Public charging is when you charge your EV at a charger you don’t own—like at a gas-station-style network. It can cost more and be less convenient than charging at home.
Grok is an AI assistant you can talk to. In the episode, they use it to ask questions while on the road.
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driving around Wikipedia
They mean the AI assistant can answer questions like you’d look up on Wikipedia. Instead of typing or searching, you just ask out loud.
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prevents you from doing that while you're driving
Some car features are disabled while you’re driving so you don’t get distracted. In this case, the system won’t let you turn that part on while the car is moving.
This is a famous speed event in Nevada where a long stretch of highway is shut down so cars can race. The hosts talk about how remote the route is and how the event is organized into different car groups.
It’s a race where the road is shut down for the event, so cars can go fast without normal traffic. Instead of racing side-by-side on a track, it’s more like a long run where cars are grouped or started separately.
Instead of all the cars launching at the same moment, they start at different times. That helps keep cars from catching each other and reduces the risk of side-by-side racing.
Wheel-to-wheel means cars are running side-by-side, trying to race each other directly. It’s usually more chaotic and riskier than racing against the clock.
It means using a generator to make electricity so the EV can keep going even if charging stations are unavailable. It’s basically an emergency workaround, not the usual way to road-trip.
The Ford Fairlane is an older Ford model people associate with the classic muscle-car era. Here it’s mentioned like a nickname, not as a deep dive into how the car works.
The Dodge Road Runner is a classic American muscle car. It was made to be quick and exciting to drive, and it’s recognizable as a performance model. The podcast brings it up because someone is trying to remember whether they saw one.
The Chevy Nova is a well-known older Chevrolet model that car fans still talk about. Here it’s mentioned because the car has decals inspired by another famous muscle car character.
The Plymouth Road Runner is a classic muscle car from the Mopar brand family. In this story, it’s used as a recognizable decal/branding reference that people associate with that era of performance cars.
A muscle car is an older style of car that’s meant to feel powerful, especially when you accelerate. The story uses it to describe what kind of car they wanted to buy.
“Coyote engine” is slang for a Ford V8—usually the 5.0-liter one people put into other cars. It’s popular because it’s strong and responds well to upgrades.
This is a rally race event called the Toyota Olympus rally. It’s described as a European-style rally that took place in the U.S., with stages around the Olympic peninsula.
The Toyota Tacoma is a pickup truck. It’s designed to carry people and cargo, and it’s also used for everyday driving. The podcast mentions it because it’s a common truck you might see around events and locations.
Ridge Motorsports Park is a race track in Washington. The hosts mention it to explain that there are more and more racing events and facilities nearby.
A rally race is a timed driving competition on different road sections. The roads can be bumpy or slippery, so the cars may need attention between runs.
When a rally car “rolls,” it tips over onto its side or roof due to loss of traction, impact, or extreme cornering forces. Rollovers are a major safety concern, and rally cars are built with roll cages and other protection to reduce injury risk.
They’re talking about how people promote their videos and channels at race events. The goal is to get more followers and help the community, not just sell themselves.
The segment explains a workflow for getting vehicle videos seen by more people using YouTube. The host contrasts sending videos directly (which may not grow an audience) with driving viewers to a public platform.
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international appeal of music in car videos
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From the shadows of Mount Rainier, this is cars. The podcast with your host, Don
Swear, Joe Black. Joe, how are you? Long time no see. I'm doing well. We haven't been on
this for a little while because we've been, we've been all sorts of different
directions all over the place because of the weather waiting for the car season
to start, I guess. Funny, funny enough, we're now in car season here and it's raining today.
Yes, and we've been above normal weather for what, 70s, 80s? Oh, we've had it. Yeah,
we've had like mid-summer kind of weather. Yeah, we've had that basically for like a month.
Well, I had 100 degree weather. That's because I went to Arizona.
Yeah, I love Arizona. Did you ever live there? No, but I used to go down there often. The very
first time I went down there was in the early 90s. And I went there in October.
It was Columbus Day weekend. That's probably a nice time. It was. We were writing a Sun Devil
Stadium. It had like an October fest going on there. So they're selling right, you know,
like Germany. It was great. Doesn't look like Germany. No, we made my buddies had gone out.
One of my buddies, we were in the army together, so he lived down there. And I can remember,
it was kind of funny, this is a little short story. So we went to his apartments, right,
his condos. And so we'd gone to the clubs and we'd went out drinking and stuff like that. It's
like one of the two in the morning, we're like, Hey, let's go to the pool. The pool was kind of
closed that time of night. But either way, we went anyways. And so they had these little trees
all around the pool. I'm like, What the hell's that? And he goes, It's bats. Ain't no bats we
talking about, right? He goes, No, they're bats. So I went over and I'm like, I get out of the
water and I went and shook the tree. It looked like Dracula movie. Bats were flying everywhere.
And we were running. I was like, there's just kind of crazy. But that was in October. And I think
it was like 85 degrees. It's nice down there. I wouldn't say that this time of year, but
starting to heat up. Hey, we got down there a different way. Normally, we'd fly down there.
But we decided we'd drive, you know, the, what did you drive? Oh, we actually took the Tesla
down there. Oh my, you know, we, how many times do you have to stop for that?
Uh, to juice up, I guess is what you call juice up. You know, that's the good thing about it. We
we'd had the car for a while, six months or so. And the only time we've ever publicly charged was
once and we didn't even really need to do that. Right. You know, normally we just charge at home
here. So we said, Well, let's let's take a gamble. Let's go all the way to Arizona. And
it was incredibly non eventful. So did you like just hit the I five southbound and down? That's
it? Or what? We actually, we went down a different way than we came back. We, we went down through
the middle of Idaho and Nevada straight down. Right. I'll tell you a little bit more about that
later. But you know, when in the car, I'm some of you who have Tesla's or driven Tesla's know
is that you just enter your destination and within a few seconds it maps out the route
and it even shows you each charging stop you'll make along the way. And it's like,
it tells you how long you're going to stay there to charge. If you don't get in the car,
is it going to take off without you? I might chasing after your car. Like, let me in. Like,
like when you drove it and it started to go through. We have to do that again. I want to do a video.
So we have to do a video on that. Driving is Tesla around, but it's driving me around.
It drove you to the gas pumps at Costco. Yeah, we went around a circle because it
wouldn't recognize where to park. And it, it is decided to go the wrong way through the gas pumps.
That really, there was a lot of Tesla's that I've been seeing in the news lately.
Yeah. Well, just a lot of, well, we lived through it. But anyway, yeah, it maps out
each of the charging stops you'll do, you know, as long as the weather stays the same and you
don't do anything crazy on the way there. So how much did it cost? Like, if you go fill up that
thing is like 10 cups of Starbucks or something that equals like a charge. Okay. I'll just give
you a rough. The car will go about 320 miles on a charge, a full charge. And that cost how much?
And we, when we do that at home, it's about 12 bucks. That's not what it cost when you have to
when you're on the road, it costs anywhere from double that to
about quadruple that. So it probably costs you, I'm guesstimating what's that about
2,200 miles, 1,800, 2,200 miles from here. It's yeah, yeah, about, yeah, I think it was,
yeah, 15, 1600 miles. And so you multiply that time. So you're talking about what about 800 bucks?
Well, with the, oh no, with the price of gasoline, I mean, just roughly figure with gas being around
here, it's a six bucks a gallon. And it's about one quarter. If you charge at home, it's costs
about one quarter of that. I'll take it like a BLT sandwich. Like Yeah. Well,
it wasn't the cost I wasn't so much worried about. It's the public charging. Does it only,
does it, like on your screen, does it just do the Tesla charging stations?
It directs you there because, you know, Tesla owns it and you just,
you pull up and plug right in. There's no, you don't need to get out of card or,
because there's cheaper ones than Tesla ones. Well, I mean, there's occasionally some free ones,
but they're a slow charge. Free charge. We do that all the time. Yeah. Wow. But there again,
it's a slow charge. If you want a fast charge, did you like karaoke on your way down there?
I know you can put whatever kind of music on there and it just does itself.
You know, I just tried to do things that wouldn't bother Linda.
I'm a pretty annoying guy. So it's kind of like she's telling you, just drive.
No, we had on that. You tried out that grok, the AI voice thing. We can ask it all sorts of questions.
Yeah. Yeah. So every little Berg I wanted to know about,
say, what's, what's the history of, you know, Elie, Nevada, and it would come up with a bunch
of information. You had no, no idea. So you're driving around Wikipedia. Basically, it's like,
yeah, like a talking, like a dictionary talking AI. It's like, it's driving around like an
old school encyclopedias. But if you're a curious person, it's pretty cool. Cause
I'd be probably like saying, you know what, drive yourself. I'm going to watch a movie.
Yeah. I wish I wish you could turn that part on while you're parked. I mean, while you're driving.
Oh, you can't. It prevents you from doing that while you're driving.
Oh, really? Yeah. I don't think it's kind of a safety thing.
Yeah. Make your own movie. Yeah. Well, anyway, I don't know if you've heard of the
Silver State classic road race. Isn't that one like driving across Nevada?
It is a stretch of very lonely highway in Nevada, 90 miles specifically,
between two very remote towns between Hico and Lund, Nevada specifically.
So every year, they stage a road race, they close the highway for the day, and they let people run
as fast as they want. Of course, it's broken up into classes of cars. Right. But so 90 miles
of open road, some with twists, there's some twisty turns in there. The average speed for
the record. What do you think that is 90 miles for 90 miles average? I'm going to say 90. I don't
know. The record 219 miles an hour. Oh, the record. The record. Well, you said average.
Okay. Well, with the speed they average for the 90 miles. Okay. Maybe that's wording it better.
That sounds good. They topped out over 240. I just want to stand by the side of the road when
they get a big fast group going through. All I'm going to say is I didn't even achieve half that.
I'd like to go see that. There's nothing out there, literally. I'd like to go see that. That's
perfect. We didn't see a deer. You can make commercials out there. You can do whatever you
want to. Oh, yeah. I like that. Make lots of videos. But the top car that's won it,
this is typically what people use. They'll find like a used NASCAR racer. Right. And even though
the road's pretty flat and straight, they actually put a passenger seat in there. So they have somebody
who warns them, you know, this is coming up. Hey, yeah. That's what you can imagine at that speed.
Each mile is coming by in about 15 seconds. Is there any motorcycles on it? I, you know,
I don't know if there's an motorcycle class because those motorcycles go insanely fast too.
Yeah. I imagine there would be because it's kind of like the Baja, you know, you can run
whatever you want. Take truck, car, do a buggy motorcycle. Yeah. And this, you know, it started
like a rally, but the cars are a minute or so apart. So they're not, it's not wheel to wheel
racing. Yeah. It's supposed to be the fastest open road race in the world. I like that.
I can't believe Nevada lets that go on. That's awesome. They should do it from Montana.
Yeah. You know, I know there's something in the Sun Valley area in Idaho. They do something
similar, but it's a much shorter stretch across the, so they take the 90 across if you're going
across one. I've done the 90 from here. Seattle basically to Boston. I've done it numerous times.
I've only done the stretch between here and Montana. When you do that stretch, when you go
right from, all of a sudden you're in Spokane. Yeah. Next thing you know, you're in Coeur d'Alene.
Next thing you know, you're already through the state though that fast. Oh, Idaho is pretty.
That part of 90. Yeah. Yeah. It's just like, boom. Yeah. It's beautiful though. And I think one time
we did it, when I was younger, we did it and we went from like right on that corner. So we hit
part of Idaho, part of Montana. And I think wherever it went to, like part of Yellowstone Park too
somewhere. Yeah. I think it was Wyoming somewhere. Yeah. You end up just north of Yellowstone. Yeah.
I got to do that because my wife's never seen any of that. I just remember California girls.
Wow. Buffalo. Like just all over the place. You saw Buffalo? Yeah. It was somehow it was part of
not exactly sure how we'd done it. We, but it was like, we just like hit the corner. So you
like, you think about it. So you go to 90 and you go south, like once into Idaho, but then you go
down. And I think it was into like, so your North Dakota, South Dakota into I think a piece of
Wyoming. It was just like, it seems like it was like just 20 miles, not even that of Wyoming.
It's like you went and hit a corner. I think it was. Okay. Yeah. Wow. How do we do that already?
I'd have to see a map, but yeah, it's a pretty road. I know it gets kind of boring once you get into
Eastern Montana. Yeah. Basically flat till you get all the way to
and the next thing you know, you're through North Dakota or South Dakota, which ever you choose.
And then it's out to Minnesota. Yes. That's kind of funny too. So, but anyway, yeah, just we're
just going over stuff that we did. Well, I haven't seen you, but yeah, Arizona, pretty amazing. I
wouldn't want to live there in the summer, of course. What part of Arizona did you go to?
Just the Phoenix area. Okay. Yeah. Right up like the 18. I mean, it's, it's more fun to go out to
and I think it's the mining country. 18 and then the 10 goes across the state. Yep. Yep. The 10.
So people don't realize this, but like it's odd or even. So all of the North and South are odd
numbers. If you're going East and West, they're even numbers for the freeways.
You know, all these decades, I just recently realized that.
Did you? Yeah. I should have been a truck driver. I just, I don't know when I picked up on that,
but don't want to get lost. I was getting talking about the public charging network.
Six years ago, we bought an electric car. So we've had the experience with the public charging
network and it sucks. The non-Tesla charging network. Yep. The third party stuff. We, thank God,
we had a little scooter engine in the back of that. The other car that comes on after about 150
miles, a little scooter engine will keep you going. Right. But if you relied on the,
the non-Tesla public charging network, they're broken, they're vandalized. Can you still go like
90? Like Montana through that way yet? All the way across? You mean with EV?
With, but yeah. Yeah. Not too many years ago, you still couldn't do it. You're right. You're
right. Yeah. And this is a little trick. So there's like, Oh yeah, you got to use some fuel for
your, your Tesla. It's like, what? So what people would do is they would get a portable generator.
Yeah. And they would put the gas in the generator and charge the Tesla. Oh, I've seen that guy that
did a, yeah, they, yeah. So it's, yeah, the Tesla can take fuel to keep you going. Yeah. Yeah.
Somebody rigged up a generator motor in the back, kind of, kind of pointless, but yeah.
But there's, there's some cars coming out with, with a, what international scout
is going to scouts back, scouts back on, on by Volkswagen. Well, I guess it is international.
So I guess in more ways than what they're, they're more international than the international
house of pancakes, you know, I mean, cause they had some scouts, had some nice four wheel drives.
Yeah. Yeah. It was fun coming back the other way. We, we went up through Las Vegas and
Susanville, Reno, that, that way on the way back up through Placerville. Oh yeah. Is that,
is that the 50? That is, we were going a little faster than the 50. I'm thinking the freeway
on the 50. It goes through like, if you took it, you go to Grass Valley, Sacramento,
you start cutting down that way. This is all different ways. Cause when I lived in the Bay Area,
me and my buddies used to go to Reno all the time or Tahoe. And one time we did the loop. So we had
gone to, well, actually what we did is we went to see, went to see Andrew Dice Clay in Reno.
Yeah. That was the craziest thing I've ever seen. I mean, that guy, you know, how he,
how he used to rip people up and everything else, but that was like one of the craziest things
that my buddy got tickets for it. So, and then we'd gone from Reno at summer and then we did the
loop around Tahoe in the summertime. Yeah. Wasn't his nickname Ford Fairlane or what?
Ford Fairlane, baby. Yes. He's like, Hey, how you doing? Yeah. He's funny. He's on TikTok also.
So anyway, I didn't really pay attention to the roads. This is the funny thing. I didn't
actually drive all the way there. I left the car drive. So what'd you do like?
Yeah, I was like, see, yeah, that's what you're doing. Cause you said something about birds,
didn't you? I don't know if you said birds, but you're talking earlier. And it's like, Hey,
honey, look at that. That is, um, uh, the Yugoslavian bird right there or something. It's like,
it does this and does that. And you just say it to your car and you're like, Hey,
this is what that bird does. I'll tell you what, we were, did you see a road runner?
Uh, no, no, or maybe, maybe we did. We just didn't recognize it. Did you know road runners
aren't that fast? We saw a coyote. That's what I'm saying. Okay. Did you know road runners are
not that fast? The coyote could have always caught the road runner. No kidding on that cartoon.
Because I met a guy at Benford's Field of Dreams, right? Okay. And he had a Chevy Nova,
but on the back of his car, he had a road runner decal and a coyote like the Plymouth road runner
decal. Yeah. I'm like, so I'm like, I don't understand why is this on this car?
And so he said a story about him and his buddy going down, uh, down into Arizona and through
Bakersfield and stuff, and they were going to buy a muscle car. And so somewhere along the line,
the car was a, you know, had the, you know, it was a road runner and this and that,
but they had seen a road runner out on the road when they were driving at like three in the morning.
And they're like, what is that? And he's like, that thing isn't very damn fast.
And I guess they almost ran over the road runner. I think he actually did hit the road
runners. What happened? I thought it was going to be something about a coyote. I thought he maybe
had put a coyote engine in a Nova, which no, that's what you would think too. Cause I was kind
of like, no, he's like, no, I'm Chevy guy, but they were going to get his friend a mobile power down
there. But yeah, we're going to get to stuff you did. But when we came back from Arizona,
something came up on the calendar, the Olympus rally, which is like European style.
He told me about the up in the woods racing around the, yeah. And it just happens to be,
this is the 40th anniversary of a world championship event actually came to America.
And it was right here in, in town. It was called the Toyota Olympus rally. And
they'd never come to the U S to do a rally before, but actually was based out of the Tacoma dome.
Oh, really? Yeah. And then they raised in the woods out
on the Olympic peninsula mostly, hence the name Olympus.
Now, was that part of the fish place that they race out there? What do they call it?
Well, that's, that's a dirt fish. Yeah. Isn't that out there? That has an affiliation now. Yeah,
that's, that's only been around for about 15 years here. Because I heard that, that, that
where they do that, some of that car racing was, is where that, with that military helicopter went
out, was out near the track where they were racing out there. That's how they got to the
helicopter crash. Oh, that's, yeah. Yeah. The, the, there's like gates out that way that you can get
down these trails and the roads and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Ridge Motorsports Park is out
there. Yeah. That's even a newer thing, a racetrack that was built 10, 15 years ago. Yes. So we've
got a lot of, we've got a lot of racing stuff around here now. It's Mason County where the
Olympus rally is based. They really should change their name to Yolo County. Because on the border
or something or there's what's that? Yolo. Well, you remember Yolo County, County, California,
right? There's a Yolo County, right? Which is hilarious because Yolo, you know, you only live
once. Oh, you say Yolo, I think of Rolo, like those little candy like caramel chocolates or something.
You're making me hungry, Joe. I'm like Yolo, Rolo, whatever it is. I don't know. No, but anyway,
we went out there to spectate the rally race. And at the service area, it's right next to
Camilti Skydiving. There's a Skydiving center, right? So you had the rally race going on,
and there's people skydiving right nearby. Did you like see any like, I mean, you think of
rally races when you watch them on TV, like, did you get to see any crashes or anything like?
You know, I'm not talking about hit a tree and take everybody out. I'm talking about just like,
get some like, some airtime. There was some crash, Travis Pastrana, you know, the,
okay, he, he crashed out. Travis, I tried NASCAR, forget it. Yeah. I think it was the second,
I was, I think it was the second day, Saturday, he rolled and ended up out of the, out of the event.
Really? Yeah. That was probably a big disappointment for everybody. That's nothing new for him. He's
always pushing, pushing things on the edge. And he was what, famous motorcycle first, right?
Yeah. Yeah. Dirt bike, crazy stuff. Oh, yeah. Like Evil Caneville kind of crazy jumps and stuff.
Yeah. I mean, he makes Evil Caneville look like a, like a grandma stuff. He does the stuff that
those bikes started doing later on. Evil Caneville couldn't hold the candle to any of them. Yeah.
And then have you seen the Red Bull rampage? These guys that they ride bicycles off cliffs in
Utah and okay. Well, the guy who's won more of those than anybody also was there driving.
You know, you say that it's kind of funny because I try to get unique vehicles, right?
And I was up near Seattle and I was like, how do I get that dude to stop? He was driving the Red
Bull. I don't know if you know what kind of car that was. It looked like it was like a Cooper.
Okay. Had the big, had the big can on it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was like,
I said, man, how's he drive that car? And like one time I was going out to a,
you know, you go the back way to like, say, if you're going to Oregon to Canon Beach. Yeah.
And so you go out through a story across the bridge. Oh yeah. I seen the Oscar Meyer Wiener
car drive by. I swear to God, out in the middle of the country. I'm like, did I just see that?
I'm like, how do I get pictures of that? How about a pink elephant? You seen that?
So you actually saw the Wiener mobile out in like, out in Washington,
Wow. near the Columbia River. And I was like, is that, is that like OISCAR? I don't know.
And I was like, wow. and there's the roads very narrow out there and you got
twisting, turning things. I'm like, yeah, I don't think I'm going to be able to turn around
fast enough to try to catch up to that thing. Like, Hey, let me do a video on you.
You remember when the politician, Anthony Wiener was in the, in the news? Yes.
I really had a desire to get a Wiener mobile and go drive around the block while they were
filming off. Just to add to the circus environment. I wonder where that guy is now.
Maybe maybe Oscar Meyer hired him. I don't know. Hey, he might be running for president. Who knows?
So anyway, yeah, the Olympus is great. Now it's probably going to be another 40 years
till they ever come back, right? Because you said it was the first one.
Well, yeah, the thing is now I really, now I really wish I never missed it.
They pulled out of the US. They were, they ran in the US 86, 87 and 88 right here in this area.
And, you know, there was no internet back then. How do you find out about the event?
I found out three months later reading in Carmags. It's, Oh my God, this was right in our backyard.
Yeah. And of course, nowadays,
you know, I don't think young people appreciate how you can know about stuff.
And it doesn't have to be broadcast on television and radio and
so I don't know if I told you this. So that's why that's why I changed my name.
Ah, that's cause media. Yeah.
Because it's like this. So giving example, I went to Bremerton Raceway.
Now your, your name on your channel used to be all for, I'm on all the,
should we just forget the old name? Yes. Okay. Don't even think about it.
Yep. Don't even think about it. So your official name for your fast cars media.
And so underscore media, right? It is underscore on some and in the others or it's not.
It's kind of figure all that stuff out. But so what happened was is I pulled up a fast cars
media a couple of weeks ago and it pulled up this other guy on, on YouTube. I'm like,
somebody else actually pulled up, they went and looked up my names.
He's like, how do I get to you? I'm like, that ain't me.
Anyways, so we're trying to figure that out for YouTube. I'm gonna have to change
it underscore on that one or whichever one I haven't changed. Well, I found it easily.
So. Oh, thank goodness. Because I used to have fast cars and freedom.
When I pulled that up, it would pull up rascal flats for their song. So people could never find
me on, on YouTube at least. When I got off to Bremerton Raceway, I was like, so I went to the
tower. I'm like, because I'm not paying for all these events to just bring lives to people and
do my thing. I'm like spending that kind of money. So I said, Hey, how you doing? I'm Joe Black.
I said, this is what I do. So I said, what type of media do you have that you have media credentials
is what I was asking for. Yeah, so I could do videotaping and get on the real good parts of
the track, like the camera guys and all those other stuff, right? Yeah, he goes, Oh, you just
got to fill out this form. And I said, well, so here's the thing is like, I do social media.
And they kind of look at me. I'm like, I said, and I know you're looking at me kind of strange
because of that. I said, but if you think about it, the way things work today, I said,
Hey, nobody's seeing this on TV. There's no newspaper. Somebody's going to go pick up,
you know, over there at the store. You know, the newspaper. Yeah, the local pin it up over here,
you know, the nickel adds exactly, you're not going to find it there. You know what I mean? So
it's like, I in exchange will help promote your track. I said, I do lives. And I said, I have lots
of people asking me like, Hey, where's this at? And so what I did was, I'm like, Hey, I'm missing
this. So I had probably five people saying, Oh, is this going on tomorrow? I'm going to come out
there. So then they're coming out to your racetrack. So guess what? Five people. How much money is
that? That's a hundred bucks. I'm doing it for free. And I'll bring it to your racetrack,
where I can actually build you a page also, because I'll be honest with you, when you're
trying to look at events on your page, it's terrible. And that's not just with them. It's with
the, you know, it's with S, you know, S I R, it's with a lot of the racetracks. It's with the ridge.
They let me into the for the ridge. I like how you say S I R. No, I can't help it. It's always
being my head. Seattle International Raceway, which is Pacific Raceway. Thank you. And because,
I mean, I'm going back to the 80s when I was in the army and the Rangers over there. And so,
you know, it's just, um, so I'm trying, it's in one side, it's promoting myself,
but it's also getting me free access to these events where I don't have to pay because that stuff
adds up. You know what I mean? So I'm like, I'm doing videos. I'm doing lives. I'm doing this thing.
Hey, you know what I mean? I'm trying to get myself bigger, but I'm also going to get you
larger for your community. And I get people on there. So I'm like, Hey, I was like, Hey,
they're like, what are you doing? Like, Oh, I said, Hey, I'm Joe Black. This is what I do.
I said, if you want to see a video on your vehicle, I said, you just go to YouTube right here.
Because I used to do, Hey, could I get a video of that? I would give me, okay,
give me a phone number. I would send them a video. No, don't do that because that doesn't
get me a follower. Yeah. Yeah. So you learn some tricks along the way. And that's,
that's thanks to Lance. Lance is, it's kind of like the same thing with business cards.
You know, you have cards like, here's my card, because you have a card.
Yeah. You know what it is? It's right here. It's on my phone. So he goes here,
look on the phone, he goes, just put, you know, join that site. It doesn't cost anything.
You know, something occurred to me about your videos that it was a light bulb that went off.
Your videos that you show with, with the music and with the cars and without speech, right,
is a very international music. People don't realize this music brings people together.
It doesn't matter what your religion is. It doesn't matter what your beliefs in
the world are. It doesn't matter your politics. It doesn't matter anything else.
But if you have the same interest, music will bring people together.
Yeah. And even people listening to English language music in other countries. I mean,
there's a reason why bands from all over the world, they have their lyrics in English.
100%. 100%. So people from all over the world would be, would have an interest in that.
And I do. I mean, when I do my lives, you know, like I said, on my, on my,
my accounts and stuff like that, I get people from all over the world. Like when I was doing
cruise the Puyallup last Saturday night, I had 1500 followers solid for an hour.
Yeah. From all over the world. Yeah. Well, now you need the, you know,
you're not going to have to start featuring BYDs and Geelys and the other landwind,
the other Chinese brands. Yeah, something about that. It's going to be a while.
Something of something. It's kind of like, you know, to be honest with you, the thing that,
you know, you think it's good for one thing, but it's not for another is AI. It's just like,
it's just, I don't know, is it out of control? You know what I mean? It's just like, it's,
is it, is it all for good or is it all for bad? Is it a combination? But it's like it gets,
every time you try to do something like, you know, on your phone or this and that, it's kind
of like, oh, and wants to go to meta. It wants to do this. This is like, why can't I just say,
like, no, I want to talk to Don. You know what I mean? I just want to talk to you. I don't want,
I don't need to go into this and go into that beforehand. You know, it might pull up. Hell,
it might pull up, uh, Don Kirchner's rock concert. Oh man, that goes back a ways.
Wow. You're going back to the seventies now. I used to watch that when I was a little kid.
I sneak off of my, I'd be like this at night. I'd be like this. I had a little black.
Yep. And I'd be sitting and watching that stuff because I love music and soul train.
I used to watch the soul train too. Hey, I love the soul train. I used to watch, of course,
American bandstand, all that stuff. No wonder so many of the cars you feature are, uh, from,
from that era. I, I try to believe it or not. It's people ask me how to pick the songs. This is,
I mean, it's, so I, I just give an example. I did a 1970 road runner recently at cruising the coal.
I, the car's okay. I mean, you look in the interior, people like, uh, I think that needs a
brand new upholstery in that car. And I was like, yeah, you could put a living room couch in there.
I mean, because the seat was all tore up, it shows the frame and everything, right?
Wow. Because it was a bench seat. And I'm like, so I was like, I don't know if I should post this
video. And so I posted it with, um, the Rolling Stones, Honky Tonk. And that thing just hit 30,000
views and like almost 2000 likes. And it was a video I wasn't even going to post. And sometimes
you just don't know where you, I say, Oh, this one's going to be a big video.
Now is that people searching for a road runner or Plymouth road? Cause I mean,
you know, talk about a dead car brand that's been gone for,
yeah, the Plymouth road runner years. It's, it's, it's the algorithm, but what it is is,
um, like for example, when I first started doing this stuff, it was just for fun and it
still is. But what happened was, is someone would say to me, Hey, Joe, could you, could you,
I said, well, what kind of car are you like? I go, I want a 69 Chevelle. I say, okay, so what's
your music? I said, what band do you like? And they say, Oh, this and this. I said, okay, I will
make you a video just for you. I'll find that car and I'll put the video up. And that's how it just
got bigger and bigger and bigger. And people say, Hey, can I get this? And that's how I got bigger
and bigger. And now you have to pick music that's YouTube. Yeah, you depending on if it's on YouTube
or if it's on the tick tock, tick tock is my largest right now. Yeah, they've changed it with
all the music rights and things like that. And it's kind of funny because tick tock for the longest
time, you can't use that song. You can't use that because they had a fight. They had a fight with
the music rights with all the people. So people like, Hey, this is our music and tick tocks taking
it for free. Yeah. So they had a fight going on. So you put a video up and all of a sudden says,
mute, no sound for this video. You would, you would think these artists would actually appreciate
exposure. Of course, because there's and some of them are still making money when the residuals
of stuff like that, depending on who it is. Yeah, people think, Oh, I haven't heard them in
ages. Exactly. You could be like, could be a video and it could be Casey in the sunshine band
or the Partridge family. Hey, that's Danny Bonaducci. He gets the money from that little
channel here. And it used to be, I don't know if people ever paid a chance to do it,
but it's like, it used to be something like this when they used to sign some of those contracts
back in the day. It's like, every time that song plays, you're going to get 10 cents.
Well, you're talking about all the different radio stations, 10 cents adds up.
Let's wrap up our walk down memory lane here. And again, Joe, you could be reached at
fast cars media. And please send us ideas for topics and suggestions and criticisms
to all the platforms on all the platforms, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok,
which is my largest. And our podcast here is can be reached at cars, the podcast at gmail.com
kind of old school. And I've told you how cars, the podcast came about how the name came about,
right? No. Spaceballs. Spaceballs, the movie. lunchbox.
Oh my. Spaceballs, the flamethrower. That's too much for me. 33 minutes.
About this episode
The hosts trade road-trip stories across the U.S., starting with driving to Arizona in a Tesla instead of flying. They dig into EV trip planning—Tesla navigation maps charging stops and estimates time, with about 320 miles per charge—and compare Tesla vs non-Tesla public charging, including a generator workaround when chargers fail. The conversation then shifts to motorsports: the Silver State Classic’s closed 90-mile Nevada highway, plus the Toyota Olympus rally’s European-style roots and a Travis Pastrana crash. They also discuss how fast-cars media creators use YouTube and music licensing to reach viewers.
Joe does a name change & reboot. Don drives 3,000 miles hands-free across 6 states. Olympus Rally celebrates America's last WRC event 4 decades ago. Returning???
