The Volkswagen Bus is a van designed to carry multiple people. It can be used like a people-transport vehicle, such as for groups or school-bus-type routes. The question in the podcast is basically about whether it was meant for that kind of use.
Waymo is a company that works on self-driving cars. They test autonomous vehicles and try them in real-world situations.
Term
LPR
LPR sounds like a special sign or program code for certain rides. The idea being discussed is that the government helps pay for transportation for people who need it, like trips to doctor appointments.
Property taxes are recurring taxes assessed based on a vehicle’s taxable value, which in many places is tied to an official valuation method. Here, the discussion is about how the taxable base can lag behind real-world value—especially for modified or restored cars.
“Blue book value” is an estimate of what a car is worth, based on pricing guides. The point here is that taxes may be based on that estimate, not on what the car ends up being worth later.
A 1971 Camaro is a classic Chevrolet muscle car. The speaker is using it as an example of how taxes might be based on an old pricing estimate, even if a really clean, restored one is worth much more.
The Geo Metro is a very small, inexpensive car that was meant for basic commuting. In this episode, it’s mentioned as a cheap car someone owned before switching to a newer Toyota.
A five-speed manual is a car where you shift gears yourself using a clutch. The host is pointing out that the Geo Metro was a very basic setup, even if it looked nicer inside than you’d expect.
Power windows are car windows you control with buttons instead of turning a hand crank. They’re a convenience upgrade people often look for when buying or modifying a car.
Power locks let you lock and unlock the doors using buttons or switches instead of manually turning a lock. It’s a convenience feature that can be added depending on the car’s options.
The AC system is the car’s air conditioner. They’re saying the car’s AC was upgraded or modified so it cooled much better than it did when it left the factory.
A blower motor is the fan that moves air through the car’s heating and air-conditioning system. If someone installs a bigger one, the cabin can cool faster or feel colder.
The Toyota Corolla is a regular, everyday car made for commuting and errands. People talk about it a lot because it’s usually dependable and not too expensive to maintain. It’s often chosen as a safer, more reliable step up from an older car.
“Roll up windows” here means the windows go up and down by hand (with a crank) instead of using power buttons. They’re saying the car they sold didn’t always include the convenience features.
An electric motorcycle is a bike that runs on electricity from a battery. It doesn’t use gas like a normal motorcycle, and how fast it can go depends on the battery and motor.
A go-kart is a small racing-style vehicle you drive on a track—or sometimes, illegally, on roads. It’s usually powered by a small engine and is meant for kids or casual racing.
A turn signal is the blinking light that tells other people on the road you’re turning. It helps prevent crashes by warning drivers and pedestrians ahead of time.
Mass transit means public transportation that many people share, like buses or trains. The speaker is comparing that idea to how people (especially kids) used to get around.
A marketing strategy is how a company tries to get people interested. In this case, it’s about how car names and logos are picked to make you feel something and want to buy.
The Ford Mustang is a car designed to feel sporty and fun to drive. It’s known for its engine options and classic styling. People bring it up as a common example when talking about performance cars.
A logo is the brand’s symbol you see on the car. The discussion is saying the logo is meant to make you feel certain things so you’re more likely to want the car.
Cadillac is a luxury car brand. The idea in the discussion is that the brand name “Cadillac” is supposed to be enough—people don’t need to know every specific model name to get the point.
The Cadillac Eldorado is a luxury car that was made to feel comfortable and stylish. It’s the kind of vehicle people bring up when discussing older Cadillac models. It’s usually remembered for its big, classic look and premium features.
The Cadillac Fleetwood is a luxury car name that was used on bigger, more comfortable Cadillac models. People mention it when talking about older luxury cars and how they were built for comfort. It’s known for a classic, upscale style.
The Lincoln Navigator is a full-size luxury SUV built for comfort, space, and family-friendly driving. It’s often brought up when discussing large, upscale vehicles because it blends big SUV practicality with premium features. In a podcast, it may appear in the context of brand history or when comparing what different luxury nameplates are known for.
“Prius” is the name of a Toyota model. They’re talking about what the name is supposed to mean and where it comes from (Latin), not about how the car drives.
The Toyota Prius is a car that uses a gas engine and an electric motor together. That combination helps it use less fuel than many regular cars. It’s commonly mentioned when people talk about cars that prioritize efficiency over traditional performance.
The Ford Model T is one of the earliest cars that became very popular. It’s important because it helped cars become more common for regular people. It often comes up in discussions about the very beginning of car manufacturing.
Term
mass produced hybrid car
A hybrid car uses two power sources—usually a gas engine and an electric motor. “Mass produced” just means it was made in large numbers for everyday buyers.
The Chevrolet Suburban is a big family SUV. They’re saying the name “Suburban” comes from the idea of living in the suburbs and needing a roomy vehicle.
The Dodge Ram is a large pickup truck. It’s made to carry heavy loads and tow trailers. People mention it when they’re talking about trucks that can handle tougher jobs.
The Volkswagen Golf is a popular everyday small car from Volkswagen. Here, the hosts are talking about what the name “Golf” is supposed to make you think of.
The Ford Ranger is a pickup truck, meaning it has a bed for carrying things. It’s meant for tasks like hauling, towing, and general utility. People compare it to other trucks to find the right size and capability.
The Chevrolet Silverado is a big pickup truck. The hosts are talking about what the name “Silverado” is supposed to suggest—like wealth and ruggedness.
The segment is talking about “Infiniti,” which is Nissan’s luxury car brand. They’re also mentioning that Infiniti’s model names use a pattern with letters and numbers.
Nissan is the regular (non-luxury) brand. In this story, the host says people are paying more to switch to the Infiniti luxury version even though the cars are very similar.
Infiniti is Nissan’s luxury brand. The host is saying some people will pay extra just to get the Infiniti version of a car that’s basically the same as the Nissan.
They’re saying the Toyota and Lexus (or Nissan and Infiniti) versions often use the same motor. That’s why the cars can feel very similar even though one costs more.
Suspension is what connects the wheels to the car and affects ride comfort and handling. If the suspension is the same, the cars will drive similarly even if the badges are different.
The Toyota Land Cruiser is a tough, long-lasting SUV. In this story, the Lexus version is basically the same car, but people pay more just to have the Lexus name.
The Toyota Highlander is a family SUV. The point here is that Toyota and Lexus can sell very similar vehicles, but the Lexus version costs more mainly because of the brand.
“Controlled damper shocks” refers to shock absorbers whose damping force is managed by a control system, usually to vary ride firmness. In this segment, the host uses it as an example of how the Lexus version may add equipment compared with the Toyota version, even if the car is otherwise very similar.
Car
Toyota
Toyota is just the car brand being discussed in the sales story. They’re saying the buyer won’t end up leaving with a Toyota.
Car
Lexus
Lexus is a luxury car brand. In this story, they’re saying the buyer is likely to leave with a Lexus instead of a Toyota.
Matt Armstrong is a YouTuber they’re talking about. He makes videos about rebuilding cars, and this story is about figuring out the right parts for a restoration.
An airbag is a safety device that inflates in a crash to help protect you. The discussion here is about whether the replacement airbag will actually work as intended.
Car
Audi
Audi is the car brand whose airbag part they found inside the car. The speaker is saying the airbag wasn’t a unique part—it was an Audi component.
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the host, So Let's Talk Cars Radio. Dave Polage, Happy Saturday, America.
Speaker 2: You're listening Let's Talk Cars Radio and w KQA Freedom Radio.
I'm your host, Big DAVP hanging out with Camera Chaos and AVB. It is Saturday. We are in the studio
hanging out. Hey guys, if you have not got a
chance to pay attention, we have been hitting a lot of car shows and we have been very very busy, a lot of invites to even more car shows. So
if you want to see what we're up to, when you want to play the did we Spot You game, make sure you, guys, go on to any of the platforms that we're posting on and check it out. You
see pictures and you can see, hey, did we spot you or not? And if we did, maybe there's a
picture of you, maybe there's a picture of your car.
But definitely go check it out. This week though I'm
gonna rolling stuff just a little different, just just a little tiny different.
Speaker 3: So.
Speaker 2: Cameron will remember. This goes back. I think when Cameron
first entered the show, we were talking about flashback, Fred, Flashback.
I talked to Fred too, by the way, nice today, I sure did, Old man Fred. If you guys do
not know, Oh man, Fred's been a long time listener of this show, and he checks in with us every once in a while. And I actually did hear from
the other day. So, but no, a lot of different
topics come my way. They are like just a little different,
right right, So, and this one was a little weird the way that it went and how it came to me.
So everybody understands that self driving cars, Ubers, Lift, whatever the company is, the other twenty eight names that are out there. As I told you guys, if you guys
don't know, there's a lot of transportation companies out there, like like Uber and Lyft and stuff that exists you guys have just never heard of. So we've talked about
that before. Right, Do you guys have any idea to
a certain degree the cost of like public transportation, like and how much that physically cost.
Speaker 4: Like like you're talking about like buses and stuff like that, or are you talking.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me let me I'll break it in there.
It goes into that. Yes, it goes into buses. Okay,
I'll give you one look. And the fan can look
up the cost alone of just moving kids around for school.
Speaker 4: Oh, just for school, I'd probably say two point three million a year.
Speaker 2: Okay, and I'm not sure the exact cost. Look up
the cost crazy number.
Speaker 3: Transportation as in a whole is probably a ten million dollar industry.
Speaker 2: Okay, So what brought it up? If somebody sent me,
uh a article and they were talking about it, like have you ever looked at the cost like the general cost of like public transportation, And there's they're particularly talk about, like school bus near estate. Just do a city, a
city of Virginia beach, what is it? What's the school?
What's a school bus costs? What's what's the budget for
school buses? And you know for transportation kids and all
that kind of stuff. So somebody has sent me that
the article and they're like, it's astronomical the amount of money that it costs to move people around. Rather it's
getting kids to school from the school to different events, maybe mass transit, even though a lot a little bit of that's you know in some areas.
Speaker 3: So on in Virginia says the transportation and logistics industry is one hundred and twenty four billion billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Is that for like public transportation and school bus and all that stuff? Is that broken?
Speaker 3: Assuming it's just all transportation has to do with sales and supports more than five or sixty five thousand dollars.
So it's global trade, free forwarding truck sprawling, multi MODELRU infrastructure.
I don't know, yeah, public transportation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I got the real numbers goed up from from the site. So it was four point five eight
million to four point nine to six million per year for the standard.
Speaker 2: Local bus routes. It was two.
Speaker 4: Point seven three million to two point eight seven million per year for specialized door to door services for passengers with disability, you know, the HRGT will come pick you up.
And then one point one eight million. Actually, man, I
just gave you the number action of asses one point one eight million to one point two four million just for the what do.
Speaker 2: You think that's for? What do you think that's for?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 4: No, just for the ocean front trolleys at the ocean front is one point two.
Speaker 2: Four million dollars. The reason why this was I think
sent to me and somebody sent me the article. I
can't remember whoever sided to do you thank you. Some
of the article asked me the question, and it was talking about, what if you used money through the city system to employ and fund more or like Uber and lyft drivers to do some of those services, would the city would be able to save money that way because they you know, it's somebody else's vehicle, it's not the city.
They don't have the maintenance on the vehicle, all that kind of stuff. And I stopped and I went, I
don't know how that will And then as I started kind of putting paper to pen or pen to paper, O way.
Speaker 4: No, because when I was doing the research, it was talking about that it would be about two to three dollars per ride, no talk, no talking about like two dollars or three dollars per ride to keep that those buses going basically, you know, and the per person that's gonna be purpose going, yeah, per person, right, Okay, So I'm like, I mean, an Uber driver ain't doing anything less than fifteen dollars.
Speaker 3: No, no sign drive okay, but regardless of price, you guys are forgetting the point that we have buses in the first place. Oh, the transport A lot of people
mass transit for cheap. You know, Ubers don't do it.
It's more Uber's convenience. It's not a you know, it's
not a benefit. I mean, it's a benefit in some places.
Speaker 2: But it's not a massing on how to recreate transportation.
I kind of think that's what somebody was sending me.
They're like, is there a way to revamp mass transportation?
So it makes more sense? And it's the reason the
reason why I came up was and I don't do political just so you guys know, so this isn't you know, even though I love I know people always try to like poke me to go into a political side of things.
This was the cost increase every year for moving people around stuff like that. So what really their their main
focus on the conversation was was school buses. That's kind
of what opened the conversation up. And I remember, like
I said, as I started saying, and you'll remember, because we had this there was a program that they were developing which is like kid Uber yep. And there was
a lot of interesting and it was already being used on the West coast. They were already testing that program
and it's basically for parents stuff. Remember it was for
parents that kids so like me and that was and soccer and all that kind of stuff, And they are creating this program to move those kids around for after school programs.
Speaker 4: When because we talked about people and taxis already, they like kids already.
Speaker 2: Take certain taxis they're doing.
Speaker 4: Everybody's like we want that's when, yeah, and then that's when we started going into the conversation about uberfer.
Speaker 2: I think it was wasn't the one family was testing like Weymo or something like that. It was moving the
family around by self a self driving car had no driver in it, and it was already move but it was taking the kids' soccer and stuff and that kind of thing that's were brought around and I went, Okay, maybe something on that if you maybe you could reduce the footprint of cost if you use a service like that versus you know, moving kids to after school activities and stuff like that, versus running a whole bus system and all that kind of stuff. Like there's a bus
and I.
Speaker 3: Mean you can enter Twina though you could just do self driving, you know, buses. I mean, I know, it's
not really a big topic for the fact.
Speaker 2: That it's the cost, right, it's a lot of it's more cost fact. I think it came down to the
cost increase. In this article they were sending to me,
it was gonna be like four hundred thousand dollars more just for moving the kids around after school stuff and all that kind you know. So it was like, okay, well,
for four hundred thousand dollars, could that more because I don't even know what the original cost was, but for like four hundred thousand dollars more, could you take that money and move kids around to after school program stuff using like a private car service. And before you answer,
there's a company out there, and I can't remember what the name is, like PDR or something like that. That yeah,
the safe.
Speaker 4: Kid that that that's the little sign LPR.
Speaker 2: They're moving on people like doctor's appointments. They thought this
driver something.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that little sign that you see.
Speaker 2: Yeah all the time. And somebody told me that that
and I haven't done all the reek, but somebody told me that that's a government assists program that like individuals can own the car service or something like that, and the government pays to help move people, uh like to doctor's appointments or whatever. Stuff like that. You look at look
it up. But that's what I was told was for.
I was like, and I was like, I was like, I was like, so, I was like, if that already exists doing that, why couldn't you use it in that realm.
I'm not I'm not against mass transportation by by any means, guys, just you know, I just I think some of our ways are outdated, and I think the cost is getting crazy.
No different than you can have the conversation with you guys with tolls. Tolls is such. As far as I'm concerned,
it's just a very outdated system the way we do that.
I don't think it's governed right, I don't. I just
think it's a it's a cash grab to a certain degree.
I understand we need to pay for the roads and things that have been built and all that kind of stuff, But there's federal funding for a lot of that stuff.
So why does that get pushed back onto drivers? Why
does that get pushed back on people paying for mass transit? Now,
as I had this conversation over the week, and then, like I said, I've inforums, I'm talking with people. People
kept on pushing the narrative of will in New York's trying to get free mass trends at free mass trends.
And I've once get not a political person, but yes, I've seen the news or problem or in the media.
We get media reports and everything. Yes, I know that
there's been a big push for that. I don't think
that they're ever going to be able to develop that in the way that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the idea is great, right, but I think you know, it works for when you have that many people. I think for smaller you know, societies and
you know, smaller neighborhoods, it probably doesn't work as well trying to give you know, freedom transportation.
Speaker 2: It's like free I mean, be nice, but no, no, I don't. I don't disagree that it would be I
just I get where people are coming from. It seems
like this year has been the biggest focus when it comes to automobiles, transportation, roads, tolls, taxes, stickers on your vehicle, you name it. It's been a big conversation this year,
more than I can ever remember. In a very long time.
It all stirc around the money. You know, where does
all this money go? And you know, and how to
just that. The numbers are astronomically large when it comes
to all these different money that's paid out for all this stuff. And I think maybe because it's been a
little bit tougher a year this year, with everything that's going on and gas prices being hih, maybe that's why everybody's focused on money. But I've had more conversations at
different car shows and forum, car forms and stuff like that all geared around money and the expenses and stuff for all these different services we have. I can honestly
tell you, I think that a lot of the taxes you pay on your car or if you do in whatever states you're at, and how that is, I think is absolutely insane.
Speaker 3: The amount you're telling you're telling me like now, I'm just like I was doing the math the day you pay for the car. It was like, I'm ready like
five grand into like taxes on a brand new.
Speaker 2: Car that you paid taxes now bought it. Yeah, I
mean what I get it.
Speaker 3: I chose to get the brand new car. You know,
woes me. But still, you know, to a certain point,
it's like it's a pretty good fraction of what the vehicle worth. Well, it's almost you know. Really it made
me reconsider of, like, you know, maybe I shouldn't got a brand new car for the fact of just you know, how much you do pay property.
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter though. It doesn't matter if it's if
it's it doesn't matter if it's new or if it's old.
It really doesn't matter because it's based on the value of cars. I believe about a car that was four
years the money value is still how you still pay taxes.
Speaker 3: Right, But I can buy a cheap car, right and for the money that I save in property taxes, I could let it. I could junk it and then go
get a different one with the propery tax money I saved over the years.
Speaker 2: Let me go in a different route, right, hot roud Guys, we tend to circumnavigate that a little bit because we buy a car that the blue book value only shows x amount of dollars on right, right, and then we build it and it's worth a lot more money. But
I'm only paying taxes on the blue book value of it.
So could we go in that direction of some things?
Maybe you gotta pay more. No, no, no, you you pay,
you pay less than taxes because the cars old and the blue book value shows it's worth three grand. But
you might have I mean, pull up the value right the second of I don't know, go into a seventy one Camaro. The book value probably on it's a couple
You're not paying tax on a fifty thousand dollars car.
You're paying taxes on the on the Yeah, blue book value of it. That's what I'm training. Is that a
trend we can move towards. Like I told you.
Speaker 3: Guys, what isn't that? What isn't that? What it does?
It does it by blue belk it for property tax.
It's not what you bought off of, right.
Speaker 2: But you're not listening to me. I could. That's how
we escape. Like you went and bought a brand new
hot rod, right, and you pay brand new hot rod taxes on it, and I can have an old hot rod who is just as cool and just as fast as your car, and I can put all the modern day conveniences like.
Speaker 3: Your car, right, Yes, that's where you're leaning analysis, right, I'm kind of regretting that I should have went down that path a little bit.
Speaker 2: It should have went down that bad Yeah, but you enjoy you enjoyed daily driving that car though you want to park it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one'er saying. And it's nice to have all the
new fee is in the cool tech. But when you
do think about just the extra costs that come with it, sometimes, you know, you do kind of look back. You're like, well,
I could I put that money towards you know, a project car.
Speaker 2: Right, and then bought myself a transportation not so as much as we call them beaters, but they're not always beer.
It's not like the Winner car, you know what I mean.
You guys never saw that episode, go watch it. But
but I understand you could have went and bought a cool muscle car, old muscle car, and then bought yourself a daily same money, and then not had to pay the taxes like you're paying right now. That makes sense.
Maybe there there's an avenue to that, And I can tell you and you guys remember, I know you guys know the story, but I don' can't remember if I told you guys the story. So let me take quick
commercial break. When I come back, we'll research this a
little bit more. 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. So before we went to Comercier break,
we were talking about the letter that I got and somebody asked me about the cost of transportation, and you know, I guess mass transportation and can it be revised and is there a way to use like an uber lift kind of system and it would cost the government or the city or whatever is less money. I think that
there's a way to do certain things I am still very interested in, maybe for selfish reasons from the past, the kid uber thing I thought was always interesting. Now
I have a bunch of questions when I first saw get introduced. Like I said, it is basically your kid
can call up for an uber through his app through his phone that takes him to his soccer practice all that kind of stuff. That way, they don't have to
use like the school buses as much and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: So I know it's a great idea when you need it.
I mean, but I mean this in practice is just uber right, just for a kid.
Speaker 2: It is basically for kids. So when we were talking
about you know, you were talking the costs and the taxes on cars and stuff like that. If we went
took a break, If you guys are following along, there was I know, I told you guy, the guy I told you that traded in the Geo Metro that he did all the crazy stuff too. I know, I told
you guys this story for you don't remember. It was
a guy years ago who was driving from like here to DC like every day or every other day, whatever it was, and he came in to buy a new Toyota when I work at a toyt dealership and he had a Geo Metro that he I mean, the car probably a value on the car was maybe three four hundred dollars value on it. But you got inside the car,
it was like a Mercedes inside of it. He had
if you if you never been inside of Geometro, it is I mean, it's it's like probably less than what a Spark would be nowadays, like a Chevy Spark or like a little tiny little cars. Yeah, no amenities really
back then they had no amenities at all. They were
five like most of them were five speed, you know, manuals.
But he had leather interior. He had added power windows,
power locks, nice stereo system, an AC system that blew that was did not blow like it was factory. So
either somebody put bigger blower motors in or something like that.
But it was ice cold in the car. The seats
were bigger seats in it, big like a nice comfortable seat.
You opened it up and everything was all leathered out inside the car. And I told you, I got talking
to the guy and he's like, man, I drive here to DC all the time. This car gets like fifty
five miles of the gallon. It doesn't cost me anything
on taxes because it's not worth anything in the tax mind of things. But you get inside the car and
it was like riding around a Mercedes. Now it's like
riding around in a roller skate Mercedes because they were so tiny, and I mean, let you guys, remember you I met. Sure, they were a tiny car. They're smaller
than a BW bug. I mean they're tiny. But he
had tricked this thing out so it was comfortable to drive, and I'm sure it was getting all of it. It
probably could get at seventy miles an hour, but he made it. And he's he loved that car. I could.
He really didn't want to get rid of that car. Now,
we gave him nothing for the dealership gave nothing for that car, and I just he didn't care. I guess
he just was moving to the next thing. And I
think he got a Corolla. Was this was a step up.
But he told me his plan for that car was to do this basically the same thing. He was gonna
have somebody to go through make it really comfortable. Now
keep in mind, we were selling Corollas then that didn't have roll up windows, and you know they had, you know.
Speaker 3: Still an option.
Speaker 2: They yeah, I was still a roll up was still an option. But now he had electric locks and stuff.
Because you know, when you guys, remember one time that wasn't standard, it was extra. So I think if I
remember that's what he was moving to when he's moving to the Corolla. But he I remember him telling me
that he planned on doing the same thing to whatever the car it was. He was going to take it
over him and go through everything and make it very comfortable, luxuries inside because he knew he was going to get great gas mileage in it. Taxes would be way low
on it, but he's going to ride and style itloge.
And so you start thinking about that side of mind of things that people going, Okay, could you do it in a mass setting? Like you know, I mean something
like that mindset. Not just saying I'm not saying everybody
go out and buy a Corolla and start moving people around, And that's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying, with
that way of thinking, is maybe the way that the person who sent me the article was thinking of, there's got to be a way where it's less money just seems there. I think their concern was that it just
seems like everything that has to do with automobiles, taxes, license plates, tolls, all that kind of stuff, it's just an endless pit of money, we just throw it goes away.
We don't really know where the money's going.
Speaker 3: So I'm just going I must say probably not. You
probably can't. I mean, you can probably make it improvements.
But you know, there's only so much room on the ground for people to move around, regardless if it's gonna be scooters, skateboards, scooters, cars, electric cars, you know, better traffic systems. You know, it's you're still gonna have a
little bit of that traffic collision, at least in my eyes.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, let me tell you I got so, I got a funny for you. I'm gonna go on a
complete different tangent for a second. So I am driving
down the road the other Now, I know that the electric motorcycle slash scooters, slash bikes, e bikes, whatever like that have become very popular. But when you see something
just a little bit out there, it tends.
Speaker 3: To catch your eye, which you agree, Yeah, I mean see them more two different.
Speaker 2: Things in about a month that it just made me go.
First of all, the three wheels scooters. Have you seen them,
two wheels on the back, one way on the front of their scooter, one goes by me, and the way capacity between the two people riding that thing was way exceeded and it could. It took everything it could to
get up and get going. And I was like, how
much weight are they designed to carry? Because that scooter
was like it was hurting it. The light turned green,
the throttle was wide open, and it was everybody kicking their feet to get it to go. And I was like, okay,
this is dangerous just a little bit.
Speaker 3: I mean, hey, solved your problem that you were just trying to solve. Though its so three at a time,
that was your problem.
Speaker 2: I just I was like, okay, I get the idea of scooters. If that's your thing, that's your thing. But
that falls into the unsafe category. Right then we go
into the should have took a picture of it. Couldn't
get a picture, but I was in the should have took a picture of a category one of those electric like the motorcycle scooters that look kind of look like a dirt bike, but they're electric. You've seen them. Yeah, Okay,
sit at the stop light and here goes by one.
My man is wearing a cape, a cape. He is
dressed with a mask on and he has a cape, a little bit of flash and on the back of the cape. It says, ask me how I can help you?
But jasko, did you ask?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Because he went riding by, but he looked like he was living his best life ever. He had the biggest
smile on his face. His cape is blowing in the
breeze as he rides, and I'm like, I'll probably would have asked, huh something, you don't see what he's going like thirty five miles an hour? What if I gonna
do roll up next to him? Excuse me? Yeah? Can
I ask you a question? Could have But he had
the biggest smile on his face, And I'm like, man, or what color was it cape? At that No, at
that point in time, you know what it was like.
You could be having the worst day ever, But in his mind, that man was having the best day ever.
He was riding his electric motorcycle with his cape and his mask and just living his life.
Speaker 4: So you're saying, I gotta go get a cape, a mask and electric bike.
Speaker 2: That lived the best life. If you got a cape
and a mask and went and rode an e bike just around town, I think even you couldn't help. But smile.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be putting on the cape, but I want to just.
Speaker 2: But then I started thinking about the mass transportracing conversation.
I was just like, maybe we just buy everybody an electric bike and solve the problem.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, they to be cheaper. I mean, they're
getting a lot more popular. I think they are a
little cheaper. I think, you know, they're cracking down a
lot of electric scooters though for the fact that you know, you can max out the speed on a lot of them.
Some of them do pretty go pretty fast wise, but I.
Speaker 2: Think there is like fifty five does Yeah, I got a buddy that goues you.
Speaker 3: Know, his goes fifty five. But you can set them
to different, you know, speed, whatever you want to say it to. I think they're a great option. I mean,
I wish we had them we were kids, honestly.
Speaker 2: Would have got all around a lot more sure.
Speaker 3: I mean it kind of you know it well, you know, back in the day, we had go karts, you know, so now you know, you know, kids now have their electric scooters.
Speaker 2: I was just talking about go krts the other day, I think it was actually yesterday, and I was recalling I had I think I've told you I had a go kart that probably Shu shuldn't have been driven on the street. It was quite fast for its time, and
I drove it like it was a car. Now, keep
in mind, I think I told you got I lived in the West other than Vegas, and everything back then in Vegas was very very far away. Your friends lived
could live up to thirty miles away from you. That
was just normal because everything was and they lived out in the desert. Everything was stretched. So our two main
transportation were dirt bikes. Well I think this falls dirt bikes,
mini bikes, it all kind of falls in the same category.
Or go carts and we rode it. That's how we
went to go see our friends, and I would drive far away. Why had equipped my go cart like it
was a car. I put blinkers on it, I had
a tail light. They back in the eighties, you guys
remember that they sold these for bicycles, and they had the switches on them stuff. You pulled the brake and
your little brake light would blink. And then they had
a lever you could put you click up and down in a left turn signal, right turn signal. They're made
for bicycles. I just bought them. Spray painting them out
black so they looked cool lights. And I attached them
to the on the back of my go cart. So
when I was making a left hand turn, I had my left hand turn singal on. Now I didn't just
go willy nilly and go like riding up like main roads forever. But I had to go to main Roads
and go up to cross over into the next neighborhood, cross through that neighborhood, come to Main Road, and go like up or down to get to the next neighborhood.
And I just jumped neighborhood and neighborhood. But I got
chased by the police a lot because I shouldn't been riding a go cart. Now, I will say I was
one of the people who wrote a gold cart and did put a helmet on. At least I was safe
about it. I had had a really nice helmet. I
had a fool and I didn't have one of those cheesy helmets. I had a nice fool face black visor
so you couldn't see who was inside of it. And
I'll tell you I liked the movie Wraith back then, so my helmet kind of had a Wraith look. If
you've never seen the movie, wraith go take a look at But I had that look to it. I was
blacked out, you couldn't see in it, and of course, sitting down on my go cart, all you see is it's a full helmet with a blacked out, you know, advisor on it, and you have no idea who's behind that visor or that helmet, which made it a little easier to not stop when you were you know, you knew they were coming for you because you were supposed to be outd to go carton the street still not supposed to guess the kids they got pulled over for it, yeah, unfortunately, But I drove it everywhere, So I started thinking. I
was like, okay, so we had those that was our mass transit right as kids. So I think the e
bike and all that kind of stuff and people looking for a way to get around now it's kind of just it's just evolved. Now it's just electric and the
same problem. So I understand the person who sent me
the letters idea of there's got to be a better way where we as a taxpayer don't feel like we're paying a lot of our money into it that we can't watch the money go anywhere. Jet packs, I don't know.
Maybe jet packs. If you guys think it's jet packs,
drop me a message, leave me and emails, text me you tell me is it jet packs? I don't agree.
No the answer no. Why? Let you guys let me know.
I gotta take another cursior break. When I come back,
we'll talk more. Be back.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, welcome back, all right, switching gears. Got a different
topic for you guys. So I got to write read
an article James uh I think it's o'ho wrote it.
Somebody sent it over to me, and it was actually a pretty cool article. And it was talking about like
car names, right, like how cars get their names and is their like thought processes or marketing strategy put into it? Okay,
And I'm so I I realized there's tons of different car names out there now, there's been tons in the past, all kinds of stuff like and they use the Mustang as a reference, of course, because I think it's the easiest one to talk about, and they're like, well, Mustang, it was supposed to symbolize freedom, horsepower, you know, excitement, that's what it was supposed to invoke. When you hear
the name Mustang and you saw it on a car, and then you saw the logo. That's why they say
they chose that logo was to you know, stir those emotions in the buyer. Okay, I get it. But then
you know, you see other names and you go, well, what inspired that? What inspired that name and what what
was the purpose for that? And like some like I
said earlier in one of thems, I was like Spark. Okay,
a lot of you all names decided the name of Spark.
There's so many, like.
Speaker 3: I like companies that use like different last names and it flows pretty well, like Harley Davison, and they were able to make like a whole brand out of that.
And I'm pretty sure its two last names but together.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so one hundred percent. Okay, I'll give you
example in the article. And like I said, the article
was was pretty informative. That's the reason why I you know,
give him his props to give his reference because he he did some interviews, I guess, and some of the people that he talked to it made sense to me.
I never thought about like that. So they talked about Cadillac.
In the Cadillac brand, they say that most people won't be able to name off all the different types of Cadillacts there are, and it was never intended for that.
They never intended you to remember the Cadillac names got at one, two, three, Well, I like, you know, I can say, like, you know, I can name off because I'm a car person, I can name off. I'm be like,
you know, Okay, you had the Fleetwood, you had the Eldorado, you had all these different you know stuff, right, But that was never their intent for that brand because they said the name Cadillac meant so much by itself. You
never need to know what kind of Cadillac somebody was driving.
When somebody goes, what do you drive Cadillac?
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It worked. It worked, though it made I was like
I had never thought about like that. I was just like, okay, wow,
another one, which you point may not be surprised. Surprised.
Can I guess it? What? Lincoln? Nope? Really, because I'm
sure the Lincoln is probably one of them. I'm sure
because you don't know the model. That's gotta tell you
how the categories are broke up.
Speaker 3: And then that I feel like maybe back in the day, but you hear like every time you hear about Lincoln.
You hear like navigator, So like then I feel like they haven't.
Speaker 2: Really got the continent. You got the right, you know.
Speaker 3: It's like so that's right, you know he's like, oh okay, So like maybe like back and you know, back in the day they kind of in that way, but maybe they stopped doing that.
Speaker 4: Yeah maybe.
Speaker 2: So the other one that was that was in his article which made sense was BMW doesn't give names. Yeah,
why because BMW speaks for itself. They give numbers, numbers
and letters and nobody can ever tell you if that without them being a bm W guy. Rather that's a
five series, three series of five hundred five fifty what nobody cares because it's in the name. Do you say,
I drive at BMW and that's the end of the conversation.
Speaker 3: I will say that a lot of times the name refers to the car itself. It's not just you know,
willy nilly almost like how then identifies the car, And so I will say they're you know, there are letters in their numbers, verify, but vehicle.
Speaker 2: Besides that, that wasn't even I'm talking. You just say
BMW and it's usually the end of the conversation unless you're the BMW guy. Well what kind of BMW? Right? Yeah?
Other than that, people say BMW Mercedes, which is really biger than being Mercedes. Didn't Mercedes did numbers, you know
what I mean? They just they're you know, they have
the E, the E class, they have you know, the three fifty that's whatever. I don't remember, three thirty. They
have all their numbers. Mercedes said it all. Now you
get to Chevy and Ford and all of them, and they put names because their names for what they wanted you to feel like when ones use the example for explore, when you say the word explore, what do you think?
S GV? But what do you what?
Speaker 3: Is it something somebody like? Somebody exploring? I mean, I
want to explore traveling somebody travel.
Speaker 2: That's what they wanted to do, something that you could visualize you putting the family in and going out and exploring it.
Speaker 3: But here's a question I proposed to you earlier this week.
Who have four decided to make a lot of their vehicles start with the letter E. You got the escape.
Speaker 2: Excursions? I don't know, look it up. Is there a reason?
I don't know if I don't look it up. What
made them decided the name. That's a good question though.
Speaker 3: That right, there's a lot of models let's start with E.
Speaker 2: There is I agree with you. I mean coincidence maybe
maybe maybe, But I had a list, so I gotta pull it up here for you because I did. I
was doing I was doing a little research. Okay, so
let me bring it up here. So the prius right, Okay,
totally going in a weird direction for you guys. But prius,
what do you think prius meant and what it was supposed to invoke?
Speaker 4: It's along the side of the letter F.
Speaker 2: That's not what they're going for. That's no I'm talking about.
Speaker 4: That's why Ford names a lot of their models with the letter E. It's due to their heritage that okay,
Henry for Henry Ford began using the alphabet to name his earliest designs successfully the model T. The letter E
is along the side of F and honors Sport's heritage.
Speaker 2: So they named all the vehicles starting with starting with E names. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, I don't know
that learned something new every day. Prius. What do you
think prius what's supposed to invoke? It's Latin for to
go before that's what it's for. I I never knew this. Uh.
It signaled the world's first mass produced hybrid car. That's
that's why they call it proprius. Now, this one should
be pretty easy for you. Jeep wrangler, for instance, what
do you think that that was supposed to?
Speaker 3: It's supposed to wrangle a dirt or the.
Speaker 2: Soil, maybe kind of you're you're in the right territory. Climb,
climb the image of a rugged cowboy intendant for freedom, toughness, and outdoor capability. Wrangler. I mean, I I don't know
why I've never looked this up before. Being a car guy,
you think I would have probably like asked this question a million times over and looked up. I never have.
But it came up conversations this week and I was just like, you know, I don't know, I have to let's start looking. We talked about the Mustang, all right, suburban, Chevy, suburban.
Speaker 4: Any ideas just supposed to It's just a CUV that goes around. It's like your soccer suburban cities.
Speaker 2: You're close And I never knew this is what it meant.
So a suburban was to invoke the thought of growing your family in the suburbs be needing a vehicle big enough to carry them all. That's why it's called suburban.
I've never heard that before. I mean, and I can
see that, and I'm a chevy guy, but I didn't.
I didn't know that. I was just like, I was
like wow, I was like, all right, so I'll give you another one. Rams that live like.
Speaker 4: How many pounds, fifteen hundred, Yeah, the fifteen hundred truck, the fifty A.
Speaker 3: RAM is usually a pretty strong.
Speaker 2: Pool pounds how many pounds pool? Okay, So the the
ram's just named after male sheep, after a sheep. Really,
it's supposed to be charging strength and durability power because you know they charge rams. Yeah, stuff like that. That
was it, yep.
Speaker 4: So when they say it's a ram, I'm going to be.
Speaker 2: Like, I'll go in a complete different direction. Volkswagen golf.
Speaker 4: For a little while for twenty four hours, a leisure I'm thinking it was leisure.
Speaker 3: Was it supposed to be like like basically golf cart, resemble a golf cart and.
Speaker 4: To be like a city car like close in the city, going from corporate to to work.
Speaker 2: Now you're I think you're leaning more towards the Volkswagen because it was the people's car. I think that's what
you're thinking in your head. So the Volkswagen Golf is
German for golf stream. It wanted you to envision ocean currents.
It is associated with the car's global natural power that it possessed over people want in the vehicle. Definitely was mine.
Was possessed. That sounds and that's what it says. All right,
here's one same like when GMC Sierra pickup truck. Basically
you know Silverado, but Sierra Sierra. To think about this
is easy, know you know what Sierra is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is the guy like probably the guy's like ex girlfriend's name or something.
Speaker 2: No, no, what in the world. No, Sierra is Spanish
for mountain range. It framed the truck as a rugged,
elevated and majestic vehicle. Really, ye know that it was
way off mate was majestic. There's here's one for you.
Here's one for Toyota, Tacoma.
Speaker 3: Tacoma, Tacoma.
Speaker 2: What do you think Tacoma was for? To come over?
I didn't know this one I had no idea this.
I owned it. Tacoma, I had no idea. I had
no idea. I'm trying to keep a straight guy at COMA. Nope.
Tacoma was named after the Washington's Mount Tacoma Rainer Mountain.
I guess altitude, durability, and strength. He's like, this one
that was for you because you like Toyota. Tacoma's I
do for you. I didn't think you'd know it, but
it was for you because you see it was a mount ranger to go. All right, Tacoma, Toyota, Tacoma. Is
it for again? Takoma? Is it's a mountain range? Yeah?
All right, all right, hold on, Hondai. Elantra. I've heard
this one before. I know this.
Speaker 3: This isn't quiz at the end?
Speaker 2: Is it Lantra? Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: I feel like like launching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was thinking like launching the Elantra. Yeah. It's
derived from the word elation, and it's meant for drivers to feel uplifted while driving it. Elantra.
Speaker 3: It makes sense because I think, isn't that one of the vehicles that like make the music when you walk in?
Speaker 2: I think it has a weird tone when you open the door. So you get the newer I think the
newer ones you've heard of. Do it all right? Last
one not least for a commercial break Chevy Silverado power tornadoes under the day. I think of.
Speaker 4: Silverado like a silver Back, like a like a.
Speaker 2: Combines silver in the wild West El Dorado and implies premium wealth and ruggedness Silvarado. I own a Silverado, had
many of them. I've had what eight never knew. That's
what that meant. So that note, maybe you guys learned
something new today I didn't know. Maybe you guys knew
if you did. Drop it in the comment if you
know one that I don't or I've never read, because I didn't know any of these. So you take a
quick course of breakwa come back. I got some more
for you. Hod Tight.
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Speaker 2: Guys, welcome back hopefully y'all. During the commercial break, decided
to go take a look at some of the car names that and what they meant that we didn't name.
I mean, I was during the commercial break looking there's a long list of ones I've never even thought about looking up. I had no idea that's what they meant.
Apparently Odyssey the Odyssey is.
Speaker 3: But you can go a whole different rabbit hole too, right.
You can go some models like you know, what do they mean by the continental? Is that supposed to be
like from you know, it's so big from you know, country to country, or.
Speaker 2: You're gonna make me look it up. I won't do that,
you know what I mean. It's a fair question.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 2: Odyesty was supposed to be a journey with a poet and explorer or something like. That's what I said and things.
So I was like, okay, your next odyssey. I guess, like.
Speaker 3: What Infinity is it supposed to be like you know, supposed to go on and on and on.
Speaker 2: Infinity was supposed to be like I said, Infinity doesn't really does Infinity do names? Because they do, like numbers
two on theirs.
Speaker 4: I think they do numbers two cu and yeah, they do letter one number in letters. They're almost like BMW.
Speaker 2: Kin, Yeah, it's so. I mean, well, I remember what
I remember the first time I ever saw in Infinity, Like I remember literally, I remember like it was yes, like you ever I had those cars. I remember the
very first time someone ever pulled up an Affinity. I'd
never seen one. They were quite expensive when they first
came out for what they were like money wise, and I was just like, world is this And he's like, man, it's like it's better than a BMW. I'm like, well,
hold on, you know, I mean, let me take a look.
I'm like I remember when they first hit the market.
They were very stylish and everyone was talking about it.
He was running out. So where I was at, you
had the Nissan dealership and never real sense and it makes sense. Yeah, the Nissan dealership in Infinity right next door,
and you had Toyota and Less right next door. And
I'm like, okay, well they are the same car r R.
You have me Like. But the craziest thing, guys, I
could never wrap my head around it was people would leave the Nissan dealership and walk walk over to the Infinity and know that it's just the same car and a nice and nicer rapper essentially, but they'd hand over that extra twenty thousand dollars for it just for that the name.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was well, it was a package and it was you know, they were tuned down models.
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The front, the grill was different, the fenders were different, but basically the back body all looked just like the land Cruiser. The only f one was they have a
bunch of gold els. And I know, I've told you
guys this story, and I he wanted the Toyota, she wanted the Lexus, and she was throwing a fit because you're just cheap and it won't buy me the Lexus.
And did it went on? By the way, I still
to this day, and I never said, I still remember where what the company these people owned, you know, which then maybe never want to do business with it, But I remember, I remember what I know, I remember what business they owned. Uh, it has never left my thought.
Of all the things I do not remember because of migraines, for some reason, I do remember the name of that company.
Still this date, but I I didn't get the sale, by the way, and I think I think I've told you guys this story before. I did not get the
sale her. She did get the Lexus, but I couldn't
resist from saying before they made that decision, because she was kind of bratty about it. I was like, for
twenty thousand dollars, I will fill the trunk of this Toyota with little l's and you can put a new one on every single month. I don't think she appreciated
my Yeah, I would at that point. I they really
want They had wasted three days of my time at that point in time, because they kind of saw the vehicle three different times. And if you guys know how
car sales work back then, probably still does this day.
You guys, I don't know. You guys tell me I
don't sell cars. But like when someone was your person,
they came back in, they got paired back up with the same salesman. You had a handleigan. So they just
kept coming and they would take hours of my time, which means you can't approach anybody else there, anybody else anything.
And I'm like, I just know, I know they are not leaving here with the Toyota. I know they're not.
I know that she is gonna Look, anybody's got a wife, you know, she's leaving with the a Lexus. You know it.
That's what she wants. What's the option?
Speaker 4: So he just kind of reminded me of a YouTuber that I've been watching when you were talking about the different manufacturing like them being the same one. So there's
this YouTuber, Matt Armstrong that I've been watching. You guys
probably know.
Speaker 2: Who he is.
Speaker 4: He's been building a Bugatti Verdon I think that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's the one that was wrecked and he's putting it back to and bought it from like uh one the co parties. He does a bunch of different
cars like that is it the blue one? Yeah? Watching
the air bag blue?
Speaker 4: Shout to the air bag blue and I won't I won't spoil the whole video and like what he did to the car, but the airbag blue. And he kept
trying to get a new air bag. Well he found
out when he took the air bag out that it was an Audi air bag. It had all the Audi
symbols on it. Well, the owner of Dugatti posted a
video was like the airbag will not work.
Speaker 2: We tested it.
Speaker 4: It's a different air bag.
Speaker 2: We lo and behold.
Speaker 4: He went and bought an Audi A three air bag and it was a perfect fit all the way in.
He's like, and they might still be wrong, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, do I go out? They uh? And
the reason why I said.
Speaker 4: I won't won't ruin anything because it's a good video to go watch. He did redo the whole upholster and everything,
but I won't say what color.
Speaker 2: And so it was a really good video. I've talked
about it before. So we did an episode on you.
I don't mind whatever. You guys had to go back
a little week. In all my career of cars, which
was a pretty long, extensive career for the time, there was so many times that parts I found parts in certain cars that were underneath this manufacturer four hundred dollars under this manufacture one hundred dollars because one's the high end version, one's the low end, and they used the part from this manufacturer for that part. Same part goes in,
but if you bought it, it was different. And that
happened so many times. Cameron knows because camera did it.
He did down, he did it, and it it crossed so many times. I was just reading something it was
not just but a couple months ago, and there is some performance car that's like a supercar, and the guy couldn't get like the taillight assembly for it or something, I can't remember what it was, and could not get the tail height assembly for it. And after time and
time and time again of looking at you know, looking for it, he found out that it was like a Ford tail light assembly that they used the inner guts of it is for really for this car, but you couldn't get it. And even when he did find it,
like used it was like four grand for it. And
I think he said he paid like two hundred and twenty five dollars or something stupid like that for it.
When he finally figured out, yeah, crazy, like somebody told me, and you guys probably not like some of the earlier Tesla's had like some Chevy swapped parts on him that you could use the Chevy part in certain things. I
don't know how true that is, but that's what I was told. I don't work on Tesla's, but I believe it.
I'm like, I want to believe it. Where you can
get it, that's right, you get it where you can get it. What you came, what do you I started
thinking about it.
Speaker 4: I was like, wait a minute, that was Matt Armstrong with his Lamber Lamborghini Grado and he was he got it off of a fod trecks that on back.
Speaker 2: Like and I was like, wait a minute. I watched
that video. That was my watch And I told you guys,
I am a deep rabbit hole guy on watching YouTube videos, car bills, peep different people's chant and stuff like that.
And I support all those guys because they do the same thing with you. We got a radio show fourteen
years of doing it and stuff, and they're doing their stuff.
And when I watch all these guys stuff, and then we go to car events and we get a chance to meet these people, and then before we know what, we make friends with people. And that's how like a
lot of people you see us hanging out with. When
you guys go and watch the shows, you see us, you know in pictures and stuff like that. There are
people we've met from doing this show for so long that have these great careers building cars on TV and all that kind of stuff. And some are really great people.
There's a couple of them they're they're exactly what they look like on TV, and I will don't mention who they are or whatever, and you guys can figure it out for yourself. But for the most part, is a
huge car community and they're all just trying to build stuff like we are if we could ever get our cars back. But that's a whole other story. That was
a I'll leave that conversation for later because we just we just were having We're just just because Camen just hit you with it during commercial break. He's like, have
you heard anything about white noise? What's going on? I
thought we were having the car back last week, guys.
I told you guys, sure the car was coming back next week. I don't know. I'm gonna go ahead and
just do radio silent, but I don't know. I'll let
you guys know what I know, because yeah, we really need to get to put some things together at some point hopefully it all works. O favorite project number career.
I don't even get me started. Yeah, but car building
is I don't know, it's it's it's definitely something if you've done it, you know, I still got a full head of hair so far, I do. I don't know.
We'll see where it all goes. I really thought we'd
have some things together by July enough. I just don't know.
I'm deflated a little bit when it comes to it, because it just seems like if we're not physically able to do a lot of things, the timeline just goes out longer and longer alonger a lot of things. It's
what happens. So I'll let you guys know as soon
as I know, and maybe things will be positive before the end of the year. Maybe we'll have one of
these cars out out to see you guys at one of your shows very very soon. On that note, guys, hey,
I know that it has been a great show because I know you guys enjoy listening and Saturdays are great for us. We've been hitting a lot of car shows.
Like I said, there's been a lot of invite to a lot more car shows. I am trying to get
us out to everything. There's a lot there in the wind.
As more things come up, and I know for sure that's where we're gonna be. I'll let you guys know.
A lot of stuff lately has been invite and we just pop up because there's eight we need to be at at one time, and I have to pick which ones we can get. You can't get to all eight.
It's just impossible. So you guys are seeing the pictures.
Hope you guys are enjoying the pictures. Kind of show
what we see out there, and keep on looking and then knowe we're gonna go ahead and get out of here.
It is Saturday. Sunday is right around the corner. As
I tell you guys all the time, make sure you unplug, spend some time with your kids, play a board game with them, build a car. Maybe you'll get it done
before we heard know of the ours, but fire up that barbecue, hide their cell phones from them, and the coyleach cushions, whatever it takes. Just spend some time with
their kids. They will remember for the rest of your
lives and you'll be glad that you did. Memories built
on family. So and that note, you guys got anything
before we get out of here, have a good one Drey weekend. Al Right, guys, that's it for us, and
we'll talk to you guys next Saturday. We're out of here.
About this episode
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