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A lively discussion on the integration of robotics into the automotive industry highlights the potential for humanoid robots in manufacturing and service roles. The hosts reflect on the evolution of technology, from self-driving cars to automated car washes, and debate the implications for job loss versus efficiency gains. They also touch on auction cars, emphasizing the need for automotive knowledge when buying used vehicles. The episode wraps up with insights into new paint technology that keeps cars cooler and the future of drone scouting for traffic and road conditions.
Topics:
robotics in automotive
humanoid robots
job loss vs efficiency
auction cars
used car buying advice
new paint technology
drone technology
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Speaker 2: Happy Saturday, America. You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio w
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Chaos and navb. Hey, guys, so it's been an interesting week.
People have been sending me pictures all week long. I
think it's because we've I think we talked about this topic so much. People are like, oh, you said it
was coming, and what am I talking about? Robots? Guys.
So it's funny how I have to laugh because you know, I went back and people send me a bunch of pitchs about I was going back up, like It's been years we've been talking about this, like how robots were really good, you know, and usually it was like self driving cars and stuff like that. But then when we
started seeing like humanoids start to be developed and you guys didn't know, ye how they do exist and they have for a while, I was like, it's just a matter of time before we start using that. Like in
the car industry. I think our first push really for it.
And I told you guys was what two years ago when we saw the automatic car tire changer in the at Sema where it was taking the tires off and off the car and changing the tire on the rim, put a new tire on and putting it back on the car, and I was just like, this is the beginning of it now. I mean that was just a robot, right,
I mean it was just a big It almost.
Speaker 3: Looked like this machinery and an arm machine.
Speaker 2: There used to be a game when we were kids, and I can't remember what it was, but it had like a radio controlled arm that used to lift and move and all kinds of stuff, and they all can remember what that was called. But this was exactly what.
It reminded me of.
Speaker 3: Your vision of the claw machine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like yeah, our version of this weird clow machine.
But it was you hadn't It was radio controlled and I camember with some type of toy or game or something like that. So it was kind of like that.
But now, you know, humanoid robots which are basically shaped like us and arms and legs and walk and all kinds of stuff are becoming like big news now. You
guys know, I talked to you about it. You know,
Tesla was trying to develop it for like home cleaning and all that kind of stuff, and I think they're still on that track. But I said that, you know,
for me, I thought that was just like the gateway to the automotive industry. I was like, once you get
to the point where you can train a robot to do a whole lot of things, you're gonna start using in the manufacturing plants. And I can start seeing them
like in automotive warehouses. I could see them at your
local auto.
Speaker 3: Parts store pick up the doll work right all right.
Speaker 2: Right to pick up all like that. I mean, I
could see like humanoid robots doing restocking on the shelves at a Yeah, you know, I can totally just that being the case, right, I can see them.
Speaker 3: Like it's a little bit of form of like the movie Chappie. And then I think of real steal when
they're pulling all like the robots from the junk yard and they're like scrapping for parts.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I didn't even think about that like that that absolutely so think about it, like if you could have a a robot, right like go out to the junk yard and pull that starter off that car that you needed to bring it back to you. I know that seems far fetched, but I
don't when you start watching what some of these robots can do in the applications, I don't think we're far from that. Like I said, imagine, like you pull up
to like your auto wash, right name everyone. We have
an auto bell out here, and there's a bunch of other ones. We used to have a Jestic until they
got bought out. But I really like them. But imagine
if you like they're doing all the hand drying and all that kind of stuff for you.
Speaker 3: I mean, like, now, do you think you'd be paying for that service or do you think that's just gonna be kind of encumbered into I think every day, Like.
Speaker 2: I think it's gonna come, you know what. I could
see it being a novelty for a while, where like would you like to watch the robots draw, you know, dry your car for.
Speaker 3: An extra five dollars mob boxing type deal, right right.
Speaker 2: I could see, Like I really because we're so messed up in this world, like it literally sees like somebody trying to that's the weird.
Speaker 4: It's like we're almost trying to recreate the movie Reel of Steel. I mean, I mean all those type of
movies have a good you know point, yeah.
Speaker 2: Right, they do. Have you guys seen okay, have you
guys seen the weird I should say weird the very interesting, like the car wash. You may have one out by you.
We have one here. I think it's over on the
other side of the water. That kind of does like
a themed movie while you're inside the car washing.
Speaker 3: It's not it's like a color it's like a color show.
Speaker 2: It's beyond that. Now. Really, I'm not talking like the
ones I've seen, the ones that like the color and stuff like that. This one has like they change the
theme out like all the time, like they may do like dinosaurs or whatever on the inside you know, and stuff like that when you go through it like that.
And I thought that was kind of camera shait and said, I thought it was a little cheesy when I heard it until I saw and I was like, well, you know what, I probably wouldn't that.
Speaker 4: I could see how it could be profitable. I mean,
think about a Disney night. I'm you can think about
how many families would come for.
Speaker 2: It's almost like going to like, yeah, some weird dinner show in a car wash, you know, like hand out some beef jerkeys and go through.
Speaker 4: I don't know, but like breaks out well with with electric vehicles now, the Captain Sea could just turn around they having family board game nights in the car.
Speaker 2: And I get it, right, So I completely get it and I understand, but I'm like, I start thinking about that.
I just think all the possibilities. And it's funny because
I said, we've been talking about and people I think we talked. It's we've had it in conversations so many
different times, right that people are like, they send me now the stuff like, oh you said it. Another thing
was And the thing I got that really put me onto it was the Chick fil A like little buggy wagon thing. If you guys haven't seen it, I just
this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I just saw that this week and in my mind, I was like, that's creative. And then I thought,
isn't Uber going to get mad? Like Uber eats people
and grub hub people going to get mad just like the taxi companies, you know when we when those companies start stealing the taxi company jobs.
Speaker 2: I mean, so if you guys haven't used some of those services late, like there's like your regular fast food places outsourced to them, right, but you guys heard all the like the they look at the bags and how much that person tip, And that's the reason why I don't.
So they have to combat that, right the frist is that combatanto that as far as it's robots that drive and.
Speaker 3: Were dedicated to that one service, they're thinking only about doing the job.
Speaker 2: Right right, Absolutely, they're not. They're not worried about.
Speaker 4: Thee So let me ask you this, So, would you order from a robot? I mean, I know it's a
side from cars, but.
Speaker 2: They're using wheels and stuff for all this time.
Speaker 4: Would you order food from a robot all the way out here? Do you think it would arrive at the
same time? That a normal person would I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think you could do it where we live because we live in the country to take too long for that thing to get out to It'd be great if it did work that way, because there's a lot of people who don't deliver to us, like it's very very few. And I told you I had to tip
quite well for the driver usually to come out to me because they don't want to come out to me.
Speaker 3: I would say it would be kind of cool, like if those things we had, like doom buggy tires, you saw it jump in hills to get you your food.
Speaker 4: I mean, that would be a really cool to scene me in here over over here creating the whole commercial.
He's like, it starts off as an off road just little robots, and so when.
Speaker 2: We did it was something like that, and then it gives you the video to show what it had to go through to get to you. Like that that might
be marketable. It's like, let me show you what I
had to do to get to you. But robots like,
I'm for it, but I start thinking about like the jobs that are gonna be lost. Now I understand and
when we're wrong, because I get hate mail every time we get to this conversation. We did this to ourselves
on a certain degree, like I robots, we did it to ourselves. There's a lot of jobs we've asked. I
think we've asked a lot up very high pay for certain jobs. There's certain jobs that are never meant to have.
Speaker 3: Well, that's why I think the robots are a necessity, right, because there is jobs that are just so simplistic that you don't really need a bide, you know, to sit there and well paint door frame or you know, just the simple you know, putting nails in a stunt or I mean simple tasks like.
Speaker 2: There's people like and nothing. Again, it's not against the
autumn maker world or anything like that, but you know, I was using the example and I've seen in the past and I don't I can't speak on it completely, but certain jobs like in the in the manufacturing facility where people their job is to put like four bolts in and that's just what they do, like and sim and then right and assembly, the lines set up, and then they go I'm not getting paid enough money for that.
I need X amount of more dollars. At some point
in time, the company goes well, maybe you just develop a robot to do that. And that's where we are
with that with delivering food. Now now you're putting robots humanoid, right,
Everybody's like, oh, we've had robots in car manufacturing for a long time, not ones that walk around with arms and legs and you know what I mean. Stuff Like
I saw one of the things somebody sent me was it was that new robot, the humanoid robot. And the
other one was these like they're wheels, are on wheels and their machines and they're driving and they have tasks and stuff like that, and they're passing each other in the warehouse and they.
Speaker 3: Have like yeah, so Amazon had and stuff like that.
Amazon has their own little drones that they shuffle around to do categorizing why the stuff that's being jobs right exactly, bing w. They just tested a product of two robot
of where they're gonna basically do manufacturing and so which is gonna be you know, really crazy if they ever get that on the floor.
Speaker 2: Like, if you haven't seen this setup, like go take a look at some of the videos, guys. Is is
absolutely crazy. Uh some of the things that you see
and how it works out and what they're gonna do and then like their future goal for it. I get
it because of the money that goes with it. And
everybody's like, oh, it's not going to create job loss, and I don't know how that doesn't.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit of both, right, Like you might create job loss, but you also we can have more jobs.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: Things get pushed out a lot quicker and stuff. There's
not so much harsh you know, harsh labor on the body.
You know, that's kind of like where people fizzle out because you do it for so long. You know, they're
lifting all this heavy labor wise and stuff. If a
rollbot can take all that heavy lifting off, then that's great, don't you agree.
Speaker 4: I mean, I at some point we're gonna need the humans still, though I don't stand and then get rid of it. Is we're still gonna need some humans in it.
And I think that's what most people are afraid of, is they hear robots or they hear AI and they think that it's all going to take all these jobs away.
But I don't think it's.
Speaker 3: I think if you do your job good enough and neil, you'll be around. I think if you slack off and
the robot does just a little bit better, you might get kicked to the curb a little bit better that performance.
Speaker 4: These people hate the performance comment where it's like, oh, you're on a performance metric. Now you're on a performance
metric for a robot, Like come.
Speaker 2: On now, no, And I completely get it. It's it's
one of those things where I understand the need for it, right, like the complete need for robots for certain things. But
I do worry about the job loss that's gonna come with that at some point time. Like I said, now,
I think sometimes we've done it to ourselves. Uh. I
like technology. I've told you guys that before. But to
a certain degree, I like technology, and in the automotive world, I think you're gonna see a lot more of it.
And I think you're gonna see like it's gonna be the mundane job.
Speaker 3: It's always sad to see if things go right, but we always got to continue forward. Well, and that's kind
of where we you know, we have to. That's that's
where it's going.
Speaker 2: It is one hundred percent. It is the necessity for advancement, right,
you know, like you just can't if you stay still, then nothing ever changed.
Speaker 3: Well as we've known for the last four years, you know, manufacturing slowing down. We can't keep up with parts. You know,
manling is getting you know, backed up. So I mean,
if we can just produce things faster and a more robust capability and stuff, and then it's all pros.
Speaker 4: I'm down for it. But my thing is, it's just
like what's gonna come out of the end, and you know, like there's always good things about it? What's the bad?
You know, it ain't nobody really mentioning what the bad?
Speaker 3: Miss the bad. That bad is you know, you could
potentially lose a job, but that's not I mean, you're filtering on the bad part of it, right. The good
part is that it makes jobs easier. Efficiency goes up,
productivity goes up. You know, that's kind of what we're achieving.
And now there's always good and bad to everything.
Speaker 2: There is definitely always good and bad to everything. It's
just it's one of those things, like like I said, it just comes down to progression, guys. And I know
it's hard for you guys to understand, like you know, everybody's like, man, you know, you guys, you know, you guys are an automotive show. But it seems like robot
technology and all that comes in your guys' you know, conversations all the time. You can't help if you guys
go to some of the stuff that we go to, right, Like, you cannot get away from it. So integrated, like when
you go to an auto show, robot technology, AI technology, self driving technology, you name it, whatever you want to call.
It is integrated in the automotive world so bad that it's hard for us not to talk about it on this show because always, like, man, I just I just want to hear about car stuff.
Speaker 4: I can't.
Speaker 2: I hate hearing about the robots, and I'm like, I wish we could, but it's the set. Technology is taken.
Speaker 4: Over some bird technology. Back then, the word car and
technology didn't mix. Nowadays, they're an everyday thing now Now,
if you mentioned a brand new car, it has technology. Yeah,
you know it's not mechanical, right, I just can't get away from it.
Speaker 3: That's what I really misses. They miss the mechanical aspect
of whatever they're building or whatever they're using. You know,
everything's more technical now, so there isn't You can't showcase something technical. You can only showcase something that's mechanical, right,
I mean, it's more appealing to see something that you know that's built, that works in your mysterious ways.
Speaker 2: No, I agree with you, Like I said, for me, it's it's a it's a weird rub back and forth, right.
So it's just one of those things where you just don't know one way or the other how it's all gonna work out. But at the end, one thing I
can tell you is you're not going to stop progression when it comes to integrating robots and stuff like that.
I like I said, the Johnny Ride thing, and you know, we joked about that, you know a couple months back where the text cab driver turns around talks to you and these robots stuff like that drive and I think it's cool. I think it's funny. But with that being
cool and being funny, I totally see that being something real.
Speaker 3: Everything will be about it when they can have a personalized show for personalized cook right, when.
Speaker 2: You can show it off and say look what I got.
Speaker 3: Right exactly, that's when it's going to It's like I roll by. I mean, there's so many movies that really
play a good, you know picture of like how themes can go and like where things are.
Speaker 4: Leading, Well, what do they always say, the movie prepares you for it, So I.
Speaker 2: Mean it does, it does. It'll be interesting to see
where it goes, Guys. Like I said, I don't there.
I guarantee in the next three months to six months, we're gonna have tons more news that's gonna come out that's going to integrate those two. Like I said, if
you go to what is the e c S Electronic Consumer or Electronic Consumer, I can never remember the name of it, but that has become like a car show, and that was all about computers. So it's like the
two a flipped. Now everything's car related in the and
not everything but a bunch of car related at that show, and that never used to be the case sc exactly.
I was like, I knew it was one of those.
But it's interesting those two worlds are coming together and there's nothing we can do about it. Sorry, guys, get
used to it, and I know. Let me take quick
rush of break. When I come back, I got some
more for you. You guys, Hold tight, I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Let's Talk Cars Radio, your automotive specialist.
Now back to your host, Dave Polach.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back to the show. So here's another
topic that came up this week. It was kind of
I don't know, people seem to I think what happens a lot of times is we'll talk about stuff on shows and then people go back and listen to old episodes and then it gives them like they listened to it, They're like, oh, and then they send me comments from older stuff. And I saw somebody semi a message and
it was about auction cars. And I know we talked
about auction cards before us. I know, we never really
like dove really deep into it, and we probably could at some point. Some of bad they are like everybody's like,
you know, so is there really something you know good to be out at the auction? And my answer to that,
to a lot of much time is like, well, how much time you got my I understand there's a lot of car auctions out there in every single state that you guys can attend and you guys can buy cars at right. I mean there's tons of YouTube channels dedicate
to people buying cars from auctions and fixing.
Speaker 3: The local auctions, state auctions, federal auctions.
Speaker 2: Like I'm surprised, like I like them. I go to
a bunch of them, Like I'm just I'm a I'm a I'm a car guy, So I go to tons of them that most people like. It's just part of
my going down, you know, the rabbit hole in a weekly basis. I just always go to look to see
what's available. I mean, one of the ones I go
to always mystifies me is, uh thegov dot com one?
Speaker 3: Right, So talking about the n POUND one or.
Speaker 4: Different government, the government has three different agencies that they use to be able to put their vehicles out.
Speaker 2: I'm not talking about I see his vehicles or something.
Speaker 4: Now you're talking about like government, Like you're talking about where our legislations or some type of government.
Speaker 2: And they're they're getting ready to like the pick up trucks and their SUVs and there's which some of the cars thrown in there or whatever. Some of those I
see ones that I'm like, oh, that's cool. When I
say it's cool, and everybody goes, well, you know, Dave, I heard you talk about auctions before and you're like, oh, they're pretty cool stuff like that. When I say they're cool,
let me clarify by saying they're cool for me. And
what I mean by that is if you're trying to save money another project, these are probably some other.
Speaker 4: Use to that car.
Speaker 2: People. So there was a period time I told you guys,
I used to flip a lot of cars. So that's
how I taught the boys how to work on cars.
I bought a lot of cars, we fixed them, and I bought a lot of those from auction. And when
I bring them and I look at what need to be done, and the boys would help me work on them.
Then we'd flip them and make money on them. Because
it was just something that was way to teach them, right.
But I didn't have like one time that that a car didn't need something that we bought from the auction.
So when people are like, well, I think about going to the public auction, and I'm gonna go ahead and buy this car for my daughter, or I'm gonna buy it for my son, or I'm buying it for myself.
I insert the story here because people ask me my opinion all the time. I'm like, if you have car knowledge,
maybe that's the route for you. But if you don't
have a whole lot of car knowledge, then it's obviously.
Speaker 4: It's not just it's not just a pickup and just okay, here's the keys. You know, like you're gonna have to
do an inspection on that car or let.
Speaker 2: Me dive into a little bit. So here's the thing
I tell you, guys. Ever used car that you buy
needs anywhere from fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars worth of work on it. What makes you think you're going
to go to an auction and it doesn't need to work.
An auction is a car that somebody has decided to part ways with for usually a reason. Now of people go, well,
I go to the auction and they're repos right, and I usually go okay. In most cases of a car
has been repoked and they weren't making the car payment, do you think they kept up with the maintenance on that car? The chances are no, and I'm not saying
that's always the case, but time i'm waiting one way or the other, I'm gonna say, no, they didn't keep up with the maintenance either.
Speaker 3: A lot of time reposts try to sell their cars right before they try to put them to auction because they know they're going to get a lesser value at octiontube.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of there's there's some banks they just don't care, you know, they just go straight to the to the auction they're auctioned off because the customer has to pay the difference what the car didn't sell for if you didn't know that. By the way, there's been
some shady stuff going on about the last two years.
I've been kind of heard about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I try to say some people from falling on that trap.
Speaker 2: Absolutely so, It's just it's one of those things where the auction, like I said, can work out for you depends on what you like. Like for me, i'm looking,
I'm not anymore back in the day I did, but like nowadays, when i'm looking, I'm looking for something that's souped up with some type of muscle car or something like that that me had to knock that front end knocked off of it or something like that that I'm like, Okay, I can put a front end on that car, and I really don't care that it was having front end knocked off it because all we're going to do is just it's gonna be a playtoy for us, So we don't really care, you know what I mean, Well, you're.
Speaker 3: Looking for like a specialty like it has a certain part on it, front kit or engine.
Speaker 4: What I'm looking for. I'm like looking for, like, all right,
so this front car is completely destroyed, but it has the whole back end and there's a second card just like where has the whole back end destroyed? But yeah,
it's like piece them together and.
Speaker 2: That that's different. So when I try to tell you
guys that, you know, hey, I go to the auction sites and I look, you know a lot of times that's kind I'm looking for performance based stuff like you know, of course, I told you guys, the floodings are happening.
I know a lot of cars can go to auction.
I'm steadily kind of like browsing the site. Why because
I know there's going to be some fastback Mustangs and stuff like that. They're going to show up that you
might be able to buy for nothing. And I don't
care that was flooding because I'm gonna throw the drive train away anyway. All I really want to reach take
everything out, Like I just I'm just after the body of the car.
Speaker 3: It's heatly modified. You just want the modified parts because
so she it's cheaper than just buying them, you know, straight up from the manufacturer.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. I'm like, I see cars all the time and
I'm like, holy cow, look at all the performance parts are on this car. And then the car has been
smacked in the back end. I'm like, Okay, the car's junk,
but there's forty thousand dollars worth of a motor and performance parts on the car, and the top bit on it's five grand. Well, you know what, that might be
a good buye. That's why I say, cool, time to
get my stiggler sell out for the average person, right, that's going Like I said, this is looking to buy a car for themselves, and it's looking for their daughter, their son or whatever and stuff like that. I'm gonna
say that probably the auction isn't the route for them.
That's just not the right avenue. For them to go.
And I've told you guys this is kind of before because people have asked me about the auction and I'm like, it's the auctions for somebody has, as far as I'm concerned, has extensive car knowledge and can do a bunch of work on it and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: I think that has to do with everything of used cars in general. I think if you're gonna buy a
used car, you should have somewhat of the knowledge that you're going into or you know you're gonna spend them money, right, you know, some understanding that you know this isn't gonna be an easy project.
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do a big charity event. We're gonna be out there
this year, so look for it. I'll start getting guys
all the details. I did post some stuff today, so
head on over to Let's Talk Cars Radio. You'll see
some of the stuff posted. But as more stuff comes
out and I know more details we close to September, I'll let you guys know. But it is coming. It's coming.
Speaker 4: They made their Yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 2: Anyway back to what we were saying with the auction stuff, guys, and as Nathaniel said, use cars too. And he makes
a very good point. If you're not tech savvy, you
need to weigh that in, like, Okay, someone's gonna have to do this work for me. We're motivated to right
or motivated.
Speaker 4: Not tech savvy. But because tech savvy can go different ways.
Now technology automotive savvy. You know how to change a tire,
how to you know?
Speaker 3: I mean that's not necessarily to though, that's not necessarily true R because youve got to be technical too. I mean,
there's not really manuals out anymore. It's not like you
can go to the shelf. Let me go pull the
manual off the bookshelf. I mean you're just talking about
I mean, you gotta go with Google and you go through forms and I mean so there is a little bit of technical anasis goes on.
Speaker 2: We got the bad am apart. Right. You know, we've
been working on stuff like that, but because we're swapping modified parts on a lot of things don't line back up right because there's now modified parts.
Speaker 3: And the biggest pass ever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so Nathaniel is like, and camering, he said, They're like, man, can't we get like a tech anniel for this thing?
Speaker 3: Do this?
Speaker 2: I'm like, they probably still make one, but it's only gonna apply so much because we're swapping so far.
Speaker 4: Right, we do have a tech manual on your phone, Yeah, but it's not what we're really looking for. We had
a whole debate is a boat supposed to go from the top or from the bottom? And how to look
it up? It is because not because it would have mattered,
but because we wanted to know how they wanted us to do it.
Speaker 2: Look, we would have held either way. I just don't know.
I can't in disassembly. I got everything apart, and I
know where the boat goes, I just can't remember which direction because it would work both ways. I'm like, okay, this,
does the head of the boat go on with this side or is the nut go on this side? And
there's nothing really like in situations like that there's never telling.
And that's where I say, being like being car savvy, Now, imagine you buy a car from the auction, use a bunch of work. There's those things matter.
Speaker 4: So do you think I just really wanted to say, And don't try going to call to the text because they're going to ask you, well, what is your instruction?
Speaker 2: See, we've got a bunch of a bunch of custom parts of the car and certain things. It's not an
instruction situations like this, it's just not an instruction which way they wanted to go through. And you're looking at it,
You're like, it could go either way and it's not an instruction, and you call them they sell it and they're like, you know, I'm not real sure. I'm like,
but it's your product, Like what, I just need to know which way you want me to bolt it through because it technically, I guess it probably doesn't matter, but I just want it to be correct, you know what I mean, Like at then of the day to end of the day, like I'm just weird about it. I
want it to be correct and I want to know that that's the right way. And everybody's like, doesn't really matter.
I'm like but to me, it.
Speaker 3: Does, well, it does when you lock tight and you tork in every thing down and you realize someone's messed up and you got to dissemble an hour and a half.
Speaker 2: Away, right, So I'm just trying to you know, like I said, And then you get to the point and you don't You just don't know, and that's happening. So yeah,
he's he's laughing because we put something together and I'm like, I think it goes this way. There's no instructures telling you.
We get together and you find out that like a like like little not like just a little bit of a bolt sticking out as much it makes a difference for the next part sliding in right, And you're like, I would have never known that.
Speaker 4: Like that brings us right back to the auction vehicles, because if you're not a car person, you're gonna look at it and be like, well, it looks right, you know, Just like there's people that have those little metal things that they go around tapping it. It's because they're trying
to look to see if there's ever been body repair on that article and stuff.
Speaker 2: You guys have never seen me use one of those, Just so you know, I'm the old school guy that runs his hand across the panel and usually you can pretty much tell now I did carry it. They're doing
it with magnets and stuff like that, but I back in the day, I did have a magnet, but that didn't always work. Like a lot of times, you can
tell if a car been abused by running your hands up from the wheel wells and stuff like that, and you can feel things that just alert you to I'm not saying everybody can do that. I'm not saying that's
the best way to do it, but every yeah, you start asking a question or now a ton times paint doesn't match up right anyway, Like all you got to do.
Like I can't count how many times I've hurt so many people's feelings. They buy a new car and I'm like, hey,
you know, in front of that car's been paying right, They're like, no, it haden, Like yes, it has. The
front of that car's been painting, And I'm like, but they're not car like their car people. But they're not called.
Speaker 3: Out of the people that do repaint it. They don't
tell nobody. And then when you mentioned, they're like, well,
how'd you know?
Speaker 2: Right, You're like, what happened to you too. Oh yeah,
it happens. And like I said, you feel bad because
you're not like I had somebody get really mad. You're
just made it really upset with me about their truck because they just bought a brand new truck, new to them, i should say. And he pulled in a lot and
he was happy about it and stuff like that, and I just went, hey, man, you know the bed's I'm painting it right, And he's like, no, it hasn't. I'm like,
stand back here, and when you could tell upon it.
But when you stood back, you could clearly tell that the bed had been painted, but you had to step back.
It was like a twenty footer that you could Hell, he's like, I never noticed that.
Speaker 3: And you start having questions like why did you paint it?
Speaker 2: When you're buying a car and look at you lot.
People don't know.
Speaker 4: It's like, Yesnate spends eight hours waiting for his vehicle, but different story. Man, you just made me forget what
I was about to say, Well.
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quick commercial break when we come back. Maybe can't remember
what it was he was gonna say, if not. I've
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. Hey. So, here's something that I
hate to say that I told you so, but I like sometimes being able to say I told you so and feel great sometimes and then and then in the same breath, I want to say flashback, because anybody that knows we have all right, it wasn't very long ago.
We had more conversations than I ever cared about when it came to airbags, right, I mean, everybody knows the Tacata airbag problem. I mean we wouldn't go away, just
wouldn't go away.
Speaker 4: We talked about forever and I said, literally go away from Daniel.
Speaker 2: They said so many letters about his Honda, about his airbag first and then that bw So here's here's the issue, right, I said it, and like I said, I'm not trying to be like that guy. But but it goes without saying,
like why am I the only person that seemed to care?
It seems like I don't know, maybe other people did, but I'd sure enough didn't see much of the media.
I was like, they make airbags for so many people, there's no way that this is curbed to just these vehicles.
I'm like, they made so many airbags. I mean, they
were the company if you had got an airbag, but it was like it was coming from them. And I
kept saying that. Everybody's like, I sure, I'm glad I
don't have that car, and I'm like, but you, but you do. I mean you you have a different manufacturer.
I said, but people, but they were a national supplier.
You know. These people were one hundred percent and complete denial.
And when I had I had the conversation so many times.
I'm like, your car has the Tacata airbag in it.
They're like, no, it doesn't. I don't drive that type.
I'm like, you're right, but just do your research, Like like you're all you're doing is this, and I need you to do this, you know.
Speaker 3: What i mean.
Speaker 2: Like it's just one of those things that I'm like, please do some research and know that your car has it to cut airbag in it. I'm not saying and
I was, and I used to say, I'm not saying yours just bad. I'm just saying, how is it that
the air bags that were made for this particular model during around the around your modelight, how do they go around your manufacturer and your model when they're and they were like, and people get like mad at me because people are brand okay, Like I get it. People are
brand loyal. I'm brand loil on certain things. I like
my Chevy trucks. Say what you guys want whatever. I
did Ford trucks for a while, so I can speak from experience, and I had a Toyota once. Now, I mean,
I problem with my Toyota just it was too small for me. I had a Toylet Takoma. I just felt
like I was in it. It just wasn't my truck.
And I got rid of it very quickly. But I
did do Fords for a while, and it just it.
My maintenance on a floor was more expensive than it was on a Chevy. It's just what it is. Now.
People will argue that to death. And I got friends
who have Dodges that want to argue with me constantly on that too, because I always go, oh, I got Dodge on my hands. So but my mean is it's
in the truck world, okay, or maybe like I'm not really much for work on minivans either, But I'm just saying if you're a mini van driver. Dan Craig had
a triple minivan, just saying but, and he loved it to death because it was his baby. I didn't get it,
but he got it. It was what he was into.
Speaker 3: But you know, you enjoy what you enjoy.
Speaker 2: You enjoy what you enjoy. Now, when it comes to
muscle cars, I told you guys, I think all muscle cars are cool. I don't care who the manufacturer is.
It does not bother me. If it's cool, it's cool.
Speaker 3: I'm just yeah. I think brands play a small part
and thing. I think at the end of the day,
it really comes down to the product and the quality it because you know, companies come and go, even when they have loyalty brands and their big names, and we've seen big names fall all the time they do.
Speaker 2: But here, like at the end of the day, like, I don't know what it is with certain muscle car guys.
And I know there's muscle car guys out there, but only like a certain brand. I'm just not that guy. I
like them all. I like Dodge, I like Chevy, I
even like I won't say Toyotas really but the Super I I don't consider.
Speaker 3: That they're nice the time to.
Speaker 2: Trucks are really cool. I probably would own one, but
I've been Chevy loyal forever, but probably because I just know my Chevy's inside and out now that drive one for such.
Speaker 3: You also grew up on Chevy, right, so I kind of play a.
Speaker 2: Part we grew up on and I My first truck was a photo was F one fifty. But I've told
you guys before, I wanted to lift it and all kinds of stuff everybody goes. That's the reason why he
had problems with it. No, that wasn't the reason why
I had problems with it. It just wore everything out,
Like I kid you not, And I will say this, I told you, guys this before. I bought Fords for
fleets when I was in charge of purchasing fleet vehicles.
I bought Fords because you could beat them to death and they would last. But the minute you try to
take care of one, it seemed like I just wanted to fall apart on you. And I could not understand
that I did. Anybody can explain to me. Just let
me know. I didn't buy Chevy's, guys, and everybody's like, oh,
I stayed away from Chevy's in the fleet industry, we did Fords. Why because it was like the other it
was a reverse the Chevy. You couldn't really I couldn't
feel like you couldn't beat on it, and I want to even beat on it. As employees beat your stuff up.
They just do. And I didn't feel like I could
get the longevity out of it. Now, we did a
couple of chevyes and we tried them, and I just didn't.
We didn't. They didn't last. They just did not last.
Speaker 4: Chevy or for while for.
Speaker 1: Us.
Speaker 4: For you commercial commercial people argue, the construction guy walks into a dealership, he ain't looking at Chevy, he looking at Ford.
Speaker 2: Like that's because I did buy. So I bought a
Chevy van in the fleet business. One time I needed
a van I wanted, you know, I went to the Chevy dealership, negotiated a deal for the company I was working for, and got the van. It ran great, but
I knew once it was gonna get a little over one hundred thousand miles on it, I was going to put a transmission in. I just knew like there was
gonna be certain things. I knew what was gonna need
and I didn't have to do that as quickly with the Fords. Like I didn't have all the suspension problems
with on a Ford. They just went down the road.
But when I tried to take care of my Ford truck that I had, that's all I chased was suspension issues on it. And everybody's like, it's because it was lifted.
I get it. But I lifted chevyes and didn't have
that problem. So are you I know you're all gonna
argue with me. I'm gonna see it. I already I
know opened this can of worms. I'm making a bunch
of to say email to but I'm just saying so many parts are interchanged, and I was I had said it for the kick. I'm like to Coda made a
lot of stuff for a lot of people. And I'm
not bagging off. I'm just not you know, things happen
whatever and they address the issue. But I just thought
it was funny how people are like, this ain't gonna happen to me, and I'm like, but I think it's going to and here we are, and that happens to be a lot and then people I call it out, and then people that don't want to have the conversation with me anymore. I'm like, told yourself, just told yourself,
and you're not liked. Not trying to be a guy.
I'm just saying there's another another thing that popped up this week. So smart lights. Right, we talked about, well,
four years ago we talked about smart lights.
Speaker 3: Yeah, is that what it was like? They've been kind
of doing different designs. They've been around already.
Speaker 2: There was two things we said, right, I was like, the two things I think we needed to change the design.
One was headlights and when shoul White person the way they work, I just feel it's old technology now all of a sudden, like they did this big, huge pushing it into headlights. That we had headlight conversations seemed like
for two years that we've kept on seeing all this new stuff. Now here we are again.
Speaker 4: They're too bright. Now, well you can get past that.
Speaker 2: You know. There's like I said, got automers. Now they're
doing auto dimmers and they're they're really love that.
Speaker 3: Each in my car by the way, when it just flicks the high beings on and offer me is like was feature ever?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got it too.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna worry about it.
Speaker 2: I like the fact I don't have to put my hand on it. It just does it. But the fact
that now, so aren't you guys. So now the feature
we're talking about is where the headlights they want to move.
But and everybody goes, oh, that's been around for a while.
Stop this technology not so much. It's going to follow
your eye pattern and or your head movement while you're in the car, and the lights will move as you look around and while you're inside your car, which is just facial recognition put into basically the headlights system.
Speaker 3: It's eye tracing with head motion.
Speaker 2: They're gonna get great. Just something else to break once again,
cool technology, right, like you know stuff.
Speaker 4: I could see that technology gaining people in trouble. I mean,
if you're watching people walk down the side of the street and your headlights you want.
Speaker 2: To talk about that, I mean, it's actually what they're working on right. The second is where if you move
your head, like, the whole light's not gonna move like, it's gonna know and it's supposed to.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to like if you're like really looking through the glass, then it knows that you're like trying to move your eyesight to a certain object. So it's not
supposed to take small movements into account.
Speaker 2: They're going to integrate that with the smart windshield if they ever get that put in the car. I'm still
waiting for it, but I could see those two working together, which will be smart. And like I said, you guys
haven't seen the smart wind show, go check it out.
It's actually really really well.
Speaker 3: When you were just talking about the wippers, I'm surprised that, you know, Rainex has been around for a while and we have you know, rain proof stuff all the time.
Speaker 2: So I'm watches.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but like you were talking about, like we gotta get like wipers are kind of old technology, right, So how come is there a reason why we don't have like a rain x windshield where I mean no rain six slides.
Speaker 2: Right said this several times. I'm like, I just feel
like there's a better way to clear the window than wiping a blade across it back and forth. And I'm
not trying to put any wiper blade company down a business.
You guys know, I love my Bosh blades. I just do.
I brag about them all the time. I think they're
a great blade. I know they're a little expensive, a
little they well Okay, so they feel wipers in general expensive.
They cost more than the average blade. But I have
no problem paying for something I know works and gives me great satisfaction to know it's gonna work.
Speaker 3: What what it works?
Speaker 4: Why are you guys trying to break the system.
Speaker 3: Technology?
Speaker 2: Wogy?
Speaker 3: Because here's the thing. I'll tell you why.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you why that one technology that does not need to change in some of the does.
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you why because when we have really bad thunderstorms or there's rain, it does nothing. You can't
see the wipers, even though the wipers have gotten fancier all the time.
Speaker 4: And we got more fix. Have you ever tried your
window defrost circum No, it doesn't rain down where.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: I'm just a visibility.
Speaker 2: It's just the water is coming down faster than I can move it. And I just think I believe maybe
there is some type of technology like Okay, so we're talking about Remember I told you.
Speaker 3: Put cameras on.
Speaker 2: I told you guys, the camera system was able to see through the window, and you don't see the rain drops.
You don't see the rain. So maybe some type of
technology like that that eliminates that and then you don't have that problem. But what you're talking about, it's computerized,
so that you gotta as long as that computer will want.
Speaker 3: To be like you don't want to comput a TV screen as a you know, mirror or not mirror.
Speaker 4: But you think it's going to go from like a wind shoe, like being a regular wind shoe where you can see out of it, and then if it detects that you can't see out of it, it's just gonna turn on photo mode and it's gonna be.
Speaker 3: Like I don't but I just can't.
Speaker 2: Always feel like at some point in time, something's coming for us to have that conversation about a couple of weeks ago whatever it was about that, about that particular way that you can use cameras and we will see through the rain and the way it reflects light. I
think that there will be some kind of step forward.
I really hope, because, like I said, once again, headlights one, I've always said we need to fix it, and now they're finally working on it.
Speaker 3: Is really nice because you know, in the European states or country is not states states, right right, Uh, they have headlights that move with the steering they do.
Speaker 2: But this is gonna be something complete. I mean, I mean,
that's gonna be for it to move with your eye movie, and I think that goes into Remember I told you guys that the cars we're gonna have, like be able to read emotion and all that kind of stuff. I
think all that stuff's going to go hand in hand.
Maybe not. I don't know. I gotta be wrong. But
it's time for something new, right, I mean, it's all technology.
Let's see something new. I can't say it's gonna work,
but I'm curious to see what they come up with.
You guys, hold tight. I'm gonna take another quick commercial break.
When we come back, I got some more for you.
Be right back.
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Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back. So while we're on the topic
before we went to commercial break about technology, right, there's something kind of cool. I saw it a couple of
weeks ago, but I didn't understand it really enough to really comment on it. And there's still a lot to
probably learn about it. But if you guys didn't see, uh,
you see this new paint that coming out with this the cool paints.
Speaker 4: Fans Nissan teams. Yeah, well, and I call it cool
pink too. They call it, Yeah, that's what they call it.
Speaker 2: I saw the technology. I didn't see who he says
its attached to Nissan. Now, I didn't see who was
attached to when I saw it. But it's basically a
new paint that's supposed to like keep the car, like get up to like twenty two degrees cooler in the car because of the pink technology. And I was thinking, like,
is that kind of like a cool blanket if you gave it's ever used one of those in your house?
They actually do work pretty well. Well. Yeah, so I'm
kind of wondering how it, like it works.
Speaker 4: It's a special type of paint. Now it is six
times thicker paint than your original paint. So it's probably
gonna come up with a BP or price, you know.
But it says that it can cool the engine bay down by twenty two degrees fahrenheit.
Speaker 2: About the calf of the car nine degrees. Now that's
a big reason. I mean, yeah, that's a big difference.
Speaker 4: The reason why they're trying to invent it is for fuel efficiency because it won't take so much to try to be down in the car. Okay, and then they're
also trying to do it for let me see here.
Speaker 2: I was seeing something else about it. Well, it's I know,
it's finding something that I find. It's interesting that that,
like we've been messing around with paint for a little while, Like I think the last couple of years we talked about color changing paint. I haven't really seen that need
to put on any car other than a couple of show cars. And what I mean by that, I mean
the electronic one, like you can actually dial the color in.
I've seen it, which is very cool, which is really neat.
I thought that would be kind of cool, and then I talked about that when that'd be a cool technology to install and we start doing like the replaceable body panels on cars where you can start redesigning your car every couple of years on the same chassis, so that technology be cool, right.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, as our news friends we're talking about because we have a bunch of them, they were talking about how Cooeen paint's been used in multiple things already.
It's not a new type of it's new to the car world, right, but it's not new per spe right, because they've used it on buildings before to cut down they've put it on buildings before because they started using the paint on the buildings to try to get the inside of the build so and they found it they used like a certain death.
Speaker 2: Like desert atmospheres. Like they're always trying to figure out
a way to keep the building. Like so if you
guys don't know, like the bill, I remember what it is, but in the batter, for instance, to keep the schools cool.
Why school is out the electric bill it's crazy. Everybody's like, well,
why don't you just turn off the power and stuff like that and not running like the damage it does to like drywall and all that kind of stuff by not keeping our temperature like ruins buildings so because it gets so hot, so you have to actually keep the buildings cool while not being used. So to find something
to try to reduce power to bring the power and energy down makes sense. And on a car, it really
makes sense.
Speaker 4: That's what I was about to saying. It makes sense
when they say car because even though all of their stuff is saying few efficiency, they're not going to use it on gasoline cars, y'all. They're going to use it
on EV vehicles. So it's not taking more of a
strain on that battery and keeping your dea yeah going on over my dead body.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hold on.
Speaker 4: I'll be having a transition week down the street.
Speaker 3: This week.
Speaker 2: Somebody shared a new business idea with me that I thought was actually really like different. Remember I said like, hey,
we're gonna have to like forgut a way to come out and charge cars like remotely and stuff like that.
There is actually like a startup company. That's I see
it popping up like where they're bringing gasoline. It's a
gasoline service. They come to your car and just fill
your car up in a parking spot wherever you're parked, and you just pay for it. It's all done. And
I was like, is this real? And that I look
it's real, like people like go like it's a mobile service, like ordering a pizza, exceping.
Speaker 3: That it's so counteractive though, was the whole point again, an electric car if you're gonna charge it off gasoline?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, no, no no no, these are gasoline cars
being filled with gasoline. Oh, I said, I knew at
some point in time there was gonna be like a charger service is gonna do electric, right, But like, as I'm waiting for the electric one, that's I haven't seen that.
I'm sure it's probably already out there. I just haven't
seen it. This is a gasoline service is doing it.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you know, you mentioned that, you mentioned that, and and I was just thinking about this the other day.
I'm like, you know, as much as we've increased charging time to like let's say you got to sit there for ten minutes, now, yeah, it doesn't give you a full battery ten minutes. It doesn't give you a full battery,
but you're super if you're on a super charge right now.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, yeah, But I'm surprised we haven't. You know,
we did talk about this two years ago to where we were thinking we were going to start seeing gas pumps have the electric chargers built into them, and we haven't seen them.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you why, because gas vehicles come and go very quickly, and then the electric pump has you know, it takes so long. Now, if you can get it
to the point where only takes like two minutes, then yeah, you'd see those probably pumps combined. But I don't think
we're anywhere close to that anytime soon. The technology will
change at some point.
Speaker 4: You don't think we could do like a power transfer instead of it being like charging the vehicle. Could we
do a power because like.
Speaker 2: You have to you have to change the way that a battery accepts power.
Speaker 3: Right, and you can't do it so you can't do it too fast because it looks.
Speaker 2: Either is if somebody knows by all means, tell me.
But as far as like I figured, if that was possible, we be doing it in small scale already. Like I
don't know about you all, but I use my electric drill and it still takes me. Like, I think the
fastest one I have charges in twenty two minutes. I
only get like I was just thinking about that.
Speaker 4: I'm like so instead of like because right now we have these machines that are small and they're just charging the vehicles as you're plugged in. Got you what if
you had like a big machine that had a big battery attached to it starts how yeah, take it just a little.
Speaker 3: It really just matters on what the battery is made of.
So like right now, I think what we're running into is that a lot of things are made from lithium because you know, really big right now in battery exposure wise, But I think, you know, lithium is such a combustible component that you know, you have to do recom minimize your risks, so you can't you know, charge it too fast or it heats up too quickly. And like the
almost one I was looking at Craftman, uh uh, electric drills and stuff. You know, the batteries had actually advanced
as they've you know, they gone through it and they're a little faster, and because you know, they're just stacking more lithium each other.
Speaker 2: If you go on my garage, you don't know when there's an advancement because I have like the old and then I have the new, and it means that battery charged faster. That's what maybe buy it because I get
tired of Wait. Now I do have one. Now it's
got like an eight battery pack system and I haven't really had a revamp because it now.
Speaker 3: I think once we move from lithium and we find a more you know, stable element.
Speaker 2: Or research barrier, I'm sure we're on the on the path of something. We probably are, but I mean research.
Speaker 3: I know we you know they're doing research on hydrogen battery game that I do. We know they're talking about
hydrogen a lot now too. You know, hygen was talked
about ten years ago, and now that we had hydrogen cars, well I know we did, and that's why I was saying ten years ago it went away and stuff because electric cars kind of took the main screen.
Speaker 2: I think most of the HydroD vehicles you saw were like government vehicles like back in the day, like I maybe ever seen it on cars all the time.
Speaker 3: I think what hyding cars are probably cheaper than electric cars, maybe, like well like probably until they get well, I mean, at the end of the day, it's just water, you know, you know it is, it's just compressed. It's a little
easier to get. You know, it's compressed water, but it's
a little easier to get.
Speaker 2: Here's here's something I'm gonna totally switch gears on you guys talk about technology. This one's crazy, guys. Go look
this up. So you ever wonder what's ahead of the road,
like down the road ahead of you and you can only see so far out of the windshield, right, Yeah.
Drone technology is a new thing. So and what I
mean by everybody's got the drones been around for a while, not oh not that you launch from your car and it scouts the road ahead of you, just show what's going on ahead of you. This is something real. Go
look it up. I mean this this is pretty cool.
They're using it like they want to use it an off road applications, I guess right. The second So if
you go off the trails and stuff and you want to know what's ahead of you can launch a drone and it'll go ahead of you and show you what's you know, wait before you get to it automatically totally see this. Think about it. If you get like real
up to date traffic information, like you launch it and it can show you like what's going on with traffic ahead of you as you go. Could you imagine talk
about how you can use that for police cars?
Speaker 4: Could you imagine sitting in traffic and all you hear is like a drone.
Speaker 2: Hold on you think about you're on a road trip, right and you're like you can see like ten miles ahead of you. If there's any police cars for the
first like a cannon ball run, if it had the technology, if they get like like you know how your phone does a little box and puts it on, if it puts it on police cars and sends you back the information at my mark or such and such a police car, I mean this has.
Speaker 4: There was a patent already open.
Speaker 2: I know what it was designed for is a scout for four wheel drop. So I started to think about it.
Speaker 3: They say, what company is developing these drones? Because it'd
be very interesting if like go pro jumped you know how they have or they right, they have drones and there's a couple of companies that make highness making the drone.
Speaker 4: It just says who's thinking about doing the patent? Was
it Ford?
Speaker 3: I think, because you know what I thought was very interesting road company is when I believe I forget what truck company did it, but when they incorporated the JBL center speaker where you can remove I think it's Toyota that you got.
Speaker 2: Take it out with you when you're out the beach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw it.
Speaker 2: I don't remember who what I somebody just sent me that VID too, and I don't think it's the newest technology.
And I was like, I was like, man, that is a great idea. I think it's Jeep. Actually, I think
it's fine. I'll have to look up, uh the technology stuff.
And hey, if you guys haven't seen were talking about a little bit, you know Google's doing the map update, which is exactly that's another one. I was. It's going
to have a map update, and it's going to listen to what kind of music you listen to, and then it's going to go ahead and tell you like restaurants and stuff around you.
Speaker 4: I don't even know how that's gonna work. But basically,
so what came out this week was Google is still they're still trying to work on their technology where they're going to be able to listen to what your listening.
They say, what you're listening to, and then they're going to send that information to the Google Maps app to basically give you audio ad recommendations for restaurants and movies and places near you told.
Speaker 3: You, but how are you going to do that? I'm
guessing it's gonna be from the radio radio frequencies your location, because it can't be from your own music.
Speaker 2: This is exactly I told you guys that once we started putting screens and cars that they were going to start hitting with advertisement there's nothing you can do about it. Well,
this is exactly what's I know, I know what's happening.
Speaker 4: I know, I know we're getting to the end. But
I questioned it then, you know, I said, phones already asked you to allow apps for permissions. I was like,
when we start getting car played back into the car, or are they going to start tracking with the car and sent it to the apps.
Speaker 2: It's it's a it's a very tangled web that we're going to be in with this new technology. I'm waiting
to see where this goes. But I told you guys, ads,
we're going to come on those screens and I told you so. I told you so. No, guys, I gotta
go ahead and get out of here. That is the
end of our show. Enjoy your Saturday. Hey, guys, don't forget.
We got a bunch of different stuff coming up. We
have a Kadiev car show this Saturday, right this second, so uh definitely you guys want to check that out. Also,
we're going to be over with Hepcat Honey's on the twenty fourth of August for the big, huge live auction.
And like I said, don't forget, we're gonna be the nine to eleven Cellar Remembrance for seventeenth Street, So check that out and get all the information for you guys as well. That's it. We're out of here, you guys.
Enjoy your guys weekend.
Speaker 3: You guys got anything before we go, Enjoy a week and good one forever.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, we're out here. We'll talk to you soon.
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