Gas prices and long-distance driving woes kick things off, with hosts swapping stories from Vegas and a brutal return trip. They review a Genesis G90 flagship rental—luxury features, chauffeur-style rear seating, and real-world MPG—plus the “murdered out” black trim’s surprising social perks. Matt also recounts a scorching Arizona U-Haul move and a clever trailer/one-way truck “hack.” The discussion then shifts to fuel-market anxiety, a funky GNX-style El Camino find, Rolls-Royce recall seatbelt concerns, and plenty of “movie magic” explanations for how cars get wrecked on screen.
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A supercharger is a device that forces extra air into the engine. That extra air helps the engine make more power than it would by itself.
“Supercharged” means the engine uses a forced-induction system (a supercharger) to push more air into the cylinders. More air generally allows more fuel to be burned, which can increase power compared with a naturally aspirated engine.
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"We've done so many of the SUVs, but I grabbed the Genesis G90. [641.1s] If you're not familiar with that, that's their flagship sedan."
The Genesis G90 is Genesis’ biggest, most luxurious sedan. It’s meant to compete with other luxury “top-of-the-line” cars and focuses a lot on comfort, especially for rear passengers.
The Genesis G90 is Genesis’ flagship full-size luxury sedan. In this segment, they’re positioning it as a high-end alternative to other top-tier German sedans, emphasizing comfort and rear-seat features.
"That's kind of their competitor to the S-Class Mercedes or the 7 Series BMW."
The Mercedes-Benz S-Class is one of the most luxurious Mercedes sedans. Saying the G90 competes with it means it’s also trying to be a “top comfort” car.
The S-Class is Mercedes-Benz’ flagship luxury sedan line. When the host calls the G90 a competitor to the S-Class, they’re highlighting that both are aimed at buyers who want maximum comfort, quietness, and high-end tech.
"[857.5s] and it only comes in black or white.
[861.1s] So, and oddly enough, they sent us the black one and it's totally murdered out.
[866.5s] Like it's all black, wheels black, grills are black."
“Murdered out” is slang for a car that’s basically all black—black paint, black wheels, and black trim. It gives the car a darker, stealthy look. The speaker is saying their car is done that way everywhere.
“Murdered out” is slang for a car that’s been fully darkened—typically black paint plus black wheels, black grille, and other blacked-out trim. It’s a visual style that makes the car look stealthier and more uniform. The host emphasizes that their G90 is “totally murdered out,” with blacked components throughout.
"So it was like a little bit of advantage by looking like you were like an Uber black. [941.1s] Yeah. [941.4s] Uber black or something."
Uber Black is Uber’s more premium service. It usually involves nicer cars and a more “professional” vibe, and the speaker is saying that people treated them differently because they looked like they belonged to that kind of service.
“Uber Black” refers to Uber’s premium ride category, typically using higher-end sedans and a more professional, chauffeur-like service. In the segment, the speaker notes that looking like they’re driving for that kind of service made people more likely to leave them alone while parked.
"So there's not, you know, it's a dual sunroof and, you know, all the nice Alcantara of headliner materials, you know, diamond stitch, you know, leather interior, like I said, the reclining seats, the chauffeur mode, the massaging seats and the good sound system and everything."
A dual sunroof is basically two roof windows you can open or tilt. It lets more light into the cabin and can make the car feel more airy.
A dual sunroof setup typically means two separate glass panels/sections in the roof, allowing more light and ventilation than a single sunroof. On luxury cars, it’s often paired with premium interior materials and a more open cabin feel.
"...the chauffeur mode, the massaging seats and the good sound system and everything."
Massaging seats are seats with built-in motors that gently massage you. It’s meant to help you feel less stiff on long drives.
Massaging seats use built-in actuators to provide vibration or pressure patterns for comfort. In luxury sedans, they’re typically controlled via the seat controls and can be tuned for intensity and duration.
"It's, you know, it's 409 horsepower. It says it was 17 mile per gallon city and 24 highway."
Horsepower is a number that roughly tells you how strong the engine is. Higher horsepower usually means more power for acceleration and passing.
Horsepower is a measure of engine output—how much power the engine can produce. The host is using the G90’s 409 hp figure to frame its performance and positioning as a flagship luxury sedan.
"What they're doing with all of their LED lighting and stuff and both on the inside and the out, it looked great."
LED lighting means the car uses modern light bulbs made with LEDs. They often look sharper and can be more efficient, and here the host says it makes the car look great.
LED lighting refers to headlight/taillight systems using light-emitting diodes, which can offer better efficiency and more flexible light designs than older bulb technologies. The host is praising the way the G90 uses LED lighting both inside and outside for a modern look.
"the week that gas prices shoot to the moon and
the temperature skyrocketed to 105 degrees.
So that's what we dealt with was unloading my mom's house into a 20 foot U-Haul and a trailer"
105 degrees is extremely hot. Heat like that can make the trip tougher and can also put extra stress on the vehicle while you’re driving and unloading.
Extreme heat (105°F) can significantly affect driving conditions and vehicle operation during a move. High temperatures increase the strain on cooling systems and can make it harder to work safely while unloading.
"There is a U-Haul hack. And what it's called is they have way too many trailers leaving California as you always hear then going back."
U-Haul is a company that rents trucks and trailers for moving. Here, they’re using their trailers like a supply chain problem—so they pay people to move them back.
U-Haul is a major U.S. moving and trailer rental company. In this segment, it’s relevant because U-Haul runs a repositioning system for trailers, often creating opportunities for people to haul trailers back for a fee.
"You go to Arizona, you drove out to Arizona, but because your, your brother-in-law was with you, you guys can rent the truck in Arizona and just drive it one way. Yeah. I had, I had my pickup truck."
Instead of driving the same truck back to where you started, you can drop it off in a different city. It can save time and sometimes money, depending on the rental rules.
A one-way rental lets you pick up a truck in one location and return it in another, often with a different drop-off fee structure than a round trip. In this segment, the speaker uses it to move a truck from Arizona to California and then return the person separately.
"But as fast as that truck filled up, I didn't get the frame. I got the transmission, four bins of parts, and there was something else small, all the radiator, and that was it."
The transmission is the part that helps the car change gears and send power to the wheels. It’s also a big, heavy part—so it’s not easy to store or transport.
A transmission is the gearbox that sends power from the engine to the driveshaft and wheels. In restoration or parts runs, it’s a major, heavy component that takes up significant space.
"I got the transmission, four bins of parts, and there was something else small, all the radiator, and that was it."
The radiator helps keep the engine from overheating by cooling the fluid that runs through the engine. Getting the radiator assembly is important when rebuilding or restoring a car.
The radiator is the cooling system component that removes heat from engine coolant. When someone says they got “all the radiator,” they likely mean the radiator assembly and related cooling parts needed for the car’s restoration.
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$8 a gallon
"Yeah, there's some stations around here in California that's $8. I know, I see that on the news."
They’re talking about gas prices being extremely high—like $8 for every gallon. When gas costs that much, it can really change how people plan their driving.
The hosts are talking about extreme retail gasoline pricing, using a per-gallon figure ($8/gal). This matters because fuel cost directly affects driving budgets and can change how often people commute or take road trips.
"Australia has said they now have 500 stations that are totally dry because they"
They’re saying many gas stations ran out of fuel completely. When that happens, you can’t just drive to the next station—you may have to go much farther or wait.
“Totally dry” means fuel supply is unavailable at those stations—an extreme form of gas shortage. This is a supply-chain disruption scenario that can quickly affect availability and pricing across a region.
"And, you know, if you go back even farther to the, to the Second World War when they had gas rationing and they issued everybody coupons and you could only get so much gas and when your coupons were gone, your coupons were gone and you had to wait for your next, you know, little book of coupons to come."
Gas rationing means the government limits how much gas you can buy. During World War II, people used coupons so they couldn’t just buy unlimited fuel.
Gas rationing is a system where governments limit how much fuel each person can buy, often using coupons or quotas. The speaker references World War II-era rationing, where drivers had to use issued coupons to purchase gasoline.
"And you ever notice, Matt, that, you know, gas can, oil can go up, you know, $20 a barrel today and the gas goes up today, but if it goes down $50 a barrel tomorrow, gas doesn't go down for like months. Yeah."
The idea is that gas prices jump up fast, but when the cost drops, the price at the pump doesn’t come down right away. So it feels like you’re always paying more for longer.
This describes the common “asymmetric” pricing behavior where fuel prices rise quickly but fall slowly. It’s often discussed as a market/retail pricing lag, where stations don’t pass lower wholesale costs immediately.
"They got the right engine in it. They're doing the Buick, the turbocharged V6. They got it, they got up to about 470 horsepower."
A turbocharged V6 is a V6 engine with a turbo that helps it make more power. More air gets pushed into the engine, so it can feel much stronger.
A turbocharged V6 uses a turbocharger to force more air into the engine, allowing higher power output than a naturally aspirated V6. In this context, it’s the key performance ingredient for the Buick build they’re describing.
"So they got the turbo six cylinder in it, but it looks like they're running a full, like, Holley EFI. Yeah, it's a Holley EFI running it all, which is probably better."
Holley EFI is an electronic fuel injection system. It helps the engine get the right amount of fuel so it runs better and is easier to tune.
Holley EFI is an aftermarket electronic fuel injection system brand used to control fuel delivery and engine operation. In hot-rodding, a quality EFI setup can improve drivability, tuning flexibility, and reliability versus older carburetor-based approaches.
"It's got a little, little ducktail spoiler on it and it's got all the factory GNX gauges and shifter and center council..."
A ducktail spoiler is a small rear spoiler that sticks up a bit. It can help the car’s airflow and it also gives a sporty, classic look.
A ducktail spoiler is a small, upward-curving rear spoiler shape associated with classic performance cars. It can improve aerodynamic balance and also signals a more track-oriented or period-correct look.
"You're right. You're right. You know what you'd put a lot of money into buying? A half million dollar Rolls Royce Cullinan. Yeah, I like the Cullinan. I've driven the Cullinan."
The Rolls-Royce Cullinan is a very expensive luxury SUV. The hosts are talking about how it looks and also about a problem that could affect the seatbelts.
The Rolls-Royce Cullinan is the brand’s luxury SUV, known for ultra-high-end comfort and a very expensive price point. The speakers are discussing both its styling and a specific safety/fitment issue related to seatbelts.
"But I'm also not a fan of, you know, buying a half million dollar car. Go to click the seatbelts on and they just come off in your hand. Apparently."
Seatbelts are what keep you safe in a crash. The story here is that some seatbelts weren’t fastened correctly, so they could loosen or detach.
Seatbelts are critical restraint systems, and “coming off in your hand” implies a serious fastening/installation defect. The segment describes a recall situation where rear seatbelt bolts weren’t properly torqued during hand-built assembly.
"Then I got to get a ride back and, you know, and more and more dealers are having pick up and drop off service and make it a little bit easier. They'll come and get your truck or whatever and then bring it bring it back."
Some dealerships will come get your car and bring it back after the work is done. It saves you the trouble of finding rides and taking extra time off.
Pickup-and-dropoff service is a dealer convenience where the shop collects the vehicle and returns it after service. It reduces the hassle of scheduling time off work, arranging rides, and waiting at the dealership.
"I think it's called whistling, whistling something, I don't know, it's his name. I'm, I, I wasn't going to talk about this because I, I was really bummed out because he's always wrecking cars. Whistling diesel, I think it is. Oh, I, I have seen,"
Whistling Diesel is a car YouTube channel. The speaker is saying this creator is known for doing wild things with cars, including destroying them on camera.
“Whistling Diesel” is a well-known automotive YouTube channel associated with car reviews and, at times, extreme testing or harsh driving. The speaker is referencing the creator’s reputation for wrecking/destroying cars in videos.
"I love watching the effects guys. There's a guy online that they show how they do all the, you know, like the car chases and stuff where half the time they're not even moving..."
In movies, “car chases” are sometimes not real high-speed driving. The crew uses tricks—like camera angles and special setups—to make it look like the cars are moving fast.
“Car chases” in film are often staged rather than driven at full speed. Effects teams use lighting, camera angles, and controlled motion to sell the illusion of speed and driving through real locations.
"[2969.1s] can film from the front. And then part of it is like the side is missing. So you can get a camera
[2973.4s] on the side and film from the side. And it's just a stationary airplane in, in like a, like a sound
[2978.8s] stage area that it's always better to keep those ones cut in half stationary anyway.
[2984.0s] Yeah, but it doesn't, it doesn't do anything."
A sound stage is a big indoor studio space for filming. It lets filmmakers control the environment so they can shoot scenes without relying on real outdoor locations.
A sound stage is a controlled indoor film location where sets can be built and lighting/camera movement can be managed precisely. Because it’s enclosed, productions can keep “airplane” or other set pieces stationary while still getting the right angles and background.
"[3216.7s] You know, see, I'm dumb. I thought it was real dirt.
[3222.5s] Yeah. Movie magic. Movie magic. Yeah. We're going to end the show with movie magic.
[3230.4s] They didn't only go to space. Turns out in Fast and Furious, they really didn't go to space."
“Movie magic” is what filmmakers do to make things look real in movies. They often use fake stuff and clever tricks so the scene looks intense, but nobody actually gets hurt.
“Movie magic” refers to practical effects and editing tricks used to make stunts look real on screen. In this segment, the host explains how productions use props (like a tire) and fake materials (like foam dirt) so performers can do the action safely while the audience perceives it as real.
"...it's got a mannequin named Starman. Right, it's got a fake astronaut. It's orbiting the sun?"
Starman is the mannequin that was placed inside the Tesla Roadster for the space launch. It’s meant to look like an astronaut, but it’s not a real person. It’s basically part of the stunt and the story.
“Starman” refers to the mannequin used as part of Tesla’s space payload. It’s often described as a “fake astronaut” because it’s dressed and posed to look like a person in space. The name is part of the public-facing story around the Roadster launch.
"Right, it's got a mannequin named Starman. Right, it's got a fake astronaut. It's orbiting the sun?
That's what it said. Yeah, orbiting the sun."
“Orbiting the Sun” describes an object traveling around the Sun on a heliocentric path rather than staying in Earth orbit. For listeners, it’s a reminder that the Roadster’s trajectory is governed by orbital mechanics, so its distance and return path can change over time. That’s why people talk about timelines like “557 days” and whether it could ever come back near Earth.
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Hey everyone, welcome to shift and steer and we're ready to get going right away because
we're supercharged.
Can't you tell it from my voice I'm supercharged?
It's how you feel after you've just moved an entire house in 105 degree weather because
I'm cheap.
Because I'm cheap.
I'll admit it.
I looked into hiring some guys, Matt, but I went the cheap route.
We missed you in Vegas.
Yeah, I know.
I'm sorry I couldn't make it.
We had kind of planned, but then sold a house instead and had to get out of there.
So all my neighbors thought that Charlotte just kicked me out and that's why the U-Haul
was out front, but that wasn't the case.
Yeah, so you guys went to Vegas, had a good time.
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So yeah, before we get into my extravaganza of going across the desert once again, tell
us how the show went with you and Aaron in Vegas.
So we went out and went to Sammy Hagar concert.
Sammy was doing his, the first part of his residency.
So he was there now for a couple of weeks and then goes back in September, I believe,
for like another two weeks.
Correct.
You are corrupted.
We saw, you know, they put on a great show, of course.
It was great.
Actually, Sammy looked good.
I don't know.
Maybe he was, you know, working out, getting prepared for this stuff because I know they're
going to go to Europe as well.
Yes, they are.
So yeah, he looked good.
Mikey was great.
We saw Mikey.
And it was funny because we were on the side of the stage, kind of backstage on the side.
You've been there too.
Yeah, backstage area.
It's like there's the elevators at the end and then there's like two rooms across from
Sam's.
Yeah.
And then when you see the show, you can go up front.
Obviously, it sounds better if you go up front from the side of the stage.
It's a little bit tougher to hear.
But we ended up just sitting there for most of the time.
We get a bunch of great photos and it was, you know, Joe Satriani is great.
Is it Kenny Aronoff?
Kenny Aronoff.
Yep.
He's on drums.
Fantastic.
They had a couple of guests that popped out, which is good.
Vic came out.
Another guy, and I forgot his name.
He did some stuff with Journey and some other band, I don't remember.
And it was funny, so we were on the side of the stage watching the show.
We were on the side where Mikey usually is, right?
Yeah.
So like his base tech was kind of next to us, you know, hanging on all his guitars and
all that stuff.
And we were kind of next.
And, you know, Aaron came out and, you know, his wife is there and his mother-in-law was
there.
Oh, that's right.
He had his in-laws in town, didn't he?
Yeah, yeah.
So she was there.
So, and, you know, so for her, I think she was kind of experiencing some of this, kind
of new for the first time.
And then they were pretty much done and then they were like, they were going to just take
like a short break, 30-second break for like an encore.
And then Mikey came by, you know, and he was still ready.
They were like, just like Kenny's already on the drums, getting ready.
And then that's when finally like Mikey saw him and he's like, oh, I didn't know you were
here and he comes over and he gives you a big hug and I was like, OK, I think you got
one more song.
He's like, it's fine.
It's fine.
He can just stand there.
You do this all the time, man.
Like you just realize like he's been doing this for so long that he can actually just
kind of stand on the side of the stage and like, oh, it's so good to see you.
I didn't know you were coming to the show as he's playing the song.
Right.
Exactly.
Yeah.
No big deal.
I can do it in my sleep, man.
It was good.
They had a good time.
Aaron was busy.
He was kind of because he had guests and he had in-laws and stuff.
So afterward, he was like, we didn't get to spend as much time together as we thought.
I was like, no, no, it was totally fine.
Everybody had a good time.
Yeah, because he had his sister there, his mother-in-law, he had everybody there.
Yeah.
And then the younger girl, Sam's daughters, Aaron's step-sisters, I guess they both showed
up as a surprise.
Right, right.
I saw that.
They just showed up.
Yeah.
So there was a lot going on, but it was good.
It was fun.
So mostly we kind of went out like we wanted to catch that show because it was the last
night of this leg of the residency.
We wanted to catch that, but also have a little fun for Tammy's birthday.
We were out there.
So we also went by Circa.
I haven't been by Circa yet.
So it's a hotel casino, off the strips, more downtown, and it's really nice.
And we hit up this steakhouse that they have there that's really good called Berry Steakhouse.
And then toward the end, this great guy named Richard Wilk, he comes over and Richard
Wilk is, he's the VIP host.
He was on like a documentary or HBO show or something, but he handles all the high-end
people at the hotel.
And of course, he's longtime pals with Goldberg.
Right.
I think Goldberg's known for 20-something years.
And so we had this great steak dinner, and then Richard Wilk came over and he was like,
nice.
Was the steak Berry good?
It was.
First of all, everybody in the restaurant was like, are you Berry?
Are you Berry?
Are you Berry?
They're like, no, man.
We're not Berry.
We're not Berry.
So he came over and we chatted a little bit, and he took care of us on that dinner, which
I really appreciated, which was nice.
And then they have like a rooftop bar.
It's kind of indoor, outdoor, and on top of the circa.
And it's not like the super elite club, you know, you cover charge and align, like you
go to the elevator, you go on up.
It's huge.
So it's tons of square footage.
You can grab a drink up there, incredible view from downtown.
You can see so much of what's up there, and you can just pop up there and get yourself
a drink.
You don't have to like, you know, pay 50 bucks to get up there or something like that.
So it's kind of cool.
So Circa is cool.
It's worth.
And Circa has a huge sports book, if you're into that.
And it's downtown, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's downtown.
There's like a parking garage across the street, and then you cross this bridge to get
to Circa.
And yeah, I'm not sure.
It seems like it's fairly new.
When were they building like Resorts World and the Conrad thing?
It feels like it's around that fairly new.
If it used to be named something else.
Is it kind of right in the center?
Yeah, because it used to be named something else 20 and the reason I know that is because
Sam and Mikey played there years ago when I went to see them and they for a while this
new hotel that went in had all these big bands come in and play and they had like an outdoor
venue.
It was pretty, it was pretty rad.
So they have a big pool out there.
They have a huge sports book.
It's yeah, it's on like Fremont Street area.
It used to be called the D or something like that.
But yeah.
Yeah.
So I know what you're thinking of was it that it's part of that group.
Okay.
It's part of that.
We looked it up ahead of time.
It's like the Golden Nugget maybe that's across the street.
Which has been there forever.
Yeah.
It's been there forever and Circa and the D. I think that's all part of the same group.
Yeah.
I want to say it was where the casino is there was something else.
There was like a Mermaid's Casino and there was a strip club, the Glitter Gulch strip
club.
Oh, Glitter Gulch.
They took over the Glitter Gulch that goes back in like to the 60s, man.
They bought that in 2015 and this hotel went up in 2019, I think, yeah, or 2020.
But yeah.
It was good.
Just in time for COVID.
That sounds about right.
I have lived to tell about it.
Yeah, that sounds about right.
Anyway, it was good.
They did a nice job.
It's a nice hotel, big sports book, big pool area.
Always good to go to a Mikey and Sam show.
And we wanted to, because we were going to drive out.
So I wanted to find something that I thought would be kind of interesting and fun to drive.
We've done so many of the SUVs, but I grabbed the Genesis G90.
If you're not familiar with that, that's their flagship sedan.
That's kind of their competitor to the S-Class Mercedes or the 7 Series BMW.
And it's, I mean, it has all of the super nice luxury things you'd expect in it.
You know, it's got, you know, massage and seats on all four passengers.
So it's not just like a front seat massage.
It's got power, sunshades in the back.
The back seat, the back seat has reclining seats.
So if you're, you know, you're behind the driver, you know, the seat's normal.
But if you're behind the passenger, there's a chauffeur mode and hitting that, it moves
the front seat forward as far as it can go and kind of leans it down.
The back seat kind of raises up and leans back and a foot rest comes out.
And then there's a pillow pad up there as well.
So it's a, it's a lounge chair.
It's a little lazy boy in the back.
So is that where Tammy rode while you drove?
On the way home.
Yeah. Yeah.
On the way home.
And then the center console that comes down from the back has a has a bunch of the controls
and a touch screen so you can control the entertainment system, seat massages,
all of that from the, from the back, from a center console.
So you can, you could fold it up and you could sit three people, but the center console,
when it comes down is large enough that I can turn it into sort of like two captain's chairs back there.
And it was, it was good, you know, I, I wasn't really expecting,
you know, it's not like a hybrid or anything.
So I wasn't expecting, you know, it to be super, you know, efficient, but it's got the,
I think it's a twin turbo six cylinder.
And once we started going at a, at a good cruising speed, I think we're getting 26 miles per gallon
up the, you know, in that thing, in the big car.
So it, it's a 3.5 liter v6 twin turbo and it's got, it's kind of like the mild hybrid system.
It's got like the 48 volt system with the little like E supercharger.
It's got like an electronic supercharger, if you will, to create some power.
Now it, it ran fine.
It was strong, but you could, you could see that like for a big car like that,
it could have used a little more power.
It's not like jumping into the, you know, to the AMG Mercedes, which is 600.
You said it was a twin turbo.
It's a twin turbo and an E supercharger.
Yeah. Yeah.
It's like the pro street cars back in the, in the 80s when they were putting twin turbos and
superchargers on them and does it stick through the hood with a big, uh,
roots type supercharger?
It'd be cool if it did, but it didn't.
I don't really know how to, uh, describe the, you know, the mild hybrid system on this and
how this E supercharger works.
They call it an E supercharger, but I'm not really sure if it's blowing air into the motor
or not, or if it's doing something else, but it sounds like it is.
Honestly, I didn't dig enough into it into the power train.
I was just enjoying driving the car.
You're enjoying the luxury.
Yeah. Now we got, um, the one we got was like the prestige black, uh, trim model,
and it only comes in black or white.
So, and oddly enough, they sent us the black one and it's totally murdered out.
Like it's all black, wheels black, grills are black.
Like everything is black on it.
Like everything is.
So it driving it out there, you're like, oh, it's, it's going to be, it's going to be
high.
But what I realized was, uh, when we drove out there, we had to make a few stops.
We had some friends out there and I drove them like from, you know, it was like, oh,
I'll just pick you up at this casino over here and then you can jump in the car and
we'll go to this other one.
And then I'll just, and then I'll drop you off there and I'm going to go grab somebody
else and I'm going to take the car someplace else.
And, uh, what I was, it's so tough to kind of like pull up to a lot of these places or
on the side of the building, you know, and try to get out of the way.
But when you're in all black, long, basically like a long wheelbase sedan, like a G90,
people just think you're a hired car.
Yeah.
So there's not a lot of like, hey, you can't park here.
You got to move.
People go, no, no, you're working.
I get it.
You're on the job.
So when I'm parked on the side of the hotel, people were walking by and didn't care.
But like when a van pulled up behind me, people like, you got to move it, buddy.
You can't park your van here.
And I was like, oh, I see.
So it was like a little bit of advantage by looking like you were like an Uber black.
Yeah.
Uber black or something.
Yeah, exactly.
That's funny.
And then traffic going in, coming back from LA.
You know, going there wasn't bad.
There was traffic on the way home.
So what day did you come home?
Sunday.
Oh, worst day.
Yeah, later on the day too.
We did some stuff in the morning.
Like normally we would think, hey, let's try to go back on Monday.
But we already had like early meetings Monday.
Aaron, I think, came back Monday.
So he was a little bit smarter about it.
I think he went out.
We went out Friday and came back Sunday.
And I know you could probably do the Vegas trip without traffic in about four and a half hours.
It was about five hours to get there and five and a half to get home.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, it wasn't six or seven to get home, but it was five and a half.
Listen, I'd say it's brutal, but it was a really nice car.
Yeah.
You know, so it was a nice ride.
So yeah, you certainly hit some traffic when it gets a little frustrating,
because a lot of it you don't even understand why.
You're just on the 15 out in the middle of nowhere.
And it's awful.
And then everyone starts to stop.
And I'm like, why?
There's no exits.
There's no accidents.
Like what's happening?
Like why are we all slowing down and stopping?
It's so, I'm sure there's, you know, a Mythbusters episode explaining exactly what's going on.
But I just think a lot of like hurry up and wait and hurry up and wait and change in lanes.
Kind of screws everything up.
It's because one guy pulled over the side of the road to take a pee.
And everybody slows down just a couple of miles an hour to check it out.
And then it's just, it just goes back all the way.
So.
So the G90 we grabbed was hundreds and I want to say 105,000.
There's not a lot of options on it when you get the Prestige Black all-wheel drive.
It's pretty much got everything on it.
So there's not, you know, it's a dual sunroof and, you know, all the nice Alcantara of headliner
materials, you know, diamond stitch, you know, leather interior, like I said, the reclining
seats, the chauffeur mode, the massaging seats and the good sound system and everything.
It's, you know, it's 409 horsepower.
It says it was 17 mile per gallon city and 24 highway.
But honestly, even at higher speeds, like we were getting 26, you know, so it was good.
And at 105,000, it's like, yeah, it's a little tough to get into a seven series or an S class
for that kind of money.
Right.
Yeah.
And so, you know.
And their styling's gotten a lot better too.
I mean, over the years.
It's really nice.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's really nice.
What they're doing with all of their LED lighting and stuff and both on the inside and the out,
it looked great.
I mean, black is probably not the color I would have picked for it, but.
Just because you're going to the desert.
Yeah.
Because you're going to the desert.
A lot of, you know, listen, it's an expensive vehicle, but it's a lot of bang for the buck,
you know, especially when you're shopping around for the large sedans like that.
You know, I don't think, I don't think A8.
I don't know if you're getting into an A8 for that kind of money either.
Well, Matt, I'll tell you what I drove.
I drove, well, actually, I didn't drive it.
I rented it.
My brother-in-law drove it, but it was a beautiful.
I didn't go for black.
I went for white with orange accents.
And it was a Chevrolet van chassis with a 20 foot box on the back.
And it was from a company by the name of U-Haul.
And we did.
We hauled.
Yeah.
I closed down on, I closed out on my mom's house over in Arizona and it was a 30 day close.
So we had just like two weeks notice and had to scoot over there.
And of course the week we scoot over there is the week that gas prices shoot to the moon and
the temperature skyrocketed to 105 degrees.
So that's what we dealt with was unloading my mom's house into a 20 foot U-Haul and a trailer
at 105 degrees outside.
So when you're in the truck, it's about 110, 111 up inside the truck or the trailer.
So I lost some weight and, you know, soar as hell.
But we got it all done.
It went really well.
My brother-in-law Brian helped out.
He flew down from Nebraska, left nine degrees to get to 105.
And the.
Well, is he prepared that he dressed accordingly?
Oh yeah.
Yep.
He got, he got shorts and shirts and got all ready to go.
We took six loads to Goodwill and had to find a dumpster.
Don't tell anybody to put a bunch of trash in and then still filled up the 20 foot truck plus
a trailer behind, behind my truck.
And the thing was I did realize a hack though.
There is a U-Haul hack.
And what it's called is they have way too many trailers leaving California as you always hear
then going back.
And so they got a hold of me and they said, Hey,
um, if you'd let us put a trailer behind that truck, we'd pay you $395 and I was like, Oh really?
I said, they go, Yeah, it'd be a six by 12 trailer and then we just pay you $395 to haul it back.
And I said, it sounded good until they said, now we'll tell you where to drop it off.
And I went, Whoa, no, no, no, no, no, I don't want them to go.
Okay, when you get to Palm Springs or go up into LA or something like that.
So I said, No, I'm not interested in that.
Then they got back to me and they said, we have a five by eight trailer that's empty.
Because the other one was full too.
Like I'm not going to haul somebody else's stuff.
And now for all I know, it had U-Haul packing blankets and, you know, two wheelers in it,
you know, but they, they got back to me and they said, Hey,
we'll give you free mileage.
We will give you an extra day and, and I was going to have to pay for an extra day anyway.
And, and $125 credit if you'll haul back this five by eight trailer empty.
And I said, so it can go back to where I'm taking the truck back.
And they're like, yes.
And I went, deal.
And I didn't even know it at the time, but we filled up that trailer and we wouldn't
have had room otherwise.
I would have been down and renting one.
So they got a trailer back and, and I got my truck practically for free.
And because they also give you a discount for taking it to California,
like a 40% discount over their regular published rates.
You go to Arizona, you drove out to Arizona, but because your,
your brother-in-law was with you, you guys can rent the truck in Arizona and just drive it one way.
Yeah. I had, I had my pickup truck.
So I flew him into Phoenix, rented the truck one way to California.
And, and then he flew him from California.
And so it worked out really well.
And that's a great hack though, because like the next time I go to Arizona,
I'm going to, I'm going to call their, their trafficking division at, at U-Haul and say,
hey, you got any trailers that got to go back?
You can pay me 395 bucks to haul it back down my truck.
It'll maybe pay for the gas.
So, yeah.
And, but got it back, got it all unloaded.
And I had another guy come over to my house yesterday and haul away a ton of furniture.
My mom had beautiful antique.
She was an antique expert and she had personally refinished a lot of very nice furniture
over the years that she had in her house.
So we kind of exchanged some of the stuff we inherited from her for some of our
furniture that we've had since the 80s, you know, because you know me,
Matt, I never get rid of anything.
So, but I did.
I had a guy come over the truck and trailer and haul a bunch of stuff away.
So everything's in dis, disorder.
It's all Charlotte's working on it.
And anyways, that's, that's about it.
My trip was hot, but it was successful.
And now we're supposed to close on the house all the paperwork next Monday and be done with it.
When you're doing the trip, did you get any of the other stuff for the Chevelle while you were
there?
I did.
I did.
I got like, you got two people and you got two trucks and a trailer.
Yes.
The original plan was to bring the frame back and a lot more.
But as fast as that truck filled up, I didn't get the frame.
I got the transmission, four bins of parts, and there was something else small,
all the radiator, and that was it.
So I've still got a 20 foot U-Haul full of parts from that car and other stuff sitting
over there that it's going to be another trip over.
And I'm going to have to get it all in there.
And it's just like, ah, it's a lot.
It's a lot.
When you take a car apart, it takes up a lot more room than when it's together, Matt.
Yeah.
You really does.
And then when you got extra spare parts and stuff like that, like I'm going through that
garage over there and I had stuff I didn't even know I had.
Like 68 to 72 El Camino, I had a door, was a door panel and everything that I had bought
when I was restoring my El Camino and I never used it.
And it's a perfectly good door, which are hard to find now.
It's got the hinges on it.
It's got the window in it, the window mechanism.
If anybody needs one, hit me up.
I'll sell it to you because it's really nice solid door if somebody's looking for one because
I kept it because, you know, they're good things to have around, of course,
because they take up room and I needed to store it for all these years.
So anyways, but that's it.
That that was my Arizona trip.
Hot, beautiful skies.
So if you look at my Instagram page, I posted a picture of the U-Haul
right as we were leaving town on Sunday night and wow, the sky was on fire.
It was it was crazy.
So it looked like somebody painted the sky that night.
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We need to talk.
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The gas prices.
Wow.
Now, Matt, you go over to Arizona every once in a while to see your mom.
You know how gas is a lot cheaper over there, usually in the $2 somewhere range, you know?
Well, I go over there this trip, and gas was like $4.69, $0.79.
By the time I left, it was $4.99.
And I'm like, for over there, people are freaking out.
Over here, that's just normal.
Yeah, that'd be cheap.
I wish I could get $4.99.
Yeah, I know, now we're at diesel is $7 plus a gallon over here now for all of you listening
elsewhere in the country.
Yeah, we brag about it being warm and everything like that, but this is how they get us.
$7 plus for diesel, $6 plus for all the other fuels, unless you're going to premium.
If you've got a car that takes premium, you're $7 a gallon too.
Yeah, crazy.
Yeah, there's some stations around here in California that's $8.
I know, I see that on the news.
There's that one in, it's just a couple blocks over.
It's been there forever.
It's a couple blocks over from Radeo Drive in Beverly Hills, right across from that
little park over by Bruce Meyers' house.
And it sits on kind of a pie-shaped lot there.
It's always the highest price in Southern California.
I wonder what theirs is up to because they're like, when it's five bucks a gallon,
they're seven bucks a gallon.
So what are they at?
Nine bucks a gallon now?
Yeah.
Do you think Bruce Meyers fills it up over there?
Oh yeah, he does.
Do you think he fills them all in his cars over there?
What do you mean?
He has a guy that does that.
He's probably got somebody that comes over.
He's got a filling station right there in that alley behind his stores, so no.
But Australia is where you don't want to be right now.
Australia and, where was the other part?
Southern Asia.
But Australia has said they now have 500 stations that are totally dry because they
get most of their fuel through the Strait of Hormuz.
And they are saying that they have over 100 stations that are totally out of diesel.
They have the same, they're out of at least one grade of fuel.
And they said if the war ended today, if it just stopped, they're still in trouble
because they haven't gotten any shipments for like a month and
all of their April shipments of tankers have already been canceled.
So that's not good for them.
And they're telling people that work from home, take public transport and reduce your speed.
But it's not mandatory.
It's only a recommendation at this point.
So I like that they can just go, you know what?
You should just work from home.
Are the employers okay with that?
Like who decides that just like regardless of what you do?
You're like, yeah, just work from home.
Gas is too expensive.
It's like, okay.
How about the guy that works at the tire shop?
Okay, I'll just work from home.
How are you going to change those tires and balance them out and everything from home?
There's an app for that.
Don't worry about it.
Yeah, AI will do it.
This, you know, I wasn't driving when the last gas crisis happened in the 70s,
but I can remember riding my bike and seeing the lines of cars and the signs that said no gas.
And I remember they, you know, depending on, I forget how they determined it.
If it was birthdate on your driver's license or if it was the number of your car tag,
but something determined whether you could get gas on odd or even days or whatever.
And, you know, if you go back even farther to the, to the Second World War when they had gas
rationing and they issued everybody coupons and you could only get so much gas and when
your coupons were gone, your coupons were gone and you had to wait for your next, you know,
little book of coupons to come.
Now, we don't have, we don't get most of our gas from the Middle East like we used to.
You know, a lot of ours comes from right here domestically, but it's still a problem.
We're still filling this gas.
And you ever notice, Matt, that, you know, gas can, oil can go up, you know, $20 a barrel today
and the gas goes up today, but if it goes down $50 a barrel tomorrow,
gas doesn't go down for like months. Yeah.
It's not fair. It's not fair, but it was, it was noticeable when I was filling up those two trucks
coming back, you know, filling the big truck and then filling the, the
truck with the trailer, you know, it was, they used a lot more gas and gas was much more expensive.
I mean, it wasn't like it used to be where you pull up next to the border and, you know, you get
your gas before you, you go across the border because it's cheaper. It wasn't all that much cheaper.
I thought there would be less traffic because of gas prices, but I didn't really notice.
I actually did. I actually did notice less traffic from Arizona.
But excuse me.
But yeah, what are you shopping for a new car?
No, but you were talking about El Camino's and finding the door and stuff for an El Camino,
and I brought this up a little bit on car cast too. There's this
84, I think, El Camino on cars and bids. That's a Grand National GNX conversion.
And it's kind of funky. It's kind of, it's kind of funky cool.
Yeah, it's interesting. I don't know if it's $65,000 cool, but, you know, that's the current bid.
They did a good job on it. They, you know, they, the interior all just looks like a Grand National.
They got the right engine in it. They're doing the Buick, the turbocharged V6.
They got it, they got up to about 470 horsepower. It's got a four-speed automatic in it.
It's pretty clean, like all around, pretty clean underneath. It's funky.
So it looks like they must have found like a rear-ended GNX, one that got totaled,
got hit in the rear because it's got the actual dash from a GNX with a number. It's number 487.
And, excuse me, because if you put 487...
Yeah, is there some sort of VIN code so you can find out what happened to that car originally?
Or did they just make a plate? It seems like they got the right dash and stuff for it, but
it's kind of cool. Yeah, it is. It's, they did do a good job. I mean, the interior and everything and
the wheels, I don't know, playing on what GNX's are going for. You know, somebody who collects them
or always wanted one, maybe get one a little cheaper and it's all party in the front,
GNX party in the front, or excuse me, business in the front and a party out back, man.
And you could kind of have the banker look and then have a mullet going on. You'd be good.
You'd be good. I mean, they got the original looking, you know, stereo, the climate control that,
you know, everything seems to work. That's what I mean. It looks like they found a total one and
just pulled everything out of it and put it in here. And because those are on the original,
the G-body platform anyway, it's all going to bolt on. So that's cool. Very cool.
Yeah, layout looks super clean. Man, when you go through those photos, you're like,
what are we thinking on design with things like the dash and everything's kind of squared and
so much plastic and, you know, the big chrome looking window switches that were just like
in everything back then. There were some cool cars that I like, but man, where we've come,
you know, in a long way. So you're saying in 30 years, people are going to go,
what were we thinking, man? What were we thinking about these cars where everything's,
you know, carbon fiber and, you know, it'll be like, what were they thinking?
So they got the turbo six cylinder in it, but it looks like they're running a full,
like, Holley EFI. Yeah, it's a Holley EFI running it all, which is probably better.
Well, yeah, when you're going to hot rod it, you want to make sure you've got that. It's got a
little, little ducktail spoiler on it and it's got all the factory GNX gauges and shifter and
center council and I know you were saying you always kind of regretted selling your Grand National.
This might be your opportunity. Yeah. Well, I regretted selling it and I regretted not buying
a GNX when you could get them for 30 grand. Yeah. Well, you get the El Camino GNX conversion.
You know, I already got one El Camino, otherwise I would, man. You know, it's,
maybe I'll make mine into a GNX, you know, paint it black, put a bunch of chrome window
buttons on it. Maybe you can't do that now. You already got too much into that El Camino.
You're right. You're right. You know what you'd put a lot of money into buying?
A half million dollar Rolls Royce Cullinan. Yeah, I like the Cullinan. I've driven the Cullinan.
I think they look like a taxicab. That's my personal opinion.
Yeah, like the UK ones. Yeah, like the UK taxicabs. I'm not a real big fan of the styling on them.
But I'm also not a fan of, you know, buying a half million dollar car. Go to click the
seatbelts on and they just come off in your hand. Apparently. Well, they are hand-built.
They are hand-built, yes. Well, they weren't hand-torped, but apparently somebody forgot
to torque down the bolts to the rear seatbelts and they found this in several of them. So now
they're calling them all back to be checked. And so they just kind of like, from the way the article
read, it sounded like maybe the guy in charge of that kind of put the hand bolts in and was,
oh, I'm going to go get my torque wrench, went and got it. And then all of a sudden,
you know, lunch was called and he came back and he went to the next thing.
But because they kind of alluded that they were coming off and then they alluded that they weren't
torqued down. But regardless, as they said, you know, people buy these to be driven around in.
And if you can't use the back seats, these people certainly aren't going to drive themselves around.
Well, they made a few thousand of them. They make a few thousand a year. It definitely
helps out Rolls Royce's sales. But also, I'm guessing there's not that many that have this
issue. And if I was like a Rolls Royce owner, knowing Rolls Royce is sort of hands-on white
club service, I assume you don't take it in for the service. If you don't want to, you can just say,
you know, fix it, either someone will come and fix it or don't come pick it up.
Oh, so you don't think that they just mail you a torque wrench and tell you the specs and say,
here's some instructions on how to remove the back seat cushion.
They email everyone a link to a YouTube video on how to do it. They're like, here you go.
Go and do it. I'm just saying, you know, anytime you get any of these recalls,
like even on my truck and stuff, the inconvenience part is going, oh, I got to
I got to take this off. I got to, you know, maybe take offside from work and I got to
take it into the dealer. And then do I got to drop it off? And do I got to get a ride home?
Then I got to get a ride back and, you know, and more and more dealers are having pick up and drop
off service and make it a little bit easier. They'll come and get your truck or whatever and then
bring it bring it back. But and and for us like an LA,
sometimes people have like a certain loyalty to a dealer, right? If you're going to,
especially if you're Rolls Royce, you're like, maybe you want the Beverly Hills dealer, but
you know, living Beverly Hills and I live in Newport. So I mean, come on, man, I want I want
this house. So they're going to take it to Beverly or a Newport. Yeah, probably Newport.
You know, like my my Ford got from Galpin, but Galpin's not that close. I mean,
yeah, there's there's other Ford dealers that are way closer. I just happened to
got on my cars from from Galpin Ford. So yeah, having to go there and drop it off and Uber back,
it's kind of a kind of a pain. But I don't think Rolls Royce owners have that issue.
I think the dealer will take care of it for you. They call and go, we are so sorry,
we're going to bring one, drop it off for you to drive in the meantime. And, you know, it's
or they send the tech to your house and the guy fixes it. Right. Maybe it really is. It's just
that's the big one, right? The big. Yeah. So last night,
Charlotte and I went to get ice cream and it was kind of warm last night. So we go,
let's go get some ice cream. So we're walking to the car and we passed by this guy in a black.
He's putting his like a little five year old kid in the backseat of a
black colon and we get to our car. I back up. I pull out. And as I'm pulling out,
a black colon goes around me and into the street and I'm like, there's no way that guy got,
got his kid bolted in the backseat, jumped in that car and caught up with me and turned around.
And, and then I turn around and he's behind me and I go, and I go, what are the odds? Two
black colonans in the same block. You know, I mean, there's not that many of them running around,
you know. Right. And, and then have you seen that guy on, he's a YouTuber. He's on all the
Instagrams where he's always doing crazy stuff and his new one is somebody gave him a brand new
colon in and he went out and wrecked it. Have you seen that? I mean, destroys it. You know, it's,
he's driving to Vegas, him and his friends and they take it out in the desert and they literally
destroy the car. They drive it and, and then at one point, I think this was staged, but they
park it somewhere and they come out and it's got a boot on it. And so they just start driving it
till the boot comes off and it tears the fender off and it, you know, all kinds of stuff and,
huh, why would they do that? Well, and, and like they have a crowbar and they're,
he goes, I want to see, you know, how good the center council is and he pulls the thing and,
and pulls it off and, and then they go to the vents in the, in the dash and they're prying them
out and I mean, they just destroy this car. I think it's called whistling, whistling something,
I don't know, it's his name. I'm, I, I wasn't going to talk about this because I, I was really bummed
out because he's always wrecking cars. Whistling diesel, I think it is. Oh, I, I have seen,
I've heard of that. Yeah. And he's always wrecking cars and it bums me out because it's like,
and then I came to a realization, I went, wait a minute, these guys, they're making a lot of
money off of their, their views and obviously enough to destroy a, a colonel and the thing is,
I went, wait a minute, it's the same thing that movies do. Movies wreck cars and you go, oh,
why'd they wreck that car? Well, it's part of the budget, you know, they budgeted it in. So,
I still don't like them seeing wrecked perfectly good cars. Yeah. I don't know. Maybe that's why
I haven't seen the videos. I'm not a big fan of destroying those cars. Exactly. Well, you know,
they destroy all kinds of perfectly good cars just for views and it does attract you in, but it's,
it's just makes me. Well, in film and television, most of those cars are stripped down or they're,
right, they're even fake. Yeah. It's not quite the same. I love watching the effects guys. There's
a guy online that they show how they do all the, you know, like the car chases and stuff where
half the time they're not even moving and they've got big lights and they've got like palm fronds,
they're going to make them, you know, they're waving them past the windows to make it look like
they're actually moving and they're not, there's a guy out there with a four by fours underneath the
rear bumper, you know, shaking the car to make it look like it's going around turns and stuff. And
it's, I watched one not too long ago where they said they had a real low budget and they had to
be on a train. So they went to a train museum and did that. They showed it and the people,
they showed the actual scene from the film and then they showed how they did it and they had
this round machine that had palm fronds on it that just went past this big light and it made it
look like they were going, you know, past on the, the shadow, excuse me, the shadows and then they
had a guy literally with a, with a four by four and they had like two guys out there
muscling it to make the train kind of rock a little and, and it's like, yeah, pretty ingenious,
pretty, pretty smart, pretty smart. And they didn't even have to go, they just went to an indoor train
place. So museum. Yeah, there's, there's a lot of things like that around, around town here too.
Like there's a place in LA that if you're, you're filming, you know, filming TV, filming movies,
filming whatever, it doesn't have to be big budget. And it's just, it's, it's, it's like half an airplane.
And so part of it is like, like part of the airplane is the tube with all the seats and you
can film from the front. And then part of it is like the side is missing. So you can get a camera
on the side and film from the side. And it's just a stationary airplane in, in like a, like a sound
stage area that it's always better to keep those ones cut in half stationary anyway.
Yeah, but it doesn't, it doesn't do anything. It doesn't move. I think you can change like
backgrounds and things like that. And it's like in a sound stage and it's mostly less about
like the flying. And it's more about like if, you know, a scene that's like a comedy or just
handing out drinks or something like that. So you can do that kind of stuff and you can just,
yeah, go out and do it. I'm sure there's more than one, but here in LA, you can just do it.
I follow this guy. He's like a prop master and a, and a, and a guy who does the, you know,
the special effects. And it's just amazing that what they come up with for some of the stuff,
you know, it's, he does all, he shows every, you know, every video is a different thing
that they did for a film. And it's, it's really pretty cool. It's really, it's, it's ingenious
what they come up with to make things look realistic. And it's, it's pretty cool.
You know, it's funny you mentioned that. So Adam's done this a few times, Corolla's done this a
or something above a fireplace instead of smashing the whole thing out and putting
in like stone or marble or any of that kind of stuff. Because that's, that's a big job.
And it's a lot of work that he'll redo it all. Cosmetically, like in wood and plaster and stuff
and, and then hire like a Hollywood set designer because they know how to come in and paint it
to make it look, you know, they can do the plaster work and they can paint it to make
it look like, you know, whatever stone or marble or granite or whatever, like all that kind of
stuff to do it. And it's not a countertop. It's just, you know, it's the facade of a fireplace,
but you can change the look. And he goes, but they're so good at doing it. Like you think about
hiring a painter, but you use a set decorator, they've done this a thousand times on so many
different projects. And it looks amazing. You come in and it's like, you can't,
you can't tell any of the difference. And it's, it's way less expensive than
the whole thing out and using all this new stone. Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool.
It's so cool the way they come up with things and, and, you know, like there was one that I saw the
other day where this woman was supposed to be bashing some guys head in with a hammer, you know,
and, and they, they, they show it the scene and then they show how they did it and the camera's
sitting there and it's got a plastic, you know, around it. And she's got the hammer in her hand
and she's hitting a tire. They got the, the prop guys holding a tire and she's hitting it. So it
looks like she's actually hitting something. And, and then there's another guy sitting there with
a syringe and he's squirting fake blood on her, you know, on her face. Every time she hits it,
you know, and it's like, you just, you just think of, well, what would you do at work today?
Ah, shot a lady in the face with fake blood, you know, or what'd you do? I held a spare tire
while she hit it with a hammer. You know, I mean, that's, that's what, that's what goes on out here.
Yeah. When you're at home with your family, you're watching that scene. You're like,
that's me. I'm the blood guy. I'm the blood guy. I'm the blood guy.
I also learned that when you're watching a film and like something explodes and the dirt goes all
over like a army movie or something like that or a Western that they take foam, you know,
like styrofoam, crush it all up and then paint it brown and black and colors of the dirt.
Then they said that way when it goes all over, it just, you know,
it hits them and they don't even feel it hardly. It's not like I never knew that. I figured it
was real dirt hitting them. You know, see, I'm dumb. I thought it was real dirt.
Yeah. Movie magic. Movie magic. Yeah. We're going to end the show with movie magic.
They didn't only go to space. Turns out in Fast and Furious, they really didn't go to space.
What? That's movie magic, Brad. Did Elon Musk really send a Tesla into space?
I don't know. Did he? I don't think so. It's still out there somewhere, right?
He threw a Tesla in space. We did something though. He did something like that. Mike,
what can I think of his name? From Wheeler Dealers. Mike Brewer.
Mike Brewer. Thank you. Mike Brewer and I, we used to do that podcast together and the very first
episode, number one, was all about the car that Elon Musk sent into space. You don't remember
when he did that? I remember reading about it, but I don't remember being all that impressive.
Yeah. He actually did it according to them that, and it's catapulted out into space. It was in a
trajectory to go out into space, and so there's a Tesla floating around out there somewhere.
Yeah, Tesla Roadster, I guess? Yeah.
How many miles to the gallon does that thing get?
I don't know, but it says it's orbiting the sun, and it's a Tesla Roadster, and it's got a
mannequin named Starman. Right, it's got a fake astronaut. It's orbiting the sun?
That's what it said. Yeah, orbiting the sun. Just more junk we threw in the space, I guess.
Exactly, yeah. It says it takes 557 days to orbit the sun.
Well, we're orbiting the sun too, so I wonder what the trajectory of that thing is. 557 days,
that means it's not too far out from us. Yeah, it'll probably come from an earth someday.
It's been out there orbiting, and as of 2025, it's gone 3.5 trillion miles.
Well, there you go. So that gets pretty good mileage. It must be running on solar power.
There's a chance it could crash into earth and kill us all.
Yeah, exactly. We think it's a meteor, but it's a Tesla Roadster.
We worry about, yeah, asteroids and things like that. Watch it'll be the Tesla Roadster that
crashes to earth and does some... All right, let's end it on some good news. Tesla Roadster,
that's orbiting out in space. So if you haven't heard about that, go look it up,
because it really did happen. And you know what? We'll be back next week, and that's a promise,
not a threat, right here from us at Shift and Steer. Thanks for listening. Matt,
you go have a good day. You too. All right, thanks everybody.
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