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Lamborghini Diablo
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Chevrolet Equinox EV
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RS
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Chevy Bolt
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Chevrolet Volt
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miles to the charge
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HD surround vision system
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Porsche 718
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electrify
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1.6 liter turbo four
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infotainment system
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Cadillac Optiq
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front wheel drive
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all wheel drive
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Chevrolet Blazer EV
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horsepower
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Toyota Supras
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Donut Lab
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solid-state battery
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lithium batteries
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Volvo EX30
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Welcome to the show, here we are, it's my radio yet again with Johnny Lieberman.
People are always like, why is Johnny on the show, let me tell you why Johnny is on the show.
That's a great way to start it.
I'd like to know why I'm on the show as well.
Aside from his automotive knowledge, you did a great piece last week on the Lamborghini Diablo.
Wonderful piece, as a matter of fact.
What is that magazine, Road Rat?
Road Rat.
The Road Rat.
Johnny.
Buy it.
Johnny shows up for you guys.
Johnny shows up.
He shows up.
Injured.
Look who's missing.
Spin the chair.
Spin the Zuckerman chair.
Yeah, he's a little busy, he's had a rough week.
He apologizes.
But here we are yet again doing another show and we're happy to be with you.
We got a lot of cars to talk about this week.
I'm driving a Chevy EQ RS, an EV.
Equinox.
Yeah, I asked for the car because my son wanted to drive it.
He said one of his friends has one.
He's getting his driver's license.
I said I didn't even know it existed.
There it is behind us, you can see it right there.
Throw it up.
And I'm surprised by how much I like it.
It's really good.
We should talk about, let's just open the show with it.
I mean, here we have a Chevrolet EV that's priced at $35,000.
Right?
I think all in this guy is 42.
I saw on the sticker.
And the RS is the sporty one.
RS is the sporty one.
They asked me which one I wanted.
I said give me the sporty one, of course.
I like them sporty.
Yeah.
And I've not gotten out of the car.
I really can't believe how nice this car is.
And you remember the way these cars, the Chevy Bolt, right?
One of the first EVs.
That was really good.
Really nice car.
It was a good car, yeah.
A little dorky, but it was a good car.
A little dorky.
Leno had one.
Had a little gas engine in it too, right?
That was the Volt.
The Volt.
The Volt was a plug-in hybrid.
That's the car.
That was a good car too.
Also looked good.
Right, right.
So the Volt and the Volt, when were they around originally?
So the Volt was our car of the year for 2011.
So it came out in 2010.
Okay, there you go.
And the Bolt followed in like 14 or 15.
As I'm driving this car, I'm just thinking how did Chevy get all of this so right?
You know, and it's because in 2011 they were already working on this stuff, you're saying.
And it's really noticeable.
I mean, the first thing you do when you look at this SUV or this mid-sized SUV is you think,
what kind of car is this?
So I've been asked all week, what are you driving?
Oh, that looks really nice.
And I go, it's a Chevrolet.
And people are like, what?
Yeah, GM design is good right now.
It's got 315 miles to the charge.
And I would call them authentic miles to the charge, unlike the fake Tesla miles.
But the big surprise is how well it works, right?
20 driver and safety assistant features.
But buzzers that kind of, you know, when you're about to get an accident or something's not
going all right, it shocks you in the ass.
And it really debuted in Cadillacs like eight years ago and it's trickled down to the rest
of the products.
Yeah, but if you're thinking about a car for your kid, you're like, wow, right?
It's got an HD surround vision system that is really beautiful, like really clear camera
footage, you know, whether you're backing up, moving forward or just want to know what's
around you.
And a beautiful audio system too.
So, you know, I've taken this out to dinner.
I've taken it to meetings.
I've taken it to tennis.
I really, I took it today.
And I have my 718 in the garage.
And I was like, you know, the weather's been cold or it's been rainy and this thing has
been really overperforming for what it is.
You drove it.
Yeah, I've driven it.
I mean, look, to steal a line from from Ferra, like the best thing you can do to a cheap
car is electrify it.
Because they make a gas equinox, which I've also driven.
Yeah, it's garbage.
It's just it's not a car.
You you would be having the opposite thought.
No, I know, I got stuck with this car.
Yeah.
So what you do is you're removing like the 1.6 liter turbo four and the miserable transmission,
the cheapest transmission they could make to having the same electric motors that are
in the Cadillac OPTIQ, the same batteries in the Cadillac OPTIQ, the same infotainment
system and cameras that are in the Cadillac OPTIQ and they just have a lower price point.
And, you know, the the leather isn't as nice, you know, or it's cloth or whatever.
But yeah, it's a hell of a car.
Some little things that I love about it.
Hopefully it opens.
There it goes.
No start button.
It starts and goes just like a Tesla does.
You hop in and it knows you want to drive.
Lovely.
There's no car playing it, but I didn't miss it.
The wireless charging is in that center console there and it leans forward and it charges your
phone.
It actually works, which is nice.
Here's my only tiny issue with it.
This version that I have is front wheel drive.
They also have all wheel drive and in front wheel drive electrics and I think you know
this, but I didn't know this.
The driving qualities of a front wheel drive gas powered car are heightened in an electric
car in that you've got so much torque and quickness.
A lot of torque steer.
What's that?
Torque steer.
The torque steer is a little bit, I don't know if I would use dangerous in the beginning,
but there's an adjustment period where if you're hitting that accelerator a little too
much and your wheel is turned, you get thrown out a little bit.
You know what I mean?
Oh, 100%.
It's a fairly...
Yeah.
It's like an old sob.
It's like...
It's a stability issue.
Yeah.
That was my one apprehension, like a new driver and the wheels turn and it's pulling you in
kind of a weird way.
Yeah.
You know, I wasn't quite sure about that.
They make an all wheel drive version.
That helps it out.
I know that the Cadillac OPTIQ is all wheel drive.
Right.
It was funny, the Blazer for a second so that the larger Altium Chevy is the Blazer EV and
you could get it front wheel drive, all wheel drive or rear wheel drive, whatever you wanted.
I think they dropped the rear drive one.
What happens in rear wheel with electric?
Are you spinning a lot?
No.
I mean, it depends how much power there is.
If you put 500 horsepower to the rear wheels, you'll spin them.
There you go.
But it just depends on how much power it makes.
The other one we're thinking about is Subaru and the Uncharted.
We're about to do Dom and Fontez sending us a bunch over and we're going to try those
out.
Yeah.
I'm curious about those new Supras.
I haven't driven the new Subaru Electrics.
Yeah.
They're coming in.
They're coming in.
But the new one just supposedly...
The Uncharted is the one that looks pretty decent.
Cool.
Well, as long as we're talking about batteries at CES, this company, Donut Lab, unveiled
the world's first production ready solid state battery.
Now, this is the great promise of electric cars that changes the game, right?
These batteries are...
I don't know the specs, but it could.
The batteries weigh half what current lithium batteries weigh and they can charge fully
in about five minutes and that means you're almost doubling your range.
You're getting five to 600.
Here, if we go down, maybe that number is there.
It's the holy grail of energy storage.
Safer, lighter, faster and charging.
Oh, that's right.
They last forever.
They don't catch fire.
Oh, where's the fun in that?
Keep going down.
We're looking for this number.
Okay.
Here we go.
Donut Lab's all solid state battery delivers 400 kilogram energy density.
I don't know what that...
Enabling longer range with significantly less weight.
I like that.
The battery can be charged to full capacity in as little as five minutes without the typical
stopping at 80%.
It also supports safe, full discharge repeatedly and reliably.
Now, go down.
I think there's no recycling with it, too.
There's no sort of ways there.
Longevity is another standout.
The battery is designed for up to 100,000 charge cycles with minimum capacity fade and
order of magnitude beyond conventional lithium ion batteries.
Safety, long considered, the Achilles' heel of battery technology is built directly into
the chemistry with no flammable liquid electrolytes.
The donut battery eliminates the risk of thermal runaway, dendrite formation and the chain
reactions that cause battery fires.
There's another big one below that, 99% capacity at minus 30 degrees centigrade, which is like
minus 40.
Yeah.
I mean, the promise of lightness is the thing that I'm keyed in on.
Yeah.
A nice, light, battery-powered car that I can charge in five minutes is a very attractive
idea.
And also, that's great, too.
You can go, you know, if you've ever been on a road trip with an evening, once you get
to 80%, it just slows down.
Yeah, yeah.
And so, you know, that's great.
Five minutes is a gas station stop.
It's less than a gas station stop.
Yeah.
It's really good.
Were you at CES?
I was at CES.
Why were you there?
For work.
What did you see?
I didn't see a lot at CES.
I drove nine different Chinese cars.
And are these cars that are going to be available?
So, it's funny.
So, I asked them.
I said, so let me just real quick.
Here's why I don't know anything about them, was there was about 120, very Chinese-style,
120 journalists, nine cars in about two hours.
Oh, no.
So, we're just ripping through them.
But so, basically, Gili owns Volvo and Lotus.
And I said, why are we driving these?
And the guy said, we got a Volvo factory in the US.
We could make Zekers here.
I see.
So, they want us to say that they're good cars.
So, this black one here, this is the Zeekr X. 422 horsepower all-wheel drive.
The price point is like laughable.
It's like, you know, $20,000.
It's so cheap because of, you know, combination of almost free labor.
Right.
Chinese government subsidies, you know, just scale, you know, China speed, all that kind
of stuff.
It's the exact same car that we went to New York to see.
Remember the Volvo EX30?
It's the same car, different body, with actually a nicer interior.
And yeah, I think it's a great design.
Look, it's a rip-off of the Chevy Bolt and the BMW i3.
But it's a nice-looking design.
And again, 422 horsepower, like, sign me up, you know.
So yeah, it was cool.
You can see those other Chinese cars behind it.
I believe that's the, oh, God, that's the Zeekr 001, maybe behind it.
Zeekr.
Yeah.
And you're going to start seeing Zekers in LA.
And actually, there already are Zekers in LA.
The next Waymo, the big van thing, is a Zeekr.
That's a Zeekr.
That's the, I saw, I went to the Waymo booth, actually.
And that's Waymo.
That must have been quite a booth.
It was cool.
Did you ask them about killing animals?
I did not.
I asked some other questions.
But they have Waymo Driver 6.
So the current Waymo is running around and Waymo Driver 5.
So 6 is much better.
Drive is much better.
And they're switching from Jags to Hyundai Ioniq 5s and to the Zeekr bus, which is Jaguar.
They've changed the name to the, it's the, it's the Zeekr Ohai, it's the name of the
bus.
I see.
Anyways, yeah, it was cool.
But it was, yeah, it was, imagine what those Jaguar meetings are like right now.
We lost Waymo.
Look, at least we have Waymo, at least we have Waymo, all right?
That's where we're going to start.
We've been knocked down, but we've got Waymo.
Wait, what?
Got a quorum call, sir.
Waymo's dropped us.
Zeekr who?
What the fuck?
Zeekr, what's a Zeekr?
But anyhow, you will start seeing around LA and wherever else Waymo's live, you'll start
seeing the Zekers and the Hyundai Commas.
This is what I was talking about.
You know, everybody's talking about BYD and these Chinese companies, but they're not,
they're not going to let them here in the United States.
They're already here.
Right.
They're already here.
They'll let them in.
So in Mexico, that's just a, that's just a payment to the White House here.
Now you're done.
Build a factory.
You're making BYD cars here now.
So in Mexico, the Chinese cars had a 20% tariff and they were so cheap, it didn't matter.
So then they jacked up to a 50% tariff.
So I actually went to the guy from Zeekr and I'm like, why don't you just bribe Trump?
You got billions of dollars.
Just give him a million bucks.
He'll drop the tariffs.
He was the corrupt government.
He was kind of like, hmm, since you suggested it, not the worst idea.
Not the worst idea, Johnny.
Thank you.
But right.
I mean, if you're a businessman, like, why not?
Like maybe you'll invade Taiwan for you.
Like it's, it's just, it's crazy.
It's like Johnny Meeperman to our dinner, our private dinner this evening.
You show up to Chuck E. Cheese, there's 10,000 people in the parking lot.
Oh, there are 10,000 other people here.
They were also invited.
Your seating will be in six hours.
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They're Porsche guys, too.
Of course.
I haven't checked mine lately.
I, you know, it was a while ago and I think I bought like 10,000 Bitcoin or something
when it first came in.
You have 10,000 Bitcoin?
Thought so.
I had to write the code down on a little thing.
It's in the safe.
I should log in and see what it's worth, right?
It went down, I'm sure.
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Why?
What are you doing here if you have 10,000 Bitcoin?
What is Bitcoin at?
It's like 91,000 a coin.
Jesus Christ.
I'm a billionaire.
You could be a billionaire.
Do you really have 10,000?
You're lying.
Of course I'm lying.
I had a bunch.
Every once in a while, I do like to go back and look at the years I could have
bought $100,000 worth of Bitcoin in the first year just to beat myself up for
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Oh, I remember when my mom died, I inherited a little bit of money.
I was thinking, I should just buy Bitcoin.
Why did we do that?
It was like $2,000 a coin.
Yeah.
And I didn't.
It's a very weird human behavior that we do.
We'll go back and look at what should I have invested in.
Here's a car I wanted to talk about this week, a car I didn't know existed.
Red Bull's V10 hybrid hypercar that revs to 15,000 RPMs.
What the hell is this?
Track only.
It's basically Valkyrie 2.0, but Adrian Newey, he said, hey, I'm going to
design a customer car.
Track only is the key thing.
Right.
But yeah, it's just like Valkyrie with even less real car stuff to weigh it down.
But why is Red Bull making a car?
Oh, because they sold them.
They sold how many?
There's 22 of them sold or 17 sold for $5 million each.
That's.
But so Red Bull, they sponsor a lot of racing, right?
Well, they have an F1 team.
Right.
Yeah, very successful F1 team.
But then they go, we also want to make and sell cars.
Like, can you roll down lower so we can just read the story here a little bit?
More than three years since they announced the car, right?
It was at Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2025.
And they, I mean, it's just hard for me to wrap my head around why they're doing this,
I guess, for advertising.
Like, where do you go to buy a Red Bull?
I could also make money.
Well, look, I can't see that.
Can you see anywhere on there versus how many they made?
But they were all sold three years ago and they announced it, you know what I mean?
So it's money in the bank.
Look at that shot.
That's a nice looking car.
And they are going to make $50.
So $50 times $6.7 million.
Wow.
Sounds like real money.
It kind of looks like the Zinger that you just drove.
It's got that same design language from the top.
We've lost our minds.
Track only.
Oh, it's track only.
Well, do you see that shot right there?
Doesn't that look like the Zinger?
There's a lot of Zinger.
I mean, there's a ton of Aston Martin Valkyrie.
I mean, it's just a Valkyrie.
So $6.7 times $50 is $335 million.
So they made a nice little tiny profit off some carbon fiber
in a V10.
I mean, what is it going to cost to make these,
to design it, put it together?
When you're talking, new car models can sometimes cost a billion dollars just in
development.
A billion for that.
Again, this is track only.
So you don't have to worry about anything.
You have no, yeah.
So what?
They make two million bucks.
Oh, they probably made a couple hundred million dollars.
I think it's just for youth.
So you think they're making all of the cars for $100 million?
And then there's a two.
Do I have my math wrong?
Because it could be muted.
No, that's right.
That's right.
Yeah.
$355 million.
Yeah, I don't think they're losing a lot.
Where do I get my Red Bull car fixed?
You go down at the 7-Eleven?
We'll go to 7-Eleven.
Yeah.
I think the people buying these have their own mechanics.
And then Red Bull will also come and, you know,
they'd fly people in the fixture car.
I want an A&W root beer vehicle of some kind.
There's something like that.
Dr. Pepper, what are you doing?
Let's go.
The Dr. Pepper EVs are wonderful.
I, yeah, I just don't, I just don't understand it.
I think they've crossed over into a weird spot for me.
Really?
How is this weirder than the Aston Martin Valkyrie?
Look, AMR, which is track only.
They sell garbage in a can.
But they take their money and they do cool things with it.
Like, I like their videos.
And I like that they sponsor F1 and they're using their money for goods.
It's not sponsored.
They are an excellent team.
They own the team.
That's correct.
They build the cars.
I mean, they build the F1 cars.
But a fizzy caffeine-laced ginseng crap in a can.
It's not what I want to feel.
I don't want to see that on the back of my car.
This is for the, this is for F1 fans who have watched the Red Bull F1 team
be awesome for 15 years.
I understand what it is.
Yeah.
But I don't, but I would rather.
But I would rather.
They build a race car just building a track car.
I would rather they do that with a company that I respect
as far as car building and manufacturing.
But again, F1 fans respect Red Bull.
I don't think they do.
I think they respect it for the reason that I'm.
Max Verstappen is kind of considered like the greatest champ.
He drives a Red Bull.
They're the money people.
He's the talent.
There's a difference.
No, but they build the car.
You're, you're, you seem to be skipping over this.
They're not putting their name on a car.
They physically hire a factory.
Yeah.
They hire Adrian Newey who designs the cars and Red Bull manufactures it.
And, and, and let's look at this Red Bull manufacturing factory.
Let's go see where they're making their shitty piss colored caffeine soda and F1 cars.
No, it's different ones in Austria.
One's in England.
Red Bull in England.
No, not that.
There it is.
So somewhere in the back there is where they're making their cars.
Those must be mufflers right there.
I would do, I would do.
The Red Bull branded muffler.
If I can make a suggestion to camera, I would say Red Bull F1 factory.
Okay.
Sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
See, it's a factory where they build.
That doesn't look like a factory.
That just looks like a hanger.
With a couple of lifts.
I mean, we have that here.
Spikes car radio factories right here.
So look at our factory.
They make four cars a year.
Okay.
They make a lot of cars.
That's a workshop.
Yeah, that's what it is.
It's a workshop.
They have a workshop.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Also, this is the dumbest picture Cam could have picked.
He's helping my case.
This is literally like, this is like the wing mirror testing vibration.
I'm just having fun.
The new Fanta orange hypercar.
The new Welch's grape has gone into a V26 hypercar race car
that you can buy.
We're making 50 of them for $10 million.
Wow.
I'm sticking with my A&W root beer.
You know, I was going to talk about this Jeff Swart commercial
with Suckerman and he's not here.
But Jeff Swart has, you know, watches the show.
He's been on the show a bunch of times.
Coach me at Pikes Peak.
Yeah, we're huge fans of his.
He was commenting in our little text thread about
how the new orange 356 was in his 50th anniversary Panamera commercial.
I think that's what he called it.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So when they were launching the new Panamera,
this is a shoot that he reached out to all his friends.
There's, I think, Jerry driving the Command.
I brought down the 73 Tangerine RS, which was my car.
And the idea was the family tree of Porsche.
And when you, you know, he texted us, so he goes,
hey, you know, the orange 356 is in there, the Chick Iverson 356.
And I said, oh, wow, that's wild.
I don't remember that car.
I remember the 73 RS.
And then we, you know, then I played it.
This thing is, this is a practical shoot, this commercial,
that looks like when you play it now, looks like an eight.
Go ahead and play it.
Looks like an AI product.
It's so insane that Swart did this.
Look at these shots.
Are you driving in there?
There's the, there's the orange 356.
My car, I don't know that my car made the final cut,
but look at these shots.
It looks positively fake.
Wow.
There's the, there's the 917.
And this is an El Mirage?
I, yeah, no, it was, yeah, I think so.
We're down by El, geez, I don't even remember.
I thought we were driving down towards San Diego somewhere.
Oh, okay.
Wow, that's cool.
But here's what I remember.
It was just like, oh my God, I got so many rock chips
in the front of the 73.
But I called Suckerman and I was like,
dude, two of your cars are in this amazing piece of footage.
Look at the Carrera GT.
That was a 993 RS too,
that I think was another one of Jerry's cars that he drove.
Look at that.
A really incredible piece of work and it's practical.
Wow.
I mean, something you just will never see,
I think, ever, ever again.
I remember there were just hangers full of these cars,
Zwart with a headset running around.
I think they made a special camera car.
It was one of the first times they had the,
they had a Cayenne with a camera.
Well, the Russian Army, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know.
But he did this great thing and that was like Suckerman.
You got to feel good, man.
You got to feel good.
Two of your cars are in this.
I'm not coming to the show.
And then he goes like this.
Well, hold on, let me call you back.
Right, yeah.
Then he goes,
then he calls back.
He goes, so, so who's,
who's the other person on that text thread?
And I go, that was Jeff Swartz, Suckerman.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Now I understand.
And I said, all right, I'm going to send the dementia tester over
right now for you.
I had some fun with Zuckerman as well this week.
What happened?
Well, I ate shit skiing.
Yeah.
And, but what happened was,
if I can tell my side of the story, please.
Yeah.
You're going to see it, but you're assuming risk.
I talked to Zuckerman enough to know
that I can be a junior PI lawyer at any time.
Like he'll run cases by me and ask for my opinion
and he'll go, you're right.
Very rarely am I wrong.
So my wife and kids ski a little.
You've already assumed risk.
They're trapped on the bunny hill.
We can't help you, sir.
And so I noticed I was looking at the map
and I noticed there's a green run at Big Bear
called the Summit Run.
It goes all the way down green, all the way down.
Green means beginner.
Right, right.
I said, well, I'm going to check this out
and see if my wife and kid could do this.
So I'm skiing and then there's an arrow that says turn left
to keep going down the Summit Run.
Suddenly, because right now,
Big Bear is all man-made snow.
There's no, there's no snow.
It's just rocks and I hit the rocks
and I just fly 10 feet in the air.
Ski is fantastic.
Land on my thumb, bloody up both knees.
Jesus.
And why didn't you stop before the rocks?
It was like, I was kind of going like this
and then it dipped down and the second it dipped down,
I'm like, oh my God, rocks.
And then it just happened.
And so I call Zuckerman
because my thumb was, it's better now.
My thumb was all fucked up and splinted.
I go, do I have a case?
I mean, he basically,
I can't actually repeat what he said.
I'm sure you can.
Go ahead.
No, I really can't.
It involves certain words that are no longer in vogue.
If you know what I'm saying,
you know one thing I said on the show.
Okay.
Yeah, trust your judgment here.
But he said, basically, if skiing after 30 is stupid,
skiing after 40 is something.
And he's like, you're 50.
What the fuck are you doing?
And I told him, I said, and I even,
when the medic was wrapping me up,
I said, why isn't that like, you know,
roped off?
He's like, oh, we forgot to rope it off.
Ah.
And I said, do we have a case?
And Zuckerman said, go back, get another ticket,
break your neck.
Then we have a case.
Yeah.
A thumb.
What are the damages?
But my thumb really hurt and it ruined my ski trip.
That's the problem.
And the other thing is you're assuming risk
when you're stepping on a mountain.
You're going to lose.
The jury is not going to side with you
unless it's Gwyneth Paltrow that did it to you
or a crash they knew.
But they didn't, they were going to rope it off
and didn't.
Yeah, but still even.
But again, you're following the beginner route.
And there's no damage.
Wow.
My thumb hurts.
Had you hit the rocks, broke your neck,
like he's saying.
Or shoe mokker.
Or died.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Then.
Yeah.
The money.
But the story dies with you.
So no one heard anyone say that.
I'm not taking the case.
I'm sorry.
I'm taking your case.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It was, it was a really nice interaction with Zuckerman.
It was sweet.
That's nice.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's talk about Coinbase again.
Now Coinbase is auctioning off this 1995 Acura NSXT on Cars and Bids
where the winner of the auction can pay for this NSXT with USDC,
which is crypto, showing them just how simple it is
and why USDC is the fastest and easiest way to buy a car.
This meticulously maintained example is a one owner car
with an incredible 320,000 miles.
That is not a mistake.
What?
That's right.
It's a, it's a perfect car with 320,000 miles.
Three liter V6, 270 horsepower, 210 foot pounds of torque,
five speed manual, incredible long life, 320,000 miles,
and only one owner, extensive recent maintenance.
Now this should address the mileage,
including a full engine out service, head gaskets, timing belt, oil seals,
incredibly well kept.
The only real sign that it has the miles on it is the cruise control button.
Wow.
But look at this.
Look at this picture.
Look at how it looks at the contrast of newness versus the miles.
That's a lot of miles.
It is, but it's a Honda.
It's a Honda.
Look, I'm buying this car just based on this shot right here,
the crispy nature of it.
I think you should buy it.
Well, I'm going to have to bid on it.
Okay.
But I do have a crypto.
How much do you have 10,000 Bitcoin?
How much do you pay for 320,000 mile Honda?
I guess we're going to find out.
Don't miss the auction.
It goes live tomorrow at carsandbids.com.
That's tomorrow, Thursday, January 15.
And I think it's pretty cool.
Pretty cool collab here between Coinbase and Cars and Bids and the Acura NSXT.
And also don't forget to sign up for Coinbase and explore USDC.
Look at that.
It looks so new.
It looks brand new.
This car is crazy.
Yeah, it's really an interesting idea to drive, isn't it?
It must have been repainted.
I mean, 320,000 miles.
Looks like it.
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Porsche.
Guess what?
Porsche is doing.
They are now doing a collab, speaking of collabs, with K1 Speed.
Did you see this?
No.
There it is.
Look at this.
Here's, this is kind of interesting.
And I emphasize, kind of.
Don't oversell it, Spike.
I don't want to oversell this because it's only kind of interesting.
But it is kind of cool if you're a kid and you're thinking about racing,
especially an open cockpit car, and you like Porsches
and you've got an active creative memory.
I mean, creative brain, like you can really imagine and fantasize about.
I'm out.
You can go to K1 Speed now, because Porsche is working with K1,
and they're looking to focus on talent development.
The idea being, yes, you can race these Porsche branded cars,
but we're also, we've got our eye on you.
K1 Speed logos to appear on Porsche single make race cars in North American championships.
K1 Speed Champion Racers will win entry to the Porsche Sprint Challenge North America,
or Porsche Sprint Challenge USA.
Oh, that's cool.
Yeah.
Not bad.
And well, a lot of people, you know, they see the go-kart.
I don't think we talk about, we say high-speed cars now, and they, you know, they're like,
whatever.
But, you know, this is the first thing I raced on, you know, Jim Hall racing.
We went on these high-speed cars, these little two-stroke deals.
Shifter cars, yeah.
Wild acceleration and bruises on your back in the turns, and you really learn the choreography
of the track.
And look at this.
Now you've got an actual pathway to becoming a racer with K1.
Don't they have that giant new place out in the desert there?
Yeah, they built a big one.
I keep hearing about that.
Big-ass track.
I haven't been out there yet.
Well, K1's cool.
And I mean, it's interesting too, because, you know,
Ferdy Porsche is doing that fat karting league thing with, I forget his name.
The F1 guy interviewed him.
Can't think of his name.
But, and that's kind of cool because they already, they have like three regions and
they're going to keep adding regions and regions.
So it seems like there are people really looking at karting to like develop driver
talent, which has always been the case.
It's so fun.
Yeah.
It's so fast.
Oh, yeah.
It's legitimate.
It's less expensive.
Well, that's the thing.
But like, shifter cars, like the stuff that like the F1 kids serve, that's not cheap.
That's like 100 grand a season.
Yeah, yeah.
I know that Ferdy's thing is like five grand a season.
K1's way cheaper.
I take Richard K1 and you can, the league is like 53 bucks a month or something.
It's really cheap.
So yeah, it's cool.
But you learn, you know, you're racing on slicks.
That's great.
So you learn, you learn about a tire.
It's great.
And I heat it up, how they grab.
It's so funny to watch the kids get in these carts and do it and watch the kids,
all the dads were there and all the kids were just completely passing, just ruining them
because they just got used to the balance so quickly and they were just sliding around.
That was a way like nothing compared to the dads.
It wasn't that.
It's just that their young elastic brains just felt the car better and did better.
And it was everyone.
I was with James Marston.
His son, Jack shows up, crushes James.
James was doing really well.
I've met both of them.
Actually, I met, I remember, I had my boys, my Jack and my James.
James had never been in one of these things, just slapping me, just crushing.
And Ray, our teacher, was just like, this happens with kids because they're not
thinking so much as they are feeling the track in the car.
I'm not talking about young kids, but kids are like teenagers.
They are able to kind of just get at one with the car without thinking too much about where
they're at.
And we saw that.
But now Johnny has a different opinion than the pro karting guy.
But yes, sure.
Go ahead, Johnny.
They weigh less.
Kids weigh less.
That wasn't what.
Carts are very weight-sensitive.
As a member of the Fat Guy Karting League, you have to be over 200 pounds to race.
Yeah, that's right.
It's very weight-sensitive.
So that's why they asked for our weight for each of our cars so they could make adjustments.
Well, they're doing BOP.
So they can make adjustments.
They're at it, really?
They're doing BOP on your cars.
So we could all be even, yeah.
Yeah, that's what they did.
They wanted to know how tall, how much we weigh.
And then we were each assigned cars based on those.
Okay.
It's moderately interesting.
Yes, moderately.
Don't undersell it.
Don't undersell it.
I don't want to oversell it.
Fasten it.
Or undersell it.
Fasten it.
Let's see what else we have to talk about here.
I have a new segment on the show.
And here it is, right here.
It's called Oh, Those Wacky Waymos.
Roll it in.
I've just decided to create a segment for the show here because
all week long, these cars are screwing up.
All week long, these cars are screwing up.
Sure, people are sending them to you.
They're sending them to me.
And I thought, our friend Ingram,
who we're always talking about in the studio here is our editor.
I just said, create a little segment intro with little jaunty music.
And I get the feeling we're going to be using it almost every week.
First, we go to this clip here.
This is a woman.
I don't know where she is, but she had an accident with a Waymo.
I literally have been sitting here for a whole hour
because I got into an accident with a Waymo
and they don't even know what to do.
The officer has been in his car for 30 minutes.
He said this is his first Waymo accident,
and he didn't know what to do either.
There's the first one.
Really interesting, because you make contact with a Waymo.
There's no one in it.
It stops.
What do you do?
Zuckerman, what do you do?
Oh, wait, he didn't show up for today's segment.
That's right.
Johnny.
Yeah, I guess you sit there and wait for the cop.
I mean, I would.
But the cop then says he doesn't know what to do.
If you hit a Waymo, can you just run?
If it's empty, there's no humans in it.
It's like hitting a wall.
It's a good point, but wouldn't you then go,
it's got so many cameras on me,
and I've probably done damage to that car and my car.
Aren't I now in trouble?
But if you hit a thing, you hit a stop sign,
do you have to sit there and wait for the cop,
so you just go home and then they just deal with it?
Like, I don't, you know what I mean?
Well, this is different.
It's a vehicle.
Well, these are all the questions.
That's why we're talking about it.
It's an interesting problem.
If no humans involved, you made the corporation feel bad?
I don't know.
Here's what I was thinking.
I'm her and I've just hit the Waymo,
but I also know about like downtown LA,
like when the Lakers win or the Dodgers win,
they take skateboards and they burn Waymos, right?
Sure, yeah, yeah.
And I have not read about a single person,
I'm sure who's on camera,
getting arrested for blowing up the Waymo.
Right, that's kind of my point.
That's in the care.
My only concern would be my own insurance,
but even then, if I'm the cause of the accident,
and I'm fine, and like I hit, here's the math I would do.
If the Waymo hit me, and it was damaged to my money,
then I have to take some photographic evidence
of the car, license plate,
take a picture of the damage,
and then call my insurance company.
The other way around, like you're saying, I'm going.
I'm not wasting my time with you, robot.
And then you say, oh, I didn't know.
But the other thing is, how do you hit a Waymo?
Because I got these like spinny giant things
on every corner, making.
Oh, you could hit a Waymo.
The Waymo could be at a stop sign,
and you could just rear end the Waymo.
No, I'm just saying, they stand out.
If you haven't seen one yet, everything on them spins.
Yeah, well, we, as a culture,
are very interested in Reddit and our phones.
We don't even look up anymore.
Okay, fair.
So we've got phone business to do.
We can't be bothered with driving.
By the way, I get the new Waymo like PR guys info.
We get them on the show.
Talk about Waymo, for the Waymo segment.
All right, here's our wacky Waymo clip number two.
We have many of these this week.
This is a Waymo in Dade County.
I'm guessing Florida.
That's Florida.
That, go ahead and play it.
We just decided to stop.
Look, I can put on it.
It doesn't know.
It doesn't know.
Oh, no, no, no.
Oh man.
All right.
It's infuriating.
But then, you know, it's funny.
It's hard to get mad at the Waymo.
You have this moment.
Like I've had problems with Waymo's in traffic
and you want to, you go, hey, move.
I yell, hey, move.
Thinking it's got to, you know, it's got all those gizmos.
Maybe it's got a little microphone
that knows what hey, move means.
Right.
It's like chat, GPT or something, right?
But no, it just gets stuck.
I would also say though, like, you know,
cars also break down, you know, it's funny
because there's no human in it.
Cars just break on bridges.
It's true.
Yeah.
It's true.
Yeah.
You know, I was on my way here today
and there was a Waymo and it was two lanes
heading into one.
And then I went to slow down and I went,
oh wait, fuck that Waymo.
Right by it.
Flipped off the Waymo.
There's no one in it.
And then completely destroyed it.
Spike Ferrisen.
Oh wait, fuck that Waymo.
Now keep in mind, I'm a fan and a user of Waymo.
I like this company.
They're great.
They're awesome.
I used to Waymo the other day with Richard.
He loved it.
But it doesn't mean I'm not going to keep
showing you these clips.
Here's our clip, final clip of those
wacky Waymos this week.
This is a Waymo on a light rail train track.
Excellent.
Is that in Phoenix?
Oh shit, Waymo's on the track.
Here comes the train.
Oh good.
I wonder if that's a problem.
Now watch closely.
Yeah, I'm getting the fuck out of here.
Goodbye.
Yeah, I'm surprised he was able to get out.
Here comes the train.
And what does the Waymo do?
All right, it starts to go.
And then it realizes.
They're almost cute at these guys.
There was a dude looking at it like, what the?
Oh, that's great.
It see the Waymo knows he's in trouble
and he just gets stuck there.
They shut down.
You know, they shut down.
They're almost, you know, they're like little kids
in that way.
If you yell at them too, too much
and they get themselves into trouble,
they don't know what to do.
That's a good one.
That's a good segment.
And again, if you're, if you've got your phone out
and you're witnessing something happening
and you're shooting, please don't say, oh shit.
We've heard too much.
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
Like playing crash.
Oh shit.
Lady gets hit on the highway.
You got to come up with something original.
Because millions of people are going to see this.
Might I suggest, oh wait, fuck that Waymo.
But these, these are pretty good.
They still have not eclipsed.
The guy in the back of the Waymo
and the mother ordering the Waymo for her daughter
and the guy is going, the people put me in here.
Who put you in there?
The people, the people put me in here.
That was good.
I was, remember the other guy who was in the Waymo
and he was just doing donuts
and he was like, I'm trying to get to the airport
and he was like trapped in the back of the Waymo.
I do.
That was also really good.
That was a really good one.
That was good.
Let's talk about something that's probably more exposed
than your browser history, your online data.
I can't be the only one who gets stressed
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Imagine the internet is a public road, not pubic road.
That would not work.
Normally you drive your car, your data on the road
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When you turn on a VPN, it's like a private tunnel
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The benefit, the people on the sidewalk
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That's why I never connect to public or airport Wi-Fi
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But Surfshark is more than a VPN
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A personal favorite is Alternate ID.
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And you can have all his browser choices, no.
I don't even want to say the category.
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I was just saying when the show folds,
we should do the final week is just,
and here's videos of Zuckerman has sent us.
Here's things we could never talk about.
I'm trying to thank you.
Oh, man.
What I've been sent lately on Instagram.
It's not good.
It's usually animals for me and him.
Oh, okay.
I get much different things.
You do?
It's really bad.
Yeah.
Why does he feel the need to share that with you?
Oh, you're talking about the darker,
his darker algorithm.
Yeah, the darker, yeah, the really...
Yeah, I asked him to stop sending that.
I should do that because it's really like Jesus.
There's a button and he won't know how to find it,
but there's a button where you can clear your algorithm.
Yeah, I do that occasionally.
If you go down a weird wormhole
or someone sends you a bad picture,
you can take it and you can,
it's like a shower.
It's like a shower or a mouthwash.
Yeah.
Or a brain cleanse.
Yeah.
I did open up Instagram
and there were a bunch of girls on it
and my kids were like,
what, that's your For You page?
And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on, hold on.
That's because of Mr. Zuckerman.
Or anger should be from Mr. Zuckerman.
You don't want him to learn that
because then you won't have that excuse anymore.
Oh, yeah.
He's got to keep...
No, I clean, but then they showed me
how to get rid of it and how it's...
It really is exclusively.
I think you can guess.
Cars, watches, tennis.
It's just all three.
I had it with girls with like nine-inch tongues
for like a month.
I looked at one video.
Speaking of tennis,
I know not a lot of people want to talk about tennis,
but it's the new tennis season starting.
Australian is open is there
and we've had this wonderful thing happen, Johnny.
And Johnny, by the way, before the show told me,
he played tennis when he was young.
My father forced me to play tennis and baseball
and hockey.
That's good.
I didn't like either.
Yes.
All three.
Well, it all worked out.
Look at where it got you.
Strongman competitions.
I was good at football.
Turned out I was very good at football.
Where was I going?
And then look, and you don't have to send me the...
You're going to play tennis.
You're going to live forever.
I know that.
And that keeps having...
It's like the ultimate sport for living forever.
If you do it consistently,
you don't even have to do it well.
Grip strength.
However, it's nothing about grip strength in there.
Size or conference.
None.
It's really like I watch a bunch of YouTube
when it's like I will give you a thousand dollars
if you can return one of my pro-serves.
It's so fun.
And it is.
It's just to me, it's just fun to see like,
can anybody just get their racket quick enough
if they're serving 125, get it out there?
Every once in a while, someone will get their racket on it.
But this is the clip that really had me laughing.
This is, I think, the Nairobi Open.
And somehow this woman, I don't...
I'm not even...
Hajir.
Call her Hajir.
Hajir.
HA.
HA.
Received a wild card into the night.
Now look, this isn't one of the bigger tournaments, okay?
The Nairobi Open isn't one of the bigger tournaments.
No.
And by that, I just mean the ranked players,
I think, are above a thousand to two thousand.
So they're not even top hundred players,
which is what most, you know, top 200.
Which again, you're...
It's still, you're slicing the cheese thin.
Anybody's even the top thousand of the world.
This is very good.
It's an amazing hitter who's going to play well.
And this is, you know, a women's tennis.
So maybe not serving as hard,
but still monsters on the tennis court.
Like what's a woman, a good one,
pro woman, 110 miles an hour?
Mr. Blanca has one of the fastest consistent
average forehands, even better than the men.
I mean, that should just tell you everything,
you know, right there.
Anyway, Hajir.
Hajir.
Hajir.
Is a woman in the black, got the wild card.
She's wearing pants.
Doesn't know how to play tennis.
She does, she does know.
But she was on...
So I'm not even sure.
So here we go.
Here's her first serve, I guess.
She's on the wrong side of the court.
This is her.
She's in the middle.
Now here's her receiving it.
Yeah.
She's positioned completely wrong.
She should be in the right.
Okay.
That was bad.
This is an amazing clip.
There's her serve.
Okay.
Right?
That wasn't right.
It's to the wrong side of the court.
That wasn't right.
Yeah.
There's her net.
That was also wrong.
This is an incredible...
So in this poor woman that she's playing...
Hey, she did one.
And by the way, there's gotta be,
there's gotta be a college class for how to pronounce
professional tennis players last names.
Look at that shot.
This woman, Shadal, has to stay, you know,
obviously doughnuts, 6-0-6-0,
just beats the hell out of this person.
But the person in the other...
The Hajar won three points
because this woman was so distracted
with how shitty this person played.
She made unforced errors.
Three of them.
So Hajar dragged poor Shadal down to her level.
No, yeah.
Or she was just going,
what is happening here?
I mean, I didn't even know how this could even happen.
But I wish it happened to me.
I would love to get in and play one or two points.
With a problem.
Any of us could do a little better.
This famously happened in golf with Maurice Flitcroft.
I believe his name was.
Google Maurice Flitcroft.
British Open.
He was able to do what?
There's been a really wonderful movie called
The Phantom of the Open.
But basically, this guy right here...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So he was a British...
Look at those eyebrows.
He was a crane operator.
Well, he's a lot younger.
This is right before he died, that colored photo.
But go to the...
What did he do?
Set it up.
He was a British crane operator.
He worked like a port.
And he saw...
He had a vision from God.
And God said, go play in the British Open.
The thing is...
Which is a golf tournament.
A really prestigious one.
But he didn't know how to play golf.
So he got the...
At the time in the 70s...
See if there's video.
At the time in the 70s...
They said, are you a pro golfer on the entrance form?
And he just wrote yes.
And he shot like a 121, which was like double what everyone else got.
He practiced a little bit.
So it was the worst in history by a lot.
He had the lowest or the highest score in golf was the worst score.
He had the worst score by a lot.
And then they banned him.
But then he would sneak back in and turn out his wife...
This is the craziest true story.
His wife worked at a theater.
So she was really good at disguises and makeup.
So he would make up fake names like Arnold Palm Tree.
And he would sneak back in every year.
And kind of eventually they thought it was funny.
They let him kind of fake his way in.
And he'd have a fake nose and a mustache.
And then it turned out later in life...
There was like a country club in Michigan.
They would have Maurice Flipcroft Day.
Where the person who got the worst score was the winner.
And they started flying him and his family out every year.
It's really this great movie.
Fan of the Open.
But really, really wonderful.
Let's take a look at this guy's face.
Not that face.
Younger face.
Well, it's not much better.
Maybe the one by the trophy there.
When he's younger, when he's playing.
All right.
This is him in his prime.
He looks...
Prime's a stretch.
But yeah, yeah.
What is going on, Cameron?
Poor Kim.
He looks like a chimney sweep.
Yeah.
He was a crane operator on a West England seaport.
Did he love the game?
He was... God told him.
The other crazy part was his sirens.
But he loves the game.
Throw up this guy's Wikipedia page here.
We have too many holes in the screw.
I wanted to discuss it with you.
I think he just had to play because of God.
The amateur competing in competitions had to have an official handicap.
Something he lacked.
He simply declared himself to be professional.
Which is what I think this woman did.
He prepared for the tournament by studying a golf instruction manual,
which he had borrowed from the local library.
Wow.
He also studied instructional articles by professional golfers
to hone his skills on the nearby beach.
What?
Why a beach?
Because where he lived in...
Again, he lived in an industrial English town.
They didn't have a golf course.
He had a red imitation leather bag
and half the clubs that he needed
that he had purchased by mail order.
His deception was uncovered when he managed to score a 49 over par.
The worst score in the tournament's history.
How did they not see this right off the first shot off the tee?
They just assumed you were having a couple bad shots.
No, I mean, again, it's like...
But they did.
That woman I saw served.
The second she pancaked and went like that,
you go, you can't play tennis.
Yeah.
But usually you can tell now when they're walking on the court,
they can't play.
But the fun part...
Here.
Then he went on to the physical disguises here, right?
I don't know palm tree,
but the best one is he also played under the name
Count Manfred von Hoffmansel,
which is really good.
It's not.
The other part that was wild...
I'm disappointed that they couldn't see through this.
No, no, no.
They saw through it.
They totally saw through it.
Like half the movie is like the guy
that running the British Open trying to ban him.
But there were some trickery.
He had twin sons that acted as his caddy.
They dressed the same.
And he led them on various goose chases.
And the sons, it turned out, were literal.
Like they were the disco dancing champions of Europe in 1986.
Like true story.
Totally insane.
Great movie.
Great movie.
I wouldn't say great, but it's a movie.
You didn't see it.
I don't need to at this point.
I don't like him.
It's a great movie.
Yeah, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Is it great?
What's the name of the movie?
I'm going to prove you.
Phantom of the Open.
OK, I'm going to prove to you it's not great.
If it has above a 85% tomato in either user or critic.
85%?
It's great.
It's great.
It's a great movie.
Which if you say decent, I'll lower the great movie.
OK, let's check Rotten Tomatoes for the name of this movie.
And you're going to see a 68.
This is my prediction.
What?
The Phantom of the Open.
Oh, it's great.
It's great.
86%.
Hey, you did it.
87%.
So it's very good, I would say.
It's very good.
Look at that.
I don't know what you knew.
I used to also be a film critic, but.
True story.
Can you save it for next week when Zuckerman gets here?
No, but I don't want to.
You should put that on your Instagram.
I don't want to do that.
You can just put it.
I used to do a lot of things.
Art, art, critic, art.
No, no, art gallery.
Art gallery owner.
Yeah, no.
Theater critic.
Yeah, no.
I found it.
I found it.
I found it.
tennis player.
I founded a movie review site called Ruthless Reviews.
It was, it was very, we had a moment.
But you're right about this, Johnny.
I am.
There you go.
We're going to go out on that.
Congratulations.
And then that's our show.
Hopefully next week we'll have Zuckerman here.
We've got a lot of good stuff coming up.
I believe we're going to be having some Ducati's
coming on, CEO of Ducati's coming on.
Ooh.
Yeah, it's going to be good.
Motorcycles.
I know you love motorcycles, too.
You don't.
But stick around if you're on Patreon,
because we're going to take this, this Chevy
for a little ride around the block,
and you're going to tell me about it in detail.
People, I know this audience loves EVs, so.
I love everything.
Especially golf.
So you guys don't have to come.
Patreon, they love EVs.
They love.
All right.
We'll see you next week, Spikes.
All righty.
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