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Welcome to another In-Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In-Wheel Time
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car show that airs live every Saturday morning, welcome to the In-Wheel Time car talk show.
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Coming up, we hope to talk with Rob Burley about his benefit auction down in Galveston
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and later Jeff will bring us some of his car culture with six American car names
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that no longer exist.
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Well, the names exist but the cars don't.
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John Mars has his driving destinations, Labor Day getaways.
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That's how I preview that.
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Oh, coming up this half hour.
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Howdy along with Mike out of this World Mars.
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We always need more Jeff Zeek and Chief Engineer David Ainsley.
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Glad you could join us on this Saturday live broadcast.
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We're waiting on our guests, so I've got a quick fill in if you want.
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I would love to have you do that.
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Well, you ever know how much a replacement key fob is?
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Have you ever lost a key fob?
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I've heard they can be very expensive.
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They can be, but it depends on the kind of vehicle.
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So it's a make model of the vehicle.
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If it's a luxury brand, it's obviously going to cost more.
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Is it an OE or you have to go to the auto supply store?
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Not an OE, but an OE.
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OE and an OE and an INE.
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But we've got the young man there.
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It's like a service.
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If you just want a simple battery replacement, they're anywhere between $5 and $25 to
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do that for the battery, depending again on the fob.
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Standard key fob replacement aftermarket is between $50 and $150.
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So be careful of that.
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OEM or INE or ODI, whatever you want to call it, a fob replacement, $150 to $500.
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So imagine that alpha probably was in a higher price range of replace that fob.
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Smart key or proximity fob replacement, $250 to $600.
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Key fob programming at a dealership between $50 and $150.
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Be careful of that.
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Locksmith programming is between $30 and $100.
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So if you've got one, take care of it.
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Keep it in your pocket, whatever the case.
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But if the battery goes, you can do those yourself.
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I replace batteries and catheters in mine all the time, they go bad.
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But losing it is a different story, or breaking it is a different story.
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So be prepared for that.
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If you've got money stashed for service or repairs on your car, put a couple
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extra bucks away for the fob in case you need it.
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There is a big just lost thing.
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We there's a big, big to do coming up down in Galveston in a couple of weeks.
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And here to join us to tell us about it is a fellow by the name of Rob Burley, Burley
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auctions, and it's going to be down at a familiar place to most of us here in
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Rob, good morning to you.
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Good morning, guys.
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How are you doing today?
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So big auction down there at Moody Gardens, they understand.
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Yes, sir, we put together, this is our second year doing it there.
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And you know, it's a car focused auction with a lot of memorabilia, and we've even
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got a really good estate collection of antique firearms in there with Texas Ranger
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Hell, we even got a Gatlin gun, a Gatlin gun idea, have the bullets to go along
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with it, because I could use it on a couple of people.
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Yeah, it's a 4570 Navy model, like an 1890s Colt.
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It's actually made by Colt and it fired 4570 rounds.
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So I think that would handle pretty much anything.
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Does it have a crank on it?
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Now, wait a minute, if you don't you have to have us, if it works, then
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don't you have to have a certain federal license to own that?
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Oddly enough on this one, no, because it's not an actual machine gun.
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Each time you're firing single round out of that barrel.
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So it's just like a semi automatic.
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This gun's got a ton of history to it.
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It does not have the carriage.
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It's one of the Navy versions that would have mounted on like a post.
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So there's no carriage, but there's history to it.
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It's got Texas Ranger history to it.
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And, you know, that gun's a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Nobody's going to buy that gun and go knock over a liquor store with it.
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Now, that's what I was thinking.
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That's what I was thinking.
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I had plans for Saturday night there during my weekend.
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So let's talk about the car show.
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First of all, so who's invited?
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Do I want to I want to show a car or I want to view the cars that are there?
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Tell me about all that.
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All right, there's two.
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There's two events going on there.
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Moody Gardens is the car show, which follows our event.
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We're actually a car auction.
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So we are a classic car auction.
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Last year we did it with Moody Gardens.
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They had us to it on Labor Day, Monday.
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It's the only time I've ever done an auction on a Monday.
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We had a tropical storm hit the day of it flooded so bad that it flooded
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the parking lot. Oh, my God.
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Get there. But we had about, you know, some of our regulars are already there.
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They came to me and go, what are you going to do?
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And I go, we're going literally Heller High Water.
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And we had a great time.
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It was a great sale.
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Internet carried a lot of it.
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Hell, we sold several vets over the hundred thousand dollar mark.
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We had a really nice split window survivor.
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Sixty three sold for a hundred grand.
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So it was a bargain, great car.
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And we had a fifty five Chevy come in the two days before that that thing ran.
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I mean, it was so smooth, all original, sold for twenty two grand.
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You know, wow. Yeah.
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I mean, there was there was buys there.
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There were some of the stuff that brought a lot of money.
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We set record prices on some of the signs, but the cars were all over the place.
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So it was a fun event.
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We brought in Dale Watson last year.
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So this year we'd we'd done it and we had planned this thing about a year out.
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And we did a three day music festival.
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So all that we're trying to get people to come to the island and stay
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and be there for the car for the car auction and stay there for the concerts.
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You know, it's hard to get people to go to one auction these days.
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And we're not trying to be meek.
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Um, or Barrett Jackson, who are the, you know, the kings that heap were a mixed bag.
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You know, we got antique guns.
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We got all kind of stuff, plus a great collection of cars.
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But we were also putting music on top of it.
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So you'd have entertainment there at the resort.
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Never have to leave the resort.
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Well, after the floods on July 4th, you know, I live, I literally live
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on the Guadalupe River in New Braufers.
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Oh, Lord, we had helicopters above my house.
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We had rescue boats behind my house.
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Nobody here, you know, lost their lives.
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But up river, if it wasn't for the Canyon Lake Dam, it would have taken my house.
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You know, we had about a 13 foot rise here.
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They had a, you know, some of those places had a 57 foot rise.
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So as we got closer to this event, it just, uh, everybody around me
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had lost somebody, including the chairman of Moody Gardens.
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So when we figured that out, I have, and I'm an auctioneer by trade.
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I've run an auction house, but I also do a ton of fundraising.
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I've raised over a hundred million dollars from the mic pro bono.
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So when this happened, I said, you know, I've already got the band scheduled.
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What I'm going to do is we're going to donate a hundred percent of the ticket
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sales to the flood relief charities, their local incur.
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Nice. Very nice. Very nice. Yeah.
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So well, that's good to know.
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And I was looking at the scheduled entertainment.
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I'm going, are you sure this isn't the Houston livestock show in rodeo?
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I mean, these guys are friends.
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So I was able to pull favors to get some of these guys to come play.
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Gary P. Dale Watson, all those guys are good friends.
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My William Beckman, how I used to bill William Beckman for 300 bucks
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when nobody knew who he was. He parked his bus at my place for years.
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He's hard to book, you know, Kevin Fowler, we were trying to get over there.
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He's got he's he's coming to play there for y'all in Galveston.
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So there's a proximity clause issue, but, you know,
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we were trying to put together a good event in and we brought in
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some of the better guys in Texas music.
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And I'm going to tell you right now, I got over a hundred grand in that lineup.
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Well, I can see that.
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I mean, here's Dale Watson, Corey Morrow.
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Yep. I mean, there's some big names here.
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So how did how does that work?
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I mean, is it you got different talent every day?
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Yeah, we got three nights of shows.
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So Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday night.
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So Friday night is going to be Jake Penrod.
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And if you all haven't heard of him yet,
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he's opening for Charlie Crockett a lot now.
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But Jake's one of those guys that's new and up and coming.
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I highly recommend you check him out.
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And then you got Dale Watson, who we love.
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Dale's, you know, king of the honky-tonk.
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And then we got the Wilder Blue,
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who is as close to the Eagles as I have heard ever.
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I mean, and they've got some great original music.
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If you haven't heard them, check them out.
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And then Saturday, Saturday, we got the auction all day.
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As soon as the auction's over,
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we're going to have Jake Penrod play a second set.
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And then we got Gary P. Nunn and William Beckman.
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And William Beckman is on a rocket.
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If you haven't checked him out,
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he's a great songwriter.
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He's he's in country, but the guys think Spanish.
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He's almost like a Harry Connick Jr.
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If he grew up on the border, you know,
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it's Sunday, we've got, you know, a whole run of people.
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We got Pauline Reese.
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We got the derailers.
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We got Kat Hasty, who was a new one up and comer.
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And then we've got Silverado and Corey Morrow.
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So I mean, that's a solid lineup for everybody.
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So can I can I buy a three day ticket?
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Yes, three day tickets are the easiest.
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And here's the good part.
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If you registered a bid at the auction,
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it's a hundred dollar bidder registration fee,
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but it comes with a three day
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general admission pass to all the concerts.
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Well, that's the cheapest way to see everything.
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We want everybody to come in there and have a good time.
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We're going to give away a ton of these tickets
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to first responders.
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We're giving away tickets to families,
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anybody that was affected by this.
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We're obviously we want to sell the tickets
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because a hundred percent of the tickets sold
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and we're selling through the easel program.
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Every ticket sold through easel,
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I'm donating a hundred percent of that.
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Easel is a is a platform that we use.
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It's a ticket selling platform that they do
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with the bigger bigger music festivals.
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So when we do these big fundraisers,
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but easel is the platform that every one you buy
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it all goes through them.
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I'm going to take a hundred percent of that tally
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And there's a local there's a judge,
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their local that has kind of been the head
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of the the search and rescue
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and kind of coordinating everything.
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And he lost the son in the flood.
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So I'm actually going to go to him and say,
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hey, where does this need to go?
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And I'm going to let them pick where it goes.
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And we're going to cut a check to to whatever local
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charity that because there's there's a ton of money
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going in there, but there's still gaps in it.
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So I'm taking this one.
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It's not going to be I'm not.
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This is just my little event.
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We're doing another event after this
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that I have not even announced yet
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that will raise several million that I've teamed up
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with the Alamo to do.
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Hey, Rob, since you want everybody to visit the island,
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are there are the hotels giving any kind of special offers
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for folks that want to stay on the weekend?
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Yeah, Moody Gardens is actually a great partner in this.
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And they've actually got it pretty well.
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If you want to come stay,
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they've got hotel room packages
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that include passes to these events.
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Now you can upgrade to the VIP where you get right up front
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and there's a special pass.
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You got to pay a little bit more.
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You got to go backstage and meet everybody
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and you get meet and greets with it.
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they've really got a great setup over there.
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They've got rooms left, but you better get on it
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because they're going to sell out Saturday night
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Friday night's almost sold out.
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And Sunday, there's still some rooms.
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But if you want to get there
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for all three nights to get that package,
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I would suggest going to Moody Gardens
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and booking that right now.
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Yeah, because it's only two weeks away.
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And it's Labor Day weekend on top of it.
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So you got a three day weekend.
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We captured audience down there, too, on Labor Day weekend
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because you're going to have people going down there
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But I'm saying, you know, exactly.
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If you want to go to Galveston for the three day weekend,
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Because that's a nice place.
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And we're also about to run a bunch of radio ads
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So it's going to drive some of the Houston traffic
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So we want, we try to get it out to all of the guys
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that we're going to be buying the cars
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and stuff and bin first.
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Because that was just what this was originally for.
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Well, you know, we have some time available
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on the in wheel time show, but you can buy some spots.
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Hey, I'm interested.
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Hey, you're an auctioneer.
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So before we leave this segment,
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can you auction us out of here?
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Can you auction us off?
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What do you want me to sell?
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Well, I don't know if we're done yet.
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I've got a tip for Russia.
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2001 Corvette with 35,000 miles on it,
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black on black stock.
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And we've got an old timer sitting next to me.
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You can auction him off too.
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Well, are we done with the segment?
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I appreciate you letting me come on here and talk about this.
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We are trying to do a race of money for a big toss.
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On on the 2001 Corvette, what do you give on?
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And how about a 10,000?
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10,000, 10,000, 10,000, 10,000, now 12,000, now 12,000,
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now 15,000, 15,000, 15,000, now 17 and a half.
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I'm at 15,000, you're now 17,000,
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now 17,000, now 17,000, 17 and a half.
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Now 20,000, 17,000, now 20,000,
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20,000, 20,000, 20,000, 20,000, 20,000,
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I was trying to read his lips and you can't keep up with it.
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Well, we invite everybody to check it out.
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So, it's website, burleyauction.com.
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Yes, sir, burleyauction.com.
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You're gonna be able to see the items
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that are gonna be up for sale.
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You'll be able to get your tickets right there.
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And like I said, any tickets sold for this event
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will be donated direct to flood charities.
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Hopefully guys come out to the auction.
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It starts Saturday at noon.
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It'll run about noon till six o'clock
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and then the music starts.
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Because our show goes off the air at noon,
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our live version of it.
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Anyways, it goes off at noon.
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And right up to your showtime.
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And it ought to be a good time.
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We're really thrilled for you doing this event.
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If I have a car that I actually wanna get in the auction,
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do I still have time to do that?
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We actually leave spots right in the middle of the sale
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because we do have a lot of cars show up last minute.
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It doesn't really hurt the value on most things.
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If you bring me a car that really needs attention,
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we get on the phone to start calling all of our buyers.
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We got a real strong buying audience that nationwide.
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We're not selling just to that room,
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but we do make it fun.
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If you've got a car, it's real easy.
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Just go to the website, send us a little email.
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If you wanna show up the week of,
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we'll be over there that Tuesday of.
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Last year we had cars showing up the day of
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and I was still getting them in and they sold.
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Yeah, I was just gonna say,
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Rob, it has been a real fun experience
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with you this morning.
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Something that was a little unexpected
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and we appreciate you.
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And let's make sure that we stay in touch here.
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I appreciate you having us.
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Rob Burley, Burley Auctions down at Moody Gardens
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coming up in a couple of weeks.
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Labor Day weekend, big event.
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Yeah, we invite you to check it out.
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That's at burleyburlyauction.com.
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Just ahead, Jeff's car culture.
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Cool American car names, no longer around.
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And Mars has his driving destinations.
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Labor Day getaways, so we invite you to stay tuned for that.
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Always look forward to this.
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Six cool American car names.
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The names exist, but the cars certainly don't.
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Well, this is what we got.
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These American car names, a pivotal part
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of any vehicle is, of course, its name.
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Names that can make or break a model.
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Carry as much weight as the engine,
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the drivetrain configuration and also the looks.
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The first one we have here is a Mercury Marauder,
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first introduced in 1963.
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The sinister one of these combined muscle cars
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menace from the Ford Motor Company.
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The Mercury Marauder originally intended as a submodel
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in the three sized Mercury model align.
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It became a standalone model in 1966
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and acquired its name from a series of V8 engines
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that the company first unveiled in 1958.
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A Marauder is essentially a pirate,
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an unsavory individual who steals and plunders
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It was a perfect name of performance model
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aimed to dominate the drag strip.
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That's a good looking car there.
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The next one we have here is a Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am
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introduced in 1969.
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The Trans-Am is the-
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It came to define the performance icon,
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one loved over generations for styling and performance.
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Like many of the models on this list,
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it's conceived during the pony
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and muscle car glory years of the 60s.
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Before coming into its own in the 70s.
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The name literally comes from a mythological bird,
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bright orange in color,
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commonly seen on fire in the media and in folklore.
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So that's where that name comes from.
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Next one is a Plymouth Barracuda Mike.
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In 1969, it was introduced.
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Watch your vehicle to be a winner.
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Name it after one of the ocean's
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most iconic predators, the Barracuda.
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When it was an open secret
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that Ford was designing the car,
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the wood, this would become the Mustang.
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Plymouth decided to get in the action
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and created a sporty car based on the valiant
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and it's compact dubbed the Barracuda.
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The first two of a sporty car based of the valiant,
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the generations were fine.
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I'm sorry, they were fine cars,
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but the third that showed the Barracuda
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could do when it was bare as teeth.
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The sharing the e-body platform of the Dodge Challenger,
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the Barracuda was a smidget smaller
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but featured a unique styling to separate it.
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Next one, Michael is a Mercury Cougar.
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I wish I had one back in the day
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when I had my Nova.
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This was introduced in 69,
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friend of mine had one of these great cars.
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And you know, everybody thinks that
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that is the absolute remake of the Ford Mustang.
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It was actually designed similar to it,
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but it wasn't, it actually wasn't.
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As many enthusiasts,
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what many enthusiasts,
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what their favorite car name was all time,
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the Mercury Cougar Eliminator.
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Everything about the name is awesome
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starting with the Mercury brand name,
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which is a great starting point.
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Adding the Cougar to the lineup was a great choice
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because it gave the brand an attractive cousin
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to the Ford Mustang.
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It was only a cousin.
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Then of course, tracking the Eliminator in 1969
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to donate the high performance variant
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really took it over the edge.
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It's Cougar Eliminate the competition.
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Was it the XLR, was it that one of them?
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Yeah, the Cougar XLR.
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That was the fancy high end version of it.
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you wouldn't figure this one would be one,
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I remember we were going to the car show
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and that was the first time I saw that.
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We went, wow, that really looks cool.
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The first couple of generations of the Mitsubishi Eclipse
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put the car on the tuner map,
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but not everyone knows.
20:48
It was also sold under a joint Chrysler Mitsubishi
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partnership under the Eagle and Plymouth brands.
20:53
While the Plymouth laser name is also pretty sweet,
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the Eagle Talon just fits too well.
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It's the perfect description of a car with performance.
21:01
Though two generations, the car looked and sounded awesome
21:05
when it optioned for the TSI trim
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with optional all-wheel drive.
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That's great stuff.
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The last one, not my favorite, but here you go.
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It's introduced in 1997 as the Plymouth Prowler,
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and I think you drove one, didn't you Don?
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I did when it first came out.
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My dad loved that car.
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This Prowler is easily one of the most controversial
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American cars ever made,
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a hot rod for then modern age.
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It has styling inspired by classic hot rods of the 30s,
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and when the concept car was unveiled in 1993,
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the world immediately fell in love with it.
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However, as we all likely know,
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the result was a vehicle that left a lot to be desired.
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The design was tamed, ugly bumpers were added,
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and the hope of real performance was squashed
21:46
when they put an automatic V6 in the vehicle.
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And you know the funny thing about that was
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that car looks so good.
21:54
The interior even was really cool.
21:56
The problem was, out of top on it,
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the body flex on that thing,
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it would just take off from a stop sign, not even fast,
22:04
and you could feel the twisting body,
22:06
and that V6 engine, it was so lame.
22:10
And all I could think of is the Chevrolet SSR,
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remember that thing?
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It looked really cool.
22:17
What a weak, limp piece of, yeah.
22:21
And there wasn't even enough bones there to hop up,
22:25
like the V6 on this,
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it really wasn't much to potentially.
22:27
And don't forget the top,
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and that bizarre top that did all this manipulation
22:31
and folding and everything,
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and they went back behind the back seats,
22:35
and you couldn't open the back trunk,
22:37
well, which would have been the bed,
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because the lid on it wouldn't open far enough.
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What was the purpose of that?
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There was just a lot of things.
22:48
Who said, yeah, let's build that?
22:52
Sometimes it's like,
22:53
it looks like the car comes from the engineers
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without any input from the marketing guys
22:57
that really are going to sell it.
22:58
I think they were in a meeting and said,
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we need something different.
23:00
We need something over the top, off the edge,
23:03
and that's what they came up with, in my opinion.
23:05
You know, I talked to a Chevrolet guy about that,
23:07
and he said, you know,
23:08
we spent a lot of money on stamping those fenders
23:11
because we hadn't used that technology since the 1950s.
23:17
If you remember, the fenders were very round,
23:20
like big, bulbous fenders.
23:21
Almost like the rear fender of a motorcycle.
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And you were talking about the Firebird a minute ago.
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He's talking to Bill Scytes this week,
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and Bill Scytes, long time friend of mine,
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and we were talking about old school cars,
23:47
Do you remember the Pontiac Sunbird?
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Was it his or his wife?
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Well, both of them.
23:55
Because they had two Corvettes,
23:57
and they needed the daily drivers
23:58
that they bought, the sunbird.
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Sort of similarly shaped, kind of.
24:03
It was a, it was what we like to refer to
24:06
in the business as a turd.
24:10
And it had a four speed manual transmission,
24:17
but a watery four cylinder engine,
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I don't even know how it got up to 60 miles an hour.
24:28
It's Mr. Maher's turn.
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For driving destinations,
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and let's talk about Labor Day getaways.
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Yep, Labor Day's coming up.
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It's gonna be a little bit more time off.
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People are gonna have three day weekend,
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so you might wanna go a little bit further,
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maybe look at a few different things,
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such as Jefferson, Texas.
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Now this is tucked away
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in the East Texas Piney Woods.
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It's got a Victorian charm,
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and it's got a lot of history that goes with it,
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with antique shops.
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There's a scenic boat tour of Caddo Lakes,
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which I didn't even know it was close to Caddo Lake.
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The Jefferson Historical Museum has ghost tours,
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and the whole Labor Day, a weekend,
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they bring a lot of peaceful atmosphere from big crowds.
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It's a perfect for a slow paced holiday
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that you wanna get away.
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If you wanna go a little bit further West,
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to get a little more adventurous,
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Marfa, Marfa, Texas blends.
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That's a minimalist art in West Texas desert beauty,
25:22
and really if you look at it,
25:25
they've got world famous art installations
25:27
that it's amazing that it's out there
25:29
like the product Marfa store.
25:32
They got scenic drives
25:33
to the Davis Mountains you can do.
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They got hot springs.
25:37
They got the Marfa Lights,
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and there's a lot of quirky character there
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that, and it's out in the middle of no place.
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So great Labor Day weekend
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if you're looking for something a little different.
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Palacios down South,
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he's known as the shrimp capital of Texas.
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Otherwise, it's a quiet coastal town.
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I'm out of go to Bay.
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You can go fishing, kayaking, bird watching
25:57
along the waterfront.
25:58
You can also go to Amsterdam.
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See, it's right on that boat.
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Oh, well that's true.
26:04
I didn't pay attention to that.
26:06
It says Amsterdam by the way.
26:08
You got shrimp down there.
26:08
You got boiled shrimp.
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You got corn shrimp.
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You got fried shrimp.
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You got baked shrimp.
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Well, we're gonna go back out West
26:21
and out to Fort Davis.
26:22
And I've actually been to Fort Davis
26:24
and it's way out West, mountain scenery,
26:27
got lots of cool nights, a lot of old West history.
26:29
And again, this is out in the middle of no place
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and it was a real fort that they used in the early days.
26:35
You can go hiking in the Davis Mountains,
26:38
scenic drives, the McDonald observatories around there.
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But if you really wanna go there and do stargazing,
26:43
you gotta make reservations
26:44
about a year, year and a half in advance.
26:47
It's really high elevation
26:48
so it's a lot cooler during Labor Day weekend.
26:53
Also out there, if you're looking for something
26:54
that's a little more active outside,
26:56
Garner State Park in the Hill Country.
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You got crystal flowing, Frio River Swimming.
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Now this is a real popular place to go tubing and canoeing.
27:05
You can hike limestone trails,
27:07
camp out under starry skies.
27:09
There's actually, the park actually has jukebox dances
27:13
on during the summer at night.
27:16
It's a great place to go off-grid.
27:19
And of course you can't go without saying
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something about Grandbury.
27:23
We go to Grandbury in a small town,
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got a lake, got places on the lake,
27:28
got a lot of history there, opera house, Labor Day weekend,
27:31
a lot of things to do there
27:32
and I wanna finish up with Terralingua.
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Now this is a former mining ghost town.
27:37
I've been there down in the Big Bend.
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A lot of rugged beauty and stuff down in there
27:42
and of course the famous Terralingua chili cookoff.
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I think it's called Terlingua.
27:48
Well, it depends on how much you've been drinking to keep up.
27:51
But they've got a lot of,
27:52
I gotta, there's a mansion down there
27:54
that's been restored and turned into a hotel.
27:56
They've got a lot of unique places
27:58
that you can sleep and go to places to eat.
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It's a really cool place to drive to
28:03
but it's a long way out there, West Texas.
28:05
All right, thank you sir.
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