Driven Radio Show Nov 29, 2025

Driven Radio Show #330: Holiday Gift Guide

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Ford Thunderbird

The Ford Thunderbird is a stylish car that was popular in the late 1950s. The 1958 version is famous for its unique look and strong performance.

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Pontiac Sunfire

The Pontiac Sunfire is a smaller car that was made to be fun and affordable. Some people had problems with it, which is why it might not be the best choice if you're looking for a reliable car.

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Saab 9000 Turbo

The Saab 9000 Turbo is a car made by the Swedish company Saab. It was popular in the 1980s and is known for being comfortable and having a powerful engine that uses turbo technology.

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Toyota Camry

The Toyota Camry is a popular car that many people choose because it's dependable and comfortable to drive. It's been around for a long time and is well-liked.

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turbocharged engine

A turbocharged engine is one that has a special device called a turbocharger. This device helps the engine produce more power by forcing in extra air, which allows it to burn more fuel.

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horsepower

Horsepower is a way to measure how powerful an engine is. The higher the horsepower, the more work the engine can do, which usually means it can go faster.

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five speed

A five-speed transmission means the car has five different settings for how fast it can go. It helps the car use its power better and can make driving more efficient.

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turbo lag

Turbo lag is the time it takes for a turbocharger to start working after you press the gas pedal. It can make the car feel slower at first until the turbo kicks in.

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miles per gallon

Miles per gallon tells you how many miles a car can drive using one gallon of gas. The higher the number, the less gas the car uses for the distance traveled.

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hatchback

A hatchback is a type of car that has a back door that opens upwards. This makes it easier to load and unload things in the trunk.

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Geo Storm

The Geo Storm is a small car made by the Geo brand, which was part of Chevrolet. It was popular in the early 90s and had a hatchback design that made it versatile for carrying things.

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Saab

Saab was a car company from Sweden that made unique cars. They stopped making cars a long time ago, so now their vehicles are hard to find and special to car enthusiasts.

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Chevrolet Corvette

The Corvette is a fast sports car made by Chevrolet. It's famous for its sleek look and powerful performance.

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Harley Road Glide

The Harley Road Glide is a type of motorcycle designed for long rides. It has a special front part that helps protect the rider from wind and weather.

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Welcome to Driven Radio Show, your home for car talk covering the latest news to the greatest

views on the biggest names in performance, sports, and just plain cool driving machines.

Let's rev up the conversation.

Time for Driven Radio Show.

Hey all you gear heads and car fiends, welcome to Driven Radio Show, your weekly automotive

happy hour.

I am Brett Hatfield, here with my co-host and engineer extraordinaire, Mr. Mark Groves.

So, engineer extraordinaire, up one classic car.

Maybe it's looking good, so far.

Hey, somebody told me you paid for it.

Well, you know, okay, to fill in the holes that were leaving here, I won an auction

on bring a trailer.

Yes, you did.

For a good look in 1958 Thunderbird.

Yes, it is.

It's a Thunderbird coupe, and really excited to supposedly have 69,000 miles on it, yada,

yada, yada, 352, 4-barrel.

And the problem, because there's got to be a problem, I mean it would have been far

too easy to have got it done and go pay for it and bring it home, is we went terrible.

I have something to add about the problem, because I've experienced the problem before.

Yeah, I would suggest if there's any way, like the person is in town even.

But if there's any way that you can not use Caramel for your checkout, I would not.

Bless their big, big, big, and hearts.

The people that I've already talked to today and the people at Bring a Trailer were

all very friendly, very helpful, gave me the contact number because on Caramel you

cannot find that F in number to save your soul.

You cannot.

Bring a Trailer guy gave me the number, so I called.

Are you dealing with AJ?

Oh, no.

OK, well.

But I thought about calling you about that, but then I got through.

They called me back pretty quick.

Quite honestly, Bring a Trailer did.

They are honest to God helpful.

They try to make sure that the experience goes smoothly.

Yeah.

And I've only had to deal with Caramel once, and it's a third party group

that's supposed to handle the paperwork and handle the transaction.

And, you know, you send them money and they send it.

You know, they're supposed to make everything very neutral.

And the one time I had to.

I hate Caramel.

They suck.

It has not been great.

No.

Part of it, you know, it's user ignorance.

I'll give them that because the guy that has the car, the owner,

the car right now, he's a seller.

Yeah, the seller has been very odd for me because I'm like, hey, man,

can I at least come over and take some pics of it?

Because there was some stuff I want to figure out about, you know,

finding Craggers for.

Yes.

And the tires and this and that.

And he's like, no, no, not until not until the payments made in full.

And the other thing is you offered to pay him in full.

You I did.

Just at Hey, let's go to my bank.

Do this in cash.

Bing, bang, boom.

We're all done.

Yeah, it would it would have been easy.

He's like, well, no, I want to money transfer or money.

That's a call on wire transfer transfer.

But why?

Yeah, why?

There's fees attached to that.

They're not much, but there's fees attached to what it's cash is king.

Cash still works.

I really don't get it, but that's what he wanted.

And so I thought, well, OK, well, they work through Caramel and Yada Yada.

And it seems to be the thing that bring a trailer recommends

and they handle all the stuff.

OK, and he's like, yeah, let's go ahead and do that.

So we started it and then it bogged down.

I've followed up on, hey, you say you've got this payment, but where is it?

And this and that.

And finally, it all went through.

And, you know, part of it was my excitement in the beginning

because I'm like, oh, my God, oh, my God, you know, I finally I finally did.

I want this in my garage now.

Well, and that's what we were talking about over the weekend.

Yeah, as they usually, you know, it takes a business day or two

and you want it on a Friday afternoon.

Yeah. So then, you know, very, very best case scenario

into the day, Monday, more likely into the day, Tuesday.

Well, we're recording this on end of the day, Tuesday.

So apparently the the guy in the cellar was saying

because I got an email from Caramel.

He got an email from Caramel same time, but they're not the same email.

So they get so it gets different information than the buyer does.

Yeah. And apparently, you know, he's to send them the title.

However, he signed it thinking, well, you know, it's it's sold.

I sign it and we get this done.

And apparently they don't like it to be signed.

No, that's bullshit.

It has to be signed.

That's the weird thing.

So I I sent back to him.

We'll see what happens.

I sent back to him and say, well, hey, you know, if

and the way it works is for the seller.

Um, if the person comes and gets the car, right?

Yes, you get half the cash up front.

If there's a verification that the car was picked up

and then you send in the title and you get the second half of the cash.

Yeah. Once they receive the title.

Yeah. Or you send in the title, you get all the cash

and then, you know, deliver the title.

The title has to be signed.

Now, granted, I understand in Caramel's reservation about that

because you are mailing or transmitting an open title,

yeah, which means anybody who gets their hands on it.

But and I also understand the point of Caramel is to

make it so that the transaction, you know, there's no miscommunication

between buyer and seller.

Yeah, there's no it's it kind of sanitizes the transaction.

And I understand how it's supposed to work.

And in theory, in theory, I think it's a good idea.

However, however, they don't have all the kinks worked out of it yet.

They don't have the kinks worked out.

And their information on how the process should go is is lacking.

Well, yeah, I work in, you know, I work for a company that does websites

and I've written websites and I've written a ungodly number of blogs.

And the on thing she never wanted to know about.

Vaginaplasty, you just my god, send me an email, we'll talk.

But the the fact of the matter is is that they try to give

us a little information as possible.

So it's nice and clean and easy to understand, blah, blah, blah.

Well, you know what?

These F and details are important.

If you don't want the F and title signed, say so up front in all the shit

that you send to somebody and say, don't do this.

Here's exactly what you do step by step.

Instead of going, we'll send you an email.

We'll send you some information and leaving people in limbo.

That's probably my biggest complaint with it.

Like I said, they do not have the kinks worked out of this yet.

Bless their hearts now.

And again, it's already Davies fault.

Yeah, I'll you know, I'll back pedal a little bit and just say

that the people that I've worked with from both of them so far have been really nice.

Well, and to that end, I've seen very helpful the folks that bring a trailer.

And I've done some business with the first.

Yeah, you have.

I've done a little business with them.

They're always really helpful.

They're very understanding.

They never give you any crap and they are very, very professional.

And I think they do a really good job at this.

Yeah.

And, you know, when they traded hands.

I want to see.

I want to say it was a year ago, so that means it's probably four.

God, I know that feel.

Yeah, well, it seems to be accelerating.

When they traded hands, the two gentlemen who started

bringing a trailer sold it to Hearst Communications.

And when Hearst got hold of it, they

really ramped up what they were doing.

And by that, I mean, they went from selling 25 cars a day, because that used to be what it was.

It was 25 cars closed a day.

Here are the auctions that are ending today to.

I would say close to a hundred or more.

And not all of them are cars or motorcycles.

I saw. I saw.

Well, you know, many, you know how many Harley signs I've bid on.

Dude, I saw tanks.

You can buy tanks.

Yeah, tanks. What the hell?

There's a there's a car that popped up for sale on bring a trailer today.

Absolute unicorn.

And by that, I mean, you don't see these anymore.

They don't exist anymore.

The people who got them drove them into the stinking ground on a sunfire.

Worse. Oh, God. Worse.

And this one, at least on the outside,

is a twin for a car that I used to own.

So nineteen eighty six sob, nine thousand turbo.

Oh, OK. This one is is gray.

It's the same color.

Mine was a really pretty gray pearl metallic.

And but this one has a cloth interior and a five speed.

So again, oh, kind of a unicorn.

Also for a very specific taste.

Now, those of you who have been listening for a while.

Yeah, I used to own that car.

Dude, that looks like a mercur.

Are you?

It's probably where mercur got the idea.

Probably.

I used to own a nineteen eighty seven.

It did not have the nine thousand arrow wheels that had different wheels.

But aside from that, the exterior of that car, yeah, it looks funky.

It's it's that back hatch slanty window.

Yeah, really, all the lines,

because otherwise it just kind of looks like a, a, you know,

slightly beefier version of a of that area, Toyota Camry.

Yeah, it's got that point, you know, square top, et cetera.

OK, let me tell you a few things about it.

First of all, those are impossibly sneaky.

That is just a two liter turbocharged intercooled engine.

I think it put out.

I think it was rated like a hundred forty, hundred fifty horsepower.

I mean, in terms of horsepower now, it sounds like nothing and it is.

But at that time for a little tiny car, it wasn't bad for a dinky car.

Yeah, yeah, makes it fun, not super hot out of the hole from a dead stop.

It took a little to get them rolling, but you take a turbo with a five speed

and that in you can keep it on the boil all the time.

Those things with again, with the manual transmission,

you can avoid turbo lag and they would fly.

I personally had mine.

Now, I don't know how happy the speedometer was,

but I ran the thing for several miles at one hundred thirty eight miles an hour.

Oh, my God.

And also if you could keep your foot out of the stupid thing,

which was really close to impossible,

they they get almost 30 miles a gallon.

And here's the third trick on it, that weird as hatchback back end.

OK, the seats will fold down in it.

I moved a six and a half foot tall arm in one of those things with a hatchback closed.

You know, it's surprising what those things could do.

I moved an eight foot ladder in a geostorm.

Yeah, ninety one geostorm.

So yeah, OK, yeah.

But you could get that arm off full all the way in with my hatchback closed.

And the fourth thing about them.

I think quite possibly.

The second best if it not the best seats of any car I've ever been in.

Really, just spectacular.

The seats are fantastic.

And I can think of only a couple other cars that were the measure of those seats.

They were great.

So really odd ball car.

It's an orphan now because, you know, there is no sob anymore

and hasn't been for years and years. Yeah.

It's a sob.

So blowpunked stereo system.

I'm not sure.

Maybe Clarion. Oh, wow.

Maybe. I don't know.

I don't remember.

I remember mine was two decks, one on top of each other.

The top one was the cassette and, you know, your radio.

And the bottom one was the EQ. Yes, sir.

And it was a good light show at night.

It was fun to watch.

Did you have a little button that you push for extra power?

Oh, nice.

The boost. And then this will give you an idea

how long ago that's been.

I didn't have a CD player in it, but I wanted a CD changer

and I got one installed in the back.

And I was one that required an FM modulator.

So you had to find a dead station and that was.

It sent the audio through the FM.

But that also gives you an idea

just how long ago that's been.

Wow.

My first daughter was riding in that car

in a car seat when I had it.

And she's the one who's been married twice and has five kids.

Wow.

So that that ought to give you an idea

how long ago that's been.

You need to stop.

I'm so old.

But anyway, yeah, bring a trailer.

They do a really, really good job.

Even though they trade in hands and they belong to hers now.

The people who work there are infinitely helpful.

There's a guy there named AJ who's helped me out on more than one thing.

AJ is just a champ and I can't say much bad about them.

Yeah. Caramel as.

A concept I think is really fantastic.

Caramel in practice, I think fall short a lot.

Yeah. And I now in their defense,

I will give them this when I use them

for one of the cars I bought on bring a trailer.

They were brand new.

And that made the experience really horrible.

I'm trying not to crap on somebody I know has a good idea

and they're trying to make it work.

So I'm trying not to crap on the company.

That said, man, right out of the gate,

it was kind of like a new restaurant.

They just haven't got it figured out yet.

Nothing's quite running right and everything else.

And yeah, I I really did not enjoy working with them.

I hope they get it straightened out.

I think because your situation's got to be unique.

A lot of the cars that are on bring a trailer are our West Coast cars.

Yeah. So they have to have plenty of occasion

when the buyer and the seller both live kind of close to each other.

And just go into a bank and doing a cashier's check.

Yeah.

Would be the easiest thing just going to go in the bank.

Really would have been everybody.

Everybody trades things out.

It takes 20 minutes and you're done and you're done.

Yeah. And so I think in this instance,

getting caramel in the middle probably made things more complicated

than it should be. It did.

I hope that you get this wrapped up.

And this is an odd week because it's Thanksgiving.

Yeah. I mean, the timing's hard.

All of that's hard.

And it it kind of it took some of the it put a little rain on my parade.

Yeah. But you on the flip side, if that car arrives

and it's in the condition that it looks to be

and from the videos that I watched and all that, I am that part of it.

I'm very excited.

I've got space in the garage now ready to go.

I just need to put it in there. Yeah.

And I went back and looked at the pictures again.

The light on one of the pictures is odd

and it made it look like the driver's side had no center caps on it.

Oh, and I went back and looked at it again

and I noticed that it was just the light.

I wasn't seeing it, right?

Yeah. So it does have the center caps all the way around.

I take back the question I ask you about where's the rest of the hubcaps?

So there you go.

I'm excited for you and your T bird.

And I'm sure that it will get here soon.

And I just think that putting a third party in the middle

when both of you are close in proximity

and could have gone to a bank and done this probably made it a little more

complicated than it is. Yeah.

So live and learn things.

So, you know, I'm trying to step back.

Just be patient.

Well, the next seven times you buy a 50 80.

Yeah. Yeah.

The next several, you know, we'll we'll see how that goes.

But I am looking forward to having it.

And, you know, from the looks of it,

there's there's like three things that I'll need to do pretty much

Craggers from the beginning.

And the Craggers is actually like third on the list.

Oh, OK.

I do know that it will eventually need a new hub, not hub bearing.

I can't remember.

It's in the front end.

There is a little thing.

And supposedly it comes with it. OK.

So I know I'll need to do that.

And I want to take it over to our buddy at Osipic Automotive.

Yeah, Darrell Osipic.

What's that phone number?

9138 313 613 Darrell Osipic.

Osipic Automotive and it may wind up

sitting next to the Red Corvette, because that's down there now.

He thinks he figured out a way to make that axle work and everything.

Oh, yeah. I remember last time we talked about it, you were saying.

But he's also stinking busy.

So I think he's working on that and between other stuff.

But, you know, I trust he'll get it done.

And furthermore, I wouldn't be driving it now anyway.

Yeah. A little chilly. Well, if you would do the crest,

you would do your Santa thing, but that's later in.

And it'll be after we have the ice storm first part of next week.

That's coming. Have you seen that? No. Oh, lovely.

We're going to have one day where the the high is like 20.

That's exciting.

Freaking winter. What are you doing?

And the low is 16, which is why tomorrow I will be driving back

and forth to the warehouse with a trailer behind my truck

ferrying Harleys to the warehouse.

And there's going to be one extra. Yes.

Because Stray Harleys keep following me home.

It's weird. They seem to smell the right thing and just.

Well, the guy was sitting right in front of the DMV.

What was I supposed to do?

You strike up a conversation.

Next thing you know, you're driving home hardly.

I started talking to him. I'm looking at the bike.

I'm going, he never cleans this thing.

I bet if I took a day or two, I could make this diamond.

He never cleans this thing, not ever.

And I started talking to him and he said that he was on his way

to the local Harley dealership to sell the bike

so he could get down payment for a truck.

And I tried to talk him out of it.

I said, oh, don't do that, man. Just hang on to the bike.

And he's an AV guy, of course.

And I said, hey, let's go ride with American Legion riders.

I'm always trying to recruit people.

And he was bound and determined to sell it.

And I said, you know, if you take it over there,

they're not going to give you anything at best.

They'll give you seven grand.

And he said, that's exactly what they offered me.

And oh, wow.

You know, so in the back of my head, I'm going, not only am I psychic.

I always like that thing, you know, you're watching late night TV

and the psychic says, you know, call me.

And two thoughts, one, I shouldn't have to.

If you're so stinking psychic,

you should just know my number and call me first.

And secondly, if you're so stinking psychic,

why are you hawking stuff on late night TV?

You ought to know the lottery numbers and go pick that bitch.

Yeah, there's there's a certain little things of logic that's like.

Yeah, Miss Cleo, go go pick out the stinking lottery numbers, would you?

How are you going to do, you know, you don't have to call me.

I know the numbers already.

That's the best you're making.

I can do sounds kind of Irish to six, seven.

It's all good. There you go.

There you go.

Anyway, so I wound up, I told him they would only give him about seven.

He says, that's exactly what they said.

I said, I'll give you eight.

He says, I'll follow you home.

And I he followed me home.

We tried to write it right into my garage like he lives here.

The garage door was up and he just rode right in.

Roddy came out, took a look at it.

I got her imprimatur, took him to the bank, got him a check.

You see, and that's how it drove to his house.

And that's why I'm sitting here saying, just go to the stupid bank.

Yeah, too loud.

But yeah, anyway, 2012 Harley road glide in a color called Big Blue Pearl.

It looks good under light, but if you get it out in the sun,

it really, really, really pops and it needs a little here and there.

And I'm doing some work on it, but it's pretty and it's coming around.

And I like it.

So and it seems to play

Skinner, Dalman Brothers and ZZ Top.

So I'm real happy with that.

Yeah, it's Bluetooth.

It's got Bluetooth to my phone.

So if I just walk over and turn it on, it starts playing

whatever I was listening to last.

You see, that's one of the things that I that's probably number two

for the word.

Yeah, I got to have tunes.

I got to have audio.

Yeah. And the cool thing is it's got a full center

console all the way back to the rear seat.

Can you hide it in there?

Well, there is a speaker in that set of console.

So I'm I'm already thinking, I wonder if I could find a six by nine sub,

just a gentle sub to put in there.

And then I I don't want to cut holes in anything.

So I need to figure out how to how we can probably get hangar iron

and just hang them under the dash or something.

Yeah, that's that's kind of what I'm I'm thinking.

I'm I'm going to, well, once I finally get it in the garage

and can, you know, lay in the floorboard and look up,

I will start figuring out why I'm 100 percent down to help.

So awesome. Let me know.

I'd be happy to help.

In the meantime, I'm pulling.

He had the like the lights that glow down.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Under the saddle bay, it's got stretch saddlebags.

It's got a stretched rear fender.

I saw that. OK, you sent me that one pick and I'm like, oh,

there's a lot of custom to it. Yeah.

And it had the lights that glow on the engine

and on under the saddlebags and stuff.

And I've never been much of one for that.

Plus it just adds so much wiring clutter.

So that was the first thing to come off.

And I'm figuring out what the other extra things are.

I'm going to strip her down to what needs to be there.

Yeah, but cruise control audio.

Oh, it's got a Harley with it's got six speakers on it.

I could have my own concert roll. Yeah, you could.

Like I said, it's got stretch saddlebags on it.

It's a tour bike. It's a proper tour bike.

And a great, big, soft, freaking lazy boy seat on it.

So I like the bike.

It's the right color.

She needs a little TLC, but I'm I'm pretty good at that.

I told my dad today when I was helping him

because he was up on a ladder, a dad, dad.

Yeah, I love you, dad. Get off the stinking ladder, please.

Please, I know my dad listens to this. He says he has been.

Anyway, went over to drop him off some

some stew from a barbecue place he likes

and wound up helping him with stuff.

And while I was there, I told her

I bought another Harley and he just laughed at me.

So I told him how to happen.

I told him I walked down.

This guy was sitting on a rug light and I started talking to him

and I complimented him. He said, you bought it, didn't you?

And I said, yeah, I did. And he said,

kind of getting used to that.

Another Harley and the graduate back up to three.

Yeah, nice.

But I'm not giving any more away.

No, that's that's once a decade shot right there.

So now that we've been nice and chatty,

let's talk some more, folks.

It is time for our twenty twenty five holiday gift guide.

That's right. That's I want all three of them.

This week we have our annual holiday gift guide

for the car lover on your shopping list.

Guy is in girls because girls love them too

from books to watches and everything in between.

We have something for every budget

and every gear head and that every budget thing.

I'm not getting we got we got that.

There's a couple of things I was like, holy Jesus.

Well, you know what?

We'll get into that list here in just a minute.

We're going to take a break and hear a little bit

from some of our buddies and then get right into the twenty

twenty five holiday gift guide talking about our friends.

Let's take a break for some commercials

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Driven radio show will be right back.

Welcome to the House of Hell.

Yes, yes, yes.

Casa Amigos at one hundred and fifty ninth

of Merlin serves up some of the best

Mexican food this side of Mexico.

It's a driven radio show favorite for after the show.

We've been there and before.

Yeah, and something during if we can get away with it.

Not wrong. Jose Villasenor, the owner,

makes food the old fashioned way.

You know, delicious.

Oh, yeah. Remember that.

Plus he has a little red Corvette.

So we already like I saw that in your garage

and a little brown Corvette.

Yeah, I'm helping.

I'm helping. You're you're so kind.

I'm taking out and trade for chips and salsa.

It's smart, man.

Did I mention the food?

Oh, oh, yeah, that huge menu and margaritas

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Order, take out, dine in, eat on the patio.

It's all good.

Service is awesome.

Seriously, it's the only restaurant I've been to

where the owner comes out and gives me a hug.

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See, see, you know,

Darrell Osipic might just be the most interesting man on earth.

It might be.

If you look at his collection of vehicles,

you'll realize this is a Renaissance man

from weird old beaters to serious performance hot rods.

All in one place.

Owner of Osipic Automotive, Darrell is the car whisperer

practicing voodoo that brings vehicles back from the dead.

Just for for us here on this show,

Darrell's work on Mercury, Mountaineer.

Yeah, classic Corvettes, Nissan Xterra,

unusual Mercedes yours and a 64 Dodge custom 880.

Neither of ours anymore.

No, not no, Moe.

But you know why it ran, Darrell Osipic.

That's right.

In other words, we come to him with our whining issues

and he comes back to us with shiny fixed automobiles.

It is like magic.

Darrell has ASC certified mechanics and happily gives binding estimates.

You might not know he's happy,

but that might be because he sees us coming in

and it erases all of his joy.

You'll watch that face drop.

Darrell will explain what he finds,

what he plans on doing and lets you make your decisions.

Nothing hidden, no mechanic bait and switch.

He's straight up and even guarantees all work

for at least one month or 1000 miles.

Yeah.

Osipic Automotive.

That's OSI, P I K Automotive 5920

Merriam Drive in Merriam, Kansas,

called Darrell at 913-831-3613.

What was that number?

913-831-3613.

Don't even have to read it.

It's been in my head for a while now.

That's tattooed on the back of my skull.

Ask for the big D and tell him, Bret, since you

after he sighs heavily.

And he will.

He'll get you taken care of 913-831-3613 Osipic Automotive.

And now back to more driven radio show.

Yeah, go buy their stuff, too.

Maybe they have maybe they have gift cards.

I know the Mexican place, Will.

Will fix it no matter what it calls.

Darrell gift cards.

Darrell keeps telling me that crap every time I bring something in.

And he never sticks it to me.

But there's always that thing in the back of your head going,

oh, it's just going to go on.

It's just how much is he kidding?

He's not going to.

He's not going to check.

No, no, he's not the he's not the least expensive

mechanic you'll ever find.

But there's a reason because he knows everything.

And he gets it taken care of.

Well, and he's really good.

And he tells you what he's going to do before he does it.

Yeah, how you tell you what he found.

Tell you what he thinks the right thing to do is give you

a good idea of what it's going to cost because, you know,

he's done all this stuff before.

Yeah.

And if there's different choices for what you can do.

Yeah.

He'll give you the different choices, what you what you can do

about what it'll cost, what's smart or what you can do to get by

if you need to do that.

Yeah. And that's that's why I love Darrell, man.

And he never he never turns anything down, which

I don't know if that's terrifying or really fantastic.

I think he's just naturally curious.

He's like, well, what the hell is this?

Yeah, let's see if I can fix it.

Yeah, well, I and he's never done me wrong.

Not ever.

He's you know, he took care of me on the Nissan on the XTERRA

2000 XTERRA.

He took care of me on the 64 Dodge.

He took care of my kid when we had some funky problems

going on with their 2000 Solara.

Oh, OK.

And he took care of that, too.

That that kid has a birthday today.

Happy birthday. Yeah, happy birthday on the day of recording.

Love you, kid. There you go.

All righty, first school thing for the garage there, Mr.

Mars 2025 holiday gift guide kicks off with a ProLift C dash

2036 D gray 36 inch Z creeper seat.

Now, this is a seat, right?

It's in it's in black in black.

No, it's a ProLift C 2036 D creeper, two in one creeper.

Check this out.

It's designed to be folded into a Z shape for use as a mechanic

seat or you unfold it to be the creeper.

So you sit on it, lay on it, you're all good.

It's got thick padded bed.

It gives you the extra comfort while getting your job done.

And I have a I have a pretty much a cheap creeper at home.

That's just basically blown molded plastic.

Yeah. And at my size.

Dog bone. Yeah.

It it it drags ass just a little bit, including mine.

Yeah. But this one looks like it's good to go.

ProLift C 2036 D creeper features, six swivel casters.

They provide users.

You got full mobility, go left, right, up, down,

ease of use to get under the tight area.

And in addition, it's built with the heavy duty frame, all beautiful.

Supports up to 300 pound capacity.

Holy cow, it could actually hold me.

Here's the sweet thing on it, gang.

Fifty nine bucks, seven cents, as I'm talking on Amazon.

That is one thing about this list this year.

As I compiled them, everything on the list is available on Amazon.

What? No.

V 12 engine block coffee table for $14,000.

Come on, man. I couldn't do it, man.

I couldn't do it.

Yeah, this is probably the year to go for the the more moderately priced.

Well, and what was cool is we did.

We do have quite a few gifts on here that are very affordable.

Yeah, and we only have one or two that are going to make you think why?

And just so but they're cool.

Yeah, they're definitely cool.

Definitely cool.

Alrighty, Merry Shiftmas and Happy New Gear T-shirt,

the perfect Christmas gift for the car guy or girl in your life.

Lightweight classic fit, double needle sleeve and bottom hem

available in an array of colors and cotton or cotton blends

for men or women available in big and tall sizes from Amazon.

And I did look at this because a lot of times when you buy things on Amazon,

the price is different for size.

And that's yeah, that's reasonable.

You know, if it takes more cloth to cover you.

Didn't matter what size this was in.

They're all $16, 96.

Getting under 17 bucks.

Oh, crap. OK.

Available on Amazon.

Oh, and by the way, we will have all of the links for all of the gifts

on driven radio show dot com.

Nice. The blog heading.

So that you can go find this stuff for yourselves.

And we'll pop up a link to that on the Facebook page.

So grab it and go.

You know, you need some more decorations in your place to be cool.

So how about a six speed shift pattern neon sign?

The six speed shift pattern neon sign makes the perfect addition to your

game room. You got a you got a man cave.

You got a garage. You got just a really cool office.

Does it brings a touch of color that will make your buddies envious?

This it's an LED neon sign.

Now, this is I love LED neon.

We've got a couple of those in the and the studio here.

You know, because I remember the old neon and one crack and the whole

son of a bitch goes down the tube and it's heartbreaking.

Yep. So and this also, you know, it's saved on electricity.

LED neon signs made of high quality acrylic backplane

and silicon light strip stripe, which is more durable.

It's brighter. It's cooler.

It's safer than the traditional glass neon side.

You ever seen one of those things break like this big sucker right here?

Yeah, like actually where the glass snapped and the powder starts pouring out of it.

Yes. Yeah, it's it's no way.

No, that's why that one wasn't in the studio for about a year.

Yeah, it's it's bad.

It has two pre-drilled holes for hanging.

It's 13 inches by 11 inches.

So it's not going to eat your entire room.

Yeah, but it's going to look cool.

Twenty three ninety nine on Shazamazon.

Shazamazon twenty three ninety nine.

OK, now this is something that I looked at and I thought,

damn, I need those in my garage.

I really needed them this weekend when I was working on that bike.

OK, I'm pretty sure he never washed it.

Really? I even washed my bikes

and I didn't ride them that much if he did.

He never pulled the bags off and did the back wheel.

Oh, and nobody wants a dirty back.

I'll tell you about that one later.

I was shooting cleaner on it.

It was just it was just leaving black puddles on my garage.

I'm so glad we had that thing

epoxied when we moved in anyway.

Crocodile cloth auto cleaning wipes 100 XL.

They're 15 by 10 inches.

That's pretty good.

Disposable wipes for car engine degreasing, body detailing,

entire cleaning, cuts grease, oil,

adhesives on hands, tools, parts and more power through grease,

oil, grime and automotive messes with ease.

These wipes are built for mechanics,

detailers and real world environments.

Stays wet longer for better cleaning.

They're oversized, like I said, they're 15 by 10.

That's pretty sizable.

And they absorb more mess with fewer wipes.

If you need more than one wipe,

it's time to upgrade to crocodile cloth.

Yeah, do that what you may.

Yeah, you may want to take these on your next camping trip.

You know, you're not wrong.

Wipe away the black grease without drying out your skin.

They are infused with aloe and vitamin E.

Each wipe is dermatologically tested to be safe on skin

from tires to tools, dashboards to engines

at the low forming, low foaming degreaser formula

works on metal, plastic, vinyl, leather, carpets and more.

Ideal for shops, garages and detailing made four times stronger

than regular wipes.

Crocodile cloth handles the dirtiest jobs without tearing or drying out.

Each pack includes a hundred industrial grade alcohol free wipes

for just 1997 on Amazon.

You've got to get that because I want to see that in action.

That's that's probably seen a whole hell of a lot.

Yeah, this is one of those.

Plus, I think I got enough points racked up on a couple of my cards.

I'm going to go nuts on Amazon here pretty quick.

I want to dance the life. Fantastic.

That's right. Up next, CCC three C's CCC

EI power tool organizer card.

It's got a charging station, a rolling tool organizer card.

Check this out with eight outlet 15 amp power strip charging station.

It's got a six foot power cord, three adjustable tool shelves,

a removable storage basket, side panel peg board

so you can hang them and capable of holding six drills and a bunch more.

That's available in black, red or yellow.

And you know, red like I've got that big

ass craftsmanship tool box that would look cool.

Black, red, yellow on Amazon.

Fifty nine thirty nine charging station.

And it the peg board on that comes with a variety

of different hooks to hang stuff off of there.

And the picture they have on the website on Amazon

showed this thing with all kinds of tools and pliers

and screwdrivers and a bunch of rechargeable drills

and all kinds of stuff on there.

If you're working on your car, this thing would be handy as hell.

Great place to put those 10 millimetre sockets.

Yeah, God, get a handful of them.

Just drop them on it like confetti.

You ever go through like a harbour freight

and you see they're just selling loose 10 mil sockets?

Yeah, it's so weird and so right.

Yeah, well, I always look that I'm got two bucks.

Do it. Two bucks. I'm in.

Just throw an extra in your pocket, carry it around with you.

You'll use it eventually.

Yeah, it'll come in handy.

OK, 15 piece car emergency kit with jumper cables.

Oh, nice.

This bag is made of sturdy 600 denier

and nylon canvas that can withstand tough treatment.

Throw it in your trunk, back seat or spare tire compartment.

The kit contains an LED headlight, emergency poncho,

non-slip work gloves.

You know the emergency poncho.

We've had a lot of rain here lately

and I was thinking about that.

That would be really nice and handy to have

if you had to get out and do anything on your car

just not get soaked.

Yeah, it wouldn't suck.

Non-slip work gloves, tire pressure gauge,

eight foot long jumper cables, a tow strap, safety hammer,

tire repair tools, reflective vest, bandages,

eyed iron prep pads, non-adhesive sterile pads,

tweezers, an emergency blanket

and reflective warning triangle, plus condoms

and a bottle of mad dog.

That's right, by God, because if everything goes wrong

or everything goes right, you want to be prepared.

The tools are neatly packed in a black bag

with a carabiner for easy tool storage

and carrying available in black, blue or red

for twenty nine ninety nine from Shazamazon.

Dude, these prices are great.

Like I said, we had some stuff in here

that was pretty affordable and that that tool bag just

that's a lot of stuff for 30 bucks, man.

Collector books, the Atlas of Car Design,

the world's most iconic cars.

It's the Onyx edition.

Yeah, very.

The Atlas of Car Design is a global survey

of the world's greatest car designs,

featuring more than six hundred fifty.

So, you know, this is going to be a fairly,

fairly girthy read at six hundred fifty of the most revered

and occasionally reviled models

from more than one hundred ninety manufacturers

and more than 30 countries.

It's hard to imagine.

There was a time when, you know,

there were there were just dozens of car

automobile manufacturers.

Yeah, if you read back through just the American manufacturer.

Oh, my God.

You know, go back to the twenties and thirties.

There was a zillion of them

and now we're down to, well, American owned.

Oh, four, five, maybe, Toto.

The book covers more than a century

of exceptional and noteworthy

car design from Japanese cult classics.

French Art Deco masterpieces.

Ah, yeah, German iconic models.

Oh, no, Italian icons and British performance machines.

The German iconic models are awesome.

But some of those really early ones, the blocky ones.

Howdy, howdy to American styling sensations,

pop culture, family favorites.

This fresh take charts,

car designs, evolution across centuries

and continents packed with images,

combining period photography, studio shots

and original car advertising, which I love.

The book's oversized format generously displays the cars

in all the remarkable detail.

Now you're going to have captivating texts

that tell the stories of the engineering feats,

economic twists and turns, high society lifestyles

and the desires of the masses

that all went into making these machines.

This book is a must have for car

and design fans of every kind.

It's the prices thing so far

and it's still clocking in at one hundred

six dollars, twenty two cents from Shamazon.

But I'll tell you what, there's a lot in that book.

Oh, yeah.

And it's a great big heavy sucker.

If everything else goes south, you could use it as a bludgeon.

It'll hold your living room down during the tornado.

That's right.

You'll come back and the just a coffee table will be there

because it'll be to page seven.

Your favorite because that Onyx edition was holding her down.

The Garmin dash cam X 110.

It's a compact 1080p HD dash cam

with a hundred forty degree field of view.

Easy to use premium dash camera records,

crisp 1440p HD video

and a wide one hundred forty degree field of view.

That's pretty that's pretty good, man.

That is that's that's certainly everything

you'd get through the windshield.

It captures details and bright and low light

automatically saves video of detected incidents.

It has a two point four inch LCD display

for immediate playback with built in Garmin

clarity polarizer lens enhancement

to to reduce windshield glare, whatever the hell that means.

Online vault automatically stores important save video clips

to view and share through the Garmin Drive smartphone app.

Voice control lets you use spoken commands to save video,

start or stop audio recording and more.

And it's available in English, German,

French, Spanish and Italian.

In Swedish are one hundred forty nine ninety nine on Amazon.

That is such a good idea these days.

Oh, man. Yeah. People drive like just assholes.

Well, and seeing some of the stuff that goes on.

You know, a lot of days you're just lucky it didn't get clipped.

Yeah. Yeah, there's I I keep thinking about that

because I drive some of the parts of towns

that I end up going through or a little sketchy.

Not bad. It's a little sketchy.

And it would be smart to have that

as the just in case. Yes.

Gives you that kind of blanket of, OK,

if something freaky happens, I got it.

I got it because people, well, because people.

So that is exactly right.

And seeing Ferrari by Pino Aleve.

Hey, you're getting all the good books.

Absolutely. Seven decades

and counting the Italian powerhouse founded by Enzo Ferrari

in 1947 hasn't only set the standard for high performance engineering

but made an indelible red mark on popular culture.

They enthralled fans and collectors across the globe

and more than just car manufacturer.

Ferrari is synonymous with beauty, excellence

and unmatched desirability, at least in the 60s.

Yeah, yeah.

A project conceived in close collaboration with Ferrari.

The stylish book edition features exclusive content

from the Ferrari archives and private collections around the world

and brings together a lot of unseen photographs.

That's the cool part.

Yes, that you have not seen before and you're like, oh, my God.

Yeah, sketches, original documents related

to famed Ferrari drivers like Escarre, Fangio,

Hawthorne, Phil Hill, Sertes, Lauda, Schechter

and even Schumacher revealing the stories behind Ferrari's victories.

It's got its key protagonists all throughout these stories.

And of course, covers the Ferrari legacy.

Yes, sir.

There's also a comprehensive never before seen appendix cataloging

every victory since 1947.

And whether you're a collector and enthusiast

or simply a lover of unparalleled design and performance.

This is the ultimate tribute to Ferrari's enduring legacy.

Now, it's a hardback, of course, collectible,

and it's $144.80 from Amazon.

Christopher Parr, are you listening?

Sounds like it might be right up his alley.

Chris is the founder of the Kansas City Ferrari Club.

And I think he's their current president.

So do nice. Absolutely.

He would like to see that.

Oh, yeah. Hey, Chris.

There you go. And you and I are going to see Chris

at that party here in a couple of weeks.

Oh, that's awesome.

I'm looking so forward to that.

And he's bringing lots of his stuff.

So maybe I'll have the tea bird by that time and I can.

Well, you better because I've already promised a mutual.

Crush beers and hope to die.

Yeah, I didn't want to jump the gun, none.

Bootsies.

I should have told you how I was involved in Carmel sooner.

Yeah. Well, there you go.

Shit happens if I have to get involved.

I have to get involved.

Portia Design Chronograph One 1975 limited edition.

Fifty years after its successful debut

by Professor Ferdinand Alexander Portia in 1975,

the uncoated model line of the chronograph one finally returns.

Chronograph one. Now, is that a record?

Yes. Yes. OK, absolutely. Nice.

They're going to put a 33 in your car with you.

It's battery powered, though.

You don't have to plug it in.

Side note, I wanted one of those so bad in an old car.

I love those record players.

It's a stupidest damn thing I've ever heard of.

Didn't Chrysler do a bunch of those?

There were several of them and they were all stupid.

I thought the Soto did something to bring it down from under the dash

and then put your record on it.

And I'm like, wow.

Well, it's pre-cassette, pre-8 tracks.

Pre-8 tracks.

I mean, the only other option would have been real to real.

Or wire.

Well, done with those wire or a wax anyway.

But I wax cylinder would have been the best.

The chronograph one, by the way, is a watch.

You know, if you wanted to be a complete and utter smart ass,

it would be really fun to get a 20s era car

and put a wax cylinder player. Absolutely.

Edison by Jensen.

Hell, yeah. All right, well.

Six by nine, one axels.

We made it all the way to the Porsche Design Chronograph

before we steered solidly off the road.

Anyway, back to this.

This watch.

This is the first representative of this new model family.

The chronograph one 1975 limited edition.

It's a strictly limited piece

that brings back the uncompromising design of the 1975 original.

Now handcrafted from robust glass bead blasted titanium.

It is the first chronograph of this new series

and the last to be masterfully produced at Porsche's own

manufacturing in Solothurn, Switzerland,

before production relocates to nearby Grenchen.

Case and bracelet are made of uncoded glass

bead blasted titanium.

It's limited to only 350 pieces worldwide.

It has a matte black dial featuring the classic Porsche design icon

with hands and indices coated in super luminous sapphire crystal

hard coated and several seven fold anti reflective on both sides

for optimal readability.

I don't know what the hell it means, but it sounds really cool.

You know, like the glasses I wear, I get that anti reflective coating

because one time I didn't and I was just looking at my own eyeballs

for two years, annoying as hell.

So this is this is actually pretty sweet.

The Porsche design chronograph one 1975 limited edition

has signature rectangular minute hand with pointed tip for enhanced legibility.

Solid case back with historic Porsche design icon in the year 1975.

Water resistant up to 10 bar,

nine thousand six hundred fifty dollars from Porsche design.

You didn't think you were going to get that titanium sucker cheap, did you?

No, sir, I bet that thing weighs a pound and a half

and is just beautiful.

Not titanium. I thought titanium was super heavy.

No, titanium super light, super light.

OK, so it's like aluminum for rich people.

I dig it. It's the next order of magnitude, I do believe.

And it is a fantastic looking watch.

But man, you say 9650 and I think I could buy another orphan Harley for that.

Yeah, and a watch. There you go.

Pilates shift Italian suede driving shoes for men.

Put it on your feet, get it done.

That's right. Crafted in Portugal from soft Italian suede.

The shift driving sneakers for men are the next iteration of our tried and true

I never say the name.

Estone, I'm going to go.

Pistone, Pistone X sneaker, offering a streamlined and simplified design

with patented roll control 2.0 heel technology and on steam

anti odor lining that works while you play.

It's adventure ready.

It's performance packed, perfect for daily wear.

You want to keep your shift in your footwear collection all year.

Kind of sweet looking to the they look pretty cool.

I won't get it looked really comfortable.

Yeah, they do. They really do.

They're available in a variety of colors.

They're and we're back down to Markland

one hundred fifty eight dollars forty cents from Amazon.

Alrighty, we've got ride the most iconic wheels of the silver screen

by Matt Stone. Now, before we get into the description of this,

we have tried and missed scheduling Matt Stone three different times

due to scheduling conflicts.

We will have him on and we were going to have him on to talk about this book.

Oh, so that's part of why I included it.

I wanted to make sure we got it on the gift guide.

We will have Matt on very soon to discuss this.

You know, Goldfingers Aston Martin DB five bullets, Mustang GT 390

Thelma and Louisa 66 Ford T bird.

Thank God you won't be driving yours off a cliff not lately.

These vehicles are characters in their own right.

And every bit of stylish and sexy is their famous flesh and blood co-stars.

Whether they're stealing scenes, saving the day or just peeling away

from Johnny Law and a cloud of dust, the onscreen cars and motorcycles

in these pages are a tribute are the reason why many of us first went

and continue to go to the movies.

You know, I've had this conversation a bunch of times.

How many TV shows have you watched strictly for the cars?

There's more than one.

Yeah, I could rattle off a lot and it gets embarrassing after a while.

Ride is a loving tribute to the machines that made the movies.

Ride is a stunningly designed and boldly opinionated collectors

keeps a pack with fresh interviews from famous car

fishinados like Jay Leno, Stephen King, Michael Bay,

NASCAR legend Jeff Gordon and many more.

Just sixty one fifty seven from Amazon.

That's a deal. Not too bad.

All of the gifts and links will be posted on Driven Radio Show

under the blog tab so you can find them and get them for yourselves

or the car nerd in your life.

Now, Brett has been very kind because I sent him a link and said,

hey, dude, look, this is funny.

There's also you can find some bad gif lists that are pretty funny

overall. I think my favorite was the the very glittery

check engine light ornament.

It was way too familiar to be quite honest.

Some of us have seen that an awful, awful lot.

There was also one that's a little bit

disturbing for me.

And is it the chunky guy in the stripper pole?

It's it's the fat dude wearing the ball cap backwards on the stripper

pole, and it's got a ring around it that says car parts are expensive.

And it's made out of flat metal that's been laser cut.

Oh, it's a flat piece of metal with all of this on it.

And the silhouette of a chunky guy on a stripper and it's finished

in matte black. It's it's fun looking.

It looks like it's well made.

But good grief, man.

The idea of seeing somebody built like me swinging around a brass pole.

I know that feel that no, no, that you know, no, no.

They they would be throwing money at me to put my clothes back on.

I don't need any any piece of that.

I would walk out naked with my clothes and then just work the peel in reverse.

Oh, you want me to put on the shirt?

Keep it coming, Tigers.

The thing is, you sent me this link in the first two or three things.

You know, there's that.

And there's leather car coasters with your the picture of your car.

Autumn. Yeah.

And then there's one sign that says still plays with cars.

Oh, and the little Chevelle on it.

The little toolbox where you can put your name here to have like

your name on it. And it's again, it's a Christmas ornament.

But cool things that are charming.

And then after that, they get really just crap dervingly bad.

See, what's wrong with you?

The calendar.

I can't even tell you what the calendar is.

It's so bad.

The can of Billy Bob's Backwood's recipe, squirrel soup.

Oh, and the funny thing is that's just the label.

You buy the labels.

They're they're hardy, hard, hard labels that I get.

I'm a little charmed, but I'm like, that's a car guy.

The bad thing is,

you could drive a few hours down to the Ozarks, slap that on

a convenience store shelf and it itself.

Hey, dude, we're going into the Thanksgiving weekend.

Right. I have eaten roadkill.

My grandma brought it.

And Edith was her name, by the way, who could knock down a six pack,

a six foot four man with a cast iron frying pan.

No lie.

She did it. His name was Jack Hart.

Oh, boy.

And also could eff her way through a football team.

But this old God, this old street preaching.

She was all by the way, she was also a minister.

She she and her husband of the moment at the time

came down for a Thanksgiving and bless her heart.

And she brought a bowl full of fried chicken.

And I was like, well, that's different.

We've got a turkey.

We've got all this stuff and nobody was touching her fried chicken.

And I felt bad.

I was 11 years old.

So I had a piece of it and that oddly shaped

thigh was tangy.

That that had some extra flavor to it that I was not accustomed to.

So I didn't need all of it.

And I hid it under my napkin and then threw it away.

And the next day I'm talking to my mom and I'm like, by the way,

grandma's chicken wasn't very good.

My mom looks at me. She goes, oh, my God, you ate some of that.

Like, yeah, it was just fried chicken.

And, you know, nobody was eating.

She went and she said, Mark, that was gopher.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

They had found a gopher.

Fried gopher.

That was looked fresh enough by the side of the road, skinned it

and brought it, you know.

And I guess there's really nothing more pilgrimage

as 1640s than that.

That is so stinking disturbing.

So that's my that.

And the cool thing too, is when she started speaking in tongues

there at the table, that was it.

That was an exciting Thanksgiving

that I am glad I have that memory and I'll never let it go.

Thank you, grandma.

I am not trying to one up you here, because.

Oh, shit. Here we go.

Because I can't.

However, Dave Burns, a friend of mine, you've met him.

He's the guy who sold me the superglide.

Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah.

He used to tell a story about

going somewhere with his uncle.

He's in.

He's his uncle had an old 60s dodge pickup,

you know, steel dashboard type thing.

Sure.

And he had a paper bag full of something greasy,

and he was taking something out of the paper bag

and smacking it on the dash

and then putting it in his mouth.

And eating it.

And Dave finally says to him,

what are you eating there,

Ankh and he says baked squirrel heads.

Do you want one?

Apparently he's cracking the little baked squirrel skulls.

Oh, dude, on the dash.

Oh, and then putting them in his mouth.

No, no.

Oh, hell, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Give me grandma's gopher.

And I'm much like you.

I got relatives who live in the Ozarks

in that area and I've heard some stories

about guys eating odd things.

Oh, that's new.

Squirrel heads was a new one for me.

And that goes out to Dave.

Thanks for that.

He told me that story well over 20 years ago.

I still haven't gotten it out of my head.

How many how many looks does it take

to get to the new goody center of that?

Of a squirrel.

I don't know.

I don't want to know.

But I know you got us.

I know you got to smack him on the dash first.

Wow. All right.

Yeah.

Well, this is another driven radio

that's gone off the rails

and started talking about weird crap to eat.

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, my God, that's right.

Last week, I even had a guy reply.

Christopher, by the way, thank you for work.

Chiming in on that.

But he's like, guys, wow,

I didn't know anything like that was available to eat.

You know, and he's he's from up

Norway's Sweden area.

And well, they they I'm like,

I know we're pikers compared to you, but damn.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well, if you're eating a can of something

and it's bulged, don't eat it.

We learned that at an early age.

And and last week,

we found out that the guys who eat

that really horrific fish, whatever that is,

from Sweden, the bulger, the better.

No. If the cans round,

you know, bring it to ground.

Yeah. If it's round on top.

Where it's not supposed to be round.

Good times. Good time.

Well, Merry Christmas.

Happy New Year's and all of that.

And good luck shopping

for all of the car on your on your shopping list.

Again, all the gifts and all the links

will be posted on driven radio show dot com under the blog tab.

And also, this is going to post afterward.

We hope everybody had a wonderful day.

Yeah, I really do.

One of my favorite holidays and favorite times of year.

Yeah, I love Thanksgiving.

And we're going to get to see a lot of our friends this year.

Our friend had bought his wife will be here.

That'll be fantastic.

My brother-in-law, Mark, the Mark Freund with the Camaro,

you know, the the 500 horsepower Camaro monger.

And Mark is just one of the best human beings on the planet.

Good guy, legitimately.

Good guy going to wind up eating

with a lot of gear heads around the table.

And that's always cool, dude.

That's going to be awesome.

We'll have the kids will be coming in.

My mother-in-law is, you know, downstairs.

She'll come up and even I invited one of my co-workers,

because she would have been spending it alone.

All her family's down in Florida

and she wouldn't be able to make it.

Some like Jazz, you going any place?

Yeah. Yeah.

You met her at the housewarming party

and Jasmine's going to come over and share some

nausea and some family.

And one thing I noticed about your really fantastic new house

and I love that it backs up to a leg

and you've got that reverse story and a half plan and all that.

Your deck is just about perfect for a water balloon launcher.

A small trebuchet.

Yeah.

Well, they're made out of medical tubing.

If you tie it off to your handrail there,

you could pull it back.

And have you ever seen it?

It doesn't take a whole lot of a water balloon

to hit something and just obliterate it.

Well, you think water is 8.3 pounds per gallon.

And if you got about a soft ball size

water balloon, that's some weight.

And I have seen.

I'll tell you some stories about it when we get off the air here.

But I have seen those hit stuff and just.

Destroy it.

Just demolish whatever it is.

So yeah, water balloon launchers are fun.

And you get a lot of range on them.

And I hear that'll take out the neighbor's boom box

or just no problem whatsoever.

We have to send a little happy gift.

And that might be the gift you might want to turn it down.

That might be what you're getting for Christmas this year.

I'll be that neighbor.

Nice. Yeah, yeah.

And I'll be helping.

Nice.

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Yo, thank you for listening

and we'll see you next time here on Driven Radio.

Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas.

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Driven Radio Show #330: Holiday Gift Guide

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Pontiac Sunfire

Saab 9000 Turbo

Toyota Camry

turbocharged engine

horsepower

five speed

turbo lag

miles per gallon

hatchback

Geo Storm

Saab

Chevrolet Corvette

Harley Road Glide

Big Blue Pearl

center console

subwoofer

Mercury Mountaineer

Nissan XTerra

Dodge Custom

ASC

Toyota Solara

ProLift

creeper

body detailing

engine degreasing

automotive messes

10 millimetre sockets

jumper cables

Ferrari

Citroen Axels

Aston Martin DB5

Ford Mustang GT

Ford T

Chevrolet Chevelle

Chevrolet Camaro

Chrysler New Yorker

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