1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 2 00:00:09,280 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 2: We're gonna be taking calls for the next day, well whenever, 3 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:13,760 Speaker 2: I guess, until we run out of calls to take. 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 2: Been talking about stick shifts, when you got your first 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 2: stick shift, if you drove, if you learned how, if 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,080 Speaker 2: you've taught other people. One of the things that I 7 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 2: will never forget is having a stick shift in Los 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:32,120 Speaker 2: Angeles and driving up Los Sianga, going to Sunset Boulevard, 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 2: just chirping the tires, try and keepe from rolling back 10 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 2: into probably some Maserati or range drover that was heading 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 2: over to the Saddle Ranch, some twenty two year old 12 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 2: multimillionaire who would have probably sued me into oblivion. And 13 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 2: I remember trying to sit there and feather the clutch 14 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:52,919 Speaker 2: hold the e brake, put it into gear and then 15 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 2: killing the car trying and turn it on one. And 16 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: it was an old car. You know, old cars are 17 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,040 Speaker 2: like the new stick shift card a lot easier driving 18 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: the old ones. But I learned how to drive on 19 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:05,160 Speaker 2: a Volvo two forty. My parents were just like here, 20 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,160 Speaker 2: figure it out. 21 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 3: Good luck. 22 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 2: Driving around Indianapolis, I think in the winter, trying to 23 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:15,960 Speaker 2: figure out every ten miles an hour, I had to shift. 24 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,960 Speaker 2: That's how like, that's how the gear ratio was. So 25 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,720 Speaker 2: by the time I got to fifty miles an hour, 26 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:22,760 Speaker 2: that was it. The car would just not go much 27 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,080 Speaker 2: faster than that. But it was a brick and for 28 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:26,800 Speaker 2: good reason. I think the zero to sixty time on 29 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,679 Speaker 2: an early nineties Volvo two forties like truly sixteen seconds 30 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,920 Speaker 2: or something like that. Crazy stuff. Ron Or have you 31 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:35,920 Speaker 2: done a stick shift in a while? 32 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:36,120 Speaker 4: Oh? 33 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love them. They always made me feel like 34 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,759 Speaker 3: Steve McQueen. You know, it really is a cool vibe. 35 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 2: I had one in La that I had to sell 36 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: because I was living up here in the valley and 37 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 2: I was working at Mattel in Elsegundo for hot wheels, 38 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 2: and I was driving over the hill every morning. It 39 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 2: would take like an hour and a half to get 40 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,480 Speaker 2: there and sometimes two hours to get home. And I 41 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 2: was the heavy clutch, putting in this heavy clutch, and 42 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:01,280 Speaker 2: my truly, my left thigh was at least a couple 43 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:02,040 Speaker 2: inches bigger than me. 44 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,000 Speaker 3: Write Okay, but don't think I'm gonna let you just 45 00:02:04,080 --> 00:02:06,000 Speaker 3: zoom past the hot wheels thing. I need to hear 46 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 3: about that. 47 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 2: So I worked for Hot Wheels for about two or 48 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 2: three years back in the mid twenty teens. I was 49 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 2: the head of the YouTube channel essentially, so I got 50 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 2: to come up with content about hot wheels. We would 51 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 2: build these big hot Wheels setups would take over like 52 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 2: a diner in Santa Monica and put unlimited track there. 53 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 3: Okay, so did you get free tracks and like you 54 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: and your office buddies whip each other with them? 55 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,440 Speaker 2: Oh, Mike, was that all the time? I mean, truly, 56 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 2: you reach a point where you have so much free 57 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 2: stuff that you don't want to see it ever again. 58 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,920 Speaker 2: I had so many hot wheels. I had hot wheels 59 00:02:41,919 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 2: coming out of every orifice. I was just swimming in 60 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 2: hot wheels. The bathtub was full of hot wheels. That's 61 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:48,760 Speaker 2: a problem a lot of people would like to have. 62 00:02:48,919 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: Do you remember the Wolf of Wall Street where they're 63 00:02:51,760 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 2: wrapping up all the cash on their model girlfriends, their 64 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,200 Speaker 2: Eastern European girlfriends, because they've got like passports that they 65 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 2: can get through to the Eastern Bloc country. That was 66 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 2: you with hot wheek that it was me with hot Wheels, 67 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,440 Speaker 2: but it was me around myself, and because I liked 68 00:03:07,480 --> 00:03:10,800 Speaker 2: the way that the the die cast metal felt on 69 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 2: my skin. All right, this is far too weird, but yeah, 70 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:15,000 Speaker 2: I worked for Hot Wheels for a while. Those videos 71 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 2: are still available on YouTube if you'd like to go 72 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:18,360 Speaker 2: see them. I don't know why you would. But we 73 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 2: did some really cool stuff we made. We went up 74 00:03:20,600 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 2: to the horse Thief Mile, which is a track at 75 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 2: Willow Springs which is way up in the desert towards 76 00:03:25,720 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 2: Tahtchapee High Desert, and we built a mile long Hot 77 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 2: Wheels track there. Whoa, which is really crazy that sounds 78 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:37,120 Speaker 2: like fun. I think it's in the Guinness Book of 79 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,320 Speaker 2: World Records actually, which is neat. But I don't I 80 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:40,920 Speaker 2: don't even know. 81 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 3: No, I think guys have Hot Wheel Love imprinted on 82 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 3: their DNA. 83 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,680 Speaker 2: I definitely liked it because I thought it was a 84 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:48,760 Speaker 2: very full circle thing for being a car guy and 85 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 2: like also a car kid who loved cars and playing 86 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 2: with cars as a kid. I think it gave me 87 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 2: a good headspace for what would work. And we did 88 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 2: really well. We did. We sold a lot of stuff. 89 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:02,920 Speaker 2: I think the I, the influencer that we had, who 90 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: was like the star of a lot of the YouTube videos, 91 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,880 Speaker 2: had a percentage of the back end on the sales 92 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,200 Speaker 2: associated with that holiday season, and I don't know how 93 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:16,080 Speaker 2: much it was, but I know it was a lot. 94 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:19,039 Speaker 2: I mean that guy like could have retired many times 95 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: over just on that deal. Hot Wheels leading the Way 96 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 2: challenge accepted. 97 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 3: Everybody loves Hot Wheels. Meanwhile, the job left you with 98 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 3: one incredible hulk leg and one Bruce Banner leg. 99 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 2: That's exactly right. Okay, well, now at least they've become 100 00:04:34,320 --> 00:04:38,600 Speaker 2: both Bruce Bannered. I also, I just I'll say this, 101 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 2: like being in the car, the toy car space and 102 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:44,479 Speaker 2: the toy car YouTube space. You would think it would 103 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 2: be really fun, but it was very stressful. And the 104 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,080 Speaker 2: only thing was that I got to feel like every 105 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 2: day I did something that was really fun and cool 106 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,560 Speaker 2: and looked cool and made people happy. And that was neat. 107 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,679 Speaker 2: But you know how Wheels is like one hundred percent 108 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,200 Speaker 2: brand recognition. The marketing executives know that Hot Wheels is 109 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: known by truly every person on the planet. That's pretty amazing. 110 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 2: It's appropriate hot Wheels rule. Yeah, very cool. All right. 111 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 2: Checking in with Mike speaking of the high desert, calling 112 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 2: us from Apple Valley. Mike, you're on KF I good evening, 113 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 2: tell us about your stick shift story. 114 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:21,040 Speaker 5: Hey, and you are right. 115 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,280 Speaker 6: Everything everything's cool over here in Snapple Alley, I call it. 116 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, are you are you? Are you staying above water? 117 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,400 Speaker 2: I imagine you're getting a lot of rain there tonight. 118 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:35,279 Speaker 6: You know there's no rain, rains all day Saturday, yesterday, 119 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 6: no rain today. They keep any of these alerts saying 120 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:42,440 Speaker 6: it's going to start at like, you know, seven whatever, nothing, 121 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 6: there's nothing. Here's me all day. 122 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:46,880 Speaker 2: You can't you can't trust anybody in the media. 123 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:54,160 Speaker 6: You know exactly, especially those people. Uh not to change 124 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 6: the subject, but I mean you were talking about hot wheels. 125 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:58,640 Speaker 6: I have a hot wheel hack when I was a 126 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,640 Speaker 6: kid growing up. You know the tracks, you know they 127 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,880 Speaker 6: come in sections. Oh yeah, okay, well if well kids 128 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:10,240 Speaker 6: don't try this at home. But if you like the 129 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 6: end of the track, it's it melts, but it stays flamed, right, 130 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:21,359 Speaker 6: and it's so cool. We used to put our little 131 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 6: army men and build these trenches on the ground and 132 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,520 Speaker 6: when it drips, it makes like a hot wheel napalm. 133 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 2: That's all cool. 134 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:35,240 Speaker 7: Cool man. 135 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 2: That that's the kind of thing that when I was 136 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 2: working at hot Wheels, I would have never been able 137 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 2: to even like reference or talk about, you know, because 138 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:43,560 Speaker 2: they're very protective. They were like they have to be 139 00:06:43,680 --> 00:06:47,080 Speaker 2: careful because they are making sure that they don't make 140 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 2: something that hurts children. But that is very nice. Maybe yeah, 141 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,760 Speaker 2: all right, well but anyway, tell us about your your 142 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,320 Speaker 2: stick ship story. 143 00:06:58,520 --> 00:06:58,719 Speaker 7: Yeah. 144 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 6: Back in nineteen seventy seven, I was eighteen years old 145 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:07,960 Speaker 6: and I had a forty six Chrysler right wow, A 146 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,440 Speaker 6: big car. Yeah, big car. I got it from some 147 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:15,280 Speaker 6: old guy soldier me for like four hundred bucks. 148 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:18,960 Speaker 5: And it had a fluid drive. It's called fluid drive, 149 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,800 Speaker 5: you see if anybody knows about this. And it's a 150 00:07:21,840 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 5: three speed on the three on the tree like you 151 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 5: said in the morning, New Yeah, and okay, you start 152 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 5: your car up, you take off first gear, second gear, 153 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 5: third gear. You come to a stop right and it 154 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:38,640 Speaker 5: turns into an automatic. 155 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Speaker 2: How does that have that? 156 00:07:41,440 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 6: I have no idea and I'm a retirement caanic. 157 00:07:44,400 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 2: So you just shift once and then it becomes an automatic. 158 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:51,400 Speaker 6: Yep, car off and you turn it back on and 159 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 6: you got to go through the first, second, and third crazy. 160 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: So you have to like teach it. That is wild 161 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: called fluid drive. Fluid I've never heard of that. That 162 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: is awesome. Nineteen forty six christ or what color was it? 163 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 2: Last question? 164 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 7: We'll get out of here dark blue? 165 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:06,640 Speaker 8: Ooo? 166 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 2: Nice, beautiful cool, well, thank you, Thank you so much 167 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:14,880 Speaker 2: for calling Mike. Stay warm up there in Apple Valley 168 00:08:15,280 --> 00:08:19,080 Speaker 2: stay dry as well. We appreciate it, very very cool stuff. 169 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 2: We're gonna keep taking your calls here on KFI, we 170 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: are talking about stick shift stories when you learn how 171 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:26,679 Speaker 2: to drive stick If you have any crazy stories about 172 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:29,960 Speaker 2: learning how to drive manual transmission teaching anybody in your family. 173 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 174 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesemeyer. Nice to be with you tonight on 175 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:44,079 Speaker 2: this rainy evening. Is it still pouring where you are? 176 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,880 Speaker 2: We are very curious. How are you doing? Run or 177 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 2: is it pouring in your room? Are you okay? I'm dry, Yeah, 178 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,520 Speaker 2: you're dry. That's good. No leaks in here yet. The 179 00:08:51,559 --> 00:08:54,920 Speaker 2: all deck home Christmas tree is looking beautiful. Oh Christmas Tree, 180 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 2: Oh Christmas Tree, How lovely are your branches? Indeed, I'm 181 00:08:57,920 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 2: looking out the window here from the fifth, fourth floor, 182 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: fourth floor of the iHeartRadio building, I don't see a 183 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 2: ton of precipitable water. 184 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 3: The iPhone app says it's coming down right here in 185 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 3: Burbank the iPhone. 186 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 2: You know what I will say about this is that 187 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,079 Speaker 2: it's amazing to me how there can be so much 188 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 2: discrepancy between what the National Weather Service says, what we're 189 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 2: looking at at KTLA, what the phone says, what Google 190 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: says versus Apple Weather. It's crazy. I don't understand how 191 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 2: you could have such confusing I mean, you think all 192 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,720 Speaker 2: the data is coming from the same place, but I 193 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 2: guess not. I don't know. Looking at the radar right now, 194 00:09:38,320 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 2: and I'm seeing a bunch of I can think it 195 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,920 Speaker 2: looks like a squall line, maybe some some serious precipitation. 196 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,400 Speaker 2: Some some sections of the map that are getting hit 197 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,080 Speaker 2: pretty hard, Riverside County, San Berdino County up towards Victorville 198 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:55,640 Speaker 2: looking like some snow in the San Bernardino Mountain areas. 199 00:09:56,040 --> 00:10:02,000 Speaker 2: Parts of Glendale still relatively dark on that on that radar. 200 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:06,960 Speaker 2: Darker green, lighter green may basically just sprinkles Virga as 201 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,559 Speaker 2: they call it. Darker green. That's serious. But by the 202 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 2: time nine o'clock rolls around, we will start to see 203 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:15,439 Speaker 2: some of the clearing that precipitation move all the way 204 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,680 Speaker 2: out towards the Inland Empire and beyond. We've got a 205 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 2: talk back here on KFI. Let's take a listen, hey. 206 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 9: Boss, what's going on man, flying fish at the airport. 207 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 2: That's great. I love whatever wherever we're going here. 208 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,040 Speaker 9: Out here working over time. 209 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 2: Man. I'm an old street racer. 210 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 5: Man. 211 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 9: I had a five to ten dots and sixty nine 212 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 9: dots and five ten wagons, stick ship cool and all 213 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 9: of us was dots and boys and z's and everything. 214 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 9: We wouldn't get caught dead in and automatic. Yes, and 215 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 9: then we're the best days man, street racing days and 216 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 9: all that. And we had to put our transmissions. Manuel's 217 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:55,720 Speaker 9: all about that. That's how it goes. 218 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, sir, wouldn't be caught dead with an automatic, 219 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:00,080 Speaker 2: especially back. 220 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:02,640 Speaker 3: He's onto something. I had an old to eighties Z. 221 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:03,360 Speaker 3: Do you remember those? 222 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,280 Speaker 2: You're a dots and boy too to eight Z. 223 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 3: Those are like zippy little well, it was like if 224 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,520 Speaker 3: you couldn't afford a jag, that's what you have. 225 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:13,679 Speaker 2: Those are real cool cars. I think the Nissan sports 226 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 2: car program, which of course was the Dotson originally, those 227 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,000 Speaker 2: are amazing vehicles. And I think that I think that 228 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 2: the way they look. I can only imagine in the 229 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,960 Speaker 2: seventies and the eighties that they looked like they were 230 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,760 Speaker 2: from the future. Because they look they're still cool today. 231 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,520 Speaker 2: What did this guy say? His name was, Hey. 232 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 3: Boss, what's going on? 233 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:33,760 Speaker 7: Man? 234 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 9: Flying fish at the airport? 235 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:40,360 Speaker 2: Flying Fish? I love that? 236 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:45,319 Speaker 9: And flying fish at the airport out here working overtime, man, I'm. 237 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,400 Speaker 2: All working over time making that money. I appreciate and 238 00:11:47,480 --> 00:11:50,959 Speaker 2: respect it. I worked long days too. It's not as 239 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 2: backbreaking or serious as working at the airport, I guarantee you, 240 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 2: but it is fun. Mister flying Fish, thank you for 241 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,199 Speaker 2: leaving a message. We've got Jim from Lake Elson or 242 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,680 Speaker 2: who's been waiting very patiently. Tell us your story about 243 00:12:00,760 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 2: manual transmission car that you had, or a story about 244 00:12:04,120 --> 00:12:05,959 Speaker 2: teaching somebody else to drive manual transmission. 245 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 7: And I was teaching my daughter how to drive, and 246 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,000 Speaker 7: I took her back on a dirt road, which I 247 00:12:15,040 --> 00:12:19,200 Speaker 7: thought would be safe. Oh yeah, and yeah, And we're 248 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 7: cruising along fine in like second gear, and a car 249 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 7: came straight at us. She didn't know what to do. 250 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,560 Speaker 7: Do we hit the grass, do we hit the clutch 251 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:33,600 Speaker 7: a break? I don't know. She froze so I had 252 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:35,600 Speaker 7: no choice but to grab the wheel out of her 253 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,320 Speaker 7: hand and wheel us right into a ditch to avoid 254 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,080 Speaker 7: the car coming right at us. So, yeah, that was 255 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 7: her experience. She's never drove a stick since. 256 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:46,560 Speaker 2: But does she drive drive or just not not a 257 00:12:46,559 --> 00:12:47,079 Speaker 2: stick shift? 258 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:47,960 Speaker 8: Card? 259 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 7: Yeah, she drives. You know, she's not a great driver. 260 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 4: But yeah, but. 261 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:56,000 Speaker 2: Is she on your insurance? 262 00:12:56,120 --> 00:12:56,440 Speaker 8: Still? 263 00:12:56,480 --> 00:12:57,440 Speaker 2: That's the real question. 264 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 7: No, no, no, she's forty years old now. Yeah. 265 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny because I had I had a friend 266 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,319 Speaker 2: who was similarly had uh uh. She really wanted to 267 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,080 Speaker 2: figure out how to drive stick sat in the car, 268 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,120 Speaker 2: got in, turned it on, put the put the car 269 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 2: into gear, held the clutch in, pulled the clutch out, 270 00:13:14,720 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 2: killed it, and was like, I'm done. I'm never doing 271 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 2: this again. But we didn't have to end up in 272 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: a ditch for that. But well, thank you so much 273 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,120 Speaker 2: for calling, Jim, appreciate you. How's Lake Alsonar? 274 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 7: Is it raining it it's moderately raining. 275 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 2: Any flooding on your streets? 276 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:29,760 Speaker 7: No, no flooding. 277 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:32,079 Speaker 2: Do you still drive a stick shift? Last question? 278 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 7: Uh no, I'm going an automatic. 279 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: Now all right, Well, thank you so much for calling. Cafie. 280 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 2: Please give us a call anytime. We've got uh, Richie, 281 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: we've got time for another one? He says, yes, Well, 282 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:47,720 Speaker 2: mister Ronner says, yes, Richie's busy. 283 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:48,120 Speaker 8: Right now. 284 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 2: We've got Rachel Colin. Rachel, you're on KFI. Good evening. 285 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:59,760 Speaker 2: I'm Andy Reesemeyer. Oh, hello, you're on KFI? Is this 286 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 2: is this Rachel? I don't think it's Rachel? 287 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 8: Hello? 288 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 2: Hello, that's it? 289 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:05,920 Speaker 10: Hello? 290 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,480 Speaker 2: Hello? Who is this? 291 00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 8: This is Carl? 292 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 10: How you doing? 293 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:11,600 Speaker 2: Hey? Carl? I don't know why it says Rachel on 294 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,080 Speaker 2: my screen here, so I don't I apologize. 295 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 10: Well, maybe it's my daughter, but anyway, I'm too real 296 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:23,280 Speaker 10: quick shift stories. We're on a way back for San Diego. 297 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 10: I bought my wife is sixty. I mean it's seventy eight. 298 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:30,240 Speaker 10: Toyota Celica if she never drove a shift in her life. 299 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 10: For my mother got out ninety two thousand miles on 300 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 10: original fudge. 301 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,280 Speaker 2: Wow, that's an incredible story. 302 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,880 Speaker 10: My three hundred GX is about two inches off the ground, 303 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:43,880 Speaker 10: non turbo with over three hundred and fifty horse power, 304 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 10: and it ran real. 305 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 2: Well, is that we got another dots and boy on 306 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 2: the line. Look at this. We've got a lot of 307 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,680 Speaker 2: Nissan dots and dudes. This is the place to be. 308 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 10: Well, we got some Chevy stories. It's original Mustang stories too, 309 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:57,640 Speaker 10: but we've got lots of it. 310 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,280 Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Carl, I could listen Do you 311 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 2: tell stories all day? That voice? That dulcet tones? Do 312 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 2: you have you ever done radio? Because that's a serious 313 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 2: radio voice. You got there. 314 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 10: Now you got my wife cracking up. I got a 315 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 10: fifty seven Jerry fifty seven shaved two eighty three and 316 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 10: two S fifty five p had on one side and 317 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 10: a three twenty seven hit on the other side with 318 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 10: the three screen forty six and blue off your bills. 319 00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 2: Oh that is such a cool car man. People don't 320 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 2: understand these days, these kids gen z then they don't 321 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,200 Speaker 2: know what it's like to live like this. I really 322 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 2: appreciate you, Carl for calling, and please call again anytime. 323 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 2: I'm out of time, but we have more calls coming up. 324 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 2: After the break. 325 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 326 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 2: By me Andy Reesemeyer. We're taking your calls and your 327 00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 2: talkbacks talking about stick shift driving experiences. Kids these days 328 00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 2: don't know what it's like to have to learn to 329 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 2: drive on a manual transmission car. Good luck even finding 330 00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,000 Speaker 2: one new. I think BMW W and Porsche are like 331 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: the only companies that make cars with manual transmissions anymore. 332 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,040 Speaker 2: How crazy is that? Used to be? Every car had that, 333 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 2: you had to pay more not to get one. Here 334 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 2: we are, here's a talkback. 335 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,560 Speaker 11: Let us listen a eighty I got my license in 336 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 11: nineteen eighty seven, and I learned on a stick shift. Yeah, 337 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,880 Speaker 11: and I've had stick shifts off and on my whole life. 338 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,320 Speaker 11: In fact, right now, I drive in nineteen eighty nine 339 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 11: for an FT fifty. That's a stick shift. 340 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: Classic. Love a truck with a good stick shift. That 341 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:37,200 Speaker 2: gear you know, like the old ones, especially from the eighties, 342 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 2: where the gearbox is like that crazy accordion rubber and 343 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,600 Speaker 2: the bottom of the floor, and then the actual stick 344 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 2: shift is like a long Bob Barker esque microphone that 345 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,440 Speaker 2: sticks all the way up. Oh, like a Gene Rayburn microphone. 346 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's right, excuse me, Gene Rayburn microphone. I 347 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:54,920 Speaker 2: have to, of course give you have to give credit 348 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:55,800 Speaker 2: where credit is due. 349 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:00,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody loved those those cheap little rubber housing thing. 350 00:17:00,480 --> 00:17:03,320 Speaker 3: Yeah right, I can tell you forget the feeling. It 351 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 3: could also have been used as a jello mold, right. 352 00:17:05,520 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 2: Just sure. Maybe it's funny because you look back at 353 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:09,040 Speaker 2: cars in that era and it was just everything was 354 00:17:09,080 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 2: one color. Now it's like all the carpet is black, 355 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,800 Speaker 2: all the floors are black, and then maybe the seats 356 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 2: are a little bit of a different color. But back 357 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:18,800 Speaker 2: in the day, it was totally appropriate to cover the 358 00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:25,600 Speaker 2: interior of a car with mauve gray beige from top 359 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:28,879 Speaker 2: to bottom. 360 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 12: Uh, here we go, Hi, this is Lori from Corona. 361 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:33,679 Speaker 13: Stick shift. 362 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:34,400 Speaker 6: Wow. 363 00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 12: I bought an Acura Integra and thousand Oaks with my 364 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:42,359 Speaker 12: fiance and I literally learned how to drive a stick 365 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,440 Speaker 12: shift on the way home from. 366 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 4: The dealership. 367 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:48,200 Speaker 2: That's awesome. 368 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 5: Yeah, he tried. 369 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,680 Speaker 12: Teaching me while we were on our test drive, and 370 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 12: I bought the car and then slowly, slowly, slowly drove 371 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:58,000 Speaker 12: it home. 372 00:17:58,440 --> 00:18:03,040 Speaker 2: Wow, that's awesome. That's pretty brave. I always was terrified 373 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:07,000 Speaker 2: of burning out the clutch, you know, something that I'll 374 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,399 Speaker 2: only ever had to put in one clutch, And I 375 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:09,600 Speaker 2: don't think it was my fault. It was on a 376 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,680 Speaker 2: used car. Do you get weird about that too? Do 377 00:18:12,680 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 2: you ever feel like you're like, really proud of how 378 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 2: good you are operating a clutch. I'm such a good shifter. 379 00:18:18,920 --> 00:18:21,200 Speaker 3: Well, let's see. It's like the first time you ride 380 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:24,439 Speaker 3: a bike and you realize, oh yeah, there's nothing to this, 381 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 3: But before you catch on to shifting and doing the clutch, 382 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:29,040 Speaker 3: you're like. 383 00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:31,320 Speaker 2: I can't do this, Oh I can't do it. Oh yeah, Well, 384 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,119 Speaker 2: and also like you got to especially driving in LA, 385 00:18:33,200 --> 00:18:35,080 Speaker 2: there's so many things to pay attention to because many 386 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 2: whack jobs out there are gonna run you off the road. 387 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 2: My favorite thing was I learned this later in life, 388 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 2: how to rev match on a down shift. 389 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:42,360 Speaker 3: What's that mean? 390 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 2: So you basically put in the clutch if you're at like, 391 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,280 Speaker 2: you know, gear five and you're coming off the freeway 392 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 2: and you're gonna decelerate, instead of putting in a neutral 393 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 2: and waiting all the way till you get to the 394 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 2: stoplight at the bottom and then shifting into one. If 395 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,960 Speaker 2: you take the clutch out, you're in five. Okay, walk 396 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 2: through this. If you're in five, I've put it in 397 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:06,000 Speaker 2: a neutral clutch in right, stab the accelerator so that 398 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,760 Speaker 2: the you know, you peg the needle right, then you 399 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:13,359 Speaker 2: can rev match the engine speed. Do what the transmission 400 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,760 Speaker 2: speed needs to be too, so then you can smoothly 401 00:19:15,800 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: shift down into a lower gear. If you don't do that, 402 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:19,440 Speaker 2: you'll get a real bad jerk. 403 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:21,960 Speaker 3: Rev Match sounds like a character named and a Paul 404 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,359 Speaker 3: Thomas Anders movie rev Match Colonel rev Match rev Match. 405 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: Checking with Dan and Chatsworth. You are on KFI Dan. 406 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 8: Hey, guys, how's it going good? I started great? Yeah, 407 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 8: me too. The rain finally stopped out here. I started 408 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 8: to riding motorcycles at a very young age. My brother 409 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,320 Speaker 8: taught me all about the clutch, and I learned on 410 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 8: a dirt bike, graduated up to a street bike, and 411 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 8: then I got a seventy three Ford Supervan with three 412 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:56,640 Speaker 8: on the tree, suirp going in the second. 413 00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 7: Yeah. 414 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 8: Later I got a Gloria fourteen cool. Oh yeah, just 415 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 8: a kick in a half man. That was so much fun. 416 00:20:07,800 --> 00:20:09,600 Speaker 8: I taught my girlfriend had to drive that? 417 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: Was that a really heavy clutch? Because I know the 418 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:14,240 Speaker 2: eighties Porsches had like the heaviest clutch you've ever felt 419 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 2: in your life. 420 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,560 Speaker 8: You know it could have been if I recall, I 421 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,040 Speaker 8: remember you had to kind of lean into it a 422 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 8: little bit. 423 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:24,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, and I know that the pedals and the Porsche 424 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:26,679 Speaker 2: are all offset, so like your legs have to go 425 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 2: to the right a little bit because of the way 426 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 2: that the body sort of gets smaller in the front. 427 00:20:30,600 --> 00:20:33,000 Speaker 2: It's a crazy people are crazy. We're crazy that we 428 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:34,600 Speaker 2: we had it, you know, we had it good. But 429 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:35,960 Speaker 2: it was also a lot to think about. 430 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:42,720 Speaker 8: You know. This one had the gearbox like it was 431 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 8: like a mid engine car, so all underneath the dash 432 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 8: it was all open. You could lay down there. 433 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:49,000 Speaker 11: Wow. 434 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 8: Yeah. Later on I dated Sue Susan. Her dad would 435 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 8: cheap the surgery over at St. John's Averture County. They 436 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:02,239 Speaker 8: were yeah him. He took his wife to Italy. They 437 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 8: were Italian, so they went to Italy and he says, here, 438 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,679 Speaker 8: you got to use the car, just watch it when 439 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 8: you're done. I was like, great, no problem there, and 440 00:21:10,119 --> 00:21:14,720 Speaker 8: uh we took it to my ten year class reunion. Right. 441 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,639 Speaker 8: Don't tell anybody, but we were drinking champagne on the 442 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 8: way there. It was pretty hilarious anyway. So we had 443 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 8: a blast coming up from uh Camrio on the backside 444 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 8: on the one eighteen. I think I hit one hundred ten. 445 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,200 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 446 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 7: It wasn't a. 447 00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 2: Target with a bottle of don Perrion. On the other hand, So. 448 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 8: We got there, had a blast, took our pictures, danced 449 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 8: like crazy, I got lit, and she had to drive home. 450 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, but did she she knew how to drive the 451 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 2: I guess that would have been a six speed, right, 452 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,119 Speaker 2: the nine to eleven target during that time would have 453 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 2: been a six. 454 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:59,280 Speaker 8: Speed I think so, And yeah she knew how well good. 455 00:22:00,440 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 2: That's always my fear, as if I go out to 456 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 2: eat or something and I get incapacitated and my girlfriend 457 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:06,119 Speaker 2: doesn't know how to drive stick, then we're going to 458 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 2: be stranded. But she knows, so it all worked out. 459 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 2: So Dan, thank you so much for calling from Chatsworth. 460 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 2: Appreciate you being on the phone. We've got one more 461 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:15,200 Speaker 2: call here than We're going to take a break and we'll 462 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 2: take another couple of calls after that before we get 463 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:23,360 Speaker 2: back to some other news. We have Nikki from Corona. 464 00:22:23,480 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 2: Is that is that who we have online? Or Yvonne Yvonne. 465 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 2: Let's let's go to let's go to von Oh, we 466 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,359 Speaker 2: have Nikki from Corona. Okay, I'm sorry, Ivon, if you're 467 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,880 Speaker 2: still there, keep waiting. I'm sorry to keep everybody waiting 468 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 2: We've got a lot of people want to talk here. 469 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 2: This is great, Nikki. What can I do for you 470 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:37,399 Speaker 2: this evening? 471 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:41,959 Speaker 4: I'm just sharing my story. But yeah, Joe stick started 472 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 4: on eighty nine Nissan CenTra and it only had four 473 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,840 Speaker 4: years and then we've only upgraded two five years and 474 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:49,000 Speaker 4: then six years after that. 475 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:54,840 Speaker 2: Another Dotson Nissan person, this is crazy I have. This 476 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,400 Speaker 2: is such a cool thing that all these Nissan people 477 00:22:57,400 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: are calling. Uh, do you still drive a stick sh 478 00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 2: I do? That's awesome. What do you have now? 479 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,960 Speaker 4: Twenty pounds the accurate Antigra. 480 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 6: I love it. 481 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 2: Oh so that's a new move, A new car that 482 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 2: has a stick shift. Yes, wow, that's awesome. Does it 483 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 2: feel a lot different than like the eighties stick shifts? 484 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, yes, Like I've never downshifted before. It 485 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 4: was always just throw it neutral and wait till you 486 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 4: get to the step, you know. 487 00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:26,199 Speaker 6: But now now it's so smooth. 488 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 7: But you want to downshift? 489 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 2: Yeah? Are you doing heel to toe breaking? Are doing 490 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:33,119 Speaker 2: any clutch drops or burnouts or anything like that? 491 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 4: Oh goodness no, but you barely even need to use 492 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 4: your clutch like it's so I have adaptive crewse control. 493 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 6: I don't understand how Wow, that's wild. Yeah, that's incredible, 494 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,480 Speaker 6: and it's got like you know, sport mode and then 495 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 6: comfort moves regularly. 496 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,840 Speaker 2: Well, i'll tell you what, you're a brave person with 497 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 2: how much traffic jams happened down in Corona. For for 498 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,800 Speaker 2: having a stick shift car. That's a that's a brave. 499 00:23:55,080 --> 00:23:56,959 Speaker 8: I just moved here and I'm learning right now. 500 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 4: My first experience in the rain comes from Manhattan. 501 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,080 Speaker 2: Be Oh no, how long did it take you to 502 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 2: get home? 503 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:07,800 Speaker 4: I waited an hour and a half to leave and 504 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:10,639 Speaker 4: it still took me about an hour twenty Oh. 505 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:11,920 Speaker 6: Well, but it wasn't bad. 506 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is very rare. You know so well, Nikki, 507 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 2: thank you so much for colling. We've got more calls 508 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:20,000 Speaker 2: coming up. After the break, we'll talk to Yvonne from 509 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,679 Speaker 2: Santa Clarita and Cassidy, and then we'll go back to 510 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 2: some more news. 511 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand. 512 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 2: The next Bill Handle show. It's I Am six and forty. 513 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,240 Speaker 2: We're live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. I think that 514 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,720 Speaker 2: was Bill Handle literally just yelling at the TV. I 515 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:47,080 Speaker 2: think it was the Grandpa Simpson. I think but also 516 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 2: you're right it was Grandpa Simpson. But what I'm saying 517 00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 2: as a concept, it was just handle yelling about too 518 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:59,439 Speaker 2: many TV channels. I love that big fan. Get him 519 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:05,040 Speaker 2: A Zelman had his Elmas recently. Actually, what are they like? Oh, 520 00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:06,080 Speaker 2: I've still not had one? 521 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:06,720 Speaker 3: Experience? 522 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 10: Is it? 523 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:07,440 Speaker 7: Yeah? 524 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 2: Because you get like the little hit of the cooling 525 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:12,159 Speaker 2: minty gel at the top. By the way, not an 526 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,840 Speaker 2: ad I am not paid to say this, But then 527 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,200 Speaker 2: the truth is that when you when you swallow the capsule, 528 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 2: it does like continue to provide you with sort of 529 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,679 Speaker 2: a minty fresh from deep in the gut experience. 530 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 3: Have you gotten feedback on this from key personnel at home? 531 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,040 Speaker 3: We both sort of were like, we like this. They're like, 532 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:35,440 Speaker 3: this is maybe a new thing that we're going to 533 00:25:35,480 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 3: be doing now. I feel like there should be a 534 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 3: bowl of these for us here at work. 535 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 2: What is the deal with that? You're absolutely right? Where 536 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 2: are the zelments? What the heck man bill'scaping them for himself? 537 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 2: Is that what it is? 538 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 3: I mean, the staff here needs to take these things 539 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 3: on a test drive. 540 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,040 Speaker 2: I'll be real with you. I have worked in media 541 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,680 Speaker 2: in some form or another since I was like fifteen 542 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:00,680 Speaker 2: years old. I had a red show back in high 543 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 2: school called the Andy Reestemeyer Show on eighty nine point 544 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,880 Speaker 2: three wj EL the Power Jam. It was a high 545 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 2: school radio station, but it had a real transmitter of 546 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 2: like fifty thousand watts what's what, And we actually got 547 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,399 Speaker 2: a lot of listeners because we didn't have commercials. But 548 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 2: I learned very early in my in my journey that 549 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 2: it was important to have good hygiene in radio because 550 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 2: we are all in small, air tight rooms. So if 551 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 2: you're a stinky guy or a lady, there's not a 552 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,159 Speaker 2: lot of breeze happening here. You know, there have been 553 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 2: people here who enjoyed working barefoot. That is so crazy 554 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 2: in this on this carpet in the past, in the past, 555 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 2: I won't ask no checking in with von from Santa Clarita. 556 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,720 Speaker 2: Good evening, you're on KFI AM six forty. 557 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,960 Speaker 14: Well, thank you for letting me call in, Andy. 558 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,719 Speaker 2: Thank you for waiting for so long. I apologize for that. 559 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 2: Tell me your story about having a stick shift car 560 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 2: or learning how to drive stick I learned. 561 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 14: How to drive stick shift in the early eighties on 562 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,120 Speaker 14: a Toyota Tursell in the hills of Bourbank. 563 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 6: Yeah, and going up. 564 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:24,919 Speaker 14: The littlest hill, you're like clutch gas clutch gas break. 565 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 1: There's very few ways back to somebody. 566 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 2: There's very few ways that you can put yourself in 567 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:34,040 Speaker 2: real peril like that, just on every day, random day, 568 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:34,480 Speaker 2: you know. 569 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 7: For sure. 570 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,360 Speaker 14: But I have to say, you were talking about hot 571 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,320 Speaker 14: wheels earlier. I was the first girl on my block 572 00:27:42,359 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 14: growing up playing with hot wheels in the sixties. 573 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:49,120 Speaker 2: That's cool, that's great. Did you have track too or just. 574 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:51,320 Speaker 7: The cars everything? 575 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:53,040 Speaker 8: Ah? 576 00:27:53,400 --> 00:27:56,080 Speaker 2: Oh, that's awesome. Did you were you the most popular 577 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 2: girl on the block? 578 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 8: Of course? 579 00:27:58,440 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 14: And then I went into the car business. 580 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,119 Speaker 2: Did you really? What did you do in the car business? 581 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,640 Speaker 14: I did inventory control and worked for Ford in Subaru. 582 00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:10,960 Speaker 14: But my favorite six ship car was the Subaru xt 583 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,880 Speaker 14: Tube that came out in the late eighties. 584 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 2: Ooh, that's cool. Was that all wheel drive? 585 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:17,399 Speaker 4: Mine? 586 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 14: Unfortunately was not. Ah, but they did it did come 587 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 14: that way. 588 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,159 Speaker 2: That's a cool man. Those are those are some great cars. 589 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,159 Speaker 2: That's a good era of car. If you've ever been 590 00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 2: down to Radwood, they do that over in San Pedro 591 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,000 Speaker 2: port of La every year. It's a celebration of all 592 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,640 Speaker 2: cool cars from the eighties and the nineties, and it's 593 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 2: they They've got all those kinds of cool, cool Nissans, cool, 594 00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:42,120 Speaker 2: Subaru's culture cells, old BMW's good stuff. Well, Von, thank 595 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 2: you so much for Collin, and thanks for waiting. I 596 00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,760 Speaker 2: really appreciate you being on the show. Checking in with Cassidy. Cassidy, 597 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:49,240 Speaker 2: you're on CAF I am six forty. 598 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 13: Hey. 599 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:56,920 Speaker 15: Hey, So I started high school in seventy eight and 600 00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,680 Speaker 15: my brother and I were gifted with seventy four until cool, 601 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:02,560 Speaker 15: which was. 602 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,800 Speaker 2: Did your parents? Was it from your parents? 603 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 8: Yeah? 604 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:10,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, they not like you very much. 605 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 13: Well, you know, we were a modest family. We grew 606 00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 13: up in Iowa, Midwest, right, so you can both appreciate that. 607 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 13: So the first experience I had was coming out the 608 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,520 Speaker 13: driveway getting into I think they called this a well pump, 609 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 13: one of those antique old fashioned pumps that my mom 610 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:35,680 Speaker 13: had stuck in the middle of the yard. And then 611 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,640 Speaker 13: we lived on a very steep hill, so we had 612 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 13: to go up and down and I kept going down 613 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 13: down downtown oh Man, and I can never get back up. 614 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 7: How many of my dad said. 615 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:51,040 Speaker 4: I don't I think it was four. 616 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 8: I don't know it was. 617 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 13: So let me just say this. My dad gave up, 618 00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 13: my granddad took over, and it got to the point 619 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,760 Speaker 13: where my brother was driving it and one day his 620 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 13: foot went through the bottom of the car. 621 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:09,520 Speaker 2: Oh my god. 622 00:30:09,920 --> 00:30:13,240 Speaker 13: And we tried to give it away and nobody would 623 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,000 Speaker 13: take it. So my dad had to fill it up 624 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 13: with groceries just to give the car away because they said, 625 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 13: nobody wants this, and we said, we love the sick shift. 626 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 13: And you know why, I just want to say this 627 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 13: because we were taught in the Midwest. 628 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:30,080 Speaker 15: How do you drive into a snow drift? 629 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,000 Speaker 13: How do you drive out of a nice thing? 630 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:32,640 Speaker 2: That's right? 631 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,080 Speaker 13: And when I was going from college in Fargo back 632 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:41,160 Speaker 13: to Iowa and we hit a moose, you knew how 633 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:43,480 Speaker 13: to spin out of a situation. 634 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,120 Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. I hope not not in the Pinto, 635 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 2: because that would have been the end of. 636 00:30:49,080 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 4: It. 637 00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:51,560 Speaker 8: Was one of those old buicks. 638 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, that moves. That moose probably had had had 639 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,600 Speaker 2: met his match that day. Unfortunately. Wow, I don't know. 640 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 13: You know what, nothing having him? Oh my god, of course, 641 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,440 Speaker 13: and we were fine and we were. 642 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,600 Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. Well, Cassidy, thank you so much for calling. 643 00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:11,120 Speaker 2: Look at that In nineteen seventy one. The base engine 644 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 2: for a Ford Pinto at seventy six horse power, which 645 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 2: seems like a lot for that car. But the thing 646 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,160 Speaker 2: about scary about having a stick shift Pinto is if 647 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:23,320 Speaker 2: you slide down the back you know your driveway too 648 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 2: quickly and you get rear ended or you rear end somebody. 649 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,840 Speaker 2: I guess because you're sliding back you're worried that, you know, 650 00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 2: the fuel tank would explode. That wasn't that that was 651 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,360 Speaker 2: the major issue with all those cars too, right? 652 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:35,200 Speaker 15: Oh yeah, yeah. 653 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, very chill one. All right, well, Cassidy, thank you 654 00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:40,200 Speaker 2: so much for being on the show, and thank you 655 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,080 Speaker 2: so much for everybody who called in the last hour 656 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:46,320 Speaker 2: to talk about stick shift drive in I love cars, 657 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 2: you know this. I grow up in Indiana. I still have 658 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 2: a stick shift vehicle that I like to drive. And 659 00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:54,360 Speaker 2: nothing makes you feel more connected to the road like 660 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 2: having to shift. And also it's real hard to text. 661 00:31:57,440 --> 00:31:59,360 Speaker 2: You want kids to learn how to drive and not 662 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,760 Speaker 2: have to text, and you put them in a stick 663 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 2: shift until they learned how to text and drive and shift, 664 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:07,320 Speaker 2: and then then it's real bad. 665 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,400 Speaker 3: Kind of sends a mixed message if you give your 666 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:10,720 Speaker 3: kids a Pinto, doesn't it. 667 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:12,520 Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I did they not like them? 668 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:15,600 Speaker 2: Did they not like her very much? Did you just 669 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,560 Speaker 2: take out an insurance policize me? That's what I mean. 670 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 2: My parents got me a Volvo. They obviously loved me 671 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,160 Speaker 2: very much. They wanted you safe that you know what 672 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,920 Speaker 2: happened with this Volvo. They bought it from somebody who 673 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:30,720 Speaker 2: they knew, for I think eight hundred bucks. And it 674 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:35,120 Speaker 2: was a pos. This thing could not get out of 675 00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 2: its own way to save its own life. I'm sure 676 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 2: it was rusted. The radio didn't even work, and it 677 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 2: would just die randomly on the freeway. And it would 678 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,040 Speaker 2: happen all the time. And my parents wouldn't believe me 679 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,800 Speaker 2: because they're like, you just want to drive a nicer car, 680 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 2: and I was like, no, I'm telling you. And it 681 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:53,440 Speaker 2: would just I'd be going down the freeway will we 682 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 2: call it a highway then, and it would just just 683 00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:58,880 Speaker 2: all of a sudden stop working, and I'd say, well, 684 00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,840 Speaker 2: this will be an interesting way to go. Well that's 685 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 2: a rite of passage, having an unreliable car. Don't stop 686 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 2: any place. Well and listen, did I learn my lesson? No? 687 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:09,400 Speaker 2: I've only ever had unreliable cars for the rest of 688 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 2: my life. I mean, Andy Reesmer. 689 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.