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About this episode
A lively discussion unfolds around the future of AM radio in cars, especially with the rise of electric vehicles and their interference with AM signals. The hosts dive into privacy concerns as modern cars increasingly connect with smartphones, logging personal data to enhance driving experiences. They also touch on the implications of technology in automotive advertising and the ongoing debate about car culture, particularly the recent bans on certain models at car meets due to reckless behavior. The episode features humorous anecdotes and thought-provoking insights into the evolving automotive landscape.
Topics:
am radio phase-out
electric vehicle technology
privacy concerns
data logging
car culture
event regulations
automotive advertising
technology in cars
Ever get that eerie sensation that your car might be more than just a machine? Join us on "Sometimes I Feel" as we unravel the mysteries behind automotive technology. Explore the curious relationship between you and your vehicle—does it secretly know your deepest secrets? Is it spying on your guilty pleasure sing-alongs? Let's navigate the peculiar world where feelings meet machines. Tune in to explore the sometimes quirky, sometimes mysterious, but always fascinating connection between you and your car. #sometimesIFeel #mycarstories #yourcarislistening #bigbrother
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and EIGHTVB. Man, it is great to be back in the studio.
If you guys did not get a chance to hang out with us last weekend, well you guys missed it. We had a good time. It was
great to be out and about and you guys know how we liked to be doing. I guess live broadcasts the best way to put up and everything's live
but live on on location. I guess is what I should say. Yeah,
it was a great turnout, had fun. Yeah, we did.
We had had a real good time, saw a lot of friends, a lot of people we hadn't seen a really long time. Listeners came and stopped
in, so it was it was great. You know. I told everybody
it was a lot of different car shows going on. I got to see
a lot of pictures of all the different car shows from around the area that we're going on that I would love to attend. And people are like,
oh, I didn't see you there. I was like, you know,
if you guys were watching, you, guys know I was. I was
strapped in and we had a great time over at Liberty. It was a
good time. Price Family had a lot of different vendors and people stopping to
see them, which was great for them to have that nice set up and everybody to see the nice big shop. So if you didn't get a chance
to get over there, you guys can stop in anytime during the week and check it out and see them a little bit about them. But this week
is a very interesting setup for this week. If you guys didn't catch the
title of the show, there's been a lot of controversy this week going on about once again all the new components. So they're going on in cars.
I was reading I started off this week somebody had sent me the information about AM radio and is it really gonna go away? And is it dying and
stuff like that. Okay, so here's the thing, guys, AM radio
has slowly been kind of fading away for years. So I guess to answer
the question on how that affects cars is They were yes, if you guys read, we're gonna just basically phase out AM radio in cars. And then
the government got involved and said, wait, that's how we broadcast I'm an air quote that for those that are watching on Facebook, for those of you guys who just listen to radio, we need it for emergency broad cast information.
That's how it was accessible. Yeah, but there, if our car
is already connected to the network, they're going to find another way for them to send us. And and we just did a test on these things,
right right, right, But that's probably why we did it though. We
know we're phasing out this PHAs and you can't just switch, you know, you can't just try to switch on and off. Yeah, you and make
sure that everybody has accessibility to, you know, whatever they need and look as everybody says, well, what happens if I don't have that, or what happens if I can't get those? You know, they really need to
have the AM because of this. Well, if somebody else is going to
have it, you know you're going to hear it to be able to get that alert. Now here's the thing. So, as you guys know,
we did AM radio for many many years here with with the radio station, and we phased away from AM radio and went into the internet section because Internet was just it's just so popular, it's huge, so more listeners for us, more everything into the internet field. All right, am radio. The
reason why AM radio it wasn't a big deal for the manufacturers to phase away from AM radio is because of a lot of people going into the internet side of things, and because the script subscription based in cars for radio and everything, so they didn't really didn't mind, they didn't care if they were getting rid of it. So then when the government stepped in and said, hey,
we need to go ahead and have you know, AM radio back in cars. Here's the thing with EV technology. If you haven't been reading up
of for those to read up on it, you guys already know how this works. The electromagnetic that comes off of an electric car into AM radio basically
distorts AM radio, So you can't really hear it in an electric car anyway, because electric magnetic pulse that comes off the motors makes AM radio you can, it's distorts this frequency. So AM radio is basically useless inside a electric
vehicle even when you have it, unless they can't use a what a standard antenna basically radio antenna. They got to use it basically Internet. Well right
the second if you try to listen to it in the current setup, it's it's really horrible signal. It's you have a really hard time getting a reception
on AM radio unless they change something in it and go back to the drawing board and find a way to make the radio work, which now with them looking at it, is going to be I guess billions of dollars into technology to try to make the AM radio work in an electric vehicle. So that's
what they weren't well right, because they were just they just thought it was gonna go away. We're gonna do away with it, go subscription base,
be done with it. The biggest reason why radio stations are doing the same
thing like we did. We went into everything that is internet subscription based set
up where you can find us nationwide across every single platform to listen to us, because everybody was going to that set up and still is by the way, everybody's going into that platform. So it's just kind of interesting how that
goes. The technology and cars itself and the way everything is going is crazy,
and the reason why today's show is titled the way it is. Sometimes
I feel liked because they're watching everything that we do in cars, and what I mean by that a lot of people don't think about it. So we
have our cell phones. Everyone has one. You just heard one of them
go off here in the studio because unfortunately, I was waiting for a telephone call to come in. It came in just just right before, I say,
after we went on the air, so I had to click it off so I couldn't answer it. But I had been waiting all day for that
telephone call to come in, so I tried to catch them later. But
we don't think about the fact a lot of us don't have our phone set to on the right privacy settings, So I don't think you guys realize every time you connect to your car. In a lot of the new cars,
I'm not talking about people will drive older vehicles, but of the new car, as soon as you connect to that car, it has access to every single thing that you do, or have done, or you name it, and you give up that privacy on that car. That car can now access
everything inside your phone. So anything that you've done, you've looked at,
you've thought about it now knows it. So it's interesting as technology continues to
evolve. If you like to sing along to a song in your car,
the car knows what songs you like to sing along to. That's how the
technology is growing inside the car. And then it remembers that remember how I
told you guys, if you're listening to the show years ago, and Cam and I still laugh about it, if the car felt like you were down and now I don't know, you're having a bad day at work, it would turn on happy music for you. So it knows your favorite songs,
songs that hears you singing along to inside the car. Are you constantly if
you change the station, or you constantly scroll up or scroll down in your playlist or whatever, the song that you most like to listen to the car will remember the song that you like to listen to them. Everybody's fighting for
your likeness. It is now is it is? It was your phone fighting
for your likeness and the apps on your phone. Now it's your car that's
fighting for the likeness, making sure that your driving experiences great. Riving experiences
are great, and you're intrigued on what's going on in this vehicle if you have not listened to the last eight years of US talk where we have said things are changing. Yeah, things are changing, things are changed. Are
now watching what you are doing inside? The manufacturers is investing a lot of
money into technology to not only do you like the car that you're driving by its appearance, but you're driving experience is great? And how is your driving
experience great? It is logging information. The more information it can take about
your driving experience and make your driving experience a happy driving experience, the better off you. You associate it with your vehicle. So now I'm more inclined
to want to drive that type of vehicle because it's data logging everything about my driving. But with that data logging, it's also all your privacy. Its
sad like on a black box, your privacy is gone. I hate to
tell you if you videotaped something you didn't want anybody to see, it's now out there if you don't have all your privacy privacy settings set because it's logging that too. So if you got that video that you never thought anybody wanted
to see on your phone, you know what I'm talking about, Uh, it's now out there for the world to see because it is taking all that information everything about you, pictures, restaurants, stuff that you like to They have access to all that. If your privacycy settings are not set right,
it's logged. I'm not all that's right. But like I said, even
bluetooth into your phone to the cars, stuff like that, it now has access to your phone everything if you're not set up the right way, and people just don't realize that that's the case. That they have that ability.
And as technology grows, the ability to have more power to access things into your phone is going to be greater and you're gonna have to know to be able to how to opt out for a lot of those things. Now,
do I believe that they're doing this for the greater experience of driving, Sure, But with everything good in technology, we know there's a bad side.
There's a dark side to everything. So as we try to grow in an
industry to make things easier better for consumers, there's going to be the dark side of that obviously as well. People are gonna grab information that you never
would have thought be used for other reasons. Like I talked, we've talked
about. I just saw two weeks ago the windshields in being played that we've
been talking about for years. I saw another, I guess edition of it.
I guess is what it would be if you guys don't know what I'm talking about. It's when the car parks and an advertisement plays on your windows.
Two weeks ago it popped back up again. I don't know when that's
ever going to be a regular thing, but obviously somebody is still pushing forward on that technology. This is where when you park your car and you go
into a store, your windows your car have the ability for that particular store to play advertisement on your windows while your car is in their parking lot.
I think before that ever takes off and cars is going to take off in storefronts first, I think so. But just the fact that will only make
sense, just the fact that your car is built with the ability to do something like that, and then when you're there, they have the ability to do that on your car because your car is in a geo fence. And
the fact that somebody is still pushing forward with you with creating that tells me that eventually I can see how that would be annoying or useful. I don't
know one one way or the other. It's well, I think it's not
just your your phone or your apps that are now talking to these cars.
You know now, it's the microphones that are connected for the radio that are just listening all the time. I know that that's picking up conversations to know
how to navigate and stuff. You know, you got the other stuff that
I was seeing. It retracts your name, your address, your email.
If you type in a VEN number, it can pull up all of your information because you're now linked just like nation. No. I mean, what
did you just bring up what we were looking at the other day and it has all of your information about your car? Ford connect Ford connect connects to
his car and could tell you I was just talking to somebody giving you advertisings yet in your car because you're an advertising on screen yet for what like for any anything no, okay, they'd be really annoyed. That's coming. There's
advertising, you know what, and that's a subscription service you want to advertisement that plays online. I don't seven if you sign up for serious XM Today
advertisements, because that's gonna be distracting because you can't watch TV while you're driving it. No, it's it's why the car is why you first start the
car up, if you're in a certain area or something like that. They
have the ability, you may add, before starting the car. Yeah,
they have, they haven't. They have the ability to do get up.
That's how they're gonna get one hundred dollars off your lease payment if you watch our ads or pay the extra one hundred dollars to become a premium member.
Or what about if you if you start your car and then you watch like a you know how if you play like the games and stuff on your phone, you gotta watch it. If you watch this ad, you get two
points towards. If you earned one hundred points this month, will give you
fifty dollars off your gas, off off your payment or off gas or something like that. They'll start doing things like that. I can imagine. I
can imagine a world that does that. I really could because remember how I
told you I want to do it if you did the team if you did a team program for your team drivers, and I said, if your team drivers drive good, they don't accelerate stuff like that, they get points.
They could use them at Taco Bell and stuff like that. I thought that
would be a great program to start on your phone almost doing something like that.
I'm still for that program. By the way, if you guys don't
know, I said, we have all these apps. I thought we should
create an app for team drivers where we bonus some points for driving good, not a horder, acceleration, not heardbreaking, you know, staying with inside their geo fence with their parents, setting stuff, and they get points for that, and then those points could be used like Taco Bell and get it like a slippy at seven to eleven free things. I think it would be
a really good idea. I still think that's a great app to develop.
It's a good idea. You all didn't think it was a good idea when
I said it when you guys were still high school. That's not that's not
true. What I said was you had to have everybody partner up as well.
As you're kind of rewarding people for doing the right thing. Yeah,
but teenagers have a hard time doing the right thing sometime, agree, so you're rewarding them for staying and doing the right thing. I mean, let's
I didn't have a whole lot problems with you guys when you guys drove.
You guys had little fender bender stew stuff like that. But I didn't have
a whole lot of problems. I'm just talking about. But I'm thinking that
if I rewarded you guys a little bit better, a little bit. Like
Angela said, it's like Facebook. It listens to you talk about Starbucks and
get car announcements all about that algorithm. You are right. They actually created
a documentary out there and it's all about Uber and they talk about how they used to have to fight for our likeness and had to fight for the algorithm to get our attention. It's just like you remember Facebook. Poke Yeah,
I no, No, I can tell you one thing. If you want
to talk about watching some shows you get you hooked, I start watching that pez Outlaw. That one's crazy. You all look that one up on net
Netflix. You can look that up and see if you want to watch it.
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one thousand and three. Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive
specialist. Now back to your host, Dave Polach. Hey, guys,
welcome back. So here's a question for you. This This one's a little
weird one. I thought about you, Cameron when I was reading this story.
You set yourself up for this one. Just you completely such stuff.
So we're you know, what was it two weeks ago we were talking about if if you money fell out of a truck or Robin Robin trucks. He's
like, you know, your drive home, you think about Robins truck.
First, let me correct myself. It's angel not Angela. I am so
sorry. Oh it's Angel, they correct you. But Angel, you are
right. I could talk all day about those algorithms. One day, we
we'll have our own algorithm. So there was a story that I was reading.
It's uh uh the guy that committed fraud. He had one hundred and
eighty million dollars. Hundred eighty million dollars in fraud. That that's some fraud,
right, No, I mean, where's the bree line? One hundred
and eighty million dollars in fraud? I guess he was doing like a bank
fraud. He had he had, I want to say, like a payroll
dispbution company or something like that made money coming in and money going out.
But he was using it through different banks anyway, so he ended up having like one hundred and eighty million dollars. Now, I know it's wrong,
but let's just set aside the fact that what he was doing was wrong for a second, right, I know, hold on, hold tight with you guys. This is normal at least why he was committing fraud. He was
invested in cars. So this guy had a car addiction. Oh, so
he was stealing the money to go buy expensive cack this guy up, look him up, Cameron A hundred and eighty million dollars in fraud. But why
he was committee it is fraud. He bought warehouses full of cool cars.
You got to see the picture. When I mean warehouses, that doesn't do
you any good. He took them like the mega garage. Take the mega
garage and do the mega garage like nine times deep and maybe two times the width, and fill it and like polish the floors and all kinds of stuff and then fill it with cars. He had a car addiction. Now he
bought some jets and some other stuff and things like that, but he had a car addiction, like like crazy, crazy car addiction. And so I
was like, okay, so he's a bad guy somewhere where he had protection.
No, he did not know what he means protected. Like, did
did he do it in the country where nobody could get him? He did?
He did not, you know, the Feds and stuff eventually came for him. They did come. You guys ready to see this photo this collection,
mate, if you're watching, you're on Facebook, watch that's this man's car collection. You are able to see the Wow, that's a really nice
collection. That is a pretty impressive car collection. Where did you buy that?
He just he just started buying. He just started buying them. You
just started buying cars and just started storing them. Not the warehouse was get
caught, Like no, he thought he wasn't get caught. So did he
buy his garage like that? Did he? I want to know, did
he buy this garage for it too? And like he built I guess he
built that garage. He built that garage for it, like it's it's incredible
that he built that garage for Like, this is pretty that's pretty impressive.
Turn tables. Well, eventually the fans caught up with this guy. But
I mean, like it, that is incredible. Guys, for those that
aren't on Facebook and stuff, imagine like a very large warehouse with polished floors, turned tables for the cars to spin around on for people to see.
I mean, it's absolutely incredible. What gotta be a little depressed, like
you weren't trying to hide the fact that you were buying this stuff? Did
he buy it all in one? No? No no, no, no
no, no, no go out and about one here, about one there?
Yeah, Just do you know how long he was on the run he was he did this. I think he did this for over the course of
over five years that he was doing it, so you know when you got a sentenced, he got only got eight years. So look, so here's
my thing, right. I agree, it's wrong, it's wrong, right,
right, But it's like one of those questions. It's like, would
you give up five to sixs, you know, eight years of your life, right and stuff to come back to maybe say, you know the stuff that you hid that they did right? Right, I'm just saying, is
that here's something, So here's is it worth? It's wrong? I know
it's wrong here. So it's funny to say that because I started thinking in
Cameron's way of thinking, right for a second, I was like, wait a minute, so you did this, you gave up. Let's just say
you started and you probably did it for eight years, right, You did it for eight years, and you lived that lavish life and for eight years, right, every year, right, and you bought all those cars.
You got to enjoy that life and stuff. They only gave you eight years.
That means you got basically a year for every year that you did it.
I'm good behavior. After eight years they sentiate I'm good behavior. That
guy is probably gonna be out in three right, right, all right, I mean so in his mind, in his mind, you know, he's like, it was worth it. For eight years. I mean he's like,
I mean I love cars, and look at the cars that guy has.
He's like, it was worth it. It's always like right there,
like he's like, I almost kind of think I want to do it again.
He ever goes bro what what other cars? Would I buy? What
cars? One time? Right? The first offense. It's my first offense,
all right. He didn't go for big things though. He went for
like small things that you can drive around town. At least you didn't go
buy jets. He did, so, he did, he did, he
did, he bought, he bought jets. I think he bought a yacht.
So he bought some other things too. I mean, I don't care
about jets and I don't care about yachts. Is the reason why we didn't
talk about him. But he did he did buy some jets. Not having
the jets or I don't care about those things, I thought the car all care. I looked at the car collection. I was just like, holy,
that's an incredible car collection. That's an incredible car collection. I mean,
that's like Jay Leno's style car collection that's basically driving it and parking it.
Think about it. If he didn't, let's just say I think they
said five years or maybe greater. Let's just it takes a while to get
to that. About eight years. Yeah, that's it goes to the government,
pays, it pays all the fines and all the farms. Well,
it's all still. That's why I said, like, is he you know,
did he like get asylum somewhere else or did he like he did in the country that didn't he lost it all. I think here. I think
he was. Here was another thing. It's like, if you're doing if
you're going that big get out of dodge, I think you've been watching too much. We've been watching too many of the movies where they like, they're
like, I need to set up an account where they can't get me.
I was like, I watched this one movie. They were like, they're
like, no, once you do it, you ain't never coming back.
Then. Oh, what was the yeah, I was bank heist or something
or High sixty six. What was the one where the guy where they loosely
told the story about when they were doing online gambling? Remember when I got
on gambling was really big where you can gamble online and you stowed your money.
I can't remember what the name of the big company was, but there was the real big one that was popular for a while. Everybody, everybody
was playing online. I think I lost one hundred dollars, guys I had
I used to play I did. I had one hundred dollars online. I
think a couple of my friends had. Like again, it was poker we're
playing. We're all playing poker online. And I can't remember what computer to
It's been so long, I can't remember what because it's just so easy to like they moved from like one island to another island and then stuff like that.
But yeah, I mean it's funny. You can you can be anything
you want to be online. I try to tell everybody. That's the reason
why I be careful what you buy online, because they could be anything.
And they can shut down today, reopen tomorrow, add two l's to their name, and still be called the same thing, and continue to just do business. And all they do is just redirect their old site to the new
site with the new name, and they never lose one bit of business because there's nobody really governing what's sold online. It's there's no Governor's really no government.
That was just like, that's funny that you say that. That was
just like one of these companies I just perched parts from, where after I purchased the parts, I went to another company to look up other parts.
Same exact design of the whole website and everything, running the same ads on the banners and everything, but has a whole different part company name, and they offer two more categories of parts, you know, so like you can get the same exact parts that you would have regularly got on this one site you just ordered from, and then you'll be able to go to this other site and you can get two more categories of parts that you know that they're there the same company, but because you went on this one website, you
can get those category of parts. Now. It just it doesn't make sense
to me. It's funny to me. How when you go and you start
trying to look and you do a lot of research and stuff like that, you'll find five different company names or something. You think you're looking at five
different companies. They're all the same company, and it's just a redirect that
drops back into something And a lot of people don't even catch that that happens, and I can go on forever about how the internet works with trying to buy like car parks and stuff like that, and how many different I'm not going to say they're scams, but they are creative ways. It's not even
marketing, because it's it is. It's very gray, but people who just
don't know the difference. They have a lot of sister companies for a parent
company. It is it is, and they just do it that way.
You guys, Let me take a quick cornctial break. When we come back,
I got some more for you guys who want to catch up on it.
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to your host Dave Pilach. Hey, guys, welcome back to the show.
So I got some funny ones for you guys and weird ones for you guys, here's I've seen some strange things. Right, So you guys know
that I talk all the time. I love to take road trips. I
just enjoy them. We've talked all different types about taking road trips and how
much fun they are. There's also the side of our friends are driving back
from road. There's also the side of driving. And people get tired driving,
right, I mean we've all been driving long distance. You start to
get kind of tired, you start to feel draggy, whatever it may be, right, and go, how did I get to this destination? No,
you're not, You're not fall asleep. You just you just in that
road gage and you're like, how I just drove a hundred miles. I
don't remember driving one hundred miles. We've talked about that. What car did
I pass? Well? The Chinese government. If you guys haven't seen this,
go look it up. It is the strangest thing. Has this new
thing they're doing. I saw the article. Somebody sent it to me,
thinking for sending me the article, and I read up. But it was
it's very they're shooting lasers across the highway. I saw that. Yeah,
yeah, they shoot lasers. So you have a night show like this keep
you awake? Isn't that the rangest thing? If you guys said that would
be a distraction, Well, I thought it was funny because in the article I read, it was like it very much could be a distraction if you had the right music going. Yeah, like dude, you have a little
rap in your car, just stuff you would like to see if I can bring the photo up for our viewers for it. So it's it's crazy.
I mean like I watched it. Uh somebody had a like on a three
minute loop of the different the different ones, right, and I was just like that, It's it's cool. I think it's neat to look at.
But I'm thinking of like distracted driving. I would get distracted looking at the
laser show. It's being shot down the highway because it literally is like going
to like a rave concert and they're shooting lasers across the crowd and then it just keeps on going to these different sequences, And I was like, Okay, cool idea for anything other than I'm thinking across the top of the highway, because you would get I think if music was playing in your car, it would be like being at some like weird rave show. Is it's crazy
looking you seen it, Nathaniel, the different lasers and stuff like that.
No, that sounds a little weird to get. Don't get waken up from
a laser. Well, it's just to keep you awake. It's just as
these lasers that go across the top of the highway, so it's like a light show. It is changed. You remember when we went to the real
expensive nightclub in Vegas and they were shooting lasers across the crowd. Yeah,
it's that like that laser show going across the crowd, except across the highway while you drive me kind of cool though, I mean I could see that they had like put like a little show on. It is like a show.
It's not meant to be. It's just meant to keep you like awake,
so you don't fall asleep while you're driving. But they have it,
and what they do is they attach it. It's attached to like the top
of road signs. So imagine where you have, like you know, the
road sign at they have these they're attached and they're shooting from there and then you go and then as you come close to like the next road sign, there's another set of them shooting across it. I don't know you all tell
them me go look it up. If you guys haven't seen it, I
know cameras trying to find an accurate picture of it so he can put it up. It's you got one up camera foun one yes. So if you
are on Facebook, you're actually seeing a video right now. This little thing
just going in like flash and it's crazy, kind of crazy, like look in your cars. Never going to be DJs, not a DJ, he's
not a DJ at all. Was like, dude, you got to get
that's what we're buying care for Christmas? Buy those little little drum mixer kids.
Do you ever think, hey, I would du tequila we go?
Do you think that would ever get approved in the United States? A million
years? Never seen where the music road's gone? It's not even a music
musical road, yes, musical road. It's that that was such a fail,
was a fail and we didn't just do it yet, Like no, And do you ever think I don't ever why hold on? Why couldn't the
musical road be like something cool, like like aha, take on me or something like that. Why couldn't play something cool? You laugh? Why couldn't
it play something cool experience, you know, on the road again, on the road again, it's all fun. Do you get a laser to the
eye. Think about the semi truck drivers, they're sitting up higher. Why
couldn't the musical world just be song after song and just cool songs, like all songs from the eighties, like songs from you have so many questions?
Now, is there like a sign before you hit the lasers that says, like the Christmas Show, careful lasers. But no, I'm talking about like
the Christmas shows. Tune into this channel and you got like a DJ above
the highway that is just like no, no, no, it's a hologram.
It's a hologram of DJs from around the world, around the world.
It's a hologram that are actually playing around the world. Right that second is
a hologram, a big hologram with a DJ like above the highway with the laser show goingau. Now that would keep you from being distracted. It's just
keep you from drying. We just all said, you get on the highway
and there's just this big, huge hologram of a DJ from somewhere around the world mixing it up. In the song that would be cool. Look,
we got an idea hologram Musical Highway and the Laser Show all mixed together.
That not gonna get hurt for the Christmas Show. Christmas, you send the
patent check to Dave at Look, I'm just saying, if you got I mean, we can come up with some good ideas. So here you go.
You got a hologram DJ. You have to have the musical road that
plays different songs, and you had to combine Blaser Show all with it.
And they'll keep drivers awake. It will you'll definitely keep drivers awake. Yeah,
that's that's an interesting one. I don't ever think that's going to get
approved in the United States, but we've seen crazier. So hey, hey,
all right, here's another one. You know that car thef's been really
big, right, hands and boys. Another thing has been really big with
people breaking into car lots, stealing cabs off cars, stealing parts out of cars, and so we talked about that. So people are like been putting
in a lot of cameras in everywhere, right, So they just filling up with cameras and stuff. Imagine coming into work and the guy that's spends stealing
parts off your car, says got into a car and either fell asleep or maybe he did too many drugs and he passed out. So when you come
into work, you see the guy sitting in the car and he's somewhat asleep.
Right, perfect payback. Right, You're like, I got this guy
right. This worker finds a guy passed out in the car. I'm taking
other cars and blocking the car in no so what I have. Yeah,
I'm talking the car in which I've done something very similar and blocked cars in and blocked a thief in before in my past. This guy has a forklift
that lifts cars up right, So he goes, slides the forks underneath and lifts the car forty feet up in the air and just puts it what he beet up the air, leaves the guy up there and calls the police.
Now drown it's in Ohio. If you guys, uh, I go that
there's a picture. I guess it's related to it. It's out there as
well for this one. You guys can go look that up. But that's
how he gets it. He calls the police, and I guess there's the
So the police come in. This man's just hanging up in there all right,
think about the think about the robber person, right, the person that went fell asleep. Now you're waking up in the car. Think about it
from his side, What are you thinking, like, Yeah, no there, yeah, dude, like are you jumping? Are you jumping from the
forklift and trying to like, no, you're not dumping, You're not jelling forty feet You're not You're not jumping forty feet. You're going down. Probably
going to think about how the forklift. Think of how the forklift lifts the
car. Right, So you've ever seen in the junk yard they have the
long forks, so you're extended out there. There's nothing to climb down from
because you're just open the doors the car and you go where it's you know again, slide down. I mean, it's not happening. There's a will.
It's where there's a will. There's a way very close close, almost
nailed it, almost nailed it. It's they caught him with uh, saws,
alls and tools in the backpack, so he was obviously there to just still. Yeah, it's not like he was just like because I know what
first thing everybody's like, how do you know he wasn't a homeless guy just trying to find a warm place to sleep. Now he brought him, Yeah,
he brought his stool. Yeah, he brought tools with him. I
just I know today's thought process. Every time you try to say I caught
this guy that, everybody's like, but how do you know? Hey,
you got you gotta know your yeah, yeah, yeah, make sure anything.
The guy broke into my house had a black ski mask on gloves, and they're like, well, he was probably a homeless guy. He's just
lost trying to stay warm with his ski mask and gloves. He was dragging
me out of my bed. He told me this was a stick up.
He probably meant this was a stick on and he he thought that he had sticky notes in his pocket and he didn't. That's what he meant. That's
that's how the world's going nowadays. Trust me, you're wrong. Yeah you
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Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You're automotive specialist. Now back to
your host, Dave Palatch Hey, guys, welcome back. So hate to
leave you guys on a cliffhanger, but you know, you gotta let your sponsors have their commercials because hey, we love our sponsors the fact that they sponsor the show. So they got to get that word in their edgeways.
So make sure that if you guys are listening to commercials, you guys, you know, check out all of our sponsors for sure. So here it
is cars and coffee. You guys know I love cars and coffee. And
if you guys been paying attention and watching the news, they are popping up more and more throughout the United States, even overseas. I have actually some
overseas Cars and Coffee listeners that actually pop in and send me information. They
send me a lot of pictures and stuff from cars and coffee, and I got ones in London, there's in Germany and some other other countries and stuff that start popping up and listen to the show, which I very much I'm humbled by. But here's the crazy thing. You got cars and coffees.
I think ones in California now, and there's another one in Texas and Texas as well. In Texas that is now going to ban and they say temporarily,
but they're going to They say temporarily, but are gonna band. I
don't even understand this. It's hard for me to say Camaros, chargers and
Mustangs. And the reason why they say is because cars and coffees are starting
to get out of hand. Now, I will agree that car gatherings sometimes
do get out of hand. Sometimes it is cars and coffees. It doesn't
have to be a car of coffee. It could be a pop up event.
There's a lot of popup events. If you don't know, a pop
event is most of your car people listen to my show do? There are
just random text messages if you're part of groups like I AM and Cameron is and Nathaniel Are. We are in groups where random messages just go out at
random hours and say, hey, we're gonna have so many different Yeah, yeah we are. We're gonna have a pop up. And a pop up
is just a location and then people just show up to hang out and talk about cars and stuff like that, and it could be random. Sometimes it
could be seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night. Hey, we're all just
gonna gether. We're gonna have a pop up here and sometimes well, you
guys know, I'm getting older. I'm not to say I'm old yet,
but I'm getting older and sometimes older and having responsibilities of having the family and stuff like that's kind of hard for me. You got pop ups, but
uh, these younger meals, here's a lot easier for them to show up to those events, which is great. You know, we used to go
so many, so many back way that way, way back when that way we kind of stopped, you know when or I want to say stop, because I do still go to some, but we lowered it a lot, a lot when the craziest started happening, you know, and the police were I know they're just doing their job, but they it felt like they were then now targeting you. Right. So here's the thing we we we it
just kind of as cars, as car community. I think that sometimes we
pull that upon ourselves. There used to be a lot of pop ups that
were great to go to. And I've been some pop ups where seventy five
hundred cars and I'm showing up to a pop up that just came out of nowhere, and I can see a lot of cars we would not normally see show up at a car show or anything else like that that just come out of the woodworks, and it's really cool to see what people are building, but then you get the craziness and people want to do stupid things, and then before you know what, the police are there. It's very hard for
as Angel says, you know it's in California. They banned all those cars.
Yeah, that's right. They're banning certain cars, the cars that they
believe are going to be problem cars or what they're banning right now, people who are doing burnouts and doing stupid stuff that attract the police. The reason
why you saw us stop showing up to some of these events. Or I
have a radio show with large sponsors, and it's very hard for me to go out and show my appreciation to a lot of car lovers and people who are building things and see some of the stuff that's being built, because I can't associate myself if there's going to be craziness out there where I'm carrying.
I'm bringing cool things. I'm handing out free stuff to you guys. If
you guys ever been to any of the stuff that we just pop up and show to, we're usually giving out a lot of cool merchandise and drinks and stuff, all that kind of stuff. All that stuffs free through our sponsors,
but it's very hard for me to stay and be associated if there's craziness and stuff like that, because we're not going to carry my sponsors' names through things like that. So people are like, I haven't seen you here and
I haven't seen you there, guys, I love you guys' death a lot of listeners. We built the show where it, like I said, we're
in our ninth year. I've built this show on you guys listening to the
show and being very humbled by the fact that we have so many great listeners and friends that we met all those years. But I kind of I don't
understand targeting these certain cars. I don't get that because I've seen craziness come
out of every single type of manufacturers. I don't think it's the cars.
I think it's the immaturity behind the wheels sometimes people doing silly things. I
think that has more to do with it than the actual car itself. That's
just my personal opinion. Maybe there's a certain type of person that gravitates towards
certain type of cars. I don't know, but I can tell you that
you can't pick a car out there that I can't tell you that I haven't seen somebody do craziness sins. So banning certain cars is just silliness because I
don't have a Camaro, I don't have a charger. But we do have
a Mustang in our fleet. You know, as you guys know Nathan,
you bought the new twenty twenty four Mustang GT, so he has it.
So that means that he wouldn't be able to take his car. And I
know he doesn't do silly things in his car, right, so that'd just be a little weird. You know, I have a Pontiac Ta. I
guess does that fall into the Camaro crowd? I don't know, maybe it
does if they saw my car where it'd be like, well you fall into the Camaro crowd pretty muscle cars, right, Yeah? Absolutely? I kind
of feel like, so does that mean as the radio show, we wouldn't be able to bring you know, our build out there? You know?
Now you know we have the C ten that we're you know, we're gonna put the twin Turbo five seven in now? Is that considered a muscle car
group because it's a built truck. Would we not be able to show up
as the radio show if we decided not to just bring our regular radio show vehicle full of goodies. If we decide to pile them into that truck and
come out with free things, way will not be welcome because that's a big horsepowered vehicle, you know, I mean it just it makes me wonder.
It makes me a little sad for the fact that this is happening. I
understand what you're trying to accomplish. I get at one hundred percent understand where
you're what you're trying to do. But it's easier for me as a let's
just say it's an organized event. You're doing cars and coffee, which we've
been part of. It's easy to me as an organizer to walk up with
somebody and go, I'm gonna need you to take it home for the day because I don't need the nonsense and I don't want to attract the attention.
I appreciate you come, not bring your machine out, but your antics that you just pool is going to pull attention that we don't want hear the event.
So we'll int me a favor and for today take it home and if you decide to bring it back next month when we have our cars and coffee.
Let's not do that because it's just not the attention we're trying to pool here, and that's an easy thing to do as a presenter or whatever, to have that conversation one on one with somebody. Now they decide to get
stupid and silly with you, whatever, whatever, you just you should walk away. You've said your piece, You've told them what you want them to
do, you know what I mean. So that's I think that's just maybe
an easier approach. I don't know, maybe that's just me and that,
but that's just the kind of person I am, and I have no problem walk I don't care who they are, no problem walking up to somebody and saying it just in that matter, with that easy, peaceful tone. But
you made your point, So I don't know, what do you guys think think that's the easiest way to do it? I agree, A better man,
do you know how secure? Look out for it? Please escort them
out if you have. There's usually enough of us out at cars and coffee,
of people like myself. I am ex military, I'm not really scared
of anybody, So like that I'm not the biggest guy in the world, but I have no problem walking up to anybody and just saying, here's the deal, and here's how it's going to go down. There's enough of us
out there where most problem. Everybody's pretty easy going. Car crack crowd is
usually you get some knuckleheads out there everybody knows. But for the most part,
if you walk up to somebody and you just lay down the wall, if you want to call it that, that's usually kind of how it goes down. You might get a little you might get a mouthy person every once
in a while, but most part, it just you know, you don't really have those problems. I think it's easier to handle that way than banding
all the different cars. If you guys disagree with me, you guys know
how to get hold me, text me, email me, tell me what your guys solution is. I'm curious to see what you guys think about on
this and how you guys think we ought to handle this, because I feel like this is going to spiral and it's going to continue to go across the United States with more people wanting to ban cars, and I just don't I don't know. I don't think exiling people based on models of cars versus knowing
personalities. I just don't think that's the way to go. So you guys
tell me, I want to jump in something else. I want to go
somewhere else, totally different side of the map, because we got three minutes, I do do you guys see that the article on the Tesla prices and stuff, so prices, I've been lowering them, They've been lowing them.
And then people are like, well, I feel you know, I'm not gonna say everybody, but there's some people out there. Oh, I feel
like, you know, I bought my car two years ago and now my car isn't worth you know anything, And you knew that was going to happen.
Battering prices were going to go down after you start manufacturing so many of them. You know, right, right right, you bought your car.
Here's why, man, You bought your car during one of the worst car crisis as there was. Fidy man was high. It's almost like people talking
about houses. It is like you knew the house market was terrible. Why'd
you buy a house during the right Okay, I don't feel like people buy Tesla's for for the most people buy a Tesla for the I think I'm gonna make money or hold money or stuff like that. I truly believe the Testa
crowd is like the Apple Apple crowd. I buy it for the status quo
of it. It's just like we buy a sports car, right, right,
car, you know you're buying it for that you know, that luxury that you know, look at me type. Absolutely that's not you know,
it's definitely not an economy car. By you bought it because it was what
it was, right right, absolutely, So, I you know, I think I read the article. I understand what the article is saying. Forty
one thousand dollars lost value on a car for twenty and a twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two to now there's about a forty one thousand dollars price friends on a Tesla if you bought the nicest model. I get it. I
appreciate the article was written, But I truly believe the other side of that argument is people buy Tesla's like you like I said, like you buy an Apple, well not not even just there, right, it's like such a new space, right, so like you kind of just got like the you know, I want to say prototype, but you know, like the first you know, you bought the nice right, like the first one hundred twenty one thousand dollars car you bought it. It wasn't for the status quotes.
It has been out for ten years. You know, different models out there.
You know you didn't really care, right, you got to look at that too. You didn't care. You weren't buying it. You weren't buying
it because if you bought one hundred twenty one thousand dollars car, you're not buying it because it's the best best deal out there. You know you bought
it because you want to say you bought a hundred twenty one thousand dollars car, right, So like once again, well I'm curious to see how you think different. They started to degrade throughout the years, right, see the
decreasing value. How they go? Did they keep up with it? Do
they run? Absolutely? So? Like I say, I have my opinion.
If you guys disagree with that, you guys know how I can hold me. We have to go ahead, get out here, guys. I
cannot believe this show has gone as fast as it did. It feels like
it's sped by this week it seems like every time we jump back into the studio, the show flies by. I don't know what it is. I
hope you guys enjoy your weekend. It is Saturday. Enjoy your Saturday.
Sunday is right around the corner. As I always tell you, guys,
do not forget unplugged. Spend a little time with your kids. Fire up
at the barbecue. I know it's a little chilli out there, but hey,
it's still a barbecue weather. Put up on a grill, play a
board game with them, Spend some time, hide their cell phones and the couch cushions, whatever you gotta take, but spend some time with your kids.
You guys, got anything before we get out of here? All right,
guys right here. We'll see you guys next weekend. Talk to you soon.
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