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About this episode
A lively discussion centers around the frustrations of slow drivers, dubbed 'lollygaggers,' and how their behavior can inadvertently lead to more accidents. The hosts share personal anecdotes about encounters with these drivers, emphasizing the importance of maintaining proper speed limits for safety. The conversation shifts to the impact of recent storms on car insurance and repair delays, as well as the evolving landscape of automotive technology, including advancements in autonomous vehicles and car audio systems. The episode wraps up with a nod to upcoming events like SEMA and a local car show.
Topics:
slow drivers
lollygaggers
traffic safety
car insurance
automotive technology
autonomous vehicles
car audio systems
SEMA
local car shows
On today’s episode of Let’s Talk Cars Radio, Dave explains how driving too slow can cause accidents by disrupting traffic flow. We also get into the surprising reasons behind the delay in car connectivity advancements. Tune in for these insights and more!
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America.
Speaker 3: You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio on w KQA Freedom Radio.
I'm your host, Big DAVP hanging out Cam Chaos and AVB. Hey, guys,
it is an awesome day for a radio show. So
go ahead and strap in, and I'm going to start it off really really quick without even jumping into anything else, because I got a rant, I got a rant, I got.
Speaker 4: A bunch of them.
Speaker 5: I just can't see them on the air.
Speaker 2: I just can't say.
Speaker 3: They all have words connected to them that I'm not allowed to talk about.
Speaker 5: Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: If you guys been listening to the show. You guys
know that I can't stand lollygaggers. Don't know what a
lollygagger is. It's somebody that does everything slow. And when
it comes to being a lollygagger and you're in a car, it really drives me nuts. And this week, as I've
been running around, I have gotten stuck behind lollygaggers all day long. And I'm not talking about Okay, it'd be
one thing because if they tried to call me out and he was like, so you're mad at them for being driving safe, I'm like, no, there the speed limits forty five, they're doing thirty five. I don't understand this
concept lately, and everybody's like, oh, there's trying to be cautious drivers.
Speaker 4: You're not.
Speaker 5: You're not.
Speaker 2: Go look, there's studies have been done. Okay, you're not.
Speaker 5: Maybe they're a tourist where they were not tourist.
Speaker 4: I knew it right off there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's been studies done several times by very large colleges and stuff. People who drive slower than the
speed limit or people who go exactly the speed limit and make people have to go around them, especially if you're in the fast lane, you cause more accidents by what you believe being safe, then if you just either move over or drive the speed limit, like in this situation, it's not even on the freeway, this is drive around regular roads and they're going thirty five and I'm like, I know this is forty five mile an hours long and I'm waiting for the seat sound like, yeah, I knew it was forty five. Why are we going thirty five?
And people are having to like move in jockey around.
Everybody goes, well, how is it possible that going slow causes more accidents? Well, it's very simple.
Speaker 5: Because everybody else gets impatient. No, no, it's not.
Speaker 3: No, it's really not that you would think that, But that's actually not what it is. But that's actually that's
a good uh indication as far as maybe what it would be, right, But that's not what it is. It
is actually the fact if you take a bunch of uh objects, right, and you start moving them around, what is the probability of.
Speaker 5: What them smacking into each other?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: So the probability the more things you move, the bigger the probability of things hitting each other and becoming a problem.
Speaker 5: Okay, And that's in anything moving around your house whatever it.
Speaker 6: Is, but they decide to move is kind of where my point on it was is that you know they got impatient. No one told you how to go around,
even though they caused them to go around.
Speaker 3: You've caused me because you're going thirty five and a forty five. You were going to cause me to go
around you. Well, I got honked at today by a
tractor trailer. He's honking at me.
Speaker 4: The tract at me, like the whole flow of traffic.
So like literally the whole flow of traffic is okay, you have changed study is expecting one thing and if you've kind of kind of changed it to.
Speaker 5: An extensive research on this in the past.
Speaker 3: So I do have like some not real numbers, but the idea of the numbers, right, So I researched it for did you know that if you're on the freeway and you just tap your break right right, just tap your break for a couple of seconds let off of it, that that could cause a backup and traffic for five miles because if you just tapping your break up the road five miles ahead of aune just not just everybody.
Speaker 4: Tapping the break equals five minutes so if you tap the break and then the person behind taps the break, that's ten minutes.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's kind of like that because it is close.
Speaker 3: But so there's all these studies on the problem with it is, like I said, if you're going thirty five miles an hour and a forty five, of course, of course I'm gonna swing around you. I'm gonna I'm not
going thirty five and a forty five and stuck behind you.
Everybody's bribing my bumper. Like I said, I had a
tractor trailer hawk's horn at me today and it was like I was going slow. You would think you'd be
able to see over the top of me. Realized the
car in front of me is one going slow, but not apparently. Here's the funny thing. I howked back at
him because you guys know, I got the big uge horns on him. So I howked back and him, of
course I laid on mine. He looks everywhere other than
my truck trying to figure out who's honking at him.
He couldn't figure out that that came from my truck.
Speaker 5: I was laughing. I couldn't.
Speaker 3: I'm watching he's I'm watching my room mirror he's holding.
Speaker 5: The steering wheel and he's looking behind him.
Speaker 4: Everywhere to laughter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it probably was a good thing that it did, so it's it literally went to the fact that I start laughing. I was just like, I was like, that's hilarious.
So of course, when we finally parted ways, I finally let him off the hook and I honked at him again, and then he looked over and realized it was my truck, and he was just astonished that it was my truck was louder than his horn, first of all, when he honked at me, and his sounded like a baby horn compared to mine. Now keep in mind, I do have
right what maybe they made a nicer one, but I had what they considered the world's loudest strain.
Speaker 4: And just just a sidetrack you real quick and just told me about it. So his horn is made by
horn Blasters, and the CEO of horn Blasters went live on TikTok and I didn't know he was in Florida, but apparently he was impacted by the hurricane that hit him and it actually hit his house and he doesn't have any insurance on his home.
Speaker 5: So I'm actually not surprised.
Speaker 4: Looking into it, and then I started realizing, apparently a lot of people in Florida and a lot of these places can't get insurance.
Speaker 3: I didn't realize it, but we were talking about we were talking about the cars we have in the conversation about cars, and people can't get certain type of insurance on cars depending.
Speaker 5: On where they live at the houses fall into that that same category. I guess because I just.
Speaker 4: Saw another video and started to take you guys off of track room. But I just saw another video where
somebody purchased a brand new vehicle and the people that he purchased it from already went out of town for evacuation, and his car that he purchased didn't get picked up by transport because transport didn't want to go into the evacuation area, got any calling, and his car was just sitting outside during this whole storm.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what do you do?
Speaker 4: You already purchased the vehicle, you already I was talking to and.
Speaker 3: I was talking to a shop this week and they got a car park that has been in transit since the last storm for almost a month now, while we were three and a half weeks into it, I think for the last storm, and nobody can say where it's at.
Nobody has any It's just on a truck somewhere. I
don't know if that truck went floating.
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: Somewhere, but don't it's on a truck somewhere. I mean
that truck might be buried in sand or something. If
you guys haven't seen North Carolina highways, I mean, it could be anywhere. But there's here's the thing, Chris. I
was talking to the auto garages and stuff, and they're like, it's there's no I get it. We had storms and
it is tragic. Don't be wrong thoughts to them, right,
But when you were trying to repair cars and the repair facilities have no idea where the part is that they ordered, and no one can even tell you when you're getting it. The customer who's not in a storm
doesn't want to hear that and doesn't understand that, and there is no compassion for what's going on. All they
know is they brought their car to repair shop and it's weeks later and they can't get it because the parts on a truck somewhere, and no one can tell you.
And here's the thing, no one can even tell you can you get another one like, hey, just give me another one like that one's lost.
Speaker 2: Just ordered me another one that have it come from a different part of the world. I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But but then you got the shutdowns in the ports and stuff. So if you got anything that's trying to
be sent to you from overseas you weren't trying to get you're not getting that either. I mean, it has
been a complete nightmare. And of course you have a
lot of lollygaggers which are probably you know, stuck in traffic with trucks, so the trucks can't get you anyways.
Speaker 5: See I brought that back around. See I did.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good, huh.
Speaker 5: But no, I get it.
Speaker 3: Like, if you guys want to go look at how accidents or cause and stuff and you got nothing better to do, go look it up and look at some of these studies at some of these institutes and colleges and stuff have done on people. There's a reason why
the left hand lane got in act at that's laws in certain states because at sixty miles an hour and you now have to move lane to go around somebody, you're moving a very large object to go around that should be should have stayed on one path, right, and now it's got a change path. And then when you
start changing paths of things, that's how things bump into each other, and that's how accidents happen. And that's the
reason why when you think you're being safe, you're not being safe. You're just causing more chaos.
Speaker 5: Well, that's why the.
Speaker 6: Robot taxi is such a good idea, right, because everything's going to be in sync. You know, everybody will go
with the same speed limit. Hopefully it reduces traffic timing.
Speaker 5: I got new numbers on that. I was gonna jump
in a little bit later, but took me into.
Speaker 4: What somebody gonna send us a wayzer video of all the cars all at like the intersection. Be Like you
guys thought it was better. Huh.
Speaker 5: Do you remember the guy that took all the cell phones?
Speaker 3: Remember I told you the story he took He bought like a hundred cell phones and turned on like ways or one of those things.
Speaker 5: And created it and just put them in a wagon.
Speaker 3: And you started going around around the block with a wagon with a hundred cell phones turned.
Speaker 5: With ways on.
Speaker 3: It showed own traffic, right, he showed a traffic jam in that area because it you know, the way the system works and it tracks cell phones and stuff, and the fact he's going real slow and the speedl on it's.
Speaker 2: Supposed to be.
Speaker 5: What was the purpose, I guess just to prove just to mess up with a system.
Speaker 4: No, I think there was a real purpose for it where he he was mad about the traffic or something and he.
Speaker 2: Created his I thought it was kind of I didn't even know you could do that.
Speaker 6: If you don't want people like, you know, crown your business, you just you know, people think that there's a traffic jam, they just go to a different ways.
Speaker 4: I didn't Just want to touch up on one more thing before we get off that topic. H the shipping
that you just mentioned. Did you know Florida has fourteen
hubs of like major shipping hubs that everything goes to.
Speaker 5: And then it doesn't know it was fourteen, but I know they got tons. I didn't know the actual number,
but I know they get a bunch of hubs.
Speaker 4: And apparently Florida is the backbone of the UK.
Speaker 5: We have like what four I think four here, four or five here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a you know so I mean because we're you know, on the Amazon Oh here, Yeah, Like I said, I mean, it's just it's it's interesting to me how you're talking about connectivity, right and stuff like that.
It's it's came around in the news this week something a little different that I thought was kind of interesting.
So it will be like shipping and tractor trailers and stuff like that that they are going to push to get all the technology to first.
Speaker 2: You would think it would be the cars that we drive right now.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm not, honestly a surprise honestly, because it's just so much easier to streamline and industry product because there's no one you're not trying to, you know, fix one hundred different problems.
Speaker 5: You're just dealing with.
Speaker 3: Your pushes into like commercial vehicles, delivery vehicles, all.
Speaker 5: Kinds, right, Semi trust.
Speaker 4: Probably the reason they're probably doing that is because one, semi trucks are bigger, so they can put a lot of lasers on a semi truck or a container truck, you know, more than they can do on a residential So I'm thinking they want to get a lot more scans of the roads probably before they bring it to residential there.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm gonna get into It won't people to get into this segment, but there is there's a lot that's going into everything we've talked about for the last ten years. Ten years we've been talking about this on
this radio show and how everything's kind of changing around.
So this week I got a chance, and I'm excited because I didn't tell you guys, I know I have.
We're going to SEMA, And last time we were at SEEMA, there was so much new technology that was that was introduced at SEMA that we saw that they.
Speaker 5: Were integrating in cars.
Speaker 3: Was kind of even though it is a after market show, there's people that have aftermarket technology they're trying to put into Carsh's really good and I'm kind of curious to see what's coming out. And of course then you have
CEES was just Consumer Electronic Show, which has now turned basic into a big, huge car show because of all the new technology.
Speaker 5: So I'm really curious to see what comes out.
Speaker 3: But one of the craziest things that I was following this week was stuff we've already talked about with connectivity and how.
Speaker 5: What the hang ups are.
Speaker 3: I've always thought that the hang ups were on one whole side of the spectrum of what why we're not moving.
I think we're moving fast, but I think we can move faster as far as automated cars and all that kind of stuff. And you know, I always thought that
the hang up a lot of it had to do with laws and legislation, and once they figured out how to govern it, it would come out quicker.
Speaker 2: What turns out that's actually not our biggest hurdle.
Speaker 3: And talking with people in the industry this week kind of they shed some light on it for me, and I was just like, I would have never thought about that.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 5: It's set up that way, but it would stop lollygagging. See.
It brought it back around again. If I knew I
was gonna make you laugh.
Speaker 3: They if you if they could like perfect connectivity and all that stuff, would never You don't think we add a device every day, But tell you, if they could perfect it, though, it would stop the problems we had with traffic and all that kind stuff we talked about.
Because they won't say you wouldn't need traffic lights. Again,
I've told you guys that before you'd be able to get away with from traffic lights.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I mean they won't go away for hundreds of years.
Speaker 2: They won't.
Speaker 5: Okay, so let me do this.
Speaker 3: Let me take a quick commercial break because I got I want to talk about it, but I don't want to get stuck in the middle of talk about it.
So I'm gonna go take quick wrcial break. When we
come back, I got some more Phra's gonna take me a little bit explain.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're Automotive specialist.
Now back to your host Dave Polach.
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back. So I promise I'll get back
into it. I didn't want to lose my place, but
I knew it was gonna be a little bit so connectivity, right, We've talked about it over and over and over again.
We probably beat that horse until it's not even dead.
It's it's all around. It's it's all around. So but
here's the thing, like I said, it keeps on coming up into conversation. One of the things with technology. So
the reason why, like I said, I always really thought that our biggest hold up is and I know it is it still is.
Speaker 5: Don't be wrong. Our hold up with.
Speaker 3: Advancement and autonomous vehicles and connectivity and all that kind of stuff is going to be regulation through the government, and that is a big part of it. But believe
it or not, a lot of that is already getting sorted out very quickly. Do you really know what the
problem is with technology, with with autonomous vehicles, connectivity and all that.
Speaker 5: What is what's what's the hold up? What do you
think the hold up?
Speaker 4: I think the hold up is I mean, they're probably scared to put the technology is probably there, but they're probably scared to put it on the network because they don't know what's going to happen when they do.
Speaker 5: I thought that too.
Speaker 4: That's not that because let me think about all these companies that's been hacked within the last time.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that's a completely different that's a completely different story.
You're talking about cybersecurity within vehicles.
Speaker 5: That's different. Yeah, but I mean it's different, two totally
different topics. A good topic, but two totally different times.
Speaker 4: Connectivity.
Speaker 5: What do you think of this?
Speaker 6: If I had a guess, it's probably adoption from the masses as well as a lot of times, especially when we push out new technology and people as well scared.
Speaker 5: But it has to be almost perfect. If it's not perfect,
then nobody wants to do what I would have thought.
I would have thought that too.
Speaker 4: I don't think that's not scared. I really don't think
anybody's scared. But I think they're scared on the part
of they don't know what's going to happen when they do it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's if we think, I would you start having talked to each other and the network, but you kind of do know and stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know what's gonna happen.
Speaker 5: You do because it's programmed to do a certain thing.
I think the majority of the problem is adoption of the masses and make sure that when you do push it out, was programmed to do a certain things, right, you see, I'm gonna say sold right, they.
Speaker 2: Were program to do something.
Speaker 5: Right to a movie what they did do with their program.
They just defied their co operation, right, but they had everything they were proceed But I think it's more about just making sure that the product is as streamlined as they want it to be and stuff, because if it's not, then it falls off.
Speaker 3: So I would agree with you to a certain degree, but that believe it, that's still not it. So let
me give you maybe if I give you a clue, too much change, noe. What is the problem with advancing
cell phones? What is our problems? Everybody wants one?
Speaker 6: Nope, No, you just can't make it small enough. So
I mean that's that's the biggest lead is everything just gets.
Speaker 5: Smaller and more.
Speaker 3: Our biggest hurdle right this second is chip in sensor technology is the reason why autonomous. But we're really solve
in that though, because they're trying to create better sensors that which is new technology, and they're trying to create new chips, computer chips that can hold that that abundance information.
Believe it or not, we don't have anything like that we're trying to create.
Speaker 6: But we don't necessarily true though, because and Video has launched their new lines of GPUs and stuff, and.
Speaker 5: They are basically it's still not what we need yet, so I but it is getting there. It's getting there.
I'll sell you the article.
Speaker 3: That is what our hold we're trying to Uh, Quantum comating is going to make better sensors, which makes better autonomous vehicles.
Speaker 5: You're right, and that's kind where we're getting to.
Speaker 6: When quantum computing gets there and stuff, it's gonna make a lot of things a lot faster.
Speaker 5: More chips will be different ships a processing.
Speaker 4: But we got some computers that we used to build for like gaming, we're now using those custom computers for AR.
Speaker 5: Right, But here's the thing.
Speaker 3: We need computer chips that can process the information fast enough and a lot of information.
Speaker 5: And we're not totally there with technology. We are getting there.
Speaker 6: We're getting it right, and we are getting there because you know, you can take AI learning capabilities and you can put it in older chips. That's kind what they're
doing now and stuff, and you're making them faster and what they were doing you know to five years ago.
Speaker 3: We get performance. As we get there, it'll be it'll
be more. But that is one of our biggest hold ups.
So once again, the deadline, it's not that there's where they like to be twenty thirty five is really the it's twenty thirty is to see the big switch, which is only going to be five years down the line, and then twenty thirty five is where they say we'll see the big huge push. So, as I explained to
you guys before, you have different levels of autonomous vehicles and technology so like that, and we really run realistically, we're running like a two right the second, and but we already have stage four way available, right you know, we were just everything go down.
Speaker 4: It's funny you say that because I just brought up the company you were talking about in video, and then that's brought up your information about atonomous vehicles. And Vidia
actually did just create a chip called drive Orion and they support level two plus systems is what they start to.
But they will be advancing the system all the way to level five fully autonomous vehicle rights and then.
Speaker 5: That's where yeah, it is, but that's where legislation and all that comes in here.
Speaker 3: If you guys don't think that there's going to be a big, huge switch, you guys know that I don't talk about finance and all that a whole lot on the show because we're a car show.
Speaker 5: But the two do go hand in hand, right. One
thing they need to do is they need to figure out how to level out the cost of vehicles.
Speaker 3: Cars have gotten too expensive and people are complaining about it, and they had to find a way to take the new technology, implement it in cars, but keep it where it's cost effective.
Speaker 5: Which we did a whole show on it where I use those two over there as.
Speaker 3: Sounding boards of what they thought that the average price should be for a well equipped autonomous vehicle, what would make them buy And it was twenty five to thirty thousand dollars was the price. Okay, yeah, move forward five
years from now. How do we take ten times the
technology really is what it's going to be and put it into an autonomous vehicle to make it so much safer, better and whatever, still keep the price point. The only
way to do that is to have new technology that comes out which then take some of the older technology and makes it less viable and you can use that lower technology and the vehicles to make them cheap.
Speaker 5: Well, we got I think we're going we really got to develop, right.
Speaker 6: I think I feel like it's kind of what we've stopped doing is like, you know, redeveloping stuff that we already have.
Speaker 5: We're just kind of using old tech cars.
Speaker 4: One, what we need to do right if you take when we talked about how they wanted to take three D body panels and print three D bids the smartest thing, and to be able to kind of take a brand new car and re customize it. And then you took
an AI chip and put those two concepts together. I
really do believe you could create a cool car that everybody would buy and would be affordable because one, you could upgrade the software to a brand new car that it never was right, and then you can change the whole aspect of the car sign to the car just by three D.
Speaker 3: There was a there was a sounding board panel recently that I got to listen to, and the whole conversation was basically, how do we move forward with technology, keep the prices at a certain price point where people are going to want to buy them, and it's it's a real concern. Here's to tell you how much drive there
is into the newer vehicles with new technology and stuff.
Our current spending yearly, if you guess, would be what on autonomous technology? What what's being spent on right. The second,
how much money would you think, like all combined, there's just yeah, I mean essentially, what do you think the market if you were to buy into the market and put buy stock into the market, what do you think the current market market cap is into that technology?
Speaker 5: Right? The second four billion? At least twenty billion, eight
or billion, he's closer.
Speaker 3: I would probably say so it's actually eight billion. Okay,
do you know what the projection market cap is going to be in the next five years?
Speaker 4: One hundred and twenty billion dollars?
Speaker 5: Nope, think again, try again. I don't know. Five hundred billion,
like five hundred and sixty billion, and that's huge. Curls.
Speaker 3: I mean, but in five years, you know, you guys realize we have a one point two trillion definit But here's the thing. If you think about the stock size,
I think you want to buyd almost anything that's technology based.
Speaker 6: Right, that's encapsizing everything that has technic it is, but that's a lot that is it's huge.
Speaker 3: Where does this money come from? What's people that want
to develop it? They're going to be creating new chips
and sensors.
Speaker 5: Do you think about it out there?
Speaker 6: You think about it, right, you're just merging a bunch of categories together, sectors to talk to each other, right exactly where nowadays, you know, everything kind of has its own little sector. They don't really talk to each other.
They do their own little thing. When they all start
to come together, that's when it's all really going to start.
Speaker 4: It's going to be the head honcho.
Speaker 5: There's a bunch of them headhunt.
Speaker 4: I don't And as much as we talk.
Speaker 5: Mean Google, Microsoft Video, it's video game companies that are like are coming over the top everythnus chip wise. Yeah,
it's not just video games.
Speaker 6: It's just about what really is like, you know, vide games really demanding in the power sector, and you know, so they're already working they were building that and then they realize that, you know, GPUs are really good for you know, you know, bump in performance wise, and that's what they're just pushing machine learning out to all different types of sectors.
Speaker 3: It's it's just amazing to me that it's going to jump that much money though, that's a lot, that's a huge jump.
Speaker 6: If you're looking at the last two years, tech has been going crazy.
Speaker 2: It is anything has been a well.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing, so like I said, you know, connectivity is always the word, right, It's the buzzword around here because it's what everybody's talking about.
Speaker 2: When we talk about connectivity.
Speaker 3: You're talking about everything that you can think of, talking to everything, right. I mean, just like your alarm goes
off in the morning, the alarm goes off, it sends a message to the coffee pot. The coffee pot starts
and starts making new coffee front. You don't have to
touch anything anymore. Hold on that sends a message to
your car to say, it takes the fifteen minutes to get dress, twenty minutes to get dressed, whatever it is.
Go ahead to start the car and have it ready for him. That you get your car in the connectivity, the.
Speaker 2: Streams signs are talking to your car and all that.
I mean, just that's the thing.
Speaker 4: You can already do that.
Speaker 5: Even we're not doing that because we're perfect.
Speaker 4: So we're going to take the stuff that we can already do and we're just going to basically automate it and automate it into a car, or.
Speaker 3: We're going to automate it so everything talks to each other.
You know, whoever thought a car would talk to the buildings this driving by and stuff like that, and the buildings could talk back to the car and then send you and the information comes streamed live into your vehicle and starts talking to you about Yeah, I would have never again, I know we did, but like we were talking about George Jets and stuff ten years ago on this show and it was just we laughed about it.
Speaker 5: And there are concepts and now this stuff is like live.
Well the idea is just someone to make it and figure out the issues and the problems that come with it. There,
work out all the bugs of it all right. I
mean you want to take.
Speaker 3: If you get better like if you get better computer chips that could hold more information, you get processors that can process things quicker, and you get sensors that can detect more than what.
Speaker 5: We right now, you start fixing all your world problems as far as it comes to cars, right.
Speaker 4: Or what I was saying is that's why the computer companies are hopping into it is because all they've been doing for the last ten years as these companies have been trying to figure out the new car to make, and now ten years down the road, they're figuring out they need chips. These computer companies are technology companies. They're
more known for computer but they are technology companies. Are
already ahead of the game. They've already created the technology,
and we now need them more than they need us.
Speaker 6: Well, what's kind of more as a reliance of you know, other companies, you're relying on their tech. It's not like
you know, these major company brand car brands have you know, the tech to make their own technology.
Speaker 5: Some of them do, but a lot of times when they do, it doesn't work out all the best.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I don't disagree with you guys. I mean, like
I said, you guys telling what you guys think. Wow,
it's not going away. It's just gonna be more stuff
and more technology, more things build over time. So let
me take a commercial break. We'll jump back into another
topic as soon as I come back right back.
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Speaker 3: Hey, guys, welcome back. So what if I told you
that home depots had the solution? The whole time?
Speaker 5: We never knew it?
Speaker 4: What third dollar bills out the window before even going in?
Speaker 3: Now it was one hundred dollars bills out of the window at one point time. For me, I've he's a joke.
I'm not going to see it for me to throw a hundred dollar bills out the window that is in the Home Depots parking lot, because I was living there for the longest time, especially when we were building the house.
Speaker 5: So so what can they solve?
Speaker 2: What can they solve?
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna take you this flashback for you. There
you go, Fred, if you're listening, you hadn't had a flashback in a while. So remember when we talked about
saving your car from floodwater?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 3: You remember we had the conversation which time I told you the pictures that I saw where they had zipped them up like these bags.
Speaker 6: Every ideas right now. I saw an idea like that,
and I thought it was pretty clever. Soone people were
basically taking really large plastic tarps and basically wrapping them up like their gold fish.
Speaker 4: Let saw the guy with the very clever I saw what the guy with the Lamborghini do it.
Speaker 3: Nope, it wasn't Lamborghini, No, nope. Somebody sent me a
picture and I'm like, oh, it's gonna be none of those pictures. Somebody zipped it up. And then I saw
the explanation and I was like, Home Depots is their geniuses. Well,
they don't even realize that they have everything you need.
They were taking the thick mill plastic that you paint when you paint houses and getting the biggest one. It
was driving the car onto it and then pulling it up and just tying it with like a big fricking zip ties on top at the top of it.
Speaker 5: And I was like, if we had floodwaters here, exactly what I would do.
Speaker 10: It worked the result, it worked, it did. It didn't
get it didn't get in. So I imagine the car
just got a float. I only imagine the.
Speaker 2: Car wasn't floating.
Speaker 3: The car was still staying where it was that it didn't flow, it was still parked. The water just went
up around around the bag, but it did not get into the car and the water. So I saw the
picture of them doing it, and then I saw the picture of the water and the water is way up on the door and it ain't touching the car, and I was just like, home, people really does have everything.
Speaker 2: I was like, but think about it. It's it's it's
so simple and stupid.
Speaker 5: That it's ingenious. I saw people using the foam foam steiler,
and I saw that they.
Speaker 3: Do around their I saw a guy did around his groadges like I saw this on TV and they did around the house.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try to protect my cars and so.
Speaker 3: Then and then if you didn't see, do you see the guy with the foam that you usually like foam your walls with with the.
Speaker 2: It worked apparently really Yeah, yeah it worked.
Speaker 5: They foam insulated and they sprayed flex to you right over time.
Speaker 4: I was seeing that video and I was just like, we did this years ago.
Speaker 5: So but you know, like if you guys I saw the I literally saw the worst thing and I did laugh.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I ain't gonna lie. So this guy was
trolling people before the storm.
Speaker 5: Dude, did you.
Speaker 2: See so one?
Speaker 5: You can never No, this dude is literally I know you know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: Yeah, this dude is literally going around before the hurricane hit.
And he was off Facebook Marketplace and I was like, hey, man, I bet that thing is under six feet of water.
Speaker 5: I'll take twenty five hundred right now. He was going
to a multiple posts just off Lowball and everybody.
Speaker 3: So he goes through like thirty posts, He's like twenty five hundred.
Speaker 2: Once it's waterlogged, I'll give you a hundred for it.
Speaker 5: I don't care if it got wired. Damn, I'll say
it for that one. You see, he had like a
two eighties ether was clean. You saw the same one.
It was too.
Speaker 3: He was like, don't care, it's got water, Damn, still give me five grand for it. He's like he's but
he's going and he's just he's just toying with these people.
There's like a guy had a four pickup truck and he's like.
Speaker 5: Just offering for anything, a TV, a small little.
Speaker 3: Go car, dude, everything, the best one. I know, I'm
probably going to a special place. You all can tell
me about it. But he's like, eighty five hundred dollars.
I'll trade you a bag of ice, bet you on it.
I was like he was like, got a generator.
Speaker 5: He was like, offer a generator for like a seventy thousand dollars port. You know what I mean, Like trade
your generator for it, you know what I mean. I
was just like, d reply.
Speaker 3: They didn't show any refle and maybe he never sent him mabe. It was just because you know how you
can type right and the show him click. But I
was just like, my man is trolling people.
Speaker 1: And I did.
Speaker 5: I laughed. I couldn't help myself. I know it's it
was bad.
Speaker 6: No, it wasn't as bad as they thought it was.
But I guarantee if it was, people were taking them off firs right. But if it was that there's a
special place for you, you can build yours right next to mine. You're kind of gonna built right next to mine.
Way too hot. I'm saying, yeah, it just has to
be thirteen feet.
Speaker 2: I got like he's gonna be thirt f oh.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, if we're going work, Yeah, we're definitely going, isn't it fifteen?
Speaker 3: I got picture. People send me things like hey, this
so this is you know what? I see this what's
going on? And I saw some pitch, I mean the
car co part all up, they're gonna be They're gonna be overloaded. Like I saw a guy was already he's
like he was already going to like going to the Florida Copart trying to what's been.
Speaker 4: Taking you see the crane. I know this isn'tcarbulated. Apparently
a crane fell when it was on Fourth Street and it fell.
Speaker 5: Like I know where four street, four.
Speaker 4: Street, and I'm a Florida.
Speaker 5: It's like it's on four Street.
Speaker 4: But apparently they had a crane that was like probably thirty forty feet up in the.
Speaker 3: Air and it fell came part sent me a picture of their garage and there's a lot of very very nice cars in it. And the ones on top that
are up on the lifts are safe. The ones you
had to keep underneath the lift there it was up over the hoods. I was just like, it's unfortunately, I'll
buy it. I got a bag of ice, it's boiled peanuts.
My house is being built right next to you. I
just it's I'm just telling you, like if you are.
And it's funny because so it's popping it. And like
I said, you guys probably don't pay tention to most of the sites or the forums and the stuff I'm in, but the buzz is out there right this second. Everybody
is like, I can't wait to see what comes into It's tragic. I hate to think like that, but you
I understand where they're going. The people who build muscle
cars or buy luxury cars or whatever it is, they're going to go to these auction sites because they're gonna be however, flooded cars.
Speaker 4: However, remember what another flashback. Can you know Fred's can
remember this one. You remember how we talked about how
certain people will come and take their cars and go park it in the noise.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I know I can tell you this street. They
do it here in town on it.
Speaker 4: I know every time the storm did that with this storm coming because a lot of the videos you were seeing what.
Speaker 5: You hate that way.
Speaker 3: I know you hate to think that way, but I'm gonna tell you there's a street here. I've told you guys,
there's a street here that everybody we know there's big storms coming and you drive by that street and that street is over there. You can't find a parking spot
on that street, and everybody knows that street floods.
Speaker 5: There's only one reason to.
Speaker 3: Park your car there, because you want to get out of a car payment. That's the only reason when to
park there.
Speaker 4: We I don't want to think that way. But at
the same time, so that top that flashback goes back with another flashback on how people post videos that criminate themselves.
Right right, you are the most you know, this person puts car and said, I'm moving all these cars except the musting over there. I think because she's like the
musting can stay here. I got full coverage on it.
If you moved every single car and you just showed your insurance that you have the room in your garage, you think that insurance.
Speaker 5: Is going to I saw that.
Speaker 2: I saw that video, and I and I saw it.
I thought the same thing.
Speaker 3: I'm like, it's just look, if you were tired of pay for something that you bought, it's I guess it is the quickest way out. I mean.
Speaker 2: And there's people like, look, there's.
Speaker 3: Tragic situations out there right this second. I mean, turn
on your news chasing if you can handle watching it, because I I can only take so much of it.
There's there is people in dire situations.
Speaker 5: It is no good. It's not a good situation.
Speaker 3: And I hope we give them everything they need because it looks like a lot of them are not getting half of what they need, you know, to even I don't know, get things done, ice water, whatever it may be, I mean something. So it is a bad situation. But
we are America and we like capitalizing on situations. And
I'm gonna tell you right now, people are going to capitalize on this situation. You can't, like I said that
the auctions are gonna be full of water logged cars.
They're gonna be a lot of exotics. There's gonna be
a lot of muscle cars and stuff. They're gonna be up.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing.
Speaker 5: If you think they're gonna go for cheap, they don't go for nearly as cheap as you guys think they do.
Speaker 3: I've had my eye on a car for a month and a half that has yet to come up onto auction that I would like to own, that I think I could probably buy the right price, But looking at some of the other ones the same years going around it, I can't believe what they were going for it. All
the time, I'm like, I'm like, why are you bidding that You're seven thousand dollars away from the value of the car if there was nothing wrong with it, And this thing's been either in a flood, it's been wrecked or been something. I'm like, you're gonna be over the
bat by time you get together, right, absolutely, I'm like, well, I don't even why.
Speaker 2: You go through the hassle.
Speaker 5: But as I told you, guys, I used to go to car auctions all the time. I used to buy
a lot of cars, used to fix a lot of cars.
Car auction. At one point in time, it was a viable,
uh business to have, and I didn't do it as a business.
Speaker 3: I did as a hobby. But I could see how
people were doing his business. And then one day it's
like somebody flicked the light switch on and everything changed.
Every third party dealers really started getting to the game.
And they're the people that I really missed the market.
So I will say that you're somewhat right on because when I used to go to the car auction, there wasn't a whole lot of dealers at the auction right it was used car dealership. There wasn't a lot of
There was a lot of used car dealerships there. I
still one day they were everywhere.
Speaker 4: I still remember being a kid and having the pleasure to go to those auction houses and then making I still remember being a kid and then making the announcements this is a no dealer's auction, and you would look over and go, that's a dealer, that's a dealer buying it.
Speaker 3: They used and they used to have auctions that were set up and they didn't want dealers there and they were just for the people.
Speaker 6: And then mixed in right, they pushed the price up because they don't really plan on doing the full maintenance of the car. They're just going to throw it on
their floor. And so it as is where you know
people that are trying to you know, flip it. They're
going to go through it, fix whatever the problem is, clean it up, and says you go to the car auction, and the cars are the car auctions are the ones the dealers already.
Speaker 3: Bought, brought in correct and there's something they couldn't fix it and put it back in to put it on their lots. So they just put it back on the auction.
They've tried to make some money through the auction on it, and then you see a lot of those. That's the
reason why the price of the cars are astronomically stupid.
Speaker 5: On something you're buying.
Speaker 4: If you're buying a car from copart, you're buying a second car to fix that one car that.
Speaker 5: Well just right, right, So it's a problem car.
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, it is.
Speaker 3: It's one of those situations, like I said, if you're looking for to build something, you want to get into it.
Speaker 5: If you want a hobby, you want to get into the hobby.
Speaker 3: Going the option is a good way to start, but just no way you're getting into because a lot of people don't and that no, guys, let me take quick corcial break when I come back. Got one more segment
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So time for the last segment.
You're ready for this one?
Speaker 5: Here is a topic that probably hits home for some people and some people not so much so car audio.
Speaker 3: Car audio is like the craziest thing from where I started at with car audio to where car audio is now.
So if you guys don't know, I one time was it was a base head. I loved car audio based competitions.
I had a lot of money tied up into it and a lot of equipment in my car. It's funny
because the technology to it is changed a lot, not I mean not crazy. Like so I it's time for
me to start. I gotta do some theme with my truck.
So it's getting to that point. You know, the truck's too.
I was a fourteen love my truck still got very low miles on it, Like Sid I think, I look, I just turned eighty thousand miles on this truck, so it's not gonna lot.
Speaker 5: I've been thinking about for the Mustang too, just because it's just not the peak isn't there. It's not.
Speaker 3: I've dealt The truck has always been decent. It's never
been anything crazy, but it's been decent. But I do
miss having a solid sound system in a vehicle. And
to be honest with you guys, the reason why I've really held off because I'm like, if I'm gonna dump money in the sound system, maybe I just want to dump it into the bad am and put a really cool system about them. Regardless it's gonna get a nice
stereo system, but I do enjoy listening to music when I drive around.
Speaker 2: And here's the thing, I know, I'm getting deaf.
Speaker 3: As I get older, Like my hearing isn't nearly as I'm definitely I'm I'm definitely one here already as it is, it works kind of but it doesn't work. It doesn't work,
ha what but but it doesn't work like I used to, and so I wanted to, like I want to hear the highs, I want to hear the lows, and you know, and just regular car stereosystems really just don't give it to you. And everybody goes, well, I got a I
got a bow stereo system in my card gives you like it still isn't like what it could be if you actually did something into it.
Speaker 6: Both both still sells a better version what's in the car? Right,
So that tells the point.
Speaker 3: Right, the correct correct? They do, You're absolutely right, they do.
I you know, Okay, So just to give you a comparative and not I didn't have anything. It was I'm
gonna say it wasn't over top. I knew guys that
had that. You destroyed their cars putting stuff into it,
you know, I know they they didn't look at it as destroying their cars.
Speaker 6: But mine was still a was different ways you can go to you can go base, you know, you tremble more justles so in my car.
Speaker 3: I had it all in the In the two cars, I spent a lot of money. There's two different cars
that spent a lot of money and putting sarcisms in oh take it back the okay three. But I didn't
have a whole lot of money in the GMC. I
just had nice equipment in there, which made it sound good.
I didn't go crazy like you equipment.
Speaker 8: It was.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a family vehicle. My Jimmy and I
had a nice set up in it.
Speaker 3: Now, the one car, I had three one thousand watt pp i ams, which were like just the cool thing back in the day. And then I had four fifteen's
in it, I mean, which is probably way overkill. But
and then I had mids and i'd highs and everything and.
Speaker 5: That the death was that what was that the cap for you guys back then, A thousand wats I know we no, no, no, no, there was.
Speaker 3: Other stuff, but like you used, so a thousand WAT was was a big I mean, I think a thousand I think the amps are smaller now, but like back when I was into it, a thousand lot of amp was huge already. It was like, you know, it was
like this big. It was, you know, a huge amp
and they had fans on it all kinds of you know.
So and PPI was was was really popular at the time.
They were really advanced in our area. And everybody's like,
oh well I had the MTX Okay, I had MTX's too.
I did that as well. But precision power was was
on the scale of a lot of nice stuff. So
as I think I told you guys before, so Eclipse car stereos, Eclipse was really kind of on the scale.
I know, alpines were big, and I had some alpines and stuff like that, but Eclipse had technology above looks and the gadgets and stuff.
Speaker 5: There was technology put into which was what made it cool.
Speaker 3: Now as I kind of started looking around, like so back in the day, guys and a lot of the old guys that listened to the show, and you don't have to be too old, but we did Crutchfield Crushfield magazine.
You guys, if you don't know, you used to come to the house and had every piece of car audio equipment in it that you want it.
Speaker 5: You just circle what you want it, you call a telephone number and they send it to you. It was
just that simple.
Speaker 3: You didn't have to go to a car audio place if you didn't want to. Somebody told me Crutchfield still exists.
I don't even know because I've never seen a magazine and I don't know how long. But they say, now
everything's online, and that just tells me I'm getting old because now everything's online.
Speaker 6: I literally told Kimen the other day and I was like, and you know, one hundred years whatever, we're not gonna have any more stores.
Speaker 5: We're gonna go back to like catalogs.
Speaker 1: And that's all only.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be like online catalt right, and people are gonna be like, you know, surprised that you could actually go and like view products.
Speaker 3: I would just have this conversation totally decreearly. I was
just having this conversation this week about the Sears catalog.
When the Sears Catalog came in, and not for the reasons you guys think that people were happy to see it. Uh,
it had everything in it, Like you could buy lawnmowers, you could buy bicycles, all the toy section was always great.
I mean you could buy belts and hoses and all kinds of stuff for vehicles. I mean it had everything
in it. I mean, so I could see you going
back to catalogs.
Speaker 4: They're basically a home.
Speaker 3: I mean basically they are home deeple but they had furniture and clothes and everything at all.
Speaker 5: But it's I said, well home people does have some clothes, but.
Speaker 3: Not wolves were ath the Montgomery Wards that was the one.
Speaker 5: I was trying to remember that one the other day.
I could not remember the name of Montgomery Wards, the name of it.
Speaker 3: But I mean, it's just amazing how car audio has changed and that so there's been a couple of different ways and looking at it and talking with you know, you guys, know Ethan, we talked about all the time.
If your guys a hant Roads area, sound Wave Customs great place to go if you guys who want to get your cars cars customized. But you know, talking with him,
and you know one of the ways was leave your your standard stereo deck was like one of the new ways, and then you just put a computer behind it and then everything runs off of that. I like that idea,
but actually I told you guys in the truck, the stereo in the truck touch screen is starting to have all kinds of problems with which they all do, and all the Chevy trucks eventually. So yeah, I'm gonna have
to do something with stereo deck if I want to do it, and then add on it, which makes me back because I'm already like two grand into just the stereo deck is two grand just to fix that in that truck. I mean, that's just and that's even upgrading
into something that's halfway decent and even trying to go back to original here in the two grand range. Regardless
by the time you gets sud and done with it, and now I want to do speakers and ams to like that. If I do something, so I'm kind of like,
do I do it to the truck or do I wait and do it to something else. I mean, I
just I drive the truck the most anyway, because it's just it's utilitary and I use it for everything, and I like a system, but I am missing having that deeper base and having some of those mids, and being able to hear the horns and the highs and all that kind of stuff. I'm missing that. I just I
think what got me into it was somebody brought a vehicle in that had a really nice stereo system into one of the car shows and I got to sit and listen to it when I was at the car show, and I was like, man, it's clean. It's really clean sound.
And I could hear it from like my old system.
I could hear from far away. I could hear all
the words crystal clear. So if you're then the base
dropped and the bas had a nice stress. Say, if
you're gonna do it again, do you know what kind of you know what you would lean? Would you lean
it more towards you know, base or more towards the vocal?
Speaker 5: No, this could be both.
Speaker 3: So I'm dosers like it clean, there is ones I do it both. I do like what I did last
time is I put all the vocals into it, and I put the mid range in it, and then I did based on top of that. So in one of
my cars, what I did is the one I had the four fifteens in. I had four fifteens in it,
and then I had sixes in the back kick panels with a I think there was, and there was a U some type of tweet there if I remember correctly, that was on that. And then up in the front
doors I had sixes, and then I had something else, and then I had tweets, and then up in the pillars I had tweets and the pillars as well.
Speaker 5: So it gave me.
Speaker 3: It was a little crazy, yeah, it had, but it was crystal clear. And it was a daily driver too.
By the way, I drove that car everywhere, but you could hear that car from far far away. Now, I
did tell you guys, before I had my money and I wanted a car stereo system. I had a buddy
give me two hundred and fifty want amp and it was a I think it was Pining. It was a
pione area. And I had these horns.
Speaker 5: They're like speaker horns.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen them?
Speaker 3: They're not made really for cars, but they're like almost like if you remember the old elementary schools, they had like the horns are up in like in the corners of the building, and they're they're like the and they're long, the long kind of squares. And I took four of
those and put them mounted them in a box and I put four eighths in the box with it. And
you and I want to you you unbelievably, I don't know.
It was probably extremely obnoxious. You could hear that car,
the words that were being said crystal clear from really far.
Speaker 1: In that car.
Speaker 2: I didn't have any money.
Speaker 3: Everything was given to me, so I just put it together and I just had wood, and I built a box and I put it all together. And that I
loved that stereosystem. So I really realized, like what it
was like to really spend some money and buy some real stereo equipment.
Speaker 6: Wow, and I were saying back then, it was probably a lot easier to make things work with what you had.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lot.
Speaker 5: It was built with a lot of technology. Told you, guys.
Speaker 3: So I worked at a Ford dealership that was the stereo systems were so horrendous that came in most of the Fords back then that the Ford dealership was opting not to buy. They're buying their cars without stereos in them,
and then I would go in at night and put car stereos into Mustangs, a lot of five O Mustangs, Ford Rangers, stuff like that. We put stereo system in
because the stereos was just jumped and came in them.
So we put nice alpines and amps and speakers and stuff in them and nothing over It wasn't overkilled because a lot of these cars weren't sold yet, so somewhere but most of them weren't sold yet, so they want to they just put a nice statosisam and then put them on the lot.
Speaker 6: I'm surprised that we haven't got to the point where, you know, you can just buy the nice upgrade to stereos when you get your car, Like I know they have other speaker packages, but even when you do buy that extra speaker package, it's still not the best qualink.
Speaker 4: Want need for speed you walk in and start swiping.
Speaker 6: I just think it's kind of useless at times when you you know, you pay for things over and over again because you're looking for a certain aspect or you know you're you know, you have a certain expectation of things, and you don't get it with that object you to buy another thing to service problem.
Speaker 3: Like I wish cars came with really cool wheels, so you had to stop changing the wheels on them, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4: Like see that would be that would actually be a very interesting concept if like your thing was.
Speaker 5: I'm telling you the catalog, when you buy a car.
Speaker 4: You could pick out your own wheels, and that was you customizing your car, picking out your own rims.
Speaker 5: I definitely think that'd be a huge sell in the market if you could literally go into any car dealership.
I mean, I guess you kind of can you pick it out exactly?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You don't get a lot of options. One of the
things that I found was that actually, so space being a problem. Base speakers now you can get them like
where they're really thin. They still give out really good
base so you don't need a whole big box. So yeah,
they make them real skinny. So I've kind of check
it out.
Speaker 5: I don't know, guys.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll go in the truck. Maybe I'll just wait
through the transa and then do something else. I'm still
kind of thinking about doing like another I've told you guys, I think it's about doing another daily driver and parking the truck for a little while. I just don't know
what I want yet. Well, stay tuned. Maybe I buy
stuff for a get soon Christmas is come around. Maybe
a little bit of Christmas for my birthday.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 2: And then, no, guys, I gotta go ahead and get out of here. I hope you guys enjoyed the show. Hey,
do not forget.
Speaker 3: We are headed to Sema, so if you guys want to catch a bunch of Sema action, make sure you guys click like follow the show, get on board so you guys can follow all the fun while we're there in Vegas hanging out at Seeing. We're gonna do some
broadcasts from there, so you don't want to miss it.
And then no, I'm go hang get out of here.
Speaker 2: You guys got anything before we get out of here?
Speaker 5: Y your weekend?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: Guys?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, don't forget.
Speaker 3: Creepy Car Show's coming up here at the end of October.
You want to miss it here at Lansdown. I'm gonna
go ahead and get out of here and I'll talk to you soon.
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