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Big davyp hanging out with Cameron Chaos and eight VB. It is Saturday.

I'd like to tell you here it's a great day for a car show.

But it's kind of gloomy, a little rainy out there, so hopefully where you guys are listening, it is a great day for a car show.

Um Man, I tell you what we got a bunch to jump into today, and I'm gonna waste no time. So if you guys looked at

the title of the show, it pretty much jumps right into and explains it.

Red and blue and not too friendly. So, as you guys know,

I pride myself on the fact that it has been about twenty five years since I've had a speeding ticket. Yeah, we've talked about it on the

show quite a bit, all right, So it's it's been one of my heads. It's been one year for mine, one year for mine. So

let's talk cars. Radio was back on the road. We had to go

on a road trip short one out to New York, and you guys know high love road trips, so I took the back scenic way that it's actually tends to be a little bit quicker from here to New York going that way, but you go through the country. And the reason why it is because

I like to look to see what everybody has in their backyards. Because as

you go through, I could see a lot of classic cars, things that need to be restored. You know, take a little peek over the fences

as you're driving and see what's back there. And I did. I saw

a lot of classic cars that still need restorations. Some things I hadn't spent

about a year since I traveled that way. But I went through at night

last time, and this time I went through the day so as I actually able to take a lot of look in people's backyards, behind the barns and stuff. There's still a lot of things out there that you know, man,

if I had a trailer, I would scoop it up, I would scoop a you know, you gotta negotiating let them go. But and that's

the hard parts of getting people to let them go. But I saw sixty

four in Paula. I saw two different fastbacks that and I saw those fastbacks

I think probably five years ago or sow those cars we're still sitting there.

Um so he's probably not gonna let them go, but they're still sitting there.

Um. I saw a couple different um old Chevy trucks. They're still

sitting us on. Some old Ford trucks are sitting just stuff that really needs

to be yanked up and restored. But very cool cars, cool trucks and

stuff. So anyway, the trip up was good. We hit we end

up hitting that snowstorm, so you guys up there. They're in the New

York area, and even going further up the chain towards Canada. I know,

you guys got a bunch of snow, and yep, we we hit some of that too. I started when we got into um Philadelphia area,

we started getting hit pretty hard with some snow. And then as further we

went up and started started coming down pretty good. Uh and so, and

I knew. I was like, man, I was like it as soon

as I got in the car and I was looking at the weather, it said, uh, blizzards, storm warnings coming all through that area. And

I was like, why is it every time I decided to go someplace lately, there's a snowstorm coming, you know. As so, but you know,

we powered through it and it was good, great traffic going up that way, which which made it even better. And it didn't hit really anything.

Coming back and hit a little bit. So let's jump right into where

it goes wrong. I am thirty three miles out from the bridge and the

tunnels. Now, the new car new to us, you know, we

bought it brand new, but we've had it for a couple of years now, one year we've had we've had a car two years so it has, like I told you, every single bell whistle on it. You can shake

a stick at. I had active driving engaged using LDAR, So if you

guys have used all that, you know when you set it, the car is set to the speed that's on the road when you're using your nav system.

And we have a secondary system I've told you guys about. I had

hooked up to the three sixty system. So when those two systems are running,

the car uses the navigation system. It knows the speed limit on the

road that you're on, you engage it and it does not go over that speed limit. Okay, So I had it on and I'm driving now we're

only thirty three minutes out, so once by time you hit the bridge on the tunnel, you know you're almost home. So we're driving and don and

I are having a conversation. We're just kind of talking back and forth,

and she's starting to get kind of tired. So I was engaging in conversation

because it had been a long drive and I just wanted to kind of talk because I was starting to get, you know, tired myself. But the

car, for the most part is doing the driving for you. You know

what I mean, You don't really have to do a whole lot because it's a smart car. I mean that car stays in the lane. Yeah it

does. Yeah, right, it does it pretty much. You have to

keep your hands on the wheel and you have to drive the car. Don't

be wrong. You have to drive the car. But the car has so

many bells, whistles and buzzards and all that kind of stuff. The car

is doing the driving for you. That's the reason why we purchased a car.

That's the reason why we run the secondary system in the car with three sixty, because the car is smart enough to drive itself down the road.

Okay, So it's it's got like I said, it does it's it does it system for a reason. And like I said, you guys know that

I suffer from migraines today. I have one. If you if you can't

tell there's a little bit in my voice, you guys will hear it.

So I've been you know, when I get to the point where I have migraines and stuff like that. Um, I like the fact that that car

has the capability of being aware of everything. Okay, so that's the reason

why I have that car. So if I have a migraine, that really

starts to kicking it. UM the focus and stuff like that, the car

can do a lot of focusing for me when I'm when I'm driving. So

that's the reason why we own that car. UM it was a good purchase

force. So, like I said, being you know, you're basically thirty

thirty minutes from home. I mean, really is where you're at? If

you know a thirty three minutes from home? I think is what it told

me on the thing. So I'm driving and I know Aclomack County pretty well.

Anybody that's has driven, that's where we're at. By the way,

coming through Aclomack County. Anybody's on this side of the water. You guys

live on the East coast, you guys know it's kind of a little bit I'm not going to say speed traptown, but speed trap trap. It goes

from fifty five to fifty to forty five back to fifty to fifty five.

I mean, it has those runs for a reason. It's just the way

it works. And everybody out this way knows. You just don't mess around

in Acclamack County. I know, not to mess around in it I've driven

through it many times. And by the way, I've used this system before

going through there, so I know that our cars can The system works going through there without a problem. Okay, so we've never had any problem using

this system before going through. The car knows how to drive itself, slow

itself down, increase at speed going through that system, so we know that it works. It's able to scan the speed limit signed too. I say,

it's supposed to be able to scan the speed limit sign. It does

work and stuff like that. It knows, so it knows as it goes

through. You'll watch the speed limit change on the KNAP system. It changes

the changes, it match and then it matches back to speed. Also,

on top of that, the secondary system is a tractor beam system in the driving system, So any it scans all the cars out in front of you, and as if the car's out in front of you are driving, it grabs a whole of their speed too, and backs itself back forward. If

the car in front of you is going too fast, it does let's go to that car. Yeah, and it doesn't move itself to go any forward.

So I'm driving as we're coming down, we're coming to one of the stop lights right there in the town. So the car starts to back the

speed down as it's coming to that stoplight. I'm almost to a stop.

I'm like maybe going five miles an hour, and then I have to apply that. I have to apply the brakes. Now. If I didn't,

the car would break itself because as an automatic braking system. But you're not

using that system in the car, yeah, because it shows red lights from the exactly and does you even account down of when they're supposed to right exactly.

So I go ahead and I apply the brakes and I come to a stop behind the car, and then right behind me, a police car pulls out. There's not even enough room really for him to get behind me,

because he's right there. He pulls out, and I see him pulling behind

me, and I went, oh, it's a Plice car right there.

Exactly what I said, there's a police car right there because I saw him I was coming down and he pulls it behind me, and he turns on his lights and I'm like, huh. I thought he was trying to like

get around me, like he was trying to pull out to go around me.

And then he just sat there and I went I turned down and I went, I know he's not pulling me over. Seriously. That was a

conversation we had. I was like, I know he's not pulling me over,

but he was. He could come on his No, he wasn't.

He just sat there behind me. Now, I have a car in front

of me, so there's not a lot a lot of room in front of me for me to go anywhere because there's a car in front of me.

Was the car in front of me pulled up just a little bit. I

think he thought we were trying to give him room to get out. Yeah,

and he just steadily sat behind me. I was like, I think

he's pulling me over. So I was like, okay, well, I

pulled over to the side of the road, like, well, if he's pulling me over, he'll come behind me. If not, I gave enough

for him to get out, and he swung in right behind me. I

was like, he was pulling me over. Now, I'm like, I

was like, I was, no. I was like, I don't know

for all, I sure enough wasn't speeding. Why because I had active driving

engaged and I knew he's like licensed registration police. That's how the conversation started,

so we're not It doesn't start off, Hi, how's your day going?

No? I mean, you know how some police officers are. I've

had some police officers come up to side of my car and they're like, good evening. Do you know why I pulled you over today? Yeah?

Nope, that wasn't it license registration police. By the way, when he

came up to my car, as I've told you guys, we had this conversation many many times on the air, I have already turned my car off.

I already have all my stuff out when he comes. When he comes

to the car, I already have my stuff out, and I have my hands up on top of the wheel. I'm not fidging around in my car.

I have my hands up on the top of the wheel and I already have my stuff out waiting for him. Windows are already down too, by

the way. You know I ready up the window down. I got it

already, because that's I've told you guys, you just don't mess around when police officers come up to the cars. Don't give him a reason. You

know, I've said that thousand times. Have your stuff out, don't be

fish around the car. And if you've got to fidget around in the car

to get your stuff. Don't even do it. Just wait, put your

turn the car off, put your hands up, wait for him to come.

If you have keys, I don't have keys this car because the car doesn't. It doesn't have keys. It's push button car. So but if

you do have keys to keys out of ignition, put him up on the dash some places, some states, out the window and he comes out, comes up to the car. Just don't give him a reason for anything that

there is. You know, I explained that many many times. So I

did everything I've told you guys to do, because I don't just talk about on the air and preach about in the air. I follow exactly everything I

tell you guys to do. So it was just license registration, please.

I was like, sure, absolutely, officer. So I ham to him,

I said, uh, I think if I said, I think, I said, I said, uh, you know why you pulled me over today? He said, I got you for nineteen miles an hour over the

speed liman. I was like, excuse me, because I want to say

there ain't no way, but but I but I didn't because I told you guys on the side the road isn't the place to argue with an officer.

I've said that a thousand times, but I was just like I was shocked, like overly shocked when he told me that. I was just like,

there's no way, only four miles over for a reckless drive. Well here

here's well, here's the thing. The thing about it was is there's a

car in front of me. If I was going nineteen miles an hour over

the speed limit, I would have had a switch lanes past and past that car. There's you know what I mean, Like, there's no way.

I was absolutely no way. But like I said, I was like,

I was like, okay um. And then I went to explain to myselvil

Sasa, So you know, the car's equipped with adapted driving. It's on

and I went to show him. I because my cell phone that connects the

three sixties on the left hand side on its perch and it's on showing adapt to driving and three sixty running and I pointed, I said, right here, look it's the car knows what speed to drive. And I pointed at

it because it's got forty five. Then big letters pointed up. You know

with the thing, you know how it does when it's on. He goes,

I don't. I don't want to hear it. He's like, explain

it to the judge. I was just like, I said, absolutely sir,

I said, you're right. Is that what I said to him?

I said, you're right, I said, I tell my listeners all the time on the side of the roads. Not time to argue about it.

I said, you're absolutely right. So I just stopped because at that point

I'm not getting anywhere, you know what I mean. But he looked down.

He could see it was right there in his face, and you could see it was like listeners, right. So I just stopped and he handed

all my information, gave it all to him, because you know, I got in that little crow book. Oh when you opened I opened it up,

and vell Crow book I got opened up and everything's right there. So

I just took it and I handed everything to him, all nice and neat, And I think that kind of caught him off guard because everything's all nice and tucked away nice, and you open it up and it's like registrations all eat it out, nice and neat, insurance cards let all nice and neat where you can read it perfectly. You don't have to do anything, and

like I said, I was ready. So that's the that's the first part

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Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. So I'm not gonna leave

you guys on the note. We don't go back through this. So if

you guys just tune in. We're talking about me getting pulled over after twenty

five years of not having a ticket and now I have one, and so hey, you can still beat it. I'm I'm not willing to. Let's

on the record, though, it's like now and now it's now on the record. So because even if they get it dismissed us, like what I

don't like, once you go fight it in court, it's still on your record. Man, Like that literally makes no sense. It's like, oh,

okay, I'm gonna pull you over and then you gotta go fight it in court. You win in court, and it stays on your record and

you after you proved that it was not true. Here's the thing. So

here's here, here's my issue. And you know me, I got friends

in blue. You know, I got a bunch of them and we talk

about this all the time because they know I have the radio show, and you know, so we bounced back and forth on it and my issue with it, as you guys I probably don't have another twenty five years, so right, yeah, it's a big but it is, but it is a big thing to me. I haven't had a ticket in twenty five years.

The car itself, the report from the car knows it wasn't speeding. You

look at it in the cars like, I wasn't speeding, So don't blame me. It's over. It's kind of right right right, absolutely, So

as Cameron was looking it up, you know, he was reading, He's like, here's what the cars equipped with road Assistant A Road Signed Assistance RSA, which scans the speed limits, yield signed, stop signed stop lights, you name it. It also has active um I could look it back up.

Usually he's read off all of these like your car's got everything, like yeah, no kidding. And the car has a secondary system, and it

has a secondary system where it's using um GPS maps to be able to track that speed as well as because we have that secondary system through sixty it's grabbing two different speeds making sure it's confirming it. And the reason why we did

that was because Dawn was driving the vehicle. So it's like you can't really

tell me I'm I'm speeding when I'm in a vehicle that won't let me speed.

I can tell you it won't let you speed. I mean, I'm

tried. So so I'm still still the nineteen miles apart. Ten miles.

You're passing the car. So here's the thing. So he comes back with

my ticket, like he come back, Susie. Susie walked up and he

has his clipboard. I'm like, okay, I'm not getting a warning.

I'm getting ticket, like I already know, like already knew I was getting a ticket twenty five years. Didn't face him, right, yeah, didn't

face him at all. He goes and I said, I just want to

make it clear. I said, just just so it's clear, because I

know at that at that time, I knew I was going to court, Like I'm going to court. Don't have the conversation about it. So I'm

just I'm trying to set a precedence of a conversation so I can reference back to the conversation when I go to court with him, when I talk to judge, I tried to explain to the officer X y Z you know what I mean, That was what I was trying to do. I was like,

all the evidence he needed right, he still broughte me a ticket.

It was just like one of those I just want to circle back, I said, just so you know this car is equipped. Did you did you

ask him how you how you got you? Did I do what? Now?

Did you ask him how you track you? No? I think it's

probably light ar is how it's what he said to use. But here's the

thing. I'm using light R two. My car is driving by light.

So you tell me, you know lightar is. You know it isn't accurate.

I could say the same thing about you, so I you know, I once again, I ran through it. I said, you know,

just so you're aware, you know the car has two systems. I'm using

two systems inside this car. I said. The car's wired up, I

said, said our first time. We've had many cars. I mean your

guys cars had it, you know. I mean we wired your guys car

with three sixty so you I was able to track everything on you guys.

Have you guys hard accelerated away from a stoplight. I knew it. You

know, it used to call us every single time. So, like I

said, I mean, it's just one of those things. It's like it's

almost like you pulled the wrong car over, you know, because it has it had way too much technology wired up into It's almost it's like you right, you pulled yeah, and and the and the and the mouthpiece that's behind the wheel that like advocates for not you know, don't speed, don't get pulled over by the police. I mean like, this is the wrong person

and the wrong car to pull over. It really is, you know what

I mean, if you think about you, it's like the worst scenario.

So he says, he said to me, He says, I've been doing this for two three years, and instantly my brain goes and stops and has like a stop moment and got a longer record than your home time here, so hold on here. I was like, okay, so in this instance

in my brain, I stumped you. I'm the expert, say, because

if you know, the judge is going to say, would you rather um, he has more experience in this, and he you know, his knowledge is bat time out. I got two more years and now I have knowledge

on it. That's where my brain went to when he was like, I've

been doing this for twenty three years, Like, okay, so I haven't had speed ticket in twenty five years, So therefore I'm the expert. Because

I have two more years, I would like to subpoena the officer speed records.

Literally, I was like, so, if you've been doing this for twenty three years and I haven't had a speed and ticket in twenty five years, I'm the expert in this situation. So therefore my testimony, I'm I'm

the expert. Was it lieddar radar or I think it was. I think

it was lighter, So yeah, I think it was like for the last vehicle he pulled over, you know what I mean. Like literally, I

was just like, so, if this was like a grand jury testimony and stuff like that, I'd be called up at the exit. He was frustrated

after even or No, I was very polite to him, you know what I mean. You don't mean I was anything to think about afterwards, just

just the point of I said, you know, I said it clear abundant that he was going to lose his case. No, I didn't know.

I didn't rub his nose in it because you just never done with the court case. And I'm not that guy. I'm just not that guy. You

can do it, really, No, I couldn't do it I could to drive fast and takes no no, no, no, no, that's I heard somebody say that this week. No you did not, Yes I did.

I heard somebody say. The only way they heard it is if they

got it from us, because there's so no, I don't know where, but they did that. So they said it. They were like, drive

fast, take chances. And I churned and I was like, do you

know what you just said to her? And he's like no. I'm like,

you just told her to go and he was like, no, I didn't. I said, think about it. I said, you just told

her to go, drive fast. So she started to sit in there and

think about she goes and take chance? You want me to go crash my

vehicle? That we invented that. We invented that scene. That's exactly what

it means. So if you heard somebody say it, they got it from

Google, and Google doesn't have it, And I believe what chance we invented it? Okay, we we didn't invent it forever. I know that.

No, no, no, no, that was back before you guys were born. Kyle loft Us and I invented that scene. So, um,

there's a song um called dry Fast take chances. We can you imagine if

somehow you never heard I've never heard a song. Well, I'm just saying,

like, you know, if you tell me there's a song that's and when when was the song? When was the song made? So oh well,

I was already kind of looking up other things. This song was made

nineteen ninety nine, but there was also a movie out there, um from Mario Dirtya that said if everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. It's similar to use my quote my husband off to said not fast

and take chances. Okay, but I got and I gotta understand the fact

that it's in a movie or it's in a song. But we use it

in a term in business because we're in the car business. We were using

a term to tell people to go blank off. That's how we used it,

and we have been using it for it ever forever. I know where

it comes from. Sure, I'm Taladaga Knights. We're Talladaga Knights. Okay,

So we were using that. We were using it way before that movie

was ever made, way before that movie. But we're using it as we're

using the movie. Director came in was like, oh my gosh, this

quote's so perfect because I don't think I don't think they're using it in that term though, you know what I mean, Like we're using it like because you couldn't you couldn't curse. We we use it because we couldn't curse.

You couldn't like say like mean things to people in business. So we we

we we used it as a curse word, like yeah, I don't understand, like, but I'm dead serious, like we used it. We used

it as a curse word like it's it's a way when you when you're frustrated and you couldn't tell somebody the way you felt you wanted to tell them, you want to tell them off business. Still is how we used it.

Drop all right, well you drive fast and take chances, now you know, And they're like, and they go on about their way. But when

they're about halfway home, they go, did he just tell me to?

Oh? Oh, I bet you? I bet you. It flies over

people's head all the time, it does, I know it did. But

it made us feel good when we said it, you know what I mean.

He was like, because you you couldn't do it in business, but you wanted to, Like when you had people that just frustrate it you and you couldn't say it when you want to tell somebody when you wanted to tell somebody to golf. You know, you just wanted to, but you couldn't.

And that was our way to be able to do it. I still

use that line sometimes when I'm really frustrated, and I know and I know it probably goes over people's head, and sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes they're halfway

home and they go oh, and then you you're sitting there going, oh, I hope that they got it when they were about halfway home. I

got a couple of little singers like that that will work. I mean,

it's just it's a frustration thing. Do you understand there with this finger on

the red button, the delayed button, just in case I slipped and say the wrong thing. That was funny back when up we had Hurt, when

Kurs Price was was my partner on the show. If you guys go way

back in the archives, when Larry was our producer, Larry used to have to hold his finger on the red button because Kurt would slip all the time.

It was funny, but no, I just here's the thing. At

the end of the day, I had to make that decision of you know, what's what's right, what's wrong, and how I feel about it.

And I feel that I was wronged. I believe that the car was doing

everything it was supposed to be doing when I was driving it. Like I

said, we were like thirty three minutes from from home, or thirty three minutes probably to halfway through the bridge or whatever. And I don't believe I

was speeding. I'm not an habitual speeder. I don't make it a point

to the average trip, by the way, on that whole trip from New York back, the car only produced four miles an hour over this the average speed limit in the whole trip, by the way, So that's a good variance for a car to make it, you know, moving at speed up and down, going through all the different speed limits. That's what's great about

having that, you know what I mean. So with that being said,

I gotta say that the car did what was supposed to do. I wasn't

speeding, and that's what it is. And I know, guys, I

gotta take quick question break, let me come back. We got some more

for you. You guys, hold tight and I'll talk to you soon.

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Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. So I got another one

for you. Guys. It's actually kind of cool and I know there's a

lot of you out there to do this. I talked to a lot of

different people on forums and stuff, but I don't know how deep everybody goes into this because I actually go pretty deep down the rabbit hole when it comes to this. So with everybody having phones now, it makes a lot easier

with the technology of phone. Some people maybe maybe if your phone challenged,

maybe not, I don't know, I don't know, maybe your phone challenged.

Maybe you still got an old flip phone. I mean, hopefully you

don't have a brick. I mean, but I think a brick because I

told you, guys, when we went on this last trip out to Arizona to see my buddy Paul, and then I end up hooking up in Vegas from a friend of mine, Davenski. We ended up having dinner with him.

He had he had the big no, he had the big, huge brick. He was like one of the first people had the big brick on.

Everything about to say he brought the brick to dinner, lost lose it.

If he showed up with the brick, and that would be the funniest thing because that's because everything. Literally every time I think of Dave Dsky,

I think of him in his big brick. So if he like walked in,

you walked in like an old pair of Adidas or something like that, he dressed like with old just coming with the brick, I've literally just completely lost up the everything. This little kicking he has. He has the old

Adida's jacket, walkman, got his shoes on, holding a brick. Switch

it to me. One second. Take this no, no, no no,

because the brick didn't have to pull up a tenn no no no.

The brick. The brick was just solid, big brick, white with a

rubber intent on top of it. You gotta look, you had to look

up the brick apparently. Yeah, dude, that would be funny, that

would be hilarious. But no, so as long as you're not phone challenged.

A lot of people like spend time just scrolling looking at like cars for sale. Okay, like just even if you're not really looking, you got

a car, you just notice to see what it's out there. The market's

feeling like. It turns right, it turns into like face scrolling for two

years, nates scroll for two years, it turns into dreamland. It literally

is just the car guy or the I want to be a car guys dreamland.

Like you don't even have to full Like I talk with people all the time, they're not really excessively looking. It just becomes like dreamland to them.

They're just like, you know, I always wanted to own this, so they just start looking regularly just for that. And then it's how deep

you can go down the rabbit hole? And I mean one of how deep

you can go down a rabbit hole. It is insane because I'm I'm ate

up with it. I ain't gonna lie. I will go find a car,

right I'm scrolling and I do this, I'm gonna lie. It's it's

like car porn. It really is. It's bad. Um. Yeah,

that's what I call it now, car porn. I've actually named it because

I feel like that's what it is. I'm sure somebody else is named it

too, but so let me not claim claim fame to that, because you know, camera's gonna go look it up and go. There was a movie

in nineteen eighty nine where a guy said that car porn. But it is.

I feel that's like what it is, because I'll take a picture of that car. Okay, So I'll snap the picture on it right, you

know, usually because if your phone savvy, you hit the little two buttons on the side and cheek, and then you have the picture. And then

I'll put the picture in the editor and I'll edit the picture so I can crop out the picture and now I have the picture right right, And then I go in and start looking for accessories. I've told you, I go

down the rabbit hole pretty bad, and I start looking for body kits and stuff like that. That's kind of funny, excited the same thing, do

you really? Yeah, Okay, okay, so I'll be like, see,

I told you guys, I'm not doing one. Like I'll look on

the car on Facebook and I'm like, that's an interesting car. I'm like

and I start, I'm like, all right, well, you know what what types of cars are there? Right? I start going down the list.

I'm like, all right, so that's the best one. I'm like,

all right, what's that come with it? I'm like, all right,

what can I upgrade on this car? What can I do to the

cars? And then I start going, I'm like, that's a nice little

body kit some good wheels, right, I'm upgrade the Now do you move the pictures over and try to put the wheels on the car so you can visual? Is it not? Okay? So I have that editor? Okay,

that's nice. See I I just do that kind of visually. But

it's kind of like I'm like that will that worked for that car? I'm

like, we'll upgrade that, right. And then I'm like, yeah,

next right, you see, and I do the same I do the same thing, but I got the little editor and I'm like, I'm grabbing wheels, Like I go online and I find wheels for it, and I'm like, chick, and I take the picture and then I move it and I dropped the wheels onto the car. I find body kits, and I'm like,

okay, let me find the right body kit where it's laid out so I can grab it and move it and then lay it on the car.

I'm telling you, I go like deep down the rabbit hole, and before I know it, then I'm like, what's the problems with this car?

Right? Then go online and I'm like, what's common known problems? Right?

What do I need to change on the motor? Right? I do

the same thing, and I've done it all in one car, and then all of a sudden, I'm like, Okay, cool, click next car.

Maybe, man, I don't want that car. Let different right then?

And then I go back on the marketplace and I start searching for like the next car, and then I so I find it. I had found

up. I sat Paul, this guy wanted forty five K for a fast

back Mustang. Uh sixty five fast back? I think what it was?

Six five? But it was And the car was ugly, Yeah, it

was, it was. It was. It was pretty, as I told

Paul, I said, it looked like like it looked like somebody had given the guy just two crans on the Crayola box and that's how he decided to paint it with two crans. I mean like it was the two ugliest color

like he did the combination. It was really horrid. The car was nice,

a nice car, put together, very nice car. He just his

color scheme he did was like literally they're like, here's two crayons, figure it out, you know what I mean? Like and then he just went

crazy, really bad with two colors, and it look horrible. The car

did not look nice. Neat had a really nice car, but like through

every Amazon eBay part no, yeah, you see those ones too, right.

It looks like they went on Amazon and picked every single like like stick on add on right the thing we right it kind of it kind of was like that, but it wasn't. It was all done with like bad paint

scheme. Really really so bring we got to bring this back up in conversation

somebody. So I went and added myself to y'all circle because I actually have

the premium membership for our three sixty eight. Got just software and your phone

unfortunately was not tracking your speed. However, you had two people in your

vehicle that was tracking your speed. Hunter's phone tracked you all the way from

New York to Norfolk and you never made it past seventy miles per hour.

Your top speed the whole trip was sixty eight miles per hour. You had

five events, and your crash detection and speed detection was both on. All

right, doesn't really telling to judge anything, because but you can go.

I saw it and shows you breakdown of exactly when he was used. Right,

he was a question, what is the I fick style between the forty five mile? Like I said, was it forty five? Yea? It

shows, but it shows. I pulled it up and show it says that

you were at forty five and then it said you were at fifty, so you can see it. You weren't dropping down the working And here's the thing.

It's a seventy mile an hour zone and sixty five mile hour zone through all those areas. Looked at it through those areas. I know, I

looked at it, trust me, And it said you're sixty eight start started when you got on the highway, when you were even in out to mac yet. So it's like, come on, no, no, I've looked

at it all. I'm within like where I need to be at. So,

like I said, I think he's on your side. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, like I said, you got you got a router. Yeah.

But anyway back to the back to the cars. Like I said,

it is a really really weird like hole you can go down and I start talking to people, and there's so many people that do this, like they literally like build cars, like they find a car for sale and then they build it. Or you ever find like the same dude cell in the car

has like posted something in the group chat or like a form before or like you know, posted his photos and the forms Oh yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah, where he's like trying to hype the car up. Just not

I mean that, or you know, asking like about problems and you're like, h right, I love the ones. If I fix it, it's

more expensive. I'm gonna be working on the car why it's for sale,

and the more work I do to it, the price goes up. And

I'm like I know, right, I'm like they're like I'm just feeling out or price will go up and or the other one I hate is is uh, I only want to trade for these cars. Put they put the car

up, I'm like, oh that's a cool car, but they don't want to sell it. They just want to trade it. I know my worth

anything else, but I do like I have literally gone and like found some cars and spence and I find it weird, but I find myself doing it.

Where I build the car, I'm like, I'm sit here and build this car. And then I spend the time moving all these parts around and

building a car. And then as soon as I built, like oh yeah

that could be built. That look kind of cool, and then it's like

and I moved on to the next car. It's like I just spent like

thirty five forty five minutes building a car that's just a dream car. Just

set my founel does I don't even know this car. It's like some other

dude's car. Maybe I should send him in the picture and maybe he'll think

about keeping that car when he sees what could be done with it, you know what I mean. Just it's weird. I don't know I do that.

Like I said, do you build around? Do you ever do it?

Like? Do you like that's around and build a car on line?

Like like like we're talking about it all the time. I mean that's what

car nex driftings for on my phone about no talking on dude, I go on Chevy sites and build random vehicles on there all that time. It's kind

of a little different though, rabbing it off of like market places for sale and then just dreaming about how you can make the car. Like I don't

do that researching, you don't. You don't You dive into like the cards

and like figure out if you're like, what kind of engine I can putting in it? What's it producing? I guess got body kats will fit on

it. I guess we're just the only ones car guys. Technology. Yes,

that answers that. If you're one of those guys, let us know.

I know, like I said, I didn't even know Nathaniel did that until you told me. I yes, she goes to show you. I

don't know. Guys, I gotta take down the comercier break. When we

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Cars Radio, your automotive specialist. Now back to your host, Dave Falach,

Hey, guys, welcome back. So you know, we start at

the top of the show talking about my ticket and how I feel that you know, you were wrong. You know, that's definitely not what I was

talking about. I don't feel I was wrong. I'm talking about, Oh,

there's so with technology inside cars, and in this case, me having two different sets of it to you know, prove what I believe is my case on the side of it. And by the way, let me be

very very clear, regardless of the interaction that I had with the police officer, Okay, at the end of the day, he's just doing his job and I understand that, and that's the reason why our interaction was what it was. On the side of the road. It doesn't matter if I believe

that he should be more friendly. It doesn't matter if what what my thoughts

and our emotions are on the situation. So let's make that absolutely clear.

Because as I've told you guys, you know, I have friends in blue.

I express my concerns all the time to them with the conversations I have with you guys. Some of them have been on the air, so I've

been off the air about when they've been pulled over and how they feel about the situation. So you're gonna have good interactions and you're gonna have bad interactions,

and that's just what it's gonna be. You don't know, section,

Well, here's the thing. You don't know what their interactions were with people

before you and then they got to deal with you. So they could have

heightened emotion because they had a bad interaction two or three stops before they got to you, and that's still in their heads. So keep that in mind.

Sometimes I'm not saying that makes it right. I'm just saying you go

to work and you could you could be a technician and you could have had a bad interaction with the vehicle you're working on or one of your co workers or whatever it is, which then changes your mood and then how you deal with people for the rest of the day. So just keep that in mind

sometimes and I'm not saying that or a week. I'm not saying my interaction

with him was horrible. I'm just saying that you get more bees with honey

than you do with vinegar when you when you're interact with people, Um, it is because it's just that that's just kind of how it works, you know what I mean. So, like I said, wasn't a bad interaction.

He's just you man, you could be a friend. You you walk

up to the car and you see that you know it's a guy who's in a He's not in a beat up car. He's in a nice car obviously

with his wife and his kid in the car. So there's you know,

the car's turned off. There's no real reason to be alarmed or anything like

that about that. Just don't be up beat. Well, I'm just saying

there's you know, you can obviously tell at that point in time. For

the most part, it probably shouldn't be an alarming situation, you know what I mean, Like you shouldn't be you know, not saying as a police officers should drop yourar because should never do that. But you get what I'm

saying, so right, So always do yourself the best case right with technology, like I said, being what it is. You know, there's a

lot of technology and cars. It seems like as we move on, and

I told you guys, technology is not going to change. We're getting more

and more technology. But did you see GPT four just came out. No,

you know I'm talking about right about it. So a new version of

it came out stuff, and it passed like half the bar and stuff.

It's like taking college courses right, And companies are now starting to implement small cases of it into their programs like Microsoft and um other companies. Okay,

did you see that the designer will talking about how he's scared of it, which one of chat GPT. Now I didn't see that. Yeah, so

he knows what could possibly go. So he did a interview and I didn't

get a chance to watch all of it, but I caught a part of it last night before I uh, finally dozed off and went to sleep, but he was doing He did an interview where he was talking about he was he's like a little bit scared of his own creation because of just how good it works. Good it works, and how quick learned. He also talked

about like security and development about it and stuff on how he's afraid that a lot of these companies are going to use it for like security and protocols and stuff. And because the system wrote itself, somebody can go into the system

and go unwrite this, you know, and the system would know exactly what to do because it built that. He's dived in up right now. Us

as human beings, we build the security behind everything, like our cars, you know, we build the security behind it. And once we opened up

how that system was built, it can be rewrote and just bad things could happen, Like I always tell people and stuff like you get to the situation of, you know, it's only as smart as its creator. Well here's

the thing. And when you start introducing that into vehicles and the technology and

stuff like that, we really got to start thinking about it. Like I

said, the cars are going you know crazy with technology. Oh yeah,

I mean absolutely, technology I mean, look at what we're talking about just here with what my car, my car was able to do, you know, energy renewal and stuff, you know, with the breaking systems and just you know, you know, manuals are coming back and stuff. Even people

are a crazy manual even as electric and yeah, let's be up. I

know I've been craving a manual this whole week. I don't know why I

have. Look, I've actually sat there and like coming down to like I

got and I'm like, I got the manual. Crazy man, I got

ahead of man. I don't even know what I was gonna. Oh,

I was gonna say, like you gotta think about it, like our car technology was really getting to a point we were in technology worlds in the two thousands when check engine lights were popping on and the cars started knowing that there was a problem with itself. Well, I mean, I was just telling

you this week that my car, I feel like my car runs a little bit better with my check engine light on. Um. Well, so Camera's

like, hey, he call he calls me. He's like, you know,

I I know, we just did a bunch of work to my car.

He's like, but I'm starting to feel a weird vibration. He's like,

he starts running down. He's like, do you think it's this?

Do you think it's that? Do you think it's that? And I'm like

no, I was like, we know, we we looked at that.

We took care of that. No, it's not that. He's like,

well, I need to get the car over to you and let you take a look at it. And I'm like, okay. I was like,

well, you know, here's my schedule, here's what I got going on, you know, And and I haven't felt good this week, and that's why I haven't brought it over. Soa migraine has just been beat me a

dead. I got one today, guys. It's it's it's it's rough.

I'm powering through this, uh this show to be honest with you, um but uh yeah, see that's what happens when you got a migraine. My

check engine light popped one literally, um. But after telling you about it,

my check engine light popped on and I called you and I was like, my car fixed itself, well not really. Check engine light came on

and vibrations totally away, it feels. I was trying to explain to him.

I was like, that's what. Yeah, I try to explain,

I said, the problem didn't go away. What has happened is is the

check engine light popped on and the car has put itself in default, basically defaulted itself to and that's the reason why vibrations way right. If I pop,

if I go in and I reset the check engine light on the car, I was like, then it will put it back to doing what it's supposed to be doing, and the vibration back then. So it was funny

because, um, me and Martin were sitting in the car the other day or yesterday. We're driving. Yeah, we're driving. We're stopping a stoplight

and I say something and I'm like, yeah, that's what I love about this car. I was like, well, actually I love I was like,

I love everything about this car. I was like, somehow it magically

fixed itself. And so then I looked down. I was like, see,

look my check engine light just turned off. I was like magically.

I was like, it fixed itself. And he was like, are you

assurance fixed? Are you assurance? I'm pretty sure he's got a Batto two

censor, and I think when it starts to act up, the car starts to give itself too much fuel, and then it goes ahead. I guess,

and it right, and then it starts to when it gets too much fuel. Of course, obviously for any of the technicians. For two years,

yeah, for two For two years, I've been telling you, I think he's had two centsor or he's got a batto two. One of the

two. It's it's gonna be one. It's gonna be one of the two.

I can it's the bottom head O two censored. I mean they made

the top one very accessible. The bottom ones just he just can't get to

it. Cameron is my my procrastinator when it comes to things on his car.

He procrast I don't procrastinate on everything. Wait a minute, comes we

to slide away down the table a little bit from him, because I was gonna get them. Dude, full of your quotes today? I love it?

Is that one today. So my kids are grown up, I have

like a bag full of quotes that I use, I used to all my life. I had to say, they probably degree they hate most of them.

Is that pretty fair? I mean I don't hate them. I'm waiting.

They're overused, for sure. Nickel, Sure, Nickel to say that

one all the time. So circling back around of technology, did you guys

hear that Tesla is maybe backing off on the yoke. They're gonna talk about

taking the yoke out of the Tesla yoke steering wheel one time in the band campan go back to the traditional. They'll for seven hundred dollars to put a

steering wheel in it. Yeah, you gotta pay extra for seven hundred dollars.

They're taking yoke out and put a steering wheel in it. I like

the yoke. It's kind of like a Mario Kart. I mean it is,

but it's just kind of show you maybe some things are over technology and cars. I don't know. I like the but I like that they're giving

options. They're giving options. They're giving options. It's one of the things.

Look, guys, you're never gonna get away from technology. It's gonna

be in every single car. We're gonna continue to move forward. In this

case, I like technology in our car may help me prove my case.

We'll find out. I got a court. I'm gonna go to court,

and when it's in May, I'm nice, so I will go. I'll

let you guys know how this is twenty five years. I don't have twenty

five years left, so I got a way back to back in that country.

So but I'm will take the ride. So on that note, guys,

oh it's been another great show. I'm gonna ride this Migraine to the

ground and crawl into a dark dark space because medication that I took because wearing off. So on that note, you guys, enjoy your Saturday. Sunday's

right around the corner, and make sure you guys unplug, spend some time with your kids. Play a board game with him. They'll love you for

it, hopefully, where you guys are at sunny go to a car show.

If you can take kids with you, I'll love you for it as well. So we're gonna go ahead and get out of here. You guys,

enjoy the rest of your weekend. And uh said, we'll talk to

you next week. Yeah, definitely, will catch from shows over on podcast.

We're out here. Talk to you soon.

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