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A lively discussion unfolds as the hosts reflect on recent car events, including their experience at Cars and Coffee. They delve into the challenges of the electric vehicle transition, debating the readiness of infrastructure and government policies. The conversation shifts to the dynamics of helping friends with car repairs, exploring the fine line between generosity and being taken advantage of. Humor and anecdotes about car culture, video games, and the absurdity of social media antics keep the tone light and engaging throughout.
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electric vehicle infrastructure
helping friends with car repairs
car culture
video games
social media antics
Dave and the guy's jump into the conversation of friends using your garage and your knowledge then taking advantage of the situation. You won't want to miss this and more on the Today's Show!
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hanging out with Cameron Chaos and of course Nate VB. It is a great
day for a car show. It's a great day for a radio show.
We got our chance this morning to get up and get out and hang out over at Chess Peaks Cars and Coffee and Ultraspeed was over there hosting. It
was a good show. Got to see a lot of people, got to
see a lot of cars. If you guys get a chance later on today,
I'll post up all the cars we spot. Did we spot you?
I don't know, maybe we did. This week there was a lot of
cars are out there and hanging out. A lot of people are coming and
going, so we snapped some pictures. Like I said, we had a
good time. It was a good morning. But it's been a crazy week.
A lot of different things going on. I know a lot of people
are trying to do some shows this week, and I know a lot of things got moved around. People were reading about a little bit of weather.
So you guys hang in there. So far, the rains is held out
and it has stayed clear. I know it looked like we were posting to
get some thunderstorms and then said they were going to hold off. So it's
been pretty good. So what's going on, guys? Nothing much? What
about you? And I'm hanging in there. I'm doing okay, Yeah,
yeah, there you go. It's been interesting news week this week. I
know there's been a lot of stuff on people's plates all week long, so you know how when that happens, the car news is a little bit less.
I got some interesting things. I want to kind of dive into this
this week, so you know, I jump on the form, I start having conversations, and I have conversation with friends and a bunch of people in a different garage and stuff. It was funny. So you know, we've
been talking about all the different platforms with EV's growing and all that kind of stuff, and everybody's has their opinions on how we're gonna grow and where it's gonna go and how this's gonna move. And I know there's a small window
I say, kind of left from where we wanted to be, where we are, I should say, and where we want to be, uh say, yeah, say seven years. And it's funny because everybody's like, oh
man, you know, it's a big fight, and everybody, everybody seems to single me out for some reason. Been get me in a corner and
start having these conversations with me here down with everybody like so what do you think? And I'm like, oh, I don't. I don't think we're
gonna get this or not in the window. I just don't think that we're
gonna make that window mark as quick as everybody thinks that. I mean,
we just don't have everything set up, yet there's just I just don't see it happening as quick in that small little window that everybody wants. Um And
as I talked to different people in so many different industries that have to connect to make all that happen for everything to roll forward, you know, we can make as many electric cars as we want. We can have so many
different electric car companies come out and let you guys know, I like Tesla.
You guys know that I have this this secret desire passion when it comes to to lose it just because I like some of the stuff. And then
Nathaniel showed me a really killer new design today for that was Lexos right for that was really cool. So but we've been Tesla fans for a while because
we're still waiting for those free Teslas that all all three of us were puposed to get, and so we're still waiting for those to show up any day now. I'm sure it's any day those cars are going to show up.
We're just waiting. But so you know, it's not like we're against We're
still gear heads through and through. But you know, like I said,
I can see as things develop, you have to you have to have open mind and wait for things develop. It's just the grid and laying everything out
and making everything transform. Like I said, you can put tons of those
cars out and that's that's fine, Okay. So the government can get involved
and they can say, you know, we're gonna do this, and this is gonna happen. Look, you could push for it. I just like
I said before, I've told you guys, I don't understand how the government gets involved into it all in demands for us to do as they safe.
I just think it should be an elective, not a force down your throat kind of situation. And like I said, you can produce as many as
you want, but then you have to have everything to fall in line.
And if you go along the route of like I've said before that it should take you about ten years to put a plant in place to produce the power that you already need just for cities, and then you have to have the grid in place to p and the power down the line, then to have stations and all that kind of stuff. And you're already talking about seven years,
you know, just to you know, move over to what's sixty percent for the cars. I just don't see how we're gonna entangle and all that
make happen. And like I said, it's funny. I keep on finding
myself entangled in these conversations with everybody. So it's it's just interesting because there's
a big push on the car side, but there has to be a big push on the grid side too. And I see more of a push for
the cars, but I don't see the big push for how we're going to support all the cars. And you know, I got a conversation this week.
Everybody's like, Hey, did you see there's a there's a new station being built here and the new station being built there, and they're huge stations.
I'm like, they are. But you can build all these stations as
much as you want, but you're gonna have to be able to support those in the future, all these different stations for all these cars and for them to charge and stuff like that. And we're not doing that. So I
don't know. You guys, tell me what you think. You guys know
how to get a hold of us, you know, send us a tech send us the email, call us whatever, and just tell me what you guys think about it, because like I said, I get peoples constantly as I run into them, pulling me inside and picking my brain and like, hey, what do you think? What do you think? And I'm like,
oh, this is what I think. And then you know, some
people argue their point on it, and I think it's great because good conversation is great for me because it because we talk talk on the show. But
I just find it really funny that there's so many people, like I said that I run into that are in so many different industries that have to make all these all this come together, and they all have their views on every side. But the view is usually is we're not ready on this side,
so how can we be ready on that side? And how is this all
going to come together? And it's just funny to be I just I find
it absolutely think we're definitely going to have like a change or something, you know, I mean, gas stations aren't going to be on the corner.
It's not going to be electric stations on every corner or stuff like that.
You know, I don't disagree with you what we got comfortable with of just pulling into the gas station and feel what I think is going to change is you're gonna probably see a lot more charger stations and they're going to need because it's not like a five minute fill up anymore. It's not gonna be a
thirty minute. I think we're gonna get it down. It's worth. I
think it's gonna be tighter and quicker. I don't believe it when I see
it. No, well I think I don't. I don't have an electric
car, so you know I don't. I can tell you though a lot
of people can puship yeah quick. I think I think virginitative power is gonna
be a big play, you know, a big power move and you know ev models and stuff. When we start getting breaking wise and we just aerodynamic
wise, you know, just taking the wind and just kind of turn that into power wise, but we have to have the plants suthing to just that.
Well, it's just you know, it's in you know, different stages.
You know, you got just how the car performs itself and uses the energy. Wise, you got you know, how the battery manipulates the energy,
and you know who's it all around and then you got you know taking it from you know, charging the battery up to you know, how are getting the power from power plants to the card itself? Right, absolutely,
so you're you know, you got three different ways to get so there's going to have to be about a hundred people building riding bicycles, okay, and the electric bicycle. Electric bicycle is to be able to generate the power for
the car. See I use the I use like the TV thing, Like
you know, flat screen TV is used to be really big and chunky, and over time they got smaller and smaller and smaller. So I just think,
I use that term of I think power and energy, and so like that's gonna get smaller and smaller, small and more convenient if we could do that. eOne did say when he was older, he's said the example was,
you know the iPhones, and so you know the iPhone fourteen first came out, it was a very small phone, and so and then we started getting into the iPhone you know sevens and eights, those got really big, and then we started getting smaller as we got into the tens elevens, and then we started going to max styles. So it's a small to big big
too small. As we start you know, developing more technology, you didn't
like, I mean I didn't like. Look the brick was the thing back
and look, of course it was the thing. It was. We didn't
know any better. It was cool back then. Dave Nesky, you had
the brick. What did you and Paul have us? Good point? So,
I mean you had the brick and then you went went straight from the break to what's that company? Well we had the first ye had the back
and so we have the first Motorola phones. Yeah it was yeah, well
they were they were talking. I mean smaller than iPhone, yeah they were.
And then you had the flip phone. Everybody had flip phone. What
are those nanos? I forget the nanos something the smallest thing, really really
small. You know, I don't remember all the names of everything. I
don't don't I literally don't remember. But there was, it was, and
there was development. I'm just saying I believe that we can get there and
everything's gonna change. You know. You got that one guy that's developed in
that battery right now that chargers like within fifteen minutes or smarter, I think, even quicker than that last long so pleasure. Well, I think I
think he says that's gonna have like a four hundred mile range on it.
So if it has four mile range on it, I mean yeah, I mean if that's the case, Like I said, technology is going to change.
I mean you get to the point where you can every time you pull up at home and you just plug your car in or not men plug it in. You just pull up and it charges on its own and stuff,
and every time you get outside it charges. You don't really have to I
mean, wait, please mastered electric vehicles. Now it's a time to master
electric planes. I'm gonna be like, I'm not hopping on it. Look
my my electric my electric drift car not only has electric drift mode, but it has a blender too. Smoothies anybody smoothies coffee? Oh, cars and
coffee would be complete changed. Not only can my car drift, but would
you like some coffee fresh food coffee for you? I don't know, maybe
it seems stranger things. I have some donuts in the back they're cooking some
coffee. Has a whole kitchen that actually probably be maybe I think we might
be honest. I say that'd probably be a cool tesla if they had like
a kitchen and the front and it's like a like a counter with like a stove. You pop up in the bat at your coffee maker. Sugar package
packets. It's like, I don't know, Like I said, I've seen
stranger things, but I'm just telling you it's kind of funny how I know we're pushing that direction. Here's the thing, you're never gonna like eliminate the
gear head side of us. I mean, going going out to you know,
cars and coffee this morning proves the fact that if you take a look all the different cars that are out there, okay, and there's a lot of them, it's just everybody has their own style. Everybody has what they're
kind of into. You're never gonna be able to break that up and just
put everything. You can't pigeonhole everybody. It's just you're it's never gonna happen.
You're never gonna be able to take everybody and just kind of, you know, drop them into one box because everybody has individual just love for everything, you know what I mean. So with that being the case, and
when you guys think about that, I get irritated when when I feel like I'm being shoved in a direction by something or somebody and being told, hey, you're just gonna have to all do this, I think that's what where my irritation comes from. It because we all like to be individuals and our
cars express that. Obviously when you take a look at cars and everybody goes,
oh, we'll wait a minute. You go to a car show and
there's fifty Mustangs here and fifty you know, Corvetts over here, and then you have the SUBI guys, you know, and then you have you know, guys that like Soupras, and then you know, you have this over here, and then you have the WRX guys, and look, I get it. But at the end of the day, that is individuality, you
know what I mean. You have not everybody's driving the same car, and
even if they have the same brand car, each car is has their own style and taste done to each car. That's what makes us all individuals and
it comes down to it. But at the end of the day, we
all ended up in one place because we all have one love and passion and that's just performance in cars and liking to show them. And we have all
that same interest. That's what makes the car community such a strong community.
Now, if we can just use that power for good, because they are trying to push us out on a lot of different things. We just gotta
remember to stay banded together and use that power for good and then also behave ourselves too when it comes to being at those events too. Just a little
bit. I always try to remind everybody, you know, we get too
crazy. That's what gets us kicked out of areas. You gotta remember that.
But no, I mean just remember electric cars. They're coming, They're
they're pushing them, and I just don't think they're going to get there as quick as they believe that they're going to get there. I think that you
know, this this little tide window they keep on wrapping us around, or we're gonna you know, sixty percent by this point in time. I think
that chokehold they keep on trying to apply to us. We're just never ever
ever gonna get to that chokehold because remember was pushed out before prices starting to skyrocket. Well, no, they keep on pushing it. They still that
agenda. I mean they just talked about it. They just talked They just
talked about it last week. I mean, yeah, I'm just saying the
agenda was made, you know, saying before right prices started rising, right like these prizes, I don't I don't see people hopping up in a new ev anytime soon. Well, like I said, they were pushing the agenda.
Last week the government was talking about the still trying to hold to their to their numbers. I just like I said, I don't think it's gonna
end up happening it guys, so that I gotta take quick commercial break when we come back. You got a garage and uh or do you find yourself
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six four one thousand and three. Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio,
your automotive specialist. Now back to your host, Dave Palatch. Hey,
guys, welcome back. Hey, So before commercial break, I told you
we're gonna be jumping into it. So here is an interesting topic that I
want to get into that's just absolutely blows my mind as I talk with more and more people about So there's a lot of us that in this I say, in the group listeners and everything that tune into the show, and people I meet that are out the different car shows and stuff like that. We
got a bunch of car knowledge. Okay, love working on cars? Well,
yeah, love working on cars. Just absolutely enjoy it. It's one
of our favorite things to do. We've worked, you know, a long
time to get all the different knowledge that we have to get involved with cars, ours and everything along that line. It's interesting to me that with all
the knowledge that we have now, I love the fact that I have a lot of car knowledge. Is I want of those people I say? There's
new things I can learn every single day, you know what I mean?
But I have a lot of knowledge inside my head that I transfer and use and let people use my knowledge within my garage. I guess it's probably a
fair statement, right, Yeah, yeah, Okay, where's the ten millimeter at cars sitting there, requies like where's this going? No, no,
no, I'm not I'm not not missing. It's not a tool, it's
missing. I'm not attacking you guys. This is real conversations that I've been
having for the last couple of weeks, and I thought we'd dive into it.
So this is where this goes snappy No Bill with inside my garage.
I was very excited when I finally got to the place in my life where I had my own set up, my own garage where I I could open my garage up and go and just play all day long. Now, my
old house we had, you know, essentially that was a four car garage if you really would have moved things around inside the garage, but the way we had it sat set up, really you're only getting one true car in and out of that garage if you wanted to, because the way the garage was set up, you could only get one table in there, right So you know, So so the way the way that it was actually utilized, you're only gonna really work on one car in and out of that garage.
And so a lot of times that the old house cars were parked just in front of that garage being worked on in front of the garage because the way that we used we did and we had a hidden driveway that came up around around the house the back of the house, so no one could really see what we were working on, which we utilized. But my true dream is
is what I have set up now where it's a large garage and cars go inside and everything's set up and I have all the toolboxes set up to be to work on cars, and that it pleased me for the fact that friends and family and stuff, you know, I can help and assist them with cars. Now, with that being said, I guess for a lot of
us that have the knowledge how to work on cars, I guess there's a fine line that we run and draws with us. And I don't think people
really realize where that line draws in or where it should draw in. I
guess this, and I think a lot of you guys run into this too.
And I guess what I'm asking is is for you guys out there, where do we draw the line at? And maybe there's an answer that you
guys could could let us know, because I don't know where the line is either. And I find myself getting on that line, and a lot of
you guys have talked to you guys are finding yourself on that line as well.
And here's the issue. So we have all this knowledge of how to
work on cars, and we don't mind sharing that knowledge and or trying to help a lot of people come to my garage here and they bring their car in, they use my lift, they use all my tools or whatever it is, or I find myself working on their cars when I thought it was going to be a hey, let's work on your car together kind of situation so I can get it fixed and get it out the door, or whatever it is. And then you find yourself a lot of times doing most of
the work instead of it being a team operation. And I talked to a
lot of people they find themselves in this exact situation. But you do the
work, and then what end is it happening is is they drive the car, or they drive the car to the point where it needs more work or whatever, and it just keeps on being a complete rotated situation over and over again. Or then they end up you do all the work on the car
and you're happy that you've gotten the car in a good situation for him, and then they end up selling the car. You've done all the work,
they sell the car, and then the only thing that's happened is they make money on your sweat equity of all the work that you've done on the car.
And I guess you know, if this keeps on happening, where is the line that you have to draw? A line? You want to help
and you want to be that good friend or that good family member or whatever it is. And you've spent your life collecting all the tools that you need
to work on the car, so you know, they don't own any of that stuff, so they had to use basically all your tools, all your knowledge to get said car to a point where it's up and running. Rather
they're going to use it for their own personal use. And then you keep
on doing that over and over game because they're not taking care of their car the way they should, they beat on their car whatever it is, or because they keep on getting a car and they get it fixed and they turn around and sell it and they keep on making money on your sweat you put into the car. What happens if I told you that there wasn't a line
there's no line. That's what makes okay a car person a car person,
no matter how much it's going to irritate them on how somebody else treats the car, what they do if the car, They're always going to want to look at the car and make sure the cars and way to look at it.
It's really love you. You're a nice guy, right, you're a
nice guy. Yeah? Nice guy? Are you cool? I would you
mow my law for me? No? Because I don't. I don't look
into milling. But there is a guy out there right now that goes and
those free lawns, because well if he guy, I'm a car guy and working on cars, you know it's enjoyful to me. Well, if you're
a nice guy, I wan't nice guys mo my law. I'm just saying,
like you're asking, like, where's the line where you say no?
You're never as a car person, You're just never going to say no.
If I'm always want to film since it's related to a car. So you're
saying, I just want to strack out this, right, So you're saying because I have the knowledge of how to fix cars and work on cars, because you're my friend, or you're my family. I'm obligated always. I'm
not saying I'm not saying obligated. I'm saying your minds automatically always going to
say yes will help you, no matter what the consequence. Yeah, you're
always going to take my work and sell the car. You're a car person.
You're going to do it no matter what the end result is. You're
going to always because of your personality and the person you are, and because that is your friend, and because you like cars, so do you.
You're a car person. You're going to There is no fine line. You're
going to always say yes, I'll help you, no matter what they're going to do at the end of the day. Do you value time? That's
the person you're saying. They don't value my time, right, They don't
value any of my time. They know that they can take all of my
time, use all of my tools, which costs a lot of money, and just keep on using me up over and over again because they just know I'm a car person. That's basically what you just said to me. Basically,
that's a terrible thinking. I don't like that thinking. Yeah, I'm
gonna say there's a line. I'm gonna say there's a line when there's a
car person there's a snow mar certain point. And I'm not saying that as
like a bad way. I'm not saying like you should do it, you
should do this. I'm saying and that you're going to because you're a car
person. You're a car person, so you're automatic huge car person. You're
automatically going to say, yeah, I want to help you rather than not help you. Right, but you're getting you know, if you don't help
them, then that car is just going to get this. That's differ.
But at some point, at some point, shouldn't I just draw the line and go I don't get it. Stop, I got this. Scott has
to stop because I'm enabling you should I'm enabling people, and that should, but you're not going to be able to because you're a car person. You
should disagree with that, but you're not going to be able to because no matter what, that car person is going to come out. Well, you
know me because you see me pick at people's cars when it's here in my driveway, and you're because the car person you are, you're going to rather fix that car rather knowing what they're going to do to it, knowing that that cars that don't even mind. Yeah, but the question is, at
one point, is there a line you won't be able to draw a line.
You won't be able to draw a question you think the question is.
I think I think Cameron's a little backwards on this thinking. Oh, I
think he's very backwards of this thing because I value my time and all time, regardless of how much time. But I'm saying no matter somebody could come
and share you. Somebody, yes, because somebody could come to you and
go, hey, you come to you, and you're gonna look at that car and be like, man, it needs this, and it needs that, and it needs everybody. And then they're gonna go, hey, can
you do this? Can you do that? And I'm gonna sell it at
the end of the day, and you're just gonna look at it and be like, well, it sucks that you're gonna sell it, but yeah, I'll still help you because I'm a car. I hate doing that. I
hate doing that, like I don't like the fact that I'm not helping people work on something that's not there. Well, that's there's that they're gonna sell,
Like, I mean, it's not there's anymore. There's someone's like bringing
me a rental car and going, hey, I got this rental car.
But and I happen to notice that this's got a couple of things wrong with it. Can we fix it even though it's a rental car. Right,
It's like me open up an automotive shop down the street and just letting anybody come in. They got problems because I like working on cars. Auto zone
does that zone in the auto zone, and they got and all they're doing them all they're doing camera. It's changing your winshow wipers, which you can
do, or changing the battery which takes about a good or they run a check on your vehicle. You're not doing nothing. Not saying that y'all's time
is not worth it. I'm saying you guys, you're saying you don't value
my time. I'm not saying that you guys are because I'm a car guy.
I'm my time is not valued because you have you should do it, because you have the knowledge. Because you have the knowledge, you should just
go ahead and take saying that you guys will put as much time as you guys can into any vehicle, no matter what's going to happen to it.
Because it's a vehicle. You guys will work on any vehicle because it's a
vehicle. I don't matter what's going on in the vehicle. The vehicle could
be a crap box, and you guys would still work on it because it's a vehicle. So because I have auto knowledge and I like working on vehicles,
basically I should work on it anyway, because because I like working on vehicles, that's what he's saying doesn't matter. There's never a line. That's
basically what he's telling me, which doesn't make any sense. I'm just saying,
like what I know. If it's my garage, it's my tools,
and I keep on my time, I keep on getting feel like I'm getting used over and over again. If it's friends and it's family, when do
you draw the line? That's the question went in it. We all see
that we keep we all keep on. We don't ask enough questions. I
feel. I just think we all keep on giving in over and over again
because of this. It's friends or it's family, and we have the tools
and we have the knowledge, and they know, so they just keep on coming because you know, how do we uh, how do we draw that line? And when do we draw the line. That's the question. I
got to take quick comercial break. When we come back, I got some
more for you, guys. But I'm just kind of curious you guys,
tell me when do you think we've draw the line. I'll be right back.
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Cars Radio, your automotive specialist. Now back to your host Dave. Hey,
guys, welcome back to the show and Cameron's crazy ideas. You guys
should not just you guys not just open this show that where we bite delusional, where we have delusional ideas and cameras the host. That's fine. I
could have kicked the cameras on during commercial break and and just your old emotions.
Just wait next time commercial break cameras are on. Do you guys uh,
do you guys like gimmicky stuff like do you guys get into like gimmicky stuff. You're not like usually gimmicky stuff comes comes around during Christmas. Gimmick
here. You know, he asked us that earlier, and I still I'm
trying to figure out what he means by gimmicky like small like alright, so here we go. I'll just jump at you, all right, y'all know
like nick nacks. You know what nick nacks are? No, no,
no, no, no, not nick nacks stuff, just gimmicky stuff and gimmicky kind of they right, gimme show everyone, Welcome to the nick nick gimmick gimmicky Show. All Right, my Mustang fans, I know you think
I'm picking on you, but I'm not. This twenty huh me too to
this this, well, this will definitely be a me too. The twenty
twenty four key fob auto rev from your key chain key fob. Crap,
No, this is gimmicky, guys, I'm sorry, Like, but then what gimmicky it's gimmicky like that's that's like, can you don't mean to rev your car from a key chain? Gosh, we're gonna be at a car
show and everybody's everybody's gonna do it. Look what I had it is gonna
be a me too. So instead of using my horn while I'm in the
parking garage, I gotta find my car park Come on, come on, now, parking lot is full. Come on, it's gonna be there.
We can't hear my horns. But you know I can't hear it's gonna be
its exhaust. It's my it's gonna be sitting at the bar with his cart,
and the officer is gonna be staring at the car, and he's like, well, officer, I'm not in it. The ignition. Now,
look, it's gimmicky. It's it's as gimmicky as as electric exhaust noise.
Let me come on, it's as gimmicky as that. I don't look.
I'm just saying no, just no, let's just not that's gonna have it.
Let's just pretend like we didn't do that. I'm into a lot of
things, guys. Why not he's people from having to go away to their
car. Come only obnoxiously it's just a one button push. Oh you mean
like today? Yeah, Well, I'm just saying, you know, it's
like I'm good. I'm good. If you guys want to show me what
your exhaust, right, but don't be just just story like over and over again. It's just I just think that's it's like here twice okay, but
anything other than that, and I'm just you're just making noise. I'm just
saying, I'm not that guy. If you If you're that guy, that's
cool. I'm not no I am. I'm just gonna say something bad about
you. I was gonna say I'm not gonna say anything bad, but no,
I probably will as I walk away. I'm not gonna lie like I'm
just as I walk past your car and like the third time you've done it, yeah, we're probably talking about you. I'm saying the key fob,
could you know, distort that a little bit? Said? I said,
if people having a goal over car here with people rather engine, you know, if the key fob only does you know a small ten second you know, backfire and stuff, it's just kind of shortens it up. People aren't
just crowding over. I think it's kind of a three seconds is I know,
like like two seconds I was gonna say. I'm like I said,
I'm gonna say, I wasn't gonna say anything about you, but I ain't gonna lie as we walk away. We are talking about you. Do you
guys? Wait, I'm waiting for those people that do that and they blow
the engine up, did you guys? Uh, just just so you get
a little taste of medicine and be like, m man, shouldn't have done that. Did you guys? See the video where there was a group of
like four cylinders that were revving their engines and some of them sounded clean.
I ain't gonna lie, but they were like, there are a couple of guys who like gave it a couple of puffs, like two pots. And
the guy with a big, huge uh va with the blower on it and a big huge headers sticking out of it, rolls his car forward just out so he doesn't blow flames in the car next to him. He pulls it
out and he goes every just the whole crowd gets side. Everybody's like,
why is he pulling his car? And then I realized immediately yeah. And
then the whole crowd is quiet, and he rolls his car back in.
It just turns it off, and the whole crowd is quiet, like some like a little tagline at the bottom. It was pretty funny. I was
just like, that was funny. It was it was rolling around like last
week or something. He's like, how you shut everybody up real quick or
something like that. Yea, it was pretty cool. I saw that one.
All right, here's something else. Did you guys see the uh the
police report about the thirty five cars found in the guy's backyard. They were
all stolen. Yeah, they're all stole stolen. So they go to this
They go to this guy's house on the completely unrelated thing from stolen cars.
It's like something's totally other simple. I think it's even a misdemeter or something
traffic violation or something. I can't remember what it was. It was just
something completely different. And they go to this house. Not only do they
find like forty like marijuana plants growing in his backyard, but then they find these thirty five high end cars that are stolen in his backyard, like he was stolen but you know, just curious. Guess. Yeah, I guess
they I guess they go and start doing things and probably he probably didn't take any of the license plates off and they're just from connecting un and stuff.
YEA, one different state cars up in the yard. He's got, well
he had like, dude, he had like Bentley's. He had a brand
new corvette. He had some light you're over here wondering how he couldn't even
have I mean, he had some really nice cars that were back there.
Probably this dude can't afford a parking ticket, but not just one, like forty of them. They were questioning their lives and they're like, what am
I doing wrong? Like we're here on two overpaid parking on unpaid parking tickets.
They probably woke up, they're like, look at that car. Has
a cool car. You're like, look at that one. Like this,
they're all they're all in the backyard. Though they're all in all in the
backyard stuff. Yeah, they're all fenced uff. They got like weeds growing
around and stuff like that. You know, a captain, you know,
a captain walked up and I was like, man, that almost looks like Mike. That is we've been looking for for a year. But yeah,
so they apparently there's gonna be more to this story. But there's an aerial
picture of it if you guys look online, and it was like just the whole backyard with a fence around it, weeds growing around the cars. But
like there's like a Bentley all different types of Mercedes and some really nice cars that are back there. But he thinks what they were doing is doing some
type of like um like identity fraud where he'd get like an identity and go like purchase the car from like a dealership and then never pay on the car again with somebody else's identity. And he was like doing that, or like
he'd go and like rent a car, like a high end car and then never return it and switch them and stuff like that with different identities. So
they haven't got to figure out. But at this point in time, he's
not even a charge for those stolen cars yet. M he's just charged for
like this other misdimes or thing, right, It depends on how long he's been doing it for. It wasn't thirty marijuana plants. It was four hundred,
and they served a warrant because they kind of figured that there was something going on with the cars, and they got the warrant on the marijuana, but they came to his house for something else. It was something totally thirty
cars worth two point three million dollars in US thirty five total cars said.
They did say that it was purchased off fraud. Point purchases from multiple dealerships,
um and that toe companies couldn't get it. It's it's crazy crazy.
I'm like, I'm like, man, this guy had something awesome. But
it said some of the cars looks like he only used for like one like drive, like you drove it like one time and then just put it back there and never used it again. And then some of the cars though,
they said, have been used in other crimes though, like the cars were like used to do other crimes with the cars kind of badass got getaway cars, just got lined up getaway cars. I mean, you're just missing the
garage man from Fast and Furious. Here's another one somebody sent me. So
these are the little stories but listeners send me and stuff. I was just
like, oh, I had to go look look. So another one was
a bobcat in a car in the engine bag of a car in Whimisconsin.
A bobcat. Yeah yeah, not like the tracker bobcat cats do. Like
first thing I thought was a tractor Bob yeah yeah, I had to clarify.
Not not a tractor, an actual live kitty cat like cat in my car. I mean, like, so she calls it is she calls it
into nine one month, she's like, I got a Bobcat in my car.
And then they're like, can you repeat yourself? She's like, you
know, I got a Bobcat in my car. I don't know if you
guys right into but we used to run into him out in the desert.
Uh, Bobcats and stuff like that, and they're no joke. Do you
see the video this week of The Silent List Nope where the guy walks out and he's like nope, yeah, it's called the Silent The Silent Nope because the guy walks out to go to his car and he goes to go lock up a trailer real quick, and as he opens the door to go like lock up the trailer, he hears a noise behind him and he turns around and it's a big moose walking towards him, and without saying a word, he just walks into the trail word door and shuts it. And they were
like, the Silent Nope Nope, Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, I don't blame you. I'd like him. Nope, Nope.
I'm that way Sometimes out here it's really dark where I live at night.
You'll be walking like through the field and all sudden you hear something. I'm
just like that almost got Nate today. The bird almost took Nat out.
You have to say much. It's like a bird almost too. There's there's
a story that I tell when I first moved out here, out in the middle of nowhere, where I knew I was in the company of something out in the field. I just didn't know what it was. But we made
like that half eye contact by moonlight, and I was just like, I don't know what you are, but I'm not gonna find that. And I
slowly starting to back up in the dark. And then in the morning I
ended up finding two sets of tracks. I found coyote tracks and I end
up finding deer tracks. But I wasn't sure exactly which one I was face
to face with in the darks, like that kind of looked like which one I was. But there was two sets of tracks out there where I was
at. So yeah, anyway, guys, I gotta take another commercial break.
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to your host, Dave Palach. Hey, guys, welcome back. So
here's something for you guys. It's kind of funny. That's um when you
guys got really breakdown into things. There's a lot of different topics that pop
up, and people send me a lot of topics. I go through them,
I find things I kind of find funny. Do you know one of
the biggest things that pops up i'd say every other week. What you never
guess? Trying to take a guess that pops up every week almost every other
week when it comes to car related stuff. No evs, well, yeah
ev. But besides that, I mean electronics. Okay, electronics, electronics,
radios, no car play. You probably won't guess. It's probably kind
of her in electronics car related and electronics and electronics dominant. Man, No,
maybe you gotta be a little bit younger, a little bit younger, like the younger generation would know chargers when you give it to TV's batteries.
This is it's car yeah related like display screens you literally in car in car news, like every other week, it's in the news. They talk about
in the news. Man, I'm too smart for this question. Maybe seat
Nope, car video games seriously, so like every other week there is a conversation words this Sheian it was Sheigans say it againans So like every other week, car video games are like in car news. I don't know why we
seem to be addicted to like the camera just went to majors. You can
see the camera to who's this mind? You? Uncle Chris? So we
as as whole we seem to be like addicted to car video games, like we cannot get away from them, Like people are always anticipating the next game or what you know, what could be the next game or anything like that.
Whe comes to car video card games haven't adapted a properly enough. I
feel like car games just haven't you know, matured as much as we thought like car games, I feel like just I don't know, maybe in my time said they just haven't really developed any more than they were before. Okay,
graphics getting a little better, but I got a reason for the game hasn't really changed. How long does it take to develop a card game.
I don't know what, three years? Probably maybe what I know about developing
a video game you can fit like in the tip of his fingernail for me.
I know I like to play him, don't get me wrong, but I have to think I played a car video game in a long time.
By the time they finally developed that game, five years, probably we have passed, you know, so all that technology that was relevant when they started creating the game is now all three years, three to five, Okay, we look at that. So that's probably the reason why you're unimpressed by the
time, because it takes three to five years. By time the game gets
out to you, technology has changed so much. You think about cars three
to five years ago. We didn't even have a lench of cars three to
five years ago. Yeah, but here's the thing on the range that they
are now. Okay, So I think I think your thinking wrong with because
like developing the game, you could probably just at the very end, you could probably just render the car different to whatever the most popular car is.
Right at the very end you can probably develop in the game is fine.
You could probably render the car at the very end of whatever the most popular cars. You can't change. Right, the plot of the game is made,
I've said forever, like, I think the best game would be to plot it out where you can drive anywhere you want. Crew and NASCAR all
I want. I want to I want to all put together. I want
a good crash up derby game again, is what I one. I told
you it wasn't that good. I want a good crash up every game I
want. There was a game I told you guys was a while back where
you had to go to the junkyard. You had to pull your own parts
out of the cars in the junkyard and put your car together. It was
really basic game. It was many many years ago. But even then,
if you took that game and made that game nowadays where you really had to go and wrench and find parts in the junkyard and pull the parts and put your car together and wrench and that kind of stuff, that would be a really good game. I'm glad that games are more getting into you know,
big worlds some like you know, big worlds wise, therefore we have a little more room to play with you know, multiplayer wise and stuff. I'm
really looking forward for GTA STIs to come out and some of these you know, newer racing game wise, that they can use those technologies to make it a bigger open world. I got it. But you know me, I
like like when we used to play. I played with the kids when we're
young, We played all we played all kinds of games when you're younger.
And one of the things I liked about was being able to connect with people that I knew in other states and be able to play with them. And
that was one thing like some of the car games had where you know, people I knew they were spinning states away could get online and connect and we could go drive together and go, you know, and do stuff and race against other people. Crew gave us that option, and I like that.
You know a lot of games we don't see anymore. Is like, you
know, NASCAR used to be a really popular car game as well as NASCAR game was every year, rally car games. We had a couple of those.
You don't really see any rally car games anymore. Like you were saying
the demolition games, you don't really see any more demolition games. I feel
like car games have really fallen off because there isn't much to change, and we kind of need to change that. So I was just because you mentioned
NASCAR game. I was after we were talking about the NASCAR game. You
know, our phones listened to us. It showed me a video on Facebook
and this guy went through a five hundred lap d a Daytona lap race right through uh NASCAR's game went all the way to four hundred and ninety nine laps and then the last lap dot craft. No. He was like, all
right, now we're going to act like all the kids when they get on the game. He was like, on the last left, he wrecked every
single car he finished first. Dude, I could not stop laughing. I
had to share that we used I think I told you guys before and they so we used to play NASCAR and we played the full length race and we used to play with people online, and Cameron was a very bad driver, and people used to get really upset, really really upset. But they didn't
realize that Cameron was young back then. You know, he was just a
kid and I like to play and I used to like to do everything with my kids. So of course they got along with us and they played,
but they didn't realize that they're driving with like an eleven year old at the time, and Cameron was not a very good driver. And you'd watch grown
men lose their mind over a video game and Cameron would just laugh, which then made him even more infuriate it. But once again, he's like eleven.
But I had certain rules of things in my life that my kids were engaged and everything I did, like I just wanted to hang out with my kids. I just want to hang out with my kids, Like you know,
I got worked all day, I wanted to come home, cook dinner and then hang out with my kids. So like, we played video games
together, we went to car shows together, we built cars together. We
like, we did everything together, you know what I mean. So if
you threw a barbecue, you better hope you threw a barbecue. It was
it was you know, kids were invited because if it wasn't, I wasn't going you know what I mean. I was going to barbecue. My kids
had to come with me because I like to hang out with my kids.
That's my spare time. That's what I wanted to do. I mean,
we do a radio show with my kids. Figure it out. But now,
I just think it's kind of funny that car video games, like they're always in the news and like it's in all these different news pockets all around.
They're always talking about, Oh, we should really develop this new game.
It should have this and have that, And I go, how long we've been talking about this? Like, yeah, you really need to develop
a good car video game. But everybody has all these ideas, but it
never like happens. They never take all the best of this from a game
and put it all together. I think it's kind of interesting. Got something
else for you, guys, So here's here's another great story that we've talked about before. Why is it that people do really, really dumb stuff in
their car, and you guys are still posting it to Instagram and Facebook and everywhere out there and snapchat or whatever it is, and then you wonder why you guys get caught. Did you guys see the guy with the nova,
the green nova this week? I guess it is. It's all over the
news and somebody sent me the story did like one hundred and thirty three miles an hour, I guess. And you know, I don't know if he
ran from the police or whatever it is this time, but he posts it online and then they just they find him. I'm like, I'm like,
why did you not think you're gonna get caught? How many times have we
seen where people post it and they end up getting caught? Whatever happened to
when people ran from from the police. They changed the car color right,
the stuff right, all right, right, whatever, the cool stuff.
Nope, we just leave our car the same color or everything, and then we just post it up and we're like, ooh, it's me and there's your tattoo right there, clear as day in the video. And they're like,
oh, well, Johnny's got that tattoo and let's run it through the database. What a quick and ink. There's Johnny last time we had his
mug shot, and here's his identifying tattoos, and he lives at such and such address, and what do you know he owns a nova than green color.
You know what I mean. Like, it's it's silly guys like I
don't look. I'm not saying like I'm perfect, because I'm far from perfect.
And I've done some really dumb stuff in cars. And there's people that
know me to watch this show, they'll probably tag right and go, yeah, he sure has. Paula still don't instigate him. But we've allays done
some really silly things and stuff like that, and probably will continue to do some stuff that we'll question in the future. I'm just saying like, don't
make it easy, like post stuff up and be like here's where I was and here's what I did. Oh yeah, here's the video evidence, and
just sit there at your house and wait for him to show up. I
don't get it on that note, guys, huh think cleaner, be smart.
I don't know what to tell you, but definitely what you need to do is enjoy your Saturday, hang out with your kids a little bit.
Sunday's right around the corner and make sure that you unplug. Spend some time
with your kids. Play a board game with them. They'll love you for
it. Taking to a car show, they'll love you even more. We're
going ahead to get out of here. We'll end up talking to you guys
soon. You guys, got anything before we get out of here, enjoy
your weekend. We'll see you next week. Cameron and I are gonna try
to get out there and hit maybe some more stuff. We'll post up everything.
Maybe we spot you guys this weekend. We'll post up and then we'll
see I'll have some pictures up for you guys. We're gonna get out here.
I'll talk to you guys soon. We're out of here.
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