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Exploring the intersection of cars and cinema, this episode dives into the unique experience of attending the Burbank Film Festival with Hunter, who won an award for his film. The hosts share their observations of classic muscle cars being used as daily drivers in California, contrasting it with their East Coast experiences. They also discuss the quirky car culture on Catalina Island, where vehicle permits are more valuable than the cars themselves. The episode wraps up with a light-hearted debate about themed cars and their appeal, alongside personal anecdotes about navigating traffic and road closures.
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movie awards
classic cars
catalina island
car culture
themed cars
traffic navigation
road closures
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America. You're listen Let's Talk Cars Radio on
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Cameron Chaos and AVB. Hey man, it has been a wild,
wild run if you guys are not paying attention. So
we were out in California having a good time hanging out with Hunter. That's right, If you guys did not
see we Hunter allowed us to tag along with him.
So we took LTCR out to California and hung out with Hunter and he actually won movie Award out at the Bourbank Film Festival, which was awesome to watch. Happened.
But here's a cool thing. So being out in California, right,
I forget every time. I don't know if I say
I forget. Right, it's not like the East Coast, right,
It's not like the East Coast. It's words, that's exactly
what I was gonna say. It's not like the East Coast, like,
it's just everything's just so I'm not gonna say a little different, it's a lot different. So we were out
there Bourbank area, So if you guys do not know, Burbank is where a lot of the studios and production companies and stuff like that are for for TV and television to the TV television same thing and movies and whatnot and stuff. So we were in yeah, production, So
we were hanging out in the area. In fact, one
of the we went to a meeting with Hunter and while we were out there, it was actually in the old Cartoon Network building, which was kind of cool. Yeah,
so it was pretty neat, but I thought it was really cool with just being a car guy that as I was tagging along with Hunter because Hunter had a lot of appointments he needed to be too throughout the week.
So that's the reason why we're there for him to network, and he was pitching his feature film stuff to some of the network. So we're out and when we were
in network parking lots, people are driving like old muscle cars is every day cars, like their daily drivers, which was really cool. So I saw the same green sixty
nine Camaro two different days in a road out driving around.
Because so Burbank, if you guys never been in Burbank, it has like a small time feel to it, kind of even though it is glitz and glamor of California and under all these production companies and studios and stuff like that, it feels like it's in small city. It
feels like it's not even a city. Feels like a
small town. It doesn't even feel like a city, just
feels like a small town. It just has that feeling
to It's really cool. Everybody knows every buddy, yeah, really
huge people do. Got to know everybody. It's really strange
because but it's the movie industry, right, so you kind of to a certain degree expect that. But yeah, as
we're hitting different parking lots, I kept on seeing old muscle cars people driving as daily drivers and they're fixed up and restored, and you don't see that here obviously, maybe you know, maybe because people have a whole lot of money there. It's very expensive to live in California days,
you're right on good days. But uh, just to see
you know, cars from the sixties and you know, and I saw Cadillacs and people have Cadillacs are fixed up and taken care of, like very very well taken care of.
So they were just it was it was just cool to see them being used in everyday capacity. And everybody's like, oh,
maybe you just got like them. No, because there was
a couple of times I had to pass by some of the same studios and I saw the cars sitting there for the second day, so people are driving them as every day cars, and I just thought that was that was really neat. Now with that being said, we
had to go over to Catalia Islands. So if you
guys never rid a cacadeen cat Alema Island, I highly suggest you guys go. It's pretty cool. But I learned
a lot about vehicles there so not very many cars on the island, and I was just like, oh man, it's all golf cars. By the way, it's golf car
what's the reason. So you have, there's a waiting list
to get a car on the island. It's like twenty
five years to get a car on the island. So
if you want to have a car, you have to sign up and get on a waiting list to get a permit issue to have you allowed to have a car on the island. So while we were there, most
of the cars that are on the island are utilitarian, Like they were pickup trucks, so they were SUVs, so they could be used for more than just you know, just what they were being u Yeah, you didn't see a lot of cars. I saw some, but I didn't
see a lot of cars. Most of the stuff I
saw were pickup trucks and SUVs, and you can tell if they serve like a complete purpose, right. So we
went to a party up in the hills in Catalina, and our chauffeur vehicle I was telling the guys were like it was like a nineteen ninety six, like two thousand, like Lexus four sixty, and I mean it was nicely taken care but it was not new by any means.
So I got to talking with the people there and I'm like, okay, so explain to me how this works.
Are like, well, I the one guy I was talking, he goes, it took me thirty six years to get a car here on the island. I was like, holy cow.
He's like, yeah, it took me thirty six years. He goes.
The cars are worth nothing. He goes, just so you understand,
the car really holds no value. It doesn't matter what
it is. The car doesn't hold the value. It's the
permit that goes with the vehicle that allows you to have the vehicle. The vehicle on the island.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So it was which is interesting because it's like, all right, so you know, you spent this long to be able to get it, the car finally gets approved, and now it's not worth anything. I mean, but the
pass holds value. Can you My question would be if
you can you take that pass and transfer.
Speaker 2: It to it. It transfers to other cars and that's
where the value is. Right, So once you have that pass,
that's for the value. So the guy was telling me,
He's like, you don't seem to understand. He goes, let
me explain it to you, so you kind of really understand how this works. He goes, You know how people
leave like money to their relatives. They all get in
line to find out who's getting the pass for the vehicle.
He goes, it's like to will the pass to somebody is like a really big thing, and like people wait to see are they be the ones to get the pass because you can make money if you have a vehicle there on the island.
Speaker 5: I say is that most vehicle passes like chauffeur passes.
They were chauffeur or utilitary vehicles. Like you you own
the pickup truck and you can move materials or right right right, so it.
Speaker 4: Kind of keeps kind of I mean kind of you know what cars on the island, you know what cars kind of cause it everything and the like you can.
Speaker 2: Now my understanding is if you can find somebody wants to sell their pass, you're buying the car, but it comes with the pass, and like you can buy it, but then they sell for really outraged worth. Now here's
the coolest thing, right, I told you there's a lot of golf cars. I jokingly go, there's tons and tons
of golf carts. He goes, he way, yeah, as you
can't get the cars ever use the golf carts. I
was like, we pulled to a certain area, and in this one area there's golf carts and they're all bottled up, and people have gotten out of their golf carts and like went into like store areas and they're not supposed to park there. So to try to turn around in
this turnaround area, it was all blocked up because people just tourists do it. I hate to say it because
you know, obviously at that point in time, I was one of them. But you can rent golf carts on
the island, okay uh. And they only ran them for
two hours at a time, by the way, which is I thought was just strange. But two hours in two
hour blocks, that's how you run.
Speaker 4: People's using them as golf carts like we use them as golf cars.
Speaker 2: Anymore. Well, people have them, people own them, you can
buy them there, but they do rent them, I guess for a little bit of sight seeing whatever. So you
have a lot of tourists that just don't they're inconsiderate.
That's the best way to put it. I would say.
I would like to say they don't know any better, but you know better, and they just pull like in these areas and just get out and leave it. And
it's blocking traffic and then things are stuck behind them.
And I went, you know what you guys need. You
guys need a golf cart tow truck. He goes, A
guy built one. He goes, we have one here on
the island. I was like, really, hefer situations just like this.
I was like, you gotta be kidning. He goes, No,
he goes. He goes, there's a guy who built a
golf cart tow truck and he tows people. I was like,
I didn't get as far. I forgot to. I think
I got distracted. I want to ask him go charge
so does he impound him and charge him get him back?
Because if so, then that is the most genius thing on earth. Think about it. Somebody leaves it and they're
a tourists, and then you go and you impound it, and then they got to buy it. They fee so
they can get back to the rental place. Like I
was like, that's sounds like a scam, but god, it's legal word, you know what. I was like, this is
this is gen He's like, yeah, there's a guy he built one. He's like, we have a golf cart tow truck.
And so then I started thinking about like what does that look like? I almost really wanted to go. I
was like, let me go find this thing and see what this thinks like is it a snatch truck? Like
here he sneakily can back up and just lift up and drive away with it like a Brent like. But
it was. It was a really cool experience. I got
to see a lot of cool things. If you guys,
I posted some pictures for you guys because I want to share the experience with you guys and hanging out under We were really glad that he allowed us to hang out with him because you know, if you all don't know, a Hunter is in the movie business and he uh, you know, he's my son, but he has his own schedule and stuff. So sometimes we're we get
to be cool enough to go hang out with him, and he allowed us to do it and allowed us see a lot of cool things, and obviously it gave us for a great story talk on the show. But yeah,
definitely neat. I had to get a helicopter to move
us back and forth, uh from the island back to Burbank, so you could hit certain meetings at certain times, and that was a smoothly bumpy, pretty smooth. It was real foggy.
If you guys look at the pictures I posted, Like I said, a couple of pictures up a bit. Now,
there's one point where the fog and the clouds are perfectly rolled, and we had to get above those. So
once we were flying right above the clouds and there, then the mountains were still a little taller, so the mountains or peaks are peeking out through the clouds. Right.
Kind of cool experience, right. Well, it's funny thing about
it because your guys, you're flying over water, so they make you put like inflatable like bag. Yeah, just in case.
If you if you look on one of the pictures I post, you'll see I'm wearing it's a yellow one.
But you have to wear this thing just in case you go down the water because you're going across the ocean and there's no land you're going across.
Speaker 4: Funny because you found out that I could I could even see what he was doing when he wasn't next to me, send the messages when I was like nice, briefcase, nice this He's stop watching me.
Speaker 2: So it was kind of it was it was it was kind of funny because we had met up with some people there and they says, somebody like you, guys know, I believe in life three sixty Oh. I really liked
that program. I'd highly suggest you use it if you've
got kids, or if you just want to keep track on your loved ones to make sure nothing bad happens during a car accident. It's a great program to have. Well,
somebody had it and somebody texts me, go, did you just float out? To float out to see were coming over?
They're coming over to the island, I guess on a helicopter and it showed them just being like in the middle of the ocean. They're like, did you get lost
out to see what happened? Like, no, No, it was a helicopter.
So yeah, like I said, very very cool experience. Uh uh,
we had a good time. There was a lot of
shuffling back and forth. I did. So here's another thing
they have that I never remember how I told you guys there's car services that we've never heard of. Yeah,
like you've heard of Uber, you've heard of Lyft, there's I told you there's like one hundred and fifty companies exist that are not household names. They got one on
the island really really yep, that's not uber, it's not Lyft just their own company. Their own company. It's because
they use it in places that.
Speaker 5: Does anybody live on the island or the whole island is business?
Speaker 2: No, they live, people live on the island, but a lot of it is they all work for some type of business on the island, right, they do, and a lot of it, to be honest with you, guys, it's not it's you guys know, I'm just not that way.
It's a lot of very large expensive mansions that people use to entertain or whatever, and you know, they come in and they stay and they have friends come. Like
we went to one of the ones while we're there because it was where one of the meetings that Hunter had to go to was like seven point four million dollar mansion like up in the hills, and like, you know, it was just it's pretty crazy. And we do a
lot of time standing back and just letting Hunter do his sing because this is that's his career, that's what he does. But he's not of age yet, so as
not being age, he has to have parents around him because that's just how it is. But like I say
to everybody, everybody's like, oh, so, how was I saying?
It's a lot of work because you're watching the clock and stuff to make sure that he's where. It has
to be on time because you got to go from the one thing to the next thing. And I love
to sit and explain to you guys, but it's a car talk shows. You remember, sometimes you got to stop
and smell the flowers. There was a lot of flowers
to smell. I was. I personally was looking for cool
cars that every place I go, if you guys have not washed over the years, like it don't matter where we go into the islands when we travel and stuff, because we do we like go on the Caribbean stuff.
I'm constantly taking pictures of cool cars because he was really cool. But back to circle around, the name of
their uber system is Circuit. That's the that's their ride
share circuit. Uh. And they had like these they have
electric cars or tiny electric cars. That's how they move
people because they can't have cars on the island, so they got these tiny like a little like they're so just a little bigger than a golf car. Yeah, a
little bigger than a golf cart. But it's all electric
and they had, and there were those and they have AC.
I saw the spedometer on it said it went sixty.
I didn't ask them does it really go sixty? But
it said they went sixty on the speedometer. But it's
almost like buying one of those Remember those trucks you can get from like China to Chinese truck through Like what is that the pre built? Yeah, the pre builts
everybody's been talking about. It's like, well those are still
cool though. That has like a little bed and yeah, yeah,
it looks like one of like it looks like something would be made by that company. But it was cool.
I had AC had a radio. Wasn't his job. They
did his job. I got us where we need to go.
But I was as I was sitting there, I was thinking to myself, I'm like, well, this is kind of cool because I talk about the fact there's companies out there that people have never heard of, and here's here's one.
And you had to sign up for their app, just like you do for uber Us. You couldn't use it,
so you had to sign in and wait for them to OKAYU to use it. And then I did. I
use it the first day I was there, Uh, the island was really busy and there was not one anywhere near me, so I didn't use it. But the second
day that we were there, I needed to get back over to a place and I clicked in and said you're drivers ten minutes away, and I was like, cool, I'm gonna try this. And I clicked it, and sure
enough he was up in this little electric looking Chinese vehicle and took us where we needed to go. And
I was like, this is kind of neat because it's just one of those things where you talk about it, but you've never been around like this. Only I think
this is only a second time I've used a service that isn't a household name for you guys. Where I
was at somebody, I'm like, you don't have Uber, Like, no, you don't have Lyft, No, but we have such a size.
I like never heard that. I look it up and
so this is the second time has happened. But just
be part of it. It's neat, something different. And then no, guys,
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Now back to your host, Dave for Latch.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey, so here's something I want
to go back. Do you guys remember it was it
two weeks ago or a week ago? I think it
was two weeks ago actually that we were talking about like how you become a car guy and the things that you go through, and you know, I was telling you guys about slot cars, and I was telling you guys about die casts, and we talked about hot wheels and stuff. Well, apparently Nathaniel decided to go doing a
little dig in after we had that conversation and looking through you know, estate sales and garage sales and auctions.
Apparently there's a really good chance that we have a bunch of these old hot wheels. Remember I was telling
you guys that I had bought a collection from a collector and then gamed with the boys, hoping they were going to hang on to them and they would never play with them. And it may turn out that we
have some of the more expensive ones that were in that collection, and we got we got dig through. So
Nathaniels tell me about you no, no, yeah, we got to dig through. He's like, I got to dig through,
and he's like, didn't we have it? And so I
went looking. If you if your guys are a hot
wheel collector and like car guys like everybody else, I know that we had if you guys see them, we had a couple of the helmet cars that are worth obviously, I guess good chunk of money right this second, I just don't know which colors we had, but apparently there's or if we still have yeah, or if we still have them, if they didn't get a story, but I know we had them. I know we had one of
the expensive ones for sure. We had the it was
a burgundy helmet car and we had it. I remember
that car, but I remember there was two other ones and two different other colors too, and I can't remember.
So interesting enough, it looks like we may have some keepers like So it was funny as I was telling Don after we had that conversation we were talking about we were talking about the uh, you know, toys and cars and stuff like that, and then Down reminded me that we have garbage pail kids still saved in the attic.
Really yeah, which apparently now I were with money. I
didn't really realize that they were. I was never really
interested in those. Yeah. Well they were way before you
guys's time, way before you guys' time, Like, uh, you had to look them up. They had weird names. I
can't remember all or something patch dollars in the APPU. No,
she doesn't have any of those, but I remember when the was really popular. So it's kind of funny, like
all this stuff that if I had a lot of the stuff. I did this a little research myself too.
If I still had some of like the old die cast stuff that I had, it's worth money, like some of the stuff that I had, Like as you go through and looks of money. So were some of those
slot car tracks I was telling you guys about that I had. Apparently those are starting to like say, they
want money. But I wonder how hard they are to
sell them for that type of money, because you really got to find someone that wants to pay that price, even you know, I don't, I don't know. Like, okay,
I remember when the die Cast cars were going for a good chunk of money, and I had a bunch of them that were worth that were worth money. Now
I know what I paid for them, but there was a time like if you guys don't know, if you guys don't follow in stuff like that. When I say
being like a car guy, it goes deep for me into like everything like back in the day, like I collected die Cast, not with all kinds of stuff that just I had. I told you I had an office
full of it. But to get the good stuff that
you knew that it was gonna come out and be worth money, you had to go to the store and know what their delivery dates were or so you can get it as soon as it like before it came out of the boxes. I just I was talking to
a guy the other day and he was telling me about collecting hot wheels, and he said he was so ate up with it, but he he amassed a good quantity worth a lot of money that he would go to like the walmarts and the targets, and he knew what day they got delivered. And then he's he got
friends in with the stocking people, so they would set stuff aside for him and let him go through it to get the good stuff out of it before it went out on the shelves. So you had no chance
he had no chance to ever getting the good stuff because it was already out of the box for that box ever made it. But they hold it aside for him,
and well, you know through.
Speaker 5: And there's some products that you got to buy that you don't really want, but you kind of want, you know, the exclusive product that's in it almost like you know, like the prize in Cereal Box.
Speaker 2: It is so prices than Cereal Box was a gimmick.
It got me thing I used to have so back in the day. And you guys will remember, you know,
like I said, being a car guy leads you down to a lot of different alleys. I had a garage
at one point in time full of old carp parts.
To you guys, if you guys remember, they were just old car parts. Do you remember when we had the
four car garage, when the trans am was stored in it, and back in the corners there was boxes of what you guys thought at that point in time trash, You guys thought was trash, but you guys thought it was something.
You thought. You thought it was an alternator, You thought
you know what it was. But they were Actually what
they were is they were old style turbos, old style superchargers and blower systems and stuff like that that I had acquired that now finding out here we are all these years later, if I'd have kept all this so I finally got tire store in it. Where's some money,
It's worth big money, man. I used to have all
different types of blowers and things like that that I just amassed over the years from Hey, my buddy decided he was going to change into this motor and he's like, I don't really have any use for this anymore. And
he's like, oh, you have it, and I took it.
I just put it on a shelf, but I had everything to it out, all the bolts, everything, and they were also on the shop. And then I remember the
boys used to get mad because I was like, I can't count how any times we probably moved it, classified it, put it in different tubs, and then you know, I put it up on a on a shelf, because like it started off being in a box, I'm like, well the box starting to tear, Let's get it out of the box, Let's get in a tub.
Speaker 4: We put it on the bottom shelf, get moved up to the top shelf because I need to make room for the other stuff.
Speaker 2: But now I wish I had a hung I wish I would have hung on all that I got. I
got tire store and it now I do I have I think two tubs still in the garage that have some pretty trick pontiac heads and stuff like that to it.
Some things, I know they're worth a good chunk of money.
But if I had kept all those blower systems and early turbose parts and stuff like that, well I kept them because they were all speed parts, and speed parts were hard like stuff that came out of the eighties, Like speed parts out of the early eighties were you know, already getting hard to find many many years ago. Now,
when people want to restore a car back to this is the way I wanted to look nostalgic for this time period. They're looking for all that stuff, you know,
I mean some of the turbos I had that people thought would be worth nothing like I had. I know,
I had some Grand National turbos. I know, I had
one of the Dodge Shelby. I think it's an Amnie.
I had one of those turbos because somebody had upgrade to different turbo and it was still like new, and I was like, well, I'm just gonna box that up.
It's gonna be work something now like that stuff and new conditions worth good money. I mean, I sit there
and I go to ching to change my head. I'm like, man,
I know I probably had about fifty sixty thousand dollars with the cool stuff that was in that garage. Now
it's worth that now, you know.
Speaker 5: Let me say, it's just like a yard sale. You
find that people to buy that stuff is a little harder, it is, But so.
Speaker 2: I know I told you guys the story. You remember
when I told you guys about my experience of selling things online and how I just didn't want to have any part of it because of the weirdest people you deal with. That was an offer up and let go
when there was well. That was That was the beginning
the day's of eBay. I told you guys, I ebayed,
Remember I eBay. I told you guys about story. I
ebated jet Ski and ebated jess Ski. Yeah, I did.
You guys don't remember the red jet Ski.
Speaker 5: We do.
Speaker 2: I remember Jesski. I don't remember I had. I had
a red one. I think I told this story. So
I had a red jet Ski. I went to a
look at it. I knew motors. I think I told
you guys the story about it. But I know motors
like you know. I understand motors and how every thing
works and how they're assembled. So I wanted a jes Ski.
I go out look at it, and the guy's like, oh, I got this jet Ski and it was cheap but it was nice. He was like, it needs all it
needs is a piston. It's got a burnt piston, and
I'm like, drop piston in this thing overnight. Not a
big deal. It's just a motor, like motor is a motor,
you know, I mean engine, engine, motor, motor, whatever you guys want to call it, but this one's so hard, right right right. So I was like, but I told
the guy, I was straight up. I was like, look,
I'm going to open this thing up right here in your driveway. I'd brought tools with you. I'm like, I'm
going to take the top head off of this thing.
I'm gonna take it apart right here in your driveway.
As long as you're doing with that and everything checks out to what you say it is, I buy it.
He's like, as long as you feel you're gonna buy And I'm like, I'm ninety percent sure I'm gonna buy this thing. So I take out my ranches. It's a
rent shop today, right right, Yeah, we're gonna figure it out today. And I've done by the way, guys, I've
done this with cars. Just so you know, he wasn't
worried about you, like leaving it in pieces. No, I
don't think he was, no, But I guess I come off as legit to enough people that you know what I mean. Like, I've done it with cars too. I've
had cars that, you know, seem like they may have a bed head gasket or something wrong with it, and I'm like, look, I'm gonna pull some plugs. I'm gonna
go ahead and do some pressure tests. Like, as long
as everything checks out, we're good. I'm a purchase of car,
but I didn't come here as an idiot, and I'll tell you a story. They just let it into that
this week. But the jets skis. So I check it
out and it's exactly what he said it did, has a bad piston, and I'm like, okay, cool. I'm like,
I'm not too worried about it, even if it's a little bit further than I think it is. I know
I can fix this. I'm not really worried about it.
And by the way, back then, jet skis were quite pricey, and I was in this thing was cheap, which probably should have alerted me. But I wasn't too worried about
because I'm like, I think the guys selling it because it's got a motor property. He's on a motor guy
guy was a plumber. He didn't know motors. It was
sun while it lasted, it was fun while asses. So
I buy it and I bring it to the house and I think, like I said, if I told you guys the story again, I'm just before I'm just telling you again. But I get it tore down. I start
pulling all the partnerers I need, and I get online and I cannot find a piston for this thing, to save my life. Could not find it. No, I could
find a piston for every other model jet ski out there except for this one. And it's not like this
was like a Chinese jet ski. It was a very
well known jet ski company. Here's the problem. So this
jet ski was a special jet ski they made. It
was the fastest jet ski that was in production. It
was super fast, and everybody wanted one. They stopped making them.
And because you couldn't use them, like you couldn't use them in certain competitions and stuff like that. So there's
a lot of nostalgic stuff around this thing, and I think that's the reason why they went. But it was
it had like don't somebody knows more about jet skis than I do. I'm not a jet ski know it
all by any means, but like had a variable timing system or something like that, which gave me more power.
It was able to open ports and closed ports at certain times. Anyway, that's as much as I remember about it.
If you know what I'm talking about. You guys can
send me an email, but anyway you couldn't. The only
way to fix them was you had to buy a broken jet ski at the same time to rob it from parts, and they wanted atrocious money to be able to even grab the parts out of it. At that
point in time, I realized, I'm not doing anything but my head right now. Keep in mind, I'd already buff
this thing. I like, I did everything this thing, propped
it for the water, Yeah, it was. I was just waiting.
I was like, Okay, while I'm trying to track down these parts, I might as well go ahead and I'd clean everything up, and I'd rebuffed the gel code on it.
This thing looked like it was a million bucks. It
was nice. Couldn't get no parts for it. So of
course I'm like, okay, i'd never use eBay. I'm gonna
put it on eBay. And I put it on eBay
and then it just it. I put it. I labeled
it everything that I knew it's broke. I know it
needs a piston. Now I did not put can't find
piston for it, because I wasn't selling it for that purpose.
I was I literally went to a format I can't give you all. Well, no, I went on here's what
I found. I went online and found a form and
that's when somebody started cluing me in on what I really owned. Somebody was like, hey man, you own something
that's extremely desirable everybody looking for him. You could only
fix yours if you could buy a broken one and rob the parts out of it. Right, He's like gold
He's like, it's golden trash, exactly, golden trash. At the
same time, that's the perfect way to put it. And
I was like, okay, So I put it online and I had hit after hit after hit after hit after hit, I mean, just crazy hits on it. But everybody wanted
me to rob parts out of it. And I was
trying to sell it as a whole ski, and everybody's like, I want the computer out of it. I'll give you
one thousand dollars for the computer right now. Oh, I
want this off, and I'll give you five hundred dollars for this right now. And I was like, look, if
you want it, I'm selling it as a complete ski.
I'm just trying to get back out of it. Really
was what I paid for it, which was by.
Speaker 4: The way if I remember, did somebody buy it and then you watched it get listed back online after they.
Speaker 2: So what happened was is somebody contact. He came for
one and he bought all. It got to be crazy,
and I was getting ready to take it down. I'm like,
this is just nuts. I gotta f forgo, got a
better way to do this. And the process is getting
ready to take it down, somebody send messages like look I lived so and so, which wasn't super It was a couple of states way. He's like, I want it.
I'll buy it the whole ski, no parts, don't. I'll
buy the whole ski for me, just the way you want to sell it. You're like, and I was like, so,
I was like, here's my contact. I said, I'm taking
it down. I said, it's just getting nuts. I need
to figure out how I'm gonna do this. So I
ended up talking with the guy and he ended up westerning n to me the fool. He offered me a deal.
I it was remember it was on auction, and he's like, I'll give you X amount of dollars right this second for it. I was like, cool, not a problem. So
I sold to them and then if you if I said, I told you guy's story before, it sat with me for months months. I already had the guy's money, and
it just sat with me for months. He did he wouldn't.
I kept calling him like, dude, are you coming to get this thing? He's like, yeah, my shipper felt it
was always a story over and over and over again.
Oh my guy, this, my guy that. So they show
up finally like two months later, and I wasn't at home and the guy called me, hey, man, I said, my guy there, and no one's there. I'm like, well,
of course there's nobody there, because wait, it's like two months later. A wad you think somebody's just sitting here
waiting for you to pick it up?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 2: It was the craziest thing. And that's reason why I
stopped ever doing business on that system. Not to say, hey,
if it works for you, that's great, go ahead and use it. But it did not work for me. It
brought all the crazies out for me. But the guys
that showed up are in a truck that is I don't know how it made it to me. The truck
has the biggest rust holes in it, and the bed is full of oil and grease, and they're grabbing straps out of the oil and grease and throwing it over the jet ski to strap it in. It's just slaying
grease and oil all over this really nice jet. And
I'm snapping pictures like I'm holding my phone up secretly kind of like it wasn't him, right, it was just the pick bed, right, I'm snapping a picture like, hey man, I don't know who. I don't know if you know
who you sent, but this is what I'm dealing with on miann. Are you sure you want these people to
take it? Didn't answer me, So I had no choice
but to no choice but to let it go. I
had to let it go, so it it goes down the road. And that was my selling experience. And I'm
telling you that's that's the weirdest reason why I think like there's a story to everything that has to do with cars, right, that is just one of mine. And
like I never went back to that platform. I went
to other platforms and had even weirder experiences too, So I guess it just doesn't really matter. But you guys
can't wait for another day to hear those stories. I
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So here's a weird question for you.
You guys. No, we like board games, right, So we're
a board game family. One of the games I told
you guys that isn't allowed to be played really in our house that much on the board game version of it is Monopoly because it turns in the biggest argument in our house. Well, and I still I don't like Monopoly.
Speaker 4: Me and Nate just prayed Monopoly this week with an AI and got beat by the air. So then we
went to Risk, which if you guys don't know what Risk is, go check it out. Really good board game,
and Risk is by the AI again, and.
Speaker 2: Me and Ate was like, why do we keep praying that?
So here's the question, is does when somebody We've talked about this before, but like when something cool like that, like Monopoly has been around forever. I find it cool.
I know a lot of people probably don't play anymore.
I still play it. We have a different version of
it that we've agreed that we can now play in this house. It's the card game version of it, which
is still kind of cool, but even that turns into arguments too. But when they attached cool things like that
to automobiles and whatnot, do you does it make it cool to to just make it like cheesy you don't like a little bit of most what it is.
Speaker 4: I mean, I guess if it's like a like a product that we all know, then sure it makes it cool, you know, unique, you know, But if it's just a product that you feel like they're just attaching it to kind of boost that product back up and just generate revenue.
Speaker 2: I think I told you guys about So. I bought
a Dodge Intrepid years ago when the Intrempid was around, and I didn't buy it for myself. I bought it
because I wanted to flip make money. But it was
the NASCAR version of it, and you didn't see a whole lot of them running around, and it didn't really make it. It made sense, but didn't make sense to
me because it was a V six car, which then it was just kind of weird for it to be a NASCAR audition as a V six car, But it stood it like the car stood out like I knew that I could make money on that car. It was
a NASCAR edition, had raised letter yellow tires on it.
Not the kindness you had to glue and stick together nowadays, but back then it had that. It had NASCAR badging
on the car inside and out. And I bought it
from an auction that was the car was completely disassembled, and I put it together because I was able to buy it for nothing. And then I put it back
together by and trust me, I had to do a lot of research online looking at pictures because it was disassembled, and so it was a matter of trying to put I'm like, where does this go?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 2: I like everybody's like, oh, you should be able to put a card. Get if you've ever seen a car
you buy And I used to buy them everyone a while from the oxtion. I told you guys did a
lot of auction stuff. But I would go to these
drug auctions. Will drug auctions take the cars really down
to nothing when they're looking for drugs. They disassemble everything,
so really trying to figure out and they're not nice, but they're not putting back together and they're you know, they just take the handful of bolts and throw them in on the floorboards or whatever, and you got to figure out where everything goes. But I'm actually get this
car back together, and it ran good and I ended up selling it and stuff. But that was like my first,
like really true run in with a themed car, right like I had I had bought in the past, Disney.
I bought a couple of Disney vans. I think it
was Chevrolet. I think it's the one who had if
I remember it, with their ventures and they did a Disney Inspire and I bought a couple of those and flipped a couple of those, and they were tricked out with everything. Warner brother They weren't shoot me. They wen't Disney.
I think they were Warner brother Maybe they were Disney on it, but they were one or two. We're yeah,
still kind of cool. But then they had like the
little logos on them, and they had the little touches inside of it. And that's when they still first started
putting full down screens inside the vans. And that's kind
of mad because they had the entertainment center to watch movies and that's what's kind of the niche to it.
But I didn't really, I don't. I never that never
really made me any more money as far as I'm concerned, Like, I think, maybe it pulled people into the vehicle, but it didn't. It never surfaces more money in my pocket. Right,
Maybe it just made it easier to excuse. So, you know,
you see little things nowadays. And when I was out
in California's let me think about it, there was a car that was parked and it had some badges on it and I can't remember what it was for something that's I think movie related or whatever, and it was the theme that way. Now a lot of people go,
you know, I don't see too many of those. I
don't know if it's just certain dealerships doing it or they came because when I was a kid, if you guys ever followed the Running Rebels, which if you don't know, is a basketball team, and the Tarkanian was the coach.
They had a Tarkanian addition car that was sold in Las Vegas. Like I've never seen another one of them,
but it was done up in the colors. If you
guys remember Tarcany, he was the one who put a towel in his mouth and sucked on the towel all the time during the game. That's what he was known for.
So the car came with badging the tarcaane and then it came with a towel with like the un l V Like remember.
Speaker 4: Was it the Chevy Camaro when they did it the Decepticon and transformed?
Speaker 2: Right? Could you actually? That was one of the quess
I asked somebody. Was that's something the dealerships were doing
or was that something that Chevy was involved in doing, because I've seen him and funny you say that. As
I was walking through Burbank, there was like a seventy six Camaro yellow that looked like it was all beat up and it had one of the like the Bumblebee or it had a little logo on it. It had,
you know, so it was a Transformer logo that was on on it for for the Autobots logo. Yeah, I
get in their house, but yeah, I had the Autobots logo on it. And I almost walked by it, like what,
I even noticed it. And I kind of was walking
on the sidewalk when we were talking, and all of sudden it was here on the left tan side of me, and I stopped. I went, I looked, oh, that's kind
of cooling. I mean, but it was because I don't
remember what year that that that Camaro was in the movie, but I want to say it was right around me.
I looked the right, me wrong. But I appreciate that.
You know, the car does come with the symbol. I'm
PreCure that means it was like in the film, but I didn't. But here's the thing, Like, if you go
and look, you can buy those symbols. So I didn't
know if like like a dealership just bought a bunch of them, stuck them on every yellow one they had and called it the Auto Bought Edition, or if it was something like Chevy themselves were actually doing. Because I've
seen a lot of them over the years. Now, I
think that.
Speaker 4: Would make money. Though, Like just to go back to
you know what your original question was about. I could
see the adding value, you know, like when you mentioned the Disney stuff.
Speaker 2: But add value or just make it cool? That's what
that's like, I said's my question. I guess like when
it first comes out.
Speaker 4: I mean, let's take Disney for example, if I went to go buy a brand new car and then somebody was like, hey, I.
Speaker 2: Have theyde.
Speaker 4: Going to buy the Disney model? Because I'm a Disney fan,
you know. But and like Transformers, you know, if they
did like another one of those, I'd probably do that.
But if somebody was like, not to mess with you guys, but somebody was like, we got the frost and flake mod, well, I'll probably be okay, So do not.
Speaker 2: I think I talked about this, do you guys die?
Remember when everybody was doing the big wraps on their car, like like Cereal Box Cereal. That's what makes me remind
I just thought that was weird. I saw like the
weirdest one I saw. I saw the Applejacks one and
it was just kind of over the tipit loops. There
was an Apple Jacks so it was fruit loop. There
was a guy driving around with a Cheetos one. They
had all the Cheetos wrapper on it, which goes back.
Let me tell you, like that wasn't the first time when in like nineteen eighty six, there was a mini truck down the road for me when I I was growing up, and he had Chester Cheeto. When if Chester
Cheeto first came out, I want to say it was like eighty six. Acent me. Somebody will correct me, I'm
sure they always do. But they had an airbrush on
the back tailgate. And I always thought that was like
the coolest thing because it was air airbrush on the back of the tailgate of the truck. But these wraps
are like cuckoo for Coco puffs. I guess the best
way to put it crazy. And I don't now that's
not not if a manufacturer is something like that, I don't see the car ever selling. I just I just don't.
But I got to thinking about it, like what you could go back and do some other movies, right, and you could do like Vanishing Point, and you could do a Vanishing Point, you know, Challenger, And I think it would sell if you called it the Vanishing Point Challenger and you and you made it and even though it's a newer model, but you made it white and just like it was, and you did some badging, some some logos on. Now, I think that would sell because there's
such a huge following for that. Maybe not in other cars.
Maybe there's certain cars that it would work. And I
don't know, but you know, if you guys ever watched the show regularly, when you're looking at camera and the cameras on camera, like it is, right, the second behind him is a vanishing point, uh vanishing point poster that's back there, because I like, yeah, it's ready right behind him, and because I've always thought the movie was cool. I
like car movies that destroy a lot of cars, and that was one of them. They messed some cars up,
and then there's a lot of movies they mess up a lot of cars in. But it's one of those
things where, uh, I think certain badges I think you could probably put on cars and it maybe makes it cool.
I don't know if it makes it many worth any more money though, Like I don't know if that's you know, if that's where it is. It's it's more like a
collector thing, like if you like it just would you pay more money just because it had something that you were interesting cool? Would you just think it was cool
and didn't want to pay more money?
Speaker 5: Yes, and no, I'm like an association with the company.
It depends, like you know, like there's like different brands do collaborations. I think that's cool and some scenio. It
just kind of depends what, you know, what it is. Like,
you know, there was an article about the lady that you know, she sought out all the bugs that were I think Pokemon. Yeah, yeah, you were telling about you
that's pole like Pokemon, Like I want to search that.
Speaker 2: Well, it's if you were showing me before the show, like uh, like I said, we like Monopoly, right, and Nathaniel showed me that they made like a bunch of they weren't hot wheels Johnny Lightning cars you guys remember those, and they made a bunch of them that were Monopoly edition.
I gut, apparently, get the car and then you get the Monopoly a little piece. That's like so if you
had like a Mustang, you get a little Monopoly piece Mustang.
I never knew they made them, but I think it's really really cool. I had no idea they even made those.
But and I could see myself and here's the thing.
I see myself buying it because I want the Monopoly piece because I played Monopoly. But I'm like, damn, but
I really opened it up, opened, I really opened it up, and does it because something like something for thirty five bucks?
Right now? Yeah, I thought I about the same thing.
Speaker 5: I was like if I got them first, like Christmas stockings, I was like, would they keep them or they just all open it up because they like the pieces?
Speaker 2: Well, if I could get you guys to play the board game again. I probably opened up want to use
my board piece because I always wanted to be the car anyway, So if you give me a cool car and I really want to be the cool car, it all can be cars. We all get be cars, right,
That might be the reason to play again. But I
just I just kind of like, I just wonder like if Supreme, if Supreme decided to go ahead and do like a car collaboration or something like that, maybe they have and I don't know if they have.
Speaker 5: Somebody tell me, but probably not like you want to buy that because it was a collaboration, But like when they did like the watch thing, like when they're like, you know, some like car manufacturer do like watch brands, like I like watch it, So maybe I would like like the watch.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe I would give just because of you know, associated with a car brand or a style. So if
Rolex Society too, and they probably have to decided to collaborate with a car, would would you buy a car because it was collaborating the car, the watch the car?
Would you buy would it make you want to buy the car because it was I just don't think it would anything I know cameras over there steadily click on the keyboard, so he's looking at it.
Speaker 5: Really expensive, right, I don't I don't know. I guess
it really just depends on what you're buying it, and like what the collaboration is.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I sometimes I find it just to
be a little bit cheesy. Sometimes I don't know, Like
I get the Autobot and in the Decepticons, like because I've told you guys, I kind of want to build the Decepticon Mustang. I just think it would be kind
of cool to have it now. I just think it
would age out though. That This the only thing I'm
worried about. I'm afraid I spent all this money making
it and then it'd be like I'd have it for a little while and it would age out. I mean
I'd be like, all right, I built it, Now what do I do with it?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I drove it around a couple of times. Everybody's seen it. Now,
everybody's seen it. Do I really want it? Because everybody's
already seen it? So and it's just a black Mustang.
It is really has a black Mustang with a Shelby kit that's on it. I think, and it has some
things then, of course has all the badge on it.
So right, you're still neat Hollo, you guys, Tell me what you guys think. Tell me if you think it
makes it worth more money. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
I not, no, guys, I got to take another quick commercial break. We come back. We got one more segment
for you, guys. Hold tight, I'll be right back.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So you're still here for the
last segment. I got something weird for you. I don't
know if I say weird, maybe it's not weird. It's
not weird. Well, okay, let me tell you what happened,
and then you guys tell me if if my thinking on this is a little weird. So and they already
know a little bit of it because I was already complaining about it. You guys know, I've told you guys,
I kind of live out in the middle of nowhere, right, I mean just there's there's ditches everywhere and stuff. Well,
what ends up happening out this way is there's road closures all the time, rather be weather, because we get intercultural flooding whatever it is, and before you know it, the roads are covered up, and then we have little bridges.
You know, I talk about big bridges, but little bridges you have to cross to get out of my area, and the bridges are constantly breaking down or whatever. But
there's no like I know how maps work, and usually if there's like a traffic jam that tells you about a traffic jam. What doesn't happen is it never tells
me about the bridge is closed or they're doing road construction and now you can't go that way out here now.
I just so you guys understand, I understand some of the mapping programs will show you construction that's going on and you can add it to it's a really good future culy, so you can you can add it. But
I think some of the stuff that quickly pops up never makes it into the system. So I sometimes have
to drive like ten miles in a certain direction before I find out that that road is no longer any good.
Do you think that there's no other route?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 2: I mean like from that point, do I think?
Speaker 5: What do you think that when they do projects like that, that they should somehow be able to upload a block for the street or you know, you under construction before they started.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I think they should, like as soon as like a semini appisote as the bridge goes down, it should instantly be like it should alert my phone if you're within like a certain area, like hey, you were in this with you're within a temil radio's just so you know, the bridge just went down. You can't use the bridge. Hey.
By the way, we were like, what happened to me? Today?
We're working construction. Something has gone awry. I don't know
what it was because I didn't get close enough, but something's going awry, and now you can't go through the construction zone. We're turning everybody around. By the way, to
turn around my truck is like a nineteen point turn.
Turn my truck around, and everybody goes, oh, well, you're not very good at driving. No, that's not it at all.
Small roads, there's very small roads and very deep ditches on both sides. And when my truck has turned completely
sideways in the road, I am just a short distance of backing up from tire to tire on the edge of the ditch, so I have to go forward backwards, forward, backwards, ford backwards. To give you an idea, a small car
takes probably about seven to eight times for them to get turned around in a small vehicle, and my truck's almost twice the size of them, right. So I just
think that in today's technology that there would be something like Okay, I know that, and I don't know if they still use it, and they probably do, and I'm just probably not aware of it. Construction equipment used to
have beacons on them, and that's the beacons would send out a signal, and that's how you knew you were getting ready to come to a construction zone on the map systems. At least that's how they used to it.
And I don't know if they still do it that way.
And if you guys know, like I always tell you, let me know if you know any different. I think
there's to be something like as soon as there's an issue, you should be able to push a button at the bridges.
You should be able to push a button on something in the construction equipment that just sends out an alert warning to let you know, hey, don't drive ten miles in this direction because you're gonna get there and waste your time. It happened twice today. Okay, So this is
my rant for the day because it just that's the reason why I believe we need to we need some I've had a run away. I drove like ten miles
in one direction and the bridge was out. I had
to turn around and drive all the way back to basically where I started from. To go a different direction.
So I'm like, okay, I know another direction to get around to where I was trying to get to, because there is some alternatives, but the Altenas get further and further out to try to make the loop to come around.
So I went to the drove down. I drove another
like ten miles for the second alternative, and then I came to road construction and like I said, there was something wrong. I don't know what was wrong, but they
were turning people around. It said you're entering road construction area.
But it wasn't road closed or anything. It just said, hey,
you know, be aware, there's gonna be a flagger or whatever, like those little signs, you know what I mean. I'm like, okay,
well I could deal with that whatever. Still stupid traffic
that's driving you nuts. But I'm like I can deal
with it. And I get the up to it and
they're spinning people around. I'm like, okay, what's my next alternative?
Which was now dry all the way back like another ten miles again to come back out to basically where I started from. To go down another four miles to
be able to hook in, and now I'm like fourteen miles out from where I need to be. I sit
in traffic, right, and then I got sat. I sat
in traffic forever, which by the way, didn't even get me a warning for traffic until I was already in it, Like I was just like everything looked clear, and then all of a sudden, my little GPS in the truck turns red to tell me that I'm now and I'm like, I know I'm in it. Why couldn't you told me
that I was going to be in it before I got to it, not now that I'm in it. Maybe
you got to it right when it happened. No way, no,
no no, because I know that I know that area.
Neither it's clear or it's not right.
Speaker 4: Then you're looking for short cuts, like what side road do I can I take that? Nobody really knows about.
Speaker 5: Right, And I.
Speaker 2: Was already exhausting all those Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Trust me, I know about that, especially when you're going over like bridges and stuff, because out.
Speaker 2: By me there's so you know, you're forty five minutes from a lot of things where I live at, but if you know the old farm roads and country roads, you're fifteen minutes almost from anything out here. So do
you just break an emergency brought? Like all right, so
like how are I don't know emergency broadcast what you want to call it, but like something.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm just referring to to because like how our tunnels go through, they'll do some tests where like right when you hit the marker for the tunnel, it'll it'll cut off your radio and be like, hey, this is a tunnel test.
Speaker 2: Do you know brought blasi? I bought Wait, somebody responsible
for slapping a button somewhere. That's what I want, Okay,
But I mean, don't you think we already have enough amber alerts and stuff? Something about alert I'm just like
you want, like a traffic there just has to be something out there that keeps. Do you know how frustrating
is traffic to be when you're on a two lane road and you're trying to turn around one hundred cars on a two lane road with ditches on both sides.
It is not I mean, it's not pleasant for anybody.
And of course, sure enough as I come back down one way, people would already try to turn around behind me because I can think they realized that traffic was not going anywhere, and there's people in the ditch, and so now you have an accident because they're in the ditch.
I'm right now you got to fish them out, and they're sedans, are like little tiny cars and stuff, and there in the ditch. I'm like, I managed to get
my truck turned around nineteen point turn. But I managed
to get my truck turn around. You couldn't get that
little car turn around without falling in the ditch. Like,
so now you're stuck. You're stuck between you can't go
this way, and you're stuck because the cars halfway in the ditch is hanging out in the road. You had
to be able to swing around it, which means you have to go in the oncoming traffic lane, which is completely blocked up because all the cars are up there trying to turn around to you. So there's a line,
so there's no place to go, and you're just stuck.
At what point does everybody just throw it in reverse?
It's just this is my rant. Well, you would have
from where the first car accident was. I counted twenty
seven cars back to where cars were starting to come to a stop. So there's twenty seven cars deep from
just from that accident, going this way before cars were coming up on and going, Oh look, traffic is stopped.
Twenty seven cars already dead stop and they're blocking so there's no way for me to get around it. I'm
trying to like, I'm motion to people, like if you move over just a little bit, and I know you're scared to touch the grass, but if you get on the grass a little bit, we could probably move by.
If I pull my mirror in and we can get by each other, you know what I mean. Like, and
that's the situation you're in. I just like I said,
it's my rant. I just believe that there should be
something out there that keeps this from happening. Something somewhere
at this point, I feel like we're way advancing technology, right, I'm like, why you know that it will come up soon now that we've talked about it? Right right right
now that we've talked about it is something. But it's like,
I believe there's gotta be something already out there that exists.
But why why didn't it?
Speaker 5: What was It's not the first time, because like I said, you can apply different things on you know, for you can't whenever you know accidents.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just like it should just be something that's something, something that's automated that makes it automatically happen, Like I just I don't know. Maybe I'm just frustrated
because you know, a drive that should have took me fifteen minutes to day took me an hour and a half.
By the time I got there, I was extremely frustrated and I was just stuck. And then and then there's
a certain neighborhood that I hit that traffic's always bad, and it was just it was just I knew it was gonna be a bad day. The second time I
turned around, it didn't get any better. Traffic was crazy. Now,
I will say, by the time I need to make my way back through, uh, they finally got the bridge working, but traffic was still pretty heavy coming through there. So
I was like, wow, how long have they had the bridge open? Like, I don't know, it just seems a
little heavy after a couple hours. It's a little bit
of you know, pre planning. But how you look Okay,
so everybody leaves the neighborhood a certain weight. I'm sure
you guys don't take different routes every day out of your neighborhood. And there's probably not that many routes to
take anyway, so it's not like you're pre planned. I
was just trying to leave. I know I live in
the country, but it's still my neighborhood. It just takes
me longer to get out of my neighborhood out of the country. Still, it's the route you take to get
out of me. And might have not been able to
pre plan that.
Speaker 4: But what you can pre plan is on October twenty six is the Landstown car creepy car shoe between ten am and three pm. You thought I was gonna forget
about that and that I'm not a lot of people did reach out to us. It is on October twenty six.
That is the exact date, one ten am till three pm going to be at a Lancetown So just go check.
Speaker 2: Out and then from three o'clock to four o'clock they switch over to the Big Trunk and Tree. It is
the biggest trunk and tree that happens in Virginia Beach and probably anywhere real close to here. You're not going
to miss it. Every year. It is full of vendors,
full of tons of candy. We put like there's like
five thousand kids that come out there. A lot of
people love to come out and hang out with us every year, so I say, definitely come out and hang out with us. Got a couple of things up plan.
It should be pretty cool for the year. I'm not
gonna blow it what it is, but this is one of the big ending events of the year. Usually there's
a couple of little ones after that, but this is the big event of the of the end of the year.
So we're gonna have tons of candy, tons of things for you guys to do, So come out and see us.
That's at Lancetown on a twenty six. Like I said,
car show starts at twn and it switches over to the Trunk and Tree. So huh add it to your
calendar since you read planned for Trunks to your calendar And I know, guys, we gotta go ahead and get out of here. Hope you guys enjoy the show. It
is Saturday, so enjoy your Saturday. Sunday is right around
the corner. Make sure you unplug, spend some time with
your kids, play a board game with them, fire with the barbecue, hide those cell phones from the whatever it takes.
But send some family time we're gonna get out of you. Guys,
get anything before we go. Enjoy a weekends, all right,
guys right here, Talk to you soon.
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