know how I end
up doing it, but it burning all the wiring out of it, and the wire and harsh for that vehicle at the time was I think like fifteen or seventeen hundred dollars, which was a lot of money. So I
bought the truck back from him for nothing because he could he didn't want to deal with it, and I wired the whole wiring harness in that truck from going.
I went to like Advance Auto and just bought like ten different colors every color they had and made my own wire and horse and I had to wire it all the way through the dash into the engine bay and all the way through everything. Time just got hot first.
I don't know what he did, but it fried the wires all the way into the dash gauge cluster when working all that stuff. I rewired all that stuff. Now,
it took me a plenty of stero in it. I
don't I don't think it ever came clean. Told me
what he did. But the correlation of that was I
would have probably never took on that project if I hadn't already played with the wire from figuring out having a hot wire in my car and how much I had to play around those wires to get the car to work right, I would have never because it was the only I mean we're only talking like a three year period from the time that car till I had to dodge.
Speaker 6: It's a big project to take on.
Speaker 2: It was a big project to wire at all and try to wire. I mean, the wires got so hot
they melted, like you just see the copper sticking out of melted you know, plastic.
Speaker 6: And I had got all that out and figured out how, but just to the right you need to get the whole thing out just.
Speaker 2: To they are melted. They are melted to all the sensors,
like underneath the hood. Really, yeah, they're melting. Was melted
down to the starter melted to the gauge cluster, uh, melted to the ac everything something. I thought maybe he
put like the battery in backwards or something like that, and that's and didn't realize it and to the point of just self destructive. But I put that truck all
back together. I drove that truck for like another year
and a half, and then I sold it to another friend who needed it. That's what happens you're in the military.
When you're a military like, you just end up selling vehicles and somehow you end up getting them back and the resell them again. I don't know how it works,
but it happened a couple of different times on two different vehicles. I think that I had I did do
that with because I ended up having them. Then I
just didn't want or didn't need him anymore. Somebody needed
it more than I did, so I was like, well, here I got this one.
Speaker 6: Shows it was a strong car, right, I said, I had it twice, had it back.
Speaker 2: So I sold it to another one of my friends, UH, and he had it for a while and then he ended up selling it back to me. I think when
he had a clutch problem and I put a clutch in it, and then I think I ended up letting a friend use it and it he ended up it ended up dying on him. But it was a good one.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was a mini truck.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Everybody enjoyed me truck. So moral story is, you know,
alarm systems obviously don't work because I didn't know anything, and I was able to get in my car, and I remember I got into it with the coat hangar, and I tells you how things ha changed. You can't
probably really do that so easy, but you okay, perfect example.
You know I have a breaking kit. If you guys
don't know what one is, A lot of you all do in the industry probably have one too. I know
a lot of people to deal with have to do cars and moved cars and stuff like that, have a bunch of just case. But I have one, and I'm
in and out of a car within usually a couple of seconds. You see me do it a million times.
Speaker 4: Mine takes me two seconds. You want to know my
breakout kid is a rock?
Speaker 3: You know, I mean it's a desperate measure.
Speaker 2: No, No, I have I have an actual breaking kit and I'm using with inside the car. But at that point
in time. Now you're to the cognition. But things have
changed so much, I mean nothing on that technology has really changed. For the most part. You're breaking the most cars.
With a breakout kit and a breaking kit, you can get into pretty much every Yeah, well it's interesting.
Speaker 6: Right with alarm systems, they already exactly what you know their name, they're they're just alarm exactly.
Speaker 4: They don't even time out. Alarm system goes off right now.
Your neighbor's alarm system go out right now? Right, let's
say car alarm.
Speaker 2: You can't say for us because I would be out there and looking at.
Speaker 4: I understand because where we live at well we where we live. But in the city life, it's normal. Yeah,
it's normal. You hear if you hear the alarm go
off for maybe longer than ten seconds, maybe you're getting up to go take a look and say why is that alarm stamp?
Speaker 2: But I lose my car at the airport all the time, Like I don't. I've gotten better over the years, And
I take a picture when I'm in the airport of like the stanchion and it has like the number and floor you're on and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Unless unless the parking garage has the same floor like that one.
Speaker 2: I knew you're gonna say that unless you ended up in the wrong parking garage, because there's two parking garages you didn't realize at the airport, and they all had the same number, same level, and you up on that you're like, I know, I parked my car here, and then I end up I'm clicking the button, clicking the button, and when Cameron and I hear it, Hank and the other parking garage, which is they're adjacent to each other, but there's a little bit of a distance, and I was like, you hear that, that's gotta be ours. And
I turned it to go off and I hit it and go back. I was like, yeah, that's sorts. And
then we realized it was a second parking garage.
Speaker 6: So but my point was right, is that you know, we have child loss in the back seat. So how
come when you have a like alarm system, it doesn't We don't have like child locks the doors all like basically all around to lock it to you know.
Speaker 2: When you well, they just unlocked it though, right, so they like.
Speaker 6: No, I'm talking about your child locked, right, you know how it locks the door. I can't how come you
don't have that option when you have like an alarm system to like secure your doors so they can't be wedged open.
Speaker 2: He just, okay, but you'd have to have to be like an automatic that it would have to be an automatic popper on popper right right, Like, which is just even just like locking the door. They're just locking the
door if they got past the locket.
Speaker 6: It's more of a secured locked door, right, because like it doesn't really you don't like you don't really lock your door, you know.
Speaker 2: By the way, I like doing that to people. That's
why he knows that. I like to reach in on
the back door and hit the child locks and then close the door on somebody and never tell them when we get someplace you have to go to the restaurant and they're like, I'm stuck. I'm like, and you are.
You're right.
Speaker 3: He does it on road tips.
Speaker 6: But I think it's just I guess, I guess it's a good point because like you just break the window though, so it's kind of like, what are you secure the door for?
Speaker 2: You just break the window.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 2: Look, everybody's trying to reinvent like a new way to do it. I just like I said, I think the
easiest way if you try, if you're trying to get your car to this point that it's not gonna get stolen now mobile right, just put a simple kill switch in it. And when I'm not talking like a mobilizer,
I'm talking about just literally a switch. I've done it
in many cars. I hide him someplace, and I hide
a place where people aren't gonna look. Everybody's like, why
did I put underneath dash? They still spole my car,
Like that's the first place they're going to look. You
remember everybody used to have like you all don't remember.
But once again, I'm gon date myself. We all used
to have like it used to be like a little red button and you look underneath dash. It's just hanging
there on a wire, and he push the button, the car starts.
Speaker 6: I'm like, or do toggle switch hanging from somewhere?
Speaker 2: You're like? Mine was always like I put mine and
I and I didn't do it through an alarm, says I just did a kill switch. I always put myself
in one where nobody would look. And I'm not going
to tell you the places because I still use that theory.
But I mean, I.
Speaker 6: Always like the the lighter, the lighter one where you use that as I've never done that, especially you know nowadays nobody really uses it.
Speaker 2: I had a friend and I don't know how he did it, but I had a friend that did it that when he turned on the stereo. So if he
turned the stereo on, somehow it got the feed or the power or whatever then and then so they stereo wasn't on card didn't start. I thought that was pretty neat.
And I think what he did is I think he took the stereo apart and then wired into that switch, which is not hard to do right, and I think but I thought it was pretty neat. I've seen on
UH online there was a guy that did it. Was
on his AC and then only if you turned the AC the number two and it would start, and then of course you turn it off, then the car is still run. So I thought that was I've seen a
lot of cool stuff. There's a lot of things out
there you guys can do. I said, Lauren, sists, you're
asking me, I'm just old school. I rather, just like
I said, I'd rather use the kill switch. I don't
need a whole lot of things if the car makes it noise already because it came with something stock cool, it can still do that. But here's the thing. At
the end of the day, you're still not going to keep somebody from towing that even if you can't get it started. A lot of times the tow truck and
tow it away. We see the one where they're using
the other car and they're shoved them down the road right, but in neutral, and they shove it down the road in neutral because you can break the steering lock on it and you can steer it. And then before they
know it, they put it on a truck. They put
on tow truck. Before you know wait, alarms wily do
one thing, as Nathaniel says, they alarm you, and they keep the honest honest. That's that's my belief. If you
disagree with me, you know where to find me. Go
ahead and send an email tell me what you guys see we're a better system and that note. Let me
go ahead and take another commercial break when I come back. Guys,
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Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome back. Hey, So here's one for you.
Did you guys, I just jump into it. Did you
guys see the video? Uh, it's the car transporter that
caught on fire with like a one off car in it.
Speaker 4: I did, I did so. I did see the report
where they said I think it was a nic eighteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Or somebody sent me. How do you get a chance
to read the whole thing. I just yeah, I saw
the picture in the art.
Speaker 3: No, it was in nineteen seventy nine. It was pulled up.
Speaker 2: So my question on it was, there's okay. I have
a lot of friends that buy cars from like all over the country, right they you know, they get cars and then they ship them and have them transport it back to where we live at a lot of times, a lot of stuff comes from the West Coast because you find cars less rust on it there, right, But I always give my friends like a hard time because I'm like, why are you willing to spend?
Speaker 4: Like I was right, it was a nineteen seventy nine and yep, it was a nineteen seventy nine Probe one, so it was a gea Probe one concept car. But
still still we're a million dollars and it earned.
Speaker 2: All right, So perfect example, right, I have friends out they're not buy a million dollar cars. But I've had
friends buy one hundred thousand dollar cars, a little more than a hundred thousand dollar cars, and then they they I listened to the complain about the cost to ship it.
Like they're looking like it's like they're looking for the cheapest guy to ship the car. Like, wait a minute,
you just spent like one hundred thousand dollars car. You
need to spend sixty thousand, fifty thousand, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: On a car.
Speaker 2: Why are you now looking for the cheapest guy to bring that car?
Speaker 3: Put back to you? Why would you? I don't understand why.
You never understood that too.
Speaker 4: You spend forty thousand dollars on a car and then you want to go pay one thousand dollars to get it too. You know you are paying somebody that big
money for their skills.
Speaker 2: Number one, and there's a lot of skills to transport.
Speaker 4: You also know the roads so they know what routes to take to keep your car the safest you know, and two to look for things like this so your car don't catch on fire.
Speaker 2: So the reason why this came up is I had two different things hit me this week with transfer. I
saw that story, and then I had a friend who got his car and he was telling me. I just
talked to him today and he was like hey, I said, hey, did you get your new car. He's like, yeah, I
got it. I was like awesome. He's like, well, not
so so much. I'm like what he's like, Well, it
got damaged in transport. Now, I don't know how they
transport brand new dark Horse Mustangs, no idea. Maybe it's
an open trailer. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think i'd want mine transported on open trailer.
Speaker 6: Most it is open trailer, though, well, okay, you're paying more for a closed trailer.
Speaker 2: I guess in my head I'm thinking about, well, no, because it wasn't BMW Mercedes. They used to have the
ones that had like the canvas sides that go up so nothing can come up and hit the cars. So
I would kind of imagine maybe it would be transferred that way. I'm not thinking it comes like in a
trailer all by itself, but I got to think it. Okay,
So for people that are transporting cars, like you guys have seen them, like we've we've been at some of the shows where you see the big haulers and they have the double deck or like the dancecar trailer for the cars are inside. They bring it down the elevator
and drop the car down, Like, wouldn't it be hoof like maybe those to have like a sprinkler system in it.
That's triggered if like a fire starts in the trailer, because that's what happened with that one, right, You're caught on fire.
Speaker 4: So it's there's the people's probably thought about that, But think about how many bumpiness there is. Transport drivers have
probably thought about everything that they can think about stuff.
I'm not thinking, yeah, trying to try to save the vehicle.
But at the same time as it, maybe we should ask our transport driver friends. I mean, is there something
else you can do to try to look out for like like all the one Yeah, I mean you got to you got a tree.
Speaker 3: We're on the back of you.
Speaker 4: What do you what are you going to do other than what you're already that you.
Speaker 3: Guys don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know if we've talked about the show and stuff.
I was in the industry of the tow business for a long time. Now it's not transporting vehicles, but it
is you're transporting and what two at a time? You know,
if you got a flatbed. Some of the flatbed I
had one flatbed that you could almost get two cars on if you've really got them tight. But we never
did that way, and I was always like, okay, so I'm all about the four point tie down within the winch doesn't count, by the way, And I used to argue with people about that all the time. They're like, oh, well,
the winch, you know that, that's that's that counts as a two point tie down. I'm like, no, it doesn't,
because the winch can fail. Now I get a ragist,
traps and all that kind of stuff can fail too.
But if you worked for me and I caught you driving without a four point tie down on one of my vehicles, you didn't work for me anymore because that was just my rule. And I let a lot of
people go for it.
Speaker 4: Do you want them to over access the amount of tie downs they used rather than just want to safe?
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker 2: I wanted the car that they are transporting to be safe, and I wanted people driving around them to be safe, and that was the most important thing to me, so when I hired it. And it's not like they went
through extensive training with us to do towing and stuff for us. I know a lot of people just jumping
on a tow truck stuff like that. That's not the
way we did it. You were in training class with
us without ever leaving a parking lot for two weeks, loading cars, putting them on it, and unloading them over and over again. That's just that was my policy. Is
something I started because I just really wanted the car to be safe.
Speaker 4: The transport driver could be the safest person out there.
There's still stupid people out there that just want to look at all these we were just talking about social media.
Go look on social media these cars just going in front of truckers and on their brakes.
Speaker 2: I had a guy I had four and I you know, I'll be the first one to say I probably questioned him.
He was in an accident and the car came off the truck, and I was like, there's no way. I
had the four point tie down on it. So I
went and it did. It was just an oversized vehicle
and it snapped because somebody cut him off, and then he had to go and kind of went into a ditch like to get away from him and the jerky and the slamming and stuff. It jostled the car loose
and it ripped the back straps off it. So but
I was in my mind I probably prejudged because I'm like, there's no way, like I didn't realize the extent of what had happened. And I got there and I was like, okay,
I can see there's all the titles. I made the
mistake once. I mean, I am in early years. First
time I ever towed a car on a tow truck, now on a trailer on tow truck. I put the
straps on it, and I hooked into the toe holes underneath the car and I ratched it down, and I think, this is what I'm thinking. It was a Mustang actually,
and I'm thinking things broke now they ripped through. So
they ripped through the holes. Somebody cut me off. I
jammed on my brakes and then I heard the car hit the headboard and I was like, oh, and it was a nice car. And I was so furious with
myself because I'm like, I thought I did everything to write and secure it. And then that from that point
in time, I stopped using the tolls. I wouldn't use
tolls anymore. I started getting I bought a wheel straps
and I put them around the wheels and put them through wheel and then ratching down that way because I was like, I'd have to yank the wheel off the car for anything to go anywhere just and were about the tolls ripping through or anything like that. And I
think maybe I thought my mind truly after I went back, took a look at I love the busting just had whek holes. I'm like, it's really weak. And I didn't
like taking a big jay hook like the big long you guys remember I used to having the garage. I
didn't like throwing that on a suspension of car and ractioning down because I just if my car got scratched, like I you know, I spent a lot of money powder coating everything on my car underneath, So if you scratch my powder colting up because you threw a jay hoo around stuff, I probably be upset. So I didn't
want to do that in somebody's car either, So I guess I just thought outside the box. But I realized that,
you know, thinking about it and looking that my buddy's car that just got delivered got damaged, I'm like, I understand things happened, but you would think something that nice wouldn't be on an open trailer. Open there's anything wrong
with open trailer, because I mean, we transport cars like that everywhere all across and.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised with your buddy's car. It didn't make a
pis top to a dealership to get inspected before going to the customer. Okay, so especially if it came from
like over city limits.
Speaker 3: He didn't tell me.
Speaker 2: I think they called him the dealership, say you come down.
He took a look.
Speaker 3: Did it go to them?
Speaker 2: Well, I told you this, I was. I was starting
to tell the stories you Sometimes they'll go to how I did it get damaged on the truck, but then it got damaged by sitting the parking lot in a different area, so I got damag strikes. And I told him,
I'm like, I think your cars cursed. I think you
need That's what I said.
Speaker 3: I was like, just get rid of it, get rid of it.
Speaker 2: I think I really think you need to get rid of I think it's cursed. So I feel bad, But
I would think I always thought some of the high I mean, because like what a dark horse, right, the second was seventy eight thousand fully loaded, something like that wouldn't be on an open truck.
Speaker 4: I also, I have to think on the transport driver's side, right, because like I do think about that side. Was the
transport driver given enough like I wanted to say material, but that's not what I'm meaning. Like, were they given
enough to make sure that that didn't happen? You know,
liked the dealership meet their demand, and you know, seeing how just the clearance is between some of the cars and I go, how does that?
Speaker 2: I don't with the suspension and stuff like, well, you you must be really good at what you do to be able to judge that, to get the ramps just at the right angle, to note that. It's not I've
never done one of those. I don't know you ever
to make sure it doesn't bounce and smack or something like that.
Speaker 3: I mean some guts just driving the car off of that. Man,
You're you're.
Speaker 4: Three stories in the air and you're dropping a car into neutral and letting it roll backwards.
Speaker 2: So it's like, well, it's it's not, it's not really.
It's like on the ramps, like you're just on the ramps at the bars on the side. If you turn
the wheels, who wants to wheel on? You're on the.
Speaker 4: Exactly you got you got full control of the car.
They got some guts trying to put that car. I've
seen cars and I know their jobs not easy.
Speaker 2: I just wonder if there's maybe, Like you know, I'm one of those guys always go new technologies, technology job easier.
Like now, I have a friend that did some transporting, uh I think he was transporting for for for a while, and he said that his trailer had cameras and stuff on it. Now like, oh, really, we'll see some things.
And I was like, well, how does that help? I
guess going down the road you can see if the cars you bounds are like that or they're moving around and stuff. Because yeah, there's I can't remember what movie is,
there's a movie where you watch all the cars come off the transport truck and I'm like, oh my god, like could you imagine you driving behind that? And also
it's like, oh, dude, I saw a video.
Speaker 4: I'm always on Facebook, y'all send us a message if you need us, but I just saw a video where a driver was mister exit, went to go make their exit cut off a white car. The white car spun
hit the.
Speaker 3: Transport transport truck. Transport truck can it save it? Whole
truck tipped over with a full load of cars.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you gotta be the very vigil and what you doing? I Like I said, I only mess around
tow trucks, and so that's not a whole but when you got a whole truck full of cars, get kind of scary out there. And the last thing that made
me think about that, I did get your letter. So
I hope you're out there transport and stuff and everything, and thanks for sending us that letter. So it's another
thing movie think about transporting cars. And I know, guys,
I gotta go ahead and get out of here. Hopefully
you guys are hearing you. Stuff a great Saturday. Sunday's
right around the corner, and make sure that you guys unplugged, spend some time with your kids. Fire up the barbecue.
They'll love you for it. Playboard game, that's what we
always do. So that note're gonna get out here. You guys,
got anything, Talk to you later. Enjoying your weekend. All right, guys,
we'll talk to you soon. We're out of here.
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