SwitchCast Oct 27, 2025

Tyler Bought a 996 GT3!

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Welcome to Switchcast Season 6.

Yes, I feel like anybody listening knows what they're listening to, but yes, I am your

host, Doug Tabbot, here with my co-host, Tyler Sanders, and our international executive

producer, Ethan Huffnagle.

Oh, speaking of international, we get a lot of fun, ridiculous comments on our videos,

and I love engaging with them.

I still love the Where's Tyler comment, or no, no, no, sorry, Who's Tyler comment.

Who's Tyler was great.

Who's that guy?

Making fun of your beard experiment and my preemie face and all sorts of stuff like that.

Premium, not short for, preemie, not short for premium.

I'd like to think it is, but we got a very nice message from an international listener

about the plate to sample game, which everybody loves.

We love doing it.

Thanks so much for featuring my plate and yesterday's upload on YouTube.

It made my day.

I was so excited that I ran to my wife and was like, they picked my plate.

Well, I feel like I have so much more power now when picking these plates.

I love it.

Yes.

It was the gold digger plate from Melbourne, Australia.

Oh, and I'm embarrassed because I didn't know where that was from.

I was like, where's this plate from?

I don't know.

Because I think it said NS.

I think it was like a New South Wales or something.

And I had mine brain farted.

Switchcast is a podcast that we know what we're talking about.

Freudian slip.

Do we know?

We know where we know what we're talking about.

I'm going to read the teleprompter despite evidence to the contrary, which

you have much evidence right there.

Boy, we've only drank water so far.

Maybe that is the problem.

We try to avoid politics at all costs here unless it's related to cars.

We try to avoid religion unless it's related to cars.

Pretty much anything controversial unless it's related to cars.

But almost, yeah, we can find a way to tangentially apply those things.

Yes.

But anyway, somebody who doesn't try to avoid politics back to our original

discussion is Casey Putch, a former car guy turned politician

not to be confused with Bobby Kahn, former car Kahn turned wannabe politician.

Casey Putch has kind of abandoned the automotive sphere

and gone full political right wing extremist white hat.

Is white hat a term for some?

I don't know. I feel like that's the thing I want to call him.

But I don't even know what that refers to.

Anyway, tinfoil hat, maybe.

What's a white hat?

I have no, I've never heard that.

The only thing I can I can think of a pretty not great connection.

Oh, oh, yeah, right, right, right.

Computer security, that's.

Oh, yeah. So I don't think you're thinking of the right thing.

Who know?

An ethical cyber security hacker.

Well, boy, is that timely.

We're having some technical issues on the live stream.

We're going to blame the cyber attack that happened

recently on the whole world.

It's probably not the issue.

But anyway, that we're going to we're just going to blame that.

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What is fueling this podcast, Tyler?

Oh, and why?

So we've got some Bardstown Discovery Series number three.

So they're on like number 13 now.

And I think this was released in like 2020.

So I've got a vintage bottle.

It's relatively vintage.

It's one of my favorite whiskies.

It's like the first whiskey I had that was fancy and it kind of changed my life.

So I've been waiting for a very meaningful time to open this and unmask it.

Yes, because it's from 2020.

That was good.

Yes, right on, Mike.

So the reason we are opening up this special bottle of Bardstown is to celebrate

Tyler's acquisition of his dream car and one that was pushed along,

encouraged by his friends as a result of this.

Decide to paint or get off the ladder

challenge that we set up for ourselves, that we have to stop talking

about buying our dream cars and just go do it.

So yesterday, Tyler consummated a purchase on a white 996 GT3.

So pour me some of this Bardstown, eh?

Let's go.

So would this be sacrilege to use it for a Manhattan?

I wouldn't, Ethan, you.

Ethan would do it.

I would do it.

As long as you put it with some good vermouth, Ethan, you want to get in here?

I think it's bad to mix good whiskey.

But Manhattan's, I think, better with better whiskey.

Well, and so that's the thing about a whiskey cocktail can benefit

from very good whiskey is as long as the whiskey is like a critical component.

But even then, whiskey that is so good, I would rather just drink on its own.

You know, I don't I'm not I'm not that much of a cocktail guy.

I love cocktails, but like, I don't want to use up all my good whiskey

mixing it with other stuff.

Just some, just some.

So I'm a big fan of putting expensive tequila in a homemade margarita

with fresh squeezed lime juice because it takes it to another level.

Well, cheers, boys.

I am happy to crack this bottle after like five years

drinking it with you all. Cheers. Cheers.

No, you didn't.

After all your struggles with the whole live stream, you didn't.

Oh, my goodness.

All right. Warm up lap here.

Because, of course, when you go out on track, you need to warm up your tires

so you don't wreck it into the first corner.

And that is what we do.

We start a little bit slow on this podcast, but boy, do we get cooking

after the warm up lap.

I learned something this week.

Elaine from Seinfeld is part of the Ferrari dynasty.

Like Elaine, the character or Julie Louis Dreyfus, the the actress, the actress.

OK, I was reading a book on the history of Ferrari

and the name Pierre Louis Dreyfus came up as one of the two main investors

in with Enzo Ferrari into his business in the late 1940s.

And I was like, oh, gee, well, that's not very common compound last name.

So I looked it up and sure enough, she is the granddaughter of Pierre Louis Dreyfus.

Do you think that means she gets some like some access

that other people wouldn't to like special car?

I don't think she's yeah, I don't know cars.

Maybe I don't actually know.

It's not something that she publicly does that I've come across.

But right, she's got to be able to pull that if she really wanted to.

Like, hey, my grandfather put money in.

She may have stock in it still.

I mean, her family, I really don't know.

But I just I thought that was a cool, interesting connection.

Speaking of Europe, the ultimate BMW M

collection recently sold at our M Sotheby's in Munich.

And boy, what a collection it was.

They had a BMW Z8, unfortunately, an Alpina,

which is the worst motor and transmission.

BMW M1. Nice.

An M4 GTS, a 2002 turbo, the model, not the year.

M3 GTS, serial number zero, zero, one and on and on.

It was Porsche collectors with garages full of 911s move over.

This collection was barreling down the fast lane.

No, but it's just this is the era where BMW was the ultimate driving machine.

And it was just it was awesome cars.

The only thing missing, in my opinion, from that collection,

there's probably a lot of things that BMW NERS could say,

well, they should have had this and should have had that,

but they didn't have a 507.

Those are gorgeous.

How do you have a Z8 and not a 507 in this incredible vertical of BMW M cars?

They call it that line of 507.

We saw it, I'll dream a couple of years ago.

Gorgeous.

I will say, as much as I love Porsche, they are my favorite manufacturer.

Their cars are what I what I desire, obviously.

We, when you, when you collect 911s, they're all the same formula.

I think it is a brilliant formula.

The engine is where God intended it, hanging over the rear axle.

It's amazing.

But with the BMW, you kind of get a little bit more variation.

And I don't worry about engine belongs to that.

We're God in hundred percent.

It's the most fun back there.

I will not be hearing any arguments.

Maybe in the middle is where it ended up, but rear is the best.

I feel like that's like Mormon saying that America's God's Zion.

Equivalent.

Oh, man.

Speaking of controversial, controversial topics,

I got a suggestion on Facebook for this event

and it was an LGBTQ plus track day,

which I guess this has been a group that's been around for a while,

but it's the first time it was suggested to me.

I don't know what the algorithms found in my life that felt that I needed that.

But anyway, the concept itself was odd to me as I've never been to a

track day or automotive event or heard of one that was based on a

different value system other than cars or a set of religious beliefs or race.

Well, I guess we do go to a race track about racing.

But like, I don't know.

You don't have like Trumpers tracking or liberals lapping.

It's this odd Venn diagram overlap, you know, Flat Earth, Flat Out,

Comic Con, Cars and Coffee,

Alfa, Alfa farmers with alphas.

Furries with Ferraris.

Oh, that's good.

That'd be a Ferrari.

Yeah, yeah, Jesus jukers.

Well, what I think they could have peace on jukes

and then they would turn everything to a serious religious conversation.

You got Jesus juked.

Oh, I just I just what what is interesting to me.

And I've never heard of this specific group getting together before.

And, you know, I would hope that track days were not something

that were discriminatory, I guess.

I would it well, you do say that there's you want more gatekeeping.

I do, but there's a.

OK, that's the cars.

Yes, not the.

And I don't want it like people to not be able to enjoy themselves.

So I think it's kind of I mean, more power to them.

But I just I was kind of surprised that a track day would have been

something where there was some level of whatever you want to call

discrimination or unwelcome feelings that that led to this being needed.

I've never seen it.

But well, it's never even come up.

It's what's your driving experience?

Yeah, we just go to a track day and it's a track day.

But I am surprised, though, that they went to a road course and not a drag strip.

You know why, though, right?

Why is that why is that there's also gay?

They can't even drive straight.

All right, shut her down.

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Those of you on Patreon, sorry for the technical difficulties again.

This is it's just a week again, frigging cyber attack.

Speaking of Patreon, our Patreon topic fitting because Tyler just acquired his

dream GT3 and we're going to walk through the incredible ins and outs of

searching for locating, PPIing and purchasing

the dream car. But also

our Patreon topic, our bonus episode is about a GT3

on a salvage auction that got struck by lightning.

This is one that I sold and the customer called me and said,

boy, do I have a story for you and it's now up for salvage auction.

So we got to talk about whether or not we might take a swing at it.

Oh, right. Oh, OK.

Anyway, there's some jokes there, too.

Bolts, I don't know, electric vehicle.

Get it. I don't know.

We'll work on those and we'll have them ready for the Patreon topic.

Anyway, so Tyler, you recently embarked on probably a two year journey.

Yes. In pursuit of a nine nine six GT3.

So I had been talking about wanting one for longer than that.

But what really at the beginning of last year, switch cars had one in inventory

that you let me take on a quick little test drive.

So I knew what I was kind of what I was actually chasing after.

And that kind of changed my life. Yes.

That has been a high that I have been chasing since then.

Did you drive the tornado GT3?

Speaking of lightning strike GT3s, did you drive the tornado one?

I did not. OK.

So that that last year at the beginning of last year was the first time

I had ever driven a nine nine six GT3.

I had driven a nine nine one like ages ago. OK, that's right.

That was a black one, but you couldn't do black.

I couldn't do black.

You wanted it because it was a good car and a good deal.

It was right here. You couldn't do it.

And financially, I wasn't really ready.

Right. You know, OK.

So let's get into the search for those of you

because we get emails all the time.

Can you help me with the search for X, Y, Z?

And we usually say no because of how involved any individual search is

for a car, especially a dream car, especially somebody as particular as Tyler.

So Tyler. Yes.

Tell everybody all the reasons of why we don't help people find cars.

Doug, this was a lot of work.

I wish I'd logged how many hours I spent pouring over information,

searching the same crap on Google, going to the same auction alerts

from all these different sites.

I have like 15 tabs in this phone constantly in Safari

that I would go through each day multiple times, refresh, refresh, refresh.

Forums like I was I was going I was going insane.

There are a lot of platforms that you have to keep an eye on.

It's actually quite annoying.

I feel like we need an MLS for cars.

Just like bring it all together.

Yes, this is insane.

We can still use all the third party platforms,

but we don't have to be on all their email lists and searching them and getting updates.

Continue. So what I think.

So I had a leg up, I will be honest.

You know, knowing Doug, you might assume I had a leg up.

But I had through Doug and Dan and some other friends I had access to.

Yeah, I had access to all of the build sheets for all of the North American GT3s.

Oh, gee, that's like cheating.

It is big leg up.

So what I got to do is I got to kind of attempt, I say attempt to pick and choose

because I was like, ooh, what options do I want?

You know, this could be like I'm buying it new.

The elusive, not elusive, the imaginative,

imaginatory, I don't know, not real used car factory that every buyer thinks.

Exactly. And I'm like, OK, like I can really narrow down what I want.

This is awesome because this is in monumental purchase.

And I want it to I want to be excited.

I don't really want to settle too much because you wanted white, blue,

like a nonstandard color, no silver, no black, no red.

Yes, all the most common colors were not options for you.

And even the white has to narrow it down and

to see what actual options you had because you also wanted full leather.

Yes. So then you could say, OK, these

156 VIN numbers are the cars that I'm looking for.

Then what?

So then you've got to start searching.

I have punched so many VIN numbers into Google and DuckDuckGo

because they give different results and other search engines.

I Epic VIN.

So I paid 100 bucks to Epic VIN for a month,

and I pulled about two over 200 reports from them,

but they limit you to 20 a day.

So for like 10 days, I won't wake up.

Well, let's pull my, you know, 10 or 20 Epic VIN reports for today.

What mileage approximately do the cars have?

Where are they located?

What's the last mileage or service record?

Because it's like, is it still on the road?

Does it exist? Is there a crash?

And you start taking, let's say it's 150 cars

and realize there's like maybe 50 out of that that are even options.

I'm not a I don't have gobs of money.

I'm not looking for a 5,000 mile car.

I also don't want 150,000 mile car.

So there's what seems to be, you know, 10, 15 percent

are like things I'd be interested in goes down into single digit percentages rapidly.

Right. And then you have to find the cars, find the owners.

A lot of them are elusive.

Let's use that word properly this time.

And some of them you just can't find.

So and I may throw some of your help and some other friends.

I had contacted, I think about five people successfully and got a response.

And they were all blue cars.

Blue was what I was really hot on for a minute.

The Cobalt Midnight Lapis, gorgeous.

Everybody was like Nabro, like not a chance.

Or, you know, give me essentially they wanted a ton of money.

Twenty percent over market is not.

I wasn't looking for I don't want to deal.

I just wanted to pay a fair price.

So speaking of pricing.

Yes. What was your struggle there?

The dealers besides being cheap.

I dug. I don't think I've been cheap.

I don't.

So if you look at the nine and six GT three market,

the dealerships, all of them have pretty high prices, in my opinion,

for the quality of cars that they have in stock and they sit.

The if a dealer lists a car like there was a polar silver one

listed a few months ago for like one thirty five at.

Shoot, I don't even remember.

Somewhere out in California, that sold immediately, but that was like a fair.

It was a good price.

It had like seventeen thousand miles on, you know, whatever.

But a lot of the dealers are listed at really high prices, especially the blue ones.

Yes, rare colors.

Oh, OK, so.

But I often tell people if everybody is asking a certain price

and you don't want to pay it, it's not the dealers that are unrealistic.

It's you. Well, Douglas of Switch cars,

all of the auction prices bring a trailer, cars and bids,

even like the in person auctions.

None of the cars went for what dealers were asking.

All of them went in the range of what I was thinking was reasonable.

OK, so you're looking at real transactions and you're frustrated

because a lot of dealers are just buying cars up and just moving the price up

with no basis other than that they're trying to control the market.

And it seemed like there's a couple of dealers

that would have a bunch of them in stock all listed at crazy prices.

And I'm like, what are you guys trying to do?

This is a little weird.

Sure. So there's some dealing with some of that.

But and I was really frustrated because I was thinking to myself,

the perfect car could come up at a dealership and be immediately out of my

price range, even though I genuinely believe it's worth less, you know,

10 percent less.

So you finally you found a yellow car that you was like perfect.

Yes. And agreed to buy it.

And then the guy just changed his mind. Is that right?

Almost. So I had made a post on Rennlist that I should probably take down

saying, hey, looking for a driver quality GT3 would like full leather, no silver,

but you know, that kind of stuff that we've talked about.

And somebody DM'd me on Rennlist and said, hey, I'm thinking about selling my car.

Here's some information on it.

It was yellow, painted back sport seats, painted center console, full leather.

It was hot.

And it had a it was mild up a bit at 86,000 miles, which is higher than I wanted.

But within realm of sure, it was a nice car for the miles night.

Definitely well maintained, like the car was gorgeous.

I talked to the guy and it was like talking to myself and I was like,

this is the kind of car I want maintained by somebody like this.

This is going to be great.

And so I was figuring out PPI and I was about to call him like later that day

in about 30 minutes before I was planning to call him because I had some other stuff

going on, he shoots me a text and says, hey, I want to wait until the spring.

There's stuff I want to do with the car.

I'm going to like no sale for now.

So then you found another one at a dealer that was priced very well.

It's like 90 Gs.

Yes. But so this was a gray car with a bunch of leather options.

Oh my God, Doug, the the side vents in the dash were leather.

The center console was leather.

Oh, it was so good.

It was a dark gray, which is classy, some paint matched wheels, classy.

So I started getting a bunch of again, high miles, but the price reflected that.

And I was like, OK, at this price I'm in. Let's go.

So the dealership was fantastic.

The sales guy was amazing.

I got so many photos, all of my questions answered.

And in one of the photos, I noticed what I thought was a like a reservoir

for a shock behind the rear tail light.

I was like, hey, I want to Google that.

Give me an up close photo, please.

You know, whatever.

And it's an external oil pump.

And I was like, why do you need that?

The the engine already has one.

It's already dry sump.

Like what is this doing here?

And I had that and there were some weird wiring stuff.

I noticed that things have been spliced.

And I was like, this is too many stories or too many questions.

Don't want to deal with it. I'm out.

The guy tried to get me back in and I was like, I this could be fifty thousand

dollars and I'd probably still walk like I just don't want to deal with it.

You don't know what you don't know.

And there's a red I've never seen.

I've done this a lot.

I've never seen an external oil pump for a Metzger engine.

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough or maybe I'm not buying enough

tracked out cars, but like you said, it's it's it's a dry sump car.

What? Yeah, what is this doing here?

Why? A regular 996? Yeah, like maybe oil starvation issues.

But like I just I googled so much and couldn't find anybody on like

Rennlist or any other site saying they did this.

So I was like, this is some like sketchy stuff.

It could be fine, but I wasn't willing to pull the trigger.

All the tools available to you, Google, databases, car facts, epic

vins, social media, and you finally found a car.

Give the quick walkthrough of how you found.

So you had a VIN number of a white car.

Yes. And how did you find that car?

So I in narrowing down to the blue cars, I also narrowed down

the white white ones for white, full leather and white gauges.

I love the white gauges and the matching that they're silver.

Whatever, it's looks white aluminum.

Yeah, aluminum look.

And I was like, that would be sick.

And this one popped up that seemed to have good miles.

We looked at the car facts together and there was nothing crazy on it.

And it was recently serviced last year by a shop in near Philadelphia.

And I was like, OK, it's lower miles than I wanted.

It had about 34000 miles.

So this is my trick is I call the shop that last serviced it.

And I'm like, hey, can you call the owner and see if they'll sell it?

Tyler is a little less bold than I am.

I have anxiety and I couldn't just work up the gumption.

I was chasing blue cars.

I called a dealership in Texas about a blue car and they wouldn't

pass along my info. It was very annoying.

It had been serviced at a Porsche dealer like, no, we can't do that.

So I just kept him in and Han and eventually looked at the Instagram

post because the shop had posted it and they tagged the owner.

And I was like, oh, problem solved, direct line.

And the owner happened to follow Doug and our mutual friend Pete

of Pete's Custom Coach Building and Pete followed him back.

So I was like, hey, bud, can you reach out to this guy and see

if he's willing to sell his car?

And it took a month in the time between Pete messaging this guy

and him responding.

I had gotten excited about the yellow car and then depressed,

gotten excited about the gray car and then depressed.

And this whole time I was like, maybe that guy respond.

But I gave up.

It's like finding a wife.

It's like, what am I?

It's so much work, so much.

He finally responds.

You get pictures.

You go back and forth.

You throw out a number.

And he just he accepted.

He takes it.

So now it's like, OK, this guy has been great.

He's given me all the information of wanted, but like the car is six hours away.

I need a PPI.

I need to know that you need a PPI.

What I'm looking at, especially for this kind of dough, is not going to explode.

And you need a good PPI.

Yes. And in defense to the seller,

like there was very few surprises on the PPI.

Everything that we saw in terms of cosmetic stuff was like,

yeah, we knew that was there.

We knew that was there.

There was nothing there.

The only thing that came up on the PPI, it was it was a big deal.

And this is why it's important not just to get a PPI, but to know who's doing it.

Is we looked at the leak down numbers and Tyler sent him over to me.

I was like, run away.

One cylinder was at 33 percent leakage.

And I hadn't seen that yet because I was like at work and I was like, oh, my God.

And I just like blasted out the PPI to the handful of people that I was talking to.

And like Doug's like, oh, that's high.

That's like a problem.

Yeah. Yeah.

But the other ones were like 10 to 12 percent, which is if they're all consistent,

that's like, OK, it's it's not great, but it's it's sort of acceptable.

Most people will say that's acceptable.

So I said, you need to call the tech and find out what happened.

So I and I'm so glad I did because it turned out

and that there is a calibration on the leak down tester

that was letting out 10 PSI of pressure.

And, you know, a busy day, things happen.

There's no fault of anybody.

But I'm glad that I checked and called back and had them double check their work.

So they retested all of them

after changing that calibration setting and they're all under five percent.

We're golden. Things are good.

Awesome.

So you called your Lord and Savior Pentagon financial credit.

Yes, Pentagon Federal.

I had already emailed them and talked to them on the phone a little bit.

I was ready.

We had agreed on a price and I knew that as soon as the PPI was passed,

I wanted Doug and I to go out and get this thing so I could drive at home.

So Pentagon Federal came through.

I expected nothing less, but I was still anxious about it

because if they didn't do it, I couldn't buy the car.

So they are helping me achieve a dream.

I think I'm so glad they exist that I can get a loan on a 20 year old car.

Well, and in all this, too, and this is tooting my own horn a little bit

and in our friend John Sabo, but like you did all the Internet research.

And I see this all the time.

People live on the Internet.

Tyler lives on the Internet.

He's an extremely smart person.

He hosts an automotive podcast telling where we edify and educate, educate.

And yet he still needed his hand held through this process.

He's called me. What about this title thing?

What about this? What about what about tags?

What about and, you know, it's great because I do this all the time

so I could just walk him through those things.

So like there's a lot to glean from this.

Use all the tools you have available.

Definitely get a PPI.

Have somebody review the PPI.

Yes. And have somebody in your corner

that knows the car business when you're walking through this too.

Like, well, there's you had said at once that I could have figured it out myself

and I do believe that I could have.

But having you guys in my corner was huge because I've said, like I said already,

the monumental purchase, like very nerve wracking.

But, you know, I I had some additional confidence

in making all of this happen with your assistance

and also just in checking myself as much as I'm on the Internet.

I've learned from the the nine, the normal nine, nine, six forums

that you don't want to.

People get all bent out of shape about a lot of stuff.

Now, the Metzger's are way more reliable,

but I want I like to the perspective that you and John

and some of the other guys I was talking to that they had, because it's more real.

Like, you guys have seen so many of these cars.

You know what's up.

And that was so, so be careful what you read on the Internet.

That's that's a big takeaway.

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Speaking of Boomer math, which that is Tyler.

But, you know, it's it's infecting everybody at this point.

Porsche guys love their one of one stuff.

So many people sent me this display on a windshield

handwritten display on a yellow Corvette at a car show.

Citing it as Boomer math 2012 7300 coupes fifth car produced 159 yellow

coupes 467 magnetic ride 345 glass roof 49 with 4LT 30 with yellow

calipers only one built in this specific option package.

So I mean, it's just it's just like that.

The irony, the incredible irony.

This is not just Corvette people.

They just started it.

One of the people who sent me this.

I went to his Instagram profile.

Oh, it's loading.

We'll get the cyber attack done.

OK, so a guy sent me that making fun of the Corvette guy.

I went to his profile.

Literally, his Instagram profile is 2011 Aston Martin DBS verified

one of one production example by the Aston Martin Heritage Trust.

Oh, my gosh.

What?

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Talk a lot about driving on this podcast and with driving comes accidents,

crashes and some really bad ones are all bad.

But and I should correct myself.

It's not accidents.

It is traffic collisions, because the reality of it is there's no accidents.

There's always something to blame where somebody made an error.

Yes, may have been lack of knowledge, may have been carelessness, whatever it is.

There's all choices.

They didn't put good tires on.

But this week in particular, I'm highlighting something that has come up

in article after article after article lately, and it is crazy the frequency

at which it appears to be happening.

And it is this, emergency vehicles keep getting hit by distracted drivers.

Occasionally, people having medical events, but most often it's

distracted drivers yet everybody on the interwebs keeps blaming speeding.

And I'm sick of it because us speeders are getting a bad name

because of people who are looking at their phones instead of driving.

And I'm just going to go through.

I mean, OK, so and most of them are in Cleveland area, Ohio.

So News 5 Cleveland highlighted one recently is a 16 year old

who crashed into Cleveland Fires Ladder Truck on Interstate 480.

Giant fire truck blocking lanes for another accident.

And this 16 year old just drives straight into the side of it in the highway.

How do you do these guys need to slow down?

How do you know and now we have said before

that people need to look up from their phones and pay attention to what's

going on on the road.

I've we were just on the highway, as you heard in last episode,

coming back from picking up a car and like it was like mostly fine.

But I still saw people.

Everybody's like a little bit flirting with the dividing line.

And then going back, we saw a couple of truckers kind of swerve.

Oh, yeah, like just come on, people.

Yeah, pay attention.

Yep. And once I remember almost having a bad situation

where I came around a corner on I-90 in downtown Cleveland

and there was a firetruck there blocking the road for another accident.

And there was cones.

Now, in this scenario, it was right after a blind corner.

So it was like you come around the corner full speed and boom,

it's just there and two lanes are closed.

That was bad planning on the firetrucks part.

This particular one, I watched the video.

It's like on a straight section of 480.

Like this is there's no excuse for that.

Here's another one.

This was the first one, Fox8.com.

ODOT crews equipment struck by distracted driver on 271 North near

Rockside Road, again, a straight section.

And it was a temporary work zone.

They were performing a striping operation, but these work trucks have

a crap ton of emergency lights on them.

And the driver admitted.

This was 2 a.m.

So there's nobody out there.

The driver admitted when he got out to being on his phone.

Yet the comments, oh, these people are racing on 271.

They need to slow down.

People got to slow down.

Just comment after comment after comment.

People need to slow down.

No, nobody hit the frigging striping truck because they were going 80

instead of 60.

He was looking at his dang phone.

I can, in theory, I could safely pass a striping operation in my

lane at 100 miles an hour, keeping in my lane.

I'm not going to do it.

Well, it's just, you know, because you've got to anticipate some other things

and you want to be courteous to the foot.

That's the other thing that bugs me.

Now, it has not relevant for what you've said so far, but did everybody

forget that if somebody has pulled over or if there's an incident or

something on the shoulder on the highway that you're supposed to get over a

lane for safety and give them space?

Like God or slow down or something like just, yeah, here's one that's not great.

So in these other ones, nobody was really injured.

This one is a bad one.

The reality is accidents cause injuries and death.

This one in Oakland County in Michigan.

A road crew worker dies and two others hurt in a Farmington Hills crash.

Uh, this is from the Metro Detroit news.

And, uh, while three workers were servicing a catch basin and cleaning

drainage, uh, on a sort of residential road, a vehicle heading south on

Orchard Lake veered out of its lane, went over the median and hit a road crew

working on the northbound side from the southbound veered over physical median.

One of the comments was effectively, if they installed speed cameras in work

zones, this wouldn't happen.

I don't.

So here's my, I think it goes without saying that we don't agree with these

comments and we feel there is a, what I will take, maybe a lack of critical

thinking skills, but I will say I drive on a pretty hectic highway more

frequently now than I used to.

And sometimes it feels chaotic because people are driving quickly.

Everybody is driving, you know, speeding a little bit, kind of doing the normal

things on people are speeding a lot, but it's not hectic because everybody's

going fast.

It is hectic because people are making, uh, last minute maneuvers.

They're looking at their phones.

They're not staying in there lately.

They get is a disorganized cluster F of people not fully in control of their

motor vehicles.

If everybody's going a hundred miles an hour, but they were passing

appropriately, they were staying in the right lane.

If they were going slower, I would feel way more comfortable.

The speed.

Now they shouldn't be going a hundred in this residential area, but let me tell

you what, speed is not why that person crossed the stinking median and went into

opposing lanes.

Now that may have been a medical emergency.

They didn't, you know, a time of publication in the article, they didn't

disclose that.

And there was a pretty horrific accident.

I watched up again up in Michigan where a state trooper who is on the, the

shoulder, uh, doing an inspection on a, a commercial truck got hit by somebody

from behind.

And in that case, the driver who hit the cop was having a seizure.

There's lots of videos beforehand.

They were bouncing off the, the median and had just like, I think they, they

passed out and just hit the gas because the last few hundred yards before they

hit the cop car, they went from like 50 to 90 miles an hour after they bounced

off the median.

So, um, again, we don't want to blame all of these things on distracted

driving without knowing for sure, but it's really hard to come up with any

other possibility for these when you hit things that are in plain sight.

Um, yeah, one recent one, this is, uh, locally in Ohio, um, and, and very

recent, a state trooper was killed just a few days ago on state road 11.

And this was a same situation.

They, uh, the trooper was on the shoulder behind a commercial vehicle

assisting the driver and, uh, a driver, uh, believe was, yeah, he was

driving, uh, uh, driving a dump truck or a granite truck crashed into the back

of the cruiser.

Oof.

Now the incident is still under investigation.

It's an awful situation.

Um, our hearts go out to the family there are flags at half staff as,

as you know, all of Ohio is for this situation.

Um, but it's just like, how does that happen other than somebody's on their

phone, somebody's not paying attention.

There's another one last month out of Arizona, uh, two firefighters had

just completed, uh, an inter facility transfer.

They were driving back and somebody crossed the center line and both of

them were killed.

Like, I just, I, I've had it.

I, how many more times does this have to happen, especially to emergency

workers before there's real penalties for people frigging texting and driving?

Like, it's just got to end.

Like there's so many stories over and over and over again.

And the general consensus still is that speeding is a problem.

Cops are still out there with their radar guns sitting on the side of the

road, just waiting for somebody to go 12 over instead of nine over.

And it's like, no.

Like, I, sorry.

I think there needs to be very, very serious consequences for people who are

on their phones, distracted driving before they cause injury and death.

Because that's consequences you can't live with.

No, I mean, no pun intended.

That's not like the, the, the survivor guilt and everything that goes along with

that, that is a crappy situation.

So I just, I don't, I just want to shed light on this because it's just,

it's, it's a terrible situation.

And like, I don't know.

I know a lot of people who are friends of mine and I used to be more

lax about it until I just woke up and I'm like, I'm stupid to look at my

phone while I'm driving to try to send a text, read a text, whatever.

Like, why don't I just pull over?

Yep.

I have carplay in my car and that's great because it's, allows me to do

stuff essentially distraction free.

And even that on my last road trip, I'm like, eh, it's glitching out.

I'm looking at it too much.

I'm friggin uninstalling it and just using Bluetooth.

Because even that screen is like, it's too much.

Yeah.

I have to be looking at the road.

Well, that's it.

You know, I had to, uh, I had to do it in the Corvette and I've done it in the

GT three now, you know, just even the typical phone mount to the windshield.

I had the phone up there.

It was charging playing.

I had a cue a podcast set up and it was just there for navigation.

Yeah.

I had a zillion notifications to get through when, when we got home, but that's

okay.

I didn't need to see them home.

I did.

You got to respond to them and everybody else around you also did.

And none of it was anything important enough for me to text while driving.

I think I've, I've thought many times about starting an organization called

sad scoff laws against distracted driving.

Those of us who like to drive above the speed limit and realize that it's not

that big of a deal, but distracted driving is.

And why don't cops are already sitting there with their radar guns.

Why don't they look for people just on their phones?

Cause let me tell you, they'll see a bunch.

I don't know.

Um, well, on that note, let's go to the plate to sample game.

Uh, don't mean for this entire episode to be a downer.

The reality of life is in driving, there is danger and these things happen.

Um, and, and we want to talk about them and we want to find out and have an

open conversation about how to make driving safer, how to change things.

Uh, we can't ignore the fact that, um, that there's a problem.

But with that said, let's go to plate to sample, which is where it's a fun game,

lighthearted game where we take vanity plates and try to guess the stereotype.

So I will read one.

Tyler has to guess the car and vice versa.

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Hey, all right, Tyler, fire away with your first one.

I'm so excited.

Cam girl.

Hmm.

Oh, I've seen this one.

No, I haven't.

It's, if you have, I'd be surprised.

I know you've taken a lot of road trips, but is it.

Hmm.

I want to say it's like a, a, a Z06 LS seven that's cammed out or it's a

pink or it's a pink Range Rover and that's more of a resume type thing.

No, no, no.

Uh, it's a Toyota Camry with blacked out taillights, but it is a pink Texas plate

with a little heart on it.

So maybe there's a little, okay, I've got one for you, Ohio plate 512 BB.

Okay.

So the easiest thing is like, that's just a Ferrari 512 BBI, but it's not.

I'm guessing.

Well, no, it'd be a BBI.

So it's just a BB carbureted Berlinetta boxer.

Wow.

So it's not a Ferrari.

What else could be 512 BB?

Daniel chuckling over there in the, the peanut gallery.

Do you know the car?

Ah, ah, I have no idea.

What is it?

Ford Mustang is why?

What is that?

I don't know what your turn.

Apparently this guy also had 512 TR plate and it was the 80s Pontiac Phoenix per

day and you said, okay, knew that one wouldn't, uh, you wouldn't get that one.

Next up for you need oil.

Uh, Volkswagen Corrado, you're close.

Really close with the brand Volkswagen Jetta and a different brand anything with a

1.8 T, I actually, I don't know what this has VR six or a 1.8 T.

It's an Audi.

It's a late model Audi A four.

Oh yeah.

Okay.

So, all right.

Yeah, that could be a 1.8 T.

All right.

Next one for you.

I'm ready.

It'll open.

I missed this.

You're ready.

I'm not BMW.

Okay.

Um, hmm.

Is it a BMW?

No.

Is it a Mercedes?

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

Is it like an E class or something?

It looks like a C class to me.

Okay.

It's a newer one.

I can't tell them apart.

They all look bunchy and round.

Yeah, I get it.

I accept.

Okay.

Uh, Tesla ish.

Uh, an electric BMW?

No.

Right idea.

An electric Mercedes.

It is a Nissan Leaf.

Okay.

So it's a non Tesla EV.

Okay.

I dig it.

Would have got there eventually.

Ferrari.

Is this a Porsche?

No.

Is it a Lamborghini?

But you are catching on to the fever tonight.

Is it a Lamborghini?

No.

Um, what else do you, is it a McLaren?

No.

It'd be really funny if this was actually a Ferrari.

You just didn't.

Is it a Ferrari?

No.

What is it?

Oh, is it a Fiero?

No.

Or what is the Pontiac?

No, it's an Alpha 4C.

Hmm, it's Italian, I guess, at least.

Yeah, I accept.

Okay.

Uh, Walta.

Walta?

Yeah, W-A-L-T-U-H.

Walta.

Oh, it's a Pontiac Asda.

Yes, there it is.

Walta White.

Okay.

Uh, 302.

Um, this is not a Mustang, I'm guessing.

Nope.

Is it a BMW?

Nope.

Is it a, it's not a Ferrari?

Nope.

Wow, what is it?

It's nothing with a 302.

It's a Ford interceptor hybrid.

302 just happens to be the badge number.

Does that even count?

Nice.

It's, it's, it's not registered.

Don't care, don't care.

All right, next up for you.

I love this one.

So John Z, um, I think, yeah, I use, this will be the second

plate of yours tonight, specifically commented when they submitted this

that Tyler, you have to pick one of my plates eventually.

I'm so sorry.

I didn't even pick two on purpose.

They're just good.

Uh, not a jerk.

Uh, BMW.

Yes.

You're right.

Any BMW.

It is an M3, what is the, the E-92, it's a convertible.

93.

E-93.

Okay.

Yeah.

Three.

Yeah.

I always forget, but that's an M3 in Texas, driving in the slow lane with

two hands on the steering wheel.

Nice.

I bet he uses his turn signals as well.

Not a jerk.

All right.

Last one for you.

Porsche.

A Volkswagen.

No.

A, uh, a Mercedes.

Nope.

A Ferrari.

Nope.

A Lamborghini.

Nope.

A Range Rover.

Nope.

What is it?

Closer.

Uh, is a Ford?

No, it's a Jeep Wrangler.

Doug tonight was like, Tyler's never going to guess these.

That's the theme.

I literally put all of these in a folder titled misnomers.

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